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A CAMPUS CONVERSATION After a series of national and University tragdies, Penn is organizing a campus-wide dialogue to foster resilience MADELEINE LAMON & HARRY TRUSTMAN | News Editor & Copy Editor

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n a surprising email announcement, Penn administrators said they are organizing a University-wide “Campus Conversation” to discuss “what we can do, individually and collectively, to take care of ourselves and others and to foster individual and community resilience.”

The email, which was signed by five of Penn’s top administrators including President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett, said this discussion was meant to support members of Penn struggling with the string of student deaths at Penn, along with the range of natural disasters and

political instability that have hit the nation in recent weeks.

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UA and SCUE plan to provide mental health resources on all syllabi Student gov’t is working with groups like Penn Benjamins JAMES MEADOWS Staff Reporter

The Undergraduate Assembly is pushing for mental health resources to be listed in all undergraduate course syllabi. This comes amid growing conversations around mental health resources at Penn, where 14 students have died by suicide in the last four years.

The project officially began last year after the UA passed a resolution to encourage professors to include mental health resources in their syllabi. It was developed as a collaborative effort between the UA, Penn Wellness and Penn Benjamins, a peer counseling organization. Both the UA and Penn Benjamins are member groups of Penn Wellness, which has 31 members.

The Faculty Senate later recommended the proposal to the faculty, UA member and College sophomore Simon Miller said.

While many professors have chosen to incorporate these resources on their own, the UA and Faculty Senate cannot mandate faculty to follow these recommendations.

“It seems there may have been miscommunication with the remaining professors to get them all to include it all in their syllabi,” UA member and Wharton sophomore Jason Kim said.

Rob Nelson, executive director for education and academic planning in the Office of the Provost, said that in addition to incorporating wellness resources into syllabi, he is interested in incorporating resources into online platforms. “[Counseling and Psychological SEE SYLLABI PAGE 2

Some Penn professors administer midterms after the drop deadline Courses include Econ 102 and Chem 101 RAHUL CHOPRA Staff Reporter

Even though many students see the drop period as a way to leave courses that they underperform in, some professors don’t provide significant feedback on students’ performances until after the drop deadline has passed.

The drop deadline, which was on Oct. 9 this semester, comes at the end of a fiveweek period at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters when students are allowed to remove courses from their schedule without them appearing on their transcript.

Some professors do not give students meaningful assessments of their performances before the end of the period.

College junior Natasha Allen said she didn’t receive

a major assessment for her economics class, Econ 102: “Macroeconomic Theory” until the drop date had already passed, even though they had submitted homework the week before.

“It would have been nice to have the homework graded before the drop deadline, since the homework is modeled after the midterm,” she said.

She added that even though her professor will replace the lowest midterm score with an average of the grades of the other two exams, she would have preferred to know her scores in advance.

College sophomore Eliza ILANA WURMAN | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Halpin said that none of her classes had midterms before The drop deadline occurred on Oct. 9, which was five weeks into the drop date. Not receiving the semester. Students are unable to remove classes after this date. a significant grade before the drop deadline adds to student before it’s too late. if I was doing anything right. stress, she said, as it makes “In my geology class, we It was pretty impossible to it harder for students to rate haven’t even turned in a sinSEE DROP DEADLINE PAGE 3 their performance in a course gle assignment. I didn’t know

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Penn offers first-generation grad student support Grad Center hosted a ‘Welcome Reception’ on Oct. 18 MANLU LIU Staff Reporter

In the latest series of new programming for first-generation students, several Penn-affiliated organizations are establishing unprecedented intentional resources for first-generation graduate students this semester.

As a kickoff event to introduce new first-generation graduate student programming, the Graduate Student Center and Career Services cohost the “First-Gen Welcome Reception for Graduate Students” on Oct. 17. About two dozen Penn-staffed organizations, as well as student and affinity groups spoke about the resources available for graduate students who self-identify as firstgeneration.

First-generation graduate students can include those who are the first in their families to attend undergraduate and graduate school, as well as those whose parents might have earned undergraduate degrees, but did not earn graduate degrees.

Staff members of the Grad Center and Career Services described new initiatives to support first-generation graduate students, which they plan to implement this year. One of the scheduled events is a roundtable discussion where postdoctoral students, graduate

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Services] values and appreciates student collaboration around mental health, especially efforts to educate students and communicate about the plentiful resources available across campus,” CAPS Director Bill Alexander said in an email. “Discussion about academic courses and syllabi needs to take place in the Provost’s Office and among fac-

students and faculty will share stories about what it means to be first-generation.

“We at the Grad Center want to bring the students together, socially, to support one another, to share, to engage,” Grad Center Director Shaina Adams-El Guabli said.

Adams-El Guabli added that the Grad Center is seeking to implement a wide spectrum of programs that provide social, academic and financial literacy support.

In 2015, several Penn undergraduates founded Penn First as a student organization aiming to build a community among Penn first-generation, low-income students. A year later, Penn opened the FGLI Program in the Greenfield Intercultural Center.

Several student groups exist to support first-generation graduate students, but the welcome reception on Tuesday marked the beginning of the University’s formal attempts to provide targeted and structured programming for this group of students.

Last semester, three Penn Law School students created the First Generation Professionals group to provide networking and mentorship opportunities for first-generation law students.

First-year Master of Public Health student Carlos Carmona, who is also a 2017 College graduate, said he thought there were no resources available for first-gen-

ulty.”

Moving forward, members of the UA plan to meet with all undergraduate deans and faculty Wellness Ambassadors, who are CAPS-trained members of staff tasked with promoting student well-being and wellness resources among other faculty, to further publicize the initiative, Miller and Kim said.

This past March, the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education also recommended in a report that professors use

eration graduate students when he sub-matriculated into the MPH program this fall.

Carmona, who is both a firstgeneration undergraduate and graduate student, said he would like to see programs that educate prospective first-generation graduate students on the experiences of being graduate students at specific universities.

First-year neuroscience Ph.D. student and 2015 Dartmouth College graduate Ilenna Jones agreed, adding that she would like to see extensive interaction between the first-generation undergraduate and graduate communities.

“I feel like at every point of my life, whenever there was someone who could model the type of life I could imagine for myself, that just made that path more clear,” Jones said.

GIC Director Valerie De Cruz announced during the welcome reception that GIC is starting a small mentoring initiative where graduate and professional students can volunteer to support undergraduate freshman students.

For Jones, her experience as a first-generation undergraduate at Dartmouth was different from her graduate experience in that there was a “twofold challenge” involved in finding a place that she belonged to, on top of grappling with the rigorous academic requirements which she often felt unprepared for.

“For grad school, I feel like the

syllabi to demonstrate their willingness to work with students to manage stress and balance academics with personal well-being.

Wharton and College senior Yana Kaplun, who is the project chair for SCUE’s Holistic Education Project, said her organization is examining how to use syllabi to promote conversations between professors and students about mental health.

SCUE is also thinking about recommending that professors

challenge is the giant thing that is academic, responsibility and freedom. You think you know what you need to do, but you’re never sure,” she said. “For undergrad, there is always someone there to say, ‘No, no, this is what you do: Aim for an A, [but] if you get a B that’s fine.’”

De Cruz said GIC is working with the Grad Center to determine the similarities and differences between the needs of graduate and undergraduate first-generation students.

The resources that the FGLI Program provides for first-generation undergraduates include a textbook library, meal assistance for students who remain on campus during breaks and summer storage at a reduced cost.

Adams-El Guabli said the Grad Center is working to figure out how to expand the GIC textbook library so that it would better service students from different graduate schools. Starting this semester, the Grad Center has also become a collection site for food donations to the GIC food pantry.

“It’s been really exciting to see all of the undergraduate [firstgeneration, low-income] support on campus, and we wanted to replicate some of that for graduate students or think about different ways to support them,” she added.

“Because, of course, these are areas of needed support that don’t vanish once you become a graduate student.”

grant an allotted number of deadline extensions in the case of “unforeseen circumstances,” Kaplun said.

“One of the biggest things that we do is tell people the resources that are available,” CoDirector of Penn Benjamins and Wharton senior Phillip Isom said. “There is a big communication problem between students and organizations and faculty, on what are the different actions you can take when you are stressed out, or worse.”

Career Services First-Gen Academics Roundtable Discussion Tues 0ct. 31, 4-5:30pm, Arch 108 A discussion among graduate students, postdocs, and faculty about academic culture as a first-gen scholar

Graduate student Center Writing a personal development plan: Fall into a better you!

Mon Oct. 23, 3-4:30pm, Grad Center Rm 305 (3615 Locust Walk) A workshop to create a structured action plan for the changes graduate students want to see in themselves

Career Services + Grad student Center Grad center & Career Services join Advisory Board on First-Gen Grad Programs Creation of a Joint Advisory Board on first-gen grad programs – the board will meet twice a year with Graduate Student Center and Career Services

Phila. LGBT director hopes to ‘heal divide’ Amber Hikes has focused intently on intersectionality GIOVANNA PAZ Staff Reporter

Philadelphia is currently one of the only cities in the nation to have an LGBTQ office. And for years the city has received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index. But amid recent divisions drawn over racial discrimination in Philadelphia’s gay community, Amber Hikes, the new executive director of the Office of LGBT Affairs, wants to unite and reignite the city’s advocacy for LGBTQ residents.

Hikes, 2008 School of Social Policy & Practice graduate, said her experience as a social worker is rooted in her education in University City.

After receiving her master’s degree in social work, Hikes worked in Philadelphia as a community organizer at an LGBTQ health service provider and Attic Youth, which does programming for queer youth, before becoming executive director of the city’s office in March.

“The real focus of my particular tenure in this administration,” Hikes said, “has been to shift the office, from primarily and pretty explicitly policy [advising] to be more outward facing.”

On Oct. 10, the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs at Penn hosted a discussion event with Hikes for LGBT History Month.

Ralph DeLucia, the office’s associate director, said they invited Hikes to discuss the challenges within the LGBTQ community as she was “just a natural.”

“It’s a way to highlight Penn’s role in furthering LGBT rights,” DeLucia said. “What better way than to have a cabinet member person from the city of Philadelphia to basically raise awareness around some of the

issues in terms of civil rights?”

Hikes laid out several various plans set in motion for engaging LGBTQ residents and advancing relevant policy proposals. She also highlighted some of her office’s recent initiative, like a series of recruitment events targeted toward LGBTQ foster parents in an attempt to recruit more people to foster LGBTQ youth.

One of the main challenges she wishes to address as director is intersectionality, or the overlap between different identities like gender, race and sexual orientation.

Multiple accusations of racial discrimination at gay bars in Center City prompted Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney to establish a Commission on LGBT Affairs in February.

A month later, Hikes formerly replaced former executive director Nellie Fitzpatrick, who was ousted after critics said she did not advocate enough for queer people of color.

Moving forward, Hikes said she hopes to collaborate more closely with Penn students and LGBT Center. Both Hikes and director of Penn’s LGBT Center Erin Cross expressed interest in strengthening their existing relationship.

“It could look like Penn students getting involved with some of the institutes that we have,” Hikes said.

“Making sure there’s a Penn presence, whether it be at flag raisings or community conversations, would be really important.”

As a Penn alumna, Hikes highlighted the progressive leadership and thought that comes from places of higher education.

“I would ask Penn students specifically not to take that opportunity for granted and to use that time to step outside of their bubbles,” Hikes said. “But you need to do a little bit more than that. It’s asking difficult questions, listening to people’s answers, believing their stories and experiences and doing what you can to help.”

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Amber Hikes is the executive director of the Office of LGBT Affairs of Philadelphia. Philadelphia is one of the only cities with an LGBTQ office.

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Students take leaves of absence for work opportunities Jobs include internships for companies like SpaceX GIOVANNA PAZ Staff Reporter

Many students at Penn think about internships in the context of the summer, but some opt for a less common route and take leaves of absence during the school year to pursue professional opportunities.

After getting rejected from the internship program at the American aerospace manufacturing company SpaceX for two consecutive summers, Engineering senior Pele Collins applied a third time for the summer after his junior year.

Although he was not accepted for the summer, this time his rejection came with a note of encouragement to apply for the fall internship program instead.

Collins applied and was accepted, so he decided to take a leave of absence last fall semester to work at the company in California.

But Collins and other Engineering students who pursue leaves of

absence for work opportunities often face unexpected obstacles when they choose this route.

“Even just having a break, there are taboos about that at Penn,” Collins said. “People come with the mentality of ‘you should either be at school or you should be at [summer] internships.’”

Leaves of absence have been a subject of controversy in recent years. In 2016, students and faculty discussed ways to destigmatize the option of taking a leave of absence.

More recently, student groups, including the Undergraduate Assembly, have been working to make leaves of absences more flexible for students who want to take them.

As an international student with the Penn Student Insurance Plan, Collins had to cover his own health insurance, since PSIP does not cover those who are not enrolled fulltime in classes.

Collins also faced difficulties with Student Registration and Financial Services. SRFS granted him a ninth semester of financial aid to take a leave of absence, but

this was not enough for him to complete a master’s degree, as he originally had planned, which required 10 semesters of financial aid. Over the summer, various students realized that Penn had decided to more stringently enforce the eight-semester limit for financial aid.

The process of applying to take leaves of absence is the same regardless of the motivating reason.

At Penn, students are required to fill out a form requesting justification for the intended leave and need to receive a letter of approval from their school’s academic advisors.

The University also asks that students coordinate directly with numerous different departments including SRFS, Penn Residential Services and Penn Dining Services to arrange their leaves of absence.

Rob Nelson, the executive director for education and academic planning, said that while the process is standardized for all undergraduate schools, the rigid curricula for Engineering and Nursing students can sometimes cause variation in the way the process occurs.

Director of Career Services Patricia Rose emphasized that the option of taking a leave of absence from Penn, though not very common, is supported by the department.

Engineering sophomore Jack Lanzi, who is currently on a leave of absence working for Tesla in California, also noted that the stigma against taking leaves of absences at Penn is inherently problematic.

“I think the idea of going into college thinking you know exactly what you want to do is unrealistic.”

Lanzi said. “Not every single experience falls into a convenient, prepackaged summer internship.”

Engineering student Colby Cox opted out of his sophomore year to pursue a leave of absence so he could work as a software engineer for the Philadelphia startup, Amino Payments. After his internship there this past summer, he received an offer to continue his work at the company, which he accepted in early August.

While Cox described the experience as hectic, it also ended up

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Students who take a break from their academic studies must receive approval from the financial aid office and their academic advisors.

Penn Police’s machine simulates over 600 scenarios from traffic stops to shootouts Simulator can be set up and used within minutes SKYLER PALATNICK Staff Reporter

Penn Police Sergeant John Dicicco, a tactical supervisor and firearms instructor, explained that the machine helps officers to prepare for possible scenarios they may encounter.

“Often you have a fraction of a second to react,” Dicicco said. “Action [of a potential criminal] is always faster than reaction [of an officer].”

Dicicco and Patrol Officer Stephen Develin, a firearms instructor, explained that using the machine is a multistep process. Officers must first successfully complete a “thinking game” to heighten

their alertness before they are provided with a very brief identification of the type of scenario they are about to face. After this, they begin the simulation.

During each encounter, officers are able to speak with simulated suspects, who can respond in a variety of ways.

Officers using the device are equipped with a firearm containing a simulation barrel.

If the officer chooses to fire, the gun imitates the recoil of a real gun. Officers are also given simulation pepper spray and tasers.

Once the scenario is finished, the encounter is analyzed and officers are debriefed on their performance.

Although Penn Police has been using similar devices for the past 15 years, the PRISim

trainer is more technologically advanced, according to Penn Police Deputy Chief of Tactical and Emergency Readiness Michael Fink. He added that operating some of the older machines was complicated and could take hours, whereas the PRISim Suite Judgement Trainer could be set up and used in minutes.

Fink also explained that the apparatus helps officers learn and adhere to the use of the “force continuum,” which is a guide for how much force is necessary to deescalate a situation.

“It’s all about the resistance a subject is giving and what it’s going to take to control that,” Fink said.

Develin agreed with Fink, adding that oftentimes all that is needed to take command of

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ping the course, even if grades were received earlier, as Chem 101 is a requirement for pre-med students like them, they said that it seemed very inconvenient for non-pre-med students who would have a better opportunity to drop the course.

“It’s nice to know how you’re doing in a class, that’s the reason why we have a drop deadline,” Elbulok said.

Paul Sniegowski, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said the University does not plan to implement a policy requiring professors to return significant assessments before the drop date.

“It’s good practice to have the first midterm before the drop deadline, and certainly it’s discussed among faculty. But, having a policy that mandates that, is not something that we would put on our faculty,” Sniegowski said.

Associate Dean of the College and Director of Academic Affairs Kent Peterman agreed and said that course instructors are encouraged to return major assessments before the drop deadline.

He said that he was not aware that courses such as Chem 101 only offered midterms after the drop date.

“I’m actually curious about that, I want to talk to the undergraduates in chemistry and see what’s going on here,” Peterman said.

gauge where I was at,” Halpin said.

She added that if she had had the opportunity to gauge her performance before the deadline in one of her current classes, she certainly would have dropped it.

Halpin said that she would support a policy requiring faculty to return at least one major assessment before the drop deadline.

Omar Elbulok, a College sophomore on a pre-med track, said his first Chem 101 midterm was after the drop deadline.

“83 percent of the class is midterms and finals,” he said. “We’ve gotten back some Canvas quizzes and homework that makes up such a tiny portion of the class that you can’t really gauge how you’re doing.”

College sophomore Prashant Godishala, who is also pre-med and taking Chem 101, echoed Elbulok’s sentiments. He added that not knowing your performance before the drop deadline made taking exams more stressful.

“It puts a lot more pressure on students going into each exam,” Godishala. If you do well, you do well, but if you don’t do well, what do you do?”

While both Elbulok and Godishala admitted that they would have had no intention of drop-

a situation is a flashlight. In fact, officers are expected to use the least amount of force necessary, Dicicco said.

Use of the PRISim trainer also extends beyond police training. Each year at the DPS open house, an event where University City residents can learn about DPS and meet staff members, attendees are allowed to use the device.

DPS Vice President Maureen Rush said the PRISim Trainer could be a useful method for raising student and community awareness about what police officers do.

“Put them in the situation of a shoot/don’t shoot scenario, and they have a whole new respect for the jobs of police officers around the country,” Rush said.

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“It has completely changed the course of my life,” Collins said. “It just opened so many other doors that were closed before.”

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Our responsibility to a dangerous drinking culture SIMONETTI SAYS SO | How we can better address binge drinking on campus

THURSDAY OCTOBER 19, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 79 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor REBECCA TAN Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor SARAH FORTINSKY News Editor MADELEINE LAMON News Editor ALLY JOHNSON Assignments Editor YOSI WEITZMAN Sports Editor

In college drinking culture, moderation does not exist.

Approximately 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for alcohol use disorder. Additionally, a 2014 survey found that two-thirds of the 60 percent of college students who consumed alcohol in the past month engaged in binge drinking, a behavior that brings blood alcohol concentration to more than .08 g/dL. Students here are eager to boast about the “work hard, play hard” lifestyle that is fundamental to the Penn experience. They join countless clubs to build their resumes, crank out research papers at Van Pelt and ace calculus midterms. But the weekends start on Thursday along with students’ destructive drinking habits.

The consequences of this behavior are no secret. Researchers estimate that 1,825 college students die per year from alcohol related injuries, 696,000 students are assaulted by another who has been drinking and 97,000 experience date rape or alcohol-related sexual assault.

We have seen these statistics in action through the recent death of Pennsylvania State University student Tim Piazza and the Stanford University sexual assault case.

Some of the Penn administration’s attempts to reduce the negative effects of binge drinking have been effective. For example, the University’s medical amnesty policy allows students to seek medical attention while under the influence without facing disciplinary repercussions, while MERT provides urgent care to those who have been affected by alcohol poisoning among other issues.

Nevertheless, the administration needs to pay more attention to alcohol abuse on campus. Additionally, we as students must do our part to stop fostering an excessive drinking culture.

The University recently convened a task force to help combat the dangers of excessive drinking, which has been the subject of much scrutiny. However, the task force has inadequately addressed this issue and only caters to the wealthy by raising the cost of partying.

Additionally, aside from Quaker Peer Recovery, there are no groups on campus specifically designed to help those struggling with alcoholism or related

issues. Administrators never fail to point students seeking help to Counseling and Psychological Services; however, they often must wait months for appointments. What the University fails to recognize is that, like so many of the issues students face, binge drinking demands immediate attention.

College is stressful. Students are bombarded with exams, essays and readings that they must juggle with other responsibilities such as jobs and extracurric-

dents face often motivates them to binge drink as a means for recovery.

This is not just a Penn problem; binge drinking plagues numerous American universities.

But what makes Penn different is its glorified “work hard, play hard” mentality.

In 2016, Business Insider awarded Penn the number one spot in their list of rankings entitled WORK HARD, PLAY HARD: The 30 most intense colleges in America; in 2014, Penn was named Playboy’s number one party school; and in the book “Students’ Guide to Colleges: The Definitive Guide to America’s Top 100 Schools Written by the Real Experts-The Students Who Attend Them,” some of the five most common terms students used to describe Penn included “work hard, play hard,” “high achieving” and “fun-ashell.”

Social skills and academic prowess hold equal importance.

But there is a fine line between possessing these skills and taking pride in Penn’s reputation as the “social Ivy” where the ability to go out, get blackout drunk

What the University fails to recognize is that, like so many of the issues students face, binge drinking demands immediate attention.” ulars. The stress that is induced by these activities can often lead to heavy drinking.

Alcohol consumption releases endorphins that stimulate an enhanced state of being. It can make people experience pleasurable sensations of relaxation and euphoria, and the extreme amount of pressure college stu-

ISABELLA SIMONETTI and wake up the next morning to do homework is applauded.

The positive reinforcement of these mantras by students fuels the unhealthy behavior that runs rampant at Penn.

On many occasions, students have called on the University to implement effective policies and form groups that will mitigate the consequences of excessive drinking. Undoubtedly, it is time for the administration to listen.

Students should also refocus their attitudes by thinking differently about how rewarding binge drinking promotes a negative campus culture. “Work hard, play hard,” when taken to its extreme, is not something to brag about.

ISABELLA SIMONETTI is a College freshman from New York. Her email address is isim@sas.upenn.edu.

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Throughout my college search, I made it my mission to be able to tour the schools that I found interesting. The only way I was able to do this was by participating in college flyin programs that attract students from underrepresented backgrounds. These highly competitive programs allow for selected students to embark on an allexpense-paid trips to individual schools.

For me, this entailed flying coast-to-coast to small liberal arts schools ranging from the Claremont Colleges to big research universities like the University of Chicago. Even though participating in these programs took time out of my hectic senior year schedule, I was still destined to look past the colleges’ brochures filled with happy smiles of their students.

I will always be grateful for my overnight hosts that took the time to “keep it real with me” and stay up all night telling me about their experiences as firstyear students. Because of them, I was able to gauge each school’s climate academically, socially and financially. So, when prospective students ask you about Penn, give them the most accurate portrayal of the University possible.

A superficial college tour

cannot provide all the details of college life at a particular institution. These pieces of information are what prospective students really want. Since college tours follow certain procedures and regulations, the information and answers are structured in a way that protects the university’s image. Thus, students are left with the pristine perspective that there are no apparent major flaws with that school.

Now that I am at Penn, I realize that I have begun to fill the role that my hosts did. About a week ago, the participants in Penn’s Early Exploration Program — Penn’s fly-in program — had the chance to attend a student panel where I happened to be the only student representing the Class of 2021. The panelists were arranged from left to right starting with me, the freshman, to the senior representing the Class of 2018, meaning that I often answered questions first.

The main focus of the panel was to discuss our extracurricular activities and the amazing research opportunities we have at Penn. At the end, there was

a prospective student that stood up to ask, “What would you improve about Penn?”

As a freshman, I could only recount the experiences I have had during my two months at this school. However, the senior on the panel initiated the conversation about the hyper-competitiveness at Penn and issues surrounding mental health.

To answer this question, the upperclassmen named all the resources and spaces on campus that are frequently used: La Casa Latina, Makuu, Pan-Asian

New Student Orientation, I felt very alone until I found my core group of friends. I was struggling academically because the adjustment from producing mediocre work in high school to polished collegiate-quality assignments is difficult.

No one at college is here to hold your hand and tell you everything is going to be okay.

The transition is very scary, and I emphasized to PEEP participants that even with two months under my belt, I am still learning and growing. I use on-campus resources to survive at this elite school that is meant to prepare its students for the real world after graduation.

This information still holds true to prospective students who have already been accepted. In the upcoming months, Penn will start to accept students for the Class of 2022. These lucky students will be invited to their accepted student days, ConnectED and Quaker Days, in the months of February and April. During this time, remember that you were once these students.

If you get the chance to talk to or host a prospective student for

When prospective students ask you about Penn, give them the most accurate portrayal of the University possible.”

American Community House, the LGBT Center, Counseling and Psychological Services, etc.

These are networks where there are similar people that are ready and willing to help any student.

I discussed how the transition from high school to college was very hard for me. After

CARLOS ARIAS VIVAS one of those weekends, make it a point to express all the wonderful opportunities Penn has provided for you and what Penn can do for them. Yet, do not sugarcoat the issues that are found on Penn’s campus.

If we only have conversations that make out Penn to be perfect, once these students come, they will feel deceived. Having these real conversations about Penn with prospective students gives them an in-depth background of what they are getting themselves into if they come here. A college tour could never offer this.

This is why it’s so important to be honest with these prospective students that you once were.

CARLOS ARIAS VIVAS is a College freshman from Stamford, Conn., studying communication. His email address is cariasv@sas.upenn.edu.

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Moving toward a more transparent alert system EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD Around 2:40 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 21, College sophomore Sabrina Palacios and her two roommates encountered a man indecently exposing himself outside their apartment near 39th and Delancey streets. They reported the incident to the Penn Police Department and the Philadelphia Police Department, but, despite the man’s criminal record, which included convictions for sexual assault, a police officer discouraged Palacios and her roommates from filing a report because it would, according to Palacios and her roommate College sophomore Lily Balla, “get swept under the rug.”

On top of this, Penn’s Division of Public Safety did not send an alert to students on campus regarding the incident.

In response to this complaint, Kathleen Shields Anderson, the DPS director of operations and external affairs, said in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian that the UPennAlert Emergency Notification System “is only activated for significant emergencies that are confirmed by law enforcement personnel and with the approval

of the University’s senior leadership.”

It is shocking that this situation — an individual with a serious criminal history performing lewd acts — was not deemed a “significant emergency” and worthy of an alert to students.

Regardless of whether DPS’ decision not to pursue legal action against the suspect was justified, Penn students should have been notified so that they could take caution around the alleged crime’s location.

This event calls into question why alleged crimes in DPS’ jurisdiction — the area from 30th to 43rd streets and Market Street to Baltimore Avenue — are often not reported to students through the UPennAlert system.

For the safety of students, faculty and staff in University City and West Philadelphia alike, DPS must expand the scope of its alert policies so the Penn community is more frequently notified about any imminent dangers.

DPS does not specifically define which crimes elicit an alert.

The alert system of neighboring Drexel University, DrexelA-

LERT, more clearly delineates its alert policies. DrexelALERT only displays alerts to students regarding potential threats such as “ [an] armed suspect on the loose, [an] active fire or [a] credible bomb threat.” However, this designation leaves out crimes that may be deemed less immediately threatening,

risk. Members of the Penn community should know when to be cautious around certain areas in and around Penn’s campus, and the UPennAlert system should readily and transparently provide that information.

In defense of its practices, DPS asserts that alerts are “not activated if in the professional

… DPS must expand the scope of its alert policies so that the Penn community are more frequently notified about any imminent dangers.” but can cause potential duress to students nonetheless, such as those related to sexual assault.

If DPS has similar guidelines, this sets an unsettling precedent.

If our community is not aware of relevant violent or sexual crimes allegedly occurring on campus, they are unwittingly at

judgment of the responsible authorities such a notification would compromise efforts to resolve the emergency.” We recognize that officers should never be impeded in their pursuit of alleged criminals, but we are skeptical that alerting campus to the presence of a perpetra-

tor would stand in the way of an active investigation. Indeed, logic would suggest that individuals would be more likely to avoid active crime scenes on or around campus if they were alerted, and particularly those who live in the area would know to keep their distance or proceed cautiously.

This is not a call for DPS to alert students of all 726 reported crimes since the Fall 2016 semester — it would be unreasonable to send a community-wide alert about every public urination incident near the Benjamin Franklin statue on Locust Walk.

And while members of the Penn community can find a complete list of criminal activity in the Penn Patrol Zone on DPS’ website, DPS should expand the amount of real-time information that is circulated.

Some students have argued that the creation of an additional system to notify students specifically of crimes related to sexual assault would be beneficial. While this could be useful in cases in which the perpetrator is still at large, it would be more effective for DPS to sim-

ply change its UPennAlert procedures so that campus is alerted of a wider range of crimes rather than the currently limited amount.

Over the past summer, faculty, staff and students were consistently and thoroughly sent alerts regarding crimes in the Penn Patrol Zone. While this may have seemed tedious to some, particularly those who were not in Philadelphia, these alerts were crucial in making sure the Penn community was acutely aware of any dangers that could affect those on campus.

Maintaining students’ safety and well-being becomes exceedingly difficult if we are missing important information regarding active crimes on and around campus. The UPennAlert system is a fantastic way to warn members of the Penn community about potential threats, but there needs to be a wider standard for what merits an alert. Full awareness of these nearby incidents may startle members of our community, but it is necessary to make sure we are as safe as possible.

The dangers of seeing and being seen BRUTALLY HONEST | The toxicity of dressing solely to impress The outside world often perceives college students as a mass of sweatpants-wearing, ramen-eating teenagers. Walk into any college bookstore and you’ll see what I mean — at least about the first part.

Baggy sweatpants and cozy, oversized sweatshirts are always front and center. The outfit symbolizes the “I’m too busy and tired to care” look. College catalogs are filled with smiling students sitting contentedly in their baggy alma mater apparel.

At Penn, however, I often find myself wading through a sea of designer bags, three-piece suits and grungy-hip clothes as I walk down Locust Walk. Most people look far more put-together than the average college student. During my first three or four weeks here, it really puzzled me as to why people seem to put so much effort into their outfits. Even seemingly “effortless” outfits seem to be unusually puttogether.

As a transfer student, I have two campus cultures to compare. At Johns Hopkins University, the college I previously attended, people

dressed pretty casually. Maybe that’s because Hopkins has a suburban campus rather than one situated adjacent to a booming metropolis. There may be something more to the laid-back culture there.

It’s entirely possible that most colleges are perennially casual while Penn students just love to dress up. It’s equally plausible that there is a small subset of students here who have perfected the art of “see and be seen” or, as it’s commonly called, SABS. What do I think about a campus culture that revolves around something as subtle as the clothes we wear? As someone whose reflections are based on just under two months of circumstantial observations, I think that there is something perverse about the tendency to dress to impress on a college campus. College students already know that they’re competing against almost all of their peers, so visual reminders like clothes just exacerbate the almost cutthroat nature of the undergraduate experience.

Most people who participate in SABS-ing do it to attract attention

to themselves and their group of friends. Those who participate in it make up a small but noticeable portion of the undergraduate community. The best way for people who are bothered by it to not let SABS culture get to them, is to ignore it.

By giving it the attention it does not deserve but so badly wants, stu-

school-like mentality. When we reflect upon our college experiences later in life, we will find that they were solely for the sake of keeping up appearances rather than for forming meaningful friendships and participating in worthwhile activities.

Initially, I thought that people

… I think that there is something perverse about the tendency to dress to impress on a college campus.” dents are just fueling the fire.

On a larger scale, SABS-ing makes us collectively care about the superficial. Basing somebody’s self worth almost exclusively on their looks or the groups that they are in is, in a word, immature. It keeps us stuck in an almost high

dressed nicely here did so almost exclusively to display their wealth.

Penn is objectively a place full of well-off students, so it would only make sense to think that. After a few more weeks, though, I have come to think that there is something more at play than just wearing

nice outfits to uphold the stereotype of the typical Ivy League school.

Status is what really wins at the end of the day. It’s not just wealth that people want to exhibit within Penn, but their status. Even the more casual outfits bleed exclusivity. M&T and Greek life sweaters are just a few. Sports team swag also has a place on the list.

Take the Hogwarts Houses shirts, for instance. These shirts reinforce the herd mentality and separateness of each school within Penn. It’s also worth mentioning that the shirts themselves are rather expensive for what might just be Fruit of the Loom, so those who wear them practically scream, “Look at me!” It may not be as inyour-face as a Louis Vuitton bag or a Burberry scarf in terms of expressing wealth or status, but the combination of school affiliation and owning the shirt itself speaks volumes.

At a school like Penn, there’s something unavoidable about the tendency to display status. We’re an Ivy, after all. The best way to deal with all of this flaunting is to both

ALEX SILBERZWEIG embrace it and ignore it. This probably sounds counterintuitive. What I mean by embracing it is that you should be happy that you go to a place full of opportunities and people who are ambitious enough to seize them. On the other hand, this school is just so big that you can get by without falling prey to the few you see in status-bearing apparel.

This is the place for you to mold yourself, not for others to mold you.

ALEX SILBERZWEIG is a College sophomore from New York, studying mathematics and economics. Her email address is alexsil@sas.upenn. edu. “Brutally Honest” usually appears every other Tuesday.

A task force on alienation and incompetence THE OBJECTIVIST | The College should have a separate computer science requirement It’s no secret that most Penn students want to be the next Elon Musk. I know I do. But as venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel wrote in his book, “Zero to One,” every moment in business is singular: “The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system.

The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network.”

What will my moment be? If I knew, I wouldn’t be writing this column. That’s why I’m at Penn, and why many others are too: to

understand how the world works, what areas could be improved and how to build the future. Yet, how am I supposed to discern the world’s inner workings and capitalize on its needs when the education I am getting doesn’t require any understanding of computer science?

Computer science should be a core requirement in the College of Arts and Science’s curriculum.

Let me first debunk the idea that the College is an exclusively liberal arts institution. The College’s current goal is: “to help students to become knowledgeable about

the world and the complexities of today’s society, aware of moral, ethical and social issues, prepared to exercise intellectual leadership, and enlivened by the use of their minds.” Perhaps the most important aspect of this mission is the phrase “today’s society.” This implies that the College is, at least, somewhat practically minded.

Learning the liberal arts is feckless if the conceptual leap connecting strictly academic material to the world today is never made, and subjects characteristic to the liberal arts — namely philosophy, math-

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SIYIN HAN is a College senior from Birmingham, Ala. Her email address is siyinhan@sas.upenn.edu.

ematics, literature and the natural/ physical sciences — are not comprehensive enough to prepare students to effectively contribute to today’s world. In fact, that’s why the College has its Quantitative Data Analysis and Formal Reasoning and Analysis requirements, both of which fail to meet the stereotypical “liberal arts” recipe.

And I think that’s great; I’m proud to go to a college that values the liberal arts and subjects that will prepare me for any job. It also speaks volumes about the College’s willingness to adjust its educational method to how the world is changing that it has the Formal Reasoning and Analysis requirement. This includes courses in mathematics, computer science, linguistics, decision theory and symbolic logic, all of which teach “deductive reasoning and the formal structure of human thought.”

Currently, the Department of Computer and Information Science is in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, which could explain why the College does not mandate a separate computer science requirement. However, Penn should open up its computer science program to all students and require an introductory course in the College — the largest of the four undergraduate schools — because of the unique intellectual benefits it provides.

Sure, computer science is like

learning a language, but more than anything else, it’s about problem solving. Whether discovering a heuristic solution to the “Traveling Salesman Problem” or coding a recursive binary search, computer science forces you to think in terms of optimization and maximizing efficiency.

What is a way to perform a certain task with the least run time?

How can I describe a situation so precisely and simply that a stupid machine can execute it? How can I effectively solve a problem when it’s impossible to know all the details? If there’s an error, where is it occurring and were there any conceptual mistakes that led to the error? Everything is compartmentalized into its most basic parts, and it’s not difficult to infer why that is an incredibly useful way of looking at the world.

Not to mention that, in addition to interpreting data and understanding logic, most fields require some basic ability to program. Much of scientific research uses in silico experimentation, which are experiments done using computer modeling. Telemedicine, which provides clinical health care for people with geographical access issues using telecommunication and information technology, is becoming increasingly prevalent. And, to be an efficient worker in any job, it is imperative when presented with a task to see if it could be automated

JACQUELYN SUSSMAN rather than you wasting your time unnecessarily.

It, thus, cannot be true that the College is successful in its mission to “help students become knowledgeable about the world” and “exercise intellectual leadership” when many students graduate from the College without taking a single computer science course or knowing how to program. And, as technology continues to advance and assets like artificial intelligence and virtual reality become integral parts of our everyday lives, not at least understanding what an algorithm or basic programming syntax is will become even more of a liability.

If the College doesn’t change its curriculum, I highly recommend you change your own.

JACQUELYN SUSSMAN is a College freshman from Westport, Conn.

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The email was sent out on Oct. 17 at approximately 3:15 p.m. to all undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff. It specifically cited the Oct. 1 Las Vegas mass shooting, the ongoing uncertainty faced by students involved in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and the recent death of four Penn students over the course of two months.

College senior Nicholas Moya died by suicide on Aug. 31, in the first week of school this semester. He was followed

by Penn Vet student Brett Cooper, Wharton senior Henry Rogers and Penn Law student Justin Hamano. The cause of death for the last three students is still unconfirmed.

The message also stated that the discussion on Oct. 30 will be “part of our ongoing effort to support and care for one another” and will be followed up with other conversations around campus.

The message from administrators comes after several student calls for greater transparency and honesty in communicating issues on mental health, particularly those related to student deaths.

In 2016, students criticized how the administration communicated the death by suicide of Wharton junior Olivia Kong. The first email sent to students reported the death but did not include Kong’s name; the second email, sent just to Wharton undergraduate students, included Kong’s name but described her death as an “accident.” More recently, after students and faculty criticized administrators for failing to notify all faculty of Moya’s death, Penn moved to standardize the notification system of student deaths for all undergraduate faculty.

This latest initiative, a “Campus Conversation,” is a part of the University’s Campaign for Community, a project launched in April 2015 by former Provost Vincent Price that

“aims to strengthen our Penn community by finding ways to discuss and understand key issues that may appear to be difficult or intractable.”

Students said they commend the action that Penn is taking, but were not sure how the discussion would actually turn out, given that it will be the first of its kind.

“I really like the effort Penn is making — I think this is one of the best emails that they have sent out, as they are directly addressing these issues and trying their best to act on this, so I really commend them on that,” Yen-Yen Gao, Asian Pacific Student Coalition president and College senior, said.

Leaders in student government agreed.

“I really appreciate the University acknowledging this year’s hardships and providing a space for students and administration to connect,” Undergraduate Assembly Chair and College senior Michelle Xu said in a statement. “I especially want to commend the University for also scheduling follow-up talks to put into action ideas that will be discussed.”

“Throughout my time here, I haven’t seen a message from the administration as candid as this one,” Student Activities Council Chair and College and Wharton senior Edward Jing said in a statement. “I would like to see concrete actions in the near future supporting the sentiments expressed in the message.”

But students also raised concerns over how the conversation would be held, and called on all members of Penn’s community to take on an active role in the event in order to make it meaningful.

“I have some questions on how this conversation will actually go, like who is conducting it, who will attend and how the conversation will be shaped. Will it focus more on mental health and stress on campus, or will it be more about how to support people after these tragedies occur?”

Gao said.

External Chair of the Student Committee of Undergraduate

Education and Engineering senior Shawn Srolovitz said he knows that the administration has been working behind the scenes to support students, but was happy that this conversation was now being opened up.

“It is crucial for Penn students to actually work with the administration and show up to events like this to have the important conversations that will continue to create a supportive community at Penn,” he said.

Graduate and Professional Student Association President and third-year Design and School of Arts and Sciences graduate student Miles Owen agreed.

“This [conversation] is especially important to graduate students who often work in professional and research bubbles to reach out and support one another across campus,” he said in a statement.

Some other students said that while they were looking forward to the dialogue, they wished that administrators had extended this outreach at an earlier time, with the aim of taking on a more preventive approach.

“I would like to see this truly come to fruition because I think it’s really important to really have a strong support system for students, but I would also really like to see a change in mindset on the University’s part that is shifting away kind from cleaning up problems and issues that have occurred and instead solving them before they even become problems,” College junior and Fossil Free Penn coordinator Zach Rissman said.

“These are great steps but there’s a lot more work to do and I’d be happy if this is just the first step on a long path toward progress and really supporting students success throughout the future and at the very least a launching off point,” he added.

Staff reporters Manlu Liu and James Meadows, News Editor Sarah Fortinsky and Enterprise Editor Vibha Kannan contributed reporting to this story.

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Athletes juggle on-campus recruiting with in-season struggles For many, time is a precious commodity YOSEF WEITZMAN Sports Editor

"Work hard, play hard" takes on a whole different meaning for some Penn student-athletes searching for jobs in the fall.

With both athletics practices and on-campus recruiting (OCR) presentations often being scheduled for the evening to accommodate course-schedules and traveling job-recruiters, many in-season athletes struggle to balance a commitment to their teams with a desire to secure corporate internships and jobs.

“It’s really tough, especially with the golf, because all of the [recruiting] sessions are during the evening, and we’re practicing through those sessions,” College junior and men’s golfer Josh Goldenberg said. “So I’ve been able to go to very few info sessions.”

Even for teams with practice schedules that don’t create direct conflicts, the demands of a season often leave athletes feeling like they have little

time to search for jobs. Even though the NCAA limits inseason athletes to 20 hours of athletic activity per week, travel and individual conditioning and recovery can increase the total time commitment even further. “[After practice] you have to get treatment, because you feel like crap all day, but you know, 2:00 to 6:00, it’s just kind of like, alright, switch off school and switch on football,” Wharton junior and football offensive lineman Tommy Dennis said. “And then like Saturdays in the morning, you don’t have football, but you’re getting ready, you’re on the bus, and you can’t worry about jobs, homework or anything, so you got to get it done throughout the week."

Dennis also discussed how not having priority course registration can make it very difficult to fit required classes into his schedule.

“Pretty much it’s you can have class up until 2:00 and then you can have starting at 6:30, so it’s tough,” he said.

“They squeeze all the good ones right in the middle. Everyone has work, everyone has

classes and everything, but then we just have another four hour block, and then we have meetings and everything, so it’s tough to balance it."

To help ease the time-management challenges in-season athletes face, both Goldenberg and Dennis pointed out that Penn does make some efforts to accommodate athletes’ schedules.

“During fall break, we had to stay here because we had practice and a game, so they set up a career fair, just a couple alumni, either ex-alumni or supporters of the football [team], who were in the area,” Dennis said. “It was just really helpful, because we had to be here anyway, so might as well get some good looks out of it.”

“Bringing in companies to meet with athletes and athletes alone is something the school is definitely starting to do,” Goldenberg added.

Even with the athlete-only sessions, Patricia Rose, Penn’s Director of Career Services, acknowledged that successfully balancing athletics and jobsearching can require a lot of initiative and planning ahead.

“So it’s a problem that has a

solution, but the solution typically involves doing advanced planning and coming in and working with us,” Rose said.

Rose also suggested that despite all the scheduling challenges, athletes have some clear advantages when it comes to the job-search.

“Being a student at Penn, there is a tremendous alumni network. Being a student-athlete at Penn, you have access to the Penn network, but you also have access to an athletic network,” Rose said.

Rose also added that athletes develop many of the tools that athletes are most interested in.

“In most cases the first thing they [employers] say is, ‘we’re really looking for people who can work as part of a team.’

And student-athletes can do that—they have demonstrated that they can do that,” Rose explained.

While Rose thought that overall, the advantages of being an athlete in the job-search

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Penn student-athletes undergoing the on-campus recruiting process face additional day-to-day obstacles due to their job search.

outweighed the disadvantages, Goldenberg and Dennis were less sure.

“It has its ups and downs.

The downs are clear,” Goldenberg said. “But there’s the positive in the sense that…I’m able to make an introduction that shows my commitment to

the sport and shows how dedicated I am.”

“Obviously you need to have something going into the summer so you value it, you work, and then if you have to stay up late every couple nights, then that’s what you got to do,” Dennis said.

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DP SWAMIS | WEEK SIX There's an old saying in Pennsylvania— I know it's in Texas, probably in Pennsylvania— that says, "Fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me— you can't get fooled again."

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But I won't get fooled again.

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our children learning?" Well, THIS writer has learned. I keep picking Penn football to win, and I keep getting burned. I keep misunderestimating their competition. No more.

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One of the great things about books is that sometimes there are

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Prediction: Yale 42, Penn 24

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Club women's soccer dominates opposition in record season 8-0 squad could make national tournament JACOB SNYDER Associate Sports Editor

Penn is not short on successful athletic programs.

The baseball, football and field hockey teams (among many others) are consistently competing for Ivy League titles, the usual ebbs and flows of success aside.

But Penn’s most impressive team this semester is probably one you have not heard much about.

Penn women’s club soccer has achieved what any team dreams of: perfection. The Red and Blue are

8-0 in their regular season matches heading into the regional tournament later this month. Perhaps even more noteworthy than the record itself has been the manner in which the team has won. Each game has had at least a two goal margin, and emphatic wins against Rider (6-1), Princeton (7-1) and TCNJ (5-0) headline results from a dominant season that no one, not even the players themselves, saw coming.

“I came into the season thinking that we just need to be as good as we can be,” senior defender and team captain Jillian Sprong said. “You never expect to go undefeated, but the way we have played I certainly think we deserve it.”

Club sports inherently work far

differently than varsity sports. Most poignantly for women’s club soccer, the coaching position in club sports is not only unpaid, but sometimes unfilled.

“We spent all of last year without a coach,” Sprong said. “But this year we have Luca [Martinovic], an undergrad, helping us out in that role.”

Even with a coach, the team operates relatively independently. They practice twice weekly, with the sessions planned and executed by both Martinovic and the captains. But don’t be fooled - despite not practicing as frequently as a varsity team, the games are far more packed together.

“We [had] to finish all of our league games before October 15,” Sprong said. “So that [meant] a lot of times we [had] to play twice in one weekend.”

The league opponents that Sprong mentions are teams from the most local breakdown in a much larger model that the National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association puts together for club teams nationwide. The country is first split into regions, of which there are six. Penn resides in Region I, which incorporates teams from Maryland all the way up to Maine. The region further splits into 13 divisions, which is where the league games are played in. Penn’s division, fittingly called “Quaker City,” pits the Red and Blue against TCNJ, Rider, Temple, Villanova, Princeton, Drexel, Lehigh and St. Joseph’s. By going undefeated against these eight teams, Penn will compete in the Region I Regional Tournament against the other 12 division winners as well as some second-place teams.

Now this may all seem very organized and official — similar to varsity schedules. But one absent amenity that has not been mentioned so far makes playing eight games in a month in a half particularly difficult — a team bus. Or for these Quakers, a lack thereof. While the varsity teams are motoring down highways in Penn-sponsored buses, the club teams have to find whatever means necessary to get to their games.

“Two of us have cars and drive to the games,” junior defender and team travel chair Alayna Choo said. “But the majority of us actually have to use zipcars to get us to away games.”

Before the team drives off to New Castle, Delaware on October 28 for the 24-team regional tournament, they are eagerly waiting to see who their opponents will be.

“The schedule comes out Monday and we all absolutely cannot wait,” Sprong said. “We’re glad that people are recognizing what an amazing season this has been, and we’re all so excited to test ourselves against some of the big state schools that will be at this tournament.”

Regardless of tournament outcome, this has been the most successful season for the women’s club soccer team in some time. The closeknit community that it has built for the players is something that any varsity team would be proud of. But there will still be plenty on the line at Regionals; a top-three finish would send Penn to Nationals.

“I think the fact that we’re close socially helps us on the field,” Sprong said.

“I love going to practices and games not just because I love soccer, but because I’m getting to play with my best friends.”

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Franklin Field. Last Saturday, Columbia won on a touchdown in overtime to send Penn home from New York with another crushing defeat.

Junior defensive back Sam Philippi discussed the roller coaster of emotions that go along with a game that ends in heartbreak. “Those are definitely fun games to play in,� Philippi recalled. “I remember standing on the sideline and just thinking how much I love this game and how much I love being here and then the game ends on two last second plays like that.�

But, Philippi was quick to remark that the team had to shift its focus to Yale (4-1, 1-1). “It can be discouraging, but we had a bus ride home. We had a night to think about it, and then we forget about it and move on."

Priore has continued to keep his team pointing forward in the wake of those devastating losses. “It’s called resilience,� Priore said. “In everything in life, we talk about it all the time with the team, you gotta be resilient.

Tough times are gonna happen.

It’s how you adapt, how you cope, how you learn and develop.�

In both games of their Ivy League games, Penn held a three-point lead on the final

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The team. The team. The Team.

Channeling his inner Bo Schembechler, Penn football coach Ray Priore preached the importance of standing together heading into Saturday’s Ivy League tilt with Yale. “It’s all about the team,�

Priore reiterated. “It’s how we play well as a team, not any one person, not any one player.�

Saddled with his first 0-2 conference start during his tenure as head coach, Priore stressed the importance of looking inward in the face of adversity. “We have a bunch of kids that love to play the game of football who are resilient. They’re gritty, they’re tough,� the coach said of his players. “That’s how you turn things around.�

After a promising two game winning streak to start the season, the Quakers (2-3, 0-2 Ivy) have gone on to drop their last three games. But the win-loss record doesn’t come close to telling the whole story.

In week three, Dartmouth scored a goal line touchdown as time expired to walk off at

play. After both games they left with a loss.

With margins that slim, it’s hard to look at any one element and point the blame. Especially when the Red and Blue could easily be 2-0. Priore recognizes this, and has vocalized that there isn’t a special cure in situations like these. “There is no magic dust out there that’ll make it happen.

You’ve got to work hard to get it done,� Priore emphasized. “It’s making smart decisions at practice, ultimately making smart decisions in the game on Saturday.�

However, one change that could spark the Quakers is the return of senior tailback Tre Solomon.

The Brooklyn native went down with an injury in week one before returning for the first time last Saturday at Columbia. With a game under his belt, he’s sure to give the Quakers an added punch against Yale. “My position group tries to be the catalyst during the games,�

Solomon explained. “It’s college football and the running backs really get to shine a lot and we get to motivate the team with big runs.�

But Solomon’s presence isn’t just felt when the ball is in his hand. “His leadership is so impor-

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Penn football will look to notch a key first Ivy League victory when it takes on Yale Saturday. The team is 0-2 in conference play for the first time in Ray Priore's tenure as head coach.

tant to what we do,� Priore said. “We all feel good that he’s back there in the backfield and he becomes another weapon for our offense.�

That leadership will be especially vital if the score is tight late in the game. As a veteran on a young team, Solomon will try to help right the ship. “Focus. I think that’s something that we haven’t been great with over the last few weeks,�

Solomon explained. “I think

that just comes with us becoming more mature at every position including myself and J-Wat [Justin Watson]. We both made some mistakes on the field and because of that we didn’t come up with the win.�

Despite the recent letdowns, Solomon and his teammates aren’t hanging their heads. Rather, they are sticking to the plan.

In describing the attitude at practice, Solomon echoed the words his offensive coordinator

has repeated all year. “Coach [John] Reagan says it all the time that when things are hard you’ve got to work. When things are good you’ve to work.

The answer is that you have to work every single time.�

No fairy can sprinkle magic dust on the Quakers and no player can single handedly win them a ballgame. From top to bottom they know it will take focus and work. In the end, it will all come down to the team.

Women's soccer to play Yale in battle for third place in conference with serious momentum after a late overtime volley edged them atop Dartmouth last week at Rhodes Field. A similar task awaits them this time around, as both Penn and Yale (8-3-2, 2-11) are sitting on seven points and need three more to sustain their title hopes.

Despite the magnitude of the match, coach Nicole Van Dyke stressed the importance of keeping level heads in preparation and training for Saturday. “We know that [the winner takes third place] but we’re not

Win could have Ivy League title implications GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

This one is for all the marbles.

With a chance to take sole possession of third place in the Ivy table, Penn women’s soccer will look to take care of business at home on Saturday against a surging Yale team.

The Quakers (4-6-3, 2-1-1 Ivy) will be entering the match

going to focus on that this week.

It will just be on the back burner,� she said. “I think, up [until] this point, we’ve done fairly well just going game by game.

We just want to get better this week and focus on the things we didn’t do well. And that’s been our mantra the whole season.�

One area of strength for Penn so far this season has been the defensive effort, with the team now having notched its third shutout in conference play and conceding just once. Moreover, the back line is made up almost

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Discussing the tactics up top, Van Dyke noted that both Higa and classmate Kristen Miller, who assisted the former’s goal with a well-placed cross, will have significant roles in the final third. “Looking at the different personalities of the players, like Erica Higa and Kristen Miller, that’s a little bit more their style of getting in behind. So not having Higa for a couple games changed the approach, and we started doing a little bit more in front of the defense,� Van Dyke said. “Now we’re able to mix it up and a little more creativity.

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then technically serve the ball and find players running in.�

A small question mark surrounding this matchup may be the fatigue factor, with Penn coming in on the heels of two intense overtime battles. However, echoing her coach’s sentiment about the training regiment, Higa dispelled any notion of tired legs. “There may be, but there’s always that fire to get onto the next one. We have a great staff that makes sure we’re well recovered and gets our legs going, so huge credit to them for that,� she said.

With a make-or-break opportunity on the horizon, the Quakers will have to stand tall once more in what should be a marquee Ivy League battle.

an outstanding sailor in his own right.

The senior skipper finished sixth overall at Laser Elimination in late September, which qualified him for the Carl van Duyne Conference Championship, where he earned a ninth-place finish.

The sibling duo is sure to make a splash for the remainder of the fall season. The Butchers, however, are not the only ones leading the Quakers to prominence.

In particular, the tremendous leadership of the captains cannot be overstated. Juniors Max Slosburg and Raemie Ladner (captains of the co-ed team) and sophomore Ava Esquier (women’s team captain) have made great strides to ensure that the squad stays on track.

Penn faces the additional challenge of not having a full-time coach, meaning that many of the administrative responsibilities fall on the captains.

Lenox Butcher discussed the team’s hopes regarding this situation. “We’re looking forward to

getting more resources for the team and getting more support from the school when it comes to working out logistics,� Butcher said. “Right now, the captains do a lot; everything they’ve done is really incredible.�

This student-run team dynamic has brought the Penn sailors closer as a unit, so much so that they are still capable of beating varsity teams with full-time coaches.

The Red and Blue will look to finish this historic year with a bang by climbing even higher in the national standings. They have four more weekends to do so, as the final events of the fall season will take place on the weekend of November 11.

Butcher, for one, is confident in the Quakers going forward. “We have a lot of potential on the team with a bunch of really great kids this year and more coming next year. We’re excited to see the way the team is building and how each year we get so much better.�

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Praising the performance of the defense, junior midfielder Allie Trzaska, now having logged the third-most minutes on the squad, noted the upward trajectory she’s seen. “We have a lot of young people back there, so communication has been key. We’ve improved tremendously since the beginning of the season in mid-August,� Trzaska said. “We just need to keep talking, making sure we’re on the same page, and not letting any attacks get through. I think we have a better handle on how each of us plays and read each other better, so that’s helped us a lot back there.�

Interestingly, the Bulldogs have the same knack themselves, only letting one goal by in their last three Ivy matches. On top of that, their results match those of Penn uncannily with a nil-nil draw to Cornell, a shutout victory over Harvard, and a onegoal overtime win hosting Dartmouth. Yale barely edges out Penn in shots per game, 14 to 12, so it will be a battle of who can strike first against two very resilient defenses.

While Penn still is having difficulty finding the back of the net, a new offensive approach may be its key to a big three points. Now fully utilizing senior Erica Higa, whose 98th-minute one-timer sealed the victory for Penn last week, the Quakers will be hoping to spread the field and then slip in

als, which will take place on the weekend of November 4 in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Butcher already has experience in the national spotlight, having sailed to a ninth-place finish in Nationals as a freshman last year. “I thought it was cool to compete against the top kids around the nation,� Butcher said. “I knew I could have done better, but I was still excited with how I did.�

The sophomore has her sights set even higher for the championship this year. “Last year, I was kind of overwhelmed by the transition of college, and it threw me off a little bit,� Butcher said. “Now I’m focused on what’s to come, and I’ve put in a lot of training, so hopefully I can finish in the top five or even top three.�

As if Lenox’s accomplishments weren’t already impressive, her older brother Keen is

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Basketball season to start this weekend with scrimmages Palestra will host intrasquad guard Antonio Woods, who spent almost the last two years away from scrimmages on Saturday the team after starring for the QuakWILLIAM SNOW Senior Sports Editor

Basketball season is back.

This Saturday, both Penn men’s and women’s basketball will kickoff their seasons with the informal Red and Blue scrimmages in the Palestra.

The scrimmages will be intrasquad, so for their first taste of competition for the long season, the Quakers will find themselves.

Men’s coach Steve Donahue promised that his team’s scrimmage would be a good contest.

“We’ll make ‘em even,” he said of the teams. “[We’ll] try to make it as competitive of a game as we can.”

But with so many new faces, it’ll be hard to tell what level each player is at until they all hit the court Saturday morning. The women’s squad has five rookies to tout this year, while the men have four freshmen — plus the return of junior

ers his rookie season.

Woods, along with freshmen Eddie Scott and Jared Simmons, are key players Donahue will watch closely on Saturday. The three could feature prominently for the Red and Blue this season, even it’s currently uncertain where they’ll fit on the roster.

“Eddie is probably one of the most athletic shooting guards I’ve seen,” Simmons said in praise of his classmate.

“Both Eddie and Jared have done a very good job,” Donahue said of the rookies’ preseason workouts. “I could see them helping us early on.

And obviously [getting] Antonio back over the summer — I think he’ll make us a better team.”

The team improved from its lowpoint in February, when the Quakers bottomed out at 0-6 in the Ivy League with no hope in sight of making the inaugural Ivy League Tournament. They ended up finishing the season on a 6-2 run to make the tournament and give Ivy

champs Princeton a real scare before losing in overtime.

Donahue was confident that the team’s momentum could carry into the new season.

“We’ve done a very good job over the last six months taking what we learned from last year’s run and making our team better,” he said. “I think we’re bigger, stronger, quicker, more experienced in all aspects of the game.”

The women’s team won’t have to worry much about a lack of momentum, either — the back-to-back Ivy League champs return the bulk of their team, having lost Sydney Stipanovich and Kasey Chambers to graduation.

The question their squad might have to answer on Saturday is who could feature in their starting lineup. A 6-foot-3-sized hole remains where Stipanovich left, but the inch-taller freshman center Eleah Parker could step in to fill that void.

A competition will be afoot for the first spots on the bench as well.

Players like sophomores Kendall Grasela and Phoebe Sterba will seek to prove their case for a bigger

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role on the team.

On the men’s side, ‘prove’ was the word on senior Darnell Foreman’s lips.

“Guys have got a lot to prove, a lot to prove. If you’re a freshman, or even an older guy like me, you’ve got a lot to prove every time you step on the court,” the captain said.

Freshmen like Simmons will be

facing their first time playing in front of fans at the Palestra. A feeling like that is something to behold, the rookie mentioned.

“There’s so many emotions when I think about it, but I’m just hoping that I can play well,” Simmons said.

He doesn’t who his teammates are for the Red and Blue scrimmage

yet, but Foreman indicated they might know a couple hours before the game.

For now, though, both the men’s and women’s teams are just looking forward to getting back into basketball season and playing at the Palestra.

As Foreman put it: “That vibe is just unreal.”

Penn is set to enter a new era for students and sports clubs KYLE O'NEIL

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Sports clubs at Penn are a major component of student life.

Consistently growing, sports clubs engage many undergraduates and even a few graduate students. They become families and off-campus houses, spending weekends, and even weeklong trips together. For some, sports clubs are a daily escape from the stresses of student life. For others, sports clubs are the highest level of competition available to them at the University of Pennsylvania. For a select few, sports clubs are about national championships.

With a strong community of sports clubs, one would expect that new sports clubs at Penn are commonplace. However, when the Student Activities Council (SAC) placed a moratorium on the formation of new groups, Sports Club Council (SCC), the governing body of sports clubs at Penn, followed suit. Although SAC ended their moratorium in the fall of 2014 and began admitting new groups in the fall of 2015, the moratorium on new groups joining SCC never ended.

Since then, a more organized administration has begun to tackle some of the issues facing the Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics’ budget. Free practice space for

unrecognized groups such as Men’s Club Basketball quickly went out the window following changes in administration. In response, student groups began pushing DRIA to reassess their policy on accepting new groups.

Men’s Club Basketball, which is not a SCC recognized group, was among those clamoring for practice space following the new enforcement of DRIA charging for space. Coming within one shot of beating eventual National champions Ohio State at the end of spring of 2016, Men’s Club Basketball might be one of the most com-

petitive groups at Penn. However, the team struggled to come to terms with DRIA, facing almost insurmountable charges for practice space. In the fall of 2016, Men’s Club Basketball escalated their negotiations with DRIA, emailing all the donors for Penn Athletics asking for funding.

In response to groups from softball to archery asking for recognition, the new administration began to assess the costs and expenses of both Athletics and Recreation. Following a budget review, administrators confirmed something many

participants in sports clubs already knew — sports are expensive. Expected to contribute at least a third of their operating expenses to maintain SCC funding, sports clubs have become adept at fundraising through dues, events, and even Kickstarter campaigns. However, sports clubs do not address the cost of the fields and space they use, leaving athletics in a half million-dollar budget deficit for recreational funding. Armed with this knowledge, DRIA administration was reluctant to end the moratorium on accepting new groups.

However, leaders in student government had other ideas.

Following budget negotiations with SAC, chaired by Ed Jing, in the spring of 2017, SCC received a larger than normal 3% budget increase, stipulating the acceptance of new groups. The SCC moratorium was now finally approaching its end. Working with a collaborative administration, student leaders have been able to articulate and meet the needs of student groups.

Hopefully, the SCC moratorium will end officially on November 1. With the ending of the moratorium will come a

new era where student interests, competitiveness, and organization will drive sports club funding, rather than presence in the establishment. Perhaps, in five years, the newly formed and recognized softball club will be competing for a national championship, proving that students truly do have the power to create transformative change on campus.

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Penn sailing competes under the title of a club team, but if its rankings are any indication, the squad is one of the most successful club athletics’ programs in the country.

Sailing mainly against schools with varsity teams, the Quakers have consistently found

themselves near the top of the national rankings over the past several years.

The women’s team is currently ranked 16th in the country, while the co-ed unit stands as the 25th best team nationally.

One key reason for the team’s achievements so far this year has been the success of sophomore skipper Lenox Butcher, who placed 2nd in the

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Club men's hockey ices foes in unprecedented season

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Anna Thompson, or “Gopher,” as her teammates now call her, stepped onto the ultimate frisbee field with only one year of experience under her belt. Little did she know that in two years’ time, as just a junior in college, she’d be headed to Perth, Australia to represent the United States in the World Under-24 (U24) Ultimate Championship.

Thompson’s journey began at Penn, where she joined the club ultimate team, Venus, in the fall of her freshman year. The following spring, Thompson was invited to participate in Philadelphia’s club mixed team, AMP, where she was introduced to elite-level ultimate, breaking out of her comfort zone of college play .

From then on, Thompson not only played for the Philadelphia women’s team, “Green Means Go,” but also played alongside her Venus coaches, Raha Mozaffari and Patrick Sherlock, within the Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance (PADA).

“I played the winter league, which is a really competitive indoor league, and a lot of Philly elite players play that, which was a good introduction to Philly’s club scene,” Thompson said.

The following season, Sherlock encouraged Thompson to “apply to try out” for the U24 team. Players with an outstanding “ultimate resume” are encouraged to send an application to the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF). By January, Thompson received notice of her invitation to try out in Columbus, Ohio.

“I was super excited," she said.

"There were a lot of names on that

Not only does Penn men’s club hockey play on ice, they're also icing the competition.

The team has cruised to a dominant 6-0 start in Colonial States College Hockey Conference play and boasts an overall record of 7-2. Their last game against Seton Hall University ended in a lopsided 9-1 Quaker victory.

Despite the club’s current success, coaches and returning players always enter each season with a high level of uncertainty.

Because ice hockey is a club sport, participation is voluntary. This aspect of the program has led to many disappointing seasons and in-game struggles, even during this standout year.

Freshman Brett Rahbany, who is second on the team in points, explains why this year has been different.

“We’ve had a core group of guys show up,” he said.

He then went on to name specific teammates, such as offensive star Alex Beckert, whose strong efforts and inspiring leadership have created a constructive environment.

The peculiar make-up of this environment, according to Rahbany, is what makes it so effective at spurring success.

A combination of undergrads and graduates, Divi-

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Anna Thomson, as a college junior, will travel to Australia to represent the United States in the Under-24 World Ultimate Frisbee championship.

list that I had seen play or that I had heard about. It was super humbling to get the opportunity to try out.”

Thompson agreed that her favorite team to practice with at the tryout was the mixed team.

“The speed of the game is different for men and women," she explained. "Men can be more explosive and can move faster than women, so people with no experience will sometimes have trouble working with the other gender.”

Thompson went on to mention that her previous experience on the AMP mixed team helped her overcome that challenge during the tryouts.

As for expectations for the tryouts in general, Thompson says she had none.

“I didn’t go into it with really any expectations; I didn’t think it was constructive. I wanted to learn things and play ultimate for a weekend. So that’s what I did.”

Then, in July, Thompson got the call of a lifetime.

The Seattle native was invited to be one of 11 girls on the U24

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mixed team, who will be traveling to Australia in early 2018 for the WFDF U24 Championship.

As for her travel plans to Australia, Thompson says she’ll be going early with her family to visit New Zealand as well.

“Forget ultimate, I get to go to Australia and New Zealand, and that’s awesome.”

Thompson hopes to try for the U24 again two years from now, and possibly continue on to the World Games when eligible.

“Ultimate is amazing in that you can be an adult and play into your thirties or later at this elite level with amazing athletes, kind of in its own little world."

Thompson is currently captain of Venus. She credits all her success to Mozaffari and Sherlock: her coaches, teammates, and mentors throughout this experience.

“A lot of the reason I’m doing what I’m doing now is because of Patrick and Raha. I can’t emphasize enough how important they are, and how integral they’ve been in mentoring me and helping me develop as a player and person.”

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Penn men's club hockey has jumped out to a hot start to the season, including an undefeated conference record.

sion I-caliber players and high school benchwarmers, this band of hockey hopefuls has tapped into its unorthodox diversity in order to develop an unbreakable chemistry.

One rallying point, which has reduced barriers and strengthened bonds, is resilience. This motivational mantra is often repeated by coach Scott Carmack, who seeks to create a universal mindset within the team. Coming into each game with a fluctuating lineup, the club’s ability to consistently exceed expectations shows that this mentality is working. “[Coach] makes sure we’re all competing just

as hard,” Rahbany stated, adding to this sentiment examples of his teammates’ willingness to commit to varying levels of workload in exchange for hard-fought victories.

In yet another matchup this weekend against previously helpless Seton Hall, the Quakers will certainly walk into the rink with an air of confidence about them. However, as shown by the score of their last meeting with the Pirates, they’ll have no intention of taking their foot off the pedal.

Whether it be with just six men or 60, Penn men’s club hockey and their unrelenting attitude anticipate more of the same.

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