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A Record Endowment What does that mean for students?

Penn’s Endowment FY 2013-2017

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bringing the endowment’s total value to a record-high of $12.2 billion. The endowment has grown by $1.6 billion since the 2016 fiscal year, when it reported a total value of $10.6 billion despite investment losses of 1.4 percent.

Returns on equity investments, which refers to the buying and holding of shares of stock on a stock market, drove most of the favorable growth, Bloomberg reported.

Penn joins Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Brown University, Harvard University, Yale University and Princeton University in reporting investment growth that reached historic highs this fiscal year.

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enn reported one of the highest investment returns ever on its endowment for the 2017 fiscal year — but the spike is unlikely to change how Penn’s money is spent.

A university endowment refers to “money or other financial assets that are donated to universities or colleges,” according to financial education website Investopedia. Typically, the purpose of the endowment is to be invested so that university’s total assets grow. And according to the website of the University’s Office of Investments, endowment funds are primarily directed towards student financial aid and faculty compensation.

This year, Penn reported a 14.3 percent investment return on its endowment,

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‘Daily Show’ comes to When frats break rules, Penn: Trevor Noah to students decide punishments headline SPEC event The IFC’s Judicial Inquiry Board is run by students HALEY SUH Deputy News Editor

Noah will speak on Nov. 5 at 5 p.m. at Irvine DANI BLUM 34th Street Managing Editor

The South African comedian and celebrated host of “The Daily Show,” Trevor Noah, is coming to campus.

Two branches of the Social Planning and Events Committee, SPEC Connaissance, which is in charge of bringing influential speakers to Penn, and SPEC-TRUM, which represents undergraduate minorities, are collaborating to present a moderated discussion between Noah and Political Science professor Mark Pollack on Nov. 5 at 5 p.m.

The event, which will take place in Irvine Auditorium on the Sunday of Homecoming weekend, will also include a question and answer segment with audience members.

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Trevor Noah is a comedian from South Africa, famous for hosting “The Daily Show” and his 2016 New York Times bestseller.

Noah hosts Comedy Central’s satirical news program, “The Daily Show.” When Noah first took over the show from Jon Stewart in September 2015, critics were unsure whether he would be able to lead the show as successfully as his predecessor. Noah was relatively unknown in the United States

prior to 2015, and he received mixed reviews during his first few weeks on air.

More recently, however, Noah seems to have cemented his comedic legacy. In November 2016, he released a New York Times bestselling SEE SPEAKER PAGE 2

Amid a recent uptick in event closures, more fraternities face the possibility of having their parties shut down. Here’s what happens after the doors to these fraternity houses are closed by the Penn Police Department.

When parties are shut down, whether due to safety violations or to the failure of the fraternity to register the event with the University, the student-run Judicial Inquiry Board of the Interfraternity Council convenes to determine the case’s severity and to dole out an appropriate punishment.

“The role of JIB is to investigate alleged violations to policy and sanction accordingly,” wrote Eddie BanksCrosson, director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, in an email.

For the past two months, many students have expressed frustration over the surge in social event closures and the overall higher level of security enforced upon all social events as a result of the recommendations of a task force convened in the wake of of-

fensive emails distributed by the offcampus organization OZ. One of the recently implemented recommendations was the introduction of event observers who are tasked with patrolling the Penn area three nights a week to shut down parties violating the University’s latest guidelines concerning event registration.

According to JIB’s constitution, “The goals of the IFC Judicial Inquiry Board process are to compel adherence to both University and IFC policies, to resolve conflicts within the Fraternity community, and to promote high standards of conduct.”

Former JIB Manager, Psi Upsilon member and College senior Toby Milligan said that while JIB conducts the process to determine punishment for different violations, Banks-Crosson has the ability to overturn their decision. The issue is then returned to the students who reconvene and restart their discussion on potential sanctions until it is approved.

“JIB is comprised entirely of students. However, that being said, the whole group holds each other accountable, as opposed to the University saying, ‘This is your punishment,’” Milligan said.

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“…the notion that race and gender are appropriate criteria to decide who gets a voice is at best a misguided one.” - James Lee PAGE 4

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by OFSL and voted on by IFC-affiliated chapters.

“The rubric states that if you do ‘X,’ the punishment will be ‘Y.’ We introduced it to formalize the potential punishments and provide transparency to chapter presidents so they can make better decisions,” Milligan said.

Alleged violations are ranked on the basis of severity from a Level 0 case — meaning that the fraternity is “not likely guilty” according to JIB’s constitution — to a Level 3 case — which can include cases involving accusations of hazing or “the use of alcohol during rush.”

If a fraternity were to host an unregistered party, it could either get a warning or a strike based on the size of the event, Milligan said.

According to JIB’s constitution, unregistered parties are considered a Level 1 case, which is presided over by only the JIB manager and JIB members. But if the fraternity has already received “two sanctions regarding an unregistered party that are greater than a warning,” the violation is considered a Level 2 case which is decided by the JIB manager, SEE FRATERNITY PAGE 7

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TA in hot water after provocative tweet

She advocated for ‘progressive stacking’ ALEX RABIN Senior Reporter

A series of tweets from a Penn history Ph.D. student and teaching assistant has divided public opinion and sparked conversation around teaching techniques intended to include all student populations in discussion.

Stephanie McKellop, who is a TA for the class, HIST-345: “Sinners, Sex and Slaves: Race and Sex In Early America,” posted a tweet the evening of Monday, Oct. 16 on her personal account that read, “I will always call on my Black women students first. Other POC get second tier priority. WW come next. And, if I have to, white men.” (Other news outlets have reported that McKellop uses they/ them pronouns, but in a phone interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, she said she prefers she/ her pronouns.)

Online users of Twitter and 4chan have spoken out to both support and criticize McKellop for the tweets on her personal account.

By Tuesday afternoon, numerous other Twitter users were reacting to McKellop’s tweets. Many of them, including users whom some of McKellop’s support-

ers have classified as “alt-right,” criticized McKellop and accused her of racial discrimination. Multiple users submitted news tips to The Daily Pennsylvanian and sent informal complaints to the State Board of Education, calling for her to be suspended.

Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Steven J. Fluharty said in a statement that Penn is “looking into the current matter involving a graduate student teaching assistant to ensure that our students were not subjected to discriminatory practices in the classroom and to ensure that all of our students feel heard and equally engaged.”

However, he added that, “Contrary to some reports, the graduate student has not been removed from the program and we have and will continue to respect and protect the graduate student’s right to due process.”

McKellop tweeted on Wednesday that Penn had asked her to not attend lecture and canceled her recitations for the week. An undergraduate student in McKellop’s class who wished to remain anonymous confirmed that McKellop did not attend Wednesday’s lecture or hold recitations this week.

McKellop declined requests for comment.

“If a professor said, ‘I am calling on white men first and then

going down to white women,’ I don’t think the University would have had any problem suspending that professor, making a statement condemning it and talking about our diversity inclusion,” College and Wharton sophomore and Co-Director of the College Republicans editorial board Michael Moroz said. “The comment she made was discriminatory, and the University should take actions and fire her.”

McKellop referred to her teaching method as progressive stacking, a technique that is used to give marginalized groups greater opportunities to speak.

Many Twitter users, including those from other universities, have also expressed their support of McKellop. Justin Cowart, a Ph.D. student in planetary sciences at Stony Brook University, distributed a template online so that Penn students could email professors in the history department in support of her.

Cowart declined to comment.

A group of more than 20 graduate students and lecturers from the University of Sheffield also sent a letter in support of McKellop to professors in the Penn History Department.

Penn history professor Benjamin Nathans said graduate students are still “teachers in training” and they “are still learning

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Penn asked history TA Stephanie McKellop to not come to lecture or hold recitation for HIST-345 for one week.

the craft,” but that McKellop’s described method was not an acceptable teaching practice.

“Getting all members of a recitation or seminar to participate in a discussion is a laudable goal, but the method described in these tweets is totally unacceptable,” Nathans wrote in an email. “To assume that you can tell which students need to be encouraged to

speak solely on the basis of their gender or skin color is a grave mistake.”

The controversy around McKellop’s tweets come after Drexel University professor George Ciccariello-Maher was placed on leave earlier this month after tweeting that the “narrative of white victimization” was behind the Las Vegas mass shooting.

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book called, “Born A Crime.” He has significantly increased the show’s ratings among black viewers, hosted one of the last White House interviews with President Barack Obama and moderated an interview with young, conservative pundit Tomi Lahren, which went viral with over 7 million views on Youtube.

“We think that he has a lot of good things to say,” said SPEC Connaissance Director and College junior Natasha Allen. “We thought he would fit well with the Penn community and it would be a great show.”

Pollack, who will moderate the session with Noah, is most known on campus for teaching courses like “International Political Economy.” He is also a professor of political science and law at Temple University.

Pollack was selected to moderate the discussion “because of his interest and knowledge [in] politics and international affairs, as well as the energy he brings into any room he is in,” Allen said. “We believe [he] and Trevor would feed off each other and engage in an interesting conversation.”

This event won’t be the first time SPEC Connaissance has brought celebrity comedians to campus — last March, the group’s spring speaker was Saturday Night Live star Kenan Thompson. Other SPEC Connaissance speakers include: Anna Kendrick, Caitlyn Jenner and Seth Meyers.

Tickets for the event will go on sale starting Monday, Oct. 23. SPEC will sell tickets to Penn students for $10 beginning at 10 a.m. on Locust Walk and online at specevents.net/tickets.

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Hundreds gather to honor life of senior Henry Rogers Ceremony held in Huntsman Hall’s Koo Plaza NATALIE KHAN Deputy News Editor

Hundreds of students gathered on Oct. 20 on Huntsman Hall’s Koo Plaza to commemorate the life of Wharton senior and Beta Theta Pi fraternity member Henry Rogers, who died on Oct. 9.

At the ceremony, which was held outdoors on the warm Friday afternoon, administrators, friends and family presented their stories of Rogers. College senior Melanie Bow also played the guitar and sang Lukas Graham’s “Funeral.”

Wharton senior and Beta Theta Pi member Trent Buenzli welcomed the guests, “We can celebrate a guy that deserves

it,” he said. Rogers was a former captain of the heavyweight rowing team and part of Cohort Shekel in the Wharton School.

College senior and Rogers’ teammate Sabrina Stanich described Rogers’ “total and complete athletic savagery.” He achieved a personal record during a test on the rowing machine after sleeping just three hours the previous night, she said.

When Stanich asked Rogers to run a half-marathon with her, she said he declined because he doesn’t “half-ass” things. If they were going to run a race, he’d said, they would do the full 26.2 miles.

Buenzli also described his memories with Rogers, including a gathering in Rogers’ Hill College House room on their first day at Penn and the $1 tacos they ate when they travelled

across the United States-Mexico border.

He also noted Rogers’ dedication to attending fraternity gatherings, despite his busy rowing schedule.

“He set the tone for everything we did,” he said. “He was the glue of the group and there’s no doubt we’re all better friends because of him.”

Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett, who opened the ceremony, said that despite Penn’s competitive nature, events like these remind of its caring community.

2015 Wharton and Engineering graduate and Beta Theta Pi member Joe Strege said he attended Rogers’ funeral in St. Louis, along with many other fraternity members. The 400seat church was full for hours before it started, he said, with spectators in the aisles and on

the balcony. They had to broadcast the ceremony so everyone could see it.

Rogers’ mother also addressed the crowd and encouraged everyone to use their love of Henry to make an impact.

“Live life now,” Buenzli said. “[Rogers] didn’t wait until the right time to do something. He just lived.”

After the seven speakers in the program finished, University Chaplain Rev. Chaz Howard invited audience members to share their perspectives. Howard added that many conversations he’s had with students about Rogers begin somber but end with laughter.

“Henry didn’t live a life deserving of tears,” Buenzli said during his speech. “He lived a life deserving of a round of applause.”

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University Chaplain Rev. Chaz Howard said that many conversations he’s had about Rogers begin somber, but end with laughter.

New club hopes to provide a space for feminist discussion About 20 women attend PennFems’ first meeting MICHEL LIU Staff Reporter

A new club on campus wants to provide more space for feminists to meet and discuss issues they are passionate about.

PennFems is an initiative under the Penn Association for Gender Equity. College sophomore Donnisa Edmonds, who is the president of PennFems and PAGE marketing chair, said freshmen on PAGE’s board last year noticed that PAGE is the only general feminist group on campus, which they wanted to change.

Edmonds added that PAGE also has a specific focus, which is to function as an umbrella group that organizes events and assists constituent groups.

“It doesn’t really provide a

space for people to have discussions about feminism,” she said.

PennFems had its first general body meeting on Oct. 12, when PennFems Educational Chair and College sophomore Desteni Rivers talked about the history of feminism and intersectionality before opening the meeting up to a discussion with all the attendees.

About 20 women attended the first discussion, but Edmonds said the group aspires to have students of all gender identities participating in future discussions.

College sophomore and PAGE Education Chair Mischa Neal said she enjoyed the event and appreciated the new forum for discussion.

“We don’t do a lot of educational stuff and so I thought the educational aspect worked really well. I really appreciated the opportunity to discuss each wave of feminism and how intersectionality played out in each iteration,”

Neal said.

She said that PennFems has its roots in an initiative that PAGE started last year called Freshman Fellows. Freshman Fellows is open to first-semester freshmen who apply to attend around 10 hours of meetings about feminist literature, panels and discussions.

In 2016 and 2017, roughly 20 students participated in the program and leaders hope that these students will become more involved in PAGE during their time at Penn. However, since PAGE only has nine board seats, the current leaders saw a need to increase the number of opportunities for students interested in discussing and promoting feminism.

Edmonds said a focus of PennFems will be intersectionality and how oppression affects people differently based on factors such as race, gender, class and sexuality.

Meriem Messaoudi, PennFems

community service chair and College junior, said the group also plans to get involved with organizations outside of campus to foster community service opportunities.

“It’s crazy because students are so active on campus, but not so much outside of it,” Messaoudi said.

Edmonds agreed and said “within feminist spaces there is a lot of discussion but not a lot of concrete action.”

Rivers said that while PennFems provides a general space focused on feminism, it is not the only place on campus to be involved in the cause.

“I’m involved in certain organizations that don’t necessarily scream, ‘Feminism,’ but they do have feminist perspectives,” Rivers said, citing Penn Anti-Violence Educators and GlobeMed as examples.

Cornell students spark debate over who counts as ‘underrepresented black students’ Critics labeled the group as ‘anti-foreigner’ HARRY TRUSTMAN Copy Editor

Black Students United, a student group at Cornell University, prompted public debate last month after releasing a statement arguing that the definition of “underrepresented black students” should apply only to those whose families have been in the United States for more than two generations. It also argued that the black student population at Cornell disproportionately represented African and Caribbean international students.

“While these [black international] students have a right to flourish at Cornell, there is a lack of investment in Black students whose families were affected directly by the African Holocaust in America,” the statement read.

BSU released their list of demands as a response to the assault of a black Cornell junior by a group of white Cornell students. The student was punched in the face and called the N-word.

On Oct. 12, BSU published a statement on its Facebook page apologizing for the delay in its response to public criticism, but did not retract its initial demand from September. The post read, “We apologize for the delay in response and any conflicting feelings this demand may have garnered from the communities we represent. Our mission aims to support all members of the African Diaspora both nationally and internationally, as we are a board comprised of Africans, Caribbeans, and Black Americans.”

Aggrey Odera is a College and Wharton junior from Kenya, who is currently studying abroad at Oxford University. Odera said he felt BSU made a valid point when criticizing the underrepresentation of African Americans at elite institutions.

“I think there are some merits to the argument that American blacks are not being represented

as they should be,” Odera said.

“The numbers are sort of being inflated because we [African international students] are counted as black.”

Odera, however, disagreed with the group’s comments regarding black students who are not from the United States. He does not believe that the claims should result in African students being denied admission at higher rates.

“The benefits they’re looking for should not be at the expense of African students,” Odera said.

“It’s not like there could be too many black people at these institutions. It doesn’t make much sense to me.”

Wharton junior Allysha Davis said she thought that BSU’s other demands in their initial statement, particularly the point about hiring faculty to teach mandatory courses on race issues, were “spot on.”

Although Davis said she believes that black Americans should receive greater representation on college campuses, she said she does not completely agree with BSU’s stance.

“Whether we come from Africa, the Caribbean or New York and are black in America, a lot of people in the outside world just see us as black,” Davis said.

“People are going to go through this systemic racism no matter where we are, so I feel like we shouldn’t focus on one particular group.”

Brian Taylor, the managing director of the Ivy Coach, a college counseling service, agreed that colleges should do more to reach out to the African-American community.

“Should colleges like Cornell and Penn be doing more to encourage underrepresented African-American students to apply?” Taylor asked. “Yes, they could do more; they should do more, they must do more.”

Taylor found it ironic that a politically left-leaning student group would express beliefs that are anti-immigrant in nature.

“Presumably, these are not supporters of our president,” Taylor said. “And yet, some of their sentiment is also antiinternational students. They’re espousing ideals that are antiforeigner.”

Davis, however, does not think that BSU is necessarily against immigrants.

“I do think they appreciate

their counterparts who are from Africa or the Caribbean and do believe that they should flourish,” Davis said. “They just want higher numbers from black students in America and in that case, I wouldn’t classify them as anti-foreign.”

The Penn Admissions Office did not respond to requests for comment.

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PennFems had its first meeting on Oct. 12. Educational Chair and College sophomore Desteni Rivers talked about the history of feminism.

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Like many, I first encountered the idea of progressive stacking through the recent case of a Penn Ph.D. student who employed it in a recitation for a history course. The technique seems to refer to a general system of prioritization that gives preference to minority groups when deciding who gets to speak first.

In this particular case, the instructor, Stephanie McKellop, tweeted, “I will always call on my Black women students first.

Other POC [people of color] get second tier priority. WW [white women] come next. And, if I have to, white men.”

Unsurprisingly, McKellop’s position, as well as the technique itself, have caused a storm of criticism, and her story was quickly picked up on social and traditional media. As for Penn’s position, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Steven Fluharty has stated that he plans to look into the incident to ensure that students are not subject to “discriminatory practices.” The concerns over using race as a determining factor in classroom discussion are expected, but I personally have been struck by just how many people have actually defended the practice.

McKellop herself has not shied away from her position even after a great deal of backlash.

While McKellop’s intentions may be good, her position is an extremely disturbing case of progressivism gone awry. Inclusion in discussion and class participation is obviously a noble goal, but the notion that race and gender are appropriate criteria to decide who gets a voice is at best a misguided one. We need not even step into the debate over whether certain people are systematically marginalized and therefore less inclined to speak in a classroom. Some students will always be more active in class discussion than others. The goal of an instructor should be to get those who do not usually speak up to join, and I cannot see a reason why the race or gender of those should be considered.

For example, if a certain group of black women, a demographic to which McKellop seems to give first priority, dominates discussion to the point that other students don’t get a chance to contribute, it would still be the duty of the instructor to call on others to ensure that everyone gets a chance to talk. That would

also be the case if that group were all white men. Using race and gender as the basis for that kind of prioritization threatens the integrity of the classroom.

Frankly, this kind of misguided extremism is part of the reason why people dismiss and mock social activism. It achieves nothing of real substance and prevents us from having discussions about the actually important and debatable

Incidents like this only serve to deepen that mistrust and further enforce such unfair characterizations.

The case is particularly disturbing because it suggests that people such as McKellop are so invested in the framework of race and gender inequalities that they cannot see individuals as anything more than such basic identities. This is a regressive and limiting way of looking at the world — students are much more than “WW” or “POC,” and they deserve to be recognized for their full selves.

McKellop’s tweets following reactions to her initial one show just how far she has strayed from any constructive discourse. She wrote, “Because this involves calling on Black students more readily than white men, the white nationalists and Nazis were very upset.” The immediate rejection of criticism as racially motivated and the subsequent labeling of critics as “Nazis” is a conversation-ender rather than a part of a meaningful discussion. This echos the

Inclusion in discussion and class participation is obviously a noble goal, but the notion that race and gender are appropriate criteria to decide who gets a voice is at best a misguided one.” ways through which we could create a better learning environment.

It is no secret that much of America has developed a mistrust of elite universities such as Penn, and I’m sure everyone has encountered the stereotype of the entitled liberal “snowflake.”

JAMES LEE close-mindedness of a certain president dismissing journalists with the cry of “fake news.”

The kind of snobbish and elitist attitude expressed is what created a sense of alienation for many during the election process, and one that leaves people with deep suspicion and bitterness. It is important to note that McKellop’s reasoning may indeed stem from a genuine, commendable desire to create an ideal academic setting.

Yet, while an effort to balance a boat that is too heavy on one side may be a laudable one, a reckless, unguided sprint to the other side will just capsize the whole damn thing.

JAMES LEE is a College senior from Seoul, South Korea, studying English and philosophy, politics and economics. His email address is jel@ sas.upenn.edu. “The Conversation” usually appears every other Monday.

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After his tweets linking the mass shooting in Las Vegas to “white male patriarchy” made him the target of alt-right outrage, George Ciccariello-Maher, a professor at our neighbor, Drexel University, was forced to cancel his classes.

Now he’s the most recent addition to a growing list of left-leaning professors who have been placed on administrative leave after their speech incited conservative fury.

According to Ciccariello-Maher himself, this trend is evidence that right-wing media outlets (think Breitbart, The Daily Caller and even Fox News) are the real threat to academic freedom — the right to engage in diverse intellectual ideas — not the often-maligned campus left.

Names like Tommy Curry and Johnny Eric Williams — professors who were placed on leave after their personal comments spurred a conservative backlash — add credence to Ciccariello-Maher’s position. But of course, a right-wing academic might similarly construct their own list of anecdotes to forward the opposite narrative and claim that it’s intolerant leftists who are the most opposed to intellectual liberties. It’s easy to see how the debate would devolve from there.

Arguing over which political perspective is most opposed to academic freedom does little to address the underlying issue: Why

are universities so readily succumbing to the public condemnation of their professors? Often, administrators cite safety concerns when online rage is followed by violent threats but those concerns don’t tell the full story. What truly gives power to public outcry is the fear that this negative press will damage the university’s brand. Clearly, the commercialization of American universities means that monetary concerns are starting to outweigh intellectual ones.

According to Drexel’s official statement, the decision to place Ciccariello-Maher on administrative leave was made to protect the safety of him and his students, but when put to the test, that reasoning seems flimsy. While it’s true that Ciccariello-Maher has received violent threats, I have trouble believing that they warrant putting him on leave for an extended period of time.

There are other ways that the university could reasonably ensure his safety — such as changing his class location or increasing security — without also inhibiting his ability to teach. And if Drexel’s only

concern was security, then why is it that Dakota Peterson, one of Ciccariello-Maher’s students, says that the university never reached out to check on the student’s safety?

Abridging the academic freedoms of a professor should be a university’s last resort, but Drexel seemed all too willing to make that decision. To understand why, one need look no further than Ciccariello-Maher’s past run-ins with university administrators.

After a Ciccariello-Maher tweet referencing the treatment of a military veteran drew the ire of the con-

dom policy of the American Association of University Professors, “a faculty member’s expression of opinion as a citizen cannot constitute grounds for dismissal unless it clearly demonstrates the faculty member’s unfitness for his or her position.” The grievances stated in the letter have little to do with Ciccariello-Maher’s fitness to teach. In fact, they seem to neglect this point entirely.

Instead, Blake spent much of the letter detailing the impact that Ciccariello-Maher’s tweets have had on Drexel as an institution.

“Numerous prospective students whom the university has admitted have written to the university stating that they will not attend the university because of your conduct,” Blake wrote. “And at least two potential significant donors to the university have withheld previously promised donations.”

It’s absolutely absurd, if not outright dangerous, to insinuate that Ciccariello-Maher should be punished because wealthy donors disagree with his political perspective. Academic freedom must be ensured for all professors; it’s not something that can be neglected when it becomes

Clearly, the commercialization of American universities means that monetary concerns are starting to outweigh intellectual ones.” servative media, Drexel University Provost Brian Blake sent a letter to the controversial professor. In it, Blake states that the Faculty Senate will be engaging in a code of conduct investigation against him for this and other provocative tweets.

According to the academic free-

CAMERON DICHTER too expensive to uphold.

Of course, Drexel isn’t the only institution that places a high value on monetary concerns.

Given that an instructor at Penn was just removed from classes following a provocative tweet, it’s become even more important to understand how anger from outside of academia can threaten the freedoms of those within it. Though this situation is slightly different — this tweet implicates conduct in the classroom, not just political opinions — the same dangers are still applicable.

Penn and other universities place a great deal of value on maintaining their brands; let’s make sure that doesn’t come at the cost of their principles.

CAMERON DICHTER is a College senior from Philadelphia, studying English. His email address is camd@ sas.upenn.edu. “Real Talk” usually appears every other Monday.

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Is Penn taking too many students through Early Decision?

GROUP THINK GROUP THINK is The Daily Pennsylvanian’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick. Read your favorite columnist, or read them all.

This week’s question: Last year, Penn admitted approximately 55 percent of the Class of 2021 through the Early Decision program. Is Penn filling up too much of its classes through Early Decision or is this an appropriate amount? Should there be any changes to Penn’s admissions policies with regards to Early Decision?

James Lee | The Conversation I’d want to look at that number for peer schools, but it doesn’t seem outrageous at first glance.

Yield is the name of the game for universities nowadays, as it’s often one of the metrics used to determine rankings. Early Deci-

sion is a way for institutions like Penn to control that yield, and, theoretically, I don’t see anything wrong with that. It seems that there are certain concerns with the ED system favoring the wealthy and those with legacy status, but I don’t see it as being so responsible for these issues that it needs to be done away with.

It seems to me that there is an inherent payoff in deciding to apply ED. For a chance to finish the application process early and to have a slightly higher chance of admission, you give up certain things, like the prospect of choosing between colleges, as well as comparing their financial aid packages. Furthermore, to end ED is ultimately treating the symptom, rather than the disease, and we need to talk about practices like legacy admissions if we are serious about restor-

ing the meritocratic nature of the college application process.

Sara Merican | Merican in America Early Decision has always been a wonderful way for students committed to attending Penn to express their interest and also, if accepted, to get the application process over and done with early on. There are a few articles written expressing negative opinions about the extent that Penn Admissions employs ED and how it has been used to “boost” yield rate, and in some cases, college rankings. There has also been a Daily Pennsylvanian editorial written about how this may have affected the “quality” of Penn’s student body.

However, personally, what is important is that I don’t find a “difference” (whatever that may mean) between students admitted through the ED or Regular Deci-

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sion programs. Also, aside from a few friends who mention it, I have no idea whether my friends and classmates were admitted ED or RD, and in light of everything else I could get to know about my friends, this is honestly insignificant. I do admit, as someone admitted through RD, that it has been interesting to hear from friends why they applied through ED and how they became so sure that Penn was the right place for them.

Spencer Swanson | Spencer’s Space Early Decision provides significant benefits to both Penn and to those lucky to be admitted early, but with EDs at 55 percent, might this represent too large a percentage of each freshmen class? While an ED myself, I’m not sure the answer is selfevident. Penn clearly benefits via the ED process because the “yield” for all those admitted early is, by definition, 100 percent — all students admitted ED are obliged to accept Penn’s offer of admission. Beyond the statistics, Penn also benefits by having a head start on planning for the upcoming year. Students admitted early also clearly benefit by avoiding the higher cost — in time, emotional uncertainty and money — of applying to multiple schools. Finally, EDs hopefully represent a self-selected group who are, again by definition, likely to know more about the University and be happier to attend Penn than a student for whom Penn might have been fifth or sixth choice. This represents a win-win for both Penn and EDs. But do these benefits outweigh the costs of potentially biasing the Penn undergrad profile towards more privileged students who can “commit to enroll if they get in and shutting out those who want the chance to compare offers of grants and scholarships?”

Undeniably, more privileged high schoolers who benefit from earlier and better college coaching are better prepared to apply early, essentially discriminating against the less fortunate. Furthermore, the wealthier students often do not need to wait for information on financial aid. But as Penn Director of Admissions Eric Furda points out, nearly 10 percent of ED admitted students are “the first in their family to attend college” and 44 percent self-identify as minorities, demonstrating that “Penn is committed to bringing students of the highest promise to campus without regard to their families’ ability to pay.”

Another cost of the whole Early Decision/Early Action process is that it has helped push the college process to ever younger ages, with standardized testing often starting in 10th grade and “high school freshmen, sophomores and juniors” increasingly “encouraged to create a ‘virtual college locker’ of their best work in digital documents and video.”

Should the freshman year in high school and potentially even middle and grade school be so college focused? Should young students not spend their time exploring interests for their own sake not for the sake of their resumes?

Bottom line, I’m not sure whether 55 percent is too large or small a percentage, but recognizing that the whole ED/EA process has benefits and costs, combined with the fact that admitting upwards of 40 percent of an incoming class in the early cycle is consistent with the other Ivies, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, I’d suggest that Penn has it about right. I would, however, caution against increasing this fraction dramatically in the future.

Lucy Hu | Fresh Take

Congratulations, Penn. You aspire to be an institution of inclusivity and opportunity, and yet, you continually disadvantage and restrict students’ potentials for the sake of your own brand.

Binding Early Decision is an antiquated, unjust admissions system that should be abandoned. It is undeniable that Penn employs this system for the sole purpose of maintaining its prestige by lowering overall acceptance rates and raising yield.

Through Early Decision, the University promises an attractive higher acceptance rate, and then locks in students before they can adequately consider other options, often prohibiting students from comparing financial aid packages. It’s time to adopt nonbinding Early Action, where students still have the chance to apply to their top choice, but have the opportunity to compare all offers available to them.

Penn’s unrelenting anxiety is being second-tier to the other Ivy League schools; in its mad numbers obsession, the University hasn’t realized just how far behind it is trailing in fair and inclusive admissions policies.

Amy Chan | Chances Are Yes, Penn is filling up too many of its classes through Early Decision. It gives students who know 100 percent that they want to go to Penn an unfair advantage over other students who waver about it due to various uncontrollable circumstances — perhaps money, the values and strengths of other programs, even family issues/how close they want to remain to home, et cetera. Quite simply, I think Penn should lower the amount of early admissions it takes, or at the very least, make Early Decision non-binding, just as, say, Harvard University does, so that we would get a wider variety of students and a larger proportion of talent.

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Columbia University, which is the last remaining member of the Ivy League, has yet to post its endowment returns.

Mark Kantrowitz, a college financial aid expert and the publisher and vice president of strategy at Cappex.com, a website that matches students with colleges and financial aid opportunities, said it’s unlikely that Penn will make spending predictions based on this year’s favorable spike.

Kantrowitz said in emailed statement that colleges make decisions related to endowment spending on a five-year average of their endowments returns, which also counts for inflation.

With that in mind, a one year

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Milligan added that if the case concerns a safety hazard — such as being caught with a chair covering

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spike in endowment returns will not typically result in big spending changes for the University.

“You wouldn’t want to base big changes in spending on just one year that may be atypical,” Kantrowitz wrote.

The funds that constitute the University’s endowment only come from donors. The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania select members of an Investment Board who are responsible for managing the Associated Investments Fund, which are “invested in equities, bonds, hedge funds, natural resources, private equity and real estate limited partnerships,” according to the most recent Annual Financial Report from 2016.

Penn’s complete 2017 Annual Financials Report produced by the University Office of In-

vestments is not yet available, though most of Penn’s peer institution have released theirs.

“Spending is predominantly donor restricted but does have notable impact on student financial aid, research and faculty funding,” Vice President for Finance and Treasurer MaryFrances McCourt wrote in an email.

“Under Penn’s spending rule policy, the strong performance of FY17 will impact the FY19 going forward. The gains will support the scholarships, programs and professorships that the endowment supports,” Vice President of Budget and Management Analysis, Trevor Lewis, said.

Student financial aid accounts for 24 percent of budget expenditures in the School of Arts and Sciences, 18 percent in the

School of Engineering and Applied Science, 18 percent in the School of Nursing and 11 percent in the Wharton School.

But according to the Operating Budget report for fiscal year 2018, only a very small percentage of the endowment returns goes towards financial aid expenditures. Only 12 percent of the University’s endowment went towards the overall academic operating budget for the fiscal year that ended in June 2016. This suggests that increased endowments returns would not substantially impact the spending for student financial aid.

“Investment returns can vary widely from one year to the next and a one year increase in returns does not significantly impact budgets,” McCourt added.

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While there has been a recent increase in the number of fraternity parties being shut down, more chapters are agreeing to adhere to the new policies, Milligan said. He

added that fraternities have no other choice but to comply.

Luis Hernandez Magro, College junior and president of Alpha Chi Rho, commonly known as Crows, said that although his fraternity has not had parties shut down this semester, he sensed that the University has become stricter in handling reported issues with fraternity parties.

Although Crows has not run into trouble with event observers this semester, it recently received a punishment for a party that was shut down in April, according to Magro.

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Over 6,000 people got a flu shot at this year’s clinic Getting a flu shot took less than five minutes MICHEL LIU Staff Reporter

For three days last week in Houston Hall, about five members of the Penn community received a flu shot every minute.

Organized by the Student Health Service and Campus Health, the public health entity within SHS, this flu clinic tries to help Penn students, faculty and staff beat flu season by administering flu vaccines. This year, an unprecedented 6,400 people got vaccinations at the clinic, surpassing last year’s count of 5,420 people.

Director of Campus Health Ashlee Halbritter said this year’s turnout exceeded expectations.

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Director of Campus Health Ashlee Halbritter credits the clinic’s success to a unique marketing campaign based on Netflix’s “Stranger Things.”

by implementing a more targeted social media and messaging effort. This was a contrast to past years when SHS just sent emails asking people to spread the message. Halbritter also said the flu clinic featured “a more unique poster campaign” based on the

popular Netflix original show, “Stranger Things.”

Executive Director of SHS Giang Nguyen said it was actually Penn students who designed the posters to make them “eyecatching and clever.”

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“We were sort of gambling on, because people’s schedules are lighter on Fridays, that they would be on campus and would have more time to stop by the flu clinic,” Halbritter said.

She added that getting a shot would take, on average, less than five minutes, even when the lines were full.

Nursing sophomore Anita Itaman volunteered at the event by counting the number of people who arrived and helping to direct them to waiting lines. She said she was impressed with the clinic’s organization.

Nguyen said the efficiency of the clinic was important, not only to ensure that they could vaccinate as many people as possible, but also to train for a state of medical emergency where medications or vaccinations would have to be distributed quickly throughout campus.

Students enrolled in the Penn Student Insurance Plan received the vaccine for free and Human Resources covered the cost of vaccinations for faculty and staff.

Students with alternate forms of health care paid an electronic fee of $25, but could pick up a reimbursement form at the clinic’s exit. According to Halbritter, most health care companies should reimburse the cost of the flu shot under current Obamacare guidelines.

College sophomore Michael Nickley said he became aware of the clinic through its numerous posters on campus. He received a free vaccination with his PSIP and said the process “ran very smoothly.” He added that he texted all his friends and his floormates to remind them to get vaccinated.

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Halbritter said Penn students’ high compliance to the University’s immunization requirements suggests that students “believe in the science” behind vaccines.

However, studies show that in fact, as few as 8 percent of college students receive the flu vaccine every year. Experts believe that this low rate may be due to college students’ “unwarranted optimism” about their health.

“The flu vaccine is not 100 percent effective,” Halbritter said. “It’s not going to protect everyone from all strains of flu, but if you get the flu vaccine, it helps reduce the severity of symptoms and at the very least keeps you out of the hospital.”

Nguyen said that there is a popular misconception that the cold, a common illness that circulates around flu season, is the flu.

“The flu is a really severe infection where people typically are going to be pretty ill for 7-10 days,” he said. “That’s just not something that Penn students really have time for.”

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CIS Department has most academic dishonesty cases Cheating has increased by 161 percent since 2013 ESHA INDANI Senior Reporter

Almost half the cases of academic dishonesty sent to the Office of Student Conduct comes from the Department of Computer and Information Science at Penn — but this is because students are more likely to get caught cheating in these classes.

Forty-five percent of cases of academic dishonesty came from the introductory level classes of the CIS department, particularly CIS 110: “Introduction to Computer Program,� according to data from 2013-2014. For many students and faculty, this high number is reflective of the sophistication of the plagiarism-checking software used and the sheer size of the classes in question.

CIS professor Chris CallisonBurch said it was important to understand that students in CIS classes are not more inclined to plagiarize or cheat. “It’s not necessarily the case that academic integrity violations

are more common in computer science than elsewhere,� CallisonBurch said. “It’s probably just the case that we have better tools or the fact that we’re using software that makes it easier to spot them.�

Students taking CIS classes are required to submit all assignments online. All of their work is processed through a plagiarism detection software that compares minute details of their code to that of others in their class and that of students who have taken the class previously. “It detects many types of transformations that students might apply to try to obfuscate the fact that they had copied from someone else,� Callison-Burch elaborated. “Like, we have variable names and if they replaced all the variable names with different names, the plagiarism detection still flags it.�

If the software detects a larger percentage of similarity between two pieces of code than the threshold set by the professor for an individual course, the incident is immediately reported to OSC for review.

Callison-Burch added that is-

sues of academic integrity also stem from the fact that CIS is a collaborative discipline, especially in professional environments.

The distinction between collaboration with other students and outright plagiarism can sometimes be unclear for students.

Based on the 2016-2017 report released by OSC, cheating has increased by 161 percent since 2013. But reports of unauthorized collaboration, a category within the report that presumably would cover cases of academic dishonesty in CIS classes, actually decreased from 2015-2016 to 2016-2017, from 105 to 95 case investigations.

Director of OSC Julie Lyzinski said in an emailed statement that her organization and the CIS department at Penn are collaborating closely to help reduce the number of referred cases from CIS classes caused by a student’s lack of understanding of what is and is not permitted.

In an attempt to provide clarification for what would constitute a violation of academic integrity in a CIS class, the department provides a comprehensive “Collabo-

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Students taking computer science courses are like to be caught cheating because all assignments are required to be submitted through the internet and are processed through a plagiarism software.

ration Policy� on the class’ course website that details practices that are encouraged and mandated for students.

For example, students are required to submit a “help log� that explains what help they received and whom they received help from. This even extends to assistance from teaching assistants

during office hours. Students are also disallowed from showing their code to anyone other than professors and TAs, even if the person in question is not in a CIS class.

Wharton freshman Gabriel Lozano, who is currently taking CIS 110, said that while this approach to the course may appear intense,

it has not detracted from his learning experience. “Right from the get-go, they establish that you have to follow their format of citing and how you’re supposed to ask for help,�

Lozano said. “Sure in the beginning it seemed a little excessive but once you go with the flow, it hasn’t hindered my experience.�

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showdown against the Orange (11-5, 2-4 ACC) will be the one remembered forever. The Quakers had already lost to a pair of top-10 teams this season, and they fell to Syracuse, 4-0, a year ago, but it was apparent from the onset that this time would be different.

Hoover found Guccione inside with a great pass only four minutes in to give the Red and Blue an early 1-0 lead.

Penn had a chance to stretch that lead even further when junior Rachel Mirkin was fouled inside, but Hoover’s penalty stroke was stopped by a diving save from Syracuse freshman goalie Borg van der Velde. Syracuse would roll with that momentum further, getting the game’s next two goals.

Down 2-1 in the second half, against a top-10 team that entered with a nation-leading ten shutouts in 15 games, the situation might have looked bleak for the Quakers on any other day. But the Red and Blue would show no quit, and their comeback efforts were spearheaded by their infamous senior scoring duo.

Eight minutes into the half, junior Paige Meily stopped a short corner entry pass to Hoover, who then found her classmate inside for the second Hoover-to-Guccione goal of the afternoon.

And after minutes of physical play in front of an increasingly

rowdy Ellen Vagelos Field crowd, the best player in program history finished things off with perhaps one of the best plays in program history. Stealing an errant Orange pass, Hoover managed to bobble the ball on her stick before volleying it into the top left corner of the net, putting an exclamation point on the wild win.

Six minutes of keepaway later, the colossal upset was complete.

“It’s honestly showing [the country] that the Ivy League can compete, and especially our team specifically, that we can come out and beat these teams that are topranked,” Hoover said. “I think after close losses like [Delaware and UNC], we’re like, ‘it’s not happening again.’ We played hard, we played together, and that’s all we had to do honestly.”

No matter how historic the win was, it didn’t do anything to help Penn’s Ivy title chances. Two games back with two games remaining, the Red and Blue need some major help beyond winning out themselves.

But now the conversation has shifted somewhat — should Penn impress the rest of the way, including securing its first win over Princeton in thirteen years, the team’s case for an NCAA at-large bid would get awfully compelling.

“I think we schedule the way we scheduled with hopes that anything can happen, and you just never know,” Fink said. “I’m not gonna think it’s over until I’m buried in the ground.”

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Quakers notch first Ivy victory

M. SOCCER | Penn scores three goals in first 15 minutes ZACK ROVNER Contributing Reporter

Emphatic. That’s the word that best describes Penn men’s soccer’s win over Yale on Saturday night.

After a stretch of games marred by defensive mistakes and static offensive play, the Quakers were clinical in a key 4-1 win over the Bulldogs on Rhodes Field.

The Red and Blue (3-9-1, 1-2-1 Ivy) came into the match with two of their key players injured: junior defender Erumuse Momoh and senior midfielder Austin Kuhn. Nevertheless, the squad was more than up to the task and came through against the Bulldogs (4-7-1, 1-2-1), as they moved into a tie for fifth in the Ancient Eight.

The first fifteen minutes of the game saw an offensive outburst from the Quakers — three goals in a span of nine minutes, including a brace from senior midfielder Joe Swenson.

“We came to play in the first half today, and it was a really good rebound from a tough re-

sult against Villanova,” Swenson said.

After a few attacks to begin the game, the aggressive Penn side quickly got its reward.

Sophomore winger Dami Omitaomu and freshman midfielder Jake Kohlbrenner exchanged the ball in Yale’s box, before Kohlbrenner was taken down by a rash challenge. A penalty was awarded, and Swenson buried it into the top right corner.

Four minutes later, Kohlbrenner was fed a perfectlytimed through ball from Swenson, and he passed it through the Yale keeper’s legs for the 2-0 lead.

Yet again, four minutes later, Swenson would be on the receiving end of a short pass from junior forward Jerel Blades, and he would fire it across the face of the goal to make it 3-0 for the Red and Blue.

“That’s something we’ve been trying to get going since the beginning of the season.

You see relationships starting to form and things starting to click more and more as we go throughout the season, and that’s always a good sign,” Swenson said regarding the team’s offensive performance.

Yale would get a goal back,

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Senior captain Joe Swenson’s hat trick and assist powered Penn men’s soccer to a stunning 4-1 defeat of Yale on Saturday.

as midfielder Miguel Yuste scored from 35 yards out, connecting with goalkeeper Scott Forbes’ clearance on an outrageous first touch that looped over Forbes and into the side of the goal.

To cap it all off, Swenson completed a hat-trick with a near-post finish upon receiving a cross on the ground from Omitaomu.

“Tonight, the guys really came in determined to make key plays. We have to continue to play with confidence and play together as a team. There are no superstars in this group, and in

order for us to be successful, we have to have 11 guys playing really well together for 90 minutes. We certainly did that tonight,” coach Rudy Fuller said.

The result is critical for the Quakers, as they head into the final half of their Ivy League campaign. They will play a non-conference match against West Virginia in the middle of this week before they head off to Brown for more Ivy League play on Saturday.

Aggressiveness and assertiveness will be key down the stretch, as the squad looks to replicate this performance.

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It was the Yale in the coffin.

After forfeiting yet another crucial late touchdown, Penn football fell to Yale by the score of 24-19.

The Bulldogs (5-1, 2-1 Ivy) pulled ahead with a score with just four minutes remaining in the game, and handed the Quakers (2-4, 0-3) their fourth straight loss, including three straight Ivy contests. All of the Ivy losses have been by one score or fewer.

The loss dropped the Quakers to 0-3 in Ivy League play Saturday, meaning that the Red and Blue are all but eliminated from contention for their third consecutive Ivy League championship.

“It was a disappointing day,” Penn coach Ray Priore said. “We’re inconsistent. We have to start clicking on all cylinders.”

The Red and Blue got out to a hot start, scoring on an opening-drive touchdown pass to superstar wide

receiver Justin Watson. The Penn offense would prove inconsistent, however, as the unit scored just one touchdown thereafter and allowed their quarterbacks to be sacked five times.

Those quarterbacks — senior Will Fischer-Colbrie and sophomore Nick Robinson — played nearly identical amounts, throwing 17 and 16 passes respectively.

Fischer-Colbrie has enjoyed the bulk of the playing time early in the season, including all of the snaps in last week’s loss to Columbia, the first Quaker defeat to the Lions in 21 years.

Priore attributed Robinson’s increased playing time Saturday to his running ability in the face of Yale’s defensive pressure.

“Nick is different than Will, Nick has a bit more spark with his feet,” the third-year coach said. “They were getting a heavy rush on us over the course of the game. We feel like [escaping pressure] is a strong point in Nick’s skill set.”

So, will the Quakers field two quarterbacks again next weekend?

That decision, Priore said, will be made in the week ahead.

“We have to evaluate everything we do… it’s whatever gives us the opportunity to go out and beat Brown next weekend.”

Yale’s offense had the potential

to put the contest away earlier than it did, though key penalties — including several in the fourth quarter — aborted or delayed scoring drives. Over the course of the game, the Elis racked up nine penalties to Penn’s three.

“As a coach, you don’t ever hope for a game like this, but we needed a game like this,” Yale coach Tony Reno said.

Watson has yet another standout performance, accounting for 120 receiving yards, over half of Penn’s total receiving yards. Despite routinely getting double teamed, Watson was able to expose key vulnerable areas of Yale’s defense.

Watson, a senior captain, appeared unusually animated on the sidelines during the fourth quarter in an attempt to rally teammates.

Penn was able to force a key fumble and score a touchdown (on an option pitch to senior running back Tre Solomon) to briefly take a lead in the final period, though the lead would not hold.

“I was trying to get the guys going, reminding them of all the work we’ve put into this,” Watson said.

Penn’s rushing attack, after finishing 2016 second in the conference in yards, was quiet on Saturday. Although Solomon’s late touchdown was key, the unit netted just 60 yards on the afternoon.

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Penn football’s rushing attack led by senior running back Tre Solomon was unusually quiet against Yale. The senior registered just 60 yards of net rushing and scored one touchdown on Saturday.

Solomon, who led the Ivy League in yards per game a season ago, seemed to be bothered by an undisclosed injury that has severely limited his action this year.

While they are not mathematically eliminated, Saturday’s loss means that the Quakers are all but out of the championship race. For the first time in three seasons, the Red and

Blue will not come home with the Ivy League crown — a result which stings especially hard in the wake of three straight heartbreaking, fourthquarter comeback losses.

Season will be a disappointment but Penn football still has plenty to play for YOSEF WEITZMAN

Penn football will not win the Ivy League championship this year.

That much was made certain after Saturday’s narrow loss to Yale. We know this even though the Quakers have only played three Ancient Eight games (all losses). Feel free to let that sink in for a moment.

For some championship-orbust fans, it doesn’t even matter how well Penn does in its final four games — this season will be a disappointment. After all, Penn has split the championship the past two seasons, and the team returned most of its key contributors from last season.

And even if the Red and Blue were only picked to finish third in the Ivy preseason poll, the players were confident at the start of the season.

“We’re not worried about how the league views us,” senior defensive end Louis Vecchio said in September. “Ever since I’ve been here we’ve always been projected low in the polls, and I don’t think that affects us at all. We know what our goals are.” What makes the

trajectory of this season even more disappointing is just how talented this year’s senior class was. Vecchio, Justin Watson, Tre Solomon, Colton Moskal and Hunter Kelley were all key parts of the Red and Blue’s last two championships, and it’s a true shame their college careers will end without another one.

They don’t deserve to go out like this.

But even if Penn’s season will ultimately be a disappointment, these Quakers still have plenty to play for.

It goes without saying, but there’s still a ton of pride on the line. Penn hadn’t lost its first three Ivy games since 1996, and the team lost all of its games that year. It’s too late for this team to make history with another Ivy title, but if the Quakers don’t start winning, they might just manage to find themselves on the wrong side of history.

To be clear, I don’t expect that to happen at all. While the team’s play has left a lot to be desired, Penn has had good chances to win in all three of its losses. If just a couple plays here and there go Penn’s way, this could be a very different kind of column. My thinking on this might change if Penn loses at Brown next weekend, but for now at least, we owe it to the

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Even the return of senior running back Tre Solomon has not cured the Quakers offensive woes — Penn only scored 19 points against Yale on Saturday afternoon in the team’s fourth straight loss.

seniors to give them the benefit of the doubt.

On top of pride, you can bet the Red and Blue want revenge for their blowout loss against rival Princeton last year. The Tigers not only embarrassed Penn with their shutout victory, but they also prevented the Quakers from winning the Ivy title outright, as the two teams ended up finishing the season

with one Ivy loss apiece.Penn hosts Princeton for Homecoming Weekend in two weeks, and assuming Princeton takes care of business against Cornell next week, the game could end up having colossal implications in the Ivy championship race.

Princeton still needs Columbia to lose to have a chance, but a loss against Penn would all but eliminate the Tigers from con-

tention.

I’m confident that the opportunity to play for pride and as a spoiler will be more than enough motivation for Penn in the final weeks of the season, but if for some reason it isn’t, the Quakers should at least be determined to do everything they can to help superstar receiver Justin Watson improve his NFL draft stock.

Enough has already been said about Penn’s quarterback play this season, but both Nick Robinson and Will Fischer-Colbrie should continue to make targeting Watson a top-priority in the coming weeks. Alek Torgersen’s difficulties landing on a team have shown just how hard it can be for Ivy Leaguers to make it in the NFL, but Watson has as good a chance as any if he can continue to put up the kinds of numbers he’s put up for his entire career.

Watson tied Penn’s all-time record for receiving touchdowns with his 27th Saturday, and his 3,281 receiving yards rank second in school history. I don’t think Watson would ever seek out stats over a victory, but he deserves to be able to continue his football career, and his teammates should do everything short of jeopardizing the team’s chances of winning to make sure Watson gets his shot.

So as discouraging as Ivy play has been so far for the Quakers, they still have a lot to play for. Here’s to hoping Penn can also start to give fans something to root for.

YOSEF WEITZMAN is a College sophomore from Lower Marion, Pa., and is a sports editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at weitzman@thedp.com.

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“Yeah I think it was me getting more comfortable, just me getting some confidence out there,” Simmons said. “You know I saw some people for the first time, and I don’t know why I acted like I didn’t know how to play basketball, but you know I kind of settled down.”

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Fresh off an upset loss at Columbia, Penn field hockey responded with one of the most impressive weekend sweeps in school history. The Red and Blue eked out a 1-0 win over Yale on Friday, but the real fireworks came two days later, when an Alexa Hoover game-winning goal carried the Quakers to an astonishing 3-2 upset win over No. 10 Syracuse, giving the team its first top10 victory in head coach Colleen Fink’s ten-year tenure.

“We’ve felt confident and capable this whole season of contending against a top-

10 team,” Fink said. “I’d have to go back, but I think it’s one of the best [in my career], and it’s probably one of the best in Penn history. … I think it’s a really big win for the program.”

Despite being the less historically significant of the two wins, Friday’s triumph over the Bulldogs (8-6, 1-4 Ivy) was no cakewalk. Hungry for revenge following an overtime defeat at Yale a season ago, Penn (8-6, 3-2) got on the board early when junior forward Sofia Palacios crushed a shot from ten yards out for her first goal of the season.

Penn couldn’t build on its lead further from there, but it didn’t need to. Facing

a powerful Yale offense that entered the weekend averaging north of three goals per game, sophomore goalie Ava Rosati and the unit in front of her stood tall late to preserve the shutout.

“Last year’s game really kind of stuck with us — it was a really tough loss at a really key point in our season,” Palacios said. “Bouncing back from that and showing them that we’re a strong team and that we’re a force to be reckoned with is something we should be proud of.”

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One step closer to a top-three finish in the Ivy League.

After a long-awaited offensive explosion, Penn women’s soccer defeated Yale 3-1 in a crucial conference game.

Prior to this match, the Quakers (5-6-3, 3-1-1 Ivy) had been stuck in an offensive drought, scoring just seven goals in 13 games. Then, the Quakers struck fire. In just 16 minutes of game time, Penn scored three goals.

“I think that some people clicked. People that came off the bench tonight were amazing,” coach Nicole Van Dyke said. “For them to go a goal down and come back and score three goals, I mean I can’t say enough about the testament of their character.”

Yale (9-4-2, 2-2-1 Ivy) went up 1-0 early in the second half when star player Michelle Alozie spun around two Penn defenders 18 yards from the goal for a rip to the lower right-hand corner of the net. This talley was just Kitty Qu’s tenth goal allowed this season.

This deficit was exactly the wake up call that Penn needed.

“This was a game that really determined our standing in the league,” junior Sasha Stevens, who scored two goals on the day, said. “We just knew that, we’re down a goal. We’ve got to get something in. We’ve got to score.”

The Quakers responded with three quick strikes of their own.

In the 63rd minute, junior midfielder Allie Trzaska ripped a shot off the upper crossbar and in from 25 yards out.

Then Stevens contributed with two goals of her own.

The forward scored off of a sliding effort in the 68th minute, receiving the cross from senior Kristen Miller.

Stevens then scored just 11 minutes later settling a long soaring pass from senior captain Erica Higa before sending the ball to the top of the net for the goal.

Following this win, the Quakers are now in sole possession of third place in the Ivy League with two league games remaining.

“All we can try to do is win the next two games,” Van Dyke said. “The best thing about right now is that we’re playing well, and that we’re peaking. We’re peaking at the right time.”

The Quakers’ next step on their quest to a top-three finish in the Ivy League will be a road trip to Brown next Saturday.

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SNAPSHOTS FROM THE WEEKEND From field hockey to football, Penn Athletics had another busy Ivy weekend. All six teams in competition played at home, and four of those six recorded huge wins. Basketball also kicked off its season with the Red and Blue scrimmages.

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