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Why don’t all Penn students vote in PA?

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Taking on Penn’s low voter turnout for historic midterms

Students help hospital patients vote in election

Some have legal reasons, others are from swing states

Penn Votes Project aids in filling out emergency ballots

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President Donald Trump won the state of Pennsylvania in 2016 by less than 50,000 votes. Two years on, Pa. is slated to be a swing state again in the impending midterm elections.

And while political groups on Penn’s campus have expanded their efforts this semester to boost voter turnout, not all students have chosen to vote in Pennsylvania.

Maddie Magee, an Engineering sophomore from South Pasadena, Calif., said she would have liked to be able to vote in Pennsylvania since it is a swing state, but ultimately could not because she had to submit her driver’s license to the Judicial System of Pennsylvania earlier this year in order to explain an absence from jury duty.

Magee, who received a call to carry out jury duty in Pennsylvania, needed to be with her family in California during the days she was required to appear in court.

“The easiest way for me to actually get out of jury duty was for me to prove that I don’t live in Philadelphia or Pennsylvania, and that meant sending a picture of my driver’s license,” Magee said. When Pennsylvania discovered she was not a permanent resident of the state, her right to vote as a Pennsylvania resident was revoked.

Magee said she found this regrettable because she believed that her vote would have mattered more in a

Penn Leads the Vote, a Universityfunded, student-run, non-partisan organization wants to see these numbers change.

In response to Penn’s historically-low

Deciding when and how to vote requires some planning, especially for those who vote with an absentee ballot. But for those who become hospitalized in the days before the election, planning becomes even more difficult and often makes it nearly impossible to vote. The student-led Penn Votes Project ran out of Penn Medicine identified this as a problem, and stepped in to help those suddenly hospitalized exercise their right to vote.

The project originated during the 2016 presidential election when some raised concerns on how newly hospitalized patients at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center would cast their votes. Now, the initiative has not only grown from approximately 10 student volunteers to 75 from Penn Med, Penn Law School, and the School of Nursing, but is also expanding to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for the first time.

With midterm elections only days away, the volunteers are assisting patients in filling out emergency absentee ballots.

In Philadelphia, it is difficult for a hospitalized individual to vote during Election Day, said second-year Penn Law student Neil Deininger, who currently coordinates the law students in this effort.

Those who wish to vote but

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Penn Leads the Vote, a University-funded, student-run, non-partisan organization, was established in 2004 and re-established in 2018. The students involved are planning on organizing activities across campus this week, including in student dorms.

One in five students voted in last midterm elections MAX COHEN Deputy News Editor

The country is gearing up for what is being touted as the most important election in a generation. While young people have taken the lead across the country to get out the vote, there are deep concerns on campus that voter turnout among Penn students will be low.

According to data collected by the National Study of Voting, Learning, and Engagement, only 3,271 of Penn’s 16,501

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eligible student voters cast a ballot during the last midterm elections in 2014 — a turnout rate of just 19.8 percent. Nationwide, just 21 percent of eligible voters aged 18 to 29 voted in 2014, also far lower than the overall rate of 36.4 percent.

University appoints Brown’s Marc Lo to lead PennFirst Plus Lo is inaugural executive director for FGLI office MAX COHEN Deputy News Editor

Marc Lo, an administrator at Brown University, will be the inaugural executive director of the Penn First Plus Office. He officially will take on the post Jan. 1, 2019.

Provost Wendell Pritchett announced the appointment in an email on Friday

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morning. Established in May 2018, the Penn First Plus Office aims to improve the experience of first-generation, low-income

students at Penn, as administrators look to accommodate the school’s biggest-ever FGLI class.

Pritchett wrote that he and Penn President Amy Gutmann established the office “to offer a hub of resources, support, and community for undergraduate students from first-generation and/or low-income backgrounds.”

Lo was a first-generation, low-income student during his undergraduate years at North-

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eastern University, Pritchett wrote in the email, and went on to earn his master’s degree in higher education and his Ph.D. in higher and post secondary education, according to his LinkedIn. He is currently the assistant director for Assessment and Evaluation at the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University.

In his role as Executive Director, Lo will create new programs, connect the Office with

teachers and alumni, and develop a “strategic vision” to achieve Penn First Plus’ goals, according to the email. In addition, he will emphasize partnerships with Penn’s cultural centers as well as coordinate efforts with the Admissions and Student Financial Services offices.

Friday’s announcement comes amid Penn’s increased push to bolster services offered to its FGLI community.

After the creation of the Penn First Plus Office in May, the

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A month later, Penn First Plus co-sponsored an event that provided subsidized passports to FGLI students interested in studying abroad.

In the closing lines of the announcement, Pritchett expressed his confidence that Lo will “provide outstanding leadership for these significant new initiatives.”

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Admissions office extends ED deadline Those affected by hurricanes have until Nov. 12

Profs. discuss reactions to Pittsburgh shooting The panel addressed roots of anti-Semitism

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Nov. 1 marked Penn’s early decision deadline – at least for some students.

For others, specifically those affected by hurricanes, the deadline is not quite so soon. Last month, Penn announced it would give students living in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and the Florida panhandle an extension until Nov. 12 to send in their ED applications.

Penn Admissions is also offering to waive the $75 application fee for students financially impacted by the storms.

Earlier this fall, the southeastern U.S. was battered by two Category 4 hurricanes – Florence and Michael – which damaged homes, buildings, and infrastructure. More than two dozen people died in Hurricane Michael, which caused damage to more than 20,000 homes.

This is not the first time that Penn has extended the ED deadline due to natural disasters. In 2012, Penn extended the ED deadline for students affected by Hurricane Sandy, and it did the same last year for students affected by a series of natural disasters.

Penn Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said that Penn followed in the footsteps of other universities, notably Duke University.

“I’ll be honest, we took the lead from Duke,” he said. “When it was happening, it was going on in their backyard.”

Among the other Ivy League schools, Yale and Dartmouth will also offer an extension for students in affected areas until Nov. 9 and Nov. 15, respectively. At Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, and Brown, students must contact the admissions offices to request an extension.

Wharton freshman Patricia Arruza grew up in Puerto Rico and benefited from Penn’s decision to extend last year’s deadline for those in areas affected by Hurri-

Six professors gathered Thursday to discuss with members of the Penn community the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, which killed 11 people including 1973 College graduate and 1977 Perelman School of Medicine graduate Jerry Rabinowitz.

The event panelists spoke in Irvine Auditorium about the roots of anti-Semitism, the reactions from students to the massacre, and the status of refugees and immigrants in America.

The panel, entitled “Murder of Jews in Pittsburgh: Reactions of Heart and Head,” was one of several events hosted on campus in response to the shooting, in addition to a vigil led by Penn Hillel last Monday.

Ian Lustick, a panelist and political science professor, said he organized the event not as a space for mourning, but as an opportunity for academics to use their knowledge to process the shooting and inspire public action.

“I believe that it’s important for the students to see models in their faculty who experience the

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Penn’s decision to accommodate students mirrors that of its peers, Yale University, Dartmouth College, and Duke University.

cane Maria. Arruza said she witnessed the destruction caused by the hurricane firsthand, and said the extended ED deadline helped to alleviate stress during a tough moment.

Arruza was out of school for two weeks and said that a lack of cell service and Wi-Fi access made it difficult to send in her application.

Arruza said that there was a period of time after the hurricane, and before Penn issued an ED extension, when she did not know if she would be able to send in her application. Before Penn offered the extension, she would spend her time in between classes trying to call Penn admissions to request an extension for her documents.

“Once [Penn] did change [the deadline], I had already completed my application and done all the essays and all that, but I was stressed that I wouldn’t be able to send it on time – or that my teachers wouldn’t be able to send their recommendations on time,” Arruza said. “Some of my friends hadn’t written stuff because they didn’t have electricity in their houses and couldn’t charge their computers, so they couldn’t write.”

“So, the deadline really did help us in terms of getting the stress off our shoulders – of worrying whether or not we’d be able to send it,” she continued.

Penn Admissions claims the extension is designed to help students who are at a disadvantage because of the natural disasters, but some

question this motivation. Admissions consultant Brian Taylor, managing director at Ivy Coach, said the extension is nothing more than a ploy to boost application numbers so that Penn can appear more selective.

“The more applicants that apply to a school like Penn, invariably the lower the admission rate will be and the higher the school will be ranked in U.S. News and World Report,” Taylor said.

In an emailed statement, Vice Dean and Director of Marketing and Communications Kathryn Bezella rejected that idea.

“We expect that students will act with integrity during the entire application process and we trust our applicants to take advantage of this extension only under the circumstances with which it is intended: because they need extra time as they navigate the many challenges that the hurricane season brought to these areas,” Bezella wrote.

Over the years, Penn’s ED admission rate has steadily decreased, as the number of applications has risen. In the last ED cycle, the University received a recordbreaking 7,047 applications – a 15 percent increase from the year prior. The early decision deadline for 2017 had also been extended due to natural disasters.

In 2017, Penn admitted 18.5 percent of its early decision applicants for the Class of 2022, a significant decrease from the 22 percent ED rate in 2016 and the 23.2 percent rate the year prior.

Penn Law alumnus has hopes to capture Congress seat Chris DePizzo is challenging incumbent Tim Ryan MAX COHEN Deputy News Editor

Chris DePizzo didn’t always imagine a life in politics. The first in his family to graduate from college, the 2012 Penn Law graduate initially worked at a New York City law firm after leaving campus.

But six years after leaving Penn, DePizzo has returned home to Northeast Ohio and is running for Congress in the state’s 13th District. Driven by the desire to provide fresh leadership to the region, DePizzo is committed to his ideals despite running in a district that has been blue for the past decade.

DePizzo, a Republican, is challenging eight-term Democratic incumbent Tim Ryan in a seat that FiveThirtyEight gives Ryan a 99.9 percent chance of winning. Ryan is perhaps best known for mounting an unsuccessful challenge for House minority leader in 2016, losing to incumbent Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

Because he is running against an established politician, DePizzo focused his campaign on government transparency and accountability, criticizing Ryan for his lack of local town halls and interaction with his constituents.

DePizzo credits the wide range of opportunities offered to him at Penn as a catalyst for his political career.

“Penn was everything I wanted it to be and more,” DePizzo said.

“I couldn’t have been luckier, as there was so much opportunity and so many super-smart, hardworking people.

While on campus, DePizzo was a member of the Federalist Society, participated in Penn Law boxing, and took influential courses on healthcare policy, international

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law, and public-private partnerships.

Most notably, DePizzo said he was involved in the Legislative Clinic, a unique Penn program that placed him in an internship at Senator Rob Portman’s (R-Ohio) office in D.C. Through the internship, DePizzo said he gained valuable experience attending trade meetings and learning more about politics in Washington.

This passion for trade was one of the reasons DePizzo decided to run for office back home in Ohio, a region he said has been negatively affected by United States trade policy.

“This race in Northeast Ohio is about the issues that President Trump raised that won him the Midwest,” DePizzo said. “There’s a reason Ohio switched from voting for Barack Obama twice to voting for Donald Trump, and it’s that for 40 years the middle of the country has been net hurt by bad trade deals.”

His close friends from Penn Law describe him as a kind and driven individual who truly cares about the people of the 13th District.

Fellow Northeast Ohio resident and Penn Law 2012 graduate Aanand Mehta said even though he holds different political beliefs than DePizzo, he nonetheless wholeheartedly supports him and believes he is the right man for the job.

“Although I’m on the other side

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of the aisle, I cannot say enough good things about Chris,” Mehta said. “While we obviously disagree about a number of things — ranging from politics to the Cleveland Browns quarterback situation— he has always treated me and his peers with respect.”

Mehta said he met DePizzo in their first-year labor law class and the two have been friends ever since.

“We need more people like him — people who are not only qualified, but who are running for the right reasons,” Mehta said.

Sanjay Narayan, a 2012 Penn Law graduate, also knows DePizzo well — the two were roommates at Penn Law, served as each other’s groomsmen at their weddings, and still keep in touch frequently.

Narayan described DePizzo as a “universally-liked” figure at Penn who excelled in his academics and was heavily involved in extracurriculars.

“He’s always been well-informed on the issues and been able to articulate his deep knowledge and passion about them,” Narayan said. “[His passion for Northeast Ohio has] always been a part of his identity, and I’m so proud to call him a friend and support his campaign.”

In particular, Narayan said the 13th District needs change, praising DePizzo’s economic stance that advocates for “pro-growth taxes and cutting regulation.”

With the election soon, the Republican candidate urged Penn students to turn out and remain politically engaged well past Tuesday.

“It’s absolutely important to our future as a republic and as a representative democracy that people show up and vote,” DePizzo said.

“For students, it’s not just the midterms, but every election is vital — you need to stay involved in the process.”

same emotional challenges that the students are facing,” Lustick said. “The knowledge that the students are here to acquire helps and inflects and expands how citizens can cope with their emotions and do something productive.”

College sophomore Justin Greenman attended the panel and said it provided him with a variety of political, historical, and psychoanalytic perspectives on the massacre.

Greenman also attended both the vigil in Rittenhouse Square on Saturday and the vigil on Penn’s campus, and said that they connected people of different religious and racial backgrounds.

“This isn’t just a Jewish issue,” Greenman said.

Eileen Doherty-Sil, associate director of the political science undergraduate program and professor, said that she has largely witnessed five different student reactions after the massacre: shock, feeling targeted, a feeling of solidarity, political motivation, and a lack of surprise.

Lustick was also impressed by the question and answer portion of the event.

“The questions were on point, they were emotionally felt, they were informative. The

last woman who spoke spoke about her experience in her Jewish community as someone who was in Shabbat services this Saturday, so I think that the panelists learned from the audience as well as hopefully the audience learning from the panelists,” he said.

Panelists had differing opinions on the association between Trump’s immigration policies and the beliefs of the shooter, who posted several rants on social media against the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a refugee resettlement agency.

Lustick said that while some did not want to exaggerate the role of Trump due to the long tradition of anti-Semitism in the United States, others focused on the influence of his rhetoric.

Panelist, history professor, and department chair Beth Wegner said that the attack arose not only out of hatred of the Jewish faith, but also out of hatred of Jews as “leftists, activists, liberals, and supporters of immigrants.”

“It is a Jewish tradition that after the community completes the reading of one book of the Bible it rises, as one, and sings: ‘Hazak Hazak v’Nitchazek,’” Lustick said in his closing speech. “Be strong, be strong, let us be strong together.”

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Penn professors discussed students’ reactions to the shooting and the roots of anti-Semitism at a panel entitled “Murder of Jews in Pittsburgh: Reactions of Heart and Head.”

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turnout, the organization, which was established in 2004 and reestablished in 2018, is planning on organizing activities across campus this week, including in student dorms. PLTV, which is only made up of seven students, also formed a Voter Council composed of student leaders and instituted peer voter captains to raise the University’s low turnout rates.

College senior and PLTV coDirector Brian Doyle said he became involved in the initiative when he learned about the student turnout rate for the previous midterm, which he described as “pretty putrid.”

One strategy that PLTV has implemented ahead of the election is the creation of ‘voter captains,’ leaders in student groups such as athletic teams, clubs, and Greek organizations, who are responsible for motivating their peers to go to the polls. Captains are tasked with sending out PLTV-provided voter guides, information on polling locations, and reminders about making a voting plan.

So far, around 30 people have signed up and PLTV has received a generally positive reaction, the group’s co-director and College senior Nikki Lin said.

“It’s a really easy thing to do.

You just post stuff in the GroupMe or send an email,” Lin said.

“We’ve had pretty good reception so far, especially from different groups who you might not think would be particularly engaged, like different STEM groups.”

In this way, the initiative aims to create a culture of voting at the University that can raise the turnout numbers across the board.

“The goal is to encourage the peer group to come out and vote,

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The Penn Leads the Vote team runs the non-partisan, universityfunded organization trying to get Penn students to the polls.

to engrain that in the Penn culture at a bottom-up level,” Doyle said.

“That’s what we really want to see, a bigger cultural shift.”

In addition to initiating voter captains, PLTV also formed the Penn Voter Engagement Council, a newly christened coalition between PLTV and student organizations, such as Penn Democrats, College Republicans, and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. Lin said the Council was designed to foster civic engagement, investigate student involvement, and ultimately increase turnout.

Moving forward, Doyle said he is looking for more opportunities to improve voter turnout and increase awareness around elections. He expressed hope to one day work with faculty to place election day on the syllabus, move exams and essays around election day so students have time to vote, and eventually “the dream” — getting the day off from school.

Student leaders on the Council said they approved of PLTV’s

mission and believed that more Quakers will turn out to the polls on Nov. 6 than four years ago.

“I think our generation is an informed one with a lot of opinions and passion, and the best way to get decision makers to listen to us is to get out and vote,” said Jon Gould, co-president of Penn Law’s chapter of the American Constitution Society.

Undergraduate Assembly President and College senior Michael Krone made similar remarks, adding that he was planning on sending out an email before election day to the student body to encourage Quakers to vote and be engaged on Nov. 6.

Interim College Republicans President and College senior Richard Murphy said he appreciated that PLTV is a non-partisan organization, and agreed with its goals.

“The Penn College Republicans encourages everyone, regardless of who they support, to go out on Nov. 6 and make their voices heard,” Murphy said.

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OPINION

Why I was anti-relationship coming into college — and why I changed my mind

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KEEPING UP WITH KALIYAH | Four years of boarding school made me wary of dating

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n FaceTime with a friend from high school, right after an Inst ag ram-off icial couple post on my part, she teased me, “What happened to ‘I hate labels, relationships are a burden, freshman year is for the girls’ Kaliyah?”

That led to a heart-to-heart conversation, as we girls do, on the story of my new relationship and all the internal conflict that preceded putting a label on the thing.

As our friendship started at a small boarding school in Southern California, and we’d gone through everything together, we mused on how our experiences at boarding school affected our view on romantic, monogamous relationships.

Something important to consider about my high school experience was that there were substantially fewer options. We know everyone has a type. I don’t just mean in a physical sense, but things like humor, pet peeves, and maturity are

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perfect relationships and often being frustrated led me to understand what traits were important for me in a partner, but it also gave me the

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There are worse things than heartbreak and not many better than love.” important aspects when you’re deciding if you like someone. Because there were fewer options at a school with 270 students, I lowered my standards under the impression that anyone was better than no one.

If we had talked, or even dated, and it ended, even horribly, I might reconsider that person in a couple trimesters. I found myself going back to people I thought weren’t right for me multiple times. Not having

mindset that relationships had to be difficult. Not only were they difficult, but that I was bad at them in the ways that matter — expressing feelings, opening up, etc.

You also had to see the person all the time. Because the schedule at my school was very structured — classes, sports, dinner, friends, study hall — adding another person to the mix was often stressful and made me view relationships as

such. I also became wary of getting into one because I knew that at such a small school, I could not avoid having to see this person all the time regardless of the outcome.

My friends and I all had experiences being heartbroken and having to see that person at least once a day, which, at 16 years old, is kind of traumatic.

Because boarding school is essentially living nine months of the year with your peers, I also felt like having a relationship meant missing out. Two of my friends’ freshman-year relationships ended after they had invested a lot of “friend time” into their partner, while the rest of us had gotten closer. After watching them go through the pains of coming back into our friend group, I remember thinking to myself that I wouldn’t ever do that. It became something we awaited excitedly: being single

and having fun our freshman year of college.

As my experience at boarding school was the only firsthand exposure I’d had to dating, I had taken it as fact that relationships were not going to be a thing for me my freshman year. I don’t mean that I hated the idea of having someone to be infatuated, or even in love, with. I am a romantic, believe it or not, and spend a lot of my time writing about love in all its ooeygooey aspects. What I mean is that I was very nervous about getting hurt, what with some of my role models warning me against college boys and their lack of concern with my pretty little heart, so I thought my freshman year was the worst time possible to take that risk.

Then, I met someone. If there is anything that can make someone go against all of their carefully crafted ideas about dating, there is

usually only one reason. They met someone. With every intention and effort not to, I fell into the thing. I can write for ages about why my idea of relationships was flawed, but if you’re like me and you haven’t had good luck with dating, it’ll sound like a load of crap.

What I can say is, when you are in a relationship that seems too hard, consider that it may be the situation. When you feel like you’d be having more fun somewhere else, or with other people, consider that it may be the person. When you run away from the feeling and it comes anyway, consider running away harder. When it comes again — and if it’s right, it will — let it be what it is. Before I wrote this piece, I spoke with some friends, asking “What did boarding school teach you about relationships?” My roommate at Penn (who also went to boarding school) had this to say: “Every guy isn’t the guy. Some things are meant to be lessons and be temporary.”

You don’t have to be wary of a relationship like I was, just be aware of the pros and cons. There are worse things than heartbreak and not many better than love.

KALIYAH DORSEY is a College freshman from Pennsauken, N.J., studying English. Her email address is kaliyahd@sas.upenn. edu.

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Increasing Hillel’s security doesn’t decrease my fear of gun violence

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he Friday following the massacre of Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue, I received an email from Rabbi Micah Shapiro explaining that, per the University’s recommendation, Penn Hillel will be increasing its security. An increased security presence comes with a slew of heavy baggage, and some students are at much greater risk of shouldering this stress. The earthquake of fear that this massacre sent through the United States and all Jewish communities was visceral and sickening.

I don’t think I’m pointing out anything new when I say that spaces of worship should be safe from violence. Couple this given sentiment with the fact that an increased police presence could make students of color feel uncomfortable and what we have is a wound that bleeds into all facets of our lives. This wound needs cauterizing. The way to do

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It’s a sad fact that practicing your religion in a place of worship has become an act people are scared to perform.” this is with stricter gun laws.

Penn Hillel has been forced to teeter on a shaking tightrope with no net to catch it. Increased police presence seems to me a solution squeezed from an administration placed between a rock and a hard place, but this doesn’t discount how it might make some stu-

nize the need for increased police presence while grappling with the message this sends the community? Though Penn’s campus can feel isolated from some of the greater horrors of the world, racial profiling doesn’t magically dissolve once you step on Locust Walk. More so, how do we

as a community recognize that the immediate answer of greater police presence could alienate some students during an already tumultuous time? The better and more difficult solution is to abolish the threat at the nexus of this fear.

Hillel now requires students to show their PennCards at the front entrance, in addition to increased patrols in the surrounding area by the Penn Police. An Allied Universal security officer was already stationed at the front desk, but the added officer and Penn ID requirement will be new additions.

We shouldn’t need to be protected when praying, but the decision to increase security at Penn Hillel highlights how fear has surpassed what should and should not be done. A man

who has blatantly blasted hatred online should not have access to weapons that result in the slaughter of innocent people, and the president of the United States should not blame a synagogue for not having better security. But what should we do in response?

I’m not criticizing the decision to implement stricter security protocols at Penn Hillel, and I’m certainly not alone in my criticisms of the chain of events that resulted in these policies. It’s a sad fact that practicing your religion in a place of worship has become an act people are scared to perform. But it shouldn’t be. The implication that worship is something that requires protection sends the wrong message to both parties. I shouldn’t be scared to pray, and others shouldn’t be scared that I pray.

Stricter gun control is necessary if we want to alleviate the problem Penn Hillel — and synagogues across the country — is facing. When more severe security is needed, yet the demographics of any population have varying opinions on both what safety means and who the enforcers of safety are, the best way to help all people is through direct action. As a former Florida resident who worked two blocks from the Pulse nightclub, the issue of gun control has been a fixture in my life since before I could vote. Now that I’m 19 years old and watching the world unfurl into strings of early funeral processions, I’m grateful to be able to use my one vote for candidates who stand for the same principles.

My generation has acclimated to the jarring amount of security in the hopes of preventing future atrocities that pepper our pest.

But this should not be replicated in our future. Simply speaking, stricter gun control would make the United States safer, and that’s something I will be praying for.

SOPHIA DUROSE is a College sophomore from Orlando, Fla. studying English. Her email is sdurose@sas.upenn.edu.

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Trump wants to force immigrants to choose between health and legal residence DOUBLE TAKE | By denying visas to those ‘too dependent on welfare,’ the White House is bargaining with immigrants’ lives for votes

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n Oct. 10, the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement outlining its plan to expand the definition of public charge. In the United States, a “public charge” is a person whom the government sees as too dependent on welfare, and is thus subject to having their green card or visa application denied.

Though public charge has been a DHS policy for decades, the previous rules were written to stave off extreme cases of government dependence that could potentially drain the U.S. economy. Because of this, only a handful of immigrants in the United States have been deemed a public charge.

But this new proposed rule would mean that legal immigrants using

Nielsen, who attested that the new rule was needed to “protect finite resources by ensuring that [legal immigrants] are not likely to become burdens on American taxpayers.”

Yet it’s becoming increasingly evident that this policy will offer little to no benefit to the American economy. As many as 1 million immigrants are anticipated to withdraw from Medicaid when the policy is implemented. SNAP, Medicare Part D, and Section 8 Housing will also have their fair share of withdrawals. And one of the most jarring implications of this policy is that immigrant families will be forced to pull their children out of programs like SNAP and CHIP. In the short term, it may seem that such a high volume of people leav-

The president has shown, once again, that he’s willing to do whatever it takes … to get what he wants.”

Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (previously known as the Food Stamp Program), Medicare Part D (which allows the elderly to get subsidized prescriptions), or Section 8 Housing assistance would also be subject to the public charge label by the federal government.

The Trump administration branded this policy as an economic necessity: the DHS press release of the policy was followed by commentary from Secretary Kristjen

ing these welfare programs would add a surplus to the government budget, but these societal costs will not just disappear. They will simply be incurred elsewhere.

For example, with 1 million withdrawals from Medicaid, primary care visits from these immigrant families are bound to plummet. And fewer people on SNAP and Medicare Part D means that fewer people will have access to nutritious food and prescription medication. A shortage in preven-

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tive health practices will proliferate emergency room visits and specialty health services when costs do arise. Because a 1986 federal law requires emergency services to treat all people suffering from health emergencies regardless of their ability of pay, hospitals will be forced to alleviate the costs of increased uninsured visits by charging insured patients more (leading to higher insurance premiums). In addition, if uncompensated costs are too high for hospitals to operate, the federal government will alleviate the financial burdens to hospitals, as they have done in the past, using taxpayer dollars to balance hospitals’ budgets.

And, contrary to the narrative the White House has pushed, most legal immigrants already have to go through comprehensive back-

ground checks in order to enter the United States legally. Their job prospects, potential benefit to the U.S. economy, and risk of becoming dependent on welfare are all already examined before they are allowed to enter the country.

Therefore, those immigrants who are on these government assistance programs are much more likely to genuinely need them in order to transition out of poverty.

SNAP, Medicaid, or public housing would give these immigrants the opportunity to save money over time to escape poverty. Pulling this rug out from under them would set them in a “poverty trap,” where the mounting costs of basic necessities prevent families from ever leaving poverty.

The proposed change to public charge is clearly marred by logisti-

cal issues, but what is worrisome is that the Trump White House has access to the best economists and policy analysts in the nation.

There is no doubt that these concerns would have been brought up before the DHS announced its plan to the implement the change to public charge. So if the White House knew that expanding public charge would not actually have the economic benefits it claimed it would, why did they expand public charge in the first place?

It ties back to President Trump’s history with demonizing immigrants for political brownie points.

His campaign announcement itself gained notoriety when he generalized Mexican immigrants as drug traffickers and rapists. And he only continued from there, promising a Muslim ban, as well as

much stricter regulations on the requirements to enter the country.

It’s rhetoric like this that has been used by the GOP for generations to mobilize its more conservative voters (i.e Reagan’s War on Drugs or Bush Sr.’s Willie Horton fiasco).

And it’s rhetoric like this that appealed to a 2016 voter base fearful of the influx of immigrants speaking languages and ascribing to cultures different from their own.

With midterms fast-approaching and the success of the Trump presidency dependent on a politically congruent Congress, it seems the president was in need of something to excite his supporters. Announcing this public charge rule just four weeks before the midterms is sure to rile up that same base that also resonated with thencandidate Trump’s many other anti-immigration proposals. The president has shown, once again, that he’s willing to do whatever it takes (even if it means putting the well-being of more than a million immigrants on the line) to get what he wants.

SIREESH RAMESH is a College freshman from Alpharetta, Ga. His email address is sireeshr@ sas.upenn.edu.

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BEN CLAAR is a College senior from Scarsdale, N.Y. His email is bclaar@sas.upenn.edu.

Professional sports teams strike out by crossing the picket line CARLITO’S WAY | Somewhere, Gritty is crying

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he Flyers played in Boston on Thursday, but notably absent was the imputed working class spirit of their viral mascot, Gritty: As the country-spanning strike at Marriott-owned hotels finished its third week, the Flyers crossed the picket line.

In fact, other professional athletes have stayed at hotels where workers are on strike (teams that scab are 2-10). Sixers coach Brett Brown even joked about sneaking into his hotel, away from the picketers. The Yankees entered their hotel in full view of picketers from UNITE-HERE Local 26, who rightly called them out for being scabs.

This entire affair, from the aloof lightheartedness in press conferences to the silent indifference in hotel lobbies, is disgraceful in a country racked by Gilded Age inequality and increasingly anti-worker governance.

It seems especially wrong when professional athletes are unionized and through this representation, have won six-figure minimum salaries. Beyond how profitable professional sports are, their unions’ power is proportional to the uniqueness of their labor: Professional athletes know that the management needs them more than they need the management. For example, during the 2011 NBA lockout, players worked their trade in exhibition games and foreign leagues.

For unionized workers in less glamorous industries, they have a steeper climb to the bargaining table, and they need all the help they can get. That is why when a group calls for a picket line, worker or consumer, you don’t cross it.

While the MLB Players Association said in a statement to SB Nation “[the strikers] deserve our support,” teams continue to cross

the picket line.

In this regard, the Flyers particularly stand out. While Gritty’s pro-labor politics are largely a leftist meme, the management hosted a ‘Labor Union Night’ on Oct. 16. Only a week later, they then crossed the picket line in Boston.

How can a team representing a city with a vibrant history of organized labor, whose mascot was officially recognized by the Philadelphia City council, betray the working class? Speaking to Boston Magazine, Brian Lang, the president of Local 26, put it best: “[Gritty is] a symbol that has been fabricated by a greedy organization to manipulate the sentiment, the genuine sentiment, of pride in being working class in the city of Philadelphia.”

Expressing solidarity in name only, as the Flyers did, is one of the easiest things to do, only marginally less difficult than ad-

justing a large hotel reservation.

While to be expected of cynical profit-driven businesses, even progressive advocates like the rapper Common have crossed the picket line. That’s why, more than ever, it’s necessary to stand up alongside those struggling for a better life.

Players have less say in hotel choice than the management, but it is no trouble to start the change in their locker rooms: Our capacity for political change rests in our connections to our peers, including our teammates and coworkers. If politically engaging for the better can begin with minor things like changing a hotel reservation, there should be no excuse for neutrality.

It’s worth noting what an Edmonton Oilers spokesperson told CBC: “[the team] doesn’t want to get involved in the matter between the hotel and its union workers.” In the context

of the strike, the “neutrality” of crossing a picket line translates to weakening the power of the strikers.

Solidarity is easier than you might think. Last Saturday, Philly hotel workers woke up hours before dawn to bus up to a solidarity rally in downtown Boston alongside the strikers. Grandmas came with their grandchildren and parents brought their own kids to help sustain the ongoing strike. They listened to fervent speeches from Brian Lang, from AFSCME president Lee Saunders, from the mayor of Boston, and from other union leaders supporting the strike. Most moving of all, a panel of workers addressed the crowd in Cantonese, Arabic, Amharic, Haitian Creole, Spanish, Portuguese, and Boston-touched English, all crying out to thunderous applause.

Their mantra: One job should be enough.

CARL-EMMANUEL FULGHIERI The bottom line is that actions in solidarity extend beyond thoughts and prayers or empty gestures of support. When a group of people declare they need help, it is our duty as allies to support their struggle, or at the minimum, respect their picket lines. Anything less is traitorship.

CARL-EMMANUEL FULGHIERI is a College senior from Carrboro, N.C. studying economics and philosophy. His email address is caful@sas.upenn.edu.

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Pennovation to host ‘virtual networking pod’ Johnson & Johnson’s new accelerator fits right in DANIELLE CAPRIGLIONE Contributing Reporter

On Thursday, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney welcomed a “virtual networking pod” at the Pennovation Center.

Johnson & Johnson has opened an innovation accelerator center, where J&J’s health technology startups can develop new products right at Penn.

This JPOD, part of the company’s JLABS network, is the first of its kind in the United States.

At the pod, JLABS entrepreneurs can video conference with other J&J groups.

With ambitions of bringing technology such as artificial intelligence and blockchain into healthcare, J&J hopes that these innovations will shake up the business, FierceBiotech reported.

The Pennovation Center already had a large proportion of the needed resources to start the program, making it ideal for a JLAB in Philadelphia.

“They already have the lab space — which JLABS normally provides — but they were very keen to partner with us on the additional things that are a part of being in JLABS, which is the mentoring, the investing hub, and the programming,” Kate Merton, who leads the JLABS along the Eastern Seaboard, told FierceBiotech.

The Pennovation Center opened in October 2016 and has since been a space where scientific ideas become entrepreneurial ventures.

“We’re using it to provide resources from J&J to health technologists, and I think J&J is humble enough to know that we’re going to get to learn from those entrepreneurs as well,”

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Just last month, Penn was ranked the fourth most innovative university in the world

by Reuters, behind only Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University. In 2013, Gutmann updated the Penn Compact 2020, a statement of the university’s priorities, to specifically include innovation.

Along with the Pennovation Center and the University’s resources, another factor that could have drawn J&J to Philadelphia is the city’s startup culture. Forbes recently ranked

Philadelphia as the eighth best city for startups in the United States. This ranking was based on the city’s convenient location near Washington, New York, and Boston, as well as its more affordable cost of living and the fact that it has the second largest university population in the country.

“This new regional resource will help translate and advance science and discovery while lowering business, financial, and operational obstacles,” Penn Vice Provost for Research Dawn Bonnell said in a statement published on the Pennovation website.

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In anticipation of the upcoming midterm elections, Penn students discussed the importance of this election cycle and how different demographics will play a role.

Penn’s Polybian Society hosted this discussion during their symposium on Thursday titled “Midterms, Districts, and Demographics” at the Polybian House.

About 20 students attended, while Polybian Society Philosophe and Wharton sophomore Cyrus Shanehsaz moderated the conversation.

The Polybian Society is a non-partisan political discussion group on campus that is a branch of Penn’s Government and Politics Association. The symposium is the Society’s flagship event, and covers a different topic of discussion every week.

The discussion identified factors that differentiate this year’s midterm election from those in previous years. Students said that people across the nation are taking local elections more seriously, with some saying they have noticed stronger support for their hometowns’ local candidates than in previous years.

Others mentioned greater voter enthusiasm and a growing trend to be politically involved, especially for celebrities. They also discussed an unprecedented number of women and LBGTQ+ candidates becoming involved in politics.

“The midterms signify a glimpse into the future for Americans,” College senior and Polybian Society Consul Brianna Raposo said. “Being here at Penn during the 2016 election, I was the perfect example of someone who was blindsided by the election. I’m really hoping that the 2018 midterms will set the tone

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The non-partisan group provided insight about politicians targetting certain voter groups based on income, race, gender and idealogy.

going forward and give me and the rest of America a better snapshot of what’s to come.”

Attendees also discussed how politicians target their audience during this election cycle based on income, race, gender, and ideology, spurring students to note the tendency of politicians to treat women or other marginalized groups too monolithically.

Students debated whether politicians should appeal to their partisan base or reach centrist voters.

While college freshman Vyshnavi Kosigi said the Democratic Party is “having an identity crisis” as they try to balance support between the establishment and progressive candidates, others added that the Republican Party does not know whether to base

their party on “Trumpism” or not.

To conclude the discussion, students presented diverging opinions about the nation’s future political climate. Some said Americans will soon come together, while others said polarization will become worse in the short-term but better in the long run.

Nevertheless, Raposo said that no matter how demographics change in America, the importance of voting remains.

“Historically-marginalized communities keep going to the polls, and I hope they continue to do that,” Raposo said. “I’m hoping that recent events have triggered younger populations to be more inspired to get to the polls, even in midterms.”

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DP receives Pacemaker for second year in a row The award is known as the ‘Pulitzer’ of college news SID TUMU Contributing Reporter

The Daily Pennsylvanian recently received several college journalism accolades, including the prestigious Pacemaker award and several Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Circle Awards and Pinnacle Awards.

This is the second year in a row the DP has won the Pacemaker award, which is given out by the Associated Collegiate Press and is commonly referred to as the “Pulitzer Prize� of college journalism.

Prior to 2017, the DP had not won the Pacemaker for five years.

This year, the DP was one of eleven publications to win the award and the only Ivy League university newspaper to do so.

Other winners include The Daily Orange at Syracuse University and The Daily Texan at the University of Texas at Austin. Close to 170 publications entered the competition this year, up from 155 in 2017.

College newspapers around the nation submit four representative issues to the ACP for the Pacemaker award. In its submission,

the DP included their special issue capturing the celebrations after the Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl victory as well as an issue that investigated mental health at Penn. “Our editors this year have really thought about how every department can contribute to a larger narrative or undertaking,�

DP, Inc. President and College senior David Akst said. “This really comes through in our special issues, for example the recent midterm elections guide, where we’re able to produce focused and targeted content that students care about.�

Executive Editor Rebecca Tan agreed, adding that given the DP’s limited resources, it is particularly notable to be recognized alongside publications like The Daily Orange at Syracuse, which has one of the strongest journalism schools in the country. “It’s hard to do journalism at Penn since there’s no journalism school or major and very few people are inherently interested in careers in journalism,� said Tan, a College senior. “We also don’t get the kind of institutional support many of the other winners of the Pacemaker have, so it’s remarkable that we’re able to find such a

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Although she can’t participate in this election, Magee said she has been encouraging her peers to vote and also plans to re-register in Pennsylvania next year well in time for the 2020 elections.

College sophomore Sam Kaufmann has chosen not to vote in Philadelphia – but will vote in the state of Pennsylvania.

As a resident of Bethlehem, Pa., Kaufmann chose to vote in his home district where there are closer races for local municipal seats than there are in Philadelphia. “At the local level in terms of county politics, municipal politics, and the state legislature, all those seats are locked down by Democrats in this particular area and in University City. But that’s not true of Bethlehem, Lehigh Valley,� Kaufmann said. “It’s one of the relatively few remaining truly

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swing state. “As someone from California, it made a lot of sense for me to now register in Pennsylvania,� Magee said. “California will pretty much always be blue and here where it was much closer to being a swing state due to the 2016 elections, I thought I should just change my voter registration.�

College sophomore Jack Callahan decided not to vote in Pennsylvania for the opposite reason: as a resident of San Antonio, Texas, Callahan believes his vote will have more of an impact if cast at home. While Callahan will be casting an absentee ballot this election, due to logistical issues Magee was not able to register in California or Pennsylvania.

dedicated group of people to serve their community without any kind of compensation.�

When asked what they thought stood out in The DP’s submissions this year, Tan said she felt this year’s selections demonstrated the newsroom’s ability to cover a wide range of topics. Akst noted the DP’s increasing success in contextualizing large national issues within discussions that happen on Penn’s campus.

Apart from the Pacemaker, the DP also received 12 accolades from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for individual stories from across its publications. These include best nonfiction article for 34th Street Magazine’s feature on the experiences of Asian students dating at Penn and best sports article for former DP Sports Editor Cole Jacobson’s article on Penn Men’s Basketball making the NCAA tournament earlier this year. “There has definitely been a sense of shared purpose within the editorial board that has crystallized and really started to work,� Akst said. “I’m very excited to see us get this external validation for the work we’re doing.�

purple districts of the country.�

After working on local political campaigns, Kaufmann learned by voting through an absentee ballot in Bethlehem he could make a greater net impact in both local elections and in Pennsylvania’s statewide races.

Callahan, who will also be voting via an absentee ballot this election cycle, said he believes college students away from home are placed in a unique set of circumstances that may explain their historical tendency not to vote. “Many students are not from the state in which they are studying, so kids will either choose not to vote in Pennsylvania because they say it’s not their state or they will choose not to vote at all because they say it’s too difficult to vote absentee ballot,� he noted.

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missed the deadline for absentee ballot applications, which is the Tuesday before Election Day, must fill out an emergency absentee ballot application signed by a physician and notarized before being delivered to the County Board of Elections in exchange for a ballot. After 5 p.m. on the last Friday before the election, patients must complete a last-minute emergency ballot application and receive judicial approval prior to receiving a ballot, appearing in court on Election Day. “We really just want to be able to help if someone wants to vote,�

Deininger said. “You might normally think, ‘Okay, there must be some way people in hospitals vote.’ Once you realize there really isn’t, it’s a way that you can really do something, create tangible effect.�

Erin Hollander, an MD/PhD student at Penn Med and medical student chief coordinator, said that the project also helped patients maintain a level of regularity. “The people who are in the hospital, they are having what is possibly some of the worst times of their lives,� Hollander said. “But this is one thing that we can help sort of keep them at their normal.

This is one very important thing that they will not have to miss because of whatever led them to the hospital.�

Judd Flesch, assistant professor of Clinical Medicine in the Pulmonary/Critical Care Division, agreed that a major part of the Penn Votes Project was “to minimize the burden on families.�

The Penn Votes Project has different volunteers assisting in various roles. Some volunteers are trained and ready to answer patients who reach out through the project’s Google phone line. The Penn Med and Nursing School volunteers sign up for shifts at the hospital and assist patients in filling out their applications. Then, the Penn Law students step in, helping acquire the physician sig-

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Volunteers from Penn Med, the Nursing School, and Penn Law fulfill different jobs that cover the entire voting process for the patients.

natures and notarizations before delivering the applications and returning ballots. The law students are also the ones to appear in court on Election Day. Hollander added that the expansion to HUP has been a huge boost to the program and that the hospital is very invested in the initiative, but that it has also been an immense logistical effort.

Hollander has been working to inform nurses and physicians in the hospitals about the program to make sure everyone is prepared.

However, there are also many little details that need to be worked out before the initiative really kicks off in the final days before the election, which if not considered, “can really put a stop to the operation,� Hollander said. From making sure patients get their ballots on time and that hospitals are prepared, to ensuring volunteers know how to talk to patients, what to do if a patient is not from Philadelphia, and where to put completed applications for the law students, the effort has a lot of moving parts.

Although Hollander’s personal

goal is to have the project help about 100 patients, she said it is impossible to predict, especially because the scope of the initiative is so new. “It is really hard to say because this kind of effort has never been attempted before.�

Nursing freshman Chantalle Dupont has only arrived at Penn several months ago, but is coordinating the Nursing School students in the effort, as this is the first time Nursing School students were part of the program.

The project has also sparked her interest in patient advocacy and health policy. While Dupont has experience in the hospital before coming to Penn, she said that the Penn Votes Project is a “great opportunity especially for freshman who have just started in the Nursing School to have exposure to the hospital setting and see what it’s like to interact with patients.�

In the future, Flesch, Hollander, and Deininger all say they hope that the Penn Votes project will expand. “We would love to have every hospital in the area offer this program. Every hospital in the United States,� Hollander said.

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Quakers finish third in Ivy League three years in a row COLE JACOBSON Senior Sports Reporter

PRINCETON, N.J. — Playing in arguably its biggest game of the past three years, Penn field hockey gave its best on Saturday afternoon. But sometimes, your best isn’t quite good enough.

Facing No. 5 Princeton with an opportunity to earn the highest-ranked win of coach Colleen Fink’s nine-year career, the unranked Quakers led at the half, but came up just short in a heartbreaking 3-2 loss. Since Penn needed a win to be considered for an at-large spot in the NCAA Tournament, the loss ends the Quakers’ season.

“It’s frustrating, and I think we’re right there with any team,” Fink said. “We’re capable of competing and winning and being really successful, and that’s why we play the schedule that we play. We clearly have a couple of things to work on, but

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play with an attacking mentality despite the Quakers needing just a tie to secure their spot in the NCAA Tournament. That strategy looked to be working at first, as the Quakers started hot with two quick chances in the first five minutes, but it meant the Quakers were vulnerable in the back. The result: a frantic end-to-end game with many chances but only one goal.

“If you play to draw, you sit

I think we’re on the verge of becoming a premier, nationally recognized program.”

The Quakers (9-8, 5-2 Ivy) were playing their best foe since an 8-0 loss to current No. 1 UNC, but one wouldn’t have known it at all based on how the game opened.

Only seven minutes in, junior forward Alexa Schneck poked a loose ball past Princeton goalie Grace Baylis. And even after Princeton (13-4, 6-1) evened things up with a well-executed short corner play, Schneck came back to give the Quakers the lead at the half, deflecting a long pass from senior Sofia Palacios into the net.

“Our strategy was to have striking balls because of their wider press, and we found the gaps really well,” said Schneck, who finished as the conference leader with eight goals in seven Ivy games. “They marked very tight, so I think it was easier to back-door them when a striking ball came in, like the [second goal].”

Penn led in both goals and shots in the opening half, but the Tigers dominated time of possession after the break.

Princeton scored two straight goals, the latter of which came

on a rebound with 14 minutes left, to put Penn in desperation mode the rest of the way.

The Quakers caught a break when Princeton defender Annabeth Donovan received a yellow card with five minutes left, and Penn then went empty-net for the final three minutes, but the equalizer never came. Even after senior defender Paige Meily made a fantastic body save with 1:21 to go to keep the deficit at one, the Quakers couldn’t cross midfield in the final minute, forcing their upset bid to come up just short.

“We knew we were coming in here ready to fight, and we knew we were ready to win,” senior defender Karen Seid said. “We put it all out there, so there was nothing more we could’ve done.

We didn’t want it to end this way, but we put our hearts on that field, and there’s nothing more you can ask.”

Despite the loss, Penn finished with five Ivy League wins for the first time since 2015, and only the third time in Fink’s career. The Quakers have now finished in the league’s top three in five of the past six years, though they haven’t won a title since 2004.

Because No. 6 Harvard (16-1,

in and you take heat all game.

You can’t take heat from a team like Princeton for 90 minutes,” Van Dyke said. “If I were to ask these players — ‘We’re going to go into this game and try to draw it’ — they would have looked at me like I’m nuts and I don’t have confidence in them.”

With Princeton’s Sherrerd Field packed to capacity for what amounted to an Ivy League title game, the Quakers came out strong. In a fast-paced, desperate first half, both teams were forced to concede possession

in favor of a more direct style.

Penn’s best moments came on through passes to senior forward Sasha Stephens and hold up play from junior forward Emily Sands.

The lone goal came on one of those direct passages. A long ball across the field found Princeton senior forward Mimi Asom, the Ivy League’s leading goal scorer. Asom turned, beat the defender, and found the back of the net.

“I’ve never been more proud of a team than tonight,” Van

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Junior forward Alexa Schneck had two first-half goals to give her a conference-leading eight scores in Ivy League play, but it wasn’t enough to propel the Red and Blue to a major upset win over the Tigers.

7-0) beat Columbia on Saturday, the Crimson clinched the league championship, while the Tigers beat out Penn for second place.

“It’s great momentum for us to move forward. The two games we lost were by one goal,” Schneck said. “One more goal, and we could be Ivy champs.”

Having scored 10 of Penn’s

22 goals this season, Schneck will be seizing an even greater leadership role with next year’s group, which will return seven of 11 starters from a team that came so close to breaking Penn’s title skid.

And if, or when, the Quakers do break that barrier, they won’t be forgetting those who laid the

groundwork for it.

“The stuff we saw today was incredible, and that’s what we need moving forward,” Schneck said. “These five incredible seniors have taught us a lot, and they definitely left their imprint on the program.

“We just have to keep working harder, and it’ll come.”

Dyke said. “What they showed in the last 10 minutes by going for it, what they showed in the first 45 minutes … I mean Princeton is a great team. They’re a top 25 team in the country, and all we did was prove we should be on that same level and that we are on that same level.”

The referees played a questionable role in the game as things got tighter in the second half. Following a series of questionable no-calls after hard challenges, the game clock became out of sync. With less than two minutes to go, the clock stopped, then read 12 minutes, before the referees decided to

place more time on and restart the game with just over a minute left. Van Dyke was furious on the sideline.

“They weren’t stopping the clock — they weren’t doing it properly,” Van Dyke said. “They should have managed it better.

Obviously, the ref lost it a little bit at the end of the game and they probably should have put another 30 seconds on the clock, but we don’t worry about those things — we just control what we can.”

The Quakers’ best chance to equalize came in the dying moments of the game after the clock mishap. With less than thirty

seconds left, a Penn corner found its way to the goal line.

A scrum for the ball ensued, but the Red and Blue just couldn’t get the ball over the line.

“Sometimes it just doesn’t fall your way. We were unlucky on a few bounces. The last corner there was inches away,” Sands said. “They’re a good team, they played good defense on us.

Sometimes you just don’t get it done.”

Van Dyke indicated that the Quakers were unlikely to receive an at-large bid and make the NCAA Tournament, so their season is likely over. On Monday, they’ll know for sure.

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the half behind.

“I think we changed after the halftime talk. Our whole mindset changed in the second half,” Glover said. “We just knew that we had to get the job done.”

The tides of the game turned early in the second half, after the Quakers forced a three-andout from the Big Red and got the ball in good field position.

A run and slide from Glover drew a vicious hit from Cornell’s Jelani Taylor that was ultimately deemed a targeting penalty that got Taylor ejected.

A subsequent series of plays with peculiar formations in the backfield and direct snaps to junior running back Karekin Brooks resulted in a six-yard dash to the pylon from Brooks that gave Penn its go-ahead touchdown midway through the third quarter.

“It was fun — I like doing Wildcat [formation], because I wish that I played quarterback,” Brooks said.

After taking the lead, the Quakers’ next two drives then sealed the deal.

Cornell drove hard down the field in the following minutes to earn a 40-yard field goal

attempt, but a miss wide-left brought momentum further into the Quakers’ camp.

From their own 30 yard line, the Red and Blue proceeded to march down the field on the next drive that led into the fourth quarter. One minute into the final period and on the Big Red’s 19, Glover found senior Christian Pearson in acres of open red grass, where he hauled down a game-sealing touchdown catch.

“Our kids are very resilient,” coach Ray Priore said. “We came out for the second half, and I’m really proud of how they responded. It was a great second half.”

Another stop from a confident defense allowed Penn the chance to drain the clock.

Led by junior quarterback Nick Robinson after a planned switch, the Quakers marched down the field over an almost eight-minute drive that left the Big Red little time for a comeback. A 27-yard field goal by Soslow gave the game its final score, 20-7.

Penn will return to action next Saturday in a Homecoming clash against Harvard.

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on 4th-and-2, a designed run from quarterback Dalton Banks was foiled by senior linebacker Jay Cammon, Jr., who grabbed Banks by his shoelaces to drag him down agonizingly short and keep the game scoreless.

Penn broke the deadlock early in the second quarter. Glover threw a 45-yard bomb down the field to senior wide receiver Steve Farrell, who hauled it in to give the Quakers three shots at a touchdown. A stand from the Big Red forced the Red and Blue to call up senior kicker Jack Soslow for a 20-yarder.

Soslow split the uprights to put Penn up, 3-0.

Not to be outdone, Cornell responded immediately with a long, hard-fought drive of its own. Though the Quakers’ red zone defense put up another strong stand, they were undone on third and goal by a 13-yard cross-field catch-and-run from Lars Pedersen that put them behind, 7-3.

Defense reigned supreme on the following series of drives, and Penn was forced to enter

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Anthony Artalona wrestles his way to Player of the Week

WRESTLING | Freshman went 4-0 in first tournament WILL DIGRANDE Associate Sports Editor

The transition from high school to college sports takes some time for most athletes. Luckily for the Quakers, Anthony Artalona was ready from the first whistle.

The freshman was the only Penn wrestler to place in the top four of his weight class at Saturday’s Michigan State Open, winning all four of his matches to take home first place at 149 pounds.

On a successful day for Penn’s

rookies where all nine freshmen competing won at least one match, Artalona led the way and showed signs of a bright future ahead.

The four-time state champion from Seffner, Fla. is just one piece of coach Roger Reina’s highlycoveted recruiting class this year, and he wasted no time making an impact on the mat.

Competing in the tougher Open Division against wrestlers from all four years, he came ready to hold his own against older opposition. In his first ever match for the Red and Blue, he defeated Breyden Bailey of Indiana 21-4 by technical fall. His offensive prowess continued in the second round, where he faced A.J. Jaffe

of Harvard, a two-time All-Ivy wrestler, and won 9-3.

In the semifinals and finals, Artalona’s opponents came closer but ultimately could not best him. He took down McCoy Kent of Northern Illinois 6-3 to advance to the final, where with everything on the line he held onto an early lead and beat Ben Lamantia of Michigan by the same 6-3 scoreline.

He wrestled three juniors to close out his path to the title, but the freshman found a way not just to win, but win convincingly all four times. This week’s DP Sports Player of the Week is one more reason Penn wrestling has high hopes for the future.

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Here’s how the rest of the teams in Penn Athletics fared this weekend SPORTS | Three winter sports opened their seasons CARTER THOMPSON Associate Sports Editor

While there were many eyes glued to Penn football and women’s soccer this weekend, there was plenty else going for the rest of Penn athletics. Three teams opened their season this weekend — wrestling, fencing, and swimming — while others are watching their seasons come to a close.

Wrestling Penn wrestling began its much-anticipated campaign at the Michigan State Open.

The Quakers boast a highly regarded recruiting class — even in national terms — and all of the freshmen were able to make an impact on the mat. All of the nine freshmen competing won at least one match.

However, one freshman’s performance stood out above the rest. Anthony Artalona won the championship in the 149-pound division. The freshman from outside Tampa, Florida won four matches on his way to the crown.

Other notable performances for the Red and Blue came from freshmen Carmen Ferrante and Greg Bensley as well as from sophomore Ryan Farber. Ferrante, who was wrestling in the 125 lbs division, went 4-2 and finished the tournament in fifth place. Bensley wrestled at 197 lbs and claimed a sixth place finish, while Farber also placed sixth in the 184 lbs division.

Fencing The Penn men’s and women’s fencing teams kicked off their season this weekend at the Garret Penn State Open. The twoday individual event featured the women on Saturday and the men on Sunday.

The Red and Blue had a particularly strong showing in the women’s and men’s sabre segment. Freshmen Lark Izenson and Steven Lin both took bronze finishes in the event.

In the women’s foil, junior Nicole Vaiani led the Red and Blue with a 14th place finish. In the women’s epee, sophomore Emma Harris had the best showing for the Quakers with a 27th place finish.

In the men’s foil, Penn had multiple strong performances.

Senior Raymond Chen finished sixth in the event, just ahead of junior Willie Upbin, who placed tenth. Freshman Jerry Wu also had a good showing in his first event with a 17th place finish.

In the men’s epee, the Red and Blue were led by senior Justin Yoo who placed fifth in the event. Freshman Emon Daroian and sophomore Sean Wilson had good showings as well with 18th and 24th place finishes, respectively.

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Sophomore outside hitter Parker Jones, who is also a DP staffer, tied her season high with 18 kills while hitting .357 against Columbia, but it wasn’t enough as the Quakers lost in four sets.

Swimming Penn swimming opened its season this weekend at home against Columbia. The Red and Blue split the weekend with the men emerging victorious 172128 while the women fell 129157.

On the men’s side, the Red and Blue snatched a quick victory in the 200-yard medley relay. Later, the dominant senior Mark Andrew won the 200 individual medley and finished second in the 200 freestyle and the 200 breaststroke. Freshman CJ Hinckley notched his victory in the Red and Blue by winning the 1000 free. Sophomore Will Thomas also claimed his first victory by winning the 500 free.

Senior Mark Blinstrub took first in the 100 and 200 backstroke, and sophomore Boris Yang finished first in the 100 and 200 breast.

On the women’s side, the Red and Blue dominated the 1000 butterfly with freshman Catherine Buroker, senior Erin Kiely and freshman Grace Giddings taking the top three spots. Senior captain Nancy Hu took first in the 200 fly. Freshman Hannah Kannan notched a win in the 100 back. Another freshman, Tara Larusso got a victory in the 200 back.

Volleyball This weekend, Penn volleyball traveled to take on the New York Ivies, Cornell and Columbia.

On Friday, the Red and Blue (5-18, 2-10 Ivy) faced off against the Big Red (12-9, 8-4). The match saw the Quakers come up short, losing in straight sets.

In the first set, the Quakers were down early and were never able to catch back up, losing 25-16. The second set, however, presented an opportunity for the Red and Blue to square up the match. There were multiple runs made by each team throughout the course of the set and the Quakers found themselves up 13-11, but another run by Cornell proved to be too much for

Penn to overcome, and they dropped the set 25-19.

The runs from the Big Red continued into the next set. Cornell took a sizable 18-9 advantage in the set and seemed ready to close out the match. However, the Red and Blue were able to keep things interesting by clos-

ing the score before the Big Red hung on to emerge victorious.

Penn’s second match against Columbia (10-12, 4-8) was tightly contested from the beginning. Although they fell in four sets, the Quakers had some strong individual performances.

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had solid performances. Senior linebacker Jay Cammon was one of the stars on defense, providing goal-line heroics and breaking up passes. The wide receiver pair of Christian Pearson and Steve Farrell served as dependable targets for Glover and Robinson all game long.

And linebacker Nick Miller came charging into the backfield on several occasions to deliver

some punishing hits on the quarterback.

But this win was on the juniors and sophomores. And if they can play like they did here against Cornell over the final two weeks, they might just set themselves up for a title run next year.

JONATHAN POLLACK is a College senior from Stamford, Conn., and is Senior Sports Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at pollack@thedp.com.

Dartmouth and Harvard.

Men’s Soccer Penn men’s soccer marathon season continued this weekend as the Red and Blue fell 2-1 in overtime against Princeton. The Red and Blue (4-5-6, 1-4-1) were down 1-0 until the 84th minute when they got an equalizer courtesy of an Alex Touche header. The sophomore defender’s goal came from a corner kick from junior midfielder Brandon Bartel, and was Touche’s team-leading fourth goal of the season as well as Bartel’s fifth assist of the year.

Princeton (10-4-2, 5-0-1) quickly nabbed the victory in overtime, though, needing just seven minutes in the extra period to claim the victory. The Tigers outshot the Quakers by a margin of 17 to four, but few of those shots were on frame. The result was that senior goalkeeper Scott Forbes only had one more save than his Princeton counterpart.

The Red and Blue will take on Harvard next weekend during homecoming and will be looking to get a victory to close out their season.

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Parker Jones, who is also a DP staffer, tied her season high in kills with 18 while hitting .357.

Senior middle hitter Brooke Behrbaum tied her career high with 10 kills on .389. Senior setter Grace James also tied a career high with 47 assists in the match.

Columbia won the first set, 25-20, thanks to a 5-1 run late in the set that allowed the Lions to pull away from the Quakers. In the second set, the Red and Blue were down early but were able to tie up the set at 14. Later in the set, the Quakers were down 2223 and in danger of falling into a 2-0 hole, but kills from Jones and sophomore Raven Sulaimon helped the Red and Blue win the last three points to take the set 25-23.

In both the third and the fourth sets, the Quakers held the advantage late. Unfortunately for Penn, Columbia was able to find a way to win each of the close sets, 25-23 and 25-21, respectively.

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With loss, Red and Blue forced to share Ivy League title with Tigers THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Sports Editor

PRINCETON, N.J. — Winning the title on Senior Night to make the NCAA Tournament made for a fairy-tale ending to a great regular season — for Princeton.

Penn women’s soccer lost its first Ivy League game on the last day of the season, falling to the Tigers 1-0. The loss means the Quakers (13-2-1, 5-1-1 Ivy) share the Ivy title with No. 24 Princeton (11-3-2, 5-1-1), but the Tigers own the head-to-head tiebreaker and thus the automatic NCAA Tournament bid. Penn will have to wait until Monday’s bracket announcement to learn their fate.

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Strong second half powers Penn football past Cornell

Quakers outscored Big Red 17-0 in second half WILLIAM SNOW Senior Sports Reporter

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ITHACA, N.Y. — It took them a while to get going, but they brought home the hardware once again.

Penn football put up just three points in the first half, but eventually found enough momentum to roll over Cor-

nell, 20-7, and take the Trustees’ Cup for the fifth year in a row.

The Quakers (6-2, 3-2 Ivy) looked like they would have their work cut out for them in defending the trophy — held by the winner of the annual game between Cornell and Penn, college football’s sixth most-played matchup — but they eventually found their feet and cruised to victory.

“We started slow, but it’s not about how you start, most of the time. It’s how you finish,” sophomore quarterback Ryan Glover said. “That’s what we did today.”

With the win, the Quakers

can claim they’re arguably the “best of the rest” in the Ivy League, moving into third place alone at 3-2 in league play but well behind leaders Dartmouth and Princeton, each at 4-0 as of Friday night.

The first quarter saw no score, thanks in large part to Penn’s stout defense. Following a three-and-out from the Quakers to open the game, Cornell (3-5, 2-3) stormed down the field to set up a first and goal from Penn’s one yard line. A Herculean effort from the Quakers denied the Big Red three times, however, and SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10

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Junior running back Karekin Brooks took a direct snap into the end zone on a six-yard rush in the third quarter for the Quakers’ first touchdown of the game in their 20-7 win on Friday night.

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Future of Penn football looks promising after win over Cornell JONATHAN POLLACK

ITHACA, N.Y. — They might not have much of a chance at the Ivy title, but the Quakers showed some promise for the future here in Ithaca.

Much of the production in the 20-7 win against Cornell came from players who will form the core of the team for several years to come.

The biggest question coming into this week, and really all season long, was the play of the quarterbacks. Both sophomore Ryan Glover and junior Nick Robinson were expected to get playing time against the Big Red, but how much, and how well would they play?

For the second straight week, they both showed poise and control in the pocket. Glover in particular played arguably his best game, finishing the day with 131 passing yards and one touchdown on nine of 18 passing. He looked impressive in the pocket, made the correct read on several different option plays, and used his legs to extend multiple plays.

In less time, Robinson displayed even more of his potential than he did against Brown last week. He was accurate, completing 75 percent of his passes, and once again made smart passes that kept the ball moving.

The two-headed backfield of junior running backs Karekin Brooks and Abe Willows looked dynamic as well. While Brooks is clearly the featured option, both saw significant success.

Brooks finished the day with 72

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Junior running back Abe Willows finished the day with 82 allpurpose yards and would have had more if not for a holding call.

rushing yards and a touchdown, while Willows finished with 66 rushing yards and added 16 in the passing game. Willows also had a nearly 40-yard reception that was called back due to a holding penalty.

The Quakers additionally featured some unique formations that Brooks and Willows played vital roles in. In particular, the halfback duo led the end of the Quakers’ first touchdown drive with several direct snaps, including the touchdown run from Brooks itself.

On defense, it was a slew of defensive backs who helped keep Cornell off the board during the second half. Junior cornerback Conor O’Brien led the way with a game-sealing

interception to go along with two pass breakups. Junior free safety Jacob Martin almost had an interception of his own just a few plays before, and made a crucial tackle in the open field earlier in the game to force a fourth down.

Sophomore linebacker Brian O’Neill dropped back in coverage to make a spectacular pass breakup to save a touchdown.

“We’ve been injured back there, and it’s really been tough sledding for all those kids," coach Ray Priore said. "They’ve really worked hard with Sam [Philipi] out, with Jyron [Walker] out, but those guys are coming of age."

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