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The robot is barely visible from afar, a vibrating object that looks more like a small insect than anything else. Seen up close, however, the illusion gives way to a tangle of small wires, batteries and propellers.

This incredible invention is “Piccolissimo,” the world’s smallest self-powered controllable robot, its creator claims. The eponymous robot is the result of research done by Penn’s own ModLab, a team led

by Matthew Piccoli, a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

“I initially got into f lying things because I watched Top Gun too many times as a kid,” joked Piccoli, a licensed pilot.

“While working as a grad school student

GROUPME INCIDENT After black freshmen were targeted in racist attack, alumni spoke out

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After Penn’s campus was shaken shortly after Election Day by racist GroupMe messages sent to freshman students of color, alumni were both outraged and vocally supportive of students.

In addition to over 3,200 alumni signing a five-page letter of support that appeared in the Nov. 15 issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian, graduates have been calling, writing and commenting on the University’s social media.

“The reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. Alumni calling and saying, ‘I’m concerned, I care about the students, I’m outraged about what happened — what can I do?’” Executive Director of Alumni Relations Elise Betz said. “It’s the most activity we’ve ever had since we started social media.”

Betz said the Alumni Relations Office has received “hundreds” of messages from alumni, ranging from the recent graduates of the Class of 2016 to members of the Class of 1965. A collection of responses from alumni, including petitions, statements of support and letters, was listed on the Alumni

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The SEPTA strike increased air pollution due to commuter reliance on automobiles, rather than public transportation.

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The SEPTA strike, which occurred over seven days at the beginning of November and ruined many a routine commute also made the city’s air far more polluted, a Philadelphia Department of Public Health report determined last week.

The strike began on Nov. 1 after workers from the Transport Workers Union Local 234 failed to reach an agreement with SEPTA over a new contract. The Market-Frankford and Broad Street lines, the two flagship subway routes operated

by SEPTA, both shut down. Over 5,000 workers left their posts, affecting more than 400,000 riders.

The two sides reached an agreement on Nov. 7, ending the strike.

Air Management Services, a division of the Department of Public Health, regularly measures the concentration of fine particulate matter, or “tiny particles of dust, chemical compounds, soot and other material that float in the air,” as a key indicator for the level of pollution. During the strike, the amount quadrupled due to commuters relying more on automobiles instead of public transportation, the report found.

“This pollution can have serious short and long term health effects, including respiratory problems, heart disease, higher risk of heart attacks, and aggravation of asthma,” the Department of Public Health said in a statement.

The average hourly emissions released during an average weekday of the strike were close to double the National Ambient Air Quality Standards’ acceptable limit.

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Energy conservation may be in trouble with Trump in charge Policies to reduce carbon emissions could be stopped CHASEN SHAO Staff Reporter

The election of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump will undoubtedly spark changes across the country — but it could be particularly meaningful for energy conservation efforts.

Alan Hughes, professor of practice at PennDesign and director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, recently weighed in about what the election of Donald Trump might mean for the energy industry.

StateImpact, a NPR reporting project, recently noted that the natural gas industry may see greater production and fewer

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One alumnus, a documentary filmmaker, immediately launched an effort called the Penn Solidarity Video Project to put together five-second clips of support from alumni into a cumulative video.

In another example of alumni support, two days after the GroupMe incident occurred, the Black Alumni Society got together a group of alumni that went and celebrated Thanksgiving with black students at MAKUU, according to Betz.

The group of black alumni also started a mentorship program on the spot with the students.

“I was really appalled,” said Geoffrey Laredo, a 1984 College graduate, in reaction to the GroupMe messages. “I was both angry and sad that any students, regardless of who or where they are, would be subject to this harassment and attack. You’re going through

restrictions following Trump’s stunning victory. The greatest danger to present energy conser vation effor ts, however, would concern the fate of the Clean Power Plan and its relation to the larger Paris Agreement.

“The natural gas industry would thrive on weaker standards for environmental protection,” Hughes said.

Right now, one of the greatest fears of the natural gas industry is the Clean Power Plan.

The Clean Power Plan, a policy created by the Environmental Protection Agency in June 2014, sets a national limit on the emission of carbon pollution from power plants.

More than just an initiative to serve American energy conservation goals, the Clean Power

school, you want a feeling of safety, and through this portal comes a lot of hate, and that’s all kinds of wrong.”

Ellen King, 2002 College graduate, called the events “disgusting.”

“I’m just really sickened that in the years after I’ve graduated, that these young men and women are still going through this stuff,” she said. “Now? Really? It’s just insane. I hope nobody else decides to target Penn.”

After the University’s swift public investigation brought in the FBI and ended in the suspension of a University of Oklahoma student, Penn alumni expressed satisfaction with how the administration dealt with the incident.

“I was very, very glad to learn it was not originated from our campus and I was very happy with the response from our administration,” King said.

Laredo also said he approved of how administration reacted, especially in reaching out to the

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Professor Alan Hughes discussed the impact of Trump’s victory on natural gas and energy conservation.

Plan was a part of the American pledge to a larger environmental pact, the Paris Agreement.

The historic Paris Agreement was reached between 195 countries within the UN to curb

University of Oklahoma and law enforcement.

“To the degree that I understood what was going on, I thought it was really spot-on and comprehensive,” he said.

“There was no fooling around, no delaying. It was appropriately aggressive.”

Penn’s administration kept students and alumni updated on the school’s investigation of the incident through multiple emails and social media updates posted on Penn’s Facebook, Instagram and official websites.

Sherman Ragland, a 1986 Wharton MBA graduate, said he was particularly satisfied with President Amy Gutmann’s presence in the investigation.

“I was very proud of our president — I didn’t even know what the incident was until I saw her reaction to it, and that’s when I got all the details of what happened,” Ragland said. “I think she is to be commended for the speed in which she and her staff dealt with

the issue. As someone who’s always interested in what’s going on with the student life at Penn, and as an alum, I was just really pleased to see how she acted really quickly to get to the bottom of it.”

The targeting of Penn students by an individual outside of the community raised questions among alumni about how the alleged attacker had managed to get access to the students’ phone numbers, as well as speculations about why Penn students in particular had been targeted. The investigation determined that a formerly admitted student had added students to the GroupMe. The tense results of the presidential election were fresh on some graduates’ minds.

“I don’t want to speculate,” King said. “But I think Penn was targeted because of the Trump family.”

Betz acknowledged that the national mood was tense after the election, but said there wasn’t any clear connection between Trump’s status as a 1968 Wharton graduate and the racial hate act that occurred.

“There’s been no proof Penn students were targeted because

greenhouse gas emissions. As of Nov. 2016, enough countries officially ratified the agreement for it to go into effect.

“The Paris Agreement differs from previous agreements and treaties in that it relies on bottom up reinforcement of good behavior to reach the goals of the UN,” Hughes said.

However, these successes could be short-lived, since Trump plans to withdraw the United States from the pact once he enters office.

More than just offsetting the progress made with the Paris Agreement, Trump could end and potentially reverse all the energy conservation efforts made by the Obama administration — which would thwart the proposed benefit of the Clean Power Plan.

“The very mechanisms that have allowed the Obama administration to achieve a number of important changes in energy system will allow Trump to stop and reverse them,” Hughes said.

Several experts have openly stated that Trump’s plan would be a move in the wrong direction.

“If those campaign promises are kept, this is a very troubling road we will be traveling,” said Lynda Farrell, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Coalition.

Still, it’s not necessarily clear as to how Trump’s policy will impact climate change.

“It’s too early to tell the impact of [Trump’s] actions, if there will be any,” said Fatih Birol, director of International Energy Agency.

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Hundreds of alumni have been contacting the University with messages of support in response to the racist GroupMe messages.

Trump was an alum,” Betz said.

“It’s hard to not think there’s

some connection, but we don’t have anything definitive.”

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OPINION Breaking down fences THE CONVERSATION | Taking advantage of Penn’s diversity

MONDAY NOVEMBER 28 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 113 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor

When the Supreme Court ruled affirmative action constitutional earlier this year, it did so based partly on the long-held belief that there exist “education benefits that flow from diversity.”

Even people who oppose affirmative action as a policy generally agree with this premise. The argument goes that a university ought to be a dynamic marketplace of ideas in which different people encounter different opinions, which is only possible if people have different backgrounds.

In a sense, Penn is wonderfully diverse. The student body is composed of everyone from tri-state prep school products to kids who have never been to the United States before. There are kids of every socioeconomic background. Academically, students study a wide variety of disciplines ranging from biochemistry to theater arts.

In most definitions of the word, diversity has been achieved.

However, it seems to me that most people are too content to point to sufficiently cut pie graphs and do not think about the actual effects diversity has on the Penn community. Does having diversity by itself enhance the learning environment?

It’s no secret that Penn is awfully self-segregating.

Some of this is natural human tendency. We tend to flock to those with similar interests, values and backgrounds. I’ve fallen prey to this instinct myself. After all, for a school of Penn’s size, it’s virtually impossible for there to be a single “community.” Moreover, this is certainly not a phenomenon exclusive to Penn or universities.

Yet, it’s troubling that self-segregation happens so systematically. At Penn, the social scene is based around greek life and similar cultural groups, which serves to create niches based on race, class and backgrounds that don’t interact with each

other in a meaningful way.

For instance, Du Bois College House is a strange idea that complicates the alreadydifficult race relations at Penn, even if it arises from good intentions.

are allowed the opportunity to learn from each other, to be forced to encounter each other’s world view.

Obviously there’s no perfect solution out there. What’s Penn going to do? Lock up

It’s no secret that Penn is awfully self-segregating.”

Aside from classes — most of which are lecture-based, with little to no interaction among students — there is no setting in which students are exposed to ideas and people that they’re not familiar with. In short, having the third-generation Andover product from Greenwich and the first-generation college student from rural Mississippi in one school is only meaningful if they

random groups of students in a single room and make them tell their life stories to each other? Rather than propose one, I urge everyone to acknowledge that being a part of a diverse community doesn’t automatically make us any more worldly. We need to make an effort to engage with things unfamiliar to us, and this can only happen if we consider the role of diversity in our own

community more deeply.

By actually engaging with people who are different than us as opposed to just knowing of their existence, we can learn empathy.

In a year in which the two major presidential candidates routinely showed themselves to be unable to relate to the lives of their voters, when race relations worsened to the point of senseless deaths, when our worst fears and doubts about each other began to creep up in public opinion, it is more important than ever to learn the value of empathy.

In July, former president George W. Bush said at a memorial for fallen police officers, “Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples, while judging ourselves by our best intention.”

At the root of this tendency lies the dangerous thought that we are inherently different from each other, and that these differences define who we are. Perhaps an even

JAMES LEE more dangerous tendency is to give up on trying to understand each other, to retreat to our familiar corners and disconnect from the rest of the world. Robert Frost wrote of a stubborn neighbor, “He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ / ... Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it / Where there are cows? / But here there are no cows.”

JAMES LEE is a College junior 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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The other side of success REAL TALK | Why focusing on achievement can actually be a crutch I’m not sure if it was because of my general airheadedness, or a product of the post-election fallout, but for whatever reason, I completely forgot to sign up for courses by the end of advance registration. I understand this might not seem like a big deal to some. But in Penn’s preprofessional environment, where every other person you meet seems to be majoring in ways to make you feel inadequate, it’s easy to misconstrue little mistakes and take them as a sign that you’re falling behind the curve.

This feeling of inadequacy, or better yet, the notion that one has to hide the feeling, is undoubtedly common among Penn students. It’s a dangerous way to think, and not just for all the obvious “Penn Face”-related issues that it engenders. This is because our hyper-competitive

culture doesn’t only make us undervalue ourselves but also causes us to overvalue success. And when we overvalue success we often neglect to ask ourselves why we’re trying to achieve it in the first place.

So despite all the added anxiety that forgetting to register for courses may have caused, I’m actually glad it happened. Having to wait until the registry reopened forced me to reflect on what courses I wanted to take. And more importantly, why I wanted to take them. At some point it occurred to me that for all the time I spend working, planning and setting goals, I very rarely give myself a chance to question my motives.

If I’m being truly honest with myself, I’m not particularly clear on what these motives are. I know I want to do well in school, to get a good GPA, to get

a good job ... but the buck stops there. To a certain extent it seems as if my motive for doing well is just that: to do well.

And although it certainly wouldn’t hurt to achieve

comes when we set a challenge and rise to it.

The problem arises when we view success as an end in and of itself. We are not more virtuous, nor any better of a person, simply by

For as scary as it is to fail, it’s far more frightening to realize that you might not have a reason for succeeding.” all of my goals, it’s disconcerting to think that I don’t have a deeper reason for doing so.

That’s not to say that there aren’t benefits to being a goal-driven person. There are, of course, the material reasons for seeking success. There’s also the strong sense of self-worth, of accomplishment, that

merit of our accomplishments.

And when we surround ourselves, as we do at Penn, with high-achieving, hyper-competitive people, it becomes easy to forget what we’re working for and to start to value achievement for its own sake.

Putting all of your en-

ergy into working hard on what’s in front of you may seem like a virtuous choice, but it can also be a crutch. For as scary as it is to fail, it’s far more frightening to realize that you might not have a reason for succeeding.

By blindly seeking out success and constantly moving on to the next goal, we distract ourselves. We construct a temporary sense of purpose rather than seek out a deeper one.

Even when I feel incredibly overwhelmed by an exam or an assignment, I know that beneath the anxiety there’s a sense of comfort. This is because the routine — the constant stream of tasks and goals that I set for myself — fills my days with an artificial sense of purpose. And as much as I hate to admit it, I rely heavily on the comfort that this purpose provides.

Without it I’m forced to

CAMERON DICHTER come to terms with the fact that there is no deeper meaning other than the one I create for myself.

This might seem like a depressing realization, but it can actually be liberating.

By being more conscious of our true motivations we can take greater ownership over our decisions.

CAMERON DICHTER is a College junior from Philadelphia, studying English.

His email address is camd@ sas.upenn.edu. “Real Talk” usually appears every other Monday.

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Korean chain cafe opens near campus in time for finals Caffé Bene offers chic, new study spot LUCY WANG Contributing Reporter

Students have yet another coffee shop to check out this finals season.

Caffé Bene, a South Korean chain, recently opened a location near Penn’s campus on 38th and Chestnut streets. The café features a calming and well-lit study atmosphere with a unique, Korea n-i nspi red aest het ic.

Hanging lights, bookshelves and light wood paneling give the shop a contemporary and trendy feel.

Though the café is best known for its drinks — including coffee, tea, lattes and smoothies — don’t forget to try the food menu as well. On the savory side, check out grilled cheese sandwiches made on

thin waffles for under five dollars. Sweet items include ice cream, honeybread — a dessert made with sweet bread and honey — and waffles topped with a variety of sweets such as strawberries, bananas, gelato, yogurt and cream cheese.

“Caffé Bene is different from other cafes in that we offer honey bread, ice parfaits, waffles, gelato and mojitos. Going forward, we’re planning on selling more breakfast foods,” owner Jerry Gao said. So far there are over 1,600 stores around the world and it is one of the leading cafés in South Korea, Gao said.

Gao emphasized the calming environment of the spacious and well-lit café, noting that many students go to Caffé Bene to study.

“It’s quiet and comfortable. A lot of student[s] sit here and do homework,” Gao said.

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A popular South Korean coffee shop, Caffé Bene, has opened a new location near Penn’s campus, offering students a new study spot.

“Years ago, it was the fastest growing café franchise in Korea. I read a book written by the owner of this company, and

one of his strategies was to open franchises in popular locations and big places,” said Drexel PhD Yongtaek Oh, a frequent

customer at the café.

College junior Seyoon Lee, also at the café, mentioned the similarities in décor and foods

between the Caffé Bene in South Korea and the one in University City.

Lee visited Caffé Bene after seeing that it had recently opened.

“I was waiting for this place to open. It’s quite interesting: in Korea, it was booming for a few years. It’s been slowing down lately. There was recently an opening in New York,” Lee said, noting the Korean-inspired décor and menu.

Wary of cold weather deterring students from going to Caffé Bene, Gao noted that he is looking to partner with Uber Eats, which offers food delivery.

“The main challenge is the weather. Sometimes it’s just too cold, and students don’t want to walk far. We’re trying to incorporate Uber Eats, so students can get their food delivered,” Gao said.

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Higher education is changing fast.

A recent book called the ‘The Faculty Factor: The American Academy in a Turbulent Era’, argues that today’s faculty have a diminished role because of drastic changes in academic appointments and administration in American colleges and universities.

In 2006, co-authors Jack H. Schuster and Martin J. Finkelstein wrote another book. That book argued that the American higher education system is radically changing, in part due to the increase in non-tenure-track appointments for faculty. Upon revisiting their earlier work, the authors decided that they wanted to do some more research on the subject using new data.

“We were right in 2006,” said Finkelstein, a professor of higher education at Seton Hall University.

“There are big changes afoot and we don’t really understand what the consequences are, even though there is a sense of foreboding that the consequences are major.”

Schuster, Finkelstein’s co-author, is a professor of education and public policy and a senior research fellow at Claremont Graduate University. The two decided to collaborate with Valerie Martin Conley, the dean of the College of Education at the

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The book addresses the changing landscape of academia, suggesting changes in administation and policies of appointment.

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs in order to learn more about the current state of highered.

“Right now there are something around a million and a half people who offer instruction on college or university campuses and of those exactly half of them are part time,” Finkelstein said. “Of the ones who are full time, we’re moving to a situation where, increasingly, the majority of the full timers are no longer sort of career laddered or tenured or tenure track, but rather people on contract appointments.”

The authors chronicle the creation of the current state of American faculty and talk about how various forces within the system — such as technological advancements, broader economic trends, and major increases in faculty specialization — have led to a radical increase in contingent appointments in higher education.

Contingent appointments are nontenure-track positions that may be temporary or part-time.

Finkelstein and Schuster note

that some institutions are feeling the effects of these changes at a slower rate than others .

“There are about 200-300 institutions in the country, like Penn, among others, that we would call sort of ‘elite institutions,’ where things have changed, but they haven’t changed quite as extremely as they have other places,” Finkelstein said. “But this group of two or three hundred seems to be shrinking by the year.”

One of the most controversial arguments of the book is for the mandatory end of tenure, but not employment, at age 70. The authors believe that the requirement would help colleges and universities predict when tenured individuals will retire and employ an increasing number of young academics in tenure-track positions, rather than in contingent roles. Older professors would still be protected from age discrimination.

“We’re talking about a place with not only a different look, but a different feel,” Finkelstein said.

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at Mark Yim’s lab, he gave me the freedom with what I wanted to do, and of course my bra in went to f lying things.”

The team actually created two robots, a larger one nick named “Maneuverable Picollisimo,” and a smaller one called “Mini Piccolissimo.”

The smaller one, which is considered the world’s smallest self-powered controllable robot, has a perimeter of 28 millimeters, while the other one has a perimeter of 39 millimeters.

Bot h r ob ot s m a i nt a i n similar designs and constructions: a 3-D printed circular body with one central motor connected to six small propellers, a set of batteries and a MOSFET receiver that receives signals sent via infrared light. The robots are controlled via infrared light, and the intensity of the light can be changed to adjust the intensity of the robots’ propellers.

The road to Piccolissimo’s development b ega n wit h

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Piccoli’s research as a graduate student.

“Initially, we started off trying to make the world’s simplest f lying thing,” Piccoli said. “Afterwards, we thought about what the next step would be, and we decided to try and create the wo rld’s sm a l le st f ly i ng thing”.

The robot has a wide range of possible applications.

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NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Reporter

Penn swimming and diving has hit the ground running. Figuratively, at least.

On Tuesday, just before the holiday break, the Quakers decided to build on their already strong start to the season, sweeping La Salle’s men’s and women’s teams, 161-132 and 163-122, respectively.

For the Red and Blue men (5-1), fresh of an historic win over Princeton a few days earlier, the evening was a breeze, with 10 first-place finishes among the squad. They started things off with a bang, winning the 200-yard medley relay thanks to the efforts of junior backstroker C.J. Schaffer, sophomore Colin McHugh on breaststroke, senior Michael Wen on butterfly and senior Zach Fisher swimming freestyle.

Momentum built up, with Penn moving on to sweep the 1,000yard free with sophomore Mark Andrew taking the top slot in 9:36.09. He was followed closely thereafter by teammates Taylor Uselis and Wes Thomas.

That wasn’t the only event the Quakers swept, either. In the 200yard fly, junior Hunter Brakovec’s time of 1:51.88 topped the day with juniors Alex Peterson and Schaffer right behind him.

All told, the Penn men won every scored event on the day.

This included the 200-yard free (senior Kevin Su), the 100-yard back (freshman Chris Nicholson), 200-yard back (Uselis), 200yard breast (McHugh), 500-yard free (Peterson) and 100-yard fly (Wen).

Not to be outdone, the women (5-1) also won every scored event.

Things kicked off with a firstplace finish in a time of 1:47.80 in the 200 medley relay, headlined by sophomore Libby Jardeleza on backstroke, senior Haley

Wickham on breaststroke, senior Laine Higgins on butterfly and junior Kim Phan on the freestyle anchor leg.

Freshman Grace Ferry took home a pair of first-place finishes on the day, winning both the 1,000 free and 200 back. Her classmate, Meredith Newman, logged two victories for herself, both in the freestyle sprints (100 and 200).

As with the men’s squad, the women also had a pair of event sweeps. For the Quakers, the 100 breast and 100 backstroke were smooth sailing, as Wickham won the breast while freshman Wendy Yang took the back.

Junior Maggie Heller capped things off in the 1-meter dive with a winning score of 212.70.

Following the whirlwind start to the Quakers’ season, the Red and Blue have a little time off, getting about a week and a half away before returning to the pool on Dec. 1 for the Total Performance Invitational at Kenyon College in Ohio.

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Freshman Grace Ferry exemplified the stellar showing for Penn swimming and diving against La Salle on Tuesday, winning a pair of events as both the men’s and women’s squads won every single scored event.

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Nick Buchta, Senior Sports Editor: Mike. McCurdy.

I’m not sure how to envision Penn sprint football without its stud quarterback. Penn’s own Troy Bolton (he sings and sports!) just led the Quakers to their first outright Collegiate Sprint Football League title in 16 years. He led them to just the third undefeated season in program history.

His Quakers beat both service academies for the first time since 2000. He broke the program record for career passing yards.

He did it all.

For that, he was named CSFL MVP. And guess what? It wasn’t the first time. Think about that.

McCurdy wasn’t just the best player in the sport in his titlewinning swan song. He did it twice in a row. It’s not easy to be

dominant, especially for as long a time as he’s done it.

Does all that not do it for you?

Look at what happened when the Red and Blue had their backs against the wall. Down eight to Cornell with the ball on their own 7, McCurdy had to lead the Quakers 93 yards with no timeouts and 1:41 to play. Not only did he do it — with his legs as much as his arm — he converted the gametying two-point conversion even after Penn was flagged for a false start.

When push came to shove, there’s no one you wanted out there for the Quakers than Mike McCurdy. He’s without a doubt the MVP of the fall season for Penn Athletics.

Penn football’s Justin Watson — after all, he is up for the FCS Player of the Year award. Then again, though, that is only the FCS award, as the Quakers compete in the second tier of college ball.

My second instinct was to tap sprint football’s Mike McCurdy.

The senior quarterback put the team on his back as he marched Penn to its first outright CSFL title in 16 years, beating both of the military service academies and sprint football powerhouses in the process. But that still didn’t feel right to me, because — no offense, sprint football — but that league only had eight teams.

Cross country, however, competes at the highest NCAA level, and the women went to the national championship for the first time in program history this year.

Senior Ashley Montgomery,

Will Snow, Senior Sports Editorelect: My first instinct was to go with

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meanwhile, led the team in every single meet this year and finished 13th at the NCAA Championships — meaning only 12 college athletes in the entire nation are better than her. There are probably 12 wideouts better than JWat in FBS, and — again, I’m sorry, sprint football — but there are surely 12 better quarterbacks in college football than McCurdy.

Montgomery finished the 6K championship in just over 20 minutes, and the All-American’s 13th-placed finish left her tied for the best-ever performance by a Penn cross country athlete in NCAA Championship history.

After last year’s cross country dominance by Tommy Awad on the men’s side, it was only fitting that the women strike back with a performance for the history books themselves. Montgomery has track season in the spring left before graduation, but she’ll surely go down as the best woman ever to grace the program.

Tommy Rothman, Sports Editor: Penn football quarterback Alek Torgersen was the Fall MVP for Penn Athletics in 2016.

Was he the BEST player on the team? No. Justin Watson was, hands down. But it’s Most VALUABLE Player, not AnchorLADY, and that is a scientific fact!

And as a Jets fan, I can tell you that it’s awfully difficult for a talented wide receiver or two, let alone an entire team, to be successful without a good quarterback. And Torg was more than “good� in 2016.

In his final season with the Quakers, Torgersen finished second in the Ivy League with 18 passing touchdowns and third with 2,231 passing yards. Torgersen also had the league’s best completion percentage, touchdown-to-interception ratio and yards-per-attempt ratio of anyone who finished top-ten in passing attempts.

But Torg also contributed to Penn’s terrific rushing attack, not just by keeping defenses honest against Tre Solomon, but with his own legs as well. The quarterback finished third in the league with eight scores on the ground and 11th with 396 rushing yards.

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Having secured his second straight 1,000-yard season, junior wideout Justin Watson can easily make a claim to be Penn’s top fall athlete.

This Red and Blue team had many standouts, as evidenced by 14 All-Ivy selections. But without Alek Torgersen, Penn football would have gone nowhere in 2016. He’s my MVP. Tom Nowlan, News Editor-elect: During the 2015 season, Justin Watson showed why he was perhaps the most talented player in the Ivy League. In 2016, he upheld those expectations, and then some.

Catching 89 passes for 1115 yards and eight touchdowns, Watson led the Ancient Eight in every major receiving category.

Kicking off the season with a two-touchdown performance against Lehigh and ending it with 11 catches against Cornell, the Pennsylvania native was clearly Penn’s most dominant athlete this fall season.

Surprisingly, Watson was able to maintain his lofty numbers even as the Quaker offense focused on the run game more than in previous years. Outdone only

by Ivy co-champion Princeton,

the Red and Blue picked up 169.1 rush yards per game this season as Tre Solomon emerged as the conference’s top backfield weapon.

Unlike graduating quarterback Alek Torgersen, Watson will be back for more in 2017. Third alltime in receptions at Penn, he will have his entire senior season to rewrite the program record books.

Facing Yale on Oct. 21, Watson had his best game of the season.

On national TV, he pulled in 10 catches and three touchdowns.

Resting most of the second half in the blowout, he likely could have done much more damage in the 42-7 win.

Just the fourth-ever Ivy League player to amass two 1,000-yard receiving seasons, the junior will look to make it three straight in 2017. Watson has improved over each of his first three campaigns in University City. Assuming he makes another leap in the months to come, countless Ivy records look to be in danger.

That’s something for Quaker fans to be plenty excited about.

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That must be intimidating, right? That is, unless you ask Nicole, who has set similarly lofty goals for her own freshman season. “I definitely want to make NCAAs, it’s a huge goal of mine.

I definitely want to place; that’s what [John] did,� the Wharton student said. “He definitely had his best season his freshman year.

It was so inspirational because no one was expecting it, and I know that if he can do it as a freshman, I can as well.�

At first glance, those goals would seem difficult for an incoming freshman. But most incoming freshman recruits don’t have a fan club of Nicole’s caliber. “He always seems to know how to calm me down, and he knows who I am,� the younger Vaiani said. “He’s seen me on the strip

multiple times, and coached me at all my tournaments, so he really knows how to help me when I’m in that frantic stage.�

Nicole’s arrival will also be a boost for John, who is coming off a spring and summer riddled by illness. Even Ivy champions can use a slice of home. “I have been fencing my sister my whole life, really,� the junior said. “We went to the same fencing club back in Jersey. We were at the same competitions, we’d always have each other’s back, coach each other. Now that she’s here, it’s sort of like old times.�

With 18 wins at the season opening Elite Invitational, “old times� are suiting the Vaiani siblings quite nicely. So, while it may be a new venue, this sibling act is poised for a strong collegiate encore.

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It would seem that as siblings, there are similarities that help make the Vaiani siblings the elite fencers they are. For John, a similar mentality goes along nicely with any physical abilities he shares with his sister. “We’re both very motivated people, we’re both type-A people,� the All-American said. “I think having each other by each other’s side just pushes the other person to train harder.�

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Hectic rally falls just short in home loss to St. Joseph’s W. HOOPS | Team drops

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NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

Death, taxes, and Penn women’s basketball having trouble with Saint Joe’s.

Tuesday evening, the Quakers fell at home to the Hawks, 57-53, in the first Big 5 matchup of the year for the Red and Blue (1-3) as they fell to 2-40 all-time against Saint Joseph’s (1-3).

The Quakers opened things up where they left off on Friday: with a Lauren Whitlatch three-pointer.

Whitlatch, coming off a careerhigh 24 points at Rhode Island, was good for just six on Tuesday, all of them from three.

A quick start wasn’t sustainable, however, as the Hawks’ ball movement around the perimeter consistently enabled them to find the open man — they shot .615 from the floor in the opening quarter. Penn entered the second frame down 18-14, just in time for Saint Joe’s to go on a 6-0 run.

It wasn’t one end of the court or the other that did the Quakers in. A combination of shooting struggles and difficulty getting offensive boards made things difficult early for the Red and Blue.

Finally, four minutes into the second quarter, a Whitlatch three got Penn back in business.

Michelle Nwokedi, secondleading scorer in the Ivy League, didn’t get on the board until midway through the frame — and for every shot Nwokedi and the Quakers made, it seemed like the Hawks found an easy three or putback.

Thanks to her 5-for-7 performance at the charity stripe, Nwokedi recorded her third double-double on the year with 11 points and 11 boards — as senior center Sydney Stipanovich led all

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Donahue said. “He can body guys inside and stop penetration.

I think losing him hurt us on both sides of the court.”

Without Brodeur in the lineup, the Quakers were outscored by six in the final 10 minutes of the period and went into the half staring at a 46-36 deficit.

Coming out in the second half, Donahue knew something needed to change. Talking to his team at the break, he stressed what the Red and Blue could control — energy and physicality.

“I think we came out and played with more effort and little tougher, and that’s what turned it around at the beginning of the second half,” Donahue said. “For a large portion of the first frame,

Navy was simply smarter and more physical than we were.”

Whatever Donahue said, it seemed to work in the early stages of the second half. A 20-6 run early in the period saw the Quakers up six, to that point their largest lead of the day.

A few minutes later, Penn was up eight. Everything seemed to be headed in the right direction for the Red and Blue. However, as always seems to happen in sports, Penn let the Blue and Gold hang around and paid dearly for it.

Despite being on top for long stretches of the second half, a late-game scoring drought saw the Quakers go the last five minutes of regulation without a single point. In that time, Navy scored 9, scoring the go-ahead bucket with just 16 seconds remaining. On

the Red and Blue’s last possession of the game, the opportunity for a basket was nullified by an offensive foul from junior guard Caleb Wood.

Although the nature of the loss was bitterly disheartening for the team, Donahue praised his team’s growth since the season began.

“It isn’t easy to play on the road in college basketball, and we’ve started the season with four straight away from home,” Donahue said. “Winning this game would’ve been a great step for us, but I think regardless of the result we showed some of the growth this team has had in the past couple weeks.

“It’s just about overcoming some of the things we didn’t do well today and getting ready for a tough game against Villanova.”

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Sixteen points and eight rebounds from senior center Sydney Stipanovich weren’t quite enough for Penn to overcome St. Joseph’s.

scoring with 16 — but all told it was a cold night shooting for the junior forward, going 3-for-15 from the floor.

“If the ball doesn’t go in the basket, I think we have to learn that one can’t turn into two possessions, then three possessions,” Penn coach Mike McLaughlin said. “We need to mature as a basketball team.”

After falling behind, 33-21, Penn was able to close out the half on a 5-0 run, but it marked the third time in four games this season the Quakers found themselves trailing at the break.

When the second half started off quietly, junior guard Anna Ross made it 36-32 with her second trey of trey of the game.

Although they held Saint Joseph’s to just seven third-quarter points, Penn wasn’t able to get closer than four, and they entered the final quarter down, 40-34.

Shooting woes have plagued the Red and Blue all year, and it was a 5-for-27 effort between the second and third quarters that doomed

them on Tuesday. Nonetheless, Penn entered the fourth quarter in striking distance of the Hawks.

Again, it was the four-point barrier the Quakers seemed unable to overcome. Whenever the Red and Blue could get within four, Saint Joe’s found a little separation. Stipanovich kept Penn in the game, scoring eight in the fourth, but it wasn’t enough. The Quakers went down nine with 2:46 to play and couldn’t make up the deficit.

“It’s the Big 5. Every game is like a championship game, and coming out here we wanted to play with heart and do our best,” Nwokedi said. “Being down nine, it wasn’t a big deal for us, it was just, ‘Dig deeper. Find a way.’ So, we tried.”

Although Penn made it a game — making it a two-point contest with 16 seconds left thanks in part to six points from Ross in the final minute — the Hawks went 8-for10 at the free throw line down the stretch, sealing the third-worst start for the Quakers in the Mike McLaughlin era.

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Against La Salle, Penn men’s and women’s swimming earned a sweep on Tuesday

Penn women’s basketball continued its early struggles with a loss vs. Saint Joe’s

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NOT THERE YET NAVY 70 68 PENN

M. HOOPS | Penn lets late

lead evaporate on road

JACOB SNYDER Associate Sports Editor

Disappointment.

After putting itself in an early hole, a valiant resurgence by Penn basketball fell just short, resulting in a 70-68 loss at the hands of Navy.

The game began rather unexpectedly, with a usually modest-shooting Midshipmen (3-4) team knocking down shot after shot. Conversely, the Quakers (2-2) began the game ice cold.

With Navy almost scoring at will, it was the scoring from senior Matt Howard and sophomore

Jackson Donahue that kept the Red and Blue within striking distance early.

In response to his team’s offensive struggles, Penn coach Steve Donahue was hesitant to point to anything schematically, attributing the difficulties instead to the natural flow of the game.

“I told the team that Navy was hitting a few shots they usually don’t hit and that we were missing a few that we usually make,” he said.

Throughout the course of the first half, Donahue also had to make important decisions regarding his defensive setup against the red-hot Midshipmen. Alternating between a man-to-man and a zone defense, the Quakers attempted — to disappointingly little success

— to throw off any rhythm that Navy was developing.

“I don’t think Navy is a particularly strong passing team,” Donahue noted. “When you play a man against them, you can really grind them out. But I think one of our strengths is our zone.”

Despite Donahue’s best efforts, Navy guards Hasan Abdullah and Ryan Pearson lit up the Quakers for a combined 19 first-half points.

To compound Penn’s troubles, star freshman A.J. Brodeur got into early foul trouble, picking up a second first-half foul at the 10:18 mark and exiting the game for the remainder of the half.

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Mike McCurdy earns second straight CSFL MVP trophy SPRINT FB | Team earns

20 All-CSFL selections

NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

It just keeps getting better.

Just a few weeks removed from Penn sprint football’s first outright Collegiate Sprint

Football League title since 2000, senior quarterback Mike McCurdy was named league MVP for the second straight season.

This is the first outright award for McCurdy, who split it following his junior season in 2015. The Bethesda, Md., is just the second Penn player to win the award twice, joining Tim Ortman from the 1998-99

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Leading the CSFL in passing efficiency and carrying Penn to a 7-0 record, senior quarterback Mike McCurdy was a clear MVP selection.

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seasons.

Nineteen members of the Red and Blue, including McCurdy, earned a total of 20 All-CSFL honors, with eight being first teamers. This marks the most first team awardees for the Quakers since the 2008 season and is tied for second-most behind the Red and Blue’s 10 selections in 2000.

McCurdy capped off a historic career with his best season. His 1,740 passing yards are a Penn single-season record and put him over the top for the school’s best career yardage mark with 5,892.

He led the Quakers to just their second outright CSFL title and second undefeated season ever.

Joining McCurdy on the first team were Jake Klaus, Marcus Jones, Aidan Kelly, Benji Friedman, Pat Boyle, Chris Colavita, and Matt Caltabiano. Of the first team honorees, just Colavita and Boyle will join McCurdy in graduating this fall.

Back to lead the Quakers in the 2017 title defense will be Penn coach Bill Wagner, who has announced his return for a 48th year on the sidelines for the Red and Blue.

Vaiani siblings prepare to take Ivy League by storm

FENCING | Frosh, junior

have battled since youth

MOSES NSEREKO Sports Reporter

When Nicole Vaiani first started learning how to fence, she would beat her older brother all the time. Now, with that experience behind her, she begins her career on Penn fencing.

And that older brother? He just so happens to be an Ivy League champion and an All-American.

“We were the best two people at our club,” junior foil John Vaiani said. “We didn’t really have anyone else to fence, anyone else to train [with].”

John’s junior year is marked by a significant new edition to the Red and Blue: his sister is now on campus with him, starting her freshman year. While the siblings are in different schools (John is enrolled in the College, while Nicole is in Wharton), they will see a lot of each other where they usually meet up — on the fencing strip.

Both siblings compete in the foil weapon class, which

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Having battled one another since childhood, foil fencers Nicole and John Vaiani will take their competitiveness to the national stage.

immediately opens them up to comparison. But for John and Nicole, the competition is more than welcome.

“Every time we fence each other, we’re always so competitive and want to beat each other,” Nicole said. “We just love to

beat each other. It just makes the whole thing more fun when you have someone on the team that you can be very competitive with them, and they won’t take it to heart.”

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