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Messages traced back to Oklahoma residents CAROLINE SIMON & WILL SNOW Campus News Editor & Sports Editor

Racist group messages that sent black students at Penn reeling on Friday appear to have originated in Oklahoma, according to a University

notification sent to students Sunday afternoon.

One of the students, who attends the University of Oklahoma, has been temporarily suspended. Penn Police will continue to work with the FBI and police in Oklahoma until the investigation is complete.

The incident began Friday morning when several Penn

Problems with registration prevent some students from voting

freshman students of color were unwillingly added to a GroupMe message, labeled “Mud Men,” rife with racially explicit content.

One member of the group, for example, posted an image of lynchings and then wrote, “I love America.” The same person posted an event into the message called “Daily lynching.”

In what appeared to be another group chat, called “Trump is love,” one participant called another a “dumb slave,” and another posted a photo of a red hat with the words, “GRAB THEM

BY THE P***Y.” The campus reaction “Once I saw the racial slurs... my heart dropped,” said a Wharton freshman, a student

their concern for the surge in hate speech over the past week.

“This is an instance of antiblack racism,” said UMOJA co-chair and College senior Tunmise Fawole.

By Friday afternoon, students had gathered outside Van Pelt to protest against the messages. Students began handing SEE GROUPME PAGE 2

Protesters occupy Amy Gutmann’s office Fossil Free Penn members waited seven hours LUIS FERRE SADURNI Senior Reporter

Some students said their information was entered inaccurately on forms ALIZA OHNOUNA Senior Reporter

When College junior Jonathan Haskin returned his completed voter registration form to a canvasser on campus early last month, he was told that he would be registered to vote. But when he arrived at his polling place last Tuesday, he was told there was no record of his registration.

A judge who was working at that polling place offered Haskin a provisional ballot, or a ballot given to people with unclear registration status and may not be counted. Looking to prove that he’d actually been registered, Haskinchecked his mailbox. There, he found a small envelope, sent to him the night before Election Day, informing him that his registration had failed.

His social security number was written incorrectly, his name was misspelled, and his address, Harrison College House, listed the wrong street, the letter said.

“I filled out my Social Security number myself, I copied it from a primary source, I know my social security number,” Haskin huffed.

Haskin tried to do everything he could to get his ballot counted. He called three numbers for the Philadelphia Voter Registration office, none of which were functional, he said. He called the

added to the group, in a written statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian. “I was shocked that I was even added to the GroupMe in the first place, but seeing what was being said just hurt.”

After the revelations, students of color organized in the Vice Provost of University Life’s office to investigate the origins of the group message and voice

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Over two dozen Penn students staged a sit-in that lasted from 8:50 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. to protest Penn’s decision to not divest from the fossil fuel industry.

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President Amy Gutmann and Board of Trustees Chairman David Cohen agreed to meet with student protesters following a seven-hour sit-in outside Gutmann’s office, according to two sources familiar with the situation.

Over two dozen Penn students, mostly members of the group Fossil Free Penn, staged a sit-in in College Hall to protest the University’s decision not to divest from the fossil fuel industry.

The students arrived at 8:50 a.m. to demand an on-the-record meeting with Gutmann and transparency about the process that led the Board of Trustees to reject divestment in

The kind of love required will not be kind or easy. This love will be a reckoning.”

September.

The sit-in came to a conclusion at around 4:15 p.m. after the University met part of their demands for a meeting, which will be held in early December, according to sources.

Gutmann’s office was not immediately available to confirm they had agreed to the meeting.

On Sept. 22, after a drawn-out process involving several different steps, the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Divestment made a unanimous recommendation not to divest, issuing strategies the University would pursue instead.

Student leaders at the sit-in demanded an open dialogue with the University.

“Over time we have tried having dialogue with the administration and we felt we had to take action today in SEE SIT-IN PAGE 3

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2016 Penn community and denounce these acts of hate in the strongest terms.”

Penn College Republicans — which did not take a stance on Donald Trump’s run for president — released a statement on Facebook denouncing the messages.

“These messages are abso-

and reported hostility from other attendees — two students said bystanders outside the stadium replied to their demonstration with “All lives matter,” and other attendees told them their protest was reason for affirmative action to not exist.

“Because we have the luxury of having Penn and Harvard right over there playing football, we’re gonna go show them how we feel,” a participant in the demonstration said into a megaphone near 34th and Locust streets. “We’re going to tell them how black lives have been treated so far by these universities as well as across the country.

Penn Athletics released a statement Friday night in response to the indicent.

“During the first half of the Penn-Harvard football game, a group of fans approached a gate to Franklin Field without tickets. Penn DPS was on site, and in conjunction with University personnel, a decision was made to temporarily suspend entry into the stadium,” the statement read. “We understand that this decision caused some Penn fans, Penn students, and Harvard fans difficulty entering the game, but the safety of the teams and fans of both institutions was our primary consideration. Penn Athletics leadership was in contact with University leadership and DPS

out safety pins to show solidarity with minority students on Locust Walk, and the pins are also available at PAACH, MAAKU and the LGBT Center.

A College sophomore at the protest expressed her frustration with the situation.

“People ask me everyday am I a student here. I have a f***ing 3.2 GPA, I am about to get my Master’s and people ask me every day, do you belong here, explain yourself,” she said.

“So for freshmen, who are made to feel like they don’t belong here, fresh men who don’t have GPAs yet, freshmen who haven’t even - Anonymous (C’18) taken finals yet, they just got through their midterms which is hell. They’ll wake up lutely despicable,” the statement and see that somebody has set read. “Hate such as this has no a date for them to be lynched, place on Penn’s campus or in it’s unacceptable and if the our nation. Our thoughts and entire student body is not upset, prayers are with those affected, shocked and outraged about it, I and we hope that Penn adminhave nothing else to say.” istration and Penn police find One College sophomore took the perpetrators as soon as posto Facebook to voice his fear sible.” and anger. That post has since One comment in the group been shared over thousands of messages mentioned SAE. In times, including by Shaun King, response, Penn’s chapter of a New York Daily News col- Sigma Alpha Epsilon sent a umnist who writes about civil statement to The DP denouncrights, and Deray McKesson, a ing the racist messages. black rights organizer.

“One name implicated inAs news of the messages re- volvement from SAE,” the verberated through campus on statement said. “However, none Friday, some Penn faculty con- of the members are a part of tacted their students about the the group nor are involved incident. English Department in any way with any of the Chair Zachary Lesser sent the posts or hatred directed following email to undergradu- toward individuals. ate English majors, condemning “Our chapter rejects any the messages and offering sup- association whatsoever with port form faculty. the GroupMe messages, History Department Chair Facebook groups, and the Beth S. Wenger also condemned unacceptable and intolerathe racist speech in a statement ble racism that is associated to the Daily Pennsylvanian. with those groups. Racism - University email “The faculty of the History has no place in our chapter Department of the University of or in the Penn community.

Pennsylvania condemn the hate- We are shocked, horrified and throughout the game as is stanful, racist speech on our campus enraged by these attacks on dard practice.” revealed this morning,” the members of our community.”

The administration’s restatement said. “As historians, On Friday night, protest- sponse we know too well the personal ers marched to Franklin Field, Mon ica Ya nt-K in ney, a and social consequences of where the Penn-Harvard foot- spokesperson for VPUL, said bigotry. As a department, we ball game was taking place. on Friday that student groups, remain committed to fostering Many protesters said they including UMOJA, met with adrespect for all throughout the were not able to enter the field ministrators and the Division of

… if the entire student body is not upset, shocked and outraged about it, I have nothing else to say.”

Public Safety on Friday morning to figure out what happened.

Information security personnel were also at the meeting to uncover how students were added to the GroupMe chats and whether an external entity was behind it, Yant-Kinney said.

A university staff member told the DP that her phone was “blowing up” with calls from parents, and that she had been told to direct people to VPUL. She said that early Friday afternoon, everyone in VPUL was meeting to discuss the appropriate response.

By late Friday afternoon, P resident A my Gutma n n, Provost Vincent Price and Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli had addressed the incident in an email to the Penn community.

“We are absolutely appalled that earlier today Black freshman students at Penn were added to a racist GroupMe account that appears to be based in Oklahoma,” the letter read.

“The account itself is totally repugnant: it contains violent, racist and thoroughly disgusting images and messages. This is simply deplorable. Our police and information security staff are trying to locate the exact source and to determine if any steps can be taken to block the account.”

“This is absolutely vile material and completely offensive to everyone on our campus. We are both angry and saddened that it was directed to our students or to anyone. The people responsible for this are reprehensible. We have increased campus safety and are reaching out to support the affected students in every way we can, and want them to know that the entire Penn community stands with them.”

Early Saturday morning, the University sent an email to undergraduates, reporting that a University of Oklahoma student would be temporarily suspended in connection to the messages.

Gutmann was notified of the suspension after a phone call from University of Oklahoma President David Boren.

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This is absolutely vile material and completely offensive to everyone on our campus.”

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Penn’s black community demonstrated against the appearance of a racist GroupMe chat to which black freshmen students had been added.

the email sent to Penn students, Boren said, “The University of Oklahoma has made it clear that we will not tolerate racism or hate speech that constitutes a threat to our campus or others. We have a record of taking swift action once all of the facts are known. I have ordered the appropriate officials at our university to open immediate inquiry to determine the extent of involvement by a University of Oklahoma student in this matter.”

Outside Penn The messages quickly garnered attention outside Penn.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney released a statement, according to Philadelphia Magazine, which read in part, “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the racist activity taking place at the University of Pennsylvania. Everyone is welcome

in Philadelphia regardless of whether they are a freshman at one of our universities or if they’ve always called Philadelphia home.”

Kenney said he would “urge the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations to investigate and hold all responsible parties accountable for this disgusting behavior.”

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) also lambasted the messages in a series of tweets, and Feminista Jones, a writer and social worker, said she was organizing students on campus in Huntsman Hall.

City News Editor Dan Spinelli, Assignments Editor Ellie Schroeder, Photo Manager Carson Kahoe, and Staff Reporters Rebecca Tan, Kolby Kaller and Nicole Rubin contributed reporting to this story.

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Election results distract from planned classes

Penn professors used class time to discuss election MADDIE VAZIRI Contributing Reporter

Neither students nor professors could decide how to best handle class on Wednesday Nov. 9. While some professors charged through the curriculum, others paused to reflect on the election that ended in Donald Trump’s victory early that morning.

Much of Penn’s campus was tangibly rattled the morning after the election. Cultural centers opened their doors, the

political science department hosted a panel to discuss the outcome and College Houses reached out to residents.

With this guidance already available, some students said they found the use of class time to discuss the election wasteful.

College freshman Shoshana Ster nstein said the election “should be separate and shouldn’t get in the way of class time.”

Sternstein said none of her classes discussed the result of the election Wednesday, adding that she believes such discussions would not have been relevant to her courses.

College freshman Bobby Bailey said he spoke about the election in two of his classes, French and Africa in World History. He believes his 20-minute discussion in French was irrelevant to the subject matter of the course, but that his 90-minute discussion in history was related since the topic of race has influenced this election.

Bailey said that though he understands the importance of talking about the election, he ultimately thinks the conversations were not productive. “ T he cla ss d iscussion shouldn’t have solely been about lamenting Clinton’s loss,” Bailey

QSA reinvents itself with focus on a relationship with the city New projects aim to connect with Philadelphia.

LAUREN SORANTINO Staff Reporter

Penn’s Queer Student Alliance, the oldest LGBTQ support group of its kind on campus, has expanded in size and role this year with a new structure and heightened focus on outreach to Philadelphia.

“Last year, there weren’t that many events because truthfully QSA was not going to be a thing anymore,” said current QSA External Affairs Chair and Nursing junior Nina Solis. This year, the 33-year-old organization has worked to cultivate allies and new members throughout the greater Philadelphia queer community.

Part of the group’s mission is to create safe environments for those who feel uncomfortable at typical social events at Penn because of their gender or sexual identity.

“The Philadelphia community is huge for queer culture,” Solis said. Although discussions about the larger Philadelphia community occurred in the past within QSA, the idea of really engaging with the resources for queer people in Philadelphia came with the transition to the current board.

QSA’s new outings committee is planning ways for students to engage in Philadelphia’s resources for the queer community, like walking tours of the Gayborhood.

The new QSA board set out to achieve their goal of broadening the group’s reach by creating a new structure of smaller committees for special interests within QSA. These committees, which organize outings throughout the city and plan events with food, provide leadership roles for more members and allow them space to think creatively about projects.

QSA member and College senior Jess Faust worked in conjunction with the new board and

the LGBT Center to create QSA’s new structure. This structure is “going well especially in terms of external involvement” from people who are not formally on the board, Faust said.

Current Lambda Alliance Chair and 2015 QSA board member Ian Jeong noted how the expansion of leadership positions within QSA this year has allowed many underclassmen to hold leadership positions for the first time in recent QSA history. “The new faces on the QSA board brings a lot of energy and a sense of vibrancy to the group,” he said. “The new QSA’s genuine love for the group translates to them putting more effort and thought into their programming.”

Compared to last year, the number of events hosted by QSA has already increased.

So far this semester, QSA has also hosted events ranging from their annual formal Affair to

more informal gatherings like game nights. There was also a Halloween-themed event called “Swalloween,” which QSA cohosted alongside the Lambda Alliance, Wharton Alliance and the Penn Queer and Asian Society. So far this semester, QSA has also hosted events ranging from their annual formal to more casual gatherings like game nights.

“I personally think it’s very hard to meet other queer people in the community,” Solis said. She added that some members of the queer community at Penn find more typical social events like fraternity parties stressful or uncomfortable.

They are drawn to QSA events because they are created to help queer students feel comfortable at Penn. “It is such a rarity to know that you are going to be totally accepted when you go somewhere,” Solis said. “At QSA events, we all know we’ll be supported.”

said. “It should have been about looking forward to the positive possibilities within Trump’s presidency, and that aspect was pretty much absent from class discussions.”

But other students said they appreciated having class time to discuss the election.

College freshman Patrick Teese said he saw these discussions as a unique opportunity to learn, adding that he was discouraged from discussing politics in his high school.

College freshman Grace Hylinski expressed regret that the issue was ignored in her International Political Economy class.

She said she had looked forward to hearing the opinion of her professor Edward Mansfield since he is preeminent in his field.

Hylinksi said the election was discussed in both her writing seminar and her French class.

She said that while she does not believe the topic was pertinent to either class, she believes the discussion was merited.

“It is good to talk about the election to get people to move on from it because it was on everyone’s minds already,” Hylinski said. “Even though my class seemed relatively onesided, engaging in a discussion about this influential event was

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order to make sure our position was clear,” said Peter Thacher, College senior and faculty and alumni coordinator of Fossil Free Penn.

Thacher said the protesters initially tried going inside Gutmann’s office but were denied access. Instead, they sat in a circle outside her office, holding up posters and voicing their thoughts on environmental issues.

Gutmann was nowhere to be seen throughout the sit-in.

Surprised University administrators met with student protestors to make sure the demonstration did not block the exit from Gutmann’s office. The administrators also “wanted to explain to us that the Trustees are not climate change deniers,” Thacher said.

Several officials of Penn’s Division of Public Safety stood by the protestors to ensure orderly conduct. A representative from DPS declined to comment.

“We very much appreciate the issues that the students raise, because they are important ones,” Vice President for Communications Steve

MacCarthy wrote in a statement. “We are in full agreement with them on the long term goal of reducing carbon emissions; we merely disagree on the best strategies for achieving that.

The Board feels they can have more influence on the issue through the steps they outlined in September.”

The protesters started checking in via Facebook in an attempt to garner support, similar to activists’ efforts in the North Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Despite the shadow of a contentious presidential election just days earlier, which has sent ripples of protest and shock through Penn’s campus, protestors said they chose the date of the sit-in, Nov. 10, to honor the 21st anniversary of the execution of nine activists in Nigeria.

In early 2015, 87.8 percent of undergraduates voted in favor of fossil fuel divestment in a campus-wide referendum.

In November 2015, Fossil Free Penn submitted a proposal to the University Council Steering Committee to have Penn divest from fossil fuels. The group later published a letter on April 8, urging divestment.

Over 100 faculty members from 10 of Penn’s 12 schools signed the letter.

a great way to get to know other people’s perspectives.”

Dean of the College Dennis Deturk said he stands by professors who chose to discuss the results in their classes. He allotted the first few minutes of his own mathematics class to reach out to students, many of whom he said were shocked and fearful.

Deturk added that he thinks in most cases, students have been glad to feel faculty support, and this makes up for the syllabi disturbances. He added that he believes it is the responsibility of the University to help students “make sense of things.”

“We felt very left out of the process,” said Rita Wegner, College junior and campaign coordinator of the student group. Wegner said their 50page proposal went mostly unacknowledged by the University.

The group also demanded “the release of the revised shareholder engagement plan with fossil fuel companies that the Trustees’ stated they would create in place of divesting,” according to a press release.

“We don’t have the respect we think we deserve,” said Gavi Reiter, College senior and student outreach coordinator of the group. “We are ready for this meeting [with Gutmann]. Now, it’s on her to answer the call.”

Thursday’s College Hall sit-in follows a similar demonstration at Harvard last spring, in which protestors from the group Divest Harvard held a six-day blockade of Harvard University building Massachusetts Hall after submitting a petition imploring the university to divest from fossil fuel.

At 5 p.m., the United Minorities Council held a rally outside College Hall in solidarity with the protesters.

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OPINION The darkened city upon a hill THE CONVERSATION | Trump’s threat to American history

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America, I am sick to my stomach. I am distraught. I am heartbroken.

I am worried.

An emotional reaction is not always a useful indicator of things, so let’s step back. I am reminded of the people in 2008 who genuinely believed that an Obama presidency would have apocalyptic consequences for the country’s values.

Honestly, my main concern with the result of the election is about what it says about the current state of America, not even necessarily what the future holds. The next four years could be the most prosperous era the country has ever seen, and I would still remember this election as one of the grimmest moments of American history. There is no end which would justify the means here.

America — what job would Trump not have been fired from for the things he has said and done? Surely you cannot think that basic human decency is an “elite” or “politically correct’ value. No, unlike many of my friends, I do not

believe that this result shows the secretly racist, sexist and xenophobic nature of half the country. Many Trump voters were probably disillusioned precisely by the very depiction of them as such. More than anything, the election result shows the very genuine fear and anger people are feeling as the country faces new challenges and changes.

But make no mistake — while Trump supporters may not have actively endorsed his actions or rhetoric by voting for him, it showed that they at least tolerated it, that they accepted it. They made a calculation in their heads that prioritized other factors as more important. They decided that a man of such clearly disturbing temperament was at least bearable considering his other redeeming qualities. It is difficult for me to imagine what these qualities might be. Certainly not mastery of policy or a wealth of relevant experience.

Now, more than ever, is the time for moral and intellectual courage. In this day and age,

the allure of moral relativity is great. To assign equal worth to all opinions and viewpoints might seem a convenient way of avoiding conflict and accusations of elitism. We now know more about how Trump

that certain true ideas and practices would ultimately win out in a free marketplace of ideas.

This election result didn’t just turn back a few pages. It tore the pages out and scribbled a middle finger on them.

tion day.

That does not mean you have to agree with all or any of his actions or values, but it does mean President Donald Trump will have legitimacy and access to all the powers of the executive office. This is how democracy works.

That is not to say there’s nothing you can do. Anything from signing a petition to protesting particular policies or actions is a real and legitimate way of expressing a view.

Rejecting the results of a fair election is not. I am seeing a lot of people who are suddenly very passionate about the abolition of the Electoral College.

Its relevance in the election process is very much debatable, but people shouldn’t use it as an excuse to justify the view that the country picked the “wrong” candidate.

President Obama released a video early on Election Day assuring voters that no matter what happens, “The sun will rise in the morning”. And indeed it has. I have always been fascinated with Hemingway’s similar statement in the title

Trump not only challenges American exceptionalism; he challenges American history.” got his votes. That doesn’t mean all methods of voting are equally valid. If it is elitist to resist and mock the kind of actions Trump encourages, wear the label proudly.

Trump not only challenges American exceptionalism; he challenges American history.

American history is a gradual realization of certain fundamental values. Despite setbacks, the thought is that the country’s history represents progress in a certain direction,

I don’t claim to know, as some have, what needs to be done now. But I don’t accept the “Not my president” or “Calexit” movements which reject the legitimacy of Trump’s presidency. How are they any different than Trump claiming the election is only rigged if he loses? Citizens have a legal and moral obligation to accept the results of a fairly conducted election. If you’re American, he will be your president come inaugura-

JAMES LEE of “The Sun Also Rises”, because the “also” creates the effect of assuming the converse must be true, that the sun will set and darkness will fall upon us. It is miraculous and beautiful the sun rises again and again. Even now, I have faith that the light will return. It’s just tough to think that this time, we brought the darkness upon ourselves.

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What love means REAL TALK | “We can not be free until they are free” There is no simple explanation — and therefore no simple solution — for the tragedy that is a Donald Trump presidency. It revealed how divided our country is, how disparate our worlds — liberal and conservative, urban and rural — have become.

But in order to make sense of the senselessness, I turned to James Baldwin’s, “The Fire Next Time,” which came out of an era of deep racial tension in the 1960s — a period of similar divisiveness.

His writing has helped me understand that while I can disavow Trump all I like, I can no longer disavow his supporters.

In “The Fire Next Time,” Baldwin spoke about the “innocents” — those who, though they may not call themselves bigoted, are maintained by the belief that they are superior, that they have more of a claim to the world than those who look different than them.

And while such a belief may seem so repugnant as to merit the exclusion of those who possess it, Baldwin believes, “You must accept them

and accept them with love.

For these innocent people have no other hope.”

The “innocents” belief of their supremacy is so central that it constitutes an identity, a reality, and to lose it, as Baldwin writes, is to “ … wake up one morning to find the sun shining and the stars aflame.”

For many of Trump’s supporters, those stars had been burning for quite a while.

Prior to last Tuesday, I believed our country was progressing. Progress, I assumed, meant creating a path of uplift and inclusion for those who had historically been denied it.

What I didn’t consider is that such progress means nothing without first dealing with the ideology that is bent on impeding it. And for those who I had attempted to exclude from my worldview, such a concept of progress was ultimately seen as a threat to theirs.

Multiculturalism is something that we as a community have chosen to cherish but for many outside our liberal bubble, especially those living in rural areas, there is something

very dangerous in the prospect of accepting a different culture, race, religion or sexuality as equal to one’s own. Doing so threatens the supremacy of a singular lifestyle, the promise of assimilation and therefore the very definition

of providing them with a new reality I simply cut them out of mine.

I made this choice every time I wrote someone out of my life on the basis of their bigotry. I made it when I nodded along when Hillary Clin-

The kind of love that’s required will not be kind or easy. This love will be a reckoning.” of what many believe it means to be an American.

As Baldwin writes, “ … they suppose that it is they themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.”

Rather than trying to resolve the existential strains of this population for whom the world was changing all too quickly, I decided it best just to leave them behind. Instead

ton deemed Trump supporters irredeemable. And I made it when I chanted ‘stronger together,’ knowing full well who I meant to exclude.

The path forward is, as Baldwin describes, that, “ … we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.”

To be clear, this love is not intended to either forgive or condone the acts of those who promote oppression or threaten our common humanity. Attacks, such as the one

targeted at Black students at our university can never be met with passivity.

The kind of love that’s required will not be kind or easy. This love will be a reckoning.

It should also be noted that this is a very different conception of love than the one that the Clinton campaign had been peddling. This isn’t about coming together in an abstract sense. This is about facing our troubled history head on and providing salvation for those who are entrapped by it.

A Clinton victory would have done little to quell the underbelly of bigotry in America. We’d just be pruning the leaves, never reaching the root.

If this election has taught us anything, it’s that we can no longer separate ourselves from our history and from those with whom we are most at odds.

The vision that was propagated by the Clinton campaign was gravely out of touch with the needs of Middle America — the very needs that Trump exploited.

While we cannot disasso-

CAMERON DICHTER ciate Trump supporters from the hateful rhetoric their candidate espoused, we do ourselves a disservice, and further enclose our liberal bubble when we believe Trump’s voters only support him for the same reasons we abhor him.

Instead, we should strive to hear their concerns and find sympathy in the fact that they — people just like the rest of us — should find their only solace in a candidate who threatens our collective salvation.

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

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Professors address unreliable polls following Trump upset Third-party candidates may have skewed polls NICOLE RUBIN Staff Reporter

The 2016 election results came as a shock to many. Going into the night, it seemed as though Hillary Clinton was more than likely to win. As Donald Trump took more and more electoral votes, however, people began to feel betrayed by the polls.

These people “did it to themselves,” Wharton marketing professor J. Scott Armstrong said.

He said people should be looking at combined forecasts, which include multiple factors in order to predict outcomes, such as econometric models, political polls, expert opinions, prediction markets and citizen forecasts.

On the website PollyVote, which Armstrong co-created, there is a “PollyGraph,” which depicts the statistical differences between

actual outcome, prediction of each individual forecasting method and the PollyVote combined forecast.

Of these methods, Armstrong said that political polls were the worst.

“There has been evidence out for years saying that it has been one of the least accurate methods,” he said.

This is not the first time the polls have been wrong during a presidential campaign. One of the more famous instances is the Chicago Tribune’s preconceived headline, “Dewey Defeats Truman.”

Political science professor Marc Meredith said people are being unfair to the polls.

“What people missed wasn’t so much the polls, but the implications of the polls,” he said.

Meredith said that people did not pay enough attention to states like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and even the campaigns ignored them. He said there was likely not enough polling in these states, so people did not see how

JULIO SOSA | ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR

Penn professors Marc Meredith and J. Scott Armstrong provide different opinions on the validity of political polls in the 2016 election.

much this area of the country was going to shift “vis a vis the last election”.

Meredith added that one limitation of polls is that there are people who decide at the last second who they are choosing to vote for, which is something that polls cannot capture.

While Armstrong and Meredith both believe that it was the way in

which people relied on the polls that was the root of the issue, Armstrong insists that the public move away from the polls in general. Individual polls, he said, are all over the place.

“They are highly unreliable; they are highly inaccurate. Those are known facts,” he said.

Armstrong’s theory is that people consult polls for entertainment because they are always

changing, which makes it more fun to watch.

Though the outcome was a shock to the public, it was not totally inaccurate. The political polls predict the voting patterns of the population as a whole, which ended up preferring Clinton.

Meredith believes that Clinton, when the votes are completely counted, will end up with a 2-point lead in the popular vote over Trump.

Another disagreement between the two professors is the role of third-party candidates in the outcome.

Armstrong attributes part of the blame on the question asked by the polls. Many polls asked if participants would be casting a vote for Clinton or Trump, excluding Libertarian New Mexico Gov. Johnson and Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein.

He said that at PollyVote, they made this mistake. “If you are looking for errors,” he said, “the bigger

[one] was ignoring the other candidates.”

Meredith, however, attributed the role of the third party to a common phenomenon that occurs in election. He said the issue was that many Republican identifiers had expressed support for one of the third-party candidates and ended up backing their party’s nominee on election day.

“I think throughout the campaign, Republicans were supporting Trump at a lower rate than Democrats were supporting Clinton, and from the exit poll, that didn’t seem to bear on election day,” Meredith said.

Whatever the case, the polls are taken to predict the outcome in total, and created an upset among American voters.

“People sometimes mistakenly say what is the most likely outcome is the only outcome,” Meredith said, “and certainly I think that it was not 76985 so much a failure of the polls as it is an interpretation of the polls.”

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voter hotline number provided by the Clinton campaign, and while the operator was apologetic, there was nothing that could be done, he recalled.

The only bit of insight he may have received that day came from Dawn Maglicco Deitch, the Executive Director of Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs. Deitch did not respond to the Daily Pennsylvanian’s requests for comment.

“She told me that the city was seriously behind schedule in getting people’s registrations in, and that’s why she thought that this happened,” Haskin said. He ended up filing a provisional ballot.

Haskin was not alone in his confusion. Eight students interviewed by The Daily Pennsylvanian reported problems with their registration that caused issues for them casting ballots on Election Day. College sophomore Joe Gehler was also left with no choice but to file a provisional ballot, though unlike Haskin, he said he had to ask

for one.

Like Haskin though, Gehler registered with a canvasser on Locust, who he thinks might have been from Penn Democrats. Penn Dems did not respond to a request about how they register voters. The person who registered him didn’t tell him to keep an eye out for confirmation, he recalled, and when he arrived at the polls and found out that his name wasn’t on the list, he called the PA voter registration office several times. When the line was continuously busy, Gehler called his brother, who told him to ask for a provisional ballot, he said.

Other students were given a bit more information when they thought they registered, but still found their names to be missing from the lists on Election Day. Engineering Junior Aliza Hochsztein also said she registered with a group canvassing on Locust Walk.

She didn’t recall who registered her, but she remembered receiving a Tshirt upon her filling out the forms.

Hochsztein was told to be on the lookout for several for a confirmation online, and she did so for several weeks on the PA voter

services website to no avail. Hochsztein heard from a friend with a similar issue who called the PA Voter Services number, that the website might not always accurately reflect who is registered to vote.

Hochsztein assumed that she could have been registered, but later learned she wasn’t on Election Day, she said. She completed a provisional ballot offered to her by poll workers.

College senior Emily Avis said she was registered by a group canvassing on Spruce Street. She was told she’d be receiving a confirmation email, and that once she’d handed in the paperwork to the canvasser, she wouldn’t have to do anything else.

At Vance Hall, the designated polling place for her address, she tried to verify her registration at the PA Voter Services website, and she found out she wasn’t registered. She was not offered a provisional ballot, and she never filled one out.

Political science professor Dan Hopkins blames much of the voter distress on the fact that in the United States, the onus to register to vote falls almost entirely on citizens, not

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the state. Citizens must re-register every time they change address.

The need to re-register every time a citizen changes address prevented College junior Alexa Jaume from voting. She moved off campus this year after registering to vote when she still lived on campus. On Election Day, she was shuffled to three different polling places before being given a provisional ballot, she said.

“A fair amount of voter registration is done by people who are not state actors. These are people who are part of the campaign, and while they have an incentive to collect registrations and submit them, they are people and they make mistakes,” Hopkins said.

Even if they are submitted properly, they then must go through either a board of elections of secretary of state’s office where there’s more room for error, Hopkinsadded.

College senior Rachel Freilich experienced the many sources of error in her voter registration process. She first registered to vote in September with a group on Locust.

She didn’t know her social security number, but was told that she didn’t have to fill it out on the form

AVALON MORELL | ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR

Penn professors and students diverge from regular classroom discussions to election reactions.

to be registered. A week before the voter registration deadline, she received a letter in the mail informing her that her registration had failed because she didn’t include her social security number.

She asked a canvasser if she could register online, but was told that she couldn’t. She tried to register again

on paper with another canvassing group, and her registration was confirmed five days before the election.

Between the failed registration and her second try, Freilich was distressed. “I didn’t even watch the third debate because it would make me sad that I couldn’t vote,” she said.

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Quakers’ upset over Harvard a near-replica of 2015 season JACOB ADLER

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n the movie business, sequels rarely hold up to the original.

It’s tough enough to make one good movie, and even more difficult to make another one with the same cast of characters.

After entering the 2015 season ranked sixth in the Ivy League preseason media poll and dropping three of its first four games, Penn football won six straight to share the Ancient Eight title with Harvard and Dartmouth. It made for a great story of coach Ray Priore’s first season at the helm.

This summer, the question arose as to how the Quakers would follow up their shocking season. They were now on the radar, receiving the most first-place votes along with a second-place projection in the preseason media poll. The underdog storyline was discarded, and we knew something else would happen.

We just didn’t know what.

For the most part, 2016 started

off in similar fashion. There were early-season losses to Lehigh and Fordham, and some of my fellow columnists and students wondered if the Quakers were capable of claiming the Ivy League. The Red and Blue again collected a victory against its third non-conference opponent, Villanova in 2015 and Central Connecticut State in 2016.

Then came the winning streak.

Last year’s six-game winning streak began at Columbia and continued through the rest of the season. This year, the and Red and Blue took five in a row, from Dartmouth in the third week to Brown in the seventh.

Again, there was the embarrassing loss to an Ivy contender. Last year at Franklin Field, Dartmouth quarterback Dalyn Williams came in and accounted for six touchdowns en route to a 41-20 blowout. At that point in the season, the Big Green looked like a much better team and the Quakers’ title chances were bleak.

This year, that game came later on in the season, when the Quakers fell 28-0 at Princeton. After the rout by the Tigers, it was again fair to wonder what the Red and Blue’s chances were — they had a

must-win game against unbeaten Harvard the next week.

In both seasons, Penn went into the Harvard game at 6-3 (5-1 Ivy) aiming to deal the Crimson its first loss. Both times, Harvard had beaten the team that Penn lost to, making possible a three-way tie.

So we’re eight games into the season, and it’s déjà vu for the Quakers. As Ice Cube’s character, Captain Dickson, said in 22 Jump Street, “It’s the same case! Do the same thing!”

From some aspects, the Harvard game was similar to that of 2015.

Friday, Penn had difficulty managing the Crimson’s stout defensive line, rushing for 21 yards on 20 attempts, and punted nine times. Last year, removing Watson’s 79-yard run put the Quakers at 85 yards on 40 attempts, and they punted six times.

The passing game was again the bright spot of the Penn offense. In Cambridge last year, then-junior quarterback Alek Torgersen threw for 245 yards and two touchdowns.

Those numbers were 263 and two on Friday. Junior wide receiver Watson was again spectacular, accounting for 120 yards and a score on Friday after 249 and two last year.

Penn tops ‘Nova in the pool SWIMMING | Seniors

lead the way in victory JOSH STONBERG Sports Reporter

This Saturday the Penn men’s and women’s swim teams each captured victories against Villanova on the road. The men’s team (2-1) easily handled the Wildcats (1-2), defeating them 176.5-118.5 and winning 10 events.

T he women’s meet was a much closer competition, with the Quakers (3-0) edging Villanova (3-1), a scholarshipfunded program, by a score of 160-140 thanks to a strong comeback performance in the final two events. With the positive result on Saturday, the Red and Blue continued their winning streak and handed their Big East rival their first loss of the season.

The Quakers’ established momentum early on the men’s side, as junior Alex Peterson led the Penn distance group to a four-person sweep in the 1,000-yard freestyle in a time of

9:30.20. Senior captain Kevin Su followed up Penn’s endurance with speed in the 200-yard free, winning in a time of 1:39.51. The Red and Blue tallied eight one-two finishes in the first 11 events before scratching the final four events.

The men’s diving team swept both boards, with freshman John Michael Diveris taking first on one-meter and sophomore Andrew Bologna winning three-meter. On the women’s side, the trio of junior Maggie Heller and seniors Cassidy Golden and Sivan Mills took second through fourth place on each board.

The women built a slight lead over Villanova with a win in the 200-yard medley relay from the team of sophomore Libby Jardaleza, senior Haley Wickham, freshman Wendy Yang and senior Rochelle Dong. The Red and Blue’s lead built after the 1,000 with freshman Grace Ferry’s winning time of 10:14.15.

The Quakers were buoyed by strong breaststroke perfor ma nces t h roughout t he afternoon. Wickham and freshman Linda Zhang packed a

one-two punch in the 100-yard breaststroke with times of 1:05.56 and 1:06.30, respectively, while freshman Serena Xue and senior captain Ellie Grimes mimicked the result in the 200-yard breaststroke in times of 2:23.04 and 2:23.80, respectively.

Villanova’s effort was led by a pair of sophomores: Alexa Fabbri, who touched first in the 200, and second in the 50- and 100-yard freestyles; and Darby Goodwin, who tallied decisive victories in both backstrokes. The Wildcats also made up ground on the Quakers in the 200 fly and threatened to win the meet on the eve of the 200-yard individual medley.

Thanks to gutsy performances

by Zhang, junior Carolyn Yang, and sophomore Carter Orth taking second, third and fifth, respectively - Penn retained firm control over the lead and solidified their victory with a first-place finish in the 200yard freestyle relay.

Both teams will be in action next on Saturday in their first Ivy League Tri-Meet against Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y.

But the game was different. It didn’t stuff the stat sheets like last year’s 35-25 affair where Penn jumped out to a 14-0 lead and scored 14 unanswered to close out the game after the Crimson came back to take a 25-21 advantage. It was a hardfought game by two teams whose defenses suffocated each other’s offenses.

The Quakers didn’t run a play in Harvard territory until a few minutes into the third quarter, when Torgersen found sophomore wide receiver Christian Pearson deep along the right sideline for a 47-yard touchdown. Prior to that touchdown, they had picked up just four first downs compared to five punts. And until the Red and Blue’s hyper-efficient game-winning drive late in the fourth quarter, the Quaker offense wasn’t making big plays.

The Quakers came away with the win on Friday because of the defense, the hero that rebounded majestically in a season where it disappointed against the three best offenses it played against in Penn’s three losses. Sacking Crimson quarterback Joe Viviano six times, intercepting him three times in key spots, and returning the final

ANANYA CHANDRA | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

Penn football coach Ray Priore is enjoying a good track record against Harvard, dealing them their second Ivy loss in as many years.

last-ditch play for a touchdown, the Penn defense reminded everyone of the force they were during the 2015 title run.

There’s your story. Penn had again found its groove and was cruising until Princeton stopped it in its tracks. And when the Quakers needed it the most, the defense pulled out a signature performance to take down Harvard in the season’s

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frenzied series of laterals.

Junior defensive end Taylor Hendrickson returned the loose ball to the endzone as time expired, putting an exclamation point on the victory.

That was the second defensive touchdown of the day for the Red and Blue, who scored their first points of the game on an interception return by defensive lineman Louis Vecchio in the second quarter. The junior snagged a Joe Viviano pass at the line and scampered 35 yards untouched to make the score 7-3.

“In practice all week, we’ve practiced reacting to the pass,” Vecchio said. “Things panned out the exact way we hoped it would.”

The two defensive touchdowns highlighted what was an exceptional night for the unit. The Quakers racked up nine tackles for loss – including six sacks – and intercepted

three Viviano passes. Vecchio provided three of those sacks while sophomore defensive back Mason Williams had two picks, bringing his season total to five, tied for best in the Ivy League.

Torgersen followed up Vecchio’s score with a 47-yard touchdown strike to sophomore wideout Christian Pearson in the third quarter. That tally represented the Red and Blue’s first offensive points since the first half of their Oct. 29 win vs. Brown.

Harvard responded with another field goal, before using advantageous starting field position to put together a gametying drive late in the fourth quarter. A fourth-and-seven conversion on a pass to Justice Shelton-Mosely kept the possession alive before Viviano found senior wide receiver Joseph Foster for a 26-yard score. A trick play – ending in the receiver Shelton-Mosely throwing to the quarterback Viviano – earned Harvard the

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That’s not a bad sequel. Now, Penn is hoping Cornell doesn’t spoil the movie — for the plot and the audience.

JACOB ADLER is a College junior from Gaithersburg, Md., and is a senior sports reporter of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

two-point conversion.

But then Torgersen and company responded. The offense – which had been somewhat quiet all game – came alive in the final drive. Watson caught four passes for 42 yards on the final series, bringing his game total to 10 receptions for 120 yards.

Watson came into the contest as the Ivy’s leader in all-purpose yards and is on pace to statistically outdo his stellar 2015 season, in which he was a finalist for the conference’s Offensive Player of the Year.

The Quakers will head to Cornell (3-5, 1-4 Ivy) next Saturday. A win would guarantee Penn a share of the Ivy title for the second time in Priore’s two-year tenure.

A three-way split of the title once again looks like a very real possibility, as Princeton and Harvard each have one conference loss and will be heavily favored in their remaining games.

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Early deficit dooms Quakers in legendary Duke arena

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NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

DURHAM, N.C. — You gotta get the rust off.

Penn women’s basketball opened up the season at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Sunday afternoon, taking on Duke to kick things off. The problem was, the Quakers showed up just a little too late, falling 68-55 to the Blue Devils (2-0) after Duke took a 13-0 lead to start things off. “That’s a tough way to start, especially in this environment,�

Penn coach Mike McLaughlin said.

A 13-0 deficit to open play is tough to overcome. Add in the road trip, a Power Five opponent and a series of early turnover issues, and you have the makings of a rough game.

Penn (0-1) was able to stop the bleeding thanks to six early

points from junior forward Michelle Nwokedi to go with five first-quarter offensive boards between Nwokedi and senior center Sydney Stipanovich, but the damage was done. “They work real well together, they’re going to take us as far as we’re going to go,� McLaughlin said. “We do a lot of things around them. And they both, in this environment, I think did really well.�

Stipanovich — the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year — struggled early from the field, going 1-for-6 in the first quarter as the Quakers fell behind, 26-14. Not helping the cause was a 2-for-13 effort from beyond the three-point arc to open play.

Buoyed by a line-drive threepointer from junior Alexis Glasgow — playing in her first game after transferring from Northwestern a year ago — the Red and Blue took a little bit of momentum in the second frame, pulling within seven at one point, but 11 straight missed shots

prevented the gap from getting any narrower.

Midway through the contest, that 13-0 run was the differential. The Blue Devils took a 35-23 edge into the break, driven by a 13-point performance from junior Lexie Brown — playing in her second game after transferring from Maryland following an AllAmerican season in 2014-15.

It was the forwards who brought it back as the second half opened up. Stipanovich nailed a midrange jumper a minute in before Nwokedi sank a wideopen three after a Duke turnover, bringing it to 35-28.

After a mini Duke run, momentum stagnated and both teams struggled to get anything going offensively.

This remained especially true for the Red and Blue beyond the arc — finishing 6-for-27 on the day. It didn’t help either that Stipanovich spent extended time on the bench in the third quarter after tallying her fourth foul early in the period — though she

did finish the game with a double-double on 14 points and 12 rebounds.

Any time Penn tried to make it close, the Blue Devils found a clutch three and the Quakers had no response. Nwokedi was a consistent force all over the floor — recording 24 points, 11 boards and three treys — but she alone couldn’t bridge the gap. “Taking my game to the next step, I need to get open and shoot that three and be able to knock it down. So over the summer I’ve been working on it, � Nwokedi said.

At the end of the day, the Blue Devils made the shots they were supposed to. The Quakers didn’t.

Duke jumped out to a 13-0 lead and that was the difference. Although an early deficit defined this game, an early loss doesn’t define a season.

Penn will have a chance to show that off — and finish shaking off the rust — this Wednesday when Binghamton pays a visit to the Palestra.

ANANYA CHANDRA | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

Junior forward Michelle Nwokedi returned to her from from a year ago, picking up 24 points and 11 rebounds in the first game of the season.

Quakers’ loss to Duke a measuring point — a positive one HOLDEN MCGINNIS

DURHAM, N.C. — You gotta get the rust off.

Penn women’s basketball opened up the season at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Sunday afternoon, taking on Duke to kick things off. The problem was, the Quakers showed up just a little too late, falling 68-55 to the Blue Devils (2-0) after Duke took a 13-0 lead to start things off. “That’s a tough way to start, especially in this environment,�

Penn coach Mike McLaughlin said.

A 13-0 deficit to open play is tough to overcome. Add in the road trip, a Power Five opponent

and a series of early turnover issues, and you have the makings of a rough game.

Penn (0-1) was able to stop the bleeding thanks to six early points from junior forward Michelle Nwokedi to go with five first-quarter offensive boards between Nwokedi and senior center Sydney Stipanovich, but the damage was done. “They work real well together, they’re going to take us as far as we’re going to go,� McLaughlin said. “We do a lot of things around them. And they both, in this environment, I think did really well.�

Stipanovich — the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year — struggled early from the field, going 1-for-6 in the first quarter as the Quakers fell behind, 26-14. Not helping the cause was a 2-for-13 effort from beyond the

three-point arc to open play.

Buoyed by a line-drive threepointer from junior Alexis Glasgow — playing in her first game after transferring from Northwestern a year ago — the Red and Blue took a little bit of momentum in the second frame, pulling within seven at one point, but 11 straight missed shots prevented the gap from getting any narrower.

Midway through the contest, that 13-0 run was the differential. The Blue Devils took a 35-23 edge into the break, driven by a 13-point performance from junior Lexie Brown — playing in her second game after transferring from Maryland following an AllAmerican season in 2014-15.

It was the forwards who brought it back as the second half opened up. Stipanovich nailed a midrange jumper a minute in

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While Penn certainly can’t be disappointed with Friday night’s effort, things will be a lot more difficult the next time around.

The Quakers will fly down to South Beach to take on a Miami (1-0) team coming off of a Sweet 16 appearance in an attempt to get their first win over a power conference team since December 2003. “I think this is really good, having this much time after your first game, you can fix some things and obviously prepare for a very good Miami team,� Donahue said. “It’ll be fun to go down there and try to take down a very good squad.�

a spread of just 39 seconds. “It has been amazing what the three seniors [Nick Tuck, Brendan Shearn, and Chris Hatler] have done for the program over the past years,� Dolan said. “A lot of history has been made by that group — running in the NCAAs last year and winning Heps for the first time in 43 years.�

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Senior center Sydney Stipanovich earned a double-double at Duke, showing that though Penn lost, they can still compete with top teams.

shaking off the rust — this Wednesday when Binghamton pays a visit to the Palestra.

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before Nwokedi sank a wideopen three after a Duke turnover, bringing it to 35-28.

After a mini Duke run, momentum stagnated and both teams struggled to get anything going offensively.

This remained especially true for the Red and Blue beyond the arc — finishing 6-for-27 on the day. It didn’t help either that Stipanovich spent extended time on the bench in the third quarter after tallying her fourth foul early in the period — though she did finish the game with a double-double on 14 points and 12 rebounds.

Any time Penn tried to make it close, the Blue Devils found a clutch three and the Quakers had no response. Nwokedi was a consistent force all over the floor — recording 24 points, 11 boards and three treys — but she alone couldn’t bridge the gap. “Taking my game to the next step, I need to get open and shoot that three and be able to knock it down. So over the summer I’ve been working on it, � Nwokedi said.

At the end of the day, the Blue

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in her first year as the assistant cross country coach, has taken the women’s team from the bottom of the Ivy League to the NCAA championships. “Juli has done a really great job as a new member of our staff this year,� Dolan said. “Her leadership has been vital to the women’s success this year.�

The NCAA Championships is set to take place next Saturday in Terre Haute, Indiana at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course. Heading into the meet, the Quakers rank No. 3 In the region and No. 24 nationally. “The seniors have been a big part of the success over this year, and success breeds success,�

Dolan said. “I think we have a culture of people that are dreaming about chasing their ability to be great, and I think that will continue next Saturday.�

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Quakers drop final two matches; show promise for next season VOLLEYBALL | Rookies

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TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

Penn volleyball’s season came to an end on Saturday, but it really seemed like the Quakers were just getting set to head on vacation.

It’s hard to view a 3-2 loss to Cornell (12-12, 6-8 Ivy) in the season finale as the end for this 2016 Penn team (10-16, 5-9), because the entire 2016 Penn team will be back for 2017.

So on a team with no seniors for whom to celebrate a “Senior Night,” the focus was squarely on volleyball this weekend at the Palestra.

Penn started off its final doubleheader well with a 25-23 first-set victory against Columbia, but dropped the next three sets and fell 3-1 to the Lions (14-10, 9-5). Sophomore outside hitter Courtney Quinn and junior middle blocker and captain Kendall Covington led the way for Penn with 11 and 10 kills, respectively.

The second match of the weekend followed a similar path, with the Quakers winning a close first set before dropping the next two. While the Red and Blue rallied with a dominant fourth set to force a deciding fifth, the team could not hold a lead and the Big Red managed to seize the victory.

“It was up-and-down, there were some high moments and some low moments. I wish we could have pulled it out but it was great to see what we are capable of,” junior setter and captain Sydney Morton said.

“The highest moments that we had, when we were playing our best, we are capable of beating any team in the Ivy League if we play like that all the time.

And the lows, we gotta improve on that in the spring.”

The story of the night was freshman outside hitter Caroline Furrer, who had a career-high 21 kills for Penn against just nine errors on a whopping 51 attacks. Furrer also notched 12 digs and four blocks, bouncing back with the best game of her career after struggling mightily just the night before.

“I just had the mentality to leave it all out on the floor for everyone that’s supported me all season. I was playing not only for the girls on the court but the girls on the bench and everyone that’s helped us get here,” Furrer said.

“It’s amazing to see how many strides she has made mentally and physically this season,” Morton added.

Morton capped off a solid weekend and a strong season of her own with 43 assists in the finale, and Quinn played well once again with nine kills and 22 digs.

The Quakers finish the season sixth in the Ivy League, just behind fourth and fifth place Harvard and Cornell, well ahead of bottom-dwelling Brown and Dartmouth but well behind second-place Yale, third-place Columbia and Ivy League champion Princeton.

A pedestrian finish was to be expected for a team that had lost its best players and veteran leaders to graduation before the season, but Carr was able to reflect on the positives.

“I was really proud of how

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Freshman outside hitter Caroline Furrer notched a career-high 21 kills in Saturday’s slim 3-2 loss to Cornell, a positive omen for a Red and Blue team that will return its entire roster next season.

the team came together, we were broken from last year and developed a team culture, and found team leaders that I am extremely, extremely proud of,” Penn coach Kerry Carr said.

“And building from that as our base— it was a really enjoyable

experience, to have them come in working so hard every day. I didn’t feel the losses as much as I maybe should have, because they came in so resilient and worked even harder.”

And with no goodbyes to be said, the entire team is looking

forward to pursuing a better spot in the standings next season: “Our training starts right now for next season, and everything we do now will lead up to that,” Furrer said. “We are a two-year team.”

Quakers pick up fourth-place finish in fall season finale W. ROWING | Virginia

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Penn women’s rowing competed in its final regatta of the fall racing season on Sunday morning, with the Quakers’ top boat finishing fourth in a highcaliber field.

The Red and Blue entered four racing teams in the Varsity Eight competition at the Rivanna Romp. Penn A finished in fourth place with a total time of 13:22.9. Penn B finished in eighth place with a total time of 13:46.1. Penn C finished in 16th place with

a total time of 14:09.1. Penn D finished in 18th place with a total time of 14:30.3.

“I was genuinely pleased with how we approached the regatta, the enthusiasm and the focus all the way to the end of the fall was something that we improved on from last year. It was fun to see all four of our varsity eights race it up,” coach Wesley Ng said.

Penn came off a very successful performance on the Schuylkill River on Oct. 29, with five titles in separate divisions. But on Sunday, Virginia defended its home Rivanna Reservoir with a victorious total time of 13:01.1. The Cavaliers’ A boat was dominant, finishing 19 full seconds ahead

of any other boat. Duke A finished second and Virginia B third to be followed by Penn A. Across boats, the stroke seats stood out for the Quakers.

“What I saw from all four of the different stroke seats from the varsity boats is that they were not afraid to row a very competitive rating, and that to me, shows quite a bit of courage,” the second-year coach added.

With the fall season over, the Quakers will now focus on training and preparing for the spring racing season. The team is eager to work and build off its improvements from this fall.

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we can be and become more cohesive as a team to do something really special in the spring,” Ng said.

There are twenty-five freshmen on the varsity and novices teams. Their progression from fall to spring season will be something to watch out for.

“I think the freshman contribution has been really fun to experience and identify over all of the different crews, and at this point I don’t necessarily consider them that much different than any other of the varsity athletes,” Ng said.

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Friday night’s Penn-Harvard football game was must-see TV. Which is interesting, because it seemed awfully like a rerun.

For the second consecutive year, the Red and Blue upset the Crimson in the penultimate game of the season. For the second consecutive year, Justin Watson was the game’s star. And for the second consecutive year, the Penn win put the team just one victory away from an Ivy League title.

The Red and Blue’s (6-3, 5-1 Ivy) 27-14 victory came down to the final seconds. After a Harvard (7-2, 5-1) touchdown and two-point conversion tied

the score at 14 with 3:23 remaining, Penn Quarterback Alek Torgersen led the team on a 10-play, 80-yard drive to take back the lead. A two-yard touchdown strike to junior wideout Watson with just fifteen seconds remaining gave the Quakers the win.

“We were very composed. We knew what we needed to do,” Torgersen said. “Fortunately for us, things really clicked on that last drive.”

Friday represented the team’s senior night, as the Quakers will close out the season on the road at Cornell next Saturday. For Torgersen, the gravity of ending his Franklin Field career – with a

game-winning touchdown on his final pass, no less – was not forgotten.

“We had one last time to light up the Frank. I couldn’t be any happier,” said the man who is now the Quakers’ all-time passing touchdowns leader with 51, having surpassed 2002 graduate Gavin Hoffman.

Harvard made a last-ditch attempt to score with just seconds left, but instead fumbled during a SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 7

Women’s cross country raced to the best finish in program history at NCAA regionals.

At the end of an historic week, marked by the results of the presidential election on Tuesday night, Penn cross country added a little history of their own, with the women’s team earning the program’s first ever selection to the NCAA Championships by placing third at the Mid-Atlantic Regionals on Friday.

“It is very exciting,” coach Steve Dolan said after learning that the women’s season would continue for one more week. “It has really been a fun journey to watch the team grow over these past four years.”

The announcement was made on Saturday when the official field of 31 teams was released by the NCAA. 18 received automatic bids by finishing top-two in the team-standings while 13 teams, including Penn, were chosen as atlarge selections.

The bid caps off an impressive season for the Quakers. The women have had eight individuals qualify for the season-ending meet since its conception in 1981, but this marks the first time Penn will compete as a full team.

Seniors Ashley Montgomery and Cleo Whiting are two of those eight individuals who have already represented Penn at the national championship, competing in 2015 and 2013, respectively.

“The women ran the same race we have been running all season,” Dolan said. “They have been incredibly consistent in terms of everyone playing their role.”

Montgomery led the way for the Red and Blue as usual, finishing the 6K course in sixth with a time of 20:32. Cleo and Clarissa Whiting, along with freshman Erin Feeney and junior Abby Hong joined Montgomery as the top-five runners for Penn.

“Everybody did their job,” Dolan said. “It was a great team effort.”

On the men’s side, senior Nick Tuck continued his solid season, finishing the 10K course in 30:57 to place sixth in the individual standings and earn a bid as an individual in the NCAA Championships to represent the men’s side of the team.

Brendan Shearn, Kevin Monogue, Chris Hatler, and Ross Wilson rounded out the topfive scorers for the Quakers, as the team placed fourth, going 6-10-28-29-38 for 111 points and SEE XC PAGE 8

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Brodeur’s stellar debut fuels Penn win in season opener M. HOOPS | Howard also past in-state rival Robert Morris in

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COLE JACOBSON Associate Sports Editor

A man listed at 6-foot-11 and 265 pounds is inevitably going to leave some big shoes to fill.

So when behemoth center Darien Nelson-Henry and his 1,054 career points graduated from the Penn basketball program this spring, it was no secret that the cast of returning Quakers would need to find an answer quickly.

And while the sample size is small with only the first game of the post-DNH era underway, it’s fair to say the Red and Blue have found their post presence of the future.

Behind an epic career debut from freshmen center A.J. Brodeur including 23 points and 11 rebounds, the Quakers cruised

the season opener for both teams, establishing a double-digit lead in the opening minutes and taking a 67-50 win.

“I thought our kids came out fired up; we played a really good, aggressive game the entire way,” second-year head coach Steve Donahue said. “We were pretty strong in transition and that was the key to the game, so I think the kids just played really well.”

Brodeur was far from the only newcomer to make his mark for the Quakers (1-0), as the revamped Red and Blue had two more fresh faces in their starting lineup in the form of junior transfers Matt MacDonald (from Farleigh Dickinson) and Caleb Wood (Lassen Community College in Calif.).

But Penn had absolutely no problems integrating its rookies with its plethora of returning talent, as the Quakers wasted no time putting the Colonials (0-1) in

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a massive hole. Although the Red and Blue were at a size disadvantage with the 6-foot-8 Brodeur being the team’s tallest starter, the quickness of Donahue’s lineup led to a staunch defensive effort as the team jumped out to an 18-6 lead in the game’s first 12 minutes.

“It was a good mix; our older guys are used to playing with each other, so when we bring in new guys in it wasn’t such a big deal,” said Donahue. “They’re used to playing with each other, and A.J. is so versatile that with any group of different players, he still helps.”

Robert Morris was able to claw back to within a nine-point deficit at the half, perhaps conjuring back memories of last year’s seasonopening showdown between the two teams, when the Colonials clawed back from a 17-point second half deficit to briefly take the lead before ultimately falling in a 76-75 instant classic.

But Brodeur and senior captain

Matt Howard made sure that the teams’ first rematch since then wouldn’t be nearly as dramatic.

The freshman finished his evening shooting 11-for-14 from the field en route to finishing the night as the game’s leading scorer, while the ultra-consistent Howard picked it up offensively in the second half to finish with his own double-double of 15 points and 10 rebounds.

And as the Colonials — coached by former Penn player Andy Toole — struggled to a frustrating 29.3 percent shooting effort, Penn was able to pull away, jumping out to a 20-point lead with just under eight minutes remaining before cruising the rest of the way.

“Once again I thought A.J. played great, just such a versatile game and can do so many different things on the floor,” Donahue SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 8

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Senior captain Matt Howard picked up a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds, joining teammate AJ Brodeur in accomplishing the feat.

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