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Penn allows cultural houses to take over the ARCH

Penn volleyball season canceled after ‘offensive’ posters found

Moving out of the ARCH basement has been a goal of the 6B

Quakers had two games left in their season before the decision

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Penn announced it would allow the three cultural houses to move out of the ARCH basement and occupy the entire building, including the upper floors. But Penn’s main minority coalition groups — the 6B — are hesitant to move into the rest of the ARCH because their ultimate goal is to relocate to their own buildings on Locust Walk.

All six minority coalition groups occupy the space in the ARCH, but only three are affiliated with the cultural centers in the basement — the Latinx Coalition with La Casa Latina, UMOJA with Makuu, and the Asian Pacific Student Coalition with the Pan-Asian American Community House.

The other three student groups — the United Minorities Council, the Penn Association for Gender Equity, and the Lambda Alliance — are affiliated with individual houses elsewhere on campus.

Moving the three cultural houses out of the ARCH basement has been a longstanding goal of the entire 6B. In the past, student leaders within the 6B have contrasted the cramped space designated to the cultural houses with the visible spots fraternities occupy on Locust Walk. They said they want minority students to have a more prominent location on campus.

At a meeting with students from the 6B on Nov. 13, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett discussed the possibility of moving the cultural resource centers out of the ARCH basement and into the building’s upper floors.

The 6B’s long-term goal is for the cultural resource centers to occupy their own individual buildings on Locust Walk.

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of an audio recording of the event with Barnes and spoke with several students who were present at the meeting. The reporter was denied access to the event, which was only open to the law school community.

“There are ongoing discussions based on the last few days about the shorthand name,” Lin said during the meeting, confirmed by Barnes.

The shortened form of the name is used on official University communications, signage, and documents, according to the law school’s style guide. The abbreviated form is also used on the law school’s merchandise. Penn’s law school, like the other schools at

The remainder of the Penn volleyball season is canceled, Penn Athletics announced on Wednesday.

According to a Penn Athletics statement, the decision to cancel the remainder of the season was made following the administration’s discovery of “vulgar, offensive, and disrespectful posters” in the team’s locker room.

“These actions were in violation of team and Divisional policy and this matter has been referred to University administration for further review in accordance with University policy,” the statement read.

“The behavior exhibited by our women’s volleyball student-athletes is simply unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” Athletics Director M. Grace Calhoun wrote in the statement. “We expect our student-athletes to represent the University of Pennsylvania in a firstclass and respectful manner at all times, and in this case, our volleyball studentathletes did not meet that standard. We have reviewed the matter with the appropriate University partners and will determine additional steps in the coming days and weeks.”

The team had two games remaining in the season: a weekend road trip to Yale and Brown. The team’s final record will stand at 11-10, with a 4-8 record in the Ivy League. The most recent cancelation of a team’s season is Harvard men’s soccer in 2016. In that year, the two teams that were scheduled to play the Crimson played an additional game against each other to complete the season. It is unclear if the Ivy League will adopt a similar protocol.

The cancelation of the Penn volleyball season comes after a tumultuous year for the program in which several

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More than 1,500 students and alumni signed a petition demanding the school revert its short-form name from “Carey Law” back to “Penn Law.” Alumni and students argued that employers would not recognize the new name.

University considers changing ‘Carey Law’ back to ‘Penn Law’ The announcement was made after student backlash ASHLEY AHN Senior Reporter

Carey Law School is considering changing its shortened name back to “Penn Law” from “Carey Law” in response to overwhelming student and alumni backlash, an administrator said at a town hall meeting.

Carey Law Dean of Students Felicia Lin, along with three other administrators, held an hour-and-a-half lunch Q&A session on Monday for any law students concerned about the school’s renaming. The meeting comes after more than 1,500 students and alumni signed a petition demand-

Penn lawyers retract ‘antitrans’ argument in court Penn previously stated that Title VII doesn’t cover trans employees MANLU LIU Senior Reporter

Last week, Penn argued in court documents that transgender individuals are not protected from workplace discrimination under a federal act. Now, Penn is retracting its argument, saying Penn does not tolerate discrimination.

The lawyers’ latest arguments were filed on Wednesday in court proceedings for a lawsuit submitted on July 2. In the suit, the plaintiff, “Jane Doe,” who was a former Hospital of the University of Pennsyl-

vania employee, alleges that the hospital discriminated against her when it terminated her contract in late June — on the basis that she identifies as transgender.

On Nov. 7, Penn’s lawyers asked the court to dismiss a claim in the lawsuit that Penn violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which protects employees from sex discrimination, arguing that “Title VII does not cover transgender employees.”

On Nov. 13, Penn’s lawyers retracted their earlier statement, instead arguing that Penn’s protections do offer full protec-

ing the school revert its short-form name from “Carey Law” back to “Penn Law,” arguing that employers will not recognize the new name.

Students said during the meeting that they are not asking for a change to the school‘s full name.

“Today’s meeting made clear the many questions and concerns students have,” Carey Law spokesperson Steven Barnes wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian after the meeting. “That was the goal of this meeting. The Dean [Ted Ruger] and others will work to respond to these questions, and the Dean will talk directly with students in various settings.”

Several attendees posted recordings of the meeting on social media.

A DP reporter confirmed the veracity

ED applicant pool decreases by 14% Penn changed the application essay for Class of 2024 CAMI IRABIEN Staff Reporter

Penn received 6,088 early decision applications for the Class of 2024 — a more than 14% decline from last year’s number of applications.

The sharp decrease comes after Penn’s ED applicant pool of 7,109 hit a slight plateau for the Class of 2023 after it had been steadily growing since 2011. In 2017 — the year prior — Penn saw a record-breaking 15% increase in applications to the University.

This year, Penn Admissions extended the Nov. 1 deadline for applicants in areas affected by crises and made slight changes to the application’s essay portion.

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OPINION | Mandate midterm evaluations

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SPORTS | Men’s basketball tops La Salle

Penn men’s basketball rebounded after a big loss to Rice by continuing its Big 5 winning streak. The win came in the first home game of the season.

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Dinesh D’Souza speaks at Penn amid silent protest

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D’Souza speaks at Penn amid silent protests Penn had security concerns before event GRANT BIANCO Senior Reporter

Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza mocked a small group of students silently protesting his talk at Houston Hall Tuesday evening.

D’Souza’s event, hosted by Penn College Republicans, was thrown into turmoil last week after the University abruptly blocked the event from taking place in the ARCH building, citing unnamed security concerns. Days later, Penn relocated the event to Houston and restricted the event to PennCard holders.

At the event, a group of 20 student protesters stood in the back and silently held signs that read “Deport Fascism,” “No one is illegal on stolen land,” and “Multiculturalism is America.”

From the start, D’Souza addressed the protesters’ presence, mocking them for their silence and labeling their protest “unworthy of an Ivy League college.”

“Let’s do a silent protest.

That way, we won’t have to answer what he says, and yet, people will think we’re smart too,” D’Souza said of the protesters. “In the spirit of discussion, I invite the protesters to participate.”

Despite objecting to D’Souza’s views, the goal of the protest was not to shut the event down, Penn Asian American Pacific Islander Politics Director and College sophomore Amira Chowdhury said.

Last month, student protesters shut down a Perry World House event featuring former United States Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan with loud chants. Last week, protesters from Fossil Free Penn shut down a Penn Board of Trustees meeting at the Inn at Penn, demanding that the University di-

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About 20 student protesters stood in the back and silently held signs that read, “Deport Fascism,” “No one is illegal on stolen land,” and “Multiculturalism is America.” D’Souza mocked the protesters’ presence as “unworthy of an Ivy League college.”

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The protests at D’Souza’s event on Tuesday were organized by Penn AAPI Politics and included members of Makuu, La Casa Latina, Penn for Immigrant Rights, and other groups, Chowdhury said.

D’Souza also called Penn students hypocritical for going to a university with a selective admissions process while supporting a lenient immigration policy.

“The University of Pennsylvania has a taller wall than any wall [President Donald] Trump wants to build,” D’Souza said of Penn’s admissions practices. “All of you in this room are completely in favor of [this wall]. I don’t see anyone ever protesting this wall.”

The event, hosted by College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation, was billed as “A Legal Immigrant’s Case Against Multiculturalism.” After arguing for tougher immigration policies and mocking liberal crit-

ics, D’Souza proceeded to answer audience questions, many of which came from students protesting his appearance and challenging his past statements.

One student protester confronted D’Souza in the Q&A section about controversial actions he allegedly undertook while editing The Dartmouth Review — specifically, outing LGBTQ students and publishing allegedly racist articles.

“The descriptions of these are all flat-out wrong,” D’Souza said in response. “This is a classic case of a smear because a smear can be circulated without me being there.”

While D’Souza also said the fact that immigrants come to the United States over other countries proves that all cultures are not equal.

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other. All cultures are equal,” D’Souza said. “Everything in my own experience knows that this doctrine is a lie.”

Chowdhury labeled D’Souza a “conservative troll,” and said the group is protesting D’Souza in large part because of his history of controversial comments on race and other social issues.

“These [comments] deny the humanity, and systematically and vocally deny the humanity of people in the country and people in this school,” Chowdhury said. “His history of attacking folks of historically undervalued identities denies the humanity of those people: immigrants, women, LGBT folks, and such.”

Chowdhury singled out comments the filmmaker has made in the past, including a claim that American slaves were treated “pretty well,” his blaming of the 9/11 attacks in part on the LGBTQ communi-

ty, and his assertion that former President Barack Obama was from the “ghetto.”

Chowdhury also criticized the initial choice of the ARCH building as the location of D’Souza’s talk, given its status as the home of the multicultural centers Makuu, Pan-Asian American Community House, and La Casa Latina.

“In the basement are all of the multicultural centers,” she said. “That speaks volumes to the optics of what this event is about.”

The event was not the first time the conservative commentator had faced protesters on an Ivy League campus.

In February, the filmmaker was confronted by a protest at Dartmouth University, his alma mater, with students attempting to disrupt his speech and holding up signs critical of him.

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The statistics for this year are still subject to change, however, once data is finalized and released from QuestBridge, an organization that connects low-income students with top colleges.

“Conversations that I’ve had with colleagues is that, in general, we’re seeing early decision and some early action pools down, in terms of applications,” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said.

Furda said the reason for the significant increase in applications until a few years ago could be what he referred to as the “SAT bump.” He said the office saw an increase in applications after the redesign of the SAT in 2017. In 2018, Furda said he believed students saw themselves as more competitive applicants after the redesigned SAT scores went up “along certain areas of distribution.”

Various areas in the United States that endured any major catastrophes or extenuating circumstances received a Nov. 10 deadline extension this year, Furda said. Students in California, which experienced forest fires and repeated power outages, as well as in Chicago, where public school teachers went on an extended strike, received the extension. Similar deadline changes were applied in the past for natural disasters, including one for Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Penn Admissions reached out to high school seniors from affected areas that expressed any level of interest in Penn — from attending a Penn conference to actually starting a Common Application — but did not make a formal statement on the extension.

Penn Admissions also changed the essay portion of the 2019-2020 application after receiving feedback from academic partners across campus who argued that the original prompt was too broad. Previously, the University required applicants to write a single essay explaining the academic and personal interests they wanted to pursue at Penn in 400 to 650 words.

This year, Penn required two separate essays. The first essay asked about the applicant’s academic interests at Penn, with a maximum response of 450 words. The second essay asked about the applicant’s interests outside of academic life on Penn’s campus, with a maximum response of 200 words.

“There has been much more of a focus in terms of what we’re asking, knowing what was needed while we’re sitting in the committee room,” he said. “Personally, I liked reading the two essay questions because you can kind of get into the one and then you take that mental break for, like, half a second, and then you start reading the other one.”

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Penn creates ‘Health and Wellness’ branch under Provost The branch will include CAPS and SHS MANLU LIU Senior Reporter

A new Health and Wellness unit will be created under the Office of the Provost and will include SHS and CAPS. Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett announced the decision in a University-wide email Tuesday.

Both Student Health Service and Counseling and Psychological Services were previously under the purview of the Vice Provost for University Life.

Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé, who oversees the two services, will be appointed as an associate provost. Dubé said in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian that the reorganization is an internal change designed to allow better col-

laboration between services.

“This announcement should not create any change to the day-to-day experience that students had with their services,” Dubé said.

The changes come two months after the death of former CAPS Executive Director Gregory Eells. Dubé has been helping lead CAPS since Eells’ death, Penn spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy wrote in an email to the DP in September.

Dubé said while these changes came after Eells’ death, the creation of the Health and Wellness unit has been in the works since the Chief Wellness Officer position was established in spring 2018.

The new structure will create “more effective partnerships” with Human Resources’ work-life balance programs, Gutmann and Pritchett wrote in their email to the Penn com-

munity.

“At the same time, the new organization will be streamlined to give our outstanding clinicians more time to focus on their work in health and wellness, reducing the amount of time they spend on administration,” Gutmann and Pritchett wrote.

“This reconceived structure will help us to better understand and to promote wellness as a holistic, multi-dimensional process,” Gutmann and Pritchett wrote in the email.

Gutmann and Pritchett wrote the program will integrate the Health and Wellness services with the College Houses, New Student Orientation, and the other branches under the Provost’s Office “This reorganization is really a demonstration of how important and what a priority health and wellness is,” Dubé said.

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Both SHS and CAPS were previously under the purview of the Vice Provost for University Life. Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé, who oversees the two services, will be appointed as an associate provost.

Malik Washington appointed Penn Violence Prevention director Washington was previously interim director ZOEY WEISMAN Staff Reporter

Penn is appointing Penn Violence Prevention Interim Director Malik Washington as the program’s new director. The hiring comes after a seven-month search to fill the spot left open by previous PVP Director Jessica Mertz, who left Penn in May 2019.

Washington has served as PVP associate director since 2016 and was named interim director after Mertz’s departure. At PVP, he has specifically worked with students in fraternities and

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with male athletes. He advises the student group Men Against Rape & Sexual Assault and created the Men & Masculinities summit, which will be held for the third time this February.

“I have enjoyed the energy and passion of our students. And the issues they care about, and advo-

cate for, keep me motivated that it is possible for us to effect some kind of change,” he said.

In his new position, Washington said he hopes to educate students on supporting survivors, especially those who do not look like the stereotypical survivor.

“We have had trouble creating [a trusted environment] for men and for transgender, queer, nonbinary students,” he said. He added that one of his goals is “getting men to a space where they feel comfortable to say that they have experienced violence.”

Washington arrived on Penn’s campus as PVP expanded its staff shortly after the 2015 Association of American Universities Campus Climate Survey on Sexual

Assault and Sexual Misconduct.

The AAU survey, which takes place every four years, reports on unwanted sexual misconduct on the campuses of participating universities, including Penn.

In light of the 2019 AAU survey results, Washington is now tasked with finding two new staff members at PVP. He said he also plans to find a space on Locust Walk as a permanent location for PVP and to push for an Office of Student Conduct staffer who oversees restorative justice programs.

Earlier this semester, PVP relocated from Locust Walk to an office on the mezzanine level of 3535 Market St., in the same building where Student Health

Service is located. Student leaders expressed frustration over this move and said they felt that PVP being further from campus would hinder their advocacy efforts.

Washington said he has advocated for Penn to hire an associate director of restorative practices in the OSC and is excited to see how restorative practices will affect Penn’s campus and PVP’s efforts.

“There is a lot of desire to address different ways of harm,” he said.

“Being able to meet that and change narratives of what accountability looks like is really important to our primary prevention.”

Other plans include preparing members of the Penn community for when someone discloses to

them about their assault, Washington said. He added that he wants to expand peer education models such as Penn Anti-Violence Educator’s bystander intervention initiative and MARS’ masculinity and consent workshops.

Washington graduated from Howard University in 2010, after which he worked at nonprofits in Washington, D.C. for a few years. He taught middle and high schoolers about violence prevention and healthy relationships, and he also became the executive director of The William Kellibrew Foundation, a national organization that focuses on sexual assault, domestic violence, and trauma, according to its website.

Jeb Bush tackles immigration in public debate with students The event was hosted by Penn Political Union PRANAV ANAND Staff Reporter

Penn Presidential Professor of Practice Jeb Bush argued the benefits of a merit-based immigration system against three students at a Penn Political Union debate Tuesday evening — and won.

The event was structured as a political debate between Bush, who argued that the United States should implement a merit-based immigration system, and three students assigned to argue in opposition — College sophomore Tori Borlase, College freshman James Kuang, and College of Liberal and Professional Studies student Javier Cuadras.

During the debate, Bush argued that merit-based immigration policies are “a catalyst for sustained economic activity” because immigrants fill many high-skill roles in the work-

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Jeb Bush was named the second Presidential Professor of Practice in September 2018 and has spoken at Penn on multiple occasions.

force.

“It’s the American duty to bring the best and brightest to our country, let them pursue their dreams, and do so in a way that creates prosperity for all of us,” Bush said.

Bush also cited examples of countries that already follow merit-based immigration policies, such as Canada and Aus-

tralia. He said America’s current system, which allows adult siblings and parents to petition to join their family members in the United States, is outdated and is not followed by any other country.

Throughout the event, audience members asked questions and told personal stories about their own families’ experiences

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with immigration. One attendee argued immigrants to the United States feel adrift in the country without their families.

“How do you justify weighing economic considerations over the experiences of immigrants?” they asked.

For the opposition, Cuadras argued that merit-based immigration policies discourage legal immigration and lead many to enter the country illegally.

To combat the notion that these policies are economically effective, Cuadras cited examples of lower-income immigrants who have also advanced the economy, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Borlase brought up a humanistic argument, stating that every individual should have the right to immigrate to the United States under basic American ideals.

Both sides discussed who benefits from merit-based immigration policies. The opposition argued that the term “merit” itself is difficult to define and is unequally applied to immi-

grants with higher educational achievement.

“Education measures knowledge, not intelligence, and certainly not emotional intelligence,” Kuang said.

In response to a question from the audience, Bush deflected criticisms that merit-based immigration policies favor certain racial groups.

“First of all, let’s blow up the myth that somehow the majority of people in [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] fields are white,” Bush said. “The history of the United States is that they are predominantly Asian and increasingly African and Latin American.

That may fit the narrative that’s trying to be built here, that somehow this is a racist policy, but the reality is that it’s the exact opposite.”

Chair of PPU’s Centrist Caucus and College junior Sarah Root said the event took place in a “tense political climate” ignited by Penn’s decision to move conservative filmmaker Dinesh

D’Souza’s scheduled speech from the ARCH building because of security concerns. She said PPU discussions seek to “start at a middle ground” when it comes to divisive political issues by focusing on less polarizing versions of the topics.

“If you start at a point where people would absolutely never agree — from an angle of high emotion and high intensity — you’re never going to get anywhere worthwhile,” Root said.

At the end of the event, the audience voted 24-14-1 to affirm the resolution that meritbased immigration should be adopted by the United States.

“In the last century, we’ve allowed immigration to become a political wedge issue,” Bush said. “We’re the only country in the world that can use immigration on a sustained basis as a basis for innovation, dynamism, and economic growth. What we have to get right is to take it out of a political context and realize the significant economic impact that it brings.”

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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14, 2019 VOL. CXXXV, NO. 54 135th Year of Publication JULIA SCHORR President SARAH FORTINSKY Executive Editor ALICE HEYEH Print Director BEN ZHAO Digital Director ISABELLA SIMONETTI Opinion Editor MADELEINE NGO Senior News Editor THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Senior Sports Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Senior Design Editor JESS TAN Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor TAMSYN BRANN Design Editor GIOVANNA PAZ News Editor MANLU LIU News Editor MAX COHEN News Editor DEENA ELUL Assignments Editor DANNY CHIARODIT Sports Editor MICHAEL LANDAU Sports Editor WILL DiGRANDE Sports Editor KATIE STEELE Copy Editor TAHIRA ISLAM Copy Editor

Midterm evaluations would improve learning for students, TAs, and professors

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n many classes, end-of-semester course evaluations represent the only formalized avenue for students to give instructors feedback. While some professors and teaching assistants opt to solicit student feedback in the middle of the course, this is far from standard practice. To better support students and promote educational practices that work for everyone, Penn should mandate that professors and TAs be evaluated in the middle of the term as well.

TAs and professors may seek out feedback in an informal way, other classes’ evaluations are more structured and mandatory. This structure ensures that all students, even those who might be hesitant to criticize professors or ask for help, have their voices heard. Midterm evaluations must be more like the end-of-semester evaluations that students must complete before seeing their final grades for the class. Midterm course evaluations could be even more valuable because they would allow instructors to tweak courses in time for current students to benefit.

To be considerate of student feedback during the semester, all instructors and TAs should be required to conduct anonymous midterm course evaluations for their classes. By identifying common difficulties or concerns among students with regard to teaching, assignments, or grading, professors can ensure that students are effectively learning the material and getting something out of the class.

Professors must be cognizant of the

needs and voices of their students.

The best professors are adaptable, and midterm evaluations will help facilitate this process.

Midterm evaluations wouldn’t just be useful for students. Penn also uses evaluations to help determine whether or not a professor gets tenure. Midterm evaluations will enable

tenure-track professors to refine their teaching styles in order to get better marks at the end of the semester and make it more likely that they’ll eventually get tenure. For professors and TAs, midterm evaluations would not just be extra work — they’d be a way to collect feedback and improve the learning environment at Penn.

At a large university with busy professors often focused on research rather than teaching, students can feel like their opinions go unheard or that there is no productive way to share them. Midterm evaluations are a necessary check-in for instructors, and must be implemented by the University across all courses.

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hen an employer disciplines, ha rasses, and eventually fires an employee because of her gender identity, has that employer violated federal law by discriminating on the basis of sex? It’s a question that has divided courts in recent years, and one about which Penn has recently sent troubling mixed signals.

Penn is currently facing a lawsuit from a former employee who alleges that she was fired because she is transgender. Instead of putting forward one of the myriad available defenses — like denying her accusations or offering up a “legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason” for her termination — last week, Penn filed a motion claiming that gender identity-based discrimination is not covered by Title VII, the federal law barring sex-based employment discrimination. Fired because of your boss’s “transphobic hatred”? Too bad, so sad, said Penn.

As this column was preparing to go to press, Penn reversed course, withdrawing that motion and informing the court that it is, in fact, committed to protecting the civil rights and upholding the University’s own non-discrimination policies that it claims “afford greater protection against discrimination of any kind than existing federal law.” But more than a court filing is needed — Penn even having entertained tactics so hostile to transgender

help but point out that Penn’s claims about the state of employment law in Philadelphia were just not true. While a few Courts of Appeals have issued binding decisions that limit the scope of Title VII, the Third Circuit (whose jurisdiction includes Philadelphia) is not one of them. Here, as in most of the country, whether anti-discrimination statutes referring to “sex” also encompass gender identity remains an unsettled legal question. In 2018, for example, the Third Circuit issued a ruling strongly suggesting that a school district would be liable for sex discrimination if it failed to provide its trans students with access to gender appropriate restrooms.

Last summer the Supreme Court signaled its intent to weigh in to this debate when it took up the case of Aimee Stephens, a trans woman fired from her job at a Michigan funeral home after she began living her life in a manner consistent with her gender identity. In oral arguments last month, Stephens argued that this was paradigmatic sex discrimination — after all, if not for the sex she was assigned at birth, the funeral home would not have terminated her employment. For its part, the funeral home disputed this framing, arguing that if Congress had wanted to bar gender identity discrimination, it should have

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If Penn’s position is adopted by the court, it will generate case law that directly harms members of this university’s LGBTQ community.” rights should be deeply concerning for what it shows about both this school’s legal judgement and the actual extent of its supposed commitment to supporting LGBTQ students, faculty, and staff.

First, as law students, we can’t

written the law to explicitly say so.

The Supreme Court isn’t expected to issue its decision until sometime next year, and that makes Penn’s arguments all the more troubling. In such an unsettled area of the law, why was

students to be at “the forefront of training students in creative problem-solving,” but we hadn’t realized that included positioning itself at the vanguard of the fight against LGBTQ rights.

But that’s almost beside the point. The law is not a mechanical

enterprise, operating without regard for its effects on society.

For in the words of this university’s motto, “laws without morals are useless.” Even if Penn had been legally correct when it argued that legal protections didn’t extend to transgender employees, that is not a moral justification for pursuing such a harmful litigation strategy.

Arguments made in court filings aren’t just words on paper; if Penn’s position had been adopted by the court, it would have generated case law that directly harmed members of this university’s LGBTQ community. And even now that the motion has been withdrawn, non-cisgender students, faculty, and staff are left wondering just how deep the commitments of the “America’s Most

LGBTQ Friendly School” actually run.

Withdrawing the motion was a good first step, but Penn can’t stop there. While attorneys are obligated to zealously advocate for their clients, those clients have every right to demand that certain defenses are not used. Penn failed to do so, and if this school wants to restore confidence that its professed values aren’t just empty promises, we need to understand how this happened and why.

SEAN BENDER is a second-year Carey Law School student from Washing ton, D.C. REBECCA WALLACE is a second-year Carey Law School student from Albuquerque, N.M. They can be contacted at pennlawlambda@ gmail.com

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n F r i d ay, Nove m ber 8, a la rge group of st udents from Fossi l Fre e Pen n disrupted the University’s annual Board of Trustees meeting. For half an hour, until the meeting was adjourned, they sang and chanted their sole demand: that Penn President Amy Gutmann, Board of Trustees Chair David Cohen, and Chief Investment Officer Peter Ammon agree to a town hall meeting with students about fossil fuel divestment.

A large number of faculty have signed the following open letter: The Penn students involved in Fossil Free Penn have called on the University to recognize its ethical responsibilities and to more fully embrace a leadership role in the fight against climate change. Indeed, they have had to go to great lengths to get the

University’s attention. While not all of us agree on every tactic the students may employ, we as faculty urge our colleagues and University administrators to hear them out, engage them constructively, and take much bolder action. At the very least, the University leadership should agree to the town hall that the students are calling for and commit to a candid and open-minded deliberative dialogue on this uniquely pressing issue. Further, we believe that Penn should join the list of universities that have divested from fossil fuels, signaling an institutional commitment to the goals set forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in October 2018.

The thousands of scientists who contributed to the IPCC report agree on the need for radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: 45% by 2030, to reach

net-zero by 2050. This will not be achieved without major adjustments in the ways energy is produced and consumed.

Penn can lead the Ivy League in making the changes that will be needed across society to avoid the most devastating effects of climate change. Columbia University and Stanford University have already taken the step to divest from coal companies.

In September 2019, the entire University of California system announced its divestment from fossil fuel companies.

The trustees have a historic opportunity to create a serious divestment plan. In 2016, David Cohen, who chairs the Board, outlined the trustees’ reasons for not using the endowment to make a public policy statement on the need for climate action.

It is time to rethink this position. With hundreds of millions

of lives at stake across the globe in the coming decades, the unabated exploitation of fossil fuel resources meets the standard identified by Cohen: a “moral evil.” In addition, Cohen stipulates that “a specific company or companies identified for divestment must have a clear and undeniable nexus to the moral evil,” but this is possible: two-thirds of all greenhouse gas emissions, for example, can be traced to only 90 firms active in fossil fuel and cement production, including 50 investor-owned firms, In addition, the moral imperative to consider the climate crisis should lead the Board of Trustees to consider other proactive investment strategies, including “long green” objectives. The University of California system, for example, was the first major educational institution to invest

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We recognize that the University leadership has many obligations and responsibilities, and that these are not easily reconciled. But humanity has

not faced a threat like climate change before. We owe it to our students to do all we can to protect the world they are inheriting.

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After students complained that “Biological Basis of Behavior” was unrecognizable to employers, Penn officially renamed the major “neuroscience.”

“The College has approved a change in the name of our major, from Biological Basis of Behavior to neuroscience, as of July 2020,” BBB Associate Director Jennifer Heerding wrote in an email to all BBB majors Tuesday afternoon.

The new name will help students when interacting with job recruiters and professionals in the field, BBB program Co-director and Psychology professor Lori Flanagan-Cato said. Current BBB students said the name change is a welcome shift that will make their major more easily explainable to the wider public.

The name change has long been supported by students, dating back to data from last semester.

In a survey distributed on April 17 to BBB majors, 50% of respondents preferred to replace the major’s name with “neuroscience,” while 32% of respondents preferred “neuroscience and behavior.” Only 18% of students reported that they wanted to keep the original name.

BBB is an interdisciplinary major that lets students study neuroscience and behavior from a variety of angles, combining aspects

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of biology, chemistry, psychology, and statistics. While the biological aspect of the major examines topics such as brain anatomy, the behavioral aspect focuses on topics like human cognition and neurological diseases, according to the department’s website.

While seniors graduating in May 2020 will still see BBB as their official major on their transcripts, students graduating in May 2021 will be listed as neuroscience majors.

The school first offered the major as a way to study the intersection of biology and psychology in 1978.

The growth of the neuroscience field, however, has changed the scope of the major over the years, which now puts an emphasis on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain development, FlanaganCato said. As a result, she said calling the major neuroscience is now more accurate.

“The name BBB might have not been familiar to high school students that are interested in the topic,” Flanagan-Cato said.

BBB majors widely voiced approval of the decision.

“A lot of people don’t know what Biological Basis of Behavior is,” College senior Elyse Gadra said.

“A lot of people know what neuroscience is.”

College junior Christina DiCindio said the new title is an allencompassing name that includes both the neuroscience and behavioral aspects of the field.

“If you don’t go to Penn, and you are not familiar with [BBB], it’s not

super clear what it means,” College senior Sophia Fraga said. “Neuroscience is more clear to people that don’t go to the school and to employers.”

Though Fraga said changing from BBB to neuroscience is a good idea, she preferred “neuroscience and behavior” to indicate that the program requires a wide range of studies, including psychology.

“The courses I have taken have definitely had a lot of overlap with neuroscience, but also a lot of [psychology],” Fraga said. “I had wished that they had kept that behavioral component in there, just so that employers or people that don’t go to Penn could know that the major also does encompass a lot of [psychology].”

The department considered changing BBB to “Neuroscience and Behavior” and looked at the names of similar programs at 20 other universities, Flanagan-Cato said. The majority, however, uses “Neuroscience,” except Emory University, which calls the major “Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology” and Cornell University, which uses “Neurobiology and Behavior.”

“When you say neuroscience, it includes behavior because obviously, you need your brain for behavior. You don’t have a lot of behaviors without your brain, especially for humans,” Flanagan-Cato said.

BBB’s current departmental website and all BBB courses in the undergraduate catalog will be relabeled to neuroscience after July 2020.

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Despite the concerns raised both by members of the team and alumni, Penn Athletics stood by Braddak throughout the conflict resolution process and through this season. Last spring, a large number of women on the team told The Daily Pennsylvanian that they had become frustrated with the lack

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the University, has a style guide to regulate the school’s branding.

The new short-form names include “Carey,” “Carey Law,” and “Carey Law School” — but “Penn Law” is no longer an acceptable abbreviation for the school.

Last Friday, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Board of Trustees Chair David Cohen sent a University-wide email announcing the name change, spurred by a $125 million donation from the W. P. Carey Foundation — the largest sum ever gifted to a law school.

Several “Penn Law is now Carey Law” banners were unfurled on posts outside several law school buildings during the afternoon meeting and were taken down as of the evening. Multiple webpages have text that is changed from

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tion of transgender patients and employees.

“Regardless of the outcome of the pending United States Supreme Court case addressing the scope of protection afforded by current federal law, the Penn Defendants remain fully committed to affording the full measure of protection under their policies to our transgender patients and employees,” the lawyers wrote to the court.

These court filings come a month after the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether LGBTQ individuals will be protected under Title VII. The Supreme Court will be making its decision between February and June 2020.

In the argument it retracted Wednesday, Penn wrote that while the Supreme Court is deciding on whether Title VII covered transgender employees, a previous court decision in the Third Circuit, which included Pennsylvania, said the court has yet to decide whether transgender employees fall under the federal act. Therefore, the lawyers concluded, Title VII does not protect transgender employees in Pennsylvania.

“Carey Law” back to “Penn Law,” such as the page on the school’s achievements, the page on branding, and the page on career application materials.

Third-year Carey Law student B.J. Courville said after the meeting that she does not believe Penn is taking the short-form name discussion seriously.

“If it is true that there are talks in the works, good, but I’m skeptical because it seems like they are moving full steam ahead like with these banners,” she said.

She added that several hours after the renaming was announced last Friday, there was a celebration at the law school with alcoholic beverages and free shirts with the “Carey Law” logo. Students at the town hall meeting said the speed of changes made to merchandise and banners indicates that a decision must have been made before

Doe claims she was mistreated after a routine medical procedure at HUP on Feb. 20, 2018. After the event, she claims she had difficulty returning to work because the hospital exacerbated her gender dysphoria, which is distress felt as a result of conflict between biological sex and gender identity. Four months later, HUP fired her, according to the lawsuit.

“The University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine are proud of their strong institutional commitment to civil rights, which includes longstanding policies of non-discrimination with respect to sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity, as well as providing medical benefit coverage to transitioning students, faculty, and staff,” Penn Medicine spokesperson Holly Auer wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“We have amended our legal filing to make clear that we do not tolerate discrimination on any basis, including gender identity. The plaintiff’s complaint alleges conduct that is at odds with our policies and our values, and we intend to demonstrate that those allegations are without merit,” she added.

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During the meeting, students criticized administrators’ lack of transparency with the negotiation and the allocation of the funds.

The students also voiced disapproval that Lin was tasked with answering their questions, rather than an administrator involved with the donation negotiations.

Lin did not respond to student questions on whether the shortform name change was part of the donation agreement. Instead, she reiterated that the University is considering which short-form name to keep. Barnes also declined to comment to the DP on the same question.

Second-year Carey Law student and Communication Ph.D. candidate Sanjay Jolly, who attended the event, said the panelists were

Eric A. Shore, P.C., said Penn likely made its initial arguments in an effort to poke holes in the defendant’s claims. However, he said Penn does have a commitment to LGBTQ rights.

“Penn made a mistake and they’re correcting that mistake, and that’s a good thing. I think they bowed to pressure, and you have to ask the question, ’Why would Penn take this position originally? If they are fully LGBT-inclusive and they care about LGBT students, faculty, staff, why take this position in the first place?’” said Robinette, who is not involved with the case.

Despite the retraction, Robinette said Penn is still taking an “anti-trans” stance by asking the court to dismiss claims that gender dysphoria is covered under the American with Disabilities Act. “Penn is still pursuing dismissal of the ADA claims. They’ve stepped back on the Title VII claims, but they are looking still to dismiss the ADA claims,” he said. “The ADA is an important protection for the larger community, for people with disabilities. That might include transgender people who have GD, so this is an anti-LGBT stance.”

mostly unable to answer any of the students’ questions because they were not part of the negotiations to rename the school and had not read the contract. He said students completely filled the Fitts Auditorium, which seats 336 people, and many students had to stand.

At the meeting, Lin spoke for about four minutes before the Q&A session began and said she was unhappy when she first found out about the renaming and understands students’ frustration over

this “upsetting decision.” She added that “it was not great that there was a confidentiality clause.”

Barnes said Carey Law Dean Ted Ruger and Carey Law administrators are considering various options for the acceptable shortform names and their appearance on the website.

Jolly said students in the crowd became “increasingly resentful” and rowdier as the meeting went on, shouting down the administrators’ responses with frustration.

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The crowd clapped and cheered after the students argued their points.

Students during the meeting also wanted a more concrete breakdown of how the money donated will be spent.

“We wanted to know a lot about how this $125 million is actually going to be split up,” said thirdyear Carey Law student Kristen DeWilde. “If they said that they are going to help with financial aid and public interest, what does that look like?”

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Moving the three cultural houses out of the ARCH basement has been a longstanding goal of the entire 6B. In the past, student leaders within the 6B have contrasted the cramped space designated to the cultural houses with the visible spots fraternities occupy on Locust Walk.

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Before reaching a decision, members of the 6B said they need to discuss the opportunity with the directors of the cultural centers as well as their constituents. College senior Cinthia Ibarra, chair of external affairs for the

Latinx Coalition, said the 6B will not take the decision lightly because it has the potential to affect future generations of students.

“It’s something that we need to involve the whole community in,” Ibarra said. “We are in the process of conversation to ensure that it’s something that helps everyone, and it’s something that’s not just beneficial for our class or our group or the current student leaders, but something that will be beneficial for years.”

If the 6B decides that moving the cultural resource centers to the upper level of the ARCH is the right decision, students will work with Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum to determine how best to use the space.

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“Having a bigger space in general and allowing constituents from multiple communities to interact with one another is something very nice and we can get behind,” Zhou said. “But it’s problematic because I don’t know if the current layout with that current space is conducive to that type of interaction.”

College senior Kamal Gill, chair of the APSC, said he also has a hard time picturing the spaces the cultural resource centers would occupy on upper floors of the ARCH, and that renovation would have to occur. However, he is grateful that Penn is offering concrete ways to make the centers more accessible.

“This an idea that was seen as feasible,” Gill said. “I was like, ‘Yes, this can happen and the University will back it up.’”

CURF Executive Director Jane Morris said even if CURF leaves the ARCH or moves to the basement, the organization will continue to support undergraduate research opportunities regardless of its location.

“We are confident that any renovations will enable us to continue to support all students and faculty and deepen our partnerships with the Cultural Centers,” Morris wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Members of the 6B said they hope space and resources for the cultural resource centers will continue to adequately serve minority students, especially with their growing population.

“Thankfully, we’ve had an increase in the Latinx student population, and given that we’d like to see the same amount of resources and space allocated to our community change with that,” Ibarra said.

“And that’s not only for the Latinx community but also with the other communities within the 6B.”

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ing solid team defense. “It’s huge for us. We love the Big 5,� coach Steve Donahue said. “For us to go out there and win six straight [Big 5 games], it is a big deal, it matters.�

With Penn coming out of halftime up 27-22, the game looked like it would be decided in the final minutes. However, the Quakers went on a 19-5 run to start the second half, turning a close game into a runaway win. “If we didn’t [go on that run], I think this game goes down to the wire,� Donahue said.

Despite a 7-for-28 performance from the three-point line, the Quakers’ grit allowed them to retain their lead throughout the game.

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One down, three to go for Penn in the Big 5.

Penn men’s basketball defeated La Salle, 75-59, in its first home game of the season. Looking to defend their Big 5 title from last season, the Quakers (2-1) outplayed their cross-city rivals, especially in the second half. With the win over the Explorers (11), the Red and Blue are three wins away from another Big 5 title.

In an attempt to rebound from a tough loss at Rice, Penn was aggressive by hustling on both ends and play-

point shooting team, we just haven’t been able to connect.

We’re getting good looks ‌ but when you start missing you start trying a little too hard sometimes,� Donahue said.

The team’s chemistry was also on display, as 13 of its buckets were scored off of assists.

In this Big 5 game, it was a Big Three for the Red and Blue that led them to victory.

A trio of seniors — Devon Goodman, AJ Brodeur, and Ryan Betley — carried the load offensively, scoring 21, 20, and 17 points, respectively. No other Penn player finished in double figures. “It’s great to see Ryan out there doing his thing,â€? Goodman said. “We missed him a lot last year ‌ Having him back makes it easier for all of us, especially for me as a point guard.

Throughout the game, the Quakers made a living in the

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important is if I can measure my progress throughout this year,� Colaiocco said. “If I can really grow and develop this year, I feel like that would be a win for me.�

With the recent return of legendary coach Roger Reina and a strong recruiting class, Colaiocco also has strong aspirations for the team this year. He hopes the group can create a culture of camaraderie and lifting each other up, which will only reinforce the talent it puts on the floor. “I feel like we can be in the top-20 [nationally] this year,� he said. “We have five or six guys that should definitely be in NCAA qualifiers and at least three AllAmericans.�

Despite just entering the college atmosphere, Colaiocco feels comfortable when he’s on the mat. He finished the Quakers’ opening tournament at the Michigan State Open with a 4-2 record, placing fourth overall at 125 pounds. “[The differences between high school and college wrestling] are not as big as people make it seem.

It’s still wrestling; you know how to wrestle,� Colaiocco said. “Rid-

paint, scoring a majority of their points from close range.

Their strong rebounding effort allowed them to win the battle at the rim.

Although Penn led by as many as 19, La Salle mounted a comeback attempt late in the game. The Explorers came within eight with four minutes remaining, but Penn was ultimately able to put the Explorers away.

Penn’s depth will be something to keep an eye on throughout the season, as its bench was outscored, 39-5,

by La Salle. “We certainly have to keep developing the depth for sure, but I think it will happen,�

Donahue said. “You’re asking a lot of young guys to start producing. I just think it’s going to take time.�

The Red and Blue will have nearly a week off before their next game: they will travel to Lafayette on Nov. 19 to take on the Leopards (2-1).

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Throughout his long career in wrestling, Reina has been lauded time and time again for his accomplishments and dedication. In 2008, he was inducted into the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame, then one year later was inducted into the EIWA Hall of Fame.

Most recently, in 2017, he was also inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame’s Pennsylvania chapter. While the accolades are a tremendous achievement for him personally, the presence of having a Hall of Fame coach in college is not lost to the Penn players. “Seeing his passion for wrestling and Penn and the broader community in Philadelphia just really inspires all of us to A, give back, and then B, compete at our best, and really perform under his reign,� fifth-year senior captain AJ Vindici said.

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what drives his passion to stay involved in the community as much as possible. “Wrestling always captured my fascination, the individual aspect of it combined with an overarching team aspect,� Reina said. “The intensity that comes with our sport, I really appreciate that and the people that tend to choose this sport. That community I think is a really special community of people.�

When he is not involved in wrestling, Reina likes to get out of the gym and enjoy the outdoors. “I climbed Mount Rainier once, when I first stepped down from coaching the first time in 2005,� Reina said. “I’m set to do that again next August, so that’s kind of my target.�

Now entering his 22nd season overall as the program’s winningest coach with 219 victories, Reina hopes to continue to guide the Red and Blue to continued success, while simultaneously building on his Hall of Fame career.

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Colaiocco, who is currently training with three-time All-Americans and NCAA finalists Joey McKenna and Ethan Lizak at the Pennsylvania Olympic Regional Training Center, thinks the mental aspect of the game is what sets him apart from other wrestlers in his weight class. “I feel like I’m ahead of the game with regards to how mature I am mentally, and I’ve also been put in a great position with mentors and guys that I can look up to,� he said. “I have [McKenna] and [Lizak] that I can learn a ton from, not only wrestling and techniquewise, but also for the mental part of the game.�

At the end of the day for Colaiocco, it’s about having fun. “As long as I’m scoring points, having fun, and I’m entertaining, that makes me happy,� he said.

Penn’s next tournament is the Keystone Classic on Nov. 24 at the Palestra, where Colaiocco hopes to build on what’s shaping up to be a standout career.

They just keep rolling on.

In the team’s first away game of the season, Penn women’s basketball dominated NJIT by a score of 85-51.

Coming off a 92-44 drubbing of Siena at the Palestra, the Quakers (2-0) did not skip a beat in New Jersey and strolled to a 20-5 lead in the first quarter. Freshman guard Kayla Padilla and junior center Eleah Parker each scored seven points in the first frame to lead Penn.

Padilla, in particular, was able to score both inside and outside throughout the game.

She paced the team with 15 points at the half and finished with 25 on 9-for-15 shooting — including five three-pointers.

As they did against Siena, the Quakers once again excelled on the defensive end.

They looked especially solid in a three-two zone, applying strong ball pressure to force the Highlanders (0-4) out of the paint. This proved effective, as NJIT racked up zero points in the paint in the first half and shot just 32.7% overall. “It’s a trademark of what we’ve done,� coach Mike McLaughlin said about the team’s defensive effort. “We’ve always defended hard, and they’re gelling really well.�

The Quakers’ length also made things difficult for the Highlanders. On defense, Penn was able to clog up the pass-

ing lanes, leading to 14 NJIT turnovers, which turned into 15 points for the Red and Blue.

The Quakers also dominated on the glass by a 43-23 margin, including 18 offensive rebounds that led to 25 second-chance points. Five of those came from Parker, who finished the game with a near double-double of 19 points and nine boards.

Offensively, Penn took control of the game by pushing the ball up the court whenever they could, trying to catch the slow-to-retreat Highlanders off guard. The Red and Blue finished the game with 20 fast break points, while NJIT had zero. When in the half court, the Quakers got everyone going by moving the ball around quickly. Penn displayed a pass-first mentality, including Parker and other low-post players, who took advantage of the Highlanders collapsing in or double-teaming by passing to open shooters along the perimeter. Penn finished the game with 27 assists on 35 made

buckets, led by senior guard Kendall Grasela’s nine. “Our transition offense has been really good, getting the ball down the court, getting good shots. I’m seeing great progress in that area,�

McLaughlin said. “In the backcourt, Kendall [Grasela] likes to run the ball, Kayla [Padilla] likes to run the ball. We’re fortunate we have two good guards on the court at all times. I think it’s a style that the team could benefit from.�

The Quakers will look to carry this strong momentum back to the Palestra on Sunday, when they will take on Iona.

Despite two resounding wins, McLaughlin feels his team still has a long way to go. “We’re still improving our half-court offense,� McLaughlin said. “And I think even on the defensive end, there are still some things we’re unsure of, so we’re going to have our male practice squad come in and play us a little bit on Friday. That will help us to [improve].�

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The guard scored a team-high 25 points against the Highlanders.

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FOOTBALL | Penn is on a two-game win streak

Now it’s time to make a statement.

After two dramatic home wins, Penn football will travel north to take on Harvard in a game where the Quakers will get the chance to prove they have fully bounced back from their 0-3 start to conference play.

“I think it starts with leadership from our seniors,” coach Ray Priore said. “We’ve all faced tough times, it’s how you react to those tough times that is a true sign of character.”

Despite the wins, the Quakers (4-4, 2-3 Ivy) have not yet proven themselves against top competition, as their two Ivy victories came in nail-biting fashion over the two worst teams in the League.

First, the Red and Blue needed a last-second field goal from sophomore kicker Daniel Karrash to get by Brown (1-7, 0-5) and last week, Penn defended Cornell’s (2-6, 1-4) game–winning two-point conversion attempt to secure the 21-20 win.

“We’ve had close games in six out of our eight games this year,” Priore said. “We talk about finishing, playing the first snap to the last snap because you never know which play is going to decide the game.”

“Coach always preaches, ‘Finish, finish, finish,’” senior running back Karekin Brooks said. “When it gets close, Coach is yelling ‘finish’ and everybody is locked and loaded and ready to do whatever it takes to win.”

Unfortunately for the Red and Blue, their winning streak is also marred by the return of the team’s quarterback controversy. When injuries forced senior Nick Robinson to leave

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Sophomore Rory Starkey leads the team with four touchdown receptions this season. He and classmate Ryan Cragun have been the keys to Penn’s offensive production this season.

the game against Cornell, junior Ryan Glover, last season’s starter, filled in and completed five of his six pass attempts for 69 yards and a touchdown.

“Nick will be the starter,” Priore said. “We go into every game trying to put our players in the best position to succeed.

We’ve gone into the last couple of games with the mindset of playing Ryan some of the time to focus on the skillset he has.”

Another question still left unanswered for the Red and Blue is whether the defense is going to bounce back. After surrendering over 35 points and 400 yards in each of their previous three games, the Quakers still struggled to prevent yards against the Big Red, allowing 434 yards of total offense. Thanks to timely stops and turnovers, Cornell was contained to just 20 points.

“We had a great goal-line stand, that stand on the twopoint conversion was really a statement for them,” Priore said.

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his younger teammates, Hendricks and Stefanowicz.

Hendricks also remembered his wrestling experience at Seminary with fondness.

“After we got … our wrestling room, which is an old bank, it was the wrestling sanctuary, it was away from the rest of campus, so it was our own thing,” Hendricks said.

A path was paved for Stefanowicz, who followed Munn and Hendricks at Seminary and then at Penn. Having those two friends, as well as his other teammates at Seminary, has been important in his development as a wrestler.

“It was such a culture, a group of guys who knew we were the best and believed that we were all the best,” Stefanowicz said. “Working with guys who believed in each other and who share the same big dream is amazing.”

A few years later, he sees the same values and aspiration in his teammates at Penn.

“I see a lot of the same things that I saw at Seminary. I see a

“Although we’ve given up a lot of yards and a lot of big plays we’ve found a way to finish recently,” senior defensive back Tayte Doddy said.

Despite these challenges, the Quakers get an opportunity this weekend to put their winning streak on the line against struggling Harvard (4-4, 2-3), who after starting conference play 2-0 has dropped their last three Ivy contests.

Despite the recent poor form of the Crimson, they have impressed all season on the defensive end, allowing a second-best 17 points per game in conference play so far. The contest should prove to be an especially large challenge for Penn’s offensive leader, Brooks, as Harvard boasts the League’s best rush defense.

“I just need to trust my offensive line and wide receivers to block and give me the holes I need,” Brooks said.

On offense, the Crimson’s

group of guys that love hanging out and love chasing after big things,” Stefanowicz said.

Having Seminary as their common bond, the three have helped each other navigate the community of Penn and be the best wrestlers that they can be.

“These guys are like two of my best friends, so we all went through all the same stuff in high school, and Patrick passed down stuff to me last year,” Hendricks said. “Now I’m passing down stuff to Jake; it’s a good chain.”

Having formed a special bond with each other, as well as their teammates and coaches, all three spoke highly of coach Roger Reina and his coaching and mentorship abilities.

“He really knows how to mold and shape not just a wrestler, but the characteristics of a person as well,” Munn said.

The example of this trio demonstrates how strong of a bond the team has and the support system they have for each other both on and off the mat. Looking ahead, the three are eager to continue setting a good example for the future generation of Penn wrestlers.

recipe for success is simple: throw the ball as little as possible. Harvard has the second–lowest number of passing attempts in the conference; however, when junior Jake Smith does air it out, he has found great success, completing 63% of his passes good for second-best in the Ivy League while pushing the ball downfield for a League-best eight yards per attempt. The star of the show on offense is junior running back Devin Darrington who is second in the Ivy League in rushing yards, averaging 85 yards per game.

“They have a strong, powerful fast pack and they have two good tight ends who they like to use in the passing and running game,” Doddy said.

Now that Penn football is finally back on track after a rough start to Ivy League play, it’s time to see if they can keep it going against a more challenging opponent.

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most important thing is being able to lead by example both on and off the mat, setting the example in the classroom, being diligent with your studies,” Vindici said. “When we’re in the wrestling room, it’s important to always be working hard and getting the extra workouts and just being there for everyone.”

AJ found out that he was going to be captain at the end of last season and says that experience isn’t the only thing that matters in a captain.

“Coach came up to us – me, Arty, and Carmen – and just explained to us that we were gonna be the leaders for this team [and] what our expectations were going forward. It’s been a really exciting process.

“I think experience definitely helps, but it’s not the end all, be all. Everyone’s been in the sport for so long and knows what it takes. I think the most important thing for a captain is being able to listen and take advice from everyone on the team.”

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When Penn sprint football takes the field next season, the team will be doing so without coach Bill Wagner. After 50 years with Wagner at the helm, the Quakers are turning to offensive coordinator Jerry McConnell to take over the program, as announced by Penn Athletics on Tuesday.

“I am incredibly pleased that we are able to continue the amazing legacy that Wags has built for the sprint football program by hiring his longtime assistant Jerry McConnell,” Penn Athletics Director M. Grace Calhoun wrote in a statement. “Jerry has a deep appreciation for what the sprint football program means to the student-athletes and alumni in addition to his coaching acumen developed at several different levels of high school and collegiate football.”

McConnell becomes the 16th head coach in program history after serving as Penn’s offensive coordinator since 2007.

“I am honored and humbled to have the opportunity to follow Wags in leading the Penn sprint football program,” McConnell wrote in the joint statement. “I would like to thank Dr. Grace Calhoun and (sport admin-

istrator) Brad Fadem for this incredible opportunity. From the moment I joined Wags here at Penn and became part of his staff, I knew this was special, coaching kids who play for the love of the game and seeing the relationships he has developed with his former players.”

During McConnell’s 12 seasons coaching the offense, the Red and Blue had 105 offensive players receive an All-Collegiate Sprint Football League selection, as well as two CSFL Most Valuable Players — running back Mike Bagnoli in 2010 and quarterback Mike McCurdy in 2015 and 2016.

“Jerry fills the position as head coach of our sprint football team with a great deal of integrity, loyalty and superior coaching knowledge of what the sport represents: ‘playing football for the love of the game’s competition,’” Wagner said in the statement. “The Penn sprint football program has a leader who will guide the team forward with great success for many years into the future. Jerry has done a tremendous job developing relationships with all his players, which is evidenced by how much the current, and former, student-athletes adore him.

Prior to joining Wagner’s staff, McConnell was the head coach for three seasons at Holy Cross High School in New Jersey, where he finished with a 26-8 record and won two conference titles.

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After serving as sprint football’s offensive coordinator for 12 seasons, Jerry McConnell was named Bill Wagner’s successor as head coach.

The three captains are close with each other as well as the team overall. Sophomore captain Anthony Artalona admits that the transition from freshman NCAA qualifier to captain was challenging at first but made sense given the team’s youth and depth.

“It was a little weird at first, honestly. I wasn’t super confident,” Artalona said. “But at the same time, I think it makes sense because we had eight freshman starters last year.

Eight out of ten. So we’re a young team. Leading the team as a sophomore seems a little unusual at first, but it made sense.”

Like Vindici, Artalona is not necessarily the most vocal leader but still sets a great example through his actions.

“I think our teammates see that we work hard. We’re pretty friendly guys, and we’re not afraid to put in the work,” he said. “We’re not super vocal, we’re not gonna be yelling at people, but I think people will catch on and see us training hard. We do a great job of leading by example. I think that’s definitely mine and Car-

men’s strength.”

Reina sees Artalona’s and Ferrante’s age and national competitiveness as a major advantage for themselves as leaders.

“Carmen and Anthony are tremendous competitors on the mat who bring a lot of skills,” Reina said. “They were our two NCAA qualifiers last year, so they have that national experience that they brought back. It’s really valuable to have people with that national level of experience come back in the room.”

Ferrante echoed his coach’s sentiment in regard to last year’s success carrying over to this season.

“The hard work last season really paid off. Arty and I had a really good season,” he said.

“I think some of the leadership qualities we showed last year caught Coach Reina’s eye and I’m just grateful for the opportunity to have been named a captain. I’m super excited to be able to lead the team.”

The tight-knit, lead-byexample leadership style that Penn is adopting this season is something that Reina hopes

will lead the team to a new heights, both nationally and in the Ivy League.

“One of our main goals is to separate ourselves from middle-of-the-pack programs and move toward … the top of the Ivy League programs,” Reina said. “In our sport, that moves us into the top 20. I think that for us, getting individuals qualified to the NCAA Championships is a really important goal. Last year we had two guys; this year I think we can get five or six, maybe more.”

Particularly in the early stages of the season, Reina says that the athletes’ approach to practice is key to the team’s success.

“The most important quality at this stage in the season is consistency and their approach to practice, being 100% focused with a high level of intensity and an enthusiasm to learn,” he said. “Hopefully as the season goes on, that becomes a habit.”

With a young team led by this trio of accomplished captains, the bar is now higher than ever for the Red and Blue.

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Forty years ago, freshman Roger Reina stepped foot on Penn’s campus as a starting member of the wrestling team.

That was only the beginning of his lifelong commitment and dedication to the sport that has made him a legend in the wrestling community.

After graduating in 1984, he served as head coach Larry Lauchle’s assistant at Penn for two years. In his time as an assistant coach, Reina was thinking about his future, which at the time did not include wrestling.

“I had no intention to coach

full time,” Reina said. “I was taking some final classes I needed to take to apply to veterinary school, and that’s what I thought I was going to be — a veterinarian.”

After Lauchle announced his retirement in 1986, Reina was presented with what he thought was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the head coach of his alma mater. He jumped at the chance, and with that move he became the youngest Division I wrestling head coach at age 24.

“I was young enough to have absolutely no fear, so I probably should’ve had some fear, but I was too young, and maybe a little too bold. It was tough because there were guys on the team who were teammates of mine,” Reina said. “It was a really special opportunity to

Artalona and Ferrante to captain in year two The sophomores join AJ Vindici as captains NOA ORTIZ Sports Reporter

Penn wrestling is kicking off this season with high hopes, high stakes, and three new captains.

Before the beginning of the season, coach Roger Reina picked senior AJ Vindici, sophomore Anthony Artalona, and sophomore Carmen Ferrante to lead the team as captains.

Vindici is the veteran of the trio and has made a habit of leading by example.

“AJ Vindici is a very quiet leader. He brings a certain skill set, he’s someone who does the right things on and off the mat

and lives his life according to the goals of the program,” Reina said. “I think another key aspect with AJ is the way he competes.

Last year on several occasions, he pulled matches out coming from behind or in overtime.

“He has that never-quit attitude. He just displayed a lot of courage in competitive situations last year that I think really inspired his teammates and the coaches.”

After learning from previous Quakers’ captains throughout the past three years, Vindici is confident in his ability to lead the group this season.

“Being able to work under Joe Oliva’s leadership as captain last year helped set me up. I think the SEE CAPTAINS PAGE 11

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Carmen Ferrante (left), A.J. Vindici (center), and Anthony Artalona (right) are all first-year captains for Penn, but they all bring experience to the position.

be able to contribute to the program that I came through and to future generations of Penn wrestlers.”

In his first coaching stint with Penn from 1986 to 2005, he notched a program-high 205 wins and a .649 winning percentage. During that time, he led the Quakers to eight Ivy League titles and four Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championships. Along with overall team success, he also recruited outstanding individual talent, including NCAA champions Brett Matter and Matt Valenti and Olympic gold medalist Brandon Slay.

While 2005 was the end of his first stretch leading the Quakers, his engagement with the wrestling community at large continued. He next helped launch the Pennsylvania Re-

gional Training Center, a wrestling program whose “mission is to create an ecosystem for elite student-athletes to strive toward national and international success in wrestling and in life.” He still serves as the program’s board chairman.

Reina would return to Penn in 2015, but in a different role.

Until 2017, he served as Senior Associate Athletics Director for External Affairs for Penn Athletics. In 2017, Reina was once again presented with the opportunity to coach at Penn and couldn’t turn it down.

“I got asked to consider coming back to take the program over and here was a twice-ina-lifetime kind of thing,” Reina said. “I was like, ‘Holy smokes, how did this happen again?’”

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Only the most talented and notable freshmen are able to garner attention before they step out for their first performance, and very few are actually able to live up to this hype.

Freshman wrestler Michael Colaiocco is coming to Penn with a high pedigree and has all the tools to live up to the hype and turn into the Red and Blue’s next superstar.

For high school, Colaiocco attended Blair Academy in New Jersey, known for fielding one of the top wrestling teams in the country. Individually, Colaiocco was ranked No. 1 in the country

by FloWrestling for his weight class. His resume includes a plethora of individual and team accolades and championships, including an individual National Prep Championship in 2016.

“I felt like I couldn’t have a better high school experience; the family at Blair definitely gave me all of the resources I ever asked for,” Colaiocco said.

Colaiocco committed to Penn as a junior in high school over Princeton, North Carolina, and Virginia Tech, among others.

He cites the program’s coaching and culture as big factors in attracting him to Penn.

“I feel like the coaching staff here really cares about the individual,” Colaiocco said. “They all really want to help me max out my potential as a person, not just as a wrestler.”

Coming in as a very talented freshman, Colaiocco has very high expectations for himself this season, but that does not stop him from striving to improve his game. He keeps a list of notes on technical aspects of his game that he needs to work on and practices them daily.

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Highly touted out of Blair Academy, freshman Michael Colaiocco could be ready for stardom in his first season with the Quakers.

Seminary: Penn’s recruiting pipeline A look at the high school supplying three wrestlers HELEN LY Sports Reporter

Penn wrestling’s 2019 season is underway, and the Quakers have a roster stacked with new players along with old ones. Among those athletes is a trio from Wyoming Seminary High School.

Wyoming Seminary is known as one of the top schools academically in the state and also has a robust and successful wrestling team. Over the past four years, Penn has recruited three athletes from the school in senior Patrick Munn, sophomore Jake Hendricks, and freshman Jake Stefanowicz.

Munn, a Cypress, Texas native, transferred to Wyoming Seminary — commonly referred to as “Seminary” — after his first two years of high school.

“I made the change [to Seminary] junior [and] senior year,” Munn said. “It was a massive change because I just heard of Pa. wrestling, Northeast wrestling, and how different it is, and I finally [went] up there and experienced it.”

Making this transition presented a challenge, as Munn was surrounded by the best of the best. Ultimately, the

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Freshman Jake Stefanowicz (left), senior Patrick Munn (center), and sophomore Jake Hendricks (right) all came to Penn via Wyoming Seminary High School in northeastern Pa.

experience shaped him into a stronger wrestler.

“Especially with the centralized high school at [Seminary], with the best kids who go there across the country, the level of competitiveness was off the charts,” Munn said. “It just breeds really strong wrestlers there.”

As a wrestler, Munn has learned a lot about him-

self, in regard to both his strengths and weaknesses, and one thing that has helped him is the new mentality he acquired.

“I learned in high school the mentality of being a wrestler,” Munn said. “It’s a different mentality than other sports. You have losing weight factored in, early morning practices, after-

noon practices that are really tough, and it’s the strong mentality that wrestlers have in general that we apply to everyday life, grinding during the school year, during class, and during practices.”

Munn has passed down what he has learned from high school and at Penn to SEE SEMINARY PAGE 11

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