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Penn’s only climate scientist Annenberg prof. worried about lack of support charged with corruption The former Phila. official resigned from her position MANLU LIU & MADELEINE NGO Deputy News Editors

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While Penn has a number of independent centers performing climate change research, members of the environmental science community at Penn say the Univ. needs an interdisciplinary center for such resarch, like those found at peer institutions.

Faculty say climate research is undersupported YONI GUTENMACHER Deputy News Editor

Penn’s 2017 Sustainability Report claimed to show real progress on some of the official goals the University set in the 2014 Climate Action Plan 2.0 — namely, the goal to “support faculty interest in researching and teaching sustainability” was marked as achieved in the report, which was released earlier this year.

The University has created

sustainability programs, but the Department of Earth and Environmental Science remains almost entirely devoid of faculty specializing in climate change or sustainability, and professors say Penn is not investing in further research on climate and sustainability.

Environmental Science assistant professor Irina Marinov, who was first hired as a lecturer in 2009, is the only standing faculty member at Penn studying climate science. In fact, Penn does not have any standing sustainability professors — only

Avenatti arrested days after his campus visit He allegedly committed domestic violence MAX COHEN Deputy News Editor

Michael Avenatti is currently in custody following allegations of domestic violence on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported. This has also been confirmed by separate reports in The Hollywood Reporter, KABC, and BuzzFeed News.

According to a law enforcement official who spoke to AP on the condition of anonymity, police in Los Angeles responded to a report of domestic violence on Tuesday, and took Avenatti in on Wednesday.

Avenatti’s law office released a statement maintaining his innocence in light of the claims.

“I wish to thank the hard working men and woman of the LAPD for their professionalism they were only doing their jobs

in light of the completely bogus allegations against me,” he said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.

“I have never been physically abusive in my life nor was I last night. Any accusations to the contrary are fabricated and meant to do harm to my reputation. I look forward to being fully exonerated.”

The 1996 College graduate was reportedly involved in an altercation with an unidentified woman.

Just days ago, on Nov. 11, Avenatti was on Penn’s campus at two different speaker events hosted by the Philomathean Society, Penn Democrats, and the Government and Politics Association. At the Penn Dems event, which was attended by some 70 students, the firebrand lawyer sounded off on President Trump, addressed the Democratic Party’s recent gains in the midterm elecSEE AVENATTI PAGE 3

lecturers, adjunct, and visiting professors.

The Earth and Environmental Science Department lists on its website only nine standing faculty members, none of whom study climate aside from Marinov. Other science departments boast much higher faculty numbers, with the Physics and Chemistry departments boasting 52 and 38 standing faculty, respectively.

“The problem here is that the University is not truly investing in the expansion of this department of Earth and Environ-

mental Science,” Marinov said.

“That is a little bit — or a lot — worrisome.”

Students in the field are very interested in studying climate, Marinov said, adding that a number of Ph.D. students have been discouraged from performing research at Penn because of the program’s limitations.

Penn’s graduate programs in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science ranked No. 68 on US News & World Report’s list of best Earth Science SEE CLIMATE CHANGE PAGE 2

Former Annenberg School for Communication instructor Desiree Peterkin Bell “voluntarily withdrew” from her position Wednesday, an Annenberg spokesperson told The Daily Pennsylvanian Wednesday afternoon. Her resignation comes a day after allegations of public fraud surfaced and charges were filed against her.

Pennsylvania’s Attorney General’s Office charged Peterkin Bell with a half dozen counts of public corruption Nov. 13. According to court documents, Peterkin Bell misused public funds for two years while serving as the chairperson of the Mayor’s Fund, a nonprofit organization.

Peterkin Bell was a city representative who served under Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter until 2015, and she has long worked in the public sector as a political strategist.

University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy and Annenberg Communications Director Julie Sloan both confirmed that Peterkin Bell will not be teaching at Annenberg next semester.

Peterkin Bell has taught several semesters of the course “Urban Communication” since she was appointed as a lecturer in 2017.

Peterkin Bell’s profile from

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the Annenberg website has been deleted, and the course listing for the Urban Communications is no longer on Penn InTouch.

On Tuesday morning, Peterkin Bell was taken into custody and then released on bail following the filing of public corruption charges. In court documents, the Pennsylvania Grand Jury stated Peterkin Bell misused over $200,000 in public funds while she served as the city representative for Philadelphia and as chairperson of Mayor’s Fund, a nonprofit organization.

The Mayor’s Fund has been heavily criticized in the past two years for suspected corruption.

In March 2017, then City Controller Alan Butkovitz called on Peterkin Bell and Nutter to pay back “tens of thousands of dollars” spent through the Mayor’s Fund, The Inquirer reported.

Butkovitz’s office found that Peterkin Bell allegedly shopped at Macy’s and J.Crew and paid for meals at restaurants in Center City with fund money. The office also revealed that Peterkin SEE BELLPAGE 3

Starbucks at 34th and Chestnut to close It is scheduled to close in the first week of December JULIA KLAYMAN Staff Reporter

The Starbucks on 34th and Chestnut streets is scheduled to close in the first week of December. A group of Penn Law School students, however, is determined not to let that happen.

To try and save the coffee shop that provides many members of the Penn Law community their daily coffee dosage, Penn Law student Mike Machado created a petition.

As of Nov. 14, the petition had 116 signatures, with signees ranging from Penn Law and undergraduate students to residents of Domus Apartments, which is located on the 3400 block of Chestnut Street.

Machado said he has frequented the Starbucks on 34th and Chestnut every morning of the week since August 2017.

Starbucks spokesperson Reggie Borges said he is aware of the petition, but that the decision to close the store was the result of a number of different factors. He especially noted the close proximity of three other Starbucks stores near the 34th and Chestnut location, including those located at 34th and Walnut, 32nd and Market, and 34th and Lancaster. Another popular Starbucks for undergraduate students is located on 39th and Walnut.

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As of Nov. 13, the petition to try and save the Starbucks had 111 signatures, with signees ranging from Penn Law and undergraduate students to residents of Domus Apartments, located on the 3400 block of Chestnut Street.

“We by no means are leaving the University of Pennsylvania neighborhood,” Borges said in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“At this moment, we feel really good about the stores that are in that location now and that general area.”

According to the petition and a Starbucks employee, the Starbucks plans to close Dec. 2, but a flyer passed around the store said the store would close Dec. 3. An official spokesperson for Starbucks did not respond to request for clarification.

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The petition argues that nearby Starbucks stores are already overburdened, and it emphasizes the significance of the employee-customer relationships that have been created at the 34th and Chestnut location.

“Morning or night, none of us are particularly eager to wait very long for drinks, nor do we wish to do so while packed tightly together like sardines,” Machado wrote in the petition description. “[The partners] provide an escape from daily law school life and give us a chance to

connect with real people who work in our community.”

Machado said he heard about the closing from a Starbucks employee.

For many signees, the employees are what make the location unique.

“The 34th and Chestnut Starbucks is my favorite Starbucks in the area because the staff cares about its customers,” Penn Law Facilities and Sustainability Coordinator Jake Mattera said. “Other area Starbucks SEE STARBUCKS PAGE 8

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“I find a huge interest from the undergrads,” Marinov said. “But it hasn’t translated into — at least on the climate science part — into any efforts by the University to enlarge or pay attention to this field.”

Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences and Physics professor Larry Gladney wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian that the sizing of departments is complex because it is the product of decisions made over decades. He added that the University has been hiring faculty for the Earth and Environmental Science Department, noting that eight of the nine standing faculty were hired after 2007.

Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Steven J. Fluharty wrote in an email to the DP that the school has moved to hire new professors in the field in two different groupings: one involving energy research professors and the other involving environmental humanities faculty. He noted that two of the current professors in the department were a part of the new hires.

“Penn is a powerhouse lifesciences institution,” said Dan

Garofalo, who was hired as the University’s first environmental sustainability director in 2008.

“And look at other departments in the natural sciences — it’s just not the same.”

Simultaneously, however, opportunities for undergraduate research in sustainability and climate change have expanded, with Climate Action Grant research programs available through the Center for Undergraduate Research and the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowships.

Garofalo partly attributed this recent expansion to the work of his office.

“What we are trying to do is create the culture among the student body for the most part,” Garofalo said.

Fluharty also wrote that while the department of Earth and Environmental Science is a “key player” in climate research, he said it is just one of a number of departments researching the field.

“Like all complex global challenges, addressing climate change requires the expertise of a wide range of fields, and here Penn is doing what it does so well by deploying a multidisciplinary approach,” he wrote.

Mark Alan Hughes, the founding faculty director of Penn’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, said that some of Penn’s recent hirings and goals seem to prioritize energy research — a closely connected discipline to climate science.

The University’s current capital campaign, “The Power of Penn,” lists “Drive Energy Solutions” as one of its top six goals and is set to fund the construction of a new energy science research near 32nd and Walnut streets.

Fluharty wrote that SAS views sustainable energy research as an “important dimension of addressing climate change.”

While Penn has a number of independent centers performing research relating to climate change, members of the environmental science community at Penn say the University needs an interdisciplinary center for climate change and sustainability research like those found at peer institutions.

“We need to create these umbrella networks that bring together the environmental scientists and climate scientists included with engineering, with physics and chemistry, with the policy people, with the Econ people, with the architects,” Marinov said.

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Brazilian students divided over newly elected pres.

Bolsonaro is described as ‘Trump of the Tropics’ AVNI KATARIA Staff Reporter

Penn students from Brazil paid close attention when farright politician Jair Bolsonaro won the country’s general election with 55.2 percent of the popular vote two weeks ago.

As the dust settles on that momentous election, students on campus remain divided over what the rise of “The Trump of the Tropics” will mean for the South American nation.

Bolsonaro has been criticized throughout the election for his homophobic sentiments and controversial remarks about minorities and women — including a 2014 comment that his female colleague in Congress was too ugly to be raped, a 2011 comment that he would be unable to love his son if he were homosexual, and a remark that refugees from Haiti, Africa, and the Middle East are “the scum of humanity.”

Members of the Penn Brazil Club said they think it was a mix of economic conditions, corruption, and general discontent with the status quo that propelled Bolsonaro to victory, adding that his trajectory bears many similarities to the rise of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump.

Penn Brazil Club has since hosted two on-campus round table panels to discuss the Oct. 28 election.

“I think we have a duty as a club to be the place where people go for information on the subject,” board advisor of Penn Brazil Club Nicole Almeida said. “People are talking to each other and are very quick to label ... this topic has been very difficult to swallow.”

Almeida, a College senior,

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The far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro won the country’s general election by a popular vote of 55.2 percent.

added that based on pre-election polls, she had expected that Bolsonaro would win the election and bring on a period of divisiveness in the country.

“I knew that we were at a time politically and socially where people would be likely to take sides regardless of how much they knew about the situation,” Almeida said. “Our country has been through the f**king ringer.”

Many students expressed their opposition to Bolsonaro at the panel events, but Engineering and Wharton sophomore Rafael Bologna said he has welcomed the election results.

“I think it’s a common trend in the world right now, that we are having a different change of power and people who do not agree with some of the views can get upset,” said Bologna, who is also the treasurer of the Penn Brazil Club. “I support Jair Bolsonaro, but I do admit that he says a lot of controver-

sial stuff and then people have a wrong impression of him.”

Director of the Portuguese Language Program and panelist Mercia Flannery said the division seen among students on Penn’s campus mirrored what was currently going on in Brazil.

“Especially the past four to five years things have been very difficult,” Flannery said.

“There’s a lot of corruption, a lot of crime, a lot of uncertainty, we have a lot of political crisis, economic crisis.”

Almeida said she hopes events such as Penn Brazil Club’s roundtables will help students feel more informed about the situation and catalyze further discussion.

“What we need right now is for the country to unite as a whole and hold this person who promised a lot of change accountable,” Almeida said.

“This is our country and we’re going to fight for it, regardless of [one’s] ideology.”

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Furda says details from Harvard trial not surprising The trial revealed preferential treatment of legacy students JULIE COLEMAN Staff Reporter

As Harvard University’s widely publicized affirmative action trial comes to an end, members of the Penn community and the rest of higher education are left to take stock of its findings.

The trial, which began on Oct. 15, unearthed previously confidential admissions secrets during its three-week run, including the preferential treatment of legacy students and children of wealthy donors. Many experts say these practices are widespread and that preferential treatment of legacy applicants exists at Penn, too.

At Penn, 25 percent of admitted students in the 2017 Early Decision pool were legacy students.

This number is higher than most other Ivy League schools, including Dartmouth College, which accepted 16 percent, and Cornell University, which accepted 22.1 percent. Legacy students made up 16 percent of Penn’s undergraduate student body in 2017.

Andrew Belasco, CEO of college consulting firm College Transitions, said he thinks the trial has not unveiled any new information about the college admissions process.

“We always suspected that certain groups, such as athletes, legacy

[applicants, and] children of major donors are given a significant edge in the admissions process,” Belasco said. “In our experience, working with students who fall into one of those kinds of special interest groups, [they] are certainly given preference, whether it’s in the form of appearing on something called the Z-list or something similar.”

“I think all schools adopt strategies like this,” he added.

Penn Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said he does not think the revelations from the trial should be surprising to most people.

“I don’t think it should be surprising to people that [the] Admissions Office should know who’s applying [to Penn], particularly if there is a deep connection to the institution,” Furda said. “But you don’t jump from that to: The students are admitted.”

The high-profile trial investigated accusations brought forward by the anti-affirmative action group Students For Fair Admissions, which claims Harvard discriminates against Asian American applicants based on race. Harvard has consistently denied the claim, stating that affirmative action is necessary to increase diversity.

The judge presiding over the case has yet to reach a final verdict, but the losing party will likely appeal to the Supreme Court. With the recent confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Court is currently majority right-leaning,

which has sparked fears among many on the left that it may rule against affirmative action should the case reach SCOTUS. Furda previously told The Daily Pennsylvanian that admissions officers across the country — including those at Penn — could have to implement a drastically different admission process if that occurs.

Throughout the Harvard trial, however, Furda has remained adamant that Penn does not use discriminatory admissions practices: “Penn Admissions considers many individual factors in the decision process including high school courses, grades, test scores, recommendations, personal essays, alumni interviews, background and experiences, and accomplishments. In the process, we do not discriminate against any racial, religious, ethnic or other group of applicants,” Furda wrote in an email statement to the DP. Specific details revealed during the trial included the existence of a “dean’s interest list” of prioritized applicants, who are typically children of wealthy donors who have “already committed to a building.” The “Z-list” was an example of admissions jargon that emerged as well, describing a list of mostly white legacy students with lower academic performance, who are usually the last to be admitted.

On Penn’s campus, many student minority groups support affirmative action.

Experts say Penn students’ effect on midterms unclear Over 3,300 students voted in the midterm elections MAX COHEN Deputy News Editor

Penn students made their voices heard at the ballot boxes last Tuesday in the midterm elections. According to numbers collected by Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs, over 3,300 people voted at Penn’s eight on-campus polling stations, more than tripling those who voted in the 2014 midterms and almost doubling those who voted in the 2010 midterms.

According to numbers provided

by Netter Center Associate Director Cory Bowman, 3,397 votes were cast across Penn’s campus stations, increasing drastically from the 1,784 votes in 2010 and the 980 votes in 2014.

Bowman clarified that these initial numbers come with caveats, such as the increase in Penn’s enrollment in the past eight years.

In 2010-11, Penn’s undergraduate enrollment was 9,865, and in fall 2017 it was 10,496. Bowman said although this growth added a couple hundred new Penn voters, 2018’s overall turnout trend was clear: Penn saw “very, very substantial increases in on-campus voting.”

Still, however, voter experts and Penn professors stressed it is still too early to determine the full effect Penn students had in the elections and that the uptick in on-campus voter turnout likely had little concrete effect on Pennsylvania election outcomes.

Political Science professor Marc Meredith, who specializes in voter turnout, said although student voters may have increased on campus, they did not play a decisive role in Pennsylvania’s key races. Pennsylvania Democratic incumbents Bob Casey (D) and Governor Tom Wolf (D) easily won re-election in the state, with each candidate beating their Republican challenger by over 12 percentage points.

While Quakers may not have provided the tipping point for the Democratic successes, Meredith said they nevertheless contributed to the victories.

“Given the general trend we see in data, that younger voters are more likely to support Democratic candidates than older voters, the youth vote was probably part of the broad coalition that propelled Wolf and Casey to victory,” Meredith said.

He cautioned that any current discussion of turnout is “a little bit early,” instructing observers to refrain from drawing too many conclusions based on the first set of data.

Bowman agreed and said he would wait for the release of figures from Tufts University’s National Study of Voting, Learning, and Engagement to formally analyze elec-

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Specific details revealed during the Harvard trial included the existence of a “dean’s interest list” of prioritized applicants, usually children of welathy donors who have “already committed to a building.”

Asian Pacific Student Coalition Chair and College senior Soomin Shin said the plaintiffs in the trial are not representative of the diverse Asian population in America. Shin added that overall, many Asian Americans support affirmative action and holistic admissions policies.

“There are some people, Asian Americans, who are very vocal and they feel very strongly against affirmative action,” Shin said, “but we have to keep in mind that that is a very small, but vocal minority, even within the Asian community.”

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Bell used fund money to travel to various cities and pay the $8,738 tab for 458 Uber rides she took in 2015. Butkovitz’s audit found that the fund spent $134,000 on American Express credit cards over five months without providing receipts or supporting documentation.

Peterkin Bell responded to Butkovitz’s claims at the time and called them false “accusations.”

“This is getting tiring and very old. This narrative, these accusations are not true,” Peterkin Bell

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Student-run organization Penn Leads the Vote pointed to its own larger on-campus presence and voter outreach for the high numbers.

tion results.

Students and faculty involved with the University-funded, student-run organization Penn Leads the Vote said the increases were encouraging, pointing to its own larger on-campus presence and voter outreach programs as catalysts for the high numbers.

Eva Gonzalez is a PLTV fellow and College freshman who helped coordinate the organization’s voter captain initiative and College House competition programs.

Like Meredith and Bowman, she also was cautious about discussing PLTV’s impact in strict numerical terms. More broadly, though, she said PLTV laid an important foundation.

“I think looking at it overall, we definitely created a successful infrastructure with different programs and coalitions to create a better environment where people feel encouraged to vote,” Gonzalez said. “It’s bigger than just this one election — PLTV was able to create a foundation for a more civically-engaged campus that we will be able to continue for years to come.”

Meredith said research does show that PLTV’s strategies were effective.

“Part of what I teach in Intro-

duction to American Politics is that part of what you want to do with increasing turnout is to make voting more social,” Meredith said.

“These [PLTV] strategies seem very consistent with making voting more social, such as having people you know from your student group mobilize you to vote, and the competition aspect certainly increases social pressure.”

Looking forward to the 2020 presidential elections, Gonzalez said she saw an opportunity for youth voters to further increase their growing turnout rates, as well as to make Penn students more civically engaged outside of election years.

With the increased turnout this year, Meredith said those who cast their first ballots last Tuesday are more likely to develop a habit and vote again in 2020, when Pennsylvania will be a key swing state.

“In part because of the sense that the Pennsylvania elections weren’t that close this time, we didn’t have as much mobilization in the state as we will in 2020,” Meredith said.

“For a lot of these people who did vote for the first time in this election, our political science research suggests that it will be more likely they will vote in 2020.”

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tions, and referred to himself multiple times as the person best suited to defeat Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

“Had we had any indication before we brought him in that these allegations existed, we would never have had him speak to us,” Penn Dems Communications Director and College senior Jack Weisman said on Wednesday evening. “We categorically denounce him and his behavior, just as we denounce all forms of domestic violence and violence against women, and hope that he is held accountable for his horrific actions.”

Members of the Philomathean Society had similar remarks.

“The Philomathean Society condemns unequivocally any and all domestic violence,” Tea

and College junior Anisa HasanGranier said ruling against affirmative action would be a substantial loss for Penn.

“It’s not that affirmative action is a perfect system, but it’s pretty much the best that we can do right now,” she said. “I think one of the main points that people kind of miss out on in this whole affirmative action debate is that, it’s not like there was a level playing field that affirmative action somehow messed up.”

Belasco and Brian Taylor, managing director of the college consulting firm Ivy Coach, both said

they do not believe formally eliminating race from college applications will change much in the way students are admitted.

“They can’t tell that Michael Chang is an Asian American applicant? Of course they can,” Taylor said. “So, eliminating race in college admissions is not going to eliminate implicit bias, which is at the root of the discrimination that Asian American applicants face in admission not only to Harvard, but every Ivy League school.”

For now, Furda said Penn will remain steadfast in its current admissions policies.

said in a statement to The Inquirer in 2017. “We all know it’s an election year — it’s abundantly clear that it’s not about the pursuit of facts, it’s about managing perception in an election year.”

Peterkin Bell is currently the president and CEO of DPBell & Associates, a public affairs firm she founded. If found guilty of all charges, Peterkin Bell could serve up to 35 years in prison, The Inquirer reported.

Peterkin Bell currently serves as CEO of the consulting firm she stablished, DPBell & Associates. Her website said that she designed the course she taught at Penn.

College senior Candy Alfaro said she was part of the first Urban Communication course that Peterkin Bell taught at Penn, saying that she thought Peterkin Bell did a “really good job” teaching the class and was very invested in the students’ learning.

“She had a lot of insights to share from her own work experiences,” Alfaro said.

Alfaro added the class was one of the first communication courses she took. The course inspired her to become a communications major because she became interested in the “role communications can have in local politics,” she said.

Chair of the Philomathean Society and College senior Omar Khoury said in a written statement. “Such actions are antithetical to our mission as a society.”

On Wednesday afternoon, there were initial reports that the victim was Avenatti’s estranged wife, Lisa Storie-Avenatti, but her lawyer has released a statement disputing that claim.

“My client and I have reviewed the TMZ article alleging that my client, Lisa StorieAvenatti, has been injured and that Michael Avenatti has been arrested as a result of some incident that occurred between them. This article is not true as it pertains to my client,” a statement provided to BuzzFeed News said. “Ms. Storie-Avenatti was not subject to any such incident on Tuesday night. Further, she was not at Mr. Avenatti’s apartment on the date that

this alleged incident occurred.

My client states that there has never been domestic violence in her relationship with Michael and that she has never known Michael to be physically violent toward anyone.”

Avenatti has occupied headlines in recent months for his political rivalry with Trump.

He the legal representative of Stormy Daniels, an adult film star who had an alleged affair with Trump and is attempting to sue the President. Daniels’ suit alleging that Trump was responsible for defamation was dismissed in October by a federal judge, but according to Avenatti, this ruling did not affect Daniels’ primary case for the court to annul a non-disclosure agreement that she signed with Trump in 2016.

Avenatti did not respond to calls from The Daily Pennsylvanian.

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For the meeting format, please consult the University Council website at https://secretary.upenn.edu/univ-council/open-forum. The Office of the University Secretary may be contacted at ucouncil@pobox.upenn.edu or 215-898-7452.

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OPINION Plenty of people think we go to Penn State — that shouldn’t bother us

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15, 2018 VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 55 134th Year of Publication DAVID AKST President REBECCA TAN Executive Editor CHRIS MURACCA Print Director JULIA SCHORR Digital Director HARRY TRUSTMAN Opinion Editor SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor JONATHAN POLLACK Senior Sports Editor LUCY FERRY Senior Design Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Design Editor CHRISTINE LAM Design Editor ALANA SHUKOVSKY Design Editor BEN ZHAO Design Editor KELLY HEINZERLING News Editor MADELEINE LAMON News Editor HALEY SUH News Editor

SIT WITH ME | Not having the same brand recognition as our Ivy peers has taught me humility

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o, how’s Penn State treating you?”

It’s the question that every Penn student has been asked at one time or another. Maybe you’re a little bothered by it, or maybe you have become accustomed to it. We all know that Penn doesn’t have the same name recognition as some of the other Ivies. It has a bit of an identity problem between “UPenn,” “Penn,” and “University of Pennsylvania.” I’ve seen the Facebook posts and the Tshirts that say, “Not Penn State.”

And I’ve heard the jokes from my peers in high school telling me that I’m going to a state school. But why does it bother some of us?

I was unaware of this confusion until after I was accepted.

When almost everyone in my small hometown thought that I was going to Penn State, I felt a little disappointed, but why?

Because people wouldn’t give me the recognition I thought I deserved? Because I wanted my peers to tell me how amazing I was? I’ll admit that I felt bothered when people asked me that

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tied to my accomplishments and what people thought of me. My identity was tethered to what college I was going to go to. I was constantly chasing the next big accomplishment so that I could be thought of as “amaz-

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achieve all of this without having our egos fed by how elite people think Penn is. The fact is, we aren’t as lauded when asked about our university than, say, if we were at Yale or Harvard, but this allows us to move past bragging rights and focus on the things we do here, not the things other people think about us.

Coming to Penn has made me question who I am without my accomplishments. Coming to terms with the fact that many people would never know that I attend a top university was a reality check on my true intentions in picking Penn. My motivations were partially to show off to the people around me. But, I realized that at Penn I was able to fully focus on the side of me that loves to learn. My ego didn’t ac-

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ing” by my peers. And if people didn’t know that I was going to a prestigious college, then what was all this work for?

Two of the many reasons we strive to attend a top institution

are: One, because of the strength of the institution in academics or job training, and two, we like it because of the prestige it carries.

The name attached to the university is something we want to be a part of. For a lot of us, it feels good to say that we are going to X university.

I strongly argue that the second reason is unnecessary, and even more so, it’s harmful. The notion of brand recognition is inherently egotistical. We shouldn’t be at an Ivy League university so that we can brag about it to others. That’s why Penn actually offers the best package out of the Ivy League: an amazing institution without the elitist branding and name recognition. Penn has many wonderful opportunities to learn and grow, and we can

tually need to be fed.

When people are disappointed by the mix-up between Penn and Penn State, it hurts to think that it’s because we don’t want people to think of us as “Penn State Level” rather than “Ivy League Level.” This superiority complex is what feeds into our toxic and elitist culture.

If you’ve ever felt frustrated that people think you go to Penn State, take a moment to think about what that means. In all honesty, it shouldn’t matter what others think of the school you go to, or how elite they think you are. Their opinions of you don’t define you. If you feel compelled to let others know that you attend an Ivy League school, I think you should question what your motives for being here are in the first place. Most people don’t know that we attend one of the best universities in the world, and I think that’s a good thing.

This Thanksgiving, when your aunt asks you, “So, how’s Penn State treating you?” just say “It’s going great,” and help yourself to another plate of stuffing.

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KEEPING UP WITH KALIYAH | Kiese Laymon taught me the importance of listening to each other’s ‘odd-shaped truth’

read an excerpt of Kiese Laymon’s collection of essays “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America” almost weekly.

It is, in big part, an essay that explores violence surrounding guns and the life of a black boy — Kiese Laymon — growing up in Mississippi. More importantly, he examines how we kill and save each other every day in ways that have nothing to do with guns.

I am not a black boy, have never been to Mississippi, and have never held a gun or seen one pointed. I am a college student aspiring to be a writer, though, much like Laymon in the essay. As an opinion columnist for The Daily Pennsylvanian, I now have the ability to write about my own truths, but there are still topics I keep pushing off because, really, I’ve been scared.

In two of Laymon’s five experiences having a gun pulled on him, he is the person holding the gun. He gets to one of those points — sitting in a cold bathtub in a damp, dark bathroom, sweating, humming, and thinking of his grandma, the barrel of a gun pressed to his temple — in short, because he got

kicked out of school for writing things that people were scared to see. He is named “a controversial writer who consistently editorializes on race issues” by the president of his college, is sent a letter full of the ashes of his burnt articles, and has an essay written by an English professor about why a student in

does not allow fear to limit his voice. Laymon touches on some painfully accurate feelings in the piece, where his true, honest-to-God hurt shows — that takes some nerve. I look up to Kiese Laymon as a writer for many reasons — his complex yet direct prose, his inventive ways of talking about things

I now have the ability to write about my own truths, but there are still topics I keep pushing off because, really, I’ve been scared.”

the class says “Kiese should be killed for what he is writing,” all before he gets expelled for not checking out a library book.

As Kiese puts it, his “life kinda hurts.”

This essay is praised as a poignant narrative about racial issues and gun violence. All it actually is, though, is a recalling of memories.

Writing is essentially the practice of constantly recalling your own truths and Laymon

that matter, his unique voice — but I find that what I most admire is the unapologetic manner in which he snatches ownership of his own life and experiences.

When it comes down to it, any experience I have is likely tied up with someone else’s. Every experience I have, especially the negative ones, will likely be seen as offensive by at least one person involved. There is an assumption in the statement that Laymon should be killed for his

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writing, that it is OK for these experiences to be had by him, but not to be shared with others. I haven’t had any experience near as violent as Laymon has regarding my writing and I hope I never do. But one day, maybe it will cross someone’s mind that they’d rather have me dead than writing. Laymon shows me that none of that matters; my story is still mine to share.

The other reason I go back to the piece so often is its message. He delves into the ways that life tries to hurt us, how we hurt each other when we’re hurting, how we’re all looking for an escape from what we’re feeling, but that we save each other, too. In the funk of his life, he elaborates: “Some days, [my best friend] Gunn and I save each other’s lives just by telling and listening to each other’s odd-shaped truth.”

The point is, if you write or if you don’t, there are parts of yourself that you may hold back in fear. Maybe you avoid relationships because you think deep down, there’s something about you that isn’t worth loving. Maybe you keep your bank account near zero in attempts to keep up with friends that have

KALIYAH DORSEY the privilege of not having to think about money. Maybe you have friends that don’t understand what makes you tick because you have never let them see.

Writing is how I communicate — writing character sketches to show people how I see them, love letters to show how I feel, essays to show how I think. It is your right, and this is what Laymon teaches me, to own your life. Whatever your means of expression, know that you may offend some by your truth, but that you also have the ability to save just by “listening to each other’s odd-shaped truth.” Do that.

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

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Sleep should be a priority from your first night at Penn CHRISTY’S CORNER | ‘Thriving at Penn’ isn’t cutting it

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n nights when I can’t fall asleep, I’ll lay on my side and look out my window. I have a panoramic view of University City, but right in front of me is the west face of Hill College House and its obliquely shaped windows. It surprises me how even at 4 or 5 a.m., a considerable number of windows are brightly lit.

Everywhere you go, people are talking about sleep. “I slept for only four hours last night.”

“That’s not even bad. I only got two hours.” “You guys are complaining about nothing. I got no sleep last night.”

It’s like a competition: whoever sleeps the least wins.

Functioning with little to no sleep is like a badge of honor for them, a display of invincibility.

As someone who deals with sleep anxiety and moderate insomnia, I’m not impressed. I’m not saying that I’m a stranger to occasional all-nighters, but I

whom are physically capable of gaining a good night’s sleep, are getting minimal sleep and are boasting about it not only concerns, but aggravates me.

These students truly embody the “sleep is for the weak” mantra. As a whole, the general consensus on sleep seems to be that it’s simply available to us, and we can let it dwindle.

In fact, Penn has previously ranked second among colleges with the latest bedtimes. Penn has recognized the need for change through a number of acts. Closing Huntsman early and starting the Refresh program, a seven-week online program that allows students to monitor their sleep patterns are good efforts. But, additional action is required to effect a major shift in students’ perceptions of sleep.

This past summer, for the Class of 2022, Harvard University implemented Sleep 101, an “interactive module designed to increase student aware-

Functioning with little to no sleep is like a badge of honor, a display of invincibility.”

do put in great effort in trying to maximize my sleep. Many nights, I end up tossing and turning until the morning. So, the fact that my peers, most of

ness of the health and performance implications of sleep.”

A 45-minute course, Sleep 101 features talks from sleep advocate Arianna Huffington and

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practical tips and strategies on optimizing sleep. As part of the wellness fair, “Happy Healthy Harvard,” sleep aids, such as eyemasks and ear plugs, were distributed to students. Harvard has set new goals of training proctors, tutors, and mental health liaisons in sleep cognizance.

According to Harvard, the preliminary results of Sleep 101 are promising. A 2017 study found students were “less likely to drive drowsy and pull ‘all-nighters’” after completing the course. For some, Sleep 101 has ended up as the target of many sleep-related jokes and memes. For many others, the course has helped in shifting overall attitudes towards sleep. Seeing the administra-

tion so willing to invest in changing students’ sleep habits is encouraging. The open discussion that’s attached to Sleep 101 helps develop a sleepfriendly environment.

Offering courses on sleep can add to this open discussion and further portray faculty’s recognition of sleep issues around campus. One such course is “Time for Sleep: Impact of Sleep Deficiency and Circadian Disruption in our 24/7 Culture,” a freshman seminar at Harvard. Since this fall, Yale has started offering a similar seminar, “The Mystery of Sleep.” Stanford University established the world’s first undergraduate sleep science course, “Sleep and Dreams,” covering topics like dreams and

sleep disorders. More importantly, it “empowers students to make educated decisions concerning sleep and alertness for the rest of their lives and shapes students’ attitudes about the importance of sleep.”

Courses like these are immensely popular among undergraduates, but at Penn, they have yet to be introduced.

The importance of sleep has never been underscored in my classes. I have yet to receive a, “Rest up!” or “Remember to catch up on sleep!” from my professors. In one class, my professor asked how we perceived a certain female character in a scene where she laid restless in bed. One of my classmates responded with “pathetic,” and my professor

along with some other classmates nodded in unison. I felt a pang of self-pity, as if my own sleep issues were being belittled. The class has since moved on to other pieces of literature, but “pathetic” echoes vividly in my memory. Issues surrounding sleep should instead be handled with care and compassion.

When the administration shows that it’s taking action on an issue, students can more easily understand the full scope of a problem and take action themselves. They know the physical and mental effects of sleep — it’s in the back of their heads. An extra push toward sleep empowerment can begin a dynamic wave of altering attitudes. Hopefully, in the future, when a new resident occupies my room, awake at 4 a.m. and looking out the window, the obliquely shaped windows of Hill aren’t brightly lit, but comfortingly dark.

CHRISTY QIU is a College freshman from Arcadia, Calif. studying architecture. Her email address is christyq@sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn Medicine student proposes in DP crossword Will Kennedy proposed to Kinnari Patel on Nov. 9 CARMINA HACHENBURG Contributing Reporter

It was a typical Friday evening for this Penn Medicine couple. After work, Kinnari Patel, a third-year urology resident, arrived home to her boyfriend Will Kennedy, a thirdyear ENT resident, cooking home-made pizza — the dish they shared together on their first date two years ago.

After dinner, the two Penn students started their weekly tradition of solving a crossword puzzle in an issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian, one of their favorite pastimes. But this specific crossword puzzle was different from others. On the very bottom line, attached to the hints 62-across and 63-across,

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Kennedy, who reached out to the DP weeks before his planned proposal, wanted to ask Patel to marry him in a unique

way that paid homage to what he and Patel loved to do together. To do this, he first reached out to Fred Piscop, former crossword puzzle editor of the Washington Post, to design the

customized puzzle with clues that held significance to their relationship, Kennedy said.

Then in November, he asked the DP to help print a special issue of the paper that contained the proposal.

“I put a lot of thought into how I wanted to do it,” Kennedy said.

The newly engaged couple met in 2016, when they were both part of the same rotation group as surgical interns in Penn Medicine. After they started dating formally, the couple developed a habit of doing the DP’s puzzles regularly, Kennedy said. Given this shared tradition, he felt that proposing via the puzzle would allow him to make the proposal seem as “close to normal as possible.”

On the evening of Nov. 9, as they were solving the crossword

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“I really loved that it was at home and reminiscent of our first date,” Patel said. “Something that we share a lot is doing crossword puzzles and it was very special.”

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SCUE pushes for advising for dual-degree students Lack of advising can lead to an extra semester at Penn HANNAH CHAN Contributing Reporter

For College and Wharton junior Tyler Shevin, coming to Penn meant he would have an opportunity to pursue both business and political science. But when he arrived on campus, he was surprised to find no structure in place to help him navigate the process of pursuing dual degrees.

There are currently no advisors or University-facilitated initiatives that are catered specifically toward uncoordinated dual degree students.

Now, the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education is trying to change that.

Long-term, SCUE would like to see advisors designated for students pursuing uncoordinated dual degrees, similar to the advising

resources available to students in coordinated dual degree programs such as Vagelos or Huntsman. In the meantime, SCUE is focusing on peer advising. The initiative would facilitate a mentorship system, connecting students who have already been through the uncoordinated process with those currently going through it.

To do this, SCUE spearheaded an effort to update the contact information in the Major Advising Program, an online directory that allows students to connect with upperclassmen in their interested major.

Shevin said the lack of advisors specifically for uncoordinated dual degree students can complicate even simple questions about course requirements.

“They don’t have anyone to go to navigate the requirements of, let’s say, the College and Wharton,” Shevin said.

This lack of advising can mean

spending an extra semester fulfilling requirements.

SCUE External Chair and College senior Justin Bean explained the reasons why peer advising is viable. “Getting student perspective on these things is very useful for uncoordinated dual degrees, it’s something we’re also looking for in other departments.”

SCUE is a branch of student government at Penn that makes suggestions on improving academic policies to the administration.

The organization is also pursuing projects that aim to transform the way Penn students take advantage of the interdisciplinary education offered.

College junior Megan Phansalkar, project chair for Structuring Interdisciplinary Studies, is leading SCUE’s three-part plan to facilitate true interdisciplinary education.

“Our goal is to talk about unco-

ordinated dual degrees but also to increase exposure to the other programs since they aren’t taken advantage of,” Phansalkar said.

These programs include NSO preceptorials that feature talks about interdisciplinary education, Academic Day with the various school deans, and MAP. According to a SCUE survey, most students surveyed felt they learned about campus resources too late to get the interdisciplinary education they wanted, and even after, most often feel uncoordinated dual degrees are the only way to do so.

For many applicants, the process for applying for transfer and for uncoordinated dual degrees has not been transparent, and students often don’t know where they stand.

The breakdown for uncoordinated dual degrees are skewed towards one end, with most students applying into Wharton. According to a university-conducted study, a ma-

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jority of College and Engineering students pursuing dual degrees do so with Wharton.

Moving forward, SCUE is hoping that their initiative will have more long-term implications and

change policies in the University itself. “[We’re working towards] just really opening up the resources that we have at Penn so that they’re more forward facing and they’re doing what they should do,” Bean said.

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Panel celebrates female election victories A panel on Nov. 13 was held for women in politics HAWTHORNE RIPLEY Contributing Reporter

Over 100 women were elected to Congress in last week’s midterm elections, smashing previous gender records and ushering in a new class of female politicians.

The Penn Government and Politics Association teamed up with Penn’s American Enterprise Institute Executive Council to consider this “watershed moment” for women in politics and to discuss what obstacles still stand in the way of equal representation.

The event, entitled “Women, Power, and Politics,” took place at Huntsman Hall on Tuesday and featured a panel of three prominent female voices in fields ranging from female political empowerment to public opinion.

Panelist Anne Wakabayashi is the executive director for Emerge Pennsylvania, an organization which identifies and prepares female Democratic candidates to run for political office.

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political representation is of the utmost importance because “every issue is a women’s issue.”

“When mothers are having their children taken away at the border, then immigration is a women’s issue. When we discuss raising the minimum wage, most minimum wage earners are single female heads of households.

That’s a women’s issue,” Wakabayashi said.

Across the board, she said, from health care to defense, women will bring fresh perspectives to existing issues.

“This is why it’s so important to elect women, women of color, and queer people,” she said.

Jasmine Sessoms, founder of the She Can Win project at Penn, which helps women run for office regardless of party affiliation, echoed Wakabayashi’s message.

“Women of color realize that they are a high voting block and want to take their rightful place at the table,” she said.

AEI Senior Fellow and conservative American public opinion expert Karlyn Bowman emphasized that women win elections just as often as men at every level of politics.

“The issue is getting them to run,” she said.

The panelists came to a consensus that the main challenges women face are those which deter them from running, not those which prevent them from winning.

Sessoms and Wakabayashi stressed in their experience, female candidates are excellent fundraisers and campaigners once they’ve decided to run.

However, they said several factors stand in the way of them making this decision: persistent male incumbency, substantial gender socialization, large amounts of money in politics, and both care-taking and financial household obligations.

“Even women who work are still the primary caretakers of their children,” Wakabayashi said.

“When you’re asking someone who has young children to run for state representative, you’re taking them away from a lot of their responsibilities.”

Additionally, Wakabayashi said, many qualified women who are the chief breadwinners in their families are hesitant to give up their already high-paying or

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healthcare-providing jobs because they feel responsible for their families.

Evidence also shows that women are socialized to be less likely to envision themselves in positions of power, and must overcome a confidence gap when considering a run for public office.

Sessoms said extremely

qualified female candidates will sometimes insist they aren’t suited to run, while males are less deterred by their shortcomings.

According to Sessoms, women need to be asked a multitude of times to run for office before they choose to.

“If you’re a woman in this room,” she said, “I’ll start by asking you once: run for office.”

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It’s your senior year. The first game of the season. You’re a two-time all-conference selection and team captain. Everything that you’ve been working for leads you to this moment.

And then, in an instant, it’s gone.

Sam Philippi, a standout safety and the heart and soul of Penn football’s defense, suffered a dislocated hip and sprained medial collateral ligament in the third quarter of the Quakers’ opening-game victory over Bucknell back in September. Before it had really even started, his senior season was over.

For most people, that kind of tragedy could ruin a year.

But according to those who know him best, Philippi is different from most people.

“He’s been a bright, shining spot,” coach Ray Priore said. “Even though he was the one who got hurt and injured, he made us all feel better. His leadership has been exemplary.

That’s the kind of person he is.”

That positivity and focus on leadership comes naturally to Philippi. If you were to ask him about his injury, he’d tell you how lucky he was to only suffer a dislocation and a sprain instead of having to undergo surgery. He understands the importance of looking forward, and the pointlessness of feeling sorry for himself. “[The injury] wasn’t something that I got sad about necessarily,” Philippi said. “It’s not something that I try to dwell upon. My focus is looking forward. I knew that I could still

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lead this team and help this team. I just had to figure out a new way to do that.”

According to his teammates and coaches, Philippi’s transition to his new role has been a seamless one.

“He’s always played really hard,” junior defensive back Jacob Martin said. “He’s always brought that intensity on and off the field. He’s always been a vocal leader in the locker room, and sitting out hasn’t changed that at all. He’s still the leader in our locker room.

At halftime, before the game, and after the game, he’s always there, leading us.”

While his teammates and coaches might say that he’s been the same leader he’s always been, Philippi says that, as to be expected, he experienced a definite adjustment process.

“The first game after the injury was tough to watch,” Philippi said. “It was the first game in my career that I had to sit out. It wasn’t sad, but it definitely felt different. It showed me that I had to take on a different type of leadership role this year than I was expecting coming into the season.”

From that first game onward, Philippi took it upon himself to communicate with his teammates every day, but especially with his fellow defensive backs.

He’d help them watch film, and he’d point out anything that he could see from his new vantage point on the sidelines.

In other words, Philippi practiced exactly what he preached.

He turned a negative into a positive by looking forward and by refusing to feel sorry for himself, just as he would’ve done on the field.

“As a [defensive back], you get beat on plays, but if you get down on yourself, that’s going

to affect your play the rest of the game,” Philippi said. “I’m always about the next play and the next step forward. It’s better to not feel bad for yourself.

It’s better to stay positive and to help everyone else around me.”

For some players, such a successful transition and positive outlook would be surprising, but coach Priore wasn’t surprised at all. To him, that’s “just Sam being Sam.” “He’s handled it like a champion. He’s been a great leader on the sidelines. He’s with his teammates everyday,” Priore said. “He’s a very mature young man who understands what it means to lead. Even though it’s been from the sidelines this year, he understands what it means. He has led us in every way possible.”

Beyond just galvanizing and leading his teammates from the sidelines, Philippi works hard individually as part of his rehabilitation process in the hopes of playing football again. If anything, this most recent injury has increased his love for the sport he lost.

“I took the game really, really seriously when I was playing.

Maybe I took it too seriously.

Sometimes I forget that it’s a game and that we’re supposed to enjoy it,” Philippi said. “This year, taking a step back from the game because of my injury, I was able to watch my teammates and to see that this is the game I loved. I realized that I want to keep playing as long as I can and that I can never take any snaps for granted.”

Since the injury came so early in the season, Philippi still has another year of eligibility.

He will hope to return to the field next season as a fifth-year senior.

That right there is the essence of “Sam being Sam.”

POSITION BATTLES >> BACKPAGE

Artalona does not have a returning starter to compete against, with senior Joe Oliva electing to put on more weight to compete in the 157-pound weight class. The No. 7 ranked wrestler in his class by FloWrestling, Artalona has capitalized on the opening created by Oliva’s change.

According to Reina, Artalona is a near lock to start; barring injury, though, fellow freshman Jeremy Ridge and junior Jake Lizak are still in the competition.

Oliva’s move to 157 pounds will not guarantee him a starting spot. Junior Jon Errico, who challenged Oliva for the starting spot last year, will once again push the senior captain.

“The sport of wrestling always requires continued hard work, discipline. You[‘ve] always got to improve year to year,” Oliva said, on once again battling for his starting spot. “We always have a lot of talent in the room, and everyone contributes in different ways, but at the end of the day, there’s going to be 10 guys that compete in dual meets.”

The most wide open weight class is at 184 pounds. It features a tight three-way battle between sophomore Ryan Farber, junior Jalen Laughlin, and senior Robert

ROGER REINA >> BACKPAGE

Reina is not new to the attention associated with having a quality freshman class, however, having done so consistently when he previously served as the team’s head coach from 1986-2005. Between 1993 and 2004, six groups Reina brought to Penn were ranked nationally in the top 20, including the top-ranking recruiting class of 2002.

This year’s rookies come in with some impressive accolades, earning a combined 11 state/national prep championships and 26 state/national prep placements in high school.

Quaker fans have already seen the potential of this class in the Michigan State Open two weeks ago. Rookies Anthony Artalona and Carmen Ferrante captured first and fifth in their respective weight classes, and all nine of the competing freshmen won at least one match at the tournament.

When searching for wrestlers to bring to the program, Reina first looks for a match academically, then how the

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Senior captain Joe Oliva has made the move from 149 to 157 pounds, where he will be competing for a starting spot this year.

Ng. All three struggled at points last season, posting a combined record of 3-18, though Laughlin only wrestled in three matches.

With no clear frontrunner, Reina is eager to use the upcoming tournament as another evaluative tool in determining the eventual starter.

“This weekend at the Keystone we can enter as many guys per weight as we like,” Reina said.

“Our selection process for who ends up getting the starting nods is a combination of the Michigan State Open, the wrestle-offs we’ve had this past weekend, and then the Keystone Classic. Then we are going to evaluate based on that body of work who will be starting in dual meets.”

The only other three-way battle for a starting spot occurs at the

197 weight class between seniors Patrik Garren and Tyler Hall, in addition to freshman Greg Bensley. Hall had a far better record than Garren in dual meets last season even before Garren went down with a season-ending injury. Still, neither are entrenched as starters, giving Bensley a chance to overtake both of the upperclassmen come dual meet season.

With the graduation of a number of all-time greats in addition to the influx of talented freshmen, Reina will have a lot of tough decisions to make when selecting the ten starters. With the first dual meet only a week and a half after the Keystone Classic, the upcoming slate of matches could go a long way in determining how Reina and his staff fill out the lineup.

new athletes would fit with the team. He makes sure to cast his recruiting net wide, looking especially at the Mid-Atlantic region. Reina also isn’t afraid to branch out across the nation, recruiting from as far away as Oklahoma and California this year.

“Penn is the kind of school where we can recruit anywhere in the country,” Reina said. “When you’ve got outstanding young men and a great fit between what they’re interested in doing and what Penn has to offer, it makes tremendous sense to recruit them as well.”

For the wrestlers themselves, there were a host of factors that drew them to the Red and Blue, one of the most important being the quality of teaching they would receive as student-athletes.

“Initially, I narrowed my schools to the top engineering schools, and as I got to meet the coaching staff and got to see the wrestling program, Penn ended up being the best fit wrestling-wise and academically,” Artalona said.

Not many programs can of-

fer the combined athletic and academic rigor that Penn can, and even fewer can say they have a coach with over 20 years of experience on the job.

Central to Reina’s program are the five core pillars he bases his coaching on: character, aiming big, humility, enjoyment, and community matters.

“Those values are what we believe in and how we conduct ourselves, how we attempt to make decisions and how we recruit,” he said. “We’re really clear about communicating those as important aspects of the program.”

It’s exactly these objectives that have attracted many wrestlers to the program. When the whole team buys in to the ideology, the wrestlers can work that much better as a unit.

“I saw a lot of the same values in Coach Reina that I saw in my high school coach, so I felt very comfortable with him,” Ferrante added.

With a star-studded freshman class to bolster the team for years to come, Reina and his wrestlers are ready to take this season on one meet at a time.

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Here’s how referees score the Quakers’ wrestling matches Point system is used to determine match winners BIANCA SERBIN Sports Reporter

On Sunday, Penn wrestling will host the Keystone Classic, Penn’s annual home wrestling tournament. This year’s team is talented, and the Quakers will compete for individual successes on the mat to secure a team win overall.

It might not be clear, however, exactly how all the points add up.

A wrestling match begins with the two opponents in neutral position. Both wrestlers are standing on their feet, and no one has control. From the neutral position, a wrestler earns two points for a takedown. Once control is established by one of the wrestlers, two points can be earned for a reversal, and one point for an

escape.

In the top position, when one athlete has control of the other, he can score additional points by holding his opponent’s shoulder blades past the plane of 90 degrees. At this point, the referee will start to count off back points. Holding his opponent for two seconds, the wrestler can gain two points, and after four seconds, the hold will earn a total of four points.

Similarly, the neutral danger rule applies when no takedown has been awarded but one wrestler finds his back in the vulnerable zone past 90 degrees. After three seconds here, the referee will award a takedown to the athlete who is not in danger and will then begin to count back points.

A pin ends the match, regardless of score. To pin someone, a wrestler must force both his opponent’s shoulder blades to the ground for two seconds.

Whichever wrestler pins the other wins.

Finally, if a contender is winning by 15 points or more at any point during the match, it automatically ends in what is called a technical fall.

In their dual meets this season, Penn will be hoping to accumulate as many team points as possible in individual matches. A match won by eight points or more earns four team points, while winning by less than eight earns three. A technical fall is worth five team points and a pin is worth six.

In this weekend’s tournament, however, the focus will be on each individual’s performance. Team points will be awarded differently than in a dual meet, dependent on how far a wrestler advances in a bracket.

Sunday’s first major competition of the season will put the Quakers’ training to the test.

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To pin an opponent, a wrestler must force both his opponent’s shoulder blades on the mat for two seconds. If he holds his opponent down for that long, he wins the match and earns his team six points.

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It’s a common saying that age brings responsibility. As you gain more wisdom, you’re supposed to become better at different aspects of life, intellectually, athletically, or socially. With age also comes the expectation to lead and to set an example for those around you.

Regina Salmons, who graduated last year, was my senior captain on the women’s rowing team and was the true embodiment of a conventional senior leader. She was someone I looked up to, and I continue to do so. Regina knew the answer to just about everything I ever asked her (she is now training to row in the Olympic Games in 2020).

I’m not that senior. I walked on to the team halfway through my college career completely blind. I went from knowing the ins and outs of field hockey to knowing absolutely nothing about my new sport: rowing. Over my two seasons on the rowing team I have gained quite a bit of knowledge, but I am still just learning the ropes each and every day.

Because of this lack of experience, I have had to consciously think about how I could personally contribute to my team and to the women’s rowing program in general. I am not the senior that other rowers may go to for technical advice, or the senior that freshmen seek out to discuss the hard transition between high school and collegiate rowing, but I’ve had to make an impact in other ways. Who I am as a person and how I attack each day has defined my leadership style. My past

— even if they are younger — and to accept that this process never truly ends. “Senior� can be a restrictive category, but does it really define us?

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My purpose is to set an example of how to attack life when it sends you on an alternative route; one that you were extremely unprepared for and are unable to control.

I want my teammates and others to look at me as a leader who looked adversity straight in the face and chose to press on regardless.

There will always be a time in your life when you don’t know something, and either you humbly accept that you do not know it and do your best to learn, or you will fall behind.

It is a decision everyone will have to make at one point in time. I want my teammates to remember me as someone who did just that.

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REINA KERN is a College senior from Freehold, N.J. She is a member of the women’s rowing team and a sports columnist for The Daily Pennsylvanian. She can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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experiences and hardships have allowed me to support my team in a way that many seniors can’t.

Through my experience, I have learned that there is not one right way to lead. Even if you are still learning and are less experienced than others, you can lead by setting an example of how to respond to constructive criticism.

My story shows that it is possible to give up something you love and to find something new to channel your life into; that age should never hold you back or determine how you go through life, but instead it should be a driving force to better yourself. Yes, it is difficult to embark on a journey where you don’t know the direction or how to reach your destination, but it takes trusting yourself to walk down that path. With rowing, I had to have the humility to know that I would not be the best, but the resilience to know I could get there.

If you want to know exactly how this experience can feel, it’s like every single day I am a freshman again.

There are so many aspects of rowing that I am just coming to learn now with only seven months left in my college career, and some parts of the sport that I have yet to perfect. People look at me and see “senior� because of how old I am, but they do not know my past or how it feels to be in the shoes of someone who is still learning the basics even as they are about to graduate.

My age has become something so minor for me that I almost forget that I am a senior.

During my first few weeks on the team, different girls would come sit next to me on the erg or walk up to me at the boathouse and either instruct me on what to do better or offer their help. Even today, I could sit on an erg next to a freshman and learn something from them.

I’ve come to understand that learning does not stop with age, but rather is a chance to learn from those around you

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Quakers keep perfect season going with win against Lafayette Junior guard Devon Goodman two scrappy offensive rebounds, keeping the play alive just long led the team with 16 points enough for senior guard Antonio ZACK ROVNER Associate Sports Editor

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On Tuesday night, Penn basketball blew out Lafayette, 91-61, to continue its perfect start to the season.

The opening of the first half was closely contested. Through the first 12 minutes of action, Penn (3-0) and Lafayette (1-2) remained locked in a tight 19-19 contest.

But after a turnover-filled, back-and-forth start to the game, the Quakers pulled ahead and never looked back. After a TV timeout, Penn responded with

Woods to make a deep three.

The team then followed this play with a steal and transition dunk by junior guard Devon Goodman, which brought the crowd to a roar. This momentum was the push the Quakers needed to go on a 25-8 run to end the first half.

“This is a unique place. We’ve had guys in the program a long time and they’ve been willing to accept whatever roll [comes their way],” coach Steve Donahue said. “What you don’t see is great development. Devon Goodman is a junior and he’s one of the better guards in the league. He has an opportunity now.”

Goodman’s highlight plays continued all night. To end Penn’s first-half run, Goodman used his quickness to make a buzzer-beating layup with less

than three seconds left on the game clock. He led all scorers with 16 points, including two three-pointers.

“I’m just taking it game by game. One of my keys in going into each game is leading by example and bringing the energy,” Goodman said. “Last year, I came off the bench, and my role has changed a little bit this year.”

The Quakers’ defense stepped up to the challenge against a Lafayette team that was averaging 81.5 points per game coming into Tuesday’s contest. Penn was able to hold Lafayette’s leading scorer, Justin Jaworski, to just seven points and the team to only 61 points, a season low. Before Tuesday, Jaworski was averaging 20.5 points per game.

“For the most part I thought we set the tone, keeping Jaworski and [Alex] Petrie at bay. I thought our defense really ignited our offense,” Donahue said.

Despite its perfect record, Penn has continued to find ways to improve. Coming into Tuesday’s contest, the Quakers were No. 252 in the nation in terms of free throw percentage, making free throws at just a 63 percent rate. Against Lafayette, the Red and Blue shot 88.9 percent, including a perfect five for five in the first half.

The Quakers’ undefeated start has not gone unnoticed. This win comes just one day after Penn received a vote in the AP Top 25 College Basketball poll, although Donahue said he had not heard that Penn got a vote until he was asked about it after the game.

“Other things that go into the work or the qualitative approach of how we do things, how hard we work, execution, that’s kind of how we approach it and this is really just none of that,” Donahue said.

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Starting spots still up for grabs Red and Blue have position battles in nearly every weight class this season MARC MARGOLIS Sports Editor

Sometimes coaches say every spot is up for grabs, even if they don’t mean it.

Penn wrestling coach Roger Reina is not one of those coaches.

Other than the 285-pound weight class, which features only one grappler in freshman Ben Goldin, every dual meet starting spot is truly up for grabs. “[With] the nature of the team that we have this year, we have a lot of unanswered questions in each of those weights,” Reina said. “Typically we’d have a set of core returning guys like last year when we had returning NCAA qualifiers Frank Mattiace and May [Bethea] and Joe Heyob. This year, we have a lot of new faces with the incoming freshmen, a nationally ranked class. We have more unanswered questions, but it’s an exciting opportunity that everyone’s going to have to challenge for those [spots.]”

As it stands now, the current freshman class has a chance to occupy seven of the 10 starting dual meet spots. Aside from Goldin, Carmen Ferrante at 125 pounds, Doug Zapf at 133 pounds, and Anthony Artalona at 149 pounds, are the current frontrunners to start at their respective weights.

Ferrante and Zapf are attempting to unseat returning starters from last season.

Ferrante, the No. 18 ranked recruit in the country at 132 pounds, according to InterMat, will attempt to hold off Dan Planta, who is currently dealing with an injury. Planta will not compete at the Keystone Classic this weekend.

As a starter, he posted a record of 2-3 in dual meets before missing two months of last season to injury. A strong performance from Ferrante this weekend could make it tough for Planta to hold off the talented freshman.

Zapf, one of the best grapplers in Pennsylvania high school wrestling history, currently holds the top spot in the 133-pound weight class with sophomore Gianni Ghione nursing an injury.

Ghione, a 2017-18 second-team All-Ivy selection, was the strongest performer in last year’s freshman class, posting an overall record of 16-9 overall and 11-4 in dual meets. Despite last season’s accolades, Ghione is not a lock to start and, like Planta, could fall further behind in the race depending on Zapf’s performance this weekend.

In his 21st season, coach Roger Reina has recruited a great freshman class WILL DiGRANDE Associate Sports Editor

Expect big things from the wrestlers in the Class of 2022.

Penn wrestling coach Roger Reina has done it again, drawing attention from all across the nation by bringing in one of the strongest recruiting classes the program has seen in years.

This season has seen 13 freshmen join the program, one of the largest classes in the Red and Blue’s history and more than enough to field their own squad.

Not only does the freshman class provide new wrestlers able to practice and improve with the team as a whole, but it has also garnered accolades coming into the season from many experts.

Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine ranked the Red and Blue freshmen as the No. 12 recruiting class in the country, and TheOpenMat.com had them as No. 13, putting Penn on the national radar early in the year. But while preseason hype can be good, the team’s focus is on improvement.

“The fact that it happened pretty quickly has been really encouraging,” Reina said. “I think the rankings are really important and indicative of how people are viewing the program, but what’s more important is how those athletes develop.”

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Pete Renda hoping to translate his illustrious wrestling career to coaching Renda is Penn’s newest assistant coach on staff ISAAC SPEAR Sports Reporter

Just over a year after graduating from North Carolina State, Pete Renda returned to his home state of Pennsylvania as an assistant coach for Penn wrestling with one goal in mind: winning championships.

Renda grew up in Topton, Pa. and wrestled at Brandywine Heights High School, which is just under 70 miles from where he now coaches at the Palestra.

In high school, Renda was a star, amassing an impressive 162-22 record. His senior season was his most impressive, as he went undefeated in 42 matches en route to a Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association 2A championship victory.

“I’m super excited, that’s a big part of why I came back to Pa., [to] give back to the best wrestling in the country,” Renda said.

Pennsylvania has been recognized for a long time as the most difficult state to be a champion wrestler in, but Renda won the 170-pound weight class while only dropping two points in

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Assistant coach Pete Renda is the newest addition to the Penn wrestling coaching staff. He is looking to bring his extensive experience as a wrestler at North Carolina State, where he was an All-American, All-ACC selection, and three-time NCAA Qualifier to his new role at Penn.

state championship matches.

“If you look at kids that go on to win national titles in college, a lot of them come from Pa.,” Renda said.

In college at NC State, Renda continued his outstanding suc-

cess. Among his many accomplishments were an Atlantic Coast Conference championship victory and an All-America selection in 2016.

More impressively, however, Renda was one of the leaders

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of a program turnaround. Just two years before Renda arrived in Raleigh, N.C., the Wolfpack named Pat Popolizio as their new head coach. The team had not won an ACC championship since 2006, but finally finished

atop the conference in 2015, thanks in part to Renda’s leadership as captain.

Not only being present for but also helping lead this culture change gave Renda unique experiences and perspective.

“I got to see that whole culture change at NC State and build a championship culture there,” Renda said. “That’s kind of what we’re in the midst of right now, here… getting everyone to buy in and to believe that they can win national titles.”

Now in his new role, Renda is focused on getting that buy-in from every wrestler that comes into the program.

“What we’re trying to do is just explain [to recruits] the opportunity here right now is to come and be a pioneer on this team, and have that same great experience of helping this team rise up in the ranks of the NCAA,” Renda said.

This philosophy is exactly what makes Renda such a great fit at Penn. Coach Roger Reina sought him out as someone that could teach not only technique, especially to the wrestlers in heavier weight classes, but also what goes into being a leader for a winning program.

“He loves the sport, he understands it inside out, and he has a big heart in terms of committing to developing others to realize their goals,” Reina said.

“He’s got a lot of talents but that’s probably the most important attribute of a great coach.”

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