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Uptick in students joining workforce before law school Students nationwide are entering workforce first SETH SCHUSTER Staff Reporter
Penn Law students are taking time off after college graduation at a higher rate than in previous years, following a national trend toward delaying law school to
join the workforce temporarily. At Penn Law, this phenomenon exists in the pools of both applicants and admitted students. Of the current first-year students at Penn Law, 75 percent have spent one or more years out of school before enrolling in law school. Associate Dean of Admis-
sions and Financial Aid at Penn Law Renee Post wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian that the trend of taking time off before coming to Penn, whether that be to work or to pursue other endeavors, is seen across all applicants. “In recent years we’ve seen an uptick in applicants who do not enroll immediately fol-
lowing the completion of their undergraduate degree,” Post wrote. “This year, for example, 75 percent of our first-year class did not enroll directly from undergrad, which directly correlates to the percentage of applicants in our pool last cycle who have been out of undergrad for at least one year.” When looking at the total
number of Penn students admitted to law school each year, a smaller share of them comes directly from the current graduating class, and a larger share of students are taking time off first. Of Penn undergraduate students admitted to law schools in the 2016-2017 application cycle, 21 percent applied to go to law school directly from Penn
Over Thanksgiving break, ‘highly-aided’ students to receive debit cards for meals The program has received positive feedback
as an undergrad. For the 20152016 application cycle, 25 percent came directly from college, and in 2014-2015, 49 percent enrolled directly from Penn. “This is a somewhat recent trend,” said Career Services Associate Director of Graduate and Professional School AdvisSEE HARVARD PAGE 6
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The fake stabbing incident occurred at Terakawa Ramen on Nov. 13
Students categorized as “highly-aided” will have more subsidized meal options than in previous years for those staying on campus over Thanksgiving break. Approximately 350 highlyaided students will receive reloadable debit cards from Student Registration and Financial Services to pay for meals over the break. This is an increase from the roughly 125 students who participated in the program last year. The students will receive $20 for every day of break that they are on campus, except for Sunday, when they will receive $10 and have access to dining halls and retail dining options. Last year, the program’s availability to “high-need” students sparked confusion about who within the first-generation, lowincome community qualified as high-need. Following the terminology change from “high-need” to “highly-aided,” however, the eligible population for the program will remain the same. “Occasionally, we’ve been able to make exceptions for people with extenuating circumstances, but by and large we’re sticking to the population of highly-aided students,” Director of Communications in the Division of Finance Paul Richards said, adding that there have been “very few” requests from FGLI
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said this option is a considerable improvement from the services provided during her freshman year. Shah, who is highly-aided, remained on
In an apparent prank, two men staged a stabbing in the crowded Terakawa Ramen restaurant on 40th Street, causing some Penn students to flee the crowded restaurant and run outside on Nov. 13. On Nov. 17, Philadelphia Police announced they would issue arrest warrants for the two men involved, with plans to charge them with risking a catastrophe and false reporting, 6ABC reported. The night of the staged stabbing, however, students said police told them the men were not arrested and would not be charged with a crime unless Terakawa pressed charges. At approximately 7:30 p.m., students said a man in his late teens ran into the restaurant screaming, “Somebody help me.” He wore a white shirt with what looked like a large bloodstain. Immediately following him was another man around the same age, who looked like he was about to stab or shoot the other man, students at the restaurant said. Some Penn students fled out the back door while others ducked under the table. One of the students at a table near to the door was Wharton senior Lea Chen. She said that she and her friend dove under the table within 20 seconds of the two men entering the restaurant. “It felt so real, I literally thought I was going to die,” Chen said. Chen said that the man pursuing the other teen was holding something that she believed was a gun or knife. When she emerged from the table, both men had exited the restaurant. Penn students at a nearby table said they saw
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Last spring break, SRFS piloted a program where about 220 students received $20 gift cards to Fresh Grocer for each day on campus. SFRS then modified this program to provide re-loadable debit cards rather than Fresh Grocer gift cards.
students who are not highly-aided to participate in the program. This re-loadable debit card system, Richard said, will be used for Thanksgiving, winter, and spring break for this academic year.
Last spring break, SRFS piloted a program where about 220 students received $20 gift cards to Fresh Grocer for each day they were on campus. Richards said surveys suggested students “almost universally” preferred
the card because of its flexibility. Based on this feedback, Richards said that SRFS then modified this program to provide re-loadable debit cards rather than Fresh Grocer gift cards. College senior Raisa Shah
Wong Fu Productions speaks at APAHW sold-out event They spoke on Asian American representation LAUREN MELENDEZ Contributing Reporter
“Hello, America. I’m an Asian. We’re the ones in your high school that you always wanna cheat off of. And we’re that porn tag you’re not so ashamed about ... you think you know us. And that’s why you never ask about us.” These first few lines of the pilot episode of “Yappie,” the latest television series from Wong Fu Productions, provided a backdrop for the keynote event of Asian Pacific American Heritage Week at Penn. This year, Wong Fu Productions members Wesley Chan, Taylor Chan, and Jessica Lin
came to Penn to talk about challenges of representing Asian Americans in media. Wong Fu Productions spoke to a sold-out crowd at Penn’s Bodek Hall for the keynote event of APAHW, which featured workshops, a cooking contest, and a talent show throughout the week. Wong Fu Productions is an Asian American filmmaking group that got its start on YouTube and now has over 3 million subscribers. The week’s theme was “Dimensions,” which emphasized the need to recognize all people as complex and to recognize the inadequacies of cultural stereotypes, 34th Street Magazine reported. For many in attendance, Wong Fu Productions was the perfect
keynote speaker for this year’s theme. “I think their work is important because it’s a lot of topics that are really relevant to our demographic as Asian Americans and the things that we think about and the struggles that we have,” said Emma Loh, a first-year graduate student and self-proclaimed long-time fan of Wong Fu Productions. “I think that it’s cool to see things that I can relate to that are part of my identity reflected in mass media ... which is something that I really felt like I didn’t have growing up,” Loh said of Wong Fu Productions. The event’s Q&A session addressed stereotypes of Asian Americans and their
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portrayal in media. Sporting a t-shirt that read “remodel minority,” Taylor Chan discussed the difficulties the group encountered when approaching television networks with a pilot version of “Yappie.” “A lot of people just didn’t understand why this story needed to be told,” Chan said. Wesley Chan said the show was created to represent “the stories and voices you haven’t heard and seen on mainstream media for a long time.” “We’re all fighting for the same thing, which is balance,” Wesley Chan said. Wesley Chan said while Asian Americans sometimes do pursue “comfortable” steSEE APAHW PAGE 3
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Penn Libraries initiative Two students were trapped inside Harnwell elevator studies virtual reality The org. aims to bring technologies to 12 Penn schools MARGARET LU Contributing Reporter
Creativity and technology intersect in the University of Pennsylvania’s first cross-campus virtual reality and augmented reality organization: PennImmersive. Formerly a student-run organization, PennImmersive is now a Penn Libraries initiative that has been exposing students to virtual reality throughout the past semester. PennImmersive was co-founded in 2016 by Tian Pei, a 2018 Wharton MBA graduate, with the goal of creating a community for people to learn more about virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D platforms. “We started in 2016 when there wasn’t a significant presence of virtual and augmented reality on campus, and especially not at Wharton,” Pei said. Students who helped found PennImmersive said that they envisioned the organization would help students across Penn experi-
ence virtual reality through conferences, workshops, and other events. “Our vision was to bring immersive technologies to all 12 Penn schools,” past board member and 2018 Wharton MBA and School of Design graduate Isabella Tang said. “We want to create opportunities where we can listen to conversations between academia and industries on all the ways that virtual reality can be important,” added former board member Chloe Snyder, who is a 2018 Engineering M.S. graduate. PennImmersive merged with Van Pelt Library in 2017, where the program hosts workshops for students and faculty to learn about Google Cardboard, a platform in which users experience virtual reality on their smartphones with a headset, and 3D printing. After the student board members graduated in 2018, the Van Pelt Library took over leadership for the project and transformed the organization into a public research project for the Year of Innovation, the Provost’s Aca-
demic Theme for 2017-2018. “We wanted to start an organic initiative to investigate how these technologies may be useful in teaching, research, and learning,” said David Toccafondi, manager of the Vitale Digital Media Lab and the Hechtman Recording Studio. Under the leadership of Penn Libraries, PennImmersive is now committed to creating a community where people can share resources and facilitate research for virtual reality. PennImmersive also regularly hosts workshops and open houses for students to gain first-hand experiences in virtual reality. Although the project was initially planned to be a yearlong initiative, Toccafondi says he sees potential for the project to be long-lasting. “People did not want us to stop. People kept referring people to us. It clearly had a momentum, and I don’t think we could have stopped even if we wanted to,” said Toccafondi.
This is the second entrapment in five months GORDON HO Staff Reporter
Two students were trapped inside a Harnwell elevator for approximately 45 minutes last week. A technician responded to the incident and arrived on scene 26 minutes after the elevator first requested help at 7:19 p.m., Executive Director of Operations and Maintenance of Facilities and Real Estate Services Faramarz Vakili said. Since May, Penn has had to rescue students from brokendown Harnwell elevators on two occasions: once in June and most recently on Nov. 5, Vakili said. In addition, Vakili said an elevator in Harrison experienced an “unfounded entrapment” on Aug. 6, where an elevator broke down with no one inside. Despite these incidents, Vakili said the University should only be concerned with the situation if similar problems occurred three times a month.
The two students trapped in the elevator last week were Wharton senior Melinda Wang and her friend Emily Sun, a senior at Columbia University who was visiting Wang. The two were having dinner in Harnwell’s rooftop lounge before entering the elevator. Sun said the elevator went down a number of floors, but after the doors closed on the 17th floor, it broke down. The elevator went down and then up before eventually stopping a little above the 19th floor, creating a gap of around five feet between the level of the elevator and the floor of the hallway, according to Wang and Sun. In total, Sun said she and Wang waited around 45 minutes in the elevator. Once the technician arrived, Wang said the process was very fast. With help from two Penn police officers, the two jumped down from their higher position inside the elevator to the 19th floor, and then took another elevator to the ground floor. The elevator had no technical issue, but debris appeared in the elevator sill, according to Vakili. Vakili said the two students left “momentarily” after the technician arrived, but he could not provide an
exact time when the two students left the elevator. “In this case for the four elevators to have two entrapments in five months is really not an issue at all,” Vakili said. “I think that the Harnwell elevators are in great shape.” In response, Wang wondered how the school developed the threshold, and asked what the school would do to address the concern if the threshold were passed. “I just want to re-emphasize that in all opinions, Harnwell elevators are in excellent shape,” Vakili said. “We have a very robust, preventive maintenance program, state inspections have identified zero defects, and a record of technical problems with these elevators [is] very, very, very good.” According to an email sent to Harnwell residents on Thursday afternoon, an elevator will be offline from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday for maintenance work. In the email, Building Administrator Max E. Reyes-Rosario said the work involves “the removal of dust, dirt, or debris in the elevator tracks that may have accumulated overtime,” in order to “ensure that the elevators are running more smoothly and efficiently.”
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Penn profs collaborate with Phila. policymakers Using behavioral science, projects target city issues CLAIRE OCHROCH Contributing Reporter
Professors and students at Penn are working with the mayor’s office to create low-cost and efficient policies to solve local issues. The Philadelphia Behavioral Science Initiative was created with the purpose of bringing academics and government officials together to create data-driven, evidenceinformed policies. Professors from Penn along with many other local institutions helped devise experiments to solve Philadelphia-specific problems such as littering and voting turnout. “We try to partner with the city of Philadelphia to harness insights that are emerging from the behavioral sciences [and] social sciences, to help the city of Philadelphia better do its work,” said Daniel Hopkins, Penn professor of Political Science. One of the projects PBSI is working on is the Zero Waste and Litter project, which Mayor Jim Kenney announced in 2017 and which has seen promising results. “In one neighborhood we saw that distributing recycling bins with lids ended up with increasing the recycling tonnage that was collected by over half a ton each
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reotypical paths, the problem lies with media representation, which often perpetuate stereotypes. “The problem is in entertainment, we’re only seeing the ones that are pre-med and have accents and are awesome at martial arts. Wong Fu’s fight has really been to balance the other side ... not the kung fu-fighting math wizards. The best thing you can do is hope the other side will listen when you try to educate them.” “I think it can show that
week,” said Anjali Chainani, director of Policy in the Mayor’s Office. College junior Justin Iannacone worked in City Hall last semester and helped the Zero Waste and Litter project strategize how best to incentivize people not to litter. To do so, he analyzed Philadelphia neighborhoods using software which integrated spatial and map analysis. “We were testing to see, using behavioral science, what were the most effective ways to encourage people to stop littering and dumping trash,” he said. Philosophy, Politics, and Economics professor Douglas Paletta also sought to work with Philadelphia and, through Hopkins and Chainani, he connected with the Office of Sustainability. The project he works on is called Beat the Heat, which aims to find the best ways to help people deal with overwhelming temperatures. Paletta said that, initially, project’s team wanted to figure out the best way to have people stay at cooling centers long enough to lower their core body temperatures. However, when they did a survey of people dealing with heat problems, they found an issue with their original intention. “It turned out [that] when it’s really hot, people tend not to leave their homes,” Paletta said. Looking ahead to the next elec-
Asians aren’t one-dimensional and that we’re just the same as anyone else,” attendee and College freshman Kelly Chen said. She also described her experiences with racism and said she has been met with racial slurs while “out on the street.” At the event, the first two episodes of “Yappie” were screened and selected audience members attended a meet and greet with Wong Fu Productions. The show portrays the life of a “young Asian professional” as he attempts to combat the stereotype that depicts Asians as a “model minority.”
tion, another project that the PBSI is starting to work on is how to increase voter turnout in Philadelphia. “We’re going to be looking at how we can re-engage voters, specifically [those] who have voted in the past, but who have failed to show up in recent elections,” Chainani said. The project will attempt to increase turnout through mailers. “We’re going to have the city send an official mailer,” Hopkins said. “We’re now in discussions with our colleagues in the city and the city commissioner’s office to try to figure out what’s the right kind of language that is likely to promote voter turnout among Philadelphia residents.” Hopkins said PBSI is a good opportunity for academics to test whether their theoretical ideas can make a difference. “Much of the time, we don’t get to test our ideas ... in a real world test case. Instead, we use surveys or we use online simulations,” Hopkins said. “And so it’s a really neat opportunity to take these ideas which we’ve been debating and see how this actually works in practice.” Last month, PBSI held a conference at Perry World House, here on Penn’s campus. “The best part about the conference is that it genuinely provided
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academics with interested and engaged city officials,” he said. “And I just think the more of that the better. I think it tends to make for better research and tends to make for better policy when everything goes well.”
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Politicians have gotten too comfortable with racially coded attacks OPENING ARGUMENTS | African American and Jewish political operatives are under attack
MONDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2018 VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 56 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
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he rise of Donald Trump has changed everything. Facts are false. Reporters are traitors. Political adversaries are unpatriotic. And, perhaps worst of all, racism and bigotry have stepped out of the shadows into the spotlight. This election we saw an unprecedented amount of racially coded and anti-Semitic remarks and attacks targeting Jewish and black political figures. Jewish candidates running for office have come under attack from Republican opponents, depicting them as money-hungry and greedy — a classic anti-Semitic stereotype. In Pennsylvania, Republican State Rep. Todd Stephens ran ads of his opponent, Sara Johnson Rothman, holding stacks of $100 bills. It also dropped her maiden name, Johnson, leaving only the one she took when she married her Jewish husband,
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Scott Rothman. In a close race in the state of Washington, Republicans illustrated Democratic candidate Kim Schrier, who is Jewish, holding a stack of $20 bills. And in Connecticut, a Republican State Senate candidate sent out mailers that painted his Jewish opponent, Democrat Matthew Lesser, as a greedy candidate clutching a fistful of
too many examples to count. Similarly, black candidates and political commentators were subjected to bizarre and offensive remarks. In Florida, Republican Governor-elect Ron DeSantis faced fierce backlash in August when, in a Fox News interview, he said of his election: “The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a social-
ist agenda.” His opponent, Tallahassee mayor, Andrew Gillum, is black. President Trump’s agriculture secretary, Sonny Perdue, also had something to say about the Florida governor’s election. At a rally for DeSantis, he described it as “so cotton-picking” important. In a heated Fox News exchange, commentator and unabashed Trump supporter, David Bossie, said to black Democratic strategist, Joel Payne, “You’re out of your cotton-picking mind.” Comments like these hark back to an era I thought we had evolved from. Donald Trump and his ilk have helped the United States political environment devolve to a less inclusive and darker time. As would be expected, virtu-
ally all of the Republicans who made these comments claimed their remarks had nothing to do with race or religion or the centuries-long stereotypes and insults about African Americans and Jews. Let us not forget the long history that such sentiments represent. If non-Jewish candidates were depicted as money-hungry, crazed people, these attacks would be merely tasteless because of the lack of history attached to them. But these are precisely some of the harmful and wrong anti-Semitic stereotypes that were banished from the mainstream decades ago. So when Republicans use these very same attacks against Jews, it is impossible to separate them from that history. The same goes for the remarks
about African Americans. The long history of terrorism that African Americans were subjected to in this country involved comparing them to monkeys and using phrases such as cotton picking. So when only black candidates are subjected to such rhetoric, it is equally impossible to separate from that history. At worst, these various comments were made with black and Jewish stereotypes explicitly in mind. At best, they were made with black and Jewish stereotypes lurking in the subconscious. Either way, they have no place in politics. Many people castigate these race-baiting candidates or operatives, yet continue to support them. We cannot let political leanings stifle our innate sense of decency. While there is nothing new about racism or anti-Semitism, this normalization of hatred must be stopped in its tracks. Trump has made open prejudice in politics acceptable again — a throwback to an undemocratic era. MICHAEL A . KESHMIRI is a College senior from Stockholm, Sweden studying political science. His email address is mkesh@sas. upenn.edu.
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hat started as a class double counting for History and Tradition and Cross Cultural Analysis, “Introduction to Modern India” has become part of a greater journey of understanding who I am and what values I stand for. Growing up in the United States, being Indian and American were dualistic parts of my identity. But there was an imbalance, because I knew one so much more than the other. My Indian identity was on paper. Still, if someone had asked me to explain Indian politics, or history, or to write in my native language, I would probably respond with a blank stare. My parents have always told me to hold on to one’s culture and make sure it’s passed down. I was reassured that these cultural values would help me face any
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I started to fully appreciate the other part of my identity beyond boxes on the demographic section on an application.” challenge I faced. Yet, I sometimes questioned the benefit of learning more about my identity. Sometimes it’s much easier to be like everyone else in the room. Sometimes it’s easier to not draw attention to yourself. Sometimes
target of harassment. It’s easier to not challenge the status quo. In a time when there is increasing globalization and cultures are being homogenized, it’s easier for many identities to be overshadowed. It becomes that
much more important to study and embrace them. Even if not your own culture, then learning about another culture is an amazing experience. Beyond learning about customs and practices, you will gain skills that help you in whatever field you choose to go into. Although there are innumerable skills that can be gained from critical thinking and analysis to attention to detail, there is one that stands out among the crowd: empathy. The more South Asia studies classes I have taken, the more I have learned about the history of my ancestors. And it was through this that I started to fully appreciate the other part of my identity
beyond boxes on the demographic section on an application. Education in high school is pretty standardized. We learn history from one perspective. But there are so many other moving parts in history and other cultures that are pieces of the puzzle. Taking these classes has allowed me to learn about why certain cultural traditions have been passed down and why certain rituals are performed. It’s allowed me to learn about the history of India from the seeds of the Indus Valley civilization passing through colonialism to the current state it is now and the political intricacies at play. I have seen how prominent
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works of literature in Mahabharata and Ramayana have come to play a significant influence in cultural tradition and practices. It’s given me answers to questions that I had always wondered: Why does India have so many languages — 23 official and 121 languages with more than 10,000 speakers? Why are there so many sects of Hinduism? It has given me answers to some of the questions I have always had. But it has also opened doors to learning about other cultures. Cultural studies in general allow you to understand how other people think, their philosophies, and why they practice certain traditions in the manner that they do. Empathy is a skill that can be improved and one that is needed even more in this day and age when it is constantly threatened. JAY SHAH is a College senior from New Hyde Park, N.Y. in the Biological Basis of Behavior Program. He is the former Vice President of the Undergraduate Assembly. His email is shahjay@sas.upenn.edu.
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International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day GUEST COLUMN BY NATHAN A. COCKRUM
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he Saturday before Thanksgiving is a little-known day set aside to support those who have lost someone to suicide. International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day was started by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention as a means “postvention” care. In keeping with the Foundation’s mission of prevention, the objective of the day is to bring survivors together to share stories, de-stigmatize suicide, and encourage healing. To that end, this is my story. At 9:50 a.m. on Thursday, July 12, 2018, I woke to my phone buzzing across the nightstand. I had left it on silent and overslept on my day
In that very moment my life changed forever. My amazing, vibrant, gorgeous mother ended her own life. My mom’s death inflicted a trauma upon me so powerful that I cannot close my eyes without seeing her lifeless body and bruised face in the casket. Worse still, I have nightmares of the horror my brother experienced when he found her. I suffer from panic attacks, anxiety, and depression. My understanding of this world is forever changed. In that moment, I became an unwitting survivor, thrust into a battle I did not provoke with an enemy I do not understand. My mom saved me from the pit of my personal despair in my younger years, and I felt this
Family defined my mom’s life, and hers was large, and unending.” off. I grabbed the phone and was shocked to see 35 missed calls. I scrambled to unlock my phone as it rang again. I answered and heard my brother. Silenced by his tears, he handed the phone to his wife, and I then learned my mom was dead. It took several long seconds of disbelief and denials for me to accept reality. What came next, however, caused my knees to give way and my body to collapse. As calmly as her emotions would allow, she told me Mom died by suicide.
should have been me, not her. This never should have happened. There is a misconception that those who kill themselves live dark, seedy lives filled with secrets and skeletons shoved into proverbial closets. However, this is most often untrue. Mom’s younger years were far from idyllic, but she was every bit the woman she was perceived to be. She was an accomplished professional, a loving mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt, and a
of a beloved is an amputation.” I would argue the suicide of a beloved is a vivisection. Research shows us that the suicide of a beloved increases the suicidality of the survivor. If we are to end the cycle, we must break through the burdens and the silence. I ask you, join us, not just on days like Saturday, but every day. You do not have to make a profound gesture or grand statement. You do not need the “right words.” You just need to listen with open arms, and an open heart. Love will do the rest.
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devout Christian. She ensured that her children grew up with memories that were defined by her unconditional love. Family defined my mom’s life, and hers was large, and unending. Consequently, I have not been able to reconcile the contradiction that is her life and death. In life, Mom was able to leverage her faith to conjure an unconquerable strength in the face of adversity. She was strong when it seemed impossible. I have come to regret not challenging her facade of infallibility. But I still believe her real superpower was her unending generosity, and she remains my superhero. However, I have realized she was all too
human. Perfect in her imperfections, yet in death, capable of inflicting an incredible pain. I’ll never fully understand, but my love for her remains as unconditional as hers for me. Despite my love, I am ashamed to say that one of the hardest things for me has been talking about how she died. The day we sat as a family at the funeral home, I was very vocal about not wanting to hide the details of her death. I thought doing so was contrary to an undeniable “truth” about mental health. Now, however, when asked about it, I find that stigma and shame guide my voice, and I retreat in to secrecy and isolation. Every encounter with
a well-wisher is invariably a tap dance around the truth, and I navigate pleasantries hoping to hide my shame. I hope my silence will conceal my guilt. Grief, guilt, stigma, and shame are the survivor’s burden. They define the walls of my prison and are the only constants in my new normal. I spend my days surrounded by hundreds, but my prison leaves me in isolation. The silence is my torture. I wake daily to face my new truth in the darkness of a society that stigmatizes my struggle. I know that I must move forward, but how does one progress in a silent isolation? C.S. Lewis wrote “the loss
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Penn’s investment in fossil fuels contradicts its commitment to love
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he LOVE sculpture presumably serves as a bright red reminder to those of us walking up and down Locust walk that we live in an open-handed, compassionate place that cares about our livelihood and future. In this same vein, President Amy Gutmann began the Nov. 9 University Board of Trustees meeting by praising Penn’s determination to find Love in response to two recent passings of an alumnus and
GUEST COLUMN BY MAEVE MASTERSON a former trustee. The insurmountable Love that the University absorbed and dispersed these past few weeks, Gutmann declared, was Penn acting “at its best.” When hearing these words, I couldn’t help but reflect back on the last statement made in the assigned summer reading, “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” for Penn’s freshman class: “There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
It is through this staunch commitment to Love, and all the moral obligations attached to that commitment, that I so sourly draw your attention to the major setbacks that Fossil Free Penn has experienced these past few weeks and its resulting silent demonstration at this very same meeting. A few weeks before the Trustees’ meeting, the Steering Committee refused to formally review FFP’s new proposal for divestment from the coal and tar sand industries — a
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decision cruelly declared just after the United Nations released their Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which warned that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius requires a decrease in fossil fuel investment by a quarter by the time I am 38 years old. This is not Love. As the Trustees silently flooded into a lavishly decorated room at the Inn at Penn last Friday, so too did 60 students armed with posters. Squeezed into the back corner, we were separated from the long table of Trustees by a stanchion. It was a measure of security that I rather ruthlessly interpreted to be the Board’s attempt to seem “untouchable,” likening themselves to an original masterpiece on display and worthy of the same “No Touching” rules. While listening to proud announcements of distinguished faculty research on tobacco advertisements (despite Penn’s investments in tobacco companies), a newly nominated dean dedicating his practice to social justice, an alumna’s environmental stewardship, and countless other accomplishments, I couldn’t help but find the whole jamboree a matter of pure irony laden with contra-
dictions. The accusatory words on our posters, reminding the Trustees that they are actively “funding climate change,” violently contrasted the celebration of Penn’s many achievements in the realm of social and environmental justice. And as much as I wish it untrue, the extent to which Penn embodies any dedication and commitment to Love is starkly diminished when considering the University’s financial motives that so fiercely compromise its own students’ futures. Here is where I’ll call attention to what went unspoken and unquestioned at the meeting. First and foremost, Penn’s billion-dollar endowment continues to reap returns from investments in the fossil fuel industry, and is thus funding a primary driver of climate change — no questions asked. Second, the privilege granted to Penn students, whether it be through our scholarship, our University-funded research, or our study-abroad experiences, comes at a cost to the planet’s natural resources without our consent. Indulging in the opportunity to finally release a week’s worth of repressed anger and anxious confusion, I begged for eye contact with a trustee to hold responsible.
A trustee who, when their eyes met mine, would cowardly withdraw in fear. And in this moment, I stood appalled — no longer at the Board of Trustees, but at myself. This is not Love. Seated behind crystal bowls with glinting candy wrappers, it seems the matter of climate change is simply too distant to care about, let alone incite a Trustee to boldly acknowledge our invading presence in the midst of such a celebratory meeting. With the current trend of the trustees’ blatant disregard for student concerns, and the rejection of our second divestment proposal so early in the evaluation process, it seems that climate change doesn’t quite reach the top of the Board’s agenda. So each time you walk past the LOVE statue, question whether Penn truly embraces this commitment. Because in light of Fossil Free Penn’s struggles these past few weeks, it seems this monument has lost a bit of its spark. MAEVE MASTERSON is a College freshman from Chicago studying environmental studies. Her email address is mmaeve@sas.upenn. edu.
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Penn Biology professor Dorothy Cheney dies Cheney, a renowned scientist, died Nov. 9 JENNIFER LEE Contributing Reporter
Dorothy Cheney, renowned scientist and Penn Biology professor, died Nov. 9 at age 68. Cheney studied the social behavior and psychology of primates, and her research revealed that the thinking of primates is more complex than was previously expected in the scientific community. Penn professor emeritus Robert Seyfarth, who was married to Cheney, told The New York Times she died from breast cancer. The two were partners in their research, traveling together often to conduct research.
Most recently, they traveled to Botswana to study social hierarchies within wild baboon populations. They published their baboon studies on their curated research website. Cheney has been at Penn since 1985 and has previously taught courses on evolutionary biology, animal psychology, and behavior. She has co-written numerous books on primate behavior including “Baboon Metaphysics” and “The Social Origins of Language.” She is also a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences. Cheney was interested in studying the complex social relationships that exist between primates such as monkeys, gorillas, and baboons, according to her staff page
on Penn’s website. In addition to Botswana, she has traveled to countries such as Kenya for research. While Cheney intended to become a lawyer upon graduating college, she switched disciplines after an impressionable trip to South Africa with her husband, who was conducting research there in 1971, The New York Times reported. She soon became a leading expert in the field shortly after receiving a PhD in zoology from Cambridge University. “Cheney was a spectacular scientist,” her colleague Robert Sapolsky, who is a neurology and neuroscience professor at Stanford University, told the New York Times.
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ing Mia Carpiniello. “But, for several years we have seen the majority of our applicants taking time before starting law school.” There was a noticeable uptick in the number of students who took time to work before coming to school, Harvard Law School Assistant Dean for Admissions and Chief Admissions Officer Kristi L. Jobson told the Harvard Crimson earlier this fall. She added that the percentage of students with work experience is nearly reversed from what it was when she was in law school. Eighty-two percent of all current first-year law students at Harvard spent at least one year working before starting school. “When I was a 1L, my class was almost 60 percent straight from college,” Jobson told the Crimson. “It’s almost a flip of what it used to be.” The trend is also seen on New York University’s campus, where 77 percent of all first-year law students have spent one or more years out of college before enrolling in law school. Of these students, 16 percent spent five
or more years out of school before heading to NYU. Jobson also said Harvard is now placing more emphasis on real-work experience when reviewing applicants at the law school. Post said Penn Law, though not explicitly weighing work experience more heavily than before, has seen a jump in the number of students enrolled with prior time in the workforce. “Penn Law’s Admissions Committee considers numerous factors in the admissions process, including a student’s academic record, course selection and grade trends, standardized test score, letters of recommendation, leadership, community service, extracurricular activities, professional and life experiences, and the applicant’s examples of written expression (standardized test writing sample, personal statement, and optional essays),” Post wrote in her statement. In reviewing Penn’s matriculants over the last few years, Carpiniello said the decision to work before enrolling in law school is a highly individualized and a personal choice – one that can be attributed to a variety of reasons. “Some want to explore a field outside of the law before embarking on their legal education, others want to work within the
legal field to gain exposure to the profession before they start law school,” Carpiniello said. “Some law school applicants choose not to apply in their senior year because they feel their application to law school will be stronger if they wait to apply, giving them more time to take the LSAT, include their senior year grades, gain additional life experience, etc.” Carpiniello said while she can’t say that it is universally beneficial for all applicants to take time off before enrolling in law school, many applicants will be “stronger, more mature, and feel more ready for law school” if they take time after graduation. “But, some students feel ready to go straight to law school after graduating Penn. It really depends on the individual applicant and this is something we discuss with students in our pre-law advising appointments,” she added. Among those students is College senior Nicole Rubin, who said she does not need any more time to decide what career path she wants to follow. “I am not taking time off because I am very certain that this is what I want to do,” Rubin said. “I’ve always been an extremely career-oriented person, and if I could start my legal career tomorrow I would.”
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The Eastwick community is also affected by pollution CONOR MURRAY Contributing Reporter
Flooding, soil contamination, and air pollution have plagued residents of the Eastwick neighborhood in southwest Philadelphia. A group of Penn faculty and students are taking action to change that. Landscape architect and Urban Studies lecturer Michael Nairn said that since 2012, he has worked with colleagues and local residents in bringing neighborhood concerns to city officials. He said that because Eastwick is situated among the Schuylkill River, Delaware River, and two other creeks, the land is dangerously prone to flooding, especially during large storms. “The problem with the land is that it’s all within [Federal Emergency Management Agency]’s special flood hazard area,� Nairn said. Nairn added that Eastwick’s wide scope of issues date back to when the neighborhood was redeveloped in the 1950s as part of a large urban renewal project. Over 8,300 people were displaced as their homes were torn down, and this opened the door for regular flooding issues as the more modern buildings were built on wetland. However, flooding is not the only environmental issue threatening Eastwick. Some Penn faculty and students are examining the health implications of nearby landfills and energy plants. One of the alleged polluters include the Philadelphia International Airport.
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campus that year over break because of the spike in flight prices back to her home state of New Mexico. She also said that other than a free dinner at the Greenfield Intercultural Center and access to the GIC food pantry, there were not many resources for FGLI students during that Thanksgiving break. “FGLI resources have developed so much since my freshman year here,� Shah said. “A lot of these things that exist now did not exist that year.� For the past two Thanksgiving
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Flooding is not the only environmental issue threatening the Eastwick community. Penn faculty and students are examining the health implications on the community by nearby landfills and energy plants.
Marilyn Howarth, director of the Community Engagement Core at the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology at Penn Medicine, said residents feel that soil contamination and air pollution have been harming their health. In their research, Howarth and collaborators from health and environmental protection groups such as the Center for Disease Control and and Pennsylvania’s Department for Environmental Protection found the soil contamination was “in people’s yards,� not just in the landfills, Howarth said. Despite Eastwick’s various environmental issues, recent reports by PlanPhilly indicate the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority will
survey a 130-acre parcel of land in Eastwick for residential and commercial development. The PRA argues development will not worsen flooding issues. Nairn and Howarth disagree. “Recognizing that there already is not enough capacity for storm water to be absorbed within wetlands, increasing the amount of impervious ground, which would certainly happen with any development, could only make the problem worse,� Howarth said. Nairn’s current work in Eastwick involves pushing back against the PRA’s plans for development. “They run the risk ... of worsening any flooding in the low parts of Eastwick,� he said. “Water goes
breaks, highly-aided students had the option to pick up free packaged meals at Gourmet Grocer, a service which was spearheaded by Penn Dining and SRFS. Penn Dining also provided a similar service last winter break, when high-need students could pick up free meals from the Sheraton Hotel. College junior Sebastian Gonzalez said that while this program was generally beneficial, students had limited choices for their meals. Gonzalez, who is the internal outreach chair for Penn First, also noted that not all students who participated in the program had microwaves to heat up their food.
“It wasn’t a flexible program,� Gonzalez said. Richards also echoed this statement. “I think students were really grateful that the University was trying to address this problem,� Richards said. “But I think rightfully they pointed out some issues with it that made it a little more challenging.� Gonzalez said this program has received positive feedback from students and is a definite improvement from the prior system. “I think they definitely took a lot of what students had to say into account,� Gonzalez said.
where it’s going to go, not where you particularly want it to go.� Amid all of the environmental and health issues in Eastwick, some Penn students working in the neighborhood are focused on keeping residents informed. Master of Public Health student Melissa Ostroff has conducted her required field work in Eastwick, working to facilitate access to information about remediation processes for residents. “There’s just so many different groups that are involved in Eastwick ... and I think that the people in that neighborhood deserve to be kept in the loop as much as possible about what’s going on,� Ostroff said.
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Penn’s women’s basketball was more than hungry for a win this weekend as the Quakers gobbled up the competition in its last game before Thanksgiving break. Penn made sure that NJIT left the Palestra still searching for its first win by demolishing the Highlanders, 85-42. This is the fourth straight time the Red and Blue (3-1) have defeated NJIT (04) in nine all-time meetings. The Quakers have relied on their ability to dominate the paint this season, and today was no different. The team out-rebounded NJIT 46-37, was plus-14 in the paint, and plus-seven on second-chance points. Additionally, the threepoint line was extra friendly to Penn on Saturday. After only shooting 24 percent from behind the arc coming into Saturday’s contest, the Red and Blue went 12 of 24 from deep. Senior guard Ashley Russell was the story today, as number 25 went for 25 points, going a perfect 4 of 4 from three after starting the season 1 of 6 from deep. “I kind of just let the shots come to me instead of trying to force them. I knew I had been off in the last few games, but I was just letting them come to me. I had wide open shots so I had to take them,� Russell said. “I wasn’t letting me missing shots in the last few games get to my head or anything.� On the defensive side of the ball, Penn’s stout 2-3 zone did as expected, holding the Highlanders to only 20 points in the paint. Also, quick hands in the passing lanes led to 17 total forced turnovers and 21 points
There were concerns early this season about who would replace last year’s star power for Penn women’s basketball, but senior captain Ashley Russell has quickly put them to rest. The guard put up a combined 51 points in the team’s three games last week, including a career-high 25 against NJIT to cap it off. Russell wasn’t just productive at the basket, however, adding 19 rebounds and 12 assists on the week as well.
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Senior forward Princess Aghayere recorded 12 points and six rebounds in just 19 minutes for the Quakers
off those turnovers. However, even more impressive was the Red and Blue’s ability to contest three-pointers while staying with the zone throughout, allowing the Highlanders to only make 5 out of 29 attempts on the game. “We do a lot of talking as coaches at them during the game,â€? coach Mike McLaughlin said. “We talked about them knowing who is coming on the baseline, what number that kid is and if they are defined as a shooter ‌ We told them, the key is you guys have to grow up, we can help them along, and I thought I saw that tonight.â€? To start, the Highlanders converted a quick three and a couple of layups in the paint to go up 7-4. However, the Quakers responded quickly. A quick layup by sophomore center Eleah Parker and a driving pull-up from Russell gave the Quakers their first lead of the game — a lead the Red and Blue wouldn’t relinquish for the rest of the contest. The Quakers turned this 4-0 run into a 17-2 run when junior guard Phoebe Sterba hit her second three of the quarter, and the
team as a whole began to heat up from behind the arc. For the rest of the game, Penn was very comfortable letting its opponent take threes, as the Highlanders went 2 for 13 from three in the first half and 5 for 29 the entire game against the Quakers’ 2-3 zone. At the end of the first half, the Quakers were up 51-19. The domination continued in the second half, and the Red and Blue were able to see some production from their bench players. “We had five freshmen in the end, and everyone was able to see the court,â€? McLaughlin said. “I told them, now we can evaluate you guys ‌ I thought that was the best part. Last quarter, no stress.â€? Penn’s offense is twodimensional, and with threepoint shooters in the team’s arsenal, the offense has opened up the season hot and should continue to be one of the top three teams in the Ivy League going forward.
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Pearson to get us on the board,� Priore said. “Nick did a great job. He missed the first three [passes of the drive] and then sort of gathered again and hit Tyler Herrick on a great play.� After the two teams traded punts, Princeton extended its lead to 28-14 on another touchdown from Jesper Horsted. When the Quakers took the field again, though, it wasn’t Nick Robinson behind the center; instead, sophomore quarterback Ryan Glover was back in the game. Priore defended his decision to put Glover at quarterback at postgame. “Well it was just a rotation and quite frankly, but our thought was that we’ve been playing them both throughout the season and during this game and we wanted to continue that,� Priore said. “Not any one of [the quarterbacks] was the main problem, we just didn’t function collectively as well as a team. But I’m very high on both of them. They’re both fine young men and they work really hard.� Glover threw an interception on the next drive — though Penn got the ball right back on a leaping grab by freshman cornerback Mohammed Diakite — before going three-and-out on his next drive. Princeton, meanwhile, con-
tinued to pile up points, scoring two more touchdowns en route to a 42-14 final score. After using explosive plays to get ahead of the Quakers early, the Tigers were extremely effective at running down the clock in the fourth quarter. Their final two touchdown drives took over 11 minutes and featured 19 running plays. Surace remarked that their last touchdown drive was “one of the best [he’d] ever seen.� At quarterback, Priore stuck to rotating between Glover and Robinson like he has for most of the season. He maintained that the quarterback situation contained more than meets the eye. “Nick [Robinson] in the early part of the year was hampered by a hamstring pull and told us he couldn’t play. So we stuck with Glover,� Priore said. “They both manage the game differently and have different playing styles, strengths and weaknesses. But truth be told, it’s more than just that one position. I think there’s a lot of other positions we have to take a look at as we look to restock and reload as we had into the offseason.� Princeton may have taken the title this year. But with things looking up, Penn will look to take the cheese next season.
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STEVE BILSKY was Penn’s Athletics Director from 1994 to 2014. He graduated Penn in 1971 and was an All-Ivy guard for men’s basketball and and is a member of the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame and the Big 5 Hall of Fame.
The Palestra court, Franklin Field turf, and Penn Relays name should never be shared with any corporate entity. Otherwise, we’ll be like everyone else. Is this the outcome we desire? I do not want to see our marketing and advancement efforts handcuffed. I’m sure there are other ways to utilize the Palestra and Franklin Field in revenue enhancement strategies, that don’t come at the expense of cheapening our classic venues.
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institutional history, it is surprising that, in this case, dollars seemed to outweigh sentiment and tradition. No one knows more than I do about the challenge of funding an immense enterprise like Penn Athletics and Recreation. In fact, I was approached several times about naming the Palestra floor. Once, a senior University official approached me about a potential donor who was considering making a $25 million gift to Penn, the caveat being it had to include the naming of the Palestra. I admit I was initially tempted, but ultimately told the official that the Palestra was not for sale.
Collegiate sports have been totally consumed by commercialism ranging from the neverending number of media timeouts to historic football bowls now being named Chick-fil-A, Tostitos, and Weed-Eater. It is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish a college game from a pro game. The Palestra has hosted more college basketball games than any other arena. Franklin Field was the country’s first two-tiered stadium and the oldest stadium still operating for football games. The Penn Relays is the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States. We are so lucky that these treasures all belong to Penn. However, with these blessings come responsibilities.
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attempts from beyond the arc, Russell also led the team in rebounds and assists, with eight and four respectively. The senior exploded with 21 points in the first half, already tying her personal-best mark by the break. She alone was responsible for an 11-0 run over a span of about two minutes in the second quarter that put the game away for good. Russell and the team were never challenged, and Penn won easily 85-42. Over the team’s first four games, Russell has stepped up and leads the team in points, rebounds, and assists. Her stellar performances have allowed the Quakers to get off to a fast start this season, earning her DP Sports Player of the Week in the process.
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Russell and the Quakers faced a stiff early-season test against No. 1 Notre Dame on Monday, but they didn’t go down easily. Against one of the strongest defenses in the country, Russell led the way for Penn and scored a team-high 15 points, but her efforts were not enough for the upset as the Irish won 75-55. Thursday’s game against Big 5 rival Saint Joseph’s saw Russell do less on her own and get more help from her teammates, but her 11 points and careerhigh five assists were still valuable to the 65-45 win. The Braintree, Mass. native wasn’t content with two strong showings, though, and had her best game on Saturday. Putting up a career-best 25 points, including hitting all four of her
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be the last time Horsted laid foot in the end zone. On the three ensuing drives, Horsted found the end zone: on a 42-yard pass, a 19-yard run, and a 3-yard pass. He’d score again in the second half on a 20-yard pass. Horsted, who set the record for most receptions in Princeton history, maintained that he wasn’t focused on getting in the record books. “Yeah it’s cool. I think when I’m older I’ll be more excited about that. But more importantly I’m more excited about going 10-0,� Horsted said. After Horsted’s 19-yard rushing touchdown, Princeton stretched its lead to 21-0. On the ensuing possession, though, the Quakers saw a burst of life: junior quarterback Nick Robinson threaded the needle between two defenders on a 27-yard pass to senior wide receiver Christian Pearson. On the Quakers’ next drive, Robinson connected with junior wide receiver Tyler Herrick for a 69 yard touchdown to cut the Tigers’ lead to 21-14. Priore lauded Robinson’s performance at postgame. “[Nick Robinson] did a great job to get us back in the game with that pass to Christian
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Rebounds grabbed by Penn men’s basketball in a 78-71 win over Northern Iowa. The total is the fewest rebounds in a win since 2011-12, when the Red and Blue grabbed just 17 against Harvard.
Freshmen wrestlers who medalled in their weight classes at the Keystone Classic by placing in the top six. Three upperclassmen also earned that distinction.
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Quakers outmatched by No. 12 Kansas State in Paradise Jam CARTER THOMPSON Associate Sports Editor
The Red and Blue had a chance to make paradise even sweeter. But unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be. Penn men’s basketball fell to No. 12 Kansas State, 64-48, in the semifinals of the Paradise Jam basketball tournament in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The game was closer than the final score indicated, as the Wildcats (4-0) separated themselves late once the game was out of hand. Junior guard Devon Goodman once again led the Quakers in scoring with 18 points in the contest. “I thought we really competed well,” coach Steve Donahue said. “But we’re disappointed, we didn’t execute like we can. We didn’t play well with the ball … give them credit that’s what they did to us.” The Wildcat’s defense was as good as advertised and it stifled the Quakers (4-1) throughout the contest. The Red and Blue committed 19 turnovers and only scored 48 points after averaging roughly 83 points over their first four games. Kansas State forward Makol Mawien wreaked havoc in the paint all night. Mawien recorded four blocks to go along with eight rebounds, and he held junior forward AJ Brodeur and senior forward Max Rothschild to a combined six points.
Both teams got off to a slow start offensively in the first half. At the halfway point, Penn was 9 for 28 from the field and including a 2 for 13 mark from downtown. Fortunately for the Quakers, Kansas State was not much better. The Wildcats finished the first half 10 for 29, but were shooting below 30 percent for much of the half. However, despite shooting so poorly, Kansas State managed to go on a 13-0 run over the last five minutes of the first half to take back the lead. At the five-minute mark, the Red and Blue led 21-15 and seemed to be in control. But following AJ Brodeur’s second foul, the junior forward went to the bench and the Wildcats took full advantage. Over the last five minutes of the half, the Quakers were not as disciplined as they were earlier in the game. They went 0 for 5 from the floor, committed two turnovers and four fouls, including a crucial third foul for Brodeur. The second half started out much differently than the first half as both teams came out explosively. Goodman got the Quakers rolling with two early three-pointers and had eight of the team’s first 10 points in the frame. But Kansas State was able to stay an arm’s length away and increased their lead to 11 with 12:24 minutes left in the game. However, the Quakers once again started to chip away at the lead. Freshman forward Michael Wang scored four straights points and assisted on another bas-
Top three finishes for men’s swimming in a tri-meet against Cornell and Princeton. The Quakers finished second as a team in the event.
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Total rebounds for women’s basketball in a big win over Big 5 rival Saint Joseph’s. Sophomore center Eleah Parker had 10 of those boards in a double-double effort.
allowed 20.9 points per game — lowest in Priore’s career — and that doesn’t even account for the potential fifth year of senior safety Sam Philippi. Two years ago, I wrote that the promotion of Priore was one of the “greatest gifts” Penn football had ever seen, and I still sincerely believe that. Even though the team has finished below expectations in two seasons since, that doesn’t negate all of the progress the program has made since he took over, especially when considering the youth on the field this season. To Priore’s credit, he did attempt to justify his approach: he said Robinson’s early-season hamstring injury was worse than most people outside the team realized, and that, after it had diminished, he wanted to err on the side of more game experience, which Glover had at that point. But excuses be damned — it doesn’t take Stephen Hawking to interpret the results we’ve seen. More often than not, the offense scores with Robinson on the field, and doesn’t score when he’s not. Priore can still be the right person for the job and make individual wrong decisions, and that has been the case here. The bottom line is simple: the Quakers have a very strong core of young talent, and they have potential to reach the pinnacle of the league soon. They just need Priore and his staff to finally get the quarterback situation right to get there.
of him on the depth chart changed, but the storyline largely remained the same. It’s not fair to say Robinson was perfect this season. But whether you look at the late touchdown drive he provided at Dartmouth, the way he revived a stagnant offense in a surprisingly close 13-7 win at Brown, or, of course, the momentum shift he produced today, the formula has been the same: Penn’s offense struggles with its starting quarterback, Robinson comes in for brief spurts and inarguably outplays the starter, and Robinson remains the backup when the CHASE SUTTON | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR next week comes around. Junior guard Devon Goodman scored a team-leading 18 points, Independent of the QB situbut the Quakers couldn’t stay with the Wildcats in the second half. ation, this was Penn’s worst team of coach Ray Priore’s four-year tenure. Penn won ket before Brodeur hit a jumper to A bright spot for the Quakers an Ivy championship in both cut the Wildcat’s lead to six, with continues to be Goodman. The 2015 and 2016, and consid9:10 left in the game. junior guard is averaging 19.0 ering that last year’s three It looked like Penn had figured points per game over his last conference losses were by a out how to stop the Kansas State of- four contests and has risen to the combined 11 points, I don’t fense and the possibility for an upset occasion of stepping in for the think it’s crazy to suggest that was very much in play. injured Ryan Betley. team might have gone 7-0 But from that point on, Kansas “At this point in his career, with Robinson in the backState would pull away by outscoring he’s very confident,” Donahue field. This year, Penn’s four the Red and Blue 18-8. said. “He worked hard in the Ivy losses came by an average Turnovers, ultimately, were the offseason to get bigger, stronger, of 21.5 points, and there’s no story of the game. Kansas State’s better. His shooting is much betindividual quarterback who defense notoriously forces a lot of ter. He’s just a confident basketcould fix that alone. turnovers (18.5 per game) and that ball player right now.” But even with all that said, trend continued again tonight. The The Red and Blue will be there’s thorough reason to beRed and Blue’s 19 turnovers were 34 back in action tomorrow night 3434 lieve the future is bright for five more than their season average STagainst STST Oregon State. The Beathis program. A pair of elite and the most they committed all vers (3-1) are led offensively running backs will return in season. by junior forward Tres Tinkle juniors Karekin Brooks and “They wore us down with their (19.3 points per game) and seAbe Willows. Every starting COLE JACOBSON is a College sedefense. We did not consistently nior guard Stephen Thompson offensive lineman but senior nior from Los Angeles, Calif. and take care of the basketball,” Dona- Jr. (16.5 points per game). The Film Film Film polled polled polled you you you totofitond fifind nd out out out how how how you you you are are are getting getting getting your your your Sunday Sunday Sunday afternoon afternoon afternoon Tommy Dennis will be back. is a Senior Sports Reporter at The hue explained. “I thought we rushed Quakers will look for a win to Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be BY ANTHONY BY ANTHONY ANTHONY KHAYKIN KHAYKIN movie fixes. fifi xes. xes. Here’s Here’s what what what wewe we learned. learned. learned. 13 of the topBY 18 tacklers are KHAYKIN ourselves when we had good looks movie fimovie nish third in theHere’s Paradise Jam back from a defense that only reached at dpsports@thedp.com. … there was no flow.” Tournament.
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In season finale, Quakers get blown out by Tigers to tie for fourth place in Ivy League JACKSON JOFFE Sports Reporter
Princeton, N.J. — Princeton football Coach Bob Surace wasn’t greeted by bottles of champagne being popped when he came into the locker room after the Tigers clinched their first outright Ivy League title in 23 years; rather, he was greeted by cheese being hurled across the room. The celebration fit the team’s “don’t take the cheese” motto, as Princeton senior quarterback John Lovett explained. “We have this saying in the locker room: ‘don’t take the cheese.’ That motto came across our whole entire team. We’d be 8-0 and some guy would be like ‘wouldn’t it be cool if we went 10-0’ and they’d get the cheese,” Lovett said. Outplayed across the board from the opening whistle, Penn took its fourth Ivy loss of the year on Saturday — the most losses in Ray Priore’s tenure as head coach — in a 42-14 drubbing at the hands of No. 9 Princeton. The Orange and Black (10-0, 7-0 Ivy) outgained the Red and Blue (6-4, 3-4 Ivy) 579 yards to 282 yards, as Penn struggled to get anything going on the ground, finishing with just two rushing yards. Though Princeton had already earned at least a share of the Ivy title with a win last week over Yale, the Tigers were fighting for their first undefeated season since 1964. The Red and Blue, on the other hand, were coming off a blowout loss to Harvard and looked to play spoiler to the Tigers’ perfect season. While the Quakers caught a break after a missed field goal on Princeton’s first drive, they didn’t have much success slowing down the high-powered Princeton offense thereafter. After a Penn punt, senior quarterback John Lovett confidently lofted a deep ball to senior wideout Jesper Horsted for a 48-yard touchdown to put Princeton on the board. It wouldn’t SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8
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Quakers’ QB problem has University must ‘preserve an easy fix: Nick Robinson treasures’ like the Palestra COLE JACOBSON
Princeton, N.J. — You can’t do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. For two straight years, Penn football’s reluctance to make changes at the quarterback position has embodied that narrative. And Saturday’s 42-14 loss at No. 9 Princeton might have been the worst example yet. I’m far from the first writer at the Daily Pennsylvanian to suggest that it’s time to play junior Nick Robinson. But after what
we’ve seen from the Red and Blue — not just Saturday afternoon, but throughout the entire 2017 and 2018 seasons — I should be the last. If you haven’t read the recap of Saturday’s game, here’s an abridged summary: Penn went down 21-0 in the first half after not being able to move the ball in sophomore quarterback Ryan Glover’s three drives, Robinson threw touchdown passes on both of his first two drives to make it a one-score game, then Penn still insisted on switching the two as the Tigers went on to pull away. No, I don’t think Penn would have won if Robinson played the whole game. Princeton was one of the best, if not the single best,
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Junior quarterback Nick Robinson threw two touchdowns in limited time for Penn football on Saturday, providing the Quakers with their only scores.
Ivy League football team since the conference moved to Division I-AA in 1982. (It’s absolutely ridiculous that the Tigers won’t get the chance to see how they would stack up in the FCS playoffs, but that’s an argument for a different day.) But, even if the Quakers wouldn’t have upset the Tigers with Robinson in the backfield all day, we saw a recipe that we’ve seen over and over again for the past 20 games. In Robinson’s first game in a Penn uniform, Penn trailed 7-0 to Division II Ohio Dominican when he threw a 59yard touchdown on his first attempt. He threw two passes the rest of the day. After Penn went down 21-0 to Central Connecticut State in 2017 following two interceptions in the first quarter from then-senior Will Fischer-Colbrie, Robinson came in and threw three second quarter touchdowns. He remained on the bench when the team lost to Columbia seven days later. When Fischer-Colbrie threw four interceptions in last year’s season finale against Cornell, Penn finally went to Robinson when trailing 22-21 in the fourth quarter, and the then-sophomore led a fantastic seven-minute drive to win the game. This year, the name ahead SEE QUARTERBACKS PAGE 9
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STEVE BILSKY The Daily Pennsylvanian asked me to write a piece on the recent controversial decision by Penn to name the Palestra floor “Macquarie Court” and the accompanying disappointment from the Palestra community with this action. Howard Gensler, one of Penn basketball’s most ardent supporters, wrote a column on Philly. com that’s a good read on the changing environment in the Palestra. The DP’s Theodoros Papazekos also wrote a column critical of the decision. I tend to agree with both of them and am concerned that the naming sets an unwelcome precedent. It is not an exaggeration to say the Palestra court is sacred to legions of former players and fans throughout the Philadelphia region. We all know the storied history that has enabled the Palestra to be referred to as the Cathedral of College Basketball. To place a corporate name on its floor tarnishes that image and detracts from the pureness and spectacle that has made the Palestra experience unduplicated. The Palestra is unlike any other arena in the country and keeping it unique adds to its reputation.
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The sometimes fractious relationship between commercialism and Ivy League Athletics goes back decades. In their attempt to keep Ivy athletics “pure”, Ivy Presidents have often disdained corporate partnerships. Until recently, some Ivy schools did not allow any corporate signage inside their athletic facilities. During my tenure as Penn’s Athletics Director, the Presidents prohibited us from creating an Ivy television package if it was funded by advertising dollars. The AD’s successfully lobbied to overturn this policy, arguing that showcasing our stellar student athletes to the public was
a greater good than the evil of commercialism. The Ivy Presidents as a group can sometimes be inflexible (i.e. Ivy prohibition of football competing in the NCAA playoffs). But they are right to insist we maintain our core principles and values even when it keeps us apart from the rest of Division I. I assume that the University’s senior leadership participated in the decision to name Macquarie Court. Since Penn is fortunate to have outstanding senior leaders who do understand and are sensitive to SEE BILSKY PAGE 8
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