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I fear as Penn students who try to do it all, we miss out on the opportunity to pour our whole selves into something.”

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ou might have noticed the colorful stickers that accented peoples’ clothing in Huntsman Hall yesterday.

In honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance, Out4Biz, Wharton’s LGBT MBA student club, invited students and faculty to wear stickers printed with various gender

pronouns in an event called “Wear Your Pronouns.” The pronouns ranged from she/her/hers, to he/him/ hers, to less-used terms such as they/ them/their and ze/zir/zirs.

Transgender Day of Remembrance is an annual observance on Nov. 20 in order to memorialize those who were killed because of their status

as transgender individuals. While the handing out of stickers is part of this observance, is is also an attempt at moving forward into a more inclusive world. The logic behind the stickers is that while it is important to remember tragedy, it is also important to try and improve things in the present time.

“We’re trying to make a more inclusive environment for those who are alive now,” MBA student and Out4Biz co-president Jennifer Redmond said. “[The stickers are] a simple idea, and I think it’s very prominent and an easy way to start SEE PRONOUNS PAGE 2

Environmental fraternity forms Six students created Epsilon Eta this fall JENNA WANG Staff Reporter

Six classes?

No problem Students add classes to fill requirements or for fun

Saving the Earth just got a whole lot more fun.

This fall, six College sophomores formed Epsilon Eta, Penn’s first environmental service fraternity.

The founders met a year ago in

a freshman seminar called “Introduction to Environmental Earth Science.” They quickly became friends and started discussing the possibility of creating a formal social group.

“Some of us felt there wasn’t really a big social community within sustainability at Penn,” Epsilon Eta co-president Johanna Matt-Nevarro said. “Over the summer, it was brought to our attention that there

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environmentally minded,” Epsilon Eta co-president John Holmes said.

“We’re hoping to create a more general environmental group that allows people to explore different interests in a more social atmosphere.”

Unlike other existing environmental groups on campus, which can be either too large or niche, Epsilon Eta wants to bring a tight-knit SEE FRATERNITY PAGE 5

Coursera alum to appear on ‘Shark Tank’ Radosta will pitch the National Association of Bubble Soccer

HANNAH NOYES Staff Reporter

For some, taking six classes a semester is a necessity. For others, it’s a satisfying choice.

“There’s so much I want to learn and do,” College and Wharton senior Ally Zucker said. But because of “all these requirements,” she feels limited to her already packed six course schedule.

Zucker is pursuing a dual degree in classical studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and operations, information and decisions in the Wharton School, where she was accepted the summer after her freshman year .

was an environmental fraternity existing at [the University of North Carolina] and [the University of Michigan]. We did some research and reached out to them.”

In October, the students voted to formally colonize with Epsilon Eta and began the process to become an officially recognized group on campus.

“Our main goal is creating a social space for people who are

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The Bubble Soccer franchises host competitive team league play in addition to private events for companies or parties.

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John Radosta will be swimming with some powerful sharks later this week.

Radosta, a former Penn Coursera student, is set to appear on ABC’s “Shark Tank” on Nov. 20.

He serves as the CEO of Advanced Sports Technology and is the league commissioner of the National Association of Bubble Soccer. Bubble soccer is played just like classic soccer, except players all wear large plastic

bubbles on their bodies, causing them to tip over and roll around after coming in contact with another player. Radosta will be pitching the National Association of Bubble Soccer on an episode of “Shark Tank” on Friday.

Radosta said the sport “has that wow factor” and is a fun and social group activity, popular among young adults who “want to have a couple laughs and have some beers with their friends afterwards.”

Bubble Soccer franchises host competitive team league play, in addition to private events for companies or parties.

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Figure skater chooses Penn over Olympics Kiri Baga won a junior national championship at 14 LILY ZANDI Staff Reporter

College junior Kiri Baga lives two exceptional lives: one as a world-class figure skater and another as an Ivy League undergraduate.

After finishing her freshman year at Simmons College in Boston, Baga did not have the experience she had envisioned.

She attended Simmons so that she could figure skate at an Olympic Training Center while taking courses. But Baga realized almost immediately that she was unsatisfied with waking up at 6 a.m. to commute one hour to the skating rink, spending the afternoon in class, and then returning to

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conversations.”

The stickers were handed out throughout the day, and the club set up a table in the MBA cafe with the pronoun stickers, handouts that explained various aspects of gender and allyship and a poster that detailed the violence that had been committed against transgender individuals.

The idea for the stickers came out of an ally workshop at the LGBT Center that the co-presidents of Out4Biz attended a few weeks ago. The hope is that the stickers promote awareness of how gender impacts how people are seen and promote the idea that there is more than just the gender binary. Out4Biz members highlighted the importance

complete her afternoon training.

In the end, Baga was presented with an incredible choice to make: spend the next three years at Penn or at the rink training in the hopes of qualifying for the next Olympics. For Baga, it was a no-brainer. Acceptance to Penn provided her with an irresistible alternative, an offer that she could not refuse.

Though Baga knew she wanted to transfer, she also knew that moving away from Boston meant discontinuing the countless hours spent at the rink and her promising skating career.

Baga learned how to walk and figure skate almost simultaneously. At the ripe age of two, Baga went on the ice for the first time and upon turning five, she skated in her first of nearly 70 competitions.

of raising awareness in Wharton especially.

“As a Wharton student, these people are going to be in positions of power where they can set norms in the workplace,” MBA student Alessia Bhargava said.

Support for the idea was initially positive and continued to be positive throughout the day, with administration and students being receptive to the idea, and the stickers could be seen all over the building on students’ clothing. Students would also stop and chat at the Out4Biz table or pick up a flyer rather than just taking a sticker and moving on.

“We’ve had a lot of unsolicited support through Wharton and the various offices there,” Redmond said.

The idea is simple but easy to execute, which makes the gender

After winning the U.S. Junior Nationals Figure Skating Championships at the novice level at age 14, Baga rose to world-class figure skater status.

Between the ages of 14 and 19, Baga found herself in a whirlwind of international figure skating competitions. As a member of Team USA — a governing body for figure skaters that sends them to competitions around the world — she competed in dozens of countries, including Japan, Amsterdam and the Czech Republic.

“I was kind of thrown into it …

It was cool getting the Team USA jackets and just realizing that I could do a lot with skating,” Baga said.

By the time she was a freshman in high school, Baga was ranked 32nd in the world for figure skating. In the midst of

pronoun sticker idea of interest to those not in Wharton as well.

Jennifer Decker, a student at the Graduate School of Education, thought that these stickers would have applications in other settings as well.

“It’d be great to have these in different workshops that we have,” Decker said.

The ultimate goal was simply to raise awareness among the Wharton community in the forefront of Trans Day of Remembrance.

“I think even for people who are cis [equate their gender identity with their anatomical birth sex] having to wear gender pronouns will prick their consciousness a bit,” Redmond said.

“Once you get used to [asking people their pronouns], it’s just as natural as anything else.”

her compounding accomplishments, Baga was sent on whim to the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in place of Ashley Wagner, who would go on to win a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the team event. Despite the spontaneity of this assignment, Baga ended up placing seventh in the international competition, which was the highest out of any of the other Americans who attended.

Her last and most notable competition was the 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Growing up, Baga went back and forth between enrollment in online schools and high schools.

By her senior year of high school, she moved out of her house to Chicago so she could train at a more prestigious rink.

As she enrolled in Simmons,

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Radosta auditioned in early 2015 for “Shark Tank.” On the show, entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to real investors, who include Mark Cuban, Kevin O’Leary and Daymond John, hoping to gain funds for their start-ups. Radosta shot his episode over the summer and spent about a week working in Los Angeles. Although Radosta loved preparing his “Shark Tank” segment, he had a moment of panic upon arriving in LA: He had forgotten his suit and had “no clothes to wear” on the show. Lucky for Radosta, his girlfriend shipped his suit overnight. Radosta is not allowed to reveal the outcome of the episode until it

Baga became partial to committing to her studies full time.

“Doing it all is very, very, very difficult,” Baga said.

Skating at such an elite level was an all-consuming endeavor.

Her training schedule left Baga with little mental and physical energy to devote toward extracurricular and social pursuits.

“Its a lot of pressure giving your all to one thing,” Baga said.

“It came to the point where I just didn’t like that feeling anymore.”

Baga has not competed since coming to Penn, but continues to coach and skate recreationally.

By becoming the co-president the Transfer Student Organization, pledging service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega and also completing autism research, Baga feels that she successfully secured the balanced college experience that she

airs.

A f ter g raduat i ng f rom Northeastern University and working in sales for a few years, Radosta came upon some Bubble Soccer videos online and loved what he saw.

Following some research, Radosta began working with the equipment manufacturer to further develop Bubble Soccer gear. Radosta’s company grew exponentially and now oversees 46 affiliates all over the country. In his role, Radosta helps new affiliate founders start franchises and provides business and legal guidance.

Radosta also works to further expand Bubble Soccer across the US. Earlier this year, Radosta took a n online W ha r ton class, the Global Business of

transferred for.

“I joined organizations that were very different from the intense athletic life I had before,” Baga said.

She now majors in Biological Basis of Behavior and intends to pursue a career in the mental health field.

Even though Baga has no defined plans to return to skating in any capacity, skating ingrained in her self-discipline, confidence and the ability to put into perspective her achievements or shortcomings. Countless hours of training and performing under intense pressure and scrutiny has also made her somewhat resilient.

“When you are able to perform under lots of pressure, it shows you that you are capable [of] more than you think you are,” Baga said.

Sports, through Coursera. He studied revenue models and structuring among American and European sports leagues.

He said the class was very applicable to his day-to-day work managing a sports organization and that he thoroughly enjoyed it. Radosta added he would certainly consider coming to Philadelphia to get an MBA at Wharton in the future.

As a young business owner, Radosta encouraged Penn’s aspiring entrepreneurs to “go out and start a business as soon as [they] can.”

“Learning by doing is a much harsher teacher, but you learn the lessons a lot quicker and more intricately,” he said.

“Whatever you want to do, just go out and do it.”

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"[I] was interested in a lot of Wharton classes and I had this opportunity ahead of me, so I thought why not?” Zucker said.

Zucker stated she is comfortable taking six classes, and has done so every semester since her sophomore year, even as she went abroad her junior year. She wants to get the most out of her time in college, and if she could, she said, she would be majoring in other disciplines as well, including history and East Asian studies.

“My only question is, why can’t the administration be more flexible?” Zucker said, referring to the inability to double count many courses in uncoordinated dual degrees. Programs like the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology and Vagelos Program in Life Sciences & Management allow for more overlap with requirements, a luxury that students pursuing uncoordinated dual degrees do not have.

But other heavy courseloaders see six classes as an unavoidable fate, rather than a

limiting number.

College and Wharton sophomore Mira Nagarajan is pursuing an uncoordinated dual degree and has to take six classes a semester to finish her degree in four years. “My advisors cautioned me against taking six classes, but in order to complete my program I had to take them all, so there was a valid reason for it,” Nagarajan said.

Advisors play a huge part in the college experience for some, and less so for others. They help students get into classes that require permits and through the tedious pre-registration frenzy that all students dread, but they can be especially important for students pursuing two degrees.

“There are so many great classes, concentrations, minors and other experiences that one can do at Wharton without overdoing it vis-a-vis greater course loads,” Director of Academic Affairs and Advising Scott Romeika wrote in an email.

“I’ll also remind advisees that graduate training and learning on-the-job are common and highly effective ways to continue to grow intellectually.”

Another role advisors play is

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Penn students taking six or more classes find different ways to deal with the stress of balancing academic and social life.

helping students deal with stress.

But students don’t always use them as a resource.

Engineering junior Akshatha Bhat explained that even though there are a lot of resources available at Penn for stress relief, like professors and Counseling and

Psychological Services, there is a mental barrier to overcome while seeking them out. Bhat dealt with her stress by talking to her peers.

“As a freshman, ultimately it’s your peers who are the best resource because it feels a little

inaccessible at first. As a freshman, before the mental health became a priority, I reached out to students and my parents,” Bhat said, referring to the shift in mental health awareness on campus particularly during the fall of 2013 after several student

suicides.

Romeika said in his email that he tries to prevent students from taking on more than they can handle, and that every case is different.

“We also make sure to contextualize the decision based on other events students get involved with,” Romeika wrote.

“For example, second semester freshman year is usually challenging for students who rush a fraternity or sorority, so we’ll remind those students to take that into consideration.”

Still, a bulk of work is not just caused by the number of classes but also the time spent on homework. Bhat studies bioengineering and currently takes five classes. She said a single class for her major could range from five to 15 extra hours of work.

Like Bhat, Zucker places a great deal of emphasis on her friends for support.

“Relationships at Penn are [the] most important thing for me,” Zucker said. “The connections I have met at Penn are the priority, whether it’s the girls on the water polo team or the people I live with, spending time with friends is really important.”

Penn researchers receive $3M Fundamental Physics Prize Team of professors and students studies neutrinos

in 1987, neutrinos, which are produced in the sun and other stars, travel long distances. By studying them, scientists are able to understand what goes on in the sun. Their experiment has found that neutrinos change while heading to earth, and this change suggests that their mass is more than zero, a finding that somewhat modifies the existing Standard Model for elementary particles.

Van Berg highlighted that the project took longer than expected due to the difficulties they faced underground with the detector and with keeping an active mine free of mud and dust while 60 people moved in and out. The experience reaffirmed his understanding that technology is relatively simple

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The sun bombards the earth with billions of neutrinos every second, and Penn scientists just gained more insight about the odd particles.

On Nov. 8, 23 Penn scientists were presented the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their work on neutrinos. The $3 million grant prize will be split among five different groups of scientists, including the Sudbury Neutrino Obser vator y Collaboration, which the Penn team — led by Physics professor Eugene Beier — was a part of.

The award ceremony was held at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and will be broadcast by Fox on Nov. 29.

The collaboration of scientists joined together to learn more about neutrinos, which are very tiny and fast particles in the universe with almost no mass. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, a telescope as tall as a 10-story building, was constructed from 1990 to 1998 for

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Physics prof Eugene Beier led the Penn team on a neutrinos experiment that won the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

$80 million to conduct experiments on neutrinos.

The Observatory was placed 2 km underground in the Vale Creighton Mine near Sudbury, Onta r io. Faculty, graduate students and post-doctoral students were involved in the project. Some scientists, like

Richard Van Berg, not only took part in building the SNO but also collected data at the observatory.

“We thought that there was a possibility that neutrinos change,” he said.

According to Beier, who started working on the project

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compared to sociology.

“It’s hard to get a whole bunch of smart people thinking in the same direction,” he said.

Professor of Physics and Astronomy Josh Klein, who led the analysis process and began working on the project in 1994, agreed.

“Trying to get everybody to work together was a challenge,” he said.

He added that the project taught him to stick with his principles but at the same time to accept compromise for the greater good. He hopes that their findings, which are published, will inspire more young people to study fundamental physics. He also noted that because of the long and tedious process of studying and

verifying the analysis, their team did not start appreciating their results until the whole experiment was finalized.

“We took a deep breath and said wow,” he added.

Nuno Barros, who was a graduate student in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2006 when he joined the resea rch team, shared Klein’s enthusiasm.

“To know that you are working on something that is on the edge is phenomenal,” he said.

Barros explained that his toughest challenge was joining experiments that had been underway for decades, in which each participant was an expert.

“You basically want to learn everything from everyone,” he said. “You cannot help but look up to those people.”

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OPINION

To dangerous self LEFTOVERS | Granting ourselves permission to want

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 105 131st Year of Publication

MATT MANTICA President JILL CASTELLANO Editor-in-Chief SHAWN KELLEY Opinion Editor LUKE CHEN Director of Online Projects LAUREN FEINER City News Editor KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor PAOLA RUANO Copy Editor RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor COLIN HENDERSON Sports Editor LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor

It seems like every Locust Walk encounter with a friend, acquaintance or classmate brings another instance of a Penn student bemoaning their own misfortune for being swamped, under-socialized, underslept and overworked. Not one comments on the fulfillment brought to them by their various commitments, classes or even friendships.

However, I imagine fulfillment is comprised or takes a back seat somewhere along the burnout experienced by many of my peers.

I hate to add to the litany of complaints and commentary on Penn’s unhealthily taxing student life, but the question no one seems to be asking is whether our commitments and long lists of ambitious aspirations is really making us more mature and whole people.

We value the student that is able to do so much and still keep everything together and appear composed as the ultimate model

of Penn success. Why don’t we value the student that has made the decision to do one or two things very well? While the overcommitted student is commendable in her effort and dedication, she is also indecisive. Setting priorities can be an important exercise, one that Penn students rarelyseem to engage in.

In trying to do it all, it’s hard to really know what drives my peers at the end of the day. I wonder if indecisiveness is not somehow related to an inability to be vulnerable in committing fully to one’s genuine interests.

I often think of the difference in experience between the conservatory student and the liberal arts student. The idea of focusing on one instrument, one skill or refining musicianship for only four years is a daunting prospect. The liberal arts student on the other hand is a jack of all trades, believes she is smart

and capable in all modes of thought. But it is not enough to merely be smart — one must also show a heedless desire to cultivate one’s unique thoughts and self. Being well-versed in

sued the people I wanted to know, I was bound to be rejected; if I made myself as attractive as I could, I would still be ordinary looking ... To do any or all of these things well would

I fear as Penn students who try to do it all, we miss out on the opportunity to pour our whole selves into something.” the taught arguments, being comfortable in multiple disciplines and taking English seminars while pursuing marketing internships is all very admirable, but is it useful for oneself?

In her memoir “The Odd Woman and the City,” Vivian Gornick writes, “Ever since I could remember, I had feared being found wanting. If I did the work I wanted to do, it was certain not to measure up; if I pur-

have been to engage heedlessly with life — love it more than I loved my fears — and this I could not do.”

I fear as Penn students who try to do it all, we miss out on the opportunity to pour our whole selves into something, to truly allow ourselves to want more than is safe and comfortable. Doing so would require accepting the possibility of failure. In addition to the proliferation of safe

spaces on college campuses that offer protection from offense, I wonder if there is not another kind of space that should cause equal alarm. The space that keeps us overcommitted and overworked but “underwanting.” I wonder if our advocacy for self-protection keeps us in a reactionary state by constantly taking on things regardless of their meaning to us without ever having the audacity to envision their real personal worth.

It seems odd that as we have allowed ourselves to genuinely want less and less, we seem to have become the enthusiastic proponents of codifying our political ideologies. Just as we have not asked ourselves to make tough decisions about what it really is we wish to accomplish in these four years of college, we have also shied away from asking tough questions and expressed a lack of desire to complicate many of our

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON political thoughts. Subscribing to notions of preprofessionalism by trying to do everything is easy.

So is subscribing to a set of values that have been predetermined for you. Both eradicate thoughtful individual engagement with the ideas and actions that color everyday life.

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON is a College senior from San Francisco studying political science. Her email address is clara@sas.upenn.edu.

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On PILOTs Dear Daily Pennsylvanian, Count me in as one alumnus in favor of PILOTs (Payment in Lieu of Taxes). Assuming your Nov. 11 article is correct and the city would be satisfied with a $6.6 million per year payment, that sounds like a bargain to me. $6.6 million is one tenth of one percent of our gross annual revenue, represents less than one tenth of one percent of our endowment and is less than one half of one percent of the University’s 2014 tax-free return on the same endowment.

Further, if the University’s $2 billion of real estate was taxed at the rate most property owners are (1.3998 percent), the annual bill would be $28 million (in reality, the University’s real estate is worth more than $2 billion).

In addition, as I understand it, the University does not pay sales tax, income tax, capital gains tax or use and occupancy tax either. The City is merely asking to be partially re-

imbursed for services Penn uses and needs: schools, police, fire, courts, streets, among others. You name it; we use it.

Let’s pay this bill tomorrow with a smile before we are assessed what we really owe. The climate has changed.

Part of Penn’s success is because of Philadelphia, not in spite of it.

The City is facing a plethora of problems and issues, some of which can be solved with dollars. This is our opportunity to once again use our substantial resources to give back to our City, in a small way, and help fuel the next stage in Philadelphia’s development. This will be beneficial to both the City and the University.

Let’s do our part.

Sincerely, Hanley P. Bodek College of Arts and Sciences, Class of 1977 Have your own opinion? Send your letter to the editor or guest column to letters@thedp.com.

Residential Services’ lack of concern is concerning EDITORIAL

This week, a four-part series in The Daily Pennsylvanian exposed the concerning state of housing facilities across campus. Besides drawing attention to the run-down and, quite frankly, unsafe conditions that 54 percent of students live in, the series highlighted another equally troubling phenomenon: Facilities and Real Estate Services’ widespread lack of concern for people, including students and workers.

Throughout the articles, workers expressed frustration at the bureaucracy and lack of respect that they’ve become accustomed to over the years.

One worker spoke of being pressured to handle an unidentified mold despite his reservations that it would be unsafe.

While adhering to FRES’

timetable is undoubtedly important, the safety of FRES’ workers should be paramount and take precedence over other budgetary or scheduling concerns.

Furthermore, many workers complained about FRES’ seeming eagerness to hire outside contractors instead of paying their workers overtime wages (which are paid at a normal rate, rather than the usual 1.5x wage) to complete maintenance requests as cheaply as possible. As shown in the article, such actions were not only frustrating to the workers on a personal level but also further delayed the resolution of the initial complaints.

FRES’ internal disorganization often wreaks havoc in students’ lives. Students in-

terviewed in the DP articles recounted tales of being displaced for weeks — sometimes even months — while FRES worked on fulfilling basic maintenance requests like fixing leaks. Even critical requests like restoring heat to high rise rooms or repairing a leak that flooded a student’s bedroom were put off for the sole purpose of saving FRES the overtime pay that the work might require.

The fact that FRES prioritizes cost-cutting over concern for workers and students is troubling to us, and is clearly detrimental to the experiences of everyone involved. In the future, FRES needs to take student need and worker welfare into greater account when making operational decisions.

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Now Penn Police can watch you underground Penn Police hope to respond more quickly to crimes ANNA HESS Staff Reporter

The Penn Police patrol zone has just gone underground. Penn Police can now access live security camera feeds from subway stations around campus through a partnership with SEPTA. The PennComm Operations Center housed within the Division of Public Safety now has instant live access to 118 cameras from eight SEPTA stations on and around campus. Though they could previously go into subway stations, with the cameras, Penn Police will now be able to respond much quicker to crimes that are committed in or near SEPTA stations.

“This was a great step forward to expanding our security net now underground,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. “We have faculty, staff and students using the subways, and it makes their experience safer.”

The ability to link the closedcircuit television camera feeds only arrived in the last few years, according to DPS. Public safety and security technology officials call this “technological convergence.”

Rush said that the camera feeds would now help police respond more quickly to situations in which a perpetrator may try to flee the scene of a crime by subway or if private property is reported stolen on the train or on the subway platforms.

The convergence was made possible through a contract with SEPTA, a Memorandum of Understanding, that was negotiated between the University and SEPTA with the help of Penn’s Office of General Counsel.

“Thomas Nestel [Chief of SEPTA Transit Police] and VP Rush saw the benefit as a force multiplier,” Director of PennComm and Emergency Communications Mitchell Yanak said.

“It’s beautiful because we all have the same common goal to keep people safe.”

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The PennComm Operations Center now has access to live security camera feeds from the underground subway stations around campus through a partnership with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority SEPTA.

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group of people with diverse interests together.

“What sets [Epsilon Eta] apart is that it’s going to be a small [group] that will expand with other pledge classes, but never get too big,” College sophomore and Epsilon Eta member Jisoo Kim said. “It will be very personalized.”

Last week, as their first foray into the public eye, the fraternity found itself the subject of an Under The Button article.

“We thought it was hysterical,” Kim said. “We were pleasantly surprised.”

She added that, while obviously meant to be satirical, the article scraped surprisingly close to the truth in some areas.

“There have literally been

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Epsilon Eta, an environmental service fraternity, intends to create a community for environmentally minded people and to educate people about sustainability.

times where some of the members have been at parties chanting

something about recycling.”

However, while Epsilon Eta is

classified as a fraternity, its members are quick to clarify that it

will be more of a service and education-based group rather than one heavily involved in Penn’s party scene.

“We plan to be more than just green party animals,” Holmes said.

“It’s not just friends hanging out and talking about personal stuff,” Kim added. “It’s also [about] educating each other and doing things that impact people besides us.”

This past weekend, Epsilon Eta hosted its first volunteer event at Bartram’s Garden, where pledge members did garden maintenance work alongside the Penn Environmental Group. The fraternity held board elections on Tuesday, Nov. 17, and appeared before the Student Sustainability Association at Penn on Wednesday to become officially recognized as an environmental group on

campus.

Epsilon Eta will host their first social event next Monday, Nov. 23 for potential new members and will register in the coming weeks with the Office of Student Affairs. The fraternity plans to hold rush during this spring.

“Hopefully we will be successful in creating a broader community where more people feel like they have a place to come and discuss things and become more active in the Penn and Philadelphia communities,” Holmes said. “Our goal is to create a group that will remain after we are gone.”

“Sustainability isn’t just about the Earth,” Matt-Nevarro said.

“Nothing exists alone — everything affects everything else. It’s important to understand how all things [at Penn] fall under sustainability.”

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ach year, the staff members of Penn Facilities and Real Estate Services attend a mandatory meeting (a “forced audience,” as one employee calls it) in Houston Hall with Anne Papageorge, the vice president for FRES. “It’s a dog-and-pony show, because they get up there and tell us how good everyone’s doing,” said Jim, a FRES mechanic with decades on the job.

For the 10 FRES workers interviewed by The Daily Pennsylvanian, the meeting with Papageorge epitomizes their perception of management: purveyors of cheap platitudes that skimp on essential equipment and infrastructure to help Penn’s bottom line.

Promotions based on favoritism and kickbacks produce managers without substantive knowledge of mechanics, employees said. As many of them reiterated: Papageorge’s background is in landscaping, not maintenance.

Employees skip the chain of command to speak to upper-management directly in defiance of their immediate supervisors, whom they decry as too young, inexperienced and uneducated on mechanical matters. Deferring maintenance problems or outsourcing them to contractors enrages mechanics, who said they preferred working overtime to contain a problem before it worsened.

The resentment produces distrust, cynicism and miscommunication.

“No matter what we tell them, they think we’re lying,” said Mike Patruno, a recently retired FRES mechanic, who, like Jim, has decades of experience at Penn.

The institutional dysfunction contributes to weakened employee morale and longer response times for student maintenance requests as employees and managers wrangle over appropriate response measures. *** Jim leads a six-man team in responding to maintenance problems with air conditioners

or air handlers, the central ventilation unit that distributes air throughout a building. His team is on-call for any air filtration problems in Penn residential buildings. In recent years, he said, their working conditions amid deteriorating infrastructure have become increasingly unsafe and inefficient.

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“If you open some of these air handlers up — we’ve been downsized and downgraded so much,” he said. “We have one filter guy who changes the filters and air handlers, and some of these air handlers are in precarious locations like mechanical rooms, away where if something happened to that guy, nobody would find

him for a week until he started to smell.”

Wherever employee resentment ends — whether it be at anger over a frustrating bureaucracy or increasing reliance on contractors — it begins with the workers’ immediate concern: unsafe working conditions.

Some residence halls have infrastructure so

shoddy, Jim is surprised air manages to even filter out into the building.

“In Stouffer, those units up top are so old and obsolete. They’re disgusting. When you open them up, it’s covered in mold,” Jim said.

His team can barely even vacuum or clean out the units, because they’re so old and worn out.

“You can’t spray it down and soak it. So we’ve been telling the area managers for years, this building is the worst. We need to get something done. And it’s like the area managers don’t even care,” he said.

When asked specifically about the conditions of air handlers in Stouffer, FRES Executive Director of Operations & Maintenance Ken Ogawa deferred comment to Penn Residential Services. When contacted by the DP, a residential services administrator deferred comment to a separate spokeswoman for Penn Business Services, who directed requests for comment back to FRES, writing in an email, “Maintenance of the College Houses is done by FRES.” In a later meeting, Papageorge deferred comment on the same question about mechanical room conditions in Stouffer to representatives from Penn Business Services, who then agreed to an interview.

In that interview, Executive Director of Penn Business Services Doug Berger said, “That’s the purview of [FRES] maintenance [staff].”

Ogawa followed up in an email later, writing, “We have routinely inspected, cleaned and addressed safety deficiencies in coordination with EHRS [Environmental Health & Radiation Safety] and the building administrators.” *** Among the FRES workers interviewed, none expressed confidence in the competence of their area managers, the immediate supervisors that oversee groups of college houses.

One area supervisor was criticized by employees as inexperienced and unknowledgeable about actual maintenance work.

“He knows nothing about mechanical. He couldn’t tell you if that is a lock [or not],” said Patruno.

This manager is in his mid-to-late 20s and was promoted over other mechanics with

of equipment in the summer. Managers continually obstruct or flat out reject the purchase of many crucial utility tools, employees said.

Jim said Mike Francis, a shift operations manager, ordered workers to buy materials “as they need it” instead of letting them purchase in bulk at the beginning of the summer.

“I don’t know [Mike’s] rationale — stupidity,

*** Throughout multiple interviews, FRES administrators acknowledged the discontent among mechanics.

“I can’t guarantee that all of the work I do on a leadership level filters down to them,” Papageorge said.

She admitted that there are “people in our or-

“In Stouffer, those units up top are so old and obsolete. They’re disgusting. When you open them up, it’s covered in mold.”

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- Jim FRES mechanic decades of experience, prompting strong resentment among FRES veterans.

The supervisor in question declined a request for comment through a FRES spokeswoman.

Ken Ogawa, the executive director of operations at FRES, agreed that many employees are disgruntled about changes in management.

“There’s been a fair amount of turmoil within the leadership teams for a couple of years,” he said.

Many managers, including the aforementioned area supervisor, are new and lack the respect of long-tenured staff.

“People don’t like change,” Ogawa said.

Papageorge said that there will always be some dissenting voices within a large and complex organization, but she and her leadership team are working hard to build bridges between management and workers.

“I expect that every staff member will speak up when they feel strongly about something,” she said. “I can’t read people’s minds.” *** One area of special contention for FRES workers and their bosses involves the purchase

laziness?” Jim said.

Francis declined a request for comment through a FRES spokeswoman.

According to Mike Patruno, Francis had a $5,000 budget that workers were not allowed to go over in the summer.

As detailed in a previous article, emails acquired by the DP do confirm Francis rejecting at least one important purchase by FRES workers in 2013: a cache of replacement parts for the hot water system in the high rises, though workers said he sanctioned the purchase months later.

“We have three to four guys that go through 700 fan coil units, changing filters, making repairs and cleaning, vacuuming and sanitizing units,” Jim said. “There’s no time for maintenance in a 40-hour work week.”

Without the parts the employees claim they need, their workload gets far too fast to handle themselves, requiring an extra expense for Penn: the hiring of independent contractors.

“The goal is to contract out as much as they can,” Jim said. “In essence, they’re sabotaging us.”

ganization who perpetuate a labor-management culture,” but said that one of her priorities as vice president was to ensure supervisors had the personal touch that comes with leadership, by way of conferences, training sessions and annual evaluations.

In an emailed statement on Nov. 12, Papageorge wrote, “Since this was brought to our attention, we have had several conversations with the union to discuss some of the concerns.

We are working with union leadership to facilitate a broader conversation and expand the lines of communications moving forward.”

Many employees remain deeply unsatisfied at the state of intrapersonal relations among FRES staff, the status of shoddy infrastructure within residential buildings, and the sense, in the end, that Penn and its administrative units just do not care about students.

“I’d like to be nonprofit like Penn. The things that they do and get away with are unbelievable,” said Mike Patruno, the only mechanic in this series who felt comfortable using his real name. “[FRES] makes organized crime look like choir boys.”

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Students, faculty discuss sexual violence survey results Houston Hall was a safe space for discussion ERIN FARRELL Staff Reporter

When the results from the Association of American Universities Campus Climate Survey were released, Penn students and faculty were determined to take action.

On Wednesday, a public discussion about the findings of this survey was held in Houston Hall as a safe space for a dialogue about sexual and interpersonal violence.

The AAU survey found that

only 10.7 percent of Penn students polled were very/extremely knowledgeable about how the university defines sexual assault and sexual misconduct, as compared to the national average of 24 percent.

“Sexual and interpersonal violence affects us all,” Vice Provost for University Life and Associate Vice Provost Dr. Hikaru Kozuma said. “Whether you’re a survivor, a witness, an active bystander — this is a community issue that we need to address on campus.”

By talking about issues of sexual violence in a full group discussion, the event was intended to help advance the

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Over 50 students joined faculty and staff to discuss results from the Association of American Universities Campus Climate Survey in Houston Hall on Wednesday night.

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campus resources in relation to sexual violence on campus to a diverse audience, including members of Penn greek life, Penn Women’s Center representatives, and Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault members.

“I think a lot of these instances occur in social settings, and since greek life facilitates a lot of Penn’s social situations, greek life often becomes associated with situations of sexual violence,” Interfraternity Council

President and Wharton senior Jacob Wallenberg said. “But this affects everyone — greek life or not. It is our duty to participate in this conversation and to educate students about this information.”

The event then broke up into smaller group discussions, allowing undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff alike to discuss what they felt were the most pressing issues on campus in relation to the survey’s results. Members of the public dialogue offered possible solutions such as increasing availability of resource guides, adding more educational opportunities on campus to understand how consent, sexual harassment and other key terms are defined and to add possible empathy training.

“This is an important community-building process,” School of Arts and Sciences graduate student Protusha Dey said. “If we witness or know victims of sexual violence, we have the ability to be there for someone and to be knowledgeable about sexual violence. And I think that’s a very noble thing.”

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Not everyone is taking NoShave November to heart this year.

When Penn swimming heads to New Jersey for its first Ivy tri-meet with Cornell and Princeton this weekend, a hot topic will be the presence (or absence) of hair on Big Red swimmers’ legs. “Cornell is rumored to be suiting up and resting, which is going to make it tough on us,� sophomore Virginia Burns said. “It’s kind of annoying when they do that, but we’re going to try to race them anyway.�

In swimming, “suiting up� in fastskins and resting is usually reserved for championship meets and is not a typical premeet ritual. For the past two years, the Cornell women have not taken this Ancient Eight rendezvous lightly, wearing suits and defeating Penn on both occasions.

The Quakers and coach Mike

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attention to detail and focus. �

The key for the Red and Blue this weekend will undoubtedly be stopping Big Red senior running back Luke Hagy. The Pittsburgh native is second in the Ivies with 79 yards per game on the ground, yet has only racked up five touchdowns, tied for ninth in the conference.

According to Connaughton,

Schnur are anticipating that the Big Red will be tapering up in Ithaca, N.Y., this week, holding light practices and shaving their bodies to eliminate excess skin and hair to reduce drag.

These unconventional midseason tactics will lead up to the tri-meet on Saturday, in which Cornell is also expected to come out in fastskins, specialized swimming suits that compress the body to make it more hydrodynamic. “They seem to have this pattern where they take our meet, with us and Princeton, the way we would attack the Ivy Championship,� Schnur said. “I don’t know why they do it. It certainly doesn’t help them at the end of the year, but it helps them in the short term.�

In contrast, after last week’s drubbings of Columbia and Villanova, the Red and Blue showed no signs of slowing down. “Momentum Saturday to Saturday doesn’t really exist,�

Schnur said. “What momentum you get from Saturday meets is Monday and Tuesday workouts, and we’ve had great workouts this week.�

The way Burns sees it, if Cornell suits up, the playing field tilts in their favor. “It’s tough going up against that when we’re going to be really, really tired on Saturday after a full week of swimming and weights.� Burns said. “[But] we’re not going to rest or anything going into Princeton or Cornell. We’re just going to keep hitting it hard and hope for the best.�

While the team will certainly be looking to perform well come Saturday, it is not willing to sacrifice a week’s worth of practice or a week’s potential for improvement. Schnur has made sure his team keeps a keen eye towards Ivy Championships despite being three months away. “Shaving in November is something that we would never do,� Schnur said. “It’s not something that we’re interested in.

We’re much more interested in going to NCAA’s, going to Olympic Trials, doing well at Ivies.� “We’ll try to go as fast as we can, but our goal is to go fast in February,� Burns added. “So if we can go fast between now

Cornell brings to the table an offensive attack similar to that utilized by Princeton two weeks ago. In Penn’s thrilling overtime win two weeks ago, the squad held the Tigers — who average 174 yards per game on the ground — to fewer than four yards per carry.

Although the Quakers did give up two rushing scores that day, they will stick to what they’ve done throughout the year in their attempt to clinch the title

against the Big Red this weekend. “We can’t change the way we play just for this last game,�

Connaughton said. “We’ve been winning games because of what we’ve done all season long and there’s no point in getting away from that now just because it’s a championship game or whatever. “Three teams in the race, but we don’t want to be the one left out. That’s our mindset right now.�

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Through the first three meets of the year against Columbia, UMBC and Villanova, sophomore freestyler Virginia Burns has yet to lose a race, a streak she hopes to continue against the Tigers and Big Red.

and then, that’s great, but if not, then we’ll manage.�

Even without the Big Red and their hairless legs, the Penn men have more than enough on their plates with Princeton, who has won all but one of the last six Ivy Championships. The Quakers’ last win over the Tigers came in 1989, the year after

Schnur graduated from Penn. “We are looking forward to racing the Princeton men,�

Schnur said. “The Princeton men are the gold standard of our league, and we feel like we have a very good opportunity to compete with them.�

So even in the face of Cor nell’s shenanigans and

Princeton’s mighty legacy, Schnur and his team will stand firm, ready to lose the battle so long as the war rages on.

Like Burns says, the team is in it for the long haul, and the campaign is just getting started. “We’ll destroy them at the end of the year so if they want to destroy us now that’s fine.�

If Penn, Harvard and Dartmouth all win on Saturday, the trio would share the Ancient Eight crown with one loss apiece. Because the Ivy League does not send a team to the Football Championship Subdivision Playoff, there is no need to delve into tiebreakers to determine one true champion. Therefore, one more win gets Penn the title.

Heading into the matchup with Cornell, the Quakers have the opportunity to complete an unexpected turnaround in coach Ray Priore’s first year at the helm. The Red and Blue were predicted to finish sixth in the preseason Ivy standings, ahead

of only Cornell and Columbia.

But players and coaches alike believed all along that an opportunity like this was possible. “I knew we had a shot to be good,� Connaughton said. “We had a players-only meeting at the beginning of the season and I told the team that we have a chance to do something special this year if we put the pieces together. “Maybe I didn’t know it would be this special, but I knew we had talent.�

On both sides of the ball, the Quakers seem to be firing on all cylinders at this point in their season. Against the Crimson,

sophomore wide receiver Justin Watson racked up 249 total yards en route to winning FCS Player of the Week while Penn’s defense held Harvard’s offense scoreless in the second half.

Now, the Quakers will need to continue their strong all-around play in order to grab that one more win. “Being in this position, it’s one of those dreams come true,�

Priore said. “If you’re in the profession long enough, you have a lot of goals. “And those goals are now happening in getting this [coaching] position and then with our success this year.�

more of a home game because I have like 100-plus people coming out. Might be more Qua kers than Husk ies out there.�

This trip to Seattle was actually his idea. Every season the Quakers travel somewhere of the seniors’ choice. For NelsonHenry, the decision was easy. “The coaches asked me where I wanted to go for our senior trip. Last year we went to Iowa, and the year before we went to UCLA, and UW is only 20 minutes from my house, so why not? There’s something about playing on the home turf that just feels good.�

There will be more than just basketball on this trip out west.

For Nelson-Henry, it’s an exciting opportunity to show off his hometown, a place most of his teammates probably have never had the chance to visit. “We actually have a good amount of time there which is awesome. My dad will be cooking up some salmon and some good Northwestern cuisine.

After we get the win against Washington ... hopefully ...

we will be going out with my family and seeing all the touristy parts of Washington and getting to show the guys the territory that made me who I am.�

Despite the expected fun, Nelson-Henry is still focused on the purpose of the trip: basketball. The Huskies, also currently undefeated, are an entirely different caliber than the Quakers’ opponents so far this season. Off to their best start in years, the Red and Blue are ready for the challenge. “When I go home I want to put on the best performance possible for my family and friends. I’m just excited for the chance to go 4-0 and get a win against a Pac-12 team that is very prestigious and is on the top-25 bubble most seasons. If we can pull that off then it will say a lot about how we have progressed this season, and I’m hoping we can displayed that this Saturday.�

Maybe a little home cooking will have Nelson-Henry and the rest of the Quakers playing at a high level on Saturday.

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RUNNING TO A CHAMPIONSHIP

This weekend, No. 21 Penn cross country will travel to Louisville, Ky., to compete in the NCAA Championships for the first time since 1975. The Quakers finished second at the Mid-Atlantic Regionals with all five scoring runners earning All-Region honors. Coach Steve Dolan earned the Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year award as the team has steadily improved since Dolan’s arrival in 2011, when the team finished last in the Ivy League and 13th in their region.

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Season finally getting underway on the road for Quakers SQUASH | Men face Navy,

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George Washington may have beaten the British, but he certainly won’t be beating the Quakers anytime soon. At least, that’s what Penn squash is hoping.

After an intense preseason that featured new supplemental weight training, the Red and Blue’s squash teams are looking to get off to a strong start to their seasons this weekend.

Both squads will travel down to Washington, D.C., to face George Washington on Saturday, with the men’s team getting in a match against Navy

on Friday in Annapolis, Md., as well.

Both teams will be looking to add to their recent string of dominance against their two upcoming opponents. Both the men and women have won two straight against the Colonials, while the men’s team will also seek to extend its 14-year win streak against Navy.

“This weekend sets the tone for rest of the year, and it’s an opportunity for us to show how hard we worked in the preseason,” coach Jack Wyant said. “We can show how we’re prepared for every team that we’re going to go up against.”

Heading into this weekend, both sides should feel confident after performing well at last week’s Ivy Scrimmage. Penn’s women captured first place

with a 7-2 win over Harvard, while the men clinched third with a 5-4 victory against Columbia.

“We had a busy weekend ... at the Ivy Scrimmage, but we’re going to work hard this week to make sure we’re as ready as we can be,” Wyant said.

“It will be really important to set the season off on the right note [this weekend],” men’s senior captain Tyler Odell said. “We want to get in there and show teams that we really can play — and to show how far we’ve come even from last year.”

The Red and Blue’s contests against the Midshipmen and Colonials could possibly introduce a few new faces to the collegiate squash circuit, as some of Penn’s freshmen may

make their debut depending on lineup decisions. And what a debut it would be for the freshmen against these foes.

“It’s always tough going to Navy away,” Odell said. “They always bring a big crowd, and it’s always pretty rowdy, so it will be a good experience for a lot of our freshmen to compete in a high stress environment for their first match to gain some experience.

“College squash is a lot different than junior squash,” he added. “We don’t have one weekend where we play two or three matches and then take five days off. Here, it’s an intense schedule with the practices and morning lifts that we have, so the season is tough, it’s full of injuries and adversity. We’ve just been telling our

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Senior captain Tyler Odell will look to lead Penn squash to victory in the Beltway when it takes on George Washington and Navy.

guys to keep their heads up, stay positive and take care of their bodies.”

While this weekend is just one stop on a season-long

journey to the Potter Cup for Penn squash, one thing is clear for both teams: It is key to start the year by coming away from the capital with wins.

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Darien Nelson-Henry will be in familiar territory when Penn meets Washington.

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There’s no place like home.

In the midst of a fantastic start to their season, Penn basketball will travel to Seattle for a matchup with Washington this weekend.

For senior center and captain Darien N e l s o n - H e n r y, SATURDAY the matchup with the Huskies (1-0) Washington will be more than (1-0) a not he r r eg u3 p.m. lar season game Seattle for the Quakers (3-0). It’s a chance to return home.

The Kirkland, Wash., native grew up just 20 minutes outside the Huskies’ campus.

The basketball environment of the Pacific Northwest was certainly different than the more established hubs of basketball talent throughout the country.

“In Los Angeles, [basketball] is big, and the whole East Coast from New Jersey to Boston is crazy, especially with those New England prep schools,” Nelson-Henry said.

“It’s a field house out there. Washington definitely doesn’t compare to that in quantity but quality-wise, and the general atmosphere, it’s great.”

Despite its smaller size, Washington basketball hasn’t lack in production of toptier NBA talent. Jamal Crawford, Isaiah Thomas and Nate Robinson all call the Seattle area home. If anything, its lack of recognition may make the basketball scene SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 10

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contest as it has built a winning streak during Ivy League play, one more game.

Now, as the Quakers prepare for their final matchup of the season with an Ivy title on the line, the message remains the same: One more.

Over the past year, the motto for Penn football has been, simply, “one more.”

In weight lifts, one more rep.

In preseason drills and practice, one more yard. Heading into each

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As Penn (6-3, 5-1 Ivy) welcomes Cornell (1-8, 1-6) to Franklin Field on Saturday, the Red and Blue have one mission on their collective minds: Beat the Big Red to clinch — at the very least — a share of the Ancient Eight championship. And despite having ended Harvard’s 22game winning streak last weekend in Massachusetts, Penn is doing everything it can to treat this weekend like any other.

“There’s been a lot of energy,”

senior defensive lineman Dan Connaughton said. “One thing that’s been apparent is that the coaches are trying to stress that it isn’t over until it’s over, anything can happen in one game.

“Cornell is a good team, they’re better than you would assume looking at their record. They can do some stuff, so it’s been — just like every other week this year — full of SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10

ONE FOR THE TOE The last week of the football season is always a somber time when it comes to Swamis. With Senior Day forthcoming and the year nearly over, it’s hard for us not to reflect wistfully on our tenure as Swamis, remembering the highest of highs (last week when Penn #beatHarvard) and the lowest of lows (when nobody picked the Quakers over ‘Nova).

A year ago at this time, Swamis were forced to say good bye to our beloved Albert Bagnoli. Oh, what a man. A nine-time Ivy League champion. A guy who made Penn football one of the most relevant teams in the country throughout the 1990s and 2000s.

After the Red and Blue beat Cornell in Bags’ final game last year, we

Swamis — like so many others within Penn football — couldn’t help but wonder: How could we go on?

How about with a 10-time Ivy League champion? AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CE-RAY PRIORE!!!

People seem to forget that Priore is a winner himself. The man has been at Penn for three decades. He’s been on campus longer than Huntsman Hall. He has so many Ivy championship rings that the next one will have to go on one of his toes.

But it isn’t all fun and games. Cornell is not an opponent to be taken lightly, especially this weekend.

See, with the 132nd edition of Swamis set to take over yet in such disarray, the Quakers aren’t guaranteed to win. They will also have to battle their

emotions on Saturday.

Penn’s matchup with the Big Red is its last with Eric Dolan calling the shots behind the scenes. Yet even if the Quakers have trouble with a potent Cornell offense, Priore will have a speech prepared for halftime.

What will he say?

Well, he’ll recount a story. Because what was the last thing Eric said to the Head Swami at practice this week?

“Riley,” he said, “Sometime, when the team is up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Dolan.” “‘Once more unto the breach.’ - William Shakespeare” - Chas Dorman Prediction: PENN 17, Cornell 0

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