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Humanities majors plummet Students flock to sciences instead

degree – making up 22 percent of graduates in the College. In 2014, that number dropped to 1534 students, which made up of only 14 percent of College students.

In the face of this downward trend in the humanities, College of Arts and Sciences Dean Paul Sniegowski, said the College and its advising office will continue to do what it has always done and encourage students to pursue their interests, rather than what they think is best.

That sentiment was echoed by Janet A. Tighe, dean of freshmen and director of academic advising.

“We want to help students identify their interests and passions, not sell them something,” she wrote in an emailed statement. “Our role is to facilitate exploration not to dictate the direction to students.”

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, among others, point to the 2008 economic recession as the main reason for scaring students away from the humanities by causing a major philosophical shift in how young adults see the purpose of their university education.

A long-running annual survey taken by the Higher Education Research

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Penn has seen a decline in students graduating with degrees in the humanities and in the social sciences since 2003 while simultaneously seeing a spike in the number of students graduating with degrees in natural sciences.

From 2003 to 2017, Penn saw a 37.18 percent decline in degrees awarded in the humanities and a 19.57 percent decrease in degrees awarded in the social sciences, according to data from the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences.

Broken down by individual major, there were overall declines in the degrees given to eight of the 10 largest majors in the College between 2005 and 2014, although there were fluctuations year to year. The majors with the largest declines were History (46.63 percent), Psychology (45.71 percent), and Economics (43.38 percent). The College Office declined to provide the most recent numbers on degrees given by major between 2014 and 2018.

There has also been a sharp decline in the number of College students who are double majoring.

In 2005, 1,694 students graduated with a second

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DeVos to alter sexual misconduct guidelines Current Penn policy would be reshaped MAX COHEN Deputy News Editor

United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos revealed new sexual misconduct regulations for schools this month, widening the rights of the accused, revamping how cases are handled, and reducing universities’ responsibilities. If the guidelines are approved and implemented at universities nationwide, experts say Penn’s current policies would be substantially altered.

DeVos’ rules will change the way universities meet their Title IX legal requirements, which The New York Times reported are the first regulations of this kind since the enactment of the 1972 anti-sex discrimination law.

The new regulations require full hearings, cross examination of sexual assault victims, and raise the standard of evidence to hold a student accused of sexual assault accountable.

After a 60-day comment period where the public can register their thoughts on the guidelines, the Department of Education will formalize the policies in a process

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which The Atlantic reported could take months or even up to a year.

Proponents of DeVos’ changes greeted the measures as a fairer process of handling such cases, while critics said the new rules would allow schools to take less responsibility for sexual assaults and deter victims from coming forward.

Terry Fromson, managing attorney at the Women’s Law Project — a public interest law center devoted to women — said the proposed regulations would make universities less safe.

“My concern has to do with how narrowly the proposed regulations define the responsibility of schools to respond to students who seek relief for sexual harassment,” Fromson said. “Because they would allow schools and the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to ignore much of the sexual harassment that occurs in schools.”

Under DeVos’ new rules, Fromson added that Penn would not be required to investigate harassment and assaults that occur in off-campus fraternity houses and other off-campus residencies.

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The majors with the largest declines between 2004 and 2013 were History, Psychology, and Economics.

Construction will begin on Dec. 3 for New College House West, Penn’s recordbreaking $163 million dorm set to open on the corner of 40th and Walnut streets, according to emails sent to residents of nearby Rodin and W.E.B. Du Bois College Houses. The email also said students should expect noise from construction throughout reading days and finals week.

The nearly identical emails were sent to Rodin and Du Bois residents on Tuesday

afternoon by Hamilton Village building administrator Max Reyes-Rosario and Du Bois Residential Services Manager Jane Pablos, respectively.

They outlined several critical details relating to the construction schedule. Construction trailers will soon be placed in the area between the two college houses.

The diagonal walkway that cuts to Walnut and 40th streets will also be blocked off by a fence and will no longer be accessible. From Dec. 3 to 10, construction will take place Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Throughout reading days until the end of finals week, con-

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The new regulations would require more evidence to hold a student accused of sexual assault accountable.

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Locals push back against demolition of 131-year-old church West Philadelphians argue for its protection CHRIS DOYLE Staff Reporter

Once the epitome of West Philadelphia’s high-Victorian history, the 131-year-old church on 43rd and Chestnut streets has begun the process of its demolition — a fate local Philadelphia residents say is emblematic of a foreboding trend in historical neighborhoods near Penn’s campus.

A cornerstone of the neighborhood, the property of the Christ Memorial Reformed

Episcopal Church was sold to a New York-based company for more than $10 million in early June. The building’s demolition permit was issued in April with the demolition process reportedly scheduled to begin in early May, but it is unclear whether it proceeded on schedule.

Although the church was damaged from a steeple collapse in a 2004 storm, the landmark still bore significance in the eyes of some local residents. Residents of the community consequently have pushed back, trying to stop the demolitions, to no

avail.

In October 2017, the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia recruited 2016 School of Design graduate Amy Lambert and 2012 School of Design graduate Rachel Hildebrand to formally nominate Christ Memorial for an official historic designation.

From an architectural perspective, Lambert said, the building was structurally sound and could have been retrofitted to serve other purposes. But the demolition was announced before she and Hildebrand completed the

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“I still live in the neighborhood, so it’s been a landmark for me ever since I moved here, so it’s heartbreaking,” Lambert said. “It’s an especially acute loss because we were so close to saving it and turning in this nomination, so it hurts especially for so many reasons.”

Economic Ph.D. candidate Artem Kuriksha lives in an apartment complex across the street from Christ Memorial, and said he was sad to see the church demolished.

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Christ Memorial Reformed Episcopal Church, located at the corner of 43rd and Chestnut streets, is currently in the process of being demolished.

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Admin. changed office’s hours to address concerns

Students promote campus diversity events

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Penn’s School of Dental Medicine was one of the first schools to implement the Counseling and Psychological Services’ program of embedding clinicians in schools to make mental health resources more accessible for students. But despite efforts by administrators to improve the system, Dental students still say they face obstacles in utilizing the services.

Dental School administrators decided to offer weekend hours in order to alleviate student accessibility concerns this fall. Previously, the CAPS clinician was available for two hours on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons. Now, however, Wednesday afternoon hours have been replaced with Saturday morning hours to accommodate scheduling concerns, according to Dental School Associate Director for Student Life Margaret Yang.

The embedded system, which most recently was implemented for both graduate and undergraduate students in the Wharton School, aims to overcome issues that have historically prevented students from seeking help when needed.

Despite the shift in hours, however, students cite their packed schedules, peer stigma, and the fact that the physical CAPS space in the Dental School is completely visible to the outside as roadblocks for student use.

Yang said she hoped the weekend hours would alleviate concerns about convenience and confidentiality by providing time when schedules are more open, and when fewer people are in the buildings. On the weekend, too, there is space to move to more confidential rooms.

For the other two days of the week, CAPS accessibility remains

Student leaders handed out buttons and flyers on Locust Walk celebrating the contribution of women of color in notable activism movements.

Co-sponsored by Penn Association for Gender Equity and United Minorities Council, the Celebrating Women of Color in Activism event aimed to promote solidarity among women of color and highlight the intersectionality between feminist and race issues.

The student leaders of the two organizations picked 14 women to celebrate, including artist Frida Kahlo, gay liberation activist Marsha P. Johnson, and Elouise Cobell, who initiated the largest class action suit against the United States government in history for Native American rights.

The flyers included information about the women, while

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Administrators decided to offer weekend hours this fall to address accessibility concerns, but students say they want more to change.

an issue for some students.

Second-year Dental student Kristen Leong said Tuesday and Thursday CAPS sessions are currently held in the Schattner Center, which Leong described as a “glass fishbowl.” While films cover the windows, its location above the front door makes it easy to see who is leaving, entering, and waiting for CAPS services.

“It’s a huge invasion of privacy,” Leong said. “I’m personally not a fan of where it is located, so I would never use those services.”

Peer stigma also prevents students from utilizing CAPS services, Leong added.

“No matter how much we talk about de-stigmatizing mental health, there’s still the whole, ‘Wow. They went to see CAPS,’” Leong said.

Third-year Dental student Elaf Saeed expressed similar concern.

“We’re expected to always be mentally strong,” Saeed said. “A lot of my classmates don’t want to be seen as weak or that they can’t handle anything.”

The Dental School’s intense curriculum of academic and professional work, which includes exams, lectures, and clinicals, offers limited time to visit the school’s CAPS office, according to Saeed.

She said her typical day runs from from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., and that students must request time to even go to Student Health Service.

“Dental education is arguably

the toughest of all the professional school programs,” Penn Dental’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Faizan Alawi said. “I understand the stress they’re going through.”

He said the administration has attempted to give students extra days off this year within reason and this year’s curriculum changes were not made “in a vacuum.”

But Leong said the changes to CAPS hours are being used to avoid larger structural issues contributing to poor mental health among Dental students.

“Faculty and staff punt the issue to CAPS rather than addressing the root of the anxiety and stress that students feel,” Leong said.

CAPS began installing counselors in private offices within graduate schools in 2015, starting with the School of Veterinary Medicine. The Dental School became the second to implement this embedded model in 2016, followed by the the Law School and the Perelman School of Medicine.

CAPS utilization increased from 12 percent to 17 percent across all graduate schools between the 2016-17 and 2017-18 academic years as of February 2018, according to Miles Owen — who at the time was the president of the Graduate and Professional School Assembly. Owen also reported that the Dental School CAPS utilization alone nearly doubled in the 2017-18 year.

the buttons displayed feminist or race-related sayings such as “intersectional feminism” and “proud women of color.”

College sophomore Angela Yang, who is also the constituent affairs chair of PAGE, said they put on the event as part of their goal this year to “promote women of color and underserved marginalized groups.”

“We want people to learn more about what PAGE does and get involved in gender equity activism,” Yang said.

Yang described the event as a fun way to learn about the contributions and struggles faced by women of color.

“It’s important that women of color feel solidarity … it’s important for them to know this is a relevant issue on campus being talked about,” she said.

A group of PAGE members chose the 14 women featured in the event with the intention of being as diverse and inclusive as possible, Yang said. This list was then approved by UMC leaders.

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more Beverlye Gedeon, who is the communications chair of UMC, emphasized the event’s goal to unify women of all races.

“The goal is to pay tribute to all women of color,” she said.

“Issues faced in feminism are not specific to one race, we want to focus on the intersectionality of that.”

Gedeon added the event was part of the culmination of UMC Unity Month, whose theme was “Between the Lines” and emphasized intersectionality. She said that this was especially relevant given Penn’s diverse student body, and that Tuesday’s event was aimed at giving students a platform to discuss their identity.

Yang also mentioned that the event helped promote a speaker event co-hosted by PAGE on Wednesday. Along with the Spice Collective and Radical South Asian Collective, PAGE will be hosting Sujatha Gidla, who is an award-winning author and the first female Indian conductor in the New York City Subway system.

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Students celebrated 14 women of color, including Frida Kahlo and Marsha P. Johnson on Locust Walk with flyers containing their information and buttons encouraging diversity.

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OIDD class will visit Israel over winter break The students will visit the country’s major companies SIMONA VIGODNER Contributing Reporter

Over winter break, 20 Penn students in the Operations strategy course OIDD 380 will head to Israel to visit some of the biggest companies in the “startup nation.”

The class, taught by Operations professor Morris Cohen, focuses on how companies manufacture products and deliver services to a global market. It consists of a series of lectures and case studies throughout the semester before culminating in the 10-day Israel visit, which will allow students to visit major companies and experience the country’s culture.

This is only the second time the application-based course is available for undergraduate students.

It was originally an MBA-level course that would visit companies in Seattle, such as Amazon and Starbucks, as well as Germany, Silicon Valley, and Tijuana, Mexico.

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struction will take place from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

While administrators say they will make efforts to reduce noise when construction starts on Dec. 3, some students are still worried they will be unable to study in their homes.

College senior Ariel Sasson, who lives in Rodin, said construction work might make students more stressed for their finals.

Wharton senior Savi Joshi, who took the class last year and is now a TA, said the course was rewarding for its global perspective.

“Coming from the U.S. where you have Silicon Valley and Bay area, you kind of forget that there are other hubs outside the U.S. that are doing the same thing,” Joshi said. “A lot of people forget about other parts of the world that are growing, and one of those is Israel.”

Joshi added that walking through the plants and factories of these companies helped her recognize how the concepts in the classroom play out in reality. “You learn the theory. Now you see the practice.”

The students will visit approximately 11 companies, including Teva Pharmaceuticals, the biggest company in Israel, Netafim, the originator of drip irrigation, SodaStream, a carbonated water machine maker, and Innoviz, a leader in autonomous vehicle software.

The cultural experience was also significant for Joshi. “Israeli culture is a huge part of Penn, but I’ve

never been to Israel. It was all just talk for me,” Joshi said. “Learning what that meant is really important.”

As part of this cultural experience, Penn students will also work with a group of Israeli students from the Arison School of Business who are taking a similar version of the course to evaluate the companies they visit together. During the trip, students will experience the country’s culture by celebrating New Year’s Eve in Israel, visiting the Dead Sea, and having Shabbat dinner at a rabbi’s house.

Rhea Vasani, a Wharton junior in the class, has never visited the country and is excited about seeing how the companies she has read about have evolved since the case studies.

Vasani also saw the course as an opportunity to travel without a long-term commitment. “Instead of taking a semester abroad, which would be difficult to do with all the classes I have to take, I always look for these kind of opportunities where I can go for a week or two

“I feel like now that the most stressful part of the semester for most people is coming up, [the construction is] going to just add extra stress and distraction,” Sasson said.

“I don’t see why they couldn’t wait a few extra weeks,” Sasson added. “Even if they continued into next semester, it would be at the start of next semester when things are less stressful.”

Engineering senior and Du Bois resident Oladunni Alomaja also said she is worried she will no longer be able to study

in her own building. “I’ll have to find another place to study,” she said. “That’s kind of unfair to us.”

Mike Dausch, executive director of design and construction management for Penn’s Facilities and Real Estate Services, said the construction team will make efforts to reduce noise.

“It’s an experienced team that has worked next to residential facilities in the past, and they understand things like reading days and exams and trying

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The class, taught by Operations professor Morris Cohen, focuses on how companies manufacture products and deliver services to a global market and consists of a series of lectures and case studies.

weeks,” Vasani said.

Many students who go on the trip say the country and experience is not what they expected, Cohen

said.

“I think that’s the takeaway,” he said. “You should have an open mind and realize that everywhere

in the world people are thinking about how to win, how to compete, and there’s a lot to be learned from a lot of these places.”

to minimize noise during that time,” Dausch said. He added that his team will “try to keep [noise] to a minimum real early in the morning.”

College sophomore and Du Bois resident David Fernandez said he was disappointed by the 8 a.m. start time during reading days and finals.

“I personally think that it’s a little too early, especially during finals period,” Fernandez said.

Trees in the surrounding area will also be removed and re-

planted in 2021, according to the email. Martinez said despite this, she is still concerned with the tree removal.

“Is that actually going to be followed through if it’s three years from now?” she said. “Is anyone really going to remember this little email?”

In November 2017, Penn announced plans to build New College House West on the high rise field, sparking concerns that it will take away one of the few remaining green spaces on campus. Earlier this November,

the University Board of Trustees also approved an additional $152.5 million in funds for the new building.

The building will house 450 students and will include suitestyle rooms and a dining hall and will be open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. It will open in fall 2021, the same year the University will require all sophomores to live on campus.

While it is unclear when construction will be complete, the email said students should expect an update in January 2019.

Linguistics prof. breaks down Philadelphia dialect

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Prof. notes social factors behind phoenetic changes

Nursing prof. works to promote women’s health

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Would you like a glass of “wooder”? Maybe some “cawfee”? This unique dialect is common at Penn when speaking to native Philadelphians, and Linguistics professor Meredith Tamminga is researching the Philadelphia accent and the social factors that are changing the way it is spoken.

To understand how Philadelphians’ accents are changing, Tamminga is building upon prior research about the dialect.

“The Philadelphia accent is one of the best-studied accents in the world,” Tamminga said.

She is drawing upon the work of her mentor William Labov, the retired John H. and Margaret B. Fassitt professor of Linguistics, who has been studying the Philadelphia dialect since the 1960s.

Tamminga said there are several examples of recent phonetic changes. Building on prior research that examined class stratification and other social factors, she is specifically looking at the reasons behind changes in the pronunciation of various words, such as “plate” and the days of the week.

“One change nobody notices but that there is strong evidence for is that a long ‘a’ like in ‘plate’ is becoming more like ‘ee,’ so the word sounds like ‘pleet.’ I can’t tell you why this is happening, but we’re interested in finding out,” Tamminga told Penn Today. “One of the things we’ve learned from Professor Labov’s research is that there’s sort of class stratification as well as of course [some] sorts of racial and gender differences in language change.”

However, there are some phonetic changes that are starting to sound more mainstream.

“I know old Philadelphia people, my parent’s generation used to say ‘Mondey,’ ‘Tuesdey,’ ‘Wednesdey,’” said College freshman and native Philadelphian Bernadette Breslin. “Now, it’s starting to come about like ‘Monday,’ ‘Tuesday,’ ‘Wednesday’. Vowel sounds with ‘day’ have changed.”

Tamminga said many social factors contribute to this shift in language, including what demographic group one identifies with.

Penn Nursing professor Anne Teitelman designed a new app to bring cervical cancer awareness and prevention to the daily lives of young women.

The app, titled “NowIKnow,” encourages women to complete the three-dose vaccine series for human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer.

Despite the effectiveness of the vaccine, Teitelman said many women do not complete the six month vaccine series.

The app works to combat this by giving users a vaccine tracker with a calendar countdown and regular reminders. It also highlights new stories about women’s health experiences and provides a digital forum where users can post questions and receive responses from medical professionals.

With over thirty years of clinical practice — primarily in underserved urban communities — Teitelman said she wants to increase access to the work she typically does in a clinical setting. She added that she especially wants to provide a community for marginalized women, who often have fewer resources, and said the app’s development largely focuses on their needs.

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Professor Tamminga highlighted the linguistic flexibility of young women through ananlysis of phonetic factors.

“Young women are really the innovators in language, and where they go, other people follow,” Tamminga noted.

Tamminga’s research, which is currently funded by the National Science Foundation, studies what specifically makes young white women who grew up in Philadelphia as linguistically innovative as they are. To do so, Tamminga analyzes what aspects of these individuals’ personalities contribute to the change and to what degree they are linguistically flexible.

Tamminga conducts her research by bringing pairs of friends from nearby colleges like Temple and Drexel into her lab and allowing them to converse casually as she records from a distance. She then separates the friends and analyzes how linguistically flexible they are and what personality markers they have. In doing so, she attempts to connect phonetic flexibility and personality types to the probability that an individual will spark language change.

In addition, Tamminga analyzes phonetic factors like the shape of a speaker’s mouth and tongue placement in relation to vowel sounds.

Students from Philadelphia aren’t quick to notice their accents, though.

Breslin, who grew up in Fishtown but moved to the North

Philadelphia suburbs four years ago, did not notice her accent as a child.

“I remember moving to the suburbs … I didn’t know I had a Philly accent until I moved [there],” she said. “People from the suburbs kept asking me where I was from.”

“I only realized [my accent] when people were like ‘ew, say that again,’” said College freshman Jana Pugsley, who grew up in the Philadelphia area. “People thought that I was very uneducated or something because of how I sounded, so I had to make this conscious shift to normalize my accent.” Pugsley added she has to do this in academic settings often.

Tamminga said she hopes that her research will break the stigma behind the Philadelphia accent, noting that people who are at the forefront of language change with certain dialects are often viewed negatively. Tamminga spoke of how these accents are often associated with working-class language and how these accents feed into stereotypes that frequently carry negative connotations.

Although data analysis is still ongoing, Tamminga said her research ultimately aims to both highlight and normalize the uniqueness and constantly-changing nature of accents and language as a whole.

“We may be seeing women in practice once a year,” Teitelman said. “Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some way to continue to interact with them, to give them information and support?”

The app was formed using community-based feedback; her team recruited young women to serve on a community advisory board to review a mock app, said Su Kyung Kim, who served as Teitelman’s research project manager and who received her Nursing Ph.D. from Penn in 2015.

Because NowIKnow’s user base is largely women ages 18 to 26, Teitelman enlisted the help of Penn students from undergraduates to postdocs like Rebecca Duncan, 2015 Nursing and College graduate and Teitelman’s research assistant, to ensure that stories in users’ feeds would be relatable and engaging to young adults.

The community said they wanted the app to provide a public forum.

“People wanted to feel like they could hear stories and communicate with other people, so that led to the development of a discussion board,” said Duncan.

Through the discussion board, users can ask questions and receive responses from other users and professionals.

Teitelman’s team also studies the ways to motivate women to complete the vaccine series.

“There is a science around

behavior change. What we have done is actually study and identify motivating factors that lead to – in this case – the completion of the HPV vaccine,” Teitelman said. Earlier this month, she published a paper on the behavioral science she built into NowIKnow.

While developing the app, Teitelman also made an effort to consider smartphone accessibility in underserved communities.

Her team examined research on mobile health app usage, which was conducted by the Pew Charitable Trust.

“What they’re finding is that there is actually more use of mobile phones among marginalized populations because they abandon landlines, and they often don’t necessarily have a computer, but they use their phones,” Teitelman said.

A significant percentage of marginalized populations, however, still do not own smartphones.

“In a more recent study we’ve done with low income and marginalized women, we found that about 30 percent did not have smartphones,” Teitelman said.

Although some people may not own a smartphone, Teitelman said research indicates nearly everyone has a mobile phone that can receive text messages. She added that for her current project, she is working with a text messaging application “to make sure that we don’t leave anybody out.”

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The app encourages women to complete the three-dose vaccine series for human papilloma virus (HPV) and provides a forum for users to post questions and receive responses from medical professionals.

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OPINION Don’t let your scary childhood piano teacher hold you back from pursuing music in college

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 29, 2018 VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 58 134th Year of Publication DAVID AKST President REBECCA TAN Executive Editor CHRIS MURACCA Print Director JULIA SCHORR Digital Director HARRY TRUSTMAN Opinion Editor SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor JONATHAN POLLACK Senior Sports Editor LUCY FERRY Senior Design Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Design Editor CHRISTINE LAM Design Editor ALANA SHUKOVSKY Design Editor BEN ZHAO Design Editor KELLY HEINZERLING News Editor MADELEINE LAMON News Editor HALEY SUH News Editor MICHEL LIU Assignments Editor

SIT WITH ME | Playing piano has been a much-needed break from Penn’s stressful environment

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s a kid, I hated taking piano lessons.

I wasn’t that motivated, and I would frequently get reprimanded by my teacher for not practicing. In seventh grade, I decided to stop taking lessons altogether. I was burnt out on classical music and had no interest in continuing.

Many students have similar stories. We took music lessons for many years and some even continued to play in high school, but chose to stop after our college applications were submitted. Some of us hated playing our instruments. But I am forever grateful to my parents for making me take piano lessons even when I didn’t want to. It built a foundation for me to pursue music on my own.

As musicians who at one point stopped playing altogether, I urge everyone to come back to their instruments and pursue them voluntarily.

Music can be incredibly therapeutic. Playing piano has been an outlet for me to unwind when I am stressed out. I’m able to

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take my fears and anxiety to the keys. It has been helpful in college because it’s a comfort that I can rely on. Penn’s overly competitive culture doesn’t need to

carry over to piano playing. In fact, music doesn’t have to be competitive at all. When we start to think of music as solely a personal experience, then the pressures of being good enough go away. The focus should always be on your relationship with your instrument. We are all at different levels with our instruments, and we shouldn’t compare to each other.

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done through music. Doing this allows me to share my experiences with others in the hope that they understand what I am saying through the music.

Any bad experiences you might have had from earlier music lessons shouldn’t hold you back from experiencing music in college. Most of the music playing you have experienced up until now can be thought of as preparation to what’s most truly gratifying: the ability to put your own feelings into the music, and to be able to create music for others to experience.

I actually believe that stepping away is a part of the process of learning music. Our parents may have forced us to take lessons, and at some point we said that we had enough.

But the key is stepping back into music. Taking a break from music is part of the process because it allows us to recognize our own volition; we actually have the choice whether or not we want to play this instrument. And having that choice and saying yes makes the experience much more gratifying than if we were forced to play all along.

Joining an ensemble for credit is far from the only way to continue studying music at Penn. There are practice spaces in most college houses. I personally like the pianos in Fisher-Bennett Hall. It’s possible to reserve the rooms, but they’re usually open to anyone.

I used to dread my piano lessons. Now, music helps alleviate my anxiety and exercise my creativity when school gets stressful. Playing piano at Penn doesn’t have a price tag. Being forced to take music lessons as a child may have left you feeling burnt out, but I urge you, next time you’re feeling overwhelmed, pick up your instrument, try a few scales, and see how you feel.

JOEL LEE is a College sophomore from Groton, Conn. His email address is joelslee@sas.upenn.edu.

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fter the Democrats’ resounding victory to regain control of the House of Representatives, the hot topic of discussion turned to the speakership. Would Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) once again become the Speaker of the House for the incoming 116th Congress or would Democrats elect a new speaker?

A power struggle ensued with more public opposition to Pelosi than many anticipated. What surprised me about this opposition was not its existence, but its fierceness. This made me wonder what crime Pelosi had committed to earn the contempt of so many Democrats.

After some internet research, I discovered Pelosi’s unforgivable crime: She has served her country honorably through government service for too many years.

One may ask when in her 16 years as leader of House Democrats did Nancy Pelosi’s service suddenly turn from something admirable to a deal breaker? I don’t know the answer to that, but neither do her detractors.

But her opponents, some of whom are part of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, have

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has strong appeal and denotes energy. But if that is why they want her replaced, then they should say so instead of making inaccurate claims about her suitability.

Instead, what we see are various ludicrous assertions about her. Some claim that she is not liberal enough. For three de-

After some internet research, I discovered Pelosi’s unforgivable crime: She has served her country honorably through government service for too many years.” decided that because Pelosi is part of the establishment, they want new, younger leadership.

That is a perfectly valid wish.

The idea of fresh leadership

cades she has served the people of San Francisco, a liberal bastion, and championed some of the causes closest to their hearts: LGBTQ rights, women’s

rights, and civil rights in general.

Others feel that she and the other leaders of the House Democratic establishment have lost sight of liberal priorities and care only about holding on to power. This ignores the nearly two decades she has spent leading Democrats in their fight to protect those Americans whose rights are most vulnerable to conservative attacks. Anyone who has followed Pelosi’s tenure as Democratic Leader has witnessed what a tireless advocate she has been for all Americans.

The energy she has put into getting things done in Washington is impressive. She was instrumental in leading America out of the Great Recession; in passing the Affordable Care Act; in repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the discriminatory policy that prohibited openly gay people from serving in the

military; and in passing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which provided women a better chance to fight gender-based pay discrimination.

Being an effective Speaker of the House requires tremendous political acumen and tenacity.

It demands of you the ability to take hundreds of competing policy ideas and requests and synthesize them into legislation.

Recently, former President Obama praised Pelosi. “I think Nancy Pelosi, when the history is written, will go down as one of the most effective legislative leaders that this country’s ever seen,” he said. “Nancy is not always the best on a cable show or with a quick sound bite ... but her skill, tenacity, toughness, vision, is remarkable.”

I suspect that the attacks on Pelosi stem from the recognition that she is by far the strongest candidate to take up the

gavel as the next Speaker of the House. The only way for them to take her down is to try and tarnish her record and reputation. But she deserves better than to be targeted by disingenuous attacks.

Moreover, with Democrats poised to take control of the House, Congress will finally provide a check on the Executive branch making it all the more important that Democrats have the right person at the helm. Using the power of House oversight for reckless and purely politically motivated attacks on the Trump administration would only hurt Democrats and the country as a whole. Pushing for a premature impeachment may win a Congressperson extra Twitter followers, but it’s short-sighted and bad for the party as a whole.

Pelosi is smart enough to know that and will ensure that Democrats pursue the Trump administration only where there is reason to believe that laws or ethical rules have been broken, and provide a check on the elements within the Democratic Party that would act unwisely.

She is the right person for the job and the leader the country needs right now.

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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crolling through flights on my computer the week before last, my heart sunk as I saw tickets for $300-400 from the Philadelphia airport to the Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Fla. A flight was my only option — without a car or the will to drive for 14 hours straight, getting from my apartment in Philadelphia to my home in Gainesville, Fla. is quite a trek. But my bank account wagged its finger at me in disdain. I couldn’t spend $400 on a flight for a four-day vacation. It just wasn’t an option.

While I was graciously accepted into the home of one of my fantastic professors for Thanksgiving dinner, not everyone in my position is so fortunate. I was in a lucky and

THE OXFORD C’MON | Thanksgiving break is too short to justify exorbitant flights rare place to have a professor willing to feed and entertain me on such a family-oriented holiday, and for that I am truly thankful. Still, that doesn’t negate the fact that the brevity of Thanksgiving break makes it extremely difficult for lowincome students to justify going home.

An international friend of mine who has no personal attachment to the holiday admitted to me that she felt pretty sad that she couldn’t see her family during a week when all of our other classmates could. I don’t put much personal stock or reverence into Thanksgiving as a holiday, but I did miss my family. The Thanksgiving “break” that everyone was so excited for doesn’t seem like much of a break when your final class is the day before Thanksgiving.

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Our education should take priority over vacation in every regard. But high school is also a place for learning and growing, during which I got the entire week of Thanksgiving off.

I recognize how difficult it can be to reconfigure an entire semester’s worth of classes and schedules in order to accommodate students who live all over the country. But a student’s mental health should be taken into consideration when it comes to structuring an academic schedule.

Among the Ivies, Penn has ranked lowest for time off for school breaks. Students who come from less financially stable backgrounds can’t automat-

ically afford to go home during such a brief period of time, and those who do decide it is better

be very peaceful to stroll down Locust walk when there aren’t dozens of students running past

Thanksgiving is about gratitude, and I think all Penn students, regardless of financial background, would be grateful for a few more days of break.” for them to make the financial sacrifice are only afforded a few days at home.

Staying on campus during breaks isn’t all bad, and it can

you late for class. Penn offered low-income students access to dining halls over this Thanksgiving break and loaded prepaid debit cards so they didn’t

have to spend their own money.

This was a phenomenal step in recognizing that low-income students face different kinds of challenges every day here at Penn.

This doesn’t change the reality that many of these students didn’t want to remain on campus. As Penn continues to make an effort to open its community up to first-generation, lowincome students, the administration must bear in mind that it isn’t financially feasible for a lot of us to go home. A college shouldn’t be responsible for a student’s every issue, but when a supposed “break” is so short that many students can’t enjoy an equal opportunity to reconnect with family, there’s a problem.

Thanksgiving is about gratitude, and I think all Penn students, regardless of financial background, would be grateful for a few more days of break.

SOPHIA DUROSE is a College sophomore from Orlando, Fla. studying English. Her email is sdurose@sas.upenn.edu.

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olitics is different where I’m from. We don’t have a codified constitution, but we do have an Official Government-Appointed Wizard. The deputy leader of one of the political parties on the 2014 ballot was a pineapple. And our prime minister took a couple months off for maternity leave this year.

New Zealand sounds like a blissful escape from the current firestorm of Pennsylvania Avenue, doesn’t it? But, before you invest in a post-apocalyptic getaway mansion in my faraway motherland, I’m here to say that the United States has got its finger on something great.

Two years ago, I packed my life into two 50-pound suitcases and flew away from the beaches, magic, and sheep.

Thirty hours later, I touched down at the Philadelphia International Airport, ready to begin life at Penn.

I was a foreigner starting freshman year in a battleground state two months before the 2016 election. It was crazy and exciting — like nothing I had experienced before.

Now a junior, I spent the past

summer in Washington interning at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. There, I was front and center for one of our major initiatives: the Democracy Project, a bipartisan survey of American attitudes on democracy, in conjunction with Freedom House and the George W. Bush Institute. As a nonAmerican, I was startled by the results.

Eighty percent of Americans are concerned about their current condition of democracy.

Less than one-fifth believe that federal government legislation reflects what the people want. And, focus groups in five cities consistently vocalized frustrations about racism and discrimination, which Americans regard as one of their toptwo frustrations about democracy.

The Democracy Project comes during a particularly tense moment in the U.S. political trajectory. Pew Research Center reports that 86 percent of Americans see strong conflicts between Democrats and Republicans. These problems aren’t ignored: 68 percent of Americans believe democracy is getting weaker.

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When asked to rate how democratically governed their countries are, 54 percent of New Zealanders gave a rating of eight, nine, or 10 (out of 10), according to the 2011 World Values Survey. Only 33 percent of Americans did the same.

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index ranks New Zealand fourth globally for top functioning democracies. Our score is 9.26 out of

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10, while the United States’ score of 7.98 falls in the category of “flawed democracy.”

At first, I lamented America’s political problems. I thought I’d left a wonderland of social equality and universal health care for a false bastion of freedom, riddled with injustice and backward attitudes.

But, after two years in the United States, I realized that, for all its wonderful qualities, New Zealand was actually the real fake paradise. Our democracy rankings don’t mean we don’t have problems — it means we don’t talk about them.

Race being chief among them. Taika Waititi, New Zealand director of “Thor: Ragnarok,” recently called his home country “racist as f**k.” He made headlines and received harsh criticism: “He’s gone too far,” “We’re not as racist as ‘F,’” media personalities retorted.

They even asked Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to respond. She downplayed it by saying, “I think probably you’d be hard-pressed to find a country that didn’t have racism in it.” Instead of taking an easy opportunity to start a meaningful conversation, our 40th white leader minimized the multiracial director’s hon-

est concerns.

Only 8 percent of Pacific Islanders have a bachelor’s degree or higher.

Asians hold 2 percent of leadership positions in public service, even though they make up 12 percent of the population.

New Zealand leaders like to proclaim that the country is “known to be socially pro-

Conversations happen. Democracy Projects exist.

At the Penn Biden Center, I reviewed focus group videos and heard Americans express their qualms. I heard overwhelming dissatisfaction that racism was eroding democracy.

“You’re disadvantaged not only by where you live [but] the color of your skin,” one participant openly commented.

Those discussions epitomize my own, at Penn, with Americans. Almost daily, I have conversations that would be “too political” to many New Zealanders. But, only with honest conversations can solutions manifest.

We live in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the world’s oldest democracy. When Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams signed

[New Zeland’s] democracy rankings don’t mean we don’t have problems — it means we don’t talk about them.” gressive,” but often forget to add the asterisk “*for white people.”

For me, it’s easier to embrace my Asian ancestry in the United States than at home, where I grew up wishing I were white to fit into “Kiwi culture,” an experience shared by other Asian-New Zealanders living in America.

New Zealanders don’t talk about race, so the non-white narrative is ignored.

And that’s why, despite what the rankings and polling say, I believe in democracy here.

the Declaration of Independence in 1776 on Chestnut Street, they may not have imagined our problems today, but they would’ve loved that we talk about them.

While the Democracy Project’s negative results can seem grim, they give me hope.

America, you may think you have problems … but at least you recognize them.

LUCY HU is a College junior from Auckland, New Zealand, studying political science. Her email address is lucyhu@sas.upenn.edu.

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Education Institute at UCLA found that new college freshman listed their primary reason for attending college as getting a better job.

Decades before the recession hit in 2008, the most cited reason was to learn about what interested them.

“I suspect that a number of students are not serving themselves as well in that regard as they could,” Sniegowski said. “They may be doing what they think they should do for their careers rather than what they are truly interested in.”

The downward trend in the humanities and social sciences is underscored by a surge in students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. Biology majors, for example, increased 25.20 percent from 2005 to 2014 – from 123 to 154 degrees, respectively.

In the face of this STEM surge, some professors in the humanities say they want to re-emphasize the importance of their field.

“Humanities, in a way, haven’t

really positioned themselves as a selling point,” Christina Frei said.

As the Executive Director of Language Instruction for the School of Arts and Sciences, Frei has seen overall interest in the languages decline over the past few years as Penn begins to place less emphasis on language studies.

Last year Wharton rolled back its language requirements.

“It might be a moment that the humanities need to really have a more conscientious effort and position themselves much more clearly,” Frei said.

One caveat of the decline in the humanities and social sciences is that the number of students enrolled in these areas remains higher than degrees given.

The University’s “General Requirement” curriculum necessitates the need for students to take courses in writing, foreign language, mathematics, and other subjects.

A portion of these requirements emphasize the humanities, so regardless of what degree a student pursues they will be exposed to a liberal arts education.

“To some extent the university can control its enrollments by changing the general requirement curriculum and changing what courses can count,” English professor James English, the director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, said. “Departments, if they are eager for more enrollments, as many departments are, they can play that system. They try to put a course together that will satisfy a general requirement that’s outside their normal area.”

Despite the current trends towards STEM and natural sciences, English contends that one should not roll out “narratives of crisis and decline.”

“There is that sense of fear that STEM is taking over society and the educational apparatus, and the humanities are becoming a more beleaguered piece of higher education,” he said. “That is the case to some degree nationally and in certain kinds of institutions more than others, but I don’t think, especially at a place like Penn, that its helpful to go into a defensive and antagonistic mode.”

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“When I chose an apartment for myself, [Christ Memorial] was a factor for me, I was expecting to see it in my window each morning,” Kuriksha said.

“But now it’s not here so for me, it’s just a sad surprise.”

Spruce Hill Zoning Director Barry Grossbach said he was also disheartened. Although he speculated restoration efforts could have been “prohibitively expensive,” Grossbach said the loss of the church has deeply affected some residents of the community, particularly those like Kuris who bought or rented property nearby.

Patrick Grossi, director for advocacy of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, said the decision to demolish Christ Memorial is a consequence of intensifying demand for housing, primarily generated by students.

He said he perceives that with an ever-expanding influx of undergraduate students and young professionals, there exists a strong profit motivation to replace historic buildings with more modern, space-efficient residential properties.

“West Philadelphia is changing,” Grossi said. “It’s perceived that there are greater incentives to tear down a build-

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ing like [Christ Memorial] and construct something new for a lucrative housing project than there are to spend sweat equity and actual equity to repair a building like [Christ Memorial].”

He said the property deserved to be included on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places and should not have been demolished.

University City resident Meg Robinson said she was similarly disappointed by the demolition of Christ Memorial, adding that she would miss the church’s historic nature and unique architecture.

“One of the neat things about Philly is that we have a lot of historic buildings, and it seems a shame to lose one of them,” Robinson said. “It’s still a nice bit of architecture, whether you believe in one religion or the other.”

Grossbach added that the supplanting of historic properties by newer residential buildings may have harmful effects on the neighborhood’s architectural quality. Local residents are given little input on certain developments, and Grossbach said there is a possibility the building that will go up where the church once stood will have a different architectural style, disconnecting it from the rest of the community.

“You [could] really have a pretty mundane, if not semiugly building just sitting there without any character and without any relationship to the neighborhood that it’s a part of,” Grossbach said.

Lambert reiterated Grossbach’s concerns, saying she feared new, modern construction projects could be too disjointed from the neighborhood’s historic character.

“Historic buildings are being torn down, and large boxes that can accommodate large square-footages and get high rent are being put in,” Lambert said. “Nobody wants to put in the time or the effort to restore these buildings and try to fit them out in creative ways.”

Lambert acknowledged that some may not perceive architectural preservation as a pressing issue. She emphasized, however, that protecting historic architecture, like that of Christ Memorial, can help strengthen community identity and protect a people’s legacy.

“Historic preservation suffers a little bit from an antiquated image and a thinking that it’s only for rich elites, or rich white people, or folks in Rittenhouse, or Washington Square,” Lambert said. “It’s focused more and more on the heritage of everybody, telling everybody’s story from a big-picture perspective.”

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seriously reduce what the school has to do and unfortunately take us back to the time when they did nothing — they’re very concerning,” Fromson said.

Although schools can report stronger sexual assault standards, Fromson said the new standards offer no way to way to enforce if these stronger standards are actually occurring.

Stephen MacCarthy, Vice President of University Communications, said the University currently had no comment on the guidelines.

“We are still waiting for their final regulations to be published so that we can study the complete details of their new rules,” MacCarthy wrote in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Penn Law professor David Rudovsky, however, said the draft of the new DeVos guidelines makes “necessary adjustments” to protect due process in sexual misconduct disciplinary cases.

Rudovksy said the most important change was the requirement for a full hearing and the opportunity for a “fair cross examination of all the witnesses who testify” — which he said was critical for a fair process.

Yet for many, the implemen-

tation of cross examination has raised fears among students that fewer victims will come forward.

College junior Tanya Jain, programming chair of Penn Association of Gender Equality, criticized these changes and said it would likely deter survivors from reporting sexual assault.

“Cross examination during investigation can be extremely traumatizing for survivors,” Jain said.

“To require it would again isolate survivors and make more difficult the already emotionally exhausting process of reporting [sexual assault].”

These concerns were echoed by Fromson, who said a live hearing along with cross examination can be “a very traumatic and intimidating experience” for a complainant.

Another major change under the new Department of Education guidelines is the ability of colleges to raise the standard of evidence needed to penalize a student in sexual assault cases.

Under Obama-era regulations, sexual assault cases, including those at Penn, followed the phrase ‘preponderance of evidence’, which is used in some civil cases and means it is more likely than not the accused is guilty. Yet schools can now choose to utilize a ‘clear and convincing’ evidentiary standard, which Rudovsky said is

used by Penn in all other disciplinary proceedings.

“If it’s used when the accusation is the student has committed some kind of academic misconduct or is involved in a different kind of assault, not sexual assault, I don’t see why you would have two different standards,” Rudovsky said.

Fromson added that the standard adopted for sexual misconduct cases must be the same for other disciplinary actions, which could potentially spell the end of the ‘preponderance of evidence’ standard. However, Fromson sees this change as a mistake, as she said ‘preponderance of evidence’ treats both parties as equally truthful and equally at risk.

“Title IX is an equality statute.

‘Preponderance of evidence’ is an equality standard,” Fromson said.

“The ‘clear and convincing standard’ is not an equality standard — it tilts the investigation in favor of the accused and against survivors.”

Critics worried the guidelines would absolve schools of many of their investigatory responsibilities.

“These new guidelines do not serve to support women or any survivor of sexual misconduct,” Jain said. “Rape culture is one of the most pressing issues on college campuses today and these guidelines would only entrench rape culture further in our campuses.”

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Quakers head south to finish calendar year at Tennessee Invitational finishes, with 11 swimmers placing in the top three in an event.

Furthermore, this year’s team has proven to have some exceptional endurance swimmers; the team swept the 1000 free at each of its meets so far this season.

The Red and Blue had a difficult time at the Tennessee Invitational last year with only four finishes in the top 10. With the graduation of Virginia Burns, who had second and fourth place

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With the calendar year coming to a close, Penn men’s and women’s swimming will head south with the hopes of igniting their season.

For their final meet of 2018, the Quakers will take on Tennessee, Duke, Penn State, Denver, and Carson-Newman at the Tennessee Invitational this week. The host Volunteers are the favorites, ranked No. 9 and No. 10 for women and men respectively.

The Quakers have had a solid start to the season on the men’s side (4-1, 2-1 Ivy), losing only to Princeton on Nov. 17. They have been led by excellent performances from senior Mark Andrew and sophomore Boris Yang, both of whom won events in the team’s

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way it is, it has created so much more offense — not just for him, but also for his teammates.”

It has been a similar story from the charity stripe. As a sophomore, Goodman’s free-throw shooting hovered under 54 percent. This year, he’s established himself as one of the Quakers’ most reliable players in that area, knocking down his free-throws at a 77 percent clip.

Such improvement is no accident, as Goodman came into this season with the goal of establishing himself as a legitimate shooting threat.

“I wasn’t really a good threepoint shooter last year,” Goodman said. “I wasn’t very consistent there, so that was one area where I really tried to improve this offseason. I did the same with freethrows. I know that a lot of games come down to free-throws, so

finishes last year, the Quakers’ young talent will need to step up in order to keep up with the fierce competition.

This meet will be an indicator of how Penn swimming ranks against some of the nation’s best swimmers. If Penn can pull off wins against tough opponents like Tennessee, Denver, and Duke, it will be a major sign of encouragement for the Quakers going forward.

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The women’s team (1-4, 0-3) has had a less successful start to the season but has nevertheless illustrated promise. At Cornell, the Quakers had several positive

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Senior Mark Andrew hopes to continue his strong start to the season at the Tennessee Invitational.

The Quakers will likely need him to produce another solid performance in order to emerge victorious.

last meet at Cornell. A few young Quakers also had strong showings at that meet, with freshmen CJ Hinckley and Jacob Furlong placing first and second respectively in the 500-yard freestyle.

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that’s something that I worked on a lot as well.”

The dedicated work ethic that Goodman displayed this offseason was fueled in part by his eagerness to reclaim a prominent spot in Penn’s rotation.

As a freshman, he served as a crucial spark plug off the Quakers’ bench, averaging 15.4 minutes per game. However, as a sophomore, both his minutes and his production dipped, as fellow guard Woods returned to the team and absorbed minutes that had previously gone to Goodman. Woods, along with thensenior Darnell Foreman, formed the starting backcourt that led the Red and Blue to last year’s Ivy League title, but with Foreman graduating, an opportunity arose for Goodman.

“As a basketball player and as a competitor, everyone wants to get more playing time,” Goodman said. “That’s one thing I wanted to do coming into the offseason.

ing, as Penn took both second and third place at Cornell.

Penn seeks to avenge a narrow defeat last year to the same teams in this invitational, as the Quakers previously finished third behind Tennessee and Denver. Andrew, who performed exceptionally

I wanted to work hard and contribute more to the team. I wanted that leadership role that comes with being a point guard. I knew that somebody would have to step into that role, so that’s something that I aimed for coming into the year.”

According to Woods, Goodman’s ascension to that leadership position has been a seamless one, thanks in large part to his work ethic.

“This summer, Devon and I were together almost everyday, so I can see that the work is definitely paying off for him,” Woods said.

“He’s always in the gym, and you can see that he wants to get better every day. To see it come together is really amazing.”

“He leads by example,” Woods continued. “He’s not always just vocally leading, but he’s showing everybody, the young guys especially, the right thing to do. He’s leading by his actions, and he brings that to the table everyday.”

That non-vocal, subtle form of leadership has not gone unnoticed by the coaching staff either.

“His leadership has always been there in spurts, but he’s very quiet,” Donahue said. “But as his junior year progresses, I expect him to do even more in terms of leadership. He already does so many selfless things, including the way he plays.

To me, that shows great leadership, because it’s not about you, but it’s about the team, and Devon’s always been like that.”

This year, Goodman’s teamfirst attitude is being rewarded in the box score. His team has needed him to step up and score the basketball, and he has done just that.

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Aghayere making immediate impact as first-year starter

Wrestling to start dual meet season with road-home split day in the Palestra.�

In recent history, Penn has struggled against Rider, dropping its past four matches.

Freshman Anthony Artalona (8-1), Penn’s top-ranked wrestler at No. 20 in the nation according to Intermat, is set to compete against Evan Fidelibus (4-3) in the 149 lb class.

Artalona grappled with some of the countries best wrestlers at the Keystone Classic, placing third overall on the heel of a first place finish at the Michigan State Open. “The mental preparation for this week is a little different,�

Artalona said, “because you’re not preparing for a five or six match grind‌ you’re ready for one match, wrestle smart, no mistakes, and know when to score bonus points.â€?

Another match to watch is the 125-pound weight class between freshman Carmen Ferrante (7-3) and Rider’s Jonathan Tropea (8-1). They faced off most recently at the Keystone Classic in a match Tropea ultimately won. But the two have a history of competing even before college. “I don’t think there’s more of an edge [having just wres-

Penn will grapple with Rider and Maryland EMILY CONDON Sports Reporter

Penn wrestling will compete both on the road and at home in two tough matches to open its dual-meet season this weekend.

The Quakers first travel to New Jersey on Thursday to compete against Rider at 7pm.

Then, on Sunday, at 4pm, Penn welcomes Maryland to the Palestra for a second match.

After starting the year with strong results at the Michigan State Open and the Keystone Classic at home, Penn is looking to continue its momentum in the upcoming slate. “[The home meet with Maryland] is a really big deal for our program right now. It’s a home opener with a lot of returning guys who are new to the starting lineup. And we’ve got a lot of freshman who are going to be in the starting lineup,� coach Roger Reina said. “I think that it’s going to be a very competitive meet on Sun-

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tled Tropea] than any other match. Both guys are preparing for each other and they’re both going to be ready to wrestle. So I just have to have faith in my preparation, and just go out there and have some fun,�

Ferrante said.

On Sunday, the team faces an old rival, Maryland, a team the Quakers haven’t competed against in five years.

Another freshman from this year’s stellar recruiting class, Grant Aronoff (3-2), wrestling in the 141-pound weight class, expects to face off against Maryland’s Michael Doetsch (5-1). Aronoff was ranked No. 39 in the class of 2018 by Intermat, and in the Keystone classic, he defeated Rider’s Travis Layton, who he’ll likely compete against again in the two teams’ dual meet.

Aside from the freshmen mentioned above, six freshmen in total could start both of the Quaker’s meets this week.

With sophomore 165-pound wrestler Evan Deluise set to make his third and fourth career starts, many new faces will carry the Red and Blue forward as they begin dual meet season.

JACOB WESSELS Sports Reporter

The faces might be different but the expectations are the same.

Last year, Penn women’s basketball went 22-9, made the Ivy League championship, and notched a win in the first round of the WNIT. Yet, after graduating first team All-Ivy forward Michelle Nwokedi, there were some questions as to how the team would adjust this season with a new front-court partner for sophomore center Eleah Parker.

From the jump, coach Mike McLaughlin had a plan and that plan centered around senior forward Princess Aghayere. “We hoped Princess would fall into Michelle’s role ‌ and [so far] it has played out the way we thought it would ‌ she’s ready to be a starter and play upper level minutes.â€?

Coming into the season, Aghayere has had plenty of game experience for the Red and Blue, appearing in 85 games across her three years. However, in every one of those games, she came off the bench.

“Previous seasons I was trying to fill a role, bring energy, or get a rebound and follow Michelle’s lead,�

Aghayere said.

This season, the senior forward has started all six games for the Quakers and has seen a dramatic improvement in her numbers. Now averaging career highs across the board (21.8 minutes, 9.3 points, and 6.3 rebounds), she has been one of the key players in Penn’s 4-2 start to the season. “She’s done great, she’s had some scoring days and some rebounding days,� McLaughlin said. “It has been a smooth adjustment for her.�

Both McLaughlin and Aghayere look to the first game of the season against Siena, where she scored six points and grabbed five rebounds, as a turning point for her. “She made some big baskets at Siena, she stood up to the challenge out of the gate,� McLaughlin said. “The first game was different than what I was used to last year, but it was an exciting opportunity and I learned a lot,� Aghayere added.

Still, the impact Aghayere has made as a starter goes beyond the numbers. Taking the lessons she learned from three seasons of coming off the bench, the first-year

starter has strived to bring the same energy with a newfound mix of senior leadership. “She’s an instinctive player ‌ she likes to naturally react to the ball, [and we want her to] attack the glass consistently, run the floor consistently, and score the ball around the rim,â€? McLaughlin said. “She can affect the game no matter if she scores four or 14 points.â€?

According to Aghayere, adjusting to the leadership role has been more difficult than the increase in responsibility on the court. “Stepping into that senior role [has been the biggest adjustment].

I’m the person that the underclassmen look up to now, so I need to continue to work hard.�

But on the court as well, Aghayere has embraced her increased responsibilities. “Being able to influence the game in the last two minutes when the game is on the line [is the best part about starting] ‌ that way I can walk off the court without any regrets.â€?

As always, Penn has high expectations this season, and the strong play of new starter Princess Aghayere has gone a long way toward keeping the program on the right track with Ivy League competition right around the corner.

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Freshman Carmen Ferrante will look to continue his strong start to the season in a pair of dual meets.

The Quakers will travel to Rider on Thursday before hosting Maryland on Sunday at the Palestra.

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In turns out receiver Justin Watson is not the only former Penn football player drafted into a professional football league in 2018 — though it’s probably not the league you’re thinking of.

Record-setting quarterback and 2016 graduate Alek Torgersen was selected by the Birmingham Iron in the fourth and final round of the Alliance of American Football (AAF) quarterback draft. Each of the eight teams in the league picked four quarterbacks, with the Iron selecting Luis Perez (Texas A&M-Commerce), Blake Sims (Alabama), and Scott Tolzien (Wisconsin) in the first three rounds.

Football fans are likely most familiar with Sims and Tolzien. Sims started at Alabama for one season, leading the Crimson Tide to the

No. 4 ranking in the final AP poll of the 2014 season. Tolzien was a two-year starter at Wisconsin, with a record of 21-5, and led the Badgers to a Rose Bowl appearance in 2010. He then went on to spend seven years in the NFL, primarily as a backup, throwing two touchdowns and nine interceptions in 10 career games.

Perez won the Harlon Hill trophy, D-II football’s version of the Heisman Trophy, as a senior in 2017 and spent training camp this past summer with the Los Angeles Rams.

Torgersen, Penn’s career leader in completion percentage (65.1) and passing touchdowns (52), has not yet indicated whether he will sign, though earning the starting job could be an uphill climb.

Torgersen spent part of this offseason on the Arizona Cardinals before getting waived in on May 8. Torgersen has spent time on the practice squads of the Atlanta Falcons, Washington Redskins, and Detroit Lions, but has not made an

official 53-man roster at any of his stops.

League co-founder and former Bills and Colts general manager Bill Polian told ESPN that players will receive a non-guaranteed contract worth up to an average of $250,000 over three years. Though it’s far less than the NFL minimum salary of $450,000 for players on the active roster, a potential salary of roughly $83,000 per year could allow him to chase his pro football dream for a few more seasons.

The AAF will begin its inaugural season in 74 days, one week after the Super Bowl. Regardless of whether Torgersen plays or makes the roster, a Penn alum will still be involved in the upstart league.

Wharton MBA graduate and former NFL All-Pro Justin Tuck is on the Player Engagement Board of Advisors.

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including the NCAA quarterfinals in 2010, where the Big Red blew out the Crimson, 6-2. Each team has made the national final once, with Cornell losing there in 2010 and Harvard doing so in 2015. As evenly matched as the teams are, though, the Big Red have a clear edge in producing high-level individual talent: five Cornell alumni appeared for the silver medal-winning Canadian national team at the 2018 Olympics.

No. 3: Penn-Princeton women’s basketball If our study only consisted of the past five years, this rivalry would undoubtedly be better than any other in the league. Here’s a breakdown of the past five seasons: the two teams have finished first and second in the standings every year, with Penn winning three times and Princeton twice.

Penn’s conference record is 6010, and Princeton’s is 58-12; the next best is Harvard, way down at 45-25. In three of those five years, the teams finished exactly one game apart, meaning their head-to-head series directly determined the league champion.

The teams have gone 6-6 against one another, including a 5-5 regular season split and each team fittingly winning one Ivy League championship game against the

other. And of those 12 games, some have been true instant classics. For example, Penn’s 62-60 win at Princeton in March 2016 to clinch the Ivy League championship remains one of the finest games in the history of Ancient Eight women’s basketball. The only reason that this rivalry isn’t higher on the list is that everything prior to 2013-14 can’t just be ignored. From 2009 to 2013, Princeton went 10-0 against Penn, and won four Ivy titles to the Quakers’ zero.

No. 2: Penn-Harvard football If the Ivy League can be said to have “blue bloods” in any sport, Penn and Harvard football fit the bill. Though neither one happens to be the defending champion right now due to Princeton’s stellar 2018 season, that’s the exception rather than the rule.

It’s often a near-certainty that this game will determine the Ivy League champion. The winner of Penn-Harvard won at least a share of Ivy title every year from 2007 to 2016 — and, of course, both teams had five wins against the other in that span. This trend doesn’t just cover the past decade, but extends to the whole 21st century. Since 2000, only four times has the winner of Penn-Harvard football not gone on to win the Ivy title. And only once in that span has the loser of the game rebounded to win a share of the title, as a result of the three-way

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tie in 2015.

This game has been at its best recently, as well. In 2015, wide receiver Justin Watson exploded for 249 total yards and Penn shut out Harvard in the second half, securing a 35-25 upset to snap the Crimson’s 22-game win streak. The following year, under the Friday night lights at Franklin Field, quarterback Alek Torgersen led a two-minute drill for the ages before finding Watson for a tie-breaking touchdown with 15 seconds left to push the Quakers to a 27-14 victory and give Har-

vard its first Ivy loss for the second straight year.

No. 1: Penn-Princeton women’s lacrosse As far as dynasties on the national stage go, there’s no Ivy League sports rivalry quite like this one. It’s nearly impossible to exaggerate just how evenly matched the powerhouses built

by Penn coach Karin Corbett and Princeton coach Chris Sailer are.

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In the past 10 years, Penn is 6-4 against Princeton in the regular season — but because lacrosse is one of the few sports to have Ivy postseason play, fans get treated to even more of this

rivalry. Penn is the only team to have qualified for all nine Ivy tournaments, while Princeton has made eight of nine. In those nine years, the teams have met six times, including three times in the Ivy title game. That most recent Ivy championship in 2018 was one of the best games of all: With both teams entering tied for the lead with three alltime Ivy tournament titles each, Princeton edged Penn, 13-10, in a game that included a staggering seven ties after the first goal was scored.

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If you had polled 10 of the biggest Penn men’s basketball fans in the world after last season, asking each of them to predict next year’s leading scorer, you would probably get a few different answers.

A lot of people would probably go with junior Ryan Betley, last season’s top scorer.

A good amount would choose fellow junior AJ Brodeur. Perhaps senior Antonio Woods would get some consideration from those thinking outside the box.

But none of those theoretical 10 fans would have been correct, because nobody could have predicted the season junior Devon Goodman has had so far scoring the basketball. The point guard, who averaged a mere 4.3 points per game as a freshman and 3.8 as a sophomore, has absolutely exploded, improbably establishing himself as Penn’s leading scorer.

Through the first eight games of the season, Goodman has operated as the team’s go-to option, a role that opened up when

teammate Betley went down with an injury in the season opener. In his wake, Goodman has averaged 15.3 points per game and a team-high 32 minutes of game action.

“With Ryan going down, I knew that somebody would have to step up,” Goodman said. “I knew that I’d have to be confident to take on that role, and I have been.

My teammates have been believing in me too. That’s been a huge part of my success.”

A key to this offensive renaissance for Goodman has been his improved shooting, both at the foul line and from three-point land.

After shooting only 25 percent on 40 attempts from three-point territory last year, Goodman has upped his percentage drastically this season. In just eight games, the junior guard has already taken 38 threes, and he’s been hitting his mark at a very respectable 37 percent.

“His ability to get by the defender has always been there, but now he’s almost a 40 percent three-point shooter, so the opponent has to pick his poison,” coach Steve Donahue said. “With his outside game that SEE GOODMAN PAGE 9 ERIC ZENG | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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Washington leads Penn with career-high 16 points TEIA ROSS Sports Reporter

Penn entered the Hornets’ nest and came out unscathed.

On Tuesday night, Penn men’s basketball went on the road to defeat Pomeroy’s worst rated Division I team, Delaware State, 76-48.

The opponent’s low ranking didn’t change the team’s mindset.

“We don’t like to take anyone lightly. We try to approach each game with the same mentality and that is worried about our principles … no matter who it is,” senior forward Max Rothschild said. “Whether we play Stockton, whether we play Delaware State or we play Villanova. It doesn’t matter who we play, we just try to stick to our principles.”

Freshman guard Bryce Washington led the Red and Blue (6-2) with a career-high 16 points, while

adding eight rebounds. Junior forward AJ Brodeur was close behind with 10 points and 13 rebounds, his second consecutive game with a double-double.

“Bryce brings so much to the table for us in terms of shooting, defense – he’s going to be a great player for us,” Rothschild said.

“Games like this are the fruit of his labor … it’s all because he works really hard. He’s going to help us a lot going down the road.”

“The more I play with this team, the more confident I’m getting every single day,” Washington said.

“I just want to keep learning from these guys and keep trying to get better.”

A total of eight players made three-pointers for Penn, just two shy of last year’s count of threepoint scorers in the 2017 contest against the Hornets.

“It’s good to see that guys are stepping up. We have a ton of guys who can go out there and make threes every night,” Brodeur said.

Penn’s free throw shooting improved against Delaware State compared to the past four games, as the Quakers shot 65.2 percent

from the line. The only two games of the season in which Penn has beat this percentage were against Rice and Lafayette — both played in the Palestra.

The Quakers had 13 assists in the game, with Brodeur tallying five. Junior guard Devon Goodman was close behind, adding four to the total.

This game against the Delaware State comes right after a 112-63 drubbing of Stockton on Saturday.

It is the Quakers’ second consecutive win after dropping two games to Kansas State and Oregon State in the Paradise Jam. “It’s good to get back in it, especially on the continental side of America,” Brodeur said. “We saw that more guys are doing more things and you can see that they’re actually getting better at it, so hopefully that carries over to when we play Miami next Tuesday because we’re going to need guys stepping up like they did today.”

With two consecutive convincing victories, the Red and Blue will go into next Tuesday’s game against Miami (Fla.) with some momentum.

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Freshman guard Bryce Washington led the Red and Blue to a dominant 76-48 win over Delaware State on Tuesday night with a career-high 16 points and eight rebounds in only 17 minutes of play.

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A Decade in Ivy Sports: Which rivalries are most competitive?

Penn is featured in each of the top three on the list COLE JACOBSON Senior Sports Reporter

We’ve already broken down the best long-term dynasties in Ivy League sports, and the best individual seasons as well. But there’s nothing that adds to an already dominant season quite like beating your biggest rival.

There are certain matchups in sports where it seems like everything is on the line, every time the two teams face off with one another. In this edition of our Decade in Ivy Sports, we track the most competitive rivalries in the past decade of Ivy sports.

This doesn’t just mean the ones with the most passion, or the most history — it’s about the matchups that are almost guaranteed to determine an eventual champion.

No. 6: Columbia-Dartmouth baseball Baseball, as one of the most balanced sports in the Ivy League in recent years, has seen five teams win at least one title and none with an average finish worse than 6.1. But it seems like these two schools — neither of which are known as athletic powerhouses — always find a way to play one another in the most vital games. Four times this decade, Dartmouth and Columbia have met in the Ivy League Championship Series, including three straight from 2013 to 2015.

Interestingly, Dartmouth tends to dominate the regular season — the Big Green are 16-5 against the Lions in the regular season since 2009, either splitting or winning the season series all 10 times. But it’s Columbia that has a 3-1 mark against Dart-

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mouth in the series that matters most. The one time Dartmouth did beat Columbia, in 2010, the Big Green were led by future MLB pitcher and 2016 MLB earned run average leader Kyle Hendricks.

No. 5: Yale-Cornell men’s ice hockey At first glance, these numbers show clear Yale superiority. But Cornell has made this rivalry far more competitive in the past five years. Between 2009 and 2013, Yale was 10-2 head-tohead against Cornell, while also securing the 2013 national title, four Ivy titles to Cornell’s one, and an 11-0 combined scoring margin in the 2009 and 2011 ECAC Championship games.

In the time since, though, the Big Red have stopped being the Bulldogs’ little brothers. Since 2014, each team has two Ivy League titles to its name, and Cornell leads the overall head-

to-head series, 5-2-3. In perhaps the biggest sign of the suddenly even nature of the rivalry, half of the teams’ 10 matchups over the past five seasons have gone into overtime. This rivalry even extends to the international stage; at the 2018 Winter Olympics, Cornell alum Ben Scrivens represented Canada, while Team USA featured three Yale alumni.

No. 4: Cornell-Harvard women’s ice hockey Clearly, a look at the Ivy League titles shows how important the regular season games between these foes have been; only once in the past 10 years has neither squad won the championship. But when it comes to facing off in the postseason, this rivalry escalates to another level. Five times in the past decade have Harvard and Cornell battled in some type of playoffs, SEE RIVALRIES PAGE 11

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