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On a fall day in 1971, College sophomore Kenneth Ciesielka emerged from his room on a top floor of High Rise East and saw his classmate, Jerry Rabinowitz, in the hallway. Rabinowitz was canvassing his college dorm, searching for a partner to join him in a game of intramural football, and Ciesielka decided to take him up on the offer.

In college, Ciesielka and Rabinowitz’s relationship evolved from hallmates to friends. And over the following four decades, the two Penn graduates would grow close, following similar paths and ultimately becoming partners in their profession.

On Oct. 30, Ciesielka delivered a eulogy at the funeral service of his former classmate, business partner, and friend.

Rabinowitz died as one of the 11 people killed in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting massacre. He was a member of the Dor Hadash Congregation at the Tree of Life Synagogue.

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and it’s a tremendous loss,” Ciesielka told The Daily Pennsylvanian. “This was a man who was just a giver.”

A two-time Penn graduate, Rabinowitz was an esteemed physician who was admired and loved by his friends, family, and patients. The 66-year-old is survived by his wife Miri, his mother Sally, and his brother Bill, as well as other relatives.

Hailing from Newark, NJ, Rabinowitz arrived on Penn’s campus in 1969 and lived in the Class of ‘28 building in the Quad for his freshman year.

“I remember him for his always upbeat personality and outgoing personality.

He was a caring individual and would do anything to help,” 1973 College graduate Charlie Battista wrote in an email to the Daily Pennsylvanian.

Battista was Rabinowitz’s neighbor during their freshman year.

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Penn pushes back on Trump proposal to redefine gender Policy will significantly affect trans students MADELEINE NGO Deputy News Editor

A memo recently revealed the Trump administration might narrow the term “gender” to be defined according to biological sex — a move that would dramatically curtail recognition of transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals under federal law. The report prompted swift backlash across the nation and at Penn, where students, faculty, and administrators have said they would fight the change.

The New York Times reported last week that the Department of Health and Human Services is spearheading an attempt to establish a legal definition of sex. Under the proposed guidelines, a person’s sex could only be male or female and would be dictated by genitalia at birth, meaning that sex would be immutable.

Penn administrators, faculty, and students have reaffirmed their support for the LGBTQ community, specifically trans and gender-nonconforming

students, in light of the news.

University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy was adamant that the University does not support the proposal.

“Penn is greatly enriched by and benefits from the perspectives and contributions of its diverse faculty, staff and students,” MacCarthy wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian. “We are unequivocal and steadfast in our support of the LGBT community at Penn and the University will not tolerate discrimination, whether it be based on race, sex, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Erin Cross, the director of Penn’s LGBT Center, also denounced the proposal, adding that the center will continue to support the transgender community.

“The LGBT Center staff and student community are deeply dismayed by the leaked memo from Health and Human Services that seeks to invalidate the identities of transgender, genderqueer, gender nonconforming, non-binary, and intersex individuals,” SEE TRUMP PAGE 6

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The vigil to honor the lives of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims featured a series of speakers on Monday, including President Amy Gutmann.

NFL’s Copeland to teach class at Penn 2013 Wharton grad currently plays for the New York Jets YOSEF WEITZMAN Sports Editor

In some ways, what Penn football alumnus and current NFL player Brandon Copeland will be doing in the spring isn’t that unique at all — he’s just going back to school.

Especially in the current era of big-time college athletics, where every year dozens of basketball

and football players leave college early to pursue athletic careers, instances of NBA and NFL players returning to get their undergraduate diplomas aren’t unheard of. Rarer still is the athlete who decides to pursue an advanced degree after his athletic career ends, but even those stories arise from time to time, like in last May when two-time Super Bowl champion Justin Tuck received his MBA from Wharton before getting hired SEE COPELAND PAGE 10

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Nearly a hundred members of the Penn community crowded together on College Green to honor the lives of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims.

Overflowing onto Locust Walk, attendees filed onto the triangle of grass in front of the LOVE statue for the Penn Vigil for Pittsburgh at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29. Helmed by the leaders of Penn Hillel, the vigil hosted a series of speakers, including Penn President Amy Gutmann, and the Shabbatones — a Jewish a capella group — performed.

Hillel, the University Chaplain office, the Vice Provost for University Life office, and Chief of Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé co-hosted the event, said Hillel Senior Jewish Educator and Rabbi Joshua Bolton. Bolton was the first to address the crowd.

“We’re gathered this afternoon because even though there is nothing at all that can be said to comfort us, it is nevertheless good to come together,” Bolton said. “To be with one another, to share in sorrow, and to share in the confusion of this moment.”

On Oct. 27, a gunman opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue in eastern Pittsburgh, leaving 11 dead and six wounded. The attack is said to be the deadliest attack against the American Jewish community in United States history. The suspect, Robert Bowers, later surrendered to the police and is expected to face hate crime charges.

Gutmann, the second speaker at the event, condemned the recent increase in anti-Semitic incidents throughout the United States.

Gutmann was a first-generation college student, whose father fled Nazi Germany before the Holocaust.

“We are beset by rising anti-Semitism — make no mistake about it. Growing intolerance — make no mistake about it. Inexcusable vitriol from elected leaders, erosion of our values and the civil norms of a decent society,” Gutmann said to the crowd.

Gutmann also spoke at length about Jerry Rabinowitz, a two-time Penn graduate.

He was a 1973 College graduate, who went on to receive a degree from the Perelman School of Medicine in 1977, and was among those killed in the attack.

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FFP pitch to divest from fossil fuels shot down It was dismissed at first stage of consideration JULIA KLAYMAN Staff Reporter

The University Council Steering Committee dismissed Fossil Free Penn’s second official attempt to achieve, at least partially, fossil fuel divestment.

After a failed attempt in 2015 to convince Penn to divest from all fossil fuels, the student group called on the University to divest from coal and tar sands, a specific type of fossil fuel, focusing its argument primarily on how Penn would benefit financially from divestment.

This tactic was a shift from the group’s previous approach of emphasizing Penn’s moral obligation to protect the planet.

“We realized that trustees really only care about financial arguments,” FFP Trustee Coordinator and College senior Zach Rissman said in September 2018 when the group submitted the proposal. “They don’t really care about social arguments

at all.”

But the September 58page proposal did not even pass the preliminary level of proposal consideration, which is conducted by the UC Steering Committee. If a proposal passes and members of the committee decide the proposal merits further consideration, an ad-hoc advisory committee is formed for a more formal deliberation of the proposal.

This happened in 2015 with FFP’s original proposal. After it passed the initial evaluation, an ad-hoc advisory committee discussed the proposal for about nine months before the University reached a final decision against divestment in September 2016, Rissman said.

“The main issue was the fact that this proposal did not represent a substantive change from the proposal that went forward to the Trustees in 2015,” University Faculty Senate Chair and Center for Public Health Initiatives Executive Chair Jennifer Pinto-Martin wrote in SEE DIVESTMENT PAGE 7

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Penn Dems spars with conservatives on Facebook The debate addressed the Pittsburgh shooting MAX COHEN Deputy News Editor

On the morning of Saturday, Oct. 27, 11 people were killed in a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the single worst anti-Semitic attack in United States history.

At 6:56 p.m. that same day, Penn Democrats posted a Facebook statement about the tragedy signed by the majority of the executive board.

The post quickly turned into a flashpoint in a tense debate between Democrats and Republicans, both at Penn and across the country, on issues such as the the politicization of tragedies, anti-Semitism, and the actions of President Donald Trump.

The statement started by addressing the attack: “It is impossible to convey how saddened we are by the shooting that took place this morning at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh,” it read. In the next paragraph, the statement pivots to President Trump, writing, “When an attack motivated by anti-Semitism occurs, it would be foolish to ignore

the context that leads to such terrorism. The President of the United States has a history of tacit support of white supremacist ideologies.”

Penn Dems President and Wharton junior Dylan Milligan said the group intended to clearly communicate these two messages.

“We wanted to bring up important conversations to be had surrounding the [Republican] party, and particularly Donald Trump, and ties to antiSemitic elements in this country,” said Milligan. “Trump has fostered an environment that is emboldening anti-Semitism and the statistics don’t lie.”

According to a report conducted by the Anti-Defamation League, 2017 saw the highest number of American anti-Semitic hate crimes in decades with a 57 percent increase from 2016.

The post laid “dormant” for around two to three hours, Milligan said, but at 10:12 p.m., the Facebook page “Young, Black and Conservative” shared the post, sparking an outburst in reactions and comments.

According to its Facebook profile, “Young, Black and Conservative” has over 35,000 likes and is “dedi-

cated to promoting Liberty through Conservative Christian values in the black community.”

As of 9:50 p.m. on Oct. 29, Penn Dems’ original post was shared 126 times and had 53 comments, most of which have been penned by nonPenn conservatives critical of the statement. Some comments critiqued Penn Dems for “politicizing the tragedy” and called them “despicable.”

Early on, Penn Dems page administrators attempted to delete comments that featured profane language and name-calling, Milligan said. The group later decided against deleting any comments.

The student group, Penn College Republicans, also commented, “No need to delete, we already got the receipts,” in reference to the comments Penn Dems deleted. This comment from the College Republicans has since been deleted.

College Republicans interim President and College senior Richard Murphy declined to comment on the issue.

“The posts speak for themselves.

We have no further comments,” Murphy said.

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Pomerantz, the former president of Penn Dems, said she was not involved with the original post or the deleting of comments.

“It’s important to recognize the mass murder that happened on Saturday was not a weather event, it was not a natural disaster: it was a slaughter of 11 people and a carrying out of a political ideology — anti-Semitism,” Pomerantz said in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian. “‘Let’s not politicize this,’ is a comforting phrase for those who already have the political power in this situation, and it does a disservice to those who are still affected by all the political circumstances that led to Saturday.”

Amid the controversy, Milligan said he stood by the Penn Dems post.

“I do think this statement in particular was how we as a club wanted to address the crisis,” Milligan said. “There is a relationship between their mainstream dialogue and what the perpetrator of the tragedy was espousing as well, and that’s what we are try-

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Five identical signs condemning Penn President Amy Gutmann for the University of Pennsylvania’s avoidance of making Payments in Lieu of Taxes peppered the perimeter of High Rise Field on Monday afternoon.

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city of its resources.”

PILOTs are payments that nonprofits, like Penn, voluntarily make to local governments since they are exempt from paying property taxes. Most of the Ivy League schools pay PILOTs, with the exception of Columbia University and Penn, the latter of which covers 299 acres of taxable land in University City.

“This land has historically belonged to black and brown West Philadelphians who continue to be systemically forced out of their homes,” the signs stated.

“Before that, this was the land of the Lenape tribe, forcibly removed through the genocidal history of U.S. colonialism that is still present today.”

The signs also referenced the mounting debt burdening the Philadelphia School District.

In the past, Penn has cited the economic benefits it gives the city, such as adding jobs to the local economy and contributing to the University City District, as a reason for not participating in PILOT agreements.

Penn Vice President for University Communications Stephen MacCarthy was not immediately available upon request for comment.

The messages appeared almost a year after Penn announced the impending construction of New College House West on 40th and Walnut streets, on high rise field.

The signs also shared a link to a recently created Twitter page, which has a number of posts criticizing Gutmann and the University as a whole.

The issue of PILOTs has risen sporadically to the forefront of campus conversation at the behest of students over the past

few years.

In December 2014 members of Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation and the Student Labor Action Project led a “die-in” at Gutmann’s annual holiday party in which the students laid on the ground for four and a half minutes in memory of Michael Brown, the black teenager from Ferguson, Mo. who was fatally shot by a white police officer earlier that year. Protesters linked the Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to indict the officer to issues of racial disparities throughout the nation — including those in the struggling Philadelphia School District, which primarily serves students of color.

“Selective disinvestment in black and brown communities is racism,” said 2016 graduate Gina Dukes, who was a member of SOUL and a College junior at the time. “Every day that Penn lobbies against PILOTs, it writes a new page in this country’s legacy of racial justice.”

Last March, a PILOTs protest disrupted the end of a University Council meeting on research and renovation.

Gutmann left the room without comment soon after the protestors arrived. The students then continued their rally after the dissolution of the meeting, with students, parents, and teachers of the Philadelphia School District giving speeches in front of College Hall.

Penn was previously a part of a PILOT agreement from 1995 to 2000 during the administration of former Mayor Ed Rendell. The University paid the city $1.93 million annually, but the agreement was not renewed in 2000.

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Two sophomores launch new business fraternity Phi Chi Theta was recognized on Oct. 3, 2018 RACHAEL RUHLAND Staff Reporter

Two sophomores have launched a chapter of the national co-ed business fraternity Phi Chi Theta at Penn and have made mental health their focus.

Promoting wellness is not explicitly within the national organization’s mission, but founders Wharton sophomore Kelly Morrison and College sophomore Daniel Gordon have made the issue a core aspect of the chapter’s identity.

“Our ethos is really to empower our members to not only get their dream jobs, but to succeed when they’re there,” Morrison, who is the Phi Chi Theta president, said. “Through life skills and mental health programming, in addition to traditional professional development training, our brothers will know how to succeed professionally and personally.”

The business fraternity, the fourth to be recognized by the Wharton School, informally re-

cruited 20 members last spring and this fall and will institute a formal recruitment process to welcome a new class of members this coming spring. The new class will undergo a pledging process that will include learning life skills and mental health training.

The idea to incorporate wellness into the fraternity’s core identity comes from personal experience. When Morrison was 13 years old, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer – a challenge they faced together as a single-parent, only-child duo.

“The need to take care of ourselves was a point that was really driven home to me when she passed away this summer,” said Morrison.

The death of a parent is a grueling experience, Morrison said, but she was supported by her fellow Phi Chi Theta members.

“I have to speak to the quality of this group — I was flooded with support,” Morrison said.

“When things get difficult, you want a tribe to fall back on.

Phi Chi Theta wants to create a space that would offer that to

more students at Penn.”

There are currently four Wharton recognized business fraternities: Delta Sigma Pi, Alpha Kappa Psi, Phi Gamma Nu, and as of Oct. 3, 2018, Phi Chi Theta. College senior and President of Alpha Kappa Psi Alex Yang said he welcomed the addition of Phi Chi Theta.

“I think it’s great because every cycle we have lots of applicants, probably in the hundreds, across the three current business fraternities and it’s great to have one more opportunity for [applicants] to join a business fraternity especially given the competitive environment at Penn and Wharton,” Yang said.

The launch of Phi Chi Theta comes at a time when the topic of wellness has become a prominent issue on campus, with the University ramping up its efforts to improve the wellbeing of its student body. This fall, the University appointed its first-ever Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé this summer and also launched a series of policy changes and new positions in the name of wellness.

Gordon, who serves as the

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Phi Chi Theta was founded by Wharton sophomore Kelly Morrison, who is the fraternity’s president, and College sophomore Daniel Gordon, who now serves as the executive vice president of the fraternity.

executive vice president, said the fraternity has been flooded with inquiries about how to get involved since the launch of its social media account last week.

“It’s been so nice to see so much interest, especially when Penn has a hyper-competitive atmosphere, and we are looking to take Penn students out of that

and bring them into a cooperative atmosphere where everyone can work together to form better solutions,” Gordon said.

Penn grad co-launches the new ‘Uber’ of house hunting: Jove App connects house buyers with real estate agents ASHLEY AHM Contributing Reporter

2014 Penn graduate Josh Evans has co-founded Jove — the first-ever pair of real estate applications for on-demand property showings in Philadelphia.

Jove, launched this year, functions in a similar way to Uber and instantly connects buyers with agents, creating a convenient and frictionless process.

In a society where “Googling” has become second nature, today’s home buyers typically

start their searches online, Evans said. Once buyers choose properties to visit, they must coordinate a time with their real estate agent to view the properties, which Evans said can be a tedious and frustrating process.

Evans recalled co-founder Steve D’Agostino saying to him, “I don’t understand why I can get a cab in 30 seconds through an app, but I have to wait three days for a response from a realtor,” when they missed out on a real estate deal because their agent did not show up.

Evans’ interest in real estate investment stemmed from a few Penn classes he took in urban

development. Evans said that learning about the importance of working on a tight budget at Penn’s Fels Institute of Government shaped his real estate investing perspective.

“Time truly is money especially in the market we’re in right now in [Philadelphia] where a lot of times properties will go for above asking price the day they are listed, so minutes really matter,” Evans said.

“That [government degree] perspective really helped me realize that this is a problem that needs to be solved.”

With the goal of revolutionizing the real estate industry,

real estate broker D’Agostino, Jonathan Katz, and Evans cofounded Jove. The group has diverse expertise, which includes real estate and technology consulting for Evans and Katz, that they combined with Jove partner and President of Doodle Applications Alex Garashchenko.

There are two applications for Jove – Jove Buyer and Jove Agent. The buyer will search for property, select a property, and request an immediate or scheduled showing. The request gets sent out to all agents with the app. An agent accepts, and a buyer-agent pairing is made.

As Jove is the first of its kind,

the team experienced difficulties introducing the new concept.

“We had a little bit of a challenge in the beginning teaching people about the process and explaining it,” Katz said.

Now that this Uber-like request-and-dispatch pairing has become more familiar to the public, Evans said the team is focusing on improving the agent profile features for the second version of the app.

“Allowing buyers to choose from a pool of agents rather than just getting paired with the first agent to accept” is in the near future for Jove, Evans said.

The team is also working on

encouraging more agents to use the app in order to balance the buyer-to-agent ratio, since many real estate agents are selfemployed and too busy, Evans said.

All agents currently using Jove are Philadelphia agents, and while the team is working on getting more agents to use Jove, Jove business developer Doanh Nghiem said Jove’s uniqueness stems from how it is tailored to Philadelphia.

“Philadelphia is like a hidden gem, and people are just starting to know about it and move here. The market is booming,” Nghiem said.

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treme compassion in treating HIV positive patients at the height of the AIDS crisis and died while trying to help fellow members of the synagogue during the attack.

“It hit really close to home as a Jewish leader on this campus and as someone who has always found great community in the Jewish world,” said Samantha Brooks, Wharton senior and copresident of Hillel. “It just felt like it could have been my synagogue or my family’s synagogue, and it feels really personal.”

Jennifer Reiss, College senior and another co-president of Hillel, said the event was largely planned on Saturday and Sunday night after the end of Shabbat.

Hillel collaborated with a number of groups across campus — both inside and outside of Penn’s Jewish community.

University Chaplain Rev. Charles Howard and College senior Aliya Farmanali, chair of the Programs for Religious, Interfaith, and Spiritual Matters — the University’s student-led interfaith umbrella group — also spoke at the event, emphasizing their intention to support members of the Jewish community.

“Folks down the hall from you are weeping with you and more importantly, walking with you,” Howard said.

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portant way to stand against hate and anti-Semitism.

“I think it’s important everywhere, but especially at Penn.

A university is a place where ideas are supposed to spread and hopefully the good ideas win and the bad ones die out,” Schneider said.

For Nursing freshman Danielle Lo and Wharton freshman Emily Liao, the vigil was an opportunity to support friends who were closely affected by the tragedy.

“I don’t think I expected to become emotional,” Liao explained. “But everyone [at the vigil] felt like such a community

and such a family.”

Before the vigil closed, Bolton encouraged students to reach out to one another and other campus organizations to seek comfort.

Bolton also stated the names of the 11 killed in the shooting, while the crowd stood in silence and later invited people to join him in saying the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer.

“We have to continue taking into account, slowly, new realities that are now a part of the story of who we are, the story of who our families are, and the story of what it means to be a Jewish person in America in the 21st century,” Bolton said.

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OPINION STUDENTS DEBATE PENN’S CULTURE OF COMPETITION

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he two phrases most commonly used to describe Penn are “ p r e - p r o fe s s i o n a l ” and “competitive.” Even among the notoriously competitive Ivy League, our university stands out for its cutthroat culture.

Arriving on campus last year, the atmosphere certainly lived up to the reputation. If you had told me Penn’s competitive culture would be one of my favorite aspects of my college experience when I was pressured into taking an additional class a few semesters ago, I would have thought you were crazy.

How on Earth could a culture that contributes to mental health issues on campus and hinders students from fully exploring college even remotely be a positive?

However, watching my peers grow over the past year has convinced me that Penn students are not only responsible for this culture, but also stand to benefit

the most from it. It’s no secret that Penn’s culture stems from a long-standing tradition of students comparing themselves to one another and feeling the need to outdo each other, and the constant preoccupation with future career opportunities certainly amplifies that feeling. It’s this history of stress that has put a negative stigma on competition.

However, competition —

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used correctly — is inherently beneficial. Competition can be

channeled into motivation to raise the abilities of an entire group. It’s at Penn where most of us consider our day-to-day lives to be an overkill of competition, that this drive to succeed becomes associated with an unhealthy amount of stress. Too often we bring each other down rather than rise up together.

Here’s where I disagree. I believe that Penn’s culture can

bring out the best in us, although it may not seem like it at first.

We are all here for a reason — we performed well in high school. We competed, we learned, we overcame. The competitive culture at Penn challenges us to continue doing that, albeit among a more accomplished pool and with more responsibilities and goals to manage. It challenges us to overcome the need for the validation that comes from being better than our peers. It challenges us to disregard the feeling of inadequacy and jealousy that strikes us when one of our peers finds success. We have the opportunity to prove to no one but ourselves that we can build a bulletproof personality, unfazed by our surroundings and rooted in self-confidence.

What lies on the other side of this challenge is priceless.

When students finally overcome that need for constant compari-

son and use competition solely as a motivation rather than a hindrance, they will find themselves filled with more self-confidence, composure, and poise than ever before. And what better preparation is there for the real world, where competition and stress are ever-present at a universal scale?

I’ve already seen this happen with some of my closest friends.

What started off as a nagging feeling of insufficiency a few months into freshman year has gradually turned into resounding self-confidence and unequivocal decision-making. In the face of never-ending competition, my friends have realized their feelings are in their control. And that transition has made them cognizant of their values, priorities, and true goals.

By no means am I discounting the importance of mental health.

I’m proud of the University’s expansion of mental health re-

sources, and acknowledge the need for even more resources to address these issues in an honest manner. I find the mental health problems on campus to be a troubling and unfavorable product of Penn’s culture. However, if the pervasion of Penn’s intense culture has taught us anything, it’s that we can change the perception of competition collectively. Once we start to embrace this culture as a gift — a chance at improvement, rather than a curse — we will find students building tremendous mental and emotional strength.

So, Penn’s campus culture is not something that ruins it.

Rather, it can become one of the favorable things about Penn. But that can only happen once we all buy into it.

So, I urge you: The next time you feel frustrated, upset, inadequate, stressed while comparing yourself to your peers and expectations, challenge yourself.

Challenge yourself to let that motivate you but not affect you.

Challenge yourself to be confident in who you are and what you do. What you’ll find in that challenge will be much more worthwhile than any satisfaction you could gain from outdoing a peer — or taking an additional class.

MOKSH JAWA is a Wharton and Engineering sophomore from Fremont, Calif. His email address is moksh@wharton.upenn.edu.

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What started off as a nagging feeling of insufficiency a few months into freshman year has gradually turned into resounding self-confidence and unequivocal decision-making.”

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ear Moksh,

On Thursday, your article titled “Penn’s competition can be brutal, but it’s one of the best things about it” was published in which you acknowledged Penn’s competitive atmosphere and encouraged students to use it for motivation. You urged your readers to stop comparing ourselves to our peers and instead channel our stress and feelings of “inadequacy and jealousy” into building up a “bullet-proof personality, unfazed by our surroundings and rooted in self-confidence.” In the end, you challenged us to be ourselves, reassuring us that the validation we get from ourselves will be more fulfilling than the validation we may get from comparing ourselves to others.

If Penn’s competitive atmosphere and mental health issues were perpetuated solely by academics, your advice — to stop comparing ourselves to others — would be sound, if simple. However, the interactions between competition and mental health are not so straightforward.

Your article seems to completely ignore the near-insurmountable socioeconomic pressures at Penn. Even if your advice is intended only for academic struggles and feelings of academic inadequacy, your advice is hardly applicable to students who are already suffering from depression and anxiety.

If we want the prevailing “Penn Face” to be broken down, we should be open about our experiences.

Therefore, to illustrate my previous statements, I’ll describe some of my own struggles.

I’m a first-generation, low-income, queer student. Because I have

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little contact with my parents, I rely on my work-study position to pay my phone bill, medical bills, school materials, transportation bills, and food. I spend roughly 15 hours per week at work while my peers call home for money to go out to parties, to pay G r e e k- l i fe dues, to live off campus, to buy the newest textbooks and online codes. By not needing to work, my peers have more time for homework and studying, giving them the opportunity to do better in class than their less-wealthy peers.

Of course, I only compare myself to my peers when I have the time and energy which, on most days, I do not. Again, to break down my Penn

we are all qualified to be at Penn.

However, due to inherent privileges, some of us are better equipped to thrive here than others. The fact stands that Penn has had 14 suicides over the past five years. Penn’s overcompetitive culture is pushing people past their limits.

Competition may be one of your favorite aspects of college, but not all Penn students want to “embrace this culture as a gift.”

Furthermore, you suggest that challenging us to be confident in who we are despite feelings of inadequacy will lead to a larger reward than one from outdoing a peer. As a trans person, I’d like

If Penn’s competitive atmosphere and mental health issues were perpetuated solely by academics, your advice — to stop comparing ourselves to others — would be sound, if simple.” face, I’ll admit that I hardly have the energy to get out of bed and eat more than once per day, let alone worry about what others are doing.

As you mentioned in your article,

to think I know a thing or two about self-confidence, and I believe that the rewards of being confident in yourself are incomparable to the rewards of helping someone in need.

I propose a new challenge to the Penn community: Reject the culture of competition at Penn. If a fellow student needs notes because they missed a class, send them a copy of yours. If you see someone struggling in a class in which you are succeeding, I challenge you to forget the class curve and explain the difficult concepts to them. If you have a friend who hasn’t attended classes in a few days because they don’t have the energy, bring dinner to their house or dorm and spend time with them. I challenge you to be honest when you’re struggling so that your peers feel comfortable enough to be honest with you and have an open conversation about the difficulties of being at Penn. Remind your friends — especially freshmen — that any grade you worked hard for is a good grade, that not sleeping is as bad as sleeping too much, that not eating is not normal, and that it’s OK to need help.

Many people here may say that life after Penn is full of competition, so we should just adjust to it now. However, at an institution as innovative as Penn, I expected more from students than to simply accept that this is the way the world works.

The world doesn’t have to be this way. You said it yourself: “we can change the perception of competition collectively.”

JAME S AY KIT is a C ollege sophomore from Philadelphia studying biology. His email address is aykit@sas.upenn.edu.

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For Asian Americans, Halloween is a reminder of how few of our favorite characters look like us SIT WITH ME | As a child, choosing a Halloween costume was an annual confirmation that I was not white

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hen I think of Halloween, I remember in high school opening up Google and typing in the words: “Halloween costumes for Asian men.” I remember being anxious about who I would dress up as. Every year I remember feeling discontent about my costume, and weirdly out of place at Halloween parties or while trickor-treating. I realized that in my white, Connecticut hometown, Halloween made the one thing I wanted to hide so clear: I was Asian.

Halloween was a time when

things stood in my way of enjoying the holiday: One, the people I looked up to and wanted to dress up as were all white. And secondly, no matter how hard I tried, my race would ultimately come between me and the character I wanted to be. Halloween was a yearly reminder that I was an outsider. It was a yearly reminder that those who were idolized in America didn’t look like me. And I idolized them too.

My Asian identity was never more noticeable than when I dressed up as a white figure.

Many East Asians are put into a no-win situation: Either they

The crushing part was that I wanted to be more than just Batman. I wanted to be ‘white’ Batman. The ‘real’ Batman. I hated being ‘Asian’ Batman.” everyone dressed up as their favorite person, superhero, or character. They tried their best to look like them. But for me two

choose to fulfill an East Asian stereotype and dress as something like a ninja or a samurai, or they can choose a popular

white figure. I didn’t want to dress up as a ninja because that felt like I was reinforcing stereotypes of my own race.

However, I wasn’t a cowboy, but an “Asian” cowboy, or the “Asian” Batman. The crushing part was that I wanted to be more than just Batman. I wanted to be “white” Batman.

The “real” Batman. I hated being “Asian” Batman.

As a kid I remember trying to think of Asian figures, Asian superheroes, anyone that I could look up to. I realized that most, if not all the things I had to choose from, were white. We need more Asian representation in the media so that Asian kids can have Asians to look up to. I didn’t realize how much I just wanted someone to relate to. Someone famous who looked like me. Someone who I wanted to dress up as and be proud of. I look back on my past Halloweens and I am saddened by the feelings that I couldn’t make sense of at the time. I didn’t realize why it felt so off for me to dress up as a white figure.

The Asian community has to ask itself what is being reinforced to children when the most

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desirable Halloween costumes are of white characters. The symbolism behind that is dangerous. It goes far beyond a silly costume one day of the year. It supports the idea that what we should look up to and want to be is inherently white.

Now, there is a case to be made for Asians dressing proudly as white characters. I don’t believe that choosing to dress as a white character should always be viewed as wanting to be white.

But too often, it gives Asian kids the feeling that their race can’t be looked up to. That being Asian

isn’t favorable or admired.

We’ve come a long way since I was a kid trying to figure what to wear for Halloween and I’m really happy about the progress we’ve made in representation for Asians. But ultimately, no matter how much more representation we get, we are a minority by definition. We will always feel marginalized at some time or another. And so what we must do is tell the Asian community that what they’re feeling is understandable. That the pressure they feel when Halloween approaches is felt by others. We

have to recognize that this will be a challenge that all Asian kids will face.

Halloween is something that can be enjoyed, and I truly do like the festivities. But I am concerned, especially for younger Asian kids and their identities.

They should be proud of their own race and reassured that the insecurities they may feel are valid. Bringing more Asian representation into media will empower us to dress up as people who we can relate to. I’m proud to be Asian, and I want that feeling to be reinforced every Halloween.

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

Bisexuality is more than just a PornHub category

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hen Drew* finds out that I am bisexual, he’s fascinated. My friend Bianca* mentions it in passing to him, explaining that I am dating a woman.

“What would you do if Isabella wanted to make out with you in the middle of the night?” Drew asks her.

Weeks later, Bianca and I are hanging out with him, watching a movie, and the questions persist.

“Would you ever hook up with Bianca?”

“No,” I laugh, “I don’t think of her that way.”

“So you think she’s ugly?”

“No, I just don’t think of her that way. She’s my friend,” I insist.

“Would you hook up with the both of us? At the same time?”

There are a lot of misconceptions about bisexual women. I date women, and I date men. It’s not a phase. It’s not for attention.

I’m not a closeted lesbian afraid of fully coming out. I’m also not a sex addict or “unicorn” who loves having threesomes with straight couples. The legitimacy of my sexuality is constantly questioned.

What’s more, I’m fetishized and viewed as an object of sexual fascination by straight men.

And I’m not the only one.

SIMONETTI SAYS | Stop fetishizing my sexuality “I would say any woman who identifies as liking women, there’s someone who’s gonna jump on that whether it’s on Tinder or at a party,” said Meerie Jesuthasan, a College senior who identifies as bisexual.

Dating apps like Tinder serve as a way for members of the LGBTQ community to connect within heteronormative culture. On Tinder, I frequently come across couples looking for bisexual “unicorns” to have threesomes with. Some of the most searched terms on PornHub in 2017 included “lesbian,” “threesome,” and “3 girls one guy.” Watching porn isn’t the problem. But targeting and sexualizing queer people is extremely harmful.

The fetishization of bisexual women is a product of a larger issue: bi erasure. Many people deny the existence of bisexuality, attributing it to sexual confusion or experimentation. Because people don’t take queer relationships seriously, it becomes easier to fetishize bisexuality. Most fetishes are rooted in the allure of the unfamiliar — that’s what makes them enticing. Until bisexuality is more widely accepted, people will continue to force their fantasies on queer women.

Even within the LGBTQ com-

munity, being bisexual can be extremely isolating.

When College senior Julia Pan, who identifies as bi, first announced that she was running for chair of the Lambda Alliance, a lot of people told her that she was “too straight” or not “gay enough.”

Bisexual people have trouble finding their place in straight circles without being fetishized or objectified, and in LGBTQ spaces they are thought of as only partially queer. As a result, I usually feel uncomfortable in my own skin no matter where I am.

When College junior Jessica Araten had her first serious relationship with a woman, her bisexuality was a huge roadblock.

ture.

College senior Osiris Childs said that while he knew he wasn’t straight, it took him a long time before he could comfortably identify as bi.

“As you go through your queerness, whether you’re gay, lesbian, bi,” he said, “You only really hear [about] gay and lesbian. You’re never exposed to any other possibilities because when you’re growing up you’re like, ‘Well I’m definitely not straight, but it’s either one or the other.’”

CLAIRE SHIN | DESIGN ASSOCIATE While bisexual women are viewed as sexual creatures, bi“[She] told me essentially that if sexual men are viewed as outliers.

I was bisexual then we could not Often, women are put off by bibe together,” Araten said. “[She] sexual men, because they assume tried to stamp that part of my iden- that they’re gay. tity out.”

“I never immediately tell a Jesuthasan explained that era- woman that I’m bi,” Childs exsure of her identity has mostly plained. “Even when you’re bi come from straight men that she’s once you sleep with a man you’re been in relationships with. One of automatically weaker.” her ex-boyfriends told her that if Although he’s not fetishized she cheated on him with a woman in the same way that women are, he wouldn’t be as upset as he’d be he is often asked to participate in if she were with a man. mixed-gender threesomes on dat“I think the first step is taking ing apps like Grindr. queer relationships seriously and Being bisexual at Penn is a chalnot thinking that every sexuality is lenge, one I know will only get for men,” she explained. harder as I enter the “real world.”

Coming to terms with bisexual- I usually find myself feeling on ity can be challenging given the the periphery of the straight social lack of representation in our cul- scene, and not quite welcome in

ISABELLA SIMONETTI the queer one either. I don’t go to frat parties anymore, because I’m not interested in the men there, and I’m tired of being sexualized by straight men. Meeting girls on Tinder feels artificial. I also don’t want to be solicited for threesomes every time I open the app.

Until people recognize the legitimacy of bisexuality, bi erasure will never end. My sexuality is real, and it isn’t for your entertainment. You might not be able to control what turns you on, but don’t expect me to help you play out your fantasies. *Name has been changed I SAB ELL A SIMONE T T I is a College sophomore from New York studying English. Her email address is simonetti@thedp. com. Follow her on Twit ter @thesimonetti.

Let’s get physical — Why Penn should offer for-credit physical education classes

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t an academically competitive school like Penn, it isn’t hard to find a student whose most dreaded high school course was gym. Gym class was often a bizarre interlude in an otherwise normal school day. Jerry Seinfeld described it well: “You had English, Social Studies, Geometry, then suddenly you’re in ‘Lord of the Flies’ for 40 minutes.”

However, beyond the clear physical benefits of exercise, college students who regularly work out are often more focused, less stressed, and have sharper memories. For these reasons, we believe that Penn should utilize its existing athletic facilities and offer for-credit physical education elective courses.

Learning that Penn has no physical education requirement is often a relief for many incoming freshmen, though this has not always been

EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD Penn’s policy.

In the 1900s, virtually all U.S. colleges had a physical education requirement. In the 1942 April Fool’s Day issue of the DP, a satirical notice read, “President [Thomas] Gates yesterday announced the end of required Physical Education and urged undergraduates to sit indoors all day.” In one decade, satire became reality. In 1952, the requirement was reduced from four years of coursework to just one, and in 1969, the requirement was abandoned altogether.

According to a study from Oregon State University, only 39 percent of U.S. colleges still have a physical education requirement. In the Ivy League, Columbia University, Cornell University, and Dartmouth College require all students to pass a swim test and take a full year of physical education. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology requires

two years of gym class.

We are not recommending that Penn should reinstate the physical education requirement because we understand that increasing the number of mandates on Penn students can add to their stress instead of reducing it. However, we recognize that in an ideal world, students should have the capacity to find time in their schedules to head to Pottruck or play a sport.

For these reasons, we believe the University should consider offering elective physical education courses.

Having the opportunity to exercise while earning credit could motivate many students who might otherwise be sedentary. It would give students a structured time to invest in their health without feeling like they are neglecting their academic commitments.

Stanford University has already implemented a similar policy. While

not requiring physical education for graduation, Stanford offers numerous courses graded on a pass/ fail basis. Many of these courses go beyond typical intensive workout classes. They include activities like golf, table tennis, and meditation. These classes are less physically draining, while still providing a meaningful break in an otherwise inactive day.

The reality of Penn life is that it’s busy. Just telling Penn students not to stress out about jobs is never going to be effective; and closing Huntsman isn’t going to eliminate the seemingly endless stream of homework and applications students face. The smarter approach is providing incentives for Penn students to care about their health. If the University is truly committed to improving the well-

ness of students, they should provide a structured opportunity where students can elect to exercise without having to carve out extra time for it on top of schoolwork and recruiting.

Returning to the days of required physical education would be a mistake, but allowing students to make the choice to work out for credit could go a long way in improving the wellness of our community.

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Before the nighttime festivities on Wednesday, members of the Penn community gathered on College Green to decorate pumpkins and collect some well-deserved candy at the second “Day of Play,” co-organized by students and administrators.

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wrote in an email to the DP. “If enacted, the memo has terrifying consequences for the legal recognition of trans individuals, and for their ongoing ability to access to services and resources.”

The Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality & Women and the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies program is-

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sued a joint statement condemning the proposed change. The piece was co-authored by History professor and Director of the Alice Paul Center Kathleen Brown, by Associate Director of the Alice Paul Center Anne Esacove, and by Associate Director of the GSWS program Gwendolyn Beetham.

“We cannot stay silent when decades of gender and sexuality scholarship, together with medical expertise and our own lived experiences,

have taught us that a reinforced naturalized gender binary harms everyone,” they wrote.

College junior Brennan Burns, the financial chair of Penn Non-Cis, said the proposal is not only discriminatory, but also complicates the lives of transgender and intersex people.

“It’s sort of troubling in a lot of ways,” Burns said. “That’s generally just incorrect biologically. I mean it’s sort of ridiculous to try and force everybody into a system and plenty

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If implemented, the proposal would effectively strip federal recognition of approximately 1.4 million Americans who identify as a gender other than their biologically assigned gender, the Times reported.

In light of the proposal, Burns added that Penn Non-Cis board members have discussed how they

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can support each other and better work with the University to provide resources for transgender students.

College senior Julia Pan, chair of the Lambda Alliance, said she was disappointed by the memo and its potential impact.

“I can see how from a terminology standpoint, this is something the Trump administration thinks they need to fix, but I think it’s just a complete lack of disrespect,” Pan said.

“It’s just so incredibly dehumaniz-

ing,” she added. “It’s saying that trans people are not people.”

Despite being alarmed by the proposal and its implications, Burns said she is hopeful the report will highlight the need for greater support of transgender students on campus.

“I sort of hope that this can be sort of a catalyst for Penn to change and make its policies better regarding self-identification of gender and providing access to gender neutral restrooms,” Burns said.

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The two lived in the same dorm throughout their final threeyears as undergraduates.

Rabinowitz chose a difficult field of study, joining a small group of science-minded students pursuing majors in biochemistry.

“We were a bunch of geeks,” Harry Gruber, a 1973 College graduate and 1977 Perelman School of Medicine graduate, said of the students at the time.

Many classmates described Rabinowitz as a dedicated and talented student. “[He was] a student that we all wanted to emulate,” 1973 College graduate Anthony Kovatch said.

Rabinowitz was elected as a member of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honor society during the spring semester of his senior year in 1973.

He then enrolled in the Perelman School of Medicine, where he earned his medical degree in 1977. He completed his residency in Pittsburgh before setting up a family practice adjacent to Shadyside Hospital, which became a part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 1997.

Through it all, Rabinowitz’s and Ciesielka’s paths continued to converge; Ciesielka graduated from the Medical School in 1980 and completed the same residency as his former hallmate in Pittsburgh.

The two consistently reconnected to enjoy dinner a couple of times each year. In 1986, they decided to combine their medical expertise with Ciesielka joining Rabinowitz’s private practice.

The pair were professional partners for upward of 30 years.

“If people were to ask me why [we were able to be partners for so long], I’d say it’s because we were more alike than

an email sent to FFP Campaign Coordinator and College junior Jacob Hershman on Oct. 18.

“It was determined that the requirement that the proposal include ideas substantively different from prior proposals was not met,” Pinto-Martin wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian on the committee’s decision against the proposal.

Rissman disagreed with Pinto-Martin’s suggestion and said there is a big difference between the two proposals.

“The idea that you can just put these two proposals into one bucket and say no to both is ridiculous,” Rissman said. “The economics of coal and tar sands divestment makes way more sense right now than say for example the economics of divestment from natural gas.”

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we were different,” Ciesielka said.

Among his patients, Rabinowitz developed a reputation for generosity and dedication, particularly for his kind treatment of HIV-positive patients during the height of the AIDS crisis.

In a statement emailed to Medical School alumni, Dean of the Medical School Larry Jameson and Senior Vice Dean for Medical Education Suzi Rose praised Rabinowitz’s contributions to the medical field.

“All members of the Penn alumni family grieve the untimely passing of a man who will be remembered for his boundless compassion and humanistic approach to his work as a physician,” they wrote.

During the Penn for Pittsburgh Vigil on Monday, Penn President Amy Gutmann also paid homage to Rabinowitz, describing his life as an altruistic doctor who died while try-

ing to help fellow members of the synagogue during the massacre.

“He died as he lived his [sic] life, in helping others over himself,” Battista wrote.

Committee Director and College sophomore Ben May said that despite the verdict, he believes the resolution added strength to the proposal.

“It still has that strength by saying that we have the student body’s report behind this proposal or this sort of movement in the future,” May said.

He added the group was shocked by the UC Steering Committee’s dismissal of the proposal. FFP members had assumed the proposal would be formally reviewed by an ad-hoc committee and planned their next steps accordingly, Hershman added.

“All plans that we expected to carry out after we received word that the proposal would move on, we kind of had to dash away and start from scratch,” Hershman said.

FFP’s call for divestment is part of a larger conversation on global climate change.

One week before the UC Steering Committee announced their decision, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN-backed body, released a report stating that the

impact of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit of global warming will be even more threatening to the environment than anticipated.

Avoiding further damage requires phasing out fossil fuel infrastructure and welcoming nonfossil energy sources, said Glen Peters, Research Director at Norway’s Center for International Climate Research, in a National Geographic article.

May said he felt especially disappointed by the administration given the IPCC’s recent report.

“I’m terrified for the future and it really saddens me to know that the university that I go to, that I love, is not standing up for my future trying to prevent a dystopia from coming and ripping away what we’re all studying and working for,” May said.

FFP’s next plan is to discuss the administration’s decision with the faculty tri-chairs of the UC Steering Committee next week. The group will also attend the Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday, Nov. 8 to demonstrate with as “many allies as possible,” said Hershman.

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Penn to take on Cornell as QB uncertainty continues FOOTBALL | Quakers have not lost to Big Red since 2013 COLE JACOBSON Senior Sports Reporter

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before — the Penn football quarterback battle is back.

After sophomore quarterback Ryan Glover started each of the team’s first seven games and appeared to have run with the starting job, junior Nick Robinson came off the bench to more than double Glover’s passing output during last week’s 13-7 win at Brown.

Now, as the Quakers approach a Friday night showdown on ESPNU where they’ll hope to break a third-place tie with Cornell, things are right back to where they were before the season — when it comes to who’s under center, it’s anyone’s game.

“We’ll probably see a very similar thing to what we’ve done before. Both have worked hard in various situations early in the season, and Nick was injured early, so it took a little bit of time,” coach Ray Priore said. “It’s a great tandem, and you go with the guy who’s doing well. So if they’re both doing well, they’re both playing.”

Both have seen success in spots for Penn (5-2, 2-2 Ivy) this season, but in the team’s most recent contest, Robinson stood out as the superior option.

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the Ivy Title on Rhodes Field with a 1-0 win on the Quakers’ senior day.

“The rivalry with Princeton does heighten the excitement, but how we train and prepare for the game is the same as any other,” junior defender Laura Hamilton said.

Heading into their final game, the Quakers (13-1-1, 5-0-1 Ivy League) currently sit on top of the Ivy League with one tie, five wins, and 16 points. On the other hand, the Princeton Tigers (10-3-2,

team’s 13 drives, Robinson completed six of seven passes for 46 yards, including the Quakers’ lone touchdown to senior wide receiver Steve Farrell. Penn scored 10 of its 13 points in Robinson’s drives, a number that would’ve been even higher had junior Abe Willows not lost a fumble on Brown’s four-yard line during one drive in the second quarter.

Still, while Robinson seems to have had the hot hand recently, he has thrown just 12 passes all season, while Glover has been the team’s primary option. The exact distribution of playing time on Friday night remains to be seen, but the team’s belief in both options is indisputable.

“Honestly, I don’t really care who’s back there, because I’m confident in them,” senior offensive lineman Tommy Dennis said. “Whoever is back there is gonna get the job done, so I know as long as the O-line gets the job done, they’re gonna make the right plays.”

If Dennis’ offensive line can perform like it did a week ago, the Red and Blue will have nothing to worry about.

Despite only passing for 66 total yards, Penn controlled last week’s contest against Brown all afternoon, thanks in part to 246 rushing yards from junior Karekin Brooks. With Cornell (3-4, 2-2) entering this weekend ranked seventh in the Ancient Eight in rushing defense, only ahead of the Bears, the Quakers may have the oppor-

tunity to thrive on the ground once again.

“We’re just working on camaraderie, chemistry.

We played well last week, which is awesome, but there’s a lot of stuff we can improve on,” said Dennis, whose offensive line has recently broken in freshman center Travis Spreen to the starting lineup. “Getting that communication and chemistry down is gonna be big.”

While Cornell wasn’t very impressive in its most recent showing — a 66-0 blowout loss to Princeton — the Big Red has proven to be capable when at its best. Led by junior running back Harold Coles, Cornell blew out Sacred Heart in Week 4, a team Penn squeaked by, and followed that up with a 28-24 upset of Harvard.

Coles has dominated all season long, with 512 rushing yards on 5.7 yards per carry.

Penn is no stranger to the junior, who secured 122 yards in the ground and 51 in the air in last season’s 29-22 loss at Franklin Field. The Quakers know that taking down the Big Red centers around shutting Coles down.

ALEC DRUGGAN | ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR “Cornell has a very talented tailback, and we gotta do the Junior quarterback Nick Robinson came off the bench last weekend against Brown to complete same thing [as last week],” six of his seven pass attempts for 46 yards and one touchdown in relief of starter Ryan Glover.

Priore said. “When you make teams one-dimensional, you something to play for. Besides trophy given out annually to the play for. With a historic rivalry, take away the things they can the fact that a win would clinch winner of Division I’s sixth- national television coverage, do.”

Penn’s fourth winning season most played rivalry game. and two teams each seeking Though neither team has a in Priore’s four years as head So while the Red and Blue to claw above .500 in Ancient realistic shot at the Ivy title coach, the Quakers also seek to might not be playing for the Eight play, Friday night lights with Dartmouth and Princeton maintain the “Trustees’ Cup” trophy they originally wanted, will feel like a title bout nonestanding at 4-0, there’s still for the fifth consecutive year, a there’s certainly still a lot to theless.

4-1-1) sit in second place with 13 points. A win for Princeton would be good enough to split the Ivy title with Penn. The Quakers need only a draw for the outright championship.

Ivy League bragging rights aren’t the only thing up in the air, as the winner also receives the conference’s automatic NCAA Tournament bid.

“Two of our goals since the beginning of the season have been to win an Ivy League championship, and … to compete in the NCAA tournament,” Hamilton said.

With a win or draw, Penn will

achieve both goals and head to the postseason tournament. If the Tigers win, the two rival teams will share the Ivy title, but Princeton will earn the NCAA automatic qualifier because of the head-tohead victory.

While Penn has already taken at least a share of its fourth Ivy title, Princeton is seeking to earn its 10th.

On paper, the Quakers look stronger than Princeton this season. Penn has outscored its opponents 30-4, while the Tigers have outscored their competition 23-9.

Senior goalkeeper Kitty Qu has

only allowed one goal in her past ten games, compared to the six goals let in by Princeton junior goalkeeper Natalie Grossi over the same period.

However, the Tigers hold the better RPI ranking, with Princeton ranked No. 32 this week and Penn taking the No. 58 ranking.

“We want to prove we can play

with the best teams in the country and advance as far as possible in the tournament,” Hamilton said.

“We all know we can compete with the top teams and can’t wait for an opportunity to play for a national title.”

The opportunity to win an Ivy title outright would be an exceptional display of the progress Penn

women’s soccer has made in recent years toward becoming a competitive program. Last season’s 5-8-3 record and fifth-place finish in conference play has made the Quakers’ run in 2018 all the more remarkable. Beating Princeton would be the culmination of one of the most decorated seasons in program history.

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Men’s soccer will look to spoil Princeton’s title bid

gers’ biggest loss came against the team they are trying to catch: Harvard. On their home turf, the Tigers fell 3-1 to continue the Crimson’s undefeated run in Ivy play. This game came three weeks after the Quakers lost a heartbreaker to Harvard by a score of 2-1.

Against all other Ivy opponents, though, Princeton has been near perfect. It has shut out the other six opponents in each of its games, while also

scoring a combined 24 goals.

On the other side, the Red and Blue have been able to keep up their strong defense and opportune scoring. Against those same conference opponents, the Quakers earned five shutouts.

Junior goalkeeper Ava Rosati and her defense is giving up just 1.62 goals per game in 16 contests.

The key for the Quakers in this game will be the second half. All season, Penn has per-

formed better in the first half than the second, especially in defensive areas. sixty-seven percent of the team’s goals allowed and just 40 percent of its goals scored have come during the latter period. This means that the Red and Blue defense will need to be even stronger on Saturday, especially with Princeton typically being so dominant in the second half. In the second half of games this season, the Tigers have scored 29 goals, nine more than the Penn offense has scored all season.

As a potential share of an Ivy League title looms, the Quakers will look for a low-scoring affair between two stout defenses. If this happens, they have the potential to break their 0-6 streak against ranked opponents on the season and win their first Ivy title since 2004.

Men’s soccer Penn men’s soccer will also be playing a rivalry game against Princeton this Saturday.

This matchup, however, will hold slightly less importance.

The Quakers (4-4-6, 1-3-1) are out of contention for an Ivy title while the Tigers (9-4-2, 4-0-1) remain at the top of the conference standings, sitting one point above Columbia with just two games left. This means that Penn will be looking to play spoiler to prevent Princeton

think that’s an important part.�

Calhoun said that the decision to offer up naming rights of the Palestra’s court has been in the works for several years. “In our partnership with JMI Sports [the exclusive multimedia rights partner of Penn Athletics],‌ we went through every inch of every facility that we have and agreed to all of the things that would be eligible for sponsorships and those things that wouldn’t and we had an early conversation about the Palestra court. We were clear with JMI that it would take the right partner

that we felt really good about to want to give away that asset, but I think we felt immediately after the first conversation with Macquarie that they were exactly the type of partner that we wanted.�

Even as Penn looks to expand sponsorships, the Palestra itself appears safe. “We will never name the palestra anything other than the Palestra — there are things like that that we just won’t do.�

So, when basketball returns to the Palestra on Nov. 9, the floor is going to look a little different.

After not having a corporate sponsor since its founding in 1927, Penn athletics has sold the naming rights of the basketball court at the Palestra to Macquarie Group, an asset management company.

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While Penn women’s soccer might have the most important game to play this weekend, here’s a look at three others fall teams that will also be in action.

Field hockey Penn field hockey will play for a share of the Ivy League title when it faces off against rival Princeton on Saturday.

The Quakers (9-7, 5-1 Ivy) will meet the No. 4 Tigers (12-4, 5-1) in what will be both teams’ last regular season game of the season.

Penn is coming off backto-back Ivy wins and has the potential to finish tied with Harvard for first place in the conference. Princeton, though, is neck and neck with the Red and Blue, as they are also tied for second place in the Ancient Eight.

The Tigers have moved toward the top of the national rankings behind strong outings against other top teams. In ten games against ranked opponents this year, Princeton has won six and kept all of its losses within two goals. In fact, the Ti-

VARUN SUDUNAGUNTA | ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR

Penn field hockey still has an outside shot at winning the Ivy League championship heading into its final game of the regular season.

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YQCA, which involves Penn’s track and field and men’s and women’s lacrosse teams. “When you look at the sponsorship of basketball it will certainly be resources that will help with operating budgets,�

Calhoun said. “Then a lot of it, though, is directed at the community initiative. ‌ So opportunities to impact the community is where we’re really going to build out our programming and for us, it’s a commitment to holistic development and we

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It’s not like this culture change happened over night either. This is a process that takes time, and there’s a reason that this year’s senior class, the first class to play all four years under Van Dyke, is leading the charge. “You have the majority of the team buying in and then you bring these new freshman in, it’s all they know,� Trzaska said. “It really only takes one person,� senior forward Sasha Stephens added. “If I see that Allie’s bought in, then I have nothing but to do the same. It’s kind of a domino effect in that sense, where you see that everyone is kind of on the same page, and if you’re not on that bus, then you’re going to get left behind.�

And that mentality has continued to grow into the season. As the goals and the clean sheets piled up, the team developed confidence, not just

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in their individual abilities but the collective talent of the group. “I think knowing that we have such a strong defense behind us gives us freedom offensively to be able to play the way we want to play,� Sands said. “Everyone has our backs, so there’s really cover on

all places on the field.�

So when the team takes the pitch on Saturday night against Princeton in the biggest game of the year, they’ll be ready to go, from the senior captains to the last player on the bench. Because that’s the only way they’d have it.

aspects of everything he has to do, so he’s definitely serious about his playing career, but you know he’ll carve out ten minutes for a check in,â€? Peterson says. “It wasn’t like he had this idea but ‘I’m too busy’‌ We talk pretty much every other day, either text message or email or phone call.â€?

Copeland’s insistence on taking an active role in planning and designing the course comes even as he continues to add to his resume various other off-the-field ventures in real estate and on Wall Street. “It’s very important for me to come back and make this class what I think it can be and what it has the potential to be,� Copeland said. “When someone else tries to do it, they may butcher my vision for it.�

The course, which is listed under Penn’s Urban Studies Department, will aim to improve students’ own financial awareness while also examining the systemic forces that have contributed to America’s wealth gaps.

According to Penn InTouch, enrollment is capped at 20 students.

Throughout the semester, Copeland and Peterson hope to keep their students engaged in learning about topics like real estate, taxes, and re-

tirement funds by bringing in guest speakers who Copeland has worked with in the past that can call on their expertise in various fields. “There is no direct, definite answer to, ‘you should put money away for retirement right now or you should invest in the stock market right now,’� Copeland said. “At the end of the day, everybody’s situation and every scenario is totally different, no one knows. That’s why people have specializations.�

Both Copeland and Peterson also believe that improving financial literacy before entering the full-time workforce is extremely valuable. “Had I [taken this course] 20 plus years ago, I might be in a different position now,� Peterson said with a chuckle. “A lot of kids do make these decisions now,� Copeland added. “Even as a sophomore in college you might be making financial decisions and you can make a decision that can either help you or really set you back for years in your life, and so we just want to basically arm students with as much information as possible so that they’re prepared.�

Jonathan Pollack, Senior Sports Editor, contributed reporting to this story.

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Cornell (12-8, 7-3) on Friday before a Saturday date with Columbia (9-11, 3-7).

After sweeping its opponents three weeks ago, Penn has struggled to keep it rolling, losing three matches in a row to fall into a last place tie in the Ancient Eight. The Red and Blue have some reason to be encouraged, though, as their two wins three weeks ago came against the same opponents that the team will face this weekend.

In their earlier meeting this year, the Quakers dropped Cornell by a score of 3-1. After narrowly losing the first set, Penn stormed back to take the final three and win its second Ivy match in a row. The day earlier, the Red and Blue took on Columbia in what ended up being a sweep of a tough Lions side.

This time around, Cornell is hot, having gone undefeated since their loss to Penn. Cornell is also in contention for an Ivy League title which should give them even more motivation.

Columbia, on the other hand, is riding a five game losing streak, which started with the loss against Penn.

Two wins this weekend will give the Quakers something to look forward to as they gear up for the offseason. Anything less, though, and they risk a last place finish in the conference.

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from winning its first Ancient Eight title since 2014.

The Red and Blue will aim to keep their winning streak in tact after one-goal wins against both Brown and Delaware this past weekend. The four goals they scored nearly doubled their total for the entire season, as they scored just five times in their previous 12 games. This scoring outburst has been spearheaded by sophomore forward Jake Kohlbrenner, who netted a goal in each of the wins from the weekend.

The Quakers will need some of that magic if they are to penetrate the Tigers’ tough defense.

Through fifteen games on the year, Princeton has allowed just 0.60 goals per game.

It will be an uphill battle for Penn to upend the top-ranked team in the conference. With a winning streak under their belt and goals coming steadily at this point in the season, however, the Red and Blue are in a prime position to force Princeton to put their title celebrations on pause.

Volleyball Though it has been a disappointing season so far, Penn volleyball will look to salvage the rest of its season, starting with two matches in New York. The Quakers (5-16, 2-8) will head up to Ithaca to face

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But very few athletes — if any — have come back to the classroom the way that Copeland intends to: at the front of it. Come Monday afternoons next semester, though, that’s exactly where the 2013 Wharton grad will be as he co-teaches a seminar course titled “Inequity and Empowerment: Urban Financial Literacy,� alongside Dr. Brian Peterson.

Copeland said he had been trying to get this class introduced for several years, but the idea was put into motion when he pitched it to Peterson, the director of Penn’s Makuu Black Cultural Center, at an alumni reunion event last spring. Despite now being in the midst of a breakout season, in which he’s started all but one game for the New York Jets at linebacker, Copeland hasn’t shied away from his responsibilities as a professor. “For the amount of time that [Copeland] has to spend prepping for games, staying in shape, and training camps and all that, he’s really prioritizing it. He’s handling all

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swered questions. Exactly how much did Penn decide the sanctity of the Palestra was worth?

And why?

The Palestra is the biggest recruiting draw Penn has. People want be on a court and in a building imbued with history in the way the Palestra is. There’s something about the presence of the space. Last March, I wrote about how you can feel the ghosts of the place come alive in big moments. That was true then. Hopefully it will still be true on Nov. 9 when men’s basketball hosts Rice to christen their new court ads.

Sport occupies such an important place in so many of our lives, and it cheapens the experience when there are ads attached to it at every turn.

That’s true everywhere. The drama and emotion of sport — the ritual surrounding it — is lost when the walls and floor are wallpapered with ads.

Every court and stadium in the world is chock-full of ads, but even still, the sports world’s most sacred places remained relatively unscathed.

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The logo of Macquarie, a global diversified financial group, will appear on both sidelines in the Palestra starting this season.

goes for Soldier Field or Lambeau or the LA Colosseum.

The Palestra no longer is.

Yes, people will still call it the Palestra, and nobody but Penn Athletics will care about the new name once the immediate anger dies down, but it still hurts to see the administration sell one of its most cherished and historic venues.

It will hurt to hear ESPNU call it the “Macquarie Court at the Palestra” at the top of their broadcasts. Wouldn’t it have hurt to see Darnell Foreman’s iconic three-pointer in the Ivy League Championship sullied by the name of an investment management company under his shoes There are other ways to fun-

draise, but the worst part is that it didn’t have to be this way.

Penn Athletics launched a huge fundraising campaign last year that was wildly successful. The University has literal billions in its back pocket. If Calhoun had come to alumni and said, “Look, we need donations or else we’re going to put ads on the Palestra floor,” the alumni would have responded.

It’d be another conversation if Penn went the route of Duke and named the court after a program legend while keeping the historic arena name intact.

The issue is that it’s an ad.

Perhaps in an attempt to preempt the backlash they must have predicted, Penn has allocated some of the funds from the sponsorship towards community programs like the Young Quakers Community Athletics program and National Girls and Women in Sports Day. Those programs are great, by why couldn’t Penn fund them out of pocket? What happened to the fundraising money

they campaigned for all of last year?

Thankfully, Calhoun drew a line in the sand. The Palestra name, now representing only the building and not the court, will stay for good.

“We will never name the Palestra anything other than the Palestra. There are things like that which we just won’t do.

But we felt a wonderful step forward was to do, as we have done, the Macquarie Court at the Palestra.”

I don’t want to diminish how important that statement was, but it is important to note just how little was protected.

Franklin Field’s rights are on the table. Talks with a sponsor for the Penn Relays are currently in the works.

Want to hear a scarier quote?

“In our partnership with JMI Sports, from the signing of that relationship now about two and a half years ago, we went through every inch of every facility that we have and agreed to all of the things that would

be eligible for sponsorships and those things that wouldn’t, and we had an early conversation about the Palestra court.”

Why is Calhoun’s staff scouring “every inch of every facility” for ad space? Why does Penn feel like they are so cash-strapped? Penn Athletics faces a mental health crisis dating back years that is only now beginning to be addressed, and an ongoing bribery investigation. Instead of spending all her time focusing on how to fill the company coffers, why not think a little about the students whose lives she wields power over? Instead of selling off the Palestra, why not try selling it out?

The bottom line is ads don’t belong between the pews, much less on the altar. That’s true of cathedrals everywhere.

THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS is a College junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is a Sports Editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at papazekos@thedp.com.

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win against Brown, but they will take on Princeton to be the outright champions on Saturday. This game also has a redemption element to it, as it was last year that Princeton clinched a share of

What the hell happened?

Last year, Penn women’s soccer was mired in the middle of the Ivy League. The Quakers finished 5-8-3 overall and 3-3-1 in conference play, good enough for fifth place. They had one of the best defenses in the league, but only scored 10 goals in 16 games, including just five in league play. The leading goal scorer, then-senior Erica Higa, had just three goals.

This year, the Red and Blue brought back the majority of that team and were pegged to finish sixth in the conference. No one was expecting much from them.

So, again, what the hell happened?

Everyone bought in. That’s what happened.

“I think that this year, every single person on this team, all 30 of us have bought into the mission and the goals that we set early on,” senior midfielder Allie Trzaska said. “And we just hold each other more accountable this year.”

The Quakers (13-1-1, 5-0-1 Ivy) have been absolutely dominant all year long. They lead the Ancient Eight in both goals scored, with 30, and goals against, with four. They’ve recorded 12 shutouts, tied for second-best in program history. The Red and Blue have hummed along like a well-oiled machine, simultaneously stymieing opponent’s offenses and finding the gaps in their defenses.

Sure, there have been some schematic tweaks.

Coach Nicole Van Dyke cited two specific changes that have worked wonders for the team this year: moving junior Emily Sands up to forward and pushing senior Camillia Nwokedi from outside back to center back. Those moves help to explain some of the on-field production the team has seen, but there’s more to this year’s team than just that.

It’s the buy-in from all 30 players, the desire to put everything on the line each time they step foot on the pitch, the commitment to conditioning and training, that has made all the difference.

“This year I think we have complete buy-in,” Van Dyke said. “People came back fit, they’re working extremely hard from start to finish, and I think right now we’re in a really good place.”

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New Palestra deal is an epic mistake THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS

Who’s surprised?

Ashamed maybe, but not surprised.

Penn has allied itself with an asset management firm at the expense of the student experience. Penn Athletics thought about its wallet before its student-athletes.

Is anyone else seeing a trend?

The latest move, announced Tuesday afternoon at the Cathedral of College Basketball, stripped the remaining holiness from the space with one swift stroke of the pen. Athletic Director Dr. M. Grace Calhoun announced that Penn Athletics has reached a “landmark” sponsorship deal with Macquarie Investment Management, a “global asset manager” part of the larger Macquarie brand with almost $400 billion in assets.

The deal puts two ads on the Palestra floor and gives Macquarie the naming rights to the court itself. Penn basketball is now presented by Macquarie and they play on the Macquarie Court at the Palestra.

Which all leads to two crucial unanSEE PAPAZEKOS PAGE 11

They don’t want a piece. They want the whole thing.

Fans of rivalries will be happy to know that there is yet another PennPrinceton game with title implications.

Penn women’s soccer already clinched a share of the Ivy League title with a 2-0

Penn announces corporate sponsor for Palestra court Penn basketball’s court will now be called Macquarie Court JONATHAN POLLACK Senior Sports Editor

Penn Athletics announced a new multi-year corporate sponsorship centered on the naming rights of the Palestra court with Macquarie Investment Management in a press conference in the Palestra on Tuesday afternoon.

After remarks from Athletic Director Dr. M. Grace Calhoun and Shawn Lytle, deputy global head of Macquarie, the company logo was unveiled on both sidelines of the court.

“We felt that taking this next step was a really strategic step in terms of not only generating the extra resources to reinvest in the programs, but also finding a partner that stands for a lot of the same things that we do,” Calhoun said.

In addition to the naming rights of the Palestra court, Macquarie will also be the presenting sponsor of both Penn men’s and women’s basketball, as well as a key sponsor in several of Penn’s community outreach programs. Macquarie will be the premiere sponsor of the Young Quakers Community Athletics program, and the presenting sponsor of the National Girls and Women in Sports Day at Penn and the new student-athlete Community

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The new multi-year sponsorship which gives Macquarie naming rights of the Palestra court, was announced at a press conference in which both Penn Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun and Macquarie deputy global head Shawn Lytle made remarks.

Champion program.

Macquarie joins IBX as a premiere sponsor for YQCA. It is the only presenting sponsor for the basketball teams and the other programs.

Macquarie Investment Management falls under the umbrella organization of the Macquarie Group, a global financial group based in Australia. This branch of the company has significant ties to the city

of Philadelphia, which Calhoun stressed as an important factor in the decision to pair with them.

“The local part was very important,” Calhoun said. “Having a company with a strong local footprint and presence that wants to grow a partnership locally, while also knowing that we want to be known and compete on the world stage as well was very important to both of us.”

Calhoun declined to disclose the length and value of the partnership, but emphasized that the deal is for several years and that it is the largest sponsorship that Penn Athletics has entered into.

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