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Obama and the Democratic gubernatorial candidate stressed the importance of education JONATHAN BAER Staff Writer
With Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial election two days away, Democratic challenger Tom Wolf has enlisted the help of President Barack Obama in a final push to unseat Republican Governor Tom Corbett. While Wolf is the frontrunner in Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race — the most recent poll, by Muhlenberg College, has Wolf up by 12 points over
Corbett — both he and Obama stressed the importance of education and voter turnout at a campaign rally on Sunday at Temple University. “You all have to vote. That is what this comes down to. You have got to vote,” Obama said. “If you believe that our kids should have the best schools, then you have got to vote for it. If you think that we should
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make it easier for young people to go to college without adding up the tens or thousands, you have got to vote for it.”
“This election is about education,” Wolf said. “Did you know that here in Pennsylvania, we have a constitutional prom-
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Nearly 30 students protested the University’s investments in fossil fuels outside the Board of Trustees meeting last week. “Penn Trustees, divest please,” the protesters chanted on Friday morning in front of the Inn at Penn. The protesters took turns giving speeches about the importance of divestment and climate change prevention. In the past, the University has rejected calls to divest in fossil fuels, and divestment was not on the agenda for last week’s meeting. On the table at the Trustees meeting were updates on Penn’s recently announced Climate Action Plan 2.0 and a discussion about how University administrators have preempted calls for payments in lieu of taxes, or PILOTs. Below are highlights from several of the committee meetings:
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Local, National and Global Engagement At Thursday’s early-morning meeting on local, national and global engagement, administrators outlined to
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Wharton is more than finance, new dean says COREY STERN Staff Writer
In 1881, wealthy industrialist Joseph Wharton gave $100,000 to Penn to establish the nation’s first collegiate business school. Wharton envisioned a school that would “provide for young men special means of training and of correct instruction in the knowledge and in the arts of modern Finance and Economy.” Throughout the Wharton School’s more than 130-year history, it has witnessed the creation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500, the Great Depression and the dot-com bubble. U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks Wharton as a top school for finance education, giving it the number one spot for graduates and undergraduates in 2014 — and a reputation as a training camp for future Wall Streeters. Geoffrey Garrett, Wharton’s new dean, wants that reputation to change. SEE WHARTON PAGE 2
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It’s 11 p.m. It’s 40 degrees out, but we’re the only ones who seem to have bothered with coats. Yells of “two to one,” spontaneous shrieks and the clatter SEE HALLOWEEN PAGE 8
Local companies see need for Pennovation A ceremonial groundbreaking was held on Friday for the center JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Writer
As Penn celebrated on Friday the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Pennovation Center, a business incubator opening on Penn’s South Bank campus, businesses settling into the South Bank area have begun preparing for an influx of new ideas.
Having business located in one area fosters collaboration between different fields, according to representatives of Penn and local companies. “The South Bank and the [Pennovation] Center will certainly foster synergy among different technologies,” said Frank Leu, CEO of Novapeutics, a diabetes treatment company that has already opened an outpost on Penn’s South Bank. Penn certainly believes SEE PENNOVATION PAGE 2
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the same thing — the University plans to invest $35 million into improving the South Bank and to build the the 200,000-square-foot Pennovation Center. The center “will attract attention from investors from all over the country to really look at the Philadelphia area,” Leu added. Many companies settling into the South Bank campus plan to benefit from the space available in the Pennovation Center, which includes various labs and common areas where representatives from various companies can collaborate. The lab space is particularly helpful for new technology startups, since “they typically can’t afford to rent a lab space like this, so it’s going to be a great boom for them,” said Dora Mitchell, assistant director of PCI Ventures, a Penn program that offers resources
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and advice to Penn-related entrepreneurs. “Being next to Penn and its resources has really helped our company,” Leu said, explaining that using Penn’s lab space and working with University personnel helps them develop their ideas. Mike Patterson, CEO of Graphene Frontiers — a nanotechnology manufacturer located on 36th and Market streets — also believes that Penn’s South Bank campus can greatly benefit local startups. Specifically, he said that lab space is generally expensive and hard to come by in Philadelphia, but that the new center would provide ample available lab space for companies moving to the South Bank. The prices and terms for using the lab space have not yet been decided by the University. “I think [the center] is something desperately needed in the area especially for smaller startup companies” said Patterson.
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“When I walk into my office everyday, I see a sign that says ‘The Wharton School of Finance and Commerce’ — the way this school was founded,” Garrett said in reference to a stone carving in the lobby of Steinberg-Dietrich Hall. From 1902 to 1971, Wharton’s official name, now simply the Wharton School, included the terms “finance” and “commerce.” “What I see and what I know is that while Wharton has an extraordinarily preeminent position in the world of finance ... Wharton is much more than a finance school,” he said. Among Garrett’s top priorities for his deanship is his desire to communicate Wharton’s value in fields beyond finance. He especially wants to promote Wharton’s focus on analytics, innovation and entrepreneurship — three things that he believes are essential to a business education.
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An image of innovation and entrepreneurship is something the school has struggled with in recent years, perhaps most notably with the publication of an article in The Wall Street Journal in September 2013 entitled “What’s Wrong With Wharton?” Author Melissa Korn asserted that the school’s MBA applications dropped 12 percent in four years because “Wharton has lost its luster as students’ interests shift from finance to technology and entrepreneurship.” MBA applications rose slightly in the most recent application cycle. “Wharton, in its DNA, is a profoundly entrepreneurial place,” Garrett said. He believes that innovation and entrepreneurship reverberate through all of Wharton, including in the field of finance. “When I look at private equity, hedge funds and the like that’s seriously financial entrepreneurship where Wharton and Wharton students and Wharton alums are being
world leaders,” he said, noting that entrepreneurialism is not limited to Silicon Valley. “We’d like to take a larger piece of the Silicon Valley mindset,” said Vice Dean Eric Bradlow, who is chair of the Marketing Department. “That’s a very good thing for the school.” Chair of the Finance Department David Musto also believes that the finance industry can be entrepreneurial and often intersects with the tech sector. Musto looks at Wharton graduates’ careers to assess the relevance of the current finance curriculum. He pointed to 2002 graduate Jesse Cohn, an activist investor in Silicon Valley at hedge fund affiliate Elliott Management. Cohn helps restructure companies, a task that mimics building a company from scratch, even though his background is in finance. Furthermore, he explained that the finance part of the MBA program has, in recent
years, shifted away from a focus on managing money. “[MBA students’] interest in finance tends to be more from a sell-side perspective or in consulting,” Musto said. “That has this entrepreneurial feeling to it.” Garrett does not want to deemphasize Wharton’s finance reputation, though. He thinks the school has an edge in analytics that will keep its graduates at the forefront of finance fields but at the forefront of other fields as well. “If I look at what makes Wharton finance great, it’s what I think makes Wharton great as a whole, which is its rigorous focus on data and analytics,” he said. “I think that’s going to be more important in a big data era than it’s ever been before.” “I like that Wharton’s known for finance. I think that’s a good thing. It’s a very good thing,” Bradlow said. “But, it doesn’t mean that Wharton can’t be known for other things.”
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Fossil Free, a Penn student organization, protested outside the Inn at Penn on Friday during the Board of Trustees meeting to ask Penn to divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies and reinvest in sustainable projects.
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trustees Penn’s strategy for communicating its economic impact. As the Philadelphia School district has become increasingly financially strapped over the past several years, there has been some talk about requesting PILOTs from the University. In response, Penn and other colleges and universities in the city, which do not typically pay property taxes, commissioned an economic impact report last year touting the “Philadelphia model” of public-nonprofit cooperation. David Glancey, director of special projects in the Office of Government and Community Affairs, said that administrators have lobbied Mayor Michael Nutter and Philadelphia City Council members against instituting PILOTs. Partnerships with schools — including those with the Penn Alexander School and the Henry C. Lea School — replace direct payments to the city. “We’re not a social service agency — we’re a university,” Vice President for Government and Community Affairs Jeff Cooper said. “Our capacities are limited by our mission and our own resources.” At the same meeting, Penn Museum Director Julian Siggers presented a new initiative that would bring seventh-grade students from Philadelphia schools to the museum. “We’ve always been very committed to getting schoolchildren exposed to the museum,” Siggers said. “But those kids that were coming into the museum were mostly from suburban schools or
private schools. Hardly any of them were coming from Philadelphia itself.” The museum, in partnership with Philadelphia School District Superintendent William Hite, intends to give all 10,000 seventhgraders the chance to come to the museum, Siggers said. Facilities & Campus Planning Members of Penn’s Board of Trustees discussed several new Penn projects at the Facilities & Planning Meeting, including the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics project and the Penn Wharton China Center, according to the meeting’s agenda. At the meeting, Penn revealed the proposed design for the new Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics — an 111,000 square foot building at 36th and Walnut streets set to house the political science and economic departments, as well as other related departments. The proposed design adds an extension to the current concrete building at 36th and Walnut streets that looks similar to the design of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology. Development for the project is expected to begin in December 2015 and be completed in January 2018. The Trustees also received a presentation on the Penn Wharton China Center, set to open in March 2015. The 25,000-foot center, located in the Beijing Central Business District, is designed to provide a central location for students studying abroad in China and to strengthen Wharton’s brand in China.
Trustees at the meeting were also updated about Penn’s Climate Action Plan 2.0, which aims to reduce carbon emissions to net-zero by 2042 and increase faculty and student involvement in sustainability efforts. The plan was announced two weeks ago. Stated Meeting of the Trustees Penn’s Trustees approved two new degree programs and $6 million in funding for a preliminary design for a Hill College House renovation at its stated meeting on Friday. Master’s programs in regulatory affairs and regulatory science were approved by the Board of Trustees to be offered at the Perelman School of Medicine. Outside this final meeting, students part of a march organized by Fossil Free Penn — a student group founded on the momentum of the People’s Climate March in New York — protested Penn’s investments in fossil fuels. “I hope the rally will incentivize the Board of Trustees Finance Committee to evaluate their investment decisions in light of what the student community wants,” said College sophomore Katherine McKay, the Undergraduate Assembly’s liaison to the Student Sustainability Association at Penn. “We will work until Penn wields its institutional and moral clout to remove the social license from fossil fuel companies,” said Engineering sophomore Thomas Lee, one of Fossil Free Penn’s coordinators. Enterprise Editor Will Marble and Staff Writers Corey Stern, Eunice Lim and Jessica Washington contributed reporting.
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Wednesday, November 5, at 5:30 PM, Penn Professor Dr. Howard Stevenson, “Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools: Differences That Make a Difference.” This provocative volume explores how schools are places where racial conflicts often remain hidden at the expense of a healthy educational climate and the well-being of students of color. This event is held in conjunction with Penn’s Center for Africana Studies.
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A VET-TED MIND | Student athletes and school spirit are still a part of Penn
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wo events inspired my column this week: homecoming and a sports article making the front page of The Daily Pennsylvanian. More specifically, it was the comments regarding these that caused me to pause and reflect. The comments went something like, “This is an Ivy League school, why should we care about sports?” Even worse was, “Dumb jocks. They’re only here because of scholarships. Plus they get special treatment from faculty.” I’m not quite sure where or why this line of thinking got started, but it needs to end. The core tenet of the Ivy Group Agreement is that athletic scholarships are prohibited. I’ve had class with several athletes and have never borne witness to them receiving special treatment. I played sports in high school but now stick to watching professional sports and officiating
for the local women’s flat-track roller derby team. So before writing this column I reached out to a few of the student athletes to make sure my information was correct. Athletes are judged by the same guidelines as any University student. Not only are they governed by the
dent athlete involve? Think of it as an extracurricular. On average, 20 to 30 hours a week are dedicated to practice and games. This may include time spent in the early morning before classes, as well as time after classes are finished. However, there is one thing
However, there is one thing that tends to separate athletics from other extracurriculars: risk of serious injury. I can think of few other extracurriculars where there is a real possibility of suffering injuries such as concussions, torn ligaments and broken bones.” rules and policies of the University, but by the NCAA as well. For example, if a student athlete falls below a 2.0 at any time, they are placed on academic probation and barred from participating in team events. So what does being a stu-
that tends to separate athletics from other extracurriculars: risk of serious injury. I can think of few other extracurriculars where there is a real possibility of suffering injuries such as concussions, torn ligaments and broken bones, including the
spine. While Penn is a Division 1 school, the student athletes are not your typical D1 school athletes. Many of them aren’t here to go on to professional sports. When I asked one classmate why they play, their response was: “If I were to find myself in a spot to continue playing ... professionally, I would take it in a heartbeat. … However at this point I plan on enjoying my time with the team during the next four years, and then using my education to get me to the next phase in life.” I think this mindset applies to many students at Penn. We join our clubs — be they interest, academic or athletic — because we enjoy the camaraderie, not necessarily because we expect them to forge a path in our future careers. I feel that too often we relegate our sports-minded peers to the realm of apathy. A sense of school spirit, whilst active for
more academic-oriented activities, seems to have faded when it comes to athletics. A comment I’ve seen from alumni is that stadiums, stands and arenas that once were filled with a sea of red and blue have now nothing more than a trickle. Part of this has to do with promotion. Other student groups spend a lot of time promoting their groups through social media, flyers and other marketing. Yet besides the sports page in the DP, the athletics website and occasionally a few groups out on Locust, I don’t feel like the word is really getting out on when sports games are happening on campus. I understand that the athletes are busy, but unless they want to watch their teams go the way of the Ice Hockey program, they need to rally to have more awareness of events occurring at Penn. While I don’t believe we should treat athletes as celebrities, I do think it is time we
SHAWN KELLEY showed support to our classmates who are working every bit as hard as the non-athletes, if not more. It’s time opposing teams’ fans are drowned out by “The Red and Blue” or “Drink a Highball.” I hope to stand with you at a game, cheer on our team, then go home and study for that next exam.
SHAWN KELLEY is an LPS sophomore studying Japanese and history. His email address is skelley@ sas.upenn.edu. “A Vet-ted Mind” appears every other Monday.
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he collection of moments and experiences that was my great uncle came to an end
this week. After the service, my parents and I stepped away to visit my grandparents’ tombstone. My father reiterated what he had said in his eulogy moments earlier and what he had told me after my grandfather’s passing years before — that they would want us not to grieve their deaths, but to celebrate their lives. It would take time for me to absorb the meaning of what he said. It was right around the time of my grandmother’s passing that I first read Voltaire’s magnum opus, in which an innocent and naive young man named Candide is cast from his uncle’s castle into a world of senseless misery. The story concludes with the suggestion that mortal suffering is beyond explanation, and Candide and his entourage content themselves by acquir-
ing a garden and living simple, happy lives of hard work free of metaphysical speculation. My grandmother also owned a garden. It was there, while picking figs from their trees and admiring the birds that swept in regularly for water, that she would urge me to live a life surrounded by beautiful things — not only aesthetically, but things that make being alive worthwhile.
life and the lives of those I love will eventually end. The next 10 years were spent in search of answers. As I treaded through the texts of my Jewish upbringing, I couldn’t help but think of Candide’s tutor, Pangloss, who tries to justify the horrors of life with abstruse theological arguments. Most of the religious wisdom I encountered held fast to the idea of a “world to come,” making
Others might feel that their time on earth is spoiled by its lack of permanence; I think that makes it all the more precious.” Looking back, I see a bit of Candide in my younger self. The death of my grandfather robbed me of my naive complacence about mortality, and I was forced for the first time to confront the fact that both my
groundless claims and fumbling to justify them on metaphysical (or just plain physical) grounds. These failed attempts didn’t seem far off from Pangloss’ empty reassurances that all suffering happens in accordance
with a grand plan, and I came to suspect that the idea of the hereafter, like Pangloss’s name, might be “all tongue.” Virtually every known culture offers commentary on what happens when we abandon our physical forms. And many people, in anticipation of an afterlife, fail to make the most of their time on Earth. The suggestion that death is not the end provides comfort and security, but it prevents us from seriously dealing with our mortal anxieties by pretending that they are unfounded. I don’t believe in taking this life for granted. Obsessing over what happens after death is often a disguise for obsessing over death itself, and fearing the inevitable casts a bitter and unnecessary shadow over the time we still have. Others might feel that their time on earth is spoiled by its lack of permanence; I think that makes it all the more precious.
My great uncle understood better than most the miracle of simply being alive. Having survived the horrors of Auschwitz, his simple life in Baltimore was really an act of triumph, and he died, as his wife put it, “like a human being.” Countless others from his generation did not. His natural death at 95 is not a tragedy, but a final stroke of victory — the triumphant conclusion of a life lived in defiance of wickedness. In keeping with my father’s and grandparents’ reverence for life (a different sort of optimism than that of Pangloss), his service featured little talk of the afterlife — of what would happen to him now that he had ceased to be. Rather than cloud our memory of him with fear or speculation, we commemorated the life he had led and the impression that he had left on the living. There is too little time to be wasted worrying about the end or to delude ourselves into as-
JONATHAN IWRY suming that another life awaits us. As far as the evidence is concerned, this life is all we have. Rather than worry, we must direct our efforts to better our time on earth and that of others — to live boldly and find beautiful things along the way. We must keep tending to our garden.
JONATHAN IWRY is a 2014 College graduate from Bethesda, Md. His email address is jon.iwry@ gmail.com. “The Faithless Quaker” appears every Monday.
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LaunchQuad: the startup to connect Penn startups The website, which also posts job openings, launches today MARGARET SCHROEDER Contributing Writer
Students are now able to get ahead of the curve instead of jumping on the bandwagon. Today marks the official release of LaunchQuad, a website that gives information about Penn affiliated startups. The site, which also lists job openings,
currently has 14 member companies and counting. LaunchQuad’s founder, Wharton sophomore David Greenstein, conceived of the idea for LaunchQuad while at Penn. When researching on-campus startup companies a few months ago, Greenstein was surprised at the number of student and alumni ventures he had not yet heard about. He realized that simply asking around about for information was inefficient, and his efforts would only solve the problem for himself.
“While Penn has finance very well down, it’s less so with entrepreneurship,” Greenstein said. For this reason, LaunchQuad aims to bridge the gaps between the different schools at Penn, graduate and undergraduate students and between students and alumni. Though most student entrepreneurs use Facebook to advertise their ventures, Greenstein believes that Facebook alone is inadequate. The typical audience is limited to about 1,000 to 1,500 friends out of 20,000 Penn stu-
dents. LaunchQuad, which hopes to expand to other universities, will have a much larger and more diverse user base. LaunchQuad is expected to expand to Northwestern University in two weeks. “LaunchQuad solves a major need for student entrepreneurs — it will allow them to connect with each other, find the resources they need on campus and better reach their outcomes,” said junior Karan Hiremath, head of the Entrepreneurship and Jobs Committee at the Dining Philosophers and Wharton and Engineering.
LaunchQuad also lists available job positions at startups, and provides an internal messaging system and Facebook-type page. “Alumni companies want to hire students,” Greenstein said. “In reaching out to alumni companies, I’ve found out how powerful just reaching out from Wharton or Penn is.” With the growing prominence of emerging startup companies, Greenstein believes that now is the perfect time to launch his site. “If I tried to start this 10
years ago, there’d be nothing on [LaunchQuad]. If I tried to start this 10 years from now, it would probably be too late,” he said. In the future, LaunchQuad will feature a “company newsfeed” with exclusive blog posts written by successful entrepreneurs, a “jobs feed” and a page providing resources — in design, coding, marketing — for startups. Greenstein also plans to bring on at least 100 companies at Penn from 73408verticals. all entrepreneurship “I wanted to add as much diversity as possible,” he added.
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App presents a ‘two tap’ method for getting together with friends The app, Blink, evolved out of a 2013 PennApps entry EUN JI LEE Contributing Writer
Jimmy Kwon is posing a solution to overcrowded group messages. A Wharton junior, Kwon developed Blink, an app to find a remedy for the painful pro-
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cation? We need to make sure that we follow through on that promise by fully and fairly funding our schools.” Philadelphia schools have experienced recent funding woes, as the school district has tried to close an $81 million funding gap to maintain its current budget. “If we want schools that are fully and fairly funded, you will have to vote,” Wolf added. Along with Obama and Wolf, Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter — a 1979 Wharton graduate — and Senator Mike Stack (D-Pa.), who is running for lieutenant governor, all spoke about jobs, education and voter turnout. While the crowd met Mayor Nutter with some boos, the event was mostly positive, with live per-
cess of planning activities with friends. Blink arranges gettogethers by creating specific group messages based on activities as well as users’ social circles. “We believe that barriers of cluttered communication should never deter people from engaging with one another,” Kwon said in an email. “The goal is to provide an effortless, fun and de-cluttered method for getting together with friends.”
The app promises a two tap method for asking friends to hang out. The first tap specifies which activity, such as lunch, coffee or playing soccer, among others the user would want to do. The next tap customizes the group — the number of people, which group of friends is invited and the amount of time invitees have to respond. From there, interested group members can enter the chat and plan their outing.
After four weeks of private beta testing, the public beta launches today. Kwon is planning for the official app to be in the App Store later this month. The idea for Blink grew out of Kwon’s app at PennApps 2013, and has evolved several times since then. After assessing Blink’s appeal with over 100 friends, Kwon and his former teaching assistant and Engineering junior Josh Pearlstein decided to start coding the app.
formances, dancing and several “vote!” chants. “My mom is a teacher and I went to public school, so education was something that really resonated with me,” said College sophomore Peter Herbst, who registered to vote in Pennsylvania after coming to Penn. “It’s a social responsibility to vote and participate in government, and I think this really played upon that in a positive way with a vibe that was youthful and energetic and hopeful.” Obama, who has remained relatively distant from many Democratic candidates this election cycle due to his low polling numbers, has begun to hit the campaign as midterm elections approach. This week, he has also campaigned on behalf of Democrats running for office in Wisconsin, Maine, Rhode Island, Michigan and Connecticut. Highlighted by large V-O-T-E
letters passed out by Wolf’s campaign and held up by supporters, high voter turnout in Philadelphia is key for Wolf’s election bid. Although Obama is unpopular in many parts of the state, he remains very popular in Philadelphia, where he won 85 percent of the vote in 2012. “I think more than anything else, I hope they refresh the young voters and be conscientious of the fact that the vote is needed,” said 49-year-old Shabazz Williams who was born and raised in Philadelphia and plans to vote for Tom Wolf. While Williams expressed his support for Obama, he also conveyed disappointment. “We get so frustrated so fast. The minority community [has] not been rewarded as voters,” he said. Nonetheless, he remains optimistic about the future. “A lot of us deal with a lot of hopelessness, so
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of heels on the sidewalk fill the air near 40th and Spruce streets. We were sober on Halloween. This is our story. 11:07 p.m. - We slide into a booth at Allegro. Cinderella sits next to us with an assortment of friends, and a bunny shakes some pepper flakes onto a slice of pizza a few tables over. Near them sits one of many Rosie the Riveters and a fellow Minion noshing on some fries by the window. In the back, a family defies the norm as they relish a serving of cheese fries. Some in the Allegro crowd are casually eating and sipping a beer before they go out, and some seem like they’ve already passed the crux of their nights. 11:15 p.m. - A guy in a purple unicorn onesie walks into Allegro accompanied by someone dressed up as a bottle of Gold Bond body powder. They’re followed by an angel and her three cats.
11:31 p.m. - Intrigued by what’s happening outside our booth, we depart Allegro and make our way down Spruce. We barely make it half a block before passing a gaggle of Catholic schoolgirls teetering down the street. One of them gets her heel caught on the sidewalk and nearly falls. 11:42 p.m. - The night continues as we end up outside a frat party and are greeted by a self-dubbed “Republican douche” donning a Reagan-Bush T-shirt, camouflageprint bandanna and slicked-back hair a la a Wharton networking event. When he finds out we’re reporters, he takes his opportunity to make a statement. “People use Halloween as an excuse to dress like sluts, which is a change from the typical,” he declares. “But with all the new alcohol and registration regulations, Penn is really fucking up the social life. They’re being Big Brother. Not allowing open parties encourages binge drinking during pregames, which is really dangerous. And frats are resorting to things like tailing the LCE monitors so their parties don’t get busted.” As we converse with the Republican, the brother at the door is consistently shooing costumed Penn students away from the gates. “People have no fucking clue what’s going on or how to get through the gate,” he said. “All your senses have to be on because people get creative.” The Republican, though, ushers us right inside the party. After a quick “tour,” which highlights fluorescent bottles of Grey Goose behind the bar, it is back to the street. 12:15 a.m. - As we walk up Walnut, we see the night has taken one of its first victims. Both indistinctly dressed, one man supports his intoxicated friend through the crosswalk on 38th and Walnut streets. We narrowly avoid being hit by an impatient driver crossing Walnut and make our way toward the heart of campus, watching the silhouettes dancing on the 38th Street bridge. We get to Locust Walk just as a fraternity party breaks up. People are not pleased. One kid with a bike helplessly asks passersby how
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to get back to Haverford. “I want you to outlive me because otherwise it would make me sad,” a girl dressed as an adult joker says to friend. “Diddy has his own party — where’s my yacht?” a guy dressed, ironically, as P Diddy yells just past the bridge. Approaching the compass, a
party at a fraternity house on Locust is in full swing. While most are hopping the fence to avoid the bouncer, one girl has a different idea, knocking fruitlessly on the side door. 12:31 a.m. - As we approach Wawa, we are quickly outstripped by a guy in a Hawaiian shirt sprinting up Spruce. A girl dressed in sweatpants and a wife beater that is riding up her midriff binges on Nacho Cheese Doritos in the middle of the aisle. We consider a citizen’s arrest when she walks out without paying. She was not the only one with a hands-on relationship with Wawa’s stock. Beware, the muffins left over in the case were all manhandled by Aladdin’s Prince Ali. Outside Wawa, Angel and the Pussycats — we remember them from Allegro — make a second appearance, this one seemingly less sober than the last. 12:40 a.m. - We return to Allegro, where a shoeless mermaid is screaming “it’s my birthday” and a tall kimono-clad male is singing by himself near the pizza line. We press on to face our biggest challenge of the night — the Allegro bathroom line. Our company includes someone dressed as a blood type, a human loofa, some basketball players and, later, an actual member of the police force. “This is the worst thing of all time. I’m so upset and I can do nothing about it,” says a hybrid boxer/Hugh Hefner who is distraught by the length of the line. But he definitely had a shaved chest. “I just pee all the time,” Harvey Dent adds. Back in line, two girls who have taken their costumes quite literally are screaming “ninjas” as they try to force open the locked Allegro side door. At this point, the policeman loses his patience and cuts to the front of the line. 1:00 a.m. - We wrap up the night on Locust Walk. But as we sit on a bench, three men approach and start talking to us in a language we don’t understand. Registering our confusion, they swap to English and ask us if we’re Russian. We give them fake names and wait for them to leave. Once they’re gone, we experience one of the quieter parts of the night. As people wander home, we catch parts of their conversations. “Do I have my jacket?” “... You’re wearing it.” “Tomorrow I will be a freaking short giraffe.” “I can’t run. Even if I wanted to I’d die.” Meanwhile, we can see Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable making out in a tree outside Rodin. A security guard eyes them but does nothing. Running into friends later, we hear about the craziest thing we didn’t see that night — a girl walking by Fro Gro in only a North Face and a thong.
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It was a different story for the women’s squad. After showing some promise throughout the year, the women’s team failed to score better than any of the other Ivy squads, starting the day off slow for the program. Dolan chalks the underwhelming result up to the team’s lack of firepower up front.
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seem to build on them, can’t seem to sustain them,” Bagnoli said. “We HOME ROAD haven’t been able to do it with any 1-2, 1-1 Ivy 0-4, 0-2 Ivy kind of consistent nature. ” That is true, to a degree. But classifying the Quakers’ play throughout the season as inconsistent is too STATISTICS simple. Brown PENN More accurately, the source of First Downs 24 18 Penn’s problems in 2014 has not Rushing Yards 262 37 Passing Yards 177 265 only been its inconsistency in cul— Attempts 27 49 tivating that at which it sometimes — Completions 14 31 succeeds, but its inability to fix the — Interceptions 0 0 problems that opponents consistentTotal Yards 439 302 ly exploit. Sacked-Yds Lost 1-8 2-12 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 3-1 In four Ivy contests this season, Penalties-Yards 6-75 3-15 the Red and Blue have forced exPunts-Yards 6-233 7-269 actly zero turnovers. On the season, Avg. per punt 38.8 38.4 the Quakers have recorded only six 3rd-Down Conv. 5-13 8-17 4th-Down Conv. 1-2 1-2 turnovers — the fewest takeaways in the Ancient Eight. Red Zone Scores 2-2 2-3 Time of Poss. 36:04 23:56 In all seven of Penn’s defeats, at Attendance: 8,176 least one facet of the Quakers’ defense has been eviscerated on a consistent basis. In the Red and Blue’s IVYWATCH first six losses, it was the squad’s secIvy Overall ondary that gave up big plays. The good news for Penn on SatHarvard 4-0 7-0 urday was that seniors Evan Jackson and Kevin Ijoma had 17 and 12 tackYale 3-1 6-1 Dartmouth
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much of the afternoon. Once again, though, Penn’s defense failed to force a turnover — it hasn’t generated a takeaway in Ivy play — and the Quakers’ offense was unable to do much with the opportunities it was able to create
“I thought we ran hard,” he said. “But we just don’t have someone right now who can get us a lower number, which is essential in cross country.” A standout for the Quakers was Elyssa Gensib, who finished first for the Quakers and 22nd overall in the 6,000m event. The Whiting sisters finished together within the top 35 finishers, but it was too little for the Red and Blue to make up
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Coach Al Bagnoli hasn’t been through too many stretches tougher than what his team is going through now. Penn has lost 10 out of its last 11 contests.
against Brown — quarterback Alek Torgersen attempted 47 passes, the fourth game this season in which he’s thrown the ball 40 times or more — while achieving little on the ground. Although the sophomore from California has improved considerably throughout the year, the Bears knew exactly what they could get away with. Phil Estes’ squad allowed the Quakers to continuously complete underneath passes and short wide receiver screens, knowing it likely wouldn’t do much damage. Needless to say, the strategy worked. Torgersen’s 30 completions generated only 252 yards, with most of that coming once the game was already out of reach. It’s hard not to empathize with Bagnoli and share his frustration. And if the Quakers are planning to send their coach out with any positive momentum from this lost season, it’s going to require a reversal of the few things that they’ve actually done consistently.
les, respectively, while the secondary played well in coverage. The bad news? The need for the Quakers’ defensive backs to record so many tackles stemmed from breakdowns and a lack of containment in the first two levels of the Red and Blue’s defense. How else
does a team rack up 262 yards on the ground without recording a negative rush one time throughout the contest? Even the offensive side of the ball led to more of the same from Penn. As they have done so frequently in 2014, the Quakers threw often
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for itself. Two plays before Ferens’ drop, Torgersen badly underthrew freshman receiver Justin Watson when there was nary a Brown defender within 10 yards of him. And after Rosenbauer’s rushing touchdown off a fumbled snap made it 21-7, the Quakers were stopped inside the one-yard line on fourth and
goal. “This is about as frustrated as I’ve been all season,” Bagnoli said. “We certainly can play better. I’m frustrated that I can’t get this team to take the next step and continually build upon [things] week to week. “So I’m as frustrated as I’ve been in a long time.” Penn was able to pick up a win-
dow dressing touchdown with 37 seconds to play when Torgersen hit Watson for a 22-yard score, but the snap on the extra point went awry, and the Bears recovered the ensuing onside kick. Brown has now beaten the Red and Blue three times in the last four years, holding Penn to a combined 13 points in those triumphs.
ground on the rest of the field. Dolan conceded that it was not “the step forward [the women] were hoping to make,” but recognizes that they have room to grow. “We have a class with no one graduating,” he said. “I actually think we’re deeper than last year. We just lack that low number presence.” Both teams will look to take the next step forward at Regionals in two weeks.
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stas, all night long. He placed two more shots on goal, including a rocket that Kupstas just managed to parry aside in the 23rd minute. “In the attack, we created a number of quality chances,” Fuller said. “They just didn’t fall for us.” Brown would come roaring back late in the first half. Aptlynamed junior forward Will Cross got his head to a corner kick in the 42nd minute, pushing it past Penn goalie Max Polkinhorne to level the score heading into the second half. Polkinhorne would be pressed into near-constant duty in the second half, being called upon to make six saves. With about 30
seconds left in regulation, he swallowed up a free kick from Brown back Jason Pesek to ensure the Quakers at least a point. “Max continues to be really a solid force in goal,” Fuller said. “He made another couple of big saves for us Saturday night. It’s unfortunate that we weren’t able to get him the win.” But Penn could only manage just that — a point. The Red and Blue got off only one shot on goal over the course of two overtime periods, ensuring a second consecutive draw against an inferior opponent following last week’s 1-1 tie with Ivy cellar-dweller Yale. “It’s a little bit frustrating because I was confident that if we could just take care of what we
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Rushing yards gained by Brown, compared to just 37 for the Quakers. Quarterback Seth Rosenbauer did most of the damage, picking up 206 yards on the ground.
47 Passing attempts by Quakers sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen. Despite the high number of throws, Torgersen only racked up 252 yards and 5.4 yards per attempt.
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could control and win games, that would put us in a good position to win the league,” Fuller said. With two games to play, Penn now sits in a third-place tie with Harvard, two points behind Princeton and Dartmouth. The Quakers will travel to Princeton next week and then close out the season at home against Harvard, knowing full well that they can no longer afford to squander any more mustwin games. “The positive is that we’re in the exact same spot we were going into the weekend — we’re essentially one of four teams that are still in the hunt for the title,” Fuller said. “And we’re going to be able to determine our fate in large part due to the fact that we finish with Princeton and Harvard.”
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Penn splits after Senior Day FIELD HOCKEY Quakers topple Brown but fall to Rutgers BY CRISTINA URQUIDI Staff Writer This weekend was one of ups and downs for Penn field hockey. The Quakers defeated Brown, 2-1, on Saturday, but fell to Rutgers, 3-0, on Sunday afternoon. Against Brown, Penn junior Elizabeth Hitti scored the first goal of the game. Subsequently Brown sophomore Lucy Green managed to tie the score off of a penalty corner. This would, however, be the Bears’ only goal of the game. Penn senior Alex Iqbal scored the deciding goal for Penn halfway through the first period off of a penalty corner. While coach Colleen Fink noted that it was not their best performance, she was happy with the toughness displayed by her players. The motto of the team this year has been “True Grit,� and the Quakers more than exemplified this against Brown. “I think that it was a tough game for us,� Fink said. “I don’t think we played our best but I
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think we played probably the toughest I’ve seen us play.� “We played well in the first half, but in the second half, for whatever reason — it could be that we were concentrating more on the elements or lack of clean play — [we weren’t] as successful. But they stayed resilient.� Overall, it is Penn’s remarkable defense that can take credit for the win, as it was able to hold off the Bears’ 19 shots, 11 of which came in the second period. “We faced a couple challenging sets defensively, but I think we played tough,� Fink added. One of the most crucial players of the game was senior goalkeeper Allison Weisenfels, who recorded a career high of 15 saves — nine of which occurred in the second half under the immense pressure of Brown aiming to tie the game. “Allison Weisenfels had an amazing game in goal, so thank goodness for that. I think the biggest thing that I saw in her play was she just seemed very composed,� Fink said. “There
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was no panic or urgency in her play. From a defensive standpoint, that’s exactly what you want to see from a keeper.� Despite this huge Ivy win, the Quakers were unable to keep the momentum going and lost to Rutgers on Sunday in New Brunswick, N.J. Penn recorded three shots on goal, all of which were taken by senior Alex Iqbal. However, the Quakers were not able to convert any of their 14 total shots into a goal. Rutgers junior Katie Champion and sophomore Rachel Yaney were responsible for the Scarlet Knights’ three goals of the game. While Champion’s first shot was blocked by Weisenfels, she recovered and went on to score Rutgers’ first goal. Their second goal was scored by Yaney, who scored in the last 35 seconds of the half. The second goal was also notable for the individual who supplied the assist: sophomore Jasmine Cole. After breaking out as a freshman sensation for Penn last year, Cole went on to transfer and, ultimately, contribute to defeating her old team. Champion scored her second goal of the game early in the first half off of an assist from sophomore Alyssa Bull. Rutgers’ strong defensive presence proved to be too much for the Quakers, as the Scarlet Knights notched their first shutout of the season. The Quakers were unable to convert any of their Hours: Mon: Closed five penalty corners into Tues - Wed: 11am - 9pm a goal. Thurs - Sat: 11am - 10pm Despite the loss, Fink reSunday Brunch: 11am - 3pm mains confident for Penn’s Sunday Dinner: 3pm - 9pm last regular season game against Princeton next Contact Info: week. Northern Liberties “We will bring a com426 W Girard Ave. bination of the skill that I Philadelphia, PA 19123 know this team is capable (215) 351-9144 of, partnered with [our] rewww.lascazuelas.net silience and toughness.�
VS. BROWN For the last home match of the season, Penn women’s soccer played with a fighting and aggressive spirit in order to honor its seniors. After defeating Lehigh earlier in the week, the Quakers (7-5-3, 2-3-1 Ivy) continued their winning streak with another Ivy victory against Brown, 2-0. The first half was one of the best the Red and Blue has had so far this season. Penn dominated possession for most of the half due to the work the forwards and midfielders put in to keep the ball in the offensive zone. The Quaker’s aggressive offense helped senior forward Clara Midgley score an early first half goal, her first of the season. Freshman forward Juliana Provini gave the assist after a Brown defender blocked Midgley’s initial shot. Offensively, the Quakers were strong in keeping Brown goalie Mallory Yant on her feet, forcing the Bears’ (6-7-3, 1-3-2) defenders to be on the top of their game. In the 40th minute, sophomore back Olivia Blaber tossed a throw-in to freshman forward Anna Estep, who fed senior midfielder Kaitlyn Moore. Moore got the shot inside the far post, putting the Quakers up by two. But the Red and Blue’s offensive charge slowed down significantly in the second half.
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Senior forward Clara Midgley tallied her first goal of the season in the first half against Brown, contributing to the Quakers’ early offensive outburst.
Penn took only three shots to Brown’s seven attempts on goal. This might have been due to the fact that Penn was up by two, or because the team still needs to work on staying strong in the second half. Moore believes it’s the latter. “It’s always important to have the mentality that people are going to come hard in the second half, and Brown’s definitely going to want to come back after us,� she said. “We needed to be prepared and we took that for granted.� However, later on in the half, the team picked it back up and kept it sharp. “[Senior Night] gives us an extra bite and something to work for. But as every Ivy game, it’s always an intense game,� Midgley said. “You come out and compete and battle first and play soccer second. It’s good to do both.� The Bears changed their strategy for the second half and fought with all they had. However, they were not able to convert any of their chances,
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they did not have enough players available due to injuries. With the win, Penn finishes the season with a 4-3 record, the program’s first winning record since — Steven Tydings 2011. The forfeit means that Penn senior Penn sprint football finished its running back Mike Beamish will season in a win, but not in the way finish 33 rushing yards shy of Mike the Quakers expected. Bagnoli for second all-time in proThe Red and Blue were scheduled gram history. Beamish finishes with to face Princeton on Halloween, but 2,494 career rushing yards. the Tigers forfeited the game since The game was Princeton’s second
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2014
Penn shines in preseason dual WRESTLING | Thomas wins dual while Cobb returns from long layoff BY STEVEN JACOBSON Staff Writer It may have been the preseason but the Quakers just took part in one of their loudest and most well-attended events. On Saturday, two Penn wrestlers, seniors Lorenzo Thomas and CJ Cobb, represented the Quakers in the National Wrestling Coaches Association AllStar Classic in front of over 5,000 fans. The Palestra was electrified as it witnessed the No. 20 Cobb drop a close match against Virginia Tech senior No. 3 Devin Carter in the 149-pound showcase event and the No. 3 Thomas destroy senior Clint Morrison of Rider in the 184-pound showcase. “It was a great experience to wrestle in front of 5000-plus people,” coach Alex Tirapelle said. “That’s always fun. Just kind of getting the butterflies out.” Cobb, who took last yea r off from wrestling to focus on academics, looked solid in his first time out on the mat. Facing the highly ranked Carter, Cobb jumped out to an early lead and was still up at the conclusion of the first period. “I was really happy with how I was doing [in the first period],” Cobb said. “I was pumped. [Carter] is No. 3 in the class, a national finalist and, in my opinion, he’s a really, really good wrestler.” Carter took a 9-6 lead by the end of the second period, but Cobb closed the gap early in the third to 10-9 after an escape followed by a takedown. Carter eventually ran away with it in the third period, winning by a score of 17-10, but Cobb was pleased with his gritty performance. “I went out there and got takedowns and hit my moves like [I would] on someone that’s not as good [as Carter] — that gave me a lot of confidence,” he said. Both Cobb and Carter are New Jersey natives, so they are fa-
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Senior Lorenzo Thomas followed up his All-American performance from last season with a strong beginning to the 2014-15 season on Saturday.
miliar with each other’s styles, having wrestled each other in the past. “He did what I expected,” Cobb said. ”I did better than I expected ... Last time we wrestled, I couldn’t get any takedowns on him.” Tirapelle was pleased with Cobb’s performance as well. “It was a good performance,” he said. “It’s good to get that first match under the belt, especially for a guy like CJ, who’s been off for awhile.” T homas made quick work of the unranked Morrison in his bout, needing only 5:32 to win, 16-1, on the technical fall. Thomas dominated throughout the matchup, logging a number of back points. The match culminated in an illegal hold call on Morrison that gave Thomas the victory in what he hopes should prepare him for the upcoming season. “We’ve got a match coming up
in two weeks, so this was good preparation for that,” Thomas said. Both Thomas and Tirapelle took the time to check out Cornell sophomore Gabe Dean in his victory over Old Dominion sophomore Jack Dechow, who is No. 2 in the 184-pound weightclass. Dean, who is ranked No. 1 at 184 pounds, defeated Thomas at the NCAA Championships last year. “I watched the match,” Thomas said. “It was good to see the top two guys in my class.” “You can’t help but notice things that they do,” Tirapelle added. “You make mental notes.” However, the real goal of the night was for the two seniors to work out the rust of the offseason and display their talents in front of a roaring, eager crowd. “I wasn’t out there thinking, ‘If I do this and that, I’ll win the match,’” Cobb said. “For me, it was just about having fun.”
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Awad wins Ivy title, men’s team takes third XC | Men break into Ivy top tier, while women fail to take next step BY COLIN HENDERSON Sports Editor Saturday may have started inauspiciously for Penn cross country, but it ended with history being made. After the women’s team was unable to break through at Hep-
tagonals — finishing last as a team in the Ivy championship meet — junior Thomas Awad took first in the men’s race, leading his team to an impressive third place finish. The Red and Blue couldn’t take home the team title, but Awad was the star of the day. Coming off of a meet victory two weeks ago at the same Princeton course, Awad was able to make his way through the 8,000-meter course in 24:24,
securing the first individual title for the Quakers in just under 40 years. “I’ve had a couple alums come up and talk to me about what a big deal it is,” Awad said. “I’m just trying to represent the school as best as I can.” With the runner-up finishing just a second behind, Awad needed to dig deep to earn the victory. “We were neck-and-neck with about 200 meters to go, and I realized how windy it was,” he said.
“So I kind of just settled in behind him, let him do the work on the windy stretch and kicked in for the win.” It took a team effort for the men to break through as a team though, and senior Conner Paez — who placed 15th — was a huge contributor. “It was a big-time senior effort … his best race of the year by far,” coach Steve Dolan said of Paez. After sustaining a difficult injury earlier in his career, the se-
nior captain has persevered to become one of the team’s most reliable performers. With his surprising romp through Saturday’s rainy course, Paez finished just one spot away from earning second-team All-Ivy honors. Sophomores Brendan Shearn and Nick Tuck along with junior Brendan Smith rounded out the top five for the men’s squad, earning the men’s first top-three finish since 2007. “Three years ago, our first guy
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in was 52nd place,” Dolan noted. “Today, we had seven guys in by 52nd place.” The breakthrough result was the culmination of several years of progress, and those involved with the program have high hopes for the team’s chances over the final weeks of the season. “We really have a shot to actually make it [to Nationals] if we have another big day,” Awad said. SEE XC PAGE 9
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Brown running back Andrew Coke eludes a Penn defender while carrying the ball for several of his 60 total rushing yards during the Quakers’ Homecoming game. As a whole, the Bears ran for 262 yards on on 50 carries, averaging 5.2 yards per attempt while dealing the Red and Blue a 21-13 defeat. The loss moves Penn to 1-3 in Ivy play this year and 1-6 overall.
FOOTBALL | Bears gain 262 rushing yards as Penn loses rain soaked game BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor Penn football wide receiver Danny Ferens threw his hands on his helmet in disbelief, staring at the perfect throw from quarterback Alek Torgersen that was now bouncing benignly on the turf. He had just dropped what would have been a game-tying touchdown, the second surefire scoring opportunity that the Quakers had bungled in a three play span midway through the
VS. BROWN third quarter against Brown. Minutes later, the Bears would resume doing what they had been doing best all day: manhandling the line of scrimmage with an efficient running game and choking the life out of Penn in a 21-13 victory. A bitterly cold rain drove much of the anticipated homecoming crowd away — attendance was down 61 percent compared to last year’s game against Princeton — and the Quakers (1-6, 1-3 Ivy) didn’t give the several thousands that braved the rain many reasons
to cheer in the early going. Penn punted on its opening four possessions and only truly came to life on its final drive of the first half, when Torgersen orchestrated a 65- yard drive that ended with backup quarterback Adam Strouss plunging in from a yard out to cut a 14-0 Bears lead in half just 39 seconds before the break. The Bears (4-3, 2-2) were able to match the Red and Blue’s effort on the ground, and then some, as the driving rain wound up producing an unlikely hero. Backup quarterback Seth Rosenbauer — who only had 18 carries entering Saturday’s contest — tore Penn’s front seven to shreds, rushing for
206 yards on 30 attempts and adding two short touchdowns. “I don’t know if anybody expected that I would get 30 carries,” he said. “But the weather ended up like that.” “You’re as good as your down linemen allow you to be at times,” Penn coach Al Bagnoli added. “And today I thought they dominated us up front, and that was really the difference in the game.” In contrast, the Quakers were only able to pick up 37 yards on 23 attempts, resulting in a pitiful 1.6 yards per carry average. Forced to throw, Torgersen completed 30 of 47 passes, but at the price of absorbing a number of huge hits from Brown defensive
end Henry Bumpus. Brown starting quarterback Marcus Fuller had a solid day in his own right given the conditions, throwing a beautiful strike to Reiley Higgins for a 36 yard touchdown in the second quarter and completing 14 of 27 passes. But Penn’s much-maligned secondary had one of its strongest games of the season. Senior cornerback Kevin Ijoma, who was benched during last week’s 43-21 loss against Yale, nearly had an interception and kept a rotating assignment of Brown receivers mostly quiet. The Beras avoid senior cornerback Dan Wilk for SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 9
Seven games into the 2014 season, it’s impossible to deny the sense of disappointment surrounding Penn football. It hasn’t been hard to identify a feeling of hopelessness pervading fans and even players of a program that recently enjoyed one of the most dominant title runs in Ivy League history. That makes sense. The “what have you done for me lately” athletic culture in which so many of us invest ourselves forces those surrounding the team to keep in mind two key figures: one and three, respectively. The Quakers have won only one of their last 11 games. And there are three games remaining until Al Bagnoli retires. After that, the Red and Blue are off into the great unknown. But all of that disappointment is an external factor. In the grand scheme of his career, all that matters is that the past two seasons are a blip on Bagnoli’s near-perfect resume. More than anything, anyone seeking to characterize Penn’s season to date should first take into consideration Bagnoli’s take on the situation. “This is about as frustrated as I’ve been all season,” he said following Saturday’s 21-13 Homecoming defeat to Brown. “We certainly can play better, and I’m frustrated that I can’t get this team to play better and take the next step. I’m as frustrated as I’ve been in a long time.” Not surprising for a man — as well as a team and fan base — so attuned to winning. Throughout his press conference following Saturday’s game, Bagnoli continuously cited the Quakers’ “inconsistency” this season, particularly against the Bears. “I’m frustrated because we do some good things but then we can’t SEE STEELE PAGE 9
Penn squanders Ivy opportunity M. SOCCER | Red and Blue forced to settle for another draw BY IAN WENIK and GARRETT GOMEZ Sports Editor and Staff Playing in a game that Rudy Fuller had earlier described as one where “if you don’t win it, [you] don’t deserve to be [Ivy League] champions,” Penn men’s soccer failed to live up to its coach’s ultimatum.
VS. BROWN The Quakers, (6-7-2, 2-12 Ivy) hosted Brown Saturday night for their fifth conference battle of the season, and for the second Ivy match in a row, could leave only with a tie. Despite putting up 15 shots, Penn was forced to settle for a 1-1 result. Penn controlled the pace of play in the early going, and re-
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ceived a just reward in the 19th minute of the match. After junior midfielder Forrest Clancy rang a shot off the post, Brown (4-5-6, 1-2-2) was called for a handball in the penalty box during the fight for the rebound. Senior forward Duke Lacroix took advantage of the penalty kick, converting the shot to give the Quakers a 1-0 lead. Lacroix would challenge the Bears’ keeper, Mitch KupSEE M. SOCCER PAGE 9
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Senior forward Duke Lacroix was an offensive terror against Brown, scoring his seventh goal of the season on a penalty kick and taking four shots overall. However, Lacroix and the Quakers could only muster the singular goal, drawing the Bears.
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