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MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS GOVERNOR TOM WOLF The Democratic candidate defeated Republican incumbent Tom Corbett

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR MIKE STACK The Democratic candidate defeated Republican Jim Cawley, who ran with Corbett

U.S. HOUSE REP CHAKA FATTAH The incumbent Democrat defeated Republican challenger Armond James

STATE SENATE ANTHONY WILLIAMS The incumbent Democrat ran unopposed

STATE HOUSE JAMES ROEBUCK The incumbent Democrat defeated Republican challenger Ernest Adkins

LPS group aims to form community for ‘nontraditional’ students ELLIE SCHROEDER Staff Writer

Undergraduates at Penn have easy opportunities to create a lasting sense of community through shared experiences — from the Econ Scream and late night Wawa runs from the Quad, to navigating clubs and sports team. But for some of Penn’s “nontraditional” students in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies — students who start at Penn when they’re over 21 — it’s not always as easy to find the same opportunities, according to some LPS students. That’s where Penn’s relatively new Liberal and Professional Studies Student’s Association comes in. LPSSA, which was founded in 2012, aims to create the same sense of community among LPS students, said Kathy Urban, director of BA and BFA programs at LPS. “It is really a touchstone for our students. It gives them the opportunity to all come together on a regular basis to network, identify common interest and share experiences,” Urban said. LPSSA creates this community through hosting events for LPS students and advocating for their interests with University administrators. LPSSA President Eddie Burns, an LPS senior, said that the organization’s most significant accomplishment so far was successfully petitioning the University to allow LPS students to apply for the newly created President’s SEE LPSSA PAGE A5

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PA. GOVERNOR Democrat Tom Wolf defeated incumbent Governor Tom Corbett by nearly 10 percent of the vote

Students gathered yesterday night to watch the election results come out at an event co-hosted by several political groups on campus.

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With a new Pennsylvania governor and the Republicans now controlling the U.S. Senate, the midterm elections on Tuesday significantly changed local and national political landscapes. Democratic challenger Tom Wolf handily beat Republican Governor Tom Corbett by nearly 10 percent, marking the first time in over 40 years that a sitting Pennsylvania governor did not win reelection. Throughout the gubernatorial campaign, public education acted as one of

the most important issues to Pennsylvanian voters. “We need to make sure education is at the top of the list, not the bottom,” Wolf said in his acceptance speech at Utz Arena in York, Pa. “We need to make sure we fund our education system fairly, and we got to make sure that we raise the money that we use to fund our system fairly.” The issue of education funding resonated with Penn students who voted for Wolf. At campus polling stations, Wolf received 89 percent of

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Penn voter turnout drops 27 percent since last Pa. governor election About 1,060 votes were cast, as opposed to 1,460 cast in 2010 HANNAH NOYES Staff Writer

Penn’s polling stations saw less than one-third of the voter turnout this election cycle than they had in the 2012 presidential election and had 27 percent fewer voters than in the last Pennsylvania gubernatorial election. An estimated 1,060 people turned out to vote for Tuesday’s election at polling locations on campus, according to polling data posted outside campus stations. More than 3,500 student voters turned out to polling places in 2012 during the presidential election. The number of students voting in midterm elections

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President Amy Gutmann voted yesterday in Vance Hall at one of the on-campus voting locations, and spoke to members of Penn Leads the Vote.

has been on the steady decline for years. Campus turnout was 1,460 students in 2010, and 1,521 students

in 2006. “Even though we don’t have as much turnout as the residential neighborhoods,

for us this has been a big and exciting turnout,” said

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Tennis star Andre Agassi says he found his true passion in retirement Agassi spoke as part of Lauren & Bobby Turner Social Impact Executive Speaker Series GHINWA MOUJAES Contributing Writer

Andre Agassi wants you to pursue your own path. Speaking at the Annenberg Center on Tuesday as part of Lauren & Bobby Turner Social Impact Ex-

ecutive Speaker Series, the olympic gold medalist and former top tennis player encouraged Penn students, especially at this moment of their lives, to be open-

minded about their paths and chose a feld they are passionate about. “You will be uncomfortable in your own skin if you don’t find your own reason to wake up every day.” Agassi said. Surprisingly, Agassi’s reason is not tennis. He played the sport primarily to please

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The Lauren & Bobby Turner Social Impact Executive Speaker Series brought in Andre Agassi, former top tennis player, to speak about social impact.

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Freshmen form hacker heaven Joshua Lee hope to find “independent thinkers” to live and collaborate with next year. Dear hackers: Are you looking “Bringing people with like for somewhere to live and code minds [together] is an extremely next year? cool and powerful idea,” Lee said. Two Penn freshmen are creat- He and Lee met last summer at a ing a space for students interested summit in San Francisco. in programming. Through their taThey’ve named the house Dorgline — “an off-campus home for pies, an Afrikaans word meaning UPenn hackers” — Whartonite a village or community, which Dillon Chen and College student represents the ethos of the house

— an environment where people can create with freedom. Students can apply to live in the hacker’s paradise via an online form. Chen and Lee are looking for students who can commit for a full academic year in order to create a small, intensive community. Lee and Chen also hope to have other Dorpies built in multiple cities, creating a “place for all independent thinkers.”

juniors, and seniors. These are the ones that have registered and voted before.” Sean Foley, political director of Penn Democrats, said turnout may have been low this year because students are less likely to vote in midterm elections than presidential ones. This year, like in past years, there has been a big move on social media to spread the word about getting out to vote. Facebook installed a specific setting to post on the behalf of users, while Snapchat offered a special “I voted” filter. Penn Dems President Amiyr Jackson also noted that Penn Dems used social media to get out the vote. College sophomore Ben Fogel, who volunteered at the Republican Headquarters for Montgomery County, said flyering also helped get people mobilized. At polling stations on campus, Democratic candidate Tom Wolf defeated Republican incumbent Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race by wide margins, receiving over 89 percent of the vote, as to the 10

percent of voters Corbett won over on campus. For some students, incumbent Corbett’s ineffectiveness drove them to vote for Wolf. College junior Louis Capozzi said in a Facebook post that his vote was “reluctant” and that he voted for Tom Wolf because he believed he would be a more effective and inspiring governor. He also stated that Corbett’s positions on gay marriage, immigration and education did not align with his own, but ultimately Wolf won his vote as an indictment of the incumbent. Education was also a factor in some students’ decision to vote for Wolf. “From what I understand, Corbett did horrible things to the education system and funding, and I am happy he is no longer governor,” College junior Michelle Gassmann said. “I consider it a win.” Staff Writer Jonathan Baer, City News Editor Harry Cooperman and Contributing Writers Dia Sotiropoulou, Benjamin Zou and Carolina Zheng contributed reporting.

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“I’m really pleased that Tom Wolf won,” Engineering sophomore Will Johnson said at an election viewing party hosted by eight political groups on campus, including Penn’s Government and Politics Association, College Republicans and the Penn Political Review. “I voted mainly on education and the environment, and I thought Wolf was the pick for that.” While Democrats had reason to celebrate at the state level, Republicans had a much better day on the national stage. Republicans needed to win six Democrat-held Senate seats to take control of Congress. By winning seats in Montana, Colorado, West Virginia, South Dakota, Arkansas and Iowa, Republicans accomplished their goal of picking up six Senate seats from Democrats, while also extending their majority in the House of Representatives. At time of publication, Senate races in Virginia and Louisiana remained undecided. “Anybody who is left probably knew it was going to be a terrible day,” College junior Isaac Freeth said. “I don’t really see much change happening in the next two years anyway. Even if the Democrats had held the Senate, there wouldn’t have been much progress anyway. It’s just another step on a depressing road for anyone who considers themselves left in America. 2016, I guess!” In addition to Wolf, the Democratic state and national representatives for Penn’s district were easily reelected. Chakah Fattah received over 87 percent of the vote for Congress; Anthony Hardy Williams was reelected to the state senate as the only candidate running in his race; and James Roebuck won his seat in the state house with over 95 percent of the vote, with over 90 percent of precincts having reported results. While Tuesday brought wins and losses for both political parties, some feel satisfied with a changed political landscape. “Given the way things have been going the last few years, I think a change will be good, whether that is Republican or Democrat,” said College junior Evan Redos, who considers himself an independent. “I am looking for anything that is different from this status quo.”

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Alice Wells, a native Philadelphian working the polls said before the ballots had been counted. “We’ve had people dribbling in all day long, and that’s been really nice, and it’s all students here.” Fewer freshmen seemed to be voting today, Assistant Director of Penn Leads the Vote Laura Thornton said. “Today, we’ve seen a lot less freshmen and mostly older, sophomores,

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Meet the admissions office’s LGBTQ specialist Jordan Pascucci helps other admissions officers identify LGBTQ apps

the Office of Admissions in 2007, there was already a liaison between the LGBT Center and the admissions office. However, her experience as an active member of the LGBT community in Philadelphia made her a good candidate to take over as the Admissions’ dedicated LGBTQ staff person when the position opened. Other cultural resource centers also have dedicated Admissions staff liaisons. The data on incoming students who are self-identified LGBTQ also allows the center to reach out to the incoming students before they arrive at Penn. The center had previously been unable to reach out to those students, Schoenberg said. Since 2010 when the tracking of LGBTQ applicants started, the Office of Admissions has seen huge growth in the number of LGBTQ or ally applicants, plus a 152 percent jump in those admitted and 270 percent jump in accepted applicants who ultimately matriculate. Pascucci said the increase is attributable to both the Office of Admissions’s effort and Penn’s reputation as an LGBTfriendly university. “We are one of the few universities that has a dedicated space for LGBT issues,” she said. She added that through the tagging process, the office has been able to bring in active LGBTQ students and connect them to opportunities at Penn. This goes back to the overall objective the office has in evaluating and selecting the applicants. “We’re looking for a diverse class of greatest achievement and promise,” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said. “This is a very methodical, thoughtful, sometimes highly analytical and subjective process, and that’s our responsibility.”

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When admissions officers read early decision applications throughout the next month, they will be keeping an eye for indicators of sexual orientation. Jordan Pascucci, Office of Admissions Associate Dean of Recruitment, specifically trains admissions staff on how to “read” LGBTQ applicants’ applications. Unlike ethnicity, the Common App does not have a section to specify an applicant’s sexual orientation. “As we read an application, we tag students who self-identify as part of the LGBT community or as strong allies,” she said. Contrary to admission staff’s expectation that most of the “tagged” students would be allies, three-fourths of the tagged students are themselves self-identified LGBTQ. In addition to identifying LGBTQ students, Pascucci trains admission officers to be aware of the environment and available resources on campus for LGBTQ students. She also holds additional sessions and fact-checking quizzes on gender-specific knowledge and terms that may be unfamiliar to the officers. Bob Schoenberg, the director of the LGBT center, said that he wants admissions officers also to be aware of more subtle indications of LGBTQ identity in applications. “We realized that there must be applicants who are self-identifying in some ways that we weren’t noticing,” he said. “It is not always as explicit as saying ‘I’m gay.’” When Pascucci first joined

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his father. It was easy for him to feel a sense of detachment from this career since he wasn’t doing it for himself. Instead, he dreamed of making the world better off. Agassi started the Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund, which provides charter schools

wide open” — thinking big but also making his ideas a reality. Both Turner and Agassi also said that an understanding of the market is necessary in order to cure societal problems. When asked about his secret for success, Agassi talked about the power of today. In tennis, focusing on the here and now is beneficial since whatever you do during the game has imme-

diate effects. Even though the business world has less immediate feedback, focusing on today can be helpful, Agassi said. When Agassi was asked about his children, he expressed his pride in his daughter who has shown interest in volunteering for animal shelters. “Your children will learn what you value by how you live.”

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Erasing narratives THE VISION | When participating in political discourse or even casual conversation about race, it’s important to consider what stories are being told

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he black male is considered the quintessential victim of racial violence and discrimination. This man is usually straight, and he is usually cis. The black community and its allies rally behind images of Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown — we rally behind images of black men being lynched, of black men experiencing extreme forms of violence, of black men being disproportionately incarcerated. We use these catastrophic events to talk about inequalities against the black community, and we expect every member in the community to advocate in protest around said events. My issue here is that other narratives are pushed into the background, particularly those of black women and queer and trans people, whose experiences with violence are overlooked in order to aggrandize movements in the name of black men.

Historically speaking, black women have been doers in the fight for human rights. Whether it’s Harriet Tubman freeing slaves through the underground railroad or black mothers creating a movement to protest the

around the internet as a joke. We don’t talk about violence against black trans women like Islan Nettles, who was physically assaulted and later died from her injuries. Her attackers still haven’t been brought to justice.

Queer and gendered narratives are stripped from the black narrative, resulting in a solely heteronormative, male, black narrative, which effectively serves as an act of erasure.” effects of police brutality in Ferguson, black women have been major players in the realm of social change. However, we don’t talk about how women’s bodies are oversexualized and devalued. There is little discussion today about crimes when their victims are people like Jada, a 16-year-old girl who was raped and then made into a meme, her identity and image scattered

Queer and gendered narratives are stripped from the black narrative, resulting in a solely heteronormative, male, black narrative, which effectively serves as an act of erasure. We are expected to drop our identities — identities that interact in ways that open us up to violence that is largely ignored. We are expected to silence our criticisms about our treatment in or-

der to focus our attentions on the struggles of black men. But our queerness shouldn’t only be discussed in LGBTQ spaces, and our womanhood shouldn’t only be discussed in feminine spaces. Due to the inextricable nature of blackness from one’s identity, supplemental aspects of individuality, such as sex and sexuality, are incapable of being unaffected by race. However, our concept of identity has become so compartmentalized that often we have no choice but to use those formalized spaces, even when those spaces ask us to minimize some aspect of our identity. We live in a culture of silence. Most of our discourse centers around the invisibility of the black community on this campus, but the silence about black women and LGBTQ people within the black community is deafening. The silence is deafening when we see and use statistics about police violence

and automatically assign it to black straight men. It’s deafening when we continually have discussions about the effects that racism has on black men but largely neglect the ways in which black women have to deal with both racism and misogyny. It’s deafening when images or mentions of black queerness are met with disgust, discomfort and disbelief as if we’re abnormal, as if heterosexuality is a necessary component of the black experience. We’ve created an exclusionary and fragmented community. My identity is not fragmented. I am black, I am a woman and I am bisexual. My identity cannot be relegated and dissected to occupy certain spaces, nor should it have to be in order to have productive discussions or even a casual conversation. I should not have to feel excluded from the communities that I occupy, yet be expected to unequivocally

THE VISION support every single one of them, when individually they don’t adequately acknowledge my needs. This exclusionary tale is one that needs to be challenged and rectified. Our community isn’t fragmented because we refuse to create one generic narrative — it’s fragmented because we believe that one face can adequately represent us all.

JANAE BROOKS is a College sophomore from Atlanta studying comparative literature. Her email address is janaebro@sas.upenn.edu. “The Vision” is a column for black voices that appears every Wednesday.

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KEEN ON THE TRUTH | Writing seminar isn’t useless, but we should be able to test out if we’ve already developed the skills it teaches

here is probably no single course oncampus that is as profoundly hated as the writing seminar. Organic chemistry plagues the premed, math is feared by many, BEPP is the bane of the Wharton freshman, but the writing seminar is the common enemy of all. What makes the student quarrel with the seminar particularly bitter is the fact that there seems to be little value in its hallmark time-devouring homework assignments. Even those that say the seminar “isn’t that hard” rarely give it a positive review. Some told me that they learned nothing new. Others declared the seminar positively harmed their ability to write. By the time I took Writing Seminar 039 last semester, I was pretty certain I was in for a time-gobbling academic farce. But — with the pragmatic consideration that the writ-

ing seminar, death and taxes are all best approached with a positive attitude — I steeled myself to take notes and smile in class.

To know some kind of structure is better than none at all — even if one’s ideas are a long way from inspired.” The result was not that I came to love the writing seminar, but I did, at least, receive an A in the course and the dubious honor of publication in 3808. Near the end of the semester, I asked my professor why I’d written a 1,500word “explanatory essay” that monotonously compared the opinions of three or four different last names on the cause of WWI. He explained to me

that the exercises in the writing seminar trained us in the skills that a diversity of professors considered necessary for more advanced writing. My explanatory essay, for example, was similar in structure to the first half of a typical doctoral thesis in his field. At first I found this encouraging, but I couldn’t help wondering later on how many of the people in my class were likely to get a doctorate in the humanities. And the explanatory essay was just one of many assignments we faced. What about the inane daily post, the summary and outlining, the justificatory essay? The fact is that good writing is not predominately about following Nestorian order or ensuring your thesis is one sentence long and at the end of your introductory paragraph. Variations on these simple structures have been used to good effect by brilliant thinkers, but — as Professor Re-

becca Schuman wittily pointed out in a Slate article — all the structure-driven exercises in the world can’t make good an essay written with 45 borrowed minutes of sexting time from 3 to 4 a.m. The writing seminar — like any other structure-driven course — tends to distract students from writing well because they assume (correctly, to some extent) that they can “get the grade” by putting three invalid points in Nestorian order or by ensuring that their patently ludicrous thesis isn’t bifurcated. At the same time, they are sure to receive a gentle reprimand if they become excited about their topic (like I did at one point) and start writing outside of the box. The solution to this problem — in my opinion — is bifurcated. On the one hand, students who were never taught to summarize what they read in their own words or to separate

their ideas into reasons and support them with facts, might find the writing seminar valuable. To know some kind of structure is better than none at all — even if one’s ideas are a long way from inspired. But many students came to Penn already highly familiar with these techniques. Such students should be allowed to test out of the writing seminar, just as they might test out of Math 104. More advanced courses in which professors assume the ability to “make three points” and demand that students produce “good points well made” are likely to do more for the average freshman than the writing seminar. Most students at Penn — it seems — consider the writing seminar a waste from the outset and consequently, close their minds to doing any real writing when they take it. They learn precisely nothing. While theoretically they might have learned some-

JEREMIAH KEENAN thing if they’d had a better attitude, there was very little in the writing seminar to encourage them to do so. Such students needed a different course — a course that would challenge them to do real critical thinking and grade them on the basis of clarity and insight.

JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College sophomore from China studying mathematics. His email address is jkeenan@sas.upenn.edu. “Keen on the Truth” appears every Wednesday.

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Penn professor wins $1.7 million grant to study childhood obesity DIA SOTIROPOULOU Contributing Writer

Even to the uninitiated, a research grant to the tune of $1.7 million from the National Institute of Health seems like a striking accomplishment. Nursing professor Tanja Kral and two collaborators recently received this money to study genetic predisposition to obesity in children, which affects nearly 20 percent of kids in the United States today. Kral, biostatistician Renee Moore of North Carolina State University and nutritionist Jennifer Orlet Fisher of Temple University have created lab-based experiments involving groups of seven to nine-year-old children. The eating behaviors of obese

children with a genetic predisposition for obesity will be compared to the eating behaviors of lean children without a similar genetic predisposition. The scientists will look at the extent to which the groups’ eating behaviors resemble each other in order to create ways to identify children at great risk of becoming overweight. The process was a highly collaborative one. Fisher, the interim director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple, took charge of the recruitment and enrollment of subjects, and Moore helped conceive testable hypotheses and randomized experimental conditions, in addition to collecting and analyzing data. “[The grant proposal] was a lot of work to put together,” Moore

said. “We were always holding our fingers crossed.” Kral incorporated a substantial amount of data from pilot studies into her proposal. Moore also encourages students to seek opportunities to assist in research projects, simply by getting in touch with researchers and asking “how [to] help out.”

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Engagement Prizes. The prizes — which will provide students with up to $150,000 to develop a project that engages either the local, national or global community after their senior year — were initially closed off to LPS students. Beyond advocacy, LPSSA also helps LPS students feel part of the larger Penn community. When Burns went to a football game with fellow LPS students and discovered that many of them did not know Penn’s “The Red and Blue” anthem, he decided to bring in members of the Penn Marching Band to LPSSA’s October meeting to teach students the tradition. Events like this also contribute to increasing LPS students’

presence on campus, Burns said. There’s a general perception on campus that LPS students are all part-time students, Burns added, but he hopes that raising awareness about LPSSA will help correct that perception, as a lot of LPS students take a full schedule of classes. Anna Carapellotti, an LPS senior, is currently a full-time student studying cognitive science, having enrolled after her six-year career as a professional ballerina. She decided to join LPSSA to better connect with other LPS students. According to Urban, Burns, and Carapellotti, the LPSSA has already made a meaningful impact on the LPS student experience. “The first time I went to an LPSSA meeting…it inspired me to speak up and to get involved more,” Carapellotti said.

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Most lawyers don’t quit their jobs to become pot dealers. But Eddie Huang, who later became a successful chef, writer and comedian, is not interested in what’s typical or expected. Huang, who spoke at the Revolutionthemed Asian Pacific American Heritage Week, wants to challenge Asian-American stereotypes. Huang started off by encourag-

ing the audience to understand that the dominant culture is not always right. In an honest yet profane and funny way, he emphasized that every race is important to the human ecosystem even though he questioned his Asian-American heritage as a kid. “I was a total alien,” Huang said of his experience in school. For lunch, he had noodles and pork buns. Even though he was often bullied, he did not want to give up his identity to fit into the dominant culture in America. “I was not going to change myself for America,” Huang said. After college, he worked in a law firm, but he did not feel like

he belonged. He wanted to change how Americans see race. He quit working at the law firm to sell drugs but stopped. “I could not be reactionary when I am in the minority. It proves that the dominant culture owns you,” Huang said. He got into stand-up comedy and talked about how he found his voice in hip-hop and black culture. One day, he sent in a recipe to the Food Network. He appeared on the network, received third place and fell in love with cooking. Against his parents’ wishes, he opened Baohaus in New York City, specializing in Taiwanese-style pork buns.

“I knew food was my ticket because it gave me a platform to make good Chinese food and express my American identity,” Huang said. Now, he is a producer of Fresh Off the Boat, a show on ABC that is based off his book and on his experience as a Chinese-American growing up. “He’s an inspiration for AsianAmericans aspiring to be in media,” Wharton sophomore Rochelle Dong said. College freshman Anissa Lee, who’d seen videos of Huang online, enjoyed hearing him live. “He 73408 manages to strike this balance between humor and serious insight really well.”

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tastic supporting cast and freshman forward Michelle Nwokedi will enter the fray as well. The Red and Blue certainly have the talent to repeat atop the Ancient Eight. Princeton The Tigers saw their streak of Ivy championships end at four when they lost last year’s season finale to Penn, but they will look to claw back and regain the top billing this season. Princeton boasts the league’s best backcourt, thanks to guards Blake Dietrick, a senior, and junior Michelle Miller. Junior forward Alex Wheatley gives the Tigers some firepower in the frontcourt as well, and it’s safe to assume that coach CourtJOSHUA NG/DP FILE PHOTO ney Banghart’s recruits will — as Senior guard Renee Busch will be counted on once again to counter hot-shooting always — make a difference. teams like Princeton with her abilities from three-point range. The Challengers Harvard The Crimson will be hard-pressed leader Christine Clark, but senior scorer and was the league’s top reto replace their graduated scoring forward Temi Fagbenle is a solid bounder last season. Harvard had

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the second-best offense in the league last year, but if the Crimson are hoping to challenge Penn and Princeton, they’ll have to step it up on the defensive end. Yale The Bulldogs only have one senior on this year’s roster, but fortunately for Yale, captain Sarah Halejian happens to be one of the best players around, and the star guard has back-to-back first-team All-Ivy honors to prove it. The Bulldogs probably lack the depth and experience to truly compete for an Ivy title, but they have a very good shot at ending up in the top half. Maybe Next Year Cornell The Big Red graduated three of their top four scorers, including their star forward Allyson DiMagno. Sophomore Nia Marshall is a terrific forward who will make a lot of big

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large a transition in terms of actual play on the court — Stipanovich was seeing large minutes by the end of the last year – the sophomore will certainly shoulder more of the offensive burden. “I think having a year under my belt and that experience will really help a lot,” Stipanovich said. “Having those tough games like the Texas game at the end of the year, each game I learned and progressed a bit more.” The Quakers will open the season with an even tougher game against a Tennessee squad that is ranked No. 4 in the preseason polls. With that game and a slate of other tough nonconference matches looming, Stipanovich will have plenty of opportunities to continue to progress. The sophomore spent most of her offseason honing her offensive skills, yet it was her strong defense that made her such a force in Ivy League play. The reigning Ivy League defensive player of the year will look to continue to make her presence felt throughout the season. Among Stipanovich’s goals for the upcoming season are improving her defensive positioning and working on becoming a better defensive backbone for the team. A large part of that improvement will be continuing to grow as a defensive leader. “She’s just going to lead because of who she is. It’s very clear that she has tremendous talent,” McLaughlin said. “She’s a player people are going to follow anyway.” Will Stipanovich be ready to take on a larger role after a stellar freshman year? For McLaughlin, the answer is simple. “I think she’s ready. Her personality is going to allow her not to be phased.”

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a lasting effect on the program. Early on, the freshman only saw minutes off the bench, primarily due to the pair of juniors — Katy Allen and Kara Bonenberger — entrenched in the starting roles. As the season progressed, it became more and more evident to the coaching staff that Stipanovich needed an increased role. “She didn’t sneak up on us. She’s really good,” McLaughlin said of Stipanovich’s changing role throughout the season. “We had to get her minutes increased and I couldn’t do it unless I started her.” The 6-foot-3 center was dominant throughout the season, putting up 12.0 points, 8.3 rebounds and 3.4 blocks per game. Stipanovich set the program record for blocks in a season with 99 — 27 more than the next best season by a Penn player. Yet while Stipanovich put together a strong season, she would be the first to admit that it was far from perfect. “I can improve in a lot of spots. This offseason I worked on getting my shot off quicker and post-up moves,” Stipanovich said. “Also just quickness and agility, that’s something that I’m always working towards.” Earlier in the offseason the sophomore missed some practice time and the team’s Red and Blue scrimmage with a back injury, but Stipanovich seems optimistic about her ability to play throughout the season with some physical therapy. And now as the team’s top returning scorer and arguably best player, Stipanovich will be expected to help lead this team throughout the season. While it may not be quite as

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want to make sure that even if we’re not playing our best at the time, we are there for the rest of the team.” Each of the four captains this year brings a different style to the table. Busch described herself as “more of a lead-byexample, work hard and try and do things the right way kind of person.” The other three have their own ways of contributing to the team. “I definitely think Kara is our silent killer,” Busch said. “She’s going to go hard every drill, in the weight room. She’s not going to be late for any workouts. “Kathleen and Katy are definitely a little bit more vocal. Kathleen gets us organized with team-building stuff. She’s the one who thinks of doing a team dinner the week before our first practice.” Allen is the loudest person during practice when encouraging the team, Busch says, a side of her that has developed since she came to Penn. “I came in being a little bit quieter,” Allen said. “Once it comes to being on the court, I speak up a little bit more, especially on the defensive end.” The Quakers didn’t choose their captains arbitrarily. In fact, the team decided on its captains in a little bit of an unorthodox manner. Each player got two votes and had to explain their vote to the coaches, who ultimately chose the team’s formal leaders. “I think it is important to the way we run the program,” McLaughlin said. “We want these girls to step up into leadership roles.”

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After missing the final stretch of Penn’s Ivy title run with a foot injury, senior forward Katy Allen is back and is looking as strong as ever. The 6-foot-1 inside presence started 13 games for the Quakers in 2013-14 and shot 46.7% from the floor.

“It’s been a huge honor,” Busch added. “It almost means a little bit more that your peers voted for you and it is something I’m very proud of, especially being part of the team for all four years.” McLaughlin was highly complimentary of his senior leaders and mentioned how they had made sacrifices and become selfless for the good of the team. Late last season, Allen was a shining example of that selflessness. She suffered a season-ending foot injury with five games left in Penn’s regular season. However, she remained an active member of the team, cheering her teammates on and helping her

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Ever since he came to Penn, coach Mike McLaughlin has always had a freshman standout in each of his recruiting classes. Whether it was Alyssa Baron, Kara Bonenberger or, just last year, Sydney Stipanovich, one of the firstyear players has had a big role for the Red and Blue. This season, the freshman class as a whole will be playing a big role from the opening tip on Nov. 14 in Tennessee. The Quakers have four freshmen on this year’s squad, with guards Anna Ross and Beth Brzozowski figuring to see time in the backcourt while Lauren Whitlatch and Michelle Nwokedi add to Penn’s already strong depth in the frontcourt. Due to the graduation of Alyssa Baron and Meghan McCullough, each of whom started every game in the backcourt, the Red and Blue will be looking to their younger players to take over ball-handling duties. McLaughlin expects Ross to be the point guard to begin the season while sophomore Melanie Lockett will also take on a big role at guard after playing limited minutes off the bench last season. Brzozowski may take some minutes after playing a prominent role at the Red and Blue scrimmage. “Right now, we’ve been going with Anna Ross … who’s done well, who’s shown signs every day of understanding the college game,” McLaughlin said. “We scrimmaged the other day and played against extremely athletic teams. As the game went on, she began to adapt to the game much better. Hopefully she’ll be able to do that quicker as she gets more experience.” While McCullough was one of Penn’s definitive leaders last season

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in more of a distributing role, Ross is “a different type of player than Meghan,” according to McLaughlin. The 5-foot-8 guard has been more of an attacking point guard and has been touted for her driving ability. The only thing that may hold Ross back at first is her inexperience, an inherent issue for a freshman. “Her biggest weakness right now is what she doesn’t know,” McLaughlin said. “She does have the ability. I see her having a nice career here at Penn and it is going to start right out of the gate.” In the post, Nwokedi will also have a role from the opening tip, as she was the first forward off the bench for the Quakers during their most recent scrimmage. Though Bonenberger (illness) and Stipanovich (back) were out for the game, Nwokedi will be behind them going forward in the lineup, making her mark in fewer minutes. “With Michelle, everything is new, but it is nice to have a solid group of post players that she can come into,” senior captain and for-

ward Katy Allen said. “And it’s not like we have a bunch of new forwards. It’s nice to be able to add a few.” Though Nwokedi will be playing right away, Whitlatch may have to wait for playing time. Normally a guard, Whitlatch has played a bit of forward to help fill in for Penn’s injured forwards. “I think she’s got a bright future,” McLaughlin said. “She might have to be patient a little bit, let her body stretch a little bit. But I like what she is doing.” No matter what role each player ultimately takes on, each will have to make the tough adjustment to NCAA hoops. “Coach always talks about the pace of the college game being different from high school,” senior captain Renee Busch said. “[It is important to] set the example in individual workouts, practice, going hard against them so they aren’t shocked when they get into a game.” No matter the leadership surrounding this new class, it might not be much of an adjustment period.

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Big 5 games, No. 4 Tennessee highlight 2014-15 schedule BY TOM NOWLAN Associate Sports Editor Last year, Penn women’s basketball proved it was the best team in the Ivy League. This year, the Red and Blue will put their skills to the test against some of the best teams in the entire country, facing a strong schedule fit for the defending Ivy champions. The Quakers will not have to wait very long to face their most formidable opponent of the 2014-15 season. For its season opener on Nov. 14, Penn will head south to take on Tennessee, the No. 4 team in the nation. “It’s definitely a challenge right out of the gate,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “But hopefully some of the [experienced players] we have back will help us going into the game.” The Lady Volunteers, winners of 16 SEC championships and eight national titles, have qualified for the Women’s NCAA Tournament in all 33 years of its existence. Last season, the Lady Vols earned a No. 1 seed in the tournament before being upset by Maryland in the regional semifinals. “We’ll be playing against one of the most talented teams in the country,” McLaughlin said, “but we’ll prepare, and we’ll be excited to get things started for sure.” Senior captain Renee Busch SEE SCHEDULE PAGE B4

Sophomore center looking to take on larger role and build on strong first year BY HOLDEN McGINNIS Sports Editor It’s hard to have a freshman season better than Sydney Stipanovich’s last year. There were individual awards (a long list of them), statistical milestones and,

best of all, an Ivy League title. her fit needs to be a little bit bigger.” “She came into a good situation [last From the start of last season, it was year] with experienced kids above her. apparent that Stipanovich would have She was the missing piece for that group,” SEE STIPANOVICH PAGE B5 coach Mike McLaughlin said. “And now

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he view is different from the top. And it’s been quite a few years since Penn women’s basketball has had that perspective. Starting the season predicted to tie atop the Ivy League with Princeton, one might expect the Quakers to have a bit of a different approach. After all, this is far from the same team that celebrated their Ivy League title on the Tigers’ home court in the spring. Gone are the days of Alyssa Baron, who went down as one of the greatest players in program history. Meghan McCullough, Courtney Wilson and Kristen Kody aren’t going to come walking through the door. The party is over. Last year was last year. Now comes a new era. And Penn has the same approach. The team is still led by a core of senior captains able to contribute on and off the court with a unique variety of leadership styles. There’s still the same intensity in practice and a humility that drives the team onward. Sophomore Sydney Stipanovich, the reigning Ivy League Defensive Player and Rookie of the

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Year, still stands tall at center. On paper, the roster still has the same level of talent, perhaps even more. Coach Mike McLaughlin continues to bring in better and better recruiting classes, and this year appears to be more of the same. Yet every season is its own battle, and Penn has its fair share of challenges awaiting it. It begins with the first game. It’s safe to say there are very few, if any, teams in the country that would match up favorably at No. 4 Tennessee, and the Quakers certainly aren’t an exception. The early season schedule has the potential to force Penn into a slow start, but that’s to be ex-

pected. The real season begins with Ivy League play, and by the time the Quakers make it through their nonconference schedule, they’ll have worked out some of the kinks. In terms of the roster, guard play will be the biggest question mark throughout the season. With Baron and McCullough gone, McLaughlin needs to find ways to fill the void at the guard spots and fast. Freshmen Anna Ross and Beth Brzozowski will see their fair share of minutes at the point, but over the years it has proven diﬃcult to win the league with freshmen just due to the issue of inexperience alone. Yet across the rest of the roster,

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experience abounds. McLaughlin has a pair of senior wings in Kathleen Roche and Renee Busch and plenty of talented bigs from Stipanovich and Kara Bonenberger to Michelle Nwokedi and Sade Gibbons. With the wealth of forwards, McLaughlin will have the ability to push opponents with three forward lineups, using senior Katy Allen — whose shooting ability lets her stretch the floor — at the three. Even with just two forwards, the thought of Stipanovich and Nwokedi guarding the rim is rather intimidating. The experience at the wings SEE McGINNIS PAGE B3

Seniority rules for Penn captains Four senior captains bring different styles to leadership roles BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor Penn women’s basketball’s second all-time leading scorer Alyssa Baron is gone. So are Meghan McCullough, Courtney Wilson and Kristen Kody — the other three captains of the 2013-14 Ivy League champions. But don’t think for a second that the Red and Blue will be lacking leadership. The Quakers’ four seniors — forwards Katy Allen and Kara Bonenberger along with guards Renee Busch and Kathleen Roche — have been named the captains for the 2014-15 season and plan on carrying the torch from last year’s successful group. Each of the four seniors played a big role for last year’s Ivy winning squad: Bonenberger started every game and was a force in the post. Roche was Penn’s dependable three-guard. Allen settled in as coach Mike McLaughlin’s first player off the bench. And Busch was the big-time three-point shooter that could change games in an instant. But the group also knows that leading isn’t just about on-the-court performance. “[Last year’s captains] were always there for the team,” Allen said. “I, and I’m sure the rest of the seniors, SEE CAPTAINS PAGE B5 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640