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Dropping below four courses can prevent students from participating in Greek life OLIVIA SYLVESTER Senior Reporter

When a Penn student finds four courses in a semester overwhelming, many can choose to drop a class. However, for some students, there can be serious repercussions to doing so.

Taking a reduced course load can prevent students from applying to join Greek life, participating in varsity sports and in some instances, maintaining their visa status.

College senior Haley Mankin took three courses during both semesters of her freshman year. As someone who has chronic migraine syndrome, Mankin was homeschooled for most of high school and thought the transition would be easier with three courses.

Mankin said taking three classes allowed her to begin her Penn experience on a positive note. She added that “[this] last class can make everything harder,” especially those struggling from mental or physical health problems.

“Coming to college was already a big step as it is to everyone,” Mankin said. “It really wasn’t a question. First semester, three courses felt like a lot. I was able to do that and be academically successful.”

But not all students feel like they are able to drop a course.

For international students, taking less than four courses each semester can threaten their immigration status, said President of the Assembly of International Students and Engineering senior Dhruv Agarwal.

The Penn Global website states that students who “cannot meet the full-time requirement” of four course units will need to complete a request for a Reduced Course Load.

“Dropping below full-time without an RCL is considered an unauthorized drop, which will endanger your immigration status,” the site states.

Agarwal said most students he knew personally who have taken less than four credits have applied and been approved for an RCL, but added that from his personal experience, most academic advisors are not aware of this four course requirement for international students.

Students not taking at least four classes can also be excluded from participating in Greek life.

If a Penn student is planning to rush an on-campus sorority

CAIRO: Penn students were abroad in Cairo when protests broke out in 2011.

BARCELONA: Students were evacuated from Barcelona after protests broke out in Catalonia last month.

HAVANA: In response to Hurricane Irma, Penn abroad moved students from Havana to Merida, Mexico.

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s political unrest in the Catalonia region continues to develop, Penn Abroad has had to keep a tight watch on the safety and security of students studying abroad in Barcelona.

Catalonia, which is a region in northeastern Spain, has been vying for independence for years. This is partly due to regional discontent between the relatively wealthy region of Catalonia and the less affluent Spanish provinces, said Chair of Penn’s Political Science Department Anne Norton in an emailed statement.

Last month, after Catalonian leaders held a controversial referendum to gain independence from Spain, violence broke out on the street of Barcelona. The Spanish po-

lice yanked protesters from polls, beating many of them and launching rubber bullets into crowds. The regional government was deposed after the unilateral vote, which has sparked protests in Catalonia against what many see as the Spanish government’s suppression of their regional independence.

While the Penn students in the region have remained safe despite the violent incidents that have sprung up around the city, Penn Abroad has been working closely with risk assessment services at Penn and its study abroad implementing partner, the Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad, to ensure this continues to be the case.

“It’s obviously been a pretty hectic time,” said College junior Adam Tashman,

who is currently studying abroad in Barcelona. “I think it’s hard, especially for Penn and our program, to gauge what’s going on, because nobody really knows, and it changes every day … It’s mostly just strikes and large gatherings in the street to shut everything down.”

Associate Director of Advising & Enrollment at Penn Abroad Kristyn Palmiotto said the students were evacuated from Barcelona to Peñíscola, a town south of Catalonia, from Oct. 1 to Oct. 3, when a general strike occurred and all universities were closed. The students missed a total of four days during which classes were held.

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Patients unaware of treatment teams behind the scenes at CAPS Typically, teams of six to eight treat each student KELLY HEINZERLING Staff Reporter

Counseling and Psychological Services at Penn is composed of approximately 35 staff members — psychologists, social workers, postdoctoral students, interns, and prescribers — who are organized into five treatment teams of six to eight members. These groups meet weekly to discuss any problems that may surface on any team member’s student cases.

While other universities often employ similar staff structures, students are not always told that these treatment teams exist. Consequently, they are not aware that the personal information they share with their therapists often extends past their private sessions and into the teams’ weekly meetings.

Although every senior staff

member of CAPS staff is licensed to practice in the state of Pennsylvania, the team system allows postdoctoral students and interns at CAPS who do not have that license to sit in on and contribute to conversations relating to students’ treatment.

In addition, these treatment teams are reshuffled every three years, sometimes forcing students to switch psychiatrists.

Some students say that information surrounding this team system needs to be made more accessible, particularly because it has direct implications on the way they understand their own treatment. This is also not the first time that students have called for CAPS to improve its communication to the student body.

CAPS provides referral services to students over the summer, though many have indicated that they are not aware of this. Similarly, CAPS rep-

resentatives have said that students have the ability to extend their treatment if they want to, though many have said that they were referred out of CAPS against their will and did not know that they could choose otherwise.

Why these treatment teams exist “The teams at CAPS are structured so that each member brings a different area of expertise to the conversation,” CAPS Director Bill Alexander said. “There is typically one person on team who can prescribe medicine, one psychiatrist, and one clinician. This was designed to improve the care that the student receives,” Alexander said.

“It’s very important in medicine that the prescriber and therapist are in close collaboration and consultation about the student,” he said. “That can happen most easily if the prescriber has to collaborate with

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a fewer number of therapists.”

The weekly team meetings are also a chance for staff to brainstorm treatment options and have others weigh in on clinical decisions.

“It’s a chance for the team to sit down together and say here are the issues we’re dealing with with the clients on our team,” Alexander said of the weekly meetings. “It’s like a mini cross-section of CAPS.” Engineering sophomore Katie Waltman, who received treatment from CAPS last year, said she has still never heard of the treatment team structure before. She expressed concern that her privacy might not have been preserved if a team of CAPS staff were discussing her treatment.

“People think that they’re having a very private conversation when they see someone like a therapist or psychologist,” Waltman said. “But looking [at the] bigger picture, I

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“The teams at CAPS are structured so that each member brings a different area of expertise … ” CAPS Director Bill Alexander said.

guess they’re looking out for you and they’re trying to discuss the best possible options for you.”

Waltman, who is a Daily Pennsylvanian staff member, added that she wished there was more transparency in how CAPS is organized.

“I think it would be nice if

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they were more upfront about their whole team system,” Waltman said. “It’s a little odd.”

Alexander said that the team structure is typical for counseling centers at other universities, though representatives at Counseling and Psychological SEE CAPS PAGE 9

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UA and SCUE to stan- U. holds office hours to dardize advising quality address event regulations Some students have never met with their advisors

The hourlong sessions happen every Friday

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In 2014, nearly half of Penn students indicated in a survey that they were dissatisfied with pre-major advising and close to a third indicated that they were dissatisfied with their major advisors. The results of this survey prompted the College Office to work with the Dean’s Advisory Board to improve the system in 2015, but three years on, student accounts suggest that advising experiences continue to vary.

Nursing senior Mariah Webb said she has never met her academic advisor. During her freshman year, she spoke once with her advisor over the phone, but since then has only been able to reach her by email because she is an online teacher who is based in New Jersey.

Wharton freshman Will Castner, a new student representative in the Undergraduate Assembly, said he did not receive information from his cohort advisor about registration prior to the start of the fall semester and had to rely on information provided by other cohort members.

Last semester, College senior Miru Osuga reached out to her academic advisor to raise her course limit by half a credit.

Her adviser did not respond to her emails, so she visited him in person, upon which she was informed that she was no longer his advisee. He forwarded her onto a major advisor who ultimately did not have the power to change her schedule either.

“I guess the biggest problem for me was that I really did not get any academic support from these spaces,” Osuga said. “We have so many advisers but their roles are not necessary super clear, which means that the student do not

The implementation of recommendations from Penn’s Task Force for a Safe and Responsible Campus Community has left many students confused and unsure about how to navigate these new policies.

Among other policies, all student groups, both on and off campus, now have to abide by a series of University-set regulations when organizing social events.

Failure to comply could result in Penn Police shutting them down.

This has included small non-alcoholic gatherings and even philanthropic events.

To address ongoing student concerns over what kinds of events the University is actually targeting, two administrative departments have begun hosting “office hours,” though various student leaders have said that they were not aware of these sessions.

The Division of Public Safety and the Vice Provost for University Life began hosting hourlong sessions every Friday at 11 a.m. this semester to address student concerns about the extended rules on Penn social gatherings.

The newest event regulations, which were expanded as a result of the task force earlier this year, require that all hosts register events with the University and take extra precautions at events with alcohol, which include hiring an approved bartender and security guards.

Event monitors, who are tasked with identifying parties violating the regulations, have also begun patrolling campus on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.

These hourlong sessions are meant to address questions about the event registration process and

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“Where we see a disconnect is a matter of communication between advisors and students in terms of what advisors think students want and what students actually want,” said UA Vice President Jay Shah.

know either. It’s not really advising, it’s administrating.”

But other students have had more positive experiences. College junior Caitlin Howell, who is currently on a leave of absence, said she regularly corresponds with her academic advisor about her mental health, academics, and post-graduation plans.

“Penn can feel very impersonal, and it definitely feels like the administration kind of doesn’t care about individual students,” Howell said. “But he’s one of the only people that I have communicated with at Penn that I felt that actually cared about my well-being.”

Senior Director of Wharton Advising Scott Romeika said he recognizes that students’ exposure to the advising system can often vary.

“I’m sure there is some disconnect somewhere. I do not know to what extent or if there is any pattern to that,” he said.

Recently, members of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education administered a

survey to undergraduate students to better understand experiences with the current advising system.

Depending on the results of the SCUE survey, members of the Undergraduate Assembly plan to lobby for administrative change.

“Where we see a disconnect is a matter of communication between advisors and students in terms of what advisors think students want and what students actually want,” said Jay Shah, UA vice president and College junior.

“There are tons of ways to solve that problem so the more people we have thinking about that problem the more possible solutions we can get.”

Dean of Freshmen and Director of Academic Advising for the College, Janet Tighe, initially declined a request for comment, explaining that her schedule was busy as a result of advance registration. She responded to a second request for comment on Nov. 6 at 8:29 a.m., offering to speak at 8:30 a.m., but did not respond to further messages asking for other availabilities.

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The Division of Public Safety and Vice Provost for University Life host weekly meetings to address new restrictions on Penn social gatherings.

policies. They take place at DPS headquarters, 4040 Chestnut Street, and are open to all students, according to a statement from DPS and VPUL. Interested groups must RSVP to attend the office hours by emailing DPS in advance with specific questions.

Undergraduate Assembly President and College senior Michelle Xu said the UA has been posting about the information sessions on their social media, and as of Nov. 8, the group had posted two reminders about this on their Facebook page.

Despite this, various student groups have said they were not aware that these sessions existed.

Alpha Chi Rho President and College junior Luis Hernandez Magro said he had never heard of these information sessions.

Pi Kappa Alpha President and Wharton senior Nico DeLuna also said that although he attended informational events about the event guidelines from the Interfraternity Council, he was not aware that the University was hosting “office hours.”

He also said he would likely not need to attend the sessions. DeLuna, who is the IFC vice president of new member education and recruitment, said that if he had a question about event registration, he would likely reach out to the IFC first.

Captain of West Philly Swingers and College junior Nicholas Cruickshank also said that his group was not aware of the office hours and did not intend to utilize them.

Panhellenic Council President and College senior Caroline Ohlson said, “I’m happy to see that the administration is making themselves available to talk to students, though I think a lot of students aren’t aware that these office hours exist or when and where to go for them.”

Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs Hikaru Kozuma declined an initial request for comment. He directed a second request for comment to a joint statement from VPUL and DPS that had previously been sent to The Daily Pennsylvanian, and declined to comment further.

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ED deadline extended for natural disaster victims

Affected students have until Nov. 10 to apply HARRY TRUSTMAN Copy Editor

In light of a series of natural disasters, Penn extended its Early Decision application deadline from Nov. 1 to Nov. 10 for students in affected regions, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda wrote in an email.

In addition to accepting late applications, Penn Admissions announced on its website that they would waive application fees for students who have been financially impacted by these disasters.

They also plan to be flexible with the timeframe for receiving materials such as transcripts and letters of recommendation, according to the website.

Helen Rosenbrien, a Pennsylvania-native who applied to Penn ED, said she first heard of the extension when looking at the Penn Admissions homepage in early October. She added that not many of her peers seemed to be aware of this extension.

College junior Cristina Arruza

said the news that Penn would be flexible in accepting letters of recommendation came as a great relief to her sister Patricia, who applied ED to Penn and lives in Puerto Rico.

Cristina said she was lucky that her family owned a power generator, but many of her sister’s peers were stuck without any power and internet access in their homes. Patricia’s high school still does not have internet.

“I think it was really important [to extend the deadline],” Cristina said. “I know some of her friends still hadn’t done the essay, so they had that extra week and a half to do them … Those extra days really help.”

Although Patricia already had her application essays drafted before Hurricane Maria struck, her school was unable to send Patricia’s transcripts and letters of recommendation by the Nov. 1 deadline. All materials had to be sent by mail.

Some Ivy League institutions have offered similar extensions.

Similar to Penn, Yale University and Cornell University extended early admissions deadlines for

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College junior Cristina Arruza, who is from Puerto Rico, said “I know some of [my sister’s] friends still hadn’t done the essay, so they had that extra week and a half to do them …Those extra days really help.”

affected students to Nov. 10. Columbia University and Dartmouth College extended their deadlines to Nov. 15.

Harvard University and Princeton University have not officially extended early deadlines, but did invite affected students to personally contact the admissions offices

to request extensions. Brown University’s website did not indicate that its deadline has been extended.

In 2012, Penn also extended the deadline for all ED applicants to Nov. 6, following Hurricane Sandy, and contacted all students via email.

How the University’s crackdown on social events affects graduate students Many group leaders are unaware of new policies MANLU LIU Staff Reporter

The University’s implementation of new polices regulating social events has sparked confusion and discontent from the undergraduate community, but for most graduate students, event planning has been business as usual. In fact, various graduate student leaders have said that they have been completely unaware of the new proposals to change the regulations surrounding graduate student social events.

On Sept. 22, the Provost Office released a document outlining proposed changes to Penn’s Alcohol and Drug Policies.

In the document the proposed changes were coded in red and the existing polices were coded in black. These proposals, which were created by Penn’s Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community, included a section specifically addressing social events held by graduate and professional student organizations.

If approved by the Provost Office in December, these regulations would stipulate that graduate and professional students register all of their organizations’ events with administrators in their home school. When hosting events on campus, they would also have to seek approval from the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives.

Executive Director for Education and Academic Planning Rob Nelson said the initial guidelines failed to clarify which rules applied to graduate students and that the new proposals only intend to formalize the procedures that graduate student groups have already been following.

“I don’t know if there’s anything major on campus that’s

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On Sept. 22, the Provost’s Office released proposed changes to alcohol and drug policies, with a section for graduate students.

going to change because of the section on graduate and professional students,” Nelson said.

Although undergraduate students have responded to the possible changes with confusion and concern, various graduate students said they were completely unaware of the new regulations.

Andrew Gunn, the Vice President of Social for the graduate student government of the School of Arts and Sciences SASgov said he has assumed that the policies governing social events are the same as those from previous years. Gunn, who is a PhD student in Earth and Environmental Science, said that this semester, he has planned and executed two on campus events for around 200 graduate students, both of which included alcohol.

He booked a room and security guards for the events, and other organizers booked bartenders from the University-approved list. Gunn said these procedures have been followed by previous VPs of Social for on campus events in past years.

Gunn added that although he has adhered to University guidelines while organizing the event, he was not informed of the newest set of proposed policy changes outlined in the document dated Oct. 19, and was concerned

that he was not fully-informed on these new policies.

He also expressed frustration that at one of his events, the AOD briefed the bartenders to fill each glass with only two ounces of wine, but failed to tell him about this before the event.

He said that this limit made the apartment less enjoyable because attendees had to wait in long lines to refill their glasses.

Chair of SP2 Student Government Rebecca Weingarten, who is pursuing her masters in social policy, said the only recent change around event regulations that she was familiar with was a switch in the portal used to book University-approved bartenders.

This was not one of the proposals outlined in the document.

When Weingarten planned the SP2 Student Government Kickoff Party on Sept. 1, the bartender she booked cancelled three days before the event because of the new portal.

“I’m very wary of the new system.” Weingarten said. “[It] is more of a hassle in that we had a rapport with the bartenders that were available through the old system.”

Gunn, Weingarten and Social Chair of the Graduate Student Engineering Group Meghna Gummadi all said they were not aware of the proposed changes to

the AOD Policies announced on Sept. 22.

Graduate and Professional Student Assembly President and third-year Design and School of Arts and Sciences professional master’s student Miles Owen said he received an email from the Provost Office and the Vice Provost of University Life with the policy revisions and was instructed to disseminate them to graduate students.

“There will be a little more awareness that [graduate student events] have the proper security and the right sober people. It just adds another level of safety to the events,” Owen said. “But I don’t think [the policies] will fundamentally change anything.”

He added that GAPSA’s executive board is reviewing the language of the policies to ensure that they will work well for graduate students.

“We’ve all been to the big undergrad parties, but that for me is ten years ago.” Owen said. “Grad students do like to go out but... we already have the systems in place to take care of things when they get out of hand.”

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1986 Wharton graduate Laurie Kopp Weingarten, the director and co-founder of One Stop College Counseling, praised Penn’s decision to extend the deadline and said this type of action is not unprecedented. She noted that in the past, Penn has offered deadline extensions to applicants on a case-

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or fraternity, they must have at least four courses on their Penn transcript, according to the website of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life.

“The reason the rule is in place is that each advising office understands that rush can create real academic challenges for students,” Executive Director for Education and Academic Planning Rob Nelson said. “We want to make sure that going into that process, the student is making adequate academic progress.”

For student athletes, the National Collegiate Athletics Association’s rules state that in order to be eligible, a student athlete must take a full-time course load. Rachel Hiller, Penn’s Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance, said the NCAA sets certain thresholds that student athletes must meet each year in order to maintain eligibility. These include the expectation to take a full course load.

College junior Reeham Sedky, a member of the women’s squash team, said that she although she

by-case basis.

“There’ve been cases of not even natural disasters like this, but somebody was about to apply and there was a death in the family,” Weingarten said. “Penn has always been great about making those individual extensions.”

Brian Taylor, the managing director of college counseling service the Ivy Coach, said the deadline extensions does not provide students with an unfair advantage.

“They’ve had several months to put together their applications,” Taylor said. “Does it help the procrastinator who waited until Oct. 31 to start working on their early application? Sure, but that person’s not going to put together a great application anyway.”

On Oct. 30, the Common Application website was down for several hours, but Furda wrote in an email that the deadline was not extended at that point, “since The Common Application outage was limited in time prior to the deadline,” he wrote.

Furda said that the number of applications that Penn received in the Early Decision round will not be released until after Nov. 10.

has to take at least five credits every semester in order to fulfill the requirements for her computer and information science major, she recognizes the difficulty of balancing a full course load as a student-athlete.

“I’ve heard from kids on my team that four courses are a lot. All of our weekends especially from November to March, we are away. Between catching up with schoolwork or having a midterm next week, it’s hard to get enough sleep to recover from your sport, but also perform well in school,” Sedky said.

Member of Penn Benjamins and Wharton and Nursing junior Sydney Liu agreed, adding that mandatory course requirements often overlook the differences in students’ experiences and circumstances. As a nursing student, she said many of her classes are work-intensive and are not accurately represented by one credit unit. “[This] requirement or the ‘norm’ to take 4 or more classes really contributes to the Penn’s toxic and over competitive environment,” she said.

Senior Sports Editor William Snow contributed reporting.

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The trap of performative activism CAL’S CORNER | When activism becomes more about you than others

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 85 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor REBECCA TAN Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor SARAH FORTINSKY News Editor MADELEINE LAMON News Editor ALLY JOHNSON Assignments Editor

Does the activism we see on campus day in and day out matter?

Activism, by definition, is a set of vigorous actions that supports or opposes a controversial societal or political issue. An activist, then, is a person who advocates for a cause and uses their actions to support a stance.

Across campus, you can see all kinds of activists. We all know someone who has participated in a march, or something similar on campus, for a cause they care about. You may even have someone in your hall who organizes and participates in protests. You may even know someone who plans on dedicating their life to nonprofit work or education.

When I first came to Penn, I remember trying to fit myself into the way Penn defines activism. I cared about criminal justice reform and mass incarceration. I would spend Saturday nights talking about economic inequality with my friends for hours. I would often engage in Facebook discussions about the current political climate and what steps we should and should not be taking. I joined clubs and organizations that embodied the changes I wanted to see in the world.

But because I was super passionate about absolutely everything, I felt like the aims of the clubs I was in didn’t fully reach what I had hoped to change.

I wasn’t actually helping to amend any social issue that I cared about. I was only solving problems inside of the Penn bubble. Like so many others on this campus, I fell into the trap of performative activism.

Performative activism shares articles about gentrification in urban areas, but crosses the street when a homeless person walks towards them on the sidewalk. Performative activism wears a safety pin to support black lives, but refuses to integrate black students into their club. Performative activism is a man liking posts of the hashtag #MeToo while refusing to talk to his friends about sexual assault. It’s flashy, it’s public, it’s easy, and it’s fulfilling. But it is the antithesis to substantive change on campus.

The thing about performative activism is that on campus — where there’s a lot of pressure to “do something” and show

someone how impactful and important you are — it’s an easy way to make yourself feel more valuable to those around you.

You can tell people about how much you’re doing by bragging about how many meetings you have, even though you know you are not really doing anything at all in the short or long run.

It makes no sense to be in meetings for hours on hours every week, talking and brainstorming about the issues we

other are extremely low.

And they can be much, much higher. We can collaborate more, not just with each other, but with the greater Philadelphia area. Instead of bragging about how much time we spend changing what we care about, we can instead focus on efficiency and staying humble about our impact. And while it is easy to raise money and send it to a random charity to do the “dirty work,” we can take the initiative to interact with the people we care about in a more wholesome and personal way.

For example, instead of collecting money on Locust Walk and claiming the work is done, actually go to a homeless shelter and make a real difference. Or, in the midst of sharing an article about gentrification, you can take the initiative to go to the Netter Center for Community Partnerships.

Assertive, powerful, and efficient, non-performative activism is often unrecognized because it isn’t flashy. Remember that the first step towards impacting an issue you care about

Often, our activism is empty because the standards we set for ourselves and each other are extremely low.” care about, if we refuse to actually get our hands dirty and do the work. I feel that, at Penn, we take too much pride in what we do to justify ourselves in an effort to gain social recognition and respect. Often, our activism is empty because the standards we set for ourselves and each

CALVARY ROGERS is to simply try. Independent of what this school may tell you, there is no “true” definition of a model activist, and there isn’t any club on campus that sets the bar for activism. It is up to those who you aim to help to define whether the impact you think you are making is valid or not. As detached students in the Penn bubble, we too often forget that.

And, as always, remember that being a student activist is not about recognition, building your resume, or networking. It isn’t about self-fulfillment. It is about helping fulfill the lives of others.

CALVARY ROGERS is a College junior from Rochester, N.Y., studying political science. His email address is calvary@sas.upenn.edu. “Cal’s Corner” usually appears every other Wednesday.

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SIMONETTI SAYS SO | The importance of self-care and how to practice it I started the school year committed to practicing self-care.

I promised I wouldn’t keep late hours, skip meals, procrastinate research papers, or cram for exams as I did in high school. I vouched to visit Pottruck four times a week, keep a journal, take walks by the Schuylkill, and go to bed early.

But, unfortunately, I’ve started to give up on those resolutions.

I’ve prioritized coursework and pre-registration over exercising and eating well. Yet, earning good grades in my classes isn’t as fulfilling as I anticipated; I spend too much time in Van Pelt and barely do anything for myself.

It’s around the time of year when the resolutions we’ve made start to fall victim to midterm season and club responsibilities.

But we need to resist giving in to our monotonous routines and take better care of ourselves, because practicing self-care allows us to combat the anxiety that comes with being a student and find joy in our everyday lives.

The Anxiety and Depression Association of America found that 85 percent of college students “felt overwhelmed by something they had to do within

the past year,” and according to the National Institute of Mental Health, 30 percent reported feeling “so depressed it was difficult to function.”

Penn is not immune to these statistics; we struggle with mental health here too. And in light of recent events, it’s a hard time to be a student here. We have undergone this year the loss of four students, the potential repeal of DACA has left many international students anxious and uncertain, and the Task Force on a Safe & Responsible Campus Community has failed to effectively address sexual assault on campus.

We have also paid witness to the shortcomings of mental health resources on campus. Securing an appointment with Counseling and Psychological services is difficult and can leave us feeling like there’s no one here to help us. Practicing self-care is hard work. But even when Penn can’t care for us, we should try to be kind to ourselves and others.

Despite numerous students’ requests for better mental health resources at Penn, the administration has not implemented adequate strategies for improvement. While it’s important to ask the University for help, it’s also necessary for us to take action as individuals that help alleviate the anxieties and pressures of college.

After all, there are things we can do to combat our own mental

have a positive effect on preventing depression. Despite the challenges of motivating yourself to exercise, there are some easy, quick ways to work in physical activity that might be more engaging than waiting for a treadmill at Pottruck.

If SoulCycle is too expensive, The Philadelphia Museum of Art offers Dhyana yoga classes twice a week. Additionally, 34th Street Magazine recently published a guide to alternative exercise that offers unique fitness options. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention also has helpful recommendations to stay in shape.

Another way to take a break and escape the Penn bubble is to explore Philadelphia. We often forget how lucky we are to attend school in the 5th largest city in America. From the Barnes Collection to Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens to Sweet Charlie’s rolled ice cream there are so many parts of the city that are worth taking advantage of.

Even if it’s just reading a book

While it’s important to ask the University for help, it’s also necessary for us to take action as individuals that help alleviate the anxieties and pressures of college.” health and stress issues that we are so vulnerable to as students.

However frustrating it may be, people constantly point to exercise as a means to relieving stress for a reason. 25 studies have found that working out can

ISABELLA SIMONETTI outside or getting dinner with friends in Center City, we should set aside time to do things that make us happy. In college, it is easy to forget to take care of ourselves. The responsibilities of being a student are daunting.

Fun and relaxation can seem trivial in the face of exams, job applications, and club obligations. We’re away from home; there’s no one to remind us of the importance of taking breaks for ourselves. But self-care is important, and however jampacked our Google calendars are, we should make time to practice it.

ISABELLA SIMONETTI is a College freshman from New York. Her email address is isim@sas.upenn.edu.

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Why Penn should not build New College House West FRESH TAKE | The project doesn’t justify its exorbitant costs Penn community.

Penn increased funding for Counseling and Psychological Services by $860,000 between 2014 and 2016. While these efforts are worth acknowledging, they are modest and laughable in the context of the willingness of the administration to splurge hundreds of millions of dollars on new housing. It is important to recognize that the University is working to devote more resources to mental health, but it is essential to consistently remind them that Penn’s suicide rate is double the national average.

Furthermore, confusion and panic ensued over the summer over the news that students who had to stay a fifth year at Penn to graduate would not be covered

by Penn’s all-grant financial aid policy. Administrators have been resistant to increasing funding for the Asian American Studies Department. Graduate students consistently don’t receive enough funding to complete their degrees, and restrictive maternity leave policies financially disadvantage

student-parents.

How can administrators spend $163 million on new apartments when some students still struggle to schedule appointments at CAPS? How can Penn proudly construct yet another shiny building while ignoring many financial insecurities of its students? How can Penn arrogantly break the record for spending on a housing project, but it won’t do so on funding for student services?

Let’s now assume that Penn has fairly devoted resources to these sectors, and students are merely being dramatic about the lack of funding for financial aid or academic departments. Even if Penn has the right to spend these resources on residential services, the purpose of the new building is not adequately justified, and it certainly doesn’t counterbalance the detriments of the loss of green space on campus.

When asked about the current capacity of the University to meet the demand of students who wish to live on campus, University spokesperson Stephen J. MacCar-

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thy wrote in an email statement that “the current capacity is 5,800 for undergraduates and we have a need beyond that.” In addition, Penn President Amy Gutmann said in a statement that the new dorm “will enable more Penn students to participate in the College House system.”

The fact that freshmen are required to live on campus accounts for half the demand. Over half of upperclassmen live off campus and overwhelmingly cite lower costs as the reason for doing so. In an environment in which students’ financial concerns about living on campus are ubiquitous, why would it be in the students’ interests to want more on-campus housing?

The demand does not add up.

Some may argue that the increased supply of dorm housing will decrease rent prices. However, the University owns all oncampus housing — adding New College House West does not diminish the fact that Penn still has a monopoly over college dorms — and thus Penn has no incentive to lower on-campus housing prices.

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Frankly, they ended there too.

Last week, the University Board of Trustees approved plans to build a new residential college house on High Rise Field named New College House West. Not only is this allocation of resources absurd, but the purpose doesn’t justify the costs, which include the elimination of the last accessible, large, green space on the west side of campus.

Amid a semester of intense campus conversations regarding the onus of the administration to address issues of student welfare, financial aid for fifth-year students, and funding for academic programs, the record-breaking $163 million new housing project seems like a poorly timed stunt. In a time when there has been a large number of pressing issues among students, the announcement of New College House West’s construction comes as a distraction from the calls to action within the

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Unless Penn wants to drastically increase the size of the freshman class, which is unlikely, the project can be seen as a revenuegenerating move from the University to encourage students to stay within the College House system.

This is essentially a move by the administration to increase its control over housing supply in West Philadelphia.

Now, let’s say that the demand somehow does add up. Revenue generation is not necessarily injurious, but generating it at the expense of other major student concerns is. Even if we accept that Penn requires more housing capacity, the next serious concern is the location.

College senior Nicolo Marzaro recalled his disappointment when the construction of New College House eliminated Hill Field, but he said “the consolation was at least we have High Rise Field.”

“But this is the last one.”

Marzaro and his friends frequented high rise field to play ultimate frisbee, but New College House West will take away from future students this easily accessible space to unwind, throw around a ball, and enjoy the last remaining large green space in the heart of campus.

Penn Park, situated 10 blocks away from where the majority of students live, is often occupied by athletic teams or third-party programs. Clark Park, further west, is, according to Marzaro, “horribly inconvenient.” The fact that it’s a stretch to think of other options affirms the need for High Rise Field to remain unoccupied on campus.

However, unsurprisingly, the administration has little sense of what the space means for students and the community. Marzaro said that it was “pretty out of touch” for Gutmann to call High Rise Field a “dead space.”

“If you actually spend some time around there … you see University people using it all the time, but more importantly, you see a lot of … kids playing out there,” Marzaro said.

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LUCY HU up, administrators refuted the claim that there will be a loss of green space. Apparently, there will be a “net addition of green space” and the new building will make the existing field “a more useable green.” Perhaps the administration is unaware of this, but students generally find it difficult to throw frisbees through concrete walls.

Constructing the new house, and then allowing public access to its green space — in order to check a box — does not qualify as a justification of the removal of High Rise Field.

The University’s effort to provide more housing facilities for students is commendable. However, given topical student concerns, the move seems oddly misplaced and misguided. New College House West is not where critical resources should be dedicated at the moment and its construction will wipe out a meaningful space for the community.

And, perhaps, this even reveals problems of governance among greater University administrations.

Whether or not the housing project will indeed have a net-positive payoff — externalities included — Penn administrators urgently need to assume a greater burden of responsibility toward addressing student concerns. There are things that cannot be brushed under the rug, and the student voice is one of them.

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

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Planners, but no plans: our struggle with our time

CHANCES ARE | Friendships should happen organically, not strategically

PHONE HOME | We’re never taught how to manage our time and it shows

When I first came to Penn, I thought I would suddenly make a lot of friends.

As a kid, I didn’t have many.

Almost everyone knows this about me because it’s one of the first things I tell people. When I speak, I stutter and trail off in bizarre, unnecessary ramblings, so I always try to explain it away with a nervous chuckle and a “I didn’t have many friends growing up!”

I expected Penn to be my haven. I would chatter to my parents, “Daddy, I’m going somewhere where people are nerdy like me!” and I would run and hug my mom out of sheer excitement flowing from my body.

Then came freshman year at Penn, and I had fewer friends than I did in high school.

People were outwardly more polite to me. We would gel more in terms of our sense of humor and our knowledge base. But they committed to hanging out with me even less than my high school classmates. Sometimes, I could have the most satisfying conversation with someone, and they wouldn’t even recognize me the next morning.

I remember the counsel all the upperclassmen gave me when I complained of loneliness. “Join groups,” they said, “That’s where you make the most friends.” The dreaded rush-a-sorority dime advice came from older girls who swore they would “never have dreamt of being in a sorority until they came to Penn,” despite their obvious extraversion and concern for social status.

In my desperation, I did exactly what they recommended. I rushed sororities and joined many clubs I didn’t care for. None of them fit me, and they always required more energy than I was willing to give. I was bitterly disappointed when I found people who were

too superficial or just plain abrasive, but I stuck with it because I was told this was how one makes friends at college.

I’ve realized, though, that it’s okay to come out of Penn with few friends, because we might not find people here who suit our personalities. Just because Penn’s culture pressures us to create artificial friendships and make them out to be almost like homework, that doesn’t mean we have to buy into it.

At Penn, and perhaps college in general, two different cultures dominate the idea of friendship.

The first is that we should have a lot of friends while we’re here.

Instagrams and Snapchat Stories tell us that a quality college experience consists of Homecoming bus rides with your team and firsts at clubs with your bosom buddies.

The second is that the only place you can find friends is in the organizations you join. Of course, it’s natural that, being drawn by the same interests and use of time, you’d have the greatest chance of finding friends there. Rather, outside of these groups, no true connection can be found. And further, you have to plan out what spaces and which people are the best for you like some business transaction and, if necessary, change yourself to accommodate premade molds.

Friendship on these terms is worthless. I had those friends, and when I needed them, they weren’t there for me. The types of friends you have to force yourself to spend time with and that you have to perform for to please are unsustainable. They last only as long as you have something to offer them, and once you are spent, they are gone.

Real friends are those we meet organically. Ones who bail us out of cancelled rowing sessions by volunteering to be the last seat,

AMY CHAN call us out and pursue us even when we are too shy to look them in the eye, or flock to us because we two are the outcasts of a backwards town.

Friends we meet organically are truer friends because they are better suited to who we are.

When they take us by surprise, we act naturally, and if they like us, they like the real us. We don’t have to go out of our way to meet them and grasp at trying to stay friends. Chances are, we meet because we lead similar lives and thus have compatible personalities.

Curating our friend groups can be dangerous because we don’t always know ourselves enough to choose wisely. Friends aren’t those who conform to wishful projections of who we want to be.

They are those who help us to understand who we really are.

If we leave Penn with few friends, we can rest assured that there will likely be many more opportunities to make friends after this. College is only a small part of our lives, and the lifelong friends we do make don’t have to come from these fleeting four years.

AMY CHAN is a College senior from Augusta, Ga., studying classics. Her email address is chanamy@sas. upenn.edu. “Chances Are” usually appears every other Thursday.

I’ve had a planner every school year, since (at least) third grade.

Initially, these planners were of the school-provided sort that my parents had to sign each night, showing that they understood my assignments. Once our teachers let us deal with our assignments in our own way, I began to pick out my own planners: I started with the cheapest available ones from Target (palm-sized, perfect for the amount of work assigned in middle school), and eventually graduated to a knockoff Moleskine that I used as a bullet journal.

None of these planners lasted me longer than about five months.

The problem wasn’t with the product; I tried too many products, too many planning styles for that to be the case. The problem was me. My longest-serving planner lasted me through the first semester of my freshman year at Penn — that is, the semester during which I could easily keep track of all the work necessary for my four classes and single club-like obligation in my head. Once my second semester kicked off, I might as well have thrown that particular planner (another knockoff Moleskine, Star Wars-themed) out the window.

We all have so much to do — we can’t seem to stop talking about the sheer amount of stuff on our plates — and yet strategies for effective time management are so rarely part of the ongoing discourse surrounding this avalanche of assignments, meetings, rehearsals, and study sessions.

Almost everyone I know (myself included) procrastinates. Almost everyone I know (again, myself included) talks quite openly about the fact that they procrastinate and pull frequent all-nighters as a result, knowing that others will both empathize and sympathize. Almost everyone I know (once more, myself included and indicted) finds

a perverse sort of joy in sharing details of exactly what they did to procrastinate. For my part, if I’m wholeheartedly procrastinating on an assignment (as opposed to procrastinating by convincing myself I’m being “productive” in other ways), I’m often listening to the same song or watching the same music video over and over again.

It’s pointless. But it’s fun, somehow, to talk about the next day in a horribly sleep-deprived state.

It’s not my place to tell everyone to get it together and do their work, given how miserably bad I have been at “getting it together and doing my work” in the past. Indeed, in certain cases I would even argue that activities commonly used to procrastinate are genuinely more fulfilling than meetings or routine homework assignments.

But the way we glamorize our lack of time management skills is not good for our health — physical or mental. If we simply did what we needed to do (academic or otherwise) and got enough sleep, we’d be at least a little better off than we are now. We encourage everyone around us to practice self-care, and then turn around and talk loudly about how we barely get any sleep because we were scrolling through Reddit for hours.

My father, after my spectacularly bad second semester of freshman year, sent me a short email that contained some strategies that might have prevented me from pulling all-nighters and subsequently doing quite poorly on assignments and tests I had the ability to do quite well on. The advice was as simple as “have regular sleeping hours,” “ask for help earlier rather than later,” “finish studying before you go out,” and “don’t keep hoping that the curve will help you.” I have followed some of it, if not all of it.

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SHILPA SARAVANAN less of how we’re taught to use them and how they’re marketed. They’re just a way for us to keep track of how much we have to do — they’re not a concrete plan to get those things done. I don’t actually feel more “together” during my times of planner-use than I do during my times of planner-neglect. This is a more fundamental problem that requires a more fundamental fix, in the way that the email from my father addressed it — it’s something I almost wish had been addressed sometime during New Student Orientation, although I doubt I would have listened at the time.

Perhaps this is the sort of advice that ought to come from fathers. If Penn gave it to us in a direct manner (as opposed to just posters in the halls of college houses), this would be accused of “nannying” its students. I’ll be the first to admit, though, that I certainly needed a bit of “nannying” in that respect once the going got tough after my first semester here, and I’m sure others did, too. Time management isn’t taught in grade school — or college, really — and filling out planners is all I, and many others, know how to do.

SHILPA SARAVANAN is a College junior from College Station, Texas, studying linguistics. Her email address is shilpasa@sas.upenn. edu. “Phone Home” usually appears every Thursday.

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Penn Club Review aims to ease club applications The guide was inspired by a resource at Harvard AMANPREET SINGH Contributing Reporter

For years, club culture at Penn has been criticized for being too competitive, adding to the stress of students on campus. In particular, finance and consulting clubs have earned a reputation for being overly selective, with some clubs admitting as few as 8 percent of applicants.

Now, students are hoping to give their peers a way to assess the 450 student-run clubs on campus to change this “hyper-competitive” culture.

Wharton freshman John Casey, an associate member of the Undergraduate Assembly and its Student Life Committee, has launched a new initiative called Penn Club Review, which he envisions as a guide to the club application process formatted similarly to Penn Course

Review. Casey said that they plan on working with Penn Labs and that the site would be completed at the beginning of fall 2018 at the earliest.

The initiative comes on the heels of other efforts to reform club recruitment. Last year, the Wharton Council enacted new reforms that all Wharton-recognized clubs are required to follow.

The Student Activities Council and the UA have previously passed guidelines for club recruitment, including a “no-resume rule” for freshmen as well as personalized rejections. However, they have yet to finalize the directions for how these guidelines should be enforced.

SAC Chair Edward Jing, a College and Wharton senior, said his organization recently surveyed freshmen and sophomores about their experiences in club recruitment this fall, and these results will shape the final guidelines. Jing, who recently penned an op-ed in

The Daily Pennsylvanian calling for reform to the club application process, also said that SAC will require groups to submit detailed descriptions of their application processes in order to get a table at the SAC activities fair in the spring.

Jing said he hopes to make these descriptions available in a guide on the SAC website, ideally before the activities fair.

Casey said he is currently reaching out to the recruitment and membership chairs of SAC-recognized clubs about their willingness to attach a form to their application where students could provide feedback on their experiences. After students go through club recruitment, they would have to complete the form before seeing their application decisions, Casey said.

Some categories he wants to include are interview experience, written application intensity, decision response time, and the quality of the information session.

Casey said his efforts were in-

fluenced by Harvard University’s Q Guide, a resource Harvard’s Undergraduate Council launched this fall to make club recruitment less stressful. The guide provides general information, contacts, reviews, and comments about the application process and club overall.

Una Corbett, a sophomore at Harvard, said she thinks the Q Guide can be a “good resource” for students who don’t know many upperclassmen.

“If you don’t know people coming in or don’t happen to stop at the right activity fair table it can be difficult to figure out what the way to go is,” she said.

Harvard freshman Nkazi Nchinda found the Q Guide for courses incredibly useful, but said it had “almost no data on it.” “I was expecting a really cool robust system like the class one, but a bunch of clubs don’t even have information,” he said. However, he thinks it will “definitely” be useful in the future after more reviews are added.

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Harvard’s Q Guide, the inspiration for Penn Club Review, provides general information, reviews, and application processes for clubs.

Casey’s plans are currently tentative, as the UA Student Life Committee hasn’t yet presented it to the UA general body. However, College junior Samara Wyant, the

director of the committee and DP circulation manager, is “hopeful” that clubs on campus and the UA general body will respond positively to this project.

Students premier short films made with refugees in Kenya The group spoke at Perry World House on Nov. 7.

ZACH JACOBS Contributing Reporter

While many Penn students seek out summer internships at large companies, a group of eight Penn undergraduates, two teaching assistants, and a Cinema & Media Studies professor spent this past summer in a different setting: collaborating with refugees to make short films in Kakuma, Kenya.

Three of these students and the professor, Peter Decherney, joined a panel at Perry World House on Nov. 7 to discuss their experiences on the trip, their thoughts on the global refugee crisis, and to premiere some of the films they produced at the

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A 20-day program took eight students, two teaching assistants, and one professor to Kakuma, Kenya to work with refugees this summer.

Kakuma refugee camp as part of the Penn-in-Kenya program.

The films shown included an instructional film on protection from sexual and gender-based violence in the camp, a film

about the community’s relationship with water and sanitation, and portions of a 360-degree video showing children at the camp in a crowded classroom.

Decherney said the group

hoped technologies like virtual reality could change the tone of images like a crowded classroom to reflect the warmth of the community, an effect he finds harder to convey in a flat image.

Other members of the panel included former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Anne Richard and Keefe Murren, the executive director of FilmAid International, an organization that aims in part to train displaced individuals in filmmaking to document their experiences and to inform other refugees.

Most of the 20-day program in Kenya, which was organized in conjunction with FilmAid International, was spent filming and interacting with refugees at Kakuma.

College senior Nicholas Escobar worked on music composition for the films produced during the trip and donated the keyboard he brought with him to FilmAid. “There were a lot of musicians there, and they’re all very passionate about what they do,” he said, noting the interest in making hip-hop music at the camp.

“My hope is that they can make their own beats behind their own vocals because I think that can help take them to the next level creatively,” he said.

“They already have the creativity.”

Escobar and College sophomore Sonari Chidi are now the co-presidents of Penn FilmAid, the first FilmAid affiliate organization on a college campus.

The group seeks not only to teach students on Penn’s campus about the process of making documentary films, but also to engage with global refugee communities and resettled refugees in the Philadelphia region.

“We want to work with them to hear their story, how they’re settling into Philadelphia, and just what life has been like for them,” FilmAid Vice President and College sophomore Laurel Jaffe said.

Chidi added that he hopes these films change how people think about refugees.

“People don’t consider that refugees had a full and vibrant life before they became refugees,” Chidi said. “This experience of being a refugee isn’t all that they are. They’re so much more than that.”

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Civil rights lawyer elected City to move statue of as next district attorney controversial mayor The former DA’s term was cut short by scandal

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ZOE BRACCIA Contributing Reporter

After nearly a year of scandal and uncertainty, Philadelphia has a new district attorney.

On Tuesday, Philadelphia voters elected Democrat Larry Krasner, a civil rights attorney, to the city’s chief law enforcement office.

Krasner, who has no prior experience as a prosecutor, beat Republican Beth Grossman, a former Democrat and assistant district attorney.

Krasner’s win in the Democratic primary in May, in which he beat Penn Law professor Joe Khan, attracted national attention from high-profile figures like John Legend, a Grammy Awardwinning singer and 1999 College graduate, due to his focus on progressive criminal justice reform and his background as a defense attorney.

“What’s unique about Krasner is that he’s never been a prosecutor, he’s been a defense attorney, he’s been a civil rights attorney,” Penn Democrats president and College junior Rachel Pomerantz said. “He brings a completely different perspective to the office that we think is going to shake things up and really help Philadelphia.”

He promised to not consider the death penalty for offenders, protect immigrant rights in the city, and avoid requiring cash bail in the trials of non-violent offenders.

While Philadelphia’s crime rate has fallen in recent years, the city has the highest rate of incarceration per capita out of the 10 largest cities in the nation, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“I think Philadelphia became a more dangerous city to live in as a result of tonight’s election,” CoDirector of Penn College Republicans editorial board and College and Wharton sophomore Michael Moroz said. “I think [Kasner’s

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney declared that the city’s controversial statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo would be moved from its current position outside City Hall, according to a report last week in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The bronze statue has stood outside of the Municipal Services Building in the Thomas Paine Plaza for almost 20 years. Managing Director for the City of Philadelphia, Michael DiBerardinis, said in a statement that the relocation is a byproduct of plans to renovate Thomas Paine Plaza, but did not specify when or where it will be moved.

Following the August riots in Charlottesville, Va., during which neo-Nazis violently faced off with counter-protesters over the removal of the city’s monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee, cities across the nation began to face increased pressure to remove statues of figures with connections to slavery or racial discrimination. Protesters in Durham, N.C. toppled a Confederate monument in the city square, while others in a Minneapolis neighborhood burned a Nazi in effigy in the street.

Rizzo served as police commissioner during the 1960s and as mayor from 1972 to 1980. He had notoriously tense relationships with the city’s black and LGBTQ

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“What’s unique about Krasner is that he’s never been a prosecutor, he’s been a defense attorney,” said College junior Rachel Pomerantz.

election is] going to have a damaging effect on the police of the city and therefore it’s going to have a damaging effect on all of the communities in the city, especially the ones that are dealing with issues of crime most acutely.”

Republican candidate Grossman has worked for more than 21 years in the DA’s office. For eight years, she also led the Public Nuisance Task Force, which works to “combat drug and alcohol-related nuisance problems in [Philadelphia] neighborhoods.”

During her time on the task force, Grossman oversaw the use of civil asset forfeiture — a controversial provision that allows DAs to seize the assets of people even if they have not been convicted of a crime. The system has been widely criticized.

In March, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said, “This system — where police can seize property with limited judicial oversight and retain it for their own use — has led to egregious and well-chronicled abuses.”

The DA race was especially high-profile this election due to the scandals of former DA Seth Williams, who resigned in June after

pleading guilty to charges of bribery, extortion, and fraud. He was sentenced to five years in prison late last month.

City residents also elected Democrat Rebecca Rhynhart to be city controller, a position that serves as the chief auditor of Philadelphia’s finances, and elected Republican incumbent Justice Sallie Mundy, who was appointed by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf last year to fill a vacated spot on the bench.

Rhynhart has served in numerous City Hall positions, namely as the budget director, city treasurer, and most recently, Mayor Jim Kenney’s chief administrative officer.

She beat the incumbent candidate Alan Butkovitz, who has held the position for the past twelve years.

Mundy’s win secured her a tenyear term as a justice on the highest court in the state and ensured that the partisan breakdown will remain at 5-2, favoring the Democrats.

Voters also approved the borrowing of $172 million for the improvement and maintenance of five areas of Philadelphia life including public transit, parks and recreation, and economic and community development.

communities during his tenure.

His supporters claim that he, a native of South Philadelphia, was a dedicated public servant who defended the police. His critics allege that he employed racist tactics that unfairly targeted minorities.

Rizzo denied frequent accusations of racism.

“My background wouldn’t permit me to be a bigot or a racist because I came from very humble beginnings and I came from parents that came here and were the victims of prejudices,” he reportedly said, according to a s1991 DP article.

The beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, he said, made his “blood run cold.”

In August, Rev. Jay Broadnax of the Black Clergy of Philadelphia issued a statement about the statue.

“It runs counter to our ideals and goals to have, in our central square, a statue dedicated to a man

whose leadership exacerbated racial tensions and escalated police brutality to the point where they were nationally repute,” Broadnax told The Philadelphia Tribune.

On Oct. 21, a fight broke out in front of the Rizzo statue, two hours into a peaceful protest against police brutality organized by Philly for REAL Justice. Among the 50 protesters and police officers involved in the altercation, there were two arrests, four citations, and multiple officer injuries.

Frank Rizzo Jr., a former City Council member, told The Philadelphia Inquirer that Kenney’s administration did not inform him of the decision of relocating his father’s statue.

“People who support the monument probably won’t even waste their time going [to an expected Art Commission hearing] based on the stacked deck,” he said.

“This is not a very professional process.”

Philadelphia divests from the private prison industry The city liquidated $1.2 million in investments ZOE BRACCIA Contributing Reporter

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The statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo has been in front of the Municipal Services Building in Philadelphia for nearly two decades.

Philadelphia just became the latest city to divest from private prisons.

On Oct. 26, the Philadelphia Board of Pensions and Retirements voted 6-1 to liquidate its $1.2 million in stocks in three companies involved in the private prison industry, Philly.com reported.

“There have been documented instances of bureaucratic and judicial corruption, dangerous and unhealthy living conditions, and human rights violations in many of these facilities,” the board’s resolution stated.

The board withdrew its investments from three organizations: the GEO group, CoreCivic, and G4S. Founded by former FBI agent George Wackenhut, the

GEO Group funds at least 20 private prison facilities in Pennsylvania. This includes the George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Delaware Country where 12 inmates have died because of negligence between 2008 and 2012, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. One of these inmates was Thomas Bryant, whose family later sued the GEO group for neglect and maltreatment.

Philadelphia Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown supported Philadelphia’s decision.

“I am proud that the board has taken this tangible step to ensure that the city will no longer invest its pension dollars into an industry with an exhaustive track record of civil rights abuses,” she told Philly.com.

Philadelphia joins other cities such as Cincinnati and New York in divesting from private prisons.

In recent years, there have also been calls for individual organizations and even universities to do

the same.

In 2015, Columbia University became the first American university to divest from the private prison industry, following a campaign by the student-run group, Columbia Prison Divest, CNN reported.

In 2016, students at Princeton University petitioned the university administration to divest from private prisons. And earlier this year, the Harvard College Project for Justice circulated a petition calling on the university to divest its approximately $23 million in shares in Vanguard, a mutual fund that owns stock in private prison companies.

In 2015, Penn Divest from Displacement called on the Penn Board of Trustees to “withdraw investment from companies that profit off displacement,” including G4S and the Corrections Corporation of America (now CoreCivic), but the Board of Trustees never addressed those requests directly.

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Some students surprised that access to OCR could be revoked Some have received emails after missing interviews ALIZA OHNOUNA Senior Reporter

Penn Career Services provides a range of resources to students looking for jobs.

However, some students have been surprised to find out that those who violate recruiting policies can have their access to these resources revoked.

When students cancel mock or on-campus interviews without two business days notice, Career Services requests that they send an apology email to their interviewer. If they fail to do so—even if the circumstances for which they had to miss the interview were extenuating—Career Services sends them a warning that their access to Handshake may be suspended if they do not apologize. This semester, approximately 70 students were sent this warning email, Senior Associate Director of Career Services Barbara Hewitt said.

On the day of their mock interview, Engineering senior Dylan, who uses they/them pronouns and who requested that their last name be omitted to prevent discrimination based on their transgender identity, learned that their grandfather was severely ill with a high risk of death. “[My father] wanted me to go home to be with my sister who presumably would be quite upset about the whole ordeal,” they said.

Dylan called the office to explain their situation, but was redirected multiple times.

They hung up after a Career Services representative told them that they were not sure of how to record the reason for the cancellation.

“I’d given up. I was emotionally exhausted. Having to

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Services at Cornell University have said their services are not organized in this way. In terms of resources and services, Cornell’s CAPS closely resembles the center at Penn.

It has five prescribers and 35 to 40 therapists, comparable to Penn, and serves approximately 20 percent of the student body — also similar to Penn, which serves 20 percent of undergraduate students and 16 percent of graduate students.

Cornell CAPS Clinical Administrative Assistant Susan Stifel said she was not aware of a team structure at the department. Cornell CAPS Director Gregory Eells noted, however, that the team system is a “common model,” and that

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One student had to miss an interview through On Campus Recruiting because their grandfather was severely ill. A Career Services representative said the office was not sure how to record the reason for the cancellation.

stay calm and collected while dealing with this news was terribly difficult,” they said.

Almost two months later, Career Services sent Dylan an email requesting that they send an apology letter to the interviewer or risk losing access to Handshake and future OCR opportunities. Dylan called Career Services again to re-explain their reason for missing the interview, and was told that they would still have to send the email.

“How do you respond to such insensitive handling of your experience?” Dylan asked.

College junior Fjora Arapi had a similar experience after missing an OCR mock interview because of a medical issue. She had gone to Counseling and Psychological Services for a walk-in session about an hour before her interview, and arrived about fifteen

minutes after the start of her mock session to explain her tardiness.

She sent an apology email the same day.

After learning from the form that she could be banned from Handshake and future recruitment opportunities for not showing up or cancelling a second interview late, she forced herself to attend an interview that she was not interested in the following week.

“The whole ordeal was just really stressful,” she said.

Hewitt said this policy at Career Services is designed to be respectful of both students’ and interviewers’ times.

“This is not meant to be particularly punitive or stressful for students because we certainly realize that on-campus recruitment in and of itself can be stressful,” she said. “We really want our employers who come out to interview to have

a full slate of students whenever possible.”

Hewitt added that students who cancel late can inconvenience recruiters as well as deny other students a chance at interviewing with the employer.

However, most students guilty of a late cancellation or failure to attend their interviews without prior notice are not barred from Handshake or recruiting events, Hewitt said.

The majority of these students send apologies to the recruiter after just one reminder.

“The policy is really for people who either can’t get their schedules straight and continue to have problems scheduling things or who really just don’t see it as important to show up for things they committed to,” she said.

“Students should not be afraid to reach out if they have a legitimate reason,” she said.

the culture of an institution is a contributing factor to how a school chooses to structure its counseling center.

Cornell’s CAPS pursues an informal collaborative care model, which could include staff working together at lunch as well as clinical meetings between therapist and psychiatrists every week.

When students’ treatment plans get disrupted Another implication of Penn’s model of treatment teams is that the teams are restructured every three years, which might cause disruptions in students’ treatment. The last restructuring happened over the summer.

After the restructure, therapists and providers who previously worked together on a team were assigned to different teams. For students who

receive treatment for longer than a semester and who came back after the summer to continue that treatment at CAPS, Alexander said the system would automatically link them with their therapist in the shift.

For some, this means starting over with a new psychiatrist.

He added that if a student’s therapist and psychologist end up on separate teams, CAPS would not force the student to switch prescribers.

This was not the case for College junior Ariel Epstein, who until this semester worked primarily with her CAPS psychiatrist and not her therapist.

At the end of this past summer, Epstein sent a routine email to her CAPS psychiatrist to set up a meeting to continue her treatment and renew the medication he had been prescribing for her since January, but she

was surprised to learn that her treatment team had changed.

Her therapist had been placed on a new team, which meant she would have to switch psychiatrists. Epstein then met with her therapist to inquire how to get her prescription refilled, and was told she had been referred out of CAPS completely.

Alexander said that if a student requests to stay with their psychiatrist rather than therapist, CAPS would accommodate the student. But Epstein said she didn’t even realize that asking to stay with her psychiatrist was an option.

“The problem is there’s no cohesive policy or communication of that policy among the different higher-ups in CAPS,” Epstein said. “Definitely a structural reorganization of CAPS needs to be made.”

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“When unrest started in Barcelona a number of weeks ago, we were in pretty constant communication with our in-country partner,” Palmiotto said. “The decision was made by the in-country partner to remove students from Barcelona over certain key times when unrest in the city was thought to be at its height.”

Palmiotto stressed that the strategy used to keep students in Barcelona informed of current conditions is the same protocol Penn Abroad uses to address security situations in all locations with Penn students, faculty, and staff.

“This is pretty universal for any situation — whenever there’s a city where there’s a protest or disruption, we will coordinate with our international risk management department and identify what students and faculty or staff — because international risk goes beyond students — are in that particular location and then discuss safety measures that we would want to relay to that particular body that is there,” Palmiotto said.

She said in specific cases relating to Penn students, Penn Abroad utilizes in-country implementing partners, such as the CASA Barcelona program, to connect Penn and host universities, and requires them to update it constantly as to any precautions they use to keep students safe.

Palmiotto added that Penn Abroad also uses International SOS, a travel resource that provides them with additional information that Penn specifically uses to further decide what actions might need to be taken.

Palmiotto said another recent example of Penn Abroad’s usage of this protocol was for Penn students studying in

Cuba when Hurricane Irma struck the country. To protect those students’ safety, Penn Abroad moved the students from that location to Mérida, Mexico, where its implementing partner, IFSA-Butler, provided programming. The students remained in Mexico from Sept. 7 until Sept. 16 while the hurricane passed through the area, returning upon assessment of the health and safety situation in Cuba and confirmation by the students’ homestay families.

Penn Abroad has also used this communication system in the United Kingdom, where many Penn students study abroad. During the series of terrorist attacks that occurred over the summer, Penn had to communicate with the implementing partner CornellPenn-Brown UK Centre to check in with all students in London and provide them with support.

Tashman noted that the situation in Barcelona has not affected the safety or security of their lives in the city yet, but it has disrupted their academic schedule.

“While we were gone for those two weeks, we missed class, there was class going on … so we’re a little bit behind,” he said.

Norton cautioned that the situation “is quite volatile” and that students planning to travel there in the near future should “have an exit strategy in place, and plan to be both well informed on unfolding events and cautious while in Barcelona (or, arguably, Madrid).”

Nonetheless, Penn Abroad plans to fully implement the Barcelona program next semester, Palmiotto said.

Despite the political instability, students currently studying in Barcelona still say they would recommend the program to others.

College junior Nicholas Navarro said protests have happened in older and more prominent areas in Barcelona, but by and large, living in the city still feels relatively calm.

“From a safety perspective, I don’t think there’s any worry,” he said.

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[narrative], because that’s what made us a team. Any type of tough time would help the team get better,� Foreman said.

In that case, one more retelling couldn’t hurt.

After a rough start to Ivy play, the 2016-17 edition of the Quakers found themselves winless in the conference and in last place in early February.

Most people wrote them off; few suspected the Red and Blue could pull off a comeback.

Long story short, they did.

Penn rattled off five straight wins on the way to a 6-2 finish and a berth in the conference playoffs.

Not that Penn worries all that much about the media narrative either. The media poll might have pegged the Red and Blue in fourth, but as with every season, every team in the country has a clean slate. There is plenty of time to write their own narrative.

THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Associate Sports Editor

Ladies and gentlemen, the moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived: basketball season.

First up, the men. On Saturday, Penn men’s basketball team will open the season on the road at Fairfield University before returning to the Palestra for Monday’s meeting with Big 5 foe La Salle.

By now you’ve heard the story of last year’s team – probably a few times. If anyone has cause to be annoyed it’s the players themselves, but newly minted senior captain Darnell Foreman said he isn’t tired of it. “We more or less don’t want to get rid of that whole 0-6

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Senior guard Darnell Foreman will captain a team that surged to the Ivy League tournament after a 0-6 Ivy start a season ago.

“It’s been no reaction [to the media], because honestly, we don’t spend too much time thinking about polls or what people think,� Foreman said.

“We’re as confident as ever in our squad and the guys in our locker room to get it done as long as we apply ourselves the right way.�

Last season, coach Steve Donahue’s lineups varied early on as players tried to establish their roles in the program.

Now, after the success of the back half of the conference slate, Donahue thinks his lineup is more fleshed out. “I mean right now we’re pretty set on Darnell, Antonio [Woods], Ryan [Betley], AJ [Broduer], and Max [Rothschild],� Donahue said. “Guys are fighting. Jackson Donahue is someone that definitely will have a role. There’s got to be a back-up big: I’m thrilled with Jarrod Simmons and Eddie Scott, they’re going to be part of what we’re doing for sure.�

Donahue proceeded to name almost everyone on the roster, specifically pointing out the large role sophomore guard Devon Goodman has earned. If Donahue’s analysis of his team remains true, as many as 12 Quakers will regularly see the

floor this season.

As for Fairfield, Penn’s growth since last February should be troubling. The Quakers defeated the Stags in last year’s matchup at the Palestra, and they have only improved since then. “[Fairfield] played really fast. The last game I thought we had to really do a good job in transition defense; setting up the defense quickly. They move the ball. They have probably one of the best scorers we’re going to play against in Tyler Nelson. They have a good offensive basketball team,� Donahue said.

Fairfield’s Nelson enters his senior year on pace to become the programs all-time leading scorer. Assuming Penn can slow him, at least to the extent possible (last year Nelson scored 21 points against the Quakers), the season should get off on the right foot.

Quakers look to defend home court in newly-minted tournament

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coming program, Drexel has proven to be one of the best in the country, and F&M is perennially strong,� Lane said. “One day I said to [women’s coach] Jack [Wyant], ‘We need to do a tournament. What a great way to kick off the year with a Pennsylvania State Championships.’�

From there, the other coaches quickly came on board and the wheels were in motion.

Crediting Lane with the idea, Wyant proceeded logistically to turn this notion into reality. “Once Dickinson became varsity, we actually petitioned the league for an additional week in the season, and we got really lucky with the support of Dr. Calhoun and President Gutman,� Wyant said. “We moved the competitive start date up a week, which allowed us to do this tournament. Now we have four teams all in the top twenty in the rankings, it makes for a

GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

While many of the traditions at Penn are decades old, the squash program is looking to start one anew.

Enter the Pennsylvania State Classic, a two-day men’s and women’s tournament that features the top squash squads from across the Keystone State.

In the tournament’s inaugural year, Penn’s Ringe Courts will be playing host to Drexel, Franklin & Marshall, and Dickinson this Saturday and Sunday.

In discussing his motivation, men’s coach Gilly Lane, the brains behind the tournament, emphasized the importance of getting testing matches in before the season gets underway. “Dickinson is an up and

great weekend.�

This all manifests in Penn men’s and women’s teams playing against F&M on Saturday, with the Quakers aiming to make it through to Sunday’s finals, likely against crosstown rival Drexel. Hallmarked by great competition and a communal dinner Saturday night, Lane shared his vision for the Classic in the years to come. “Our hope for the tournament going forward is that as more colleges locally get squash programs, we include them in the tournament. Maybe have a full weekend with an eight team draw. We’re really looking forward to it,� he said.

For the men’s team, this weekend represents a unique opportunity to test its ladder against strong visiting opposition. Over the off-season, the Quakers added serious firepower to an already impressive squad through a freshman class

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led by Andrew Douglas, who is likely to jump right into the number one spot.

Echoing his coach’s sentiments about the dual-threat of veteran and young talent, senior Hayes Murphy noted that winning is simply the expectation thanks to soaring morale. “We’re confident we can do anything this season. It’s just a matter of staying healthy and putting in the work, although that’s easier said than done,�

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On the women’s side, the stakes are a bit different. With

a few players falling victim to the injury bug, including senior and captain Melissa Alves, Wyant is looking to move his squad in the right direction at the Classic. “Our main goal is to continue to stay healthy and work hard. We’ve had a few injuries this preseason that prevented some of our student athletes from being on court as much a we would have liked,� Wyant said.

Although Alves — who is currently nursing a broken foot — admitted she would rather be on the court with the team, she has seen sparks of great-

ness through the glass that may be indicators of a successes around the corner. “It’s very exciting because we have three freshmen, three starters potentially for the season. They are playing really well and they are fighters,� Alves said. “It’s a different team than last year for sure.

They are ready to go, and it’s going to be great to watch them play this year.�

With two-full days of action ahead, the Quakers will be looking to collect some silverware on homecourt and springboard into a what should be a rousing 2017-2018 season.

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again. “Mentally, our team is prepared to go up [to West Point] and take on [Army],� said Wagner of his team that is made up of twelve freshmen. “The experience that we gained from that first game through the rest of the season has been valuable.�

Another significant element in this one will be the weather, as the low temperatures for the night are expected to hover at around 20 degrees, with wind also playing a factor.

Penn, being such a resilient football team, will seek to remain focused on the task at hand despite the inclement road conditions.

Gorman, even as a freshman, knows the importance of players staying within themselves and not trying to do too much. “We have to stay calm and re-

member what we’re capable of,�

Gorman said. “We’ll be amped up and ready, but we have to remind ourselves that the only way we lose this game is if we beat ourselves.�

Penn will enter Friday night with this mindset, as its quest for back-to-back CSFL titles will be complete with just one more win.

Jenkins, for one, can’t wait to get started. “We’re excited to hit the road, face this challenge, and hopefully win a championship in [Army’s] building,� the quarterback said.

In the end, all of the heartbreak, all of the disappointment, all of the frustration that resulted from the Quakers’ first loss against Army is now irrelevant — because this is the one that counts.

is planning for the task at hand: Miller discussed Harvard’s offensive formations while Watson confirmed Penn’s commitment to an aggressive yet varied offense. “We’re just worried about what we can control,� Watson said. “The only thing on our minds right now is ‘beat Harvard,’�

Miller added.

And for the last two seasons, the Quakers have done just that.

In 2015, the Quakers went to

Boston and snapped Harvard’s 22-game winning streak on the strength of 249 yards of offense from Watson. The star wideout played hero again in the team’s matchup a year ago, reeling in a last-minute go-ahead catch to keep Penn in Ivy championship contention.

This year, in Watson’s penultimate career game, Penn will hope he can summon that magic once again. “It should be a fun one,�

Watson said.

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season, a total that ranks second in the league behind (you guessed it) Army, who has allowed a mere 6.6 points per game.

Adding to the challenge for Penn is the fact that the showdown will take place at Army, a change of scenery from the matchup at Franklin Field earlier this year.

If there’s anybody that can knock off the Black Knights on their own home field, though, it’s the Quakers.

Penn is no stranger to visiting West Point and coming home with a win. Last year’s team did so when it beat Army in a 14-9 slugfest early in the season, and coach Bill Wagner thinks his team has what it takes to do it

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Ivy League Championship; a scenario exists in which seven squads can tie for the crown at 4-3 in conference play. However, among other things, topranked Yale must drop their last two games in order for that to be a possibility.

However, Priore, Watson and Miller were quick to emphasize the team’s “One More� motto.

Rather than speculate, the team

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adults from Penn coming and shouting at you. You’re doing what you want… and I think part of the reason that we have done so well and that our team is so good is because we don’t take ourselves too seriously,” the captain said.

Senior Eli Cohen chimed in, adding, “We literally make dolphin calls on our way onto the field.

“And other teams hate us because of it!”

The success that the Dolphinos have achieved this season has not stopped Cohen from being lighthearted about the whole situation.

“Yeah, we made Nationals this year without getting our uniform orders in,” Cohen noted.

The Dolphinos’ relaxed, easygoing culture starkly contrasts the intensely competitive process of trying out and making the team.

Collins remembers there being 80 students at tryouts for the team his freshman year. He was one of three men to make it. Cohen had an even more competitive experience, as 100 students tried out for four spots in his freshman year. This high level of competition in tryouts means that the Dolphinos are bringing in quality talent every year.

The talent certainly showed itself

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Penn’s “quietest dynasty” is making some real noise this season.

As a result of an impressive, undefeated showing at the Regional tournament, Penn men’s club soccer (10-0-2) earned itself a trip to Phoenix, Ariz. to compete in the College Club Soccer Championship National Tournament. According to their GoFundMe page, this is “the first time in recent memory this has happened.” This claim is followed with a small disclaimer: “we aren’t so good with keeping official records.”

As whimsical remarks like this illustrate, the “Dolphinos” — a nickname derived from their website’s dolphin.upenn URL address — are a freewheeling, fun-loving team.

They do not have a coach, half of the team lacked the proper uniform this season and they are almost entirely self-sufficient.

According to super-senior Pele Collins, this is a key to their success.

“It’s a way more relaxed atmosphere. You don’t have a bunch of

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Despite their easygoing approach, The ‘Dolphinos’ faced intense competition for roster spots during their freshman tryouts.

this season.

The Dolphinos are undefeated on the season, outscoring their opponents 28-5 over the course of their 12 game schedule. Is it because of weak competition? Not at all. See: their victories against Penn State, University of Massachusetts and Drexel.

The 5-3 victory over Drexel’s Ateam is of particular interest — it was the moment where members of

the team realized that Nationals was a true possibility, and it also set off a fiasco that only the Dolphinos could find themselves a part of.

The story is best told by Collins and Cohen.

“Basically this one team in our division was undefeated, 8-0–,” started Cohen, cautiously avoiding naming the exact team.

“You can say it was Drexel,” interjected Collins, deeming the ano-

are. And speaking of Phoenix, if you “don’t wanna be here,” now is the time to leave me behind and go read some of our terrific basketball content.

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from then to a week later, we’re going to Nationals, which was the craziest swing of emotions,” recounted Collins.

It’s hard not to love the Dolphinos and their circuitous trip to Nationals.

Their next obstacle? The literal trip to Nationals.

The team lacks the funding to fly everyone out to Phoenix, Ariz., so they started a GoFundMe in order to make it possible. As of the publication of this article, they have raised nearly $2,000.

“We’ve had club soccer alumni donate, we’ve had parents donate, we’ve had some random friends donate,” said Collins. “And we had some random woman donate $500 — nobody knows who she is.”

The dream is becoming a reality for the Dolphinos, and if they are able to get the team to Phoenix, they will be met with some tough opposition.

Are they ready? Of course they are.

“I’m optimistic,” said Collins, giddy with excitement. “I think we’re riding a wave right now.

We’ve beat expectations completely this season, and no matter what happens, I think it’ll be one for the record books.”

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nymity granted to the Dragons by Cohen unnecessary.

“Yeah, Drexel — we came to play them and just spanked them on their field, like so hard. I think that was when I realized that we were just sick,” continued Cohen.

Collins followed. “They hyped up the game, they made a Facebook event, and we were just quietly doing our own thing, just not saying anything —” “Spanked them,” Cohen repeated for emphasis as Collins spoke.

“— and we played so well. That was the best we played all season,” Collins said, grinning.

Now, the twist.

“Then, basically, Drexel contested the result, and then we needed to go through a two plus week appeals process to make sure that we got the win we deserved, because we spanked them,” Cohen said.

“So, until the Monday of Regionals — Regionals was on that weekend — we weren’t going to go to Regionals. The whole team was expecting us not to go, and then we get an email saying, ‘You guys won your division — you’re going to Regionals.’ So, then we’re like ‘okay cool — we need to practice and get ready for Regionals!’ And then,

the Ivy League title race.” That’s right, the Quakers kept their pipe dream alive against Princeton, thanks to some heroics from JWat and a hilarious miss by the Princeton kicker (it’s all your fault, kid).

In last week’s Swamis, I dis-

cussed the idea of a seven-way tie. One of our fantastic freshman writers then discussed the idea non-satirically in a column that saw far more success, but I’m not bitter. Anyway, the seven-way tie is still alive. And I think Penn could get it.

I know, I know, I’m dreaming.

A seven-way tie is nearly impossible. Everything has to go exactly the right way for it to happen.

And Penn will be hard-pressed to even keep up half of their end of the bargain against a very tough Harvard squad this weekend.

But I’m writing this on Nov. 8. So forgive me if I’m hesitant to dismiss the possibility of a Quaker (or 101) pulling off an unexpected triumph.

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VOLLEYBALL | Team sits in third place in Ivy League LUCY POPKO Sports Reporter

May the odds be ever in your favor, Penn volleyball.

After a succession of games at the Palestra, the Quakers (129, 7-5 Ivy) face one last battle on the road, playing Dartmouth at 5 pm on Friday and Harvard at 5 pm on Saturday.

The Red and Blue come off

a highly productive weekend, during which they defeated both Cornell and Columbia. By beating Cornell (10-11, 6-6) in four sets, the Quakers captured a win against the Big Red for the first time in their last four meetings. The team then came out victorious against Columbia (9-12, 4-8), defeating the Lions for the first time since 2010, despite scoring fewer points than the Lions in the match.

If this season has shown us anything, the Red and Blue are all about beating the odds.

Freshman Parker Jones underscored the improvement of the team over the course of the season.

“At the beginning of the season we had more pressure just to do well. We were kind of on a losing streak at the point in the season where we couldn’t win,” she noted. “Then, we were like ‘Oh, let’s play just to play.’ Then, there was no pressure and everybody started doing really well and we started winning a lot more.”

Winning this weekend is cru-

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cial if the Quakers wish to remain in contention for the Ivy League title.

Currently, Harvard (12-9, 7-5) and Penn are tied for third with identical records. Dartmouth (8-13, 4-8) has fallen behind in the pack, tied with Columbia for the penultimate position in the Ivy League standings.

The last time they faced the Big Green, the Quakers were able to win in four sets, which boosts their confidence. However, the Red and Blue were not quite successful against Harvard in their previous match, as they ultimately fell short in five sets.

Despite the odds, the Quak-

ers are optimistic that the team will come out on top against the Crimson.

“We are going in really confidently. Last time we played them at home. It was one of our first home games and it was kind of tense. We’re going in and trying to end out the season strong,” Jones stated.

Jones has already exhibited an impressive season for the Red and Blue. This week, the California native was named Ivy Rookie of the Week for the third time in the 2017 season. In the past two matches alone, Jones was responsible for 35 points and 34 kills. Her 293 kills over the course of the season rank third all-time for

freshmen in Penn volleyball history.

The Quakers look to capitalize on the strengths of players such as Jones over the upcoming weekend. And this weekend will be key for the Red and Blue.

If Penn is able to finish off the season with two wins, and both Yale and Princeton lose their matches this weekend, then the Quakers will be eligible to compete in the Ivy League Playoffs for a chance at winning the league title.

Right now, the odds seem stacked against the Red and Blue.

This team, however, has a tendency to beat the odds.

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Penn sprint football will finally have its shot at redemption.

Six weeks ago, the Quakers (6-1, 4-0 South) were defeated 24-14 on its home turf by the Army Black Knights, a game that, at the time, was a devastating blow to the Quakers.

But this Friday night, Penn has the opportunity to return the favor and defend its 2016 CSFL title, as the two teams will once again square off, this time in West Point.

The game will represent the inaugural CSFL Championship,

as the league replaced the previous system of simply awarding the title to the team with the best regular season record.

The Quakers will have 60 minutes on Friday to prove that they are better than the Penn team that took the field on September 30 versus Army (7-0, 3-0 North).

The Red and Blue will look to get off to a better start this time around, as they surrendered an early touchdown in the first meeting and didn’t get on the board until late in the fourth quarter. Sophomore quarterback Eddie Jenkins believes that the Quakers can get into the flow of the game more quickly, as the offense has taken tremendous strides since that matchup.

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fident as an offense,” Jenkins said. “We’ve played a lot better and have gone through several changes since [the first Army game].”

The defense, for its part, has improved its communication and knowledge of assignments.

“We’ve played enough games to where we’ve gotten our linebacker and defensive back coverage system down,” said freshman linebacker Matt Gorman, the team’s leading tackler with 60 on the year. “If we can stop the passes over the middle, [Army] won’t be capable of driving on us.”

This confidence on the defensive side of the ball is partly why the Quakers have given up just 13.4 points per game this SEE CHAMPIONSHIP PAGE 10

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Quakers look to shake off Heps disappointment

Still alive in Ivy race, Penn looks for third straight win over Harvard

XC | Mid-Atlantic Regionals next up for team Friday

FOOTBALL | Squad stresses team mentality

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Last week hurt for Penn cross country, but there’s no time for them to hang their heads — the next chapter of their season begins on Friday.

After a season brimming with hope and expectation, the Quakers struggled to follow through at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships last weekend. The men finished third, edged out by Princeton and Columbia, unable to defend their crown; the women placed seventh, feeling the full impact of losing its star seniors from last year.

Despite the disheartening outcome, the athletes remain resilient.

“Unfortunately, we didn’t do as well as we had hoped, but that still isn’t something that we’re ever going to look back negatively on,” freshman Danielle Orie said.

Orie led the way for the youthful women’s side with a tremendous eighth place finish, earning her second-team All-Ivy honors alongside senior captain Abby Hong, who finished tenth overall.

First-year assistant coach Chelsea France saw the promise in her team’s performance.

“To have two women in the top-ten is a great, great situation for us to be in, especially with how young in terms of

This weekend, Penn football will be looking to threepeat in more ways that one — in fact, they’ll be looking to three-peat in three ways.

On Saturday, the Red and Blue will look to pick up their third straight conference win as they travel to Boston, aiming to take down Harvard for the third time in three years.

With luck, the Quakers (4-4, 2-3 Ivy) will also stay in contention for their third straight Ivy League title.

Penn’s last win came in particularly spectacular fashion, as the Red and Blue took down heavily favored Princeton on homecoming, 38-35.

For star wide receiver Justin Watson, the thrilling (threepoint) win was underscored by a record-breaking performance, as the senior broke the record for most receptions in Penn history. Watson, though, was quick to defer credit for his playmaking.

“Guys are getting comfortable stepping up and making big plays, and we’re just going to keep building on that,” Watson said.

This burgeoning of confidence and momentum couldn’t arrive at a better time. Coach Ray Priore noted that Penn’s opponents tend to hit their stride late in conference play

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Junior Kevin Monogue was among the top finishers for Penn men’s cross country at Heps, but hopes for a better finish at NCAA Regionals.

experience this group is,” she said. “I’m very proud of how they stepped up and rose to the occasion.”

On the men’s side, junior Kevin Monogue and senior Chris Luciano led the way, finishing in twelfth and fifteenth place, respectively. It was good enough for them to both earn All-Ivy honors, but given their championship expectations, the recognition did not sate their appetites.

But the season is not over yet, and the team is using last week’s experience to learn and get better in preparation for the upcoming Mid-Atlantic Regional.

“This week, going into Regionals, we just really want to focus on our race. We want to focus on us because the more

we focus on our race and what makes us strong and separate from the pack is how we’re going to run the best race,” France said.

Orie echoed this sentiment.

“At the last workout, [head] coach [Steve] Dolan and coach France really emphasized, obviously the team aspect, but in a race really focusing on yourself and not thinking about outside forces,” Orie said. “We can’t control how other teams do, but we can control ourselves in the moment.”

Last season, both the men and women put forth strong efforts at the Mid-Atlantic Regionals: the men finished in fourth; the women finished in third and received an at-large bid for the NCAA Championships as a result.

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After being named second-team All-Ivy in 2016, junior linebacker Nick Miller leads the conference in tackles this season with 82.

— and that to succeed, his squad must hold serve.

“At this time of year, you have to start playing your best football,” the third-year coach said.

“We just need to make sure we play tough and do our job, and the rest will figure itself out,” junior Nick Miller added.

Miller has been a bright spot amid an otherwise difficult season for the Penn defense. Although the linebacker — coming off a second-team All-Ivy nod in 2016 — leads the Ancient Eight in tackles with 82, his unit’s 28.6 points allowed per game is secondworst in the conference, besting only Ivy-winless Brown.

“Takeaways — we have to start getting more balls on

turnovers,” Priore said. “It’s not what other teams do; it’s what we do to defend them.

Each week is a different challenge.”

Though the Quakers have had defensive struggles, their Watson-powered offense has been solid: the team ranks third in the Ivies in both touchdowns scored and yards per game.

Harvard has shown opposite strengths: though the Crimson rank below the Quakers in team offense, their defense has excelled, forcing the second most sacks and interceptions in the Ivy League.

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Hold onto youR seats, folks - this season will bE one really wild ride If Penn basketball doesn’t excite you this year, nothing ever will.

For the men’s team, last year was supposed to be a rebuilding year. With the loss of a program great in Darien Nelson-Henry and the need to rely on the new freshman class, it was expected that the squad would need time to find its feet.

But when it did, it went 6-2 to finish Ivy League play, and the Quakers led Princeton for every single minute of regulation in the Ivy League Tournament until the Tigers tied it up in the last minute and then won it in overtime.

Meanwhile, the women’s team marched to a 13-1 Ivy League season, won the Ivy League Tournament handily, and came within seven minutes of its first-ever NCAA Tournament win before it fell victim to the largest comeback in NCAA Tournament history — men’s or women’s.

Last season was no fluke, though, for either side. Both the men and the women return all but one major contributor apiece

for the 2017-18 campaign. And while the men will miss Matt Howard, and the women will undoubtedly miss Sydney Stipanovich, each team should still improve this year.

And so will the rest of the Ivy League.

Every game will be a trench fight, but it will be a higherquality battle than any recent year. Stars like Yale’s Makai Mason — who scored 31 points

"Every game will be a trench fight, but it will be a higherquality battle than any recent year." against No. 5 Baylor in the 2015 NCAA Tournament to give the Bulldogs their first ever March Madness win, but missed the 2016-17 season due to injury — and Princeton’s Bella Alarie on the women’s side will give the league a new dimension of drama as the entire conference raises its game.

The star power on Penn’s teams is sky-high, too. The women are lead by two special seniors in power forward Michelle Nwokedi and point guard Anna Ross. Sophomores A.J.

Brodeur, Ryan Betley, and Devon Goodman formed the core of the men’s team last season and will be back for more this year.

Additionally, Antonio Woods returns after a year out and looks like he could be better than ever.

If the on-court storylines aren’t enough, there should be more than enough to compensate away from the ball. The tallest man in the Ivy League now plays for Penn basketball. The status of the Ivy League Tournament remains in flux as certain coaches think that any other venue besides the Palestra could possibly be worthy of the honor.

And so much more.

The following stories in this year’s Basketball Preview merely scratch at the surface of all the stories there are to tell about Penn basketball. Many more will be told in due time, and many more will develop as the season progresses.

No matter what, though, you’ll want to hold onto your seats — 2017-18 should be the most entertaining year in the Ivy League in recent memory. And this time, we’re adding real quality on top of it.

WILLIAM SNOW is a College junior from Nashville, Tenn., and is the senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at snow@thedp.com.

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Quakers play two top-five teams before Christmas

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WILL DiGRANDE

JACOB SNYDER Ah, November.

The leaves are falling, the weather is cold, and Penn men's basketball is preparing for another campaign with expectations as high as ever.

The primary goal? To earn at least a berth in the Ivy League Tournament, to be held March 1011 at The Palestra. The key phrase in that sentence is, of course, “at least.” The real ambition for any Ancient Eight team is to win the Ivy tournament and get to dance with the top programs in the country at the NCAA Tournament.

But we are getting ahead of ourselves. Before the Quakers can even begin to dream about March Madness, they have to get down to business in the regular season, which starts Nov. 11 with a contest against Fairfield University at the Stags’ home court in Connecticut.

The next games that the Quakers will have circled on their calendars are showdowns against La Salle and Navy on Nov. 13 and 15, respectively. Last season, the Quakers battled the Explorers to an impressive 77-74 win on the road, and will hope to make it two in a row on the 13th. The Red and Blue had an equally impressive road performance against the Midshipmen earlier last season, but fell 70-68 in a heartbreaker. Because of the close nature of these games, Penn can use these matchups to gauge their progress from last year to this year. In an ideal world, the Quakers will build on last season’s strong showings on the road and earn solid wins against both teams on their home court.

The next set of games that are notable for the Red and Blue are a set of away games in Florida as a part of the Gulf Coast Showcase, an elimination-style tournament that features eight mid-major programs from across the country.

This will be Penn's first time in such an event since 2012-13. The Quakers are guaranteed three games from Nov 18-22 and will get valuable early-season experience with a “win or you’re done” tournament atmosphere that will come in handy come March.

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Penn women's basketball might have its toughest schedule yet this season—the Quakers will play two top-five teams by Christmas.

get back up again. You’re going to go from one bad play to the next, you just have to respond accordingly. They’re going to be in the situation where they’re going to have some struggles at any time during the season, but I want to see them grow,” coach Mike McLaughlin said.

The Philadelphia Big 5 series is an area where Penn is eager to showcase its growth and improve from last year.

Played against the nearby schools of La Salle, Saint Joseph’s, Temple and Villanova, these games will give the Quakers a good indication of where they rank among teams of a similar level.

After a rough 0-4 record in these games last season, the Red and Blue will look to turn those results around and reassert dominance over their local rivals.

In the Ivy League’s preseason poll, Penn was picked to finish first and repeat as champions for the third year in row. However, rival Princeton was a close second place to the Quakers, meaning their two matchups, at the Palestra on January 6 and away on February 13, will have that much more meaning for league title implications.

“The Princeton game coming right off winter break is huge every year.

It’s hard when transitioning from nonconference to Ivy,

but I feel like the energy for that game is always high and hopefully that will give us a spark towards the end of the season,” Ross said.

While Princeton might be the Quakers' biggest threat for the Ivy title, they are far from the only one.

“It’s going to be more than just Penn and Princeton.

Brown is young and they’ll all be back, Harvard’s extremely talented, I think we’re going to see a really good Columbia team this year, and Yale is on the rise as well. We have a serious league here,” McLaughlin said.

For the second year in a row, the Ivy League will have a postseason tournament played at the Palestra.

In last year’s inaugural edition, the top seeded Quakers won both of their games to capture the title and an NCAA tournament spot in front of a packed home crowd. This year’s tournament is scheduled for March 10-11, and with so much on the line, this is definitely where the season reaches its climax.

“When I go back and watch the videos and see the confetti come down, it gives me chills. That’s our biggest goal, to get back there,” McLaughlin said. “To do it at the Palestra, in that atmosphere, what more can we ask for?”

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New year, tougher schedule.

In addition to a greatly improved Ivy League this season, Penn women’s basketball also has the chance to play better non-conference teams, such as preseason top-five squads Notre Dame and Baylor, as well as local rivals in the annual Philadelphia Big 5 series.

The Quakers open their schedule on November 15 with an away game against Binghamton, a team the Quakers fell to last year.

Penn is more than ready for the rematch.

“I think the first thing we have to do is start off really strong. Binghamton isn’t a big game necessarily, but we lost to them last year and it’s a game we definitely want back from the get go,” senior captain Anna Ross said.

The following week, the Red and Blue will head to the Bahamas to take part in the Junkanoo Jam. They open with Georgia Tech, last year’s National Invitational Tournament runners-up, and the result of this game will determine their opponent the next day. A win would mean they will likely go on to play Baylor, No. 3 in the preseason rankings and annual national title contenders.

The Quakers’ second opponent from the preseason top five is Notre Dame, who will visit the Palestra on December 9. These high-caliber additions to the schedule, while they might result in losses, will only help the Red and Blue in the long run.

Both Baylor and Notre Dame have years of NCAA tournament experience, and if Penn can learn from their play in these games, a defeat will be worth more than a win over a mid-major school.

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The Gulf Coast Showcase is actually just the beginning of a long road trip for Penn, who will be playing eight consecutive games away from the Palestra and not returning home until the tail end of December. On this road trip, the Quakers will battle Villanova, a yearly championship contender that is sure to give the Red and Blue all they can handle and more.

Coach Steve Donahue will be looking at the clash with the Wildcats as a golden opportunity to show the whole country the progress that Penn has made, and even if a victory may be overly optimistic, a solid performance could do wonders for the confidence of the team.

On January 5, the Quakers will begin conference play, and what better way to start it than with a home game against Princeton? Besides being rivals by nature, the Tigers are perennially one of the best teams in the conference and will be the first barometer the Red and Blue have to see how they might match up in this year’s Ivy League.

Following the game against Princeton, the Quakers will play another six games at home, spanning all of January.

The most difficult stretch of the season is surely the five-game conference game road trip in early February. Trips to Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell will prove stern tests of Penn’s mettle, and the road trip will almost surely feature several make-or-break type games with the conference season winding down.

After a couple home games, the Quakers finish the season on the road at Yale and Brown. As if any of the Quaker faithful need reminding, it was last year’s endof-season win against Harvard that sealed a place in the conference tournament. If this season is more of the same, these last two games could effectively be tournament games.

It is never too early to look ahead to some of the more intriguing matchups on the calendar. For Penn men's basketball, a season full of optimism features a plethora of compelling games that could prove vital to the team’s success. Should the Quakers handle the twists and turns of a difficult schedule, they could find themselves back in the Ivy League Tournament, where they can dare to dream of some March madness of their own.

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On the road at Brown, Penn rode its second-half of season momentum to drop 96 points on the Bears — its most in the new millennium.

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Midway through the Ivy League season, then-senior Sydney Stipanovich broke the Ivy League record for all-time blocks to become a program great.

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Some say you have to walk beEleah Parker should start for fore you can run. In the case of Penn at center from the get-go Penn women basketball’s Eleah GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

Parker, she’ll be at full sprint before even finishing her first semester.

As the Quakers graduated one

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“She’s got the potential to be really good. She has a great work ethic, she’s talented, she can lay the ball up with both hands, and can make a short-range jump shot,” McLaughlin said. “She has all of the qualities to have a great career here at Penn. The key right now is to try to get her acclimated day to day so when she starts she can be a key factor.”

McLaughlin noted that the program has a lot of faith in Parker, who was the 13th-ranked high school center prospect in the country by ESPN. But still, the coaching staff will try to manage early expectations as not to put too much pressure on her.

A multi-year Ivy League champion, senior captain Michelle Nwokedi is looking to build up chemistry with newcomers and get them up to speed for another impending season underscored by high hopes. “[The seniors] have experience and we’re trying to do our best to lead this team. That means keeping up the work ethic, guiding everyone, especially the freshmen, because everyone is going to see the floor this year,” Nwokedi said.

Recognizing the tremendous opportunity to learn from the reigning Ivy-League player of the year in Nwokedi, Parker has embraced the leadership of her elders.

“For me, that means learning from Michelle right now on the court, and falling behind [the seniors] and letting them be my role

models,” Parker said. “Our seniors are great — they are all captains this year. They are role models because they’ve been here before so they know how to guide us and what path to lead us down.”

As one of the biggest beneficiaries of Stipanovich’s dominance down low, Nwokedi will look to Parker to fill that all-important number five role that has been the hallmark of the program in the past.

“Through the past couple practices and scrimmages, we’ve been working on understanding each other, and the types of basketball that we both play,” Parker said.

“We need to work off each other, and that’s key because that’s how we’re going to continue to be successful.”

A three-time first-team all-state player in high school, Parker recognizes that she’ll have to adapt her game to be a standout at the collegiate level.

“The competition [in college basketball] will be different. The crowds will be bigger. It’s a bigger stage and that’s exciting,” Parker said. “Personally, I think adapting to the speed is most important, because it’s so different than high school. And just remaining big in the post, especially on defense. Allowing my presence to be big and not shrinking down.”

With only a week or so to go until first tip-off of 2017, the spotlight will soon be on the youngster as Parker will be seeing significant floor time on a team potentially poised for greatness.

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It was quite the accomplishment: before ever playing his first game in a Penn uniform, Matt MacDonald was already one of the team’s captains.

When the then-junior was entrusted with that leadership role a season ago, he was not a newcomer to college basketball or the Penn program; MacDonald had spent his first two seasons at Fairleigh Dickinson before transferring to Penn and sitting out the 2015-16 season due to NCAA transfer rules.

“There was certainly an advantage to [sitting out a season],” MacDonald said. “You can see things from a different ZACH SHELDON | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR perspective; you can see the game from a different angle… Despite not having the most vital role on the court, senior captain Matt MacDonald will be crucial to Penn men's basketball's success this While it sucked at the time, it season. MacDonald is the only returning captain this season, and coach Steve Donahue credits him with changing the program's culture. ended up being an advantage.”

When the Buffalo-area na- much a group effort.” playing time and positional court success would be gravy, culture at this place, it’s been tive was able to finally take the “Matt sets the standard. No prospects. “I’ll be ready when given the almost-hyperbolic Matt. It hasn’t been me,” Donacourt a season ago, he did so one outworks him,” Donahue my number’s called — I’m cer- way in which he describes Mac- hue said. with a firm leadership style, one added. tainly ready to help this team.”

Donald’s off-the-court impact.

“Peers in the group change that helped guide Penn from a MacDonald’s statistical onAnd to Donahue, any on“If anybody’s changed the the culture. And Matt did that.” disastrous 0-6 start in confer- court contributions were someence play to a berth in the inau- what limited a season ago — gural Ivy League Tournament. after starting the first 14 games For coach Steve Donahue — of the season, injury woes and who made MacDonald his very the breakout play of younger first addition to the team two players (notably then-freshman months after taking over the Ryan Betley) limited MacDonPenn program in March 2015 ald’s playing time to just 12 — character upside was the total minutes over the final nine number one reason for making games of the season.

MacDonald the program's first MacDonald’s propensity for transfer addition in over a de- hardcourt leadership from the cade. sidelines is partly genetic — his “Leadership potential was father, Mike, is the head men’s probably the number one factor basketball coach at Division in my mind,” Donahue said of II Daemen College and an achis fifth-year senior. “I wanted quaintance of Donahue’s. someone to set the tone with “I know his father really the work ethic, in the gym extra well,” Donahue noted, adding hours — and he’s done that.” that he had followed the youngMacDonald had also served er MacDonald’s career since as a captain in his sophomore high school. season at FDU in 2014-15 — Though he finished outside meaning that he was captain- the squad’s top five in total ing a Division I program while points, assists, and rebounds a the majority of Penn’s current season ago, Penn teammates roster was still in high school. did not hesitate to re-elect Serving alongside MacDonald MacDonald captain, a role ofthis season as captains will be ten reserved for the program’s senior guard Darnell Foreman marquee names. Uncertainty and junior forward Max Roth- remains about how exactly the schild. senior will be used during the 1511 Locust Street, Phila., PA 19102 “Anytime you’re elected any- final season of his career.

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Penn men’s basketball is going to improve this year.

All but one player who touched the floor last season for the Red and Blue will be returning in 2017-18. That doesn’t even account for the return of junior guard Antonio Woods.

Throw in another talented class of newcomers, and all the ingredients are there for a deeper and better Penn personnel.

Unfortunately for the Red and Blue, everybody else is getting better too.

Yale returns five of its top seven scorers from last season, and that doesn’t even include the comeback of senior star Makai Mason. Harvard returns eight of its top ten scorers, including reigning Ivy Rookie of the Year Bryce Aiken. Even defending champion Princeton, which saw two first team AllIvies graduate, returns a deadly trio of guards in Amir Bell, Devin Cannady and Myles Stephens.

Some have argued that “it’s the top three, then everyone else.” In its annual rankings of all 351 D-I NCAA basketball programs, ESPN listed Princ-

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eton at 76th, Yale at 80th, Harvard at 85th, and Penn at 129th.

However, those rankings do not put much weight on the Quakers' late-season turnaround, suggesting that the gap is not that wide.

Whether one sees Penn as the little brother to the HarvardYale-Princeton triumvirate or not, though, one thing is undeniable — the Ivy League is im-

proving, and fast.

“Ten or 15 years ago, we had two teams [Penn and Princeton] that were really good, and a lot of mediocre teams,” 19th-year Yale coach James Jones said.

“Now we have quality teams up and down the league, especially at that top four, that are really good.”

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This decade, the Ivy League has won five NCAA Tournament games — in contrast, the entire Ancient Eight didn’t get one March Madness win in the 2000s. According to Jerry Palm’s Conference RPI, the league has finished in the top 15 conferences in three of the past seven seasons after doing so only once from 1995 to 2010.

So what’s led to the drastic change? For starters, the Ivy League schools have revamped their financial aid policies greatly. Harvard served as a pioneer in 2006, when it made admission free for students whose families made under $60,000 annually.

The other Ivies soon followed suit with similar policies, and as Penn coach Steve Donahue admitted, “The financial aid is a big part [in our ability to increase our pool of talented players] … Unlike most sports in the Ivy League, we’re going against [teams whose players are on] full scholarships.”

But while financial aid can help one’s admission hopes, it can’t fuel a personal desire to give up major conference glory.

What goes on off the court has always been the Ivy League’s distinguishing factor — and when that academic prestige gets combined with a rise in nationwide respect on the floor, plus more television exposure

with the Ivy tournament, it’s a recipe difficult for recruits to pass on.

“I think student-athletes are really starting to see what the Ivy League has to offer, in terms of not just athletics, but the history of the academics and the great culture around the universities,” said Penn forward AJ Brodeur, who held scholarship offers from Boston College, Notre Dame and Saint Joseph’s, among others. “It’s great for the league, and I think that upward trend will only continue.”

Brodeur’s optimism is more than justified. Harvard made some major headlines with its Class of 2016, which ended up ranked 10th in ESPN’s recruiting rankings, and it’s beginning to look like the Crimson was more the rule than the exception.

Princeton raised eyebrows when it got a commitment from Jaelin Llewellyn, the nation’s 16th-ranked point guard in the Class of 2018. Harvard picked up a commitment from fellow Class of 2018 top-100 player Spencer Freedman.

Keeping up with the arms race, Penn’s Class of 2017 features players with offers from Temple (Jelani Williams), Dayton (Eddie Scott), and Pittsburgh (Jarrod Simmons), showing that the firepower joining the Ancient Eight will only continue rising.

As impressive as the headlines and recruiting rankings are, a couple of statistics still show that there is indeed room for improvement across the Ancient Eight.

The conference has still never seen two teams make the NCAA Tournament on the men’s side. At the professional level, Jeremy Lin remains the only Ivy alumnus in the NBA. But if the league’s trajectory continues on its current path, these stats will turn into fiction before the country knows it. “[Two-bid Ivy] is the one thing that I’ve been hearing about, and that should be the goal for the whole league,” Brodeur said. “I definitely think within the next five years, that’s a real possibility.”

“You will see kids in this league, in the next five to ten years, in the NBA,” Donahue said. “It’s just too good of talent coming in.”

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cerns, his only other offers came from Brown, Lafayette, and Holy Cross.

But Donahue saw enough potential in Betley that he was willing to take a chance.

“We kind of put a metric to each kid and [Betley] had a high rating, an All-Ivy rating,” Donahue said of Betley’s recruitment. “I felt strongly about that.”

The pieces were starting to come together for a brighter future on 33rd Street, but Donahue was not satisfied with just Brodeur and Betley. He wanted a point guard, too, so he set his eyes on Devon Goodman, an undersized speed demon from local Germantown Academy.

Goodman was also being actively recruited by Yale, but Donahue had a special in: Goodman was AAU teammates with Betley.

In Betley’s eyes, though, committing to a school was a personal decision. He would have loved to keep playing with Goodman, but Betley did not want to put too much pressure on him.

“We didn’t talk much about recruiting,” Betley said. “I didn’t push him or anything.”

Despite Betley’s hands-off approach, Goodman still cited him as having a big impact on his eventual decision to commit to Penn in that October.

“I think Ry definitely had a role in me coming to Penn. We’d been

good friends even before AAU, because we’re both from Philadelphia, and we played in the same area,” Goodman said. “He definitely influenced me to come to Penn.”

The three high school seniors would still have to wait a year to actually don the Red and Blue on the court together, but there was finally a light at the end of the tunnel for Penn men's basketball.

Finding Their Feet There was plenty of reason to be nervous about the state of Penn's program midway through the 2016-2017 season. Things were simply not going as planned for the first three commits of the Donahue era — the commits who were

supposed to be the ones to turn Penn’s long-disheartening fortunes around.

Brodeur, who had averaged 16 points and seven rebounds in nonconference play, had proven that he could produce at a high level, but his production was not translating to wins for the team when the games mattered most. After six Ivy games, the Quakers had failed to pick up a single victory.

Fans’ once-high hopes of being able to cheer Penn on at the inaugural Ivy League Tournament — in the Palestra no less — were dissipating rapidly.

To make matters even worse, Betley and Goodman had both struggled to build any kind of mo-

Coming of Age There was plenty of reason to give up on the season after Penn’s 0-6 start in Ivy play. The team’s performances had offered little inspiration and fans wondered how much one could realistically expect from three freshmen who had never even played this long a season before.

Apparently, a lot.

Instead of crumbling, the Quakers responded to Donahue’s challenge with a string of five straight dominant victories to put themselves back in contention for an Ivy tournament bid. Leading the charge was none other than the threesome of Brodeur, Betley, and Goodman, who combined for an average of more than 38 points during that winning streak, good for nearly half of Penn’s total points.

Once again, the Quakers would respond by doing the unexpected, but this time, the expectation was for them to win. Instead of making things simple and winning their next two games to wrap up their spot in the postseason, the Quakers lost both, including a head-scratching defeat to lowly Dartmouth at home.

The loss to Dartmouth put Penn in a precarious position heading into its final regular season game against Harvard. Upsetting the Crimson, who beat Penn earlier in the season by ten, would be a huge boost, but even with a win, the Red and Blue did not control their own destiny. Donahue could have cared less about the results of the other games, though.

“We got to win tomorrow night,” Donahue said the day before the game. “That’s what we got to do and that’s our sole mentality right now.”

And from the opening tip against Harvard, Penn showed just how much its mental toughness had improved since that fateful loss to Princeton four weeks earlier. In a thrilling win that was tightlycontested from beginning to end, it would be the senior Matt Howard’s 24 points and sophomore Jackson Donahue’s game-winning three-pointer that received most of the credit for the victory. But just as key to the triumph were the 34 points that Brodeur, Betley, and Goodman combined for.

Those points not only kept the Quakers in the game, but they also matched the 34 points that Harvard’s four starting freshmen put up, who were part of a recruiting

class that 247sports rated as the 25th best in the entire country.

Penn’s recruiting class for that same year was ranked 126th.

"I would take those three over anybody" The Red and Blue’s monumental win over Harvard ended up being just enough to get them into the Ivy Tournament. Penn came up heartbreakingly short in its semifinal rematch against Princeton, but the overtime loss gave the sold-out Palestra another taste of just how good Penn’s three freshmen were, as they combined for half of the team’s 64 points.

Heading into this season, the expectations — and the pressure — will be even higher for the trio.

They now all have a year of experience under their belts, but that experience also serves as a doubleedged sword. Opposing coaches will now have a full season of game-tape to study their tenden-

cies and impatient fans will know just how much is fair to demand from them. Still, Donahue is confident his star sophomores will take another big leap this season.

“Obviously I’m biased, but I would take those three over anybody in the league,” Donahue said.

“I feel strongly that they’re going to be really productive players in this league.”

The sophomores are confident too.

“I think we have as good a shot as anyone in the league to win a championship, and I really think that everyone in the locker room believes that,” Brodeur said.

The team clearly has high expectations for itself this season, but those lofty goals seems to be fully within reason.

Of course, you can never be sure with Penn men's basketball, but with Brodeur, Betley, and Goodman leading the way, there is plenty of reason to be optimistic.

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There was plenty of reason to question AJ Brodeur’s decisionmaking when he committed to play for coach Steve Donahue at Penn before his senior year of high school in July 2015.

Not only had Brodeur sported offers from high-major programs like Notre Dame, who was coming off a trip to the Elite 8, but also Penn men’s basketball was simply in a bad place. Just three months earlier, Donahue’s predecessor, Jerome Allen, had been forced to resign following a dismal 9-19 season that saw the Quakers tie for last in the Ivy League. And it wasn’t just one down year.

Allen had failed to bring Penn to the NCAA tournament in any of his six seasons stalking the Palestra sidelines — the same Penn that had dominated the Ivies for the better part of four decades and the same Allen who was twice named Ivy League Player of the Year during his legendary playing career with the Red and Blue.

Fans were optimistic that Donahue’s coaching pedigree would help restore the prestige Penn basketball once held, but even Donahue knew that it would take special kinds of players to bring Penn back to relevance.

“We’re going to recruit highcharacter kids that play an extremely fast, skilled, gritty and smart style of basketball,” Donahue said after being hired.

In Brodeur, Donahue found a star forward he could build the future around, but the team still had major flaws. Shooting was of particularly high concern, as the Quakers had shot under 35% from behind the arc the past season, and just 67% from the free throw line.

Enter Ryan Betley — a wiry, baby-faced wing who in high school was seen as one of the best shooters in the state of Pennsylvania.

Just eight days after Brodeur tweeted his decision, Betley made his commitment to Penn official on July 14. At the time of Betley’s commitment, there were plenty of concerns about the low level of competition he faced at his nearby high school Downingtown West.

Perhaps as a result of these con-

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After the loss, Donahue was blunt in calling his players to task.

“Mental toughness — Princeton has it. We’re trying to get it. That had a lot to do with this game.”

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fractured his hand.

When Betley eventually did get healthy, his results were mixed. He would have a couple solid games where he scored double-digits, but he’d have other games where he seemed to disappear on the offensive end. It was the kind of inconsistency you would expect from a freshman just a few games into his college career, but Betley’s injury forced him right into the unforgiving fire of the weekly back-to-back games that define an Ivy League schedule.

Both the freshmen’s and the team’s struggles came to a head in Penn’s early-February home game against Princeton. In front of a raucous crowd that was eager to see the Quakers get their first Ivy win against a bitter rival, Penn was embarrassed. The Tigers dominated the entire second half on their way to a 64-49 victory, and Penn’s three highly-touted freshmen seemed frazzled, combining for only 16

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After beginning the season towards the bottom of the rotation, Goodman was finally given the starting nod in the team’s two winter break matchups with Drexel and Fairfield. While Penn managed to win both games, Goodman’s performances were ugly.

His combined stat line for the two games: 28 minutes, three points, 1-7 shooting from the field.

“I think he likes to fit in, feel comfortable, and when he does, he’s very confident,” Donahue said of Goodman.

In those two starts, it was clear Goodman was not comfortable yet.

Betley’s season also got off to a slow start, but for different reasons.

After leading all players in scoring at the team’s annual open scrimmage, there was plenty of reason to be excited for Betley’s first official appearance in the Red and Blue. Instead, Betley’s debut was delayed by nine games after he

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whitlatch recovers from acl tear for senior year Captain spent second half of last season out injured TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

After a breakout sophomore season in 2015-16 that saw her become a key piece of the Quakers' starting lineup, Lauren Whitlatch entered her junior season expecting to be a key piece for a Penn women's basketball team which hadn't lost a single rotation member to graduation the year before. But the Quakers' plan of having the same starting lineup for two seasons straight was derailed in January, when Whitlatch tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in practice.

An ACL tear is possibly an athlete's biggest nightmare. It's frequently a non-contact injury, so it can happen at any time. Jumping, landing, twisting, turning, planting, shifting, bending, and running are actions all athletes perform on a regular basis. They are also all actions that can tear one's ACL. For Whitlatch, like for so many others, it happened seemingly out of the blue.

"It was on the fastbreak," Whitlatch recalled. "I was going back

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on defense, and I started shuffling back, and all of a sudden I felt like — kind of like a crack."

Oftentimes, athletes know instantly that their ACL is torn. Many athletes describe feeling and hearing the dreaded "pop," and in many

cases it is extremely painful. Whitlatch was able to walk off the court, and was hoping for good fortune — which she'd had, up to that point, for her entire life.

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ing room for anything. Like, I didn't know what an injury was."

Whitlatch had carved out an important role on a very talented Red and Blue team. A huge threat from beyond the arc, she was instrumental in spacing the floor for Penn's star post duo of Sydney Stipanovich (who graduated after the 2016-17 season) and reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Michelle Nwokedi. But even beyond her shooting ability, Whitlatch had been leaned on as a major contributor on both sides of the ball. And suddenly, Penn was no longer able to lean on her.

"She gets hurt — she's starting for a year and a half, and she gets hurt last year when we're trying to make a championship run," coach Mike McLaughlin reflected. "It was deflating for her."

That Ivy League championship run was ultimately successful, and despite her absence on the court, Whitlatch was still determined to contribute the entire way.

"We had a season to finish," she said. "Although my role changed, it was still [important] being a part of the team and helping them when they needed something, or giving that little extra push."

Of course, helping the team from the sidelines couldn't quite replace the feeling of pouring in three-pointers.

"It's always tough," Whitlatch admitted. "You always want to be out on the court, you always want to be giving your most, making the extra push, start sweating a little."

Now, Whitlatch and her smooth shooting stroke are back, and she feels 100 percent. Her coach couldn't be happier.

"We had a lot of conversations [after the injury, saying,] 'You'll get back bigger and stronger, and your role will still be here, and we need you,'" McLaughlin remembers.

"And she worked really hard... she's made a remarkable recovery."

But for McLaughlin, having Whitlatch back is about more than her shooting and defense.

"She's Lauren. She's the best teammate you could possibly have.

She's got command, she's got a presence about her. She's probably one of the nicer kids I've ever been a part of coaching, and I'm so excited for her."

Whitlatch is excited too, and she's hungrier than ever to help bring Penn a third straight Ivy League title and potentially its firstever NCAA Tournament win.

"I'm definitely [hungrier]," she said. "A lot of that has to do with the injury, and with [it being my] senior year."

Whitlatch has one season left to wear the Red and Blue, and after her previous one was cut short, she's going to cherish this last goaround more than anything.

"The biggest thing is, don't take anything for granted, and give it 110% on the floor each day," Whitlatch said. "Because you never know what's gonna happen — those uncontrollables. It's more about what you can control each day."

7-foot-3 rookie took two gap years for religious service THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Associate Sports Editor

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Unlike some high-profile athletes at other Division I schools, Penn athletes are almost never stopped for selfies on campus. At least, not until walking skyscraper Mark Jackson showed up.

“I basically can’t go out without people staring at me,” Jackson said. “I get asked for pictures at least once a day. It happens all the time. The number of photos of me out there… so many.”

Unlike those photo-magnets at a Duke or UCLA, Jackson’s apparent fame has nothing to do with anything he’s done on the court. After all, the basketball season won’t start for another few days. Jackson isn’t recognized on Locust Walk – he’s gawked at.

It turns out that the insanely tall guy you stared at the other day saw you looking, and for the record, he wants you to know that he’s 7-foot-3.

While Jackson’s height gets him his relative fame, it’s not even the most interesting thing about the freshman. Jackson has had perhaps the most interesting path to Penn of any student-athlete. It was also the longest.

Jackson committed to Penn in his senior year of high school all the way back in 2015. From the start of the recruitment process, coach Donahue and his recruit had an understanding – Jackson would commit and apply to Penn in 2015, but defer attendance until 2017. In the meantime, the Salt Lake City native would go to Paris for his Mormon Mission.

Both Donahue and Jackson suggested that the two-year gap would be beneficial for Jackson. Instead of getting a raw teenager just growing into his body, Penn would get a stronger, more mature 21-year-old.

“I just kind of knew that was something I wanted to do,” Jackson said. “[The coaches] were very ok with that, they thought it would give me more time for my body to develop.”

Over the last two years, Jackson has indeed grown. When he left high school for Paris

shower, prepare really quickly for the day and then go out and be doing things.”

Jackson is one of the only D-I athletes that hasn’t played their sport competitively for the last two years. He admits that after playing only a few games of pickup ball against French kids he called “not great,” his feel for the game is rusty.

“Coming back and trying to get back in the swing of things has been frustrating. I’m not where I was at before in terms of tendencies and being able to know what to do quickly.”

Donahue suggested that it might be a while before the freshman reacclimates enough to see time on the court.

“He’s probably got to gain another 30 pounds of strength,” Donahue said. “If he can become a well-conditioned kid with all those other attributes…

ZACH SHELDON | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR It could happen in six months, Prior to coming to Penn, freshman Mark Jackson spent two years abroad on a Mormon mission. Jackson's a year, a year and a half, two mission was centered in Paris, where he had the opportunity to work with people from around the world. years — I think it’s going to happen,” Donahue said. two and a half years ago, the on Penn’s campus are used to. spend preparing for his college If Donahue is right, Penn giant was about thirty pounds The Mormon church imposes basketball career. basketball fans will be looking lighter than his current frame. a strict set of rules and regu“Basically, we had an hour at a 24-year-old 7-foot-3 giant, Jackson would say that the lations that govern everything every morning to work out. I with the strength and ability to more important growth for from the schedule Missionaries would do pushups, sit-ups, go match. Even if it takes Jackson him has been spiritual. To hear must follow, to the music they run, stuff like that.” Jackson a few years to shake off the rust Jackson tell it, the point of the listen to and their internet ac- said. “In the last four months, and fill out his frame, the potrip is to learn how to serve cess. The goal of these rules is I was put in a place near a bas- tential is there for Ivy League others less fortunate that your- to preserve the focus on service ketball court. Every morning domination. self. In Paris, this meant visit- and eliminate personal distrac- we’d wake up at like six and Maybe in a few years, people ing with refugees fleeing from tions, but it also limits the take a bus to the basketball will be asking for autographs, wars in Syria and elsewhere, amount of time Jackson could court. I’d work out, go home, not just selfies. growing closer to God, and more immediately, learning French.

“Basically, we’re volunteers for our church. We work with people that are interested in learning more about Mormons, what we are and what we do.

We do a lot of service,” Jackson said. “It’s pretty crazy just being over there and meeting people. When I went over, I didn’t speak French. I just like went over and kind of learned the language and learned what it’s like to live in France.”

“We just did service the entire day. When you are 100 percent focused on other people, it’s pretty eye opening; it teaches you a lot about what’s important in life. Working with refugees, just seeing how hard their lives have been, just to see all the difficulties they went through… it makes you think about how blessed you are.”

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Travel tournaments: a tropical thanksgiving Men's team takes Florida, women head to Bahamas MARC MARGOLIS Associate Sports Editor

While most Penn students eat large meals and gather to watch football on Thanksgiving, both of Penn’s basketball teams will spend their breaks on the hardwood.

The women's team will travel to the Bahamas for the Junkanoo Jam beginning on Thanksgiving Day, while the men will leave campus a few days early and travel to South Florida for the Gulf Coast Showcase, which begins on Monday. While the Junkanoo Jam is comprised of a lot of higher caliber programs, the Gulf Coast showcase is comprised primarily of mid-major programs.

However, aside from the obvious intrigue on the court, a PHOTO BY A. DUARTE / CC 2.0 lot coordination and planning is done by the Penn Athletics While the several days off from school due to Thanksgiving serve as a nice break for students, Penn basketball will be hard at work. The men's team Flexible Leasing Single andcompeting Double Rooms •Showcase, while the women's squad will travel to the Bahamas to participate in the Junkanoo Jam. be in Florida in the Gulf Coast staff in order to make this all •will possible.

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Simmons and Scott could figure in rotation early KARMAN CHEEMA Sports Reporter

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From left to right, freshmen Jelani Williams, Eddie Scott, Mark Jackson and Jarrod Simmons are shaping up to be another exciting freshmen class for the Red and Blue, and one that can step in and contribute with significant minutes from the get-go this season.

the Ivy League," Williams said.

"We’re a really confident team — the younger guys and the older guys are talented and everyone has something to bring to the table."

Time will tell if the Quakers can reach their expectations.

Coach Steve Donahue sees a lot of promise in the freshman four, and equally lots of room for improvement as they get accus-

tomed to the system.

One thing is for certain though — after last season’s impressive (albeit heartbreaking) finish, the likeliest time for a breakthrough is now.

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fensive aggressiveness as well as assertiveness on the floor. Coming into the campaign, Scott already has great chemistry with Williams, as the two grew up together. Nevertheless, there is plenty of room for growth.

“The goal is to always grow as a team. We have a lot of young players on this squad, and we need to build on everything we accomplish this year to move forward,” Scott said.

Finally, Jackson is a 7’3” center from Salt Lake City, Utah who seeks to emulate Jazz center Rudy Gobert’s impact on the court — although, he admits he looks a lot like Larry Bird. Jackson returned from a two-year mission trip to Paris, and his main focus is getting back into playing shape before he can contribute.

“I have a great relationship with the coaches and liked what they had in store for the program.

Also, the Palestra and the campus are great,” Jackson said, explaining why he committed to Penn.

Clearly, the freshman four value a family atmosphere. The chemistry that they build on the floor over the next few months will allow each of them to flourish and help the Quakers reach new heights.

For all four newcomers, there was one goal that was universally shared: winning the Ivy League and competing in March Madness.

“We can be the best team in

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Every year, the Ivy League men’s basketball scene continues to improve. Each freshman class sees a new group of increasingly athletic and talented individuals coming to play from all over the nation and beyond.

This Quakers' 2017 freshman class is no exception.

The freshman four — Jarrod Simmons, Jelani Williams, Eddie Scott, and Mark Jackson — complement each other well and are looking to make an immediate impact on the program.

“We have a lot of different pieces. Usually you don’t get a whole bunch of different guys playing different positions that work together, but we do," Simmons said. "We have Mark, a 7-footer who puts in work, Ed and Jelani, two great guards, and myself, who can play different positions. We gel and I love those guys.”

Simmons, a Pittsburgh native, tries to emulate some of the best two-way players in the game today — Kawhi Leonard and Giannis Antetokounmpo. At 6’8”, he adds plenty of athleticism and length on the perimeter and the front-court. As Simmons explains, he looks up to those two professionals because of their versatility.

“Those are guys that try to do everything — they defend, they dribble, they shoot, and they help their team in any way possible.

I’m just trying to be a guy who can do everything and not be a liability."

Williams is a 6’5” point guard from Washington, D.C. Due to injuries, he will not be taking part in live scrimmages until early December. When he returns, he looks to contribute as a guard who can do it all, just like Russell Westbrook, the NBA's Most Valuable Player in 2017.

“I watch a lot of Russell Westbrook," Williams said. "I try to be an athletic point guard and get a lot of rebounds. The height helps with looking over defenses and making great passes. I play like a big guard.”

Scott is a Bowie, Maryland native. The 6’6” guard also takes pieces from Russell Westbrook’s game in terms of scoring and of-

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antonio woods returns after a year and a half out Junior guard took time off after academic suspension BREVIN FLEISCHER Sports Editor

Penn men's basketball guard Antonio Woods is ready for his second act.

After facing a temporary academic suspension that kept him off the court from January of 2016 until the conclusion of this past season, Woods has been back at Penn taking classes since last spring and is now ready — and academically eligible — to help the Quakers return to the Ivy League Tournament.

Before his suspension, Woods was widely seen as one of the program’s brightest stars. Starting as a freshman, he contributed 8.4 points per game and led the team in assists and minutes played. His sophomore season was cut short by the suspension, but Woods made the most of his limited time as his scoring average rose to 10.7 points per game.

Woods' suspension took a steep toll on the team; after his sudden departure, the Quakers struggled to finish the 2015-2016 season, losing their final four Ivy games. Those struggles extended into the begin-

ning of last season as Penn lost its first six conference contests. All the losing seemed to confirm the troubling trend that the Red and Blue were lost without their high-scoring guard.

That trend would soon be bucked completely when Ryan Betley and Devon Goodman joined AJ Brodeur in the rotation, as the three thenfreshmen phenoms altered the season’s trajectory and re-established the Quakers’ winning ways.

Now with Woods back in the mix, Penn looks to continue its ascent.

“From basketball alone, [Woods’s return] brings in a guy that’s had a lot of games under his belt,” coach Steve Donahue said.

“He’s older and seasoned by what he’s been through... It has made us a better, more seasoned, more mature basketball team.”

Although one might be concerned that the reinsertion of a player of Woods’ caliber could change the complexion of the team and disrupt pre-existing chemistry, Donahue assures that the transition has been smooth.

“I think that [the transition] has been pretty seamless,” Donahue said. “That’s a credit to him. He doesn’t have a lot of ego to him. He

just wants to help us win.”

Aiding that seamless transition was Woods’s re-admittance into classes for last year’s second semester, which enabled him to be around the team for most of the season.

“Coming back, all of the coaches encouraged me to take in what was happening and to become almost another coach on the bench,” Woods

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said. “That helped me to learn the game in a different way and to see things that other people on the court might not see, and I was able to use it to help my teammates gain an advantage, so I was always involved with them and with the process.”

Importantly, his time as a pseudocoach coupled with his days away from the team have allowed Woods to expand and refine his own game both mentally and physically.

“That coaching role has helped me take my game to another level this season,” Woods said. “I was able to see things from a different perspective last year, and this year, I can apply those things on the court.

However, as Woods would readily admit, these past two years and their accompanying struggles have transcended basketball. But as disappointing as the suspension was for Woods, he still sees the silver lining.

“When it first happened, I had to become a man, basically. I had to find a job. I had to pay bills,” Woods said. “I had to learn how to live life and overcome bad events in my life.

I learned from it for sure. Things happen, and everybody makes mistakes, but I had to learn from those mistakes, and I really feel that I did learn.”

To facilitate that learning away from the classroom, Woods spent just as much time working on himself as he did working on his game.

As a volunteer with the Philadelphia Youth Basketball Organization, Woods mentored inner-city kids from the Philadelphia area and helped to host summer camps with other Philadelphia colleges. These camps helped raise money for a $25 million facility – equipped with

multiple indoor and outdoor courts – that the organization is building in Logan Triangle. In addition to the courts, Woods, speaking passionately about the project, says that the facility will have a nutrition center, a weight room, a learning center, and a Philadelphia Hall of Fame.

Woods’s tone changes slightly when talking about the other work he did during his time off from school.

“At night, I worked at Temple Hospital as a transportation person, moving people from one area of the hospital to another. I moved people for MRIs and CAT scans, and I even took bodies to the morgue, so I saw a lot. As a 21-year-old, I feel like I saw a lot that I maybe wasn’t supposed to see, but it was a humbling process for me. I was able to meet so many different people with so many different stories. I’m happy that I was able to affect their lives a bit, because they definitely made imprints on mine.

“That entire year was a learning experience for me, and I feel that I’ve grown a lot because of it,” Woods concluded.

As both Donahue and Woods himself have suggested, that growth will only help a young Penn men's basketball team looking to make some noise in a star-studded Ivy League. Woods, along with the vaunted sophomore class and captains Darnell Foreman and Max Rothschild, forms one of the deepest teams Penn has had in years.

With Woods at the helm, maybe that depth and his own personal growth can translate into a championship celebration on the Palestra floor in early March.

Senior captains make the most of off-court friendship WILLIAM SNOW Senior Sports Editor

court, which is really nice.”

When the two first came to campus freshman year, however, they weren’t exactly best friends.

That chemistry has developed over time, but it took a while to get going.

“Did we know each other? We always joke about this now. We were ‘friends,’ but we were acquaintances more so,” Nwokedi laughed. “It’s so funny, because I was best friends with Lauren, and Anna had so many friends outside of basketball. We all thought she was so cool.”

Things changed fairly quickly, though. Ross noted that she slid away from her friends outside of the team once Ivy League season started.

Nwokedi was then recognized as the most social member of the team, Whitlatch said, while Anna was recognized as the one with “that inner weirdness” that her teammates all love about her. The Quakers became a family.

“We only hang out with each other now. It’s not annoying; we enjoy it. That first month of practice, though,” Ross joked, “Oh my god. We were freshmen.”

But the pair have come a long

way since they were young freshmen. Each has continued to improve her game, members of the team said, and each has broken out of her shell to become socially central members of the team.

Coach Mike McLaughlin saw

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we know each other. It’s so easy just to know what she’s going to do on the court.”

That chemistry is easy to observe. The two are in constant communication on the floor, picking each other up and feeding off each other’s successes.

In the team’s Red and Blue scrimmage this preseason, Nwokedi and Ross were (unsurprisingly) placed on the same team to take on Team Blue. Almost every time the power forward gave the point guard the ball on the inbound, there was a brief conversation between the two as they carried the ball up the floor. Sometimes those exchanges ended in grins and chuckles, but regardless of what they were saying, it must have worked — the Reds beat out the Blues by a score of 65-62.

“Me and Anna — we get each other,” Nwokedi explained. “Every time I give the ball to her, I can say to her, ‘This didn’t work last time, so let’s run this,’ or just kind of talk about certain things that are going on. It’s serious, but sometimes it’s a little jokey — don’t tell coach!

“We’re best friends,” Nwokedi continued. “We hang out all the time. And it translates onto the

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At the heart of one of Penn Athletics’ most successful programs lies a dynamic duo unlike any other.

Anna Ross and Michelle Nwokedi aren’t exactly conventional stars. Yet the pair of seniors has risen up to become the unmistakable face of Penn women’s basketball.

Three years and two Ivy League titles into their careers, Ross and Nwokedi are enjoying the time of their lives at the peak of their game. The pair has made the most of an off-court friendship and turned it into a trophy-winning combination.

Dominance was the word on everyone’s lips when asked to describe Ross and Nwokedi. Coach Mike McLaughlin and teammates alike were all quick to emphasize Nwokedi’s dominant paint play and Ross’ consistent high level over all three years — she has started every single game since joining the Red and Blue in 2014.

But classmate and fellow captain Lauren Whitlatch went one step further in her description of the two.

“They’re a power duo for sure.

They have so much talent, and you can see that without them saying anything,” Whitlatch said.

“They’re definitely just so talented, but in the most humble way.”

Neither Ross nor Nwokedi mentioned their own accolades or personal highlights when interviewed.

But thinking about their role on the team makes it unavoidable.

The two of them combined account for over a third of the Quakers’ production in all five statistical categories last season — ranging from 33% of the team’s rebounds to 52% of the team’s blocks (as Ross rightly pointed out, the blocks stat is almost entirely as a result of Nwokedi).

“Honestly, it’s so much fun,” Nwokedi said of the pair’s dominance, in a characteristically witty and deflective manner. “We talk about this all the time, our class in general — seeing how far we’ve come, from freshman year to senior year — it’s just crazy.”

“It’s fun, and it’s a natural thing,” Ross echoed. “We’ve been playing together in season and out of season for three years now, so

in one of them in particular a huge shift as she relates to the team socially.

“Anna Ross, when she came here freshman year, I couldn’t get five words out of her. And now, she’s the face of the program.

That’s pretty special.”

Ross and Nwokedi will captain the 2017-18 team alongside fellow seniors Whitlatch and Beth Brzozowski. And while the pair will strive to lead the team on the court to a third consecutive Ivy League title and a first-ever NCAA Tournament victory, they have plans this year that are a little more immediate.

“Right when we leave here, we’re gonna go get dinner,” Nwokedi said after one preseason practice. “We’ll probably go watch some type of TV show or movie.

I’m not kidding. It’s funny, because with senior year, the course load isn’t as intense, and we have a lot of free time...we just started Stranger Things 2. We finished it in like a week.”

Watching Stranger Things may be a great pastime for the Quakers’ star players, but it’s not likely to improve their game — at least, in ways we can understand. The endless hours they spend together, understanding each other and the way to get the best out of one another, however, has shown real results for the Red and Blue.

So when you see Penn women’s basketball’s dynamic duo goofing around on the streets or on the court, take note — you’re watching them get even better.

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inside penn's evolution from zeroes to heroes Senior class has seen a transformation of the team THOMAS MUNSON Senior Sports Reporter

The seniors on Penn men’s basketball have faced their fair share of adversity during their four years in University City.

Losing records, a coaching change and transfers are not easy hurdles to clear. But three years later, senior point guard Darnell Foreman and the rest of the class of 2018 lead a team that is a legitimate contender in the Ivy League.

“When I first came here, the biggest thing was just finding out how to win,” Foreman said about his freshman season.

That year, the Quakers didn’t pose much of a threat and finished at the bottom of the 201415 standings. But in the ensuing seasons, there was a change, and with it came new success.

“Now we’ve carved out a way to win games,” Foreman explained. “And that’s basically to have a sense of urgency on defense while also having a poise about us on offense and having that combination is crucial.”

However, the change didn’t just occur on the court. The team grew tighter off the court as well, which contributed to their rise.

“The biggest culture shift has just been the bond we have right now,” senior forward Sam Jones said. “We’ve been through a lot, especially our senior class, new coaches new adjustments. When we came in the team wasn’t as close, freshmen through seniors, and I’d say this team right now is real close. We all hang out together.”

That closeness has allowed Penn men's basketball to take the next step and get back to the roots that made the program a perennial power in the Ivy League.

“We just got tired of losing, and there’s only one way to win. You’ve got to be together,”

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Jones explained. “We’re not going to be the most talented group on the floor every single night, but we can be the closest and know each other the best and that’s what’s going to make us good.”

Foreman, who is one of three captains this season, has seen the culture shift that Jones spoke of transfer directly to the basketball court.

“We’ve just matured,” Foreman said. “As the years went on we found different key components and ways for us to win games.”

Coach Steve Donahue, who won three straight Ivy titles with Cornell from 2008-2010, helped accelerate that evolution.

“For me and the guys that I came in here with, just that whole maturation process was big for us,” Foreman explained.

“Coach just really instilling that process and giving us the opportunity to keep growing and growing and making mistakes,

eventually we got to the point where we are now.”

The combination of growing older and Donahue’s presence helped accelerate the rebuild.

“I think there has been a dramatic change in culture from the first day I got here until now,” Donahue said. “I think that first year group there was still a hangover in terms of what we expected how they approached practices and games.

I think our leadership over the last year and a half has gotten so much better.”

Last year, that leadership and maturity helped the Red and Blue to dig themselves out of an 0-6 hole to begin the conference slate and earn an appearance in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament.

For the first time in their three years in University City, Foreman and his teammates found themselves playing meaningful games in February and March.

More often than not, they succeeded in those contests, learn-

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ing on the fly while leading a fresh group of players.

“We were a young team and the only way you go from being a young team to a more mature team is just going through the trials and tribulations of the season,” Foreman added. “If that’s being thrown through the fire in different aspects that’s fine because we’ve learned from it and we know what to do now when we get into situations similar to that.”

Penn surprised many last year with its brilliant run to the Ivy League Tournament, where the team narrowly lost to eventual champion Princeton in overtime. Undoubtedly, they will build on that experience, but the stakes are different this season as the Quakers won’t be able to sneak up on anyone. For the seniors, this is a chance to complete what would be a miraculous worst-to-first transformation.

Foreman believes the team is up to the task.

“Now we’re not thinking about just getting into the Ivy League tournament,” he stated.

“We want to win the league, we want to win the Big 5, those are attainable goals if we stay on the process that we’re in."

The Quakers got their first taste of postseason basketball in 2017, but now they won’t be satisfied with just a seat at the table.

“When we were freshmen the first couple games we didn’t expect much from ourselves,” Jones added. “But it’s now or never. There’s no tomorrow.

We’re not building for the future. It’s this year and that’s all we have.”

Last year, the Quakers won close games, they won elimination games and most importantly, they won more games than anyone on the team had before during their time at Penn.

This year, they don’t have to learn how to win, because for the first time in a while, they’ve been here before.

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"I think a neutral site somewhere in New York would be the best place. Geographically it's in the middle; there's a ton of alumni in that area. I'd be in favor of something like St. Johns where it's equal for everybody," Jones

said.

Neutral venues for postseason tournaments are extremely popular for larger conferences such as the ACC or the Big Ten, but can be difficult for smaller conferences that cannot afford to pay for

larger arenas.

Regardless of the path the Ivy League chooses to take, the tournament should continue to provide thrilling competition. But after this year, it's anyone's guess where it will be.

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Last year, the Ivy League tried something new.

For the first time ever, the conference held a four-team postseason men's and women's tournament to determine which teams would receive the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. And by all measures, it was a wild success.

The event, which was hosted at Penn's Palestra, looks like it will become a staple, thanks in part to the riveting games that were played. The tournament featured one overtime game, one game decided by a single basket, and several of the Ancient Eight's marquee rivalries. But what exactly is the future of the Ivy League Tournament?

For 2018, it's quite clear. The tournament will once again be at the Palestra at the end of this season, and even some of its former critics have become strong advocates for having the tournament in general.

"I was never a strong proponent of the tournament," Penn men's coach Steve Donahue said. "But after going through what we did last year personally, and then seeing what the tournament looked like at the end, I thought it was an incredible experience for three more teams that would not have experienced any postseason."

But what about the long-term prospects of the tournament?

There is no commitment to a venue beyond this season, and the Ivy League has several options to choose from.

First, they can keep the tournament as is and continue to have it at the Palestra. Many coaches around the league have showcased their support for having the event at one of the most historic buildings in college basketball despite it being Penn's home court.

“I’ve been very clear and very adamant in my opinion. If we’re going to have a conference tournament, in my opinion — and no one cares what I think — but I’ve felt that we should have it here at the Palestra,” Harvard men's coach Tommy Amaker said at the end of the tournament last year.

“This is a historic venue. It’s an

amazing basketball facility and arena, amazing history and tradition, as we know. So for me, personally, if we’re going to do it, having this venue in our conference to me, we should rally around that and showcase that.”

Being the "Cathedral of College Basketball," the Palestra was a natural choice for the first tournament. But moving forward, the question of home-court advantage comes in to play for the Red and Blue. Penn's coaches feel that there was in fact no advantage at all.

"We're not even in our locker room, everything is shifted, people are in the area that we're in," Penn women's coach Mike McLaughlin said. "We had to adapt. It was a home court for us because we played there, but nothing else was a home court — we weren't in our locker room."

Donahue concurred.

"The whole environment was so even... I just felt it was a great atmosphere for a tournament game."

But others feel strongly that having Penn play on its home court every postseason gives the Quakers an unfair advantage.

"Well yeah [it's an advantage], when you get to play on your home court after you finish in the top four, that's going to be an advantage for you," Yale men's coach James Jones said.

For those who agree with Jones, there are two options. The Ivy League could adopt a rotating system where each Ivy school gets a chance to host, or they could go to a neutral site altogether. Each method has its own strengths and weaknesses.

If the Ivy League chooses to go with a rotating system, it would give each school the chance to showcase their own arenas.

However, the league would then run into the problem of smaller venues. The Palestra is by far the largest basketball arena in the Ancient Eight, and it was filled to capacity during the tournament last year. Moving the tournament around would decrease the number of fans able to see the event live from 8,722 (the Palestra's capacity) to as low as 2,100 (Dartmouth's capacity, with most other Ivy arenas not far ahead).

However, hosting the tournament at a neutral site is certainly a viable option, and it would help to eliminate any sort of home court bias.

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