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Republican tax plan to impact graduate students Scholarships would be treated as regular, taxable income NATALIE KAHN Deputy News Editor

Graduate students at Penn could stand to lose almost 40 percent of their income under the proposed Republican tax plan.

The tax proposal, which was unveiled early this month, is a $1.5 trillion plan that entails a rewrite of the current tax code. It could deliver significant cuts in the corporate tax rate — a reduction from 35 percent to 20 percent — and various new taxes for universities.

On Nov. 9, Penn President Amy Gutmann, Provost Wendell Pritchett, and Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli called the plan “regressive” in an email, which also encouraged students to vocalize opinions on the proposed measure.

“We are working closely with our peer universities and professional groups to inform elected officials of our concerns and to emphasize the value to our country of support for higher education,” the email read.

One of the communities that stands to lose the most is graduate students. The proposed policies would tax the scholarships that graduate students use to pay for tuition as regular income, making graduate education unaffordable for many.

Graduate students, particularly those in Ph.D. programs, usually receive a teaching or research assistantship stipend which is valued at approximately $30,000. Along with this stipend, many Penn Ph.D. students are also granted tuition scholarships, which can amount to almost $50,000 based on the field of study.

The increase in taxes is rooted in changes made to what is considered “taxable income,” explained Graduate and Professional Student Assembly President and third-year Design and School of Arts and Sciences professional graduate student Miles Owen.

Currently, only graduate student stipends, which are approximately $30,000 at Penn, are subject to tax. But under the new Republican proposal, both graduate student stipends and their $50,000 tuition scholarships can be taxed, which means they would have to pay significantly more on their income.

In addition, a study conducted by University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. student Vetri Velan found that the tax plan will affect graduate students at private universities like Penn more dramatically than those at public universities. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which Velan used as a case study, research assistants who make about $37,000 and approximately $50,000 in tuition will have to shell out nearly 240 percent more in taxes.

Under the new plan, their taxes would grow from $3,993 to $13,577.

Penn graduate students may also face significant changes in their taxes, though not all students will be equally affected.

At Penn, graduate students are paid differently across schools and departments. Some students will be subject to increased taxes on both their tuition scholarships and stipends, which will pose a significant financial burden, Owen said. Others, who pay taxes only on their stipends, will be affected less by the new Republican plan.

“You would not be able to make a living wage off of graduate stipends,” Owen said about the new proposal. “You’d have to be independently wealthy to pursue graduate studies.”

Penn, as an institution, could also lose substantial funding under the tax proposal. While private institutions are currently exempt from taxation on their investment income, the new plan would impose a 1.4 percent excise tax on the University’s endowment returns. According to The Atlantic, “endowments are tax-exempt funds, including donations and investments, that colleges and universities manage over many years to pay for a wide range of expenses.”

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ew College House West, which will be built over the High Rise field, is the latest of three major projects that Penn has undertaken in the past four years to expand on-campus housing. Some administrators have said that the main reason for building New College House West is an apparent need for more on-campus housing, though student accounts and data on student housing seem to contradict this.

Interviews with various administrative departments suggest that it might be more likely that Penn approved plans for New College House in 2013, Hill College House in 2015, and NCHW in 2017, with the long-term goal of providing capacity that would allow them to renovate older college houses like the Quad.

Student accounts and data suggest that there isn’t increasing demand for on-campus housing When the Board of Trustees announced the construction of NCHW earlier this month, Penn President Amy Gutmann said the new residential building would

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Students are unsatisfied with halal dining hall options

Kings Court is the only dining hall to currently serve halal food

“enable more Penn students to participate in the College House system.”

Vice President of Penn Business Services Marie Witt said the average occupancy rate across all College Houses is 97 percent and in some years, that rate has reached 100 percent. University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy also told The Daily Pennsylvanian in an emailed statement that while Penn currently has the capacity to house 5,800 of the school’s 10,468 undergraduates, there is a “need beyond that.”

But information from other administrative departments seems to contradict this.

Data from Penn Business Services shows that every year since 2012, the number of undergraduates who live in College Residence halls has hovered around 5,700 students, which is a hundred less than the 5,800 that MacCarthy said Penn is able to house.

Various students have also indicated anecdotally that they are looking to move off-campus or continue staying in their off-

GIANNA FERRARIN Staff Reporter

Nearly two years ago, Kings Court English College House became the first — and remains the only — dining hall on campus to serve halal food. For Muslim students, the inability to opt out of the meal plan means they can only visit one dining hall on campus for meals. This situation is made even more complicated by the fact that several students have noticed lapses in the dining hall’s adherence to halal food preparation rules.

On Nov. 8, two incidents were reported to Bon Appetit’s registered nutritionist by five freshman students, including College freshman Bhaktiar Choudhury and Wharton freshman Asfandyar Cheema. One detailed an occasion where there was no available halal food at Kings Court English House, and another described an incident in which cooking wine, which is not permissible under the rules of halal, was used to cook halallabeled chicken.

Bon Appetit Resident District Manager Stephen Scardina said Penn Business Services conducted an investigation upon receiving these two reports.“It wasn’t wine as one would buy in a state store, but it was a cooking wine,” Scardina said of the second incident, “but still we removed all of that from our operation, and we rewrote any of the recipes that would call for that type of product so that it would never happen again.”

Wharton freshman Shehryar Khursheed said he has heard of at least two additional instances in which alcohol was used in food preparation and two in which meals with pork were mistakenly labeled as halal.

Khursheed also said that in comparison to Kings Court English House, both Falk Dining Hall at Penn Hillel, which provides kosher food, and Hill College House dining hall, which offers vegan options, take greater precaution to adhere to the dietary restrictions of students.

Scardina said the Kings Court English House dining staff undergoes a training in halal food preparation practices arranged by the Muslim Students Association every semester. He also said that Bon Appetit’s campus executive chef, Christopher Smith, performs check-ups to make sure the kitchen practices are up to the proper standards three to four times every week.

College and Wharton junior Zuhaib Badami, the president of MSA, said the reported incidents were not “especially terrible” and are understandable given that Kings Court English House’s halal options are part of a growing process.

“The halal chicken dishes are put next to the not-halal meat dishes which is, that’s basically not how you do things like if you’re saying a dining hall is halal then you have to realize that every single thing in that dining hall has to be halal,” Cheema said.

Khursheed has contacted the Provost’s Office and the Dining Advisory Board in an effort to have halal food trucks be covered under dining dollars so that Muslim students could choose from better halal options than they would in campus dining halls. By doing so, Khursheed said more upperclassmen would be willing to participate in the dining plans.

“If it continues, then the very fact that Penn Business Services and Penn requiring us Muslims to be on the dining plan when dining doesn’t fully cooperate with our beliefs is kind of counterintuitive and just fosters tension between us and Penn administration,” Khursheed said.

So far, he says his plan has received “huge backlash” from administrators. Director of Business Services Pamela Lampitt wrote in an email to Khursheed that for now, Penn is trying to focus solely on improving current dining facilities on campus, rather than expanding efforts to outside vendors.

“We should approach it as, in my perspective, if one person is affected by this, then the whole Penn community is affected by this,” Khursheed said.

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Pulitzer-winning reporter discusses his Trump scoops David Fahrenthold said Trump called him ‘nasty’ MAX COHEN Contributing Reporter

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who first broke the story of President Donald Trump bragging about groping women without their consent came to Penn on Tuesday evening.

Speaking at the Annenberg School for Communication, the Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold detailed his experiences covering Trump and discussed how journalism has changed in recent years.

Fahrenthold, who started at the Post 17 years ago covering homicides during the night shift, rose to national prominence during the 2016 presidential campaign. The 2000 Harvard University graduate wrote a series of investigative articles revealing that Trump had exaggerated the extent of his charitable giving. He was also the first to break the story of a 2005 video

showing Trump making lewd comments about kissing and touching women without their consent.

Fahrenthold told students he first picked up the story on Trump’s charitable giving during a campaign rally in Iowa held in February last year. At the event, Trump made a show of presenting an $100,000 check to a local veteran’s charity from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which Fahrenthold said he found strange. Later that month, Trump hosted a rally where he promised to donate $1 million of his own money to a veterans charity.

“The cardinal rule of charity is that you can’t use it to boost a political campaign,” Fahrenthold said.

While conducting his investigation into Trump’s promised donation to the veteran’s charity, Fahrenthold said he was forced to deploy methods beyond his traditional journalistic training.

The reporter turned to Twitter on May 24, 2016 to ask his

followers whether they knew anything about the donation, all the while tagging Trump in his tweets.

The overwhelming number of responses surprised Fahrenthold, but few of them promised concrete evidence, he said.

However, later that night the Post reporter received a phone call from Trump, who said he had already given the money to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, which helps families of fallen Marines.

When Fahrenthold pressed him on whether he would have actually given the money away if not for his reporting, the conversation turned personal.

“He called me a nasty guy,” Fahrenthold said, prompting laughter from students in the crowd. Despite Trump’s criticisms, Fahrenthold won a Pulitzer Prize this April for national reporting for his series of stories that ”created a model for transparent journalism in political campaign coverage.”

Wharton freshman John

Casey said he enjoyed the behind-the-scenes look into the life of a political journalist.

“It gives me a clearer picture of politics, and made it more engaging for me as a political science student,” Casey said.

Wharton freshman Jordan Taylor agreed, adding that the event gave insight into the life of an investigative reporter.

“My favorite part was how he had push through to find the information he wanted,” Taylor said. “It shows how relentless you have to be to find success.”

Fahrenthold also said he had observed a revival of public support for journalism since the 2016 election. He acknowledged that much of this interest is due to the volume of news surrounding the president, but argued that newspapers need to do more than “just cover Trump.”

To capitalize on its growing audience, Fahrenthold said the Post has been working to hire more investigative journalists and technology reporters. He said the newspaper has changed

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significantly since he started there in 2000, but added that he wanted to end his talk with a time-honored tip for journalists.

“Never assume anything, go back to every story, and check how every sentence can be wrong,” Fahrenthold said.

Over coffee chats, Penn Law student fights Muslim stereotypes ‘This is my country,’ Akbar Hossain has said UROOBA ABID Contributing Reporter

A month after President Trump’s election, a driver at the corner of 40th and Market streets told third-year Penn Law student Akbar Hossain to “go back to [his] country.”

Hossain, a Muslim American, responded with an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer where he wrote, “This is my country and I’m not going anywhere.” Hossain added in the article that he welcomed all readers to meet with him if they wanted to learn more about his background.

“The seat across from me at the coffee shop will always be open. That’s my promise,” he wrote.

A year later, and amid a nationwide rise in hate crimes against Muslims, Hossain has received more than 300 responses to his article and had dozens of coffee chats with people to discuss Islam.

“There is a vacuum of information that is just not there, that the media continues to fill with misinformation,” Hossain said.

“That’s where I think the coffee dates can help.”

Hossain, who immigrated to the United States when he was nine years old, attended Franklin & Marshall College

for his undergraduate degree on a full-ride scholarship. He later received both the Truman Scholarship and the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship before coming to Penn to pursue his law degree.

Hossain’s family was originally from Bangladesh, but moved to Saudi Arabia for about five years before applying for a United States Diversity Visa Lottery in 2001. More than 13 million people applied for the lottery in that same year, but Hossain and his family were selected as one of 88 families from Saudi Arabia to win entry into the United States.

Hossain said his family was excited to begin a new life

stateside, but they quickly had to shift their expectations. The Hossains arrived on Sept. 9, 2011, just two days before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. After the attack, hate crimes against Muslims in the United States jumped from 28 in 2010 to 481 the next year.

As a Muslim growing up in Norristown, Pa., Hossain said he recalls being bullied for his last name and his country of origin, but added that he thinks he was still lucky, compared to some of his peers.

“I surround myself with people who are accepting, but I don’t think that’s true for the majority of Muslims that live in the United States,” Hossain

said. “They are living in a microscope in terms of how they act.”

As a law student, Hossain has worked to apply his expertise to causes he feels passionate about.

“Akbar is a committed advocate, and appreciates the importance of supporting legal advocacy,” Penn Law professor Sara Paeoletti, who worked with Hossain in the Penn Law Transnational Legal Clinic, said in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian. She praised his ability to “loo[k] for other outlets to help shift the messaging around immigration.”

Hossain serves on the Young Friends Committee for Knowledge is Power Philadelphia, pro-

viding services to the Philadelphia charter school network. He is also one of seven members on the Norristown Planning Commission, where he works to create businesses that provide support for minority residents like other Muslim Americans.

While Hossain said his dream job is to run the Office of Immigrant Affairs for a local government, he will be joining a private law firm in Philadelphia as an associate after graduation.

He said he hopes to continue to work with those seeking asylum and refugee resettlement issues in a pro-bono capacity.

“It’s just about being a good person,” Hossain said. “The rest will follow.”

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Penn receives record number of ED applications Applications from all geographic regions are up HARRY TRUSTMAN Copy Editor

After extending the deadline for students affected by natural disasters, Penn has received a record number of Early Decision applications for its incoming class of undergraduate students.

The University received 6,731 applications, a 9.5 percent increase from last year’s record-breaking number of 6,147 applications.

Of the students who applied, 47 percent are women, 11 percent are first-generation college students, 40 percent self-identify as students of color, 16.5 percent were educated outside of the United States, and 16 percent are legacies, which refers to students who are children or grandchildren of Penn alumni.

Applications increased in all geographic regions. International applications increased by 5 percent, making up 16.5 percent of the pool. On the domestic front, applications from the Mid-Atlantic had the largest increase of 18 percent. Both the West Coast and the Midwest also saw applications increase by a significant number of 17 percent.

Applicants from the Northeast increased by 8 percent, bringing its total percentage to 43 percent of the pool. This makes the North-

east the most represented region at Penn.

The most represented states are Pennsylvania, with 915 applications, New Jersey, with 785, California, with 715, New York, with 695, Florida, with 254, and Texas, with 226.

In an emailed statement, Penn Dean of Admissions Eric Furda highlighted the geographic diversity of the applicant pool.

“The breadth of the increase geographically, across the United States and around the globe, stands out to me as one indicator of the appeal of a Penn education,” Furda wrote. “This is particularly telling given the severe natural disasters of the last few months which has disrupted the lives of many communities and the attraction of U.S. higher education from abroad.”

The Managing Director of the College Counseling Service Ivy Coach Brian Taylor agreed, adding that there has been a trend across elite, urban universities to court students in rural areas.

“After the presidential election, [colleges] made a concerted effort to appeal to students in more rural areas,” he said. “There are Americans in places where schools haven’t traditionally recruited.

Schools like Penn have made concerted efforts to attract these kinds of students.”

Taylor also credited Furda’s

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candor and outreach efforts for the increase in application numbers.

“When you have an admissions officer who is so forthright about what Penn is looking for,

it’s going to encourage people to apply,” he said. “I think college applicants respond to what he has to say.”

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lege Counseling and 1986 Wharton graduate Laurie Kopp Weingarten agreed. She highlighted Furda’s blog, page217.org, a Coursera course Furda started that

teaches high school students how to apply to college, and Furda’s satellite radio program, “The Process,” as innovate ways the dean reaches potential applicants.

Penn students sell ‘Ninth Street Jerky’ made by Amish artisans

The jerky is available at Gourmet Grocer on campus NAOMI ELEGANT Contributing Reporter

Penn students have launched numerous startups from their dorm rooms, but few have been as unconventional as this new business from College juniors Christian KildalBrandt and Ryan Finch. The two students, who met on Penn’s Track and Field team, are running an artisanal beef jerky business.

Kildal-Brandt and Finch cofounded “Ninth Street Jerky” in their sophomore year with the aim of bringing a high-quality, nutrition-

al snack to college students and revamping the “gas station” image of beef jerky in the process, Finch said.

On Nov. 12, Penn’s on-campus market Gourmet Grocer began stocking their jerky, which comes in six different flavors and is priced at $11.99 per packet.

The founders said they were inspired by the high-quality, affordable meats they found on trips to Philadelphia’s 9th Street Italian Meat Market. When the two students were on the Track team, beef jerky was an easy source of protein.

They are no longer on the team but still rely on jerky as a snack.

“We definitely wanted to keep in shape, and jerky was the way for

that,” Kildal-Brandt said.

The students said beef jerky’s ease of consumption and high protein content makes it an ideal fuel food for college students with busy schedules.

“It’s a very easy product for students to consume,” Finch said.

Ninth Street Jerky sources its products from Amish artisans in Lancaster County, Pa, who use the more traditional method of manually hanging the jerky to dry. The founders said this gives the jerky a higher quality and a more authentic taste compared to mass-produced jerky processed in large-scale industrial dehydrators.

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But the founders said they are also open to adapting their plan.

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Kildal-Brandt said his favorite flavor is “Pioneer,” which is a cracked pepper jerky, while Finch’s is “Ranger,” a barbecue jerky. Moving forward, the founders said they plan to hold outreach events on Penn’s campus to promote their product.

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Why our cultural groups shouldn’t be ignored CONVOS WITH CARLOS | We need to recognize all our cultural communities

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 87 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

On the night of Oct. 24, I received an unexpected call from my friend, Columbia University freshman Cat Sposato. After we exchanged a few quick words, I received an email with the header “Alianza Help.” The email was sent to garner support for Alianza, Columbia and Barnard’s only pan-Latinx organization on campus, which had just been denied recognition by the Activities Board at Columbia.

Alianza’s mission is to unify underrepresented Latinx students on campus who feel that they do not belong elsewhere.

In the email, Alianza asked for letters of solidarity from student groups to show their support for both Alianza and its members who are a part of that community. I quickly hung up the phone and proceeded to forward this email to Penn’s Latinx Coalition to see if it could help out by writing a letter of solidarity.

It didn’t stop there. The email was sent to other similar organizations at peer institutions. As soon as I forwarded the same email to my friend at Harvard University, I was astounded when she said that various student groups had already been informed. This flood of interIvy support — which included

Black, Asian-American, Chicano, women, and LGBT student groups — showed solidarity that proved the significance of having an organization like Alianza.

Over the next couple of hours, letters of solidarity were created throughout the night. A compilation of all of them can be seen in a Huffington Post article that shows the countless student groups that helped Alianza’s efforts to overcome obstacles for representation and receive funding.

Students gravitate toward people and places they feel most comfortable with and supported in. During our time in college, we find ourselves in many classes, clubs, organizations, and programs where we can find our support system. It takes some time to find these places, and peoples’ needs can change over time.

However, we must come together in these times to support one another when no one wants to recognize us and make sure that our various cultural communities are valued on campus.

Without any prior knowledge,

people might say that this issue was blown out of proportion. However, representation is very important to have if you are a person of color at a predominantly white institution.

On behalf of students like me, I am grateful for organizations like La Casa Latina and Penn’s Latinx Coalition on campus.

I, and many others, rely on resources found in these organizations, such as a sense of community and students like me, to be able to survive and thrive in

course, there are guidelines and protocols to officially recognize a group based on many different factors — student membership being one of the most important.

Yet, even with the sizable student population at Alianza, there is still pushback to recognize a group that helps address the intersectionality of the different identities that many Latinx students possess: “to be afro-latinx, to be queer, first-generation, undocumented, low-socioeconomic status, disabled, and an immigrant.” On the other hand, there are clubs with only one or two members that automatically get approved. This directly challenges the sentiment students feel when they come to campus as prospective students and all they hear about is how can easily they can start student groups.

Fortunately, the next day, Alianza was recognized by the Activities Board at Columbia after going through the appeal process. I was ecstatic when I found out. Moving past the first phase of recognition, this will help Alianza to craft a budget

The struggle for representation often comes with obstacles, but when we see others fighting, that is when we need to step up.” environments like Penn.

Minorities often come from backgrounds that offer fewer resources than those of more affluent students. Just imagining that groups like Penn’s Latinx Coalition and Alianza would even be challenged is ridiculous. Of

CARLOS ARIAS VIVAS and secure funding, which is vital in supporting the group’s mentoring initiatives for lowincome students in the Bronx and Harlem.

Everyone has a place on their campus, even if it might take some time to find it. Sometimes, that place can change. Or it might not even exist yet. The struggle for representation often comes with obstacles, but when we see others fighting, that is when we need to step up. Being silent only perpetuates the issue. This is why allies are so crucial in the process. Even if it’s 1 a.m., we should pick up the phone and get ready to work.

CARLOS ARIAS VIVAS is a College freshman from Stamford, Conn., studying communication. His email address is cariasv@sas.upenn.edu.

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THE OBJECTIVIST | What a freshman is thankful for at Penn I’ll admit it: Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday, has traditionally been more about how many pumpkin pies I can consume than reflecting on what I’m thankful for. But as a freshman who wants to get as much out of a Penn education as possible, I believe some self-reflection is probably healthy. So, I’m going to try something new this year and contemplate what I am and am not thankful for at Penn thus far.

First off, I’m very thankful to be here, at Penn, sitting in my cozy Quad dorm room, writing for all of you. I think back to how I felt last year at around this time — stressed out of my mind writing application essays and counting down the days until mid-December — and where I am now, and it honestly seems like another life. With all the stresses we endure at Penn, it’s so easy to forget just how lucky we are to be here.

Thanks, Dean Furda!

I am not thankful for the Penn dining plan. The conversion rate from swipes to dining dollars is absurd, and considering that all freshmen are required to be on the dining plan, it’s ludicrous that Penn would feel the need to effectively take money away from students.

For students on the meal plan with the most dining dollars, each swipe is worth around $16.48, so it’s

about a 70 percent loss to convert swipes into dining dollars at $4.87 per swipe. Not to mention that the price of the food itself for the quality we are getting (or lack thereof) seems high.

I am thankful for the residential programs Penn offers. These programs automatically give students a community when they come to Penn, easing the transition between high school and college life and connecting students with like-minded peers. As a member of the Integrated Studies Program, I’ve really benefited academically and socially from living with same students who share half of my courses; friends in other residential programs that don’t have a strictly academic component also love it. If you’re a prospective student reading this, consider looking into these residential programs, as many other schools don’t offer these truly unique freshman experiences.

I am not thankful for the cap on courses in the College of Arts and Sciences. Freshmen in the College and the School of Nursing are lim-

ited to 4.5 course units in their first semester, whereas freshmen in the Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are limited to 5.5. It’s laudable that College academic advisors want to ease the transition into Penn by limiting the amount of courses we can take, but many students enter the College with plans to pursue rigorous interdisciplinary majors, double majors, and dual degrees.

And most students want to take as

why College and Nursing students shouldn’t at least have the option to take similar course loads as their Wharton and Engineering peers.

I am thankful for how accessible Penn’s resources are to its students.

Coming into Penn, I knew that Penn’s resources were vast, but I was concerned as to whether or not these resources would be out of reach for a College freshman. In my limited experience, I have been utterly impressed by how easy it is to find out about certain events, grants, and fellowships, and how easy it is to reach out to speakers, professors, and more. While some opportunities are, by nature, exclusive, that I can even put something like the President’s Engagement Prizes on my radar as a freshman and have a network of people who can help me along the way to my goals is incredible.

Finally, I am not thankful for the standard of living in the Quad.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m grateful that I live in the Quad and the outside aesthetic is stunning. Indoors, on the other hand, is a whole other story. There’s mold in the showers,

… we can all take a step back and reflect on what an amazing school Penn is, even if there’s room for improvement every now and then.” many courses as possible to discover their interests, particularly in their first year. If taking five courses during freshman fall will potentially cut the course load of future semesters — and if we all pay the same tuition — it seems difficult to justify

JACQUELYN SUSSMAN in the bathrooms, and in the walls.

I have heard of countless cockroach and silverfish invasions, and as an arachnophobe, I despise the many spiders I have seen crawling about my room and the halls. Perhaps before spending $163 million on a new residential building, the administration could invest in making the Quad a less gross place to live.

For sure, Penn has its faults. But with Thanksgiving just around the corner, we can all take a step back and reflect on what an amazing school Penn is, even if there’s room for improvement every now and then.

JACQUELYN SUSSMAN is a College freshman from Westport, Conn.

Her email address is jasuss@sas. upenn.edu. “The Objectivist” usually appears every other Wednesday.

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Home for Thanksgiving break, but not Thanksgiving PHONE HOME | You don’t have to celebrate Thanksgiving to be American “Are you going home for Thanksgiving?” is the question I’ve gotten the most over the past month. Before this year, yes, I did go home (preThanksgiving flights to Texas, unfortunately, have only gotten more expensive with time). But though I’ve been home every year of my life for Thanksgiving Day, I have never been privy to a real Thanksgiving.

My nuclear family is vegetarian, and nobody except me likes pumpkin-containing desserts — two facts that would complicate matters very slightly in any household attempting a traditional Thanksgiving. I used to joke that we’d treat a pineapple as our turkey, slicing it up and baking it for our

“Thanksgiving lunch.” The truth is, though, that there was never any such meal — nothing you’d term a “Thanksgiving meal,” anyway. Sometimes we’d make jalapeno cornbread as a half-hearted nod to the season, but mostly we would carry on with our lives as usual, barely acknowledging the day except to discuss Texas A&M’s Thanksgiving game.

Of course, it’s not because we’re vegetarian that we don’t know what to do on Thanksgiving Day. As is inevitably said around this time of year, Thanksgiving isn’t all about the food — it’s about family, and also (obviously) about giving thanks, and we could easily have had a Thanksgiving

that featured a pineapple as its centerpiece if we were at all serious about the spirit of the tradition. But my nuclear fam-

their two children. It’s hard to treat the day as special when you have no extended family in the United States with whom

Celebrating Thanksgiving the ‘right way’ shouldn’t be a litmus test for Americanness.” ily, aside from being vegetarian and shockingly averse to pumpkin, is composed of two first-generation immigrants from India (my parents) and

to reunite and celebrate, and it’s even more difficult when it seems not to apply to you at all.

Like everyone else, I learned the Thanksgiving story over

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and over again in elementary school. And like many of my peers, I learned somewhat later that this Thanksgiving story lacks a great deal of important context: that when the Pilgrims were weak, the Wampanoag protected them, and that not long after this display of “friendship” (in pursuit of a peace treaty), the English settlers began to raid the villages of those whom they called “savages” and “heathens,” decimating the population. I am never sure if it’s my place to say this, but certainly, we ought to decolonize the way we teach and think about Thanksgiving.

There’s another, less immediate problem with the prevalence of the Thanksgiving myth as it’s taught in schools. This is a problem that ought to be of concern to everyone, but particularly those who come from immigrant families continually confused by the hows and whys of Thanksgiving, and who tend to ignore the holiday (both its more and less palatable sides) altogether. We learn in school that the Pilgrims and their descendants (and those who look like them) are the “real” Americans. We think they’re more “real” because they were “first” — but that idea is a product of the Thanksgiving story’s mythic qualities.

This is a particularly insidious idea in a country so often described as a “melting pot” and a “nation of immigrants.”

It erases those who were not immigrants, and makes all subsequent immigrants out to be less fundamentally American.

Two boys in my third-grade class claimed to be related to William Bradford, and this was viewed with more awe than was strictly warranted — it was a sort of American pedigree. If we learned the right story, though — one that didn’t place Bradford and his fellow Pilgrims on a pedestal — it wouldn’t be much more significant than a student saying they

SHILPA SARAVANAN could trace their ancestry back to anyone else remotely wellknown.

While the story of Thanksgiving is a mess, the cultural values underlying it — a day of family, of gratitude for a literal or metaphorical harvest — are worth celebrating. We know they’re worth celebrating because most cultures have at least one harvest festival that amounts to “giving thanks.”

My parents’ families in India, for instance, celebrated two different versions of Pongal, the major South Indian harvest festival. Pongal is far, far more relevant to my family than the American idea of Thanksgiving. But because of how ingrained the Thanksgiving story is in our culture, as long as I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, I’m still (to some degree) the Other.

We should correct the way we see Thanksgiving, and tell the most factual story of the holiday that we can — most of us know this. But we should also recognize that Thanksgiving (not unlike Christmas) is a festival important to certain groups of Americans, and less important to others. Celebrating Thanksgiving the “right way” shouldn’t be a litmus test for American-ness. At the end of the day, it’s just another harvest festival.

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.

The problem with ‘random acts of kindness’

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Penn is cutthroat. Its academic prestige and emphasis on pre-professionalism attracts ambitious, determined students. Their desire to succeed here, paired with factors like forced grading curves and unnecessarily stressful club culture, can have the effect of pitting students against one another, thus fostering unhealthy levels of competition.

Just last year, Wharton professor Adam Grant noted that Penn’s hyper-competitive culture was the worst he’d ever seen it. “The way it is at Penn is far, far, far more damaging than at Harvard [University], or [University of] Michigan, or [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill],” he said.

About two weeks ago, as a part of an effort to promote a more positive campus culture, the Class Board, Undergraduate Assembly, and Penn Wellness organized “Random Acts of Kindness.”

Jars were placed around campus with suggestions of nice things to do, ranging from reaching out to a high school friend to sharing study guides.

While the sentiment behind this initiative was well-intended, its execution was highly problematic.

Being nice shouldn’t be an assignment allocated to one week of the school year; we should strive to be kind all the time.

Caring for one another is not a chore to be completed. We cannot simply do one nice thing for someone and dismiss our responsibility of being good people. The issue with “Random Acts of Kindness” is its neglect to address a greater problem: Penn is not a kind place.

Although the hyper-competitive culture here can be toxic, being ambitious and treating each other well are not mutually exclusive. Instead of proposing short-term solutions to cultivate a more friendly campus culture, we

should try to eliminate the parts of Penn that make it feel like we can’t be both ambitious and kind.

For example, the forced grading curve in many classes discourages collaboration. It also pushes students to compare oneself to others in unhealthy ways. Many are so focused on beating the person next to them that working to advance their knowledge becomes less of a priority. In other words, the curve compromises the purpose of learning.

College junior Maria Formoso noted that during “Random Acts of Kindness” she “overheard one girl pull out a deed that read ‘share your study guide,’ and right away she said, ‘no way that’ll mess up my curve.’” The fact that, in order to increase their GPAs, students can’t be bothered to collaborate with one another, is indicative that this problem exists within our campus culture.

“Random Acts of Kindness” fails to target the root of the problem that lies within Penn’s culture of hyper-competition; the environment here is one of extremes where ambition and collaboration cannot coexist.

Recently, however, we have taken some steps in the right direction. Some students are working to develop the Penn Club Review in order to combat the excessive anxiety associated with the superfluous selectivity of clubs. The Penn Club Review serves as a way for students to monitor the selectivity of clubs and provides them with important information on different organizations in a similar manner to the Penn Course Review. This coupled with new regulations from the Students Activities Committee on interviewing for club recruitment have made the club process less intense. This could alleviate some of the competitiveness that prevents us from being

ISABELLA SIMONETTI kind to each other.

In theory, there’s nothing wrong with “Random Acts of Kindness.” It is important that we set aside time to be nice to those around us and providing ways to do so is a fine idea. But the fact that we need to be reminded to be kind to one another is a major problem.

At Penn, unkindness is the norm. “Random Acts of Kindness” highlighted this without doing anything to fight it. We should do away with superficial methods for tackling the negative campus culture here and instead adapt more active strategies like the Penn Club Review.

The ultimate aim of receiving a college education should be to further our knowledge, and prepare us for the real-world. For Penn students, the desire to succeed is a fundamental component of our personalities. But here, the issue is that competition is unfriendly, uncollaborative, and unproductive.

Kindness at Penn shouldn’t just be reserved for one week; it should be just as integral to our identities as our competitive spirits.

ISABELLA SIMONETTI is a College freshman from New York. Her email address is isim@sas.upenn. edu. “Simonetti Says So” usually appears every Tuesday.

Take a stroll — or a brisk walk, if you’re late to class — along Locust Walk, and you’ll probably be bombarded by flyers promoting a bevy of events.

Some of them will catch your eye. Maybe it’s because you’ll get free food or the people promoting the cause were especially compelling. Other events will just flit in and out of your consciousness.

You’ll be busy that night, you tell yourself. Or you just don’t care.

Either way, do you really feel that bad that you just walked past that eager college student who handed you a flyer? I doubt it.

Just two weeks ago, the Class Board, Undergraduate Assembly, and Penn Wellness organized a week where Penn students would perform “random acts of kindness” towards one another. To spearhead the movement, they put glass jars in various locations around campus with suggestions about ways to be kinder to one another. The intention was to promote positivity around campus.

The act of dedicating a single week to underscore the importance of being kind to one another seems counterintuitive.

Shouldn’t being nice to one another come naturally to us? I couldn’t help but wonder what would happen after the week was over. Would the people temporarily influenced by this rash of selflessness continue to err on the side of generosity? Or would they simply forget about that week?

What does it really mean to be a kind college student? Our values are essentially flipped on their heads from the moment we get here. We become busier as we take challenging courses, join clubs and teams, and work. We begin to define our own paths.

Sometimes, it means forgoing

time with friends or family. At other times, it just means ensuring that you are not overextending yourself by going to every event that someone asks you to go to, and that’s OK. Before I started college, I had more time, plain and simple. I often feel bad that I don’t go to every single event that I hear about, especially the philanthropic ones.

When one of my friends asks if we can get together to study, and I simply don’t have time to, I feel remorseful. The problem is that I just don’t have the time to do absolutely everything. I feel that the hustle and bustle of college life has made me less kind.

Let’s not forget to mention the air of competitiveness that permeates Penn. Penn is an inherently competitive place full of unique students. Our talents and strengths got us in, and now we live, work, and play together.

Sometimes we collaborate, but at other times we see each other as competition. We become wary of the people in our classes, worried that the one person on the other side of the room may ruin the curve for everybody else. Sometimes, we can’t deal with not being special anymore. That’s why we become, whether we admit it to ourselves or not, less kind.

We think about ourselves before others. I know that there are hundreds of other students here just like me who want the same job opportunities as I do. We greedily hope that we can shine in the spotlight as much as we did in high school and be that much more special than our peers. Our desire to be the best comes at the price of being kind.

But maybe we need to redefine what it means to be kind as college students. This new version of kindness accounts for our hectic lifestyles. We shouldn’t regret

ALEX SILBERZWEIG taking time for ourselves, rather than being constantly present in the lives of those who want and need us there. Forgoing plans with friends, no matter how much we care about them, so that we can study for a midterm should be acceptable, because we can expect this to happen to any one of us.

So how do we deal with these feelings of selfishness? Knowing that other people feel the same way helps. The fact that we had to be reminded to be kind highlights the lack of selflessness that would otherwise come about so naturally. Saying “no” to going to a social gathering when I know I have a lot of work has only started to come across as acceptable when I know that we are all, more or less, in the same boat. Time management has as much to do with making sure to dedicate sufficient time to each of your classes as it does to budgeting time to be with friends and family.

Maybe losing our otherwise well-defined sense of kindness is just a part of growing up.

ALEX SILBERZWEIG is a College sophomore from New York, studying mathematics and economics. Her email address is alexsil@sas.upenn.edu. “Brutally Honest” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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Penn Democrats and NexGen promote participation in local races Penn Dems helped over 100 students register to vote MICHEL LIU Staff Reporter

Penn students and groups played a role in Philadelphia’s important Nov. 7 elections.

Last week’s elections included candidates for District Attorney, city controller, Philadelphia County’s Court of Common Pleas seats, Philadelphia Municipal Court seats, and several local election officials on the ballot. Democratic candidates won across the positions; notably, Philadelphia residents elected Larry Krasner for DA, a highly-publicized race given the indictment of the previous Philadelphia DA and his progressive ideas on criminal justice reform.

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campus apartments because it can offer lower prices. In 2016, around 4,300 students lived off-campus.

Despite several new major housing projects from Penn, Bill Groves, the senior operations manager of the real estate company University City Housing, said he has not seen undergraduate demand for off-campus housing decrease in recent years.

He added that he has in fact seen an increase in demand for off-campus housing among graduate students.

A representative from Domus, an off-campus apartment building located at 34th and Chestnut streets, said 50 to 60 percent of the apartment building complex is made up of Penn students, and demand has only been increasing.

“We have a lot more students than we used to have and the majority of them are Penn in some capacity,” said the representative. He added that while the complex has adjusted its rates to accommodate

At Penn, several student groups have been at work to encourage voter turnout on campus. In accordance with their new focus on local politics, Penn Democrats have been helping students register to vote since the beginning of the semester, said Penn Dems President and College junior Rachel Pomerantz. She said that the club has helped over one hundred students register this fall.

NextGen, a new group on campus that aims to increase student participation in politics and promote progressivism, formed after the voter registration deadline but tried to help inform students of the election.

“We tabled on Monday, letting people know that there was an election happening the next day, where their polling place was, and helping them understand the candidates,”

said co-President of NextGen and College sophomore Nicole Brigstock.

Brigstock said that encouraging voter turnout for local elections is an important goal of her club due to the popular misconception that political change only happens at a federal level.

“Much of our day-to-day life is influenced by smaller elections,” Brigstock said. “Showing up to vote once every four years is not going to cut it.”

While Pomerantz said that she was not surprised by the election results, due to the large majority of registered Democrats in Philadelphia, she was pleasantly surprised by the participation among students.

“Turnout was really good considering the fact that it was an off-year election,” Pomerantz said. “We

were really excited to see the enthusiasm on campus for Larry Krasner because he is a seminal figure in how Philadelphia thinks about criminal justice.”

Last week’s election yielded the highest voting turnout for DA since 1997, and millennial voting in Philadelphia has increased its turnout the most out of any age group over the past four years.

College junior Kathleen Norton voted in Harnwell College House and said the process was easy and quick, since “there was nobody in line.”

She added that a NextGen student volunteer helped her understand how and where to vote.

“I get very confused about voting, so I probably wouldn’t have voted if there wasn’t a booth outside Harnwell,” she said.

the increase in competition with new buildings around campus, there were no current plans to take similar steps in anticipation of NCHW. David Adelman, chief executive officer of the real estate company Campus Apartments, estimated that 60 to 70 percent of its residences are occupied by Penn undergraduate students. He added that the company has never had houses that they couldn’t fill.

These accounts also seem to conflict with Penn’s argument that there is a need to build NCHW in order to accommodate growing demand for on-campus student housing.

College sophomore and current Radian resident Ila Sethi said she would not opt to live in NCHW given the choice.

“The high rises already have the same location on campus and most juniors and seniors choose not to live there,” she said. “I don’t think anyone ever chooses to go off campus because of a lack of availability on campus.”

On-campus housing at Penn has

faced stiff competition from offcampus options In the past decade, Penn’s college houses have had to compete with the range of off-campus apartmentstyle buildings that have popped up across campus. These include luxury apartments like Domus and the Radian, as well as more affordable options like Chestnut Hall Apartments and the recently renovated Hamilton Court Apartments.

Witt said NCHW is being designed to address these student demands for more suite-style living arrangements.

Based on the results of a 2016 survey that Penn Business Services conducted on nearly 600 undergraduates who were moving off-campus, Witt and her team concluded that students would prefer to stay oncampus if they were given better living arrangements.

According to survey results, 52 percent of the participants said that they planned to live in residences that could accommodate four or more friends, and approximately

60 percent indicated that the opportunity to live with friends was one of the reasons they decided to live off-campus.

Witt cited the suite-style rooms that New College House offers as the type of room that many students hoped to stay in.

“We did numerous market analysis with on and off-campus housing,” Executive Director of Business Services Doug Berger said. “We find that students who are moving off campus after their freshman year, they’re looking for anywhere from a four to five to six bedroom suite, and that’s what we put in New College House, and that’s been very successful.”

However, some students still find that there are clear advantages to living off-campus.

College sophomore Dan Gonzalez said the absence of private kitchens in NCHW would deter him from living there.

“Not having kitchens in dorms makes things inconvenient, especially if people want to get off the

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pect of the proposed tax plan should be manageable for the University.

“I think it’s within the range of something they might normally experience just because of fluctuations in investment returns, but it’s still going to be a big shock if they suddenly impose a tax like that on the endowment,” Todd said.

Economics professor Harold Cole said it is difficult to predict the University’s reaction to the proposed taxes on its endowment. After the recession in 2009, state colleges increased their tuition after budget cuts.

Cole said this is a trend that Penn could follow.

“Forecasting this thing is very difficult, but I would view that as suggestive evidence,” he said.

Dirk Krueger, who is the Interim Department Chair and a professor of economics, echoed this and added that the hit to Penn’s endowment might prompt the University to reduce financial aid. He added that he

meal plan but still live on campus,” Gonzalez said. “These inconveniences lead students to move off campus to just live in houses or apartments that have the appliances they want which are ultimately cheaper than living on campus with less [amenities].”

Engineering sophomore Tina Jia agreed. “I would want a kitchen,” she said. “I also think Penn’s [main campus] is crowded enough and am not sure why they are building more residential halls.”

Wharton sophomore Catalina Muñoz, who lives in Hamilton Court Apartments, which is just two blocks away from the proposed NCHW location, said living on campus does not offer the same “freedom” that comes with living off campus.

“I know a lot of people who wanted to live off campus because they didn’t like the feeling of having someone controlling them,” Muñoz said. “A lot of students came to this school because it’s a city school where they can have their indepen-

does not believe the demand for a Penn education would change but is concerned that decreasing financial aid could affect the demographic of applicants to Penn.

However, Todd said Penn is likely to cut programs or freeze faculty hiring before changing financial aid policies or raising tuition.

Since the tax plan was unveiled on Nov. 2, it has received widespread criticism on campuses nationwide. On Nov. 13, students at Ohio State University organized a protest against the proposed bill. Administrators at Harvard University, Yale University, and Cornell University have also made statements addressing concerns over the impact of the tax plan on students, particularly those in graduate programs.

“We’re working with the administration, and we’re working to call local politicians to voice our opinion that passing this proposal would have a huge impact,” Owen said. “We are emphatically opposed to this tax proposal.”

dence.”

NCHW may be slated to accommodate upcoming renovations to the Quad Another long-term objective for building NCHW that administrators have cited is to pre-empt the need for extra housing when renovating existing dorms, Witt said.

Once NCHW is completed in 2021, Witt said Penn will begin “significant renovation” to the Quad, closing one of the three dorms at a time over the course of three academic years.

The last major renovation to the Quad dorms was back in 1998, and the project took four summers to complete because there was no extra space to house the would-be displaced students. “[The Quad] is over a 100 years old and by the time we build New College House West we’ll have the space to renovate the Quad dorms,” Witt said. She added that once the Quad is fully renovated, renovation in the High Rises will also take place.

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Dr. Oz talks fake news and wellness in Penn visit The TV host received his M.D. and MBA at Penn KAITLYN BOYLE Contributing Reporter

Mehmet Oz, the TurkishAmerican cardiothoracic surgeon known for his television appearances on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and his own talk show, “The Dr. Oz Show,” paid Penn students a visit on Nov. 13. The 1986 Wharton graduate, who has been criticized by other doctors for having a passion for financial returns over the scientific practice of medicine, said he was glad he came to a campus that valued both.

Dr. Oz spoke to over 200 Penn students in Houston Hall about how to achieve wellness in one’s life. The presentation, entitled “The Good Life, what you really want,” was open to students from all schools and organized by Wharton Wellness and the Wharton Council.

Dr. Oz received his M.D. and MBA at Penn before entering medicine and entertainment. He performs cardiac operations on

Thursdays at the New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, but also hosts “The Dr. Oz Show” and publishes a bi-monthly magazine called “The Good Life.”

Dr. Oz has received frequent criticism from fellow doctors for his ”promotion of fraud and quackery." For some students, the controversy surrounding Dr. Oz’s practice made this speaker event more compelling.

“I recently saw this video of him giving a testimony in front of the federal government about multivitamins,” said College and Wharton senior Anita Wang. She went on to add that John Oliver did his own show about the illegitimacy of Dr. Oz’s promotions.

“I think he is a controversial person and I wanted to see if anyone asked him about it.”

Just prior to the question and answer session, Dr. Oz addressed some of the controversy surrounding him in the media.

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Dr. Oz said, “I also realized that money was important in health care if you did it right. So I came to a campus that was truly integrated in every way.”

are all fake,” said Dr. Oz. “Fake ads are the first step towards fake news. And fake news is all about money.”

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“I don’t know that much about Dr. Oz other than his general reputation, and I just thought it

would be an interesting experience to see him live,” College senior Claire Lisker said.

Organizers of the event from the Wharton Wellness Board said Dr. Oz was chosen as a speaker because of his relations to Penn and his range of experiences.

“With the new Wellness Board at Wharton, we thought it was a good opportunity to collaborate and bring a speaker in who… was an alumni and could talk about his professional path,” said Wharton senior and Council member Emily Goldman. She added the collaboration also attempted to incorporate the “student wellness lifestyle.”

In his talk, Dr. Oz jumped between a variety of topics, from time and energy management to the intricacies of cardiac surgery.

But, the overarching theme of his talk was how to achieve wellness, both mentally and physically.

“On the show, this is the number one problem I cope with: the fact that people feel stressed out and use tools to cope that are maladaptive,” Dr. Oz said.

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reason he left the operating room full time was because he was tired of operating on conditions that could’ve been prevented months before. This was also why he chose to educate the general population about ways to improve wellness, and encouraged students in the audience to do the same.

“Evil is not when bad people do bad things,” said Dr. Oz. “Evil is when good people watch bad people do bad things and don’t do anything about it.”

Dr. Oz concluded the presentation by celebrating Penn’s interdisciplinary approach to learning, which allowed him to study not only the medical aspects of his field, but the monetary side as well.

“I realized that I loved, loved, loved medicine, and I wanted to practice it my whole life, but I didn’t want to work for someone else. And I knew that medicine was being taken over by money,” Dr. Oz said. “But, I also realized that money was important in health care if you did it right. So I came to a campus that was truly integrated in every way.”

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Collective Success gives career advice to students LUCY CURTIS Contributing Reporter

Many first-generation, low income students do not have the resources that other Penn students have at their disposals when applying for jobs or internships — but two seniors have been working to make them more accessible.

Collective Success is a student-run nonprofit organization co-founded by College seniors David Thai and Kamilla Yunusova. The organization offers career-oriented resources and programming to FGLI students at Penn, Temple University, and Drexel University.

Nearly a year after the group was launched in January, organizers have hosted a series of different events for FGLI students and enlisted over 100 professionals for their mentorship program.

Collective Success Board Member and Wharton sophomore Adrian Fletcher explained

that the preprofessional, ”hypercompetitive" environment at Penn assumes a base of knowledge or a network of connections that does not exist for FGLI students. To provide these resources, Collective Success has organized several networking events, the latest of which took place on Nov. 6.

Their latest event, titled “Landing a Job Outside of OCR,” was attended by around 60 Penn students, up from 20 students at a similar event organized last semester, Co-Chair Thai said.

Collective Success has also partnered with professionals from around Philadelphia in a mentorship program for FGLI students to learn about specific industries and gain personalized advice on how to pursue jobs and internships. When the nonprofit first began there were between 15 and 20, professionals in this mentorship program, Thai said.

Today that number is 109.

“Hopefully we’re that force on campus that helps FGLI students feel more confident, empowered, and gives them the resources to

advance professionally that they might lack,” Co-Chair Kamilla Yunusova said. She added that while existing groups such as Penn First provide community bases for FGLI students, Collective Success aims to focus on supplying resources.

Thai said the “one-size-fitsall” approach to professional development does not work for FGLI students.

“As someone who comes from aa marginalized background I didn’t see that size fitting me at all,” he said. “It was very much operating under the assumption that I knew what a resume was, I knew what a cover letter was, I knew how to network, I [knew] how to connect to professionals.

When in reality I didn’t.”

Fletcher agreed. “Coming to Penn, I was swamped with a ton of resources,” he said. “While a lot of my academic and social needs were being met, I felt as though my professional skills were lacking.”

So far Collective Success has chapters at Penn, Drexel, and Temple, but both Thai and Yu-

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Collective Success currently has chapters established at Penn, Drexel, and Temple, but founders and co-chairs David Thai and Kamilla Yunusova hope that the organization can continue to expand across the country.

nusova hope it will continue to expand. Thai said students from Haverford College and Swarthmore College have already reached out to him about establishing chapters on their campuses.

Thai added that even though the Collective Success’ programming is currently designed to help students at Penn, the group eventually hopes to serve the needs of all FGLI students in Philadelphia and even across the country.

“I see [Collective Success] as a network that people join when they are looking to advance themselves professionally or don’t know anything about competing professionally,” Yunusova said.

Fourth annual conference held on mental health for minority students The event was co-hosted by CAPS and the Steve Fund AVNI KATARIA Contributing Reporter

Hundreds of experts, administrators, professors, and students from across the country gathered in Houston Hall on Nov. 14 to share ideas on how to promote mental health among students of color.

The Steve Fund, an organization focused on supporting the mental health of young people of color, paired up with Penn’s Counseling and Psychological Services to host a conference titled “Young, Gifted, and AtRisk.”

The conference, which is in its fourth year, featured speaker events and panel discussions.

Speakers also encouraged audience members to talk among themselves about how racist events affect their wellbeing and the wellbeing of others on their campuses.

Started by the family of a Harvard University alumnus who died by suicide, the Steve Fund works to promote dialogue about mental health issues among young people of color.

Alfiee Breland-Noble, a panelist and senior scientific advisor to the fund, highlighted the importance of catering to young people of color because they are less likely to seek treatment for

mental illness.

“Mental health is not just an issue for black students and students of color, but there are unique ways in which it impacts them,” she said to administrators at the conference. “You may only get them once or twice. You have to give them something tangible.”

Noble also urged administrators to work with international student groups as well as black fraternities and sororities to institutionalize more equitable mental health frameworks.

“Innovation is important,” she said. “We need to take help to where students are — go to the dorms, go to the residence halls.”

Graduate School of Education professor and the conference’s

keynote speaker Howard Stevenson discussed mental trauma caused by racism. He stressed the importance of equipping young people today with the tools to “read, recast, and resolve” stressful situations where they find themselves feeling under attack due to their race.

The Steve Fund recommends administrators identify the mental health of students of color as a campus-wide priority, offer and promote a range of supportive programs, share information within and between universities, and actively recruit a diverse faculty. They also recommended that universities call on students to provide constructive feedback and create an accessible process

through which students can inform key administrators about concerns related to campus climate.

In the wake of backlash against Penn’s recent crackdown on unregistered social events, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced a University-wide “Campus Conversation" to address ways to foster resilience in the face of student deaths, natural disasters, and political instability.

But the two-hour session, held two weeks ago, failed to address student concerns on policies surrounding mental health, financial aid, academic resources, or immigration. Gutmann and Pritchett responded to four personal questions, and the event did not have

an open question-and-answer segment for audience members.

Jenny Ortiz, who works as a suicide prevention coordinator at Carleton University, said she “felt empowered to help students in bettering their mental wellbeing” after attending the conference.

Stevenson emphasized that administrators must “reduce the intensity felt by young people due to the threat [of racism].”

“In dealing with racism in this country and on college campuses, sometimes you have to pray, ponder, process, prepare but other times you have to push,” he added. “Push to do something, to say something — but neither of these skills are prevalent in our societies today.”

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Roundtable: Who’s been the fall season’s top rookie?

Numerous freshman made impact in first seasons SPORTS EDITORS As most fall teams’ seasons have come to a close, the Penn sports world has been fully introduced to its new faces. Though no Red and Blue teams were able to bring home league championships, the school saw no shortage of rookie standouts, with the Class of 2021 making an immediate impact on programs left and right.

Earning playing time on a varsity team as a freshman is no small task — but starring on one is something even more impressive. Several Penn rookies stepped up to the plate in this regard — but which one had the best season? A trio of DP Sports’ finest debate: Cole Jacobson, Senior Sports Reporter: Sprint football’s defense dominated its foes from start to finish this year, and the impact that freshman middle linebacker Matt Gorman made from day one was a major reason why.

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Reese Vogel, Matt Gorman, and Danielle Orie (L-R) all made key contributions to their respective squads in their first seasons at Penn. Orie came within one spot of qualifying for cross country nationals.

Coming off the team’s 2016 championship season, there were a few key questions regarding who would fill into certain empty positions, and one of the biggest ones was who would end up joining senior captain Quinn Karam as the second inside linebacker. And, to steal a nickname from another Philly athlete, it was clear as soon as the team arrived in August that Gorman was “The Answer.”

One of three freshmen to start on the Quakers’ defense, Gorman’s

combo of speed, strength and pure football instinct made him a nightmare for opposing offensive lines all year. His first college game saw him credited with a team-high 13 tackles at Caldwell, and he didn’t slow down much from there — despite missing the final two games with a spleen injury, he still led the team with 60 recorded tackles, and his 10 stops per game ranked second in the entire league.

Though the team came up just short of its first-ever back-to-back

championships, the past two months have shown that Gorman will be one of the faces of the defense for years to come. And with that, he’s a strong choice as the top rookie of the fall season — though there will undoubtedly be a more important trophy he’ll be seeking later on.

Yosef Weitzman, Sports Editor: Not to take away from any of the other phenomenal freshmen who competed for Penn Athletics this fall, but there was only one

rookie who definitively proved herself as her team’s best player this season. And that rookie was Danielle Orie on Penn women’s cross country.

From the very beginning of the season, it was clear that Orie had a bright future in the Red and Blue. In her first collegiate competition ever, she finished sixth overall to help the Quakers win Gold at the Blue/Gold Classic. As impressive as that finish was, Orie only finished fifth among Penn runners.

It didn’t take long for Orie to catch up to her elder teammates, though.

In the team’s very next competition at the Main Line Invitational, Orie broke out for an eighth-place overall finish, and the second-highest among Quakers.

It would only get better for Orie from there. This past weekend in Penn’s final meet of the season at the Mid-Atlantic Regionals, Orie was the first Penn runner to cross the finish line. And she held her own against the rest of the competition as well. Orie finished 11th overall out of 193, and she was just one place away from qualifying individually for Nationals.

The future is bright for Penn

women’s cross country and Danielle Orie is the biggest reason why.

For that alone, she should be the fall season’s Penn Athletics rookie of the year.

Will Agathis, Associate Sports Editor: Penn field hockey had multiple freshman starters in 2017, but right back Reese Vogel was a revelation in her first year with the Red and Blue. Starting at a position where freshmen struggle to shine, Vogel looked every bit the part of a stalwart in the backend. A great fullback needs to have a combination of speed and physicality: Vogel excels in both departments.

Defenders rarely pick up points in field hockey given the rules surrounding scoring, so it is of little surprise that Vogel did not pick up any goals or assists. That said, she repeatedly earned the praises of coach Colleen Fink and deservedly started every single contest.

In a year where field hockey freshmen saw ample playing opportunity, Vogel excelled and now seems a prime candidate to become a four-year starter and fixture in the lineup.

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Wrestling hosts nationally-ranked heavyweights at Keystone Classic No. 1 Penn State visits Penn MARC MARGOLIS Associate Sports Editor

Not all sports save their biggest events for the end of the year.

This Sunday, Penn wrestling will welcome 12 teams and 20 ranked wrestlers in the annual Keystone Classic, including No. 1 Penn State.

In particular, the 149, 157, and 285-pound weight classes are loaded with talent, all with at least three ranked wrestlers in each class.

However, the Quakers will not have a ranked wrestler in any of those weight classes.

Still, coach Roger Reina warned not to sleep on senior captain Joe Oliva at the 149-pound weight class.

“Joe is on a really good path in terms of his progress and improvement,” Reina said of his captain, who last season was in a tight battle for the starting spot with sophomore Jon Errico. “I am really excited to see him compete this weekend in that 149-pound weight class.”

“I’m looking to turn some heads,” Oliva added.

While Oliva is looking to catch the wrestling world by surprise,

fellow senior captain May Bethea, 2015 Keystone Classic champion, won’t catch anyone off guard. This year, though, he will compete in the 165-pound weight class instead of the 157-pound weight class, where he’s wrestled the past three years.

“I’ve grown just a little bit so 157 [pounds] became kind of difficult for me to maintain throughout the season, so I think I’ll perform better at 165,” Bethea said. “165-pounders are little bigger, a little stronger, they’ll be a little more difficult to move around.”

Even with his No. 20, Bethea will be the third-ranked wrestler in his class behind Penn State’s Vincenzo Joseph and Rider’s Chad Walsh, who are ranked No. 1 and No. 6, respectively.

In fact, Penn State boasts the top wrestler in four weight classes, and eight ranked wrestlers overall.

Aside from the talented field, many grapplers will be looking to build off of strong performances at the Binghamton Open. One of those is senior Frank Mattiace, who wrestles in the 197-pound weight class.

After coming in first place last week, Mattiace knows it’s important not to be complacent. Though

he will be the favorite in most of his matches this season, Penn State’s No. 4 Matt McCutcheon stands in Mattiace’s way for a repeat firstplace performance.

“Coach Reina and I have been on top of scouting my opponents and planning ahead,” Mattiace said. “In terms of someone like Matt McCutcheon, that is something we’ve been working on since the beginning of the season.”

Despite McCutcheon’s presence, Mattiace will not look past his weaker opponents this weekend.

“In terms of everyone else I am going to wrestle, I just take it one match at a time.”

Sunday will also mark coach Reina’s first Keystone classic in 12 years. After coaching Penn from 1986-2005, the Hall of Fame coach returned this season, replacing Alex Tirapelle after he resigned last year.

“It’s exciting to be back,” Reina said. “It’s great to be around our community. I think it’s one of the featured tournaments in NCAA division one wrestling, so to have that in our home gym early in the season will be a great test.”

Hopefully for the Quakers, they pass the test.

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Penn praises ‘grit’ of youngest, newest teammate M. HOOPS | 12-year-old has rare heart condition EVAN VIROSLAV Sports Reporter

Penn men’s basketball just acquired a potentially game-changing teammate for its 2017-2018 season: 12-year-old Tommy Johnston.

Johnston, suffering from a rare, life-threatening disorder known as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), certainly deserves to appear on such a big stage given the mountain of adversity he’s overcome so far. Partnered with Team IMPACT, a non-profit organization aimed at pairing kids such as Tommy with local college athletic teams, Johnston and his family were treated to the experience of a lifetime when the youngster became an official member of the Penn Quakers during a special “Draft Day� ceremony.

Team IMPACT, based out of Boston, hopes to create lasting bonds between players, coaches and these inspiring children. Amanda Palmer, Team IMPACT’s Regional Director, attested to the strength

of these connections when talking about Penn head coach Steve Donahue, who previously helped Team IMPACT when he was coaching at Boston College. "[Coach Donahue] texts with his Team IMPACT player [whom he met while at Boston College] who’s now a freshman in college,� Palmer said, also mentioning that Donahue’s previous contribution was Team IMPACT’s second-ever event.

Donahue, in his address to the media, certainly seemed touched by Tommy’s journey and the work that Team IMPACT has been doing as he sat next to his new recruit. He described the moment as the best day in Penn basketball’s storied history, expressing the time and effort his recruiting team devoted to getting Tommy in a Quakers jersey. “We talk about grit, about fighting through adversity, and no one displays that more than Tommy,�

Donahue added, before helping Tommy fit into his new red and blue threads.

After Tommy donned his jersey, everyone in attendance, including the basketball team itself, watched intently as the 12-year-old signed

his letter of intent to the University of Pennsylvania, and filled the room with thunderous applause.

Tommy then got his chance to address the media, and he didn’t let it go to waste. “Shout-out to Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, because they got me here, and shout-out to all my gym teachers for making me better at basketball,� Johnston said to a crowd of smiling faces.

The media, after Johnston’s short-but-sweet statement, then posed some hard-hitting questions to the sensation, who hit back with some rib-cracking responses. “Tommy, can you dunk a basketball?� one unprepared reporter asked. “No, I’m too short,� quipped Johnston as the crowd partook in uproarious amusement.

Another naĂŻve member of the media shot a question at Johnston: “Who’s your favorite player on the Penn basketball team?â€? “Myself, of course,â€? Johnston proclaimed. The audience immediately burst into laughter to mark the end of an uplifting and unforgettable afternoon in Penn basketball history.

“It means everything,� Palmer said, referring to the significance of the day’s events to Tommy and his family.

Shortly after the press conference, Tommy got to run out onto the Palestra floor with coach Donahue and the team before the Quakers

took on La Salle in a Big 5 matchup.

Despite the final outcome, the day was most definitely a win for the program.

freshman year. Expecting to play a larger role in his sophomore year, his season lasted just two games as he tore his ACL in Penn’s win over Villanova. He was reminded of a conversation he had had with his

parents when deciding which college to attend. “It gave me perspective on — I didn’t really get hurt much in high school — but what if one day you get hurt and football’s not on the table anymore, what are you going to do,� Vecchio said. “And having that happen to me here was, ‘wow, they were right.’�

Just like that, Vecchio faced a long road ahead of him. “With all that uncertainty in the air, you don’t even know what type of player you’ll be, what type of person you’ll be, your whole life really changes after that,� Vecchio said of his time out recovering in 2015. “It’s funny, because freshman year I sat down with one of my strength coaches, and I mapped out how I wanted these next four years to go, and nowhere on that sheet was get hurt and have to sit out a year. “ 2016 was a different story. After ceding 49 and 31 points in the first two non-conference games, it

looked like the Penn defense might not be the same force it was the prior year. However, they heated up at the right time. In Ivy play, they allowed 19 points per game while pressuring the quarterback and forcing turnovers.

After Penn fell to Princeton, 280, to drop to 5-1 in the conference, it once again needed to beat Harvard to win the conference title. The Red and Blue won, 27-14, in Franklin Field on a Friday-night, nationallytelevised game. Vecchio won Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors with three sacks and a 40-yard interception return for a touchdown.

He paced the team with 10.5 tackles for loss and 5.5 sacks, both of which ranked in the top six in the Ivy League. He earned first-team All-Ivy. “Looking back, I’m proud of how far I’ve come and everything I did to overcome it,� Vecchio said. “For the season to go the way it did, it was nice to prove to myself that

was the player I was capable of being and nice to see the injury might have been a roadblock but it didn’t stop me from my goals.�

With five All-Ivy selections and a few more starters returning on defense in 2017, it is of little surprise to Vecchio that this defense has played at a familiar level, although he has noticed an increased intensity this season.

Even though Vecchio’s stats — 31 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss and 3 sacks — resemble last year’s, Priore says other teams are forced to take Vecchio into account each play. “His play has been where he left off last year. When you’re good, people know where you are, so you get extra blocking attention,� Priore said.

Due to his ACL injury, Vecchio has a fifth year of eligibility, and he is unsure of whether he will return to Penn or pursue the NFL. But right now, he is treating this game like it could be his last. “Everything worked out.�

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half, and Penn went to the locker room up 43-16 after 20 minutes of nearly flawless basketball.

Woods and senior Darnell Foreman provided additional bright spots for the Red and Blue on Wednesday night, displaying their potential to be an elite backcourt duo.

Foreman was efficient from the field, knocking down four of his six shot attempts. Woods on the other hand dished out four assists, pulled down five rebounds and played sound de-

fense. “I think we’re close,� coach Steve Donahue said about his squad after the game. “I think we’re at the stage where we’ve got a chance to really prove how good we are.�

The Quakers play six more games this month, so they will have no shortage of opportunities to prove themselves before Ivy League play begins. They take to the Palestra floor again to face Penn State Brandywine on Saturday at 11:30am.

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other. This week, nothing’s changing.�

Priore said this team does not feel like a 3-3 squad, and that he will remember a few plays that impacted the Quakers’ fortunes. “You never take any play for granted. Our world is built around execution,� Priore said. “You don’t know when that key play is going to be, and the one statistic that we’ll probably talk about from now until the offseason is the turnovers, which was the biggest statistical difference from this year to past years.�

While the offense took a step back this year, struggling to land on its feet after the graduation of AllIvy quarterback Alek Torgersen, the defense has remained an area of strength for the Red and Blue.

Senior defensive lineman and captain Louis Vecchio stands out among his unit. Saturday could be Vecchio’s last game for the Red and

Blue, but his story isn’t over just quite yet.

A big-time recruit who also considered Stanford, Boise State and Harvard among other schools, Vecchio played in eight games in his

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Undefeated Penn men, women will play pair at Virginia SQUASH | Men will also play Navy; women Stanford MOSES NSEREKO Sports Reporter

With Penn squash, the story lies behind the numbers.

The Penn men’s (2-0) and women’s (2-0) squash programs are going into a road trip in Virginia, fresh off convincing titles at the Inaugural Pennsylvania State Classic from both teams.

While the No. 5 men’s squad’s second opponent on the weekend will be against No. 14 Navy, and the No. 2 women will face off against No. 5 Stanford, both teams will open their road tie against the University of Virginia on Saturday.

UVA recently announced the addition of men’s and women’s squash to their varsity sports program this past June.

Coach Jack Wyant, who serves as both Director of Penn Squash

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Freshman Andrew Douglas has excelled in his first season at Penn, starting his career in the No. 1 spot on Penn’s ladder.

and head coach of the women’s team, recognized the importance of expanding the geographic reach of collegiate squash through these competitions.

“It’s important because UVA and Stanford are two ‘BCS schools’ that have added squash within the last twelve years,” Wyant noted. “That’s really exciting for our sport; histori-

cally we’ve been northeast corridor, NESCAC and Ivy League, so for us to branch out is great for us, and is great for our game.”

While the scores showed how in-tune these teams are early in an already lengthy season, the story behind the numbers provides more impressive context for the two teams, and most importantly, things to im-

prove upon.

For the women, this weekend’s competition will represent another weekend where the team will be without senior captain Melissa Alves, for whom the first part of the season has been disrupted by a foot injury.

“It’s the second time I’ve broken my foot; I broke it two years ago my sophomore year, and I missed the entire season,” the captain reflected.

“I was excited for this year, and over the summer, I was training back home, and I broke it again.”

For Alves, the lengthy season plays to her benefit, as she is using the time to rehab properly before conference play starts up next semester. She notes that it is important for her not to get too down about being sidelined. Instead she has used this period to help out the freshmen who are using this period to adjust to collegiate play.

“They’re younger, [so] they ask more questions,” the French-Guiana native commented. “I’m not saying

they’re like children, but, you now, they need to know everything: they need to know what time, they’re waking up, what time they eat, when do they warm up, what do they need to warm up.”

Questions and all, Alves and Wyant have been pleased by how well the younger players in the lineup have played so far. With a contingent of four freshmen going 6-2 this past weekend, and winning all their matches against Franklin and Marshall, age has proven to be just a number for the Quakers.

Moving forward, Wyant stressed the importance of his players taking the ball early, and recovering with good percentage shots from out of position in order to continue racking up decisive wins.

For the men, their story also hinges on players stepping up despite absences of key veteran players in the lineup.

“To be able to get out there and win [last weekend] without two starters in the lineup, shows a lot about

the guys and what they’ve done to get ready for the season,” men’s head coach Gilly Lane said. “We’re really happy with the way things are, and I think the guys they loved getting the result on Sunday, but now they are focused on this weekend.”

Getting a positive result this weekend will hinge on big performances by Penn’s young players as well. The freshmen trio of No. 1 Andrew Douglas, No. 6 Yash Bhargava, and No. 10 Ryan Murray going 6-0 in their first non-scrimmage matches last weekend. The men will rely on similarly clutch performances to compliment the improvements from veterans like sophomore David Yaccobucci, who has moved up to playing at No. 3 in the lineup this year.

For this weekend, the story of Penn squash is a team continuing to step up to perform despite the absence of key starting players.

As for the numbers? This weekend will decide whether they will align with the story.

After Harvard win, two Quakers receive Ivy weekly awards FOOTBALL | Soslow, junior Cammon Jr. recieve honors TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

With the way things played out during Penn football’s 23-6 win over Harvard this past weekend, it’s no surprise that some hardware is headed the Quakers’ way. And it’s even less surprising that Penn’s two award winners did their work on defense and special teams.

Senior kicker Jack Soslow drilled three field goals, including a 40-yarder, and helped shut down the return game to earn Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week.

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some good kicking, which the Red and Blue got from Soslow. But you also need great defense, and the Quakers certainly were stellar on that side of the ball. Penn became the first team in 80 games to hold the Crimson to single-digits, and the first team since 1998 to keep Harvard out of the end zone.

No Red and Blue defender was more stellar than junior linebacker Jay Cammon, Jr. Cammon was all over the field, racking up seven tackles (four solo, two for a loss) and breaking up a pass while forcing two fumbles. For his phenomenal effort, Cammon earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week.

If the Quakers get more performances like the ones they got from Cammon and Soslow against Harvard in their game against Cornell, Penn should have a good chance to end its season with a fourth straight win.

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weeks ago, the Big Red were tied atop the Ancient Eight with Yale and Columbia before falling to Dartmouth and Columbia in consecutive weeks.

Senior wide receiver and captain Justin Watson says to still expect 100 percent from the Red and Blue.

“You just see how we reacted after going 0-3. It’s just the type of guys; we have that stick together through everything,” Watson said. “At that point, we just decided to try to go 1-0 each week and win as many games as we can, doing it for each

Penn men’s basketball shot out of the gates Wednesday night at the Palestra to beat Navy, 66-45, and collect its first win of the young season.

Despite the lopsided victory, the biggest cheer of the night came when a fan stepped on to the court with eight minutes left to nail a half court shot and win 5,000 dollars.

In a game that was never in jeopardy for the Quakers (1-2), the half court shot provided a late shot of excitement before the starters got to take a rest for the game’s final minutes.

The contest was decided before most fans even took their seats as the Red and Blue showed off their offensive firepower from the opening tip.

Penn routinely picked apart the Midshipmen defense and jumped out to a 17-2 lead to start the game. The Red and Blue nailed shots, played stingy defense, and did all they could to erase Monday’s double-overtime loss to La Salle from their memories.

“It’d only been two games, but we were already sick of it,” sophomore forward A.J. Brodeur said after the game.

“Even one loss is too many for us.”

The Quakers played angry all night. Players chased after fifty-fifty balls, made the extra pass and fought through picks.

Junior forward Max Rothschild helped set that tone on both sides of the ball. He abused Navy forward Tom Lacey in the paint, limiting him to just three rebounds and two points.

“We knew this was absolutely a game we needed to get,” Brodeur said. “So coming out strong, punching them in the mouth, that’s a tough team. We had to match to match their toughness.”

Navy (1-2) hit the canvas early after the Quakers hit them hard. Coach Ed DeChellis tried to slow down Penn’s early onslaught. But by the time he called his first timeout, just four minutes into the game, it was already too late for the Midshipmen.

After play resumed, the Quakers continued to pour it on, relying on relentless defense to generate transition buckets. Penn forced turnovers on three straight Navy possessions, and the lead quickly ballooned to fifteen points before eight minutes had been played.

Brodeur, Rothschild and junior guard Antonio Woods harassed the Midshipmen down low and up top. Navy only shot eleven percent from three and their inspired play, combined with a flurry of threes from senior guard Caleb Wood, helped widen the Penn lead to 27 points before the halftime buzzer.

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The Ivy League title isn’t happening.

But faced with an 0-3 record, they fought back as far as they could.

Penn football will host Cornell on Saturday at Franklin Field in the finale of an

up-and-down 2017 season in which the Quakers (5-4, 3-3 Ivy) will not finish as Ivy League champions for the third time in three years under coach Ray Priore.

After starting slow with three onepossession losses to Dartmouth, Columbia and Yale — the first two on the very last play — Penn has taken three straight against Brown, Princeton, and Harvard to pull even at 3-3 in conference play. However, with Yale having clinched a share of the conference title at 5-1, the Quakers are playing for second, as is Cornell. Two

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DP SWAMIS | WEEK TEN There’s a sad(!) sort of clanging from the clock in the hall, and the bells in the steeple too.

And up in the DP office our absurd President Carter is popping out to say cuck-oo.

I’m not going to take shots at Carter though. Even though he 48-18

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I mean, why would Carter insult me by telling me “I hate looking at you,” when I would NEVER tell him “your ill-fitting plaid shirts and mediocre facial hair provide value only in that they distract momentarily

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from your poor decision-making?” Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend — and maybe someday that will happen!

But before we say auf Wiedersehen to Swam is 2017, we must give thanks. After a ll, when next T hu rsday

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Dan “K-Ross” Spinelli

Brevin “Yosi choking” Fleischer

Yosef “Penn B-ball” Weitzman

Ilana “Will Snow” Wurman

Julia “Fonts” Schorr

Team “Consolidation” Jacob

Tommy “Kindness” Rothman

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PENN Yale Princeton Columbia Missouri S.Carolina Lehigh W. Virginia

PENN Yale Dartmouth Columbia Missouri S.Carolina Lehigh W.Virginia

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rolls around, there will be no Swamis. There will be no sports section. There will be no newspaper! Weird, right?

A day on which a publication called the “DAILY Pennsylvanian” doesn’t come out? Well, on November 23, 2017, that 39-27

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Thank you, Brevin, for neglecting to submit your Swami picks and leaving the championship wide open in this final week. Thank you, juniors getting their P sweaters this week,

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Cole William “Freedom” “You, the reader!”

Jacobson Snow

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for making me feel old and therefore mature. And thank you to our readers. Both of you.

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Carter “The End” Coudriet

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PENN Harvard Dartmouth Columbia Missouri S.Carolina Lafayette W.Virginia

Prediction: Penn 35, Cornell 14

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Thomas “Aaron Judge” Munson

Will “Retirement” Agathis

This Should Have Been Thomas M Nowlan Esq.

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