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Rapper is best known for his song “Broccoli” ESHA INDANI Contributing Reporter

Rapper D.R.A.M. will headline SPEC-TRUM’s fall concert.

He is set to release a new album Friday, just days ahead of the Oct. 26 concert at Penn, in which he will perform alongside openers Princess Nokia and Rob $tone.

The choice, once made, was unquestionable, members of SPEC-TRUM said.

“You can’t really go anywhere without hearing [his songs]...‘Broccoli’ and ‘Cha Cha,’” SPEC-TRUM co-director and College senior Stephanie Hodges said. “D.R.A.M has a really good

stage presence and a great positive vibe to his music,” she added.

SPEC-TRUM co-director and College senior Jonathan Muruako described the artist’s music as “very positive and popular.”

The song “Broccoli” recently reached number six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

SPEC-TRUM, a branch of Penn’s Social Planning and Events Committee, has a mission to act as an inclusive space for all students at Penn, focusing in particular on the minority groups present at the University. Wharton senior and co-director of SPEC-TRUM Olivia Nelson said the choice of artist was motivated by their objective to provide “an inclusive SEE SPEC-TRUM PAGE 2

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PennSound’s Peter Gizzi a finalist for poetry award

New pro-life group forms amidst backlash

Gizzi has contributed archival poetry pieces to PennSound

New group aims to register as a student organization on campus

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PennSound’s Peter Gizzi was announced as a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry for his collection of poems: Archeophonics.

Gizzi refers to the honor as a “happy PETER GIZZI accident.” Yet he has more than a few accolades to accompany this prestigious nomination.

In 1994 Gizzi received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. Through the years, Gizzi has also held residencies and fellowships from numerous literary foundations. Most notably, Gizzi held the position of Poet-in-Residence in the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge in 2011.

When Gizzi’s friend Charles Bernstein, who also served on Gizzi’s Ph.D. committee, was appointed as co-director of PennSound, Gizzi was invited to contribute his voice to some archival poetry pieces for the broadcast

"[W]elcome to the middle ages,” one Penn student said on Facebook in response to Wharton sophomore Eric Hoover posting in the Class of 2019 page that he was looking to form a pro-life group on campus.

Hoover is spearheading an effort to form a Penn chapter of the national pro-life group, Students for Life of America. SFLA advocates for the

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When Wharton sophomore Eric Hoover expressed interest in creating a prolife group on campus, dissenters immediately challenged its place at Penn.

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protection of “pre-born children” and the outlawing of abortion.

Approximately 15 students have indicated interest to join Hoover. Together, they are looking to formally register as a student organization with the Penn administration.

The group has two main goals: first, to reach out to women facing unplanned pregnancies and connect them to pro-life resource centers.

Second, to advocate that abortion is morally and legally reprehensible by setting up booths on Locust Walk and SEE PRO-LIFE PAGE 2

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New study sheds light on health and stress Study conducted between Penn and Berkeley MADELEINE LAMON Staff Reporter

A recently released Penn and University of California, Berkeley study found that unpredictable schedules can have negative impacts on the health of an individual working in the service sector.

The study, “Schedule instability and unpredictability and worker and family health and wellbeing” was conducted by co-researchers sociology professors Kristen Harknett and Daniel Schneider, from Penn and Berkeley, who researched the relationship between family instability and economic insecurity.

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hosting events on campus.

The group said their stance is that life begins at fertilization. They believe that a zygote is equivalent to a new-born baby after it has been delivered, and hence that abortion is “the intentional killing of an innocent human being,” Hoover said.

Carol Tracy, executive director of the Women’s Law Project and lecturer in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s studies department said that while pro-life groups are entitled to hold beliefs on the definition of life based on their religious or philosophical theories, they are not entitled to impose them on women.

“People reach their own moral decisions on abortions,” Tracy said. “There are plenty of people who are pro-choice who would never have an abortion.”

“The legal question is does the government get the right to make that decision and have that kind of control over a woman’s body.

The answer is: no, they do not,” she added.

Focusing on how lack of notice and instability in work schedules affect an individual’s health, the researchers created a novel dataset for their “Retail Work and Family Life Study.”

Using Facebook as an advertising platform to reach workers ranging from 18 to 50 years old , they collected information from 6,476 hourly non-managerial workers from eight of the largest retail companies in the United States.

“It’s a chronic and huge problem that people don’t have enough hours, and that seems to be driving other scheduling problems,” Harknett said.

The data demonstrated a clea r con nection between sche du l i ng a nd physica l, mental and financial well-being. According to the report,

According to a widely-cited study by the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, approximately 5 percent of rape victims between the ages of 12 and 45 become pregnant following their rape. Hoover said that his group advocates against abortion even in the case of rape.

“It is absolutely vital that the pro-life community shows compassion for these women,” Hoover said. “Rape is a horrific act of violence... possibly the worst crime imaginable. I don’t think that you’re not going to solve the act of violence like that with another act of violence.”

College sophomore Lea Eisenstein, one of the students who responded when Hoover posted an invitation to join Students for Life in the class of 2019 Facebook group, disagreed. “[This position] shows a fundamental ignorance of the emotional and physical toll of pregnancy on woman, especially when it is brought about by force,” she said.

Hoover has previously worked with the pro-life group Created Equal, known to have

unstable and unpredictable schedules are “related to financial insecurity, worse health outcomes, and parenting stress and reduced time with children for working parents.”

Harknett stressed that two of the most important changes that can be made to empower workers include boosting hours a nd increasing scheduling notice.

“All major cities have a lot of service sector employees and Philly is no exception,” she said.

Some cities, such as Seattle and San Francisco, have already passed legislation, such as fair work week proposals, to further protect the rights of workers. New York City is expected to pass legislation later this year.

campaigned against abortion with signs showing graphic images of aborted fetuses. One of Created Equal’s projects is “Killers among us” which states on its website that its goal is to publicize the identity of “abortionists and their enablers.”

In an email statement, board members for the Penn Association for Gender Equity expressed concern over the kind of “shame tactics” used by groups such as Created Equal.

“A protest or large action [promoting the pro-life agenda] can be very triggering and alienating to someone who has had an abortion or considered having one,” PAGE said.

Hoover said Students for Life does not intend to use shame tactics.

“We believe that abortion is wrong because it is the intentional killing of an innocent human being,” he said, “but our goal is not to shame women.”

In response to his remarks, Tracy said, “Since Roe v. Wade was decided over 40 years ago, 40 to 50 million American women have had abortions. They

The researchers received grant support from the Hellman Fellows Fund, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

This project is far from finished. Since publishing their report, Harknett and Schneider have expanded their dataset to include information on workers from thirty large national employers and intend to study the effects of legislative changes in Seattle and the prospective changes in New York City.

“A lot of the things that San Francisco and Seattle and others have done are common sense; they’re humane. These workers are people – they have lives, children.”

are not ashamed.”

Carole Joffe, a sociologist and professor at the University of California’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, added that it seems difficult for pro-lifers to take the stance on abortion as murder while claiming that their intent is not to shame.

She also said that she hopes Students of Life will stay away from characterizing women having abortions as “victims” and abortion providers as “murderers.” This rhetoric denies women’s moral agency, infantilizes them and demonizes abortion providers, Joffe, who has written multiple books on reproductive rights, said. As of 2015, violence against abortion providers has killed at least eleven people in the U.S. Students for Life said they do not intend to be forceful with their message. In the case that they reach out to a female student considering abortion and she decides to go through with the procedure, the group would accept that as her decision.

“We will make what we

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A new study claims that an unpredictable schedule can hurt both one’s health and one’s productivity.

believe is a reasonable case, but if she chooses to go through with [the abortion], that is her decision. That doesn’t mean we think it is right,” Hoover said.

Last Wednesday, when Hoover canvassed interest for Students for Life in the Class of 2019 Facebook group, he received swift backlash from students.

Hoover said he is aware that most students at Penn are prochoice, but hopes that they will be open-minded towards Students for Life. He added that he hopes students will stay away from attacking him and members of his group when discussing the issue of abortion.

Tracy, who formerly worked as the director of the Penn Women’s Center, agreed that there is a need to respect freedom of speech, particularly on a college campus.

“I am as opposed as anyone towards the pro-life agenda,” Tracy said. “However, they have a right to be here. People should not be afraid that [a pro-life group] is here [on campus], but certainly, they can challenge them.”

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space for minorities.”

SPEC-TRUM’s office on the second floor of Houston Hall is busier than ever with just over a week until the concert. Hodges described planning for the concert as “a very involved process,” adding “We have to have plan B, C, D, E, F.” The intensive preparation for the concert has paid off with the organization bagging one of the up and coming artists of this year, D.R.A.M.” Last year, SPEC-TRUM was forced to cancel its spring concert the day of and refund students for the tickets after both artists canceled.

The concert will take place at the Rotunda on 40th and Walnut streets, a space Muruako described as “intimate.” She added that D.R.A.M.’s on-stage energy “will definitely be seen in the audience.”

Ticket sales began on Monday Oct. 17 on Locust Walk and online. Prices are $10 for Penn students and $15 for the general public.

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10 Green Week Events You Won’t Want to Miss

The Student Sustainability Association at Penn hosts a Green Week every semester, with the goal of promoting awareness of environmental issues as well as their work on campus. Here is a list of events for you to enjoy the most environmentally-sustainable fun Penn has to offer:

Fall crafts with Epsilon Eta and Penn Arts and Crafts Club Tu e s d a y, O c t . 1 8 5 - 7 p . m . , Wo m e n ’ s C e n t e r

Join members of Penn’s national environmental fraternity, Epsilon Eta, and Penn Arts and Crafts Club in making leaf-themed arts and crafts to match the season.

Free LEED Certification Training Tu e s d a y, O c t . 1 8 7 - 8 p . m . , H u n t s m a n 2 4 0

Real estate company Cushman & Wakefield is teaming with SSAP to teach you green building expertise involving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a green certification for buildings.

Green coffee rewards at Williams Cafe Tu e s d a y, O c t . 1 8 8 : 3 0 a . m . - 7 : 3 0 p . m . , W i l l i a m s H a l l

Get double punches for bring-your-own reusable mugs and 15 percent off reusable mugs at Williams Cafe.

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Learn more about Penn’s magazine on environmental politics, get a mini pumpkin and hear professor Fayyaz Vellani on environmental activism and the role of the media in environmental issues.

A Discussion about Ecofeminism with ASAP We d n e s d a y, O c t . 1 9 6 - 7 p . m . , Wo m e n ’ s C e n t e r

Join an Intersections Series discussion with Penn Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention.

Speed Networking with AAEES We d n e s d a y, O c t . 1 9 7 - 8 p . m . , H o u s t o n H a l l Get donuts, network and learn tips on elevator pitches for jobs involving sustainability from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists.

Timescale: Ecological Temporalities Across Disciplines T h u r s d a y t h r o u g h S a t u r d a y, O c t . 2 0 - 2 2 , K i s l a k C e n t e r f o r S p e c i a l C o l l e c t i o n s

The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities organizes this conference of academics, artists and activists to discuss climate change and environmental issues across fields of study. There will be film screenings, art installations and distinguished speakers from Yale University and Georgetown University.

Green Fest

F r i d a y, O c t . 2 1 , C o l l e g e G r e e n This festival with SSAP’s constituent groups, environmentally conscious local retailers and nonprofits, free plants and Little Pop Shop will top off Green Week.

Penn Community Garden Winter Prep with Penn Environmental Group and Eco-Reps

S a t u r d a y, O c t . 2 2 , 1 1 a . m . - 2 p . m . , H i g h R i s e F i e l d b e h i n d Ro d i n

Celebrate fall by getting ready for winter with music, free apple cider and gardening.

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Startup partners Korean senior citizens with students Program conducted over video calls online HALEY SUH Contributing Reporter

The idea behind Seniors and Youth — SAY — started with a social mission to empower retired Korean senior citizens. When 2014 College graduate Quan Nguyen heard about the startup, he leaped at the opportunity to join his friend and founder of the company, Yongmin Cho. SAY is a cross-cultural and cross-generational online Korean language service program that connects the Korean elderly with Korean language learners. It was initially launched at Princeton University and launched shortly after at Yale University.

The program allows Korean learners to practice conversational speaking with native speakers through one-on-one video chats over Skype or Google Hangout.

Nguyen, who has also participated in the program as a student himself, said that speaking with a Korean elderly helps students to not only improve their conversational skills but also enhance their knowledge of Korean history and culture.

“My [senior] was 83 and she had lived through the [Korean] War...to learn what she had gone through... that was a really unique experience and it was very humbling to learn from her,” Nguyen said. “Our conversations had so much room for surprises because we came from different backgrounds and experiences. And no matter what conversation we had, she always contributed with her historical knowledge of Korea.”

The SAY curriculum, created in partnership with Korean professors at Princeton and Yale, focuses on improving conversational skills and provides weekly topics that relate to daily life in Korea.

At the core of SAY lies a social mission that attempts to tackle senior unemployment in Korea.

According to Nguyen, nearly 30

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Seniors and Youth aims to empower Korean senior citizens by pairing them with students interested in learning about the Korean language.

percent of Korean seniors are unemployed and the average age of retirement is 53. By employing the Korean elderly, SAY provides an opportunity for retired seniors to have meaningful jobs that connect them with the younger generation.

“We wondered, ‘how do we make these seniors happier?’ Because a lot them live alone and are so idle, they want something productive and meaningful to do with the rest of their lives,” he said. “Just because they retired at 53 doesn’t mean they don’t want to work. We thought allowing them to communicate with younger people would provide something active and meaningful for seniors to do.”

SAY recruits teachers from senior centers in Korea through a rigorous interview and training process. It seeks seniors who are “thoughtful,” “well spoken” and able to communicate with the youth, many of whom come from diverse professional backgrounds in education, business and social service.

Haewon Cho, director of the Korean Language Program at Penn, said that speaking with an elderly person helps students practice

formal speech.

“Students often say that the most difficult part of learning Korean is mastering Korean honorifics and speech styles. With Korean seniors, students can practice honorifics and polite speech styles in an authentic context,” she said.

Kelsey Henderson, a Princeton graduate who participated in SAY during her senior year as part of her advanced Korean course, said the program’s biggest draw was being paired with a Korean senior instead of a fellow college student.

“The seniors that participate in the program have so many interesting life experiences to share with you and it’s interesting to be introduced to topics through another point of view, with both respect to culture and age,” she said.

The program has so far connected about 50 pairs of seniors and youths.

“As it is essential for students to find resources to practice Korean outside of class in order to improve their language skills, especially in a foreign language setting, I would definitely encourage my students to join SAY,” Cho said.

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OPINION The politics of attention GROWING PAINS | Why we should be choosier about what we watch, read and produce

TUESDAY OCTOBER 18, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 87 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor WILL SNOW Sports Editor

This past week, I went to go see the Mask and Wig show “Magic Mike and Ike.” The last skit was about why they hadn’t performed any skits about Trump. It was my favorite skit of the evening, not only because its paradoxical nature — a performance about the very thing about which they refused to perform — appealed to my English major sensibilities, but also because I agreed wholeheartedly with the message it put forward.

Which was, in a word, that enough has been said about Trump. That enough has been said about the election in general. To quote the skit, “If we write about him / we just give him what he wants.” This applies to both candidates. The goings-on of our country cannot and should not be reduced to a constant rehashing of verbal insults between two people whose words and actions have made them caricatures both of themselves and the United States.

I am thus writing this column about why I haven’t written columns about the

presidential election for two reasons: first, because I think the media is just as complicit in the absurdities of the election as the politicians themselves. Second, because the theme of my column is Growing Pains, and one of the things I grapple most with is the double bind of finally being old enough to exercise my vote, yet lacking faith both in the system in which I am voting for and the candidates that I will be forced to choose between.

I genuinely feel lost about what to do. And the multitudes of articles and videos posted every day about the election only serve to exacerbate this feeling. I am tired of not being able to find a headline that doesn’t feature the name “Clinton” or “Trump” or both. It has gotten to the point that the more I read about the election, the more videos I watch, the more posts my friends share on Facebook, the more apathetic I become.

Of course, electing a president is an incredibly important process and has immense

implications. Who we elect matters, their views matter, the things they say and the morals they uphold have a great deal of impact, both within and outside of the United States. But the presi-

even have a duty to pass opinion on what they think the consequences or significance of a particular thing might be.

But they are not obligated to constantly feature a person just because he or she is run-

Without the people who produce the media and without the people who consume it, the presidential candidates would essentially be powerless. ” dent is not the United States.

If they control the government, should they also monopolize the media?

It seems to me that the media, both at the collegiate and national level, need to reevaluate their role in relation to politics. They have a duty to communicate truth. They have a duty to relate what happens to what effects, they have a duty to inform, they

ning for president. And are we obligated to sit in front of the TV and watch two people argue and insult each other, evading all questions posed to them, preferring instead to continually bring up the same scandals and voting records and previous associations, for two hours?

Well, you might say, what’s the alternative? And I would say that the media make

things too easy. They think that just because someone is running for president, they automatically deserve front page stories and breaking news clips for months on end, either to be applauded or condemned. Although presidential candidates do necessitate thorough coverage, we, as viewers, as readers, as consumers of media, don’t have to accept sensationalism as the norm.

But, you’d reply, the media have to work with what they have, as do the voters. We only have the choices we have in front of us, after all. So we put their names on the ballots, and we put their faces on TV, and we put their names in the newspapers. These are the facts and we have to deal with them.

Maybe this is just because it’s my first election, but I can’t help but think that this isn’t quite the case. Without the people who produce the media and without the people who consume it, the presidential candidates would essentially be powerless. They would not really be able to

EMILY HOEVEN reach us. Their faces and voices would not be omniscient. And it seems to me that if we truly want a higher standard from our politicians, if we want them to thoughtfully answer questions and not just recite vague statements or point fingers, we should realize that they need to earn our attention and time — that our power lies not just in our vote, but also in how we choose to employ our pens, cameras, keyboards, eyes and ears.

EMILY HOEVEN is a College junior from Fremont, Calif., studying English.

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On Thursday, Sept. 22 just after 3:00 p.m., I was flipping through my phone while waiting for the exams to be passed out in my Biology class. After seeing a text to the Fossil Free Penn coordinator Groupme that we had received an email from the trustees, I put my phone in my backpack. I wondered what was happening as I heard my phone vibrate over and over again while I took my exam. After class, I went home and checked my email to find out that the trustees had rejected divestment.

The reasons why the trustees’ decision that day is morally objectionable are many and one column cannot encapsulate them all. Today I will explain what took place in the process that led up to this decision. It is one riddled with bias and opacity.

In their decision, the trustees’ concurred with the results of the ad-hoc committee on fossil fuel in-

vestments that was formed this past March to research Fossil Free Penn’s 40+ page proposal and advise the trustees on a decision.

In our proposal we presented arguments and research regarding the blockage of climate legislation by fossil fuel companies, the immense harm endured by the communities where the fuels are extracted and refined and the impacts of climate change. We cited the numerous studies which have demonstrated that divesting the endowment from the fossil fuel industry would not negatively impact their investment returns. We presented the support we have gained among the Penn community, including a landslide student referendum vote, faculty letter and alumni petition. The response to all of these arguments and research by the ad-hoc committee with which the trustees concurred was simply that fossil fuel companies

did not constitute their “interpretation of moral evil as an activity on par with apartheid or genocide.”

Their response was so

lending strategy that focuses on oil and gas. Dillon Weber, who had testified to the University Council’s Open Forum against divest-

It is important to know the administration’s game, however, we that cannot let that knowledge allow us to lose sight of their shameful cynicism. ” simple; almost as if they had not even read the document. Considering the conduct of the committee, it is perhaps unsurprising that they would come to such a conclusion. The chair of the committee, alumnus David Roberts, is the current chief operating officer of an investment bank (Angelo, Gordon & Co) that recommends an energy

ment served as an undergraduate representative on the committee. Professor Mark Alan Hughes, who has stated he believes that almost all oil and gas in the United States can be extracted without adverse climate effects, served on the committee. Yet no advocate for divestment or person who had previously helped with the campaign was al-

lowed to serve as we were considered to be biased.

Further, the committee simply sent its recommendation to the trustees privately when it had reached a consensus, apparently in June. The process had been presented to us as a number of steps leading to a trustee decision, and we had been involved in all the previous steps. Yet when it came to the final decision, we were shut out. We were not notified that the recommendation had been given to the trustees and had no idea that they were meeting that day. This disrespect took place after our two year campaign had garnered the support of 87.8 percent of voting students in a referendum, 108 faculty who signed a letter supporting our proposal and hundreds of alumni who signed a petition and testimony at multiple university council meetings. If even that type of support does not deserve a fair hearing by the admin-

istration, I cannot imagine what does.

After an initial shock that this had happened, a few of us were kicking ourselves for not thinking about how this could have happened. Yet that reaction was misplaced. It is important to know the administration’s game, however, we that cannot let that knowledge allow us to lose sight of their shameful cynicism. We should not have to beg for what we know is right and popular. In the face of the trustees’ statement we have not seen our campus support drop — in fact some of us have felt it grow. Taking on the fossil fuel industry was never going to be easy. Despite the Penn administration’s decision, we remain hopeful and committed to the road ahead.

PETER THACHER is a senior majoring in urban studies and political science as well as a member of Fossil Free Penn.

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organization. PennSound is an archive for poetry recordings, run in part by the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and launched in 2005.

Since Bernstein’s appointment, Gizzi has been a frequent contributor.

In writing Archeophonics, Gizzi said he wanted to “bring back the cadences of the past”.

“I felt like I had pressure to be the voice for poets, past and present,” he said.

Reviewers of Gizzi’s work couldn’t agree more.

In the words of a reviewer from buslter.com, Gizzi’s work can be summed up in one word: gorgeous. The review goes on to

express appreciation for the collection’s integration of poetry and the purpose of humanity.

“I think of myself as a class of worker that has been around for millenia,” Gizzi said.

The review also praises Gizzi’s collection for offering a deep connection with the human species.

In another review published by publishersweek ly.com, Gizzi’s poems are described as warm and moving while also offering a means of connection between “morality, tradition, and history.”

Gizzi’s work is more than just a insight to the deep connection between poetry and humanity, but offers insight on Gizzi’s influence throughout the course of his career: music and his poet

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His brother, Michael, was a poet and Gizzi grew up with his influence, but it never occurred to Gizzi that he would one day become a poet.

More than the influence of his brother on his future career, Gizzi said that the musician and 2016 Nobel Laureate, Bob Dylan, impacted his childhood and his decision to pursue poetry.

For new and upcoming poets, Gizzi said that the passion that is needed to write poetry cannot be feigned and must be genuine, and that students really need to understand what is required for a career in writing poetry.

In the words of Gizzi’s then15-year-old grandson, “[Poets] work in the ghost world.”

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THIS WEEKEND IN PENN ATHLETICS From the Dig Pink Weekend to Al Bagnoli’s homecoming to the first of four Fan Fests, Penn Athletics had a busy weekend at home. On Saturday, Penn football downed Columbia, 35-10, as volleyball swept Brown, 3-0, as Ivy play continued for both.

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acting as a decoy to command the back line’s attention.

“I think that being more of a target forward, part of my job, beyond getting on the end of things and scoring goals, is linking the play and releasing the wide guys,” Neumann said. “I think we have a good group of guys, especially in the attack, that understand how we build going forward. I have to say, the balls and feeds from the other forwards and guys on the attack have particularly great this year.”

Since forwards often rely on their teammates to create scoring opportunities, the addition of fast wingers like freshman Dami Omitaomu and the development of sophomores like Jerel Blades and Gideon Metrikin has made the senior forward’s job significantly easier.

Besides an improvement in health and the personnel around him, Neumann has backed his play with increasingly forceful leadership and his mentorship of younger players has resulted in their faster-than-expected development.

Poplawski remarked that his co-captain has only one gear, and

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it certainly shows on the field.

“He’s one of the most steady performers in terms of effort every day,” he said. “And this year, I think he’s been more vocal.

You gain more experience, learn how to talk to different guys, what motivates particular players. I think he’s done a particularly great job with that this year.”

Neumann is certainly back in form this season and is responsible for a completely revamped Penn offense that ranks in the upper echelon of the Ivy League.

Fuller claims that the captain’s unbreakable work ethic and practice mentality is responsible for this return to offensive dominance.

“His work ethic and approach never changed on a weekly basis.

He plowed through like a warrior,” Fuller commented. “He got healthy over the offseason and he’s feeling better than he has in a long time. That shows in his production. This is a far better reflection of what Alec Neumann is all about.”

What remains to be seen, however, is if Neumann’s resurrection will be enough to carry Penn to an Ivy League crown. Such an accomplishment would be a fitting end to the career of a player who, despite his ups and downs, has been a model of consistency.

FOOTBALL >> PAGE 10

role. Out of the three members of the Red and Blue that appeared in the postgame press conference, two had never met Bagnoli and the third, starting running back (and beast) Tre Solomon, said he never had to opportunity to develop much of a relationship with the man.

What does all this mean?

It means that this is the first and last time we should discuss the return of Bagnoli like he’s a messiah returning to Franklin Field to save the Columbia football souls and crush his former followers. This is a new era of Penn football.

We should never forget the time Bagnoli coached here. The titles and the winning percentage cannot be discounted. But today, Bagnoli is trying to build a program that has been irrelevant, or worse, for decades. On the other hand, the Quakers are, and should be, expected to win every game they line up for.

Columbia right now is not even at the same level as Penn and may not be for quite some time. This is Priore’s team now.

This is the defending Ivy champion, and a favorite to contend

ANANYA CHANDRA | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

Now in his second season, Penn football coach Ray Priore is on his quest for a 12th Ivy ring — his second as a head coach. That’s enough to end the homecoming narrative and focus on the present.

again.

Bagnoli himself discussed the narrative becoming tiresome, (so tiresome, in fact, he stopped taking interview requests on Thursday before the game), and that his return to Philadelphia felt like any other game by opening kickoff.

Those questions, now that his homecoming has passed, should be retired for good.

He wants the narrative to be

focused on his team and the building of Columbia’s program, and the same should be here.

From now on, when Penn plays Columbia, the focus must not be on welcoming Bagnoli back home. It should be about the Quakers taking care of business against an inferior opponent. It should be about the expectation, that despite who is donning the headset on the opposite sideline, the Red and Blue

will take care of business.

On Saturday, they spoiled Bagnoli’s homecoming, just as they should every time that program arrives inside the confines Franklin Field for a while to come.

MATT FINE is a College junior from New York, N.Y., and is senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian.

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was really sad to hear what she was going to have to go through,� said Elizabeth Semmens, a junior on the 2008 team. “But we were really supportive of her. We knew that her missing the season was what she needed to do to take care of herself, and we were really supportive of that.�

Sem mens ref lected that Carr’s absence, and the desire to win for their coach, added another layer of motivation for the team. But Carr didn’t stay on (or off) the sidelines for long.

Months after her surgery, Carr was back to work, leading the team’s recruiting efforts and springtime preparation for the team’s upcoming season And in the fall of 2009, Carr made her comeback in style, leading the way to a career-high 23 wins, a 13-1 Ivy record and her fourth Ivy title. “It was great,� said Semmens, who that season set a Penn record with 421 kills en route to winning Ivy League Player of the Year. “I think that was such an important victory for [Carr], not just professionally but personally, that she was able to come back from her surgery, and fighting breast cancer... it was a pretty amazing season for many reasons.�

Back on top, Carr stayed there in 2010, leading the Red and Blue to a second straight championship and the fifth of her career. Meanwhile, Penn’s involvement in “Dig Pink� continued to evolve. Dani Shepherd, a freshman on the 2010 championship team who would go on to become one of the best liberos in program history, recalled intra-team fundraising competitions, Locust Walk

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titles and was closing in on the program’s all-time wins record, reality didn’t set in right away. “When I’m in season, [coaching] is all I can think about. So when the doctor told me [I had cancer], I was like, ‘OK, I can have the surgery December 1st after the season is over.’ And he was like, ‘No.’ It just never occurred to me that it was something urgent, because with breast cancer you don’t feel sick, you don’t feel anything wrong.

You feel perfectly fine.�

But the doctors emphasized to Carr that the surgery could not wait, and the coach relented. “It was a very aggressive form of cancer... Having two kids at that point that were really young, I just made sure I put family first and took care of myself.�

Carr had surgery on Oct. 8, 2008, effectively missing that entire season. Ryan Goodwin, one of Carr’s assistants at the time, took over as head coach, leading Penn to a 9-5 Ivy record after a slow start. Carr was able to make it back as a to watch the final contest of the season. The rest of the games, Carr watched on TV and online, but not as the average sports spectator at home might. Carr freely admitted to keeping a tight watch on Goodwin, for whom she had great praise, and her other assistants while absent from the sidelines. “Oh, totally,� Carr laughed. “Like, ‘Why did you do this substitution? Why didn’t you call this timeout?’ And they were like, ‘Kerry, the game’s over.’ And I was like, ‘No, I need to talk about it, what’s going on?’ You don’t ever separate yourself when you’re that immersed in the team, you don’t step back and say ‘I don’t care.’ You care, but you’re frustrated that you can’t be there to do things, so it’s hard.�

For Carr, one of the hardest things was leaving behind her players, whom she so often refers to affectionately as “the girls.� But - Kerry Carr the team, while stunned by the news, was incredibly supportive of the coach’s deci- bake sales, and reaching out sion. to family and friends as being “It was definitely tough, it among the methods the team

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Every year, Penn volleyball participates in “Dig Pink� weekend, an initiative to raise breast cancer awareness. On Friday night, the players wore pink uniforms, and on Saturday players, fans and coaches wrote the names of people close to them who have fought or are fighting breast cancer.

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used to generate support and raise awareness, in addition to the traditional wearing of pink uniforms in the team’s first game of each Dig Pink weekend. “The teams were very involved and very close to the cause, given that Kerry had that experience of having had breast cancer and being a survivor,�

Shepherd said. “It was a major priority for her, and for our team we would plan up to this Dig Pink match weeks in advance and figure out how we could raise the most money.�

This past weekend, the Quakers participated in Dig Pink Weekend for the ninth time while hosting Yale and Brown. The team wore pink uniforms on Friday and, on Saturday, sported pink bandanas to help support Carr’s dragon boat team, a group of survivors, ranging from 30 to 70 in age who row together to show that life after cancer can be as fulfilling — indeed, even more fulfilling — than life before it. Before Saturday night’s game, the players, coaches and fans also held up signs with “I Dig Pink for:�

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Solomon named Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Week FOOTBALL | Penn’s first

to win award this season

TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor

Another week, another standout performance by a Penn offensive player.

Junior running back Tre Solomon had the best performance of his career Saturday versus Columbia, rushing for 127 yards and a touchdown and throwing for another score.

For his multidimensional excellence, he was named on Monday the Ivy League CoOffensive Player of the week, sharing the honor with Princeton quarterback John Lovett.

Just five games into the season, Solomon has already posted a career-high 498 rushing yards. He leads the Ivy

League in that category, as well as in rushing attempts (89) and yards per game (99.6). After splitting time in the backfield with senior Brian Schoenauer over the last two seasons, Solomon has emerged as the team’s primary rushing weapon in recent weeks.

But on Saturday the New York native showcased his talents on more than just the ground. With just two minutes remaining in the game, Solomon put an exclamation point on the 35-10 victory, finding senior receiver Cam Countryman on a 23-yard touchdown pass. It was the second passing attempt of Solomon’s career following a six-yard completion at Fordham earlier this season.

In recent weeks, Solomon has shown himself to be part of a lethal offensive triumvirate, along with quarterback

Alek Torgersen and receiver Justin Watson. Torgersen threw for 247 yards and three scores in Saturday’s victory while Watson added 149 all-purpose yards and a touchdown catch.

The talented trio has led the team to an average of 429 yards of total offense per game in Ivy play, the most in the conference.

Lovett earned his half of the award by accounting for three touchdowns (two passing, one rushing) in a 31-7 win over Brown. The quarterback managed the impressive scoring output despite accounting for fewer than 100 yards in total offense (71 passing, 21 rushing.)

Solomon will have a chance for an encore performance when the Red and Blue head to Yale on Friday night, as the Quakers look to stay perfect in Ancient Eight play.

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The most accomplished coach in program history, Penn volleyball’s Kerry Carr is nearing 500 games on the sidelines for the Red and Blue.

Her greatest battle, however, took place away from the gym. Every year, Carr does what she can to continue that fight.

Every season, Penn volleyball designates one home weekend in October as its “Dig Pink Weekend,” in which the team uses its two games as a platform to promote breast cancer awareness. Dig Pink is a creation of the Side-Out foundation, which since 2004 has used the game of volleyball to help fight the deadly disease.

Carr now carries the deepest of personal connections to the Dig

Pink program and the life-saving cause it promotes. But that wasn’t always the case. As it happened, Penn’s participation in the program may have saved Carr’s life before she knew she had cause to engage with Dig Pink on such a personal level.

“It was something that we’d wanted to do for awhile,” Carr recalled of the Quakers’ joining the Dig Pink program. “In 2008 we finally got it together to plan a date and everything. That actually reminded me that I needed to go for my mammogram... and I found out I had breast cancer.”

For Carr, a lifetime devotee of the sport who was just a few years removed at the time from having led Penn to three straight Ivy League SEE CARR PAGE 8

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Neumann back with a vengeance for Penn after struggles through junior year

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Ivy-best seven goals

SANJAY DURESETI Sports Reporter

The word “warrior,” if books and movies are to be believed, conjures the image of a battleready, iron-clad behemoth armed to the teeth.

If you ask members of Penn men’s soccer, their more realistic version comes in the form of a 6-foot forward and Pennsylvania native named Alec Neumann.

This reputation has been wellearned over the past four seasons of Red and Blue soccer, and Neumann has emerged as the team’s undisputed leader and central offensive cog in his final season.

The senior’s seven goals lead the Ivy League and, having reached that total in just 10 games played, Neumann owns the 16th best goals-per-game average among all Division I players.

This offensive prowess is not surprising, as Neumann’s prodigious attacking instinct has been proven time and time again in the past. Over the course of his

first two seasons, the forward found the back of the net a combined 13 times and earned two second team All-Ivy distinctions in the process.

The true source of Neumann’s resilience, however, lies not in his achievement but in his confrontation with adversity. Last season saw Neumann, in his first season as captain, score a dismal total of two goals while the Quakers stumbled to a 3-11-2 record.

Penn’s offense as a whole was anemic and, although they were missing key pieces including co-captain Matt Poplawski, Neumann could not muster any semblance of flow in the offense that had carried the Quakers to a conference championship just two years earlier.

A definite factor was the departure of Penn legend Duke Lacroix, who is currently playing professionally for the Indy Eleven of the North American Soccer League, the United States’ second tier of soccer.

After playing his first two years in a twin-forward set, Neumann has had to adapt to his role as a center forward, a lone scorer

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After scoring just twice in 2015, Alec Neumann is roaring through his senior year, netting an Ivy-best seven goals so far.

flanked by two wingers or wideplaying midfielders.

However, there’s always another side to the story. Ask Neumann and he’ll brush off any excuse for his less-than-stellar play. But, as head coach Rudy Fuller explained, the forward’s struggles were largely a result of a nagging injury. Despite his chronic pain, Neumann singlehandedly shouldered the burden of the offense simply because he had to.

“Last year, full credit to him, he was playing on one leg,”

Fuller said. “He was playing with a sports hernia all season because he knew we were short on depth up front. He was our only true forward and even having him at 60 percent was better than not having anyone at all.”

His difficulties as a junior can also be explained by Penn’s lack of offensive personnel.

Neumann’s greatest strength is moving off the ball, finding openings in the defense, or SEE NEUMANN PAGE 7

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n its first Ivy League game of the year, Penn football took on Dartmouth, a team that shared the conference title with the Quakers in 2015. Penn won, and it wasn’t particularly close.

In the week between then and this Saturday’s matchup with a perennially disappointing (or maybe in more accurate terms, terrible) Columbia squad, the narrative from here to Robert K. Kraft Field at the tip of Manhattan surrounded Lions coach Al Bagnoli returning to Penn to coach his first game from the away team’s sideline.

I understand the fascination with his return, I really do. He coached the Red and Blue from 1992 to 2014, racking up an amazing nine Ancient Eight titles. After his historic career here, he left to take a job at a conference rival that praised his hire as the savior of a cursed program. Columbia doesn’t win much on the gridiron. For every game he does win at Columbia, they should

throw him a parade on 116th Street.

And on Saturday, Columbia didn’t win. The Quakers triumphed, 35-10, and as I watched the game, I was frustrated that it was even that close. Only up by a touchdown, the Red and Blue stalled on offense and had a punt blocked in their own half.

Against a more evenly matched team, those mistakes translate to losses. But if it isn’t clear, Columbia isn’t as good as Penn. The Quakers were able to blow it open later in the fourth.

All the questions after the game for Bagnoli were focused on his return. Was it strange to be back?

What was it like to see everyone he had known for so long?

He mentioned that he had the chance to see old friends leading up to game time. He reunited with school administrators, Penn football alumni and Franklin Field staff. But there’s one group of people he didn’t mention, his former players.

And there’s a reason for this.

Most players on the current Penn squad either weren’t in college yet and didn’t play for Bagnoli, or were young players without much of a SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 7 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640