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Quad gate left unguarded Last month’s alleged shortages of Allied Universal guards at a Quad entrance left some RAs to man the gate themselves

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Lower Quad gate as seen on the night of Aug. 11, 2020.

KEVIN BRYAN Staff Reporter At midnight on Sept. 5 during Labor Day weekend, a group of residential advisors noticed that the upper Quad gate turnstiles were left unguarded with no guards from Allied Universal Security Services in sight. This continued for three hours past midnight, the RAs said. Only one guard was

Unreliable campus Wi-Fi obstructs students from completing homework, job interviews Penn attributed AirPennNet’s connectivity issues to “vendor software bugs” EMI TUYẾTNHI TRẦN Senior Reporter

Students have reported issues connecting to the campus Wi-Fi service, AirPennNet, multiple times this semester, complicating their ability to complete schoolwork.

Penn’s Information Systems and Computing has “identified vendor software bugs that have been impacting performance,” ISC Executive Director of Technology Services Tiffany Hanulec wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian on Oct. 5.

She added that ISC is tentatively planning to upgrade to a newer version of the vendor software over fall break, which starts Oct. 14.

ISC previously performed maintenance on AirPennNet to address connectivity issues on Sept. 11 and Sept. 18, according to two emails ISC sent to residents of College Houses on Sept. 10 and Sept.

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Amid these connection issues, students have reported being unable to complete a variety of activities online, including submitting assignments and participating in job and internship interviews. Some students have resorted to connecting to mobile hotspots or renting or buying ethernet cables — which can connect devices to

on post in the information center, who they said was busy with handling student guest passes and was unable to monitor students who entered the gate.

First-year Quad residents similarly reported guard shortages on several separate occasions after Labor Day weekend, including a week later, on Sept. 14, the RAs told The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Last month’s reported shortages of Allied the internet via a cable — in order to work around the faulty connection.

College sophomore Amy Vidal, who lives in Harrison College House, said that this is not the first time she has had issues with Wi-Fi at Penn.

AirPennNet was unreliable for her in the spring semester as well, hindering her ability to participate in her online American Sign Language class.

Vidal said that she had to email tech support in the spring, who provided her with an ethernet cable that she still uses this semester — albeit with limited success.

“Even then, sometimes [the ethernet cable] just doesn’t work, and there’s just no internet whatsoever. And this occurred during times where I needed to upload an assignment to Canvas,” Vidal said.

College sophomore Nick Hanchak and his roommates similarly experienced Wi-Fi problems in campus housing. Hanchak, who lives in the newly opened $169.5 million New College House West, said he faced connectivity issues for almost an entire week.

“I just remember one night I had a chemistry quiz due on Canvas and [AirPennNet] kept cutting out during that, so it took a long time to just get it submitted, which made it kind of frustrating and stressful,” Hanchak said.

Engineering senior Maya Patel, who has been interviewing for software engineering positions at several companies, said AirPennNet suddenly cut out during a coding challenge she took while at Fisher Fine Arts Library.

“At minute 57 or 58 of my coding challenge, I was passing all but three of the test cases, and I realized what I had to do to fix it. But at that SEE WI-FI PAGE 3

Universal guards at the Quad entrance left some RAs, who are Penn undergraduate students, to man the gates themselves. After filing formal incident reports in September regarding the shortage, the RAs said they received no word from Penn’s College Houses and Academic Services, and they then felt pressured into taking over additional responsibilities to maintain Quad security.

Two RAs who spoke to the DP requested

Rescheduled Hey Day date during class and before fall break sparks backlash The rescheduled Hey Day will take place on Oct. 13 during class hours ELIZABETH MEISENZAHL Senior Reporter

Seniors who will have to miss the rescheduled Hey Day because it clashes with classes and travel for fall break are disappointed with the selection of the ceremony’s date.

Class Board 2022 announced on Sept. 29 that Hey Day for the Class of 2022 would take place on Wednesday, Oct. 13. They had previously postponed the ceremony from the spring 2021 semester — when it would have taken place during reading days, or days without class — in order to hold it in person. Now, however, because the rescheduled date takes place during class hours, many students will be unable to attend.

Hey Day is a Penn tradition that typically takes place in April where juniors wear red shirts and hats, called skimmers, and carry canes as they proceed down Locust Walk to College Green, where Penn President Amy Gutmann pronounces them seniors.

College senior and Class Board 2022 President Sam Strickberger said that after working with administration and the Office of Student Affairs, the Class Board determined that Oct. 13 would be the only possible date to hold Hey Day.

anonymity due to CHAS’ newly implemented measures restricting RAs and graduate resident advisors from speaking to media. Three RAs confirmed the accounts mentioned to the DP. Executive Director of CHAS Hikaru Kozuma wrote in a Sept. 29 email to the DP that CHAS had SEE QUAD PAGE 7

“University Life consulted with campus partners in the Provost’s Office, Public Safety, and Wellness to honor this campus tradition while considering the health, wellness, and safety factors associated with hosting a gathering of this scale,” Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives for University Life Mark Elias wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“After thorough consideration, and acknowledgment that it would be challenging to select a date that worked for all students, we selected October 13th as the event date.”

Strickberger said that while there is no blanket excuse from classes for seniors, Class Board 2022 will inform professors, who can make the decision to excuse seniors to attend.

College senior Natalie Edman has a lab midterm for BBB 310: Functional Neuroanatomy that clashes with the Hey Day celebration. Edman said that she and another senior friend in the class plan to ask their professor if they can take the exam earlier in the day so that they can still participate in Hey Day. Like Edman, College senior Namrita Kumar has class during the event. Kumar said that she also plans to ask her professor of a three-hour seminar whether they can extend the normal 10-15 minute break in the middle of class to 30 minutes to allow seniors to briefly join the ceremony.

Edman said that she wishes Hey Day would have been scheduled to take place on a Friday, when many seniors do not have class. Kumar agreed, saying that she and almost all of the seniors she knows do not have classes on Fridays.

College senior Joseph De Simone, however, said he plans to skip his class during that time in order to attend Hey Day. De Simone said that he is lucky that more of his midterms are taking place this week, SEE HEY DAY PAGE 3

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Mask and Wig, Penn’s all-male musical comedy troupe, to welcome all genders in 2022

Penn faculty and Wharton alum Evan McMullin announces candidacy for Utah Senate seat

The decision comes after an “extensive strategic review” involving over 50 undergraduates and alumni

McMullin is best known for his 2016 presidential run as an independent

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Members of Mask and Wig Club perform on stage in 2019.

Evan McMullin graduated with an MBA from The Wharton School in 2011.

Penn’s Mask and Wig Club, the oldest all-male collegiate musical comedy troupe in the United States, will welcome members of all genders for the 2022-2023 academic year.

The decision to eliminate gender as a qualification for membership comes after an “extensive strategic review” involving over 50 undergraduates and alumni of the 400-member club, President and 1986 Engineering graduate David Simon said. The review process culminated in a vote earlier this week where members approved the change in the organization’s bylaws. Mask and Wig will spend the remainder of this academic year preparing for the change through internal planning and listening sessions with club members, administrators, and other members of the Penn community, according to a Sept. 30 press release.

“The question of gender inclusion received strong support from undergraduate and alumni members spanning eight decades of Mask and Wig membership, and it is the right step for our future,” Simon said.

In addition to making the club more inclusive, the change will better enable Mask and Wig to attract top performers on campus during auditions, Undergraduate Chairman and Wharton senior Dean Jones said.

“In this current moment, it’s the perfect time to really open up the club and expand the experience, and by doing so we’re expanding our talent pool, we’re expanding access to this perfect way to experience musical comedy at a very high level, and we really are just excited to include as many people in this conversation and in this organization as possible,” Jones said.

The decision also illustrates Mask and Wig’s flexibility as a club that seeks to put on performances that are relevant to modern-day audiences, Simon added.

“As times have changed, as the needs or the interests of our audience and our participants in the Penn community have changed, we want to adapt and make sure that we’re successful in following our mission of ‘Justice to the stage; credit to the University,’” Simon said.

Mask and Wig is not the first performing arts group to question the importance of gender as a requisite for membership. Just last year, Penn Sirens, a historically all-female singing group, merged with Penn Glee Club, which traditionally had an all-male singing section, to promote gender inclusivity.

Jones said that he does not anticipate a merger with Bloomers, Penn’s comedy troupe for gender minorities. Bloomers’ 2021 Co-Inclusion chairs – Wharton and College senior Shriya Beesam and College junior Ashna Yakoob – previously authored an op-ed arguing that gendered clubs should be “a thing of the past.”

Jones added that he is looking forward to working closely with members of the Performing Arts Council and Bloomers to ensure that the implementation process goes smoothly and that everyone on campus can succeed in next year’s comedy landscape.

“This is something we’re really excited to work hard on over the next year, really to nail down exactly how we’re going to implement [the change] and the best ways we can create and foster a really inclusive, inviting community within Mask and Wig,” Jones said.

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Wharton graduate and Penn faculty member Evan McMullin announced on Tuesday his candidacy for the Senate in Utah for next year’s midterm elections, in a challenge to replace conservative Sen. Mike Lee (RUtah).

McMullin announced in his Oct. 5 campaign launch video that he will run as an Independent and “a patriot committed to defending our nation,” rather than as a Republican or Democrat.

“The extremes in Washington don’t represent Utah.

They prevent us from governing ourselves, and they jeopardize our democracy,” McMullin says in the video.

McMullin is currently a faculty lecturer in the Penn in Washington program, where he Zooms in to co-teach PSCI 398-303: “The Future of Conservatism and the GOP: Radicalization, Renewal Or Replacement.”

McMullin, who graduated from the Wharton School with an MBA in 2011, is best known for his 2016 presidential run as an Independent, during which he centered his platform around “principled, conservative leadership.” A known critic of former President and fellow Wharton graduate Donald Trump’s politics, the former undercover Central Intelligence Agency officer denounced Trump as a threat to democracy in a New York Times op-ed published in December 2016.

On Jan. 25, 2017, McMullin announced the creation of Stand Up Republic, a nonpartisan organization set on holding the Trump administration accountable and reforming government through media and grassroots campaigns.

During his presidential run, McMullin was able to win 21% of the popular vote in Utah, but less than 1% of the national vote, according to Fox News. In 2016, Vox News reported that McMullin’s popularity in Utah may have been tied to his identity as a Mormon and as

a graduate of Brigham Young University, and that some Republican voters may have chosen him as a “more palatable alternative” to Trump than other candidates who leaned closer to the left on social issues.

Following his work with the CIA and his time at Penn, McMullin worked at Goldman Sachs in in-

“The extremes in Washington don’t represent Utah. They prevent us from governing ourselves, and they jeopardize our democracy.”

EVAN MCMULLIN vestment banking, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee as an adviser. According to Yahoo News, McMullin also served as a House Republican Conference policy aide.

In the upcoming Senate race, McMullin will likely face challenges in opposing Lee, who was reelected in 2016 with nearly 70% of the vote, Politico reported. Lee also serves as the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee.

Strategy consultant Tony Altimore, who graduated Wharton in 2011 with McMullin, told The Daily Pennsylvanian in 2017 that he believed McMullin to be a great fit for public service. “[McMullin] has a steady, sharp, and intelligent way of looking at things,” Altimore said, following McMullin’s presidential run. “Evan McMullin is the type of person we need in government, no matter which party.”

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Frustrated by littering, West Philadelphia residents call for Penn students to respect area People have pointed to littering and garbage on Spruce Street sidewalks outside fraternity houses ELIZABETH MEISENZAHL & SHEILA HODGES Senior Reporter, Staff Reporter

Growing frustrated with recent littering and garbage on the sidewalks outside fraternity houses on Spruce Street, some Philadelphia residents want more respect from Penn students.

Christina DeFelice, a resident of Philadelphia, found piles of trash outside of fraternity houses in mid-September while walking back home in the morning after her shift at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. DeFelice and other Philly residents related this to a lack of respect towards native residents.

“Trash is so excessive it spills over their porches, down their steps to their front lawns, into the sidewalks and streets,” DeFelice wrote to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

After talking to her husband, who was part of Greek life during college, DeFelice said she began to feel more empathetic towards the students, whom she believes were likely just excited to be back on campus. Still, DeFelice said Penn students and the University’s Greek life need to be more respectful of the West Philadelphia community and its residents.

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meaning he is able to miss class without facing too many problems on Oct. 13.

Still, De Simone said he was disappointed that the date means not all students will be able to attend.

“It’s impressive that [Strickberger] and Class Board are still able to organize it through COVID19 and everything,” De Simone said. “I just don’t think it’s going to be as great as it has been in the past.”

For some, the conflict isn’t classes, but fall break, which begins on Oct. 14. College senior Sophie Weich, who bought her Hey Day tickets the first day they went on sale, is no longer able to attend because WI-FI FRONT PAGE

moment, the connection had gone out, so I was unable to hit the ‘Run Code’ button,” Patel said.

“As soon as I refreshed the page, I was locked out of the test, and [there] was an error message on the screen. So essentially, I didn’t know if my tests submitted or not.”

Patel said she later received confirmation that the coding challenge had been automatically saved

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2021 The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life did not respond to a request for comment.

College junior and social chair of Delta Kappa Epsilon Jacques Thompson said his fraternity’s chapter house, located at 307 S. 39th Street, just off Spruce Street, has not received any complaints this year about littering or garbage in public areas. But Thompson said he has noticed trash piled up on the sidewalk during some weekends this semester, and attributed the increase in garbage to the return of in-person campus life, including parties at fraternity houses.

“I want to make sure that the residents that we’re being good neighbors to are not uncomfortable with our existence,” Thompson said. “It’s an issue, but not one that can’t be solved.”

Penn Facilities and Real Estate Services Operations Manager Dennis Flannery wrote in an email to the DP that while FRES oversees disposal for on-campus Greek houses, off-campus Greek life houses have their trash disposed of by private waste haulers through a contract with Campus Apartments — not the University.

Flannery added that a mechanical breakdown of the contracted company’s trucks caused a delay of a few days in trash pickup two weeks ago at 3926 and 3928 Spruce Street, the locations of the chapter houses for Chi Omega and Sigma Kappa, which are both sororities.

Chase Howell, a former Penn student and current West Philadelphia resident living in Walnut Hill, found out about the littering DeFelice had seen through a post DeFelice shared in the West Philadelphia Neighborhood Facebook group describing the scene.

Like DeFelice, Howell said Penn students should be more considerate about leaving their garbage out in the neighborhood. Howell said this would be difficult, however, since she believes the University inherently

teaches its students, who are then encouraged by their peers, to not interact with the Philadelphia community because it may be dangerous. “[Penn students] are never told to be respectful or kind — only disdainful and afraid,” Howell wrote in an email to the DP on Sept. 24, recalling being told by other upperclassmen students to not go past 40th Street.

“It is like living in a grey area where the regular Philadelphia community or people who do not belong to Penn honestly do not exist in a fourblock radius outside of [housing] projects that Penn has.”

P.O.C. “I think that Penn students becoming more involved in the West Philadelphia community will help them realize that these are people that they live with, and sort of help to form a bond and restore some of the trust that has been lost between West Philadelphia and Penn and its students in general,” Howell said, adding that this may lead to a decrease in littering near campus.

Students have previously raised issues with Penn’s relationship with Philadelphia, including during a discussion in 2016 held by the United Minority Council on how Penn resources can be best used to address West Philadelphia’s needs. Students, faculty, and staff have also recently called on the University to pay Payments in Lieu of Taxes, or PILOTs, to the city.

The residents also suggested Penn can improve its relationship with the city by making parts of campus more accessible to the public, and by encouraging students to engage in community events like Books Through Bars, which sends free books to people who are incarcerated in Pennsylvania’s prisons.

While Philadelphia resident and local radio host Tamera Russell, who goes by P.O.C., Proof of Consciousness, said she understands how students want to be cautious while living in a city environment, she believes they need to be more respectful and welcoming towards the community as they are ultimately visitors.

“It is like living in a grey area where the regular Philadelphia community or people who do not belong to Penn honestly do not exist in a four-block radius outside of [housing] projects that Penn has,” P.O.C. said, referring to Penn students.

The University can improve its segregated relationship with Philadelphia by making its campus more community-friendly, by allowing local residents to use their restrooms, and making it more acceptable for residents to sit on benches on campus, for example, P.O.C. said.

“Yellow shirts are everywhere,” P.O.C. said, referring to Penn Police members who wear bright yellow shirts while on duty around campus. “It’s like walking on eggshells in our own community. Going from maybe 40th Street and Spruce Street to 36th and Market, in that area alone it’s like, ‘Yo why can’t we sit on this bench? Why can’t we sit in this park?’”

she will already be traveling for break. Weich said that while she is slightly disappointed that she has to miss the celebration, she was not upset with the date choice overall.

“Coming off a year of just having such an odd college experience, part of me is sort of just done with it,” Weich said. “If I was going to be around I would participate, but I’m not super upset to not be able to be there.”

Kumar said that she and her friends had purchased their Hey Day bundles already, and plan to take their own pictures afterward with their hats, red shirts, and canes.

“At least we’ll have those pictures, but it’s really disappointing that we can’t actually experience Hey Day as Hey Day,” Kumar said. and submitted, but she added that she was lucky that she was nearly finished when the Wi-Fi cut out.

She added that she has frequently had to switch to an Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspot or go to her off-campus apartment to do her work.

“I definitely feel lucky at the end of the day that I can always use the Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspot, or I could just go home and have a reliable WiFi connection there, but I definitely know a lot of underclassmen or people that are on campus where AirPennNet is their only source of WiFi,” Patel said.

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Professors, let seniors miss class for Hey Day

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here are a handful of traditions that are synonymous with Penn: throwing toast at football games, Spring Fling, and perhaps most notably, Hey Day, where soon-to-be seniors march down Locust Walk with canes and are officially declared seniors by the University president. The celebration, which normally takes place during April of one’s junior year, was postponed to the following fall for the Class

of 2022, and it will be held on Oct. 13.

This year, Hey Day will look different, and not just because of the date.

The fall date of the celebration has led to controversy, with students unable to attend the celebration due to class. Furthermore, the date is just one day before the beginning of fall break, which could lead to additional absences. Given the importance of Hey Day to the Penn experience, professors should refrain from

Car crashes and thank yous The Breakdown | How a seriouscar accident involving my grandmother allowed me to realize what really matters

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y grandmother survived a forced exile from her home country, Egypt, due to religious persecution. She has been fighting leukemia for the past five years.

Even at 85 years old, she remains sharp and active, participating in book clubs, stock clubs, bridge clubs, political discussion groups, and volunteer organizations.

Something as mundane as a Ford Fusion speeding around the corner of 21st and Chestnut streets should not have left her in the operating room with half her hair shaved off, tubes connected to her brain to monitor for seizures, and a ventilator strapped to her face to ensure she continues to breathe. My grandmother wanted to buy groceries. She now rests in a medically induced coma at Penn Presbyterian Hospital with a broken neck, clavicle, collarbone, cheekbone, and a shattered eye socket that has swollen her eye shut.

Growing up, I never understood how people failed to get along with their grandparents. My friends would tell horrific stories where they were forced to take excruciating long drives to see their mean, judgmental, and boring grandparents. This all sounded like an oxymoron to me. I realized, though, that I was and am lucky. Given that I share my middle name, Andre, with my grandmother’s first name, I was bound to have a close connection with her. Little did I know that as I grew older, my connection with my grandmother would become so much more than a shared name. My grandmother became my friend, my closest confidant (sorry Mom), and my role model.

To many outsiders, my grandmother is another unfortunate tale demonstrating a troubling amount of hit and runs occurring throughout Philadelphia, another depressing story that you may hear on the 11:00 p.m. local news and never think about it again. In all honesty, I know that there’s a good chance this column, too, will be read and quickly forgotten. I’ve been there. I have heard heart wrenching stories about families that have lost someone close to them and forgotten about them the next day. As a part of this story, however, I cannot simply forget and move on.

Struggling to watch YouTube news clips about my grandmother leaves me feeling hopeless and frightened, long after I have finished the video.

My grandmother’s sudden and surprising health scare has placed many things in perspective for me. Environments like Penn that place a premium on pre-professionalism can easily create atmospheres in which students place an excessive amount of attention on club applications and difficult classes. While important, at the end of the day, you will forget about the clubs that denied you, the time you spent in office hours, and the bad grade you received on a midterm. As busy students, we tend to lose sight of the important relationships that we form, focusing too much on our academic and professional next step. Personally, I am constantly stressed by my never ending CIS 160 work. While I care about the class,

scheduling exams on that date, and excuse students who wish to attend the celebration.

Professors have several options to excuse students. Most obviously, they could cancel class entirely on Wednesday. Doing so would obviously affect not just seniors, but underclassmen as well. This would allow those who are not seniors, as well as seniors who choose not to attend, to get an early start

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I know that, 10 years from now, I will not remember the induction proof that stumped me on one homework. I will, however, remember my grandmother and my friends who supported me through this time.

Perhaps, more importantly, I have learned the value in saying “thank you.” The ease at which it takes you to say these two words draws no parallels to their effect on other people. Saying thank you is easy; hearing a thank you, gratifying. Start saying thank you to the dorm building security guards who help keep us safe. Start saying thank you to the dining hall employees who ensure that we are fed. Start saying thank you to your friends, family members, and professors for all the little things they do for you that you have come to take for granted.

My grandmother’s health scare has led me to say “thank you” more as of late. I want to say thank you to my friends, family members, and professors who have supported and aided me as I struggle through this time. Thank you to the witnesses who rushed to my grandmother’s aid as soon as her body fell to the ground. Thank you to the nurses who spent hours upon hours trying to help my grandmother recover.

And to Grandma, thank you for always helping me with my French homework, for always knocking some common sense into me, and for always buying me clothes I didn’t even know I needed. While you likely will never be able to read this, I hope that you will find a way to hear my message.

The driver that left my grandmother in the hospital quickly fled the scene and has yet to be found by the police. If anyone has information pertaining to the incident, I ask that you please call the police at 215-686TIPS. If not, please share, repost, and like this article with as many people as possible to ensure that we can find somebody with information. Finally, I have one request on behalf of my grandmother: for the past year, my grandmother has been writing stories about her life experiences to post on her own blog. If you could go and check it out, my family would all really appreciate it. It would mean the world to my grandmother.

If anyone else is going through similar troubles and needs a friend to talk to, please don’t be afraid to reach out to me.

DANIEL ANDRE GUREVITCH is a College sophomore studying political science and philosophy from Wynnewood, Pa. His email is dgure@ sas.upenn.edu.

on fall break. At a University that has often been criticized for inadequate breaks, professors canceling class the day before one would undoubtedly help students relax.

If professors are (understandably) reluctant to cancel class next Wednesday, they could excuse senior students from attending class on that day. Such a move could either be across the board or based on student request. Regardless, professors ought to understand that Hey Day is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for students, and they should be allowed to miss one class for it.

Such students would ultimately be responsible for the material on the day missed. Fortunately, remote resources make it less likely for students to fall behind after class. For instance, some professors have continued the practice of recording classes, despite officially being in person. If such resources are unavailable, students would likely be able to get notes from a classmate.

Some may argue that the responsibility isn’t on professors to cancel classes, and instead, Class Board 2022 should move the date of Hey Day. However, Class Board President and College senior Sam Strickberger has already expressed that the planned date was “not ideal” for several reasons. Furthermore, he said Oct. 13 is the only viable date, after discussing the issue with relevant parties.

Hey Day’s importance cannot be overstated. It is a right of passage that Penn students have partaken in for over a century and a common ritual that bonds virtually all alumni. The Class of 2022 should not be forced to miss this special occasion. As such, professors should do the right thing, and ensure all seniors in their classes can attend Hey Day next Wednesday.

hose who know me are familiar with my love of all things politics. Growing up, however, I was frequently told that politics was an arena where my altruistic intentions would be stifled by self-interested people who lacked care for the constituents they represented. Despite consistent warnings, the pull of my fascination with American government proved just too strong for me to resist, evidenced by my prospective philosophy, politics, and economics major.

Last semester, I began to lose faith in my conviction that the warnings I had been given were wrong. As a consequence of the 2020 United States presidential election and escalating national partisanship, my confidence in the fact that our country’s politics are an endeavor worth pursuing was fading fast. At Penn, I watched as groups personally attacked debaters in a Penn Government and Politics Association debate, heard my friends actively curb their political views for fear of academic or social repercussions, and even dealt with unsolicited commentary on my own pieces in The Daily Pennsylvanian.

My conclusion? Politics, at Penn and elsewhere, was proving to be exactly what I’d always been told it was: arguments between often close-minded people who had lost sight of their initial intentions to help their communities. Why should I bother? I was reminded of just that question this summer during my participation in both local and state races in Connecticut.

Like many of my peers at Penn, my exposure to politics prior to this summer had been exclusively national. But this summer, however, my focus switched to the Connecticut State Legislature and the Stamford Board of Representatives. The change was refreshing.

I had the privilege of working on campaigns filled with upstanding people who shared a common goal of serving the communities they loved. It was inspiring to be around individuals in a political sphere who were genuinely honest, hard-working, and listened to the people they were soliciting votes from — a lost art in national candidates.

In canvassing my hometown, I was also forced to confront the overall lack of civic engagement among my neighbors, and in some ways, myself. My social life was filled with convincing people of the importance of voting in the State Senate special election for Connecticut’s 36th District, even among those who had rushed to the polls last November to vote for president. As I became more involved in the campaigns, I realized how much I had to learn about the issues at hand in my community, despite having prided myself on being “civically literate.”

This lack of engagement holds true across the country as well. On average, only between 15-27% of eligible voters cast ballots in local elections, and the numbers are even worse for young people, with those 65 and up seven times more likely to vote than those between 18 and 34. These numbers are compared with about 60% turnout

in presidential elections and 40% during midterms. We saw similar numbers in our own special election when 26.7% of eligible voters in Connecticut’s 36th District voted, a higher number compared than the 13% turnout in a State Senate special election in the neighboring district seen earlier this year.

The absence of local participation in the United States is ironic given our highly federalist structure with so much power over the day-to-day activities of individual citizens being delegated to state and municipal governments. State legislatures are significantly more effective at passing bills than Congress (no matter their party breakdown). State governments pass approximately 25% of the legislation with which they are presented compared to Congress’s whopping 4%.

Due to the nature of the issues delegated to local governments, partisanship is less present. National talking points only go so far on problems like infrastructure and education where everyone sees the success or failure of their tax dollars. The speed by which you can get a fallen tree off your road or new computers for your local high school are simply not matters of Democratic National Committee or Republican National Committee platforms. Similarly, the pandemic has proved the extensive role of local governments: with mayors around the country dictating lockdowns and masking mandates and governors using emergency powers and controlling vaccine rollout.

By shifting our political focus back to our founding fathers’ intent — the chambers of our state capitols and city halls — we can help to combat the most important issues plaguing our discourse and policymaking culture. We can help elect people who are more invested in serving their communities in office than attaining celebrity status. We can move away from unnecessary partisan rhetoric and focus on helping to solve problems that affect our friends, families, and neighbors. In doing this, we’ll see a change not only in governance but also among our political communities — like those at Penn.

The sooner we stop attaching ourselves, and those with which we disagree, to polarizing political identities and start having real conversations about how to fix our communities, the sooner we will reap the benefits we all desire in our policymaking. So, sign up to take an Academically Based Community Service course next semester, or in the spirit of last week’s national voter registration day, head to the Penn Leads the Vote website and register. Around the country, local elections are happening on Nov. 2 — whether you vote here in Philadelphia or cast an absentee ballot for a race at home, know your vote will make a difference.

LEXI BOCCUZZI is a College sophomore studying philosophy, politics, and economics from Stamford, Conn. Her email is abb628@ sas.upenn.edu.

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and tolerate COVID-19 The Red & Blue Soapbox | How to deal with the fear and anxiety that come with catching pseudo-COVID-19

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t started out with a slight sore throat in the morning. Then a runny nose followed by congestion.

By the end of the day, I had many of the symptoms of the Delta variant of COVID-19. I panicked and became full of anxiety. Convinced this was more than just my seasonal allergies (despite being fully vaccinated), I immediately filled out my PennOpen Pass with my new symptoms and started a cautionary quarantine period at home for the sake of my professors and classmates. As is protocol, I went to my local pharmacy the next day to get a COVID-19 test and anxiously awaited the results. Over the next few days, I developed a fever and felt just downright sick. When the results came in, I was shocked: Negative.

I was convinced this was a false negative, so I got tested again, this time at a different pharmacy using a different lab. My parents, who also developed symptoms, also got tested. I waited a few days once again and then received all the results at once.

Negative. “SARS-CoV-2 Not Detected.” With all my symptoms now gone and my tests submitted, I reached out to the PennOpen Pass team who then cleared me for my return.

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According to my doctor and Student Health Services, what I had was not COVID-19 but likely a different, much more benign, common cold that had been circulating in Pennsylvania which inconveniently displayed many of the same symptoms of the Delta variant. I was confused. “But I had all the symptoms of COVID-19,” I quickly said to my doctor. “Yes, but other illnesses exist that can make you sick besides COVID-19,” he retorted.

Throughout our time in lockdown last year, we largely felt as if COVID-19 was the only virus that could make us sick and all but forgot what getting sick was like before the pandemic. We’d get colds.

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We’d get the attenuated flu. And we’d stay home to recover. However, our new heightened awareness of illness around us has primed us to think that any time we feel sick, it must be COVID-19. And that, as I and others who had similar experiences learned, is simply not the case.

Despite wearing masks and following other mitigating practices, we will still get sick, and we must learn to accept that. The immense amount of anxiety from both peers and ourselves that comes with the onset of a runny nose is unfounded. We have gotten to the point where people feel obliged from a fear of being ostracized to assure others that they do not have COVID-19, regardless of whether they know this as a fact.

We have seen that the chance of a breakthrough infection is low and that the chance of becoming seriously ill from it is even lower. Here at Penn, College Dean Paul Sniegowski informed the student body in a Sept. 14 email that “in-person teaching is associated with a very low probability of COVID transmission,” which has allowed in-person instruction to continue. Obviously, we should continue testing and practicing other precautions against community transmission. Yet, the go-to reaction of panic at the outset of some symptoms, especially when we are now back in-person where we will encounter other common winter illnesses, does not serve us or our community any good and will only plague our in-person Penn experience with fear. If we test positive for COVID-19, then treat it as such.

So, as we start to head into the colder months, we should give ourselves pause before panic when we start to feel ill. As humans, we will get sick again and we must not immediately become plagued with the anxiety that it is COVID-19, because quite possibly, it is not. We also must not jeopardize those who can still become significantly ill from COVID-19 and other illnesses. This means we should get vaccinated against the flu and COVID-19 (including possible booster shots). My own experience with pseudo-COVID-19 was the beginning of our world’s new normal where we must learn to navigate a bizarre new life involving our health. But we will be okay once we start to accept what has become reality. Your mental health, your body’s health, and your community at large will thank you.

JOSEPH SQUILLARO is a College senior studying philosophy, politics and economics from East Setauket, N.Y. His email is jsqu@ sas.upenn.edu.

Penn is not the ‘Social Ivy’ for all of us Yomi’s Soapbox | The racialized nature of Penn’s party scene leaves people of color out

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s the conversation around fraternity culture at Penn continues in the wake of the Castle assault, I can’t help but feel far removed from the issue to begin with. I pass Castle almost every day on Locust Walk, but I know I will probably never step foot inside.

When I got to Penn a little over a month ago, I was excited for what my first year would look like on campus. Unlike my friends at other Ivy League schools, I didn’t have to worry that academics would completely dominate my college experience; I was going to the “Social Ivy.” I would follow Penn’s famous “work hard, play harder” mantra as I spent my weekdays grinding in the library and weekends having a great time. But what I quickly realized was that the “Social Ivy” experience that is so integral to many a Penn student’s identity was not made for students like me.

My friends and I would get ready and dressed up to go out on a Friday, only to be rejected from every party we tried to enter. At the end of the night, all we had done was walk around in circles while we passed white students having their quintessential, picture-perfect college night out.

One night, my friends and I began mingling with a group of white girls as they were exiting a fraternity party. We explained to them that we’d had no luck getting into parties so far. One of them said to us, “You guys are so pretty — they have to let you in!”

At that moment, their naivety became obvious. It occurred to me that my experience on a night out was fundamentally different from that of my white peers.

They didn’t have to wonder if they’d find success.

They thought a perceived lack of beauty was the only reason a fraternity brother wouldn’t let a girl in.

It soon became routine for us to seek out non-Penn parties, at Temple or Drexel. We refer to these parties as “Black parties” because the word “party” alone is assumed to be not for us. Walking 30 minutes through North Philadelphia or splitting the costs of Ubers, we had to do a lot just to have the same fun our white peers found on campus.

We didn’t have to worry about historically Black fraternities at Temple telling us to “take a lap” but letting a group of white students behind us go inside without hesitation. Or, “We’re full right now.” Or, “Trust me, you don’t even want to be in there.”

Granted, it’s not impossible for Black students or other students of color to get into non-Black fraternity parties. It’s all about who you surround yourself with: you can use someone else’s privilege to your social advantage. A group of Black students trying to enter a party is not desirable. A group of white students with one or two Black students is. Unfortunately, as a Black student, tokenizing yourself is the most reliable way to participate in this part of Penn’s social scene.

Fraternity parties aren’t the only events that make up Penn’s social scene. But on a campus where an estimated 25% of students are involved with Greek life and the so-called first-year experience revolves around those fraternity parties, it’s pretty hard not to notice when you’re being excluded. Not being wanted at a party is about more than just a missed opportunity for fun. It’s about the subtle reinforcement that, as Black students, we don’t belong. And that feeling of otherness lasts longer than just one night.

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It taints the next four years as we further isolate ourselves and feel a greater sense of disconnect from the Penn community. When Black students constantly associate their social lives with leaving campus, they begin to question the place they have at Penn.

Like much of the outside world, Penn is segregated by race. People tend to gravitate toward others who look like them, especially in a new, unfamiliar environment like college. But the social scene doesn’t have to be the same way.

I’m not saying that we should abolish Greek life. I just think Greek life at Penn can and should be more inclusive. In their membership, of course, but also in their interactions with the general student body, which is mostly through parties.

When we’re open to venturing outside our segregated bubbles, we are free to socialize and have fun with each other. Penn should live up to its name as the “Social Ivy” for all students who want to participate, not just a select group.

YOMI ABDI is a Wharton first year studying finance from Chicago. Her email is yomiabdi@wharton.upenn.edu.

Read this article before you accept your return offer Surayya’s Spice and Everything Nice | Why should we waste any time pursuing a path that isn’t our own?

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never planned on becoming a management consultant or investment banker. When I applied to Wharton, I knew exactly who I wanted to be: an entrepreneur. I’ve always been the girl with 10 business plans in a notebook. My years at Wharton made my firm entrepreneurial ambitions seem more like a side project than an actual career path. I was told to do the “safe thing” and put my entrepreneurial dreams on hold more times than I can remember.

I’ve been bold about my aversion to four-year plans, but when my junior year came around, I wondered if I was progressing enough professionally. My professional excursions — teaching at a summer business program, working as a project manager for a small nonprofit in Brooklyn — did not sound impressive to most. Would I become the one “unsuccessful” Wharton graduate? So when the opportunity came around, I did what everyone else did: I got a cushy internship

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in management consulting.

When I accepted my internship, I thought that maybe I’d return to this firm and be the person who can boast about a return offer on LinkedIn. Today, I squirm at the thought of trading my ambitions for money. My internship drained my energy. The excel sheets, survey coding, and PowerPoint presentations did not appeal to my creative and adventurous nature.

I knew that I wasn’t giving my all and I lacked passion. By the time my internship was over, I made a bold decision: I told the company that I did not want to return. I left money and status on the table. I just wasn’t passionate about the work. I couldn’t lie to them or myself any longer.

I rejected the opportunity to continue working in consulting. I’m a Wharton senior without a job, and I’m fine. I sleep seven hours a day, and I have peace.

I want us to change our perception of professional development at Wharton and Penn. Success for me was never about being rich or working for a blue-chip firm. Students need time to make informed decisions about their futures. Between the lack of purposeful career preparation, the pressure to conform to our school’s or major’s expectations, and the pursuit of wealth, some seniors have veered from honoring our core desires. I’d like every senior at Penn who is contemplating returning to that job they hate to read this and reflect.

I always wondered why there was a lack of investment in helping undergraduates find purposeful professions. MBA students have career coaches, why don’t undergraduate students? Being Gen Z is is seeking purposeful careers, at higher rates than former generations. While former generations of students may

have solely wanted a profitable career, the times are quickly changing, with students caring about social and environmental impact as well. Your first career choice should be a natural extension of your purpose or your curiosity. I can’t count how many times I heard that someone’s going into consulting to somehow “discover what they want to do.” The problem is, why should you graduate from an Ivy League school with a $20.5 billion endowment, only to have no clue what professional path you are most interested in?

Then there’s the huge issue of wanting to be like those around us, also called the conformity principle.

College is a very short four years of your life. The average life expectancy in the United States is 78.7 years. College is 5% of the average lifespan. Hopefully, this isn’t too depressing to think about, but it begs some questions. If you firmly dislike consulting or banking, are you going to let Penn (5% of your life) pressure you to sign up for years of miserable work?

Penn will have a very small role (albeit impactful) in the larger scheme of my life. I won’t allow Penn or Wharton to guilt me into feeling like I “wasted my education” by turning down my return offer.

Do not allow your education or your major to confine your post-graduation options. If anything, we should view our Ivy League education as a huge asset, allowing us to have a safety net in case our latest career excursion doesn’t work out. The Washington Post reported that only 27% of college graduates have a career that aligns with their major. Forbes also published an article entitled “Six Reasons Why Your College Major Doesn’t Matter,” discussing that 93% of employers actually believe that solid critical thinking and problem-solving skills are more important than

your field of study. Given that depression after college is quite common, there’s even more reason to pursue what you’re truly interested in.

Some feel pressured to turn down the allure of a meaningful and exciting career because of money.

Money can be an important factor in job decisionmaking, but it should not be the only one. In fact, there is no guarantee that a larger paying job will improve job satisfaction or even emotional well-being. In 2010, economist Daniel Kahneman discovered that gains in emotional well-being level off after an income of $75,000. The fact that entrepreneurs can work for months or years on a company that isn’t profitable shows that there are other reasons why we choose to work. For success in the long term, we have to tap into higher ideals for working and building a career, especially when making the leap from college into full-blown adulthood.

It’s time we speak the truth about the larger and broader impacts of choosing a job you dislike. Before you accept your return offer, read this and think about your life. Who do you really want to become? What do you want to be? Listen to yourself, and choose accordingly. The pandemic underscored why we should not waste any time pursuing a path that isn’t our own.

In the words of famed poet Mary Oliver, it’s time to consider what you really and truly want to do with “your one wild and precious life.” Senior year is a great time to start.

SURAYYA WALTERS is a Wharton senior studying management and marketing from New Rochelle, N.Y. Her email is surayyaw@ wharton.upenn.edu.

On such a racially diverse campus, why is cross-racial engagement limited?

Consider This | The current nature of friend groups on campus is homogenous in regards to cultural and racial upbringings. We need to venture out.

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here is no question that Penn is incredibly diverse — comprising of 12 schools and a student body of more than 25,000, Penn’s community comes from a variety of races, genders, sexual orientations, religions and socioeconomic backgrounds. But diversity means more than data points and percentages. On the ground, intermingling between people of different demographics occurs far less than it should.

As a person of color that grew up in the South, most of my friends have always been white, and this was my expectation coming to Penn as well.

However, this couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Given my family’s roots in South Asia, many of my friends on campus come from the same area. This occurrence doesn’t pertain to me alone. Walking on Locust, into any dining hall, library, or lounge, racially homogeneous cliques are blatantly evident.

This gravitation towards something familiar when put in a new environment didn’t come as a surprise at first, but as I approach my second month at Penn, why has this remained the norm?

A 2011 study explored the correlation between the impacts of the omnipotence of choice in friends and how diverse our friend groups become. “The ironic

finding is that in more diverse environments, we find less diverse friendships,” author Angela Bahns says.

Another study in the American Journal of Sociology states that “What really matters isn’t the mix of students as much as what the schools do with the mix of students.” While Penn has fostered an environment for the formation of over 140 different cultural clubs, when are these clubs, if ever, intermingling? In fact, this is just resulting in making us more exclusive in who we associate with and who we let associate with us.

Racial homogeneity limits our ability to perceive information in an open minded manner. Without the exposure to different people with different perspectives, we start to form surface level stereotypes about certain groups, as seen in a Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology paper. Once these stereotypes are established, it’s very difficult to change our way of thinking and discriminatory behavior becomes widespread.

These past couple of years have been particularly difficult for many people. From pandemics to protests, America is still struggling to overcome racial inequity. We are the latest generation of adults, and by embracing and respecting our various differences we can truly become the so-called “melting pot” we currently label ourselves.

So what do we do now?

While many people find that staying inside your

comfort zone is a safe alternative to social awkwardness, this results in no growth. Approach someone!

Sounds easier said than done, yes I know, but start off easy. Talk to that person you always see filling up their Brita in the hallway at 2 a.m. Go knock on your loud next door neighbor’s door. Meet up with that person you only see in lecture. Regardless of your similarities or differences, communication is the first step towards gaining a multicultural perspective and becoming a kinder community in the future.

We can sit around all day and have the privileged conversation of how to fix these problems, but without acting now, while we have the opportunity to talk to people from around the world, we are just harming ourselves. I remember what drew me to Penn was the realization that this will be one of the only times in our lives where we will have the ability to learn about how different people think and where they come from. For the rest of our lives, we will be surrounded by people in the same professional fields as us, closing off our circle. In the end, when we breach these barriers, we may realize that what we thought about certain people is not even remotely close to the truth.

LIALA SOFI is a College first year studying health and societies from Roanoke, Va. Her email address is lsofi@sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn GSE and Free Library of Philadelphia to offer free adult English language courses The free online courses, operating between September and December 2021, are taught

by Penn GSE students ISABELA BAGHDADY Contributing Reporter

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been following up on all reports sent from RAs about the alleged guard staffing shortage and is working with the Division of Public Safety to resolve any problems.

“Student leaders can bring concerns to their house directors, as well as me as the executive director,” Kozuma wrote. “When there are issues, we work with students and our partners at the University to address them.”

But Vice President for Public Safety and Superintendent of the Penn Police Department Maureen Rush told the DP that information about a guard shortage had not been relayed to her.

“A lot of people who would normally get stopped at the upper Quad gate for extreme intoxications were getting through. You sort of feel like you have to step in for the security guard and take over that role, like checking passes and seeing how drunk people are, which is not our job.”

The inside of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Walnut Street West location.

Penn’s Graduate School of Education is partnering with the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Languages and Learning Center to offer adults in Philadelphia free online English Language Learning programs this fall.

The courses, operating between September and December 2021, are conducted over Zoom and taught by Penn GSE students pursuing degrees in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Lindsay Southworth, the senior program manager for adult education and language learning at the Free Library, said the classes are typically held once or twice per week and are organized to fit each graduate student’s class schedule.

Southworth said the class material for the English language courses — which range from “Elementary English” to “Intermediate English” — is based on the needs and interests of the graduate students, who design the entire coursework themselves as part of their graduate work. She added that each graduate student is paired with a library staff member who helps oversee the class sessions.

While the Free Library and Penn GSE students have collaborated for years to offer English language-learning classes to non-English speakers in the Philadelphia community, the courses only recently transitioned to an online format due to the onset of the pandemic in 2020.

Jeanne Hamann, who is the adult/teen librarian

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and branch manager at the Charles Santore Branch of the Free Library, said the transition to an online format this year has made the courses more convenient for both teachers and students and has led to more consistent attendance rates.

Southworth and Hamann agreed that the English Language Learning programs are a beneficial resource for Philadelphia’s large immigrant population, and help the Free Library meet the area’s heavy demand for English classes.

“The classes normally offered by the Languages and Learning Center are either taught by library staff or volunteers, but these are basically professional teachers who are offering their services for free, so it’s very beneficial,” Hamann said.

Adults interested in participating in the English Language Learning programs offered by the Free Library and Penn GSE can sign up online at the Free Library’s website. The Free Library also has a waitlist for classes that have reached maximum registration.

“It’s really wonderful to be able to partner with the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, and be able to offer more classes for the public who are interested in language learning,” Southworth said. “It’s also really wonderful to be a part of training and supporting this next generation of English teachers, and giving them an opportunity to practice their skills and hone their teaching craft.”

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“The relationship with Penn is quite difficult,” one Quad RA told the DP. “The administration is not very transparent. They take the work of RAs for granted in a lot of ways.”

During Labor Day weekend, the second Quad RA who spoke to the DP said they felt it was necessary to watch over the gate themselves after witnessing a large number of intoxicated students return back to the Quad after the Made in America music festival.

“We were seeing … really high [incidences] of people passing out in lounges, people having to call [the Medical Emergency Response Team] for their friends because normally those people would be stopped at the front gate, and MERT would be called to the situation, but now there’s nobody there,” they said.

They added that some students were unable to receive prompt and appropriate medical treatment at the gate, including for alcohol abuse.

“A lot of people who would normally get stopped at the upper Quad gate for extreme intoxications were getting through,” the second RA, who helped guard the gate during Labor Day weekend, said.

“You sort of feel like you have to step in for the security guard and take over that role, like checking passes and seeing how drunk people are, which is not our job.”

The second RA told the DP that multiple phone calls were made to Penn Police on Sept. 5, and said

a supervisor who picked up the phone responded saying that they could not spare additional officers for the upper Quad gate. But the supervisor told the RAs that Penn Police officers would be watching the Quad’s CCTV cameras and that other officers would drive by the gate during their rounds.Soon after the guard shortage during Labor Day weekend, the RAs said that RAGRAs met with a College House director and was told that they should not feel obligated to man the gates, because they were not trained by CHAS to do so.

Some RAs still remained wary about leaving the turnstiles empty, as they were concerned about student safety.

“It’s a bit of a catch-22. Do I take care of myself and not go to the upper Quad gate? Or do I have my residents come back, and not get stopped and have alcohol poisoning when they’re under my care?” the second RA said. “It just makes me a little bit worried that we tell parents that their kids are going to be fully safe, and it’s kind of hard to guarantee that if there is nobody watching the front gates.”

Those who manned the upper Quad gate last month said that the extra hours on shift added up to a significant, uncompensated time commitment above their typical 15- to 20-hour work weeks.

“Working in the upper Quad gate added at least a couple hours every day, a lot of emotional stress, and responsibility that we’re not necessarily trained for,” the second RA said. “And it’s not a responsibility we should have to take on.

That’s not fair to us or to the residents.”

Some RAs also mentioned that due to the lack of security at the turnstiles, COVID-19 masking protocols for students passing through the gate were not adequately enforced.

On several occasions, RAs stationed themselves at the upper Quad gate and handed out masks to students entering through the portal, which they said is a responsibility of the security guards who stand at the turnstiles. RAs said they have also seen some Allied Universal guards unmasked several times while on duty.

Multiple RAs said guard staffing has been returning back to normal in recent weeks, and that Allied Universal guards at the Quad have been following the COVID-19 safety protocols more closely.

The RAs who spoke to the DP said they want increased communication from Penn administration and CHAS about issues occurring in college houses, such as the guard shortages, which they believe will mitigate confusion and emotional distress related to the job.

RAGRAs have encountered challenges working with Penn and CHAS in past semesters as well. Last year, the University dismissed a letter sent by over 135 RAGRAs to administration that demanded a new contract with hazard pay and a clear outline of their responsibilities, prompting RAGRAs to want to quit.

“It just feels like we were kind of abandoned by the CHAS admins and given very little guidance on what to do in this kind of upsetting situation,” the second RA said.

U.N. fellowship awarded to 27 Penn students to develop social impact ventures The Millennium Fellowship is a semester-long leadership program focused on social impact projects ABBY BAGGINI Contributing Reporter

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All of the fellows’ projects are listed in a database that allows them to connect with their peers and solicit support.

Sailors said that he has already received emails from people in Japan, Germany, and Austria who want to engage with his project.

Sailors’ project, “Waste-Free Penn,’’ is an extension of an initiative he has been working on with Penn Sustainability Consulting to reduce the waste generated by students during move out.

“People just drop so much furniture ... There’s just so much waste after move out,” Sailors said.

“We want to make sure that goes back to the Penn community or people who could use it, like [first-generation, low-income] students and underrepresented minorities.”

College senior Marissa Mojena, another Millennium Fellow, added that the database of projects has been immensely helpful in supporting her project’s development.

She started the nonprofit group Invisible Hands Philadelphia to address food insecurity during the pandemic in summer 2020, which she will continue to develop as a Millennium Fellow.

“The organization is a contact-free delivery

Twenty-seven Penn students have been awarded this year’s Millennium Fellowship.

The United Nations Academic Impact initiative and Millennium Campus Network awarded a cohort of 27 Penn students the Millennium Fellowship, a semester-long leadership program focused on social impact projects.

Engineering first year Benjamin Sailors. (Photo from Benjamin Sailors)

This year, the Penn fellows will work towards campus-wide initiatives pertaining to sustainability, educational access, food insecurity, equitable

vaccine distribution, and immigrant rights, among others. The Millennium Fellowship does not provide funding for fellows’ projects, but instead places emphasis on the global network of current fellows and alumni that fellows can tap into as a resource.

The program, which is composed of over 2,000 fellows across 136 college campuses and 30 countries this year, helps students develop a social impact project that meets one or more of the United Nation’s 17 sustainable development goals. The goals aim to create a better future by addressing global challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, and justice. Penn has hosted a cohort of Millennium Fellows every year since 2018.

Students meet regularly as a cohort to help one another pursue their projects and to complete a leadership development curriculum provided by the Millennium Campus Network and United Nations. College sophomore Angelo Scaringella and Engineering first year Benjamin Sailors serve as campus directors for the fellowship and guide the development sessions.

Fellows were required to submit project proposals as part of their applications and detail how they would pursue them as a Millennium Fellow.

Engineering senior Ananyaa Kumar. (Photo from Ananyaa Kumar)

service, so community members can basically place an order online for groceries, medications, or anything that they need, and healthy, trained volunteers will deliver the materials to them,” she said.

Scaringella, another fellow and campus director, also hopes his project has an impact across Philadelphia.

His proposal, “The Undivided Project,” aims to develop a financial literacy curriculum for

local high school and middle school students.

Scaringella said it was something he was always interested in and thought the fellowship would

Engineering senior Kristina Khaw. (Photo from Kristina Khaw)

be a great way to provide him with the resources to jumpstart it.

Like Scaringella, Engineering senior Ananyaa Kumar said she had always been interested in pursuing a social impact venture but was “a bit lost” with how to do so.

Her project, “Well-being and Upliftment of Communities,” will work with National Pre-Health Community LLC to produce an annual report of academic resources for students who want to pursue careers in health care. She is also considering hosting town halls for low-income Philadelphians who are having trouble accessing health care resources.

Engineering senior Kristina Khaw’s project “Philadelphia Mental Health Screening Initiative,” an extension of work she has done previously with Penn Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness Program, will offer mental health screenings and workshops targeted towards the city’s low-income population.

The fellowship formally ends in November, but Sailors, Khaw, Mojena, Kumar, and Scaringella all expressed their desires to continue with their projects after the end date by using the network and skills they plan to build over the semester.

While the fellowship is just getting underway, Mojena said the fellowship has allowed her to think about her project in new ways through the help of the other fellows.

“It’s just really inspiring to be around other people that are all really passionate about making a difference whether it’s in [Philadelphia] or on a larger scale,” she said.

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For the first time in a month, the Quakers emerged victorious.

On Saturday night at the Palestra, Penn volleyball snapped an eight-game losing streak dating back to Sept. 10 — in dramatic fashion no less, taking Dartmouth to five sets and winning the thrilling final set by a score of 15-13.

A consistent theme so far this season, the Quakers (4-8, 1-2 Ivy) started off the game slow, falling to a quick 8-1 deficit in the early moments of the game.

“We have to improve the start of our games,” coach Meredith Schamun said. “I think winning in five is very good, but we want to make sure we try to better that by winning in four or winning in three next time, so working on starting faster.”

Having to play catch-up for the majority of the first set, the Red and Blue were unable to overcome the early Dartmouth (8-4, 0-3) lead, losing the first set 25-17. It seemed as if the Quakers’ narrative would be the same as it had been the past month.

But Penn came roaring back.

After a quick 3-0 lead for the Quakers to start the second set, the Big Green brought it back to a 5-5 standstill. It was a back-and-forth battle from there on with each team more or less trading points, and neither team building a lead greater than two — until the final moments of the set when the Quakers separated themselves by winning five of the last six points to win the set 25-22.

Starting the third set, the Red and Blue found themselves once again in a back and forth battle trading points with Dartmouth. Tied 8-8, Penn took control of the set. Taking the next point, the Quakers would not surrender the lead for the rest of the set, winning it 25-17.

“We’ve sadly become used to the slow start.

We knew that if we did not change quickly, we would have the same result that we have had recently. So, in the absence of a strong start, we still have to find a way to make it work. I think that motivation in and of itself propelled

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us to the next level and helped us win,” Schamun said.

But that win did not come easy.

Even with the momentum of winning the second and third sets, the Quakers were unable to finish the match in four. Resembling much of the first set, the Red and Blue fell to a quick 8-2 deficit in the fourth and were never able to bring it back, losing the set 25-16.

With a boisterous crowd behind them, the Red and Blue and the Big Green fought back and

forth for the final and game-winning set. Dartmouth started with a 6-1 lead, and it seemed all too familiar for the Quakers. But Penn clawed back to tie it 8-8. It seemed as if neither team would give until a reception error and bad set

by Dartmouth allowed the Quakers to pull away.

Once again, junior outside hitter Autumn Leak led the way for the Quakers in their victory, finishing the game with 14 kills and 13 digs.

Senior Daniela Fornaciari led the team with 11 blocks while senior Kylie Kulinski led the team

with 24 assists.

“This was a huge win for us. We have been on a losing streak. We’ve beat Dartmouth the last time we played them here my freshman year, so we knew we had this game. It took all of us to dig deep, and it was definitely a team effort, so this meant a lot,” Leak said.

The Red and Blue will look to put the losing streak behind them and win again next week when they hit the road to play Columbia and Cornell.

Goalkeeping duo takes turns manning the net for Penn men’s soccer SPORTS | Senior Dane Jacomen and junior Nick Christoffersen have five and three starts, respectively

men has started five games and played a total of 450 minutes, while Christoffersen has started three games and totaled 290 minutes.

With coach Brian Gill deploying both keepers early in the season, Jacomen and Christoffersen have JOEY PIATT needed to stay ready, knowing that at any moment Senior Sports Associate they could be called upon to make a play. The two In soccer, goalkeepers are critical. have found that the best way to do that is to create A good keeper not only serves as a team’s last a competitive training environment where they can line of defense, but also acts as the chief communi- push each other to new heights. cator for the defense, directing defensive formations “I think both of us have a really good growth mindand coordinating responses to penetrating offensive set,” Jacomen said. “We come into training every day attacks. Keepers are often the face of the team, and with the goal of improving and getting better as a goalsomeone that teammates can look to as an example keeper. Whether that’s in a specific facet of our game on how to approach training and competing.

— we kind of cue in on different themes throughout a These hallmarks of the position are no different session with our goalkeeper coach — [or] just overall at Penn, where the Quakers’ keepers have set the trying to make our teammates around us better. We’re tone on how to play the game the right way. What is always cueing in on something that we can do to imunique about Penn’s keeper situation, however, is that prove ourselves and improve the team.” depending on the game, the person in goal will vary.

Practice reps are important for players at every poPenn’s goalkeeper squad consists of senior Dane sition, but they are especially crucial at goalkeeper.

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Jacomen and Christoffersen have taken the situation in stride, and neither has let it turn into anything more than a chance to compete and get better.

“It’s tough sometimes, when someone will play in front of you or you’re taking minutes away from each other,” Christoffersen said. “But at the end of the day, I think when we both take a step back, we’re very happy that we have an environment where we have two keepers that really want to push the standard.”

Despite seeing his game minutes decline this season because of sharing the position with Christoffersen, Jacomen is also appreciating the unique opportunity.

“It’s a really cool situation and something I’ve never really been a part of up until Penn,” Jacomen said.

“I’m relishing it; it’s awesome.”

Jacomen and Christoffersen have set the example of a team-first mindset and the benefits it can have for a team looking to win its first Ivy League regular season title since 2013. There is no doubt that personal success is important to two keepers that both want to continue their soccer careers after leaving Penn.

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The competitive environment that Gill has created for Jacomen and Christoffersen has helped the players to make the most of both their practice and game minutes. The positive pressure placed on them to perform has helped them to stay focused on the fundamental aspects of their game, which has translated to on-field success.

Christoffersen has a goals against average of 0.93 in addition to seven saves, while Jacomen has a 1.25 goals against average and 16 total saves. In addition, both keepers tout save percentages around 70%, proving that each is capable of headlining the Quakers defensive unit.

“We have this saying that [for] championship teams, or good teams in general, their trainings are harder than their games in a lot of ways,” Christoffersen said. “I think that’s what we’re trying to mimic or create here … just a training environment that challenges you more than the games, so you know that at any given time, one of us can step up and make the play in the game.”

Knowing that either player can be effective in the goal helps Gill from a coaching perspective. However, it also provides a potential pitfall to the rotating two-keeper system. At all times, one of Jacomen or

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Junior and Senior Sports Associate Joey Piatt, Junior and Deputy Sports Editor Nicky Belgrad

Quaker Nation is a weekly podcast hosted by Nicky Belgrad and Joey Piatt. Each Wednesday, Nicky and Joey sit down to chat about what’s what and who’s who in Penn sports.

In episode one, Nicky and Joey begin with a segment rounding up various Penn sports, as well as providing a retrospective on Ivy League football so far. Then, in segment two, Nicky and Joey break down the NFL’s best and worst divisions, give their MVP selections, and pick their conference championship and Super Bowl winner.

Lastly, Nicky provides his special weekly concluding segment, overviewing Penn alumnus Kevin Stefanski and his Browns season so far.

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Running back Isaiah Malcome stays with Penn football for his love of the game SPORTS | Malcome is putting his business ventures on hold to continue NFL pursuits JOYCE DAVIS

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Despite being a graduate student in Wharton studying business management with a minor in marketing, running back Isaiah Malcome decided to come back for another year to play the sport he’s loved since he was a little kid.

Hailing from Atlanta, Ga., Malcome grew up playing football from a very young age and credits his older brother with influencing his choice in sports.

“It was the first sport I learned how to play when I was four years old,” Malcome said. “I also started playing basketball at that age from the influence of my older brother, but football was the first game I understood when I was a child. It was so fun when I started, because I played defensive end to start, which seems crazy to think about now. I loved competing with my friends every day, even if it was a friendly game of every man for themselves. I just enjoyed playing the game everyday.”

It was this love of the game that drove Malcome to return to the game this fall semester, despite graduating from Penn this past May. After all Ivy League play was canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA allowed graduate students to compete this year, an opportunity Malcome welcomed.

“I continued to play because I love the game of football,” Malcome said. “I have been around it all my life, and I believe I can play it at a high level.”

In order to perfect his craft, Malcome takes inspiration from a range of football players.

“My inspiration on the field has multiple people put together,” Malcome said. “As a child, my dad introduced me to Barry Sanders, but as I continued to learn and watch football, certain players stood out to me like Darren Sproles, Maurice-Jones Drew, Chris Johnson, Percy Harvin, Dalvin Cook, and Tyreek Hill just to name a few. There are more, but I think there is always something to learn and refine in your game, and you can learn that by watching others and critiquing yourself.”

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SPORTS | The Big Green never trailed during the game ANDREA MENDOZA Sports Associate

The world has changed a lot in the past two years, but even after all this time, it’s still the same old, same old for the Quakers.

On Oct. 1, Penn football (1-2, 0-1 Ivy) was finally able to make its return to Franklin Field, taking on rival Dartmouth (3-0, 1-0) to open the Ivy League season. But just like the last three times the old foes met, the Big Green came out on top, this time by a score of 31-7.

Dartmouth, the defending Ivy League cochampions with Yale, started off the game in possession of the ball, and the Quaker defense was quick to respond. The Big Green ended the drive by getting sacked by Penn senior defensive lineman Joey Slackman for a loss of one.

The first drive for Penn was short, as the Quakers only converted one first down. Penn’s punt

was then blocked by Dartmouth, and the Big Green quickly scored the first touchdown of the game. With six minutes and 10 seconds to go in the quarter, Penn was already trailing, 7-0.

The Red and Blue came back stronger on their next drive, with two total plays and a lessthan-a-minute drive for a touchdown. Senior quarterback John Quinnelly completed a long, 73-yard pass to senior wide receiver Ryan Cragun, down to seven yards from the goal line.

On the next play, graduate student running back Isaiah Malcome rushed for the touchdown and tied the score at 7-7.

“It was one of the plays that we wanted to hit during the week. Cragun did a great job at catching the ball. My O-Line came in great,” Quinnelly said.

The Big Green dominated the rest of the first and second quarter, leaving little time for Penn’s offense on the field. Dartmouth made a field goal and two touchdowns in that span, extending its lead to 24-7 by the end of the half.

The Quakers came back from halftime deter-

mined not to give up any more points. Throughout the third quarter, the teams switched possession of the ball eight times. The defense successfully kept Dartmouth’s drives short, but the Red and Blue were also unable to score, still trailing by 17.

“After the first half didn’t go our way, we tried to control the line in the sand, and say no more,” graduate student and defensive lineman Prince Emili said.

In the last Penn drive of the quarter, the Red and Blue pushed the ball a little over halfway across the field, thanks to two first down conversions and a penalty on Dartmouth for roughing the passer. However, Quinnelly then threw his first interception of the night, which turned into a touchdown for Dartmouth in the next quarter, bringing the Big Green’s lead to 24.

Coming back after that touchdown, Quinnelly threw his second interception of the game, which essentially sealed Penn’s fate.

“It starts with me, but I think we all know, as an offense, that we have to produce, and we

have to make plays,” Quinnelly said. “We have to produce and put less pressure [on] the defense.”

The Red and Blue amounted a total of 141 yards and one touchdown, while Dartmouth totaled 413 yards to back up its field goal and four touchdowns.

“I couldn’t ask for a better group of guys. I think being surrounded by coaches and players like I have on my team, it makes it a lot of fun,” Quinnelly said. “It is also great having guys that are motivated to get better. Obviously that performance [tonight] doesn’t reflect that at all.”

Despite the final score, the Quakers can find encouragement in the amount of fan support at Franklin Field.

“Coming out of the tunnel and seeing all the freshmen there, it was great to see it. It was great to be home,” coach Ray Priore said. “With the first two games on the road, it’s a whole different experience.”

Penn will look to snap its two-game losing skid on Oct. 9, when the Quakers host Lehigh (0-5) at 1 p.m. at Franklin Field.

Women’s soccer bounces back against Cornell after loss to Harvard SPORTS | Emily Pringle and Paige Kenton’s first-career goals secured the team’s first conference win COBY RICH Sports Reporter

Sometimes all it takes is a familiar foe to get back on track.

Coming off of a tough loss in Cambridge, Mass. last week to nationally ranked Harvard (8-0-1, 2-0-0 Ivy), Penn women’s soccer took on Cornell University (3-6-2, 1-1-0) at Rhodes Field on Saturday. The Quakers have enjoyed their recent history against the Big Red, notching a record of 7-1-2 over their last 10 bouts with their rivals from upstate New York. This week was no different as Penn displayed poise and skill in a 2-0 victory.

The Red and Blue got the jump on Cornell early in the game, with junior defender Emily Pringle scoring unassisted in the 12th minute. Crashing in from the left side of the pitch, she snuck the ball past Cornell’s senior goaltender, Miranda Iannone, into the bottom right corner of the net. It was Pringle’s first career goal.

After the Quakers limited the Big Red for the rest of the first half, another first goal was notched.

Sophomore forward Paige Kenton found pay dirt after fellow sophomore Ginger Fontenot banged a shot off the left post, tapping the ricochet in to put Penn up 2-0.

Thanks to solid defense and an efficient performance in goal by sophomore keeper Laurence Gladu, that score would hold for the remainder of the match. Cornell only managed one shot on goal out of their total nine attempts, a credit to the Penn defense’s ability to deny their opponents quality opportunities. Gladu easily stopped the one shot that did make it on target, a slow trickler off of a defensive deflection.

“It feels good to come back from Harvard and get a dub like this, and a shutout too,” Gladu said.

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Junior Emily Pringle runs the ball down the field against Cornell on Oct. 2.

“There’s always things to work on, but our back line today did great, and they kept the ball out of the middle.”

The win was the Quakers’ sixth of the season, bringing them to 6-2-2, and their first Ivy League victory of the year.

“Any win, especially in conference, is hard to get,” coach Casey Brown said. “It’s hard to win, it’s hard to score, and it’s hard to keep a clean sheet, and we did all three today. I’m very proud of the

team’s performance and mentality. We were playing against a team that had a really contrasting style with ours, but I think we did a really good job of trying to nullify what they do and turn it into our game, and I thought, especially in the second half, that was really evident.”

Pringle echoed Brown’s comments, emphasizing the team’s strong play on both sides of the ball.

“It was really great to get a win at home,” Pringle said. “We love this team, and it was a great team

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win. We did great, we connected the ball really well.

Had a little bit of a rough time, but being able to push through a game and get a win is always important. It takes good offense and good defense, and we had both today.”

The Quakers will hope to keep their momentum as Ivy League play continues, with matches at Columbia University (5-4-1, 0-2-0) and at home against Dartmouth College (4-4-1, 0-2-0) in the coming weeks.

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