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“This is a pivotal project for the performing arts,” Penn President Liz Magill told Penn Today. “Naming the theater for Stuart honors his enduring commit ment to Penn students, his love of the performing arts, and our shared desire to make the performing arts even more visible and widely accessible on campus and throughout the greater Philadelphia region.”
These renovations will mark the first significant expansion of the Annenberg Center — the headquar ters of Penn Live Arts — since its construction in 1971.
Penn junior Sarah Katz died Sept. 10
College junior Sarah Katz died on Sept. 10 at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.
Katz grew up in Jersey City, N.J., and gradu ated from Elisabeth Irwin High School in New YorkSheCity.took a gap year before coming to Penn, as she received a full merit scholarship to learn Mandarin at the University of Electronic Sci ence and Technology of China in Chengdu, China.AtPenn, Katz studied international relations and health and societies with a minor in East Asian languages and civilizations.
3,100-square-foot building is part of a $25-million renovation plan
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director, left last semester, the University began a search for the center’s new director. Associate Vice Provost for Student Life Will Atkins, who is facilitating the search, said the goal is to have a new PWC director in place by the end of the semester. Until a new director is named, work will continue to be distributed among current staff members and students involved in the PWC.The PWC is located at 3643 Locust Walk, where it moved to in the early 1990s. It was founded in 1973 following a sit-in by Penn students and faculty to pro test sexual assault on campus. Since then, the center has served as a resource for women on campus and a sponsor of students groups and events related to gender equity.“We’re really excited for the direction that the Center is going, especially as we prepare to celebrate 50 years of the Penn Women’s Center in 2023,” Atkins said.
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The new theater will be named after 1963 Whar ton graduate and luxury footwear designer Stuart Weitzman as part of a “transformative gift” to the University, Penn Today reported. The 3,100-squarefoot building, which is part of a $25 million renovation plan, is expected to have an audience capacity of 300 to 350 people and will connect to the south side of the Annenberg Center using a portion of the plaza be tween Locust Walk and Walnut Street.
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Katz’s friends at Penn have organized a vigil in her memory which will take place at the LOVE statue at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 16. All members of the Penn community are invited to join. The organizers wrote that they encourage attendees to bring photos of Katz and to write messages and notes which will be taped to the LOVEKatz’sstatue.family — Jill, Michael, and Dana Katz — set up a fundraiser through the American Heart Association as a tribute to her “passion and commitment to community health.” As of Sept. 14, over 320 individu als have donated to the fundraiser and over $21,000 has been raised in Katz’s name.
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The Penn Women’s Center plans to have a perma nent director by the end of the semester, as current students and staff work to fill the gap left by the depar ture of its previous director.
Interim Vice Provost for University Life Tamara Greenfield King notified students of Katz’s death in an email sent on Sept. 11 on behalf of President Liz Magill and Interim Pro vost Beth A. Winkelstein.
Latinx Coalition representative and College senior Camila Irabien was one of those who supported the MEC to administrators at the meeting during her own speech. Irabien, a former DP staffer, said that funding
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First-year coordinator for Penn Association for Gender Equity and College sophomore Lila DiMasi said she and her fellow PAGE board members began feeling the strain of the vacancy this summer as they planned PennGenEq, a pre-orientation program
The center lost all of its federal funding last month due to a lack of institutional support
Katz was committed to community health initiatives inside and outside of the classroom. She worked as a research assistant at the Chil dren’s Hospital of Philadelphia and served as Rep Cap Ambassador with the American Heart Association where she taught CPR in high schools and underserved communities since 2011.As an involved member of the Penn commu nity, Katz served as a membership coordinator and CPR training project chair in the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education and was a student leader in the John Marshall PreLaw Honor Society, a member in Penn Hillel, and was the social chair of Sigma Kappa soror ity.Katz had recently begun an internship with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a health communications intern.
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The University held an in-person support session from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Houston Hall’s Class of 1949 Auditorium on Sept. 11. Also, the Let’s Talk program at Counseling and Psycho logical Services will also have staff available for confidential drop-in conversations through out the upcoming week.
Student representatives demanded that Penn sup port the Middle East Center at the first University Council meeting of the year.
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The theater will include features such as a glass wall supporting both indoor and outdoor perfor mances, state-of-the-art theater lighting combined with natural light sources, and a quadraphonic audio system, according to Penn Live Arts. It will serve as a new home for Penn’s music, theater, dance, and comedy groups for performances, workshops, and community programming.
During Wednesday’s meeting — the first to be chaired by President Liz Magill — nearly a dozen students demonstrated their disappointment with the center’s loss of federal funding. Several students shared their thoughts about the importance of the center, while others held up signs with messages like “No Funding = Loss of Culture Scholarship Dis course” and “The MEC is our Community.”
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Katz’s family wrote in a statement included in the email to the Penn community: “We are devastated by this tragic passing of our beloved Sarah. She loved the University of Pennsylva nia so much and was so happy and thriving.”
College sophomore and Muslim Students’ Associa tion representative Burhan Brula called on University administrators to provide the necessary funding to maintain and expand the MEC, which recently lost all federal funding. On Aug. 4, the United States Depart ment of Education informed the MEC that it had been stripped of its NRC funding eligibility and FLAS fel lowship grants, amounting to nearly $500,000 in lost funds — nearly all of the center’s financial support.
“Right now, we have to make tough decisions around who gets to rehearse and perform where,” Franklin said. “With a new space like this, it would be really a game changer for us to be able to expand out
“To lose the programming and outreach efforts of the MEC would be to lose a crucial part of ensuring visibility and understanding of the often misunder stood people that make up the many Middle Eastern nations the center is committed to studying,” Brula said in his speech. “On campus, there is no other space that has the same mission or impact as the Middle East Center. It is an irreplaceable part of the greater Penn community.”Brula’sspeech contained two action items for the University: allocating resources to maintain existing programming efforts like scholarships and student ini tiatives previously supported by Title VI funding, and increasing “institutional funding and support” for the MEC.Inresponse to a request for comment, School of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Fluharty, who over sees the MEC, reiterated his previous statement sent to The Daily Pennsylvanian. He noted that the school is currently “considering the challenge” of how to sup port the MEC without its federal funding — adding that “this process is ongoing, and there are no further details at this time.”
Students involved with performing arts at Penn said they are “ecstatic” about Penn’s new plans to construct a new theater next to the Annenberg Center, calling it a “game-changer” for the theatre community at Penn.
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The MSA’s appeal to the University was echoed during the speeches of six students representing a wide range of groups on the council, including the Asian Pacific Student Coalition and the Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention board.
Students involved with performing arts groups at Penn said that they welcomed the change — which they anticipate solving many of the problems they currently face finding sufficient space to rehearse and perform.Wharton senior and A Cappella Council Chair Jack Franklin said the announcement amounted to a “really big deal” for Penn’s performing arts council, as there is currently a moratorium on new groups join ing the coalition due to a lack of available space.
Penn Women’s Center on Sept. 14, 2022.
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Columbia confirmed the allegations leveled against it on Friday, saying that the office had used “outdated and/or incorrect methodologies” when collecting data about average class sizes and the amount of faculty with terminal degrees, such as doctorates.U.S.News reports that it evaluates schools based on several different factors, including graduation rates, academic reputation, and financial resources.
“I help manage space for 27 dance groups and it’s near impossible to find everyone sufficient rehearsal and performance space,” she said.
for Bloomers Comedy, echoed many of these senti ments. She added that the benefits of the Annenberg expansion could be significant since Iron Gate Theatre, where Bloomers shows currently take place about half of the time, is less accessible.
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Nursing senior and Shabbatones President Michal Shechter agreed, saying the theater ex pansion is a “huge step forward” for the Penn performing arts community.
out to more groups as much as possible.”
College senior Will Brooks, who serves on the Front Row Theatre Company and Penn Singers Light Opera Company boards, agreed that student performing arts groups often face issues getting sufficient space to perform.
The Wharton School and the School of Nurs ing once again earned top rankings in the report’s lists of undergraduate business schools and nursing programs, respectively. The School of Engineer ing ranked No. 22, in a five-way tie with Penn State University, the University of California, San Diego, the University of Maryland, and the University of Washington.Princeton University topped the rankings for the 11th year in a row. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked second, while Harvard Univer sity, Stanford University, and Yale University all tied for third place. The University of Chicago ranked No.Penn6. came in No. 18 in the Best Value Schools list, which evaluates schools based on a combination
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In the list of the nation’s best universities overall, all of the members of the Ivy League ranked within the top 20. Dartmouth College was ranked No. 12, Brown University was ranked No. 13, and Cornell University was ranked No. 17. Columbia Univer sity was ranked the lowest of the eight Ivy League schools at No. 18 — tied with the University of Notre Dame.Columbia’s comparatively low ranking comes after a Columbia mathematics professor published an analysis in February claiming the university mis represented data in its submission to the 2021 Best Colleges ranking list, the Columbia Spectator re ported.The professor alleged in the analysis, posted on a Columbia-hosted website, that the university mis represented undergraduate course sizes, graduation outcomes, student-to-faculty ratio, and various other pieces of Columbia,data.which had been ranked No. 2 in the 2021-2022 rankings, was then moved to an “un ranked” status in July. This year, Columbia did not submit institutional data to U.S. News, leaving the ranking to be based on publicly available data.
The rankings have been subject to increased scru tiny in recent years as many question their validity and weight. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona declared last month that systems of ranking colleges based on prestige are “a joke.”
Front Row, he added, has often had to spaceshare with comedy and a cappella groups in the Houston Hall Class of ’49 Auditorium, which can present scheduling challenges.
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“I’ve actually gotten a lot of feedback from people, especially with some disability issues. [Iron Gate] just really isn’t accessible. Annenberg ends up being the one that’s definitely more acces sible for the majority of people,” Vieira said.
Engineering senior Julia Lottman, who is also the chair of the Dance Arts Council, said that she’s ex cited to see more resources devoted to performing arts groups, and “can’t wait” to see future perfor mances in the new space.
“The performing arts have always been an essential element of the Penn experience,” Weitzman, the new theater’s namesake, told Penn Today. “This new theater will convey, in a very tan gible way, to student and professional performers alike, that their craft is valued, supported, and nur tured by Weitzman’sPenn.”gifts to the University have also re sulted in the Weitzman School of Design, Weitzman Plaza, and Weitzman Hall bearing his name.
of academic program quality and average cost, taking financial aid into account. Harvard earned the top spot on this list this year.
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Penn was ranked No. 7 in the 2022-2023 U.S. News & World Report ranking of American univer sities, moving up one spot from last year.
“It actually feels like ‘Hey, the performing arts, particularly theater at Penn, is being valued.’ We’re being paid attention to, we have a new space to per form in, which is amazing,” Brooks said. “I would say a majority of the theater community is ecstatic.”
Assignments Editor Delaney Parks contributed reporting to this article.
The renovations will see the existing Mont gomery Theatre renovated into a 115-seat film screening center and the current Annenberg Center Outdoor Plaza renovated and expanded into a new Campus Gateway to the Arts.
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“If [Penn] preaches inclusivity, and preaches all these educational standards, then they should be con sidering the voices of this significant population,” Elzanfali said.
this process, calling it a “crucial step in making Penn’s commitment to diversity and equity a tangible reality.”
College junior and MSA board member Sarah Asfari said that she plans to continue to advocate for the MEC, and she appreciates the support she has re ceived so far from other students and faculty members. She said that the University must take an active role in
going to make us a better place.”
“We are excited to work with new President Magill,” he said. “She has been very involved with the grad students from her very start.”
This is the 15th year of GradFest, which includes programming across Penn’s campus and Phila delphia. Planned events include restaurant nights,
an essential part of campus because it provides Arab students with an open space to discuss their issues and histories.“Wereally just wanted to represent how important the center, and the community it provides, is to us,” Albarkawi said. “We want to ensure that all the pro grams that we had before can be sustained, as well as expandedAlbarkawi,upon.”who was awarded a Hebrew studies Foreign Language and Area Studies scholarship the past summer thanks to Title VI grants, added that the MEC’s reliance on federal funding to conduct its op erations serves as a statement to how Penn views the center and its commitment to investing in it.
Jay Ortiz, a fourth-year immunology Ph.D. stu dent and IDEAL Council Chair at GAPSA, echoed Thakkar, saying that GAPSA was looking forward
“The loss of that funding is just a huge space of un certainty for a lot of students,” Elzanfali said. “If we don’t have that support from the Middle East Center, a substantial amount of our programming is just lost.”
“GradFest, overall, is really just a way to drive out students to introduce them to graduate student life on campus,” Watson said.
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the MEC was “especially important” given the recent reopening of the ARCH building, which she said dem onstrates the value of dedicating space for cultural groups on Universitycampus.Council is a forum of dozens of Penn administrators, faculty, and students that convene monthly. They are authorized to initiate policy propos als and oversee the activities of the University in all its Afterphases.his speech to the University Council, Brula told the DP that the decision to speak at the meeting was the first part of an effort to call attention to how the loss of funding for the MEC is “seriously hurting” a lot of people. He added that the MSA made a coor dinated effort to have other student organizations on the Council echo his calls to most effectively convey their“Wemessage.want [the University] to take action for it because, in many ways, Penn as a university is respon sible for the decision of the Department of Education to cut its funding, and we want them to make up for it,” BrulaCollegesaid.
to working with Magill. Ortiz told the DP that he was impressed with Magill’s communication thus far.GAPSA plans to advocate for combating food insecurity among graduate students and expanding the cultural resource centers’ programming in the newly renovated ARCH building to include gradu ate students. Thakkar said that GAPSA plans to hire more graduate student staff.
Magill spoke briefly at the mixer and applauded the student leaders for their academic work and leadership in various graduate student organiza tions.“You’re elevating the voices of yourselves and your peers as a result of the leadership and I com mend you for that,” Magill told the crowd. “The contributions you’re making to students at Penn are
The event was “part of a broader effort to really focus on connecting graduate students, and spe cifically graduate student leaders, to the university administration,” according to Robert Watson, the GAPSA president and a third-year Penn Law School and Graduate School of Education student.
From Sept. 13-24, GAPSA and the Graduate Student Center are hosting GradFest, a 12-daylong event series open to professional and graduate students. This year’s opening is the “Chill with Magill” mixer at Louie Louie, allowing student leaders from GAPSA, affinity groups, and G12+ constituent partners to meet with Magill and other administrators.Thekickoff event was invitation-only and al lowed student leaders across all 12 professional and graduate schools to meet each other and talk with administration, including Magill, Interim Provost Beth Winkelstein, and Interim Vice Provost for Student Life Tamara Greenfield King.
Aalok Thakkar, a fifth-year computer sci ence Ph.D. student and GAPSA vice president of finance, told The Daily Pennsylvanian that he is optimistic about Magill’s relationship with the graduate student body.
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junior Ranim Albarkawi was one of the students who went to the council meeting in support of the MEC. Albarkawi, Penn Arab Student Society’s vice president of external affairs, said that the center is
College junior and PASS community chair Safa El zanfali said that she attended the University Council meeting in support of the MEC because of the pivotal role that the center has played in her time at Penn. In addition to the educational opportunities and mentor ship programs that the MEC supports, many Arab cultural clubs and student organizations rely on the center for institutional support, according to Elzanfali.
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GAPSA leaders meet Liz Magill at GradFest kick-off event
The Graduate and Professional Student Assem bly hosted an event for graduate students to meet Penn President Liz Magill and Penn administrators on Tuesday to kick off this year’s GradFest.
The GAPSA GradFest kickoff event was held at Louie Louie on Sept. 13, 2022.
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apple picking, and a boat cruise. This year, GAPSA aims to offer a more diverse set of events tailored toward a variety of student groups, such as a brunch at the Family Resource Center.
From Sept. 13-24, GAPSA and the Graduate Student Center are hosting a 12-day-long event series open to professional and graduate students
Elzanfali added that she hopes that the Penn admin istration takes this situation seriously.
Magill said GradFest “is a great reminder that Penn has committed itself not just to educating graduate and professional students, but also to try and to support them on their journey as they go through Penn.”
PASS plans to release a statement condemning the MEC’s loss of funding, Albarkawi said. Both Al barkawi and Elzanfali plan to continue to advocate for the University to provide funding for the MEC.
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Students hold up signs at University Council meeting on Sept. 14, 2022 in protest of the defunding of the Middle East Center.
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But one part stands out: taking advantage of resources available to us in high school. This ability can vary widely between zip codes, a significant determinant of future success. This is due to inequality in public school funding, part of a pattern of public services being denied to majority-minority areas through discriminatory redlining practices that separate poorer neighbor hoods from affluent ones. With 80% of local revenue for public education funding coming from property taxes in 2019, it’s no wonder that resources can vary based on residential income levels.
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From the very moment a professor begins to teach, odds are that students will start taking notes. There are students that copy everything down verbatim, and stu dents who paraphrase what the professor is saying. For most courses, the latter type of student absorbs more information, because rewording material requires a stronger un derstanding of it than repeating it.
“Good grades and test scores, for one,” the admissions officer responds. “We also want to get to know you through essays and recommendation letters and learn about ex tracurriculars. And we want to see that you have taken advantage of resources available to you in high school.”
We’ve all heard — and maybe asked — this question. And we’ve all gotten some version of the answer above. I know I did when applying to Penn.
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Believe me — I’ve been there. I’ve sat through classes so dry that I can’t help but open up my laptop and do something, any thing, to make the time go by faster. That said, this seems to happen in every lecture, even in Penn’s highest-rated and most en gaging courses.
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opening a tab, and when I do find some thing, it is likely to keep me occupied for most of the class’ duration. After all, many sites on the internet are built to maximize engagement. A professor does not have thousands of analysts developing personal ized algorithms to keep your attention the way that Instagram or TikTok might. I could always take out my laptop while I’m taking paper notes, but there are limitations to this: I hardly have the desk space, and I can only spend so much time on my laptop before I have to turn my attention away from it to jot down notes.
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Why I handwrite my notes on paper way to learn
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When I take notes exclusively on my laptop, finding something more engag ing than the lecture at hand is as easy as
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If our legislators were to enact progres sive policies like universal health care, a higher minimum wage, affordable housing, and universal broadband, among others, every child in America would have access to the same fundamental rights and re sources, and we would be steps closer to achieving equality of opportunity. At that point, students would be admitted on the basis of merit and the ability to take advan tage of the resources available to them.
hen I sit in a lecture hall, my eyes tend to wander away from the professor and toward my peers. You know the pic ture: Some students are chatting with their friends over iMessage, while others are browsing through Handshake, applying to various open positions. Still others are shop ping online, or rushing a CIS assignment.
Therefore, while keeping socioeco nomic limitations in mind, students can be evaluated on the basis of merit. A low- or middle-income student from a public high school who graduated at the top of their class while taking advantage of every op portunity available to them is likely going to be more impressive than a wealthy one at a private feeder school who didn’t, so regardless of race, socioeconomic status
Moreover, only 3.3% of Penn students come from households making $20,000 or less, while 18.1% of Americans make $25,000 or less. With 9 out of 10 college stu dents nationwide qualifying for Pell Grants being from households making $51,800 or less — a level representing 38% of Ameri can families — the estimated 18% of Penn’s Class of 2025 that qualified for one is dis mally low.
To make a long story short (as longhand
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And if schools do switch to a socioeco nomic approach, we must remember that promoting diversity, equity, and inclu sion is still important, so we must work toward it through mass societal reform, not temporary fixes that ignore underlying in equalities in our existing institutions.
A typewriter is able to copy down more of what the professor is saying than a stu dent that handwrites. But the underdog handwriter, scrambling to jot down notes on the surface, is winning out. A widely cited study by Pam Mueller and Daniel Op penheimer reached a similar conclusion: Though longhand writers and laptop users performed roughly the same on factual recall, longhand writers exceeded laptop users on conceptual application questions. They also found that notetakers with less verbatim overlap (often longhand writers) performed better overall, though that alone was not enough to explain the superior per formance of the longhand writers.
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note-takers do): Even if I do get distracted while taking notes on paper, I am distracted for far less time than if I had typed my notes. Longhand writing has numerous other benefits. I don’t have to worry about my laptop’s battery life or my notoriously loud typing, and it is far more intuitive to highlight and use different colored pens on paper, as opposed to on a Google Doc. The average laptop weighs three to five pounds, while a five-pack of B5 Muji notebooks weighs 1.1 pounds. I am free to doodle on my paper notes, a habit which is thought to boost one’s memory. It is also harder for me to tell how much time has passed in a class — one of the worst feelings in the world is staring at the lower corners of a laptop, watching the digital clock inch by, minute byIminute.wouldeven go as far as to suggest paper longhand notes over writing on electronic tablets, which are common in my engineer ing coursework. Using paper is significantly cheaper, more customizable, and more sustainable. In a comparative life-cycle as sessment, paper notebooks outperformed tablets in nearly all environmental impact categories.Notevery
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do admissions officers only see us through the broad lens of race? Acknowledging the wealth gap among Asian Americans through a socioeconomic approach to af firmative action can help schools accept a more diverse array of identities within the Asian American community, so low- and middle-income Asian American groups, including but not limited to Burmese, (with a median household income of $44,400), Afghan ($47,000), and Nepalese ($55,000)
It’s an epidemic of inattention, and I be lieve the best way to combat it is to start handwriting your notes.
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However, this idea of equality of op portunity will not always lead to equality of outcome, due to inevitable differences in the decision-making of individuals afforded a similar initial range of opportunities. Not everyone will be part of the same income levels, and so a socioeconomic approach to affirmative action that keeps in mind income-based limitations that may exist for applicants is needed regardless of whether these progressive policies exist. I would argue that this method is one of many crucial steps toward fostering equality of opportunity.Therefore, applicants from all income levels can be considered on an equal footing while maintaining diversity and under standing how well they took advantage of the opportunities available to them. It would end admissions offices’ treatment of Asian-American applicants as a monolith with similar experiences and backgrounds in the current RBAA system. It can uplift low- and middle-income Asian American students, and this is critical given the effect stereotypes about Asian Americans have had on people’s poor awareness of income inequality in the community.
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RBAA also stigmatizes those perceived by others to have potentially benefited from it, leading many to lose faith that these poli cies will help them transcend situations like labor market discrimination. This is con nected to the unfortunate enforcement of the model minority trope, a tool that di vides racial groups in the United States. By lumping Asian Americans into one ho mogeneous group through RBAA, racial divisions are inherently reinforced.
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days, but I do hope that RBAA will be ruled unconstitutional so that schools like Penn can take the ethical approach of admitting racially and ethnically diverse classes on the basis of merit while considering socio economic status.
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the fact that the cards are stacked against low- and middle-income applicants. So while RBAA has the right intentions, it is poorly executed. In college admissions, it’s a form of institutionalized performative ac tivism protected by the federal government and exercised by many selective schools across the United States — a band-aid solu tion, if you will.
When I looked at data about the impact of RBAA on Asian Americans and the documented, monolithic ways in which Asian Americans have been evaluated by college admissions offices, it was hard not to wonder — is our ethnic diversity valued? Our linguistic diversity? Our religious di versity? Our socioeconomic diversity? Or
In October, the Supreme Court will hear Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. Uni versity of North Carolina, cases debating RBAA’s constitutionality in private and public institutions of higher education. Penn uses race as a factor when evaluating ap plicants and filed an amicus brief in support of both defendants. I rarely agree with the 6-3 conservative majority on anything these
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But why? Because administrations can pretend they are uplifting communities that are historically underrepresented in student bodies. There is a low rate of lowand middle-income applicants who actually benefit from this. For example, 71% of Black and Latino students at Harvard Uni versity already come from very wealthy backgrounds. It’s also ineffective because it delays those with the power to enact societal reforms that would contribute to long-term upward mobility from doing so.
Meanwhile, highly selective schools dis proportionately admit applicants from the highest income brackets. At Penn, 19% of students come from families making more than $630,000 in 2017, placing them in the top 1% of income. Additionally, 45% of students came from families making more than $376,000 in 2017, putting them in the topAlthough5%.
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From a progressive: Race-based affirmative action isn’t progressive
To be more representative of America’s socioeconomic diversity, Penn, the rest of the Ivy League, and other selective schools should admit more low- and middle-income students, abandoning preferences that cause a dramatic overrepresentation of the highest echelons of income. That isn’t to say that schools shouldn’t admit qualified high-in come students, but there is a drastic bias to be
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95% of the U.S. population identifies between low-income and uppermiddle class — the latter of which Stephen Rose of George Washington University de fines as ending at $374,000 in household income in 2019 — they represent over half of Penn’s student body.
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agreements and warnings. Nettleton added that the center’s team is hopeful about the rebranding changes.“Ithink our team feels good about these changes in terms of how they are engaging students differ ently and impacting students differently and we feel part of a solution and not just a reaction to a problem and that’s an exciting place to be,” Nettleton said.
Foster declined to comment on the search. She took over as interim director following the departure of Laud-Hammond in the spring of 2022. Laud-Ham mond, a former administrator at Temple University, began her tenure as director in January 2019.
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The annual disciplinary report shows a sharp decline in Code of Academic Integrity and Code of Student Conduct violations from the 2020-2021 academic year. During that year, while almost all classes were being taught virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an influx of cheat ing and academic integrity violations.
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“That’s what I really appreciate about the current state of the Women’s Center, is that I feel like I am a full col laborator in the work of the center.”
Nettleton described the rebranding as necessary to fit the many changes the office has undergone in recent years, transitioning from a retributive disci plinary system — a response to misconduct using punishment — to a more restorative disciplinary system. The new method is intended “to promote healing, accountability, and community building,” according to the Restorative Practices @ Penn web site.Pablo Miguel Cerdera, the associate director of Restorative Practices @ Penn — a branch of the Center for Community Standards and Account ability that deals with student violations using restorative practices — expressed hope to resolve as many disciplinary issues as possible and prevent harm in the community through a restorative phi losophy.“The restorative philosophy, which emphasizes
“I am pleased to announce the formation of a Consultative Committee for the Selection of a Pro vost to advise me on this important appointment,” Magill wrote in the announcement.
“There was a very high spike in conduct viola tions specifically because of [COVID-19],” Center for Community Standards and Accountability Exec utive Director Julie Nettleton said about the report.
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University spokesperson Ron Ozio said that the committee members are “hard at work” and that it is not yet known when their search for a new pro vost will conclude.
The PWC is just one of several centers at Penn cur rently without a permanent director. Penn Violence Prevention, a resource focused on preventing sexual violence and harassment, is also undergoing a search for a new director after the departure of former direc tor Malik Washington in February. The office of the vice provost for University Life, which oversees both the PWC and PVP, is also currently led on an interim basis by Tamara Greenfield King.
Renita Miller was named the Wharton School’s inaugural chief diversity officer.
Last October, the School of Arts and Sciences ap pointed Brighid Dwyer as its inaugural vice an for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the school.
Wharton names Renita Miller as inaugural chief diversity, equity, and officerinclusion
The findings were announced in an annual disciplinary report by Penn’s Center for Community Standards and Accountability — formerly known as the Office of Student Conduct
focusing on gender equity and social justice. PAGE and PennGenEq are both run out of the PWC.
The Center for Community Standards and Ac countability’s rebranding was approved on Aug. 1, and came as a result of a change to the center’s meth ods of dealing with Code of Academic Integrity and Code of Student Conduct violations.
DiMasi added, however, that she is concerned about the amount of work being put on Foster’s plate as an interim director in addition to her already full-time role as associate director of the PWC.
“Renita is well-versed in the data-informed prac tices necessary for success in this position, and will bring a spirit of leadership, empirical thinking and open perspective to the School,” James wrote.
Interim Provost Beth Winkelstein will continue to serve in her role until the search committee concludes its process.
Wharton Dean Erika James made the announcement in an Aug. 22 email to Wharton un dergraduates. Miller will enter the position on Oct. 1 and report to James. She comes to Penn from Princ eton University, where she spent over four years as the associate dean for access, diversity, and inclusion and the executive director of the pre-doctoral fellow ship initiative at the Princeton Graduate School.
The committee, which was announced Tuesday morning, consists of 20 students, professors, and staff from across Penn, as well as consultants from Isaacson Miller, a leadership recruitment firm. It is chaired by J. Larry Jameson, dean of the Perelman School of Medicine and executive vice president for the Health System.
Penn President Liz Magill formed a search com mittee to select a permanent provost to replace Beth Winkelstein, who is currently occupying the position in an interim capacity.
“The Penn Women’s Center is called the Women’s Center, but they advocate for issues that also affect trans and non binary folk, and I think it’s important to make sure that we are being inclusive of them in our conversa tions,” Jin DiMasisaid.said they hope the next director will be someone who brings a variety of life and work experi ences to the PWC, with more than just administrative experience.“Ithinkthat it’s also important that the new direc tor is someone who is willing to just genuinely talk to people, and not try to run the Women’s Center like a business, but run it like a collaboration,” DiMasi said.
DiMasi said that because other staff members at the PWC had to take on more responsibilities previously taken care of by the director, DiMasi and her co-coor dinators also had to take on more logistical tasks, such as coordinating with local restaurants to cater food for PennGenEq.“Weended up having to dedicate a lot of our time that we could have been using for thinking about improving the actual content of the program to doing things that were interesting skills to pick up, but maybe someone more experienced with the financial processes at Penn could have been handling,” they said.
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with Penn’s 12 deans. Winkelstein, a bioengineer ing professor, has served as interim provost since May 2021, when Wendell Pritchett took a medi cal leave of absence from the University. Pritchett returned to Penn as interim president until Magill took“Weoffice.arejoined at the hip in our efforts to move the institution to great new heights,” Magill told The Daily Pennsylvanian in late July, when asked how she views the relationship between provost andAmongpresident.the four students serving on the com mittee are Carson Sheumaker, the president of the Undergraduate Assembly; and Robert B. Watson, the president of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. Staff members who will serve include Joann Mitchell, who works in Magill’s office as the senior vice president for institutional affairs and chief diversity officer, and Associate Vice President Pierce Buller, an advisor to Magill.
The Wharton School has appointed Renita Miller as the business school’s first-ever chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer.
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self-determination, community accountability, and a focus on healing is a core part of the overall philosophy of CSA,” Cerdera wrote to The Daily Pennsylvanian.WhileNettleton said student violations were resolved primarily through restorative practices, academic integrity and student conduct violations were also resolved using sanctions, including signed
Upon her arrival to Penn, Miller plans to reach out to the offices and departments to continue the work
of Wharton’s existing diversity initiatives.
The academic integrity violations included in the disciplinary report highlighted cheating and plagia rism. While there was a 35% increase in plagiarism cases in the 2021-2022 academic year, the office in vestigated 121 cases of cheating — a 45% decline — after returning to in-person instruction.
At Princeton, Miller’s efforts saw an increase in the number of under-represented minorities ap plying to and accepting offers for Princeton degree programs. She also has held the position of dean of Berkeley College at Yale University.
“I am delighted to take my expertise, passion, and joy for this work to The Wharton School and work under the incredible leadership of Dean Erika James where I will continue to serve a mission towards en hancing equity, opportunity, and belonging in even more impactful ways,” Miller wrote in a LinkedIn post. “I look forward to joining the amazing com munity of faculty, staff, students, and alumni of The Wharton School and UPenn!”
“It concerns me a lot,” DiMasi said. “I don’t want [Foster] to get burned out because she’s just been such an amazing resource for us, and if she got burnt out and left the Women’s Center, that would be a lot of starting over for us.”
While the search is still in the application gather ing stage, Atkins said the University plans to consult students on the selection as the process continues. He said one of the main criteria the University is looking for is someone who will “include more students and stakeholders across all genders.”
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Wharton Dean Erika James made the announcement in an Aug. 22 email to Wharton undergraduates
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Penn’s Center for Community Standards and Ac countability — formerly known as the Office of Student Conduct — released its annual disciplinary report, which indicates that academic integrity and student conduct violation cases have gotten closer to pre-pandemic levels.
Data for the 2021-2022 academic year shows a 43% decrease in academic integrity violations and a 45% decrease in student conduct violations when compared to the 2020-2021 academic year.
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“In her role at Wharton, Renita will report di rectly to me to align and amplify our existing and exploratory DEI practices to solidify a culture of dignity, respect, and transparency through the appreciation of differences,” James wrote in the an nouncement.Millerwill work with numerous offices at Penn and Wharton to integrate inclusive practices into core academic activities of the school, such as supporting diversity practices in staff hiring and development, increasing opportunities for meaning ful progress in conversations, and helping promote diversity, equity, and inclusion understanding and engagement among alumni.
The appointment of a new provost will repre sent another high-profile administrative change at Penn. Magill began her tenure as the University’s ninth president on July 1.
While there was a decrease in total conduct and academic violations from the 2020-2021 academic year, the data remained relatively consistent with years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March 2021, the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management launched an initiative in partnership with Deloitte to support research on under-represented minorities in the workplace with a focus on women of color.
On Aug. 30, Winkelstein announced the forma tion of a committee for the selection of the next vice provost for University Life, who will replace Interim Vice Provost for University Life Tamara Greenfield King. The VPUL committee is accept ing applications and nominations for the position until Oct. 20.
Jin said she hopes that the next director will promote gender inclusivity in their language and advocacy, par ticularly regarding reproductive rights.
In the announcement, Magill urged recommen dations and advice for the search to be sent no later than Oct. 14.
Student conduct violations primarily consisted of COVID-19-related violations, leading to an un usually high number of offenses in the 2020-2021 academic year. However, the 2021-2022 academic year saw an increase in disorderly conduct, rising from six to 103 cases.
The provost is the chief academic officer of the University and the president’s second-in-com mand, tasked with overseeing the administration of student and faculty affairs and working directly
For example, the Wharton Undergraduate Divi sion offers funding for student-run speaker events that focus on “diversity, equity, and inclusion and that inspire dialogue and community engagement.”
“I hope to continually steer the committee to pri oritize students and student needs during the hiring a new provost,” Sheumaker wrote in a statement to the DP. “Through the process, I hope to find candi dates who have demonstrated that they are willing to actively meet with all different types of students, solicit student advice and feedback, and take action that betters students across the board.”
The committee, which was announced Tuesday morning, consists of 20 students, professors, and staff from across Penn
DiMasi praised the work of Elisa Foster, who is currently serving as the PWC’s interim director. Lead organizer of the Penn for Reproductive Justice Working Group and College sophomore Annabelle Jin echoed this sentiment. The Penn for Reproductive Justice Working Group, a group that formed this summer, is not an official partner of the PWC yet, Jin said, but the group has worked with the PWC to organize an event following the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade this summer. Jin praised the PWC’s inclusion of the new student group in its events.
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pushing the word out, sharing on social media, and getting their communities involved in the cause has been crucial to growing gold,” said Bartosz on the role her teammates and sports have played in her cause.Today, Gold in September is the awareness pro gram of a larger foundation called Beat Childhood Cancer. The 11-year-old girl who read her little script from her iPad to the Arrowhead High School crowd so many years ago has come a long way. One of her favorite memories of Gold in September games is of her senior year at Arrowhead, where she once again gave a speech to the home crowd about childhood cancer awareness — with a little more confidence
improbable and defeat No. 1 Northwestern (6-0), the defending national champions, there will be a sea of gold in the crowd. Of course, a win would be the biggest in program history and a huge morale boost for a Penn team that suffered two overtime losses last weekend and is desperate to earn its first win of the season before going into Ivy League conference play later this month, but when the Quakers and Wildcats take the field on Friday at 3 p.m., it’s going to be about more than just a Forgame.more information on Gold in September and how to help the cause, visit goldinseptember. com. borders) digit 1 to 9.
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Following his unceremonious leave from the Bronx, Burke continued to work in sports, taking over as president of Madison Square Garden, a po sition he worked for eight years, before retiring at age 65 in 1981. He moved to a farm in Ireland in his retirement years and passed away in 1987, at the age of Burke71. was a man who was involved in many dif ferent industries over the course of his life, bouncing from one to the other while maintaining an upstand ing reputation. Not everyone who does that can have the same level of success he did, but not everyone is Edmund Michael Burke.
Around this time, CBS bought the New York Yan kees, the most successful team in sports at the time and AL pennant winner 26 of the previous 36 AL pennants. Unfortunately for the television company, the Yankees’ success wouldn’t continue while they owned the team, as the period between 1965-1972 saw the Yankees win zero pennants and have a win ning percentage below .500.
Originally, CBS chairman William Paley ran the team, but after two miserable years in 1965 and 1966, he decided to step down and let Burke take over running the Yankees. Burke was immediately well respected by the other owners, despite his outsider status, and despite the Yankees lack of suc cess, Burke was extremely well liked. This became evident on Dec. 21, 1968, where, in a meeting to decide who would replace William Eckert as MLB commissioner, all the AL owners backed Burke as their choice to head the league. The NL owners, led by Walter O’Mally, famous owner of the Dodg ers who started West Coast baseball by moving his team to LA, steadfastly opposed his appointment. Eventually, after seeing the intense disapproval of O’Malley, Burke withdrew his name from con sideration, later writing that he “couldn’t imagine working for 25 O’Malleys, or even one.”
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“Sports have always been an outlet for me. Being a part of a team has always been special. Something really gratifying about being involved in sports is having a community of teammates always lifting you up and wanting to help you accomplish whatever dream you may want to … I think the support from the girls from my current and former teammates in
While at the CIA, Burke worked organizing dangerous missions in Albania and Russia. One particular mission involved dropping rebels into Al bania, but it soon became clear that they had been caught and killed. It was later revealed that Kim Philby, a notorious British traitor who Burke consid ered a friend, had given up the rebels’ location and had gotten them killed.
Burke decided to join the OSS and started work in Italy. His most important mission while there occurred in 1943, when he managed to smuggle antifacist Italian Vice Admiral Eugenio Minisini out of Italy. Minisini was in possession of torpedo technol ogy vital to the U.S. war effort and turned himself in to the Allies rather than work with the Germans. Burke was awarded a Silver Star and a Navy Cross for his efforts on this mission. He spent the rest of the war working with the resistance in France, help ing the allies while befriending Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway, who affectionately referred to him as “kid,” remained friends with Burke for the rest of
“I remember looking up and realizing that every single person in the stadium was painted gold. I was overwhelmed with gratitude and knew that I was doing the best thing to honor Jack’s legacy, while continuing to pioneer my own. If Jack was here, I think he would say he’s proud of me for living out my dream [of playing at an Ivy League school], and for not letting my circumstances define who I am or what to do with my life. Even though he hasn’t been here physically on Earth to see me living out my dream, I know he’s been following me the whole way.”This Friday, when Penn (0-4) looks to do the
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This decision turned out to be for the best, as he
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the war, Burke moved out to Los Ange les to work as a consultant on the Gary Cooper-led spy movie “Cloak and Dagger,” which was partly based on his experiences during the war. His movie career fizzled out after that and he decided to move back to New York, unsure of what to do next. He said that at that point in his life, he only knew about two things: football and guerilla warfare. Consider ing his lack of desire to play football, it seemed as though he had one path left — going back to his old job at the OSS, now known as the CIA, which was recruiting spies for the upcoming Cold War.
After working with the CIA for a few years, Burke realized he needed another change, so he called up his friend from the OSS, John Ringling North, of the famous Ringling family. At this point, John was running his family’s Ringling Brothers circus and he offered Burke a job as executive director of the circus. While running the circus, he encountered another famous 20th century character, notorious gangster Jimmy Hoffa. Burke refused to pay off Hof fa’s teamsters and was also fed up with the drug and gambling rackets in the circus, which led him to quit within a few short years.
Burke continued working for the Yankees until 1973, when the team was sold to businessman George Steinbrenner for $10 million. Burke had a hand in the sale, as he was anxious to continue working with the team, even after CBS informed him of their intent to sell the Yankees. Through Indians general manager Gabe Paul, Burke was connected to Steinbreiner and convinced CBS to sell to the group headed by Steinbrenner. In ex change, Burke would be allowed to keep his role as teamThingspresident.quickly soured, as Steinbreiner reneged on his promise to Burke, making Paul the team presi dent, and Burke decided to leave the team after just three months, as working with someone who broke promises was not something the honorable Burke found palatable.
used his connections to get an interview at CBS, and due to his knowledge of Europe from the time he spent there, he was immediately appointed president of European operations for the television company. The corporate environment turned out to be a much better fit for the notoriously straitlaced Burke and he remained in Europe running the company’s opera tions for a number of years.
country. Burke managed to snag two interceptions, helping the Quakers battle the Big Red to a score less tie. He was offered a tryout with the Eagles in 1939 and made the team, but decided that the $125 a week salary wasn’t worth it and instead moved to New York to sell maritime insurance after gradu ation.Ayear after he began his job in New York, the United States entered World War II and Burke enlisted in the Navy. One day while visiting Washington, D.C., he ran into a football fan from Philadelphia who recognized him and invited him to a dinner party, which would change the course of his life. While at this party, he met “Wild” Bill Donovan, the head and founder of the OSS. Dona van, himself a Columbia alum and football player for the Lions, recognized Burke and recruited him to join the fledgling agency.
Bartosz’s former teammates — Chloe Relford, Greta Hinke, and Abby Renaud — will be playing for the Wildcats this Friday.
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back, it’s like a family in there. Yes, we’re the captains, but our team culture is very much like family.”Thequad of captains will lead their team to the west coast for a two-game series in California against Saint Mary’s College and the University of California, Berkeley, where they will continue in their efforts to put all their hopes for the pro gram into action.
“There’s a lot of girls on the team but being able to comfort each and every individual on the team and be a great support system to them is a great feeling,” Lawton said.
Thewins.seniors also made sure to highlight the many gifts that come as part of being captains as well. Making sure every decision pleases ev eryone at once is a struggle, and there may be some tough conversations to be had every now
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Princeton.Thecaptains intend to strengthen the team’s 90-minute play. Thursday’s tie to Navy was just
10 minutes shy of a victory. The current focus will turn to scoring more and scoring earlier in games as defense intensifies to secure those shut out
and again, but the captains find solace in being there for their teammates.
“The biggest gift is getting to know everyone on the team and really being there for every one,” Pringle added. “By having everyone’s
(Left to right) Penn women’s soccer captains Miranda Farman, Peyton Raun, Sizzy Lawton, and Emily Pringle.
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“It’s our last season of soccer, which is pretty crazy, so just embrace it,” Raun said. “For me at least, it is the end of an era. I have been playing
Carrying around the “C” title is a big respon sibility.ForPenn women’s soccer, however, the role of team captain is lifted off the weight on one singular person. Instead, seniors Peyton Raun, Sizzy Lawton, Emily Pringle, and Miranda Farman share the title.
Seniors Peyton Raun, Sizzy Lawton, Emily Pringle, and Miranda Farman are leading the team through the 2022 season
sport of field hockey. At age 11, she told her mom, Sarah, that she wanted to play for an Ivy League team one day. In order to help her accomplish this dream, Sarah enrolled her in Windy City Field Hockey Club in Northern Chicago — where Bartosz would have to drive for two hours there and back about three times a week to practice at Northwestern University.Ofcourse, it is no coincidence that this year’s Gold in September game will be played against the Northwestern Wildcats. The Northwestern squad is well aware of the significance of this game. Three of
Penn women’s soccer is coming off of a strong 2021 season. It concluded with a 9-5-2 over all record and an impressive 9-1 home record — only tarnished by a season-ending loss to
After graduating from Penn, Burke became a spy, a movie consultant, and president of the New York Yankees at different points in his life. Some of the people whom he counted among his friends in clude a notorious British traitor, the founder of the OSS (the precursor to the CIA), the most famous author of the 20th century, and the most influential sports owner of the 20th century. Burke led a life which took him all around the world and allowed him to integrate himself into the highest levels of government, business and sports.
SCREENSHOT FROM PENN ATHLETICS Penn junior and field hockey player Annie Bartosz.
Penn women’s soccer celebrates after winning a game against Cornell on Oct. 2, 2021.
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“I think it is great to have us as a connection before needing to get a coach involved,” Raun said. “Sometimes there are things we can just es tablish and deal with together, which is great. At the end of the day, they are all leaders too. Everybody has something to offer, everyone has a different leadership style on the team, and they’re just as important as the name of a captain. There’s a leader in every locker.”
Born in a small town in Connecticut in 1917, Burke played football, baseball, and basketball growing up. After a successful high school foot ball career, Burke received many scholarship offers, but ultimately chose to play at Penn, where he played halfback on offense, safety on defense, and returned punts for the Quakers during a time when most players played on all three sides of the ball.The highlight of his career occurred in his final game for the Red and Blue, the final game of the 1938 season. The Quakers were playing heavily favored Cornell, who were ranked No. 10 in the
known as pink in October for breast cancer, so I asked my parents what the color and month was for childhood cancer, and they once they told me gold and September, it was easy enough,” said Bartosz.Fromthere, the idea took off. The Gold in Sep tember program started with fundraisers, and gold awareness games at local schools in Bartosz’s home town of Hartland, Wis. Eventually, teams all across Wisconsin and the rest of the country were hosting Gold in September games, honoring Jack’s legacy and raising awareness for childhood cancer. In the process, Bartosz also fell in love with the
since I was 4 years old, and I am moving on after this, and I won’t be playing soccer anymore, so I think just really enjoying this time that we have together is important.”
Finding family in field hockey helped Annie Bartosz to remember a loved one
“We all bring something new to the table, we all bring a new perspective, we all bring
team with an incredible story. When Bartosz was 4 years old, her twin brother Jack was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma, a rare type of childhood cancer. After battling for seven years, Jack unfortu nately passed away before their 11th birthday. The day Bartosz’s parents told her that her other half wasn’t going to make it, she fought through tears and asked them why it was only the families experienc ing heartbreak and directly affected by childhood cancer that were the ones that had to carry the burden of raising awareness and funds for innovative treatments.“Iwanted to make childhood cancer as well
Annie Bartosz is a junior on the Penn field hockey
“Have fun,” Lawton added. “It is our last year, leave it all out there.”
All four captains were appointed to their current positions by their coaches and fellow teammates at the start of the season. As a whole, the team selected who they believed the strongest leaders were.
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Edmund Michael Burke truly was the most inter esting man in the world.
“It’s a really big honor because the whole team trusts you,” Pringle said. “They trust you with everything that is going on on the field and behind the scenes.”
different opinions, and also the four of us just work really well together,” Farman said. “Be sides the fact of soccer, we are all just really closeWhenfriends.”asked about their goals for the season, the captains listed a few: to win the Ivy League Championship, furthering relationships by learn ing to be better people, and fostering a team they love, leaving a legacy.
September 2013 — An 11-year-old girl nervously skims through her speech on her iPad before ad dressing a full crowd of students at Arrowhead High School in one of the first ever “Gold in September” games. She might have been too anxious at that moment to take it all in, but she was setting the foun dation for the start of an incredible movement — one motivated by the desire to honor her brother’s legacy.
Gold in September
Field hockey’s contest against No. 1 Northwestern is more than a game
The captains act as the players’ first point of contact. They make sure to keep their team mates on their toes, provide constant feedback, and keep the lines of communication between the coaching staff and players open. No one gets left behind under their leadership.
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Following their match against Navy on Sept. 8, the senior captains reflected on their important role within the team.
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