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U. stays silent on Cosby scandal

Penn continues to stay silent on whether it will revoke entertainer Bill Cosby’s honorary degree.

When contacted today, Vice Presi-dent for University Communications Steve MacCarthy said there is “noth-ing I am willing to offer on the subject right now.”

Cosby, 77, has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 50 women, and some students have called for the University to revoke the honor-ary Doctor of Laws degree he received

in 1990 as a result.One accuser, Donna Barrett, said

in a press conference last week that Cosby groped her while she was of-ficiating the Penn Relays in 2004 at Franklin Field.

“Hey, back that thing up here, girl, back it on up!” Cosby reportedly said while pressing Barrett toward his body. She spoke to other officials at the Penn

Relays about the incident, “but no one knew what to do,” she said at the press conference.

Cosby has been an honorary race starter and even filmed an episode of “The Cosby Show” at the famous track meet in 1986.

Penn Athletics confirmed to The

GPA not a major factor in finding employment

Penn students had to have stellar GPAs to get accepted into the University, but how much does college GPA affect landing a job after graduation?

Penn alumni find that GPA wasn’t a main factor that employers considered.

Morgen Alden graduated from the College in 2012 with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in medical anthropology, and now works for a boutique investment bank. She said GPA was “definitely something I advertised on my resume, but it never came up in discussion during the

National media outlets won’t be the only ones scrutinizing Donald Trump’s every move at Wednesday’s Republican debate.

This semester, students in Kath-leen Hall Jamieson’s long-standing “Introduction to Political Com-munication” course have used the presidential debates as case stud-ies for the relationship between

television and politics. Course materi-als examine past and present televised campaigns, including speech-mak-ing strategies and ways candidates use news outlets, to understand the broader field of political communica-tion.

Although much of the class focuses on past elections, the current round of presidential debates has been fully in-tegrated into the curriculum. Students engage in “breakout sessions,” small group conversations that discuss what candidates communicated well in

Cosby allegedly groped a woman during the 2004 Penn RelaysDAN SPINELLISenior Reporter

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Graduates find that GPA not com-monly talked about in job interviewsSYDNEY SCHAEDELStaff Reporter

Students analyze past and present debatesMITCHELL CHANStaff Reporter

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Penn’s workforce is more than 17,000 members strong, includ-ing about 5,000 faculty members. Amongst the thousands of em-ployees and contracted workers are individuals with a wide array

of jobs driven by their own pas-sions. Though some of these roles might be atypical for a University, they can play a big role in further-ing Penn’s goals as an institution.

Not all of Penn’s employees are professors or administrators. Tasked with everything from Zamboni-driving to gardening to glassblowing, here are a few roles you might not know existed at Penn, and the people behind them.

David SabinDavid Sabin’s love of hockey

led him to his job as the assistant manager and hockey director of the Ice Rink at the Class of 1923 Arena.

Commonly referred to as the Ice Rink, the facility is unique in that it’s not managed by Penn Athlet-ics, but by the Business Services Division. With no NCAA hockey team to monopolize the ice, Sabin

and his colleagues work on pro-gramming and rentals to keep the Arena busy.

“We try to be good at just utiliz-ing every minute of our time,” he said. “If the arena’s open, we want to bring someone in to take advan-tage of it.”

Throughout the week, skaters anywhere from ages six to 70 can be found on the ice. Sabin shuffles through local teams from Lower

Merion High School and the Ed Snyder Youth Foundation, as well as club teams from Penn, Drexel and Temple universities.

Plus, he runs an adult league and helps facilitate hockey and skating clinics for those new to the ice. A die-hard hockey fan, Sabin appreciates any time he can get out on the ice to help out,

Zamboni-driving and glassblowing have made their way into Penn careersCOREY STERNSenior Reporter

Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s “Introduction to Political Communication” course incorporates past and current presidential debates into the curriculum.

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Local artists plaster Phila. with voting signs

Voter turnout at Philadelphia elections is generally subopti-mal; yet, this year might be dramatically different.

“Next Stop: Democracy” is a new civic engagement project that has hired 60 Philadelphia artists to create eye-catching “vote here” signs for the up-coming City Council elections on Nov. 3. The signs will be placed near polling sites in an attempt to draw people’s at-tention and encourage more of them to vote, given that these elections directly impact their community.

The “Next Stop: Democ-racy” project will involve 40

locations in total. Twenty of these locations will contain the artwork, serving as the experi-mental group. The remaining sites will be monitored as the control group in order to deter-mine the effects of art on voter turnout.

According to Project Di-rector Lansie Sylvia, the goal of the art exhibit is two-fold. On the one hand, the project is a potential vehicle through which the City of Philadelphia can increase voter participa-tion in elections. On the other hand, the project also serves to create a more enjoyable experi-ence for all voters. The latter was the primary inspiration for “Next Stop: Democracy” because, as Sylvia said, “For many citizens, voting for the first time can be a very in-timidating experience,” which repels people every year.

Sylvia said she hopes that the art exhibit will impact the tone outside of the polling place by making it more welcoming.

What can students do to have an impact? Sylvia encouraged students to register to vote in Philadelphia, given that the

issues at hand, such as bicycle lanes and LGBT protection, are pertinent to University stu-dents.

“If you’re going to be here for four years, you need to make it your home, and for it to be your home, you need to be an active citizen,” Sylvia said.

According to City Com-missioner Stephanie Singer, voter participation has always been low in Philadelphia. She added that one main issue of low voter participation is that people are unaware of when elections take place, which will be addressed by the “Next Stop: Democracy” Project. However, there are several other issues, including the lack of millennial voters who claim they don’t have enough infor-mation to make a decision.

“Every election, Philadel-phia passes up a chance to demand respect and resources from the rest of the state,” Singer said.

‘Vote here’ signs are meant to create election awarenessGAJAAN SITTAMBALAMContributing Reporter

Local artist Amber Lynn works on creative voting signs as part of the Next Stop: Democracy project.COURTESY OF AMBER LYNN

Stimulus Children’s Theatre performs for West Phila. school

Over the weekend, a student theater group brought a child-hood literary classic to life.

At a local elementary school on Oct. 23, members of Penn’s Stimulus Children’s Theatre Company, or STIM, performed numbers from their upcom-ing fall show “Junie B. Jones: The Musical” as their commu-nity show. With upbeat song and dance numbers, the cast brought smiles and laughter to both students and teachers.

The community show is a concept that is unique to STIM, in which the cast and crew of

the current STIM show travel to a local elementary school — the name of which was asked to be withheld — and perform about half of their play. It is treated as just as important as their full performance dates.

Nu rsing jun ior Jack ie Nikpour currently serves as STIM’s Community Service chair and organized the com-munity show.

“We plan it as early as pos-sible, so that during auditions, we can ask if actors can be there since it’s really important that everyone in the cast can be there,” Nikpour said.

Show director and Nursing junior Christopher Haddad said that the community show is great because it allows STIM to both share their work with

more individuals and gauge their own progress.

“They’re always great be-cause you get a sense of what

it’s like to act in front of an au-dience before the show, sense of kid’s reactions to certain things, what is appropriate and what is inappropriate,” he said. “It’s great practice and just great to perform for Philadel-phia schools.”

Throughout the per for-mance, students laughed loudly at the characters and their personalities, snapped or swayed along with the beat of the music and visibly melted at particularly heartfelt moments between Junie B. — played by College senior Grayce Hoff-man — and Herb, played by sophomore exchange student Hyunwoo Jeong. In a par-ticularly noteworthy moment, College junior Derek Arbige donned a costume stuffed with

pillows to play Ms. Gutzman.“It’s really just being able to

work with the kids and seeing them smile [...] and giving them a piece of joy and allowing them to experience the love that I have for performing and for theater,” STIM Vice Chair and Producer Pearl Lo, who is also a College junior, said.

After the show, children gig-gled and waved goodbye as the cast hauled their costumes and props back to Penn’s campus. They waved back at the chil-dren, and Haddad said he was happy with the group’s prog-ress.

“I think it went really well,” he said.

STIM will perform the full version of “Junie B. Jones: The Musical” on Nov. 19, 20 and 21.

Group performs ‘Junie B. Jones’ for local childrenCLARIS PARKContributing Reporter

Members of Penn’s Stimulus Children’s Theatre performed a free community show at a local elementary school on Oct. 23.

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the debates and what they did that stood out. Each breakout session encourages students to more thor-oughly evaluate a specific element of the 2016 presidential debate cycle.

“Students made two-minute presentations in breakout session on whether — if implemented — debate reform proposals would

improve primary debates,” Ja-mieson said of the most recent breakout session.

Jamieson referred to a report released in June by the Annenberg Debate Reform Working Group, an initiative of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, which Jamieson directs. The report’s recommenda-tions included limiting moderators to acting as time keepers, bringing in print journalists as debate mod-erators and prohibiting moderators

from asking follow-up questions. Students had to choose one of this fall’s debates and analyze what might have been different had these reforms been applied.

Many students enjoy Jamieson’s unique classroom approach to the debates, which teaches a methodi-cal way of judging candidates’ presence and performance on stage.

“We discuss strategies such as agenda setting and framing and

apply them to the debates. Dis-cussing the debates in an academic setting definitely forces a more nuanced and critical viewing of the candidates’ actions,” College sophomore Christin Molisani said.

Molisani cited an assignment from this week that asked whether media outlets were wrong to de-clare Hillary Clinton as the winner of the first Democratic debate, a question she found interesting.

College sophomore Nick

DeMarie agreed, adding that the assignment forced him to consider what “winning” or “losing” a pres-idential debate actually means for a candidate on national television.

“We look at how the media re-sponds to them more than their actual strategies,” DeMarie said. “For instance, when Trump says something outrageous we look at how news outlets set the agenda, prime and frame it in order to convey meaning.”

DeMarie added that the class compares the current round of debates to strategies used in past campaigns, where the data set is larger and where we already know the outcomes.

Jamieson has been teaching the popular course, which is cross-listed between the Political Science Department in the College and the Annenberg School for Communi-cation, since fall 2002, according to Penn Course Review.

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that they have no official relation-ship with Cosby, but acknowl-edged paying him for a stand-up comedy set in 2013 after the

men’s basketball team’s season opener against Temple University at the Palestra.

Among multiple endowed pro-

fessorships and programs, Cosby has received almost 60 honorary degrees. On Tuesday, Muhlenberg College became the latest school to revoke Cosby’s honorary de-gree, a decision voted into effect by the college’s Board of Trustees last week.

“Cosby’s behavior violates the ethics, character and highest as-pirations of this college commu-nity,” Richard C. Crist Jr., chair of the board, said in the announce-ment.

At least 11 other schools have revoked Cosby’s honorary de-grees: Springfield College, Frank-lin & Marshall, Tufts, Goucher, Lehigh, Fordham, Marquette, Baylor, Amherst, Wilkes Uni-versity (Pa.) and Brown. Cosby resigned last year from the board of trustees of his undergraduate alma mater, Temple University. The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he earned mas-ter’s and doctorate degrees in edu-cation, also cut ties with him.

Some schools, including Brown, have pointed out that the accusations against Cosby come at a time of great concern over campus sexual assault. “It is particularly troubling as our uni-versity community continues to confront the very real challenges of sexual violence on our campus and in society at large,” Brown President Christina Paxson said in a campus-wide email on Sept. 28 announcing Cosby’s degree would be revoked.

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including at the clinics.In between all of these events,

Sabin takes on what is perhaps the most eye-catching part of the job — driving the Zamboni around the rink. (He makes a point to clarify that the Arena actually uses a different, Canadian-made machine called Olympia.) Sabin said the ice-resurfacing process can take over an hour of “slowly dragging in circles.” His expres-sions hint that after hundreds of laps around the rink, the excite-ment of being able to drive the machine has worn out for him.

It’s not only hockey or ice skating events that take place at the arena. When the ice comes out for the summer, the Arena is home to roller derby events, vol-leyball camps, basketball camps, arena football games and even the Wharton vs. Law: Fight Night charity boxing event.

Even during the winter, Sabin helps student groups rent out the rink for a late-night hockey al-ternative that he loves almost as much as the real thing: broomball. Broomball is similar to hockey except players run in shoes and use broom-like sticks.

“It’s more accessible to those who are scared off by the skating aspect,” he said. “But it’s a really fun game.”

Sabin emphasizes that the Arena is available for any student group that might have a unique idea about how to use the space.

“Our biggest challenge is to get Penn students to know we’re here,” he said. “If you walk by, the arena is kind of camouflaged into the side of the street.”

Natalie Subeh NuhnOne of the groups that makes

frequent visits to the Ice Rink can be found just across Walnut Street at the Penn Children’s Center, home to the tiniest members of the Quaker community.

Also part of Penn’s Business Services Division, the Center pro-vides care for the children of Penn faculty, staff and students.

“Our job is to support [these parents] so that they can go to work or be a student and feel that their children are being cared for in an environment that is

nurturing,” said Executive Direc-tor Natalie Subeh Nuhn, who has been with the Children’s Center since 2001.

On average, the PCC serves about 185 children, ranging from as young as six weeks to five years old. Unlike most of Penn’s classrooms, here powerpoints and textbooks are swapped out for toys and picture books.

Nuhn admitted that it could sometimes be difficult to find a way to be fair to everyone and their individual needs when there is such a high demand for child-care. However, she added that interacting with families at the University and serving as a sup-port system for them are among her favorite parts of the job.

“One of my passions is educa-tion and always learning,” she said. “I think that I can learn from my staff, I can learn from 3-year-olds, or even 15-month-olds.”

And while she is learning, there is certainly a lot that Nuhn is teaching her staff as well. Nuhn loves to help those that are new to the profession and points to the journey that many of her staff members have taken.

Most staffers begin as tempo-rary workers who enjoy working with children. Through the sup-port of the Children’s Center and the University at large, their ca-reers have developed and some are even working toward their bach-elor’s degrees.

Nuhn also expressed how much she enjoys being able to mentor student workers. She appreciates their commitment to the PCC and likes to help them find ways to in-corporate their own interests into activities for the children.

“What’s your interest and how can you build that with us?” she asks each new student worker. In addition to reading books, helping

at meal times or simply engaging in conversation with the children, Nuhn encourages her staff, espe-cially student workers, to make use of their areas of expertise.

“I think it’s a break from their studying,” she said of the student workers, adding that for those who have younger siblings or cousins, the center feels like home.

“Who wouldn’t enjoy walking into a room of a bunch of three-year-olds that run up to the door to hug you?” she joked.

Karen CarraroIt might sound like an oxymo-

ron that Karen Carraro calls her work “the art of scientific glass-blowing.” But sculpting glass instruments for research experi-ments requires both a technical expertise and a creative touch.

Carraro, a contracted worker through her own glassblowing business, has been serving Penn

researchers for 25 years. She learned the unique skill as an apprentice under a master scien-tific glassblower, who was also research-trained.

While more basic lab glassware like standard beakers are typi-cally “churned out by a machine,” Carraro makes custom apparatus that are tailored to the needs of researchers within the Chemistry Department and other fields at Penn.

Carraro’s process begins when a researcher comes to her with a problem or an idea. Her expertise allows them to take their work beyond the standard lab tools.

“Knowing that there’s a sci-entific glassblower on site lets [researchers] think outside of the box, outside of the catalogue product line,” she said. “And we try to find a way through the cre-ative process and the limitations of glass itself — and that’s where it becomes a lot of fun.”

From the planning stage, Carraro has to record the specifi-cations and measurements, draw a blueprint and prepare her tools before she can actually begin creating the glass apparatus. The entire process can take several days.

Among the most complex tools she crafts are high-vacuum systems used for synthesizing pharmaceutical products. Though her work is mostly engineering-based, Carraro believes there is also an artistic quality to it.

“Everything that I create is made by my hands, and each piece can be slightly unique,” she said. “That is why it is considered the art of scientific glassblowing.”

When asked what she enjoys most about her job, Carraro said that it was the ability to live her passion working with both Penn researchers and a material that is one-of-a-kind.

Many universities, like Penn, have their own in-house glass-blowers, but “it’s becoming less common,” Carraro said.

“The very first glassblowers were actually the researchers themselves making basic appa-ratus for their own labs and their own use,” she explained, adding that after World War II, scientific glassblowing became a popular field.

Carraro says that it’s “now

considered somewhat of a dying art,” but that doesn’t stop her from enjoying the opportunity to support researchers by doing something she loves.

Louise ClarkeLouise Clarke’s job is much

dirtier than her past career as a clinical laboratory scientist. In 2008, she put down her sterile lab tools and opted to get her hands dirty as an intern at Morris Arbo-retum.

Today, Clarke oversees the Arboretum’s 65-acre Bloomfield Farm section, which includes more than 1,200 trees and shrubs, two green roofs and a community garden.

And while she has the help of a part-time intern, Clarke admits that maintaining such a large swath of land is no easy feat.

“Having to manage everything from trees, shrubs, gardens, roofs and even a grist mill requires a lot of time, labor and equipment,” she said. “There never seems to be enough to go around and that is our biggest challenge.”

Nevertheless, whether it’s the physical activity, the sea-sonal changes or the glimpses of wildlife, there’s so much about working at Bloomfield Farm that Clarke loves.

“It is enjoyable to have a posi-tion where I work both outdoors and indoors,” she said. “My favor-ite job is tending the green roofs, where I experiment with plants to determine which ones are best suited to green roof culture in our region.”

In addition to her duties out in the field, Clarke teaches classes, runs workshops and writes for Seasons (the Arboretum’s pub-lication). She appreciates the role the Arboretum plays within the University as a resource for sustainability and community leadership.

“Self-selected students visit the Arboretum at the beginning of the fall semester, and some come with their professors to view the sustainable features of the Horti-culture Center,” she said.

Though Penn students can visit the Arboretum free of charge with their Penn ID, Clarke says many of them don’t know it. She hopes they take advantage of the re-source at their fingertips.

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Louise D. Clarke tends to yucca plants at the Morris Arboretum, where she oversees the 65-acre Bloomfield Farm section.

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Recently, negative talk surrounding fraternities

and sororities have raised questions about why we are relevant. As proud members

of the Penn community, we offer information about what we stand for, both at Penn and elsewhere.When people ask what we get from sororities, we say sisterhood, philanthropy and

networking opportunities. A sorority is different because all aspects of the above are enhanced by our values.Our chapters uphold values chosen by our founders hundreds of years ago. A commonly held value is friendship. Sorority women strive to be good friends

to each other, and we are active in our communities. We hold each other account-able, and take care of each other. Alpha Delta Pi hosted an “Unbirthday Party” to give members a chance to unwind from Penn life and develop stronger friend-ships. For Alpha Phi, the value is called “boundless

love,” and members tutor each other, recognize a “Phi of the Week” and use other methods to celebrate their women. We attend retreats, service projects, educational events and even standards

meetings because the value of friendship develops in well-rounded settings.Our service is values-based too, and the philanthropies we serve match our values. Chi Omega values service and involvement. Their com-mitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation allows members to contribute to bettering the lives of sick children. Delta Delta Delta values altruism. In spring 2015, members raised nearly $8,000 for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.We gain a network of values-

based sisters and resources. Our values are broad on purpose, and living them connects us to women with similar experiences. Kappa Alpha Theta values lifelong opportunities for growth.

Their chapter advisor, a member from Ole Miss, serves as a role model on the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life staff. Last fall, Zeta Tau Alphas from across the country came to celebrate the chapter’s new house. Everywhere you go, there are affiliated members around you, and the shared experience of national affili-ation serves as a powerful connector.Does living our values mean conforming? No. One of the most amazing things about being in a sorority is that

although we share values, we are individuals. Sigma Kappa demonstrated personal growth last year by host-ing multiple chapter-based events for women’s issues. Though other chapters also value personal growth, their programs are specific to their members. Having a bond over similar values does not make us clones; it makes us sisters and gives us relation-ships with deeper meaning.A shared value is academic success. Panhellenic women have higher GPAs than non-members. Last semester, every Panhellenic chapter

had a GPA average over a 3.5, and our average chapter size was 192 members. That’s no small feat. Sigma Delta Tau has consistently held the highest GPA aver-

age in the Penn community, maintaining above a 3.6. The National Panhellenic Conference researches the academic experience of af-filiated women nationally, and affiliated women gradu-ate at higher rates. We are successful in the classroom

and contribute positively to institutional retention and graduation rates. We are not the stereotypes.Finally, some argue that our structures and policies are oppressive. The main source of evidence for this argu-ment is usually recruitment. Recruitment is a structured process to sustain the overall health of the Panhellenic community. Panhellenic’s average chapter size this semester is 142, with all of our groups in a similar range of membership. The recruitment methods support the growth of all groups equally to maximize op-portunities for membership. By growing all groups at the same time, all chapters remain healthy and strong. Since Panhellenic sororities moved to the current method of recruitment in 2004, the number of bids given out has increased nationally. Why? Because women want to live their values, be successful and contribute to something great.As for other rules, member-ship in anything has expecta-

tions for participation. These expectations are reflections of respect for the community as a whole, and are in place to offer direction and com-mon goals to the participants.We acknowledge that sorori-

ties may not be for everyone. It is not for people look-ing for an exclusive social circle, or community without limits. It is for women ready to make a lifelong commit-ment to a sisterhood bonded by values, to empower other

women and to lead lives with integrity.Signed, University of Pennsylvania’s Panhellenic Council

Penn employees cook your

meals and haul your trash. These employees teach your students, they collect your scientific data and they clear

leaves on Locust Walk. What are employees worth to a

university? Is the University as committed to its employees as it is to its students?Personally, I’ve enjoyed Penn

from several perspectives over a decade: as a student at a neighboring university in Philadelphia, an employee,

a post-bacc student and as a graduate student. Now that I am an alumnus of Penn work-ing at a rival institution I feel that I need to present why I left to the wider Penn com-munity for discussion.I believe that the University means different things to the different groups of people who interact with it, and on the other side of that argu-ment, I also believe the Uni-versity has varying levels of commitment to these different

groups. When I transitioned

to being a graduate student, I felt my connection to the Uni-versity changed drastically.This potent transition also came with an employment change within the University where I switched labs within a department, and this change in labs will forever be a part of my educational experience. The first lab I worked for at Penn was great. There were empowering tasks, profes-sional interactions, meaning-ful results from strong science and friendships I’ll always cherish. I still feel it was extremely worthwhile having worked there, and it is the position I talk about when I interview for new positions. The second position I had at Penn was with a lab that was, and still is, in disarray. This lab recently transitioned its leadership which opened up the possibility to decentral-ize, and this change let the individual principal investiga-

tors make more independent decisions about their day-to-

day operation. This gap in leadership revealed an issue at Penn to me: The University is harboring employees who are

not up the standard that Penn should expect.The decentralization of decisions created a level of employee disposability I doubt I will ever see again in my life. Prior to accepting the

position, I heard from several coworkers that this lab had a history of mistreating employ-

ees of all levels, but I thought that it couldn’t be that bad.I was wrong.Essentially, there was one “rogue” PI who was unpro-fessional. They excessively

micromanaged everyone; they bullied peers, subordinates and their bosses daily. They held conversations ripe with

innuendo and intolerance of non-WASPs that were much more explicit than your usual

microaggression, and became toxic when disagreed with — be it unscientific practices, administrative or regulatory concerns. All of these issues were brought up through proper reporting channels at Penn time and again by several employees including myself, and the answer was to deal with it or leave, so I left.I’m torn about leaving Penn. While yes, this is capitalism

and workers can talk with their feet, I still feel a deeper commitment to Penn that mandates this opinion to be published.So, as a member of the Penn community, what should be done about this? Are some of Penn’s employees disposable, and if so is that OK? What about individuals who work for Penn who can’t afford to talk with their feet and leave? Does the University offer dif-ferent levels of commitment and protection to the different groups it serves? Are there departments that need a closer look? If there are issues where does this bias accumulate? Who would be protected in the instance I put my name on this submission: The PI or the alumnus?Penn should survey its em-ployees about their working environment in an unbiased fashion and then make the results public. If there are issues, there should be a way to address them and achieve meaningful results rather than losing talent to other

universities. I am sure this is something we can accomplish given our resources. This information is important for the health of the University, and by extension, the health of firms with workers in Philadelphia. Getting a better picture of the work environ-ment at Penn is as important to the community as is the data on student loans.Universities should be the leaders for which other orga-nizations look to for guidance, and I feel Penn should revisit its commitment to its staff. There are far worse employ-ers in the city than Penn, but Penn should set the example and make a stronger public commitment to its employees at a time when the working

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I believe that the University means different things to the different groups of people who interact with it. … I also believe the University has varying levels of commitment to these

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Vigil held to remember missing Sri Lankans

“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness” — this is both the motto of Amnesty Inter-national and what a handful of stu-dents proved outside Van Pelt.

Marked in Sri Lanka and around the world on Oct. 27, the vigil re-membering the Sri Lankan Civil War strives to bring awareness to the issue of the many thousand victims whose statuses remain unknown to friends and family. Penn’s chapter of Amnesty International gathered by the Button with candle light vigils to commemorate the tens of thousands of Sri Lankans civilians

still unaccounted for. With candles in hand, the student advocates recit-ed a poem and gave a few remarks in remembrance of those lost.

“These kinds of events bring awareness. And the primary goal for government actions with disappear-ances like these is to silence speech

and to hide what has happened,” said Zohair Azmi, Penn Amnesty International outreach chair and a Wharton junior. “And so by bring-

ing attention to what has happened we can combat that direct motive.”

The event highlights the Sri Lankan Civil War, which began in 1983 and consisted of a 26-year conflict between the nation’s gov-ernment and the LTTE, a rebel group who aimed to create a sepa-rate government for the Tamil peo-ple. The war resulted in the disap-pearances of an estimated 80,000 people.

These disappearances are en-forced by the government and have been a method utilized by the Sri Lankan government to oppress po-litical dissidents, an act that is con-sidered a crime under the interna-tional law of the Rome Statute.

This form of violence, intended to create terror and to violently sup-press dissenting opinion, has cul-tivated an atmosphere of fear that

still exists in Sri Lanka. This fear prevents many to this day from par-ticipating in such displays of com-memoration of those lost.

“A lot of us are very much in-sulated and do not have to worry about our governments imprisoning us for speaking out,” Penn Amnesty International President and College senior Michelle Rosen said.“But in a lot of parts of the world, people cannot openly criticize their govern-ment without fear.”

“We often go about our day just stuck in our own worlds. Sometimes it’s important to take a moment to remember people who don’t have the same opportunities that we do and to reflect on all that we’ve been fortunate enough to have,” Penn Amnesty International secretary and College sophomore Madeleine Jacobs said.

Penn’s Amnesty International chapter hosted a candlelight vigil on Tuesday night to bring awareness of the lives taken in the Sri Lankan Civil War.

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Deputy mayor talks public safety and Black Lives Matter

On Tuesday, 1978 College graduate Everett Gillison,checked Chief of Staff in the Mayor’s Office and former Deputy Mayor of the added thePublic Safety Office, spoke to students about community, crime and public safety. The discussion was hosted by the Philadelphia Mayor’s Scholars Program and the Penn Democrats.

Gillison, who is a Philadelphia native, spoke at length about his time at the Defender Associa-tion for Philadelphia, where he worked for twenty-eight years. A major issue at the beginning of Gillison’s career in Philadelphia was the death penalty.

“At the time we had a district attorney that wanted to line up people and kill them,” Gillison said. “We had the third largest death-row population after Geor-gia and Texas.”

While working for the De-fender Association, Gillison was tasked with defending criminals who faced the death penalty, something Gillison has taken a stand against for all of his career.

“I would sit down with them and force them to think about their choices, and if they can do that I think society has an ob-ligation to give them a second chance.” He said.

Second chances are a major issue that Gillison has addressed in his career. As Deputy Mayor, Gillison oversaw the Office of Reintegration Services for Ex-Of-fenders, also known as RISE. The program seeks to reintegrate for-mally incarcerated citizens back

into their communities.“People have become used to

separating people from society, but it’s a flawed system.” Gilli-son said. “When you take people away you destabilize the commu-nity, you need to have people in the community working to make the disease go away.”

While Gillison believes that the current state of the penal system needs to fundamentally change, he does not believe that police are the only source of the problem.

“We kill each other at a faster rate than any police officers can,” though he added that “we also need to listen to the Black Lives Matter group — their pain is real, it’s not made up.”

For Gillison the solution has to be listening to all of the involved groups.

“We need to listen to the pain, encounter it and move through it together.”

Everett Gillison serves as Phila. mayor’s Chief of StaffJESSIE WASHINGTONStaff Reporter

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interview process.” Her first job was working for a law firm as a parale-gal, and she said there were other things that took the forefront when she was applying for that job.

“More important factors were what I studied in college and just personality on the phone and in person, and where my interest laid in terms of working for that com-pany,” she said.

Similar factors — especially personality and internships — were among the things that Nadya Mason, a 2014 College graduate with a double major in Commu-nications and Cinema Studies, emphasized were important in getting her job in Advertising at Nickelodeon.

“If you had internships, if you were able to come out of an intern-ship with some solid skills, they

want to see if you can apply those skills to the job,” she said.

But GPA was a different matter.“I don’t even think it was on my

application, no one ever asked me,” Mason said, but added “If I was ap-plying for a job in finance it would be more relevant.”

But what about engineering jobs? According to GPA data from 2001, Engineering has the lowest GPA among the four undergradu-ate schools. Alex Zhang, who graduated in 2013 with a major in Computer Engineering and now works for Qualcomm, said it only matters “somewhat.”

“A lot of the top engineering companies care a bit more about what you’re capable of and not what you’ve been doing,” he said. “You can’t have a super low [GPA], but at least in engineering it matters less than in other fields.”

Barbara Hewitt, senior associ-ate director of Career Services,

said GPA “comes up a lot” when students come to get advice for ap-plying to jobs.

“Almost always students have this idea that a GPA has to be so much higher than it does to actually

be considered,” she said. “People will come in and say ‘I only have a 3.7’, and I’m like, I can’t think of

any employer that would not con-sider you with a 3.7.”

And really, added Director of Career Services Patricia Rose, GPA primarily matters when companies have to screen so many applications that they don’t have time to look at them holistically.

“It’s not by industry as it is by market leaders — if you want to go to one of the handful of top banks or consulting firms or technology companies that are absolutely inun-dated with candidates,” she said.

The highest GPAs at Penn are not even found in the places one might expect. Hewitt said that stu-dents who go into consulting and banking do have high GPAs, but they’re beat out by students that go into the Peace Corps and Ameri-Corps.

“People who are really passion-ate about what they’re doing doesn’t mean they’re not really smart too,” she said.

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When the Democratic Na-tional Convention descends upon Philadelphia this summer, Penn will be no stranger to national politics. Penn students have a tradition of involvement in past nomination conventions.

The DNC, whose planning committee launched its Phila-delphia operations on Oct. 15, will be one of the largest public events ever held in Philadelphia, with an estimated 50,000 people expected to attend the week-long

convention. In the past, Penn stu-dents have actively participated in national conventions during election years.

In 2012, a group of students taking “Conventions, Debates, and Campaigns,” a course of-fered jointly by the Annenberg School for Communication and the Fels Institute of Govern-ment, joined The Philadelphia Daily News to cover that year’s Republican and Democratic con-ventions.

“For any citizen or student of politics, attendance at a national political convention is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that will forever change one’s perspective on politics and even influence career choices,” said Annenberg

professor David Eisenhower, who co-taught the course, of the trip.

Eight students covered the Re-publican convention in Tampa, Fla., in late August, while a dozen covered the Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C., the following month.

Eisenhower accompanied students on both trips alongside other members of Penn’s faculty, including Fels professor Mar-jorie Margolies, Fels executive director David Thornburgh and lecturer and presidential histo-rian Alvin Felzenberg.

The student political group Penn Democrats also worked with the 2012 DNC. DNC Chief Operating Officer Theo LeCompte reached out to the organization with summer and convention internship opportuni-ties during the spring, according to a blog post on the Penn Dems website.

LeCompte returned to Penn earlier this semester to speak to

students about the current presi-dential election cycle.

Although the planning for the 2016 Democratic convention is still in its early stages, Penn stu-dent groups are already eager to get involved when opportunities become available.

“We are most certainly getting involved and having members of the committee on campus, but nothing is formalized yet,” said College junior and Penn Dems Political Director Sam Iacobellis. “We hope to secure as many internship and volun-teer opportunities for Penn Dems members.”

College sophomore and Penn Students for Bernie co-founder Sarah Figgatt agreed, adding that she hopes the organization will have a solid following before the convention.

Applications for student in-volvement at the convention don’t open until next semester, Figgatt said.

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Microsoft engineer says tech is a romance

Laura Butler is tired of tech being portrayed as a horror story. Instead, she believes it to be a ro-mance.

This is the narrative Butler, a dis-tinguished engineer at Microsoft, told a room full of Penn students on Tuesday night. Having stum-bled upon the technology field accidentally in the 1980s, Butler gave her perspective on why technology is great not only for a single population but for every-one.

“Why are misfits perfect for tech?” Butler said. “Innovation by definition is a deviation from the normal and standards.”

Butler is a self-proclaimed misfit, and her unique habits like baking cookies for employees have

helped her become a successful and memorable leader in the company. Butler said she currently oversees a team of about 170 employees and

supervises another 1,700 people.Engineering junior Cristina

Buenahora said that when she was supposed to determine a campus

speaker as a part of being Micro-soft’s campus ambassador, Butler was her first pick. While intern-ing at Microsoft last summer,

Buenahora said she found Butler inspiring during a women tech talk.

“She is one of those people that is really inspiring because she has done so much to get where she is, and she is so loved,” Buenahora said. “She loves what she does, and you can tell.”

Needing an internship, Butler began interning for Microsoft in 1989 after first thinking she was being offered an internship from Goldman Sachs. A Harvard Uni-versity undergraduate at the time, Butler ultimately dropped out of the university to pursue her new passion for Microsoft.

“I thought, ‘I am getting paid for what I love to do,’” Butler said. “Whereas over there I was paying for a crappy service.”

For Butler, technology is all about solutions and the tools to achieve them.

“Time and quality of life are the most precious things in life,”

Butler said. “The point of all this tech is life, and the best way to make tech is to live.”

From 2000 to 2006, Butler took a break from working to become what she called a world traveler. She went on adventure hiking and took circus and improv classes.

“She is kind of a powerhouse,” College freshman and event at-tendee Audrey Liu said. “You don’t meet a lot of people like that.”

In her spare time, Butler also jots down ideas for inventions and businesses in a notebook, some of which she shared with the crowd. She also gave students her top life and career advice.

“Try a bunch of stuff,” Butler said when interning. “It is like a buffet.”

By taking the time to explore interests, Butler said, you discover who you really are. She added that she believes this is essential to success.

Laura Butler, a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, spoke to a group of Penn students in Bodek Lounge on Oct. 27. She described her unique journey to Microsoft and how being a misfit helped her be a leader.

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This season, Ashley Mont-gomery has made it look easy.

The breakout junior has been first across the line for Penn women’s cross country in each of her races thus far. Finished 11th among a stacked field at the Notre Dame Invitational. Dropped consistently elite 5K times south of 17 minutes. Not to mention her outstanding per-formance earlier in the year in outdoor track.

And if you told her any of this would have been possible head-ing into freshman year?

“I probably would have laughed.”

That’s because only three years ago, it wasn’t even in Montgomery’s plans to be a collegiate runner at all. In fact, throughout much of her high school career, she had another sport on her mind.

“It’s almost like she ran track and cross country part time because she was really into soccer,” coach Steve Dolan said. “So, in all honesty, her times were not very competitive compared to Division I running standards.”

“It wasn’t something that I had planned,” Montgomery added. “I always thought that I was going to end up doing soccer.”

However, Montgomery ulti-mately decided that, given the opportunity to pursue a Penn ed-ucation and Dolan’s enthusiasm, Penn track and cross country was the right path for her. And her results on the course and the track suggest that she did ulti-mately choose the right path to take.

However, that doesn’t mean that it was the smoothest path by any means.

“I was so sore,” Mont-gomery said with a laugh, remembering her first summer of training before college. “I was like, ‘There’s no way I’ll be able to run in college and be

good.’”Ultimately, though, Mont-

gomery’s was able to overcome any early struggles with pure force of will and determination.

“She’s a really great com-petitor,” Dolan said. “When she came to Penn, it’s just amazing how quickly her times dropped.”

Dolan is quick to praise

Montgomery in terms of her determination and work ethic, terms that would be equally ap-propriate for a scrappy walk-on doing anything she can just to maintain a spot on the team. For her part, Montgomery’s humble, understated demeanor fits this characterization perfectly.

“Even if I know that I can’t

be the best at something, I need to know that I gave everything I had,” she said.

But whether they want to accept it or not, she’s a lot more than that. She’s a bona fide star.

Halfway through the season, Montgomery has not only estab-lished herself as one of the top runners on the team, but also as one of the top runners in the Ivy League.

Even she is, however hesi-tantly, starting to realize the enormity of her potential, ad-mitting that she has personal hopes for a top-10 individual finish at the Ivy League cham-pionships.

What makes Montgomery’s rise to the upper regions of Ivy League running even more exciting is how quickly it’s ap-peared to transpire. After all, just a year ago she was nowhere to be found in the team’s top three finishers.

But to hear Dolan tell it, Montgomery’s vast improve-ment is no recent development.

“She’s a very talented runner,” he said. “Each year she’s gotten

better and better, and now, for the first time, she’s extending that fitness out to 5K, 6K.”

In that sense, Montgomery’s improvement mirrors that of Penn’s cross country program as a whole.

Three years ago — much like Montgomery — the Quakers were struggling for relevance in the cross country. But after steady improvement over the past several years and a string of recent success, both the men’s and women’s squads have jumped dramatically to the upper reaches of regional rankings, with the former even breaking into the top 30 spots nationally.

“I think that’s our focus now — to have a great team result,” Dolan said. “And Ashley’s clearly one of the leaders of that.”

So both Ashley Montgom-ery and Penn cross country as a whole are on the rise. And as im-probable as it may have seemed three years ago, it may not be long until they find themselves together at the top.

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that’s in the past.”But for all of the Quakers’ suc-

cesses this season — and there have certainly been a lot of them — Heps is ultimately the meet that will be referenced by future teams. Meaning, this weekend

will go a large way toward either making or breaking Penn’s season.

And there isn’t much margin for error, even for a men’s team that has recently broken onto the national stage.

“We need me and Nick [Tuck] ... to finish in the top five,” Awad said. “And then we need our

[fourth and fifth finishers] to really run well.”

Adding to the intrigue sur-rounding the men’s team is the physical condition of Awad, who admits to having had an incon-sistent fall in terms of training. Regardless, he will need to step up with his best race of the season this weekend to give the Red and

Blue a shot at the title.The women’s team has first-

hand experience with just how difficult it can be to put together a successful run at Heps, and as such, the Quakers are quick to control expectations on their end.

“We’re a little timid to set our hopes to high,” Whiting said. “But I think deep down, we’re all

dreaming a little bit.”“For the men and the women,

there’s really eight good teams [in the Ivy League],” Dolan added. “No [team] is ranked lower than ninth in their region. Anything in the top four at Heps is really what we’re wanting.”

But as Awad is quick to point out, all of the expectations

surrounding the meet may be fun to talk about during the week, but when it’s time to step up to the run the race, the objective is simple.

“We’ve prepared,” he said. “We just need to go out there and win.

“Because right now is the time we’ve been waiting for.”

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Move over Pope Francis — another cavalcade of stars is preparing to take over Philadel-phia.

With Penn’s Big 5 rival Temple off to a 7-0 start for the first time in program history, many around the country are beginning to take note ... including the powers that be at ESPN.

As the No. 21 Owls prepare to host No. 9 Notre Dame at Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday night in one of the biggest games in Temple history, ESPN’s “College GameDay” has elected to make a return to the City of Brotherly Love. Fresh off a stop at James Madison last weekend, the Sat-urday morning show focused on previewing college football games from around the country will take

place in Philadelphia for the first time since 2002.

The show will be aired live from Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets — directly in front of Independence Hall rather than on Temple’s campus. Despite having to clear hurdles corre-sponding to the federal nature of the site, ESPN made the an-nouncement on Monday afternoon that it was sending “GameDay’s” crew to Philadelphia rather than the campus of Washington State.

“This was the toughest call we had to make in my 12-year tenure producing the show,” Lee Fitting, a senior coordinating producer at ESPN, told The Philadelphia In-quirer. “There were two schools that “College GameDay” has not visited, in addition to having great seasons.”

After several years as a peren-nial loser near the bottom of the Pac-12 standings, the Cougars are off to a 5-2 start in 2015 and host No. 8 Stanford on Saturday. How-ever, the fact that both the Owls

and Fighting Irish are ranked teams gave Philadelphia the edge over Pullman, Wash.

“Having ESPN ‘College Game-Day’ come to Philadelphia is

tremendous not only for Temple football, but for the university as a whole, as well as the city of Phila-delphia,” Temple Athletic Director Patrick Kraft said in a statement.

“GameDay”, which began broadcasting in 1987, has vis-ited myriad campuses across the nation on a regular basis since 1993. However, over the course of 22 years, the show has made it to Philadelphia only once: Nov. 16, 2002, when it aired live from inside Franklin Field prior to Penn’s matchup with Harvard.

That was the first time “Game-Day” went to a school outside the Football Bowl Subdivision. Since covering the Quakers’ 44-9 thrashing of the Crimson that day, the show has since gone to sev-eral other Football Championship Subdivision locations, including the campuses of Massachusetts, North Dakota State and Harvard.

On a weekly basis, “Game-Day” features former players Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack, reporter Samantha Ponder, former coach Lee Corso and host Seth Davis, who visited Penn in 2014 to host the basketball version of College GameDay.

The show is best known for

Corso’s ritual of putting on the headgear of the team he thinks will win the feature game on-site. While many wonder if the prox-imity to Independence Hall will cause the 80-year old will dress up as Benjamin Franklin, it seems unlikely: Corso pretended to be Penn’s founder when he picked the Red and Blue over Harvard more than a decade ago.

In between GameDay and the Temple-Notre Dame matchup at 8 p.m. that night, the Quakers — albeit outside of Philadelphia — will try to extend their winning streak to three when they face Brown in Providence.

Though Penn has not been over .500 in a season since November 2013, a victory may inspire ESPN to do something else it has never done before: Broadcast “Game-Day” from the same place in consecutive weeks, previewing Penn-Princeton on Homecoming on Nov. 7.

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What are the facts?A teenage girl on an official Palestinian Authority TV

show proudly recites a poem with the lines “Oh sons ofZion, oh most evil among creatures/Oh barbaricmonkeys, wretched pigs.” The program host cries“Bravo!” and applauds. A young girl on Palestinian TVexplains she wants to be a policeman when she grows up“so that I can shoot Jews.”

In fact, Arab Palestinian culture is saturated withanti-Semitic incitement, starting from the first grades ofschool, in daily news media, political speeches and mostinsidiously the mosques of Gaza and the West Bank.(Imagine our outrage if theU.S. President declared thatan ethnic group had filthyfeet and would contaminatea place of worship.) The coreissue at the heart ofPalestinian hate for Jews isan obsessive belief that Jewsare non-believers who havezero rights in Muslim Palestine—this despite inarguablescientific proof of the Jews’ 3,000-year continuoushistory in the Holy Land, preceding Muslims’ arrival by1,600 years.

The most recent incitement has been the fantasticalclaim by Palestinian authorities that Israel is planning totear down al-Aksa mosque—for which there is noevidence and which Israel has steadfastly denied. Inaddition, Palestinians are now insisting that Jews,Christians and other “non-believers” no longer bepermitted to visit the Temple Mount—despite theallowance of such multi-sectarian visits since Israelliberated the site from Jordan in 1967.

No surprise that a rash of anti-Semitic terroristviolence is currently roiling Israel. One Jewish man waskilled on Rosh Hashanah when Palestinian youthsbombarded his car with large stones, forcing him tocrash. Another 30ish couple was shot in their car as theirfour children watched from the back seat. Two OrthodoxJews were killed in Jerusalem’s Old City when aPalestinian teenager stabbed them to death. Dozensmore rock, firebomb, stabbing, shooting and car attackson innocent Israelis have occurred in recent weeks.

What’s worse, perpetrators of such murderous hatecrimes are celebrated as heroes by Palestinian leadersand the Arab street. Indeed, instead of condemning the

Jerusalem killings, the Palestinian Authority (PA)“saluted” the murderers and denounced Israeli police forshooting them. No wonder terrorist Dalal Mughrabi,who hijacked and blew up an Israeli bus, killing 38Israeli civilians, has had Palestinian schools, summercamps and a town square named after her. Likewise, theHamas terror organization in Gaza glorified as “heroic”the execution of three innocent Israeli teenagers lastyear.

Collapse of the PA and Chances for Peace. ThePalestinian Authority is in shambles—on the edge ofbankruptcy, in a mortal struggle with archrival Hamas

and staggering under theleadership of 80-year-oldMahmoud Abbas, now in histwelfth year of a four-yearterm, with no successor insight. Abbas refuses toreturn to peace talks,though Israeli PrimeMinister Netanyahu invites

such negotiations with no preconditions. Truth told,since recent polls show the majority of Palestiniansbelieve their mission is to conquer all of Israel, it isunlikely the Arab street would accept any peace dealbased on a two-state solution. Meanwhile, Hamascontinues to gain strength in the West Bank and is likelyto seize power on Abbas’ departure, putting radicalIslamists in control of the entire Palestinian enterprise.

What Can Israel Do, What Can the U.S. Do? Israelcontinues to show restraint in managing terror attacksthroughout Israel and on the Temple Mount. But clearly,in the face of the current wave of murders and other hate-motivated violence against civilians, Israel has no choicebut to keep the peace—increasing police presence inviolent hot spots and levying stiffer penalties forperpetrators (and their parents, since many offenders arejuveniles).

The U.S., for its part, can pressure Mr. Abbas and thePalestinian Authority diplomatically to cease its lyingabout the Temple Mount, anti-Semitic slanders andother incitements to violence. In addition, if suchincitement does not stop immediately, the U.S. Congressshould take steps to reduce the $500 million in aid wecurrently spend to prop up the Palestinian Authority,millions of which provides “salaries” to convictedPalestinian terrorists in Israeli jails.

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The Palestinian Authority, desperate for international attention, now falsely accuses Israel of threats to al-Aksamosque atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Denying all Jewish rights to Judaism’s holiest site, President MahmoudAbbas rants about Jews defiling the mosque with their “filthy feet.” Result: Dozens of terror attacks and fivemurdered in 21 days.

The Palestinian Authority’s inflammatory anti-Israel rhetoric has led to a wave of terrorism that threatens to devolveinto a third intifada. Although President Abbas claims he wants peace, his words and actions prove he wants toprovoke another explosion of violence to win international sympathy and bring pressure on Israel. Israel must dealfirmly with these violent outbreaks, and the U.S. must indicate to Abbas and the PA that it will not fund lies, racismand terror.

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players, to their coaches and to the strength and conditioning staff.

Fink immediately went all in. “My biggest thing was if they’re going to bring this in and spend all this money on bringing it in, then I want to utilize it to the highest level and capacity,” she said.

What’s great about SpartaTrac — aside from the obvious fit-ness benefits — is that it enables a level of coordination between the coaches never before possible. Every coach, from the nutritionist to Fink, has access to a players’ lift-ing workouts, sleep, nutrition and workout intensity rating from the most-recent practice. The hardest thing, Fink said, is remembering to input all of the data on a daily basis.

“It’s about getting the girls to buy in,” she said. “The information is only as good as what they are put-ting in. ... But if we keep up on it, it becomes second nature.”

It took time for the team to get accustomed to the new technology.

“In the beginning we weren’t using all of the different aspects,” senior captain Elizabeth Hitti said. “We had the app, but we didn’t have the workouts on there. [Steel] was still writing the workouts on the board, and we were entering the in-formation into our app.”

Now that nearly nine months have passed and the kinks have been worked out, the team’s routine when they arrive at Weiss Pavilion, home of the varsity weight room, is completely different than it was last fall. Previously, the team would huddle up and each player would perform the same exercises at the same pace, referencing workouts printed out on sheets of paper tacked to the room’s sturdy cement pillars.

This fall, the workouts are pa-perless, just a few finger taps on a phone screen away using the Spar-taTrac app.

“Steel still kind of runs the lift,”

Hitti said. “The only difference now is that the workout is on our phones.”

These workouts are also custom-ized for each player on the roster, as the app prescribes and records ev-erything from the exercises, to the reps, to the specific weights.

According to Associate Athletic Director for Sports Performance and Head Athletic Trainer Eric Laudano, the customization aspect is the biggest asset of SpartaTrac. “Everyone needs to do different workouts,” he said. “Monotony of training is one thing that we’re not about.

“We always say a training ses-sion or a program should not look like the Sahara Desert, it should look like the Swiss Alps. So you’re doing something hard, you’re coming down and doing something new and different.”

Additionally, Steel completely restructured the team’s strength and conditioning strategy in the spring offseason, effectively rendering the

topology of the team’s workouts much more “mountainous,” as Lau-dano’s metaphor goes.

Instead of attempting to main-tain peak game-ready fitness for all nine months of the academic year, the team now follows a block schedule with distinct phases for each part of the year. During the winter, the team undergoes a bulk-ing phase with a focus on strength over stamina. As Fink’s squad tran-sitions after spring break to start playing in tournaments, the empha-sis shifts back to stamina.

The fall regimen is characterized by four week cycles: three week of intense lifting followed by one unload week to allow each players’ body a chance at muscle regenera-tion.

“One of our weaknesses and mistakes in the past is that we would just go, go, go, go, go, go and we didn’t realize that we were breaking them down,” said Fink.

This year’s team is not broken down. No, far from that.

Thus far in 2015, the team set a record for the best start (10-1 as of Oct. 10) and the longest win streak (nine games) in school history. Even the individual players have reached historic levels of produc-tivity.

For example, only 10 games into the season, Alexa Hoover broke the single-season records for goals and points. At that point in the 2015-16 season, the Quakers still had six games left to play. Beyond just Hoover, the stat sheet for almost every player on the team’s 20-woman roster have improved from the 2014 campaign.

Even just amongst the returning players and the freshmen, there is a tangible fitness gap. As junior attack Elise Tilton explains, “the people that have been doing the [SpartaTrac] and lifting stuff longer are faster and are quicker because you just don’t do that stuff when you’re in high school.”

Although it would be naive to attribute all of the team’s success

in 2015 purely to the physical side of preparation, it is clear that the Quakers that call Ellen Vagelos Field home this year are a funda-mentally different squad than their 2014 iteration. It shows in their con-fidence, and it shows in their game plan.

“We implement fitness clearly into a lot of our games with the speed of the game and we attack the game versus letting the game come to us,” Fink said. “The games we play the best, that is our approach.”

Perhaps the craziest thing about this field hockey team is that Fink thinks there is even more to be gained from SpartaTrac and all of the other sports performance intia-tives the University introduced in the past calendar year.

For now, with only two games left in 2015, Tilton and the rest of the team are happy with what they’ve been able to accomplish so far.

“If we make it through five over-times I think we’re alright.”

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8 SPORTS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015 | THEDP.COMTHE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

During his high school days, Watson was a highly sought recruit out of Pittsburgh-area South Fayette High.

“I was pretty much deciding between going to Buffalo [of the Football Bowl Subdivision Mid-American Conference] or Penn,” Watson said. “What really sold me is that, when I got here, it felt like a big football school. It was the best of both worlds, both academics and football.”

“He had a lot of different op-tions, including some at higher levels,” Ulrich said. “He’s here, and the rest is history.”

The wideout impressed during his rookie season a year ago, notching 42 catches for 497 yards, both program re-cords for a rookie. After getting his feet wet during the first half of the season, Watson emerged as a bona fide offensive threat during Ivy play.

“It was about this time last year, before the Brown game,

that I knew I was about to start having a bigger role in the of-fense, and I’d start taking over that role as the No. 1 receiver.”

“You could see during his freshman year that he was going to be something special,” head coach Ray Priore said.

A year ago, Watson had es-tabl ished senior receivers Spencer Kulcsar and Conner Scott above him on the depth chart. While the team sputtered to a disappointing 2-8 over-all record, Watson believes he gathered valuable experience under their tutelage.

“Conner was the first guy in and the last guy out every day. I learned to lead through my ac-tions from him. And Spencer was always in my ear; he was kind of a gnat,” Watson said, laughing. “I’ve been trying to fill their role and make sure that all the other receivers are working as hard as we can.”

Despite all his early-season success, Ulrich still maintains that Watson has areas of his game that can be improved.

“He’s not a quality blocker just yet,” Ulrich admitted. “I’m on him about it every day. He doesn’t like to hear me talk to

him because it’s probably about his blocking.”

However, improvement in that category may have to

wait. Watson has been don-ning a red non-contact jersey in practice over the last few weeks as he nurses a shoulder

injury suffered in that win over Villanova. Though he sat out the second half of that game — making his 87 yards and two TDs on the night even more impressive — Watson has managed to avoid missing meaningful game action.

“Like it is with everyone else, the healthiest you’re going to be is the first day of camp, and after that you’re going to be banged up,” Priore said. “And our training staff does a phenomenal job of getting us ready.”

Going forward, Watson has some clear-cut goals for his career in University City.

“One, I want to win as many Ivy League championships as we can,” Watson said. “And I want to be first team All-Ivy each year. ... If I could get that this year and the next two, that would be pretty cool.”

Those goals are perfectly at-tainable, if you ask coach Priore:

“When a real good player is also your hardest worker, that’s a great combination.”

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Heading into its Ivy championship meet at Heptag-onals this weekend, Penn cross country looks better than it has in a long time — maybe better than ever.

And the Quakers know it.Just ask coach Steve Dolan

about his expectations for the men’s team, which recently was awarded with its first top-30 national ranking in pro-gram history.

“For the first time in a number of years, we’re gonna go in ... trying to win it,” he said.

Or ask junior Cleo Whit-ing, whose women’s team has emerged as a force to be

reckoned with throughout the year despite finishing dead last in cross country Heps only one year ago.

“We’re better than that,” she said. “And that’s all that mat-ters.”

Of course, they have plenty of reasons to be confident.

The men’s squad, as per usual, features star senior Thomas Awad and most of the athletes that helped the team break through to a top-three finish last season at Heps. But over the past year, it has developed into a much more substantial whole.

Now, with the emergence of junior Nick Tuck as a le-gitimate force amongst the Ivy League’s elite and a solid next three runners to round out the team’s top-five, the team could very reasonably contend for an Ivy title this weekend.

There is also reason for

optimism on the women’s side.With the emergence of

junior Ashley Montgomery along with typical lead runners Cleo and Clarissa Whiting, the Red and Blue may have the most formidable front-of-the-pack presence it has ever had. And it has shown in the team’s performance this season, par-ticularly with its impressive top-10 finish at the highly-competitive Notre Dame Invitational.

But unlike its male counter-part, the women’s team does not have much previous suc-cess at Heps to build off of, and the Quakers will need to move forward from their dis-appointing 2014 result to live up to their current potential.

“We use it as motivation,” Whiting said. “We were defi-nitely let down last year, but

Penn field hockey has played through five overtimes this year. Five!

What’s crazy is that in a six-game span between Sept. 25 and Oct. 28, the Quakers played almost 70 extra minutes of sudden death field hockey. Even

crazier is that the team emerged unscathed every time but one — a tough 2-1 loss to Columbia on the road that snapped Penn’s nine-game winning streak.

Tallying a 4-1 record in such closely contested games shows that Penn is capable of literally running circles around its op-ponents deep into games. This level of fitness and stamina is new for the Quakers, thanks to a revamped strength and condi-tioning program and the help of Penn Athletics’ new SpartaTrac

training system.“It just is funny because I do

think a lot of teams think we’re pretty fit,” coach Colleen Fink said.

“One of our opposing teams that we had already played and had beaten earlier in the year came up to us and said, ‘What are you doing? Do you do your strength and conditioning? Does somebody else do it? What do you do? What’s your focus? How are you doing it?’”

So really, how is field hockey

doing it?It all boils down to new tech-

nology and a smarter approach to training. Back in Jan. 2015, after the team returned from winter break, strength and con-ditioning manager Jim Steel started incorporating Sparta-Trac technology into the team’s weight room regimen, making field hockey a guinea pig pro-gram. At the time, the app and all of its data were new — to the

Sports Back

Watson continues schooling the IviesFOOTBALL | Wide receiver impresses in second yearTOM NOWLANAssociate Sports Editor

Sophomore Justin Watson leads Penn in receiving catches, yards and touchdowns.

AMANDA SUAREZ | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

According to senior Thomas Awad, both he and junior Nick Tuck will need to finish in the top five at Heps in order for Penn to have a shot at an Ivy title. Although he has had an inconsistent fall, a strong performance by Awad is certainly possible.

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Quakers head into Heps with league title in sight

SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 9

FIELD HOCKEY | Sparta system boosts fitnessLAINE HIGGINSSports Editor

SEE ATHLETICS PAGE 8

XC | Men’s squad in top 30 for first timeCOLIN HENDERSONSports Editor

SEE XC PAGE 7

GAMEDAY RETURNS METEORIC RISEFor the first time since 2002, “College GameDay” returns to

the City of Brotherly Love

>> SEE PAGE 8

Ashley Montgomery has excelled for Penn cross country after almost not running in college

>> SEE PAGE 7

TRACKING ATHLETIC PERFORMANCEPart 2 of 4

For Watson, things are looking pretty elementary.

Justin Watson, that is.Through the first six games of Penn

football’s season, the sophomore wide receiver is putting together one of the best pass-catching seasons in recent memory. The Bridgeville, Pa., native has tallied 39 catches for 561 yards and five touchdowns, all of which lead the team.

“He’s a great kid. He works excep-tionally hard,” Rick Ulrich, the Quaker wide receivers coach, said. “And he’s got great open-field running ability. He breaks a lot of tackles.”

That elusiveness and physicality was perhaps best exemplified during Penn’s shocking upset of Villanova on Sept. 24. Watson hauled in two touchdown passes in that game, one of which came on a dominating 33-yard catch-and-run that featured several broken tackles and one particularly nasty stiff-arm.

“I’ve really tried to work on my run-ning after the catch,” Watson said. “This year, I’ve really made a point to stay on my feet and make sure that just one guy never tackles me.”

The Last Team

S ta n d i n g

With a revamped strength and conditioning program from Strength and Conditioning Manager Jim Steel and an all-new training customization technology in SpartaTrac, junior attack Elise Tilton and the rest of the Penn field hockey team are fitter than ever - and its showing in their four overtime wins in 2015.

THOMAS MUNSON | ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015

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