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Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes is producing a new show that is — basically — based on Penn.

How to Get Away with Murder, which premieres tonight at 10 p.m., takes place at a “prestigious Philadelphia univer-sity,” where eager students compete to land a job at their criminal law pro-fessor’s firm. The pilot filmed scenes on 40th through 42nd streets between Spruce and Locust in March.

Penn was the show’s first choice for filming, according to Sharon Pinkenson, the executive director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, but the Uni-versity turned down the offer in order to avoid disturbing campus life. The Film Office assisted producers in securing campus locations for filming. In the end, Murder’s campus scenes were filmed on the respective campuses of Bryn Mawr and Ursinus colleges, as well as at Me-dia Providence Friends School.

ABC, which is airing the show, could

At Wednesday’s Student Ac-tivities Council general body meeting, the executive board announced that SAC will offi -cially recommend a partial lift of the two-year moratorium on new student groups next month.

At the meeting, the SAC

general body — which is comprised of a representative from every SAC-funded group — will vote on the partial lift. The recommendation will not include recognizing new per-forming arts groups, which generally have less control over

their facilities costs than other groups.

“We wanted to make sure we were out of debt for more than one year,” SAC Chair and Col-lege senior Kanisha Parthasara-thy said. “We feel that we are fi nancially stable enough to ac-

cept new groups.”The moratorium was ini-

tially put in place in fall 2012 because of the rising cost of fa-cilities and because of the debt accrued by SAC-funded stu-

Amid U.S. strikes in Syria targeted against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a recent student initiative is bringing the human side of the Syrian people’s story to Penn’s campus.

Throughout the week, Penn for Syrian Refugees, Penn Arab Student Society and Al Bustan Seeds of Cul-

ture are hosting Syria Aware-ness Week. On Tuesday, they hosted a Skype conversation with a Syrian doctor helping refugees, and on Wednesday they set up a memorial for Syrian refugees on College Green.

“Ultimately the goal is to raise money for the people who are suff ering in Syria right now,” said College and Wharton sophomore Cora Neumann, who is the direc-

tor of publicity for Penn for Syrian Refugees. “We want to increase the scope and po-tentially the size of the club, and just get more people at Penn aware.”

While recent focus on Syr-ia has centered on U.S.-led air strikes against ISIS — the most recent strikes occurred on Wednesday, according to news reports — the groups hosting Syria Awareness Week want to increase dia-

logue about the struggles of the Syrian people. The week is not being hosted directly in response to the most recent U.S. strikes.

“One of the things we de-cided from the beginning is that we wanted this to be Penn for Syrian Refugees, and not just Penn for Syria,” said College and Wharton sophomore Aimee Knaus,

A fundraising campaign for the father of an eight-year-old girl who died last week surpassed its goal of $3,000 to help support the grieving family.

Maria Passarelli, a third-year student in the School of Veteri-nary Medicine, started organiz-ing the fundraiser for the girl’s father on Sept. 18, the day after the girl fell out of the Fairfax Building on the 4200 block of Locust Street. As of publishing time, 123 people have donated total of $4,020 through the Go-FundMe page set up by Pas-sarelli.

“I was there at the time of the incident, so I saw everything [that] happened after the girl fell,” Passarelli said. The girl was transported to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and was pronounced dead at around 8:28 a.m. Police are still investigat-ing the incident, although they believe it was an accident. “The thing itself is horribly upsetting,” Passarelli said.

Later that day, Passarelli dis-covered that the girl’s father was a Penn graduate student after she talked to the staff at the Fairfax Apartment building, although she declined to specify his iden-tity out of respect for him and his family.

“Since it seemed like he was part of the Penn community, I just wanted to help him,” she said.

That day, she talked to mem-bers of the Graduate and Profes-sional Student Association, as well as other student groups, to brainstorm ideas for how to help the girl’s family.

“I just felt so awful at the time that I couldn’t do anything,” Pas-sarelli said, “and I felt here’s my chance to help now.”

The next day, she posted to GoFundMe asking for donations for the student. “Out of respect for him and his grieving family, [the graduate student’s] name will remain anonymous, but on top of having another daughter to feed, paying student bills, and paying rent, he is now faced with funeral costs,” Passarelli wrote on the page. “Please consider donating to a fellow grad student. At the end of this fundraiser, he will receive a check– ALL funds raised here will go directly to him.”

In addition to the campaign, Passarelli is planning to place a box outside Hill Pavilion — the home of the Vet School, located at 38th and Woodland streets — through Sept. 25 so anyone who would like to donate offl ine will have an opportunity to so.

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FundMe page set up by Pas-sarelli.

“I was there at the time of the incident, so I saw everything [that] happened after the girl fell,” Passarelli said. The girl was transported to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and was pronounced dead at around 8:28 a.m. Police are still investigat-ing the incident, although they believe it was an accident. “The thing itself is horribly upsetting,” Passarelli said.

Later that day, Passarelli dis-covered that the girl’s father was a Penn graduate student after she talked to the staff at the Fairfax Apartment building, although she declined to specify his iden-tity out of respect for him and his family.

“Since it seemed like he was part of the Penn community, I just wanted to help him,” she said.

That day, she talked to mem-bers of the Graduate and Profes-sional Student Association, as well as other student groups, to brainstorm ideas for how to help the girl’s family.

“I just felt so awful at the time that I couldn’t do anything,” Pas-sarelli said, “and I felt here’s my chance to help now.”

The next day, she posted to GoFundMe asking for donations for the student. “Out of respect for him and his grieving family, [the graduate student’s] name will remain anonymous, but on top of having another daughter to feed, paying student bills, and paying rent, he is now faced with funeral costs,” Passarelli wrote on the page. “Please consider donating to a fellow grad student. At the end of this fundraiser, he will receive a check– ALL funds raised here will go directly to him.”

In addition to the campaign, Passarelli is planning to place a box outside Hill Pavilion — the home of the Vet School, located at 38th and Woodland streets — through Sept. 25 so anyone who would like to donate offl ine will

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The hottest new ideas applying nanotechnology to the real world are developing right here at Penn.

On Wednesday night, the Whar-ton and Engineering schools, the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and the Penn Cen-ter for Innovation held a kickoff event for the third-annual Y-Prize competition . The evening cen-tered around the presentation of this year’s Penn faculty-developed technologies. Students competing in Y-Prize will work in teams to choose one of the three technolo-

gies to market as a product. They will present their ideas to a panel of judges and the winners of the contest will receive a $5,000 prize as well as an exclusive opportunity to market their technology.

Each year, the contest focuses on a diff erent area of technology — this year, nanotechnology. The recent opening of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology has brought this new and exciting fi eld into the spotlight at Penn. With Y-Prize, three Penn professors will have the opportunity to see their ideas take off through student innovation.

Engineering professor Vijay Kumar , a founder of the compe-tition, introduced the event by welcoming students and discuss-ing the goal of the program: in-novative cooperation between the brightest minds of science and

business.Several contributors to the pro-

gram also made remarks. Engi-neering professor Kathleen Stebe emphasized the importance of learning through hands-on work, calling the competition a “beauti-ful union of everything that we’re supposed to be about at the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania.”

Wharton professor Saikat Chaudhuri also spoke about the necessity of integrating ideas from various academic areas. “Inter-disciplinary application between fi elds is most necessary to solve the most pressing problems,” he said.

The event proceeded with de-tailed presentations of the three technologies that will be the fo-cus of the competition. This year, students’ plans will feature ultra-

strong material that is only one atom in thickness, batteries that charge in minutes but last for hours and a special adhesive surface that sticks and unsticks on command.

Wharton and Engineering se-nior Bahram Banisadr is compet-ing in Y-Prize for the second time. He believes that the contest “fi ts well with the Penn entrepreneurial mindset.”

According to Banisadr, many Penn students tend to pursue only a few specifi c career paths. The Y-Prize program, he said, allows stu-dents to think and learn in a new, original way. “It’s just one of many very cool opportunities out there.”

Student proposals for Y-Prize are due in early November. Final-ists will be announced in late No-vember and the winners will be determined in January.

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Penn students are ‘giving what we can’ to the fi ght against global

poverty

Although it has long been recognized as an issue, pov-erty remains a hardship for many across the globe. Later this month, a new student group will expand its eff orts to help Penn contribute to the fi ght to end this age-old struggle.

An international society committed to providing re-sources to impoverished countries, Giving What We Can has an emerging local chapter on Penn’s campus set to offi cially launch on Oct. 22. Most members of the or-ganization take the “Pledge to Give” and commit to do-nating 10% (1% for students) of their incomes to relieve the struggles caused by pov-erty across the world. The organization researches and recommends charities for these funds that provide the most eff ective interventions of poverty in the developing world.

The Penn chapter was founded in March 2013 by President and third-year School of Arts and Scienc-es graduate student Rossa O’Keeff e-O’Donovan and Vice President and Engi-neering sophomore Peter Buckley. In order to spread the word about the organi-zation and its mission, the group partnered with Impact

Magazine to host a “Giving Game” in March , at which a large audience was educated about several charities. Each audience member was then given $10 to deliberate and make a donation to one of the charities.

“It’s important that stu-dents can get in the habit of giving some money but also thinking of where it goes,” O’Keeff e-O’Donovan said. “Don’t just give money to charity because of an ad campaign, but actually re-search its impact.”

The group’s launch event will feature philosopher Pe-ter Singer, a professor at Princeton University. Singer spurred the Eff ective Altru-ism Movement throughout the United States and United Kingdom with his 2009 book “The Life You Can Save” .

The movement is grow-ing, with chapters of Giving What We Can springing up at universities like Harvard, Princeton and Rutgers. One for the World, the counter-part of Giving What We Can for MBA students, was intro-duced to Penn’s campus ear-lier this year by two Wharton graduate students.

Buckley is pleased with his own eff orts to continue the momentum in starting the Penn chapter of Giving What We Can. “It’s easily the thing I’m proudest of at Penn,” he said.

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Pinkenson speculated that show creator Shonda Rhimes, who is also the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, chose to set “Murder” in Phila-delphia because the city differs from the film industry norm. “It’s the perfect combination,” she said. “There’s a great Ivy League college,” referring to Penn, “and lawyers in Phila-delphia have been famous for centuries.”

In the show’s trailer, actress Viola Davis, in character as a criminal law professor, strides into a packed lecture hall a leather purse and an evident at-titude. On the board, she writes both the name of the name of her fictitious course, Criminal Law 100.

Criminal law professor Paul Robinson teaches the real-life Criminal Law 100 at Penn Law. In a single lecture, Robinson tackles manslaughter, criminal homicide and statutory rape cases.

“One of the complications of teaching criminal law is [the students] have watched a lot of the shows and think they know what the laws are,” he said.

While Robinson and Da-vis’s character teach the same course, they have backgrounds in different sides of the court-room. Davis’ character is a high-profile defense attorney, who often uses dirty methods to get her clients acquitted. Robinson, on the other hand, is a former federal prosecu-tor and counsel for the United States Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures.

In one of Robinson’s regular Friday afternoon classes, the class dynamic is reminiscent of a scene on the small screen. Stu-dents flip through fat red books and scribble down notes on one

of the day’s cases — whether or not to convict a group of pro-ducers for the death of children on a movie set.

Robinson abandons his po-dium to lounge on a desk in the corner of the room. With om-niscient air of Harvey Specter from “Suits” or Olivia Benson of ”Law & Order: SVU,” he responds to students with an-swers that inspire an even more fervent round of questions.

“We’re talking about crimi-nal law, is this kind of risk taking in this kind of situation — movie making — condem-nable?” he says, gesturing to the lecture hall.

After 10 more minutes of debate, Robinson reveals that the studio in the case was found not guilty of aggravated man-slaughter. The next case yields a discussion of whether or not to convict a legally mentally disabled man who claims he unknowingly committed statu-tory rape.

“Have a sense of the differ-ence between law on the books and law in the real world — what actually happened,” Rob-inson said, stressing the use of real-life cases in courses like his and the one featured in “Murder.” “It’s a little less pre-dictable, things aren’t necessar-ily working the way you think they were.”

Robinson won’t be watching the show, but he is excited to see the criminal law-centered conversation that will follow.

“The fact that there are all these shows is evidence that humans have this interest in is-sues of blame and punishment,” he said. Every human has had this challenge — what do you do [with] those societal norms, what do you do if people breach them?”

“Murder” isn’t the first time Penn has made an appear-ance in movies and television. Parts of the 2009 blockbuster

“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” were filmed on campus, as well as the 2000 Bruce Wil-lis drama, “Unbreakable.” The pilot for cult-hit “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” fea-tures characters walking down Locust Walk and external shots of Van Pelt Library. The cam-pus also makes cameos in later episodes.

Although the pilot was filmed in Philadelphia, the rest of “Murder” will be filmed in Los Angeles now that the show has been picked up for a full season. Davis’ contract, Pinkenson said, includes a mandate that regular filming take place in the L.A. area.

“We were disappointed that the series didn’t get picked up to film here,” Pinkenson said. “But when [someone is] a big star they have the power to make those decisions.”

The Shakespeare Globe The-atre’s performance of “King Lear” at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts makes something out of nothing.

“We’re in for an ordeal,” declared English professor Re-becca Bushnell at Wednesday night’s pre-show. Bushnell, president of the Shakespeare Association of America , talked about the play’s emphasis on the word “nothing.”

In the play, King Lear asks his three daughters which one loves him most. While the two eldest sing his praises, the daughter who truly loves him most says nothing because she does not feel that words or actions can adequately express her love. The king goes on to disown her, while his eldest daughters pro-ceed to betray him.

The opening night perfor-mance drew in the crowd by breaking the boundary between actor and audience.

At the beginning of the show, audience members waited for the lights to dim. However, an enthusiastic actor explained that the theater company leaves the lights on to simulate day-light.

It wasn’t just scenery that brought the audience close to the performance. Before the show, the actors walked along the aisles of the theatre, talk-ing to audience members. Lat-er — during the play — King Lear, played by Joseph Mar-cell, looked into the crowd and asked, “Do you know who I am?”

The audience laughed. Those

who recognized him knew that the actor also played Geoffrey, the butler in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”

Marcell had both a reversal in character and social status in his role as King Lear from that of Geoffrey. The show featured seven other actors, all of whom played multiple roles in the show, including sound effects and crew.

“I think it’s really cool how they break the fourth wall,” Wharton freshman Felipe Had-dad said. “This is the first play that I’ve seen that does it in that way.”

The lucid boundaries be-tween performance and reality echoed the sentiments Bushnell shared during the pre-show. “Theatre is both real and unreal at the same time,” she said.

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who is the director of business development for Penn for Syrian Refugees. “We didn’t want to fo-cus more on the political aspect, but more on the human rights and the suff ering of the people.”

Confl ict and war in the region has produced skyrocketing num-bers of refugees in recent years. According to the UN Refugee Agency, there are currently over 3,000,000 registered Syrian ref-ugees as of Sept. 24. Two years ago, in September 2012, there were 250,000 registered Syrian

refugees, less than 10 percent of the number today.

“Even though politically things have changed a lot, the people still suff er and that’s our main issue,” Knaus added.

On Thursday, the groups will host a Syrian refugee in Annen-berg Hall at 6 p.m. The refugee will talk about his experience in the country and the atrocities he saw committed, according to the event’s description. On Saturday, the sponsors of Syria Awareness Week will hold an event in Clau-dia Cohen Hall at 3 p.m. cen-tered on educating Penn’s cam-pus about Syrian culture.

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“A ll About That Bass” is a cute tune by 20-year-

old Meghan Trainor — poppy, infectious and full of feel-good vibes. In the song, Trainor encourages bigger women to embrace their curves and see themselves as beautiful, despite the constant societal messages telling them otherwise.

Amidst all of the voices that constantly tell women to shrink their waist sizes, “All About That Bass” seems like a breath of fresh air for women of all body types. The music video shows Trainor as a pretty, play-ful and confident woman who is proud of her body and her femi-ninity.

The song may be catchy and well-intentioned; however, it sends a very problematic mes-sage that is important to high-light. All of the “body positiv-ity” talked about in the song is still framed in the view of the ever-present male gaze. “My momma she told me don’t worry about your size. She says ‘Boys like a little more booty to hold at night.’” Trainor says throughout the song that men love her for her curves and that she won’t deal with men who want a su-perficial, plastic woman.

“All About That Bass” isn’t the first pop song to tell young women and girls that the only real value of their bodies is how men perceive them. “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction and “Just the Way You Are” and “Treasure” by Bruno Mars are just some examples of pop hits that require the man to define a woman’s beauty for her. “Men love curvy women.” “Guys love skinny girls.” These back and forth arguments are unhealthy and put down other

women. Girls shouldn’t have to justify their body types by point-ing to what men find attractive. Women also have various sexu-alities that should not have to

be constrained by a heteronor-mative or stereotypical view of what femininity should be.

Just as women come in different sizes, men too have different preferences when it comes to women. Stereotyping and generalizing is insulting to both genders. And the men that are consistently fixated on a par-ticular body type, or body part above all others, are probably not men you want to be involved with in the first place.

I noticed in my mid-teens that I was one of the few girls in my peer group that was comfort-able with her body. It took me a lot of time to develop my self-es-teem, but body image was usu-ally low on my long list of con-cerns. It seemed no matter their size, shape or color, girls I knew had some hang-up over their appearance, to the point where it severely impacted their self-confidence. Starting at younger and younger ages — before they even mature into adult bodies — girls learn from the adult world to fixate on their looks and hate their bodies. They are learning that their appearance is more

important than their character, accomplishments and dreams.

It is silly to expect pop cul-ture to become anything close to perfect. Every day we are bom-barded with problematic images that reinforce the inequalities of our communities. But as we try to inspire women and girls to feel confident in their own skin through the media, we must also remember to teach them that they don’t owe men (or society) their prettiness. Basing your entire concept of self-worth on someone else’s ideals will never make you happy or help you love the body you are in.

Encouraging women to ob-sess over their looks is just an-other societal attempt to keep them in line and keep Ameri-can consumer culture booming. There are so many more valu-able traits and strengths that women have. We have much more to contribute to the world than just a dress size. This is the real type of empowerment we need to be passing on to the next generation of girls, not an idea of value based on the male lens.

I ’ve always been “well-rounded.” It’s a vague, somewhat complimen-tary way of saying that I

could never stick to just one or two things. Throughout high school, I dabbled in everything from tennis to the school chorus to Model U.N., refused to quit time-consuming activities like ballet and piano lessons and managed to sustain interest in a variety of academic subjects as well.

When college applications came around, I fervently prayed that the talk of looking for spe-cialized students to form a well-rounded class was a rumor. I had awards and accomplishments in certain areas. But I certainly wasn’t specialized in anything, except maybe being busy. Luck-ily, I was able to count on Ben Franklin being a bit of a Renais-sance man himself.

Then I came to college. That’s when people finally choose one field to focus on, right? There seems to be a pres-sure to pick one interest imme-diately and build your entire col-lege career around it.

By this logic, I need to get my life together. I’m pursuing a STEM major peppered gener-ously with humanities electives, I dance in Penn Ballet and I par-ticipate in the South Asia Soci-ety. Oh, and I sometimes write a column for The Daily Pennsyl-vanian. But scattered as my pas-sions may seem, I’ve pursued them with dedication — and I don’t think anyone should find fault with that.

There are just as many stu-dents who experiment with a few different activities until sticking with one, or decide to try something new as juniors or even seniors. I don’t understand why anyone should look down

on them for that. Instead, I ap-plaud their curiosity. This is the last time in our lives that we will have access to hundreds of free groups representing a full range of just about every possible hob-by or interest. If the club you’re looking for doesn’t exist, you can start it. And by all means, audition for that a cappella group even if you’re graduating in May. Better now than never at all.

My clubs also serve as a much-needed outlet from the stress and pressures of my aca-demic workload. When I’m fed up with trying to learn about neural networks or medieval Spain, I can seek relief in ballet rehearsal or a fun SAS event.

It’s also important to expand your horizons, and college is the perfect place to do that. Don’t be that Wharton kid concentrat-ing in finance whose entire life revolves around starting net-working groups and attending speaker presentations in Hunts-man — when not busy studying in that GSR he’s reserved for the next two weeks straight, that is.

Maybe some people out there genuinely enjoy devoting themselves solely to their busi-ness career prospects. But if you don’t, why bother? I have already gained so much from the student groups I’m in. They have exposed me to a wide vari-ety of people with so many dif-ferent ideas and interests.

That’s what makes college so special. We are thrown into an enclosed environment for four highly formative years — we construct our beliefs about the world around us as we en-counter other students and pro-fessors. It simply doesn’t make sense to waste this chance to grow and learn as much as pos-sible in order to challenge our preconceived notions.

We have the rest of our lives to focus on our chosen field of work. Take advantage of Penn’s opportunities now. Meet some-one in a different school. Try salsa dancing or slam poetry or student government. The possi-bilities are almost limitless.

So to everyone who gives me a startled look when hearing my list of extracurricular activi-ties — sure, maybe I can’t top my resume with them. Yeah, they’re probably not going to land me a cushy job on Wall Street after graduation.

But, regardless of the career path I eventually settle on, I’ll have valuable skills and lifelong friends. And you can bet I’ll be pirouetting through my lunch breaks.

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L ast week, a well-known clothing manufacturer sold a sweatshirt reading

“Kent State University,” covered in what look like bloodstains. In an apparent attempt to be edgy, they conjured up memories of the 1970 Kent State massacre, when student protesters were shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration.

Earlier this summer, one of its competitors sold a gown whose black and white stripes and six-pointed yellow star were chillingly reminiscent of Jewish concentration camps.

These products do more than just exploit death and vio-lence — they also disrespect the historical awareness that honors those who were wronged. They send an implicit message that the memory of those events is appropriately reducible to a fashion statement.

Blunders like these, and the resulting outrage, remind

us how powerfully our identi-ties and values are informed by the past — and how important it is that we take responsibility for that historical awareness. If we abandon our memories, we abandon the cohesion and conti-nuity that give our lives purpose — that give shape to our most meaningful dialogues about community, liberty, justice and wrongdoing.

It’s tempting to say history doesn’t matter, that the past is the past and offers nothing use-ful. But to value history, we need not expect it to predict the future or teach us easily applica-ble lessons. Rather, it defines the way we see ourselves today. Al-though it seldom yields proofs or predictions like those of math or science, history offers a rich sense of what is possible and gives the perspective we need to understand our own time with greater clarity.

Even if we take these cloth-ing companies at their word and assume that they didn’t mean

to exploit human suffering for commercial gain, their lack of historical appreciation is ap-palling. Kent State reminds us of the horrors of police brutal-ity and violence born from fear and resentment. Six-pointed yellow stars symbolize a deep anti-Semitism that continues in Europe, and that previously resulted in the unspeakable atrocity of the Holocaust. These events don’t live in the past —their moral significance carries into the present and fuels those essential questions about how we ought to live our lives and treat each other

To study history is to take ownership of the human race, sharing in its triumphs and bear-ing witness to its sins and follies. We join a legacy of transient be-ings striving to craft a fleeting world for the better. Only by linking ourselves to them across the ages do we keep that legacy intact.

That’s why “knowing” his-tory isn’t enough. Learning ba-

sic history in high school and visiting the occasional museum won’t guarantee a meaningful grasp of past events. It’s also important to understand how history is crafted.

The influence of the past on our collective values makes his-tory a source of power — wheth-er to glorify national identity or justify war and persecution. As George Orwell said, “Who con-trols the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, con-trols the past.” The hallmark of a free society is the ability to ques-

tion, be it the authority of rulers or the veracity of the stories we’re asked to buy into. How much of our legacy is true, and how much is just wishful thinking?

It’s not just about power, though. Historians — even those without an agenda — are inevitably biased one way or another. Every interpretation reflects a particular perspective with its own attitudes and as-sumptions.

Anyone who cares about the past must take it upon themselves to be at least mildly familiar with the methods of historical practice — to understand how historical “facts” get made. Only then will we be safe against destructive, misleading narratives.

R.G. Collingwood once said that all of history is really the history of thought. We study history to understand our pre-decessors and how they saw the world — and, hopefully, to recognize ourselves in them. We are but the most recent participants in a longstanding

ethical project, and that makes the study of history a moral im-perative.

Those who came before have left their footprints in time. To make full sense of who we are, we must discover the path by which we’ve come to be.

Why we need the pastTHE FAITHLESS QUAKER | History puts us in touch with our humanity — that’s why we have a duty to study it

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‘All About That Bass’ isn’t the first pop song to tell young women and girls that the only real value of their bodies is how men

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dent groups. SAC plans to address the rising cost of facilities with the sustained partial moratorium.

When the Performing Arts Council had fewer groups, SAC was able to fund the facilities the groups used. However, with the rising number of groups and the rising cost of facilities, that is no longer feasible, Parthasarathy said.

On Sept. 10, the PAC executive board voted in favor of a morato-rium to recognize new PAC groups due to the continuation of the SAC moratorium and the lack of avail-able rehearsal and performance spaces. This year, PAC lost Dunlop Auditorium as a rehearsal and per-formance space due to renovations.

Performing arts groups do not know which specific facility PAC will assign them for a show. Since the cost of facilities varies and performing arts groups are retro-actively funded for facilities, SAC cannot allocate a certain amount of money to them when they assign budgets. Currently, PAC has been giving 20 percent of ticket rev-

enues to SAC to help pay for the facilities.

However, SAC does cover the costume and production costs of PAC groups. Those costs are known in time for the budget allo-cation period in late March to early April.

“Groups are not overspending on their budgets. As far as they know, they are spending within

their budget because they don’t deal with the invoices for space costs. SAC does,” Theater Arts Council Chair and College senior Megan MacInnes said.

Parthasarathy and MacInnes both cited the labor charges and technical fees that go into mak-ing a space usable for groups as reasons facilities costs are high. Parthasarathy and her successor

will work with PAC to create a fea-sible way to fund performing arts groups.

Performing arts groups are working with SAC to brainstorm innovative ways to effectively use the limited spaces that are current-ly available for rehearsals, A Cap-pella Council Chair and College senior Swaroop Raosaid.

SAC receives their budget from

the UA annually. SAC’s budget has increased for this school year to slightly less than $1.15 million. The increase accounts for infla-tion and rising facility costs, Par-thasarathy said.

“Unfortunately the amount that the UA is allocated never increases at the same rate that facilities costs increase,” Parthasarathy said, but commended the UA for allocating

as much as possible to SAC.To address the issue of student

group debt, Parthasarathy has en-sured that SAC is “in the black” and groups in debt are notified immediately. As of October 2012, SAC instituted a debt incentive program that marginally cuts from student groups’ budgets depending on their amount of debt. A group with $101 to $500 of debt will face a five percent budget cut.

Each SAC executive member has about 20 groups that they reach out to and educate about debt policies. Written debt plans from groups still in debt are due to SAC’s executive board by the Oct. 23 meeting.

Following the meeting, the SAC executive board led sessions on al-ternative funding sources, an idea that UA Treasurer and College se-nior Amanda Acosta-Ruiz helped formulate.

At the October GBM, the new chair will be elected and criteria for new group recognition will be announced, provided that the general body votes to accept the executive board’s recommendation on the moratorium at the meeting.

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January 2011SAC institutes first moratorium.

September 2014SAC executive board recommends lift of moratorium.

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September 2011The first moratorium ends. All student debts are absolved.

September 2012SAC institutes second moratorium because of student group debt and rising cost of facilities.

October 2012SAC adopts Debt Plan to manage student group debt.

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The tides are changing at Penn, with five new deans taking the helm throughout the next aca-demic year.

But even as five of Penn’s schools embrace changes in lead-ership, the five individuals fill-ing the positions are acclimating to the University and their new roles. For the first time, the new-est class of Penn deans was met with a formal orientation.

Wharton Dean Geoffrey Gar-rett, Nursing Dean Antonia Vil-larruel, Social Policy & Prac-tice Dean John L. Jackson Jr. and Interim Law Dean Wendell Pritchett began their terms this summer. Stanford professor Pam Grossman will take up her post as Dean of the Graduate School of Education on Jan. 1.

“The new deans ... have all hit the ground running,” Penn Presi-dent Amy Gutmann said of the University-wide turnover. “The faculty has welcomed them. The deans themselves are thrilled at their starts, and I’m delighted to see how smooth and strong their beginnings are.”

Spanning two days, the ori-entation was reminiscent of the annual New Student Orienta-tion undertaken by incoming freshmen, providing a bonding opportunity for the new deans. Gutmann, Provost Vincent Price, the sitting deans and the rest of the University’s high-ranking faculty members and administra-tors also met with the new deans. “We bonded with them and they bonded with us,” she said. One session even included a campus

tour — which was facilitated by golf carts, Villarruel said.

A formal tour may have been of little benefit to the deans who have already clocked in steps down Locust Walk over the years. Garrett, who came to Penn from the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Whales, was a professor at Penn from 1995 to 1997.

“I’ve changed more than the institution [has changed],” Gar-rett said, adding that his current objectives as dean encapsulate a broader vision than the research-focused work he did during the early stages of his professorship.

Pritchett, who is also a Presi-dential Term Professor in the Law School, said that he can’t re-member his first Penn encounter, recalling a day in his youth when he took the SAT at Penn. Even with his familiarity with the Uni-versity, Pritchett found the orien-tation session to be beneficial.

“I felt at the end of it we re-ally knew each other fairly well, which was fun,” Pritchett said. “I think it will accelerate our work-ing together.”

Consistent with the goals of the Penn Compact 2020, the deans’ orientation served as fod-der for future collaboration and integration of academic disci-plines.

Jackson, a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, said he and the cohort of new deans are keen on working collaboratively across schools.

“We’ve already started to brainstorm about ways to work together to enhance the research of our faculty and students,” Jack-son said in an email. “That is one

of the most exciting things about the current moment: seeing how we can institutionalize cross-school links that translate into a much more robust and enriching experience for our faculty, stu-dents and staff.”

Villarruel, who came back to Penn for the third time from the University of Michigan, high-lighted the integrated Nursing and Wharton program at the un-dergraduate and graduate levels, adding that a Social Policy and Practice faculty member serves as co-chair.

Beyond mere tours and gate-ways for collaboration, however, the deans agree that the personal aspect of their orientation proved to be invaluable.

Garrett recalled a dinner held at the conclusion of the first day, during which instead of jumping straight into policy and their jobs, each person spoke about who they were as people — he learned that Price grew up in Los Ange-les, where Garrett himself lived for 10 years.

“I think there’s a temptation in big jobs with busy people that there’s a ruthless focus on the job,” Garrett said. “Not only is it more enjoyable, but we do our jobs better … if we know the people we’re interacting with as human beings.”

With searches underway for new deans to lead the School of Engineering and Applied Scienc-es and the Law School, the next dean orientation may be sooner rather than later.

“We’re going to do it now no matter how many deans we have,” Gutmann said. “The reviews have been enormously positive.”

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Penn donates around 90 computers to nearby Robeson High School

For a high school with com-puters that hardly work, even hand-me-downs can be invalu-able.

Penn donated around 90 used computers to West Phila-delphia’s Paul Robeson High School last week. The Net-ter Center, which could not be reached for comment in time for publication, coordinated the donation.

Andrew Saltz, a teacher and technology point person at Robeson, took it upon him-self to seek new electronics for the students when he realized that the high school’s current technology was insufficient. “I emailed about twenty busi-nesses, schools and law firms to ask for donations,” he said. “Penn was the only one that re-sponded.”

Paul Robeson already had connections to Penn through the Perelman School of Medicine Educational Pipeline Program, but the donation was made in-dependently from the medical school program.

“The majority of technology

here is between 4 and 9 years old. Unfortunately, the lifespan is not that long,” Saltz said.

Ninety-five percent of stu-dents at Paul Robeson are Afri-can American and 89.8 percent are “economically disadvan-taged,” according to school’s profile on the School District of Philadelphia’s website. Saltz noted that many of the students do not have computers in their homes.

Kim Lent, the guidance coun-selor at Paul Robeson reiterated the importance of the donation.

“It is difficult to keep up with other schools that are techno-logically savvy when we don’t even have computers and print-ers that work,” she said.

The computers will also be used for Individual Learning Plans, which let students check their grades and set up yearly academic goals.

Lent said students at Paul Robeson are thrilled with the updated technology. “Other high schools have a lot of tech-nology and our kids were frus-trated they hadn’t had these,” she said.

Saltz said access to better technology means more than

simply updating school facili-ties. “When [students] are see-ing commercials for MacBook Pros on TV, they know that they’re second-class citizens,” he said. However, Penn’s do-nation sends the message that, “You’re worth something, you’re valuable,” he said.

Graduate School of Educa-tion Professor Linda Leibow-itz, who supervises graduate counseling for students work-ing at Paul Robeson, added that computers are helpful in the college application process and for accessing career readiness programs that make it easier to achieve post-secondary goals.

“I have two computers in my office and I have seniors here every day,” Lent said.

The high school is continu-ing to try to provide more tech-nology to students. Saltz said he is looking for more ways to take old technology and make it work — he is even trying to make a Chromebook-inspired device from old computer parts.

“Ideally, computers are intro-duced earlier than high school, but it’s never too late to learn the use of this technology,” Lei-bowitz said.

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“Welcome to the terror dome,” Moses said as I sat down across from him.

Seated in a booth on Monday night in the corner of McDonald’s at the intersection of 40th and Wal-nut streets, we played chess for about 20 minutes before Moses declared victory. (I’m not skilled at all, so it wasn’t a surprise.)

I had already watched Moses beat Rashid right before me in a longer, more skilled match, so, when he said that I was entering the “terror dome,” I already anticipated a quick defeat.

Although I observed the players for just one evening, it was an op-portunity to watch a ritual where, nearly every night, male chess play-ers rotate in and out of McDonald’s — and sometimes the Fresh Grocer — to play chess. They do not play for money, but rather for the love of the game — and bragging rights.

“We play for pride,” Moses said.Moses learned to play chess in

the 1970s, although he wouldn’t say exactly when because he didn’t want to disclose his age; none of the players that night wanted to give much personal information, and most chose only to disclose their first name. Rashid learned to play when he was about six years old.

“I’m Muslim and play chess to pass the time away, as I am trying to be obedient to God,” Rashid said. For him, playing chess is a way to keep busy and stay out of trouble.

In total, there are about 10 rotat-ing chess players at McDonald’s. The rotation began in February,

said Warren, another frequent play-er who chose to observe on Mon-day since he had already lost a few games earlier that evening. It was Warren’s chessboard they were us-ing that night.

Warren moved to Philadelphia from Virginia Beach two years ago with his wife when his mother, a Philadelphia resident, was hospital-ized. He currently works part time at Lincoln Financial Field, where the Eagles play.

“This is very relaxing,” Warren said. “Chess makes you think — I love that. It keeps you mentally ac-tive.”

Occasionally the players play blitz, also known as speed chess.

“Sometimes you might see a dozen guys here,” Moses said. “Some guys bring their own clocks. Sometimes it gets ugly in here.”

As my game with Moses con-tinued, he said he had never before played chess with a girl — which made me laugh, because he had been playing chess for over 40 years. In between our moves and

conversation he would motivate himself out loud. “Wait a minute Mo,” he said over and over again, referring to himself, “that’s gonna leave a scar.”

Other than at McDonald’s, the players and observers unanimously agreed that the best spot to play chess during the day is in Ritten-house Square.

One of the observers, Yahya, who is 30 years old, said he comes but doesn’t play because he wants to observe and improve his chess skills . He has won a pool tourna-ment before and says he did so through careful observation and repetition — the same strategy he’s endeavoring to take with the game of chess.

“All you gotta do is show up,” Moses said to Yahya.

As for playing more frequently with college students, the chess players seemed excited by this pos-sibility.

“We’re not prejudiced,” Moses said. “Students can come by all the time.”

Chess at McDonalds, a nightly ritual

A night of chess with people who ‘play for pride’

JILL GOLUBStaff Writer

Moses (left) and Warren (right) are pictured here playing chess in front of the Fresh Grocer. Normally, they play with others in McDonalds.

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Some say numbers never lie, but Penn volleyball may disagree.

The Quakers (3-7) will look to start off Ivy League play with a bang against rival Princeton as they play their fi rst of a six-game home stretch.

Though their record may not refl ect it, the Quakers’ morale is higher than ever as they get their shot at an Ivy title run.

“We’ve played a lot of re-ally tough teams — that other Ivy schools didn’t get a chance to play — this season,” senior Kendall Turner said. “That’ll really help us. We have a few L’s on our record, but the level was higher. I think if we can take that level and apply it to Ivy season, we’ll do really well.”

The Quakers have had the op-portunity to play and gain experi-ence against NCAA-ranked teams in No. 1 Stanford and No. 20 Duke. This experience will prove to be in-valuable.

Penn’s fi rst chance to showcase this experience will be against a Princeton squad (5-5) coming off of a tough weekend. However, like every Ivy squad, the Tigers should not be taken lightly.

“There’s a parity within the league. Anyone on any given day can beat each other,” coach Kerry Carr said. “Last year was a little diff erent, but this year I’d say it’s pretty even across the board. You just never know.”

The Quakers know that their record up to this point —much like the rest of the Ivy League — means nothing, as it is in no way indicative of how a team will do against other Ivy League foes.

As is the case with all Ivy foes, the victor is usually the one who

can keep their opponents guessing on what they will do. Penn is ready to open up their bag of tricks; un-fortunately for Princeton, they will be the fi rst to experience them.

“We’ve added new off ensive strategies,” Carr said. “This match will have some surprises from what our tape has shown so far.”

Along with their new plan of at-tack, the Red and Blue will look to add consistency to their play.

Penn has shown fl ashes of domi-nance this season. This weekend, look for the Quakers to turn that fl ash into fi re.

“We have really great moments,” Turner said. “If we can make those moments last the entire match, then

we’re going to be unstoppable. I think our home stretch will help a lot with that.”

Penn will also look to their bench for support, as they are widely considered the loudest bench in the Ivy League.

“The bench is diff erent people all the time this year,” Carr said. “Our team’s mentality is: ‘Hey , if I’m not on the court, I’m going to contribute in every way I can.’

The deciding factor in this Friday’s game and their remain-ing Ivy run may be the Quakers’ depth. All seven Penn freshmen have already seen action this sea-son.

With their typically rowdy bench and improved consistency across the board, the Quak-ers hope to win the fi rst of what should be many in their quest for an Ivy League title.

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Penn (3-4) answered quickly though, with a goal of its own from senior forward Duke Lacroix in the 15th minute, evening out the score at one all.

“I got the ball at my feet and I saw the defenders backing off ,” La-croix said. “And they kept backing off and I just took it right at them. Next thing you know I was in the box. I took a touch and it was wide open far post.”

However, it took the defend-ing Big Ten champions only 90 seconds to respond, with junior Brandon Savino scoring. Assisted by sophomore Connor Maloney, Savino helped his team regain the lead practically before the Quakers could fi nish celebrating their goal.

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The barrage of scoring would not end in the second half, either. In the 50th minute, Maloney would score his second goal of the match off a through ball from junior Brian

James.Despite being down, 4-1, the

Quakers showed they still had some fi ght left and sophomore forward Alec Neumann found the net just a minute later.

“I felt that in the second half our mentality really started to change,” Neumann said.

The team’s leading scorer on the season says this shift in mental-ity had a lot to do with head coach Rudy Fuller’s halftime speech.

“He was saying that it doesn’t matter who we’re playing, what their rank, what their game is, any of that,” Neumann said. “What re-ally should determine the game is our style of play and who we are. And who we are is a team that is going to press you and we’re going to work hard and then our skill will show through, and I thought we did that in the second half.”

However, the Nittany Lions im-mediately squashed any hope Penn could muster when they added an-other goal, making it 5-2. Shortly after, Fuller subbed out junior goal-keeper Max Polkinhorne and gave fellow junior Nick Savino a chance in the net.

The score would remain at 5-2 up until the 89th minute, when

Penn State would add insult to in-jury with a sixth and fi nal goal.

When it comes to the box score, the scoreline is the only real distinc-tion between the Quakers and the Nittany Lions. Penn matched Penn State’s 16 shots with 15 of its own, with each squad having 10 on goal. For Fuller, the diff erence maker was attitude and Penn State’s goal-keeping.

“I felt that we came out at the opening whistle tentative and the other thing is I think their goal-keeper, Andrew Wolverton, was outstanding,” Fuller said. “He had eight saves on the night and four of them were complete blank range.”

Despite the disparaging goal diff erence Wednesday, Fuller is optimistic in how the outcome of Penn’s play against Penn State foreshadows the rest of the season, especially as it relates to the upcom-ing Ivy play.

“It’s just about continuing to get better and you know despite the scoreline tonight, and there were clearly areas [where] we need to get better, I’m looking forward to these next couple weeks,” he said. “I think when we get this group believing and clicking, it can be a dynamic group.”

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MICHELE OZER/SPORTS PHOTO EDITORComing up big once again, sophomore forward Alec Neumann scored a goal and contributed an assist on Penn’s second score as the Quakers fell 6-2 to Penn State. Neumann has been one of the biggest contributors on the offensive side for the Quakers all season.

VOLLEYBALL | Penn to kick off Ivy

campaign against rival BY TITUS ADKINS

Staff Writer

PRINCETON5-5

Friday,7 p.m.

The Palestra

Comeback kids back in action

When the Quakers play Cornell at Franklin Field on Friday, it will conjure up some mixed emotions .

Penn sprint football lost a heart-breaking six-overtime contest against Cornell two Septembers ago by a score of 42-34. However, the Quakers handily beat the Big Red 28-14 last year to kick off the season.

“I think we put it to rest last year,” said senior running back/punter and team captain Mike Beamish of the 2012 marathon. “[In last year’s game], we just physically dominated them for four quarters.”

Penn manhandled Cornell in last year’s game, especially on the ground, rushing for 311 yards and passing for 205 more.

Cornell showed a strong rush-ing defense against Franklin Pierce in its fi rst game last week, however, limiting the Rindge, N.H.–based college to a measly one-yard per carry.

“We’re just going to try to put our guys in better positions to make blocks without giving away too much,” said Beamish of the team’s plans to combat Cornell’s rush defense.

“There’ll be some new forma-tions, putting guys in better posi-tions to make blocks against their active defense,” he continued.

Coach Bill Wagner agrees that the off ensive line will be key in Friday’s home opener, especially with regards to the quarterback. Although the Quakers pulled off a thrilling 14-13 comeback win against Mansfi eld last Saturday, the O-line was somewhat lacking.

“We need to make sure that [sophomore quarterback Mike] McCurdy doesn’t get sacked fi ve times,” Wagner said . He also add-ed that he’s been devoting special attention to the kicking, coverage

and punt return special teams units this week in practice.

Penn and Cornell’s sprint football team share a long his-tory, and it extends off the fi eld as well.

Wagner and co-head coach Terry Cullen have been coaching against each other for 45 years. Cullen was preceded at his cur-rent post by his father, the late Robert Cullen, who restarted Cornell’s sprint football pro-gram in 1946 after it was shut down during World War II.

“We’ve developed a good friendship after the game and be-fore the game,” said Wagner of his and Cullen’s relationship. “But during the game, we know both want to win the game.”

A player to watch for on Friday will be sophomore defensive line-man Arthur D’Angelo. D’Angelo had a breakout game last Saturday,

sacking Mansfi eld quarterback Mike Maniscalco two and a half times.

D’Angelo was very modest when speaking about his stellar performance, chalking his suc-cess up to the Quaker defense as a whole. However, Wagner gives him a bit more credit.

“He wanted to play,” said Wag-ner simply, adding that D’Angelo had impressed him enough to earn himself a hard-fought starting role on the defensive line.

D’Angelo, a native of Medfi eld, Mass., hopes that the team can capitalize on last Saturday’s come-back win to get a win streak going.

“I really hope that we can work together and beat Cornell and con-tinue to beat the other teams,” he said.

They’ll get to work this Friday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. on Franklin Field.

CHRSTINA PRUDENCIO/DP FILE PHOTOSophomore defensive lineman Arthur D’Angelo had a breakout game against Mansfield, registering 2.5 sacks in the Quakers’ season opener.

SPRINT FOOTBALL Quakers will take on

Cornell on FridayBY STEVEN JACOBSON

Contributing Writer

CORNELL1-0

Friday,7 p.m.

Franklin Field

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for the Wildcats in 2014. Their only defeat came in their season opener, a one-point loss to FBS Syracuse in which Villanova missed a chip shot fi eld goal to win in regulation and a two-point conversion to win in double overtime. They promptly followed that up with a 50-6 throt-tling of then-No.11 Fordham and a 49-31 triumph over James Madi-son.

The primary catalyst behind Villanova’s rise in the rankings has been dual-threat quarterback John Robertson . The redshirt junior was named CAA Off ensive Player of the Week for the second time this season when he completed 22 of 27 passes for 337 yards against James

Madison. Robertson has also aver-aged 65 rushing yards per game through three contests.

But the Quakers’ defense is not intimidated as it heads into its third matchup with one of the nation’s premier players.

“We’re doing some stuff on de-fense where you have to account for [Robertson] and you need to make sure he isn’t out of the pocket,” senior linebacker Dan Davis said. “They also do a lot of read-option, QB draws, which we’ve been stressing this week.

“There’s only so much you can do, it’s just part of the scheme.”

Penn’s best counterattack to Robertson’s abilities may be some off ensive fi reworks of its own. Sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen acquitted himself well

last week against Jacksonville in his fi rst career start, completing 14 passes for 200 yards and a touch-down. Though the Quakers surren-dered 15 unanswered points in the fourth quarter en route to a 34-31 defeat, the potential for an explo-sive off ense is clearly there.

“I thought [Torgersen] did a re-ally nice job of making decisive plays with his feet, making decisive plays with his arm,” coach Al Ba-gnoli said. “I think he’s got a huge upside, and I think he’s gotta con-tinue to build on it just as we have to do as a football team.”

Though last year’s matchup be-tween Penn and Villanova wasn’t close, the Quakers have given the Wildcats more trouble than per-haps the CAA program would like to admit: four games between the

two schools in the past decade have gone down to the last possession.

And as a result, Bagnoli and his staff have made sure that there will be no intimidation factor come Sat-urday.

“We’re trying to tell our kids: ‘Hey, this is a great opportunity for you to stack up against one of the elite programs in the country, and you’re gonna have to give it your best eff ort,’” he said.

And all of the heavy lifting that such a message entails has trans-lated over to the players.

“I like the matchup, just because I feel like [the Wildcats] underes-timate us a little bit,” Davis said. “Especially myself, I take it kind of personally.

“And I think it makes everyone play a little bit harder.”

FOOTBALL>> PAGE 10

fi cult to create solid opportunities in the early going.

Following a series of early Lafay-ette (4-5) runs that failed to materi-alize, a Britany Blass blast that was defl ected in by Katie Birle put the Leopards ahead 1-0 just over 15 min-utes into the contest.

As the period progressed, the Quakers began to fi nd holes in the Lafayette defense and attacked with more authority.

Penn’s pressure generated sev-eral unsuccessful corner chances before the unit fi nally converted with 12 minutes left in the fi rst half. Al-though an Alex Iqbal attempt was initially denied by Katelyn Arnold, the keeper could not secure the ball, and Corcoran was waiting on the left side to take advantage. The goal was the captain’s sixth of the year, giving her a share of the team lead with Al-exa Hoover.

The Leopards took advantage of their fi nal fi rst-half scoring op-portunity, as sophomore Amanda Magadan was able to sneak a goal by Penn keeper Allison Weisenfels off a corner with 20 seconds left in the period to make the score 2-1.

Back-and-forth action ensued in the second half, and although Corco-ran missed an opportunity to defl ect an Iqbal shot into the net, Hitti was able to tie the contest up with just un-der 25 minutes left on a running drive from the right side.

It was the junior attack’s third time fi nding the net this year.

With the momentum back, the Red and Blue continued to attack and soon enough seized the lead on a point-blank goal from Corcoran, her second of the night.

“In the second half we were able to turn our good midfi eld play into legitimate scoring opportunities,” Fink said.

The Red and Blue refused to take their foot off the gas, and a late run by Hitti resulted in a Hoover goal, giving the Quakers a comfortable 4-2 lead that would hold.

“We played really good hockey tonight, and if we continue to play like this I think we’re going to be able to win a lot more games this season,” Fink said.

The Quakers return to Vagelos Field on Saturday hoping to build off Wednesday’s triumph and notch their fi rst Ivy League victory against Harvard.

FIELD HOCKEY>> PAGE 10

FOOTBALLEXTRA THEY SAID IT“I like the matchup, because I feel like they underestimate us a little bit.”

— On taking on No. 6 Villanova

Dan DavisSenior linebacker

PLAYERS TO WATCHPENN

Sr. RB Kyle WilcoxLimited last week by a thigh injury, Wilcox is good to go for the Quakers’ home

opener. He averaged 3.7 yards per carry against Jacksonville — a similar per formance against Villanova would do wonders for Penn’s offense.

THE EDGEThe Quakers face off against the Wildcats — who’s got the advantage?

OFFENSE: The Wildcats average 41 points per game, tops in the CAA and 17th in the FCS. With weapons like running back Kevin M onang a i and w i de receiver Poppy Livers at its disposal, Villanova just

has too much firepower.ADVANTAGE: ‘NOVA

DEFENSE: In their opener against Jacksonville, the Quakers held the Dolphins to just four third-down conversions on 15 attempts. But Penn let Jacksonville back in the game late and gave up 15

fourth quarter points.ADVANTAGE: ‘NOVA

THE RECORD

0-1, 0-0 Ivy HOME ROAD 0-0, 0-0 Ivy 0-1, 0-0 Ivy

Penn women’s soccer’s match against Harvard will mark the beginning of conference play on Saturday. It will also mark the one-year anniversary — to the day — of the heartbreaking loss that ulti-mately crowned the Crimson the 2013 Ivy League champions.

The Quakers (3-1-2, 0-0 Ivy) play Harvard (5-2, 0-0) at Rhodes Field on Saturday in a matchup of the top two Ivy squads from a year ago, once again beginning Ivy League play against the rival Crimson.

“Of course in the back of every-one’s minds heading into the week-end, it’s Harvard,” senior back and captain Haley Cooper said.

With the memory of last year’s loss — one sealed by a Quakers own goal with just four minutes left in the contest — very much fresh in the minds of upperclass-men and freshmen alike, the Red and Blue are looking to start this Ivy season with a win.

“Especially after last year’s loss and having [Harvard] at home this year, it’s very exciting,” senior midfi elder Kaitlyn Moore said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to shut them out and get our win.”

At the 2012 Penn-Harvard game, Moore, then a sophomore,

scored the game-winning goal with ten seconds left to play.

“I’m just hoping that that goal will happen again,” Moore ex-claimed.

The team’s fi rst real road trip of the season took place over last weekend. It culminated in a

0-0 draw against Virgina Com-monwealth (VCU) and a 1-0 win against Delaware.

The lone goal of the weekend came off of a header from Moore, who was playing in her fi rst game all season due to injury. Cooper spoke to the value of the away

games.“[Last week’s road trip] was

huge. I can’t even describe it,” she said. “That was always going to be the weekend for us to build momentum going into Harvard. It was really important, they were good teams, and we were on the

road, so we had the cards stacked against us. We got a tie against a good team and a win.”

After conceding six goals in three games leading up to the pair of away games, the Red and Blue defense had looked uncharacteris-tically shaky so far this year. The shutout road trip was indicative of how much the team had gelled in a week.

“I think we’re fi nally starting to fi nd our places and our roles in the backline,” Cooper said. “We had some injuries and we had some younger kids coming in but it just took us a couple games and we’re fi nally back to the foundation of what we do: defending the back-line all the way to forwards, staying compact and staying on the same page.”

As for playing in their fi rst Ivy games, Cooper spoke about the an-ticipation and excitement that is so contagious in sport.

“I think they’re right there with us. You never really know how important conference games are until you play in one,” she said. “You hear everyone talking about Harvard and Princeton, but not until you get to play them do you realize what it’s all about. They’re just as excited as we are. They’ve got the mentality: we don’t lose at Rhodes.”

With momentum on their side, a chip on their shoulders and a home fi eld advantage, the Quakers are ready to take on the Crimson.

“I literally couldn’t be more excited,” Cooper said. “Especially because it’s our Ivy opener, espe-cially because it’s senior year.

“What more could you want but to play defending champion Har-vard at Rhodes?”

Penn aims to erase an unhappy anniversary

CEAPHAS STUBBS/DP FILE PHOTOSenior midfielder Kaitlyn Moore has plenty of good memories from playing Harvard. She scored the game-winning goal against the Crimson in 2012 with only 10 seconds left to play. Harvard would repay the favor one year later.

W. SOCCER | Quakers have chance to get

revenge on HarvardBY INES DIAZ

Contributing Writer

HARVARD5-2

Saturday,7 p.m.

Rhodes Field

Quakers get shot at local top dog

The men and women of Penn cross country are off and running at a record-setting pace.

After an outstanding perfor-mance at last week’s Big 5 Invita-tional, in which the Quakers took six of the top seven spots in the women’s race and the top seven in the men’s, the Red and the Blue are ready to follow up their success Thursday at the Main Line Invitational.

Freshman Abby Hong , who placed fi rst in the Big 5 four-kilo-meter race with a time of 14:21.5, is looking forward to competing against many local rivals includ-ing Villanova, La Salle, Saint Joe’s, Lehigh, Swarthmore, Wid-ener and host Haverford.

“The Villanova women are coming,” she said. “They’re one of the nationally ranked teams, so it’s defi nitely going to be good competition up front.”

Although Villanova fi elded a small men’s team for the Big 5 Invitational last week,it did not send a women’s team.

The 13th- ranked Wildcats will certainly be steep competition, but Hong believes that the Quak-ers can be successful if they stick to their game plan.

“We are going to focus on do-ing our own race. Coach [Steve] Dolan has a plan for what all our girls are going to do, so it’ll be a good race,” she said.

As for specifi c strategies for the women’s three-mile course, Hong says the team has been working on sticking together while increasing their pace, spe-cifi cally at the beginning of the race.

“For this meet, our front group is going to go through the fi rst mile and a half together in a pack,” she said. “We are going to go out slightly faster than we did last week. Last week, we went out at about a 5:50-mile pace. This week we are aiming for about a 5:40 to be a little more competi-tive and get in to the feel of what it’s going to be like for the bigger races.”

Because both the men and women were able to practice on the course this week, Hong feels confi dent that the team is poised to perform well yet again.

However, one challenge the Quakers face Thursday is a se-rious threat of rain. With a 60 percent chance of precipitation and up to 15 mph winds, weather could play a factor in the race es-pecially considering the course is primarily grass.

Rain or shine, Hong says the team will be ready.

“I think last week was defi nite-ly a confi dence booster because the whole team was able to run

together,” she said. “I just want to go out there and contribute to the team.”

And after only one collegiate race, Hong certainly has made a signifi cant impact. Undoubtedly, both she and the young and tal-ented squad have very bright fu-tures ahead, and the Main Line Invitational is just the next step in a long journey.

After a late arrival to the Invi-tational last year, which gave the women’s team only 10 minutes to warm up , the team has confi rmed the starting time of this year’s event and is planning their trip to Haverford accordingly.

After all, if you’re going to keep up a record-setting pace, you can’t aff ord to start late.

XC | Penn will follow up its Big 5 performance at

HaverfordBY ANNA DYER

Contributing Writer

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It was a long time coming.Penn fi eld hockey, which

last defeated Lafayette in 2007, submitted a strong comeback eff ort on the shoulders of se-nior Emily Corcoran to topple the Leopards, 4-2, Wednesday evening.

Corcoran’s pair of strikes, along with goals from junior Elizabeth Hitti and freshman Alexa Hoover, helped the Red

and Blue (3-3) climb back to .500.

“It was a great response coming off of a tough week-end,” Fink said. “They really came out and were able to play with a lot of grit and make ad-justments over the course of the game.”

A Penn off ense looking to get back on track after being shut out by Cornell found it dif-

Another ranked squad and, unfortunately for Penn men’s soccer, another loss.

The Red and Blue went to Penn State on Wednesday to face the No. 7 Nittany Lions and, despite numerous off ensive

opportunities, were unable to match the home squad’s perfor-mance, losing 6-2.

Penn State (7-0-1) struck fi rst with a goal from senior forward Mikey Minutillo in the 10th minute to start off what would be a high-scoring match.

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Time for some ‘heavy lifting’SATURDAY, 3 P.M. | FRANKLIN FIELD

PENN (0-1)NO. 6 VILLANOVA (2-1)

There’s a certain mantra that’s been circulating around Penn foot-ball this week. It’s been uttered at every practice and pasted on every sheet of paper at every meeting.

It goes something along the lines of: “To get strong, you’ve got to lift heavy.”

The Quakers will have to lift heavy — and then some — if they want to pull off the upset on No. 6 Villanova in their home opener.

Saturday, Penn (0-1) will host the Wildcats (2-1) in the 19th meeting of a rivalry that dates back to 1905, but has been very one-sided as of late: ’Nova has won 13 straight matchups with the Red and Blue.

Last year, the Wildcats throttled the Quakers from the very fi rst pos-session, holding Penn to 20 rushing yards on 30 carries in a 35-6 romp.

Things have only gotten better

FOOTBALL | Penn not afraid of Villanova’s

national pedigreeBY IAN WENIKSports Editor

M. SOCCER | No. 7 Nittany Lions force Quakers to pull GK

BY GARRETT GOMEZContributing Writer

CRIMSON COMINGCRIMSON COMING

With the defending Ivy champion Harvard coming to Rhodes Field, Penn

needs to be on its game

>> SEE PAGE 9

SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 9

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4-4Villanova

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Penn State, not Penn, wins easily

Quakers top Leopards in comeback

JOSHUA NG/DP STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERSenior attack Emily Corcoran helped lead the charge for the Red and Blue on Wednesday, scoring her sixth and seventh goals of the year in a comeback win for Penn field hockey.

FIELD HOCKEY Three second-half goals power PennBY SEAMUS POWERS

Staff Writer

AT PENN STATE

AT LAFAYETTE

SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 9 SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 8

103 reasons why Penn will beat ’Nova[Disclaimer: Swamis is an ex-

ercise where The Daily Pennsylva-nian’s editors make jokes and pick the Ivy League football games. En-joy. ]

It’s been a long time since Penn defeated Villanova. Like, a really long time. In fact, it’s been more than 37,000 days.

Over the course of the last 103 years, we’ve seen Penn transform, from a team coached by John Heis-

man and one that actually mattered on the national football stage to a team playing Ivy schools exclusively and taking pride in Playboy rankings.

Since Penn loves lists and rank-ings, here’s a selection of our 103 reasons why Penn will beat Villa-nova...

1. Al Bagnoli. What a guy.10. Heisman hopeful Alek Torg-

ersen17. The toast toss distracts Villa-

nova while Dan Davis manhandles its off ense in the second half.

19. The minuscule chance that Villanova quarterback John Robert-son mysteriously goes missing.

47. Mitch King turns out to actu-ally be royalty and declares domin-ion over all the Big 5.

77. The magical Swamis stop try-ing to predict football games and use their powers for something impor-tant, like winning football games.

87. The remix to Ignition, hot and fresh out the kitchen. Ryan Kelly running those post routes, got all the cornerbacks missing.

99. Connor Loftus wins an epic special teams duel pregame with ‘Nova’s kicker. Game declared over right then.

103. It’s opposite day. Penn doesn’t beat Villanova?

PREDICTION: Villanova 14, PENN 5

MAEGAN CADET/DP FILE PHOTO And coming right at Davis will be Villanova quarterback John Robertson. The redshirt junior torched Penn with his legs in 2013, running for 132 yards on 15 attempts in a 35-6 Wildcats victory.

Winner is better together. Loser is independent Scotland.

TAMING THE TIGERS

Friday night. The Palestra. Penn volleyball looks to beat Princeton in

its first Ivy League match

>> SEE PAGE 8

MEGAN CADET /DP STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Senior linebacker Dan Davis will be the man in the middle when the Quakers take on Villanova this Saturday. Penn’s leading tackler in 2013, Davis is the Red and Blue’s primary run-stopper.

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