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his year’s New Student Orientation saw a 50 percent increase in hospital transports, according to the Division of Public Safety. Of the 21 transports this year, 14 were freshmen. There were 20 disorderly house complaints this year, down from 35 in 2015. Vice President for Public Safety

Maureen Rush attributed this decrease to proactive intervention in off-campus houses. “We did some pre-meetings before things started heating up and worked with landlords as well,” she said. “We want to consistently keep those numbers down.” To the dismay of unsuspecting

tourists and to the likely horror of Penn students, a student was caught and cited for urinating on “Ben on the Bench” at 37th Street and Locust Walk. This tradition continues, despite attempts by the DPS to discourage it. “This individual is being referred SEE NSO PAGE 2

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Penn has good news for high schoolers who have already taken the SAT seven times: You’re no longer required to send all of your test scores to Penn. Over the summer, Penn reversed its position on Score Choice, which required students to include all of their recorded standardized test scores on their application. Penn will now superscore ACT scores in addition to SAT scores. These changes are a sharp difference in the University’s standardized testing policy, which used to be one of the most stringent in the nation. Now students are allowed to pick and choose which ACT or SAT scores they send to Penn, although according to its website, the University “encourage[s] students to submit their entire testing history.” Penn opted out of allowing Score Choice along with a handful of other schools, such as Cornell, Rice, Stanford, Georgetown and Yale. Score Choice has been criticized for favoring wealthier students. The Rice website claims Score Choice is an unfair practice because it “could disadvantage those students who cannot

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After months of watching construction from the windows of 1920 Commons, Penn students will finally be able to interact with Perry World House in a few weeks. Here’s a guide to what’s coming up at the new building in the next few weeks. When does it formally open? The Perry World House will be hosting a two-day grand opening on Sept. 19 and 20. Penn students

Regulating social behavior simply cannot happen through policies and sanctions, which only enrage and alienate the affected organizations.”

received an email invitation but the event will be open to the general public. It is free of charge and registration is required to attend. The first day will focus on this year’s research themes: “Global Shifts: Urbanization, Migration and Demography” and “The Future of the Global Order : Power Technology and Governance.” Experts on the topic will speak in moderated discussions about solving current policy problems relating to these themes. What important people are visiting the Perry World House? SEE PERRY WORLD HOUSE PAGE 2

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Penn Masala makes Middle East debut in Dubai Members had the chance to bring their talents home

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Many Penn students traveled this summer for work, classes or pleasure. But not many can say they traveled to please their fans. Penn Masala, the world’s first South Asian a cappella group, ventured to Dubai the week before classes started — by invitation — to perform for their many fans in the city. The Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Center is a prominent cultural hub and served as the venue for the introduction of Masala’s music to the Middle East.

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Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay will give a keynote address on the second day of the conference. Former United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will also attend for a conversation with Penn President Amy Gutmann. The ceremony will conclude

Performing in India provided the 11 members the chance to celebrate their South Asian roots further. “The music that we perform in Penn Masala draws on these roots as well as our upbringings in America,” Wharton senior Hari Ravi said. “But every performance is really special to us because it’s a representation of our family values and background.” Wharton sophomore Sanjit Chakravarty, who is a native of the United Arab Emirates, found the opportunity especially meaningful as he had the chance to perform for friends and family. “Because Dubai is so far away, when I joined Penn Masala I never

with a roundtable focusing on the future of United States foreign policy in the next four years. On Sept. 23 the center plans to host the President of Mongolia, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj. What will the center offer students? The Perry World House gives students opportunities to explore international affairs and global research. The center is designed to

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A two-day grand opening for the Perry World House will be held on Sept. 19 and 20. Students will have to register to attend the event.

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Penn Masala was invited over the summer to perform for fans in Dubai. This served as their debut in the Middle East.

thought that those closest to me would ever be able to see us perform,” he said. “Dubai has been so

serve three distinct purposes on campus: offering a community for international students and students with international interests, providing a public forum for interdisciplinary education and hosting global innovations programs. The Perry World House also hosts a co-curricular program about the process of policymaking. The program is designed to empower students to use academia to solve real-world problems. Students are chosen from all schools and majors at Penn. “This is not just open to political science and international relations majors,” Program Coordinator Laurie Jensen said. “We want to have a diverse group.” Students who were accepted into the program will have the opportunity to learn about policy making through seminars and events. The students will also have the chance to learn about career paths that will allow them to make global and impactful change. In the spring semester, the students will be given the chance to present a solution for a policy problem to a client. They will

essential to my identity growing up and it was really nice to be able to show my friends what makes the

present the client with a deliverable, such as a white paper or policy brief. This allows students to potentially solve real policy problems through consultation. “I’ve always been interested in how to make academic research have real affect in the world,” Jensen said in regard to why she wanted to be a part of the Perry World House. She has been working with other staff members to put the Perry World House programs together since January and previously worked in the Provost’s Office for Global Initiatives. What will happen at the center on a daily basis? The Perry World House is not just a space for special events and guest speakers. Policy making and global research are done at the house on a daily basis. The second floor of the Perry World House is used as a think tank. Researchers include visiting scholars, post-doctorate students and affiliated Penn faculty members. Here, researchers work as part of a global innovation program and use their research to discover causes and solutions to relevant policy issues. The Perry World House has

city so great.” Members found that performing for the diverse Dubai audience in itself was a unique experience. “Most of Dubai’s population are expatriates, with a very small number of Emirati nationals,” said College senior Praveen Rajaguru. “What made the show really special is that the audience was not from a single geographical location. There were people from all over the world, East and West alike. Since our music aims to bridge these two hemispheres it was great to be able to perform to an audience that really represented them.” Following their performance, the 11 members had a chance to

already opened to post-doctoral students who are studying policy making or doing related research. Aaron Rock-Singer, a postdoctoral student doing research on religion and politics in the Middle East, said he enjoys the resources offered by the Perry World House. It’s fun to be in a new building, there’s a lot of energy here,” Rock-Singer said. “You’re in an office with people who are interested in answering policy questions.” Rock-Singer will work at the Perry World House with undergraduates, who he urged to visit the center so they can connect with people studying similar things that they might not find in their social niches. As a researcher, the Perry World House provides more than just a physical place to work with others in academia. There are also unique chances to meet experts in a given field of research. “I really wanted to bring an expert on religion and politics in Egypt, Nathan Brown,” Rock-Singer said, “[Perry World House] facilitated me to bring someone who is significant to my field.”

tour the bustling cultural capital that is Dubai. “I know it’s a little bit cliché but honestly the best part about Dubai is its diversity ... You can be walking in a mall and looking at the passersby and no two people would be the same,” Chakravarty said. “People come from all over the world and share their cultures, food, music, language ... It’s a great place to learn about the world without really needing to travel.” Although they are done with touring, Masala has a lot in store for the next semester — in addition to a few show lineups, the group will soon be putting out their next studio album.

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to the Office of Student Conduct for appropriate sanctions. We will not tolerate that type of behavior and in our opinion is a serious offense to the community,” Rush said. During NSO in 2015, a student also got caught relieving themselves on the Ben Franklin statue. In recent years, multiple people have been caught with their pants down in sight of Ben’s bench; in the fall of 2014, at least six people were cited for peeing near the statue. “We have a camera in the area of Ben on the bench and take it very seriously, as [do] the alumni who paid for it,” Rush noted. “Anyone doing this can expect sanctions and consequences.” The number of hospital transports during NSO has fluctuated over the years, but the current five-year average is 24. In 2012, the number rose as high as 30 and sunk as low as 14 in 2015. Also during this year’s NSO, one citation was issued for underage drinking, a number that has hovered below three in recent years.

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Penn partners with State Department to offer online courses Courses designed for nonnative English speakers

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Penn is partnering with the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to offer a series of online courses geared towards English language learners. The courses are being offered through Online Learning at the School of Arts and Sciences as well as the College of Liberal and Professional Studies. The curricu-

lum is designed for advanced beginner and intermediate learners, and in total, 33,000 students are enrolled across 161 countries. The collaboration focuses on five content areas: Business and Entrepreneurship, English for Journalism, Career Development, Media Literacy and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Using the predetermined content areas, LPS created five courses through the online learning platform Coursera with the same names. “Business and Entrepreneurship” was offered in May, “Eng-

lish for Journalism” is currently being offered from August 15 to September 29, “Career Development” will be offered in November, and “Media Literacy” and “STEM” will be offered in 2017. Unlike other online courses, these five courses are taught in a way that’s specially designed to accommodate the non-native English learner, said instructor John Cotton, the manager of Instructional Staff Development at LPS. The “English for Journalism” course, for example, uses journalism as a method for teaching English — often so that students who

We are recruiting college students to participate as forecasters in The Foresight Project, a tournament designed to understand tournament design and the factors that make people more accurate. If you are a politically-engaged student who wants to become a better forecaster, you should find this project interesting and fun! The skills gained could be helpful if you are thinking about a career in the intelligence community, the economic sector, or public policy. We are recruiting for the first of three tournaments (2016-2017), starting on OCTOBER 25th and lasting for about 8 months. Participants will: • Complete a 45-minute battery of political and psychological tests to predict forecasting accuracy. • Take a 10 min training module about forecasting accuracy. • Make predictions about questions throughout the year whenever you wish! We will post a few questions online each week, for example, “Will Donald Trump win the 2016 US Presidential Election?” Select at least 30 questions and update them until the question closes. • Get feedback.

are foreign journalists can widen their audiences. The course uses lectures presented through an easily accessible video format. Interspersed in the videos are large print bullet points as well as visuals that represent hypothetical news situations. Just like the Penn Canvas module used by all students, students can use the discussion forum to answer each other’s questions and engage more deeply with the course topics. “The organization of the course provides learners a way to answer each other’s questions,” said Eliz-

abeth Gillstrom, the manager of Testing and Programs of LPS. The key aspect of the course is learner video submissions. Instructors post challenges and students respond via a video program known as ApprenNet. Students are also tasked to peer review videos posted by other students. Despite their diverse background, the students all politely engage in conversation. “It is very refreshing to see that with the democratization of the media to a common denominator that all different cultures can talk respectfully,” Cotton said.

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OPINION Animal House small talk | Harvard’s sanction against Final Clubs is a scary precedent for universities

Wednesday August 31, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 61 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

In May, Harvard announced a historic move to enact penalties on its Final Clubs and greek life organizations. The ruling officially stated that, starting with the Class of 2021, any student who is an active member of a Final Club (an elite social club at Harvard) or a fraternity or sorority cannot attain a leadership role in any Harvard-affiliated club or athletic team. This would mean that even a perfect student with no academic or disciplinary blemishes could be punished simply for joining a community that the school has vilified to a remarkably extreme degree. As could be expected, Harvard students — particularly those in one of these “single gender clubs” — expressed outrage at the ruling, which was proposed by Rakesh Khurana, dean of the college. Three clubs — the Porcellian Club, the Fly Club and the Sablière Society — published criticisms of the initiative in The Harvard Crimson. Alumni, such as the president of Fly’s graduate body Richard Porteus, have condemned the ruling as well.

As Porteus said in a recent New York Times feature, “If Harvard really were to become serious about preventing sexual assault rather than using it as a way to push an ideological stance, they’d drill down to find out exactly what is occurring rather than trying to throw a moral pall over any man or woman who belongs to these clubs.” As a former Final Club member, Porteus is obviously biased, but his points are nonetheless valid. Khurana suggested the sanctions because he believes that the single gender clubs perpetuate a culture of exclusivity at Harvard that is unbecoming of the academic and moral principles of the school. “In their recruitment practices and through their extensive resources and access to networks of power, these organizations propagate exclusionary values that undermine those of the larger Harvard College community,” Khurana wrote. On top of this, concerns over gender discrimination and sexual assault were crucial to the decision, as Khurana strongly condemned the misogyny largely present in

the clubs’ communities. To be fair, the culture propagated by these clubs has not been particularly exemplary. A report from a task force on the prevention of sexual assault conducted by the Harvard administration describes in great detail the same sexism and

some form of “nonconsensual sexual conduct” at some point during college. This is in contrast with 31 percent of all female college seniors for the corresponding question. While the conduct of these organizations is statistically problematic, by attacking the

Regulating social behavior simply can not happen through policies and sanctions, which only enrage and alienate the affected organizations.” misconduct that Khurana condemns, such as parties in which women were only granted entry based on their appearance. One of the most striking statistics from the report is a survey conducted that shows that 47 percent of female college seniors who participated heavily in Final Club events experienced

institutions as a whole Harvard is doing nothing to combat the actual issues of sexual assault and misogyny on campus. Instead of actively promoting education on consent and thoroughly investigating individual cases of sexual assault at these clubs, the school has declared anyone in these communities

guilty, regardless of whether they have done anything or not. Furthermore, it is fundamentally wrong for any school to punish free association. Regulating social behavior simply can not happen through policies and sanctions, which only enrage and alienate the affected organizations. These clubs are not even technically associated with Harvard; they receive no funding or accommodations from the school and therefore the idea that they should be under Harvard’s jurisdiction is absurd. Every year, Penn warns freshmen of the dangers of offcampus fraternities and sororities such as Apes, Tabard and Theos, but it doesn’t punish them for opting to join any of these groups. Hopefully, Penn is not swayed by Harvard’s actions and does not follow in its footsteps. Exclusion and elitism have always been issues at Ivy League schools (yes, even Penn), but they are not worthy of punishment as they are products of nothing more than free speech and expression.

ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Fundamental changes in these communities have to start with the students themselves. By enacting what appears on the surface to be largely unenforceable rulings, Harvard has made an enemy of the community it needs to cooperate with. The school doesn’t need to accept these clubs with open arms, but it can’t expect to see positive results through fear tactics and strict regulations. ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK is a College junior studying economics, from New York. His email address is alevan@ sas.upenn.edu. “Small Talk” usually appears every other Wednesday.

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I first saw the letter which University of Chicago Dean of Students John Ellison sent to his incoming freshman class on Twitter a day or so before it hit the mainstream press. Scanning the first grainy photocopy, I could sense a kerfuffle in the making. Sure enough, it came. In the week or so since the letter appeared, Ellison has variously been denounced and defended, called both a defender of American values and a rightwing shill. The controversy, I think, comes less from what Ellison actually said or perhaps meant to say, and more from the rather clipped manner in which he chose to say it. Contrary to what other commentators have suggested, I don’t think he’s being terse or rude. I suspect, rather, that Ellison is simply assuming his audience understands his subject matter as well as he does. The trouble is that it doesn’t. Ellison writes in terminology steeped in the campus free speech “movement,” unwisely employing its lingo as shorthand for some very complicated concepts and so muddying his message. The trouble is particularly acute given that

the letter was directed to new freshmen just entering the world of higher ed and as such relatively unaware of its ongoing controversies. As someone who shares Ellison’s familiarity, however, I think I know what he means, and I suspect his points are significantly less controversial than they’ve been made out to be. To my eyes, Ellison isn’t, as has been alleged, pandering to conservatives, or dissing student protesters. Rather, I think he is simply reiterating a standard liberal view of a university’s role as a neutral forum for the meeting and clash of variant ideas. It is a position to which the University of Chicago has been unwavering in its support for quite some time. That said, I still wholeheartedly endorse what I perceive to be Ellison’s central theses. I would have, however, put it somewhat differently. Here’s my read on what I think he meant, and how I’d have put it instead: “We do not support socalled trigger warnings ...” Ellison’s first point is also his most clunkily-worded. What about trigger warnings does Chicago not support?

I can read this two different ways: either as “we do not support the use of trigger warnings” or “we do not mandatetrigger warnings.” I think the second interpretation is the correct one, and I would have made that clear. Trigger warnings are a

than dogma. For that reason, free-speech advocates oppose those proposals which periodically arise to make extensive use of trigger warnings mandatory, just as they would oppose policies forbidding them outright, as Chicago has clarified it would.

... I still wholeheartedly endorse what I perceive to be Ellison’s central theses. I would have, however, put it somewhat differently.” complex issue, and I’ve never met a free-speech advocate who is absolutely against all manifestations of prior content description. I’m not sure anyone, for example, would fault a cinema studies instructor for warning students that “Saving Private Ryan” is quite graphic. On the other hand, a pillar of the idea of academic freedom to which Ellison alludes is that professors alone should decide how material is best taught, that pedagogy should be a matter of discretion rather

“We do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial.” This is straightforward. “No platforming” speakers with unpopular viewpoints is one of academia’s most shameful and self-defeating traditions. Ellison is right to rebuke it without qualification. “We do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.” Again, I think Ellison suf-

fers from an assumption that his readers are familiar with the issues and controversies to which he alludes. As critics have noted, political clubs like College Republicans or Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network chapters are arguably “spaces where students can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own,” being groups whose purposes and missions are grounded in the assumption of shared ideals and ideological goals. I doubt that Ellison opposes the existence of such ideologically homogeneous “spaces.” The freedom to form associations is a crucial part of the freedom to express one’s views and engage in the marketplace of ideas, and I suspect Ellison supports it fully. More problematic are attempts to impose such consensus — and the logical accompanying constraints on what constitutes appropriate behavior — on venues where no such shared values should be or are presumed. Trying to force the norms of a group therapy session upon a seminar room is obviously inappropriate. Furthermore, to refuse to engage with heterogeneity — to “retreat” to a homogenous space

Alec Ward when challenged rather than to defend one’s beliefs — undermines the value of coalitions as tools for spreading ideas. Admittedly, I may be putting words into the dean’s keyboard. But given the broad strokes in which he spoke, it seems that a presumption of good faith and a charitable interpretive eye are warranted. After all, the very diversity of opinion he seeks to foster is contingent upon our ability to accept that our opponents also mean well. It is advice we would all be wise to take. ALEC WARD is a College senior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard. “Fair Enoug h,” u suall y appears every Wednesday.

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exam to request that a score be canceled. “I really think students own their scores,” Weingarten said. Dean of Admissions Eric Furda told The Daily Pennsylvanian the main consideration in deciding to allow Score Choice was ensuring fairness to students of all backgrounds. Now that the SAT and ACT are closer in popularity, Score Choice is no longer as effective; this year, Penn reevaluated its testing policies in response to this change. “One consideration we had was, are our policies are consistent across both tests?” Furda said. Penn’s original policy, which didn’t allow Score Choice, was partially created to dissuade students from taking the SAT several

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What’s new this year at the Women’s Center

Penn Violence Prevention office will move to VPUL REBECCA TAN Staff Reporter

This fall, the Penn Women’s Center hopes to continue promoting gender equity within a dynamic and changing campus community. Penn made an important logistical change over the summer by establishing Penn Violence Prevention as its own independent department. This marks the first time that PVP, which formerly operated out of the Penn Women’s Center, has been given its own standing office, housed in the Division of the Vice Provost of University Life and supported by three full-time staff. The previous director of PVP Jessica Mertz will continue in the same position, while Malik Washington and Katie Chockley have joined as associate director and program coordinator respectively. While the Women’s Center has handed responsibilities for violence prevention over to the PVP program, the center will

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Penn Women’s Center offers new opportunities for freshmen and students looking to get involved in feminism and equality on campus.

remain as a site for immediate crisis response. Apart from the establishment of PVP, the Women’s Center has also been working with its flagship group, Penn Association for Gender Equity, to roll out new initiatives. This includes

the Freshman Fellows program which invites five freshmen to build their own understanding of feminism by joining the communities at PAGE and the Penn Women’s Center. The program includes participation in general board meetings, as well

as in more specialized cohort sessions where attendees will discuss issues such as transnational feminism and allyship. “Every year we have underclassmen and freshmen in particular who want to get involved with the feminist community on campus,” said PAGE Chair and Wharton senior Megan Yan, the former business manager of The Daily Pennsylvanian. However, it can be difficult for freshmen to immerse themselves fully in these communities where high involvement can be limited to members of a steering board. “We want to make sure there is an organization and space for underclassmen to explore feminism and be involved with campus efforts,” Yan said. Applications for the program are due on Sept. 9 and open to all students. PAGE emphasizes the openness of their invitation – a message which the Women’s Center reiterated to the incoming batch of 2020. “The Penn Women’s Center, despite its name, is a center for students of all genders, including those for whom gender is

University sued over retirement plan fees Penn joined list of other elite schools sued NICOLE RUBIN Staff Reporter

This month Penn joined a familiar list of peer universities — including Duke, Harvard and Yale — in a lawsuit over employee retirement plans. The class action lawsuit claims that University retirement plans have been charging fees that are too high for school employees. All of the schools involved are being accused on the grounds that they all use several providers, as opposed to one, to manage the retirement plans.

Having multiple vendors decreases the bargaining power of workers, according to the lawsuit. Another issue in this case is the amount of investment options available, which are more expensive than others available. For example, Johns Hopkins University employed five “record keepers,” the term used for the providers, which in total had 440 options, according to the complaint. Though Johns Hopkins reduced the number to three in January, the plaintiffs argued that the change was not great enough to remedy the issue and said it only confused the investors. According to Investment

News, Penn spokeswoman Phyllis Holtzman said Penn has used a “rigorous process to review all aspects of the investment options offered to its faculty and staff to ensure they are administered with the highest degree of care and prudence.” She has also stated that the university

plans to “defend ourselves vigorously against this litigation,” according to Bloomberg BNA. By the end of 2014, Penn had $3.8 billion in assets, Vanderbilt had $3.4 billion and Johns Hopkins had $4.3 billion, according to the New York Times.

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once every three years, focuses on issues important to minority alumni and student communities. This is the first time that the Women’s Center was fully engaged with the planning of the conference, organizing events such as the opening luncheon on “Diverse Women and Leadership.” Students can attend all events at the conference by registering online for $10.

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No Hitti, no problem for Quakers Offense to keep going without star senior ANDREW ZHENG Associate Sports Editor

Some people just live to help others. Last year for Penn field hockey, that statement applied to nobody better than Elizabeth Hitti, whose 18 assists in her senior year saw her break both the career and single-season school records in the category. The feat also led to her leading the nation with 1.12 assists per game. But all good things must come to an end. Now, with Hitti having played her last game for the Red and Blue, the team she left behind must look to different avenues to feed the goal machine of junior Alexa Hoover and co. â€œEveryday thatâ€™s a journey, and weâ€™re trying to sort through that,â€? Quakersâ€™ coach Colleen Fink said. â€œTime is the biggest thing to address that. It takes time to forge bonds with other players and find that right mix, right balance.â€? There is a consensus within the team that Hitti was a player

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fact that the team is returning the lionâ€™s share of its starters from a year ago. Instead of relying on freshmen early and often, Fink finally has the chance to ease in her young recruits as the quest for Pennâ€™s first Ivy title since 2004 heats up. Things kick off on Friday as Lehigh comes to town with a 1-1 record, with a win over Rider and a 5-0 defeat at the hands of Monmouth. The Mountain Hawks are a familiar team to Quakers, filling a schedule spot in four of the last five years. Penn won three of those four contests, losing only the first among them.

that only comes along once in a blue moon. â€œShe was an excellent player,â€? Fink noted. â€œHer and Hoover definitely had a really good bond on the field.â€? â€œThereâ€™s no replacing a Hitti because nobody plays like her,â€? Hoover added. The Quakers, however, have faith that their flow of play will not be disrupted with the departure. Off-season practices last spring already gave Penn a much-needed opportunity to form new connections on the field, something that has continued in the early days of this newest campaign. â€œSofia [Palacios], Rachel [Huang] and Gina [Guccione] are already doing a great job stepping up and using their skill set and their types of play style,â€? Hoover said, while Fink reinforced faith in her star playerâ€™s ability to forge that bond anew with her teammates still on the field. Striking a new balance has been stressed as the way to approach the upcoming season as the Red and Blue hope to find goals and assists from a more diverse set of players. Fink pegged senior Elise Tilton as someone who could step up to

fill the void left by last springâ€™s departures and play a critical offensive role in her plans for 2016. Tilton recorded 15 points last season and tallied five assists to tie for third on the team. Another player who has impressed so far is Palacios, who is set to have an impact on the left side in her sophomore year. With this array of midfield and attacking options, the Red and Blue do not anticipate any deviation from their traditional attacking mentality, so long as

Sundayâ€™s foe, North Carolina, has already split a pair of Big Ten contests, falling to Michigan before rebounding against Iowa. Before coming to University City, the Tar Heels (1-1) will get a look at the Quakersâ€™ chief rival for the Ivy title as they pay a visit to Princeton on Friday. â€œUNC clearly, I think, sets the tone that weâ€™re a different team than weâ€™ve been in the past,â€? Fink said. â€œAnd that we, too, are entering into that next phase of development of what Penn field hockey is going to be moving forward.â€? North Carolina entered the year as the nationâ€™s preseason No. 1 team, though no poll has been released since the Tar Heelsâ€™ season-opening loss to

the Wolverines. In that initial poll, the Red and Blue were out of the top 25 but received enough votes in the National Field Hockey Coaches Association poll for 27th in the nation. This puts Finkâ€™s squad in an early position for a potential NCAA Tournament run. â€œYou need these games for RPI,â€? senior captain Elise Tilton noted. â€œThe goal is to be able to get into the tournament without having to win the Ivy championship. Because I believe that not only brings up the entire Ivy League, but it gives you a bit of a buffer to get in there.â€? The Quakers hope to use this season to make a statement about the programâ€™s status. This weekend, the rest of the nation will be listening.

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Sophomore Sofia Palacios did not start in any of the 11 games she played in last year, but the forward has impressed so far in preseason.

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to potentially get an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament if we do well in our league games and our big non-conference games.â€? â€œBigâ€? might be an understatement for the magnitude of the opponents Penn has added to its schedule. In the place of the teams they left off, the Quakers will now face ranked teams like No. 14 Delaware, No. 2 Syracuse, and No. 1 North Carolina, teams that combined for a 57-8 record in 2015. The Orange defeated the Tar Heels, 4-2, en route to a national championship game victory in Ann Arbor last year, avenging their only loss on the season. But donâ€™t tell that to the Quakers; they donâ€™t want to hear it. In its spring tournament, the team played against two NCAA Tournament teams in Fairfield and Syracuse, beating them by scores of 2-1 and 3-2, respectively. The Red and Blue know they have an opportunity to put themselves in the national spotlight, and theyâ€™re excited for the challenge. â€œIf weâ€™re not increasing our aspirations, weâ€™re not going to get any better,â€? Mata said. â€œPlaying these teams, showing that we can hang with these top 20 teams, showing that we

belong up there, itâ€™s a mental challenge but itâ€™s also going to challenge us as a team to realize that this is level that we need to play at.â€? â€œI donâ€™t think this [schedule change] actually changes much about what we do,â€? said Hoover, who in 2015 set Penn records for goals in a season with 27 and points in a season with 63. â€œWe take all our games at the same intensity. It doesnâ€™t matter whether weâ€™re scrimmaging Division II West Chester or weâ€™re playing the national championship. We want to be doing things our way when we play, so itâ€™s more a matter of us doing things the way we want to do them this year.â€? Regardless of the results of their big games this season, no one can say that the Quakers are taking the easy way out. But based on how drastically the team has improved over the past few years, we can expect the Red and Blue to make some noise on the national stage. â€œI think that this has been the trajectory of the program since I arrived here seven years ago,â€? Fink said. â€œThis is ultimately the next step in our process of achieving the long-term goals for this program. Now that we have the right talent pool, the right culture, the right foundation, weâ€™re in a position to be successful.â€?

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Red and Blue motivated after 2015 Princeton loss O.T. loss to end season still fresh in memory TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor

As far as bitter losses go, this one was a zero on the p.H. scale. Penn field hockey came into the final game of its 2015 season looking to do something it hadn’t accomplished in over a decade: win a share of an Ivy League title. However, one crushing overtime later, the Red and Blue were forced to settle with a frustrating end to the season. Princeton used a sudden-death goal from thensophomore Ryan McCarthy to polish off their perfect 7-0 conference record, giving the Tigers the Ivy title for the 11th consecutive year and 21st time in 22 seasons. The Quakers dropped to 5-2 in conference

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Seid was a full-time starter from the get-go whereas Paige Meily and Rachel Mirkin both became mainstays in the lineup as the season wore on. All three of them will be competing for time on the team’s new-look midfield. Even though the defense appears to be the strength of this team, the attack is where this program has strived for years and will continue to be the focal point in 2016. Junior attack Alexa Hoover was just .01 goals per game away from being first in the nation in that category and finished third in the nation in goals. Her success has largely come at the hands of her playmaking midfielders and talented teammates on the attack. This year, however, Hoover is looking to open up the offense in order to help her teammates and bring team success at the expense of

play, still matching their best mark of coach Colleen Fink’s six-year tenure. “We were a really cohesive unit coming into that game, which is why we were able to stick together through that really difficult time,” Fink said of the loss. “That really speaks volumes to the character of the girls on the team in that [the loss] didn’t turn into anything in terms of blaming or negativity.” Princeton took an early 1-0 lead on a goal from then-senior standout Maddie Copeland, a lead the Tigers held for most of the game. However, with three minutes remaining, then-freshman Selena Garzio found the back of the net off of a penalty corner to knot the score at one and keep the Quakers’ hopes alive. “She’s been doing really well on that short shot from the straight insert all week long,”

her own numbers. “I understand that I might not score as many goals as last year,” Hoover said. “Ultimately it’s about the team winning. If I can do my part and pull a defender away and open a lane for Gina [Guccione] or Sofia [Palacios] or Rachel [Huang], that’s what is most important. So I’m going to focus on doing that more.” What is Hoover’s loss will ultimately be the gain of the rest of the team’s attack, starting with junior attack and returning starter Gina Guccione. Of the returning Quakers, Guccione finished third in points in 2015, and, after coming on strong around midseason, kept defenses honest when Ivy play came around. Elsewhere on offense, sophomore Sofia Palacios played sparingly during the 2015 season but looked like the best scorer on any team in the Quakers’ springtime exhibition against Syracuse. She will also help take some of the pressure off Hoover in 2016.

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Last season’s bitter finale overtime loss to Princeton still lingers, but Penn field hockey is set to move forward and try to win the Ivy this year.

Fink said immediately after the game. “We were confident at that juncture of the game that she’d be able to finish, and she

did. She executed it perfectly.” Though things would end quickly just three minutes into overtime, Penn is quick to look

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In her second year starting in goal, junior Liz Mata will play a critical role as Penn field hockey looks to take its first Ivy title in since 2004.

Junior attack Rachel Huang, one of the team’s fastest on the field, saw more playing time in 2015 as the season wore on and will need to help keep the offense in full throttle. On top of that, there also seems to be a genuine confidence that this team is good enough to go all the way this year and usurp Princeton at the top of the Ivy League. In order to accomplish

that, confidence is key. “We’re focusing on intensity to get out of the gate earlier,” Tilton said, later adding that, “We were hesitant about our confidence level — how good we were and how good they were.” Tilton later went on to recount that the team had a slow start against Princeton and that ultimately stopped the Quakers from hitting their full potential in the championship

at the game as a learning experience that capped a largely successful season, one that proved the team to be oh-soclose to Princeton’s equal. “We were kind of on our heels at first,” senior captain Elise Tilton said of the game. “Over the years we built up Princeton as this team that’s, ‘Oh wow, [2012] NCAA champs.’ But they’re not the team they used to be, and we’re not the team we used to be, either.” “It’s definitely heartbreaking to think about, but it’s just something that makes us want it more,” senior captain Claire Kneizys added. “We lost in overtime, and we’re not going to let that happen again. It did definitely unify us.” The Quakers lost several key pieces following the season — Ivy assists leader Elizabeth Hitti graduated and Garzio, the team’s second-leading goal scorer, left the team. However,

the Quakers will return their most important player, twotime defending Ivy goals leader Alexa Hoover. Hoover scored 27 goals in her sophomore campaign a year ago, 11 more than any other player in the conference. Her 1.69 goals per game was the second-best in all of Division I. Also returning to the team — along with Tilton and Kneizys — will be junior attack Gina Guccione, expected to increase her role on offense, and starting goalkeeper Liz Mata, the league’s leader in goals against average a season ago. Furthermore, Princeton will be hampered by the loss of Copeland, the conference’s 2015 Offensive Player of the Year, to graduation. “Copeland did what she did well,” Fink said of the departed star. “They were a strong team with a lot of talented players. “But so are we.”

game. Much of Princeton’s reputation as world-beaters disappeared in 2015 after appearing much more human in the Ivy League championship game. The Tigers of today are not the same as the 2012 squad that won the NCAA Championship. Tilton knows that any existing skill difference between the two programs is rapidly shrinking. “They’re not the team they used to be and we’re not the team we used to be either.” The Red and Blue will get to find their place without any spotlight on them; their RPI (the NCAA’s calculation that uses record and strength of schedule to rank programs) featured Penn in the top 15 in points last year, but the team had trouble cracking the coaches’ top 20 poll throughout 2015. Heading into this season, we can already see the pessimists at work: the Quakers are on the outside looking in even after

finishing one goal away from the NCAA Tournament. Things could turn around pretty quickly for the Quakers depending on how they fare this opening weekend. The Red and Blue surely have their work cut out for them this year. They face off with heralded programs like UNC and Syracuse and are still looking for their first Ivy League championship since 2003. But where there’s a will, there’s a way, and we have now seen that Penn field hockey will scratch and claw their way to the top. Even with an uphill battle, don’t be surprised if their final game — an early November matinee against Princeton — features the Ivy League title on the line. WILL AGATHIS is a College junior from Bedminster, N.J., and is an associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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If anyone thought Penn field hockey’s success in 2015 was a fluke, they’re more than ready to tell you otherwise in 2016. After finishing with a 13-3 record last season and finishing tied for second place in the Ivy League after a heartbreaking overtime loss to rival and Ivy champ Princeton, the Quakers look poised to make a jump into the national spotlight this season. With returning starters like junior goalkeeper Liz Mata and record-setting junior forward Alexa Hoover at the helm, the Red and Blue will be looking to step up their game this season against some tougher competition. The Quakers dropped teams like Longwood, Lafayette and Bucknell off their schedule this year despite playing them frequently in years past. After repeated multi-goal victories, it was time for a new challenge. “We finished 21st in RPI last year, and we were probably about five teams out of consideration from an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament, so what does that say? That says something about our schedule,” Penn coach Colleen Fink explained. “So, I’d rather have a good loss at this point than an insignificant win, and I think that’s what’s going to put us in a position, regardless of the outcome of the Ivy League standings, to be E8 AG able EP SE

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Red and Blue ready to go against Lehigh, UNC

Quakers fit mold for Ivy League title contender

Pair of weekend games kick off team’s season

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Lehigh (1-1) 3:30 p.m.

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No. 1 North Carolina (1-1) 11:30 a.m.

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Penn field hockey coach Colleen Fink is looking to position her program among the nation’s elite. In the team’s opening slate of games, they’ll have the opportunity to do just that. The challenge for the Quakers is two-fold this weekend. Not only are they coming up against a pair of top-tier teams in Lehigh and North Carolina — their opponents are already into their seasons. Because

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Senior captain Elise Tilton will need to be on top of her game this weekend, as No. 1 North Carolina is on tap for Penn field hockey.

of the Ivy League’s schedule structure, Ancient Eight teams start later than the rest of the country. Though this does not put Penn’s back to the wall, it does mean that the Red and Blue will have to move into mid-season form quickly. “It’s tough. You can’t spend an exorbitant amount of time rehashing things that you feel

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as though they should already know,” Fink explained. “I think we kind of came in running and guns blazing. ... I think we’re relatively prepared, we’ve covered most aspects of the game in this short amount of time but you obviously learn something every game, too.” Helpful for Quakers is the SEE PREVIEW PAGE 8

here are some things in this world that I’ll never understand: quantum physics, rainbows and how Penn field hockey remains criminally underrated each and every year. The Quakers are one of the major up-and-coming programs in collegiate field hockey and a simple checklist can easily verify that. One of the best teams in the nation? Check. A new and shiny state-of-the-art field? Check. A nationally acclaimed goal scorer? Check. Yet even with such impressive credentials, Penn field hockey is a team that always appears to be flying under the radar. Sure, last year’s loss against Princeton was a heartbreaker, and they have yet to win the Ivy League title under the current coaching regime, but no team will have a chip on their shoulder this fall quite like the Red

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and Blue. Right off the bat it is obvious that this team is very aware of how close it came to unseating Princeton last year. Even though a lot of the team’s on-field preparation remains the same, the burn from last year’s Ivy final still lingers. “I think a lot of it is we’re just trying to move forward from last year,” senior captain Claire Kneizys said. The starting lineup is full of blue-chippers at every positional group and each group looks to raise the bar further this year. The defense, at one point a concern in 2015, is currently loaded with talent and could very well be the best in the Ivy League this season. It all starts with Kneizys, the team’s center back and a defensive rock. Her play was a huge reason why Penn’s goals against average ranked among the top 20 in the nation and was best in the Ivy League in 2015. Other returning starters in the backfield include junior defender Jasmine Li and goalkeeper Liz Mata. After seeing

spot duty in 2014, Li was given an opportunity to start in 2015 and ran with it. Mata was named starting goalkeeper as a sophomore after missing her freshman season with injury. Her .689 save percentage last year put her in the top half among Ivy League goalies. Junior Madison Hendry returns to the defense this fall after an injury kept her off the field all of last year. As a freshman in 2014, Hendry started full-time and will likely be a focal point of this year’s goalstopping crew. Moving up the field, the midfield stars senior Elise Tilton, the team’s other captain. She brings a lot of experience to this Quakers team after already having started 47 contests in just three years. Her ability to set up from midfield made her a key component of the team’s offensive gameplan the past three seasons and she is likely in store for more of the same this year. Also at midfield is a trio of returning sophomores. Karen SEE AGATHIS PAGE 9 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640