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Inside Penn’s soaring tuition

Students have gone to extreme measures to protest soaring tuition costs. At USC, students climbed on

tables, stripped off their shirts and threw money in the air in protest at a Board of Regents meeting. At the University of Warwick, a sit-in ended in Taser threats and tear gas. And while their cries that “tuition is too damn high” have fallen on deaf ears — Penn’s tuition has risen at twice the rate of inflation in recent years — research indicates that students could

be right.A New York Federal Reserve

Bank study released in July found that for every dollar of aid students receive, colleges increase tuition by 65 cents in order to exploit the “will-ingness to pay” — or demand — of students for a college education. In response, the Wall Street Journal re-ported that federal aid is “enabling

college institutions to aggressively raise tuitions,” and Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett tweeted “Do loans make higher ed cost more, not less?”

But despite these findings, Penn’s administration is skeptical that aid is the true cause of soaring tuition.

“There’s this hypothesis ... that

The 2015 New Student Orientation saw a 50 percent decrease in alcohol-related hos-pitalizations compared to 2014, according to the Division of Public Safety.

From Aug. 20 to 25, there were 14 students transported to the hospital for alcohol-related reasons, down from last year’s 28, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. Of these 14 students, seven were freshmen, compared to 21 hos-pitalized freshmen in 2014.

This year, four sophomores, two juniors and one graduate student were also hospitalized. There were no seniors hospital-ized for alcohol-related reasons. Eight of the hospital visits were by women, and six by men.

“We aren’t looking for fish in a barrel, but we are looking for responsibility,” Rush said. “We want to make sure students can explore in a safe way.”

There were 35 disorderly house complaints during NSO

Penn researcher refuses to analyze Ashley Madison data

Many surprising statistics have come from over 30 gigabytes of private information that hackers leaked from the extramarital affair website Ashley Madison: among America’s top colleges, Cornell has the most registered emails; of the largest tech companies, IBM em-ployees top the charts.

Since the release of over 35 million Ashley Madison accounts, media and data analysts have been searching for high profile names and drawing conclusions. The data website dadaviz.com can tell you everything from which cities have the highest number of registered users to how many accounts are linked to official gov-ernment email addresses.

But one data expert from Penn does not believe information from the leak should be an-alyzed. Randal Olson, a postdoctoral researcher at Penn, says the reliability of the Ashley Madi-son data is in question — anyone could sign up with a .gov email and pretend to be President Obama himself.

Even if the data is verified, Olson still be-lieves it is unethical to analyze the information. “These people did everything on that website

Move over, Silicon Valley — with the recent growth of PennApps, Penn is putting Philadelphia on the tech world map.

This year PennApps has partnered with Comcast to relocate the 12th biannual PennApps — the largest collegiate hackathon in the coun-try— to the Wells Fargo Center. From Sept. 4 through 6, over 2,000 top coders from across the globe will gather together in the near 21,000-person-capacity stadium to compete for fame, glory and over

$30,000 in prizes. The move high-lights the collegiate competition’s vast growth over the years.

Instead of hacking websites and secret files, coders at the PennApps XII hackathon will use their skills to create the most innovative soft-ware and hardware apps possible in a matter of just 36 hours.

Founded in 2009 by a few Engi-neering students with a passion for coding, PennApps spurred the in-troduction of leagues of hackathons across the country since then.

“We’ve gone from 17 students who wanted to work together for a weekend to being able to accept only a small fraction of the people that apply to come to PennApps,”

Administrators explain why tuition is rising at twice the rate of inflation

Seven of 14 hospitalized students were freshmen

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Reporter’s Notebook: FOMO during NSONOTES FROMABROAD

It is a very strange feeling to be on campus with nothing to do.

It’s about noon on Wednesday, Aug. 26, when I leave my friend’s apartment to meet some other friends for lunch. Locust Walk is unusually crowded for the summer, and most people seem to be wearing backpacks. It takes me until I get to 1920 Commons to realize that it’s the first day of classes.

Well, for most people. But as my peers begin completing their nightly readings and problem sets, I’m getting ready to say goodbye.

I am spending this semester in Paris, living out the dream of studying abroad I’ve had for as long as I can remember. I, and other Penn students study-ing abroad this semester, are in limbo right now, as we prepare to start our months away from Penn.

College and Engineering junior Katie Wu, who will spend her semester at the University College London, said that it was hard to relate to friends on campus when classes had started.

“It feels weird being here while other friends are going to classes because my PenninTouch is like … empty,” she said.

Still, she said that not having to deal with moving in during NSO afforded her more time to socialize with friends.

While for many, NSO is the start of the year, for me and for Katie, it is our last chance to see our friends on campus until next semester.

“It’s a life-changing experi-ence!” family friends tell me. “A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” say others.

But nobody prepared me for this bizarre, surreal experience of knowing that while I’m busy living out my “once in a life-time,” Penn is still here, along with all of my friends, moving on without me. You could call it FOMO, but instead of not getting the joke or missing out on a cool party, your life and your friends’ lives are on opposite sides of the world.

But actually being on campus and not being able to relate to classes or move-in or even New Student Orientation is an entirely different story. Hearing friends talk about what classes they have together is great until somebody asks what you’re taking and the only honest answer you can give them is “I don’t know.” Locust is

once again lined with people fly-ering for shows — only this time, when the show happens, I’ll be almost 4,000 miles away. Stand-ing in the empty room in Rodin that will be mine in January but not seeing my name on the door is up there as one of the saddest but also most bizarre moments of my Penn experience.

For other students who were not on campus during NSO, the experience of being away from Penn while their friends were back was also strange.

College junior Rebecca Brown is spending her fall semester at King’s College London. While Rebecca is on campus as classes begin, she was at home in Pitts-burgh, Pa. for NSO. Rebecca was back on campus for a few days after classes started to take a final she needed to make up from the spring semester.

She described the experience of missing NSO as being “very weird,” especially since she was hesitant to go abroad in the first place. “I was never one of those people who always knew they wanted to study abroad, so when I finally decided to do it, I had to mentally prepare to miss out on stuff like NSO,” she said. “I had to tell myself that it probably looked more fun on Facebook than it actually was,” she laughed.

Like Katie and Rebecca, I’m grateful for the small amount of time I’ve been able to spend on campus before I leave for the semester, even though it is a bit strange. It’s afforded me the op-portunity to really say goodbye to the people I will miss the most. For some, though, it isn’t possible to make a trip to campus before their semester abroad begins.

College junior Andrea Vargas Guerra, who is doing a health and community program that will take her to four different cities around the world, did not get a chance to visit Penn.

“Being away has been super weird. Watching Snapchats and seeing things on Facebook of NSO stuff is really odd,” she said.

While many study abroad programs have already started, Andrea’s has not. She described feeling like she was “slacking” because her friends have all started coursework and other campus commitments.

I laugh at that, because it’s very true. My only commit-ments right now are the coffee dates and dinner plans I have made with friends. I don’t even have my backpack with me on campus. I’ve gotten used to stop-ping to talk to people on Locust and answering the dreaded “how are you?” question with “I’m

good!” and maybe babbling about how excited I am to study abroad.

It took me off guard when friends started just waving as they passed me on campus or when the standard answer to “How are you?” once again became “I’m exhausted.”

For a split second, I questioned my decision to leave the Penn bubble. I’m happy here. I have great friends and a wonderful education at my fingertips. I’ve cried more from saying goodbye to friends and family in the past

two weeks than I did when I was saying goodbye to my hall at the end of my freshman year — and that’s saying something.

But right now, while every-one else is “exhausted” and “so busy,” I’m still really good and really excited to have my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Jessica McDowell will be reporting from Paris, France this semester. You can follow her series, Notes From Abroad, where she will report news on the Penn abroad experience.

Students feel in limbo waiting for their abroad programs to beginJESSICA MCDOWELL Staff Reporter

As most students adjust to a new semester of classes, students waiting to go abroad experience Penn from a new perspective.

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with the assumption that it would be private, and they have in no way said that it’s okay to analyze them,” Olson said. “They gave no consent to be researched, and it’s not our position to apply our morals to their relationships and personal lives.”

Controversy arises, however, from Ashley Madison users who

claim to have taken the moral high ground. Recently, former Executive Director of the Family Research Council and TV star Josh Duggar, who is an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, was revealed to have had an ac-count for almost two years. Sam Rader, another popular conserva-tive Christian video blogger, also paid for an Ashley Madison ac-count.

While the exposure of such

high-profile individuals’ possible involvement in extramarital af-fairs has gone viral, Olson says being famous isn’t a good enough reason to violate someone’s pri-vacy.

“Just because they are public figureheads and public leaders in their groups doesn’t mean they deserve to be targeted any more than a random person,” Olson said.

He added that another major

problem with using the Ashley Madison information is that many of the conclusions have been drawn by data amateurs — “renegade scientists,” as he called them — who are improp-erly trained to do such research.

Olson said that data amateurs receive viral attention for their incorrect conclusions. He cited one recent case of a mistaken analysis implicated Vatican of-ficials in the Ashley Madison

scandal. It turned out to be Vir-ginians who simply forgot the .gov part of their email address.

“It’s silly things like that, where we’re besmirching the name of the Vatican on a com-pletely wrong analysis,” Olson said.

Plenty of experts disagree with Olson’s view on the Ashley Madi-son data. Jishai Evers, founder of the data publishing website da-daviz.com, believes that as long

as the conclusions are taken with a grain of salt, responsible data analysis is acceptable.

The ethical question doesn’t just fall to professionals — be-cause the Ashley Madison data is available online, anyone with an Internet connection can access the leaked data. As Wall Street Journal columnist Jeff Yang wrote: this hack “may be an ex-tinction-level event for privacy as we know it.”

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PennApps Director Pranav Vishnu Ramabhadran said.

The number of student hack-ers participating this year is up from around 1,500 last year to over 2,000 this year. Devesh Dayal, head of marketing and press at PennApps, believes that the new move to the stadium will help bring Pen-nApps and coding to a larger worldwide stage.

“Moving to Wells Fargo increases our national reach over anything. While we have a huge reach in Penn Engi-neering, with Wells Fargo we also gain the huge title spots of Comcast … so any hack at PennApps can expect to get a lot of publicity over what they made, especially if they make it to a rank position,” Dayal said.

Dayal added that the in-creased exposure is beneficial for students who want to work in the tech field. PennApps sponsors such as Microsoft, Apple and Google provide opportunities for students to show off their work, and it is not uncommon for students to cite their work at PennApps on their resumes, Dayal said.

After a positive experience working with Comcast last se-mester for the 11th PennApps, the choice to partner with Comcast and the relocation to the Wells Fargo Center seemed like the logical next step for the growing size of the competi-tion. The stadium offers free Xfinity WiFi with 350 access points and 700 Bluetooth beacons and is equipped with one-gigabit-per-second dedi-cated Internet connection, to satisfy the needs of the coders.

“Comcast is committed to

investing in the next generation of entrepreneurs and technolo-gists, while inspiring change through media,” Comcast Chief Business Development Officer Sam Schwartz said in a press release. “PennApps give us an opportunity to high-light Comcast as innovative partners to 2,000 emerging technologists from around the nation.”

The news of the move comes almost a year after Comcast’s announcement of construction of the Comcast Innovation and Technology Center in Phila-delphia, a new home for its growing workforce of technol-ogists, engineers and software architects.

Dayal believes that the growth of the competition will help to make Philly an “it” lo-cation for tech.

“Philadelphia’s already becoming a huge tech storm. Revamps have been done for the city to build a tech street. It’s definitely making a name for itself,” Dayal said. “With PennApps, the way we’re help-ing out is that we’re working with a lot of local focuses to groom Philadelphia’s local tech climate and atmosphere.”

While PennApps is helping Philadelphia make a tech name for itself, individual partici-pants find personal reward in the coding experience.

“It’s amazing to sit and try to hack something. You appreci-ate the grander scale of things and how the things you build actually play a larger role in the society you live in and the world you’re working in and not just as a dorm room hack but something that can impact the future,” Dayal said “And I think the Wells Fargo Center and its site is a pretty good em-bodiment of that idea.”

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Between the hundreds of clubs on Penn’s campus, it might be dif-ficult to decide which one is right for you. Clubs require different time commitments and many offer opportunities for greater in-volvement beyond attendance at a General Body Meeting. The Daily Pennsylvanian caught up with a few organizations on campus to share their missions, time commit-ments and recruitment strategies.

COUNTERPARTSCounterparts is known as the

oldest coed a cappella group at Penn. They specialize in a wide variety of music from jazz to pop and incorporate splashes of per-sonality into their songs.

Counterparts hosts auditions at the start of every school year. They typically require interested individuals to prepare a verse and chorus of any song of their choos-ing. Open auditions are Sunday, Aug. 30 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and on Monday, Sept. 1, from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. in Williams Hall.

Counterparts practice together 5-6 hours per week. In addition to preparing for competitions, they also perform often on campus and in Philadelphia throughout the year.

Counterparts released a new music video this past weekend. Members have accomplished as much as recording albums, tour-ing California and placing in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella.

PENN FOR HILLARYPenn for Hillary is the leading

campus organization supporting Hillary Clinton’s bid for president of the United States. Its members use it as a forum where students of all political stripes can dis-cuss issues affecting the 2016 campaign. They emphasize lead-ership on pressing issues to Penn students, including college af-fordability and women’s health programs.

New members are encouraged to join. Visit www.pennforhillary.com or email Robert Klein or Emily Irani to get involved.

While board members meet on a weekly basis, GBMs, guest speakers and BYOs are typically once a month, and the group or-ganizes events with other political groups as well.

PENN AEROSPACE CLUBThe Penn Aerospace Club is

dedicated to individuals of all different backgrounds who share one common interest: aerospace.

Their members are very hands-on, from rocket launches to space bal-loons. Their operations division interacts with companies such as SpaceX and Northrop Grumman. PAC also serves as a great teaching environment for aerospace. They hold a series where PAC leaders give short lectures about various topics in aerospace throughout the school year.

PAC hopes to overcome the gender gap by encouraging stu-dents from all different schools to join.

Like many clubs, they recruited through the Student Activities Council and Engineering club fairs, which are followed by mul-tiple GBMs. Their first one will feature short presentations from each project team and operations division about their projects and roles to engage more students to take part. They will continue to recruit in the spring semester after freshmen develop more technical skills and a better sense of their interests.

GBMs are weekly, and project team meetings are either weekly or by demand. PAC hosts events ap-proximately once a month.

WHARTON LATINOWharton Latino is an under-

graduate organization that brings together the Latino community and those interested in Latin America within Penn. Through corporate, educational, social and community service events, Wharton Latino seeks to provide a professional experience to its members by hosting educational speakers and integrating the club’s members through social and com-munity service events.

The club is constantly recruit-ing. In the fall, the Wharton and SAC recruiting events provide the largest inflow of freshmen. For freshmen, Wharton Latino hosts a Freshmen Project, where fresh-men are engaged by organizing the activity of their choice. Late in the fall, freshmen are allowed to apply to board positions and committees.

GBMs are every three weeks, in

addition to all other events that are hosted throughout the school year.

They are big on the social aspect of the club. They have in-vited freshmen to dinner and will continue to organize lunches throughout the semester for mem-bers to interact.

PENN HYPEPenn Hype’s name speaks for

itself. It is an SAC-sponsored and coed hip-hop fusion dance group. They incorporate cultural, tradi-tional and modern dance styles, ranging from bhangra, b-boying, Bollywood, dancehall, salsa and hip-hop.

Experience is not required — many members had never danced before or are experienced in a dif-ferent style.

Penn Hype recruited at the SAC activities fair last week. Though they were the last slot on Locust Walk, they were able to get a speaker to attract more individuals

to take interest. They performed at Freshman Performing Arts Night and will perform at many other collaborative events with other organizations on campus through-out the year. Auditions are in the fall and spring. There are typi-cally more auditions and openings in the fall, so interested students should consider auditioning early.

They have performed at dif-ferent showcases, reaching out to different universities and dif-ferent communities that are not from Penn. To encourage people to dance and take interest in the club, they will host instructional choreography workshop events throughout the year.

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE SOCIETY

The Parliamentary Debate Society, better known as Penn Parli, is a top-tier debate team that incorporates styles and order of British Parliamentary speech into their own. They excel in competitions in the American Parliamentary Debate Associa-tion against other societies from the Ivy League and east coast on an annual basis.

They emphasize their social and familial ties to bring out the best in each other. Their members typically hold well-established positions throughout Penn, from Student Activities Council chair, to speaker of the Undergraduate Assembly, Nominations and Elec-tions Committee chair, honors societies and athletics.

New individuals are encour-aged to try out. Like many other clubs, they utilized the SAC fair to recruit more freshmen.

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If you go to Penn often, you probably encoun-ter him all the time. You might pass him on Col-

lege Green, or perhaps you see him more frequently on your way to Stouffer Commons from central campus. He’s also been known to make an appearance on 34th Street between Walnut and Spruce, looking brave and a little frightened. He’s such a fre-quent sight around these parts, in fact, that even if you venture off-campus, you might run into him smiling at you with a glint in his bespectacled eyes or working hard at the only trade he ever re-ally loved, the printing press.

By now, you’ve probably gathered that I’m talking about Benjamin Franklin, a man this city is so in love with that his face greets anyone who drives through it.

Philadelphia’s obsession with Franklin is well-deserved, I might add, as I found out when I read his autobiography this sum-mer. Within its pages, Franklin

casually narrates how through hard work, independent study and efficient application of his talents to every problem he en-

countered, he made a success of himself and helped to transform Philadelphia from a backwater town to a major world city.

But I actually found the first part of Franklin’s autobiography — where he talks about the for-mation of his character in early life — much more interesting than the dry listing of accom-plishments that comprises the second half. In an effort to culti-vate himself into the best person he could be, Franklin concocted a list of 13 virtues that he in-tended to work on improving throughout his life, each week

focusing on developing one. The list includes temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, in-dustry, sincerity, justice, mod-

eration, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility. Franklin believed these virtues were un-controversially good for every-body, and that development of them would improve general contentment with oneself and one’s life.

Inspired by his plan for self-improvement, I started to think more about what would happen to me if I tried to strengthen the presence of these virtues in my own character. How would I change as an individual? How would my feelings of general contentment and happiness

alter? Most importantly, how would cultivation of these vir-tues improve my mental health and well-being?

As a graduate student over-whelmed by considerations of my upcoming qualifying exam, dissertation research and writ-ing, fellowship applications and the eventual difficult academic job search, I am one of many Penn students, faculty and staff whose shoulders constantly slump from the burden of our various responsibilities. As I have found both in my own life and from my observations as a graduate associate in one of the undergraduate houses, this ongoing pressure, paired with the competitive atmosphere of Penn’s campus community, all too often leads to a downward spiral of stress, anxiety, depres-sion and feelings of inferiority. The tragic spate of suicides we have encountered here and at other universities is an extreme example of what can happen when campuses like Penn stress

the importance of material and academic success to the detri-ment of all other aspects of char-acter and living.

So here I am, ready to em-bark on an experiment this se-mester using the list that good old Ben swears by. Every other week, I will write about some-thing I have changed in the way I conduct my daily life to try to strengthen one of the above vir-tues in myself. Writing about my experiment in a public forum will force me to be accountable and actually follow through, which is great. What’s more, I will learn about the value of de-veloping these virtues for myself and for the campus environment as a whole. Right now, students who want to maintain a healthy state of physical and mental well-being have to try pretty hard to keep this competitive atmosphere from getting under their skin.

Undergoing this process will hopefully teach me about the many issues our community

needs to address in order to nur-ture a culture of contentment, confidence and comradeship. Such an environment would actually encourage prioritizing mental health and well-being over all other academic and so-cial concerns. To me, that sounds like an environment worth striv-ing for.

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In the college application process, there are always applicants with an advan-tage. Some students get

a perfect 2400 on their SATs, while others win an internation-al science competition.

And, of course, there are the legacies.

Legacies have an undeniable advantage in gaining admission to Penn. This advantage is espe-cially clear in early admissions, where just under 50 percent of legacy applicants were admitted for the Class of 2018. This lega-cy advantage also exists outside of Penn. Researcher Michael Hurwitz recently found that legacy students were 45 percent more likely to be admitted to the nation’s top 30 schools, an advantage worth an added 160 points on the SAT.

If the 2016 presidential election were a college admis-sions process, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush would be the leg-acy candidates. While there are important differences between Clinton and Bush, both come from powerful families with

presidential alumni.Legacy status, even without

an explicit competitive edge, provides important implicit ad-vantages in college and politics. Legacy students are more likely to grow up wealthy, get a good education and have access to networks of influential people. For legacy politicians, the ad-vantages are similar.

Just as legacy students prob-ably won’t fail on standardized tests for financial reasons, Hill-ary and Jeb won’t lose in 2016 for a lack of money. Aided by family networks, Jeb Bush has raised almost $100 million while Hillary Clinton has fund-raised “like no one before [her] with a dearth of caution that boggles the mind,” as journalist Frank Bruni quipped.

Additionally, Hillary and Jeb’s legacy statuses grant them access to their families’ politi-cal networks. The vast major-ity of Jeb Bush’s foreign policy advisors previously worked for his father and/or brother while Hillary Clinton inherited her husband’s political allies,

including Virginia governor Terry McAulife and CNN com-mentator Paul Begala. Legacy students can also benefit from family networks. College senior Aidan McConnell, whose fa-ther graduated from Wharton in 1988 and whose mother gradu-ated from the College in 1987, recognized this. “Through my mom, I knew of fraternities

like St. A’s, I knew the general social scene and I was familiar with the Political Science De-partment.” Just like legacy stu-dents, Hillary and Jeb have an insider’s edge in 2016.

For all the advantages that legacy status brings both stu-dents and politicians, there are also unique challenges. Legacy students often face intense pres-sure from their parents, who

often directly and indirectly influence their children’s career paths. College junior Samuel Byers, whose father graduated from Wharton in 1987, hints at such indirect influence, noting that his father “was involved in the first ILMUNC, so now that I am here, I’ve always wanted to do similar things.” Byers added that his father is “very proud

of that and the things he did at Penn. Twenty-five years down the line, I’d like to feel simi-larly proud.” Legacy politicians face similar pressures; the Bush family long assumed Jeb would run for the presidency before his brother, former President George W. Bush, did.

In both college and poli-tics, legacies can feel subject to a higher standard. A College

sophomore, who wished to re-main anonymous and whose parents both attended Penn, ex-plained that “fulfilling his par-ents’ expectations is [his] life’s biggest challenge.” He went on to recount how, even though he was excited to attend the University of Chicago after be-ing admitted early, his parents “pushed [him] to go to Penn.” His parents “created a standard [he] had to fulfill.” In the presi-dential race, Jeb Bush seems aware of the burden that comes with having his last name. In the first Republican primary de-bate, Bush acknowledged, “I’m gonna have to earn this. Maybe the barrier — the bar’s even higher for me. That’s fine.”

Are Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush unsuitable to be president because they belong to political families? Certainly not, as both have experience and impres-sive qualifications. Likewise, most legacy students here at Penn deserve to be here and studies show that they gener-ally perform on the same level as non-legacy students. Lega-

cies like Aidan McConnell as-sume little. “You certainly have a small advantage getting in, but once you’re here, it’s a meritoc-racy and mommy and daddy aren’t gonna bail you out. I’m no more coddled than anyone else.” Just like legacy students, Hillary and Jeb have a lot of hard work ahead to prove they belong. Their future legacy de-pends on it.

Privilege or burden

GINA ELIA is a graduate student from Hingham, Mass. Her email address is [email protected]. “The Benjamin Franklin Experiment” appears every other Monday.

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CITIZEN CAPOZZI | Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, like Penn legacy students, confront mixed blessing of family accomplishments

THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EXPERIMENT | How Ben Franklin’s plan for mental well-being is relevant to contemporary campus life

… Franklin concocted a list of 13 virtues that he intended to work on improving throughout

his life ….”

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ANNEKA DECARO is a College sophomore from Austin, TX. Her email is [email protected].

Legacy status, even without an explicit competitive edge, provides important implicit

advantages in college and politics.”

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For two Penn alumni, Stouffer College House played such an integral role in their college experience that they decided to get married on the steps. Of the many communities on Penn’s campus, the lesser-known col-lege houses of Stouffer and Gregory College House create lasting impressions on residents.

Gregory and Stouffer are the unassuming low-rises located on the edge of campus. The average Penn student may be unaware that these houses even exist, but for the roughly 500 students living in there, they serve as the epicenter of their social lives and Penn experience.

Both houses pride themselves on having the highest retention rates on campus. Many students who live in Gregory or Stouffer their freshman years choose to continue to live in their chosen house through graduation. For a lot of the residents of Gregory

and Stouffer, these houses are not only a place to live, but a home away from home.

“I first came on for finan-cial reasons, but stayed for the community,” 2015 Wharton graduate and Stouffer resident Valerie Richards said. “There is always somebody who has my back.”

“We are just a community that helps each other and are not bothered by doing so,” said Wharton junior Chantelle La Marr, who also lives in Stouffer.

Many students make the bulk of their friends in their freshman year dorms and decide to return to maintain these connections.

“I returned because of the at-mosphere,” College sophomore Lydia Ramharack said. “It’s really friendly. A majority of my friends live in Gregory so that’s why I returned.”

Given the overwhelming number of fraternity houses located in and around Locust Walk and the variety of events they host every weekend, the third of the student body in-volved in Greek life can seem to have a disproportionate amount of inf luence over the social

scene at Penn. But this is not the case for the remaining two-thirds of the student body who have managed to carve out their own social hubs.

Since they raise and manage their own funds, Stouffer resi-dents and staff have complete jurisdiction over the way the social events are conducted and the house is organized. All house decisions are made collectively and house manage-ment is a collaborative endeavor among the residents, house man-agers and the staff.

“We do everything as a com-munity, make decisions as a community, chart our course as a community,” Stouffer Faculty Master Phil Nichols said. “That is harder, and it takes a lot of time, but it is how a community is made.”

To ensure that the voices of the residents are heard, up-perclassmen are given the opportunity to take on leader-ship roles in the house. House managers are responsible for planning the 18 to 20 social events that take place in the house each week. Activities in Gregory and Stouffer are very

popular amongst the residents.“The events are well-attended

because they come from our community, not somebody else’s idea of what our community would like, and also they are a lot of fun,” Nichols said.

While Stouffer residents host barbecues, game nights, a semi-formal as well as char-ity events in honor of a resident who passed away, Gregory stu-dents appreciate the regularity of TV nights, study breaks and brunches on designated days of the week.

“[Gregory residents] like the consistency of being able to see the same people at the same time,” Gregory House Dean Christopher Donovan said.

This system allows for the events to be planned in ac-cordance with the residents’ wishes.

“I think where there is an opportunity to do something better, Stouffer does. When we do a great event, we keep on doing it again,” College junior Peter Moon said. “It ends up being what the residents want instead of what was decided 10 years ago.”

Despite being very social communities, all of the residents in Gregory and Stouffer live in single rooms, which may attract students who place a premium on privacy. But this does not detract from the social bonds among the residents. Residents willingly venture out of their rooms, socializing with other residents and participating in events. Students are not forced to form relationships with one another simply because they are living in close quarters.

“Stouffer is filled with people that want to be social and have a community and respect the need for people’s need for alone time … [the events] are not shoved down people’s throats,” La Marr said.

“One of the reasons I love living here is because there is always someone to share with,” Nichols said of Stouffer.

Despite the physical isolation of the buildings, the students in Gregory and Stouffer are often involved in a lot of extracur-ricular activities and are in no way segregated from the rest of campus.

“There is a stereotype that

people in the house never get out, but this is not true — Greg-ory students are very active in the community,” Donovan said.

What connects the residents of Gregory and Stouffer is that they appreciate the sense of community in their houses. This common value is what makes their bonds so strong.

House masters claim that Gregory and Stouffer residents are just as diverse as the Penn community, and there is no typi-cal type of student that is drawn to either one of the houses.

“There is something that anyone could be interested in here,” Ramharack said.

This camaraderie extends beyond the residents’ four years at Penn. House alumni who live in the area still attend the social events hosted by Stouffer or Gregory.

Stouffer and Gregory resi-dents find great comfort the social hubs they have formed within their college houses. Many would never trade it for an apartment in the high rises.

“It is not just a community, it becomes your Penn family,” La Marr said.

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period, according to DPS. One of these complaints ended in a citation for underage drinking at 4036 Spruce St. According to DPS, a student was heavily intox-icated and belligerent when Penn Police responded to the com-plaint, resulting in his citation.

DPS met with several houses before NSO to go over policies and expectations and plans to do the same with the houses that received complaints over the weekend, Rush said.

One freshman received a cita-tion for public urination after an incident involving the Ben Frank-lin statue at 37th and Locust Walk. “We have a zero tolerance policy in terms of urinating on Ben and in public, period,” Rush said. “This student was appre-hended, cited and will have to go to court to explain their actions.”

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says if you give colleges and uni-versities federal aid to help the students pay for education, they’ll just look at that as a revenue line and keep raising prices because there is still going to be demand for their product,” Director of Financial Aid Joel Carstens said. “But the Fed is just saying they found a correlation ... and that was for non-highly selective private universities — of which Penn is not.”

Disavowing the Fed’s argu-ment, Carstens says that the real reason Penn’s tuition is growing at four percent annually is because the costs of higher education grow at a rate faster than an aver-age “basket of goods.” “We are a heavily people-intensive market,” he said. “The market basket of goods that it costs institutions to run is different for this industry than it is for other industries.”

Carstens’s argument is based off of research conducted out of the College of William and Mary by David H. Feldman and Robert B. Archibald. Their results are

compiled in a book called “Why Does College Cost So Much?,” which sits on a shelf in the office of Michelle Brown Nevers, vice president of Student Registration and Financial Services. Feldman and Archibald show that the cost of dentists, physicians, professors and other high-paid professional service providers grow faster than inflation.

Penn President Amy Gutmann agrees and says that in order to maintain Penn’s prestige, the Uni-versity must continue to invest in the best professors. “The real costs of a Penn education are sig-nificantly higher that the tuition that we charge. We have a very highly educated workforce, and we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best fac-ulty, many of whom who could write their ticket at any place,” Gutmann said. “More than half of our costs are our talent base — our faculty and our staff. “

Penn’s administrators argue that tuition growth is crucial for Penn to run effectively — tuition represents 35 percent of Penn’s operating budget. In terms of af-fordability, Penn’s financial aid

budget has grown at twice the rate of tuition and the net cost of a Penn education — tuition minus financial aid — has been flat or declining annually.

“Penn has exhibited outstand-ing stewardship of our resources. I know that for people unfamil-iar with the economies of higher education, it looks as though this is somehow [just] an improper escalation in the costs of higher education,” said Provost Vin-cent Price. “But the bottom line is those are real costs, and they represent changes in real services, and were it not for growth in our endowment ... and other sources, those escalations would be even higher.”

Students don’t seem convinced. Last year, Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation held a Stu-dent Debt Demonstration in which they protested Penn’s lack of af-fordability by donning placards with the amount of debt they’d taken out.

“For a university to prom-ise low-income students, who are mostly students of color, the option to go to this school and be able to graduate debt-free with a

no-loan grant or scholarship aid package, this is something that must be adhered to,” then-College senior Breanna Moore said fol-lowing the protest.

Students point to Penn’s $200 million annual budget surplus, billions of dollars of construction spending and Penn’s successful fundraising campaigns — Penn raised a record $510 million last year — as evidence that Penn could do more to make college af-fordable.

Data compiled by the Institute of Educational Services shows that five of the eight Ivy League universities — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown and Cornell — have lower tuition fees than Penn. According to the federal gov-ernment’s “College Scorecard,” Penn students on average take out $20,407 in loans — the high-est amount among all Ivy League universities.

“University housing is not affordable compared to other housing in Philadelphia,” said Wharton junior Bennett Sultan. “[But] I don’t see Penn hemor-rhaging money from any of its programs.”

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The pope is coming to town, and Penn couldn’t be more ex-cited.

Called “the largest event” in Philadelphia’s history by Mayor Michael Nutter, Pope Francis’ two-day visit during the last weekend of September is ex-pected to attract over a million people to the city.

In anticipation, College and Wharton senior Andrea Muglia started the initiative Penn for Pope Francis with a couple of friends last spring semester to organize events around his visit. The main event is to walk down together as a Penn community to the papal mass on Sunday, Sept. 27 after a group breakfast. Over 1,000 people — including students, professors and staff — have already signed up to par-ticipate in the group procession.

“As someone who is involved in the Catholic community and a lot of other organizations at Penn, I was in a good position to get as many people to engage with this historic event,” Muglia said. “And I personally like this pope, so this is really special to me.”

In addition, Penn for Pope Francis and the Newman Center are hosting Wharton alumnus Father James Martin on Monday,

Sept. 14 to speak about Pope Francis’s papacy and his visit to Philadelphia. “We think Father Martin’s visit is important be-cause, given that he is a Penn alum, a Jesuit like Pope Francis and one of the most well-known Catholic priests in the country, he is the very best person who could communicate with Penn students about Pope Francis,” said College senior Sean Foley, who is organizing the event. “We want this event to invite people from Penn and the Philadelphia community from all religious backgrounds to learn about Pope Francis and understand why what he does matters.”

Before the pope’s arrival in Philadelphia on Sept. 26, the Drexel Catholic community will celebrate with Penn and hold a “pope fest,” a carnival-style col-lege party open to the public at the Newman Center on Friday, Sept. 25.

Penn students also have the option to participate in the Pope’s visit by volunteering with the World Meeting of Families. The city and the World Meet-ing of Families called for a total of 10,000 volunteers earlier this year and allotted 300 volunteer spots to Penn.

“This pope is so important for the church and the world right now,” said Ricardo Simmons, director of the Newman Center. “He’s been teaching all of us how it important it is to be humble, simple and inviting, and I look forward to learning more from him.”

From festivals to speakers, students wel-come with excitement

EUNICE LIMStaff Reporter

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Buckle your seatbelts, ladies and gents, the fall sports season is upon us. Although the do-or-die Ivy League matchups are still weeks away, in the mean-time Penn’s eight fall teams are readying for their slate of nonconference foes. Our sports editors discuss what games out-side of Ancient Eight play are must-see, must-win affairs for the Quakers.

Sports Editor Colin Hen-derson: To me, there’s no doubt about it — it’s gotta be Penn football’s season opener on the road against Lehigh. I know, I know, I admit that I’m kind of picking the low-hanging fruit here. After all, this is one of Penn’s two marquee sports pro-grams (and the clear fall season headliner). And this is the debut for longtime assistant-turned-head coach Ray Priore.

Plus, as a native of the Lehigh Valley, I’m just excited that some Penn athletes and fans are going to experience what my old stomping grounds have to offer.

But my excitement for this

upcoming matchup goes beyond this surface-level hype. This year, wins might be tough to come by for the Quakers, and with a brand new coaching staff and team philosophy, every win should be cherished.

This matchup against the Mountain Hawks, who went a

paltry (poultry?) 3-8 last season, is a winnable one for the Red and Blue. But in the three weeks that follow the Lehigh jaunt, Penn is set to face three very tough op-ponents in Villanova, Fordham and Dartmouth. Quite simply, if Penn loses its opening matchup, the team could very easily find

itself sitting on a winless record through four games, giving its opener extra importance.

Sports Editor Holden Mc-Ginnis: Personally, I’m looking forward to men’s soccer’s early season games against Wash-ington and American. Coach Rudy Fuller always schedules a

tough nonconference set for the team and this year is no excep-tion. The Quakers took on both of these teams last season and came away winless, but they were just a few late goals away from tallying better results in both games.

This season, the early noncon-ference opponents will serve as a test for a team that graduated a stellar senior class in 2015. Penn’s roster is looking rela-tively young overall, and while its new recruiting class garnered national attention, it’s never safe to bet on freshmen immediately boosting a collegiate squad.

Best of all, it’s a great chance for Penn soccer fans to see some excellent play at Rhodes Field in the home opener. Wash-ington is ranked No. 10 in the NSCAA preseason poll and will be looking to improve on its short NCAA tournament run last season. Penn may not have the talent to keep up with the Huskies, but if last season is any indication, the Quakers will at least make it an interesting game.

Associate Sports Editor Tom Nowlan: I’m gonna have to go with field hockey’s earliest-possible early-season matchup:

its Sept. 4 season opener versus Liberty. Last year, the Quak-ers’ matchup with the Flames was in many ways a microcosm of Penn’s season as a whole: The Red and Blue blew a 2-1 halftime lead en route to a disap-pointing 3-2 home loss.

That game was one of the Quakers’ five one-goal de-feats in 2014. Seemingly every week, Penn seemed to be right on the cusp of victory, only to walk away instead with a sour-ing loss. Though Coach Fink’s team ended with an unimpres-sive 8-9 overall record, anyone who watched the squad play knew that the numbers didn’t accurately represent the team’s talent.

So, in this season’s first game, the Red and Blue, powered by the returning offensive stars Alexa Hoover and Elizabeth Hitti, will look to start their season off on the right note. This year’s game will feature an added challenge, as the Red and Blue must make the trek to Lynchburg, Va., to face Liberty in unfamiliar territory.

And hopefully for the Quak-ers, 2015 will be a year of pleasant surprises rather than constant frustrations.

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impact for the Lions both on special teams and as a backup linebacker this preseason.

Against the Jets on Aug. 13, Co-peland led Detroit in special-teams snaps, yet failed to register any play-ing time on defense. But in the Lions’ last two contests, he managed to work his way into the squad’s front seven, compiling five total tackles for a team that made the playoffs a season ago.

Yet for a team like the Lions, play-ing time at linebacker likely will be hard to find for Copeland. Detroit already features Stephen Tulloch, DeAndre Levy and Tahir White-head as starters, with Kyle Van Noy entrenched as the crew’s backup.

The next week will be telling for the former three-time first team All-Ivy selection. All 32 teams are required to cut their roster sizes down to 75 players by Tuesday before finalizing their 53-man ros-ters on Saturday.

For Copeland, latching on with the Lions represents what may be his final chance to make a name for himself in the NFL. But despite his ambitions to play professionally, that’s not all he’s been working on of late.

On top of his effort on the field, Copeland has also made strides in

developing an app that helps users generate quick randomized exercises for fitness. Alongside former Penn teammates Joe Holder and Scott Lopano, he has spent over a year working on FHiitLife, which is de-signed to help people with busy lives to find time to work out as efficiently as possible in small time periods.

The basis of the app was gener-ated immediately after Lopano began working for UBS in 2013. While working extended hours at a chaotic rate, the former punter recog-nized that he no longer had as much time to dedicate to working out.

What began as a randomization spreadsheet eventually gave way to a website — one initially designed by Copeland that is now under con-struction with professional web

developers — and, soon, a fully-functioning app. Copeland believes the platform should be ready for a Beta launch in the near future.

“It’s been ... slow, it’s been a baby step process and that’s how we’re taking it,” Copeland told ESPN. “We’re okay with that because we all have our own priorities, but we have helped some people individually — not through the app, but through other stuff, personal training stuff — and we’ve seen the benefits people have gotten from our work.”

While the results of both his app and pro career have not yet come to fruition, it’s undoubtedly been a breakthrough summer for Copeland. Now all that remains to be seen is whether his hard work — on and off the field — actually pays off.

COPELAND>> PAGE 10

After spending a year out of football, former Penn linebacker Brandon Copeland now continues his pro aspirations with the Detroit Lions.

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three more games than Penn on the young season, Seton Hall (0-3-1) struggled for much of the opening frame to engineer dangerous attacks, as Penn’s midfield consistently disrupted the Pirates’ flow of possession. Then, down 2-0 in the 34th

minute, a rare counterattack by Seton Hall cut the deficit in half, when midfielder Amanda Gulli beat two Penn defenders to a cross that she was able to slide past diving senior goal-keeper Kalijah Terilli.

“Defensively, we don’t want to concede goals like that one, so obviously we need to be better there,” Van Dyke said.

“But I think we got better as the game went on, and it does get harder on your defenders when you go up one or two goals early.”

The Quakers did not face another dangerous attack after that, and in the second half, Ste-phens provided Penn with an insurance goal. A corner kick took a deflection off a Seton

Hall defender, and the rookie capitalized from close range yet again.

Stephens finished her first game with the Red and Blue with two goals and six of the team’s 15 shots.

“We’ve been pract icing that exact movement where I just pop off the post on those plays in the box, and I was

super excited to see it work in a game.” Stephens said. “It’s something we are going to keep working on for whoever is play-ing that position on the field, and I think that it will be dan-gerous against a lot of teams.”

While it may not have been a perfect game for the Quak-ers, the team and its coaching staff have plenty of reason to be

optimistic as the season truly gets underway.

“It’s tough going into your first game against a team that already has played three games, but I was pleased to see us im-prove and solidify that first win,“ Van Dyke said. “Going forward, if we fix a few things defensively I think we should be fine.”

W. SOCCER>> PAGE 10

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For Quakers, nonconference isn’t non-importantDP SPORTS EDITORSDiscussing Penn Athletics ... with more personal pronouns

In his first season as Penn football coach, Ray Priore will lead his squad into the Lehigh Valley for a matchup with Lehigh, a true litmus test for how good the squad may be throughout the entirety of 2015.

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Ripanti. Caslow recorded 67 tackles while missing one-and-a-half games and Ripanti logged 75.

Matchup: VillanovaDate: Sept. 24 at 7 p.m.Where: Villanova, Pa.2014 Record: 11-3Conference: Colonial Athletic Association

Penn will travel to Villa-nova for some Thursday night football, a game that was re-scheduled because of the papal visit that weekend. Villanova’s Andy Talley will face off with coach Ray Priore in the former’s first matchup with the Quakers since Al Bagnoli left the pro-gram. Ironically, Talley was instrumental in Bagnoli’s hire at Columbia University in Febru-ary.

In last year’s matchup at Franklin Field, the Wildcats routed the Quakers, 41-7, with all the scoring plays occurring in the first half. Then-junior quar-terback John Robertson threw for 230 yards and four touchdowns, and the Wildcat defense stopped Penn’s offense multiple times in its own territory. For the Red and Blue, then-senior running back Kyle Wilcox provided the team with its only score on a 67-yard scamper.

Robertson is a holdover on this year’s team, but two of his top weapons, wide receiver Poppy Livers and running back Kevin Monangai, have gradu-ated. Livers caught 67 passes for 987 yards and nine touch-downs, while Monangai rushed for 1,138 yards and 12 touch-downs. Robertson himself broke the 1,000-yard barrier, gaining 1,272 yards along with 11 rush-ing touchdowns, while he also had 35 touchdowns through the air.

Villanova also sees its leading tackler from 2014 back this year in senior linebacker Don Cherry. He wreaked havoc on opposing offenses last year, totaling 134 tackles (21.5 for loss), 10 sacks and 5.5 forced fumbles.

Matchup: FordhamDate: Oct. 10 at 1 p.m.

Where: Franklin Field2014 Record: 11-3Conference: Patriot League

Coach Joe Moorhead’s Ford-ham was a force on offense last season, but the team might not be as powerful after the loss of sev-eral key players.

Among those no longer with the team is quarterback Mike Nebrich, who won the Patriot League’s Offensive Player of the Year designation in his senior campaign with totals of 3,599 passing yards and 30 touch-downs. Also gone are Brian Wetzel, Tebucky Jones and Sam Ajala, three receivers who each surpassed 1,000 receiving yards last year.

One key player that will be returning for the Rams is sophomore running back Chase Edmonds. After a fresh-man season in which he logged 1,838 rushing yards and 23 rushing touchdowns, Edmonds won numerous accolades and has already been added to sev-eral preseason watch lists. In

addition, he was recently named the Patriot League Preseason Of-fensive Player of the Year.

Fordham also lost its top four tacklers from last year along with defensive lineman Brett Bi-estek, who led the team with 18 tackles for loss in 2014.

In last year’s matchup, the Rams trampled the Quakers, 60-22. Although then-sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen threw for 316 yards through the air, three different running backs had rushes of 40 or more yards and placekicker Jimmy Gammill connected on five field goals, Penn’s defense did not have an answer for Fordham’s offense. Nebrich threw for 566 yards and six touchdowns, while Edmonds ran for 107 yards and a touch-down. Jones and Ajala combined for 402 receiving yards and three scores. And after Fordham’s De-Andre Slate ran back a fumble recovery for a touchdown with 2:48 remaining in the first quar-ter, the Quakers trailed for the remainder of the game.

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SUMMER HIRESIt was a busy summer for Penn Athletics as a large number of head and assistant coaches were brought into the fold with the Red and Blue. Included in the Quakers’ most recent hires are two rowing bosses, a former NCAA-qualifier wrestler and a former standout goalkeeper.

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It’s been a busy summer for Brandon Copeland.

Now almost three years re-moved from helping guide Penn football to its last Ivy League title, the former Red and Blue linebacker is still trying to make an NFL roster. But after stints on two different practice squads and spending last fall out of football after being cut from the Tennes-see Titans’ roster, Copeland’s rejuvenated attitude could be key to his tenure with the Detroit Lions ... however much longer that may be.

After graduating from Penn, the Sykesville, Md., native spent parts of the next two offseasons with the Baltimore Ravens and Titans. The Titans cut Copeland — who went undrafted in 2013 — last September, leaving the

three-time Ancient Eight cham-pion without a job.

But after several months off, Copeland came back with a vengeance at the NFL Veteran Combine in Arizona in March, clocking in at 4.52 seconds in the 40-yard dash. He agreed to a one-year deal with the Lions a month later.

For someone trying to pursue his dream, it seems the break from football might have been a blessing in disguise.

“It was good for me,” Cope-land told the Detroit Free Press. “Last year put that desperation in me that just makes me a nastier person on the field.

“I was always a good player, but now I had the chance to take a step back, reevaluate everything and now every time I step on the field, it’s really just nothing held back.”

Though he has yet to play a down in the regular season, Co-peland has attempted to make an

As September approaches, so too does Penn football’s opening contest. The Quakers kick off their season with two nonconference games before facing Fordham in early Oc-tober. But what should coach Ray Priore’s squad look for against its non-Ivy foes? See below:Matchup: LehighDate: Sept. 19 at 12:30 p.m.Where: Bethlehem, Pa.2014 Record: 3-8Conference: Patriot League

The Mountain Hawks may be the Quakers’ first oppo-nent of the season, but Lehigh will play in two contests prior to hosting Penn. Led by coach Andy Coen, ot finished 3-8 last year in what was Coen’s first losing season since 2009.

Junior quarterback Nick Shafnisky returns for his second year as the starter. In 2014, he struggled to the tune of a 59.4 percent completion percentage and a 14 to 12 touchdown-to-interception

ratio. But he was also a threat in the running game, gaining 746 yards and six scores on the ground.

Perhaps the Mountain Hawks’ top threat on offense is sophomore wide receiver Troy Pelletier, who led the team in receiving in his fresh-man season with 49 catches for 815 yards and seven touchdowns. He has shown a penchant for big games, as evidenced by his three dif-ferent contests of 100-plus receiving yards, including his behemoth 10-catch, 214-yard game against Holy Cross.

Apart from Shafnisky and Pelletier, it is unclear who will be the players to watch on offense. Last season’s leading rusher, Rich Sodeke, has graduated along with the team’s second-leading receiver, Josh Parris. The lat-ter’s 635 receiving yards were 413 more than the third-most-productive receiver.

On defense, Lehigh brings back its two leading tacklers from 2014 — both junior line-backers — in second team All-Patriot League selection Colton Caslow and Pierce

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Previewing Penn’s pre-Ivy pairingsFOOTBALL | Quakers face tough early foesJACOB ADLERAssociate Sports Editor

Villanova football had plenty to celebrate during last year’s showdown with the Quakers, routing the Red and Blue 41-7 at Franklin Field.

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Copeland’s busy summer keeping NFL hopes aliveFOOTBALL | Roster cuts prominent this weekRILEY STEELESenior Sports Editor

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SUMMER HIRESWe break down a busy summer in Penn Athletics by looking at a

series of coaching hires

>> SEE PAGE 9

EARLY EXCITEMENTOur editors discuss which early

fall season matchup is most exciting

>> SEE PAGE 8

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first day...

Sunday was a day of firsts for Penn women’s soccer at Rhodes Field.

First game of the 2015 season. First career goals for

Sasha Stephens and Lauren Petite. First game for new coach Nicole Van Dyke.

And probably most im-portantly, the first win of the year for the Quakers, as they defeated Seton Hall in a weekend matinee, 3-1.

It took Penn (1-0-0) all of four minutes to put themselves in front, when sophomore transfer Lauren

Petite notched her first goal wearing the Red and Blue. The former TCU midfielder caught Pirates’ goalkeeper Gina Maiorana f lat-footed and lobbed a shot from 30 yards out that found the back of the net.

“Petite did an amazing job today,” Van Dyke said. “She recognized that the keeper was out, and that early goal

really set the tone for the game going forward.

“I think our offense did a nice job in general of ex-ecuting the scouting report, and as coaches that is what we want to see — our play-ers being students of the game.”

The Quakers would con-tinue to control the run of play through most of the

early stages of the first half, and their persistence was rewarded in the 16th minute when a bouncing ball in the box took several def lec-tions and landed at the feet of freshman forward Sasha Stephens for an easy goal.

“I know I am very happy with the way the offense was able to perform today, and what we’ve been working on

in practice I think was really reflected in the game,” Ste-phens said. “With all the different forwards and at-tacking players that we have, it was nice to find a com-bination that worked well, and we were able to just get going.”

Despite having played

W. SOCCER | Stephens scores twice in debutSAM ALTLANDSports Reporter

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