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LA CASA LATINA’S 15 YEARS

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The Wharton School’s un-dergraduate curriculum will soon be coming under review.

“We are at a very prelimi-nary stage,” said Lori Rosen-kopf, vice dean and director of the Wharton Undergraduate Division, in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian . The fi rst step, she said, is to create a review committee composed of faculty and “other stake-holders.” Rosenkopf fi rst an-nounced the intent to review the curriculum at the most re-cent faculty meeting.

With no clear pre-set goal for the multi-year review, it is uncertain what a modernized Wharton curriculum would look like. Rosenkopf said that it’s hard to determine whether or not the review process will yield more fl exibility in course requirements, but she pointed to the recent MBA curriculum overhaul as a potential indica-tor of the direction the review could go. After a review pro-cess of its own lasting several years , the changes to Whar-ton’s MBA curriculum were announced in December 2010 and implemented throughout 2011 and 2012.

“Who can know at this point what exactly [the undergradu-ate curriculum changes] will turn out to be? We’re review-ing,” Rosenkopf said.

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10 YEARS OF FRANKLIN FOUNTAINFranklin Fountain, an old-fashioned soda fountain, celebrated its 10th anniversary in Old City on Saturday with live music and various types of ice cream concoctions. Founders Ryan and Eric Berley started Franklin Fountain with a focus on recreating an antique sweet shop atmosphere.

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When 310,000 people marched on Sunday to pres-sure global leaders attending the United Nations summit on climate change to dramatically lower carbon emissions, a con-tingent of Penn students took to the streets of New York to stand in solidarity with the pro-testers.

Ninety Penn students partic-ipated in the People’s Climate March on Sunday organized by 350.org, an international envi-ronmental organization. The People’s Climate March is now said to be the largest mobiliza-tion of people against climate change in history.

College sophomore Pe-ter Thacher and Engineering sophomore Thomas Lee inde-pendently organized the group from Penn, with funding assis-tance from the Penn Environ-mental Group and the Student Sustainability Association. Thacher had previously worked with 350.org, and began orga-nizing the Penn group for the march after the organization asked him to be the Penn cam-pus lead.

Thirty Penn students left for New York on Saturday to participate in the Youth Con-vergence for Climate Justice, a conference on what young people can do about the climate crisis, how it relates to prob-lems of poverty, inequality and racism and how to start and run campaigns for climate change.

“The most important thing I learned from the conference was that a movement of people can be pretty small, but if they

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PENN STUDENTS JOIN MARCH AGAINST GLOBAL WARMINGNinety Penn students joined the People’s Climate March in New York on Sunday

Black student leaders from all eight Ivy League universi-ties are uniting to fi ght racial inequality across the East Coast.

The students announced on Monday the formation of the Black Ivy Coalition — the fi rst partnership of its kind which will focus on long-term advo-cacy work — in a statement acknowledging the importance of college activism in promot-ing civil rights today.

“It is our mission to compel our society to revalue Black lives and end the violation of human and civil rights of Black people. We aim to cor-rect the misconception that the Civil Rights movement is over and the United States exists in a paradigm of post-racism — that the slew of recent deaths is nothing more than a series of isolated incidents,” reads the statement released by the group.

The coalition grew out of

conversations between stu-dents after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police offi cer in Fer-guson, Mo. Brown’s shooting highlighted the racial tensions between the black community and law enforcement, but also served as a call to action for many student activists.

Shortly after the shooting, many students across the coun-try became involved in local protests. It was around this time that student leaders from Penn started talking informally online with other students at Yale and Columbia universi-ties, said College senior and UMOJA co-chair Denzel

Cummings. “It was us having conversa-

tions like ‘what are you doing on your campus’ and then it evolved into a conversation of ‘what we can do together’ and then it evolved into what we have now, ... a physical tangi-

After Ferguson, black Ivy League students form civil rights coalition

College senior Denzel Cummings, Planning and Facilitating Co-chair of UMOJA, speaks at the Ferguson Town Hall held on campus on Aug 24.

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When he arrived at Penn 30 years ago, Pedro Ramos felt as if he had come to a diff erent world.

“Getting to Penn was literally like landing on Mars,” Ramos, a 1987 College graduate , would re-call later to a student audience at Festival Latino in 2000.

Ramos, who had grown up in an “insular Puerto Rican commu-nity,” remembered fi rst arriving on campus in a 1974 Chevy that his family owned and seeing “all these cars that [he] had only seen on TV,” according to a previous Daily Pennsylvanian article.

Now thanks to La Casa Latina, students like Ramos feel much more at home.

La Casa Latina, which is cel-ebrating its 15th anniversary this month, functions as a gathering place for Latino students and a re-source center for 18 Latino student organizations.

“You come here to fi nd your home away from home and that’s exactly what La Casa functions as,” said Jasmine Perez, a 2010 Nursing graduate and head of the Association of Latino Alumni.

In 1987, when Ramos gradu-ated, Latino students, staff and faculty would meet for social and cultural events at the Greenfi eld Intercultural Center, which serves as a space for all minority groups. Despite this, Luz Marin, who came to the University two years later, felt that something was miss-ing.

“At that time, there was no place

for Latinos to do community. It did not exist,” she said.

“I started to think, my god, if I feel the need for community, what must it be like for students who are coming to the university who may come from economically dis-advantaged families?” said Marin, currently a program coordinator in the Gender, Sexuality and Wom-en’s program. “Penn could be a pretty intimidating place if you have access or privilege, imagine if you didn’t have any access or privilege.”

According to La Casa’s offi -cial history, the turning point for the Latino community came with the formation of the Latino Fac-ulty and Staff Association in 1994. There was a lot of discussion about the issues facing the Latino community at the University at the informal gatherings held by the new association, Marin said. But for Marin, a meeting she had with a Latino community organizer proved to be the pivotal moment.

The organizer, Philip DeChavez, who was attending Penn’s medical school at the time, asked Marin to introduce him to other faculty and staff because he had also felt the need for a physical place for Lati-nos on campus.

Soon, Lilvia Soto, an assistant dean for academic advising, Jorge Santiago, an Engineering pro-fessor, and Hilda Luiggi, a staff member in the Medical School’s diversity offi ce, joined the group — creating a critical mass.

“We went to dean after dean, to articulate the need for a place [that] Latino students, alums, staff and faculty can gravitate towards and engage whatever problem we have collectively,” Santiago said.

The group also received sup-

port from Gilbert Casellas, a 1977 Penn Law graduate who also was a member of the Board of Trustees.

On the student side, DeChavez , who had helped to put together the Latino Coalition (now known as the Latin@ Coalition), led student protests to demand action from the University. In one protest he helped lead on April 21, 1998, a group of Latino student leaders marched from the high-rise fi eld to six diff erent administrative offi ces, including the Offi ce of Admis-sions and President Judith Rodin’s offi ce to deliver their complaints. They were followed by a crew of newscameras and reporters from Philadelphia media outlets.

Contained in the four-page report that students created was the demand for a resource center specifi cally for Latino students, as well as a general call for the Uni-versity to increase the number of

Latino students, staff and faculty.The offi cial proposal that led to

the creation of the center though, was not submitted until October 30, 1998. Almost a year later, La Casa Latina offi cially opened its doors.

“Our work was really to plant the seed, but the seed actually grew and we can see its fruit be-cause it was a very fertile soil,” Santiago said. He pointed specifi -cally to Rodin and the then direc-tor of Vice Provost for University Life’s concern on the issue.

Fifteen years later, La Casa is continuing to provide many Latino students with a home on campus.

“Everything is just family ori-ented,” said Perez, who has been involved with La Casa since she fi rst arrived on campus in 2004 and remains in touch now as an alumni. She calls Maritza Santia-go-Torres, La Casa’s offi ce man-

ager, “mom.” Johnny Irizarry, La Casa’s director — who did not respond to multiple requests for an interview by publishing time — calls Perez “his daughter,” she

said.“This is a family,” Perez added.

“It’s not just something that hap-pens while you’re here at Penn, it continues.”

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have an active support base, they can win the cause they are fi ghting for no matter what,” Thacher said.

On Sunday, 90 Penn students gathered and lined up around Central Park at 10 a.m. as part of

the group of 310,000 protesters. About 500 Columbia students, 100 Yale students and 100 Swarth-more students lined up alongside the Penn group. The crowd of protesters began marching around noon, and fi nished around 3:30 p.m. in midtown Manhattan.

“People were energized and emotionally attached to what was going on. At 12:58 [p.m.], there was a moment of silence for those already being aff ected by climate crises. People raised their hands to signal that the moment of silence had begun, and it was incredibly

powerful,” Thacher said.During the two-mile route,

protesters chanted, “The people united will never be defeated” and “What do want? Climate Justice! When do we want it? Now!”

“For many of the Penn students who came today, this was their

fi rst protest, so I think this march provided important education about democracy and reclaiming the power of their fi rst amendment rights,” Lee said.

For College junior Cassandra Vickers, the protest represented the realization of people acting on

what they believe.“I never imagined my genera-

tion could mobilize in such a way,” Vickers said. “I feel that the inter-net and the ‘like’ button on Face-book gives us a false sense of in-volvement, but this weekend I got to see a movement come alive.”

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The Center for Hispanic Excellence, also known as La Casa Latina, was officially inaugurated on Sept 21, 1999.

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The Class of 2018 made an un-usual pick for Class Board presi-dent: a Russian-born 21 year old who attended boarding school in England and now speaks with an English accent. College freshman Vadim Ordovsky-Tanaevsky is three-quarters Russian and one-quarter Venezuelan and took a gap year to improve his Spanish before coming to Penn. In an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, he discussed getting student input, a spa relaxation event and integrat-ing international students. Below is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

The Daily Pennsylvanian:What projects do you have planned for the upcoming year?

Vadim Ordovsky-Tanaevsky: First of all, they are ideas. I wouldn’t necessarily call them projects just yet.

My main idea is to make sure that we bring diversity into the fun. So the simple concept of free food for me is not just giving free food at events but giving interna-tional food, so it’s basically giv-ing the opportunity to experience new things and having fun while doing it. Some big events are the Econ Scream, which is on Sunday, which we will defi nitely be talk-ing about tonight with the board. It will be great and a lot of fun to kick off this Class Board year to a good start. I’m hopefully going to be able to implement the spa re-laxation party — my main thing. I know there is “Cram ‘N Jam " before fi nals and I want to give it a slightly new perspective. The spa relaxation includes [a] rave party — where you release the stress — but at the same time I wanted to have a more chilled version with a massage train, maybe foam and some cushions around to relax.

DP: If you could change one thing about campus, what would you change?

VO: A lot of people I’ve seen have been talking about the toilet paper on campus. It’s not the nic-est thing. That would defi nitely be one of the things, and I think it’s quite easy to do. That’s what people have told me so I’m speak-ing on behalf of the class. That’s the funny one.

I know that there are inter-house [sports] leagues ... but I want to make it bigger and make it on the level of varsity and club.

DP: Have you been involved in student government in the past and how will that aff ect your presiden-tial style?

VO: Never in my life. I’m an event organizer, I have an unlim-ited amount of energy and I love sharing that energy with people. That’s why I have so much fun when I organize an event. I’m the guy that meets you at the door and makes sure you are having a good time and I don’t stress about it. ... I really hope that is what applies be-cause my class voted me so I think that’s what they like to have — an energetic person to make sure that we all have the most amazing and energetic time.

DP: One of the main things you ran on was the diversity fac-tor. Why is this important to you personally?

VO: I used to be a very short, long-haired kid with a strong Rus-sian accent — because I am part Russian — when I went to board-ing school. I didn’t really fi t in quite well, I was kind of an outcast right away and it took me a while to get the English going, the accent going. It took me a while to throw massive parties and have fun with everyone and organize events.

Right now, as soon as I knew the position was available as soon as you get in, I wanted to fulfi ll something that I wasn’t able to back in England. I want to make sure that we all reach out and diversify ourselves. I am quite happy and lucky to say that I am a diverse person — I’ve grown up in diff erent countries and diff erent backgrounds. Through the events and ideas that all of us will plan as Class Board, I want to give every-one the opportunity to exit their comfort zone if they want, without even thinking about it. You get out there and diversify yourself and meet new people and experience things you would never experi-ence.

DP: How do you plan to engage personally with all the students?

VO: I have to say it was very diffi cult [when campaigning]. You met loads of people over a short period of time. I want to make sure that I formally get to know people and have normal conversa-tions with them that aren’t based

on a pitch that people are running away from or when everyone is harassing them. Actually, yester-day I was walking around and a big group of guys stopped me and asked, “What happens if I had an idea and want to implement it?” That raised the issue that we will defi nitely address: the possibility of reaching out to the class and not the other way around. I think that’s very important. We are 10 and we

are representing 2,500 people, and I want to make sure that we don’t have to wait for their ideas and we reach out and make them come up with their own ideas. We want their ideas.

I have no idea how we will do that. I want to meet with my Class Board fi rst to fi gure [it] out. We will defi nitely reach out to make sure they supply us with a major-ity of the ideas and the projects.

College freshman Vadim Ordovsky-Tanaevsky was elected President of the 2018 Class Board last week.

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“You can say many t h i n g s a b o u t

Hamas. But to their immense credit … they made one thing very clear — there would be no end to the war until Israel prom-ised to lift the siege of Gaza.”

This quote might sound like it was taken from a Mus-lim Brotherhood website or an extremist publication in the Arab world, but in fact, it was taken from the Facebook page of Penn for Palestine.

The board of Penn for Pal-estine is right. You can say many things about Hamas, and we would like to highlight a few of those things.

The siege of Gaza was insti-gated after Hamas’ kidnapping of Israeli Gilad Shalit in 2006, who was held for over five years in captivity in gross violation of international law. They later kidnapped three Jewish teens (one of whom was American) in July, triggering the current conflict.

Hamas has fired more than 11,000 missiles indiscrimi-nately at Israeli civilians since

Israel unilaterally handed over control of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians in 2005 and almost 4,000 since this past July alone.

During the most recent war this summer, as in past con-flicts, Hamas used Gazan civil-ian infrastructure to shield its military infrastructure, weap-ons caches and missile firing sites, putting countless inno-cent Palestinians in harm’s way.

These are among “the

many things you can say about Hamas,” but we prefer to let the organization speak for itself. In Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh’s own words:

“We love death the way our enemies love life!”

That is the nature of this organization, a fundamentalist

death cult that would rather see every last Palestinian die than let the nation of Israel live. It might seem that it should go without saying that a group la-beled as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government is not worthy of “immense credit,” but as Penn for Palestine has shown, it bears reiterating.

“We love death the way our enemies love life!” It bears reiterating not just to Penn for

Palestine, but also to the cur-rent Democratic administra-tion. While President Obama and Secretary Kerry did not offer material or rhetorical sup-port for Hamas, they managed to bolster the organization’s spirits and raise its hopes by consistently undermining our

ally Israel.By continually insisting

upon using Hamas’ two stron-gest allies in the region — Tur-key and Qatar — as mediators, this Democratic administration led Hamas to believe that its ter-rorist tactics would result in the realization of their demands. Moreover, it undermined the mediation efforts of our Arab ally Egypt as it attempted to broker a ceasefire and alienated Israelis from all parts of the po-litical spectrum.

By ordering “a review” of weapons shipments to Israel during a lull in the conflict, President Obama attempted to draw a moral equivalency be-tween the sovereign, democrat-ic State of Israel and a terrorist organization. He symbolically called Israel’s efforts at self-defense and its very legitimacy into question. Moreover, he did so in a way that could not have helped any Palestinians — if his concerns were legitimate — because the weapons were ultimately delivered and the “review” took place during a temporary ceasefire.

We, the College Republi-

cans, believe that this weak dis-play of “support” for the only true democracy in the Middle East, and one of our closest al-lies, is unacceptable for Israel, Palestine or America. Weak support for Israel empowers Hamas, whose rule is to the detriment of both Israelis and Palestinians. It also weakens trust among our allies across the world when our president claims to have Israel’s back and turns his own on Israel in its hour of need.

We, the College Republi-cans, want to reaffirm our sup-port for our ally, the Jewish democratic State of Israel. We want to reaffirm our support for a two-state solution, predicated not on concessions to terror-ists, but on security and mutual trust.

We, the College Republi-cans, initially wanted to express this sentiment of solidarity with Penn Democrats to show that support for Israel is non-partisan, regardless of your political affiliation or opinions of the president. Unfortunately, our desire for a show of support from Penn Dems was received

in the same manner as Israel’s desire for a show of support from President Obama. After weeks of trying to work togeth-er with them on a bipartisan letter, Penn Dems ultimately tabled our cooperation this past week.

We, the College Republi-cans, sincerely hope that this article is the last such piece that needs to be written on Is-rael. We hope that Democratic leadership, both on campus and in the White House, will return to supporting Israel as they have in the past, and that sup-port for Israel will never again be a partisan issue. Until that time, College Republicans will continue to stand on the side of Israel and work towards a strong, functional U.S.-Israel relationship.

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was always career-driven, she was a sensitive enough person to relate to the deeply mean-ingful introductory mate-rial taught in the Maimonides program. As far as she was concerned, MEOR was pro-viding her with a stress-free, open-dialogue and intellectu-ally-stimulating approach to Judaism through classes and experiences so that she could make an educated decision about her own Judaism. Our daughter was inspired to con-tinue her Jewish learning and eventually decided to incor-porate the meaningful ideas that she learned into her own life. Even while increasing her observance, she remained a diligent student, got into an Ivy League law school and is now working as a law clerk in the Supreme Court of Israel. Throughout her journey, her MEOR mentors always en-couraged her law career and in fact, MEOR was instru-mental in helping her to ob-tain this clerkship.

Indeed, if it weren’t for our daughter’s involvement in MEOR, she never would

have developed such a strong connection to Israel and the Jewish people, which led her to seek a job at the Supreme Court in Israel. This passion has inspired our family as well. Our son has increased his engagement in Jewish life at the University of Michigan and went on his first trip to Israel this past summer. And through being around our daughter and her mentors, we have deepened our connection to Israel and Judaism as well. This is no small feat in Amer-

ica today, where assimilation, anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment are escalating.

On another note, our per-sonal relationship with our daughter has also benefit-ted through her relationship with MEOR. The time-tested values of honoring one’s par-ents were clearly part of the content that she learned, ap-preciated and so beautifully expresses today.

There has been much dis-cussion about stipends being paid by MEOR — as well as Chabad, Hillel, Birthright and other Jewish organizations — and some have expressed

concern about this practice. But no person would decide to increase his Jewish obser-vance or change his life in any substantial way for just a couple hundred dollars. To think otherwise is laughable. The stipend is simply a neces-sary tool to reach today’s gen-eration. Think about it: Col-lege students have so many distractions pulling at their time, whether online or on campus. And at campuses like Penn where students are very career-driven, it is a very dif-ficult task to get any student who doesn’t have a strong Jewish background to com-mit a couple of hours each week to learning about Jew-ish values and ideas — even if those ideas get to the core of the meaning of life and their place in it. So sure, the fund-ing is a way to get students in the door, but it certainly isn’t enough to keep students in-volved with MEOR in a sub-stantial way.

We have watched our

daughter blossom into an even more sensitive, refined and most importantly, happy and healthy person who is committed to being the best person she can be. Her MEOR mentors embody these same characteristics as well; they are healthy and balanced peo-ple who we enjoy spending time with.

MEOR has provided my daughter, like hundreds of other students, with an oppor-tunity to engage in Judaism in an intellectual, meaning-ful and inspiring way. We are grateful to the organization for its hard work. Far from the inaccurate or unfortunate characterization as “radical,” MEOR is truly a light in the darkness of today’s world.

In defense of the Maimonides programGUEST COLUMN BY JAIME AND PAUL SHWEITZER

PENN COLLEGE REPUBLICANS strives to promote conservative ideals at Penn and foster a community for conservative students. They can be reached at [email protected].

SAM SHERMAN is a College junior from Marblehead, Mass. His email address is [email protected].

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JAIME AND PAUL SHWEITZER are the parents of Jenna Shweitzer, a 2014 University of Pennsylvania Law School graduate. Jenna Shweitzer can be emailed [email protected].

While President Obama and Secretary Kerry did not offer material or rhetorical support for Hamas, they managed to bolster the organization’s spirits and raise its hopes by consistently

undermining our ally Israel.”

If it weren’t for our daughter’s involvement in MEOR, she never would have developed such a strong connection to Israel and the Jewish people, which led her to seek

a job at the Supreme Court in Israel.”

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Penn’s endowment returned 17.5 percent over the last fiscal year, setting a historic high-water mark for the value of the endowment.

The value of Penn’s endow-ment increased to $9.6 billion at the end of fiscal year 2014 in June — around a $1.8 bil-lion increase from the previous year — the University reported Thursday morning at a meeting of the Board of Trustees’ Budget and Finance Committee. This is the first year in Penn’s history that the endowment has climbed

above $8 billion. Last year, the endowment was valued at $7.7 billion.

“[The endowment] is obvi-ously enormously important for enabling us to move forward and do new things, and that’s a reason why the Making History campaign was important beyond the numbers you see — because it underpins our future as well,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said at the meeting.

Penn’s three-year average re-turn is 10.9 percent, while the average return since fiscal year 2004 has been 8 percent.

Penn’s investment return is slightly lower than those of Dartmouth College and the Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technolo-gy, which both posted returns of

19.2 percent for fiscal year 2014. Other peer universities, includ-ing the other Ivy League institu-tions, have not yet reported their endowment returns this year.

At the Board of Trustees meeting, Vice President for Fi-nance and Treasurer Stephen Golding delivered a presenta-tion summarizing the Univer-sity’s finances since fiscal year 2004 — a decade ago and the year Gutmann took the helm at Penn.

Penn’s net assets grew from $5.4 billion in fiscal year 2004 to $13 billion in fiscal year 2014, and academic revenue in-creased from $1.8 billion in fis-cal year 2004 to $2.7 billion in fiscal year 2014.

Golding compared Penn’s financial growth to that of a

group of 21 peer universities, including Ivy League and top U.S. research universities. Be-tween fiscal years 2004 and 2013 — the most recent data available from peer institutions — Penn’s endowment increased in value by 103 percent, while the peer group rose 65 percent, and Penn’s net assets grew by 92 percent, compared to the 51 per-cent growth of the peer group.

Additionally, Penn’s expend-able resources-to-debt ratio rose 41 percent between fiscal year 2004 and fiscal year 2013, while the peer group average de-creased 35 percent.

The Trustees also passed two resolutions, including one for a $16.5 million renovation to the Richards Building and the sixth floor of the Goddard Laborato-

ries, and a $12 million initia-tive — funded by the Perelman School of Medicine — to reno-vate Stemmler Hall.

Andrew Heyer, a trustee and chair of the Budget and Finance Committee, said the fiscal report was good news for the Univer-sity.

“The base operating system, the health system, development [and] investment performance all coming together in a very positive way is just an amazing accomplishment,” he said.

Chief Investment Officer Pe-ter Ammon came to Penn at the beginning of fiscal year 2014. Ammon previously worked at Yale University under David Swensen, who is widely seen as a leading figure in managing university investments.

Endowment grows to record $9.6 billionInvestment return on the endowment was 17.5 per-cent in fiscal year 2014

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Cummings said the group also plans to open membership to stu-dents at other universities once the group gets underway.

This recent effort is just one part of the community’s response to Ferguson. Students at Penn started their recent efforts by holding a Town Hall event where they put out a call for ideas on what actions to take. Since that event, the com-munity has also increased internal communications through initiatives like Black@Penn, which connects black undergraduate and graduate students.

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we are Etsy meets Mr. Porter,” said Naadimuthu.

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way that they are generally not able to,” he said.

And they are constantly looking for more makers to feature, whether they are scouring social media sites like Twitter or are browsing through stores in Philadelphia and New York.

When Naadimuthu completed his undergraduate degree in political science at Penn in 2008, he did not know exactly what he wanted to do. At first he tried management con-sulting but realized that this was not

for him. It was not until later, when working for a start-up, that Naadi-muthu knew that he wanted to “go even further” and act upon his own ideas. So Naadimuthu returned to Penn, this time to attend Wharton as an MBA candidate.

At Wharton, Naadimuthu not only encountered a network of sup-port from professors and administra-tion regarding entrepreneurship, but he also met co-founder Trey Sisson.

Naadimuthu stressed the impor-

tance in finding a business partner, advising aspiring entrepreneurs to “really just find someone you can trust and that is very much aligned with starting their own company or being an entrepreneur. ... When I found Trey at Wharton, we both knew that we wanted to start a com-pany,” he said. “We were both super motivated to do it.”

When they scrapped their first business idea for the Wharton Ven-ture Award, they pulled a 30-hour

brainstorm session that resulted in the idea for Goods of Record.

Looking forward, Naadimuthu wants to commit to Goods of Record full-time after graduation. They are hoping to expand the number of fea-tured makers that they offer.

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While not everyone knows that Oct. 6 marks the last day to register to vote in Pennsylva-nia, Penn’s political community is gearing up to let you know about it — and make sure that you’re registered.

In anticipation for the mid-term elections, Penn has a jam-packed schedule for National Voter Registration Day on Tues-day, Sept. 23. Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs is teaming up with Penn Leads the Vote to hold a voter registration drive on Locust Walk and voter information ses-sions throughout the day.

“Since we do such a big push here on our campus at NSO and earlier in the semester with registration, this will be a re-minder to students who have already registered to prepare for election,” said Dawn Maglicco Deitch, executive director of Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs.

Under the Higher Education Act of 1998, universities and colleges have an obligation to distribute voter registration in-formation. Student-led groups are also enthusiastically joining the effort.

“Even though we are the pin-nacle of democracy, we have a real problem with voter turn-out,” said Grayson Sessa, ex-ecutive director of College Re-publicans, who on Tuesday are co-hosting a “Voter Registration Kickoff” with Penn Democrats, Penn Hillel, Penn NAACP, Stu-dents for Sensible Drug Policy and UMOJA to inform students about voter registration and its historical importance.

“We’re hoping our efforts translate to a strong Penn push in this election and we’re look-ing forward to having so many engaged people on board,” Penn Democrats Outreach Director Ray Clark said in an email.

Increasing voter turnout is an issue that Penn Dems and Col-lege Republicans wholeheart-edly agree on.

“No matter what, as a coun-try, we want to get that voter turnout percentage up,” added Sessa,“because otherwise it is embarrassing, and decisions

aren’t reflected by the true pop-ulation.”

Across college campuses na-tionwide, voter registration has become an important effort, with National Voter Registra-tion Day acting as an annual registration blitz.

“It’s a project to really focus on student issues for voting as well as helping campus admin-istrators work with students to provide the information they need as a campus,” said Kristen Muthig, communications and policy manager for Fair Elec-tions Legal Network, who helps oversee the Campus Vote Proj-ect that annually distributes to voter registration information to campuses in all 50 states.

“Especially right now, there are a lot of issues that students should be interested in that can-didates on the ballot will have a direct impact on — things like student loans, student debt, the rise of the cost of tuition in some cases and issues like the environment and the economy,” Muthig added.

Penn has a successful history in getting out the vote on cam-pus. According to Penn Leads the Vote’s website, increased get-out-the-vote tactics in 2004

led to a 280 percent increase in campus voting turnout. In 2008, a remarkable 89.6 percent of on-campus registered voters ac-tually voted.

While Penn may be making strides in voter turnout, the United States hasn’t been as quick to im-prove. In the 2012 election, voter turnout of the voting-eligible popu-lation stood slightly over 58 percent.

“I am still in awe about the 84 percent turnout the other day in Scotland, and India had an election earlier this year with high 60 percent voter turnout,” Maglicco Deitch added. “This isn’t about candidates or ide-ologies or anything like that. It is about every young person understanding their right to par-ticipate in our democracy, and I wish everyone could turnout.”

A voter registration drive will be held for National

Voter Registration Day on Sept. 23

JONATHAN BAERStaff Writer

With elections looming, Penn groups push for voter registration

New coalition brings political buffs together

For College junior Louis Capozzi, it is the dawn of a new political era at Penn.

In a large classroom inside College Hall, 250 students came together to engage in pas-sionate debate — the first in what Capozzi hopes will be a monthly series of gatherings to hash out the most pressing is-sues of today.

It was the inaugural session of the Penn Political Union, a new branch of the Government and Politics Association. The organization is the first central political institution for people of all political perspectives at Penn to voice their ideas and opinions.

“I’ve never seen such pas-sion about politics in my entire time at Penn,” said Capozzi, the union’s founder and president of the GPA. He added that even political fanatics came up to him after the debate and com-mented on the passion and fun the debate provided.

The group is student-led with support from the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative and the Political Science Department.

During the debate, five dif-ferent political caucuses — libertarians, conservatives, liberals, progressives and inde-pendents — came together to debate a Personal Income Tax Fairness Act, a mock measure where all citizens would pay the same tax rate.

The motion failed, with the liberals, progressives and inde-pendents voting against the act. The conservatives then intro-duced an alternative bill which caused an uproar, Capozzi said. People shouted their opinions and banged on the tables, simi-lar to a British Parliament ses-sion. Through the chaos, the alternative bill was dismissed.

The PPU is the first politi-cal debate forum at Penn and also the first group that allows all different political minds to come together and share their opinions. The forum is modeled after the Yale Political Union, as well as the Oxford Union and

the Cambridge Union Society.When questioned why there

is a need for the PPU, Col-lege junior Klaudia Amenabar, chairwoman of the Progressive caucus, said that “it gets stu-dents involved in politics with-out funneling them into a politi-cal party right away, and allows for students to learn political maneuvering strategies that are important to any profession.”

Similarly, the PPU Speaker and College senior Gabe Del-aney, who wielded the gavel at the sometimes unruly debate, said that there is a need for a po-litically diverse group at Penn. He added that it will “breathe

new life into public policy de-bate at Penn and cultivate future leaders of this country and the world.”

The group meets on the third Thursday of every month in College Hall, room 200, to hold their debates. The next meet-ing will be on October 16. Al-though no one knows what the next debate could be about, if this first debate says anything about the nature of the group, it will definitely be loud and ex-citing.

The organization held their first debate last

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Penn volleyball came into the fi nal day of the Big Five Tourna-ment — and nonconference play — with a six-game losing streak hanging over its head.

Coach Kerry Carr’s squad got that monkey off its back, but Penn was unable to pull off a sweep, earning a four-set win victory over La Salle before suff ering a 25-14, 25-23, 25-17 defeat to Temple on Saturday night at the Palestra.

La Salle (6-10) got off to a

blazing start in the fi rst set of the fi rst game, and it looked like the Quakers (3-7) might be headed to their seventh straight loss. The Explorers had an early lead of 11-2 but the Red and Blue came roaring back.

"[The adjustment] wasn’t stra-tegic, it was more like a mental settling down,” Carr said after the game. “Focusing more on the pass, set and serve rather than on the outcome of just hitting the ball.

“So the adjustment was made more in our minds than anything else.”

However, despite adjusting to La Salle’s attack, the Quakers faced triple-set point.

Penn saved all three, thanks to a service error from La Salle and kills from senior middle blocker Kendall Turner and freshman outside hitter Aimee Stephenson. The Quakers took the next two points to wrap up the set, with ju-nior setter Alex Caldwell setting up Stephenson for the clinching kill.

La Salle bounced back, taking a hard-fought second set that was

never separated by more than four points. The third set was another nail-biter, featuring 10 ties and three lead changes.

After the Explorers repelled a few set points, Turner — who was named to the All-Tourna-ment team — broke a tie for Penn with one of her 10 kills.

“She’s waited a long time to get here,” Carr said of Turner. “She’s a very patient, hard-work-ing person, so I’m glad to see it when it really comes out during game time, what I know she’s capable of, and hopefully she takes that confi dence into the Ivy League.”

After Penn won the next point to take a two-sets-to-one advan-tage, they came out fi ring on all cylinders in the fourth set, jump-ing out to a 11-3 lead that they rode to a 25-10 win.

After having a few hours to enjoy their victory, the Quakers headed into their matchup with Temple, looking to start a more positive kind of streak.

However, the Owls (9-3) were having none of it. Temple domi-nated the fi rst set of the match, turning the Quakers aside, 25-14.

“We were not passing well, we were not communicating, we were not serving tough,” Carr said of the first set. “That had been our strategic plan, and [we]just didn’t adopt it un-til set two.”

The second set was much closer, with neither team able to string together any runs. Howev-er, Temple took the close set and went on a couple runs to fi nish off Penn in straight sets.

Junior Alexis Genske fi nished with 14 kills to pace the Quakers in the fi nal match, and Stephen-son was next with 10.

After ending their losing streak and going through 10 nonconfer-ence matches, the real games be-gin as Penn gets ready for some Ivy action.

“We are focusing on what we did really well,” Turner said. “We had a lot of really good moments this weekend and we’re trying to take some of that into the Ivy season.”

The Quakers will kick off their Ivy League slate against Princ-eton on Friday at the Palestra.

Nobody said it would be easy.On Saturday , Penn fi eld hock-

ey made the arduous trek north to commence Ivy League play against Cornell in what proved to be perhaps the most hotly con-tested and physical match of the Quakers’ young season.

Despite an impressive show-ing on defense from Penn as well as a vigorous pace of play from the very outset of the match, Cor-nell bested the visiting Quakers 1-0.

It was the second consecutive loss for the Red and Blue (2-3, 0-1 Ivy) after falling to Liberty 2-3 on Sept. 14 .

The fi rst period of the game ended in a scoreless tie with both teams unable to capitalize on of-fense despite an extremely physi-cal display from Cornell (4-1, 1-0), illuminated by the team’s 13 fouls through the fi rst 18 min-utes of gameplay. Cornell outshot the Quakers, 5-3, and Cornell’s standout freshman forward Krys-ten Mayers registered the only shot on goal of the fi rst half.

Leading Cornell scorer and junior back Marisa Siergiej broke the scoreless drought with her eighth goal of the season in the 37th minute. Teammates Taylor Standiford , a junior midfi elder, and Ann DiPastina , a senior mid-fi elder, assisted Siergiej on her game-winning score.

Cornell would go on to exert off ensive pressure for the remain-

der of the half, outshooting the Quakers, 6-2, in shots on goal.

Despite their off ensive strug-gles, the Red and Blue managed to maintain a formidable defen-sive presence throughout the match as senior goalkeeper Al-lison Weisenfels continued her dominant performance in goal with fi ve saves, adding to her im-pressive total of 27 saves thus far on the season.

Sophomore defender Claire Kneizys also contributed consid-erably to this defensive authority with two defensive saves in the backfi eld.

“Going into the second half, we were focused on improving our off ensive output, but our main goal was to not give up any goals off penalty corners,” Penn coach Colleen Fink said. “To see that goal crushed so early into the second period was defi nitely up-setting, but I remained confi dent throughout.”

Coach Fink went on to explain that Penn gave up only four penal-ty corners throughout the match, a relatively small total for a full

game, and that she believed her team played very well throughout the remainder of the second half following the goal despite a few misguided midfi eld passes.

“Throughout the week, our primary aim was to focus and concentrate on our strengths and develop them to the best of our ability, which I believe we more than accomplished through our practices,” Fink responded when asked about what the team did to prepare going into this match fol-lowing its recent loss to Liberty.

Going forward, Fink hopes that the team’s recently amend-ed corner strategy, which was changed this past week, begins to bring results, as the Quakers failed to capitalize on any cor-ner opportunities this past match. Additionally, she hopes that the team can continue to maintain a high level of off ensive prowess, which it has more than demon-strated in prior games.

The Red and Blue will look to break their losing streak with an away victory against Lafayette in Easton, Pa. on Wednesday.

The game looked to be go-ing all in Mansfi eld’s favor. But after a missed extra point by the Mountaineers in the third quarter, everything turned for the Red and Blue.

Down 13 points in the fourth quarter, Penn sprint football fought back, scoring two touch-downs to upend Mansfi eld, 14-13, in its season opener.

The Quakers had beaten Man-sfi eld in their previous (and only) six contests, and Mansfi eld was looking to erase the pains of a 1-6 2013 campaign.

Under the lights and with the home crowd on its side, Mans-fi eld ran the opening kickoff for a touchdown. After responding with a three-and-out, it looked like Penn may have been staring down a third straight loss to open a season.

But the Quakers didn’t let up.“Our kids just continued to

… push at it, never stopped and never quit, and eventually in the fourth quarter we wore them down,” coach Bill Wagner said.

Penn came into the game led by sophomore quarterback Mike McCurdy, who helped the Quak-ers lead the league in passing of-fense last season. But after three quarters featuring little success on the off ensive side of the ball, something had to give.

Wagner switched to a pistol setup with a fullback acting as an extra blocker. This opened up the running lanes for senior captain and running back Mike Beamish.

It was almost like a homecom-ing for Beamish, who grew up in Mansfi eld until he was 12 years old and whose Dad played foot-ball at Mansfi eld.

Though he knew a lot of fam-ily friends would be in the stands,

Beamish tried to prepare for Saturday night as if it were just a normal game, but admitted that “obviously there were some nerves going into tonight.”

After seeing Mansfi eld run one back to start the game, Beamish noted that “one of the hardest things to do is [to try] to take the air out of a team after a big play like that.” And for three quarters, Penn failed to do so.

Penn managed to overcome the momentum and atmosphere in the fourth quarter. After Beamish established the run threat, McCurdy was able to uti-lize play action. And on the tails of Beamish’s 125 yards of off ense and two fourth-quarter touch-downs, Penn was able to take the lead.

With Beamish making the diff erence on Saturday, Wagner complimented the senior, saying, “Beamish played his backside off .”

The running back even caught

a huge pass to bring Penn to the goal line, setting up his fi rst touchdown run in the fourth.

But with over a minute left to play following Beamish’s touch-down and McCurdy’s extra point, there was still plenty of excite-ment.

Mansfi eld was able to get a bit of a drive going at the end, but the defense held together. Junior lineman Ed Cai came in and had a huge sack, which just about closed the door on Mansfi eld. The Quakers’ sideline erupted after a failed hook-and-ladder ran out the clock.

“If you look at the stats the game was pretty much even,” Wagner said.

But experience and grit pre-vailed for the Red and Blue as they managed to get into the win column.

Beamish is now Penn’s fi fth all-time leading rusher with over 2,000 yards.

“I didn’t know that but , that’s a pretty good feeling,” Beamish said before applauding his off en-sive line.

Penn prepares to take on Cor-nell at Franklin Field this Friday.

Quakers fall in Ivy opener

Penn battles back in season opener

Facing Big Five, Penn ends skid

JOSHUA NG/DP FILE PHOTOSophomore midfield Elise Tilton got a shot on goal, but Penn’s offense didn’t muster up much more than that as Cornell shut the Red and Blue out on Saturday.

FIELD HOCKEY | Penn fails to muster goal, loses

to Big Red in IthacaBY DANNY SAMPLEContributing Writer

AT CORNELL

VOLLEYBALL | Quakers end six-match losing streak, fall to Temple

BY TOMMY ROTHMANContributing Writer

VS. LA SALLE

VS. TEMPLE

SPRINT FB | The Quakers scored 14 in

the fourth to winBY THOMAS MUNSON

Contributing Writer

AARON CAMPBELL/DP FILE PHOTOSenior captain Kendall Turner was a key defensive presence throughout the weekend. As a result, she was named to the All-Tournament Team.

DP FILE PHOTOJunior lineman Ed Cai was a huge difference maker in the Quakers’ win against Mansfield, coming up with an interception and a key sack.

AT MANSFIELD

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Penn (3-3) got a great perfor-mance out of junior goalkeeper Max Polkinhorne, who flustered Temple (1-5-1) with 12 saves to earn himself a clean sheet.

The Quakers got plenty of of-fense in a quick spurt, with the first goal coming from star se-nior forward Duke Lacroix off of a great pass from sophomore Alec Neumann in the 62nd min-ute. The goal made Lacroix the eighth player in school history to break 50 points. Three minutes later, Neumann set up junior midfielder Forrest Clancy for the second goal of the match.

The substitutes had a big im-pact for Penn in this contest, starting with junior midfielder Sam Engs, who scored off of a rebound just a couple minutes after Clancy’s strike. Coach Rudy Fuller had high praise for his reserves after the game:

“The subs were just fantastic, completely down the line,” Full-er said. “I’ve been saying, this is the deepest team we’ve had in years.”

Fuller was also pleased with the effort from Polkinhorne, al-though he did note that the high

number of shots Polkinhorne had to deal with did not accu-rately reflect how well the Quak-ers played on defense.

Penn’s offense mustered only two shots in the first half, but the three-goal barrage over a span of five minutes put the Owls hope-lessly behind in a game that had been tied most of the way. The Owls came away without a win for the fifth straight game, de-spite being on their home pitch.

The Quakers were very ef-ficient in terms of turning shots on goal into actual tallies, fail-ing only once to convert when putting a shot on target. Overall, Penn had 10 shots to Temple’s 18.

However, Fuller once again cautioned against overanalyzing shot totals, expressing delight over an offensive performance that saw the Quakers score mul-tiple goals for the first time in four games.

With conference play begin-ning in two weeks, the Quakers got a much-needed win against a struggling Temple squad. However, they will face a much stiffer test in their next match on Wednesday night, when they visit No. 9 Penn State in State College, Pa.

M. SOCCER>> PAGE 10

Ambrose added.The team put in “tremendous

team effort” and were great in its defensive positioning, but there were still moments that they al-lowed VCU (4-3-3) to slip past the back line and get clean shots on goal.

On Sunday, however, they were able to turn their overall play around with a 1-0 win against Del-aware (4-5), making Penn’s record 3-1-2.

“We played well tonight,” Ambrose said after the match. “I couldn’t be happier with the per-formance.”

Penn got on the board with a goal late in the first half off the head of senior captain midfielder Kaitlyn Moore. After missing the season’s first four games due to in-

jury, Moore is proving herself to be a vital part of the team.

“[It was a] massive lift [to have her back], not only on what she does on the field but also what she brings on a leadership standpoint,” Ambrose said. “She is a massive piece. The team is built around her.”

Senior goalkeeper Katherine Myhre made Moore’s goal stand up, preserving the win with her only two saves on the day in the waning seconds of the match.

So how will the Quakers pre-pare to turn their attention to the start of Ivy play on Sept. 27 against Harvard?

[The team] worked hard this weekend. Everyone needs a break; we will deal with Harvard on Mon-day or Tuesday,” Ambrose said. “The good thing is they’re start-ing to play well at the right time and have confidence that they can

play.”With several freshmen playing

key roles on the team — such as forward Natasha Davenport — Ambrose is helping them transi-tion into the level of Division I soccer.

“We keep putting them into situations and see what we need to correct. There’s no fast-forward button,” Ambrose said. “It takes months and months of training to get to the level we need them to be.”

This week, the team will once again focus on attacking and exe-cuting at the net, which will be cru-cial for the game against Harvard with the Crimson having taken down the Quakers last year to gain the Ivy League title.

The Red and Blue will work hard to prepare for the start of the Ivy table, and on Saturday, they will dive in by playing even harder.

W. SOCCER>> PAGE 10

FOOTBALLEXTRA THEY SAID IT“We showed what type of team we can be, and in the second half we showed what type of team we don’t want to be.”

— On Penn letting Jacksonville come back

Spencer Kulcsar Penn WR

TELLING NUMBERS

15Points scored by Jacksonville in the fourth quarter as the Dolphins beat Penn with a

last-minute touchdown drive.

3Fourth down conversions by the Dolphins, including

one on their final drive. Jacksonville QB Kade Bell

brought his squad 86 yards for the winning score.

2 Interceptions thrown by

sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen in his first career start. Torgersen had an up-and-down day, completing 14 of his 33 passes while leading the Quakers to 31 points. He also was Penn’s

leading rusher with 65 yards on 12 carries.

THE RECORD

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

thrown pass on the Dolphins’ first play, giving Penn the ball right back. Five plays later, Strouss found the end zone again on a three-yard run to make it 31-19.

But after a Torgersen fourth-quarter pick, Bell found running back Ulysses Bryant in the flat

for a seven-yard touchdown, cut-ting the Quakers’ lead to five with 6:18 remaining.

After a Penn punt, Bell went to work one final time with 2:46 left. Eventually faced with a fourth and four at midfield, Bell hooked up with Jones for an eight-yard gain.

Two plays later, the real dam-age was done.

Bell dropped back and threw a deep ball to Randle, who main-tained concentration and pulled in the game-winning score.

After a two-point conversion, the Quakers had three timeouts to try and set up a game-tying field goal, but Torgersen was picked off.

“We showed what type of team we can be, and in the second half

we showed what type of team we don’t want to be,” senior wide re-ceiver Spencer Kulcsar said. “And that’s been the story before. This sort of thing happened to us a few times last year, and we definitely don’t want it to be a part of this season.”

The Red and Blue will play their home opener next Saturday against Villanova.

FOOTBALL>> PAGE 10

As a result, heading into the Red and Blue’s game with Jack-sonville, Kulcsar was a player in transition. But he wasn’t the only one.

After playing on the Quakers’ defensive line last season, junior Tanner Thexton has switched sides of the ball. Now starting at left tackle, Thexton performed well on Saturday, helping anchor an offensive line that consistently pushed the running game forward while allowing only one sack.

Quarterback Alek Torgersen is the team’s most obvious candidate for the player undergoing the big-gest transition. Tasked with taking over for three-time Ivy champion Billy Ragone, Torgersen also was forced to learn an entirely new up-tempo, fast-paced and pro-style offense from scratch.

But the California kid held his own against the Dolphins. Though he completed only 42 percent of his passes, the sophomore made only one truly bad decision — his interception early in the fourth quarter, as Penn was driving to put the game out of reach, came when he stared down his receiver — and utilized his legs to help spark Penn’s offense early.

Then there was Kulcsar. The stat sheet may only show three catches to the Haworth, N.J., na-tive’s name, but the veteran did not disappoint. He reeled off a 58-yard catch-and-run in the first half to set up a field goal before

notching a 26-yarder on Penn’s second touchdown drive in the third quarter.

Put it all together, and Kulcsar became the first Red and Blue player to have 100 receiving yards in a game since Ryan Mitchell did it against Dartmouth last October.

“I think a lot of guys are fitting into their new roles — you have Tanner Thexton, Alek starting at quarterback, plus Connor [Scott] and Lyle [Marsh] coming back,” Kulcsar said. “And with so many parts, I think everyone did a great job with what they were asked to

do.”He isn’t wrong. This is a team

with players and units still adapt-ing to their new roles, and they looked like it at times on Saturday.

But the Quakers also looked like a team with an enormously high ceiling, one that could use these meaningless nonconference games to iron out the kinks be-fore kicking off Ivy play on Oct. 4 against Dartmouth.

When the Red and Blue fall to 0-2 after next weekend’s game against Villanova, there will be anxiety among the squad’s sup-porters. People will claim 2014 is a lost cause for the Quakers, that there’s no hope for a team that will have lost six straight games dating back to last November.

Ignore all of that. Because those people said the same thing in 2012 after Ragone threw five interceptions in the opener against Lafayette and the team dropped its first two contests. That team was also coming off a subpar finish in the Ivy League the season before.

Two years ago, a 6-4 team winning the Ancient Eight title seemed like a far-fetched fantasy. Yet it happened.

After seeing flashes of bril-liance from this team in transition on Saturday, it’s clear that two years later, it could very well hap-pen again.

STEELE>> PAGE 10

COURTESY OF JOE VOGANSenior wide receiver Spencer Kulcsar made the transition out of the backfield seemlessly, hooking up with sophomore QB Alek Torgersen for some highlight reel catches.

AT A GLANCEStar of the game: Jacksonville QB Kade BellSure, there were flaws in Bell’s

game. He went just 20-for-39 throwing and had an interception, but his four touchdowns were key to the

Dolphins’ comeback against the Red and Blue. After struggling in the third quarter, he led two TD drives in the fourth quarter to erase a 12-point deficit against a senior-laden Penn defense.

Play of the game: D’Andre Randall’s game-winning TD catch Penn’s attempt to run out the clock failed and the Dolphins got the ball with 2:32 to go. Bell led

the team all the way down the field, capping off the impressive comeback with a 28-yard pass over a diving Evan Jackson into the hands of senior wide receiver D’Andre Randall. Penn would have a chance to take back the lead or at least tie in the final minute, but an Alek Torgersen pass was intercepted.

Longest pass: Penn So. QB Alek Torgersen to Sr. WR Spencer Kulcsar Second Quarter 3rd and 11 from the Penn 19 to the

Jacksonville 23.

Longest run: Penn Sr. RB Kyle WilcoxFourth Quarter 1st and 10 from the Penn 35 to the Jacksonville 40

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STATISTICS PENN Jack.First Downs 18 27Rushing Yards 207 162Passing Yards 200 239— Attempts 33 40 — Completions 14 20— Interceptions 2 1Total Yards 407 401Sacked-Yds Lost 2-20 1-2Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-1Penalties-Yards 9-77 7-50Punts-Yards 6-252 6-307— Avg. per punt 42.0 5 1. 2 3rd-Down Conv. 10-21 4-154th-Down Conv. 1-2 3-3 Red Zone Scores 5-5 3-3Time of Poss. 29:44 30:16Attendance: 2,268

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RILEY STEELE is a College junior from Dorado, P.R., and is senior staff writer of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at [email protected].

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We’ve all heard the saying “work hard, play hard.”

Penn women’s soccer did just that over the weekend.

The team spent its weekend bonding as a unit on the road, taking on Virginia Common-wealth on Friday and Delaware on Sunday — and ultimately

picking up a win and a draw — along the way.

Over the past week, the Red and Blue team has practiced ex-ecution and fi nishing in front of the net. However, they were not

able to translate these skills onto the fi eld during Friday’s game.

“There won’t be immediate payoff s. It will happen overtime,” coach Darren Ambrose said. “Friday was 100 miles an hour. In the fi rst half, we possessed the ball as well as any team had these past years.”

However, the Red and Blue struggled off ensively in the sec-ond half .

“The players just made the wrong passes at the wrong time,”

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — As the rain poured down on Satur-day, it was Jacksonville who made Penn football seem like fi sh — well , mammals — out of water.

Despite a 12-point fourth-quar-ter defi cit, Dolphins’ junior quar-terback Kade Bell led an eight-play, 87-yard touchdown drive in under two minutes — culminating with a 27-yard pass to D’Andre Randle with 39 seconds remain-ing — to stun the Red and Blue, 34-31.

“There were an awful lot of weather elements that we had to overcome today, with the heat, the humidity and the rain, so there’s certainly some positives we can take out,” Penn coach Al Bagnoli said. “But it’s disappointing that we couldn’t fi nish the deal.”

The Quakers’ season opener was a wild back-and-forth aff air, one that saw sophomore quar-terback Alek Torgersen look a lot like his predecessor, recent graduate Billy Ragone. On Penn’s opening possession, he faked a handoff and scampered six yards for a touchdown, notching his fi rst career rushing score and putting Penn (0-1) up, 7-0.

Although Torgersen fi nished with 200 yards through the air on 14-of-33 passing, he also was the Quakers’ leading rusher, carrying the ball 12 times for 65 yards.

After a Jacksonville fi eld goal, a 30-yard rush from senior Lyle Marsh — who left the game af-ter the drive with a forearm in-jury — set the Red and Blue up for one-yard touchdown run by sophomore quarterback-turned-wide-receiver Adam Strouss.

“We were a little shorthanded in the backfi eld, and [Torgersen] is an eff ective runner, so he and Adam were able to carry a little bit of the workload after Marsh got hurt,” Bagnoli said.

Although Penn’s defense looked stout early, the Dolphins fi nally started to click.

Bell threw the fi rst of his four touchdown passes to senior wide receiver Andrew Robustelli with 5:43 left in the fi rst half. The Dol-phins also tacked on a fi eld goal to head into the locker room only down four, 17-13.

After Penn stalled on its open-ing drive of the second half, Bell took over again, fi nding junior wide receiver Andy Jones for a 28-yard score to give Jacksonville its fi rst lead of the day.

But the Quakers did not falter. After blocking the subsequent extra point, Torgersen led the Red and Blue down the fi eld. On third and 10 from the Dolphins’ 17, the sophomore quarterback threw off his back foot and found junior tight end Ryan Kelly for the touchdown.

Immediately following the score — Kelly’s fi rst career re-ception — senior defensive back Dan Wilk picked off Bell’s under-

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NEXT GAME: VS. VILLANOVA | SAT, 3 P.M.

JACKSONVILLE (2-1) PENN (0-1)

RAIN ON PENN’S PARADE

Penn football transitioning to

success

Offensive outburst powers Quakers

Red and Blue wrap up final tune-up before Ivy play

AT TEMPLE

FOOTBALL | Dolphins fight through weather to stun Red and Blue

BY RILEY STEELESenior Staff Writer

SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 9

COURTESY OF JOE VOGANSophomore running back Ulysses Bryant helped Jacksonville shake off a 12-point fourth quarter deficit as the Dolphins shocked Penn with a last-second go-ahead touchdown. The Quakers will now head into their home opener against Villanova next weekend on a five-game losing streak dating back to last season.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Entering its season opener on Sept. 20, I believed Penn foot-ball was going to be crowned Ivy League champions at the end of 2014.

After one game — a loss, no less — I’m even more con-vinced.

I will be the fi rst person to ad-

mit that I am an optimist in this case. Regardless, my conviction in this year’s Quakers is more the result of senior wide receiver Spencer Kulcsar than anything or anyone else.

The second-leading rusher on last year’s squad, Kulcsar spent the summer making the switch from running back to wide re-ceiver. After spending most of his high school career in the slot, there was no doubt among the coaching staff that moving Kulc-sar out wide was the right move.

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CEAPHAS STUBBS/DP FILE PHOTOMidfielder Kristen Moore, a senior captain, was the only member of the Red and Blue who was able to find the back of the net over Penn’s weekend road trip. However, it was enough to earn the Quakers a win over Delaware, backed by the strength of their defense.

M. SOCCER | Red and Blue snap losing streak against struggling Owls

BY TOMMY ROTHMANContributing Writer

AT DELAWARE

W. SOCCER | Penn played VCU and

Delaware on the roadBY SABRINA HAGANContribution Writer

Sometimes familiarity goes a long way.

After three tough losses against top-tier opponents, Penn came into Sunday afternoon’s matchup with Temple on a downswing , but 90 minutes later the Quakers were back in their groove.

On Sunday, the Red and Blue were able to turn their fortunes around with a 3-0 victory against Temple at Ambler Field.

SEE M.SOCCER PAGE 9

SAM SHERMAN/SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERAgainst Temple, junior goalkeeper Max Polkinhorne came up huge, saving all 12 shots directed his way to record a clean sheet. Even though Temple led the Quakers in shots 18-10, Penn scored three goals in a five-minute stretch to pull out the win.

SEE W. SOCCER PAGE 9

IVY SHUTOUT

Penn field hockey couldn’t find the back of the net as Cornell

shut them out in Ithaca>> SEE PAGE 8

SPRINTING BACKBACK

Penn sprint football began its season with a big comeback to

beat Mansfield on Saturday.>> SEE PAGE 8

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