September 21, 2015

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More than 25 percent of Penn’s undergraduates have gone Greek, but transgender students are few among them.

In interviews with Greek organi-zation leaders, administrators and transgender students, the low repre-sentation was attributed to structural inequalities, slow institutional change and cultural norms.

The unwelcome ratioCommon aspects of Greek

life, like ratios of women to men

determining access to parties, mar-ginalize genders outside of the male/female binary.

“I think that frats and sororities as a whole are stuck in very regressive gender roles,” College senior Roder-ick Cook said.

Cook, a transgender student who uses they/them pronouns, is the presi-dent and co-founder of Penn Non-Cis,

a group dedicated to trans students at Penn through discussion of gender identity issues and awareness. To their knowledge, none of the mem-bers — which number about 12 — are in a fraternity or sorority.

“I think the entire point of tradi-tional Greek life is very strict gender

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Survivor stories of a bad roommate

“Every few weeks [my roommate] would be screaming terror in his sleep late at night, and I could just never bring it up to him,” College sophomore Brian — who preferred to only use his first name — said. “A few times he yelled my name.”

Like many incoming freshmen, Brian went into his first year at Penn ready to live in the Quadrangle with a randomly assigned roommate.

“Everything was pretty normal and chill at first until around mid-terms when the stress of freshman year was really being felt,” he said.

“But then [my roommate] started doing weird things like wearing the same clothes for several days in a row, sleeping on the hardwood Quad floor, not doing laundry.”

Brian didn’t think much of it at first, but the issues only escalated.

“He would continually buy new clothes instead of washing much, so by the end of the fall, his half of the room was one big pile of dirty laun-dry — like I couldn’t even walk on the floor between our beds — par-tially because he would fall asleep on the floor once a week.

“It was hell living with him, but I’m not a confrontational person so I just never said too much about it. In hindsight, I should have made it clear

Over 1 million people will flock to Philadelphia to hear Pope Francis speak at masses or to possibly catch a glimpse of the pope himself. Along the way, they might want to check out the special pope exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeol-ogy and Anthropology.

Until Nov. 7, the Penn Museum is hosting a centerpiece exhibit to honor the pope’s visit. The exhibit, “Sacred Writings: Extraordinary Texts of the Biblical World,” boasts a display of the world’s rarest copies of significant re-ligious works.

Divided into two parts, there is one section with works related to the New Testament and a fragment of the Gospel of Matthew on papyrus dating to the 3rd century C.E. Another sec-tion contains works related to the flood described in the book of Genesis and inscribed on a 1650 B.C.E. Meso-potamian clay tablet.

The Penn Museum and the Penn Libraries partnered to construct the exhibit.

“We wanted to put something to-gether, and the museum really wanted to highlight these two pieces, which aren’t really on display that often,” Mitch Fraas, curator of Special Collec-tions in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manu-scripts at the Penn Libraries said. “But we wanted to tell a bigger story.”

The exhibit also features two folios from a richly decorated Quran from Iran, a 13th century illuminated Latin Bible produced in Arras, France, the first complete Bible printed in the Western Hemisphere in the Native American Massachusett language in 1663 and an 16th century Rabbinic Bible from Venice, Italy.

The curators wanted a story to tell through the exhibit. The ancient tablet in Sumerian cuneiform, containing the earliest version of the Mesopotamian flood story, anchors the displays.

The flood stories “are all slightly different from each other, but they’re

all related,” Steve Tinney, associate curator-in-charge of the Babylonian Section in the Penn Museum said. “[We] wanted to tell each story going forward, so [we] looked for books. We wanted to highlight the different ways these two artifacts get taken forward in time.”

Lauren Heywood, a student at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, visited the Penn Museum for the first time to see the display.

“I was definitely drawn here be-cause of the religious significance of the exhibit,” she said.

Transgender students under-represented in Greek groupsDAN SPINELLISenior Reporter

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Students brave loud sex, cigarettes and dirty laundryJEFFREY CAREYVADeputy News Editor

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Saturday Night Live’s Vanessa Bayer performed in Bloomers’ LaughtHERfest ANIKA RANGINANI Contributing Reporter

In anticipation for Satur-day Night Live’s Vanessa Bayer and other big names in comedy, over 830 people crowded into Irvine Audito-rium last Saturday evening for Penn’s first LaughtHERfest.

College senior Laura Petro’s brainchild LaughtHERfest is the first comedy festival that Penn’s all-female comedy group Bloomers has ever planned. It drew celebrities, both Penn graduates and not, like Bayer, Aparna Nancherla and Michelle Wolf as well as other college comedy groups. The event focused on bringing attention to the role of women in comedy.

“Most of the comedy events I’ve been to are almost all men,” Petro said. “We want to empower and inspire women

interested in the field.”The festival included a

morning panel with Bayer and Julie Kraut, writer on “Odd Mom Out.” Both graduated Penn in 2004, and the two have been friends since their days in Bloomers. Bayer had entered Penn as a biology major, but ended up majoring in commu-nication with plans for a career in comedy.

“I enjoyed [Bloomers] so much,” Bayer said at the panel. “I hadn’t found anything like that except for school. I didn’t know what it was like to really enjoy and feel like you were excelling at something.”

The panel was followed by stand-up and improvisa-tion workshops, which were

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Penn’s favorite rapper is back and better than ever.

Wharton sophomore Kayvon Asemani released a new mix-tape Sunday on his website kayvonmusic.com. Tit led U4IC, Asemani’s newest music hopes to tackle powerful issues through thought-provoking lyrics.

Asemani often describes the importance of producing songs containing meaningful mes-sages.

“At the end of the day, I could just make music,” he said. “But what is it if no one hears my message? What is a community without an advocate?”

In his previous tracks, Ase-mani often discussed topics such as racial and socioeco-nomic inequality, his personal life story and social advocacy. He said he will continue rap-ping about those themes on this mixtape but will also share more about love and heartbreak. He added that the universality of love is important to him.

“Everybody has an emo-tional capacity for love,” Asemani said. “You don’t have to be poor or rich to relate to that. You just have to be a human being.”

Asemani draws from a range of genres in this new mixtape, including rock, electronic and hip hop. His supporters may be pleasantly surprised to find that the rapper has introduced spoken word poetry into a few of his new hits. “When you do spoken word, you can be eloquent, and poetic, and have rhythm,” he said. “I don’t have

to worry about a framework. It gives me more liberty to focus on my message.”

Asemani became well known in his freshman year for his spoken word poetry perfor-mances, which allowed him to branch out to new audiences for his music. This year, Asemani is equipped with more strate-gies for marketing his brand.

“When I got here as a fresh-man, no one knew who I was. I was my own distribution channel. The combination of knowing people and under-standing how Penn is set up — like the power of Locust Walk — has given me more knowledge of strategies I can use this year.”

In promoting his mixtape, Asemani and College sopho-more Lea Kichler — who also worked on Asemani’s docu-mentary — joined forces once more to create a trailer featur-ing a spoken word piece from part of a song on U4IC.

“[Kayvon] is definitely someone who is guided by

a determined vision, and he really wants to fulfill every-thing he sets his mind to,” she said. “[The project] really speaks to what makes Penn unique and shows how entre-preneurial Penn students are.”

While attending Penn and managing an emerging music career may seem daunting, the sophomore has no qualms about keeping up with academ-ics, working on his music and marketing his personal brand.

“Music is a part of my educa-tional experience … My classes are interesting because I can apply them to what I’m doing in my life,” he said.

The artist has developed quite a following at Penn in the one year that he has been a student. Supporter and close friend, College sopho-more Bryan Rodriguez said, “Kayvon has this well-rounded personality … it’s what makes him such a powerful artist, the fact that he’s able to portray his meaning, but in a way that re-lates to a wide audience.”

On Friday morning, members of the Hamlett-Reed Mental Health Initiative met with administra-tors to discuss last week’s open letter to President Gutmann. The meeting included Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein and Counseling and Psychological Services Director Bill Alexander, among others.

The letter, which urged President Gutmann and the ad-ministration to reform efforts in protection of student mental health, was signed by family members and friends of Penn stu-dents who died by suicide as well as student leaders from mental health advocacy groups, student government, minority councils and Greek organizations.

During the meeting, adminis-trators and students discussed each of the letter’s six proposals, reach-ing agreements on how to address mental health issues in the future.

1. Designated CounselorThe Initiative requested that

students be assigned specific well-ness counselors who will appear alongside academic advisors on PennInTouch and will arrange individual meetings with students throughout the year.

Administrators agreed to research a pilot program for in-coming freshmen that involves specific wellness advisors. Mem-bers of the Initiative will be updated on the progress of the re-search at the end of this semester.

2. Anonymous VisitsThe Initiative’s second proposal

asked for anonymity in scheduling initial CAPS visits, suggesting a system in which students can use anonymous IDs to schedule their first appointments.

Administrators did not agree to the proposal, explaining that anonymity would conflict with the overall goal of a therapeutic relationship between student and counselor.

3. Online SchedulingThe Initiative asked CAPS to

adjust its appointment scheduling system so visits can be scheduled online as well as over the phone.

Administrators agreed to review the scheduling process, with a promised update by the end of this semester.

4. Ongoing, Proactive Communi-cation

The Initiative requested that CAPS reach out to students once a month via a newsletter to provide updates and information about mental health issues.

Administrators did not agree to email students, citing existing means of communication, such as the forthcoming student wellness app.

5. CAPS Best PracticesThe Initiative requested that

the University monitor students with specific stress factors, such as athletes, and that deliberations and policies on this matter be open to the public. The Initiative also asked that students who take leaves of absences for mental health reasons not be penalized in any way.

Administrators discussed the recent launch of the Jed and Clin-ton Campus Program advisory team to oversee the University’s mental health initiatives and agreed to maintain transparency, but did not address the Initia-tive’s suggestion to keep track of students with specific stress factors. Administrators also committed to reviewing leave-of-absence policies, but did not promise to unify leave-of-ab-sence policies across schools.

6. New Student Orientation Events

The Initiative’s final proposal requested an NSO event dedi-cated to mental health, as well as a separate meeting for parents to educate them about mental health resources on campus.

Administrators did not agree to create a new NSO event, but agreed to develop a virtual CAPS introduction for incom-ing freshmen by NSO 2016. Administrators will continue to evaluate NSO programs for both students and parents, with an update at the beginning of next semester.

Administration addresses mental health open letter concerns Compromises are discussed for each of the letter’s six proposals CAROLINE SIMONStaff Reporter

Kayvon talks love and heartbreak in recently released mixtapeWharton sophomore incorporates spoken word into new musicCAROLINE CARBALLEIRAContributing Reporter

Kayvon Asemani, Class of 2018, draws from rock, electronic and hip hop music in his new mixtape.

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capped off by the the all-female evening performance. Students performers included Penn’s Simply Chaos, Columbia’s Chowdah Sketch Comedy, Co-lumbia and Barnard’s Control Top and Low Cut Comedy.

“Naturally, something like this will draw more women, but I think it says something good that there are men here,” College sophomore Sam Myers-Dineen said.

LaughtHERfest seems even more relevant with the recent social media whirlwind over the Vanity Fair spread, “Why Late-Night Television Is Better Than

Ever,” which depicted predomi-nantly white male comedians. At the panel, Kraut had spoken about being a women, whether in comedy or in the corporate world.

“Being a woman in general, you’re just not a rich, white man,” Kraut said. “You’re working against the grain. Sometimes you feel it really acutely.”

The event was supported by a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised $9,501 as well as a grant from the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women.

“This is fabulous,” founding member of Bloomers and TCPW member Cindy Levy said. “This is exactly what TCPW wants to be involved with — women who

are funny and talented and cheer for other women.”

The number of attendees ex-ceeded expectations, according to Bloomers Business Manager Emma Soren, who is a senior in the College. The group ended up opening the Irvine balcony and running out of the tickets they had printed before the show.

“It was really good timing at the beginning of the year. It was the first big show of the year at Penn,” Soren said.

After all the costs of the event are covered, some of the remain-ing money will be set aside for a future LaughtHERfest, and the rest will be donated to a local non-profit supporting women in the arts, according to Petro.

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how uncomfortable I was living with him,” Brian said.

Brian is not alone in expe-riencing a difficult roommate situation. Executive Director of College Houses and Academic Services Martin Redman ap-proximated that between 20 to 25 percent of housing as-signments involve a roommate conflict, but that the real issues happen between a smaller subset of students, often one or two residents in the housing as-signment.

In Redman’s exper ience, roommate issues spring up all year long, but may spike in times of academic stress.

“There is no good way to match roommates in an in-coming class. Even those who self-select their roommates as a freshman or an upperclassman aren’t immune to experiencing problems.”

While personality tests and matching interests do little to nothing to ensure an ami-cable roommate environment, Redman thinks that the expec-tations and experiences which residents bring determine a lot in the roommate relationship.

“Most of the incoming stu-dents are coming from family environments and have private bedrooms at home and a bath-room that is relatively private, so it’s a big change to go from that to more communal living, say, in the Quad,” Redman said.

Redman’s most success-ful method for matching roommates throughout the years, he says, is matching expectations, whether that’s pairing up those students who want nothing from each other or those who want to be best friends.

The biggest problems be-tween roommates stem from a

lack of communication and this mismatch of expectations.

“If you have a problem, the best thing to do is to talk it over ... but in our digital age students avoid talking to each other when it’s inconvenient, so prob-lems fester over time until they blow up,” Redman said.

If conf licts cannot be re-solved first through residential advisers and then College House staff, behavioral agreements or ultimately room changes are the last resort.

According to Penn Residen-tial Services, which oversees the room-change process, less than one percent of residents request room changes each se-mester and requests come for a variety of reasons.

Most residents who request room changes end up staying in their original assignments. In fall 2014, fewer than 30 resi-dents changed rooms, despite the higher rates of roommate dissatisfaction.

And sometimes roommate situations become borderline dangerous.

“We had an empty spot we couldn’t fill in time, and that’s when we got the problem random roommate,” junior MS said, who preferred to only use their initials, as “we actually did have some safety concerns with some of their friends.”

MS and their other room-mate’s issues with their new guest were nothing special at first.

“She was messy, would use our dishware, would be up all hours of the night until 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. — we all were on different schedules — just very normal bad roommate stuff,” MS said. “And then, we started smel l ing ciga ret te smoke coming from her room con-stantly.”

MS’s roommate had covered her smoke detector with tape

since the beginning of the se-mester, a safety hazard against fire regulation and building rules.

“At that point we got our RA involved and wanted him to tell her that she can’t smoke indoors in the high rises — this isn’t Mad Men.” Their roommate continually denied smoking, but did not permanently stop.

“Around fall break it didn’t get any better, since she started having a guy live in our room and we didn’t feel safe,” MS said. “She never introduced him to us and he basically lived there until December. We never met him, and he didn’t speak to us — so we had a new male roommate we didn’t know. There were a lot of loud sex noises at all times of the day.”

Tensions boiled over by winter finals “when she threw a party in her room and then locked herself out,” they said. “She was banging so hard on the door for us to let her in at four in the morning to the point that I thought the door was going to break down.”

At the end of the semester, MS and their other roommate met with the house dean about the conflicts and to request a change for the spring semester.

“He was so helpful and gave us numbers to call if we ever felt threatened, and he was con-cerned about the random guy living with us and made sure he wouldn’t be allowed back in,” they said.

MS’s problem roommate changed assignments in the be-ginning of the spring semester, and her replacement was much more amiable.

“My experience tells me that roommate issues here occur across the board — it doesn’t matter if you’re a first-year resident in the Quad or an up-perclassman in the high-rises,” Redman said.

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Former UA Vice President leaves legacy of political engagement

As Penn’s fall election season came to a close on Friday, dozens of freshmen scrambled to shake hands, plaster bulletin boards with campaign posters and chalk the Quadrangle with their names. But markedly missing from the election shenanigans was the 6’3” Domini-can New Yorker who dominated the campus political scene for the past four years — the godfather of Penn politics, Gabe Delaney.

Before he graduated in May 2015 with a letter of acceptance from Oxford University, Delaney was a fixture on Locust Walk, where his celebrity status rivaled Penn Presi-dent Amy Gutmann’s, his friends said. In 1920 Commons and the Quadrangle, nearly every staff member from janitor to dean knew his name. And in the gym, locker number 2040 — the year he will most probably run for United States president — was used every morn-ing.

As vice president of the Un-dergraduate Assembly, founding speaker of the Penn Political Union — which has since become the go-to political club on campus — and chair of the International Affairs Association, he trans-formed political life on Penn’s campus and mentored dozens of po-litical leaders from class presidents to UA representatives to Wharton bigwigs.

But before Delaney became the de facto leader of the Penn politi-cal community, he was just another wide-eyed, newly minted freshman scrambling to win the spot as fresh-man class president. From traveling worldwide to China, Israel and the United Kingdom as a student am-bassador to his UA election scandal, Delaney’s journey has shaped his character and mission and, he hopes, made a lasting impact on the next generation of Penn leaders.

Learning from failureClasses were just gearing up, and

the first fall midterm season was on the horizon. The grass was just as green as the admissions brochures had promised and the castle-like Quad, where he lived, just as mag-nificent. His classmates had moved past the awkward phase of the four questions — what’s your name, where are you from, what are you studying and where do you live — and onto roommate bashing and hookup drama.

But girls were the last thing on Delaney’s mind. Even at parties, where Delaney was an infrequent visitor, friends clapped him on the back and asked him about the upcoming elections. Yes, he was running for class president and UA. Yes, all was going well.

But things weren’t really going as well as Delaney thought. Students were whispering about his overly formal demeanor — “He must have been born an adult,” one stu-dent later jeered. In an editorial for the Daily Pennsylvanian in 2014, Xavier Flory wrote that “in his un-successful bid to be the 2015 class president, he addressed his voters

in a suit, grandiosely proclaiming in his campaign video that ‘Our moment is here; our moment is now.’”

His loss to the vibrant Ariel Koren, however, was not as devas-tating as it was for some of her other opponents, who eventually dropped out of Penn politics for good — Delaney had learned about tackling failure long ago, as a middle school student with a bullying problem.

“I had a very, very bad stutter-ing problem when I was a kid. Ever seen ‘The King’s Speech’? Imagine a kid about the age of 11 speak-ing that way and getting made fun of all the time because I couldn’t get the words out of my mouth,” Delaney said. When enrolling in acting classes at nearby Fordham University failed, Delaney turned to rehearsing speeches — which he admits was “kind of a weird thing” — and it worked like magic.

Martin Luther King Jr., who “sang everything he said,” Marga-ret Thatcher, Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy were among “the greats” who taught Delaney the art of public speaking. But these early years did more than shape Delaney’s vaguely southern drawl — they shaped his character. “I was able to make up my own tone, in terms of how I spoke,” Delaney recalls.

“Not only do these people have a voice, but they use their voice for some positive good,” Delaney said. “And maybe I can do that … maybe I can do something for other kids who are not as privileged … and wouldn’t this be a really great pro-fession.”

Learning from failure is a theme for Delaney, who Class of 2017 President and College junior Darren Tomasso says even his detractors respect. When he lost his race for class president, Delaney became a tireless advocate for minority com-munities and mental health, first serving on the academic affairs committee of the UA, and later as its vice president. But the process was anything but an easy one.

Leading in a time of crisisFor Delaney, things changed

when the string of student suicides became personal. “I knew one of the guys who ended up taking his own life. One of my hallmates had gone to [high] school with him … and she lost it,” he said. “It hit home for me really, really hard.”

But as a student leader, it was even more difficult to watch the Penn administration’s response to the seven student suicides in two years. “Until you get seven, eight,

nine or 10 people, god forbid, they don’t react with a mindset that this is an endemic problem,” he said. “It bothered me that they didn’t see it that way, not just Amy Gutmann, but the people around her.”

Delaney, along with his peers on the UA, successfully pushed for the creation of a mental health task force. Their request, to have a student representative serve on the task force, however, was ultimately denied.

“For those trying to make their own mark on the UA, they have to have empathy. Doesn’t matter who you are, who you think you are: if you don’t have empathy, you

shouldn’t be in politics. The stakes are literally too high with people who might injure themselves,” Delaney said.

But Delaney’s number one piece of advice to future Penn politicos is not about character. Delaney says that ultimately, students must realize that Penn operates in a cor-porate way. Although that might be counterintuitive for an academic setting, he admits, “this is Penn, a very big school, a very prestigious school, with a lot of money. Every-thing is done rather businesslike.”

During his tenure on the UA, Delaney said, the Gutmann ad-ministration did not adequately respond to mental health concerns until the UA received about 300 mental health-related emails fol-lowing the death of Penn freshman Madison Holleran. “Only after we literally told this to Amy Gutmann did it elicit the kind of reaction that you’d have hoped from the very beginning,” he said. “They need to see the numbers, they need to see the reaction [and] they need to start being worried about things … that’s probably the number thing I learned as VP,” Delaney said.

Leading one of Penn’s most controversial conversations taught him much more than just politics. Delaney says students should be true to themselves instead of trying to fit in either because it is politically profitable in groups like the UA or socially profitable in fraternities and other social groups.

“The uniqueness and the diver-sity that comes from people being

themselves, and having different shades of a color or personality, makes Penn more livable,” Del-aney said. “It’s more humanizing. When you try to fake it, people can see through it.”

The jury is still out on whether Delaney himself lived by this last piece of advice. One Penn politi-cal leader said that Delaney used to approach students in a very rehearsed way, starting off a con-versation and then touching them on the shoulder two minutes into the conversation. Delaney never had a girlfriend at Penn and stayed away from campus parties, the leader said.

A Patriot at heartEvery morning his senior year,

Delaney’s schedule was the same: At 7:00 a.m., his alarm rings. By 7:45 a.m., he strolls into 1920 Com-mons, where he says good morning to nearly every staff member, many of whom he’s developed relation-ships with over the past three years, and picks up a Caramel Macchiato Double Shot, which is usually wait-ing for him at the Starbucks below. By 8 a.m., he finds his way to the Pottruck Health and Fitness Center, where Tomasso is waiting — except for on leg days, of course, which Tomasso jokes Delaney is always conveniently late for.

Workouts are important to Del-aney, whose second love is sports and whose “biceps bulge”, accord-ing to Flory’s editorial. A diehard Patriots fan, Tomasso recalls that Delaney wore his Patriots shirts everyday to the gym throughout the Deflategate controversy and College senior Varun Menon says he followed the controversy non-stop, watching television shows and reading articles online. “He had a very severe jealousy of Tom Brady,” Menon said, Delaney’s roommate last year.

Delaney’s favorite show isn’t on ESPN — Menon says that every morning when Delaney got home from the gym, he’d sit down on their couch and watch Cupcake Wars on the Food Network. “He’s very much a kid at heart … he makes idiotic Dad jokes … his glasses make him look like an old man … he’s just a fun-loving and goofy person.”

Delaney used to blast heavy o r c h e s t r a music or play soundtracks, like “Juras-sic Park.” But he was better

known as a mentor to hundreds of freshmen. In fact, Delaney met both Tomasso and Menon, who are one year younger, when they lived to-gether in the Quad and both credit him for their political successes at Penn.

“He enjoyed bringing people over … he’d have dinners and make something,” Menon said, and To-masso brought him to a few wild parties. “He’s very willing to step out of his comfort zone,” Tomasso said.

One of the reasons he went to those parties was to try to un-derstand what his peers were experiencing and enjoying, even if

they weren’t his scene. “He’s very interested in seeing how other people are in their own shoes,” Menon said.

His openness to new experiences introduced him to a wide variety of Penn students. Even Tomasso, who is himself a class president, said that walking down Locust with Delaney could take a long time be-cause of how many people he knew. Usually the interactions were posi-tive — everyone wanted to know his thoughts on political debates, and UA life — that is, until Del-aney’s failed run for UA President, for which he became notorious.

A scandal in the UADark boding music plays as Del-

aney assumes the Southern accent of Frank Underwood, the fictional evil politico and protagonist of the Netflix original series House of Cards. “There’s nothing wrong with seeking power, as long as it’s for the right reasons,” Delaney says in his campaign video for UA president, which at publication time had over 2,600 views on Youtube.

The video wasn’t well received.“With the UA rocked by the near

impeachment of its current presi-dent and student apathy towards student government at a peak, what is Gabe Delaney trying to achieve by basing his entire campaign off the TV show, ‘House of Cards?’ The TV show epitomizes every-thing people hate about politics in general and the UA in particular: corruption, self-serving members and inefficiency,” Flory wrote.

Flory’s column was nothing short of prescient. Just a few weeks later, Delaney was charged with four campaign violations, two of which stuck. Delaney was found guilty by the Nominations and Elections Committee for not fully reporting the costs of buying Facebook likes and showing his campaign website to the Penn Political Coalition.

The loss was devastating for Del-aney’s reputation. Combined with his controversial support for the impeachment of UA President Abe Sutton while he was vice president, Delaney’s election scandal made many question his ethics.

But even from this seemingly critical setback, Delaney recovered. On an IAA trip after his election loss, he, Menon and Louis Cap-pozzi, another one of Delaney’s protege’s, agreed to found a Penn Political Union on campus. As the founding Speaker, Delaney found a

new outlet for his love of politics. PPU is now one of the largest politi-cal groups on campus and regularly gets 80-100 attendees at its debates, he says.

The way Delaney tells the story, his senior year was much more re-served than previous ones. “It was a moment of using his final year in college to intellectually explore all of the opportunities he had. A year of introspection,” Venon said. “After three years of a very public profile, he withdrew, and everyone was like, ‘Where’s Gabe Delaney?’”

Withdrawing worked out for Delaney, who wrote a senior thesis on the Presidency and was accepted to Oxford, where he will be study-ing comparative politics in the fall. But Delaney will be back in policy making, he and his friends agree — it’s just a matter of time.

The Obama doppelgangerIt was his first time at the White

House. He was still in high school, but already a student leader and was invited to meet the President in the West Wing. He was expect-ing a quick handshake and friendly banter, but what the President said to him took him by surprise.

“I ought to get you out on the campaign trail — you’re my dop-pelganger,” President Obama said. “Well, thank you, Mr. President. I think you’re a good looking man, so I’ll take that as a compliment,” Delaney remembers saying.

While Delaney’s friends say he doesn’t like being called “Little Obama,” this was precisely what some freshmen called him during his time in the Quad. During the 2012 elections, Delaney did in fact work for the Obama campaign and in 2014, had the chance to visit the White House a second time.

It was the summer after Delaney graduated and his friend Uchechi Iteogu, who had graduated from Columbia University, met him at 1:30 a.m. at Penn Station. Once they arrived in Washington D.C., she blindfolded him as they rode a bus toward their destination. “What is 4 p.m. in military time?” Iteogu asked. “16:00,” Delaney re-sponded as they pulled up to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. “Visiting The People’s House,” he posted on Facebook, afterward. Delaney hopes this is not the last time he visits the White House.

“He doesn’t believe in the idea of a career politician. He wants to serve — either in sports business, which he thinks engages commu-nities, or in the military because he has a high regard for service before he’ll get involved in politics,” Menon says. “But I could see him running for Massachusetts State Legislature … and then Governor and eventually President of the United States.”

To Delaney, who spent hundreds of hours researching the presi-dency for his thesis and even more hours listening to the speeches of presidents in the shower, the President and White House are much more than just a person and a building.

“The President is a mirror to the American people. You can get a good sense of how Americans were feeling by the characters they elected … the White House is the jewel of America and I think ev-eryone should take a pilgrimage to White House,” Delaney said.

“I’m going to go back, hope-fully.”

Gabe Delaney founded the Penn Political Union

JACK CAHN Senior Reporter

Gabe Delaney, seen above with fellow members of the UA, looks forward to a career in politics.COURTESY OF GABE DELANEY

“I ought to get you out on the campaign trail — you’re my doppelganger.”- President Obama

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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2015VOL. CXXXI, NO. 72

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LETTERS

Have your own opinion? Send your guest column to Opinion Editor Shawn Kelley at [email protected].

In the book “Distinction,” Pierre Bourdieu defines social and cultural capital as social resources which

confer power and status in soci-ety. Today’s economy rewards students who are technologi-cally adept, are able to secure internships, study abroad and maintain high academic stan-dards — all symbols of social and cultural capital. Acquiring social and cultural capital is a labor-intensive practice for all students, but for nontraditional students — defined as 25 years and older — perhaps even more arduous.

Nontraditional students face distinct challenges in securing social and cultural capital. Due to complex social identities, non traditional students may face increased alienation or even social isolation. Finances, outside lives and coursework demands, all may limit the time nontraditional students have for socializing. As non traditional students grapple with adjusting to college norms, using school supports could enhance learn-

ing outside of the classroom.Nontraditional students

should consider forming sup-portive communities to miti-gate stressors stemming from work, social lives or even cognitive adjustments caused from re orienting to academic culture. Investing time is nec-

essary for meeting not only academic standards, but also commitments expected from other social worlds. Although nontraditional students like to think of themselves as superhu-man, many neglect their well-being to their own detriment. For me, ignoring the need for help my first time out in gradu-ate school led to unfortunate consequences.

As a first-generation gradu-

ate student at Hunter College, located in New York City, I quickly found myself over-whelmed by the academic course load. I overestimated my professional experience as properly preparing me for graduate work. I soon learned I wasn’t sufficiently prepared

for the courses. I struggled with managing my personal and work commitments. Instead of easing back into academic life slowly, I took on one too many classes. My desire to complete my program as fast as pos-sible, instead led me to drop out. When looking back at my time in Hunter College, I real-ized I never considered utiliz-ing the student support systems available. Accessing those ser-

vices — mental health, career services, professors, including student groups — could have improved my success that first semester.

After leaving Hunter’s graduate program, I worked four years with troubled youth in foster care. Working in so-

cial services taught me how to design a case plan for foster cli-ents. Using the clinical skills I practiced in case management, I approached my first semester here at Penn as I would man-age past clients. Clients were always encouraged to talk to people and find supports to help them meet their goals. Be-fore the start of the semester, I contacted my advisor. Her response was extremely sup-

portive of my return to gradu-ate school, and talking allayed many of the concerns about my age and time away from the classroom. Forecasting that I might become stressed from trying to manage both school and my personal life, I signed up for Counseling and Psycho-logical Services. Reflecting on my significant time out of school, I thought it might be shrewd to take a class teach-ing strategies for success in higher education. So I enrolled in a higher education course in GSE focused on meta- cognitive strategies for success in higher education.

In the spring of 2015, a writing instructor at the We-ingarten Learning Resource Center, encouraged me to turn a course assignment into a stu-dent organization. Out of this conversation, she and I col-laborated in forming Students to Scholars. The organization was created to provide non-traditional students a safe space to discuss academic writing, meet doctoral students, address

institutional concerns and pro-vide peer support. Students to Scholars hopes to help students tap into their rich identities, then connect their identities with fellowship and scholar-ship.

Non traditional students may struggle more to actively build social and cultural capital as traditional students are able to do. Although all students have access to social and cul-tural capital resources in uni-versity settings, nontraditional students complex lives often prevents them from accessing additional school resources. Student support services can provide social resources lead-ing to a more rewarding expe-rience while in the Penn com-munity. Isolation should not be viewed as the de rigueur experience for nontraditional students or any other person on campus.

I suppose I should be grateful that the dia-logue on campus has changed.

I suppose I should be grate-ful that, unlike 19-year-old me sitting in a hospital full of shame, Penn students have a better chance to be heard and get the care they need when it comes to mental health. Stu-dents are speaking out and try-ing to help.

When I was on medi-cal leave during the 2013-14 school year, I heard story after story about peers — one who I knew — committing suicide. I was angry that it took the loss of such beautiful students for people to realize that this was a problem running amuck un-der our noses.

But quite frankly, I’ve had enough with the way this conversation has turned out. I didn’t want it to be a topic peo-ple discussed just because it suddenly became the relevant thing to do. Now I find my-

self rolling my eyes whenever someone brings it up.

Writing my opinion col-umn last year was cathartic and showed me that I was not alone. But our mental health discussions on campus con-sistently reek of privilege. So common is the discourse about

how Penn invites mental issues by virtue of its culture, that we forget what it is we are really talking about.

Mental illness is not some-thing that is purely brought on by a stressful course or com-petitive peers. Your classmates who have been struggling with illness may have been doing so since they were teenagers, matriculating in the midst of

anxiety and other mood dis-orders. Your classmates may begin exhibiting schizophrenic symptoms not because of their workload, but because their genetic codes destined them to fall ill in their 20s.

Penn exacerbates but does not spontaneously cause ill-

ness. The more we perpetuate this myth, the more we will guarantee that the stigma will continue and that mental dis-orders will not be truly recog-nized for what they are.

Make no mistake, if Penn wants to offer various health services, then those services should do as much as they can with the available resources. However, mental illness has

become a blame game for which no one takes responsi-bility.

My grandmother died be-lieving my uncle was schizo-phrenic because someone drugged him, jealous of his in-telligence and athletic ability. Illness always had to be some-

one or something else’s fault.We have been brought up

to believe, aided by our par-ents’ fears, that our universi-ties should hold our hands. After all, why are we paying so much for tuition and tacked-on fees if we can’t get adequate service?

The time has come for us to be adults and help each other and to stop waiting for some-

one else to step in. But there is one thing I must ask of the Penn students who have never dealt firsthand with mental ill-ness. Please don’t pretend to understand. There is a differ-ence between stress and anxi-ety disorder, between sadness and clinical depression. And of the vast number of document-ed health issues, anxiety and depression are not the whole story, and it does everyone a disservice to make these dis-orders the poster children of mental illness.

I recognize that it is a privi-lege to even be able to sit at a school like Penn and ponder these problems. When I was hospitalized, a nurse told me repeatedly that I had to get dis-charged so I could go back to my studies. Penn meant a way out. I didn’t feel as hopeful for the other patients.

It was easy to remove my-self from peers who were self-absorbed and competitive, to not feed into the mentality of

insecure egos. Penn attracts a particular type of student, and these traits are only magnified in a group.

It was a lot harder to look in the mirror and feel justi-fied. It was a lot harder to go to class when I was having panic attacks in the DRL bathroom and face my friends and fam-ily when I felt ashamed of how poor my coping skills were.

Despite feeling forever marked by the labels on my past therapy bills, I do not consider myself a victim. I simply consider myself a per-son who has had to overcome obstacles.

We all have obstacles. But if you want to change the places you call home, you need to really listen first.

Not another mental health storyGUEST COLUMN BY KATIERA SORDJAN

A nontraditional students’ guide to greater success in collegeGUEST COLUMN BY KEMEUEL BENYEHUDAH

We have been brought up to believe, aided by our parents’ fears, that our universities should hold our hands.”

CARTOON

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

Instead of easing back into academic life slowly, I took on one too many classes. My desire to complete my program as fast as

possible, instead led me to drop out.”

KATIERA SORDJAN is a College senior and former DP columnist from New York, studying communication. Her email address is [email protected].

KEMUEL BENYEHUDAH is a graduate student from New York. His email address is [email protected].

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CONSERVATIVETuesday, September 22Kol Nidre Services 6:25 pmStudent led at Steinhardt HallCommunity Service at Irvine Auditorium

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Some students see their on- or off-campus jobs as an escape from classes and homework, but one group of students makes money by helping others with their school-work.

Both the Tutoring Center, which provides scheduled private tutor-ing, walk-in hours and workshops in various locations, and the Writing Center on 38th and Walnut streets, are staffed by student tutors.

Wharton junior Caitlin Cronin tutors in the Writing Center in part to escape her quantitive-centric

Wharton classes.“I like to write,” Cronin said, “So

I like being able to use my writing skills to help people who might not be as good at figuring out how to word things or structure an argu-ment.”

Cronin got involved with the Writing Center as a freshman when she was chosen from her critical writing seminar to be interviewed for a spot as a tutor.

“Usually one student per seminar is chosen,” she said.

If the students pass the interview, they take a semester-long class in pedagogy of writing in order to start tutoring. It’s a lengthy process, but Cronin believes it’s been worth it.

“The Writing Center is like one big support group,” she said. “I met a lot of really cool people — fellow

tutors and students as well.”She also said her tutoring ex-

perience has helped her grow as a writer.

“Being a writing tutor has helped me be able to explain an argu-ment better, or be able to figure out quickly how to get across what I want to say,” Cronin said.

Sharpening skills by tutoring isn’t something limited to Cronin’s experience.

Helen Pun, a “super senior” in her fifth year of a dual degree in Wharton and the School of Nursing, said that because there’s so much information in the early nursing classes, most students forget a lot of it. Pun can sometimes answer tricky questions in class that reference much earlier content because she re-visits it so frequently with her tutees.

“Everyone thinks I’m a genius and really it’s because I’d just re-viewed it,” she said.

Pun explained that part of the reason she likes tutoring is the same reason she likes both business and nursing — the interpersonal nature. In certain ways, she said, tutoring even feels therapeutic. But some-times tutees surprise her with their candidness.

“Tutees tell me more things than I ever expected to know,” Pun said. “They tell me about the drugs they’re taking to help them study — I had no idea!”

Nursing junior Anh Tren has also connected with her tutees, and at times become friends.

“It’s not only a professional rela-tionship, it can be casual too,” she said.

College senior Iulia Tapescu transferred to Penn from Welles-ley College as a sophomore and is originally from Romania. She double majors in biological basis of behavior and biochemistry , and is submatriculating into Penn’s gradu-ate Chemistry program.

Above all, she’s passionate about organic chemistry — but she knows most students don’t share her love for the subject, especially at first.

“I know most people are terri-fied of [organic chemistry]and super

confused,” she said. “I really like converting people from haters to lovers.”

Tapescu’s mother is a teacher, which she said is part of the reason she got involved with tutoring in the first place. Even though her passions still lie squarely in medicine and the sciences, she doesn’t rule out teach-ing as having some presence in her future professional life.

“One cool aspect of medicine is that you also have teaching as you evolve in your career,” she said.

On Oct. 3, Penn Park will buzz with energy as students celebrate the fourth-annual Skimmerfest. A hallmark Penn tradition featuring free food and live music, the event will feature headliner and elec-tric music duo AlunaGeorge and opener Blind Prism, a student duo from Penn.

Organized by the Class Board, the Social Planning and Events Committee and Penn Athletics,

Skimmerfest will be held after the first home football game against Dartmouth.

This year, the planning com-mittee hopes to revamp the vibe of Skimmerfest by focusing more on live music.

“We want to try something new and focus more on the talent. People aren’t going there for a moon jump — they’re going to see a show,” Junior Class Board Histo-rian Daniel Roberts said.

The event will not have as many carnival attractions as in years past, but Senior Class Board Nurs-ing Chair Ally Lutfi added that there would still be a photo booth and three food trucks — Mister

Softee, Buttercream Cupcake Truck and Mac Mart Food Truck.

The planning committee also hopes that the focus on music rather than carnival events will combat extremely long lines, which have been a problem at pre-vious Skimmerfests.

SPEC Film Co-Director and College senior Sabina Spigner said that the food trucks may lead to shorter lines.

“We wanted to focus more on things with higher turnover rates,” SPEC Secretary and College senior Roshni Amin said.

Although Skimmerfest has un-dergone many changes, it has been around in some form for more than

60 years.Skimmer began in 1949 in

an effort to raise student inter-est in the men’s crew team races. The event was named in 1951 for Penn crew coach Rusty Callow’s signature straw “skimmer” hat, ac-cording to the University Archives.

After being replaced by Spring Fling in 1973, Skimmer was revived in 2011 and then later combined with Fall Fest, an event showcasing student groups, in 2012.

“I’m a senior now, so Skimmer-fest has changed a lot since I was a freshman,” Lufti said. “But it’s just a great Penn tradition, and that car-ries through every year.”

AlunaGeorge will headline fourth-annual Skimmerfest on Oct. 3Buttercream Cupcake and Mac Mart will provide free food for the eventVIBHA KANNANStaff Reporter

Electric duo AlunaGeorge to headline Skimmerfest this year.COURTESY OF SHAWN AHMED

Penn’s tutors boost students’ GPAs while building friendships Tutors build on their own skills by helping others in difficult classesSYDNEY SCHAEDELStaff Reporter

conformity,” Cook said.Cook identified ratios as espe-

cially unwelcoming to transgender people.

“Assessing people for their gender and their attractiveness right at the door is something that affects everybody, but in particu-lar for gender non-conforming people, that plays out in really bad ways,” they said.

Other leaders in the Greek community agreed that ratios are harmful for transgender students because they reinforce the notion that only men and women are wel-come.

“I have trans friends who have gone to frat parties with the ratio and have been asked, ‘Are you a guy or girl?’” Wharton junior and Pi Lambda Phi President Chris-tian Urrutia said. “It’s outright misogyny.”

For gender non-conforming students, some of whom are still in the process of transitioning, the strict gender binary encouraged by ratios is directly exclusionary.

“I think that the main issues that are criticized in general for frats are just something that piles on when you add gender identity into the mix,” Cook said.

Changing law and cultureNational chapters can slow

down the process of opening up membership to transgender stu-dents, administrators and students said in interviews last week.

The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life leaves matters of membership to the individual

chapters in coordination with their national organizations. Greek groups are exempt from the Title IX gender equality requirements, meaning the national headquar-ters for each group can determine membership free of federal anti-discrimination claims.

Occasionally, national organi-zations are unbending to the will of local chapters in expanding membership.

Pi Lam has petitioned its na-tional organization to become officially co-ed at Penn for six years, but the chapter has repeat-edly rebuffed their request. At Penn, the chapter operates as a co-ed organization, but the na-tional chapter only counts males for official documentation.

Despite bureaucratic hurdles to becoming gender inclusive, student leaders attested to Penn’s acceptance of non-binary students within gendered fraternities or so-rorities.

“We haven’t had a necessity to bring it up with the administration if a transitioning or transitioned person has been recognized,” Urrutia said. Two nonbinary stu-dents have been members of the fraternity during Urrutia’s time in Pi Lam, including one current student.

OFSL Director Eddie Banks-Crosson agreed that convincing national organizations to change chapter rules can be difficult, es-pecially when national executives aren’t exposed to the conversa-tions about race, gender identity and privilege that occur on college campuses.

“Working in the field for quite some time, I’m thinking that ‘OK,

I’m living in an environment where we’re constantly talking about these issues.’ These people who are steering these groups do not,” he said.

Cook believes the problem of trans-inclusivity in Greek life is rooted more in the homogenous culture of the groups, rather than in any one group’s membership rules.

“Even if you look at mainstream sororities and fraternities, you don’t see a diversity of race, you don’t see a diversity of body type, body size, you don’t really even see a diversity in interests,” they said.

Wharton senior and Interfra-ternity Council President Jacob Wallenberg admitted that fraterni-ties often have checkered pasts but remained optimistic about future inclusivity.

Many of these “organiza-tions were founded in 1850 when women weren’t allowed to go to college. It’s possible that there’s still relics of that,” he said. “If there’s any biases left, they’re more cultural than institutional. Then that becomes a student prob-lem more than a Greek problem.”

Going beyond co-edThe community that Greek or-

ganizations provide can often be found in other campus groups, Cook said.

“Companionship and spending time closely with a group of people are something that can be repli-cated at places like APO [Alpha Phi Omega] and even in groups like the Writers House,” they said.

Cook knows other trans people that have “really enjoyed” being

members of APO, a co-ed service fraternity.

“Even the marketing of co-ed also does imply a gender binary that a lot of people don’t ascribe to,” Cook said.

Cook added that while “LGB” people may be represented at higher rates in co-ed fraternities, the groups “fall into the same category in terms of not exactly being safe or welcoming for trans people.”

Starting a DiscussionContinuing to make transgen-

der students feel comfortable and welcome within Greek life will be an ongoing issue, not solved by or restricted to correcting instances of cultural insensitivity.

“It’s up to the students to start the conversation,” Banks-Crosson said. “We can be here as experi-enced professionals to support and guide the conversation, but I think they need to start it.”

But is rectifying occasional in-stances of insensitivity enough to become more welcoming?

“There’s only so much you can do with sensitivity training and changing certain dynamics within Greek life that will make them more accepting,” Cook said.

Though Cook reiterated that they do not speak for all trans people at Penn, they believe it’s unlikely more trans people will be attracted to Greek organizations anytime soon.

“I think there’s something in-herent in the structure of how fraternities and sororities interact with each other that is never going to be a welcoming place for trans people,” Cook said.

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The box score reflected the real-ity: On Sunday night, the Quakers never had a shot.

Penn Soccer fell 3-0 to No. 23 Temple at Rhodes Field on Sunday night, dropping to 0-4-1 on the season. The Red and Blue failed to put a single shot on goal, and only thrice did they even send the ball in Temple goalie Alex Cagle’s general direction.

Instead, they spent far more time tapping the ball back to their own goalie, senior Nick Savino, in an attempt to reset their listless of-fense. The Owls, however, charged towards Savino with more malice, with star junior Jorge Gomez San-chez putting a hat trick past the Penn keeper.

Savino did come up with four saves, including a seemingly im-possible stop in the second half on a shot that had Temple’s bench

celebrating, certain that the ball had found the back of the net.

The Quakers held level with Temple (6-0-1) for the first third of the game, but Gomez Sanchez took advantage of a Penn turnover in the 32nd minute to give the Owls a lead they would never relinquish. Gomez struck again shortly after the intermission at 48:17, and again in the 57th minute to put the game out of reach.

However, it might be fair to say the game was out of reach after the first goal. The Quakers have scored only a single goal in five games, and Penn’s impressive per-formance in the season opener — a scoreless draw against No. 7 Wash-ington — seems to have been a sign of things to come, for all the wrong reasons.

“When you’re going through a streak like this, it starts to affect your mentality. It starts to affect your confidence,” coach Rudy Fuller said. “If that affects how we prepare, how we play, that’s our fault.”

But Fuller pointed out that the offense wasn’t his squad’s only

issue in the defeat.“You can talk all you want about

the attack, but you’re not going to win many games when you give up

three goals.”And ultimately, the loss falls on

the entire squad.“Everybody has to do their

job. It’s not like we have a defen-sive team and an attacking team,” Fuller added. “Everybody defends, everybody attacks. Just because

[Gomez Sanchez] scored three goals, that’s not the fault of the back four, that’s the fault of everybody on the field.

“Just because we’re not scoring goals, it isn’t the fault of [senior at-tacker] Alec Neumann, it’s the fault of the 11 guys on the field.”

Penn did wake up to some extent on the offensive end in the dying minutes of the game, putting more pressure on the Temple defense, sending some balls into the box and earning a corner.

“Towards the end of the game we started believing and trying to push,” Neumann said. “I think that showed, and I think if we can do that for 90 minutes, we’ll start to get results.”

“That was certainly a positive,” Fuller added. “It was something we had talked about at halftime: trying to get more numbers forward.”

Of course, it was far too little and too late, and if Penn did gain any momentum at the end of the game, it will be very hard to main-tain. The Quakers’ next test is a Wednesday matchup with No. 13 Penn State at Rhodes Field.

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quarterback Alek Torgersen and sophomore running back Tre Solo-mon went to work. With a dazzling array of runs and quick passes, the Quakers went 95 yards in just over four minutes to knot the game at seven apiece the first play of the second quarter.

Despite stopping the Mountain Hawks on their previous posses-sion, Penn couldn’t repeat the feat on either of Lehigh’s final two drives of the half. Shafnisky threw a six-yard touchdown to sophomore wide receiver Troy Pelletier to cap off a 19-play, eight-minute drive and give his squad a 14-7 lead, one it wouldn’t relinquish the remainder of the af-ternoon.

After the Quakers were forced to punt, Shafnisky went to work again, this time needing only six plays to extend the Mountain Hawks’ lead

with two minutes remaining before halftime. The veteran managed to avoid pressure in the backfield and chucked the ball downfield to Pel-letier, who was wide open when he caught the ball at Penn’s 15 and nearly walked into the endzone for a 47-yard score.

In his return from a torn ACL suf-fered last October, Solomon showed flashes of brilliance for the Red and Blue. Highlighted by a nifty 22-yard scamper, the Brooklyn, N.Y., native carried the ball 11 times for 89 yards, showcasing a backfield weapon the team sorely lacked in 2014.

“I didn’t really notice it, hon-estly,” Solomon said about his knee. “I thought I didn’t take as many live reps during the summer, but I thought that I ran pretty well consid-ering everything, and I wasn’t really thinking about it. So all in all, it feels back to 100 percent.”

Penn received the ball to start

the second half, but failed to make a dent in the Mountain Hawks’ lead on its first two possessions of the period. After two poor punts from sophomore Hunter Kelley, Lehigh went 39 yards on six plays, with Shafnisky scoring on a keeper from three yards out to make it 28-7.

“The trend of using the running quarterback [means] we need to be better at the point of attack stopping the spread and fitting in our plays,” Priore said. “There’s room [for us] to move, room to build upon, and I think our guys are going to be watching the tape and film and see where we can make those improve-ments.”

Less than a minute later, the Quakers seemed poised to go three-and-out yet again. But on third and 10, Torgersen found wideout Justin Watson on a quick pass, and the sophomore took it 74 yards to the house on the longest reception of his career. With a 10-catch, 143-yard

performance, Watson went over the century mark in receiving yards for the first time in his career.

But if the Red and Blue had any momentum, a long kickoff return by the Mountain Hawks quickly squashed it. Lehigh went to work from Penn’s 40, and Shafnisky found senior wideout Stefan San-sone from eight yards out to push the lead back to three scores.

The squads traded a pair of touch-downs early in the fourth quarter, as Torgersen found freshman Chris-tian Pearson on a 45-yard bullet before Shafnisky responded with his second score on the ground. The latter finished 24-of-34 with 250 yards through the air, adding 95 yards on 16 carries.

Penn won’t have much time to recuperate after Saturday’s contest. The Quakers will be back in action on Thursday against Villanova, a game that was moved ahead due to the papal visit later this week.

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opponent.”And that’s entirely fair. First

games always bring jitters and no matter how hard coaches try to replicate it, there is no real substitute for game speed.

Then again, a lot of the team’s issues were the same ones we saw last year.

Da r tmouth qua r terback Dalyn Williams and Yale quar-terback Morgan Roberts — both mobile gunslingers — gave Penn problems in 2014 and Shafnisky followed in their footsteps. Whether on designed runs or broken plays, Lehigh was able to gain consistent yard-age and keep drives moving.

Meanwhile, Penn struggled to sustain its own possessions. The Quakers have been defined by their short passing game for the past year with varying degrees of success, but too often on third and fourth down, junior quarter-back Alek Torgersen was only able to find open receivers well behind the markers. It’s tough to win ball games when three of your drives end on failed fourth down conversions and the team

goes 3-for-10 on third down.Penn doesn’t seem to have

fixed all of the issues that made it one of the weakest Ivy League teams last season. The rest of its season — and the hope that the team can turn around under a new coaching staff — hinges on the team’s ability to grow and adapt.

In terms of growth, the Quak-ers seem to have had plenty of young players successfully tran-sition into key roles on the team.

Wide receiver Justin Watson and running back Tre Solomon opened their sophomore cam-paigns with two of their best games as collegiate players. Watson had his first career 100-yard receiving game and came up with Penn’s biggest play of the day, a 74-yard sprint to the endzone off a short pass. Solo-mon didn’t seem to feel any of the consequences of his 2014 knee injury on the way to 120 total yards.

On defense, underclassmen stepped up in big ways. Fresh-man Nick Miller came up with an interception, Penn’s only forced turnover of the game, and sophomore Colton Moskal led the team in tackles with 11.

So after one game, the Red and Blue look like a similar team with new faces on the field and on the coaching staff. Their flaws were apparent, but not unsolvable. Priore and his coaching staff have their work cut out for them.

Working on a short week, it’s not as though we’ll see too much schematic change in Thursday’s game against Villanova. Past that, it’ll be interesting to see how Penn adapts.

Will the offense continue to revolve around the short passes to the flat that have defined the team throughout Torgersen’s tenure at quarterback? Can the defense successfully limit the mobile quarterbacks who dot Ivy League rosters?

Every team has challenges each and every season. One non-conference game isn’t going to define a season. But whether a team is able to adapt to the chal-lenges it faces throughout the season certainly will.

MCGINNIS>> PAGE 8

HOLDEN McGINNIS is an Engi-neering junior from Gladwyne, Pa., and is a sports editor at The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at [email protected].

But the star of the day was Jones, who churned out gain after gain and kept an explosive Penn offense going. In the first quarter, with the Quakers lead-ing 7-0, he rushed left and was met by several Franklin Pierce defenders. Jones managed to stay upright, break through the gang tackle and continue about 10 more yards for his first touchdown of the day.

Three minutes into the second quarter, both Jones and fellow freshman Jake Klaus lined up on the field, with the latter split out left. Klaus went in motion and McCurdy faked a handoff to him, on which Franklin Pierce (0-1) bit. Jones then received the football from McCurdy and ran untouched straight up the middle for 65 yards to the house.

Later in the second quar-ter, the Quakers faced first and 10 on the Franklin Pierce 22 after McCurdy connected with sophomore wide receiver Andrew Sutton for a 44-yard deep ball along the left side-line. While being brought down

by a defender, the quarterback checked down to Jones, who ran it in for his third touchdown of the day.

Jones put on a clinic with his 10 first-half rushing attempts, a number he saw in part be-cause Klaus left the game in the second quarter with an ankle injury. Wagner said Klaus was held out of the remainder of the game as a precaution and will be ready to go for Penn’s next game.

“It’s always nice to get an opportunity,” Jones said. “It’s never nice because someone in front of you got injured, but I just took advantage of it, there wasn’t much else I could do. But to come out with the win, it was pretty nice.”

The Quakers were domi-nant on defense, maintaining a shutout until Ravens’ running back D.J. McDonald scored on a short run with 46 seconds remaining in the third quarter. McDonald was mostly ineffec-tive on the ground, finishing with 15 yards on seven attempts while serving as a valuable check-down option for Frank-lin Pierce quarterback Derek Reddy, catching four passes for

61 yards.Penn defenders sacked Reddy

nine times and pressured him on several other occasions, often forcing him to scramble out of the pocket. The Quak-ers picked off three of Reddy’s passes, most notably Stu Helge-son’s interception with 2:10 left in the first quarter, which the senior returned 39 yards to the end zone to make the score 21-0 in favor of the Red and Blue.

“Those key interceptions were wonderful,” Wagner said. “I think the secondary played tremendous [and] our defensive staff did a super job of getting them ready. They played real well [and] they set the tone.”

Perhaps the biggest missed opportunity for the Ravens was after Jones’ receiving touchdown with just over three minutes remaining in the second quarter. Junior kicker Mario Del Cueto’s extra point attempt was blocked and defen-sive lineman Kevin Raymond returned the ball well into Penn territory and had a strong chance of scoring, but tripped around the Penn 29.

The Quakers will be back in action on Saturday against Post.

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BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Maybe this season won’t be about change after all.

Coming off a 2-8 campaign in 2014, Penn football’s season opener shaped up a lot like most of its contests from last year. Despite putting together a pair of long touchdown drives, the Quakers were eviscerated by Lehigh quarterback Nick Shaf-nisky throughout the afternoon, surrendering five total touch-downs to the junior en route to a 42-21 loss on Saturday.

The Ray Priore era got off to an inauspicious start, as the Mountain Hawks (2-1) trav-eled 76 yards on 13 plays on the

game’s opening drive to take an early 7-0 lead. It wasn’t difficult to see why Penn was so worried about Shafnisky heading into this weekend’s matchup: The junior from Whitehall, Pa., had thrown for 500 yards and was the team’s leading rusher through two con-tests, and he consistently hurt the Red and Blue with both his arms and legs.

“As I told the guys before the game started on Thursday, this is a 10 round fight and you get 10 opportunities,” Priore said. “After round one, we need to get better as we go through the season.

Penn (0-1) went three-and-out on its first drive of the season, but the Quakers managed to force a turnover on downs after Lehigh made it all the way down to the five yard line. From there, junior

They are what we thought they were.

Coming into its first game of the season, no one thought Penn football would be flaw-less. The team is coming off a disappointing 2-8 season and was picked to finish sixth in the Ivy League preseason

media poll.So when the Quakers

struggled against Lehigh on Saturday, it wasn’t entirely surprising. The defense was unable to contain Lehigh junior quarterback Nick Shaf-nisky, and the offense found too many empty possessions in its short passing scheme.

As coach Ray Priore said, “One thing you can’t repli-cate when you go into the first game is the speed of your

The game was over, and although he stood watching on the sidelines for the last 12 minutes of the fourth quarter, Max Jones was still registering the results of first collegiate game. So what did he have to say?

“It’s awesome.”The Belmont, Mass., native

and freshman running back did indeed have an “awesome” game, leading the way for Penn sprint football with 130

rushing yards — 125 of which came in the first half — and three touchdowns as the Quak-ers routed Franklin Pierce on Saturday, 51-7. The Red and Blue dominated from the get-go, jumping out to a 41-0 halftime lead while firing on all cylinders.

Calling Saturday’s effort the best first half Penn (1-0) has had in a while, coach Bill Wagner came away from the game impressed with his team’s performance.

“You’re going to have to come out right in the begin-ning of the game and really let them know we’re here to play four quarters,” Wagner said. “And they did that in the

first half — offensively, defen-sively, every part of the game there, they stepped up to do what they had to do.”

Junior quarterback Mike McCurdy turned in a stellar performance, throwing for 211 yards and three touchdowns as well as adding the game’s first scoring play with a 23-yard rush. He consistently looked for senior wide receiver Henry Mason, who finished with five catches, 109 yards and two touchdowns, numbers that don’t reflect the two defensive pass interference penalties he drew on two separate scoring drives.

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Freshman leads drubbing in Quakers’ opening rompSPRINT FB | Jones tallies three scoresJACOB ADLERAssociate Sports Editor

Freshman running back Max Jones enjoyed a breakout game in his collegiate debut, accumulating 130 rushing yards and three touchdowns, and fueling an offensive explosion that guided the Quakers to a 51-7 victory over Franklin Pierce.

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New faces, same problems

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FOOTBALL | Penn drops Priore’s first gameRILEY STEELESenior Sports Editor

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LEHIGH 2142 PENN

STILL STRUGGLING A WEEK IN PHOTOSA Temple hat-trick continued Penn men’s soccer’s woes in

Sunday’s 3-0 loss

>> SEE PAGE 7

Looking back on the week in Penn Athletics through a handful

of lenses

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Sophomore receiver Justin Watson passed the century mark for the first time with 143 yards against Lehigh.

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