According to the largest survey on sexual violence at college campuses ever adminis-tered, Penn falls short of its peers in educating its students about sexual assault and fostering an atmosphere of safety.

The American Association of Universities’ Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct, whose results were released on Sept. 21, was conducted at 28 schools, and every Ivy League university except Princeton participated.

Compared to those other schools, Penn stu-dents were less familiar with the University’s sexual violence policies. Among all institu-tions, 24 percent of respondents were very or extremely likely to understand their school’s

About a third of Penn female undergraduates say they’ve been sexually assaulted, ac-cording to the results of the American Association of Uni-versities’ Campus Climate survey, whose results were re-leased on Sept. 21. Specifically,

27 percent of female under-graduates have experienced “nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching involving physical force or incapacita-tion” since entering college.

But there’s an interesting discrepancy when the statistics are examined more closely: Only 30.7 percent of women who said they were sexually assaulted while at Penn actu-ally reported it by senior year — a small fraction of the total number of women.

At the same time, 58.1 per-cent of students overall believe that a report will be taken se-riously by the administration, raising the question of why Penn students don’t speak up.

For one, it’s not a Penn-spe-cific issue, according to Jessica Mertz, Penn’s director of stu-dent sexual violence prevention and education.

“Instead of looking at what it is about Penn culture,” Mertz said, “what is it about campus cultures in general that create a

higher risk for sexual assault?”The AAU survey suggests

that it isn’t because students don’t believe in the univer-sity’s ability to advocate for them. Rather, it’s because they don’t believe that what happens to them is serious enough to report or important enough to go through the hassle.

“It gives us data in here about the reasons students don’t report, and it’s actually

On Tuesday, Penn startup Fever Smart won $10,000 at a student pitch competition.

Fever Smart was crowned the winner of the first-ever Rise of the Rest student speed pitch competition at the National Constitution Center in downtown Philadelphia. Penn Engineering senior William Duckworth, CTO of Fever Smart, beat out nine other finalists and over 75 initial applicants in the com-petition, which was hosted by former AOL CEO and Revolution Ventures Chairman Steve Case.

“It feels great,” Duckworth said. “I went out there and pitched first. I was worried, but it felt great to win and be able to go up and accept the giant check.”

Duckworth, along with Wharton se-niors Aaron Goldstein and Collin Hill, are the founders of Fever Smart, a com-pany that develops small, non-invasive

temperature monitoring systems. The $10,000 prize, presented by Revolution Ventures and Blackstone Charitable Foundation, will go directly towards their startup.

“We’ll probably use [the money] to keep working on funding some of our [business-to-business] platforms,” Duckworth said. “We’re doing a pilot program with Walgreens right now, and we’re working on expanding our clini-cal presence as well.”

At the competition, student teams rattled off 60-second “speed” pitches, followed by 60 more seconds of ques-tions from Case and a panel of judges. The students’ presentations, while short, impressed the judges.

“Students are as sophisticated at solving complex problems as some of the high gross entrepreneurs I come across around the country,” said Amy Stursberg, executive director of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation and a judge of the student pitch competi-tion. “Some of [their] companies look really exciting and interesting.”

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A BROKENCULTURE

If the chance of winning gift cards for Bloomingdale’s, Sweet-green and Soulcycle wasn’t enough incentive to attend, beauty and fashion experts from Saks Fifth Avenue drew a crowd of stu-dents to Houston’s Hall of Flags for Wharton Women’s signature Dressing for Success event.

On Tuesday, Wharton Women organized its annual fashion show, themed “Corporate Catwalk,” to

demonstrate dress codes in vari-ous industries.

In collaboration with Bonded Boutique, a retail store located at 38th and Spruce streets, the club outfitted 15 to 20 volunteer models who strutted Bonded dresses and jumpsuits. In contrast with last year’s theme of “Pretty in Pink,” the ensembles of this fash-ion show displayed more muted and neutral colors, with tunics and pumps of faded yellows and blues, black, navy and beige.

Dressing for Success is one of Wharton Women’s numerous philanthropy events, and all pro-ceeds gathered from donations

and raffle tickets for luxury gift baskets go to Career Wardrobe, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that helps outfit and prepare disadvan-taged women for the professional workplace. Career Wardrobe uses donations to buy clothing and pro-vide professional development education for the 3,000 women they serve every year.

The event also involved a panel of experts from Saks who spoke on professional attire and makeup techniques for interviews. Seth Barton-Roberts, a Saks makeup representative working for Gior-gio Armani, brought his favorite concealers and eyeshadow palette

to demonstrate tricks for covering dark circles under the eyes and maintaining a natural look.

“I liked how it was small and we could really get an interaction with the people who were present-ing, especially the representatives from Saks doing the makeup,” College freshman Molly Dor-shimer said. Dorshimer served as a volunteer during the makeup demonstration. “I thought that was really helpful, because they were showing a transition from a day look to a night look, so it was two really useful looks.”

Danielle Selip and Dawn Toro-ker, Saks fashion representatives,

gave tips on skirt length and how to wear a fitted jacket. “Inter-views are about how you present yourself, and personal appearance can be key to your success,” Toro-ker said.

Though the event was free to all Penn students regardless of gender or school, it was suggested that all attendees contribute a $5 donation in the spirit of phi-lanthropy. Last year, Wharton Women raised over $3,000 through raffle tickets and dona-tions, and the club is hoping to raise even more this year by im-plementing Venmo and Square to facilitate the donation process for

those without cash.“We’re definitely aiming

higher this year,” Vice President of Philanthropy and Wharton junior Sarah Liu said. “We have a lot more prizes this time, so I think we should be able to raise more money from that.”

Wharton Women reached out to local shops, restaurants and department stores for donations, ranging from spa tickets to Chi-potle gift cards; the total value contributions amounted to nearly $7,000, and donations were orga-nized into seven gift baskets that students could purchase raffle tickets to win.

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The recent uproar at Wesleyan University is not the first time a top-tier school has been shaken by outcry over race and politi-cal correctness — the incident echoes a controversy that struck Penn 22 years ago.

Two weeks ago, a stu-dent op-ed published in The Wesleyan Argus received wide-spread condemnation in the Wesleyan community after criti-cizing the Black Lives Matter movement. A petition, which has at least 172 signatories, calls for withholding funding from the Argus until a number of conditions are met, including mandatory social justice train-ing for staff reporters and page space reserved for “marginal-ized groups.” Some students have gone even further, calling for an outright boycott of the Argus.

The aftermath of the Wes-leyan controversy has a lot in common with Penn’s 1993 “water buffalo” incident. The

debacle began when Penn stu-dent Eden Jacobowitz shouted, “Shut up, you water buffalo,” to a largely black group of female students who noisily passed his room. Administrators brought disciplinary action against Ja-cobowitz on the grounds that he had violated Penn’s racial ha-rassment policy.

The resulting public outcry questioned Penn’s commitment to freedom of expression, es-pecially after Jewish cultural experts explained that Jaco-bowitz’s use of the term “water buffalo” was based on widely-used Hebrew slang, which describes a loud person and is not inherently racist.

“Even ‘Doonesbury’single quote for comics and Rush Limbaugh came to a rare meet-ing of minds, agreeing that Penn’s handling of the incident warranted mockery,” wrote Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, in his book “Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate”, which cites the water buffalo incident.

But a new level of outcry came when The Daily Pennsylvanian,

in response to the incident, pub-lished a series of editorials by op-ed columnist Gregory Pavlik. Pavlik, one of the few conserva-tive writers on the DP’s spring 1993 staff, criticized the civil rights movement’s effect on in-dividual liberties. The DP, like the Argus, quickly came under fire for running the op-eds.

“If the DP prints it, then we must infer that they agree with [it] and condone it,” over 200 of Pavlik’s critics, including Penn students and faculty, wrote in a letter to the editor titled “African

American Community Responds to Pavlik.”

Students disappointed in the Argus are now saying similar things at Wesleyan.

“That the Argus chose to give this man somewhere to share his disrespectful opinion and to then have the Argus and its staff members defend the publication, hiding behind the argument of ‘well, it’s not my opinion, but he’s allowed to have it’ is frankly a great disappointment,” Wes-leyan student Michael Ortiz wrote in an editorial on Sept. 21.

The DP coverage of the water buffalo incident prompted a mass boycott of the DP, and many at Wesleyan are now call-ing for a boycott of the Argus as well. On the morning of April 15, 1993, just as Jacobowitz’s case was gaining national atten-tion, a group of black students confiscated that day’s entire DP press run — all 14,000 copies. When DP staff tried to get the papers back, they were met with threats and racial epithets. While an appeal to administra-tion and disciplinary authorities from the DP yielded no assis-tance, the media rallied behind the Penn newspaper.

“The national media [...] always notice the unpunished silencing of the press, and they asked the university if and when charges might be brought against the individuals respon-sible for suppressing the DP,” Penn History professor Alan Charles Kors wrote in his book “The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On Ameri-ca’s Campuses,” which includes a chapter on the water buffalo incident.

Newspaper theft is legally considered a form of theft. In

the same year as the water buf-falo incident, two people at Penn State — who were caught steal-ing papers from newsstands — were charged with theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy — all first-degree misdemeanors in the state of Pennsylvania.

Reactions to the boycott and mass theft of the DP put the Penn administration in the middle of a difficult conflict between two core Penn values: diversity and open expression. Then-Penn President Sheldon Hackney himself struggled to address the anger and resent-ment caused by the water buffalo incident without making a state-ment that could be interpreted as limiting free expression.

On this front, at least, Wes-leyan President Michael Roth has made himself clear.

“Debates can raise intense emotions, but that doesn’t mean that we should demand ideologi-cal conformity because people are made uncomfortable,” Roth said in an online statement on Sept. 19. “Censorship dimin-ishes true diversity of thinking; vigorous debate enlivens and in-structs.”

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definition of sexual assault. At Penn, the rate was only 10.7 per-cent, the lowest among the Ivy League schools that released com-prehensive results — Harvard, Yale, Brown, Penn and Dart-mouth.

Penn respondents were compar-atively uninformed about where to make reports of sexual violence or misconduct — students were very or extremely knowledgeable at a rate of 12.6 percent, compared to 25.8 percent overall. In this cat-egory, Penn’s rate was also the lowest of the Ivies that released comprehensive results.

The results also indicate that

Penn students are relatively pes-simistic about the University’s ability to effectively deal with complaints of sexual violence.

Students at Penn were less likely than average to believe that a victim of sexual violence would be supported by fellow students in making a report, that campus officials would take the report seriously or that the safety of the victim would be protected.

Compared to the overall results, Penn students were also less con-fident that campus officials would conduct a fair investigation, take action against the offender or ad-dress factors that may have led to the incident.

Penn students were much less likely than average to intervene if

they suspected a friend had been assaulted, if they witnessed a drunk person heading for a sexual encounter or if they witnessed someone acting in a sexually vio-lent manner.

For the most part, rates of actual sexual violence were higher at Penn than among all 28 schools that participated in the survey. The rate of Penn under-graduate women who reported

nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching since entering college was 27 percent, compared to a national rate of 23 percent.

Of the seven Ivies that partici-pated, only Yale and Dartmouth had higher rates of nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching.

Penn freshmen also reported a higher rate of sexual violence than the average rate, at 22.8 per-cent versus 16.9 percent overall.

Results were similar for the other three undergraduate years.

The percentage of Penn stu-dents who said they were victims of harassment, interpersonal vio-lence or stalking was similar to national rates.

Despite the daunting numbers, only 14.1 percent of Penn students believe that sexual assault is a problem on campus, compared to a national rate of 20.2 percent

and higher rates at the other Ivy League schools.

When the survey results were released, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price called Penn’s sta-tistics “deeply troubling” in an email sent to all Penn students and promised to arrange meet-ings with student leaders across campus to discuss how best to tackle the problem.

The young Penn chapter of the national organization Swipe Out Hunger is planning to expand its efforts this fall.

In addition to bringing back meal swipe donation days, Swipe Out Hunger is incorpo-rating new efforts, such as a $4 Supplemental Nutrition Assis-tance Program challenge, into their program this school year. The organization is currently led by Wharton junior Grace Kirkpatrick, since its founders, College juniors Liza Lansing and Jessie Abrams, are abroad.

“I really want to see Swipe Out Hunger Penn solidify its campus presence,” Kirkpatrick said.

The group’s main effort this semester is introducing the $4 SNAP challenge, in which participants are only allowed to spend the amount of money that those on SNAP benefits have, for a single meal. Swipe Out Hunger Penn, also known as Swipes, hopes that in taking the $4 SNAP challenge — which was undertaken earlier this year by Gwyneth Paltrow

— participants will further understand food insecurity, a problem faced by a large number of West Philadelphians.

In planning the $4 SNAP challenge, Swipes hopes to engage the group of upperclass-men who aren’t necessarily on the meal plan. The challenge is set to occur during Hunger Awareness Week.

Additionally, Swipe Out Hunger Penn will be hosting a number of volunteer days at Philabundance, a nonprofit food bank that serves the Philadel-phia region. Last semester, all the money raised from the dona-tion days went to Philabundance.

“Based on the money we raised, we were able to give out 14,000 meals last year,” said

College sophomore Jake Wiese-neck, Swipe Out Hunger Penn’s marketing coordinator.

Swipe Out Hunger is a na-tional organization that has been recognized by the White House, Forbes and The Case Founda-tion. Its arrival at Penn was prompted by two students’ expe-rience with a classroom project.

After taking an Academically

Based Service Class taught by Netter Center Director Ira Har-kavy in which students were given the assignment of iden-tifying a problem in the local Philadelphia community and proposing a solution, founders Lansing and Abrams decided to bring Swipe Out Hunger to Penn.

Spring 2015 was the first se-mester for Swipe Out Hunger Penn, and the group focused solely on donation days.

“We had to educate all stu-dents on meal plans about our movement, and explain how and when to get involved,” Lansing said in an email.

A big part of operating Swipe Out Hunger is meeting and ne-gotiating with Penn Dining and Bon Appétit, something that Swipes’ members acknowledge is not always easy.

“At first, Swipes was really an organization based off whatever give and take we could get with Penn Dining,” Wieseneck said.

Kirkpatrick’s responsibili-ties as vice president include meeting and negotiating with Penn Dining. “It’s been very interesting working with Penn Dining. There have been a lot of positives to working with a large organization,” she said.

The most helpful thing Penn

Dining has done for Swipes is connecting the organization with experts and other people they know, such as Bon Appétit’s “food fellow,” who has played a large role in bringing about the $4 SNAP challenge.

However, working with such a large organization has its draw-backs as well. “Whenever you’re dealing with a company, you have to balance their interests with our interests,” Kirkpatrick said.

Swipes ultimately cuts into Bon Appétit’s profits, since they donate a portion of the money they would have gained from each unused swipe. Proving to Bon Appétit that losing profits is worthwhile because Swipes is a dedicated program has been their biggest challenge, Lansing said.

Looking toward the spring semester, Kirkpatrick and Wi-eseneck have further goals in mind. Kirkpatrick would like to see Swipes team up and col-laborate with other groups and organizations, while Wieseneck hopes to expand their advocacy efforts.

Swipes is currently working with Penn Recreation to set up a 5K in the spring, proceeds of which would go to Philabun-dence.

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Sen. Elizabeth War-ren recently wrote an op-ed about her plan to mitigate America’s

$1.2 trillion student loan burden by imposing fines on universi-ties whose alumni are unable to pay off their student loans. Her intention is for universities to have “skin in the game” as “risk-sharing” penalties incentivize colleges to reduce their cost of attendance and/or improve stu-dent outcomes. Makes sense, right?

Don’t buy it. Warren’s plan is well-intentioned, but it will have unintended consequences that could undermine students’ personal freedom and eliminate academic programs that lead to low-paying jobs.

Currently, students who take out loans make their own academic choices and are held financially accountable. They decide for themselves which academic path will offer the best cost-to-benefit ratio based upon their own definition for success — which may or may not include a well-paying career.

Because of this freedom, stu-dents can “bet” on themselves, even against the odds, by decid-ing whether or not the expected marginal benefit of choosing a specific major at a given school will be worth the costs.

If Warren’s plan is adopted, colleges may eliminate or limit admission to programs that don’t provide a “good enough” financial payoff. Consider most music performance programs. The average mid-career sal-ary of a music major is a pal-try $51,400 — a manifestation of supply and demand. Many students major in performance, but the supply of music perfor-mance jobs is limited. Those who don’t “hit it big” may be saddled with college debt they find difficult to pay.

So what might happen to music majors at some universi-ties? Fearing future “Warren fines” the school may begin to make academic decisions on be-half of its students — and either shut down its music program or limit enrollment to only the most promising performers. In

the end, how many performance music programs would be left?

All college programs as-sociated with traditionally low or lower wage careers are at risk — goodbye special edu-cation ($46.8K), criminal jus-tice ($58.8K) and social work

($46.6K) majors! Colleges un-der Warren’s plan will only be incentivized to host programs that lead to high average sala-ries, such as actuarial mathe-matics ($119.6K) and chemical engineering ($116.7K). Hello STEM education!

Warren’s plan turns stu-dents’ academic pursuits into a numbers game. And while you may bet on yourself as an anthropology major ($58.1K)

who’ll beat the odds, it is un-likely that your college will.

Some argue from the view-point of academic paternalism. Perhaps the university ought to protect students from their own bad decision-making by taking some options off the table. But paternalism assumes that the university knows what’s best for individual students. In academ-ics, there is informational asym-metry. Universities receive only signals about a student’s poten-tial — usually GPA and SAT scores — without knowing what the student knows about their own capabilities. Relying solely on signals negates the value of one’s own self-awareness.

I propose an approach that treats educational investments like the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission treats financial investments. The SEC won’t stop you from invest-ing in a risky company — but it requires that publicly traded companies disclose the nec-essary information for you to make informed decisions. Right now, the Higher Education Act

of 1965 requires colleges to publish graduation and reten-tion data. Perhaps it should expand reporting to include other outcome data, such as sal-ary by academic program. This way, students can make well-informed decisions about their educational investment.

The greatest danger of Warren’s plan is that, if imple-mented, it could stifle yet-to-be great achievers. What would she have thought of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, who studied liberal arts at Sarah Lawrence College? (Behold the double whammy of a traditionally low-paying degree earned at one of the country’s most expensive colleges!) Would Warren have let him learn the critical think-ing skills he uses as mayor — or would she have quickly shuttled Emmanuel to the computer sci-ence department?

If colleges had to decide whether each student’s educa-tional path was economically sound, we might be deprived of the likes of media mogul Oprah Winfrey (speech communica-

tions and performing arts, Ten-nessee State University), TV host David Letterman (broad-casting, Ball State), former Disney CEO Michael Eisner (English/theater, Denison Uni-versity) or even — Sen. Eliza-beth Warren (speech pathology, University of Houston).

Many believe that the Theory of Evolution scientif ically

confirms a strictly materialis-tic view of the origin of life. I, like most Americans, am pro-foundly skeptical of this claim. But, unlike most Americans, my reasons do not stem from religion. They are, in fact, much more closely related to elementary probability theory and a family of proteins called aminoacyl tRNA synthetase.

Most of the machinery of cells is made up of long strings of amino acids called proteins. The order of the amino acids in a protein determines its structure and function. Pear-son’s “Campbell Biology” notes that because there are 20 different kinds of biological amino acids there is a 1/20th chance of getting the correct amino acid at any particular point in a protein — making it unlikely that functional pro-teins could be randomly as-sembled.

Of course, Pearson over-simplified. Just like any me-chanical structure, individual proteins still “work” with a

number of “wrong” amino acids in their sequences. On average, six different kinds of amino acids can be placed at any given site in a protein without inhibiting function. So the likelihood of randomly assembling a protein properly is 6/20 x 6/20 x 6/20 … and so on, as many times as there are amino acids in the protein.

Since most proteins are hundreds of amino acids long, these probabilities be-come vanishingly small. For example, even doubling the 6/20 chance above, the prob-ability of getting a functional 400 amino acid protein from scratch is less than one chance in 10 to the 80th.

Biochemical evolution-ary theory purportedly ex-plains how such probabilities could have been overcome in

little steps via natural selec-tion. Such explanations are often disappointing because the probabilities assigned to each of these “little steps” ei-ther have nothing to do with biochemical reality (as in the pop-culture works of Richard Dawkins) or are ignored.

But there is one type of protein that unquestionably

could not have been developed by Darwinian evolution: ami-noacyl tRNA synthetase.

The aaRS are a family of proteins that “charge” tRNA blocks so that they can be used in protein synthesis. Each particular aaRS binds to one of the 20 biological amino acids. Then when a tRNA block with a particular three-base code floats by, the aaRS protein binds to it, checks that it has the correct set of three

bases, and “fuses” its amino acid to the tRNA block. This “charged” tRNA now has RNA bases on one side and the amino acid which corre-sponds to them on the other. Ribosomes reading strips of mRNA can use charged tRNA blocks to accurately assemble proteins which reflect the in-formation in the cell’s genes.

If the materialistic assump-tion is to account for the ori-gin of life, it must account for this system — found in every known life form.

But the aaRS protein fam-ily — or some version of that family — must have been randomly assembled without the aid of natural selection. After all, without a functional aaRS (or something doing its job), the proteins synthesized by a cell would have nothing

to do with the DNA in that cell. Without a way of at least somewhat accurately linking specific amino acids to spe-cific RNA bases, the proteins assembled by a cell would be an entirely random function of whatever amino acids hap-pened to be lying around.

Thus, we are forced to ask the probability of obtaining by pure chance a version of the aaRS that “works” — that could at least, loosely speak-ing, link specific amino acids to specific tRNA blocks. But — given the fact that most aaRS proteins (even in bacte-ria) are 800-900 amino acids long — the math explained above yields a probability even less than one in 10 to the 80th.

Such probabilities are beyond the point of possibil-ity. Even assuming the entire surface of the earth were cov-ered with mutation hubs, each about the size of a bacterium, feverishly reshuffling 400 ami-no acids every second, there could only be about 1 x 10^40 attempts at getting the aaRS in 13.5 billion years. This is over 40 orders of magni-

tude below the expected wait-ing time for getting a func-tional aaRS — even under the most generous of assumptions.

Such a thing simply could not have happened. An in-creasing number of scientists are coming to recognize this problem, and I think the aver-age Penn student should too. Evolutionary theory does not provide a plausible material-istic explanation for the origin of life.

Not a chanceKEEN ON THE TRUTH | Evolutionary theory does not provide a plausible materialistic explanation for the origin of life

THEODORE L. CAPUTI is a College and Wharton junior from Washington Crossing, Pa., studying finance/statistics and mathematics. His email address is tcaputi@wharton.upenn.edu. “The Quixotic Quaker” appears every other Wednesday.

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For example, even doubling the 6/20 chance above, the probability of getting a functional 400 amino acid protein from scratch is less

than one chance in 10 to the 80th.”

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SHUN SAKAI is a College junior from Chestnut Hill, Mass. His email is ssakai@sas.upenn.edu.

Warren’s plan turns students’ academic p u r s u i t s i n to a

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Startups from Penn, Drexel, Temple, Philadelphia University, LaSalle and the University of Delaware participated in the com-petition. Apart from Fever Smart, three other teams from Penn — C-Crete Technologies, Go Smart Track and Lavoisier — pitched as finalists. While these teams did not win the grand prize, the expe-rience was still very positive and eye opening for the students.

“It was an adrenaline rush,” said Matt McGuire, a second-year Wharton MBA student who pitched on behalf of Lavoisier, an anti-counterfeit medicine startup. “I think we did very well.”

Lavoisier recently took part in the first White House Demo Day this August, so McGuire and his colleagues have high hopes for

the future despite not winning the $10,000 prize.

“Right now, we have a $200 bil-lion market to capture, and we’re the best out there,” McGuire said.

Rise of the Rest is a nationwide tour sponsored by Case’s venture capital firm, Revolution LLC, and intends to promote entrepre-neurship in cities outside Silicon Valley.

Case emphasized the impor-tance of entrepreneurship when his team dropped by Penn earlier in the day to attend a technology showcase at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology.

“250 years ago America was a startup, and it started not far from here,” Case told the crowd at the Singh Center. “This is a nation built by entrepreneurs, and in Philadelphia, you know this first-hand.”

Philadelphia Mayor Michael

Nutter, who was also at the event, called it a “remarkable” display of university talent and creativity.

“I am very, very proud of what’s going on here at Penn,” Nutter said. “The things that young people — especially in university campuses — are coming up with are just incredible.”

very similar to what we’ve seen in surveys that have been done for a long time around sexual violence, and the number one reason that came up in here is students not thinking it was se-rious enough to report,” Mertz said.

According to the AAU survey, at Penn, 62.2 percent of victims of penetrative acts by force and 61.8 percent of victims of pen-etrative acts by incapacitation do not believe that the incident was serious enough to report.

Mertz also suggested that stu-dents might have a particular view of what “reporting” means,

which keeps them from going to administration.

“In my experience, part of the reason is that students have an idea of what, in their head, they think what reporting means, and it’s very different from what it actually looks like and what the options actually are,” Mertz said. “Reporting doesn’t have to look like going to the police, necessarily; it could be different depending on what the person’s needs are.”

“If people are experiencing coerced sex or incapacitation or force, but they’re not calling it sexual assault, then they’re gen-erally not reaching out for help,” she added.

And just because students

don’t report through “official” channels doesn’t mean that they’re not getting support.

“For one student, that might mean coming to the Women’s Center and getting confidential support in the support group for a semester,” Penn Women’s Center Director Felicity Paxton said. “For another student, it might mean going to the sexual violence investigator and filing an official university complaint ... and that’s not to take away from the fact that we have low reporting numbers nationally.”

“I think it’s important for us to remember that we’re trying to empower students to speak their truth in whatever way is most au-thentic to them,” Paxton said.

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Tired of eating at 1920 Com-mons in silence, awkward elevator rides and the rush of unfamiliar faces down Locust Walk? TableTalk, which started at Emory University in fall 2014 and came to Penn last semester, hopes to increase interactions among Penn’s diverse student body.

“Penn is marketed as the most diverse school, but when you get here there isn’t really a frame-work or a way to foster diverse student relationships, and I find that TableTalk is filling a void at Penn by encouraging people to reach out to others and meet other people who are differ-ent,” said College junior Sophie Beren, founder and president of the Penn chapter of TableTalk.

“Once you hit second semester [of freshman year] or sophomore year, not many people are trying to reach out anymore or find new circles — everyone is pretty set and content — but I hope that

TableTalk will be able to break down that stigma that you aren’t allowed to keep branching out,” Beren said.

The club’s newest initiative unique to Penn — #TableTalk-Tuesdays, which launched yesterday — hopes to create a community of discussion in Penn dining halls. Participating

students sat together in Com-mons and discussed a topic, this week’s topic being “The Penn Culture.”

#TableTalkTuesdays will be held every two weeks in a differ-ent dining hall.

“A lot of people grow and a lot of people learn from meeting new people ... and

TableTalkTuesdays are a way for different people to come to-gether over a topic and to just learn a lot from one another,” Beren said.

Tables were covered with butcher paper, so diners could write down their thoughts or what they discussed.

Approximately 100 students

signed up for the event yesterday.In 2015, Penn Dining has

also worked with various other student groups, like Penn En-vironmental Group, to give out reusable water bottles, and Swipe Out Hunger, to educate students about food inequality.

“It takes a lot of work, it takes a lot of money and it takes a lot of people out of their typical routine to work with students like this, but everyone gets very excited about it because [Penn] Dining is supposed to be about and wants to be about commu-nity,” said Pam Lampitt, director of Business Services.

“We’re more than just food — we’re here to build community. TableTalk is a community-en-gaging endeavor, and it became apparent that what TableTalk is doing is not too dissimilar with what Dining wants to achieve ... so we were happy to support the club financially and to give them a place to hold their talks,” Lampitt said.

TableTalk also has three other initiatives designed to foster stu-dent interaction and discussion.

“TableTalks” brings two dis-parate student groups together to

share a meal and to better get to know one another. Groups that have signed up for TableTalks include Active Minds, College Republicans and Penn Shabba-tones, among others.

Passersby may have noticed “CampusCouches” set up on College Green in September, a second program by Table-Talk that aimed to bring Locust Walk-ers closer together.

And “LookUp” hopes to cure the students’ addiction to their phones by using discussion placements and clear plastic con-tainers to store phones in dining halls, encouraging diners to look up and talk to one another. Ac-cording to Beren, placemats should be introduced into sev-eral dining halls in October.

Members of TableTalk hope that their programs will help students make connections with their peers.

“With all the mental health issues coming to the surface at Penn in the past few years, it’s really important just to have that outlet for students to come to-gether and know one more face, and to talk to someone and to feel supported,” Beren said.

Strangers bond over food on #TableTalkTuesdays

TableTalk, a student-run organization, started #TableTalkTuesdays yesterday in 1920 Commons to facilitate discussions between Penn students.

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Penn football’s recent upset victory over Villanova — the program’s first in more than 100 years — has sent tremors throughout the Penn Athlet-ics community. Unfortunately, none of us at DP Sports were bold enough to predict the in-credible result. So with one major opportunity having al-ready passed us by, it’s time for redemption. What are our bold predictions for the rest of the fall season?

Sports Editor Colin Hen-derson: I will be the first to admit that I’ve been hard on Penn men’s soccer this year. But in my defense, the Quakers haven’t exactly given me much positive to talk about.

In fact, the Red and Blue have been pretty much abysmal in non-conference play to start their season, having scored only 4 goals and managing to secure only one victory. We knew the squad’s offense would suffer due to the loss of Duke Lacroix, but its complete ineffectiveness to start the year thus far has been shocking.

But let’s all take a step back for a second. First of all, the Quakers have faced three

ranked opponents already, and they even managed to tie one of them.

Secondly, star forward Alec Neumann and the rest of Penn’s offense is bound to catch fire scoring goals at some point. Take Tuesday night’s win over Saint Joesph’s, in which the team broke out for three goals, as evidence of things to come. After all, two years ago, Penn went 3-5-1 in non-conference play en route to an Ivy title.

I predict that this team breaks out of its funk and makes a run at winning the league.

Sports Editor Holden Mc-Ginnis: It’s time to get real bold. If you’ve followed colle-giate sprint football throughout its history, you certainly know how dominant Army and Navy tend to be. While many schools struggle to fill a roster (see Princeton), the service acad-emies cut down huge beginning rosters to build their teams.

It’s been a few years since Penn beat one of the service academies (the last win was over Navy in 2010, when Penn shared the CSFL title). Last season, the Quakers came within a score of knocking off CSFL champion Navy, and this year I think they will actually pull off the upset.

Penn has looked sharp through its first two games,

making short work of Franklin Pierce and Post. Junior quarter-back Mike McCurdy has also

been on point so far this season, throwing for 7 touchdowns and 556 yards, while the running

game has been efficient as well behind freshman running back Max Jones. It’ll still be a tough

game against Navy even if the offense gets going, but this is the year.

Associate Sports Editor Will Agathis: No Penn squad has been more impressive this fall than field hockey.

The team’s offensive play has been, in a word, stellar. Sopho-more sensation Alexa Hoover has been absolutely unstoppa-ble, averaging a mind-blowing 2.43 goals per game to lead the nation.

The less-talked-about de-fense is also catching on rather quickly. After allowing nine goals in their first three con-tests, the Quakers’ backfield has upped the pressure and has quietly become one of the team’s strengths lately, only surrendering seven scores in their four most recent games.

The team’s success is not only contingent on the offense, but the defense. For every big goal from Hoover is a game-changing save from Liz Mata. For every offensive play cre-ated by Elizabeth Hitti is a fantastic defensive effort from Claire Kneizys. The offense gets recognition, the defense gets results.

Look for the offense and de-fense to thrive in the conference matchups and to lead Penn to its first Ivy League championship of the Colleen Fink era.

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Junior quarterback Mike McCurdy has been terrific through two games for Penn sprint football, passing for 556 yards and seven touchdowns. If the Quakers are to beat Navy, he will need to keep up the strong performances.

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Coach Nicole Van Dyke rec-ognizes the hole Terilli’s absence presents, but is also incredibly pleased with how her team han-dled the situation and Crook’s play in her short stint as starter.

“The great thing is anytime you lose your staring goalkeeper it’s a challenge, and Carrie has done a great job stepping in. The team has responded well defen-sively, we’ve been a tight ship,” said Van Dyke. “However, Kali-jah is an international goalkeeper and [at] Penn you don’t get too many players that played on a na-tional team.

“It’s a great opportunity for Carrie, and she’s done a great job. Nobody anticipates your starting goalkeeper going down, and I think she’s done a really good job taking our coaching points. She’s watched a lot of video. She’s done a great job stepping into a diffi-cult role.”

Communication and trust be-tween a goalie and the defense in front of her is key in the success of any team’s backline. It’s also something that can only grow out of logging hours of playing in games together as a unit, rather than something that can be fig-ured out on the practice field.

“I think last game we encour-aged and challenged [Crook] to communicate more and she really has grown in that role,” said Van Dyke. “You have a certain

personality so you have to make sure you’re saying the right things and have that confidence which only comes from playing games. I think she will only get more comfortable as she plays more minutes.”

Although Terilli’s injury has not been disclosed, Van Dyke was pleased with her progress in recovering from the setback. It is unclear how much longer Crook will be in her starting role.

The uncertainty does not seem to be fazing the Red and Blue. For as long as Terilli is on the side-lines, it appears that Crook will continue to get the playing time and will continue to improve. With the full support of team-mates and coaches, the Quakers look to be in good hands without their starting goalkeeper.

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Illustrated.“She clearly has a knack for

scoring,” coach Colleen Fink said. “She’s got great hand-eye coordination, and she wants the ball at the end of the game.”

However, Hoover isn’t the only Penn player making an appear-ance on national lists. Hitti ranks fifth in the nation in assists per game with 0.86 and has already matched her 2014 assist total of eight.

Fink also praised Hitti as a special player who has the unique

ability to transition the ball offen-sively.

“When we have been stuck in the defensive end for a bit, she will make herself available and has the stick-handling ability and the creativity to help work the ball up field,” Fink said.

To put Hoover and Hitti’s ac-complishments in perspective, Yale as a team only has eight goals and five assists ... total. Additionally, Hoover herself has more goals than Brown (11), and is tied with Harvard’s overall scoring output.

With this duo at the helm, even the best defense in the Ivy

League, Cornell, could not halt the surging Quakers this past weekend.

Last year, the Big Red allowed the fewest goals in the Ancient Eight and notched the most shut-outs, finishing third in the overall standings at season’s end. But the Cornell defense could not hold off Penn’s attacking prow-ess on Friday, as the Red and Blue stormed back to win, 3-2, in thrilling overtime fashion.

Hoover and Hitti are not only impressive in their own right; their ability to work together on the field elevates the performance of the team at large.

“I love playing with Alexa,” Hitti said. “We joke when the coaches yell at us for not talk-ing that we don’t really need to. It’s just that chemistry you don’t always find with every player.

“She knows when I’m hitting the ball in. I know when she’s going to cut, so even if we aren’t talking, we are constantly moving off each other.”

Hoover doled out equal praise for her teammate.

“It’s awesome [playing with Hitti],” she said. “We get so pumped for each other.”

So what sparked this ridiculous outpouring of offense in 2015? It

comes down to hard work and a team effort — which includes the defense too.

“We really started to jell over the spring,” Hitti said. “We are really focusing on offense throughout the entire field. It’s not just getting it into the circle and getting shots, its stepping up on defense and pressuring there. It’s the midfield striking balls in the circle so the offense has more opportunities.”

For Hoover personally, the de-fending Ivy League Rookie of the Year believes confidence and ex-perience have contributed to her prolific goal-scoring, specifically

“not being afraid to step up in those big spots.”

The Quakers have the ability to continue their offensive suc-cess as they enter the bulk of Ivy play. And, if the team can do so, it might have a shot at the record books — but not just at Penn.

If the season ended today, Hoover would rank second all-time in NCAA history in sin-gle-season goals per game. Let that sink in.

But the numbers are not all that matters. For now, be it because of their defense or their offense, the Red and Blue have their eyes set on a championship.

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Facing the defending champi-ons is always a challenge. Facing the defending champions along with the team that just upset them is a nightmare.

Such is the schedule for Penn volleyball, who travel Friday to Leede Arena in Hanover, N.H., to battle a hot Dartmouth side, followed by a Saturday trip the Malkin Athletic Center in Cam-bridge, Mass., to face the 2014 Ivy League victors, Harvard.

The Quakers (7-6, 1-0 Ivy) seem to be in good standing and could be ready for this challenge, coming off of a three-game winning streak, including a 3-1 triumph at Princeton last Friday

and a shutout of NJIT on the road the following day.

Despite its extensive non-con-ference schedule, coach Kerry Carr was not concerned about the team’s fatigue going into the weekend’s strenuous double-header.

“I got a lot of different players experience in the preseason, so I feel like we’re rested going into the Ivy League,” she said.

One of the standout players for Penn this past weekend was senior captain Alexis Genske, who recorded 14 kills and 14 digs against the Tigers and had another 12 kills with four digs against the Highlanders.

“I think our whole team played really steady, which made it easy to be more aggressive on plays [I] might not normally take a risk on, so that definitely gave me the confidence to swing harder,” Genske said.

“Also, passing and defen-sively, we were communicating really well, so I knew which balls my teammates were taking, and which ones were my respon-sibility.”

The Red and Blue will cer-tainly need their strength when they take on the Big Green, who narrowly squeezed past the Crimson in a dramatic five-setter last Friday. This effort was led by junior and 2014 honorable

mention All-Ivy Emily Astarita’s astounding 23 kills and captain Paige Caridi’s double-double. Dartmouth is currently 4-6 over-all, touting its big win to kick off conference play.

Saturday’s match against the defending Ancient Eight champs

might be even trickier, as Har-vard boasts a veteran team full of firepower despite its 4-7 record. In their narrow loss to Dartmouth, the Crimson were carried by junior Corrine Bain, already a three-time Ivy League Player of the Week, who nearly

recorded a triple-double with nine kills, 29 assists and 23 digs.

Last year, the Quakers beat Dartmouth and fell to Harvard. But with a new breakout per-former, they hope to come away with two wins this time.

Now one of the starters and

stalwarts of the Penn formation, senior Michellie McDonald-O’Brien is finally getting her chance to shine and has been putting on a quite a show at middle blocker. This past week-end, she led the team both days in hitting percentage, to the tune of .471 and .467 against the Tigers and Highlanders, respec-tively.

Her prowess is a recent rev-elation for the Quakers, who are experimenting with a new at-tacking system.

“We’ve been working on quickening our offense, espe-cially as middles, since Kendall Covington and I are both on the shorter end of all the other middles in the Ivy League,” McDonald-O’Brien said. “But it’s more of an endurance game, a speed game and a finesse game for us rather than a power game. It’s all about being patient and knowing when to kill a ball, and when to just keep it in.”

Penn was back on the courts Monday afternoon in prepara-tion for the daunting task it faces in this weekend’s matches.

“We could have easily taken a day off with midterms and sick-ness,” Carr said. “But I think the attitude of this team is we can get better every day — and need to get better every day — to beat the teams across the net.”

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non-conference games against lesser opponents. Topping the Ancient Eight involves a grueling seven-game stretch that the Big Green haven’t yet conquered during coach Buddy Teevens’ second stint at the helm.

The last few years, however, featured a Dartmouth squad on the cusp of glory. After spending much of the 2000s mired in the bottom half of the Ancient Eight, the Big Green have been a consistent threat since 2011. Teevens has overseen a renaissance in New Hampshire,

leading the team to four straight over-.500 and top-three Ivy fin-ishes. The only other school to match that feat over the same period is Harvard.

Dartmouth hasn’t just been also-rans during that time frame though; the team has been a legitimate con-tender, particularly since senior quarterback Dalyn Williams ar-rived on campus in 2012.

The last time Dartmouth came to Franklin Field, the Big Green were just a chip-shot field goal from up-setting the defending Ivy champion Quakers on the road. Unfortunately for Dartmouth, Penn blocked that field goal and came back to win the

longest game in Ancient Eight his-tory.

The Big Green would only suffer one more loss during the 2013 Ivy stretch, falling by just three points at Harvard while becoming the only team to beat a dominant Princeton squad that season. If one of Dartmouth’s two shots at a game-winning field goal had gone through the uprights, the Big Green likely would have claimed a share of that elusive Ivy title.

Last season, Dartmouth was the lone squad to beat Yale on the road, upsetting the Bulldogs in the 100th year of the Yale Bowl.

While Yale — tied for second

in last year’s Ivy race — lost its star running back to graduation, both Harvard and Dartmouth have returned the core of each of their respective squads. And while the Crimson will still line up Paul Stan-ton Jr., Scott Hosch and Andrew Fischer on the offensive side, the Big Green have one of the few Ivy defenses that can actually hold that high-powered attack in check.

Led by McNamera, Dartmouth also has two senior All-Ivy se-lections returning in 2015 with defensive lineman A.J. Zuttah and the Ivy League’s 2014 leader in in-terceptions, Troy Donahue. All in all, the Big Green have held two

weak opponents to just 8.5 points per game to start the year.

Dartmouth’s defense is in many ways comparable to the defense against whom Penn’s offense put up 17 points last week against Vil-lanova. But unlike the Wildcats, the Big Green won’t be missing their star quarterback in Williams nor either of his top receivers, seniors Ryan McManus and Viktor Wil-liams.

I fully expect the Big Green to come to Franklin Field and avenge their 2013 defeat, just as they stomped out the Quakers’ Ivy hopes at a rain-soaked Memorial Field in 2014. And while Harvard will have

few, if any, real tests before its Oct. 30 matchup with Dartmouth, the Big Green will be battle-tested, facing Penn and Yale before travel-ing up to Cambridge, Mass.

When the tale of the 2015 Ivy season is told, people will talk about Penn and Columbia beginning to rise. But they won’t be able to get far without talking about a senior-laden Dartmouth squad that is now ready for its moment in the sun.

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STEVEN TYDINGS is a Wharton senior from Hopewell, N.J., and is a senior sports reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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Tear, strain, break and frac-ture. In the midst of a season packed with daily practices and arduous games, injuries are an unfortunate and inevi-table part of all sports.

For Penn women’s soccer, injuries are the ill-fated real-ity with which they must deal. Right now, the team’s success depends on how the Quakers respond to the loss of a certain player and how her replace-ment performs coming off the bench.

Starting senior goalkeeper Kalijah Terilli was hurt in the first half of the Red and Blue’s game against Clemson over two weeks ago and has been out ever since. In her spot, junior Carrie Crook has stepped in and played well,

earning the support of her coaches and fellow teammates in the meantime.

Although Crook never saw regular-season action in her first two years for Penn, she was ready for the challenge as soon as Terilli went down.

“I had been working hard for two years, and I knew I had to go in, hold down the fort, con-tinue doing what [Terilli] had been doing during the season,”

Crook said. “We’ve had a little bit of a rough patch but we are working through it. I’m getting a lot more experience, so I can feel myself getting better.”

This experience has been instrumental in Crook, along with the Quakers’ defenders, becoming more comfortable with one another.

“I think a lot of it is under-standing the tactical situations that will occur in a game and how to anchor the defense in response to that.”

Crook’s teammates have ral-lied around her as well.

“From the second I came in, they’ve been really supportive. I felt like they put their trust in me, which I really appreciated a lot, “ she said.

Losing a team’s top goalie, especially one of Terilli’s caliber, is never an easy fix for a team. For context, in the summer of 2014, Terilli was invited to train with the U-23

They say defense wins cham-pionships.

But while its too early to talk about championships for Penn field hockey after only one Ivy League contest, it looks like the team’s offense is ready to prove this well-known maxim wrong.

After losing to Liberty on the first day of the 2015 season, the Quakers’ attack has been nothing short of unstoppable in the three weeks since. In fact, the offense has been more than dominant over the current six-game win streak.

It’s been historic.Anchored around senior star

Elizabeth Hitti and sophomore phenom Alexa Hoover, the Quak-ers (6-1, 1-0 Ivy) have scored

28 goals in only seven games, compared to just 45 throughout the entire 18-game 2014 season. If they keep scoring at this pace, the Red and Blue would have 64 goals for the 2015 season, which is only comprised of 16 games.

That all goes without men-tioning Hoover’s insane personal scoring run. So far, the Colle-geville, Pa., native has already notched 17 goals, three more than her total from all of last year and only four away from Penn’s all-time single season scoring record.

She ranks first in the nation in goals per game with 2.43, putting her ahead of No. 1 Connecti-cut’s leading scorer, sophomore Charlotte Veitner. And this im-pressive performance has not gone unnoticed on the national level: Hoover was pictured in the “Faces in the Crowd” feature of this month’s edition of Sports

Sports Back

Ending a two-decade drought

Going into the 2015 Ivy League foot-ball season, I expected a few things: Penn would be better than its un-

derachieving final year under Al Bagnoli. Bagnoli would lead Columbia to its first win in over two years.

And one more thing: That Dartmouth would win the Ivy League.

That’s right. A squad that hasn’t won an Ivy title in nearly two decades will wrestle the championship away from the nationally-ranked Harvard Crimson.

While Penn got more points than Dart-mouth in the Football Championship Subdivision football rankings this week (gee, I wonder why…), the Big Green may have put together a more impressive victory, albeit not against No. 4 Villanova. Sacred Heart, Dartmouth’s opponent in its home opener, marched into Memorial Field and promptly received a whooping to last a life-time, falling 49-7.

The week before, the Big Green’s defense shined in a 31-10 win over Georgetown on the road. FCS Preseason All-American Will McNamara, the captain and star linebacker of Dartmouth’s defense, took an interception to the end zone to help push the Hoyas down early.

But you don’t win the Ivy League in

Darmouth quarterback Dalyn Williams will be key to the team’s Ivy title chase.

COURTESY OF DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS

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FIELD HOCKEY | Penn set to smash recordsANNA DYERAssociate Sports Editor

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Uncertainty surrounds Penn’s goalkeeper situationW. SOCCER | Crook filling in as starterMATTHEW FINEAssociate Sports Editor

Since senior goalkeeper Kalijah Terilli went down with an injury two weeks ago, junior goalkeeper Carrie Crook (0) has filled in admirably. Crook has put together two shutouts as Penn has battled to a 1-1-2 record in Terilli’s absence.

COURTESY OF PENN ATHLETICS

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From the second I came in, [the team has] been really supportive.

- Carrie CrookPenn junior goalkeeper

DOUBLE TROUBLEPenn volleyball will play its first Ivy weekend doubleheader this

weekend in the upper Northeast

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BOLD IS BETTEROur sports editors make their

biggest and boldest predictions for the rest of Penn’s seasons

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