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COMING ALL THE WAY BACKPenn women’s soccer fell down 2-0 against Old Dominion but came back to win in overtime

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NOT MUCH TO CHEER FORIt’s not that we naturally don’t care about sports — we’ve been taught not to

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OPINION

Pennsylvania moves closer toward medical marijuana legalization

As the Pennsylvania state Senate is set to reconvene on Sept. 15, a hotly contested na-tional issue sits near the top of its agenda: medical marijuana.

The bipartisan Senate Bill 1182, titled the Compassion-ate Use of Medical Cannabis Act, passed the Senate’s Law and Justice Committee unani-mously on June 27. When state senators return from their summer recess, the bill

will go up for a vote in the Ap-propriations Committee, after which it could be voted on by the general body.

Currently, 23 states and Washington, D.C., have some form of legalized marijuana for medical use. Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania all have pending medical marijuana legislation that could act as decisive issues going into the 2014 midterm elections.

“We are planning on hope-fully moving out of appropria-tions on Sept. 15 and on to a full Senate floor vote on Sept. 16 ... and get it over to the House as soon we can,” state Sen. Mike Folmer (R-Leba-

non County) and one of the bill’s sponsors said. “We have the votes, but we just need to get through the political pro-cess, and that can be very slow because our system of govern-ment is never really meant to be fast.”

While it remains unclear if the state legislature will pass the bill, Pennsylvanians in-creasingly favor medical mari-juana. According to a poll by Quinnipiac University taken in March 2014, 85 percent of Pennsylvania voters support some form of medical mari-juana. But even with public

Sponsor hopes to bring the bill to a vote in the state Senate this month

JONATHAN BAER Staff Writer

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A NEW FRONT YARD FOR CITY HALLDilworth Park, an area to the west of City Hall, reopened last Thursday after a $55 million renovation that began in 2012. New features include a cafe operated by Jose Garces, elevator entrances for SEPTA trains and trolleys, and an ice skating rink in winter. The last phase of the park’s renovations is scheduled to be completed in October.

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Ask for help to appear

competent, finds Wharton study

COREY STERN Staff Writer

Facing challenges in a new work environment can be tough. Should you ask for advice, ensuring that you perform well while risking appearing incompetent? Or should you refrain from doing so in an effort to maintain an image of competence while risk-ing failing the task at hand?

A new study suggests that those faced with this dilemma aren’t caught in as much of a pickle as they might believe: In certain situations, seek-ing advice can make one appear to be more intelligent.

The study, called “Smart People Ask For (My) Advice: Seeking Ad-vice Boosts Perceptions of Compe-tence”, was co-authored by Opera-tions and Information Management professor Maurice Schweitzer, along with Harvard Business School’s Ali-son Wood Brooks, a former Ph.D. student of Schweitzer’s, and Fran-cesca Gino. It is set to be published in the next issue of Management Sci-ence.

“My intuition, which we con-firmed, was that people are very re-luctant to seek advice,” Schweitzer said. “They worry that by asking for advice, they’re going to look like they don’t know what they should know and what they should be doing.”

However, Schweitzer and his col-leagues found that asking for advice can actually make an individual ap-pear to be more intelligent and ca-

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$224 million to provide better opportunities

$440 million

$216 million to maintain the current budget

The School District has yet to account for $81 million of the $216 million.

$32 million in cuts willpossibly resolve part of the $81 million gap. These cutsincluded cleaning schoolsless often, leaving police officer vacancies unfilled and 20 departmental staffposition cuts.

Phila. schools open amid looming woesStudents across Philadelphia begin school today with a big question mark in the district budget.

To maintain "the status quo" — the same level of services offered last school year — the School District of Philadelphia announced over the summer that they would need $81 million.

As part of the cuts, the District proposed to lengthen the 1.5 mile-distance eligibility for a SEPTA TransPass to 2 miles, meaning 7,500 students who live less than 2 miles from school would have to find an alternative ride to school. After parents raised concerns about safety and truancy, this $3.8 million plan was not implemented and the district worked with SEPTA to restructure debt to keep the passes, CBS Philly reported.

$32 million in cuts announced on Aug. 15

The district assumes $49 million of the $81 million will come from passage of $2-a-pack cigarette tax with an Oct. 1 passage (though estimates range from $38 million to $60 million).

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Almost two years ago, an idea was conceived for a scholarship that would be open to all students regardless of their legal status in America.This week, Penn for Immigrant Rights received their first round of applications for the scholarship.The scholarship was created to help out undocumented students who are unable to receive federal financial aid because of their legal status, but who want to

pursue higher education. While undocumented students are encouraged to apply, the scholarship is open to students from all immigrant backgrounds.Building a scholarship in a relatively short time period is not easy work. The Daily Pennsylvanian is taking a look at how the scholarship was built with the help of

Athena Buell Becerra, one of the scholarship committee coordinators and a College sophomore.

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Jose Gonzalez, a 2014 Wharton graduate and former PIR executive director, said the idea originally came out of a discussion at the Collegiate Alliance for Immigration Reform conference that was held at Penn two years ago. Specifically, it was an idea raised by a similar immigration rights group at Princeton University. PIR chose to adopt and implement the idea.

The idea is born

Though an idea may be great, it cannot be implemented without individuals dedicated to it. According to Becerra, the work was originally spread out between all the board members of PIR, but at last semester’s board elections, it was decided to have specific individuals focus on the project and the scholarship committee was created.

Creating a committee

3 The group started off their fundraising with a community dinner in September 2013 at Tequilas restaurant. There, they raised about $1,700 — over three times their original goal of $500. However, the group could not stop there. In order to receive donor money for the scholarship, the group needed to establish a fund through an organization such as the Philadelphia Foundation, a nonprofit that manages charitable funds. To start a fund, they needed at least $5,000.

The fundraising continued throughout the last academic year and is still ongoing, Becerra said. The group raised funds through a variety of methods. For example, they partnered with Ben & Jerry’s for a fundraiser where 20 percent of the proceeds from ice cream sales went to the scholarship fund. They also held a happy hour at Taboo.

Fundraising, fundraising, fundraising

One particular challenge of creating a scholarship that undocumented students can apply for is actually getting them to apply for it. Becerra noted that the undocumented community is “very much under the shadows, it’s not a community that would come out and promote themselves” because people are sensitive about revealing their immigration status.

Becerra and Yessenia Moreno, a College junior and co-scholarship committee chair, worked with others in PIR and La Casa Latina to promote the scholarship. Through La Casa and PIR, they were able to connect with local nonprofit organizations who worked with undocumented populations in Philadelphia.

Becerra did note that Facebook was actually another way through which they had success in reaching out. A few applications actually came through the group’s Facebook page.

Promote the scholarship

The scholarship recipient will be announced on Sept. 20 and will be presented with their award at a small ceremony. Becerra said that the specifics of the ceremony are dependent on whether or not the student is undocumented and whether or not they are comfortable with being presented with an award at a public ceremony.

Giving out the award

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August property crimes drop 20 percent

Crimes against property — which include thefts and bur-glaries — decreased by 20 percent this August in the Penn Patrol Zone, as compared to last year.

A total of 64 crimes against property were committed this August, compared to 80 in Au-gust 2013, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. Burglaries dropped dra-matically with only one report-ed this August, as compared to the 11 reported last August.

Another large crime decrease was in retail theft, which de-creased by 64 percent. While there were only five retail thefts this August, there were 14 last year this same month. In the beginning of June, the Division of Pubic Safety targeted certain stores that were victims of mul-tiple retail thefts, and DPS says that as a result, this targeting has drastically reduced the theft numbers.

Total crime dropped 19 percent this August, with 72 crimes reported this summer as opposed to the 89 crimes re-

ported last August.In the one forcible sex of-

fense in August, someone came up behind a woman affiliated with the University and grabbed her without her permission. The Philadelphia Police Depart-ment plans to arrest the person who committed this crime, DPS said.

Theft from buildings also saw a decrease from last year, with 22 this August compared to 32 last year. This is partial-ly due to DPS securing more doors and an increasingly alert population, Rush said.

Most building thefts were reported at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Presbyterian Hospital due to the fact that these buildings are open 24 hours a day.

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It was week three of our freshman year and we were excited new stu-dents seeking to navi-

gate life on a new campus in a new city, amidst a new culture. Sitting amongst our peers in the annual Penn Student Gov-ernment info session , we faced a daunting decision: To run or not to run?

It was a scary decision to make indeed. We were women running for student government positions in which women had long been under-represented. One of us hadn’t participated in student govern-ment elections in high school, and while the other had, stu-dent government at the college

level felt enormous and daunt-ing.

Fast forward three years later to our fi rst few weeks as seniors. Refl ecting on our time here, the best decision we’ve made as undergraduates at Penn was a simple one: to run.

While campaigning, we met hundreds of people whom we otherwise wouldn’t have — people we hadn’t yet crossed paths with during NSO and people who now are some of our closest friends. We lev-eraged the diverse talents of our peers by mobilizing small campaign teams that we’re still close with. We honed our communication skills, learned about marketing and promot-ing, pushed ourselves to build on and to think about and to draw upon our strengths and

emerged into new networks and safe communities full of supportive administrators and peers. It became clear to us that our backgrounds and our ex-periences in high school were less relevant than our passion for serving our school, our ea-gerness to learn the ropes and our willingness to take a little bit of risk.

If you’re brimming with Penn spirit and energy, if you’re eager to lead the charge of unifying your diverse class, if you feel immensely connect-ed to your peers and excited to support and to serve and to ad-vocate for them and if you want to be behind the events that are the staples of the Penn experi-

ence by planning the Universi-ty’s greatest traditions, run for a position on your class board.

If you aspire to improve student life from a policy per-spective, if you want to work toward understanding and meeting the needs of dozens of student groups, if you’re inter-ested in managing funds that impact the entire undergradu-ate student body and if you hope to consult the administra-tion on issues that are central to every Quaker’s experience, run to be a part of the Undergradu-ate Assembly.

Can’t decide? Run for both.If any of the above appeals

to you, it isn’t too late to start now! Start collecting your classmates’ signatures, and start reaching out to your hall-mates, your acquaintances and

your friends for support. Enjoy the ride, be yourself and run a campaign that is true to you. The campaign lasts for a quick two weeks. But the memories and experiences you’ll amass en route will continue to im-pact you well beyond your four years on campus.

Find information about how to run at www.penn-nec.org, message Penn’s Nominations and Elections Committee if you have ques-tions about election rules and reach out to current class board and Undergraduate Assembly members for campaign tips.

If the concept of serving Penn in a big way enthralls you like it did us, then don’t hesi-tate. Even if it means you have to leap — run!

Puck Frinceton! Hail Gutmann! You thought you’d seen the last of me, didn’t

you? I was worried I couldn’t handle the real world, but thank-fully, the real world couldn’t handle me, either. So it looks like I’m stuff ed back inside the collegiate womb for just a little longer. Let’s get back to work.

My fellow columnist Roder-ick Cook, who regularly writes compelling pieces on issues in the LGBTQ community, re-cently published a new piece calling for an expanded activist sensibility. This “intersectional activism” involves transcend-ing one’s own personally rel-evant social causes to speak out against as many oppressive constructs as possible, thereby covering more ground and more eff ectively responding to the multilateral nature of oppres-sion.

In the process, however, Roderick [whose preferred pronoun is “they”] drags in the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict, making ambiguous statements that seem to target Israel as their column’s primary example of colonialism, occupation and “state violence abroad.”

I agree with Roderick about the importance of looking be-yond our immediate interests to instead adopt a holistic per-spective on social justice. That’s exactly why I fi nd some of their cursory references to Israel trou-bling.

Roderick refers to the im-portance of “combating rac-ism, colonialism, ableism, state violence, misogyny, capitalism and other systems that seek to

subjugate people.” This is a pretty standard set of ideologi-cal oppositions (plenty of which indeed deserve our attention) and something of a chant for the far left. Most of these references are vague and open-ended, but a couple of them seem to be aimed at Israel with surprising particularity.

It’s pretty clear from Rod-erick’s column that they con-sider Israel an example of co-lonialism. This is an especially frequent platitude among the far left these days — one in a broader collection of “anti-blank-isms” that overzealous activists use as substitutes for serious deliberation.

The problem is that people who preach these shopworn platitudes often refl ect a lack of nuanced understanding. Al-though they claim to advocate progressivism and social con-sciousness, they risk taking a superfi cial collection of slogans as a package deal, seeing them as inseparable and thus collec-tively immune to dispassionate questioning.

(It’s also a stretch to say that capitalism “seeks to sub-jugate people based on their identities,” another example of a sweeping claim that presuppos-es a political standpoint rather than defending it.)

We can’t go around point-ing fi ngers and echoing vague yet provocative ideologies just because our fellow activists espouse those views. We must ask ourselves at each juncture, “Am I really informed enough to make these assertions?”

Being knowledgeable about one political issue doesn’t nec-

essarily qualify us to comment on others. Taking a widespread approach to social justice is praiseworthy, but only so long as it’s accompanied by good re-search, fact-fi nding and a toler-ance for complexity.

We as readers might agree without any debate about the horrors of misogyny while con-sidering colonialism — let alone moral assessments of the Israeli and Palestinian governments — to be a substantially murkier is-sue.

The Israeli-Palestinian con-fl ict is not morally incontestable in the same way as other topics on Roderick’s list, including women’s rights. It has unique empirical details that must be taken into account.

Even if I were to agree with Roderick’s singular stance on as broad and loaded a term as “colonialism,” it would still fall on them to explicitly establish what makes Israel’s policies condemnable. I understand that 700 words is hardly enough for a moral-political treatise, but weighty claims demand weighty defenses.

It’s not that I necessarily

take issue with Roderick for the content of their views, but rather that their fl ippant treatment of serious issues undermines the very point they intend to make. Emphasizing activism with breadth is meaningless with-out also emphasizing depth. If you really want to develop an opinion on social and political issues, you must be willing to delve into the particular histo-ries of each of the issues at hand.

Diff erent situations have their own nuances, and not in ev-ery case of socio-political con-fl ict is it easy to identify good guys and bad guys in such a clear-cut manner. Dealing reck-lessly in absolutes is ultimately a disservice to both “sides” of the confl ict (if that’s not itself a superfi cial characterization).

I agree with Roderick that these are urgent times. That’s exactly why we can’t aff ord to let our sense of urgency eclipse our reason.

At colleges across the country, Sat-urday afternoons serve as causes

for celebration. Color themes abound and cornhole bean bags fl y about. For those of Southern persuasions, ladies pick out sun-dresses and gentlemen don blaz-ers and color-coordinated ties. Fight songs ring out, overpow-ering the whistles and grunts of the game below the crowd.

But not at Franklin Field. Enthusiasm for the spiciest matchups at the Palestra in the winter will be similarly tepid. The fortunes, talent and com-petitiveness of various Quaker squads may change throughout a season, but student apathy will be the one true constant.

Many reasons have been pinpointed as driving our col-lective indiff erence. Although football has seen recent success, men’s basketball has rarely been competitive since its last Ivy ti-tle in 2007. The stakes can seem nonexistent: The Ivy League has barred itself from postseason football and, unlike every other college conference, hosts no basketball playoff tournament to crown its champion. We have no historic rivalry to spur us on, ex-cepting the unrequited one with Princeton that they seem to have even less interest in than we do. The windfall of television mon-ey into college sports has largely spared Quaker teams; ESPN College GameDay almost never comes to town, and even the most illicit streaming websites can’t be bothered to carry TV coverage of our games. No one really knows if tailgating is al-lowed, and even if it were, the locations of Franklin and the Palestra hardly lend themselves to rowdy pregame socializing.

However, the biggest reason sports don’t register on Penn’s radar is simple: The administra-tion doesn’t want it to. Now, it’s not as if the University is anti-sports or anti-student athletes; rather, they treat athletics as just

another performing arts group. Non-marquee performances are attended by athletes’ close friends and some community members, with the occasional boost from a particularly ag-gressive Facebook campaign or Bill Cosby gimmick.

Overall, though, the student

body does not fear missing out on athletic contests because the University refuses to treat sports as anything out of the ordinary. We all know athletes and wish them well, in the same way that we hope for the successes of our friends who are a cappella singers and dancers. That hope, however, carries no urgency. Sports are just one of our sever-al hundred student groups; they are just another building to point to on a student tour; they are just another fl yer on Locust.

Most other schools refuse to treat sports this way — they un-derstand its potential as a driver and showcase of school spirit. Anyone who’s taken a Megabus out of Philly has seen Drexel’s larger-than-life basketball bill-board, even though the team hasn’t made an NCAA tourna-ment appearance since 1996. Several schools throw massive Midnight Madness pep rallies to kick off their winter seasons, hosting an array of festivities for fans and inviting celebrities to share the stage with their ath-letes.

At Penn, the vibe

could not be more diff erent. We welcome our new students to campus during NSO with aca-demic meetings and club fairs by day and with party fl yers by night, implicitly telling them what they ought to care about. There are no pep rallies, ath-letic showcases or logo-painted bursts of school pride. It’s no wonder students don’t know the words or tune to “Fight On, Pennsylvania!” — no one’s ever taught it to them.

It’s a mistake to think that Penn students have self-selected into the apathy that pervades campus; that we’re just not the kind of people who would care about athletics. On the con-trary, many of us marvel at the bombastic school pride colleges with more developed athletic programs show when we visit them and wonder why we can’t have something similar at home.

I have no illusions in the near term about how much this attitude can change, and I don’t think this problem is an emer-gency. I do know, however, that open fora and ticket giveaways won’t change the core issue of Penn sports not establishing it-self as, to quote Ron Burgundy, kind of a big deal.

Until that attitude changes, the best game on Homecom-ing Day will be on Chancellor Street, not 33rd.

Not just another gameSO MANY ACTIVITIES | Years of neglect have turned spectacular

sports events into pedestrian affairs

AKSHAT SHEKHAR

To run or not to runARIEL KOREN AND JOYCE KIM | Why running for student

government is a win-win

ARIEL KOREN AND JOYCE KIM

ARIELLE KOREN AND JOYCE KIM are the senior class president and student body president of Class Board 2015 and the UA, respectively. They can be reached at [email protected]. and [email protected].

THE FAITHLESS QUAKER | When it comes to activism, restlessness for change is not an excuse for analytical laziness

JONATHAN IWRY

We can’t go around pointing f ingers and echoing vague yet provocative ideologies just because our fellow activists espouse

those views.”

Cause for concern

AKSHAT SHEKHAR is a Wharton and Engineering junior from Boston. His email address [email protected]. “So Many Activities“ appears every other Monday.

W e a l l k n o w athletes and wish them well, in the same way that we hope for the successes of our friends who are a capella singers

and dancers.”

If you aspire to improve student life from a policy perspective, if you want to work toward understanding and meeting the needs of dozens of student groups, if you’re interested in managing funds that impact the entire undergraduate stuuudent body and if you hope to consult the administration on issues that are central to every Quaker’s experience, run

to be a part of the Undergraduate Assembly.”

JONATHAN IWRY is a recent graduate and LPS student from Potomac, Md., who studied philosophy and history. His last name is pronounced “eev-ree.” Email him at [email protected]. “The Faithless Quaker” appears every Monday.

“I like that you acknowledged how the trivialization of “poor”

happens on campus. But please, don’t forget most of us poor col-lege students (not “poor” college students) actually try NOT to ap-pear poor. And that means trying to find new excuses every time yet another BYO comes up, that means taking time to cook to

save money on food, that means not knowing much about the

“foodie” scene of Philadelphia and feeling completely awkward when … the conversation focus-

es on it.” — I, too, am Penn

“Poor is not a relative term. Poverty may be, but poor is not. Poor people

are those living in areas all around this campus. Would you go up to a West Phila-delphia family that is mak-ing $30,000 a year and tell

them that they are not ‘poor’ because their income level falls above the median in-

come level of all West Phila-delphia households?”.

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Fall recruitment: Another chance to go Greek

For students who feel like they missed out on spring rush, fall re-cruitment — which is just starting up for the semester — provides an opportunity for them to join the Greek community.

Interfraternity Council chap-ters generally get 75 to 85 new members in the fall, Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Scott Reikofski said, compared to the 500 to 550 members who join in the spring.

“It’s a chance for fraternities to pick up people they know well and maybe hang out with the brothers, but are not formally in the chapter,” Reikofski said, since

fall recruitment is only open to upperclassmen.

Currently, 13 fraternities and two sororities are registered for fall rush. While any fraternity can decide to participate in fall recruitment, sororities in the Panhellenic Council have stricter regulations. National branches of sororities take national averages, and if a chapter is below that, then it can participate in fall recruit-ment. This year, Zeta Tau Alpha and Alpha Delta Pi are eligible and participating in fall recruit-ment.

On Monday, ZTA, ADPi and Alpha Chi Rho partnered with IFC and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life to host a barbe-cue to welcome transfer students to Greek life at Penn.

After the barbecue, the hosts donated the leftover food to a lo-

cal food shelter. AXP, the frater-nity sponsoring the barbecue, has between 30 and 40 active brothers and typically give out four to six bids in the fall, compared to the 12 to 15 bids during spring rush.

Pi Kappa Alpha, a fraternity participating in fall recruitment, will also host a barbecue to in-troduce potential members to the current brothers. Pike Recruit-ment Chair and College sopho-more James Townsend said, “Fall rush is a great opportunity for us and other fraternities to pick up sophomores who may not have been in a position to rush last semester, like spring athletes, as well as transfer students.”

In comparison to spring recruit-ment, fall rush is more informal. “Fraternities decide on a chapter-by-chapter basis when and how to host rush events, as well as when

and if to offer bids,” he explained.The pledging process also var-

ies by chapter and can differ from the spring. “Frequently the new member education process is condensed or abbreviated for fall classes — however, some fraterni-ties have the same system for fall and spring classes,” Townsend ex-plained. “As far as Pike goes, we haven’t had a fall class since 2008 so we have yet to decide what a new member process would look like if we offer bids.”

Reikofski encouraged all stu-dents interested in Greek life to explore their options. “Anyone looking to join should ask all kinds of questions,” he said. “Ask about the academics, the values, the community service, leader-ship training opportunities and alumni networking a chapter can offer.”

Thirteen fraternities and two sororities are

registered for fall rushZAHRA HUSAIN

Staff Writer

Students celebrate after receiving bids for sororities after last January’s rush season. Two sororities will be participating in fall recruitment.

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support and momentum in the state legislature, the governor is likely to veto any legalization legislation.

Republican Gov. Tom Corbett stands opposed to broad medical marijuana legalization and has only voiced support for limited access for children with severe seizure disorders. Corbett’s offi ce did not respond to a request for comment.

As a result of resistance in the governor’s offi ce, advocates such as Folmer believe that “we need to get it out with super majority votes,” which could override a veto from the governor.

“The bill gives people an al-ternative to some of these other medications that are out there that are either not working, or people just don’t like the side ef-fects,” Folmer said. “It’s probably one of the best pieces of medical cannabis bills in the country, and it could be used as model legisla-tion.”

While the legislative debate has focused on the medical side of cannabis, legalization could aff ect the quality of recreational marijuana as well.

“At Penn especially, when people sell bud they have no idea how old it is, they have no idea what strains it is, they have no

idea if it is sativa or indica, and I think that is a problem,” said a College senior who has a medical marijuana card in his home state of California and who preferred to remain anonymous for privacy reasons. “A card off ers you a lot of information because it no lon-ger is a black market thing.”

If the bill were to pass in Pennsylvania, he thinks smoking would be less stigmatized. “At Penn, it is fi ne if you smoke, but there are stereotypes of people who smoke,” said the senior — who got his fi rst prescription at 18 for a shoulder injury, but has primarily used it for recreational purposes.

However, he predicts that the major eff ects would be more about mentality, rather than actu-ally usage.

“Honestly, I don’t think that many kids would get cards,” he said. “All you’ll need is your deal-er to get a card, he buys a few dif-ferent types, he puts them in jars that show you the THC percent-age, the freshness and that level of information that I appreciate will be available to everyone.”

Penn’s Code of Student Con-duct prohibits the use of any il-legal drugs on campus. Because use of marijuana remains a fed-eral crime, it is unlikely that Penn will allow usage on campus, re-gardless of whether the Pennsyl-vania law passes.

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On September 11, 1991, then-Wharton and College junior Vlad-imir Bernstein recounted to the Daily Pennsylvanian what it was like standing amid tanks in front of the Russian parliament protest-ing a coup.

In mid-August 1991, die-hard communists attempted to oust liberal Soviet leader Mikhail Gor-bachev and trigger a return to a strictly communist economy and Soviet isolationism. They placed Gorbachev under house arrest and tanks moved into Moscow.

A native muscovite, Bernstein rushed to Moscow with his friends — they were on vacation in Kiev on August 19 — after hearing about the coup from his father and on Radio Liberty, a U.S.-funded radio program out of West Ger-many. The Soviet TV stations were blank or showing Swan Lake instead of morning news shows. Bernstein and his friends joined hundreds of protestors amid tanks in front the Russian parliament.

“We felt we had to be there in case they started moving. Tanks were standing their positions with the engines off. They were ready to go anytime,” Bernstein told Daily Pennsylvanian reporter Gayle Meyers.

The tanks did not attack. In-stead, in a now famous move, Russian President Boris Yelt-sin climbed atop a tank and de-nounced the coup. Three days later, the coup failed and the tanks left.

Had the coup succeeded and triggered a return to hard-line communism, it would have put an end to Soviet students’ careers at Penn. In the wake of perestroika — a policy of “openness,” which encouraged a warming of rela-tions between the Soviets and the

West — Soviet students had been allowed to study abroad. Bern-stein was one of the first Soviet students at Penn. If the communist conspirators had succeeded, in all probability students would not have been allowed to return to the United States.

“I thought, ‘This is the end of perestroika, the end of democ-racy and the end of my studies at Penn,’” Bernstein said.

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Penn football wasn’t in ac-tion on Saturday, but two of its future nonconference opponents faced off in a battle of ranked opponents.

No. 10 Villanova took on Fordham, which was ranked one spot below the Wildcats in the FCS polls. The result was extremely lopsided, as the high-er ranked Wildcats beatdown the Rams, 50-6, at Villanova Stadium.

Villanova redshir t-junior quarterback John Robertson, who has beaten Penn each of the last two years, had a banner day both on the ground and through the air. He went 17-for-24 while throwing for 216 yards and three touchdowns and added a score on the ground.

Two of his touchdown passes went to senior wide receiver Poppy Livers, who had eight catches for 110 yards on the day. Livers scored two touchdowns against Penn last season with 121 yards receiving.

Fordham was coming off a 52-23 victory over St. Francis (Pa.) last weekend while Vil-lanova lost in double overtime to Syracuse, an FBS opponent.

The Quakers face Villanova in its home opener on Sept. 27 before traveling to Fordham on Oct. 11 during fall break.

Penn’s first game will come on Sept. 20 against Jackson-ville, a squad out of the Pioneer League.

The Dolphins started out the season on Aug. 30, falling to Southeastern Louisiana, 44-3, on the road. Jacksonville is in the middle of renovations to its stadium. The school is adding a 25-by-13 foot video screen as well as a 2,900 seat grandstand and a new pressbox.

According to Jacksonville’s website, the construction is ex-pected to be finished by the Dol-phins’ home opener on Sept. 13.

Penn volleyball entered this weekend surrounded by a lot of questions. How would the team play together? How would it re-place the players it lost over the offseason?

The team not only answered these questions — Quakers changed the entire course of the conversation.

On a characteristically warm weekend at the Palestra, the Quakers opened their season by going 2-1 in the Crowne Plaza Invitational, defeating Colgate and Cleveland State each in straight sets before being swept by Georgetown.

“I think we did a lot better than I thought we would,” coach Kerry Carr said. “I had no expectations, to tell you the truth.”

In its opening match of the year, Penn (2-1) took care of busi-ness, defeating Colgate (2-2) in straight sets on Friday night.

However, the Red and Blue got off to an inauspicious start, with junior outside hitter Jasmine DeSilva going down with an ap-parent knee injury. She would not return for the rest of the weekend, although she was able to walk gingerly off the court. Carr was unable to provide any further information on the severity of her injury.

However, the Quakers forged on, taking the first set relatively easily, 25-20, off the strength of some clean play and the firepower of junior outside hitter Alexis Genske .

Colgate fought back, but the Quakers put together a gritty team effort and were able to hold

on to take the second set, 25-23.Then the floodgates opened.The Quakers — who were

clearly the more athletic squad — put together a dominant final set, finishing the Raiders off, 25-15.

Penn’s second match featured a change of time — Saturday after-noon — and change of opponent — Cleveland St. (3-4) — but no significant change in result.

Much like in their first match, the Quakers easily won the first set, 25-15, battled to win the sec-ond set, 25-23, and then cruised through the third set, 25-21, on their way to victory.

However, the final game of the tournament on Saturday night would not go quite so well for Penn.

After having started mainly ju-niors and seniors at the beginning of the tournament, Carr made the decision to start freshmen Kendall Covington and Aimee Stephenson in Penn’s final match against the Hoyas (4-2).

Although the newcomers brought a lot of excitement and athleticism into play for the Quakers, Penn was clearly out-matched by Georgetown, which looked like the more seasoned and better conditioned team.

Ultimately, the Hoyas won in straight sets (25-17, 25-20, 25-23), winning the tournament in the process.

Penn’s 2-1 record was good for a second-place finish, which left the team in an optimistic mood despite its loss.

“Our attitude and composure was really awesome for a begin-ning of the season tournament,” Genske said.

Carr also noted that her team was a couple of weeks behind the others in terms of training and that it may have caught up with the squad in the final match.

“You could see a lot of the fatigue,” Carr said. “That hit the

freshmen first.”Throughout the weekend, the

Red and Blue relied heavily on their two All-Tournament selec-tions: Genske and junior setter Alex Caldwell .

“Alexis and Alex are the cor-nerstones of our offense,” Carr said. “We put a lot on their shoul-ders.”

Caldwell was the clear stand-out for the Red and Blue, reg-istering phenomenally efficient play in Penn’s opener in par-ticular, in which she registered seven kills, 17 assists, 13 digs and no errors.

Genske was not as efficient, but Carr attributes much of this inefficiency to “out-of-system” shots and the new responsibility Genske has taken on as a team captain.

“I’m really happy with how I played. I think I’m just juggling things right now,” Genske added.

Quakers answered a lot of questions with their overall team coherence, led in large part by new libero sophomore Rachel Baader .

“She owned the role, and that was cool to see,” Carr said.

Now the Quakers will look forward to their next game, this Tuesday at Delaware, where they will begin to answer the next logi-cal question: Just how good can this team be?

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As Penn f ield hockey kicked off its opening home-stand, no one knew what ex-actly they would see from the Red and Blue after an offseason of roster turnover.

By weekend’s end, the Quakers had reassured their fans that everything was A-ok.

Friday, the Red and Blue overwhelmed Lehigh with six second half goals in a 9-1 triumph, before falling to Bucknell on Sunday in a defensive slugfest, 1-0.

In their season opener against the Mountain Hawks (0-4), the Quakers (1-1) struggled at first to put the ball in the net. Lehigh goalie Julia Ward held firm for the first 21:44 of the first half, scrambling to get in the way of 12 Penn shots.

“It was definitely frustrat-ing,” Penn coach Colleen Fink said on her team’s initial inability to convert. “Once we broke through, I think we obviously were able to continue to capitalize.”

And once junior attack Elizabeth Hitti finished into a wide open net off a deflec-tion, the rout was on. High-ly touted freshman Alexa Hoover sandwiched her first two career goals around a Lehigh tally soon after, and the Quakers took a 3-1 lead into the half.

The 10-minute break cer-tainly didn’t affect Penn’s momentum, as senior mid-

field Alex Iqbal redirected a deflected pass past Ward just 78 seconds into the sec-ond half. A bigger highlight came a little over three minutes later, as Hoover displayed some nifty stick-handling to control a high pass and score just inside the circle to complete her hat trick.

Hoover’s stellar debut had her coach all smiles after the game.

“I’m encouraged, but I’m not surprised,” Fink said. “She’s a great player ... we’re just happy to add her to the Penn field hockey family.”

Not to be outdone, senior attack Emily Corcoran — Penn’s leading returning scorer — tallied three goals of her own while the Red and Blue cruised.

Scoring was in short sup-ply when Penn squared off against the Bison (2-1) two days later.

The Red and Blue were held without a shot until there were just 21 minutes left in the contest, failing to get into any semblance of an offensive rhythm for much of the afternoon.

“We were playing a little overly cautious,” Fink said. “We had a tough game against them last year where we did not play well [a 2-1 Bucknell win on Sept. 15, 2013] and I think — I don’t know if there was some memory of that — [there was] a little bit of hesitation or reluctance on our end.”

While Penn’s offense was held at bay, the Bison made a fluky play count.

With just over nine min-utes gone in the first half, Bucknell senior Liz Wills

was able to get her stick on a penalty corner and deflect it past Quakers senior goalie Allison Weisenfels , who was in good position before the redirection.

But that would be all Weisenfels would surren-der for the day, as she stood strong in the face of five oth-er Bison shots.

“I think [Weisenfels is] doing a fantastic job,” Fink said. “I mean, she’s a great leader, she’s working her tail off, she’s done an amazing job and we’re very happy for her performance.”

The Quakers showed some signs of life in the sec-ond half, but it wouldn’t be enough. Hitti barely missed the net off a penalty corner with 20 minutes to play, while Iqbal’s last-ditch at-tempt to set up freshman Rachel Huang in a wide posi-tion skittered out of bounds in the dying seconds.

But despite the loss, the Red and Blue showed enough over the course of the weekend to assure fans that 2014 would be closer to 2013’s near-Ivy title than 2012’s 9-8 muddle.

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ed a change of mindset.“At halftime I didn’t mince my

words,” he said. “There weren’t a lot of X’s and O’s.”

Ambrose’s words had a clear impact on his team; when it emerged from the locker room, there was a different energy on the field.

The Quakers clawed back with an unassisted goal from 25 yards out by sophomore mid-fielder Lindsay Sawczuk and a well-placed throw from Jill Kennedy that was tapped into the net by freshman forward Anna Estep in the 76th minute.

Neither team was able to muscle ahead in the remaining 14 minutes of regulation play. The competition came down to which team was willing to go the extra mile, said freshman forward Kristen Miller.

“It was a matter of wanting it and who would be willing to make the tackle, who was com-mitted to getting in the box on the counterattack,” she said.

Penn battled through nine

minutes of overtime play before Miller took matters in her own hands, or in this case, her own feet. With just 12 seconds left in the period, Miller got control of a rebounding missed shot and volleyed the ball over the hands of Lady Monarch goalkeeper Meredith Lenox, securing a win for the Red and Blue in the process.

“It was awesome,” the fresh-man said of her first collegiate goal.

Ambrose was particularly impressed with Miller’s tenacity on the field.

“She just never stops,” he said. “She is just such a com-petitor.”

Penn’s win against Old Do-minion was the team’s second of the weekend, after taking down winless Mount St. Mary 1-0 on Friday. Penn quickly got control of the match after an own goal early in the first half. Though no one on Penn’s roster managed to find the back of the net, the Quakers out-shot the Mount, 18-1.

Despite the team’s pair of wins, Ambrose is aware that

the team has a long way to go before they will be ready to take on conference foes.

“I just don’t think we’re sharp on the ball yet,” he said. “At any one time [on the field], there are four freshman, there are two or three sophomores who didn’t start a game last year.”

So far, Ambrose has been pleased with how the younger players have elevated their game.

“You don’t really recognize [Lindsay Sawczuk] a lot of the time, but she kind of guts it out and does some very subtle things,” he says. “And [fresh-man forward] Natasha Daven-port is a fireplug.”

Within the Quakers’ 100 min-utes against Old Dominion, there were undoubtedly flashes of brilliance. But it is early in the season, and championship-winning teams are not forged in a mere two games. As Ambrose knows, this team has a lot left to learn.

“The learning is how to com-pete,” he says. “And the only way you learn how to compete is getting games like that.”

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the first time this season just eight minutes later after a shot from Lacroix was saved. In the 25th minute, Neumann netted his second goal of the match off a low cross from freshman back Luka Martinovic.

Ahead 2-1, the Red and Blue weren’t finished as a goal from junior back Sam Engs would push the Quakers up to a two-goal lead in the 28th minute. And though Penn would coast into halftime ahead by two, there were plenty of oppor-tunities they left on the table throughout.

“We just need to finish our chances. We still played a good game, a little more poise in the box and we could have put this away,” Lacroix said. “They did a good job battling back, but we held through it.”

Late in the second half, the intensity began to pick up. A

penalty kick in the 59th minute allowed CCSU back into the game, and in the 88th, Dominic Plant netted a loose ball for the equalizer.

And so the stage was set for the Quakers. Lacroix and Clan-cy answered the call.

In Penn’s opening weekend, it was clear that the team had some kinks to work out, yet was still able to come away with two wins against strong opponents.

Drexel was an NCAA Tour-nament team last season and claimed early season wins against Temple and Villanova before falling to the Quakers, while CCSU was picked to finish first in the NEC after finishing as regular season champion last year.

“This weekend was a grind. Central Connecticut [State] is a really good team and they battled all 90 minutes,” Lacroix said.

“We found a way to get a result when it was close. They fought

back and they kept throwing punches, but we dealt with the punches and punched back.”

Notable for Penn this week-end was the emergence of new players having significant im-pacts on the game. The match against Drexel saw both goals scored by newcomers in fresh-man Austin Kuhn and sopho-more Levi Levenfiche, while freshman Luka Martinovic played impressively against CCSU on Sunday.

Next weekend will see the Quakers once again take on two tough nonconference op-ponents, this time in the form of Seattle and Washington. Both teams are ranked in the top 25 nationally, with Washington at No. 4 and Seattle at No. 22.

“We gave ourselves two chal-lenging games out of the gate, and we passed those tests,” coach Rudy Fuller said.

“That being said, we need to demand more from ourselves going forward.”

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With his team looking listless and trailing Old Dominion at the half, 2-0, Penn women’s soccer coach Darren Ambrose rallied his squad together. Penn scored two goals in the second half and a third in overtime to pull off a comeback victory.

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Penn field hockey’s leading returning scorer from 2013, senior attack Emily Corcoran got her 2014 season off to a good start against Lehigh on Friday. Corcoran scored three goals — all in the second half — as the Quakers rolled, 9-1.

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Sometimes you just need to be in the right place at the right time.

With less than a minute re-maining and the match tied at three goals apiece, junior midfielder Forrest Clancy sent a perfect cross from the left side of the post to senior forward Duke Lacroix to give Penn men’s soccer a game-winning goal against Central Connecticut State.

“I was trying to get to the near post when I saw Forrest [Clancy] going down the line, and the keeper just put it back down near my feet,” Lacroix

said. “Fortunately, I was in the right place at the right time and at that point it was a simple tap in.”

The 4-3 win pushed the Quakers to 2-0 overall after their 2-0 win against Drexel on Friday.

Against the Blue Devils (1-1), Penn seemed to have its hands full from the start. Defensive lapses allowed CC-SU’s Keir Hannity to net the game’s first goal just over a minute into the match.

Yet the Quakers would re-spond, and powerfully. Sopho-more forward Alec Neumann found the back of the net for

When Penn women’s soc-cer faced Old Dominion last year, it played a gritty 110 min-utes, clawing back from a two goal deficit to end the match in a 2-2 draw.

But when the Quakers stared down the same oppo-nent for its home opener on Sunday, they had one thing in mind: to win.

And they did just that. It took 100 minutes of intense play, but the Quakers walked away with a 3-2 victory over

the Lady Monarchs (0-3-2).After the f irst half at

Rhodes Field, Penn (2-0) was experiencing a mild case of deja vu. Old Dominion was up 2-0 after goals by Grace Haverly and Madison Hogan within the first 20 minutes.

When half t ime rolled around, coach Darren Am-brose realized his squad need-

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The Quakers began the season 2-0 for a second straight year. Over the course of the two games, they

received six goals from five different players, including two from sophomore Alec Neumann.

Penn skated by with two close victories to begin its season. The Red and Blue rode an own goal to victory

against Mount St. Mary’s before coming from two goals down to top Old Dominion.

Over the weekend, the Red and Blue split their first two matches of the young season. Although their offense

was certainly inconsistent at times, the Quakers showed that they have the potential to replicate last

season’s near-title effort.

With their 2-1 showing at the Crowne Plaza Invitational, the Quakers answered many of the questions posed to

them after an offseason filled with change. Led by juniors Alex Caldwell and Alexis Genske, the team showed a lot of

promise moving forward.

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Penn skated by with two close victories to begin its season. The Red and Blue rode an own goal to victory

against Mount St. Mary’s before coming from two goals

Over the weekend, the Red and Blue split their first two matches of the young season. Although their offense

was certainly inconsistent at times, the Quakers showed that they have the potential to replicate last

With their 2-1 showing at the Crowne Plaza Invitational,

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