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Engineer ing graduate student Stephen Kyle Wilshusen died over winter break, an email to the Engineering community from Dean Vijay Kumar announced Monday morning. He was 25 years old and from Boulder, Colo.

STEPHEN KYLE WILSHUSEN His death was pronounced on Dec. 31 and ruled a suicide, Jeff Moran, a spokesperson for the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office, said.

Wilshusen was a first-year Ph.D. student in computer science, where he worked in the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception lab, a specialized lab within the SEE STUDENT DEATH PAGE 7

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After months of presidential candidate and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump’s inflammatory insults, Penn for Trump has finally had enough. The organization dissolved last month after founder and Wharton freshman Patrick Lobo decided to no longer support Trump as a presidential candidate.

The decision came shortly after Trump, who is known for his many extremely controversial comments, called for a complete ban on Muslims

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entering the United States because they “have no sense of reason or respect for human life.” The announcement, which was criticized by leaders from both Penn Democrats and Penn College Republicans, was the latest in a string of Trump comments that Lobo found difficult to swallow.

Lobo, who established Penn for Trump in September, was originally attracted to the Trump campaign for its policy platform — specifically Trump’s proposed tax plan — which he felt was more realistic and moderate than policies proposed by other candidates. He believed that, as president, Trump’s policymaking would not be as drastic or radical as the ideas he presented as a candidate. But however

Lobo had previously been in contact with the Trump campaign for funding and official recognition. The campaign, however, did not get back to him until shortly after he had decided to abandon the Trump camp. He had originally planned to spend the fall semester building a membership base before starting regular club functions in time for the presidential primaries, which begin in February. The group’s Facebook page had 63 likes when it was deactivated in late December.

Alternatively, the satirical Penn for Trump Facebook page currently has 98 likes.

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strong Trump’s policies were, his bombastic demeanor and harsh rhetoric became an inevitable source of concern.

“It was just always hard to publicly align with some of the comments that he made,” Lobo said. “It got more and more difficult to say that I support someone who could say some of the things that he did say.”

Doubt about Trump’s suitability had been building up for a long time when Trump made his Muslim travel ban announcement. Lobo said it was the straw that finally broke the camel’s back.

“Once he goes to insulting a massive group of people’s religion, that’s not something I can align with,” Lobo said.

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Having overcome some seemingly insurmountable odds, h ​ igh school senior Johnathan Phillips will become a Penn freshman in the fall of 2016.

For many, heading off to college means leaving home — but for one student, it means finding a home.

Johnathan Phillips, a senior at McKinney North High School in Texas who has struggled with homelessness for most of his life, will become a Penn freshman in the fall of 2016.

Phillips has been homeless on and

off for months at a time since he was about seven years old. He has lived with friends, in a homeless shelter and sometimes for a few days on the streets. His mother, Deanna Phillips, was unable to work because of an illness and was also undergoing a custody battle for Phillips’ halfsister — some of the circumstances that financially drained their family.

“We take care of each other. It’s just been kind of our thing,” Phillips said.

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Mere hours before the Quakers tipped of their Ivy League opener against arch rival Princeton on Saturday, Penn Athletics revealed that Antonio Woods, a sophomore guard who led the team in minutes and assists while scoring 10.7 points per game, is academically ineligible for the remainder of the season.

According to a release from the

program, the Cincinnati native is no longer with the Quakers “due to insufficient academic progress under University policy” and cannot re-enroll at Penn until the spring of 2017.

Meanwhile, Tony Hicks, the former Red and Blue star who was slated to serve as a team captain in his final season with the Quakers before leaving the program in October, has elected

to transfer to Louisville. He will be eligible to play for Rick Pitino’s squad during the 2016-17 season after his graduation from Penn in May. The news of Woods’ departure from the team in the middle of the season sent shockwaves through the Palestra on Saturday. Following the Red and SEE LEAVING PAGE 11

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“I want to reiterate that applications do not increase every year,” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said in an email, calling this year’s increase “impressive.”

For the second year in a row, the deadline for the Penn regular decision application was Jan. 5, four days later than the traditional Jan. 1 deadline. Previously, the deadline had only been extended in the case of extenuating circumstances, such

Hurricane Sandy, but now schools just do it with no excuses and are doing it just to secure more applicants,” Taylor said.

Taylor does not believe that the later deadline changes the way most students apply to schools like Penn and attracts only procrastinators.

Anirudh Prabu, a regular decision applicant to the Class of 2020, thought that the Jan. 5 deadline was helpful as it allowed him to apply to all of the schools with Jan. 1 deadlines first, and then gave him more time to work on the Penn essay. Eric Teichner, another regular decision applicant to the Class of 2020, did not feel as if the deadline changed his application process to Penn.

“I started my application pretty early, so I had it in pretty early as well. I did submit on the 5th but it didn’t really affect how I was planning my application,” Teichner said.

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as Common Application glitches in 2014, and Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Meanwhile, this year’s deadline was not extended, but set as Jan. 5 from the beginning of the application process.

“Last year I was going to make our deadline for regular decision on January 5 so it would no longer be on a holiday when the University was closed,” Furda said. “We made the deadline last year and stayed with that deadline.”

Other colleges have also started setting later deadlines for their applications — including Duke University, which was Jan. 3 this year, and Johns Hopkins, which was Jan. 4.

Brian Taylor, director of the private college counseling practice Ivy Coach, attributed the later deadline to an increasingly common strategy among colleges to increase the number of applicants to the school.

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On Oct. 28, 2014, President Obama delivered a statement regarding United States health care workers’ response to the spreading Ebola outbreak, assuring, “This disease can be contained. It will be defeated. Progress is possible.”

At the time of Obama’s statement, tensions were high across the country. Penn, which is home to a large international community, was no exception.

But on Jan. 4, 2016, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced a revision of screening guidelines following the World Health Organization’s Dec. 29 announcement that Guinea — the last West African nation affected by the disease — was Ebola-free. According to the new guidelines, PDPH will no longer monitor travelers from countries where Ebola was known to be a threat.

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many Penn students after it was created, including from a joke “Penn for Trump” Facebook page that was also created early last semester. Lobo said he was not discouraged by the backlash and did not take anti-Trump reactions to heart.

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To address the growing epidemic, the University of Pennsylvania Health System had been cooperating with the PDPH to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines to monitor travelers to and from the West African nations affected by the virus: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Mali.

However, even before PDPH began its new protocol, UPHS began monitoring travelers out of concern for its community — University City and its greater surrounding area feature one of the most prominent West African communities in the country.

The initial screening for symptoms began in the early fall of 2014 and involved screening every patient who came in contact with a health system, regardless of the origin of their visits.

This policy was put in place to ensure no one went unchecked and to prevent any instances of racial profiling. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania also worked in conjunction with the PDPH to monitor a shorter list of possibly affected patients.

comments, Trump has remained a GOP front-runner. In the latest poll from Quinnipiac University released Jan. 10, Trump tops GOP polls with the support of 31 percent of Republicans in the important electoral state of Iowa, whose Republican presidential caucus takes place on Feb. 1.

With the end of his involvement with Trump, Lobo plans to refocus his political engagement on campus with the College Republicans and the Penn Political Union.

He noted that Penn for Trump encountered relatively little hostility from right-leaning Penn students even though several groups supporting other, less controversial Republican candidates already existed.

“The right-wing students generally, regardless of which individual they support, respect that because

Former HUP doctor Trish Henwood, for example, who fulfilled several tours of Ebola aid work in Guinea, was monitored by the PDPH with the help of HUP upon her reentries to the country.

Associate Chief Medical Officer and Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Neil Fishman oversaw the Penn hospital system’s preparations.

“We trained an army because the challenge of caring for someone with even possible Ebola required that we essentially redefine healthcare,” Fishman said.

“Even the simplest activities had to be redesigned. You couldn’t just get a blood sample. You couldn’t just bring in a food tray.”

An evaluation unit and subsequent treatment unit were established in the Department of Emergency Medicine. A total of seven patients were evaluated over the course of the epidemic, all of whom were eventually diagnosed with other maladies.

The PDPH evaluated 25 of the total 961 patients it monitored for the virus, all of whom were also Ebola-free.

there are so few students at this school who are conservatives,” Lobo said.

Lobo has not decided if he wants to support another Republican candidate yet, noting that it is still relatively early in a historically unprecedented election cycle that has already been prone to unexpected changes in polling data. He does, however, have a general idea of candidates he won’t support, such as Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

“There are a few that are almost too conservative for me and too far right socially,” Lobo said.

Even though Penn for Trump has officially disbanded, Penn is still home to active groups supporting Republican candidates Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Rand Paul and Jeb Bush, as well as Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Dr. Fishman described the Penn healthcare system as working at the highest possible level in response to the crisis. In a time of public health hysteria only matched by that of the early AIDS era, he cites the faculty and administration as demonstrating the epitome of teamwork.

Penn Police provided security at Penn hospitals and were taught to recognize viral symptoms they might see in passersby on campus.

Dr. Fishman believes that this outbreak leaves a protocol framework that must be conserved. “As we prepare for the future this [crisis] has really highlighted the need to always be prepared, ” he said. “We have built a phenomenal infrastructure that needs to be maintained as we don’t know what possible crisis could be next.”

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OPINION Sleepless in Philadelphia GROWING PAINS | Why I’m resolving to love myself more this year

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’m not someone who regularly writes down New Year’s resolutions, mainly because they often remain consistent across the years: do well in school, go for a decent amount of runs every week, keep in touch with friends and family, journal more.

But on the six-hour plane flight home after an exhausting and stressful semester, pale from lack of sleep and anxiety and anxious about my anxiety and lack of sleep (causing further anxiety and lack of sleep), it hit me that I was missing something. I should have felt relieved that I was done with my five finals and wouldn’t have to create decks of flashcards or write a paper for the next four weeks, but all I felt was more apprehension: In four weeks, I’d have to go back and do it all over again.

I have berated myself over and over again for my bouts of anxiety. I tell myself that I shouldn’t get

worked up so easily, that I should be able to get a grip and handle myself in a normal fashion, that I should always be in control of my thoughts and emotions.

But somewhere in the midst of writing two 15page papers, muttering French monologues to myself in my room to prepare for an oral exam, going through hundreds of slides of neuroscience lectures and trying to understand what in the world a pumping lemma is and how to use it, I found myself locked in an uncontrollable cycle of panic.

I would suddenly begin to feel anxiety and panic bubbling up within me, and then I wouldn’t be able to concentrate, which would make me more anxious. I felt nauseous whenever I looked at food, I couldn’t sleep well and I would pace around my apartment and campus in an effort to calm my jittery nerves. I didn’t want others to detect my anxiety because I didn’t

want anyone to wonder why I was projecting a persona other than my “normal” one.

However, masking my anxiety only served to

taking an hour to talk to a friend or cook a meal when I could have been studying. Never once did I sit down to watch a TV show or movie. I didn’t splurge

At Penn, too much is never enough — until you find yourself utterly broken down at the end of the semester, afraid you won’t be able to recharge in time for the next one .” make me feel like the temperature had been increased in the pressure cooker of my mind. I had effectively isolated myself in my brain.

What this unceasing cycle of mental torment led to was a New Year’s resolution to practice more selflove. As I looked back at my habits over the past semester, I realized that I had taken very little time to truly care for or treat myself.

I often rebuked myself for

on a massage or an exercise class that would have refreshed my body and mind.

I ran from meeting to meeting, used my study breaks to ferociously type emails, attended all the guest lectures I possibly could and simultaneously told myself that I wasn’t doing enough — when, in fact, I was doing too much. I was doing too much, and I couldn’t admit it to myself because I didn’t want to believe it

was true.

At Penn, too much is never enough — until you find yourself utterly broken down at the end of the semester, afraid you won’t be able to recharge in time for the next one and afraid of showing anyone your anxieties or fears.

But who said that putting on a brave face can’t be the same thing as wearing your real face? The same as showing someone your weaknesses? Your vulnerabilities? Your stress? We have got to get away from the notion that anxiety is something to be ashamed of or that it marks us as less fit in the survival of the fittest. We have got to change the culture of collegiate competition which says that our individual accomplishments must reach the absolute pinnacle of achievement for us to be worth anything.

But before we can change the culture at large, we have to change the culture of our minds. We have to tell our-

EMILY HOEVEN selves. We have to convince ourselves. We have to own ourselves, believe in ourselves, accept ourselves, stand by ourselves, trust ourselves, be willing to be ourselves — even if we’re messy, even if we get anxiety attacks, even if we have weird quirks we’re reluctant to show other people, even if we’re afraid. What else — who else — do we have?

EMILY HOEVEN is a College sophomore from Fremont, Calif., studying English. Her email address is ehoeven@ sas.upenn.edu. “Growing Pains” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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new year is always a time of reflection.

Though a gentile myself, I’ve always liked the idea embedded in Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement which follows the Jewish new year. The practice of reflecting upon failings of the prior year at the start of a new one seems to me both honest and educational, particularly as someone whose somewhat inherently deceptive role is to publicly assert each week that I have a good answer to a significant problem or question.

As such, it seems appropriate in this new year, which coincides with the one-year anniversary of my column, to self-audit, acknowledging failures and victories alike and to check in with new developments on some of the issues I’ve covered.

In re-reading a year’s worth of columns, two major oversights jumped out at me. In my column “This isn’t Jeopardy,” I critiqued students at the University of North Carolina for implying that a speech by conservative writer David Horowitz

criticizing pro-Palestinian activism represented a threat to their physical safety.

In making the point that such rhetoric troublingly implies that “dangerous” speech should be suppressed, however, I failed to note that Horowitz himself is no friend of open expression. He has repeatedly called for colleges to ban or punish pro-Palestinian groups and to adopt policies, as the University of California and the U.S. Department of State have, that declare harsh criticism of the state of Israel as presumptively anti-semitic. This fact doesn’t change my point about the rhetoric of safety and comfort, but it was significant to the case study I chose to illustrate that point, and I overlooked it. Mea culpa.

Secondly, in my piece “But for Wales?” I criticized the activist group SOUL without seeking a comment from the group itself. In addition to being good journalistic practice, doing so would have been more intellectually rigorous and appropriately respectful of fellow students. Me pae-

nitet.

In some cases, however, I managed to get things right.

My columns about the University’s flawed and capricious system for adjudicating sexual assault cases and its

University, would be leaving after just one year on the job.

A source with knowledge of the investigative process said that prior to his departure, Mallios had expressed a frustration with conflicting

As the saying goes, I only can hope that I make new mistakes.” failure to stand up to misguided and possibly illegal federal pressure to adopt policies that obstruct justice for students seem particularly prescient.

The American Association of Universities’ climate study, though not without serious methodological flaws, served to remind us that there remains much to be desired in the way universities handle campus sexual assault. On the heels of the study came the announcement that Christopher Mallios, hired last spring to investigate sexual violence allegations for the

pressures to investigate complaints diligently and respect due process while both preserving the University’s public image and demonstrating to a crusading Department of Education that Penn takes all complaints seriously.

To me, this confirms that any university’s proper role is to take steps to prevent and educate students about sexual assault and to offer compassionate support to victims, while leaving the messy business of investigating and adjudicating allegations to law enforcement and courts.

Legislative efforts to overrule the misguided Department of Education regulations, which force colleges to perform hopelessly flawed in-house investigations, have stalled.

Also, the Office of Admissions has again vindicated my assertion that it’s running a numbers racket by filling more than half of an incoming class with binding early decision applicants (disclosure: I was one), continuing to insist that it is doing its utmost to build the best class possible while filling more than half the available spots from a pool likely to represent only slightly more than one-eighth of the total applicants.

Furthermore, ED candidates are disproportionately likely to come from a small number of elite, privileged private prep schools, able to commit to binding agreements because they do not need to compare multiple financial aid packages (me again). It’s clearer than ever that they’re far more concerned with how admissions decisions affect Penn’s rankings than about

ALEC WARD building an optimal class.

I don’t doubt that, in the year to come, I’ll mess up again or make a prediction that turns out to be dead wrong. As the saying goes, I only can hope that I make new mistakes. As far as I’m concerned, turkey for Thanksgiving, lamb for Christmas and crow for New Year’s is all right by me as traditions go.

ALEC WARD is a College junior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@sas. upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard. “Fair Enough,” formerly “Talking Backward,” usually appears every other Wednesday.

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On the afternoon of Jan. 12, a woman was hit by a car on Locust Street between 40th and 41st streets, closing traffic at the intersection.

The woman was injured when a maroon Ford Flex backed into her and knocked her to the ground.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said the woman was in her eighties and was a former employee of Penn’s health

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Match is a college and scholarship process that supports academically gifted students with a financial disadvantage to acquire full scholarships to universities such as Penn and Yale University. Tammi Saffell, an advisor at McKinney Education Foundation — a nonprofit associated with high schools in the district — assisted Phillips to begin his college search during his junior year.

On Dec. 1, 2015, Phillips received the news that he had won a full scholarship to attend Penn.

“My mom’s reaction was very much excited and happy. I was just relieved,” Phillips said.

In 2015, Penn admitted about 50 other QuestBridge winners.

Saffell said that Phillips is one of the most humble students she has ever worked with and that his teachers did not know about his hardships until the media began writing about them.

“He doesn’t see himself as disadvantaged,” Saffell explained.

“He really sees himself as advantaged. He sees the good in every situation. He’s an awesome kid.”

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The driver was seen screaming for help according to witnesses.

She was later taken away from the scene in an ambulance and brought to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where Rush said she is in

stable condition.

Police quickly responded to the incident and put up police tape. The incident is being investigated by the Accident Investigation Unit of Philadelphia Police Department, Rush said.

At Penn, Phillips wants to study political science and chemistry. He hopes to design the very first commercial hydrogen engine. However, Saffell envisions him as a writer as well.

“He is an incredible writer,” Saffell explained. “I won’t be surprised if he writes a book or becomes a journalist.”

Kevin McPherson, Phillips’ 11th grade English teacher and his academic coach, also attested to his wisdom.

“Johnathan is mature beyond his years — the way he conducts himself, the way he talks to adults, his world views are more sophisticated than most high school students,” McPherson said.

McPherson pointed to the fact that Phillips’ father died before he was born. Growing up, his uncle served as a father figure for Phillips until he also passed away last year. Through it all, Phillips remained strong.

“Everything that he has, he has earned. No one deserves this [scholarship] more than Johnathan,” McPherson said. “He doesn’t allow his past to become his excuse.”

Currently, Phillips lives with his family in a rented apartment.

However, they have trouble keeping up with rent payments.

Penn will not only offer him an education, but also a stable place to live. People from McKinney Independent School District are paying for Phillips’ and his mother’s airfare, hotel, meals and spending money to attend Penn’s Quaker Days in April.

Southwest Airlines provided the pair with four free round-trip tickets to Philadelphia after Phillips’ story was featured in the local news.

Saffell said that Phillips is a cautious young man because of the many disappointments he has experienced in his life. She added that both Phillips’ obstacles and his passion for learning are sources of inspiration for others.

“Other students could see that there is a way, if they really wanted [something] and really worked at it. [Johnathan] has such a strong desire to learn new things. I know that’s going to take him really far,” Saffell said.

Phillips encourages everyone to fight for their dreams.

“Anything you want to achieve is not just going to come to you,” he said. “You have to go out and get it.”

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Inaugural speech focuses on City Hall cooperation NICOLE RUBIN Staff Reporter

A government that works with its people stays with its people — or rather, as newly elected Mayor of Philadelphia Jim Kenney said in his Jan. 4 inauguration, “Government functions properly when it’s accessible and accountable to the people.” Standing amid former mayors and the newly inducted members of the Philadelphia City Council at the Academy of Music in Center City, Kenney focused on the cooperation of City Hall, local businesses and average citizens in his inauguration speech.

In a concise speech, the former Fels Institute of Government instructor laid out his goals to combat poverty, expand pre-kindergarten and create community schools. He also prominently addressed racial unrest over policing, a topic that the nation has grappled with over the last several months.

“We will have to all put aside our differences and acknowledge both: that black lives do matter, and that the overwhelming majority of our police are decent, hard working public servants who risk

their lives every day,” he said, stressing his focus on the ability to feel safe and dignified on the streets of Philadelphia.

“It was great to hear him say that black lives matter during the inauguration, and something that Philly is going to need to address,” President of Penn Democrats and College junior Max Levy said.

“Obviously it’s a long way ahead, but I think having the mayor of one of the largest cities in the nation embrace that proudly is a huge step.”

Among his primary speaking points, Kenney addressed the efforts Philadelphians are putting toward their community. These initiatives included volunteer service in city schools and social activism, both of which have attracted Penn students.

He added, “We will need the private sector and our nonprofit partners to come together with the city to create community schools.”

Students actively involved in city affairs agreed but pointed out the importance of financial assistance as well.

“Volunteering is really valuable, but we also think that volunteers can’t replace things that money can buy like teachers and books and school nurses,” said Student Labor Action Project

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Jim Kenney took office Jan. 4 as the 99th Mayor of Philadelphia. He hopes to address prominent issues such as PILOTs, racial tensions and education.

member and College junior Devan Spear. SLAP has most recently turned its attention toward the revival of the PILOTs program, which provoked a protest at President Amy Gutmann’s holiday party in December 2014.

PILOTs refer to Payments in Lieu of Taxes, which involve nonprofit organizations making voluntary monetary contributions to local governments. PILOTs take the place of property taxes,

which help to fund public schools, and from which nonprofits like Penn are exempt. A previous PILOTs program in Philadelphia ran from 1995 to 2000, during former Philadelphia Mayor and 1965 College graduate Ed Rendell’s administration, but it has not been renewed since. Mayor Kenney has previously shown his support for the PILOTs program.

Mayor Kenney repeated the phrase “providing efficient and

effective services,” defining it as having an ethical government, educating children closer to home, increasing safety and decreasing the effects of poverty.

“I promise to serve you, to be accountable to you and, most importantly, to work with you. So we can make every Philadelphia neighborhood the best that it can be,” he said, ending the inauguration speech of the city’s 99th mayor.

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Engineering school that does research in robotics.

Wilshusen came to Penn from Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. where he graduated with distinction in Computer Science in 2014. He was published by Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, where he worked on agricultural yield estimation as a research associate. He received multiple awards and honors in academia, including the Robert C. Eslinger Computer Science Award and a Goldwater Scholar honorable mention.

“In the short period of six months, he established himself as a creative researcher, an independent thinker, and a friendly, collaborative member of the agriculture robotics team,” Kumar’s email said. “Many of us knew him and worked closely with him, and we are in shock. News like this always saddens us, but the loss of a young life with so much promise is especially devastating. Our thoughts and prayers are with Kyle’s family and friends.”

His family was unavailable to comment as of Monday morning.

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SEPTA student discount program moves forward Passes will allow students to explore more of the city

CHARLOTTE LARACY Staff Reporter

For many Penn students as well as for students at Temple University, Drexel University, Saint Joseph’s University and University of the Sciences, taking SEPTA to explore the City of Brotherly Love can become expensive. But the SEPTA Youth Advisory Council has a solution: a student discount program.

The council has 1,156 supporters who want to help them implement the program, according to a Change.org petition the SEPTA YAC filed four months ago.

Under the SEPTA student discount program, colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area would partner with SEPTA to purchase transportation passes for students at a discounted fare.

Students would receive unlimited

rides so they could commute from home, explore Rittenhouse or participate in a community service project in West Philadelphia.

“We are at a unique time when not only both parties [the local colleges and universities and SEPTA] are interested in seeing something potentially work out but also the technology capabilities are much better with the advent of SEPTA Key coming soon,” Executive Chair of SEPTA YAC and Wharton and Engineering senior Jeff Kessler said.

SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch said that due to the rollout of SEPTA Key, a reloadable card that will largely replace tokens and cash as payment for train rides, SEPTA could phase in the student discount program as long as there is an arrangement with local colleges and universities to adopt a specific fee structure for the program.

Pittsburgh has implemented a similar student discount program,

which allows college students’ IDs to act as a free pass onto any Port Authority Transit Bus or Pittsburgh Light Rail. With Pittsburgh’s program, there is a tuition increase of $180 per student each year.

As of January 2015, students in Philadelphia receive a 10 percent discount on a SEPTA TransPass.

With the current student discount, the pass still costs about $1,000 a year. The high expense might contribute to SEPTA’s low approval rating by college students.

Campus Philly, a nonprofit that encourages college students to explore Philadelphia and to stick around to live and work after school, found in December 2014 that only 42 percent of Philadelphia area college students give SEPTA a positive approval rating.

Implementing the SEPTA student program could decrease student driving and therefore reduce the need for campus parking. Additionally, if students

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“I think it has the capacity to dramatically change the way Penn students behave. Most noticeably, I could see this program eliminating the ‘Penn Bubble,’”

Kessler said. “There is a perception on Penn’s campus that you need a couple of hours to make a trip out of going into Center City, but when in reality, it’s right around our corner.”

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The Quakers had already gotten a taste of the 10th-ranked Mountainhawks over winter break at the Southern Scuffle in Chattanooga, Tenn. The Red and Blue finished a respectable 10th in the field of 28 back on January 2. Senior Lorenzo Thomas was one of the brightest stars for the Quakers at the tournament, and his lone loss was a thrilling 5-3 semi-final defeat courtesy of Lehigh’s Nate Brown.

Thomas’ rematch with Brown was the selling point of Sunday’s match and it didn’t fail to entertain the crowd.

After trading takedowns in the first two periods, third-ranked Brown was able to carry out a 4-2 victory over No. 9 Thomas to increase the Penn deficit to 11 points in the match with only one bout to remaining, thus clinching a victory for Lehigh.

Despite the loss for Thomas and the Quakers, the break did not end without positives.

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meet. The win not only represented a breakthrough for the veteran grappler but could also be a key victory down the road when seeding is determined for the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association tournament in March.

The biggest story for Penn wrestling, however, is no doubt the reemergence of 174-pounder Casey Kent. The senior grappler has catapulted himself up the rankings over the last month following an impressive — and team best — third-place finish at the Southern Scuffle.

Kent is now undoubtedly one of the Quakers biggest stars to go along with Thomas, Richardson and fellow senior C.J. Cobb. Kent’s continued improvement will be vital to keep Penn’s chances at an Ivy and EIWA titles alive. Additionally, he is another potential All-American in the Red and Blue lineup at 174 pounds.

Penn’s 10 points in the Lehigh bout came on impressive victories from three of those stars.

In addition to Kent’s 12-3

domination of Gordon Wolf and Richardson’s 4-3 victory over Beckman, Cobb edged out a 2-1 triumph over Laike Gardner at 149 pounds.

The win over No. 19 Gardner was a necessary rebound for Cobb, who struggled to find his groove at the Southern Scuffle.

Cobb, who was looked at as the Quakers’ best bet to be on the NCAA podium in March, will need to tough out more wins like that one if he wants to get past the blood rounds at Madison Square Garden during his final campaign.

The Quakers will get a bit of a break after the tough early schedule when coach Alex Tirapelle takes his squad on a bit of an interesting road trip this weekend.

Penn will face off against Sacred Heart in Fairfield, Conn., at noon on Sunday and then the team will head to West Point for a matchup with Army at 5 p.m.

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the first period. Up two at the end of the frame, the Red and Blue went into the break leading, 21-15, as the Tigers (11-4, 0-1) were held to just 6-for-31 shooting in the first half and five second-quarter points.

Out of the break, things got interesting.

After the Quakers captured their largest advantage of the day up by 10, a 13-0 run for Princeton opened up a 29-26 lead with 3:30 left in the third period.

But junior Kasey Chambers broke the drought with a jumper before the Quakers’ freshmen gave them some life.

In just her third game of the year, freshman Ashley Russell drained a three to put Penn up 34-33. Two free throws from Princeton’s Vanessa Smith with seconds left in the third quarter gave the Tigers a one-point advantage heading into the fourth. The foul to send Smith to the line was the fourth on Stipanovich, calling to question what McLaughlin would do with his frontcourt in a tight final frame.

The reigning Ivy League Player of the Week, Michelle Nwokedi, had been quiet on the night until the fourth quarter rolled around.

After a steal from sophomore Anna Ross, the sophomore forward decided to throw a shot up from three.

It fell.

Although the 39-38 lead the basket gave the Quakers would soon vanish, control of the game changed perceptibly. With just over three minutes to go and the Tigers up, 44-43, leading-scorer Alex Wheatley fouled out and put Penn in the bonus for the rest of the day.

The Quakers extended the lead to three as Stipanovich came back off the bench to nail a jumper with 2:15 to play. But by the time the final minute rolled around, Penn’s lead was just one.

Yet Stipanovich’s smart play with four fouls made a difference down the stretch, as the Tigers were unable to keep players with foul trouble in the game.

“I know that, once I got into foul trouble, I just had to play smart, stay straight up,” she said.

“And I think that’s achieving a

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After a 12-point, 11-rebound performance against Princeton, junior Sydney Stipanovich won Penn’s fourth straight Ivy Player of the Week.

great team defense, in the 2-3 and in our man.”

With 25 seconds to play, Princeton took another blow as Smith, whose 10 points were second on the team, fouled out while guarding Nwokedi.

The Tigers still had the chance to win down one. Senior forward Annie Tarakchian put up a shot to give her squad the lead with 10 seconds to go and it rimmed out.

Nwokedi nabbed the board and a foul was called as she got the ball out to sophomore Beth Brzozowski.

As Brzozowski stepped to the line, the referees huddled before reviewing the foul and sending Nwokedi to the line instead. This drew protests from Banghart after the game.

“The rules are that if you send the wrong person to the free throw line it’s a technical foul,” she said. “The wrong person went to the free throw line. … And the refs just said ‘We’re sorry about

that.’”

With Nwokedi at the line — up one with 8.9 seconds to play — the first shot fell. The second rimmed out as Princeton took the ball and a time out.

“I was just really thinking, ‘Just make them,’ obviously,” she said. “But regardless, I trusted my teammates, make or miss, that we were going to get a defensive stop.”

Tarakchian took a three for the win and missed, but the Tigers retained possession as the ball went out with 1.3 to play. It was senior Michelle Miller’s turn to try to win the game from beyond the arc but Nwokedi would have none of it, swatting the shot and sealing the game.

It was a defensive win, and McLaughlin was proud of it. “[Banghart] can say anything the way she wants,” he said. “I’m really proud of our 2-3 zone. I thought that we play as hard as anyone, we compete.”

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An ugly game, a beautiful win to open Ancient Eight play RILEY STEELE

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y any conventional metric, the matchup between Penn women’s basketball and Princeton on Saturday was anything but aesthetically pleasing.

After all, the squads that have split the last two Ivy League titles hit 35 shots ... combined, as the Quakers converted only 27 percent of their attempts. In their own right, the Tigers barely did their Ancient Eight rivals better, shooting 28 percent from the field while going a paltry 2-for-15 from three-point range and committing 17 turnovers.

On top of that, Penn lost the rebounding battle by 16, relinquishing 19 offensive boards to a team headlined by frontcourt stalwarts Annie Tarakchian and Alex Wheatley. Meanwhile, reigning Ivy League Player of the Week Michelle Nwokedi went over 32

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Blue’s 73-71 overtime loss to the Tigers, coach Steve Donahue revealed that he and the coaching staff had only found out Woods was ineligible late Friday night.

According to Athletic Director Grace Calhoun, once she and Donahue were informed of the situation, they brought the matter to both the media and Woods’ attention.

“We talked to Antonio and we said that, in short, as we released in the statement, he made inadequate progress toward Penn’s academic standards,” Calhoun told The Daily Pennsylvanian on Tuesday. “So we felt it important to state [in the release] that it was not NCAA ineligibility, it was not any sort of misconduct.”

With Woods out of the picture, the Quakers’ backcourt

minutes before knocking down her first shot of the contest, while Penn’s backcourt duo of Anna Ross and Beth Brzozowski each went 3-for-13 from the field, including a combined 0-for-9 from deep.

And, depending on who you ask, the press-to-zone defense that the Quakers have been running for weeks could be construed as ugly, as Tigers’ coach Courtney Banghart termed it “a junior high school 2-3 zone that we were scared of.”

But no matter the outcome, Penn-Princeton always goes beyond the numbers. And when it comes to Saturday, you have to go deeper than any statistics to understand how exactly the Quakers won a game that was incredibly beautiful.

More than anything, it was a copious amount of the matchup’s smaller aspects that made the Red and Blue’s 50-48 win so remarkable.

As the game unfolded slowly, it became clear that, in order for Penn to grab the win, it would need key contributions

from its backcourt. That, however, was nothing new for Mike McLaughlin’s squad: In the Quakers’ second game in Hawaii, Brzozowski’s career-high 15 points offset an off-night from Stipanovich in Penn’s 10-point victory.

On Saturday, it was more of the same for the sophomore from Highland Heights, Ohio. Although the numbers may not show it, Brzozowski stepped up with three enormous first-half baskets when the Quakers couldn’t convert anything down low, and her six points were the difference at the break.

To compound Brzozowski’s play in the backcourt, freshman Ashley Russell made her debut at the Palestra after two brief stints of playing time in Hawaii.

And boy was she impressive: In just her third game back from a torn ACL, the rookie made several hustle plays, taking a charge and diving for loose balls while hitting two key threes — including one to give Penn its first lead late in the third quarter after a seemingly backbreaking 13-0

looks decidedly different. Heading into 2015-16, Woods and Hicks’ scoring ability — along with newcomers Jake Silpe and Jackson Donahue, as well as veterans Darnell Foreman and Jamal Lewis — was projected to guide the Red and Blue, while providing the team with immeasurable depth as it adjusted to a new offensive system.

Now, as evidenced by Penn’s heartbreaking defeat to Princeton over the weekend, Donahue will instead have to rely heavily on his younger talent throughout Ivy play. Silpe and Jackson Donahue started against the Tigers, combining for 27 points, nine rebounds and seven assists.

Moving forward, it remains unclear what exactly Woods will do from both an academic and athletic perspective. Because he was not declared ineligible by the NCAA, the sophomore could

attempt to transfer to a different school.

In the meantime, Woods is unable to re-enroll at Penn for two semesters, and he will not be able to play for the Red and Blue until what would be the second half of his junior season. He is also unable to use the Quakers’ athletic and training facilities.

“Obviously, time will tell what Antonio chooses to do. The indication is, from what he’s told us, that he’d like to stay around Philadelphia,” Calhoun noted.

“We’d love to have him back in our program at some point. Coach Donahue, I think, has found to really view Antonio not only to be a talented player, but more importantly to be a real solid, high character person he wants in his program.

“So we’d love to think that we’d get Antonio back.”

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There was cause for celebration at the Palestra on Saturday as Penn women’s basketball’s won in beautifully ugly fashion over Princeton.

the last 3:52 of the game, made up for it, blocking Michelle Miller’s potential game-tying shot at the buzzer.

So, from the outside, maybe Saturday’s game wasn’t a terribly appealing sight. But when you factor in Brzozowski’s toughness off the bench, Ross, Russell and Chambers’ resiliency and the inability for Stipanovich and Nwokedi to let Penn lose, those small pockets of action made for something beautiful.

And halfway through a season in which the Quakers have endured several exciting experiences, including facing Duke in their season opener, McLaughlin’s 500th win and, oh yeah, a week-long excursion to Hawaii, this win over Princeton gives Penn the best thing it could ask for: An inside track to the Ivy title.

Hard to think of anything more beautiful than that.

Princeton run.

From there, midway through the fourth quarter, it was Ross’ scintillating driving floater to give the Quakers a 44-43 lead that showed the team was unwilling to back down in the face of adversity. Ross, like the entirety of Penn’s offense, may have struggled from the floor early, but she hit the ones that mattered late.

After a leaping steal and two

free throws by Kasey Chambers gave the Red and Blue a lead they wouldn’t relinquish, it became time for superstars to do what superstars do: Step up in the clutch.

Despite missing most of the final period with four fouls, Stipanovich canned a long jumper out of a timeout before hitting two shots from the charity stripe to make it 49-46. Nwokedi, who only went 1-for-6 from the line in

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All-Ivy honorable mention confirmed early last week that he would play at Louisville as a graduate transfer next year. After taking in the Cardinals’ home win over Wake Forest in person on Jan. 3, the South Holland, Ill., native spoke with Pitino the following day, opting to spend his final season at Louisville over Oregon, Miami and Nevada.

“I wanted to choose a school where I felt I would be a priority,” Hicks told the DP last week.

“I didn’t want to go somewhere where a school called last minute and was just trying to fill a roster spot.

“So once I got the call from Louisville, it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. They’re an ACC school, they play a phenomenal schedule every year and play some of the best basketball in the country.”

Adding graduate transfers has

become something of a trend for Pitino of late. The Cardinals’ two best players this year are concluding their college careers at Louisville after spending a bulk of their tenure at other schools, as guards Damion Lee and Trey Lewis have averaged a combined 31 points per game since leaving Drexel and Cleveland State, respectively.

In fact, it was Lee — Hicks’ close friend from their mutual time in Philadelphia — that put Louisville on the senior’s radar.

“As soon as he heard that I wasn’t playing, he contacted me to see if I was okay and things like that,” Hicks said of Lee. “He also told me not to be surprised if Louisville came calling. So I was just at home during winter break and he gave me a call and asked me to come to a game to see how it is and if I liked it.”

By voluntarily sitting out his

final year with the Quakers, Hicks retained the right not only to graduate from Penn, but to transfer to any program immediately without having to sit out another season.

For Hicks, the opportunity to play at Louisville represents both a chance for him to play against some of the nation’s best teams while filling one of the team’s biggest perceived holes next year. “[Lee and Lewis] are their leading scorers, and they don’t have a ton of guards right now,” Hicks said. “They’re very big-heavy and very young right now besides those two seniors, and I just felt I could come and fill that void.

“Hopefully I’ll score some points and play some good defense for them. I am just there to do whatever they want, they just want me to come be myself and I just want to come help them win games and try to be the best teammate I can be.”

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Throughout the game, Penn was hampered by both the quantity and quality of its free-throw shooting. Princeton got to the line 30 times, converting 73 percent, while the Quakers were only 4-for-11 on the night. The Red and Blue actually managed to shoot more efficiently from three-point range than from the free-throw line, shooting 39 percent to 36. “Free throws and getting to the line really saved us,� Princeton coach Mitch Henderson said. “And they missed some wide open shots.�

In the second half, on the strength of Silpe’s ball handling, Hamilton and Donahue’s threepoint shooting and an emphatic put-back dunk, the Red and Blue came streaking back. An extended offensive run put the Quakers up 64-53 with 3:38 remaining.

However, the Tigers responded with a much-needed burst of their own. Princeton closed the half with a 13-2 run, tying the game at 66. A layup attempt by Nelson-Henry rimmed out at the buzzer sounded, sending the two teams to overtime. “I’m really proud of our team.

Two years ago, we came down here and took a really, really difficult loss,� Henderson said, referring to a 77-74 nail-biter in January 2014. “This was a really resilient group. The difference was that they believed.�

Bell, whose 28 points were a game high, sustained a facial injury in the final minutes of regulation, knocking him out of the game. But despite the absence of their offensive star, the Tigers pounced in overtime.

The Quakers, on the strength of a Darnell Foreman layup and Donahue three, jumped out to a 71-66 lead to open the bonus period. But the Tigers sealed

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the game from a place they were familiar with all night: the freethrow line. Seven unanswered points from the line — including four from freshman guard Myles Stephens, his only points of the night — gave Princeton a lead they would never relinquish.

Foreman’s game-tying layup as time expired didn’t fall, and the Red and Blue were dealt a frustrating loss. “It was a great Penn-Princeton game at the Palestra,� Steve Donahue said. “We just couldn’t put them away when we were up 10 or 11. Give Princeton credit.�

Though disappointing, Saturday’s effort was a marked

improvement for Penn over it’s last matchup with the Tigers, a 73-52 blowout last March in the final game of coach Jerome Allen’s Penn career. Considering the Red and Blue have since lost two of that squad’s leading scorers in Woods and Tony Hicks, the near-victory was a clear step forward for the program.

And much of that change has been brought about by fresh faces: Donahue, in his first year at the helm, relied heavily on three freshmen down the stretch.

But on Saturday, the Quakers failed to change the thing that matters most: the final score.

As many people start their new years with resolutions and hope, the Penn fencing team is following suit in preparation for a trophy-laden 2016.

Coach Andy Ma and the fencing program sent 14 of their finest to St. Louis last weekend to this season’s final edition of the North American Cup. Although the team did not perform up to the standard of their previous two North American Cups, Ma still found positives to draw from the event. “They’re doing pretty good,� he said. “We didn’t have any guys at the top, but some of them got to the last 32, so pretty good.�

Those top-32 performances came from Julian Merchant, Arabella Uhry, Stephanie Wolf and Alejandra Trumble. Merchant placed 17th in Division I men’s sabre, while Uhry placed 22nd in D-I women’s sabre.

Wolf also came in 22nd for the junior women’s epee category, and team co-captain Trumble rounded out Penn’s highlights with a 31st place in the D-I women’s epee section.

Several factors could explain the Quakers’ subpar performance, but Ma believes that the long break was the most important. “They had a long holiday, and this was their first meet back,� he said. “They really don’t have that much training, and they came back and had only two

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Sophomore Stephanie Wolf was one of four Quakers in the top 32 for Penn fencing, but none of them finished near the very top.

days’ camp. Overall, [the result was] pretty good.�

Penn’s third and final North American Cup of the season came directly on the back end of the holiday break, so the coach was quick to play down the event’s importance. “The previous two North American Cups, they were already in good shape,� Ma said, “because we started training in September. This one was different. It was kind of a warm-up.�

He hoped that the meet would get the gears turning for his fencers in anticipation of his ultimate target for the season. “Our goal is to win the Ivy,�

Ma continued. “We have three more meets to prepare for the Ivy. It is most important for us to shoot not for this weekend or next weekend, but the Ivy.�

By t a k i ng of f the pressure from the team’s immediate schedule, Ma explained, his fencers would be able to peak at the right time.

“We don’t want to push too much now, or the kids get injured,� he said. “We’ll be very cautious. We don’t want anyone getting injured before the Ivies.�

Such a strategy, which calls for less strenuous work for now, may have inadvertently also boosted team morale. “This year the team spirit is really good,� Ma said. “We have a lot of team bonding activity, and we have weapons coaches who work with the fencers. Every week we have a team meeting, captains’ meeting, so this year it looks good.�

With a tight-knit squad like the current one, the gaps in quality between fencers is at a minimum. Even the head coach is finding it difficult to tell who his Ivy League title-challenging squad will be. “At this time, all fencers are pretty much even,� Ma said. “Maybe in the next couple weeks we will see who stands out.�

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Princeton’s young talent — particularly sophomore Amir Bell alongside freshmen Devin Cannady and Myles Stephens — overtook Penn’s inexperienced core at the end, claiming a victory at the buzzer with the crowd hopeful for a Penn equalizer. The yin to Penn’s yang won the day.

Yet in the future, each regular season matchup may not carry the same weight.

The arrival of a conference tournament would have immediate ramifications for the structure of the rivalry. Media reports have circulated in recent weeks that such a tournament is highly likely to debut in 2016-17, bringing the Ivy League in line with every other Division I basketball conference.

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RIVALRIES M. HOOPS | The Penn-Princeton rivalry through the years

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From the minute the warmup began, you could tell that something was special about this Penn basketball game.

The Palestra crowd, often all too sparse in recent years, today was sizable, raucous and often on its feet. Though the student section was largely barren, an ocean of alumni, children and casual

fans donning red and blue gear drowned out the pocket of orange and black.

A large sign in a Palestra hallway provided a reminder of the stakes at hand.

PENN: 124 PRINCETON: 108 As the game remained tight throughout regulation and into overtime, each side exalted with particular zeal — and became irked at the other teams’ successes.

“Every time their bench got going, their fans got going, I

really disliked that,” Penn Athletic Director Grace Calhoun said. “It goes deeper than it does with other schools.

“You respect them, but at the same time you just don’t like them.” *** There was a time when the annual Penn-Princeton matchups weren’t just two of the 14 Ivy games scheduled. Until the mid-2000s, those games were essentially the only ones that mattered.

From the Ancient Eight’s inception in 1956 until Penn’s last Ivy championship in 2007, either the Quakers or Tigers won a share of every single Ivy title save five. Each school has had its runs of dominance in the league.

Penn took home eight Ivy championships in 1970s — including its 1979 Final Four run. Princeton had shares of eight titles in the 1960s, making the 1965 Final Four on the back of future Senator Bill Bradley.

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For a rivalry so old, Satu rd ay’s Pen n-P r i nceton basketball matchup featured a whole lot of new faces.

The Tigers took down the Quakers, 73-71, in a hotly contested overtime battle at the Palestra. 28 points from sophomore guard Amir Bell and missed buzzer-beating layups from Darien NelsonHenry and Darnell Foreman keyed the Orange and Black’s Ivy play-opening victory.

The Red and Blue (6-8, 0-1 Ivy) — playing without former star Antonio Woods — relied heavily on new cast of characters. Freshman guard Jake Silpe (11 points, seven assists) took on much of Woods’ offensive burden while classmates Jackson Donahue (16 points)

and Tyler Hamilton also saw significant minutes.

“I’m extremely disappointed, especially after the week we’ve had,” Penn coach Steve Donahue said. “But in life, if you never learn from failure, you’ll never be a success.”

Woods was announced to be academically ineligible to play earlier Saturday, and he will not be able to re-enroll at the University until the spring of 2017.

The Quakers experienced an up-and-down first half in which Darien Nelson-Henry scored nine points — including his second three-pointer of the season. However, the Red and Blue suffered through a scoreless drought of nearly seven minutes towards the end of the period, resulting in a 13-0 run which gave the Tigers (10-4, 1-0) a 36-29 advantage going into intermission.

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Palestra wasn’t sold out by any means. None of the current players on either side have won an Ivy title, Princeton most recently winning in 2011. The drought is even longer for Penn, arguably in the midst the worst stretch in program history. It didn’t help student attendance that the game occurred during Penn’s winter break, leading to a very small student contingent mostly consisting of the Penn Band.

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the bitter end and often deciding NCAA Tournament bids, fans would pack the teams’ two arenas, leading to a cacophonous atmosphere that allowed fans to play a role in each game, suffocating the courts with cheers and boos.

“For so long, it was just Penn and Princeton going to the tournament, Penn and Princeton winning the league,” senior guard Jamal Lewis said. “That in itself breeds great rivalry.”

Saturday’s game at the

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“It was a junior high school 2-3 zone that we were scared of. And it was really, really competitive Penn kids who made plays.”

That very defense held Princeton coach Courtney Banghart’s squad to 48 points on Saturday, as Penn women’s basketball downed the Tigers to open Ivy play, 50-48. It was Princeton’s first conference loss since the Quakers (10-2, 1-0 Ivy) clinched the Ivy title at Jadwin Gymnasium in March 2014.

The Red and Blue shot only 27.4 percent from the field, but it was just enough, as junior Sydney Stipanovich’s 12 points and 11 rebounds paved the way for the two-point victory.

“We’ve been in some really close games and we’ve been fortunate enough to win a lot of them,” Penn coach Mike McLaughlin said. “It really helped them.

“But the magnitude of a Penn-Princeton or an Ivy win is something special. I think the team understands that it’s one in a long season ahead of us, but I’m just really proud.”

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