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Students displaced by storm damage

Cold weather has caused pipe bursting and water flooding in campus buildings JAMES MEADOWS Staff Reporter

Some Penn students returned to campus from break to find their on-campus and off-campus residences flooded from pipe bursts.

After a “bomb cyclone” and a week of temperatures often below freezing, major transportation delays, and hazardous road conditions, these students join the slew of Philadelphia residents who have experienced burst pipes over the past week.

All three on-campus high rises — Harrison College House, Rodin College House, and Harnwell College House — experienced pipe bursts and water flooding, various residents, front desk staff, and security guards confirmed.

Many Greek houses have also experienced pipe bursts and water damage, such as Alpha Delta Pi, Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Nu, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. Students living in off-campus residents have experienced significant pipe burst issues as well.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said that pipes bursting and water flooding are to be expected with the frigid cold weather. Rush confirmed that there had already been 12-14 reports of burst pipes in the college houses and in various academic buildings that reached the Division of Public Safety as of Jan. 8, two days before classes began and likely before many students returned to the campus residences.

The result of this water damage is very costly.

Rush said the first priority is safety, but that necessitates the hiring of more housekeeping staff to repair any damage and bringing in staff from Penn’s Facilities and Real Estate Services to repair the pipes.

Additionally, because the fire sprinklers system is directly linked to the water pipe system, the potential for the sprinkler system to be ineffective is hazardous. All on-campus and off-campus houses that reported pipe damage are thus put on “Fire Watch,” when DPS assigns security officers to each building.

Rush said that this occurs whenever the Penn SEE PIPE BURSTS PAGE 3

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Many of Penn’s founding trustees had connections to the slave trade GIOVANNA PAZ Staff Reporter

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n recent years, as various universities stepped forth to acknowledge early institutional ties to slavery, Penn remained steadfast in asserting that it does not have a history of direct involvement with slavery or the slave trade. Now, new undergraduate research places this assertion into doubt.

An independent student study, supported

by Penn’s History Department, has found that many of the University’s founding trust-

ees had substantial connections to the slave trade.

After Georgetown University openly acknowledged its own ties to the slave trade in 2016, many colonial universities were placed under pressure to re-examine their own history with slavery. At the time, Penn Director of Media Relations Ron Ozio told The Philadelphia Tribune that “Penn has explored this issue several times over the past few decades and found no direct University involvement with slavery or the slave trade.”

However, throughout the course of last year, student researchers who were part of the Penn History of Slavery Project discovered that out of Penn’s 28 founding trustees

who were investigated (there are 126 founding trustees in total), 20 of them held slaves between 1769 and 1800 and had financial ties to the slave trade. The group has not found evidence that the University, as an institution, owned slaves.

These ambitious efforts to confront Penn’s colonial past were spearheaded by College seniors Caitlin Doolittle and VanJessica Gladney, 2017 College graduate Matthew Palczynski, and College sophomores Dillon Kersh and Brooke Krancer, who is also the social media director at The Daily Pennsylvanian. These students worked closely with SEE TRUSTEES PAGE 3

Penn joins Phila. to commemorate annual MLK Day of Service Events began on Jan. 15 and will end Jan. 31 MADELEINE NGO Staff Reporter

Members of the Penn community and West Philadelphians used their day off to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy by participating in a joint Day of Service.

The day’s executive planning committee organized numerous free events for the annual MLK Commemorative Symposium on Social Change coordinated by the African-American Resource Center beginning on Jan. 15, with the Day of Service, and ending Jan. 31.

The University hosted its first official Day of Service in 1996, incorporating programming that

had already been coordinated by the African-American Resource Center. Former Penn President Judith Rodin declared MLK day an official closing holiday for the University in 2001.

The committee, which includes various members of the Penn community, aims to uphold MLK’s legacy by fostering inclusivity and discussions of public education.

“I think Martin Luther King’s legacy is about really looking at structures of oppression and how we can dismantle that by collectively working together,” Haley Pilgrim, co-president of the Black Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and third-year Ph.D. student in Sociology, said.

This year’s Day of Service began with a free breakfast featur-

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The Day of Service included various events, such as “A Pocketful of Toiletries,” “Penn Reads,” and “Finding Your Path to STEM.”

ing a speech from Pennsylvania state Rep. Christopher Rabb (DPa.), who received his master’s

degree from Penn in 2006.

Attendees were invited to participate in events throughout the

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rest of the day including “A Pocketful of Toiletries” where volunteers made bags from t-shirts and filled them with socks, gloves, and toiletries for women at local shelters.

Organizers stressed the importance of improving public education in the West Philadelphia area.

“It really should not matter what your family means are or what you were born into, but that a good education should always be accessible,” Director of Financial Aid for the School of Social Policy & Practice Karima Williams said.

At “Penn Reads,” volunteers recorded themselves reading children’s books to promote literacy in the community.

Marguerite Miller, a public relations co-chair for the sympo-

sium and editor of the Almanac, said participants recorded more than 100 books. She added that other members of the symposium committee would send the books and their recordings to local public elementary schools and day care centers.

“Finding Your Path to STEM” targeted public high school students. A panel of eight professionals answered questions for students about pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

The students were given a free lunch and were invited to attend a college fair to speak with faculty and administrators from Penn, Drexel University, and the University of the Sciences.

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Penn responds to blocking of DACA withdrawal A federal injunction that was issued Tuesday, Jan. 9 temporarily blocked the White House’s plans to rescind Obama-era protections for young undocumented immigrants.

But some Penn students affected by these policies still worry that their futures remain uncertain.

Last September, President Donald Trump’s administration called on Congress to pass legislation replacing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protects nearly 700,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation.

This sparked protest on campus, with both students and administrators condemning the decision.

This week, Judge William Alsup, a federal judge from California who issued the injunction blocking the Trump administration from rescinding DACA, said safeguards against deportation must remain in place. His order also ruled that anyone who had recieved DACA status when the program was rescinded in September can renew it while the lawsuit is pending.

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“The idea is to expose [students] to all of these different options to see if it resonates with them,” David Mazor, organizer of the event and third-year Penn Dental student, said.

He noted that as an undergraduate at Princeton University, he majored in Near Eastern Studies and did not decide he wanted to become a dentist until after he graduated.

Other symposium events include “Jazz for King,” a night of jazz and poetry on Jan. 26, and its hallmark event, “What Can Colleges & Universities do for Education in Philadelphia,” on Jan. 24.

The event will open with re-

ued nationwide sweeps of undocumented workers.

Cabrales has also been active in protests on campus related to DACA and other changes in immigration reform. She said her DACA status does not expire until next year, and feels optimistic about major support from officials and celebrities, though the final outcome remains unclear.

Engineering sophomore Adrian Armendariz, who currently is protected by DACA, said his status is set to expire in early 2019. Armendariz recalled his initial reaction when he heard the announcement of the reversal of DACA, which he described as a “devastating” decision.

“After a few years of finally feeling relatively safe in this country, it’s all kind of back to this fragile state of living,” he said. “There’s an unpredictable life here.”

On the decision made this past Wednesday, Armendariz echoed other students, saying he has mixed feelings about the California judge’s bold decision.

“Congress still has to get a lot done for anything to be set in stone,” Armendariz said. “There’s a lot of uncertainty everywhere.”

College sophomore and Penn First Internal Outreach Chair Sebas-

marks from Penn President Amy Gutmann and the President of the Community College of Philadelphia Donald Generals will moderate a panel discussion and brainstorming session involving local university leaders such as the Graduate School of Education Dean Pam Grossman, Temple University College of Education Dean Gregory Anderson, and Aimee LaPointe Terosky, a professor of educational leadership at Saint Joseph’s University.

“In Philadelphia and other major cities in the U.S., public education is dismal,” Associate Director of the African-American Resource Center Robert Carter said. “We as human beings still have a lot of work to do to make our world a better place.”

“I think Martin Luther King’s legacy is about really looking at structures of oppression and how we can dismantle that by collectively working together,” Haley Pilgrim, third-year Ph.D. student in Sociology, said.

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College freshman Ale Cabrales, who is protected by DACA, still remains concerned about Congress’ ultimate decision and has been active in protests on campus related to DACA and changes in immigration reform.

tian Gonzalez added that he did not see the bipartisanship deliberation, which is central in determining the outcome of the DACA ruling, being as prioritized as it could be. Gonzalez, who is from El Paso, Texas, one of the largest border towns in the country, spoke about his concern for family and friends at Penn.

“Here at Penn they have to deal with a lot of issues that we all have to deal with at school, but it just adds such a burden on them that

personally I couldn’t imagine,” Gonzalez said.

Students mentioned the University resources that continue to support students including those who are undocumented and DACA recipients. College sophomore Dan Gonzalez highlighted special sessions from CAPS for students continuously affected. He also mentioned Associate Director of La Casa Latina Kareli Lizarraga, who was the first teacher with a DACA

status through the organization Teach For America, as a resource for help.

“Right now I’m pretty protected,” Cabrales said. “I’m pretty privileged at Penn. I have some sense of security. It’s freaking me out to think what’s going to happen after I leave college. I’ll have this Ivy League degree and it will pretty much be worthless. I’ll be thrown out into the world – completely unprotected.”

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On Jan. 13, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services stated that it would continue accepting renewal applications for beneficiaries of DACA. In a response to the preliminary injunction, USCIS officials stated that beneficiaries of DACA would be able to request a renewal if their status expired on or after Sept. 5, 2016. For people whose status expired before that date, the agency said they can file a new request for deferred action. As expected, USCIS will not accept applications for those who were never DACA recipients.

College freshman and general board member of Penn for Immigrant Rights Ale Cabrales, who is a student protected by DACA, still remains concerned about Congress’ ultimate decision.

“Seeing what’s going on with [the Temporary Status Program] and how this administration is just constantly shutting down stuff without batting an eye makes me worried,” Cabrales said. “I feel like California’s action is very temporary and are going to be shut down soon by the administration.”

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History professor Kathleen Brown for the preliminary research study.

The group presented their preliminary research on Dec. 11 at College Hall only weeks after the Princeton and Slavery Project unveiled dozens of archival documents about Princeton’s ties to slavery. Like the research being done at Penn, the Princeton and Slavery Project was a “bottom-up affair” that originated from undergraduate research, The New York Times reported.

The students at Penn focused their research on early trustees like John Cadwalader, Joseph Reed, and the first Provost of the University William Smith.

Many of the most prominent trustees were found to have substantial connections to slavery.

Based on a 1769 Pennsylvania Tax and Exoneration form found by student researchers, Smith, who became Penn’s first provost in 1755, owned at least one slave along with farm animals and over 40 acres of land.

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Police are notified of a burst pipe — whether in an on-campus or off-campus building — and the water system for a building is shut down, since the fire suppression system is disabled by a lack of water.

The Penn Police warn that more pipes will burst in the coming days as the weather starts to heat up and pipes start to thaw out.

Since the start of the new year, the Philadelphia Water Department reportedly has been responding to 20 to 25 water main breaks per day as a result of the weather and water temperature in the pipes. Rush said Penn has been lucky that the water main breaks on streets have not been so present.

“With global warming we know that the weather is much more erratic than it was 20 years ago,” Rush said. “Can we anticipate next winter if it is going to be as bad or worse? No, we cannot.”

Some Harrison residents, particularly some of those living anywhere between the seventh and

Trustee Edward Tilghman Jr. owned a number of slaves on his Delaware property, called Whitehall Plantation, according to a kept record of the plantation.

Brown explained that the group’s research provides new, important insight into Penn’s connections to slavery.

“Penn as an institution has not thought, itself, about having a deep history of involvement in slavery,” she said. “These findings suggest that view might need to be altered.”

During an initial request for comment, Ozio said he would “reserve comment” until after a Jan. 12 meeting arranged between the research group and key members of the administration, including Provost Wendell Pritchett and Senior Vice President Joann Mitchell, who was named Penn’s first chief diversity officer in March last year.

However, Ozio subsequently did not respond to requests for comment both before and after the meeting.

Students said that at the meeting with administrators, they spoke about their future

the 11th floors, were informed by email on Jan. 6 that their rooms had been flooded over break because of burst pipes. Students also returned from break to find multiple fans situated in the lobby areas and hallways in Harrison to dry soaked areas.

The email Wharton sophomore Priscilla Felten received from Harrison’s Residential Services staff said that apartments that were numbered 10 on any of the seventh through 11th floors suffered water damage. Felten lives in one of the affected apartments on the seventh floor, but the email indicated that her specific room was not affected, while other rooms in her apartment were.

However, upon arrival, she discovered unreported mold and extensive water damage on her room’s walls, wardrobe, and bed.

In other parts of the apartment, pieces of the ceiling had fallen in and mold had formed.

“Basically they said that it is against the law or policy to move any of your personal belongings when you are not there,” Felten said. “So they can only inspect what’s visible, so they couldn’t

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2018 research plans at Penn and went over recommendations they had for the University in light of the findings of their research.

Among other recommendations, students encouraged administrators to retract the University’s original statement denying Penn’s ties to slavery.

Students also told Pritchett and Mitchell that the University should be more transparent about early trustees’ ties to slavery.

In a speech this year, President of Harvard University Drew Faust publicly stated that Harvard had been “directly complicit” in slavery, The New York Times reported.

“Only by coming to terms with history can we free ourselves to create a more just world,” she added.

In an interview before the meeting, Kersh argued that Penn is still complicit in colonial slavery even though students have not found evidence that the University itself owned slaves.

“Penn’s early trustees were the wealthiest people in Pennsylvania,” Kersh said. “Their

personal ties to slavery is definitely something that the University is responsible for regarding the financial backing of the University.”

Moving forward, the group wants to further their research by verifying more concrete connections between the University and the slave trade, such as investigating if slaves were involved in creating buildings on campus or if they were sold to fund the University.

Brown said this research was partially motivated by shifting perceptions on universities’ ties to slavery across the nation.

In 2003, the former President of Brown University Ruth Simmons appointed the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice to uncover the university’s historical ties to the slave trade. However, at the time, “there wasn’t a single peep from another university,” said James T. Campbell, the historian who led the Brown effort, in a conference last year.

However in recent years, that attitude seems to have shifted.

And as of today, more than a dozen universities, including

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For those experiencing flooding, Penn has a policy to ensure that students have places to stay while their residences are unlivable.

actually move my clothes to look at my closet, so they made a report that nothing was wrong.”

Residents living in Harnwell also received an email from the College House Office on Jan. 9 that the House Office had to be relocated due to flooding.

Because the pipes in the Quad are so old, there are already precautions put in place to ensure pipes don’t burst even during winter breaks with stable weather, according to 2018 Engineering graduate student Pedro Rizo.

Off-campus housing has not

been excluded from the pipe bursts.

College and Wharton senior Dylan Adelman was the first to return to his Sigma Nu chapter house to find that one of the main pipes in the basement had burst and had flooded the area with several inches of water, breaking the water heater in the process.

“We reached out to our property company that contacted a plumber to handle repairs and they said it might be a few days and it will be very expensive,” he said. “A lot of people throughout

Brown, Harvard, and the University of Virginia, have acknowledged their historical ties to slavery.

During their research process, the group at Penn made visits to both the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Library Company of Philadelphia to peruse primary sources including tax documents and wills. They also gathered information from online ancestral databases and were introduced to documents with the help of Mark Lloyd, the director of University Archives.

Yvonne Fabella, the associate director of undergraduate studies in the History department, said she was really impressed by the research that the students had done.

“It’s no small task to do the detective work and to gather the fragments of evidence into a rather cohesive story,” she said.

Students said they also felt proud of the results of their research.

“It’s a strange feeling of accomplishment,” Palczynski said about finding evidence during the research process. “The

scholar in you feels good, but the human in you is like ‘oh dang.’”

Though their study largely revolved around Penn’s implications in the slave trade, the group also wanted to humanize the experience of the enslaved people who emerged in their research. They plan on recruiting more student researchers to take on unanswered questions such as what the freed slaves did later in life.

“It’s really easy to lose sight of the humanity of the actual people who were suffering as a result of these systems,” Doolittle said.

“For me, that’s part of the reason why I felt like meeting periodically was very helpful … to be able to reaffirm as a group ‘we’re doing this because people suffered, because there are people who lived this experience who’s story we should be honoring,’” she added.

Gladney agreed.

“I love Penn and I love my University, but also history is very impossible to deny,” she said. “It’s sometimes hard to reconcile the two.”

the city have had these problems and [the city’s water department is] backed up with orders.”

Engineering senior Decklan Cerza returned to his off-campus house on 40th and Pine streets on Saturday to find that the heating system had stopped working — while his thermostat read 70 degrees, the house was 38 degrees.

Even after the heating system had been repaired on Monday, however, a pipe burst as the house started to heat up.

“I just heard something crash upstairs and what happened was a pipe burst in our ceiling, making the entire living room ceiling come crashing down,” he said.

“Water was pouring down like a waterfall. It was awful.”

Cerza said that the property’s leasing company will be paying for all structural damages, while the furniture damage will be covered by a roommate’s renter’s insurance.

College sophomore Charlie Moore, who lived in an off-campus house near 40th and Spruce streets with six other roommates, was forced to vacate his residence and find new housing for the se-

mester because his house was flooded over break. He said that one of his roommates discovered that the basement and the first floor of their house was covered with water when he visited the residence during break. “[The flooding] took up a lot of my time during break because I had to find a place to live or else I’d be homeless when I come back,” he added.

Moore said that he and his roommates contacted Penn Residential Services, which offered them housing in Harrison through the end of the school year.

Rush said that Penn has always had a policy of making sure students have places to stay while their places of residence are unlivable. In the past, Rush said Penn has had to put students up in hotels, such as the nearby Sheraton Philadelphia University City Hotel or the Inn at Penn.

“If you live in anything owned

by Penn and something like this happens, you’re going to be well taken care of,” Rush said.

Deputy News Editor Manlu Liu contributed reporting to this story.

How Penn decides whether to suspend University operations Four administrators discuss recent U. closures MANLU LIU Staff Reporter

Before the bulk of students began flooding back onto campus, a series of extreme weather conditions during the first few days of January prompted administrators to “suspend normal University operations” on two consecutive business days. But the process through which administrators determine whether or not — and for how long — to suspend operations involves several factors and is far more complicated than it might seem.

A few days before classes were set to begin, Penn notified students, staff, and faculty on Jan. 5 and again on Jan. 8 of suspended operations. This decision, according to Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli, is made by four parties: Provost Wendell Pritchett, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush, Deputy Chief of Tactical & Emergency Readiness for the Division of Public Safety Michael Fink, and Carnaroli himself.

Leading up to a projected storm, the four administrators discuss the school closing on the phone the night before typically between 8 and 10 p.m., Carnaroli said. They make the final decision in another phone call at 5 a.m. the day of the expected inclement weather conditions.

“We have a pretty well-oiled machine when it comes to any change in the operating status of the University,” Rush said.

Decisions regarding University closings can be made later in the day as well, such as on Jan. 8, when unexpectedly worsening weather conditions prompted the administrators to suspend University operations at 1 p.m.

There are other factors, however, that are considered before canceling operations. Rush said,

for example, had school been in session during either of the two days with suspended operations in January, the decision might not have been the same. “[You] have to think of the number of academic days,” Rush said, adding that University operations would not have been suspended on Jan. 8 if school had started. There are a certain number of school days that all universities must have, and that often influences the decision of whether or not to suspend operations.

When considering closing the University, Carnaroli added that administrators consult city officials, public transportation schedules, and maintenance crews’ perspectives before making a final decision. They also confer with public school officials to account for child-care considerations that might affect staff or faculty with children.

“These decisions are never taken lightly, and it’s hard to please all of the people,” Carnaroli said.

Rush said the administrators decided not to close the University on Jan. 4 since the trajectory and timing of the incoming “bomb cyclone” storm was uncertain.

The Assistant to the Faculty Director at the Kelly Writers House Lily Applebaum said that she believed the University should have closed school that Thursday.

“I understand that if it’s just a couple of inches of snow, anyone should be able to get to where they’re going,” Applebaum said.

“But I also just think we live somewhere where it doesn’t happen as frequently, so it feels to me to be better safe than sorry to cancel if the weather is going to be questionable.”

When normal University operations are suspended, the institution retains its essential staff.

Rush said these essential staff members include public safe-

ty, hospital, business services, transportation, recreation center, and library staff. “Non-essential staff” include University faculty and administrators who were not categorized as essential in their initial hiring contracts, Rush said.

Carnaroli noted that some researchers in the medical school are also considered essential staff.

Carnaroli said that essential staff members who are unable to get home because of weather conditions can stay in the Sheraton Hotel at no cost. However, if essential staff members feel that they are unable to report to work, unlike Penn’s other staffers, they are not paid for the day.

“Typically, what happens is that they would not get paid for that day if they did not report,

but this is where flexibility and judgement comes into play,” Carnaroli said. “If there’s extenuating circumstances, there might be exceptions.”

Caranoli said that the frequency of University closings during winter break were in part due to the fact that classes for the semester had yet to begin. When school is in session, he said that exam cycles are also factored into the possible disruption in class schedule.

“When students are here, we have to be mindful that students are here,” Caranoli said. “We have to be able to respond to emergencies.”

“We are very reluctant to close until we absolutely have to during the academic semester,” he

added.

Applebaum said that she hoped the decision to cancel classes due to inclement weather conditions would be left up to the instructors.

“Perhaps different from a student perspective, I don’t really

want class to be canceled,” Applebaum added. “If your professor lives very far away, they could say, ‘There’s school today, but I can’t come in so we’ll arrange something different.’”

Senior News Editor Sarah Fortinsky contributed reporting.

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OPINION Lessons of Penntrification should inform Phila.’s Amazon pitch GUEST COLUMN BY ROHAN ALUR

TUESDAY JANUARY 16, 2018 VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 2 134th Year of Publication DAVID AKST President REBECCA TAN Executive Editor CHRIS MURACCA Print Director JULIA SCHORR Digital Director HARRY TRUSTMAN Opinion Editor SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor JONATHAN POLLACK Senior Sports Editor LUCY FERRY Senior Design Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Design Editor CHRISTINE LAM Design Editor

Of the 238 cities vying to become the home of Amazon’s new headquarters, HQ2, Philadelphia is undoubtedly among the favorites.

With the tech giant promising to invest $5 billion into the local economy, there are certainly good reasons to welcome this prospect.

Among the project’s many cheerleaders are Mayor Jim Kenney and Gov. Tom Wolf, who both recently signed off on a pitch to Amazon that included a reported $1 billion in tax incentives. However, lost in the frantic scramble to attract Jeff Bezos’ attention is any serious debate as to whether Philadelphia is prepared for the disruption that this move would cause.

With a planned 50,000 employees at its new headquarters, Amazon would quickly displace Penn as the city’s largest private employer. Although Penn and Amazon are two very different kinds of institutions, the problems that

their well-educated and well-compensated employees present for the city are qualitatively the same.

It is instructive to consider Penn’s impact on Philadelphia in assessing whether the city should welcome Amazon’s presence.

Penn’s neighbors to the west have long complained that the school’s creeping campus expansion displaces longtime residents and erases the character of previously vibrant neighborhoods. Efforts to rebrand West Philadelphia as “University City” were advanced by former Penn Executive Vice President John Fry, who is currently embarking on a similarly ambitious redevelopment project as the president of Drexel University.

In fact, one of the most likely sites for Amazon’s new headquarters is the office space at Schuylkill Yards, which is part of a Drexel-sponsored venture immediately adjacent to its campus. It

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comes as no surprise then that Fry is among the most vocal advocates of the initiative to bring Amazon to Philadelphia.

should ask that Amazon partner with the city to invest in building and subsidizing affordable housing for longtime residents of West

If Amazon is serious about making Philadelphia its new home, we can afford to make a few demands of our own to ensure that the resulting benefits are shared by all citizens.”

While attracting new business to the city — particularly west of the Schuylkill — is certainly a worthwhile goal, these efforts over the past few decades have come largely at the expense of the local community. Displacement of existing residents is not a necessary consequence of economic development, and it is here that the city should seek to extract a few concessions of its own from Amazon.

Foremost among these should be a sustained commitment to lowcost housing — in Seattle, where Amazon’s current headquarters occupies one-fifth of the city’s office space, rent is increasing faster than nearly anywhere else in the country. In return for Philadelphia’s generous incentive package, Mayor Kenney’s administration

Philadelphia. In addition, Amazon should follow Penn’s lead and fund a school in the mold of The Penn Alexander School, which offers excellent K-8 education for the communities west of Penn’s campus.

Some might reasonably protest that making these demands will necessarily compromise Philadelphia’s position in the hypercompetitive race to attract Amazon’s new headquarters. However, as the mayor of San Jose pointed out in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, tax breaks — on the scale that any city can reasonably offer — and ham-fisted sales pitches are unlikely to sway Amazon. Rather, they serve as a clever way for city officials to take credit for the company’s eventual decision.

Furthermore, asking that Amazon participate in the effort to smooth this transition will help the company protect its image at minimal cost. For example, a $500 rent subsidy for 2,000 households in Mantua — the neighborhood of 10,000 residents that would see the greatest disruption if Amazon plants their headquarters at Schuylkill Yards — would come out to only $12 million per year, and serve as a fairly effective form of short-term rent control (Philadelphia does not have explicit rent control laws).

Vocational training for local residents and the construction of a high-quality school would be similarly well-received, at a cost that would still vanish into the company’s immense operating budget — and pale in comparison to the $1 billion dollar tax break the city is offering up front.

Philadelphia is already an attractive place for any company to do business, and luring Amazon shouldn’t require extraordinary concessions from existing residents. If Amazon is serious about making Philadelphia its new home, we can afford to make a few demands of our own to ensure that the resulting benefits are shared by all citizens.

ROHAN ALUR is an Engineering graduate student from Wynnewood, Pa. studying computer science. His email address is ralur@seas.upenn. edu.

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I imagine I’m not the only one for whom the video of accepted early decision Penn applicants, captured in their teary-eyed moments of jubilation, brought back fond memories of my own Penn acceptance. But I also viewed the video with a bit of dejection, wondering how many of these same students would, like so many before them, become harsh critics of the same institution they shed tears of joy to join. Hypercompetitiveness, overburdened mental health resources, too much drinking carried out by students, not enough drinking permitted by the administration … one must look no further than The Daily Pennsylvanian Opinion section to get a bearing on what students find wrong with Penn.

Especially in light of our own gleeful college acceptances, it is crucial that, as my friend and fellow columnist Lucy Hu beautifully articulated, we remember to love Penn. But being mired in pessimism is a distinctly human problem, not just a Penn problem.

In his seminal graduation speech, “This is Water,” the late author David Foster Wallace gives a particularly memorable account of the banality of the average day as an adult.

Being aggravated by nuisances like slow checkout lines or traffic

jams, Wallace says, is the default mode for most of us as inherently self-centered, short-sighted human beings. One of my favorite films (though conventional masculinity means I’d never admit that in public), “About Time,” which loosely belongs to the realm of romantic comedies, picks up on Wallace’s theme. The main character, Tim,

The problem with advice like this is that it’s quickly left behind and absent from our psyche when we need it most. Sure, when you’re sprinting to your 9 a.m. when the temperature’s below freezing, it’s best to be totally stoic in the process, keeping firmly in mind nothing but your gratitude for your thousand blessings, among which

It’s a safe bet that none of us students knew exactly what we were signing up for. Still, as with any new path, we signed up for possibility.” inherits the ability to travel through time. By living each day twice, Tim is able to enjoy each moment with foresight of the worries and tensions that keep him from relishing how sweet the world can be.

Sounds lovely, but not all of us can time travel; only the M&T kids seem to have been given Time Turners. Luckily, Tim himself offers a feel-good solution: Live each day as if it were the second time.

is the mere opportunity to take a 9 a.m. class at the University of Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, these positive thoughts will likely slip away as soon as you trip on an un-salted sheet of ice.

Being aware of what our University lacks, and calling for our community to do better, is often a worthy exercise of the critical thinking skills our liberal arts education is supposed to endow us with. All too

often, however, we fall into a trap of pessimistic passivity — far easier to blame the curve (as I’ve done) or administrators (yup) or “the toxic pre-professional culture” (guilty) than ourselves.

Only recently have I recognized that when I direct blame at external factors, I implicitly relinquish a bit of individual agency in the process — and this is terrifying.

Our experiences of reality are tinged by the lens which our memories and beliefs dispose us to adopt.

And here lies a curse for some and a blessing for others. Our varied perceptions of the same reality explain why you can love that course that your buddy hates, and find that same test unfair that your classmate thinks was a breeze.

My grandfather is particularly fond of these words from the great Persian poet Rumi: “Yesterday I was clever and wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” My prescription, for myself and for everyone else, is to angle for Rumi’s form of wisdom.

Changing the world for the better, or changing Penn for the better, may be more of a 10-year plan. The type of thing we might queue up for future New Year’s Resolutions. But if we can work first on changing

MATEEN TABATABAEI ourselves for the better, cultivating a perspective and attitude that fortifies us against the curves of classes and the curveballs of life, we can radically alter the world as experienced from our personal vantage point.

As for Penn, it’s a safe bet that none of us students knew exactly what we were signing up for. Still, as with any new path, we signed up for possibility.

There is no one Penn experience, and even if we may hold certain gripes in common, it is ultimately the individual responsibility of each of us to forge for ourselves a path we are proud to look back on. Finding out how is the fun part.

MATEEN TABATABAEI is a College freshman from Newton, Mass. His email address is mateen@sas. upenn.edu.

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One final reinvention before graduation CHANCES ARE | Changing myself before I’m working 9-to-5

I was sitting in my room one lonely night before winter break when my friend messaged me over Facebook — pop! — asking whether, for the new year, she should do a balayage on her hair.

My first question was, “What is a balayage?” To which she responded that a balayage is when the edges of your hair are dyed a different color, “a sunkissed … colour, similar to what nature gives us as children,” Elle UK says. I’m not sure Elle UK’s definition is applicable to everyone, as nature gave me jet black hair that looks blue when the sun hits it, but sure, I understood the concept.

And my second question was, “Is this like the senior year equivalent of the ‘Junior Year Chopping Your Hair Off?’” She wrote, “Hahahaha yeah, basically,” and finished, “I just want to do one final reinvention before college ends.”

Her statement seemed to im-

ply that after college there would be no room to reinvent yourself.

As if somehow, after college, although we would (hopefully) undergo many different life stages, meet many more people who influence us, move around at least once or twice, we’d still look and act the same as we did at 22 — a strange thought.

And it also seemed to imply that college went hand-in-hand with reinvention. She said “one final reinvention” the way people say “one final meal” before heading to the executioner’s chair. Her tone suggested that the “one final thing” has been a treat we’ve been able to enjoy only in conjunction with a certain time in our lives. Reinvention goes with college as eating goes with living.

The whole exchange intrigued me. This winter break, I had been struggling with my own reinvention impetus over something as simple as whether to

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continue wearing red lipstick.

This decision meant more to me than not wearing a certain color. It was an Achillean choice between a promise of glory and the reality of peace — only I was leaning towards the latter, in true affront to Achilles. I was considering giving up red lipstick because I was tired of trying so hard, tired of trying to make myself seen. Perhaps now I could finally accept myself as I was, au naturel, a quiet and meek girl who, despite preferring the spotlight, understands best how to move in the shadows.

But part of me refused to give up red lipstick for the very issue my friend and I were discussing.

I had reinvented myself so many times in college that I didn’t want to reinvent myself again.

Each time brought me temporary insecurity over whether my newest incarnation would be accepted.

I had been wild Amy, Christian Amy, slightly-pretentious-

Penn needs accelerated intro classes CONVOS WITH CARLOS | Your ‘easy A’ comes at the expense of other students Having a semester at Penn under my belt is a feat in and of itself. Like every other naive first-year student, I wanted to get a 4.0 GPA. However, that was kind of unrealistic.

I am sure that some people were able to muster all their effort and get the coveted 4.0 GPA that most Ivy League admits vie for, but that is not the norm. In 2001, across all four undergraduate schools, the average GPA was 3.345.

The concept of “work” in college is different for every student. Some students party all the time and blow off all their coursework, but still manage to get an A. On the other hand, other students who work much harder and put in more effort may still get a lower grade.

This is expected, and no matter which side you end up on, there is nothing you can change once the semester comes to a close and you get that dreaded “CITsender email.”

One exciting aspect of attending a university like Penn is being able to take courses in subjects many high schools do not provide. My high school did not offer the Advanced Placement.

Economics sequence. Some first-generation, low-income students went to high schools that do not have any A.P. or International Baccalaureate courses at all.

However, in my ECON 001 class, not all of my classmates were unfamiliar with the material. I soon realized that some of the other students had taken A.P. Microeconomics in high school, but did not score a 5 on the exam, meaning they had to take the course again at Penn.

John Tierney of The Atlantic argues that A.P. courses and tests don’t accurately reflect the rigor and curriculum taught by top-tier universities. However, these students are still coming into these introductory courses with an advantage: considerable prior knowledge.

Although Penn’s curriculum may be a little different, having previous exposure to the course content is beneficial.

Anyone in this position would take the opportunity to get an “easy A,” but it is unfair to other students. Some students who have even received a 5 choose to forfeit their credit and repeat the course. These types of students can skew the curves in intro classes such as ECON 001, ECON 002, MATH 103, and MATH 104.

College freshman Rashelle Frederic was also negatively affected by classmates who had already taken the A.P. class.

“Since they didn’t score

CARLOS ARIAS VIVAS same as the regular introductory course — only the course would taught at a faster pace, allowing for more topics to be covered during the semester.

There should be restrictions on entry-level courses. It is not that hard for a student to convince their advisor to let them take an easier course by saying they did not receive adequate instruction during high school.

Therefore, I believe that if an advisor sees that a student received a B or higher in an A.P. or I.B. course on their high school transcript, they should bar that student from registering for the introductory course. While I empathize with students who are just trying to get the highest grades possible, they should not do so at the expense of students who did not have access to these higher-level high school courses.

By trying to create an equal playing field, some of these introductory classes will seem less daunting. Yet, it would be hard to implement all these rules and rewrite the guidelines that determine students’ placement into courses.

Another option would be to grade students on two separate curves: one for those who have taken the A.P. course and one for those who haven’t.

At the end of the day, college is a place for collaborative work, but real learning can only be accomplished if everyone is on the same page.

While I empathize with students who are just trying to get the highest grades possible, they should not do so at the expense of students who did not have access to these higher-level high school courses.” high enough to waive out,” Frederic said, “they hurt the class by destroying the curve because people who are just being introduced to the class don’t think the same way as someone who previously took the class for a whole year.”

Penn’s A.P. credit policies need to be revised. Some peer institutions award college credit to students who score a 4 on certain A.P. exams.

Columbia University gives students credit for the entire economics sequence as long as they received a 4 on one of the A.P. Economics exams and a 5 on the other.

I propose that there should be an accelerated track for students who did satisfactorily in similar courses in high school, but could not achieve a 5 on the placement test. The content would be roughly the

CARLOS ARIAS VIVAS is College freshman from Stamford, Conn., studying communication. His email address is cariasv@sas.upenn.edu.

European-wannabe Amy, and now that I felt I was coming into my own skin, becoming Amy Amy, whatever that meant. I wanted to change once more. If I changed now, when would it

words were right, whether reinvention was indeed a good thing, and whether now, in college, was the best time to do it.

Most of us fear reinvention because it precedes the unknown and usually follows bad circumstances. Changing ourselves for the most part occurs out of necessity, when our old selves have run the clock and can no longer survive their environment.

But if our old selves aren’t fit to survive their new environment, wouldn’t it be better to shed them altogether?

Reinvention can be good because it brings us closer to our real selves. Like editing an es-

Like editing an essay, reinventing doesn’t mean that we’re erasing everything we had before. We are tweaking it, refining it, uncovering the original spark hidden in the chaotic mind.” end?

But as I thought about it some more, I questioned whether redlipsticked Amy was the “real Amy,” or whether she was another persona I wanted to maintain.

I wondered whether my friend’s

say, reinventing doesn’t mean that we’re erasing everything we had before. We are tweaking it, refining it, uncovering the original spark hidden in the chaotic mind.

And college is the ideal en-

AMY CHAN vironment to reinvent yourself because everything is always changing. Since every semester your friend groups, your classes, even your jobs and daily routine can change, there are few constants in your life to judge you or hold you back if you do want to try something new. You can put on as many personas as you like until you find the right one.

After college, when our lives are stable, when we have steady jobs and see the same people all the time, we really won’t have as much freedom to experiment.

We’ll have too much responsibility thinking of our finances and our family to focus on ourselves.

So, in the spirit of my friend, I’ll pull one final reinvention before college ends and forego the red lipstick. And if it doesn’t last — at least then I know something else I don’t like.

AMY CHAN is a College senior from Augusta, Ga., studying classics. Her email address is chanamy@sas. upenn.edu.

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Penn professor creates a new educational video game The game confronts the complexities of gene editing YONI GUTENMACHER Staff Reporter

Jason H. Moore, a professor of artificial intelligence and director of the Penn Institute of Biomedical Informatics, had always kept separate his two life passions — his love for his childhood Atari 2600 home video game console and his academic interest in the field of bioinformatics. But now, with his newly developed video game, Moore has finally brought the two together.

In late December, Moore unveiled his new personal project: an Atari video game entitled “Gene Medic,” which integrates the modern developments in gene-editing with old school gaming.

The Atari 2600 home video game console was a device popular in the 1970s that allowed consumers to

play video games on their television sets at home. Its success popularized the widespread use of video games in American households.

In “Gene Medic,” a character on the screen runs across a virtual chromosome, the material that contains the genetic information in each cell, of a sick patient and stumbles upon various mutations, or changes in the genetic information. The player is challenged to determine whether the mutation encountered is contributing to the sickness of the patient and, therefore, whether to edit the chromosome by removing the mutation.

In addition to confronting the complexities of modern gene-editing technology, players are also faced with the real-life pressures of medical expenses and insurance reimbursements as they make decisions throughout the game.

“Gene Medic” is part of a growing trend in media known as “edutainment”, a genre of platforms

which attempt to merge education with entertainment.

Similar to TED-talks and educational podcasts, ‘Gene Medic’ utilizes the popularity of its medium, the Atari 2600 home video game console, to educate individuals on a specific field of knowledge.

In addition to working on an Atari 2600 home video game console, “Gene Medic” can also be played on a desktop computer or an Android phone. Users can download the game’s binary code, the digital instructions which run the game, from the internet and use an online emulator, a software that allows an ordinary computer to function like an Atari console, to play the game.

Although its function on the Atari console stemmed from Moore’s personal childhood nostalgia, the video game is intended for the increasingly large “retro gaming” community, whose individuals collect and play video games on dis-

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Although he is aware of the game’s niche audience, Moore said that he hopes he will be able to reach the general public by providing an option to play the game on a computer.

He added that he hopes to educate players of the game about the complexities of gene-editing.

“There’s been a resurgence of interest in these old games and old systems,” Moore said.

“Through that audience, my goal is to introduce them to these basic concepts of human genetics and to get them thinking about this modern technology and how it might help us.”

College and Wharton sophomore Judy Hong, who volunteered to test some of Moore’s artificial intelligence research projects last fall, said that she was not initially aware of the game. However, upon

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“Gene Medic” utilizes the Atari 2600 home video game console, but can also be played on a desktop computer, or an Android phone.

viewing it, she said that she sees the game as a part of Moore’s effort to democratize his challenging areas of expertise.

“The fields of artificial intelligence and bioinformatics are out of reach for most people,” Hong said.

“Jason [Moore] is simply trying to make the knowledge accessible to the layman.”

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Sipper, who studies artificial intelligence, highlighted the educational potential that lies within “Gene Medic.”

“The main thing that’s interesting about the game is that it shines a light on how you can combine genetics in a gaming context, giving kids insight into concepts that are really hard to grasp,” Sipper said. “It’s edutainment at its best.”

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Memorial services held to remember College sophomore Students and faculty mourn the loss of Blaze Bernstein SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor

In the span of two weeks, the news surrounding College sophomore Blaze Bernstein has evolved from what seemed to be a missing persons’ case into what authorities now confirm was a homicide.

The body of Bernstein, who went missing on Jan. 2, was discovered in a shallow grave around the perimeter of Borrego Park on Jan. 10. Two days later, on Jan. 12, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department arrested a high school friend of Bernstein’s, Sam Woodward, in connection to Bernstein’s death.

According to the OC Sheriff’s Department, Woodward was the last person in contact with Bernstein before he disappeared.

According to a search warrant affidavit obtained by the Orange County Register, detectives who spoke to Woodward two days after Bernstein’s disappearance noticed that his hands appeared to have small scratches on them and he appeared to have “dirt under his fingernails.” The affidavit also reportedly stated that Woodward attributed the scratches and abrasions to a “fight club.”

As this case continues to unfold in Orange County, Calif., students and faculty at Penn are finding their own ways to mourn the loss of Bernstein and to keep his memory alive.

Bernstein was on the premed track, intending to major in psychology, and during his freshman year was involved in the Vagelos Scholars Program in the Molecular Life Sciences. Bernstein’s mother, Jeanne Pepper, told The Daily Pennsylvanian that for the College sophomore, being a doctor “just clicked.”

“Whatever you do I just want you to be productive, accomplish something, and I want you to do something good, just do good with your life,” Pepper re-

called telling her son. “And he took that to heart.”

“He didn’t listen to very much I said because I wasn’t as smart as he was,” Pepper added, “but I know that he believed that that was how he was ultimately going to have happiness, was just to do something good with his gifts.”

Despite his academic interest in the sciences, Bernstein also actively pursued his passion for writing, which he was able to keep in his life through various extracurricular activities.

Bernstein was involved in the University’s food magazine, Penn Appetit, and prior to the winter break, had just been elected to be the publication’s managing editor. He was a copy associate for the literary magazine, Penn Review, and was about to start his term as a copy associate for 34th Street Magazine.

Bernstein’s father, Gideon Bernstein, said he and Pepper plan on coming to Penn’s campus in the near future to hold a memorial service, which might be planned in coordination with other memorials on campus.

Details for the memorial have not yet been released.

At Penn, faculty and students worked to organize a small candlelight vigil for Bernstein at the Kelly Writers House on Jan. 10 when reports of Bernstein’s death emerged. The next day, the University also held a support group for the entire Penn community in Houston Hall.

Bernstein’s pre-major advisor Jamie-Lee Josselyn said she had known Bernstein even before he came to Penn. As the associate director for recruitment at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, she often interacts with high school students and got to know Bernstein when he was still a student at the Creative Writing Conservatory at the Orange County School of the Arts.

“He actualized what I talk about with a lot of advisees and I think what Penn students really want to accomplish in terms

of just balancing their lives inside and outside the classroom in a way that’s productive and healthy and fulfilling,” Josselyn said. “He was really on that path.”

Josselyn flew out to California to attend some memorial services and to visit the Bernstein family, but has also continued to communicate with students and staff at Penn who were close to Bernstein.

Back on campus, Penn Appetit is working on how to proceed through the semester without its managing editor. Bernstein was critical to the production of the magazine, said Penn Appetit’s Executive Director and Wharton sophomore Rachel Prokupek.

Now, in addition to coping with the loss of one of its core team members, the magazine must also start to figure out how to fill that vacant position, she said.

The leaders of the magazine are also trying to figure out how best to mourn his loss and to keep his spirit alive. On Jan. 13, the magazine posted several monochrome pictures of Bernstein playing with an apron and some whisks.

“We would like to honor our amazingly talented, passionate, intelligent, kind and devoted Whisk copy editor, Blaze N. Bernstein,” they wrote on Facebook. “We miss you dearly, Blaze. You will always be a part of our Penn Appétit family. We love you and keep #whiskingit.”

In addition, College sophomore and Business Manager for Penn Appetit Kate Kassin said they were considering doing a themed issue “to honor Blaze and his character.”

Prokupek said apart from having a talent for writing, Bernstein had really taken up cooking and developed a real passion for it. While most staff at Penn Appetit are skilled at either writing or cooking, Bernstein was good at both. He was in charge of copy-editing the entire written section of the magazine, but still submitted his own recipes to the cookbook that the magazine put together last semester.

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Bernstein was involved in various University publications, including Penn’s food magazine, Penn Appetit, the literary magazine, Penn Review, and the arts and culture magazine, 34th Street Magazine.

Bernstein’s father said that the night that he left, on Jan. 2, he had served a feast for the family that he had spent several days preparing.

In California, Bernstein’s par-

ents have set up the Blaze Bernstein Memorial Fund through the Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County to raise money in Bernstein’s memory.

The elder Bernstein said the

title of the Facebook group that he had started to find Bernstein has now changed from “Help us find Blaze Bernstein” to “Help us remember Blaze Bernstein,” and it still remains active.

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Another weekend, another dramatic win for Penn men’s squash.

Just a week after freshman Andrew Douglas’ comeback win to beat No. 6 Rochester, Penn needed another ninth game win to beat Yale 5-4. Meanwhile, Penn’s women fell to the Elis by the same score.

Against Brown on Sunday, both teams eliminated any chance for a dramatic ending by sweeping the Bears 9-0.

The clinching win over Yale, completed by junior Karim Hussein in four sets, allowed the men (8-1, 2-0 Ivy) to claim the best start to a season since 1985. The win created history in another way too – Penn’s win was the first over Yale (5-2, 1-2) at home since 1995.

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to go up against star guards Matt Morgan from Cornell and Mike Smith from Columbia is no easy task, and the Quakers did a good job of neutralizing these two explosive scorers.

Morgan, who averages 24.1 points per game, was limited to just 13 points on 4 of 16 shooting. Smith, for his part, scored the ball well (27 points) but was not very efficient in the process. "[Smith] got 27 points on 23 shots, he had no assists, and we didn’t really put him at the foul line,” Penn coach Steve Donahue said. “They had three assists as a team, so I thought our defense was really solid until the very end, when they played really loose and hurt us.”

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On Saturday, the men got off to a strong start, winning four of the first five matches to put themselves a match away from a win with four still to go. Yale fought back, winning each of the next three, including wins at the Nos. 3 and 4. When it came down to Hussein, the junior took care of business relatively comfortably with three 11-5 wins in four sets.

Meanwhile, the women (5-2, 1-1) again struggled at the bottom of the ladder. While each of the top three Penn women won their respective matches in straight sets, the Quakers only won one match in the bottom six. Senior Reeham Sedky was once again magnificent at No. 1 for the Quakers, dropping only six points total in the win. Thanks to Sedky and company, the Penn women led 4-3 with two matches to play, but the Bulldogs (6-1, 2-1) won both to clinch the win.

After the tight matches against Yale on Saturday, Penn men’s squash turned their attention to

Brown (1-3, 0-3) on Sunday. No. 1 Douglas led the charge and maintained his undefeated record by notching a seventh three set sweep in nine matches. In fact, only one Penn player required all five sets to put away his opponent – junior Max Reed came back from 1-0 and 2-1 down to win the deciding set 11-5.

The women’s defeat of Brown (0-4, 0-3) was the third 9-0 sweep of the season. The Bears have yet to win a single match so far, losing 9-0 all four times. Alongside Sedky, freshman Julia Buchholz remained undefeated this season, winning in four sets at No. 6.

Senior captain Melissa Alves went undefeated as well in her return to action this week. After missing the first half of the season to injury, Alves never missed a beat upon her return, winning both of her matches 3-0.

With a month left in the regular season and most of Ivy play still ahead, the Quakers know their work is far from finished.

The Quakers entered the locker room after the first half with a 33-28 lead and came out of the gates firing in the second half, increasing their lead to 10 early on. The Lions came roaring back, however, and cut the lead to three with about 12 minutes to play in the game.

From there, Penn halted Columbia’s 9-0 run and remained ahead by a couple scores for the rest of the game, never trailing in the second half. The Quakers let Columbia hang around longer than they would have liked but ultimately put away the Lions with clutch free throw shooting down the stretch.

“We didn’t handle the pressure [at the end] well. We gotta work on [inbounding] because we’re gonna be in that position more,” Donahue said. “But to go

to the line and make 10 for 10 [in the last couple of minutes], for a team that hasn’t shot well from the free-throw line this year, is a good sign.”

The Red and Blue will look to improve their ball control in crunch time, as this is still a team that is learning how to win close games.

“We want to play relaxed and focused, competing on every possession,” Donahue said. “That’s part of what good teams learn how to do. And we’re growing. I don’t think we’re there yet, but we gotta continue to grow.”

Penn will have the opportunity to keep building on this promising start to the season with a matchup against Big 5 opponent Temple next Saturday at the Palestra.

Years since Penn gymnastics finished with a lower vault score than it did with Sunday's 46.175-point effort at the Lindsay Ferris Invitational. Though the Quakers were solid in all other events, their vault performance forced Penn into a last-place finish in the meet.

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Experience certainly reigned supreme for Penn wrestling in its first conference dual against Army on Sunday, as Penn’s senior wrestlers — Joe Oliva, Joe Velliquette, May Bethea, and Frank Mattiace — led the Quakers to a wild 19-18 victory after coming back from a 12-0 deficit.

The Red and Blue (5-3, 1-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association) faced a quick turnaround, as Sunday’s victory in West Point came just a day after a few wrestlers competed in the Shorty Hitchcock Memorial.

Coach Roger Reina, however, rested many of the Quakers’ top wrestlers on Saturday to ensure his team’s freshness and give other wrestlers a chance.

“The Millersville tournament was a good opportunity for some to have a competitive chance over the weekend,” Reina said.

“These opportunities are really important for the development of our wrestlers and our program, as a whole.”

As for Sunday’s opposition, Army (1-4, 0-1) continued to struggle this season. The loss is especially difficult for the Black Knights, who won each of the first three matches to take an early 12-0 edge.

“We had to dig ourselves out of a pretty big hole which is a big challenge with a physically and mentally tough opponent,” Reina said.

However, Oliva, Velliquette, and Bethea rallied to win each of their respective matchups to erase the Black Knights’ advantage.

“A big catalyst was Joe Oliva, who put us back in the hunt by coming right out and pinning his opponent,” Reina said.

The victory was solidified by Mattiace, who defeated Army’s Rocco Caywood in the 197-pound weight class, and junior Tyler Hall, who sealed the deal by defeating Bobby Heald at 285 pounds.

Hall has wrestled well to this point in the season and his counter-attack against Heald served to be the difference in the match and the overall meet. With Penn trailing 18-15 entering Hall’s match, he scored enough points to give Penn the victory on criteria.

“Out of a great many details that we work on in the practice environment, day in and day out, it really came down to one particular position on a counter attack that made all the difference for our team today,” Reina said. “Tyler has made really good improvements throughout the course of the season and that was certainly a big moment in his career.”

Reina will not dwell too much on Sunday’s victory, as he remains focused on the big picture and still sees room for improvement from his wrestlers.

“We need to have a crystalclear focus on the areas in which we are trying to improve upon, as the deciding factor in duals is usually which team pays greater attention to details,” he said.

The start of conference duals means the conference tournament is well on the horizon, and the Red and Blue will look to build momentum in the coming weeks.

“Each and every one of these matches carries a lot of significance going forward into the conference tournament,” Reina said.

The Quakers hope their experience continues to play a role in their upcoming meets, as they look to gain steam entering the conference tournament. Penn does not take the mat again until Jan. 27 against fellow conference foe Bucknell at the Palestra.

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mating it to become a $1.5 billion industry by 2020.

And now, that rising craze has finally made it to Philadelphia.

“You can’t look at eSports and not be incredibly enthusiastic about the demographics,” said Tim Buckman, Comcast Spectacor’s vice president of corporate communications. “As we look toward the future, this is going to be an important part of sports and entertainment, so when the Overwatch League formed and they were looking for potential owners for franchises, we let it be known that we were interested, and we’re really happy that it worked out.”

The Overwatch League consists of matches of the video game “Overwatch,” a team-based, firstperson survival game developed

by Blizzard Entertainment with more than 30 million players worldwide. This inaugural season of the league will be made up of four stages, each five weeks long and consisting of 12 matches.

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There’s a new team in town — and the game is a new one.

Owned by regional sports media giant Comcast Spectacor, who also owns the Flyers, the Philadelphia Fusion was established in 2017 as the city’s representative in the Overwatch League, an international eSports league made up of 12 teams spanning four countries. eSports — short for “electronic sports” — is the umbrella term for competitive video gaming, with participants most often competing in “shooter” games or sports games. Though generating controversy over whether the pastime qualifies as true sport, eSports has exploded in popularity in recent years, with Business Insider esti-

Every match between two teams is made up of four rounds, each on a specific stage, with the team that wins the most rounds declared the match’s winner. All the matches in this season are held in Los Angeles’ Blizzard Arena in front of a raucous crowd and streamed in real time on the league’s website.

There is also a worthwhile prize for the team that makes it through the season and playoffs victorious: a cool $1 million, with the possibility of earning a total of $3.5 million by winning various stages throughout the season.

Like other professional sports leagues, the players are paid an annual salary, which the league set at $50,000 minimum, and also receive housing, training, and health benefits.

The Fusion currently have 12 players on their roster from nine countries, though two of them are currently ineligible to participate. Simon Ekström (gamer ID:

snillo) cannot play until his 18th birthday in March, and Su-Min Kim (SADO) is suspended for the first 30 matches for “account boosting,” or accepting payment to increase another gamer’s “skill rating.”

Originally, the Fusion were set to participate in the league’s preseason matches in early December. However, a few days before the first match, the team withdrew from the scrimmages, citing “player logistics issues” in a tweet.

“It was frightening at first when they pulled out of the preseason.

I know they had some issues with SADO getting suspended especially, but I think that’s encouraging because it makes us the ultimate wild card,” a Fusion supporter said. “Nobody goes into this knowing our strategy or what to expect from us, so it does give us a little bit of an advantage.”

“It’s a pro and a con, because we could be terrible just as much

as we could be good, but nobody knows; it’s Philadelphia at it’s very best,” a companion rebutted.

Since Philadelphia did not play in the preseason, Thursday’s match against the Houston Outlaws was the first time fans were able to see the Fusion in action.

Those fans did not leave disappointed, as Philadelphia pulled through with a 3-2 sudden death victory after both teams finished tied after the first four rounds of play.

To commemorate their match, the Fusion set up a watch party for their followers at Wahoo’s in University City on Thursday, and fans came out in droves to support. At the event, which featured a gaming zone, cosplayers, and even Fusion cheerleaders, the main viewing area was packed to the brim with avid Overwatch and Fusion fanatics, a great showing for a promising season.

Despite its lack of previous competition, the Fusion showed

no signs of a sluggish start, racing out to a 3-2 victory on Dorado, the match’s first stage. Houston and Philadelphia proceeded to go back and forth, forcing the match to a fifth-stage tiebreaker — but on that final stage, Lijiang Tower, the Fusion’s teamwork and combined power led to a 2-0 win, sending its supporters into an excited frenzy.

The team that nearly everybody had counted out, including all three stream commentators before the match, had done the improbable and defeated a team who many considered to be in the preseason top five.

The Fusion hope to carry this positive momentum into Saturday’s match against the London Spitfire: the first international team Philadelphia will face and 3-1 winners over the Florida Mayhem on Thursday.

Just as Philadelphians have faithfully rallied behind their teams before, they now have another that needs their support.

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bia in the future, which will need to be done in order to capture the third straight Ivy League championship for the men.

“We were very close with Columbia,” Ma said. “The real match will be four weeks later at the Ivy League Championships.”

However while losses to perennial power Columbia might have been expected for both the men and women, the Quakers falling to Penn State and Duke were more frustrating.

This weekend was Penn’s first struggle of the season, after both the men and women’s teams started so strongly this season. Both the men and women held 9-1 records, and had seven-match winning streaks, entering the Penn State Invitational.

Additionally, Penn also had an excellent performance at

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Penn fencing had an up and down weekend against some of the top fencing programs in the country.

The Quakers (11-4 for both men and women) had a busy weekend in State College, Pa. The men and women defeated North Carolina and Haverford but fell short to Columbia, Penn State, and Duke.

The men’s matchup against Columbia was undoubtedly the highlight of the night, as it included two of last year’s three Ivy League co-champions. The Quakers lost 13-14 in a very tight contest. Despite the loss, coach Andy Ma remains optimistic about defeating Colum-

January’s North American Cup before winter break, led by freshman Sean Wilson for the men and senior Stephanie Wolf for the women.

“This is our first intercollegiate meet after the long break.

So, this is a kind of a warmup,” Ma said. “We still have two more matches (before Ivy League Championships). This was to see what we need to work on for the next four weeks. We know we are not fully in shape because of the long break.”

The Quakers will now develop a plan to learn from this weekend and improve moving forward. Next weekend, Penn is competing in the Philadelphia Invitational, against another strong field that includes St. John’s, Yale, NYU, and Duke, among others.

“Tomorrow will be our day off, and we will have a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, a three-

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If the fencing teams are to continue their success from the past few years, they will need those freshmen to perform like veterans.

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had another efficient day. Her counterpart down low, Nwokedi, had a very different stat line than she is used to. While she still produced in the traditional frontcourt categories, Nwokedi also notched the team high through seven assists, outpacing even guard Anna Ross.

“At the beginning of the year, coach and I had a conversation, and obviously we are going to need Eleah. I think that on and off the court we’ve just gotten so much more comfortable with each other and we know if she’s being double-teamed I’ll be there for her,” Nwokedi said. “I’m just trying to get everyone involved.”

The only point of concern for Penn was a 13-0 Cornell run in the third quarter. The Penn lead never dipped below 19, but it was not a comfortable time for a team that has blown leads in the past. McLaughlin took full responsibility for that, blaming himself for putting a lineup with too many younger bench players on at once.

The Quakers are back in action Saturday evening against Columbia (6-10, 0-1). Senior Camille Zimmerman has tormented Penn in the past, and is one of the best scorers in the conference.

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Freshman Parker earns DP Sports’ Player of the Week Center set new career highs against Columbia BREVIN FLEISCHER Associate Sports Editor

Eleah Parker may only be a freshman, but she has looked very much like a veteran in her dominating start to Ivy League play.

After Penn women’s basketball lost to arch-rival Princeton last Saturday, the team rebounded spectacularly this weekend, defeating Cornell and Columbia in consecutive weekends behind the stellar play of Parker.

Against Cornell, the star center demonstrated impressive ef-

ficiency, contributing 15 points on 7 of 11 shooting. Additionally, Parker grabbed 10 rebounds for her second double-double of the year. Such a robust stat line undoubtedly contributed to the final result, a 20-point victory in which the starters were able to limit their minutes and rest up before the next day’s game.

In that next game, Parker’s numbers were even more exceptional, as she set career highs in both scoring and rebounding.

Behind her 22 points and 14 boards — eight on the offensive end — Penn beat Columbia comfortably. Throughout the entire contest, it was clear that Parker was on another level both physically and mentally.

"[It’s about] using my strength and my power over other players and just knowing what they can do against me defensively and what I have,” Parker said. “Just really listening to my coaches and my teammates, and especially when I hear them say ‘Go at them! Go at them!’, and that really gives me confidence.”

While Parker’s increasing confidence may bode well for Penn, the rest of the conference better look out, because if this weekend’s games are any indication, Penn has found itself a star for years to come. Needless to say, this DP Sports Player of the Week award should be the first of many for Eleah Parker.

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College sophomore AJ Brodeur led Penn Men’s Basketball to a 77-71 victory in their match against Columbia University on Jan. 13. His ability to shoot the three ball was key to the team’s victory.

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ometimes it takes just one player to spark an entire team.

That was certainly the case this weekend for sophomore forward AJ Brodeur and Penn men’s basketball. Brodeur filled up the statsheet for the Quakers (12-5, 3-0 Ivy) in

Friday’s 69-61 victory against Cornell, only to come back the next night with an even better performance.

In the Saturday night matchup versus Columbia, Brodeur led the team to a 77-71 victory with 30 points and eight rebounds in an impressive display of all-around talent. In the first half alone, he dropped 22 points and grabbed six rebounds.

One key to this scoring onslaught was Brodeur’s ability to shoot the three ball, as the big man shot 6 for 12 from beyond the arc.

“When I see the other team sitting back almost in the [restricted area], pretty much hoping that I’m going to miss, the thing going through my head is more than just shooting the shot to make three points; I was trying to prove something,” Brodeur said. “I know I’m confident in my shot; I know I’ve earned the right to shoot it, and I’ve earned the right to make it.”

Because Brodeur caught fire from the outside in the first half, Columbia’s (3-12, 0-2) defense was forced to come out and guard

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him, which opened the floor for the rest of the Penn offense. The Quakers took the ball to the basket a lot in the second half, making several strong finishes at the rim.

Along with Brodeur, the Red and Blue received a great offensive contribution from sophomore guard Ryan Betley, who scored 20 points and added six rebounds. This performance follows a game in which Betley totaled 13 points, five rebounds, and four steals against Cornell (6-9, 0-2).

Senior guard Darnell Foreman, as always, found his teammates for easy points and drove the ball hard to the basket to get points for himself. In all, Foreman ended Saturday’s game with seven points, three rebounds, and six assists.

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Survive and advance.

The commonly used saying during the NCAA basketball tournament means it doesn’t matter how you win. As long as you win and “survive” each round, you advance closer and closer to the national title.

Penn basketball wasn’t at its best this weekend.

The Red and Blue struggled with free throws down the stretch against Cornell, shooting 50 percent from the charity stripe in the last two minutes. Against a Columbia team that is 3-12, they had 20 turnovers.

They never seemed to have offensive rhythm outside of AJ Brodeur and Ryan Betley, who accounted for 50 of the team’s 77 points.

But none of that matters because they still found a way to win.

The Ivy League regular season isn’t a beauty contest anymore. The top team from the regular season doesn’t earn the automatic NCAA tournament bid; the bid goes to the winner of the Ivy League tournament.

As great as this 3-0 conference start is, it’s not as if the Red and Blue are playing perfect basketball.

Coach Steve Donahue acknowledged after the victory over Columbia that this team is still constantly trying to improve week to week and is learning how to close out basketball games.

Compared to last year, it’s not like the Quakers are having to lose games to learn their lesson anymore.

They can still adapt and improve, but they’re winning at the same time.

That is what great teams, like Duke, Michigan State, and Villanova do. They might experience growing pains early through the season, but they still find a way to win tough conference games when it matters most.

It feels like the Red and Blue have learned the hard part of losing close games. And now, they’re using those past experiences to win the games they need to win this season, even if it isn’t pretty.

This team is clearly good. The offense is strong and balanced, scoring 78.5 points per game, which leads the Ivy League (a number that could increase if Brodeur continues to rain down threes like he did Saturday night). The Red and Blue hold a quality non-conference win at Dayton, ranked No. 77 in RPI. They’re in first place in the Ivy League and are the second highest ranked team in the RPI behind Princeton, who the Quakers already beat.

But this team looks like it’s able to find a way to survive and advance every week during the Ivy regular season. It feels like this team is ready to make the jump from good to great.

Does the offense still have stretches where it goes cold? Yes. Does the team still need to learn how to stay poised late in close games? Yes. But the Red and Blue are on their way to being great. And if they keep it up, they’ll have the opportunity to survive and advance in the NCAA tournament.

CARTER THOMPSON is a College junior from Tallahassee, Fl., and is an associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian.

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Penn sweeps Cornell, Columbia thanks to renewed intensity after loss W. HOOPS | Center Eleah Parker had back-to-back double-doubles

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What happens when a team loses big to a hated rival?

Truly great teams find a way to bounce back after a disappointing performance. That’s exactly what Penn women’s basketball

did against Cornell.

From the opening tip — which Penn won and led to senior Lauren Whitlatch’s first three — the Quakers dominated Cornell physically all over the court on the way to a 68-48 win.

“I loved what we did tonight.

I said that to the team in the locker room, we came out ready to play, and set the tone for the way we wanted to play tonight and the way we want to carry it over into tomorrow,” coach Mike McLaughlin said.

Clearly, the Quakers (7-5, 1-1 Ivy) didn’t take last week’s loss to Princeton lightly. The Red and Blue made hustle plays up and down the court. They contested every rebound and loose ball and seemed to be diving all over the floor. Too often, a Penn player came up with a rebound she had

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Penn women’s basketball relied on a deep bench in two convincing team wins over Cornell and Columbia in the opening Ivy League weekend.

no business winning.

To illustrate that point, late in the second quarter, freshman

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Tori Crawford dove after a ball that had already gone out of bounds. Classmate Katie Kinum

slammed into press row fighting for a loose ball a few minutes later, but got right back up to keep playing defense.

Up and down the roster, Penn closed out shot attempt after shot attempt defensively. Aside from a five-minute stretch in the third quarter when McLaughlin was resting the starters, Cornell (410, 0-1) was unable to solve the swarming defense. The Big Red had 20 turnovers and shot under 30 percent for three of the four quarters.

“Just learning from the Princeton game last week, we weren’t playing the defense we know we could, and I think that was probably the reason for the loss,” senior Michelle Nwokedi said.

“So, this whole week we emphasized every single little itty-bitty thing for defense and I think we

came out ready to show the way that Penn can play defense which can lead to offense.”

The extra opportunities after turnovers and stops allowed the Quakers to open their lead early on. In the first quarter alone, Penn forced nine turnovers, directly leading to six points at the other end. Cornell wanted to press high up the court, but by forcing turnovers, the Quakers were able to get baskets in transition without having to rely on their half-court offense. By the end of the first quarter, Penn was already up by 14.

As impressive as the defensive performance was, the theme of the game had to have been the effort displayed by the Red and Blue, which continued all game SEE WBB RECAP PAGE 10

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