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Students give back in MLK’s memory Students help reorganize local library through PENNCAP program, providing ‘rewarding’ experience DAVID CAHN Staff Reporter

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘what are you doing for others?’” On Monday, 14 students woke up early to give their time to a local Philadelphia middle school, Middle Years Alternative. The students participated through community outreach organization Upward Bound and Penn’s College Achievement program, PENNCAP, which helps students from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds succeed in college. It also provides opportunities for students to work as a positive force in the Philadelphia community. College freshman and event participant Elaina

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Joseph explained the motivation behind the event. “It was to help find the identity of the school and build morale for the students,” she said. The school building appears old and slightly outdated, so PENNCAP students tried to spruce it up with inspirational posters. The students helped reorganize the cluttered library and donated old books to charity. Last year, the group painted the lockers in the school. PENNCAP members worked side by side with middle school students and parents from Middle Years Alternative and college students from other Philadelphia schools. “It was really rewarding because it’s not easy getting up at 7 a.m. on a day off, getting on a bus and going to do a service project,” Joseph said, “but seeing everyone there and the community working together made up for all that.” Other PENNCAP students who attended the event shared a similar sentiment on social media. Many of the students agreed that their actions may have been small, but they still acted as a positive influence in the community.

7,000 protest in city during politically divisive time JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Reporter

Roughly 7,000 people, including students from Penn, marched through Philadelphia yesterday as a part of #ReclaimMLK Day. The march, which went

from Philadelphia School District headquarters to Independence Mall, aimed to reclaim the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. as an activist in order to highlight core issues related to race in America. This year’s protests were especially politically charged due to national conversations around race relations and the police following the Eric Garner and Michael Brown decisions. “This was perfect tim-

ing after everything that has happened,” Reverend Mark Tyler, an organizer for the event said. The day was planned by a coalition of over 70 organizations including Power Philadelphians, Black Lives Matter and Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, an organization at Penn dedicated to bringing awareness to issues related to race.

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Gutmann explains her actions during Dec. 9 ‘die-in’ Head of Penn police union still unsatisfied DAVID CAHN Staff Reporter

Penn President Amy Gutmann responded to her participation in a protest that sparked national headlines at a meeting with The Daily Pennsylvanian staff Thursday afternoon. At her annual holiday party in December, Gutmann participated in a die-in that was staged by various student groups. “No person, whether guilty or innocent, should be left unattended to for four and a half hours, which is why I laid down in solidarity with those who I have great empathy for,” she said. SEE GUTMANN PAGE 5

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Recruitment goes on, but Phi Delt rushes held at Bey RUIHONG LU Staff Reporter

In the wake of the national controversy surrounding Phi Delta Theta’s holiday photo featuring a dark-skinned blow-up doll, many freshmen say the incident has not majorly affected their decisions during fraternity recruitment. Penn’s chapter of Phi Delta Theta was placed on probation following an investigation by its international organization, precluding its members from participating in social activities until its completion of cultural sensitivity and sexual and relationship misconduct education programs. However, the chapter is still allowed to participate in recruitment. In response to calls for cultural competency training by UMOJA, the Penn Consortium of Undergraduate Women and the 5B Coalition, Phi Delta Theta president and College senior Jimmy Germi, who is also the president of the Interfraternity Council, said that the fraternity plans to participate in educational programs in collaboration with oncampus minority groups.

“When we collaborate with other organizations, we are going to meet a more diverse group of prospective members,” Germi said. Several Penn students participating in fraternity recruitment said that the controversial holiday photo itself didn’t exert a major influence on their choices during the process, but added the subsequent publicity did influence their perceptions. “As for the incidents, I don’t think they necessarily did the wrong thing entirely. I think that if I heard about it, but it wasn’t so viral, it wouldn’t necessarily turn me away from that fraternity,” College freshman Dan Kutzin said. “But because the story indeed came out, I would say I was less inclined to attempt to attend their events.” However, Kutzin said that he continued to be interested in Greek life because of the many options on campus. “It seems like some people rushing are just forgetting about it because there are so many fraternities on campus and there are a lot of options for the people rushing,” Kutzin, who attended various on-campus re-

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when I was rushing,” he said, adding that, “I understand that it was supposed to be a joke, but it wasn’t smart to publish that.” Phi Delta Theta hopes to show that they are an inclusive community. “It reflects negatively on the Greek community but we are hoping to respond in a positive light so that even if it has an impact on rush this semester that it becomes clear that we are an accepting organization, we are an accepting community,” Germi said. Each of the students interviewed agreed that the most important factor for them in which fraternity to join lies in the community with which they want to acquaint themselves. “I would say the number one factor for me is that I feel I can fit into that group of guys. I met people that were from the same areas as me, I met guys that shared similar interests,” Kutzin said. “I think because it is a pretty intense commitment, especially for this whole semester, it doesn’t make sense to join a brotherhood that you don’t feel like you share the same values with.”

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Before Phi Delta Theta’s probation can be lifted, the fraternity that was the center of many conversations this winter will participate in sexual misconduct education. In December, controversy sparked over a holiday photo depicting the fraternity brothers with a black blow-up Beyonce sex doll. As a result, the fraternity’s international organization

and the Fraternal Health and Safety Initiative — a consortium of eight fraternities — have mandated the sensitivity training. The program, “Taking a Stand: Preventing Sexual Misconduct on Campus,” will be offered to Phi Delta Theta chapters throughout the country. However, Penn’s chapter will have to foot the cost of the programs and cannot resume social activities until their completion, said Associate Executive Vice President of Phi Delta Theta International

Sean Wagner. The chapter’s director of education will lead the programming, initially introduced by FHSI in September. The curriculum, “Taking a Stand,” was created to tackle pressing social issues on college campuses, including sexual misconduct, binge drinking and hazing on over 350 college campuses. The overarching goal of the program is to foster conversation around the topic of sexual misconduct. The curriculum was not specifically created

to address the holiday photo incident on Penn’s campus. According to FHSI, “Taking a Stand” will be adapted by each chapter to meet the fraternity’s specific needs. Nationwide, the Phi Delta Theta International fraternity “will be providing sexual and relationship misconduct education to its nearly 12,000 undergraduate members located at over 190 college campuses during the 2015 calendar year,” Wagner wrote in a statement on Jan. 9.

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Petiton in retaliation to Gutmann’s PILOT rejection Community extends campaign to hold Penn accountable for PILOTs PAT ZANCOLLI Staff Reporter

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While President Amy Gutmann feels that “our commitment and what we do for our community is enormous,” paying PILOTs is still not on the agenda for the university, she said. A new petition by Philadelphia Jobs with Justice, more commonly known as Philly JWJ, has been formed in efforts to get Penn to pay PILOTs, as many students and community members feel that they should. PILOTs are payments by nonprofit organizations that are 4 34in 343lieu of property taxes, from ST STST which they are exempt. Philly

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JWJ has been working closely on the campaign to get Penn to pay PILOTs with the Student Labor Action Project. College students were not involved with the writing of this petition, College sophomore and SLAP member Devan Spear said, but “everything that [Philly JWJ and SLAP] does on this campaign is a joint effort.” Philly JWJ members have been going door-to-door in West Philadelphia asking people to sign the petition, and Philly JWJ director Gwen Snyder said that “most people are signing it.” In addition to the print petition, there is also an online version on Philly JWJ’s website. Although Snyder believes that “it is legal in [Pennsylvania] to enforce PILOTs” under Pennsylvania law, she does not think PILOTs should be enforced legally. She would

prefer that Penn make the payments voluntarily. In a meeting between President Gutmann and The Daily Pennsylvanian last week, Gutmann said that since Penn is the largest private employer in the city of Philadelphia, its 100 million dollar wage tax that makes up eight percent of city taxes is enough contribution from the University to the city and its schools. Snyder disagreed, saying that the wage tax is “not a cost to Penn, but a cost to the workers.” Furthermore, Spear believes that the wage tax is not justification for Penn to not pay PILOTs, as “it’s the Penn community, not Penn as an institution” that contributes. SLAP also made its own petition specifically for students, but they have yet to greatly promote it. SLAP tried to meet with Gutmann last semester to

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discuss the possibility of Penn paying PILOTs, Spear said, but at the last minute, were told they would be meeting with Vice President of the Office of Government and Community Affairs Jeff Cooper and Associate Vice President and Director of the Netter Center Ira Harkavy. “They were also really helpful to meet with, but it was frustrating that we can’t have access to our University president when we’re trying to make this happen,” Spear said. “We’ve come to understand that the Netter Center and everything that Penn does is a lot for Philadelphia, but we think it would do better if Penn also contributed PILOTs because we don’t think there is a substitution for a well-funded city and well-funded schools.” Snyder feels that since pay-

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THE VISION | Why Penn’s Police Association won’t say black lives matter

n response to President Amy Gutmann’s participation in the Student Labor Action Project’s (SLAP) and Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation at University of Pennsylvania’s (SOUL) die-in at Gutmann’s holiday party this past December, Eric J. Rohrback, president of the Penn Police Association (PPA), published a guest column that articulated his vehement opposition to the peaceful protest. Rohrback’s article states, “No one condones police brutality. Nevertheless, conveniently glossed over by the protesters and many media accounts are these facts: The grand jury report disputed all eyewitness testimony and fully exonerated the officer … In sum, the President of such a prestigious and diverse University should rely on facts instead of what she thinks will play to the public.” At the request of Mr. Rohrback, we have compiled a list of facts that we deeply believe the PPA should rely on. It is our belief that “[p]olicing an

open, urban, multicultural and densely-populated university environment such as Penn,” as the Penn Police Department website states, requires a commitment to protect all its community members, especially when that West Philadelphia community is predominantly Black and Brown.

white people killed by police officers were younger than 21.” Fact: “These numbers are likely underestimates, as police departments self-report these statistics, and only 750 of the 17,000 law enforcement agencies in the US participated.” Fact: “In 2013, New York-

What Rohrback and the PPA’s argument really boils down to is this: Law enforcement feels entitled to engage in whatever force they deem necessary in policing black communities.” Fact: “According to the FBI’s most recent accounts of ‘justifiable homicide,’ in the seven years between 2005 and 2012, a white officer used deadly force against a black person almost two times every week.” Fact: “Of those black persons killed, nearly one in every five were under 21 years of age. For comparison, only 8.7 percent of

ers were stopped by the police 191,558 times. 169,252 were totally innocent (88 percent). 104,958 were black (56 percent). 55,191 were Latino (29 percent). 20,877 were white (11 percent).” Fact: “In a 2010 study, of the 6,613 law enforcement officers involved in reported allegations of misconduct that met NPMSRP criteria for tracking purposes,

9.3% of cases were involved in sexual misconduct.” Fact: “Former New York state Chief Judge Sol Wachtler famously remarked that a prosecutor could persuade a grand jury to ‘indict a ham sandwich.’ According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. attorneys prosecuted 162,000 federal cases in 2010, the most recent year for which we have data. Grand juries declined to return an indictment in 11 of them.” Despite proof that the experiences of Black Americans with law enforcement is not some delusion or willful self-victimization, police officers such as those in the PPA continue to overlook institutionalized discrimination that has “justified” the brutalization of minorities. On the surface, Eric J. Rohrback’s argument hinges on the perceived “disrespect” of President Amy Gutmann’s decision to stand in solidarity with members of the Penn community. This group was not comprised of some “mob mentality” as stated by Rohrback, but instead was com-

prised of students who passionately fight for the humanity and rights of all Americans. What Rohrback and the PPA’s argument really boils down to is this: Law enforcement feels entitled to engage in whatever force they deem necessary in policing black communities. If this force results in citizens being beaten, harassed, threatened, murdered and having their constitutional rights violated, then so be it. Cases of choking an unarmed father over loose cigarettes or shooting a 12-year-old with a toy gun is simply them “doing their jobs.” Any questioning of these abuses is seen as “disrespect” as stated by Eric J. Rohrback. The letter from the PPA is not simply about the protest at President Gutmann’s holiday party. It is also a statement of their solidarity with police officers such as Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo. In condemning our President’s participation in the die-in, Rohrback affirmed that he believes that black lives do not and cannot matter, because if

THE VISION these lives did matter, it would uphold the ugly truth behind the information presented above. As long as officers claim they are easily frightened by Black and Brown bodies to the point of using excessive and lethal force, we will assert that our lives matter. Facts only.

VICTORIA FORD and NIKKI HARDISON are a College and a Wharton senior, respectively, from Piedmont, S.C. and Buford, Ga. They can be reached at vicford@ sas.upenn.edu and chardi@ wharton.upenn.edu. “The Vision” appears every Tuesday.

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n Aug. 9 last year, 18-year old Michael Brown was fatally shot in Ferguson, Mo. Another unjustified police shooting, another abrupt end to a life and another black teenager dead. For Michael, just eight days after graduating from high school, life had come to a definitive end. The incident sent shockwaves throughout the Ferguson community and soon echoed across all corners of America. It wasn’t an anomaly, only the latest in a series of similar events. It was another wound to an already bleeding country and a manifestation of the paramount American malady of racial inequality. It is only human for us to react emotionally. We saw it in the streets of Ferguson, in cities all across the nation and at our own campus. Who is accountable? Why is this happening? We immediately want to find justice, seek out and destroy the evils to remedy the damage done. We paint a narrative

THE IDEALISTIC PRAGMATIST | The issue of racial inequality is not about good versus evil where it is us, the people out to crush racial inequality — such as students at Penn — against the evil forces of racism. It is we who realize the injustices of racial inequality against those who are passive or even clandestinely against progress. This emotional response is essential, but unfortunately, insufficient. What we like to think of as a dichotomy of good versus evil, where our condemnation of racism is a spear against those who still are ignorant and stuck in the past, ultimately, considerably misses a much more substantial and complex issue. Hegel, the German philosopher, is famous for his dialectical conception of human history. He saw the stream of ideas as consisting of a thesis, on one end, against an antithesis, on the other, set to be combined to form a synthesis. An influential idea, the undertones of the Hegelian dialectic resonated with Marx and other thinkers, and its vestiges still figure in the social liberalism

of the 21st century to which many of us adhere. While most no longer believe in the type of dialectic Marx envisioned, the tendency to see the world as a

on the bag. “We will never have a perfect world,” reads the first half of the quote, perhaps alluding to the imperfections of human nature. Indeed, Pinker

Racial inequality is racism, and racism is an idea, an idea which must be overcome in the grand narrative of humankind.” dichotomy between progress and its antithesis remains. Racial inequality is racism, and racism is an idea, an idea which must be overcome in the grand narrative of humankind. This idealistic outlook brings the unintended effect of oversimplifying one of the most momentous challenges America has ever faced. Sometimes when you shop at Chipotle, like the one on Walnut Street, you get a quotation from the Canadian psychologist Steven Pinker printed

would agree that unintentional discrimination is an inescapable feature of the human mind. Schema theory in cognitive psychology, for example, tells us that we automatically create bundles of associations based on our experiences, necessary for us to function in the world. Only through an excruciating last couple of centuries has it become clear that racism is biologically unfounded, but in a country with deep-rooted racial inequality, from a psychological perspective, we

should not be surprised to see it persist. Today, blacks are less welloff economically and more often commit crime than most other racial groups, adjusted for population size, in the United States. These are realities, and rather than isolating the issue of racial inequality as solely or mainly a self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuated by how we think, we need to explore the underlying causes. This is, for example, less of a problem of prejudice in the minds of “evil” policemen, which is a symptom. Rather, it is one of not providing many young blacks the socio-economic opportunities they need to avoid being forced to resort to a life of crime, which is an underlying cause. We will never completely eradicate racism or inequality, but in order to create a better tomorrow, we need to go beyond the good versus evil dichotomy and examine our society, including ourselves — even if we

OSCAR A. RUDENSTAM are the most professed champions of racial equality — to find and address the underlying causes behind them. Instead of simply condemning the symptoms, we need to go after the disease. “We will never have a perfect world, but it’s not romantic or naïve to work towards a better one.”

OSCAR A. RUDENSTAM is a visiting junior from Tokyo, studying economics, sociology and business. His email address is osru@sas. upenn.edu. “The Idealistic Pragmatist” appears every other Tuesday.

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“We need to show our empathy for everyone who suffers in our society,” she added. “I think it helped bring the community together, and I am very proud of our community.” Gutmann expressed her support for Penn Police, saying “one can stand in solidarity with both those who protect our lives and those who feel vulnerable.” When asked for further com-

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The protesters demanded an end to stop-and-frisk, a fully funded Police Review Board, $15 minimum wage and a fully funded, democratically controlled local school system. “What sets this protest apart is that we have a real focus,” Tyler said, explaining that a major critique of the movement early on was that it lacked specific goals. “All we knew is that we were angry,” he said. “Now we’ve turned a corner. We are saying specifically this is what justice looks like.” College sophomore Taylor Hosking attended the protest along with several other Penn students. Despite the size and notability of the protest, she was concerned “about the ability to have a leading voice that

ment on whether she had reconciled with Penn Police at the end the one-hour meeting, she responded, “I think I answered that,” and left the room. Tensions between Penn Police and Amy Gutmann rose in December following the die-in, leading the Penn Police Association President Eric Rohrback to write a guest column in the DP. “To have her participate in such a disrespectful act is not, in any way, ‘support,’ and proves

I know and trust for Philly’s movement,” she said. She worried that the protest may be harmed by its focus on demonizing police. Near Penn’s campus, some protesters shouted, “The cops and the Klan go hand-in-hand.” “I would also like to see more building towards common ground with the police department,” Hosking said. “If we focused less on the content of the police officer’s character and more on changing parts of the law enforcement system that are problematic, we might make crucial police officer allies.” Organizers of the event, including SOUL co-chair Brianna Moore, believed that it was a major success. “I think we accomplished what we wanted today,” Tyler said. “However, today is a beginning, not an end.”

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that she does not have the backs of ‘her’ officers,” Rohrback wrote. “It is a slap in the face to every person that wears this uniform and serves this University.” Rohrback said in a phone interview following Thursday’s meeting with Gutmann that the president has not reached out to bridge the tension between her and the department’s patrolmen. “I have not heard one word from her. She has not sent me a letter, an email, a text message,

nothing,” he said. When presented with Gutmann’s rationale for participating in the die-in, he said, “That makes no sense. She’s an adult. She’s the president of this University. That could be her belief. But she doesn’t have to show sides. “The die-in was a protest against police for shooting an unarmed black man,” Rohrback said, “It’s not about him laying there for 4 hours.”

Rohrback said he has spoken with Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush about the issue. Following Rohrback’s letter to the DP, Rush sent an email to the Penn Police force that was also published, emphasizing the President’s support for the police. “VP Rush is trying to keep the peace. She’s not taking sides,” Rohrback. “She explained that Amy Gutmann has our best interests at heart and that she’s

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pro-police, but this was a bad way of showing it.” Rohrback says that while Penn Police are still upset about Gutmann’s participation in the die-in, they will continue to protect the Penn community. “They are still upset over it, but we’re professionals and we’re still out here doing our job. “Service from the police department has not slowed,” he said. “We haven’t backed down any.”

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Tom Wolf selects GSE alum for cabinet With his inauguration approaching, Wolf commits to education reform through cabinet appointments JENN WRIGHT Deputy News Editor

Pennsylvania Governor-elect Tom Wolf selected Penn Graduate School of Education student Pedro Rivera as the Secretary of Education on Monday. The announcement concludes Wolf’s picks for his cabinet. Rivera has served as the superintendent of the 11,500-student School District of Lancaster for the past six years. He is a Philadelphia native and former teacher and principal in the School District of Philadelphia. Currently, he is a student in the Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership, a 36-month GSE degree program for working professionals. When explaining why he chose Rivera for the position, Wolf cited increased graduation rates and state test scores under Rivera’s leadership in Lancaster, as well as implementation of a “community schools” model that provides free breakfast and lunch as well as medical services, according to the release.

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“Pedro Rivera is nationally recognized for his efforts to improve urban education, and he will work with me to build a strong public education system and get Pennsylvania back on track,” Wolf said in a statement Monday. Last fall, the White House named Rivera a “Champion of Change” as one of 10 Hispanic educational leaders from around the country honored for their work. As the co-chair of Wolf’s 18-person transitional committee for education, Rivera worked alongside former State Representative Kathy Manderino and Jerry Jordan, president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, among others to bring the Gov.elect up to speed on the state of education in Pennsylvania. Wolf also named Manderino the secretary for the Department of Labor and Industry on Monday. As a Philadelphia resident, Manderino served in the House of Representatives for 18 years. She’s the campaign manager for The Campaign for Fair Education Funding, a group advocating for a funding formula for public education. “Pennsylvania schools are struggling. My top priority is making sure our schools have the resources to teach our children the skills they need to succeed,” Wolf said. The Senate must first approve both nominations. Wolf’s inauguration is set for today in the state capital.

Mayoral candidate Trujillo visits for MLK Penn Law alum and adjunct professor talked charters and PILOTs DAN SPINELLI Staff Reporter

Mayoral candidate and 1986 Law School alum Ken Trujillo spent part of his Martin Luther King Day reading “Hop on Pop.” As part of the Philadelphia Reads: Literacy Project in Houston Hall, Trujillo — also an adjunct law professor — recorded himself reading Dr. Seuss’ famous book. The recordings are meant to aid children who are learning to read by listening along while following the text. The literacy event was one of many service activities in which Trujillo participated on Mon-

day. During the event, he spoke with The Daily Pennsylvanian about his MLK service and thoughts on education. “Education is the issue of our generation,” Trujillo said. “It is not a political issue.” He emphasized the importance of both public and charter schools, having attended public school himself in New Mexico. “Our district-run schools are the first line of education for most of our kids. Two-thirds of kids will not have the option of attending a charter school, so district-run schools need to be well funded and well run.” Still, he said, “Charter schools are also part of the solution.” Trujillo co-founded the Pan American Academy Charter — one of 40 schools looking to expand its operations this year by petitioning the School Reform Commission. Trujillo also spoke about Penn and other Philadelphia universities’ role in funding public education. “It’s time for businesses

and organizations that benefit from being in Philadelphia to do their fair share as well,” he said. At President Amy Gutmann’s annual holiday party in December, students protested for Penn to play a greater role in funding education through PILOTs. PILOTs are voluntary payments in lieu of property taxes, from which nonprofit organizations like Penn are exempt. While acknowledging the “wonderful things” Penn does for the city, he added, “we need to stop looking at working families to foot every bill.” Along with education, racial politics will play a crucial role in the mayor’s race. When asked why he chose to participate in service events rather than attend the Reclaim MLK rally on North Broad Street, Trujillo said, “the activities I’m engaged in are to focus on service,” in contrast to the rally’s focus on protest. He also said scheduling conflicts prevented him from attending the rally.

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Nature sounds, a box of Nature Valley granola bars, sleeping bags and empty cans of Fanta occupied group study room 225 in Education Commons over the weekend. It wasn’t being used by Penn students trying to get ahead in their syllabi — but rather by four high school students who participated in PennApps Winter this past weekend. The team, made up of high school senior Rohan Shah of Pennsylvania — a future member of Penn’s Class of 2019 — and high school juniors James Harnett of New Jersey, Krish Dholakiya of Colorado and Isaiah Turner of Maryland, competed in the health hack with their app “Helix,” an app designed to streamline the directions patients receive from their doctors. The app won best overall health hack and best consumer health hack. After a visit to the doctor, pa-

tients can enter a code in Helix to receive step-by-step follow-up instructions and reminders. The app’s features include a partnership with Postmates for prescription delivery and the ability for patients to send videos to their physicians. The app also coordinates with wearable technology devices to send health data to the user and doctor in real time. Despite being in high school, the students have a wide variety of experience at hackathons. Harnett has attended 16 hackathons, Dholakiya was an organizer at Code Day Colorado, Shah was the first high school student to be a PennApps fellow and Turner was one of 200 winners of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference Student Scholarship. Although the team is precocious, the students are very much high school students. While coding, they wanted to watch “The Interview,” but thought better of it due to the glass walls in their GSR. Instead, the team opted for “22 Jump Street.” The students gave their tips for making it through PennApps. “The trick is to get one full night of sleep, so you can pull an allnighter ... I’ll probably crash on

the train ride home,” Harnett said. He added as an afterthought, “I’ll probably miss my stop.” Turner was especially grateful for the free Insomnia Cookies throughout the event, but for Shah, the huge group hug they shared was key. “It was solid bonding,” he added sarcastically, “Isaiah loved it.” Team Helix made sure to make the most out of their time in Philadelphia. Their spot in Education Commons afforded them access to the gate to Franklin Field. Harnett explained, “We snuck into the stadium, there’s some really great views of Philadelphia up there.” Turner said that he made sure to take Instagram selfies while there. While the team shared a group hug on Sunday, their unit didn’t officially form until Friday evening, after PennApps had officially begun. Dholakiya and Shah had met previously at CalHacks in October, a hackathon hosted at the University of California at Berkeley, and had originally planned to work on a different idea they had, until they met the rest of their groupmates. Turner connected with Dholakiya and Shah through the PennApps Facebook page. The three met

Harnett while outside of the Education Commons on Friday night. “They were talking about this technology that I knew about, so I started chatting with them,” Harnett said on meeting his team for the first time. “It was very much spur of the moment,” Shah added. Besides the opportunities for prizes and recognition, a lot of what makes hackathons — especially PennApps — important for the students was the opportunity to meet the friends they had made online in different hacking communities on Facebook. The students that made up Helix were four out of about 90 total high school students that competed in PennApps, according to PennApps coordinators. Being in high school didn’t intimidate the team, but rather made them feel more at home. “I love being in an environment where they think the same as you ... you don’t have to dumb yourself down,” Shah said. “You can think big and you can execute on something, and you’re going to have something that’s been taken from concept to fruition in a short matter of time and even build on it after.”

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(4-9) right in it. The rookie finished with 18 points on sevenfor-twelve shooting, hitting his first three shots from beyond the arc before missing two desperation treys towards the end of the 15-point loss. “We gave ourselves a chance to win for about 32 minutes and 30 seconds,” Penn coach Jerome Allen noted. Woods handled the ball for most of the game, partially due to junior Tony Hicks’ foul trouble as well as starting guard Darnell Foreman’s ineffectiveness early in the game. Fellow freshman Mike Auger contributed significant help on the glass for the Quakers, finishing with a team high nine rebounds. With nine minutes to go, the Wildcats extended their lead to six and never looked back. While Penn maintained its pressure and never lost hope, the squad’s inspired play and lockdown defense couldn’t keep them alive. Villanova also allowed the Quakers to stay in the game as a result of a lack of offensive consistency. In the first half, the Wildcats only shot 30 percent from the field to the Quakers’ 45 percent and made only one of six free throw attempts. While junior center Darien Nelson-Henry held his own down low on both sides of the floor, it was the second half emergence of his counterpart

ry chipped in with six rebounds, the Quakers got their real fuel from an unexpected source in a game of this magnitude: their freshman class. Antonio Woods led Penn with what was by far the most impressive performance of his young career. The freshman appeared unfazed by a raucous Palestra and a top-five opponent, racking up a career-high 18 points off the bench. After the game, coach Jerome Allen was effusive about the play of his young guard. “I thought he did a phenomenal job,” Allen said. “He kept his poise, and he wasn’t rattled … He got in the paint, made plays and made open shots.” Woods’ classmate, forward Mike Auger, was similarly impressive, as he has been all season. Although his rookie campaign has been hampered by a foot injury that sidelined him for nearly a month, Auger has looked fantastic when healthy, providing an athletic force on both the offensive and defensive ends. And after Saturday’s eight-point, nine-rebound performance, Auger is now leading the team with 6.4 boards per game, an impressive total considering the freshman is averaging only 22.0 minutes per game and has yet to start a contest. Woods and Auger combined to score the entirety of Penn’s 26 bench points — more than half the Quakers’ offensive output. In contrast, Villanova — considered to be perhaps the deepest squad in the nation other than that team from Lexington — got only 12 points from its reserves. When asked if he got a boost of confidence from succeeding in an intense environment, Woods was quick to stress that the team’s belief has been there all along. “If you don’t have confidence,” Woods said, “then you just shouldn’t play.” On Saturday, the rookie duo made a compelling case that, in the midst of a frustrating season, the Quakers have good reason to maintain this self-assurance. Against one of the best teams in the nation, Penn’s young guns played with grit, passion and, yes, even confidence. In their first game against a ranked opponent in a wild, adrenaline-infused environment, Auger and Woods passed the test with flying colors. Surely, the thousands of Penn fans in attendance can’t help but hope that Saturday’s level of play becomes commonplace.

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Penn increased its lead sevenfold to 21-3 before Army found a way to respond. The Red and Blue’s streak included victories from Canaan Bethea, Garren, sophomore Jeremy Schwartz and Richardson. “I did exactly what I wanted to do,” Richardson said after securing his second victory of the day, this time over Army’s Christian Doyle. “It was very relaxed.” While the Black Knights’ Logan Everett secured a few consolation points by overcoming Penn’s senior Jeﬀ Canfora to make the total score 21-6, the match’s two concluding bouts both went the Quakers’ way.

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Matched up against the frontcourt of one of the toughest team’s in the country, junior center Darien Nelson-Henry went toe-to-toe with the Wildcats’ Daniel Ochefu, scoring six points and six rebounds in the Quakers’s 62-47 loss on Saturday.

— junior forward Daniel Ochefu — that allowed Villanova to finally pull away. The star finished with 21 points in only 25 minutes and consistently found his way to the hoop in the second half. The Wildcats attempted only four three-pointers in the second half — a stark contrast to Villanova’s 14 first half three-

In the penultimate matchup, Cobb grabbed his second win of the day, overpowering Army’s Andrew Mendel 22-7. “I did better in the second match,” Cobb said. “I did a lot of leg attacks and stuﬀ like that.” “I’m getting back to the wrestling that I like to do,” he continued, acknowledging improvements in his own performance compared to earlier weeks. After recovering from an early season knee injury, Cobb’s Saturday wins were reassuring for the junior. “To see myself be able to be aggressive and get a lot of diﬀerent takedowns means a lot,” Cobb concluded. Junior Brooks Martino wrapped up Saturday’s action

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east knows they’re going to the Palestra and that place is going to be sold out. We take great pride in being a part of it.” Despite falling for the fourth time in five games, the Red and Blue should have little trouble putting this loss behind them. Penn will next be in action against Monmouth on Wednesday at the Palestra.

with a 14-0 shutout against Javier Rodriguez. Fresh oﬀ two wins, the squad is ready to turn its attention to what really matters: Ivy play beginning with next weekend’s matchup against Cornell. “It’s a very big match for us — for me individually and for the team,” said Richardson — who has history at Cornell. “It wasn’t a perfect performance,” Tirapelle pointed out about Saturday’s wins. “But it’s another stepping stone.”

To add to the successes of Sunday, Cobb managed to come out on top in the 149 pound-class at the Shorty Hitchcock Memorial Classic tournament at Millersville University after five consecutive wins. Canfora and Ray Bethea also had strong showings at the tournament. Overall, the weekend showcased the multifaceted strength of Penn wrestling. Whether they can keep up the form in future meets, however, remains to be seen.

TOM NOWLAN is a College freshman from Montpelier, VT and is an associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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split last Ivy competition BY SAM ALTLAND Staff Writer Once again, Penn finds itself .500 on the week. For the second time in as many weekends, both the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s swimming and diving teams split their respective Ivy tri-meets, with both programs defeating Brown and falling to Harvard on Saturday. On the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side, the Quakers finished their Ivy League meet season with a 203-95 win over Brown and a 190-108 loss to Harvard. The menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squad was anchored by its pair of standout junior captains, Eric Schultz and Chris Swanson. Both scored maximum points for Penn in their respective freestyle events. Swanson topped the podium twice, winning the 500-yard freestyle in 4:32.97 and touching first again in the 1000-yard free with a time of 9:20.15. Schultz won the 100-yard freestyle in 45.44 and also contributed to the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; scorecard with a second place finish in the 50-yard freestyle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was really happy with the progress we made from last week to this week,â&#x20AC;? coach Mike Schnur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did not swim very well at all against Yale last weekend, and with a lot of guys sick these past few weeks, those that were healthy could have rolled over and quit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do that and we responded well, and it was a good weekend for us.â&#x20AC;? Among other impressive finishes of the day for Penn were the swims by freshman Alex Peterson. He completed a gru-

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eling triple: the 1000 free, 500 free and 400-yard IM. Despite a tough schedule, the freshman finished second behind his junior captain in both freestyle events and narrowly missed the crown in the IM behind Harvardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christian Carbone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alex was a warrior out there this weekend,â&#x20AC;? Schnur said of the rookieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He swam some of the fastest times weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen of someone who hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been rested for those distances, and to see him go out there and take on and press past some of those Harvard guys was amazing to see.â&#x20AC;? On the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side, after taking down Brown 175-124, the Quakers came up just short of an upset of the Crimson, falling 158-141. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our women were in that meet the whole way,â&#x20AC;? Schnur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were more focused on Brown than on Harvard, but then suddenly came a point where we realized we were right there with the defending Ivy Champions, and we were fighting for that win.â&#x20AC;? The Red and Blue came away with two event wins on the day against their Ivy opponents. Sophomore Ellie Grimes finished first in the 200-yard

breast with a time of 2:20.36, and sophomore Rochelle Dong put forward yet another impressive performance in the 100yard fly, winning the event in a time of 55.60. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rochelle is just absolutely dominating right now,â&#x20AC;? Schnur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She has just been in great form recently and is one of our swimmers looking to make an impact yet again at the Ivy Championships.â&#x20AC;? Junior Lauren Church and senior Taylor Sneed also helped pace the Quakers, as Church took home secondplace finishes in both the 100yard and 200-yard backstrokes and Sneed collected a secondplace finish in the 100 fly and took third in the 100 back. Having now faced the entirety of the Ivy League, all heads will be turned towards the Ivy Championships next month. And after this weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance, both teams should have a good degree of confidence for the weeks ahead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We raced very well this weekend, and just as importantly, I think we competed very well this weekend,â&#x20AC;? Schnur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That gives us a lot of hope going forward.â&#x20AC;?

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GETTING A LEG UP

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In its first meet of 2015, Penn track and field scored 11 wins at Lehigh >> SEE PAGE 10

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2015

A MORAL VICTORY?

Woods, Auger provide spark, hope for future

oing into Saturday’s matchup, things weren’t exactly looking up for Penn basketball. Despite completing the squad’s first threegame winning streak in over two seasons earlier this year, the outlook for the Red and Blue looked decidedly bleak after blowing a 15-point lead to Princeton last Saturday. And, as most expected, the Quakers fell to No. 5 Villanova, TOM NOWLAN dropping their record to 4-9 on the season and 0-3 in the Big 5. After a tight first half, Villanova took control in the final minutes to pull out the closer-than-the-scoreboard-showed 62-47 win. However, the final score belies the passion and grit that the Quakers showcased in front of a sold-out Palestra crowd. Penn gave the Wildcats fits for much of the night and trailed by a mere five points with six minutes remaining. In a game in which the Quakers were expected to be little more than roadkill, the Red and Blue were anything but. In the highest-profile matchup of the season in a heady environment, one could expect the Quakers to look for leadership in veterans such as juniors Tony Hicks and Darien Nelson-Henry. Yet while Hicks contributed solidly with eight points and Nelson-Hen-

Quakers hang tough, falter late to No. 5 Villanova

TELLING NUMBERS 21 points Scoring output from the bench, the ﬁrst time this season the reserves outscored the starting ﬁve

30% shooting Villanova’s percentage from the ﬁeld in the ﬁrst half... with the team still leading by two at the break

M. HOOPS | Bench rookies help Penn

nearly pull off monumental upset BY THOMAS MUNSON Associate Sports Editor

11 games Number of Big 5 games in a row the Quakers have now lost

3 threepointers Converted by Woods

0-for-10

The rest of Penn from beyond-the-arc.

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When No. 5 Villanova took an eight-point lead midway through the first half on Saturday night, the sold-out Palestra was as silent as it had been all game. The fans could sense the Wildcats were about to break the game wide open. But as the crowd thought VILLANOVA 62 Penn basketball’s Big 5 rivals PENN 47 were preparing to bury the Quakers, the Red and Blue came alive. And so did the Penn faithful in the packed arena. Yet despite seeing their first half lead reduced to just two points at the break and hanging on for much of the second half, Villanova possessed too much firepower for the Quakers to handle, handing Penn its 11th consecutive Big 5 defeat, 62-47. Wildcats coach Jay Wright picked up on the atmosphere of the Palestra as the Red and Blue hung with one of the nation’s elite squads. “There’s a distinct roar here when an underdog ties or takes the lead,” Wright said. “I don’t know if I can explain it, but when I hear it, I know it.” It seemed as if every time Villanova (17-1) had a chance to pull away, freshman guard Antonio Woods would come up with a clutch basket to keep Penn SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 9

Cobb’s title ignites Quakers’ comeback WRESTLING | Penn wins

both meets at Palestra

BY OSCAR RUDENSTAM Staff Writer

OSCAR RUDENSTAM/STAFF WRITER

Junior grappler C.J. Cobb helped the Red and Blue bounce back with a tournament victory at the Shorty Hitchcock Classic. SEND STORY IDEAS TO DPSPORTS@THEDP.COM

After a less than stellar winter break, Penn wrestling needed some sort of success to right the ship before opening Ivy play. In consecutive meets this past weekend, the Quakers did exactly that. The Red and Blue flexed their muscles on Saturday with comfortable back-to-back wins against

Lock Haven and Army in their home opener. Penn’s own C.J. Cobb added to that success by notching a tournament win at the Shorty Hitchcock Classic. In the two matchups at the Palestra, the Red and the Blue beat Lock Haven, 22-9, and Army, 30-6. “It was a pretty strong showing,” coach Alex Tirapelle admitted. “We won a lot of tough [individual] matches.” Penn’s first matchup against the Bald Eagles on Saturday proved to be the bigger challenge of the two. After initially trailing Lock

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Haven, 3-0, hard-fought battles from seniors Brad Wukie, Lorenzo Thomas, Canaan Bethea and freshman Patrik Garren helped the Quakers flip the script. While the Bald Eagles (3-8) recovered somewhat, the Quakers (3-3) managed to extend their lead with wins from Cobb and sophomore Caleb Richardson – among others – to emerge victorious. Saturday’s second match saw Penn taking on its rivals from Army. Entering the match, the Red and Blue sought to avenge last season’s 21-13 loss to the Black

Knights. Mission accomplished. This time, it was all Penn. Junior Ray Bethea, competing in his first match since November due to injury, picked up a narrow 9-7 win over the Black Knights’ Cole Gracey to give Penn an early 3-0 lead. While Army’s Brian Harvey managed to best Wukie to knot the score at three apiece, a win by Thomas opened the way for a dominant streak for the Quakers. SEE WRESTLING PAGE 9 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640