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U. investigates admin’s Ph.D.

Greek life official Kenny Jones may have faked degree LILY ZANDI Staff Reporter

Associate Director for Community Development Kenny Jones,

whose academic credentials came into question on Monday, also admitted to not having a doctorate degree, Penn State University’s independent student-run blog Onward State reported earlier this week.

Doubt over Jones’ academic

credentials arose after Onward State retracted a Jan. 14 article about Jones’ visit to Penn State.

According to the retraction, he requested the blog remove all references to his Ph.D. degree from Morgan State University and affiliation with the Phi Beta Sigma

fraternity from the article.

Penn State’s Interfraternity and Panhellenic councils invited Jones to speak about his upbringing and his experiences as a gay African American man rushing Phi SEE DEGREE PAGE 7

BRINGING THEM

BACK Dunphy, Bilsky headline return of Big 5 doubleheader COLE JACOBSON Associate Sports Editor

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The Palestra

For the latter half of the 20th century, the Philadelphia Big 5 made its home at the Palestra, with five men’s basketball Division I teams annually competing against one another at the historically revered arena in what the organization’s website referred to as “college basketball’s biggest, most

envied, unique, and frenetic, intracity rivalry.”

Now, at least for one night, the boys are all back home.

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Mental health conference brings Ivies together

Health reports tell little about severity of violations REMI LEDERMAN Staff Reporter

Conference will feature workshops open to all Penn students KATHLEEN HARWOOD Staff Reporter

With discussions about mental health spreading across the Ivy League, the eight Ivy League universities have decided to come together to address the issue.

“Unmasking the Ivy League: A Conference on Mental Health” will be hosted at Penn from Feb. 12-14. The conference will give student leaders from the eight peer schools a chance to come together to discuss plans of action in light of recent mental health-related tragedies. The conference will be the very first of an annual series.

College senior Mabel Oviedo is the director and founder of the Mental Health Conference Board. After attending several conferences at other Ivy League schools, she saw the need to bring the eight schools together to share ideas and learn from each other.

“I walked away understanding what Penn does well and what Penn does not [do] so well,” she said.

The conference will bring together 10 student leaders from each school — a total of 80 delegates — for nine workshops. Student leaders will be selected from a pool of applicants

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Many restaurants in Philadelphia have been fined for not having hair nets.

Different reports give different ratings to restaurants for the same violations.

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For a Penn student looking to escape the dining halls on a Saturday night, it can be hard deciding where to eat for dinner, especially if a restaurant’s health violations are taken into account. Judging by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s records, nearly every Philly restaurant — from acclaimed eateries like Parc to rowdier outposts like Iztaccihuatl — has a variety of health and safety concerns.

Mouse droppings appear to be the main offender, afflicting restaurants such as Itza, Banana Leaf, La Fontana, The Farmacy and Sabrina’s. For other

I’m going to propose an alternative to a drinking age reduction: drinking licences”

restaurants, popular violations include ineffective hair restraints and inadequate temperature of refrigeration.

Health inspection reports can be difficult for average Americans to navigate and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health does not make the task any easier. Unlike other cities, Philly does not make health standards clear to consumers, and non-governmental reviews of the data is hardly consistent. A Daily Pennsylvanian investigation of the health violations of nine restaurants popular with Penn students — The Farmacy, La Fontana Della Citta, Dim Sum Garden, Iztaccihuatl, Banana Leaf, Sitar, Sabrina’s, La Viola, La Viola West and The Plough & the Stars — found a system without SEE HEALTH CODES PAGE 5

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Behind the scenes and skills of Deborah Harley Harley talks about her past on handling sexual violence SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Deputy News Editor

Veteran Philadelphia lawyer Deborah Harley is no stranger to navigating cases of sexual violence. Now, she is bringing her expertise to Penn.

Starting this semester, Harley will take on the role of sexual violence investigative officer, in which she will oversee all complaints of sexual violence pertaining to the University.

“We’re still ordering furniture,” she said of her new office at 3901 Walnut St. Even in the sparse office, Harley is all business, with a marbled nameplate that would look more at home in a wood-paneled law firm.

Harley’s job covers all aspects of complaints against the University — a Drexel student could even complain about a Penn student, she explained — and determine whether the situation falls under the University’s Sexual Violence, Relationship Violence and Stalking Policy. When she makes that determination from

an initial interview with both the complainant and the respondent, an investigation can begin.

If, however, Harley determines that a complaint does not fall under the University’s specified policies, no further investigations have to be pursued.

Harley took over the relatively new position from Christopher Mallios, who was named the first sexual violence investigative officer last January. When Mallios was elected as a district court judge in November, Harley took over his duties. All open cases he was working on were transferred to her in

their current state.

Harley said she sees her post at Penn as “an extension” of the work that she was doing on a number of different domestic and sexual violence task forces within the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, especially in her collaboration with other departments and agencies to enact change. While on the Mayor’s Task Force on Domestic Violence, she worked with police, courts, advocacy organizations, as well as Penn and Villanova University.

One of their accomplishments

was making police reports for domestic violence victims more accessible and free if victims needed them to get out of a rent contract or be relocated. When Harley worked on the Philadelphia Sexual Assault Advisory Council, her team spearheaded the creation of a sexual violence crisis center to help victims avoid long wait times at hospitals, working closely with Women Organizing Against Rape.

“When you collaborate with other agencies you can address problems more effectively,” she said. “If not all the right people

are at the table it’s harder to solve them.”

As a trial lawyer for domestic and sexual violence cases for nine years, and another nine years as a supervisor, Harley said she has plenty of experience “working to do the right thing” in these complicated cases.

Harley also affirmed Penn’s role in dealing with instances of sexual violence that occur on campus.

“The college has a duty to students and faculty to adhere to its high moral standards,” she said.

“Penn wants to get it right.”

Speed skating Penn student has his eyes on the Olympics Benjamin Oh finds balance with the ice and classes CHERRY ZHI Staff Reporter

College sophomore Benjamin Oh sits at the back of the coffee shop wearing a bright red Penn hockey sweater, calmly looking over his phone as he sits back, relaxed and comfortable.

From the looks of things, one wouldn’t expect him to be preparing for a final exam that afternoon.

One also wouldn’t expect him to be a nationally-ranked, competitive, short-track speed skater shooting for the Olympic team. After only six seasons, he has already been a national champion in his age group and is going to his second international competition representing the United States.

“Ben is a fierce competitor, and you wouldn’t necessarily know it from looking at him,” College sophomore and varsity fencer Arabella Uhry said.

“He has this really warm smile and loud rhythmic laugh that makes you realize he’s ... one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet,” College sophomore Alicia Lu said. “The guy you see on the ice [though] is all business, seriousness and excellence.”

Oh started playing hockey when he was eight years old, and his steady, fair and observant nature allowed him to emerge as a natural leader within his team, Oh’s mother Anna Rhee said.

After watching the 2010 Winter Olympics, Oh decided to try short track speed skating and took to it naturally. “It was very enjoyable coaching Benjamin ... because he is a very fast learner,” Oh’s coach Hyun Jung Lee said. “A skater must know

how to react quickly and think of a good strategy within a short amount of time.”

Speed skating has two forms: short track and long track, with short track taking place on an Olympic-sized hockey rink with a 111-meter track. Oh chose short track because of its fast speeds.

“Short track is so unpredictable. Anything can happen,” he said. “In the 2002 Winter Olympics, Steven Bradbury won the 1,000-meter event after all of the other skaters crashed in the last corner.” Bradbury was the first Australian to win a Winter Olympic gold medal.

This past winter break, Oh competed in the Junior Nationals in Midland, Mich. which was a qualifing competition for the Junior World Championship Team. As the reigning national champion in his age group, it was his last year competing in the Junior Division.

“I made a lot of mistakes on the first day and fell three times.

After the first day, I wasn’t in a position to qualify,” Oh said.

After hurting his knee during the first day of races, he went into the second day of races in sixth place, Uhry explained.

“With the pressure of only one weekend of races to determine whether he’d represent the U.S., he came through placing very high in other races to make up for the deficit of day one.”

Oh attributes luck to this turnaround, but Uhry, a fellow student athlete, recognizes Oh’s mental grit. “Not everyone can pick themselves up so easily after doing not as well as expected and have the mental calmness and perseverance to push through,” she said.

Oh ended up qualifying for the team, saying that “it was my proudest moment on the rink”, and is determined to represent

the United States well.

As an athlete outside Penn’s varsity system, Oh must coordinate his own workouts and training schedule. “Last semester I went home [to Burtonsville, Maryland] every other weekend for on-ice training and worked out twice a day for up to three hours at a time,” Oh said.

Oh has greater flexibility in scheduling his training in comparison to Penn varsity athletes, but he must balance the pressure of school and skating without always having the mutual understanding between these two commitments.

“It’s really frustrating because speed skating is such a small sport and most speed skaters move to Salt Lake City after high school to train and only go to college part time,” Oh said. “Our organization doesn’t really focus on school as a priority so scheduled meets often conflict with school ...

Last semester I had to miss two finals.”

This contrasts with the varsity experience. “Being an athlete at Penn, I have a huge support system with my coaches and teammates. They help me handle a lot of my academic and athletic stress,” Uhry said.

On top of academics and athletics, Oh must also balance extracurriculars. Despite time restraints, Oh plays for the men’s club ice hockey team and is involved in the Penn Taiwanese Society and Korean Students Association, as well as community service groups.

Oh worked at West Philadelphia High School last spring as part of an academically based community service seminar and helped high school juniors with the college application process.

Oh was committed to mentoring his student until he finished up his applications, even though

Oh had no academic obligation to do so, explained Theresa Simmonds, a coordinator at the Netter Center for Community Partnerships.

“Benjamin demonstrated a very high level of concern for his student at all times,” Simmonds said. “His dedication to his student would have been admirable on its own; given the additional combination of his rigorous training program and his studies, it is especially so.”

While his peers are busy looking for summer internships, Oh said that he tries not to let the pre-professional culture at Penn get to him. “My schedule is completely different from a lot of people’s so I don’t let it stress me out too much,” he said.

Currently undeclared, Oh plans on majoring in philosophy, politics and economics and thinks he will stop speed skating after 2018, but not until he tries out for the Olympic qualifiers in December 2017.

“It’s all up in the air right now,” Oh said. “But people who have my best interests in mind help me make the best decision whenever I doubt myself.”

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After only six seasons of short track speed skating, College sophomore Benjamin Oh has already been national champion.

The Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton presents the 15th Annual

Real Estate Career Fair Friday, January 29, 2016 Houston Hall 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Open to all students–grad and undergrad–who are interested in real estate.

Meet industry professionals: development, finance, management, and more.

A great opportunity to find summer intern or full-time positions in the field.

Questions? Contact Ron Smith: smithrk@wharton.upenn.edu; 215-746-4709.

The Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center gratefully acknowledges the Jeff T. Blau Endowment for Student Placement, which has helped make this event possible.

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OPINION Licensed to Swill Fair Enough | A compromise proposal for drinking reform

Wednesday JANUARY 20, 2016 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 118 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor

It would be pointless for me to write a column arguing that the United States should lower the national minimum drinking age to 18 for two reasons.

First, it would be pointless because this is Penn, and the proposal would likely be so uncontroversial among whatever readership I have that it would verge on being a waste of time.

Secondly, despite the long list of valid arguments that every college freshman in the United States can probably recite from memory, lowering the drinking age just isn’t going to happen. 18 to 20 year olds simply don’t vote in large enough numbers to motivate legislators.

The electoral wrath of the hoards of hand-wringing parents, who seem to think that if the drinking age was lowered, every one of their children would be killed by a drunk driver within 24 hours, would be ferocious. Meanwhile, 21­ to 35 year olds are too busy drinking to care.

And so, in the perhaps

quixotic hope of introducing a fresh idea into a stale debate, I’m going to propose an alternative to a drinking age reduction: drinking licenses.

Much as they do for operating motor vehicles, states could issue licenses to consume alcohol to individuals on a case-by-case basis.

Beginning at eighteen, or perhaps even a year or two earlier with parental consent, would-be drinkers could apply for a license to purchase and consume alcohol.

They could be required to demonstrate knowledge of the risks of alcohol consumption, responsible drinking habits, the basic signs and science of intoxication and alcohol poisoning, the legal limit to drive and, for all I care, proper bar etiquette and how to mix a decent Old Fashioned.

To my mind, such an alcohol licensing system has no flaw that licensing drivers doesn’t have and has considerable advantages over the current system

and perhaps even over a flat 18-year minimum age.

And here’s another great thing about licenses: they’re revocable. Today, a 45-year-old felon with a history of drunk-driving and alcohol-fueled assaults is free to purchase liquor, while a 20-year old Marine with no history of alcohol misuse is not. That seems to me to make very little sense.

or less a civil libertarian, the prospect of this particular government licensing program doesn’t really bother me. Heresy, I know. Drinking has never been considered an absolute right, to the point that many American municipalities — mostly county governments in Alaska and the Deep South — outlaw it completely.

I’m going to propose an alternative to a drinking age reduction: drinking licenses.”

Under a “drinking license” system, courts could impose license suspension or conditional revocation on dangerous drinkers, just as they routinely do for dangerous drivers.

And although I’m more

I suppose there is some potential for abuse, but I really can’t see there being too much risk of vindictive totalitarian county clerks revoking drinking licenses from their political opponents. If anything, I’d think ensuring detractors

stay sober would be selfdefeating for any potential drinking license tyrant.

And speaking of libertarians, a successful licensing system would be a strong argument in the ongoing debate about whether or not to legalize certain recreational drugs.

A similar program to license consumption of marijuana might be an acceptable compromise (heresy again!) between hardline prohibitionists and those pushing Colorado-style blanket legalization, both of which have obvious downsides.

Drinking age reform used to be something of a common cause among university presidents, who witness firsthand the havoc which the federallymandated 21-year drinking age wreaks on college campuses every year. 137 of them signed onto a proposal called the Amethyst Initiative, which called for lowering the drinking age to 18.

Though the initiative first drew some national media attention, no polit-

Alec Ward ical progress has been made toward repealing the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which makes a significant portion of states’ federal highwaymaintenance funding conditional on having a 21-year drinking age. For President Gutmann and college presidents nationwide, pushing for reform under any alternative system would be a mantle well worth taking up again.

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

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Penn Sustainability Review | How divestment from fossil fuels on campuses becomes personal

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With Penn recently considering divestment from fossil fuels, yet another college now questions the propriety of investing its endowments based on ethical inclinations. Penn has announced that starting in March, a specially formed committee will convene to reconsider its position on holding fossil fuel related assets in its portfolio.

Several university committees including Stanford’s have successfully pushed their administration to sell all of their assets linked to fossil fuels, but still more, namely Harvard, Yale and Cornell have outright rejected the idea of divestment.

We are now approximately a month past the resolution of the United Nations’ climate change conference COP 21 in Paris, which concluded with an agreement to limit the 196 attending countries’ greenhouse emissions. More specifically, the agreement aims to allow the global temperature to only rise two degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

Despite these governmental agreements, environmental activists still turn to other vessels of authority in

their concern over climate change. Universities, sitting on hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in endowments, are of a high level of interest in the divestment cause.

A pro-divestment group named Fossil Free, for example, has made universities one of its goals. Fossil Free helps anyone start a divestment campaign at their university and has set up divestment campaigns at countless universities already, including the University of Pennsylvania. Fossil Free Penn’s petition to President Gutmann calls “to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil-fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds.”

However, even if Penn and other universities were to sell all of their fossil-fuel related assets, their financial divestments would not have a large impact on the companies responsible for production of greenhouse emissions.

A similar situation presented itself when universities divested from South African companies to voice

their disapproval of the Apartheid system. Stock prices on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange soared during periods of intense political pressure. According to research done in the aftermath of the Apartheid crisis, prices were not affected by divestment due to the elasticity of the diverse international demand for stocks.

of divestment reaches farther in terms of the attention these issues get from university councils and administrators.

Especially if we consider universities like Penn to be the vanguard of intellectual leadership, the social clout obtained through changing school policies is definitely something worth fighting

Much of the hope for divestment rests on the expectation that it will spread awareness on climate change .”

That said, divestment still has noble intentions. Most proponents of divestment realize the strategy’s small potential for financial impact, especially in the case of universities. Much of the hope for divestment rests on the expectation that it will spread awareness of climate change and the detriments of emitting of greenhouse gases into the Earth’s atmosphere.

For proponents at universities, the social phenomenon

for. Much like the shantytowns that appeared on Dartmouth’s and many other universities’ college greens to protest the Apartheid system in South Africa, the staged sit-ins and blockades of administration buildings have embodied the divestment movement.

Pro-divestment students at Harvard earlier this year complained about their marginalization after administrators berated their protest tac-

tics in the school newspaper.

At Yale, after a divestment proposal was turned down, students trespassed to hold a sit-in and were later arrested.

On the campuses where dissent has flourished, the visible characteristics of protest make the fossil fuel divestment movement seem less like a financial referendum and more like a social movement. It seems counterintuitive that divestment, which solely pertains to a school’s financial portfolio, is not just a business decision. Divestment on campuses has become political, deep-seated and downright personal. However, it does not have to be.

Aside from a handful of universities, most institutions including Penn have not yet weighed in on the fossil fuel divestment debate.

Penn certainly has not succumbed to the throes of an environmentalist uprising, and I doubt that starting one would facilitate the productive dialogue that we actually yearn for. If we truly want informed debate to flourish, stirring up adversarial sentiment will do nothing.

While we play around with one of the largest uni-

Penn Sustainability Review versity endowments in the United States, masquerading as financiers and climatologists seems like the opposite of propriety. Possessing an unbridled passion for issues has its place; however, for divestment, we should turn our fervor to learning more about it first.

As the University seriously considers divestment from fossil fuels, the usual flurry of meetings, panels and speaker events will commence. I cannot help but think, what a time for us Penn students to educate ourselves.

Francis Leong is a College sophomore studying math. His email address is francisgleong@gmail. com. Penn Sustainability Review (PSR) is the first and only sustainability-focused publication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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navigable guidelines, no basis for reasonable comparison between restaurants and unreliable oversight.

Overtasked and under-resourced: Inspections of Philly’s more than 10,000 food establishments are carried out by a 31-person staff of inspectors and an undisclosed amount of supervisors, according to the Department of Public Health Director of Communications Jeff Moran.

A Philadelphia Inquirer article from Jan. 2015 pinned the number of supervisors at ten, the current number could not be confirmed.

The Health Department will ideally inspect every food establishment — including restaurants, school and hospital cafeterias and movie theaters — at least once a year. Moran said this number varies since some establishments receive visits from inspectors more frequently, due to followups after violations, and some establishments receive them less frequently.

“You will never pass 100 percent. No restaurant ever does.

You are going to find one small violation,” said John Lewis, the general manager of Iztaccihuatl, a popular South Philadelphia Mexican restaurant.

Journalists who have studied the health ratings system agree that the system can often be weighted against the restaurants.

“It is impossible to pass an inspection by getting no violations,” said Ryan Briggs, a journalist who has reported on health violations for City Paper, a former alternative weekly newspaper, and compiled a user-friendly database of ratings citywide.

“It is designed so that if the city wants to give you trouble, they can do it,” he added.

Each restaurant gets an inspection and a re-inspection for free each year. They are usually given 30 days to correct the violation, but if they fail the re-inspection, the restaurant is charged $315 for each subsequent visit. After the third failed inspection the case is

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referred to the legal department where the government can then take the establishment owners to court over the sanitation issues.

“When we go into an establishment, what we see is what we write,” health inspector Jayatirtha Holavanahhlli said. “If I see a roach going across the front table where a guy is working, we will shut them down.”

While the Health Department does have the authority to halt operations or pursue legal action due to unsanitary conditions, Moran said those situations are very rare since in most of these cases the restaurants will close voluntarily.

“When you look at restaurants that are doing a very good job,” Briggs said, “they are still getting violations every single time.”

Varied reports, unhelpful data: All health inspection reports in Philadelphia are accessible to the public on the city’s Office of Food Protection website. Health violations are categorized as risk-based or good retail practices. If a food establishment receives a risk-based violation — something that could lead to a disease — they fail the inspection. Restaurants are written up for violating good retail practices — a less serious infraction — but do not necessarily receive a reinspection.

Good hygiene practices are a risk-based regulation, so it may seem like La Fontana Della Citta is unsanitary since they received a violation last year for kitchen employees not wearing proper hair restraints. However, Parc, a critically acclaimed restaurant in Rittenhouse Square, received the same violation last year. Instances like this can make it very difficult for consumers to decipher between serious and common violations.

“The way the city does it now is probably deliberately hard to interpret,” Briggs said. “Regardless of how effective [the health inspections are], it wasn’t easy for the average person to process.”

To help patrons make sense of these reports, outside organizations, such as Philadelphia City Paper, the website Tisk and an app called What the Health, have

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The Farmacy, off Spruce and 44th, has received ratings ranging from an A to an F. Other restaurants have received similarly varied ratings across different reporting platforms including What the Health, City Paper and Tisked.

been developed to interpret what the inspection reports mean in layman’s terms. The sites assign points to each violation and determine the number of stars or letter grade the restaurant will receive based on how high or low they score on their inspections.

“The core information itself is ambiguous so, therefore, you are going to reach different conclusions analyzing ambiguous data,” Briggs said. “You are trying to decipher the city’s own ambiguous rubric for judging these restaurants.”

Even though some of these tools were created with the help of food-safety consultants, it is hard to ascertain the credibility of these resources considering they are compiled anonymously and they all contradict. While The Farmacy, a restaurant on Spruce Street near 44th received a four star rating (out of five) from City Paper and an A on Tisk, the restaurant got an F on What the Health. Similarly, Sabrina’s, a popular brunch spot on Powelton near 34th, got an A on What

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the Health and a B on Tisk, but received a poor review from City Paper which gave the restaurant only two stars.

The greatest disparity can be seen with Dim Sum Garden which got a C on What the Health, an A on Tisk and 3 stars from City Paper. These contradictions leave consumers with no reliable rating to trust.

No easy access: If the violations as listed online weren’t confusing enough, clarifying any discrepancies between ratings is even more difficult.

During the DP’s two-week investigation, no investigator or health department official was readily available for comment.

Of the seven inspectors responsible for reviewing the nine restaurants chosen by the DP, only one, Jayatirtha Holavanahhlli, agreed to an interview.

Another inspector, Wale Davis, received seven calls over the course of three days, but his office staff said he was either unavailable to speak or asked to

delay the interview until another time.

After reaching Davis’ office, Director of Environmental Health Services Palak Raval-Nelson directed comment to Moran.

He refused to be recorded when reached by phone and asked that all interview questions be sent by email. He also said all the information asked for was on the Office of Public Health website.

Aside from the database of inspection reports, there are four sources of information on the Office of Public Health website: a guide to health inspection reports, which explains the risk-based and good retail practices violations but never ranks the severity of violations, a two-page information document that summarizes the guide, three Frequently Asked Questions of which only one is targeted towards consumers — a question about food poisoning — and a 149-page legal document that explains every violation in detail, but again, does not rank which violations are more serious than others.

Other cities’ solutions: This lack of consumer transparency in Philadelphia has been easily resolved in other cities where the Health Department rates restaurants themselves with easily understood designations.

New York City and Los Angeles use the letter grading system of A through C and require restaurants to display their rating so it is visible to patrons.

In New Jersey, restaurants are rated as satisfactory or conditionally satisfactory based on their health inspection report.

Toronto requires food establishments to place a red, yellow or green plaque outside their door to alert customers to their sanitation status.

These measures ensure that consumers understand which restaurants are sanitary and how sanitary they are. Those dining in Philadelphia don’t have the same luxury.

When asked what violations consumers should be wary of, Holavanahhlli said, “It is up to the patrons to decide.”

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Hacker gurus hit the stage in PennApps XIII

The mentor system hopes to promote coding community SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

Yoda isn’t the only master guru people are talking about this winter season.

This weekend marks the 13th iteration of PennApps — the largest collegiate hackathon in the country — and with a new year, the competition is bringing in major new changes. PennApps, which takes place from Friday to Sunday, pits individual hackers and teams of up to four people in a 36-hour race against the clock to create innovative new hardware and software focusing on topics ranging from humor to health.

After relocating to Wells Fargo last year, PennApps XIII is returning to campus in order to create a more close-knit feel for the competition. As part of this emphasis on a intimate environment, PennApps is also adding other experimental changes to create a community atmosphere — its new Hacker Guru mentorship program.

T h rough the updated

application process, hackers with high levels of experience can now sign up as Hacker Gurus — mentors to new hackers and hackers with relatively less experience. Gurus are then matched with teams that they assist throughout the duration of PennApps.

“PennApps throughout its history has always had a focus on learning ... and the Hacker Guru System is another spin on that,” said Rajan Patel, a member of the outreach committee at PennApps. “What we wanted to do was introduce even more incentive to people who have never coded before to participate in our event and apply.”

Patel himself never had any prior coding background — he didn’t even know what a hackathon was before PennApps — but he came to the competition last year to support friends.

He thought experiencing the creative atmosphere was so meaningful, even as a spectator, that he decided to join the PennApps committee to help organize and spread the word on the competition.

He said that going to Penn was a major reason he was able

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to find out about PennApps and become involved despite his non-technical background.

He believes the new Hacker Guru system will be a great way to involve people like him from

outside of Penn as well.

“The committee in previous years has seen people who can’t come up with an idea or go through with an idea because they don’t have the prior

knowledge to do so, and [the Hacker Guru system] gives them a way to get the knowledge that they need to make sure their idea gets out there ... It gives them an opportunity to build something

they’ve always wanted to build,” Patel said.

PennApps XIII is expecting around 1,200 participants this year, hailing from 133 universities across 13 countries, in contrast to around over 2,000 participants from last year.

Despite the decrease in size, Patel believes there will be no shortage of ideas.

“Even through we don’t have as many people numerically, I think it’s going to be just as powerful. With so many people there and so many ideas floating around, we’re still going to be achieving the things that we’ve always done with PennApps, and that’s creating really great software and pieces of technology that can benefit society,” Patel said.

Patel hopes that PennApps will be able to grow in resources and support so that it can return to larger venues like Wells Fargo and still provide an intimate and shared experience for hackers even at a larger scale.

The competition will conclude this Sunday with a science fair expo where members of the public can view and try out inventions.

Restaurant Week finally returns after absence in fall semester Events were moved due to papal visit in September TIFFANY YAU Contributing Reporter

Though many Penn students got to see Pope Francis last fall, they missed out on another cultural experience that was moved to accommodate the visit — Philadelphia’s biannual Restaurant Week.

As a result, this month’s Restaurant Week, which takes place from Jan. 17 through 22 and 24 through 29, has become especially anticipated by students.

Popular among students from Penn and other Philadelphia universities, Restaurant Week promotes the flourishing food culture that Philadelphia has to offer through discounted menus.

While students were not able to participate last semester because of Pope Francis’ visit, there is all the more excitement for this semester’s event.

“I would say it’s a very exciting time for students. I think it’s great that more students are going to be able to participate," Penn Appétit editor and College and Wharton junior Chase Matecun said. “And in some ways, Restaurant Week

serves as a social event. It’s more of an event in the eyes of many Penn students a chance to hang out with their friends and to take advantage of some of the good deals to get food.”

College junior and Penn Appétit editor Elena Crouch said that the discounts restaurants give are offset by requiring customers to order multiple courses.

“I never order three things at a restaurant, so it would be more expensive than it normally would be," she said.

Matecun said that restaurants offer fewer choices during Restaurant Week in order to cater to

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“In my mind, it may not be the exact same experience as it normally would be,” he said.

Many of Penn’s freshmen will have their first Philadelphia Restaurant Week experiences this week.

“I think Restaurant Week is extremely exciting for the Philadelphia community, especially for freshmen because many of us come from places way outside of Penn and have not had [the] experience of trying many of the diverse foods that Philly has to offer, one reason being the dining

plan,” College freshman Janet Zhang said. “Restaurant Week really encourages students to go out and explore the city that we live in.”

While it is a greatly anticipated event among freshmen, it still remains a highlight for upperclassmen — especially Penn Appétit’s staff. Crouch is determined to attend not only for the deals, but also for the experience itself.

“I already have plans for Restaurant Week with my friends.

There is definitely more hype [surrounding this week],” she said.

She added that Restaurant Week is a good way to get students out exploring the city and hopefully encourage them to venture out during the rest of the year as well.

“A lot of students need that extra push to get them out into the city and get into the city, but I would encourage people to go out whenever they feel like it with friends, and not just limit it to Restaurant Week,” she said. “I think you can get almost equally as good of a deal at most of the places no matter when you go. It’s a good opportunity for people to branch out and try new things.”

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The first day will feature a series of meet-and-greets and icebreakers, followed by a second day of workshops. The conference will begin with a session entitled “State of the Ivy League Student,” which will include brief presentations from each of the schools discussing the state of mental wellness on their various campuses. Representatives from Fox Leadership will then facilitate discussion between the proceeding workshops.

Oviedo explained that “Workshop 1: Cultural Identity” and “Workshop 2: Gender and Sexual Identity” were planned with the intention of demonstrating how mental health affects different communities within student bodies. Both sessions will be open to Penn students.

Dior Vargas, a Latina mental health activist and creator of the People of Color and Mental

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“It is so exciting to see a common desire for change between Ivy Leaguers,” Oviedo said.

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Throughout his speech, Jones detailed the hazing and ridicule that he was subjected to while pledging.

Director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Eddie Banks-Crosson did not respond to multiple requests for comment by email and phone. A spokesperson for the Division of the Vice Provost for University Life, which oversees OFSL, later wrote in an emailed statement, “This is a very serious matter that is under internal investigation.”

VPUL declined to comment any further on the case.

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JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor

This year’s Commencement speech will be delivered by the “10 dollar founding father” — or at least the man who plays him.

Award-winning composer, playwright and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda will deliver the Commencement address to the Class of 2016 at the May 16 ceremony. This year, Miranda has gained international recognition for his Broadway musical “Hamilton,” which he wrote, and in which he currently stars as the title character, Alexander Hamilton.

The musical, which is currently running at the Richard Rodgers Theater in New York City, is almost

entirely sold out through August.

In a statement, President Amy Gutmann announced her enthusiasm for the choice. “We are honored to bestow our highest degree on Lin-Manuel Miranda and have him speak at Penn’s 260th Commencement,” she said. “Miranda is one of the most innovative and stunningly brilliant artistic voices of and for our time.”

After the announcement was made on Twitter and via Penn News Today, Miranda tweeted, “Looks like I’ll be up scribbling all night May 15! Thanks for having me, Penn.”

A 2015 recipient of the MacArthur Grant, also known as the “Genius grant,” Miranda first gained recognition for his musical “In the Heights” about the New York City neighborhood Washington Heights, where he grew up. The

show received a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2009 and was a 2009 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama.

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recruits to bolster team JACOB SNYDER Associate Sports Editor

Big expectations are nothing new for Penn’s tennis programs, and both the men’s and women’s team go into this year with high Ivy League finishes in their sights.

Penn women’s tennis finished the 2014-2015 season with three victories in their last four Ivy League matches, including impressive wins against nationally ranked Columbia and Cornell.

These wins signaled definitive improvement in the team, something they will look to carry into this year.

The ending was bittersweet for Coach Sanela Kunovac, who saw two very integral members of the team graduate in

then-seniors Sol Eszenazi and Alexandra Ion. “They both wouldn’t have been as successful without the other,” Kunovac said. “They made each other better both on the court and in the classroom.

We miss their presence for sure.”

Joining the program in their stead will be freshmen OJ Singh and Marta Kowalska.

“It’s very important for both of us to have good first seasons,” Kowalska admitted. “We need to play to our full capacity and get as many wins for the team as we can.”

Coach Kunovac echoed the sentiments of Kowalska, noting the strong play that both young players are exhibiting.

“Marta managed to qualify top 3 for singles, which means she will play a huge role for us,” Kunovac said. “For a freshman to place that highly means a whole lot.”

“OJ is a top 100 junior in the world,” Kunovac continued.

“Most of those players end up trying to be professional players, and we have her here at Penn.

Her contribution for our doubles team is clutch.”

On the men’s side, the key to a successful season seems to lie simply in the health of the squad.

Coach David Geatz has bemoaned his team’s rotten luck with injuries the past couple seasons, and figures that if the team can stay injury-free, it can be something special.

“We would’ve won Ivies last year if our top players didn’t get hurt,” Geatz said. “We had the highest ranking a Penn men’s team has ever had, but when our top guys went down, things unraveled a bit.”

The most notable of the injuries Geatz is referencing was to team captain Vim De Alwis, who led the Quakers to a 10-1

record before being sidelined with a torn meniscus.

Geatz is looking to De Alwis, back for his final year, to have a healthy senior season and lead Penn to the elusive Ivy League title.

Additional reason for Geatz’s optimism rests in the spectacular play of freshman Kyle Mautner as well as the talent in fellow freshman Dmitry Shatalin.

“Kyle is easily one of the top four players in the Ivy League right now, even as a freshman,” Geatz said. “And Dmitry is going to be a very good player for us. Both work very hard, and both will contribute this season.”

With the new freshmen performing at impressively high levels and experienced players returning to health, the sky truly is the limit for both of these talented teams.

“The goal is the same every year,” Geatz said. “We always

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want to win the Ivy League and make the NCAA’s. I think this year’s team is the best we’ve had in a while, and I think we can do it.”

Kunovac took it one step further.

“My goals for this program

actually have increased with every year,” Kunovac said. “We are always getting better, and I recognize that.”

“We know we can do it, it’s just up to the players to play the best Penn tennis that we know they can play.”

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Qualifying for Kickoff Weekend is an honor for any team, and the Quakers are excited about what the preseason expectations say about the state of their program going forward.

“I think qualifying for Kickoff Weekend says a lot about our team,” Kunovac said. “We learned we qualified in the summer so when the team came back, they came with a little extra focus and a chip on their shoulder because others recognized we are good enough to compete with the best. I think it had an effect on their inner confidence and swagger on court.”

This early test will show how the Red and Blue stack up against the very best schools in the country. A successful weekend could mean that the Quakers have arrived as force to be reckoned with on the national stage.

While the 2015 season did not have the storybook ending the Red and Blue hoped it would, the team is no less motivated this year, and the players know they have the potential to be one of the top ranked teams in the nation if they stay healthy.

“We have big hopes for the team and we don’t need to get lucky to do really well, all we have to do is not get unlucky,” Geatz said. “All we have to do is stay injury-free. Keep our best guys in the lineup, and we will keep playing well.”

Geatz hopes to repeat their historic start again—all with the hopes of finishing strong and redeeming last year’s performance.

“We would like to finish as one of the top 40 teams in the country. We would like to be the first team in Penn history to qualify for the NCAA tournament, that’s our goal.”

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executive director Steve Bilsky, a “Big 5 Classic� doubleheader will return to 33rd Street tonight in a celebratory event to honor the 60th anniversary of the group’s inception. Temple and La Salle will tip off the evening with a 7 p.m. showdown nationally televised by CBS Sports Network, with Saint Joseph’s and the hosts following up with a 9:30 p.m. battle to be broadcast by the Ivy League Digital Network “This is how Philadelphia first fell in love with college basketball, by seeing two great games and four great teams in one night in what I think is the most intimate setting to watch a game, the Palestra,� firstyear Penn coach Steve Donahue said. “It should be an incredible evening for college basketball fans, and we are so excited to be a part of it.�

Technically speaking, it’s only been slightly more than two years since Penn most recently hosted a Big 5 doubleheader, as the aforementioned four teams faced off in the same order in January 2014.

However, that event was facilitated

by ESPN’s “College GameDay,� resulting in it not being considered an “official� doubleheader by local coaches.

Tonight’s pair of games marks the first such arrangement actually

organized by the Big 5 since December 2004, and the historical significance of the night won’t be limited to the active athletes on the floor. “There’s going to be people from all five schools coming back, representing each of the decades, and they’re going to be honored during different timeouts,� Penn Director of Athletic Communications Mike Mahoney said. “The ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s will be represented during the first game, and then the ‘80s, ‘90s and 2000s will be done during the second game, so that adds a little bit of spice to it. “It’s going to be a big night.�

Although there were mild inconveniences in scheduling the event — with the necessity of La Salle conceding one of its home games being the most obvious — these were easily canceled out by the immense passion from coaches and athletic directors in support of the throwback event. “Big 5 games in the Palestra are some of the best experiences I have had in coaching,� La Salle coach John Giannini told the Philadelphia Daily News when the doubleheader was initially announced to the public in July 2015. “The great competition, the venue, the tradition, the rivalries, and the loud, passionate, split crowds create a most unique environment.�

“When I assumed the position of [Big 5] executive director, the athletic directors asked me to create ideas that will build the brand and visibility of the Big 5. This is the first example, and I hope there will be more,� Bilsky added. “There is difficulty from the fact all five schools have different institutional priorities and conference commitments, and balancing that is a greater challenge than it once was, but it’s important that the younger generation develops an affinity for the Big 5, or its future will be nebulous.�

Reigniting Interest While the optimism surrounding the event from those directly involved is understandable, it’s no secret that the student passion for Penn Athletics — and basketball, in particular — has decreased since the glory days of the Big 5 in decades past. NCAA statistics show that the Quakers averaged 3,141 fans per home game during the 2014-15 season, their lowest mark since the 1990-91 season — Donahue’s first as an assistant coach for Penn. Thus far in 2015-16, the undesirable trend has only been exacerbated, with the Red and Blue down to an average attendance of 2,656. “I think the issue for us is twofold; first is the process of paying the right way, playing an exciting brand of basketball where fans recognize that they’re playing hard, there’s grit and there’s excitement,� Donahue said. “Then, the fact of the matter is you have to be successful. Students want to get behind winners. “We know that, and what we would ask is that while we’re trying to build this into a championship program, people come out and support us because we play an exciting brand of basketball and we are very, very competitive.�

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Coming Home Aided by La Salle’s transportation efforts, the Palestra — recently highlighted as the most “Hallowed Hall� in college basketball history in an NCAA video feature — should already be rocking for the opening matchup, which will pit the Explorers (5-10, 0-2 Big 5) against the heavily favored Owls (9-7, 1-1).

If La Salle has a chance of pulling off the “home� upset, it will likely come at the hands of star shooting guard Jordan Price, who ranks 14th in the nation with 21.9 points per game. “Every time I get the chance to coach at the Palestra, I’m humbled,� said Dunphy, the former Penn and current Temple coach who already owns a win in the arena this season from when his Owls won a 77-73 thriller over Penn in December. “For 17 years, I had the keys to the front door and basically ran the place. It’s always a little bit weird

going back and not being in the home locker room like I was for so long, but we embrace the opportunity whenever it comes along.�

Immediately afterwards, the Red and Blue (6-8, 1-2) will take the floor, looking to seal their first .500 season in Big 5 play since 2007. Although the Hawks (14-3, 1-1) represented Penn’s lone Big 5 win a year ago, the team has remarkably improved since, as combo forwards Isaiah Miles and DeAndre Bembry have led the team to its best seventeen-game start since future pros Jameer Nelson and Delonte West led the 2003-04 squad to an unbeaten regular season and NCAA Elite Eight appearance. “Those guys have been terrific — Miles in particular because we didn’t see this coming after three years of just okay basketball,� Donahue said. “They’re both difficult matchups for anybody, so we’re going to have to do it as a team, in transition and in the half-court, both offensively and defensively, wherever those two are at.�

Ultimately, while tonight’s results might shake up local bragging rights for a bit, the hope is that the historical significance of the evening could make an impact for generations to come. “We have such a unique product here, and I think all five schools realize that this just doesn’t happen in any other city,� Donahue said. “If we can somehow keep at least one of these events every year, where somebody can come in the gym and see four high-level Division I teams play in one night, there’s nothing like it.�

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While filling the Palestra seats has been an issue for Penn in recent years, the arena will have some help in tonight’s event. Each of the four competing schools will be given a

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— five of which came during Donahue’s tenure as an assistant — the tides have unfortunately turned for the Red and Blue program, which has secured zero tournament berths and only one winning season in the time since. The lack of wins led tostudent interest to dwindle and since the start of the 2013-14 season, “The Line� has disappeared. “I really think we can restore that old fan passion, but we have to create a reason for the students to get into it more,� Donahue said. “The main reason why there are basketball programs is not just for us to play, but for the students to have a better college experience, but we have to create the demand.�

Success and attendance may go hand-in-hand for Donahue’s squad, but the former has become increasingly difficult in an Ivy League that has rapidly gained national attention for more than its academic renown.

The Ancient Eight has finished in the top 15 Division I basketball conferences in three of the past five seasons according to college basketball guru Jerry Palm’s Conference RPI — a feat which it only accomplished once in the prior 16 years in which Palm released data.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2016

Quakers not disheartened by departure of Sol W. TENNIS | Talented

freshmen must step up

TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

The Quakers want to be the Ivy League’s top team for the first time in nine years, but they’ll have to do it without the top player in program history.

Sol Eskenazi, who became the program’s most decorated player ever with eight All-Ivy awards in her four years at Penn, graduated last spring.

“It’s funny because she’s not around in [that] she’s not on campus, but she is constantly in touch with us,” coach Sanela Kunovac said. “I think I talk to her almost as much now as I did before. The only difference is I don’t get to see her daily at practice.”

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The 14 wins the Red and Blue accrued last season were the most since 2006, a feat that contributed to the program’s highest ever national ranking at No. 39 leading into conference play last year.

For Geatz’s Penn experience though, the road has been unpredictably rough, the ride too long and the reward not yet enough.

“I thought we’d get there quicker,” Geatz said. “That’s what I was hoping.”

According to the Albert G. Molloy Head Coach of Men’s

graduation, it’s Kunovac, who graduated from Penn in 2004 and has served as the head coach of the women’s team since 2009.

But the coach knows that Eskenazi being in touch isn’t the same as her being on the court.

“Sol is the type of player and type of person that is irreplaceable. So it’s not about how to replace her, it’s about how to go about building on the culture she has left behind. A player like Sol comes across every once in a while, she’s not someone you can have every year.”

Making up for Eskenazi’s production will have to be a team effort. This year’s Penn team boasts just two new additions, but both freshmen have very impressive resumes. OJ Singh enters Penn as one of the top 100 junior players in the world, and Marta Kowalska, the former top-ranked under-18 player in Poland, has multiple national championships to her name.

“The two of them have amazing backgrounds and great credentials,” Kunovac said.

“Neither of their roles is to replace Sol, but to find their own place on the team. They’re very athletic, very responsible, they work very hard, and they’re tremendous teammates.”

The team will not only miss Eskenazi’s talent, but her leadership as well. After the graduations of Eskenazi and co-captain Alex Ion, the team has just three upperclassmen: senior Sonya Latycheva and juniors Kana Daniel and Luba Vazhenina.

And there is much work to be done. Penn is coming off a season in which they finished fifth in the Ancient Eight at 3-4 after winning three of their final four contests. The team hasn’t posted a winning conference record since 2008 and hasn’t claimed the league title since 2007. What are the team’s expectations for the upcoming

campaign? Kunovac broke down the road ahead into three parts.

“We’re looking for January to the end of March to really sharpen up our skills and to push different doubles combinations, and really to push everyone, almost to the breaking point, so that we see where our weaknesses are and what we need to fix.”

“Then the second part of the season is the Ivy League, and I think our expectation is to contend for the title. And the third segment of the season is, we intend to qualify for NCAAs,” the coach continued.

“I think we’ve got the talent, and more importantly than that, we’ve got the hunger and the hard work, the players are really willing to work for it. They’re the ones who are volunteering to do extra work, they’re the ones chasing our coaches for extra help, and that’s a very good indicator of what’s to come.”

Tennis, last season’s narrative is best explained as the story of two distinct teams: a national tournament contender and a squad plagued by devastating injuries.

“I think we should’ve had the best team Penn ever had last year,” Geatz said. “But the last 20 percent of our year we had a few timely injuries and lost our No. 1 and No. 2 players.”

The new year, however, poses new opportunities, and after an unfortunate 2014-15 campaign marred by timely injuries, Geatz will be desperate for the chance to truly test his program and set out to achieve the goals he entered with.

This season marks the first in which Geatz personally recruited all the players on the roster, a fact that he claims will lead to “an interesting year.”

Geatz closely links a team’s success to the success of its recruiting efforts, and this season’s squad represents some of his best work.

“You have to have good players for sure,” Geatz said. “I think we have the deepest team I’ve had. We also have the most talented team that I’ve had.”

While there may not be a plethora of international talent, high quality American players are extremely well represented.

According to Geatz, each of his

recruits has been either a fivestar or a blue chip player, the two highest classifications in junior tennis.

He gives partial credit to the school’s prestigious academic reputation and facilities for allowing him to recruit more and more talent each year while also reserving gratitude for his current players.

“People come here and say, I think the team is going to get better, and the guys on the team are good guys. They help sell the program,” Geatz said.

“Hopefully we can keep going forward and keep on recruiting.”

As for what “going forward” entails, Geatz seems dissatisfied

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Penn women’s tennis has a tough task this season replacing Sol Eskenazi, the most decorated player in the history of the program.

with cautious progress. His goals for this season are ambitious: to be strong contenders in the Ivy League and be the first team in Penn history to qualify for the NCAA championship tournament.

Should the Quakers avoid the derailing injuries that plagued the team last season, those goals could very well be a reality. But regardless, Geatz recognizes that his time at Penn has been

nothing short of special and is hungry to create a lasting legacy for himself down at Penn Park.

“Things didn’t happen as fast as I wanted them to happen, but every year I’ve been here, I’ve got the opportunity to work with truly great kids,” Geatz said.

“I love the guys on our team.

I think they’re a really special group of guys, and so win or lose, it’s truly been an amazing experience.”

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SPORTS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2016

TENNIS ISSUE Trial by fire down in Alabama

W. TENNIS | Quakers travel south

to Tuscaloosa to kick off season

MATT FINE Associate Sports Editor

To be the best, you have to beat the best.

Penn women’s tennis will have a chance this weekend to start proving that they deserve the exciting expectations surrounding the program for the 2016 season as they travel to compete in the InSATURDAY ternational Tennis Association Kickoff Alabama Weekend.

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The tournament Tuscaloosa, Ala. is reserved only for SUNDAY teams ranked in the Texas/Purdue top 100 in the ITA preseason rankings, TBA and this is the first Tuscaloosa, Ala. time the Red and Blue have ever qualified for the event.

The structure of Kickoff Weekend differs from the average college tennis tournament.

100 teams are split into groups of 4, seeded based on their national rankings. Each group serves as a small, 4-team bracket. The winner of each group qualifies for ITA Division I National Women’s Team Indoor Championship.

Penn, seeded fourth in its group, will head to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to face the topseeded Crimson Tide. Texas and Purdue fill out the rest of the group.

Alabama, ranked No. 15 in the country, will be quite the early season test for the Quakers, who are coming back from winter break confident with how they played in the fall.

“We definitely finished the season really well last semester,” said junior and top singles player Kana Daniel. “We got a couple of our girls in singles ranked and [senior] Sonya Latycheva and I are ranked No. 2 in the region in doubles.

“We are very confident and over the break I could tell that we were all training really hard. We are just focused on improving. We know we are going up against big players this weekend but we are just as confident as they

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PLACES | At every coaching stop, David Geatz has found success M. TENNIS

ANDREW ZHENG Associate Sports Editor

He’s done it many times before, and now it looks like he’s adding another to his tally.

Over a career that spans more than 30 years, David Geatz has amassed a shelf’s worth of accolades and with that, a reputation as one of the league’s most illustrious program builders.

His impact has been felt on tennis teams across the country, and at each stop in his coaching tenure, he has never failed to find success.

In the west, he brought New Mexico — his alma mater — to a top-20 national ranking, earning him NCAA Regional Coach of the Year honors, among other awards.

An 18-year tenure at the head of Minnesota brought the Golden Gophers five Big Ten titles along with a No. 10 national ranking, the highest in the program’s history.

For Geatz, coaching at Penn is not even his first escapade in the Ancient Eight — he spent two seasons at Cornell. The Big Red jumped from sixth to second in the Ivy League after one season with Geatz in charge only to go on to take the title in the year following his departure.

Now entering his fifth season at the helm of the Quakers, Geatz has brought the same expertise to a once struggling program. The team has seen improvement in each year that he has led, with the most recent season being an historic one for Penn.

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Red and Blue looking to right last season’s wrongs M. TENNIS | Ivy play proved

roadblock to success in 2015 ANNA DYER Associate Sports Editor

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Penn men’s tennis started 11-1 last season, but went 0-7 in Ivy league play after losing several key players. Senior captain Vim de Alwis will look to rebound from a knee injury as 2016 gets going.

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If the Golden State Warriors lost Steph Curry and Klay Thompson to injury or other factors tomorrow, do you think anyone would remember their magical 24-0 start?

Most people probably would not.

They would say “a strong finish is worth more than a strong start” or “a season without a ring is just another failure.”

Unfortunately for Penn men’s tennis, the 2015 season — while not a failure by any means — went a lot like such.

After winning its first six matches and continuing on to an 11-1 start, the Red and Blue looked poised for a successful season. In March, the team continued to climb the ITA rankings, reaching 39th in

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the nation, the highest ranking in program history.

The hot start for the Quakers was even more impressive considering the quality opponents they took down en route. Notable victories included a 5-2 win on the road over then-No. 16 Penn State and wins against top 75 teams Utah and Boise State.

With everyone healthy and playing well, the Quakers felt prepared heading into Ivy play. The team was hot and expectations were high.

But things quickly began to go downhill.

First, Penn proceeded to lose its first two Ivy matches to the only two unranked schools in the conference, Princeton and Yale.

While this did not spell the end of the season for the Red and Blue — in general, ITA rankings matter more for the squad than Ivy record as the top 40 ranked teams automatically get a bid to the NCAA tournament — it certainly wasn’t

the way the team wanted things to go.

Things went from bad to worse as freshman and No. 1 player, Nicholas Podesta, left the team. It remains unclear the reason for Podesta’s departure from the team.

After an incredible start, Penn stood without its two top players, as captain Vim de Alwis, who was sidelined in March with a meniscus tear, to go along with Podesta leaving the squad.

The Quakers could not recover and ended up 0-7 in Ivy play, a disappointing finish after such a fast start.

“I think if you take the two top players off any team it has a big impact but especially in tennis because now your No. 3 guy is playing No.1 and now your No. 8 guy is playing No. 6, so it impacts every single match if you lose two guys at the top,” coach David Geatz said.

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