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Sure, ghosts might not exist, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t haunted our footsteps. Bridging subjects from religious studies to nursing to East Asian studies and more, the Penn Ghost Project consists of a group of interdisciplinary professors and academics, who all are interested in studying the social phenomena surrounding ghosts. The

initiative started three years ago and has recently expanded its project list. “Penn was really the only center that ever did anything like this,” Religious Studies professor Justin McDaniel said. Penn is unique in having a history of paranormal academia. The Penn Ghost Project even draws an uncanny parallel to the Seybert commission, a 19th century study on whether ghosts are real or not. The study was prompted by a monetary gift with the caveat that “the UniverSEE GHOST PAGE 2

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Penn’s new goal: one billion for financial aid Gutmann raises fundraising goals for Penn Compact 2020 JACK CAHN Staff Reporter

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The Chicago Cubs, a round trip to the moon and the Solomon Islands — all things Penn could buy by 2020 with the money it will raise for financial aid. Following the Making History Campaign’s unprecedented fundraising success, Penn President Amy Gutmann recently announced the University’s intention to raise one billion dollars for financial aid by 2020. “We are continuing robust fundraising centered around the Penn Compact 2020. We’re branding it Penn Impact 2020 because we are committed to showing the impact of what we can do at Penn based on the incredibly generous contributions of alumni and friends,” Gutmann said. “We have set a goal of raising an additional $350 million dollars for undergraduate, graduate and professional student aid bringing the total of what we raise over the 15 years —10 years past and five years forward — to a billion dollars. That is an aggressive goal but we can show real consequences that are incredibly positive for our student body.” The $350 million breaks down into an additional $240 million in undergraduate aid and $110 million in graduate student aid. Between 2005 and 2012, the University raised $650 million as a part of their Making History

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While polarization and gridlock continue in the Capitol, President Barack Obama’s State of the Union on Tuesday night outlined new Democratic proposals, an improving economy and the prospect of a new chapter of bipartisanship in D.C. Over 40 students gathered at Penn’s Fels Institute of Government to watch Obama’s address, which

was preceded by a talk by College and Law School graduate Miguel Rodriguez. Rodriguez was the director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs in 2013. Penn In Washington, Penn Democrats and the Penn Political Coalition cohosted the event. “Helping hardworking families make ends meet, giving them the tools they need for good-paying jobs in this new economy, maintaining the conditions for growth and competitiveness: This is where America SEE SOTU PAGE 7

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New summer abroad programs include Havana, Tel Aviv The Athens course taught by Penn expands offerings despite professor Jeremy McInerney, lack of financial assistance JACK CAHN Staff Reporter

The Parthenon, the Berlin Wall and some of the worlds’ best beaches are on the map for students going abroad this summer. Despite declining enrollments, Penn will be expanding summer abroad to Tel Aviv, Havana, Athens, Berlin and Rotterdam. This is largest expansion of summer abroad in recent history. “We added new programs because faculty approached us and said ‘we want to take an opportunity this summer to have a really unique educational experience with students’,” Director of NonDegree Programs Eli Lesser said. “Each of our faculty who chose these locations have had previous and past histories in these locations and really see it as a unique opportunity to teach students in the place where their material happened.”

for example, is a seminar based on the Archaeology of Ancient Greece that incorporates travel to archeological sites with campus-based lectures and research. “The opportunity is to stand and walk in Athens,” Lesser said. “[McInerney] can describe a sacrificial alter in Delphi, but then to stand in Delphi actually at the alter in front it and look at the various things in it is a totally different experience.” The Havana course will overlap with the 2015 Havana Bienal exhibition of international contemporary art. Students will visit the exhibition, tour artists’ studios, collections, architectural monuments and historical sites and learn about the architecture and public culture of Cuba. “Obviously we couldn’t have picked a better time to go to Cuba,” Lesser said. “If you speak to professor [Gwendolyn] Shaw what you’ll learn is that she’s had an amazing experience in recent years in

Cuba. And the first thing that came to her mind was ‘I want to bring students here. I want to let Penn undergraduate students experience what this is like and to see the opportunities that exist from an artistic point of view.’” Like the Cuba program, the Tel Aviv courses come at a time in which Israel’s politics are being discussed on the international stage. “The courses are really focused on contemporary Israel,” professor Peter Decherney, who is running the program, said. “Israel is the start-up nation, it has an amazing tech industry, all the San Francisco venture capital firms have offices in Tel Aviv. There’s just so much going on. So students will take courses and have the opportunity to do internships afterward.” Decherney said he is teaching in the Middle East because the region is critical to understanding Internet policy. “My course, which is Global Internet Policy, is focused more on kinds of issues that are really relevant to the Middle East generally now. So cyberwar,

how networks are managed, how things like Twitter and other social networks function under different kinds of policies.” The final new summer abroad course in Berlin and Rotterdam is a shorter 10-day program focused on long-standing traditions of German and Dutch sustainability, environmentalism and policymaking. It is among many more short-term, experiential programs that the University has been spearheading to expand students’ global outreach, according to Provost Vincent Price. If past years’ enrollment rates are any reflection of this year’s summer abroad participation, however, these new courses will not get much traction. As a result of an announcement of changes in financial aid practices prior to summer 2014, at least 28 students withdrew from studying abroad with Penn. “There’s been a decline in attendance and a decline in overall summer enrollments,” Lesser said. “I hope that will

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change.” The new financial aid practices only give aid to those with the highest financial need — those who receive aid during the academic year are not necessarily eligible. Director of Financial Aid Joel Carstens said that while the change in practices has resulted in fewer grants, they are reasonable. He explained that Penn is the only Ivy League school with an aid program that offers summer grants to undergraduates taking summer courses or studying abroad. Program coordinators for summer abroad programs, however, are not so sure. Pennin-Venice, Penn-in-Madrid and Penn-in-Grahamstown directors all noted decreased summer abroad enrollment due to these financial aid changes. “We are running the risk that the ‘internationalization’ [becomes] a social and economic privilege, not a mission for the entire collectivity of our students,” Fabio Finotti, director of Penn-in-Venice, told The Daily Pennsylvanian in an email in April 2014.

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sity should appoint a Commission to investigate ‘all systems of Morals, Religion or Philosophy which assume to represent the Truth, and particularly of Modern Spiritualism” — in simpler terms, whether ghosts exist. And while the Seybert commission concluded that ghosts are not a real phenomenon, that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to study about them. “We’re taking the study of ghosts both sociologically, psychologically and aesthetically, seriously,” McDaniel said. The group focuses on studying and documenting the idea of ghosts, the ways in which the concept of the lingering deceased has been and continues to be alive and well throughout the world. A 2013 Harris Poll found that 42 percent of Americans believe in ghosts. In the past, the Penn Ghost Project has brought speakers to Penn, as well as going on ghost hunts and having events. In the next few weeks, the Project plans to start documenting ghost stories among the Penn undergraduate community. Inspired by the people who would come up to them at events and share their experiences with the supernatural, the group is undertaking the recording of more than a hundred stories, with hopes of expanding the project to the Penn graduate community and beyond. “The reason we’re doing this is because there’s a huge interest,” McDaniel said. “It’s almost impossible to meet someone who doesn’t have one eerie experience.” Both the spectrally-inclined and spectrally-skeptical are encouraged to come speak about their supernatural experiences. “We’re interested in hearing those experiences, even from people who don’t believe them — people who are like ‘I’m sure there’s another explanation but I can’t explain what that explanation is,’” McDaniel added. The group is surprised by the amount of feedback and support it’s received from the community. The oral history project will be up for public participation in early February.

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Penn groups bring holiday glee to White House Glee Club, Sori and Shabbatones serenade dignitaries BOOKYUNG JO Staff Reporter

It’s December in Washington, D.C. Public figures from Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to actress Emmy Rossum are flocking to the White House for President Obama’s holiday parties. Greeting them, no flyers in hand this time, are Penn performing arts groups. Penn Glee Club, Penn Sori and Penn Shabbatones performed at the White House holiday parties in December. They sang in the foyer while guests were entering and leaving the building and, more importantly, got the unexpected opportunity to sing in front of the president and the first lady. Even though Penn Glee Club is currently going through its “January Hell Week” for the upcoming spring show, College and Wharton senior and the Vice President of the club Jacob Meiner perked up with excitement when recalling his time in Washington. “All the guests as they were walking into the party had to walk in front of us as we were singing,” he said. This is its first time Penn Glee Club sung for the president of the United States since 1926. “President Obama made a joke about how we haven’t been to the White House since when Calvin Coolidge was president, so we looked pretty good for our age,” Meiner said. Penn Glee club sang “Deck the Halls” for the president and the first lady. Glee Club lobbied the White House to get this opportunity. Justin Kim, a Wharton senior and the business manager of Penn Glee Club, wanted to make sure that the White House would notice the group. “I sent them a package with CDs and made a presentation about the club, which was not required,” he said. He said he also reached out to Penn Glee Club alumnus in politics Robert M. Beecroft. “We tried so many different channels that in the end we don’t know what actually worked,” Kim said. Penn Sori, a Korean a cappella group, also performed for President Obama in December, singing most of its concert repertoire and holiday songs in both English and Korean, often singing one verse in English and the other in Korean. “I don’t think anyone understood [the lyrics] except for this one Korean lady in a uniform,” College sophomore and a business manager of Penn Sori Sam Joo said. He added that when they finished singing “The Ugly Duckling,” by a famous Korean group, the woman came up to them and expressed how comforting and heartwarming it is to hear Korean songs in the White House. After their performance in the White House foyer, College junior and Penn Sori president Soomin Kim prepared for the groups’ impromptu performance of “Winter Wonderland” for the president and the first lady. “I actually forgot my first line

of the lyrics but fortunately I wrote the first two words down [on my hand]. I totally blanked out,” she said. On the other hand, the White House might have been a little nervous welcoming Penn Sori as well. Woo-Ju Kim, a college sophomore and musical director of Penn Sori, said she almost did not get into the White House and had to wait about twenty minutes because the White House didn’t put her name on the list. Joo said Penn Sori’s goal for this performance was to expose people outside of Penn to the group. “We usually have gigs on campus, so we know who our audience is. It was reassuring to look at the reaction from the audience who was so different,” she added. Their gig at the White House won’t be the group’s only glamorous performance for the school year. Penn Sori also received a request from the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team to sing the national anthem at a game this semester. Penn Shabbatones couldn’t believe their inboxes when they got the invitation to perform at the White House Hanukkah Party. “I thought it was a complete joke,” College sophomore and tour manager Jennifer Gold said. All the songs the group sang

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The Penn Glee Club poses in front of The White House, where they performed at holiday parties for President Barack Obama over winter break.

at the Hanukkah party were in Hebrew, including songs specifically arranged for the White House performance by its alumni. Although not all the members understand Hebrew, Goldstein said that “it brings us together in the most unique, amazing and powerful way.”

For the president, Penn Shabbatones performed its song arranged by the founding members of the group called “Umacha,” meaning prayer for peace and love. “It was one of the most incredible experience. It’s hard to articulate, but there’s a certain

amount of connection between people who are watching us and us performing,” Aaron Zell, a Wharton sophomore and Penn Shabbatones member, said. Among many prominent Jewish politicians and celebrities who attended the party, Penn Shabbatones met actress and

a singer-songwriter Emmy Rossum, well known as Kristen in the 2004 “The Phantom of the Opera” film. Rossum also tweeted about Penn Shabbatones, saying, “Chanukah songs never sounded cool until this acapella group I heard at The White House tonight.”

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OPINION Admitting defeat

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 2 131st Year of Publication

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TALKING BACKWARD | It’s time to abandon ‘holistic’ admissions

articipating in the annual gossip that spreads in my hometown with news of college admissions decisions has had me thinking a lot about admissions lately. In doing so, I’ve been surprised to find that, having seen its outcomes, I’m less a fan of the process now than I was as a high school senior facing the uncertainty that it brings. It isn’t hard to see that the admissions process fails to select for the traits which truly make one suited for a top-quality undergraduate education. Penn and other peer institutions have significant populations of students for whom acquisition of knowledge and mental self-betterment are not top or high priorities, let alone passions. If the admissions process at a university can accomplish anything, it should be to detect applicants who are interested in close scrutiny and critical appraisal of their own lives and screen those who are not. I suspect that the admis-

sions department at Penn and other institutions would agree that selecting students with a deep and genuine dedication to learning and excluding those who lack such drive is a fundamental goal of their office. The methods they use, however, fail to achieve this proper goal.

predictor of current wealth than future performance and that the “holistic evaluation” rewards resume-padding over genuine engagement. These are all true to some degree, but I would argue that they are all symptoms rather than root causes of a flawed system.

… [A] student deeply commited to community service doesn’t look much different than an ambitious student determined to look committed to community service in order to get into college [on paper].” That the college admissions process is flawed is hardly an original insight on my part. For instance, it has already been argued that a disproportionately large percentage of students admitted to top colleges and universities come from a disproportionately small number of American high schools, that standardized admissions tests are a better

The current admissions process’ fundamental flaw is that it is almost entirely paper-based, and the qualities which make a good university student cannot be expressed on paper alone. For example, a student deeply committed to community service doesn’t look much different than an ambitious student determined to look committed to commu-

nity service in order to get into college. Likewise with academics — the difference can only be discovered by coming to know the applicant on some deeper level. Companies seem to recognize this, as they base their hiring decisions on a series of substantive interviews. Colleges ought to do something akin to this. In order to make the task manageable, the first step in a college admission process should be making a simple binary decision about whether an applicant is qualified to attend or not. These standards should be transparent and published. Unlike the mysterious “holistic evaluation,” colleges should set minimum GPA and coursework requirements which are known to potential applicants ahead of time. This would ensure that the applicant pool is small enough that each applicant can be evaluated thoroughly and fairly. The practice of using marketing to bait unqualified students into applying in order

to boost selectiveness percentages is disgusting and should be abandoned wherever it is used. Following this initial cut, an earnest effort should be made by admissions officers to get to know the students about whom they must make a decision. Such a process would also better address educational diversity concerns, as the extent to which an applicant’s life experience has been affected by their ascriptive identity could be more accurately determined and accounted for in a process which relies less heavily upon cookie-cutter-onpaper categories. As an institution which strives to be a hub of social innovation, Penn should strive to position itself at the head of an effort to develop a better, fairer and more honest application process that is actually capable of selecting students who can and will contribute to a diverse environment of intellectualism and critical inquiry. This may seem like a

ALEC WARD daunting task. However, given the ease of communication in the digital age, given the awesome responsibility of admissions officers at elite colleges to act as de facto gatekeepers to a broad range of privileges and given the staggering wealth of such institutions, there is no excuse not to make a gargantuan effort to do better. The task at hand demands it.

ALEC WARD is a College sophomore from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@sas.upenn.edu. “Talking Backward” appears every Wednesday.

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or decades, public discussion about human services programs in Pennsylvania has been mired in fruitless debates about the size of government or the worthiness of the poor. Not only have these battles failed to reflect the realities of the lives of Pennsylvanians, but they have also delayed steps necessary to build an economy with broad-based prosperity. Under the Corbett Administration, programs for low-income Pennsylvanians have been poorly funded or cut altogether, with dire — and predictable — consequences. Yet our newly inaugurated governor, Tom Wolf, should not plan a mere reversion to pre-Corbett-era policies. Instead, Wolf and the incoming state legislature should take the following three steps to help more people in our state live healthy, secure and productive lives. First, the Commonwealth should increase caseworker

GUEST COLUMN BY LUKE MESSAC staffing and improve educational opportunities for the unemployed. Randomizedcontrolled trials have found that frequent meetings with a caseworker soon after job loss speeds re-entry to the labor force. At such meetings caseworkers review progress in the job search, provide counseling on resume preparation and job applications and give leads on job openings. In Pennsylvania, insufficient staffing of caseworkers has rendered this level of individual attention impossible. In the last decade, the number of caseworkers employed by the Department of Human Services in county assistance offices statewide has fallen from 8,000 to 4,400. Meanwhile, the Commonwealth’s job training and job placement programs have seen cuts of nearly 50 percent of total state and federal funding since the stimulus-era peak. Childcare services for low-income families have decreased nearly 20 percent in the last

four years. The Corbett Administration has also cut many GED classes and threatened to terminate welfare benefits of single mothers in job certifi-

that point, the program was providing monthly cash payments only to victims of domestic abuse, the temporarily disabled, addicts in recovery

For too long, the uninsured have gone without life-saving medical treatment or lived in fear of bankruptcy.” cate programs. Without training or education, beneficiaries are forced into minimum wage and part-time work. In many cases, they are back on welfare in short order. Second, monthly General Assistance (GA) payments, a last line of support for some of the state’s most vulnerable, should be reinstated. After decades of cuts in benefits and tightening eligibility restrictions, GA ended entirely after Governor Corbett called for its cancellation in 2012. At

programs and caregivers for unrelated children. The program’s benefits were anemic, providing an average of $205 per month. But for the 70,000 Pennsylvanians receiving GA, it was a lifeline. While state policy should promote work among the employable, seeking short-term savings on the backs of vulnerable populations who have no other safety net is both cruel and fiscally imprudent. Third, the Wolf Administration should scrap Corbett’s

“Healthy PA” plan in favor of straightforward Medicaid expansion. Under the terms of the Affordable Care Act, the expansion would lower the number of uninsured Pennsylvanians by more than half while improving all Pennsylvanians’ financial security. Most of those newly covered will be low-income working adults. Governor Corbett’s “Healthy PA” proposal, which he insisted on implementing even after losing his reelection bid, requires monthly premiums for individuals and households who earn more than the federal poverty level. It also made drastic cuts to current Medicaid recipients’ access to medically necessary procedures and tests. Medicaid expansion should proceed without these new premiums and changes in coverage. In addition, the Commonwealth should use available data from food stamp and children’s health insurance program enrollment to identify newly

Medicaid-eligible residents. Many states have used such data to enroll people quickly. Oregon, for instance, reduced the number of uninsured by 10 percent in less than one month. For too long, the uninsured have gone without life-saving medical treatment or lived in fear of bankruptcy. Survivors fleeing abuse have been forced to sleep in the streets after their last lifeline of state assistance was cut off. The recently laidoff have waited in vain for help at County Assistance Offices. All of this can change. The three steps above will quickly ensure better health, higher income and greater opportunity for Pennsylvania’s low-income working and disabled populations. They should be top priorities for the Wolf Administration.

LUKE MESSAC is a PhD/ MD candidate at the School of Arts & Sciences and Perelman School of Medicine respectively.

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International students enjoy Philadelphia during winter staycation Students find comfort in International House JEFFREY CAREYVA Staff Reporter

Several international students at Penn didn’t have the good fortune of returning home for winter break. It can feel easy to be lonely on a barren campus, but two students made the best of their time off in Philly. Alparslan Ersoz is an Engineering graduate student from Konya, Turkey who spent his break in the International House of Philadelphia. IHP held some events for its residents over break, keeping them active and out of the cold until school started back up again. Ersoz participated in a talk about African diaspora, among other organized events. IHP’s events allowed him to meet new faces around University City, while many people were back home with the same old friends and families. Although this winter has been

lacking much snow or ice, Penn’s campus was much more socially frozen and bleak over break. “The campus was so silent, and the situation was hard on me, because without students, the campus is like a ghost town,” Ersoz said. Although few students remained, the shops and restaurants in University City were open. “I think that overall, Philadelphia is a nice place for living alone,” Ersoz said. “But on the other hand, I really want to visit my family and go back to my country.” Though he would have liked to return to Turkey for break, Ersoz still managed to have some fun nights in Philadelphia. He was without any family, but a handful of friends stayed for break as well. Ersoz got together with some of his remaining Turkish friends and ventured downtown to celebrate New Years’ Eve in American style. “It was the first time for most of us to see how Americans celebrate the holiday,” he said. Minsu Kim, an Engineering

junior, had his first chance to celebrate the New Year in Toronto, Canada, but also spent the majority of break on campus. Kim was born and raised in Busan, South Korea, but has studied in the United States since the 9th grade. America feels a bit more like home for Kim, he said, and several of his friends stayed on campus with him. “It’s true that not many people stayed and our campus really felt empty,” Kim said, but having friends in town kept break from feeling terribly lonely. One solution to the break-time lull is to take up a new hobby. Kim learned to knit over break, allowing him to keep his hands and his mind occupied. “I was looking for a new and possibly unexpected challenge for myself, therefore I chose to try knitting and ended up making three beanies, two scarfs and a little snowman doll,” Kim said. Kim also regularly practiced Judo across town, keeping him active and out of the house.

particularly on the undergraduate level. “[Financial aid] continues to be one of Amy’s number one priorities and that is to provide access,” Zeller said. “We had remarkable success during the campaign and there continues to be significant interest in it.” The new fundraising initiative is coupled with another $900

million fundraising target for faculty support, $600 million of which has already been raised. “We’ve been working on this for a while. It’s really when it got rolled out this past summer and into the fall that it began to catalyze as a new goal,” Zeller said. Zeller emphasized that undergraduate and graduate aid are

Minsu Kim knitted a snowman over his winter break at Penn.

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Campaign — $360 million for undergraduate financial aid and $290 million for graduate financial aid. As gifts continued to come in, Gutmann extended the campaign to target a total of one billion dollars. “It’s building on the Making History Campaign’s success,” Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations John Zeller said. “We came off the campaign. We had incredible success, incredible donor engagement and alumni, friends and parent engagement. There’s a continued interest to want to do that. We weren’t going to go into another campaign and this is a focused initiative.” The University emphasizes financial aid in its fundraising efforts to promote further access,

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needs to go,” Obama said. “We can’t slow down businesses or put our economy at risk with government shutdowns or fiscal showdowns.” Rodriguez largely echoed Obama’s emphasis on an improving economy and the need for bipartisanship. “When people are being drawn at all times to the extremes of a party, it can be a challenge to continue to look for a fight for that common ground and those common interests,” Rodriguez said. “It’s hard, but I think — and I think the President believes as well — that there is a lot of common ground.” Rodriguez, who prior to serving as Obama’s legislative director worked as deputy assistant secretary at the State Department, has an intimate knowledge of the process and importance of a president’s State of the Union address. This year, the White House released policy proposals before the speech, such as Obama’s two-year college proposal and his new tax plan. “What they did over the last several weeks is they slowly rolled out policies and ideas and gave them each their own space to grab the attention of the public,” Rodriguez said. “Presumably, tonight’s State of the Union is the closing argument.” The speech could also act as one of Obama’s closing arguments on his presidency, which has received mixed reviews overall. According to a job approval poll conducted by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 17, 46 percent of Americans approve of his performance, while 48 percent disapprove. “The president doesn’t have to run two years from now, so he can lay out what he wants to accomplish with a little more idealism than might be realistically possible,” College sophomore and Penn Dems Political Director Sam Iacobellis said. “I remain hopeful, but the realism of us seeing a lot of the

proposals that were talked about tonight becoming law are doubtful.” In addition to outlining his proposals for the next two years, Obama’s penultimate State of the Union also begins to frame the debate for the 2016 presidential election. “That’s how we start rebuilding trust,” Obama said, referring to his call for finding common political ground in the future. “That’s how we move this country forward. That’s what the American people want. That’s what they deserve.” For Rodriguez, the politician for the job is his former boss: Hillary Clinton. “She is, in my experience, one of the most capable people, and I think also she is someone who is smart, consumes information, internalizes it and then is able to formulate policy ideas,” he said. “I know who I would vote for, and I know who my Republican mother would vote for, and my Republican wife would vote for her too.”

This winter break, Penn Band traveled more than 1,000 miles to embark on a performance journey very different from Penn’s sporting events. On Jan. 6, 35 members of the Penn Band played at Walt Disney World Resort as part of the Disney Performing Arts Program. This is their sixth time performing there. “We’re the honorable cast of Disney World,” said College seniors Lauren Mendoza and Kylie Murrin, both of whom are drum majors in the Penn Band. During their five-day stay, members of the band visited all four main parks of the resort and got to see the backstage areas. Mendoza, who is also the 2014 president of Penn Band, was among those responsible for planning the trip. “Road trips foster a lot of great memories. For Disney, we wanted to travel as a group because we had done that in the past,” she said. “Two years ago we played on a cruise at the Bahamas,” she added. The songs the band played at Disney included “Time Warp,” “Since U Been Gone” and “Bad

Romance.” Murrin emphasized that the band played songs that both showcased their talent as a group and excited the audience. She stressed, though, that personal preferences of the band members are a factor as well. “We serve the audience — that’s COURTESY OF PENN BAND a great goal of ours — but we also serve ourselves. We want make sure Penn Band performed at Disney World over winter break. that our members are having a great time in the band,” she said. special to hear,’” current Penn Band commitment, the band as a whole For Penn Band Director Greer President and Nursing junior Dana values giving back to the commuCheeseman, who has been in the Rosenberg said. nity, Rosenberg emphasized. “We band for over four decades, the “Penn is everywhere along with see ourselves as a service-centered Disney performance was just an- the Penn Band,” Murrin added. group as much as a performing arts other pleasant trip with the group. For many of the Penn Band mem- group. We try to be there for every“It is a great opportunity to have a bers, the band has become more thing we can be, and we don’t charge great time together, and it is just an- than an extracurricular. “We really for any of our performances,” she other one of the great memories that are a really tight-knit group, and the said. “We do everything because we we’re going to have as a group.” members of the band hang out to- want to, and we pride ourselves on For him, although the culture of gether all the time. The band is like that,” she added. the campus changes, the band re- a family, and that’s how we view it,” Continuing with the band’s tradimains the same. Just as when he was Mendoza said. tion of producing an album every a member of the band, students now In the new semester, Penn Band four years, they will release a new are still having a great time playing is just as committed. On Martin album sometime this year. They music together. Luther King Jr. Day, though stu- hope the audience of the album will The group also ran into Penn dents were given the day off, most feel the culture and dynamic of the students and alumni during their members chose to practice as a band through the music. “Hopeperformance at Disney. group anyway. fully, if you look into it, you feel like “When we were performing “Everybody there volunteered you’re the part of the band,” Murrin there, an old alumni came to us and their time because they wanted to be said. told us, ‘Oh, I knew that song when there,” Murrin said. “I just hope we can be the best we I went to Penn, and that was really Even beyond their own personal can be,” Rosenberg said.

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gers and Quakers either winning or losing the conference by one game 25 times since the 1958-59 season, while clinching 39 combined outright Ivy titles. But outside of those seasons where the Princeton-Penn game was relevant, the Ivy season ends with a thud, well before the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other conferences play out their conference tournaments. Therefore, while the Ancient Eight champion silently prepares for an unknown opponent, the rest of the country begins a boisterous march to the tournament, featuring buzzer-beaters, six-overtime thrillers and plenty of teams narrowly stealing bids to the all-important Big Dance. That being said, the Ivy League is not a Power Five conference. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pretend to be and nor should it. The Ivies arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even a high mid-major, never coming all that close to getting more than a single-bid to the NCAA Tournament. Thus, with each conference receiving more money for more games played in the tournament, it stands to reason that the Ivies need to make sure they have their best team in the tournament. Proponents of the no-tournament model say that the 14-game regular season acts as its own conference tournament, providing a larger sample size than a few head-to-head matchups in March can provide. For example, Ivy womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball had games late last season in which the team that finished last and second-to-last beat the teams that placed first and second. That would have eliminated the top two teams â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Penn and Princeton â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if that happened in a conference tournament. But the model that many small mid-majors follow doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let the bottom feeders into the conference tournament, only allowing the top four teams to compete

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for the postseason bid. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the conference tournament model that was proposed and rejected by Ivy athletic directors a few years ago and the one that would likely be implemented if there were ever an Ivy tournament. Allowing the top four teams a chance at the crown would diversify your possible champions (does anyone really think a team besides Yale or Harvard has a very realistic chance this year?) while not diluting the Ivies chances at a NCAA Tournament win. Assuming you held games on home courts, you would still likely end up with one of the top two teams winning the conference, meaning youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve given the rightful champion extra momentum. And if the third or fourth seed won consecutive road games to take the title, it would likely mean that team is peaking at the right time and could be a better bet to pull off an upset a week later. The conference tournament would also be another property the Ancient Eight would have that TV stations would bid on, resulting in more exposure than a TV deal with CBS Sports Network and the American Sports Network can provide. It may even help promote subscriptions to the Leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s precious online property â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Ivy League Digital Network. All of this is unlikely in the short term. But with Princeton and Penn finding new athletic directors in 2014 and Columbia looking to hire a new one as well, the tide may finally shift towards a tournament. To paraphrase an old saying, out with the ancient, in with the new. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for the Ivy League to make a step towards relevancy.

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proven himself valuable in his minutes so far. The guards could use some more polishing Taking over the starting point guard position as a freshman isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t supposed to be an easy task. College offenses operate a lot differently and compete with â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and against â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an entirely different level of talent than in high school. So it should surprise no one that freshmen Antonio Woods and Darnell Foreman have been among the least efficient Penn players thus far. Woods and Foreman have both certainly had bright spots this season (see Antonio Woodsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; second-half threepointers against Villanova), but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also struggled shooting from the field (38.3 percent and 28.1 percent, respectively). The assist and turnover statistics arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too pretty, and both have posted PERs under 10 (the average is 15). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to succeed when put in the driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seat of a college offense from day one, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been the case for Penn. The Quakers rely on Tony Hicks (and always have) Who finishes a higher percentage of his teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plays â&#x20AC;&#x201D; either by field goal attempt, turnover or trip to the free throw line â&#x20AC;&#x201D; than any other player in the Ivy League? Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leland King. But if I were asking this question about either of the past two years, the answer would be Tony Hicks. And this year, Hicks ranks second at 30.8 percent. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to say whether this is good or bad for Penn â&#x20AC;&#x201D; most teams tend to have a player who dictates the flow of the offense â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s somewhat astonishing that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been at (or near) the very top of the list in each of his three seasons. But Hicks is distributing

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BY GARRETT GOMEZ Staff Writer While winter break may have just been a break from classes for most Penn students, the men and women’s squash teams used it to get a leg up on their opponents. Per NCAA rules, the program is permitted one international trip every four years. As a result, Penn Athletics sent the men’s team to London for eight days to train and scrimmage against various club teams across the city. Meanwhile, the women’s team traveled out west to California to train in San Francisco. The Quakers played at both Bay Club and the Olympic Club in anticipation for matches against Stanford and George Washington. Both teams agree that their respective trips were invaluable for both off-court and on-court dynamic. “The trip brought everyone together,” junior Yan Xin Tan said. The women’s team was able to secure wins against both of their west coast opponents, defeating Stanford and George Washington in 9-0 fashion. “That was great preparation for Harvard and Trinity, which were huge matches,” Tan said. “We had no school, people were training together and I definitely think that built confidence.” Entering the season, the women’s squad was ranked third in the nation, behind No. 1 Harvard

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Energized by a West coast trip, the women’s squad has been on a tear of late, winning four of five matches since the beginning of winter break including a victory over then-No.1 Harvard. Junior Yan Xin Tan has contributed significantly to the team’s success, winning four of five matches over the same span.

and No. 2 Trinity. However, riding their momentum from the west coast trip and 9-0 victory against Ivy rival Dartmouth, the Quakers also managed to come away with a 5-4, upset over the Crimson on Jan. 10. “People were studying the game more so than other matches,” Tan said. “It gave everyone a lot of confidence on the court, and I think that was one of the biggest strengths that we had over them.” But the Red and Blue had little time to celebrate. Just three days

later, Penn faced a tough Trinity team and found themselves on the wrong end of a close match, losing 5-4. “It was a very close match, and it showed us that we still had room for improvement,” Tan said. “It let us know that we still have a lot of training to do before nationals. “It made everyone aware that we’re good enough to win nationals but that we still have to work a lot harder to win.” Despite the fact that the men’s team crossed international bound-

aries, the squad had an equally successful winter break. “We were able to experience some of the culture that London has to offer, meet a lot of great people and were exposed to some really terrific squash,” coach Jack Wyant said. For Penn, the key was that the team had the chance to have competitive matches against clubs, which is more difficult in the United States because the sport is much more popular in London. “Having the chance to get five

matches over the holiday break when ... most of our competition

didn’t have that opportunity will prove to be invaluable as we head into the busiest stretch of the season,” Wyant said. Upon their return to the States, the Red and Blue were thrown into the toughest stretch of the season with matches against Dartmouth, Harvard and Trinity. Whereas Penn only managed to defeat Dartmouth 5-4 last season, this season’s win against the Big Green was much more decisive, winning 7-2. But Penn dropped their next two matches, first to Harvard and then to Trinity, with each contest ending 7-2. However, Wyant had positive takeaways from the break. Still, according to the coach, major success for the men’s team in the coming months will depend on the little things, such as getting rest and eating well. “They’ve put in the work, so I think they’re capable of springing a big upset,” Wyant said. And, undoubtedly, both teams will surely be using their experience this past winter break to their advantage as they look to dominate the national tournament at season’s end.

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Against the Spiders, the Quakers rebounded from the drubbing in their Ivy League opener, hanging tough for 39 minutes before freshman guard Anna Ross hit the biggest shot of her career — a three-pointer with just over 20 seconds left to give Penn the win. But the Wildcats have played equally well — if not better — of late. Villanova has lost only once in the past month, winning seven of its past eight games including a 15-point win over Temple on Dec. 22 to begin the hot streak. Despite bolstering a strong frontcourt of its own, Penn will have to contend with Wildcats’ senior center

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Emily Leer in the paint on Wednesday. The Glenside, Pa., native is Villanova’s leading scorer this season, averaging 13.3 points per game — bolstered by 41 percent shooting from beyond the arc — to go along with 3.4 boards per contest. Though less of a threat from deep, the Red and Blue’s sophomore center Sydney Stipanovich could give the Wildcats plenty of trouble down low. The defending Ivy League Rookie and Defensive Player of the Year is coming off a 19-point, 13-rebound performance against Richmond, one which earned her Ivy Player of the Week

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Seeking end to home woes

M.HOOPS | Quakers looking to build

on promosing Villanova showing BY SEAMUS POWERS Staff Writer

TRAINING TRIPS With two productive trips over break, Penn squash prepped for Ivy play. >> SEE PAGE 9

Quakers’ chance to stand

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Freshman guard Antonio Woods was named Ivy Rookie of the Week after he scored 18 points against Villanova. TONIGHT

After hanging tough with No. 5 Villanova on Saturday, 8:00 p.m. Penn basketThe Palestra ball will look to take down Monmouth as the young squad continues its five-game home stand. With the bulk of Ivy League play looming, the Quakers (4-9) look to continue their success against MAAC teams — having won two of three games against the conference this season with wins over Marist and Niagara. In Wednesday’s game against the Hawks (9-9), the Red and Blue must also turn around their performance at the Palestra, where the squad is just 1-4. “[A win] would give us a lot of confidence going in [to Ivy League play],” freshman guard Antonio Woods said. “We need to get a win on our home floor.” Penn won last year’s contest against the Hawks 79-73 on the road, led by a doubledouble from Darien Nelson-Henry and 13 points from Tony Hicks. Hicks, who leads Penn in scoring this season, will look to bounce back from an 0-for-five night from behind the arc against Villanova. One of the matchups to watch is Hicks against Monmouth guard Justin Robinson. Both are dynamic scorers who can carry their teams and stuff the stat sheet. The Quakers must be wary of Robinson on both ends of the floor. The 5-foot-8 guard leads the Hawks in points per game (12.6), assists (68) and steals (30). He enters the contest coming off a school record-tying eight-steal performance in Monmouth’s 7770 victory over Fairfield. “I think [Monmouth is] a much better

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Coming off a 19-point, 13-rebound performance against Richmond, sophomore Sydney Stipanovich will be forced to deal with Villanova’s leading scorer, center Emily Leer, who averages 13.3 points per contest. The defending Ivy Defensive Player of the Year will be forced to contend with a frontcourt player with range, as Leer has hit 19 threes this season.

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Time for change in postseason play STEVEN TYDINGS

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BY RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor TONIGHT

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The last time Penn women’s basketball played a team from Philadelphia this season, the Quakers did something never before seen in program history: They clinched a share of the Big 5 title in dramatic fashion. Now, with the Red and Blue set to do battle against another local rival on Wednesday, the squad has the opportunity to cross another seldom achieved goal off its bucket list: beat Villanova. Having already knocked off La Salle, St. Joseph’s and Temple, Penn (8-5) can cap an undefeated season against its Big 5 opponents with a win against the Wildcats (10-8) at the Palestra.

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With Ivy League basketball having more depth than ever before, a conference tournament could provide exposure to the improving Ancient Eight even if it is not held at the historic Palestra.

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Doing the math on Penn basketball Statistical analysis tells the real story for the Red and Blue

he dictionary definition of the word antiquated is ‘old-fashioned or outdated’. But in college basketball, it is a synonym for the Ivy League and the conference’s desperate adherence to “tradition.” What tradition am I referring to? The lack of a conference tournament. There will always be those who are staunch defenders of anti-tournamnent model for the Ancient Eight, but that’s exactly what it is: ancient. Prior to the mid-2000s, the Ivy League essentially had an unofficial title game in place with the annual Penn-Princeton game to conclude the season. Inevitably, at least one of those two squads seemed to battle for the top spot in the conference with the Ti-

outright Big 5 title before Ivy

While the Red and Blue have secured a share of their first Big 5 championship, a win in the team’s final midweek nonconference matchup of the season gives the Quakers the title outright. On the other side, a win by Villanova would give the Wildcats a share of the title for the 15th time under coach Harry Perretta. But if Penn is going to complete the greatest hometown feat in team history, it’s going to have to buck one of the most dominant trends in Big 5 play. Since 1974, the Quakers are a startling 2-38 against Villanova, with the Red and Blue’s only pair of victories coming in 1975 and 2001, respectively. In fact, Penn has never beaten the Wildcats at the Palestra. Still, in the two home games against Villanova under coach Mike McLaughlin, the Quakers have only fallen by a combined nine points, including last season’s heartbreaking 48-44 loss. But the Red and Blue enter Wednesday’s contest with a great deal of confidence. Despite falling to Princeton by 29 earlier this month, Penn has won four of its past five games, including a thrilling 49-47 victory over Richmond on Jan. 14.

With Penn basketball approaching the midway point in its season, fans and opposing coaches alike seem to think they know what the squad is made of. But the advanced stats tell the whole story. Is anyone surprised that Tony Hicks finishes more possessions for the Quakers than any other player? No. But there’s more than meets the eye. Here’s what has stood out through the first half of the year: The Big Hyphen is dominating the oﬀensive glass Darien Nelson-Henry has improved tremendously on the offensive glass this year, hauling in 13.1 percent of all available offensive rebounds, after snagging just 9.3 percent last season.

While the number alone might not mean much, consider that NelsonHenry’s mark ranks second in the Ivy League and he’s one of only seven players — including teammate Greg Louis — to corral at least 10 percent of his offensive rebound opportunities. One freshman has shone bright Freshman forward Mike Auger has easily been the most impressive Penn freshman this season, and the stats certainly support it. Though he’s been limited to only seven games on the season due to a foot injury, Auger has been incredibly efficient by just about every metric. The forward leads the team in both offensive and defensive rating and barely edges out Nelson-Henry for Penn’s top player efficiency rating at 19.9. He hasn’t had to carry the offense to quite the same extent as NelsonHenry and Tony Hicks, but Auger has SEE ANALYTICS PAGE 8 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640