January 21, 2014

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College freshman, 19, dies in Center City Sorority recruitment postponed and track meet made optional after death

BY WILLIAM MARBLE Enterprise Editor

MADISON HOLLERAN

College freshman, member of varsity track and field team

College freshman Madison Holleran, of A llendale, N.J., died on Friday night. She was 19 years old.

Holleran’s death was a suicide, according to Philadelphia police. She fell to her death off a parking garage at 1501 Spruce St. at 6:40 p.m. She was alone at the time of her death, police say.

City medical examiner spokesperson Jeff Moran has not yet

responded to multiple requests for comment.

Holleran lived in Hill College House and was a member of Penn’s varsity track and field team.

Holleran’s father, James Holleran, told the New York Post that pressures at Penn led to her death.

“There was a lot more pressure in the classroom at Penn.

She wasn’t normal happy Madison. Now she had worries and stress,” he told the Post. “She knew she needed help. She had lost confidence in academics and she also lost confidence in her track abilities.”

Holleran told her parents

about suicidal thoughts in December, and she was seeing a therapist, the Post reported.

She left a note and gifts for her parents, though her father declined to elaborate on the contents.

However, James Holleran did not blame Penn for his daughter’s death, the Post reported.

The Holleran family did not respond to interview requests from The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Penn President A my Gutmann released a statement about Holleran’s death Saturday afternoon.

“The entire Penn community is deeply saddened by the death of Madison Holleran,” Gutmann

said in the statement. “She was bright and well-liked with an incredible future ahead of her.

There are simply no words that can properly convey the sense of heartache that we all feel at such a tragic loss.”

A number of campus activities over the past several days were changed in response to her death.

The Panhellenic Council, the umbrella organization for social sororities on campus, postponed recruitment events on Saturday and today. Holleran was participating in formal sorority recruitment.

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Gov’t restores Fate of artifacts remains unknown $1 billion in NIH funding Penn projected losses of $80 million from the sequester in March

BY SARAH SMITH Senior Writer While the $1.1 trillion spending package signed into law by President Barack Obama Friday evening is a step in the right direction for Penn research, it will not solve all the problems caused by sequestration.

Thanks to the automatic spending cuts enacted in March 2013, the University projected losses of $34-42 million in federal grants, with an additional $40 million cut from the Perelman School of Medicine. In fiscal year 2012, before the sequester hit, 82 percent of Penn’s $874 million in research grants came from federal support.

The spending package restores $1 billion to the National Institutes of Health, a major Penn grant-giver, for a total funding level of $29.9 billion — leaving the agency at the same spending levels as in 2004. The National Science Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will see a $287 million and $369 million bump up in funding, respectively.

“The biggest disappointment is that the NIH did not get as much money restored as we had hoped,” said Bill Andresen, Penn’s vice president for federal affairs at the Office of Government and Community Affairs. “Money is going to be very tight next year.”

The Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the NIH, provided 57 percent of Penn’s research grants in fiscal year 2012. HHS is one of the most contentious agencies for Congress to fund, as it funds provisions of the Affordable Care Act and other social programs.

“It’s not going to be an easy time next year, but we’ll do everything we can to make sure that the programs that are important to Penn and SEE NIH PAGE 6

Courtesy of Dr. Richard Zettler

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department Chair Richard Zettler and his team discovered teracotta pots, jewelry and skulls in an Early Bronze Age tomb in Tell es-Saeyhat, Syria. The artifacts have been stored in a local museum and the houses of museum employees. Because of rampant looting because of the civil war in Syria, they are at risk.

Nine years ago, archeologists unearthed a tomb in Syria. The artifacts they found are now in danger.

BY LAUREN FEINER Staff Writer In 1995, a team of archaeologists, led by current Near Eastern Language and Civilizations Depar tment Chair

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Richard Zettler, discovered an Early Bronze Age tomb in Tell es-Sweyhat, Syria .

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Zettler and his team found in the tomb, after a new irrigation system washed away the stone blocking the entrance. The artifacts were housed at a local museum in R aqqa. Many of the artifacts were stored in the houses of museum employees SEE SYRIA PAGE 9

Friends, family mourn Kevin Zhao Zhao was remembered by his professor as his ‘single best student’ in 10 years

The School of Veterinary Medecine today offered free vaccinations to 200 dogs and cats at 3900 Spruce Street as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.

ing issued by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — UNESCO — indicates that Syrian artifacts, including those found by Penn researchers at Tell es-Sweyhat, are missing or in danger of looting.

These objects include pots, jewelr y, and 11 skulls which

Friends and family of Kevin Zhao gathered in Houston Hall’s Bodek Lounge on Saturday afternoon to share memories of the deceased Engineering and Wharton senior.

Zhao died peacefully in his sleep from cardiac arrest over winter break in China. He was 21 years old.

Memorial organizers had to scramble for more chairs as almost 60 people showed up to pay their respects to Zhao. In the front of the room, a large screen displayed moments from Zhao’s life, from baby pictures and prom photos to snapshots with friends during Hey Day. Zhao’s family was present, and

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his father, Jay Zhao, spoke to the assembled crowd about his son. He remembered Kevin’s profound gift for mathematics, which began when Kevin received a $100 Chinese New Year’s gift in the second grade and promptly calculated the interest he could make from the sum every year.

From there, Zhao was ranked number one in mathematics in the state of New York in eighth grade, placed as a regional finalist in the Siemens Competition for Math, Science and Technology in high school and was set to begin a career at Microsoft after graduation. Wharton professor Peter Fader, whose prospective student lecture inspired Zhao to attend Penn, remembered Zhao as a standout student.

“Kevin was the single best student who took my course over the last 10 years,” Fader said.

The people gathered also

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Friends and family of Wharton and Engineering senior Kevin Zhao shared memories of him on Saturday afternoon.

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Officer Socks: this dog is the bomb (sniffer) Socks’ skills will be beneficial when dignitaries visit

BY JILL CASTELLANO Staff Writer If you’re looking to snag a photo with Penn’s new fourlegged celebrity, you can find her strutting down Locust in the afternoons.

Socks, an 18 -month-old yellow labrador retriever, is the first dog to be a part of the Div ision of P ublic Safety’s new Canine Unit.

After 10 weeks and 400 hours of bomb detection training at K-9 Academy in Atlantic County, Officer Socks and her handler, Officer Julie Wesley, are now hitting the streets to protect Penn’s campus.

Socks and Wesley continue to train every day, performing tasks like obedience and agility training, and practicing searching for hidden items. “I had her on Locust searching trash cans and planners and grates in the ground,” Wesley said. “The students are fascinated by her.”

On the first day of class at K-9 Academy, Wesley said,

Funeral to be held in N.J. today at noon HOLLERAN from page 1 Saturday’s round of recruitment was postponed to Sunday after news of her death was disseminated on Saturday morning. Panhel also postponed today’s recruitment events because the funeral will take place this afternoon.

Pa n hel leaders denied

the dogs were tested on how well they could handle different environmental issues, like slippery floors and dark corners.

This was the beginning of S ock s’ env i r on ment a l training, during which she was exposed to issues that she might encounter when work ing in the f ield, like different types of weather and loud noises. Socks and We sle y t r avele d a r ou nd New Jersey to airports, bus ter minals, train st ations and schools to ensure Socks was comfortable in different scenarios.

Dur ing her training, Socks was also “imprinted” on about two dozen explosive devices, Wesley said.

Imprinting consisted of exposing Socks to explosive materials — or just their scents — and training her to recognize each one. The scents were rolled up inside towels and played with like toys.

After Socks spent about a week learning to recognize each scent, trainers would hide the new scent and have Socks search for it. When she found it, she sat down and was played with as a reward. Now when Socks walks

around campus or arrives at the scene of potential bomb, she can detect if these explosives are present.

Socks’ skills will be very valuable to DPS, especially when dignitaries come to Penn, Vice P resident for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

Before Vice President Joe Biden spoke at commencement in 2013, there were five and a half hours of canine searches by a unit of bombsniffing dogs. If there is ever a dangerous situation where

a dog is needed to sniff for bombs on Penn’s campus, DPS no longer has to wait for a dog from the Philadelphia Police Department.

Rush said that DPS will eventua l ly add a second bomb -snif f ing dog to the Penn Police force so that at least one dog will be on duty for greater periods of time.

Socks started off her career at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center, where she went through agility training and was taught basic commands.

She learned how to get in

and out of confined spaces, search high and low and walk on and through rubble.

Once Socks was chosen to be the new Canine officer, the Working Dog Center also imprinted her on “black powder,” or gunpowder, in the same way that she was later imprinted on explosives.

While at the Working Dog Center, Socks’ foster parents — the people who took care of her outside of the center — were Craig Carnaroli, executive vice president of Penn, and his wife Amie Thornton.

“She’s a great girl and she’s very focused and she’s very smart,” Carnaroli said of DPS’ newest officer. Carnaroli and his wife took Socks around the country on different trips, helping her get used to new environments as a young puppy. “She can also be a little bit of a princess sometimes — she likes to sit on the couch and watch TV,” he joked.

Now, Socks spends her time living and working with Wesley. “It helps solidify that bond between us that she’s never far from me anywhere I go,” Wesley said. “She’s definitely the most loyal partner you could ever have.”

multiple requests for interviews, instead issuing a prepared statement in response to questions emailed by the DP. “The Panhellenic Council is incredibly saddened by the loss of Madison Holleran and wishes to express our deepest sympathies on behalf of the entire Panhellenic community for the Holleran family’s loss,” the statement said.

Both the men’s and women’s track and field teams were scheduled for all-day meets in Bethlehem, Pa., on Saturday. However, upon receiving the news of Holle-

ran’s death, members of each team were given a choice regarding whether or not they would compete.

Her death was brought to the attention of the team’s coaches and staff early Saturday morning, Assistant Director of Athletic Communications Eric Dolan said.

Holleran’s teammates were later made aware of the situation.

Though some of Holleran’s teammates chose to go to the Lehigh meet along with several assistant coaches, many remained on campus and spent the day in close contact with Director of Track and

Field Steve Dolan.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with [Holleran’s] family and friends,” Steve Dolan said in a statement. “This is a challenging time for everyone involved with the program, but we will support each other in the weeks to come and help her teammates and friends find their own ways to honor her memory. We will always carry her in our hearts.”

Holleran’s death marks the third undergraduate death since the star t of w inter break. Wharton and Engineering senior Kevin Zhao died while traveling with his

family in China over break.

Wharton and Engineering junior Pulkit Singh died last Sunday in his off-campus house.

Holleran’s f uneral w ill be held at Guardian Angel Church in Allendale, N.J., today at noon. In lieu of flowers, the Holleran family asks donations be made to the A merican Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Senior writer Sarah Smith , G e n e ral A ss i g n ments Editor Jody Freinkel, Campus News Editor Fiona Glisson and Sports Editor Riley Steele contributed reporting.

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Penn Police Officer Julie Wesley performs her daily training with Officer Socks, which includes obedience practice, agility training and practice searching for hidden items.

Zhao wanted to ‘use data to help people’ ZHAO from page 1 remembered Zhao as a loving son, brother and friend.

Zhao always looked after his younger sister Kathryn, who once wished that her future boyfriend would be as good to her as Zhao was to her. Seaver Wang, a College senior, said that even when playing games together online, Zhao would be the one who would risk everything to save his team. “Without him, I think I would have gotten a lot less out of my time at Penn,” Wang said.

This kindness extended to other areas as well. “He saw the people in the numbers,” friend Paulo Bautista, a Wharton senior, said. “He wanted to use data to help people.”

Fader said that Zhao had turned down a job at Electronic Arts, a video game company, for Microsoft, where he thought he could do more for society. Zhao wanted to “use computers to understand the secrets of nature,” his father said.

Others remembered Zhao’s fun-loving side. College senior Paul Blazek said that when Zhao learned of the Supreme Court case which decided that “corporations can be people,” he wondered whether “people can be corporations” and tried to incorporate himself, jokingly attempting to sell 1,000 shares of himself at $10 a share.

Many also spoke of Zhao’s love for food. Wang said that one of his biggest regrets was not being able to “cook for Kevin [in return] for all the times he cooked for me.”

Jay Zhao said that his son had two dreams in life. One was to “make the largest mooncake in the world” and get in the Guinness Book of Records.

The other dream?

“To help people have a better life,” his father said.

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SEAS alumnus engineers silence on the seas, wins naval award 2011 graduate Mel Butler makes computer models for the Navy

BY LAURA ANTHONY Deputy News Editor One Penn graduate has recently made a lot of noise in his field by figuring out how to make things quieter.

Mel Butler, a mechanical engineer at Naval Sur face Warfare Center Carderock Division-Ship Systems Engineering Station, took a new approach to fluid silencing, using computer models to help find ways to reduce the noise emitted by inline devices in the fluid systems on Navy ships and submarines.

In general, NSWCCD-SSES works to provide electrical and mechanical support to Nav y ships, which Da niel Evans, head of the Machiner y Technolog y R esea rch and Development Branch at NSWCCD -SSES, described as “anything that basically isn’t a weapon or a radar on a ship.”

Butler’s work won him the Nav a l S e a S y st ems Com mand 2013 Chief Engineer Scientist of the Year award on Dec. 5. Butler had worked on the project for the past four years, so he was honored to see his work singled out for such a prestigious award, he said. According to Evans, Butler is the only one from

the Carderock division to win this award.

Evans nominated Butler for the award in July for his “cutting edge” work that will allow engineers to test new designs using computer models and simulations instead of building full-scale systems for experimentation.

Some of Butler’s computer models can run in a couple of hours, whereas mak ing adjustments in lab experiments could take as much as a week. “You’re saving yourself a large amount of time and money by doing the bulk of the work on a computer,” Butler said.

Debra Kinney, the program manager for Butler’s specific area of work, said that his work has great potential to change the way research is conducted. “I could see in the future years less experimentation and more reliance on the modeling,” she said.

Kinney said that Butler is a hard worker who has “a good blend of skills both experimentally and analytically.”

Evans praised Butler as being conscientious in his work and “dedicated to controlling costs and getting the job done.”

Butler has been working for NSWCCD-SSES for the past six years, and for five years before that he worked outside of Washington, D.C. he met his wife and ended up in Philadelphia working for

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NSWCCD - SSES, where he transitioned from his work on the dynamic stability of ship hull structures to the acoustic engineering he does now.

Butler’s interest in ships began at a young age, growing

up on the water in Tocomoke City, near Ocean City, Md. His interests in math and science led him to Virginia Tech for his bachelor’s degree in engineering science and mechanics, and he received his

master’s degree in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from Penn in 2011.

Even years later, Butler’s Penn education is fresh in his mind, as he still remembers his favorite class — a course

on aerodynamics taught by Bruce Kothmann, currently a senior lecturer in the MEAM department.

Butler expects to formally receive his award sometime this spring.

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Opinion

A crash course on course selection

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in similar topics instead feels like taking one big course.

So if you’re a history major who has always wanted to learn about Russia in the 20th century, think ahead and satisfy sector three as well that semester with a Russian lit or art history class. Finish your language requirement in Chinese with a Chinese cinema course and a history of modern China seminar.

Don’t be afraid to throw on more courses if those courses are chosen smartly. At the end of the day, the point of your education should be to learn something fully, to really throw yourself into it, and an immersive strategy like this one is not only perfect for that, but also is sometimes a lot easier as well as more productive than slogging through requirements blindly.

But it definitely doesn’t happen overnight. The hurt becomes healing. But even then, some days it’ll just hit you like it was yesterday. And these days usually are on the days when it’s most inconvenient for you. But if you give yourself an hour to rest, or even cry, it helps to refocus on everything that has to be done.

One of our group members told us when she starts hurting, she’ll go swim laps. Some people watch old movies. Some go on walks. The main thing is finding your own way to heal.

For the people who may not be personally grieving, but looking on: One thing my group and I have always agreed on is that we hope our friends will treat us normally. Despite everything we’re going through, it helps to have some people in

our lives that are stable — people who help us to forget about everything else going on, let us be ourselves for a little while and don’t treat us like fragile objects. And with those people, maybe then, we can start moving forward, toward a new normal.

and walk away with an easier semester.

Step one: Take that course you absolutely have to take, because you need it for your major or because your freshman hall is all enrolled and you miss seeing those people.

Step two: Figure out what requirement courses you want to finish. Step three (this is the most important step): Find the courses that satisfy those conditions that seem absolutely related and relevant to that initial course you had to take. Step four: Sign up for six courses.

This is the recipe for a productive and easy semester.

I’ll illustrate with my personal motivating example.

Last spring, I knew I had to take “Game Theory” because I felt it was important. I ran through a bunch of mock schedules, and I ended up taking three other microeconomic courses, plus two English courses. “Game Theory,” “Social Choice Theory,” “Po-

CHASE HARROW is a College junior from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. studying mathematics, economics and English. Email him at charrow@sas.upenn.edu or follow him @ChaseH108.

Dealing with grief

GUEST COLUMN BY MELANIE WOLFF

omeone once told me that there are two types of people in the world: those who have understood the loss of a loved one and those who have not.

But the world can also be separated in a different way: those who are grieving and those who are watching, hurting from watching and don’t know how to help.

I’ve been on both sides of the spectrum. As president of Penn’s grief support group, Penn Students of AMF or “Actively Moving Forward,” I’ve seen a lot of people hurt. Every time new members come to our meetings, they share a death that is relatively recent for them. Their pains bring up memories from my own high school years, when my own mom passed away after a two

ho do you know taking six classes this semester?

Maybe you have a pre-med friend, always rushing off to lab. Or know a dual Engineering/Wharton student who has a GSR in Huntsman with equations all over the board. Doesn’t it sometimes feel like people with six classes are also taking the six hardest classes imaginable?

It doesn’t have to be that way.

It’s an unavoidable fact that some classes are harder than others: the impersonal pre-med science lectures, the upper-level engineering workshops, the graduate history seminars.

For the most part, though, our semesters are packed with ordinary major-fulfilling courses and requirements.

And if you’re careful about it, you can take a six-class semester of ordinary or even moderately difficult courses

litical Economy” and “Labor Economics” covered a lot of the same ground.

If this sounds like a redundant, boring semester, you should look a little closer. The topics were similar but fueled by different motivations, and by studying them differently in different classes, I was able to learn something unique in each course. If you’re going to spend a few hours reviewing your notes before the test anyway, why not review them in a new situation, for different purposes, highlighting how adaptable the model is to different contexts? This is how you gain experience that only comes from repeated encounters. Simply attending lecture for one class was sometimes sufficient for reviewing the material well enough to begin the problem set of another.

Unfortunately none of my economics courses decided to address “Hamlet,” but that doesn’t mean you can’t design a smart semester that uses your different courses to your advantage. Taking six courses

and a half year battle with ovarian cancer. It’s been a year and a half since she passed away, but some days it feels like it happened yesterday.

But most people at Penn don’t know that about me.

Why? Because it’s a weird subject to bring up. How do you tell someone your mom died without getting the pity looks or the awkward conversation ends?

I think it can be universally acknowledged that people have no clue how to handle grief, even though it is something all of us deal with in some way, shape or form — or will have to in the future. The deaths that have recently taken place on our campus are not singular events; they create a ripple effect, with those who knew the students hurt, in shock and unsure how to move on.

And really, how do you move on? That’s a question I still haven’t answered. But I’ll share some things I tell people in our support group meetings, and things they constantly remind me of as well.

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The hurt becomes healing. But even then, some days it’ll just hit you like it was yesterday.”

Grieving for someone you loved does not mean you’re weak. This is something I always tend to forget. You’re going to cry. You’re going to have hard days and better days. Losing someone makes you feel

vulnerable — it’s inevitable.

But that does not mean you’re weak. If anything, you become stronger because of it. You find strength to get through any day, strength you had no idea you had.

There’s no time limit on grief. The “stages of grief” found in every psych textbook claim it’s all over and you’ve found inner healing by month 12. While it may be true sometimes, I haven’t found it to be.

It takes more than months or years. A teacher once told me that after two years, it gets better. The truth is that it’s different for everyone, and it doesn’t just go away. You simply adapt to it, and change as a result.

Give yourself time. People have asked me, “Does it get better?” In a way, it does. You heal. Memories that once hurt become sad, then cherished.

Penn Students of AMF’s first meeting for the year is on Jan. 27 in Houston Hall 311 at 8 p.m. and is meant for students coping with the illness or death of a loved one. Visit www.facebook.com/AMFatUPenn for more information.

MELANIE WOLFF is a College sophomore studying international relations. She is the co-president of Penn Students of AMF, Penn’s student-run grief support network.

Her email is melwolff@sas.upenn. edu.

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enn is recognized as one of the most LGBT-friendly universities in the nation, and for good reason. We have a terrific LGBT Center, a great Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program, thriving queer student communities and more LGBTQ student organizations than you can keep track of.

However, although Penn as an institution may have more resources for queer and trans students than other schools, many — I’m inclined to say most — Penn students know little to nothing about queer and trans identities and the struggles we face. For those who do, the stories that are told are mostly representative of the G and the L in LGBTQIA, while little is known about bisexual, trans, intersex and asexual individuals.

It’s time for this to change.

Being a queer and/or trans student here at Penn can get overwhelming. We can find

sanctuary with our friends and take shelter in the LGBT Center. However, the vast majority of our daily interactions take place with those who are unfamiliar with our identities and who make assumptions about our genders and sexualities. This is an extremely uncomfortable experience.

This is not to say that students at this school are actively undermining and ignoring queer and trans people’s identities. Most of us have been raised in environments where people are assumed to be heterosexual and cisgender and where identities that do not fit into that assumption are either completely ignored or demonized.

For us queer and trans folks, it is already alienating to have our genders and sexualities underrepresented.

Most of us have a long history of hiding parts of ourselves from our friends and families. For those of us who are out, the assumptions made

about our identities at Penn discourage us from being as open about who we are as our cisgender, heterosexual peers. For those who aren’t out, these assumptions make that process even more difficult.

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portant terms: Trans — an umbrella term often used to refer to those whose gender does not correspond with the gender that they were designated at birth.

Some of these identities are transgender, agender, bigen-

The vast majority of our daily interactions take place with those who are unfamiliar with our identities and who make assumptions about our genders and sexualities.”

There are many ways for the Penn community to make its fellow queer and trans members feel more welcomed and comfortable. Educating oneself about queer and trans identities is key, and becoming familiar with the words that we use to describe ourselves is one of the first steps.

Here is a (very) limited list of a few lesser-known, but im-

der and genderqueer.

Cisgender (Cis) — a term that refers to people whose gender corresponds with the gender that they were designated at birth.

Non - Bina r y — a t er m that refers to a gender that falls outside of the societally enforced binary of man and woman. Some non-binar y people identify as trans, and

others do not.

Queer — an umbrella term often used to refer to those whose sexuality and/or gender falls outside of societal RODERICK COOK norms; also used as an identiI encourage you all to not ty term for some people. Some queer identities are bisexual, only passively accept queer and trans people on campus, lesbian, asexual and gay.

Asexual / Aromantic — re- but to go out of your way to fers to people who experience make Penn a better place for little to no sexual or romantic queer and trans students. attraction, respectively. Some This often involves stepping asexual and aromantic people out of your comfort zone and engage in sexual or romantic unlearning a lot of the things relationships, while others do that you have been taught for years about gender and not.

Intersex — a term that re- sexuality, but it’s well worth fers to an individual born with it. We deserve to not only feel sex characteristics (genitalia, comfortable in spaces that we chromosomes, hormone lev- have carved out for ourselves els) that do not fit societal ex- on this campus, but also in evpectations for male or female. ery aspect of our Penn lives.

This is by no means a com- Help us make that a reality. prehensive list, and I highly recommend spending some RODERICK COOK is a College time to research queer and sophomore from Nesquehoning, trans identities and the ways Pa. studying gender, sexuality that we talk about gender and and women’s studies. Their sexuality in those communi- email address is rodcookdp@ gmail.com. ties.

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A 1978 Wharton Ph. D., with a concentration in meditation Wharton grad Acarya Shambhushivananda leads a spiritual group

at the top of his class from the University of India, he came to Penn in 1969. “My whole world view was enhanced by my study here at Wharton,” he said.

While at Penn, Shambhushivananda studied finance, marketing and international business, eventually earning his Ph. D. and writing his dissertation on “planning nutri-

BY ALISON ELLIOTT Contributing Writer When one imagines the future careers of Wharton graduates, images of businessmen and stockbrokers on Wall Street usually come to mind.

Wharton graduate and yoga monk Acarya Shambhushivananda defies this stereotype, working as a leader of the international Ananda Marga spiritual movement.

As the chancellor of the educational branch of Ananda Marga, Shambhushivananda has worked all over the world organizing educational programs in over 1200 schools for children in both wealthy and impoverished areas.

The neo-humanist Ananda Marga movement was formed in 1955 and promotes a love of both the living and the inanimate world through the “three pillars of the whole system: science, spirituality and aesthetics,” Shambhushivananda said.

In the past six months alone, Shambhushivananda has visited South Korea, India, Sweden and several African countries.

He helped establish a children’s home in the slums of Nairobi and shelters for girls who would

tion interventions in developing countries.” He maintained his connection with the spiritual world while at Penn by leading retreats and meditation workshops .

Shambhushivananda wants Penn students to become involved in service work. “Life is meaningful — it can become more meaningful if we devote

our intellectual capabilities for the benefit of human society,” he said.

“We have to provide the minimum essentialities of life to all the people of this earth, it is the birthright of all human beings. Governments, businesses, individuals, philanthropists all have to join together to do this,” he added.

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Shambhushivananda said he no longer feels as though he has a home country, but instead described himself as “a global citizen.” He said he feels an equal connection and need for service in every section of the world.

He has devoted his life to incorporating the spiritual into the academic within education.

“Education has to be the starting point of social transformation,” he said.

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Petition aims for logo rights for ‘P’ Penn sweaters An alum wants Hillflint to be able to produce the classic Penn sweater

firmed Montgomery’s suspicion.

“Hillflint’s products present the classic Ivy League style of decades ago that is unattainable through the current suppliers,” DiLeva wrote on the petition.

Charles Pensig, a Wharton alum, signed the petition in October.

“Branded Penn gear is ugly.

I’d like an alternative. Penn apparel was miserable when I started at Penn in 2003, and now it’s better, but still awful,” Pensig said.

Ariel Koren , president of the Class of 2015, agreed that the Class Board sweaters have become a loved tradition

BY VICTORIA MOFFITT Staff Writer Students and alumni are showing off their school spirit — not by attending more sporting events, but by petitioning for their ideal Penn apparel.

In October, a Penn alumnus started an online petition to allow Hillflint, a company that sells collegiate apparel to Ivy League schools, to produce a sweater bearing the classic Penn “P”. The petition has garnered 96 signatures so far, mostly from Penn alumni and current students.

Christopher Bradie , the associate vice president of Business Services at Penn , explained that Penn’s classic logo is currently reserved for the junior Class Board’s design that is sold each fall and for the sweaters awarded to Penn’s varsity athletes upon their graduation.

“Limiting [the classic logo’s] production to these two uses was done to preserve these unique and special University traditions,” Bradie said.

“There are no plans at this time to make the designs more commercially available.”

Looting in Syria remains major threat SYRIA from page 1 because the museum itself did not have enough storage space, Zettler said.

“It was the most stuff we ever turned over to the museum,” he added. Some of the broken pot shards and animal bones from the excavation can be found at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

An Al-Qaeda-related group captured an area near Tell es-Sweyhat approximately a year ago. At first, rebel groups claimed they would p r o t e c t t h e mu s e u m i n Raqqa, where the artifacts were stored, but later packed up the artifacts in the museum and moved them to an unknown place. Later, about five hundred objects were returned, but many more remain missing.

“It’s just one of these new i nd ig nities to t he Sy r ia n people,” Jill Weber, a 2006 Penn alum who took part in the 1995 excavation when she was an anthropolog y doctoral student and one of Zettler’s advisees, said.

“This stuff does belong to them. It’s their cultural heritage.”

The political tur moil caused by the civil war in Syria has driven many to

since the Class of 2012 first sold them. “It’s very exciting to see all the hype around the sweaters during junior year, and how excited people get,” Koren said.

Last semester, over 1,500 juniors purchased the American Apparel-brand sweatshirts for $33 each.

Koren said she was not particularly concerned about the possibility of Hillf lint obtaining a license. “If you were to buy a sweater of the same quality and same design at American Apparel, at the Bookstore or at Hillflint, the sweater would be close to $100,” Koren said.

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Ninety-six students and alumni have signed a petition asking for Hillflint, a clothing manufacturer, to be allowed to produce merchandise with the classic Penn ‘P’ logo, currently reserved for the junior Class Board and varsity athlete sweater.

“I’ve been looking for a basic loose sweater with a red P … that would last,” Dalyn Montgomery, a 2012 alumnus of the Graduate School of Education and the creator of the Hillflint petition, said.

“I’ve seen everybody and their dog from other schools have those [classic sweaters],” Montgomery said.

During his search, Montgomery came across Hillflint’s designs for Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale and Columbia. He

contacted the company to request that they add a Penn sweater to their collection.

According to Hillflint’s cofounder, Woody Hines , the company produces high quality sweaters with a “classic aesthetic that means something to Ivy League students.”

Hines explained to Montgomery that Hillflint had issues obtaining a merchandizing license from Penn.

In response, Montgomery created a petition on Oct. 16

to grant Hillflint a merchandizing license. He said he “doesn’t want to make too much noise directly.” He has no plans to send the petition to Penn officials or to interfere in Hillflint’s business negotiations with the university.

“I just wanted to start a petition to show I wasn’t the only one out there that’s trying to find what I’m looking for,” Montgomery said.

Ch r ist opher Di L eva , a freshman in the College, con-

desperate measures. Many artifacts in Syria are currently in danger because of rampant looting.

“If you are very poor and l iv i ng out there, you a re making a living however you can,” Zettler said.

Digging at excavation sites requires a special permit by the state. However, many people disregard this, rummaging through historical sites without proper knowledge of how t o preser ve ancient artifacts and structures.

“When people dig illegally now, they are usually digging through buildings and pulling things out,” anthropology professor Lauren Ristvet ,

who has been on excavations in other parts of Syria, said.

Since these people tend to care only for obtaining valuable objects, rather than preserving cultural heritage, what Ristvet described as a “honeycomb situation,” develops in the land. Ristvet described a landscape full of holes and disturbed objects and structures.

A nthropolog y professor Salam A l Kuntar contributed to the creation of a “red list” issued by UNESCO, telling experts what sorts of objects may resurface outside of Syria as stolen goods or are in danger of potential looting. Efforts to protect and recover artifacts include

creating a database of excavation sites and objects in Syria, communicating with Syrian museum curators and anthropologists and analyzing photos and videos sent by activists — although some of the objects depicted turn out to be forgeries. The Penn Cultural Heritage Center is involved in this work to protect artifacts as well.

“People need to understand by turning a blind eye to looting that they are in fact encouraging it,” Weber said.

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“We had to bounce back from a pretty tough loss the weekend before, and our team responded well,” Penn coach Rob Eiter said. “We were hoping . . . that this was kind of a weekend to

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Sophomore Casey Kent was a big part of Penn’s two wins over the weekend, defeating Binghamton’s Colton Perry with a technical fall before defeating Bucknell’s Rustin Barrick in a decision on Sunday. Penn moved to 4-3 on the year. make those adjustments from a tough couple weeks prior. The team responded very well, and overall, I’m very pleased with the results.”

Penn’s return to form started Friday night at the Palestra, where No. 17 sophomore Casey Kent and No. 12 junior Lorenzo

Thomas helped lead the way to a 22-13 victory over Binghamton (3-8).

The dual remained close during the lighter bouts, with Penn (4-3) leading 10-6 after 157-pound sophomore Ray Bethea’s close 13-9 victory on the strength of five takedowns. Then the Red

and Blue pulled away.

The 165-pound Kent forced a technical fall and picked up several backpoints to cruise to a 17-0 win that extended Penn’s lead from 10-6 to 15-6.

“Casey is about as rock solid as you’re going to get,” Eiter said. “He’s pretty methodical

in his style of wrestling, and he just did an awesome job this weekend and the weekend before.”

At 18 4 pounds, Thomas notched two takedowns and added bonus points en route to a 14-4 decision that put Penn ahead, 22-6. “[Thomas is] one of the anchors of the team, obviously nationally ranked,” Eiter said.

“We’re looking for big points from him, and he delivered in both matches for us. Again, we totally look for him to score those points when we need them.”

Fast-for ward to Sunday afternoon’s dual at Bucknell (5-7). The Bison took an early lead on the back of 125-pound sophomore Paul Petrov, who got a 14-4 decision. But Penn would rally back to a 24-13 victory. Although Sunday’s score was similar to that of Friday’s dual, Eiter believes his squad improved over the course of the weekend.

“Actually, I think we wrestled a little bit better today, and that’s what I had stressed, that we get a little bit better from Binghamton,” Eiter said.

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match so we could correct in a short amount of time. The major it y of the tea m had made some corrections, and it showed in the matches today. They got a little bit better today.”

Freshman Ken Bade started Penn’s comeback by picking up six huge points at 133 pounds. Junior Jeff Canfora then increased the Quakers’ lead with a 12-4 win at 141 pounds — his sixth win in seven matches — that featured five takedowns.

As the dual moved on the heavier bouts, Kent, Thomas and Bethea helped Penn seal the win with 9-1, 16-2 and 9-5 wins, respectively. Thomas picked up his 16th win of the season, while Bethea notched his 14th victory of the season for the Red and Blue. “[Bethea’s] a phenomenal athlete, and every day he’s learning a little bit more,” Eiter said. “Today he struggled a little bit — the kid wrestled him really good.

Ray really had to work for his points, and hopefully he learns a little bit from this match.”

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for the meet.

Once at Lehigh, the Quakers still had a solid performance.

On the women’s side, Holleran’s fellow freshman Noel Jancewicz won the high jump while Lydia Ali captured the 200 meters. The junior posted a winning time of 26.25, narrowly edging out Danielle Albergo of Lehigh by 0.21 seconds.

The men’s team was also victorious on Saturday, as senior Maalik Reynolds took the high jump for the Red and Blue. Reynolds is a three-time All-American in the high jump.

Penn’s 4x400-meter relay team notched first place on the men’s side as well. Freshman Ian Parnell, sophomore Timothy Hamlett and juniors James Killian and Tom Timmins posted a time of 3:24.01 to take the top spot.

Despite the individual success of players on both teams, Penn’s women’s team accumulated only 77 points and finished fourth out of four teams.

The men came in third with 113 total points.

In the wake of Holleran’s death, a funeral will be held in her honor today. The following Saturday, both squads will attend the Haverford College Invitational for their third meet of the indoor track season.

And for the rest of the season, Dolan noted on Saturday, “[The team and coaching staff] will always carry her in [their] hearts.”

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Ivy weekend brings mixed results for Penn SWIMMING | Quakers topped Brown, but were trounced by Harvard in their Sunday finale

BY SAM ALTLAND Staff Writer It was a tale of two meets for the Penn swimming and diving teams this weekend.

On Saturday, in front of a packed house at the Sheerr Pool, both the men’s and women’s teams soundly defeated Brown. But on Sunday, the women’s team fell to Harvard in a lopsided loss.

For the men, Saturday’s competition was full of success.

The Quakers beat Brown, 179116. It was clear that Penn was enjoying its return to Sheerr.

“It really was just fantastic,” junior Alex Elias said. “We don’t always get the opportunity to swim in such an amazing atmosphere. We just went out there and killed it.”

Freshman diver Jack Stein finished first in both the threeand one-meter dives, while senior Will Hartje finished second and third in the two events.

This duo was responsible for 25 of Penn’s 179 team points.

In the 200-yard medley relay, freshman Philip Hu , sophomore Kyle Yu, senior Rhoads Worster and sophomore Eric Schultz broke the Sheerr pool record for the event. The men finished within 1:29.94, narrowly eclipsing the previous mark of 1:30.09.

H o w e v e r, t h e Q u a k e r s weren’t done setting records on Saturday.

A long w ith Worster and Schultz, juniors Alex Porter and Dillon McHugh broke the Sheerr Pool record for the 400 free relay with a time of 3:01.13.

With its victory over Brown

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on Saturday, the women’s side also generated wins from its key swimmers en route to a 172-126 win.

Senior Shelby Fortin won the 1000 free with a time of 10:10.14.

She also claimed first place in the 100 free, touching the wall in 52.00 seconds.

The R ed a nd Blue a lso claimed the top three spots in both the 100 back and the 200 backstroke. Leading the way for Penn was sophomore Lauren Church, who finished first in both events.

Church was also part of the 200 medley relay team. Along with junior Lauryn Brown and freshmen Haley Wickham and Rochelle Dong, Church’s team took first place, finishing in 1:44.58.

“I thought we put in a great race on Satu rday,” coach Schnur said. “We were just coming off two really great ef forts against Dartmouth and Yale, and I think we carried that into the race against Brown.

“I think we responded really well to a very competitive team.”

However, the women’s squad did not fare as well in Sunday’s contest against Harvard.

Because Sunday marked its second consecutive day of competition against an Ivy League opponent, Penn chose to reshuffle its lineup and rest some prominent swimmers. Against this different lineup, Harvard jumped out to an early lead and never looked back, winning the meet, 201-95.

Harvard claimed first place in the meet’s first 13 events.

Penn’s dry spell was broken by Dong when she claimed a victory in the 100 meter butterfly.

Penn would later cla im one more victory in the 400 freestyle relay, as the team

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Trinity takes down Quakers SQUASH | Bantams overwhelm men’s and women’s squads from top to bottom of lineup

boasts the No. 1 men’s and No. 2 women’s teams in the country.

For the second straight week, the men’s team (4-2) failed to win an individual m at ch , a r epe at per for BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor mance of January 12’s loss to Harvard.

MEN Four Quakers were swept outright by their Trinity opponents, but two Penn players ver y nearly captured upset wins. vs. Trinity Play ing third on the ladder, sophomore Augie Frank got off to a hot start, WOMEN putting Trinity’s Vrishab Kotian in a two-game hole, but he proceeded to drop the next three games. vs. Trinity Freshman Rahil Fazelbhoy traded games with Elroy O ne we ek a f t er b ei ng Leong before losing in the swept away by Ha r va rd , final frame, 11-6.

Penn squash learned the The women’s team (4-2) hard way that the Bantams also dropped its match by were just as big — and just the same margin it lost to as deadly.

The No. 10 men’s and No. 3 w o m e n’s t e a m s wer e pu she d a side on Saturday by Trinity, 9-0 and 6 -3, respectively, a squash powerhouse that

of Fortin, Church, Dong and Hurley rounded out their race in 3:32.08.

However, the Quakers still remained positive about their work over the weekend.

“Saturday was the main focus of our weekend,” Fortin said. “The races against Harvard were opportunities to get some girls into the pool who haven’t gotten an opportunity to race.

“We saw it more as a practice swim, and just a chance for us to get better.”

The Quakers will now attempt to recuperate after two weeks of Ivy competition, and will return to the pool on January 31 for back-to-back meets against West Chester and La Salle.

“If we just keep doing what we have been doing, then we are going to be in great shape,” Schnur said. “We’ve got some tough meets ahead of us, but I think we will be in a position to do some great things.”

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BasketballExtra Harrell injures knee again in blow out loss

AT A GLANCE Star of the game: St. Joe’s Sr. G L ang s ton Galloway

The Hawks’ top of fensive w e a p o n , Galloway torched the Quakers all night long. He hit six of the seven threes he attempted, finishing with 20 points while only committing one turnover.

M. HOOPS from page 14 Galloway, who put up 20 points on 6-7 shooting from three. He hit all four of his attempted threes in the first half.

Juniors Chris Wilson and Ndao Papa added three triples each in the first half to give the Hawks more than a sizable lead. “We lost focus,� Cartwright admitted. “They had a lot of open

Play of the game: Kanacevic cans it

Midway through the first half, Penn trailed the Hawks by only five points. But then, following a three-point play, St. Joe’s nailed three triples in a 54-second span, capped off by a trey from Halil Kanacevic to make the score 31-14. St. Joe’s didn’t look back from there, extending its lead to as much as 38 points.

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St. Joe’s took control of the game’s momentum immediately in the second half, clos-

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Tony Hicks was the only Penn starter with a solid performance, putting up 15 points in 21 minutes to lead the Quakers in scoring.

After only nine players saw action for the Quakers against Princeton, coach Jerome Allen sent just about everyone out on the court on Saturday night, playing 14 men in total.

The bench didn’t provide much help early, however, as the non-starters went 0-8 from the field in the first half.

One of the few highlights for Penn was a monstrous Dylan Jones slam off a Tony Bagtas assist with just under seven minutes to play. Jones, a freshman,

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posted a respectable line with 10 points and five assists.

St. Joe’s offense cooled off in the second half — they shot just 33.3 percent from deep — while the Quakers’ bench found some fast break success, helping the home squad go on a 23-5 run in the final eight minutes.

But it was too little, too late for the Red and Blue, who now look to finish their non-conference schedule strong against NJIT on Jan. 25. “Hopefully this game tonight stings,� Allen said. “It’ll get [the players] to pay attention a little bit more. “We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us.�

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Fir st half three - pointer s made by Saint Joseph’s, on 15 shots. The Hawks’ ridiculous shooting display buried the Quakers early, as neither Langston Galloway nor Chris Wilson and Papa Ndao encountered any resistance.

hopes to prove its worth floated away with it. Penn lost by 17, and, quite frankly, it wasn’t even that close.

After the game, Penn’s coach Jerome Allen seemed to be both exasperated and desperately searching for answers. “It’s embarrassing,� Allen said.

Senior guard Miles Cartwright, having played the final Big 5 game of his career, was as equally exasperated. “It’s tough, especially for it to end like that,� Cartwright said.

The stage was very much set for the Quakers to show what they were made of in a big way; Martelli was quick to praise the Palestra’s atmosphere.

be excited for the opportunity to play at the Palestra,� Cartwright said.

That may be true, but what the weekend has left unclear is whether Penn basketball will aspire to the level of play being attained by its fellow Big 5 teams or simply use its historical venue to hang around.

If the Quakers want to be con-

sidered a competitive member of the Big 5, they will need to play a higher quality of basketball instead of simply letting the Palestra speak for itself.

COLIN HENDERSON is a Wharton freshman from Nazareth, Pa. and is an associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

The score when Penn last held the lead on Saturday.

The Quakers were thoroughly demolished by the Hawks, and thi s g ame was not competitive for very long, as the Hawks drained 16 threepointers on the way to victory.

ing the deficit to within one possession within the first few minutes of the half. “In the second half, some of our shots didn’t fall, and they made some good plays,� Allen said.

The game remained close throughout most of the second half, but the Quakers received a major blow with only six minutes remaining. It tied up when they lost junior forward Kara Bonenberger, who led the team with 17 points, after a controversial personal

foul call followed by a technical foul. “It was a simple play. Kara kept her arm-bars up – which is legal – and the kid took a flop,� coach McLaughlin said. “It turned into her fourth and fifth foul, and the momentum changed.�

Only t wo minutes later, Penn’s lead ing rebounder Sydney Stipanov ich fouled out , le av i ng t he Q u a ker s without their dominant frontcourt for the game’s final four minutes.

“We just had to keep going,�

Allen said. “You can’t control that stuff.�

Penn kept the scored tied with two minutes remaining, but St. Joe’s was ultimately able to pull away from the depleted Penn lineup in the game’s final two minutes. “Not having the right personnel out there ‌ we struggled to score for a little bit,â€?

McLaughlin said.

The officials certainly did not do the Quakers any favors, but the team remained positive

following the tough loss. “I thought we played well,�

McLaughlin said. “Foul trouble was the difference in the game. “The officiating was very inconsistent, which really dictated a lot.� “I’m proud of our team for never giving up, even when things weren’t going our way,�

Allen added.

Though Penn lost in the final minutes for the second time in three days, the squad will have a chance to redeem itself and

pick up its second Big 5 win of the season against Temple on Wednesday.

Ultimately, the Quakers failed to catch the right breaks on Friday night, but they made their mark on a crazy weekend of Big 5 basketball. “The crowd was great,�

McLaughlin said. “It was a great college atmosphere. “In this Big 5 stretch, we’re seeing some really talented players that we can match up with ‌ It shows that we can do that against anyone.â€?

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“It was a great crowd. I just wished that we connected to that type of atmosphere.� — On the Palestra environment

Penn coach

“It’s just a special building ‌ It’s an honor to coach on that sideline,â€? Martelli said.

But the Quakers simply failed to show up. “It was a great crowd all day,�

Allen said. “I just wish we had connected to that type of atmosphere.�

And now that the game is over, Penn basketball is left with the hangover following an exciting night that spiraled out of control at the end.

It will look around and see its Big 5 brethren surrounding it.

St. Joe’s, La Salle, and Villanova are all having excellent seasons, and Temple is only a couple years removed from being nationally ranked.

So where does that leave Penn?

If this weekend proved anything, it is that the Palestra is still very much the essence of Philadelphia college basketball.

As long as this is the case, Penn basketball will remain a visible part of the Big 5. “People are always going to

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threes early, so they definitely got a rhythm, a lot of confidence.�

Conversely, St. Joe’s did an impressive job of shutting down Penn’s best big men, as the Hawks held Fran Dougherty and Darien Nelson-Henry to a combined 15 points and five rebounds.

St. Joe’s for ward Halil Kanacevik had an impressive night on the boards, grabbing 15 rebounds — three times as many as Nelson-Henry and Dougherty’s combined total.

Unfortunately for the Quakers, sophomore forward Julian Harrell re-injured his knee in the first half after seven scoreless minutes. The severity of the

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by Penn’s bench in the first half. The Red and Blue got ab solutely zero po si tive contributions from their reser ves when the game was still in doubt, making a comeback that much more unlikely.

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After the Quakers lost by 17 to St. Joseph’s to close out Big 5 play for 2013-14, Penn coach Jerome Allen said his team’s performance was “embarrassing.�

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Quakers persevere after teammate’s death TRACK & FIELD | Penn sends partial lineup to compete at Lehigh in wake of somber announcement

BY RILEY STEELE Sports Editor Sometimes sports can serve as a distraction in the face of heartbreak.

But on Saturday, the men’s and women’s track and field meets became an

afterthought as the teams and Penn community at large grieved in the aftermath of Madison Holleran’s death.

Holleran, a freshman cross-country and distance runner from Allendale, N.J., died on Friday night in Center City.

News of her death reached coaches in the middle of the night on Friday, and Holleran’s teammates were informed early Saturday morning.

“We are deeply saddened by the loss of our teammate and friend, Madison Holleran,” Steve Dolan, Penn’s direc-

tor of track and field and cross country, said in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends.

“This is a challenging time for everyone involved with the program, but we will support each other in the weeks to come and help her teammates and friends find their own ways to honor her memory.”

Heading into the weekend, both of Penn’s track teams prepared to participate in Lehigh’s Angry Birds Invitational.

However, once news of Holleran’s death broke, Dolan and his assistants were confronted with a decision regarding whether or not the team should compete at Lehigh. Eventually, the coaches decided to let the choice rest with each individual player.

“Different people are going to grieve in different ways,” Dolan said. “For some, that means being in a bus with their teammates and coaches, then supporting each other on the track.

For others, that means staying here

on campus with their teammates and friends.

“We wanted to let the men and women of our program know that we support them whichever way they choose to deal with this sad occasion and honor their teammate.”

While Dolan himself stayed behind to comfort those who elected not to compete, various assistant coaches led the rest of the teams to Bethlehem, Pa.,

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Hawks fly past Penn via threepoint barrage M. HOOPS | St. Joe’s sinks 13 firsthalf treys to put Quakers in an insurmountable hole to end Big 5 play

BY SEAMUS POWERS Staff Writer

vs. St. Joseph’s So much for a fresh start.

After a triumphant win over Princeton last Saturday, the Quakers were blown out in their own building by Big 5 rival Saint Joseph’s, 85-68, in front of a packed Palestra crowd.

The drama did not match the atmosphere, as the nightcap of the old-fashioned Big 5 doubleheader was all but wrapped up by half, as the Hawks (12-5, 1-2) led the Quakers (3-11, 0-4), 57-23, at the break.

“It was a great crowd,” Penn coach Jerome Allen said. “I just wish that we connected to that type of atmosphere.”

The Hawks’ win marked their first Big 5 victory of the season, and Penn’s second straight winless season in the Big 5.

The defeat represented a missed opportunity for the Red and Blue to build some much needed momentum and get their first back-to-back wins of the season.

“You would like to try to have some consistency in terms of results, and try to put some things together,” Allen said.

The Quakers led exactly once, 4-2, and it was in the first two minutes of the game. Saint Joseph’s would run away with the game soon after.

A 12-0 Hawks run midway through the first half put the Red and Blue in a hole they didn’t come close to digging themselves out of.

“They ran harder than us,” Allen said. “They ran to open spots, while we casually jogged back hoping guys weren’t open. Our communication wasn’t great.”

The Hawks, who led by as much as 38, came out on fire from behind the three-point line, shooting an outrageous 13-for-15 from deep in the first half.

“St. Joe’s shot the hell out of the ball,” senior guard Miles Cartwright said after playing in the last Big 5 contest of his career. “My hat’s off to them.”

St. Joseph’s high scorer was senior guard Langston

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St. Joseph’s was able to sprint past the Quakers, exemplified by junior guard Langston Galloway dunking over senior captain Miles Cartwright in Saturday’s blowout win over Penn.

Galloway was one of four Hawks to score in double figures, putting up 20 points while shooting 6-for-7 from beyond the arc. For the game, St. Joe’s shot 66.7 percent from three-point range.

Penn underwhelms in Palestra showcase

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t was an anticlimactic ending to a day filled with so much excitement surrounding Penn basketball.

The “Cathedral of College Basketball” was the center of attention Saturday, with ESPN’s College GameDay coverage doing the historic venue tremendous justice with its showcase.

“It filled me with tears,” St. Joseph’s coach Phil Martelli said of ESPN’s coverage of the Palestra.

But the day would end with a hyped-up matchup between Penn and a tough St. Joseph’s team.

It is no secret that Penn has struggled this year, entering the game with a 3-10 record. The team was coming off a big win against Princeton though, and Saturday’s matchup would provide a key chance for Penn to prove itself a competitive member of the Big 5.

St. Joe’s student section showed up in full force. By the time of the opening tip-off, their banter with Penn students and fans had increased the intensity of the moment to incredible levels.

Then came the tip, followed promptly by a St. Joe’s alley-oop dunk on the game’s first possession.

For Penn, it all went downhill after that as the gravity of the occasion quickly left the building and Penn’s

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Red and Blue drop another close one, losing streak reaches three games W. HOOPS | Hawks use late free throws to stifle spirited Penn rally

BY COLIN HENDERSON Associate Sports Editor

at St. Joseph’s

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Junior Kara Bonenberger fouled out in the second half, hurting the Quakers’ chances down the stretch.

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With ESPN’s College GameDay bus parked outside the Palestra, the Penn men’s basketball team gained much of the weekend’s attention among Penn sports fans.

However, amidst all the commotion, the women’s basketball team also had a game just miles away, and the squad came very close to stealing the show.

Penn lost to a tough St. Jo-

seph’s team on the road, losing for the third straight game. The Quakers lost by eight, 60-52, but the final score doesn’t even begin to tell the story.

Penn (8-5) entered the game having beaten St. Joe’s (13-4) only once in program history, but it came out swinging from the get -go.

“I thought we came out really strong. We took it right at them,” junior forward Katy Allen said.

“We knew they were a good team, and we just wanted to bring everything we had.”

Penn’s defense was stif ling throughout the first half, led by freshman center Sydney Stipanovich who blocked three shots in the opening half. The Quakers went on a small offensive run to-

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