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Students request admissions files

Penn students take Stanford’s lead in seeking personal files CAROLINE SIMON Staff Reporter

Last week, a widely publicized discovery by a group of Stanford students turned Penn’s college admissions office upside-down.

When a group of Stanford students publicized a method of obtaining one’s admissions file, Penn’s admissions office saw an explosion of requests for access to their files.

The students, who run an anonymous newsletter called the Fountain Hopper, recently gained access to their admissions files through the Family Educational Rights and Pri-

vacy Act. Under FERPA, universities must release educational records to accepted students who request them within 45 days. These records include parts of the application like teacher recommendations, as well as comments made by admissions officers. Students who did not gain admission to a university are not eligible to request their files.

Previously, the Penn admissions office received approximately five requests to view applicant files per year. In the week since the Stanford students publicized the opportunity to access files, it has received over 20made number — already four times the yearly average.

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FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT Miscommunication, misleading marketing and the struggles with Student Financial Services

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Six weeks into her senior year at Penn, Rachel found out herworkstudy grant was gone. Rachel, a College senior and a Residential Advisor in the Quad, was completely surprised. Used to making appointments and talking with Student Financial Services, she had been at the office for a different reason when she also found out about her work-study grant.

Rachel was an RA, and in order to comply with federal regulations, SFS had cut her work study grant so that the amount of aid she received did not exceed her cost of attendance. But Rachel did not know any of this information until she walked into the office.

Stressed and frustrated,Rachel burst into tears in front of her financial aid counselor. Her counselor

could only tell her, “Sorry, but I can’t help you.”

More than anything, Rachel was upset that she got the news six weeks into her senior year. Having been an RA last year as well, it bothered her that “they hadn’t told me that before I signed my RA contract for this year,” she said.

Like Rachel, several students interviewed by The Daily Pennsylvanian in 2014 said that they experienced problems in communication with SFS. The students, many of whom asked for their names to be changed to keep their financial situations private, said problems ranged from unclear messages about financial aid policies to a lack of transparency in how aid is calculated.

While SFS administrators said they have tried to communicate with students as quickly and effectively as possible, given the

communication gap with several student RAs last semester — as well as issues regarding summer study abroad aid and unexpected loan cancellations — it is clear that issues still remain.

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While SFS uses a number of methods to communicate with students regularly, when situations outside the norm arise, communication can break down.

One source who has close knowledge of SFS, and wished to remain anonymous due to not being officially authorized to comment on such matters, said that the office’s weakness is communication.

A perfect example, he said, was what happened to RAs who lost their work study grants. “It has to do with when changes that are made that are not part of the standard

process.”

John, a Nursing senior who is also an RA that lost his work study grant, said in a previous interview with the DP that he was upset with the delayed communication in his case. “If we’re not supposed to have work study because of whatever policy, first of all, that should be made explicit from the very beginning. Second of all, you can’t just do it part way through the year and make me change my plans,” he said.

“My problem was that you didn’t tell me in June.”

Communicating with students is an issue not unique to Penn, and one that colleges across the country face.

Colleges generally have problems communicating financial aid policies with students in part because of the sheer volume of information they are required by law to send out, and in part because the language offices must use to describe their

policies can be overly complicated.

“I think one of the biggest challenges that [a financial aid office] faces is that ‘What is the best way to communicate with students and make sure they actually see it?’” said Jesse O’Connell, assistant director for federal relations at National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

To ensure students are understanding relevant financial aid policies at their schools, offices — including Penn’s — use email, snail mail and even social media to get information to students, O’Connell said.

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Obama college plan meets mixed reviews President Gutmann supports free community college proposal DAN SPINELLI Staff Reporter

Among President Barack Obama’s various proposals outlined in Tuesday’s State of the Union address, one in particular resonated with College senior Emanuel Martinez.

In his speech, Obama formalized his plan — announced two weeks prior — to make the first two years of community college free for students who maintain a 2.5 GPA in a degree program.

“Forty percent of our college students choose community college,” Obama said.

Martinez, along with many other Penn students, is part of that 40 percent.

After one year of community college, Martinez transferred to Penn from Essex County College in Newark, N.J. His education there, which was funded through a

scholarship, motivated Martinez to apply to Penn.

Martinez, who was homeless while completing his community college degree, sees his experience as invaluable due to the familial bond formed with his fellow students. “Community colleges build communities faster than four-year colleges, because the student bodies are smaller.

Faculty and students have a much closer relationship,” he said.

He appreciated the diversity of age and background in community college attendees. “In community college, you have classes with 30 and 40 year olds. You live with these people and develop a sense of humility and self-awareness. That is difficult to develop at a four-year school,” he said.

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Harnwell house dean leaves Penn Dr. Ahn was with the Harnwell community for 12 years COREY STERN Deputy News Editor

Dr. Suhnne Ahn and her cat Beauregard have packed up their belongings and made a cross-country move.

Ahn has left her post as house dean of Harnwell College House to become the dean of Residential Life and Student Activities at the Colburn School, a performing arts school in Los Angeles. She has led Harnwell since 2002, and before that she was director of student affairs at Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Preparatory.

Ahn announced both her departure from Penn and her new role in an email to Harnwell residents on Dec. 19.

“I recently received an exciting opportunity that will take me away from Philadelphia and from our beloved Harnwell College House, where I have served as House Dean for many years,” she wrote, adding that the offer at the Colburn School was one that she “simply found too difficult to resist.”

Having a doctorate in musicology from Harvard, Ahn has always been passionate about the performing arts. Since 1997, she has also taught musicology courses at the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins. While taking care of her responsibilities at Penn most of the week, she would take the train down to Baltimore on Saturdays to teach her graduate seminar at Hopkins.

While she is excited about her new opportunity, Ahn feels bittersweet when leaving Penn, explaining that she’ll always cherish her Harnwell memories like Casino Night and the Sapphire Ball. But most of all, she’ll miss her Harnwell students.

“Harnwell and Penn students are wonderful,” Ahn said. “They’re bright, they’re creative, they’re hardworking.

We had a peaceful, wonderful environment at Harnwell.”

College sophomore Christina Roldan, a Harnwell resident, expressed her appreciation for Ahn as house dean.

“I got to know Dr. Ahn through the house events, and she was always a very sweet and personable lady,” Roldan said. “She was definitely your dream house dean.”

Roldan explained that among her best memories of Ahn are the monthly dean’s tea sessions she held for house residents. The sessions were an opportunity for both intimate discussions and delicious treats.

“She would have everyone sit in a circle, which for a big house like Harnwell is hard to do,” Roldan said. “But she always managed to have enough food for everyone. It was very nice.”

While students and faculty at Harnwell enjoyed nibbling at the English delicacies, it wasn’t all about the food.

“Instead of just being a food distribution point, dean’s tea was a place for conversation,” Harnwell Faculty Master Dr. Kent Bream said. “She started that tradition here, and hopefully we’ll continue it.”

Bream added that he also valued the role that Ahn played at Harnwell for so many years.

He understands that Ahn’s new role is one that perfectly fits her passion for music and the performing arts.

“I know she loved Harnwell dearly. She has written songs that have become Harnwell’s theme songs,” Bream said.

“But the opportunity to take such a high leadership role at an academic institution like Colburn in music, which is her field, she couldn’t turn down.”

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with the statement that “your experience with the SRFS representative ‘met my expectations.’”

But many students and two sources with knowledge of SFS’s internal operations still feel that issues in communication do arise.

In another instance last fall, students were surprised to find out their loans had been canceled through an email from the loan office.

Wharton freshman Hannah Stulberg received an email in midOctober notifying that her loan had been cancelled. The loans were canceled because students, in accordance with federal regulations, have to pay a slightly higher origination fee for the loan after Oct. 1, and therefore had to reapply. It did not ultimately change anyone’s financial situation, but it did stress out students like Stulberg, who told the DP in October that she found her loan canceled out of the blue.

This was a case of a lack of internal communication, according to the source with knowledge of SFS. The loan office is housed under Student Registration and Financial Services, the larger structure which includes SFS, but the loan office is not a part of SFS. “The loan office sent that out without consulting us,” the source said.

SFS, in response to questions about how they communicate with students, said they send out information about changes in policy to students as soon as possible, through both email and hard copies of letters to students’ home addresses. “We’re trying to do everything we possibly can to give them the ability to see what changes have occurred,” Director of Financial Aid Joel Carstens said. He also points to the portal on Penn InTouch as another place where students can get information.

“Our greatest concern is to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to give our students the best information as quickly as possible,” Carstens added.

Misleading marketing

Problems in communication can also arise from students being unintentionally misled by the brochures and information packets sent to them before they get to Penn.

Anna, a College senior who

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transferred from a liberal arts college, said that she expected a lot of aid when she decided to come here because Penn had more resources.

“I just sort of assumed they’ve got a lot bigger endowment. It seemed obvious that I would get more aid here.”

For Anna, it was not an unreasonable expectation, as Penn often advertises its financial aid budget and initiatives. President Amy Gutmann recently announced a new goal for the University to an additional $350 million in financial aid by the year 2020, and one of the first links on SFS’s website for parents leads to an article about financial aid featuring Gutmann.

“Penn’s No-loan Financial Aid Program for 2014-15 Backed

by Penn’s Largest Financial Aid Budget,” the article’s headline reads.

There are facts about this year’s financial aid budget for undergraduates: “$197 million — the largest in the University’s history” and “the program has helped to reduce the number of students borrowing today by 11 percent from those borrowing in 2008.” Penn is the largest university in the country to offer a “no-loan” financial aid policy.

Confronted with articles and language like this, Anna had expected a financial aid package. But she didn’t receive any aid from Penn because her family had assets — in other words, wealth that can be leveraged to get money to help pay for college.

Anna said she only transferred from the liberal arts college because she was not receiving enough aid there. But since coming to Penn, her parents ended up taking a line of credit against their home equity.

And she’s receiving even less aid than at her previous school.

Penn says it will meet 100 percent of a student’s “demonstrable need,” but the key part is what SFS determines as one’s demonstrable need — the gap between the cost of attendance and this need is what a student and his family would end up paying. But if the expected family contribution is too high for the family to pay out of pocket, then students may have to take out a loan.

Barry Johnson, a College sophomore, said one of the main reasons he came to Penn was because of the no-loan policy. But he ended up with a loan (a relatively small one) in his sophomore year, which seemed

contradictory to him.

“They do give good financial aid, but that no-loan policy is something SFS needs to work on,” he said, because some students who go to Penn will take out loans.

According to the federal government’s college scorecard, Penn students take out an average of $20,407 in federal loans, the highest amount in the Ivy League. That compares to Harvard’s $11,000 in loans, Dartmouth’s $13,000 and Brown’s $16,756.

“You can make it very clear during the materials you send out to prospective students: You may accumulate loans,” said Jesus Fuentes, a former United Minorities Council board member and a College senior.

A turnaround

SFS has come a long way since the late 1990’s, when it was severely understaffed, said sociology professor Camille Charles, who was part of a committee in the late 1990’s on pluralism and issues affecting students. One of the contributing factors to student retention was financial aid.

Back then, Charles said, she would have students coming to her during her pre-freshman program who were concerned about their aid packages, before they even officially started college. She used to buy course books for students.

In a more extreme case, professor Herman Beavers, chair of undergraduates and graduates in the Department of Africana Studies, said he had a student who had to work 35 hours a week at a full-time job. He reached out to SFS on her behalf and was able to help her resolve her financial aid situation.

SFS responded to the critiques quickly then, Charles said. At the time, for students on financial hold who tried to purchase items through their bursar accounts, an alarm would sound indicating the charge could not go through. After hearing recommendations from the committee, including Charles, SFS replaced the system with a more discreet notification. The institution also hired more staff and changed its name.

This year, SFS has a budget of $197 million for undergraduate financial aid, a number which Carstens said has grown every year in the past few years.

“I think no system is really going to be perfect, but my sense is that things have gotten substantially better,” Charles said.

Closing the gap

For its part, SFS has been increasing its work with students. It recently announced the creation of the Student Financial Aid Advisory Board — an initiative that was led by the 5B, the five different umbrella groups for minority students. UMC was one of the groups on campus who brought about the creation of the student financial advisory board because of complaints from its constituents. This was also the case for other 5B groups like the Lambda Alliance.

“I think SFS is really starting to get it more and they’re really starting to try to make efforts,” said Undergraduate Assembly president Joyce Kim, a College senior. Kim was one of the students who had initially brought about the implementation of the board. “They’re being a lot more proactive.”

The advisory board is meant to address the issues of transparency and communication that students have raised. The idea was first brought up in December 2013, and the board had originally planned to launch in last fall. It was delayed, partly due to a lack of response on the part of administrators, and is expected to launch in January. The resolution for the board passed in the UA on Dec. 7.

The board, though an important step forward, is not the saving grace.

Fuentes said that those on the board may not be the students who really need to be heard, because those who do have severe financial constraints are usually working 15 to 20 hours a week or maybe even a full-time job.

“Often times these students should be speaking about it, but they don’t have the time,” he said.

Even if the numbers of students affected are small — and there’s no way to get an accurate count on how many students have had problems with SFS — it is still important to address these concerns, Fuentes said.

“I’ve never had my aid withheld from me; I’ve never had to fight for my work study grant,” he said. “Just because it worked for some of us, doesn’t mean we should be satisfied with that.”

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Trujillo drops mayor race, cites family reasons DAN SPINELLI Staff Reporter

Penn Law School alumnus and mayoral candidate Ken Trujillo dropped out of the mayor’s race Wednesday morning.

Trujillo’s exit comes as a surprise to observers who saw the political outsider as a wild-card candidate.

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attended community college, as did 48 percent of black undergraduates.

The average age for community college students is 28 years old.

Obama’s plan also earned praise from Penn President Amy Gutmann.

Gutmann is one of the most vocal supporters of Obama’s plan, primarily due to its investment in low and middle-income students. In an interview with CNBC’s “On the Money,” Gutmann affirmed the necessity of “making college more accessible to more people.”

She noted the scarce financial aid available from state and community colleges, and expressed her desire to see all deserving students educated.

Gutmann praised the program as helpful in accomplishing that goal.

Transfers from community college enter Penn mostly through the College of Liberal and Professional Studies. According to the Director of Enrollment Management at LPS Miriam Wright, 68 percent of entering LPS students in Fall 2014 transferred from community college. Additionally, 43 percent of these students identified as the first members of their family to attend college.

Obama’s proposal could increase enrollment at Penn, said Director of the BA and BFA Programs Kathy Urban. “Increased access to a college education at a community college, which as you can see is a significant source of Penn LPS

adelphia Inquirer that Trujillo planned to use his $3 million of campaign resources to sponsor another candidate.

Trujillo “did not believe any of the remaining candidates fit that bill” and plans to “advance the chances of the right candidate.”

The Democratic candidates for mayor have narrowed to state Senator Anthony Hardy Williams, former District Attorney Lynne Abraham, and former City Solicitor Nelson Diaz.

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as reason for his withdrawal.

Trujillo was still campaigning as of Tuesday night when he hosted a watch party for the State of the Union, a Penn student who volunteered on Trujillo’s campaign said.

“People were getting very excited about his opinions. It was sad to see him step out of the conversation going on in the mayor’s race,” the campaign volunteer said.

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students, will broaden the range of potential students who may consider Penn,” she wrote in an email.

Despite optimism about its ambition, Obama’s plan has also received criticism for its ambiguity and failure to address structural problems in the education system.

“More needs to be done to improve credit transfer, academic achievement and completion rates in our community college system,” said President of the Government and Politics Association and College sophomore Sarah Simon.

“Flooding the system with more students won’t solve those structural concerns,” Simon, who also co-founded a nonprofit geared at increasing college matriculation, added. She also found the GPA requirement troublesome as it may “accelerate grade inflation” and potentially devalue credits earned in community college.

Chair of the Higher Education Division at the Graduate School of Education Laura Perna also recognized potential pitfalls among Obama’s generally positive proposal.

The plan could result in more economic diversity in community colleges by encouraging higherincome students to enroll. However, the plan may also further segregate lower-income students into community college, she said.

Perna is apprehensive about the plan, fearing “four-year colleges being further separated from lowerincome students.”

Martinez also recognized

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“Tied to this is the importance of having an economic system that is able to provide a living wage to graduates of community college,” he added.

While Perna agrees with the spirit of Obama’s plan, she questions the “political feasibility” of the proposal. If introduced as formal legislation, Obama’s plan will have to make it through a Republicancontrolled Congress that is unlikely to be receptive of a new spending bill.

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he awakening came in the form of a text. A quick, absent-minded text sent from my mom’s Subaru as we drove back from my grandparents’ and catalyzed by the boredom only six hours of my sister’s Dave Matthews Band CD could produce. The words fluttered from my fingers before I could question them.

“So, like ... what if I dyed my hair blue?”

I’ve flirted with the idea of hair dye for a while.

Like most — okay, some — people, I endured a middle school counterculture phase that caused me to paste a “Make Love, Not War” bumper sticker above my desk and read too much Allen Ginsberg. I wanted a physical manifestation of my newfound rage against the machine. Blue hair would signify that I was different, a separate class from my brunette past. Of course, my thirteen-year-old angst didn’t

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brown eyes and pale, like so many other girls waiting in the cold outside sorority houses. I don’t stand out on

and dresses. I had a hipster period. During my first months at Penn, I’ve tried to be everything from “The Girl

As I bounce back and forth between different rush events, I’m frustrated that I can’t summarize myself. I can’t articulate some spiffy conclusion from the various odds-and-ends that make up who I am.” versus tea, changing my hair seemed like a life-altering decision.

I know that this is stupid.

Perched behind my laptop in the Law Library basement, I can laugh at myself. But this week when I stood in front of my mirror, attacking my face with a makeup brush in preparation for rush and new classes, I glanced at my reflection and wondered the kind of first impression my appearance made. I’m a pretty ordinary-looking person on the surface: long hair,

Locust Walk — and with my dark peacoat and Longchamp bag, I certainly don’t stand out from my Rho Gamma group. I wish I had a more superficial distinctive quality.

Hair dye isn’t my only attempt to differentiate myself. Since my middle school days, I’ve flirted with different fads. I went vegan for a week before hamburgers and ice cream proved too seductive. For a semester in high school, I stayed away from jeans and wore only skirts

Who Shakes People’s Hands When She Meets Them” to “The Girl Who Always Smells Like Strawberries.”

Sometimes, these fads stick — as my roommate can attest from the pile of strawberry perfume on our bookcase — but more often, I just trade them into new ones. When the Common App asked me to concisely express my personality, I had a stockpile of taglines I’d amassed over the years to define myself. But self-identity gets a lot messier when it’s not crammed

into a word count.

As I bounce back and forth between different rush events, I’m frustrated that I can’t summarize myself. I can’t articulate some spiffy conclusion from the various odds-and-ends that make up who I am. I’m comprised of insignificant details — the fact that I have E.E. Cummings taped above my bed or hate bananas or subsist on black coffee — that add up to something I can’t convey with my choice of shoes or the color of my peacoat.

What I can control is whether I look like an interesting person, whether the five-minute chat I have with a sorority sister indicates I’m worth getting to know. As trivial as it sounds, blue hair offers a pretty compelling way to stand out.

By the end of the car ride though, I had decided to leave my hair in peace. For one thing, hair dye can be expensive; for another, I’m happy with my hair as is. I’ll

DANI BLUM burn it with my straightener, I’ll tease it into 12 different styles while I prepare for Open House and Pref Night and the seemingly endless slew of other rush activities, but ultimately, all my hair will do is flounce over my collar while I shake some sister’s hand and introduce myself. It won’t guarantee that I’m memorable. For that, I’ll have to rely on what’s inside my head.

DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” appears every Thursday.

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When we love, we are being pro-life

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hen I was younger, I identified strongly as pro-life. I saw abortion as a pressing matter of public interest and human rights.

Today, while I still identify as pro-life, I see abortion as more than just about the rights of the fetus. When I say that I am pro-life, I mean that I believe that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness should be extended to all humans. Without the right to life, all other rights are impossible. Perhaps most important is the realization that with life comes love.

I believe that love wants what is best for others. I believe that a woman is worth more than abortion. When a woman has an abortion, she may harm herself emotionally and physically. And every time a woman is coerced into having an abortion, women’s rights takes a step back.

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an abortion takes place, the human within the womb is stripped of his autonomy.

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indicative of the society that dismisses and rejects them.

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One of the greatest injustices is that of the consistent minimizing of the smaller and weaker. Working to reduce abortion and infanticide and speaking against euthanasia is seeking to promote justice for those who cannot speak up for themselves.” go on as usual following an abortion. Abortion misleads women as to what is forming inside their womb.

I believe that love seeks truth. I believe that the unborn are human, from the moment of fertilization. As a nursing student, I know that science suggests no less. As a person of faith, I know that God intricately formed me in my mother’s womb.

I believe that love supports autonomy. Every time

formed consent or the knowledge that she cannot succeed in life if she chooses to parent her child, not only is her autonomy reduced, but also sexism claims a victory.

I believe that love cherishes and accepts. The label of “unwanted” reflects not on the recipient of the label, but on the giver. Children, disabled persons or older adults considered unwanted are not so because of anything they have done. Instead, the label is

cases. But the problem is that abortion — as the suggested solution to unwanted children — kills them, instead of “wanting” them.

I believe that love begets love. Adoption can be a beautiful picture of loving beyond bloodlines, race and culture.

Instead of allowing a child to grow up family-less, adoption receives and calls a child “wanted.”

I believe that love values people. The physically and

developmentally challenged are to be protected because value is determined not by what a person can potentially “contribute” to society, but by who they are.

I believe that love lasts.

The old are not too old for us to provide them with optimal medical care. I believe that a society that marginalizes the weakest is forgetting the meaning of respect and is forging a path of destruction for itself.

I believe that love is selfless. In our society, the meaning of love is often distorted; one might use the word when talking about a gyro or a hero, or anything in between. True love, the sort of love that gives instead of takes, is selfless. Love that regards others better than self looks out for the best of others. This is seen in the mother who gives up her child for adoption because she wants the best for her child. This is seen in the husband who lovingly cares

for his spouse while she is on a ventilator. This is seen in a family that adopts a child with developmental disabilities so that the child can know the meaning of family.

I believe that love pursues and upholds justice. One of the greatest injustices is that of the consistent minimizing of the smaller and weaker.

Working to reduce abortion and infanticide and speaking against euthanasia is seeking to promote justice for those who cannot speak up for themselves.

I believe that love builds up. Whenever we encourage someone who is struggling, we show love. Whenever we reach out to help another life, we show love. And when we love, we are being pro-life.

HANNAH F. VICTOR is a Nursing junior from Cheltenham, Pa. Her email address is vhannah@ nursing.upenn.edu.

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SCUE recommends non-academic classes, gap year database Group releases white paper once every five years ELLIE SCHROEDER Staff Reporter

Mental health, sexual assault and drug and alcohol use are just a few of the topics on which the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education wants the administration to hear their voices on.

This week, SCUE released its 2015 White Paper — a document that is published every five years with student recommendations to the administration.

One of the big questions of this year’s White Paper is on how to

improve quality of life once students get on campus. They describe a campus culture in which students’ busy academic and extracurricular schedules pressure many students to forgo healthy habits.

SCUE’s new holistic education initiative originally stemmed from the fact that Penn does not offer credit in physical education unlike many other peer institutions. The proposed system would include an “alternative credit system” that would incentivize participation in activities that reinforce non-academic personal development.

Under the proposal, students could get non-academic credit for activities such as exercise classes, healthy eating classes, community

service, and intramural sports.

Credit would potentially go towards rewards from scholarships, stipends and priority housing selection to tickets for events on campus.

“We wanted to address how to teach students to be more well-rounded and manage their challenging lives in a way that reduces stress and educates them about different cultures and civic engagement opportunities,” SCUE Chair and College senior Lucas Siegmund said, adding that they wanted students “to use their experience here not just to learn in the classroom but to develop as a person.”

Additionally, SCUE proposed greater centralization of community

service opportunities on campus, which are currently divided amongst the Netter Center, Fox Leadership House and the Civic House, as well as expanding student participation in Academically Based Community Service courses.

One way the university will address these issues even before Penn students come to campus is through online modules similar to Penn Alcohol Module, which incoming freshmen have had to complete in past years, and expand them to incorporate other topics. Modules in the works include sexual assault, academic integrity policies and mental wellness.

The goal is that students, incoming freshmen as well as

upperclassmen, will be engaged in learning about these issues throughout their undergraduate experience and will have time to reflect on them instead of facing the type of information overload that tends to happen during New Student Orientation.

“These kinds of general lessons about life at Penn are helpful throughout your college experience,” Siegmund said.

Another initiative aimed at addressing quality of life is by calling attention to the gap year as a valuable option for students. SCUE proposed organizing a university database of students’ gap year experiences, as well as compiling a panel of students who have taken gap years to advise interested students.

Siegmund said SCUE defines a gap year “not just to mean a year between high school and undergraduate experience, but to mean any period in your four years at Penn where you leave — the goal of which would be to achieve some personal objective.”

Students at Penn often take gap years for work experience, volunteer opportunities, creating businesses or taking time to reflect on their goals before getting their degrees.

The goal of the database and panel would be to take away the negative stigma against taking time off from Penn and celebrate students’ unique experiences, letting them know that it is okay to take time to figure things out.

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Wolf vows to raise PA minimum wage Raise would affect onand off-campus student workers JONATHAN BAER Staff Reporter

Pennsylvania is part of a minority of states that does not have a minimum wage over the federal standard, but newly elected Democratic Governor Tom Wolf wants to change that.

On Tuesday, Wolf, who beat former Republican Governor Tom Corbett by 10 percent of the vote in November, was sworn in as Pennsylvania’s 47th governor.

While Wolf’s campaign touted lofty goals, such as raising the state minimum wage, passing legislation will likely require a lot of compromise with the Republican-controlled legislature.

During his campaign for governor, Wolf advocated for Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to increase from $7.25 an hour to $10 an hour. In addition, the minimum wage would be indexed to inflation.

“If we come together with a sense of shared purpose, we can build the better future that Pennsylvania deserves,” Wolf said in his inaugural speech on Tuesday.

“Being inclusive, being fair, and paying good wages are not just the right things to do, they are the smart things to do.”

Wolf wasn’t the only politician to advocate for better wages on Tuesday.

“To everyone in this Congress

who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this,” President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address on Jan 20.

“If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest-working people in America a raise.”

While Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) did not address the minimum wage issue in her GOP response to Obama’s address, Republicans firmly oppose a higher minimum wage because its additional business costs could cause increased unemployment.

For Penn students, an increased Pennsylvania minimum wage could be beneficial. Most students with work-study jobs would see a pay increase if Wolf’s proposal took effect.

“The proposal, if enacted into law, would affect nearly all on and off-campus student jobs,” Director of Communications for Penn Student Financial Services Marlene Bruno said in an email.

While the newly-elected Wolf remains hopeful and optimistic that Pennsylvania can increase its minimum wage, a Republican-controlled legislature has cloaked his proposal in uncertainty.

“He has said what he wants and he has said what he doesn’t want, but what we don’t know is what he is willing to give the other side,” said Terry Madonna, director of Franklin and Marshall College’s Center for Politics

and Public Affairs. “There is far more that we don’t know than we do know about how this process is going to unfold.”

The solution seems to rely on compromise between Wolf

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The Republican leadership and Gov. Wolf are “trying to develop a relationship with each other, something that did not exist with Corbett,” Madonna said. “Even Republican leaders did not have a relationship with Corbett. They complained about it.”

“So you got two things going on,” Madonna added. “The development of personal relationships and the notion that each side has to give something.”

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Dean of Admissions Eric Furda spoke about the admissions office’s response to this “avalanche” of requests. While the University must comply with FERPA, Furda plans to remove certain personal comments from applicants’ files before granting students access, particularly comments referencing other applicants or specific school groups. Per FERPA’s stipulations, admissions offices need only release information explicitly about the applicant requesting documents.

“If there’s anything personal that we need to redact within any of the notes that we have, we will do that,” Furda said.

If the University continues to receive a high volume of requests, the admissions office may enact significant changes in the way it handles admissions files, balancing a goal of respecting students and a need for honest conversation about applications.

“What you want to make sure of is that [admissions officers] can have open dialogue while you’re trying to admit a class,” Furda said.

Furda also noted that the growing trend of students requesting to

view admissions files may spark changes in other institutions’ admissions processes, as well as at Penn.

“It will make admission offices across the country take a look at everything we do,” he said.

Incoming freshman Janice Hur, who was accepted early decision, said that she would consider requesting to see her admissions file.

Hur believes that increased transparency would force admissions offices to discontinue practices such as judging applicants based on more subjective factors, such as race.

“Once students are given the right through FERPA to access these documents, I think admissions officers will be kind of forced to change their method,” she said. “How they choose or reject students would change drastically.”

Incoming freshman Neel Daugherty-Shrivastavadid he want to be known by both last names?, who was also accepted early decision, believes that giving accepted students access to their admissions files would negatively affect the application process.

“Students shouldn’t see that information because then they

stop pursuing their passions and their dreams, which colleges really want to see, and they start worrying about numbers and different admissions requirements or factors,” Daugherty-Shrivastava said.

For students who wish to view their admissions files, The Fountain Hopper’s website offers sample letters that can be sent to college admissions offices and instructions for completing the process.

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Penn’s most recent trip and star-studded trip to Ithaca

BY THOMAS MUNSON

But the score did anything but show the whole story that Saturday in Ithaca.

Penn held a lead in seven of its 10 matches — despite only winning three — and recorded two more takedowns than their rivals.

Still, there was an upset that day. Then-sophomore C.J. Cobb took down sixth-ranked AllAmerican Mike Nevinger in dominating fashion, 7-2.

Penn also recorded victories at the hands of then-senior AllAmerican Micah Burak, who was ranked tenth in the nation at 197 pounds at the time. For Burak, the victory was one of many in a season in which he was unanimously named FirstTeam All-Ivy, captured an EIWA title and a Round of 12 finish at the NCAA tournament.

Then-sophomore Ian Korb also recorded a win for the Red and Blue at 174 pounds against Duke Pickett. Korb willed his way to a narrow 5-3 victory, playing defense as time expired to escape with the win.

The match was indicative of a strong year for Penn wrestling and coach Rob Eiter. The Quakers defeated all other Ivy opponents and finished a strong third at the EIWA Championships as MEREDITH STERN/DP FILE PHOTO well as an impressive second at In Penn’s most recent trip to Ithaca, N.Y., then-sophomore C.J. Cobb scored one of the most prominent upsets of the season for the Quakers, upsetting No. 6 the Keystone classic.

From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ The last time Penn wrestling made its way to Ithaca, N.Y., to take on the Big Red and grapple with a top-10 squad, the Quakers were the 24th-ranked team in the country. But that wasn’t the only stark difference in the matchup.

Headlining Cornell’s squad in Jan. 2013 was Kyle Dake, arguably the greatest collegiate wrestler in history.

Fresh off three straight national championships at an unprecedented three different weight classes, “The Kid� bumped up another weight class to 165 pounds for his senior campaign, one in which he would yet again be crowned champion, therefore cementing his legacy the best ever in the eyes of many.

And it was no surprise then that he took down Penn’s thenfreshman Casey Kent via a pin.

In addition to Dake, there was another defending national champion on the Big Red roster — 184-pound Steve Bosak who defeated then-sophomore Canaan Bethea five to nothing.

While the Quakers put up a valiant effort against their Ivy foes, they ultimately fell, 24-9.

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regardless, of the final team scores.

The 184-pound bout will feature two of the nation’s finest wrestlers: Penn senior Lorenzo Thomas and Cornell sophomore Gabe Dean. The pair of 2014 All-Americans both possess topfive rankings.

The duo currently makes up two-thirds of Ancient Eight wrestlers ranked in the top-five of their weight class. It is due to this caveat that the match will be getting serious attention from

and former All-American Mike Nevinger, 7-2. Although the Red and Blue lost, 24-9, Penn put up a tough fight against one of the toughest squads in the nation.

Ivy League and collegiate wrestling fans alike.

The Red and Blue faithful will have to hope that Saturday’s clash of titans will be reminiscent of the matches they had during the 2012-2013 season. In that season, Thomas won all three meetings, although both wrestled unaffiliated with a team.

To do so, however, Thomas — who lost all three matches against his rival last season — will have to flip the script on the elusive Dean.

Despite the implications the 184-pound bout holds for EIWA and NCAA championship seed-

ing, it would be foolish for the Quakers to only focus on the day’s marquee matchup.

This meet holds its own championship implications for both teams as well. For the last 25 years, the winner of the PennCornell dual has gone on to capture the Ivy League team title at the end of the season. It would be no surprise if the same holds true this season.

While the Red and Blue have been somewhat flat in their opportunities to solidify themselves as a top team in the nation, there is little doubt that outside of Cornell (8-1), they possess one

of the most balanced and solid rosters in the conference. What is bound to bolster their lineup this semester is their newfound depth.

With the return of former NCAA qualifiers seniors Canaan Bethea and Brad Wukie, as well as the emergence of freshman Joe Heyob, the Quakers are deeper at the heavier weight classes, a luxury they didn’t have during the first half of the season.

Additionally, the Quakers no longer have to forfeit the 125-pound bouts due to sophomore Jeremy Schwartz’s return from injury.

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But Woods missed the foul shot that would have drawn Penn within 10, senior forward Greg Louis couldn’t get a good handle on the ball before it bounced out of bounds into the student section and the Red and Blue never threatened further.

Despite his outstanding effort against the Wildcats, Woods managed only five points in Wednesday’s contest. Junior guard Tony Hicks scored only eight points on three-for-eight shooting and center Darien Nelson-Henry added 12 points and six boards for Penn.

The Quakers have now lost four of their last five contests and could not escape this game without injury added onto insult.

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It’s a busy weekend for Penn Athletics, as 11 teams will compete over the next several days, with six teams set to throw down on the Quakers’ home courts, pool and track on Saturday and Sunday. Here’s a quick look at what to expect from three of the seven sports competing this coming weekend.

TRACK & FIELD On Saturday at the Tse Ping - Cheng Cheung Ling Sports Center, the Penn men’s and women’s fencing squads will host the Philadelphia Invitational, the Quakers’ first home competition of the New Year.

The Red and Blue are coming off of a strong showing at the Penn State Invitational last weekend in Happy Valley.

The tournament was especially eventful for the women’s team, who knocked off last year’s national champion — Penn State — to end the weekend with a 4-1 record. The Quakers’ sole loss came from Ivy foe Colum-

bia, a team currently ranked second in the nation. Last weekend was less exhilarating on the men’s side, as the team finished 3-1 and won 72 of 108 bouts.

This weekend, the Quakers will go up against fencers from Cornell, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins and North Carolina.

Penn’s eighth-ranked men’s squad should easily handle its opponents, while the women — currently ranked sixth — can expect the steepest competition from Northwestern, rated ninth in the nation.

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In the Red and Blue’s first action since the fall, senior Jeremy Court will lead the Quakers into the City 6 Tournament against fellow Philadelphia squads.

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The men’s and women’s track & field teams head to Princeton on Saturday to compete in the Princeton Invitational, the teams’ second meet of the spring semester.

If last weekend’s performance at Lehigh’s Angry Birds Invitational is any indicator of what is to come, the Quakers can expect more fast times and near record-setting marks from its stars. It seems that Penn’s only weakness going into the weekend will be battling the cold weather doldrums.

In particular, junior thrower

Sam Mattis has literally shouldered the success of the men’s team’s results in the field — last weekend in the weight throw he tallied the eighth best throw in school history.

On the women’s side, a pack of four freshman sprinters make Penn a force to be reckoned with in the 60-meter and 200-meter races. The Quakers are also formidable in the long distance events bolstered by consistently fast times from twins Cleo and Clarissa Whiting.

In Penn’s second meet of the spring semester, Cleo Whiting will lead the Quakers in a variety of distance events at the Princeton Invitational on Saturday.

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concerned. Led by forward Kavunaa Edwards’ four threepointers, Villanova took a comfortable 12-point lead into the half on just below 60 percent shooting.

McLaughlin went into halftime knowing that his team needed to make adjustments, and the Quakers certainly seemed poised to. The Red and Blue increased on-ball pressure on defense and made a more

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While Delaware has been swimming well in recent weeks, the Quakers have put together a few strong performances of their own.

Although Penn split both of its trimeets the past two weekends, the Red and Blue looked strong in Providence last Saturday, claiming two event wins and nine second-place finishes.

Sophomore Ellie Grimes captured a victory in the 200-yard breaststroke against Brown and Harvard while fellow sophomore Rochelle Dong led the Quakers to a one-two finish in the 100-yard fly.

Similarly, against Towson on Saturday, Blue Hens’ junior Morgan

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However, the second half yielded similar results.

Within eight minutes of the second half, the Wildcats had increased their lead to 22 off the strength of sharp passing and scrappy interior defense. From then on, all they had to do was cruise to an easy victory.

It was a dominant performance from the team in blue and white, and the stats showed it.

The Wildcats played unselfish basketball, notching nine more

assists than the Red and Blue while shooting an impressive 50 percent from the field.

All of which this made more impressive by the fact that it came at the Palestra, where the Quakers have been almost unbeatable as of late.

There are a couple silver linings for the Quakers to take away from the game, however.

Junior forward Kara Bonenberger put together a strong 13-point performance and looked threatening on the offensive end throughout the evening.

Furthermore, despite the ugly loss, Penn still retains a share of its first Big 5 title in school history.

“I know it’s not the time to talk about it 10 minutes after getting your butt kicked,” McLaughlin said. “But to win three Big 5 games for the first time and share this title.

When we look back at it, we’ll celebrate for sure.”

The Quakers will look to bounce back this Saturday on the road against NJIT.

Whyte put together a noteworthy performance of her own, capturing individual victories in the 50- and 100-yard freestyles in Delaware’s 205-95 loss.

While Penn may rejoice in hosting its first meet since Nov. 9, road contests have posed little trouble for the Blue Hens this season. Delaware is undefeated away from the Rawstrom Natatorium in 2014-15, having won all five of its meets on the road, including four in the month of January alone.

With the women’s squad expected to have a tough battle on its hands against the Blue Hens, Penn’s men’s team is prepared for a much easier

test on Saturday.

Like its female counterparts, Delaware men’s swimming (4-5) bounced back from a loss against Towson on Saturday with a pair of wins against Iona and St. Peter’s on Sunday. Blue Hens’ diver Patrick McCann won three of his four events last weekend, including both his 1and 3-meter dives at the tri-meet.

But the Quakers have their own collection of talented swimmers, particularly junior Chris Swanson.

The Tampa, Fla., native secured victories in the 1000-yard and 500-yard freestyle events, helping the Red and Blue to an eight-point win over Brown.

Because it is Penn’s final home event of the season, the program will honor the 16 seniors comprising the two squads. In addition to commemorating the athletes during the meet on Saturday, the Quakers will also hold a banquet for the Class of 2015 once the meet concludes.

For the Red and Blue, everything up to this point has and will continue to be a warmup for the Ivy Championships in Princeton next month.

And while Penn has looked sharp at times this season, it has obstacles to overcome this weekend before putting their focus squarely on Ivies.

MEN’S TENNIS The men’s tennis teams from the City of Brotherly Love will become rivals on the courts on Saturday as they compete in the City 6 Tournament at Penn’s own Levy Tennis Center.

The Quakers will go up against Drexel as well as the four other Big 5 teams, La Salle, St. Joseph’s, Temple and Villanova. The toughest competition for Penn will likely come from the Wildcats, a squad that was solid throughout all of its four tournament appearances in

September and October.

This weekend marks the Quakers’ first taste of competition since the culmination of the fall season in mid-October.

The Red and Blue finished their fall bout of tournaments with a meager showing at the Northeast Regional Championships at St. John’s. Penn’s strongest performance came from the doubles pair of co-captain Jeremy Court and freshman Nicolas Podesta that lost to Harvard in the quarterfinals.

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BY COLIN HENDERSON Sports Editor

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into a roar.

“I saw the opportunity as soon as [Andrew Nicholas] went for the steal,” DiLeo said of the dunk. “And I knew it was gonna be huge at the end of the half.

“It’s already hard when you’re losing at halftime and then you come off getting a fastbreak dunk. It really helped us, and I think it probably hurt them a little bit, just [because of] the momentum it gave us.”

Junior guard Deon Jones led all scorers with 17 points while DiLeo and fellow Monmouth sophomore Collin Stewart added 12 apiece.

As the Hawks’ lead swelled to as many as 23 points in the second half, Allen shifted his defense into a pressing and trapping scheme in a desSEE M. HOOPS PAGE 8

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Red and Blue, 71-56, in a game that way we did is disappointing.” over early.

Meanwhile, Monmouth (10-9) by as many as 23 in blowout wasPenn (4-10) couldn’t get anything burned the Red and Blue at will. The to fall in the early goHawks had nine assists

BY IAN WENIK ing, despite using its in the first half and shot Senior Staff Writer motion offense to get 56.3 percent from the many open looks. The field.

Quakers missed eight The thing that’s No one did more of their first 11 shots damage to Penn, though, most frustrating and trailed by double than Hawks guard Max digits for much of the is that they played DiLeo. VS. MONMOUTH with such attention Former Temple guard first half.

For a moment, it looked as if Penn “The thing that’s to detail, a ton of Anthony DiLeo’s little basketball had turned a corner when most frustrating is that the younger energy and effort brother, it gave then-No. 5 Villanova a serious they played with such DiLeo, converted on alscare at home on Saturday. attention to detail, a Saturday night. ” most every opportunity Apparently not. ton of energy and efthe Quakers presented -Jerome Allen Playing in front of a mostly-empty fort Saturday night,” him, including a thunPenn coach Palestra crowd, the Quakers came out coach Jerome Allen derous breakaway dunk sleepwalking against Monmouth and said. “And then to with 22 seconds left in paid dearly. The visiting Hawks hit 21 come back tonight and start the game the first half that sent the sizable conof their first 33 shots and trounced the the way we did or play it in pockets the tingent of Monmouth fans in the arena

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Cornell has taken last 25 Ivy titles

BY THOMAS MUNSON Associate Sports Editor A trip to Ithaca is never pleasant this time of year due to its lack of cellphone service and subarctic conditions.

But a trip to the home of the Big Red can easily get SATURDAY a whole lot No. 6 Cornell worse with (8-1, 2-0 Ivy) a matchup against Cor1 p.m. nell’s sixthIthaca, N.Y. THOMAS MUNSON/DP STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ranked wrestling team Against Cornell, senior Lorenzo Thomas will match up with the Big Red’s top wrestler, Gabe Dean. just over the bleak horizon.

On Saturday, Penn will send its grapplers north for the daunting task of taking on the ers (3-3) to pull off the upset, one match will cream of the Ivy League crop in its first league demand the most attention Saturday afternoon, dual meet of the season.

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Senior forward Kara Bonenberger was one of the few bright sports for a lackluster Penn team on Wednesday..

Penn women’s basketball will need to share its throne atop Philadelphia college basketball.

Looking to go 4-0 in the Big 5 on the season, the Red and Blue instead found themselves at the mercy of a Villanova squad firing on all cylinders, losing 70-44.

The Wildcats (11-8) knew they were in for a test from a tough Penn team (8-6), and they came out red hot.

In fact, they pretty much couldn’t miss.

In the game’s first eight minutes alone, Villanova took a commanding 24-8 lead over the Red and Blue. The Wildcats’ impressive scoring output in that stretch came primarily as a result of an obscene 6-of-7 three-point shooting performance.

“They just made shots,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “We worked really hard to take away some angles, but they move the ball so quickly.”

The Quakers have been strong defensively throughout the season, but quite frankly, Villanova picked them apart. When the Wildcats had the ball, the ball moved crisply and almost always ended in the hands of an open shooter.

“We broke down,” McLaughlin said. “And we paid for it … They simply outplayed us.”

Penn managed to fight back in the first half, led by the high-energy play of freshman guard Beth Brzozowski, who contributed five points and two steals in short order off the bench.

“I think we treated it like any other Big 5 game,” senior guard Kathleen Roche said.

“They came right at us, and we could have come out harder on them.”

However, the Wildcats never looked too

Although Penn came out flat against Monmouth on Wednesday night, sophomore Matt Howard was one of the lone bright spots for the Quakers. The second-year guard led all Red and Blue scorers with 14 points and managed to come away with three steals on the defensive end. Howard injured his wrist towards the end of the game and his status moving forward is unclear.

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One final go-around at Sheerr SWIMMING | Penn preps

for Senior Day vs. Blue

BY RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

Throughout its season, Penn swimming often has fewer home contests than any other sport. With a majority of the program’s meets taking place on the road, it’s on the Quakers to make the most of their time on campus.

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After setting a pool record in the 200-yard butterfly against Columbia in November, senior Taylor Sneed is looking to end her career at Penn in similar record-setting fashion.

In what will be the final home meet for both of coach Mike Schnur’s squads, Penn’s matchups with the Blue As a result, this weekend the Red Hens will be the first of three consecuand Blue will try to take advantage of a tive nonconference meets before the rare opportunity as both the men’s and program swims in the Ivy Championwomen’s squads prepare for matchups ships starting on Feb. 19 for the womwith Delaware at Sheerr Pool on Sat- en and Feb. 26 for the men. urday.

Against Delaware (10-3), Penn’s 12 p.m.

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women’s squad (5-4) will do battle with a team that has lost only once in eight dual meets since Nov. 1. Despite dropping their final home meet of the 2014-15 season last Saturday, the Blue Hens bounced back with two blowout wins against Iona and St. Peter’s.

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