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New efforts on sexual assault

New staff and procedures part of Penn’s sexual violence efforts SOPHIA WITTE Senior Reporter

Penn’s email announcement on Jan. 26 of a newly hired sexual violence investigative officer comes on the heels of its recent decision to

participate in a national survey on sexual assault and harassment on campus.

The email, sent to undergraduates at 4:02 p.m., announced Christopher Mallios as the University’s first Sexual Violence Investigative Officer, whose position begins immediately. He will lead investigations on all complaints against students

allegedly in violation of Penn’s policy on sexual violence, relationship violence and stalking.

The email also described amendments to the Student Disciplinary Charter for handling sexual violence allegations, which will take effect on Feb. 1 and apply to all 12 schools.

The procedures are set to be published in the Almanac at some point

today.

Though more than two dozen universities have declined to participate, Penn will take part in the national survey, which will anonymously question students about their sexual assault and violence experiences and their knowledge of campus SEE SEXUAL ASSAULT PAGE 3

SIGHT-READING WITH GOOGLE GLASS ThirdEye, a student-developed app, recognizes objects to help visually impaired people JOE LI Staff Reporter

Four Penn freshmen are working on a startup that helps visually impaired people “see the world.”

Last fall at the PennApps hackathon, Engineering freshmen Rajat Bhageria, Ben Sandler and Joe Cappadona won the title of top 10 finalist with their Google Glass app. Named ThirdEye, the application is virtually an image-recognition system that can recognize the texts and shapes presented in front of the device’s built-in camera. In a video the team made demonstrating the product, the Glass reads out the amount of a dollar bill and the instructions on a bottle of medicine.

The app aims to help visually impaired people feel more independent by letting them “see” what’s going on in front of them, Bhageria

Video interview with the founders of ThirdEye

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Look out FroGro: TargetExpress may come to campus

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Target Corp. is looking to build up to four TargetExpress stores in Phila.

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Penn students may soon have an even shorter commute to late-night snacks — a TargetExpress could be on its way to campus soon.

Target is currently searching for potential sites near Center City and University City to build as many as four TargetExpress stores, the smaller versions of a regular Target store.

For Penn students, the potential opening of a University City TargetExpress will provide them with more grocery shopping options. The opening of TargetExpress, which offers fresh food, as well as grab-and-go options, may bring direct competition to grocery stores near campus such as Wawa and Fresh Grocer.

But several students agreed that convenience is their primary concern, and the store’s opening may not majorly affect their shopping choices.

“I guess it all depends on the distance between the TargetExpress store and where I live,” Lily Jiang, a College and Wharton sophomore, said. “I now live in the Hill College House, and I prefer to shop at CVS or Wawa.

Even FroGro seems to be too far for me. If I move to the other side of the campus next year,

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said. The team was inspired by Cappadona’s blind grandfather, who wanted to rely on himself when getting the right amount of change or taking the right kind of medicine.

Last December, the team brought their product to the National Federation of the Blind’s Baltimore headquarters and immediately secured a partnership with the institution. NFB tested ThirdEye on more than 10 visually impaired individuals and provided feedback to help the team further improve the product.

College freshman David Ongchoco, who later became ThirdEye’s chief marketing officer, met the three co-founders while

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If you find yourself smoking outside of Van Pelt too often, Penn research might help you finally put out the flame.

The new study by professor Caryn Lerman of the Department of Psychiatry and Annenberg Public Policy Center has found that

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using a particular drug called varenicline is much more effective to help quit smoking than using nicotine patches or just quitting cold turkey.

According to the National College Health Assessment survey cited in a September article in The Daily Pennsylvanian, over 70 percent of Penn students have never used cigarettes, while only 10.6 percent of students said they SEE SMOKING HABITS PAGE 2

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Active learning classes sail on Penn continues to expand student-driven learning ELLIE SCHROEDER Staff Reporter

A new form of learning has taken sail at Penn in recent years, but negative student feedback suggests stormy seas ahead.

Structured, Active, In-Class, Learning courses, or SAIL courses, which emphasize self-reliance in education, have become a typical part of Penn students’ schedules. These courses force students to work through problems and learn concepts through independent learning instead of following an instructor’s lead to the answer.

Operating on the theory that students absorb concepts better through group problem-solving, SAIL method courses were first offered in STEM fields and are expanding into business and even humanities courses.

Penn received a $500,000 grant in 2013 from the Association of American Universities to implement the teaching method, but many students have found their courses to be lacking.

“The idea of working in groups makes sense, but the actual implementation didn’t complement that too well,” Wharton freshman Nico DeLuna said of his Math 110

class, adding that students were graded on homework that they had to complete prior to learning the concepts.

“It was frustrating because we basically had to teach ourselves,” DeLuna said. “We could have learned in a much more efficient way.”

Math 110 was a pilot SAIL class that math professor Robin Pemantle said was probably his most unpopular course, though he added that students’ learning was not compromised.

“Any first course would have bumps in the road,” Pemantle said.

However, he believes the SAIL method of teaching will address the problem of some students not truly understanding the concepts they are learning and will help them develop math communication skills.

“Students want it to be comfortable like it used to be. Changing that without warning is going to cause shockwaves,” Pemantle said. “We are in it for the long game.”

With increasingly available technology contributing to a rise in online courses, Pemantle said that a growing number of his colleagues post videos of their lectures online. He prefers to engage directly with his students and said that SAIL facilitates that.

“If I’m doing something where I

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expansion across disciplines. New courses utilizing the structure this semester include Latin American history and Rebecca Stein’s Econ 001 class, a widely popular introductory course.

Modern Constitutional Law, a humanities course taught by Roger Smith piloting the SAIL method this semester, is leaving a positive impression on College freshman Sebastian Cevallos, despite the mixed reviews among calculus students.

Cevallos said that although the course requires substantial preparation, he enjoys the interactive format. Students watch a video lecture, read a court case and come to class ready to argue their opinion one way or another. At the end of class, Smith gives a clicker poll to visually demonstrate how the in-class discussion shaped students’ opinions.

“You could see how people changed their opinions [through debate] and how that may mimic the Supreme Court’s decision,” Cevallos said.

Yet, a cloud of dissatisfaction hovers over students discussing SAIL courses across campus.

One freshman, who requested to remain anonymous, is displeased with her calculus class last semester.

“I feel like I’m paying $60,000 a year to teach myself,” she said.

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Pemantle said.

Executive Director for the Center for Teaching and Learning Bruce Lenthall agreed that popularity is not necessarily the best means for judging the courses’ efficacy.

“One of the things that was really impressive about the Fall [semester] that we saw was that whether students liked the courses or not, they said they learned a tremendous amount by explaining their ideas to their peers,” Lenthall said.

Although, Lenthall added that the courses have room for development, calling them “a learning experience” for each professor.

Despite some negative reactions from students, some actually worked to bring the method to Penn. The Student Committee for Undergraduate Education has been a force behind the SAIL method for over a year, and SCUE advocated for its continued expansion in its recent 2015 White Paper.

SCUE chair Lucas Siegmund said that SAIL classes typically receive mixed reviews for the first several years at a university until students adapt to the course structure.

However, dissatisfaction is not stopping the SAIL method’s

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Though Emily, a College senior, didn’t smoke before coming to Penn, she doesn’t believe that her habit is influenced by those around her. Instead, she believes her smoking is influenced by the time of year, like finals season.

“People are more understanding if you smoke if you’re international,” she said. “I think its hypocritical, because if I decide to smoke, people judge me, yet people aren’t judgmental about the amount their peers drink.”

Finally, Michael, a Wharton sophomore agreed with Emily about the general association between international students and smoking on campus.

“I definitely think its a casual thing because all the international people take study breaks with their friends and smoke,” he said.

Michael, who has smoked since high school, isn’t an international student, but he too takes cigarette breaks when studying and often encourages his friends to do the same. Still, Michael plans to quit smoking in the future.

“I would want to quit for health, monetary and social reasons. I’ve had phases where I quit, because I couldn’t smoke around my parents during breaks, but as far as long term quitting ... I’d like to quit before I graduate.”

The study conducted by Lerman concluded that after 11 weeks of treatment with varenicline, those who metabolize nicotine normally were twice as likely not to be smoking as those using a nicotine patch and face fewer side effects.

“Tobacco dependence is a chronic relapsing condition, and policy measures alone are unlikely to be sufficient to address this public health problem,” she said.

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smoked within the last 30 days. Still, there are students for whom smoking is a part of their daily lives.

Jared, an Engineering sophomore, has struggled while trying to quit cold turkey. He, along with the other Penn smokers interviewed for this article, did not want to want to be identified by his real name.

“Over winter break, I couldn’t smoke because I was home with my parents,” he said. “The first few weeks going cold turkey, I had night sweats, I couldn’t sleep, I had horrible headaches, I had weird stomach pains, I didn’t eat for a couple of days.”

Despite the struggles, Jared hasn’t had a cigarette in two months, the longest time he has gone without a cigarette in the past three years.

Still, he is mindful of the difficulty of quitting for good.

“Any smoker never quits just once ... if they’re really addicted they’ll go a specified number of days, maybe a month without smoking, but it’s really hard to stop,” he said.

Several Penn students shared that they were satisfied with being casual smokers, and had no desire to quit at all. Victor, a College sophomore from London finds himself in that group.

“It definitely started as a social thing, but that was before I came to Penn,” he said. “More Europeans smoke than Americans. You never know when it’s okay around Americans to smoke.”

Victor believes that the environment he places himself in encourages his smoking habits, whether he is around his European friends, at frat parties or outside of clubs downtown. When asked if he has any desires to stop smoking, he responded that he could at anytime, because he doesn’t smoke when he goes home on breaks, which makes him feel that he is not

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The Trustees’ Council of Penn Women (TCPW) is pleased to announce its 2015-2016 Grants Program and encourages members of the University community to apply.

Grants ranging between $1,000-$5,000 will be available to individuals or organizations which promote: • women’s issues • the quality of undergraduate and graduate life for women • the advancement of women • the physical, emotional and psychological well-being of women Favorable consideration will be given to projects that: • affect a broad segment of the University population • foster a greater awareness of women’s issues • provide seed money for pilot programs that have the potential to become ongoing self-supporting programs To apply, visit the TCPW website at www.alumni.upenn.edu/tcpwgrants and download the application from the TCPW Grant web page. Applications must be submitted no later than February 13, 2015.

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SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVEY “Our primary purpose in conducting this survey is to help our institutions gain a better understanding of this complex problem...”

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universities 28 will participate in survey 27 of its 60 U.S. members 1 non-member college White House called on all colleges and universities to conduct such surveys Fewer than half of the institutions that comprise the AAU will participate SOURCE: INSIDE HIGHER ED

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I might change my shopping routines depending on the store location.”

For busy Penn students, time is an important factor.

“During the week, I feel that I’m too busy to shop at a place that’s not near the center of the campus. I prefer to grab food at Wawa near Sansom Street, close to where I live,” Olivia Sun, a student at the Graduate School

of Education, said. “I wouldn’t walk long distances unless the merchandises are far superior.”

However, she added that she might consider trekking to TargetExpress over the weekends, since the store may provide a wider variety of products.

The TargetExpress’s location will seemingly determine the bulk of its business, with Penn students ultimately seeking quick trips.

“I’d say that it’s a smart move for Target to build a smaller version [of its] store near campus

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SEXUAL ASSAULT resources.

In collaboration with the research firm Westat, the Association of American Universities is developing a “sexual assault climate survey” — which will cost $85,000 per participating university — to be administered this April. While 26 of AAU’s 60 U.S. members declined the offer to participate, Penn will join in the survey as part of its ongoing effort to emphasize sexual violence prevention and management on campus.

In addition to measuring the prevalence and characteristics of sexual violence incidents on campus, the survey — which will be administered to undergraduate, graduate and professional students — will determine students’ familiarity with campus support services, resources and reporting processes.

“There’s significant interest in Congress about possible legislation relating to sexual assault on college campuses, as well as interest in the Department of Education about taking additional actions on this issue,”

AAU spokesperson Barry Toiv said. “Our sense is that they’re not always working with ideal data and information, so it’s our hope that this survey will help fill in this data gap by providing solid information on student experiences and attitudes.”

For Penn, the data will serve as an assessment of its recent sexual violence management efforts, including a revised sexual violence policy, a new office dedicated to sexual misconduct and increased education such as the New Student Orientation sexual violence training.

“This will be another way to gather a data point that will be useful to our rigorous efforts this year,” said Joann Mitchell, Penn’s Vice President of Institutional Affairs. “We’ll be able to get some information about the awareness of our students about our policies, and it will help inform the kind of educational and preventative strategies we might employ,” Mitchell said.

After the survey is conducted, AAU will publicly report the cumulative results from all participating campuses, but each university will be able to decide if and how it makes its individual

data available, Toiv said.

“While we have conducted our own campus-level climate surveys, this is a really important moment where we can get comparative data and have the opportunity to glean information from the aggregate data of all the participating schools,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell said that Penn will make the decision of whether to publicly release its survey results sometime over the next few weeks.

The optional publication of individual campus data is one of the main sources of controversy surrounding the survey. Criticisms of the survey’s design and implementation have mostly come from a group of 61 scientists and scholars who published a series of letters urging AAU universities not to take part in the survey.

“One of the most important reasons for doing a campus survey at a national level is to allow students and parents to have information about each individual school,” said Jennifer Freyd, a University of Oregon psychology professor who cowrote the oppositional letter. “All the information about violence

levels should be public for each school since it would put pressure on each school to do something about what’s happening on their campus.”

The letters also criticize AAU’s timeline as being too short for appropriate consultation and review.

The most recent letter states that AAU’s “unrealistic” timeline comes at “the cost of ignoring best practices and wide expertise.”

“The core issue is that the design and development process for the survey is being done in a nontransparent way that is not open for peer review, which makes it at odds with science and high integrity research,” Freyd said.

Toiv said that the AAU members that have declined to participate are mostly doing so because they are already carrying out their own campus surveys or are bound to a system-wide survey, such as the mandatory survey for all public universities in California.

Among the other universities planning to participate in the survey are Washington University in St. Louis, Cornell University, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan.

areas. I think it will give us more options,” Xinying Xu, an Engineering sophomore, said. “I will still go to places that were more convenient for me.”

Tom Londres, the chief executive of Metro Commercial Real Estate Inc., the firm that has helped Target build more than 50 locations across Pennsylvania

areas, was unable to comment on the specifics of the project.

Since Target Corp. is still working with local realtors to find lease deals, according to reports

by the Philadelphia Inquirer and NBC News, it is too early to determine what TargetExpress store will offer to students in University City.

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OPINION The root of black rage

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MATT MANTICA Executive Editor JILL CASTELLANO Managing Editor SHAWN KELLEY Opinion Editor LUKE CHEN Director of Online Projects LAUREN FEINER City News Editor KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor STEVEN TYDINGS Social Media Director PAOLA RUANO Copy Editor RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

THE VISION | A reflection on the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement

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ast fall was yet another defining moment in America’s long history of contentious race relations. A movement that began in the small city of Ferguson quickly awakened nationwide protests from Oakland, Calif., to Staten Island, N.Y. News broadcasts’ lust for controversy was met as shocking images of protest flooded the media. In the span of six months, any shred of hope that we had finally reached a utopian “post-racial” America was tossed aside as visuals of Ferguson protests surfaced.

As protesters expressed their outrage over the murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown, they were met with virulent backlash and suppression from law enforcement. What began as peaceful demonstrations ended in tear gas, riot gear and arrests. The violence of the civil rights movement had now arrived in 2014, and yet no lessons had been learned.

Despite the understandable outrage and confusion over the St. Louis Police Department’s handling of the case and dem-

dured the most injustice was silenced once more to satisfy the country’s desire for “peace.”

The American citizens who

One does not risk their time and safety fighting for the life of a person they have never met without love.” onstrations, it was the community members and activists who were demonized in national conversation. At a time when law enforcement were escalating tensions through excessive force, politicians and officials instead focused their attention on protesters. An 18-year-old was shot at least six times for dubious reasons and left bleeding in the street for four and a half hours. Yet, according to officials this was a time for “calm” and “healing.”

In a nation born out of protest, the population that has en-

stood undeterred in their anger against a failing legal system were now lumped together as “unreasonable” and “violent.”

For another cause, maybe they would have been called patriots.

But when you are fighting for the rights of the marginalized and minority, your demands are not deemed worthy of merit. The media feasts on images of angered communities, extensive mass protests and civil disobedience but has not taken the time to acknowledge the humanity lying at the

core of the movement.

Revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara stated, “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”

If one truly seeks to understand the heart of the #BlackLivesMatter protests, they must first realize that all of this anger, this pain, this “Black Rage” is rooted deeply in love.

One does not risk their time and safety fighting for the life of a person they have never met without love. Nor can students abandon their classes and the approval of their peers to join nationwide protests without love. Nor do average citizens dedicate their time to marches and die-ins during Black Friday shopping or Thanksgiving Day parades or holiday parties without a deep and abiding love for others.

In the Excelano Project’s fall 2014 poetry show, I experi-

enced personally the emotion of the #BlackLivesMatter movement as senior Victoria Ford recited her “Eulogy” piece. In her poem she read off 97 names of those killed by police violence and lynchings over the course of America’s history. As each brief story was read, the audience learned how the murder was either deemed “justified” or warranted only a slap on the wrist. As we sat listening to the stories of those lost, many of us — considered to be campus leaders, activists, even “radicals” — broke down into tears.

Yes, we are angry, furious and passionate about these issues, but at the end of the day we are heartbroken.

There is a South African philosophy of “Ubuntu” popularized by Nelson Mandela that reflects the idea of “collective humanity” or “I am because we are.” It is this same belief undercurrent in all justice demonstrations from the civil rights movement to the present. I will never have the chance to meet

THE VISION Michael Brown or Renisha McBride or Trayvon Martin or Aiyana Stanley-Jones or the hundreds of others who will die from police or state-sanctioned violence. Still, I will continue to fight for them as if their lives were my own. No matter how unpopular, my rage is the greatest manifestation of love.

NIKKI HARDISON is a Wharton senior from Buford, Ga. Her email address is chardi@wharton.upenn.edu.

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or all of new executive editor Matt Mantica’s words promising a brighter journalistic future for The Daily Pennsylvanian, the cover article

by Stephanie Barron, “When Greek Life Goes Astray,” was an extremely disappointing example of journalism that is, in Mantica’s words, “done well” with a “tremendous ability to do good.”

As a former leader of a Greek organization on campus, I recognize and am continuing to understand my implication in an archaic system of misogyny, racism and classism. In no way do I believe that criticisms of the Greek system at Penn should not be published or discussed. We must interrogate all aspects of Greek life and how their foundations in misogyny and racism, such as those described in the article, continue to inform our present. For example, how the difference in the intense oversight and regulations that the Panhellenic sororities experience from the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life during recruitment is a remnant of paternalistic institutional oversight over collegiate women, while fraternities have much less supervision over their often debaucherous rushing process.

Or, how despite an understood feeling on campus that the Panhellenic and Interfraternity Councils are whitewashed, there are no easily accessible online statistics on the racial and socioeconomic makeup of

these organizations. These are the specific and concrete issues that we can and should address.

Barron’s article, however, reads as unfinished and incomplete, in no way dealing with the issue’s sensitivity and complexity. With limited actual reporting that feels like the result of spending 15 minutes searching the DP’s archives, it fails to establish any sort of real conclusions or criticisms outside of the racist history of Greek organizations.

While it is critical that we as a campus have hard conversations about the histories that have shaped our campus, we also need to think about how articles such as this one fail to create a meaningful dialogue around the issue of race, fraternities and Penn as a whole. We must have a productive discussion about positive change, one that will admittedly be colored by anger and resentment, but not defined by it. Good journalism can certainly, as Mantica says, “take down those systems that formerly upheld such destructive aspects of community and society.” In this spirit, I challenge the DP to step up their journalism to move beyond dramatic, sensational articles that barely scratch the surface of these issues and to write articles that do more than cause a slew of angry and anonymous internet comments that build walls against true and significant change.

Frances Starn C‘15

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ast Thursday, a column by Nursing junior Hannah F. Victor ran in the DP in light of the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. This Supreme Court case established that by extension of the 14th Amendment, a woman has the right to privacy, which includes her decision to abort her pregnancy. My issue with Victor’s article is that the claims made are not only factually inaccurate, but also present a dangerous, unsupported view of the nature of abortion and women’s bodies.

Victor states that when a woman has an abortion, she may harm herself emotionally and physically. However, the true harm comes in the process leading up to an abortion and then being denied one. Many women may be emotionally disturbed by having to make the difficult decision to abort. In addition, global studies from the World Health Organization have proven that when legal, safe access to abor-

tions is restricted, more women — and the unborn they carry — will die. If a woman feels trapped by her body, she will do whatever is necessary to free herself from that burden, resorting to illegal procedures and/or self-harm.

“Pro-life” restrictions on legal abortions actually result in more injuries and deaths.

Many discussions of faith are introduced when discussing abortion. Victor argues that life begins at conception, a process that God oversees. However, many fail to recognize the high miscarriage rate in pregnancy, the body’s natural abortive process when complications arise.

Of known pregnancies, up to 20 percent end in miscarriage. This rate greatly declines as the fetus develops into a viable human being who can survive outside of the womb and has legal protection. If a woman’s body can determine whether she is fit to have a child, why should a woman not be able to make that decision consciously within the same time

period? In the earliest stages, an embryo is at best a potential for a human being rather than a fully autonomous one.

on their way to abortion clinics by protesters. House Republicans have recently introduced a bill that would require women

As an American, I know that my fellow citizens have a right to freedom of expression and religious practice. … My personal convictions and choices should not infringe on another person’s liberties.”

The idea of abortion as coercion is also completely unfounded. There are surely those who become pregnant who are pressured by partners or family to abort. But the real coercion and lack of informed consent comes from opponents of freedom of choice. Crisis pregnancy centers have emerged across the country with the intent of deceiving women about pregnancy and abortion in order to dissuade or outright scare them from seeking an abortion. Women are harassed

to have invasive ultrasounds before an abortion in order to guilt them out of the procedure. These mandates are already in place in states like Texas and Wisconsin.

This follows an endless list of proposals and bills from mostly male politicians that restrict funding and access to abortions, infantilizing women and infringing upon their right to privacy and choice.

Victor suggests that the solution is as simple as carrying a child to full term and letting

the adoption system take over.

Yet childbirth remains a risk to a woman’s life — according to a 2014 Washington Post article, deaths from childbirth in the United States are on the rise, and they are more common here than in countries like China, Saudi Arabia and Canada. The adoption system is also broken.

LGBT+ couples historically have had difficulty adopting, and nearly 128,000 children in America will wait at least three years in the foster care system before being adopted, according to the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute website.

Emotion is not an excuse to argue without any factual basis or evidence for one’s position.

If an opinion author’s intention is such, then that person should find another outlet for their views. Love is a thoughtful sentiment, but it is not the basis of law nor citizens’ rights. As an American, I know that my fellow citizens have a right to freedom of expression and religious

KATIERA SORDJAN practice. But I also recognize the right to privacy and the responsibility to treat women and all uterus-bearing people as more than incubators. My personal convictions and choices should not infringe on another person’s liberties. I invite Victor and others like her to consider a similar mindset.

KATIERA SORDJAN is a College junior from New York studying communications.

Her email address is skati@ sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn says “I do” to LGBT weddings Facilities promote their spaces for same-sex ceremonies ALEXIS BLOCK Staff Reporter

With Pennsylvania’s legalization of gay marriage last year, Penn is hoping that more same-sex couples will use the school’s facilities to say “I do.”

On Jan. 25, sales representatives from the Perelman Quadrangle and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology attended the Philadelphia Same-Sex Wedding Planning Exposition. Their goal: to promote Penn’s event spaces as venues for LGBT weddings.

Over 300 same-sex couples attended the exposition to seek florists, photographers, venues and more. This was the largest samesex wedding expo in the country, and all participating businesses promote themselves as LGBT friendly.

The Penn Museum has been

working to expand its clientele to encompass same-sex couples since last year, when the sales staff attended its first Marriage Equality Expo. Back then, samesex marriage was not legal in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

After the legalization of same sex marriage on May 20, however, the Penn Museum has increased advertising in the Philadelphia Gay News.

“I knew that eventually same sex marriage would be legal,” Penn Museum’s Facilities and Rentals Manager Atiya German said. “It was important for us to become a venue that was more accepting. It just meant so much more this year with the legalization.”

The Penn Museum has hosted three same-sex weddings in the past year and has two more on the books. German added that because the Penn Museum is on the University’s campus, the facility’s participation in the exposition is telling of Penn’s increased support

of same-sex weddings.

“I think with [same-sex marriage] being legalized, people are feeling more comfortable with their partners,” German said. “I think we have to be accepting of them and supporting of their love and this translates to the University itself.”

The Perelman Quad’s Director of Sales Veronica Kraft and Executive Director of Facilities Thomas Hauber consulted with Bob Schoenberg, director of the LGBT Center, on how to approach prospective LGBT clientele. Previously, the Perelman Quad’s flyer promoting its facilities only featured pictures of heterosexual couples. Schoenberg thought that it would be important to alter the advertisements to better attract the LGBT couples at the expo.

Schoenberg noted that the Perelman Quad has been consistent in its support and collaboration with the LGBT Center.

This help has primarily included providing the LGBT Center with

venues for past events.

Schoenberg, who has been in contact with Kraft, said that there were promising visits to the booth at the event on Sunday.

“What is noteworthy is not that the quad was LGBT-friendly, but that they promoted themselves to an outside vendor [as LGBTfriendly],” Schoenberg said. “It shows how deep and widespread the commitment of the University is to the LGBT community both at Penn and the wider LGBT community in Philadelphia.”

Members of the Lambda Alliance are happy to see the University increase its outreach efforts towards LGBT couples.

College Junior and Lambda Alliance Chair Erich Kessel recognized the importance of the facilities’ outward support to the LGBT community. “I think it is important that there is a public and very frank acceptance of queer people. It is exciting to hear that facilities are doing what they can to support [them].”

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Two Penn teams compete for $1 million Hult Prize Both teams advance to upcoming regional rounds EMILY OFFIT Staff Reporter

Two teams from Penn are one step closer to winning the annual Hult Prize, a social entrepreneurship start-up incubator with a $1,000,000 prize. Now they must work to prepare for regionals, where the competition gets more intense.

Every September, the Clinton Global Initiative presents this substantial monetary prize to the team that devises the best solution to a proposed problem. This year’s teams, which can consist of undergraduate and graduate students along with a

maximum of one alumnus, must work toward a five-year solution for the lack of early childhood education in urban slums and beyond.

Five regional rounds will be held in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai and Shanghai, and two Penn teams will compete against the 50 other ideas still in contention.

This year, the Hult Prize launched a fast-track plan for students to reach the regional round without competing against thousands of applicants in the main pool. Shuva, the winning team out of the Penn applicants, will move on to the regional round in Shanghai. The team’s name means “hope” in the principle language of Zimbabwe.

Team Shuva is made up of

students in Penn’s Lauder Institute, a joint degree graduate program that integrates management education with international studies. Their idea involves the creation of educational radio content, as many individuals in slums have access to radio and could benefit from listening to educational material.

“We wanted to reach people in a simple way,” Shuva member Eduardo Escribano said. “We are hoping to reach children who would not get this content otherwise.”

A team of Penn freshmen, named Chocfully, qualified for the Boston regionals through the larger applicant pool.

Chocfully member and Wharton freshman April Chang did not want

to disclose too much information about her team’s idea, in the spirit of friendly competition, but her team is currently working towards refining their pitch and seeking mentors to help guide them into the next rounds.

In the event that neither team wins their regional rounds, both are interested in trying to find other funding and pursuing the implementation of their ideas in the future.

“I would love to run with this idea,” Chang said. “I can’t speak for my teammates, but we are definitely excited about its viability — we really think this idea could help people.”

Engineering sophomore and campus student director for the Hult Prize Molly Wang explained that

each regional location has its own environmental identity. In Boston and Shanghai, Penn teams may have an advantage as a result.

“San Francisco has more of a competitive edge, so more techinspired ideas may go there,” Wang said. “Also the judges for regionals come from the surrounding area.

We may have two Penn teams competing in the final six.”

Wang also hopes that if neither team wins their regional rounds, they will seek funding at one of the other social-entrepreneurship incubators offered at Penn, including the Wharton Business Plan Competition, which offers up to $30,000 for the winning team.

Besides refining their pitches

for the next round, teams must also work to find funding to get to the regional rounds, as the Hult Prize only covers the cost of getting to the final round.

Wang still holds the idea that this is the best time for students to take a chance on getting funding for their ideas, as there are fewer consequences for failure. Wang also feels that the social impact nature of the Hult Prize. “gives people real incentive to look at how a business can be profitable but also work toward a greater social good.”

The regional round will take place on March 13, and the final round will be Sept. 21 in New York City.

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writing an article about ThirdEye for Technical.ly Philly. The story generated publicity for the product, and Bhageria invited Ongchoco to join the team after PennApps. He has been working on partnerships and promotions for ThirdEye ever since.

“The fulfilling part about doing this is that we are trying to solve a very specific problem, which is helping handicapped people do things that we normally take for granted,” Ongchoco said.

Ongchoco was not the only one who wrote about ThirdEye during PennApps. Bhageria and his team thought their project had great potential, so they set up a website, printed out posters and started marketing ThirdEye even before the judging of

PennApps began. Because of their efforts, the team gained the attention of multiple tech firms and media companies before launching as a startup.

“They also did a great job in marketing; they even said that you can use ThirdEye to recognize faces if you forget the names of people you met before,” said Engineering freshman Qiao Han, who attended PennApps last semester.

ThirdEye helped contribute to a growing focus on health within the PennApps community.

“One of the major themes of PennApps is health, but not a lot of people there are working on health projects,” Han said. “Those who are working on health mainly focus on emergency treatment or health training, so their idea of targeting people with disabilities stood out.”

The health focus carried over to this semester — last weekend’s spring PennApps introduced a partnership with Perelman School of Medicine to encourage hackers to develop health-based apps.

Now as 2015 begins, the ThirdEye team is looking to establish more partnerships and further improve their product. They have been working with a professional advisor from Silicon Valley on developing business strategies and were recently contacted by Google.

Since Google Glass is not

currently available to the public, the ThirdEye team hopes to produce a tangible product to distribute to its customers.

“Our next step is to get more investors, get more advisors and eventually distribute the product in the long run,” Bhageria said.

Bhageria also expressed his interest in testing ThirdEye on visually impaired individuals on Penn’s campus. “We are Penn students, and it would be great if we can actually help somebody on this campus,” he said.

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did not give the names of the staff members who no longer work in OSC. While the new deputy director position — the final position to be hired — will manage the internal flow of the office and the management of disciplinary cases, the two senior case manager positions will focus on outward engagement throughout campus. “The senior case managers will be assigned liaison roles to undergraduate and graduate schools and centers to create comfort zones in the community,� Nettleton said. “We will benefit from being proactive and having more education and training with key stakeholders on campus.�

As Penn is in the process of creating a separate agency to handle sexual assault cases, OSC, which used to manage these cases, now has more time and resources to emphasize other initiatives such as the liaison roles. “With our staff out in the community, we want to identify trends that might be unique to certain schools,� she said. “For example, academic integrity cases for the Design school versus the Engineering school might look very different so we want to know how

SOPHIA WITTE Senior Reporter

As part of an effort to restructure the office, the Office of Student Conduct has renamed and transformed its staff positions with both new and old members.

Based on a search committee that invited previous staff members to apply, OSC has filled three of the four positions, with the final one set to be filled over the next week. These new positions reflect OSC’s extensive effort to be more efficient with its case handling and to revitalize its role on campus. “I interviewed candidates for all new positions that each require different qualifications, skills and expertise, but previous staff members were fully informed of the process and the timetable for the searches,� OSC Director Julie Nettleton said. “Some of the positions have new faces, and some have faces carried over from the old structure.�

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Columbia University had a very successful Green2Go program several years ago, and Lampitt recognized that Penn’s urban environment is quite similar to Columbia’s. “We knew that if we could implement this Green2Go program, not only could we still be providing for that [on-the-go] lifestyle of our students, but we could do it in a much more sustainable way,� Lampitt said.

Last year, Penn Dining sent out a package to every student on a dining plan, which contained a Green2Go tag, a box of reusable dining utensils and a tote bag that provides a five-percent discount at Penn Dining’s retail operations.

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Since previous OSC Director Michele Goldfarb decided to step down last year, OSC has been working to reposition itself on campus. Growing discussion about academic integrity cases and sexual assault on campus played a key role in the push to restructure. “Since it was hard to disrupt all the structure that was in place before in the office, Penn saw the transition to a new director as an opportunity to better address these campus issues,� said Lucas Siegmund, Chair of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, which helped with the search process to find a new director after Goldfarb’s departure in June.

Nettleton said that OSC will start training the staff and dividing the liaison roles up to different points on campus after the final position is filled next week. “It’s a really good mix of people who already know Penn and people who are new and add some variety,� Nettleton said. “I think we’ve done a great job at retaining the sort of institutional memory and knowledge while also gaining some new members and new experience to bring to the table.�

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much passion and just love for the center, and I felt really inspired by that,� she said.

Patel understands the challenges m inor ity students might face, having grown up in a predominantly white suburb herself. “I lived two very separate lives: my life at home where I was Indian American and then my life at school where I had to leave some of those pieces behind,� she said. Patel believes that these experiences will help her to better connect with the students of PAACH. As an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, Patel was part of an Asian American organization which she credits with helping her find her place in school and in the world. There, she was able to relate with people with similar backgrounds and take a greater interest in her Asian heritage. Here at Penn, Patel hopes to help make PAACH a warm home-like environment, similar to the one she relied on in college.

Peter Van Do, PAACH’s director, has had the same vision for the center and is glad to have Patel on board. “Our main offering is to be a home away from home for our students,� he said. “Viraj, because of her experience specifically with Asian American students is going to

be very helpful.�

Patel’s responsibilities include working with student leaders from the Asian Pacific American Leadership Initiative, Promoting Enriching Experiences and Relationships Mentoring Program, and Asian Students Promoting Identity, Reflection and Education. She works with them on an almost daily basis, and hopes to empower them as leaders of the school’s Asian American community.

PAACH also has some exciting events on the horizon, which have kept Patel busy in her first few weeks. “We are gearing up to start the launch of our 15th year this February,� Patel said. “We’re working with the Asian Arts Initiative to create a quilt project to commemorate our 15 year anniversary called Patch for PAACH.�

Students and alumni are invited to contribute patches to the quilt, which will later be displayed in PAACH. The ongoing anniversary celebration will continue through homecoming next semester.

For now, Patel is happy to just “soak it all in.� “I really want to get to know the institution and the culture in order to figure how to best serve it,� she said. “Students are always welcome to come in and hang out, and they do that.�

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Ivy men’s basketball roundup

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From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ

Yale

Record: 13-6 (2-0 Ivy) (1st) What they’ve done: The Bulldogs are owners of the Ancient Eight’s most impressive nonconference victory to date, as they took down defending national champion UConn on Dec. 7. The Elis have dipped into league play in their last two games, both victories over last-place Brown.

What’s Next: Though it’s strange to see a squad besides Harvard at the top of the Ivy standings, the Bulldogs have looked very strong through the first half of their season. Look for leadership from senior guard Javier Duren and junior forward Justin Sears as Yale enters the thick of its conference schedule.

Princeton

Record: 8-9 (1-0 Ivy) (2nd) What they’ve done: Despite the lofty place in the standings, the Tigers have looked decidedly average in the early going.

The squad has failed to register any impressive nonconference victories and was gifted its only league victory thus far at home when Penn struggled mightily down the stretch.

What’s Next: Despite the lackluster start to the season, Princeton still boasts a perfect Ivy record. Look for junior forward Hans Brase (12.2 points, 7.4 rebounds per game) to be the team’s leader as the Tigers head into a critical matchup with Harvard at home on Friday.

Harvard

Record: 11-5 (1-1 Ivy) (t-3rd) What they’ve done: The class of the Ancient Eight in recent years, Harvard has looked uncharacteristically beatable over the first half of the season. After entering the season nationally ranked at No. 25, the Crimson have suffered ugly defeats to Holy Cross, Virginia and Dartmouth.

What’s Next: Although the Crimson have looked unworthy of their preseason national attention in the early going, the firepower of guards Wesley Saunders and Siyani Chambers should allow Harvard fans to rest easier down the stretch. Tommy Amaker’s squad is still the favorite to win its fifth consecutive

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Princeton basketball ended a 15-day layoof after beating Penn by taking down lowly Rowen in blowout fasion on Sunday.

Ivy title.

Columbia

Record: 9-7 (1-1 Ivy) (t-3rd) What they’ve done: Despite the preseason loss of 2013-14 leading scorer Alex Rosenberg, the Lions have been able to tread water thus far this year, even coming close to a massive upset of No. 1 Kentucky on Dec. 10.

The Lions have split their conference games, both versus Cornell.

What’s Next: Junior guard Maodo Lo will look to build on his team-leading 15.8 points per game as the Lions face a major test against Ivy leader Yale this Friday.

Cornell

Record: 9-9 (1-1 Ivy) (t-3rd) What they’ve done: The team from Ithaca has had mixed results in the first half of the season, dropping a disappointing home game to St. Peter’s on Dec. 28 before notching a solid road victory over Columbia on Jan. 24.

What’s Next: After last season’s 2-26 debacle, Cornell will likely be pleased with this season’s return to respectability thanks to the return of senior forward Shonn Miller, who missed last season with a shoulder injury. Look for the Big Red to hang around the middle of the Ivy standings as the season progresses.

Dartmouth

Record: 8-8 (1-1 Ivy) (t-3rd) What they’ve done: In the midst of an otherwise middling season, the Big Green pulled off the Ivy League’s most impressive in-conference victory to date, taking down Harvard on the road last Saturday.

What’s Next: That victory in Cambridge proved that Dartmouth can hang with anyone in the Ancient Eight. Look for junior guard Alex Mitola and his team-high 14.3 points per game to continue to catalyze the Big Green offense.

Brown

Record: 9-10 (0-2 Ivy) (8th) What they’ve done: Despite a relatively weak nonconference schedule, the Bears have collected some impressive wins, including a 77-67 win at Providence on Dec. 8.

What’s Next: Two early losses to first-place Yale have put Brown in an early conference hole, but sophomore forward Leland King’s 14.6 points per game should help the Bears claw back to the middle of the Ivy pack. Although the sophomore missed the team’s second matchup against Yale, the Bears still fought to a four-point loss.

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breakout event group for the majority of last year’s track season, and they are setting themselves to put up strong results once again this season.

At the meet, freshman Taylor Hojnacki, senior Marcus Laroche and star junior Sam Mattis all came through with strong throws that propelled them into program top-10 lists.

Conspicuously absent from the proceedings were the Red and Blue distance runners, whom coach Steve Dolan has made a point to ease back into action after a long and grueling cross country season in the fall.

In the week leading up to the meet, Dolan commented that he was looking to get his athletes into top form by the end of the month. This meet appears to have been another positive step in the right direction for the Red and Blue.

The Quakers will get a chance to prove they are in top form and take another step up in terms of competition when they travel to New York to compete at the historic Armory on Friday and Saturday.

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Penn coach Steve Dolan has stressed the importance of looking at early season track meets such as the Princeton Invitiational as building blocks.

Penn uses homecourt to its advantage

FENCING | Both teams dominate

BY SABRINA HAGAN Staff Writer Even though both Penn men’s and women’s fencing faced strong teams at the Philadelphia Invitational over the weekend, home court advantage ultimately won the day.

This past weekend, the Red and Blue fenced against a plethora of big-name teams, including Duke, Northwestern, Temple and UNC. The women’s team won four of five rounds, while the men’s team swept its six rounds in front of a home crowd at the Coach Dave Micahnik Fencing Center.

Women’s foil competed well at the start of the day, winning 10 duals consecutively. However, the streak ended when the squad fell to both Northwestern and Temple. Senior Luona

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Wang had the most wins (9-2) out of the Red and Blue women’s foil fencers, contributing significantly to the team’s overall score.

Men’s foil also fenced well, finishing off with a 40-14 record. Freshman performers Harry McGuire and John Vaiani led the way for the Quakers, finishing with 7-0 and 9-1 records, respectively.

For all the success that came from foil for the squads, however, sabre was ultimately the top weapon of the tournament for both teams.

Women’s sabre had a tough time getting going after a couple of close early bouts and three losses, with several individual matches being decided by only one point. However, the squad was able to pull it together, finishing with a 26-19 win.

The men’s sabre, on the other hand, had no trouble securing a team victory. Junior Shaul

Gordon ended his bouts 9-0, while senior Sean Turner and sophomore Isaac Buchwald finished 8-1, adding to the team’s 44-10 record.

Women’s epee had a close final round, with just one point deciding the win. Sophomore Alejandra Trumble (12-1) saved the team from defeat when she won a round (5-3) and locked in a 14-13 win for Penn against UNC. The Philadelphia Invitational marked the first time freshman epeeist Zsombor Garzo fenced competitively for the Red and Blue. Despite this, he fenced in every round and recorded more wins than any other Penn fencer.

His victories helped the men’s epee secure a victory, 37-17.

Next weekend, the Red and Blue will travel to Evanston, Ill., to compete in the NU Duals hosted by Northwestern. This will be the last competition for the Quakers before Ivy play.

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match in the victory.

Once again, Pompan and Podesta scored decisive singles victories, though each also added wins in doubles as well against St. Joseph’s. Senior Jeremy Court — one of three seniors on the roster — picked up his second and third wins of the day against the Hawks, including a doubles win with Podesta as his partner.

When pressed to find an area in which Penn could have performed better during its comfortable victory, the coach settled on doubles, where the Red and Blue won three out of four matches.

The tournament was a strong start to the Quakers’ season, and the program hopes it is a tradition that can be carried on in the years to come.

The Red and Blue will head to State College to take on No. 26 Penn State this Sunday, kicking off a long regular season that will conclude in April when the Quakers visit Columbia, defending Ivy League champions.

The Red and Blue finished sixth in the Ancient Eight last year and have not won a title since they shared the league championship with Columbia in 2007.

While the team has yet to get into the meat of its schedule, the goal is apparent.

“We want to make the NCAA tournament,” Geatz said. “We want to be one of the top 40 teams in the country and get in that tournament.”

Sunday’s match with Penn State will be the team’s next step on that journey.

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Behind Greg Louis’ 10 points and nine rebounds, the Quakers notched their first Big 5 win in their last 12 tries, toppling St. Joseph’s, 56-52. Darien Nelson-Henry dominated the paint with 14 points and five boards, while Tony Hicks scored 13 of his 15 points in the game’s final 10 minutes.

The Red and Blue drubbed NJIT by 30, 59-29, in an emphatic road victory on Saturday. Michelle Nwokedi’s 14 points and seven rebounds off the bench paced the Quakers and earned the freshman forward her second Ivy Rookie of the Week nod of the season.

The Red and Blue cruised to a comfortable 26-10 road win on Saturday against Binghamton. Spurred by a dominating 18-4 mark from C.J. Cobb and a 12-0 shutout performance by Canaan Bethea, the Quakers bounced back from a tough Jan. 24 loss to No. 6 Cornell.

Delaware was no match for Penn on Senior Day, as senior Taylor Sneed and junior Eric Schultz led both the men’s and women’s teams both to victory.

Shultz nearly broke a pool record in a 184-98 men’s victory, while Sneed won all four of her events to guide the women to a 174-126 win.

Fueled by a nearly flawless day from freshman Nicholas Podesta, the Quakers cruised to a 2-0 record in the first-ever City 6 tournament. The Quakers started the day off by toppling Drexel, 5-0, behind a decisive Podesta win before cruising past St. Joseph’s by a 6-1 margin in the finals.

In their second match of the season, the Quakers toppled Yale by a slim 193.150-191.000 margin on Thursday at the Palestra.

Junior Elyse Shenberger led the way on the beam, scoring 9.775 of the team’s 48.650 points in that event.

Penn’s 193.150 points were its most in a match since Apr. 2013.

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City 6 Tournament

BY TOMMY ROTHMAN Associate Sports Editor The inaugural City 6 Tournament went the host’s way in convincing fashion.

Penn men’s tennis beat Drexel, 5-0, and topped Saint Joseph’s, 6-1, at the Levy Tennis Pavilion en route to a first-place finish in what head coach David Geatz hopes will become a yearly event.

The Quakers sat through a first-round bye before taking on the Dragons in the semifinals. The Red and Blue turned their neighbors aside in a five-match shutout, with the most convincing performances coming from Penn’s

freshmen. Nicolas Podesta won his singles match 6-0, 6-1, while Josh Pompan beat his opponent 6-0, 6-3.

“I wish I could recruit this freshman class every year — we’d win the Ivies,” Geatz said, while singling out Pompan and Podesta as players he expects to soon be amongst “the very top players in the league.”

Geatz wasn’t just pleased with the rookies, however.

“Everybody — and I mean everybody, from one to 14 — everybody played very well,” the coach said.

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Senior Jeremy Court won both of his matches to help Penn to season-opening wins over Drexel and St. Joe’s and an overall team victory in the inaugural City 6 tournament.

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After two small meets at Lehigh to bring in the indoor season, Penn track and field is looking to take on all comers.

At Saturday’s Princeton Invitational, the Quakers were matched up against the most talented field they have seen all season, and they responded with some strong individual showings throughout the day.

The event was not team scored, which makes it difficult to assess the team’s overall performance.

However, a reduction in individual victories from 11 in its 2015

opener to just a pair on Saturday clearly signaled the increase in competition.

The first two meets of the indoor season were highlighted by breakout young talent on the track for Penn, and the Princeton Invitational was no exception.

Both individual victories over the weekend came from underclassmen sprinters.

The first came from the men’s side, as sophomore Storm Dublirer dropped a personal record of 1:07 in the 500-meters to top the field. Not to be outdone, freshman multi-event athlete Barbara Biney won the 60m along with two eighth-place finishes in the 200m and the long jump.

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