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Penn Dems opposes DeVos’ new Title IX rules The group hosted an event for public commenting CAMI DOO Staff Reporter

United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos proposed new Title IX sexual harassment regulations in November 2018, sparking concern at universities across the nation. Members of Penn Democrats are now protesting these changes before they become official policy.

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accused, and higher standards of evidence. If the Department of Education implements these guidelines, Penn’s Title IX coordinator will be legally bound to SEE TITLE IX PAGE 6

March for Our Lives establishes chapter at Penn Changes could come early as next week DANIEL WANG Staff Reporter

Van Pelt Library is preparing to abolish bag checks by the end of the semester, Vice Provost and Director of Penn Libraries Constantia

Constantinou announced.

“Over the course of the spring semester, we will be implementing new systems and technologies in our circulation and security departments that will allow us to remove the existing bag check policy,” Constantinou SEE VAN PELT PAGE 2 EMILY XU | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER SEE MARCH FOR OUR LIVES PAGE 3

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Penn debaters place in international competition 2 debaters placed 16th in the competition

Kappa Alpha Theta house burglarized on Friday

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Two men followed a Theta member upstairs

Several students in the Penn Debate Society traveled to South Africa over winter break and took top spots in the World Universities Debating Championship, the largest debate competition in the world.

The Penn delegation, made up of three teams of two people, faced 400 teams of debaters from over 90 countries representing institutions such as Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Oxford, and Cambridge University. Competitors went through nine initial rounds of debates over the span of three days, with the top 48 teams breaking into the octafinals. The tournament was hosted in Cape Town and ran from Dec. 27 to Jan. 4.

PDS Vice President and College sophomore Anish Welde and his partner, Wharton and Engineering junior Vijay Ramanujan, placed 16th in the debate competition. Based on his performance in the paired debate, Welde was also ranked the 31st speaker in the world.

Debate partners and College seniors Alex Johnson and Rishabh Tagore placed 46th, making this year the first time in recent history that more than one Penn team advanced to the octafinals.

Team member and College sophomore Karthik Tadepalli said he frequently attended debate tournaments leading up to the WUDC, spending about

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Penn’s Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house was burglarized Friday afternoon, students in the sorority said.

A UPennAlert was sent out at 4:05 p.m. on Friday alerting students about the burglary on the

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The World Universities Debating Championship is the largest debate competition in the world, with instutitions such as Harvard University, Princeton University, and University of Oxford represented.

20 hours each week practicing.

Despite the intense preparation, he added that he still tried to enjoy himself.

“I’ve been in several debate tournaments before, and I was really determined that I wanted to make this one a better experience, and so I try not to stress too much about the results of each round,” Tadepalli said.

“By and large, I felt that each round felt like it was fun.”

To qualify for the competition, debaters sent in video tapes and were selected by a panel of three past debaters affiliated with the WUDC. PDS President and Wharton junior Stephanie Wu said she was excited when she was selected to compete.

“It’s such a great bunch of people who just love wrestling

with intellectual ideas just for the sake of it,” she said. “It’s nice because normally, I think, sometimes people might get offended if you attack their ideas but I think in the debate context, it’s quite well understood that you’re attacking the idea, not the person.”

During the competition, allegations of racism emerged when a participant posted an offensive social media message about one of the tournament’s judges. When the delegate apologized privately but refused to apologize publicly, more people came forward with incidents of discrimination. Welde said this resulted in several debaters hosting a sit-in during the final round of the WUDC. They also requested an apology from the organizing

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committee, which was delivered about five hours later.

Welde said racism is prevalent in the debating world, citing “debaters of color not being listened to, or not having their points taken, or judges not taking notes during speeches of debaters of color, or even women.”

“That kind of discrimination still pervades the debating community, and it was especially apparent that even the African teams who were able to make it onto elimination rounds composed largely of white debaters,” Welde added.

On their Facebook page, WUDC posted a statement from the Adjudication Core, a group of tournament staff responsible for judging the debates, regarding the incident.

100 block of South 39th Street.

Two heavyset males, approximately 5’11” and wearing all black, were reported as suspects in the burglary. There were additional police in the area, and a K-9 unit was on the scene.

“Someone was walking into the house, and they realized a man had followed them in,” Engineering sophomore and Theta member Marlena Guttman said. “We’re not sure if it [was] one or two [burglars] but as soon as someone saw them, they ran upstairs.”

At 4:41 p.m., the area was announced all clear, according to a second UPennAlert.

Police also reportedly left the scene minutes later.

Someone was walking into the house, and they realized a man had followed them in.

- Marlena Guttman

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A UPennAlert was sent out at 4:05 p.m. on Friday alerting students about the burglary on the 100 block of South 39th Street.

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Penn alumnus now oversees Pa.’s public universities “I went to college and never left,” he said OLIVIA CHENG Staff Reporter

1982 College graduate Daniel Greenstein, newly elected chancellor of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education, said his interest in higher education started when he was a history major at Penn. He was officially sworn in last week and now oversees and develops policies for the state’s public universities.

“I went to college and never left,” Greenstein said.

After teaching at the University of Glasgow, Greenstein moved on to administrative roles at the University of California system as vice provost for academic planning and programs, ultimately earning a leadership position directing the post-secondary success strategy division at the

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Peter Collins, director of public services and head of LIBRA at Penn Libraries, conducted a review of Van Pelt’s security system and decided they could move away from bag checks at the library’s exit. Collins met with Public Safety on Jan. 22 and said the

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Greenstein said studying history at Penn helped him step outside of his worldview, leaving him with an interest in social justice and equity. He added that higher education, which he sees as “probably the most reliable pathway into the middle class and beyond,” is less accessible to students of color and low-income students.

Greenstein said PASSHE also faces many financial challenges, including lagging public investment, tuition increases, and enrollment decreases. He is now working on a state system redesign that balances both access and financial sustainability to help combat this.

“What do you do to maintain a kind of viable, affordable, highquality public education in the state of Pennsylvania — recognizing that if that’s gone, then [you’re] potentially disenfran-

“After an assessment of our security system, consultations with our collection librarians, and interviews with colleagues at peer institutions the policy of bag checks seemed to have outlived its purpose,” Collins said, adding that the policy was “outdated” because of Van Pelt’s improved security of its research collection.

Without the bag checks, people would still have to hand over library books to a security guard before they exit.

College freshman Ruby Lee said she studies in Van Pelt about twice a week and that she always brings her laptop and notes to study, but rarely borrows books from Van Pelt.

“The whole bag check is there to make sure people don’t steal books, but I feel like the ma-

The policy of bag checks seemed to have outlived its purpose.

- Peter Collins

bag checks could be eliminated as early as next week.

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Greenstein said studying history at Penn left him with an interest in social justice and equity. He added that higher education is less accessible for students of color and low-income students.

chising from higher education a whole important sector of the population?” Greenstein said.

His former classmates also re-

jority of people don’t come to Van Pelt to even check out books, so I guess it’s good that they’re taking it away,” Lee said.

College freshman Noah Moyse has only borrowed one book from Van Pelt for a research paper he was working on last semester.

“I think that the only way for it to be feasible is if they did a really thorough search of your bag, checking all compartments,” Moyse said. “But also doing that would take up too much time. It would be a good idea in theory but I don’t think it really works out in practice.”

Students are also left questioning how effective the current bag check policy is given the lack of accessible data.

College junior Bevan Cohen said in order for her to judge its effectiveness, she would need to know the number of books that go missing from the library each year. She added that she would want to compare the current num-

member him as a hardworking, positive person. “[Greenstein] had an intellectual bent that sort of seemed

almost out of character with the rest of his very gregarious sort of personality,” 1982 Wharton graduate Andrew Lipetz,

who was Greenstein’s freshman roommate in Kings Court English House, said.

“I don’t want to call him a plainclothes philosopher, but he was just really a down-to-earth guy who was always thinking about the bigger picture even as a freshman,” said 1982 College graduate Peggy Gyulai, who lived in the same hall as Lipetz and Greenstein freshman year.

Emeritus History professor Michael Zuckerman said although Greenstein may have taken on the challenge of his life at PASSHE, he has always had a gift for leadership. During his time at Penn, Greenstein won the prestigious Thouron Award to study at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

“He was always up for challenges,” Zuckerman said. “I think nobody would leave [the] Gates [Foundation] for the Pennsylvania higher educational system who wasn’t up for challenges.”

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Peter Collins, director of public services and head of LIBRA at Penn Libraries, conducted a review of Van Pelt’s security system and decided they could move away from bag checks at the library’s exit.

ber of stolen books each year with new data a year from now after the bag check policy has been removed.

Some students also say the bag check may be more theatrical than effective at preventing thefts.

“I don’t really get the point of the bag check to be honest, because they don’t even check it. It’s just like a procedure,” Lee said.

“I do think there’s an element of we don’t really know how much it prevents, because prevention is hard to measure,” Collins said.

“You can measure when there’s a problem and you find it, but it’s

hard to measure prevention.”

Van Pelt’s bag check was initially implemented because some materials were not yet incorporated into the modern security system and wouldn’t set off the gate alarm. It also aimed to help keep people’s laptops and other possessions safe.

In the late 2000s, there were several instances of theft in the building, and the bag check helped control people attempting to leave the building with other people’s belongings. Although a security guard cannot necessarily tell whether a computer belongs to

someone else, if someone leaves with three laptops, then it raises a red flag, Collins said. He added, however, that laptop theft has become a less prominent issue in recent years.

Van Pelt is home to millions of volumes from the past two hundred years, many of which are rare or irreplaceable. Collins said because of this, it has taken time to fully implement and change the library’s security procedures.

But students will soon be able to exit Van Pelt “without having to feel like they’re going through a gauntlet,” Collins said.

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Penn grad running for Phila. City Council The Republican aims to tackle ecomonic issues CAMI DOO Staff Reporter

1978 College graduate Matthew Wolfe is running for Philadelphia’s City Council at Large. As a Republican, he will be vying to be one of the two at-large members from the city’s minority political party.

Wolfe currently serves as the Republican Ward Leader in the 27th Ward, which includes Penn’s campus and stretches from 44th and Locust streets to the Schuylkill River. Wolfe is running in the Republican primary, which will be held May 21.

Wolfe said his political career started at Penn, where he majored in English and Political Science. On campus, Wolfe was also vice chair of College Republicans and played on the sprint football team.

If elected, Wolfe said he aims to improve Philadelphia’s economic plight. He pointed out the paradox between the widespread poverty and the prominent universities and hospitals situated in the same city.

“How do we get to be the poorest big city in America?”

Wolfe said. “It’s because of decisions made in City Hall.”

Wolfe has spoken out against the beverage tax and hopes to decrease taxes across the board, calling the current system outdated and “perfect for mid-19th century Philadelphia.”

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1978 College graduate Matthew Wolfe was vice chair of College Republicans and played on the sprint football team at Penn.

The Penn graduate also said he wants to roll back what he calls unnecessary business regulations which he believes drive jobs away from the city.

Beyond Penn, Wolfe credits his experiences as a local activist in West Philadelphia and an established lawyer as qualifications for his candidacy. As a native from the Philadelphia suburbs, he has served on the Spruce Hill Community Association and on a district neighborhood advisory committee. Wolfe also served as a Deputy Attorney General for Pennsylvania in the 1980s.

If elected, Wolfe is hoping to change the status quo of “council members who go along to get along.”

These council members,

Wolfe said, are too concerned with getting re-elected, citing the disproportionate incumbent advantage as a problem with elections in general.

Wolfe proposed term limits as a solution to this issue, as the Philadelphia City Council currently allows members to run for office an unlimited number of times. He also said he would impose a term limit on himself if elected and would not run for office again after serving his four-year term.

Although Wolfe is running in an off-year election and recognizes that most students are not from Philadelphia, he still encourages eligible students to vote in May. “Philadelphia is a great city — our best years are ahead of us,” Wolfe said.

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The group will lobby for gun control GRANT BIANCO Staff Reporter

Since last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., thousands of teenagers and young adults across the country have organized protests, run for political office, and created the national advocacy group March for Our Lives to demand stricter gun legislation.

The March for Our Lives national protest in March 2018 drew more than a million people to the streets, including thousands in Philadelphia, to call for greater gun control action across the United States.

Now, Penn is getting its own chapter of March for Our Lives this semester, and its leaders say they hope to further gun reform at the local level.

College sophomore Rachel Steinig, president of Penn’s March for Our Lives chapter, said the group’s founders saw a “void” on campus when it came to talking about gun control, leading to the creation of a group exclusively focused on the issue.

“There are a lot of different clubs that do things that are somewhat related, for example, Dems, but that isn’t their main purpose,” Steinig said.

Penn March for Our Lives Communications Director Beatrice Forman, a College freshman and a 34th Street staff writer, said the group “hopes to be the campus’ one

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Jay Falk (left), Cassandra Ingersoll (middle), and Rachel Steinig (right) are all board members of the March for Our Lives on campus.

stop shop for all things gun reform and control legislation in the West Philadelphia area.”

Several of the board members were also involved in the March for Our Lives movement in high school or had previously helped organize walkouts at Penn, Steinig said.

The group has seen substantial interest since they released an interest form in late December 2018, Vice President and College freshman Jay Falk said. Falk said more than 130 people expressed interest in joining the club and nearly 250 people have liked the group’s Facebook page.

Falk said the group hopes to place a strong focus on activism by hosting events such as protests, marches, speaker events, and roundtables with people from a wide variety of perspectives on gun control.

The group will also prioritize lobbying legislators and policymakers who have the power to reform the country’s gun

legislation.

The students emphasize that the organization is larger than just the initial protest. “There’s a reason we call it a movement and not a moment,” Falk said.

“It’s not one march.”

The chapter’s secretary, College freshman Cassandra Ingersoll, said although gun violence tends to be seen as a national problem, March for Our Lives also aims to localize the issue.

“It’s also important to learn about local things, especially in a city like Philadelphia where gun violence happens all the time,” Ingersoll said.

In Philadelphia, gun violence took the lives of almost 1400 people last year, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Mayor Jim Kenney recently unveiled a comprehensive initiative that includes changes in police tactics and support for public health programs in an attempt to address gun violence in the city.

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OPINION Editorial | In responding to Title IX changes, Penn must to prioritize survivors

MONDAY JANUARY 28, 2019 VOL. CXXXV, NO. 4 135th Year of Publication JULIA SCHORR President SARAH FORTINSKY Executive Editor BEN ZHAO Print Director SAM HOLLAND Digital Director ISABELLA SIMONETTI Opinion Editor MADELEINE NGO Senior News Editor THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Senior Sports Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Senior Design Editor ALICE HEYEH Design Editor JESS TAN Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor TAMSYN BRANN Design Editor GIOVANNA PAZ News Editor MANLU LIU News Editor MAX COHEN News Editor DEENA ELUL Assignments Editor DANNY CHIARODIT Sports Editor MICHAEL LANDAU Sports Editor WILL DiGRANDE Sports Editor KATIE STEELE Copy Editor TAHIRA ISLAM Copy Editor DANIEL SALIB Director of Web Development AVNI KATARIA Audience Engagement Editor

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ecretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s proposed Title IX regulations move one step closer to approval on Jan. 30, when the period for public comment on the proposal draws to a close.

Proposed changes to Title IX policies, which Penn would legally be required to follow, will discourage survivors from reporting incidents of sexual misconduct. Penn must communicate to students the steps it will take to protect the rights of survivors on campus.

The new regulations will change Penn’s legal obligations under Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding. Federal agencies are required to solicit feedback from the public on proposed regulations, and the deadline to submit comments on this proposal is Jan. 30.

The new policies would narrow the definition of sexual harassment, grant the accused additional rights, and require live hearings which allow for cross-examination of the accuser and the accused, among other changes.

Penn has some flexibility in how it can implement the new regulations into University policy. In navigating the new guidelines, the administration must prioritize the rights of victims.

Under the proposed

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regulations, universities would no longer be held responsible for investigat-

in off-campus residences.

As a result, the administration must reassure students

University is no longer legally required to do so.

Penn has not yet com-

their final regulations to be published so that we can study the complete details

The new policies would narrow the definition of sexual harassment, grant the accused additional rights, and require live hearings which allow for cross-examination of the accuser and the accused, among other changes.” ing incidents of sexual violence that occur off campus. Almost half of Penn undergraduates live

that it will continue to investigate incidents that take place beyond campus boundaries, even if the

mented on the potential consequences of these regulations on our community.

“We are still waiting for

of their new rules,” University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy wrote in an emailed statement to The

Daily Pennsylvanian in November 2018.

Many peer institutions, including Harvard University and Yale University, proactively reached out to students about the possible effects of the new guidelines on their schools’ procedures. Brown University’s Title IX Officer spoke to students at a town hall in December about what regulations meant for Brown and steps students could take to provide feedback to the university.

Sexual violence is far too common on Penn’s campus.

Among Penn undergraduate respondents to a 2015 survey by the American Association of Universities, 27 percent of women and 5.5 percent of men reported experiencing nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching since entering college.

It is the University’s responsibility to protect its students and the wider Penn community from sexual violence. The proposed regulations will make it increasingly difficult to do so. In response, Penn must outline its next steps and alert students to any major changes that will happen.

If you are interested in providing comment on the proposed Title IX regulations, you can submit to https://www.regulations. g o v /d o c u m e n t?D = E D 2018-OCR-0064-0001 by Wednesday, Jan. 30.

Sophia DuRose | Toxic masculinity runs deeper than the Gillette ad

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elieving in “the best men can be” doesn’t stop with men standing up to other men, men holding other men accountable, or men behaving in a respectful and appropriate way towards women. Yes, that’s all part of “men being the best men can be,” but if the armor of hypermasculinity is truly going to be shed, men also need to be encouraged to reveal the more vulnerable parts of themselves normally hidden by the steely outer layer of toxic masculinity. I am not one of the 1.3 million Youtubers who disliked Gillette’s Short Film advertising the phrase “The Best Men Can Be.” I am not one of the many people who left comments claiming to “never buy this brand again,” or calling the advertisement a “cynical move by the company to create publicity” instead of inciting real change.

Many of the images within the film explore some of the more noticeable aspects of toxic masculinity and ways to combat them: the violent fighting little boys participate in, as well as the bullying that “mama’s boys” endure and how to hug them instead of hit them in response. Today, a commercial like this is topical, hot, and current,

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but it’s not pushing the boundaries far enough. It’s not enough to tell men to

have been many calls to action for fraternities to teach their members about

stop? Yes. Do I think toxic masculinity should be eliminated simply for the

At Penn and other universities, fraternities have a bad reputation for fostering environments that support these rigidly violent and aggressive stereotypes rather than discouraging them.” not do something, because toxic masculinity runs far deeper than not. We need to encourage men to be emotional, and to be outspoken about not just their thoughts but their feelings.

At Penn and other univer sit ies, f r at er n it ies have a bad reputation for fostering environments that support these rigidly violent and aggressive stereotypes rather than discouraging them. There

proper and respectful ways to treat women, but there also needs to be a focus on the proper and respectful way to treat each other.

Bad behavior doesn’t discriminate against its target.

I’ve attended frat parties and, know firsthand the disrespect that can be born and bred from fraternity brothers because of other fraternity brothers. There is no “innocent” grope or cat-call. Do I want this to

sake of women? No. Toxic masculinity has a way of burrowing into all relationships that men possess, and this includes their friendships with people like their fraternity brothers. Men need to be encouraged to have the emotions that toxic masculinity dictates their suppress, instead of simply being discouraged against the bad behavior that is toxic masculinity’s outcome.

In the Gillette short film, there are many scenes where men stand up to other men when women and children are their targets. But where are the men standing up to other men when they’re talking to each other? The backlash that accompanied this ad speaks for itself. Men don’t like to be called out on their actions because they don’t think they’re guilty of the things highlighted in the advertisement, and they don’t like admitting that they don’t have to have done all of these predatory actions to still be a part of the problem. The problem is far deeper and more sinister than laughing at a commercial where a man grabs a girl in the workplace, or places his hand on his female colleague’s shoulder in a meeting. The problem is the right men think they have that afford them these small victories

over women’s wishes. In order to combat this entitlement, men need to be open to conversations surrounding their presumed implicit licence to the world, and that involves a difficult discussion using their feelings, which men have not been socialized to feel comfortable doing.

Women a re strong, power f ul, intelligent, and increasingly unafraid to show it. Men are emotional, sensitive, sometimes confused, and also in need of shoulders to cry on. Gillette’s short film did some good and necessary work when it comes to showing the best a can be, but there is so much more work to be done.

SOPHIA DUROSE is a College sophomore from Orlando, Fla. studying English. Her email is sdurose@sas.upenn.edu.

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Ana West | Don’t ignore the dangers of relationship violence OUT OF TURN | Don’t ignore the dangers of relationship violence at Penn

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espite the prevalence of hook up culture or because of it, many of us — secretly or not so secretly — idealize college romance. While times and conventions have changed, and fewer of us attend school for “MRS degrees,” a significant number of people still meet their spouses in college, and even more hope to. Before I started college, not only was I told that hookups can be messy, and that you run the risk of falling in love and getting hurt, but I also picked up, somewhere along the way, that hooking up — for women, as the conventional wisdom goes — can be dangerous. As toxic as rhetoric about drinking, going out, or having casual sex being pathways to assault is, our culture puts out the message that hooking up is perilous.

In contrast, college relationships are easy to romanticize, especially when you are yearning for connection; they seem in some way more pure and

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Many times, I’ve seen couples holding hands on Locust and thought about how perfect they must be together — that there was no danger there.

idyllic than other love affairs.

Many times, I’ve seen couples holding hands on Locust and thought about how perfect they must be together — that there was no danger there. At the start of college, to me, dating seriously and steadily seemed unfailably safe.

In the middle of the #MeToo era and in the midst of a long, nationwide conversation about ending interpersonal violence on college campuses across the country, there have been a lot of conversations about how to stop sexual assault — as there absolutely should be. But we

have not given dating violence in college relationships a fraction of threw attention that they deserve. It is more prevalent than we acknowledge, it doesn’t always look like what cultural stereotypes say abuse manifests as, and we all need to do a better job of being aware of the warning signs of relationship violence, and not downplaying the dangers of it in our own community.

According to the Association of American Universities’ 2015 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct, which surveyed students at Penn and 27 other American universities, 9.8% of students who have been in a partnered relationship since sta r ting college reported experiencing interpersonal violence or

abusive behavior in at least one of those relationships. At Penn, 9.7 percent of female undergraduates and 9.2 percent of male undergraduates reported that, at some point, their partner had either used physical force against them, threatened to physically harm them, kept them from seeing friends and family, prevented them from going to class, or threatened to out them to others. Those numbers are just for the behaviors asked about by the survey — other abusive behaviors and warning signs include emotiona l ma n ipulation, gaslighting, and eroding or disregarding a partner’s boundaries and privacy. Even without the inclusion of more emotionally abusive behaviors, though, those numbers are sobering.

One of the biggest obstacles to combatting dating violence in college, besides lack of awareness, is that we don’t always know what it looks like. There’s a stereotype that people stay in abusive relationships because they’ve been in them a long time; they might be married to their partner, have children with them, or have otherwise invested so many years into the relationship that it’s hard to leave. While this can certainly happen, the AAU survey identified that more casual relationships, situationships, etc. among college students can still contain the hallmarks of violence. Many of us also believe that dating violence is usually or always perpetrated by a man and suffered by a woman, when, in

actuality, undergraduate men and women at Penn report similar rates of experiencing abuse, and nationwide, 22.8 percent of transgender or gender non-conforming undergraduates who date have experienced abuse.

To stop relationship violence, we have to stop assuming that certain groups must be “safe” from dating violence; the truth is that it can, and does, affect anyone.

I don’t want to say that committed relationships are necessarily unsafe for college students. I personally know many people at Penn who are in healthy and happy relationships. But in my own life, I have started to try and pay special attention to, check in with, and extend my unconditional support to my friends in relationships, just in case.

Although we can never know what goes on behind closed doors, it is our responsibility to know the warning signs, to make it clear that we won’t tolerate abusers in our groups and circles, and to support survivors in the Penn community.

As small as these actions may seem, they are crucial — and they can mean the world to the people you know that need to see them.

ANA WEST is a College sophomore from Spring Lake, Michigan studying English. Her email address is anawest@sas.upenn.edu.

Rebecca Alifimoff | A year after #MeToo, it feels like little has changed

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year ago, in my very first column for The Daily Pennsylvanian, I wrote about Aziz Ansari and my views on the nascent #MeToo movement.

In the past year, I’ve followed the movement, first with hope, then trepidation, and finally slight waves of despair, as the movement faded from a dominant cultural phenomenon to secondrate news. In some ways, this was inevitable. Nothing, no matter how outrageous, stays shocking forever.

But mostly, it feels like the promise of the movement has dissolved into empty gestures and performative rhetoric, while the predatory men the movement outed crawl back into public life.

The Ansari story was a particular flashpoint during the waves of allegations about sexual harassment and assault that seemed to come in a never-ending flood last winter. Unlike the allegations against others named in the movement, like Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, Louis CK,

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who have valid critiques about how the reporting of the story was handled, and those who have concerns that it was evidence of

#MeToo seemed important, but far removed from anything I had actually experienced. The Ansari story felt familiar and

I was hopeful in the aftermath of the rage and pain that #MeToo had exposed, that we would move past the stasis of public conversation and deliberation. and Matt Lauer, the allegations against Ansari were not part of a documented pattern of workplace misconduct and harassment. Instead, it was a stand alone account about a date between two single adults that went wrong.

The Ansari piece was, and remains, a flashpoint for those

a cultural movement running off the rails.

When I wrote about the story last year, I did so because I thought that it touched a nerve, especially for me as a woman on a college campus where hook-up culture dominates.

Before, the stories revealed in

accessible, and reflected in it was the beginning of a conversation that seemed like it would go beyond the workplace and start addressing other insidious double standards that often go unremarked and unspoken when it comes to sex, consent, and gender. I wrote, “It became clear

to me that there is no consensus of what the term sexual assault means, and its usage becomes an easy way to stop or deliberately confuse conversation about how we as a society approach sex, and how our attitudes about sexual relations are broken.”

I was hopeful in the aftermath of the rage and pain that #MeToo had exposed, that we would move past the stasis of public conversation and deliberation. That the tired routine of doubting women and minimizing the impact that sexual assault and harassment have on their lives would be over, and we could move to the more nuanced conversations I feel we so desperately need to have.

I was hopeful that what would happen next would be lasting change. I hoped that once we worked from a basic understanding of the fact that harassment and assault are, in fact, bad things,

that they’re crimes that have victims and require consequences, we could work out how to move forward to justice and closure. I was hopeful that the path forward would stop centering the men who had committed transgressions — who are so often richer, more famous, and overall more powerful than the women they target, and put more focus on bringing justice to victims. Once consequences were actually put in place, we could talk about the possibility of rehabilitation and forgiveness.

I don’t believe in a society that punishes all transgressors equally with a permanent proverbial scarlet A, or treats all transgressions as if they are the same. So often, discussion of rape culture fails to provide adequate solutions for how to rehabilitate men who commit crimes, but that’s because we’re still fighting for the genuine recognition that what these men did was, in fact, a violation.

Instead of moving us forward, the fall brought the Kavanaugh hearings — an event that seemed to confirm Marx’s affirmation that history happens twice, once as tragedy and once as farce.

It was like being stuck in a horrible version of Groundhog Day, where the gains of #MeToo and the Anita Hill hearings amounted to nothing.

In addition, the sold-out comeback tour of Ansari — in which none of his material address the accusations against him — the planned return to television of Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose, and the semi-stealthy return to comedy of Louis CK seem like slow reversals of the gains that the movement has made.

A year removed from what seemed like one of the most significant steps forward in the crusade for women’s rights

REBECCA ALIFIMOFF in my lifetime, it feels like we have failed to find solid ground on which to build any sort of long, lasting change. Lacking an understanding of the basics, conversations about the grey areas of consent and the nuances and gender imbalance have been unable to materialize.

As students, we occupy the epicenter of rape culture and sexual violence. We also find ourselves at a strange point in our lives where we actually have the time to think and act boldly about the sort of world we want to work towards after Penn.

Soon we will graduate and become denizens of workplace with prevailing cultures and unspoken norms. The habits we form here at Penn — the things we chose to expect of our friends, the organizations we decided to be a part of, the behavior we tolerate on our campus — will shape the moral compasses that guide us through our infinitely more complicated post-graduate lives.

We owe it, both to ourselves and to each other, to tolerate nothing more than the best.

REBECCA ALIFIMOFF is a College junior from Fort Wayne, Ind. studying history. Her email address is ralif@ sas.upenn.edu.

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UA helps promote orientation for returning students Past orientations had low student attendance CONOR MURRAY Staff Reporter

Penn’s Undergraduate Assembly is working to promote Returning Student Orientation, an event for students returning from a leave of absence, to counter its low student attendance in previous semesters.

In order to boost attendance, the UA has assisted with promoting the orientation this semester through Facebook and various social media posts. The orientation, which is held at the beginning of each semester, is designed to inform students about resources to

help them transition back to Penn following a leave of absence. The orientation was held on Jan. 25 in Houston Hall at 4 p.m.

Since the orientation’s establishment in fall 2017, attendance has typically been low, College sophomore and UA representative Jude Dartey said. Dartey added that there is a lack of resources available for students who have taken a leave of absence, such as the lack of a specific email listserv.

In a recent report, Penn received a D+ for its leave of absence policies, ranking the highest out of the Ivy League universities.

The report criticized Penn and other Ivies for sometimes forcing students to take involuntary leaves

of absences. Penn students have also raised concerns related to leave of absence policies in recent years.

“There might be a stronger turnout, and I hope that continues to be the trend, just as this keeps happening consistently and keeps being a positive experience,” UA Vice President and College junior Jordan Andrews said.

The orientation event will also be hosted by Counseling and Psychological Services, Penn Wellness, the Weingarten Center, and Student Intervention Services.

Associate Vice Provost for University Life Sharon Smith, Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé, representatives from CAPS and the Weingarten Center, and ad-

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Penn recently received a D+ for its leave of absence policies, ranking the highest out of the Ivy League.

The report criticized Penn for sometimes forcing students to take involuntary leaves of absences.

visors from each undergraduate school will be speaking. University Chaplain Rev. Charles Howard

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you never knew existed,” Andrews said. “Hopefully the experience can be finding a community.”

TITLE IX

“If Congress sees that there’s a large contingency of students sending in [comments], then they’re going to feel more pressured to make that sort of change and that can only benefit us,” Ahearn said.

The Department of Education is required to reply to comments if they deem them substantive enough. In the finalized guidelines, the Department must say why they decided to implement changes based on the comments or if not, why they did not decide to adopt the suggestions in the comments.

Penn Dems are using these comments to voice their concerns over DeVos’ proposal, particularly their opposition to the new definition that narrows what constitutes sexual harassment.

“I’m very concerned about the impact on people’s confidence reporting, because already there’s a huge stigma surrounding sexual assault,” Wurman said.

Penn Dems President and College sophomore Emma Carlson echoed her sentiments, noting that “accusations don’t come lightly.”

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will also deliver a keynote speech.

“It’s just a chance to learn about some of the resources at Penn that

enforce them.

The public has an opportunity to comment on the proposal within 60 days before it is enacted as policy. In light of the upcoming Jan. 30 deadline, Penn Dems hosted a comment writing session on Wednesday, Jan. 23 informing students about the potential impacts of the new Title IX regulations and how to write an effective comment.

College freshman and Penn Dems Communications Director Tamara Wurman said Penn students have unique perspectives that makes their comments particularly important.

“Voicing our concerns and letting legislators know that we are passionate about these issues, and what they’re doing actually affects us, is really important and can’t be overstated,” said Wurman, who is also a DP staff member.

Penn Dems Deputy Board member and College freshman Aidan Mayer Ahearn also emphasized the potential impact students can have in influencing major policy changes.

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Study finds pet opioid prescriptions increase

GSE prof. wins national award for literacy research

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Campano won the award for his most recent book, “Partnering with Immigrant Communities: Action through Literacy.” In the book, Campano explores how immigrant communities use literacy.

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From 2007 to 2017, the amount of opioids prescribed among pets at Penn Vet’s Ryan Hospital went up by 41.2 percent, compared to an increase in visits of 12.8 percent.

The rise in prescriptions could lead to human crises CLAIRE OCHROCH Staff Reporter

Researchers from Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine and the Perelman School of Medicine found that opioid prescriptions for pets have drastically increased over the past decade.

The rise in pet opioid prescriptions has consequences for the larger opioid crisis, experts say, raising the amount of leftover pills and potentially increasing the risk of misuse for both humans and pets.

The study was the first to exam-

38,939 tablets of codeine, and 3,153 fentanyl patches.”

Senior author of the study and professor of Emergency Medicine Jeanmarie Perrone said she was approached by Penn Vet to give a talk about opioid prescriptions, which inspired her to conduct the study. “[The Vet School] had noted that their interns were getting calls from pet owners asking for refill prescriptions at odd hours and they wanted to know how we deal with that,” Perrone said.

Rosemary Polomano, associate dean for practice and professor of pain practice at Penn’s School of Nursing, said trends from human pain management likely affected

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Experts say the more opioids that are prescribed, whether for animals or humans, the greater the risk of abuse.

ine veterinary opioid prescriptions, finding that from 2007 to 2017 the amount of opioids prescribed among pets at Penn Vet’s Ryan Hospital went up by 41.2 percent, compared to an increase in visits of only 12.8 percent.

Researchers looked at the prescriptions by veterinarians for small animals such as dogs, cats, birds, and reptiles and found that hospital veterinarians prescribed “a total of 105,183,689 tablets of tramadol, 97,547 tablets of hydrocodone,

pet treatment. Polomano teaches a graduate course on pain science at Penn and has expertise developing strategies to reduce opioid misuse.

“I think that the aftermath of the aggressive marketing and promotion of opioids for the treatment of chronic pain and acute pain, so that people wouldn’t suffer, also spilled over into the animal care setting,” she said.

In 1980, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study in an editorial, with data that ended up

being faulty science, which said that people who were prescribed opioids were at a very low risk for addiction.

Polomano said this led to a storm of pharmaceutical companies capitalizing off of the study, resulting in the companies instructing healthcare professionals to aggressively prescribe opioids.

“Unfortunately, I was involved in doing some of that education sponsored by pharmaceutical companies that minimize the risks of opioids,” Polomano said.

“But we didn’t know at the time, that was the information that we had, and we were relying on faulty science.”

Experts say the more opioids that are prescribed, whether for animals or humans, the greater the risk of abuse.

“I think this veterinary prescription just contributes to more leftover medications in the household that could be accidentally misused or accidentally diverted,” Perrone said.

To help combat the problem of leftover pills and overprescription, Pennsylvania started a prescription drug monitoring program to ensure that patients were not receiving excess amount of pills from different doctors. ”Every time I write a prescription for a patient I have to look at what their past controlled substance prescriptions have been — it’s literally one click now in our medical records,” Perrone said.

Doctors are also focusing on patient education to help counter the growing opioid crisis.

“We teach patients when they are prescribed opioids responsible use of opioids, responsible disposing of opioids, and responsible monitoring of themselves when they’re on opioids,” Polomano said.

Despite the positive changes surrounding opioid prescriptions, many have only occurred in the world of human medical care, Perrone said.

“Over the last five years we’ve really pulled back a lot and we’ve changed culture a lot — and not everywhere, but more in places where we can raise awareness,” Perrone said. “So that new paradigm shift probably hasn’t really occurred in veterinarians yet.”

He researched immigrant literacy and identity CARMINA HACHENBURG Contributing Reporter

H. Gerald Campano, a professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education, won the 2018 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English for his work on the intersection of literacy and identity in im-

Campano said he is “grateful to the families and the parents and young people who have given their time to collaborate with us and do research together.” migrant communities.

Campano, who chairs the Reading, Writing, and Literacy Division of GSE, won the award for his most recent book, “Partnering with Immigrant Communities: Action Through Literacy.” In the book, Campano explores how immigrant communities

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The professor added that this collaborative research method helps empower people and “create opportunities where literacy can be a vehicle for people and families to address issues that matter to them.”

Chloe Kannan, a secondyear Ph.D. student in the Reading, Writing, and Literacy Division of GSE, works with Campano to help create new initiatives that respond to issues of cultural diversity through literacy. She also emphasized the importance of his research because literacy consists of “different ways of communicating and making meaning.”

Campano said he is “grateful to the families and the parents and young people who have given their time to collaborate with us and do research together,” adding that immigrant communities have surpassed cultural boundaries to create a cultural knowledge through literacy.

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Campano co-authored the book with Maria Paula Ghiso, a professor of literacy education at Columbia University Teachers College, and Bethany J. Welch, executive director of the Aquinas Center, a Catholic community center in Philadelphia.

As part of the research, Campano said he maintained a sixyear partnership with St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Community, a multiethnic, multilingual Catholic parish. Through this partnership, he explored how universities and community organizations can work together to make curriculums more culturally inclusive.

Campano also said he engages in “participatory research” that involves working alongside community members and participating in active group discussions with citizens from both older and

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Track has another record-setting weekend at Penn State

Quakers put up five top-three and the third all-time result for Just last week, Morris experformances in Penn history Penn. pressed confidence in his ability JACKSON SATZ Associate Sports Editor

Another weekend brought another slate of all-time performances for Penn track.

The Quakers traveled to University Park, Pa. on Friday to compete in the Penn State National Open, which featured 31 other teams in action. One week after the Penn 8-Team Select, in which the Red and Blue put up eight top 10 all-time performances, Penn continued its record-breaking habit with eight more changes to the top 10 of the school's record books. “[New records] are both exciting and rewarding,â€? coach Steve Dolan said. “One of the goals is to improve and to progress from week to week as you build momentum through the season. ‌ We have had some school record performances, and that is pretty unique and pretty neat that that kind of history has happened.â€?

Five Quakers had outings this weekend that rank in the top three all-time in program history. On the men’s side, sophomore sprinter Marvin Morgan recorded a time of 6.79 seconds in the 60-meter dash, which ensured that his name would occupy the No. 1 spot in Penn history for that event.

Freshman pole vaulter Payton Morris, who set a personal record last weekend by clearing 5.11m for the fifth all-time height in program history, soared to 5.20m for a new personal record

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With just two matches left, the Red and Blue needed wins from junior David Yacobucci at No. 3 and senior Jonathan Zeitels at No. 9.

Zeitels split the first two games before capturing the third, 16-14, with a gutsy performance. Almost

the fifth all-time showing for the program. Devore also participated in the 800m, where she ran 2:09.34 to move to No. 8 all-time for the Red and Blue, and Ene moved to No. 2 all-time in the 400m with a time of 55.14.

To round out a successful weekend, two more Quakers took

simultaneously, Yacobucci rallied from 2-1 down to win the fourth game, 14-12. The crowd was buzzing, sensing that Penn could pull off the victory.

However, it wasn’t meant to be, as both Quakers fell in the fifth and final game of their matches. “We have a young team, and we need to go through some of those tough tests in order to produce

some scars that are going to help us later in the year,� Lane said. “We don’t worry about winning and losing; we’ve talked about that from day one. But it was a great learning experience for a young team that has a lot of potential.�

The women (7-2, 1-1) were also unable to find victory over Trinity, as they lost by a score of 8-1. The Red and Blue fell behind early and

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ion, 3-0. The rest of Penn’s lineup similarly swept through Colby, not dropping a single game.

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As a result of their lead, the Quakers were able to go deep into their bench to give playing time to some fresh faces, including freshmen Mia Lakstigala, Sereena Weledji, and Kennedy Suttle. Lakstigala was especially impressive; contributing eight points — including two three-pointers — to go along with three rebounds and two assists. McLaughlin recognized the importance of getting these players game time, especially when given the opportunity. “We are going to need Mia to continue to grow, we are going to need her in League play to have success. Kennedy has been playing bits and pieces throughout the year as well

and continues to get better,� he said. “I’m really proud that they are getting where they need to be.�

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Senior Reeham Sedky provided the lone point for the Quakers, as she swept Sahari Lopez, the Bantams’ No. 1, in three games.

Lopez, a talented freshman who hadn’t lost a match all season, was no match for Sedky, who put on an incredible display of the power and touch.

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Senior Anna Peyton Malizia cleared 1.81m this weekend to become the No. 1 high jumper in Penn history. She was just one of the Quakers who moved into the record books on Saturday, as eight different members of the Red and Blue recorded top 10 all-time performances.

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around, Morris noted that his teammates are able to feed off the energy of others’ individual accomplishments. “To see your teammates do well just makes you want to do well yourself,� the freshman said. “Friday night, Marvin Morgan broke the school record

to do even better, and his work at the National Open proves that his self-assuredness was not misplaced. “It definitely felt good,�

Morris said. “Like I said last week, I thought I could do better, so my goal was to make first attempts on all the bars that I could, and that’s exactly what I did."

Also in the pole vault, junior Nathan Fisher posted a personal record height of 5.10m to earn third place, while freshman distance runner Ray Sellaro became tenth all-time in the 1000 with a time of 2:26.02 to place fourth in the event. Senior distance runners Kurt Convey and Joseph Novak placed third in the mile and 800, respectively, while junior sprinter Anthony Okolo took second in the 400 and sophomore jumper Cristian Constantin placed second in the triple jump.

For the women’s team, another freshman had a big day.

Thrower Mayyi Mahama threw 19.21m in the weight throw for second all-time in the program’s record books and fourth place in the event. Senior thrower Rachel Lee Wilson, who already held the school record at 20.04m, finished second in the event with a throw of 19.72m.

In the women’s distance medley, a Penn team comprised of sophomore Melissa Tanka, junior Cecil Ene, junior Katie Devore, and junior Nia Akins ran in 11:25.51, which earned the group a runner-up finish and

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Senior high jumper Anna Peyton Malizia cleared 1.81m to become the top all-time high jumper in Penn track’s storied history. Additionally, junior Elena Brown-Soler took first in the 300.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2019

Swimming sweeps final dual meet before championship season begins

Washington’s Big 5 heroics win him Player of the Week

Three freshman swimmers record wins for the women

M. HOOPS | Freshman led Quakers with 23 points

JACOB WESSELS Associate Sports Editor

Two different seasons, one similar ending.

Penn swimming wrapped up dual meet season with a sweep of Division II West Chester on Saturday. The men (8-2, 5-2 Ivy) finished up a strong regular season with a 196-100 victory while the women (3-7, 1-6) wrapped up a challenging year with a 173126 win.

On the men’s side, the continued success of senior Mark Andrew helped spark the Quakers’ hot start. Andrew won the 100yard backstroke with a time of 51.92 seconds and the 200 medley relay alongside senior Colin McHugh, sophomore Sean Lee, and sophomore Nathaniel Cunnan. The group finished with a time of 1:32.36.

The relay success helped

to launch individual victories for Lee in the 50 and 100 freestyle, where he posted times of 20.84 and 46.82, respectively.

McHugh, for his part, claimed the 100 breaststroke, finishing with a time of 57.92.

Sophomore Will Thomas also proved to be a key contributor to the Quakers’ victories in the 1000 free with a time of 9:33.56 and the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:56.51.

The men also had victories from senior Andrew Bologna, freshman Zach Althoff, freshman James Hopper, sophomore Keanan Dols, and junior Matthew Haigh. When it was all said and done, Penn collected 14 of 16 victories, including the first 12 events.

While the men’s team came into the meet riding high, the women have struggled all season. However, this week marked a change of momentum for the team heading into Ivy Championship season.

Powered by a trio of freshmen,

the Quakers totaled eight victories, the first of which came from Tara Larusso, who took the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:55.80. Another freshman contributor was Hannah Kannan, who placed first in the 100 back with a time of 57.06. Finally, Catherine Buroker won the 500 free with a time of 5:03.58.

The women were also supported by the strong diving of sophomore Juliet Pozzuoli, who claimed the one and threemeter diving events. Junior Serena Xue won both the 100 and 200 breast with times of 1:06.92 and 2:22.23. The remaining win came from sophomore Joanne Fu, who took the 200 butterfly by posting a time of 2:06.88.

Both teams will look to use their success this weekend as a tune-up to prepare for the Ivy League Championships, which will begin on Feb. 20 for the women and Feb. 27 for the men.

ISAAC SPEAR Associate Sports Editor

Freshman guard Bryce Washington has been one of the foundational pieces of Penn men’s basketball’s strong firstyear recruiting class. Over the weekend, his heroics helped the Quakers clinch the outright Big 5 title.

With 23 points, Washington led the Red and Blue in scoring against Saint Joseph’s while displaying some impressive marksmanship. His career night included shooting 6-of-12 from behind the arc, increasing his team-leading three-point per-

centage to just a shade over 45 percent.

Washington’s fearlessness made him a threat from anywhere on the court, as he showed he could sink quick shots even when there was a hand in his face. However, the Quakers’ ball movement allowed the guard plenty of space on the wings to knock down open threes on multiple occasions.

Spot-up shooting isn’t the only area where Washington helped the Quakers, however.

His relentless hustle helped him make plays all over the floor on both offense and defense, as he also racked up 10 rebounds, four assists, and two steals. Washington outjumped St. Joe’s bigs on multiple occasions.

After consistently scoring buckets throughout the game, Washington continued producing in the clutch. With St. Joe’s hanging tight late into the contest, Washington gave the Quakers some much-needed breathing room with a quick-trigger three to increase their lead to six with just over two minutes to play.

Washington has shown that he is a qualified starter, a position he was put in early on after junior guard Ryan Betley’s season-ending injury in the Red and Blue’s first game. His scoring touch will be needed as the Quakers begin conference play next week with a weekend backto-back at Cornell and Columbia.

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Sophomore Sean Lee was among the quartet of Penn swimmers who won the 200-yard medley relay this weekend at West Chester. He also recorded victories in the 50 and 100 freestyle to lead Penn to victory.

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and into the basket. Nevertheless, Penn played stout defense and sunk 5-of-6 of their free throws in the final minute of play to hold on for the win.

The Quakers pressured St. Joe’s on the defensive side of the

ball throughout the game. They forced 10 St. Joe’s turnovers, which is notable for a team that has the second lowest turnover total per game this season in the nation (9.4).

The Hawks found a scoring outburst from Brown, who averaged 19.6 points per game heading into the night. Brown finished

with 27 points and 12 rebounds, including five offensive rebounds.

The Quakers were led offensively by some familiar faces: Brodeur notched his 12th straight double-digit scoring game with 20 points, while Washington scored a career-high 23 points — including six three pointers — put up his career best rebound

total by corralling 10 boards, and had a career high four assists.

Meanwhile, freshman forward Michael Wang put up 12 points — his first double digit game of the New Year.

“I knew how much a Big 5 championship meant to my teammates. The seniors especially were ecstatic in the locker room,”

Washington said. “I just wanted to come out and give all I had, make sure I was prepared for the game, and be aggressive on the boards.”

It’s the first time since 200102 that Penn has gone 4-0 in Big 5 play and just the third time they’ve done so since 1980-81.

“There’s a documentary about

the Big 5 that Tony Paris did, but those comments made by former players mentioned Penn as an aside,” Donahue said. “Our guys watched it, and I think that was something that motivated them.

They felt like they’re tired of being an afterthought. And I think we made progress on challenging that with our win tonight.”

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This season has been one of many accomplishments for the Quakers: They had 10 wins before the New Year for the first time in program history, and they started 4-0 for the first time since 1978-

79. Now, they have one more accolade to add: outright Big 5 champions.

Penn men’s basketball beat St. Joseph’s, 78-70, in a rare away game in the packed Palestra. Led by some strong performances from freshman guard Bryce Washington and junior forward AJ Brodeur, the Red and Blue knocked in 14-of38 threes while St. Joe’s shot just 3-of-24 from downtown.

“This game — the Big 5 championship — we wanted all of that to ourselves,”

Brodeur said. “We treated this game like it was a championship game: win or go home. And we won tonight.”

The Hawks started out dominating on the glass, with redshirt sophomore Charlie Brown Jr. netting seven rebounds in the first eight minutes of the game. St. Joe’s raced out to a 17-13 lead, which was later reduced to 16-13 upon review, after a Brown three was deemed a twopointer. The Quakers stormed back with big threes from Washington, Brodeur,

and a memorable banked three by senior guard Jake Silpe. At one point in the first half, Penn had made 7-of-13 three pointers.

A cold spell at the end of the half let the Hawks back into the game. Penn didn’t score in the last 3:49 of game play, which ended a hot streak that saw the Quakers lead by as much as eight.

Penn led the game by as much as 13 in the second half, but St. Joe’s made things interesting towards the end of the game:

they cut the lead to just three points with under two minutes remaining, before Silpe hit an open three to stretch the Penn lead back to six.

Things looked ominous for the Red and Blue when senior guard Antonio Woods fouled out on the next possession, and a few possessions later, St. Joe’s freshman Jared Bynum hit a layup that rolled off the top of the backboard SEE SWEEP PAGE 9

Penn dismantles Haverford in final nonconference game

Squash splits pair of Saturday matches against Trinity and Colby

Parker scores 21 points in 21 minutes to lead Quakers

No. 1 ranked men lose their first match of the season

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Sometimes everything just works.

That was the case for Penn women’s basketball on Sunday afternoon at the Palestra, as they dismantled Division III opponent Haverford, 81-46, in their final nonconference game of the season.

The Quakers opened the game not wanting to leave anything to chance, using a relentless full-court press to set up transition opportunities for sophomore center Eleah Parker and junior guard Phoebe Sterba. Parker was especially dominant, scoring eight points and pulling down seven rebounds including four on the offensive glass. Riding the strong play of their center, the Red and Blue (11-3) would end the first quarter leading 25-7.

“We pushed the ball in transition, running out to get easy layups really got us going,” Parker said.

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Sophomore center Eleah Parker averaged a point per minute of game time in a dominant win over Haverford at the Palestra.

The Fords (14-5) would not go down without a fight so soon. Haverford opened the second quarter on a nice run highlighted by two

threes from senior guard Macy Goldbach that would cut the Quaker lead to just SEE HAVERFORD PAGE 8

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After becoming the No. 1 ranked team in the nation for the first time in school history this past week, Penn men’s squash was hoping for another major feat on Saturday.

Unfortunately for the Quakers, they came up a few points short.

Penn men’s and women’s squash were both in action on Saturday as they hosted doubleheaders against Trinity and Colby.

On the men’s side, the Red and Blue (9-1, 2-0 Ivy) first faced off against a Trinity (10-1) team that is arguably the best squash program in the country. Although the Bantams were ranked below Penn, they have won 17 of the last 20 national titles. The Quakers hadn’t defeated Trinity since 1996, but it looked like this might be their chance.

The crowd was rowdy early on at Drexel’s Kline & Specter Squash Center, where Penn faithful squeezed in and stood on their tiptoes just to get a glimpse of the action. They were rewarded almost immediately.

In the first shift, freshman Aly Abou Eleinen continued his torrid play and got the Red and Blue on the board with a dominant 3-0 victory at No. 2. Senior Karim Tarek then extended the lead to 2-0 for

the Quakers with a thrilling 3-0 win at No. 6.

“Aly won 11-2, 11-4, 11-2.

He really made a statement. He’s continued his undefeated season which has been fantastic, and he’s just been incredible all year,” coach Gilly Lane said. “Karim had a really gutsy performance at No. 6, and he showed some experience in that match as a senior and played the big points well.”

Although freshman James Flynn and junior Wil Hagen fell at No. 4 and No. 8, respectively, the Red and Blue entered the second shift deadlocked with Trinity at 2-2.

At No. 5, freshman Michael

Mehl lost a hard-fought match in four games, and the Bantams took the lead, 3-2. But Penn’s star at No. 1, sophomore Andrew Douglas, turned in a masterful performance to even the match at 3-3. Douglas defeated Trinity’s Kush Kumar by a score of 3-1.

“Andrew is something special,” Lane said. “To be able to grind out a 3-1 win to get us a point when we needed it the most, that’s an impressive effort.”

After Penn sophomore Yash Bhargava fell in three games, Trinity went ahead by a score of 4-3.

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Senior Karim Tarek swept his competition with a 3-0 victory at the No. 6 spot in Penn men’s squash’s match against Trinity on Saturday.

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