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Extra materials needed to complete Fine Arts projects, can add another $20 to $30 to the cost of the projects.

One Penn architecture professor estimates that the average “book cost” for architecture students is $1410

Depending on their year, between $200 and $400 can be charged to Nursing students who are either late to or absent from a clinical appointment.

He and Mike Pence will attend the Republican Congressional Retreat STEPHEN IMBURGIA Staff Reporter

On Thursday, 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump will attend the Republican Congressional Retreat, along with Vice President Mike Pence and British Prime Minister Theresa May, 6abc reported. The retreat, where Trump will begin addressing the year’s policy agenda with House and Senate Republicans, will occur at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel at 12th and Market streets. According to Politico, the event will focus on tax reform, repealing Obamacare and immigration reform — areas in which Trump has made ambiguous policy prescriptions and sometimes even SEE TRUMP PAGE 2

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Unexpected course costs disproportionally affect some students

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Julia MacKenzie, a College senior who is studying architecture, said it can cost hundreds of dollars to 3D print just one project for a class. Architecture students are given $50 a semester to print, but that usually only covers students for the first few weeks of class,

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Applicant pool for the Class of 2021 reaches record numbers

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Dean Furda discusses impact of new SAT on admissions decisions

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MacKenzie said. While some courses like science labs clearly display their associated fees on Penn InTouch — which can be from $75 to $300 for lab equipment — other courses’ costs, like MaKenzie’s architecture classes, are not as predictable. High costs for materials and projects are often not listed on syllabi, but these hidden course fees pose a problem for students who cannot afford them.

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The new SAT could have affected applicants but Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said it won’t affect how they evaluate applications.

Penn’s applicant pool has surpassed the 40,000 mark for the first time in its history. Penn received a record 40,394 applications to the Class of 2021, including 6,147 applicants who applied through Early Decision. The Class of 2021 applicant pool increased 4 percent from last year,

continuing the trend of 2-4 percent increases every year. “It’s a different group of students,” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said. “So we shouldn’t just assume that applications are going to be at certain level let alone they’re going to increase.” About half of the growth in applications can be attributed to a rise in the number of international candidates. Furda said about 45 percent of applicants SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 3

Team of freshmen qualifies for Hult Prize regional finals The four members created a smartphone app for refugees BRIAN ZHONG Staff Reporter

No Internet. No cell signal. No communication capability. For many, these circumstances describe a worst-case scenario. But

for refugees, these statements represent their state of affairs. A group of four Penn freshmen wanted to change this reality. The team, known as Team Mesh, just qualified for the regional finals of the Hult Prize, in which teams of three to four undergraduates from more than 100 countries propose startups that confront this year’s

challenge of the refugee crisis. Comprised of Wharton and Engineering freshmen Victor Chien, Connor Chong and Chris Lin and Engineering freshman Dan Truong, Team Mesh constructed a hardware — called the mesh box — and a smartphone app that would enable refugees to communicate with one another without the need for cell

towers or the Internet. “Every time a phone is added to the network, it acts as a new node, meaning it’s another connection point,” Lin said. “If you imagine each node as a circle, when the centers of the circle are close enough together and you link the circles SEE PRIZE PAGE 3

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Pres. candidate’s friend speaks on time at Penn

Evan McMullin received 725,902 votes nationwide STEPHEN IMBURGIA Staff Reporter

With the inauguration of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump last Friday and the revelation that former Vice President Joe Biden will soon be coming to campus, Penn and its alumni were thrust into the national political spotlight. However, another Penn alumus who ran for president this cycle is often overlooked — except maybe in Utah. Evan McMullin, 2011 Wharton graduate, ran for president as a “never Trump” independent on a platform of “principled, conservative leadership.” He fared well in his home state of Utah, where he clinched 21 percent of the popular vote, according to CNN. On the ballot in 11 states and a write-in candidate in 31 others,

McMullin ended up with 725,902 votes nationwide, many from voters who share his Mormon faith. But what was McMullin like during his career at Penn? The Daily Pennsylvanian reached out to a former classmate of McMullin to find out. “Evan’s a great guy,” Tony Altimore, a fellow 2011 Wharton graduate said. “He has a steady, sharp and intelligent way of looking at things.” Altimore, a consultant in New York, was in the same cohort as McMullin during their time at the Wharton School: Cohort H. “It was hysterical to see him on CNN and all the news networks, because there’s your friend running for president,” Altimore said, adding “and [he’s] much smarter than the gentleman” now in office. Satirically referring to Trump as “that other esteemed Wharton alum that we would trade for Evan McMullin in a heartbeat,”

Altimore said. “Evan is a far better presidential candidate than anybody in the Republican Party.” Altimore didn’t mince words with how he felt about Trump’s rise to power. “The outcome is terrifying,” McMullin’s friend said of Trump’s election. “LGBT rights are going to be slaughtered under some very minor, nuanced rule changes that we will see in the new Departments of Justice and Education,” he said. “They froze all EPA grants, unilaterally, and millions of people are at risk of losing their health coverage,” he added. “And the saddest thing is, they’re too dumb to even realize that they voted for this.” Altimore isn’t alone in his ire for Trump. His friend and presidential candidate published a scathing op-ed in The New York Times in December, called “Trump’s Threat to the Constitution.” In it, McMullin also condemns the newly

sworn-in president on issues from protectionism to press relations. “I worked for the government under President Bush and certainly didn’t agree with a lot of his policies, but you knew the adults were in charge,” he said. “Now, the children are at the helm.” However, his faith in his friend and former Wharton classmate hasn’t wavered. “I think everybody in Cohort H, be they Republican or Democrat, was excited to have Evan in this mix,” Altimore said. Although more progressive, Altimore continued to praise his conservative cohort colleague. “He’d be a phenomenal governor of Utah,” he said. “He’d be better than any cabinet secretary I’ve seen appointed yet. Evan McMullin is the type of person we need in government, no matter which party.” Evan and Tony still keep in touch through Cohort H email

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Cohort H from the Wharton MBA class of 2011 poses for a photo. Evan McMullin is visible in the grey blazer three rows back.

chains, where the group often sends pictures of McMullin on TV accompanied by good wishes, Altimore shared.

“Hopefully we can get more Evans in the Republican Party,” he concluded, “and do some great things for the country.”

Students look back on women’s marches at Trump inauguration

Penn Wharton Startup Challenge shifts focus

They praised and critiqued the marches

Application deadline for the competition is Feb. 1

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The women of Penn were among the millions of marchers who flocked to Washington D.C. the day after President Trump’s inauguration as part of the Women’s March on Washington. Women were “desperate for a moment of unity,” College senior Syra Ortiz-Blanes said. Ortiz-Blanes, who co-founded the feminist art collective We are Watching, attended the Philadelphia Women’s March, describing it as “cathartic.” As an “unofficial first step” for women, she said it was “important to go and support [the march] physically, but also to come together in a moment that was difficult for so many people.” College freshman Lilly Balla knew she wanted to go to the D.C. march since it was announced in November. She first became politically active after the solidarity march and speak out at Penn that occurred the day after the election. “We need to come together to undo the isolation of the Trump campaign,” Balla said. “You can’t ignore 3 million people.” Balla spoke of the responsibility of Penn students, as members of the institution that educated

Trump, to be active voices in protests and movements. “I wore all Penn gear to [the] march to show that we, as an institution, don’t support [Trump],” Balla said. Ortiz-Blanes said she did not expect an acknowledgement from Trump, and speculated that to “actually bring the march up would be to legitimize it.” However, she still sees the march as more than just a demonstration of women’s unity. “I hope that [Trump] feels the pressure of millions of people marching against him and all of the oppression that he represents in all its manifestations,” OrtizBlanes said. While College senior Rhea Singh said the march was “definitely a step,” she added that the event was also “steeped in privilege.” Singh is also a co-founder of We are Watching and attended the march in Washington D.C. Both Ortiz-Blanes and Singh felt that the lack of trans-inclusivity was exhibited by the posters and slogans of the marchers in both Philadelphia and D.C., which proclaimed “the pussy grabs back,” or “the future is female.” “A lot of the marchers were focused on female identity versus woman identity,” Singh said. She added that while the organizers of the march made a “very deliberate attempt” to include all

types of feminism and voices of women, the marchers were “centered in white feminism.” “That said, I think that I’m glad that [the march] happened and it can begin a great conversation about intersectional feminism,” Ortiz-Blanes said. While the Women’s March on Washington was praised for its peaceful nature and lack of arrests, both Ortiz-Blanes and Singh see this as more a reflection of the relationship between the race and gender of the majority of the marchers and the police. Singh noted the lack of snipers on the federal buildings in D.C., whereas when she went to the People’s Climate March there was a visible personnel presence. “The police think that a bunch of white women who are upper middle class are harmless,” Singh said. “Whereas had every single person had been a person of color, the police presence would have been different.” “We need to look at the systematic reasons,” Ortiz-Blanes said in regards to the safety of the march. She also stressed the importance of people of all identities continuing to march, to be politically active and to educate themselves on the women’s movements and the political climate. “A march is not where history is made,” Singh said. “It’s what happens after.”

ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter

The Penn Wharton Startup Challenge, formerly known as the Wharton Business Plan Competition, is back with a new name and a mission to foster innovative and entrepreneurial spirit beyond the Wharton School. Organized by Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship, the competition is open to applications from every school at Penn, including undergraduate and graduate students. The application deadline for the event is Feb 1. The renaming of the competition stems primarily from Pen n W ha r ton Entrepreneurship’s aim to encourage diversity in student representation. The change was instilled after Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship came under the new leadership of Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Wharton professor Karl Ulrich. Associate Director at Penn Whar ton Entrepreneurship and event organizer Jill Anick said that the change in leadership led to the program re-evaluating the way in which they provided entrepreneurial

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During President Trump’s inauguration weekend, millions of people marched around the world.

2015 Wharton graduate creates social networking app The app launched at Penn on Monday KELLY HEINZERLING Staff Reporter

2 015 W h a r t o n g r a d u ate Blake Engelhard aims to use “swipe culture” to create va luable con nect ions a nd friendships through Necter, a new social networking app. “The app is a connection/

introduction app,” College senior Olga Belyanina said, who is in charge of business development, “so connections are made through mutual friends.” These mutual friends are the key to how the app works. The app gives users three categories to choose from: work, dating and friendship. Friends can introduce mutual friends looking for the same thing, whether that be someone to go to the gym with, a formal date or just a

study buddy. “Really what we see is creating a movement around being open about what you’re looking for and helping others find the things that they need,” Engelhard said. Engelhard first got the idea for the app in January 2016 when he was traveling for a consulting job. “Moving from city to city it’s really hard to meet new people,” Belyanina said. “[This

contradictory statements. “We don’t know what their plan is,” Senator Lamar Alexander (RTennessee) said about potentially replacing the Affordable Care Act. “It’s hard for us to deal with a major issue without a presidential proposal.” Although many road closures and SEPTA service changes will ensue, protesters — many emboldened by the global Women’s Marches last Saturday — are planning to resist the GOP conference. One Pennsylvania, a community organization based in Pittsburgh, is hosting a protest in Thomas Paine Plaza. Over 3000

is] a platform where you could meet people with a purpose.” The company is building off the recent success of companionship apps, which have tripled in the last two years, according to research from the Dating Apocalypse. “The swipe culture and the swipe way of life is a way of connecting,” Peter Groverman, an advisor to the company said. “People are getting more and more connected every day that passes.” Groverman has been a part of focus groups that have helped develop different components of the app. “It’s really easy to use, it’s very intuitive,” Groverman said. “You can navigate it with

opportunities for students. “The reason for renaming our challenge the Penn Wharton Startup Challenge was to just try to be explicit that we welcome and really want students from all across university to participate,” Anick said. Anick added that the focus of the competition has shifted from the creation of business plans to the presentation of startup ideas, so as to better prepare students for real-life business situations. This refocusing has led to structural changes in the competition’s organization. To apply, teams are no longer required to submit business plans. Instead, they must submit pitch decks or pitch videos for their startup ideas. “Business plans are outdated,” Anick said. “We wanted to recognize that. We wanted to make sure that we fit what the current climate of entrepreneurship is doing.” Associate Director at Penn Whar ton Entrepreneurship Nadine Kavanaugh added that the competition is also attempting to better cater to the rising student interest in entrepreneurship at Penn. “Students are no longer coming in with ideas alone. They are serious companies,” Kavanaugh said. “They are launching their ideas in a

microcosm of the world of entrepreneurship.” The competition further aims to educate students in the pursuit and realization of entrepreneurial ideas via interactions in feedback rounds and in-person pitching sessions. These interactions involve Penn alumni, venture capitalists and industrialists who prompt students to consider minute details that may have been overlooked during the creation of the venture. “Maybe they’re not thinking about a marketing plan or how are they going to scale or what kind of funding they would need,” Anick said. “Doing a competition forces them to think through these things so when they’re out in the real world they’re better prepared to answer them.” Anick and Kavanaugh said that the Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship program is most excited to see the extent and growth of innovative thinking across Penn’s campus at this year’s competition. “This event is bringing in not just the students who are participating in the competition, but also students who are engaged in other entrepreneurial activities, into one place to showcase the best of the best of Penn entrepreneurship,” Anick said.

participants are committed to attending and almost 10,000 more are interested, according to a Facebook event. Additionally, a “Queer Rager” dance party — a protest against the anti-LGBTQ agenda found in the GOP Platform and pursued by former Governor Mike Pence in Indiana — has already started outside the conference venue. Since this is Trump’s first departure from Washington, D.C. following his inauguration last Friday, security surrounding the event will be tight. James Henry, the leading Secret Service agent of the Philadelphia Field Office, said he is “very comfortable with the plan” jointly organized by the Secret Service

and Philadelphia Police Department, Politico reported. Trump’s relationship with the city of Philadelphia has been rocky, especially since his Wednesday signing of an order threatening to strip federal funding from sanctuary cities, of which Philadelphia is one. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, therefore, will not be meeting with the Wharton alum during his short time in the city, 6abc reported. “This is not a dictatorship,” Kenney said, according to 6abc. “This is a democracy. We will take avail of every opportunity we have to protect our citizens and protect our people who are living in our city.”

complete ease.” This ease of use didn’t happen overnight. For the past year, Engelhard has worked to assemble a team to make his idea a reality. “Penn has been an unbelievable resource in terms of having students come into the office and do focus groups and test the prototypes and things like that,” Engelhard said. The result is an app based on connections made by mutual friends, which Engelhard described as “like Tinder, but less creepy, a little less weird.” Belya ninasa id something similar: “In Penn’s environment we kind of find our little niches, we have our little bubble,” she said. “This will

make it possible to build a community and raise awareness about what’s going on in other areas.” Penn is the first campus the app is launching with, and it was officially released on the App Store on Monday. Necter is hosting a launch event at Allegro Pizza on Thursday from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. and plans to turn Penn’s late night pizza place into a club, complete with a band, a DJ and free beer and pizza. Groverman feels optimistic about the app’s potential. “[Venmo] started in a dorm room and then boom it exploded and became such a phenom,” Groverman said. “This has all the hallmarks of that.”

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Students across Penn’s schools discuss peer advisors

Warby Parker opening first location in Philadelphia

Only Wharton’s advising program is optional

CEO reflects on company’s journey

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Penn has peer advising programs across schools meant to connect freshman with upperclassmen, but the degree to which these programs are used varies widely. There are two similarities among students who found their peer advisors to be useful: communication beyond New Student Orientation and a shared major. According to their websites, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Nursing and the School of Engineering and Applied Science each have a peer advising program to provide incoming freshmen with guidance from older students. For Wharton students, peer advising fellows are available by appointment but are not specifically provided. The Daily Pennsylvanian surveyed 24 freshmen, and only four responded that they had found

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together, you make a larger, outer perimeter, which represents the boundary of the network.” The network created by the smartphone app would permit refugees to join forces and focus on challenges they would never have been able to resolve on their own. “For refugees who are on the move, it can help give them back their voice, their ability to communicate with each other, share their stories and build this community which a lot of refugees that are on the move don’t necessarily have because they’re cut off from everything else,” Lin said.

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came from outside the United States. “That’s a larger increase outside the U.S. than we’ve seen before.” For the first time, students applying to the Class of 2021 had the option of taking the new SAT Reasoning Test in addition to the old SAT and ACT familiar to previous applicants. The new SAT differs from the old SAT in content and structure, reverting back to the 1600-scale and eliminating the penalty for guessing, among other changes. 1986 Wharton graduate Laurie Weingarten, co-founder and director of One-Stop College Counseling, noted some of the concerns surrounding the new SAT since its inception last March. “The College Board administered one SAT last March, the new SAT, and then immediately put out a concordance table,” Weingarten said. “ACT organization is not in agreement with the concordance table that was put out, but the colleges are using it because the ACT

their peer advisor to be useful. Three of the four noted that they had contacted or been contacted by their peer advisor after NSO. Anika Gusick, a Nursing freshman, praised her peer advisor for consistently reaching out to her during the semester. Gusick added that her peer advisor put a “welcome” sign on her door, came to her room to help arrange her schedule, sent her “good luck” texts before midterms, and left her a bag of candy before finals. “For me, she is the most helpful person on Penn’s campus,” Gusick said. Niel McDowell, associate director of academic advising and assistant dean for advising in the College, spoke about how the peer advising program focuses on summer registration through New Student Orientation. “We have aspirations for the peer advising relationship to continue through the fall, but it’s hard once everyone becomes involved in what they’re doing during the semester,” McDowell said. The four students who reported

their peer advisor to be useful also said their peer advisor was pursuing their same major. Gusick and another student are in Nursing, while the other two are in Engineering and the College. On the other hand, College freshman Bill Kalish discussed how when he needed registration help, he went to his pre-major advisor instead of his peer advisor. In fact, he was not even sure if he had met his peer advisor, saying, “she might have been the one to give the tour on the first day.” While a pre-major advisor is typically aligned with students of similar interests, a peer advisor is not, according to McDowell. Each peer advisor advises approximately 10 to 12 freshmen, making it difficult to connect them with freshmen of common majors or interests. Gusick emphasized how important it was to have her peer advisor as a support system throughout the first semester. “I thought that we would lose contact, but she was always there for encouragement,” Gusick said.

Team Mesh isn’t the only Penn team that qualified for the Hult Prize regional finals. Another team of Penn freshmen secured a spot in the regional competition by winning the Hult Prize at Penn. While Team Mesh — the runner-up team of the Hult Prize at Penn — did not qualify through the Penn competition, they applied directly to the general applicant pool by submitting an online form and writing up a proposal of their social enterprise. “One notable difference was because the form was done over the Internet, there wasn’t any physical demonstration that we could do,” Nguyen said. “So we had to definitely put in a lot more effort in explaining specifically

how the device worked in a way that the general public could understand without having to look up anything too technical.” Wharton and Engineering sophomore Quinn Wu, a director of logistics for the Hult Prize at Penn, said Team Mesh’s development of a prototype impressed him the most. “I’m just very interested in the technology itself,” Wu said. “I thought it was pretty interesting that it could … use tech to actually help the refugee crisis.” As the members of Team Mesh look towards the regional finals in March in San Francisco, they all reflected on how the Hult Prize increasingly served as a way not just to gain skills but also to fulfill a desire to make a

will not agree to develop a concordance table until the new SAT has been around a little bit longer.” Class of 2021 early decision admit Uday Tripathi said the uncertainty surrounding the new SAT led him to take the more established ACT instead. “There simply weren’t that many materials available, because there weren’t all these years and years of tests available,” Tripathi said. “Nobody really knew what was going on with the new SAT because there just simply wasn’t any empirical way to see that.” Furda stressed that the new SAT will not affect how the Admissions Office evaluates applications based on all of the information available. “For all of us, we’re going to use all of the information that we always have, and this is what we would always talk about even when tests don’t change, about a student’s high school courses, what about the grades that they received,” Furda said. “We’re always going to take a look at all of these factors.” Furda cautioned that it’s still too early to determine how the new SAT

compares to the old SAT and ACT in its ability to predict freshman year academic performance. “We need to wait and see what the first year performance of the Class of 2021 is after they enroll at Penn,” Furda said. “What we want to do as an interim step is pull on the grades [that freshmen in the Class of 2021] received in their first semester ... and then we can really take a look at the grades in the first semester in the freshman year and into the sophomore year. I think that’s when we’re going to know the most.” Regardless of any future actions, the Admissions Office has the immediate task of assembling the Class of 2021. “We’re reviewing applications six days a week right now,” Furda said. “The group of people here are committing themselves to make sure that we’re carefully evaluating the applications we receive — including the incremental four percent increase that we had.” Admissions decisions for the Class of 2021 regular decision round will be released March 30.

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Warby Parker’s very first makeshift showroom was a small apartment in Center City. This Saturday, the brand will open its first Philadelphia store, blocks away from where it began on Walnut Street in 2010. 2010 MBA graduates Dave Gilboa, Neil Blumenthal, Andy Hunt and Jeff Raider founded Warby Parker during their time at the Wharton School, when they discovered their shared frustration with the high prices and inconvenience of buying eyeglasses. Gilboa had lost a $600 pair of glasses while backpacking in Southeast Asia in the months before coming back to Penn. The four founders decided to put their savings toward starting the company and opened their first showroom inside Blumenthal’s Walnut Street apartment. “The business has grown rapidly since then, and we have over a thousand employees and are coming up on 50 retail stores,” Gilboa said. “We thought we’d be selling one to two pairs of glasses a day, and joked that if nothing else, my mom would buy a hundred pairs from us and make us feel okay about ourselves.” The Walnut Street store

social impact. “As we learned more about the Hult Competition, I think that this story and the people that we’re helping through this competition really took over,” Lin said. “I think no matter how San

will evoke feelings of being inside a library, as the founders have always associated glasses with literature and intellectual curiosity — the company’s name derives from an unpublished Kerouac manuscript. The store will also feature the color blue to pay homage to the Blue-Footed Boobie — a source of inspiration for the company. “If you look at the top half of the bird, it looks very formal … almost like a penguin wearing a tuxedo,” Gilboa explained. “But then it has bright pops of blue on its feet and a quizzical look on its face. Similarly, we’ve always tried to incorporate things that are a bit unexpected into our brand, our store design and our glasses design.” Gilboa and Blumenthal are currently the co-CEOs of Warby Parker. While they have achieved great success now, their path was not always so smooth. “Any entrepreneurial journey has a lot of ups and downs, and can feel like riding a rollercoaster most of the time,” Gilboa said, adding that the four friends use each other as a support system. Warby Parker was featured in GQ and Vogue when the company first launched, and the founders were completely caught off guard with how impactful national press can be. “We ended up hitting our first year sales target in three weeks, and then we were basically stocked out of inventory,” Gilboa said. “We had a waitlist of 20,000 customers, and didn’t have any employees or an office. We had no way to keep up with demand.”

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Gilboa, Blumenthal, Hunt and Raider went out of their way to ensure that their early customers knew the founders cared about them and wanted them to walk away with a positive experience, even if it took a few months to get inventory back in stock. “We reached out to every single person on the waiting list,” Gilboa said. “We gave away free glasses even though we didn’t have any money at the time and were watching every penny.” Giving back was always a part of Warby Parker’s company vision. Through their “Buy a Pair, Give a Pair” program, they have donated over a million pairs of glasses to people in need and partnered with nonprofits all over the world. Gilboa described the program as the “DNA of the company.” “From the beginning, we were excited by the prospect of starting a for-profit business that did good in the world,” he said. “We realized that what was going to keep us motivated was being successful in creating an organization that had more impact as it scaled.” Warby Parker’s founders have also been cognizant of giving back to the Penn community, including mentoring students and speaking at events such as the 2015 Wharton MBA graduation. “We get a lot of questions from people who want to become entrepreneurs and are looking for an idea,” Gilboa said. “That’s a backwards way of looking at things.” “It should start by identifying a need and then thinking about creating a solution.”

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A letter to the Black, Queer students at Penn SPILLING THE REAL TEA | Sending love to Black, Queer students

THURSDAY JANUARY 26 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 9 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor RONG XIANG Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor GENEVIEVE GLATSKY News Editor

To all my black queer students at Penn, I just wanted to say: I love you. And that’s it. This is not a piece proposing solutions. This is not a critique on some bigger issue in society involving black queer students. This is an affirmation — a round of applause for your existence. I want this to be a timeless reminder that helps you cope with the countless problems that will come up because of your identity. I also want to list a couple of resources in case you feel alone and can’t find the support that you need. We spend so much time talking about the systems of oppression around us, that we forget to unapologetically love ourselves. And although I cannot relate to all of your unique experiences, I know what it’s like to be “othered” for who you love. As a black queer man, I am constantly vilified by both the white community because of my blackness

and my own community because of my queerness. I have been called a demon, a f****t and everything else in between. I have been attacked by my own family: I have been told by a family member that he would “f**k me up if he were my father and I told him that I was gay,” and I’ve even overheard countless conversations in which other family members blamed my queerness on the fact that my father was not in my life. I’ve had family perform a mini exorcism on me as they prayed around me. I’ve had my high school threaten to cancel the prom if I went. And I’ve even had teachers make homophobic comments in class. So believe me when I say that I understand the constant struggle between these different parts of our identity. It’s as if the world blames us for not being confident in our own skin, but at the same time forgets that

it made us that way — or at least that’s the case for me. I want to say I love you as many times as I can, because you might not hear it again for a long time. Or in my case, you might not hear

if you’re tired of hearing it. But I see the potential in you. Within you lies the strength to change the world. And if someone doesn’t tell you that you’re great, it may be hard for you to continuously

It’s as if the world blames us for not being confident in our own skin, but at the same time forgets that it made us that way — or least that’s the case for me.” it until you’re in a dark alleyway with the first man who showed you any attention. That is not to say that sexual freedom is dirty or evil; I just felt like I could have established a better sense of who I was before I sought it out from others. I love you. And I’m sorry

believe it on your own. If you need a reminder, I’m obviously here. But if you can’t reach me, there are a few resources that you can explore right here on Penn’s campus. First, the LGBT Center is a great space to meet new queer people or even just study.

And if that gets a little too uncomfortable for you because of the white-dominated space, Queer People of Color is a nice group on campus that meets in the LGBT Center and is focused primarily on the experiences of people of color who identify as LGBTQIA+. I would also recommend Counseling and Psychological Services as a resource of support. I know that a lot of students have a weird feeling when someone mentions CAPS, but I found it as a great resource for me to hash out a lot of the trauma associated with my blackness, my queerness and the intersections existent between the two. In these short hour-long intervals, I was able to take back the voice that was stolen from me over the years. I was finally able to explain some of the foggy things that happened in my life that contributed to some of the behavior I exhibit now in relation to the complexities

JAMES FISHER around my queerness and my blackness. I’m not saying it’s for everyone — I’m just saying that it’s a great option to try and see if it works for you. So that’s it. Practice selfcare. Love yourself. Empower and support those like us, and never forget that your existence itself is revolutionary. So just continue to be you. JAMES FISHER is a College sophomore from the Bronx, N.Y., studying communications. His email address is jafish@sas. upenn.edu. “Spilling the Real Tea” usually appears every other Thursday.

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Today’s column is a love letter to avoidance. Today, we are here to talk about “ghosting.” To quote Google, ghosting is “the practice of ending a personal relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication.” I would like to note that this definition refers not just to romantic relationships, but all personal relationships, and that the definition could lend itself to mutual detachment. And so, I’d argue that the term ghosting can be used to refer to the death of any relationship. Ghosting is the ultimate act of passive disappearance: a commitment to doing nothing, to ignoring attempts at contact, to completely disentangling yourself from someone else’s life. This is easier said than done on college campuses, but Penn provides an adequate population — roughly 10,000 undergrads — to lose oneself in. It’s easy to be anonymous here. We go out of our way to avoid each

other — heads down in elevators, earbuds plugged in as we walk down Locust Walk, eyes fixated on our phones at dinner tables. I’m here to say that ghosting is maybe the kindest way to end any relationship in the digital era. I accidentally ghost people all the time; less often on purpose. Many of my friendships at Penn have been transient. All of my romantic relationships have. I wonder, sometimes, what the difference between friends and acquaintances, acquaintances and strangers. Then again, old relationships must end to make room for new ones. Dunbar’s number states that the number of connections a person can have is finite — a suggested 150 for acquaintances, 6-10 for close friends. I’d argue that social media allows for a perceived artificial inflation of this number, creating the perception of social connection when there is none. After all, it’s relatively normal to have upwards of

800 Facebook “friends.” In my experience, we deride ghosting as annoying, cowardly, insulting and yet, we all do it to people anyway. It is easier to stop talking to someone than it is to bluntly break up. It’s uncomfortable to state that a relationship that was never defined as a

concretely end a relationship, the chatroom still exists. Their phone number still exists. They might still be a friend of a friend, or a classmate, or you might be living on the same floor as them. In the past, it used to be harder to communicate. A phone call must be done in

I’m here to say that ghosting is maybe the kindest way to end any relationship in the digital era.” “relationship” is over — because that would mean acknowledging it as a “thing” in the first place. It’s a social faux pas to tell a person that the two of you are not friends anymore, and maybe you were never friends in the first place. Perhaps ghosting is a kindness. After all, even if you do

real time, with two active participants. A letter takes infinitely longer to send than a Facebook message. The value of the ability to communicate has depreciated. This is far from a bad thing. But I think it, paradoxically enough, dissuades us from communicating and makes us more likely to use the ab-

sence of communication to stand in for dismissal. I submit the proposal that in today’s hyperconnected world, there is no choice but to ghost. Conscious pseudodisappearance is inevitable because there is no way to truly disappear anymore, because the platform for communication exists long after you have stopped communicating. Conversely, the potential for communication makes us complacent, prevents us from talking to our peers because, well, the option’s always open, I’ll do it tomorrow. And without due reason to speak — no need to network, no need to ask about next week’s homework — we go silent. Or maybe ghosting and its derivatives have always existed and Snapchat and Facebook messenger and text messages have only made us hyper-conscious of the communicative trails we leave in our wake. Ghosting is necessary. It is the best option out of a list of

ISABEL KIM bad options. If the potential for communication can never disappear, then the only thing to do is ignore that potential. Ghosting can only exist because we have come to accept its alternative as the norm. We expect constant communication from friends and significant others and acquaintances half a world away. And so, nothing can die naturally. ISABEL KIM is a College junior from Warren, N.J., studying English and fine arts. Her email address is isakim@sas.upenn. edu. “It Keeps Happening” usually appears every other Thursday.

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schools since last fall, but SRFS Director of Communications Karen Hamilton said that there is currently no update on the status of the report. *** Sarah Holland, a College junior majoring in visual studies, complained of regularly being fooled into thinking that the $75 “course cost” listed next to each course description on department web pages would cover the supplies for the class. “Multiple times, I haven’t had the money to buy the materials and I’ve done poorly on the projects,” Holland said. “That wouldn’t happen if someone could buy the materials.” These extra materials might include the purchase of a canvas or having an object bound, which can add another $20 to $30 to the cost of projects. Students said that many of these costs are highly variable, so it is difficult to predict how much they will have to spend when registering for classes. MacKenzie said that many of these external costs are often related to success in a course. The Department of Architecture wants students to display the most impressive projects in their portfolios and expensive projects

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“Even if it’s not a super active decision, I find that at least for me, subconsciously, I’ll alter my designs so that it’ll be easier to make with cheaper material,” Sybil Lui, another College senior studying architecture, said. *** Since last fall, Penn First, the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education and the Undergraduate Assembly have been actively working with the Council of Undergraduate Deans to bring attention to the issue of prohibitive course costs. These course costs can include additional fees for materials that are not listed in syllabi or even transportation costs for fieldwork or jobs that are required for the class. College senior Juana Granados received two course credits — and a pay cut — when she took on an internship that was part of a required urban studies class for her major last year. Since her freshman year, Granados had been devoting 15 to 20 hours each week to her workstudy job as the Riepe College House manager. When she began her mandatory internship with a real estate developer, she was forced to scale back to just five hours. The little income she earned that semester went to the Uber drivers that drove her to and from the internship, since the site was difficult to access via SEPTA. Each trip was about $7, and Granados reported working three days a week. “Walking was a great - Sarah Holland option at one point, even in the cold,” she said. SCUE, which is working to generate more visual appeal. reduce these hidden course costs But Undergraduate Chair of the that students like Granados face, Department of Architecture Richadministered a survey last semes- ard Wesley does not see the course ter about additional class fees. costs associated with architecture The survey results, which were courses as very different from reported only to the administration, other undergraduate courses. revealed that the fees associated In an emailed statement to The with science lab courses were most Daily Pennsylvanian, Wesley said widely known. College senior and that he calculated the printing former Chair External of SCUE and model material costs of arJane Xiao said that fine arts and chitectural design studio courses nursing courses were also cited for — which do require textbooks being expensive. — to be almost the same as the The groups also prepared an estimated book costs for other executive summary containing undergraduate courses, based off course cost recommendations for of Penn’s estimated book costs for the undergraduate deans last fall. the 2016-2017 school year. DividSuggestions included making ing the estimated $1,280 book cost syllabi available during the course per academic year by an average selection period with associ- of five credits, undergraduates are ated course costs, encouraging spending about $128 per credit students to use older editions of unit. Wesley estimated that untextbooks if possible and allowing dergraduate architecture students students to view articles through are spending about $141 per credit Canvas. unit. Granados recalled a freshman *** seminar professor who required Many University faculty memthe class to buy five or six books, bers are not unsympathetic to the but students only ended up read- difficulty students face in paying ing one chapter of each book. for their classes. Student Registration and FiAdditional costs have always nancial Services and the Provost’s been a fixed part of undergraduOffice have also been working on ate education, Dean of the College a report describing comprehensive of Arts and Sciences Dennis Decourse costs for all undergraduate Turck said. DeTurck is currently

on sabbatical. To help minimize students’ He said the College Office has transportation costs, Simon has seen an increase in courses that suggested students take on local have additional fees such as field internships and has allowed stutrips and project materials. dents to split their internship over “It’s become too casual,” De- two semesters to allow them to Turck said. “We used to push back maintain a work study job and gently — now we’re pushing back minimize the working hours in a more forcefully.” This is in large part due to the increasing socioeconomic diversity of the student body. He added that it wouldn’t be “all that hard” to work with the administrators in the academic and financial aid departments to allocate resources to the courses that impose extra costs on their students. “I don’t see why [an extra course fee] should increase the - Dean Dennis DeTurck already substantial amount that students must pay for the privilege of taking a course,” De- given semester. In extremely rare Turck said. cases, she has let students comOne solution that’s been previ- plete policy research internships, ously implemented involves the which eliminates the travel altoCollege splitting the cost of addi- gether. tional fees, such as field trips, with Wharton professor Maria Riethe academic department the first ders has also found creative ways time the course is offered. If the for her students to spend as little class is offered again, it is the aca- money as possible on items for her demic department’s responsibility course, “Introduction to Operato determine how its budget can tions Management.” be redesigned to cover the cost. She curated a textbook that conWhile SCUE, the UA and tains sections from other, more Penn First are trying to make expensive textbooks that cost far courses equally accessible, more than the approximately $40 some opportunities within students are charged for her book. classes may continue to pro- She also calls the Lippincott Lihibitive. brary to reserve required texts for DeTurck remembered a her classes before each semester class a few years ago, when so students can borrow them free the premiere of “Waiting for of charge. Godot” on Broadway coinThe Nursing School continues cided with the reading of the to be one of the more expensive play in an integrated studies schools for undergraduates. Ascourse. The faculty learned sociate Dean for Nursing Julie about the performance with- Sochalski says nursing uniforms, out enough time to find a way to lab coats, stethoscopes, lab and cover the cost, and DeTurck said clinical fees add a hefty sum to the attitude wound up being: “It’d nurses’ tuition. Students can increase their fibe great if you can [come], but if nancial aid to cover these costs you can’t, you can’t.” if they have the documentation, *** Some academic departments Antoinette Oteri, the director don’t always find it possible to of financial aid for the Nursing foot the bill of course expenses, School said in an emailed stateeven if funds are allocated for ment. SRFS Senior University Director of Student Financial Aid doing just that. “Even if we had the funds, it’s Elaine Varas said that currently, really not something we can do students are evaluated on a caseas a program to make judgments by-case basis. However, Wharton senior and about who’s deserving and who’s not deserving of those funds Penn First member Seidy Paif we were trying to do it on the checo Chacon said that receiving basis of need,” Elaine Simon said. Simon is the director of the Urban Studies Program and one of the professors for the fieldwork internship course that Granados enrolled in last year. Simon said she envisions students’ work-study appointments being converted into grants during the course of the internship to avoid placing them in financial strain. Simon said she contacted the financial aid office regarding her proposal last year but she hadn’t heard back. “I think it’s a lot to ask an undergraduate to work 20 hours a week when some students don’t have to work at all,” Simon said.

I don’t see why [an extra course fee] should increase the already substantial amount that students must pay for … taking a course”

Multiple times, I haven’t had the money to buy the materials and I’ve done poorly on the projects…”

William Henry Harrison: Penn’s first claim to the White House Harrison did not complete his medical training

retroactive financial aid for hidden costs can be complicated. Xiao also said that the process by which students can receive additional financial aid for their courses needs to be more streamlined. The major grievance among nursing students interviewed were the fees associated with clinical sessions and labs. Depending on their year, between $200 and $400 can be charged to nursing students who are either late or absent from a clinical appointment, which teach nursing students different health care practices in shifts of six to 12 hours in healthcare facilities. Many nurses do not have clinical assignments near Penn’s campus, and they are required in almost all cases except for “selected labor and delivery sites” and “home visits,” as stated in the undergraduate BSN Student Handbook, to pay their own transportation costs. Valerie Bai, a Nursing junior, has a clinical assignment this semester at Fairmount Behavioral Health System, which is 20-30 minutes away by car. She and her clinical group members take an Uber or Lyft to the site twice a week, since it isn’t easily accessible by SEPTA. “Over time, we’re [each] going to pay at least $120 for this semester,” Bai said, and that’s only for transportation. *** For some students struggling to pay for their courses, cultural centers on campus offer solace, especially when students don’t feel comfortable breaching the subject with professors. “I probably wouldn’t have talked to [professors] because I didn’t develop a trust with them at all,” College freshman Ariana Hill said. Hill received assistance from the Center for Africana Studies and Makuu to purchase her textbooks last semester. Before Dr. Brian Peterson, director of Makuu, bought Hill her writing seminar book, she was sharing with a friend. They’d read it together, or she’d photograph the pages of his book to read alone. “It wasn’t a huge cost — it was $20, but still, it was money I didn’t have,” she said.

Hill was eventually forced to tell her writing seminar professor that she didn’t have the book when she realized that she’d have to turn in an assignment late. Hill said that her professor, Matthew Johnson, “was definitely shocked.” In an emailed statement, Peterson said that Makuu encourages students to use and return books from its textbook library every semester and to use other options including library loans and upperclassmen. *** Hidden course costs are even a burden to students who receive substantial financial aid packages. Daniel Gonzalez, a College freshman, QuestBridge scholar and member of Penn First, has a financial aid package that covers his full tuition. “It’s always a concern to know how much my financial aid extends,” he said, referring to lab fees required for his pre-health coursework and math courses that require students to buy new textbooks so they have access to course codes. He was successful in getting his course books at low prices last semester, but Gonzalez said that he was worried about purchasing his expensive Spanish textbook for this semester. Gonzalez has also struggled with changes in syllabi mid-semester. As a Benjamin Franklin Scholar, professors have changed the list of required texts , forcing him to buy additional books throughout the semester. Gonzalez said he thinks that course costs should also be considered in terms of time. For students who have work-study appointments, which he does, it’s tough to fit in office hours. “Before [my work study appointment] I tried not to have anything conflict with my office hours, but now that I have my work study job, I can’t go to at least three [of my courses’] office hours,” Gonzalez said. Over the summer, Gonzalez worked as a community health worker and earned $3,000, which he said he used “to buy a new life, more than [he had] ever had.” By the end of last semester, he’d spent it all on living and course expenses. “Basically I’m back to zero, and it’s only been five months.”

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As the first Penn graduate elected as the President of the United States sets up shop in the Oval Office, the brief career at the University of the only other Penn-affiliated President, William Henry Harrison, resurfaces. One of the only written statements available that provides evidence of his attendance at Penn, found at the University of Pennsylvania Archives and Records Center, contains an 1839 letter from Harrison to James Brooks, his biographer. “I commenced the study of Medicine in Richmond in the year 1790,” Harrison wrote. “In the month of April 1791 I was sent to Philadelphia further to prosecute my studies & was placed under the direction of my fathers intimate friend Robt. Morris the financier of the revolution. My father died whilst I was on the passage to Philadelphia & in the following summer not liking the Medical profession … [Governor Lee] recommended me to go into the Army.” Another document found in the archives, which appears to be an

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William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States, but died 31 days into his term from pneumonia.

excerpt from an article on Harrison’s father, reads that “[f]or a short time only, William Henry attended classes in Anatomical Hall, a square brick building in Fifth Street.” This document provides more context for Harrison’s swift exit from medical school, explaining that after his brother informed him that his father had granted Harrison land and not money in his will, Harrison searched for a way to earn a living. Furthermore, a document in the archives labeled as a memo for the School of Arts and Sciences claims that Harrison studied under chemistry professor Benjamin Rush and anatomy and surgery professor William

Shippen during his single semester at Penn. Mark Lloyd, director of the University Archives, explained the dearth of detail on Harrison’s experience. Students would enroll directly with their professors, Lloyd said. Professors considered student enrollment private information and therefore did not share it with the University until the student was qualified to graduate. Although Harrison only spent one semester at Penn, a 1979 letter to the editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian found in the Archives clarifies that he “is considered a non-graduate alumnus of the Medical Class of 1793.”

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Quakers overpowered by an athletic Temple team W. HOOPS | Penn canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

keep pace with the Owls JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Editor SUNDAY

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Close, but no cigar. In their final Big 5 tilt of the season, Penn just couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep up with Templeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s size and athleticism, falling by a score of 63-53. The score doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do Penn justice, as the Red and Blue held a lead as late as 4:47 in the fourth quarter. The Quakers (9-6, 3-0 Ivy) fall to 0-4 in the Big 5 on the season, failing for the first time in five years to win a game in the mini-conference. The Owlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sheer athleticism proved too much for the Red and Blue to handle. Temple (16-3, 4-0 Big 5) smothered Penn on defense, playing physical and getting in the Penn guardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; faces. Meanwhile, on the other side of the ball, the Quakers couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep Temple off the glass, spoiling an otherwise solid

defensive effort. Penn let up 42 rebounds, including 19 offensive rebounds that helped prolong Templeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possessions. It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help that senior center Sydney Stipanovich, one of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading rebounders, got into foul trouble early, forcing her to sit key minutes in the first half. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought we defended them really well, we just couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep them off the glass,â&#x20AC;? coach Mike McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought we had to play them in zone, and we did, but we were going to give up rebounds, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what ended up happening.â&#x20AC;? This was best exemplified in the second quarter, where the Quakers were held pointless for nearly five minutes while Temple compiled seven offensive rebounds, including three on the same possession. Despite all of this, the Quakers only entered the half down by six points. The Red and Blue came out hungry in the third quarter. After six early points from Stipanovich, the Quakers cracked down on defense, holding Temple to just four points in the last seven minutes of the quarter. Despite several chances to take the lead, Penn ended the quarter trailing by just

one. But the luck ran out in the fourth. After the teams traded buckets and the lead up until midway through the final period, Temple started to put the game away. Offensive rebounds were the killer, as the Quakers could not keep the Owls off the glass, and the deficit became too much for Penn to come back from. The Red and Blue didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help their own cause, missing several opportunities to claw back into the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deflating,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had stretches of four layups in a row at a critical time, we had inside position, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball.â&#x20AC;? Despite the loss, there were plenty of bright spots for the Quakers. The defense buckled down and played stingy, highlighted by senior guard Kasey Chambersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; seven steals. Junior guard Anna Ross continued her excellent stretch as a facilitator on offense, racking up eight assists, and freshman Phoebe Sterba and sophomore Princess Aghayere both made important contributions. The Quakers will have one more shot to regain their momentum when they take on Stevens Tech (8-7) in their final non-conference

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In Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 63-53 loss to Temple, senior center Sydney Stipanovich led the way with 16 points for her team. Despite her strong performance, the Quakers couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep up in the fourth quarter.

game of the season this Sunday. A Division III program, the Ducks have a star guard in graduate student Kaitlyn Astel, who is averaging over 17 points and seven rebounds per game. However, the game represents a perfect opportunity for the Red and Blue to come

out hungry and get back on track before getting back to the Ancient Eight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be ready for Ivy play next Friday and Saturday,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have a couple of days of practice, get ready for Sunday, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going

to be in Ivy week next week ready to go.â&#x20AC;? Even though they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pull off a win in the Big 5, McLaughlin and his team know there are bigger targets for the squad, and they can take the next step towards the Ivy tournament this Sunday.

Lessons learned from Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loss to Temple at the Palestra

W. HOOPS | Defense was

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Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let the 63-53 scoreline deceive you, the Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball took Templeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s explosive side down to the wire in tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big 5 finale. With 5:49 left on the clock, senior Kasey Chambers knocked down a clutch three pointer to give the Red and Blue a 48-47 lead and it looked like the Quakers

were ready to pull off the upset. However, the offense limped to the finish line as Temple closed on a 16-5 run. Two big takeaways from tonight:

11 steals and six blocks, and kept the Owls (16-3), who average 72 points per game, mostly at bay. However, the Red and Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficulties grabbing rebounds on defense undermined the otherwise stellar performance. The Owls grabbed 19 offensive boards and were given too many opportunities for second-chance points. Still--a performance like this against a team as good as Temple should inspire tremendous amounts of confidence for the Quakers going forward into the heart of the Ivy League season.

1. Even though the Quakers let Temple get away from them in the end, the defensive showing was one to be proud of. The less glamorous half of basketball took centerstage for the Quakers (9-6) in this showdown at the Palestra, as the team racked up an impressive

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40-27 lead into the break. Averaging 66.9 points per game against a La Salle offense that puts up 80.5, it was almost a complete role-reversal on display for the two squads. Brodeurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s effective shooting from the floor (14-for-19) supplied the Quakers with a steady supply of points in the paint as the Explorers simply could not get things clicking from threepoint range, going 3-for-4 on the night. His 35-point performance was the best Penn has seen since Matt Maloney scored 36 at Brown in 1995. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think they underestimated my range a little bit, and I was able to take advantage right there,â&#x20AC;? Brodeur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And that opened up a lot more, not only for me, but for my teammates.â&#x20AC;? A quick 5-0 run to open the second half forced a Donahue

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thrashed Villanova 83-48 (the same Villanova that the Quakers lost to by a score of 60-48 just last week). Needless to say, another Temple victory wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t unexpected, but the inspired performance that took place in the Palestra tonight showed that the Quakers have what it takes to play with some of the best. The Red and Blue can go into Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game against Stevens Tech on Sunday with a bolstered sense of confidence, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need as much of that they can get for the matchup against the Crimson following that.

timeout, and from there Penn settled into about a 10-point lead for much of the second half. Whenever the Explorers threatened, it was Brodeur who answered â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at one point in the second half, the freshman forward scored 13 of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s points in a row. The Explorers were able to stick around thanks in large part to Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nagging tendency to let opponents get to the line â&#x20AC;&#x201D; La Salle ended the day 18-for-25 from the charity stripe, getting nine of their 27 first-half points there. It was on the back of those free throws that the Explorers made it a three-point game with two minutes to play. Senior forward Matt Howard hit a trey to extend the lead (giving himself an 11-point, 11-board doubledouble in the process), but La Salle responded with one of its own. After the Explorers made it a

two-point game, Betley was able to get a wide-open look under the hoop and give the Quakers a little breathing room. La Salle hit a three with 3.0 seconds left, but Brodeur iced it at the line. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It separates us from the other teams in this league. Just the history, to play this type of game in January, in the middle of our league, is something that the other seven schools in our league donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get,â&#x20AC;? Donahue noted. One fact worthy of note is that the triumph was Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first road Big 5 victory since 2007. It was also the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only Big 5 win this season. Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win closed out non-conference play for the Red and Blue â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and with it theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take a little momentum into the heart of the games that really matter. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get a little time to rest before heading to Harvard next Friday for the first road Ivy weekend of the year.

to keep our focus on Bucknell until we finish that match,â&#x20AC;? Tirapelle said. Kent is used to this grueling type of scheduling, and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t concern himself too much with the inconvenient timing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like the same as what we did last weekend. We had one on Friday and Saturday, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit more annoying now though, because we have one day between our weigh-ins, so it will kind of be our whole weekend,â&#x20AC;? Kent said. A handful of the Penn grapplers may be feeling a boost of confidence, having just been named to the NCAA Coaches Panel, where the top-33 wrestlers in each weight class are determined by a collection of Division I coaches. Listed in this first 2017 edition, from Tirapelleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crew were No. 10 Casey Kent, No. 15 Frank Mattiace, No. 22 May Bethea, and No. 32 Joe Heyob. Bethea admitted he was flattered by the recognition, but that his mindset was generally

unchanged. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It certainly feels good to be ranked, but I want to be one of the top in the country, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as high as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m planning to be,â&#x20AC;? he noted. Despite having some of his wrestlers singled out for superior performance, Tirapelle is not convinced it will be his big guns that will win them the weekend, given their opponents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In both duals this weekend, we are fairly alike teams, in the sense that we have our mainstays in the guys that are dependable every match,â&#x20AC;? Tirapelle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And then we have the guys that are a little greener, with less experience, and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know exactly what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna get from them. I think those guys are more likely to determine the outcome.â&#x20AC;? So with another big test slated ahead, Penn will have to find a way to dig deep and pull out two big in-conference victories crammed into one action-packed weekend.

Senior center Sydney Stipanovich squared off against Templeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s f resh ma n center Shannen Atkinson, a McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s All-American, and played one of her strongest games of the season. She scored 16 points and grabbed seven rebounds, but beyond that she constantly provided the spark when the team needed it. Some of the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; most reliable scorers of the year, such as juniors Michelle Nwokedi and Anna Ross, couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get much going

from the field, but Stipanovich was able to shoot an impressive 7-of-15 from the field and keep the Quakers close all through the game. Down the line, Harvard looks to be the toughest test for the Quakers, and on the Crimsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s star-studded roster is freshman Jeannie Boehm, another McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s All-American who the Red and Blue will need to shut down if a victory is to be secured. Stipanovich showed tonight that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than ready for the task, and can be counted on to galvanize the team. In early December, the Owls

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team, coming third in the EIWA in the past couple years, and they are going to be ready to compete,â&#x20AC;? Tirapelle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to their place, hostile territory, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna have to give our best performance to beat them.â&#x20AC;? After wrapping up in Lewisburg, Penn will travel back home, get some much deserved rest, and aim to return to full strength for Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dual at the Palestra. The visiting Eagles (3-4, 0-3) will be looking to turn around their losing streak in Philadelphia, which has plagued them since their January 6th win over Wyoming, and a fatigued Penn side could be their chance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thankfully we have a day in between; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s harder just backto-back. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get back late Friday evening, but then we will have Saturday to recover and shift gears, and refocus on American. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to try

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West Chester (3-3) 1 p.m. West Chester, Pa.

Coming off a huge comeback win over Yale, Penn gymnastics looks to utilize that momentum against a struggling West Chester squad that has lost its

last three matchups. Still, the Division II Golden Rams have ambitions to pull off the upset and knock the Quakers down a peg after their home-opening victory. For the Quakers (3-1, 2-0 Ivy) to avoid defeat, they will need continued strong performances from sophomore sensation Ca roline Moore and junior Alex Hartke. Both earned ECAC honors last week for their heroics against Yale, with Moore earning Gymnast of the Week and Hartke getting Specialist of the Week. “It was a great experience to be able to win that,” Hartke said, before being quick to

point out the real MVP. “Caroline Moore had an incredible meet. She has been doing really well this season. It’s been a privilege to watch,” Hartke said. Still, it is important to put the exciting Yale match in the rearview mirror and focus on West Chester (3-3). Despite recent struggles, West Chester is a team that has given Penn fits in the past. Last season West Chester won the Penn TriMeet, besting the Red and Blue by a mere 0.3. That said, Penn has no concern with either last year’s results or the current rankings. “Just focusing, going into

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every meet and tackling every field individually is kind of our focus right now,” Hartke said. “Instead of worrying about the rankings and where other people are compared to where we are, we know the job that we need to accomplish.” That said, the proximity and recent history between these two in-state foes still highlights the importance of this match. Even if an early season loss would not be overly detrimental, it would certainly put a damper on what has been a very strong start to Penn’s season. Look for a strong performance from the Quakers on the Golden Rams’ home mats.

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It may still be cold out, but Penn men’s tennis is coming home for the spring season. On Saturday, the Quakers will continue their 2017 campaign with a doubleheader against two very familiar programs. Georgetown is the first opponent of the day, while Temple will make the crosstown trek in the early afternoon to cap off the spring opener. The Hoyas and the Owls have two formidable teams by most measures, but the greatest test for coach David Geatz’s team perhaps could be fitness, as they open competitive play for the year with two back-to-back matches, and hardly any break between them. “The NCAA only allows you to play 24 dates of the year, and I want my guys to play as much as we can,” Geatz explained, “so if you schedule a couple doubleheaders, you get more opportunities to go out and play.” And what better way to kick things off than with two of your longtime friends? Well, Geatz made sure to invite Georgetown and Temple because of his longstanding relationships the two teams’ coaches.

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After being named First Team All-Ivy in his first year, sophomore Kyle Mautner has no shortage of expectations on him this season.

“A lot of times you play your friends, and both those coaches are my friends….I’ve known [Georgetown coach] Gordie Ernst for a long time,” coach Geatz said. “When I got my first job at the University of New Mexico, I thought Gordie was one of the top twenty players in the country. I tried to recruit Gordie to come play for me, and he went to Brown instead to play hockey and tennis, and I’ve known Steve [Mauro] for quite a while too, so I like both the guys. I think they’re both good coaches. It’s always good to play coaches you respect and programs you respect.” But once the players step out onto the court, any friendships between their coaches must be put aside. Geatz said that he and Ernst draw from the same recruiting pool, so any matchup between the two sides should be even. That sentiment reflects clearly in the scoreline from the last time they met, when Penn went down to Washington in 2014 and took a narrow 4-3 victory. From the top to the bottom, the matches will be tight. At

the top of the ladder, sophomore Kyle Mautner will surely be looking to continue his good form from 2016, but there can be no guarantees at the beginning of a new season. Meanwhile, towards the end of the team, freshman Max Cancilla will hope to have success in his first team competition at the Hecht Tennis Center in Penn Park. Against Temple in the afternoon, the Quakers have a much tougher opponent. The Owls went 20-6 in 2016, and made it to the AAC Championship game, only losing to No. 2 Tulsa. It should be a trial by fire for the team, given the tough competition and the element of fatigue after having already played one match that day. Though weather forecasts for Saturday don’t look great, Geatz hopes that the label of a homeopening doubleheader can draw enough support to give Penn a homecourt advantage. With any luck, they’ll be able to take whatever home support they can get and turn it into a successful pair of matches — or at the very least, competitive.

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For her career-high performance on the floor against the Bulldogs, junior Alex Hartke was named ECAC’s Specialist of the Week.

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The swimming and diving regular season comes to a close this Friday when the Penn men’s and women’s teams travel to West Chester for a dual meet against the Golden Rams. For both Penn and West Chester, the meet will serve as the final tuneup before their

respective league championship meets – Penn in the Ivy League of course and West Chester in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. For the men (7-3, 4-3 Ivy), Friday’s meet marks the first competition since January 14, when Penn hosted Ivy rivals Brown and Harvard, earning mixed results. The Red and Blue dominated Brown, winning 215.5-82.5. Unfortunately, against Harvard, the results were nearly reversed, as Penn was dealt a swift 206-88 defeat. The women fared in much the same way. Against Brown, the Quakers were successful, winning 181-119. As it was with the men, Harvard came out on top, albeit by a significantly narrower margin, 165-135. Sporting an identical record to the men, the women will also be competing for the first time since the Ivy tri-meet. For the Golden Rams, the gap between meets will be longer,

as the neither the men (6-3), nor women (6-2) have swum since January 7. Unfortunately for the Quakers, their opponents come into the meet hot with both the men and women riding four-meet win streaks. Penn will be hoping that the Golden Rams will have cooled off after the long break, but a team coming off a long rest could give them just as much worry. In any case, Penn will be reliant, as always, on seniors Rochelle Dong for the women and Kevin Su for the men, both of whom swam exceptionally against their Ivy rivals. Su garnered three top-three finishes on the day in the freestyle competitions, while Dong asserted her dominance as well, winning three events. It goes without saying that Penn will need all of that firepower and more this Friday and beyond as the Quakers race to the playoffs.

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Even though Penn women’s basketball lost, their defense remained resolute

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Gritty Bucknell set for grapplers

PENN 77 74 LA SALLE

WRESTLING | Another tough set

of opponents await the Quakers

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M. HOOPS | Brodeur

breaks losing streak

NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor-Emeritus

When the Quakers visited the Explorers, they were searching for their first Big 5 win of the season. They need to look no longer. Wednesday evening, Penn men’s basketball made the most of its last matchup against a Big 5 foe, outpacing La Salle, 77-74, on the road. For the stars of this contest, it was the first Big 5 win of their careers, as freshmen Ryan Betley (11 points) and AJ Brodeur (35) joined junior transfer Caleb Wood (nine) in leading the Quakers’ charge. “If someone said, ‘Oh, he’s

just a freshman,’ I don’t appreciate that excuse,” Brodeur said. “Because when I’m out there it doesn’t matter how you play, it’s whether your team wins or loses. … You’re out there for one purpose.” It wasn’t until the 4:50 mark in the first half that anyone else from the Red and Blue (7-9, 1-3 Big 5) even found their way to the scoreboard, yet by then Penn held a 28-21 advantage. Wood’s showing early helped push the Red and Blue, draining three shots from long range in the opening 12 minutes. His sharpshooting — in combination with a La Salle (11-7, 0-3) defense that has struggled of late — facilitated the Quakers’ best-scoring first half of the season as they took a SEE LA SALLE PAGE 6

Another day, another dual. For Penn wrestling, this weekend will be another test of resilience, as it will face strong opposition with minimal recovery time in between. The Quakers (2-4, 0-2 EIWA) will be on the road Friday night to take on an in-form Bucknell squad before hosting American on Sunday at noon. The Red and Blue should be feeling positive, having just rebounded to dispatch a respected Lock Haven team on Saturday after falling to No. 7 Lehigh the day prior. Junior May Bethea, who wrestles at 157-pounds, certainly believes the team is mentally up for the task ahead. “I think we feel pretty confident,” Bethea said. “Definitely a good win here against Lock Haven that boosted our confidence coming into this weekend, so we’re looking forward to it.” Building on that, coach Alex Tirapelle added that the team was able to learn from both their successes and failures this past weekend, and is ready to take on this new challenge. “We just want to carry the momentum forward,” Tirapelle said. “I was just talking to our guys and we feel like we took some good steps forward in some areas we’d been working on specifically. We want to take those next steps, no backwards steps, and just keep moving it forward.” As Penn’s immediate concern, the Bison (5-4, 3-1) are coming in with serious momentum, having recently knocked off their last three opponents and dropping just one conference dual since November. The strength of this opponent does not deter senior Casey Kent, who dominated to the tune of 15-0 this past Saturday. “I think we should be able to beat [Bucknell]. When we wrestle good, we beat a pretty solid team in Stanford. At our best we should be able to beat both teams this weekend,” he said. Tirapelle echoed those sentiments, careful to note the added difficulty of battling on the road. “Obviously Bucknell has a really good SEE WRESTLING PAGE 6

Brodeur’s historic night breaks the scale against La Salle M. HOOPS | Freshman

scored 35 points YOSEF WEITZMAN

Associate Sports Editor

Penn men’s basketball showed up big tonight, leading for all but a few seconds in its 77-74 victory over Big 5 rival La Salle. The Explorers gave the Quakers a scare in the game’s final minutes, but the Red and Blue made just enough plays to escape Tom Gola Arena with a win and end their four-game losing streak. This was a total team effort for the Quakers with many strong showings, but the night belonged to Penn’s freshmen. Penn’s rookie trio of AJ Brodeur, Ryan Betley and Devon Goodman combined for 52 points — most of which came from Brodeur — and gave Penn fans plenty to look forward to for the next few years. STARTERS Darnell Foreman, G –5/10 It was an up and down game for Foreman, but he did just enough to help Penn come out with a win. While he provided good ball-handling and distributed the ball nicely to finish the

game with six assists, he nearly threw the game away with an errant pass in the final minute. Caleb Wood, G – 6/10 Wood was quiet for most of the game, but came up big with his three-point shooting. Seven of Wood’s eight shots came from behind the arc and he made the most of his open looks to knock down three treys for nine points. Ryan Betley, G – 8/10 It’s hard to believe, but this was only Betley’s sixth college game. Betley didn’t shy away from the moment though, and showed that he was more than just a shooter in the process. Betley finished with three steals and also scored 13 big points despite going only one of five from three-point land. Matt Howard, G – 9/10 Howard didn’t have his best scoring game, but boy, did he show up when it mattered. Howard crashed the boards hard all night to finish with 11 rebounds and not only did he knock down a big three with just over a minute left, but he also sealed the Quaker victory when he picked off La Salle’s final desperation pass in the game’s waning seconds.

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AJ Brodeur, F – 11/10 This was a special performance. Brodeur started off the game hot with 14 first half points, but it only got better from there. Simply put, Brodeur dominated down the stretch. He finished the game with a careerhigh 35 points, including 13 in a row for the Quakers at one point, and also scored the biggest points of the game with two big free throws to put Penn up three with just two seconds left. Brodeur’s 35 are the most in a game for Penn since 1995. BENCH Devon Goodman – 6.5/10 Getting extended playing time with Matt MacDonald out, Goodman made the most of his minutes. Goodman only scored four points, but wreaked havoc on La Salle’s defense with his aggressive dribble penetration that helped him finish with seven assists. Tyler Hamilton – 5/10 While he ended the game scoreless, Hamilton found other ways to impact the game in his limited playing time. Hamilton drew a charge on his first play in the game and provided a nice athletic spark off the bench for the Red and Blue’s defense.

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Besides AJ Brodeur’s historic performance, fellow freshman Ryan Betley scored the second-most points for the team on the night with 13, as well as three steals in the Quakers’ clutch 77-74 win over La Salle.

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