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U. email to international students: Stay put

Administrators indicated they were ‘working with … counsel’ GENEVIEVE GLATSKY News Editor

Penn sent out an email on Sunday, advising students from the seven Muslim-majority countries temporarily barred from entering the United States

by President Donald Trump’s recent

executive order to defer travel.

The federal policy, signed on Friday

by Trump, a 1968 Wharton graduate, suspends immigration from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

The email, which was signed by four high-level administrators, went on to say the University is “working with outside counsel to clarify the implications for nationals from these countries who

are currently at Penn and for those who might be planning to travel to or attend Penn.”

Until “there is some clarification of the situation,” Penn advised students from the affected countries, or those planning to visit or attend Penn, to delay any travel plans. On Saturday, a federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y. issued a temporary emergency ruling on Saturday blocking the deportation of travelers

who have already arrived in the country.

“Penn remains fully committed to these valued members of our community, and to engaging globally to bring the best scholars and students from around the world to our campus,” the University statement continued. “At the same time, we will be working to express our concerns about the effects SEE IMMIGRATION PAGE 2

‘NO HATE, NO FEAR, IMMIGRANTS ARE WELCOME HERE’ Protests against President Trump’s executive order on immigration were held in Philadelphia International Airport on Sunday GENEVIEVE GLATSKY News Editor

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he highway to the international arrivals gate at Philadelphia International Airport was backed up with cars at 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, but most people weren’t headed to catch flights.

Instead, they sat in the traffic so they could attend one of the nationwide protests against the executive order from President Donald Trump temporarily banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Some held signs out of their car windows. One read, “First they came for the Muslims and I said … not this time motherf**kers.”

By 3:00 p.m., the airport terminal was filled with hundreds of protestors, including several Penn students, chanting, “No wall, no registry, f**k white supremacy,” and “No hate, no fear immigrants are welcome here.”

College senior Frances Patano said she showed up to the protest because Trump’s immigration order “does not reflect us here in the United States.”

She expressed optimism about the number of people who turned out for the protest.

“A lot of people are quick to judge the efficacy of a protest but we’re here to show in numbers just how much we disagree with the administration,” she added.

People took turns speaking into a microphone connected to a loudspeaker in the center of the terminal.

Four police officers stood close by. ”This is not a spectator sport. You’re either in it for oppressed minorities, or you’re out,” one woman said at the microphone.

Another woman advised protestors with undocumented immigrant status to protest outside, but asked citizens to stay inside and “make a scene.”

College junior Gabrielle Jackson attended the protests, and said she has a “duty as a Christian to protect those who are most vulnerable.”

The lane outside of the terminal was also packed with people marching slowly and carrying signs.

Someone had a drum that they were using to keep time with the chants.

The crowd chanted, “What do we want? Justice!

When do we want it? Now!” and “We will not go away, welcome to your every day.”

By 4:30 p.m., police officers blocked the doors into to the airport. They told a reporter on the scene that the protest permit was not for inside. One officer said the protesters would “probably get arrested if they stay too long.”

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Penn Health System settles with U.S. Attorney’s Office

Sororities continue to mix with offcampus frat despite email scandal

UPHS billed Medicare for unnecesary procedures

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Four months after a leaked email from offcampus organization OZ was posted around campus with the caption, “THIS IS WHAT RAPE CULTURE LOOKS LIKE,” it is not clear that much has changed with regard to the organization’s social life.

Last semester, more than 900 members of affiliated sororities and unaffiliated allfemale groups signed an open letter condemning the “offensive and sexist” email which contained lines such as: “We’re looking for the fun ones / and say f**k off to a tease.” News outlets including The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and Cosmopolitan wrote stories about the incident, and in November, the University announced the formation of a task force to address the “negative influence” of unaffiliated groups.

Despite all the protests and activism in reaction, not much has apparently changed for OZ. College senior and former President of Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault Sam Summer said that the incident seems to have “fizzled out,” not unlike what happened in

The University of Pennsylvania Health System paid $845,000 to settle a lawsuit over “improperly billing Medicare” for unnecessary cardiovascular procedures, according to a United States Attorney’s Office press release.

In the Jan. 19 press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the office

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UPHS had voluntarily disclosed the unnecessary billing to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, initiating the proceedings that led to the settlement.

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announced that UPHS settled the lawsuit over improper billing for unnecessary procedures that involved the use of stents, which are small tubes that narrow arteries. The procedures were performed by two cardiologists that, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office statement, are no longer employed by the University.

“We cooperated fully in this investigation and are confident that the issue has been resolved,” Susan Phillips, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at UPHS said in an email statement to SEE SETTLEMENT PAGE 3

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Backlash for Trump’s climate policies Trump has renewed progress on Keystone Pipeline ALEX RABIN Staff Reporter

During the first week and a half of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump’s presidency, Trump used an executive action to give the go-ahead to pipeline projects, ordered climate-related agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, to stop speaking to the public and the media and posted a plan to kill former President Obama’s climate action plan to the White House website.

From these actions, to his appointment of human-caused climate change skeptics to his Cabinet nominees, to his 2012 tweet defining climate change as a Chinese hoax, climate science has proven a contentious issue for Trump.

This has left Americans wondering what form environmental and climate change policy will continue to take under the Trump administration. ”Trump is not someone who has really expressed belief in the science of climate change,” Political Science Department graduate chair and professor Matthew Levendusky said. “In that sense, he’s consistent with many of the Republican elites who have called this into question.”

Marc Meredith, a professor and chair of Penn’s Political Science Department, said that Trump’s policies will likely differ vastly from those of the

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Environmental scientist and Penn professor Irina Marinov disagreed with the content of Trump’s America First Energy Plan.

Obama administration.

“He very clearly signaled during the campaign that he did not think climate change should be a priority,” Meredith said.

“I think every sign since [his] becoming president suggests that he’s going to govern consistently with his campaign rhetoric. His choice for the EPA, his choice for secretary of state [and] his executive orders that are coming out all point towards an administration that is going to put a lot less emphasis on climate change than the Obama administration.”

In stark contrast to his predecessor’s policy, Trump signed orders last week supporting progress on the heavily protested Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines.

Meredith said the decision likely stemmed from Trump’s business-oriented approach to the presidency, “and also the symbolic nature of how highprofile this issue has become,” adding, “It certainly has some

relationship to climate change but also to other policy domains... clearly this was an issue where it’s in some ways minority rights framed.”

Environmental scientist and assistant professor in Penn’s Department of Earth and Environmental Science Irina Marinov opposed Trump’s climate-related actions.

“Just listing the things that have been passed, or that they’ve worked on, in the past couple days is pretty disturbing,” Marinov said.

She disagreed fervently with many statements and assessments in Trump’s America First Energy Plan and warned that this plan might not have the effects on the job market advertised by Trump.

“Coal jobs were never going to come back,” Marinov said flatly.

The plan, on the White House website, says “President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary

policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule. Lifting these restrictions will greatly help American workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next seven years.”

Marinov disagreed heavily with Trump’s description of Obama’s policies as harmful and unnecessary and questioned the accuracy of the Trump plan’s production assessments.

She noted that while Trump’s plan might not encourage investment in renewable energy research, the energy industry will gravitate toward green technologies as it looks to the future.

“The energy sector on its own is going to push towards renewables,” she said, adding that Trump’s policy may actually hurt the sector, as much of the industry aims to move away from fossil fuels. “The renewable sector is a growing, booming field that is going to provide a lot of wages and a lot of jobs. I would argue that this is a completely incoherent argument that doesn’t take into account simple facts.”

Levendusky also emphasized the private sector’s role in environmental advances.

“I think one of the interesting things with climate change is obviously there’s a role for government policy, but many companies are also realizing that this is something they have to address,” he said. “So part of the solution may come from outside of government forces — not to say that government won’t play an important role”

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The federal policy, signed on Friday by Trump suspends immigration from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

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of recent policy actions on our community, as well as our view that rapid changes in immigration policy create uncertainty for those who are eager to come to the United States to learn and to participate in research and the global exchange of knowledge.”

On Sunday at 5:30 p.m., the University sent out another email, this time with a statement from the Association of American Universities.

“We recognize the importance of a strong visa process to our nation’s security,” the statement read. “However, the administration’s new order barring the entry or return of individuals from certain countries is already causing damage and should end as quickly as possible.”

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victory in November, Penn President Amy Gutmann has repeatedly declined any requests to acknowledge Trump by name or to clarify his relationship with the University.

“Our relationship with him is no different than it would be with any other graduate,” University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy said last week in a statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian’s Opinion Board.

In January 2016, Gutmann did indirectly criticize his promise a month earlier to block Muslim immigrants from entering the U.S. in a meeting with The Daily Pennsylvanian editorial staff.

“Discrimination against Muslims in our society is absolutely unacceptable. It is a form of invidious discrimination. It is, I believe, a disgrace for our society to engage in discrimination on the basis of religion or race,” Gutmann said at the meeting. “In this case, it’s religion and some people see it as called for, but not only is it not called for and disgraceful, but it’s also unconstitutional.”

The University was not immediately available for comment on Sunday morning.

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Penn Libraries helps low-income students access textbooks Financial aid often doesn’t cover books fully LEXI LIEBERMAN Staff Reporter

After paying for tuition, housing and dining, some students still don’t have the means to purchase all of the textbooks necessary for their classes. And this burden can fall disproportionately on firstgeneration, low-income students.

With this in mind, Penn Libraries launched an initiative to help out.

Penn Libraries partnered with the FGLI students program

— which is housed in the Greenfield Intercultural Center — and requested funding from donors to help pay a portion of textbook costs for students.

Sara Leavens, the communications, marketing and social media coordinator for Penn Libraries, said she supports the efforts her organization has made to assist FGLI students.

“We feel that reaching out to this community is integral to our mission, not only for community outreach but just in general,” she said. “We want to make sure that resources are open to as many

people as possible.”

Penn Libraries did have resources available to students before this initiative, but they did not have a specific program targeted towards FGLI students.

“We have always tried to keep books on course reserve for students who couldn’t afford them, but it was kind of under the radar,” Leavens said. “It wasn’t anything specifically official.”

Now, the initiative is being promoted so that students who need assistance paying for textbooks can learn about it.

Penn Libraries approached the

Greenfield Intercultural Center in an effort to connect with FGLI students. 2015 College graduate Isaac Silber, the FGLI program coordinator at the Greenfield Intercultural Center, said he thinks the program will be valuable for students in need of such assistance.

“A concern among a lot of FGLI students is that the cost of textbooks is not fully met by the amount of funds allotted to the cost of textbooks by financial services for students,” Silber said.

“I think that the library kind of reached out to us seeing those

U. creates policy for grieving students Policy spearheaded by Actively Moving Forward ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter

The student group Actively Moving Forward, in conjunction with the Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein, recently crafted a policy and resource guide for student bereavement at the University of Pennsylvania.

Actively Moving Forward is a nationwide network of peerled support groups for students grieving the loss or illness of a loved one. Penn’s chapter worked last semester to address Penn’s lack of formal grief policy through the creation of a bereavement resource and policy guide as part of the Vice Provost for University Life’s online Pennbook — a collection of policies related to student life at Penn.

A member of AMF’s leadership team and College junior Patrick Zancolli said that the lack of a clear grieving policy at Penn prompted the group to work with Penn’s administration to coordinate more specific guidelines for bereavement and grief support issues

for students.

“We’ve seen examples that other schools have done with websites that are very clear and policies that are very concisely explained to students,” Zancolli said. “We felt that that wasn’t the case at Penn.”

Another member of AMF’s leadership team and Wharton senior Sophie Erhardt said the presence of a student support group at Penn to help those in grieving is invaluable in reassuring students they are not alone in what they are experiencing.

“It’s easy to feel, especially in an environment like Penn, that you’re the only one who’s going through this, and you have to keep going and keep doing everything else that you’re doing,” Erhardt said. “As much as people are supporting you, no one really gets it.”

AMF is now listed on VPUL’s Pennbook — under “Resources for Student Bereavement” — as a student group that offers peer-led services, complementing those of Counseling and Psychological Services, the Office of the Chaplain and Student Intervention Services.

Erhardt said that this new

development for VPUL and AMF was aimed at ensuring that students can easily navigate the resources at their disposal and find the type of help they need.

“We want students to be able to navigate on their own,” Erhardt said. “We don’t want a student out there who feels kind of alone, who feels like there are no resources out there to help them.”

Assistant Director for Education Jennifer Canose said she recognized that the lack of clear communication on student bereavement policies at Penn was an issue that needed to be resolved.

“There is a plethora of resources at Penn and our office is really interested in trying to figure out how to help our students best navigate these resources,” Canose said. “We want to help build that network and encourage students to reach out to AMF.” The group has also recently received recognition from the Student Activities Council, providing them with extra funding to further capitalize on their improved outreach this year.

“A component of t he

national organization that we’ve lacked recently is service projects,” Zancolli said. “Now that we have that SAC recognition, we have the capability to transport our members to some sort of event that’s not in Philadelphia.”

concerns.”

Director of the Greenfield Intercultural Center Valerie De Cruz said she is pleased that the Penn community has been so willing to listen to the concerns of FGLI students.

“We’ve been thrilled with the response that we’ve been getting from colleagues, administrators and faculty across campus,” she said. “When they heard the concerns that students had in different areas, they reached out to us to build partnerships.”

2005 College graduate Jamie-Lee Josselyn, the associate

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The Daily Pennsylvanian regarding the improper billing by UPHS cardiologists.

UPHS had voluntarily disclosed the unnecessary billing to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, initiating the proceedings that led to the settlement. Phillips did not specify how UPHS would plan to

director for recruitment at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, works to support the FGLI students on Penn’s campus because she was a first-generation student at Penn herself.

“I am just really excited for this [initiative] and I know that this will take some very real stress off some of our students,” Josselyn said. “Even for those who don’t directly benefit from it, I think that it’s just very exciting and important for everybody to know that Penn is supporting its FGLI students in this way.”

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Madness in method THE CONVERSATION | We shouldn’t promote change for change’s sake

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In Korea, you are considered one-year-old at birth, and turn a year older on the first day of every new year thereafter. I mention this because according to this system, I am now a quarter of a century old. This is alarming — my five-year high school reunion is coming up, and while my classmates will be working their way up to being titans of industry or tweed-clad savants wandering Gothic college campuses, I’ll still be here in college.

I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions, but this time I vowed to try to live younger, to retain a sense of wonder and curiosity and carpe diem the hell out of life. Then English majors removed a portrait of the inventor of modern English from the English Department.

Cue the cane and prune juice. I’ll have the early bird special with the senior discount, please.

While it was not clear from The Daily Pennsylvanian’s article who was responsible for removing the portrait, Jed Esty, the chair

of the English Department, wrote in a statement sent to English majors that such action was taken due to “their commitment to a more inclusive mission for the English department.”

The English faculty had already voted several years ago to replace the portrait to “reflect a more diverse range of writers” and were in the process of figuring out the best way to do so before certain students decided to take matters into their own hands. The students initially replaced the portrait with a poster of the writer Audre Lorde, and the department afterwards put up a collage of 88 writers including both Shakespeare and Lorde.

While I applaud the good intention to recognize a wider range of writers, I cannot help but feel that this act — and frankly, the vote that preceded it — was based on the idea of progress for the sake of change itself, which is ultimately an alluring and dangerous form of self-indulgence.

Perhaps a telling sign is that students who removed the portrait did so after a

town hall meeting held by the English Department to discuss the results of the United States presidential election. The increase in tension and hostility since then is noticeable and very much real. Perhaps, those students

one example. However, it is difficult for me to imagine that people feel the same kind of fear or disturbance from Shakespeare. It bothers me that those very same people condemning identity politics would see no wrong in

It bothers me that those very same people condemning identity politics would see no wrong in equating Shakespeare with an oppressive white male mainstream literature canon.” ought to consider that this kind of diminishing of the past and replacement of it, regardless of how flawed it may be, is exactly the kind of disdain felt by Trump’s main support base that caused them to turn out in droves on Election Day. Dealing with a flawed past is a complicated issue; Yale University’s debate over renaming Calhoun College is

equating Shakespeare with an oppressive white male mainstream literature canon.

Furthermore, considering that the portrait was displayed in a building dedicated to the study of the English language and literature composed from it, it seems ludicrous to pretend as if the accomplishments of 87 other writers are as significant as the inventor of modern

English. What’s next? Are we going to get rid of all the Ben Franklin statues on campus? Must we re-carve Mount Rushmore to include proportional representation of all worthy Americans?

One student responded to the removal, “You don’t necessarily need to have a portrait of Shakespeare up. He’s pretty iconic.” Undoubtedly true. But it seems to me that that’s exactly why you put up a huge portrait of people like Franklin, Shakespeare or the Founders, because they deserve to be immortalized.

Not everything has to be an awareness campaign or an agent for social change.

Shakespeare being recognized does not mean that others ought not, nor does it signify that writers of other races and genders do not deserve to be. And surely no one can say that Shakespeare personally is responsible for the lack of representation for writers such as Lorde.

Instead of engaging in such high-profile, controversial acts that do little more than create divisions and temporary publicity, perhaps students concerned about

JAMES LEE equal representation should focus more on actual change, such as making syllabus recommendations to professors or the department.

One thing is for sure — the Bard himself would have found all this outrageously hilarious. And so I suppose that all this old-timer can do is laugh about it and mutter something about there being madness in method. A second glass of prune juice, please. And don’t forget the cane.

JAMES LEE is a College junior from Seoul, South Korea, studying English and philosophy, politics and economics. His email address is jel@sas.upenn. edu. “The Conversation” usually appears every other Monday.

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REAL TALK | Investigating the growing trend of inflammatory campus speakers At The Daily Pennsylvanian’s Opinion Section we have a cardinal rule: Don’t feed the trolls! This is because — as is true in all online forums — divisive opinions tend to generate callous responses and replying to volatile comments usually just fuels the flame. Unfortunately, the end result is that my fellow columnists and I very rarely brave the comments section, and the important conversations that we had intended to start are either left unrequited or consumed by hateful messages.

This is, however, an issue that is by no means limited to the DP. The problem of dealing with insensitive provocateurs is one that universities are increasingly being forced to deal with and yet, are poorly suited to solve.

Just recently, our own campus was visited by the real life embodiment of the hateful rhetoric we see online. Once again, homophobic preachers, intending to antagonize students, found their way onto Locust Walk. The only difference was that this time they were met by a team of noisy maintenance vehicles and leaf blowers.

This incident, and the resulting debate surrounding it, has illuminated a glaring deficiency in our campus’ ability to handle inflammatory speakers. The problem is that we tend to focus on whether or not someone is being censored but put little thought into how to actually improve our conversations.

Currently, Penn has guidelines in place to ensure that our freedom of open expression is not infringed. Adhering to this standard is important — it keeps our demonstrations leaf blower free. But while these guidelines may show us how not to treat homophobic preachers, they give us little guidance as to how we should best be deal with them. There is of course no easy answer, but it’s a conversation the administration should be initiating.

What becomes apparent to anyone who has interacted with the preachers is that although they may share our rights, they do not share our values. Penn’s proclaimed dedication to the free exchange of ideas presupposes that those ideas will actually be exchanged rather than simply used to incite outrage.

This assumption is, unfortunately, more true in principle than in practice. The homophobic preachers who continue to invade our campus have about as much of an intention to debate ideas as that of the leaf blowers.

These preachers by no means adhere to our campus norms

writer and professional provocateur, Milo Yiannopoulos, have even become popular campus speakers. Yiannopoulos, much like the homophobic preachers who keep coming to Penn, feeds off of controversy.

His rhetoric is more often intended to offend rather than persuade and his volatility has

We should prepare to reason with the unreasonable and properly protest those who wish to provoke.” of dialogue and debate and yet their inflammatory style is indicative of what is increasingly becoming standard for the world outside the classroom.

Trolling is no longer being relegated to the depths of reddit forums and comment boards. It has now become a mainstream political style.

Some trolls, like Breitbart

garnered him a strong following in the alt-right movement.

The unique challenge that a speaker like Yiannopoulos poses to universities was well summarized in a statement released

by University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce.

“He is not someone I would ever invite to speak here,” wrote Cauce, “not because I don’t val-

ue a robust or difficult discussion about a range of policies or social issues — such conversations are necessary and college campuses are ideal places to have them — but because this is clearly not the kind of conversation he is seeking. He generates heat, not light, and his manner of engagement is anything but civil, respectful or conducive to true dialogue across differences, of which we need more, not less.”

Unfortunately, Yiannopoulos was invited by the UW College Republicans group to speak at their campus. During a confrontation between protesters and Yiannopoulos supporters outside of his event, a man was shot and seriously wounded.

For students looking to combat the hateful message of someone like Yiannopoulos, the proper path seems uncertain. After all, how do you properly confront an ideology that feeds off of confrontation?

The easiest option — and the one that other opinion columnists and myself have taken — is simply to ignore the trolls.

But in the same way that they often consume the comments

CAMERON DICHTER sections of our articles so too could they eat away at our campus discourse. And for the students who feel targeted by their hateful messages, the responding silence would be an added slight.

Therefore, we shouldn’t ignore, but rather adapt our tactics. We should prepare to reason with the unreasonable and properly protest those who wish to provoke. And in all our conversations, we should look to generate light rather than just heat.

CAMERON DICHTER is a College junior from Philadelphia, studying English. His email address is camd@sas.upenn. edu. “Real Talk” usually appears every other Monday.

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“The people who felt attacked by the email feel very strongly about it,” she said, “but there are also a lot of girls who are friends with some individuals in OZ, so it’s hard to make generalized statements.”

College junior, Panhellenic Council President and Chi Omega member Caroline Ohlson said interacting with OZ is a “personal choice” for sororities, who “should be allowed to put themselves in the social spaces they are comfortable in.”

She said that while she believes the 1,500 women involved in Greek life at Penn should “use their social influence to stand up for what they care about,” she added that it is not the sole responsibility of women, nor of Greek institutions alone, to tackle rape culture on campus.

Last semester, MARS attempted to reach out to OZ

several times but was not successful. The group, which organizes educational workshops for fraternities under the Interfraternity Council, found that it was difficult to engage with an off-campus organization — particularly, when they felt like they were under attack.

“We were all very outraged,” Summer said, “And I don’t think as a campus we did a good job of saying ‘We know not all of you think that — here is a chance for you to change.’”

Other sources affiliated with OZ also said that the organization was internally “very conflicted,” but The DP reached out to 28 alleged members of OZ who did not respond to requests for comment.

“I am slow to say that women who feel marginalized or victimized should have to worry about feeling too strongly so as not to turn away those who hurt them,” Ohlson said, “but I also think it is important to invite OZ to the table.”

Summer said he thinks there is a “huge disconnect” at Penn between the people affected by the kind of language used in the OZ email and the people using that language. He added that he thinks common ground can only be found if both sides are willing to engage and challenge their own convictions in the process.

Greek leaders said they are hopeful that OZ will start by joining the conversation.

“If they can’t make a public acknowledgement, I’d encourage them to at least reach out to their female friends and discuss the issue,” the leader of a Panhellenic sorority said.

Johnson added that it is also on other fraternities to publicly state that they do not condone rape culture.

“I wish that the political will from the email had sustained itself,” she said, “but I think now, it is really on all of us to make sure that these issues stay in the conversation.”

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Penn Dining cuts out meat from your Monday lunch

Policy has garnered support from administrators CATHERINE DE LUNA Staff Reporter

This week, Penn Dining launched a “Meatless Mondays” campaign to encourage students to eat healthier and consider their personal impact on the environment.

Meatless Mondays is not

exclusive to Penn, but rather is part of an established global campaign. The program will run every Monday at lunch in all University dining halls. The meat typically served in the “comfort” lines, “expo” stations, and soup kettles will be replaced with a plant-based food.

Despite the emphasis on meatless meals, there will still be options for students who do not wish to participate. Both the

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grill and the deli in dining halls, as well as retail locations will still serve meat. This decision to continue with omnivorous options was not one made lightly, though ultimately Penn Dining chose to have options for all students.

“We had a lot of discussion on how we wanted to do this,” Resident District Manager of Bon Appétit Stephen Scardina said.

Penn Dining and Bon Appétit worked with the student-run Dining Advisory Board to institute the program. College sophomore and board chair Hannah Sanders said she believes this new addition to the dining halls will educate Penn students about the importance of what they eat.

“You can start with one day and start making a difference,” Sanders said hopefully. “Diet is a really neglected area when it comes to what people are

willing to do [for the environment].”

Sanders noted that livestock contributes more to global warming and greenhouse gas emissions than transportation.

“One hamburger uses the same amount of energy to produce as charging your phone for 4.5 years,” Sanders said.

Facts like these shape Penn Dining’s emphasis on sustainability. This focus on environmental issues can be seen in various initiatives and practices, like the use of compostable plates in the New College House dining hall.

“This is something that is totally in line with what we are doing,” University spokesperson Barbara Lea-Kruger confirmed. “[Students] need to learn how to choose to eat.”

The student response to Meatless Mondays has yet to gain a clear voice, but for now many

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After much discussion involving students and administrators, dining halls will still be serving meat on Mondays for dinner.

students seem pleased. College freshman and vegan Caroline Curran recognized the new program as progressive.

“In terms of reducing the environmental impact of the things we eat, I think it is a step in the right direction.”

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Quakers for Life optimistic after March for Life in D.C.

Group encouraged by Trump’s stance on abortion CHRIS DOYLE Staff Reporter

Pro-life advocates held the annual March for Life in Washington D.C. Friday afternoon.

Five days after the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a crowd that the Associated Press reported contained tens of thousands of people — and visibly larger than in recent years — paraded on the National Mall.

People of all ages carried signs with anti-abortion messages at the event, which was attended by a number of prominent politicia ns, religious figures and celebrities. Among the day’s speakers were Cardinal Timothy Dalton, NFL tight end Benjamin Watson and Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway.

But the event’s most noteworthy headliner was newly inaugurated Vice President Mike Pence. In his 10-minute speech, the former Indiana governor delivered an optimistic message for pro-life Americans

and became the first sitting vice president to ever speak at the March for Life.

“Life is winning again in A mer ica ,” Vice P resident Pence told the audience. “[And] it is no more evident in any way, than in the historic election of a President … who I proudly say, stands for a right to life — President Donald Trump.”

Wharton sophomore Eric Hoover watched the event live on television. Last semester, Hoover founded Quakers for Life, a pro-life student group at Penn. He said he felt encouraged by what Pence and Conway’s speeches meant for his group, and optimistic about the new administration’s stance on abortion. “[Quakers for Life is] very grateful that the Vice President and, it seems, the President are supporting the pro-life cause.”

Hoover said. “It’s obviously a great help to us and what we’re doing … We just hope [President Trump] follows through on policy.”

In his speech, Pence pledged to defund national organizations that sponsor abortions,

such as Planned Parenthood, and vowed that Trump would appoint a pro-life nominee to fill the vacancy left by late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

“I like to say that over there at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., we’re in the promise-keeping business,” Pence said.

Penn Association for Gender Equity’s political chair and College sophomore Jamie Ye referred to the earlier statement PAGE had made about Quakers for Life when asked for comment about the March for Life.

“Ba sica l ly not h i ng ha s changed, like we said [in the statement], these people are within their constitutional rights to organize and we just don’t agree with them,” she said. “We stand in solidarity with anyone who feels personally affected or traumatized by something happening like this march because people can have a very personal relationship with this issue.”

Since his term began on Friday, 1968 Wharton graduate and President Trump has already taken action on abortion

AVALON MORELL | ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR

Quakers for Life was founded by Wharton sophomore Eric Hoover. The group held a demonstration in front of College Hall in December and was received negatively by pro-choice students.

policy. On Monday Trump reintroduced the W. Bush administration’s “Mexico City Policy,” a presidential memorandum withdrawing funds from non-governmental organizations that perform abortions.

Trump expressed support for Friday’s events via Twitter.

Conway also affirmed the new White House’s commitment to the issue in her speech, and reiterated the theme that pro-life advocates should feel

hopeful.

“This is a new day, a new dawn, for life.” Conway said.

“Steps away from here, in the White House, a president and a vice president sit at their desks and make decisions for a nation. As they sit there, they stand here with [the pro-life movement].”

While Hoover acknowledges the pro-choice stances of many Penn students, he said he hopes events like Friday’s March for

Life pushes students to recognize the diversity of opinions that exists on the issue of abortion.

“Its not to say that every single American holds [prolife] values, of course not.

America is very, very divided on [abortion].” Hoover said.

“But not everyone thinks the way that the Penn culture at large does. And I think the March for Life is a powerful testament to that.”

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MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2017

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Quakers falter in dual meet against West Chester GYMNASTICS | Penn

This resulted in the team scoring a 46.325 — more than two points lower than the bars result in last week’s thrilling victory over Yale — and handed West Chester (4-3, 0-0 ECAC D-II) a early lead. “We made some mistakes we don’t usually make,� said senior captain Rachel Graham of the team’s uncharacteristically rough start.

The frustration carried over to the vault, where the Quakers scored a 46.375. Hunker and Cullen had the top performances, but by the end of this event, the Golden Rams had a comfortable three-point lead.

The floor and beam events went better for the Red and Blue, as the team scored a 48.800 and a 47.850 on them respectively, but they could not surmount the deficit. “We ended the meet on two

failed to surpass 190 pts.

PAUL HARRYHILL Sports Reporter

After a string of strong showings to start the season, Penn women’s gymnastics took a unexpected, tough loss to Division II West Chester on Saturday by a score of 193.400 to 189.350. “It wasn’t our best perfo r m a nc e,� f la t ly st a t e d sophomore Morgan Hunker. “We kind of started out slow and it was really hard to pick it back up.�

Slow the Qua kers (3-2, 2-0 Ivy) indeed started. The bars came first, and, apart from junior Kyra Levi’s 9.725 and freshman Em ma Cullen’s 9.450, the team struggled mightily to put up high scores.

decent events, but not our best. It was good to see us not completely fall apart, when it definitely could have gone the other way,� said Hunker.

The Quakers came into this meet riding an impressive wave of momentum after a historically great performance against Yale. After accumulating an impressive resume against “big teams� such as George Washington and North Carolina, the team felt confident coming up against a relatively “smaller school,� as Hunker put it.

They had pretty good reason to be.

West Chester was trending in the exact opposite direction compared to the Quakers.

The Golden Rams started off their season with three consecutive victories, but promptly fol lowed t hat wit h t h ree

consecutive losses, and their seasonal best score of 191.050 entering the meet was nearly three points shy of Penn’s mark set against Yale.

All that considered, this result stung hard for the Red and Blue. “After the meet, we were all just like ‘we never want to feel this way again’,� Hunker said. “Maybe it’s good to get a meet like this at the beginning of the season rather than in the post season.�

Graham was not as quite as discouraged by the result as Hunker was, as she highlighted the team’s resilience. “In general, we had a really strong fight and we finished really strong, which is definitely a confidence booster,� she said. “We’re just really looking forward to getting back in the gym on Monday.�

ILANA WURMAN | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior captain Rachel Graham and the rest of Penn gymnastics struggled to come back from a slow start on the uneven bars.

Penn finds success in final regular season meet at West Chester SWIM & DIVE | Men and

With this being the last meet before Ivy Championships for both Red and Blue sides, the individual results will serve as important metrics to see who ultimately wins a spot on the conference team. “We had a lot of people in the position where we’re choosing between them,� coach Mike Schnur said. “Sometimes people really step up.�

In the men’s meet, all eyes were on the rivalry that formed between two of the teams’ top swimmers: Penn’s Kevin Su and West Chester’s Victor Polyakov.

In the 100-yard freestyle, Su and Polyakov’s race came down to .12 seconds, with the Penn senior ultimately coming out on top. “To race against a guy like Polyakov is a good opportunity this time of year,� Schnur said. “He would certainly be one of the best players on our team as well.�

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women take home wins

ANDREW ZHENG Associate Sports Editor

Looks like all the hard work is done.

Penn swimming and diving capped off its regular season with dual wins over West Chester last Friday. The trip was a short one for the Quakers, with the Golden Rams being one of many local opponents they have faced over the course of the year.

In November, the Red and Blue cruised to wins over La Salle and Villanova, and the narrative stayed the same against West Chester.

The women (8-3, 4-3 Ivy) had little trouble against the Golden Rams (6-3), who had won four straight before hosting Penn.

The result was virtually the same on the men’s side as the Quakers (8-3, 4-3) handed West Chester (6-4) a 163-129 loss.

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There are not a lot of Division II teams listed on the Red and Blue’s schedule, but West Chester is one of the names that has shown up consistently in recent years. “They go through cycles where their team will be really, really good and then they will struggle a couple years, and then they’re really, really good,�

Schnur said. “They’re the best local team we compete against, especially on the men’s side.�

The intensity of competition, however, is set to reach a whole new level with Ivy League Championships and then ECAC Championships soon after.

According the Schnur, the foundation has been laid, and the team will start winding down its season with lighter practices and more emphasis on recovery. “All the hard work is already done,� Schnur said. “Now we just bring it out by resting a little bit.�

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similarly close to topping Su in the 200-yard freestyle, but the Penn captain once again handed his team the nine points from his victory.

Things did not go as well for the men in breaststroke as West Chester senior Mike Oliver outswam his Red and Blue counterparts in both the 100-yard and 200-yard events, but the Quakers had little difficulty making up for those losses with strength in long-distance and diving.

For the women, the spectacle came from junior Sydney Tan, who narrowly missed the pool record in the 200-yard breaststroke. “She had her best swim meet she’s ever swam,� Schnur said.

The Quakers made their mark in the short races, particularly in the 100-yard breastroke where Penn swimmers filled all of the top three places.

One other notable performer on the day was senior Michael Wen, who made the most of his final regular season meet by

With all due respect to the historic offensive outburst from Penn men’s basketball’s AJ Brodeur in his squad’s win at La Salle, Wednesday night can’t really be considered part of the weekend by any stretch of the imagination. So while the freshman’s epic performance is certainly worthy of respect, the efforts from wrestling’s May Bethea in his team’s EIWA doubleheader make him worthy of MVP honors.

To start the weekend, the Quakers had a tough matchup

at a perennially strong Bucknell squad, but Bethea’s efforts nearly carried the Red and Blue to the win. Taking on the 11thranked grappler in the nation in the Bison’s Victor Lopez, Bethea seized the individual upset with a last-minute takedown en route to a 3-2 victory.

His efforts put the Red and Blue up 7-0 over Bucknell early in the meet, making an upset appear imminent, although the deep Bison squad eventually came back to top Penn.

Fortunately, though, Bethea and his squad would get another shot to seize their first conference win in a year, and the junior would leave nothing to chance. With Penn only leading 18-14 with just the 157 pound weight class remaining, Bethea

had all eyes on him as he attempted to clinch the Quakers’ victory — and with the pressure mounting, he cruised past American’s Tom Page to break the Red and Blue’s long EIWA drought.

For the weekend, Bethea was one of three Penn grapplers to finish 2-0, and he distinguished himself further by being the Quakers’ only competitor on either day to defeat a nationally top-20 ranked opponent.

But as impressive as that upset might be, what matters most is always the team win, and Bethea’s clutch performance in the final individual bout of the weekend brought one of those back to Philadelphia.

Thus, for that, the junior is our Penn Athletics’ Weekend MVP.

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In its final non-conference game of the season, Penn women’s basketball cruised to a 89-43 victory over Stevens Tech, breaking a few team records under coach Mike McLaughlin in the process. The win was an all-around effort, with eight players recording at least five points in the contest, and is sure to provide the Quakers with a boost as they return to Ivy play.

Here are the stars of the game, as well as some other important takeaways.

Stars of the game Phoebe Sterba — The freshman guard from Cleveland, Ohio had one of her best allaround games of the year, with a complete effort on both sides of the ball. Sterba was constantly moving on offense, and found herself open to take and make several jumpers en route to eight points and five assists. On

defense, she had a big presence in the first half, contributing two steals and two blocks.

Sydney Stipanovich — Stipanovich’s height advantage in this game was just unfair. Stevens Tech could do nothing to limit the 6-foot-4 center from St. Louis, Mo. on the inside, as she recorded her team-leading eighth double-double of the season with 13 points and 13 rebounds.

The co-captain also had several poster-worthy blocks on defense, stuffing opposing players with ease.

Ashley Russell — The end of the third quarter was the Ashley Russell show. In the final three minutes of the period, the sophomore from Braintree, Mass. dropped all 11 of her points, most of which came on the fast break.

She also added two steals and an assist in a career-best effort.

Other Takeaways The Quakers’ offense runs through the paint — This is something we already knew, with Nwokedi and Stipanovich being the Red and Blue’s biggest scorers. But even with them playing limited minutes in the game,

Penn dominated inside. They scored 44 points in the paint and continually worked the ball inside to draw defenders from the shooters on the wing and get them open looks.

It’s not just the bigs who rebound — Sure, Stipanvoich and Nwokedi always have a big impact on the glass, but everyone got involved today. Especially on the offensive side of the ball, where the Red and Blue grabbed 16 boards, the Quakers crashed into the middle, and it showed on the stat sheet. 14 players recorded a rebound, with seven getting at least three as the Quakers recorded a season-high 54 boards.

The Quakers have a bright future — With his team ahead by a large margin in the second half, McLaughlin opted to give his starters a rest and go with a lineup of sophomores and freshman, and the young Quakers did not let him down. With a very high tempo style, the girls moved up and down the court with ease, going on a 11-3 run in the third quarter. Six different freshmen and sophomores scored, and they figure to be key pieces for this

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Sophomore Ashley Russell took control of the game at one point in the third quarter, scoring a careerbest 11 points in a three minute span. She was the only bench player to reach double digit points.

year and beyond.

Interesting stat of the game 55 — The Quakers scored 55 second half points, which marks

a new high during McLaughlin’s tenure, besting the old record of 48 against Princeton on March 11, 2014. Many of those points came from the freshmen and

sophomores who came off the bench, as the Red and Blue shot 65.6% from the field in the half, including an absurd 76% in the third quarter.

Roundtable: Which winter team is surpassing expectations?

Gymnastics and both basketballs make claims THE EDITORS

As we get deeper into the second semester, we’ve started to get a firm grasp on the true makeup of Penn’s winter sports teams. Though there unquestionably is still time for certain teams to flip the script, we’ve already seen enough from most squads to judge whether they’re contenders or pretenders at this point.

With that said, our sports editors take to the roundtable to debate: which Penn winter team has exceeded expectations the most so far: Cole Jacobson, Sports Editor: While this weekend’s upset at Division II West Chester might have a bitter taste in the team’s mouth right now, the strides that Penn gymnastics has made in the 2017 season overall have still been unforeseen by anybody outside the Red and Blue’s locker room.

After winning the Ivy Classic and/or the ECAC title in four of the last five seasons entering 201516, last year’s squad staggered to a surprising last-place finish at the Ivy Classic. In the ensuing offseason, a tremendously talented quintet of seniors — all five of whom individually qualified for the 2016 USA Gymnastics National

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finally emptying the bench in the fourth. Even with limited playing time, the usual suspects shined.

Senior captain Sydney Stipanovich posted her eighth double-double of the year and her 300th career block, junior forward Michelle Nwokedi lead the team with 15 points, and junior guard Anna Ross was stellar in a nine-point seven-assist effort.

The bench shined as well, continuing its recent success with a total of 45 points. Sophomore guard Ashley Russell broke double

Championships — departed to graduation, leading to a vastly overhauled personnel given the task of taking the program back to the top.

Taking this past Saturday out of the equation, the new kids on the block have had little problem doing so.

The team’s season-opening meet saw Penn post its highest score since February 2015 in a second-place effort behind then-No. 10 George Washington. Immediately after that, the Quakers only needed a week to break that mark once again, with the epic comeback victory over Yale seeing Penn put up 193.575 points in what stands as the Ivy League’s collective best score of the season.

How has Penn done it? A phenomenal freshman class that has already seen five rookies score in competition is a pretty good start. Of course, then there’s been the breakout of Caroline Moore, who won three events against Yale and has arguably been the conference’s top performer despite missing nearly her entire freshman season.

Even with the West Chester upset, the Quakers will almost certainly still be atop the Ivy League when the next national rankings drop. If what I’ve seen so far is any indication, this team is here to stay as a legit title contender — and that’s something few outside the team thought we’d be saying only weeks ago.

Yosef Weitzman, Associate Sports Editor: With most of its contributors returning from a team that won the Ivy League last year, expectations were rightfully very high for Penn women’s basketball heading to this season. And well, things have been pretty rocky at times.

Not only did Penn get upset in its home season-opener by Binghamton, but Penn has also lost its fair share of close games this season. On top of that, the Quakers lost starting junior guard Lauren Whitlatch for the season last week when she tore her ACL. Instead of throwing in the towel though, the Quakers have stepped up to every single challenge, even if it ended up in loss. For example, take the Red and Blue’s Big 5 games last week. After losing by double digits to a Villanova team that had gotten blown out by Temple earlier in the season, the Quakers came back and played one of their best games of the season against the Owls. Temple proved to be a little too much in the end, but the Quakers gave the Owls a serious scare.

In addition to that, the Quakers are still in perfectly good shape to make another trip to the NCAA tournament. Penn is undefeated in Ivy League play so far and already boasts a very important victory on the road against rival Princeton.

While it’s gotten a bit ugly at

times, Penn has persevered through it all and continue to make good on a season that easily could have turned disastrous.

figures to lead the bench in scoring, and senior Jackie Falconer scored a career-high nine in her 13 minutes. But when asked to name a standout bench performance coach McLaughlin didn’t hesitate to name guard Kendall Grasela, who registered three rebounds and six assists in only 14 minutes.

“I think she’s going to have a great career,” McLaughlin said of the freshman. “She gets the ball down the floor, she sees the floor, she’s got great size and she can guard. I think she has a bright future and can help us a lot this year if we need her.”

The 46-point margin of victory

was the highest since 2014, and it allowed for some role reversal between the starters and the bench.

This time it was the starters cheering on the bench, which at times during the fourth quarter was the loudest it had been all season.

“It was really exciting, we were having a lot of fun out there… but it’s always good to see everyone get minutes and touch the ball,” Stipanovich said.

“One of the things [the fans] don’t see is how hard we work in practice every day, so it’s good to see people who put in the work to be given the opportunity to show what they can

do out on the floor,” Falconer said.

“We were just having a lot of fun, which makes it easy to play.”

With the non-conference

Laine Higgins, Associate Sports Editor: Only three games into its conference slate, Penn men’s basketball has yet to win a game. After finishing fifth last season with a 5-9 Ivy League record and also dropping its first three contests, the result perhaps is not a huge surprise.

However, after last week’s 35-point offensive explosion by freshman forward A.J. Brodeur against La Salle and similarly strong showing by classmate Ryan Betley, it might be time to reevaluate expectations for the Quakers (7-9, 0-3 Ivy).

Brodeur and Betley have proven they have enough poise to carry Penn’s offense when their upperclassmen teammates aren’t shooting well, both in their most recent bout and throughout the month of January.

Additionally, the Quakers have stumbled upon a winning formula beyond the arc. La Salle was the fifth game of the season – and first since before winter break – when the team has netted at least 11 threepointers. In those games, Penn is 4-1.

While strong three-point shooting is not the sole least common denominator to those wins, it is encouraging to see the Quakers’ regaining their

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One reason why Penn gymnastics has exceeded expectations so far this season is the performances of sophomore captain Caroline Moore, who inspired a dramatic comeback victory against Yale last week.

first semester mojo.

It’s too soon to say for certain, but I’m willing to bet that the win against La Salle was just the first of many “expectation-exceeding” victories for Penn. Now that the nonconference schedule has wrapped up, the Quakers will take to the floor with more urgency for each game.

Every result matters.

Although it’s a little counterintuitive to rely on freshmen for leadership, the Class of 2020 has showed they are up to the task. Now the rest of the team must step up to their level if the Quakers hope to silence the critics and keep their momentum rolling.

schedule complete, the Quakers turn their eyes to the Ivy League season, and a successful title defense.

“It’s going to be a battle,”

McLaughlin said.

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Although there was no love lost between the Williams sisters in Australia on Saturday, tennis feuds were alive and well in the city of Brotherly Love last weekend. In their 2017 home opener, Penn men’s tennis defeated Georgetown and Philadelphia rivals Temple 6-1, each.

“It was a double header on Saturday so we knew it was going to be a long day,” senior captain Matt Nardella explained. “We knew both teams were pretty good, so we had to go in respecting them and expecting a fight.”

The Quakers took all but one of the singles points against the Hoyas, with wins from junior Kyle Mautner, junior Josh Pompan, Nardella, junior Gabe Rapoport and freshman Max Cancilla. Rapoport’s win was most impressive, as it came after splitting the first two sets against Yannik Mahlangu, 6-4 and 6-3, only to battle back to take the final set 10-3.

“Gabe hasn’t really had too much experience playing this year at singles, so these are some of his first two or three matches that he’s ever played,” Nardella said of his teammate. “It was good to see him go out there and get two really close victories.”

For the third match in a row, Penn captured the doubles point thanks to another strong performance from the pairing of senior Thomas Spratt and Pompan, who are undefeated this season.

Also capturing doubles match wins were duo Mautner and Nardella, and junior Nicholai Westergaard and senior Marshall Sharp, who edged out the Hoyas, 7-6.

“Compared to last weekend, we really managed that well, and we cleaned up some of the mistakes we had,” Nardella said.

“It was a good team effort across the board.”

The story was similar in the Quakers’ second match of the afternoon versus Temple. Once again, five of Penn’s singles players recorded wins with Mautner, Pompan and Cancilla easily beating their opponents in straight sets. Rapoport continued to prove his stamina with a comeback win over Florian Mayer in sets of 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.

Doubles was a strong point for the Red and Blue against the Owls as well, although this time Penn was unable to win all three sets. The pairing of Mautner and Nardella and duo Spratt and Pompan both won 6-2 while the pair of Westergaard and Sharp fell 4-6.

The pair of wins for the Quakers follows a weekend of split results on the road against Middle Tennessee State and Vanderbilt, a team Coach Gaetz dubbed one of the most talented squads in the country. Although Penn ultimately fell to the Commodores 6-1, having the chance to play against some of the nation’s best clearly sharpened the Quakers’ skills.

“Playing Vanderbilt, their level was really high,” Nardella said. “If we want to beat the best teams in the Ivy League, we need to raise our game to that level.”

Penn will have to wait until April to open its conference slate, but until then the Quakers hope to continue the upward trend with a match against Minnesota next weekend.

Sports Reporter

In the last year, 5000-to-1 long shots Leicester City won the English Premier League, the Cubs won the World Series, and the Cleveland Browns managed to win a football game, so one would be forgiven for thinking a Division III school had a real chance at taking down the defending Ivy League champions.

From the Quakers’ perspective: trap avoided.

In a game that was close for a total of five minutes, Penn women’s basketball dispatched Stevens Tech 89-43.

Surprisingly, Stevens Tech (9-8, 8-1 E8)

kickstarts team’s 2017 home campaign

jumped out to an early 6-4 lead, but the Quakers (10-6, 3-0 Ivy) never seemed to be in any real trouble. Not that the early struggle went unnoticed by coach Mike McLaughlin. “[The sloppy start] was concerning,” McLaughlin said. “We were very choppy again in transition, and we didn’t have any flow... but we improved as the game went on.”

The flow was found quickly after that as the Red and Blue rattled off a 15-0 run that helped close the quarter with a commanding 12-point lead. The only drama for the remaining three

quarters was how long McLaughlin would leave in the starters. The answer was a little under three quarters.

“I wanted the younger kids to succeed today – some of them were playing for the first time – so I tried to protect them a little bit… just to make sure they had some veterans out there with them,” McLaughlin said.

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Penn finds first EIWA victory after losing win streak Friday WRESTLING | Highs and

lows in weekend split

JACOB SNYDER Associate Sports Editor

A winning mentality.

Even more than skill, a habit of winning can prove vital when seasons drag on and endurance is put to the test.

For Penn wrestling, this past weekend served as a crucial opportunity to gain momentum heading into a stretch of important conference games.

The results? Mixed.

The weekend began with a trip to Lewisberg, Pa., to square off against Bucknell. The Bison (6-4, 3-1 EIWA) roared into the contest on the back of a threemeet win streak, including two against Ivy League compatriots Harvard and Brown. Notably, the Blue and Orange had not lost a meet to an unranked team all season. The Quakers (3-5, 1-4 EIWA) were also without star 174-lb weight class grappler Casey Kent due to illness.

Early in the meet, it seemed as if Penn could be the squad to break that trend. Wins by Joe Oliva, May Bethea and Brooks

Martino to open the meet vaulted the Red and Blue to a 10-0 lead.

Unfortunately for the Quakers, that’s as big as the lead got.

After keeping the lead to 13-4, the Bison won five consecutive matches to take the meet, 22-13.

A critical moment in the meet came during the 125-lb weight class, when Bucknell’s Jordan Gessner edged Penn’s Jeremy Schwartz by a score of 6-5. The key call came in the third period, with the game still very much in balance, when Schwartz was called for an illegal hold after getting too deep on a front hold and being charged with a choke.

The one-point proved the difference in the match, and the Bison pulled the meet back to a 13-13 tie with Gessner’s victory.

Although Buck nell was always going to be stiff competition, the Quakers will be disappointed that they were unable to hold on to the early lead.

Following the loss at Bucknell, the Red and Blue traveled home to the Palestra for a Sunday matinee against American. It was a meet the Red and Blue were favored to win, with the Eagles (3-5, 0-4 EIWA) having dropped their previous three

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meets, including a 31-3 drubbing in their last appearance against Lehigh. Still, the Quakers knew they would have to improve their ability to close out meets if they wanted to earn their first EIWA win.

Similar to the Bucknell trip, the Quakers got off to a hot start.

Triumphs by Joe Velliquette, a returning Casey Kent, Joe Heyob and Frank Mattiace saw Penn holding a commanding 15-0 lead. However, the Quakers must have been having flashbacks to Friday’s collapse when American won the next four matches, pulling to within a point, 15-14.

However, with Oliva and Bethea to close out the meet, Penn still had reason to be confident.

Crucially, Oliva scored two takedowns in the first period of his match against American’s Michael Sprague — a momentum killer for the visiting Eagles.

Even when Sprague rallied late in the match, two more thirdperiod takedowns from Oliva sealed the 11-7 win to add to the Quakers’ lead. Bethea followed Oliva’s win with an equally impressive performance of his own, rallying from an early 3-0 deficit to earn a meet-sealing 9-4 victory.

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One strong performer for Penn wrestling this weekend was junior Joe Oliva who got two takedowns for the Quakers in the first period of his match against American’s Michael Sprague

So where does this meet leave the Quakers? It’s hard to say for sure. With three straight Ivy matchups to follow, it was crucial to earn a first EIWA win on Sunday to gain momentum.

However, the Red and Blue will

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still be upset that they were unable to hold the lead they built in Friday’s meet at Bucknell.

Overall, Penn did not impress, but certainly did not disappoint.

This upcoming weekend’s meet against Harvard will serve

as a real litmus test as to how far the Quakers have come.

Hopefully, with the momentum gained from this weekend, Penn can give the Crimson a real battle — and hopefully come out with a win.

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