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Difficult choices, uncertain futures Gutmann bashes Trump’s immigration executive order Students and faculty protest the President’s immigration ban JINAH KIM & SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Senior Reporter & Senior News Editor

Penn President Amy Gutmann broke her silence on President Donald Trump Monday evening, calling his executive order on immigration “injurious to our work and inimical to our values.” Gutmann’s speech came during a Faculty Senate protest on College Green over Trump’s controversial order, which temporarily banned immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries.

Gutmann’s speech was the first time that she has publicly mentioned President Donald Trump by name since the start of his presidential campaign.

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International students react to Trump’s immigration ban CAROLINE SIMON Senior Reporter

We do not make our college decisions blindly, but we fundamentally make them with blinders on”

President Donald Trump’s newly announced immigration ban has sparked panic among some international students and faculty at Penn, forcing them to reconsider their very future in the United States.

The ban, which was announced in an executive order Friday, temporarily bars nationals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — all majority-Muslim nations — from entering the country.

Students at Penn from the banned countries now face a heartbreaking choice: remain in the United States indefinitely, unable to travel home and see their families, or forfeit the Penn education they spent years working towards.

For College freshman Abdullah Noaman, who is from Baghdad, Iraq, attending a prestigious American university had been a lifelong dream.

Especially for students hailing from conflict-torn countries, getting a visa

can be a nearly insurmountable challenge.

“Coming into the United States and studying at an Ivy League school was pretty much the dream of my life,” he said. “All of us were definitely extremely ecstatic about getting into this school and actually seeing our dreams come true.”

Noaman, who hopes to study physics, is trying to act optimistic for the sake of his mother, who he said would not be able to handle four years of separation.

College freshman Aula Ali, who went to high school in Ethiopia but is originally Sudanese, has already spoken with her parents about hiring an immigration attorney to facilitate travel back to Sudan if she decides to stay at Penn; however, her parents have suggested that she should transfer.

But transferring poses its own set of difficulties. For College freshman Mohammad Oulabi, who was raised in Aleppo, Syria, and moved to Cairo, Egypt, when he was 15, transferring to a different school is an unlikely possibility for financial reasons. Oulabi, Ali and Noaman all are receiving aid from Penn.

“There is a big possibility that if I leave, not only will I have to leave, but I won’t be able to continue my education elsewhere because not that many scholarships are available for international students,” he said. “I’m trying not to panic and not to freak out, but it’s something very serious.”

There’s also the inescapable fact that despite their precarious situation, Oulabi, Ali and Noaman are Penn students. And life at Penn can be stressful even when one’s future in the country isn’t at stake.

“They [professors] don’t take these factors into consideration, and they compare you with other people who have been living very stable lives,” Oulabi said. “You have to compete against them, and it’s already hypercompetitive, and you already have to compete with the best people in the nation.”

In a University-wide message sent Sunday morning, Penn reassured students that it is “dedicated to ensuring that all international members of our community thrive on our campus.”

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2016 Wharton MBA graduate Emily Motayed made this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 list for her $13.3 million online interior design company, Havenly.

The company connects homeowners to interior designers via the internet for flat rates of $79 or $199 per room. Motayed founded the site with her sister in 2013.

Motayed built the company out of a personal need, she said, after she moved to New York and could not afford an interior designer for

her new apartment. After researching, she realized that there existed no company to provide design advice to clients on tight budgets.

Motayed enrolled in Wharton’s MBA program two years after she launched Havenly. She said she profited from incorporating what she learned in her entrepreneurship classes to the company she was building at the same time.

Samantha Beuscher, a designer for Havenly, spoke to Motayed’s entrepreneurship qualities. “[Havenly] can change the game for something that hasn’t changed in years,” she said.

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The good and the bad of choosing your roommate Current freshmen reflect on roommate selection CATHERINE DE LUNA Staff Reporter

Choosing your own roommate can be a delight or a disaster. You might be happy with your choice to actively share a space with someone or regret the decision you made.

College freshmen Jacob Cohen and Michael Becker decided to room together after meeting on a cruise ship to the Caribbean in December 2015, after both received their early decision acceptances from Penn.

“We each happened to be wearing Penn shirts,” Cohen said recounting how the two met.

Cohen and Becker spent time together during the cruise. They both agreed that knowing one another before living together helped them gauge their roommate dynamic.

“Because we met in person,” Cohen said, “the chance that it was a disaster was low.”

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College freshman Elyse Kochman says she gets along with her roommate, Nursing freshman Monica Aber, despite how different they are.

“It was unexplainably lucky,” Becker agreed, “It was nice knowing that he was a normal guy. He wasn’t going to do dumb stuff.”

Since their meeting last winter, the boys’ parents have

also become good friends.

“Our moms text a lot,” Becker joked.

Unlike Cohen and Becker, College freshman Elyse Kochman and her roommate, Nursing freshman Monica Aber, were

both late in deciding that they wanted to attend Penn. They met one another via mutual friends and only chatted over FaceTime once before meeting each other in person.

“We had absolutely nothing

in common,” Aber joked. “It honestly probably works better that way.”

The two found that they got along because of their differences, not in spite of them. Even though Kochman and Aber are now close friends, both agreed their friendship was not a necessary component in being good roommates.

“I feel like even if we didn’t end up as close as we are, it would have been fine,” Kochman said.

W ha r ton freshman Er ic Knorr also choose his roommate but had never met him prior to starting school at Penn. Knorr’s roommate plays football, which is unique considering most of the team lives together. His dad is friends with Penn’s football coach, who connected Knorr with his current roommate.

“We have a surprising amount in common,” Knorr said. “He is probably my best friend at Penn.”

Unfortunately, not everyone who chose their roommate is satisfied with their decision.

One College freshman found her

roommate on the “University of Pennsylvania Class of 2020” Facebook page and said she’s had issues throughout the year.

“I got there [Penn] and then quickly realized that she had not described herself to the full extent that she behaved,” the student said, who chose to remain anonymous to avoid calling out her roommate.

She described her roommate as not picking up for herself and being messy. Her roommate would respond with excuses and would only clean up after a confrontation.

“She later on became much more accommodating, but it definitely took me awhile to get her to get to that point,” she said.

Though the student has had problems with the roommate she chose, she has learned valuable lessons about communication and relationships.

“Just because someone seems nice doesn’t mean you are compatible in every area,” she said.

“Getting to know someone is more of a process than it sometimes may seem.”

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Penn’s Philosophy Department released a statement denouncing 1968 W ha r ton graduate and President Donald Trump’s recent executive order restricting immigration.

The federal policy, signed on Friday, imposes a 90-day ban on immigrant and non-immigrant entry to the United States from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

Trump also halted the United States refugee programs for 120 days.

In a statement, the Philosophy Depa r tment described Trump’s actions as “deeply troubling” and “antithetical to our values as philosophers, scholars and human beings.”

Michael Weisberg, a professor and chair of the department, believes that the travel and immigration ban has many practical and moral consequences that require clarification.

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elusive and expensive in the past because it is time-consuming for both the designer and the client. Designers spend time in the client’s home, go to furniture stores with them and create detailed boards of swatches and patterns. Clients must also take time off of work to shop with designers.

With e-design, Beuscher said, designers and clients can work within convenient hours without impeding on job obligations and

“The values of the University are cosmopolitan,” Weisberg told The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“This is a place of scholarship and learning for everybody, and to have an across-the-board ban on immigration, and especially on refugees, it’s just the antithesis of everything that we believe in.”

Weisberg added that he and his colleagues felt that releasing a statement about their feelings regarding Trump’s executive order was the least they could do and emphasized the philosophy faculty’s desire to “echo some of the things that came out of the administration a few weeks ago when the issue of sanctuary campuses was discussed.”

“Penn is a place for ever ybody,” Weisberg sa id.

“Scholarship and education don’t have national borders.”

The faculty also expressed their belief that the executive order is harmful to the University.

“We are committed to creating a respectful and safe space for every student to learn,” the

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Motayed said that Havenly’s goal is to “democratize interior design.” This idea, she believes, has solidified her brand’s definition — to her, the most important and difficult part of starting a company.

“Building a brand is more of an art rather than a science,” she said. “You’re trying to figure out

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The Philosophy department at the University has denounced President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration.

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To foster this brand image, the marketing team curated photos for the website to find a style that felt unique and also fit with the company’s goal in a logical way.

“We want to make sure that what we’re building is interior design that everyone can use,” she said. “Everyone deserves a beautiful home.”

When logging onto Havenly, clients fill out a questionnaire and are matched with a selection of Havenly’s designers. Once

they select one and start working, the designers create either a room rendering or a general concept depending on the user’s needs. They also form a shopping list of items that customers can, if they wish, order through Havenly.

To Beuscher, Havenly brings clients together with designers who adore their career field.

She described why she believes in Havenly, saying, “It’s the ability to use the internet for mass consumer availability while still creating design that comes from a place of love.”

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Penn offers online courses for govt. staff Courses aimed to help close the skills gap HALEY SUH Staff Reporter

The online education company Coursera has once again partnered up with Penn to launch a program specifically designed for governments and nonprofits in an effort to close an increasing skills gap in the workforce.

C o u r s e r a fo r G ove r n ments & Nonprofits will offer courses in digital manufact u r i ng, busi ness Engl ish, programming, data science and more . Each organization will be able to tailor the program to meet its specific labor market needs.

“Millions of people lack the skills needed for new and better jobs, and increasing automation will only widen the gap,” Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera, said in a press release. “Governments and nonprofits focused on workforce development are eager to work with us and our university partners to deliver skills education to populations at unprecedented scale.”

This new initiative will allow government and nonp r of it o r g a n i z a t io n s t o instantly access university courses and certificates in high-demand skills at an afford able cost. C u r rent ly, Coursera has pa r tners in Egypt, Mongolia, Singapore, Malaysia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and the United States.

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“We will do everything in our power, speak to every friend and ally, and leave no stone unturned in our efforts to urge President Trump to change course and rectify the horrible damage this Order has caused,” Gutmann said.

She also spoke about her own immigrant family background. Gutmann cited her father, who was a Jewish immigrant who f led Nazi Germany.

Cha i r of t he Faculty Senate Laura Perna, one of the event organizers, also gave a short speech.

St udents a lso cha nted things such as “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here” and “Penn will not bend” during the protest.

Penn students who are directly affected by the executive order also spoke out against Trump’s immigration ban.

Nariman Jahani, a postdoctoral researcher in radiology at Penn, said that the executive order separates her from her family. As an Iranian national, she cannot leave the country and her family cannot come visit.

“I’m stuck here,” Jahani said. “And it will affect a lot in my life.”

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Coursera partnered with Penn to develop courses targeted at government employees, teaching skills like business English, programming and data science.

Penn professors had mixed thoughts on Coursera’s new program.

Wharton professor and Director of the Wharton Center for Human Resources, Peter Cappelli, said that basic skills such as communication, problem solving and reasoning remain the most important skills in the workforce.

“Very few people work in jobs where they will ever need to do programming or data science,” Cappelli said. “Is it better to learn a particular programming language than to improve your writing skills?

Probably not. Is it better to do that than play video games?

Certainly.”

However, Engineering professor David Srolovitz said that basic knowledge in data analytics or programming would be useful.

“It’s true that most jobs would not really require a lot of data science skills, but there’s sort of a literacy issue, which is to say it’s hard for anybody to evaluate the things that come from data analytics unless they at least have some fluency with the ideas behind it,” Srolovitz said.

Director of Wharton Online Lea r n ing A nne Tr umbore said that courses offered on Coursera are designed to offer learning experiences much different than those offered on

campus.

“Most courses are designed for learners at work who need access to education-on-thego,” Trumbore said.

Ultimately, Srolovitz sees online education as complement i ng a t r a d it iona l university education.

“The reality is that many things that we’re going to need as time goes on are not the kinds of things that we necessarily learn when we’re in university,” Srolovitz said.

“As different things become important, [Coursera] provides a way to access them for people who don’t have access to university education at that moment in time.”

For the first time since the start of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Penn President Amy Gutmann publicly mentioned him.

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The “best four years of our lives”

GROWING PAINS | Debunking the idea that college should be the “best four years of your life” TUESDAY JANUARY 31, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 11 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 TOM NOWLAN News Editor

Maybe it’s because I’m graduating from Penn soon, but I’ve been reflecting a lot recently on how I came to be here in the first place. I’ve been thinking about how naturally and easily people say things like “College is the best four years of your life!” and trying to ascertain if my college years have, in fact, been the best years of my life thus far.

The conclusion I have arrived at is two-fold: 1) I would not label my college years as the best years of my life, and 2) this doesn’t mean I “did” college wrong.

When people — often reminiscing adults — say “College is the best four years of your life,” they are referring to things like a general lack of fiscal responsibility, relative independence and the privilege to spend most of one’s time how one wants. College is idealized because it is perceived as the sole time in one’s life when one can experience the perks of adulthood without having to take on the responsibilities of adulthood.

Even if all of this holds

true, however, this does not necessarily ensure that college will be the best four years of our lives. There is, in my opinion, a distinction to be made between the concept of college and the reality of college. When we make our college decisions, we choose the place that is conceptually the best for us, but we cannot know in advance if we are actually choosing the place where we’ll be happiest.

We can look at class size, at location, at average graduation rate, at average starting salaries. We can evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different programs and clubs.

But none of this compares to actually attending the school, to experiencing the culture and the day-to-day life firsthand. Reading online that around 25 percent of Penn students participate in greek life leaves one with a very different impression than one gets during New Student Orientation, let alone from walking down Locust on a Thursday night or reading The Round Up section of 34th Street Magazine.

We do not make our college decisions blindly, but we fundamentally make them with blinders on. And when one thinks about it, the defining aspects of our college experiences are themselves variable, and to a certain degree, arbitrary.

quences, interactions, chains of events, feelings.

Well, you might say, this isn’t particular to college. It’s just a fact of life. Life is unpredictable, and we can’t always determine the outcomes of our choices.

Yet I believe that the un-

… when one thinks about it, the defining aspects of our college experiences are themselves variable, and to a certain degree, arbitrary.”

The freshman halls we’re placed in, the people we end up meeting, the professors we engage with because of the classes we pick, the three or four extracurriculars we select from hundreds of options — all of these things are choices that we make, yet at the same time they hold within them unpredictable paths, conse-

predictability of life is a phenomenon especially relevant for college students. We are always, even if subconsciously, comparing grandiose statements like “College is the best four years of your life” or “I met all my best friends in college” to the realities of our college experiences. And our belief that college should live

up to all these superlatives — or that achieving these superlatives always lies within our control — prevents us from embracing or adapting to our experiences as they really are.

What makes college both so difficult and so wonderful are the turns and dips and swerves that we either did not expect or would not have necessarily planned for ourselves. We may wonder, at some point or another, “What would my life be like if I went to X or Y college instead? How would my Penn experience be different if I had joined X or Y organization or met X or Y person instead?” When we do this, we understand more fully what it means to be an adult. We wonder what things would have been like if we had made different choices or if the circumstances had been different, yet we simultaneously realize that we have to adapt to, learn from, challenge and embrace the unpredictable and overlapping chains of events that constitute life. And it seems to me that this is an integral part of growing up.

When looked at through this

EMILY HOEVEN lens, we realize that college is not some monolithic entity that has to be done in a certain way, nor is it the be-all-endall of our lives. Our college experiences are obviously formative, but we need to assign them the proper amount of weight in relation to the rest of our lives. Penn might provide us with all of our best times, our best friends, our significant others and our future job trajectories, or it might not.

And if it doesn’t, that’s okay.

EMILY HOEVEN is a College senior from Fremont, Calif., studying English. Her email address is ehoeven@sas.upenn. edu. “Growing Pains” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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SROL WITH IT | The practical argument for liberal arts at Penn The notion of mutual exclusivity in your education — that your studies either have to be an inch deep and a mile wide or an inch wide and a mile deep — should not exist at Penn.

The width of your education refers to the range of disciplines that you study, while the depth emphasizes how much you choose to specialize.

At Penn, since students often have the freedom to combine the width and depth of their studies, we should try to create a well-rounded education for ourselves.

After leaving high school, I knew that I never wanted to study anything other than science ever again. I was sure that I wanted to be a scientist. What need did I have for learning how to analyze literary works or understanding the history of the world? In short, I thought the idea of a broad liberal arts education was a waste of time.

Fast forward three years, and I, the person who thought he had it all figured out, have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my life. Almost everyone at Penn has been in one of these two boats, usually both.

In light of not having an inkling of a life plan, I have come to realize the immense value of a liberal arts education — a model of higher education that Penn was built on, yet in many ways has been forgotten from the ideals of the modern Penn student.

Given that three of the four undergraduate schools at Penn are professional in nature, Penn is inherently a pre-professional place. It is no surprise that about 40 percent of Penn students find their jobs through the notorious oncampus recruiting process. In a place with so many careeroriented students, I do not believe that it is in any way a bad thing. Penn students are great at getting the depth that propels them toward their career goals.

I do, however, believe that Penn students, as a whole, should place more value in the idea of a broad education.

I know that requirements, policies and other pressures can sometimes make this a challenge, but it is still important to do what you can to learn from a wide range of disciplines.

In 1740, Ben Franklin founded Penn with the goal to train students to be leaders in business, government and public service. His broad knowledge spanned a multitude of disciplines, allowing him to contribute to fields as distant as

leges and Universities, 93 percent of employers believe that the ability to think critically, communicate and solve complex problems is more important than your major. Even further, a majority of employers surveyed emphasized that they

When you focus too intently on one discipline, you miss out on the opportunity to understand different facets of the world and the different modes of thinking that come with a liberal arts education.” science and government.

Almost 300 years later, Franklin’s innovative model of a practical liberal arts education still holds immense value in today’s global economy. According to a survey of business and nonprofit leaders by the Association of American Col-

value ethical judgment and integrity, intercultural skills and the ability to apply knowledge in a real-world setting.

And 80 percent of these employers agree that every student should receive a broad education in the liberal arts and sciences.

The idea that receiving a practical, skills-based education and receiving a liberal arts education are mutually exclusive is, in my opinion, quite pervasive on Penn’s campus.

But why is that the case?

Hard skills are incredibly valuable. Learning how to code, manage money and write papers are examples of incredibly useful abilities.

But the intellectual curiosity that is developed through a broad education is equally as critical to being successful in anything you do. Studying a broad range of topics will inevitably teach you to think for yourself, communicate effectively and foster a capacity for lifelong learning.

Every school has developed its curriculum to provide students the ability to explore outside of their areas of study.

It should not always be about finding the easiest class to fulfill the sector requirement that you are dreading or the safest way to satisfy your global environment requirement that is directly applicable to your career plan.

General education require-

SHAWN SROLOVITZ ments are in place to help you to become a well-rounded student and citizen. When you focus too intently on one discipline, you miss out on the opportunity to understand different facets of the world and the different modes of thinking that come with a liberal arts education.

College is, in many ways, your last opportunity to learn for the sake of learning. Take advantage of that.

SHAWN SROLOVITZ is an Engineering junior from Manalapan, N.J., studying bioengineering. His email address is ssrol@seas.upenn. edu. “Srol With It” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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Yep, the countdown to PennPrinceton basketball is finally into single digits. But honestly, Penn squash may just hold the most exciting matchup against the Tigers.

This Wednesday, both Penn men’s and women’s squash will travel to Princeton to take on the Quakers’ fiercest rivals in a doubleheader. “I’d say in my 13 years [of coaching], Princeton’s been our biggest rival,� said women’s head coach Jack Wyant, who played at Princeton. “There’s no greater satisfaction as a coach then getting to beat your alma mater.�

For Wyant, a return to No. 4 Princeton is a return to the place where he served as a three-year captain for the Tigers. Even so, Wyant is the first to point out how much stronger his ties are to the Red and Blue, noting that he’s been involved with Penn squash for three times as long as he played under Princeton. As the Director of Squash at Penn, a sweep on Wednesday would be that much sweeter.

The No. 2 women (6-1) will go into Wednesday’s tilt with nothing but momentum. After a loss to undefeated No. 1 Harvard, the Quakers have strung together four impressive wins, including defeats of No. 3 Trinity and No. 5 Stanford. It’s very clear that the team has entered an impressive vein of form, dropping only three matches in their last two tries.

Sophomore Reeham Salah continues to impress in her second season. The Washington native has not only won all seven of her matches this season — she also has not yet dropped a game.

Despite the wild run of success for Salah, there actually

Another week, another award for AJ Brodeur.

The Penn men’s basketball star’s performance against La Salle last Wednesday earned him the honor of Ivy League Rookie of the Week — the fourth time he has taken the award this season.

But the freshman’s game against La Salle wasn’t just one of the best performances in the Ivy League last week. Brodeur scored more points in one game — 35, to be exact — than any other men’s basketball player for Penn in the past 20 years. Despite his rookie label, the forward was quick to play down his inexperience. “If someone said, ‘Oh, he’s just a freshman,’ I don’t appreciate that excuse,� Brodeur said after the game. “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.�

The Massachusetts native scored a large number of points, but his efficiency might have been more noteworthy. He shot 73.7 percent from the field, and even displayed his longer range by making a career-high trio of

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Coming into Princeton, Penn women’s squash sophomore Reeham Salah is red hot, having not lost a single game all season.

hasn’t been much technical or tactical change with the way she’s approached this season. “I definitely think the conditioning we’ve been doing during practice has helped a lot.

Especially the past two weeks, we’ve been doing so much,� the women’s team’s No. 1 said. “Fitness is such an important part of squash. If you have the shots and don’t have the fitness, you’re not going to win your matches.�

For the No. 6 men’s squad (5-4), a strong schedule gets no easier, as the Quakers headline the second half of the doubleheader against No. 10 Princeton.

The Red and Blue are coming off two wins of their own over No. 9 Dartmouth and No. 11 Navy. So far, the Quakers have combatted the strength of their opponents with a crucial squad depth.

Against Navy, Penn pulled out a particularly notable effort.

From surface glance, the 7-2 score seems mundane. However, that line looks even more impressive when considering two of its players were sidelined to illness. Sometimes, illness can provide context, and, for men’s coach Gilly Lane, he takes a renewed sense of comfort in how deep his talent runs in the lineup. “We rested two starters who were under the weather, and

people stepped up,� Lane said. “I was really happy with how the team responded. That was a tough Navy team, so to get a 7-2 win gives us confidence.�

Lane is sure to have confidence knowing that without the presence of junior No. 1 Marwan Mahmoud, his team was able to rely on the back of his lineup. He cited efforts from freshman Will Hagen and sophomore Karim Hussein, who moved up to score solid wins. Against Princeton on Wednesday, the versatility of the Quakers’ lineup is sure to curb the Tigers preparation.

For both teams, the tough schedule has left them well seasoned for the barrage of top-15 opponents that they have faced and will continue to face in the second half of the season. “It’s nice this time of year, because the matches come very fast and furious,� Wyant said. “[Right after Princeton] we have to start preparing for Brown and Yale. So, it’s a great time of year because things are happening, and it’s nice for the team to have matches coming [frequently.]�

Which one is it? A mental fitness? A match fitness? Frankly, it doesn’t really make much difference. The rhythm these two teams are in is going to make for a fun visit to Jadwin Gym for Penn.

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school’s highest beam score since then-senior and current assistant Kristen Strausbaugh in 2013, the frustration understandably piled up.

“It was definitely hard to sit on the sidelines and not be able to contribute physically — I still felt fully a part of the team, but not being able to compete was a struggle for me,” Moore said. “It was definitely kind of hard to deal with, but we’re over that now.”

Talk about an understatement.

Seeking redemption from both the individual and team disappointments from a year ago, Moore attacked the offseason with unparalleled energy, and that work ethic didn’t go unnoticed.

Despite her lack of experience, Moore was named a captain alongside junior Kyra Levi and senior Rachel Graham, making her the only sophomore to have served as a captain for any Penn team this school year.

Needless to say, none of the Red and Blue regret that decision one bit.

Opening the season at the

Lindsey Ferris Invitational, Penn took second place with its highest team score in 23 months, and Moore led the charge with a teamhigh 29.275 points across three events.

But it was the following week, during the Quakers’ home opener against Yale, when the gymnastics world would see that Moore was the real deal.

Penn trailed the Bulldogs for the majority of the day, but Moore put the team on her back to will the Red and Blue to a wild comeback victory. Competing through strep throat, Moore individually

won three events, including a staggering 9.875-point effort on the floor that marked the No. 4 score in the event in Penn history. Penn ended up scoring 193.575 points in the Ivy League’s best mark this season, and Moore was named the ECAC Gymnast of the Week.

“That was pretty cool,” Moore reflected on her career day. “I will say my strep throat, it just kind of hit the back burner; it didn’t really matter because I was preoccupied with the competition at hand.”

As was on display during that comeback over Yale, it’s been on

the floor where Moore has made her greatest strides. Having not competed in floor once as a freshman, her success in the sport’s signature event has been perhaps the most impressive aspect of her breakout season.

“This year, I’ve just had so much more fun in the event; floor throughout high school was never one of my stronger events,” she said. “Having fun with the team, interacting with the audience, it’s just a really good time.”

With Moore’s repertoire having been expanded, both she and her team have been dangerous. And

while her individual success has been well-documented, the Quakers stand unbeaten in Ivy play as the early favorites to take home that conference title.

So if the Red and Blue are able to complete their epic worst-tofirst journey, it’s clear that the sophomore will be at the forefront.

“I think we’re capable of much more than we’ve already shown.

It’s only been a few meets, and we’re really looking forward to just building from there,” Moore said. “I’m really excited to see where this can go.”

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A STAR IS BORN SPORTS | Sophomore

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Graduating five USAG Collegiate Nationals qualifiers from a team that finished at the bottom of the Ivy League a year ago, Penn gymnastics needed something special to prove it belonged among the league’s elite once again.

Thankfully for the Red and Blue, Caroline Moore has taken the message.

Coming out of nowhere after an injury-plagued freshman season, the Missouri native has become a sensation overnight for the Quakers, seizing a leadership role for a

Why Tom Brady gives me hope for Alek Torgersen

Penn team that finds itself in the Ivy League’s driver’s seat in a situation that seemed impossible only months ago.

“I’m just really happy to have been healthy this year so far, and individually and team-wise I’d say I’m happy with the way it’s gone,” Moore said.

“But we all still have areas to improve upon, and I think that’s really exciting.”

While Moore has stood out this year, her ascent to stardom hasn’t been smooth all the way through.

Last year as a freshman, she suffered a fractured tibia during fall practice, sidelining her for the majority of her debut season.

Though Moore was able to return late in the season, even securing the SEE MOORE PAGE 7

U. prepares for the big Princeton game next week

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BREVIN FLEISCHER Associate Sports Editor

This Sunday, Tom Brady will start his seventh Super Bowl, and it makes me so hopeful about Penn football.

Yes, you read that sentence right. Penn football and the Super Bowl? How are those even remotely related beyond that fact that they’re part of the same sport? The answer lies in our quarterback, and NFL Draft hopeful, Alek Torgersen.

Brady is widely regarded as one of the best quarterbacks to play the game, but it wasn’t always going to turn out like this. Brady’s collegiate career was, in a word, mundane. He attended the University of Michigan, where he sat as one of the backup quarterbacks for his first two years. He served as the starter in his final two years, but split time with other QBs. He currently sits sixth in Michigan’s record books for completions with 443, eighth in passing yards with 5,351 and ninth in passing touchdowns with 35.

Entering the draft, Brady was not a highly touted prospect. He performed extremely poorly at the NFL Combine, posting

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The similarities in Penn quarterback Alek Torgersen and Tom Brady’s draft situations give Jonathan Pollack hope for what could be.

one of the slowest 40-yard dash times for a quarterback and struggling in several other areas. This all culminated in Brady sliding all the way down to pick 199 in the sixth round, where the Patriots took him.

Brady was the seventh QB taken in the 2000 NFL Draft, and five more were drafted after him.

We all know the rest of Brady’s story. He got his chance in 2001 when then-Patriots starter Drew Bledsoe got hurt, led his team to a Super Bowl

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victory, and never looked back.

So how does this have any relevancy to Penn’s quarterback?

Currently ranked the eighthbest QB in this year’s NFL Draft by Sports Illustrated, Torgersen is in a very similar position to what Brady was on his draft day — a lower end prospect with the potential to get drafted in the later rounds.

Despite not playing at a Power Five conference school, the senior from Huntington Beach, SEE BRADY PAGE 6

February 7 is far and away the most important day of the Penn men’s basketball season.

For the first time since 2012, Penn’s students will be on campus to witness one of the most historic rivalries in college basketball when the Quakers take on the Princeton Tigers at home. In the recent past, the Penn-Princeton battles have all taken place over Penn’s winter or spring breaks.

The first meeting earlier in the year at Princeton did not go smoothly for the Red and Blue, as a huge early deficit proved too much to overcome, ultimately leading to a 61-52 loss.

Penn, winless in Ivy play, needs to rebound in a big way and get its season back on track in order to realistically have a shot an an Ivy League playoff berth.

Not only is the game significant for its impact on the teams’ postseason fortunes, but next Tuesday’s game will also serve as a celebration of the Palestra’s 90th anniversary.

To commemorate the momentous occasion, Penn Athletics will be sponsoring a variety of events and giveaways such as a

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Just a week out from the big game, Penn Athletics is pulling out all the stops to make Penn-Princeton as momentous an occasion as possible.

pre-game Fan-Fest in Rockwell Gymnasium, free cakes given to the first 500 attendees, free Palestra posters to the first 1000, and free replica shooting shirts to the first 300. Additionally, prices for student tickets and popcorn will be marked down to replicate the prices from 1927, the Palestra’s first year.

Hopefully, as a result of all the fanfare, the storied arena — home to more college basketball games than any other gym in the nation — will be rocking as Penn and Princeton battle for the 236th time in a series Penn leads 124-111.

The rivalry is as influential as it is old, with the two participants both considered among the most historically prominent in the nation. According to a 2012 ESPN article ranking the fifty greatest college basketball programs of all time, Penn and Princeton were tied at the 22nd spot, placing both programs firmly among college basketball’s blue bloods.

Fortunately for current Penn students, these all-time programs will be on display in a manner they haven’t been in five years: at the Palestra, during the school year.

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