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Only five courses fill Living World sector this semester SUN JAE LEE Staff Reporter

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This semester, the College of Arts and Sciences offered only five courses that fulfilled the Living World sector, four of which were closed a week before the add deadline. 26 courses can fulfill the Society sector, 35 can fulfill the History and Tradition sector and 40 can fulfill the Arts and Letters sector. Over the past few semesters, the number of courses that can fulfill sectors in science and math have been decreasing and many students compete to enroll in the few courses offered. The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Associate Dean in the College and Director of Academic Affairs Kent Peterman and College sophomore and director of the Undergraduate Assembly’s Academic Affairs Committee Nathaniel Rome to talk about why there are so few classes that fulfill these required sectors. 1. To be considered for a sector, a course must fulfill certain qualifications. Course selection is based off of recommendations from departments. However, the classes must not have prerequisites and they should be helpful for non-majors as well as majors. “It shouldn’t be a course that is only of interest for students who are going to be doing more work in that field,” Peterman, who is also head of the Sector Requirement Committee, said. “If that was the only course you took in History and Tradition, it should be

Cruz takes Republicans, Democrats remain split DAN SPINELLI City News Editor

CLIVE, IOWA — Just after the first round of votes had been counted, Ben Swartz knew he would have to make a choice: his wife or Bernie Sanders.

At a crowded caucus at Indian Hills Junior High School — a few miles outside of Des Moines — Swartz joined 336 other Democrats in the annual first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus, famous as much for its byzantine rules and procedures as it is for its early date. In order for a Democratic candidate’s votes to count, their supporters must collect at least 15 percent of the

supporters in an individual precinct. Only 17 other Iowans in the Clive-3 precinct supported former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, meaning those unlucky Iowans had to either switch their vote or have them not count. In New Hampshire or South Carolina — the two primaries to follow in consecutive weeks — voters like Swartz and his wife, Joyce, could

have voted for their preferred candidates in private. No hassle or public pressure necessary. Not the case here in Iowa. “My wife may kill me,” he said after replacing his O’Malley sticker with a Sanders one. Hours later, O’Malley would suspend his campaign after yielding less than one SEE IOWA PAGE 7 AMANDA SUAREZ | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

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Profs disrupt trend of low rated calculus classes

Adam Grant on the secrets of originality

A few calculus profs get high ratings despite low average in dept.

Grant spoke about his new book, “Originals”

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Google “Math 114 UPenn” and you’ll find yourself on a page that can be summed up in one word: outdated. Blurry headers show a low-resolution picture of Isaac Newton and a Home button that looks like it would have felt antiquated 10 years ago. The link to the syllabus contains the note: “New for Fall 2013.” Penn professor Robert Ghrist, one of the professors teaching Math 114, or Calculus II, was quick to agree that the site needs work. “I know, right?” he said, rolling his eyes. According to Ghrist, the Math Department is currently in the middle of renovating their website. As of yet, very little seems to have changed. A look on the Wayback Machine, an internet archive of website screen captures, shows a virtually identical site on June 22, 2006 — nearly 10 years ago. To be sure, the merit of a class is not dependent on how aesthetically appealing its website is. But the stagnant state of Math 114’s course website seems representative of a larger problem: despite the low ratings and negative student responses it receives year after year, the

Bad ideas and procrastination plague professional and students alike, but according to renowned author and professor Adam Grant, they may be the source of your next great idea. Speaking at Monday night’s Authors@Wharton event, the charismatic Grant gave a preview of his new book Originals, which delves into the value of creativity and

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Professor Adam Grant speaks to audience of students at Monday night’s Authors@Wharton event in the Penn Museum.

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individuality. “I’m interested in people who are proactive, who take initiative, who don’t just accept the status quo,” Grant said to a nearly full Harrison Auditorium in the Penn Museum. “Original people are nonconformists. They are people who drive creativity and change in the world.” Grant, who was voted as Wharton’s best professor by his students for four years in a row, signed and sold copies of his second book after taking the stage for a lecture and moderated Q&A. Grant SEE GRANT PAGE 2

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Monkeys reveal insights into human friendships Talk kicks off Science Cafe lecture series SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

Does your brain dictate how many friends you have? Professor Michael Platt, with appointments in the Wharton School, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Perelman School of Medicine as a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor, gave a talk on the biological roots of friendship, attempting to answer just that. His talk kicked off this year’s Science Cafe lecture series, which highlights scientific achievement at Penn. The Science Cafes are complemented by a series of Lightbulb Cafes, which spotlight research in social science, the arts and the humanities. They will take place until August at World Cafe Live. Using years of study on the behavior and biology of rhesus macaques, a type of monkey,

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course has been slow to change. “There’s a lot of people who are forced to teach calculus classes who seem like they don’t care at all,” College and Engineering senior Sarah Dean said. Dean is a teaching assistant for 104 who has also been a TA for 114 multiple times. “I think the problem with calculus courses — and the Math Department as a whole — is that it’s not that young or forwardthinking,” Dean said. “There’s not a lot of momentum, except in individual people. But it’s not like the whole department is saying ‘Let’s rethink math’ or ‘Everybody hates math; let’s make everybody love math.’” At the end of each semester, the instructors for the course meet during finals week to discuss grading. It often seemed as if the professors were out of touch with their students’ needs, Dean said. “Sometimes it felt like the professors were reacting like ‘I can’t believe they got that

Platt drew parallels to human feelings of friendship, charity, empathy and their source in the brain. Like humans, rhesus macaques have a strong evolutionary need for friendship. They live in large groups of males and females and place high importance on social status. When rhesus macaques make social decisions the same areas of the brain are activated as are in humans — the cingulate cortex, which controls social interaction, and the amygdala, which controls emotional experience. They combine to form what Platt calls the “social brain network,” and the strength of connection between these two areas directly correlates to the quality and quantity of reallife friendships. In one of Platt’s experiments to test how these areas function, he and his team placed two monkeys in front of computer screens and allowed them to award fruit juice to the other

wrong, that’s so dumb,’” she said. “Maybe you didn’t teach it right.” This negativity is evident in rankings of Math 114 on Penn Course Review. The average is 2.2 and 2.4 for course and instructor satisfaction. But there are some outliers. Ghrist’s scores are significantly higher, at 3.27 and 3.55. Ghrist, who has a dual appointment in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the College of Arts and Sciences, designed Math 114e — a version of calculus specifically for Engineering students to emphasize the skills they would need later on in their studies. There’s also a version of calculus specific to the Wharton School — Math 110. Ghrist said he no longer uses the textbook in his 114e class due to student complaints about its outdatedness and price. He is currently developing a digital textbook meant to be read on a smartphone, and creates many of his own materials for class. While Ghrist attributes his popularity to the makeup of

monkey or throw the juice in the trash. The researchers found that the monkeys preferred to reward the other monkey over throwing the juice in the trash, especially when they liked the other monkey that was being rewarded. The team also found that when the monkey rewarded the other monkey, its brain responded the same way as it would when the monkey received the juice itself. Platt attributes this to mirror neurons in the amygdala. “We can predict from [the mirror neurons’] activity how likely it is that the actor monkey will reward the other guy,” Platt said. Platt also talked about the importance of the love hormone oxytocin and the anxiety hormone serotonin in social interaction. When monkeys inhaled oxytocin it made them more charitable. Oxytocin therapy has even been considered to help people with autism interact

his classes (all engineering students), the explanation doesn’t fit for Penn professor Nakia Rimmer, a lecturer in the Math Department whose instructor satisfaction score of 3.67 for Math 104 outshines the course average of 2.5. Rimmer’s online video lectures are a useful resource to many students, and the used-up expo markers littering his whiteboard speak to the popularity of his office hours. “That was my goal when teaching — I would always ma ke myself available,” Rimmer said. “So I have extra office hours, just to make myself more available to students.” Rimmer said that he was able to devote more time to teaching outside of the classroom due to his position within the department, which is focused on teaching and administrative duties rather than research. Dean also praised Rimmer’s teaching. “He actually cares about teaching, where other professors seem to care more about their research,” Dean said.

more easily, Platt said. College senior Chloe Getrajdman said that she was most fascinated by Platt’s points on the connection between eye contact and oxytocin. Eye contact between two people can increase oxytocin levels for both people, and Getrajdman said it really brought to light how your actions can have a strong impact on others. Platt ended by saying that biology does not necessarily predict a person’s social outcome. “It’s not just that you come in with a strongly functioning ‘social brain network’ — you can make one,” Platt said. “If you are out there trying to make social connections and working very hard to be social, you can develop this network to a higher degree.” Peter Decherney, Professor of English and Cinema Studies , will give the next talk on “Hollywood’s Past and Future” Tuesday, Feb. 9.

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is a professor in management and in psychology at Wharton with research ranging from organizational change to motivation. He launched Authors@ Wharton in 2012 and contributes regularly to the New York Times. His first book, New York Times bestseller Give and Take, explores the value of selflessness in work. One of his biggest pieces of advice was to never stop coming up with ideas, citing a positive correlation between the number of ideas someone generates and his or her originality. “[A study] came out recently said that your first 15 ideas are less creative than the next 20,” he said. “But most people never get to the next 20. They fall in love with the first idea.” He also cited procrastination — often the enemy of the deadline-dreading college student — as a potential catalyst for creativity. When un-abused, Grant said, procrastination

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Professor Michael Platt kicks off annual Science Cafe lecture series with a talk about Rhesus Monkeys and friendship.

is also time to think, and that when he forced himself to procrastinate while writing “Originals,” he actually returned with better, more insightful ideas. Even Leonardo da Vinci took years to perfect the Mona Lisa, he said, adding, “So if da Vinci could procrastinate, the rest of us probably could too.” Grant, a self-proclaimed “pre-crastinator,” learned the veiled value of procrastinators the hard way. “Years ago … a student came up to me and said, ‘I’m thinking about starting a company with a few friends, do you want to invest?” Grant said. “He’s like, ‘We’re going to disrupt an industry; we’re going to sell stuff online.’” After Grant learned that they had not thought the idea out completely and were not pursuing the startup full-time, conventional logic pushed him to decline the investment. Years later, the startup that would become Warby Parker is valued at over $1 billion and was called the “Netflix of eyewear” by

GQ. “I asked him what he thought when I turned him down. He said, ‘No, we weren’t upset! What does a guy with a Ph.D. know about starting a business?’” Grant said to laughter and applause. The audience, some of whom were his former students, praised Grant for his insights about both. “Adam was phenomenal. I’m really excited to read his new book,” Wharton senior Garrett Breeden said. “I was in his Management 238 class and just wanted to see what kind of ideas were in this book and was absolutely fascinated by what he had to say.” Students particularly gravitated to his advice regarding finding an original, creative way to approach the professional world. “It was really good. Basically he said it’s easy to follow the standard path, but if you want to create a unique impact in the world, you need to take risks,” College and Engineering junior Nick Cherukuri said.

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Get to know some of Penn’s top tour guides Tour guides share their memorable experiences SOPHIA LEPORTE Staff Reporter

The Kite and Key Society tour guides get to meet prospective students and talk about all the great things at Penn, but each tour is unique and things can get a little weird. The Daily Pennsylvanian caught up with some of the tour guides to ask them about funny and awkward experiences. College sophomore Andrea Klein: The Daily Pennsylvanian: What do you like about giving tours? Andrea Klein: A lot of times I’ll get a great tour group with students who are so excited and tell me that this is their dream school and it reminds me how much I love it here and how lucky I am to be here.

DP: What’s your favorite story to add to the tour? AK: When I talk about Penn Ride I tell them that one of my friends and I took it back from Trader Joe’s because we didn’t want to carry our groceries. DP: What was the most uncomfortable moment of any tour? AK: You always get the people who ask what SAT score you got, which is sort of uncomfortable because I don’t want to act like I think I’m really smart just because I ended up here. College freshman Anessa Amin: DP: What do you like about giving tours? Anessa Amin: I love the fact that I go to school here and all the prospective students are so amazed by everything. They’re so in shock that people actually go here and that you’re a normal person because they

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Kite and Key tour guides experience a range of questions, from funny to awkward and everything in between.

expect you to be this crazy smart, intellectual person. DP: What’s your most memorable experience? AA: I had one tour where a set of parents came up and walked with me throughout the tour and asked me how I thought I got in. The kid came up to me at the end of the tour

and told me he was really sorry for his parents. DP: Most uncomfortable moment? AA: My friend was giving this tour and was talking about campus and student life and a mother raised her hand and goes, “How many sexual partners have you had since

being here.” My friend just told her, “I don’t really think that’s pertinent to this tour.” College junior Meredith Kline: DP: What’s your favorite story to add to the tour? Meredith Kline: Whenever I tell the toast story next to Franklin Field I always watch people’s reactions. If they’re laughing then I know I told it right, but if they’re not laughing then I just laugh at myself until they laugh. College junior Taylor Nefussy: DP: What’s the most interesting question you’ve ever been asked? Taylor Nefussy: I got asked two weeks ago what we thought about Trump. I said that he is an alumni at Penn but if it gives any perspective the Penn for Trump [student group] was disbanded recently. Wharton sophomore Michelle Ding: DP: Why did you become a tour

guide? Michelle Ding: I really liked public speaking so it was a way for me to combine public speaking with a school I love. Additionally, I saw the red Kite and Key water bottles everywhere and I really liked them, so I wanted to do it because of that too. DP: What’s one of the most uncomfortable moments you’ve had? MD: We’ll get a lot of aggressive parents who keep pushing their kids closer to me to ask questions. They sometimes have very weird and specific questions too like ‘are there fried plantains in the dining hall’ or they’ll ask about how the parties are. DP: What’s one of the most interesting questions you’ve been asked? MD: One guy asked me if I could take them to a party. I just said I had a problem set due at midnight so I’d be staying in.

ED pool grows more diverse with Class of 2020 Disparity between regular decision pool narrows SOPHIA LEPORTE Staff Reporter

Forty-seven percent of the Class of 2019 self-identified as students of color, but in the early decision pool — which makes up more than half of the overall class — only 40 percent self-identified. The early decision round of college admissions has been criticized for attracting a less diverse range of students, but this argument is becoming less and less valid as the difference in regular versus early decision, in recent years, has become less noticeable. In general, Penn has seen an increase in the size of its early decision pool. Since 2009, the number of students applying ED has grown by over 58 percent, and there has also been an increase in minority

students — for the Class of 2020, 44 percent of ED students self-identify as minorities. But other aspects of diversity have been slow to catch up. The percentage of first-generation college students accepted has remained at just under 10 percent for two years now. Critics of the ED round believe that underprivileged students are not applying early because they must commit to a school before seeing their financial aid package. Brian Taylor, the director of college counseling practice Ivy Coach, acknowledges that more underprivileged students may not be applying early because of this but notes that it is a misconception, since many universities, including Penn, have now made financial aid calculators easily accessible on their websites. “Yes, fewer underprivileged applicants apply in the early round,” Taylor said. “And often for the wrong reasons — because they

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want to compare higher financial aid packages when, in fact, you can find that information out without even applying to colleges.” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda cites a lack of resources as an additional reason more underprivileged students may not be applying to Penn during the ED round. “There’s a full group that just doesn’t know about it,” he said. “Sometimes students might not apply early decision because they don’t know about it or they don’t have the counseling and that resource.” Furda added that Penn is trying to address this issue by working with more counselors for underprivileged students and with

community-based organizations. The number could also seem disproportionately low because some first-generation students apply through QuestBridge, which allows students to choose 12 schools to apply to, all 12 of which are guaranteed to meet their full financial need. Even though these students have to start their application process early, they aren’t counted in the ED pool. Furda said it’s more important to focus on the increased diversity of the overall entering class, which he said has increased with the University’s drive to reach out to underprivileged and underrepresented groups of students. “The positive side here is whether

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44 percent of Penn’s Class of 2020 early decision students selfidentify as minorities, an increase from last year.

it’s early decision or regular decision, there’s a great effort to make sure that students who come from traditionally under resourced backgrounds are thinking about places like Penn,” Furda said.

Taylor agrees that the diversity of Penn’s early decision round is getting better. “It’s still somewhat of an issue, but it is not as drastic as some people may think,” Taylor said.

OPINION The negotiation of halves REID ABOUT IT! | Juggling a dual cultural identity

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Imagine yourself meeting someone new. And you see yourself in someone else’s eyes for the first time. And maybe you get that feeling when their face immediately tries to analyze you. A mixed kid knows the look that follows immediately. Their eyes linger and pause over your facial features. The look strips you down, it assesses you critically. Skin tone. Nose shape. Eye shape. Hair color. Hair texture. “So, you’re like ... Mexican?” You sigh. Maybe it’d be easier to just say yes, move on and never meet any new people ever again. As proud as I am of my heritage, being mixed is inevitably a liability in constructing a sense of self. I learned late in the game how hard it is to negotiate two selves. Whenever I enter a country, I get the feeling that I am not enough of a certain type. My ignorance of my own culture is disappointing, if not slightly hilarious. My family likes to tease me about my broken Vietnamese and I have trouble making conversation with

locals in Vietnam, which makes me nervous about what I’ve lost coming to the United States. The Vietnamese, noticing this, will pity me and make the effort to speak in English. On the flip side, I have pretty substantial knowledge gaps in U.S. culture. But what I do have is an amalgam of knowledge from different cultural areas. Knowledge that, piece by piece, is not enough to make a whole. This ends up being the de facto philosophy of a mixed kid: little pieces that struggle to make a greater whole. The more I speak about my home country, the more I feel I don’t get to use “we” when talking about it, as in “We are,” or “We should.” “We” means I am united with a people. “We” means l can identify with a huge population. But do I get to say I’m Vietnamese if I’ve lived most of my life in international schools, speaking English with both my parents? Do I get to say I’m American if I’ve lived here for less than a year? Do I get to appropriate these culturally–bound experi-

ences when I’m reminded daily of the incompleteness of my cultural identity? And if I can’t say I’m Vietnamese, then who can? Most of us have experienced an internal dichot-

struggle to find their place at Penn,” she explores the different issues mixed individuals will deal with: fitting in with cultural expectations and finding a community with which to

You can’t deny that there are sides to who you are, but you don’t know what that makes you. Maybe deep down, you never will.” omy at some point in our lives that prevents us from identifying with either half of our selves. Different parts of ourselves are scattered over different physical or cultural spaces, and we might feel caught in between. In Elizabeth Winston’s article last semester, titled “Mixed-race students

identify. Having a mixed Jamaican and Swedish heritage, Elizabeth feels that negotiating the parts of herself can be difficult in a larger community. “When you’re in a place where there’s a lot of white people, and you’re only a handful of POC, you come together just for the sake of that.

In college, when there’s a huge community of black people, I feel like I don’t really fit in with them either because I feel like ... they don’t fully accept me as being black ... If you want to be really black, you have to prove yourself.” Identity is also connected to a greater heritage or history. If you have a family history that has seen two sides of a racial conflict, it’s hard to reflect on yourself without turning parts of yourself into opposing “sides.” Historical conflicts in the past lead to internal conflicts years down the line. Where can you stand and be fully accepted as both parts of yourself? The constant circle of self-questioning throughout this column is the mixed person’s routine. And it’s not helpful when people’s confusion about who you are and where you come from reinforces the insecurity. You can’t deny that there are sides to who you are, but you don’t know what that makes you. Maybe deep down, you never will. But as a mixed person, it’s your choice whether

AMANDA REID you choose to ignore the conflicts of identity, or focus on them. You have to make that choice for yourself. Eventually, you can recognize that identity is fluid, as is race. Only you get to judge yourself for your identity, and you are responsible for that; others cannot impose that onto you. So next time you hear “What are you?” you’re allowed to walk away, answering that question for yourself, and not for anyone else. AMANDA REID is a College sophomore from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, studying cinema studies & English. Her email address is amreid@sas. upenn.edu. “Reid About It!” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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It might be surprising to hear, but I actually read The Daily Pennsylvanian, specifically the opinion section. Since I mostly read when I am bored in class, I read the articles online. The good thing about reading online, though, is that I get to read the always-interesting comments on the articles my fellow columnists have written. If the topic is especially divisive and draws a lot of comments, inevitably someone will come to the defense of the author and say something along the lines of, “It’s so easy to criticize him/her when you’re anonymous. Attach your name to your comment if you are going to say things like that.” This sentiment felt towards random commenters on DP articles is one that mirrors the feelings of many toward the internet as a whole. They say that anonymity has no place in the modern world and that it is a dangerous and disruptive precedent to have in our so-

ciety. The main argument against internet anonymity is that it allows people to say and do things they would never do without its shield. And you know what? These people are exactly right. The anonymous nature of the internet allows people to say and do things they wouldn’t do without the protection of anonymity, and this is exactly why it needs to stay. Before discussing the positive features of the nameless nature of the web, I feel it’s first necessary to discuss its negatives. First and aforementioned, it allows people to conduct hurtful, ad hominem attacks and commentary without putting their own identities on the line. Secondly and more seriously, it allows dangerous individuals to prey on the young and weak. It allows a 40-year-old man to masquerade as a 14-year-old boy to prey on a 14-yearold girl. Furthermore, it allows

anonymous posters on 4chan to joke around while threatening the safety of college students, such as last semester’s incident that terrified Philadelphia students.

inside humanity. On the other more positive hand, the anonymous nature of the internet allows for the opening of minds and new worlds. Just as a 40-year-old man

The internet is the only place to experience the reality and depth of humanity.” Anonymity allows a person to do and say things they wouldn’t do without its shadows. Oscar Wilde once said, “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Anonymity is so terrifying and hard to swallow not only because of the actions it allows — and some could say even promotes — but also because it shows the depravity and anger hidden

can pretend to be a 14-yearold boy, a 14-year-old boy with few friends and social anxiety can become a hero in an online fantasy game and engage in genuine social interaction. Just as 4chan users can threaten the safety and security of college students, the hacker group “Anonymous” can act out of what some perceive as vigilante justice and attempt to silence the voice of terrorist groups such as ISIS.

When the internet first started gaining traction, one of its most amazing, appealing and unique qualities was the ability for users to be completely anonymous. A person could be anyone they wanted on the internet. It was a frontier of endless possibilities where people could create themselves anew. The anonymous nature of the internet allowed people to drop reality and the burdens of themselves — the stereotypes, the preconceptions, the person they put out for show everyday when they left the house –— and instead have real conversation and interaction amongst humans all on the equal footing of facelessness. Although the internet today is a far more updated version of what it once was, it still retains its user-to-user anonymity. Anonymity allows people to be exactly who they want to be, exactly who they are on the inside. It allows people to be as dark, twisted, cruel and disturb-

BEN FACEY ing as they wish without repercussion, while allowing others to be as kind, open-minded, extroverted, knowledge-hungry and amazing as they wish without shallow stereotypes and conclusions getting in the way. The internet is the only place to experience the reality and depth of humanity, and it needs anonymity to stay that way. BEN FACEY is a College sophomore from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, studying English. His email address is bfacey@sas. upenn.edu. “At Face Value” usually appears every other Monday.

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Philadelphia complex accepts bitcoin purchase Realtor hopes to appeal to technology community BOWMAN COOPER Staff Reporter

For the first time in Philadelphia, a real estate agency is accepting Bitcoin as payment for the purchase of condos. The units are a part of a complex located in the Manayunk region of Philadelphia and are being sold by realtor Susanna Kunkel. Although this is the first example of real estate being offered for Bitcoin in the city, it is not an entirely new concept. “There have been some real estate purchases in other cities … but it hasn’t been widely talked about or offered in Philadelphia,” Kunkel said. She mentioned that several retailers in the city have begun accepting Bitcoin as payment, but she wants to start a conversation about buying and selling real estate for the virtual currency, particularly among those in the

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good for that kind of a purpose.” 2. Few departments are relevant to science and math. Though many departments are represented in courses that fulfill the sectors such as Arts and Letters and History and Tradition, for the Natural Sciences and Mathematics sectors, “biology, physics and chemistry are the predominant departments,” Rome said. There are “a couple [courses] outside those departments, but very few.” 3. Science and math courses are bigger than humanities courses. Huma n ities classes a re smaller because these courses tend to have more discussion and

technology community. “It’s something that’s, within the technology community, accepted and used as a means of currency,” Kunkel said. However, even with Philadelphia growing as a center of technology startups, this is the first instance of real estate being offered for Bitcoin. Kunkel hopes to draw the attention of startup owners and other people who may possess some level of wealth in Bitcoin. As a realtor, she considers herself to be a “matchmaker,” and she sees these condos as the perfect layout for startup owners, due to their open floor plans and outdoor spaces. “[The complex] is a converted social hall,” Kunkel said. “So it has some of the same feeling that you find nurtures creativity: open space, sunlight, unusual architecture — and oversized parking, which you can’t find in Old City.” Cur rently, Ph iladelph ia’s startup community tends to

“give and take,” which is rarely a component in science courses — especially the introductory ones, Peterman said. These introductory science courses instead tend to be larger lecture courses, so even if there are few, many students can enroll to take them and fulfill the sector. 4. Non-major classes are a “luxury” for some departments. Departments have resource constraints. “Often times, crafting and teaching courses that are catered towards non-majors is a luxury,” Rome said. “It’s difficult to build in too many of those courses when you have so many demands on these departments.” These constraints can lie not only in designing courses, but

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Condos located in the Manayunk region of Philadelphia are now accepting Bitcoin as payment for purchase. This is the first real estate agency in Philadelphia to do so.

center around Old City, but Kunkel hopes to draw clients away from that region and into Manayunk.

“These condos, in my mind, I visualize as a really great option — an alternative option — for technology sta r tup

also in the teaching loads of professors. “It’s a struggle to be able to identify faculty to teach those courses because teaching loads for faculty in the sciences are smaller than [those] in the humanities,” Peterman said. “Faculty in the sciences spend a lot of their time running research grants and running labs, and running a lab is quite a major operation.”

flexibility. Science and math disciplines are linear in that courses must be taken in a certain order. “In order to take a chemistry class which is more niched to your interests, you have to know basic chemistry,” Rome said.

5. Prerequisites bar nonmajors from many math and science classes. Though many of the courses offered to fulfill the humanities and social sciences sectors are from many different departments and tackle different time periods or social contexts, the courses offered for science and math often do not have that

Solutions in progress The Academic Affairs Committee is currently working on a project to make Academically Based Community Service classes fulfill sectors. “[These courses would have] a dual purpose of encouraging community service for students as well as spreading more options to fulfill the sectors,” Rome said. The Sector Requirement Committee recognizes the need to offer more classes that can fulfill sectors in math and

owners who may be renting space in Old City,” Kunkel said, regarding the “growing usage of shared office space for

startups.” “The master suites are set up so that the second floor could be all home office — for one person or for ten, and it has a similar vibe to Old City,” she added. Bitcoin being such a new currency, however, does add complications to the process of accepting it as a method of payment. “The exchange rate — Bitcoin to dollar — f luctuates wildly,” Kunkel said. “You get positive and negative comments online about Bitcoin.” Because of this fluctuation in the exchange rate, the Bitcoin price of the condos has to be monitored and edited daily. This added complication does not discourage Kunkel, though. She is nevertheless excited to start a dialogue about the usage of Bitcoin in real estate, and to be one of the Bitcoin pioneers in Philadelphia. “The reality is: it’s here, it is currency and it can work,” she said.

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Although Math 114 has been stagnant for over a decade, changes loom just around the corner.

science, Peterman said. “For people on the waiting lists, it can be frustrating,” Rome said. “We’re really hoping

that more professors will provide more classes to fulfill the requirements, but it’s very difficult to move that forward.”

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Cruz wins, Trump dealt humbling loss in Iowa

Democrats split between Clinton and Sanders DAN SPINELLI City News Editor

DES MOINES, IOWA — The conservative, Christian coalition built and maintained by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) came out in full force on Monday night, delivering a stirring victory at the expense of front-runner and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump. In perhaps the night’s greatest surprise, Trump nearly ceded second-place on the Republican side to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), who earned 23.1 percent of the vote with 98 percent of precincts reporting. The strong showing by Rubio, who the Des Moines Register/Bloomberg poll on Saturday predicted to

finish in a distant third place, provided a jolt to Trump’s momentum. Rubio trailed Trump by 13 percent in the highly respected DSR/ Bloomberg poll, but came within 2 percentage points of Trump after voters were counted by early Tuesday morning. “This is not a time for waiting,” Rubio said in a speech to his supporters in the Marriott Hotel in downtown Des Moines. “For everything that makes this country great now hangs in the balance.” Trump, who addressed supporters in the Sheraton Hotel in West Des Moines, sounded a somber tune with a forward-looking focus. “We finished second, and I have to say I am just honored,” he said, adding his desire to potentially buy a farm in Iowa given how much he loved the state.

In a speech near the Des Moines airport, Sanders acknowledged a “virtual tie” and said no matter the final result, Clinton and he would essentially split the amount of delegates. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley collected only 0.5 percent of the vote, due at least in part to caucus rules that prevent candidates with less than 15 percent support in

a particular precinct from collecting votes. Before the night ended, O’Malley announced that he was suspending his campaign. Some candidates, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had already set their sights on the next primary contest. Before voters had finished caucusing in Iowa, Christie was in New Hampshire, the sight of next week’s primary.

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Republican hopeful Ted Cruz took the victory in Iowa, beating out favored candidate and Wharton graduate, Donald Trump.

On the Democratic side, underdog Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) delivered a shocking rebuke to Clinton’s unmatched ground-level campaign organization. With 95 percent of the votes in, Clinton and Sanders

were virtually tied, though the shift in momentum clearly went to the self-proclaimed “Democratic socialist.” At the time of publication, a winner had not been declared for the Democrats.

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Squash coach does best Bill Simmons impression SQUASH | Wyant debuts

podcast to rave results

DAVID FIGURELLI Sports Reporter

The podcast renaissance has finally hit Penn Athletics, just maybe not in the place you would expect. But the Penn Squash Podcast has finally arrived, and it looks like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s here to stay. Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coach Jack Wyant discussing the big Harvard-Dartmouth doubleheader over winter break or the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s captains reflecting on the transformation of the program over their past four years, the new podcast is the home of everything Penn squash. So just exactly whose idea was this? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, I have a long commute to work in the morning, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always looking for some form of entertainment outside of the radio,â&#x20AC;? Wyant admitted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love listening to Bill Simmonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; podcast. So when I talked to [Athletic Communications Assistant] Daniel [Kurish] and asked if we could do this, we just decided to give it a whirl.â&#x20AC;?

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Penn.â&#x20AC;? Schnur felt that a lot of those experiences drove him to achieve more in the pool. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had some growing pains,â&#x20AC;? Schnur recounted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It took us a few years to recruit enough guys on the team that were like my class, but we got it rolling by the time we graduated

And just like that, on a whim, the podcast was up and running. After Kurish figured out the logistics of the podcast â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which turned out to require not much more than the voice memos app on the iPhone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the duo set off on the pilot episode back in the early days of the season in November. Since then, it hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite hit the popularity level of Bill Simmonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; podcast, but that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a futile effort. The podcastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SoundCloud page has about 600 hits so far, with the ultimate goal being just to get some exposure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is really just to help promote the team and to let people get to know the coaches and players a little better,â&#x20AC;? Kurish said in an email. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so easy to just look at performance and records and base your perceptions on those, but this podcast gives us an avenue to really get to know them and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great thing, because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re great people.â&#x20AC;? Exposure might be one of the goals of the program, but for senior menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team captain Augie Frank, the podcast is also a great tool for the players. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great thing to

have, especially at the end of the season as a type of recap,â&#x20AC;? Frank explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be interesting to see what the coaches are saying, what the captains and other players

had to say at different points throughout the season and at the end of the season reflecting on that. It will be good for our young guys to see, you know, what was the tone after

and really set the tone for a lot more menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success in the future.â&#x20AC;? Schnur enjoyed his time so much at school, in fact, that after graduation, he became the swimming teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assistant coach under Lawlor-Gilbert in 1993. In the years after his appointment as an assistant, the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program only had two losing seasons out of the following ten â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a far cry from the

11 straight losing seasons that came before. At the end of that ten-year period, Lawlor-Gilbert left the program in the hands of Schnur, who became its head coach in 2000 after serving as the interim in that position during the 1999 season. It seemed like the perfect marriage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the new coach had competed for the Red and the Blue as a student, broke records and then stayed on the

assist the team post-graduation until taking over the reins. Every sign pointed to him as the perfect coach. Schnur, however, sees his role a bit differently. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My role as coach is not just to train them,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just to make sure theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the best shape they can be, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to refine their technique. When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting an 18-yearold swimmer, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already been swimming for 12 years. Some of the things that frustrate us in their technique are things that have been ingrained in them for years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where we make our impact on them is between the ears. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to get them to believe in what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing and believe in themselves and believe that they can be successful and have the desire to balance such a difficult school with such a difficult sport.â&#x20AC;? As more of a sports-psychologist type than a normal whip-bearer of sorts, many swimmers and divers find their time under Schnurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reign unique and highly memorable. One such swimmer is Shelby Fortin, who graduated from Penn in 2014 after a trophyladen career that included six Ivy titles and nine school records. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mike and I were pretty close,â&#x20AC;? Fortin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a really good relationship. I came to Penn because he had promised me a lot of success in swimming and saw a lot of potential in me. He was always pushing me to be better, pushing me to train with the boys, pushing me to do things in practice that I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even believe that I could.â&#x20AC;? Fortin explained that Schnur put an emphasis on keeping his athletes as mentally strong as possible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He would always joke around saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You better do well in school or else youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to be able to go to the meet,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You better do well or youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get kicked off the team,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; so he got the point across in his joking manner that school is just as important as swimming. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like we were ever supposed to put swimming first.â&#x20AC;? Schnur was able to elaborate on the importance of knowing the minds of his athletes when asked whether he used his experience as a swimmer a lot when coaching his kids. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No,â&#x20AC;? he answered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would use my experience as a Penn student much more with my kids. That is one advantage being an alum coaching here â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I know the pressure they feel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think sometimes coaches who have not gone to a school as rigorous as Penn may not have that perspective that I do. When I have one of my athletes come in who has three finals in two days, I know what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going through because I did. I know that when midterms hit in midOctober that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to back off for a few days because their brains are fried at that point. I went through it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that is the one

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a really big win, like after we had the St. Lawrence-Rochester matches, after we split the Harvard-Dartmouth weekend, after we lost to Trinity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Squash is such a mental

game, so being able to see where you are when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at your highest highs and your lowest lows during the season will be very valuable for the guys going forward in this season and going forward into next season.â&#x20AC;? This new medium certainly has plenty of potential use and room to grow, but for Wyant, the podcast fits into a bigger theme of doing things outside the box to bring his program success. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody asks me if I try to model our squash program after programs like Trinity College or Harvard, and the answer is always no,â&#x20AC;? said Wyant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a sports fan, I try to follow as many college sports programs as I can. I grew up in Ohio, I love Ohio State football. So I look at what other big programs in more evolved sports are doing, and I try to emulate that.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unclear just how big or popular the podcast will get in the coming years, but one thing is for sure: if the podcast is anywhere near as good as the Penn squash teams, then the broadcast certainly has a bright future.

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Penn swimming and diving coach Mike Schnur has spent his entire adult life around the team â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as a swimmer, assisstant and head coach.

advantage I have.â&#x20AC;? Fortin agreed with her former coachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach to the sport, citing her own story as an example. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was an architecture major, which was a very time-consuming major,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was always very accommodating in terms of me making up a practice if I missed one for class, or stuff like that. So it was never like I had to choose â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there was always a good balance.â&#x20AC;? Always accommodating and always caring, Schnur at times seems to bleed Red and Blue. It is worth noting, after all, that as a swimmer, he won the prestigious Class of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;88 Team Spirit Award, later named for his graduating class after a collective donation to the program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went to school here,â&#x20AC;? Schnur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My wife went to Penn. My wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whole family went to Penn. My father-in-law was the associate athletic director here in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s. So I have a lot of Penn stuff in my house. You could say Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a Penn guy.â&#x20AC;? He is so much of a Penn guy, Fortin explained, that he even has his own go-to restaurant nearby that is home to one of the best swim team traditions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we have recruits come in, after Saturday morning practice, Mike will take everyone to Abnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s,â&#x20AC;? Fortin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been doing it since the first year he was coaching, so like way back when. We take the recruits there with the freshmen class and their hosts, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good way to bond with the recruits, and get them a chance to talk to everyone at once. The guys at Abnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s know him super well. He brings probably 40 people when he goes, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of a big event that happens

every fall.â&#x20AC;? Hanging on the back wall of the restaurant there is even a framed Daily Pennsylvanian article from 1999 announcing Schnurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hire as head coach, and traditions like Abnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reflect his dedication to the team and to campus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It gives me a reason to care more, in a sense that coaching is difficult, and there are times when things arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going well,â&#x20AC;? Schnur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it at a place that you love like Penn, it makes things a lot easier. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anybody can love what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re coaching Chris Swanson at NCAAs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to have a passion for what you do on a daily basis. When weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on our ninth workout in a row on our training trip and everybody is tired and mean and angry, and they want to kill me, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when you remember why we do this. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coaching at Penn means a lot more to me than it would at any other school.â&#x20AC;? After 27 years of service, it is easy to see the impacts Schnur has made on the program. And for the many student-athletes who spend four years under his tenure, the impacts he makes are personal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that as well as Penn does as a team, and as encouraged as people are to come to Penn for swimming, I think that Mike is a huge draw to that,â&#x20AC;? Fortin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very relatable. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to talk to. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even begin to sum up his impact on me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best thing to sayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even sum it up because it was such a great experience.â&#x20AC;?

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LAST WEEKEND IN PENN ATHLETICS

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Penn men’s tennis narrowly edged out Middle Tennessee Srate on Saturday, winning 5-4 at home.

ALEX GRAVES | DESIGN EDITOR

Running the point for Penn women’s basketball, senior Kasey Chambers helped lead the Quakers to a 3-0 record in Ivy League play with wins over Yale and Brown at home on Friday and Saturday.

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ball control, Rothschild hasn’t yet had the chance to show off sustained success and Jackson Donahue is just beginning to assert himself as more than a three-point shooter. But all are trending in the right direction. It’s going to be a rough haul in Ivy play, but it’s going to pay off. The Quakers’ struggles are not systemic and they’re not irreversible. Rather, they’re reflective of a young team having to do more, far earlier than anticipated. Junior Matt Howard, the only upperclassman to see significant playing time this weekend, recogn izes the change this team is going through. “It gives us good experience, it’ll help us towards the end of the year definitely,” he

said following the 81-58 loss to Yale. “Because these young guys are getting confidence — it means we’ve gotta step up our play. “Guys like me, I’m one of the older guys now, so I’ve gotta step up.” As the team is forced to take on a new identity, Howard’s role — along with those of Jamal Lewis and Nelson-Henry — will be critical in helping bring the youth movement at the Palestra to fruition. It’s not easy for me to argue that a team not being in position to win right now is a good thing. I’m from Cleveland, so just about every year people want us to start tanking to ensure we get the next great draft pick. But for Penn basketball, I think that not being good right now is exactly what’s needed. If it’s hard for fans to

stomach, it’s an even more difficult fact for the players themselves to confront. “It feels nice [to have individual success], but we lost, so it’s not the best feeling,” Rothschild said following the Brown loss. Everyone wants to win now. It could still happen. And even if it doesn’t, this is a team positioning itself to win down the line. I don’t know what we’ll see from this young squad in the final 11 games of the year, but win or lose, I’m excited for the growth that will come from these guys in the next five weeks. Now, let the freshmen eat. NICK BUCHTA is a College junior from Olmsted Falls, Ohio, and is senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at buchta@thedp.com.

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For the second time in school history, Penn squash swept Princeton, as both the men and women won, 8-1.

ALEX FISHER | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior Ambur Hu helped lead the Red and Blue to second place on Sunday, just behind West Chester.

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before moving on to Stanford for the 2011 season. “I would say my philosophy is bits and pieces from all those different places,” Tirapelle said. Tirapelle’s leadership has already delivered strong results. Penn finished 9-4 in dual meets last season, producing five NCAA qualifiers, six All-Ivy wrestlers, and a fifth-place Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling League finish, an improvement of five spots from the previous season. “I think the team has done a great job,” Tirapelle said. “Even by the end of last year I was amazed at how quickly we got on the same page and moving in the right direction. “You always want to be further along than we are but I’ve been very impressed with the guys, the department, and the support staff.

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In his second year coaching Penn wrestling, Alex Tirapelle has molded the team into his own as his players have bought in to his system.

I feel like we have a lot of good things going for us.” “Last year we had a good season and this year it’s looking good so far,” senior 184-pounder Lorenzo Thomas said. “We have a couple big matches that we need to focus on, but it definitely looks bright.” The change has been somewhat of a transition, especially for the upperclassmen. With former assistant coach Matt Valenti’s move

from the team to the position of Penn’s assistant athletic director for recruiting this season, the entire coaching staff is different from that of just two seasons ago. “With any coaching change, there’s a change in schedule and how they run their practices and handle their team,” Martino said. “But aside from those minor changes, it’s still the same sport of wrestling. We’re still coming in and wrestling hard.”

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A new regime of success

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WRESTLING | Second-year coach

Tirapelle brings fresh philosophy

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In just a year and a half at the helm of the Penn wrestling, coach Alex Tirapelle has already molded the program into his own. Tirapelle, who spent four seasons as an assistant coach at Stanford before being hired to replace Rob Eiter in August 2014, has implemented an approach that encompasses both how he recruits student-athletes and how he coaches his wrestlers. When scouting prospective future Quakers, Tirapelle looks for more than just skill on the mat. “Obviously, we want guys with talent, both academically and athletically,” Tirapelle said. “But within about five minutes of watching a kid wrestle, you can tell whether he can wrestle. “The conversation I have with people is about character. The people who we bring into our program are part of our program forever. It’s not just about the next four years and how many matches they win for us — they’re going to be representing Penn wrestling for the rest of their lives.” Those who do come to Penn become part of Tirapelle’s system built on technique, organization and team unity. “Coach Tirapelle is a little bit more technicallyfocused [than Coach Eiter],” junior 157-pounder Brooks Martino said. “He likes to break things down, look at it analytically, and bring it all back together.” “[The entire team] has a similar philosophy,” senior 149-pounder C.J. Cobb said. “This is the kind of technique we do. We get the strong ties, all of that stuff.” Tirapelle is known for his frequent calls to his grapplers from the sidelines during matches, reminding them of what they should be focused on as they wrestle. “All of the stuff you hear coach yelling in the matches is the stuff we drill [in practice] all the time,” Cobb added. Even though wrestling is an individual sport, where only one member of a team is competing at any given time, Tirapelle has worked to develop a distinct team personality. “We want to get everybody on the same page, we want to establish discipline, and order, and start to kind of build that team camaraderie and team concept,” Tirapelle said. “I think we’ve done a pretty good job of that.” “Through this structure, we’re developing more of a team personality,” Cobb agreed. Tirapelle’s coaching style is a product of the many coaches he has wrestled under and worked alongside. His career began while wrestling for his father in high school, and he later competed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and coached at the University of California, Davis SEE WRESTLING PAGE 9

SWIMMING | Quaker coach has decadeslong legacy

WILL SNOW Associate Sports Editor

What is it like to dedicate your entire life to one institution? Perhaps no question is more pertinent to Penn swimming coach Mike Schnur. Schnur was just a junior in high school in 1982 when Kathy LawlorGilbert convinced him to don the Red and Blue. Miserable and down on its luck, the swimming program needed a savior. Enter Schnur. “When I came here,” Schnur said, “Penn had just gone through a period

where we had lost 10 years in a row. And I don’t mean lost a meet or two, I mean lost every single meet for about 10 years.” Schnur and his class faced quite the challenge. “My class was the first real class that Coach Gilbert brought into Penn,” he said. “We came into a culture of extreme losing, and my class changed that very quickly.” It was a tough feat to accomplish, but then-co-captain Schnur ultimately led his class to their first winning season in 12 years — and Penn’s second

most-successful dual meet record ever — during his senior season in 1987-88, even setting school records in the 1000yard and 1650 freestyles along the way. “I think I’m probably typical of Penn students and athletes in that this was the best four years I ever had,” Schnur said. “It was an atmosphere where you could succeed both in the pool and in the classroom. It was a lot of fun. It was a place where I came and was able to grow up a lot, and I experienced a lot of things that I would not have had I not SEE SWIMMING PAGE 8

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A youth movement worth getting excited about NICK BUCHTA

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Penn basketball has a bevy of underclassmen ready to contribute in the absence of the departed and injured veterans, including freshman forward Max Rothschild, who could be the solution inside for the Quakers as Darien Nelson-Henry prepares to graduate.

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Tony Hicks and Antonio Woods are no longer in the picture. Darien Nelson-Henry was largely sidelined with an ankle injury this weekend. Friday and Saturday, Penn basketball was handed 23- and 6-point losses by Yale and Brown. And I was still excited by what I saw. Max Rothschild, finally back from injury, showed flashes of potential to be the big man the Quakers are going to need down low once Nelson-Henry graduates. Jackson Donahue, initially notable for his unwillingness to step inside the arc, has become a more aggressive inside scorer that can help open up space for Sam Jones and Jake Silpe to operate. “He’s maturing as a player,” coach Steve Donahue said on Saturday. “I think he’s going to be a guard that is not just a shooter — and he’ll make decisions like you saw tonight.” Silpe — thrust into a starting role

far sooner than anticipated — is already taking charge of the Penn backcourt. At the same time, Colin McManus and Tyler Hamilton are still in the process of settling into new roles on the team with Woods gone and Nelson-Henry and Mike Auger sidelined indefinitely with injuries. It’s going to be a rough process getting the Quakers back to title contention. It took Donahue eight years at Cornell to shape them into the threetime Ivy champs they became in his tenure. But I don’t think it will even take that long at Penn. So the Red and Blue lost both contests this weekend. That’s okay. In both games, the fouls were decisive. That’s something that’s going to change. It comes with time. “We’re so young and inexperienced — that’s probably the first step of getting my guys to play physically and mentally tough for 40 minutes is trying to foul a lot,” Donahue acknowledged on Friday. “Again, I was pleased with the physical part of this. The tactical part, the mental part is not there yet.” Sure, Silpe struggles at times with SEE BUCHTA PAGE 9