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REVIVED Three hundred and fifty marchers gathered to protest, marching westward down the streets of Philadelphia. From City Hall to 37th and Walnut streets, activists condemned the Institute for Cooperative Research, accused of conducting research for the United States to support the country’s effort in the Vietnam War. The protestors, students and professors alike hailed from across the Northeast and represented Penn, Yale, Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Temple.

It was Oct. 16, 1965.

Joel Aber, the leader of Penn’s newly formed Students for a Democratic Society, labeled the building a “genocide factory,” “designed to implement the murderous plans the Establishment wishes to employ,” according to a Daily Pennsylvanian article at the time. Counter-protesters taunted the activists as they traversed the streets, screaming “Commies,” “Draft-dodgers” and “Traitors.”

The night before, folk singers and speakers stood downtown above a crowd of over 1,000.

“I admit being a traitor,” cried a singer. “I am a traitor to imperialism, neo-colonialism, murder [and] torture.” Hours earlier, Penn administrators had worried about Penn’s under-wraps research and the threat of civil disobedience.

Letters between campus officials revealed concerns that student activities could include throwing themselves on the stairs of “the University’s hidden, top-secret bacteriological warfare unit.”

On Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, Students for a Democratic Society restarted at Penn. Advertisements on Facebook asked, “Do you want

Controversial anti-Vietnam War group Students for a Democratic Society finds a resurgence on campus this semester

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Making higher-level math more fun Professor Robert Ghrist uses cartoons to illustrate math SAHIL KUMAR Staff Reporter

Penn students and researchers set their sights on Cuba

Penn In Havana study abroad program took its first trip last year SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Deputy News Editor

From the moment they arrive on campus, Penn students dream of spending part of their college years in Paris, London or Madrid. Not many plan to spend time in a nearby country whose relationship with the United States has been marked by conflict for the past several decades.

But recently, certain students have opted to step out of their — and their country’s — comfort zone. As hostility between the United States and Cuba has declined and travel has become easier over the past few years, students and faculty from all areas of Penn have taken advantage of the opportunity to visit and learn SEE CUBA PAGE 2

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Professor Robert Ghrist wrote a 45-page book with various cartooons as a way to teach higher-level mathematics.

“Funny Little Calculus Text” sounds more like a children’s book than the title of a Penn professor’s latest book. But for professor Robert Ghrist, a playful title is just one aspect of showing people that math can be fun.

Ghrist, a member of the Penn Integrates Knowledge program, wants to make higher-level mathematics more accessible to the masses by developing new methods to make math more enjoyable. He hopes to renew people’s interest in mathematics and help develop a new generation of mathematicians.

One of the challenges that Ghrist faces is that most fail to see what makes math interesting by itself. Wharton freshman Max Slosburg, for example, believes that math can be interesting, but also sees it as too difficult to study and not worth pursuing by itself.

“There are a lot of things you can do with a math major, but you can also do a decent amount of those things with other majors too,” Slosburg said. “So I know that a math major would help me pursue my career in the business world, but I think a major in, say, finance would help me the same way, and I would struggle less in college.”

To combat these popular opinions, Ghrist has developed new tools that show people how interesting and fun SEE MATH PAGE 3

Trump nominated for Nobel Prize Peace prize nomination on Monday was anonymous MITCHELL CHAN Senior Reporter

Despite his tough stance on ISIS and his promises of strong military action, some view Republican presidential candidate and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump as an arbiter of peace.

On Tuesday, he was anonymously nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The nomination letter was sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, where the Nobel Peace Prize is

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awarded annually. A copy was also sent to Peace Research Institute Oslo Director Kristian Berg Harpviken, who has leaked some of the letter’s language.

The letter reportedly praises Trump’s “vigorous peace through strength ideology, used as a threat weapon of deterrence against radical Islam, ISIS, nuclear Iran and Communist China.”

The nomination comes shortly after Trump lost the Iowa Republican caucus to Ted Cruz. During his campaign, he has repeatedly promised to take tough stances against ISIS, Iran and China.

In December, he made headlines by

proposing a travel ban on all Muslims entering the United States.

Although official lists of Nobel Peace Prize nominees can not be released for 50 years, this year’s nominees reportedly include Pope Francis, Edward Snowden, a Greek island that welcomed Syrian refugees, an escaped ISIS sex slave and negotiators who helped end decades of civil war in Colombia, according to Harpviken.

The Nobel Peace Prize’s selection committee receives over 200 nomination letters every year. To be valid, the Nobel Foundation requires that submissions for the prize come from past

Nobel Peace Prize winners or members of national legislatures, international courts, professors in various social sciences, active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committees, according to the Nobel Prize website.

Trump’s controversial nomination is the latest chapter in Penn’s long history with the Nobel Prize. A total of 28 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Penn, including 12 alumni.

The last — and only — person from Penn to win the Nobel Peace Prize was Martin Luther King, Jr., who briefly went to Penn as a graduate student and received the award in 1964.

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Nursing school initiative encourages healthy lifestyles More than 50 students actively involved CHARLOTTE LARACY Staff Reporter

When you walk into Claire Fagin Hall, you’ll see a large quote stating, “We are Penn Nursing Science and we care to change the world.” Nursing undergraduates are starting to change the world through “Community Champions,”quotes a program in whichgrammar students promote healthy lifestyles in the Philadelphia community.

Terri Lipman, assistant dean of community engagement at the School of Nursing, started the program two years ago with 2015 Nursing graduate Jodi Feinberg, a President’s Engagement Prize

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from the country.

American art professor Gwendolyn Shaw spearheaded the Penn in Havana summer program for undergraduate students after visiting Cuba with a group of Penn alumni. Her trip inspired her to take students, the first group of whom traveled to Havana as part of an official Penn summer abroad program last May. The program is currently accepting applications for this summer.

Penn in Havana centers around a class, “Cuban Art and Architecture,” that is taught during the summer on campus. The students travel to Cuba for a week halfway through the course.

However, it’s not a typical abroad program. The students have to bring a week’s worth of spending money in cash, and will be without cellphone service or internet for the whole time. Shaw added that visiting Cuba can be a uniquely jarring experience, even with those inconveniences.

“Cuba is not an easy place to be,” she said. “There’s a lot of poverty and a lot of decay. It’s

winner. Lipman realized that many of her Nursing students wanted to apply what they were learning in the classroom to help out in the community.

Growing out of that desire, Community Champions originally started with 20 students and in a short time, the program has grown to more than 50 students who are actively involved.

“I am completely amazed and thrilled by the enthusiasm and energy of the students involved in Community Champions. They have done and are continuing to do an incredible job and they have such a strong passion for what they are doing,” Lipman said.

“They are being leaders in the nursing profession, and this is a wonderful opportunity to engage with the community.”

not a place for someone who’s not emotionally ready. It’s not like going to Jamaica and going to a resort.”

Aaron Levy, who co-teaches the course with Shaw, said he thinks it’s important for the experience to unsettle students in some ways to change their points of view.

“I’m particularly interested in how as citizens, as students and as scholars we can acknowledge and work through the ways we are habituated to think about Cuba and to read Cuba and to judge Cuba,” he said.

Getting to Cuba isn’t easy.

Americans still aren’t permitted to travel there purely for tourism, and organizations like religious ministries and educational institutions have to present a specific reason to send individuals. Penn in Havana works through the program People to People. Shaw added that Penn also has a general license to allow staff to do research and students to study abroad. Once students arrive, finding a place to stay can be incredibly difficult without some sort of travel agency or organization that has made prior

“I have learned a lot about what it means to make your lessons as pertinent as possible to your population,” said Nursing senior Leah Quinn, Community Champions recruitment chair. “One of the first curriculums I designed about asthma typowas very technical with science and biology, but when I taught it to a sixth grade class, it did not fully resonate with them. I had to take a step back and think about how this initiative could be most beneficial to them.”

Quinn revised her curriculum to empower the students and give them the tools to be active members of their community. For example, the class made and hung up posters deleted “to” around the school to promote living and learning in a smoke-free environment.

One of the top Community Champions initiatives is “Dance for Health,” a free fitness dance class for all ages. The program includes asthma outreach, diabetes awareness programs and the “Fruit Stand,” which demonstrates to children how to eat well and manage a business by selling healthy food.

Another program, “Living Independently for Elders,” provides community-based healthcare services to help seniors — who would otherwise require nursing home care — to live independent, healthy lives in their own communities. At the LIFE Center, Community Champions puts on a chair-dancing program nounto increase physical activity.

In the field of nursing, Quinn believes that it is crucial to

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Penn in Havana, which is centered around a class on Cuban art and architecture, provides students with unconventional learning experiences.

arrangements.

“The biggest block to increased travel is that there aren’t enough hotels,” Shaw said. “They’ve been raising rates really sharply — they’ve gone up between 10 to 20 percent, and I think it will

continue.”

Students are not alone in venturing to the previously offlimits country — Debra Schilling Wolfe, executive director of the Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research, visited

understand the lifestyles of the people you are treating to provide better correct phrase care.

“You can’t treat a kid with asthma in the hospital and then sign him out [because] then they would probably come back a week later with another severe asthma attack because the home that they might be living in could be filled with dust and triggers,” Quinn said said after name. “You have to be able to engage with other disciplines like social work and other community members to make an actual change and wholly comprehensively care for your patients.”

“The community engagement should improve the health of the community and should also improve the educational experience of the students,” Lipman saidsaid

after name. “It is important to evaluate these outcomes to make sure that we have a mutually beneficial community partnership and engagement.”

In the long run, the students hope to make sure all of the initiatives are run effectively and to expand the program to include initiatives for all ages, cultures and communities. This could possibly include working in the prison system, Quinn said.

“For me, even though I am graduating in the spring, a macro goal is to have community engagement be implemented into the nursing curriculum so everyone can obtain these experiences,” she said. “There [are] not concrete actions to have this developed yet, but I would love to see Community Champions inspire it.”

Cuba as part of a group of child welfare experts appointed by the government to study resources for children in the country.

Wolfe said she was pleased overall that the trip went smoothly, attributing it to her research group’s attitude toward the experience.

“It really was important to understand that you’re a guest of a different culture,” she said. “To go to visit any country, you have to be respectful of the values and the culture.”

Oriel Sunyer, a professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine, has engaged in something of an exchange with researchers in Cuba, instead of just visiting.

Sunyer met a Cuban scientist who shared his research interests when he traveled to Cuba as a keynote speaker for a conference, and was invited back. Eventually, he said, they plan to send graduate students back and forth between the two labs, if they can finance it.

He said he didn’t run into any problems traveling to Cuba. He wasn’t stopped in either direction, and wasn’t asked his reason for visiting.

“That part is quite normalized as long as you work with an agency that works with the U.S. government that gets you the correct visa,” Sunyer said.

Cuba has drawn Penn’s artists in addition to its researchers.

Composer and doctoral candidate Kai-Young Chen was one of ten finalists selected out of 400 composers by the American Composers Forum to attend a contemporary music festival in Havana last November. Chen found it was interesting to hear how different contemporary music is in Cuba than it is in the United States — the festival was attended largely by young local musicians and composers.

“They don’t have access to U.S. scores,” he said. “We heard a lot of European music from the turn of the 20th century.”

Chen’s group didn’t run into any problems besides some lastminute travel confusion when they were in Havana, and had a lot of unstructured time to explore. Now, he said, he’d love to go back.

“I would go back as a tourist to visit different places,” he said.

“We only got to go to Havana.”

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Arts Advisory Council to promote cultural focus Council to encourage interdisciplinary learning NISHANT UPENDER Staff Reporter

On a campus where pre-med and business tracks are some of the most popular, the arts will soon assume a more prominent role in students’ educational experience.

Last semester, the Office of the Provost created the Arts Advisory Council, a committee of faculty and staff in the arts responsible for advising the Provost on how best to promote the arts at Penn. The committee, chaired by Anita Allen, vice provost for faculty, was formed to promote cultural engagement and provide support to the wide breadth of art at Penn including theater, dance and digital art.

A l len empha si z e d t he recent opportunities afforded through the Council’s Interdisciplinary Arts Fund, like the upcoming Black History Month Community Showcase and paid internship programs for students in Penn’s cultural institutions.

The fund provides money for arts projects, especially ones that foster collaboration across fields and strengthen community partnerships.

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higher-level mathematics can be.

His 45-page “Funny Little Calculus Text” consists of various drawings and cartoon images depicting real math, and his online courses teach students basic math while hinting at interesting highlights of more complicated subjects.

“I want to inspire people to pursue math later on in life. I agree that higher-level math is difficult, and people need to see the interesting bits, because they need to be motivated to muddle through the hard part,” Ghrist said.

encompass three main areas of development: further integrating art within teaching at Penn, developing performance- and object-based learning and using Penn’s art offerings as a means of community outreach within the wider West Philadelphia area.

Another goal is to support the assimilation of art into classroom lectures and course opportunities as a part of Penn’s focus on interdisciplinary learning.

“We want to promote the integration of knowledge through using art and through teaching and researching about art, so using, for example art objects, or cultural artifacts as part of learning substantive humanities topics or even outside the humanities,” Allen said.

The Council includes campus leaders who are responsible for promoting various subsets of the art community at Penn like Al Filreis, director of the Kelly Writers House. Each member of the Council serves as a representative for his or her art form within the wider university.

“As the faculty member whose concern is writing as a form of art, my goal in this committee is to make connections with other people who share those interests to try to make sure the University’s interests are aligned with arts and culture,” Filreis said.

Ghrist is one of seven National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows, and his work in PIK has allowed him to bridge the gap between mathematics in the School of Arts and Sciences and various Engineering fields such as biomedical engineering and computer science. Ghrist specializes in algebraic topology, a branch of math that works qualitatively rather than quantitatively.

“The idea of algebraic topology is to reduce higher-level math concepts into basic vectors and matrices, then conduct linear algebra on them. I want to break everything down into simple algebra,” Ghrist said.

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Last semester, the Office of the Provost created the Arts Advisory Council. The aim of this Council is to promote cultural engagement and provide support to the wide breadth of art at Penn including theater, dance and digital art.

The Council hopes to promote diverse ways of learning like performance-based education so that Penn moves forward in a way that is in line with student interests. Just this semester, in response to students’ wishes, the

Algebraic topology is known for its graphic approach to problemsolving, characterizing problems with shapes and holes rather than numbers. The relatively new field has already seen some applications in areas such as neuroscience and data study. As Ghrist explains, it is more effective at solving some problems due to its unique approach.

“The basic premise is, imagine every space in the dataset as holes.

We program the computer to move around within those holes in very specific ways,” Ghrist said. “Those vectors tell us things about the data that we previously would never be able to know.”

theater program began to offer a dance-focused course. However, Penn still remains the only Ivy League school without a dance program.

To assist in developing strategies on how best to incorporate

arts and culture into campus life with greater student and faculty involvement, the Council is exploring similar programs at peer institutions.

“We want to look at what other universities are doing and bring

their best practices to Penn, also realizing that Penn is very distinctive and has its own way,” Allen said. “We wanted to kind of marshal the unique arts resources on our campus to make them more effective.”

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OPINION The hawkeye hurting CITIZEN CAPOZZI | How the Iowa caucuses revealed (again) that Hillary Clinton is a weak presidential candidate

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The Iowa caucuses did not turn out well for the Democratic Party.

With the Iowa caucuses concluded and New Hampshire quickly transforming into the nation’s obsession, it’s worth pausing to reflect on how actual votes compare to the pundit-driven noise from the previous year.

As early as 2012, pundits told us Hillary Clinton would be the “strongest non-incumbent frontrunner in modern history” and pollsters touted her electoral strength. Then when Bernie Sanders entered the race last fall, the pundits told us he was a “long shot” whose best hope was to make Clinton take more progressive policy positions.

Yet in Iowa, the voters said something different. As television viewers waited deep into the night, CNN was unable to declare a winner until Tuesday. Aided by fortunate coin-flips and establishment super-delegates, Hillary Clinton won Iowa by less than a single percentage point.

Clinton suffered this nailbiter in spite of her huge fundraising advantage, her army of establishment endorsements, the popularity of Bill Clinton and a DNC that has basically rigged the debate process in her favor.

Yes, Clinton is being seriously challenged by Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed democratic socialist — paging perennial candidate Eugene Debs. After blowing her front-runner status to Barack Obama in 2008, Clinton is struggling against a 74-yearold unabashedly irreligious — a difficult electoral stigma to overcome — senator who polled at 3 percent in Iowa less than a year ago. While many justly credit Bernie Sanders for running a spirited campaign and bringing issues to national attention, his success forces us to confront a naked truth.

Hillary Clinton is a terrible presidential candidate.

And no, the scariness of some Republican candidates or her gender don’t change that. Recent polling shows that 51 percent of regis-

tered voters have a negative opinion of Clinton, which is worse than the favorability rating of any successful presidential candidate since 1980. Even worse, 59 percent of voters think she is dishonest, a staggering sum for an anointed front-runner.

At the same time, Clinton is still under investigation by the FBI for mishandling classified information

less email practices. What successes are they referring to?

I assume they’re not referring to the rise of ISIS, the collapse of order in Libya, the increased nuclear armament of North Korea, the increased Russian aggression in Eastern Europe or the Trans-Pacific Partnership she helped negotiate before she flipped-flopped by op-

Hillary Clinton is a terrible presidential candidate.” as Secretary of State and is facing regular questioning from the media. These questions are not the result of some harebrained Republican scheme, but the result of her foolish behavior that a federal judge has already declared to be in violation of government rules.

On the other hand, Clinton supporters cite her success as Secretary of State and ask voters to look past her care-

posing the agreement to placate progressive voters.

Finally, Clinton supporters cite her electability and the necessity of keeping the GOP from dismantling President Obama’s legacy.

However, in recent polling averages, she loses to Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio while barely beating Donald Trump. Interestingly, Bernie Sanders outperforms Clinton against all three Republican

front-runners.

What’s the argument for Hillary Clinton’s anointed front-runner status again?

For those who somehow maintain faith in Clinton, take comfort. Regardless of any Sanders success in Iowa or New Hampshire, Clinton’s massive institutional advantages and deft ability to adopt increasingly progressive policy positions will eventually help her overcome Sanders.

And then what? Democrats hope they can face a “crazy” candidate — paging Donald Trump or Ted Cruz — that Clinton can run against as the “voice of reason.” Liberals have reason for hope here, as Cruz handily won Iowa while Trump maintains HUUUUUGE polling leads in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and many other states.

But Iowa has actually diminished this hope. In the Hawkeye State, Marco Rubio was undoubtedly the big winner as he exceeded his polling performance and rallied more establishment pol-

LOUIS CAPOZZI iticians to his cause. If Rubio wins the Republican nomination, I wouldn’t bet on another Clinton occupying the White House in 2017.

And if the Republicans do win the presidency, they can send flowers to the Democratic Party. Democratic leaders and pundits thought they could anoint Hillary Clinton, but they forgot that the voters have a say. And in Iowa, the voters have spoken.

LOUIS CAPOZZI is a College senior from Mechanicsburg, Pa., studying classics and history. His email address is capozzil@sas.upenn.edu.

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SMALL TALK | Why Penn needs a forum to address our problems with speech A couple weeks ago, fellow columnist Cameron Dichter wrote a column piece — “Whose speech matters?” — explaining why he believes that critics of political correctness are appropriating speech that hurts minorities who have nothing to gain through this example of free speech.

In my opinion, Dichter did a great job of exposing the problems in the arguments of these critics, but the backlash he received was scathing, to say the least.

The comments on the article claimed that Dichter was advocating for the restriction of free speech and asserted he was part of the “PC police” intent on writing the First Amendment out of the Constitution.

While The Daily Pennsylvanian comments section is not a particularly accurate gauge of the social climate on campus, I think it’s fair to assume that the concept

of free speech and racism is a divisive issue.

We’ve seen the protests at Yale and Missouri, and even reactions on our own campus from groups like Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, who organized a march in November to express solidarity with the Yale and Missouri student protesters.

In the several months since these incidents, it hasn’t felt like we’ve gotten any closer to finding a solution to this uncomfortable issue. Dichter made some excellent points about what he believes is wrong with the backlash against political correctness, but he did not offer a solution to hateful speech.

The only way Penn’s administration can hope to address the conflict is to create a forum where every perspective is represented.

In this setting, students and the administration could work together to craft some

sort of strategy to make minority students feel included in the community without infringing on rights of speech.

versation was addressed, leading the school to hold an assembly in which students from all sides could express their concerns.

Opinion articles help put issues on the map and get us talking, but real progress occurs when all sides of the argument try to find common ground.”

Last week, my own high school became entangled in controversy when the student body presidents posted a video with a racist joke to Facebook. The situation quickly spiraled into a vehement online argument between those who were offended and those who weren’t.

Though the dialogue was vicious, at the least the con-

While some students were concerned that the assembly didn’t have much impact, the overall consensus was that the public discourse decreased racial tensions.

The student body presidents apologized numerous times, and in a school-wide email emphasized that they would focus their efforts on uniting the school, rather

than highlighting differences through jokes premised on race or sexual orientation.

The end result of the conflict can’t be described as pretty, but it’s the sort of step in the right direction that Penn must at least consider.

Opinion articles help put issues on the map and get us talking, but real progress occurs when all sides of the argument try to find common ground.

What sometimes gets forgotten is that Penn is a community, not just a random selection of students studying at the same physical location. We must take steps to improve this community by working together to solve problems that affect a large portion of our student body.

I don’t claim to know what the University should do with regards to speech.

I have an opinion on how we should use our speech, but my opinion on its own

ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK doesn’t help the situation unless it’s complemented by the opinions of the rest of the Penn community. When an amalgamation of voices work with the administration, we can learn how to alleviate some of the anger that seems to persist at our school.

ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK is a College sophomore from New York, studying economics. His email address is alevan@ sas.upenn.edu. “Small Talk” usually appears online every other Saturday.

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Harvard report emphasizes traits over test score

Promoting personality in light of academic pressure SOPHIA LEPORTE Staff Reporter

When considering what traits colleges look for in their applicants, kindness and compassion do not immediately spring to mind. But a new report released by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and its Making Caring Common project argues that the process should be restructured to promote these values in light of increasing academic pressure on students.

The report, “Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions,” was released on Jan. 20 and was signed and endorsed by over 85 university leaders and deans, including Penn Dean of Admissions Eric Furda.

“Turning the Tide” recognizes that the current college

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to build student power? Do you want to fight systemic racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, economic exploitation, and imperialism?” harkening back to the first meeting on Oct. 13th, 1965.

Determining a mission Back in 1965 at 8 p.m., few more than 20 students gathered on the second floor of the Christian Association. One boy who wore only khaki was “angry-looking,” according to a Daily Pennsylvanian article documenting the meeting, sitting deep in thought, while another girl sat alone, too shy to speak to her peers. Students collected in small groups, chatting informally.

But once the meeting commenced, “the individuals ceased being entities unto themselves and began an attempt to fuse their many different ideas and goals into common ones,” Daily Pennsylvanian writer and 1969 College graduate Daniel Chaykin reported at the time. The budding activists discussed the pragmatics of protest. How could they communicate their message to the general student body? What national protests should students involve themselves with? Were any attendees interested in volunteering? What was Penn SDS’s ideology?

One student suggested using evaporated milk to ensure that signs couldn’t be removed. The boy in khaki complained that educating “bourgeois” Penn students wasn’t an important priority. Another mentioned protesting a war helicopter company.

Three years earlier, the national SDS movement had begun in Port Huron, Mich., where liberal and socialist college students came together to redefine the Left.

By 1965, the organization had

application process promotes personal achievement. This individualistic emphasis can affect students’ values throughout high school, as they center their actions on what they think colleges are looking for. Instead, the report suggests emphasizing community engagement and equality for economically diverse students.

The report is to be followed by a two-year campaign among all the schools that signed to enact these changes in values in the college admissions process.

It outlines three major goals: to promote meaningful relationships with one’s community, to assess one’s engagement with their community in the context of their background and to make sure that measures of achievement are attainable for economically diverse students and involve less academic pressure.

Furda said that signing the report allowed him to show

that Penn is a school that values k indness and community engagement, though he did not discuss any direct plans for change. He believes that campus organizations and activities show that University values are aligned with those in the report.

“Reading th rough it, I thought a lot about Civic House, Fox Leadership Program and the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, and I thought about how these values [kindness and giving back] do not only get translated into what students are choosing to do, but how this plays out on this campus,” Furda said.

As far as the actual college admissions process goes, though, Furda acknowledges that it is harder to find ways to apply the ideas suggested in the report, such as the recommendations to ease academic pressure.

“You might find a student

who’s the most genuine and caring person in the world, but is that going to make up for a 2.8 grade point average on a 4.0 scale?” Furda said. “The answer at Penn is no.”

The report also recommends a lower emphasis on testing.

But Brian Taylor, director of the college counseling practice Ivy Coach, is skeptical of this idea.

“They emphasize that they want to deemphasize tests,” Taylor said. “That sounds nice, but actually the ACTs and SATs were created so that you can create equity between students from underprivileged and privileged backgrounds. They’re all taking the same test, no matter what school they come from, so that they can have a baseline measurement.”

Furda also acknowledges that the testing recommendation is not likely to be put into practice, especially at Penn.

“Penn is not going to go test optional,” Furda said. “The data

that we get from testing has value. Our responsibility is to use that testing in light of the context of that student’s background and what we know about who does well and who doesn’t in testing.”

Overall, the report has received high praise, which Furda

attributes to people’s eagerness for change.

“The whole college application process and industry is really at a moment where I think everyone is ready and has an appetite for some change,” Furda said. “We just have to see how that plays out.”

collected over 25,000 protesters.

Next Monday, the newest Penn SDS will have its third meeting in Houston Hall.

Lucas Lipatti, Penn SDS’s new president, says the group is only in its “embryonic stage,” and is still maneuvering what role it wants to play on Penn’s campus.

Lipatti said that SDS could see itself working with Penn Socialists, SOUL, Students for Justice in Palestine and the Progressive Jewish Alliance in the future.

Police brutality, gentrification, military research and creating a more visible anti-war movement in the city are potential issues SDS hopes to address.

The organization will remain committed to its original values, but it plans to increase focus on transgender issues.

“The main thing is to learn from the past and use the techniques that we can, but not to try to emulate it.” Lipatti said. “I am interested in what Penn SDS did in the ‘60s, but it’s a new generation now.”

free speech would make “America a nation of zombies,” while a political science professor contended that the group had perhaps stirred up “controversy out of proportion to their small numbers.”

Then-Penn President Gaylord Harnwell said that the ICR had no direct relationship with the Vietnam War. Meanwhile, SDS began protesting lecturers delivered by professors about classified research at elite universities. By March 1966, Penn SDS secured representation in a student government debate on Vietnam War efforts.

expanded its focus, further implicating University policies. SDS planned to restructure Penn’s approach to education, inviting over 3,500 faculty members to participate in small seminars as a criticism of large lectures.

“In a community of scholars, there should be some mechanism by which students and faculty can come together on equal terms to study those things pertinent to the current society,” an organizer said to the DP at the time. “We want an alternative to the whole system that treats students as raw material to be processed as components for the industrial society.”

By February 1966, the effort registered 500 students.

In the decade of student protest,

SDS became a prominent force on campus. In December 1968, the group gathered on College Green with seven policy goals for Harnwell. Students’ demands included full transparency regarding the purpose of the University City Science Center, a more democratic process for making University decisions, financial support for West Philadelphia and affordable housing. Harnwell wrote an individual response to each demand.

Meanwhile, the DP also covered SDS students nationally, working in states from Arizona to North Carolina, as well as FBI investigations into the group at Yale and Wesleyan. In 1977, the DP reported that the FBI had tried to

influence the paper’s coverage of the Penn SDS and maintained at least four informants on campus.

The SDS in partnership with other groups led a petition to deny submitting information to the FBI. By the 1970s, Penn SDS had faded into the past, only returning in 2008 to protest U.S. military engagements overseas and support student power.

But in 1965, it was still unclear what the SDS was going to be. For Chaykin and his readers, Students for a Democratic Society was just budding, simply “composed of different types of individuals with differing ideas and views, none of whom seemed quite sure of what the new group’s purpose was going to be.”

Fear of communists Students in 1965 worried that the communist bend to the group would compromise more moderate anti-war efforts, while the national SDS branch was under federal investigation.

Some at Penn did not support the movement, condemning peace groups that advocated for everything from “the welfare state to socialism to communism.” In April 1965, 1968 College graduate Raymond Wilson and 1968 College and Wharton graduate Nancy Woldorf argued in The Daily Pennsylvanian that peace groups like SDS were hypocritical for “abhor[ring] violence against armed opponents,” while “advocat[ing] force against legally disarmed victims.”

Penn faculty had mixed reactions. A chemistry professor said the accusations and suppression of

Strengthening and solidifying While Penn SDS continued to protest the war, the group also

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JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Reporter Saturday

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They’re going north.

Coming off of a strong first home meet, the Penn gymnastics team heads to Ithaca on Saturday to take on SUNY Cortland and Ivy League rival Cornell.

Perhaps the single most important dimensions of the season so far for the Quakers has been being mentally prepared for each meet. Each week, they want to

stay consistent by controlling what aspects of the meet they can and making sure they do the little things right so that the big things can fall into place.

“We definitely don’t want to beat ourselves this weekend,” coach John Ceralde said. “We just want to focus on the minor details.”

In Cornell, the Quakers will face a formidable opponent. Aided by an influx of talented freshmen who immediately stepped into the lineup, the Big Red has topped 192 points in all three meets so far this year, setting a new school record.

Cornell also set a new school record with a team score of 194.025 in the Lindsey Ferris Invitational, where they finished two spots ahead of Penn.

On the other hand, SUNY Cortland struggled out of the gate this season, posting a score in the low

ALEX FISHER | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore Kyra Levi looks to lead Penn gymnastics to a first-place finish in this weekend’s tri-meet against Cornell and SUNY Cortland.

180s in its first meet. But the Red Dragons have since recovered to post three consecutive meets of 186 points or higher. While Penn has

not faced Cortland this year, Cornell defeated the team two weeks ago, 192.275-189.30.

With the Ivy Classic serving as a

de facto conference championship in only a few meets, this matchup represents a big test for the Quakers. Facing Cornell for the second time this year gives Penn another opportunity to see how they will stack up, and whether it can compete for the Ancient Eight title.

“I think they’re ready for the test,” Ceralde said. “Just as long as we are moving in the right direction, we’ll be fine.”

The Red and Blue feel confident in their ability to contend over the next few weeks, and with good reason. Their strong team performance last Sunday, in which they topped 190 points for the second time this year, proved that Penn can hang around with other top teams in the conference. Furthermore, the varied lineup put out on Sunday and the successful debuts of several freshmen show that the team has

depth throughout the roster.

Additionally, the Quakers have shown improvement in several areas that plagued them early on this season. Team scores on the bars and beam hit season highs last week, and the team opened up the meet strong, which is something that they have struggled to do so far. Even still, the team looks to improve wherever they can for the upcoming meet.

“We made some adjustments this week, and we’re looking forward to seeing the results this weekend,” Ceralde said.

This week marks a stretch of meets against quality programs for the Red and Blue, but it’s a stretch that they feel they are up to. If they can top Cornell this weekend, they will be in strong position for not just the Ivies, but the conference championship as well.

Yale undefeated in Ivies, pose threat to No. 2 men SQUASH | Men look to

end ten year losing streak COREY HENRY Sports Reporter Saturday

Brown (4-6 M, 6-4 W) 12 p.m.

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Yale (8-2 M, 10-1 W) 12 p.m.

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This weekend Penn squash will have to fend off another top-five opponent eager to put a dent in their championship aspirations along with a team willing to bare it all in order to pull off a monumental upset.

The matchup for the men’s side

in particular carries serious implications as the winner between the Quakers (8-2, 2-1 Ivy) and Yale (8-2, 3-0) will control their destiny in the Ivy League.

Penn’s last triumph over the Elis came 10 years ago when current associate head coach Gilly Lane put the finishing touches on a 6-3 victory with a sweep at the top of the ladder. The years have passed, but Lane still hasn’t forgotten the details of the matchup.

“I swept Nick Chirls, 3-love,” Lane responded automatically when asked about the 2006 win.

“That’s easy, I could tell you the whole lineup they had that day.”

The last time out against the Bulldogs, the Quakers nearly ended their 12-match drought in a heart-breaking 5-4 defeat in the consolation bracket of the Collegiate Squash Association Nationals.

Sitting at No. 2 in the nation, the Quakers are staring down their best chance in 10 years to add another unforgettable moment to a fairytale season.

“I think we all remember what happened last year,” sophomore Hayes Murphy said. “We’re fired up and ready to go.”

Before they get a chance to put a leash on the Bulldogs, 16th-ranked Brown (4-6, 0-3) will try to wreak a bit of havoc of their own. The Red and Blue will have to fend off the trap game that their lowest ranked Ivy opponent presents.

The women’s squash team (8-1, 2-1) will try to continue their incendiary play of late. Outside of their matches against Harvard and Trinity, opponents have barely had a chance to warm up before being bounced by 9-0 or 8-1 score lines.

Yale and Brown are just two opponents standing in the way of the team’s ultimate goal: the Howe Cup Finals.

“We’ve only got four more weeks until nationals,” Wyant added. “So we’re gonna work really hard to get ready.”

Ringe has become a feared venue for even the most experienced teams this year. Both squads have

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combined for a 10-0 record and made Philadelphia a city in which no team is safe from an upset.

Both teams have come a long way since Yale’s last trek to the 215 in 2014. Then-freshman Anaka Alankamony clinched the 5-4 win for her team with a five-set thriller over then senior Millie Tomlinson, ranked No. 3 in the nation individually heading into the season, while the men fell, 9-0.

Just two short years later, Penn women’s squash finds itself as the favorite in all four matches heading into its annual weekend clash with Yale (10-1, 3-0) and Brown (6-4, 0-3). Even the coaching staff has been surprised by the team’s rapid ascent.

“I’d say we’re ahead of schedule,” Wyant added. “But we have earned the right to compete for the title.”

With four wins in a 48-hour window, the Red and Blue can inch closer to putting the finishing touches on one of the most successful years in program history.

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M. HOOPS Dartmouth saw both of its >> PAGE 10 doubleheader games last week27 points against the Lions to lead end head into overtime, where circumstances. Junior guard the way in a 69-66 win.

Matt Howard couldn’t have the Big Green beat Columbia The Crimson’s leading scorer, but fell to Cornell. With 2014-15 expected to find himself as the Healy ranks third in the confer- second team All-Ivy selection team’s go-to scorer, but when ence in both points per game and Fanni Szabo, whose 16.2 points the Quakers found themselves field goal percentage with marks per game last season was second without their three top players of 15.6 and 50.9 percent, respec- in the Ivy League, battling injudue to injury, ineligibility and tively. Shilpa Tummala (12.4 ries this season, forward Lakin departure, Howard was there to points per game, 40.2 percent on Roland and guard Kate Letewkicz fuel the offense. threes) and Metoyer (10.4 points have been more consistent pres“I took it upon myself to help per game) have also shared the ences on the court for Dartmouth. fill that scoring role, I [knew] burden on offense, although Tum- Roland, who double-doubled I really needed to step up, put mala shot just 2-15 from the field in both games last weekend, avsome points on the board and last weekend. McLaughlin said erages 15.4 points (fifth in the stay aggressive at all times,” stopping Healy will largely in- Ivy League) and 8.9 rebounds said Howard, who scored 20 fluence the Quakers’ success in (fourth), with Letkewicz not far points against Brown and 17 stopping the Harvard offense as a behind at 11.3 points and 7.2 reagainst Yale. whole.

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most of the weekend’s action with injury. If Nelson-Henry is unable to return, Max Rothschild, who had the game of his young career against the Bears, is ready to step up. "[Nelson-Henry] is a big part of the team, but if he’s not there I’ll be ready to go,” the freshman said.

This isn’t the Ivy home opener for the Quakers, but it may as well be — the home game against Princeton was played over winter break, with an emptied-out campus (the teams await the rematch in New Jersey over Spring Break). The Red and Blue are hoping for a big crowd to root the team on as they look to get back in the Ivy title hunt.

“I’m excited about creating that home-court atmosphere, which I think will be a process,” Rothschild said. “Being in the Palestra, this gigantic gym, if we can get it packed, it’s hard for away teams to win.”

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Rookie of the Year who looked poised to breakout of his sidekick role, couldn’t have been accounted for.

Thus far, the Crimson (9-11, 1-3 Ivy) have come up short in their attempts to fill the voids in production that Saunders and Chambers left.

Coach Tommy Amaker, who orchestrated Harvard’s recent renaissance on the hardwood, acknowledged in a phone interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian the struggles his ball club has endured but is by no means throwing in the towel on the season just yet. “We played some good stretches of ball this year,� he said before conceding that in comparison to last season. “We haven’t played as well.�

Despite their sub-.500 record the Crimson have indeed shown flashes of the brilliance of years past as well as hints of the damage they could inflict this season. In games against No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 7 Kansas, Harvard played like a legitimate contender, only losing to Kansas by six.

Still, winning the Ivy title will be no simple task, especially given their 1-3 start.

Amaker, who discussed the influence of Chamber’s injury also pointed to another key contributor to their recent woes. “If we shoot free throws better ... I think the narrative of this team is different.�

risk of losing title streak

THOMAS MUNSON Associate Sports Editor

When Wesley Saunders’ final three-point attempt clanked out last March in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the Crimson spotlight immediately shifted to Siyani Chambers.

Had the shot fallen, it would have added to the recent folklore of Harvard hoops and, in turn, extended the career of one of the greatest talents to ever pass his way through the Ivy League.

But the upset was not completed. North Carolina halted Harvard’s pursuit of a third straight trip to the NCAA Tournament Round of 32 in a nail-biting 67-65 victory. Saunders would go on to pursue his professional dreams and suddenly Chambers, the junior point guard from Minnesota, became the face of the squad. Until Sept. 2, 2015.

That day, it was announced that Chambers had suffered a torn ACL, thus sidelining him for the 2015-16 campaign and forcing him to dis-enroll from classes in order to preserve his final year of eligibility per Ivy League rules.

Harvard was well aware that they would be without Saunders this season. But the blow of losing Chambers, the 2013 Ivy League

To that point, Harvard is shooting a mere 57.8 percent from the stripe this year, placing them last in the Ivy League in that category.

In 2014-15 they knocked down 71.9 percent of their attempts at the line, good enough for second in the league. Had they converted their shots at the same clips they did last season they would have 49 more total points (2.45 per game) thus far this year.

While initially their consistent misfiring on free throws may not seem to be a direct result of Chambers’ injury and Saunders’ graduation, a look at last year’s numbers reflect otherwise.

Not only did Chambers lead the team in free throw percentage at 81.4, but he was second on the team at getting to the line behind none other than Saunders, who converted 77.3 percent of his six attempts per game.

Of course, the backcourt duo left other holes as well. As the team’s primary ball handlers, they were part of a squad that only turned over the ball 11.6 times per game while forcing 12.8 on the other end of the floor. This season Harvard is committing 15.3 and only causing 11.8.

Similarly, Saunders and Chambers led the team in steals as well, with 1.8 and 1.5 per game respectively. This season only senior Agunwa Okoli is averaging more than 0.8 steals per game (he has 1.4).

These stats only scrape the surface of the gap the Crimson are being forced to refill. While they are scoring 2.7 more points per game, their offensive quotient — an average of how many points a team scores above or below the average amount of points their opponents concede — has fallen from a high of 4.5 in 2013-14 to negative 5.4 this season. Similarly, their adjusted scoring margin — which puts a team’s scoring margin into the context of its opponents — has fallen from an impressive 10.9 in 2013-14 to 1.0 so far this year.

With all that said the graduation of Saunders, amongst others, and the injury sustained by Chambers did not suck Harvard dry of any talent. Junior forward Zena Edosomwan is averaging a doubledouble and freshman guard Corey Johnson has emerged as a legitimate scoring threat.

Their contributions are part of why it would be silly to write off Harvard this early and why teams like Penn — which hosts the Crimson at the Palestra on Saturday — should not let their guard down.

Amaker points out that in this conference it can be easy to lose a couple contests and think you’re out of the race or win a few and get high on yourselves. He warned that neither sentiment holds true. But finding a way back in the race will not be easy for Harvard. “We don’t have a very large, if at all, margin for error,� Amaker

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After Wesley Saunders graduated in 2015, the helm of Harvard hoops fell to Siyani Chambers, who is out for 2015-16 with an ACL tear.

admitted. “We need to win this weekend.�

If anyone is fit to navigate the tough road back to a conference title it’s undoubtedly Amaker.

After flipping a perennial bottom-tier program into a five-time defending league champion and

national contender, three Ivy losses is no sweat. “It’s a long horse race,� Amaker repeated multiple times throughout the conversation.

So, if Harvard can find its legs soon, it’s bound to be a photo finish.

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especially on the women’s team because we have a very new team this year,� Wolf said. “I know the men’s team is going in with the goal of kicking butt, but for the women a lot of it will be individual work and victories.� “The women’s team has had a bit of difficulty because a lot of really good people graduated last year, but I think they’re really finding their footing,� Vaiani said.

On the other hand, the freshman class on the men’s team has been consistent in showing talent and skill throughout the season.

Beginning with a strong debut at Penn State in November and carrying that success through the rest of the season, the freshmen will now have to rise to the challenge of maintaining their streak heading into post-season play.

Like their rivals in the Ancient Eight, the Red and Blue have been preparing avidly for this title fight.

From a new work-out regimen to practices graced by Drake and Future’s “Jumpman,� the Quakers seem to be ready to take on any challenge they will face. “We’re not only working hard,

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Sophomore John Vaiani will lead Penn men’s fencing in the Ivy League Championships this weekend as the Quakers get ready for NCAAs.

we’re working one-on-one individually according to everyone’s physical and mental condition.

We want to work in a way that’s smart,� Ma said.

“This weekend, I want for us, as a team, to come out of Ivies stronger,� Wolf said. “That way, we will go into the NCAA a better team.�

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Success Academy in Harlem and today operates 34 schools in some of the city’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

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WHO WILL WIN THE

STANDINGS 13-5 Overall 4-0 Ivy

This Weekend: v. Columbia, Fri @ 5 v. Cornell, Sat @ 7

12-5 Overall 2-1 Ivy

This Weekend: v. Harvard, Fri @ 7 v. Dartmouth, Sat @ 6

9-11 Overall 1-3 Ivy

This Weekend: at Princeton, Fri @ 7 at Penn, Sat @ 7

6-12 Overall 1-3 Ivy

This Weekend: v. Cornell, Fri @ 7 v. Columbia, Sat @ 6

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15-6 Overall 4-0 Ivy This Weekend: at Yale, Fri @ 5 at Brown, Sat @ 6

9-9 Overall 2-2 Ivy

This Weekend: at Brown, Fri @ 7 at Yale, Sat @ 7

7-11 Overall 1-3 Ivy

This Weekend: at Penn, Fri @ 6 at Princeton, Sat @ 6

6-11 Overall 0-3 Ivy

This Weekend: v. Dartmouth, Fri @ 6 v. Harvard, Sat @ 7

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Kerry Carr (Volleyball) Steve Dolan (Track) Steve Donahue (M. Basketball) David Geatz (M. Tennis) Bob Heintz (Golf) Leslie King (Softball) Sanela Kunivac (W. Tennis) Mike McLaughlin (W. Basketball) Ray Priore (Football) Nicole Van Dyke (W. Soccer)

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Nominations are open for current ITAs and ITA managers who go “above and beyond the call of duty” in providing timely, friendly and successful support for all the residents of the House they serve.

See the website below for more information about the Outstanding ITA of the Year award, how to nominate your lifesaver, and about opportunities in 2016 to join Penn’s very own league of superheroes.

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MOVING FORWARD

See who the coaches of Penn Athletics have picked to win the Super Bowl on Sunday

Without its two best players from last year, a different Harvard squad comes to the Palestra

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Quakers headed for Ivies

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FENCING | Penn preps for defending

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NCAA Champions, Columbia

CASSANDRA DINH Sports Reporter

After some mixed results at the Northwestern Duals, both No. 3 Penn men’s and No. 9 women’s fencing are hoping for positive results in Ithaca, N.Y., as the Quakers head to Cornell this weekend to compete in the Ivy League Championships.

“There’s a pretty good mentality going into the Championships. The women’s team is relatively young. The men’s team is ranked third in the nation. Both are very strong,” coach Andy Ma said.

Both teams are SATURDAY & SUNDAY looking forward to Ivy League the competition that Championships the Ivy League will offer, especially from ALL DAY Columbia, Harvard Ithaca, NY and Princeton, as the tournament provides a good sense of how the teams might fare at NCAAs. “Competing against top schools like Columbia who is No. 1 in men’s and No. 2 in women’s gives us a good idea of how we will do at the NCAAs,” Ma said — a sentiment with which his teams agree.

“The Ivies are definitely characterized by intense competition. Everyone who competes in it trains pretty much all year to try to win the title. It’s a completely different atmosphere that I haven’t experienced at any other invitational,” sophomore John Vaiani said.

Of course, although an Ancient Eight title would be the cherry on top of an already successful season for Penn fencing, a much sweeter prize would be having fencers qualify for the NCAAs and taking home a title there.

“This is really a big tournament for us, but it’s honestly still practice because we’re not competing against all schools or the best schools like Notre Dame or Ohio State,” sophomore Stephanie Wolf said.

“The Ivy League does dominate the top ten, so how we do here will reflect how we do later on,” Vaiani added.

A large concern throughout this season has been the rookie class on the women’s team. Entering this season with hopes to improve from last year’s season, the women’s team had goals to step up its game in its sabre squad and build off of previous success in its foil and epee squads.

Thus far, the women have shown definite progress towards their ambitions by way of their performance at the Northwestern Duals in Indiana. The sabre squad was the only team to secure a win over No. 6 Ohio State — and the question remains whether or not they can keep up the momentum.

“There’s a lot of pressure going into the Ivy,

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There seems to be little question that Penn women’s basketball is the team to beat in the Ivy League right now. At 3-0 in conference play, the Quakers are in sole possession of first place in the storied conference and is hot off two double-digit wins at home last weekend.

“It’s like we have a chip on our shoulder because teams are going to be fighting to beat us because we’re that team that’s doing pretty good right now,” sophomore forward Michelle Nwokedi said.

The Red and Blue will make their first Ivy League road trip of the season, traveling to Harvard on Friday and then Dartmouth on Saturday.

Penn has won each of its last four contests against the Crimson (8-9, 3-1 Ivy) and eight of its last ten games against the Big Green (7-13, 2-2 Ivy). At the Palestra last weekend, junior forward Sydney Stipanovich earned her way to her fourth Ivy League Player of the Week award of the season as the Quakers blew past Yale and Brown.

Entering the weekend, the Red and Blue come on strong, with nine of their ten most recent games resulting in victories, with the exception being a 66-46 loss at Villanova last week.

In the blowout of the Bulldogs and the Bears, the Red and Blue’s most recent showing, strong individual performances bolstered

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the team effort. Against the Elis in the first leg, the Quakers carried a moderate seven-point lead into halftime, but outscored Yale by 12 in the second half to win by 19.

Stipanovich, who had 16 points and 16 rebounds, led the way along with sophomore guard Anna Ross, who had 16 points and hit four of five three-point attempts, and Nwokedi, who had 14 points and eight rebounds.

Penn put Brown away quickly the next night, building a 20-point halftime lead which the Bears could not erase. Stipanovich recorded her second double-double of the weekend with 19 points and 14 rebounds, with Nwokedi adding 12 points and nine

rebounds.

With Penn now 3-0 in Ivy League play for the first time in his tenure at the school, coach Mike McLaughlin is telling his players to keep doing what has gotten them to this point.

“This is a different challenge, on the road for the first time. I’m just telling them to continue the path that they’re on,” he said. “I think they’re competitive, they prepped really well for everyone we’ve played.

Harvard is fresh off an Ivy League doubleheader sweep as well, having defeated Cornell and Columbia on the road thanks to big games from two of its best players. In Ithaca, Kit Metoyer turned in 26 points on 9-for-15 shooting, including 6-for-11 from three, en route to a 65-56 overtime victory, while AnnMarie Healy converted 13-for-14 attempts for SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 7

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Red and Blue crave first Ancient Eight win of year M. HOOPS | Chance for

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Junior guard Matt Howard has stepped up for Penn basketball in the absence of several key players.

Howard will look to build on that excellence as the Red and Blue host Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend.

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It may not be a triumphant return of a beloved tradition, but the Red and Blue could sure use a triumph or two this weekend.

Stop the presses: The Ivy doubleheader is returning to the Palestra.

Penn basketball will host Dartmouth (7-11, 1-3 Ivy) on Friday and Harvard (9-11, 1-3) on Saturday at the Palestra.

The Quakers (6-11, 0-3) are looking for their first conference

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win of the season after dropping an overtime heartbreaker in the Ivy opener against Princeton on Jan. 9 and another close game at Brown last Saturday, with a blowout loss at Yale coming in between.

After their recent battle in Rhode Island, Penn will be looking to build on the many positives from the contest.

“Against Brown, I think we did a lot of good things for long stretches. We played solid offense. The guys are getting better, there’s good growth, they’re all in, they keep competing. Now we just gotta put it together for 40 minutes,” coach Steve Donahue said. “One thing that really hurt us was [our shooting] at the foul line.”

The coach isn’t wrong. Penn shot just 10-18 from the stripe last Saturday, and just 3-8 in the first half. But the Quakers aren’t alone in their woes. Both of their upcoming opponents are off to slow starts, including the three-time defending champion Crimson.

“They’ve struggled a bit, but they’re kind of like us, they’ve lost

games on the foul line,” Donahue said, highlighting a stunning loss Harvard suffered against Columbia on a buzzer-beater last weekend.

But with the unique setup of the Ivy doubleheader, Penn can’t focus too much on Harvard, because it must first figure out a way to beat the Big Green the night before. Preparing for two teams with no days off in between games can be tough, but Donahue, a 21 year veteran with a long Ivy history, is up to the challenge. The coach feels his players are as well, but knows that his opponents will come similarly prepared.

“I’ve talked to guys like Tommy [Amaker, Harvard coach] and Kyle [Smith] at Columbia, and I’ve said this a lot, this is the best coached league in the country. And it has little to do with the coaches. It has a lot to do with the players, they grasp as much information as you can give them.”

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