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Penn basketball sweeps Harvard, Dartmouth THOMAS MUNSON Associate Sports Editor

Penn basketball, a team that’s been surrounded by questions all season,

recorded two statement wins this weekend. As a result the Quakers (9-13, 1-5 Ivy) have finally begun to shift the focus away from who’s been missing on the sideline this year and have instead placed the spotlight on their young stars.

Playing with newfound confidence,

Penn dispatched Dartmouth, 71-64, on Friday at the Palestra. The following night, the Quakers continued to move in the right direction by recording their second straight Ivy League win in a 67-57 thrashing of Harvard, the fivetime defending Ivy League champions.

The second victory, which completed

the weekend sweep for the Red and Blue, was their first over the Crimson (8-11, 2-3) since March 2013.

Before the season began there were very few similarities between Harvard and Penn. The former was coming off SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 8

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TRANSGENDER PEOPLE.” Non-cisgender community hesitates to embrace Caitlyn Jenner CHLOE CHENG Staff Reporter

In nine days, Irvine Auditorium will welcome Caitlyn Jenner onto its stage and into the spotlight. But some students on Penn’s campus, and in particular, in the transgender and non-cisgender communities, will not be as welcoming.

The Special Planning and Events Committee was primarily in charge of bringing Jenner to campus for its spring speaker event. Upon learning that Jenner would be speaking during the same week as QPenn — a week of LGBTQ+ related events dedicated to the celebration of the queer identity — the QPenn committee decided to feature her as their keynote speaker as well. This year’s QPenn theme is Power: Power

through visibility, education, discussion and so on.

“The decision to make her our keynote speaker was not taken lightly because we know that her experience is vastly different from the experience of many transgender people. Particularly because the week’s theme is Power, it was hard for us to reconcile having a speaker who has used her power and visibility to say things that have been harmful to LGBTQ community members,” said College sophomore Kai Kornegay, co-chair of the QPenn committee. “While Jenner is privileged SEE JENNER PAGE 5

GSE course to train educators on student health issues

Victim robbed at gunpoint on 41st and Pine streets

Course teaches grad students to address sexual assault, mental illness

A Penn-affiliated man was robbed at 2:30 a.m. Sunday

CHARLOTTE LARACY Staff Reporter

LOWELL NEUMANN NICKEY Staff Reporter

In response to the nationwide attention on college student health, Penn graduate students learned how to address mental health. This summer, the Graduate School of Education piloted a course, EDUC 545: “College Student Health”, in order to address health problems on college campuses, ranging from mental health to sexual violence.

The course gave graduate students the opportunity to learn about the role and responsibilities of colleges to protect students’ physical and mental health. Ross Aikins, lecturer and program manager in GSE’s Higher Education Division, created and taught the course with the idea that health is a fundamental basis to student success.

The discussions, readings and guest lecturers covered the difficult balance of developing the minds of our future workforce and maintaining student health in colleges across the nation. In addition, EDUC 545 analyzed postsecondary responses to health crises, including Penn’s “Year of Health” initiative. Aikins says that it’s important for Penn to act and to continue to deal with these tricky issues.

“I think Penn can keep this up. After the Year of Health, many Penn leaders were wondering, ‘What

Around 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning, two men robbed a Penn-affiliated man near 41st and Pine streets at gunpoint, the latest in a string of West Philadelphia robberies.

Two young men approached the complainant armed with what the victim thought was a gun, the Division of Public Safety said in an email Sunday morning. A UPen-

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The robbery near 41st and Pine streets was the latest in a string of similar crimes in West Philadelphia over the last month.

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nAlert went out at 2:49 a.m. warning of a “Robbery with a Weapon” and “additional police and security officers in the area.” The alert identified the suspects as “2 black males, heights 6’1”-6’2”,” wearing sweatshirts.

It was not immediately clear how the victim was affiliated with Penn.

The men demanded the complainant’s headphones, rifled through his book bag, took a few additional items, struck him over the head and fled down 41st Street SEE ROBBERY PAGE 5

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NY Times Reporter Matt Flegenheimer Q&A Former Penn and DP alumnus covering primaries DAN SPINELLI City News Editor

HAVERHILL, Mass. — The DPolitics reporters aren’t the only journalists covering the New Hampshire primary with Red and Blue blood in their veins.

Matt Flegenheimer, a 2011 College graduate and former Daily Pennsylvanian sports reporter, is also hard at work on the campaign trail. As a national political reporter for The New York Times, he has followed presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz across the country for five months. Before switching to the elections beat, Matt wrote about transportation and New York politics, which included covering the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal.

With only two days until the New Hampshire primary, the DPolitics team caught up with Flegenheimer to discuss the election, Cruz’s appeal to college students and whether Saturday night’s debate gave any candidate a boost.

Daily Pennsylvanian: So when were you officially moved to the elections beat?

Matt Flegenheimer: Not until this past September, around Labor Day. I was covering City Hall in New York for about a year and then was moved to national politics.

DP: And you were originally put on the Jeb Bush beat?

MF: Yes, I was on Jeb for about two months until November, when I moved over to Cruz.

DP: One of my favorite pieces of yours was an article about Jeb Bush’s sense of humor. How was the reaction to that?

MF: It was mostly positive.

We try to do a few things in our coverage. The most important thing is to hold the candidates accountable and give a sense of the type of presidents they would be. This is a sketch of a candidate’s personality, which is relevant as well I would say.

Sometimes readers will scoff at this kind of story and say, ‘What about their tax policy?’ — which obviously we should do as well. It was in keeping with a lot of what the Bush campaign has felt like, which is a candidate that voters really want to hear out, and there’s not only a connection that’s been made with the candidate and the audience. I found him to be very engaging actually in public settings.

DP: Were you moved because

Jeb was flagging [in popularity] at that point?

MF: I don’t know.

There were some expectations that we would shuffle around depending on how the field shook out.

There’s still someone on Jeb — actually another Penn person, [2005 College graduate] Ashley Parker — who is fantastic.

DP: As someone who was born in New York, who has what I presume Ted Cruz would call “New York values” and who attended a very liberal school, how is it covering Ted Cruz?

MF: “New York values” became this strange episode in the whole thing, but it’s been a great thing. My own background I don’t think is particularly relevant to covering him, but it’s fascinating. He’s definitely had a surge of momentum for a while now and it felt like at the start of November, he was already starting to see some major crowds and get some endorsements in Iowa. He built a very good lead there; Trump seemed to catch up with him and then Cruz obviously prevailed. It’s

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interesting to cover him now because he really didn’t get the type of bounce out of Iowa that we might have expected for the person who actually won Iowa.

With the attention paid to Rubio [who exceeded expectations by finishing third] and Trump’s loss, it was almost like Cruz was an afterthought despite winning the thing.

DP: At Penn, we’ve had a stronger support for Democratic candidates, though a lot of Republican candidates have received some play. We even had a Penn for Trump group for a while, yet we never had a

Penn for Cruz group and at a mock election last week, Cruz received no votes. Why do you think his message may not be connecting with Penn students?

Do you think he’s connecting?

MF: I don’t know. At his events, especially here in New Hampshire, there’s been a lot of young people. They have these coalitions like “Millennials for Cruz” and different campus groups. I don’t think he’s spent much time in Pennsylvania because, obviously, the primary calendar shakes out that way.

There’s no question that a lot of the campus energy is behind Bernie [Sanders] or even Trump, as you described. [The Cruz campaign has] certainly made some attempts to reach out to younger voters in a few ways, like Snapchat filters and he’s a reasonably ambitious tweeter — not quite the Trump level, but still. He’ll send some tongue-incheek tweets and music videos from the eighties. He had a Janet Jackson video he sent out; he sort of has his own pop culture sensibility. He does a lot of impressions. There’s definitely that side of his personality so I don’t know that meshes with the average Penn student.

DP: One of the things that’s apparent, even for someone who hasn’t seen Cruz up close like

you have, is that he really is a policy wonk. How apparent is that for you?

MF: For sure. He has a fluency in policy that’s just very conspicuous when you spend time with him. He was a champion debater at Princeton. He was certainly a force then and he’s relished the debate stage still and just has an incredible recall for facts, which can be very effective in that type of setting.

DP: It seems, at least from what analysts are saying, that Cruz is mailing it in for the New Hampshire primary in order to make a stronger play in South Carolina. Is that what you see?

MF: I think he could surprise people because it’s such a traffic jam in the polls right now. To the extent that we should trust polls at all, it looks like Cruz, [John] Kasich, Jeb [Bush], [Marco] Rubio [and] [Chris] Christie are all jumbled together. You could see a better showing from Cruz anyway in a state that’s more moderate, more secular. He’s spent most of his week here. He had one quick detour to South Carolina, [which is] a higher stakes state for him.

This inter view has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

Undergraduate Assembly markets Contingency Fund Last-resort option for funding student groups CHERRY ZHI Staff Reporter

The Undergraduate Assembly is encouraging applications to its last-resort funding program.

The primary funding organization for undergraduate student groups is the Student Activities Council, a branch of Penn Student Government that sets annual budgets for recognized organizations. But in the case of unforeseen costs, such

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is the next year going to be? The year of not health?’” said Aikins.

“Basically, the resolutions from the Year of Health need to continue forward even though the title has expired. The issues need to be kept present to constantly improve and assess what we are doing.”

Each class began with a guest speaker — often from a student services department at Penn — to talk about the resources available for students. Austin Jasienski, a GSE student who participated in EDUC 545, believes that Penn’s resources are unique for a college

as one-time speaker events, groups can apply for UA Contingency, a “last resort source of funding for events that have convincingly exhausted all other possible alternatives.”

The UA Contingency Fund started the school year with $16,785. As of right now, there still remains $12,095 that student groups can use, and the UA budget committee is working to increase awareness about the availability of this funding source.

“The money is there and we want a lot of groups to apply for small amounts and receive it

rather than a few groups applying for huge amounts,” College junior and UA Treasurer Kat McKay said. “It should be a resource for everyone.”

Currently, six events have been funded by UA Contingency, including Skimmerfest — hosted by SPEC and Class Boards — and the Junot Diaz spea ker event hoste d by UMOJA and the United Minorities Council.

Student groups can typically receive funding from umbrella organizations such as the Intercultural Fund or Penn Association for Gender Equity,

and these are usually the first sources that groups are encouraged to reach out. However, these organizations themselves often cannot spend the majority of their money on a single event, since they need to preserve their budgets throughout the year.

“Many of these umbrella organizations, like UMOJA, will spend money on their constituents but not [on] themselves so then they seek UA Contingency,” McKay saidchanged from explained.

For groups that are unsuccessful in securing money from

campus and that the University has properly handled previous health crises.

“Penn has addressed situations that have happened on their campus in a proper and good manner.

While some colleges might brush issues under the rug, Penn is very upfront about it,” said Jasienski.

Penn, along with 27 other universities, participated in the “Not Alone” task force. The task force was created by the White House in response to an increasing number of sexual violence and abuse cases on college campuses.

In 2015, Penn conducted a climate survey to identify the prevalence of nonconsensual sexual

other sources, UA Contingency is the last resort. Events or initiatives seeking funding must meet the requirement of being open to the whole Penn undergraduate community.

“We can’t fund food or items that aren’t necessities … we get a ton of requests but a lot of them either get funded elsewhere or they’re not eligible because they just want food or it’s a closed event,” McKay said.

After reviewing the requests, the UA budget committee, comprised of McKay, Engineering sen ior Jacob Hen ner a nd

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With courses like EDUC 545, Penn faculty can better help students who might have symptoms of mental health issues and direct them to available resources. Rosalyn Schorr, a GSE student who also participated in the course, says that EDUC 545 made discussions of health more comfortable and

College sophomore Michelle Xu, make a recommendation to the UA general body, which votes on the request.

Since a large proportion of the Contingency Fund is still available, the UA has been marketing this funding source and in turn raising greater awareness of funding in general.

Groups must apply for funding online through the Penn Common Funding Application and may find sources of which they previously were unaware.

“The money is there and now we just need people to come get it,” McKay said.

approachable.

“In the future, when I am working with students over the summer, for example, and I see a student who constantly doesn’t smile, I now know how to ask them if they are okay and to let them know what resources are available at Penn,” Schorr said. “I think that understanding student health is very important for any Penn faculty or staff member to know.”

EDUC 545 will be offered again this summer with the longterm goal to have the course be available in the fall and spring.

Aikins believes that it is important for students who want to have careers in post-secondary education to understand how to deal with tricky issues revolving around student health.

“Overall, institutions are in a really tough place,” Aikins said.

“College institutions are asked to do so much and they aren’t really built to basically be a court of law when it comes to situations like sexual assault. But institutions are still evolving. I think the class will evolve, but as long as I am here, I would really love to teach it.”

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New program at Lea connects with French students Penn students tutor elementary schoolers JAMIE BRENSILBER Staff Reporter

Third year PhD student Fiona Moreno of the French and Francophone Studies department first noticed the lack of French-speaking opportunities for students in West Philadelphia when she started teaching at Penn. As Director of La Maison Française (the French House) at Gregory College House, however, she saw an opportunity to fill this need.

Moreno spearheaded a program last spring, the Francophone Community Partnership (FCP), to connect French-language students at Penn with students at Lea Elementary School with a special interest in learning French.

“West Philly is home to many first and second generation immigrant children born to Frenchspeaking African parents, eager to practice French, and lacking

structured opportunities to do so,” Moreno explained via email because she is currently in Switzerland and unable to speak on the phone.

“French language students at Penn may not always be aware of the diversity of the French-speaking world, just as they may not suspect an important Francophone presence at the campus’ doors.”

After meeting with the Netter Center’s ABCS Course Coordinator, Janee Franklin, Moreno got in touch with Lea’s principal Jennifer Duffy and its bilingual counseling assistant, Penda Diawara.

Diawara gathered together the students interested in the program, contacting the families she knew from the district and other nearby school districts.

Moreno also put together a team of Penn volunteers with the freedom to craft their own programs with their Lea students.

Sara-Laure Faraji, a College senior and one of the current assistant program directors, said she decided to join because “FCP

combined both of my interests: my volunteering interest, the fact that I could work with kids... and also it gave me the chance to interact in French, French being my native language. I missed it, and I felt like I could bring something to the community.”

The program has impacted both the Penn and Lea students. Both volunteers and students grew more confident with French and built relationships with their FCP partners.

“FCP kids can have a very conflicted relationship with their multilingual identities, and such a recognition is no small thing; it translates into boosted student pride and self-confidence,” Moreno said in an email.

Faustine Sun, a College sophomore who currently serves as the other assistant program director, described the impact the program has had on the Lea students: “At the last session of the semester, last semester, the kids came up to me one by one and gave me hugs, and it was great. They asked when it would

start up again, they were gonna miss me, and the fact that they really love their volunteers. That was very heartwarming.”

Interest in the program grew quickly. “It is significant that several participants are in fact attending other schools than Lea, yet they join weekly and number among our most involved students,” Moreno said.

FCP runs during Lea’s after school program time, around 3:154:30, and it is sometimes difficult to coordinate all of the Penn students’ schedules to choose a day.

“We want to keep offering a customized experience to the students involved, which requires a volunteer body large enough to preserve a 1:3 volunteer-children ratio,” Moreno said. “Volunteers are literacy tutors, language teachers, mentors, learners, all at once.”

After the program began last spring, the Quebec Government Office in New York adopted FCP and Lea “in recognition of their commitment to promoting

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Faustine Sun (left) and Sara Laure-Faraji (right) both speak of rewarding experiences volunteering with the Francophone Community Partnership.

bilingualism and awareness of Francophone cultures,” Moreno stated.

FCP will also participate in Penn Museum’s 27th annual Celebration of African Cultures and a Quebecois-Senegalese spoken word workshop.

Starting this school year, Lea hired a French teacher, Mr. Bukahsa, due to the interest in the

language and the French-speaking population at the school. Sun described Bukahsa as “very passionate about French and [he] really wants to spread his love of French.”

Moreno, Sun, and Faraji hope to grow the program this semester.

“We’re always open to volunteers, no matter the French level,” Faraji said. “Lea students are very entertaining and very attachant.”

UMOJA week highlights how “Black _____ Matter” Last week cultural groups representing the African diaspora celebrated UMOJA week, focusing on different aspects of Black culture and community, each day a different concept that covered their theme: Black ______ Matters.

ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

Sunday: Black Spirituality Matters

Monday: Black Health Matters

Tuesday: Black Education Matters

Wednesday: Black Professionals Matter

Thursday: Black Art Matters

Friday: Black Community Matters

Saturday: Black Activism Matters

Black Spirituality Matters was held by New Spirit of Penn Gospel Choir, which has been performing at and around Penn for 15 years. The event focused on the power of faith in times of crisis.

At Black Health Matters, a discussion was facilitated about the link between sexual violence and mental health. Issues of mental health are difficult points of conversation, especially in the minority community where such matters are not as openly discussed.

At Black Education Matters, participants engaged in a conversation about the pros and cons of attending historically black colleges as opposed to predominantly white institutions. The event was held by the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and the Black Student League.

Black Professionals Matter was an event where participants talked about what it is like in the black professional world facing unique challenges in the work place and in the hiring process.

Black Art Matters celebrated the arts with singing, dancing and theatrical performances by minority groups. This event represented the importance of culture within the black community.

Black Community Matters was an event that allowed black students to relax and enjoy each other’s company. The importance of the event was to give students a sense of community amongst other minority students.

At Black Activism Matters, Chuck D, a member of the rap group Public Enemy spoke about how he has used hip hop as a platform for activism.

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OPINION Transforming white atonement PRAXIS | Coates’ criticism of Sanders is based on a flawed discourse

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2016 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 129 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates recently criticized Bernie Sanders’ class-first policies in a piece in The Atlantic. When asked if he supported reparations for slavery, Sanders was hesitant. He cautioned that the pursuit of reparations would prove both politically unfeasible and divisive. Sanders suggested, instead, that efforts to ameliorate the economic effects of racism in America should focus on pursuing policies that emphasize public investment.

Coates’ entire argument against the presidential candidate centers on identifying the hypocrisy of Sanders’ radicalism. “Why [is Sanders’] political imagination so active against plutocracy, but so limited against white supremacy?” Coates asks.

It is right to challenge Sanders’ class-first approach to policy-making, given the history of such policies failing to address the needs of many black citizens. For example, the New Deal’s Social Security Act did not extend benefits to sharecroppers, domestic laborers and many other black

workers. However, this does not indicate that race-first politics provides the answer.

In his lucid criticism of Coates, Cedric Johnson, UIC professor, poignantly contends that reparations assume that the rich black businessman and the single mother who depends on the Section 8 voucher program share more political interests than two members of the same class background. Given that our current economic system tolerates so much economic inequality, it seems an odd exercise to simply make it more racially inclusive.

Of course, a race-first approach also has ramifications for the kind of white coalition that forms around such demands. Johnson contends that white anti-racists have often mistaken guilt for solidarity, “replacing politics with public therapy.”

It doesn’t help that the dialogue around race and privilege often fails to produce nuance and political substance.

In his New York Times piece “Dear White America,” black philosophy professor George

Yancy challenges, “White America, are you prepared to be at war with yourself, your white identity, your white power, your white privilege?”

In this piece, Yancy asks all white people to accept that they are racist by virtue of benefitting from racism. This is a perspective we can accept as true, but it is a troublesome one. It’s a good thing that I, as a white woman, am not

run away from, we forget that the problem lies in how terrifying it is to live without it.

When we regard privilege as something to scorn rather than extend, we become blind to the common interests shared despite difference. Having read feminists and anti-racism activist Peggy McIntosh’s “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” about 15 times before the age

Are we at war with white privilege, or are we at war with a system of economic inequality that hurts white and black alike?” harassed on the street by police. It is wrong that my safety means that so many are not extended the same privileges. Our progressive rhetoric should reflect this.

When privilege becomes a terrifying thing that we must

of 16, I have found that white self-awareness only goes so far. Of course white privilege discourse is an important part of the national conversation about anti-racism, but I’m not willing to argue that calling attention to the fact that Band-

Aids will always match my skin color is part of the kind of political work that will reduce the number of black men we incarcerate each year.

Writers like Coates play an important role for marginalized communities by giving voice to lived experience.

However, given both Coates’ literary and political ambitions, it begs the question of accountability. Is it useful for Coates’ writing to be poetic without being programmatic? Or is his call for reparations actually harmful to those mobilizing around such demands?

A consideration of identity is important, especially in social change efforts that require interracial organizing. But, we must always ask ourselves, for what purpose?

Are we at war with white privilege, or are we at war with a system of economic inequality that hurts white and black alike? I’m afraid it has become easier for the white ally to display self-disgust than to create unity where the ground has historically proven infertile.

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON To fight against the differences that have been imposed upon them in the pursuit of bourgeois interests, black and white workers must recognize their common interests.

Coates provides catharsis, which may be personally important, but it will prove politically irrelevant if unable to embed itself into the larger project of social mobility.

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON is a College senior from San Francisco studying political science. Her email address is clara@sas.upenn.edu. Follow her on Twitter @clarajanehen.

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During the summer of 2015, Penn introduced a new online program for freshmen called Thrive at Penn. TAP covers topics such as wellness and health, alcohol and drugs, healthy relationships and sexual violence prevention and knowing how to “thrive” at a research university.

Because the program “proved so successful,” Penn rolled out the program to all undergraduates, announcing it in an email on Dec. 21 of last year. The hope was that students would complete the program during break before spring classes, with an added incentive on the line. For every 100 people who finish the program before the deadline of Jan. 14, Penn would choose a student to receive a $100 grant to the Penn Bookstore. Sounds great, right?

But even with all of these incentives, of the people

who received the emails over break, only 1,776 students (around 23 percent of sophomores, juniors and seniors) had completed the program. Rob Nelson, executive director for education and academic planning, said that the University is “pretty happy with that.” We are not sure they should be.

Don’t get us wrong — 1,776 is a lot of students, especially since the freshman class is not included in that number. We applaud Penn for its outreach efforts. But unfortunately, we have to question whether it has learned enough from past mistakes.

The suggestion from the discrepancy between the number of grants available and the number of grants awarded is that the number of students who took the survey is, regardless of what the program directors say, less than what was expected.

As we have seen before, it is difficult to reach the people who need to hear these lessons in the first place. The students who actually took the time to complete the module are

that only 1,776 students have taken it upon themselves to go through the module. These students are likely the same ones who took the Campus Climate Survey. How do you per-

The students who actually took the time to complete the module are already ones who consistently participate in these types of events.” already ones who consistently participate in these types of events. Think back to the Association of American Universities’ Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault. Only 29.2 percent of undergraduate students participated in the study — a total of 3,207.

So it’s problematic to hear

suade the approximately 70 percent of students who ignore or just don’t care about these initiatives?

One way is to better voice how little students know and why they should learn. Penn boasts this as an excellent module for learning about alcohol, drugs, sexual assault and

other topics. But with Penn kids, who already assume that they know almost everything, the program first somehow needs to let them know that they don’t. Don’t mince words. Let us know that alcohol and drug abuse and sexual assault are real and pervasive problems, and this is one way that we can contribute to the solution. An email advertising a module that you hope we will take because it will help us “thrive” and we might win some money does not inspire people to take action.

Definitely push the program at the beginning of the year, as was done for freshmen. The later in college we are asked, the less likely we will participate.

As for the actual module, the most effective part of TAP is the mental health and wellness section. We hear about Dean Furda and his experience with stress in the Ivy League.

Other students share their own struggles and revelations. The sections about sexual assault and drugs and alcohol highly felt like they were scripted. In contrast, the ones about health and wellness did not feel forced, and the stories created a sense of sympathy and camaraderie. Do more to add that humanizing aspect to the videos.

And above all else, create spaces for discussion.

We’ve noted before how online multiple-choice question modules are not effective. We also realize that forcing discussion groups is not a feasible project, especially since Penn students are always busy with 10 million activities. But holding an initiative to have student volunteers lead discussions at open hours could lead to a higher level of interest and encourage discourse at a greater level than an optional survey would.

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Two days, four presidential candidates, five events: N.H. primary season In a combination sports-politics trip, four Daily Pennsylvanian staffers covered an eclectic range of topics and personalities. The team crossed between states to report on Penn women’s basketball at Harvard and Dartmouth and photograph rallies for Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, John Kasich and Marco Rubio. Seven more DP staffers are in New Hampshire today to cover the primaries that will take place on Tuesday.

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toward Spruce. The victim was not seriously injured and did not require medical treatment.

Penn and Philadelphia Police both responded to the scene and managed to recover some of the complainant’s items after canvassing the area.

DPS sent out an all-clear message at 3:00 a.m.

This robbery comes just a few days after an incident on 44th and Osage streets in which a man had his cellphone taken by a group of teenagers.

Since the New Year there has been a string of similar incidents throughout the University City/West Philadelphia community.

On Jan. 21, a woman reported to police that a group of teenage boys attempted to

get into her car while she was inside it on 48th and Windsor streets.

Just nine days before then, a 53-year-old man was attacked, beaten and robbed by a group of 10 to 12 teenagers near Clark Park on 45th and Chester streets. The attack was stopped by a passerby honking her horn until the teens walked away.

On Jan. 8, a 40-year-old man was robbed by three men with a gun at the corner of 47th and Springfield streets. Police were alerted to the location of the victim’s cell phone thanks to a tracking app and the three suspects, aged between 15 and 17-years-old, were detained for investigation.

DPS urged recipients of the UPennAlert to utilize their escort services as well as to sign up for the Penn Guardian System.

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in many ways that other transwomen are not, her willingness to share her journey with the public is powerful. Her deliberate visibility aligned nicely with our theme of Power.”

By bringing Jenner to campus, SPEC and QPenn hope to support an ongoing dialogue on trans and queer identity. However, a number of students in the trans and non-cis communities do not believe she is the best choice.

“I realize that she’s famous, but she does such a terrible job of representing the opinions and experiences of trans people all over not just Penn’s campus, but the United States,” said College sophomore and Penn Non-Cis member Dylan, who uses they/ their pronouns and preferred that their last name not be used. “I’m

on the more privileged end of the spectrum, but I still feel some type of way about the fact that there’s going to be 1,000 cis people going in and coming out thinking they know what it’s like to be transgender.”

Jenner is no stranger to controversy. During her appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” she sparked backlash with comments such as, “I’m older than most people in the audience. I kind of like tradition, and it’s always been a man and a woman.” While Jenner has since changed and clarified her position on marriage, many people in the LGBTQ community have found it hard to fully embrace her.

Jenner also said during an interview with TIME Magazine that “if you look like a man in a dress, it makes people uncomfortable.” Some members of the trans and non-cis communities thought this comment perpetuated already

existing pressures to conform to the gender binary; further, there are those without the wealth and resources to do so.

“She’s really complicated because she has a lot of other scandals, so her own image isn’t very positive. In every group, there are going to be a couple people who are problematic, but as a public figure, she inadvertently will be a representative, so it’s not like we have a choice to tell her to shut up,” said a College freshman involved in Penn Non-Cis and Penn Queer & Asian, who preferred not to be identified because she has not yet come out to everyone she knows.

“We just hope that she carries herself better and owns up to other things.”

College senior Roderick Cook, a founder of Penn Non-Cis, is interested in Jenner’s reactions to the backlash she has received, and whether or not she believes

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misogyny and double standards have influenced the criticisms she has received. “[I’m] more ambivalent than anything. I’m not going to discredit people who have a negative view because I think that’s totally valid. I just try not to give it much thought because I think she comes from a place of a lot of attention and wealth that’s not really representative of the trans community,” Cook said.

Jenner’s appearance on Feb. 17 will feature a 60-minute discussion moderated by Penn alumnus Buzz Bissinger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who broke Jenner’s story in Vanity Fair last summer.

An audience question and answer session will follow.

The next day, as part of QPenn, Penn Non-Cis will hold a speaker debriefing session to discuss visibility and representation, as well as power and privilege.

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Despite strong showings, Ivy crowns out of reach SQUASH | Men split,

women sweep weekend DAVID FIGURELLI Sports Reporter

It’s been quite a ride for both Penn squash teams so far this season, and this week that road continued against Ivy rivals Brown and Yale. Although the women’s team coasted through both days of competition, the men hit a bit of a bump on Sunday.

The Red and Blue women came in to the weekend ranked No. 2 and dominated both of their matches, beating tenthranked Brown (6-5, 0-4) and fourth-ranked Yale (10-3, 2-2) by scores of 8-1 and 9-0, respectively. Sophomore Marie Stephan extended her unbeaten streak to 25 matches dating back to last season on Sunday, while senior captain Yan Xin Tan also has yet to be beaten in 11 matches this season for Penn (10-1, 4-1 Ivy).

“It’s a great feeling to beat a team like Yale,” coach Jack Wyant said on Sunday. “It shows that we belong in the top tier of

teams, and I think that we’re peaking at the right time.”

For junior Anaka Alankamony, this weekend was a big step in terms of progress and poise.

“Two years ago when we played Yale here at home, it was the 125th anniversary of Penn squash, so we had a ton of alumni come out and support us, and we just won, 5-4,” she said. “Looking back on it now, we’ve grown so much as players.

Wyant also recognized the vast progress that Penn women’s squash has made throughout his time as head coach.

“I remember vividly my first season at Penn, we were ranked sixth and we went up to play in New Haven for our first big match of the year, and they took about an hour and a half to beat us 9-0,” said Wyant. “So for us to finally reverse that original 9-0 beating and hand one to them was a nice thing to be a part of.”

The men (9-3, 3-2) were also successful on Saturday, sweeping the No. 16 Bears (4-7, 0-4) with a string of dominant performances.

Seven of the nine competitors on

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the men’s side beat their opponents in just three games, while sophomores Derek Hsue and Marwan Mahmoud needed only four games apiece.

But Sunday’s matchup against the fourth-ranked Bulldogs (10-2, 4-0) proved to be just a bit too much for the second-ranked Quakers, who fell, 6-3, in a series of tight matches. The Red and Blue found themselves in a 4-0 hole at the beginning of the match from which they could not get back. Freshman Max Reed and junior B.G. Lemmon kept the Quakers alive at the seventh and eighth spots, respectively, but Yale had already clinched the match before top seed Marwan Mahmoud dispatched his opponent in a tight five-game match to finalize the 6-3 result.

“The men knew what was at stake today, and we emphasized that we were the underdogs despite the ranking and that Yale had pole position in the league, but they were simply the stronger team today,” said Wyant after the match. “They were the more confident team and the scoreline reflects that, so full credit to

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Yale.”

Many matches came down to a pivotal fifth game highlighted by astoundingly long rallies, pushing the competitors to their physical and mental limits over a stretch of about four hours.

“We need to be able to adjust our tactics mid-match,” explained Wyant. “If something isn’t working, we need to be able to shift, and I think that’s what separates the good teams from the great teams, and the good players from the best players.”

All is not lost for the Quakers, however, as they have a lot to look forward to with the remainder of the Ivy schedule coming up this weekend against Columbia and Cornell and nationals following shortly behind.

“We probably can’t win the Ivy League anymore,” said men’s senior captain Augie Frank. “But right now it’s about continuing to work hard to prove that we can achieve the goals that we set for ourselves in the beginning of the year.”

So although for the time being the Ivy title looks elusive for the Red and Blue teams, the Penn

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Junior Anaka Alankamony won at the No. 1 ladder spot against Yale, helping Penn women’s squash secure a 9-0 victory on Sunday.

squash program has had unprecedented success this season and they are confident that they can — and will — compete with the

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Both squads return to action on Friday against Columbia in New York.

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Mixed results for Penn as women sweep, men swept TENNIS | Success at

home, woes on road CASS DINH Sports Reporter

For Penn tennis, the confines of the Hecht Tennis Center and Penn Park provide a home-court advantage like no other.

This past weekend the men’s team went on the road, trekking down to Norfolk and Williamsburg, Va., to play against Old Dominion and William and Mary, respectively. The women’s team stayed in Philadelphia to go head to head with its neighbors, the Drexel Dragons.

On the women’s side, the Quakers played a strong game, procuring a 7-0 victory with wins all across the board. This not only marked the end of the Dragons’ winning streak but the eighth consecutive time that

Penn has defeated Drexel.

“The mentality going into the match was to be professional about our preparation and consequently, its execution,” Penn coach Sanela Kunovac said.

“We are typically a very good on-the-road team, but we are a very vicious team at home. And those two are not mutually exclusive.”

Protecting home turf in doubles play, the No. 1 flight of senior Sonya Latycheva and junior Kana Daniel and the No. 3 flight of freshmen O.J. Singh and Marta Kowalska notched easy victories over the Dragons with like scores of 6-2. The No. 2 pairing of sophomores Ria Vaidya and Lina Qostal did not play to completion but saw a win for the Big Red and Blue with a score of 5-3.

In singles play, the entire squad dominated the competition. Latycheva played the closest match of the afternoon, but after persevering

through a second-set tiebreak, she came through to take a point for Penn.

“I think we’re really trying to solidify our vision of the team we’re becoming,” Kunovac said.

The coach believes that when it comes to establishing something as fundamental as this, it is important to facilitate the process, especially for the freshmen.

“They’re finding a way into the team that’s very organic. They’re competing very well but not playing as well as they’re capable of,” she said.

“I want them to get to the vision that they are capable. I want them to play without doubt and fear, and to really play for the team.”

On the men’s side, however, the results were not as kind. Though they held their ground in Virginia, the Quakers dropped both games: 6-1 to Old Dominion and 5-2 to

William and Mary.

“You know, it’s always a little tougher on the road,” coach David Geatz said. “Last week we also had a great lineup at home, and we just didn’t have that this week.”

On Saturday, the squad fell short in both doubles and singles play.

The lone win was scored by sophomore Josh Pompan, who played three arduous sets against Michael Weindl, a sophomore from Germany, where he is one of the top 10 tennis players in his age group.

On Sunday, Pompan procured another win for the Big Red and Blue along with junior Matt Nardella in singles play.

“He’s always been very good for us,” Geatz said of Pompan’s contributions this weekend. “Tennis is a priority for him. He’s always working hard and putting in extra time.”

Despite the results of this weekend, Geatz remains very positive

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really wrestle at all last year,” Kent said. “I wrestled a lot over the summer to get back into it, and that helped a lot. It feels good to come back and be doing good so far, and hopefully I can keep it going.”

For the Red and Blue, it’s now time to focus on the Big Red, who will be traveling to the Palestra this Sunday. Despite their recent poor track record against the nine-time defending EIWA champions, the Quakers are going into next weekend’s match with confidence.

“Everyone is in better spirits now. We all want to beat Cornell — that’s our team’s goal. We’re going to be fired up and ready to go for that.”

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finished the deal this weekend with a season high 190.800. For the second weekend in a row, the balance beam was a particular high point for the Quakers. The composite score on beam was 48.525, Penn’s best event score of the meet and the best team beam score of the three squads competing on Saturday.

Topping off the success was junior captain Rachel Graham.

She scored a career best of 9.850 on the event which not only earned her first place, but also tied her score for fifth-best in program history. Graham was not the only one who excelled on beam, as teammates Kelly Tan and Ally Podsednik earned 9.725 and 9.700

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Red just wasn’t enough this time around.

This weekend, the Red and Blue gymnastics squad beat their Ivy rival Cornell to earn their first victory at a tri-meet in the 201516 season. The Quakers finished 0.350 points ahead of the Big Red and 6.075 ahead of SUNY Cortland.

Coming off of a close secondplace finish last weekend at home to neighboring West Chester, Penn

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team All-Ivy honors in freshman Julian Merchant and junior Dana Kong.

On the men’s side, these individual performances were enough to propel the No. 3 Quakers to a 4-1 record in the tournament. Wins over Yale and Harvard made up for ties with No. 1 Columbia and No. 8 Princeton.

The women were not as lucky as a 3-3 record — which included wins against Brown, Cornell and Yale — could not cancel out losses to Harvard, Princeton and Columbia.

This was the men’s first title since 2009, but marks Columbia’s third consecutive Ancient Eight crown. The Ivy League Championships, however, is only the first stop in Penn’s long tournament stretch.

Over the next month and half, the Red and Blue will participate in four more tournaments and invitationals leading up to NCAA Championships in March. The Temple Invitational, United St ates Col legiate Squad Championships, Philadelphia Invitational and NCAA Regionals will all provide more tests for the Quakers in their quest for collegiate squash glory.

But if the past two days are any indication of how Penn will do come March 24, it’s clear that there is work to be done by both teams. The Ivy League Championships might not be the main event, but results in the Ancient Eight speak a lot to potential success down the road. “The top four Ivy teams are all top eight in the country,�

Ma said. “It’s one of the best

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The Quakers also dominated on the floor. They earned 48.225, the best of the meet and no score dipped below 9.350. Kyra Levi earned the top score of the meet on the event with 9.750. Penn took five of the top six scores on floor, with only one Cornell gymnast, Alexandra Bourgeois, made it on to the leaderboard by taking second place.

However, for the second weekend in a row the Red and Blue struggled on bars, their first apparatus of the day. The Quakers failed to crack the top-three in the event. The highest scoring gymnast, senior Morgan Venuti, came in fourth with a score of 9.625. The

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With this in mind, Ma has put out a clear set of goals for both teams based off their recent Ivy League and past NCAA performances. “Last year the men got fourth place so if we work hard all the time, hopefully we can repeat our success from last year,� Ma said.

T he women’s tea m is similarly ambitious, but the Quakers might have to reach a little higher to achieve those goals. “The women’s team only had two qualifiers for the NCAA last year so we finished 18th or 19th,� Ma said. “So this year we hope to have all women qualify for NCAAs.� “If we have all individuals accumulate points, I think we can get to the top ten or top five.“

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its fifth straight league title and NCAA tournament appearance while the later was trying to forget a seventh place finish in the Ancient Eight. But when the Quakers and Crimson entered the Palestra on Saturday night, their storylines were not so different. Both were without their starting backcourts from the previous season — albeit under different circumstances — and neither had defeated an Ancient Eight foe outside of Dartmouth (7-13, 1-5).

So when odds makers had Penn favored by one before the opening tip on Saturday, something that would have been unthinkable just months ago, few on either side could have claimed to be surprised.

Nevertheless, it was the Crimson who burst out of the gate, notching a 7-0 run to start the contest.

But the Quakers were unfazed.

After falling behind 8-0 to Dartmouth on Friday night, Penn Coach Steve Donahue swapped out all five starters just two minutes into the contest and the Red and Blue proceeded to immediately go on a 22-6 run. “It’s frustrating to see,� Donahue said after Friday’s win. “We’re not at the point with our program that anyone should feel entitled to start out there and lay an egg. So I put in the first five guys I saw, to be honest with you, and sure enough, we got six straight stops.�

With that experience in their back pocket, Penn was as cool as the other side of the pillow against Harvard. It only took six minutes for the Quakers to muscle their way back.

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went with a different strategy, electing to only sub in freshman forward Max Rothschild with his team down early. The rookie had an immediate impact, converting his first attempt from the field on a pretty touch in traffic to give Penn their first lead of the night.

Rothschild, who notched one of three Red and Blue doubledoubles, was a consistent force all game. He corralled 11 rebounds and scored 14 points while only committing two fouls.

Penn coach Steve Donahue had nothing but praise for his young big man. “He really competes. The moment’s not too big. He just brings so many different things that help you win.�

Rothschild was just one part of the puzzle down low, as the Quakers would go on to outscore Harvard 46-26 in the paint and outrebound the Crimson 53-32 thanks to exceptional tenacity.

The physicality is partially a result of “C.A.S.� drills which Donahue says stands for ‘compete after the shot.’ “The team that’s willing to make the most mistakes is gonna win this game,� Donahue said. “We weren’t afraid.�

Harvard however, who were playing without junior center Zena Edosomwan, may have been frightened when running back on defense. Nelson-Henry, Rothschild and junior forward Matt Howard could seemingly do nothing wrong with the ball in their hands. They combined to score 44 points on 21 of their 33 shots. “We have an advantage in the post with Darien [Nelson-Henry],�

Rothschild said, “Every night we try to pound it in the paint because

our offense works inside out and that’s how we get those threes.�

Their interior presence allowed Penn, which led 27-25 at the break, to begin the second half hot. They were up by as many as nine multiple times over the first seven minutes of second-half play before Harvard started to chip away at the lead.

With 9:30 left to play the Crimson got their best chance at drawing even when Agunwa Okolie got to the line down, 43-41. But after the Crimson forward missed the front end of the one-and-one, Howard made Harvard pay with a midrange jumper to increase the lead to four.

After a quick Harvard two on the other end, it was Howard again who kept the Quakers’ heads above water. The explosive South Carolina native hit a tough runner despite getting mauled on his way to the hoop. He completed the three-point-play the old-fashioned way and Penn never looked back.

Those were the first five points of a 15-6 run that had the Palestra bouncing with four and a half minutes to play.

A three by Patrick Steeves briefly halted the Red and Blue surge, but it wasn’t a sign of things to come as Penn never let up en route to their ten-point victory.

The Quakers, who walked off to a roaring standing ovation courtesy of the 4,018 Red and Blue faithful in attendance, were never apprehensive about playing with aggression and they were rewarded with two emphatic victories on the weekend.

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Big Red, on the other hand, were dominant. Cornell claimed the top three and fifth spots, earning a team event score of 48.100, the highest of the three squads.

But the Quakers gained their momentum back when they moved to the vault; it would be the beginning of a series of successes.

Podsednik kicked off her success, scoring 9.625 and winning the event. Penn went on to earn 47.400 on the event, bringing their running score to 94.050, still behind the Big Red, but only trailing by 1.05.

The Quakers were only able to outscore the Big Red in the last event of the day, which was none other than the balance beam — the highlight of Penn’s performance.

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nine-assist, seven-rebound performance in the successful bout with Harvard.

Penn coach Mike McLaughlin was quick to praise Chambers’ performance in particular for helping spark his squad’s early and sizable lead.

“She gives that fire right from the beginning,” he said. “She’s the one that spearheaded that first quarter offense, the transition opportunities.”

It was an early 13-0 run — capped off by junior Jackie Falconer — that helped the Quakers close out the first quarter up, 16-3. Harvard would never get within single digits

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again.

Effective ball movement from the Red and Blue made it impossible to cut deeply into the lead, and aggressive defensive play held Harvard to just 25 percent shooting and its first game under 50 points all season.

Highlighting that effort was sophomore Lauren Whitlatch, who posted a career-best and team-high 11 rebounds.

“She just competes,” McLaughlin said. “She’s going to give you everything she has. ... And she battled. She got the right spot. She had a great showing tonight, she really played well.”

Coming out of the half with a 31-11 lead, the Quakers were loath to ease off the gas pedal. Both sides traded baskets, and midway through

the third period, Penn still maintained a 44-20 lead thanks to eight points from Chambers in the quarter before taking a 50-27 advantage into the final 10 minutes.

A pair of threes from juniors AnnMarie Healy and Grace Keane made it 58-42 with three and a half minutes to go, but it wouldn’t get any closer as the Red and Blue sank six free throws and a pair of layups to wind down the contest dramafree.

“We stay tight, stay focused,” Ross said. “Tonight, for example, the atmosphere was crazy. They were all getting excited after baskets, but we stayed in the game. And I think that’s been a big part of it.”

The dominant performance against the Crimson is one that the

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Quakers have made a habit of in recent years, having taken six of the last seven after losing 17 straight from 2004-12.

But it didn’t look like Penn was going to be able to carry that momentum into Hanover.

On Saturday, the Red and Blue got off to a slow start, ceding seven straight points to the Big Green (7-15, 2-4) open play. Once the Quakers took the lead early in the second frame, however, they never gave it back.

A 10-0 run to restart play after the first quarter proved critical and, though Stipanovich logged yet another double-double, it was Whitlatch who found her groove against Dartmouth. The Bloomington, Ind., native recorded the best game of

her career, adding a game-high 19 points to Penn’s effort.

“She had a lot of guts,” McLaughlin said. “She had a great weekend, and she’s developing into a really, really great player. I love her composure, and I love her competitiveness. She’s the ultimate teammate. It’s nice when that gets rewarded.”

Whitlatch quickly deflected credit for the team’s win.

“Everyone has their role, and we just try to help each other every possession,” she commented.

Although the Quakers came out of the half up a single point, they got going again quickly, and the contest never really got all that close from there.

The main excitement came with

just under a minute to play, as the lights went out in Leede Arena before backup lights came on and the coaches agreed to finish out the tilt using stopwatches to replace the darkened scoreboard.

The Red and Blue had gone lights out for a second time on the trip.

Now 5-0 and a half-game up in the conference, the Quakers have been firing on all cylinders in their four wins since a 20-point loss at the hands of Villanova.

“I think we’re just so motivated, we’re more confident and I can feel it in our play,” Ross said Friday night. “Just the way we move the ball.

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Safe at home, Penn women’s tennis won the weekend while the men fell on the road

Penn gymnastics took home its first tri-meet win of the season in the Empire State.

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Make that two-thirds.

This past weekend, another Penn team took home a share of a three-way Ivy League title when men’s fencing finished first in the Championship tournament along with Columbia and Princeton.

While the women’s tournament also featured a three-way tie for the top spot, the Quakers missed out on Ancient Eight glory as they finished fourth behind the winning trio. Columbia, Harvard and Princeton walked away with the grand prize.

Both Red and Blue teams, however, had their fair share of highlights and accomplishments despite the disparity between the team results.

“I’m very happy for both the men and women,” coach Andy Ma said. “Both teams have earned a break tomorrow, but on Tuesday we will be ready to

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train for the regional and championship NCAAs.” Women’s captain Alejandra Trumble, a junior, shined in the two-day affair as she was named the epee champion of the tournament. Her success was mirrored by her captain counterpart on the men’s team, when senior Shaul Gordon finished first in the sabre tournament.

“Our captains are number one: dedicated; and number two: have good character,” Ma added.

“They always consider the team first. I have no doubt that they are hard working and very dependent.”

Freshman Justin Yoo and sophomores John Vaiani and Zsombor Garzo joined the two captains in winning first team All-Ivy honors for their performances over the weekend. Two Penn fencers also won second SEE FENCING PAGE 8

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Red and Blue right ship Quakers turn lights out in New England sweep on competition, literally WRESTLING | Harvard,

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This weekend, Penn wrestling got just what it needed.

In a pair of duals at Brown and Harvard on Saturday, the Quakersswept the competition, taking down the Bears, 25-9, in Providence before making the trek to Cambridge, Mass., and dealing the Crimson a 26-9 beatdown.

The results righted the ship for a Red and Blue squad that had been handed a pair of tough defeats last week and must now turn attention to No. 18 Cornell, who sit atop the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association standings.

Five wrestlers for the Quakers took both of their matches on the day, but perhaps no individual performance was more critical than that of senior Casey Kent, the No. 15 174-pounder in the country.

Against the Bears, Penn

jumped out to an early lead before seeing it shrink to just 15-9 before Kent stepped onto the mat.

A 10-2 major decision later and the Red and Blue were comfortably ahead as senior 184-pounder Lorenzo Thomas put the meet away with a fall.

Of added help to Penn coach Alex Tirapelle’s squad was the success at 197 and 285 pounds.

Up until now, the Quakers have been short-handed in the upper weight classes, as junior 197-pounder Frank Mattiace has been battling injury.

But Mattiace was back in the lineup against Brown in the matinee matchup, securing a 7-6 victory to open the meet before Joe Heyob seamlessly stepped into Mattiace’s place with an 8-4 decision against Harvard.

In keeping with the success at the higher end of the scale, Patrik Garren rebounded from a series of tough losses to take both matches on Saturday, helping seal the deal for the Red and Blue.

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Island, the Quakers loaded up on the bus for the two-hour journey to Cambridge, where the Crimson awaited their Ivy League rival.

The day’s second dual featured the same result with even less drama, as the Red and Blue dominated from start to finish in the day’s second contest.

And once again it was Kent leading the way, securing a technical fall to bring his record in dual meets to 7-1 on the season. The 174-pounder’s success since returning from injury last season has been a long time in the making but was entirely unsurprising to his coach.

“I feel like Casey hasn’t missed a beat,” Tirapelle said.

“He’s come right back in his stride, he is improved every time out. He continues to get better, he’s wrestling well at the right time, and I expect big things from him at the end of the year.”

“Over the summer, I was practicing a lot since I didn’t SEE WRESTLING PAGE 7

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undefeated in Ivies NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

HANOVER, N.H. — Penn women’s basketball was lights out this weekend. Twice.

Following a 20-point rout of Harvard, 68-48, the Quakers were literally stuck in a blacked out Leede Arena with just a minute left in what would end up a 56-41 victory over Dartmouth.

The Red and Blue (16-3, 5-0 Ivy) stayed atop the Ancient Eight, extending their win streak to four — with each win coming by double digits in that timespan.

On Friday, it only briefly looked as though the Quakers were in for a tight contest. The Crimson (8-10, 3-2) got on the board first just four seconds after tipoff — and wouldn’t find the basket again for 11 and a half minutes.

After a pair of layups from forwards Sydney Stipanovich and Michelle Nwokedi, Penn never

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Sophomore Lauren Whitlatch had a career weekend on the road with a personal-best 11 rebounds on Friday and 19 points on Sunday.

looked back, leading almost wireto-wire in a raucous Lavietes Pavilion.

Despite the early lead built by the forward duo, it was the Red and Blue’s backcourt that led the

way as senior Kasey Chambers recorded a team-high 16 points and sophomore Anna Ross finished with a standout 12-point, SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 9

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