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Robbery at gunpoint on 41st and Pine The suspect fled by car and has not been apprehended

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The suspect “jumped out of a car in the area of 4100 block of Pine and demanded anything she had to give him,” Rush said. The victim complied with the DAVID CAHN Staff Reporter suspect’s demands.

When a neighbor came out of the A female Penn student was robbed door, “the car sped away eastward,” at gunpoint on Sunday night by a man Rush said. No description is currently described as clean-shaven, black with available of the car. After the robbery, dreadlocks and a white hoodie and Penn Police interviewed the victim. jeans.

In the UPenn Alert sent at 8:22 p.m., “At around 8:02 p.m. the PennComm the Division of Public Safety reported Operations Center got a report of a rob- the crime to have occurred at 4108 Pine bery at the point of gun,” Vice President St. However, from the street, there is no for Public Safety Maureen Rush said in a building labeled 4108 Pine. In a phone phone interview following the incident. interview, DPS clarified that the correct

Financial aid packages often exclude the rising cost of textbooks

In just over 30 years, textbook prices have increased by 812 percent according to the think tank, the American Enterprise Insititute.

Penn’s Student Registration and Financial Services Office estimates that Penn students spend $1,220 on textbooks annually.

The rising cost of textbooks has been a particular strain on many Penn students, since many financial aid packages do not include the cost of class materials.

“I think that textbooks should be factored into financial aid consideration,” College sophomore Ian Masters said. “It is not a marginal cost, and students unable to afford them gives others an unfair advantage.”

At a Penn Democrats event on Jan. 28, New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell spoke about the responsibility colleges have to students, specifically mentioning escalating textbook prices.

“I am tired of looking at the sins of education,” he said. He pointed to the high prices of textbooks as one of these sins resulting from practices of textbook companies and universities.

The reality of paying for textbooks puts academic and financial strain on many students — even those who already receive financial aid.

One College sophomore — who preferred to remain anonymous for financial privacy reasons — said she resorts to spacing out her textbook purchases throughout the year in order to stay within her monthly budget.

“I find it really hard to pay for textbooks,” she said.

Some students have found ways to reduce their textbook prices dramatically so that they are more manageable to afford.

“It stresses me out a little, but I usually find good prices online because I rent them from places like Chegg, and it’s so much cheaper,” College sophomore Danielle Petsis said.

Other students take it a step further, finding

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An alum’s mission to save the rainforest, one chocolate bar at a time CLARE CONNAUGHTON Staff Reporter

One Wharton graduate is doing something a bit sweeter with his MBA degree.

Colin Hartman, 2014 MBA graduate and veteran, is developing Concept C — a chocolate factory in Washington, D.C. with a platform he calls neither not-for-profit nor forprofit, but rather “for purpose.”

Concept C will offer a storefront cafe with tours, workshops and tastings and will open its factory to the public over the weekends. It is expected to open at some point over the summer.

Before developing Concept C, Hartman and his wife, 2014 master’s degree recipient Sarah Hartman, started a project they called District Chocolate. Their idea was a “bean-to-bar” plan, where they would import cacao beans and process them into high-end chocolate.

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Prof. Ralph Rosen’s research takes an ancient approach to the ‘nuanced’ art of modern satire DAN SPINELLI Staff Reporter

Sitting down for a free-flowing discussion with Classical Studies Professor Ralph Rosen is a lot like flipping blindly through an encyclopedia.

For a man whose intellectual curiosity far extends the parameters of his professional expertise, hardly any topic is off limits for analysis. This is, of course, a professor who related the Roman satirist Horace’s poetry to Snoop Dogg’s nasty rhymes in his paper, “Comedies of Transgression in Gangsta Rap and Ancient Classical Poetry.”

In the same conversation, Rosen can span topics from Jesus to Eminem, all the while exploring one of his favorite concepts: satire. His research pays close attention to this delicate art, which Rosen considers more “nuanced” than people think.

I saw a lot of people trying to get walks home,” Engineering graduate student Sonia Roberts said.

By 8:30 p.m., when The Daily Pennsylvanian arrived at the scene, the block was empty except for some Penn security guards.

Two Penn security officers, who declined to offer their names, noted that while they were asked to report to the area around 4100 Pine, they did not receive the UPennAlerts. “All we got was black, male, dreads, white hoodie,” one security officer said. “I wish we got what you got,” he said, referring to the alerts.

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address of the incident was on the 4100 block of Pine.

Though Penn security responded to the robbery, neighbors say that they did not see increased police activity on their block after the incident. “I was on the doorstep when I received the text,” said a Penn senior who lives at 4109 Pine.

However, he said police cars did show up on the scene a block over, at 40th and Pine streets.

“I didn’t see any lights or hear any sirens on the street at the time that the robbery was happening. But immediately afterwards I was down here smoking a cigarette with my friend, and

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Quad laptop burglar sentenced Former Penn student sentenced to 11.5 to 23 months

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For mer Pen n st udent Tony Bagtas was sentenced to 11.5 to 23 months of confinement with immediate parole for incidents including a series of computer thefts in the Quadrangle last spring. Bagtas — who

would currently be a College sophomore had he not left Penn following the charges — will serve 5 years of probation after his confinement. He must also pay restitution to victimized College sophomore Kimberly Corson, in addition to court costs and fines.

On Jan. 29, Bagtas — who was also a member of the men’s basketball team — pled guilty to eight charges including

theft, burglary and trespassing. Bagtas took a volunta r y leave of absence from Penn following a meeting with p er son nel f r om t he Office of the Vice Provost for University Life on Apr. 4, according to Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush.

Bagtas was a highly touted recruit for Penn basketball and was expected to play a big role before he was released

from the team.

Bagtas was arrested on Mar. 24 and was charged with eight burglaries that were committed on Mar. 22, as well as two more dating back to Sept. 20, 2013 and Jan. 2014. The Sept. 20 burglary took place at the Zeta Beta Tau chapter house, located at 235 South 39th St. Eleven Penn students were identified as victims of Bagtas’ burglaries.

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ways to never pay for textbooks at all.

“I didn’t buy a single textbook this year,” one College sophomore said. She preferred to remain anonymous because “it’s not exactly legal.”

While many students agree

that the financial strain of purchasing textbooks should be included somewhere in financial aid packages, others understand that the implementation could be confusing.

“I guess that is hard to implement because some classes don’t need textbooks,” Petsis said. “But I think it would only make sense if it did.”

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Soon afterward, however, the Hartmans realized that there was already a market for chocolate, and they weren’t interested in using an idea that already existed.

Instead, they opted to “turn it on its head.”

“There’s a ton of chocolate companies — why would anybody start a new company?”

Hartman said. “We had to do something with a purpose, something that mattered.”

Sarah — who is from Sao Paolo, Brazil — had taken classes in chocolate making and chocolate sourcing in France, Switzerland and Ecuador. The

Hartmans decided to incorporate her background in chocolate and Brazilian roots into their business model. The “C” in the company’s name stands for “Cacao chocolate and conservation.”

After a fungal infestation during the 1980s and 1990s, Brazilian rainforests faced threats of deforestation as farmers turned damaged sections of the rainforest into cattle land.

“The cacao bean is very finicky and needs a tropical rainforest in order to produce seeds,” Hartman said. Part of their business model aims to reforest Brazil’s Atlantic rainforest.

In a process they call “value recycling,” the Hartmans plan to reinvest their profits back into the

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rainforest, ensuring that the land is integrated into private nature preserves that will be run by trusted NGOs. “I wanted to build a company that takes the idea of a value chain and turns it into a value cycle,” Hartman said. “Meaning we extract a piece of the value we create and reinvest in our sources to complete the cycle and amplify the capabilities and health of that source, and therefore my supply chain and products.”

Hartman attended New York University where he studied economics and history. Between his junior and senior years of college, Hartman attended Officer Candidates School for the Marines. He was accepted to the Marines and

joined the service immediately after receiving his degree.

Hartman served in Afghanistan for over four years before deciding to apply to business school. “I achieved what I intended to do,” Hartman said of his decision to leave the service.

Inspired by his own experience, Hartman hopes to focus on hiring veterans at Concept C. “It isn’t our main mission, but it’s important,” Hartman said.

Hartman later spent time in Brazil, where he worked as a project manager at olook, an ecommerce fashion start-up, for seven months before applying to Wharton. He grappled with his decision to become a business student. After taking on

consulting internships, he was left disillusioned with the professional world. “This isn’t what I came to school to do,” he said.

Much of the influence Hartman received for the concept came from Wharton professor Erwann Michel-Kerjan’s MBA class, “Environmental Sustainability and Value Creation.”

Michel-Kerjan remembers working with Hartman on the early stages of his project.

“Most companies that will lead the corporate world tomorrow do not exist today. Colin’s might very well be one of them,” Michel-Kerjan said in an email.

“And whatever he decides to do next will probably be big. He thinks international, full-life

cycle and knows that creating value is essential.”

2014 MBA recipient Azita Habibiok, one of Hartman’s classmates, helped him practice his pitch for the Wharton Venture Initiation Program.

“It was very apparent that they were very passionate,” Habibi said of Hartman and his wife.

“I think that they’re just a great team, as two individuals and as a couple. They’re very different but complementary.”

“We’re all gone sooner or later,” Hartman said. “I don’t think anyone thought chocolate could have tangible social impact.

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Dollops of frosting, red velvet and decadent chocolate cake can be at your doorstep in a matter of clicks.

As of a week and a half ago, Whip & Whisk, a cupcake delivery business founded by Wharton senior Cristina Peruyera and College senior Saralyn Andrick, hit the ground running. Whip & Whisk intends to establish itself as a go-to for Penn students to acquire affordable, customized and delicious cupcakes for events like club meetings, sorority gatherings and BYOs. Andrick and Peruyera are operating the business themselves and do not plan to hire anyone else or deliver outside of the Penn community. Serving both “mini” and “full size” cupcakes, Andrick makes each one in her kitchen. Whip & Whisk allows customers to customize each cupcake by giving them the options of a vanilla, chocolate or banana base and a frosting of Nutella, vanilla or chocolate.

They also offer a variety of gourmet flavors and cite Cookies n’ Cream as their most popular. The recipes can be modified to be gluten and lactose free as well as vegan upon request. Mini cupcakes, which can be bought in packages of six, range from $1.30 to $1.50 each, and full size cupcakes start at $2.50 each.

The idea for Whip & Whisk began when Andrick’s co-workers at Penn College Achievement Program raved about the cupcakes she baked and brought into the office once a week. The positive reinforcement and an interest in the food industry motivated Peruyera and Andrick to transform this hobby into a business.

“I’ve always said I wanted to open a restaurant and be in a world where I can both express my creativity and utilize my business knowledge,” Peruyera said.

Although Andrick and Peruyera initially planned to wait until after graduation to get involved in the food industry, the enthusiasm of

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EDITORIAL | Penn must look beyond fraternities in order to address the issue of alcohol and sexual assault

ith the federal review of colleges suspected of mishandling sexual assault cases underway, campuses across the nation have recently been addressing the issue of alcohol. Dartmouth announced a complete ban on hard liquor following several reforms on its fraternities and sororities, while Brown has prohibited alcohol from all its residences, including Greek houses. It seems that while the degree of action being taken varies by institution, one thing is clear: Universities are focusing on Greek life as the center of alcohol abuse and sexual assault.

It is undeniable that many cases of sexual assault do in fact occur within the context of fraternity parties. The stereotypical story of a freshman girl getting too drunk, then being led upstairs where she becomes a victim of sexual assault is one that is familiar to many, partly because, as with any cautionary

tale, there is a basis of fact.

However, it is necessary to shift the perspective beyond just Greek life. What is almost never mentioned in discussions concerning campus drinking and sexual assault is that fraternities are not the only places where students imbibe irresponsibly.

Penn boasts over 450 student-

cest National Network, with 28 percent of sexual assaults occurring between intimate partners.

Furthermore, the fixation on fraternity culture as the perpetrator of sexual violence falsely frames the issue as a solely heterosexual one. The Center of Disease Control and Prevention re-

national headquarters — non-Greek organizations are not held accountable to any standard of behavior beyond the general student conduct policy.

This means that these organizations are largely flying under the administration’s radar. Even if only a fraction of the 450-plus student clubs

Fraternities are not guilt-free of partaking in the culture of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct, but we cannot expect to lay sanctions on them alone and consider the issue resolved.” run clubs and organizations, many of which host their own parties several times a semester. Some even practice their versions of the “pledging” process in imitation of fraternity culture.

But unlike registered fraternities — which are required to follow guidelines set by the University’s Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, as well as those of their

ports that bi- and homosexual males and females are subject to comparative rates of sexual violence to heterosexuals, with bisexual women having nearly double the rate of heterosexual women. Clearly, the risk of sexual assault is not limited to the male-onfemale story of the freshman girl at her first frat party.

Fraternities are not guiltfree of partaking in the

on campus has any traditions or culture involving alcohol, it still vastly outnumbers fraternities and sororities by a large margin.

Additionally, sexual assault happens not just at raucous parties, but also in private, personal situations.

Almost three quarters of sexual assault cases occur between non-strangers, according to the Rape, Abuse & In-

culture of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct, but we cannot expect to lay sanctions on them alone and consider the issue resolved.

It is all too easy to lay the blame on the highly visible Greek societies that seem to dominate the social and party scene, but they are only part of the problem, not the problem itself.

Ultimately, the issue that we need to address is not “where” students are drinking, but “who” is drinking.

While fraternity parties often present riskier situations, the current limited focus on them actually harms the effort against alcohol abuse and sexual assault by restricting the field of vision.

As long as the prevalence of irresponsible drinking persists, the danger of alcohol abuse and sexual assault will continue to endure on campus.

Currently, Penn has a short, almost comical, online alcohol safety module augmented by even shorter

sexual assault presentations during NSO. With just these few cursory warnings, students are left to roam free; for many, it is the first time away from home, and the newfound freedom outpaces restraint, to their detriment.

If the University is to address the issue of alcohol abuse and sexual assault, it cannot simply overlook the fact that students are at risk both within and outside of fraternity parties. It needs to dispel the myth, however far reaching, that one can only be sexually assaulted at a frat party. Intimate partner violence is a real issue, LGBTQ sexual violence exists and non-Greek clubs present further complications and dangers.

We need to end the existing problems at fraternities, but it is time we widen our view and figure out a way to end the sexual violence crisis that persists beyond the walls of chapter houses.

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WHEN | It’s time to move out of West Philadelphia

ace relations, economic disparities, the lingering threat of crime, having to deal with people of different backgrounds: It’s not easy being in West Philly. When the median income bracket for us Penn students is three times more than that of our neighbors past 40th Street, sitting on the brackish border to the slumdrums can be chafing.

Center City has its colonial charm, South Philadelphia has its restaurants, but chaos runs the Wild West.

Times were different when Penn relocated into West Philadelphia in 1872.

Our new neighborhood was predominantly — nay, institutionally — white, and West Philadelphia stood as a plush retreat on the fringes of Center City for the wealthy and the Old Philadelphians. But times have changed. Like Myspace or Greece, it just ain’t what it used to be.

Under the decorum of noblesse oblige mixed with Franklinian values of applied knowledge, Penn has offered to clean up the neighborhood, be it with Wharton’s initiatives or the pro-bono stints of secondyear law students. But, as the case studies might put it, the failure to produce synergy, push the envelope or

even move forward as team players in the community marks a mutually regarded irreconcilable recalcitrance.

To put it alliteratively, West Philadelphia puts populist pressure against our proactive presence of purported progress. It must be some paradigm thing.

More recently, the demand for PILOTs due to Penn “not paying its fair share” to the community is insulting. After all, aren’t we the last bastion of everything worthwhile in West Philadelphia?

Frankly, it’s not worth it to stay. From the Fresh Prince to Thanksgiving dinners with the extended family, Penn’s backdrop is the comedic foil to being a student here. We privileged Penn kids shouldn’t be exposed to the radiation of urban decay without receiving anything in return, let alone having to pay some arbitrary 0.1 percent figure. If I wanted to experience edgy photogenic urban grit while padded with daddy’s money pouch, I’d live in Brooklyn.

The culture clash between West Philadelphia and Penn will only worsen; if you can’t beat them, join them. But if you can’t join them, then run away.

Penn doesn’t feel appreciated, while West Philadel-

phia feels encroached. When two communities don’t see eye to eye, maybe it’s time to see another community.

It’s time to make do like the Israelites in Egypt and re-relocate. Like spicy food, dipping a toe into a tide pool of diversity can build character, but it can also lead to feelings of discomfort, palpitations and fear. Our parents wouldn’t want that.

I propose we move to Manayunk (MAN-ee-unk), Pa. This will be the chance for Penn to reinvent itself, and find a community that aligns more closely with our demographic. Nearby Manayunk, a land of bars, bros and BYO’s: an index fund of Penn’s social scene.

It’s where diversity comes in varieties of draft beers and quinoa. Gentrification has already hacked away the messy jungle of diversity with the machete of moneyed immigration, allowing for us to live in the sheltered innocence that we students deserve, away from Dickensian drab or stingy power dynamics. An Ivy ensconcement where ignorance is bliss. The hilly terrain makes for a perfect vantage point to look down on Philadelphia.

Its canal can even serve as a moat.

We can only hope that industry in Manayunk won’t

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There’s no point throwing money at the wrong part of the educational system -- students need assistance far before they reach community college.

— Right JASON TANGSON one day collapse as well, lest our new surroundings dwindle into a new New Haven.

I’ll refrain from nurdling on logistics; I’m an opinion columnist, not an urban planner.

Oh, and West Philadelphia has a lot to gain as well. For one, parasitic Penn would stop freeloading off of the $33 million in annual property taxes otherwise owed. Without the deciduous barrage of students, property prices and living standards will finally simmer down to a comfortable and accessible rate for West Philadelphia’s long-term residents.

Only then, would the crusty charm of West Philly return.

JASON TANGSON is a College junior from Cambridge, Mass., studying linguistics.

His email address is tjason@sas.upenn.edu.

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Pro-charter org. offers $35 million to Phila. School District Gallard claims charter would bring more loss than gain JENNIFER WRIGHT Staff Reporter

This week, the School Reform Commission could decide on some of 39 charter school applications.

Three charter schools have applied to open in Penn’s ZIP code.

Philadelphia School Partnership is offering $35 million to the School District of Philadelphia to offset the financial impact of enrolling 15,000 students in new charter schools. Still, district spokesperson Fernando Gallard told the Philadelphia Inquirer that it would cost the district closer to $500 million.

This is the first time the SRC, Philadelphia’s school governing board, has accepted applications for new charter schools in seven years. As seems to be the norm nationwide when it comes to charter school expansion, the whole process has been rife with controversy.

“The debate is very polarized,” assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education Nelson Flores said. “I think the people on the extremes are the ones that are the most vocal. It’s hard to find

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“I’ve always been interested in transgressive language — the phenomenon of it,” Rosen said.

“I think he spent a lot of time in the principal’s office,” his wife, Ellen, responded.

Throughout his academic career, Ralph has combined a professional study of the classics with a consistent appreciation of scandalous art.

Rosen’s research on ancient transgressive satire remains applicable in a modern context where satire is still treated with apprehension. This was apparent in the controversy over the shooting at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo by Muslim extremists on Jan. 7.

Satire, Rosen said, begins firmly with the prospect of danger.

Satirists play up their outsider persona, he said. Even for satirists like Horace, who critiqued Roman society without a significant threat of censorship, playing up an abject persona “went with the territory of satire,” Rosen explained.

“The notion of the danger of satire has become part of the genre,” he said.

A recent example of the seriousness of this danger is in the Hebdo shooting, which killed 12 people.

French Muslims, who “are not interested in assimilating to the hegemonic culture,” proved ripe for the satirists’ mighty pen, Rosen said. A history of targeting outsiders is ingrained in the lineage of satirists. The Roman poet Juvenal also took aim at cultural outsiders, at times offering vicious, xenophobic invectives toward foreigners.

Rosen repeatedly emphasized the unique nature of satire against Muslims when compared to the oeuvre of other transgressive mocking.

common ground when there are people on extremes that are incompatible with one another.”

Varied models for charter schools exist in Philadelphia. Some are community organizations that open a one-off school to fill a need in a community, while others are less place-based and hope to create many versions of the same school.

“For a lot of different reasons, it’s become about trying to brand yourself and spread to as many different places as possible. And I think that is what has to led to most of the conflict,” Flores said.

He added that support for charter schools comes from the desire to create schools that fit the needs of specific communities and also to provide parents “school choice” — the ability to choose the right school for their child — as opposed to a catchment area neighborhood school.

“Pro-charter people would say that competition would make all schools better and anti-charter people would say, ‘It’s not really a competition because we don’t have the resources to compete with you,’” Flores said.

Critical Writing professor Amy Brown helped to write an open letter from the Caucus of Working

Educators to the SRC urging them, like many other groups have, to reject all 40 applications. “[Competition] is not going to inspire traditional public schools to suddenly perform better,” she said.

A report released from Public Citizens for Children and Youth, headed by Penn alumna and lecturer in the Urban Studies Department Donna Cooper, pointed to the funds lost to the district for every child that switches from a district school to a charter school.

In response to that specific claim, the announcement of the $35 million offer is intended to “offset stranded costs associated with charter expansion, and to fund the transformation of district schools,” Executive Director of PSP Mark Gleason said in a release on Wednesday.

While some are questioning whether this surprising offer matches up mathematically to the amount needed to remedy costs related to charter expansion, others are wondering who the donors are.

The district has not said whether or not they will accept the offer.

Penn’s Fels Institute of Government alum and PSP Director of Public Affairs Kristen Forbriger said that for her, it is important to

look at schools based on their quality rather than parsing them out by type only. “Given the track record of several of the applicants, that has to be taken into consideration when there are so many families who are in search of better options for their children and there are schools that have proven the ability to provide a good education for students,” she said.

For this area in particular, two existing charter operators, Belmont and Independence Charter, are proposing high schools for the 19104 ZIP code. The Philadelphia Music and Dance Charter School would be a new K-12 school and is looking to find a location in University City. Decisions on some of the applications could be released as early as this coming week.

In late January, the SRC asked applicants to sign a waiver to extend the deadline until June 1, 2015, allowing for more time to vote on applications. The cigarette tax legislation from last fall that mandated applications be accepted annually also says that any rejections can be appealed.

The waivers were supposed to be due by noon on Friday, but the board at Independence Charter School has decided to delay their

own decision on whether to sign the waiver until on or before Feb. 20.

Penn alum Michael Karp and his organization — the Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia — are proposing Belmont Charter High School as the high school counterpart to their two existing schools. The SRC approved the sale by resolution of the former Leidy Elementary School on 1301 Belmont Ave. to Karp and his group in September 2014.

“You have to be fair and you have to be practical. I can understand the district saying, ‘Honestly, we’re out of money,”’ meaning SRC might want more time to consider the budget for next year, Karp

said. They’ve signed the waiver and are allowing the district more time to vote even though they hoped to open the new school in the fall of 2015.

Karp said that Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell — who represents the district covering Penn’s campus — would be on the board for the new Belmont high school.

Karp said having a councilperson on their side shows the SRC that they have community support.

“We thought that she would be the best person,” he said. “Her focus is really helping underserved families.”

As to whether they will appeal if their application is rejected: “That’s a certainty,” Karp said.

Traditionally, satirists go after the powerful. Political comedian Jon Stewart, for example, shines a light on corruption and hypocrisy among the elite. Juvenal also railed against hypocrisy among the patrician ruling class.

However, targeting a minority group subject to discrimination, like French Muslims, is unusual.

Rosen believes that the “otherization” of Muslims in France contributed to their ridicule by satirists. He drew a distinction from satire by comedians like Stewart, who criticize America’s politicians but remain an active part of its political system.

“It’s like joking within your family. You can get away with a lot inside of your family,” he said. Such “shared history and shared relationships” were not altogether present with the French Muslims and the mainstream French culture.

“You’re dealing with completely

incompatible attitudes toward free speech,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Muslims may not hold power over the hegemonic culture in France, but some extremist sects are “powerful enough” to retaliate against actions that they find reprehensible, like Charlie Hebdo’s parodic drawings of Mohammed.

Many critics of Charlie Hebdo’s satire have upheld the sacredness of Muslim symbols, yet Rosen sees the issue as much more broad.

“There’s not a lot of laughter in the Gospels,” he said.

“Jesus Christ is a very un-humorous person, whereas the Greeks are very full of laughter as a culture,” he said.

Rosen later referred to the cult around the Greek goddess Demeter, whose worshipers would often invoke obscene language and mockery into their rituals. For the Greeks, honoring Demeter could involve obscenity and laughter, while other

religions like Christianity and Islam have generally frowned upon mockery of their symbols and prophets.

The relationship between transgressive satire and religion figures prominently in Ralph’s signature course, “Scandalous Arts in Ancient and Modern Society.”

Students in his class study the boundaries of what is considered “artistic” and “obscene” through pairings of ancient and modern artists.

College freshman Izzy Korostoff spoke highly of Scandalous Arts.

When asked for his favorite aspect

of the class, Korostoff responded point-blank: “Ralph.”

“He was so enthusiastic about the material that he carried the class himself in such a delightful manner,” Korostoff said.

College senior Diamond Irwin took Rosen’s class this fall and found the experience very rewarding.

“He broached a lot of different topics, so it wasn’t just literature or music,” Irwin said. “He made the material very accessible and interesting.”

Ralph said that he is not the only

one applying classical studies to the modern day. In comparison to some of his colleagues, “Ralph is boring,” his wife said with a smile.

Ralph Rosen certainly reflects the interdisciplinary and fluid nature of the humanities, where study of Aristotle, Horace and Juvenal can often predict and describe modern-day controversies. While he appreciates the application of his research to modern satire, Ralph is sincere about the lack of definite answers in the humanities.

“There will never be a stable answer,” he said.

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Business ventures compete for $30,000 The Wharton Business Plan Competition continues BRYN FERGUSON Staff Reporter

From pediatric cancer patient care to bachelorette party planning, business ventures of all kinds can compete for over $30,000 in the Wharton Business Plan Competition.

Last Thursday, the WBPC announced the 25 semifinalists that will move onto the next round and have a chance at winning large cash prizes and valuable legal and financial services for their business ventures.

Founded by the Wharton Entrepreneurship Club in 1998, the WBPC has seen winners that have started diverse businesses like Black Box Denim, a customized jeans maker and Slidejoy, an Android app that pays users to view ads when they unlock their smartphone.

Responsible for running most of the competition is a student management committee, composed of first year MBA students along with two Wharton seniors and one Wharton junior. Karen Wong, 2010 College graduate and now first year MBA and law school student, is one of the co-chairs of the competition.

To win, a business idea has to be both innovative and executable.

“In order to make your business successful, you really need to think about how you’re going to execute — how the customer is going to experience it, if you need suppliers, where are you going to get them,” Wong said.

“The more you think about [these things] the more you will be successful.”

This year’s first round saw 175 diverse teams submit applications for review by a panel of 300 judges, who are mostly alumni. Among the 25 semifinalists were KidFoods, StudentsCare and My Best

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Led by first year MBA students Neil Vangala and Rishi Reddy, KidFoods is a meal delivery service that provides healthy and affordable meals for children. Before coming to Wharton, Vangala worked in private equity, investing in entrepreneurs, and Reddy founded a healthcare technology company. The two met at Wharton and discovered a shared passion for nutrition. “[Our service] provides a meal kit that gives people four lunches and four snacks per week at an affordable price point,” Vangala said. “The meals are 98 percent done with five minute prep — we want the customers to really engage with what they’re giving their kids.

The reason it’s only five minutes is because we want it to be convenient.”

“There are a ton of [meal] delivery services, but no one has tapped the kids market.

We’re not trying to do things like kale salads; we’re trying to do healthy versions of things kids things would want,” Reddy added.

Although KidFoods has yet to launch, their research is conversational-level and survey-based so far. Still, Reddy agreed with Wong that the competition has been “a great way for us to formalize our thought process in a structured format.”

Other competing businesses have already taken off, such as the non-profit organization StudentsCare. Second year School of Social Policy & Practice student Erica Sokol started the Hospital Buddy program while a student at the University of Miami, which became StudentsCare one year ago.

The organization matches undergraduate volunteers with long-term pediatric cancer patients, concurrently providing friendship and support for the patients and opportunities for students to gain experience in the hospital environment.

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WBPC semifinalist Erica Sokol founded StudentsCare, an organization that matches undergraduate volunteers with longterm pediatric cancer patients.

Even though her business is already operational, Sokol said that participating in the competition is a good experience.

“The feedback from the judges is invaluable. Even from the first round, it’s been great to hear from these professionals.

They each have a unique perspective.”

The substantial cash prizes were also a draw to participate.

“I think it would be amazing to have that kind of funding — to initiate new programs and develop new chapters.” Sokol added that she hopes to recruit Penn students and start a chapter in Philadelphia.

Another currently operational venture in the hospitality industry has nothing to do with patient care. My Best Friend’s Weekend is a custom bachelorette party planning service that offers itineraries, research, booking and planning services.

The company was co-founded by second year MBA students Tisha Vaidya and Lauren Raouf

and has planned 35 bachelorette parties across 20 cities in the United States and Canada since its launch last June.

“We are saying that your time is worth more to you than planning a bachelorette party,” Vaidya said. “We can do it more quickly and efficiently.”

Like Sokol, Vaidya emphasized that the WBPC provides an opportunity for “super critical feedback,” since the judges have “no vested interest in your company.”

She also emphasized the importance of the competition from a marketing standpoint, stating that if they won any of the cash prizes, they would put the money back into advertising.

All semifinalists will submit their business plans by Feb. 27 and will pitch to the judging panel on March 20. Eight teams will move on to compete for the prizes at the Venture Finals round, which will be held on April 30.

For co-founder of Federal Donuts Felicia D’Ambrosio, “life is work, work is food, food is identity,” This train of thought summed up her views on Penn Appétit’s Food Summit theme: Fitting Together Food and Identity.

D’Ambrosio was one of six panel speakers who made up the first half of the Food Summit on Saturday. Each speaker brought diverse experiences and expertise to the table.

Making up the rest of the speakers were two scientists, a Top Chef, a public relations specialist and the founder of the Wine School of Philadelphia, Keith Wallace, who began his short talk with the words “I f**king hate wine snobs,” to laughter from the crowd.

Wallace said he disliked people using aspects of their identity — like their appreciation of wine — to elevate themselves over others. His segment was a gear switch from the short biology lesson given by Robert F. Margolskee, a scientist who worked to isolate one of the key proteins involved in tasting and who was published in Nature for his work.

The questions varied as much as

the perfect wine to pair with a federal donut: dry, with a relatively high alcohol content.

Kevin Sbraga, who owns Sbraga Restaurant, The Fat Ham and Juniper Commons and won “Top Chef” season seven , brought a different approach to food and identity. Spraga told the audience about his beginnings growing up in his parents’ bakery, which inspired him to try out for “Top Chef” many times until finally landing not only a spot on the show, but a victory.

“The point of going on the show was to have my own restaurant, my own identity and my own food,” Spraga said.

Ellen Yin, a Penn graduate who owns Fork and High Street on Market and was a key player in the farm-to-table movement that happened a few years ago, closed the forum by giving her interpretation of the food and identity theme.

Former events chair of the magazine and College and Wharton sophomore Chase Matecun said he wanted to bring an “eclectic” mix of speakers for the summit — something that Penn Appétit brought back after a three year hiatus.

“We really wanted to bring together the food community at Penn that has been growing so much in the past few years,” Matecun said.

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BY LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor Some victories are just a little bit sweeter than others.

For the women’s squash team, Sunday’s 9-0 sweep of Columbia was more than just a win; it was the win that capped off a perfect conference season and clinched Penn’s first Ivy League title in seven years.

Heading into the weekend, only Cornell and Columbia (7-7, 2-4 Ivy) stood between Penn and a spot atop the Ancient Eight. But neither the Big Red nor the Lions could put a damper on the Quakers’ winning ways.

With a four-game winning streak in tow, Penn conquered the Big Red (8-5, 3-4 Ivy) at home on Friday with an 8-1 decision. Next, the Quakers headed north to Manhattan, wrapping up an undefeated Ivy season against Columbia.

Although the Quakers were not officially named Ivy champions until Sunday night, according to coach Jack Wyant, the fate of the Ancient Eight crown was decided almost an entire month ago. “We really clinched the

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getting my upper body back into shape.� “It was really hard for Alex when he first came back,� coach Mike Schnur said. “He couldn’t push off the walls, he couldn’t dive in and he couldn’t kick, all of which are really significant parts of swimming.�

However, little by little, Porter found himself becoming faster and stronger in the water, even as he continued to crutch along on land.

By the end of December, Porter was able to start doing flip turns and kicking. Finally, over the team’s annual winter

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title. “Our goal is to compete for Ivy titles every year,� he said. “I can fully appreciate how difficult it is to achieve this.�

Although the conference season may be in the books for the Red and Blue, the toughest opponents still have yet to be vanquished.

This weekend, the team will head

break training trip, he resumed full team practices, going the distances his teammates were swimming, although admittedly at a far slower pace. “We really had a lot of fun with Alex during his recovery,� senior Sam Ruddy said. “Any time he would get up on the blocks even during practice after his injury, guys would stop what they were doing and start screaming ‘Porter!’ “Because he was so well liked, people really got behind him, and he was just a great example to all of us of what you can achieve when you put your mind to it.�

Then, less than two months after the first time he was able

to put pressure on his leg, Porter was back on the blocks for the first race of his senior year, as he suited up for the team’s away tri-meet against Brown and Harvard. “The biggest thing about the first race for me wasn’t even the race itself but being on the travel bus again," Porter said of his first meet back. “Most of the time, that long bus ride is the thing everyone hates, but for me it was huge and I just had that feeling like I was finally part of the team again.� “It was great to see him get from the point where we literally had to lift him into the pool to the point where he was doing everything he needed to be

doing to race,� Elias added. “It’s hard not to be impressed by that.�

Porter would also get the opportunity to swim in two more meets, racing on Senior Day against Delaware, and finally ending his season against La Salle last weekend. “We just wanted to give Alex a chance to swim a few more times,� Schnur said. “He is a guy who has contributed a ton to our program over the four years and it was heartbreaking to see him get hurt as a senior. “We are nowhere near as fast a team as we could be without him, but it was great to see him suit up for us a few more times.�

Due to a scheduling conflict, Porter was given the choice to either cap off his collegiate swimming career with one last taper meet — the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships in Pittsburgh — or watch his teammates throw down at Men’s Ivy Championships in Princeton. Without hesitation, the senior chose the latter.

Despite all the work and pain that went into his return, and even with his season already at an end, Porter feels that his decision to fight to get back in the pool was well worth it – and he would do it again if given the chance. “Obviously, I didn’t get in the number of meets I planned on racing in this year, but it was great just to be back in the water and racing again,� Porter said. “Especially in collegiate sports, you have such a limited time to enjoy your sport. I have seventy years of life after this to do whatever I want, but for the time that I was here I wanted to make the most of it.�

COURTESY OF PENN ATHLETICS

Penn women’s squash, led by coach Jack Wyant, earned its first Ancient Eight title since 2008 — the second in Wyant’s 11-year coaching stint at Penn — with wins over Cornell and Columbia this weekend. The Quakers will be the second seed in the CSA Team National Championships beginning on Friday.

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Indeed, the No. 2-ranked Red and Blue were the favorites in every single one of their conference matchups following their upset of Harvard.

But rankings are just numbers, for they do not speak to the obstacles the team overcame on its way to a 7-0 conference record. Just take Jan. 28’s win over Princeton the day after the passing of Wyant’s college coach, Princeton’s famed Bob Callahan. “We’ve had moments of brilliance and moments when we weren’t quite at our best,� Wyant said. “But one thing that I’ll say about this young group of women is that they’ve risen to the occasion like few other teams I’ve ever coached.�

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Jones joked that the torn ligaments were helping his shooting, saying that the injury wasn’t a big deal.

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While Columbia was led by its star guard Maodo Lo, who scored 10 points in the opening frame on his way to 16 total, the Lions’ attack was well-balanced, featuring six players with at least nine points. “I’ll give them some credit for making some shots but I’ll also put some of the onus on us,� Allen said of Penn’s three-point defense. “The gameplan is what it’s been pretty much since the start of the season. “We just didn’t execute it very well tonight.�

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The Quakers began the half with five missed layups in the first two minutes, unable to make an even small dent in the sizable deficit. Columbia extended its lead to 33 points early in the half and led by 24 points or more for the entire second half.

Penn broke a streak of 78 straight games with at least 10 turnovers as Columbia seemed to ease off defensively down the stretch.

The Red and Blue had also turned the ball over at least 10 times in 34 straight Ivy League games, both streaks dating back to March 2012.

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SPORTS 9

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Blowout caps weekend split CORNELL 60 49 PENN PENN 78 57 COLUMBIA W. HOOPS | Four score in

double digits vs. Lions

BY ANNA DYER Associate Sports Editor

HOLDEN MCGINNIS | SPORTS EDITOR

A night after dropping Friday’s game to Cornell, Penn’s win against Columbia was paced by freshman forward Michelle Nwokedi’s 19 points in her first career start.

Columbia taps replacement AD

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BY RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

Columbia Athletic Director M. Dianne Murphy announced in September that she planned to resign from her position at the conclusion of the academic year.

Now, six months after Murphy’s announcement and two months after football coach Pete Mangurian’s resignation following allegations of abuse and misconduct with players, Columbia has announced that Peter Pilling will take over as athletic director on April 13.

A graduate of Brigham Young University and Ohio University, Pilling is the former vice president of IMG College, one of the largest sports marketing companies in the country. Throughout his time with the agency, Pilling assisted in the negotiation of corporate sponsorships with the Mountain West Conference and West Coast Conference.

Prior to working for IMG College, Pilling established ties in the Philadelphia area as the associate athletic director at Villanova. After four years with the Wildcats, Pilling returned to his alma mater in the same capacity, serving as senior associate athletic director and taking part in the search committee that hired current BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall.

Pilling’s experience with the Mendenhall hiring may come in handy over the course of the next few months. The Lions have been without a head football coach since Mangurian’s resignation on Dec. 5, and the newly hired athletic director has emphasized the need to find a coach that can put together a competitive program.

Columbia has lost 21 consecutive games dating back to the 2012 season, including back-to-back 0-10 campaigns in 2013 and 2014.

“We need to hire a football coach,” Pilling told the Columbia Spectator. “That’s priority number one.”

Murphy’s tenure as athletic director included one of the most dominant stretches in Columbia history. Over the course of her decade in charge, the Lions accumulated 26 Ivy League titles across 11 sports, as well as 128 individual Ancient Eight championships, the most of any in a 10-year span in school history.

Pilling emphasized that he hopes to cultivate the success generated under Murphy. While his current focus may be on hiring a football coach, the new athletic director has pledged to focus on all Columbia sports, similar to M. Grace Calhoun’s path at the beginning of her tenure with Penn Athletics.

“I’m going to meet with all the senior administration, meet with the coaches, meet with the staff and listen,” he said. “The entire athletic department is a priority.”

Punxsutawney Phil may have declared six more weeks of winter, but there was no sign of ice for Penn women’s basketball on a historic Saturday night at the Palestra.

The Quakers exploded offensively on their way to a 78-57 win over Columbia, a win that provided the squad with a solid confidence booster after Friday night’s demoralizing loss to Cornell.

Entering the weekend doubleheader and fresh off their first road sweep of Dartmouth and Harvard since 2004, the Red and Blue had not lost an Ivy contest in the Palestra since Jan. 11, 2014.

But that all changed against the Big Red as Cornell raced out to an 18-point first half lead before holding on for a 60-49 win.

Early in the first half of Saturday’s matchup, Penn seemed like it hadn’t bucked the trend from the night before as the game was a

back-and-forth battle. Led by star sophomore Tori Oliver — who finished with a game-high 24 points that night — and freshman Alexis Giuliano, the Lions (6-14, 0-6 Ivy) remained competitive for a bulk of the game early on.

But when the Red and Blue (12-7, 3-2) got hot, they stayed hot — especially from behind the arc.

Penn scored 53 points in the first half — one point shy of the school record and more than the team’s total against Cornell (13-7, 4-2) the night before. The Quakers had three players in double digits by halftime as the team connected on 61.5 percent of their threes before the break.

Coach Mike McLaughlin credited his defense with providing the offensive a spark that ultimately allowed Penn to control the tempo for the remainder of the game.

“I think it was 21-20 with 10 minutes to go in the first,” he said.

“We switched out of the zone and into the man. That was the best man-to-man we have played all year. It allowed our defense to turn into offense.”

Led by freshman forward Michelle Nwokedi and sophomore

forward Sydney Stipanovich, the Red and Blue had four players reach double digits en route to the blowout.

In her first career start, Nwokedi notched her second consecutive double-double, scoring a career-high 19 points to go along with 10 rebounds and seven blocks.

“I was nervous,” the Missouri City, Texas, native said. “I had no idea [being named a starter] was coming. I was just ready to help the team in any way I could.”

“She has great tools,” McLaughlin said. “She has an understanding of the college game, the pace and all. She is already off to a good start, and I just think the sky is the limit for her.”

Nwokedi wasn’t the only Penn player with a historic night.

Late in the second half, senior captain Kara Bonenberger scored her 1,000th point, a milestone only 20 other players in school history have reached.

Although Bonenberger had not been keeping a close tab on her point total, her friends and family certainly were.

“My grammy keeps track of all that so she told me, and then

I figured out it [would be] sometime either yesterday or today,” Bonenberger said. “I am just honored and privileged to get this opportunity to get to the milestone of 1,000 points.”

Standout performances aside, the victory was undoubtedly a team effort. Eight players scored for the Quakers while 14 different players received playing time.

“Everyone was f lowing,” Bonenberger said. “We were playing together. We were playing as a team, and it just showed on the court.”

Despite splitting its two games at home this weekend, both McLaughlin and his team know they cannot focus on the standings at this point in the season.

“As I tell the players, I can’t let them get caught up in what other teams are doing and what their records are,” McLaughlin said. “We are keeping score for Penn. And that is all that really matters.

“We are just going to fight every one we play. … add them all up at the end.”

The Quakers will next be in action on Friday when they travel to New Haven, Conn., for a matchup with Yale.

Quakers sweep home weekend dual meets WRESTLING | Penn still

undefeated at home

BY STEVEN JACOBSON Staff Writer On Saturday afternoon at the Palestra, a familiar voice shouted out from the sidelines as wrestlers went to work on the mats.

“Work hard!” Penn wrestling coach Alex Tirapelle yelled. “Finish on top!”

And that’s exactly what the Red and Blue did. Matched up against both Brown and Harvard in consecutive meets over the weekend, the Quakers took both bouts of the home doubleheader, defeating the Bears, 29-6, and the Crimson, 26-13.

With the dual meet sweep, Penn notched its third consecutive win since the Jan. 24 loss to Cornell and fourth victory in five matchups.

“It’s great to beat our Ivy League opponents at any time,” Tirapelle said.

“We have our Ivy League rivals, and we want to beat them every time out.

“We’re competing with them for kids, trying to sell our program.”

Penn’s 157-pound class had an especially strong showing on Saturday. Junior Brooks Martino defeated Brown sophomore and 20th-ranked Justin Staudenmayer in a hotly contested match. Martino took the 2-1 match in overtime for the upset victory.

“I worked with all the coaches this week,” Martino said of his key to the win. “We sat down with some film. I wrestled a disciplined match, and at the same time I’ve been getting better at concentrating on myself in practice.”

Freshman 157-pounder May Bethea took the floor for the Quakers against Harvard and put up an especially strong showing against

Crimson sophomore Colby Knight.

Bethea executed two takedowns in the first period and never looked back, dominating the match for a 14-4 win.

Bethea’s brother, senior 197-pounder Canaan, also performed well on the day. He beat Brown senior Sebastien Levin, 9-4, to add three points to Penn’s overall lead before facing his true test against Harvard senior James Fox. Bethea fought hard against the weight class’ 14th-ranked wrestler.

However, after being called for a questionable stalling violation in the rideout round, Bethea lost on a takedown in the second sudden victory round.

“It is what it is,” Tirapelle said. “I was disappointed for Canaan — I wasn’t disappointed in him. I thought he did enough to win the match, but that’s not always the way it goes.”

The Red and Blue featured different wrestlers in each match for the 149-pound class, but both picked up wins for the team.

After No. 10 CJ Cobb pulled out a 4-2 win against Brown sophomore Steve Galiardo, senior Andrew Lenzi took the mat against Harvard to fill in for Cobb, who had to miss the nightcap.

Lenzi, who usually wrestles in the 141-pound weight class, was working at a disadvantage. The last-minute replacement was not even the maximum 149 pounds at weigh-in. Despite the obstacles, the veteran took down Crimson junior Nick Stager for a fall at 1:22 to put Penn up 16-3.

“That was my favorite moment of the day,” Tirapelle noted after the match. “Andrew Lenzi stepped in and took care of business, and that’s what we need from our guys who aren’t everyday starters.

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Against No. 20 Justin Staudenmayer, junior Brooks Martino upset his opponent from Brown in overtime, 2-1, to help the Quakers clinch a weekend sweep at home.

“He was definitely the shining star [and had] the brightest match of this dual, in my opinion.”

Senior No. 5 Lorenzo Thomas continued his usual display of dominance, besting an old rival — Brown senior Ophir Bernstein — by a resounding 11-2 score before easily taking his match against Harvard’s Josh Popple, 12-1.

“It felt good,” Thomas said of his win against Bernstein. “I’ve wrestled him — how many times in the past two years? It feels good to get a dominating win and set the pace for the rest of the year.”

Also performing well were sophomore 133-pounder No. 19 Caleb Richardson and senior 174-pounder Brad Wukie, both of whom won their matches in key grapples for the Quakers.

Penn’s two victories stretch their undefeated streak in home duals to four. While the Quakers might not be first in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association, Saturday’s wins put the Quakers in promising position to close the year out strong.

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WEEKEND SWEEP

IVY CHAMPS Penn women’s squash clinched its first Ivy title since 2008 this weekend

Penn wrestling swept its weekend bouts

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2015

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M. HOOPS | Lions’

threes doom Quakers

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor-Emeritus NEW YORK — Penn basketball was live from New York

City on Saturday night, yet the evening was anything but funny.

Columbia obliterated the Red and Blue, 83-56, at Levien Gymnasium, using 10 first-half three-pointers and a dominant offensive performance to run Penn out of the

gym. The blowout defeat for the Quakers came on the heels of an impressive 71-69 comeback win over Cornell on Friday and dropped Penn below .500 in conference once again.

The Red and Blue (7-12, 2-3 Ivy) scored off the opening tip, but few, if any, highlights

COLUMBIA 83 56 PENN

remained in a tumultuous first half. The Quakers shot 7-for22 from the field, turning the ball over five times while only freshman forward Sam Jones scored more than three points before the break.

Jones was the sole bright spot of the night for the Quakers.

The freshman was the only player to find any consistency against the Columbia defense, a unit that came into the game ranked second in points against in the Ivy League. The rookie forward added five three-pointers after halftime for a total of seven, scoring a career-high

23 points one night after he hit a go-ahead trey in the final minute against Cornell (11-11, 3-3).

Jones’ performance was even more impressive after coach Jerome Allen revealed after the SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 8

Fight for the finish SWIMMING | A senior’s return

from injury against all odds

BY SAM ALTLAND Staff Writer

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Out of the water, senior sprinter Alex Porter still struggles to walk without a limp after suffering a serious knee injury this fall. But when he’s in the pool, the Baltimore native is almost back to his old self, competing in three of the Quakers’ last four meets to cap his career.

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If you happen to watch senior swimmer Alex Porter slowly limp around the Sheerr Pool, dressed in street clothes and chatting with his teammates, you might think he was just another athlete who had his collegiate sports career cut short by injury.

However, while the veteran has only been able to walk on his own for just over two months, he never let that stop him from making the most of his final season in the pool at Penn.

Porter, who was one of the Quakers’ top swimmers in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle over the last three years, including a top-eight finish in the 100 free at last year’s championship meet, suffered a gruesome leg injury at the end of September. The senior tore his posterior cruciate ligament and meniscus, and sustained partial tears in his anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament .

While the injury might have hit him and his teammates hard, Porter was determined from the outset to get back in the water.

“We all really tried to pitch in as much as we could, but the thing about Alex is that he wanted to be self sufficient,” senior Alex Elias said. “His determination right from day one was apparent. He had it in his mind he was going to come back, and that was really impressive and encouraging to see.”

Recovery wouldn’t necessarily come easy for Porter though.

“I got surgery in the beginning of October to repair some of the ligaments that I had injured, and it wasn’t until November 23 that I could put any pressure or weight on the leg at all,” Porter said.

On land, the senior hobbled around with the aid of a walker – the kind found most commonly in nursing homes. But in the water, it was a different story.

“That was the point where I just sort of got in the water and flopped around, and I just focused a lot on pulling and SEE SWIMMING PAGE 8 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640