February 10, 2014

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Over $56,000 raised for suicide prevention

3-D skull printing: PennDesign tools help vet surgeries

The money has been donated for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

PennDesign and Penn Vet collaborate to enhance treatment for patients

BY MIKE TONY Senior Staff Writer Heather Ford found out the morning after. A text message from her old soccer coach asking if she had heard the terrible news told Ford something was wrong.

Erica Denhoff found out the morning after too. She was on a trip in Utah when she looked at her phone and saw the email announcing the news that College freshman and Penn track and field runner Madison Holleran had committed suicide on Jan. 17.

Ford knew Holleran since they were both 13, hav ing played in a summer soccer league with her growing up.

Denhoff, a 2008 College graduate and Penn track and field alumna , never met her. But each has stepped up to honor her memory with suicide prevention fundraising in her

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name.

In fact, more than $56,000 has been raised for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention through three separate fundraisers in Holleran’s memory. Each acknowledges that suicide prevention awareness has to increase, particularly in a collegiate landscape so physically and mentally draining for young people who push themselves as hard as Holleran did.

Animal health and architecture aren’t two fields you would expect to interact. But since PennDesign acquired new 3-D printers

this fall, neurologists at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine have been working closely with the School of Design to print 3-dimensional models of dog and cat skulls that aid them when performing brain surgery.

Last October, Evelyn GalSEE 3-D PAGE 2

Alumni Support Denhoff is just one of 183 donors contributing to a total of $11,293 raised to date made to an AFSP donation campaign sponsored by Penn track and field alumni. The campaign was launched five days after Holleran’s death by Penn track and field Alumni Ali Harwood/Staff Photographer

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Friends, family remember Holleran

Up all night to get hired

BY SARAH SMITH Senior Writer When Jimmy Holleran climbed the stage at his daughter’s memorial service, he had a speech prepared.

However, when he looked at the crowd gathered in Irvine Auditorium, he decided to abandon it.

“It’s just not what I feel,” he said. “What I feel now is you guys need each other.”

Over a hundred people gathered Sunday night to remember College freshman and track team member Madison Holleran, who committed suicide on Jan. 17. As friends and family shared memories of Holleran, they also began to work through the questions left after her death.

“I realize in situations like [these], things aren’t always black and white. They don’t always have answers,” College sophomore Taylor Hennig, a former teammate of Holleran’s, said. Depression, she added, is more prevalent than people realize, and seeking help is anything but a sign of weakness.

“I go to therapy every day,” Jimmy Holleran said. After his daughter’s death, people from around the country wrote letters sharing their experiences with depression and with their children’s struggles. He and his family started the Madison Holleran Foundation, aimed at preventing suicide and “help[ing] just one

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Family and friends gathered in Irvine Auditorium on Sunday night to remember Madison Holleran, a College freshman who committed suicide on Jan. 17. Much of the discussion at the memorial centered on how to deal with depression and other mental health problems. person who’s really struggling make that call.”

Jimmy Hollera n reca lled walking a lap around his snowcovered backyard in the shape of the dirt circle Madison pounded into the yard by running. He looked down at it and saw a halo — and went to the school soccer field to make another. “I’m just spiritual,” he said.

University Chaplain Chaz Howard began his address urging people to confront their feelings head-on. “If it’s acknowledged, and we can share it, we’ll move into the life we want to enjoy,” he said.

Holleran, her friends said, was not only an impressive athlete, but a reliable friend who loved to laugh. Hennig knew she and Holleran would be friends, she

said, when Holleran accidentally gave Hennig her home number to text. “That’s something I’d do,” she said.

After the ceremonies in Irvine concluded, the group took a lap around the track at Franklin Field in the snow, holding candles.

“Mr. Holleran,” Howard said, “I think with this last lap we made one more halo for your daughter.”■

Last summer, Mor itz Erhardy, 21, an intern at the investment banking division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch died in his apartment in London. He pulled three all-nighters . The incident triggered discussion on Wall Street about reducing hours for junior bankers.

“I was interning when the news came out,” a Wharton and College senior who interned at Goldman Sachs last summer said. “Pulling all-nighters is not unusual for i-banking interns. We’ve all done that.”

In January, J.P. Morgan Chase implemented the “protected weekend policy” — one weekend a month when junior bankers do not need to work.

Other banks, such as Bank of America, where Erhardy worked, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup adopted similar policies. Citigroup sent out a memo on Jan. 29, saying that junior bankers should take the weekend off, though they were expected to “continue to check their email.” Many banks are also exploring setting up a committee to study “how to provide protection for junior bankers” and give them additional time off, Patricia Rose, director of Penn Career Services, said.

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Terry Adkins, fine arts professor, died of heart failure Friday The art professor’s work was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

BY CLAIRE COHEN Deputy News Editor Fine Arts professor Terry Adkins died of heart failure on Friday, Feb. 7. He was 60.

Adkins was teaching three classes this semester. He taught “Graduate Studio II,” “Graduate Studio IV” and “Sound Seminar: Sonic Measures,”

which was offered for both undergraduate and graduate students.

“He was a fiery soul in this department,” Ken Lum, director of the Fine Arts Undergraduate Program, said.

“He was the guy that always played the shaman’s role, it was always predictable but always productive.”

When not in the classroom, Adkins was also a renowned artist and musician. Museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, have displayed his works. He also won the 2009 Rome Prize and was

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named a 2008 USA James Baldwin Fellow. In 1986, Adkins founded the Lone Wolf Recital Corps, a unit that used performance to supplement Adkins’ installations.

Adkins’ work will be on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennel between March 7 and May 25. Much of Adkins’ art centered around placing unheralded historical figures in their rightful place in history.

“There was never a single reading to his work, and that’s very hard to achieve,” Lum said.

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The fine arts professor won the 2009 Rome Prize and was named a 2008 USA James Baldwin Fellow for his work.

Currently, the department is working to find instructors to take over Adkins’ classes through the end of the semester.

“The department was hit very hard, and it’s impossible to compen-

sate for the loss of Terry,” Lum said.

“I am deeply saddened by Terry’s sudden passing,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said in a statement.

“Terry was an incredibly accomplished artist and inspiring teacher, and a wonderful person, who I feel privileged to have known. The many students, faculty and staff who knew Terry and how much he contributed and meant to our community join me in deeply grieving his loss.”

Adkins is survived by his wife, Merele Williams-Adkins, and two ■ children.

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Eve Bowers posted a silly profile photo and launched a movement

BY LAURA ANTHONY Deputy News Editor Some Penn students’ profile pictures on Facebook may look a bit less flattering — but that’s exactly the point.

Last week College sophomore Eve Bowers changed her own profile picture to “a really ridiculous” photo and encouraged others to do the same, hoping to spark a movement. After two student suicides on campus, she thinks the culture of social media isn’t constructive.

“Admit it — we’re only putting our best selves online,” Bowers wrote in the photo’s caption.

“The truth is, NO ONE has their shit together all the time, even if it looks like they do from the outside. To anyone who has ever not felt smart enough, pretty enough, trendy enough or just plain good enough. You absolutely are.”

The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Bowers to find out more.

The Daily Pennsylvanian: Can you describe the Facebook movement that you started recently?

Eve Bowers: My parents have always been telling me that Facebook just causes depression. I never believed them or never fully understood what it meant, and I just searched for an article on it and read this [research article from the University of Michigan] that I’ve been posting along with the caption with my picture. I went ahead and deleted every single profile picture I’ve ever had because they all portrayed me in a positive light. I just deleted all of them just to get a point across and just uploaded this really ridiculous picture of myself just

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Eve Bowers argues, “We’re only posting our best selves online. The truth is, NO ONE has their shit together all the time, even if it looks like they do [online].” to show people that Facebook should not be a cesspool of perfection, and that’s sort of what it’s turned into and I just don’t agree with that. It only shows the positive light of people and it’s a highlight reel of people’s lives when in reality people are struggling with things all the time, but you would never know due to their Facebooks.

DP: What inspired you to advocate for this change?

EB: I myself have dealt with things in the past, and I really felt connected to the two deaths of Elvis and Madison, and I just would never ever want to see anyone else go the way they did at this school. I just felt that I really needed to do something, because I think a lot of people at this school and all over the world deal with depression, and a lot of people are kind of scared to come out with it because of the negative stigma that it has. I just really wanted to change the culture of what Facebook is.

DP: So you’re asking other people to change their profile pictures as well?

EB: Yes, I did. I posted a status that asked people to take part in this movement if they felt so led to do, and I asked them to change their pictures in

honor of Elvis and Madison. And I’ve had a couple of Madison’s friends actually reach out to me through Facebook and say that she would’ve really loved this, and that makes me ecstatic.

DP: Do you think it has been effective?

EB: I think so far. I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback. I’ve gotten people messaging me telling me that they vow to never ever hide a picture ever again, so I think that in itself is amazing. And I think that’s a really great step in the right direction, and I’ve been trying to spread this more. It’s reached other college campuses, it’s reached high schools… My whole sorority, Alpha Chi Omega, has really spread this and blown it totally out of the water, because I asked them all first over an email if they could help me change their pictures and spread the message, so without them this would’ve gone nowhere.

ban , a neurologist at Penn Vet’s Ryan Hospital, faced the challenge of removing a bone intrusion from a puppy’s skull that was pressing upon the dog’s brain. Milly, a bearded collie, was just eight months old at the time.

Galban’s team planned to remove the entire top portion of Milly’s skull and then replace it with an artificial implant.

“If we had a way to form [the implant] before surgery, that would make the procedure shorter and lessen the risk for the patient. So that’s why we started think ing about a model,” Galban said.

“Finding a way to practice, to see it in real life.”

W hen the neurologists Googled “3-D printing at Penn,” they came across the Fab Lab. PennDesign’s Fabr ication Lab purchased two new 3-D printers, called ProJet 660Pros, last semester for graduate students to use when printing models of their designs. The machines construct models out of layers of gypsum — a powdery plaster material — and they are even able to print with a full range of color.

“Typically what we see here on a day-to-day basis are conceptual ideas of architecture,” Stephen Smeltzer, PennDesign’s digital fabrication manager, said. “Students are pushing the limits of what is possible within design using these machines.”

Penn Vet has been pushing the limits of these machines even further.

“Out of the blue, the vet school got in touch with us and they started giving a more practical use to the printers,” Smeltzer said.

“Now we’re going from working with conceptual models to functional printing. It’s pretty exciting to find ourselves in both camps.”

The neurolog ists used computer software to create a 3-D rendering of Milly’s skull from a CT scan. They sent the image to PennDesign, where the skull took about six hours to print on the ProJet and nearly two days to complete using the fused deposition modeling printer, which creates stronger pieces than the ProJet and can incorporate moving parts, such as gears and hinges.

Galban ultimately favored the ProJet’s product because the gypsum material is bonded by a soft acrylic on its interior and is sealed on the surface with a substance Smeltzer compared to super glue. The hard exterior and softer interior produced by the ProJet formed a substance that was similar to real bone.

Although Milly, the bearded collie, ended up receiving surgery elsewhere, surgeons at Penn Vet successfully practiced removing the bone mass on the ProJet model.

This encouraged further collaboration between PennDesign and the neurology team as they printed additional models for their patients, including a Labrador with a brain tumor, a cat with a dislocated palate and a Yorkshire terrier named Tinkerbell who suffered a skull

fracture. All of the patients received treatment and are doing well.

Galban and her team are working on publishing information about their use of these models — a method that has no precedent in veterinary literature, she said.

In the future, they hope to print models of pet vertebrae that will be able to bend and articulate. These models would be printed on the FDM printer, due to their movable parts.

While the printers enable groundbreaking contributions to the veterinary field, 3-D printing is also having a massive impact on architecture, according to PennDesig n instr uctor Mik ael Avery. This semester, Avery is teaching a course on digital fabrication at PennDesign.

As technology advances and the prospect of printing with metal becomes possible, components of buildings will be printed and used for construction in future years, Avery said.

“What limits the 3-D printer in architecture now is that [it uses] mostly plastic, and it’s small. But assuming that we could get away from that, there’s a lot you could potentially do with it,” Avery said. “We can actually start making structurally sound connections.”

A lt houg h Pen n D e sig n students and Penn Vet faculty are now sharing use of the printers, Smeltzer emphasized their primary purpose.

“F irst and foremost , they are for our students,” Smeltzer said. “Whenever we can, we try to help the greater community at Penn as well.”

DP: What do you hope people gain or understand from this movement?

EB: I just want people to remember that as they scroll down their news feeds and see a beautiful picture with 400 likes, that that’s not the whole story.

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Pop, lock and learn with Hip Hop Fundamentals West Philadelphia group aims to educate children through dance PRESENTS

BY JILL GOLUB Staff Writer If learning history or physics bores you, West Philadelphia’s Hip Hop Fundamentals can help.

Since 2002, Hip Hop Fundamentals has performed at assemblies across the country, teaching subjects — be it Newtonian physics or the civil rights movement — through dance.

“The purpose is to provide good arts education for students across the United States,” Stephen Lunger, co-owner of Hip Hop Fundamentals, said.

Hip Hop Fundamentals has recently received international acclaim for its work due to a TED talk they gave in Bermuda in 2013 that discussed their unique teaching methods. Additionally, they performed their new “Civil Rights Movements: The Power of Youth Engagement Through the Eyes of Dr. King” show on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.

In order to perform the civil rights movement show, the group raised $10,000 via Kickstarter, an online funding program for creative projects. This money paid for the company members and allowed the group to teach for free at 10 underserved schools both in Philadelphia and across the nation.

Nate “Klassick” Pyfrom, a member of Hip Hop Fundamentals, explained the purpose of that show was to use dance to “teach people about peace, love and unity through nonviolent action, how they can create change as a people.”

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West Philadelphia Hip Hop Fundamentals performs at a TED talk in Bermuda on their methods of teaching common subjects through break dancing. two other performances as well: “The Principles of Hip Hop: Peace, Love, Unity, & Having Fun” and “Breaking: The Laws of Physics.”

The overall message of the principles of hip hop show is to teach students respect while exploring the history of hiphop music and dance. “Breaking: The Laws of Physics” aims to teach students the ways in which the body and physics are inherently intertwined.

Pyfrom, who began dancing at around 15, was mentored by Lunger and his co-owner, Mark “Metal” Wong, before joining the troupe as a mentor himself. He loves working for Hip Hop Fundamentals because he gets to meet “kids from all types of walks, backgrounds and beliefs” and “make crazy changes [so] they come out of there with new perspectives as far as what’s possible.”

Lunger, a Temple University graduate, started dancing when he was 18 years old. He described Temple as a “diverse environment” that exposed him to a large part of the dance world.

“As a white guy learning dance, I was under the impression that I didn’t have rhythm, but that’s something just projected on you,” he said.

Lunger created a name for himself within the Philadelphia dance community. He has spent the last 12 years practicing, training and learning techniques alone as well as with the help of others. His mission as a dancer is to “continue to pass the torch and keep the lineage alive.”

In the coming months, Hip Hop Fundamentals will be working to revamp their shows with new material, and broaden their outreach and professional development. Additionally, they are looking to get a community center space in which they can teach the many elements of hip hop.

The company currently has 12 members in Philadelphia and three in Los Angeles.

“The point of our shows is to have at least one kid be inspired,” Lunger said. “If they’re touched and the show has opened their minds in some way, then our job is done.”

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Not ready for Ravi

An anchored hope

THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE | Ravi Zacharias is an evangelist to the intellectuals, but he’s not an intellectual evangelist

GUEST COLUMN BY MICAH SANDUSKY, JEREMY KEENAN, HANNAH VICTOR AND FAITH CONCEPCION

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a stor Aaron Campbell of P h i l a d e lp h i a’s Antioch of Calvary Chapel has been independently planning the upcoming Ravi Zacharias lecture for over two years. According to Campbell, Ravi’s talk will be “one of the most intellectually stimulating lectures you have ever been to.”

I’m sorry, Aaron, but intellectually stimulating is not the same as mentally taxing.

It concerns me greatly to see so many intelligent Penn students praising Zacharias as an intellectual heav yweight. Ravi is an expert rhetorician and apologist, but his views and arguments hardly deserve the term intellectual.

Let us start with his reasons for rejecting the theory of evolution: “The ascending of biological forms into more complex and superior designs also comes into conflict with the Second Law of Thermodynamics in Physics,” Zacharius wrote in his book, “The Real Face of Atheism.” This is an embarrassing and egregious misunderstanding of science propagated by anti-science organizations like the Institute for Creation Research and Answers in Genesis.

While he has repeatedly made clear that he does not accept evolution for this and other equally ridiculous reasons, accounts vary regarding what he does believe. In private correspondence he is reported to be “firmly committed to a young earth” and to have “always held to the literal six day creation.” His ministry takes no official position (usually a sign it wishes to avoid embarrassment) but apparently considers it an important enough question to put first on its website’s Q&A page.

Not content to stop at science denialism, Ravi goes on to promote a sinister revisionist history: “Hitler’s point was that the

destruction of the weak is a good thing for the survival of the strong … as is taught by atheistic evolution’s tenet of natural selection. …We have been down the atheist road before, and it ended in a holocaust,” he wrote in “The End of Reason.”

Elsewhere in his book, he puts abortion morally on par with child pornography and claims “atheistic philosophy is having its way with our children” on both counts. The connection seems obvious to him, but escapes me.

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It concerns me greatly to see so many intelligent Penn students praising Zacharius as an intellectual heavyweight.”

When asked about homosexuality, Ravi said, “Sex is a sacred gift of God. I can no longer justify an aberration of it in somebody else’s life than I can justify my own proclivities to go beyond my marital boundaries.”

It pains me to realize many still consider Ravi a great moral teacher.

However, unless someone specifically brings up these topics in a question, Ravi is unlikely to address them in his talk. He surely knows his positions will not endear himself to the Penn community at large.

What you can expect at the lecture is Ravi routinely distorting his opponents into vile straw men.

For example, famous ethicist and animal rights activist Peter Singer put forward an argument against animal testing which includes a thought experiment directly

COLLIN BOOTS comparing the suffering of intelligent animals and young children of below average intelligence. Ravi twists this nuanced and clever argument into “[Peter Singer believes] that a pig is of more value than a child with a disability.”

Not even a Princeton professor like Singer deserves such malicious misrepresentation.

Ravi has similarly show n h is l ack of intellectual integrity by d istor ti ng t he v iews of thinkers such as Sam Harris, Sartre, Nietzsche, Descartes, Buddha, Gandhi and others.

As for the Q&A session, one of Ravi’s favorite toys is the red herring. When asked a difficult or uncomfortable question, Ravi will begin telling a seemingly unrelated (and usually apocr y phal) anecdote. By the time he reaches the point of the story, if there is one, so much time has elapsed that most have forgotten the original question, allowing Ravi to instead answer the question he would have preferred.

I am still planning to attend his lecture, but that’s because I have a tendency toward mental masochism. If you choose to attend, keep any questions you ask him short and memorable. Otherwise, we’ll never be able to move beyond Ravi’s rhetoric and search for the substance.

ea n-Paul Sa r t re once sa id , “ I ’ ve asked myself m a ny que st ion s and answered all of them. What I cannot answer is why I don’t commit suicide.”

Penn students ask thems e l v e s m a ny q u e st io n s , that is, if they can find the time. Between inter viewing, networking, exercising, studying and occasionally sleeping, it can be hard to keep up with classes, let alone f ind time for selfref lection.

B ut w he n life is not g o i n g well and failures f o r c e self-ref lection on us, we sometimes reach the same hopelessness espoused by the skeptical existentialist Sartre.

R av i Zachar ias was 17 years old when he reached this breaking point. While Ravi never studied at Penn, the pressures of his environment were such that his peers would tie their hair to lampposts to keep from nodding off over their books.

Ravi’s siblings were all academic stars, but he was failing. Failing at his elite school, shaming his family, disappointing those in his life. As he went through the numbing motions of his seemingly f un-f illed a nd “successf u l” so c i a l l i fe , deep down he despaired. He made his decision quietly, played a game of cricket, went to bed and the next morning locked himself in the bathroom with a glass of water and stolen packets of poison.

Ravi found himself in the hospital. He couldn’t move his hands and his windpipe

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“What you can expect at the lecture is Ravi routinely distorting his opponents into vile straw men.”

was so dry he couldn’t swallow. His mind wound down in despair: He’d failed again and perhaps made himself an invalid in the process.

But a few days later, a Christian man gave him a Bible verse: the words of Jesus Christ, “Because I live, you shall live also.”

Lying in the hospital, Ravi made a silent promise to himself: If this Jesus who claimed to be the author of life would spare him his health, he would “leave no stone unturned in [his] pursuit of truth.”

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And as he devoured books, searching through science, philosophy, Hinduism, Christianity and other religions, the weight of evidence drove him back to where he started … the words of Jesus Christ.”

As we mourn the tragic deaths of four of our peers over the last several weeks, we are forced to reflect on the fragility of life. Maybe it’s God or maybe it’s the grave, but regardless, we are confronted with questions about the essential meaning of life. Like Ravi, we must seek intellectually sound answers to Sartre’s hopeless dilemma: Why not commit suicide? Concentration camp sur vivor Viktor Frankl observed that “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

W hen R av i wa l ked out of the hospital, he was de-

termined to do one thing: find out if there was a rational basis for meaning in life. Trying to live well and laugh often had failed him; he was going to keep asking questions until he found the truth. And as he devoured books, searching through science, philosophy, Hinduism, Christianity and other religions, the weight of evidence gradually drove him back to where he started: “Because I live, you shall live also” — the words of Jesus Christ. For the 50 years since, these words have sustained Ravi.

While we should certainly seek help from the resources Penn provides, our hope should not rest in a counselor or therapist alone. Like R av i, we need rationa lly grounded answers to maintain hope through the ups and downs of life. Of course, not every thinker has come to t he sa me conclusions Ravi has. Sartre claimed to have answered nearly every question he’d asked himself — but cer t ainly ca me to conclusions different from Ravi’s.

What is the meaning of life? Is this meaning universal or relative? It’s an age-old debate, but it hasn’t lost importance. For during those inevitable downs when life is not going well and laughs are forced or bitter, we all need answers to these questions — answers that give us hope, answers that are anchored in truth.

MICAH SANDUSKY, JEREMY KEENAN, HANNAH VICTOR AND FAITH CONCEPCION are a Wharton junior, a College freshman, a Nursing sophomore and a Nursing junior, respectively. They are organizing members of the forum “Is Truth Real?” — an event tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Irvine Auditorium at which Ravi Zacharius will be speaking.

They can be reached at micahsa@wharton.upenn.edu.

“Like Ravi, we need rationally grounded answers to maintain hope through the ups and downs of life.”

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“You go home for Saturday, but it is still the same amount of work. They will have t o work for longer hours on Friday or Sunday to get it down, or work at home on their laptop,” said a Wharton senior who worked 80 hours per week at the New York office of an investment bank.

Since investment banking is client-based, the hours are long and unpredictable. “ You get busy when your client demands something.

Firms can’t actually guarantee the hours,” the former Goldman Sachs intern said.

A culture of working long hours to impress the company and secure a return offer will also make changes difficult.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014 PAGE 5 “Interns try to work long time to show they are hard working, and some banks do torture interns a little bit to see if they can work for long hours,” agreed the previous Goldman Sachs intern. “ I nt e r n s u su a l l y st ay there until the last analyst leaves,” the Wharton senior who worked at the New York office of an investment bank agreed. “No one tells you that you have to stay there, but the analyst decides who gets a full time offer. So you always have to be around because other wise it will look bad for you.” He had heard stories of interns taking drugs to stay awake and alert at night.

However, he added that three all-nighters was extreme, even for a hardworki ng i nvest ment ba n k i ng intern. “No man did three all-nighters consecutively,” he said.

T h is cu ltu re is so engrained that eighty-hour weeks do not seem to bother students who hope to be investment bankers. The Undergraduate Career Plans

Survey Report shows that 29 percent of Class of 2013 alumni are employed fulltime in the financial industr y, more than any other single industry. According to Rose, the adjusted hours do not affect students’ interest in banking careers.

“Students are not more interested, nor less interested ,” she said. “Some students are not even aware that some banks are planning to give [ junior] bankers a weekend day off.”

X itong Nie, a W har ton a nd Eng i neer i ng sopho more, sa id Cred it Sw iss also mentioned its policy of reducing working hours for interns during its information session at Penn. “It will be nice to know that hours are shorter, but it is not a decisive factor for me,” she said, “Banking in general is very competitive. I was told that as an intern, you have to expect long hours.

It’s part of the learning process.”

“They will take whatever it takes to get the banking jobs,” Rose added.

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Professors think that Coursera lessons would be beneficial for residents of foreign countries

BY COSETTE GASTELU Staff Writer Recent restrictions on the distribution of Coursera’s content to users in Iran, Sudan and Cuba have raised concerns among Penn professors who offer courses on the website.

The restrictions are the result of trade sanctions that the U.S. government has imposed upon the three nations. The sanctions prohibit U.S. companies from providing “goods and services” to people in the affected countries.

I n a r e c ent blog p o st , Coursera — which began a pa r t ner sh ip w it h Pen n in 2012 — announced that it has been forced to deny users in the three foreign countries access to its website in order to comply with the terms of the U.S. sanctions.

Though the sanctions are not focused specifically on regulating massive open online courses, the company has to take this course of action because “under the law, certain aspects of Coursera’s course offerings are considered services and are therefore subject to restrictions in sanctioned coun-

tries,” the blog post stated.

Some Penn professors who are involved with Coursera have expressed disappointment about t he fact t hat st udent s i n I r a n , Sud a n and Cuba are now unable to learn from Coursera’s free educational resources.

“One of the great benefits of MOOCs is that they’re widely available to people around the world and it’s unfortunate that some students are not able to gain access to them,” said Wharton professor Kevin Werbach, who is currently teaching a Coursera course about gamification.

At the moment, Coursera is working with the U.S. Department of State and the O f f ice of Foreig n A sset s Control to gain permission that will allow the company to restore operations in the sanctioned nations. The Depar tment of State has already allowed Coursera to continue offering users in Syria access, as its services fall under an exception to the Syria sanctions due to a general OFAC license.

Coursera is not the only MOOCs site that has been subject to the sanctions. The

services of one of Coursera’s peer institutions, Udacity, are still blocked for Syrian user s. However, a not her compet itor, Ed X , has a lready received licenses to allow users access in Iran, Sudan and Cuba.

Economics professor Rebecca Stein, who teaches a microeconomics course on Coursera, emphasized that the website is an important learning tool, especially for users in nations like Cuba who have limited access to a broad range of educational materials.

Stein pointed out, for example, that in Cuba most students may not have easy access to information about some of the topics covered in her course, such as the concepts of free markets and individual property rights, because of Cuban censorship policies.

“Exposure to new ideas ca n be ver y empower ing to the individuals who take these courses,” Stein said.

“For an individual — maybe not for every single Coursera user, but for many — Coursera could be a life-transforming medium,” she added.

In summer 2013, the Office of the Provost surveyed over 400,000 active Coursera users who were enrolled in a Penn course on the site.

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Edward Rock, a Penn Law professor and the director of open course initiatives at Penn, stated that the Coursera blockages will probably not have an impact on the future of Penn’s relationship with the MOOC platform. He stressed that the restrictions had to be put in place so that Coursera, and in effect, Penn, could abide by U.S. law.

However, Rock mentioned

that since Coursera is relying on an IP address block to determine which users must be denied access to the site, it may be relatively easy for students to circumvent the sanctions. IP addresses are numbers that are assigned to devices and can be used to identify their location.

“I am skeptical as to how effective the sanctions are, because reasonably unsophisticated users can disg uise their I P add resses to gain access to content,” Rock said. He cited Netflix’s persistent issues with foreign users masking their IP

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As long as Coursera cont i nue s work i ng w it h t he government to remedy the issue, it will likely become a temporary problem rather than a permanent one. Interpreting emerging MOOCs technology within the context of trade sanctions is “one of ma ny cha l lenges that face a new mechanism [like Coursera] — it is still new, it isstill growing, it is still changing and it’s expected that there will be a few bumps along the way,” Werbach said.

A roadmap for the semester with the new SCUE chair

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Monday, February 10, at 6:00 PM, Penn Alum Brooke Erin Duffy, “Remake and Remodel: Women’s Magazines in the Digital Age.” Duffy offers a glimpse inside the magazine industry and reveals how executives are remaking their roles, audiences and products at this critical historic junction.

Thursday, February 13, at 6:00 PM, Fayyaz Vellani, “Understanding Disability Discrimination Law Through Geography.”

Examining the UK Disability Discrimination Act in comparison to its counterparts in the USA and Australia, Vellani focuses on how it is being interpreted and acted upon in the context of higher education.

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Last week , the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education elected College junior Lucas Siegmund as its new chair. The DP sat down with him to find out more about SCUE’s plans for the semester.

The Daily Pennsylvanian: What is on SCUE’s agenda this semester?

Lucas Siegmund: This is actually a really exciting semester. The past year was spent developing t wo big projects: Roadmap to Research and OPenned, … an online courseware website which focuses on using the online platform to integrate at all different areas of education at Penn on different topics. Those two projects will be officially launched within the next few weeks.

After that, this semester’s focus will really be the White Paper.

DP: What is Roadmap to Research?

L S: T hat w i l l act u a l ly be coming out in the next few weeks. It’s essentially a guide [on] how to get involved in research as an undergraduate at Penn, and it covers all four schools and all disciplines.

DP: Can you explain a little bit more about OPenned?

LS: We’re going to curate videos on particular topics.

So we’ll take a five minute clip from a professor in the Psych department, an excerpt from a research paper of a professor in the med school and things like that, and then we’ll bring them together into a half-hour tutorial which you can watch online. Ideally, it’s supposed to spark intellectual curiosity among students and encourage them to see what’s out t her e at Pen n . T h i s online platform also gives the opportunity to post all sorts of public speakers and events on campus that students may not have had the chance to go to in person.

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As part of SCUE, new chair Lucas Siegmund worked to integrate business and public policy, a Wharton-Netter Center partnership, and other projects.

DP : How is SCU E ap proaching the 2015 White Paper? [SCUE publishes The White Paper, which critiques u nderg raduate ac adem ic life at the University and makes suggestions, ever y five years.]

LS: We’re interested in making it a very open process a nd getting a lot of student engagement . It’s important to us that the issues we’re focusing on are the issues that students care about as well … so we’re going to be doing a lot of focus groups and surveys to tr y to get students in on some of these issues. We’re definitely going to be issuing a kind of call to action among students to try to make sure their voices are heard in this White Paper as well as ours.

DP: Which issues will the White Paper discuss?

LS: The biggest issues

that we’re looking at right now line up closely with the Penn Compact. There are three parts to the Compact: access, integrated k nowledge and global engagement, and within those big topics, we’re focusing on diversity, community engagement and global and local initiatives.

DP: What are you most excited about doing as new SCUE chair?

LS: It gives me the opportunity to connect [with] places in the University that we haven’t worked with in the past. We’re really interested in working with Global Initiatives … We’re also reaching out to Residential Services to work around issues like housing programs, which are pertinent to education. Because for us education isn’t just what you do in the classroom, it’s our entire experience at Penn.

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Penn track unifies in wake of tragedy HOLLERAN from page 1 Lyons and member Dana McCurdy Hibbard.

“It just seemed like the appropriate thing to do,” Hibbard, a 2006 graduate, said.

“It was less about the money and more about honoring the wishes of Madison’s family.”

Holleran’s father Jim had requested that in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to AFSP. Lyons, a 1986 graduate, said that was the least the alumni could do, also noting that several of the alumni donors had dealt with suicide in their lives as well.

“It’s a really high-pressure situation, and I feel it can happen to a nybody,” L isa Barnett, a 2011 Penn track and field alumna, said of Holleran’s situation as a Penn f reshman par ticipating in cross country and track and field. “So it just seemed like a great way to contribute, and it’s something the Penn track alumni were doing as a team.”

Lyons also called Steve Dola n, Pen n’s d i rector of t rack a nd f ield a nd cross countr y, the morning after Holleran’s death to let him know that alumni of the program were there to support his team however it could.

“I can’t say enough good things about how Steve Dolan and his coaches have handled this situation,” Lyons said.

Dolan allowed athletes to individually decide whether to compete in Lehigh’s Angry

Birds Invitational on Jan. 18 following Holleran’s death the night before. But Lyons says the next step is to institute a formal mentoring program pairing track and field alumni with the program’s current athletes, an idea that Lyons claimed was underway before Holleran’s suicide.

“We are still fine-tuning it,” Lyons said.

Denhoff remembers a similar alumni mentoring program from her time with the program.

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It felt like the right thing to do to help preserve her memory.”

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“Back when I was a senior or junior, even before that, we had house parties where the alums would come and you could see them like real people,” Denhoff said.

“We had people with eating disorders, people with major clinical depression, and it was a great thing for people on the team.”

Denhoff became “friends for life” with her mentee and 2010 graduate Carol Xu, running in the Boston Marathon with her last year. “[Carol and I] talked on the phone the other night about, wow, how could this have happened?” Denhoff said. “There were people on [our] team t hat we k new had issues.

A nd it was our worst fear that someone would have in-

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tentionally hurt themselves, but we never imagined that it would have gone this far.” “ Tea m mates have each other and the alumni are just an extension of that team,” Barnett said. “I don’t know that anything formal needs to happen. We tr y to come together and make sure ever yone’s okay, and we will continue to do that.”

‘EQUALLY HORRIBLE’ Vinny Guaglardi, a 15-yearold high school student from Wyckoff, N.J., never met Holleran either. But they shared a few mutual f r iends, and those friends’ stories about her inspired him to set up another f und raising d r ive benefiting AFSP. It didn’t take long for the drive to exceed its goal of $5,000, so Guaglardi raised the goal to $10,000. The fundraiser has raised $15,041 as of Feb. 6.

“I couldn’t believe it caught on like it did,” Guaglardi said.

“But it felt like the right thing to do to help preser ve her memory.”

Guaglardi hopes to convince the Borough Council of Allendale, Holleran’s hometown, to approve a memorial run in her honor, which he plans to hold around Memorial Day. Ta l k i ng about Hol lera n with his mother Cheryl And e r s o n a nd ot he r f a m i l y members around their dinner table was enough to spur Guaglardi into action. But the memory of Holleran through her friends and images of her life on his television were all it took to deeply affect him.

It has never taken much.

When Penn football running back Kyle Ambrogi committed suicide in October 2005,

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the profound ef fect of his death on the track and field team was largely a matter of proximity, as its members would run the track around the football f ield inside Franklin Field. As a result, the programs, which Denhoff remembers sharing the locker room underneath Franklin Field, have since been close.

“We would party with [the football players], practice with them,” Denhoff said. “I remember an article in the DP saying football practice was canceled, and yet the women’s track team was still running around the field. We were like, ‘Oh gosh, this is horrible.’”

“They’re equally horrible,” Barnett said of the suicides of Holleran and Owen Thomas, a Penn football captain who committed suicide in April 2010. “The impact of [Thomas’s death] was incredibly, incredibly upsetting.”

Three suicides w ithin Penn Athletics alone in the last eight years have also

profoundly devastated peers who perhaps only tangentially knew the victims through sh a r e d pl ay i ng su r f ac e s , classes or friends.

That’s all it takes to experience much of the same fog that Heather Ford remembers feeling for a week after learning of Holleran’s death.

RUNNING FOR MADISON Like the Penn Track and Field Alumni Board and Guaglardi, Ford created a fundraiser benefiting the AFSP in Holleran’s memory. Ford’s campaign started when she decided to dedicate her run in the New York City Half Marathon in March to Holleran, and it has raised $30,000 so far.

“She was truly a beautiful person, inside and out,” Ford said.

Ford last saw Holleran in September, when she visited her on Penn’s campus.

“She seemed the same as she had always been,” Ford sa id. “She seemed happy,

well-adjusted and well-liked by her peers.”

Ford said Holleran posted on her Facebook wall a day before she died, telling Ford that she missed her and that she should come visit her at Penn soon.

“She was always smiling, always laughing, always there to brighten someone’s day,” Ford said. “That was something I admired about her.”

Holleran’s story displayed that no one is immune to issues of mental health.

“If it can happen to her, it can happen to anybody,” Ford said.

W h at r e m a i n s now f or those still grieving Holleran’s loss are the memorial fundraisers continuing to support the awareness-raising works of AFSP and the memory of a person who they feel had everything to live for.

“I think it’s important for people to be aware of the fact that depression does not discriminate,” Ford said. “You are never alone.”

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BasketballExtra AT A GLANCE Star of the game: Penn So. G Tony Hicks

Hicks was electric on Friday night, slashing and cutting to the basket to earn numerous trips to the foul line. His 27 points were just enough to hold off Cornell sharpshooter Nolan Cressler’s 22-point effort.

Play of the game: Miles JacksonCartwright restores order

Though Cornell had narrowed down a 19-point second half deficit to just five points, Jackson-Cartwright made sure that the Big Red would come no closer.

With 8:48 to play, JacksonCartwright drilled a trey from the left elbow to restore Penn’s lead to 69-61.

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Howard shines off the bench for Quakers M. HOOPS from page 10 Lo went up for a layup to cut Penn’s lead to just five, but senior guard Miles Jackson-Cartwright stripped the ball and hit a three-pointer on the other end, keeping Columbia at bay.

But a late run by Columbia put a scare into the Red and Blue. Led by some timely shooting from junior Meiko Lyles and some favorable foul calls, the Lions cut Penn’s lead to just six.

And after Steve Rennard missed a three while absorbing contact with just under two minutes left, fans became fed up with the officials. The calls even caused Penn Athletic Director Steve Bilsky to leave his seat and approach press row, where he expressed frustrations with the head official.

The referee called a quick foul on Columbia, but the game was ultimately decided by the play-

Penn needs another strong Ivy weekend

Thomas, Kent, and Lenzi are repeat winners WRESTLING from page 10 “Friday night was great,� coach Rob Eiter said. “Saturday, not so much.�

No. 13 Lorenzo Thomas, No. 17 Casey Kent and captain Andrew Lenzi were Penn’s (5-6, 1-2 Ivy) repeat winners on the trip.

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Star of the game: Penn Sr. F Fran Dougherty

With Darien Nelson- Henr y picking up two early fouls, the burden fell on Dougherty to produce, and produce he did. The senior captain put up 19 first half points to pace Penn to victory.

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think it brought back a lot of confidence for our guys, and

their two previous matches against Army and Cornell, the Red and Blue kicked off their Harvard (3-5, 0-3) dual with wins from freshmen Jeremy Schwartz and Ken Bade at 125 and 133 pounds, respectively.

Bade pinned his opponent, sophomore Jeff Ott, 1:28 into the bout, earning his third technical fall of the season and giv ing the Quakers a quick 9-0 lead.

The R ed and Blue then strung together a sequence of three straight wins through the middle weights, which was capped off at 165 pounds by a dominating performance

from Kent, who earned a fall in his 16-0 win over an inexperienced Brennan Smith. The victory marked Kent’s first against an Ivy League foe this season.

Up 20-3 after Kent’s victory, the Quakers held on for a 2312 victory in Boston despite dropping three of the final four bouts.

Lorenzo Thomas, the lone late winner against Harvard, made the biggest statement for the Quakers the following day in a back-and-forth dual with Brown (2-6, 1-1) Thomas, Penn’s highestr a n k e d w r e s t l e r, f i n a l l y

seized his first match against a ranked opponent, gutting out an 8-5 decision over No. 9 Ophir Bernstein. “Lorenzo really wrestled well on Saturday, so that was real nice to see,� Eiter said. “It was a fun match to watch.�

Thomas’ triumph gave the Red and Blue a 16-9 lead over the Bears with two matches left, but this time, the Quakers could not hold on.

Penn’s 197-pound f reshma n F ra n k M att iace was pinned the following match, cutting the Quakers’ lead to just one. Mattiace, who had won 10 of his first 12 bouts, is

just 4-8 in his last 12 matches and has lost three straight.

The dua l ca me dow n to the final period of the last match, where Ryan Cavey of Brown used a late surge against Penn heav y weight sen ior St eve Gr a zi a no t o seize the match, 7-2, and the meet, 18-16.

With the exception of T hom a s , Pe n n st r u g g le d in the upper weights. The Red and Blue failed to earn a victory at 174, 197 and 274 pounds over the weekend.

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That’s crucial, and if the Quakers believe again, that’s absolutely the most important step.

But that step is behind them now, and Penn basketball fans can only truly believe in this veteran club again once it proves that it won’t take two steps back

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That’s what Penn needs to do, and more importantly, can do. It’s clear from Penn’s wireto-wire victory over the Lions that the Quakers are athletic and experienced enough to be Ivy title contenders, and thanks to Yale’s win, they still can be. At 3-2 in Ivy play, Penn now sits just a game and a half behind firstplace Harvard. “We’re still in the chase,� se-

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ers as the Lions couldn’t make a shot in the final minute, squandering the chance to get within a score of Penn. The trio of Lyles, Lo and Rosenberg failed to convert late opportunities.

Dougherty led all scorers with 23 points while freshman Matt Howard came up with eight points to help off the bench. “I thought [Howard] was tremendous,� Penn coach Jerome Allen said. “Last night and tonight, we ran plays for him. He had the right reads defensively and on the glass. “If not for Matt, I’m not sure we [would have won] this game today.�

The win moves Penn into the middle of the Ivy League table at 3-2, while Columbia fell short of its first sweep of the Princeton-Penn road trip in its history.

The Red and Blue will go on the road next week, taking on Brown and first-place Yale, with some renewed hope to stage a comeback in the Ancient Eight standings after a sweep this weekend. “Obviously, it’s really important, and now we’re still in the chase,� Dougherty said. “I

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Penn flounders in Crimson tide M. SWIMMING | Quakers can’t secure victory in the last meet at Sheerr pool

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BY COLIN HENDERSON Associate Sports Editor Some say that the only way to get better in sports is to take on the best. On Saturday, the athletes of Penn men’s swimming got exactly that chance.

Despite strong individual efforts from several athletes, Penn fell to Ivy League-leading Harvard 182.5-115.5 in the last competition at Sheerr Pool of the season.

With the nationally ranked No. 23 Crimson (8-2, 7-0 Ivy) visiting, the Quakers (6-4, 4-3) had plenty of reason to bring their A-game. In the beginning of the meet, though, it certainly did not show.

The powerhouse Crimson took it to the Red and Blue from the get-go, dominating Penn in early events li ke the 1000-yard free, the 200 fly and the three-meter dive. It didn’t take long for Harvard to take a commanding lead over the Quakers.

Halfway through the 16-event meet, a Crimson victory was all but inevitable.

Penn’s coaches and players gave a variety of reasons for the team’s inexplicably slow start to the meet.

“We were a little sluggish,” senior captain Rhoads Worster said.

“Some of the guys didn’t believe we were going to be in the races,” coach Mike Schnur added.

Ultimately, though, Schnur readily admitted that, regardless of how they start, his athletes are not a threat to the Crimson yet.

“Harvard is a better team than we are,” he said. “We did our best, but we have a little ways to go to catch up to them.”

Penn showed off its young talent later in the meet, picking up victories from freshman Jack Stein in the one-meter dive and sophomore Brendan

Defense key to Penn’s gritty weekend wins

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Senior Rhoads Worster started off the meet placing first in the men’s 100m backstroke and later anchored the 400m free relay which set a new pool record.

Crystal in the 400-yard individual medley.

The standout swimmer of the meet, though, was Rhoads Worster.

“Obviously it’s pretty exciting,” Worster said of the meet.

“The crowd gets into it and your adrenaline flows that much more.

It was my last swim. All those factors add into it.”

In his last competitive swim at Sheerr Pool, Worster put on an absolute show. Early in the meet, he was part of Penn’s 200 medley pool record performance and placed first in the men’s 100 backstroke.

But he wasn’t finished.

Worster looked like a man possessed, overtaking Harvard’s Jack Pretto for first place in the 100 backstroke, posting his second pool record of the day in the process.

When the 400 free relay rolled around, the crowd could hardly contain themselves. Harvard maintained a slight lead when Worster, the anchor leg, dove into the pool.

“I’ve been in that situation before, where it comes down to the last relay,” Worster said.

“I knew the kid I was racing against … I was pretty sure at the 50 I was behind by a little bit, but I knew I was going to be able to get him on the second 50.”

With the crowd excited, Worster overtook Harvard’s Danny Crigler to win the relay and clinch

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an undefeated season for Penn’s 400 free relay A-team. And his performance gave him his third pool record of the day.

“He expects to win every race … and that’s the right attitude,” Schnur said.

While Penn’s top senior went out in style, the team has plenty to work on in preparation for the Ivy championships in a few weeks. Schnur maintains that the next logical step is simple: “rest.”

The team will return to action in the Cavalier Invitational next week before completing their season at the Ivy Championships at the end of the month.

throw shooting. "[Baron] was really efficient. She was determined and focused on what she wanted to do,” McLaughlin said.

“She got to the foul line and made big shots. Her leadership on the court made the game so much easier for everyone around her.”

Less than 24 hours later, Penn was back in action against another New York rival. Despite a relatively subpar record, Columbia (4-16, 1-5) pushed the Quakers to the brink and managed to keep the matchup close throughout the second half.

After a gritty win over one of the Ivy League’s premier teams on Friday, it would not have been surprising for Penn to come out flat against the Lions. But McLaughlin emphasized that the close 70-63 final score was more a result of Columbia’s strong offensive game than any lag from the Quakers.

“We started off pretty good, made seven of our first nine shots and were really roll-

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014 PAGE 9 ing on the offensive end,” McLaughlin said. “They just kept it close, spread us wide and exploited the holes in our defense. Their style of play suits them, and that just kept us from pulling away.”

Baron again led the Quakers in scoring with 25 points against Columbia while junior forward Kara Bonenberger finished with 16 points and nine rebounds.

With its New York road trip

in the rearview mirror, the Red and Blue now turn their attention towards next weekend’s home doubleheader against Yale and Brown. Despite the momentum guiding Penn right now, the Quakers don’t plan to let their foot off the gas any time soon.

“Coming off of two Ivy weekends with sweeps, we’ve definitely received a confidence boost lately,” Baron said. “But we can’t get too cocky.”

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Senior guard Alyssa Baron had her best two scoring performances of the season with 28 and 25 points to power the Quakers to two strong wins.

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M. HOOPS | Dougherty dominates in the post, helps the Quakers sweep Cornell and Columbia

Dougherty was not going to be upstaged by his former teammate.

The Red and Blue reversed the results from last weekend’s two losses, pulling off a sweep that culminated in a Dougherty-fueled win over Columbia on Saturday night, 68-60.

“We had a hard time with Fran Dougherty,” Columbia coach Kyle Smith said. “Credit to him, being a senior, he taught our guys a little bit of a lesson there.”

Penn (6-13, 3-2 Ivy) came out on point in the first half against the Lions (14-9, 3-3) after an early 5-1

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor On Saturday afternoon, players from Penn basketball’s past took the court in the annual Alumni Game, leading to a dominant, throwback effort by Rob Belcore.

But Penn senior captain Fran

deficit. The Quakers used a stifling 2-3 zone to go on a 10-0 run, giving them an early cushion over Columbia.

And with Columbia sophomore guard Grant Mullins out with a head injury he suffered playing against Princeton the night before, the burden of the Lions’ offense fell upon fellow sophomore Maodo Lo. Lo was able to bridge Columbia’s early gap, scoring 10 first-half points on 4-for-6 shooting.

But Penn’s offense shot the lights out, shooting 68.2 percent in the first half, including a sterling 8-for-8 per-

formance from Dougherty. The senior forward had 19 points by his lonesome in the opening half, while also notching six rebounds.

“They execute well,” Smith said of Penn’s offense. “They run the same stuff that Brown runs and they’re very efficient.

“The offense they run, they have a desire of where they want to put the ball with each play … and we couldn’t take them out of it.”

By contrast, the Lions only picked up eight boards and made nine shots in the first half, as each of their three

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starting forwards picked up two fouls in the first 20 minutes while Penn took a 40-30 lead into halftime.

And Columbia simply couldn’t get close to the Quakers in the second half. Junior Alex Rosenberg, one of those starting forwards, began to make shots from the field, but the Lions were plagued by turnovers and Penn’s rebounding advantage.

A key sequence came early in the half as a turnover by sophomore Tony Hicks led to a fast break for Lo.

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Quakers sweep second Ivy weekend W. HOOPS | For the second straight weekend, Quakers maintain place at top of the Ivy standings with wins

BY RILEY STEELE Sports Editor

at Cornell

at Columbia

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Penn’s success this weekend was driven by senior forward Fran Dougherty, who contributed huge performances in both games. Dougherty was especially impressive during the first half of the Columbia game, when he hit all eight of his shots on the way to his second double-double of the weekend. “We had a hard time with Fran Dougherty,” Columbia coach Kyle Smith said.

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don’t care.

It doesn’t matter that Penn basketball swept Cornell and Columbia this weekend. Not yet anyway.

The Quakers followed a tepid effort against Cornell — the worst team in the country — with a nearly complete game against an upstart Columbia squad. Penn did what it needed to do, outrebounding the Lions 37-26, shooting 54.2 percent from the field and holding a lead for all but the first five minutes of the game.

“I guess after a solid first 20 minutes, we’re 20 minutes away [from a full 40-minute effort],” Penn coach Jerome Allen said.

But what Penn really needs to put together is a complete Ivy weekend.

It’s safe to say that Penn didn’t do

that this weekend based on its inexplicable inability to put Cornell away with authority on its home floor.

We’ve seen this see-saw from the Quakers before. Last year, Penn split each of its six Ivy weekends, following up upset wins with disappointing losses. This season has been more of the same, with the Quakers squeezing in an upset victory over Princeton (which doesn’t look so impressive after the Tigers’ 1-4 start to conference play) between blowout Big 5 losses against La Salle and St. Joseph’s at home.

A solid win over a stong Ivy opponent at home is just that and nothing more

until the Quakers prove they can value the basketball, play stout defense and operate with remarkable offensive efficiency on a nightly basis in Ivy play.

Like Yale this weekend, for example.

The Bulldogs have notched two Ivy weekend sweeps in a row, with the exclamation point coming in the form of a 74-67 win Saturday at Harvard, where Penn lost by 30 the week before.

The Bulldogs snapped Harvard’s 20game home winning streak by playing punishing defense. Yale held Harvard to 39 percent shooting from the floor

SEE TONY PAGE 8

Penn conquers Crimson, badgered by Bears WRESTLING | After dominating Harvard, Penn upset by Brown for first time in last 22 meetings

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BY SEAMUS POWERS Staff Writer On its first Ivy road trip of the season, Penn found success at Harvard but struggled to find its bearings at Brown.

The Quakers won six bouts en route to a comfortable 23-12 win over the Crimson on Friday be-

at Brown fore the Bears upset them with some late heroics from the following afternoon, 18-16 . The loss was the Quakers’ first to Brown in their last 22 meetings.

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Sophomore Casey Kent was dominant for the Quakers all weekend, turning in victories in both of his matches and providing the momentum necessary to propel Penn through the final stretch.

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At this point in Penn women’s basketball season, no game or Ivy weekend doubleheader comes easy.

And that’s perfectly fine for the Quakers.

Coming off of a sweep in its first Ivy doubleheader of the season, Penn replicated that performance over the weekend with tough victories over Cornell and Columbia.

Heading into Friday, the Quakers (14-5, 4-1 Ivy) knew nothing would come easy in their road matchup with the Big Red (11-9, 3-3), a team that began the weekend in a similar position as Penn with only one Ivy blemish on their record.

“This weekend was a huge opportunity for us as a team,” senior Alyssa Baron said. “With five freshmen on the team, it’s a totally different game on the road and every Ivy game is a tough competition.

“Coming off of last weekend, we knew we needed to face Cornell with the right mindset and really get off to a good start.”

Despite the motivated mindset and momentum from back to back Ivy victories, the Red and Blue struggled to find a defensive rhythm in the early going against the Big Red. While Penn entered the weekend holding opponents to 34 percent shooting from the field — good enough for No. 3 in the nation — Cornell managed to make half of its shots in the first half.

“Cornell made some really tough shots, [I] give them a lot of credit for the first half,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “I don’t think we defended poorly. They just made some really tough shots.

“Luckily, we challenged them better in the second half in terms of contesting shots, and that ultimately helped us get the win.”

Trailing at the half, the Quakers responded with a 17-0 run to start the second frame. Led by Baron’s season-high 28 points, Penn sealed a 67-57 victory with late clutch free

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