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pon graduation, many Penn students leave with honors, others leave with secured jobs and for a lucky few — a soul mate. Penn alumni from the 1950s to 1980s fondly recalled memories of how they met their life partners on campus.

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Carole Weinheim & Samuel Karsch 1959 Education graduate and 1978 Graduate School of Education graduate Carole Weinheim was a freshman when she met her future husband, 1956 Wharton graduate and 1959 Law graduate Samuel Karsch, at Penn. Karsch had tickets with a friend for the Penn-Princeton basketball game and needed a date. “My husband needed a date, and [one of my girlfriends] gave him a few names,” Weinheim said. “His sister suggested to him that he call me. We took piano lessons together, I was a nice girl and he called me for that blind date.” “I fell in love at first sight, but he took longer,” she said.

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Who’s serving your drinks? Meet Penn’s bartenders Students can be trained as bartenders for on- and off-campus events

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New app to match friends with dates The Penn startup Otter launches today

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The drink is on fire. Coolly, College junior Jared Fenton pinches the sides of the shot glass and raises it into the air. Then he drops it into a tall glass of Stella beer, a froth of white foam swallowing the flames whole. The drink Fenton just made was a Flaming Dr. Pepper Shot — one of the many recipes in his repertoire as a student bartender for Penn Student Agencies Bartending. PSA Bartending is a group of 14 undergraduates who professionally bartend for events on Penn’s campus and beyond. The group started eight years ago, and it is today a fully fledged organization that provides services for everything SEE BARTENDER PAGE A2

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Engineering senior Hong Kim is releasing a dating app this Valentine’s Day. In Otter, you will be pairing friends together, not working to get matches for yourself.

If you’re tired of desperately swiping right, Engineering senior Hong Kim believes his new app, Otter, will help you find a date that’s more likely to last. The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke with him about his plans for his new project: The Daily Pennsylvanian: How does Otter work? Hong Kim: Basically what happens on this app is that you can suggest people for your friends to go on dates with. You don’t choose who you want to date. You don’t choose who you

want to meet. You choose people for your friends. The flip side of that is that your friends choose people for you. What happens is when two friends are suggested they will both get a text message that night saying, “Do you want to go on a date with someone [your name] suggested?” DP: How did you come up with the idea behind Otter? Kim: I have another project called FreeforCoffee, which is a tool that groups can use — college groups and also companies — to facilitate one-on-one conversations on a larger scale. I’ve been working on this idea for about two years or so. The initial idea came from a brainstorming session for FreeforCoffee. We SEE OTTER PAGE A7

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from weddings to bar mitzvahs to History Department parties. “Whatever event you can think of, we have bartenders who are certified to bartend [the] event,” said Fenton, who also serves as bartending manager of PSA. While PSA Bartending may be a small group, a huge interest in bartending is growing among students on campus. For this spring’s Bartending 101 preceptorial, hosted by PSA Bartending, there were around 500 applications for some eight spots, according to Engineering freshman Benjamin Blumenstein, the preceptorial’s organizer. ‘It’s just a lot of fun,” Blumenstein said. “They teach you how to make pretty much anything

— how to free pour, how to pour with jiggers, shots, layered shots, Long Islands, different mixed drinks. Also, it’s a pretty expensive standalone course, [but] with the preceptorial, it’s free.” Becoming a bartender for Penn requires only a few steps. You have to be at least 18 years old, take a bartending course from PSA or a similar institution and pass a test to obtain your official bartending certification. Student bartenders get paid $20 an hour, and each event, known as a “gig,” usually lasts for two to four hours. Sometimes, clients will also give generous tips. Fenton once received a $100 tip for an event that totaled up to a $200 bill. The agency fields around two gigs each week. Event descriptions are sent out through a student bartender listserv and claimed by

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whoever is free to work those times on a first-come, first-served basis. “You can work regularly, but not crazy regularly,” Fenton said. “We definitely aren’t requiring you to work the day before you have a final.”

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“At a time in American society when there’s so much racial tension, modeling that people from different backgrounds can actually work together, teach controversial subjects together and even be married and have children together — I think it’s a phenomenal message to send to the student body,” Allen said. In her role as vice provost of faculty, the topic of partners is something that Allen must often address in the process of recruiting potential faculty hires. When Allen hires new faculty, she’s always thinking about accommodating for a spouse or partner. “When I hear that we might be interested in recruiting a brilliant new neuroscientist or a brilliant new art historian, my first question is, is there a partner or a spouse that we need to be thinking about as well? Because we’re not going to be able to recruit this person unless we can offer some help with the placement of the other partner,” Allen said. “It’s hard sometimes to find, within Penn, jobs for both people. But it happens quite

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If you took “Ethics” sometime in the past few years, you might have seen something unusual: two professors teaching at the front of the classroom. More unusual? Those two aren’t just colleagues — they’re husband and wife. Anita Allen and Paul Castellitto are one of many faculty couples at Penn. Like most other faculty couples, they are private about their personal lives, but students can often pick up on their relationship; Allen sometimes goes by the surname Allen-Castellitto. Like many faculty couples, the two teach in overlapping areas: Allen, the vice provost for faculty and a professor at Penn Law School, holds a secondary appointment in the Philosophy Department, where Castellitto holds an adjunct position. “When the opportunity came up ... to teach [“Ethics”] together

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back in 2009, I just leapt up because I wanted to know — what would it be like to work with my spouse?” Allen said. Allen and Castellitto cotaught an evening section of “Ethics” in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies that covered topics ranging from animal rights to abortion and torture. The unorthodox practice of having two teachers in the classroom helped add a level of depth and diversity of opinion to the controversial topics covered in class. “I’m a black woman; he’s an Italian man,” Allen said. “I am a little more liberal, progressive, feminist than him — I wouldn’t say he’s conservative, but he comes from a Catholic background, and he’s not instinctively feminist or instinctively social reform [minded] like I am. So we bring different politics in the classroom.” Allen hopes that by co-teaching the class, they show students the importance of working with people whose ideas are different from your own.

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frequently that it does work out.” Penn has policies to make it friendly to faculty with families such as its dual career program, which helps fund the hiring of a new faculty member’s partner or spouse, as well as parental leave for both parents and benefits for LGBTQ couples. Penn’s history is sprinkled with faculty couples. One such couple is retired linguistics professors Gillian Sankoff and William Labov, the “father of sociolinguistics.” Sankoff was previously married to renowned sociologist and former Penn professor Erving Goffman, who died in 1982. Their daughter, 2006 College graduate Alice Goffman, now teaches at the University of Wisconsin. CIS professors Steve Zdancewic and Stephanie Weirich were married in 1999 and came to teach at Penn together in 2002. (Tiffany Pham) Computer science professors Stephanie Weirich and Steve Zdancewic, who both currently teach at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, are also married.

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CIS professors Steve Zdancewic and Stephanie Weirich were married in 1999 and came to teach at Penn together in 2002.

For students with busy schedules like College sophomore and Daily Pennsylvanian staff photographer Arabella Uhry, bartending is an ideal way to earn some extra cash. Uhry works another job on campus and is part of the varsity fencing team, and she has been a bartender at Penn Student Agencies since her freshman year. “It’s not a stable income, but it’s totally worth it,” Uhry said. “Honestly, it’s the best job on campus. Even though we don’t work often, you’re paid so well.” Bartenders are paid not only to pour shots, but also to provide social, friendly service to customers. Fenton cites people skills as an essential quantity student bartenders must have. When too many patrons are crowding the bar or a belligerent customer demands yet another round, bartenders must

“We don’t do the same research projects, but we’re in the same field, so that means that I always have somebody to talk to about my research,” Weirich

said. “You can develop that support anywhere — through your friends or through your colleagues — but it’s really nice to have a spouse in that role.”

stay amiable but keep the situation under control. “When you’re a bartender, it’s your job to keep everyone happy no matter what happens,” Fenton said. “It’s really, really important that you’re able to hold a conversation [and] be polite. You want to keep on engaging people.” Bartenders are also required to have a firm knowledge of safety standards. A program known as Training for Intervention Procedures ensures bartenders know how to ID clients, serve correct portions of alcohol, discern when someone is too drunk to be served and know how to deal with a host of other tricky situations. “If they go crazy on you, you learn in safety training different techniques you can use,” Fenton said. “One common technique is you put it on you. You go, ‘Listen,

I would serve you if I could, [but] I can’t legally.’” Overall, however, bartending is a relatively conflict-free job that Uhry calls “really fun and social.” Fenton said he loves talking to people who come hang out at the bar, while Uhry agreed that bartending helped her develop communication skills and deal with a wide range of situations. “You have people asking you to make things you don’t have the ingredients for, at the same time you have a group of people asking you to dance with them, at the same time you have another one of the staff who’s supposed to be working showing you the marijuana plant he’s growing in his house on his iPhone, and you have to serve drinks to everyone,” Fenton said, laughing. “It’s just funny. And you do it.”

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Christian forum discusses white supremacy today Faculty offer perspectives on faith and social issues ESTHER YOON Deputy News Editor

In a lively talk on Wednesday afternoon, Christianity Today Executive Editor Andy Crouch broached a topic not often discussed in Christian circles: white supremacy. Crouch spoke about the Christian perspective on racism and human trafficking as part of a weekly series hosted by the Penn Faculty-Staff Christian Forum that concentrates on various topics regarding faith and relevant societal issues. “Today, even though slavery is completely illegal, even though no government in the world even wants to admit that slavery is happening in their country, it is happening in essentially every country,” Crouch said. “What do we do about that? How will we, including those of us who

are Christians, respond to these realities?” Crouch guided the audience through an understanding of white supremacy as the legacy of institutional racism and slavery. He defined white supremacy as being “the comprehensive, ideological advancement of a belief in the inherent superiority of that white race, and in the construction of social systems that allowed ... that white race to experience itself and perpetuate itself as powerful in the world.” “More people were actually trafficked through violence in a system ... [called] modern-day forced labor. But there are more people — people in this room, everyone in this campus, everyone in this city — caught in the institutional legacy of white supremacy.” While both modern-day forced labor and the legacy of white supremacy have no “legal or even ideological legitimacy today in any great measure,”

these issues continue to “persist powerfully,” he said. Crouch said that Christians, especially “white Christians” can respond to such issues by first thinking institutionally about change and ways to think more “imaginatively” about available resources. “I think the problem with ... white Christians ... is that we tend to reduce ... the whole story of abolition to inspiring individual actors without thinking or attending to the profound institutional implications of what they did and what had to be done.” Crouch also said that fundamentally, “we need to recover the image of God” in order to address the realities of human exploitation and modern-day slave labor. He emphasized understanding the two unique qualities that drive all humans: authority, the capacity for meaningful action, and vulnerability, the capacity for meaningful risk. Crouch’s invitation on behalf

of the Penn FSCF shows a commitment of the Christian faculty, as well as Penn graduate students, to opportunities to integrate faith with their academic and professional lives. Michael Atchison, a biochemistry professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine and part of the FSCF leadership, said that Andy Crouch was invited to speak as a part of an ongoing dialogue on other forms of oppression not limited to racism. “The series that we’re doing now flowed out of discussions we had probably last spring, maybe around April ... there had been the riots in Baltimore, there was the shooting in Ferguson, [Miss.] and it just seemed that this was an issue that many people were struggling with,” Atchison said. During his address, Crouch used a two-by-two graphic to explain how a distortion of the authority-vulnerability dynamic enabled perpetrators of human trafficking and oppression to

sustain their violence. “I want to suggest that when you have authority and vulnerability together, you have flourishing,” Crouch said. “What if you could shed a lot of the vulnerability of that agricultural system onto people who cannot resist force of violence? That is slavery.” Among the crowd of primarily professors and administrators, Wharton junior Steph Virbitsky and Nursing junior Kirsten Garza were among the few undergraduate students in attendance. Virbitsky, who heard about the event through Dave DeHuff, an administrator for the FSCF, praised the event’s message. “I’m really passionate about seeing the end of human trafficking,” she said. Garza was inspired to attend the event after taking a class on impact intervention, and like Virbitsky, is a member of Penn Cru, a Christian fellowship

group. “Also, hearing Andy Crouch speak was an incredible opportunity,” she said. “Tying in Christianity into our view of [human trafficking] is very important to me and just kind of seeing how that relates to what I believe,” Garza added. “I guess for me faith plays a role in pretty much just about everything I do but obviously here at Penn there’s a very intellectual side of it as well that I’m definitely still learning about because I don’t always think of things in that way.” Atchison applauded the event as another way to invite dialogue on oppression in its myriad forms. “We wanted to consider all forms of oppression,” he added. “Every individual is created in the image of God and they’re all valuable, and these people who are caught in abusive circumstances ... it’s not a small number.”

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My brother Patrick was killed on July 30, 2015. But “brother” doesn’t quite encompass the extent of our relationship. My best friend, my mentor, my wingman, my ferociously-fast cycling partner, my reason for living — when hit by a car while bicycling across America, he died. And it felt like I died, too. I trudged through each day. I stumbled through pitying conversations. I dumped my boyfriend. And, in a rush of give-no-fuckery, I downloaded Tinder. On Tinder, I swiped through person after person who didn’t know Patrick died. Everyone else knew — my well-meaning

friends who discussed loss, my awkward acquaintances who vaguely alluded to the tragedy, my parents who were too distraught to speak to me. All of my other relationships were damped by loss, but these didn’t have to be. I laughed on my first Tinder date. It rushed out of my mouth, unfamiliar and surprising. He told a silly story about getting his ear pierced on a cruise ship with his mom. And I laughed! After months of only sobs shortening my breath, it felt exhilarating. I told him about my brother piercing my ear the night before he left to college so that we could always wear

one stud of the same pair. And my date laughed, too. So, I met up with more matches — one gloriously

make out on rooftops, play freeze dance at subway stations, shotgun beers in parking lots, burn grilled chees-

To them, I was just an outgoing, flirtatious seven point five who talked about bikes too much — not an unstable, grieving mess who talked about bikes too much.” refreshing date after another. We’d bike race down the Schuylkill River Trail,

es. Laugh. To them, I was just an outgoing, flirtatious seven point five who talked

about bikes too much — not an unstable, grieving mess who talked about bikes too much. I rarely saw any of these men again. I’d ghost after our single lovely date rather than admit them into my world of grieving. But I savored those few extraordinary carefree hours. I could tell Patrick stories, and they wouldn’t shift uncomfortably in their chairs. To them, he was not my dead brother, just my brother. And when I’d lose myself in stories — Patrick’s and my hundredmile bike rides and Patrick’s and my enormous slingshot that could fling Beanie Babies an entire street block and Patrick’s and my road

trips where we’d listen to every single Dashboard Confessional album — he felt not like my dead brother, but just my brother. To the wonderful gentlemen I met — to Felipe and Nathan and Ryan and Vishal, to Jeremy and David and Josh, to the other David, to Matt and Ed and Leandro and Spencer and Shailendra and to Daniel and Jed — thank you. You helped me feel that Patrick wasn’t ashes in the Pacific. That he was still alive. That his heart was beating — more than that, racing — just like mine. SUZETTE WANNINKHOF is a College senior.

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The very first type of love we learn is not the romantic type we celebrate during Valentine’s. It’s the inherent connection: that caring, affectionate love found in bedtime stories, backyard barbeques and time-outs after tantrums. My dad is many things: professor, engineer, politics enthusiast, World Cup fan, smoker. But he isn’t a dad. He is a very quiet person who rarely revealed his feelings. Heck, the most family-like activity we did together on a regular basis was probably grocery shopping. As I grew up, I was more and more shaped by things outside of the house: friends, romantic interests, adventures and regrets. All during which, my crooked, angsty, pubescent self started to pay more attention to the nagging voice in the back of my head, telling me that my dad was the worst dad ever — besides,

the voice would tell me, he doesn’t even try to spend time with me like other dads do with their daughters. Why doesn’t he do this? Why won’t he do that? Aren’t dads supposed to do this and that? My thoughts accumulated into a wall between him and me. That wall sat there for years. And, since this is not a movie, my big “revelation” didn’t come with a near-death experience or some Hollywood blockbuster scene. Rather, it was some unmemorable night. I had recently committed to Penn, and as a second semester senior in high school, had nothing to do other than read sappy John Green novels. Paper Towns revolves around a guy learning the true self behind his lifelong crush, and towards the end of the novel, he marvels, “What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more

than a person.” What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person. To speak the truth, I didn’t instantly connect my dad with this quote the mo-

a big stack of books. “Look, I did some reading on Philadelphia and —” He sat down next to me and flipped through book after book on Philadelphia

For nearly 18 years I was upset that he didn’t meet up to my ideal image of a dad and, as a result, was too late in appreciating and loving the actual person who stood before me.” ment I laid my eyes upon it, but the line did bother me. It stuck around for a while. I didn’t understand it at first, but I kept repeating it under my breath for the next couple of days. On one night of which, my dad walked into my room with

and Penn. He pointed out the best sushi restaurants near campus, because “you eat sushi on a weekly basis.” He put a star next to Pottruck since “being healthy helps with everything.” He even circled Stiteler Hall, proud of himself for

finding the “tiny little political science building” (a friendly rivalry between an engineering professor and a budding political science major). I was taken by complete surprise and so amused that in this day and age my dad actually went to buy hard copy books and went through them, underlining with a pen. This, I knew instinctively, was him being a dad. Not by hugging me, or watching a movie with me or giving me a pat on the back after a stressful day, but by going through stacks of books in hopes that I would have an easy and fun transition into a new phase of life, a phase without him around 24/7; this was his way of showing his love for me. For nearly 18 years I was upset that he didn’t meet up to my ideal image of a dad and, as a result, was too late in appreciating and lov-

ing the actual person who stood before me. As Green put it, it is indeed “treacherous to believe a person is more than a person.” I realized that Dad isn’t who I thought I expected and wanted him to be, but someone different. Although I refused to take the heavy books with me to Philly, my dad gave me a gift so much more important than any travel guide could have given me. He taught me that a person is just a person and not an archetype meant to fulfill my expectations, and that I need to see the person before me as is and learn how to love the uniqueness and authenticity of that particular person. To this day, as I build new relationships, I tell myself: what a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is just a person. JENNIFER JUN is a College freshman.

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makes it very special for us too.”

57 years later, the college sweethearts are still married and in love. After he bought her a pearl friendship pin a round her birthday in October, they were formally engaged on Thanksgiving in 1957. “My parents were having his family for Thanksgiving dinner. He came over that morning, and I was busy studying … He came over looking spiffy and said, ‘Put your hand in my pocket,’” Weinheim said. “I did, and took out a ring box,” she added. “When I opened it, there was a note that read, ‘Dear Carole, don’t be too disappointed. Your ring is in my other pocket.’” They married in August 1958 at the synagogue they had both belonged to all of their lives: Har Zion Temple, formerly in Winfield, Pa. but now in Penn Valley, Pa . They both served as presidents of the synagogue, with Weinham being the first female president. 57 years later, they still attend the same temple as faithful members. “We’re a very Penn family,” Weinheim said. “Our three sons all went to Penn. I worked at Penn. We loved Penn, and they knew we loved Penn.” Although Weinheim and her husband allowed her sons to consider other schools, Penn was the right fit for all three, she said. As her oldest son looked around, he decided that the opportunities at Wharton appealed to him the most. The other boys followed suit. Their oldest son, a Wharton and Law graduate, and their second son, a College and Medicine graduate, both met their wives at Penn as well. Weinheim and Karsch have two grandsons who have also graduated from Penn and a granddaughter who is currently a Penn student. Last year, Weinheim and Karsch walked as alums in graduation and carried their class f lags. “It still remains a very important piece of our lives,” Weinheim explained. “The fact that we met there

Abby Bechler & Robert Karsch Abby Bechler-Karsch, who received her undergraduate Nursing degree in 1988 and graduate Nursing degree in 1993, met her future husband during move-in of her junior year in August 1986. “I lived in an off-campus house with his younger brother, and that’s how we met,” Karsch recalled. “He was helping his younger brother move in the day I was moving in.” 1985 College graduate and 1989 Medicine graduate Robert Karsch took her to Pangf, a restaurant on South Street in Philadelphia for their first date. Robert, the son of Carole and Samuel, walked around with her in Old City afterwards. They dated at Penn consistently. For Valentine’s Day of 1988, Karsch put an ad in The Daily Pennsylvanian saying, “I love you, say yes when I ask you.” Five months later, they were engaged. “He called my parents, and then we went out to dinner. He said, ‘I love you. Will you marry me?’” They went to Chicago that weekend because one of his ZBT brothers owned a jewelry store. After Karsch graduated from Penn, she moved into her own apartment and worked at the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania. “He graduated medical school in 1989, on a Monday, and we got married the following weekend,” she said. Karsch and her husband, surrounded by all of her Penn roommates, married in Chicago on Memorial Day weekend, May 28, 1989. Their daughter is currently a sophomore at Penn. The Karsch family has at least 30 degrees from Penn. “Red and Blue is in my daughter’s blood, but it was always her choice,” Karsh said. “We were super happy when she decided.”

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Jan Sigmon & Andrew Dworkin “He very quickly became my

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2016 best friend,” 1982 College graduate Jan Sigmon said. Entering college at a young age, she met her husband, 1981 College graduate Andrew Dworkin, through a mutual friend in the Quadrangle who introduced the two. On Nov. 3, 1978, he took her to a Jorma Kaukonen concert with the acoustic group Hot Tuna. “We really liked each other, and we had a number of friends in common,” Sigmon remembered. “After that first date, we started hanging out more and more.” After her freshman year, the two became exclusive. “Then we knew, it wasn’t just friends, we loved being together,” she added. Dworkin and Sigmon have been together for over 37 years. “We’ve really grown up together. We had a lot in common. We both loved adventure, we both loved to travel.” “We were sort of like the couple that went out the longest but did not get married first,” Sigmon said. “We got married 11.5 years later, not until I was 27.” They had both moved to New York for graduate school and spent time with their Penn friends in the New York . He proposed in a horse and buggy in Central Park. “Our wedding was actually mostly friends because my parents did a separate thing for us in Pennsylvania,” Sigmon said. “We got married at The Peninsula Hotels in New York.” They were the first to get married at The Peninsula Hotels. She wore an emerald green wedding gown, surrounded by their Penn and childhood friends. Even after graduation, Penn remained a part of their lives. Sigmon’s older sister and her husband — featured in this article — met their freshman year at Penn. “In our family, we always joke that I met a Jewish Andy from Queens, and my sister ten years earlier met her Jewish Andy from Queens.” “My husband and I really loved Penn … We’ve always gone to Penn games, we go to

homecom ing,” Sigmon explained. “I think [our children] realized, as they started to explore all the universities ... [Penn] really did have it all.” Sigmon and Dworkin’s oldest daughter graduated from Penn in 2013. Her second daughter is currently a junior. Their younger son is in tenth grade and aspires to follow his sisters’ example. “It’s a combination of tradition,” Sigmon said, “and having it be a part of your life.” Hilary Sigmon & Andy Goldstein 1973 College and Nursing graduate Hilary Sigmon, Jan’s sister, was in the lounge area of Van Pelt during her freshman year when she heard a boy asking a girl on a date in a nearby telephone booth. She asked him for change for a quarter, and they started talking. Sigmon invited her future husband, 1972 College graduate Andy Goldstein, to a sorority party at Sigma Delta Tau, but he got sick and had to cancel. Despite their failed first attempt, they ended up together and have been married for 35 years. About three to four years after Penn, the two got engaged. “I think I asked him to marry me; it was a mutual good decision because we were in the same place at the same time, and we were together for a long time,” Sigmon explained. They married in 1976 in Pennsylvania, another Sigmon family couple who met at Penn. Just like with her sister’s children, Hilary Sigmon’s two boys applied early decision to Penn and were both accepted. “We were always very gungho people,” Sigmon said. “My husband was very active. I did a double major in [the] nursing school and in the college, and my husband did a lot of interviewing [as an alum] for potential students.” Sigmon and Goldstein return to Penn frequently for homecomings and class reunions. “We’ve been fans forever,” she said. “I can’t think of a better place for my family for education as well as socialization.”

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GSE “heat map” tracks Penn projects in Phila.

Online map of centralized, transparent database CHARLOTTE LARACY Staff Reporter

Through an interactive “heat map,” the Graduate School of Education now has a way of tracking Penn’s involvement in Philadelphia’s 247 public schools. When GSE Dean Pam Grossman arrived at Penn in January 2015, she wanted to know more about the school’s impact in the School District of Philadelphia. Although GSE has a strong commitment to urban education, there was not a centralized, transparent database of the number of GSE projects underway in each school and who was involved. “I was motivated to create the heat map to represent the reach of the school. We are a small school but we really have outsized impact

given the size of the faculty,” Grossman said. “I also wanted to learn so we could all better understand where we are. I don’t think we knew before we did the heat map that we were in every catchment area. There was no way to know that before the map was built.” The interactive map solves this problem by demonstrating the range and depth of GSE’s work in the School District and city charter schools. The heat map, which is available on GSE’s website, shows the programs and divisions within Philadelphia that GSE takes part in. The programs are grouped into numerous divisions which include consulting, leadership, professional development, research, service learning through the Academically Based Community Service courses, student organizations and training. Jeffrey Cooper, vice president

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of the Office of Government and Community Affairs, believes that this online resource will be crucial in creating informed discussion with education activists and other community members.

Other graduate schools, such as the Wharton School or the School of Nursing, may use a similar tool as well, he said. “I think this could definitely be implemented in other schools

within Penn to show our scope within Philadelphia but I don’t think any other schools is far along as GSE,” Cooper said. The work to create the heat map started in the early fall of 2015. The data for the map was obtained, with the help of GSE Director of School and Community Engagement Caroline Watts, by collecting information from everyone within the school about their projects in city schools. With the accumulated information, partnerships will be easier to foster between GSE and local schools. GSE is beginning to collaborate with the Nursing School and the School of Social Policy &amp; Practice in order to be a more impactful resource for the schools. Over one-third of GSE’s full-time faculty and staff are working with local schools and the School District to create effective

educational approaches in order to address the needs of the students, urban schools and the community. Some of the GSE projects include researching the effects of school closures on student performance, online teaching through a Virtual Online Teaching Certificate Program and the Philadelphia Writing Project, which provides professional development to educators. Grossman said the heat map can be used for further strategic planning to improve their work in Philadelphia schools. “We are now working on what we want our collective impact to be when working with Philadelphia and the School District,” Grossman said. “We are trying to figure out how can we deepen some of the work in some of the schools so that there is more synergy across the projects so they add up to be more than the sum of their parts.”

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Penn prof develops algorithm for counterterrorism The project hopes to ensure privacy security SAHIL KUMAR Staff Reporter

While today’s politicians and lawmakers struggle to find a balance between personal privacy and national security, a Penn professor is working on an answer. Professor Michael Kearns, national center chair in the Department of Computer and Information Science, just published a paper on a computer algorithm that can use the structure of social networks to target certain individuals or groups — without compromising the privacy of people who

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were thinking, how do we give people better matches? And we can guess all we want with our algorithms, but maybe a simpler way is just to ask people. And then it suddenly hit me that this should exist in the dating world. DP: So what kind of person should use Otter? HK: The off line analogy of people with Tinder is people at a bar: you survey your options based on appearance and attraction, and then there’s some amount of rules of engagement based on social rules and then there’s some communication like flirting. Then you decide if you want to move forward. What happens on Tinder is pretty much the same thing; it’s just on steroids. That bar activity is pretty much what dating apps are right now. But not everyone shines at the bar scene for a ton of reasons, and for very similar reasons, there’s a ton of reasons many people don’t like to engage with the Tinders of the world. And where do they go for online dating? There really isn’t [an

are not involved. The algorithm would come with many applications, but Kearns is currently most interested in potential for counterterrorism. “It’s an algorithm to use the social network to guide the search for some targeted subpopulation, which in the case of the NSA you can think of as some group of terrorists or other bad actors,” Kearns said. If created, this algorithm could have major implications for the political scene, particularly after former CIA member Edward Snowden’s revelations of the information that the government has kept secret from the public. The algorithm is possibly the only solution developed so far to find a middle

outlet] for them. So this realization was the motivation for starting to think about Otter. DP: Why do you think this behavior will work online? HK: One question people ask is why would people be so altruistic. I think what will often happen is you have someone close in mind that you want to set up because they’re just a good friend, and you just want to see them be happy; their dating success is your excitement. And then you would think about everyone you know and try to suggest the best person for him or her. In a sense, Tinder sort of brings out the worst in people in that they make judgments about someone in a microsecond. You could argue that that’s how people are — we make snap judgments. But one thing that Hunter and I believe is that that’s not the case. People are much more judgmental on a profile than in reality. We found on FreeforCoffee that when people sit down they find commonalities and enjoy each other’s personality and have a great conversation more often than not. That’s the belief we have for dating as well.

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Columbia (12-9, 1-5 Ivy) 7 p.m.

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As they look to stay atop the Ivy League, the Quakers are sticking with what got them there. Penn (16-3, 5-0 Ivy) will host Columbia (12-9, 1-5) on Friday night before welcoming Cornell (13-7, 5-1) to the Palestra on Saturday. The first-place Quakers will be taking on both their closest and most distant competition in the second-place Big Red and

the last-place Lions. When Penn met these squads last year, it split its two games with Cornell while sweeping Columbia. Usually, teams spend most of the week preparing for their Friday opponents, and worry about their Saturday foes on the day of the second game. This weekend, the second game likely represents a bigger challenge and is certainly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with Cornell only a half-game behind the Quakers in the standings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a much more important contest in the race for the Ivy title. So will Penn coach Mike McLaughlin prepare for this doubleheader differently? â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, not even a little bit,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are doing what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to try to be consistent through this back-to-back six-week process weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to do Saturday on Saturday, regardless of who [the opponent] is. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been our plan and we stick to it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the players really like that approach,â&#x20AC;? the coach continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge game Saturday, but you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to Saturday healthy without Friday, and

they know that. I think they feel comfortable that if they compete, they can beat anybody in our league, but they know that they can get beat if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not prepared and not ready to play.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still always a basketball game that comes on Friday night first,â&#x20AC;? senior captain Kasey Chambers added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Columbia cannot be overlooked. We have to take care of business Friday before we can even think about Saturday. When Saturday morning comes around I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll start preparing for Cornell. Cornellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great team, but so is Columbia.â&#x20AC;? The Lions went 11-4 in non-conference play, so theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re certainly no pushover, even if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re likely out of the hunt for the Ancient Eight title. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They can shoot the three, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to guard the arc,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin noted, possibly with Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recent loss in the back of his mind â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Villanova hit 17 threes against the Quakers on Jan. 26. Against Cornell, Penn will look to preserve and solidify its lead in the Ivy League standings.

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is always awesome.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be a good weekend,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And a really important one for us.â&#x20AC;?

freshman Imani Solam is off to an amazing start to her collegiate track and field career, placing in both the 4x400m womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relay and in the 200m dash at last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Villanova Invitational. She currently sits at second in school history in the 200m and is one-fourth of the 4x400m relay team that has the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fourth-best showing. In the middle- and long-distance disciplines, the Red and Blue have plenty of highly skilled runners. Junior Carey Celata, another member of the esteemed 4x400 squad, boasts a 2:07 mark in the 800 which ranks second in Quaker history and that Dolan called a â&#x20AC;&#x153;nationally competitive time.â&#x20AC;? Moreover, junior distance runner Ashley Montgomery looks to beat her career best 9:30.57 at 3,000m and is just nine seconds shy of the school record. In the high jump, sophomore Mike Monroe looks to build off his Ivy League-winning 2.14m clearance in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s indoor Heptagonals when he participates

in his second indoor meet of the season. Finally, the throwers are ready to make their impact on Friday after having a terrific start to the season. Senior and reigning NCAA discus champion Sam Mattis hit a personal best of 18.41 meters in the weight throw, which is good for fifth all-time in that discipline. However, no throwerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accomplishments this winter can eclipse those of freshman Rachel Wilson, whose 16.81 meter weight throw broke a Penn record. In Dolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opinion, her performance has been the most â&#x20AC;&#x153;outstanding throwing performance thus farâ&#x20AC;? for the Red and Blue. The meet could feature some new entries in the Penn record books, but above all else, Dolan believes that it will be a good battleground for the Quakers to see where they stand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outside of the Ivy League championships, this will be the most competitive meet we see this season.â&#x20AC;?

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an attempt to break her previous best of 7.54 seconds. This week, however, McCorkle and the sprinters had a relatively light Monday, including a plyometric based workout in place of short sprints. This could prove to be a differencemaker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been continuing to build on things so that we are good for Heps,â&#x20AC;? McCorkle said in reference to the sprintersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; preparation this week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But at the same time weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also taking it a little easier some of the days this week, only because we want our legs to be fresh for Friday.â&#x20AC;? Friday could be a day of records not only for McCorkle, but also for many of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other marquee athletes. Success at Fastrack is not only imperative to team performance, but it could help some athletes closing in on program bests. Also in the sprint department,

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be a battle,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They beat us at home last year, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a team very capable of winning the Ivy League.â&#x20AC;? The Quakers are hoping the only similarity in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rematch will be the presence of 2015 graduates Kathleen Roche, Renee Busch and Katy Allen in the Palestra. The three members of the winningest class in program history (the fourth, Kara Bonenberger, is playing professionally in England) wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be helping out on the court, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be in the building for Alumni Night on Saturday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great getting to see people who you know, who you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to see in awhile,â&#x20AC;? said senior guard Kasey Chambers, who practiced with the team last year despite being unable to play in games due to transfer rules. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And then you get to meet people who come back [from older classes] that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never met before, which is always such a great opportunity.â&#x20AC;? The night before, Penn will host its annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Think Pinkâ&#x20AC;? event to raise Breast Cancer Awareness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so important, not only for

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individual sport, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really understand fully what it meant to play as a team,â&#x20AC;? womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior captain Camille Lanier said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But to see the team grow and expand across borders is great. Penn is such a big school, so being on the team really opened a window of opportunity for friendship and a break from Penn culture.â&#x20AC;? Senior captain Yan Xin Tan held similar sentiments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Playing squash here as the years progressed, you realize that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about yourself anymore.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I learned how to play for my team instead of myself. Even if you win your match but the rest of the team loses theirs, you lose. And of course, I would not have gone through four years without two other amazing seniors.â&#x20AC;? So while on paper this final

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Senior captain Yan Xin Tan concludes her regular season career at Ringe Courts this weekend as Penn squash takes on Cornell and Columbia.

weekend may not stand out as the biggest weekend for Penn squash, it will certainly be one of the most

meaningful for all the players on the team as they seek to send their seniors out in a blaze of glory.

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No. 34 Dartmouth (5-3, 0-0 Ivy) 2 p.m.

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Things seem to be falling into place this weekend for Penn men’s tennis. Originally slated to head up to Columbia for this weekend’s Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament, trouble with the Lions’ indoor facility meant an alternate site was needed. That’s when Penn coach David Geatz offered up the Hecht Tennis Center, where his Quakers (2-4, 0-0 Ivy) have gone undefeated so far in 2016. But it gets even better for the Red and Blue. Not only is senior

captain Vim De Alwis ready to go after missing most of the season recovering from a knee injury, but freshman Dmitry Shatalin is also now eligible to play after sitting out the first part of the year due to NCAA rules regarding international players. A lt houg h t he Q u a ker s dropped a pair of matches on the road last weekend, they’ll offer up an almost entirely retooled lineup for ECACs. “We played with a big chunk of our starting lineup really not able to play because we’ve had some injuries, some bad injuries with the guys at the top of our lineup,” Geatz explained. “But we should — I’m hoping we’re going to be full strength for this tournament. I think we’ll be a completely different team.” De Alwis’ return will be critical if Penn has a shot at taking down Dartmouth in the first round of the tournament on Friday. With the senior captain largely absent for the start of

moved down for the weekend. “We can’t afford to lose Vim,” Geatz said. “I mean he’s one of our team captains and not only the team captain and a leader but he’s also one of our best players. “And this is a tough sport because if you lose a guy at place one or two it just doesn’t affect his one match but it means everybody else has to play up a spot higher, so you lose the one guy then potentially it sets off six matches.” It will take three matches over three days to potentially win the ECAC Tournament, and that road for the Quakers starts with Dartmouth (5-3, 0-0). The Big Green, ranked No. 34 in the nation, also represent a significant hurdle as the Red and Blue look at the bigger picture. “One of our goals is to be the first team in Penn history to qualify for the NCAA Championship and we have a chance to do that,” Geatz said. “We play a team that’s one of

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With senior captain Vim De Alwis back for Penn men’s tennis, coach David Geatz thinks his squad can challenge for an ECAC Tournament title.

the season, the Red and Blue have been forced to rely on some younger players at the top of the ladder — including freshman Kyle Mautner, who secured at pair of wins at No. 1 for the

Quakers in Virginia a week ago. But as Penn enters ECACs, it will need senior leadership to make a deep tournament run, meaning Mautner and sophomore Josh Pompan may get

the top 30 teams in the country, Dartmouth. ... And I think it’ll be real powerful to see where we’re at if we beat them, you know, we beat Dartmouth, we go on, and I think it’s going to be a really cool interesting match.” For the Quakers, the road to NCAAs starts with the Big Green. They’ll need strong performances from Mautner, Pompan and De Alwis — who Geatz sees as being at about “90 percent” heading into the weekend. Still, the Red and Blue are finally fielding a healthy squad, and their coach is hopeful that can last. “Can we do that three days in a row without someone getting hurt? I hope so. But that might be tough for us. I don’t know if Vim can make three straight days of play.” In order to necessitate a third day of play, however, Penn will have to get past the Big Green. And with an all-new lineup in the mix, the outcome of the match is anything but set.

Red and Blue welcome three foes in triple-header

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No. 15 Cornell 1 p.m. The Palestra

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Columbia 1 p.m. The Palestra

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Bucknell 3 p.m. The Palestra

It’s the oldest story in the book, but this year, the Quakers hope to add a new chapter to this longstanding tale. This weekend, the Palestra will play host to a triple-header for Penn, as they take on Ivy rival Cornell on Saturday before returning on Sunday to grapple with Columbia and Bucknell.

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Red will be given a run for their money by the Red and Blue. “Last year we were right in it with Cornell,” junior 133-pounder Caleb Richardson said. “It was really anyone’s match to win. Some of our best guys match up against their best guys, and we can take those matches.” Penn will look to its own nationally ranked seniors in No. 15 Casey Kent, No. 15 Lorenzo Thomas and No. 11 C.J. Cobb to put up big performances against their Cornell counterparts. Undoubtedly these veteran stars are familiar with their opponents. Standout Kent took down No. 15 Brian Realbuto of Cornell — was a 2015 national finalist — at the Southern Scuffle on Jan. 1 and Thomas has had numerous close matches with No. 1 Gabe Dean. At 133 pounds, the Big Red’s No. 1 Nashon Garrett will prove to be a daunting task for Richardson. However challenging, this matchup is anything but novel for Richardson. “I have a game plan,” Richardson said. “We’ve wrestled a few times in my career, and he’s the

over Harvard on Jan. 30. “They’re very talented at all positions — good skills, good size,” Donahue said of his Friday night opponent. “We’ve got to really compete and contend with a lot of different aspects of their offense.” And Cornell, despite its inferior record, boasts the top two scorers in the league. Junior forward Robert Hatter leads the conference with 18.7 points per game while freshman sensation Matt Morgan sits close behind with 18.6 per contest. Morgan — a guard out of Concord, N.C. — has been even more impressive in Ivy Play, averaging 26.5 points over six Ivy games. Penn freshman Jake Silpe will likely be tasked with guarding Morgan. Silpe has moved into the Quakers’ starting point guard role as the

season has progressed, and while he may not put up Morgan’s gaudy offensive stats, his 5.2 assists per game in Ivy play rank him second in the conference. Silpe’s eight assists in Friday’s win over Dartmouth were the most by any Penn player this season. But wh ile the on-cour t matchups wi l l l i kely b e the focus of this weekend’s game, Donahue can’t help but reminisce about his highly successful tenure in upstate New York. “I just always think back to the people, not the games, not the wins. “Because I was able to really have some incredible relationships during those 10 years.” Associate Sports Editor Cole Jacobson contributed reporting.

kind of guy you have to watch out for. He’s athletic and explosive, but I’ve been getting ready in the room and getting my mind and body prepared to wrestle hard for seven minutes.” The Red and Blue will also be gaining reinforcements this weekend. 197-pounder junior Frank Mattiace will compete in his second meet back from injury, and his impact goes beyond his place in the lineup. Not only is Mattiace a factor on the mat, but his camaraderie with his teammates — even in an individual sport — has been sorely missed. “The night before meets, I always go and talk to Frank,” Richardson said. “Anytime you’re missing your ‘starters’ it’s going to effect the team,” Tirapelle said. “Not just his individual match result but the energy he brings to the guys.” Tirapelle stressed the importance of everyone doing their part on Saturday. “Every match is going to be critical this weekend, and even in the matches we lose, we can’t afford to give up bonus points. It’ll

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Senior 157-pounder Brooks Martino anticipates Penn wrestling getting a boost from being at the Palestra as they host No. 15 Cornell this weekend.

really be a team driven effort.” Regardless of the outcome against Cornell the Quakers will still have to come back to battle Columbia and Bucknell on Sunday. Though the Lions may pose a lesser challenge than the Big Red, the upcoming tilt is still a league matchup that the Red and Blue can not afford to lose. “Bouncing back on Sunday and carrying some energy into those matches will be a challenge,” Richardson said. “Columbia and

Bucknell aren’t at the level of Cornell, but they’re not going to lay down for us either. No matter what happens on Saturday, we have to come back and take care of business on Sunday.” “This meet will be a milestone and we’re up against some great competition,” Tirapelle concluded. “It’ll be a great measuring stick to see where we’re at. How ever it goes Saturday, we can’t falter Sunday.”

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hurting the team more than I was helping them,” Nelson-Henry said of an injury sustained Jan. 29 at Yale. “I felt way better last weekend, and I think it showed in my performance.” The Quakers will need another pair of big games from their veteran big man if they are to succeed this weekend. Columbia (16-7, 5-1) will pose a particular challenge, as they feature guards Maodo Lo and Alex Rosenberg , two of the most potent long-range threats in the Ivy League. Rosenberg provided the most dramatic moment of the Ivy League season so far, knocking down a buzzer-beating jumper to give the Lions a 55-54 victory

All attention, however, is being paid to the No. 15 Big Red. Cornell has won the last 13 Ivy League wrestling titles. In each of those 13 seasons, the Red and Blue have been the runners up. Having just returned from a doubleheader last Saturday that involved multiple bus rides throughout the northeast, the Red and Blue will appreciate the opportunity to compete at home and spare them from the stress of a road trip. “Wrestling at home is very beneficial, especially compared to what we did last weekend,” senior 157-pounder Brooks Martino said. “It’s great to be here and sleep in your own bed, then casually wake up match day and even get a workout in before competing.” The Quakers will look for every edge they can get against a gritty and challenging Big Red squad. “Our toughest challenge will be winning those matches where it could go either way,” Martino said. “Those will be hard to win, but if we can do that, that could be the deciding factor.” Although Cornell is certainly a force to be reckoned with, the Big

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There’s nothing quite like catching up with old friends. This weekend, Penn basketball coach Steve Donahue will face off against Cornell — a team FRIDAY he coached for a Columbia decade — part of (16-7, 5-1 Ivy) a ba ck-to -ba ck road set also fea7 p.m. turing a trip to New York Columbia, which will be the QuakSATURDAY er s’ t h i rd Iv y Cornell weekend of the (9-11, 2-4 Ivy) season. “[Cornell] is a 6 p.m. place that obviIthaca, N.Y. ously means a lot to me and my family, but we’ll have to put that part aside,” the first-year Penn coach said. “We just have to focus in on our group and continue to play good basketball.” Donahue was the coach of the Big Red (9-11, 2-4 Ivy) from 2000 to 2010, a stint that was among the most successful coaching tenures in recent Ivy League history. During his time in Ithaca, Donahue led Cornell from a 3-11 Ivy record in his first year to Ivy titles in each of his final three campaigns, including a Sweet 16 bid during the 2010 NCAA Tournament. On the heels of that success, Donahue left for Boston College’s head coaching gig after that season. “We had incredible student-athletes that were committed to a goal and were very selfless,” Donahue said, reminiscing about his Ivy championship squads. “And that’s what I’m here [at Penn] for. To build a champion and win Ivy League titles.” Donahue got a pleasant boost on his road to a rebuild in University City when the Red and Blue (8-11, 2-3) picked up a pair of victories — their first two of the conference season — at the Palestra last weekend. The Quakers rallied behind 19 points from senior forward Darien Nelson-Henry to knock off Dartmouth on Friday before dispatching defending Ivy champion Harvard, 67-57, on Saturday. “Two weekends ago I felt like I was

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Penn prepares for Quakers look to close Ivy fast track at Fastrack season with a flourish

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and Blue in for big test

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Fastrack National Invite

Columbia (5-4 M, 5-4 W)

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Staten Island, N.Y.

Friday’s Fastrack National Invite is crucial for Penn track and field. The meet, which will take place at the new Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island, N.Y., will be the Quakers’ most competitive test before Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, which is just over two weeks away. Coach Steve Dolan tried to keep the meet in perspective. “I think the big thing right now is to get the meets going and compete,” he said, noting that the team lost a good testing ground when they opted not to travel to Princeton in January due to snow. Track and field, more so than many other sports, is decided by centimeters and milliseconds.

Ringe Courts

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Sophomore sprinter Taylor McCorkle (second from left) looks to match her own record in the 60-meter sprint at the Fastrack Invite.

After setting the school women’s indoor record for the 60-meter last year, sophomore sprinter Taylor McCorkle has fallen short, by less than a tenth of a second each time, of replicating or beating her 2015 record. In Dolan’s opinion, Fastrack is the perfect competition for McCorkle to surpass her previous marks. “I think she’s ready for a breakthrough in the 60,” Dolan said. “This week we should see the next level of competition so it will be fun to see her against that next

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level of competition and see how she competes, because she finds a way to win and compete well.” McCorkle is equally optimistic as she is determined to raise the bar for all future Quaker 60m sprinters. She expects that Ocean Breeze’s “fast track” will help her lower her times and could be an important factor in Friday’s meet. On top of that, McCorkle recognizes the importance of a good week of training. She always stays motivated throughout training in SEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE A8

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Cornell (3-8 M, 8-5 W) 12 p.m.

Ringe Courts

After a busy season filled with plenty of ups and even a few downs, the Penn squash teams will end their regular season schedules with red and blue opponents of their own. On Friday, both second-ranked squads will have their final home match of the season against Columbia at the Ringe Squash Courts. The men (9-3, 3-2 Ivy) will be looking to avenge a 7-2 loss to the eighth-ranked Lions (5-4, 3-2) from last year while the women

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(10-1, 4-1) will be looking to attain their fifth victory in a row against the No. 7 Columbia women (5-4, 3-2) to remain undefeated all-time against them. Sunday will see the Red and Blue take on Cornell in Ithaca, with their men’s side (3-8, 1-4) coming in ranked at No. 12 and their women’s squad (8-5, 2-3) ranked No. 8. “There’s a lot to play for this weekend,” said coach Jack Wyant. “Columbia’s men’s side beat us decisively last year, and they performed better against Harvard this past weekend than we did, so I would expect our men to be ready to go. As far as the women go, they have an opportunity to finish out a regular season with only one loss, and that’s a very exciting proposition.” The match against Columbia will double as Penn Squash’s Senior Day. Graduating Quakers will play one final match at Ringe, adding higher stakes to the already-important Ivy matchup. “The senior men were the first recruiting class where we had a full cycle to recruit them,” Wyant recalled. “We joke now about how I sat in some living rooms and

promised things that were pretty far-fetched at the time. But there was a trust there that they were going to come help try to rebuild the men’s program, and I think for them to see the growth from being ranked 14 to now two has got to be rewarding for them.” The senior women also feel a special bond to the place they’ve called home for their undergraduate careers. They reflected how being on the Penn squash team has helped them grow and improve in all different aspects of their life “It’s been fascinating playing squash for four years at Penn,” senior Haidi Lala said. “Every year is different and every year is hard, but to have 14 other girls going through the same thing as you is really fun. You learn so much about the game and how to be on a team, stuff that really applies to the real world. With the team being so international, you get to learn so much about other people, especially with so many opinionated voices on the team.” “For me, coming to Penn to play squash, which is such an SEE SQUASH PAGE A8