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Ivies discuss mental health

Representatives from each Ivy came to Penn this weekend

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From Feb. 12 to Feb. 14, Penn hosted an all-Ivy conference on mental health titled “Unmasking the Ivy League.” The conference, which included students and

administrators, was comprised of speaker sessions and collaborative workshops to help address the growing issue of mental illness on college campuses.

State of the Ivy League Student Fifteen minutes into the conference on mental health, Penn representatives hadn’t even spoken. But many of the topics were so familiar it was hard to tell.

The conference kicked off with a

session on the “State of the Ivy League,” where representatives from all the Ivy League schools except Dartmouth gave a brief presentation of current events relating to mental health, student and administrative response and resources that they have on their campuses.

Lack of diversity in counseling staff was likely the most-cited issue, with almost every school mentioning some sort of an

initiative to hire more counselors that reflect the ethnicity and backgrounds of the students they serve.

The concept of food insecurity also received a lot of airtime. Though Penn’s representatives didn’t mention it, students from Columbia and Cornell spoke about how students on their campuses SEE MENTAL HEALTH PAGE 6

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Penn’s favorite triplets expand their fitness brand on campus ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

While many people have already lost sight of their fitness-related New Year’s resolutions, the Jones triplets have not. College sophomores Ahmad, Khalil and Malik Jones, better known around Penn as “the triplets,” are using their fitness skills to inspire others to be the best versions of themselves through their fitness brand, 3hree Triplets Fitness.

The triplets began making fitness videos during their senior year of high school in the Washington, D.C. area. The first video they released on YouTube reached 1,500 views in only three days. After a little over two years of making

videos, a lot has changed. Now all three brothers are nationally certified fitness trainers, and the world outside of Penn has noticed.

Earlier this month they were listed in BET’s “29 People You Should Know” as part of a Black History Month special. When Malik first saw the email from the network, his brothers didn’t believe him.

“We try to rise above our last accomplishment,” Malik said. “I don’t know how we’re going to up our BET interview.”

At Penn, they have built a following by hosting fitness boot camps and workshops.

“We really knew that it was real when we made our Facebook page at the end of first semester freshman year,” Khalil said. “People will see us as personal trainers and fitness guys.”

On Sunday, they held SwoleMate Bootcamp in honor of Valentine’s Day where participants experienced a “lit, fit, fun, social and healthy” group workout, according to the event Facebook page.

Their boot camp sessions are free. “The motivation is to do something you like to do,” Malik said. “It shouldn’t feel like work.”

Each brother plays a specific role in the

company: Ahmad films and edits the video content that the triplets post on YouTube and Facebook. Malik does networking and runs the business side of the company. Khalil does the marketing and branding; he is in charge of getting the word out to other students on campus.

As they’ve grown their brand, they have learned through trial and error what works and what doesn’t. “The amount of experience I’ve had from making these videos over and over again I see has really helped a whole lot,” Ahmad said.

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Not-so-secret society Philomathean Society wants to become more democratic JINAH KIM Staff Reporter

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The Philomathean Society, founded in 1813 to “promote the learning of its members and increase the academic prestige of the University”, is situated on the top floor of College Hall

Tucked into the fourth floor of College Hall is a set of rooms most students have never visited. The elevator and main staircase reach only to the third floor, where a small landing leads onto a narrow, dimly lit staircase leading up into darkness.

These are the halls of the

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Philomathean Society.

The Philomathean Society was founded in 1813 to “promote the learning of its members and to increase the academic prestige of the University,” according to its website. Over the course of its illustrious history, the society founded the Mask and Wig club, established the forerunner to The Daily Pennsylvanian and published the first definitive English-language translation of the Rosetta Stone.

Some students feel, however, that

At this point, the long-lasting sensationalism of the American electoral process is taken for granted.”

certain aspects of the society may make it seem elitist.

“My friend went to their NSO solistimum, and he told me about how they went up to [the podium] and talked about stuff and drank wine and I thought — wow. What a bunch of pretentious assholes,” College sophomore Kieona Cook said.

“Like, who do they think they are?”

Cook is now in her third semester as a Philo member and serves as SEE BEHIND PHILO PAGE 7

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potentially own a few gyms.

“A big part of it is making a plan, if it’s just an idea it’s really hard to know what to work on because you don’t have direction,” Khalil said.

They are hoping to spread their workout content and brand to other colleges across the country. While promoting the brand they continue to work on content creation. In the future, they plan

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The brothers try to provide the best possible experience for the boot camp participants. Khalil sends out surveys to the participants afterwards to get feedback about what went well and what to change.

3hree Triplets Fitness has the slogan: Be greater. “[It’s] not ‘be

great,’ because there’s a ceiling for that,” Khalil said. The triplets hope that their fitness programs inspire people to be the best possible versions of themselves. They believe there is always room for improvement and personal growth.

In the short term the triplets are just hoping to build name recognition for their brand. Most of their current profits are coming from

T-shirt sales and written fitness plans.

“Like any start-up you’re not really profiting in the beginning,” Malik said. “At this point it’s not really about making money, it’s about putting out videos, getting our brand out there and letting people at Penn know who we are.”

Going forward the triplets hope to make an impact in health, expand their business and

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to release a new series of seven workout videos.

When asked if they were planning to collaborate, Khalil said that they were considering working on a fitness clothing line with Wharton sophomore and rapper Kayvon Asemani. They like to be able to support and work with other entrepreneurs.

“We understand how difficult it can be sometimes and we support

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people trying to do the same thing as us,” Khalil said.

The triplets emphasize that things don’t just happen overnight. It takes hard work and dedication to find success.

“The more little accomplishment you have the more you can build up your confidence, and those smaller stepping stones can build you up to bigger and bigger steps,” Ahmad said.

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Penn in Washington off-campus study option Stanford offers a study abroad option in New York SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Deputy News Editor

If you want to study away from Penn but don’t want to leave the country, Washington is currently the only city where you can do it.

Through Penn in Washington, around 15 to 20 students live in D.C., working as interns during the day and taking two or three classes in the evening.

Though this model seems like it could be applied to other industries and large cities in the country, it remains the only option of its kind.

College senior Bryce Arbour participated in Penn in Washington because it was in line with his interests. Arbour is a

philosophy, politics and economics major with a public policy concentration.

“I came into Penn as a freshman knowing I was interested in public policy,” he said. “I’d always been interested in that line of work.”

Arbour said he hoped Penn had a program in D.C. because he knew other schools did.

But he admitted he is puzzled that there aren’t more similar programs in other parts of the country as well.

“Especially with the Wharton inf luence that there is at Penn I was always surprised there wasn’t a program like Penn in Washington for [the] private sector or financial sector in New York,” he said.

“Even tech, too — you could do something in San Francisco.”

W h ile W ha r ton has a n

MBA campus set up in San Francisco, there aren’t any opportunities for undergraduates there yet.

Deirdre Martinez, resident senior fellow in the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program and director of the Penn in Washington Program, thinks the program stands alone because there really isn’t another city quite as specialized.

“It makes sense since DC really only has one industry,” she said. “If you’re going to set up a program in New York [it would require] multiple people in areas of expertise in different industries.”

Ma r t i nez do esn’t t h i n k it’s unusual that it’s the only in-country option that Penn has for studying away from campus, either.

“I think that it’s pretty

unusual to have a program even in Washington,” she said.

“There are a couple dozen of all the universities that actually have programs in Washington.

A lot of students go through a third party like The Washington Center [for Internships and Academic Seminars] .”

Martinez added that Penn has a fairly broad pool of students who choose to go to D.C. This semester a chemistry major participated in the program, and they have had engineers in the past.

“Increasingly, it’s becoming pretty obvious that having some sor t of exper tise in Washington is helpful beyond political science,” she said.

Washington programs are popular among schools similar to Penn. Princeton, Cornell and Stanford have sim ila r

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No more than a couple of dozen universities offer semester programs in Washington, D.C.

programs, and Harvard has a program exclusively during the summer. Of these schools,

Stanford is the only school to also have a program in New York.

Penn introduces new ‘practice professor’ role Position designed to incorporate outside experts NISHANT UPENDER Staff Reporter

The School of Arts and Sciences is making some changes to its organization of faculty.

A recent proposal passed by the Faculty Senate calls for the creation of a new position: “professor of practice.” Practice professors will be subject matter experts from outside the world of academia, brought in to teach the real world applications of theory.

These professors will be part of Penn’s non-standing faculty, meaning that they will be ineligible for tenure. This makes their appointments more temporary, giving more hiring flexibility to departments within SAS. The associate practice professorship is a three year term, while the full practice professorship is five.

The School’s leadership hope that this flexibility will allow departments to better fit student interests into course offerings.

“It’s the case that the interests of the students and the interests of the faculty are not perfectly aligned. We may have more faculty than student interest in one place and less in another, but in both places we need a viable community of scholars,” said Dennis DeTurck, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

The creation of these practice professorships will also affect standing faculty, giving them greater liberty to focus on their academic interests, which might diverge from student demands.

Currently, the program is capped at three percent of standing faculty.

Adm in istrators see the program as an alternative to traditional tenure-track faculty roles rather than a replacement of

those kinds of positions.

“Many standing faculty might say ‘that [the hiring of practice professors] relieves me from the need to teach because I really want to be doing my research,’ so it cuts both ways,” said Reed Pyeritz, chair of the Faculty Senate.

The idea is that SAS departments will be able to offer more specialized courses, tailored to specific issues of the day that students might find particularly engaging. The fact that these appointments are off the tenure track allows for a more speedy recruitment process. “[The position] gives the academic leadership some flexibility in identifying and naming individuals from the community who can provide important services, primarily in teaching, but also as research collaborators,” Pyeritz said.

Another reason for the creation of this new position is to

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Pending changes in faculty structure could potentially see creation of new professor positions.

allow Penn to attract more highly distinguished practitioners of a certain field, like ex-Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell,

who teaches political science as a lecturer. According to DeTurck, it is the case that some of these influential leaders desire

a professorial designation to describe their role within Penn.

DeTurck says the proposal will most likely come to fruition next

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OPINION Bad television YOU SPEAK ENGLISH? | Why American elections are like “Pretty Little Liars,” but worse

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Remember when you stopped watching “Pretty Little Liars,” because the repetitive subplots and twists, no matter how exciting initially, just seemed to slow the whole thing down?

The United States presidential election, too, seems to elicit a feverish intensity lasting so long that its quality is compromised.

At this point, the longlasting sensationalism of the American electoral process is taken for granted.

It’s been almost a year since Ted Cruz announced he was running, and it will be another year before the results are announced.

This is absurd. In France, the presidential campaign is two weeks long. In Argentina, advertising starts 60 days before the election. In the United Kingdom, the campaign cycle in 2015 was about five months.

A lengthy campaign cycle is also what makes money the unspoken villain of American elections, simply because of the amount that is required to keep a candidate campaigning for such

a stretch. This seems reason enough to question the length of election season, because what do American voters hate more than the omnipresence of money in politics?

Unlike most countries, the United States doesn’t set a concrete limit for the length of the campaign cycle. This has played a large part in shaping the nature of election campaigns today, especially in making them feel more and more like a standoff for who can spend the most money or make the most GIF-able impression.

That is, it feels more like a spectacle than a democratic process.

On the other hand, it has been argued that the length of the American election season is advantageous because it gives candidates time to drop out via decline of public opinion — a hunger games via debate and media, if you will. But this is exactly what leads to a magnification of the personal, rather than the political.

Candidates know that the

battle to win over American hearts and minds has a lot to do with likability. Public perception is obviously an important factor in elections worldwide, but it is amplified when so much time is spent on “getting to know” the candidates through an avalanche of campaigning.

Eventually the involvement with candidates becomes so personal that voters are

sion on Hillary Clinton has turned largely to the ethics of voting based on gender.

Sanders supporters even managed to almost totally ignore his comments linking gun violence to mental health, despite the fact that the same demographic usually protests this common generalization.

Not to mention that, by this point, every candidate

At this point, the longlasting sensationalism of the American electoral process is taken for granted.” more invested in their personalities than in the issues at hand.

Thus, Donald Trump’s antics enjoyed a disproportionate amount of media time when Bernie Sanders was polling at similar numbers, while feminist discus-

has descended to some level of meme-hood.

It’s almost an essential part of the election — laughing at Trump getting destroyed by Trevor Noah, memes of Sanders and Clinton discussing Star Trek or Jeb Bush fumbling at the

podium. It’s all great entertainment. But great TV isn’t necessarily great politics.

Jokes are good and satire (in my opinion) is a crucial part of political discussion, but, at this point, the farce outweighs meaningful discussion.

Polls, a distinctly American phenomenon, are also complicit. They play a huge role in determining a candidate’s perception and are self exacerbating, even though not all polls are created equal. In the words of Harvard professor Jill Lepore, “when good polls drive bad polls they’re not so good anymore.”

But this doesn’t have to be the case. In many countries, the length of the campaign cycle is set in stone or the candidates’ ability to campaign through TV and radio is monitored. This is the case in France, often held as a positive counter to the U.S. system as it also has two elections rounds. These countries are also spending less money on campaigns.

Right now, though, the United States is running in a

MEERIE JESUTHASAN hamster wheel of tired analysis, looking at the same well-groomed personas, the marketed politics and the sensationalist outbursts. It may be “just politics,” although that is a counterintuitive interpretation of a process that takes up half a presidential term. And to many of us watching, the overblown fanfare sure seems a strange way to run a country.

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On Friday night I would have told you that this has been a bizarre election cycle.

I would have told you that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would win their respective primaries. I would have told you that Donald Trump would go on to defeat Hillary Clinton in the general election.

I would have said this not due to any electable qualities that I see in Mr. Trump — I don’t see many. I would have said that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party leadership would dig their own general election graves, through the holding and running of one of the most divisive Democratic primaries seen in recent history.

I would have described how Clinton’s refusal to reach out to Sanders’ grassroots supporters along with the Democratic Party’s obvious and transparent support for Clinton would win her the primary but lose her the general election by alienating almost half the Democratic

base.

I would have told you all this on Friday, but on Saturday everything changed.

As you all know by now, this past Saturday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a man who devoted almost 30 years of his life to the Court, passed away suddenly. In his tragic passing he leaves open a spot on the Supreme Court, an empty spot that leaves the Supreme Court split four-tofour down the middle in political ideologies.

This open spot has not gone unnoticed, particularly by Republicans such as Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz, who state that in honor of the late (conservative) justice, no one should be appointed to fill his void until after a new — hopefully Republican — president is elected. The last thing they want is for President Obama to appoint a new liberal justice — or is it?

Obama, regardless of Republican wishes, will face the decision of whether or not to

attempt to appoint a new Supreme Court justice. Long story short, he will definitely attempt it. He will go to his shortlist of candidates — my favorite is Obama himself, but that’s an article for another time — and bring his decision before Congress for ap-

obstruct this appointment until a new president is elected.

First and foremost, this would lead to an unprecedented 300+ days of deliberation over the appointment of a justice, although at this point it does not appear the Republicans or their base

In his tragic passing he leaves open a spot on the Supreme Court, an empty spot that leaves the Supreme Court split four-to-four down the middle in political ideologies.”

proval. This is where things get tricky. The Senate needs to approve Obama’s appointment, and leaders of the currently Republican-controlled Senate have already hinted towards the idea that it will

care about being obstructionist.

Secondly, and more importantly, Republican leadership will create this obstruction on the assumption that a Republican will win

the presidency. They do not seem to realize that placing the appointment of a Supreme Court justice in the balance greatly changes the scope, and in my opinion, the outcome of this election.

Let us return to Sanders’ supporters, supporters who have sworn off voting for Clinton in any election. This is all well and good, until the Senate forces the election to not only be about electing a president, but swinging the entire ideology of the Supreme Court.

Whatever most of Sanders’ supporters think or feel toward the Democratic party or Clinton will become irrelevant. Democrats, even those disillusioned by the party, will vote for Hillary Clinton to get a liberal on the Supreme Court, particularly when it appears the coming years will be full of landmark cases and possibly landmark decisions.

So, as I see it, the Republican Party has a choice to make. First option, it can

BEN FACEY obstruct Obama’s appointee and then watch Clinton get elected through a reunification of the Democratic Party on this issue, which then means a liberal justice appointment. Second option, it can let Obama get his way as soon as possible and lose the leanings of the Supreme Court, but at the same time maybe gain a president. The choice is theirs, but the clock is ticking.

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Joint-school nutrition science major to be offered Students can add the degree as a second major SUN JAE LEE Staff Reporter

Next September, the School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences will be launching a new cross-school major: nutrition science.

Students have been asking for a nutrition science major for years, but the subject area has nonetheless been limited to a minor — until now. Due to the success of the nutrition minor and the now-sufficient number of faculty with expertise in nutrition science , undergraduate students will finally be able to add nutrition science as a second major to their primary majors this coming school year.

“The idea of this major has been percolating for the entire 15 years I’ve been here,” said Charlene Compher, professor of Nutrition Science at the School of Nursing and faculty director of Nutrition Programs. “Students have brought it forward to [the Nutrition Science Department] every year, and it’s taken awhile to have enough faculty here to teach the courses and

enough interest at the level of administration to put it forward as a formal proposal.”

The formal proposal for the nutrition science major was approved by the faculty of the School of Nursing in September 2015 and by the School of Arts and Sciences in December 2015. Since then, Compher and Bart De Jonghe, assistant professor of Nutrition Science and associate director of Nutrition Programs , have been working on coursework for the program.

“We looked at the top 10 nutrition majors worldwide and modeled the plan of courses after that,” De Jonghe said.

“The great thing about Penn is that [in] the [College] of Arts and Sciences and the School of Nursing, we largely already had all the classes in place to create the major; there’s really only been one new course we’ve had to create to be competitive with other programs.”

The Nutrition Science faculty have also been working to spread word to students. They have already held two information sessions going in detail about program and course requirements for the new major, and there will be two more on

Feb. 18 at 5:00 p.m., and on Feb. 24 at 5:00 p.m., in Fagin Hall, Room 300.

The nutrition science major will be offered only as a second major because it is a new program and many of the major’s course requirements can be double counted with general requirements or course requirements for other majors, like the biological basis of behavior or biology. Therefore, sophomores or juniors will be able to add the nutrition science major if they have fulfilled course requirements for other science majors.

“It’s a more pragmatic way to actually graduate with two majors with a reasonable timeline,” De Jonghe said. “If you’re a junior, you’re just learning about this, and if you are premed or [majoring in] biology or chemistry, chances are good that you’re still going to be able to do this with some planning.”

This new joint-major in nutrition science can especially offer benefits to students who want to pursue further studies in nutrition science, medicine or nursing.

Compher said that a student who only has a minor in nutrition science would have to do

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The nutrition science curriculum will be modeled after those of the top ten nutrition science majors.

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For pre-med students, Compher said that because “students will get very little nutrition

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experience anxiety, from being low on dining hall swipes to, in the case of Columbia, not being able to afford to buy food in New York.

Brown and Yale representatives also aired grievances about session limits imposed on students who seek help from their equivalents of Counseling and Psychological Services. Although Yale’s administration clarified recently that the session limit isn’t a “hard” limit, the Yale representatives still said it can cause confusion and uncertainty for students who can’t afford to get help off campus.

The Yale representatives also spoke about Yale’s leave of absence policy. Students who are deemed a harm to themselves or others can

be asked to leave campus, which can discourage people from getting the help they need for fear of being asked to leave. Yale also recently piloted online appointments for CAPS, which was one of the demands the Hamlett-Reed Mental Health Initiative made in September, but one that Penn has yet to implement.

Gender & Sexual Identity Later on Saturday morning, Counseling and Psychological Services staff therapist Matt LeRoy and LGBT Center Associate Director Rebecca Schept co-facilitated a workshop that focused on how gender and sexual identity intersect with mental health.

The workshop began by defining important terms within the community, so as to allow for their proper usage in ensuing dialogue.

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Student representatives from around the Ivy League shared their current campus policies and grievances about mental health.

as CAPS and peer counseling but felt that students were not aware of them or they were too stigmatized for students to view them as good resources. Students were encouraged by ideas such as better policies for mental health leave and an online system to make counseling appointments.

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Changing our College Campuses Saturday afternoon, Penn Benjamins, Active Minds, CAPSAB and the Consciousness Club cohosted a workshop on creating and improving mental health initiatives. Though students from the organizing clubs were running the workshop, it was all discussionbased.

“When we were designing the workshop we were thinking there’s no content we can give you, really.

We can just prompt a discussion,” said College sophomore and Penn Consciousness Club member Karen Zhao.

The event started with a large discussion on current mental health problems on Ivy League campuses.

Participants mentioned sleep, stress culture, isolation and a fear of vulnerability as central issues students face at every school. Participants all agreed that if students were kind, honest and comfortable reaching out for help, then their campuses would be better places.

The room then split up into small groups of six or seven with representatives from every school in each group. After half an hour, each group shared what they had discussed.

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Schept pointed out the tendency in our society to highlight people who still identify on the gender binary — such as Laverne Cox, Caitlyn Jenner and Chaz Bono — when we think of prominent transgender people.

However, identities such as agender, genderfluid and non-cisgender also fall under the trans umbrella.

Attendees also discussed the experience of coming out. “Coming out happens daily for most people because we live in this heteronormative society where everyone assume you’re straight and cisgender until proven otherwise,” Schept said. “It’s this constant struggle of, ‘Is it safe to come out?’”

Fredrick Blaisdell, a senior at Cornell, said that the workshop made him think about how he benefits from heteronormative privilege, though he wishes more time could have been spent on discussing ways to deal with microaggressions, as opposed to merely what they are.

Amalya Megerman, a senior at Princeton, thought that the workshop was “really good at bringing multiple perspectives and multiple routes into understanding where mental health issues come from.”

“Intersectionality is at the forefront of this conference, which is really exciting and something that we’re all about and want to take as much as we can from,” Naimah

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Penn Engineering alum. creates untangleable earbuds Inspiration for product came from daily life ADELAIDE POWELL Contributing Reporter

Three-and-a-half days of our lives are spent untangling earbuds.

This is the premise on which 1994 Engineering graduate Vanessa Chan markets her new product loopit, a pair of earbuds that rarely tangle due to a patent pending magnetic clasp.

Chan, a Philadelphia resident and mother of two, founded the company re.design — which produces loopit — after leaving her position as a partner at McKinsey & Company to follow her passion for “making everyday products simply better.”

The inspiration for loopit came from Chan’s everyday life, she said.

“When I was a management

consultant, I was constantly on the phone. Usually my headphones were stuffed in the black hole of my handbag and I spent way too much time fishing them out, only to find them tangled in tons of knots,” she said. “It drove me crazy several times a day and I thought, ‘There has to be a better solution for this.’ With loopit, we can eliminate a daily frustration felt by millions.”

Chan first got the idea for loopit when she tooled around with her Apple earbuds and decorated them. Her experience making jewelry inspired her to make the earbuds double as a necklace by adding a magnetic clasp. She wrapped a lightweight chain around the earbuds in order to disguise them without making them heavier. re.design launched a campaign on Kickstarter — an online crowdfunding platform — on Jan. 26 and exceeded its $15,000

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1994 Engineering graduate Vanessa Chan has created a pair of untangleable earphones, which has been launched on Kickstarter. The Kickstarter has exceeded its fundraising goal of $15,000.

fundraising goal in a week. The Kickstarter has raised approximately $20,000 and is backed by more than 250 people.

While at Penn, Chan’s undergraduate advisor was Russell Composto, the current associate

dean of undergraduate education in engineering. After receiving her bachelor’s degree, Chan earned a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in materials science and engineering.

Chan said her experience at Penn working in a lab and experimenting was formative in helping shape her career path.

Chan is also involved in other networking ventures. She is a co-president of the Philadelphia

chapter of the Ellevate Network, which supports women professionals. Through her roles on the Venture Incubator advisory board for Springside Chestnut Hill Academy and Board of Trustees, Chan helps elementary school children with their business ideas.

Chan’s own two daughters, aged seven and nine, take after their mother as “tinkerers” and helped to inspire her career change and transition to the startup.

Chan is very positive about the excitement loopit has received from both the press and investors on Kickstarter.

“We were surprised at how many people were buying multipacks, so that is an indication that people really like it,” Chan said.

Each loopit will be sold for approximately $50 but there are discounts for ordering before Feb. 25 on Kickstarter when the campaign ends.

H.S. debaters at Penn

Glee sings valentines

Participants get glimpse into life at Penn

Quartet serenaded students in class on Friday

NADIA KIM Contributing Reporter

ALLY JOHNSON Contributing Reporter

This Valentine’s Day weekend, you may have spotted over a thousand high school students swarming Penn’s campus, all dressed in suits. The reason? Penn for Youth Debate hosted the Liberty Bell Classic, a national level speech and debate tournament for high school students.

PFYD is a nonprofit organization that, alongwith the After School Activities Partnership, hosts free debate tournaments and matches local teams with Penn student coaches. All proceeds from this weekend’s tournament will go directly back to these activities.

For many participating students, the tournament was an opportunity to meet and compete against students from very different backgrounds.

“Actually seeing how [other students] structure arguments is a point where you can really learn from different styles and strategies,” said Chengfeng Shao, a senior at Boston Latin School.

The fact that the tournament was held right on Penn’s campus was a distinguishing feature of the LBC tournament.

“A lot of other tournaments [are hosted] in local elementary schools or middle schools, and it’s not the

Students have a wide range of initial reactions when they receive singing valentines from the Glee Club but, after a few seconds, “you have to sit there awkwardly and let it happen,” College senior Daniel Carsello said.

It was Friday afternoon in the basement of the Platt Performing Arts Center and Glee Club members were bustling about between shifts delivering the group’s signature singing valentines. There, I met four members of the group to watch them deliver a few valentines across campus.

Our first stop was at a dance class in the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts, where two women received singing valentines. The quartet decided to sing to the first woman, leave and come back in to surprise the second.

As we trekked to the David Rittenhouse Laboratory for the next valentine, I learned that the second woman to receive a valentine was the girlfriend of quartet member and Engineering junior Aaron Weinstein, who read us the text of the card he delivered

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the society’s first censor, meaning that she is the primary point of contact for new applicants and members.

Despite her initial wariness of the society, she was won over by the intellectual stimulation she found in Philo.

Cook described the time she texted a friend in Philo asking about a passage in a book about evolutionary biology. It was winter break and she expected maybe a brief reply.

“And he sent me back three paragraphs like, ‘Kind of, but not really, here’s what’s really going

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Penn hosted the Liberty Bell Classic, a high school speech and debate competition, for the first time since 2012.

same experience,” College and Wharton sophomore and PFYD Tournament Director Edward Jing said.

The tournament’s speech and debate events took place in Houston Hall, Van Pelt, Huntsman and other buildings.

“There’s more reverence for where you are,” said Jonathan Zou, also a senior at Boston Latin School. Both Shao and Zou applied to Penn in the regular decision round to the Huntsman Program and the School of Arts and Sciences, respectively.

LBC also invites students from schools affiliated with the After School Activities Partnership to attend the tournament for free.

Some of these students come from difficult backgrounds, and attending the LBC can have a significant impact on their future goals, Wharton junior and PFYD Vice President Rajan Sheth said.

on,’” she said. “And I thought, you know what? I’m glad I have this in my life.”

While the specific interests and direction of the society change depending on the makeup of its members, one constant seems to be an interest in intellectual discussion.

“The picture I had [of Penn] was basically the movie ‘Dead Poets Society,’” said 2008 College graduate Daniel Singer, a professor in the Philosophy Department and former Philo Moderator (a position similar to a president), “where’s it not a classroom setting where everything’s super serious, but the jokes are smart, people are interested in tough intellectual questions and

“Here are kids who go to the University of Pennsylvania, and [our students] are able to relate to them on this one-to-one basis,” said Kate Sundeen, a judge at the tournament and coach from the Academy at Palumbo, a public school in Philadelphia. “It gives our kids a chance to be more aspirational...a lot of our kids now have more interest in Penn as a result.”

This is exactly PFYD and ASAP’s goal: to nurture a passion for debate and speech that takes the kids through high school, college and beyond.

“It’s a really great partnership we have with [PFYD],” said Sara Morningstar, debate manager at ASAP. “PFYD has all these fantastic college students who...recognize that they’ve had certain privileges in their own education...and they’re so passionate about sharing that with students in Philadelphia.”

interesting ideas. And I wasn’t really getting that through other things at Penn.”

Many organizations at Penn are geared toward performance, career advancement, networking or volunteer work. By comparison, College freshman Natasha Kadlec said that she found Philo’s literary and intellectual atmosphere to be a refreshing change.

“It was very different from the other places I was applying for — executive board, pre-professional — that sort of thing,” she said.

While she did get the sense that it was slightly exclusive, Kadlec said the members were welcoming and willing to help in the application process.

“It’s kind of [exclusive] in the

way that colleges are exclusive,” she said. “Not everyone’s going to get in, and you do have to go through an application process, but they’re still extremely encouraging about helping you every step and trying to get as many people through the door as possible.”

Membership in the organization was once capped at 50 people, but the society has decided in recent years to relax the restriction.

“It’s 100 percent not a secret society,” Cook said. “I think the theme and the idea of it being at the top of College Hall made it seem very much like a secret society. But it’s 100 percent not — we’re just obscure.”

along with the singing valentine.

“It’s kind of become a tradition to pick a theme and then write as many puns as we can to each other,” he explained.

“So I think we’ve done vegetables and bread, and now this one was chocolate.” He read, “My heart cara-melts with you. I always say Her-shey’s mine. They may get cold, Butterfingers interlock perfectly with mine.” The Butterfingers pun was the group favorite.

Arriving at DRL, we interrupted a large introductory physics class. Soon after the quartet found the valentine recipient, students across the room pulled out their phones to record the song. Students usually try to record the spectacle in large lectures, Carsello said. “Everyone’s just ‘Ivy League Snap, right now!’”

Outside of DRL, we saw several tour groups gathered in the Engineering Quad.

Parents and prospective students alike turned their heads to see the quartet sing “My Valentine” on Smith Walk.

Most tour guides paused their speeches to join their groups in watching the spontaneous performance — however, one determined guide remained focused on making sure his crowd knew all about the toast

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As we walked back toward the hear t of campus, the quartet told me about some interesting deliveries earlier that day. In one class, a woman had purchased a valentine for a friend who sat next to her.

When the quartet arrived to sing, the woman who had bought the valentine was on the phone and had just gotten into law school. Once she finished her call and the group congratulated her, they turned to her friend to perform their song.

“It was good because they were both really happy,” Carsello said.

Not everyone has such an exuberant reaction to being the center of attention in class.

Quartet member and Wharton sophomore Sam Grisham said he delivered a valentine to a student who clearly fell into this category.

“All of his friends started pointing at him. Meanwhile, the dude who it’s for cowers in his seat,” he said.

Engineering freshman Julia DiSalvio — whose valentine I watched in DRL — had a similar response when I caught up with her later in the day.

“The singers were great, but I think my friend was just trying to embarrass me,” she said.

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Penn breezes through weekend as records fall TRACK & FIELD | Quakers track team is to do well in all

Junior Ashley Montgomery kept the individual record-breaking streak alive, shattering a 31-yearold women’s 5K record by over five seconds with a time of 4:41.26.

The women’s 4x400m relay team of Solan, sophomore Candace Taylor, junior Cleo Whiting and senior Taylor Hennig posted a time of 3:46.26, earning the third fastest time in that event at the invitational and in Quaker history.

Not to be outdone by their counterparts, the men’s distance medley relay team of freshman Elias Graca, sophomore Jeff Wiseman, junior Christ Hatler and Awad raced to the fastest time at Penn, breaking a record set in 2005.

Sophomore Ross Wilson ran the 5K with a time of 14:26.67, clocking fifth in the event and in Penn history.

Upperclassmen followed suite with records of their own. In the 3K, junior Nick Tuck and sophomore Patrick Hally logged times that earned them second and seventh place, respectively, in both the school’s record list and the invitational. Junior Brendan Shearn and senior Brendan Smith dominated

events,� Dolan explained. “It’s exciting because our team is continuing to grow and get stronger in a wide variety of events.�

The women’s team this year has been more impressive than those in the past, dominating more events with both strength and stamina. Although the men’s team faces a future without many of its standout seniors — like Sam Mattis and Thomas Awad — following this season, Dolan shows little concern when remarking on the promise of the team’s rookies. “A lot of the young competitors are making a major impact. Some of the records set this weekend were by younger members of the team,� he said. “So it bodes well for the future.�

On the women’s team, freshman Imani Solan finished the 200-meter sprint with a time of 24.08, shattering the previous record by 0.5 seconds set by Shaunee Morgan in 2007. Sophomore Taylor McCorkle finished the same event in 24.49 seconds, securing the third-best time in Penn’s record books following Solan and Morgan.

dominate the podiums CASSANDRA DINH Sports Reporter

This past Friday was one for the books for Penn track and field.

Returning for the second time this month to the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in New York, the Red and Blue broke records and brought the heat to the highly competitive Fastrack National Invite. “It was probably the biggest meet we’ve had this season in terms of teams and strong competition. So the team was pretty excited to compete,� coach Steve Dolan said.

The Quakers faced off against 22 other squads including three from the Ivy League — Princeton, Columbia and Cornell — and two from the Big 5 — Villanova and Saint Joseph’s. Following a first-place finish at last weekend’s Villanova Invitational, the squad was more than ready for a second round. “The key to having a strong

the 5K, with the pair securing Penn’s top times en route to second-place and third-place finishes.

Senior Ben Bowers raced to third in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.03. His mark, a lifetime personal best, secured a rank of third in Quaker books as well.

And the timing is perfect; with the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships coming up in two weeks, Dolan believes the team can only go up from here. “At this point, it’s just trying to make sure everyone almost peaks at the [Ivy League] competition,�

Dolan said. “Everyone is trying to stay healthy, but we’ve definitely positioned ourselves well in the last two weeks in a number of events to the point we’d have strong competitors at the Ivy League meet.�

Returning to practice on Monday, the team will prepare for next Sunday’s Princeton Invitational in New Jersey. The Red and Blue have made great headway in its season thus far and it doesn’t appear as though the team is losing momentum. “This is the strongest we’ve been.�

ILANA WURMAN | DESIGN EDITOR

Junior Ashley Montgomery was responsible for one of four Penn track records falling this weekend, setting a new program mark in the mile.

Growth and adaptation on display for Quakers the team has handled adversity and grown.

This year has had its share of ups and downs. The departure of Tony Hicks, the 4-1 start to the season, the ineligibility of rising star Antonio Woods, the recent stretch of strong play in Ivy games.

And out of it, Penn has grown and adapted. The team that returned from Cornell on Saturday night isn’t the same team that started the season.

It’s not just the players that have left Penn basketball — though losing Hicks and Woods changed the team’s identity — but even those that have remained have grown and changed their game this season.

Junior guard Matt Howard

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It was fairly apparent from before the season even started, and halfway through the Ivy slate it’s even more apparent. Honestly, that was never the point of this season. No one was expecting Steve Donahue to turn around the program overnight; it was always going to take a few years.

So if not by conference titles, how does one judge the success of Donahue’s first year? For me,

role, increasing his minutes and aggressiveness on the offensive end. On Saturday night, it showed when he made it to the free-throw line 11 times in a game where his outside shot wasn’t falling.

Senior center Darien NelsonHenry has grown into a willing distributor as the team looks to use his interior game to open up the rest of their offense. On a team flush with young players, the veteran has been crucial to the team’s gameplan.

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Freshman Jackson Donahue has been one of Penn basketball’s bright spots in recent weeks, becoming a solid scoring threat for the Quakers.

there’s also a lot of potential.

After several recruiting classes that only produced one or two rotation players (see Penn’s upperclassmen), it’s encouraging to see immediate results from a young group.

Going into the second half of Ivy play, I’m going to be looking for them to continue to grow and develop — and for Penn to finish higher than the seventh-place

tie that ended Jerome Allen’s tenure. With this core of players and the growth we’ve witnessed in the past month of the season, I think that shouldn’t be too hard to attain.

Brzozowski were right there with 10 and eight points, respectively.

McLaughlin spoke to the value of sinking shots early and forcing the defense to respect the perimeter. “I think it kept them at arm’s length,� he said. “We came out, we made shots. Sydney made a bunch of jump shots, we hit a couple threes, that really gave us a push there in the first half. When our guards start making shots, it frees Sydney and Michelle a little more in the post.�

At first, it looked as though Cornell could break Penn’s signature zone defense by converting from beyond the arc, with Kerri Moran providing the Big Red’s first six points on threes. However, those would be the only treys of the half for Moran and company, as they went on to miss their remaining seven attempts in the half. Forward Nia Marshall had 13 of Cornell’s 27 at the half, and 10 of those came in the second period after staying quiet in the first.

Both offenses struggled out of the break, as they combined for just 24 points in the third quarter and 21 in the fourth. The Red and Blue shot just 7-for-30 from the field and missed all eight

three-point attempts, but the Big Red couldn’t do much better themselves on 30.8 percent shooting. Cornell forward Nicholle Aston’s nine second-half points were the most of any individual.

Marshall carried the offensive burden for the Big Red, shooting a respectable 7-for-13 for 17 points.

However, the rest of the team managed just 13 of 41, including Caroline Shelquist and Christine Ehland going a combined 1-for17.

For the Quakers, Stipanovich filled out the stat sheet, leading the team in points, rebounds (12), assists (4) and blocks (3) while adding two steals.

Nwokedi scored six points in each half along with five rebounds, three blocks and three steals, and six Penn players recorded at least one steal en route to forcing 14 Cornell turnovers.

Moving forward, the Red and Blue will face the test of two straight weekends on the road, and first up are Brown and Yale, each of which Penn has beaten at the Palestra. Stipanovich said she’s looking forward to the challenge. “Road games are naturally tougher, and we’ll have to bring our ‘A’ game every night.�

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enough to win a title next year or the year after that, but you can see the talent there and how it’s already beginning to coalesce in a way that it didn’t quite last season.

I know I probably said something similar last year, when we saw significant minutes from then-freshmen Darnell Foreman, Woods, Mike Auger and Sam Jones, but somehow it’s happening again.

Guard Jake Silpe has struggled at times with turnovers, but is a the best pure passer on the team and appears to have potential to be the point guard of the future for the team. Forward Max Rothschild has seen substantial minutes off the bench and, while rough around the edges, seems like he could be a key rotation piece for the future.

Freshman guard Jackson Donahue found himself thrust into a starting role midway through the season and has averaged 15.1 points per game as a starter.

Touted primarily as aa threepoint shooter coming out of high school, the past few weekends have seen Donahue take it to the rack more effectively and develop as an all-around scoring threat.

So what does this all add up to?

A team that might not contend for the title, but will continue to grow and develop as it finishes out the year. Considering that they nearly upset second-place Princeton in January, they could very easily play spoiler for one of the conference’s heavyweights.

A year from now, though, it should be Penn in that conversation. There are a lot of ‘if’s, but

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17-for-48 from the field. Columbia forward Tori Oliver, with 19 points, was the only Lion with more than 10 points, and Penn forced 16 Columbia turnovers.

Senior point guard Kasey Chambers led Penn with three steals, and Nwokedi and junior center Sydney Stipanovich each had nine rebounds and four blocks.

On Saturday, the Quakers never trailed the Big Red (13-9, 5-3) holding the lead for almost 39 of 40 minutes for the second night in a row. Penn maintained a double-digit advantage from the 6:09 mark in the second quarter through the remainder of the contest. “I thought we continued to play the way we wanted to play,�

McLaughlin said.

Once again, the Quakers’ shooting stroke was fully functional early on, with the team hitting at 63 percent from the field and 55.6 percent from three in the first half.

Stipanovich scored 14 of her game-high 21 points in the first 20 minutes, and sophomore guards Anna Ross and Beth

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With the calendar barreling towards the College Squash Association National Championships, Penn squash’s two squads find themselves heading in opposite directions.

The final Ivy weekend of the season for the Quakers saw the women’s team steamroll their New York opponents while the men’s squad dropped two matches in heart-breaking fashion.

Fr iday n ight’s matchup against Columbia was especially important, as it served as senior night for both squads.

For seniors Haidi Lala, Camille Lanier and Yan Xin Tan, the night was emotional as all three walked away from Ringe Courts victorious for the final time.

“It’s all gone by so fast so it’s a little hard to grasp that,” Lala added. “I feel like I’ve given everything to the best team in college squash.”

No. 8 Cornell (9-7, 2-5 Ivy) and No. 7 Columbia (6-6, 3-4) proved no match this weekend as the Red and Blue (12-1, 6-1) left no doubt that they are ready to take on the nation’s elite teams at Nationals. Finishing out their final regular season with three straight 9-0 victories, the women are heading into the Howe Cup with a full head of steam.

“I think we’re peaking at the right time,” coach Jack Wyant said. “We’re gonna get a little bit of rest and then train really hard.”

Standing in the way of Penn’s first national championship since the 2000-01 season will be the one opponent who bested the Quakers in the regular season.

A reversal of their disappointing 6-3 defeat in January to the

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Senior Day lost some of its luster for Penn men’s squash players, including Tyler Odell, as the Quakers fell, 5-4, to Columbia on Friday,

reigning Ivy champion, Harvard, will be crucial to clinching the second national title in school history.

It was a weekend to forget for the men’s team as the parity they had utilized to catapult up the rankings early in the season finally turned against them. With

back-to-back upsets at the hands of No. 8 Columbia (7-5, 5-2) and No. 12 Cornell (6-8, 3-4), the Quakers find themselves anxiously watching to see whether or not they will hang on to their top-eight ranking needed for a Potter Cup berth.

2016 has not been kind to the

Red and Blue (9-5, 3-4). Since their 5-4 and 6-3 triumphs over Rochester and Saint Lawrence respectively in the fall, they have gone 1-3 in similar matches since the calendar flipped.

“We have to figure out ways to stop making same mistakes,” Wyant said. “We’ve fallen into some bad habits and we need to break them.”

Chalk it up to the plethora of underclassmen on the ladder, or even the fatigue of the season, but the Red and Blue have some serious problems to fix if they hope to contend in the Potter Cup draw.

“We just can’t seem to execute in those pressure moments,” Wyant added. “Instead of playing conservative squash, we’re getting impatient and forcing things.”

Despite the losses for the seniors on the men’s side, the journey they’ve been through from their freshman to senior seasons was still something to

cherish.

“My journey has been phenomenal,” senior co-captain Liam Quinn said. “It’s been about more than one win or one loss, and [the seniors] are thrilled to be given the opportunity to lead the team this year.”

“It’s great that here we are here in the final weekend of their senior season with a top five ranking,” Wyant said. “It’s a testament to the belief they’ve had in the team and the program throughout their career.”

Penn men’s squash is in desperate need of a throwback, as the giant killers of November have regressed to some of the same issues that hurt the team last season. Assuming the Quakers are able to hold onto their top eight ranking, they will certainly have to find a way to recapture the mojo from the beginning of the season.

And, as they say, it takes three losses to create a streak, but it just takes one win to snap it.

Despite season-best performance, Penn takes third

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There’s no such thing as a moral victory?

Probably true for the majority of sports, but for Penn gymnastics on Friday night, it may be reasonable to make a slight exception.

Facing a pair of highly ranked foes on the road in Towson and Pittsburgh, the Quakers couldn’t repeat their tri-meet victory from a week ago, but the Red and Blue still put together their top overall score of the season with a 191.775 point effort en route to a third place finish at the Shelli Calloway Invitational hosted by the Tigers.

Pittsburgh won the overall competition with its own seasonal best score of 195.25, while Towson took the runner-up spot with a mark of 193.425.

Entering the competition, the hosts — ranked the 44th best team in Division I by RoadToNationals. com — seemed to be the favorites. But an energized Penn squad helped put the Tigers behind early.

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(9-13, 2-6), Jackson Donahue’s 25 points paced the Red and Blue as part of a 92-point performance on the night for the visitors.

But it was senior forward Darien Nelson-Henry with one of the most surprising performances for Penn.

For the second straight night, the 6-foot-10 big man recorded six assists, adding some ball movement to his 18 points and 16 rebounds.

“Both of the ways the teams played their ball screens […] that was a chance to get a lot of pocket looks.” Nelson-Henry said.

“They were playing it two ways where it allows me to come to the ball and make the decisions that […] led to some open shots.”

Both sides were fueled by highoctane performances, and the Big Red’s full-court press proved frustrating at times for the Quakers’

the beam from senior Lindsay Offutt — who went on to win all four events with an astonishing all-around performance of 39.575 points — No. 50 Pittsburgh jumped out to an early lead, but the No. 57 Quakers wouldn’t fall far behind.

Penn’s five scorers in the floor all scored at least 9.600, including a team-best 9.800 effort from sophomore Alex Hartke — despite having to repeat her routine due to an electricity failure — as the team put up a total of 48.575 in the event to take second place behind the Panthers after the first rotation.

Penn next headed to the vault, where the squad had previously struggled, only putting up a team score of 47.400 in last week’s win at Cornell. However, there would be no such trouble for the Quakers on Friday.

Once again, Penn’s depth was on display, as all five scoring athletes put up scores of at least 9.500, with senior Emily Paterson leading the team with a 9.650 en route to a team score of 48.000 — a full 0.600 points better than last week and only 0.125 off of the team’s seasonal best in the event.

Still in second place after the vault, the Quakers next went to

the bars — which, partially due to injury, have been the team’s weakness all season — and, unfortunately, the squad’s struggles there continued.

Although the team got a pair of strong performances from sophomore Kyra Levi and senior Amber Hu, who scored 9.800 and 9.700 in the event, respectively, the Quakers again put up their lowest overall score in that event, taking 46.650 to fall to third place entering their final rotation.

By the end of the third round, Pittsburgh — which recorded its seasonal bests in both the floor (49.075 points) and bars (48.900) — had all but sealed the win, but Penn and Towson, which were only 1.600 points apart entering the final event, still had to fight for the day’s second place slot.

Penn battled hard in its final event, with all five scorers reaching at least 9.600 on the beam, but strong performances from the Panthers and Tigers were enough to keep the Quakers at bay. Although Hu secured her second score of 9.700 for the day and senior Elyse Shenberger led the Quakers with a 9.725, these efforts weren’t enough for Penn to break out of last place, as Pittsburgh and Towson justified

young core.

It was this very intensity, however, that got Cornell in foul trouble early in both halves. Over the course of the night, the Red and Blue got to the foul line 35 times.

Although Penn sunk 29 of their attempts from the charity stripe, a combined 49 points from Cornell guards Matt Morgan and Robert Hatter — the top two scorers in the Ivy League, respectively — kept the contest close.

After a 21-11 run to open play for the Quakers, the Big Red tied it up at 25 before Penn took a 36-35 lead into the break.

The Red and Blue won the game with strong outside shooting and free throws. They reversed a 2-for15 performance beyond the arc in the first half by going 5-for-9 in the second thanks to Donahue’s strong showing in the game’s final 20 minutes, which the squad’s coach commended after the win.

“He’s someone that I can really be honest with. He’s someone I can go to and I did that in the first half.

We were [struggling] from three and he had open looks and he’s jackknifing them and pulling back,” Donahue said.

“A good shooter stays there and is consistent every time and you need to be that. He came out in the second half and did that.”

The former Cornell coach dismissed the importance of his return to his players, but the Penn squad that has now won three of its last four was under no illusions about what this weekend meant. “[Donahue] didn’t make [the importance] apparent at all. He didn’t want to bring that unnecessary pressure onto us for this game,” Nelson-Henry said. “But I think we all knew it and we wanted to come in here and prove something to him and Penn basketball and Cornell, for that matter.”

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their rankings with a pair of strong performances to force the Red and Blue to a third place finish.

Despite the last place effort from Penn on Friday, the reasons for optimism are still obvious, as the squad’s overall score was a full 0.925 points better than any of its other efforts this season.

Next up, the team will have one more tune-up meet against Rutgers, Temple, and D-III Ursinus – which was scheduled to compete in the Shelli Calloway Invitational before backing out at the last minute – next Saturday, before the squad heads to the all-important Ivy Classic on Feb. 28, where the team will attempt to defend its 2015 title.

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ITHACA, N.Y. — Steve Donahue went back to Newman Arena on Saturday and walked away with another win — this time for a different team.

The first-year Penn basketball coach returned to his old stomping grounds at Cornell as the Quakers handed the Big Red a 92-84 defeat just a day after falling at Columbia, 63-53.

The Red and Blue (9-12, 3-4 Ivy) saw two different parts of the Ivy League on the road this weekend, starting with the third-place Lions (17-8, 6-2) at Levien Arena on Friday.

Despite Columbia’s early success in conference play, Penn’s defense was stifling, holding the Lions to just 28 first-half points.

But the Quakers were also forced to deal with scoring troubles of their own, sinking just nine shots in the first half. Before the break, Penn trailed 28-24.

A 7-0 run from Columbia out of the break brought the deficit to 35-24, and a young Penn squad responded as freshmen Jackson Donahue and Jake Silpe each contributed six points to a 16-6 run that got the visitors to within one with just over 10 minutes to play.

That was as close as they would get.

The Lions shut down the Quakers’ offense over the next three minutes, and senior guard Maodo Lo took control in a game he would finish with 21 points for Columbia.

Junior Matt Howard’s 14 points led the way for Penn. He acknowledged after the game, though, that it was the team’s shooting struggles that cemented the night’s outcome.

“They bottled us up on offense, we weren’t making any shots at that point,” Howard said. “They started hitting their shots, and that’s where it went wrong.”

“I feel like we missed a lot of easy shots. I missed all of my threes and it just wasn’t our night I guess.”

But when the Quakers returned to the court in Ithaca on Saturday, it turned out that scoring would be the least of their worries.

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Three Ivy League doubleheader weekends, three sweeps and a win against each of the seven other Ivies. You can’t ask for a better start to conference play.

Penn women’s basketball shellacked Columbia, 71-51, and Cornell, 65-50, this weekend to earn its sixth consecutive victory and the 13th in the team’s last 14 games.

Sophomores Michelle Nwokedi and Lauren Whitlatch put on a clinic in the first quarter against the Lions (12-11, 1-7 Ivy) on Friday, scoring the Red and Blue’s first 17 points on the way to finishing with 24 and 20, respectively. For Whitlatch, it was her second straight game setting a career-high in the category after scoring 19 against Dartmouth last Saturday.

“Coach [Mike McLaughlin] has done a great job of focusing on our mental game,” Whitlatch said. “I think it’s just having confidence. If you’re going to shoot it, shoot it with confidence, knowing that it’s going to go in.”

With Columbia emphasizing defense in the paint, McLaughlin praised the Red and Blue’s shooting on a night where they converted nine of 19 three-pointers.

“They were doubling down in the post, and when they weren’t doubling they were crowding, which left the perimeter open,” McLaughlin said. “We take what the defense gives us, and fortunately we executed and made shots.”

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Until this weekend, Penn men’s tennis had yet to play a tournament in the 2016 season at full strength.

Its veteran star, senior Vim De Alwis, was recovering from knee surgery after getting injured late in the 2015 season, and Russian rookie sensation Dmitry Shatalin was stuck sorting through NCAA clearance bureaucracy. In their absence, the Quakers (3-6) struggled to hit their stride.

This weekend, however, the pieces started to fall into place for Penn. On the first day of the weekend-long Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament hosted at Penn’s Hecht Tennis Center, the Red and Blue upset No. 34 Dartmouth, 4-3. Heading into the match on Friday, Penn was undoubtedly the underdog, as the Big Green (6-4) tied for second in the

Ivy League last year.

But coach David Geatz had faith that the addition of De Alwis and Shatalin would remedy his team’s February doldrums.

“We got way better when we added Vim back to our lineup, because he’s one of our best players,” Geatz said. “And we need to get Dmitry.”

Like Geatz, the Quakers would not be discouraged by their opponent’s ranking. On the doubles side, Penn’s sole win came from the pairing of sophomore Nicholai Westergaard and senior Austin Kaplan, and the Big Green took the advantage to start the match.

The singles competition would prove much fiercer. De Alwis, sophomore Josh Pompan and junior Matt Nardella tallied wins in straight sets to put Penn on the board, but Dartmouth captured the match points from the fifth and sixth spots, tying the match at 3-3.

The fate of the match was left in the hands of freshman Kyle Mautner, who was tasked with dispatching 2015 Ivy League Player

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of the Year Dovydas Sakinis. After dropping the first set, 6-3, Mautner rallied back to capture the next two sets, 6-4, 6-4, thus winning the match for Penn.

“We had a big win over Dartmouth,” De Alwis said. “Up until this tournament, we haven’t had great results, but it’s huge for us to play the other Ivies and who are ranked really high this year.”

The following day, Penn faced No. 45 Princeton — the team’s biggest Ancient Eight rival. In the semifinal match, Penn hung with the Tigers (8-2) through six matches with the score deadlocked at 3-3 with just Pompan left to play at the No. 3 singles spot. After capturing the first set, 7-5, Pompan was unable to force a repeat of Friday’s Cinderella ending, falling to Alexander Day in the next two sets 7-5, 6-3. Princeton would go on to win the tournament on Sunday.

On Sunday, Penn lost to No. 32 Harvard 5-2 in the tournament’s third place match. Despite the loss to the Crimson (8-4), Geatz’s team was far from discouraged from its

weekend results.

“I’m definitely proud of the way we played,” De Alwis said. “When you lose 4-3, it’s just a couple of points here and there. You can’t be disappointed — sometimes you win those matches, sometimes you lose.”

Although it is still early in the 2016 season, the ECAC Tournament is indicative of the stiff Ancient Eight competition to come after spring break.

“I think Princeton is really good.

Columbia is obviously very good.

Harvard is one of the top-30 teams in the country. I think Dartmouth is very good. Cornell is good — there’s a whole bunch of good teams,” Geatz said.

The Ivy League is perennially one of the best tennis conferences in the nation — last year five Ivy teams finished in the top 50 of ITA rankings. Due to this preponderance of talent, the only thing predictable about the Ivy League is its unpredictability.

As Gaetz says, “It’s really going to be an interesting year.”

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