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Class of 2023 is highest application pool ever

Penn received a total of 44,960 applications GIANNA FERRARIN Staff Reporter

Penn received 44,960 applications for the Class of 2023, which was more than a one percent increase from last year’s applicant pool.

This is the largest applicant pool Penn has seen to date. In 2018, 44,482 people applied to the University. This year, 37,850 people applied regular decision and 7,110 were early decision applicants — an increase of 478 total applicants from the Class of 2022.

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said the admissions office has already narrowed down the

regular decision pool in the first evaluation stage, where two admissions officers perform initial reviews. The office will now begin committee sessions in which groups ranging from six to 20 members will be reviewing applications.

“Where we are in the cycle right now is really kind of zeroing down towards that initial [group] evaluation period,” Furda said.

Furda added that a specialized committee composed of undergraduate advising staff and school faculty will soon begin evaluating Penn Nursing applications.

In December 2018, Penn set a record-low admissions rate after SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 7

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Under private partnerships with universities, companies receive long-term leases that can last nearly 100 years. Apartment complexes such as Domus (pictured) and The Radian can build and operate on university property, under contracts that grant them significant discretion.

Drexel shifted to a policy of privatized housing HAWTHORNE RIPLEY Staff Reporter

In September 2018, Penn announced sophomores would be required to live on campus starting in 2021. The move to expand Penn-run housing on campus was met with considerable student backlash, cit-

ing concerns that the decision would limit options and force first-generation, low-income students into more expensive on-campus living.

After a related policy change, Drexel University shifted to privatized housing to fulfill the increased demand, following universities nationwide that have increasingly gravitated toward the private sector to meet their housing needs. Penn housing administrators, however,

University Libraries offer new browser extension Some students are concerned about privacy JASON YAN Contributing Reporter

Penn Libraries recently released a new browser extension to allow easy access to Penn-licensed articles and books off-campus. But while many students and researchers have started using the third-party extension, some have raised questions about how secure their personal data is.

The Lean Library Access browser extension was announced on the Penn Libraries blog on Jan. 30. The extension makes it simpler to access online books and journal articles that are licensed by Penn Libraries, such as the digital research library JSTOR. After downloading the extension, anyone with a PennKey can directly open these research articles through an online search rather than searching

for the article through the Penn Libraries website.

Richard Griscom, associate university librarian for Collections and Liaison Services and chair of the Penn Libraries discovery team, said Penn Libraries received many complaints from students and faculty about the need to find research articles on web browsers and then search for them again on the Penn Libraries website to avoid the paywall.

The browser extension was developed by Lean Library, a third-party company that also offers a similar extension at Harvard University.

Students also voiced concerns with the security of people’s information stored on their personal computers, particularly in light of the recent Facebook data privacy scandal and because the extension was developed by a third-party.

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say they were unlikely to mirror this move to privatize student living, citing support systems, faster maintenance service, and faculty relationships as benefits of on-campus housing.

One key element of Drexel’s housing expansion over the past decade has been the prevalence of on-campus complexes built and operated by external corporations on university-leased land, Penn and

Drexel housing administrators said.

While the majority of Penn’s housing is built and operated internally, many popular apartment complexes — such as Domus Apartments and The Radian — are operated by outside corporations on property that the University leases to them, said Ed Datz, Penn’s executive director of Real Estate.

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Renowned English prof. Charles Bernstein retires The award-winning prof. is beloved by students CLAIRE OCHRCOH Staff Reporter

After teaching at Penn for more than 15 years, esteemed poet and English professor Charles Bernstein is set to retire at the end of the semester.

The influential poet, who is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn, recently won the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, one of the highest awards for an American poet, for his book “Near/Miss.”

“For me, poetry is like the art. It’s making art with verbal language,” Bernstein said in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian. “I’ve always been obsessed with verbal language and almost hearing it as if it was popping out at me.”

Bernstein said that he was grateful but surprised for the recognition, given his unorthodox style of poetry. The first

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poem in “Near/Miss” separates the syllables in words onto different lines, and makes the reader work to understand it.

“A lot of what I do is, obviously to the people giving awards, not the right kind of

thing,” Bernstein said. “It remains controversial and disliked by a lot of people who give out awards in the mainstream of culture, because it’s so strange that it doesn’t follow conventional patterns.”

College junior Arundhati Singh, who has taken three classes with him, was glad Bernstein received the award. “He deserves all the recognition he can get, but it’s not very out of place or surprising,” Singh said.

Before helping people discover their love of poetry in college, Bernstein said his interest in writing began “probably before birth in the womb.”

But it wouldn’t be until college when he actually started writing and found his love for poetry.

Bernstein’s impact on poetry can be seen in his contributions to the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E movement, which he helped found in the 1960s.

Al Filreis, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, described the poetry form as “typically non-narrative” and “disjunctive.”

“Things were not in any kind of common sense order,” SEE RETIREMENT PAGE 7

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‘Penn Heroes’ visits hospitalized children in costumes

Students in the club will visit patients this semester DANIELLE CAPRIGLIONE Contributing Reporter

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Griscom (pictured) said Penn Libraries received complaints about the need to find research articles on the Penn Libraries website.

In a new club this semester, students dressed up as superheroes and princesses visit patients at a children’s hospital in North Philadelphia.

College sophomore Baotram Nguyen, who is in charge of external communications for Penn Heroes, said she had the idea for the

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club when a friend told her about the University of Pittsburgh’s Imagination Project, which allows students to visit children’s hospitals in Pittsburgh wearing costumes. She then founded the club together with Mali, College sophomore Sarah Khan, and College and Wharton sophomore Daniel Rodriguez. The leaders contacted volunteer services departments of hospitals in Philadelphia and were able to make an arrangement with St. Christopher’s, which typically has around 200 pediatric patients.

“Our main goal is just to make kids happy,” Nguyen said.

“We’ve all seen how effective it is when celebrities do it,” College sophomore Ouen Mali, who handles the club’s finances, said of visiting patients in costume. “Granted, it’s not going to be as effective with our faces, but it’s still going to be a fun day.”

During a visit, Nguyen said, student volunteers will be able to enter pediatric patients’ rooms and “interact with them, talk to them, [and] take pictures if they want.”

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“It’s a completely different type of volunteering experience for most people,” Khan added. “When you imagine volunteering, at least clinical volunteering, you imagine working at a hospital or a really medical setting, but this gives you creative freedom.”

To recruit members to the new club, Penn Heroes will be hosting its first general body meeting on February 18 in Civic House. Following this, interested students will SEE HEROES PAGE 3

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Penn curator launches video series on Star Wars manuscripts A video series examines medieval manuscripts CLAIRE OCHRCOH Staff Reporter

Star Wars and the Middle Ages have more in common than meets the eye, according to a new video series from the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

“Sacred Texts: Codices Far, Far Away” is a project centering on the way medieval culture influenced the Jedi manuscripts, a type of “codex,” that are visible in the latest movie of the saga, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” The Schoenberg Institute’s curator of Digital Research Services, Dot Porter, and assistant professor of English at Rhode Island College Brandon Hawk created the video series in order to increase interest in medievalism.

There are currently three videos in the series, all about five minutes long, which feature Hawk and Porter analyzing the Penn manuscripts in front of a green screen with Star Wars backgrounds. In total, the series has accumulated more than 1,800 views.

The manuscripts in “The

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Douglas Berger, Penn’s executive director for Business Services, said the value of internally-run university housing is also “education that happens outside of the classroom,” such as the interactions with faculty residents, the support for undergraduates, the community programming, and the faster maintenance assistance.

“Those things aren’t necessarily provided in private housing,” Berger said.

Currently, Drexel sophomores have the option between on-campus residences, Greek life houses, and apartments managed by American

Last Jedi” were particularly interesting to Hawk and Porter because Porter said no one has ever seen writing in the Star Wars universe, and Porter explained that manuscripts are written by hand and “look like a modern book” with pages and a cover.

When Porter saw manuscripts appear on a shelf while watching the 2017 film, her interest was sparked. “It was like, ‘This is the most amazing thing, that my two great loves are in the same room together.’

I get to talk to them both at the same time,” Porter said.

Every video features a different manuscript from Schoenberg — dating from medieval times to the early 1900s — and explores how those documents may have informed the Star Wars manuscripts. The Schoenberg Institute has over 1,500 Western manuscripts and is located on the sixth floor of Van Pelt Library.

“When I first saw [the Star Wars manuscripts] I was thinking especially of astronomical scientific kinds of books from the medieval period,” Hawk said. “I was interested in the text in some ways and how it’s obviously a non-Latin alphabet, and in episode three of our

Campus Communities, a private corporation operating nearly 100 housing complexes on university ground-leases across campus, from Princeton to UCLA. Alan Greenberger, Philadelphia’s former deputy mayor for Economic Development, said Drexel and other universities’ turn toward private sector housing is partially a result of an increasingly competitive university selection process, where universities hope to draw students to fancier on-campus options.

“It’s a little bit like an amenity war that’s going on,” said Greenberger, who now serves as Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Drexel’s Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation. “Private entities are in a posi-

series we highlighted an Ethiopian manuscript that has similarities in the script.”

One manuscript that hails from 13th century Italy features diagrams of the movement of the sun, the earth, and the moon — striking Porter as

similar to those found in Star Wars.

Medievalism and “Star Wars” are things that both Porter and Hawk are passionate about.

“In some ways we’re doing this because we’re fans of Star Wars and we really want to dig

into the Star Wars universe,” Hawk said. “In other ways we’re doing it because we love medieval studies and we want other people to love medieval studies too.”

The twin passions are what brought Hawk and Porter to-

gether, as they first met on “medieval twitter,” Porter said, where they started discussing a potential project and eventually met in person at a conference.

When Hawk traveled to Philadelphia to film the videos in a studio in Weigle Information Commons, they originally thought one video would be produced.

“But we ended up being in there for like three hours and I didn’t want to cut anything,” Porter said.

Hawk and Porter are planning to upload more videos until the release of the next “Star Wars” film in December 2019, planning to film more segments with experts in both fields.

Though the videos are meant to show the comparison between Star Wars and medieval manuscripts, Hawk said the series serves a larger purpose.

“I hope that this video series shows people that these [manuscripts] are really cool and that they have a lot to offer — and that medieval studies is a really thriving field and has so much more to study,” Hawk said. “It would be great if more people saw these videos and then got interested in medieval studies, either as amateurs or as academics.”

tion to provide these things without universities having to use their own endowments and bonding capacity.”

Under private partnerships, companies build and operate on university property largely independently, including setting fees and collecting rent, said Harris Steinberg, Drexel’s executive director of the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation and former executive director at PennDesign.

Large private corporations would try to get tax reductions because of universities’ status as nonprofits — despite the national for-profit nature of housing companies, according to a New York University study. These private companies can receive longterm leases of nearly 100 years, Steinberg said, and these contracts

have the potential to grant companies significant discretion over how housing is operated.

“I think in most cases, there is an understanding of what the rent structures would be on a specific housing that’s built. When you look at apartment rentals, it’s a marketdriven equation,” said Datz.

Ariel Vazquez, a PennDesign professor, said universities might enter into a private partnership contract because of faster construction and easier attainment of permits.

Drexel city planners also said by giving students more on-campus options, surrounding residential communities can be protected from student disruption and gentrification; off-campus housing might

cause higher rates of both.

Steinberg said Drexel’s expansion was “an unintended consequence” of the university’s success and threatened the surrounding community, leading to policy shifts to bring students closer to campus.

“Because students are often transient, there are often clashes with long-term residents over trash or noise,” Steinberg said. “Before [private housing partnerships], the level of home-ownership was so low, and the level of student residency so high, that developers recognized that and were starting to tear down lovely old buildings with character and single-family housing, and started to put up what were in essence shoe boxes with beds.”

A proponent of private partnerships, Greenberger cited cost-saving benefits for universities and increased efficiency gained by working with the private sector. He said, however, he recognizes the risks involved.

“When the private entity is the developer, the control that you have over it has to be modified depending on the kind of contract an institution creates,” Greenberger said.

“When the owners of The Radian built the project, the decision was primarily made on the fact that we weren’t trying to expand our internal housing, but rather an opportunity to add additional housing to the marketplace without it being part of the college houses,” Datz said.

This 13th century Italian manuscript features diagrams of the movement of the earth, sun, and moon, which the video series compares to manuscripts found in the 2017 Star Wars film “The Last Jedi.”

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Author Feminista Jones talks black feminism and social media Jones said Twitter has given black women a voice CARMINA HACHENBURG Contributing Reporter

Author and activist Feminista Jones discussed black feminism and argued that black women are the initiators of social media movements at a Penn Book Center reading Tuesday night.

Jones, a Philadelphia-based social worker and feminist writer, read sections from her new book “Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World From the Tweets to the Streets,” which was published in January 2019. In the book, Jones defines black feminism as she sees it and explains how new social media platforms have empowered black women.

“Black feminism inherently advocates for black men, disabled black folks, queer black folks, fat black folks, black folks who pray, and black folks who have found another way,” Jones said.

She also discussed black

feminists’ role as initiators of social media movements, such as #BlackLivesMatter, #SayHerName, and #BlackGirlMagic.

Specifically, she said the structure of Twitter has allowed black women to dominate the platform.

“Black women are successful on Twitter because it was built on ‘call and response,’ the natural inherent communication style of black women,” Jones said, referencing Twitter’s retweet system.

“Most of our modern movements were created by black feminist women,” Jones added.

She added that new platforms have allowed black women to express themselves without erasure.

“Social media has helped black women develop community across the globe that we have never been able to do,” Jones said.

“This is what empowers us to start these movements and make these cultural shifts.”

Event attendee Samuelle Voltaire, a second-year social work master’s student in the School of Social Policy & Practice and a first year public health master’s

student in the Perelman School of Medicine, said Jones’ definition of black feminism is significant because it “inherently advocates for so many interjections of black identities.”

Voltaire added that as a social work student, she wants to learn more about black feminism’s role and importance in society.

Alice Wang, a second-year master’s student studying social work in SP2 and education in the Graduate School of Education, said Jones is doing important work by “honoring the true history” of social movements and making black women more visible.

“I think that creating more space for more choice and more freedom in terms of what it means to be a black woman in this country is essential,” Wang added.

Jones explained that she wrote the book “as a living statement to the living history being made right now.”

“We can no longer deny that black women are currently shaping how culture expands and grows,” Jones said.

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At the Penn Book Center, Jones read sections from her new book “Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World From the Tweets to the Streets.” The book was published in January 2019.

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need to fill out an application with St. Christopher’s and be approved to

dents can still get involved even if they do not want to dress up. For example, Penn Heroes plans to make cards for St. Christopher’s patients throughout the semester.

“It’s a completely different type of volunteering experience for most people.”

- Sophomore sarah Kahn

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(From left to right) Baotram Nguyen, Ouen Mali, and Sarah Khan, three of the leaders of the new Penn Heroes club. College sophomore Baotram Nguyen said she had the idea for the club when a friend told her about the University of Pittsburgh’s Imagination Project.

volunteer in the hospital.

Nguyen added that Penn Heroes plans to have volunteers finish their paperwork by spring break so they can start visits by late March. Following that, the group will visit St. Christopher’s once or twice a month.

The club leaders said that stu-

Because Penn Heroes is a new club, they added, it will not qualify for funding from the Student Activities Committee until fall of 2019.

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OPINION Penn should give students Presidents Day off

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enn routinely ranks among the lowest in the Ivy League for the number of days dedicated to breaks.

Given Penn’s reputation for having an unusually hypercompetitive campus culture, we should have more time off. Penn must make Presidents Day a University holiday to give students additional time to relax or catch up on schoolwork.

Within the Ivy League, Penn’s academic calendar stands out for the low number of days granted for breaks and reading days. For the 2019-2020 academic year, Penn and Dartmouth College tie at 111 weekdays for the least time off.

At Penn, this includes Labor Day, two days for fall break, two days for Thanksgiving, 18 days for winter break, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, five days for spring break, 78 days for summer break, and four reading days. Outside of the breaks between semesters, this amounts to only 15 weekdays off.

Other Ivies have single-day breaks that Penn lacks. Columbia University students get Election Day off every November, Brown students have Indigenous People’s Day off in October, and Harvard University has Columbus Day and Presidents Day off. Penn students receive none of these breaks.

Instead, Penn’s academic calendar condenses the semesters to allow for longer summer breaks, when the University uses college houses for various summer programs. Still, we deserve as much time off as most other Ivy League schools.

While one day off isn’t enough for most students to travel home or elsewhere off campus, short, intermittent breaks during the semesters are far more meaningful in improving campus mental health. These kinds of short breaks allow students additional time to recharge and practice self care.

In the past, students have complained that the infrequency

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While one day off isn’t enough for most students to travel home or elsewhere off-campus, short, intermittent breaks during the semesters are far more meaningful in improving campus mental health.”

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of these kinds of breaks at Penn reflects poorly on the University’s commitment to mental health.

“I think they are being very disingenuous by not at least acknowledging that the calendar is a mental health factor,” one student told the DP in 2017.

“When you shorten our winter break and only give us two reading days to prepare for exams, there is an issue.”

Aside from Dartmouth Colege, which operates on the quarter system, Penn has the fewest reading days of any Ivy League school. Princeton University has three times as many days set aside for preparing for exams.

Other schools where Presi-

Penn students deserve more time off in order to cope with the stress that comes with their responsibilities here.” dents Day is a student holiday include Stanford University, Georgetown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, George Washington University, Boston University, University of Southern California, Tufts University, New York University, and the University of California schools.

Penn students deserve more time off in order to cope with the stress that comes with their responsibilities here. Making Presidents Day a University holiday would demonstrate the University’s commitment to making substantial changes to improve wellness, and serve as a step towards a healthier campus culture.

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TON TALKS | Some of our most impactful alumni are the ones that had non-traditional experiences at Penn

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t’s common knowledge that Penn has produced some of the most notable leaders in various industries and fields. A statistic many hold onto is our production of more billionaires than any other university. Many students chose Penn in hopes of benefiting from this extensive alumni network and perhaps utilizing the university’s resources and title to build a legacy for themselves. But what most Penn students do not realize is that they are too fixated on an unrealistic dream, built on wealth and pre-professionalism, and fundamentally lack what it takes to one day be a notable Penn alumni.

Some of the most impactful alumni are the ones that had nontraditional experiences and traits in their undergraduate careers.

We should keep that in mind as we feel pressure to mimic others in hopes of being successful.

John Legend, 10-time Grammy-award winner, is often lauded for his musical skills.

But what most people don’t

All of these alumni are not remembered for what they studied or even what clubs they were involved on campus, but rather they are known for what they chose to do with their skills.” know is that he was admitted to Penn at the age of 16 and studied English. He would later go on to work at Boston Consulting Group, which he described as a job that you’d expect Penn students to take, and soon left the position to pursue his passions. Elizabeth Banks majored in Communication and minored in Theater Arts, and has since acted and directed hit films. Tory Burch majored in Art History and later went on to found a clothing line, and

was listed as Forbes 79th most powerful woman in the world.

Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, and Donald Trump — regardless of their vast differences, all have the commonality of being transfer students.

All of these alumni are not remembered for what they studied or even what clubs they were involved on campus, but rather they are known for what they chose to do with their skills. Penn students are among the brightest and most creative

people in the world, yet they are all funneling into the same job positions and firms. While it is tempting to follow the crowd, Penn students have the potential to do so much more. Penn’s notable alumni didn’t all take the same path, and we shouldn’t either.

Most people don’t have a passion. The problem with our current culture at Penn is that we judge others based off their academic workload and their internship prospects. You’ll find students constantly grinding for classes, profusely networking, and mindlessly submitting internship applications for jobs we don’t even care about. And we do this night and day out of fear of not being good enough in the eyes of our classmates. This has become our definition of success — having a high GPA, a large LinkedIn network, and an extensive resume. Internships should not be our measure of self-worth. In fact, John Legend recently tweeted, “Unpaid internships make it so only kids

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TON NGUYEN with means and privilege get the valuable experience,” suggesting that some internships are in and of themselves a form of classism and privilege.

Granted, the industries and fields that surround us are ever changing. It’s difficult not to buy into the idea that we must pursue certain majors that may seemingly be more lucrative. And that is the mindset that Penn students must change if we are ever going to make an impact on our world.

Accepting what others tell us about rankings, profitability, and our self-worth will only prevent us from doing what we truly care about and what we are good at. I am not trying to undermine the hard work and dedication that Penn students put into their academics and careers, but it is very evident that we have a culture around silently shaming others for what they study and what activities they’re involved in.

There is no correct formula to achieve notability. But one thing is for sure, you can’t make change if you play it too safe and follow the mold given to you by others. Regardless of where your priorities lie, it is important that we don’t over glorify social status and forego the importance of being true to ourselves and our passions. We must challenge the notion that you must be preprofessional at Penn in order to be “successful,” regardless of what your definition of success may be.

TON NGUYEN is a college junior from Atlanta, GA studying Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. Her email address is nton@sas.upenn. edu.

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Penn Engineering isn’t as inclusive for women as it may seem

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THE M&TEA | Increasing admission statistics is the first step of inclusion, but it’s not enough

hen I found out that approximately 33 percent of Penn Engineering’s class are female students, I remember feeling proud of their efforts to create a more “inclusive” environment. Throughout my time at Penn, however, I have gradually realized that the idea of inclusion extends much beyond a number in the admission statistics. Indeed, 33 percent of the female students enter the class, but it doesn’t show what life at Penn is really like for female Engineers.

Upon entering college, I have felt a shift in my confidence level in tech-related areas. In high school, I was relatively good at math and

computer science, but somehow my feelings towards these subjects changed over the past few months. Now, when I walk into an Engineering classroom, I often feel that I have to prove my knowledge and capability before anyone takes me seriously. These small incidences pile up to frustration.

More importantly, I have realized that these implicit assumptions do not only come from the outside environment, but they have also come from myself.

In fact, I am not alone in my doubtful feelings towards myself. From “The % Project”, an initiative by Women in Computer Science (WiCS) last year, around 70 percent

of females, 40 percent of nonbinary, but only 10 percent of male students have had someone claim to them that their gender identities have unfairly contributed to their acceptance to Penn Engineering. This clearly demonstrates a difference in the confidence levels across different gender groups: a large portion of female and non-binary students felt that their admission into Penn benefited from their gender rather than their previous achievements and their skills, and that they were perhaps not as qualified as their male peers.

Inclusion is not just about the amount of female engineers entering Penn, but also

Inclusion is not just about the amount of female engineers entering Penn, but also about making them feel that they belong here.” about making them feel that they belong here. This sense of belonging, as the data from “The % Project” suggests, has not yet been found by most of my peers. Student groups like WiCS and Society of Women Engineers make efforts to create such communities for fe-

male Engineering students, yet the need for these clubs, on the other hand, also implies lack of the sense of belonging for female students in the community. Moreover, the low number of male allies in these student groups also seems to suggest that most male stu-

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CATHERINE QIAO dents at Penn tend to overlook these issues in the community.

Additionally, while there had been an effort by Penn to hire more minority faculty members, the results have not been obvious in the Engineering school. Over the two semesters I have been at Penn, I have had five CIS professors, and all of them were male professors. Without seeing any representation of female faculty around, it is difficult for me to find role models to look up to, and I couldn’t help but feel distant from this community.

Increasing admission statistics is the first step of inclusion, but it’s not enough. Making Penn Engineering — and Penn in general — a more inclusive place should be a mission beyond admissions. As an inclusive school, Penn could focus on raising awareness of this issue, especially through training the TA and professors who serve as representative figures in the community.

More importantly, the change needs to come from ourselves – to be confident, to recognize and avoid making judgements, and to spread awareness in order to achieve eventual inclusion in the community.

CATHERINE QIAO is a Engineering and Wharton freshman from Shanghai. Her email address is jqiao22@wharton.upenn.edu.

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PennDesign conserves Frank Lloyd Wright’s home to 2011 to understand how the building has changed, such as when glass was added and what changes were made by Wright’s wife after his death.

Maloney, who is working on preserving the dining room, said she is monitoring the temperature and humidity to understand the degree of deterioration of the wood structure and recommend future treatments.

The harsh desert environment makes the technical conservation challenging since Taliesin West does not look like a typical living site, Matero said.

Since the place is also home to the School of Architecture at Taliesin, the presence of fulltime residents and workers can complicate the preservation effort, Matero said.

“Taliesin West is not your typical house,” Butler said. “We are a living and breathing site.”

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The celebrated architect’s Arizona home is in need of restoration due to Wright’s distinct style of mainly using wood instead of glass.

Losco, who traveled to Taliesin West earlier in January, said she was glad to have realworld exposure and get to work with people in this project.

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Over the next five years, the team will inspect Taliesin West’s surrounding landscape and conduct additional research on climate change.

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PennDesign’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation will partner with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation for a five-year research project on Taliesin West, a site that attracts 110,000 visitors annually and is home to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the School of

The project is currently examining the preservation of the garden room and dining room within the building.

Matero left Penn on Feb. 7 to visit Taliesin West and emphasized the building’s personal nature. Because the site had been Wright’s winter home and was built and maintained almost entirely by Wright and his apprentices over the last eight decades, many aspects of the building have remained in an individualistic style.

For example, Matero said, the original architecture heavily utilized wood instead of glass due to Wright’s personal preferences. The goal moving forward is to hope the conservation aligns with what Wright originally intended, he added.

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As the site underwent changes over time, unique spaces within Taliesin West were altered, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s preservation manager Emily Butler said. The current investigation will help the team understand when changes were made and how different elements from different time periods can be preserved in different ways.

Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation Frank Matero will be leading the project along with three faculty members: Andrew Fearon, John Hinchman, and Laura Keim, as well as two PennDesign students, Ashley Losco and Mia Maloney.

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Penn’s third annual OWN IT summit shifted focus this year from women’s leadership to women’s empowerment and inclusion of all genders. This year, Penn’s chapter also modified its group’s mission statement, broadening it to cover all genders rather than solely women.

The event took place Saturday and featured 25 non-male leaders from different industries and backgrounds who discussed navigating the male-dominated world.

“We seek to showcase voices of all races, genders, sexual identities, ethnicities, abilities, ages, political orientations, and socio-economic backgrounds,” OWN IT Penn’s mission statement reads.

The co-presidents of Penn’s chapter of OWN IT, a national organization focused on women’s leadership, said they wanted to focus on equality.

“We’ve kind of rebranded from a women’s leadership conference to a women’s empowerment conference to try to focus more on gender equality,” OWN IT Penn co-President and College junior Aiden

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Filreis said. “Another characteristic of this poetry is that it would take American English idioms and fool with them, torque them, twist them, create puns of idioms.”

At Penn, Bernstein is renowned as a professor for questioning his students, and pushing their boundaries of thought.

2018 College graduate Amanda Silberling said she credits Bernstein with helping her “develop the way that I see poetry and art.”

Silberling recalled a favorite moment with Bernstein, when she proposed to him that anything could be a poem.

“He was like, ‘Really, what about this chair?’ and just picks up a chair and asked me if I thought it was a poem. Then

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it admitted only 1,279 of its early decision applicants — just under 18 percent of the pool. After years of steady growth, Penn’s early decision applicant pool plateaued for the Class of 2023.

For the Class of 2022, the total applicant pool saw a drastic increase of 4,069 total applicants from the year prior, which was near a 10 percent increase in applications.

Brossfield said.

Brossfield added that OWN IT Penn tried to invite male speakers “who had done work to increase gender equality” to the summit, but none were able to attend.

The keynote discussion was led by Dawn Robertson, a businesswoman who has a long history of leading retail and wholesale corporations. Robertson is the current CEO of On Campus Marketing and was previously president of Old Navy and CEO of Stein Mart.

Robertson discussed her journey to high-level leadership positions and her struggle to balance her career with family life.

Audience members also had the chance to ask Robertson questions, ranging from how to deal with burnout to the importance of networking.

“If you are professional [and] handle yourself correctly, you can compete with men,” Robertson said. “You do what you do and you do yourself the best you possibly can.”

Following the keynote, OWN IT Penn hosted a panel on “The Power of Leadership: Women in Business.” Panelists brought up their diverse and often unconventional paths to success in various fields, ranging from law to telecommunications.

“When you have your next

job opportunity, or when you’re kind of done with where you’re at, don’t limit yourself to the first thing that comes along the way,” said panelist Jill Lampert, CFO of Natural Gas Partners Midstream. “Really test yourself and make sure that the fork in the road is the fork you want to go down.”

Smaller breakout sessions explored women’s leadership in specific industries including fashion, politics, healthcare, and the media. Attendees said these allowed more intimate engagement with speakers and topics.

“We’re actually having the opportunity to have a one-on-one conversation with these women,” Wharton sophomore Hana Charnley said. “They all have had amazing careers and are doing amazing things.”

The event concluded with a panel focused on activism.

Speakers, including leaders of advocacy groups such as Women and Hollywood, Women Against Abuse, and Conservation International, encouraged listeners to find their own passions and change the world as they see fit.

“Everyone has been personally touched or passionate about the issue they support, and that’s different for everyone,” 2015 Wharton graduate and genHERation founder Katlyn Grasso

said. “It will sort of hit you in the face.”

“I think that there are multiple causes that are a great fit for me,” panelist Neha Butala, a researcher at Center for High Impact Philanthropy, added. “So I continue to strive and reach and have as

much impact as I possibly can.”

Students at the event said they enjoyed hearing from speakers in many different industries.

“It was nice to see all of the different opinions from the diverse panels,” College senior Keneally Phelan said. “They

really tried to get strong female leaders from all of the different spheres we have in society.” “[The speakers are] also really eager to help all of us and give us opportunities that maybe they didn’t have,” Wharton sophomore Reese Vogel added.

extension was developed by a third-party rather than the University and that the extension could potentially access a user’s search history, which could be problematic if sensitive information is stored on the computer.

David Li, a first-year Soci-

ology Ph.D. student, said the extension has helped him find the “right resources” for his research, which he previously spent “a couple hours on a daily basis” searching for library materials. But Li also expressed concerns that third-party companies would use sensitive in-

formation for other purposes.

“If the University is not giving enough supervision, then that could be a huge issue,” Li said.

Griscom said privacy issues are “unavoidable” with browser extensions because installing an extension grants its developer

considerable access to the computer. He added, however, that Penn Libraries “will be working hard to make sure that personal information are not being used improperly by any third-party company.”

The extension only works on computers and on the ma-

jor internet browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Edge. Griscom said there are currently no plans to expand access to other browsers, however, Penn Libraries is working with a third-party company to develop an app to allow access through tablets and smartphones.

I had to defend it, and we had this whole conversation about it,” Silberling said.

dents to think outside of the box and ask a question that maybe they wouldn’t have had

PennSound with Filreis, a large collection of recorded poetry readings that emphasizes the auditory aspect of the art.

“The performance of the poem is equally significant as the poem,” Bernstein said.

“When you hear the poet reading their own work, you get certain aspects to it that you can’t get in the alphabetic version, such as the rhythms, or the tempo, or the speed, the intonation, or the pitch changes.

Bernstein said he is retiring so that he can travel more and enjoy more free time, but is nevertheless reluctant to leave Penn.

“I’m gonna miss teaching them,” Bernstein said. “The main thing about being a professor over the last 30 years has been working with students.”

“For me, poetry is like the art. It’s making art with verbal language” - English Professor Charles Bernstein

Students celebrated him for encouraging “uncensored, critical discourse” in the classroom. “He encouraged his stu-

By comparison, the growth in total applications for Penn’s Class of 2023 was slight. Furda said the 2017 SAT redesign partly accounted for last year’s dramatic increase.

“I think last year’s increase really was because students saw themselves in a different light once they received their SAT scores, because the scores went up, then the revised SAT scores went up along certain areas of the distribution,” Furda told The Daily Pennsylvanian in December 2018.

the courage to ask otherwise,” Silberling said.

Outside of the classroom, Bernstein helped create

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The third annual summit featured a keynote discussion led by Dawn Robertson (pictured), a businesswoman who has a long history of leading retail and wholesale corporations.and is the current CEO of On Campus Market.

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Women’s lacrosse uses 10-1 run to pull away from Delaware in opener No. 10 Quakers cruised past Blue Hens in 15-4 victory

a win over Temple, but ultimately posed little resistance to the offensive talent of the Quakers (1-0).

Four players for the visitors had a multi-goal game, including junior midfielder Erin Barry, who notched a game-high four goals to singlehandedly match the count of the home team.

Also picking up a hat trick was sophomore attacker Zoe Belodeau, who last year became Penn’s first freshman to earn first-team All Ivy recognition. Junior attacker Gabby Rosenzweig and sophomore midfielder Abby Bosco each chipped in a pair of first-half goals to help the Quakers coast to the win.

Meanwhile, Penn’s defense, notoriously tough to get through, and did not allow any Delaware player to score more than one goal in the game.

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Penn women’s lacrosse is picking up right where it left off last season.

After a run to the Round of 16 in last year’s NCAA Tournament, the Red and Blue entered the 2019 season seeking to go even further and kicked the season off with a 15-4 drubbing of Delaware, the Blue Hens’ seventh straight loss to Penn.

The Blue Hens (1-1) came into their home opener game fresh off

of runs Penn used to put the game away and cut off any momentum the Blue Hens could have had.

It took less than three minutes for the Quakers to get on the board off a shot from sophomore midfielder Elyse Decker. After a 12-minute scoring drought, the floodgates reopened for the visitors, who scored three more in less than a minute to break the game open.

Delaware brought the game back to 5-3 with just over 10 minutes to play in the half before the Red and Blue took off again.

In a run spanning the halftime break, the visitors doubled their goal tally and put the game out of Delaware’s reach. The Blue Hens, now finding themselves down 10-3 against the No. 10 team in the country, provided little resistance the rest of the way.

The home side could only mus-

ter one more goal before another Penn barrage. The Quakers closed the game on one more 5-0 run, thwarting any last shot at an upset bid.

All in all, the win showcased the Red and Blue’s dominance on both ends of the field.

In goal, junior Mikaila Cheeseman had nine saves in the 46 minutes of game time she played. Freshman goalie Krissy Kowalski, who is also a Daily Pennsylvanian staffer, made her debut late and succeeded in holding Delaware scoreless for the final 14 minutes of action.

Other freshmen to watch include attacker Taylyn Stadler and midfielder Michaela McMahon, who each picked up goals in their first college game this weekend.

On the road until March, the

Red and Blue will travel to Baltimore next Saturday to take on Johns Hopkins, who will be

looking for revenge after a narrow 12-11 defeat to the Quakers on Franklin Field last season.

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After leading the team in goals last season, junior midfielder Erin Barry led the Quakers with four goals on just four shots on Saturday.

Quakers place third at CSA Team Chamionships after two wins M. SQUASH | Red and Blue fell to No. 1 Harvard in semis

Tarek, junior David Yacobucci, and senior Jonathan Zeitels winning all three matches and starting the Red and Blue off with a 3-0 record.

The second shift saw wins from freshmen Michael Mehl and Aly Abou Eleinen. Junior Wil Hagen, freshman James Flynn, and sophomore Andrew Douglas also helped contribute to Penn’s 8-1 victory over Yale.

Yacobucci was very satisfied with the group’s win. “I would say we got most of our success just reminding ourselves how good of a team Yale is and how tough they would be especially at their home courts. This put everyone in the right mentality to play as hard as possible and to not let up at any point during the match.�

Coming off the solid victory on Friday, Penn fell in the semifinals against No. 1 Harvard on Saturday. Earlier in the season, the two teams matched up at the Kline & Specter Squash Center, and

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Two wins and one loss. Only enough to land the Quakers a third place finish.

This weekend, Penn men’s squash trekked to New Haven, Conn. for the College Squash Association National Team Championships. Coming off a 5-2 record in Ivy League play and placing second in the conference, Penn looked to clinch the title this weekend. Unfortunately, however, the squad fell short.

Starting off strong, the No. 4 Quakers defeated No. 5 Yale on Friday with an 8-1 victory.

Having previously defeated Yale (10-6, 4-3 Ivy) on the road earlier this season, this marked Penn’s second win over the Bulldogs. With three courts running at once, Penn (14-4, 5-2) dominated the first shift, with senior Karim

despite a slow start, Harvard (16-0, 7-0) came back to win 6-3.

This time, Penn fell, 8-1, with Douglas winning the lone match for the Red and Blue.

Despite losing the first two games, Douglas came back to win, 3-2, in the fifth. Yacobucci and Flynn each split the opening games in their matches before losing the last two in 3-1 losses.

Douglas, who occupies the Quakers’ No. 1 slot, left Saturday’s match believing Harvard was simply a more talented squad. “Harvard was just better because they were more talented. They have great name recognition, and they had an amazing recruiting class, one world champion and two world championship runnerups in the top nine,� Douglas said. “So if we wanted to win we would have to have been fitter than we were.�

On Sunday, the Quakers faced Rochester (14-4) in the third-place match. Having

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The Quakers showed flashes of brilliance in both games, like when the team found itself down 11 early in the second half against the Big Green and charged back within six minutes to regain the lead, or when Penn’s defense limited Harvard to just nine points in the game’s opening 10 minutes.

But there were also the bad plays and mistakes that continue to plague the Red and Blue. The two games saw the home side commit 16 and 14 turnovers, respectively, an increase from the season average of 12.9 coming into the week-

“Obviously against Rochester it was a different team from Harvard, but we regrouped well and wanted to get third,�

Douglas said. “We just wanted it more than them and that showed [in] the score.�

The Quakers will head to

Providence, R.I. in two weeks to compete in the CSA Individual Championships, giving their top players a final chance to come out with victories. Meanwhile, the women’s team will compete in the team championships next weekend.

end. These are the smallest of preventable errors that can come back to impact the team in the worst possible way.

These mistakes are extra damaging with Ancient Eight competition among the tightest as it’s been in recent years.

All eight of this weekend’s Ivy games were decided by 10 or fewer points, and three of them went into overtime.

Every team is still mathematically alive, so nobody will be taking it easy with six League games remaining on the schedule.

This season has been a milestone one for the Quakers in terms of non-conference play, but while a Big 5 title means a lot for the team and the pro-

gram as a whole, it won’t fill the void if Penn misses out on Ivy Madness, especially after last year’s success and the national attention the team was exposed to after the Miami (Fla.) and Villanova wins in December.

Penn has a chance — possibly its last — to right the ship when Columbia and Cornell visit the Palestra next weekend.

Anything less than a sweep at home could mean endgame when it comes to the postseason.

WILL DiGRANDE is a College sophomore from Warren, N.J. and a Sports Editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at digrande@thedp.com.

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Penn suffers season-opening heartbreak in OT loss to Maryland M. LAX | Quakers lost to No. 3 Terrapins in sudden death TYIRA BUNCHE Associate Sports Editor

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Heartbreaking. That’s one word to describe Penn’s overtime loss this weekend.

Penn men’s lacrosse welcomed No. 3 Maryland to Franklin Field to open its season on Saturday. Despite a close and competitive effort from the home side, Maryland remained undefeated and topped the Red and Blue in overtime, 13-12.

Before everyone could get settled into their seats, the Quakers (0-1) got on the board through a goal from senior midfielder Tyler Dunn just 36 seconds into the game. The team ended the opening period leading the Terrapins (3-0) by a 4-2 score, and it seemed like the Quak-

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Junior attackman Adam Goldner led Penn men’s lacrosse with a hat trick as the team’s upset bid against No. 3 Maryland came up just short. The Quakers remain winless against the Terrapins in program history.

ers were in the driver’s seat. However, Penn’s strong offensive start would not continue, as the second period was a very different story.

Penn was held scoreless for a period of over 18 minutes, dating back to the 3:31 mark in the first

period. The team’s only goal in the second period was courtesy of a thrilling last-second shot by senior attackman Simon Mathias, which cut Penn’s deficit to 7-5 and was an uplifting way to end the half.

“It was a great juice play to take

us into the half, and I think we did a great job of building on it to carry that momentum into the second half,” junior attacker Adam Goldner said. “We looked to the guy to the left and to the right and we tried to make the best out of it and put our-

selves on the line for our brothers.”

In the second half, the Red and Blue’s momentum carried them to a 12-11 lead in the middle of the fourth period. At this point of the game, the crowd at the Frank was roaring and it felt as if the Quakers would notch their first-ever win against the Terps. However, Maryland had different plans as it was able to even up the game at 12 and force overtime.

As both teams prepared for the extra period, Penn felt confident in its chances to win the faceoff and take over on offense. Until that point, junior faceoff specialist Kyle Gallagher had won 21 of 26 faceoffs.

“The fact that we were winning faceoffs allowed us to make a comeback … because if someone scored we knew we had a good chance of getting the ball back,” coach Mike Murphy said. “In the ten years I’ve been here, that might have been the best faceoff performance we’ve had.”

However, Gallagher was unable to win the first overtime faceoff,

and 18 seconds later, the Terrapins scored the sudden-death goal they needed to come away with the victory.

“Bittersweet. We played really well and showed that we belong, but we let it get away,” Murphy said. “In the end, we couldn’t pick the ball up off that faceoff and get control of it, and they were off to the races.”

Even though it was a loss, the Quakers played aggressively and came back against one of the best teams in the country, so they will look to use this game as a learning experience.

“I think we learned a lot about ourselves this game, and I think that we can definitely take this kind of momentum,” Goldner said.

Starting the season against the No. 3 team in the nation was no easy task, but Penn was ready and gave Maryland a run for its money.

The Red and Blue will need that momentum as they travel to Durham, N.C. next week to take on another tough opponent in No. 10 Duke.

DP Sports Player of the Week: junior midfielder Erin Barry W. LAX | Barry connected on all of her shot attempts ISAAC SPEAR Associate Sports Editor

The women’s lacrosse season got underway this weekend, and junior midfielder Erin Barry picked up right where she left off.

As the Quakers dominated their first game of the year with a 15-4 win over Delaware, Barry led the charge, scoring four goals and recording an assist.

Last season’s leading goal scorer was especially effective early on Saturday, scoring three first half goals to help the Red and Blue jump out to a commanding 9-3 halftime lead. Barry would add another goal in the second half to complete her perfect shooting night, recording her four

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Donahue said. “For the most part, we drove it, we kicked it, and we had wide open shots that we just didn’t make.”

Both teams came out of the gate firing in the second half. The Quakers found a spark with seven points from Goodman in the first four minutes of the second half, but Harvard kept things close as Aiken and Bassey continued to drill contested shots.

“I’ve got to give Harvard credit. I thought we guarded them hard, but they continued to make extremely tough shots,” Donahue said. “You don’t win a game with 19 turnovers unless you have people making shots like [Aiken and Bassey.]”

With 11:34 left in the game, senior forward Max Rothschild threw down a rim-rattling dunk, and then senior guard Antonio Woods followed with an open three to stretch the Penn lead to six, its largest of the

goals on just four shots.

Last season, Penn women’s lacrosse suffered a difficult loss to Princeton in the Ivy League Championship but made it all the way to the Round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament. This season, with the return of three of their four first team All-Ivy players and boasting a No. 10 national ranking, the expectations are even higher for the Red and Blue.

In order for the Quakers to live up to their lofty aspirations, they are going to need strong play from Barry, whose 51 goals a year ago was good for the third-most prolific season in program history.

This stellar performance earned her a unanimous first team AllIvy selection and second team All-American honors.

Although it has just been one game, Barry and the Quakers look like a force to be reckoned

with in the Ivy League and potentially the rest of the NCAA. While Barry’s strong performance earned her Player of the Week honors, a number of Quakers in other sports also had strong performances over the weekend.

Penn men’s basketball’s AJ Brodeur continued his impressive year, scoring a career-high 36 points and tallying 11 rebounds in the Quakers’ overtime win against Dartmouth on Friday before adding another 23 points in Penn’s loss to Harvard on Saturday. This dominant weekend raised Brodeur’s scoring average to 17 points per game on the season.

Additionally, in another record-setting weekend for Penn track, Rachel Lee Wilson bested her own personal and Penn record with a toss of 20.30 meters in the weight throw.

game at that point.

The teams continued exchanging blows before Aiken sunk a three-pointer to cut the lead to three with exactly a minute to play. Aiken scored the next bucket as well, drilling another deep, contested threepointer with 5.6 seconds left in regulation to tie the game. The Quakers had one final shot in regulation, but Goodman wasn’t able to convert on a 10-foot floater.

After the game, Donahue indicated his intention to foul Aiken while up by three.

“In the scramble at the end of the game we had a chance to foul [Aiken], but we have to be very careful not to get hit with an intentional foul,” Donahue said. “We talked about it, but we just didn’t execute it the right way.”

In overtime, Harvard struck first with a bucket by junior forward Chris Lewis, but Woods answered immediately by laying it in on the other end. The Crimson wouldn’t look back, however, as Bassey’s

three a few minutes later capped an 8-0 Harvard run that would win them the game.

The Quakers struggled from downtown, shooting just 7-of-28 on the day, and also turned the ball over 14 times. They struggled on the glass too, giving up 12 offensive rebounds to Harvard.

For Harvard, Aiken led the way with 25 points, while Bassey chipped in 19 points and 11 rebounds. Though the Crimson committed 19 turnovers, they were able to produce on offense when they needed to in the final minutes.

Goodman, who was matched up on Aiken for most of the game, emphasized that Aiken was the Quakers’ main focus on defense.

“All eyes were on him defensively. He’s a really good shooter so we try to make him drive to the lane a lot,” Goodman said. “We tried to make him take a couple hard shots, but he made a lot of them.”

Earlier in the weekend, Penn men’s basketball beat Dartmouth in

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a back and forth overtime contest that included 22 lead changes. Brodeur led the Quakers on offense, scoring a career-high 36 points and extending his doubledigit scoring streak to 17 games.

With just 1:05 left in overtime, Dartmouth junior guard James Foye sank three free throws after a Penn foul beyond the arc to trim the Penn lead to one, but a few possessions later, forward Chris Knight missed a potential game-winning layup with 0.6 seconds remaining as Brodeur corralled the rebound.

Penn now sits at 3-5 in Ivy play, two games behind Princeton and Cornell, which are tied for third place in the conference.

With the Ivy League Tournament looming, Goodman emphasized that the Quakers need to keep their heads held high.

“We’re confident going forward,” Goodman said. “Whatever happens, we know that it’s on us to get the job done.”

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a sniff of the basket, this time courtesy of sophomore center Eleah Parker. But in the second overtime, Harvard took advantage of senior captain Ashley Russell fouling out and scored nine free throws to grind out the victory.

On Friday, Penn easily dispatched Dartmouth by a score of 60-44. The Quakers made use of yet another big run, this time with an 18-5 spurt in the second quarter, to pull away from the Big Green (10-10, 3-4). During that 10-minute span, the Quakers showcased their team defense, which has been suffocating all season. That limited the home side to an 0-for-7 shooting performance from three-point range, with Penn also creating nine points off turnovers. After that point, the Red and Blue didn’t look back.

“I thought our rotations defensively were great throughout the game, but particularly at that time,” McLaughlin said. “We were able to stop them, get a couple of live ball turnovers, a couple of blocked shots, [and] we transitioned the ball pretty good. We pushed the pace at the level we needed to be, and that gave us separation.”

Despite Saturday’s defeat, the Red and Blue remain atop the Ivy League standings with a 6-1 record halfway through the season. With their next five games at the Palestra, McLaughlin is hoping his team can refuel ahead of another series.

“I think the first thing for now is [to] get some rest and be refreshed a little bit,” McLaughlin said. “And we’ll come back out on Tuesday, work on a couple of areas that we can improve on, and just continue to stay on course.”

It was a rare loss for the Red and Blue, and now they have to show the rest of the League that they can bounce back from adversity.

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After loss to Harvard, it’s do or die for Penn men’s basketball WILL DiGRANDE

Around this point in the season two years ago, former Daily Pennsylvanian Senior Sports Editor Jonathan Pollack declared Penn men’s basketball dead after a disastrous 0-6 start to Ivy League play. In the following weeks, the team rallied to win six of its final eight games and snuck into the inaugural Ivy League tournament as the fourth and final team, posting a 6-8 conference record.

Don’t get me wrong, we’re not writing the team off this season, not yet at least, but a similar winning stretch wouldn’t be the worst thing that could happen to the Red and Blue, currently 3-5 among Ancient Eight opposition after this weekend.

Penn has shown its ability to hang with its conference foes time and time again, but after another disappointing weekend split that saw the team only claim one victory from a pair of winnable games, one can only wonder how much more leeway this team will have before its shot at repeating as Ivy champs evaporates.

The team’s first full weekend at the Palestra started on a shaky but positive note with Penn sliding past a pesky Dartmouth side in overtime by a 82-79 score. A win is a win, but that doesn’t mean the Quakers made it any easier on themselves, needing all of a career-high 36 points from junior forward AJ Brodeur to escape with the victory.

Just like Friday night, Saturday’s game also went to overtime, but this time the team found itself on the wrong end of the result in a 75-68 defeat. What would have been a season-changing win over Harvard was within reach, and the Quakers know that a few costly mistakes down the stretch, like letting a six-point lead vanish through a pair of Bryce Aiken threes in the final minute, kept them from achieving the sweep.

A victory would have seen the Red and Blue back at .500 in conference play, but instead they find themselves sitting fifth of eight teams and two games behind Cornell and Princeton — teams Penn is a combined 0-3 against this season — who are tied for third.

That’s not to say there’s no hope left.

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Penn led Harvard by six with just over a minute left JACKSON JOFFE Associate Sports Editor

Two similar game scripts, two different outcomes.

One day after narrowly topping Dartmouth, 82-79, in overtime, Penn men’s basketball lost to Harvard in another overtime game by a score of 75-68. Juniors AJ Brodeur and Devon Goodman led the

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way for the Quakers with 23 and 22 points, respectively, while freshman forward Michael Wang — who didn’t play Friday against the Big Green — posted nine points, all in the first half.

The Red and Blue (15-9, 3-5 Ivy) opened the scoring on a three-pointer from Goodman and jumped out to a 8-2 lead, but Harvard (13-8, 6-2)

had an answer in the form of junior Bryce Aiken, who hit two contested threes to keep things close. Harvard gained its first lead of the game with 3:10 to go in the half on a threepointer by junior Justin Bassey and would take the lead heading into the half on another contested three from Bassey.

Harvard started the game 0-for-

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8 from the field and shot just 34 percent in the first half, but Penn didn’t fare much better, shooting 42 percent overall and just 21 percent from beyond the arc in the first half. Additionally, both teams struggled holding onto the ball in the opening 20 minutes. The Quakers had nine turnovers to the Crimson’s eight.

“We had a ton of open looks.

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The Quakers will need more stellar play from freshman forward Michael Wang if they want to make the Ivy Tournament in March.

Women’s basketball beats Dartmouth, falls to Harvard for first Ivy loss Quakers fell to the Crimson in nail-biting double OT loss MICHAEL LAU Sports Reporter

It was neck-and-neck, but the Quakers fell in the final stretch.

A day after easily dispatching Dartmouth on the road, Penn women’s basketball saw its seven-game winning streak come to an end on Saturday with an 80-72 doubleovertime loss at Harvard.

Coming into the game, coach Mike McLaughlin was already wary of the strong shooting of the Crimson (12-9, 5-3 Ivy), who lead the Ivy League with 9.3 threes per game. The Quakers (16-4, 6-1) certainly answered the call on the defensive end early on, forcing three early turnovers from Harvard with a mix of zone defense and full-court pressure.

“I thought we were solid [on defense],” McLaughlin said. “But they made some tough threes. We did a good job with [pressuring full court]. I thought the pace was good, and we stressed them a little bit.”

However, riding the support of

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the crowd, the Crimson were able to gradually pick up the pace, as well as their three-point shooting and ball movement. They would finish the game with 10 made threes.

The Quakers, on the contrary, were unable to hit a single three pointer in the first half, going 0-for8 from that range. Ultimately, they finished the game with having made just two threes from 19 attempts.

However, McLaughlin was not that concerned about his team’s offense.

“I loved our team’s effort … but I thought [the poor shooting] went both ways,” he said. “Credit to Harvard, they guarded us really well. They were committed, [and] we didn’t get any easy shots. There were a couple of times when we did have open shots, but we didn’t knock them down.”

The Crimson built their lead to 10 in the third quarter, but the Quakers tightened up and used a 14-5 run to cut the deficit down to one entering the fourth period. The run was fueled by the play of sophomore guard

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Michae Jones, who scored all but one of her career-high 15 points in the second half and overtime.

“I thought Michae Jones really gave us a big spark in the late [fourth quarter]; she was terrific,” McLaughlin said. “We were struggling a bit on the floor, a lot of lanes were getting jammed, and Harvard took away the three-point line from us. We needed someone like Michae that could make a play off the dribble to the basket, and she just really rose to the occasion.”

Penn had a chance to win the game on the final possession, but senior forward Princess Aghayere’s three-pointer was off the mark, giving Harvard the ball with three seconds left. Jones would emerge with a crucial block that sent the game to overtime, yet McLaughlin was not at all surprised with her efforts. “[It was] a huge step in the right direction for Michae,” he said. “She was really active, and really confident in herself. She positioned herself all year that if she got extended

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A career-high 15 points from sophomore guard Michae Jones wasn’t enough to keep Penn women’s basketball from losing its first Ivy League game of the season against Harvard in double-overtime.

minutes, she [would be] prepared [to contribute]. We would not be in the position to fight [back] if it wasn’t for her.”

The first overtime period was a back-and-forth affair, and Jones would drive hard to the basket and make a layup that tied the game at

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