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Madison Holleran’s friends, family reflect on Penn’s mental health efforts SOPHIA WITTE Senior Reporter

The friends and family of Madison Holleran, a Penn student who committed suicide last spring semester, see Penn’s new mental health efforts as a move in the right direction, but they believe more must be done to create a stronger sense of community and support across campus.

Following six student suicides in 15 months, the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare published a report last Tuesday that reviewed and made recommendations for Penn’s mental health resources.

In reference to the drive for perfection in academics and all aspects of student life, the Task Force report emphasized an approach of “cultural rather than structural change.”

“There isn’t an easy fix to this issue, and I think it’s great that Penn is really taking this issue seriously, but I think Penn can do more to help students who are overwhelmed and need someone to go to and trust,” Madison Holleran’s father Jim Holleran said.

For Holleran’s father, Penn would more effectively spur the cultural change it hopes to achieve if it also focused on creating official programs, such as a formalized mentoring program in the athletic department, that would encourage students to talk openly about personal issues.

“In the Penn environment, I think it’s tough to achieve that level of depth in friendships,” Wharton sophomore Logan Gardner, a close friend of Holleran’s, said. “You think you know someone really well, but then when they go and do something like suicide that you never would’ve expected, you realize you had no idea

Penn launches 24/7 hotline Dispatchers will connect callers with clinicians from CAPS DAVID CAHN Staff Reporter

Students who don’t know where to turn now have a central option for mental health concerns: 215-898-HELP. Penn launched its mental health HELP line on Dec. 1, 2014. Since then, 54 students have called the number. Of these calls, two were made on behalf of a student who the caller wanted to check in on, 17 were transferred to Counseling and Psychological Services and eight were requests for information, according to the Mental Health Task Force report.

“This really just is the catch-all for people in the crisis who might not feel they have the energy to look up the numbers,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush, who sat on the Mental Health Task Force, said.

Setting up the HELP line was not a simple task, Rush said. “We had to acquire the phone number, we wanted to ensure that the PennComm call-takers were trained to respond.”

Callers reach the HELP line for a variety of reasons. Rush said some callers simply request information about CAPS, others are parents who are worried about their children and still others are students calling for personal help.

“Some of the calls might be a parent who says, ‘I haven’t been able to reach my son for a whole weekend. I’m worried,’” Rush said. She said DPS would respond by sending police officers to find the student and ask them to call their parents.

Alternatively, she said, a student will say, “‘I’m feeling like I’m wanting to hurt myself, and I need help.’” In this case, the dispatchers will “immediately connect that person to the on-call CAPS person. In urgent cases, DPS will arrange transportation for a person to a hospital, if this is what the CAPS clinician on duty recommends.

“We are not psychologists. We are trained to be a crisis center,” Rush said. When students do reach CAPS, the clinicians take over.

“There’s a mechanism where the dispatcher keeps the caller on the line and reaches the CAPS clinician on call and connects the two so that the person never goes off the line,” CAPS Director Bill Alexander said.

He added that the system is not simple. If a student calls on a Friday, for example, CAPS will follow up multiple times over the course of the weekend. Throughout the weekend, CAPS may send a clinician to visit the student if SEE HELP LINE PAGE 5

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College junior dies of cancer

Alex Bilotti was a mayor’s scholar and member of ZTA JILL CASTELLANO Editor-in-Chief

Alexsandra Bilotti, a College junior, died early Saturday morning of Ewing’s sarcoma. She turned 22 years old last Wednesday.

Alexsandra, known to her friends and family as Alex, was a Philadelphia Mayor’s Scholar and member of Penn’s Zeta Tau Alpha sorority.

“Alex is the air that I breathe. She

was every breath that I take and she was my sunshine,” Sandy Bilotti, Alex Bilotti’s mother, said. “She was my hero. She was all that I wanted to be in my life. I wanted to be like her and she just gave me strength and she gave me lots of love. I don’t know what I’m going to do the rest of my life without her.”

Ewing’s sarcoma is a rare form cancer that affects the body’s bones and tissues. Bilotti was diagnosed at age 11, and she fought the disease for 10 years and eight months. After going into remission for a few years

and nearly being considered a survivor, her cancer returned in 2009.

“She always set goals in life and that’s what got her through a lot of this,” her mother said. “The day she found out she got into Penn was one of her happiest days.”

Over the course of her illness and its extensive treatment, Bilotti was held back a grade and took off a semester from Penn. After taking some time off again this spring, she had hoped to return to Penn in the fall.

“Alex was an amazing young woman who is going to be missed by

the chapter,” Zeta chapter president Julia Peng said on behalf of the sorority in an email.

“When Alex first joined Zeta, we ALEX BILOTTI learned of her diCourtesy of agnosis. It made Sandy Bilotti our philanthropy even more personal for us, and we will do everything we can to honor her not only in our SEE BILOTTI PAGE 5

U. City sees an uptick in armed robberies Five armed robberies were reported in a one-week period DAVID CAHN Staff Reporter

Criminals don’t usually like the cold, says Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush. Not so this year. Despite low temperatures last week, Penn and Drexel police are facing a spike in armed robberies, with five armed robberies and one unarmed robbery reported between Feb. 7 and Feb. 15.

Over the course of approximately one week, two armed robberies occurred on Penn’s campus, and three armed robberies and an unarmed robbery occurred on Drexel’s campus. No suspects have been arrested in any of these cases, and five of the six were highway robberies, meaning the victims were robbed while walking down

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the street. The sixth was a residential robbery.

The first robbery at Penn occurred at 7:50 p.m. on the 4100 block of Pine. A female student reported a male suspect had pushed her from behind and then asked her to empty her pockets. When she turned around, she saw that the suspect had a small black handgun. She handed over her cell phone before the suspect “got spooked” and ran away, Rush said.

The woman described the suspect as a black male, 5 feet 11 inches tall, with shoulder-length dreadlocks and dark-colored jeans. He escaped from the scene in a dark colored vehicle, headed eastbound on Pine Street.

The second robbery at Penn occurred at 11:11 p.m. on Feb. 8 on 200 South 38th Street. The victim, who is related to a SEE ROBBERIES PAGE 2

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Cockroach problem fixed in Commons Despite health inspection reports, dining hall has maintained the same level of activity JEFFREY CAREYVA Staff Reporter

Following the buzz about a cockroach problem in 1920 Commons, the dining hall remains as crowded as ever.

Many students learned of the issue two weeks ago when Under the Button published “The Inconvenient (HealthThreatening) Truth Behind Your Meals,” which detailed several Philadelphia Food Safety Inspection Reports of Penn’s dining halls. But Penn Dining says it has taken measures to ensure the health and sanitation of its facilities.

These free, publicly-available reports also reveal various sanitary concerns for Kings Court English House, Hill House and Falk Dining Commons in Steinhardt Hall. Most notably, the reports indicate a lack of cleanliness in the men’s bathroom at Kings Court in February 2013, past evidence of rodent and insect activity at Hill in January 2013, mouse droppings in the main kitchen of Hillel in December 2014 and “live roaches observed in breakfast and ice cream station areas” at Commons last October.

The UTB article quickly spread across Penn students’ Facebook walls, provoking some gut reactions to Penn Dining’s food safety practices.

“I find it a little worrying that we didn’t find out about the [food safety] problems until someone posted the reports on Facebook,” College freshman JinAh Kim said.

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Referendum is early step in fossil fuel divestment Starting Monday, any Penn student can vote in the referendum ELLIE SCHROEDER Staff Reporter

A referendum this week will reveal if Penn students support fossil fuel divestment, but the vote is only the first step in a long process leading to change.

Starting Monday, Penn undergraduates can vote in a referendum on whether or not they believe the University should divest from fossil fuels. The student group Fossil Free Penn launched the referendum with a petition, and the Nominations and Elections committee is overseeing the voting process.

In order for the referendum to

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graduate student at Penn, said a man approached her from behind, told her he had a knife and then asked for her money. The suspect was described as a 5-foot-11 black man of medium build, wearing dark clothing, black Nike

pass, at least 15 percent of the undergraduate population must vote, with at least 50 percent of voters favoring divestment. However, even if the referendum passes, there is no guarantee that the University will divest from fossil fuels — the motion will then go through six additional steps of approval, ending with the Executive Committee of Trustees, which has the final vote.

“The hurdles are very, very high for those that are looking to divest [from fossil fuel],” professor of philosophy and chair of the Social Responsibility Advisory Committee Michael Weisberg said.

Although Penn does not publish a breakdown of its specific investments, members of Fossil Free Penn used a variety of metrics to estimate that $315 million

of Penn’s $9.6 billion endowment is currently invested in fossil fuel companies.

Support for fossil fuel divestment is gaining momentum across peer institutions. On Feb. 12, a group of Harvard students protesting fossil fuel investments staged a sit-in in Massachusetts Hall, which contains the offices of high level administrators, including the president.

Although Stanford decided to terminate its investments from coal, but not all fossil fuels, last May, no Ivy League school has yet divested from fossil fuels.

“On things like this we like to be comfortably among our peers, and our peers have not divested from fossil fuel,” Weisberg said.

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While both Penn victims were female and the suspect in both cases fit a similar height description, to Penn Police it is still unclear whether the two suspects are the same person.

“We never rule out anything,” Rush said.

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Ringing in the Lunar New Year with rap

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Awkwafina and Dumbfounded performed at Penn Museum on Thursday.

Awkwafina and Dumbfoundead represented Asian Americans at Penn TIFFANY YAU Contributing Reporter

On Friday, two rappers came to Penn to prove that Iggy Azalea isn’t the only nonstereotypical hip hop artist.

In honor of the Lunar New Year, the Asian Pacific Student Coalition and Korean Student Association hosted a concert headlined by two of the most well known names in Asian-American rap at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Awkwafina is a half-Chinese, half-Korean rapper from New York City. Her real name is Nora, and she performed songs including “Fresh Water Salmon, “Marijuana,” “Daydreaming” and “Queef.”

Shortly after Awkwafina’s performance, Dumbfoundead closed the show. His real name is Parker and is a male Korean-American rapper from Los Angeles. He performed a medley of his songs from the past eight years of his career including “Are We There Yet?,” “Genghis Khan” and “Korean Jesus.”

College sophomore and Vice Chair of External Affairs of APSC Sarah Cho organized the event in collaboration with the KSA and the Penn Consortium of Undergraduate Women.

“It is about celebrating and recognizing Asian culture. A lot of [Asian Pacific Islander] artists do not get recognized,” she said.

Both Dumbfoundead and Awkwafina are known as extremely popular in the Asian community at Penn. Their recognition spurred a lot of hype on campus and drew in a roaring flood of audience members.

“We turn on the TV and turn on the radio, and we don’t get many Asians represented.

It’s important because other ethnicities are represented; we are the last ones,” Dumbfoundead said.

Awkwafina agreed.

“Asian people make up a group that doesn’t have a voice. There is much staunch racism, and Asians are still the butt of a lot of jokes,” she said.

This isn’t Dumbfoundead’s first time on campus.

Last year, he came to Penn to speak on Asian culture awareness. This time, Cho said she wanted to bring Dumbfoundead in for an “authentic concert experience.”

“I want people to know

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that there are also eccentric Asians, and that is the way we are on stage.” Dumbfoundead added.

Prior to their careers in the music industry, Dumbfoundead was a high school drop-out and Awkwafina was a publicist for a magazine.

They found their voices in a unique medium, which the language society has grown to know as rap.

“Symbolic of something bigger; we don’t have a voice in this country yet. I’m not Iggy Azalea or Nicki Minaj, and I can never be that [with society’s racial inequality].

What [Dumbfoundead] and I promote is an Asian face. We are Asian American. We need to make people understand the difference between Asians and Asian Americans,” Awkwafina said.

what was going on in their head.”

Without any major mental health issues before coming to Penn, Madison Holleran, a track star known for also balancing her academics and social life, committed suicide in January of her freshman year. Holleran’s friends and family commended several parts of Penn’s Task Force recommendations, including the clarified leave of absence policy, the shortened timeline for Counseling and Psychological Services appointments and the I CARE training program to recognize warning signs of student distress.

However, they emphasized the need for tangible criteria to measure the success of Penn’s efforts, a criticism pointed out by many students on campus.

“I think the approach of cultural change as an overarching theme is a very good step forward for Penn, but that being said, I don’t think you can get much accomplished without concrete goals,” Gardner said. “Even though it’s hard to measure, you have to start somewhere, and I think having a general timeline is a pretty standard step toward getting to any goal.”

CAPS director Bill Alexander said the effectiveness of Penn’s policies and programs will be measured by the oversight team — a group of students, faculty and staff that will “watch over the arc of mental health on our campus and guide it with suggestions for at least the next four years.”

But the need for benchmarks was also highlighted by another close friend of Holleran’s, who preferred to remain anonymous. She said the recommendations have good intentions, but will ultimately be ineffective — not only based on the missing implementation plan, but also due to the lack of student representatives on the Task Force.

“It almost feels like the ‘adults’ of the conversation are making all the decisions that impact the students,” she said. “Solving a problem within the Penn community needs to involve the people who see and deal with it first hand: the students.”

While the Task Force met with student groups and incorporated

their suggestions, the need for more student voices was also criticized by Edward Modica, one of Madison’s elementary school teachers whose petition for a law is being drafted into proposed New Jersey state legislation he wants to call the Madison Holleran Law. Modica also said Penn should make data available on the number of attempted suicides on campus, a component of the legislation.

Bill Alexander explained that the “gray area” of what is considered a suicide attempt makes collecting such data extremely challenging, and Penn would be limited by privacy laws and family wishes in making the information public.

Beyond these specific criticisms, Madison Holleran’s family and friends all touched on the need for Penn to foster a greater sense of community on campus. Though her suicide resulted from many complex factors, Gardner and two anonymous friends said Madison’s stress was likely influenced by her drive to excel, coupled with a culture at Penn that makes opening up to people very difficult.

“I think Madison had trouble communicating even to her close friends about how she was feeling, since I think she really felt that her problems were a weakness,” Holleran’s father said. “It’s very difficult for high-performing people to admit they need assistance.”

“It all boils down to creating a communal environment, which I think is a central part of getting people to open up,” Gardner said. “I think Penn really lacks the feeling that there is a community to support you, and not having this sort of network is one of the main things that [Madison and I] would talk about early last year when we bonded a lot over our mutual unhappiness in transitioning to Penn.”

Another friend of Madison’s who preferred to remain anonymous said Penn has done a good job at making its resources more available, especially given the campus culture of competition that drives students to be ambitious in all of their pursuits.

“I don’t think people would be as successful at Penn without the competitive environment that’s fostered here,” she said. “But at the same time, there’s also a cost to that

— the impact on Madison being an example — so it’s really important that they continue to promote mental health.”

Through initiatives like a new peer counseling group and a mobile app designed to centralize the information of mental health resources, Penn is trying to shift this cultural “cost” by making resources more accessible and by educating and training people on the topic of mental health.

“We want to emphasize mental wellness, not mental illness,” Alexander said. “The existing resources for treating mental illness are abundant at Penn, but almost all of Penn’s new initiatives are aimed at keeping people healthy, with a focus on making it a community responsibility to help with stress reduction,

building support networks and recognizing those who might be in trouble.”

According to Victor Schwartz, a doctor from the Task Force’s partner, the Jed Foundation, Penn is taking the right steps by using its resources mostly to prevent — rather than treat — mental illness after students get to the point of suicide.

Meanwhile, some students still don’t believe the University targets the source of mental illness.

“They’re treating the effects and not the causes of depression at this school,” said one of Holleran’s two friends who remained anonymous.

“They find a ‘cultural rather than structural change’ is needed, but the culture will not change unless the structure does.”

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The culture is toxic.

After a whole year of psychiatric fieldwork and rumination, Gutmann’s task force just dropped its debut bedside short-read “Report of the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare.” The 8,000-word-long report highlights what Bloomberg Business calls “Penn’s pressure cooker” environment in our shared inability to cope with imperfection, effecting an institutional malaise across the student body. To be anything less than five-star is fatal.

While the mental health problem is paramount, we must also realize that the anxiety against averageness is also limiting creativity.

Instead of intuition, our choices are tempered and tampered by our fear of not succeeding. These metrics of success rarely arise from our own organic origins, and in-

WHEN | We need to step back and see the greater picture stead come from being enveloped in Penn’s homogenous zones, which are aroused only by the touch of traditional success. We are too afraid to bleed for our true desires. This stifling reaction puts a damper on the libido of experimentation with the distracting thoughts of fail-

bluntly, students can get away with things only at this time of their life. And we need to use this chance to the fullest potential.

Now, let me first be clear: I do not condone financial fraud, Wharton. I also do not condone murder — except for certain terrorists and similar-

springa, an environment to experiment. Wharton, Nursing and Engineering have more rigid requirements and invariably stiff schedules, so this may not apply as staunchly, sorry.

The luxury of being a student is the clemency to commit risky behavior with the

We often forget that we are college students, that we are naive and that we still have some more time to develop.” ure, and makes us too stiff to dabble in Pollockian spontaneity. In short, Penn suffers from performance anxiety.

We often forget that we are college students, that we are naive and that we still have some more time to develop.

This privilege is recognized almost universally; both people and cops spare an extra degree of leniency to college students. To put it

ly bad people — nor assault, rape, hate crimes or any similar traumatic event. But it is not in my place to judge; I’m an opinion columnist, not a legal ethicist.

What I mean is to flout the mores that have marked your life, to leave your comfort zone and leave it far behind.

Only at the borders can you stretch. From brief stints with new things, be it Leninism or lesbianism, college is a Rum-

assurance that, ultimately, everything will be fine. Physically, this may be realized as the ability to binge drink, but I mean noetically.

The task force’s report nebulously calls for “cultural, not structural changes.” To narrow down the Areciboian scope just a bit more, I believe that Penn bureaucracy can do this by first affording its students more freedom to experiment.

We can do this by loosening the tight rigidity of academics; many classes at Harvard and Yale meet for only two hours per week, contra to Penn’s three, allowing for more time for extracurriculars and personal projects, such as start-ups like the Facebook.

Brown’s “open curriculum” — the lack of any course requirements — makes it an intellectually free-range campus, and peckish students often find kernels of passion where they’d least expect it.

A faculty committee at Princeton recently recommended kicking grading on the curve to the curb, finding it to interfere with psychological factors and campus atmosphere.

We also need to stop comparing ourselves to other institutions, and instead learn to appreciate our merits for their own. At Penn, most students are above average, warping expectations. This arms race fuels the cultural myopia that normalizes high-stress highachieving as the baseline,

JASON TANGSON leading to a sink or swim ultimatum, where either choice is inevitably exhausting. We need to step back and appreciate the tranquility of life; for me, field trips into West Philadelphia have been meditative.

Because at the end of the day, death is the great equalizer.

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

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

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his week, we, the undergraduates of Penn, face a historic decision. We see the first referendum in six years, and it’s on the issue of climate change. We must decide whether or not the student body should send a mandate to the University administration that investment in fossil fuel companies is unacceptable. However, this demand is one we should not make — it will harm us, Penn and the environmental movement. Voting to divest will cause far more harm than good.

Penn Fossil Free, an offshoot of the “Go Fossil Free” movement developed by radical environmental group 350. org, has made strong arguments and engaged directly with the Penn community. Peter Thacher’s guest column in Thursday’s The Daily Penn-

GUEST COLUMN BY SASHA KLEBNIKOV sylvanian is commendable for its strong emphasis on the dangers of climate change.

He challenges Penn to “take a stand on major issues” and cites the dangers of not acting on the massive threat of global warming. But the way we, the students of Penn, as well as the University itself should help fix climate change is not by divesting, but taking concrete actions.

Divestment is a financial decision disguised as a moral stance. If fossil fuel companies were true financial liabilities, as alleged by Fossil Free Penn, then Peter Ammon, Penn’s chief investment officer, would drop them from our investment portfolio. Instead, divestment is significant because it means an organization — in this case Penn — is choosing to weaken its economic base in order to make a public point.

Voting yes to the referendum means you, a Penn student, wish to see our financial endowment be limited, and potentially weaker. This is an endowment that funds new developments like Penn Park, our Financial Aid program or hiring our diverse faculty.

Is taking such a moral stance worth it? Many would argue yes, it is wrong to make profits from such a dangerous and evil industry and, without brave individuals and groups making a statement, systematic change cannot occur.

Some argue that by taking our money out of companies such as ExxonMobil — with a market cap of $377 billion — and re-investing in renewables, we can help foster a new energy economy. However, Penn has a $9.6 billion endowment that invests less than one percent in any single company, or alternatively,

owns less than 0.02 percent of ExxonMobil — selling will not change anything. Instead, we may want to buy more of ExxonMobil and collaborate with other universities in order to force changes to their behavior as large shareholders. Simply selling our shares will hardly affect them at all.

This divestment statement however will cause additional harm: it will deepen ideological divides on the environmental issue, when everyone — Republican, Democrat, art student or engineer — should agree that we must act swiftly and decisively to save our planet from further damage.

Instead of trying to cause behavioral shifts through punitive actions — divestment, banning SUVs or making our houses colder during this infernal winter — we should seek out less divisive, common sense actions that ev-

eryone agrees with. Incentivizing more fuel efficient cars, switching to more efficient light bulbs or replacing coal power plants with cleaner natural gas are ideas that everyone supports. No one is upset when we discover new research — by professor Chris Murray — that enables homeowners to have cheaper solar panels, or when professors Daeyeon Lee, Kathleen Stebe and Shu Yang develop new membranes to clean up fracking water, or when the Alberta Energy Regulator (of Keystone XL/tar sands infamy) hires a team of Penn law professors led by Cary Coglianese to find safer regulatory practices.

Investing in research, economic development and education is invaluable and universally celebrated. Banning SUVs or calling out fossil fuel companies however,

causes fights.

To save our planet, we must focus on actions that have an impact, instead of symbolic actions that feel good but have little realworld benefit. Divestment is one of those actions — it sure feels good to demonize the fossil fuel industry, but our time and energy can be better spent enacting concrete changes that benefit everyone around the world. Climate change should be a unifying idea, a call to arms, but instead, actions like divestment keep it stagnating as an ideological battle.

SASHA KLEBNIKOV is an Engineering junior from New York, studying mechanical engineering. His email address is akleb@seas.upenn. edu. He is a writer for Penn Sustainability Review.

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The psychology behind pledging Psych prof. contrasts pledging with combat STEPHANIE BARRON Staff Reporter

In the midst of fraternity and sorority pledging season, some question the effectiveness of the methods used to bond new members together.

Many friends share stories about forced heavy drinking and various acts of humiliation carried out behind closed doors during this time of year.

All of this, supposedly, is for the sake of forging strong bonds within organizations.

“Pledging is effective to a certain point, and beyond that point it just becomes cruel and unnecessary,” said one College freshman currently in the process of pledging an on-campus fraternity. “One class gets through it all, and they’re so happy to be done with it that they have to watch somebody else go through it.

Everyone always says that pledging is ‘the best time you never want to have again.’”

P s yc h olog y p r ofe s s o r Gordon Bermant, an initiated member of Phi Delta Theta at UCLA, contrasted fraternity pledging to military combat. He said that in combat, “what people talk about is how others sacrificed for them.” However, from his memory as a pledge, he said the process seeks to simulate a similar kind of adversity, but in fact creates a “highly artificialized kind of playtime adversity.”

“It doesn’t create the reality of those who have suffered together and come out the other end,” Bermant said. “It’s not done in a way that people can consolidate and fight back or help each other in a time of great need.”

Psychology professor Coren Apicella explained that it is human nature to look out for one another.

HELP LINE staffers feel it is necessary. Eventually, he said, CAPS would try to “get them in here on Monday.”

Once a person reaches CAPS, “from then on, the person’s our client,” Alexander explained. Usually, he said, callers appreciate the help, but others are still hesitant to follow-up with CAPS after the initial call.

Alexander commended the PennComm dispatchers, saying they have been doing a great job parceling out calls. “They are very experienced talking to people who are in danger and who are upset,” he said.

Rush said the HELP line gives students in need a place to turn.

It is “not meant to replace the PennComm emergency number, nor is it meant to replace CAPS during the day,” she said.

“Bonding may be a mechanism that sustains cooperation between people after painful and negative events,” she said.

“Our species’ biological success is largely attributed to our remarkable capacity to cooperate,” Apicella added.

“The fact that natural disasters and other tragedies are rife with examples of selfless acts — acts where people go to extraordinary lengths to help others in need — is not surprising.”

However, the freshman pledge said pledging events supposedly designed to foster cooperation often have counterproductive motives.

“I don’t think it’s that effective when people are individually being forced to put the rest of the pledge class on their back,” the pledge said.

“Obviously it works out well when that person does a particularly good job at whatever the task is, but often they’re set up to fail.”

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“I cannot recall a moment with her when she was not beaming with positivity, even throughout the ups and downs of her illness,” Zeta member and College senior Genna Garofalo, who spoke on behalf of

herself and not the sorority, said in an email. “Alex was one of the strongest and most beautiful people I have ever had the pleasure to know. Her bravery and light will forever inspire all who had the privilege of knowing her.”

Doctors and nurses came to Bilotti’s bedside throughout the day on Friday, thanking her for touching and changing their lives, Bilotti’s mother

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“I can’t say enough. A million words couldn’t explain Alex.”

A viewing will be held on Saturday, Feb. 28., at the National Shrine of Saint Rita of Cascia on Broad Street in South Philadelphia, and will tentatively begin at 9 a.m. A mass will follow in the church at 11 a.m.

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The thought of live cockroaches at Commons was the most unsettling for some. “I will never set foot in Commons again,” said College freshman Youssef Semlali Yacoubi.

“In my eyes, Commons did not meet the minimal standards I thought they had.”

The health and sanitary reports, however, have not coaxed many students to stop eating at the dining halls, particularly not at Commons.

According to Bon Appétit’s data, there was a small increase in the number of diners served at Commons since UTB published the article, compared to the same time period last February. Bon Appétit declined to offer more specific statistics on the number of diners.

Penn Dining manages 17 separate dining facilities that turn out slightly over 10,000 meals a day.

“We run a huge operation, yet for the past couple of years, we have always passed our health inspections on campus,” resident district manager of Bon Appétit Stephen Scardina said. All of the dining halls, Scardina said, including Commons, have corrected any past violations cited

by Philadelphia’s Office of Food Inspection. The live-roach violation from October was the only such violation Commons had received since August 2011.

Students who eat at Commons can

now rest assured that their scoop of ice cream or breakfast platter will not contain an unwelcome friend.

“Just in the past week we had an inspection done for the 1920 Commons facility, and the technician’s report came back negative — there has been no recent activity in 1920 Commons,” Scardina said. The cockroach infestation was cleared up immediately following the October inspection and has remained cleared up since, he said.

“The health and wellness of our students is paramount to everything that we do,” Pam Lampitt, the director of Business Services who oversees Penn Dining, said. “We take the food safety and cleanliness of our buildings very seriously — this is not something to take lightly.

Food safety is our business.”

But Bon Appétit and Penn Dining depend on more than health inspections to determine whether or not every dining facility is safe. “We are assessing food safety all of the time,” Lampitt said. “We don’t just start to respond after one Philadelphia health inspector — that is not a prudent way to go about things.”

Bon Appétit has its own inspector regularly checking every operation without prior notice, but Bon Appétit also hires additional help from outside Penn, such as Ecolab Pest Elimination. Depending on the size of a dining operation, a technician comes once or twice a week to inspect each building and provide pest

control.

Bon Appétit also contracts with EcoSure, a company that comes in once a semester to assess the food safety of every Bon Appétit-run facility on campus. “Another thing we do is biweekly self-inspections,” Scardina added. “Different managers go to a different operation from their own and do a self-inspection with fresh eyes.”

Penn Dining launched Student Ambassadors in the fall of 2014, a program that has turned a dozen Penn students into a fleet of undercover dining facility inspectors.

These student ambassadors are trained to inspect for proper food safety practices at dining facilities regularly.

“There are things that we can constantly control, and there are things like pest movement that we can only respond to,” Lampitt said.

“We cannot control the construction or trash situations across the street which alter pest movement, but we do responsibly manage the response to pests.” The construction of the Perry World House was a likely contributor to the cockroach infestation, she said.

“If a student has any type of concern at all in a dining facility, they should direct that concern to a manager on duty who will take care of it,” Scardina said. “If there is ever any type of sighting, we will contact Ecolab who will immediately send out a service technician.”

Students protest Penn’s no-loan policy JACK CAHN Staff Reporter

Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation held a Student Debt Demonstration this past Friday to protest Penn’s no-loan policy as part of their Ferguson Friday series.

Throughout the day, students visited stations in the ARCH building and Houston Hall and wrote their level of indebtedness on a plaque, which they then wore around their necks for the rest of day. Other students participated via social media by posting pictures of themselves along with a plaque depicting their accumulated debt.

“This is an issue of accessibility and equal opportunity. Who gets to participate in certain opportunities that Penn has to offer is limited to one’s socioeconomic status,” SOUL wrote in a statement. “Penn must revise its no-loan policy to truly support impoverished students to graduate from Penn without debt.”

SOUL believes this issue affects students all across campus.

“The issue of student’s no-loan policy isn’t just a SOUL issue — this is an undergraduate student, graduate student, all student issue,” said College senior Breanna Moore, SOUL’s co-founder and chair.

While SOUL is most wellknown for its demonstrations regarding racial equality, it believes that economic freedom is just as important.

“For a University to promise low-income students, who are

mostly students of color, the option to go to this school and be able to graduate debt-free with a no-loan grant or scholarship aid package, this is something that must be adhered to,” Moore said.

Despite the University’s no-loan policy, 36 percent of Penn undergraduate students take out loans, the third-highest rate among Ivy League universities. College of Liberal and Professional Studies students, who do not have a noloan guarantee, often have it even worse.

“It is very important for people to understand the real story of what students are experiencing and how that differs from the

no-loan policy,” LPS junior Casey Bridgeford said. “You have people moving across the country to come to school at Penn, and I’ve heard there are people who only eat every other day because they have no food to eat while they’re at Penn.”

Friday’s Student Debt Demonstration was SOUL’s first financial-focused Ferguson Friday event.

“There is no shame in us having or showing that we have loans, rather Penn should be ashamed for telling the world that it is accessible when many of the students of lowincome backgrounds are forced to take out loans,” SOUL wrote on their Facebook event page.

A GenHERation of entrepreneurship rises at Penn Wharton student’s network reaches out to female leaders ALEXIS BLOCK Staff Reporter

Before attending Penn, Wharton senior Katlyn Grasso googled the phrase “female entrepreneurs” and found few search results.

Currently, women own 41 percent of all businesses, according to a recent CNBC article. However, research shows that only 8 percent of women-led businesses gain professional investments, the article said. Given these numbers, it’s not hard to see why Grasso had a hard time finding a female business role model.

“I realized there were just so few women leading companies, so I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur,” Grasso said.

She launched GenHERation, a female empowerment network for high school girls, in March 2014 to instill confidence in young women wanting to pursue leadership positions.

“When I came to business school I saw that even though there were almost equal women, they’re just not starting companies or leading companies at the same rates as men are,” she said.

At Wharton, 41 percent of the Class of 2018 is female. “I decided what’s really important is to address girls and make them confident in their leadership abilities when they’re young.”

GenHERation is a media outlet that connects young girls with the opportunity to work

with national corporations and nonprofit organizations, ranging from the American Heart Association to ESPN-W, the branch of ESPN that covers women’s sports. Every month, GenHERation partners with a different company or nonprofit that will challenge girls to raise awareness about a social issue. Students from around the country can submit ideas to the GenHERation website, and the winner then works with the company or organization to implement her idea.

Most recently, GenHeration and ESPN-W chose a young girl from the Philadelphia area to host a basketball game at her high school to raise awareness about the Women’s Sports Foundation.

GenHERation — whose website launched March 1, 2014 — additionally serves as an outlet for current events, tech talks, a financial literacy campaign and a “Question and AnswHER” section featuring other women entrepreneurs.

Thus far, GenHERation has reached 10,000 people online.

Grasso said that there is a “perceptual leadership gap. If girls don’t see a lot of women in powerful positions they’ll subconsciously think that they can’t amount to that, and they fall victim to their own self doubt.”

Still, Grasso noted that the amount of women involved in entrepreneurship at Penn is growing. As a member of the Wharton Venture Initiation Program, Grasso interacts with other entrepreneurs on campus.

VIP is an entrepreneurship educational program managed

by Wharton Entrepreneurship that connects students with resources including mentors and a work space in Vance Hall.

Managing Director of Wharton Entrepreneurship Clare Leinweber said there is no shortage of women in VIP, adding that it is “a very vibrant, inclusive culture.”

Still, she would love to see more diversity in the program in general.

“We would love to see more [women] just like we would love to see more here from other schools [in the University],” Leinweber said. “We would like to see an increase in interest from students all across Penn in participating in our programs.”

Other female-led businesses whose founders were members of VIP include Black Box Denim, a custom jean company, and My Best Friend’s Weekend, a bachelorette party-planning company led by Wharton MBA students.

Recent studies show the business world might be starting to tilt in favor of women in some areas.

Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, together with professor Jason Greenberg at New York University, recently found that women were 13 percent more likely than men to meet their Kickstarter goals.

Upon graduation, Grasso plans to expand GenHERation to encourage even more young women to start their own businesses.

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year’s 31-7 win at Franklin Field being one of only two victories in his last season at Penn. “I think it definitely adds an emotional aspect to make the game very entertaining, very exciting,� former Penn punter and 2013 College graduate Scott Lopano said. “To be frank, Columbia, they haven’t been very competitive against us in the past so it hasn’t been the biggest rivalry, but this adds a totally different dynamic to it.�

Bagnoli could not be reached for comment when contacted

by The Daily Pennsylvanian on Sunday.

At the time of Mangurian’s resignation, Columbia’s athletic department was in the midst of a search for a new athletic director. Following the resignation of M. Diane Murphy in September, the university hired former Villanova Associate Athletic Director Peter Pilling earlier this month to fill the vacancy created by Murphy.

When he was hired, Pilling emphasized that his primary goal was to find a reputable coach that could put Columbia football in contention in the Ivy League. “We need to hire a football coach,� Pilling told the Spectator. “That’s priority number one.�

While Bagnoli has been in his new position within Penn Athletics for only two months, it appears the 62-year-old was dissatisfied with the less dynamic nature of a “desk job.� “You can imagine after a long career of running a big football program and you’re immersed in that and suddenly you’re sitting behind a desk,�

Constantine said. “It can be a great desk with great things to do, but it would be a life change, and I’m not sure anyone fully understands what retirement is.�

Although Pilling established

mid-March as his soft deadline for a new boss, he wasted no time in finding Mangurian’s replacement. A source close to the situation confirmed to The Daily Pennsylvanian late last week that it “look[ed] like the move to Columbia will happen.� “I think he was ready to step down from 23 years at Penn,�

Constantine said. “I don’t think he envisioned sitting on his backside in retirement, although I don’t think he saw coming back into coaching. “He’s still a relatively young man. He has energy. He has passed along the baton at Penn.�

For the Lions, the hire represents a clear desire to improve the state of their football pro-

Red and Blue take crown

Penn. It’s not like he quit the head coaching job to go to Harvard, Yale or Princeton.�

Sources have informed the DP that Bagnoli is set to bring current Yale defensive coordinator Rick Flanders and Union head coach John Audino onto his staff. The reports have yet to be confirmed.

Despite the program’s success under Bagnoli over the past 23 seasons, Penn has struggled over the past two years, finishing a combined 6-14 since the 2012 Ivy championship. That included a nine-game losing streak that bridged the 2013 and 2014 seasons and a defense that allowed over 31 points six times in its past 10 games. “You had a year to acclimate to the fact that coach Priore will be the one coaching,�

Holder said. “I hope the guys in [Penn’s] locker room are totally behind him because he is a great coach and a better man, and he’s going to do all he can to bring Penn football back where it was.� “To be in one place for 23 years, it’s somewhat unusual, but I’ve loved it, and I’d like to think we’ve had more good moments than bad,� Bagnoli said before his final home game against Harvard in November. “We’re all caretakers to a program that is over 130 years old, and the seniors and I are happy to pass it on to the next guys who will get it all back on track.�

Although Bagnoli intended to enter the 2015 season as part of Penn Athletics, it’s clear that those close to him are supportive of the decision. “Al told me that Mary Ellen, his wife, said, ‘Are you kidding me? I’ll shoot you if you don’t take it,’� Constantine said. “I think it’s all good. I think Penn should applaud it from a league competitive standpoint and applaud this next role for him. “There’s no downside from [Penn’s] standpoint.�

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I’ll shoot you if you don’t take � it.’ - William Constantine Penn Football Board of Overseeers Member

gram. During his time with the Quakers, Bagnoli twice won three Ivy titles over the span of four seasons with his final championship with the Red and Blue coming in 2012.

Between 2001 and 2004, Bagnoli’s Penn squad put together the longest winning streak in Ivy history, capturing 20 consecutive conference victories. After 10 years at Union, Bagnoli led the Quakers to two undefeated title-winning seasons within his first three seasons. “It’s manna from heaven to have Al available and make an offer he couldn’t refuse,� Constantine said. “I don’t think Al sees it or [new Penn coach] Ray Priore or I see it as abandoning

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For the first time since 2011, the Ivy Classic came to the Palestra. For Penn’s gymnastics team, the homecoming was especially sweet, as the Quakers walked away from the afternoon of Ancient Eight competition with their first title since 2012.

Capturing the crown was no easy task for the Red and Blue, however.

The team scores for all four teams — Brown, Cornell, Penn and Yale — remained close through competition on uneven bars and beam.

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Garren said of his win. “Just go out and perform better than you usually do. Make sure we get the win over Princeton.�

A fter sophomore Jeremy Schwartz’s loss in the 125pound categor y to Drexel redshirt freshman Zack Fuentes, sophomore Caleb Richardson, ranked No. 18 in the 133-pound class, was unable to overcome Drexel redshir t sophomore Kevin Devoy.

Devoy, who is ranked No. 15 in the category, held on for a 7-3 win to stake Drexel out to a 6-0 lead.

However, the Quakers pulled together and only lost two more matches for the rest of the afternoon, winning by six, 21-15, after facing a six-point deficit early in the dual.

By defeating the Dragons (814), the Quakers were able to hoist the Abner’s Cheesesteak Trophy, annually awarded to the winner of the Penn-Drexel meet, as the two are Philadelphia’s only two Division I wrestling programs. “It’s a lot of fun wrestling Drexel,� Garren said. “Obviously, there’s the Cheesesteak Trophy, which is always fun to have. The cheesesteak is a pretty big deal around here.� “It’s definitely nice knowing we’re the best wrestling team in Philly,� he concluded.

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While it was not a flawless regular season for Penn wrestling in all facets, two wins on Saturday allowed the Quakers’ home faithful to end 2014-15 having seen nothing but wins the entire year.

The Red and Blue defeated both Princeton and Drexel at the Palestra on Saturday to complete its home dual meet season with a perfect 6-0 record. The meets were the final duals for seniors Canaan Bethea, Geoffrey Bostany, Jeff Canfora, Anthony DiLonardo, Andrew Lenzi and Brad Wukie, all of whom were honored before taking the mat against the Tigers. “We have a lot of people in that class that really care about the program,� senior 149-pounder C.J. Cobb said.

Wukie and Bethea could have graduated before the season but the duo took last semester off in order to retain their final year of eligibility before returning this winter. Bostany, whose wrestling career was ended before last season by a concussion, stayed involved with the team as a student assistant coach with Penn (9-4).

The Red and Blue’s seniors notched key victories in the two matches, including Wukie’s wins over Princeton junior Judd

Ziegler in sudden victory and Drexel freshman Stephen Loiseau in the 174-pound class.

The Qua kers’ other two senior wrestlers who competed on the day — 141-pounder Canfora and 157-pounder Bethea — both lost close matches against Princeton (9-9) but emerged victorious in their bouts against Drexel.

Bethea’s loss to Princeton junior Abe Ayala — ranked 12th in the weight class — was especially heartbreaking as it was his second 6-5 loss to the Tiger this season. However, Bethea dom inated Drexel redsh i r t freshman Brandon Litten, 14-4, in his final home match with the program.

On top of extending its perfect mark at home this year, Penn’s victory against Princeton extended another streak. Saturday’s win was the Quakers’ 24th consecutive victory against the Tigers, a run that dates back to 1992. “Princeton’s a tough team,�

Cobb said. “That was a tough match. It feels good to have bragging rights over them.�

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Then, in the third rotation, Penn began to pull away from the field, recording a season-best 48.950 points on the floor. Freshman Megan Finck led the way for the Red and Blue, earning second-place honors.

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For the second straight weekend, Penn women’s basketball had a successful doubleheader. This time, the Red and Blue got to set a record in the process.

The Quakers won, 71-61, over Harvard on Friday night at the Palestra before cruising to a 63-46 victory over Dartmouth on Saturday. Penn (16-7, 7-2 Ivy) has now won five in a row, and eight of its last nine.

The triumph on Friday was the 68th career win for seniors Kathleen Roche, Kara Bonenberger, Renee Busch and Katy Allen, breaking the win total record for a class they had previously shared with the graduating class of 2003.

Bonenberger was also honored before the game for scoring her 1000th career point earlier this month.

“It feels really great,” Roche said after scoring 14 points en route to the victory over the Crimson (10-14, 3-7). “I had no idea we were that close, so when they told me after the game, yeah, it makes me smile.”

“It’s awesome for them,” coach Mike McLaughlin added. “It shows that they were perseverant, they won, they challenged themselves, they improved, they were consistent.

“It’s an amazing feat. There’s 40 years of basketball here, and to be able to be that class, it’s really special.”

The two wins also put

suspension in three years RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

Penn basketball junior guard Tony Hicks was suspended by the program for last weekend’s Ivy doubleheader against Harvard and Dartmouth, Penn Athletics announced on Friday.

The suspension came after the Quakers’ contest against Brown on Feb. 14. In that matchup, Hicks received a technical foul midway through the second half for a comment he made to an official. Following the incident, coach Jerome Allen sat the team captain for the remaining 6:22 of the Red and Blue’s eventual 71-55 loss.

However, Hicks’ suspension appears to stem from more than the technical foul itself.

“Tony did some things during and immediately following last Saturday’s game against Brown that did not meet the standards of the Penn basketball program,” Allen said.

“After reviewing the incidents earlier this week, I have decided to sit him for this weekend’s games.

“I have spoken to Tony and the team about the situation, and they will learn from this. We look forward

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McLaughlin over .500 in Ivy play for the first time in his career. With his Ivy record now at 40-39, McLaughlin — who holds the distinction of being the fastest coach to reach 400 wins at any level in the MICHELE OZER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER history of women’s Senior captain Renee Busch scored a season-high collegiate basketball — was dismissive of 17 points on Saturday off five three-pointers. his personal record.

“Well, I don’t keep count of hitting the open player.” that,” McLaughlin said, laughing Saturday’s win was even more when told of the new statistic. “But convincing. The Quakers played yeah, anytime we can take a step suffocating defense, stealing the forward … I won one game in the ball 15 times and holding the Big Ivy League my first year … [so] I Green (11-13, 2-8) to 34 percent always tell them: ‘We’ll add it all shooting. On the other end, Penn up at the end. We’ll look back at it decimated Dartmouth from long at the end.’” range, shooting 9-for-18 from The Crimson kept things close beyond the arc. with the Red and Blue throughFreshman Anna Ross directed out the first half on Friday, but the offense well, dishing out a caPenn came out of the locker room reer-high eight assists. Busch was hot after the break. The Quakers often the beneficiary of Penn’s exburied Harvard, who mustered a cellent ball-movement – the senior small late rally to make the final drained five threes and had a seascore respectable but never really son-high 17 points in 22 minutes made the Red and Blue sweat off the pine. down the stretch.

“When you’re on the bench, you Penn got a fantastic effort from have to be focused at all times,” its forwards in the victory, as Busch – who also had three steals freshman Michelle Nwokedi had – said after the game. “Coach 16 points, 11 rebounds and two always says you have to be ready blocks, while sophomore Sydney for all 40 minutes. You never know Stipanovich added 17 points, seven when your name is going to be rebounds and three blocks. called. Tonight I got a good run.”

“Katy [Allen] had some really With the wins, Penn held its grip good passes. I think just as a on second place in the Ancient team we moved the ball more,” Eight this weekend and moved Stipanovich said. “Being patient, closer to securing a postseason bid. not rushing, I’ve been trying to The Quakers will be home again work on that, but I think the main next weekend when they take on thing was just ball movement, and Brown and Yale.

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to having him back on the court next weekend.”

This weekend’s suspension marks the third consecutive year in which Hicks has found himself barred from at least one of Penn’s games.

In his freshman season, Hicks was suspended for the Quakers’ matchup with Delaware. After the suspension and Penn’s loss to the Blue Hens, a source confirmed that the suspension for Hicks and four others was the result of failed drug tests.

Late in the 2013-14 campaign, Hicks was suspended again, this time in a game against Columbia on March 7. With seven minutes remaining, Hicks punched Lions’ then-junior guard Meiko Lyles in the jaw, received a flagrant-2 and was ejected from the game.

Allen suspended the South Holland, Ill., native for Penn’s game the next night against Cornell before playing Hicks in the season finale against Princeton three days later.

Hicks is the Quakers’ leading scorer in 2014-15, averaging 13.0 points per contest. Sophomore guard Matt Poplawski — who played the remainder of the game against Brown after the junior was benched — started both games over the weekend in Hicks’ absence.

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Despite the closeness of the opening frame, the Big Green seemed poised to break the game wide open after halftime. After the two squads traded buckets, Mitola scored eight consecutive points to give Dartmouth a 39-30 lead.

Yet the Quakers charged back.

A three by rookie Darnell Foreman eventually knotted the score up once again, this time at 43.

Jones then hit his third three of the contest to cap a 16-4 run for the Quakers, one that gave them a 46-43 lead.

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For many years, Ivy League swimming has been just a threehorse race between Harvard, Princeton and Yale. But at this year’s Ivy Championship meet at Harvard, Penn women’s swimming showed the rest of the league that it isn’t far behind.

The Red and Blue finished fourth overall with 952 total team points, the most the team has registered at Ivies since 2008. This year’s finish was also the highest by the Quakers since the team registered three consecutive fourth-place finishes at the Championships from 2009 to 2011.

“The thing that separates our team this year from the ones we have had the last few years is that all 20 girls we brought to the meet scored points,” coach Mike Schnur said. “In the past, we have usually been carried by four or five girls who would score all of our points, but this year we had every last swimmer and diver contribute important finishes and that is phenomenal to see.”

Ironically, Penn’s only top finish of the three-day meet came in the first individual event on Thursday, when freshman Virginia Burns came out of nowhere to win the 500-yard freestyle event. Burns — who entered Thursday’s meet with a personal best time of 4:54.43 — swam a 4:49.72 in the preliminary round, before dropping another four seconds to win the final in 4:45.67.

With that race, Burns became only the seventh female swimmer

But after cutting their deficit to 55-53, Mitola hit a clutch three before Carpenter drew a foul on a floater to put the Big Green ahead for good. Mitola then canned consecutive buckets to cap off his night with 18 points and give Dartmouth a 63-57 advantage en route to its eventual five-point win.

The previous night, Wesley Saunders led the way for the Crimson (19-5, 9-1 Ivy) with a game-high 15 points while shooting 77.8 percent from the field, and Steve Moundou-Missi added 14 points to go along with four offensive rebounds. The loss was the hundredth of Allen’s

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Fellow sophomore Ellie Grimes had a terrific weekend of racing for the Red and Blue, as she broke two school records in the 200- and 400-yard individual medley finals.

Grimes’ record time in the 200 IM was good for fourth place in the league, and she later reached the podium in third place after swimming the 400 IM in 4:17.91.

“Ellie [Grimes] scored more points at this championship event than any swimmer we have ever

weekend, this year’s Ivy performance is sure to set Penn up well as it begins preparation for next year.

“While we are going to find it hard to replace our seniors this year, I think we are in a really good place going forward,” Schnur said.

“If you look at how our underclassmen performed this weekend and combine that with the phenomenal recruiting class we have coming in, we are going to be a very strong team going forward.”

career at Penn as the weekend dropped his overall record to 63101.

With Hicks out of the lineup as a result of a two-game suspension, Poplawski took the junior captain’s spot in the starting lineup. An AllIvy midfielder for Penn soccer, the Bellevue, Wash., native scored four points against Harvard before adding seven on Saturday night.

Despite his excitement to find his way into the starting lineup, Poplawski noted the entire team’s disappointment at the news of

Hicks’s suspension.

“It was tough to hear. He’s the leader on our team, so we definitely wanted him with us,” Poplawski said. “But at the same time, he wants us to do well whether he’s here or not … regardless of who’s here, we’re going to try and play the same way every single game.”

Now sitting alone in last place in the Ancient Eight, the Red and Blue will next be in action on Friday when they travel to Providence to take on Brown.

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had besides Fortin, and that’s without even winning an event,” Schnur said. “It’s a testament to how hard she works every single day, and she is just great to watch because she never ever loses her extreme belief in herself.”

Penn managed to finish on the podium in one relay event, as senior Taylor Sneed and sophomore Haley Wickham, combined with Dong and Burns, placed second in the 400-yard medley relay. The Quakers’ time of 3:39.74 fell just short of Yale’s relay team, which broke the pool record for the event.

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“Watching Virginia race had to have been one of the most satisfying moments I’ve had as a coach,” Schnur said. “To see her drop almost 19 seconds from where she started this year and actually win an event that she still has really no experience in is a coach’s dream.

“She really just set the tone for us on that first day and really got everyone excited, and that allowed us to go on and have a great weekend of racing.”

Thursday’s races also saw sophomore Rochelle Dong break her own school record in the 50-yard freestyle en route to a second-place finish overall.

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Exactly three months after his final game coaching the Red and Blue, Al Bagnoli — Penn football’s winningest coach — has agreed to take the head coaching position at Columbia, the Columbia Spectator reported Sunday afternoon. A press conference with an official announcement is scheduled for Tuesday.

Although reports over the past several days confirmed that Bagnoli was in discussion with the Columbia athletic department to fill the Lions’ vacancy, the news comes as a shock nonetheless. Winner of nine Ivy League titles and 112 conference games in over two decades with the Quakers, Bagnoli announced last April that 2014 would be his final season at the helm before retiring to a position within Penn Athletics.

“I was always really concerned that I didn’t want to overstay my welcome,” Bagnoli said at the press conference announcing his retirement. “I happen to be my own biggest critic, and, at a certain point in time, you kind of feel when it’s right to move on and do something else.”

While it remains unclear exactly what his responsibilities as Director of Special Projects within the athletic administration were, that arrangement appears to have been shortlived.

“Everybody was pretty shocked,” former wide receiver and 2013 College graduate Joe Holder said. “I first saw it

online on Facebook … and I thought it was kind of a joke. I didn’t think it was a possibility.

As surprising as it may be, the most illustrious coach in Red and Blue history will be back on the sidelines in 2015, and Bagnoli is now tasked with turning around a Columbia program that is in disarray.

In December, Pete Mangurian resigned from his position as head coach of the Lions amid allegations of player abuse and mistreatment.

Throughout Mangurian’s tenure with Columbia, the Light Blue won a total of three games, all of which came in his first season with the squad in 2012.

“What seems to be the case is Columbia has been struck with too many seasons of noncompetitive football, so they’ve determined they’re going to put money into the program and try to attract someone who can build [it],” William Constantine, member of both the Penn Athletics’ and Football Board of Overseers, said. “Al is certainly the one to do that.”

Since the Lions’ win over in-state rival Cornell on Nov. 10, 2012, Columbia has gone winless, losing 21 consecutive matchups through the end of the 2014 season, the longest active losing streak in the country. Over the course of Bagnoli’s tenure with the Red and Blue, his teams lost to the Lions only twice, with this SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8

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Sophomore guard Matt Poplawski — who also starts on the Penn men’s soccer team — had his best performance of the season against Dartmouth, scoring seven points in his first career start.

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When Penn basketball met Dartmouth at the Palestra on Jan. 30, the Quakers picked up their first Ivy win of the season largely because they limited Big Green guard Alex Mitola to six points.

On Saturday, the Red and Blue were nowhere near as lucky.

In a game that featured 11 lead changes, Dartmouth rode 15 second-half points from Mitola and managed to surmount Penn’s largest lead of the game with a clutch 17-6 run late

in the contest — one that allowed the Big Green to pull away with a 67-62 win.

One night after a blowout at the hands of Harvard, Saturday’s defeat marks the fifth-straight loss for the Quakers (7-16, 2-7 Ivy), the longest Ivy losing streak for the program since the 199091 season.

“When we needed stops down the stretch, we just couldn’t come up with them,” coach Jerome Allen said. “As much as I applaud a lot of the good things we did … I don’t want these guys to settle for just coming up close.”

Though five of Penn’s previous six contests had ended in

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losses of greater than 16 points, Saturday’s matchup was close the entire night. When the Red and Blue went ahead, 51-46, on an Antonio Woods three-point play, it marked the largest lead for either team all night to that point.

The contest had been a backand-forth affair up to that point.

Playing without suspended junior captain Tony Hicks for the second consecutive night, Penn began the game energized and focused, a distinct difference from Friday night’s 69-46 loss to Harvard.

Although Mitola didn’t become a factor until the second half, several of his teammates set

the tone for the Big Green (10-14, 3-7) early on. Dartmouth hit four treys in the first half, including two by junior forward Connor Boehm before the half that sent coach Paul Cormier’s squad into the break up, 29-28.

To make up for Hicks’ absence, Penn did a remarkable job spreading the wealth offensively.

In the first half alone, Woods, sophomore Matt Poplawski, sophomore Matt Howard, freshman Sam Jones and senior Cam Crocker — who scored a careerhigh 10 points — all hit threes for the Quakers.

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