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Student suicide lawsuit settled After nearly two years, the lawsuit filed against Penn and Amazon is settled KOLBY KALLER Staff Reporter

The lawsuit against Penn and Amazon.com, Inc. filed by the family of late nursing student Arya Singh reached a settlement on Jan. 30, ending the nearly two-year long case alleging that Singh used illegal cyanide products purchased through the online retailer when she died by suicide in her Rodin College House dorm room in February 2013.

The case named Penn as a defendant due to alleged “unsympathetic, hostile and at times vindictive” behavior that administrators showed towards Singh after she reported being sexually assaulted as a freshman in her dorm room in Kings Court English College House by another student on on Jan. 16, 2011.

Singh died in the hours following the notice of her removal from campus housing, and wrote in SEE AMAZON PAGE 5

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Penn students’ median household family income is in the 82nd percentile BRIAN ZHONG Staff Reporter

A recent infographic by The New York Times made waves in the world of higher education.

The report highlights a study that examined the socioeconomic diversity of nearly 2,400 U.S. colleges.

According to the report, Penn undergraduates’ median family income of $195,500 would be in the 82nd percentile among U.S. families.

The study found that Penn is one of 38 colleges — and five in the Ivy League — that had more students come from the top one percent of household incomes — 18.7 percent — than from the

bottom 60 percent, which comprises 16.5 percent of Penn undergraduates.

The authors of the study obtained anonymous data from the Department of Education and federal income tax returns to analyze college attendance and parent incomes among individuals born between 1980 and 1991.

This report follows a Brandeis University study published last October that concluded that none of the 1,113 Penn undergraduates surveyed resided in zip codes considered in the bottom 20 percent of median incomes.

In response to the report, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda noted that Penn has expanded its financial aid program, enabling financial aid recipients to pay less than they had in the past.

“I don’t want anyone to lose perspective that under President Gutmann, our financial aid has

increased over 160 percent,” Furda said. “Over $200 million per year are going into need-based financial aid, and families receiving financial aid at Penn are actually paying less than they did ten years ago.”

In a statement provided to The Daily Pennsylvanian, University spokesperson Karen Hamilton said, “Our numbers relative to socioeconomic diversity tell a far different story,” citing the 46 percent of Penn undergraduates who received an average of $45,368 in grant aid this year.

1986 Wharton graduate Laurie Kopp Weingarten, co-founder and director of One-Stop College Counseling, characterized the report as “sobering” and pointed out that middle-class SEE INEQUALITY PAGE 5

Trump voters defend new executive orders and policy plans

We must not be paralyzed by our fears or complacency.

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Some Penn students that voted for President Trump still support him after his controversial executive orders, citing security concerns.

Given how opposed Penn students were to his candidacy in November, you wouldn’t expect President Donald Trump to be that popular on campus.

However, even in light of the nearconstant protests his administration have provoked on campus and across

the country, the faith some Penn students have in Trump’s leadership hasn’t wavered.

In an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, Engineering and Wharton freshman Joseph Churilla defended two of Trump’s most divisive executive orders — limiting immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations and constructing a wall on SEE STUDENTS PAGE 3

Career Services lanches ‘professional’clothing drive Program provides free interview attire for Penn students SARAH FORTINSKY Staff Reporter

Career Services launched the new Quaker Career Wardrobe initiative this year, which collects new or gently used professional clothing

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for students who otherwise could not afford them.

The drive began Jan. 30, continues until Feb. 15 and will culminate in a “shopping day” on Feb. 20, when Penn students will have the opportunity to take home one free professional outfit of their choosing.

“We know that most jobs and internships that our students are

applying for involve an interview that requires a suit or some sort of business attire, but that can be really costly,” said Nadine Goldberg, a graduate assistant advisor in Career Services and the primary staff member coordinating the initiative.

“It was really important to us that the cost of those kinds of resources wasn’t the thing that was holding any

students back from taking advantage of the opportunities that come through our office,” she added.

“Shopping day” itself will take place in the On-Campus Recruitment Suite, where the common space will be used to display the clothing and the interview rooms will be used SEE CLOTHING PAGE 6

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Scaled-down Quaker Days awaits early decision admits The on-campus program lasts for only one day BRIAN ZHONG Staff Reporter

A large crowd of students suddenly appears on Locust Walk, pointing at buildings and gazing around campus as if it’s their first time at Penn. Many in that group have indeed never stepped on campus before, but they’ll be back in a few months, this time as Penn undergraduates.

The Admissions Office will be hosting its annual ConnectED Quaker Day on Feb. 10, a daylong orientation for early decision admits to attend information

sessions and get to know their new classmates. As of Wednesday, 920 individuals have registered for ConnectED, including 535 ED admits and 385 guests that the admitted students are bringing.

“At that point, I still hadn’t visited Penn, so that was good just to get a feel for the campus before I actually started school,” College freshman Stephanie Diaz said of her experience a year ago.

“There was a large community of people who were really interested in social justice, and that there were classes and other groups on campus that really dedicated themselves to that.”

Class of 2021 early decision admit Aaditi Tamhankar shared

some of the concerns early decision admits had leading up to the orientation, including the short duration of the event and the announcement of the date only three weeks before the occasion.

“Many find it cumbersome to come for one day, so maybe extending the event would be a good idea,” Tamhankar said. “People were also complaining that it was being announced really late.”

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda noted that housing and staff restraints prevent ConnectED from becoming an overnight program.

“By design, we wouldn’t be able to support [the] 1,354 students that we admitted early decision and their parents,” Furda said.

“We just don’t have that capacity, so we’re trying to help meet the students where they are while also being realistic about what it is that we can provide.”

Although ConnectED could be incorporated into the Quaker Days event held for regular decision admits in April, Furda emphasized the difference in mindsets and needs between early decision admits already committed to Penn and regular decision students still considering several universities.

“Instead of saying, ‘So this is why you should study at Penn,’ it’s almost like ‘This is how you’re going to approach academic advising, new student orientation, all

these different pieces of the transition,’ so that is really the main purpose,” Furda said.

In order to reach out to admitted students who lack the time or resources to come to Penn, the Admissions Office has redoubled its focus on Beyond Campus Initiatives — programming geared specifically towards the many admitted students who are unable to participate in ConnectED or Quaker Days.

“We’re going to be experimenting with a whole host of things, including trying to do some Facebook Live events for the first time,” University spokesperson Kathryn Bezella said. “We’ll be doing some Instagram stories, just

so people can see housing choices and can start to get acclimated even if they can’t be on campus.”

“We’re thinking creatively about how we can bring what we do in-person into a virtual realm.”

Furda views ConnectED above all else as an opportunity to facilitate students’ transition from high school to Penn.

“It really strikes me when I see a group of students talking with each other and I’ll say ... ‘Did you meet on Facebook?’” Furda said.

“They’re like, ‘Yeah, we’re kind of familiar with that, but actually this is the first time we’re talking to each other.’ People are meeting each other and finding out more about each other.”

Wharton conference focuses on breaking the ‘bamboo ceiling’ Focused on Asian Americans in the workplace STEPHEN IMBURGIA Staff Reporter

The Wharton China Business Society’s annual conference kicked off this weekend in Huntsman Hall, attracting students and professionals.

Now in its fourteenth year, the conference is larger than everwith the addition of a case competition for high school and university students.

The theme of this year’s

conference, “Scaling the Great Wall,” focused on achieving greater cultural and professional opportunities. The conference’s three main panels — Innovation and Technology: Entrepreneur’s Alike, Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling and Mergers and Acquisitions: Crossing the Border —analyzed topics important to Penn students, from challenges facing Asian-Americans in the Western workplace to the newest technological advances on the market.

College sophomore Kara Hu, one of the co-directors of forum for the Wharton China Business

Society, said that the Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling panel was one of her favorites. The term “bamboo ceiling” refers to the difficulties for Asian-Americans advancing in the Western workplace, and the panel focused on dealing with those issues.

“There are a lot more Chinese students coming into the U.S. right now and a lot of them do want to work in the American workplace,” Hu said. “So it’s a topic that’s really relevant to most of us.”

In addition to the conference WCBS launched its first case competition this year, which allows

teams of high school and university students to compete for prizes including a summer internship in Beijing with Sunrise International Education. The competition, which was held on Sunday, challenged competitors to find solutions to real-life business scenarios and present their recommendations to a panel of judges.

Wharton junior May Chan, co-vice president of the case competition, said the case was meant to approachable for competitors of all levels.

“The case is very friendly to people who don’t even know about

finance,” Chan said. “Opening that door to people of all majors...that’s a big thing we’re excited about.”

Wharton sophomore Abraham Gomez, also a co-vice president of the case competition, said he hoped the competition would give participants, “a better appreciation of the Chinese business market, and especially cross-border business relations.”

The conference has grown this year due to WCBS’s partnership with collaborators such as Penn Wharton China Center and Sunrise International Education, bringing in speakers like Stella

Li, the president of BYD Motor Incorporated, and Deng Wei, the president of Century Bridge Capitol.

Despite the conference’s growth, Wharton junior Elaine Chen, a co-director of forum, said its focus remains on Penn students and their interests.

“When we crafted a theme, the panels, [chose] who would be our keynotes, the ultimate question that we asked was ‘What would benefit the students most?” Chen said. “At the end of the day... we’re a student group, so our focus really is on students.”

Jenny Yang talks media representations of Asian Americans

Event organized by Penn Taiwanese Society HARLEY GEFFNER Contributing Reporter

Though the stage in the dimly lit theater in the Annenberg Center was set up with a lone microphone, a stool and a chair — the classic setting for a stand-up comedy act — comedian, writer and political commentator Jenny Yang said as she entered that “even though we’re in this beautiful theater, this is not stand-up — we’re going to make this a chat.”

The Penn Taiwanese Society organized the event in conjunction with Sangam and Bloomers to bring attention to under- and misrepresentation of Asian

Americans in media. After briefly touching on these issues at the discussion Thursday night, Yang shifted the focus of her talk to her personal story, asking audience members to share theirs as well.

The conversation emphasized inclusivity and community building through storytelling. Yang, through watery eyes, told the audience she imagined a world in which her mother, a Taiwanese immigrant who speaks little English, could be in the position to speak to a mass of people and tell her story in her own language, as she observed a Latina woman do in Spanish when she worked in a labor movement right out of college.

“The basic building block of organizing is telling your story,”

Yang said. She told the story of how her mother would come home from working in a textile factory with fibers in her snot because there was no ventilation in her workplace, and how she would work tirelessly to wring out the family’s hand-washed clothes.

Yang stressed that the most important way to build community is to not focus solely on individual success. Speaking to a room full of engaged students, Yang spoke about the mentality of getting a stereotypically “good” job to support one’s self and family, and about how that in and of itself is not doing enough for the Asian American community.

“We must push this vision of our identity that we are not out here just for ourselves,” she said.

“We must lift up the marginalized voices around us as Asian Americans in order to expand our definition of who ‘we’ is.”

Yang shared that her ideas of community and solidarity were initially inspired by black women organizing at Swarthmore College, where she spent her undergraduate years.

“One particular woman … told me that if there is something that happens with an Asian student, we will be there for you, because that’s how community works.

When something happens to you, we will be there to stand up for you and when something happens to us, you will be there to stand up for us,” Yang said. “To be a community is to stand up for and communicate with each other.”

College sophomore and External Vice President of the Penn Taiwanese Society Stefanie

Wang shared similar sentiments when talking about ways to effect change.

“Hopefully, we can start a conversation or debate about issues in Asian-American communities that extends beyond the communities themselves,” she said.

In addition to her call for inclusivity in community building and organizing, Yang called for everyone in the room to pursue their true passions, prompting audience members to share “what [they would] do in this world if there weren’t time, money or perception constraints.”

One student exclaimed that instead of working towards the goal of being a technology entrepreneur in San Francisco, she would own a beauty studio and produce films on minorities’ stories, to which Yang jokingly replied, “Make it happen and then fund my projects!”

Yang workshopped ideas for every student who shared, trying to explain how they could start working towards their true goals and passions in their daily lives.

“It starts from where you are,” Yang said.

Wharton and Engineering senior Scott Lee said he appreciated Yang’s approach to activism.

“What surprised me most about this event was how real it was,” he said. “Jenny gave me both personal and practical ways to go about my activism in the Asian-American community.”

“Give a vivid image of your story, and use that image to connect to other people … What it all comes down to — it’s friendship.

It’s how to be human and how to be friends,” Yang concluded before students gathered onstage to crowd in to a selfie that Yang insisted upon taking before she left.

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Immigration ban inspires wave of protesters across campus March sponsored by groups such as Penn Dems KELLY HEINZERLING Staff Reporter

At 5:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, a stream of Penn students marched down Walnut Street chanting “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here.”

After several speeches on College Green, the Penn March for Immigrants made their way to Walnut Street, turned back toward the 38th St. bridge to head toward 40th St., then did a loop to finish the protest at Steinberg-Dietrich Hall on Locust Walk.

The march was promoted on Facebook and sponsored by a number of campus groups including Penn Democrats, Penn for Immigrant Rights, Penn Environmental Group and Penn Arab Student Society.

The purpose of the march was to both protest Trump’s executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations

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the southern border.

“Families getting split up is obviously never good,” Churilla said, referencing the detention of travelers at airports. “But it is a limited amount of time.”

“It is a negative consequence, but it’s temporary,” he added.

Churilla said the immigration order was potentially rolled out too abruptly, which he attributed to Trump’s lack of familiarity with policymaking.

College freshman Jesse Blanco said he found it difficult

and to show solidarity with members of the Penn community affected by the order.

“I’m here to show support for the Muslim community and the immigrant community because I feel as though I’m just as much of an American as they are,” College sophomore Kelsey Farenhem said.

College freshman Abdullah Noaman spoke to the group before the march about what it felt like to be an Iraqi citizen and his uncertainty over whether he could return home this summer to see his mother.

“It’s been tough and tiring for us, but my friends’ support and kindness gets us through,” Noaman said. “This is what the American people are all about and we will get through this together.”

College freshman Isaias Jacinto echoed these sentiments in his speech about what it was like to be a Mexican-American citizen.

“This [wall] will make it so much harder for me to see my

family in Mexico,” Jacinto said.

“We are marching today to show Mr. Trump that he will not tear us apart.”

Students participating in the march said they were proud about the efforts Penn has been making to support the immigrant community.

“I really think it’s important to show solidarity, especially now when people can feel that the whole world is against them,” College sophomore Andreina Lamas said.

Other students felt that even more could be done on campus to protest Trump’s order.

“F**k Trump, punch a Nazi,” graduate Design student Brett Davis shouted during the march.

“Passive resistance isn’t good enough,” he clarified. “I would like to see more people angry and more people engaged.”

Members of Penn Democrats at the march said they hope to continue their work in the coming weeks by following through on the two petitions passed around during the march.

to empathize with immigrants, despite being a first-generation American himself.

“It’s very conflicting, and I’m sure a lot of people that support Trump feel the same way. We’re not cheering. We’re not celebrating that we’re banning all these people,” Blanco said. “But I do believe Donald Trump wants to put the American first.”

Some Trump-supporting Penn students say the immigration halt doesn’t go far enough.

“I would consider expanding it to other countries,” College sophomore Christian Petrillo said, “including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan.”

Petrillo added, “If someone is traveling back and forth from the United States to a country like Yemen, there should be a vetting system that questions people like that.”

Petrillo also claimed the order restricting immigrants is neither a Muslim ban nor racist.

“It’s very dangerous to inject race into this issue,” he said.

Despite his parents’ affiliation as Democrats, Blanco — the son of Colombian immigrants who came to the United States in the 1990s — has interned in Trump Tower, calling the campaign experience “the highlight of [his] summer.”

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Penn Democrats passed two petitions around during the march. One dealt with the immigration ban, while the other condemned nominee for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

One petition in solidarity with the immigrant community will be presented to the administration. The other pressures Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to act as the final Republican senator needed to reject Betsy DeVos’ appointment

as secretary of education, and the group intends to print 5,000 copies of the petition once they reach 5,000 signatures.

“I think that now more than ever it’s important to provide spaces for people to come

together and to show their opposition to Trump’s actions,” PennDems president and College sophomore Rachel Pomerantz said. “Passive disapproval isn’t enough, you have to say it and say it loudly.”

Describing the wall as the cornerstone of Trump’s campaign, Blanco called it a symbolic representation — not of America’s hostility to immigrants, but of a dedication to ending crime.

“I think the wall should be built, and I think it’s going to be built,” Blanco said.

Petrillo agreed with the sentiment.

“You can’t really have true immigration reform until you stop the flood of people coming across the border,” Petrillo said.

Blanco, who identifies as an “‘open-minded’ social conservative,” does harbor some concerns about the erratic nature

of Trump’s policy shifts.

“As the President of the United States, every word that comes out of your mouth matters,” Blanco said. “Words can really open or close the ears of leaders around the world.”

“And if you’re acting like the traffic light of the world,” Blanco added, “you can cause a lot of accidents.”

Despite his support for Trump’s

executive order banning federal funds from organizations that perform or promote abortions overseas, Churilla shares similar concerns.

“Trump’s personality is to just say things,” Churilla said. “And there’s no good excuse to lie to the public so blatantly.”

“But I’m staying optimistic,” Churilla added. “I like to stay optimistic.”

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Penn Democrats: immigration policy TOE THE LINE

MONDAY FEBRUARY 6, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 14 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor RONG XIANG Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor GENEVIEVE GLATSKY News Editor TOM NOWLAN News Editor ALLY JOHNSON Assignments Editor

One week after his inauguration, President Donald Trump issued an executive order indefinitely halting the resettlement of Syrian refugees and temporarily banning people from seven Muslim-majority nations from traveling into the United States. This executive order exists at the cruel intersection of bigotry, incompetence and unconstitutionalism.

It is counterproductive.

It is embarrassing.

It is fascism.

It is hate.

And its effects are heartwrenching. We must energetically and endlessly resist this executive order and its proponents.

From a constitutional perspective, this executive order is at odds with our nation’s core principles and should be universally regarded as unconstitutional.

Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, right-wing extremists and two of President Trump’s closest advisors, are the likely authors of this executive order, which was implemented without consultation from proper legal counsel, corresponding

federal agencies or most of Congress. Its spirit and execution runs contrary to the original intent of the Establishment Clause. Its ban on refugees ignores our nation’s roots in religious freedom.

Its attack on lawful residents of the U.S. , many of whom possess green cards , violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Its convoluted and vague wording has sent the nation into hysteria and has paralyzed our federal agencies.

This executive order represents an extreme overreach of executive power, beyond even that of the Obama administration. Though six federal courts have issued stays on Trump’s executive order, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents and other members of the executive branch have been dismissive of the judicial branch, as agents continue to detain and even send back refugees and immigrants at airports. Judicial condemnation of this executive order includes a ruling by Judge James Robart — a George W.

Bush appointee confirmed with 99 votes in the Senate — that ordered officials to maintain direct contact with airports in reversing the ban.

Robart concluded that “the circumstances that brought before it today are such that it must intervene to fulfill its constitutional role in our tripart government.”

In response to this ruling,

Trump blames Judge Robart for future terrorists coming to the U.S. That is misplaced. It is the president’s job — along hundreds of thousands agents — to prevent these terrorists. Judge Robart’s job is to ensure that president acts within the law and constitutional limits.

If Trump is willing to undermine an equal branch of

This executive order exists at the cruel intersection of bigotry, incompetence and unconstitutionalism.”

President Trump immediately took to Twitter, questioning the court’s decision to fulfill its constitutional obligations: “The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!” This tweet further demonstrates President Trump’s disdain for the separation of powers and the judicial branch. Furthermore, in a later tweet, President

our government, he further threatens the state of our republic . (Trump evidently did not take PSCI130, “Introduction to American Politics” during his illustrious time at Penn — Rousseau and Montesquieu are spinning in their graves.)

Many critics focus on the irrationality of Trump’s ban.

For example, they argue that the named Muslim countries exclude Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where the terror-

ists of 9/11 originated. They also insist that this travel ban plays into the hands of the nation’s enemies, emboldening ISIS and similar terrorist organizations. These arguments, with their varying degrees of validity, fail to address the executive order’s fundamental egregiousness: the indefinite ban on refugees from Syria ignores the international community’s culpability in the Syrian genocide, of which the U.S. played a part. Moreover, the temporary ban on travel from the seven Muslim-majority nations prevents the international exchange of students, ideas and researchers — one of the best methods of promoting enduring global ties and peace.

Finally, this executive order is rooted in a xenophobic ideology that has reared its ugly head innumerable times throughout American history against innumerable peoples. Advocates of this executive order are no different than those who turned away Jewish refugees from our shores just prior to World War II, including the 937 passengers of the MS St. Louis who were subse-

PENN DEMOCRATS quently damned to Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. American citizens and legislators must condemn Trump’s executive order without moderation. Our resistance to this executive order must include direct engagement and limitless empathy; to do otherwise is lazy and irresponsible. We must not be paralyzed by our fears or complacency.

TOE THE LINE examines issues from two different sides. Both Penn Democrats and College Republicans argue why their collective positions on major political issues is best for the country.

ARI GOLDFINE is a College sophomore and the vice president of Penn Dems.

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TOE THE LINE “We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain: give up your dreams of freedom, because to save our own skins, we’re willing to make a deal with your slave masters.” – Ronald Reagan, 1964 Today, we face a different enemy, with different victims and a different immorality. The principle, however, remains the same. While the College Republicans support this administration’s efforts to ensure the safety of its citizens, we cannot support the implementation of these goals.

The College Republicans stand with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). We stand with all who have been personally targeted by this executive order. We stand with Ronald Reagan, who six decades ago affirmed the American responsibility to never let fear dictate policy.

The executive order is comprised of three controversial

policies. The first, the refugee moratorium, is by far the most acceptable. To ensure that the Kentucky terror plot (when al-Qaeda bomb-makers — who had previously attacked American soldiers — were discovered posing as refugees in the United States) never repeats itself, we consider comprehensive vetting to be of the utmost importance. A temporary disruption of refugee admissions to ensure said vetting process has historical precedence, most recently in Obama’s significant cutback of Iraqi refugees for six months in 2011. We are not, however, fully convinced that national security necessitates a complete shutdown of refugee admissions.

We appreciate that during the 120-day ban, refugees may be admitted on a case-by-case basis, but only as long as their admission “is in the national interest.” Showing a similar emphasis, the order bans Syrian refugees indefinitely, viewing them as “detrimental to the interests of the United States.”

We staunchly oppose the executive order’s narrow focus. The

United States must look first and foremost to its national interest. But as a superpower, America has an obligation to look beyond itself. We help to the extent that we can, because we can.

Secondly, the order promises to “prioritize refugee claims

Shia Muslims. Islam, however, is not the minority religion; in Iraq, the Shias are not even a minority branch. The executive order does not protect these victims of religious genocide.

While we commend the administration’s efforts to protect the persecuted, the order does

With this executive order, the administration turned their backs on the formal promises this country made.” made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual’s country.” At best, this stipulation represents willful ignorance. In ISIS controlled territory, Christians are viciously persecuted. But so are Muslims. A militant Sunni force, ISIS has enacted a genocide of

not adequately do so. A similar stipulation against racial discrimination would not have defended blacks during the South African apartheid.

Admittedly, Bashar alAssad’s heinous war crimes do not discriminate on the basis of religion — Christians and Muslims are murdered alike.

But if the administration insists on prioritizing claims of

religious persecution, we urge them to amend the executive order to include all victims, even those of a majority religion.

Finally, the executive order cancelled all immigration for 90 days from seven countries marked by the previous administration. While we applaud the administration’s steps to amend the order to allow admittance to green card holders, we encourage them to further improve by allowing entrance to those with student visas, travel visas, work and H1B visas and more.

Since its founding, this country has represented the hope of open arms for every determined worker the world over.

It is the hope of the shining city on a hill, offering endless opportunity to all who work for it, from every race, religion or creed. This hope is as appealing as it is impossible. But when we issue a visa, this hope becomes a concrete promise to families and individuals determined enough to wait out the legal process. With this executive order, the administration turned their backs on the formal promises this country

COLLEGE REPUBLICANS made. In the words of George W. Bush, “this is not the America I know.” The executive order claimed that its purpose was to ensure that those who enter this country respect “its founding principles.” President Trump should hold himself to the same standard.

TOE THE LINE examines issues from two different sides. Both Penn Democrats and College Republicans argue why their collective positions on major political issues is best for the country.

MICHAEL BOGDANOS is a College freshman and a cochair of the College Republicans Editorial Board.

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Gutmann joins universities against Trump 48 universities condemn Trump’s executive order SYDENEY SCHAEDEL Senior News Editor

Penn President Amy Gutmann expounded upon her recent condem nation of President Donald Trump’s immigration ban by adding her name to a letter critical of the ban signed by 47 other university presidents.

The letter is addressed to the 1968 Wharton graduate, and is very direct: “We write as presidents of leading American colleges and universities to urge you to rectify or rescind the recent executive order closing our country’s borders to immigrants and others from seven majority-Muslim countries and to refugees from throughout the world,” it reads. “If left in place, the order threatens both American higher education and the defining principles of our country.”

The immigration order has garnered backlash on campus and nationally. Penn students

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a note about the Office of Student Conduct’s investigation into her student misconduct and about her ongoing troubles at the University, the complaint said.

On Wednesday, Philadelphia Judge Matthew D. Carrafiello passed a joint motion to file the settlement under the court’s approval, Law360 reported. The terms of the agreement are confidential and are to be filed under seal.

The lawsuit, filed by Singh’s mother, Sujata Singh, alleged Amazon allowed Thailand-based company, GMO Internet Inc., to sell these cyanide products 51 times prior to Singh’s purchase, resulting in 11 deaths. At the time of Singh’s purchase, Amazon did not have any policies in place to sales like this.

and Philadelphia citizens protested the ban at the airport on Sunday, students and staff members from different faith groups on campus gathered at the LOVE statue yesterday to stand with affected students and Penn affiliates marched to protest the order on Thursday night.

Gutmann echoed the tone of the letter on Tuesday night on College Green, calling it “injurious to our work and inimical to our values.”

“This action unfairly targets seven predominantly Muslim countries in a manner inconsistent with America’s best principles and greatest traditions,” the letter reads. “We welcome outstanding Muslim students and scholars from the United States and abroad, including the many who come from the seven affected countries. Their vibrant contributions to our institutions and our country exemplify the value of the religious diversity that has been a hallmark of American freedom since this country’s founding. The American dream depends on continued fidelity to

The complaint stated that Singh reported the sexual assault to Counseling and Psychological Services and scheduled an appointment with a therapist, but the center had no availability for a follow-up and did not attempt to schedule another appointment despite noting that she was experiencing depression, anxiety, nightmares, erratic sleep and loss of appetite due to the sexual assault.

Singh was also notified that her assaulter would be removed from her dorm after informing Student Intervention Services and the Penn’s Women’s Center of her emotional difficulties due to his proximity, but he maintained access to the building and other buildings on campus.

The complaint targeted the University for negligence in pursuing her case because of the changeover

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Penn President Amy Gutmann continues her condemnation of President Trump’s immigration ban.

that value.”

The activism on campus and from Gutmann hasn’t come without backlash. A representative for College Republicans criticized the administration at the University Council meeting on Wednesday, saying the emails condemning the immigration order wrongly involved the University in partisan political affairs. College and Wharton freshman Michael Moroz said that the College

in the sexual assault investigating procedures in the years prior. A hearing facilitated by the Office of Student Conduct was cancelled when the alleged assaulter accepted disciplinary sanctions and agreed to avoid contact with Singh and leave her college house.

Singh became depressed and began drinking heavily and exhibiting avoidant behavior as a result of the trauma of her assault, the complaint said. In January 2013, she was placed on academic probation and faced various other student misconduct offenses, including not meeting certain undergraduate Nursing requirements and failing a writing seminar course. Her student account was placed on disciplinary hold, which prevented her from registering for classes and prompted the University to ask her to vacate student housing on Feb. 8 due to

Republicans were “dismayed” by the repeated emails from the administration and added that he thinks “this kind of political debate is not within the purview of public positions the University ought to take.”

Moroz said he thought the University should not take a stance on political issues because it “threatens to alienate students who hold reasonable but different beliefs from many on this campus.”

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The lawsuit alleged negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent hiring against the University.

The University declined to comment on the settlement.

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families feel especially excluded from a Penn education due to their inability to afford the $69,340 total cost of attendance without sufficient financial aid.

“When I say that [approximately $70,000] figure to some of the parents, families or to other people not in the industry, they look at me like either I’m lying or I’m insane,” Weingarten said. “It’s really hard to grasp that sending your child to Penn is over a quarter million dollars after tax money if you don’t get financial aid, and a lot of people don’t get financial aid.”

Fo r C ol lege freshman Melissa Perez, the disproportionately small fraction of low-income students at Penn stems from a difference in access to opportunity. Perez said that the general mindset towards top-tier institutions at her high school differed greatly from that of other, wealthier high schools.

“Especially when you’re in an environment that’s not very nurturing, students will fall into that belief that they can’t go farther than where they already

are,” Perez said.

Furda noted that the conversation surrounding such reports often belies his belief that Penn already boasts a student body that runs the entire gamut of socioeconomic backgrounds.

“Should there be more students from the bottom quarter on Penn’s campus, and other campuses? Absolutely,” Furda said. “There’s going to be people in the bottom 10 percent, the top 10 percent, the bottom couple of percent, and the top couple of percent. And I think particularly given the way our country is right now, what we’re trying to build here is some opportunity that students are learning from each other. And that’s going to include students across the socioeconomic spectrum.”

Furda said he believes that students of all socioeconomic backgrounds have the potential to contribute to Penn in their own way.

“When you think about a young person and the perspective that they bring, that’s their perspective,” Furda said. “I don’t think anyone should be excluded from that equation, regardless of where you are, whether you’re a Pell Grant recipient or in the top one percent.”

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Wharton offers new business hackathon for underclassmen

Wharton worked with Alibaba to host hackathon CHRISTINE OLAOGUN Contributing Reporter

Last weekend, a multibillion dollar company tasked Wharton School underclassmen with finding solutions to pressing business issues at Wharton’s first ever business hackathon.

Huntsman Hacks, a “business hackathon” at Huntsman Hall, provided a competitive platform for freshmen and sophomores to use the skills they learned in their Wharton classes and apply them to real-world business problems.

For its inaugural event, Huntsman Hacks was organized by the Wharton Dean’s Undergraduate Advisory Board and sponsored

by Alibaba, a multibillion dollar

company based in China. 2003 Wharton MBA graduate and Alibaba Vice President Brian Wong worked with WAB to organize this sponsorship.

“What we are looking for is a global perspective,” Wong said.

“Being able to address problems from not only an American perspective, but an international perspective.”

Wong said Alibaba formulated many of the case studies presented in the competition and aimed to get students to extend their thinking outside of the confines of the Wharton curriculum.

“Our inspiration came from the gap between what students learn in the Wharton classrooms and applications to real situations and challenges companies continue to face,” said Wharton freshman Saurin Patel, a member of WAB.

The competition design is a new approach to the term “hackathon.”

“Normally hackathons are for coding, but this is a business hackathon — something I’ve never heard of before,” Wharton freshman Melinda Hu said.

Huntsman Hacks created an opportunity for business students to participate in hackathons by merging the time constraints and pressure of a traditional hackathon with the application of learned material done in a case study.

“I thought I could never really be involved in [a hackathon] because I didn’t know the different coding languages,” Wharton freshman Candra Feng said.

“But having a business form of a hackathon, I thought was really interesting.”

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Underclassmen said Huntsman Hacks was a learning experience, providing them with practical situations to apply classroom knowledge.

“This competition was a way for us to really understand how companies actually work,” Wharton freshman Cheryl Li said. “I think in Wharton courses it’s all very hypothetical, and getting the opportunity to actually put that knowledge to work is really important.”

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“We thought it would be valuable for any students who haven’t been there before to have their first experience there and get familiar with the space,” Goldberg said. “So that it’s not quite as intimidating if they want to come back later down the line for interviews.”

Career Services is working closely with other offices around campus to help promote this initiative, as well as with the Undergraduate Assembly.

UA College Representative and College junior Gabrielle Jackson reached out to Career Services after she noticed how frequently she lent out her own professional clothes to friends. Jackson realized this was likely not an isolated problem. She has been working with Goldberg and the rest of the UA to help publicize this drive.

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clothing is one of the main resources you need to be successful,” Jackson said. “I just felt that it’s very much overlooked that some people may not have the resources to be able to afford fancy professional clothing.”

The drive functions as a pilot program, with the goal of gauging the demand for minimal or no-cost professional attire on campus. Career Services also considered a rental format, where students would be able to rent

suits for free or at a low cost at any point in the year. However they decided to hold off before investing in such a “resourceintensive” program.

“We’ll see what the level of interest is from students and whether this format is effective after this pilot and then decide how to proceed moving forward,” Goldberg said. “But I think the hope is definitely to continue this effort in some form in future semesters.”

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Weekend MVP: Anna Ross W. HOOPS | Ross led

team to two huge wins

WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor

Every week, there’s one star across Penn Athletics that shines bright enough to merit extra recognition. The decision is often tough, but for this weekend, the answer is clear-cut: no one at Penn shone brighter than women’s basketball star Anna Ross.

Hosting Harvard and Dartmouth, the Quakers had lying at their doorstop a highly-anticipated top-two clash and a must-win in the Ivy League, respectively. The Crimson came to Philly on Friday ranked No. 20 in the RPI and riding high on a 16game win streak. Additionally,

they sat at the top of the Ivy League on a perfect 4-0 record.

Until Ross stepped in.

The Red and Blue came out strong against Harvard, and they led for the entire game after the first minute, but the Quakers couldn’t put their visitors away until the third quarter. After the Crimson started to heat up, Ross took the game by the scruff of its neck to heat Penn up even more.

The junior guard scored nine points in just five minutes, countering Harvard at every step and then some until the end of the game. Once all was said and done, and the Quakers had beaten their opponents by 20 points, Ross had registered 16 of her own — shooting an eye-popping 72 percent from the field — in addition to five rebounds, two assists and a steal.

“Oh, man...” coach Mike

McLaughlin said when asked about her performance. “She was as good as you could ever ask someone to be tonight.”

Ross didn’t slow down against Dartmouth the next night, either.

She showed great leadership in helping Penn power past the Big Green to top their opponents by 30 points. By the end of the weekend, she had put up 28 points, 12 rebounds — as a point guard! — a handful of assists and a couple steals to boot.

On a team as packed with stars as Penn women’s basketball, it sometimes seems like the real competition is to win Ivy League MVP awards, with the games themselves coming easily in hand. At the very least, Ross can enjoy being our Penn Athletics Weekend MVP. But don’t blink — there’s only more to come from her and her team.

Quakers find success at Northwestern Duals over weekend FENCING | Penn’s only

loss came to Ohio State MARC MARGOLIS Sports Reporter

With the Ivy League Championships coming up, it could have been very easy for Penn fencing to look ahead and not focus on the match at hand. But the men’s and the women’s teams would do no such thing, dominating the competition at the Northwestern Duals this weekend.

Going into the week ranked

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In fact, Penn hasn’t allowed more than 60 points since the second game of the season. Between senior center Sydney Stipanovich and junior forward Michelle Nwokedi, the Red and Blue’s side of the paint has been on lockdown for months, and this weekend was no exception.

“We were just locked in,” coach

No. 6 in the country, the men’s team was looking to build on its previous success. Still, the competition was a fierce as ever, as the Quakers had to deal with No. 4 Notre Dame in its home gym, No. 9 Stanford, and No. 2 Ohio State.

Still, against such a strong slate, the Quakers managed to go 5-1 overall, with the lone loss coming to the Buckeyes.

Particularly strong performances came for the saber and epee teams. Juniors Zsombor Garzo and Jake Raynis backpacked the team with Garzo

supplying 12 wins and Raynis adding nine of his own. On epee, youth shined for the Quakers, as freshmen Adam Green and Connor Mills came away with records of 10-2 and 8-4, respectively. Besides the fearsome freshmen twosome, senior Isaac Buchwald provided a solid 7-5 performance. On the day, both event squads had very solid 5-1 records.

The foil team finished with a slightly lesser performance with a 4-2 record. Senior and reigning second team All-Ivy selection Adam Elkassas turned in one of

his best career performances.

With his team needing a boost, Elkassas went on a 10-0 run against Wayne State, Notre Dame and UC San Diego. Freshman Willie Upbin help bolster the case with seven wins of his own.

The No. 6 lady fencers saw nearly parallel success to the men’s team with their own 5-1 record, but in different ways. For the women, it was the foil squad that boosted the team to victory.

The women’s version of the fearsome freshmen twosome, Nicole Vaiani and Nicole Ferdon, led the foil team to a perfect 6-0 record.

Vaiani went 10-2 while Ferdon went 9-3.

Vaiani was particularly impressive not just for her record but the way she did it, with dominant wins over foes from No. 4 Ohio State and No. 8 Northwestern.

Already having an incredible freshman season, Vaiani continues to churn in incredible performances against top competition.

Even with the incredible foil performance, epee and saber should not be overlooked. Both squads turning in solid marks of 4-2 helped keep momentum

rolling forward while foil was in the zone.

In epee, sophomore Katherine Sizov, senior Alejandra Trumble and junior Stephanie Wolf all finished north of 10 wins. At saber, sophomore Kathryn Khaw and freshman Victoria Zhang led the the team with six wins each.

Saturday marked major success for both the men’s and the women’s team. Still, the biggest test of the season is yet to come.

Using these wins as momentum, and not excuses for complacency, will be vital as the season reaches its climax next week.

Mike McLaughlin said on Friday night. “We defended hard from end to end. It was a tremendous effort … I couldn’t be any more proud of the way we defended them for 40 minutes tonight.”

On the offensive end, all cylinders were firing in both wins.

Junior guard Anna Ross scored a combined 28 points, while senior center Sydney Stipanovich and junior forward Michelle Nwokedi put up 23 each.

“These 80 minutes this weekend were the best basketball we’ve played as a group, on both ends of the floor,” McLaughlin said. “The offensive pieces are getting better every time, and I couldn’t be prouder of them this weekend.”

But the starters didn’t hog all the limelight. Bench showings from sophomore Princess Aghayere and Russell in particular helped keep things ticking

over for the Red and Blue. Russell in particular had a good night against Dartmouth, scoring 11 points and registering six rebounds in 21 minutes on the floor.

“I feel really comfortable with [the bench],” McLaughlin said.

“You saw the group play at the end. … I like where we’re at.

Our depth is growing, and they continue to work.”

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disappointing to take from the weekend, it’s that Stipanovich couldn’t come any closer to breaking the all-time Ivy League blocks record. With just six to go, the record is in sight, but the senior couldn’t add any despite starring in both games.

Otherwise, it was all smiles at the Palestra as Penn cruised to two wins, staying perfect at the top of the Ivy League in the process. With just nine games

remaining in the regular season, there aren’t many chances for the Quakers to relinquish their two-game led on top of the conference.

So with the rest of the league fighting for the other three spots at the inaugural Ivy League tournament in March, it looks like the Quakers are in the driver’s seat for the regular season championship and that coveted top seed.

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It might be time to start thinking about March GRIFF FITZSIMMONS

It’s time to start thinking about the big picture.

These past two days have been demonstrative of Penn women’s basketball’s Ancient Eight dominance. By beating Harvard and Dartmouth by 20 and 30 points respectively, the Quakers have proved that they can handle the top talent that the league has to offer. Now Cornell and Columbia, who both sit at or below .500, are the only teams in the conference the Red and Blue haven’t beaten. Those games will come next weekend, as Penn enters the final nine-game stretch of their regular season.

The rest of Ivy play will by no means be a cakewalk, of course.

The Quakers eked past Princeton when they made the trip up to New Jersey a month ago, and things would have gone quite differently if Beth Brzozowski hadn’t come

through with three clutch threes in the last few minutes of the game.

That said, with the remainder of their schedule composed entirely of conference play, it will be important that the team stays focused so as not to lose perspective on the NCAA as a whole.

Penn’s schedule this year is typical for Ivy League sports in general: exhibition games and early season matchups usually include big name schools across the country when the winter term break allows for extended team trips, often to someplace warm. This year, they were out on the west coast. Last year, Hawai’i. Then come the local outof-conference games against the Big Five and the likes. The season then wraps up with exclusively Ivy League play.

Though Penn put on a clinic against Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend and looked good doing it, the team isn’t really at its best until it’s put to the test. It’s much more impressive to be able to run with a top-40 team like Temple or No. 11 Duke than it is to

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Sophomore forward Princess Aghayere came off the bench to score six points in Penn women’s basketball’s Friday night victory over Harvard.

obliterate a 200+ ranked team like Dartmouth. Simply put, because of both necessity and attitude, the Quakers’ defense is more tenacious against more physical offenses.

Against Temple, Penn put up some of its highest figures for steals (11) and personal fouls (18). In its 86-60 destruction of Brown, their numbers weren’t even half that.

Physical play can lead to injury, though, and coach Mike McLaughlin has needed to rely on his bench more as the season has worn on.

Most recently, it was senior

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Sydney Stipanovich subbing out for part of last night’s game against the Big Green with an ankle injury that was unnerving to every Penn fan in the Palestra; Stip’s the only experienced center that the Red and Blue can count on, not to mention the core of Penn’s defense as a threetime Ivy League defensive player of the year.

Before, it was Lauren Whitlatch’s season-ending ACL tear, which brought sixth woman Brzozowski into a starting role and drew on sophomore Ashley Russell and

freshman Phoebe Sterba on the wings.

But as much of a loss as injuries like Whitlach’s can be, there was something to be gained from the newly discovered depth the midseason tumult ushered in. “I’d like to think tomorrow at Temple, against good competition that I’m going to be able to play 10 kids and be comfortable with it,� said McLaughlin after the news of Whitlach’s status broke. “Maybe I waited a little too long to go with her more,� he said of Princess Aghayere, whose role expanded during and after the west coast trip. “We were determined when we went out to California to start playing this bench.�

What’s more, relief from players like Aghayere and Russell have made starters like power forward Michelle Nwokedi and guard Anna Ross even more dangerous in the past few games. Nwokedi had 23 points and 20 rebounds on the weekend while Ross dropped a whopping 28 points and brought down 12 boards of her own.

And perhaps most impressively, despite her injury, Stipanovich was able to power through and score 15 points in last night’s game against Dartmouth. There isn’t a member of this team who isn’t ready to pick up the slack when needed.

The early favorite for the Ivy title, Penn should have the tournament at the Palestra in its sights at this point.

But the team needs to be careful to not allow the Ivy League bubble obfuscate its awareness of the talent exhibited by the rest of the NCAA. With a defense currently ranked fourth in the nation in points allowed and an ability to finish within 13 points of elite non-conference teams, it’s clear this team has the potential to find success beyond the Ivy League Championship Tournament in March, so long as they stay driven, stay focused, and treat every game as if it were its last.

GRIFF FITZSIMMONS is a College freshman from Rochester, N.Y., and is a sports reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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Penn takes down Harvard, but falls to Brown in weekend split

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DAVID FIGURELLI Sports Reporter

Penn wrestling had mixed results in a brutal Saturday afternoon this past weekend, splitting a pair of critical back-to-back conference matchups against Ivy foes Harvard and Brown.

The Quakers would open up the day with a matinee performance against the Crimson (2-7, 2-5 EIWA), getting their second conference win of the season by a score of 27-17. After Harvard scored a fall in the first match of the day, junior May Bethea scored a fall himself to tie the score at six.

It was all Penn (4-6, 2-5) from there, as the Red and Blue would go on to win the next four matches to bring the score to 23-6, all but ensuring a Quaker victory. Highlights include a technical fall from senior Brooks Martino and a fall from fellow classmate Frank Mattiace, who is ranked No. 17 in the nation for the 197-lb. weight class. Jeremy Schwartz would get the final win for the Quakers on the day in the 125lb. match to solidify the victory for Penn.

Unfortunately for the Quakers, the evening match against Brown would not end in such a favorable fashion.

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“If we’re going to win duals, if we’re going to win matches, then we’re going to need consistency at our top end,� he said after the Brown dual. “We’ve been pretty fortunate to see the upper half of the lineup perform pretty consistently. We’ve had to lean on them a lot this year because we do have some younger guys in the lower half. At some point we’ve got to make sure that we’re contributing throughout, that we’re not just riding those guys’ coattails.� “I think our biggest thing was just continuing to wrestle,� Mattiace added. “I think we had a lot of opportunities in the match where we didn’t wrestle our best, and that led to a lot of close matches that could have gone the other way if people wrestled better on their game for a full match.�

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the day, this time a major decision by a score of 17-8.

Brown would win the next match at the 165-lb. weight level before senior Casey Kent, ranked No. 13 in the country, joined Bethea in getting two wins on the day. After getting a decision win against Harvard, Kent would score a technical fall against Brown to bring the overall score to 12 all. After another decision in favor of Brown, Mattiace would also get his second victory of the day by scoring a major decision, the bonus points giving Penn its 16-15 lead.

All of Brown’s victories came by decision, including three victories by a one-point margin. Despite how close the match was, Penn coach Alex Tirapelle realizes that he needs more from the younger members of the team.

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day. In a back-and-forth match, Brown’s Ian Butterbrodt would come away with a 5-2 decision over Penn sophomore Tyler Hall to make the final score 18-16.

The lineup for the Quakers would look a bit different in the night-time match, as they sent some of the squad to Lock Haven to prepare for an open tournament on Sunday, including the earlier-victorious Martino.

Despite the lineup changes, it would be the consistency of the Penn upperclassmen that would give the Quakers a shot at winning.

Penn lost its first three matches by decision to put the team down 9-0 before junior Joe Oliva would score a 7-3 decision over Brown’s Travis Vasquez to end the drought. Bethea would score his second victory of

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Ivy League playoff has given the Quakers a glimmer of hope.

Last year’s 4th-place team, Harvard, had eight losses. The year before, Dartmouth had seven.

Penn already has five, and with nine games still to play, can’t afford to lose many more.

The Quakers will put their exceedingly slim margin of error to the test entering perhaps the toughest game left on the schedule. On Tuesday, the winless Quakers take on the undefeated Princeton Tigers to celebrate the Palestra’s 90th birthday. The rivalry and occasion immediately give this game special meaning, but after this weekend, the script has changed. It’s no longer simply a historic Ancient Eight battle with pride on the line, it’s not just about protecting the most hallowed ground in college basketball from hated foes; it’s a battle for survival.

If the Quakers lose again Tuesday, it’s safe to say that their season is over. However, a win might just give Penn the momentum it needs to start a win streak. The desperation

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Penn men’s basketball may not have hit their stride just yet, but all the pieces — including freshman AJ Brodeur — are there, Papazekos says.

that seemed to be lacking this weekend needs to be evident.

The free throw shooting needs to improve. The Quakers need somebody — anybody — to step up and deliver an MVP performance and a victory. Ivy glory and a ticket to the big dance are on the line in every remaining game, and the Quakers need to

play like it.

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Penn women’s basketball tallied a pair of wins over Harvard and Dartmouth on Friday and Saturday to take firm control of first place in the Ivy League. The Quakers (12-6, 5-0 Ivy) made easy work of them both, beating a Harvard team (16-3, 4-2) ranked 20th in the RPI by 20 points and a decent Dartmouth side (6-13, 1-5) by 30.

Penn’s first visitors for the weekend, Harvard, came in flying on a 16-game win streak, including four in the league to take them to the top.

and controlled the match from start to finish.

Their 63-43 win, paired with Harvard’s loss to Princeton the following night, puts Penn firmly in the driver’s seat in the Ivy League.

“We’re happy with it, but we’re not gonna let it get to our heads,” sophomore Ashley Russell said. “We can’t celebrate, and we can’t rest on our laurels going forward. We need to play like every team is the best team in the league.”

But the Quakers’ defense stands alone at the moment as the best in the league. In particular, if their defense stays as resolute as it was over the weekend — they allowed the Crimson just 12 points in the first half on Friday and the Big Green a meager 17 in the same time span a day later — there should be no difficulties holding on to the top of the conference.

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It wasn’t pretty.

On its farthest road trip of the Ivy League season, Penn men’s basketball dropped two critical games to Harvard and Dartmouth, blowing an early lead in Cambridge before falling to the previouslyconference-winless Big Green.

After jumping out to a massive early lead, Penn regressed substantially over the game’s final 30 minutes en route to a 69-59 loss to Harvard Friday. With the loss, the Red and Blue (7-11) dropped to 0-4 in Ivy play — a mark that was extended to 0-5 a day later.

Despite having not played in over a week, the Quakers came out firing on all cylinders. Fueled by senior Matt Howard and junior Caleb Wood, Penn sprang to leads of 11-0 and 19-4. The early success, though, was fueled largely by unsustainably high field goal percentage; the Quakers made eight of their first ten shots.

“We weren’t tired. Most teams in college basketball have a lot more games,” Penn coach Steve Donahue noted. “The guys were excited; the guys were confident.”

In the game’s second half, Penn’s shooting went frigid, as the Quakers shot just 20.7 percent from the field over the final 20 minutes, including 1-of-14 from beyond the arc.

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scored in double figures, led by guard Siyani Chambers’ 13. The Quakers were actually quite efficient at slowing the fifth-year star, though, as Chambers shot just 3-of11 from the field.

Turnovers proved to be the death of the Red and Blue; the Quakers turned the ball over 19 times, well above their season average of 12.9.

Donahue, though felt that figure was below what it could’ve been.

“They jumped passing lanes; that’s what they do. But to be honest with you, they didn’t jump as many as they typically do,” Donahue said of the Crimson defense. “We just didn’t take care of the basketball.”

The next night at Dartmouth (7-11, 1-5), things weren’t much better. Though the Quakers turned the ball over just eight times and made 47 percent of their shots, a lack of offensive starpower prevented them from asserting themselves. The Big Green never

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looked back after going on a 14-2 run early in the second half. Junior guard Darnell Foreman — playing all 40 minutes — led the team with 15 points and four assists.

Both games brought disappointing performances for freshman forward AJ Brodeur. Fresh off scoring 35 points against La Salle on Jan. 25, the young star struggled both evenings, scoring just sixteen points between the two contests.

“In his defense, we rely on him so much,” Donahue said. “If he doesn’t score at times, we struggle.”

Winless in the Ivy League, the Red and Blue are now all but eliminated from the conference’s inaugural tournament.

While the team is certainly capable of dominating for stretches — as was the case early Friday — the team’s propensity for mental mistakes and streaky shooting has doomed the squad to likely watch postseason play from afar.

Talk about a quick response.

Only three days after it was publicly revealed that former Penn men’s golf head coach Bob Heintz would be resigning to head to Duke, the University announced on Friday afternoon that his position would be filled by former Penn golfer and 2010 College graduate Michael Blodgett for at least the remainder of the 2016-17 season.

Citing a desire to compete at the highest level of college golf, Heintz departed Penn after a five-year career that included the 2015 Ivy League Championship and the 2014 City Six Championship, leaving the Red and Blue to scramble to find a replacement with the March 6th season-opener rapidly approaching.

Fortunately, Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun didn’t have to look too far for Heintz’s replacement. Blodgett played for four years at Penn and was a part of the school’s second ever Ivy League title-winning squad in 2007, before he raised the ante even further by becoming Penn’s first ever individual conference champion a year later.

“Before I signed the paperwork yesterday, I got to campus a little early and I walked around campus and kind of took it all in; I’ve been on campus

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many times since I graduated, but this was different,” Blodgett said. “It’s an incredible honor to be asked by your alma mater to come back and lead the team that has meant so much to me and my family over the last 12 years, so yeah, it was an easier decision because it was Penn.”

Blodgett does have a bit of experience coaching in University City, having served a volunteer assistant coach for Penn in 2010 under then-head coach Scott Allen before embarking on a brief professional career.

Additionally, Blodgett built his rapport with the Red and Blue program even further with his role as the Northeast Region Coordinator for the College Golf Fellowship from 2012 to 2016, often attending the Quakers’ tournaments and practices.

“My previous job was in the college golf world, and I helped alongside college golfers and coaches in the area, so I’ve seen the Penn guys quite a bit,” Blodgett said. “I don’t think it was any surprise that I was asked to step in and lead this team the rest of the way. ... the guys on the team have a great relationship with me, and I with them, so I’m hoping that this makes that transition pretty smooth.”

Unsurprisingly, the Quakers were unanimously in favor of the hiring decision, also citing their familiarity with Blodgett as a major advantage.

“We weren’t surprised necessarily, because he’s been very

involved over the last couple of years; we all kind of thought in the back of our minds that he would be the perfect candidate, and little did we know that’d be how it would end up,” sophomore Josh Goldenberg said. “We weren’t surprised, but more just happy that it had been finalized.”

According to Blodgett, there’s been no discussion about his future with the program beyond 2017.

In the meantime, the Red and Blue will approach their season with renewed enthusiasm, hungry for redemption for last season’s disappointing seventhplace finish in conference play.

And though the players understandably shared a deep connection with their departed former leader, both Blodgett and his athletes remain confident that he can be the guy to guide them back to the promised land.

“I know the culture here, the goals that not just the team but the athletic administration are striving to achieve; excellence on the golf course but also excellence in the classroom, those are all goals I had as a player,” Blodgett said. “The main goal hasn’t changed; our goal is still to win the Ivy League championship, and I’m just going to bring a different voice. Bob has had great success with this program, and no one is trying to take away from the foundation that he has laid, so it’s really my job to pick up where he left off.”

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