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The Penn administration has not remained silent in light of President Donald Trump’s recent immigration ban. A few days after President Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, Penn President Amy Gutmann took a public stance on the issue. In an email sent to the Penn community, which she also recited at a Faculty Senate protest, Gutmann condemned the executive order as “injurious to our work and inimical to our values.” Gutmann, along with Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber, also helped draft a letter to President Trump criticizing the ban. The letter, which urged President Trump to “rectify or rescind” the executive order, was signed 47 other university presidents. Many of the universities that have signed the letter have taken a public stance and expressed deep concer n rega rding the implications of the immigration ban. In a statement to the Princeton community, Eisgruber called immigration
A new student organization, Penn for Reproductive Justice, launched its reproductive rights advocacy platform on Thursday. Members chalked Locust Walk in opposition to the reinstatement of the global gag rule — which blocks U.S. federal funding from organizations that provide abortion services — and highlighted the effects they say the
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College junior and PFRJ co-founder Esther Cohen said PFRJ labels itself as reproductive rights advocates instead of pro-choice in order to remain inclusive.
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law will have on women’s health over the next four years. College junior and PFRJ cofounder Esther Cohen said PFRJ distinguishes itself from being labeled as pro-choice, instead opting for the label of reproductive rights advocates, in order to remain “inclusive and lead to more activism.” “We’d be more productive if we were [a group] for reproductive justice in general,” she said. “Abortion is seen as only a women’s issue and that it becomes exclusive when you think SEE RIGHTS PAGE 2
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Penn student writes book about Trump’s election Reception for “The PC Lie” has been positive ADELAIDE POWELL Staff Reporter
In the past months, many students have been voicing their disapproval of President Donald Trump and protesting his policies — but one College senior has already written a book analyzing the post-election climate. College senior Marissa Alexa McCool said she wrote “The PC Lie: How American Voters Decided I Don’t Matter” to express her feelings about the implications of the Trump presidency, which she believes will increase discrimination. “The book started as a reaction to the election of Trump, and the effects it had on me as a transgirl, the LGBT community, and so many of us who were terrified of what the regime could bring to this country after so much progress
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of it that way.” Cohen was inspired to create the group after a student prolife group, Quakers for Life, started last semester. She said she also wants the group to combat the “anti-choice” initiatives that she feels “disenfranchize women” across the nation and on Penn’s campus. “I don’t use the term prolife, I use anti-choice, which is an important reframing of the rhetoric,” Cohen said. Cohen intends for the club to be a “mobilizing” medium for Penn students to oppose and speak out against policies and actions that target reproductive rights, including access to women’s health care and the right to choose an abortion. College junior and the other co-founding member of PFRJ Haley Weiss was motivated to start a reproductive rights club on campus in light of the rhetoric of the Trump administration and the national political climate surrounding women’s health. Both Cohen and Weiss reiterated that PFRJ, as per its mission statement, was started by “two people with divergent views based on the same prochoice principles.” Initially, Weiss said she was wary of the club “veer[ing] into hyper-aggressive feminism” due to Penn’s political climate. “We’re walking the fine line because we are on a very liberal college campus,” Weiss said. Instead of creating a group to continuously demonstrate against Quakers for Life, Weiss wanted to establish PFRJ “as a space and a platform for speaking up and pushback” that is accessible to people of all genders and political affiliations. While Cohen intends for
had been made as far as our visibility and rights,” McCool said. McCool, 31, describes herself as a recently open transgirl, wife, mother, creator and host of a podcast, writer and student of English and cinema. She frequently interviews professors such as Kathy Van Cleve, Meta Mazaj, Ian Thomas Fleishman and Bruce Kuklick and illustrious alumni such as Noam Chomsky on her 80-episode-strong podcast, called Inciting Incident. Her new book contains essays about possible implications of Trump’s election from a diverse set of writers, including fellow podcasters, family, friends and classmates. Chris Kluwe, the former NFL punter who was an outspoken proponent for same-sex marriage and gay rights in Minnesota in 2012, wrote the foreword of “The PC Lie.” McCool said that in the days following the election she began to try to express her fears and
the group to be “in direct opposition to the pro-life group on campus,” Weiss has a more “diplomatic” view on the club’s relationship with Quakers for Life. Cohen echoed Weiss’s sentiment of using PFRJ as a reactionary, rather than antagonistic, force on campus. Quakers for Life has no plans to be “primarily focused on any people in particular” or to directly respond to the launch of PFRJ, the club’s founder and president, Wharton sophomore Eric Hoover, said. Hoover said he looks forward to a “robust dialogue” on campus over his view of abortion as a human’s rights issue, which he says he thinks is often lost among students. While Hoover said Quakers for Life is “in 100 percent support of women’s health care,” he and the club applauded Trump’s “pro-life agenda” and enforcement of the global gag rule. Hoover said he hopes that the federal funds that would normally go towards Planned Parenthood will be allocated to institutions that fund health care, but not abortions. “[Trump] has been pretty straightforward with his prolife agenda,” Hoover said. “I hope he follows through on all of his promises.” In response to recent policies such as the reinstatement of the global gag rule, Hoover looks to schedule forums for public discourse or formal debates throughout the semester. Cohen reiterated that the existence of Quakers for Life prompted the formation of PFRJ. “There is a pro-life group on this campus, but we [at PFRJ] know that that is not the opinion of the majority of campus,” Cohen said. “There should be a group that actually reflects the thoughts of the student body.”
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concerns about Trump’s victory by putting pen to paper. After her “initial rant,” McCool delved deeper into her personal history and decision to come out, as well as broader topics like social justice, trigger warnings and safe spaces. She said she began to realize she had enough material for a book. McCool was inspired by the post-election conversations she had in her classes — like professor Marion Kant’s course on travel writing — in which her peers expressed pain, worry and fear. She also said the presence of the “hate pastors” on campus deeply affected her. Reception for “The PC Lie” has been overwhelmingly positive so far, McCool said. She has been featured on podcasts like The Daily Pennsylvanian’s In the Cut, God Awful Movies, SJW Circle-Jerk, ORLY Radio, Podunk Polymath, Brainstorm Podcast and Gaytheist Manifesto.
“Transpeople are not well represented in media, so [“The PC Lie”] offers a perspective that hasn’t been well publicized outside of possibly Caitlyn Jenner or Chaz Bono,” McCool said. McCool is nothing if not prolific. She is 21 chapters into her newest novel “False Start,” entered a number of film festivals, wrote two feature-length scripts, has posted more than 250 columns and created a YouTube show with 134 episodes. “I’m well aware that as a transperson, I’m an exception, in that I go to a very LGBT-friendly university where trans-health is covered, and I have thousands of supporters from the podcast and other written works who reach out constantly in support, love and encouragement,” she said. “I feel it’s my responsibility to speak up with that position, especially when so many either cannot or don’t feel safe doing so. I try to be the person I needed ten years ago.”
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College senior Marissa Alexa McCool wrote a book analyzing the post-election reactions of 2016.
MBA students create email newsletter They pair news articles with contrasting views NINA SELIPSKY Staff Reporter
This year’s political events have reinforced the idea for many that people have their own personal informational bubbles that are difficult to escape. Three Wharton MBA students are seeking to change that with the launch of their company, Polar News. Last October, Davis Filippell, Matt Alexander and Mimi Bell created Polar News, an online newsletter that pairs articles with contrasting points of view on current events and sends them to subscribers. The founders curate all of the newsletter’s content themselves, selecting articles they feel are most relevant for readers. Filippell first conceived of the idea for the company last summer after observing the news coverage leading up to Brexit while living in London. “My own sphere was very one-sided both before and after, which caused a lot of surprise,” Filippell said. When Filippell returned to the United States in the fall, he noticed the same phenomenon occurring in the coverage leading up to the presidential election. During lunch one day in October, he sent an email comparing reports of the vice presidential debate to the six people sitting around his table, and thus Polar News was born. “I sent that first email to the people around me to show that what you may believe as the obvious outcome is not what is being pushed through the internet and the world, so it is important to take action on it,” he said. Alexander shared Filippell’s desire to increase awareness of differing points of view and make contrasting reports more
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readily available. “There were a lot of people, both in Brexit and in the U.S. presidential election, who felt that the vote had to turn out a certain way, and couldn’t turn out any other way,” Alexander said. Filippell and Alexander agree that the news sources people follow online tend to reinforce one another. “Most people, when they look at their Facebook news feeds, tend to be friends with like-minded people of similar backgrounds,” Alexander said. “When it comes to the articles that people choose to share, a lot of times they can be of a very similar mindset, and thus is the emergence of the echo chamber.” Alexander describes this echo chamber as confirming or
validating beliefs and perspectives that people already have, adding that it is a lot more difficult to break out and try to find information from a different perspective. “We just want people to look at the articles we’ve paired and make up their own minds and think for themselves,” Alexander said. “We’re hoping that in the future we can build a platform for constructive political dialogue, not just for United States politics but also for issues that are important to people around the world.” Filippell believes that providing news coverage that is accurate and showcases a variety of views has become increasingly important. “We see a lot happening in the world right now in which there is a huge potential for
misinformation, and fake news is a topic that trends in all sorts of different circles,” Filippell said. “Our goal is to look through that and create something that people look forward to and count on, and also can use to make a difference.” The founders eventually hope to present more than just two viewpoints in each newsletter, since there are many different sides to every issue, they said. “We have this two-party system that is very entrenched in American politics, but within every party and on every issue there are a multitude of different views,” Alexander said. “As Americans and people who live in the United States, whether citizens or not, I think that we can do better in the way we choose to talk about certain things.”
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Updates on November racist GroupMe incident The FBI has investigated three Oklahoma students ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter
T he F BI recently interviewed and obtained search wa r ra nts for th ree Tulsaarea high school graduates in connection with the racist GroupMe messages sent to severa l Pen n fresh men in November following the presidential election. The F BI filed a sea rch warrant affidavit in the U.S. District Court in Tulsa and said
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“indispensable to the mission and the excellence of America’s universities” and assured that Princeton would not disclose any information about its students to law enforcement officers. In a statement titled “We Are All Harvard,” Harvard President Drew Faust emphasized the university’s “robust commitment to internationalism” and said that its federal relations staff has been in direct contact with local, state and federal leaders to express “our grave concern.” However, not all universities across the United States have taken an equally active stance in standing up against President Trump’s order. University
it was “investigating the matter under federal law that prohibits sending interstate messages threatening another person,” according to the Oklahoma Watch. Those named in the FBI affidavit have not been charged with a crime. On Nov. 10, several Penn f resh men were adde d to G r o u p M e g r o u p s c a l le d “Trump is Love” and “Mud Men.” Students also received an event invite titled “Daily Lynching” in a message thread that contained a picture of a mass lynching.
Fol lowi ng t he i ncident , students organized a march down to Franklin Field from Huntsman Hall after a town hall meeting attended by Penn President Amy Gutmann. St udents a lso proteste d outside of Van Pelt Library and handed out safety pins on Locust Walk in a gesture of solidarity for minority groups on campus. FBI investigations into the matter traced the messages back to a University of Tulsa student. The student has since “voluntarily allowed FBI agents
to search his phone in December,” according to Oklahoma Watch. The student also told the FBI that he was added to the “Mud Men” group by a friend after which he proceeded to add between 70 to 150 of his contacts on GroupMe, including Penn students — he initially planned to attend the University. As part of the investigation, the FBI also interviewed a University of Ok la homa student, who was part of one of the groups. A university spokesman said on Friday that the individual is no longer
enrolled, the Oklahoma Watch reported. The OU student also said that he and two other friends were added to the group by another friend who studies at Tulsa Community College. The FBI has also obtained search warrants for the residence and phone of the Tulsa Community College student. The student was interviewed by agents while on interim suspension from the school. T h e Tu l s a C om mu n it y College student said that he sta r ted the message group called “Trump’s Disciples” and
administrations that have not been as vocal in their stance have received criticism from some of its alumni and faculty. In an open letter to Wake Forest Un iversity, a lum n i Carleigh Morgan and Joshua Courtney expressed “deep dissatisfaction with the official response issued by University President Nathan O. Hatch” regarding the executive order. They wrote that Hatch’s remarks “fail to provide concrete reassurances that preserving the safety and multicultural interests of a diverse student body are a priority,” and pointed to Gutmann as “a model for appropriate reaction.” The faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also wrote an open letter asking the administration to
take concrete steps to protect students affected by the immigration ban. Citing schools like the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin and Cornell University, the faculty urged the administration “not to release sensitive information, such as immigration status, to federal authorities” unless required by law. “[Chancellor Ca rol Folt] didn’t involve a ny di rect statement saying that UNC disagreed with the position of the Trump administration on immigration and the results that came from their actions, executive actions,” UNC professor Caroline Zimmer told The Daily Tar Heel. While the University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan stated that the administration
will not release the immigration status of any students unless legally required, she also said that it would be “unlikely the University would be taking a stance in favor of or against the order, for a variety of reasons,” reported The Cavalier Daily. “[Sullivan] said it would likely be ineffective, as many universities are written off as liberal institutions,” the article said. Wake Forest University, UNC and UVA did not sign the letter to President Trump; however, they did sign a letter to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. The letter, which stated that “America is the greatest magnet for people from around the world and it must remain so,” was signed by nearly 600 colleges and universities.
Penn President Amy Gutmann helped draft a letter to President Donald Trump criticizing his executive order on immigration.
posted the “Daily Lynching” event invitation. The student also said he invited the OU student, the University of Tulsa student and a third person to join. The Oklahoma Watch reported that after the GroupMe messages began to spread, FBI agents said that the student “became fearful and deleted the app from his phone.” During the interview with the agents, the student “expressed remorse for his actions and advised he had no intention to harm anyone,” the FBI affidavit said.
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Wharton study finds that humor helps in the workplace
Using appropriate humor can improve your standing LEXI LIEBERMAN Staff Reporter
It’s time to use your sense of humor to your advantage at the office. Recent research by the Wharton School suggests that a well-received joke can improve your professional status and workplace opinions of your skill. This is a primary finding of the research paper “Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status,” written by Wharton professor of Operations, Information and Decisions Maurice Schweitzer, graduate student Brad Bitterly and Harvard University assistant professor Alison Wood
Brooks. The researchers found that successfully using humor in the workplace causes others to perceive the joke-teller as both more confident and competent, thus increasing their status and recognition among peers. Schweit z er t h i n k s t h at humor is a useful professional tool that people often overlook, and his findings support the idea that when used effectively, humor can elevate one’s social position. “ We a rg ue t hat hu mor should be thought of as a deliberate and important tool that profoundly shapes our inter personal interactions,” he said. “So how we perceive other people, and in particular the status that we accord other people, is profoundly
inf luenced by the use of humor.” The funny person in the office, as long as they do not use humor inappropriately, is usually looked up to. “When people make a funny joke, people think of them as h igher stat us,” Schweitzer added. Using humor, the research demonstrates, is a free way to increase standing, while many spend thousands of dollars buying designer brand clothing and bags to do the same. “The example that we talked about in our research team is whereas a Louis Vuitton bag is really expensive, a joke is free,” Bitterly said. As long as the joke is appropriate, it will still make the joke-teller appear more
confident, even if it falls flat . “Even the mere attempt at using humor signals confidence,” Schweitzer added. “So even if the joke isn’t funny or doesn’t land, the idea that people are attempting to use humor signals that they have some confidence.” However, if the joke is not appropriate for the office or professional environment, it can offend people and ultimately backfire. “It’s a risky approach,” Bitterly said. “If you successfully use humor, people say, ‘oh, that person’s really witty.’ If you tell inappropriate jokes, people will think that you’re more confident, but they’ll think,
‘what an idiot,’ and you’ll ultimately lose status.” Bitterly recognizes the importance of their work and was initially surprised that researchers had not studied the connection between humor and status before. “Humor pervades our lives, and when you actually hear people talk about traits that they look for in a date or in a wspouse, they consistently rate sense of humor,” he said. “But then the management literatures largely overlook the impact of humor and really haven’t done exper imenta l work, prior to the work that we did on how humor changes perception.”
Bitterly also advises using humor in interviews, since an appropriate, funny joke can make one appear more confident and competent to a potential employer.
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An appreciation of labor and a critique of leisure stranger than fiction | Reflections on the consumer-centric lifestyle at Penn
Tuesday FEBRUARY 7, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 15 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
Despite the title, this article will not serve as some sort of rallying cry to raise the minimum wage, nor will it attempt to explain the complicated nature of universal basic income. Discussions like these, even with the best intentions, manage to reduce workers and people to numbers on spreadsheets and ledgers. We, as Penn students and as human beings, exist in a society that constrains us in certain subconscious ways. The two constraints I’d like to highlight in this article are our modern conceptions of labor and leisure with respect to the Penn experience. I developed my opinion about these constraints based on two personal realizations. The first: To truly appreciate labor is to understand it. This is becoming increasingly difficult in a world where many of our most essentially human behaviors have been captured and remarketed to us as services or products. Our food, education, transportation and
entertainment are all marketed to us in more easily consumable ways. This acceleration of marketization has certainly been aided by advancing technologies that allow advertisers to literally reach into the pockets of their consumers. But wait, why on earth is this relevant at Penn? This realization came to me when I opened my refrigerator to find a handful of tupperware containers filled with food that my mom had cooked for me before break. Despite all the work she put into cooking up what would have proved to be a delicious meal, I allowed it to rot in the fridge. The truth is, this was not the first time I had done this. Yet, this incident felt more significant because I had just spent much of my winter break helping my mom cook and prepare food. Because I had engaged in the labor of preparing a meal, I could appreciate how terrible it was to let that previous food go to waste. This is just one personal example, but I could apply
this lesson to a whole host of daily activities of many students at Penn. We pay for our food to be made and delivered to us. We pay for transportation to pick us up and drop us off anywhere we’d like to go. And often when we pay for these products and services, we pay a premium so that we don’t
of abstract monetary terms, and in doing so, lose empathy or regard for the human element of the labor. We do this because the labor is replaceable. It seems to me a slippery slope, one where eventually we will consume everything and value nothing. This brings me to my sec-
Leisure need not be used to escape our everyday realities, but to immerse ourselves in them even more in novel, diverse, constructive and productive ways.” have to be involved in the labor of their production. For instance, we pay delivery fees so we don’t have to walk to pick up our food. What happens when we consume products or services without giving any thought to how they are produced? We lose the ability to value their worth outside
ond personal realization: I constantly grapple with the urge to use leisure time as a form of escapism rather than a time to be productive. This gradual devaluation or alienation from productive forces even creeps into our leisure time. Consider two popular and easily consumable forms of entertain-
ment: social media and television/video content. Rather than engaging in self expansive activities, like reading, conversing or playing instruments with friends that I know I would find more enjoyable and meaningful, I find myself retracting from my community and engaging in more escapist forms of entertainment like Netflix and social media. Though these are personal struggles, I am sure I am not alone. Reports have shown that college students in particular are vastly connected to both social media and video streaming platforms. And the truth is that we could be spending the time we use on social media and television on more productive things, like reading books. We can begin appreciating the labor that is done for us by beginning to reengage in it ourselves. We, as students, should take the opportunity of being part of an academic community to be co-producers rather than just consumers. We should not only labor
MIchael PALAMOUNTAIN to be able to buy things — we should labor for love, for the benefit of our communities. In doing so, we may find life that much more rewarding. And, when indeed we find our lives more rewarding, we may be able to reclaim our leisure time. Leisure need not be used to escape our everyday realities, but to immerse ourselves in them even more in novel, diverse, constructive and productive ways. MIKE PALAMOUNTAIN is a College senior from Philadelphia, studying psychology. His email address is mpal@sas.upenn. edu. “Stranger Than Fiction” usually appears every other Tuesday.
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On Monday, 97 companies issued a joint statement going against the “Muslim ban” executive order. For better or for worse, this is the new normal. Companies are being forced to take a stand one way or the other. Consumers like us should as well. For example, Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, got political in his pledge to hire 10,000 refugees following the executive order. This led to a “boycott Starbucks” movement among Trump supporters, which led to a counter-movement of liberals buying more Starbucks to compensate. Everything, even where you get your coffee, is now a political statement. It’s very frustrating to realize that this country is so polarized that politics has permeated absolutely everything. The Trump black hole has sucked in our entire nation and not even a small ray of non-partisan light can escape. Not the Super Bowl, with its politically themed advertisements. Not simple service businesses like Lyft and Amazon. Not even the “fail-
ing” news media, which publishes story after story and op-ed after op-ed on whatever thing President Trump just did or said. Companies have found themselves between a rock and a hard place when it comes to the Trump administration. On one hand, going against him could lead to a Twitter attack and a subsequent dip in stock prices, which has already happened to companies like Boeing and GM. On the other hand, aligning too closely with him leads to backlash movements like #DeleteUber and the “Grab Your Wallet” campaign designed to boycott companies that do business with Trump. And remaining silent comes with its own risks, like potential backlash from consumers and employees alike. Businesses are finding that, one way or another, you’re going to have to pick a side. From a corporate point of view, branding yourself as pro-Trump or anti-Trump has serious implications for your marketability. Whether Airbnb’s “accepting” Super Bowl
ad was a smart decision is yet to be seen, but you can bet it was very deliberate. However, let’s not sugarcoat it. Starbucks probably didn’t pledge to hire 10,000 refugees out of the kindness of their hearts — they did it because they calculated the
tisements from Breitbart.com fearing consumer backlash, which might eventually hurt their bottom line. I personally think all those outcomes are good, but I of course come with my own partisan biases, as does everyone else. But whether you
Consumers are now deciding to put their money where their mouth is and refuse to bankroll companies they feel don’t stand up for their values.” good press and increased purchasing among their target demographic, urban liberals, making it worth the expense. Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick, only resigned from Trump’s economic advisory council when confronted with the fallout from the #DeleteUber campaign. Numerous companies have withdrawn adver-
like them or not, you must admit these actions were a result of changing incentives for these companies. Consumers are now deciding to put their money where their mouth is and refuse to bankroll companies they feel don’t stand up for their values. More power to them. Nobody can tell you where
to spend your money. While it may be irritating that everything has become political, it isn’t new. Calls for boycotts of states like North Carolina after they passed discriminatory laws were effective and hurt their economies and were arguably responsible for former Gov. Pat McCrory’s loss last November. If we can boycott a state when it pushes a policy we dislike, why not a company? If this is the world we live in, so be it. Everything is so political because there is a massive political divide. The two parties are so divided because people are divided. Business owners are free to support whomever they like, but if we disagree, the least we can do is refuse to let our money line their pockets. That being said, this approach comes with its drawbacks. Intentionally valuing a product more due to political affiliations instead of the product itself leads to market distortions, and trying companies in the court of public opinion can be dangerous. Nonetheless, this hyperpartisan environment won’t
JOE THARAKAN end with some kumbaya come together sing-along. It only ends when one side wins and the other side loses. That is when the nation heals and comes together again. Economic boycotts are one weapon in a political arsenal. So whichever side you are on, go ahead and flex your consumer muscles. It’s your right to spend your money at companies that promote your values and your right to boycott companies that don’t. JOE THARAKAN is a College senior from the Bronx, N.Y., in the biological basis of behavior program. His email address is jthara@sas.upenn.edu. “Cup o’Joe” usually appears every other Tuesday.
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Natives at Penn fight construction of the DAPL Students write letter asking Trump to reconsider HARI KUMAR Staff Reporter
President Donald Trump’s recent executive order concerning the Dakota Access Pipeline has sparked outrage among Native American students at Penn. Trump recently signed an executive order pushing forward plans to begin construction of both the Keystone Pipeline System and the DAPL. The possible construction of the DAPL has caused recent outrage among Native American communities, since it is planned to affect the native land of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Natives at Penn, a student organization that represents Native American students on Penn’s campus, takes a firm position against the construction of the DAPL. 2011 School of Social Policy & Practice graduate Vanessa Iyua, an active member of the organization, noted that
reconciling with the intersection of Native American rights and the fight against the DAPL is important for our country moving forward. There have also been other efforts on Penn’s campus to oppose the DAPL that were not centered around the Natives at Penn group. Second-year historic preservation graduate student Xochilt Armenta was involved in writing a letter that opposed the construction of the DAPL. The letter said students and faculty “should support halting any construction of the DAPL until revised environmental and cultural assessments are carried out as requested by Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.” The letter was co-signed by three United States representatives and sent to the office of the President, where it awaits consideration. Elizabeth Ellis, a fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, also recently held a discussion about the DAPL at Rodin College House. In December, after the U.S.
Army temporarily halted construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Natives at Penn made a public comment on their Facebook page, writing that activists must “continue to be in solidarity.” With aid from the Penn Humanities Forum, the organization recently brought Winona LaDuke to speak, a Native American scholar who protested at the Standing Rock reservation this past year against the pipeline’s construction. She talked to Penn students about issues that affect Native Americans in modern America as well as the need to prevent the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Natives at Penn is a relatively new student group at Penn, but the organization has already been very active in their efforts to preserve Native American rights across the nation. They celebrated Native Heritage Month this past November with events including a community Thanksgiving dinner, a dream catcher-making workshop and a discussion about the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Snow storm is expected to hit Philadelphia on Thursday The snow is predicted to fall Wednesday night ELYAS TECLE Staff Reporter
We have seen little to no snow this winter season, but that may finally change on Thursday morning. A storm system looks to be moving across the country tomorrow, and will make its way towards the Northeast, moving off of the Delmarva and towards New England. However, the exact track of the storm has yet to be determined.
Right now, the global computer models are in consensus that there will certainly be a storm that will impact the region. The difficult part of this forecast is honing in on the details because there are many factors that will change the outcome of the storm. Ultimately, the storm’s track, intensity and snowfall will depend on how fast or slow the storm moves. The computer models that predict a storm moving in earlier have predicted more presence of rain rather than snow. On the flip side, the models that show a storm moving
in later predict only snowfall. Since there is not a source of cold air during this time frame, the storm will need to move in after midnight on Wednesday. The late-night timing makes all the difference because it allows the axis of snowfall to shift closer to Penn rather than towards the Lehigh Valley. Overall, there is a good chance that we will see snow falling on Thursday morning. But the details of how much snow will fall, whether or not it will stick and when it will start will be fine-tuned over the next 24 hours.
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Fans, student groups gear up for the Big Game at the Palestra Feb Club, Greek organizations plan events JACOB SNYDER Associate Sports Editor
In many ways, college is designed to divide us. You have grading curves that depend on you outperforming your peers, strict collaboration policies that prohibit working in groups on assignments, and much more. At Penn, where a renowned pressurecooker environment often flares up enough to melt even the toughest of students, people desperately need an occasional outlet to help relieve this ever-building pressure. Consider the perfect outlet here. On Tuesday, when Princeton storms into town to take on the Red and Blue, students from across the University will flock to the Palestra to view in-person the storied basketball rivalry matchup that the Ivy League has boasted every year since 1903. Several groups on
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If the concept of this showdown sounds unfamiliar to fans, it’s not without good reason. Due primarily to final exam conflicts, the two longtime rivals haven’t played during Penn’s school year since January 2012, with the inconveniently placed games consistently resulting in sparse attendance from student fans on both ends. Needless to say, this will be no issue on Tuesday, with a sold out crowd almost guaranteed in what should be one of the wildest atmospheres to strike University City in years. “[That’s] my favorite part about the schedule,” Donahue said when the game was first announced. “It is vitally important to me that our students get to experience one of the best rivalries in all of college sports.” As if this wasn’t enough to
campus are taking advantage of this valuable opportunity to give their members a break from the stresses of academics. Senior Ben Kramer, a member of Sigma Alpha Mu, has spread his passion for Penn basketball to the rest of his fraternity while spurning hype for Tuesday’s game. “In my four years in Sammy, I’ve definitely been trying to cultivate enthusiasm for the team,” Kramer said. “This year we’ve had some games with a big turnout, and Sammy will have a big group going on Tuesday too.” When asked about the role the fans play in games at the Palestra, Kramer was quick to cite momentum swings as the fans’ key area of impact. “The best example is the Villanova game,” Kramer said. “Something like 600 students showed up, and any time we hit a couple shots in a row, the crowd would get the players even more amped.” In addition to interest in the
game, some other Greek organizations have ulterior motives for getting a group together. Mikael Mantis, a member of Phi Kappa Psi and Penn Hype, has been encouraging members of his fraternity to come watch the game as well as Hype’s halftime performance. “I’ve been pretty vocal to everyone about it,” Mantis said. “I sent out emails to the brotherhood, and we’ve especially been advertising the cheap ticket price. There are some guys coming who aren’t big basketball fans but want to see myself and other Phi Psi Hype members perform.” With all the exciting buildup to Tuesday’s game, the question still remains – just how important is this game, outside of the historic rivalry? “We’ve been down and out in the Ivy League so far,” Kramer admitted. “This game is both exciting and also pivotal, with implications towards our hopes of turning this season around.
“Feb Club has this as their event for the night, which means seniors are going to be out in numbers,” Kramer added. “I know a lot of seniors who don’t usually come that are coming to see their last PennPrinceton game.” Feb Club, which is organized by the Class of 2017 Board and schedules daily events for seniors all through February, planted the game on their calendar of events for a reason – to heighten interest in the game as well as continue to bring the senior class together as Quakers. “We usually try to pick either a men’s or women’s basketball game as a Feb Club event,” Class of 2017 President Darren Tomasso said. “This is the first time that we’ve been able to make that game the Penn-Princeton game. We always are working with Penn Athletics to bridge the gap between students and sports, and we expect there to be tons of seniors there, no doubt.” Whether a member of a fraternity, a senior, both, or neither,
Tuesday’s game will be a spectacle that should not be missed. As for the game itself? “I think we’ll come out really hot after these past couple down results,” Kramer said. “I’m
confident that we can and will win this game. “There’d be nothing better than a win against Princeton in the Palestra with hundreds of Penn students there to see it.”
bring some passion to the Cathedral of College Basketball, the night will find extra excitement from the action that comes outside the whistles. The game will include a formal celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Palestra, named the most “hallowed hall” in the sport by the NCAA in 2014. For the occasion, Penn is selling student tickets for 55 cents — the same price they were back during the arena’s inaugural season — and non-student ones for $19.27, honoring the year of the stadium’s debut. Additionally, the pregame festivities will include the team’s second “Fan Fest” of the year. Of course, while the rampant emotion surrounding the contest can only help Penn, the Red and Blue (7-11, 0-5 Ivy) will still have their hands full with a strong Princeton squad once the opening whistle sounds. Despite losing senior starters
Hans Brase and Henry Caruso to season-ending injuries, the Tigers (12-6, 5-0) haven’t lost a step remotely, standing as the lone remaining unbeaten squad in Ancient Eight play. Entering Tuesday on an absolute tear, Princeton has won eight consecutive games since a tight loss to MAAC-leading Monmouth in December. In the middle of that ongoing streak was a wild win over Penn over winter break, when the Quakers incredibly managed to tie the game after trailing 39-18 in the second half before ultimately fading in a 61-52 loss. The setback was a sign of things to come for the Red and Blue, who have severely struggled on offense throughout their winless start to conference play. Junior guard Darnell Foreman is the team’s lone player averaging double figures scoring in Ivy play, as the Quakers have been held to
60 points or fewer in three of their five losses. “There’s been some inconsistencies and it’s a little different each game, and it’s never been awful; for the most part we’re taking care of the ball and getting decent shots, but each game there’s four or five possessions where you’re like ‘that cost us,’” Donahue said. “It’s the little things; we’re in every game, but it comes down to the last five minutes, and we just haven’t gone a good job of really executing when we have to.” Similarly, the January win was also an omen for the Tigers, who have absolutely shut down everyone in their tracks. Led by senior forwards Steven Cook and Spencer Weisz, Princeton is limiting its Ivy foes to a conference-low 59.2 points per game, meaning that Penn will have to bring out something spectacular in order to take its first win over the Tigers since
2014. “It’d be fun to get one in my first time playing them and my last time playing them, so I definitely want to see that happen tomorrow,” said senior forward Matt Howard, the team’s lone rotation player to have been on the roster during Penn’s last win over Princeton. “It’s a number of things [we’ve struggled with], but we just have to play harder and smarter and just go out there and get a win.” With the Quakers inching closer to playoff elimination, there will be no room for error for Donahue’s squad; basketball analyst Mike James’ statistical model gives Penn a 16 percent chance of qualifying for the inaugural conference tournament, but even that figure seems generous given the Quakers’ recent performances. Following Saturday’s stunning loss at Dartmouth, Penn is now the only winless squad in the
Ancient Eight — and if literally running the table isn’t quite necessary for the Red and Blue to sneak into the postseason, they’ll have to come awfully close. “[We’re] definitely not [out of the playoff mix], we’re thinking we’re going to turn this ship around,” Howard said. “No one’s in the locker room discouraged at all about how things have started; we’re just worried about how we’re going to finish the season.” Ultimately, if Penn is to shock the nation and snag its first conference win of the year, the Quakers couldn’t pick a much better setting. With the conference’s best rivalry commencing, accompanied by a celebration of the sport’s most historic arena, a must-win situation for the hosts, and — best of all — an actual crowd for the first time in five years, there’s simply not much more that fans and athletes alike could wish for. Let the games begin.
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The venue has hosted the most games, but it has also hosted some of the best ones, too. In 2011, during the NBA lockout, the Palestra hosted a game of NBA stars (including LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony) against other NBA stars who had Philadelphia connections, such as Kyle Lowry and Tyreke Evans. Surprisingly, Team Philly won on that day, but LeBron still scored 43 points. The Palestra will also be the site of the inaugural Ivy League Basketball Tournament on March 11th and 12th. The winner of both the men’s and women’s tournaments will be guaranteed a spot in the Big Dance of March Madness, and the finale to the men’s tournament will even be on national television leading up to the Selection Sunday show. Simply put, the Palestra will now begin again to host games that truly matter, both within the Ivy League and NCAA basketball at large. So while the Cathedral has a storied past, this 90th birthday marks a transition to its fabled future. NCAA champions like Villanova and NBA All-Stars like LeBron James will still visit this bucket list destination, but
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The man behind the mic: Rich Kahn is at home in the Palestra
Announcer has never missed a game in 12 years
makes the word “wonderfulâ€? sound like “won-dah-ful.â€? You can practically hear the twinkle in his eyes when he calls plays. It’s easy to spot him on game night: he’s the man on press row with the silver hair and the biggest grin on his face. “It just feels like I was meant to do that,â€? he said. “The basic call of the game really stems from me going to Madison Square Garden as a young kid‌ even when I was in middle school and high school I kind of knew [announcing] was what I wanted to do.â€? Kahn first arrived in University City in 2005 after working for as an announcer for the New York Jets from 1983-2002 and New Jersey Islanders from 198285. His move coincided with the passing of John McAdams, Penn basketball’s announcer from 1980 to 2004. “My first time I walked in the building was probably about 15 years ago,â€? Kahn recalled. “I walked down that hallway, and the first thing I saw was a picture
LAINE HIGGINS Associate Sports Editor
You don’t get named “the Cathedral of Basketball� if you don’t have a long and storied history — nine decades worth to be exact. And you don’t get nicknamed “Palestra Voice� if your history isn’t almost as robust. For the past 12 years, every game that’s tipped off inside the Palestra has been called by none other than Richard Kahn. But if you hadn’t noticed, he wouldn’t be offended. “The best compliment you can get is if nobody notices you,� he said. “I’m just providing the information, a little bit of entertainment and giving you what you need.� Although he tries to make his commentary unobtrusive to fans’ basketball experience, it’s hard to forget his voice. He has that kind of grandiose timbre, the kind that
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The man you hear at every game at the Palestra, Rich Kahn, has announced for the Quakers for 12 years now — and never missed a game.
of a former Penn coach who had coached some of their more successful teams in the seventies. And I just broke into this big smile.�
The picture was of Bob Weinhauer, coach of the Quakers from 1977-1982 who won five Ivy League titles and led Penn to its last Final Four appearance in
1979. Coincidentally, Weinhauer coached Kahn’s high school baseball team in the sixties. “I had that instant connection,â€? Kahn said. In the decades since Kahn’s homecoming of sorts to the Palestra, he’s developed a strong appreciation for Penn athletics and now announces games for field hockey, sprint football, football and softball, among others. “I just love doing it here. It’s just a special place,â€? he said. “Most of the pro athletes today are very entitled, overpaid brats. That’s why I love this — these kids aren’t like that‌. It’s just a nice adjunct to their academics, which to me is the right fit.â€? When Kahn first started announcing at the Palestra in 2005, the traditions and rivalries associated with Penn basketball were foreign. Over the years, he’s come to appreciate the passion fans, alums and players bring to those match-ups with hated rivals. The most hated of them all, of
course, being Princeton. “The line they like to use is you can tell a Princeton man, but you can’t tell him much,� Kahn said with a laugh. “It’s perfect because I think in essence there’s just a genuine dislike there. So when you play them, you feel it. You just want the kids to win.� This year’s iteration of the Penn-Princeton game is the first Kahn will call in February since the 2010-11 season, as the game was played as an Ivy League finale in March for the past five years. Like always, Kahn will have just one shot on the big night. “It’s live, you either do it right or you don’t do it right. When I was younger I remember I used to get all nervous and used to be deathly afraid of making a mistake,� he said. Kahn says he doesn’t get nervous anymore. Instead, he knows that his place is on press row. “When I sit down and put the headset on and have the mic in my hand, it just feels like I belong there.�
January 30, 2012: a look back at the last time this game was played Penn beat Princeton, Rosen scored 28 points
Obama had given the final State of the Union address of his first term and the first Hunger Games movie was still seven weeks away from its premiere. Neither of those could match this day’s anticipation, however. You see, defending Ivy League champion Princeton was coming to town, and everyone knew that if Penn was going to make a run to its first NCAA Tournament since 2007, beating the Tigers was a must. Fortunately for the nearly 7,000 Quaker fans in attendance, Penn came to play, walloping Princeton 82-67 to keep its undefeated Ivy season alive. Of course, it was fun any time the Quakers and Tigers got together, but 6-foot-1 redheaded senior guard Zack Rosen made this night one to remember. The Colonia, New Jersey
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On Tuesday, Penn men’s basketball will face off against rival Princeton in the Palestra for the first time during Penn’s school year since 2012. The game will celebrate the Palestra’s 90th anniversary, as it will be the schools’ 236th meeting with each other. But before the Quakers and Tigers tip off in Tuesday’s crazily anticipated matchup, take a look back at the last time the teams met during the school year in the rivalry’s 225th edition. The date was January 30, 2012, and Locust Walk was buzzing in excitement. Earlier in the week, President
native torched Princeton for a game-high 28 points and left Princeton’s first-year coach Mitch Henderson stumped in the process. “We really had no response or answer for Zack Rosen,� Henderson said. The night also carried some extra meaning for Penn coach Jerome Allen. The victory snapped Penn’s five-game losing streak against the Tigers, but Allen lost a place in the recordbooks as Rosen’s big scoring night moved him past his coach to eighth on the Red and Blue’s all-time scoring list. While Rosen was nothing short of phenomenal, several other Quakers also stepped up with big nights. Fifth-year senior guard Tyler Bernardini stretched Princeton’s defense for 14 points and sophomore guards Miles Cartwright and Steve Rennard
both chipped in with 10. On the other side of the court, Princeton got 50 combined points from Ian Hummer, Doug Davis, and Brendan Connolly, but no other Tiger was able to score more than five points in a game that Princeton that never led. The Quakers’ performance was a strong statement, and the fans at the game certainly took notice with Rosen describing the crowd as “rocking.� But unfortunately for the Red and Blue faithful, the ending of this story would not be a happy one. Penn would finish just one game short of an NCAA Tournament berth with Harvard just edging Penn for the Ivy crown. For one Monday night in January though, Zack Rosen and the Quakers gave Penn a little something extra to talk about in classes the next day.
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I’m more of a Jay-Z kinda guy. I like to keep it classic. It just gets me motivated and pumped up and ready to go. Do you have any pregame rituals? We get out there two hours before the game‌ and then we’ll bring it back in with an hour left for our meting with coach. Right before we come in I take three shots from half court. If I don’t make it in those three I do it after the 30-minute mark and I have yet this season to not make it within the six shots. So it’s just something I always do, it gets me going.
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THE DP SPORTS EDITORS
Dear Princetonian children, I hope this letter finds you well from the sacred and noble University of Pennsylvania. Our president, Ms. Amy Gutmann, left your school back in 2004 to pursue a career at what she decisively determined to be the nation’s superior institution, so I hope you will forgive my condescending nature towards you folks — perfectly intelligent tenants of a top-50 university yourselves. And with that, I would like to close the book on any potential references to presidents of certain domains having ties to certain universities. Now, I understand your beloved Tigers are 5-0 in Ivy League play, while my Quakers have sputtered to a depressing 0-5 mark. With that in mind, one might expect the level of suspense, on a scale from “one” to “Princeton swimming,” to be fairly low. But expand your horizons! Search beyond! Add the two teams’ records together and you will find that the two teams have combined for a perfectly even 5-5 mark in Ivy play. Suddenly not so lopsided, no? Now let’s factor in one more thing, for those of you who have been able to keep up thus far. Penn will have home-court advantage in this game. Our teams play better when the Penn faithful are there to provide a boost. And while the Tigers scored a lucky football win in the state of New Jersey (and I use the term “state” very loosely), that was in large part caused by Penn’s banning all of our drunk frat bros from tailgating on Princeton’s campus. If you think Penn is going to kick drunk students off our own campus, think again. We don’t even kick arsonists off our own campus. So the Quaker fans in the student body will be there in full force tonight. All twelve of them. And you’re gonna feel them roar! Wait, no, wrong mascot. Anyway, I asked a few people who said they never went to the Penn-Princeton games before because they were always during Winter and Spring Break. Those same people probably won’t make it to this one because, as one source put it, they’re “totally busy” during the academic portions of our calendar and only have free time during Winter and Spring Break. But we’ll have plenty of alumni in the house from both schools, and they’ll bring the kind of atmosphere that you can only get from a person old enough to remember the last time either of these two programs really mattered. Finally, the last time we hosted you guys during a normal damn time of the school year to host one’s biggest rival (seriously, Ivy schedule-makers? FIVE years?), Penn won. That was also the last time we did these columns. So this game is pretty much in the bag. But maybe Penn won’t win. Maybe we’ll lose, and you guys will go to 6-0 and get one step closer to earning a chance to play a cherished March game on the court where we get to play all the time. And then maybe you’ll win those games too, and head to the NCAA Tournament only to get dropped by literally any powerconference school whose highly-paid “student”-athletes have more pride than Baylor. And then you’ll end up just like us. If ain’t first, you’re last. Shake & Quake.
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THE PRINCE SPORTS EDITORS
Happy 90th,
Palestra!
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When the Palestra hosted its first game all the way back in 1927, the 10,000-seat arena was one of the largest indoor stadiums in the world. Today, that capacity has been downgraded to a little over 8,000, but the thousands in attendance at the PennPrinceton men’s basketball game on Tuesday night will still get one of the highest-quality experiences in all of the sport. The Cathedral of College Basketball has seen it all over the years — including more games and more NCAA tournaments than any other venue in
the game. The building has also hosted more visiting teams than any other arena. That being said, its locker rooms are some of the smallest in college basketball, and other facilities remain outdated as well. Why would a team choose to visit a site as antiquated as the Palestra? Let just a couple of the coaches themselves tell you. “I loved it,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said about the state of the locker rooms when his team played there in January. “There were no WiFi outlets, no places to charge cellphones. I’d told my players they’d probably have to hang their coats on hooks and there were no hooks! I just took my jacket off, threw it on the floor and said, ‘This is the way it should be.’” “The Palestra is unique because it’s the only empty building in America that you can go in to and there’s sound,” Saint Joseph’s coach Phil Martelli said.
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What’s the exact opposite of the remarkable 5-0 start the Tigers are enjoying this season? And the opposite of an eight-game winning streak, with victories against the likes of Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown? Well, if we are looking in the Ivy League, Penn comes about as close as it gets. While the Tigers are at the top of the Ivy League, the Quakers sit at the bottom. While Princeton is 5-0, Penn is 0-5. And wait, which team won the last six meetings and nine of the last 10? The answer, if it isn’t immediately obvious, is Princeton. Can a team basically out of title contention really be considered as Princeton’s rival? A list of the greatest basketball rivalries of all time typically includes Lakers-Celtics, DukeUNC, and until recently, Penn-Princeton. Of late, however, the term rivalry has become more or less a misnomer, an asterisk of the past. With Tuesday night’s victory, the gap between the two teams will only widen even further. One might even liken the “rivalry” between Penn-Princeton to that between Odell Beckham Jr. and Josh Norman: there are talkers, and then their are winners. For those who do not regularly follow Ivy League basketball, Tuesday night’s game would be analogous to an NBA match between the Spurs and the Pelicans (without Anthony Davis, of course). For those of you who don’t follow basketball, it’s like the rivalry between Tom and Jerry. Or, if you don’t like references, try picturing an egg and a very hard surface. On one hand, you have a balanced, mature offense; Princeton has become a team that stands for consistency and selflessness. On the other, you have a young team that might be interesting in a few years, but is still figuring things out in the time being. For now, the only statistic the Quakers have led the league in is losses. Don’t believe us? Here are the numbers: Princeton leads Penn in field goal percentage (44.7 to 43.2), three-point percentage (37.2 to 32.7), assists (14.1 to 13.6), rebounds, and free throw percentage. In summary, Princeton is only better on the boards, at the line, and beyond the arc (and inside the arc for that matter). Surely, Penn can make do with all that space in the middle of the court. For Princeton fans who cannot travel to Tuesday night’s game, it might be helpful for us to preview the environment inside the Palestra tonight. The stadium will be packed with students thrilled and excited to celebrate the Palestra’s 90th. Chants of “Puck Frinceton” will fill the air. And then Princeton will open with a 6-0 start, before blowing the game open for a 34-17 lead by halftime. If that seems oddly specific to you, it’s because that is exactly what happened the last time these two “rivals” met. In short, it might be like that awkward moment when LeBron and the Cavs won Game 7 in Golden State. Despite the odds, Penn will likely dismiss all of the above, undermining the Tigers’ accomplishments in the process. In response to the unwarranted comments, we can only defer to none other than James Franco. As Franco noted in the Interview: “they hate us cause they ain’t us.” If we haven’t belabored the point already, it is pretty clear that the Tigers are favored tonight. And while the young Penn squad will certainly put up a good effort to reach for that ever-elusive Ivy League win, the Tigers will end the night 6-0. In the wise words of the great Uncle Drew: “Don’t reach young blood”. DAVID XIN and DAVID LIU are the Head Sports Editor and Head Sports Editor Emeritus of The Daily Princetonian. They can be reached at sports@dailyprincetonian.com
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