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Classmates largely don’t remember Trump

Fellow members of the Class of 1968 said he was uninvolved REBECCA TAN & ALEX RABIN Senior Reporter & Staff Reporter

In the past year-and-a-half, President Donald Trump has quickly become one of Penn’s most well-known alumni.

Throughout his campaign, Trump has referenced his alma mater, the Wharton

School, “as probably the hardest [school] there is to get into,” adding that, “some of the great business minds in the world have gone” there.

Many of his classmates from the Class of 1968, however, say the 45th President wasn’t a prominent presence at Penn.

Out of the 269 people The Daily Pennsylvanian contacted while researching this story, 74 of Trump’s

classmates responded. Sixty-eight of those alumni said they had never encountered Trump at Penn. Four shared classes with him and two declined to comment.

“I knew everyone in my class except Donald Trump,” 1968 Wharton graduate Kenneth Kadish said. “Wharton was a pretty small community back then … you knew everyone. Well, except him.”

“It wasn’t that [Trump] was just not prominent,” Kadish added, “it was like he was non-existent.”

Many classmates made similar remarks, pointing out that the Class of 1968 yearbook does not even have a picture of Trump. Instead, his name is listed at the back of the yearbook under “Seniors Not Photographed.”

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PENN 96 72 BROWN PENN 71 55 YALE M. HOOPS | Quakers rise up to fourth

place in the Ivy League after 0-6 start COLE JACOBSON Sports Editor

When Penn men’s basketball was trounced by Princeton to fall to 0-6 in Ivy League play, the questions around the program were everywhere. How the hell did the team fall off so fast? Was there a reason for the Quakers to even play out the string? Could this squad get a win over anybody?

Now, 12 days later, there’s just one issue left to be addressed — is there anybody out there that can stop them?

Coming off a sweep of the New York schools last weekend, the Red and Blue kept their momentum going with a pair of dominant performances, blowing out Brown, 96-72, on Friday before upsetting third-place Yale, 71-55, two days later. With the wins, Penn has remarkably clawed back into fourth place in the Ivy League after being four games off not even two weeks ago.

“No doubt, I think this is the best basketball we’ve played since I’ve been here,” second-year coach Steve Donahue said. “It’s the absolute desire, determination and grit to go out there and compete — every pass, every dribble, and not lose sight of playing in the now, and these guys have done all the work.”

Entering the weekend two games back of Columbia, Penn (11-12, 4-6 Ivy) had no room for error against Brown if it wanted to stay alive in the playoff race, and a performance for the ages from freshman guard Ryan Betley made sure there would be no upset in Providence.

Coming off a career-high 22 points against Cornell, the sharpshooter picked up right where he left off against the Bears (11-15, 2-8).

With the game tied at 25 apiece in the first half, Betley and classmates Devon Goodman and AJ Brodeur combined for 22 points in a ridiculous 27-2 run over the final 7:30 of the opening half, putting the Bears to rest emphatically.

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Despite new minority faculty members, ‘bias’ persists at Penn

Engineering undergrad teaches his own course

Some trustees believe that biases could worsen in light of the political climate

Class to focus on applications of virtual reality

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Diversity was on the docket at an open Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday.

Trustees on the Academic Policy Committee discussed the status of women and minorities, the role of latent and overt biases in faculty hiring and the progress on the 2011 Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence.

“I believe that the biggest challenge [in diversifying faculty] is discrimination and unconscious bias, latent bias,” Vice Provost for Faculty Anita Allen said. “These biases do affect who gets hired, who has a chance.”

Provost Vincent Price agreed with Allen’s assessment, and added, “some of the biases are not latent. They are overt.”

Trustee Claire Lomax also agreed, and added that she thinks biases could worsen under the current political climate.

“Given the climate of the country where it’s okay to be a racist, even the new thing, it could embolden people to not change,” she said.

The latest report for the action plan highlighted that 34 percent of new standing faculty recruits were from minority groups, with 11 presidential chairs from underrepresented

The School of Engineering and Applied Science has a new class on virtual reality. The twist? It’s being taught by an undergraduate student.

Engineering senior Sacha Best teaches Computer and Information Science 568, “Virtual Reality Practicum,” twice a week. The class has around 20 students, although around 85 applied to take it.

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Engineering senior Sacha Best and graduate student Trung Le are teaching Computer and Information Science 568, “Virtual Reality Practicum.”

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“The goal of this Virtual Reality Practicum class is to take adept programmers and computer scientists and give them the background … to make VR, or virtual reality, application,” Best said. “So it’s targeted at people who have a good deal of experience, but maybe not in VR specifically, and to kind of catalyze them and give them a chance to see what the industry is like.”

Teaching a class as an undergraduate is not something the average Penn student might do. But Best is by no SEE NEW CLASS PAGE 5

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Low-income students want application fee waivers Dean Furda praises the current waiver policy BRIAN ZHONG Staff Reporter

While the Ivy League schools differ in size, location and culture, one issue has recently united all eight universities — the burden of application fees for low-income students.

O n We d nesd ay, Brow n Student Body President Viet Nyugen penned a letter calling for universities to automatically waive application fees for anyone who applies for financial aid or will be the first in their families to attend college.

The letter, which described Nguyen’s “humiliating” and “unnecessary” experience of emailing colleges for fee waivers, garnered support from both Penn Vice President of the Undergraduate Assembly and graduate student Sola Park and PennFirst board member and College sophomore Candy Alfaro.

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Linda Albert Broidrick, a 1968 Wharton graduate, said she spoke to 20 members of the Wharton class at some point during the campaign where they asked if anyone remembered Trump during their undergraduate years.

“None recalled seeing or meeting him,” she said.

A similar question was posed decades earlier at a meeting to plan the Class of 1968’s 25th reunion in 1993. Of the 50 people present, including many class leaders, no one had any real recollection of him, 1968 Wharton graduate William Veronda said.

“There were only a few Wharton students in the Real Estate track and those students ... knew him, but most others did not,” David Chosiad, a fellow 1968 Wharton graduate, said in an emailed statement.

Because Trump transferred from Fordham University after his sophomore year, and “was only at Wharton for two years,” he may not have been as noticeable, Chosiad added.

But many of Trump’s classmates said they were frequent participants in campus academics and extracurriculars, and expressed surprise at never having heard Trump’s name

“With the work that I do on the UA, we focus a lot of our efforts on first generation and low income students,” Park said.

“It’s something that I and the UA as a whole and the administration want to push forward.”

Alfaro recalled her senior year of high school, when she grappled with the various fees of applying to college.

“We talk a lot being first-generation, low-income in college, and we forget what it was like when we were seniors in high school and all of the fees we had to pay,” Alfaro said.

“If you know that there’s already this hurdle just applying to these schools, what hurdles are you going to face later on?” PennFirst board member and College sophomore Lyndsi Burcham added.

“It’s really discouraging, and it feels like you’re never going to have a place where you can be comfortable financially at this institution.”

When asked for comment on the letter, Dean of Admissions

while in college.

“I was very involved in school life when I was at Wharton,” said 1968 Wharton graduate Susan Mason Horn, who was president of Sigma Delta Tau while attending Penn. “I doubt he was as active or as important as he claims or I would have at least heard of him.”

Marc Greenberg, another 1968 Wharton graduate, added that he was particularly surprised that he was never aware of Trump while at Penn since his family’s real estate business was already prominent in the 1960s.

“I was from Brooklyn, so Trump was a name I knew before I even went to Penn,” he said. “In my years at Penn, I never heard his name mentioned once. I was amazed when this whole thing happened, to know that he was there ... [because] certainly, it’s a name I would have been aware of, given who his father was.”

Many alumni from Trump’s class speculated that he took some classes with freshmen or sophomores to fulfill general requirements as a transfer student, potentially a reason for why so few of them remembered him.

“The structure of Wharton classes in the sixties was that there were a ton of mandatory business classes, all introductory, in the first two years of

Eric Furda spoke highly of Penn’s current policy.

“What I’m most proud of at Penn is within the Common Application, if a student has already shown that they qualify for fee waiver, we waive it,” Furda said. “We don’t do any other follow up.”

Furda said any applicant who submits a fee waiver on the Common Application and has it verified by a guidance counselor does not need to pay the application fee.

He characterized the process of applying for a fee waiver on the Common Application as “efficient” and “simplified,” adding that most applicants have already demonstrated their financial need in the past and therefore don’t need to do so again.

“By the time you apply to college, you’ve already gone through any number of processes: testing, you qualify for free and reduced lunch, or [applicants are] QuestBridge students so they’re already

Wharton,” 1968 Wharton graduate Patrick Broderick said in an emailed statement. “As a transfer, [Trump] was probably stuck in the core curriculum courses populated with freshmen and sophomores.”

Some classmates of Trump’s also guessed he might have been less visible on campus because he spent much of his time off campus in New York. “[H]e was kind of aloof from the rest of the students,” 1968 Wharton graduate Edward Pollard said. “He was really off by himself ... going to New York on the weekends, so he didn’t party or go to football games ... [h]e didn’t hang out at Smokey Joe’s [or] the Dirty Drug,” referring to Cy’s Penn Luncheonette.

“Those were my hangouts. I never saw him there,” he said.

Several of Trump’s classmates noted that he worked for his father’s real estate business, which may have accounted for the time away.

“He was Fred’s bill collector,” 1968 Wharton graduate Louis Calomaris said. “Those were the days before computers, and I’m under the impression there were index cards with these people who were behind on their payments, and he would go to New York on Thursdays and Fridays — so I was told — and knock on doors and collect.”

within a [community-based organization] type of context,” Furda said. “These students have already proven that they require a fee waiver or some financial support.”

Penn’s policy is commonplace among major universities.

Still, Burcham said she worries that Penn’s waiver system won’t have much of a larger impact in combatting inequality.

“There are other variables that determine why or why not these students get in that we don’t think about,” Burcham said. “It’s not about us being low-income or first-generation, it’s just that we didn’t have the same opportunities as other students.”

Park viewed the initiative as a part of the UA’s ongoing efforts to foster a more welcoming environment for low-income and first-generation students, such as increasing transparency of hidden course costs.

“I see this as a long-term project especially because it

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For many first-generation, low-income college students, college application fees are a large financial burden.

doesn’t end with just waiving the application fees,” Park said.

“We talked about how first-generation, low-income students’

Penn experience is really defined by their status … it plays out into the social scene and all these other scenes at Penn.”

High school students go for the gold at Science Olympiad Students put skills to the test in a variety of events ELAINE LIU Contributing Reporter

More than 600 high school students gathered on campus over the weekend for Penn’s first Science Olympiad invitational.

Student organization Science Olympiad at the University of Pennsylvania held its first annual event this past Saturday, bringing together competitors from Pennsylvania and other states to face their peers in written tests and practical experiments.

“We left Long Island at like three this morning,” high school student Grace Constantino said as she waited outside the “Towers” event, where students placed weights on towers made of thin wooden sticks until they collapsed.

“I’m very excited to be here,” she added. “Some of the best teams are here.”

Science Olympiad is a competition for elementary through high school students. Founded in the early 1980s, according to the organization’s national website, it now sponsors more than 300 regional competitions each year leading up to a national competition in the spring.

Science educators across the country incorporate the competitions into their curricula.

College sophomore Tiberiu Mihaila, Wharton and Engineering junior Kai Wang and College junior Molly Bucklin competed on the same Science Olympiad team in high school, and they started Penn’s Science Olympiad organization together with College freshman

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Science Olympiad at Penn was founded by four current students, three of whom competed in Science Olympiad events in high school.

Eric Shan. Students from their New York school, Fayetteville– Manlius High School, traveled to Penn this weekend to participate in the competition.

The cofounders said they started the group to provide more hands-on opportunities for high school students to learn science.

“I worked on my Rube Goldberg device basically with all my free time during high school, and I felt that something was missing when I got to Penn,” Bucklin said. “When Tiberiu got here, the three of us just decided to host this event.”

The four assembled a core team and started planning for the tournament in August, before classes started. They also engaged student volunteers from schools like Cornell

University, where the student Science Olympiad organization has already hosted three invitational tournaments. Science Olympiad at the University of Pennsylvania has also received funding from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology, the Chemistry Department, the Physics & Astronomy Department and the Office of Admissions.

In addition to hosting the tournament, the organization’s members work with Science Olympiad teams at local schools. They tutor students every week as the teams prepare for upcoming tournaments.

“We hope to bring the experience we had to them and hopefully make science a part of their lives,” Mihaila said.

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O’Malley: ‘No political term goes on forever’

Wharton profs. talk impact of political tweets

Labels the media coverage, ‘infotainment’

Scandal attracted more attention than policy

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On F r i d a y, Martin O’Malley spent an hour with students in Houston Hall discussing his political experience on the local, state and federal levels and data-driven governance.

Recently, O’Malley campaigned for the Democratic president ia l nom i nat ion, but dropped out of the race after a poor performance in the Iowa caucuses. He said he was disappointed, but that the young people he met during the campaign gave him faith that the country is headed in the right direction.

Although O’Malley did not discuss whether he would campaign for the presidency a second time, he criticized the Trump administration and said he was grateful that “no political term goes on forever.” He added that Trump was able to take advantage of political jour nalism’s focus on “infotainment” to keep himself in the spotlight during the primaries.

“They saw how entertained we were by him, and they gave us more,” he said.

The former governor of Maryland and 2016 presidential candidate emphasized his data-driven approach to policymaking in his speech.

During his tenure as mayor of Ba lt i more, O’Ma l ley b eg a n u s i n g C it i St a t , software that allows for governments to closely monitor their performance across a variety of categories so that officials can make informed decisions based on real-time data. When O’Malley became

During the 2016 presidential election, Twitter gained a reputation as a platform for political discourse. To examine the effects of the website’s new role in politics, two Wharton professors studied the kinds of tweets that go viral.

The recent study published

by Marketing professors Ron Berman and Robert Meyer analyzed Twitter as a “real-time micro-blogging platform” and found that entertaining or sensational posts wash out more substantive tweets. The study focused on tweets during and after the 2016 Republican presidential primary debates.

Since news sources tended to tweet quotes, they were often overshadowed by more attentiongrabbing posts on the platform, Berman said. Policy commentary also received less attention than sensational content did.

The researchers found that Twitter users tend to retweet posts about more provocative topics, such as President Trump’s interactions with Megyn Kelly and his comments about the size of his hands. Instead of focusing on policy proposals, users fixate on scandals.

Berman, Meyer, Wharton doctoral candidate Colman Humphrey and Columbia University doctoral candidate Shiri Melumad published the study, “Make America Tweet Again: A Dynamic Analysis of Microblogging During the 2016 U.S. Republican Primary Debates.”

While Humphrey expected sensational tweets to be popular, he said he was surprised that initially trending tweets resurged in popularity after the debate.

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“The only thing that’s wrong with politics in America today is that not enough good people try,” said the former governor of Maryland.

governor, he applied the CitiStat model — which he then renamed StateStat — during his eight-year term.

O’Malley stressed that programs like CitiStat, which measures the outputs of government as opposed to the inputs, keep policymakers informed, transparent and effective. Beth Blaurer, director of StateStat under O’Malley, said after the event that his interest in quantifying and monitoring the outputs of government — which she jokingly referred to as “his nerdiness” — distinguishes O’Malley from other politicians.

Fels Institute of Government professor Matthew Gallagher, who served as chief of staff for O’Malley wh ile he was gover nor,

praised O’Malley’s ability to share his “constructive worldview at a contentious time,” adding that “he tried to focus a lot of his remarks on cities, towns and states and how they can be incubators for change and improvement.” T he Fels Institute organized the discussion with O’Malley.

Spea k ing to a crowd composed mostly of Fels graduate students, O’Malley encouraged students interested in public office to take the initiative to run.

“I want to encourage you, if I do nothing else during our time together, to follow that feeling in your heart and to do it,” he said. “The only thing that’s wrong with politics in America today is that not enough good people try.”

He also Twitter becomes less of a forum for intellectual conversation and more of a “tabloid” medium as time progresses.

Despite the platform’s tendency to amplify entertaining content, 59 percent of Twitter users get news on the platform, according to the Pew Research Center. Of this group, 45 percent of users are actively looking for news.

Depending on what time they used Twitter, debate watchers saw completely different “Twitterspheres,” according to the paper.

Berman said that Twitter has a greater impact on political discourse than other social media platforms because Twitter users often see content from people they do not know. Twitter users can search using a hashtag or trending topic to see public tweets from a diverse population of users.

“What happens on Facebook is going to affect you, individually … Everyone might not know

about it,” he said. “Same applies for Snapchat, whatever other kind of process where not everything is open.”

Berman emphasized that while not everyone uses Twitter during or after political debates, tweets also affect media coverage the following day. “[The media sources] are looking at Twitter because they cannot access the Facebook information,” he said, adding that tweets can become their own source of news alongside the actual debate.

To counter trends that diminish the reach of serious news on Twitter, Berman said users should look for original posts as opposed to viral content.

“It’s much easier to share things, but it doesn’t say much because they shared it,” he said. “If you want to know what other people are doing, just look at the shared content. But that’s not a good way to make decisions.”

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The other type of diversity EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD

MONDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 22 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 COLE JACOBSON Sports Editor JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Editor

In a widely cited piece of compelling data journalism, The New York Times last month compiled a list of the 38 American colleges and universities that enroll more students from the top one percent of the U.S. income distribution than from the bottom 60 percent combined.

The Daily Pennsylvanian was dismayed to see Penn come in No. 29 on the list, with 18.7 percent of students coming from the top 1 percent, as compared to 16.5 percent coming from the bottom 60. In our view, these figures reveal a deficiency in Penn’s student diversity that cannot afford to go unaddressed.

Maintaining a student body in which a broad range of socio-economic statuses enjoys significant representation is equally as vital to Penn’s goals as striving in other ways to ensure a diverse campus. Surely a student’s outlook and character may be as informed by the economic conditions of his upbringing as by racial or ethnic identity. As such, we believe that economic diversity stands to contribute as much to the

vibrancy of our campus and the quality of our discourse as any of the other varieties that we treasure.

Much — though not all — of the burden of correcting this shortcoming lies with the administration and the Office of Admissions. That being said, Admissions already runs a number of commendable programs and initiatives aimed at boosting the number of low-income and firstgeneration students in each incoming class. Additionally, though far from perfect, Penn’s need-blind financial aid policy is more generous than most, particularly among comparable highlyselective institutions. These choices provide a valuable opportunity to the students they assist, and should not be overlooked. The persistence of such a dramatic imbalance, however, shows on its face that what is already being done does not suffice to close the economic representation gap.

Given the opaque nature of Penn’s “holistic” admissions process, it is difficult to know what — if any — weight is given to economic diversity

when making admissions decisions. However, the fact that Penn routinely gives more than half of the spots in each incoming class to applicants from the early decision pool — which draws heavily from expensive, elite private prep schools in much greater

economic diversity is to be attained, is tuition. Yesterday, Penn announced a 3.9 percent tuition hike for next school year, nearly double the 12-month inflation rate of 2.07 percent.

The mathematics are complex, but because of the

… we believe that economic diversity stands to contribute as much to the vibrancy of our campus and the quality of our discourse as any of the other varieties that we treasure.” numbers than the regular application cycle — is not a positive sign. It is our position that economic diversity should be considered of equal importance to any other type when putting together a new class.

Economic affirmative action and financial aid can only go so far, however. The underlying issue, which must be addressed if meaningful

formula that Penn and most other schools use to calculate “demonstrated need,” higher sticker-price tuition almost always equals a higher gross family contribution. Thus, even with generous financial aid, persistent annual tuition growth will continue to result in more families for whom the cost of a Penn education is unrealistic — and therefore, lower levels of econom-

ic diversity on campus.

For this reason, we believe that radical measures to curtail and reverse tuition growth are warranted. Again, institutional opacity makes it difficult to scrutinize the University’s spending choices, but we firmly believe that strict fiscal discipline should be exercised with an eye toward bringing down overall costs. Discretionary expenditures on premium and luxury products and services should be evaluated with particular rigor. If constructing the next new college house without flat-screen televisions and Comcast streaming included in every suite means more low- and middle-income families can afford their tuition payments, then the sacrifice is worth making.

But the student body itself has a role to play in the remedy as well. Many student clubs and activities charge high fees for participation, often with little if any needbased aid available to defray those costs. Furthermore, student social life, whether organized or spontaneous, often comes with significant incidental expenses. Greek

organizations — particularly sororities — frequently play the poster child for this phenomenon, but club athletics, performance groups and common-interest groups can be pricey as well. The result is a student culture that can be inaccessible for those without significant disposable incomes, and a sense of alienation among students for whom thrift is a necessity. In student life leadership no less than in university administration, economic accessibility should supersede luxury expenditure.

A useful first step for the school would be to track and publish economic diversity data for future incoming classes. There is no good reason why the Penn community should first hear of this striking gap from The New York Times. Other reforms will take time, but greater transparency in this regard may be easily accomplished. Though Penn is fond of highlighting its cultural diversity, integrity demands that it shine light on realms of diversity that warrant additional effort, in addition to areas in which it has enjoyed success.

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This week’s question: In light of Yale University changing the name of Calhoun College because of John Calhoun’s legacy as a prominent slaveholder, would you want Penn to change the name of a building on campus if the namesake of that building was a person with a problematic (by today’s standards) past?

James Fisher | Spilling the Real Tea In terms of Penn changing a building’s name, whether or not the name was connected to slavery would be important. I think that doing so would be a sign that the university is recognizing its injustices and is willing to pursue some kind of change.

Isabel Kim | It Keeps Happening Before I answer the ques-

tion, I have to note that it is particularly vague with regards to what it means by “problematic.” It’s a word that is used so widely to the point of having no consistent meaning. That being said, there are a lot of things we rightly do not condone in today’s society that were perfectly acceptable in the past, and many historical figures that we would think morally suspect had they been living in the present. To judge the past by present standards is always complicated, but I think that if a building at Penn was named after someone known for something “problematic,” it wouldn’t reflect well on Penn to continue to have the building named after them. Therefore, I would want Penn to change the building’s name, so as to not passively uphold a problematic legacy.

Michael Palamountain | Stranger Than Fiction I applaud the students and faculty at Yale who have demonstrated and protested over this issue. Their success

must be the sweetest reward.

This success is proof for any progressives that coming together to amend organizations to align or realign with the values of its members is both possible and worth it.

The name was protested because of its namesake, John

torical achievements of an individual and placing these achievements in memorium.

As time goes on, the organization may grow and may realize it’s values no longer align with the figures they once honored by naming a building after them. In this

It is important to recognize that the names that are placed on the buildings that make up our institutions say much about the institutions themselves.”

C. Calhoun, who was a slave owner and high profile defender of the institution of slavery. He was also a Yale alumnus.

Why do we allow buildings to be named in the first place?

The first I consider, is honoring individuals for achievements sake. There is merit in recognizing his-

case, it is certainly reasonable to expect members of that organization including students and faculty to take action to rename the building in honor of someone who aligns with their own values, as what occurred at Yale.

There’s also the case in which we choose to honor individuals who donated money by naming buildings.

This is a common practice at many universities and graduate schools across the country including our own. It is important to also be critical of this second reason for building naming, for when institutions bestow honor in the form of naming buildings after individuals, purely for their financial donations, we reduces accomplishment and legacy to a purely monetary metric. This is a slippery slope.

It is important to recognize that the names that are placed on the buildings that make up our institutions say much about the institutions themselves. In the case of honoring those who donate, that they prioritize the ability to make money. The fact that we are not protesting over these instances says a lot about the priorities of the members of these institutions as well.

Joe Tharakan | Cup O’Joe Changing the name of a building to more accurately reflect the values of an institution is a perfectly ac-

ceptable thing to do. Yale’s decision to rename Calhoun College was long overdue.

Speaking of Penn buildings improperly named, Cohen Hall used to be called Logan Hall for about 100 years. It was named after James Logan, one of the early mayors of Philadelphia, a trustee of the College of Philadelphia, our predecessor institution, and a contemporary and mentor to Ben Franklin. However, it was renamed to Claudia Cohen Hall, after a gossip columnist and the second wife of four of megadonor Ronald Perelman. They divorced after 9 years. Mr. Perelman donated $20,000,000 to put her name on that building, and I’m sure that money has benefitted the University in various ways. Still, it would be nice to honor an important figure in Penn and Philadelphia’s history rather than a tabloid journalist. She certainly hasn’t done anything so despicable as leading the pro-Slavery movement, but it would be nice to commemorate James Logan again.

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means a normal pupil.

“I came into Penn as a freshman and skipped 110, 120, and 121, which are the first three intro to computer science classes,” he said. “So I’ve taken classes seriously out of order, skipped some, bounced around the major a little bit.”

While the faculty loved Best’s pitch for the course, they had to figure out how to get around the fact that he was an undergraduate student. The ultimate solution was that they used a graduate course number and made Computer and Information Science professor Stephen Lane the instructor on record.

Trung Le, who is a graduate student pursuing his master’s degree in computer graphics, is a co-instructor of the course.

“It’s essentially the best way we could address the student interest without breaking rules in the system,” Best said.

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computer graphics and game technology master’s program, has over 15 years of experience in the industry of virtual reality.

But he said he believes Best’s young age contributes to his ability to teach the course.

Lane added that he appreciates how Best is a former student of his and thus can assist him in finding the most helpful way to present information to students.

“By having Sacha involved with it now, that’s helping me kind of figure out, in a more efficient way, how to present this to students,” Lane said.

While Best is young, he certainly brings a breadth of experience to the classroom. He started his career at Activision working on the games “Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare” and “Destiny,” then moved on to Walt Disney Animation Studios for a combination of VR and motion capture research.

He most recently worked at SpaceX, where he created rocket-building software, as

well as some confidential VR tools for machining visualization.

Engineering senior Davin Hazard is a student in Best’s class. She was eager to take it and said she feels that it will be very useful in her future.

“I’m finally being able to apply a lot of the techniques and things I’ve learned in a more tangible way and actually see it,” she said. “It’s been pretty cool.”

Hazard also recognizes the leg-up this class will give her once she graduates and enters the workforce.

“Not a lot of people have VR experience in college,” she said.

Best seconded that sentiment.

“The hope is that these students are gonna be way ahead of the curve,” he said.

Even though he is busy in his final semester at Penn, Best said he’s grateful that the computer graphics department allowed him to teach his class.

“It’s the highlight of my week,” he said.

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Penn prof. appointed to be on national health council

She will improve health research infrastructure SARAH FORTINSKY Staff Reporter

Karen Glanz, a professor of biostatistics and epidemiology, just started her four-year term on the Advisory Council for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute after being appointed to the position by former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell this past November.

Glanz was one of four new members on the 17-person Advisory Council, which met for the first time this term at the National Institutes of Health’s campus in Bethesda, Md. earlier this month.

The National Institutes of Health is the premiere national infrastructure for health-related research, and the NHLBI is one

of the primary three of the 27 total institutes and centers under the umbrella of the NIH. “Part of the reason that people like me are willing to do these kinds of things, because it’s not paying the bills, they don’t pay my salary... [is] because you learn, and you get a window into where the field is going and into new developments, and that really benefits what I do at Penn,” she said.

Glanz arrived at Penn in 2009 as the Penn Integrates Knowledge professor, the first ever in the School of Nursing, and established the Center for Health Behavior Research. Her research background focuses on chronic disease prevention and management using behavioral science to address various problems related to keeping people healthy. Her work began to focus more on the Philadelphia community since moving to Penn from Emory

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Glanz first came to Penn from Emory University in 2009 as the School of Nursing’s first Penn Integrates Knowledge professor.

University in 2009.

Sarah Green, the center’s research project manager, followed Glanz to Penn from Emory University, where she completed her master’s degree in public

health and worked for Glanz as a research assistant. As someone who has worked with Glanz for several years, Green said Glanz is the perfect fit for her new role on the Advisory Council.

“She’s very collaborative and interdisciplinary,” Green said.

“So we’re always working with a lot of different people, not just people within our department or in our school, but people across the university or across the country, so it makes the work really interesting and really exciting.”

The center’s core research project applies research to real-life practice in an interdisciplinary way. A weight-loss trial that the center works on weighs the effectiveness of giving incentives for weight loss with the effectiveness of giving guidance on how to change participants’ environment, like reorganizing their commutes to be more active or fitting healthier eating into their lifestyles. One of Glanz’s studies found that financial incentives can promote weight loss.

Apart from conducting research, Glanz used the Center for Health Behavior Research to

help make connections between people at Penn who can contribute to health prevention and promotion in a variety of different ways.

Through a series of seminars called “Linking Research and Practice,” Glanz brought in leaders in practice or policy areas of health-related issues — the first of whom were Philadelphia’s director of health and the director of chronic disease — to engage in a dialogue with faculty across schools at Penn.

“The different faculty in the room get to discuss with each other what they are doing and find common ground,” Glanz said. “Because people who are just in medical school, or people who might be in Wharton or the Annenberg School for Communication or the nursing school all come together and bring their unique perspectives, and Penn is a good place for that.”

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Women’s lax holds off Delaware in season opener

Cummings, Brown lead the way for Penn GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

Everyone knows how much first impressions matter. To start its season, Penn women’s lacrosse certainly made a statement.

Kicking things off on the road at Newark, Delaware, this past Saturday, the No. 11 Quakers (1-0) pulled out a tight 9-7 victory over a strong Delaware team. Two Penn players managed to set career-highs for themselves en route to picking up the team’s first win of the season.

On the attacking side, junior Caroline Cummings set herself a new record after netting five goals.

In the cage senior Britt Brown put in an excellent performance, securing a new benchmark of 14 saves.

Cummings opened the scoring and

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the limelight thus far, it hasn’t been the freshman forward who has sparked Penn’s resurgence.

Likewise, this team has the skill required to make it into the league’s top four, but it hasn’t been technique driving them forward. It’s been the octane.

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game, but managed to force the game to take place within feet of the net, scoring 34 points in the paint.

With senior Sydney Stipanovich’s recent struggles as a result of a nagging injury, Penn simply did not have the answers to combat the Bulldogs’ harrying paint presence.

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Blue cruised to a 24-point win.

“After seeing the first one or two threes go in, it just boosts your confidence. My teammates kept finding me in open spots; made it real easy for me to keep knocking shots down,” Betley said. “We’re a very good class, and this proves that we deserve to be on the floor.”

Though a win over the Bears was not necessarily unexpected based on national rankings, few outside the Penn locker room could have seen what was coming two days later.

Though the Bulldogs (14-9, 6-4) were certainly heavily favored, Penn proved right from the opening tip that it would not be backing down from anybody, jumping out to an early 11-2 lead with some spirited defense. “[The biggest difference is] just our energy, the way we approach each game; we have so much energy, so much confidence,” junior guard Darnell Foreman said. “Guys aren’t afraid to make mistakes when they’re out there, and we’re clicking from that.”

A sloppy offensive sequence

put away the eventual game-winner, while several other Quakers got involved on the scoresheet, including a pair of goals from junior Alex Condon, and one apiece from freshman Gabby Rosenzweig and junior Natalie Stefan.

The win was never comfortable, however, as Delaware (0-1) outshot the hosts 25-14, in part due to 20 Penn turnovers and two missed freeposition shots. Despite picking up all the points on the road, coach Karin Corbett believes her team has a lot of work to do.

“It was not a clean game for us.

We made a lot of mistakes, but we’re happy that we pulled it out and got our first game under our belts with a win,” she said. “Britt Brown had a tremendous day today with 14 saves and really kept us in the game. We didn’t generate enough shots, and we had way too many turnovers, but we pulled it out. Our defense played a lot better in the second half, and we

made some changes there and we looked better that way.”

Seeing as this was the first test for the squad, Brown, who also had two ground balls, agreed it was important to secure the victory and get some of the nerves out of the way for matches to come.

“I think we’re getting some of the first game jitters out. It’s good to have it under our belt, especially with a win,” Brown said. “I think going we’re going to work on our sound defense, and it’s just going to get better with time.”

Regarding her veteran goalkeeper, Corbett is certainly appreciative of the numerous stops made, but thinks the defense needs to make more of a team effort rather than be a solo show.

“Of course you’d love to have your goalkeeper make fourteen saves. But we can’t rely on her like that, and I think we gave up too many shots, especially in the first

half,” Corbett said. “That’s not the plan to have our goalie make so many saves to win a game.”

For this week’s practice, Brown anticipates spending some time shoring up the back line in preparation for Johns Hopkins next weekend.

“We’re definitely going to work on the defensive end, cleaning up a few things, like the turnovers. We need to work on clearing the ball, and then keeping the ball when have it to create the best opportunities we can for ourselves,” she said. “We just have to touch up a few things before our next game.”

On the offensive side, Brown sees real strength in the depth up top, especially given that five Quakers recorded at least two points on the field today.

“I think it’s great this year that every single person on our attack is a threat. Every single person has the ability to score, whether it be a

“We have so much to prove right now,” Jackson Donahue said after the win at Brown. “Starting off 0-6, really for me and the rest of the guys, got us so angry. And we finally figured out how to turn that into a competitive maturity on the court.”

It started at the Palestra two weeks ago against Cornell and Columbia when the Quakers could lean on their home crowd to get

them going. But this weekend, it was on the road. Four straight wins, and these guys are rolling, but next weekend on the road again will provide their most crucial game yet: a matchup between the two teams currently tied for fourth place, Penn and Columbia. The Saturday night showdown should be absolutely wild with a sellout crowd all but certain.

“I don’t think we played particularly well in that area,” McLaughlin said. “We didn’t pass particularly well, we got a little crowded, and our ball movement wasn’t clean. It got jammed a little bit.”

In the end, Penn was reduced to fouling Yale’s players in an attempt to gain some sort of momentum, but to no avail. The Quakers were dealt their first loss in eight games to bring

plagued by five turnovers saw Penn go scoreless for a full seven minutes late in the first half as Yale was able to claw back to within one point at the half.

But with Penn on the verge of blowing a lead in a fashion seen so many times in prior years, coach Donahue’s squad proved that this year’s team is capable of something special.

Boosted by two three-pointers from senior Matt Howard, the Red and Blue came out of the locker room on fire, opening the second half with a 21-5 run in the first nine minutes that included six Yale turnovers. The Quakers never looked back from there, leading by no less than 12 the rest of the way.

“I think it’s a good sign that we [have these runs] at different times,” Donahue said. “It’s suddenly [almost] a tie game, and there’s a point where it’s like ‘Is it gonna be what’s happened here in the last seven years, or is it gonna be something different?’ And I thought our guys really came out with a sense of urgency.”

With the wins, Penn finds itself tied with Columbia in that final postseason slot, meaning that next

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Junior Caroline Cummings led the Quakers to victory over Delaware, providing Penn women’s lacrosse’s opening and game-winning goals.

one-on-one or from a cut, and that’s really unique about us,” Brown said.

“I’m excited to watch the freshmen on the field grow, and you never who’s going to be the one to score the goals.”

With seven freshmen playing attacking or midfield positions,

the young players on the team will need to find a way to step and lead the Quakers to glory. The first win may be the hardest, but there is a long season ahead — Penn needs to shake off the rust to keep things on the right track for the bigger matches down the road.

The only thing is that the crowd in the Big Apple will be cheering on the baby blue rather than the Red and Blue. With all of New York against them, seeing how Penn handles the pressure at Cornell on Friday and Columbia Saturday will be season-defining.

But Penn isn’t looking at the standings. The team will still hold onto the anger and the chip on their

shoulder that drove them up the table in the first place.

“We’ve got to win the now,” coach Donahue said. “When we were 0-6, I said, ‘Look at us. Look around. We’re an 0-6 team. That’s what we are right now. If you wanna change it, you’ve got to do something right now.’ And these guys have done all the work since.”

Penn men’s basketball is a team

worth getting behind. And if you want to see them in the Ivy League Tournament, you ought to get behind them now: they’d appreciate your help.

WILL SNOW is a College sophomore from Nashville, Tennessee, and is senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at snow@thedp.com.

their spot on top of the Ivy League down to a one game advantage over Princeton.

With just four more games until Penn’s rematch with the Tigers, that regular season-ending match is now all the more important for the postseason Ivy League Tournament’s seeding.

But until then, the Quakers must first make it through Cornell,

Columbia, Dartmouth and Harvard.

Despite the drab ending to the weekend, there was one bright spot — senior center Sydney Stipanovich broke the Ivy League record for career blocks with the 303rd of her time at Penn. While McLaughlin was quick to point out that the distinction would not mean a lot to her directly after Saturday’s loss, he did take the time to praise her

importance to the program and to the league.

For now, though, the reigning Ivy League champions must work to avoid another loss next weekend at Cornell or at Columbia.

“The mark of a champion is how they respond,” McLaughlin pointed out.

On Friday, Cornell will see for itself whether or not the reigning champions can.

weekend will be the team’s most important in years. The Quakers head to Cornell and Columbia in a weekend that is almost guaranteed to see the eventual fourth-place team emerge.

“When we were 0-6 and we went into practice, we went after them,

and they responded in the right way … I knew we had a good chance to turn this thing around,” Donahue said. “But we’re just in the game now; we haven’t done anything yet.

This is a four-game season right now, and we’ve gotta be the best team over those next four games.”

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Silver lining in imperfection for women’s basketball miracle fourth quarter comeback at Yale and stayed unblemished in the Ivy League, the past couple of days have shown that this team isn’t perfect by any means. I praised the team’s resiliency after remarkably coming back from a 16-point deficit at Brown, and every morsel of that acclaim was fully earned, but the adverse side of that is that there’s no reason the Quakers should be putting themselves in these situations to begin with.

Penn was abused in transition en route to going down 28-12 in the first quarter in Providence on Friday, and while the opening minutes weren’t quite as rough the following evening, the Quakers still gave sixth-place Yale a 12-5 headstart as the Elis’ quick passing and three-point shooting smoothly picked apart Penn’s 2-3 zone defense.

There’s something to be said about the heart required to come back and make both games competitive, but it’s equally important to come out strong and treat every minute with the same sense of urgency. This weekend, we didn’t see that emotion from Penn until it was on the verge of defeat in both contests, and it ultimately cost them in the latter affair.

Looking at the Yale loss further, Penn was undeniably outplayed, but its mistakes were largely selfinflicted. The Red and Blue lost the turnover battle 19-11 to the Bulldogs, with Yale consistently jumping into passing lanes of

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It’ll be a long bus ride home for Penn women’s basketball.

And it should be — losing hurts no matter who it happens against, but the fact the Quakers wrapped up their weekend with a loss to a team they knew they were better than is especially tough. Across sports as a whole, many athletes hate losing more than they like winning, and that holds especially true at the elite level.

Considering their 22-2 record in their past 24 conference games, these Red and Blue are elite, so it wouldn’t be surprising if the memories from their loss in New Haven stick with them as thoroughly as those from their past eight Ivy League wins this season combined.

And that’s exactly why this weekend isn’t as bad as it seems.

While the immediate sense of disappointment in losing their shot at Ivy League perfection is obviously justifiable, this could easily turn out to be a blessing in disguise for the Quakers. As tough as it is in the short term, seeing that zero in the loss column vanish might be just what this squad needs to pick it up and dominate down the stretch of regular season and postseason play.

Even if Penn had pulled out a

ill-advised passes — signs that the Quakers weren’t fully mentally engaged.

Additionally, Yale scored 34 of its points in the paint, with center Jen Berkowitz scoring a 27 points on 9-for-13 field goal shooting. For a team that prides itself on its bigs as much as Mike McLaughlin’s squad does, this simply shouldn’t be possible. Whether playing 2-3 zone or the man-to-man defense that the team started to favor after Yale’s early three-point prowess, there consistently were Bulldogs finding themselves uncovered within pointblank range of the basket, which is uncharacteristic of a Penn team that entered the weekend ranked third in Division I in scoring defense.

It’s not like there were no excuses for the down performance. Though Sydney Stipanovich admirably gutted out a solid performance with 12 points and six rebounds, she has still been hampered by an ankle injury, one that likely contributed to Berkowitz’s breakout performance.

The team has certainly never missed star three-point shooter Lauren Whitlatch more than it did in the second half at Yale, when Penn went 0-for-12 from downtown after going 6-for-13 in the first half en route to only scoring 18 points in the final 20 minutes.

More broadly, no matter what the personnel looks like, it’s awfully hard to win road games on backto-back nights in this league — a conference ranked ninth nationally in RPI. Though it’s an admittedly

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All season long, Penn has prided itself on bigs like junior Michelle Nwokedi. However, in Sunday’s loss to Yale, the Quakers’ defense was lackluster, allowing the Bulldogs to score 34 points in the paint.

overused statement, there really are no days off in this league, and there’s no shame in coming up short of a weekend sweep.

One of my old football coach’s favorite mantras was that “winning masks problems.� He didn’t mean that winning games meant that a team didn’t have any problems — rather, that the hidden disadvantage of victory was that winning might make a team forget that it needs to improve on its flaws going forward.

So the silver lining of Penn’s loss? There’s no way there will

be anything short of 100 percent effort to fix these issues. We saw an eerily situation last year, when the Quakers were upset by fifthplace Cornell on the road for their first Ivy loss of the season. Fueled by the fire of that defeat, the team came back with three remarkable games, culminated by a historic win at Princeton, to clinch the coveted conference title.

As McLaughlin said on Saturday, “the mark of a champion is in how they respond.� Last year’s squad did that to a tee, making sure

the entire nation knew its lone setback was a fluke.

The challenge is on for this year’s squad to do the same. And if this most recent loss lights a fire under the Quakers in a manner at all similar to last year’s, the rest of the Ivy League best be on watch.

COLE JACOBSON is a College sophomore from Los Angeles, California, and is sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at jacobson@thedp.com.

Penn Athletics Weekend MVP: men’s basketball’s Ryan Betley Freshman guard totaled 40 points over two wins

leading the charge all weekend long.

The rookie sharpshooter played the game of his life on Friday, scoring a career-high 28, including six three-pointers at a remarkable 60 percent accuracy. He also registered seven rebounds and four assists.

His effort led Penn to a 96-72 win over Brown, their highestscoring performance since January of 2006.

On Sunday against Yale, Betley

WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor

This edition of our Penn Athletics’ Weekend MVP could come from no other team than Penn mens’ basketball. The Quakers were electric in their two wins at Brown and Yale, and they can thank freshman Ryan Betley for

had a more restrained performance as the team ethos took priority over any individual star. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t shine — the rookie scored 12 shooting 56 percent, bagged the most offensive rebounds of his teammates and played more minutes than anyone else for the Red and Blue.

Clearly, Betley is standing out to coach Steve Donahue. And this weekend, he stood out as the most valuable player around Penn Athletics.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Quakers take seventh at national championships

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with 7-2 win over Yale NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor Emeritus

BOSTON — It wasn’t the end result they wanted, but things ended on a good note nonetheless.

Competing at the CSA team championships this past weekend, Penn men’s squash secured a seventh-place finish with a 7-2 win over Yale in its final match of the season.

The contest with the Bulldogs followed an 8-1 opening-round loss to eventual national champion Trinity and a 6-3 loss to fourth-seeded Rochester.

“When the pride is on the line, our team always comes through and always rises to the occasion,” senior captain BG Lemmon said. “Playing for seventh place isn’t the most glamorous thing — it isn’t what we had in mind — but we were playing for ourselves, we were playing to avenge our loss to Yale [earlier in February]. ... Whoever had the bigger heart, whoever wanted it more today was going to win, and we wanted it really badly.”

With the Quakers (9-8) taking on No. 1 Trinity (19-1) to start things off Friday, the road was always going to be rough. When No. 9 Jonathan Zeitels opened up play with a three-game win, however, it seemed like the Red and Blue might be able to pull off the upset.

“I always like to start early,” he said afterward. “I like building off the crowd and hopefully I can translate that to my teammates.”

Yet it wasn’t to be.

In the remaining eight matches, only Lemmon — playing at No. 8 — and junior Hayes Murphy — at No. 2 — were able to log first-set wins. The result was Penn spending most of the matches trying to play catch-up against the best team in the nation, and they just couldn’t do it.

The Quakers dropped the last eight matches — without picking up a game at Nos. 3-5 — and were forced into the consolation bracket.

In order to work their way into the 5th place game, the Red and Blue would have to get past No. 4 Rochester (13-4) the following day.

“I think after Trinity we left [feeling] pretty positive and we felt like we had more to prove,” Murphy explained. “So even though we were

NICK BUCHTA | SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR EMERITUS

In Sunday’s match against Yale, junior Hayes Murphy won at the No. 3 spot to help the Quakers’ to their first win over the Bulldogs in 10 years.

a little heartbroken afterwards, we were still proud of ourselves.”

At Nos. 9 and 6, Zeitels and James Watson were able to get some early momentum against the Yellowjackets with a pair of 3-1 wins.

But just like Friday, the early wins were just about all the Quakers could muster.

Rochester rattled off five straight wins to make it 5-2, leaving No. 4 Karim Hussein and No. 7 David

Yacobucci to finish their games off. Though Hussein was felled in straight sets, Yacobucci was able to force a fifth game and ultimately prevailed in the final contest of the evening — putting the final score at 6-3 Yellowjackets.

Saturday’s loss meant the Quakers still had yet one more match to play: a Sunday afternoon bout with Yale (8-9) in a battle for seventh place.

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“We started to click on Saturday even though we lost,” Murphy noted. “Then going into Sunday we still had a lot of energy, and we knew that Yale was the one team we hadn’t beaten yet, and I think that really motivated us.”

The one-two punch of Watson and Zeitels worked its magic again on Sunday, netting the Quakers a pair of opening wins capped off by a particularly strong 11-1 win in the fourth set from Watson to seal his match.

For Zeitels, the weekend marked the end of a breakout season as the sophomore logged an 11-0 mark from the top nine spots on the ladder.

“He played incredibly this weekend,” Lane said. “He stuck to a simple game plan. Sometimes players just find their groove at a point in the season and they just roll with it.”

No. 3 Murphy logged a 3-0 win to keep momentum rolling until a 3-1 loss for No. 5 Larson got Yale on the board. Lemmon — after missing Saturday’s match due to injury — closed out his college career with a 3-0 win at No. 8 that included a nice comeback in the second set after facing a 10-9 game point and

put the Quakers on the verge of victory.

From there, No. 7 Yacobucci iced it in three games and No. 4 Hussein made it 6-1 with his own four-game win. Although Derek Hsue ultimately lost at No. 2, Mahmoud closed the year out with a victory and got Penn the 7-2 win.

The win was the Quakers’ first over the Bulldogs since 2006, a bright note for the end of the careers of Lemmon and fellow senior Rahil Fazelbhoy — even better when considering that Penn will return 11 of its top 12 guys for the 2017-18 season.

It also marked the first time since 1973 that the Red and Blue knocked off all seven Ivies in a twoyear span, with the Bulldogs having been the last team remaining for the Quakers to beat.

“I went out and I was playing for myself,” Lemmon reflected. “I was playing to end my career on a win, trying to beat a kid I hadn’t beaten in a long time.

“It was fun, I had a lot of fun out there. I hit some shots that I normally wouldn’t hit because it was my last chance, and luckily for me they fell today.”

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Stipanovich breaks all-time Ivy blocks record in Yale loss

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hey finally dropped a game, but they’re still standing.

Penn women’s basketball split its second Ivy League road trip doubleheader with a win at Brown followed by its first conference loss at the hands of Yale.

Despite the 61-48 defeat, the Quakers (15-7, 8-1 Ivy) still remain in sole possession of first place in the league. But that doesn’t mean they played first-place basketball this weekend.

“This had nothing to do with the standings: this team is better than we were tonight,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “We have to be better this week to get ready for Friday and Saturday.”

It started in Providence on Friday night, when Penn trailed for almost all of the first three quarters, only to take the lead for the first time at the end of the third.

Even then, the Quakers still could

not put away Brown (14-9, 5-5), who played with a higher level of energy all night.

Penn managed to claw its way to a 71-68 victory to keep its perfect Ivy record alive, but the win did not come without blemishes. The players had the talent to get past the Bears, but they did not really outfight them.

“I really don’t know [what happened],” junior Michelle Nwokedi said of the first half on Friday. “We came out too loose.”

The same theme continued in New Haven the following evening, when Yale (12-11, 3-7) came out more energetically and more quickly than the visitors. The hosts could not drive a wide lead open in the first half — largely due to the efficient shooting of the Quakers — but the atmosphere certainly felt like they went into halftime with the advantage.

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Yale’s momentum only continued out of the break as they cracked open a ten-point lead towards the end of the third quarter. This time, there would be no comeback.

“I thought they put us on our heels right out of the gate. We responded well in the first half, but when they put us on our heels in the second half, we were just really defensive about what we were doing,” McLaughlin said. “Both on the offensive and the defensive end, they had the advantage.”

The Bulldogs fought tooth and nail, throwing hands around and screaming on defense. They limited the Quakers to their lowest point total since December — a game in which they scored 47, but still won.

On offense, meanwhile, Yale did not have the most efficient SEE WBB RECAP PAGE 7

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Men’s hoops is playing Quakers fall in ECACs Heavy Metal Basketball M. TENNIS | Team gets

fifth at tournament MOSES NSEREKO

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WILL SNOW

If things continue the way they are, Penn men’s basketball is headed straight to the Ivy League Tournament.

This team is playing a brand of basketball I haven’t seen in my time here at Penn, and a style I seldom see around the collegiate game.

The closest thing I can compare it to is what Liverpool FC manager Jürgen Klopp calls “Heavy Metal Football” — and well, ladies and gentlemen, what the Quakers have finally worked their way into is Heavy Metal Basketball.

It’s all fire — led by team hypemen Jackson Donahue and Max Rothschild, this team is playing so pissed off that they have no choice but to burst into games, guns blazing.

After just three minutes at Yale on Sunday, the score was 11-2 to the Quakers. At Brown on Friday night, it was a ridiculous 27-2 first half run that put the game to bed before the halftime whistle even blew.

They thrive on energy. They thrive on adrenaline.

Compared to the women’s team, it’s fire and ice. Don’t get me wrong, the women are remarkable — top of the Ivy League and

NICK BUCHTA | SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR EMERITUS

Led by the high energy sophomore duo of Jackson Donahue and Max Rothschild, Penn came out with an electric performance this weekend.

reigning champions, in fact — but they do it the opposite way. They allow the third-fewest points in all of the NCAA. They win by not allowing more than they score.

But the men’s team scored 96 on Friday night. And they scored 71 points on Sunday, slowing down only after completing a 21-5 run to open the second half. After six straight losses to start the Ivy League season, with a nadir in the Quakers’ 64-49 loss to leagueleaders Princeton, they went back to the drawing board, put the

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pedal to the metal and cranked the volume up to 11 — and the results have gone their way ever since.

Freshmen Ryan Betley and Devon Goodman have taken the league by storm. And as you might guess, it’s unsurprising why. Goodman is easily the quickest man on the team, and Betley is the kind of inside-outside player coach Steve Donahue has always dreamed of.

While fellow rookie AJ Brodeur has perhaps rightfully taken all of SEE MBB COLUMN PAGE 7

It’s all in the recovery.

That was the theme for Penn men’s tennis coming out of the first day of play of the ECAC Indoor Tennis Championships at Princeton. After suffering a 4-1 loss to Dartmouth, the Quakers (6-4) rallied back for the next day, recording a win by the same scoreline against St. John’s at the Lenz Tennis Center.

The Red and Blue came into the indoor conference championships seeded fourth against the Big Green, the tournament’s fifth seed; from a numbers perspective, it was scheduled to be the most difficult first-round matchup on Friday.

The Quakers were forced to play catch-up from the start as they dropped their first doubles point of the weekend, losing at first and third doubles. With a loss to Dartmouth’s freshman-junior paining of Charlie Broom and Ciro Riccardi, junior Josh Pompan and senior Thomas Spratt lost their streak of seven wins to start off the season.

The Red and Blue were unable to pull back the momentum in the singles rubbers. Only sophomore Kyle

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Mautner was able to win a match for the Quakers against the Big Green, beating Ricciardi in two 6-4 sets. A tough 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 loss by junior Gabe Rappaport to Dartmouth senior George Wall failed to extend the tie, securing a 4-1 loss for Penn with three unfinished matches on the day.

With the loss to the Big Green, Penn was mathematically out of contention for the indoor conference title.

Still, Penn had to rally back to ensure themselves the best finish possible.

Rally they did.

Less than 24 hours after falling to Dartmouth, a determined Penn team returned for their second consecutive 9 a.m. match looking very sharp and prepped to face off against St. John’s. And the result was starkly improved.

While Penn started slowly in their opening doubles matches against Dartmouth, they were more decisive in their shot making against the Thunderbirds winning their doubles matches with identical 6-2 sets.

The only constant among the two days was No. 61 ra n ked Mautner. Following up his straight sets win from Friday, the lefty won his eighth match of the season in yet another straight sets effort, this time coming in the form of a 6-1, 7-5 win over Robert Livi.

But Mautner’s effort was

more than matched by his teammates against St. John’s.

Spratt followed up a strong performance in the doubles, though the match was unfinished, with an impressive 7-6, 6-3 win at No. 6 singles.

Freshman Matt Nardella followed up a win in doubles with Mautner with a solid 6-4, 7-5 win at No. 3 singles. Pompan was the other player to record strong double duty effort, winning his doubles match and securing the first set of his singles match before the Quakers secured the 4-1 win.

The Red and Blue’s momentum from the second day propelled them into the fourth day, securing a 4-2 win against Harvard, securing them a fifth-place finish in the tournament. The Quakers secured two tiebreak wins at Nos. 2 and 3 doubles. The doubles pairing of Mautner and Nardella clinched a 12-10 extended tiebreak to win the doubles point for Penn. In a late-night finish, Mautner continued his run with an impressive 6-4, 6-7, 7-5 over sophomore Crimson Kenny Tao to secure the top-five finish for the Red and Blue.

Penn’s fifth-place finish was a mark of resilience for the team after an uninspiring opening to the weekend. The team takes the strength of this momentum swing into next weekend’s non-conference tilt against Old Dominion.

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