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Hey Day cost drops to $20

This year is the 100th year of the tradition ELLIE SCHROEDER Staff Reporter

Hey Day festivities just got cheaper. On April 30, Penn’s campus will be swarmed for the 100th time

by hat-biting, cane-wielding juniors as they take over Locust Walk in celebration — all for just $20.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Hey Day, a Penn tradition commemorating the Junior Class’s transition into senior year with quirky customs like donning hats and canes while marching across Locust

Walk. In an unprecedented move to make Hey Day more accessible and affordable, the Undergraduate Assembly decreased the cost of participating from $35 to $20 — a 43 percent price drop. In addition, tickets can be bought online for the first time ever.

Along with the discounted rate,

this year’s Hey Day will revive forgotten traditions such as the reading of the Class Poem. In honor of Hey Day’s 100th anniversary, campus will be filled with centennial-themed decorations and juniors will receive a special 100th anniversary T-shirt

ALLEN OUT AS BASKETBALL COACH Allen finishes with zero Ivy titles, only three Big 5 wins RILEY STEELE & STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor & Senior Sports Reporter

Penn Athletics has informed head coach Jerome Allen that he will be fired after five and a half seasons at the helm of Penn basketball. In his 169game tenure, Allen compiled a 65-104 record and a .385 winning percentage, the worst for any Red and Blue coach since 1914.

Allen was informed on March 2 by Director of Athletics M. Grace Calhoun that he would be dismissed from his position, a source confirmed before the Quakers’ matchup with Cornell last Saturday.

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Saying “ni hao” to the Penn Wharton China Center in Beijing This is the start of the six month long opening BRYN FERGUSON Staff Reporter

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From Philadelphia to San Francisco, Penn has expanded its influence across the U.S. — now the University’s name has crossed the Pacific Ocean and taken on China, with the Penn Wharton China Center officially opening on March 10 in Beijing.

The opening was attended by around 40 senior administrators and faculty members, including Provost Vincent Price, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Ezekiel Emanuel, various professors and eight deans from across the University, including Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett.

“We a re delighted to

launch the Penn Wharton China Center,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said in a statement. “We are building on Penn’s history of broad, deep engagement with China and creating a Center that provides an impressive infrastructure and significant resources to augment the University of Pennsylvania’s many collaborations and partnerships with great Chinese educational institutions.

The Center represents another major milestone in the Penn Compact 2020’s vision of bringing Penn to the world and the world to Penn.”

The launch celebration featured various panels, research talks and round table discussions.

Garrett moderated a panel on US-China relations, global economic prosperity and

geopolitical stability, featuring panelists like Wharton professor Richard Marston.

Price and Emanuel also led a round table discussion on the future of higher education. Panelists included Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Steven Fluharty, interim Dean of the Law School Wendall Pritchett, Dean of the School of Design Marilyn Jordan Taylor and Garrett.

Among the Penn panelists in the various talks were senior executives and chairmen of Chinese companies.

With the Center now operational, its goal is to become a hub in China for Penn students, faculty, staff and alumni. The Center will maintain contact with different institutions across China, SEE CHINA CENTER PAGE 7

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However, he coached Penn’s final game against Princeton on Tuesday after working the sidelines in wins against Columbia and the Big Red. In a press release, the athletic administration announced that Allen had elected to resign following his fifth full season at the helm.

“After considerable soulsearching and reflection, I’ve decided to resign from my post as the men’s head basketball coach at the University of Pennsylvania,” Allen said in the statement. “Nothing could be harder for me, because this institution and program have been so dear to my heart.

“During the past six years, I have been blessed with a tremendous opportunity to which I gave my heart and soul. So I SEE ALLEN PAGE 12

The myth of Spring Break With heaps of work, some students don’t get time to relax JACK CAHN Staff Reporter

Spring break elicits images of overworked students partying their stress away in bathing suits and bikinis at tropical resorts, traveling to exotic new countries or relaxing at home with family. For many Penn students, however, spring break is no break at all.

Most professors at Penn assign regular weekly workloads to their students over the break. Some even assign projects, papers and midterms due immediately after the break, which forces students to cut vacations short. For students enrolled in such courses, spring break means hours of studying in Huntsman Hall and Van Pelt Library or at a dusty bedroom desk that has remained untouched since high school.

From the Sociology department in the College to the Business Economics and Public Policy department in Wharton, courses across the curriculum this semester have midterms scheduled on the first day back from break. In some cases, this timing was not planned. The “Managerial Economics” midterm, for example, was postponed due to the partial snow day on March 5, the Thursday before break. For others, however, exams were originally scheduled immediately after break.

“I think professors should either give the same amount of work, or less work because I know a lot of people travel over break or at least go home and want to spend time with SEE SPRING BREAK PAGE 9

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Pétrus Ky Café open on 39th and Chestnut streets French pastries including croissants, tarts and other treats.

It is named after a Vietnamese scholar, Petrus Ky, who helped JEFFREY WANG improve social and cultural underContributing Reporter standings between Vietnam and There is now another option Europe through his publications available for students to get their of translating foreign languages to caffeine fix.

Vietnamese in the 1800s.

On March 5, the Pétrus Ky Café “We wanted to come up with a opened on 39th and Chestnut. name that pays homage to Petrus The shop serves rare coffee from Ky,” founder Josh Fenwick said, all over the world as well as fresh “And speaks to the scholarly

Josh Fenwick opened the cafe along with his wife

student-based demographic here at Penn.”

Fenwick opened the cafe along with his wife, Tanh, and a few other business partners.

It took around a year and a half to open Pétrus Ky. “When you are dealing with an old, historic building, it is definitely tough to meet Philadelphia city codes as well as the aesthetic standards and looks you have been setting out to accomplish,”

Fenwick stated. “The biggest challenge was obtaining the permits because they took up a lot of time and money.”

Students took the opportunity to try Pétrus Ky Café during their grand opening on March 5, where they served free coffee or allowed customers to make donations to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

“I heard about the free coffee at this new cafe through Facebook,”

College sophomore Devon Greenwood said. “I went for the coffee and also purchased a chocolate croissant, both of which were delicious.”

College sophomore Matthew Lieber described the ambiance as warm and welcoming. “The staff seems really warm and welcoming which you don’t find at many coffee shops around here,” Lieber said. “I thought the coffee and blueberry tart were really good, and it

On March 5, the Pétrus Ky Café opened on 39th and Chestnut.

was definitely worth the trip.”

In the future, Pétrus Ky’s current location in Chestnut Hall — a space it shares with the newly opened William Street Common — may not be its only college campus location.

“We didn’t set out to just open one location,” Fenwick said. “We really want to perfect the process and get the right people involved. It is in our plans to franchise the business to other college campuses.”

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Michael Nutter, Tom Wolf push to eliminate School District deficit Education funding is a hotbutton topic in Philadelphia

increase in property taxes since then.

These funds, if approved by the City Council, would more than offset the District’s current budget shortfall. However, in the School District’s recently released Action Plan 3.0, they requested $206 million from the state and $103 million from the city to reach the combined total of $309 million — a number that would still only keep the status quo in the District.

Both the state- and city-wide budget proposals would bring in $289 million as compared to the requested $309 million. To begin making improvements above the current level of services like those outlined in the Action Plan 3.0, the District’s projects need an additional $370 million. Despite that, Superintendent William Hite told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he was “elated” with Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed revenue increases.

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Education is at the top of the agenda in the recent city and state budget proposals released in early March.

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has proposed a 9.34 percent increase in property taxes for Philadelphia in an effort to offset the School District’s $80 million deficit for the upcoming school year and to answer their plea for additional funds.

“I don’t want to raise your taxes, but I do want to educate our children,” Nutter said in his March 5 budget address.

In 2010, property taxes were raised by 9.9 percent. The proposed budget for the next fiscal year would include the largest

Nutter’s property tax increase would account for $105 million, and the governor’s plans include a six percent bump in the state’s share of basic and special education funding to $159 million.

While Wolf’s budget has been described as politically incompatible with a majority-Republican state legislature, parts of his proposal may survive in some form, 2005 College graduate and local budget expert Rachel Meadows said.

“The biggest thing is that both parties in Harrisburg got the message loud and clear that more is needed for education funding,” she said.

Meadows, a former budget analyst for School Reform Commission member and former City Councilman Bill Green, explained that some may do “whatever they can to torpedo Governor Wolf’s time in office.” On the other hand, some legislators who may have

worries about re-election might be more concessionary to Wolf’s proposals.

Support for education spending has long been a prominent issue on the policy agenda. Wolf’s ouster of former Republican Gov. Tom Corbett last fall definitively pushed education to the forefront of Pennsylvania politics.

Critics of Corbett cited the state-level cuts to basic education funding and his removal of the funding formula for schools. “The state really made severe cuts, and there’s not that much more that you can cut at this point,” Meadows said.

Funding for the District can come from either raising taxes to create more revenue or cutting expenditures, Meadows said. Over the past several years, cuts to the district budget left schools without resources like counselors, nurses, books and supplies.

Wolf’s budget proposal

included a call to bring back a funding formula, but was light on technical details. “[The] proposal will ensure education funds are distributed in a manner that is efficient, equitable and transparent,” Wolf said in his March 3 address.

Under former Gov. Ed Rendell’s funding formula, “districts who served more disadvantaged students received more money,” Graduate School of Education professor Matthew Steinberg said.

Such an arrangement would benefit the School District of Philadelphia, which generally serves students from lower-income families.

Both the governor’s and mayor’s budgets will need to work in tandem with local institutions for true change to occur in Philadelphia schools.

“The way schools are funded is a function of state and local resources. Districts want to

maximize resources while limiting the tax burden on their residents,” Steinberg said.

“If the state gives you a dollar, does that mean a dollar more ends up in classrooms? The research says it doesn’t,” Steinberg added.

“It’s important to understand that when state support goes up, there is the potential for reductions in local aid that could offset to a large extent the additional aid that’s coming through the state.”

Different governmental institutions play an uneven hand in determining the net result of education funding.

“There’s multiple political actors and responses at play that will affect the money that ends up in the classroom,” Steinberg said.

The city technically has 30 days before the end of the fiscal year — May 31 — to approve a budget for the upcoming year. However, the city has delayed passage until June in previous years.

Wharton Women brings chocolate, keynotes and more WW is one of the most well funded student groups TIFFANY YAU Contributing Reporter

For Wharton Women members, perks aren’t limited to just another networking event invitation.

Wharton Women just wrapped up their February Membership Month , with events tailored to each class year as well as to prospective members. Freshmen were invited to a chocolate dinner downtown at Max Brenner, sophomores dined at Pattaya, juniors relaxed from on-campus recruiting for a dinner, while seniors got manicures at Lacquer Lounge.

WW is the largest undergraduate student organization that serves to empower women, by incorporating aspects of philanthropy, socialization, professionalism, networking and education into their events.

President of Wharton Women and Wharton junior Amanda Russoniello said the club is currently looking to reach out to women in schools other than Wharton.

“We’re always looking to bring more leaders to campus. We love all different industries. If you don’t know what you want to do, it exposes you to all these different industries without having to choose right away,” she said.

Amongst the most esteemed organizations on campus, WW is

also one of the most well-funded.

With over 30 sponsors — including Capital One, The Blackstone Group, Bank of America and Deloitte — great funding means extra perks.

“The events we host differentiates [Wharton Women] from other Wharton clubs,” Vice President of Marketing and Wharton sophomore Erin Lo said. “We give back to the community while providing insightful tips for the working world.”

Several of their events are geared toward philanthropy while providing insightful tips for promoting professionalism. Contributing to Women’s Week, they held a resume workshop where Penn’s Career Services guided

them through improving their resumes and cover letters.

In their “Dress in the Professional World” event, members were able to walk down a runway as models and have their makeup done by Bobbi Brown makeup artists.

Wharton Women also brings in renowned keynote speakers.

Over the past few years, they have brought in the CCO of Modell’s Sporting Goods Deborah Fine, Vice President of Lilly Pulitzer Michelle Kelly, CEO of Gilt Michelle Peluso and American talk show host Bethenny Frankel.

Though “networking” is a cliched term among Whartonites, the members of Wharton Women have strong ties with one another.

“What really distinguishes Wharton Women from other clubs is that we really are a family,” Vice President of Membership and Wharton freshman Nadia Govotsos said.

She helped run their “Freshm a n Bud d ie s” p r og r a m , connecting freshmen with upperclassmen.

Besides this program, several upperclassmen and alumni are known to reach out to

underclassmen to help with career advice and general Penn advice.

They had an alumnae mixer in New York this past year, introducing many of their members to their alumnae in a variety of different industries from marketing to finance to consulting, and even to news casting.

“As an underclassmen, I’ve been exposed to so many Wharton women. It’s great how they have graduated and are still willing to help with careers and edit my resume at the annual dinner.

Once a Wharton woman, always a Wharton woman,” Govotsos said.

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Recruiting without scholarships, on and off the field The Kelly Writers House informally recruits students CAROLINE SIMON Staff Reporter

Without the option of meritbased scholarships, Penn cannot lure outstanding athletes or writing prodigies with money — but recruited students do find value in community.

Although the Athletics Department’s formal recruitment and the Kelly Writers House’s informal recruitment processes are very different, each faces the same challenge: With no scholarship money given for merit, there is no way to ensure that recruited students will continue to participate in the activities that originally earned them a spot at Penn.

Penn’s athletic recruitment is required to follow the external rules of the NCAA and the Ivy League — for example, coaches are not permitted to call prospective students until after a certain date.

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along with a special gift that will be revealed on Hey Day. The decision to cut prices came after the 2016 Class Board conducted a survey of about 1,500 students and found that many students thought $35 was too much to pay, and that 1 in 5 students couldn’t afford the ticket cost.

“The approval rating for paying $35 was nine percent, which is [even] lower than [the approval rating for] Congress,” President of the 2016 Class Board Jesus Perez said.

After adjusting the budget and conducting fundraisers, the Class Board will offer a complete package including the hat, cane, class shirt and a picnic lunch for $20.

This is a discount compared to

specifically for athletes who are likely to follow through on their commitment.

“There are no consequences, financial aid or otherwise, if a student-athlete decides to no longer participate in varsity athletics at Penn,” Deputy Director of Athletics Alanna Shanahan said in an email. “Through the recruitment process, coaches attempt to determine a prospect’s interest level in participating in college athletics for all four years.”

But for most athletes, the community they gain from their sport is so strong that the time commitment is well worth it.

“Coming into Penn, being a freshman is a lot easier because you automatically have these people as your friends,” Wharton freshman and recruited swimmer Carolyn Yang said. “It was really nice having that community here.”

Yang said her high school swim team was highly competitive and dedicated to individual success. But she feels that Penn’s swim team has a higher emphasis on teamwork.

“Here, if you do well, everyone’s genuinely happy for you,” she said.

“Swimming isn’t even for myself anymore. It’s honestly for the team.”

Yang added that she definitely plans on swimming for the rest of her college career and that most of her teammates feel the same way.

While athletic recruitment is more visible, organizations like the Kelly Writers House exert their own pull in the Office of Admissions. Since the Kelly Writers House’s recruitment process is less formal than that of the Athletics Department, faculty must work even harder to keep the students they recruit involved. However, as with sports teams, the community provided by the Kelly Writers House is often enough to make students want to stay.

The Kelly Writers House makes students feel at home even before they arrive at Penn with individualized attention. Associate Director for Recruitment Jamie-Lee Josselyn calls the process “proactive rather than reactive” — instead of waiting for students to contact the Writers House, the Writers House seeks out exceptional writers.

Josselyn said she discovers

prospective students at writers’ conferences, workshops and through various writing prizes. Once a student is in contact with the Writers House, they are encouraged to submit writing samples and ultimately apply to Penn, with the aid of a recommendation letter written

by Josselyn.

Once recruited students are admitted, they are personally encouraged to stay involved. “A goal is often to really keep the conversation going on the matriculant side just as it started on the applicant side,” Josselyn said.

But even if students choose not to remain involved at the Kelly Writers House, Josselyn believes that their presence still enhances the Penn student body. “Even if the Writers House doesn’t itself see a direct effect from every one of those people, I think Penn will see that effect,” she said.

College freshman Zoe Stoller, who became acquainted with the Kelly Writers House after meeting Josselyn at a writing workshop, said that it was a significant factor in her decision to apply to Penn.

“It made me feel immediately

previous years’ pricing schemes, which offered the complete package for $35 and bundles consisting of select items for various prices.

The Class Board was able to cover some of the costs of decreasing prices by generating a $21,000 profit from selling Classic Ivy P sweaters for $35 last semester. Hey Day usually costs about $50,000 in total, but the Junior Class Board hopes to reduce costs to $45,000 this year. Furthermore, the board is lowering costs by switching supplies — this year’s canes will be made of bamboo like they were in the 1990s.

“This is something we’ve been working on for over a year and a half ... these are changes that seem small but take a lot of behind-thescenes work to achieve,” Perez said.

Executive Vice President of the 2016 Class Board Allie Cohen agrees. She said that the other three class boards contributed to these changes because it was such a large undertaking. She and Perez believe that the price adjustment will help more juniors to fully

partake in and enjoy a hallmark of the Penn undergraduate experience.

“We want to take away the financial burden so that students can focus on what’s important,” Cohen said. “Celebration and marking a milestone.”

like I had a place to come to at Penn and a reason for wanting to be here,” she said. “You’re signing up to have a family that will always be there.”

Stoller said that one perk of the Writers House recruitment is having Faculty Director of the Writers House Al Filreis as her academic advisor. This semester, Filreis helped Stoller get into the “Wasting Time on the Internet” class, which gained media attention for its unique premise.

College sophomore Madeline Penn, who is also advised by Filreis, was hooked by the Kelly Writers House when she sat in on his “Modern & Contemporary

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host alumni events, aid Penn with its Chinese branding efforts and provide a facility for faculty and students to do research.

The new Penn China Research and Engagement Fund will also provide $10 million over five years to faculty and senior administrators to develop and strengthen relations with Chinese partners, support faculty exchange programs and faculty research projects.

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American Poetry” class as a prospective student. Later, she was able to enroll in the class herself.

“That really put the cherry on top for me. That was the deciding factor why I wanted to come here,” Penn said.

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda believes that Penn’s various recruitment processes, formal and informal, are important in shaping a diverse class.

“The reality is if we’re going to represent a place as complex and dynamic as Penn, all of these things are going to culminate in the type of applicant pool that we have,” Furda said. “That’s beneficial to the broad Penn community.”

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their families,” College freshman Logan Castrucci said.

Some courses had so much extra work over the break that professors extended online office hours to help students complete their assignments on time.

“I don’t think that my professors individually gave unreasonable amounts of work, but putting together the workload for all my classes, it seemed an unreasonable amount for break,” College freshman Emily Hoeven said. “It made me a little more stressed than I would have liked — especially the weekend before I flew back to Penn — and I always kept a little checklist in the back of my mind of stuff I needed to be working on.”

Not all students had disproportionate workloads over the break, though.

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“I had all my midterms ... before break,” Wharton freshman Elaine Chen said. “I literally did not have a lot of work compared to other people which was really nice because then I got to explore Hong Kong and not worry over break.”

Other students used spring break to catch up on work on which they had fallen behind on, or to get ahead on future and more long-term assignments.

While students’ experiences differ, most agree that they ought to have either a regular or reduced workload over the break to give them an opportunity to relax and enjoy themselves.

“Sometimes, we need that time off. I know in high school we never really had much break,” Castrucci said. ”So it’s definitely nice having a whole week where you can relax and catch up on anything you fell behind on.”

Salary gap may not be Penn or higher-ed specific ISABEL KIM Contributing Reporter

According to Faculty Senate Chair Claire Finkelstein, though half of all Ivy League presidents are women, Amy Gutmann among them, Penn still ranks 11th in their proportion of male to female faculty out of 18 other comparable institutions.

Finkelstein was concerned primarily with the retention rate of female faculty. “The

departure rate from the university is the best measure of inequity in salary that we have, and since the percentage of female faculty leaving the university has not decreased,” Finkelstein said, “It underscores that the gender gap in faculty salaries has not been substantially reduced.”

However, Director of Faculty Development and Equity Lubna Mian had a different view. “We are concerned with gender gaps in salaries, but it may be less significant than the initial raw data may show. Based on some national surveys, our salaries are above average,” she said. “We don’t want to deny the gap, but

it’s important to emphasize that we don’t know the dimensions of the problem.”

Mian went on to explain that salary gaps based on gender may come from a complicated number of factors, and that when time and rank are factored into the equation, the gap becomes much smaller.

She then pointed out that compared to national surveys, Penn has salaries that are above average across the board. Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Anita Allen and Mian said that the gap in salaries is neither Penn nor higher education specific, and that the problem is society-wide.

“It’s in the air, not just

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This universality stretches to Penn students as well. The average starting salary of a 2014 Penn graduate was $57,805 for males, and $50,563 for females — and students are aware of that disparity.

“I think there’s still a lot of unconscious stigmas attached to women in the workforce,” Wharton freshman April Chang said. “I think a lot of people don’t even realize they’re being sexist sometimes.”

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Summer date is not enough to discourage students JONATHAN BAER Staff Reporter

Even though the 2016 Democratic National Convention will take place during the summer, democratic Penn students are determined to not let the timing of the event prevent them from being involved.

The Democratic National Committee announced on Feb. 12 that the convention to elect the next Democratic nominee for president will be held at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center on July 25, 2016.

While some students have expressed disappointment that they will be home for the summer and miss the convention, others have expressed their desire to stay in Philadelphia over the summer of 2016 to work for the DNC. “That’s something I’m definitely interested in,” College sophomore and Penn Democrats Political Director Sam Iacobellis said. “We are going to be here.

And because we are the largest student Democratic group in the city, I think the convention will reach out to us as well when the needs come to fruition for them.”

Penn Dems have already begun coordinating with the DNC about internships and volunteering surrounding the convention. Several members of Penn Dems attended the annual DNC winter meetings in Washington D.C., where they discussed ways to work together

for the 2016 convention.

Iacobellis also added that fundraising and logistics are the two major needs as the convention approaches.

“As the campaign starts to mobilize and as the date of the convention gets closer, more people are going to be needed to have it function,” he said. “Internships are going to be abound, whether it is more part time and close to the convention or more long term. It’s developing as the team is being constructed.”

At this point, the Democratic convention will most likely be nominating Hilary Clinton as the Democratic nominee for president.

Clinton is currently dominating other potential Democratic candidates in polls. According to the McClatchy-Marist poll conducted on March 4, Clinton leads other potential candidates with 57.4 percent of national support. VicePresident Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren trail far behind with 13 percent and 12 percent, respectively.

While Clinton might be the source of some Democrats’ excitement for 2016, much of the enthusiasm revolves around the prospect of Philadelphia being at the heart of the Democratic political world.

“We have a huge number of active members who have been following this for a year,” Iacobellis said. “And they are especially energized right now. A lot of excitement and pieces are starting to fall in place.”

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Recitations don’t lead themselves — at the front of the classroom, teaching assistants must balance their responsibilities with their student obligations.

Ben Leitner, an Engineering freshman and CIS 110 mentor, saw the merit of peer instruction after working with a tutor for a particularly rough Latin class.

“I love student tutoring. In middle school I hated Latin. I struggled through it,” Leitner said. “My teacher made me get a student tutor. But I ended up really liking my tutor and Latin, so I decided to become a tutor.”

TAs at Penn are paid, but Leitner says the benefits of being a TA exceed monetary gain and personal enjoyment — his position gives him a deeper understanding of computer science. “I’ve learned a lot more this semester than I think I did in my entire high school program. It’s been really helpful,” he said.

Wharton senior Matthew DeGagne works as a TA for the course “Urban Real Estate Economics.” He also believes his job has given him insight into how the classroom works at Penn. “I’ve enjoyed it from the perspective of seeing the time, the work and the effort professors put into their courses … sitting on the other side, you don’t see that as much, or you don’t know what goes in,” he

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Engineering sophomore and CIS 120 TA Luke Carlson said that being a TA can open up new professional opportunities.

said. “There’s a lot of time and thought put in throughout the semester.”

Furthermore, TAs say skills they obtain on the job can open up new professional opportunities.

“Having the skills to discuss technical problems and ideas on a little more of a manageable level for other people is a great way to get to know people who are kind of into technology but a little bit less on the technical side, like designers and developers,” Engineering sophomore and CIS 120 TA Luke Carlson said. “I know it’s going to be fun to get to know a variety of people … it’s definitely going to lead to a more interesting professional career.”

Despite these benefits, life as a TA isn’t always ideal.

Although training and other resources are provided, working

as a TA demands a steep learning curve. “You have to guide people through it, and there’s a big spectrum, I find, within the students,” Leitner said. “You have people who are very comfortable working on their own and want to do the work themselves, and then there are others that want you to tell them the answer and walk them through it — it’s very tough to gauge what different people expect and how to get them there.”

As a result of working with a wide range of students, some TAs find themselves the target of irritation. “It’s not direct, but there are times when a student is in office hours, and they’re very frustrated about their program … they don’t know how to fix it, and sometimes they kind of direct their anger at the TA,” Carlson said. “That can be frustrating, because you’re there to help.”

Additionally, some TAs may find it difficult to separate their time on and off duty. They might find themselves in the difficult position of having to grade their friends’ homework, and others are bombarded with requests for help in and out of class.

“The hardest part about TAing is drawing a line — students have to realize you’re a student also, and you have stuff to do,” Leitner said. “Many times in office hours when you try to leave students are like, ‘Oh, can you help me with one more thing?’ I feel bad. I really want to help. It’s hard to draw that line.”

Many prospective TAs must

undergo a competitive selection process. To be a CIS 110 or 120 TA, for example, applicants must excel in their coursework, complete a written statement and undergo a hands-on, practice-based interview.

However, students and faculty members alike say this type of competition is simply an indicator of how beneficial the teaching assistant position is.

“The application process is pretty competitive. We get many more applicants than we can hire,” CIS 120 professor Stephanie Weirich said. “Students really do get a lot out of TAing, and they recognize that ... there is a lot of personal enrichment that comes from TAing.”

Wharton freshman Nadia Govotsos , who is currently undergoing the competitive interview process to become a TA for Management 100, also attested to the perks of the position.

“It’s great seeing someone grow from being a scared freshman arriving and saying, ‘Oh my god, I have no idea what I want to do with my time at Wharton’ to being an actual leader,” she said.

Although being a TA is not easy, most say they ultimately appreciate the experience and feel they’re gaining important skills and knowledge.

“You feel more confident with yourself, expressing yourself and presenting your ideas and thoughts clearly,” Leitner said. “Student interaction brings another way of thinking about things or perspectives that you don’t normally get.”

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leave the program with head held high, knowing that a foundation has been laid for my successor to take this program and return it to the standard of excellence we all expect.”

Allen is the first coach in program history not to win an Ivy League title since the conference was formed in 1956. Penn Athletics has announced a search committee to look for the next Penn coach and — according to a source — will attempt to hire someone with Division I coaching experience.

“For me as a person, I don’t know if there was ever a more inspirational or motivational coach than Jerome Allen,” former player and 2012 Wharton graduate Rob Belcore said. “I am extremely saddened to hear that he’s been fired, but if you look at the record on paper … I can’t say it’s not justified.”

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“It’s going to take a good recruiter to convince kids to consider Penn with Harvard and Princeton in the mix,” former captain and 1972 Wharton graduate David “Corky” Calhoun said.

The Red and Blue have a strong recruiting class set to come in for next season. It is currently unclear whether any members of the fiveman recruiting class will decide not to attend Penn in the fall.

“Penn’s a great school, so it would be foolish not to look at Penn just because of the decision at the coaching spot,” recruit and current Lower Merion, Pa. senior Jule Brown said. “But I’m not really sure.”

Allen played for the Quakers from 1991-95, winning Ivy League Player of the Year twice while leading Penn to three Ancient Eight titles. The Red and Blue’s last NCAA Tournament win came during Allen’s junior season.

But the Philadelphia native’s

coaching career did not see similar success.

“Coach Allen and I have engaged in a thorough and thoughtful review of the men’s basketball program since I arrived on campus in July, and I know how much this program means to him — both as its coach and one of its all-time great players,” Grace Calhoun said in the press release. “Coach Allen always put the program first, and I am confident that he will continue to be a strong ambassador for the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn basketball program.”

Allen’s time on Penn’s bench began as an assistant under thenhead coach Glen Miller in 2009.

However, Miller was fired seven games into the season, prompting then-Athletic Director Steve Bilsky to promote Allen to interim head coach.

After a 6-16 finish to the season, Allen was named full-time head coach. The team improved in his

first season in charge and finished second in the Ivy League in his second full season, only one game behind Ivy champion Harvard.

However, after the graduation of Ivy League Player of the Year Zack Rosen and others recruited

by Miller, Allen fell on hard times with a team dominated for the first time by his own players. The 201213 Quakers finished 9-22, the first time Penn had ever lost 20 or more games in a season.

With the entire squad returning for the 2013-14 campaign, the team was expected to rebound, predicted to finish second in the Ancient Eight. Instead, the Quakers had similar results as the 2013-14 squad, going 8-20. The 17-42 record over a two-year span was the worst in program history.

“I see a lot of guys on the team right now who are a lot more talented than I ever was,” Belcore said. “I don’t know where the disconnect is, but from an X’s and O’s standpoint,

I know they’re running the same plays that worked for us. So I don’t look at it as, ‘he can’t reach those kids; he can’t put forth the effort.’”

“I’m not going to say that [losing] was because of a failure on Jerome’s part. If Jerome Byron Allen can’t get you to put forth the effort that you need to win. I’m not sure anybody can.”

On top of the losing records, multiple players left the program at the end of last season, increasing scrutiny on the struggling Quakers.

Despite reports of his dismissal, Allen refused to take any questions pertaining to his job status in the press conference following the Red and Blue’s 79-72 win against the Big Red. “In my attempt to be like [NFL running back] Marshawn Lynch, I’m just here so I don’t get fined,” he said.

Allen was the 18th coach in Penn history and the fifth to finish with a losing record. He is the first coach

of the Red and Blue to finish with a losing record at the Palestra and maintains the worst road winning percentage of any Penn coach ever.

Allen also has the worst winning percentage in Big 5 games of any Penn coach since 1956, having won only three of 23 contests against Philadelphia’s four other elite basketball institutions.

Now Penn will look for a new head coach to bring the program back to the top of the Ivy League. The Red and Blue are currently in their worst Ivy title drought (eight seasons) since 1956-66.

This season, Penn fell on hard times once again, compiling a program worst seven-game Ivy losing streak while finishing 9-19. Though the announcement of Allen’s firing came on the heels of a 54-46 win against Columbia, the Red and Blue wrapped up their conference season with a 4-10 mark, finishing tied for seventh in the Ivy standings, the lowest rank in program history.

a back-and-forth end to the first half.

The Elis were boosted by two forwards in the early going, as senior Greg Kelley and junior Justin Sears put up eight points apiece in the first period. Sears’

dunk at the end of the first half gave Yale a 27-23 lead at halftime.

But soon after halftime, the game turned into the Wesley Saunders show. Harvard’s star senior forward struggled from the field in the first half, making

only two of his seven shots, but came out on fire in the second half, going on a 9-0 run by himself to catapult the Crimson into the lead.

“I’ve always said about Wesley as I’ve said about [former Harvard

guard and NBA All-Star] Jeremy Lin, it’s not about the points he scores, it’s always about the points he’s responsible for,” Amaker said. “I thought the way Wesley played this afternoon, he put us on his back and carried us.”

Led by Saunders, Harvard took a 46-37 lead going into the final six minutes, but Yale slowly made its way back. After the two squads exchanged baskets, the Elis used a 9-0 run led by senior guards Javier Duren and Armani Cotton to take a one-point lead.

Saunders quickly responded with a layup and a free throw before Duren tied the game with two more free throws in the final minute.

On the final possession, Saunders drove in isolation to the free throw line, before turning and dishing to Moundou-Missi, who drained the clutch jumper.

“I trust Steve to knock down that shot more than I trust

myself maybe,” Saunders said about passing on the final play.

Yale quickly drove down the court but Duren’s last-second floater hit back rim and missed, while Sears’ tip-in attempt was too late. Despite missing the final shot, Duren was able to keep the game in perspective and was happy to have been a part of the thrilling game.

“It was probably the most fun game I’ve been a part of in my Yale career,” Duren said. “As much as I want to be mad — I’m a competitor like everyone else — I can’t but be humble, just be proud not only of myself but the other guys who are back fighting alongside me.”

The thrilling game provided the perfect finish to the Ivy season, regardless of venue.

“No disrespect to the Palestra, I would have played this outside,” Yale coach James Jones said. “It doesn’t matter where the game is being played.”

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With a spot in the NCAA Tournament on the line, Harvard and Yale went head-to-head at the Palestra on Saturday. A near-sellout crowd saw the Crimson run out to an early eightpoint lead before the Elis responded with a run of their own and surged ahead at the break. The second half was a tight affair, as Harvard senior and former Player of the Year Wesley Saunders took charge and put the Crimson in front. Yale kept pace, taking the lead with under two minutes to play. After Saunders converted a three-point play and Javier Duren notched two free throws, Harvard senior Steve Moundou-Missi hit a game-winner with seven seconds to play and gave the Crimson their fourth-straight trip to the Big Dance.

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Belcore praised Allen for the way he managed his players when he first took over on an interim basis in 2009. Along with most of his teammates, Belcore was recruited

by Allen’s predecessor, Glen Miller, while several others joined the program before legendary coach Fran Dunphy even left in 2006.

“Being at Penn for four years, I played with a lot of different guys,” Belcore said. “I mean, when I was there, there were Dunphy recruits, Miller recruits and Allen recruits.

But if Jerome Byron Allen can’t get you to put forth the effort that you need to win ... I’m not sure anybody can.”

Though Belcore said he was “extremely saddened” to hear of Allen’s firing, few individuals were

as upset as 2014 College graduate and former Penn point guard Miles Jackson-Cartwright. "[Allen] is somebody that I really grew up with,” Jackson-Cartwright said. “Even when we got in trouble my junior year, Pooh stuck with me.

That meant the world to me. He’s not old enough to be a father figure to me, but he was like my older brother. We were close on the court.

We were very close off the court. I felt like we got even closer when I left.

“It’s a sad day, man.”

While Jackson-Cartwright acknowledged the team’s lack of success during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons, he believed that this year’s squad was different.

“He brought in all this talent and it seemed like the aura around the team was a lot better this year,” Jackson-Cartwright said. “[There

was] a lot more camaraderie even though it didn’t show in the wins and losses, you could have much more fun and they were playing better.”

Like Jackson-Cartwright, a number of those who played for Penn before Allen became coach believed he was in the midst of turning the program around, as evidenced by the strong performance of this season’s group of freshmen.

The success of this year’s rookies, combined with a stellar recruiting class heading into next season, was perceived as enough to allow Allen to finish the final two years on his contract.

“In our culture, there’s an expectation that we have immediate and constant success,” Stan Greene, a player for Penn from 1974 through 1978 and current board member, said. “But if you look at the past few

years, there’s been an improvement in some things that the program has done. For example, you take a look at this freshman class. They’ve shown tremendous confidence over where they were at times throughout the year, and they seem to be enjoying themselves and each other.

That’s all a process.”

Like Greene, Tim Krug, a Penn basketball player from 1992 through 1996, who was a member of three straight undefeated Ivy title campaigns and played alongside Allen, was disappointed by the news.

“It hasn’t been a good few years and I think we all kind of were hoping that he would have the opportunity to get the ship righted,” Krug said. “But unfortunately, [Penn Athletics has] made the decision that they don’t want to continue on this path. It’s unfortunate for

him, unfortunate for the kids that are there and it’s a shame because it seems like they were well on their way to getting the ship righted.”

But with Allen’s ouster, it is uncertain whether members of the Red and Blue’s strong recruiting class will stay committed to the program heading into next season. Jule Brown, a small forward from Lower Merion High School, Pa., was unsure how Allen leaving would change his status with the program.

“Penn’s a great school, so it would be foolish not to look at Penn, just because of the decision at the coaching spot,” Brown said. “But I’m not really sure.”

Though it is unclear who exactly Penn Athletics may target to fill the coaching vacancy, several names have emerged as Allen’s potential successor. Chief among them is former Cornell coach Steve

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“It’s going to be tough [to find a replacement] because you need to bring someone in who is going to be expected to compete and win Ivy League titles,” Krug said. “I don’t see how you can have a list that doesn’t have Steve Donahue’s name in big bold letters at the top.

“He coached here under two outstanding coaches ... and went on to do phenomenal things at Cornell. He won three Ivy titles at a school that had never competed for Ivy titles.

He has the resume, he has the history, he is a Philadelphia guy and has ties back to the successful years like Jerome did.

“To me, it’s a no-brainer who the next coach should be.”

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Sophomore Sydney Stipanovich won her second Ivy Defensive Player of the Year award and was a unanimous first-team All-Ivy choice.

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Although Tuesday’s 55-42 loss to Princeton may have crushed Penn women’s hoops’ hopes of making its second-consecutive NCAA Tournament trip, the squad certainly did not come away from the season emptyhanded.

For the second time in as many years, sophomore center Sydney Stipanovich earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year honors. The sophomore from St. Louis is the only player in Penn history to achieve such a feat.

Just take one look at Stipanovich’s numbers and her prowess on the court becomes clear. The sophomore leads the team in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage and blocks. With a league-leading 77 blocks this season, Stipanovich’s numbers trail only the single season school record of 99 she set during her freshman campaign.

Perhaps what’s most impressive about Stipanovich’s statistics is not that she ranks nineteenth in the nation in blocks, but that she racked up those numbers while nursing a back injury. “Her numbers were down a little bit because those days playing back to back games and she wasn’t herself as much and she just kept playing,� coach Mike McLaughlin said. “It’s not easy to do.�

In addition to earning defensive honors, Stipanovich was one of two Ancient Eight players to be unanimously voted first-team All-Ivy. Stipanovich was not the only Quaker to earn Ancient Eight honors for the 2014-15 season.

Freshman phenom Michelle Nwokedi took home Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors, an award that was almost a foregone conclusion after the guard tallied six Ivy League Rookie of the Week nods. Nwokedi is the second consecutive Red and Blue member to earn this award after Stipanovich did in 2013-14.

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certainly a testament to the recruiting abilities of McLaughlin’s coaching staff. But beyond just that, it is a testament to Nwokedi herself. “She is special,� McLaughlin said. “We had the ability this year with some returning post players to bring in Michelle maybe a little bit slower than even I would have liked. Her stats for what she did in our league [show] unbelievable growth.�

Part of Nwokedi’s success in the paint is no doubt due to the example set by defensive powerhouse Stipanovich and the veteran leadership of the Quakers’ graduating class of seniors.

When asked to comment on what the graduating class has brought to the program, McLaughlin was effusive. “I’ve never had a group of four kids work collectively like this group has.�

Two of those seniors were recognized by the Ancient Eight, with Kara Bonenberger earning second-team All-Ivy honors and Kathleen Roche earning Honorable Mention All-Ivy. For Bonenberger, this marks her second consecutive time to be named second-team All-Ivy. McLaughlin suspected that the senior forward might not be satisfied even with the award – evidence of Bonenberger’s drive to continually grow as a player. “She works, she works, she works and she’s a pain in the butt to play against,� McLaughlin said.

Rounding out the senior class are Katy Allen and Renee Busch, who McLaughlin calls “winners� even though they did not join their classmates in earning Ivy League accolades. “They have really given so much to this program,� he said. “They’ve both had key moments this year and we wouldn’t be in the position we were if it wasn’t for them.�

With the Ivy League season in the books, all that is left for the Quakers is the Women’s National Invitation Tournament this upcoming weekend. Penn will find out its opponent on Monday.

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For once Jerome Allen wasn’t dressed in his trademark Italian threads. Instead, as he graced the sidelines for one final time as the head coach of Penn men’s basketball, he donned his old varsity sweater.

Allen led the Quakers on to the court in his maroon top, with a navy block “P� in the center, excited for the team’s matchup. His team accompanied him with a wardrobe change of their own: plain blue shirts with their coach’s old “53� pasted to the backs.

Unfortunately for the Red and Blue, a change in clothing did not lead to a wildly different result against Princeton on Tuesday, as Penn fell to the Tigers, 73-52.

After the game, Allen said he was not expecting the warm response that arrived from both his players and a sympathetic crowd. “If I would have known or if I had my choice I definitely would not have let them wear those shirts,�

Allen said after expressing the gratitude he had for the gesture.

But the Quakers (9-19, 4-10 Ivy) clearly wanted to send a message about the appreciation they had for their coach. Allen reciprocated with kind words for his team after the game, most notably the freshmen. “I think Antonio Woods played the best out of any freshman this season. Sam Jones is, if not the best, one of the best shooters in this league. Darnell [Foreman] fights, Mike Auger fights,� he said of his rookie class.

And the beginning of the game featured that rookie class prominently. The squad burst out of the gate with two deep triples courtesy of none other than Jones and junior guard Tony Hicks.

But Penn’s eight straight points to start the game proved to be its largest lead and only momentum of the contest.

From there, things turned quickly for the Quakers, who had trouble

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Seniors Cam Crocker and Greg Louis snuck into the starting lineup in their final games as Penn athletes.

However, they were unable to boost Penn’s chances against a superior Princeton squad (16-14, 9-5), who would at one point lead the Quakers by as much as 27.

While Penn only trailed the Tigers by six at the half, an 11:30 field goal drought at the start of the second half squandered any hope of a thirdstraight upset for Allen’s young group.

Thus, it turned out to be a night to forget for the Red and Blue, who dropped their 19th game of the season Tuesday on Senior Night.

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Allen, who attended the press conference alone, spoke fondly about what he anticipates will be a bright future for the inexperienced Quakers. “They’re on their way,� he said, “At the end of the day I said we always challenge ourselves to leave it better than we found it and not throw anybody under the bus or name names but I changed the culture.�

As time ran out on the Quakers, Allen saw his time at Penn click down as well. When the clock hit zero and after handshakes were exchanged, Allen walked off of the court briskly, without taking time to soak in the Palestra atmosphere.

However, he couldn’t avoid a smile when he locked eyes with a few faithful fans who were cheering his name as he exited the court. “This has been awesome,� Allen stated.

Allen’s squad may have fallen flat during his final game at the helm, but he stood tall as the band played him off to ‘The Red and Blue� one last time.

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It’s probably hyperbolic to say that Penn wrestling went into the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championships – its conference championship meet – last weekend with a haughty attitude, but it’s likely that the Red and Blue left the meet feeling a bit humbled.

However, when the NCAA revealed that five of the Quakers’ wrestlers are headed to the NCAA championships at the end of this week, it made up for a little bit of the EIWAs’ disappointments.

Penn entered the second day of action in Bethlehem, Pa., with three grapplers still in play in the semifinal round, but ended the weekend with only one finalist and without an individual champion.

Perhaps the most disappointing turn of events of the day for the Quakers came in Penn’s first semifinal matchup — star senior 149-pounder C.J. Cobb against sixth-seeded underdog Chris Perez of Princeton.

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the Year awards while leading the team to three Ivy League titles.

But in 2009, Allen’s legacy with Penn basketball was forever changed when then-Athletic Director Steve Bilsky handed him the interim head coach position to replace the recently-fired Glen Miller. While Penn limped to the finish after Miller’s firing, Allen was given the full-time job.

At the time, Allen’s credentials beyond being one of Penn’s most decorated on-court leaders was puzzling. After all, Allen’s coaching experience boiled down to an internship with the San Antonio Spurs and player-coaching in Italy near the end of his playing career.

And that is simply the one pitfall that doomed Allen: He was handed the job too early. He had been an assistant at Penn for just seven games, barely re-acclimated with the program and forced to turn things around. If anything, that is on Bilsky.

intensity level was great. But give them a lot of credit, their defense was really solid.”

While Penn was paced by Nwokedi’s double-double and 13 points from Stipanovich, Princeton showed off two stellar frontcourt players of its own.

Junior Alex Wheatley led all scorers with 17 points and chipped in 12 rebounds while fellow junior Annie Tarakchian had a doubledouble as well, notching 10 points and 12 boards.

Trailing 26-21 at halftime, the Quakers opened the second stanza aggressively on the offensive end.

After Stipanovich and Nwokedi each converted two free throws, Penn could get no closer than a one-point deficit as the game progressed.

Despite battling back and forth, the Red and Blue failed to take advantage of five possessions on which they could have taken the lead. And after a jumper by senior Kara Bonenberger cut the Tigers’ lead to one yet again, Princeton pounced with a 14-4 run to open up its first double-digit lead of the day.

From that point on, the Tigers stood tall. Princeton overcame several small outbursts by the Quakers, including a brief window in which it seemed Penn might make a run after Bonenberger left the game due to a knee injury.

“I think we took ourselves out of the game at points,” senior Kathleen Roche said. “Their

But the beginning of Allen’s time at Penn indicated better things were on the horizon. An 8-6 Ivy finish in his first year. A 20-13 record where Penn was just one win from playing for an elusive NCAA Tournament bid in 2012. Everything seemed to be heading in the right direction despite the graduation of All-Ivy seniors Zach Rosen and Belcore.

Yet the trend went in the opposite direction. The Quakers had just 26 wins in the last three seasons, a record low for the program. How? Well, let’s just say things went awry in recruiting.

Allen has recruited some extremely talented players over the years since being handed Rosen and Belcore. However, too many of those players proved that they could not work within Penn’s system and be molded into effective collegiate players.

That is very much on Allen and his staff, but it is also understandable for the inexperienced coach.

It doesn’t help that his entire staff left following Penn’s 20-13 season in 2012, forcing him to completely

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pressure was terrific and their defense was really great tonight. But I think a few shots that we would make on other nights changed how the game went. Give them credit, they’re a great team.”

Once the final buzzer sounded, the two teams bore witness to what is becoming an increasingly familiar sight: the road victor celebrating an Ivy League title on its opponent’s home court. Though the Tigers had the Ancient Eight crown wrapped up entering Tuesday’s action, Princeton refused to celebrate until after it completed its perfect regular season.

“I think it’s important [to compete with Princeton] because it shows the growth we had from the beginning to the end of the season,” McLaughlin said. “I think it shows that we can compete, no doubt. These girls are winners and they’ve played on the big stage, they’ve handled themselves well against a really good team.

“I’m happy for Princeton, but I’m really proud of our girls.”

Up next for the Tigers is the Big Dance. Though it is unclear whether or not Princeton will host a game in the NCAA Tournament, the Quakers know acquiring the Ivy League’s first-ever at-large berth to the Round of 64 is virtually impossible after Tuesday’s loss.

Penn will be on the road for its first matchup in the WNIT later this week.

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No. 13 Princeton won its 30th straight game and finished its undefeated regular season with its 55-42 win over Penn on Tuesday.

Cobb – who was dominant in his match the day before – was expected to advance to the tournament finals, so his early exit was a clear surprise.

Going into the meet, senior 184-pounder Lorenzo Thomas was generally thought to be Penn’s second-best bet for an individual conference champion, behind only Cobb.

However, much like Cobb, Thomas was impressive in his first two matches of the tournament on Friday, before running into a buzzsaw on Saturday.

In the semifinals, the Pittsburgh native faced No. 1 Gabe Dean, his longtime nemesis. Thomas fought hard, but Dean was ultimately too much, and the Penn grappler had to settle for a third-place finish.

The Quakers did have their fair share of positive results too, though.

Senior Canaan Bethea went to the finals in the 197-pound bracket off the strength of a hard-fought victory over top-seeded Abram Ayala of Princeton in the semifinals. Meanwhile, junior Brooks Martino did enough over the course of the tournament to earn an automatic qualifying bid for NCAAs later this month.

In total, five Penn wrestlers punched their tickets to St. Louis when selections were announced last Wednesday, as the NCAA revealed the final list of qualifiers for the 2015 National Tournament.

For three of the Quakers’

grapplers, the announcement confirmed what they had already known, as Thomas, Bethea and Martino earned automatic bids with stellar performances at EIWAs. Thomas, the No. 10 seed entering the upcoming tournament, is no stranger to the national stage.

Last year, the then-junior went 5-3 at 184 pounds to earn All-American honors. Although Bethea missed qualifying for NCAAs in 2014, he competed in the 184pound class in 2013, finishing 0-2.

Martino, on the other hand, is a first-time qualifier for NCAAs – the Quakers’ only first-timer to qualify for the 2015 tournament.

Both seniors are unseeded entering the 2015 tournament.

After earning at-large bids, sophomore Caleb Richardson and Cobb will join Penn’s trio of automatic-bid earners in St. Louis.

Although this will be Richardson’s second trip to NCAAs, it is his first at 133 pounds.

Despite a respectable 25-9 overall season record, the second-year grappler enters St. Louis without a seed. Cobb, however, earned a No. 13 seed at 149 pounds. Cobb’s last appearance at nationals came in 2013 at 141 pounds, where he finished 2-2.

Meanwhile, the season is over for those who did not get at-large bids to NCAAs, and the Quakers — who had six All-Ivy performers this season — wrapped up their season with a fifth-place overall finish at EIWAs.

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Princeton is perfect for a reason.

Penn women’s basketball found that out the hard way … again.

Despite a strong effort in the game’s first 25 minutes and energized play from forward Michelle Nwokedi and center Sydney Stipanovich, the Red and Blue could not overcome a run from Princeton midway through the second half, falling, 55-42, in the teams’ regular season finale.

With the win, the Tigers (30-0, 14-0 Ivy) became the first team in Ivy League history to start a season with 30 consecutive wins, and will enter the NCAA Tournament as the lone undefeated squad in women’s college basketball.

Unlike when Penn (20-8, 11-3) met Princeton two months ago on the Tigers’ home floor, the Quakers managed to stay within striking distance for a majority of the contest. The first half was a drawn out slugfest, with neither team able to seize a lead larger than seven points.

Nwokedi, who was quiet in only 11 minutes in the Red and Blue’s Jan. 10 game at Jadwin Gym, made her presence known from the very beginning on Tuesday.

The Ivy League Rookie of the Year pulled in Penn’s first three defensive boards en route to a 13point, 14-rebound performance.

Due in large part to the squads’ defensive toughness, neither team lit up the scoreboard in the opening period. Despite having a plethora of open looks, the Quakers missed 11 of their 12 three-point attempts in the first 20 minutes while the Tigers converted only 36.7 percent of their own shots.

“The game was right where we wanted it in terms of the score,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “I thought we had better control of the pace than we did the first time, I thought we rebounded the ball at times effectively.

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When Penn basketball took on Princeton on Senior Day last Tuesday, the Quakers’ final contest of the season represented the end of an era for more than the Red and Blue’s veteran players.

Following a win over Columbia on March 6 — one that helped Penn snap its program record seven-game Ivy losing streak — The Daily Pennsylvanian confirmed the next afternoon that coach Jerome Allen would not return to the team next season. A March 7 win over Cornell gave the Quakers their first weekend sweep in over a year, but the game itself was overshadowed by Allen’s dismissal.

As news of the firing spread, many of those connected to the program were upset by the development, especially given Allen’s ties to Penn basketball as a standout player in the early 1990s. Nonetheless, because of Allen’s 65-104 record in five and a half seasons at the helm, most were not completely surprised by the decision.

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Despite Jerome Allen’s .385 winning percentage with Penn basketball, several former players were upset by his dismissal.

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33.2 seconds. Tie game. An NCAA Tournament bid on the line.

In the end, experience trumped all as senior forward Steve Moundou-Missi drained a midrange jumper in the final 10 seconds to help Harvard claim its fourth-straight automatic NCAA Tournament bid.

The Crimson beat Yale, 53-51, on the late jumper to win the Ivy League Men’s Basketball Playoff at the Palestra on Saturday.

“Ivy titles are very hard to come by and so we’re proud of being Ivy League champions, and we’re never going to downplay that,” Harvard

coach Tommy Amaker said about the rising expectations of the Crimson’s program.

After the game, Harvard’s fans stormed the Palestra floor before the Crimson cut down the nets, celebrating the Ivy title in style. The historic arena was a picturesque backdrop to the one-game playoff between the Bulldogs and Harvard, as both squads finished tied atop the Ancient Eight in the regular season.

Each team took turns posing with the Ivy League Championship trophy before tipping off.

“Our league has been an outstanding conference all year from top to bottom,” Amaker said.

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Numbers don’t lie.

That seems to be the philosophy that Penn Athletic Director Grace Calhoun employed on Monday when she informed Jerome Allen that he will not be retained as Penn basketball head coach.

And when you take a look at the numbers, it isn’t hard to see why.

A .385 winning percentage.

Over 100 losses in five and a half seasons. A 3-20 record against the Big 5. All of those are undeniable facts. Penn basketball struggled to win under Allen and this season’s 9-19 record with two games to go didn’t help Allen’s case in the slightest.

“For me as a person, I don’t know if there was ever a more inspirational or motivational coach than Jerome Allen,” former player and 2012 Wharton graduate Rob Belcore said.

“I am extremely saddened to hear that he’s been fired, but if you look at the record on paper … I can’t say it’s not justified.”

You can continue to rattle off the statistics — looking at Penn’s Ivy record or Palestra performance or even lackluster attendance numbers — but any decision like this goes far beyond the numbers.

There are few people as ingrained in Penn basketball history as Allen, and that won’t change any time soon. Allen, nicknamed “Pooh” by those closest to him, was one of the best players to ever take the floor for the Red and Blue. He won two Ivy League Player of SEE TYDINGS PAGE 15 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640