October 28, 2014 by The Daily Pennsylvanian

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OPINION A MATTER OF DISCIPLINE Why the OSC’s failure to disclose disciplinary information is unacceptable PAGE 4

SPORTS 3 KEYS FOR FIELD HOCKEY We take a look at the trends that have deﬁned Penn ﬁeld hockey this year PAGE 9

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Students to carry mattresses in protest of sexual assault MICA TENENBAUM Contributing Writer

SOPHIA WITTE Staff Writer

As SEPTA union members could potentially go on strike starting next week, Penn has a plan to provide alternative

transportation options. Though SEPTA union members voted unanimously on Sunday in support of a strike, union leadership announced today that a strike does not seem imminent. “There will be no strike in the immediate future. I can’t promise anything beyond this week,” TWU Local 234 Union President Willie Brown said

during a press conference this afternoon. Brown said SEPTA will give the public 24 hours’ notice if a strike is called, although SEPTA spokesperson Jerri Williams told the Philadelphia Inquirer that “we would hope that our riders would get at least 48 hours’ notice so they can make alternative plans.” Penn has been prepared

for this possibility since it released a SEPTA Strike Contingency Plan in April, when SEPTA workers had previously threatened to strike. In collaboration with Drexel University, Penn Health System and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Penn Transit Services outlined a plan to offer a campus bus service and make parking areas available

to people who usually rely on SEPTA to get to work. For example, busses will pick morning commuters up in front of Fado Irish Pub at 15th and Locust streets and by the 69th Street Terminal. After work, busses will run from 33rd and Walnut streets back to the two locations. SEE SEPTA STRIKE PAGE 6

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Penn’s endowment returns were just average compared to its peers during fiscal year 2014. Penn led the Ivy League in investment returns during fiscal year 2013, with returns of 14.4 percent. The rest of the Ivy League averaged returns around 12 percent that year. This year, Penn is keeping pace with peer institutions, ranking fourth in investment performance. Reporting returns of 17.5 percent for the year ending June 30, 2014, Penn still saw its endowment value climb to $9.6 billion, a record high for the University. Boasting returns of 20.2 per-

cent for the last fiscal year, Yale topped the Ivy League in investment performance, bringing its total endowment to $23.9 billion. Princeton University and Dartmouth College followed suit, reporting returns of 19.6 percent and 19.2 percent, respectively. Penn and its peers’ endowment growths are unsurprising, given the success of public equity demonstrated by Standard & Poor’s 500 Index’s 24.6 percent growth in the fiscal year ending on June 30. “We benefit from being able to take a time horizon longer than the vast majority of investors can,” Penn’s Chief Invest-

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Penn students are joining the ranks of the Columbia University-born movement to fight sexual assault by carrying mattresses on their backs. On Wednesday, Oct. 29, Penn will participate in “Carrying the Weight Together” National Day of Action. Students across the country will carry mattresses and pillows in protest of sexual assault and in support of Emma Sulkowicz, a junior at Columbia University. Sulkowicz made national headlines when she began carrying a mattress around campus in protest of Columbia’s handling of her sexual assault. Sulkowicz was allegedly raped by a fellow student in 2012 and filed a complaint with the University last year. After Columbia found her alleged rapist innocent, Sulkowicz set a protest through performance art in motion, which has become viral. Two months into her protest, student activists at Columbia have launched “Carrying the Weight Together” to spread awareness across the country by encouraging college campuses nationwide to follow in Sulkowicz’s footsteps. At Penn, students will demonstrate support for the cause on Wednesday by carrying around their own mattresses and pillows. As the demonstration’s title suggests, one of its central messages is that of collaboration — the difficult task of carrying a 50 pound mattress can be alleviated if others help carry it, just as solidarity can fuel progression in fighting rape culture.

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Employment numbers rose by 6.2 percent for alumni of Penn’s most recent graduating class, compared to the Class of 2013. Preliminary results from the Career Plans Survey Report, released annually by Career Services, revealed that around 73 percent of graduates obtained full-time employment, an increase from 66.8 percent full-time employed 2013 graduates. Director of Career Services Patricia Rose explained that the increase in full-time employment rates for graduates is because of a “stronger economy.” According to Rose, full-time employment has consistently risen since the Class of 2010. “It’s a good time to be graduating from Penn,” Rose said. “There are many studies out there that show how many recent college graduates are not able to find jobs. But that’s not true at Penn. Our students are sought after by employers across a wide range of fields.” Like in previous years, financial services and consulting continued to be the most popular industry choices among graduates, with 25 and 16 percent, respectively, going into the two fields. Wharton and Engineering sophomore Sangmin Oh, who returned after serving two years in the South Korean military, said he found the full-time employment rate to be “generally high.” “But I’m not surprised it’s high, since it’s Penn,” Oh said. “Given the level of professionalism we tend to display and the general career-oriented atmosphere, I’m not surprised at all.” Forty-eight percent of full-time employment respondents found their jobs through Career Services. Of these Career Services users, just more than half found their jobs through on-campus recruiting. For Engineering junior Aravind Rao, who plans to work full-time upon graduation, on-campus recruiting “is not something that has benefits as opposed to searching online.” “I feel like a lot of the tech companies that I apply to have search engines that are so good that there’s no real advantage in doing OCR,” he explained. “But for financial firms, OCR definitely helps because a lot of them are selective about who they take resumes from.” More than 80 percent of the Class of 2014 had responded to the survey by Oct. 23, but it does not officially close until November when the full report will be issued, according to Director of Career Services Patricia Rose. In addition to the undergraduate career plans survey, surveys for each of the undergraduate schools will be completed in December. Rose estimates that by the completion of the survey, there will be an 83 percent survey yield rate.

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Q&A | The DP talked to campus leaders about race and white privilege HUIZHONG WU Staff Writer

Last week, College sophomore Jeremiah Keenan wrote a column that drew a largely negative response from the Penn community. His column touched on issues of stereotypes, racism and set off a wide range of discussions. Keenan subsequently wrote an apology column published on Monday. Beyond campus, the film “Dear White People” — a film about four black students at an elite private university who have to come to terms with what being black means — recently came out, starting a nationwide discussion about race. The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke to students interested in the race debate to discuss the issues raised in the column and explain some of rhetoric that is at play when we talk about race. This interview took place before Keenan’s apology column on Monday. It has been condensed and edited for clarity. The Daily Pennsylvanian: What was your first reaction to the column? Brittany Marsh (College ju-

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Sounding off on white privilege, stereotypes nior, associate director of the Race Dialogue Project): It was confusing to me, because I could see where the motive for him writing the article came from and I could understand it, because I don’t think anyone wants to be labeled as something they don’t believe they are. But there were definitely points in the article where I wondered what type of research he had done into certain issues. I almost wish I could’ve spoken to him in the person. Megan Grable (College senior studying Urban Studies who is writing a thesis on black student activism): My initial reaction was that he was used to being in a place where white privilege wasn’t as much of a problem. At least from my understanding, he wasn’t in a community where white people were the ones that were doing the oppression. And so when he came here, he felt very personal[ly] tied up in that. And he was used to being an outsider to race relations. DP: Your personal reactions aside, what were the reactions you heard in your respective communities? Denzel Cummings (College senior and co-chair of UMOJA): For me, there were very particular lines that were quoted when

people discussed it, that I feel sort of targeted particular communities. For example, if you’re white, you’re “one of four things: gay, bisexual, transgender or racist” was something people commented on. I think another another thing that was commented on was the four types of black people. One of the things that was commented on a lot in our community was that some of the stereotypes we haven’t even heard of, like panhandlers. I’ve never heard that word used as a description. Oyinkan Muraina (College senior and board member of Penn African Students Association): Also, speaking as a first generation African student, just to see wealthy Nigerian Whartonite … It was interesting in that we’re no strangers to this discussion of affirmative action not reaching those whom it was supposed to help and we’re definitely empathetic to that conversation. But in some ways it also seemed underhanded in the way it was thrown around. DP: Keenan writes “When I came to Penn, I brought this mentality with me. But gradually I learned that here, I’m a white guy. And a white guy can be one of four things: gay, bisexual, transgender or racist.” Do you think

this stereotyping of white people exists? Marsh: I think that it does, and it’s not unique to white students. I think that here [there] are stereotypes for everyone. I found what he said to be interesting just because I don’t feel this way about white people. Personally, I was like,“Wait that’s not true, I don’t do this.” But then I stepped back a little bit, and I think this is kind of why I sympathize with him. I think what he is sensing is people being upset about white privilege but he’s taking that as everyone villainizing him. I think there’s a difference between people saying, “Hey, we’re experiencing this problem” and people saying, “Hey, you’re the root of all our problems.” DP: These stereotypes are closely linked with the idea of white privilege — what is white privilege? Muraina: White privilege and my idea of privilege are very different. If we’re just talking about privilege, I think they’re benefits afforded to somebody because of certain traits/attributes that they have or needs they have. When I talk about white privilege … [it] is rooted in a structural advantage that one has due to the color of their skin or race.

Marsh: It’s important to realize that the privilege is not from the whiteness itself, it’s what the implications whiteness has in the type of society we live in and in the type of historical moment we live in. Another thing with the appearance of white people being villainized, it’s not someone complaining about the fact that you are white, it’s someone pointing out that society is set up in a way that being white has certain implications, whether or not it’s happened in your lifetime or in your grandparents’ lifetime. DP: ”Dear White People" just came out. Columbusing went viral on the internet this summer. Are these attempts at communicating to whites about these issues? Or are these videos just preaching to the choir? Cummings: I can talk specifically when it comes to “Dear White People.” I went to a screening with Justin Simien, and one of the hugest things he said was that, for him at least, was that his goal in the movie would be to be the former, which is reaching out to other groups and engaging in these conversations through media, and he said if you do anything, when you see this movie again, please bring a white person to see this movie as well, some-

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one you’re friends with, so that other people can see besides ourselves, so we’re not preaching to the choir. I think the goal of these pieces of media are to engage with different individuals in regards to these [issues]. The big question is will that be able to happen? Will these conversations be engaged outside of these areas? Or will it just be [limited] to individuals who have a vested interest in them? I think that’s a question that has yet to be answered. Marsh: Also, will people who aren’t already involved in this conversation understand? Because just from being on social media or reading different articles, some people will see these videos and take it as being villainized or as reverse racism [and] not in the way that it was necessarily intended, which is to bring awareness to the issues that disenfranchised groups may face. … These thing exist, but they’re just supplementary to the actual conversation, because understanding comes from the conversation.

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Teachers back in school at Penn The Teachers Institute of Philadelphia at Penn turned 10 this year JENNIFER WRIGHT Staff Writer

The Teachers Institute of Philadelphia at Penn does for public school teachers what drafting does for bike racers, Thomas Alva Edison High School English teacher Sydney Coffin explained over the phone on Sunday. By following the leading bike in a group, other bikers benefit from drafting because they can move quicker by racing together than they would on their own. Through Penn’s TIP program, “you’re surrounded by really efficient, highly energetic teachers and you kind of get pulled along with them,” Coffin said. And for drafting to work most effectively, you have to be as close as possible to the bike — or teacher — next to you. The Teachers Institute of Philadelphia brings together Penn faculty and public school teachers from West and Southwest Philadelphia to learn from each other and from Penn professors. In honor of TIP’s 10th year, the program — run through the Office of the Provost — is fundraising $10,000 to continue teaching K-12 teachers about developments in fields they often teach to their students. The interactions between Penn professors in fields from biology to poetry give teachers a chance to update their content knowledge in those fields and pass that on to their students, Director Alan Lee said. School districts in general don’t offer content updates for

their faculty members, but TIP is able to further Penn’s mission of engaging locally by providing teachers with a chance to learn more about their subject areas, Lee added. Through 14 sessions between January and May, teachers create lessons they can use in their classrooms based on presentations by Penn professors. In the 10 years since the program’s founding, Philadelphia teachers have created 300 lessons available online for any teacher to use. “Even though it’s a challenge,” since the program is outside a teacher’s normal work hours, “you get something back exponentially more valuable: You get invigorated,” Coffin said. The seminars always focus on how to make new content interesting to their students, he added. “Every teacher is saying ‘I know what will excite my students,’” he said. The program works with the School District of Philadelphia, which originally supported it with funding. Now, as a result of budget cuts, the school district simply gets the word out about the program to Philadelphia teachers, co-founder of TIP Rogers Smith said. “Because their professional development has been cut they see us as even more valuable,” Smith added. Lee said most teachers rank the $1,000 stipend they receive for participation low on the list of things that were best about the seminars, just calling it an added perk. “Where else do you learn the updated or the latest interpretation of American poetry since the 19th century? You can’t do it in an afternoon or during summer

programs,” he said. English professor and Director of the Kelly Writers House Al Filreis said lots of teachers are scared of poetry — whether it’s because they don’t understand it themselves or they think their students can’t connect to it. In his seminar, he presented “cool and hip poetry that [the teachers] had probably not encountered before” with a technique of breaking down the interpretation of poems among the group’s members. “I was not only teaching the material, but I was teaching how I teach the stuff,” he said. For some teachers, the opportunity is also priceless. Lee, a public school teacher in Philadelphia for about 30 years, said that participants in TIP love the chance to “geek out” on being a teacher. On the last day of one of his seminars, many of the teachers began crying because of how impacted they felt by the program, Filreis said. Working with experienced teachers in these seminars also gives Penn faculty members the chance to engage in local schools, Filreis added. “This is a really effective way for a faculty member that loves and admires the material to get that material out into the schools,” he said. “This is like a direct feed into the Philadelphia schools.” Coffin said he looks forward to seeing TIP expand the content offered in the seminars. But for Smith, who co-chairs TIP’s Faculty Advisory Committee, the main concern is keeping the quality of the seminars and their effect consistent. “We hope that at a minimum we are raising the bar for professional development programs.”

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Four years late is four years too many EDITORIAL

ast week, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that this year marks the fourth year in a row that the University has failed to publish an annual report on student disciplinary matters at Penn. For the fourth year in a row, the student body has no way of knowing how Penn has investigated and dealt with disciplinary infractions committed at Penn in the last year. Effectively, for the fourth year in a row, the Penn community has no quantitative way of measuring the administration’s decisions regarding academic violations or potential threats to our safety. This is unacceptable. Last year, the Office of Student Conduct attributed this failure to

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technical difficulties in compiling statistics and adapting to a new recordkeeping system. These issues cannot be exclusive to Penn — Columbia, Yale and Brown surely face the same logistical challenges when sorting large amounts of data. However, those three schools have published comprehensive reports on student crime and sexual assault statistics, including the number of violations and the responses taken by the universities. Even if the logistical issues of reporting information were, for some reason, insurmountable at the time, it has been over a year since the OSC released that statement, which would be plenty of time for them to develop a more efficient way of

sorting through data — if it was really a priority for them.

lizing? After another four years? This past generation of Penn students has

We fail to see how releasing a report with descriptions of cases and the disciplinary outcome with all names redacted is a breach of confidentiality and believe that students have the right to be informed about how the University responds to cases of sexual assault.” Furthermore, it is completely astounding to us that those holding OSC accountable have not taken it upon themselves to work harder in order to prevent oversights like this from occurring. At what point was the University planning on mobi-

no idea how the University has punished breaches of the student and academic codes, as well as alleged perpetrators of sexual assault. How many more classes would have to come and go without the administration taking on a more proactive level

of action? The OSC’s lack of transparency regarding cases of sexual assault is particularly egregious. As the DP reported last October, there is no set sanction for perpetrators of sexual assault — incidents are largely handled on a case-by-case basis. However, when the DP reached out requesting details about sanctions enacted over the previous two years, the OSC declined to comment on account of confidentiality concerns. “Adequate details regarding the complexity of each case ... could not be shared without running the unacceptable risk of breaching our students’ confidentiality and expectations of privacy,” Michele Goldfarb,

then-director of OSC, said. We fail to see how releasing a report with descriptions of cases and the disciplinary outcome with all names redacted is a breach of confidentiality and believe that students have the right to be informed about how the University responds to cases of sexual assault. We are sure that there are a lot of things on the administration’s mind at the moment. Fundraising, research, student safety — all are important. However, the continued failure of the OSC to publish a disciplinary report — and its refusal to disclose important information that many other schools have taken it upon themselves to share with the student body — should be a much higher priority.

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equal society, you’re living in an imaginary America

few weeks ago, a Penn alumnus emailed me regarding an article in which I had argued that grading should be blind, because graders are affected by race and gender-based implicit bias when they evaluate a student’s work, and blind grading can mitigate this. The writer expressed his belief that Penn admissions ought to be blind too — that Penn’s commitment to diversity means better-qualified candidates are “cheated” out of their chance to attend this prestigious institution just because they are white. My fellow columnist, Jeremiah Keenan, similarly bemoaned Penn’s attention to race in a recent article in which he took issue with “the black call for special treatment” that he sees in affirmative action and black organizations at Penn. They’re not alone in this view. Many people bristle with indignation at the mention of affirmative action. If you read the comments section on almost any article about racism on a mainstream news website, you might conclude that a lot of people see affirmative action as the race problem of the 21st century. It leaves me wondering what America they’re living in. Here are some facts about real America: From the 16th through the 19th centuries, black people were brought here as slaves. After slavery was abolished, institutional racism continued, marginaliz-

ing not only black people but also other minorities. Today, roughly 27 percent of black and 26 percent of Latino people live in poverty, compared to 10 percent of white people. Given the prevalence of personal and institutional racism and the dismal state of social mobility in this country, the idea that minorities ought to have somehow closed the gap without any institutional advocacy is absurd.

Affirmative action is a recognition of real America, which has an appallingly unequal past and present.” In light of these facts, I’m forced to the following conclusion: Either the people who believe affirmative action constitutes the race problem in America think minorities ought to work harder than everyone else in order to reach the same social positions, or they live in an imaginary America. In imaginary America, affirmative action is unfair because it treats two equally privileged candidates unequally. It is unnecessary because Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream has been realized and we all see character, not skin. It is nonsensical because minorities aren’t disproportionately poor, uneducated

and incarcerated. We can hope for this America but we cannot pretend it exists or has ever existed. Affirmative action is a recognition of real America, which has an appallingly unequal past and present. Institutions practice affirmative action because they understand that the circumstances of a person’s birth form that person’s opportunities, and that race, in real America, is one of those formative factors. Because real America’s past and present has and continues to produce a racial class divide, affirmative action allows educational institutions to attempt not to enforce this racial division, even while their cost means they are de facto enforcers of our stratified class system. Affirmative action should attempt to combat this as well by taking socioeconomic status into account for candidates of all races. That it does not is a crippling failing of our current system. Even if we set aside the obvious disparity in effort necessary for two candidates of a privileged and underprivileged group to produce the same resumes, the job of a college admissions office is not to evaluate the personal worth of each candidate, but to build the best class they can and to further the social good that is education. This means including people who bring different life experiences to the classroom. It does not come at the cost of

SOPHIA WUSHANLEY lowering standards. Anyone aware of how cutthroat college admissions are is also aware that there are far more qualified candidates than there are places. Diversity improves intellectual life, which is why it is absolutely misguided to believe that including minorities in education is primarily a form of charity. I support blind grading as a way to diminish the effects of racism, but I’m not under the illusion that it eliminates them. Grading can be done “blindly,” but everyday life cannot. Pretending that we live in a race-blind society won’t make our society raceblind. With measures that acknowledge and combat inequality, we must continue to push ourselves towards an equal America. For now, it exists only in our imaginations.

SOPHIA WUSHANLEY is a College senior from Millersville, Pa., studying philosophy. Her email address is wsophia@sas.upenn.edu. “Another Look” appears every Tuesday.

t’s not easy being Greek. Greek life has come under fire at college campuses across the country. In September, Wesleyan ordered its frats to go co-ed; last week, Dartmouth’s student paper, creatively called The Dartmouth, published an editorial entitled, “Abolish the Greek System.” There have been think pieces in The Atlantic, op-eds in The New York Times and enough chatter that my mom sometimes ends phone calls with, “I hope you’re being careful around fraternities.” But for the large part, frats at Penn don’t live up to the negative stereotypes — that is, once you’re actually inside them. More often than we’d like to admit, my friends and I have been turned away from parties because we didn’t have the right “ratio”: the acceptable proportion of girls to guys in a group attempting to enter a party. My introduction to Greek life was a snapbackwearing frat boy blocking a gate during NSO and telling my newfound friends, “Guys, you need a three-to-one.” We stepped back and tried to figure out what to do while a guy walked by with a horde of girls giggling, “We’ve never even met this guy before.” It was not the best first impression.

The ratio objectifies women. There’s n o way to g e t around that fact. It reduces girls to commodities, to items that need to be increased.” The sad part is that, two months later, I’ve gotten used to the ratio. My friends and I have learned to be strategic about it — we’ve broken off into smaller clusters or even had to tell guy friends that we’d meet up with them later. Sometimes our cleverness works — sometimes, we end up at Allegro, failing to think of a game plan. But we’ve been conditioned to blame ourselves, not the frats. We say, “Oh, we should have asked the girl down the hall,” instead of facing the issue itself. The ratio objectifies women. There’s no way to get around that fact. It reduces girls to commodities, to items that need to be increased. It doesn’t matter that I want to go out with my friends, regardless of their gender, and

DANI BLUM have a good time — what matters is that I gather the girls and act like we’re entertainment. The ratio takes us down to such a level that we exclude our closest guy friends — two of my friends first met when one told the other he couldn’t come out with us for fear of ruining our ratio. It brings out the worst, most disconcertingly ruthless parts of us. But the ratio does the most damage to the frats themselves. I’ve been amazed by how Penn frats defy the stereotype. I’ve defended fraternities to my friends at small liberal arts colleges who think they’re the epitome of archetypal, dumb college groups. Actually talk to a frat brother, and you’ll find a different story. I’ve walked in on a few, albeit substance-induced, intellectual conversations at frats. Some of my smartest friends at Penn are rushing. What separates Penn’s social scene is how accessible it is — no matter where you came from or, for the most part, who you know, you can join the sweaty cluster of people belting Ariana Grande on the dance floor. Oftentimes, the worst part of any night is walking around from party to party, wondering if we’re going to get in anywhere. I understand the basic rationale for the ratio: Most frats are all-male — no one wants a one-gender party — so whoever’s working the door needs to ensure enough girls come in so the party balances out. But parties can even out on their own — very few of us go out with only friends of our same gender. The negative message the ratio sends — not just to girls, but about the frat scene as a whole — outweighs any benefit of a majority female party. Frats, do yourselves a favor and nix the numbers game. By enforcing the ratio, you’re only hurting yourselves.

DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” appears every Tuesday.

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U. City Science Center receives million-dollar grant million dollar grant to support its Phase 1 Ventures project. Phase 1 Ventures is a project that supports promising ventures and start ups that have been unable to garner the technological and managerial support needed to expand by establishing a link between these ventures and established organizations. The project supports start-ups by reallocating its own funds and providing managerial assistance. Vice President of Science and

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Penn’s University City neighbor wants to facilitate startup development — and the federal government has taken note. The United States Economic Development Program, a government agency aimed at supporting sustainable job growth and the construction of durable regional economies, awarded the University City Science Center a

Technology at the UCSC Chris Laing is one of the leaders of the Phase 1 Ventures project. “Phase 1 Ventures is an accelerator more than a fund,” Laing said, emphasizing the project’s focus on helping startups capitalize on their existing resources. Noteworthy projects of the UCSC include the establishment of the Port Business Incubator, which provided several start-ups with not only physical resources such as office spaces and labora-

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 est in the Ivy League and in American higher education, the Cambridge institution saw the poorest investment performance in the Ivy League, with 15.4 percent returns. In fact, Harvard is the only Ivy League institution to have yet to recover completely from the 2008 financial crisis, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 33.8 percent of its value in a single year. Prior to the downturn, Harvard’s endowment was $36.9 billion in the 2008 fiscal year. Six years later, Harvard’s endowment sits about $500 million below its 2008 peak. Ammon, who came from Yale in 2013, said that a school’s investment

strategy should be one that can be successfully executed by its investment team. “For example, a strategy that calls for manager selection in inefficient markets across the globe requires a significant commitment by the institution to building a deep investment office,” Ammon said in an email. Larger endowments — those over $1 billion — tend to invest the majority of their funds in “alternative” investments such as commodities, private equity and real estate, according to Ken Redd, Director of Research and Policy Analysis at the National Association of College and University Business Officers.

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Smaller endowments — those under $25 million — invest the bulk of their assets in traditional stocks and bonds. In terms of sheer endowment size, Penn’s $9.6 billion falls fourth on the list of Ivy League institutions, behind Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Until this year, Columbia’s endowment was larger than Penn’s as well. Penn’s average return over the ten years ending June 30 was eight percent, placing the University toward the bottom of the Ivy League pack. Penn President Amy Gutmann has said that long-term returns are more indicative of endowment health than one-year returns.

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Red and blue pride runs deep in the office of Kinnek, a business purchasing startup, which just secured $10 million in funding. Kinnek is an online marketplace that matches small businesses, many of which are restaurants and bakeries, with suppliers suited to their individual needs. The website lets buyers request specific supplies, which are then matched to individual vendors registered with the site. 2007 Engineering and Wharton graduate Karthik Sridharan, along with 2008 Cornell graduate Rui Ma, cofounded Kinnek in 2012. Kinnek currently employs 17 people in its headquarters in Manhattan. Of the first eight people who joined Kinnek, five graduated from Penn. Additionally, Sridharan said that some of Kinnek’s investors are also Penn graduates. This past September, Kinnek finished its Series A round of investment funding with $10 million in hand. The Series A round, a significant early round of funding for most Silicon Valley startups, will ensure Kinnek’s viability as a firm as it settles into its New York headquarters. Kinnek’s online model attracts businesses who previously purchased supplies through less reliable methods like the Yellow Pages. With its innovative platform that charges a fee only to registered vendors, buyers have the freedom to customize and amplify their requests. Sridharan attributed much of his entrepreneurial success

to skills acquired at Penn as well as through alumni connections gained after graduation. “Going to Penn is really advantageous for people who want to start their own company,” Sridharan said. After quitting his job at AQR Capital Management, a hedge fund, Sridharan founded Kinnek with Ma. In 2012, they completed the AngelPad accelerator program — which, according to its website, is “an intensive mentorship program founded by ex-Googler Thomas Korte to help startups build better products, raise the funding they need to succeed and ultimately grow more successful businesses.” Through connections made with different investors in the Silicon Valley, Kinnek raised $3 million in seed round funding — the initial stage of startup fundraising. Sridharan attributed his success partially to the expansive resources of Penn’s alumni network. “I’ve used Penn alums for advice on how to run the company and get funding,” Sridharan said. “There’s a great support network of people in New York and in the startup world for Penn people.” He admitted to feeling comfortable quitting his job because of the relative job security a Penn degree provides. Noting that Penn graduates often opt for safe salaried jobs, Sridharan said that a Penn degree “totally” affords you a safety net to take entrepreneurial risks and that Penn’s “insane” alumni network can be immensely helpful for finding a job, and even for creating a new one. “The power of the Penn network is that people you don’t even know are willing to lend you a helping hand,” he said.

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What Penn can expect from early decision apps With a Nov. 1 deadline, Penn predicts consistent application numbers BOOKYUNG JO Staff Writer

There is less than a week remaining before early decision candidates for the Class of 2019 must submit their applications. In less than two months, around half of next year’s incoming class will have their acceptance letters in hand. Colleges have different policies to capture applicants early on, including early decision, early action and rolling admission. Penn started its early decision program — which requires that applicants contractually agree to attend if accepted — four decades ago, and has consistently offered the opportunity to apply early since then. In both 2013 and 2014, the University received record-high num-

bers of early decision applicants, with 4,780 in 2012 and 5,133 in 2013. The Office of Admissions is expecting to receive a similar range of applications this year. Compared to other Ivy League universities, Penn received the highest number of applications last year in its early application pool. Cornell University, which also has an early decision policy, received 4,775 applications, and Harvard and Yale universities, which have restrictive early action policies, received 4,692 and 4,750, respectively. The office does not have a set number of students it is intending to admit for this year, but the early decision admission rate usually ranges between 22 and 24 percent. Penn accepted 1,299 applicants in the early application round last year, which accounted for 25.3 percent of the early decision applicant pool. Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said the early decision policy helps

not only the students who are highly interested in Penn, but also the University. “The benefit to Penn is that we get a group of highly talented and excited students who are knowledgeable about Penn,” he said. Although applicants who are accepted in the early decision round commit to attending Penn, there are a few students each year who do decline to attend when the financial aid does not fully address the need of the applicant, Furda said. He added that the Office of Admissions is open to conversation about students’ commitment to attend Penn. Furda said overall, more students are applying to early programs because families want to have certainty as soon as they can to figure out financial aid packages with schools and to guide their decisions about regular decision applications. “If [applicants] are able to find out earlier in the year that they have an offer or two, it helps with their adjusting college list,” Furda said.

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the last three games of this season and for the long-term success of the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer program at Penn. THREE DOWN Fighting to the finish In Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last nine matches, seven have been decided by one goal or fewer. Thus, it is clear that the Red and Blue are battling through every game. But it seems like they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite make the tables turn in their favor. That is not to say that the Quakers have not had close calls and near misses â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last game against Yale on Saturday, junior midfielder Erin Mikolaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s would-be gamewinner deflected off the crossbar with three minutes remaining in overtime. Conference woes With a current Ivy record of 1-3-1, Penn is sitting at seventh place in the Ancient Eight â&#x20AC;&#x201D; definitely not a mark that the team

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just give the team enough momentum to finish the season with a 3-3-1 conference record. The kids are alright This season, Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10 goals have been netted by seven players. Of those seven, just two are upperclassmen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; senior back Haley Cooper and senior midfielder Kaitlyn Moore. Sophomores Ana Chevtchenko and Lindsey Sawczuk and freshmen Provini, Anna Estep and Kristen Miller are responsible for the rest of the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; goals. As the team has gotten deeper into the season, a core group of freshmen and sophomores â&#x20AC;&#x201D; players that will likely be the backbone of the team in the years to come â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have dominated Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence in the opposing third. This is good news for the future of the team, both for

was hoping for back in August. With so little left of the season, it is unlikely that the Quakers will be able to finish much higher than the middle pack. Yes, the team is young. Yes, the team is injuryridden. But this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance has been disappointing. Too little, too late Ultimately, it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter whether or not the Red and Blue can pull off a victory over the nonconference Mountain Hawks on Tuesday because their fate within the Ivy League is all but sealed. Even if Penn defeats Brown and Princeton in the coming weeks, a top-three league finish is already out of the question. Unfortunately for the Quakers, this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance is not quite up to snuff with coach Darren Ambroseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expectation of success, which he defined back in August as perennially finishing at the top of the conference.

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Senior forward Duke Lacroix has been one of the Red and Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top offensive threats all year, and he will need to provide some offensive firepower once again in Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s matchup against West Virginia.

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Junior midfield Erin Mikolai came the closest to lifting Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer to a victory over Yale on Saturday, ringing a shot off the crossbar in the middle of overtime. The matchup between the Quakers and the Elis wound up being a 1-1 draw.

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year and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still looking to turn somebody over.â&#x20AC;? Those players that Fuller mentioned are two of West Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s starting forwards, Andy Bevin and Jamie Merriam , who have scored nine and seven goals on the season, respectively. They are two of West Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best attackers on the offensive side of the ball. However, Fuller emphasized that â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just as it did for other opponents this season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Penn will focus on a team effort on defense. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think our strength is in our collective [defensive] effort. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to sit there and man-mark them all over the field,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just have to be really alert and in tune and play together defensively. If we do that, I think we are very

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tough to break down for an individual or a group.â&#x20AC;? In addition, West Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense is very strong. In 11 of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 15 games, the defense has allowed only one goal or shut out its opponents. The defense will pose a threat to the Quakers, who have only had one three-goal game since Sept. 7. For senior forward Duke Lacroix, tomorrow is just like any other game of the season in his mind. He will look for setups in the offensive zone as usual and will look to put the ball in the net. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just combining with [Alec] Neumann up top or whoever the other striker is,â&#x20AC;? Lacroix said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think if we stick to our gameplan and keep the game as simple as possible, opportunities will follow and one of them will go in. [We need to] keep being relentless on the attack.â&#x20AC;? For Penn, Fuller reiterated that the team needs to work on its defensive effort. While Penn has allowed just four goals in four Ivy contests, many of the goals have the same causes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tightened it up a little bit,â&#x20AC;? Fuller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little things like â&#x20AC;Ś defensive clearances, hunting the second ball, winning the first ball, being good in defensive restarts.â&#x20AC;? Ultimately, Penn does not control its own destiny and will need some help from other teams â&#x20AC;&#x201D; namely a loss from Dartmouth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in order to take the Ivy title. However, these various scenarios do not concern the Red and Blue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m confident that if we do our job we are going to be Ivy League champions,â&#x20AC;? Fuller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though the math doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work out in that we control our own destiny, I still feel that if we can control and do our job, we will be the last ones standing.â&#x20AC;?

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PENN FIELD HOCKEY Analyzing the trends in the Quakers’ season

1. EMILY CORCORAN

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In games where corcoran registers at least one point (either an assist or goal), Penn is 6-0.

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the start of the season. Even the defense, which has been much-maligned this season, has had some young players show off their potential in brief flashes. Underclassmen Louis Vecchio and Corey Power have entrenched themselves firmly in the defensive line rotation. Cornerback Brandon Michel got beat for a late touchdown in that 43-21 loss to Yale on Saturday, but the fact that he was even on the field at all is at least a partial testament to the freshman’s raw ability. Perhaps most impressively, junior Jimmy Gammill and freshman Hunter Kelley have taken hold of the kicking and punting jobs, respectively. Both have earned weekly Ivy honors. However, impressive punts don’t get butts in the seats. And the biggest reason to watch Penn football over the next month or so is a man that people won’t be seeing nearly as much of next year. For better or for worse, the focus of the rest of the season now falls on the countdown to retiring coach Al Bagnoli’s final game. 24.6% Bagnoli, for his part, hates the attention. He called this season “business as usual,” back at the press conference 47.7% last year when

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Coach Al Bagnoli has watched his Penn football squad struggle to a 1-5 start characterized by defensive breakdowns and early-season turnover issues.

he formally announced his plans to step aside after Penn’s game against Cornell on Nov. 22. Business as usual for Penn football under Bagnoli, though, is an Ivy titleBorrow — or at least, a topfrom Library three finish. Watchare Movies Neither Don't of those in the cards for 2014, but at this point, Theaters it’s far more productive for Penn Freethe Streaming fans to honor nine Ivy titles

that Bagnoli has won instead of obsess over the tenth that he will not. Even if the 23-year vet would prefer to have it any other way.

Bonenberger (illness), coach Mike McLaughlin’s squad showed off a 1.5%wealth of depth in the frontcourt. The one freshman that did im- Sophomores Sade Gibbons and press, however, was at times the Jackie Falconer were both impresbest player on the court. Forward sive after seeing very limited acMike Auger made plays in the tion in their freshman campaigns. post 3.1% offensively, and while it took CC: Not to mention that the 6.3% Otherpresence of 6-foot-3 fresha while for Auger to start finishing mere on these moves, he dominated the man Michelle Nwokedi It's forward a way to hang out with friends second25% half. The big men on the adds even more height to the It's a good study break 40.6% team seem to be clicking. Quakers’ inside presence. Like the HM: The forwards may end men’s It makes youthe feelhardest relaxed and happy team, adjustment up being a strength for the men’s for the women’s team to make will 25% Required for Class team, especially given the return be at guard. It’s a tall order to reof junior Darien Nelson-Henry, place graduated guards Meghan who was injured last year. And McCullough and 2013-14 Ivy that certainly also seems to be the Player of the Year Alyssa Baron. es seven movies, more case on the women’s side or as less, well The team has a ton of guards — onesemester. of the very few similarities every Simple arithme- who pass extremely well, but it between at this will be interesting to see who tic provesthese that programs it’s $40 cheaper point in time . movies on Netflix grabs the role of point guard. Do to watch said Likewise, dealing with injuries you think this women’s team has than at the Rave, and an addito key bigs sophomore Sydney Sti- a chance to repeat as Ivy champitional $20(back) less on panovich andiTunes junior (cost Kara ons?

HM: As always, it’s hard to predict until you see the finished product on the court, but it’s easy to see how this team could be in title contention come the end of the year. As you said, guard play should play a key role in determining Penn’s fate, and freshmen Beth Brzozowski and Anna Ross are set to see serious minutes at the point. This may not be a squad with a lead scoring guard in the mold of Baron, and it’s unreasonable to expect a guard of her caliber every season, but the Quakers have championship caliber depth and a strong group of underclassmen who should continue to develop. Princeton will be Penn’s biggest threat and certainly has to be thirsty to regain the title after falling to the Quakers in their regular season finale. The two matchups between the teams will likely be the deciding factor.

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Why do you go to the movies?

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of popcorn and Mike and Ikes not included in these calculations). The low cost of watching seven movies on iTunes for less than 30 bucks is worth the many conveniences that online paid services afford us: not being interrupted by incessant buffering and commercials, the immunity to computer viruses and most importantly, not having to wait 54 minutes after watching 72 minutes of a movie on Megavideo. Not to mention, it’s a small price to pay when you look at the big picture — the combined savings of the 47.7% of Penn students who pay for their online services rather than going to the movie theater is somewhere between $196,136 and $295,344, depending on whether they use Netflix or iTunes, respectively. Moral of the story is: we won't judge if you just stay in bed.

IAN WENIK is a senior History major from Short Hills, N.J., and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at wenik@thedp. com.

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THREE KEYS

After a draw against Yale, Penn men’s soccer is looking to move on against West Virginia

We took a look at Penn field hockey’s keys to victory based on this season’s trends

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Penn’s not playing out the string

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Penn ﬁeld hockey was down to Yale, 1-0, in the early going on Saturday but found its way back thanks to its two leading goal scorers. Freshman Alexa Hoover notched her team-leading 12th goal of the season before senior Emily Corcoran won the match with her tally.

Triple-Double While Penn volleyball ultimately fell at Princeton, junior Alex Caldwell continued her recent wave of success, recording another triple-double. It was her third triple-double of the season and her second in as many games.

IAN WENIK

Provini is back After not seeing playing time in Penn women’s soccer’s 2-0 loss to Dartmouth, the freshman forward was back in a big way. She provided the Quakers’ only goal up in New Haven as the Red and Blue ended their match with Yale in a draw.

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Aug-menting Penn basketball

Fans got their ﬁrst chance to watch Penn basketball during the squad’s Red and Blue scrimmage on Saturday and the team didn’t disappoint. Freshman forward Mike Auger stood out, showing off his post moves and providing a solid dunk for the fans in attendance.

Scott’s big day <<<

Penn football’s defense allowed some big plays at Yale but the Quakers’ offense had a few of their own. Senior receiver Conner Scott played a big role in some of those bigger plays, scoring two touchdowns of more than 30 yards.

Polished at Princeton Penn rowing ended its fall schedule with a trip to New Jersey for the Princeton Chase. Penn performed well and the heavyweight squad’s ‘A’ Varsity Eight squad performed particularly well, ﬁnishing sixth out of 63 boats.

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Throwback Saturday

It has been close to 20 years since Jerome Allen was suiting up for Penn basketball consistently as a player. But in the Red and Blue’s Alumni Game Saturday, Allen displayed his moves and proved that he still has something left in the tank. Just don’t expect him out on the court on Nov. 15!

Senior Day

Penn sprint football’s home schedule came to a disappointing end as the Quakers were steamrolled by undefeated Army. However, the game was a chance for the team and fans to show their appreciation for a strong senior class, led by captains Mike Beamish and Keith Braccia.

Pop, Lockett and drop it >>>

Women’s basketball also had its Alumni Game on Saturday and the team displayed some of the reasons why it is the defending Ivy League Champions. While she had a lesser role on last year’s team, sophomore guard Melanie Lockett was one of the squad’s top performers.

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Through the Forrest

Down 1-0 just three minutes in, junior Forrest Clancy helped provide the equalizing goal for the Red and Blue. Just a few minutes after Yale’s goal, Clancy connected on a strike that helped Penn salvage a draw out of the road match. Graphic by Laine Higgins

Three up, three down: Penn ends nonconference slate W. SOCCER | Penn looks to break the .500 barrier BY LAINE HIGGINS Staff Writer After a draw against Yale, Penn women’s soccer closes out its nonconference slate against Lehigh on Tuesday. Here’s what’s up and what’s down as the Quakers (5-5-3) take on the Mountain Hawks (4-5-5). THREE UP Juliana Provini: To be frank, she is on fire. In Penn’s last five matches, the freshman forward has scored three of the Red and Blue’s four goals, including game winners against Columbia and

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2014. But believe it or not, there’s still plenty of reason to watch. For starters, there’s an obvious element of pride on the line. Key contributors remain from that 2012 Ivy championship team — Dan Davis, Dan Wilk and Kyle Wilcox, to name a tiny few — and none of them are about to go out there and play out the string with their heads hung low. The Quakers are not a good football team, but they are certainly not a lackadaisical and disinterested one, either. With games against Princeton and Harvard remaining, there is the very real possibility that the Red and Blue will get it together on both sides of the ball for one afternoon, rise up and play spoiler to a rival’s Ivy title dreams. Schadenfreude is sweet. And though many of the recognizable veterans on the roster will be gone next year, there is plenty of talent returning that fans can scout out now. Take, for example, sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen. The gunslinger has always had the physical profile of an elite Ivy quarterback, but his decision-making lagged behind early on this season. He threw two killer picks in the fourth quarter of the season opener against Jacksonville, and looked skittish in the pocket during a blowout loss to Dartmouth two weeks later. It’s been over three weeks now since that ominous Ivy opener against the Big Green, and Torgersen already looks like a completely different quarterback. In his last two contests, against Columbia and Yale, Torgersen combined to throw four touchdowns against zero interceptions while demonstrating a newfound mastery of Penn’s offensive tempo. While the results on the scoreboard may be the same as usual, the Quakers’ offense looks infinitely better than it did at

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Loyola (Md.). Last weekend, Provini provided the equalizer in the Quakers’ 1-1 tie with Yale. She currently leads Penn in scoring with seven points on the season. Nonconference experience: Tuesday’s match against Lehigh marks the Quakers last nonconference tilt of the 2014 season. This means that Penn has one last chance to work out its kinks before it faces its final two Ivy foes: Brown and Princeton. If the Red and Blue can pull out a win against the Mountain Hawks, they might

t 1-5 and already beset with two Ivy losses, Penn football is, for all intents and purposes, done in

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Senior guard Cam Crocker held primary ball-handling duties for much of the scrimmages first half. There still remains a question of who will run point for Penn.

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From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ Penn men’s and women’s basketball took to the court on Saturday for their Red and Blue scrimmages, giving fans their first look at newcomers and the development of returning players. Sports Editor Holden McGinnis and Associate Sports Editor Carter Coudriet are here to break down what they saw from the Quakers. Holden McGinnis: On the men’s side, the biggest surprise for me has to be the distribution of playing time at point guard. We know coach Jerome Allen has thought long and hard about playing junior guard Tony Hicks at the point, and we saw that from the get-go. However, Hicks seemed relatively

ineffective as a primary ballhandler and was better suited as a two-guard. Meanwhile, freshman guard Darnell Foreman — who many expect to take on a large role at the point — saw limited action in that regard, as senior Cam Crocker handled the offense for the Blue team in the first half. While Foreman still figures to have a significant role on this team, he wasn’t the only freshman getting minutes in the scrimmage. Carter Coudriet: You’re right, Holden. Crocker, the senior who has never gotten his share of playing time, outplayed the promising freshman Foreman. Foreman wasn’t the only freshman overshadowed; two never touched hardwood, and neither Dan Dwyer nor Sam Jones left a huge impression in a small sample size. SEE HOOPS PAGE 9