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Students petition College to change Pass/ Fail system New proposal will give more flexibility on deadline to declare Pass/Fail NICOLE RUBIN Staff Reporter

Three students petitioned the College of Arts and Sciences last week to reform the Pass/Fail system in an attempt to update the time-honored practice of taking classes without the pressure of earning a top grade.

Three College sophomores Emily Lurie, Raquel Szomstein and Elena Prieto, sent out a survey on Tuesday afternoon asking students to rate the current iteration of Pass/ Fail. They also introduced their proposal, which allows students to declare a class as Pass/Fail up until one semester after taking the class, rather than having a distinct deadline within the class.

Since Tuesday, they have received thousands of responses from over 25 percent of the undergraduate population. Out of this feedback, 96.4 percent of respondents voted “yes” to the new proposal.

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FOOTBALL | Quakers win 2nd title in

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Whether or not you agree with Trump’s platform, you have to accept that he has been elected president and give him a chance to lead.

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ITHACA, N.Y. — Since Ray Priore took over Penn football, the Ivy trophy has found a steady home in University City. That won’t change for another year.

For the second time in as many seasons, the

Quakers went out as champs against Cornell, clinching a record-tying 18th Ivy League title with Saturday’s 42-20 win over the Big Red, sharing the crown with Princeton.

Following a pair of finishes in the bottom half of the conference in 2013 and 2014, the Red and Blue have finished with identical 7-3 overall and 6-1 conference records — as well as the first back-to-back titles since 2009-10.

“When teams have two losing seasons, you can see a lot of guys hang their heads, throw the towel in,” junior wide receiver Justin

Watson said. “But the coaches came in and you just trust the process. That’s what we did from the beginning. Hats off to these upperclassmen that really led the charge with that.”

Attention was on the seniors in their final game, but it was junior running back Tre Solomon who was the star, recording 173 yards and a pair of scores — including the game’s opening score on a one-yard rush.

Penn’s lead — grabbed with just under SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10

Kendrick discusses career at Irvine She reflected on her move to chase her acting dreams

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Psychology professor Angela Duckworth joined Anna Kendrick on stage to ask questions about Kendrick’s new book “Scrappy Little Nobody.”

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Singer, actress and newly-published author Anna Kendrick took center stage Friday night alongside psychology professor Angela Duckworth. The night was filled with laughter and motivation and — needless to say — Penn certainly missed Kendrick when she was gone.

The night certainly started on a light note. Not only was the audience amused after Duckworth talked about being a “Twi-Prof” — referring to the film Twilight, in which Kendrick appears — adding that she saw each of the films premiere at midnight.

The discussion shifted to Kendrick’s new book, “Scrappy Little Nobody,” after Duckworth expressed interest in learning where

the title came from.

The “little” part of the title came from Kendrick’s reluctance to admit that her height, 5-foot-2 , is considered petite. The “scrappy” came from a nickname a friend gave her in response to how hard she worked to get some of the most desired roles in Hollywood .

“The ‘nobody’ was about trying to honor and hold onto the person that you are when you feel like a nobody,” Kendrick said.

“That’s the person you should aspire to. That’s the person you should honor.”

Kendrick dedicated the book to her brother, whom she said always reminds her of her life before fame.

The singer recalled her brother telling her, “You’re still scrappy — you just get more emails.”

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Grad student holds bond with dog close to heart The service dog can detect changes in her heart rate KOLBY KALLER Contributing Reporter

Dog may be man’s best friend, but the bond between graduate student Lindsay Jones and her yellow lab is even stronger.

After struggling with two heart conditions that caused her to lose consciousness, Jones looked to her two-anda-half-year-old lab Amber for a solution. Amber can detect changes in Jones’ heart rate that are caused by either neurocardiogenic syncope — in which it drops below a healthy level — or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome — in which it spikes.

“I was passing out a lot,” Jones said. “And I didn’t want to have a roommate forever.”

When she detects a problem, Amber either stares at her owner or walks to the end of her leash.

This is Jones’ signal to lie down and let Amber sit atop her until her heart rate returns to normal.

Doctors are still unable to identify what specific warning signals Amber picks up from her owner.

“While science has not exactly determined how the dogs do this, the tight bond formed by the dog and the human is one where each is very sensitive to changes in one another,” physician and program director for the Aria Jefferson family medical residency Rob Danoff told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The effectiveness of their

relationship, however, is clear.

“I haven’t passed out in five months since I’ve had her,” said Jones. “That’s the first time that’s happened in the last five years.”

Jones proved the extent of her abilities with Amber by her side by running a half marathon this past October. Nonetheless, she is still adjusting to her new lifestyle.

“I get noticed all the time, which is not a thing that I’m used to,” Jones said. “I’m just going to the grocery store and people feel the need to know my whole life story, and I’m just trying to get milk.”

Canine Partners for Life, the organization that matched Jones with Amber, works to ease the transition for its clients by offering training and support

classes.

According to its website, CPL “is committed to providing support and follow-up to our teams as they grow and change.”

CPL paired Jones with Amber with the Jones’ lifestyle in mind.

“She’s feisty. I’ve never met a dog with more attitude,” Jones said. “I never have to question what she’s thinking because she tells me... that’s why I love her.”

Amber uses her energy to perform a variety of other useful tasks. These include paying cashiers and retrieving Jones’ phone from a different room. The dog enjoys constantly working.

“Sometimes I’m like ‘just lay down’ and I’m this close to losing it,” Jones said. “But then I remember that she saves my life, so it’s okay.”

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Penn graduate student Lindsay Jones’ yellow lab Amber can detect unexpected drops and spikes in her heartrate.

MGMT 100 shares Thanksgiving dinner with senior citizens Students gave the elderly company on Friday KELLY HEINZERLING Contributing Reporter

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Members of a Wharton Management 100 group help senior citizens at Mercy Douglas Residences and Sansom House fight holiday loneliness at a Thanksgiving dinner with a $0 event budget.

Spiral streamers and “Happy Thanksgiving” banners adorned the common room of Mercy Douglas Residences this past Friday as residents of the senior housing building gathered to celebrate Thanksgiving.

From the sidelines, a Wharton Management 100 group proudly looked on at the smiling seniors sporting balloon bracelets and hats and realized that they weren’t just completing another assignment — they were changing lives.

Mercy-Douglas Residences and nearby Sansom House are a part of the Mercy-Douglas Human Services Affiliate. These two sister senior housing buildings are home to adults over the age of 62. However, as property

manager Dreama Durha m noted, there are “a lot of isolation issues, especially around the holidays.”

That’s where Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly comes in. Little Brothers is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1946 in Paris. The group has been in Philadelphia for 26 years, according to Julianne James, the original board chair and current executive director.

The Philadelphia chapter of Little Brothers has about 600 volunteers who work with senior citizens in both private homes and retirement homes, primarily those who have little or no family support. Next week they expect to visit around 220 homes and 140 people in nursing homes for Thanksgiving.

This fall, one Management 100 group was offered the chance to help put on Mercy-Douglas’s only Thanksgiving dinner event.

The catch? A $0 budget.

Wharton freshman and group member Cole Pergament said that the group relied on donations. These donations included food from businesses such as Eat Café and Feast Your Eyes Catering, live music from freshman cellist Nathan Chiu and freshman saxist Pranav Pillai and even a balloon twister.

The event was more than just planning — many of the freshmen formed relationships with the residents.

Service coordinator Lillian Jackson called the event “a blessing,” adding that it helped foster a sense of community among residents. Durham noted that only about 50 percent of the retirement home residents will leave for Thanksgiving. This Thanksgiving dinner is the only event the home has planned for the holiday.

She added that “this is the most [people] we have at any event that we ever sponsor.”

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Why Amazon and Target are investing in brick and mortar One reason is to appeal to young, urban consumers JINAH KIM Staff Reporter

Current dogma tells companies that if they want to sell to young people, they need to turn to the internet. Then why are retailers like Amazon and Target investing in brick-and-mortar stores?

Last year, Amazon opened its Amazon at Penn location underneath 1920 Commons. Target has just opened two new stores in Center City, and has another location slated to begin operations near the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2017. Especially for Amazon — an online giant that “disrupted” the retail industry — the new locations don’t seem to make sense at a time when traditional retailers are struggling to counter the challenges posed by the internet.

“If companies are smart about the way that they manage the brick and mortar side in conjunction with the online side, great things

can happen,” Wharton professor Peter Fader said. “Having a broader physical presence as well as just additional appeal — being able to do things with consumers that they can’t do online alone — it’s generally a really good thing to do.”

Target’s new stores in Center City are what it calls “flexible format” locations. Small and compact, they are designed and stocked for an urban environment; the company also has “flexible format” stores in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston.

Target spokesman Kristy Welker also emphasized the value of closeness for city residents.

“Guests in urban areas tend to travel great distances to get to a Target,” she said. “We are bringing the store to them and meeting them where they are.”

Target and Amazon are representative of another trend in marketing: understanding and targeting valuable customers.

“It’s all about figuring out who

our best customers are and building relationships with them,” Fader said. “It has traditional retailers quaking in their boots — not only because it’s big bad Amazon — but because Amazon understands their customers much better than most grocery stores do.”

Target’s brand is what Syracuse University professor Amanda Nicholson calls, “cheap chic,” appealing to young city residents rushed for time and money, but who still want quality.

“They’re here on their way home; they can pick up some dinner and they can pick up that lamp that is well-designed and well-priced, and take the elevator up to their apartments,” she said.

Larger companies are also beginning to realize what smaller, “mom-and-pop” stores have always known — the value of building relationships with customers.

“If you’re a mom and pop store... you know who your customers are,” Fader said. You know who the good ones are. You know whose

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Despite dominating the internet market, retailers like Amazon and Target are investing in concrete, urban locations in order to appeal to young urban consumers and build better customer relations.

call you’re going to take at two o’clock in the morning and who can wait until Monday.”

“You’re already doing this kind

of stuff on a small-numbers basis,” he said. “The question is, how can you scale it up from tens of customers to millions of customers?”

That’s the question that Amazon and Target — along with hundreds of other companies today — are trying to figure out.

Camp Kesem’s year-long impact on campers and counselors The nonprofit hopes to host 120 children next year OLIVIA SYLVESTER Contributing Reporter

Even though Camp Kesem only lasts one week, it has a year-round impact.

Camp Kesem is a nonprofit, week-long summer camp for children whose parents were diagnosed with cancer. At Saturday’s carnival-themed reunion, campers and counselors hula-hooped, did arts and crafts and bonded as if camp had ended just the day before.

Wharton freshmen Yonah Mann and Kolade Lawal were a part of the Management 100 team that planned the reunion. The team was in charge of planning the venue, activities and logistics for the event. Located in Platt Student Performing Arts Center on Saturday morning, the reunion featured a brunch spread, a snow cone station, a gingerbread house station and other fun activities.

Mann and Lawal discussed how

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down the path of Kendrick’s first move to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. Kendrick discussed how nervous she was about not having a back-up plan when all of her friends at the time were going off to college.

“Every phone call I had with them was like torture because they were meeting all these new friends and some of them were in sororities,” she said.

“They had the next four years mapped out for them and I was

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Camp Kesem is a nonprofit for children of cancer patients, providing them a week of summer camp activities for free and year-long connections for campers and counselors.

it was important for the team to plan the best event possible.

“It is such a privilege to work with them specifically because we all care so much about what Camp Kesem is doing,” Lawal said.

Camp Kesem is a national

organization focused on allowing children with ill parents to come together and have fun, Nursing junior and co-director of Camp Kesem’s Penn chapter Kelly Mannion said.

“It’s basically a week for kids to be kids,” Mannion said. “A lot

so envious.”

However, Kendrick went on to say that the next year uncertainty struck some of her college friends and she turned out to be the one who had a better idea of what she wanted to do.

Kendrick reminded the Penn students in the audience to be open and patient when finding their paths in life.

“Things ta k ing a while doesn’t mean you deserve it less,” she said.

This message certainly resonated with many Penn students in the audience, such as College

senior Hannah Harney.

“I do feel like people who know what they want to do are lucky in some way,” Harney said. “When she talked about how she had that feeling, but still felt entirely lost, it was a perspective I never really thought of before.”

Kendrick said she plans to continue acting and singing as long as she can, and not because she feels like she has to prove something.

“I do want to make sure that the reason I am doing things is because I love it and that it’s still my creative outlet.”

of times when the children have a parent who has been affected by cancer, they are forced to grow up more quickly.”

The campers, from 10-year-olds to 16-year-olds, enjoy all of the normal summer camp activities

free of charge. The camp raises money by requiring each counselor to do fundraising through its annual fundraising event Make the Magic and applying for grants.

Camp Kesem was able to invite over 100 children last summer.

Mannion expressed hope that it would be able to host 120 children this coming summer.

Camp Kesem is a year-long commitment to these children, she said. In addition to sending the campers birthday cards, there are two reunions — fall and spring — to which both the campers and counselors look forward.

“How excited they are to come to this event and how close they are with the other campers when they see them shows me that what we do for them is more than just that week,” Mannion said.

Linda Barila, mother of the

campers whose counselors call them “G-man and Mr. Swish,” discussed how this network of friends has made her sons open up more after her own diagnosis. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, Barila is now cancer-free. However, her sons are still affected, she said.

“They still have to deal with surgeries. There are always scares,” she said. “They are able to talk about it now and still have fun. I couldn’t be happier.”

Barila discussed how her sons keep in touch with their friends from Camp Kesem and love the reunions in between. They are always ecstatic to see their friends and counselors again, she said. Camp Kesem’s greatest contribution, in her opinion, is promoting her sons’ happiness.

“It is not just that week. It is all year long,” Barila said.

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OPINION Making change in Trump’s America EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD

MONDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 109 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor WILL SNOW Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

To foster a culture of productive dialogue among diverse voices on this campus, we must respect all opinions and be careful not to perpetuate the hate that has unfortunately penetrated this campus and the country at large this past week. However, while those who support President-elect Donald Trump on this campus should not be shamed or name-called into silence, they must also step back and consider the implications of the rhetoric they use and the actions they take to articulate this support.

On election night, footage taken at Smokey Joe’s shows a group of patrons chanting “Build the wall” as Trump’s victory became increasingly certain.

Though this phrase does reference a concrete policy proposal at the center of Trump’s immigration reform plan, supporters must realize the racist, xenophobic undertone of this campaign motto and the genuine sense of fear that

this policy proposal evokes for many people regarding their own safety or the safety of their loved ones.

As a relatively small subsection of this campus, Trump supporters should not feel subdued into silence, but it is simply wrong to dismiss the very real fact that much of Trump’s rhetoric and platform make minority groups in American society feel threatened.

We do not call on Trump supporters to stop sharing their opinions, but we urge that support for Trump be voiced in respectful discussions through words and actions that do not make this campus feel less safe for anyone.

The racist hate crimes that have been committed across America since Trump was elected president are inexcusable. While we cannot accept them, we must also be cautious of the “not my president!” rhetoric which has pervaded discussion throughout the country. When Trump stated that he would not

commit to accepting Hillary Clinton’s potential victory, many were shocked and appalled at his blatant rejection of our country’s democratic principles.

It’s inconsistent and hypocritical for Trump’s critics

Last Tuesday, CNN reported that President Obama, who actively campaigned with Clinton against Trump, stated, “I think it is important for us to let him make his decisions. The American people will judge

Whether or not you agree with Trump’s platform, you have to accept that he has been elected president and give him a chance to lead. ” to refuse to accept his election in the same way Trump claimed he would refuse the results if Clinton had won. The American people cannot reasonably demand immediate impeachment before the president-elect has even created any policy.

Whether or not you agree with Trump’s platform, you have to accept that he has been elected president and give him a chance to lead.

over the course of the next couple of years whether they like what they see.” If our current president can accept Trump’s election, we must as well.

At the same time, we can and should continue to uphold the values that many believe Trump’s presidency may jeopardize. In under two weeks, Trump has made presidential decisions that merit a concern. In line

with his past statements calling climate change a “hoax,” Trump has filled the position of Environmental Protection Agency administrator with Myron Ebell, a prominent climatechange skeptic. For chief strategist, Trump has appointed Stephen Bannon, a right-wing media executive and executive chairman of Breitbart News Network, who has been wildly critiqued for his work in that publication. Notable headlines from Breitbart include “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy” and “Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew.” These appointments have substantiated many people’s concerns that dangerous rhetoric and policy actions will materialize into blatant discrimination and harmful global consequences over the next four years. If you believe that your president will not fight for what you believe in, you should use these next four years to fight to

actively work towards them yourself.

We commend protests against Trump’s decisions and actions, but call on protesters to channel their energy into specific goals and tangible change, rather than vague demands of impeachment or social media activism. For example, support Muslim Americans by volunteering for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or donate to organizations like Friends of the Earth to support grassroots environmental efforts. Protesting is important, but frequent volunteer work is just as, if not more, valuable and necessary.

As Americans, we must find a balance between accepting Trump as president-elect and rejecting the racism, sexism and other negative consequences that have resulted from his appointment. Rather than dwelling on what we cannot change, let’s focus on what we can do to create the kind of country we want to live in.

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If you have been paying neurotic attention to blockbuster releases recently, you may have noticed that there have been seven major superhero movies so far this year, many of them major box office successes.

In light of this onslaught, there seems to be a fathomless famine for power fantasy and clean conflict resolution in modern day America. It is worth noting that these films all have one thing in common: The villain is evil, bent on destruction and doomed to fail. It does not take a wise woman to know that none of these qualities describe real-life villains. Yet, so-called “superhero thinking” seems to have infected our public perception. We are shocked to learn that sometimes the villain does win.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the response to the recent presidential election in the United States. On the ballot we had someone with no experience in government or public service, a mendax

with no workable policies.

This candidate is a lifelong multimillionaire — and a tacky one at that — who claimed to represent working-class interests, a demagogue who fomented hatred against women and people of color and, as recently as last week, settled numerous fraud cases against his forprofit universities for $25 million.

This is a person who has proposed appointing career lobbyists and the executive chairman of Breitbart News to positions in his cabinet, someone whose motivation in seeking the highest office in government appears to be personal profit and who has not done anything to convince anyone otherwise. Those are all the words I am allowed to say about our president-elect, but you get the point.

How can it be that such a person won the election for the presidency of the United States? Surely, you would think, reasonable people will take a stand, as they always do, and end

this bad joke. For many young people, this is a kind of awakening. If you don’t live on Locust Walk or Spring Avenue, so-called

occurred in Nova Scotia as a result of a collision between the SS Imo and the SS Mont-Blanc. The Mont-Blanc was fully-

... so-called superhero thinking seems to have infected our public perception.

We are shocked to learn that sometimes the villain does win.”

reasonable people may not be the majority. Maybe a bold-faced villain can win the affection of millions, and, unlike the plot of a superhero movie, he is not thwarted by a woman in a flashy pantsuit.

If you will let me draw a parallel here, I will remind you of the Halifax Explosion of 1917, which

loaded with explosives when, ignoring maritime regulations, the SS Imo exceeded the speed limit and instigated a dangerous pass. The ships managed to barely avoid each other.

At this point, the captain of the Imo decided to reverse the ship’s engines, pulling the ships together and resulting in an explosion that

left 2,000 dead and 9,000 others injured. The way people talk about the election, you would think it no less dramatic.

But that is not the end of the story. Though the SS Imo was the responsible party in this historical narrative, the ship and its crew managed to avoid destruction. It was repaired and returned to service a year later. However, in 1921 it ran aground off the Falkland Islands and was abandoned.

What can we take away from this? Maybe it’s that incompetence does not go unpunished. I would hope that a president who seeks to appoint career lobbyists and vocal anti-Semites to his cabinet cannot be selfsustaining. But then again, the crew that ruined the Imo may not have been the same one that caused the crash, and maybe the Imo ran aground due to unrelated circumstances. No superheroes here.

What I can say for certain is that things are not as clear-cut as superhero

HARRISON GLICKLICH movies make them out to be. Sometimes the villains win and sometimes they win a lot. In the trite words of Brandon Sanderson, “There are no heroes coming to save us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Yet, in spite of it all, I am not so inclined to believe him.

Though it may take eight years, or four, or even fewer, president-elect Imo will have his reckoning.

HARRISON GLICKLICH is a College senior from Millburn, N.J., studying biochemistry.

His email address is hgli@sas. upenn.edu “Good Luck” usually appears every other Monday.

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Writer, activist Shaun King caps off Unity Month King spoke about 2016 election’s implications NATALIE KAHN Contributing Reporter

New York Daily News journalist Shaun King attempted to explain the outcome of the presidential election to a full Harrison Auditorium on Nov. 17. King was the keynote speaker of the United Minority Council’s Unity Month.

“I was trying to give some clarity and context for where

we are, how we got here and where to go next,” King told T he Da ily Pen nsylva n ia n.

“When you don’t have clarity, it’s easy to be hopeless.”

In his lecture, he referred to historian Leopold von Ranke for providing this “clarity.”

In the mid-nineteenth century, von Ranke made the first modern timeline of history to see if humanity had improved over time, he said. The timeline showed that although technology progresses, the quality of humankind rises and falls.

“Sometimes humanity is great and sometimes humanity sucks,” King said.

King said people are currently in a “dip,” a low point in the status of humanity. He said that while President-elect Donald Trump did not cause this dip, he reflects it.

Dips often come in response to innovations, King said, and Trump could only have been elected if we were in that low place already.

Again, he cited histor ical events to justify this

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assertion. After slavery ended and President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the KKK formed. After the United States elected its first black president, Barack Obama, hate groups and hate crimes grew in number, he said.

After this, he said, Trump ran for president, and his campaign slogan appealed to the worst in people.

King’s words resonated with School of Social Policy and Practice student Jess Soriano.

“In this time it’s easy to feel isolated,” she said. “That explanation has given me some peace.”

King looked to racial tension to illustrate our current “dip.”

He stated that last time 102 unarmed black people were killed in one year, before last year, was in 1912.

He showed videos of police brutality towards black people.

In one video, police were attacking unarmed black children coming from a swimming pool in an affluent suburb of Dallas and who had not committed any crime.

King paused the video on the image of a calm-looking white man standing near a black boy whose hands were behind his back.

“Why is he so calm?” King asked of the white man. “He just knew he was okay.”

College junior Jocelyn Afadapa said she appreciated hearing the “backstory” behind this video, referring to “things we don’t see on CNN.” College sophomore Justina McMinn descr ibed K ing’s lecture as important for those with an “outsiders’ point of

view,” that is, those who are not affected by the issues he discusses.

College sophomore Malika Okech said she attended the speech to hear from a social media presence who also acts on his words so she could learn how to make positive change after recent events.

King advocated for “hyperlocal” action — for example, turning Penn into a “sanctuary college” or Philadelphia into a “sanctuary city.”

He encouraged people to have two issues for which they fight — one with direct effect and one without, but for which they fight just as hard.

King’s speech ended with a hopeful message.

“At every dip in American history, we have always found our way out,” he said.

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Mixed reactions to profs cancelling classes after Trump win Would a Clinton victory have changed anything?

CARL-EMMANUEL FULGHIERI Staff Reporter

As students across the country became distraught following Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, professors at Penn and other schools cancelled classes and postponed exams, leaving some conservative students and critics wondering: had Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the 2016 presidential election, would Penn professors have cancelled scheduled classes and midterm exams?

Although the choice to move or cancel class is largely the domain of individual professors, some of the decisions across the Ivy League to do so drew criticism from the public. An accommodation to a Nov. 9 midterm at Yale University received national coverage: an article on Fox News labeled students as, “snowflakes” and a piece on Reason.com said students were “unprepared to cope with reality.”

During this process, Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein suggested faculty

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“Obviously, this won’t be easy to change, so we had to show that people care,” Lurie said in an interview. “We sent out the survey and got insane results.”

The students’ proposal aims to encourage their peers to explore classes outside of their chosen major or field of study without fearing the impact on their GPA. The current Pass/Fail policy requires that the College student declares a class as Pass/Fail within the first five weeks of the semester. A student can take up to eight courses as Pass/Fail that only count as general education

recognize the importance of understanding student needs as a result of the tumultuous election.

“I communicated with faculty and undergraduate deans to be sensitive to students at this moment, be flexible in considering students’ requests regarding assignments, and remind students of the resources available across campus to support them,” she said in an email.

Students of color told Penn President Amy Gutmann in a tearful, emotionally charged University Council meeting the day after the election how scared Trump’s election made them feel. A vicious, racist series of GroupMe messages sent to black freshmen days later, from usernames with pseudonyms like “Daddy Trump,” roiled campus as well. In the aftermath of the racist attack, which was linked to students in Oklahoma, Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation organized a walkout from class on Nov. 17.

However, other students and faculty were concerned with the accommodations and whether the same would have been done for students who would have felt disheartened had Clinton won.

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requirements.

A major issue within this policy, Lurie said, is that students have to decide if they would like to make the class Pass/Fail too early in the semester. This is a time when there are not enough grades to determine where they stand in the class. A student may end up with a grade they are proud of after declaring the course Pass/ Fail and are left unable reverse the process.

The proposal started when Szomstein sent a suggestion to the College Dean’s Advisory Board to reform the system. She entered college undecided on what to study and “wanted to try everything” except for physics. She tried biology, which

affiliation, students interviewed agreed that scheduling large assignments or exams near significant events may be problematic.

“Putting exams after elections is irresponsible. If the University wants students to be involved in politics they shouldn’t force them to study instead,” College and Wharton sophomore Anna Schmitt said.

College sophomore Christian Petrillo, who voted for Trump, agreed with Schmitt, but questioned whether professors would have reacted in a similar way if Clinton had won.

“I have nothing wrong with people coping in different ways,” he said. “I’m not one to criticize the fact that professors that postponed exams and cancelled classes, which is already in poor taste, but I wonder if the same would happen had Hillary Clinton won,” he said.

History professor Alan Kors, a prominent free-speech advocate, shared similar thoughts.

“I’m assuming that as profs who do not like abuse of power and who would never betray their vocation by treating students unequally, they were going to cancel classes to let their Republican students deal with things if the

she loved in high school, but found the pre-med curriculum too intense. After finishing the semester with a grade that brought down her GPA, she felt functionally penalized for being undecided.

“I never expected it to be taken so seriously, but I wanted my perspective and experience to at least be heard,” she said.

Many respondents who responded ‘yes’ to the proposal said that they believed it could be helpful in strengthening the mental health on campus, while some of the ‘no’ responses stemmed from criticism of students who would want to take a class Pass/Fail in general.

As someone who took a gap year, Prieto said by the time she

election had gone the other way … but they just forgot to say that earlier,” he said in an email statement.

Although recognizing the right to anger, other students said they were less inclined to accept, on principle, accommodations for students upset about the result of the election.

“I think it comes down to facing the fact that not everything turns out how we want it,” said Wharton sophomore Eric Hoover, a writer for the conservative campus publication, The Statesman. “There is a problem when students can’t function when their candidate lost … as far as classroom things go I wouldn’t be for any type of rescheduling or accommodations, but … that’s [the professor’s] right to do so.”

Students interviewed did not feel overall that Penn appropriately prepared for an election of not only historical significance, but of critical significance to their sense of self and safety.

“Although it was unexpected, you just need a clear procedure of this ahead of time,” College sophomore Kate Dildy, who voted for Clinton, said. “It didn’t seem like the University was ready for any contingencies, including if Hillary Clinton was president.”

got to Penn she was already a year removed from high school academics.

“We found that as freshmen coming in as undecided majors, it was very difficult to find classes that we were interested in without a fear of being automatically behind,” Prieto said.

The students have not approached faculty yet with their idea.

“This is not a hard policy we have drafted. It was more of a means to see if students are interested and agree that there is a need for change, Lurie said.

“We are very open to suggestions from students and faculty.”

“This would be a really good safety net for students who want to take risks,” Prieto added.

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On the road, Red and Blue record year’s first win W. HOOPS | Whitlatch’s

career-high 24 lead Penn

TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

In a season the team has dedicated to the Harambe, the Quakers couldn’t have waited much longer to get the monkey off their backs.

Penn women’s basketball notched its first win of the season in its first-ever meeting with Rhode Island, coasting to a 75-43 victory on Friday night in the nation’s smallest state.

The Quakers (1-2) led wire-towire against the Rams (1-3) en route to the win. After a rocky start to the season with a tough loss against formidable Duke and a defeat at the hands of Binghamton that left the entire team feeling bitter, the Red and Blue needed a convincing win and got it, dominating their opponents in

every facet of the game to enter the win column.

“I think it was really important that we played really well, we grew a lot from Wednesday when we didn’t play well, execute well, do a whole lot well,” Penn coach Mike McLaughlin said. “Tonight, we were the aggressor, we rebounded the ball at a high level, took care of the basketball, scored the ball efficiently, controlled the paint — it was a really good team win, it’s good to get the first one.

And we worked hard to get it.”

After struggling a bit on both ends the first two games, Penn broke out the lockdown defense that won the Quakers an Ivy championship a year ago, holding Rhode Island under 35 percent shooting and forcing 22 turnovers. The offense, while not necessarily efficient, was certainly prolific, with Penn breaking the 70-point barrier and hitting nine three-pointers.

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At Rhode Island on Friday, Penn women’s basketball got its first win of the year, powered by junior Lauren Whitlatch’s career-high 24 points.

from junior guard Lauren Whitlatch, who had a career-high 24 points. But after a breakout game

offensively, Whitlatch was more focused on the team’s defense, to which she contributed with three

steals.

“We can’t always control if the shots will keep going in or not, but it’s more about on the defensive end, getting those 50-50 balls back,” she said. “Our defense is always our first priority.”

Penn also got strong performances down low from senior captain and center Sydney Stipanovich, who had 14 points, 13 rebounds and four blocks, as well as junior forward Michelle Nwokedi, who had 16 points, eight boards and three rejections.

Stipanovich, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, credited Whitlatch’s shooting from outside for her own dominance inside.

“She was huge tonight, she couldn’t miss,” Stipanovich said of the junior guard. “That really spreads the floor and makes the defense have to come out and guard her, it really makes our offense a whole lot better.”

Rhode Island hung with the

Quakers early in the game despite never leading, and Penn took a relatively modest 11-point lead into the halftime break. But the Red and Blue opened things up after the intermission, capping things off with a fourth quarter in which the Rams managed only six point against the Penn defense. Rhode Island was led by sophomore center Dina Motrechuk, who had 17 points and four blocks.

For the Red and Blue, the thrill of a dominant victory came mixed with a sense of relief.

“I think we all had a lot of energy, and the past few days really just wanted to get back on the court and improve ourselves,” Whitlatch said. “I think we all contributed in a way that really helped us get that win.”

And with that first win finally out of the way, the Quakers can go back to using their high expectations as a source of confidence, rather than a burden.

Quakers post solid results versus stiff competition in home meet WRESTLING | Bethea,

Mattiace star at home

REINA KERN Sports Reporter

Penn wrestling put up a fight against defending national champion Penn State and some of the top wrestlers from around the country in the Palestra this weekend at the Keystone Classic.

Hosting strong programs such as No. 2 Penn State and other fierce opponents such as Edinboro, Appalachian State and Rider, this was a weekend to prepare them for what is ahead in the conference and national tournament later in the season.

A handful of Penn’s starters

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not playing as well as he’s capable of playing. He knows that.”

Still, there are plenty of positives to take away from Saturday’s contest; Miami is among the nation’s best teams, having finished last season ranked eighth in the USA

from last season did not compete, forcing other members of the squad to step up to some high quality competition. With dual meet season approaching, the team needs to tune into the small details that will ultimately help them perform at their best.

“It is a lot of the same things,” coach Alex Tirapelle said. “The same movements, the same situations, the little twists and turns.

That’s why watching film is important.”

Junior May Bethea, ranked No. 19 in the country, made an appearance in the finals for the Quakers, but was defeated by the top wrestler Jason Nolf of Penn State in the 157-pound weight class. However, Tirapelle thinks there is a bright future ahead for Bethea this

season.

“He is talented and works hard,” Tirapelle said. “But I don’t think we’ve seen his best performance yet.”

Bethea has won most of his matches this season, and ultimately received second place at the Keystone Classic. However, Tirapelle as well as Bethea himself feels like there is a lot more to come from him in the meets that lie ahead.

“I feel like I am progressing, and I haven’t reached my peak yet, but I am getting a little bit better every day,” Bethea said. “For finals today I need to wrestle my match and not get too sucked into things going on around me.”

Senior Frank Mattiace, ranked No. 16 in the country in the 197pound weight class, also made an

Today Coaches’ poll. Though they are not ranked at the moment, they will figure to once again be one of the top teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference, widely considered to be the strongest league in college basketball.

And, as Donahue points out, the games that truly matter will not come until 2017 — and tough road

contests can provide valuable lessons for a team looking to find its identity.

“It is so hard to play college basketball on the road,” the second-year coach noted. “I thought, ‘Let’s go on the road, let’s be battle-tested, and know what’re facing.’

“That way, come January and February, we’ll be ready to go.”

appearance in the finals this weekend. However, he was defeated by the No. 14 Matt McCutcheon of Penn State by a small margin.

Despite this, he earned a secondplaced ranking along with Bethea.

Coming into this weekend, he was really focused on himself and training hard, trying to take care of the things he could control prior to this weekend’s competitions. This ultimately proved to be a positive approach for him based on his performances.

Competing in the 165-pound weight class, Joe Velliquette was disappointed with some aspects of his performance but was successful in wrestle-backs and was able to improve on certain parts of his game.

“I think I gave good effort for

a majority of my matches but not placing is rough,” Velliquette said retrospectively. “I need to work on linking what I do in practices to a match and I feel like that will help me be successful.”

With two wins, one in the second round to Zack Spira of Drexel, and another in the Consolation Third Round to Caleb Livingston of Penn State, Velliquette was able to answer back to some earlier defeats, proving his strength and determination to improve.

Collectively, there were many successful performances by the Red and Blue this weekend. With Bethea and Mattiace earning second place, junior Joe Heyob secured fourth place after going 4-2 in the tournament.

Additionally, the team was excited to be on its home turf at the Palestra.

“I think it gives us a competitive edge both physically with all the resources we use but also mentally that this is our space,” Velliquette said.

“It is a lot of work and a lot of people contribute, but when it comes together it is a great event and is a great experience for our guys,” Tirapelle added.

The Quakers will look ahead to achieving many of their individual and team goals as they progress into dual meets and later into tournament season. They will be back in action on Dec. 4 at Hofstra, and are already looking to improve their game from this past weekend’s performances.

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Priore’s Penn turnaround is just about unprecedented COLE JACOBSON

ITHACA, N.Y. — Two years ago, no one saw this coming.

When Penn football staggered to a 2-8 finish in Al Bagnoli’s final season, there were few reasons for optimism. The team hadn’t won only twice in a season since 1991.

The most heralded coach in program history was (seemingly) off to retirement. The Quakers were predicted to finish in sixth place in the 2015 preseason media poll.

But then Ray Priore got the promotion — and that call has arguably been the greatest gift in program history.

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particularly kind to the Quakers. Junior Alex Peterson stormed out of the gate in the first individual event to win the 1000-yard freestyle in a time of 9:28.98, and senior Kevin Su matched his performance in the very next event, the 200 free, taking first in 1:39.56.

Sophomore Thomas Dillinger took both the 50 and 100 freestyle events posting times of 20.60 and 45.49 respectively, and fellow sophomore Mark Blinstrub also finished atop the podium in the 100yard backstroke with a time of 50.40. “It was like watching a snowball coming down a mountain, and there was just absolutely no stopping us today.� Schnur said. “We took a couple early wins that got the ball rolling, built up some confidence, and by 45 minutes in we knew there was no way Princeton was going to catch us.�

Sophomore Mark Andrew was another multiple event winner for the Quakers, posting a 4:37.33 to take first in the 500 freestyle and a 1:51.42 to

Empires shouldn’t be built overnight. Karin Corbett’s women’s lacrosse team has won an Ivy title in nine of the last ten years, but it didn’t get its first one until Corbett’s eighth season, and didn’t even pass .500 in conference play until her sixth year. Mike McLaughlin’s women’s basketball squad is heavily favored to win its third Ivy title in four years, but he didn’t get his first until his fifth season, and his Penn career started with an ugly 2-26 finish in 200910.

That’s no knock on those two coaches — both of whom would already go down as all-time greats if they retired today, and both of whom I expect to continue to do phenomenal things in careers that are hopefully still young. But the way Priore has changed the culture

around Penn football so drastically in such a small amount of time simply has no comparison.

The Red and Blue staggered to five combined Ivy league wins in 2013 and 2014. In the two years since, the Quakers have won six conference games each season, making Priore the first Ancient Eight coach since 1973 to win league titles in each of his first two seasons.

And it’s not like the personnel has been that different around him.

Alek Torgersen was still in the backfield during that disastrous 2014 season. Justin Watson was lining up on the outside. Donald Panciello, Tayler Hendrickson and Corey Power were among the underclassmen to see significant defensive playing time in the Bagnoli era.

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defending Ivy champion, a situation that simply was unprecedented months ago.

Undoubtedly, next season will bring some challenges to Penn’s three-peat bid, with arguably the best quarterback in school history and three of the five starting offensive linemen in front of him departing.

But as the names on the depth chart change, the revamped culture around the program will stay the same. And if these last two years have taught me anything about Penn football, one thing is clear: Never doubt the king.

‘Turnovers, turnovers, turnovers,’� Williams said. “We got punched in the mouth two weeks ago, and since then I feel like our defense has stepped it up a notch each week.�

Torgersen finished the day with 284 yards through the air, 58 on the ground with a touchdown passing and two rushing. By going 24-for-31, he improved his career completion percentage to .651, best in program history. He finishes Penn’s all-time leader

in touchdown passes, to go along with two Ivy titles. “As it’s coming to an end, it’s sweet,� he said. “But it’s going to hurt a little bit these next few days where you wake up, and you don’t have practice or anything like that, and you just sit in your room, and you’re not really sure what to do with your life.�

When Cornell made it a one-score game on a 58-yard bomb — again a pass by running back Chris Walker after a double reverse — Penn answered again. This time, Solomon punched it in from one yard out with two seconds left in the half, making it 28-13 after the Quakers had gone for it on fourth down twice in the red zone to set up the score.

As great as Solomon’s game was, though, his wasn’t the most exciting rush of the day. No, that came from offensive lineman Nick Demes.

After freshman defensive back Conor O’Brien intercepted the first pass of his career, Penn eventually found itself at the Cornell 7 with seven minutes left in the third quarter. Torgersen started to rush right on first down before looking to his left, where Demes was waiting wide open to receive a long lateral, and the senior captain trucked his way into the end zone. “I was so tired at first. That was the longest and fastest I’ve run in awhile,� Demes said. “My second thought was that I

just wanted to go and run and mob the bench.� “I said, ‘If you run it out here on the 40-yard line, he’s never going to make it to the end zone,’� Priore half-joked. “So we waited for the perfect spot, Alek waited and waited and waited until the last minute, it was a perfect designed play.

That was fun.�

While the score for the big man briefly deflated the hosts, they quickly rallied back The Big Red strung some big passes together to find the end zone for a third time and looked poised to make it a one-score game again after a big interception early in the fourth quarter.

Sen ior l i nebacker Mat t Henderson decided then to intervene, stepping in front of a route up the middle to grab his first career interception, effectively cutting off any Cornell hope of playing spoiler. An Alek Torgersen rushing touchdown on the subsequent drive was just icing on the cake.

Amidst all of the chaos, Justin Watson made a statement of his own. The junior wide receiver set a Penn single-season record in the third quarter with his eighth reception, and later on put up the program-best mark in receiving yards, finishing 2016 with 1,115, by far the most in the conference.

Regardless of individual performances this game and this season, however, there is one accolade all 106 players on the team now have to their names: 2016 Ivy League champions.

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seven minutes left in the first quarter — was shortlived after a 35-yard trick play set up the Big Red (4-6, 2-5) for a 35-yard touchdown pass just 50 seconds later. Cornell couldn’t tie it up, however, missing the PAT and allowing the Red and Blue to hold on to a one-point lead.

That was all Alek Torgersen needed.

The following drive, the senior quarterback found Christian Pearson for a 22yard score, and one drive later — following sophomore Mason Williams’ Ivy-best sixth interception of the year — ran it in himself from five yards out.

Williams’ pick — giving him the most in a single season for the Quakers since Ross Armstrong had six in 1984 — also left Penn with some breathing room, as the Pasadena, Calif., native jumped a route in the end zone to halt a threatening Big Red drive. “ [ D e fe n s ive C o o r d i n a tor Bob] Benson preaches,

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finally achieved that improbable goal and you’re merely trying to sustain that level.

Yet Priore and his staff made sure the whole team kept the same hunger as defending champions as they did coming off a sixth-place finish. And even as potential distractions piled up like the questionable decision by Penn’s Division of Public Safety to boost liquor control before the Princeton game or the simply unjustifiable move by Penn to forbid students from entering the Harvard game at a school supposedly working to raise student interest in sports, Priore and his Quakers only had their focus on beating the guy across from them.

And for the second consecutive year, that’s what they’ve done. Penn is the sole two-time

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take the 200 IM. The 100-yard breaststroke was one of the few events all meet that saw a team run the table to take all top three spots – and in this case, all three men on the podium wore Penn colors. Senior Wes Thomas led the charge with a time of 56.63, with sophomore Colin McHugh and senior Cole Hurwitz close on his heels, finishing with times of 56.79 and 56.90 for a grand total of .27 seconds separating the three.

Thomas also brought home top points for Penn with a win in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:01.07. “Today was something that I’ve never experienced, either as an athlete or a coach.�

Schnur said. “We’ve been on the other side of days like today so we know how tough it can be, but it’s absolutely awesome to be able to win a meet like this for only the third time in history.�

A short turnaround will see Penn back in the pool this Tuesday for a meet against crosstown foe La Salle, in a final preperation meet before heading out to Ohio to take on the field at the Total Performance Invitational next week.

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Indeed, it’s not finding new players capable of succeeding that’s been the secret to Priore’s dominance — it’s convincing the players next to him that they were.

In any sport, the first step to winning is believing that you’re good enough to do it.

In these last two seasons, these Quakers have been sure that they could — and would — dominate everyone. And the majority of the time, that’s been true, ranging all the way back from Priore’s first win over fourth-ranked Villanova to Saturday’s 527-yard offensive onslaught in Ithaca.

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TAKING HOME THE TITLE With a 42-20 win over Cornell, Penn football clinched an Ivy record-tying 18th title, sharing the crown with Princeton after the Tigers beat Dartmouth.

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I G E R S T SWIM & DIVE | Men’s squad beats

Princeton for first time since 1989

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This one has been a long time coming.

For the first time since 1989, Penn men’s swimming and diving defeated Princeton (1-1, 1-1 Ivy) in a dual meet, handing the defending Ivy League champions their first loss of the season, 192-108. While the women were defeated by Princeton (2-1, 2-0 Ivy), both squads picked up decisive wins over the weekend against Cornell, with the women dropping the Big Red (1-3, 1-3 Ivy), 170-130, and the men besting Cornell (1-3, 1-3 Ivy), 222.5-77.5.

While slightly overshadowed by the historic day on the men’s side, the women’s team (4-1, 2-1 Ivy) found plenty of its own success inside the

Teagle Pool in Ithaca.

In the meet’s opening event, the 200-yard medley relay team of sophomore Libby Jardeleza, junior Kimberly Phan and seniors Rochelle Dong and Haley Wickham finished second to Princeton with a time of 1:44.96, a mere .17 seconds behind the Tigers.

Freshman Grace Ferry won the first individual event of the meet, taking the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:16.00, and junior Carolyn Yang’s time of 10:24.28 was good for third place.

Junior Virginia Burns continued adding to her personal resume with yet another victory in the 200 freestyle, touching in 1:51.76, and senior Haley Wickham’s 1:05.33 in the 100

breaststroke was also good for a top spot on the podium. Burns and Ferry also placed second and third in the 500 freestyle with times of 5:00.25 and 5:03.29, respectively.

Freshman Wendy Yang had another strong performance in the sprints, notching the top time of 23.61 seconds in the 100 freestyle, while Dong took third place in the same event. Yang also picked up a second place finish in the 100 butterfly with a closing time of 56.49.

“It was really good to see our usual suspects get out there and do their thing,” coach Mike Schnur said. “We got a couple people back in our lineups for the first time, and from top to bottom we have girls who are having

great seasons and just get out there and win a lot.”

For the men (4-1, 2-1 Ivy), the divers put the team well out in front of the pack before any of Saturday’s races had even taken place. Freshman JohnMichael Diveris took the 1m event with a final score of 289.2, and sophomore Andrew Bologna’s 311.85 was good for the top spot in the 3m dive, with Diveris in second place behind him.

The story didn’t change much when the rest of the team got in the pool, and the men captured 11 individual event victories on the day.

The freestyle races were SEE SWIM & DIVE PAGE 10

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In her final competition for Penn cross country, Ashley Montgomery took 13th at NCAAs.

It’s a fitting end to the cross country career of an athlete who has been described as a “breakout” performer.

In her senior year, Penn women’s cross country’s Ashley Montgomery led the Quakers to their first-ever appearance as a team at the NCAA Championships over the weekend, held at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Ind. Montgomery led the team with a 13th-place individual finish and an average mile pace of 5:23 for the six-kilometer course, crossing the finish line in 20:07.1. The finish clinched a 24th-place overall finish for the Red and Blue, earning Montgomery the title of All-American.

Not only was Montgomery’s race a historic achievement in her career, but it also made history for Penn Athletics: her race is now tied with Christine Lundy’s 1991 race as the school’s best ever individual performance at the NCAAs. Though this was the team’s first appearance at the championship, it was Montgomery’s second, following her appearance in last year’s meet. She shaved 33 seconds off her performance from 2015, which moved her up 60 places from her junior year.

Overall, the Quakers earned a total of 520 points, finishing with an average race time of 21 minutes.

Following behind Montgomery were fellow seniors Cleo Whiting in 93rd and Clarissa Whiting in 125th.

Junior Abby Hong and freshman Erin Feeney rounded out the top scorers for the Red and Blue, finishing in 199th and 212th, respectively. Freshman Christina Rancan and sophomore Karli Visconto also competed for the team, but were not scored.

The men’s team did not qualify for the championship, but it was represented by senior Nick Tuck, who earned a solo spot at the race after his sixthplace finish at the Mid-Atlantic Regional earlier this month. Tuck finished in 207th in the 10K race at NCAAs, crossing the finish line with a time of 31:47.0.

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Penn basketball found its Miami vice: turnovers.

On a night in which the Red and Blue played competitively with the Hurricanes, sloppy Quaker miscues ended up being the difference: Penn committed 21 turnovers — and Miami scored 25 points off those mistakes — as the Green and Orange rolled to a 74-62 win.

“I was proud of the way we competed, particularly in the first half — we didn’t make shots that we usually make,” Penn coach Steve Donahue said. “But early in the second half we got too casual, and they stepped into passing lanes.”

The Quakers (1-1) endured a frigid shooting performance in that first half, shooting just 32 percent from the floor, including a 3-for-13 showing from

three-point range. They improved both rates in the second frame, but an increase in turnovers and increased offensive efficiency from Miami (3-0) nullified any chance of a comeback.

Freshman forward AJ Brodeur was once again the Quakers’ star, leading the squad with 16 points and eight rebounds. The Massachusetts native was coming off a double-double in a season-opening win over Robert Morris last Friday, and figures to be an anchor of the Penn offense in the years to come.

“I’m still adjusting to the speed, the mental aspect — everything that goes into a NCAA Division I basketball game,” Brodeur said. “Once we all get into a grove, we’re gonna be a force in our conference.”

The two teams, meeting for the ninth time (Miami now leads the series 6-3) looked evenly matched for the game’s first half, as both offenses struggled to get going. The Hurricanes went into the break up 28-23.

However, things quickly got out of hand for the Red and Blue after halftime. Miami went on a 21-6 run

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shortly after intermission and never looked back, stretching the gap to as many as 23 points. Junior guard Ja’Quan Newton had a game-high 18, making him one of five Hurricanes to score in double figures.

The Quakers managed to chop at the deficit in garbage time behind three-point shooting from junior forward Sam Jones, but never truly threatened in the game’s final minutes.

Several Penn scorers had difficult evenings, none more so than sophomore Jackson Donahue. The guard was held scoreless on 0-for-9 shooting, including seven misses from threepoint range. After emerging as the team’s top outside threat a year ago, Donahue has made only 15 percent of his field goals through two games this season.

“I really wish I knew exactly where things [will go] in terms of our rotation; there are some spots to be won, some minutes to be won,” Steve Donahue said. “Jackson Donahue is just SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 9

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In his second game, freshman forward AJ Brodeur has established himself as a leader for Penn basketball, putting up 16 points and eight rebounds after a double-double in his debut at Robert Morris.

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