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In the spring of 2018, there were 377 waitlist entries submitted for a Computer and Information Science elective course entitled, “Applied Machine Learning,” which caps enrollment at 150.

While machine learning is a popular subject now, high demand for CIS courses across the board has become problematic in recent years. CIS Undergraduate Curriculum Chair Andreas Haeberlen said he is “painfully aware of the high demand” for CIS classes this upcoming semester, adding that enrollment will only rise in many of these courses.

This high demand — which stems from CIS majors, CIS minors, and students taking

CIS courses as electives — leaves some students struggling to satisfy major and minor requirements because they are stuck on waitlists for mandatory courses.

Next semester, the CIS Department is offering 35 courses, many of which have seen record numbers in enrollment, and administrators say demand is beyond what the department’s resources can supply.

Wharton and Engineering sophomore Younghu Park decided to pursue a dual degree after she took CIS 120 and was hooked on computer science. She said she would not

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On June 22, the National Coalition for Men filed a Title IX complaint against 22 Penn programs for allegedly discriminating against males. The complaint is one of several the male advocacy group has filed against various universities across the country.

But according to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights’ active investigations page, no new investigations against the University have been opened and there is no evidence to suggest the complaint will result in any consequences for Penn.

Similar complaints have been registered by the NCFM against other universities, including Yale University, which NCFM member and University of Southern

California doctoral student Kursat Christoff Pekgoz filed in February 2018, Northeastern University, which NCFM President Harry Crouch filed in August 2018, and Georgetown University, which Crouch filed in October 2018.

Out of these schools, the only one with an official ongoing OCR investigation in the past year is Yale, whose seven named programs have been under investigation since April.

Separately, Penn has one active Title IX investigation, which opened in February 2018 — months before the NCFM filed its complaint.

The Office of Civil Rights declined to comment on the Title IX complaint filed against Penn.

In the complaint filed to the OCR, the NCFM alleges Penn’s women’s programs and institutions engage in “ongoing and systematic gender discrimination.”

The complaint specifically

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The Penn Women’s Center, located on Locust Walk, was specifically named in the complaint filed by the National Coalition for Men.

names a multitude of Penn’s female-oriented programs, ranging from institutes focusing on female health like the Center for Research

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The day after College senior Anea Moore won the 2019 Rhodes Scholarship, she could hardly make it down Locust Walk — she kept getting stopped by people congratulating her.

Moore was named one of 32 American Rhodes Scholars on Nov. 17 out of 880 applicants who were endorsed by their colleges.

Rhodes recipients receive full financial support to study for graduate degrees at the University of Oxford, and the scholarship

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is considered one of the most prestigious academic awards in the world.

Moore said the Rhodes Scholarship is an opportunity she never expected.

“This is a place that my family has never gone,” she said.

“For me, Rhodes and Oxford is about more than just the degree. It’s about the experience and knowledge which you gain, and actively using that knowledge and experience to make the world a better place for those who don’t have access to it,” Moore said.

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Dental student Kristen Leong, the founder of the First Generation Professional Student Society, encouraged members to share their experiences of being a FGLI student, whether those are everyday problems or their favorite cheap eats on campus.

“It feels like of the many different aspects of diversity there are, the one thing that’s missing is being a first-generation college student.

There’s a cultural difference for some students when you’re first generation, so I’m enjoying being here in this newly celebrated nook of diversity,” said second-year GSE Ph.D. student Laronnda Thompson, who serves as Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Equity and Access chair.

Students at the event said the mixer was different from typical networking events, both professional and social, where they often feel alienated. This feeling also extends to undergraduate FGLI students, who have said their background affects their experiences with on-campus recruiting.

“Networking is about feeling at ease, and this space gives everyone the opportunity to feel at ease,” said GAPSA President and Sociology Ph.D. candidate Haley Pilgrim, who was at the event.

“What you see with those undergrads in OCR is that they’re not feeling at ease because of that difference in cultural capital.”

Thompson said this divide in cultural capital became clear while planning for a separate event.

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The FGLI community is working to bring greater visibility and resources from Penn for graduate students as they have done for undergraduates.

When asking for the hors d’oeuvre to be continuously served, she said she felt others discounted her for not knowing the proper term was “butlered hors d’oeuvre.”

It’s these differences in social networks that motivated Leong to start the Professional Society, which will collaborate with PFGA much more often in the future, she said.

“I’m proud of the way we can come together. I’ll put it out there

that I was feeling alone, I felt like I didn’t have support, and I’m really proud that my first gen students answered that call,” she said as she started to cry. “And we’re all standing here together now.”

PFGA said it plans to hold personal financing workshops next semester and, in the long term, may be formally placed under the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Leadership Council of GAPSA.

UA leaders Krone and Andrews set up shop on Locust to boost transparency The UA set up a suggestion box for students’ opinions JULIA KLAYMAN Staff Reporter

Seven months ago, College senior Michael Krone and College junior Jordan Andrews won Undergraduate Assembly president and vice president, respectively, with promises to improve mental wellness, transparency, and inclusivity on Penn’s campus. Now, with only a few weeks left in the semester, transparency has become their top priority.

While transparency was a key issue of their campaign platform, Krone said it became a priority after hearing students complain about being left out of decisions made by the administration. Specifically, Krone said students were frustrated by the decision to change Huntsman Hall’s hours and the decision to require that sophomores live on campus starting in 2021.

“Anytime there’s a decision that seems very top-down, the obstacles are always trying to make sure student input was in the room when they made that decision and then making sure as it’s implemented, it’s okay for students,” Andrews said.

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The Undergraduate Assembly leaders are prioritizing transparancy after hearing that students were frustrated about being left out of key campus decisions like the change in Huntsman Hall’s hours.

campus, Andrews said. They plan to share a written report based on student reactions with administrators.

To help gauge student reactions, the UA is setting up a table with a suggestion box on Locust Walk once a week. Beginning on Nov. 7, a different UA committee will run the table every Tuesday through the end of the semester. This way, students will be able to learn about each committee’s project, UA Secretary and College sophomore Mercedes Owens said.

Andrews said the tabling effort is meant to make communicating with student government easier for

students.

The UA also hopes to continue improving transparency through weekly project highlight videos on Facebook, the first of which was released over the weekend, UA Communications Director Sravya Alla said.

Beyond transparency issues, the two UA leaders have been working to improve wellness on campus through meetings with CAPS, Student Health Services, and the new Chief Wellness Officer, Benoit Dubé. They said they are currently discussing bringing CAPS professionals to college houses.

Within the UA, Krone and Jor-

dan have restructured the organization to include an additional committee. While the UA still consists of 35 elected members, the addition of the fifth committee allows for more associate members. Ten additional students joined the UA this year, bringing total membership to 60.

Krone said one of the benefits of increasing the number of associate members is that they are able to expand the number of representatives from typically underrepresented groups on campus. For example, Krone said, there is one Nursing representative, but four Nursing associate members.

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Penn First Graduate Association’s first-ever event this month helped springboard these goals into action.

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education Jade Parker said. “So far a lot of resources have been undergraduate-focused and we’d like it to be more equally spread.”

The networking event helped graduate students meet peers outside of their academic programs and schools, a connection that can be difficult to establish on a normal basis, PFGA and FGP leaders said.

“I wanted to see new people in different programs,” first-year Design student Cokie Nanka said at the event. “This is reaffirming because when I go to other schools it’s not as diverse. I just like knowing there’s more of us around here.”

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Generation Professional Student Society, PFGA hosted a mixer in the Dental School Atrium on Nov. 13.

The Professional Student Society was established last April and is primarily based in the Dental School, while PFGA formed this semester and aims to serve all FGLI graduate students.

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25 Penn graduates make this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 lists The list spotlights “600 young stars” in 20 industries KIRA HOROWITZ Contributing Reporter

A total of 25 Penn graduates and one current Ph.D. student were selected for this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 lists, making Penn the university with the fourth most honorees in the world.

There were more than 15,000 online submissions for 600 slots in the eighth annual list, placing the “acceptance” rate at less than four percent. Rounding out the top three schools were Stanford University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with 54, 46, and 34 honorees, respectively. The University of California, Berkeley placed fifth with 22 members on

the list.

Each year, Forbes releases the sets of these lists, each serving as an “encyclopedia of creative disruption featuring 600 young stars in 20 different industries,” including finance, venture capital, and science.

The 25 Penn graduates as well as Seth Neel — a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Statistics — placed into 13 of the 20 categories, missing out only on Arts & Style, Education, Healthcare, Marketing & Advertising, Music, Science, and Sports.

Among the honorees is Charlie Javice, a 2013 Wharton graduate, who is the founder of Frank, a 15-person startup that aims to reduce student debt by advocating for better initial financial aid. Founded in 2016, Frank has helped about 300,000 students each find between $25,000 and

$30,000 in aid, according to Javice.

In the Social Entrepreneurs category, 2015 College graduate and current Social Policy and Practice graduate student Shadrack Frimpong was recognized for his nonprofit organization, Cocoa360. The first person from his Ghanaian village to attend college, Frimpong graduated from Penn as a recipient of Amy Gutmann’s President’s Engagement Prize, a $150,000 award for Penn seniors’ civic engagement projects. He utilized this funding to create Cocoa360, which runs a tuition-free all-girls school and community health facility from the proceeds of a cocoa farm in Tarkwa Breman, a small village in Ghana where Frimpong grew up.

Penn had its strongest showings in the Finance and Social

Entrepreneur categories, with five graduates and three graduates respectively.

The Wharton School was the most represented school among Penn’s honorees, with 13 Wharton graduates making the list, followed by the College of Arts and Sciences with nine graduates, the School of Engineering and Applied Science with five graduates, and the Perelman School of Medicine with one.

Last year, although 26 Penn graduates earned a spot on the lists, Penn had only the fifth most honorees, behind Harvard, Stanford, Columbia University, and MIT. Penn alumni placed into 14 of the 20 categories, with sixteen graduates from the Wharton School, nine from the College of Arts and Sciences, and seven from the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Pay up, Penn: Student tour guides deserve compensation SIMONETTI SAYS | Loving your job doesn’t justify unpaid labor

MONDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2018 VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 57 134th Year of Publication DAVID AKST President REBECCA TAN Executive Editor CHRIS MURACCA Print Director JULIA SCHORR Digital Director HARRY TRUSTMAN Opinion Editor SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor JONATHAN POLLACK Senior Sports Editor LUCY FERRY Senior Design Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Design Editor CHRISTINE LAM Design Editor ALANA SHUKOVSKY Design Editor

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y first impression of Penn was shaped by the words of a student tour guide.

He showed me around campus, spoke about his experience, and provided information regarding the application process. This is invaluable work. And Penn never paid him for it.

Penn is one of two Ivies with no plans to pay student tour guides.

Anyone who applies to Kite and Key clearly cares deeply for Penn.

It is a shame that people so committed to the University are not compensated for their work.

As an institution that claims to prioritize diversity, Penn has a responsibility to hire tour guides from a variety of different backgrounds.

“If we’re [not] sharing the voices of first-generation students or the voices of students who receive financial aid, I think it’s a missed opportunity,” Logan Powell, Brown’s dean of admissions, told

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relate to. What’s more, by remunerating students employed by Kite and Key, Penn will inevitably

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Penn is one of two Ivies with no plans to pay student tour guides.”

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The Brown Daily Herald. “There is a need to represent Brown from all perspectives.”

Prospective students from underrepresented backgrounds deserve tour guides who they can

diversify the pool of tour guides.

Paying tour guides would open up the position to more first-generation, low-income students who often have to take on multiple jobs to afford Penn’s sky-high tuition.

So many parts of Penn’s culture are socio-economically exclusive — the cost of textbooks, Greek life dues, club BYOs, downtowns, unpaid internship opportunities — being a student tour guide shouldn’t be on the list.

Many Kite and Key tour guides have said that they have no desire to be paid, as they do their jobs because they love Penn.

“We have always viewed ourselves as a student-run, volunteerbased service organization,” said Kite and Key President and Engineering junior Julia DiSalvio. “We don’t expect to be paid because we are doing it out of service.”

But loving your job doesn’t justify unpaid labor. Being committed to what you do and receiving compensation for it are not mutually exclusive. All tour guides should be passionate about Penn. That doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be paid for their work.

Most tour guides only work a few hours a week, but regardless, it’s the principle, not the pay. Being a tour guide won’t fill up your bank account, but a little extra money can always prove to be useful. Plus, student tour guides are people who are invested in Penn, its future, as well as the visiting experience of prospective stu-

dents.

Campus tours can be a deciding factor in choosing a university. After being accepted to Penn, many students rely on student-led tours to make their final decisions.

In other words, providing compensation to tour guides is an investment that the University will see significant returns on.

Student tour guides have the unique opportunity to engage potential applicants and determine whether or not students come to Penn. This position should not be undervalued. Remunerating tour guides will increase the diversity, and provide results for the University. Students — next time you see someone walking backwards on campus, thank them for what they do. Administrators — it’s time to pay Penn’s most important ambassadors.

ISABELL A SIMONET TI is a College sophomore from New York studying English. Her email address is simonetti@thedp. com. Follow her on Twitter @ thesimonetti.

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he Kelly Writers House isn’t a cult.

As strange as it might seem to have an old house in the middle of Locust Walk, that sense of oddity fades the second you walk inside. With a full working kitchen, couches for you and your friends to lounge around on and do homework, and a staff of work-study students who are always willing to show you around, why wouldn’t you want to take advantage of this space? In a sea of pre-professional blazers and ties, the Kelly Writers House welcomes the weird, the artsy, and even the vegans.

Last year, when I was a timid freshman, the Kelly Writers House was almost solely responsible for making me feel comfortable at Penn. It has afforded me opportunities I never thought attainable — like meeting the massively influential poet, Bernadette Mayer, and photographing art gallery openings.

Penn is inundated with pressure.

Pressure to get a summer internship at an esteemed bank, pressure to have a 4.0 GPA, pressure to succeed. But it’s also important to breathe.

As a work-study student myself who can spend upwards of 20 hours a week at the Kelly Writ-

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ers House, I am very acclimated to seeing the same faces funnel in and out of the building. While we love our regulars, we also want everyone to know that this place doesn’t discriminate. Whether an economics major, a friend of a Penn student, a traveling poet, or a visiting family member, please feel free to stop by and pour yourself a cup of coffee, of which we always have brewed.

The atmosphere and creativity

permanently instilled in its events and employees isn’t the same vibe as one’s own home, but it is something, and sometimes it helps to just get a warm cup of coffee and a few minutes of peace. What’s more, it’s a space open to students of all years and all schools. A place that doesn’t necessitate asking what school or year you’re in, but simply lets you be. All colleges need more spaces like that. As people grow

into their own and become what they want to be, it’s important that safe spaces such as the Kelly Writers House exist. People need the space to grow, without knocking their backs on unreasonable and unnecessarily professional expectations.

As stress continues to pile up, I know there’s a place on campus that fosters creativity and divergent agendas from the preprofessional rat races that leave

many students wanting to quit the maze altogether. Sitting in the kitchen and chatting with other work-study students, or doing my Spanish homework on the beanbag chair upstairs is one way to indulge in the niceties that a true home affords you — a luxury that many students forsake when living in dorms created to function, not foster.

The Kelly Writers House isn’t an exclusive club, but an open space for anyone who needs it.

Beyond traditional therapy, there are alternative ways of alleviating stress and anxiety. Spaces on campus like the Kelly Writers House perform such actions. It has different walls from when it was originally built in 1851, but the same heart.

SOPHIA DUROSE is a College sophomore from Orlando, Fla. studying English. Her email is sdurose@sas.upenn.edu.

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With graduation looming, my dream of being a starving writer seems unrealistic GUEST COLUMN BY SABRINA QIAO

I’

ve decided I’m going to boycott my 22nd birthday.

“If you don’t celebrate it,” I said to my friend Aliki, “Did it really happen?”

Aliki knows about my aversion to growing up. We spent the summer interning in New York together. On weekends, we got together to drink cheap wine and bemoan the price of fruit in the city. By the end of the summer, we had coined the phrase: “In New York, everything hurts.”

I was there that summer to write. Technically, there was an internship involved too, but my move was fueled mainly by romantic ideas about being a “starving artist.” I imagined subsisting solely on black cof-

choices — fights we’re revisiting now as I struggle to find a full-time job. I’m the “dreamer” in the family; a humanities major surrounded by a sea of business and computer science degrees. My father’s friend once told him I should go “get a real degree” since “English didn’t count.”

People say this to me a lot, in a variety of ways. Relatives at holiday dinners peer at me over turkey. High school classmates tilt their head and adjust their tone. Men at bars scoff over their sweating glasses of beer.

“So what do you want to do with that?” They ask. I’ve always had an answer, until now, when I actually need one.

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My passion for writing and my desire for stability might not actually be mutually exclusive.” fee and Microsoft Word, reading books while lounging on the grass of Central Park, falling in love with a poet sitting in a corner of an obscure cafe.

Where would this money be coming from? My parents wanted to know. I didn’t have an answer for them, but I was adamant about New York because I thought that’s what aspiring writers did: They moved to New York and wrote. It seemed simple.

Then I actually moved there, and suddenly I was budgeting in a city where I made $13 an hour (before taxes) and blueberries cost $8 a carton. Shockingly, “starving” wasn’t so sexy after all.

My parents warned me about this before my move. In the months preceding it, we fought about the practicality of my

bitrary age I’ve decided signals true adulthood — I don’t have a solid plan. In high school, it was all about getting into a “good” university. Now that graduation looms closer, a myriad of options branch out, but choice does not comfort me at all. Instead, I’m terrified of choosing, and of failing. Of disappointing my parents, and of disappointing myself. Of underachieving, and of selling out.

I used to have fierce arguments with my parents, recoiling whenever they mentioned the words: “practical,” “bills,” or “career advancement.” I said things like: “Writing is the only thing that makes me happy,” and “I don’t know who I am without my writing,” which often prompted laughter from them.

As first-generation immigrants, my parents didn’t have

the same opportunities they’ve given me. In college, while I worry about ending up in a job that makes me feel empty, my parents worried about balancing two jobs and their schoolwork.

They didn’t have time to worry about happiness when they were just trying to stay afloat in a city that threatened to cannibalize them at any moment.

“Why did you become an accounting major if you dislike accounting so much?” I asked my mother after arguing about my post-graduation plans.

She was quiet for a long while before she answered. “I never assumed it was a choice.” She looked at my father. “For your dad and I, it never was.”

My parents built a life together based on a common goal of finding security. That has been their gift to me: They suffered so I can assume. Seeing me chase career options that seem like dead ends must frighten my parents in the same way “settling” frightens me.

“I wish you could just support my writing more. I wish you could see how serious I am about it,” I said to my dad a few weeks before leaving for New York.

“I don’t want you to suffer,” my father told me. “After everything I’ve lived through, how could I want my only daughter to suffer the way your mother and I did?”

I’m ashamed to admit it took me until that summer in New York to understand what he was trying to convey because I’ve known about the history that underlies his viewpoint for years.

My father grew up during the Cultural Revolution in China.

By 17, he was shipped off to a labor camp, where he worked 12-hour days in a field, kneedeep in leech-infested water.

His legs still bear crisscrossing lines of scar tissue, a tangible reminder of what he left behind when he emigrated to New York for college. I thought I knew all there is to know about “follow-

ing my dreams,” but what did I know about sacrifice?

I’m making an active effort to see from my parents’ perspective. I’ve been creating spreadsheets, budgeting using the average salary in the career fields I’m interested in. Despite my meticulous formatting, the numbers reflect deficits so large my head spins. Looking at New York rent prices makes me feel like I’m trying to breathe underwater. How does anyone afford anything in the real world? Isn’t this the question my parents have been asking me all along?

I don’t know how to begin describing how hopeless I feel envisioning a future where I’m not writing, but I’d also like to be able to afford health insurance.

Central heating would be nice too. And the occasional carton of blueberries.

Mostly, I’m starting to suspect my passion for writing and my desire for stability might not actually be mutually exclusive.

Write full-time after graduation

or never write at all is a melodramatic binary.

There’s this idea you have to “pay your dues” in writing, that if you’re serious about writing, you’re willing to suffer for it. I admire the people that have followed this maxim, but I also see the fault lines lurking beneath the surface. It’s romantic to think about suffering, but I question how realistic that is.

My writing will always be inextricably intertwined with my identity, but I’ve stopped trying to pigeonhole myself as just a writer. It seems reductive to think of writers as vagabonds rotating through a quirky succession of unbearable “day jobs” solely to fund their true calling. Can’t I like my career and still want to write? I’ve always thought my best stories were informed by events in my life, so why am I so scared to let myself live more, develop a better rounded story bank?

Agatha Christie was a pharmacy assistant before she published, and she used her medical knowledge to inform her stories.

Anton Chekhov’s experiences as a doctor exposed him to class disparity in Russian society, inspiring some of his best short stories. George Saunders was first a geophysicist, and has said that any claims “to originality in [his] writing is really just the result of [his] odd background.”

I don’t know what happens after graduation, but I’m shedding the “either/or” mentality.

I’ll turn 22 in February, and I hope I’ll have some clarity. In the interim, I’ll keep writing, and with each coming birthday, I will keep amassing experiences that may someday find their way into my writing.

SABRINA QIAO is a College senior from Lansdale, Pa. studying English. Her email address is sabrinaq@sas.upenn.edu.

Caravan: A history of Central American desperation GUEST COLUMN BY LISA ROMERO AND JOSEPH PADILLA

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n early October, Istmo y Vos, Penn’s only Central American cultural group, showcased “La Bestia,” a documentary highlighting the plightful circumstances many Central American migrants face as they travel through Mexico to the Southwest United States’ border. At the time, we did not realize how relevant this documentary would become when a few days later, a caravan of thousands of migrants formed in Honduras and began its march to the American border.

The caravan, in particular, is not exceptional — hundreds of people cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day, and multiple caravans have been organized before. What is most striking is the strenuous coordination effort, the publicity the event has received, and the story that has subsequently developed. It is estimated, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, that approximately 7,000 people are currently traveling with the caravan, which is comprised of multiple groups. Departing from San Pedro Sula, Honduras in early October, the caravan is made up of people from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

The Northern Triangle — Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras — is known as one of the most dangerous and unstable regions in the world with some of the highest rates in murder, gang violence, and corruption. Central America is plagued with poverty, forcing

many citizens of these countries to be pushed against a wall, travel 2,000 miles on foot, and cross hostile territory to gain entrance into the United States with the hope for a better life.

Furthermore, corruption is rampant in Central America, and many government officials have been exposed for having relations with drug cartels, money laundering, and fraud. Many of the people in the Northern Triangle cite a lack of opportunity, poverty, danger, and corruption as reasons to seek a better life in the United States.

Widespread instability of the region did not develop overnight; it has been decades in the making, with special thanks to the United States. U.S. interventionism is almost as old as the country itself, and its role in Central America’s geopolitical sphere dates back to the 1950s, amplifying itself in the 1980s when many Northern Triangle countries experienced civil wars. Now, the cycle is repeating itself and the United States’ hand in the destabilization of the region — over 30 years later — casts a shadow over the governments currently in place. As was the case in the 1980s, there is now a resurgence of migrants seeking opportunity in the United States.

The migrant caravan has several implications. First, instability, violence, and corruption persist in Central America causing thousands to seek refuge in the United States every year. Second, the inability of

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political branches to reach comprehensive, consistent, and humane immigration reform has severely impacted generations of Central American migrants.

Lastly, despite decades of trauma afflicting Central American migrants, they continue to chase the beacon of hope the United States represents to thousands of Central Americans, despite its flawed system.

The United States is in desperate need of immigration reform. At the root of this issue is the failure of Congress to deliver comprehensive immigration reform and, consequently, the extensive presidential power over immigration policy that

has proliferated in its absence.

In the void of congressional action, and with an influx of Central American migrants entering the United States, President Obama issued executive actions: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans. Such policies, while very agreeable, were unilateral in nature and stood on thin legal ice. This allowed for a complete reversal of policy under the Trump administration — the issuance of a travel ban, legal limbo for DACA and DAPA, the end of Temporary Protected Status, family separation and detainment, and most recently a sus-

pension of asylum for migrants traveling with the caravan.

The courts have oscillated in their understanding of presidential power in this respect, failing to provide a consistent interpretation. Congress, likewise, has relinquished its prerogative over immigration law given its indifference in passing comprehensive immigration law reform and general deference to the presidency.

While President Trump may, in the best case scenario, be an anomalous president, his actions concerning immigration policy highlight that the presidency has an undue amount of power over immigration policy

that only further contributes to an ineffective and inequitable system of immigration. Families have been separated, refugees are detained indefinitely, and there seems to be no relief on the horizon.

The convergence between the timing of the caravan and the midterm elections has only served to politicize the caravan and detract from the real concern: a humanitarian crisis exists in Central America that the United States has long ignored at the cost of dealing with the influx of Central American migrants. As a Central American voice on campus, we feel we must impress the gravity of an issue that continues to affect our community. We aim to contribute to the Latinx discourse on campus, and we feel an obligation to begin a conversation about these recurring diasporic movements. These issues have existed for decades, and they are worsening with the current administration that has encouraged antiquated ideas of nationalism to justify discrimination.

Immigrants are an integral part of what constitutes the United States and its history. It is our duty to stay informed about all sides of this narrative and stand up for what we believe is right to prevent injustices from taking place.

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have been able to pursue a dual degree if she hadn’t gotten off the waitlist for CIS 120.

“In order for me to stay on track for a double degree I [needed] to take all those CIS classes,” Park said.

Haeberlen said classes can only get so large before they become unmanageable, and there are only so many resources and faculty within the CIS Department.

“There are limits to how large we can make a given class and still do a good job,” Haeberlen said. “For my class this spring I personally wrote 1,260 Piazza messages; if I made the class twice as large, that just wouldn’t be sustainable anymore.”

“Right now the machine learning classes are hugely popular, but we only have so many professors who are working in this area and can teach these classes,” he added. “The department is trying to hire aggressively, but this takes time and will

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only help in the longer term.”

Wharton and College sophomore Hoyt Gong is in the Roy and Diana

Vagelos Program in Life Sciences & Management, but is also trying to pursue a minor in CIS. This semes-

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Penn Women’s Center, and professional organization Wharton Women in Business.

Harry Crouch, who has served as the president of the NCFM since 2006, said in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian that many of the over 700 women’s studies programs in the U.S. are used to “find some shame, blame, and guilt material and bring it forward and use that for political expediency.”

“What’s happening today is that men are getting taken advantage of in horrific ways,” Crouch said.

Vice President for University Communications Stephen MacCarthy, declined to comment. An email to Sam Starks, Penn’s Title IX coordinator, was directed to Ron Ozio, the University’s director for Media Relations.

“I’m afraid no one is available to speak with you about this,” Ozio wrote in an email.

Though many of Penn’s women’s programs do not technically bar men from joining, the NCFM claims that many of these organizations violate Title IX through

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his minor.

“Although I ranked the course as one of my top choices it’s unfortunate knowing that, as an undergraduate student, the chances of me getting in are close to zero,” Gong said. “While I understand the system in place is valid and that master’s and graduate students should get priority, I think the lack of space in any CIS course given the high demand speaks to potential changes in class sizes and hiring more faculty in CIS.” The CIS waitlist system prioritizes student enrollment requests for popular classes based on four categories. Those with first priority are students in master’s or doctoral programs that require the class as part of a core course. Second priority students are undergraduate majors or master’s or doctoral degree students in the CIS department. Third priority students are undergraduates who are pursuing CIS as a second major or a minor degree. The fourth category includes all other students.

“At the end of the day, if I’m at such low priority am I ever going

to finish a CIS minor and take CIS courses I’m interested in but can’t get into?” Gong said.

Haeberlen acknowledged it would be more difficult to get into a desired course as a College student pursuing a second major in CIS than as an Engineering student majoring in CIS. “The idea here is that, if two students need the same CIS class, both didn’t get in during advance registration, and one needs it for a second major while the other can’t even finish their primary CSCI major without it, we would give priority to the latter when a spot becomes available,” he wrote in an emailed statement.

One of the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s biggest campaign priority under the Power of Penn is faculty. While it is unknown how much of the funding will go toward hiring CIS faculty, the Power of Penn’s Engineering branch currently has its sights set on raising $65 million to “recruit and retain renowned faculty.”

preference for females, which results in an overall discriminatory effect toward men. To certify these allegations, the NCFM lists the fact that some Penn programs have female-oriented names, solely female leadership, and no equivalent male-oriented groups on campus.

Two of the programs that are listed in the complaint are the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Department and the Alice Paul Center for Research.

Professor Kathleen M. Brown, who is the director of both the Department and the Center for Research, emphasized that both departments do not exclude on the basis of gender.

“I don’t know any gender and sexuality studies program, and certainly not ours, that discriminates against men,” Brown said. “The analyses of power in a lot of academic gender and sexual programs is a lot more complicated than men versus women.”

Another female-oriented space that was targeted in the complaint was the Penn Women’s Center.

The center’s website says it strives “to include voices of gen-

der, sexual, and racial minorities,” yet the NCFM complaint states that clause is “hollow and illusory.” According to the NCFM, all administrators running the center are women and its mission is inherently hostile toward male students.

“I think one important thing to look at is the use of the word feminism, for example,” said Michael Pearson, a College junior who previously worked at the center as a receptionist. “In its meaning, it’s equality between genders. But it uses language which empowers females because they are historically discriminated against, and so people perceive it to be women over men. But that’s not true.”

Pearson said that before he received a work-study job at the center in fall 2017, he felt hesitant to apply because of his gender.

But after coming to the center for weekly meetings of Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault — an all-male sexual assault prevention group also criticized by the NCFM — he developed a relationship with building employees.

Eventually, he asked if he was allowed to work at the center, and he said he was immediately accepted.

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Authorities in California declined to bring felony domestic violence charges against attorney Michael Avenatti after his girlfriend, Mareli Miniutti, alleged Avenatti physically and verbally abused her.

In a series of tweets and statements, the 1996 College graduate vehemently denied the allegations and expressed confidence he would be declared innocent.

The Los Angeles district attorney referred Avenatti’s case to the city attorney’s office for a potential misdemeanor charge, The Associated Press reported.

On Nov. 14, Avenatti was arrested on felony domestic abuse charges.

The celebrity attorney posted bail later that night and described the allegations as “completely bogus.”

At the time, the victim remained unknown and TMZ originally incorrectly identified her as Avenatti’s estranged wife.

A week later, CNN reported Miniutti had obtained a restraining order against Avenatti. Miniutti, who had been dating Avenatti since October 2017, claimed the lawyer hit her face

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Avenatti, a 1996 College graduate, rose to fame defending adult film actress Stormy Daniels in her case against President Trump.

He has maintained his innocence since his arrest on Nov. 14 for felony domestic abuse.

allegations would have occurred inside the apartment. In a statement to police, Avenatti’s lawyers did not mention any surveillance footage inside the apartment.

The allegations came shortly af-

ter Avenatti visited Penn’s campus on Nov. 9 for two different speaker events hosted by the Philomathean Society, Penn Democrats, and the Government and Politics Association.

credibly proud of our newest Rhodes Scholar Anea Moore,” President Amy Gutmann told PennToday. “She shows a passion for engagement and embodies the finest attributes of Penn scholars who are working

Scholarship.

In April, Moore also received the Harry S. Truman a doctor of philosophy in social Scholarship, which provides policy at Oxford. She is prirecipients up to $30,000 to atmarily interested in education, tend graduate or professional family, and economic developschools and pursue careers in ment policy. public service.

Since her freshA few years ago, man year, Moore Moore was planhas volunteered at ning on attending "For me, Rhodes and Oxford Henry C. Lea Ellaw school after is about more than just ementary School in college, but said the West Philadelphia.

Rhodes Scholarship the degree. It’s about the She started teach“wasn’t on [her] experience and knowledge ing music there, radar.” After her which you gain, and actively and now also does academic advisor using that knowledge and volunteer work to recommended apexperience to make the world engage families plying for the schola better place for those who with the school. arship and returndon’t have access to it."

Moore said she ing to attend law wrote her Rhodes school in America, essay on the imMoore remembers - Anea Moore pact she has had on thinking, “I would those families. never do that,” but At Penn, Moore said she gradually co-chaired last warmed up to the year’s 1vyG conference for to make a profound difference idea. first-generation, low-income in the world.”

Moore added that she wants students across the Ivy League.

Penn has now produced 27 to go to Oxford so she “can take She also served for two years Rhodes Scholars. Last year, all that knowledge and gather it on the board of PennFirst, an one student won an American and bring it right back here to organization for FGLI students. Rhodes Scholarship, and an- Philadelphia, in the city where “All of us at Penn are in- other won a Malaysian Rhodes [she] was born and raised.” >> FRONT PAGE

with pillows, dragged her across the floor, and called her abusive names.

Avenatti rose to fame defending adult film actress Stormy Daniels in her bid to annul a non-disclosure agreement she signed with Donald Trump. In the process, the celebrity lawyer became a prominent critic of the president and has publicly flirted with contesting the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.

But his burgeoning political stock suffered a blow when Avenatti was arrested in Los Angeles last week — yet Avenatti has maintained his innocence ever since his initial arrest on Nov. 14.

“The allegations made against me are FALSE. I am innocent and I did not do what I have been accused of doing,” Avenatti tweeted on Nov. 20.

“I look forward to ALL of the facts and evidence coming to light.”

In a statement after the DA decided against pressing felony domestic violence charges, Avenatti said he was “especially grateful for justice.”

And in a Thanksgiving Day tweet, Avenatti said he was thankful for a “justice system that has at its core the ideas of investigation, evidence and facts.”

The Penn alumnus has repeatedly cited video footage as possible exculpatory evidence in his case, yet CNN noted that some of Miniutti’s

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Player of the Week: Devon Goodman continues to shine M. HOOPS | Junior has led in scoring for last five games WILL DiGRANDE Sports Editor-elect

Whether in the Palestra or the U.S Virgin Islands, junior guard Devon Goodman has done his part to carry Penn men’s basketball thus far in the season.

After earning Ivy League and Big 5 Player of the Week awards last week, the junior continued his good form and led the Quakers in scoring in all three games the team played this week.

Although Penn left the Paradise Jam with two straight loss-

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es, Goodman was a consistent positive force for the Red and Blue and was named to the AllTournament Team.

Playing No. 12 Kansas State on Sunday night, Goodman helped the Quakers jump out to an early lead and hit two three-pointers to open the second half, but it wasn’t enough to prevent the Wildcats from pulling away. Goodman put up 18 points and hit all four of his free throws in the 64-48 loss.

The Laverock, Pa. native was held a bit quieter the following day against Oregon State and only scored 13 points, but he added a week-high total of four rebounds and two steals in the 74-58 loss to the Beavers.

Goodman didn’t hold back in Saturday’s game against Division III opponent Stockton.

Leading the team in scoring for the fifth game in a row, the junior notched 16 points and added a pair each of rebounds and assists in the Red and Blue’s lopsided 112-63 win.

Goodman has come into his own this season as a routine starter, scoring in the double digits in six of the team’s seven games. In the midst of his breakout season, you’ll want to keep an eye on this week’s DP Sports Player of the Week as the team prepares to host some premier opponents, namely Miami (Fla.) and Villanova, in the coming weeks.

the chairs and the seats in the airport,� Silpe said. “Then we were rolling around on Instagram Live having fun at like 3:00 a.m.�

Like a depth chart, there was a hierarchy for the best racers on the team. According to Silpe, he and Scott were the best, everyone else who participated was somewhere in the middle, and senior guard Jackson Donahue was the worst, since he had a wheelchair that ‘malfunctioned’ and ‘couldn’t go as fast.’ While Donahue lacked speed and agility to maneuver the makeshift race course, he utilized his social media presence to create the perfect stuck in the airport playlist.

On his Instagram story, Donahue asked his 1776 followers, a coincidentally patriotic number, for song recommendations for his playlist.

To his amusement, his followers did not disappoint. “We had a lot of people responding. A lot of them were funny but it was cool,� Donahue said.

Recent Penn alumni, current students, and friends and family from home made up much of Donahue’s suggestion base.

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The flight that was supposed to leave at 11:00 p.m. got delayed by 45 minutes, then an hour, until the team eventually got a notification that the flight was not scheduled to leave until 7:00 a.m. the next morning. More delays occurred until the team eventually boarded the plane at 11:00 a.m. and took off by 11:30 a.m., nearly 20 hours after its original scheduled departure time. More details on the nature of the delays are further outlined on Penn Athletics’ website.

Still, after spending nearly a full day in the airport, how exactly did the Quakers pass the time and remain relatively upbeat throughout the ordeal?

One of the answers — wheelchair races.

Sophomore guard Eddie Scott was the first to grab a wheelchair and Silpe quickly followed. At first the two simply rolled around in the chairs. But as the delay announcements became as common as fireworks on the Fourth of July, Scott and Silpe decided it was time to channel their inner Formula One driver. “There was an idea to make a race track around the airport using

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of the verse “I ain’t going outside today� and continues the moniker in the chorus. Silpe and Donahue both admitted that during the travel saga, they had some doubts as to whether they would ever “go outside� and leave the airport.

Besides putting together a racetrack and album, the team mainly passed the time by playing cards, using their phones (despite poor Wi-fi connection), and sleeping. “I was probably the most fortunate,� said Fadem, who dealt with the brunt of the traveling woes.

“Time flew by for me because I was constantly on the phone trying to figure out what was going to happen, what we were going to do. I looked and all of a sudden it was 9:00 p.m. and the time kept moving quickly.�

Reflecting on the nightmare in paradise, players, coaches, and staff found many positives in the experience. After the trip from the states to the Virgin Islands, Barstool Sports even picked up the story, after finding Mahoney’s recap of the adventure on Penn’s

website. “Definitely a silver lining, any press is good press I guess,� Fadem said. “I figured eventually somebody was going to pick it up and run with it, so that’s kind of cool.�

Coach Donahue, who mainly sees his players during practice and games, appreciated getting to see his players interact in a different context. “It was just kind of interesting to see the group dynamics,� Donahue said. “[Old Dominion] was there — nothing against ODU — [but] their kids were kinda quiet, just trying to survive and our guys were making the best of it, having some fun, playing cards, having a little bit of a sense of humor about it.�

It took Penn over 30 hours to get from their resort to Philadelphia, with 20 of those hours spent in the airport. During an experience straight out of a sitcom — or horror movie — the Quakers made the best of the experience.

As a whole, the situation brought the team closer together and even allowed the veterans to get to know the freshmen better.

In all, coach Donahue summed it up best. “There’s worse things in life.

We had a little bit of a longer trip than we thought, but it was fun.�

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Shortly after the conclusion of this year’s Paradise Jam, Penn men’s basketball announced that it will be one of eight teams taking part in the 2019 Wooden Legacy late next November and early December in Anaheim, Calif.

Penn is guaranteed to play three games at the event, regardless of the results.

Joining the Quakers will be Arizona, College of Charleston, Long Beach State, Pepperdine, Providence, UCF, and Wake Forest.

The Wooden Legacy, named after legendary UCLA men’s basketball coach John Wooden, has been hosted in Anaheim every year since 2013, following a merger between two separate early-season tournaments. Past winners include blue blood programs Michigan State and UCLA. The Ivy League has also participated in the tournament, most recently with Harvard in 2017.

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Shortly after the conclusion of this year’s Paradise Jam, Penn men’s basketball announced it would be traveling to California next year.

“We are excited and proud to be a part of the Wooden Legacy, which honors a legendary figure in college basketball and sports in John Wooden,� coach Steve Donahue said in a press release. “This will be another great earlyseason event for our program, like the Gulf Coast Showcase last year and the Paradise Jam this year.

The Wooden Legacy is a great opportunity for us to showcase our program with three highly competitive games that will air on national TV through ESPN.�

This will mark the Quakers’ third early-season tournament event in as many years. Last sea-

son, the Red and Blue took part in the Gulf Coast Showcase, winning two of three games. This past week, Penn played in the Paradise Jam, winning its first game before falling in the final two.

Since the Quakers have played in multiple tournaments over the past few years, the Wooden Legacy will not count as an NCAAexempt event. Ivy League rules, which allow teams to play 30 games in a season, stipulate that teams can play in two of these tournament-style events every four years. The three games during the Wooden Legacy will be a part of Penn’s 27-game schedule.

collected six rebounds, helped the Quakers regain their advantage.

However, the Penn offense slowed down once again in the fourth quarter, forcing the game to come down to the final minute.

A layup with 10.9 seconds to go from Parker, who recorded 17 points and nine rebounds on the game, gave the Quakers a onepoint lead, but a score with 5.5 seconds to go from Maine senior guard Tanesha Sutton, who led the Black Bears with 16 points,

put Penn in a 47-46 deficit.

The Red and Blue turned the ball over on their final possession, and a game that they had controlled for much of the afternoon had suddenly turned into a heartbreaking loss.

The defeat took away the momentum that Penn had built over a three-game win streak since its loss to No. 1 Notre Dame on Nov. 12, but the group has an opportunity to bounce back and recover in its last few contests before Ivy play.

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missed a lot of shots,� McLaughlin said. “Their defensive scheme was very effective, very aggressive.�

Maine took back the lead to start the third quarter, but Penn quickly responded. Two more three-pointers from Kinum, who totaled four on the game, and strong play off the bench from sophomore forward Tori Crawford, who scored nine points and

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Three life lessons I learned after running a full marathon WILLIAM SNOW

You never grow without a challenge, right?

That’s what I told myself this summer when I was bored, unmotivated, and directionless. So I decided to take to my bucket list and knock a few items off.

Among the top candidates: run a marathon before graduating college.

Well, I only had one year left to do it, so I thought, let’s go!

Six months, a few injuries, many miles, countless mishaps, and endless trials and tribulations later, I did it at the Philadelphia Marathon last Sunday.

Somehow. I think I ended up with ligament damage and a stress fracture, but it was totally worth it.

I’ll leave the sappy thoughts and the personal reflections for late-night talks with friends and family. But here are three things I learned from training for a marathon that can help anyone in life: The link between physical health and mental health is so real

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with key performances from freshmen guard Bryce Washington and forward Michael Wang, helped Penn close out the half up 27 points at 60-33.

“I thought we played okay in the first half; we got beat up, we bounced back and we came through,” Wang said.

The Red and Blue started the second half in a more disciplined fashion, becoming flexible with squad rotation as the lead kept increasing.

Once again, Woods started off the scoring in the half, scoring a layup off a fast break. The second-highest scorer of the day with 14 points, the senior was a steadfast presence in Penn’s offense whenever he was playing.

It is no coincidence that some of the best moments of my semester came on the tail end of a great physical achievement.

Whether it was climbing a mountain in August, or returning to the gym in October, or finishing this marathon in November, life was simply better after having earned it. Physically.

The unfortunate side to that same coin is that I never felt worse than when I didn’t take care of myself. After pushing myself hard mountain-climbing in August, my body was broken and I fell ill for two weeks.

I lost my appetite and I grew weak. That fragility exacerbated my mental state, and it took me weeks to recover.

An injury hit me hard about a month before the marathon, and it was a huge blow to my psyche.

Not being able to walk easily makes life just a little bit harder, to say the least. But the same applies to not having a full stomach or a full night’s sleep.

When Penn students are wellrested, well-fed, and in good health, there’s nothing we can’t do. But we really have to prioritize our physical health to get there.

Don’t be afraid to lean on others — they want to help!

With an extensive lead in hand, the Quakers kept their head down and capitalized on their chances as they came.

“We made the right decisions, because [in these situations] you can get sloppy,” Donahue said.

‘When we had the chances we took advantage; we went nine turnovers in a high possession game. You ask anybody, [they’d say] that’s pretty good.”

As the lopsided game continued, some members of the team that don’t normally get a chance on the court got their opportunity to contribute. Sophomore center Mark Jackson and freshman guard Alex Imegwu scored their first career points.

In an anticlimactic result, junior forward Jakub Mijakowski hit a three-pointer with five minutes to spare to bring up the in-

Marathon training is a huge commitment — they probably should have had a doctor’s warning not only that it isn’t for the faint of heart, but also for busy college students. Squeezing in 25 miles a week on top of classes, a social life, and sleep is like trying to squeeze a pickup truck through a mousehole. It leads to a whole lot of stress, a whole lot of pain, and it absolutely destroys the mousehole. Suffice to say you shouldn’t do it, but if you do, don’t do it alone.

Hopefully, you have your group or community of people who would do anything for you.

Forgoing my fear of asking for favors was one of the best decisions I made all semester. When I was too sore to walk, or if I was in too busy to run an errand and run a workout, then I either asked for help, or I accepted offers when they came. This was a major key.

Sometimes at Penn or in young adult life, there can be difficulties in trusting people too much.

But I’ve found that with the right people, trust not only comes easily, but it also goes both ways as a result. Everyone’s life is better when we lean on each other.

It’s the sweet relief from pain thanks to a massage from a close

evitable century for the Quakers.

He was the ninth player to score a three-pointer for the Red and Blue during the game, just one player shy of equaling an NCAA record the team set last year against Delaware State.

The Quakers have a lot of positives to carry forward onto a slate of tough opponents in the coming weeks. In a stark contrast to Stockton, Penn will face a top national program in Miami (Fla.) at home on Dec. 4. “[The Hurricanes] are a really good team. We played them the year before last year, and if anything I’m sure they’ve gotten better,” Brodeur said. It’s going to be a challenge and we are going to use today as a jumping off point; we’ll look at film, look at what we did well and try and repeat that as well as we can.”

spire fear or worry: it should inform those times at the top and make them even better.

I cried as I crossed the finish line of the marathon. It was totally from the pain, but the emotions were real, too. I looked up and gave thanks, thinking of everything and everyone that had helped me get there.

And though I couldn’t really stand after finishing, or walk

right for the next few days, very little has ever felt greater. I’ll hold onto that moment, just as I will the other peaks. They’ll carry me through the valleys forever.

WILLIAM SNOW is a College senior from Nashville, Tenn. and is a Senior Sports Reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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one. It’s the extra thought to pick up someone’s groceries for them if they can’t balance all their commitments that week. It’s a whole host of ways to make life better and allow for higher levels of productivity and efficiency in training, without much more effort, if any.

I found that if you lean on others and you live deliberately, big challenges like marathon training suddenly become a lot easier.

Savor the view from the top of the mountain A lot of people have invested heavily in our lives. You probably invest heavily in yourself.

That can lead to a whole lot of pressure from all sorts of places.

Success — however you may define it — is probably a bit elusive as a result.

But when you reach the mountaintop — or even a relative peak — stop for a moment to take it in. Not every run I’ve ever had was good, and not every mile of my marathon was fast. But all the hard work pays off at some point, and it’s important to appreciate the rewards as they come.

Just as many mountains have a rocky descent, injuries always wait around the corner in running, and setbacks are always ahead in life. That shouldn’t in-

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M. HOOPS | Team faced 20 hours of delays on trip back to Philadelphia MARC MARGOLIS Sports Editor

Before complaining about your upcoming holiday season travel, first consult Penn men’s basketball about what a truly terrible travel experience looks like.

After an eventful and delay-filled trip down to the U.S. Virgin Islands for the Paradise Jam tournament that was well-chronicled on PennAthletics.com, the Quakers may have had even worse luck leaving the islands.

As the team boarded its American Airlines flight scheduled to leave at 3:26 p.m. on Nov.

20 with no issues, the Quakers looked well on their way to making the 7:40 p.m. connection to Miami that would have them touch down in Philadelphia by 10:30 p.m.

Little did the coaches and players know that their 20 hour nightmare was just beginning.

After waiting for close to an hour for the plane to take off, the pilot announced that everyone onboard would need to de-plane due to a mechanical issue with the wiring of one of the wings.

Even before the announcement to deplane, Director of Operations Brad Fadem was already working to ensure Penn men’s basketball would not go through another travel nightmare.

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ami to Philadelphia because I didn’t think we were going to make our original connection,” Fadem said. “So we got off plane, waited around in St. Thomas airport terminal and then little by little got more delayed.”

While waiting for the plane that was supposed to leave at 11:00 p.m., the Paradise Jam tournament ordered pizzas for the team.

As one would expect with this team’s luck, even that did not go smoothly.

“I’m telling them they are going to have pizzas and three hours later we don’t have pizzas,” coach Steve Donahue said.

The team eventually got its pizza to stave off going hungry through the delay.

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Penn blows out D-III Stockton at home to earn free burritos

Quakers split pair of tight games at Navy Classic over holiday break

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Penn men’s basketball delivered a 49-point victory with a side of free Wahoo’s burritos for all of the spectators in attendance on Saturday.

A troubled trip back home from the U.S. Virgin Islands and two straight losses to Power Five conference opponents didn’t deter the Quakers, as they trounced Stockton 112-63.

Although the Red and Blue (52) got off to a slow start with easy chances left unconverted, they pushed through the early struggles to score the fourth-highest total in program history.

“We went back to what we know we could do, as Penn men’s basketball,” junior forward AJ Brodeur said. “Games like today are a good way to work on being perfect — consistently executing perfectly both on offense and defense — and I thought we did a good job today.”

The junior had his 11th career double-double, with 11 points and 11 rebounds.

Senior guard Antonio Woods, one of nine Penn players to hit a three-pointer, started the proceedings by scoring a three in the first play of the game. Penn consistently applied pressure, building up chances with fluid all-court play and slowly starting establishing dominance. The last time the Ospreys (2-1) were

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Penn men’s basketball senior guard Antonio Woods hit a threepointer on the first play of the game and went on to score 14 points.

within single digits of the Quakers was about 12 minutes in, with the score at 23-14.

“I feel like sometimes, when we play a Division III school, it’s kind of a trap game,” junior guard Devon Goodman said. “A lot of D-I teams don’t take them seriously, but I think today we just respected the opponent and played hard. Everyone stepped up, from the starting five to the bench.”

Goodman had a standout game, leading the team with 16 points, all in the first half, while also notching two assists and grabbing two rebounds. Coach Steve Donahue echoed confidence in the junior’s improve-

ment and spelled out ways for him to improve even further in the future.

“I think he’s gotten substantially better; his shooting is much more consistent, he has played much more confidently, and now, [in the absence of Betley], he doesn’t have to look over his shoulder,” Donahue said. “He’s got really good quickness, so the next step for him is to help in keeping the possession when he’s not scoring by assisting more.”

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The Quakers hoped to celebrate their holiday weekend in style, but their plans were spoiled at the very last moment.

At the Navy Classic, Penn women’s basketball split a pair of games against non-conference opponents, defeating Navy 65-61 in a tight contest on Saturday before falling to Maine 47-46 in the final seconds on Sunday.

The first game of the weekend came against the hosts Midshipmen (2-3), and the Red and Blue (4-2) started strong right out of the gates. Impressive offensive play from a variety of Quakers, including sophomore center Eleah Parker, gave them a quick 9-2 run and a 14-5 lead in the first quarter.

Navy quickly clawed back, going on a scoring run of its own to tie the game early in the second quarter. Despite reclaiming the lead and holding it for much of the afternoon, the Red and Blue were unable to pull away from the Midshipmen, as the score mostly remained within single digits.

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Sophomore center Eleah Parker recorded 17 points and nine rebounds for the Quakers on Sunday, but Penn still fell to Maine.

only seven points, Penn needed to find other ways to put points on the board. Sophomore guard Katie Kinum and rookie guard Mia Lakstigala stepped up, scoring eight and seven points in only 15 and nine minutes, respectively.

“We had a couple of players who made outside shots, and that opened up the inside play,” coach Mike McLaughlin said.

“We scored the ball in transition, scored in half-court. I really liked what we did.”

In the end, the Quakers were able to hold on for a four-point win despite a late Navy comeback. Strong play from Parker, who led the team with 15 points, and senior forward Princess Aghayere, who recorded the third double-double of her career with 14 points and 11 rebounds, was just enough for the Red and Blue to defeat the hosts and move on to Sunday with a victory.

“We really played a good game from start to finish, executed at the right time, and really did

a lot of good things,” McLaughlin said.

In the second game of the weekend against Maine (5-2), Penn got off to a slow start on the ball. An inability to score put the Quakers behind early until a three-pointer from Kinum, who was once again productive off the bench, gave them a 9-8 lead with less than a minute to go in the first quarter.

“We had some opportunities to get out in transition, and we just didn’t execute well,” McLaughlin said. “We needed to get down the floor a little bit and get their defense unset.”

The Red and Blue kept the advantage for the rest of the opening half, but their offensive struggles continued. While the Quakers held a two-point lead at the end of the second quarter, they were held to just 20 points, the fewest they had scored in a half all season.

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