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ADVICE FROM PENN’S BEST INSTRUCTORS Fifteen Title IX complaints filed against Penn since 2002 HARRY COOPERMAN City News Editor

Fifteen Title IX complaints have been filed against Penn since 2002, although federal officials did not find against the University in any of the cases, according to recently released data. The data was obtained by the Harvard Crimson through a Freedom of Information Act request and published Tuesday night. According to the Crimson’s database, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights found that seven of the complaints filed against Penn lacked sufficient detail to find that Penn had discriminated against someone because of their gender and one allegation lacked sufficient evidence. The most recent allegation against Penn was filed on Jan. 13, 2014, and was resolved on March 6, 2014. The Office

ESTHER YOON / STAFF WRITER The School of Arts and Sciences wants to know what students think makes a good teacher. Nominations opened this week for the 2015 SAS Teaching Awards, a set of awards given to professors and TAs who go beyond the call of duty in their roles. The Daily Pennsylvanian asked past winners to sound off on what they think constitutes exceptional teaching.

Practicability Justin Bleich, a statistics TA and 2013 award winner mentioned the importance of keeping the material not only relevant but also useful for post-college life. “I taught from the perspective of wanting to build a toolbox that [students] can take out in the real world,” he explained. “I realized that most students aren’t going to take more statistics courses so how can I give a toolset to all these kids?”

Personability “I think I have always felt it was really important to bring knowledge and hard thinking to class so that I am really not that concerned with being popular in class,” Timothy Corrigan, a 2014 award winner, said. But Corrigan said that even in his larger lectures he strives to learn the names of all his students. “This is so that the class becomes about me knowing who you are, knowing your work, knowing what your strengths and weaknesses are,” Corrigan said. “There’s a really important personal dimension to [teaching] as well.”

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Debate team, PETA clash over animal experimentation

For students in Palestine, a tough path to graduation

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One student group is ‘Ready for Hillary’ JONATHAN BAER Staff Writer

While Democrats lost the senate in the midterm elections, Democratic students have a plan for how to keep the White House in 2016: Hillary Clinton. Penn Ready for Hillary, a student-led group that was formed at the beginning of the semester, has become an active political group on campus. The group acts as a campus representative of Ready for Hillary, a national super political action committee that raises and spends money in an effort to elect Clinton in 2016, if she decides to run. “This organization is completely centered around action,” College sophomore and Penn for Hillary’s Director of External Affairs Paul-Julien Burg said. “Penn for Hillary is really an organization to promote being engaged in politics. It’s also making sure that the SEE READY FOR HILLARY PAGE 3

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Did you know that over 365,000 animals are used in experiments at Penn? On Tuesday evening, a crowd of Penn students gathered in Huntsman Hall to hear the University of Pennsylvania Speech and Debate team argue in favor of animal experimentation at Penn. Their opponents? Justin Goodman, the Director of Laboratory Investigations at PETA, and Aysha Akhtar,the author of Animals and Public Health: Why Treating Animals Better is Critical to Human Welfare. Goodman talked about and showed pictures of experiments that took place at

while research is acceptable, experimentation is not. “If you volunteer for a clinical

This week’s meeting of Students for Justice in Palestine began as usual. Students ate falafel and chatted in English, Arabic and even Spanish. I sat next to Jane Wu who, like many of the students I spoke with over the course of the evening, had heard about the event online and decided to attend because “we don’t really get to see as many really personal experiences from people on the ground” in Palestine. The evening’s guests were Hala Khalil and Ahmad Shwieke, two Palestinian students from Birzeit University,

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PETA Director of Laboratory Investigations Justin Goodman takes the podium in opposition of animal testing. PETA is widely known for its radical stance on the use of animals in research.

Penn like testing cocaine addiction in rats, the effect of vision loss on dogs and invasive brain experiments on primates.

Akhtar, who also works at the Food and Drug Administration, argued that there is a difference between research and experimentation, and

A fast track to $1 million for your social start-up Hult Prize challenges teams to find solutions for urban education EMILY OFFIT Staff Writer

Registration for the 2015 Hult Prize, the world’s largest student start-up incubator, has just come to a close. Now the

teams, who are eligible for a $1 million prize, must race to come up with a solution to this year’s challenge.

The 2015 challenge asks teams of five to create a sustainable and adaptable model that poses a solution to the early childhood education gap for children from birth to age six. Contestants vying for the Hult Prize can be from any age group, from undergraduate freshman to alumnae.

Campus director for the Hult Prize and Engineering sophomore Molly Wang believes that this prize is not only unique for its sizeable monetary reward. “The cool part is not only that the end prize is $1,000,000, which is way bigger than other social impact

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The career path less traveled had lots of forks, alum says

Steven Shapiro, founder of GoldenTree Investments, spoke Tuesday KENDRA HONG Contributing writer

At 10 years old, Steven Shapiro thought he had his life planned out. He was going to be pre-med in college, go to medical school and then settle down as a practicing physician. This all changed during his senior year as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. Even though he had completed his premed requirements, he decided to pursue his passion for history and go law school at Penn. Today Shapiro manages $22 billion as cofounder of GoldenTree Asset Management LLC. He gave a talk called “A Happy Guy in Distressed … From PreMed to JD to Distressed Investing,” at Penn Law School on Tuesday about his diverse career path “Maintain optionality in life,” he emphasized. After receiving his JD, he worked as a bankruptcy lawyer at Stroock & Stroock & Laven, and enjoyed

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Steven Shaipro from GoldenTree Asset Management spoke about law and entrepreneurship at a lecture sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economics, the Wharton School, and the Department of Economics.

the finance part of his job. He left and eventually became the director of the Media and Telecommunications Research at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. He later founded GoldenTree Asset Management and currently oversees GoldenTree’s distressed investments and media and communications investments. At GoldenTree, he has tried to create an environment where

people share the same values and prioritizes mental health. For him, success and productivity stems from maintaining a healthy work environment. Despite the $22 billion, Shapiro also insisted that it is important to consider more than financial gain when choosing a career. “Everybody has different ends. Whether your job is in banking or law, your job is only a means to an

end. Money is the worst reason to choose a job, and it should not be an end you strive for,” he said. Logan Wyman, a 3rd year law student, agreed with Shapiro and enjoyed his talk. “It was a great discussion of both the applicability of a law degree to a complex and interesting industry, as well as the importance of personal values and goal setting in a successful professional career.”

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hopeful-President Hillary Clinton will have an established network that can help her.” While early efforts this semester focused on the Penn community, Penn for Hillary has recently began to look beyond Penn. In the last month, the group has teamed up with students from Drexel Univerisity and Bryn Mawr College to canvass and “discuss strategies for building and increasing support on both of our campuses,” Mitchell McVeigh, College sophomore and co-president of Penn for Hillary, said . Clinton has consistently remained the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. According to an October poll by ABC News/Washington Post in Iowa, a crucial state for any presidential candidate, 63.4 percent of Democrats support Clinton, 11.4 percent support Vice President Joe Biden and 9.8 percent support Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). While the election remains nearly two years away, initial efforts by Democratic supporters have solidified Clinton as the Democratic frontrunner, with college campuses playing an integral role. “A lot of the work we are doing of working with students for Hillary is really to build this group and

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movement from the ground up, to run this campus organization, and to get out there and spread the word,” Rachel Schneider, director of Ready for Hillary’s Young Americans program, said. “We are building a national movement to show Hillary the support she has all over the country and that people want to see her run, and to build the kind of base that people need should she run for president.” “The University of Pennsylvania students for Hillary team has actually been one of our strongest, and it has been really exciting to see the work that students are doing on your campus,” Schneider added. Ready for Hillary has an early lead in fundraising and support. According to the Federal Election Commission, Ready for Hillary raised $2 million and spent $2.1 million from July 1 to Sept. 30. In contrast, RAND PAC, a super PAC supporting potential presidential nominee Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), raised $480,363 and spent $598,000 during the same period. RAND PAC did not respond to a request for comment. “I strongly believe she will be our best candidate going forward, even if you don’t agree with everything she believes in,” Burg said. “There is so much to do, and the very least Penn for Hillary can offer is a network of people who are all interested in these issues.”

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trial, you are doing research… there is a difference between taking people and animals against their will, that is experimentation.” Penn Speech and Debate, arguing in support of the practice, compared animal research to parenthood. “We’re not going to ban parenthood just because there are abusive parents, so we aren’t going to ban the entire animal testing in the University just because there are bad examples of animal testing,” the team argued. They also argued animals do not have rights because animals are not autonomous, cannot self legislate or afford researchers respect. Researchers, on the other hand, have the obligation to respect animals. Before the debate, Penn Speech and Debate specified that they did not necessarily agree with the argument they presented but were presenting the counter argument as an intellectual exer-

cise. PETA approached the Speech and Debate Team and suggested a debate, hoping to raise awareness among students. “A lot of students don’t realize that most of what happens in laboratories is funded by their tax dollars. National Institutes of Health has a budget of $30 billion and 47% of that goes to experimentation on animals,” Goodman said. “The issue is a debate that is dominated by people who abuse their authority and defend it in the absence of any real evidence that experimentation on animals helps people.” College sophomore and Vice President of Penn Speech and Debate Adam Adnane said he was drawn to the topic because he is a pre-med student and animal experimentation is prevalent in his studies. “I’m doing research in radiology, and just last week we experimented on mice and had to euthanize them. It’s an awkward position because you don’t know if it’s the best way to go about getting results for other human beings.”

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for Civil Rights determined that the “allegation lack[ed] sufficient detail to infer discrimination,” according to the data. While Title IX was initially focused on ensuring equitable

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a private university in the West Bank. Khalil, age 20, and Shwieke, age 22, are representatives of “Right to Education,” a Palestinian group dedicated sharing “Student Voices from Occupied Palestine.” They joined eight other Palestinian students who are on a speaking tour of US colleges sponsored by National Students for Justice in Palestine. “I want to talk about the education in Birzeit and how it’s violated. The education in Birzeit is violated in two ways: first the social life in Birzeit and second the teaching and research,” Khalil told

resources for women’s sports, recent guidelines from the Office for Civil Rights mandate that colleges and universities must investigate and adjudicate alleged instances of sexual violence to comply with the law. In May, the Office for Civil Rights released a list of uni-

versities being investigated for their handling of sexual violence and harassment claims. While Penn was not on that list, 55 schools — including Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth — were listed as under investigation. Two weeks ago, the OCR an-

nounced that it had reached an agreement with Princeton after an investigation found that the university violated Title IX. The Crimson obtained records of over 7,500 complaints received and closed by the Office for Civil Rights between 2002 and Sept. 22, 2014.

the audience. Throughout the discussion, the theme of violation was repeated. Khalil and Shwieke offered a brief historical context – explaining that in 1948 Palestinians were driven from their homes. Today, life is complicated for Palestinian students living in the West bank, 64% of whom must travel through checkpoints with Green Visas, which distinguish them as Palestinians, to get to school. “If you have the Green ID, which I have, you can’t pass checkpoints unless you have permission,” she explains. The audience spent much of the Q&A asking Khalil and Shwieke personal questions. What are they

studying? Law. What are their plans for after college? Shwieke plans to get a PhD abroad and wants to “do something that will be of benefit to my home country.” Khalil played a video with footage from a recent “break-in” at their University. The video is in Arabic, but in the background, Israeli tanks and soldiers are approaching the campus. Shwieke also talked about recently controversy over Palestinian textbooks. He played a video of Hillary Clinton condemning educational materials that “glorifies a culture of martyrdom.” This comment was met with sneers from the audience, and the video concludes, “the right to education starts with the right to set

and study your own narrative.” The audience asked what they could do to get involved. The speakers advocated for BDS, a policy platform of includes boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel. Engineering senior Lauren Ballester, an organizer of the event, was happy with how the event played out. The “lived narrative makes it a lot more genuine and a lot more relatable,” she said. Ballester counted 70 students in attendance, a “pretty good turnout.” After leaving Penn, Shwieke and Khalil will be speaking at colleges in New York and New Jersey 73092 before returning home to Birzeit to continue their studies.

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THE VISION | Don’t let leadership positions be the validation you need to make a difference on campus

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ast Wednesday, the Black Student League held an important conversation about shifting the culture of the black community at Penn. While the “Black Penn” space can be a source of support and belonging for some, for others it can be elusive and hard to navigate. While I was not able to attend the entirety of the event, I was able to get feedback on how underclassmen felt about that state of leadership within our community. From their perspective, the leadership of our community was shaped in a sort of “hierarchy” with the UMOJA Board at the head. As a senior whose resume is literally dripping with black organizations, I would just like to say that any presumption of a hierarchy or any other system of becoming a leader is bullshit. The point that must be remembered is that our commu-

nity and its myriad of organizations are constantly changing. There are no supreme black organizations and there are no concrete steps to having influence. The supposed “leadership of Black Penn” has not been turned into “Game of Thrones,” nor is it “House of Cards.” While a high-ranking position is nice to have, it is not the end all be all of what you can accomplish while you’re on this campus.

sionate. I didn’t know all the intricate details of “Black Penn” or even the Penn community at large — I just knew that I wanted to get involved. When I eventually joined UMOJA during my sophomore year, it wasn’t because I felt that it was the only or best way to have an influence in the community. Rather, I joined because I simply felt connected to its mission and felt that it was a space where I could grow. At the time,

There are plent y of people walking around with fancy positions who haven’t accomplished much. And then there are those without any formal recognitions who will always be remembered for the impact that they have had.” As a freshman coming into Penn, I was ambitious and pas-

most people didn’t understand what UMOJA was and doubted

that a group run by sophomores could make an impact. Don’t let titles be the gateway you need to create change at Penn. There are plenty of people walking around with fancy positions who haven’t accomplished much. And then there are those without any formal recognitions who will always be remembered for the impact that they have had. The fact that you have made it to this University shows that you are innately talented. You don’t need validation to do shit. Just do it. You don’t have to ask for permission. In 1968, black students led a sit-in to advocate for the creation of the Afro-American Studies Program and the development of the DuBois College House. A few decades later in 1993, a group of students removed and trashed 14,000 copies of The Daily Pennsylvanian in protest of racist reporting.

Even today in 2014, Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation lead weekly “#FergusonFriday” protests to raise awareness about police brutality. I bring up these examples to show that throughout the history of “Black Penn,” students have never been restricted nor enabled by what positions they held. It is our passion for our community that guides us and allows the organizations we embody to have true power. Don’t wait for the day when Director Brian Peterson comes down from the Makuu mountain and tells you that you are “The Chosen One” because you have ascended to some high position. That day will never come. The UMOJA Board (and any other black organization on this campus) did not become what it is today because the people were hand selected from some mysterious Illuminati hierar-

THE VISION chy. It took the efforts of all our board members and the support of our constituents to make our organization stronger than where we started. And though I love UMOJA dearly and truly believe in its impact, it is not the end all be all. If you want to be great, be great. Stop asking for permission. Boss up.

NIKKI HARDISON is a Wharton senior from Buford, Ga. Her email address is chardi@wharton. upenn.edu. “The Vision” is a column for black voices that appears every Wednesday.

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KEEN ON THE TRUTH | Public school students have the right to practice religion — even if public schools don’t

n the People’s Republic of China, “freedom of religious belief” and “normal” religious practice are guaranteed in the Constitution. If, however, you are caught proselytizing outside of your own mosque or preaching the biblical account of the nativity at a private Christmas party, you are liable to land in jail. Why the discrepancy? It’s simple — in China, as in most sovereign states, there’s the Constitution and then there’s constitutional interpretation. The one guarantees freedom of speech and religion; the other ensures that the press and preacher are strictly censored. The U.S. Constitution makes explicit even broader religious rights than those of the PRC. Not only does the First Amendment disallow any infringement of the “free exercise” of religion, it also prohibits the “establishment” of religion by the state. Under this prohibition, laws which suggested a daily prayer in New York public schools were struck down in the famous 1962 Engel v. Vi-

tale case. More recently, however, school authorities have begun to use the prohibition against governmental “establishment” of religion to prohibit student practice of religion in government schools. For example, Chase Windebank, a current high school senior at a Colorado Springs public school, leads a meeting with fellow students that regularly involves prayer and religious songs. Due to the ubiquitous tolerance of religion in America, Windebank’s bi-weekly meetings were overlooked for three years. But this semester, the Pine Creek principal realized that though the meetings took place during “open” time — when students were allowed to hang out, snack, read or play video games — this “open” time was still “considered instructional time.” After all, students were allowed to schedule meetings with teachers during this period if they were so inclined, and it wasn’t like they were free to leave school. Chase was called into the assistant principal’s of-

fice and told that his meetings were a violation of the separation of church and state. While the gatherings were allowed to continue, it was necessary that any explicitly religious activity be removed from the program. Otherwise, the meetings had to occur after the school day ended. Similar applications of the Establishment Clause are frequently applied to religious references made by high school students in their graduation speeches. For example, earlier this year, Brooks Hamby, a California public school salutatorian, was instructed to remove religious language from the third draft of his speech. While this may have been shrewd editorial advice — given Hamby’s secular audience — school administrators did not present their redactions as optional. They explained a few hours before the ceremony that they would pull the mic on Hamby if he delivered a speech with religious content — even though that content was presented explicitly as his personal belief and source of inspiration.

School action of this kind is, of course, prompted by Supreme Court decisions which struck down state laws promoting reli-

could be interpreted by the audience as a governmental establishment of that individual’s religion.

There is a difference between removing laws designed to promote a religious perspective and instituting laws that forbid students to openly express their religious views.” gion in the public schools. But there is a difference between removing laws designed to promote a religious perspective and instituting laws that forbid students to openly express their religious views. Brooks Hamby was selected to give a brief, traditionally moralizing speech based on his academic merit — not religious views. But when it was discovered that his “words of wisdom for the road ahead” were informed by his particular religious beliefs, he was ordered to reorient his speech — as if an individual’s salutatorian speech

Across the country, similarly misguided school authorities have ordered the removal of nominally religious images and quotations (such as an educational poster featuring the five pillars of Islam or a Ronald Reagan quote that mentioned God) and banned or bullied religious clubs. There are places and cases in modern-day America that involve law-enforced promotion of a particular religious perspective. But there is also plenty of hyper-sensitive censorship of religion couched as a constitutional obligation to “separate church and state.”

JEREMIAH KEENAN Reading such cases, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the state “protection” of “normal” religious practice granted to my religiously-minded Chinese friends. Sure, the U.S. government is much more liberal than the PRC. But even in America, there’s the Constitution — and then there’s constitutional interpretation.

JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College sophomore from China studying mathematics. His email address is jkeenan@sas. upenn.edu. “Keen on the Truth” appears every Wednesday.

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munity, “especially here where people are so pre-professional” and often follow more traditional routes when making a startup, she said. This year, the Hult Prize has created a fast-track plan for students at individual colleges to get to the regional finals without competing against 10,000 other main-pool applicants. Around 35 teams registered for this challenge at Penn, but only one will advance to the regional finals after they pitch their ideas to the Penn judges in December. Having heard about the Hult Prize from his mom before even stepping foot on Penn’s campus, College freshman Andro Mathewson found his team — which consists of three Ph.D. students and an alumnus member — at a networking event that Penn’s Hult Prize organizers planned. While they are still in the brainstorming phase of their solution, Mathewson is excited about the improvements that his teams’ ideas could bring to areas like the slums of India and, if their ideas prove to be successful, Mexico City.

“It’s impossible to solve the world’s problems or come up with a unique solution in a month,” Mathewson said. “But we hope to make a flexible solution that can be used in other places.” Mathewson described the benefits of having a team with diverse backgrounds, including education and finance, in that it allows for a “richness of ideas and experiences,” he said. Between them, they speak 16 languages and have lived in 14 different countries, which lends itself to solving a challenge that has potentially worldwide applications. Sherryl Kuhlman, who works with the Wharton Social Impact Initiative to help organize the logistics for the Hult Prize on campus, says that the hefty prize pushes contestants to bring their ideas into the world more quickly, as they don’t need to put as much effort into finding additional funding. “It moves past just the idea and focuses on actually making it happen,” Kuhlman said. “By getting $1,000,000 at the end, [the teams] already have everything they need.” Last year, a Penn team came up with the invention Sweet Bites, which hopes to decrease

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2014 tooth decay in slum residents globally with the use of xylitol gum. Sweet Bites won their regional finals in Boston. Although they did not win the grand monetary prize, they have successfully launched their start-up in India and continue to work towards moving their company into new grounds. “Just because they didn’t win the end Hult Prize doesn’t mean that their business model is bad,” Kuhlman said. “There are other people that are going to invest. It’s a great platform for launching an initiative.” This year’s challenge hopes to solve major worldwide issues surrounding early childhood education. Almost 70 million children around the world are unable to go to school each day. Since 2010, the Clinton Global Initiative has been awarding the winning team $1,000,000. This year, the final round will take place on Sept. 22, 2015 in New York City, after teams make it through the regional finals in March.

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Amongst all the possible traits that constitute a “good” instructor, Gwendolyn Shaw, who received the Dean’s Award for Innovation in Teaching last year, believes that the most important attribute for her is to “be constantly willing to try new things and … respond to what works well in different class situations.” Shaw has used resources at Weigle Information Commons to introduce her students to relevant technologies and advocated the use of social media for students to share their traveling photos and experiences. “Some of the classes that I love to teach the most are the ones that offer students hands on experience with the world,” she said.

Accessibility For graduate student and mathematics TA Torin Greenwood, one of the most important traits for a teacher is accessibility. Greenwood has won teaching awards for his work at Penn in each of the last three years . “I think no matter what, I always feel the pressure from students that I have a responsibility to them to make sure that they learn.” Greenwood stressed that his main objective is to get the students to “actually work through problems” and does so by opening various channels of communication, including an all-day email policy and online discussion boards. Also for Bleich, accessibility was a key component to the effectiveness of his recitations. Instead of hosting regular office hours, he offered an additional, optional recitation that advocated a lecture-style environment where students could freely ask questions. “It would be like a review of the week’s lecture so that they had an opportunity to see the material again,” Bleich explained. “I found that students want to ask questions but they don’t know the questions they want to ask.”

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Nov. 11: A complaint reported at the John Morgan Building (3620 Hamilton Walk) at 1:44 p.m. that unauthorized charges were made against his/her bank account.

Nov. 7: A suspect was observed by witness to be threatening the staff at Penn Rehab (3609 Chestnut St.) at 3:00 p.m. No one was arrested.

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<< 1994: Students tear down goal post after Quakers clinch Ivy title In the 1990s, tearing down goal posts at Franklin Field was a proud Penn tradition. On November 14, 1994, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that multiple people were injured in a celebration after the Quakers defeated Harvard to clinch the Ivy League title. Students tore down the west side goal post and carried it to the Schuylkill River. In the process two police officers and several Penn students were injured, the DP reported. Two of the students were treated at the Hospital of the University of

Pennsylvania for bone fractures. It was the third time in two years that a Franklin Field goal post had been brought down after a win. In the week prior to November 14, the Red and Blue fans had unsuccessfully attempted to take down the uprights at Princeton’s Palmer Stadium after a Penn win. Replacing the goal post was estimated to cost between $10,000 and $20,000 according to the then Associate Athletic Director Elton Cochran-Fikes, the DP reported.

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Caldwell continues to shine for Quakers VOLLEYBALL | Junior no stranger to success from high school days BY TITUS ADKINS STAFF WRITER Every season has its ups and downs, but junior setter and rightside hitter Alex Caldwell has been a beacon of consistency for Penn volleyball. Through her three years at Penn, Caldwell has established herself as a cornerstone to coach Kerry Carr’s game plan every week. For the current volleyball standout, the sport didn’t come into the picture until middle school. “I started playing in sixth grade,� Caldwell said. “Everyone played volleyball just for fun. In seventh grade, I tried out for the club team and I made the [first] team as a middle blocker, [with] no idea what I was doing.� Though the San Jose, Calif. na-

tive’s athletic success shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Athleticism runs through Caldwell’s blood, as her sister ran cross-country for UCLA between 2002 and 2006, a career that saw multiple AllAmerican honors. While the beginning of her volleyball career is in the past, if you watch number 24 now it’s hard to believe there was a time when she was lost on the court. Throughout middle school and high school, Caldwell settled into the sport and her career took off from there. “Volleyball is a game all about experience,� Caldwell said. “It gets a lot easier over time. I love the sport; I can’t imagine playing an individual sport because I’ve always been with a team. It’s been a great ride.� And while Penn hasn’t yet found its place among the top of the league, Caldwell was no stranger to success in high school. “My sophomore year in high school we went 38-0 and were ranked number one in the nation

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with a perfect record. It was amazing, we had nine seniors that all committed to D-1 schools,� she said. “I was only a little sophomore, but they took me under their wing. It was great for me because I had so many people to look up to. They really set the tone, so when I was a junior I knew what to do in terms of bringing the younger players up.� Caldwell’s leadership has shown throughout her career. After committing to Penn, she was twice named Ivy League Rookie of the Week as a freshman. She finished fifth on the team in kills and second in assists, recording seven triple-doubles along the way. In her sophomore year, Caldwell was named second team All-Ivy and finished her season with 185 kills, 643 assists and 203 digs while recording three triple-doubles. She was second on the team with 20 service aces. This season for Caldwell has

been just like any other. As in other seasons, Caldwell has remained a leader on and off the court. “I’m the type of leader than can be everyone’s friend on the court,� Caldwell said, “but I can also be someone that you can go to just to talk. We don’t have a lot of drama on our team but I feel like I’m a person who’s easy to talk to on and off the court.� Her teammates can laugh and joke with her, but their opponents should approach with caution. After posting her first triple-double of the season this year, Coach Kerry Carr had plenty of praise. “I always expect that out of Alex,� she said. “When you have a player like that who is so talented athletically, teams will camp out on her. We see that kind of play from Alex every day in practice.� With Penn looking long-term in the offeseason, the Quakers will likely go with what is natural to them going forward. For Alex Caldwell, that something is greatness.

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BASKETBALLEXTRA AT A GLANCE

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“I just thought that we played bad basketball offensively.” — On his team’s struggles against Rider

Penn coach

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Star of the game: Rider Jr. G Zedric Sadler Not only did the sharpshooter hit all four of his three point at tempts on the evening , he also locked down Penn’s star, Tony Hicks. Sadler consistently closed out on Hicks’ shot, holding the Quakers’ captain to just 11 points.

Freshman forward Mike Auger held his own. Playing just his second game, Auger exhibited his propensity for the offensive rebound and displayed a ton of fight in the paint, notching 10 points. “After the game in the locker room, we tried to highlight the effort Mike Auger had tonight,” Allen said. “Regardless of what the scoreboard said, he left nothing on the floor.” Fellow freshman Sam Jones put together a solid effort as well, with three triples in the first half. But those two alone couldn’t stop Rider in the slightest. While Penn actually won the points in the paint battle, the Quakers’ turnovers in the post and lack of help for those helping on defense led to open jump shots. Rider’s main forwards — sophomore Kahlil Thomas, senior Matt

Play of the game: Alford buries a corner three to force Allen’s hand Hot of f the bench, Rider junior guard Khalil Alford hit a wide-open long-range jumper in transition — his third straight basket — to force Penn coach Jerome Allen into a timeout with 5:09 to go in the first half and blow open what had been a one-point game 90 seconds earlier.

Lopez and junior Shawn Valentine — shot a combined 6-for-9 from the field, playing efficient ball while the Broncs’ guards put Penn away. There were plenty of other flaws in this game for Penn: 11 second half turnovers, 26.3 percent shooting from three-point range and more. Yet all those factors can be overcome during a game. However, if Penn’s top bigs get into early foul trouble against a team more adept in the post than Rider (Temple next Tuesday?), it will be more of the same and there isn’t an easy solution. So while dealing with the inevitable growing pains from the freshmen class, the upperclassmen need to take the lead. And if those juniors and seniors can avoid fouls, that shouldn’t be too impossible to do. STEVEN TYDINGS is a Wharton junior from Hopewell, N.J., and is senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at tydings@thedp.com.

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Princeton and I got on him quite a bit after that game because I thought he didn’t have the right energy for us that game coming off the bench … but he responded tonight.” Penn simply didn’t have an early answer to Rider’s hot shooting from beyond the arc — the Broncs shot 7-for-10 from long range en route to building a 40-26 halftime lead. Though Rider was able to erase a 14-point second half deficit in their 89-88 win over the Red and Blue last year, the Quakers came up empty when they searched for a similar rally. Three days after he burned Delaware State for 31 points, junior guard Tony Hicks had a quiet night. Though he led Penn in scoring with 11 points, the Broncs were able to key up on the shooter without a big inside presence to respect on the floor

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for Penn. Freshman forward Sam Jones tried to make up for Hicks’ struggles with three firsthalf treys, but it wasn’t nearly enough to counter Rider’s outside shooters: the Broncs had three players hit multiple three-pointers, including Zedric Sadler, who shot a perfect 4-for-4 from deep en route to a game-high 23 points. While the Broncs shot the lights out, Penn’s attack broke down, leading to a second consecutive loss in a three-game, season-opening homestand. “I just thought that we played bad basketball offensively,” Allen said. “Especially once we got down double-digits. Guys just said: ‘You know what, I’m gonna stop trusting the system, I’m gonna try to get it done on my own.’ “The flip side of it is we had three [turnovers] in the first half, 11 in the second half, so I’m not surprised by the result.”

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W. HOOPS | Penn set to raise championship banner before tip-off BY HOLDEN McGINNIS Sports Editor

M. HOOPS | Penn can’t contain Broncs in second straight loss BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor

Small ball can win baseball games, but it doesn’t usually work out in the world of college basketball. With its big men relegated to the bench thanks to early foul trouble, Penn basketball was reminded of that fact the hard way, falling to Rider, 73-57, in a game the Quakers only led for 1:45. At first, the Red and Blue (0-2) were able to get some momentum thanks to the inside play of center Darien NelsonHenry, who seemingly set the tone for the evening when he spun off Broncs center Matt Lopez for the game’s opening basket. But by the 10:56 mark of the opening stanza, Nelson-Henry and 6-foot-7 power forward Greg Louis had already collected two fouls apiece, forcing coach Jerome Allen to leave the two on the bench for the rest of the half. Rider (1-1) quickly took advantage. The Broncs utilized their transition game to generate open shots and attacked NelsonHenry’s replacement, 6-foot-7 freshman Mike Auger. Then, with the Quakers down, 21-20, and only 7:04 to go until the break, Rider junior guard Khalil Alford came off the bench to bury the Red and Blue. Alford — who had only played five minutes in the Broncs’ season-opening loss to Princeton — promptly scored on three straight possessions, his wide-open three from the corner capping an 8-0 run and forcing Allen into a timeout. “The one thing we know is Khalil can score for us, he’s done it in the past,” Rider coach Kevin Baggett said. “He struggled a little bit defensively with a couple breakdowns late up in

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ILANA WURMAN/SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR-ELECT Penn basketball struggled from the get-go against Rider, especially with starting junior center Darien Nelson-Henry in foul trouble. Broncs senior center Matt Lopez helped Rider take advantage in the 73-57 win.

STEVEN TYDINGS After struggling down the stretch against Delaware State, junior center Darien Nelson-Henry got going right away against Rider. One possession into the game, Nelson-Henry made a nice move and got an easy two. A few possessions later, it was Nelson-Henry scoring again for Penn. And five minutes into the game, the

Quakers were down, 9-6, and DNH had all six points. But then he picked up his second foul, a legitimate foul — unlike the call that gave him his first. Three minutes later, senior forward Greg Louis, the Red and Blue’s only other upperclassman big, picked up his second foul. These events exposed what might be Penn’s biggest Achilles’ heel: frontcourt depth, or lack thereof. Fans can hate on Nelson-Henry and Louis for their lack of consistency all

they want but at the end of the day, they are what keeps Penn from having to go to a frontcourt of only freshmen with sophomore forward Dylan Jones out for the game in street clothes. “It was pretty difficult,” coach Jerome Allen said about dealing with foul trouble. “You don’t want to put some of the younger guys in the position to have to maintain a certain standard for that amount of time, but that’s basketball.” SEE TYDINGS PAGE 9

Raising a championship banner. The first home game of the season. The first matchup of Big 5 basketball at the Palestra this year. There are plenty of reasons for Penn women’s basketball to be excited about its matchup against La Salle on Wednesday. “You’ve got three big, important things in one night, and it should be really special for [the team],” coach Mike McLaughlin said. Penn (0-1) enters the game following a trip down to Knoxville to face off against No. 4 Tennessee in a matchup the Quakers would lose, 9752. The Lady Vols brought a level of talent and athleticism unmatched in the Ivy League to the table and led the Quakers to focus their efforts on their transition game. “We weren’t intimidated, we played right out of the gate, we handled the environment,” McLaughlin said. “We really talked about the pace of the game, hopefully we can control that a little better … but that’s going to take a while.” The road gets easier for the Quakers here on out — there aren’t any other ranked opponents on the docket — though their nonconference schedule still holds its share of challenges. At the forefront of those challenges is the Big 5, a long-standing tradition among Philadelphia universities. The group has traditionally posed the toughest challenges for the Quakers — Penn has never finished with more than two wins in the round robin — and this year will be no different. “It’s going to be a significant challenge for us this year, maybe back to where we were a few years ago, it’s a tough hill to climb,” McLaughlin said. “We need to take [La Salle] out of their comfort zone and we need to string a lot of minutes together, a full 40-minute effort.” La Salle (0-1) — while certainly not the toughest opponent in the Big Five — is the first among that group to face off with the Quakers. Last season, Penn came away with a 64-54 win behind a 23-point performance from now-graduated Alyssa Baron. The Explorers already have one

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Former Penn star helping take US talent overseas M. SOCCER | Quakers Alum offers MLS alternative BY WILL AGATHIS Staff Writer

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Penn men’s soccer has had no shortage of superstars over the past few years. One such star is Alex Grendi — a 2009 graduate who ranks fourth all-time in assists for the Quakers. An excellent midfielder and forward, Grendi started 63 games for the Red and Blue from 2005-2008 and notched 20 assists over those four seasons. “He was a fantastic player, one of the best players to come

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through Penn in my time here,” coach Rudy Fuller said, remembering Grendi fondly. “He was instrumental in us winning the title in 2008.” After his final season at Penn, Grendi was faced with a conflict: he believed that he had a chance at making it to the MLS, but he did not want to leave college prior to graduation. After discussing his options with Fuller, Grendi decided to pursue professional soccer. Grendi was selected in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft by the Columbus Crew. Because of a few untimely injuries and a long adjustment period, Grendi lost his spot in the MLS after a year and wanted another chance to

prove himself on the pitch. “The biggest thing for me was after my year with the Columbus Crew and the MLS, I was looking for an opportunity to prove myself somewhere else.” Grendi said. “I reached out to [Fuller] and my other contacts, no one had an entry into Europe. So there was this huge void there — this was something that meant a lot to me. I wanted to try out and know if I have what it takes to play in Europe but I never got the chance.” After his experience, Grendi decided to start his own company, AX Soccer Tours, in order to provide American soccer players SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 8 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640

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