November 20, 2014

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Students dissatisfied with Penn Police answers on race relations ISABEL KIM Contributing Writer

At a panel discussion on race relations and law enforcement Wednesday night, Penn Police was forced to answer to a breach in protocol whereby a young black boy was handcuffed around a tree after attempting to steal a bike.

During the Q&A section of the event at Houston Hall, a student held up a photo of the handcuffed boy next to a Penn Police officer. The photograph has been circulating on the Internet at least since mid-September, paired with a picture of a black slave in a

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similar position.

The student asked Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush what she knew about the situation depicted in the photo.

Rush was quick to answer, telling the group, “When I saw the picture, I thought it was terrible.”

She went on to explain that there had been a rash of bike thefts in and around the University and that the pictured officer had seen a group of boys attempting to cut the Ulock off an unattended bike.

The officer approached them, but was only able to apprehend one of the boys, and in a

fit of misplaced zeal, detained one of the boys by attaching his arms around a tree so the officer could go after the other suspects.

Rush added that “from a good sense position his [the officer’s] decision was stupid.”

She said that the boy was not charged, but rather returned to his home where the situation was explained to his parents.

Rush said the police department recognized the mistake that it had made in handcuffing the boy to the tree. The offending officer has been chastised, but Rush did not mention SEE POLICE PAGE 2

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Vice President for DPS Maureen Rush was among the panelists present at the Campaign for Community event yesterday.

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FRIARSIDE COFFEEHOUSE Friars Senior Society, Philadelphia Education Fund and Castle Fraternity hosted the 11th Annual Friarside Coffeehouse yesterday, an evening full of performances from 10 different performing arts groups from a capella to dance. All proceeds from the event will go to supporting the Philadelphia Education Fund.

SEPTA 24-hour weekend service here to stay The service aims to keep millennials in Philadelphia SOPHIA WITTE Staff Writer

SEPTA is willing to pay the price to attract college students and young professionals to Philadelphia.

Despite the higher cost, SEPTA’s subways will continue running for 24 hours per day on weekends to encourage millennials to live in Philadelphia.

In June, SEPTA introduced the Night Owl subway service — which runs from midnight to 5 a.m. on the Market-Frankford and Broad Street lines — to replace the overnight bus service on Friday and Saturday nights.

Though the subways cost $34,000 more than the buses each weekend, the Night Owl weekend trains have had around 60 percent more riders.

“We have to pay more to provide this service, but the rising numbers were so strong and consistent that it really makes sense to provide transportation that people want,” SEPTA spokesperson Jerri Williams said.

For SEPTA, the higher cost of the service is outweighed by the benefit of accommodating Philadelphia riders, especially younger riders. The momentum to extend the pilot program was largely driven by SEPTA’s Youth Advisory Council, which represents the interests of riders in their teens and early 20s.

“College students and people in this younger demographic prefer to take the subway over the bus when they’re out late,” said SEPTA YAC Executive Chair Jeff Kessler, a Wharton and Engineering junior. “Rather than taking a taxi or Uber, the train provides

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Rodin hot water shortages leave residents in the cold JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Writer

Frequent hot water shortages have become a pressing issue within Rodin College House, to the frustration of numerous residents.

Three reported incidents related to hot water occurred in Rodin this fall. Two of these incidents resulted in a total shutdown of hot water for all residents. The most recent incident, which started on Nov. 11, persisted into the following day.

In total, residents have received three emails notifying them of a lack of hot water, a number some students feel does not accurately depict the amount of time they have gone without hot water.

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Alumni see interviewing applicants as a way to give back Most applicants prepare, but some think they applied to Penn State BOOKYUNG JO Staff Writer

For high school students applying to Penn, clicking the submit button on the Common App is only the beginning of a nerveracking process. Next come mock interviews, memorization of authors and keeping up with current events — all in preparation for an interview with a Penn alumnus.

“Students are pretty nervous about the interviews,” said Laurie Weingarten, a 1986 Wharton alumna and director of One-Stop College Counseling. While applicants prepare answers for possible questions and do mock in-

terviews, alumni volunteers also try to get the most out of the interview.

Roughly 7,000 to 10,000 alumni volunteer as interviewers every admission cycle, with each conducting four to five interviews on average — either face to face or virtually. Last admissions cycle, 86 percent of applicants were interviewed and the University hopes to offer an interview to every applicant by 2015.

Frankie Baughn, co-chair of the Camden County, N.J., Alumni Interview Program, is interested in sharing her experience as a minority student at Penn. In her recent interview with an applicant through QuestBridge — a nonprofit program that assists low-income students in achieving higher SEE INTERVIEWS PAGE 3

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Forty organizations submitted apps for new charter schools JENNIFER WRIGHT Staff Writer

Two new charter schools might appear in Penn’s zip code in the near future.

Forty organizations submitted applications for new charter schools to the Charter Schools Office of the School District of Philadelphia, with at least one application coming from every ZIP code in West Philadelphia.

The flurry of applications is the result of the stipulation tacked on to the $2-a-pack cigarette tax legislation passed in September.

The law requires charter school applications to be accepted yearly by the school district and makes it easier to appeal when the School Reform Commission rejects an application.

The district has not accepted any applications for new charters since 2008, district spokesman Fernando Gallard said.

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experts, although the school district has not yet released the names or affiliations of the experts.

Public hearings for each application will be held within 40 days, and then the SRC will have 75 days to vote on each proposal.

The two proposals for schools nearby Penn are from operators already established in Philadelphia.

One, the Independence Charter School, hopes to expand beyond its existing K-8 school in Center City to create the Independence Charter High School by 2016.

The Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia applied to open Belmont Charter High School in 2015. This would be in addition to Belmont Charter School for grades K-8 and Belmont Academy Charter School for pre-kindergarten children already located in the area. ”We believe if we have a high school we will have almost no kids drop out,” founder of Belmont Charter Michael Karp said.

Karp speculates the district will approve about 10 charters, optimistically 15. Karp hopes that their aim to be a replicable model and non-violent school culture will count in their favor. “We’re look-

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ing not to be a bunch of schools — we’re just there to be a school for our community,” he said.

Critics of charter schools say that in a budget crisis, critical funds for school districts shouldn’t be taken away from public schools. Comparisons between the academic performance of students at charter and public schools also don’t necessarily indicate that charter schools provide better education.

Pennsylvania State Senator James Roebuck’s April 2014 Charter & Cyber Charter School Reform Update reported that for 2012-2013, 51 percent of the charters open 10 or more years scored less than the minimal level of academic success.

However, Philadelphia School Partnership Director Mark Gleason said in a press release that he believes allowing the charter operators at high performing schools to open more schools creates opportunities for more students to attend “an effective school.”

“The opportunity to create effective new charter schools is great news for low-income and minority families in Philadelphia,” Gleason said.

The School District of Philadelphia is currently administering standardized exams for which it does not have the resources to ensure student success.

While the district places a heavy emphasis on the use of benchmark exams — which prepare students for statewide Keystone Exams required for graduation for students graduating after 2016 — Christopher Shaffer, the deputy chief of the Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in the School District of Philadelphia, was not able to provide concrete costs or future contract plans for implementing the tests at a public hearing Wednesday afternoon.

The hearing was held in City Hall by the Philadelphia City Council’s Education Committee and was presided by Councilwoman Jannie L. Blackwell.

Parents, students, policymakers and educators gathered to address their concerns with district

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whether he had violated protocol or had been let go.

Another student called Rush out on her evasiveness, asking what happened to the offending cop, and rule-breaking cops in general. “I want to know what happens when they do something wrong. As human beings.

When they fail and make a mistake. What are the repercussions for them?” she asked.

Rush did not answer that question directly either, but in-

spending on non-mandatory and additional testing. Members of the crowd shouted out disapproval for Shaffer’s failure to present a timeline for assessing the results of the benchmark exams toward which they put taxpayer dollars.

Despite the fact that educators are devoting up to one-third of their instructional time to prepare for standardized tests, fewer than one-half of Pennsylvania public school students are passing the statewide standardized Keystone Exams.

While impoverished school districts, like that of Philadelphia, struggle to pay for pencils and paper for students to use in test taking, the state spends millions on the Keystone Exams. Panelists and Education Committee members expressed concern over the way that these exams can act as barriers for many graduation-aspiring public school students.

“You can’t pass a test if you don’t have the books to study for them,” Temple University assistant professor of journalism and panelist Meredith Broussard said in an interview prior to the event.

Shaffer said that it is important for students to take benchmarks so teachers have “oppor-

tunities to make changes and look at pockets where there are holes of information.” Councilmen Mark Squilla and David Oh expressed concern with the implementation of these benchmarks, as they add even more costs to a school district that is short on funds and emphasize the importance of teaching to the test.

Councilwoman Maria D. Quinones-Sanchez pointed out Keystone testing can impact language minority students in a detrimental way. An audience member’s sign addressed this same point, reading, “Monolingual tests can’t fairly assess multi-lingual learners.”

Shaffer responded that students who have lived in the United States for over a year must take the Keystones, regardless of their English-language proficiency. He agreed that this policy could be harmful to students whose first language is not English, but no formal request has been made in Philadelphia to waive testing for languageminority students.

“We are no longer going to continue to label our kids’ failures,” Quinones-Sanchez said, “We need to stand up and say ‘Enough is enough.’”

stead reaffirmed that she shared the community’s concerns.

Students also failed to receive what they qualified as substantial answers to questions about Mike Brown’s shooting by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Mo., and the possible racial implications involving the black man’s death.

“I do have opinions but I’m not going to voice the opinion that it was racist because I wasn’t there,” Rush said. “To give an opinion that it was totally racist on the police’s part, would be ingenuous of me. Was

that cop in a battle where he felt like he was going to get hurt? I don’t know. Don’t take my not answering in the way you want me to answer as saying that he [Darren Wilson] is a racist or that he isn’t. I wasn’t there, I don’t know what was in his heart when he pulled the trigger.”

When asked whether they had been satisfied with the answers that Rush and the other panelists gave to their questions, multiple students answered with a flat “no” and asked not to be identified.

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‘The Bell Curve’ author says communication is key to mending class divides NANETTE ELUFA Contributing Writer

Political scientist Charles Murray posited at an event on Wednesday night that the lack of communication between socioeconomic classes threatens the fulfillment of core American values.

“Places like Penn are the incubators for the new emerging class,” Murray said.

Widely-known for his book,

“The Bell Curve,” which argues that class and race are linked to intelligence, Murray spoke at an event hosted by the Penn chapter of the American Enterprise Institute on his most recent work.

His book, “Coming Apart,” sheds light on his opinions on the “new economic frontier,” as College junior and chair of AEI Elizabeth Oppong termed it.

Changing cultural attitudes have contributed to this economic shift. Today, Murray said, it is

mostly upper-class people who are married and religious, rather than in the past when most of society held these traits.

The institutions of marriage and religion, he argued, provided lower- as well as upper-class people with meaning that was derived from being part of a community. Now, however, there is a growing elite class that is out of touch with daily working-class life. The lack of contact between the “New Upper Class” and the

“New Lower Class” has led to a cultural divide never before seen in America, Murray said.

UMOJA board member and College junior Abel McDaniels had mixed feelings about Murray’s points. “I don’t really agree with his comments on income inequality, but I found some of his other thoughts interesting,” said McDaniels, a former columnist at the Daily Pennsylvanian.

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sophomore Jennifer Knesbach hopes that AEI’s expanding presence on campus will open up avenues for discussions that depart from political norms at Penn.

She said that “the opportunity to have more academic speakers at Penn introduce a diversity of thought was refreshing.”

Many students at the event were glad that Murray didn’t touch on the divisive theories he proposed in “The Bell Curve” and appreciated that he spoke on

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education — she had the opportunity to explain how going to Penn helped her with her future career.

Baughn is particularly committed to letting the applicants know about the resources on campus in an attempt to sell them on Penn.

“Penn is just another place to them,” she said. “Students in my area would apply just because it’s close to their home.”

Until recently, she had been keeping in touch with a student she had interviewed and introduced to Makuu, the University’s black cultural center. She would occasionally come to campus to grab a meal with her former interviewee.

Other alumni volunteers conduct interviews to give back to the University.

“I started interviewing for Penn because it was a way for me to stay in touch with the University,” said Maria Ho, chair of the Hudson County Alumni Interview Program in New Jersey.

Ho said her county has a diverse community, and thus interviewing is an interesting experience for her because many of the applicants’ out-of-school activities center on their families and church communities.

Before Weingarten started her college-counseling job, she also volunteered as an interviewer for 25 years.

“For some reason I became very interested in the admission process when I got to campus,” she

concepts applicable to college students’ lives.

Murray admitted that he didn’t have any solutions to help solve this problem, but believes it must come from a cultural awakening rather than through policy.

He urged students like those at Penn to buy a one-way ticket to “some place interesting” upon graduation, and get a job that requires immersion into an alien culture. “London and Paris don’t count,” he said.

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said. She was a tour guide during her four years at Penn and continued her involvement through the Alumni Interview Program.

“The best interviewees told me something interesting or something ordinary but with a new twist,” Weingarten said. For instance, she remembered an applicant who dropped out of his high school program to look for his true interest, and another who participated in a debate format where the competitors had only two minutes to prepare.

However, not all interview experiences are as positive. One applicant came to the interview thinking he had applied to Penn State. Another didn’t show up be-

cause he was “very busy.”

Patrick Bredehoft, director of the Penn Alumni Interview Program, said the applicants and interviewers both learn from each other.

“Our alumni come back to us all the time and say that students have read more books than they have and recommended an amazing set of books,” he said. “[Applicants] tell me things about the community that I never knew,” Weingarten added. She also learns more about the University by interviewing students who are applying to schools other than Wharton — her alma mater.

Ho said that some interviewees who are accepted and gradu-

ate from Penn circle back to the community as alumni. “Because they had a good experience being interviewed, it is part of the reason why they want to volunteer to be an interviewer,” she said.

“Everybody doesn’t have thousands of dollars to give back to the University, but you can through interviews,” Baughn said.

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THE MAYA PROJECT | Examining the neurology behind how art makes us human

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hat is intelligence? What distinguishes an intelligent human from a skillfully programmed computer?

These are the big questions that my “Introduction to Cognitive Science” class aims to examine through psychology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy and more. The most fascinating angle for me, however, is the neurological perspective. Each biological discovery that puts together one more piece of the puzzle only increases my awe at the beautiful complexity of humankind.

For instance, how do we explain empathy? While not unique to humans, emotions are certainly a rarity in the living world and nonexistent for inanimate objects. Such sensory feelings are an essential aspect of humanity that we should explore as much as possible.

After crying at the ending

of a novel for my English class — George Eliot’s “The Mill on the Floss” — I started wondering at my tendency to invest myself so thoroughly in both books and movies that I am strongly attached to the characters by the end.

As a friend recently told me, feelings make you more human.”

More generally, humans have an enormous capacity for empathy as it relates to art, be it literature, music, dance, theater or film. We are able to completely immerse ourselves in such forms of expression and even relate to them. People are profoundly affected by art in ways that other animals don’t seem capable of experiencing.

Art is vital to us as a species.

And there is a fascinating rea-

son for this.

The scientific explanation lies in mirror neurons. Italian neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese discovered mirror neurons after observing imitation in macaque monkeys, but they seem to be most highly developed in humans. These neurons in the frontal cortex fire both when you do something and when you see someone else doing it.

That is, when we watch or read about someone laughing, crying or blushing from embarrassment, mirror neurons allow us to experience the sensations as if they were our own. In fact, the only reason we don’t feel physical pain when seeing someone else get punched is that other relevant frontal cortex neurons do not fire. This “tells” the brain that nothing is happening to us.

In a 2011 paper, Gallese and Hannah Wojciehowski investigated the link between literary studies and neuroscience that allows such a vivid

experience of literature. They call the phenomenon “Feeling of Body.” According to this theory, readers use their own sensory-motor systems to internally mimic the actions and feelings of characters and thus can directly identify with them.

The authors describe “Feeling of Body” as part of the larger cognitive-science concept of “Embodied Simulation,” which enables direct communication of others’ thoughts and emotions through these neuronal capacities.

This theory is evolutionarily significant because it explains the rapid growth of human learning about 75,000 to 100,000 years ago in terms of language and tool use, as neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran explained in a 2009 TED talk.

This meant that people could form a social, civilized society. Mirror neurons allow us to learn from parents and peers by watching and imitating them, because your brain can learn

what to do based on which neurons fire for various actions.

While none of us really need to learn how to build a fire or hut anymore, mirror neurons are still important in the modern world. As college students in an environment that will shape our lifelong opinions and beliefs, we should use these neurons to expand our knowledge of other people, times and places.

Read a novel. Visit an art museum. Attend a dance show or music concert. The possibilities, especially in a cultural city like Philadelphia, are seemingly endless, not to mention highly affordable. Last weekend at Annenberg, I saw Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company for free through my college house, as well as the Arturo Sandoval jazz quintet with a $10 student rush ticket.

As a friend recently told me, feelings make you more human. Art lets us experience these feelings. We have the

MAYA RAWAL unique and incredible ability to empathize with characters that originate from other people’s imaginations, and to relate to their own emotions as expressed through visual or performing art forms. Take every opportunity you can to glance in these mirrors into each other’s souls.

MAYA RAWAL is a College sophomore from River Forest, Ill. Her email address is mrawal@sas. upenn.edu. “The Maya Project” appears every other Thursday.

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THE MELTING POT | We normalize violence by making humiliation the default means of joining a group

raternity pledges are stripped of their belongings and clothing and forced to parade around.

New student leaders are verbally belittled before assuming their positions.

Members of a club are dragged out of bed in the middle of the night, doused with alcohol and pressured to drink.

These are certainly not new phenomena for college students. But often, when we encounter these situations in our own social circles, our first response is to compare them to the other stories we have heard from friends. “Sure, my group had me do embarrassing things — but at least they didn’t take my clothes from me.”

Most defenders of these kinds of social rituals argue that they elicit a sense of solidarity between new members of a group. It is true that hardship can foster strong bonds.

Siblings who have dealt with problematic family upbringings will often have a strong relationship if they provided a support system for each other.

We may feel closer to a friend after that friend has helped us through a difficult time in our lives. But why is it that we think the only means of fostering community and camaraderie are through emotional and/ or physical torment?

Obviously, many students see hazing as harmful — the worst case scenarios result in serious injury or death. In a recent case at Baruch College, a CUNY school, a fraternity pledge died from brain trauma after participating in a dangerous hazing ritual. But it shouldn’t take a death to make us reconsider the implications of “traditions” that put our peers in danger. The bigger issue is that we have allowed a culture to persist that makes social groups think that proper rituals should involve some baseline level of discomfort in

order to welcome new members.

By accepting behavior that makes us uncomfortable, we allow those in a position that we perceive as desirable to exert power over us. So many students on campus are working to challenge oppressive and violent behaviors. Why are we so quick to excuse it from our peers in our more intimate social settings?

I have been in spaces where new members are encouraged to speak out about things they see or are told to do that bother them. But the pressure to conform to the group is strong enough to dissuade this, and often these vocal protests are ignored when the activity is seen as especially significant to the group. It is especially troubling when these social groups are perceived as safer spaces — this usually means a place that tries to be accepting of people regardless of their race, sexual orientation and other identities. It was these

instances that often left me feeling distanced from peers, especially as a lowerclassman who was still very much eager to fit in. To me, my friends were brainwashed, while I was disillusioned.

The need to prove ourselves as valid members of the Penn community, be it though talent, intelligence or accomplishments, is prevalent. But dealing with mistreatment in silence is not the type of endurance or resilience we should be praising.

normalize violent behaviors.

This continues to feed into a broader college culture that allows for things like discrimination and sexual assault to be so widespread.

Groups, such as the antihazing task force that has been developed in the Greek community, are working to change this. But Greek spaces are by no means the only guilty parties when it comes to hazing behaviors. Blaming them as a whole for campus problems is largely reductive and uses

Why is it that we think the only means of fostering community and camaraderie is through emotional and/or physical torment?”

The more unspoken parts of social life at college are so problematic because they casually reinforce systems of power gone unchecked and

them as a scapegoat to avoid discussions or critiques about social life as a whole.

The issues we face as a modern university are not

KATIERA SORDJAN disjointed problems. Rather, in our larger discussions of health, prejudice and sexual violence, we must point out the norms of our student body that facilitate these circumstances. Excusing hazing and violence in social groups as benign fun or just the way college works does all of us a huge disservice.

KATIERA SORDJAN is a College junior from New York studying communications. Her email address is skati@ sas.upenn.edu. “The Melting Pot” appears every Thursday.

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Penn-led report shows homelessness on decline, shelters still cannot meet demand HANNAH NOYES Staff Writer

A study led by a Penn professor shows that homelessness is on the decline, but shelter workers say they are still turning people away.

“Philadelphia is way below the national average in terms of unsheltered [persons],” said Dennis Culhane, a professor at the School of Social Policy & Practice and an expert in homelessness. He said that the percentage of unsheltered homeless people in Philadelphia is about 14 percent, compared to the national average of around 30 percent. Culhane was the co-principal investigator of the research team

that created the Annual Homelessness Assessment Report , which was released last week. The number of people experiencing homelessness across the country dropped to 578,424 in 2014, down from 591,768 in 2013 — a two percent decline.

However, Philadelphia shelter workers say they don’t see the impact of the decline in their daily lives.

“We certainly see more people who meet our criteria than we have housing or we can serve,” Kali Karras, director of operations of Pathways to Housing, said. Her organization is a non-profit agency that serves chronically homeless

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people who have serious mental health issues and or chronic substance abuse problems. Pathways to Housing operates on a referral system, rather than by recruiting individuals off the street.

Even the more traditional emergency shelters, such as the Bethesda Project, experience this type of overflow.

“All of our shelters are pretty much full, especially at this time of year,” said Yarissa Reyes, director of communications at the Bethesda Project. Even so, there are still more homeless people who do not seek assistance, whether it is due to a previous bad experience in a homeless shelter, mental illness or

fear of the unknown.

Counting unsheltered homeless people can be an arduous task.

The Point in Time count, which reports the number of homeless people that exist in the United States at any particular point in time, is the source of data for the Annual Homelessness Assessment Report. The report relies on volunteers to locate and count unsheltered homeless people.

While there is still work to be done in eliminating homelessness, Culhane said that the overall decline in numbers nationwide indicates that “the whole country is prioritizing a solution to homelessness.”

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have hot water,” College sophomore Dorian Ledbetter said.

The reactions of students are incredibly mixed. For the most part, residents seem to view these shortages as a nuisance.

“I think it’s annoying,” College sophomore Ian Masters said. “I have to wake up earlier to shower before the hot water is shut off!”

Other students don’t feel the shortages are that big of a deal.

“It doesn’t affect me,” Engineering sophomore Scott Freeman said. “I don’t mind having to take a cold shower once in a while.”

However, other residents of Rodin find the shortages to be more than a trivial issue.

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Penn’s Facilities and Real Estate Services insists that workers are doing the best that they can to clear up the issues that have led to the shortages, and the University is asking that students be patient and understanding.

“Ongoing maintenance and repairs such as these are usual in a building that is 40 years old and houses more than 750 people,” FRES Executive Director of Operations & Management Ken Ogawa said in an emailed statement through a spokesperson. “Facilities and Residential Services work together to ensure that problems are quickly reported, investigated and repaired and that communications are made to the building’s residents 73092 through the House email listserv and posters.”

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UA reps investigate Nursing advising complaints TINA CHOU Staff Writer

Since a nursing student expressed dissatisfaction regarding nursing advising a month ago, two members of the Undergraduate Assembly have been trying to find out if the problem affects many more nursing students.

College freshman Nathaniel Rome, new student representative of the UA, was contacted by a freshman nursing student who was dissatisfied with his or her advisor’s inability to meet with the students, Rome said. Rome kept the student’s identity anonymous. For other nursing students, dissatisfaction may also stem from difficulties in matching a student interested in a particular nursing specialty with an advisor of that field, Rome said.

Since the issue was brought up, Rome and senior nursing student and UA representative Leah Quinn have met with Christina Costanzo Clark, assistant dean for Admissions and Academic Affairs at the School of Nursing. Clark has been “very receptive and open to working with us and seeing what we can do together,” Rome said.

However, without knowing either who the particular nursing student is, or which advisor prompted the student’s dissatisfaction, Clark said that she would be unable to directly address the problem and help the student switch advisors, if needed.

The School of Nursing has 95 undergraduate advising faculty members, Clark said. She cited unreleased data from the 2014 senior surveys and said that 72 percent of nursing graduates were satisfied with their advisor, as compared with 56 percent of Penn seniors overall. The trend has been consistent since at least 2010, Clark said.

Nursing advisors must meet with their advisees at least once a semester to sign-off on course registration. Students are assigned to advisors, but Clark’s office asks incoming freshmen about their specialty interests and tries to match them to advisors according to availability, Clark said. In addition, students are assigned to a peer advisor, who is an upperclassman in the Nursing School.

Logan MacLean, a 2014 Nursing and Wharton graduate, said that he had “an excellent experience”

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and is still in touch with his faculty advisor. MacLean said that he once spent an hour talking with his advisor when he initially came in to discuss courses.

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New advisors must attend a training session in order to gain access

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“I let them know what students think of advising,” Clark said, “and I think they take that role very seriously and they really care about their advisees.”

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Skin pigment researcher says racist ideas are unfounded and reversible ANNA HARDCASTLE Contributing Writer

A skin pigmentation researcher who visited Penn Wednesday night said that racist ideas are recent and can be unlearned.

Nina Jablonski, an anthropology professor at Penn State University, spoke at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to discuss skin color as part of the Penn Humanities Forum.

Jablonski is working on developing new approaches to science education with the aim of improving the understanding of evolution and human diversity.

“People have been interested in their own skin and the colors of other people’s skin for a very

long time,” Jablonski opened, citing other scholars who have researched the topic. “I became really interested in the evolution of skin pigmentation because in the late 20th century there were new bodies of data that allowed us to gain new insight into why human skin pigmentation may have evolved in the patterns that they did.”

Jablonski explained the physical and biological determinants of skin color variation. Permanently dark pigmentation evolved 1.2 million years ago and, since then, individuals evolving in Africa have been darkly pigmented. When populations entered into far Northern habitats and were not able to get Vitamin D from the sun,

skin tones lightened. According to her research, 86 percent of total variation in skin color can be accounted for by ultraviolet radiation, and there are over 120 genes influencing human pigmentation.

“Skin pigmentation is a beautiful example of natural selection on the body,” Jablonski said.

While Jablonski sees skin color variation as beautiful, popular thinkers like Immanuel Kant introduced the idea of skin color as a characteristic indicating inferiority and superiority. Although many of his ideas were hotly debated, they triumphed because of the prevalence of his work.

“All of us can fight racism

through the tools of educating our children through formal and informal environments,” Jablonski said.

Students were drawn to the event because of its connection of biology to the human experience.

“I came to the event to hear about race from a biological, as well as a moral, standpoint and was fascinated by Jablonski’s research,” College sophomore Samantha Rahmin said.

“It was an extremely informative and interesting lecture that spanned biology, anthropology and American history,” College senior Jennarose Placitella said.

“The most interesting part for me was the idea that genes don’t come in packages.”

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Over half of millennials in the 10 largest U.S. cities would consider moving to another city if it offered better public transportation options, according to a survey released this past April.

“Subway trains are the mode of public transit that people prefer, and being able to provide that service at all hours will really benefit the entire youth community,” Kessler said.

Since millennials tend to go to restaurants, clubs and other businesses late on weekends, “Philadelphia businesses see this late-night transportation as an opportunity for them since people become more willing to travel throughout the city knowing they can get back on SEPTA’s service,” Kessler added.

The SEPTA Night Owl trains also improve the overall safety of the city. With up to two police officers on each overnight train, SEPTA “rarely gets reports of violent crime, and the underground stations make people

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a fast, comfortable and affordable public transportation option that benefits the entire youth community.”

With more millennials coming to Philadelphia, overnight service not only accommodates this growing demographic, but also serves as “a factor when people are considering where they want to go to college and where they want to live,” Williams added.

From 2000 to 2014, Philadelphia’s young adult population increased by 78 percent, according to data from the federal American Community Survey.

“Philadelphia has changed,” Williams said, “so we had to consider changing as well by enhancing our services to make the city more competitive.”

“It’s a combination of people not leaving as often for the suburbs and some more people coming back,” PennDesign professor John Landis said. “Young people have been coming back

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“This overnight service adds to the general sense that Philadelphia is a convenient and safe place to live,” Landis said.

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How do the Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s swimming coaches reward their swimmers during the two-week break after sweeping rival Columbia? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Simple,â&#x20AC;? coach Mike Schnur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beating the you-knowwhat out of them.â&#x20AC;?

Focused on avoiding complacency, the Quakers (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) have spent their bye week working toward their next match â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tri-meet against Cornell and powerhouse Princeton. While the team is concerned primarily with Februaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ivy Championships, Schnur has been pushing his swimmers to constantly improve and lower their times. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been beating on them every day, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve responded really well,â&#x20AC;? Schnur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re interested in going fast in February, so we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pull back for dual meets, we just keep

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training.â&#x20AC;?

His squad will have two very different racing opportunities this weekend to show their progress. Cornellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squad, which finished seventh in the Ancient Eight last year, will enter Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meet with the built-in advantage of fast suits. This type of compression swimwear, worn by both the Quakers and Lions in Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rout of Columbia, can significantly better a swimmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s times, thus giving Cornell (2-1, 1-1) an obvious upper hand.

One thing Cornell does not have is Rochelle Dong, Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sophomore stud. After shattering pool records against Columbia, Dong and her teammates enter the weekend with their focus not on the fast-suited Big Red, but on last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ivy run-

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ner-up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone back into intense training mode,â&#x20AC;? Dong said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We definitely continued to work hard and train hard to focus on Princeton.â&#x20AC;?

The Tigers (1-1, 0-0) return several familiar foes that will stand in the way of the Red and Blue winning their first ever Ivy Championship. Though Lisa Boyce, who set multiple Princeton records, has graduated, juniors Nikki Larson, Liz McDonald and Sada Stewart should all return as threats in February.

However, with the championship months away, the Quakers have an interesting opportunity this weekend. Schnur has never beaten Princeton as Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coach, as the Tigers possess one of the most successful programs in the Ivy League. A win this weekend, especially when Penn is not in its fast suits, would be an awesome, albeit very unexpected, indicator of unprecedented success in February. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we do happen to beat Princeton, it will be a really big shock for us,â&#x20AC;? Dong said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll give us a good sense of where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be at Ivies.â&#x20AC;?

BY SAM ALTLAND Staff Writer And then there was one.

While almost all of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cross country runners ended their seasons last weekend, junior captain Thomas Awad is the lone Quaker that still has one more race left in his season. And no race this season may be as important to Awad as the one he will compete in this Saturday.

For the second year in a row, Awad will be traveling to compete in the NCAA Championship meet, where he will face off against a field of 255 of the top distance runners in the county. This time, he will make the trip out to Terre Haute, Ind. Last year, Awad became the first Quaker since 2005 to receive an automatic bid to the championship, and this season, he stamped his ticket to Indiana with a third place overall finish at the MidAtlantic Regional Championship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year was great because I had a real chance to get used to the atmosphere and the days leading into the championship race,â&#x20AC;?

Awad said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obviously getting used to running against guys of that level was big for me last year, and I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s given me a big boost in terms of confidence.â&#x20AC;?

Awad placed 176th out of the 253-man field in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s championship. However, the defending Heptagonal champion feels that he is in a position to far exceed his performance from last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While last year physically I think I had the ability to run with the lead pack, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have the confidence I do now to put

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Two days, three matches and early top 25 drama are slated for Penn squash this weekend in Maine, and a long 10 hour bus ride is all that stands between the Red and Blue and their first official games of the 2014-2015 season.

Colby, Bates and Bowdoin are on the horizon in a three-match opening weekend for the Quakers.

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also believes he is physically ready for the demands of one final race, despite how long his season has run. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Racing 10k back to back is pretty tough, but I think I definitely have one more solid race left in me,â&#x20AC;? Awad said of his physical state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This week has been all about recovery for me, and hopefully Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have the type of race I want to have on Saturday.â&#x20AC;?

And if Awad does have the race he wants to have, Penn cross country could very well have an All-American on its roster by the end of the week, and Awad will have added yet another accolade to what has already been an incredible career.

ed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe we can definitely finish higher than ninth with the talent we have.â&#x20AC;?

Bates, a team that split its two matchups with the Quakers in the 2012-13 season, is not a squad that Penn will take lightly this time around. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not overlooking them,â&#x20AC;?

Mutscheller added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to see the hard work we put in this offseason pay off.â&#x20AC;?

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later in the season will be beneficial to us.â&#x20AC;?

Due to the laid-back nature of this weekend, there will be plenty of opportunities for the younger players to gain valuable experience playing on the ladder for the Quakers. Despite their lack of experience with college-level squash, the Red and Blue arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too worried about any growing pains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most of the freshmen are international,â&#x20AC;? Alankamony said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have a lot of experience already playing on a ladder for their country.â&#x20AC;?

In Wyantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first ever trip to the Pine Tree State, Penn looks to bring its success from last season along in order to leave with an unblemished record and defended ranking.

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But with Mathews graduated, the Big Redâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s air attack has collapsed. Cornell has rotated through four quarterbacks this season, who have combined to throw for a pitiful 177.3 yards per game, by far the worst mark in the Ancient Eight. As a result, the Big Red lost their first eight games by an average of 21.1 points before finally getting off the schneid last week with a 30-27 win against the Lions.

Penn enters the matchup coming off of an upset bid over No. 14 Harvard that fell painfully short â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

the Red and Blue gave up 17 unanswered points in the fourth quarter after entering the final 15 minutes with a 24-17 lead.

A nationwide stunner in front of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fans on Senior Day would have been a Hollywood ending for a veteran like Conner Scott, but the chance to end a career this week with a win at the same field he celebrated an Ivy title on in 2012 is no small consolation prize. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted to accomplish a little bit more this year, obviously,â&#x20AC;? Scott, a fifth-year senior, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Me, Dan [Wilk] and Evan [Jackson] have two rings each, I think that means a lot. It means a lot to us. We wish we could have gotten another, but at least we got our picture up on the wall â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and to do it twice was fun.â&#x20AC;?

Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game may not matter much in the Ivy standings, but

it means the world to seniors like Scott. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Knowing itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last game, knowing itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our last game, knowing how the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone so far, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a ton of motivation to win,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the young guys on the team.

I want to set a good example for them in this final game and kind of set them on the right track for next season.â&#x20AC;?

Though heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always insisted the focus of this season remain on the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on-field play and not devolve into a grand retirement spectacle, Bagnoli can look back on the sum total of his career with pride at this point in the season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been blessed to have a lot of good moments, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a tremendous 23 years,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certainly room for one more victory.

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New coach seeks to defy former team WRESTLING | Coach Tirapelle to meet familiar faces

BY STEVEN JACOBSON Staff Writer

The Palestra will see some serious star power on Sunday.

Penn wrestling will host the Keystone Classic tournament, welcoming Drexel, Northwestern, Pittsburgh and Stanford, among others. Last year, the 12 teams that competed at the Classic combined to send 49 wrestlers to the NCAA Championships.

Coach Alex Tirapelle is specifically looking forward to having his team wrestle against Stanford, where Tirapelle was an assistant coach until he took over the Red and Blue’s head job this season.

“It’ll be fun,” Tirapelle said.

“I’m looking forward to it, actually. The colleagues and I trade texts and e-mails and phone calls — I’m always following them to see how they did the past weekend. I try to razz them a bit, and they razz me.”

Senior 184-pounder Lorenzo Thomas is also looking forward to Sunday. Thomas will carry some momentum after winning the 184-pound title in the East Stroudsburg Open last Sunday. In addition, Thomas won his weight class in last year’s Keystone Classic.

“I expect a good perfor-

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Senior 149-pounder Jeff Canfora will look to build off his performance in the East Stroudsburg Open this weekend at the Keystone Classic.

mance,” Tirapelle said of Thomas. “He looked good [on Sunday], and he wrestled some pretty good competition. He went about his business, as always.”

Thomas will likely face off at some point in the day against Pitt senior 184-pounder Max Thomusseit, who is currently ranked No. 4 in the weight class to Thomas’ No. 3 ranking.

Thomas is excited to face Thomusseit, especially since he wasn’t able to wrestle him at last year’s Classic as Thomusseit recuperated from an injury.

“He’s a high-quality kid,” Tirapelle added. “There are a lot of quality kids in the weight … It’ll be a couple-score match — if one score goes the opposite way, you can end up on the short end of the

stick.”

Tirapelle won’t be the only one to recognize some familiar faces from across the mat.

“I know a majority of the guys of the Pitt team,” said Thomas — a Pittsburgh native — cracking a smile.

Sunday’s meet will bring 19 wrestlers ranked in the top 20 of their weight class to the Palestra.

Some notables include sophomore 149-pounder Jason Tsirtsis and senior heavyweight Mike McMullan, both from Northwestern and both ranked first in their respective classes. “[Facing Tsirtsis] is a tall order,” Tirapelle said. “He’s a national champion. The guy’s legit.”

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Tsirtsis, the duty will likely be left to senior Jeff Canfora. Senior C.J. Cobb is still day-to-day after having suffered an injury in practice last week and is doubtful for Sunday’s tournament.

However, Tirapelle believes Canfora — or any wrestler the Quakers send out, for that matter — is up to the challenge of facing the national champion.

“He’s definitely prepared to compete with him,” Tirapelle said. “Every time we step on the mat, we expect to win.”

Another notable performer to watch is sophomore 174-pounder Dan McDevitt, who finished as runner-up at the ESU Open. All of this came after McDevitt won a combined six matches over his entire freshman year.

McDevitt believes that combinations the team worked on in the preseason were the keys to his success. He also credits summer workouts with his club coach, former Harvard wrestler Craig Vitagliano, as helpful in his development.

McDevitt could face off against another highly ranked wrestler in Pitt senior Tyler Wilps, who is No. 5 in the class.

“I look forward to it,” McDevitt said of the possibility of wrestling Wilps. “It would be a great challenge.”

This sounds like a mantra for what should be a highly competitive tournament on Sunday.

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M.HOOPS | Penn will try to avoid starting winless in the Palestra

BY RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor-Elect

Quakers will attempt to bounce back M. SWIMMING | An Ivy tri-meet can help Penn forget Columbia

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BY TITUS ADKINS Staff Writer Penn men’s swimming is looking to show its resilience on Friday as it heads to Princeton for the first conference trimeet of the season.

The Quakers (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) started off their Ivy season against Columbia in recordbreaking fashion with a Uris Pool 200-yard medley relay record. However, Penn was unable to hold onto that momentum and fell to the Lions in their den, 159.5-136.5.

The Red and Blue are hoping to leave Princeton’s DeNunzio Pool on Friday with their first conference win.

Cornell enters the weekend after an impressive performance in Cambridge in their first conference tri-meet against Dartmouth and Harvard. The Big Red (2-1, 1-1) defeated Dartmouth handily, 213-87, and almost knocked off the Crimson — last year’s Ivy champions — in a close 131169 loss.

Cornell’s biggest strengths this season come from sprint backstroke and distance freestyle. Penn’s roster is similarly stacked in the distance freestyle events, led by junior captain

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Chris Swanson.

Princeton has yet to face a conference opponent, but had a strong showing at the Ohio State Invitational on Nov. 8.

The Tigers walked away with a 136-209 loss to No. 12 Ohio State and a resounding 262-91 win over Division III Denison. After posting quick times in Columbus, Princeton (1-1) appears to be riding high, especially considering that the Quakers have not been able to defeat the Tigers during coach Mike Schnur’s 14 seasons at Penn’s helm.

However, after a third place conference finish in the 201314 season, the Red and Blue may be able to upset the Tigers, if not this weekend then perhaps in February. The Quakers’ roster is seasoned, after only graduating three members last year and bringing in one of the most talented freshman classes in program history.

If anything, Friday’s meet will show that no opponent should ever be overlooked — especially in the Ivy League.

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Distance freestyler Chris Swanson heads a Quaker squad looking to push past a close loss to Columbia. They face Cornell and Princeton.

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Junior guard Keiera Ray played an aggresive 19 minutes for the Quakers on Wednesday, scoring six points and dishing out two assists.

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its basket-less drought on a Stipanovich jumper, though the offense would never heat up to its early first-half dominance. The Quakers would finish the game shooting just 36.4 percent, but a strong defensive effort was sufficient to carry them.

Freshman guard Anna Ross got the start in her second collegiate game and put together an efficient performance, scoring seven points on 3-for-4 shooting to go along with four rebounds and four assists.

Junior guard Keiera Ray was another bright spot for the Quakers, looking fully healthy for the first time in a while. She put up a season-high six points and two assists in 19 minutes of play.

Penn’s win was the Quakers’ third in a row against La Salle — the first time the Red and Blue have tallied three-straight from 1999-2002.

However, Big 5 play is certainly not the focus of Penn’s play, as McLaughlin was quick to enunciate.

“Our goal — we look to win

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Ancient Eight’s best defense as a freshman The four senior captains — Kathleen Roche, Kara Bonenberger, Renee Busch and Katy Allen — will also play large roles as they look to double up on Ivy championships before getting their diplomas this spring.

Ultimately, the Quakers took the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of their labor from last year, but,

as evidenced by their strong play against La Salle, the Red and Blue were not content to rest on their laurels.

“They were ready to play,” McLaughlin said. “They wanted the culmination of this day to end in something really special.”

But with conference play still a couple months away, the focus, at least for one more night, was on last year’s successful title quest and not the upcoming title defense.

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every game and if it’s the Big 5, that’s awesome,” he said.

“We won two games last year and we were in the two other ones. The intensity of these games lets our kids turn it up another level.”

The win was McLaughlin’s fifth against the Big 5. The team looks to build off of a program-best two Big 5 wins last season. Penn won’t have another game of that variety until early January against Saint Joseph’s.

Penn takes to the court against Navy this weekend and will look to continue to build upon their defensive success.

Home sweet home.

By the time Penn basketball finishes its game at the Palestra on Saturday, it will likely feel comfortable playing in front of a friendly crowd. But it better not get used to it.

After two straight disappointing losses to begin the 2014-15 season, the Quakers (0-2) are hoping to use this weekend’s matchup with Lafayette to not only notch their first win, but also generate some positive takeaways from an early three-game homestand.

After all, following Penn’s matchup with the Leopards (11) on Saturday, the Red and Blue will seldom play at the Palestra over the course of the next month.

The squad faces eight of its subsequent nine opponents through Jan. 17 on the road.

Despite its winless record, Penn has played well in stretches throughout its first two games this year.

In the team’s season opener against Delaware State, junior guard Tony Hicks led the Quakers with 31 points while freshmen Antonio Woods and Mike Auger combined to contribute 11 points, seven rebounds and four assists off the bench. Penn led at halftime and had a chance to win the game at the buzzer before falling short in overtime, 77-75.

Hoping to build off their opening performance, the Red and Blue instead fell flat in their matchup with Rider on Tuesday.

Due in large part to early foul trouble among its starting big men, Penn was unable to respond to a surge by the Broncs late in the first half. The 16-point defeat marked the first time in coach Jerome Allen’s tenure that the Quakers began a season with two consecutive losses.

“I didn’t think we played with the right sense of urgency… [nor] with the right sense of selflessness,” Allen said after Tuesday’s defeat. “It’s unfortunate that we

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wasted this opportunity.

“But for some of these younger guys, [the first two games] have been an important learning experience, and we need to get better.”

Allen has relied heavily on his highly-touted freshman class in the early portion of the season.

Rookie Darnell Foreman has started both games at point guard, while five of the eight players to see double-digit minutes on the court in Penn’s matchup with Rider were freshmen.

“I think it’s a good learning experience to be thrown into the mix this early in the season instead of being thrown in later on in the season with less experience,” Auger said after Tuesday’s game.

Against Lafayette, the Quakers are facing a team that is almost completely opposite in its composition. Unlike Penn, the Leopards feature four upperclassmen in their starting lineup, including three seniors.

Lafayette kicked off its season in impressive fashion last weekend, scoring a 27-point win over Robert Morris, but the Leopards fell by an equal margin to West Virginia in their first true test.

Saturday’s contest marks the second of three consecutive games against Ivy League opponents for Lafayette. After taking on Princeton on Wednesday and Penn three days later, the Leopards will travel up to New Haven, to do battle with Yale next week.

If the Red and Blue are able to grab their first win of the season, it will likely stem from how well the squad shuts down Lafayette senior forward Dan Trist. The Australian leads the Cougars in both points and rebounds this season, averaging 16.5 points and 6.5 boards per contest.

It’s safe to assume that, given the Quakers’ schedule and Trist’s talent, if the 6-foot-9 forward manages to get Penn’s frontcourt into foul trouble as it did on Tuesday, it could be awhile before the Red and Blue faithful see a victory in person.

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FOOTBALL | Bagnoli set to coach final game of 23 seasons at the helm of the Red and Blue

BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor For as much as he’s loathed talking about it, the time has finally come: Al Bagnoli’s last game is this Saturday.

And with both Penn and Cornell football struggling this season, the action on the field will likely be secondary.

The Quakers and Big Red enter this weekend’s matchup with identical 1-8 records, their only victories having come over woeful Columbia. After starting the season with hopes of perhaps sending their coach off with one last Ancient Eight title, the Red and Blue have been decimated by injuries and defensive struggles and are mired in a four-game losing streak.

But one losing season does little to diminish the entirety of Bagnoli’s time at Penn, a career that has included a record nine outright Ivy League titles and the third-highest winning percentage within the conference since its 1956 inception (.694).

On Wednesday, Bagnoli received a big surprise at his weekly press conference: a visit from numerous

Penn coaches, the likes of which included volleyball’s Kerry Carr, field hockey’s Colleen Fink and track’s Steve Dolan, alongside numerous football assistants.

Bagnoli grew visibly emotional at the press conference but was in good spirits at practice when asked to reflect on the turnout.

“That was hard,” Bagnoli said. “It was really nice of them to do, completely surprised me.

It was really a classy thing.”

A victory over Cornell wouldn’t be nearly as much of a shock.

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Penn ‘D’ stifles La Salle

W. HOOPS | Quakers claim third straight win over Big 5 rival

BY HOLDEN McGINNIS Sports Editor

Strong defensive efforts have been a staple of Penn women’s basketball in the Mike McLaughlin era.

And Wednesday night was no different. In a game that started with the raising of the Quakers’ 2013-14 championship banner, Penn took control from the getgo, stifling La Salle in a 57-29 victory.

Sophomore center Sydney Stipanovich put together her first double-double of the season, and 11th of her career, with 15 points and 15 rebounds.

With Explorers senior guard Alicia Cropper sitting out due to injury, the Quakers (1-1) defense had little trouble holding La Salle (0-2) to 22.0 percent shooting on the night. The 29 points allowed are the fewest by a Penn team in McLaughlin’s era as coach and the fewest since a 1995 game against Temple.

“When [Alicia] Cropper was out, we didn’t change what we were going to do,” coach Mike

VS. LA SALLE McLaughlin said.

“We smothered their perimeter players and Sydney [Stipanovich] was really good defensively in the middle. That’s the way we were going to play, whether she’s in or not.”

The Red and Blue kicked it into high gear offensively to begin the game, knocking down seven of their first 10 shots to claim a 16-6 lead through the first eight minutes of play.

The Quakers would cool down as the half progressed, ending the half on a 1-for-9 shooting stretch that saw them fail to make a field goal in the last six and a half minutes. However, defense proved to be enough, as La Salle ended the half with more turnovers (15) than points (13).

“It started on the defensive end [early], we were really aggressive on defense and that helped us pick up our offense,” Stipanovich said. “Kathleen [Roche] knocked down a couple shots and we got a flow going.”

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Champs celebrate past, pursue future Quakers unveil banner for 2013-14 Ivy title before La Salle game

BY TOMMY ROTHMAN Associate Sports Editor The fall season was certainly a disappointing one for Penn Athletics, but the women’s basketball team’s Ivy League championship banner-raising ceremony on Wednesday night reminded Quakers fans of better times while stirring optimism for the future of the Red and Blue.

The ceremony took place right before the Red and Blue’s matchup with Big 5 rival La Salle, a contest they would eventually win.

“You’re celebrating the past and hopefully moving right into the future with a history,” coach Mike McLaughlin said prior to Wednesday’s ceremony. “It should be pretty special for them.”

“It was especially great to see all the seniors,” senior guard Kathleen Roche added. “It was great to see where we’ve come.”

However, McLaughlin acknowledged that the Quakers are by no mean guaranteed to repeat.

“This isn’t the same team from last year,” he said.

It sure isn’t.

The Quakers’ backcourt will feel the absence of Alyssa Baron

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In celebration of their Ivy League title last season, the Quakers raised their championship banner in the Palestra before Wednesday’s victory over La Salle. The banner celebrates Penn’s 12-2 Ivy record in 2014-2015 and their first title since 2004.

and Meghan McCullough, who comprised Penn’s top two in minutes played, assists and steals last year before graduating in May. Baron was also the leading scorer

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