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Gutmann’s party relocated

Party moved from Gutmann’s house after protest last year JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Reporter

About a year ago, students disrupted the annual holiday study break at Penn President Amy Gutmann’s house with a protest. This year, the event will be held

on Tuesday at the Annenberg Center instead of its traditional location at Gutmann’s house on 38th and Walnut streets. When the event was held a year ago, it was protested by the Student Labor Action Project and Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation. The two groups held a die-in to bring attention to the death of Michael Brown,

an unarmed black teenager who was shot by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo. last year. The groups demanded that Penn pay $6.6 million in payments in lieu of taxes — also known as PILOTs — to the School District of Philadelphia. University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy wrote in an email that the change was made for logistical reasons.

“Last year, [attendance] exceeded the fire code limit, so we needed to find a larger venue,” he wrote. In August, Gutmann’s annual welcome back picnic for sophomores and juniors was held in Wynn Commons rather than her house as it had been in previous years. At the time, the Office SEE GUTMANN PAGE 2

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The sticker price of a Penn education has been steadily ticking upward. Tuition has risen as much as twice the rate of inflation in recent years, and experts

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“continue to raise prices as much as the market can bear.” Taking into account total yearly cost of attendance from 2006 to present, one can extrapolate that with a steady growth rate, in 10 years it will cost $88,390 per year to attend Penn. In 20 years, it will cost $110,370. If a current 22-year-old senior at Penn has a child when they turn 30, Penn will cost

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$123,568 per year when that child is 18. *** A spike like this might be fine if one’s parents went the Wharton-to-Wall Street route, but for middle- and lowerincome families, paying for Penn will seem even more daunting than it already does. More students and their families could be put off by the high price tag,

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and some won’t even bother learning about financial aid possibilities. Alex Catalan, a college counselor at The Seven Hills School in Cincinnati and a 2015 GSE graduate majoring in higher education, said Penn’s price has already biased certain students from applying. “Students from the lowest and even SEE PAYING FOR PENN PAGE 9

ZBT brothers skip shaving to save lives

Alumna shatters glass ceilings across industries

Penn’s ZBT chapter among top nine fundraising groups in the nation

Nina Godiwalla has broken barriers in finance and law

helping to shatter glass ceilings in both finance and law.

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During November, the members of one fraternity had an unusual excuse to skip shaving — possibly saving lives. Members of Penn fraternity Zeta Beta Tau participated in No-Shave November for the second year in a row. This year, the fraternity raised a grand total of $10,548, making them the ninth largest fundraising team for No-Shave November in 2015 and surpassing their previous donation by more than $2,500. No-Shave November is an online nonprofit organization whose goal is to support cancer awareness and to raise money for the fight against cancer. This year, No-Shave November will divide at least 80 percent of the proceeds equally among the following charities: theAmerican Cancer Society, the Prevent Cancer Foundation, Fight Colorectal Cancer and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. “We had incredible buy-in from the brotherhood,” College senior and former President of ZBT Perry Goffner said. He added that the success of this year’s campaign was due to the fact that “just about every single brother made a contribution,” along with support from ZBT’s

While Wall Street and engineering companies are still considered to be male-dominated industries, many women have succeeded in seeking opportunities and gaining recognition in these fields. Nina Godiwalla, a Penn alumna who was recently awarded the 2015 Kathleen McDonald Distinguished Alumna Award, has been actively

Author of a best-selling book As the best-selling author of the internationally acclaimed book, “Suits: A Woman on Wall Street,” Godiwalla has stimulated discussion on the status of women in the corporate world. The book, described by “The New York Times” as “The Devil Wears Prada” of investment banking, traces Godiwalla’s personal journey through the financial industry as a

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The best and worst moments of study abroad Penn students around the world share experiences JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor - elect

As the semester draws to a close, students studying abroad took a moment to reflect back on their best and worst memories from their semesters. The Worst Moments “I had my camera stolen when I was traveling in Northern Ireland which was kind of a bummer. I had a lot of pictures from my parents’ visit and traveling with friends on it that I hadn’t uploaded yet and the camera itself wasn’t cheap.” - College junior and Daily Pennsylvanian Copy Editor Jen Kopp, Dublin, Ireland. “Street harassment is pretty frequent in the city when I’m walking by myself. It’s generally not actually threatening, just a lot of men trying to get my attention in various languages, but it can be uncomfortable sometimes.” - College junior Caroline Wallace, Rabat, Morocco. “My worst experience was seeing the victims of the suicide bombings.” - College junior Andrew Gegios, Beirut, Lebanon. “The toughest thing has been balancing school work from a rigorous university with traveling most weekends and having to choose to stay put for a few

Penn students study abroad in locations such as Grenoble, France and Florence, Italy.

weekends to actually get work done.” College junior Samantha Kochman, Edinburgh, Scotland. “The hardest part was trying to find a routine; having to realize that beyond the change of setting, your day to day life is going to be vastly different than at Penn.” - College junior Peter Herbst, Paris, France. “Getting the 24 hour flu on Halloween in Barcelona! My worst experience in a very different way was also the night of the attacks.” - College junior Avalon O’Connor, Paris, France. “The worst experience has to be when I was returning from fall break, I missed my train back home. I tried to get a BlaBlaCar

back but the dude took my money and cancelled on me, leaving me stranded in Paris. I was furious and then I was just really exhausted and kind of tired. You know when you hit that point where being outside of your comfort zone isn’t an adventure anymore, it’s just miserable?” - College and Wharton junior Tabong Kima, Aix-en-Provence, France. “What really got to me is the weather and early darkness — days with 5.5 hours of sunshine, in which the sun is virtually always hidden behind the clouds are tough because they make you just want to bundle up at home and not deal with classes and

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people.” - College and Wharton junior Cora Neumann, St. Petersburg, Russia. The Best Moments “My best experience is also my worst: I went on a 43km bike ride with my best friend in the northwest coast of Ireland. It was the end of November, so it was freezing, and it rained the entire time. So although the sights were gorgeous, we were soaked and cold for 5 hours riding through the mountains.” - College junior Nayeli Riano, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. “When I’m walking back home after school, I walk down a hill and I can see over the

surrounding countryside. It’s beautiful. As I look, I take a deep breath and smile.” - Wharton junior Tabong Kima, Aix-enProvence, France. “My best experience is in general to start over in a continent where I know nobody before, realizing how I don’t need people around me all the time.” - Wharton junior Hui Chen, Reid Hall, Paris, France. “My best experience studying abroad honestly hasn’t been the trips I’ve taken, the parties I’ve been too, the museums I’ve visited or the sites I’ve seen, but the mornings where I have aimlessly wandered through the winding streets of Paris and stopped at

a café to read the newspaper.” College junior Avalon O’Connor, Paris, France. “I just really love hearing stories and gaining more perspective about the world. I had a lot of delightful conversations with people over the semester.” - College junior Andrew Gegios, Beirut, Lebanon. “Language, culture, religion — they should not be barriers, they’re just socially constructed entities that put wedges between people. I knew this before, but this program really reinforced that and gave me hope, especially in light of what’s going on all over the world right now.” - College junior Andrea Vargas Guerra. Vargas’ program took her to seven different locations throughout the semester, including Hanoi, Vietnam, Bushbuckridge, South Africa, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. “Dangling my legs over the edge of the cliffs of moher on the west coast of Ireland. It is honestly probably the most breathtaking place I’ve ever been, and I luckily got a relatively windless day to go, so I was able to sit right on the edge and look down the 700-800 ft drop to the water below. It’s both an incredibly exhilarating experience and a really terrifying one at the same time to walk along and sit so close to the edge.” - College junior and Daily Pennsylvanian Associate Copy Editor Jen Kopp, Dublin, Ireland.

The holiday season is here, but the winter weather isn’t ELYAS TECLE

When I wake up and go to class each morning, I’ve noticed two big things missing from around campus. One, heavy coats, and two, snow. Now that we’re in December, winter weather is starting to creep into people’s minds, especially as winter break is right around the corner. But when you step outside nowadays, it seems like things are a bit warmer than they should be. If you think that, you’re not wrong. In Philadelphia, November 2015 finished in the top five warmest

Novembers on record. We’ve also started out the month of December above average, and it doesn’t look like things will be cooling off in the near future. At the moment, I can’t see many chances for snow until maybe the end of the month. Looking back at my winter forecast, however, you can see that this was expected. December was never supposed to be a snow-filled month with school-closing blizzards. El Nino is still very strong and pushing massive amounts of warm air into our section of the country. Now there are signs that are pointing to it weakening, which will lead to a colder and snowier second half of winter. One thing that I have been keeping my eye on is how the computer

models are handling global observations. There are currently multiple factors that are pointing to El Nino peaking and then weakening by the end of the calendar year. This indicates a change in the winter weather pattern for us by the time we come back from winter break. However, the models do not seem to be picking up on the actual data and keep prolonging the introduction of a wintrier pattern. Some may look at the models verbatim and call that a forecast, but it’s important to remember that they are to be used as guidance. If you put garbage into them, you will get garbage out. Most recently, computer guidance has been hinting at colder air moving into our area later in the month rather than next year. Don’t expect

sustained cold weather for a while, but it is not out of the question that we see cold air move into the eastern United States around Christmas. In fact, with El Nino remaining a driver of our weather, this could enhance our amount of snowfall. As large amounts of precipitations are thrown into the country and move toward us, with cold air in place, this could lead to quite a bit of snow down the road. So for those of you asking where the cold and snow is, be patient. By January and February, you will probably have forgotten how warm December was. Elyas Tecle is a College freshman and meteorologist reporting on weather for The Daily Pennsylvanian.

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of the President said the change was due to the ongoing construction of the Perry World House nearby. Over Family Weekend this October, Gutmann hosted a gathering at her house, including students and alumni. Gutmann’s house has become a popular protest spot recently. The #WeArePhilly protest in November, which criticized the perceived lack of support for minority students at higher education institutions across the country, ended in front of Gutmann’s house, where students from SOUL read a list of demands for the

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During this time of year, two things seem to be missing around campus: heavy coats and snow.

administration. Though Gutmann participated in the four and a half minute die-in for Michael Brown last December, she has yet to meet with members of SLAP to discuss the issue of PILOTs and called the protest an “ambush.” President of the Penn Police Association Eric J. Rohrback wrote a guest column for The Daily Pennsylvanian criticizing Gutmann for her participation in the die-in, saying it showed a lack of support for the police system she oversees. Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush later sent a message to members of her police department — that was later published in the DP — addressing the guest

column and showing her support for Gutmann. Despite the lack of movement by the University on the issue of PILOTs, SLAP members have continued their fight. Last March, SLAP member and College junior Devan Spear addressed Philadelphia City Hall about the proposal. Following her speech, the Philadelphia City Council approved a non-binding resolution calling on Mayor Michael Nutter’s administration to ask large nonprofits in the city to pay PILOTs. Mayor-elect Jim Kenney, however, ran on a platform supporting PILOTs, so the issue is likely to come up on the city level next year.

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New director of Campus Health plans new initiatives Director to address environmental and safety concerns HANNAH NOYES Staff Reporter

On Nov. 5, Ashlee Halbritter was named the director of Campus Health. Previously employed as a health educator at Penn for the past three years, Halbritter seeks to make public health more consistent at Penn. As a former employee with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Halbritter is very familiar with the public health world at federal, state and local levels. Halbritter earned her master’s of public health degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, majoring in communication and minoring in public and community health. Learning about public health at each of those levels gave her experience that she has used during her time at Student Health Service. “It was a great learning experience, and has served me here at Penn, I can use my local level experience working on staying connected with students. We know what the data tells us, but just because it does doesn’t mean that it’s the best for students,” Halbritter said. Campus Health is the public health division of Student Health Service, which was created out of a growing need for more official and ongoing public health. Highly trained in evaluation, Campus Health interprets the data from various sources, sharing information among different groups on campus, as well as advising Student Health Service. I n a p r ev iou s Da i ly

Pennsylvanian article, the late SHS Executive Director Evelyn Wiener explained that the idea of creating an office devoted to public health as been thought about for roughly 10 years, and that they have been finding the time and resources to develop it during the past five years. Halbritter said that right now she is working on building environmental initiatives such as creating healthier infrastructure through safe roads and clean air. She wants to be able to address the various health needs of all students, and make it known that a safe environment exists, but that there are outside resources as well. “I want the healthy choice to be the easy choice [for students],” Halbritter said. Campus Health can be split into three distinct sections. The first is health education and promotion. Campus Health works with different student groups, such as Greek life and healthawareness clubs, along with Residential Advisors and Graduate Associates. “It’s completely across the board. We certainly have different events that reach different target populations, but for the most part the information is general enough that it can stay the same for all group.” Halbritter said. Secondly, Campus Health focuses on their policy work. Working with the University Planning Committee, they have established several initiatives, including creating safe biking environments through bike helmet voucher programs and working to create a tobacco-free campus. Another program that Campus Health has been focusing on is

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communicable disease surveillance. Using the data that they collect through student visits, they are able to track communicable diseases and prevent the spread on campus. “We know when flu is on campus, and we can do outreach

with our peers on campus.” Halbritter said. Campus Health has been extremely busy this year, signing onto the Partnership for a Healthier America’s Healthier Campus Initiative. As the only Ivy League school to do this,

Penn joins 37 other colleges in the pledge. The initiative requires colleges to adopt guidelines around nutrition, physical activity and programming on campus. Campus Health also has nine different programs ranging

from “Sleep Well” — focusing on sleep hygiene, to “Breathe Well” which focuses on smoking cessation. All programs are free and available to all Penn students. “Our vision is a healthy Penn.” Halbritter said.

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n Feb. 11, we thought we had already reached the end. The Daily Pennsylvanian was in flames: We had no Wi-Fi and could not connect to our servers, so no one had any idea of how we were going to put out a newspaper that night. And as far as we knew, such a breakdown had never happened before. Like every other board that takes charge at the DP, our biggest fear was failing to do our most basic job — putting out a product at the end of the night. We did not want to be the first group in living memory to leave the newsracks empty the next day. When campus woke up the next morning, though, there was a paper in Huntsman Hall. And in Harnwell College House. And everywhere else it was expected to be. And there, on Locust Walk, was someone calling out for the masses to grab a copy of the latest DP. Pulling this off was a near miracle. There was Jill, running around in a frenzy, hoping that our lack of Wi-Fi didn’t mean we would have to return to the ancient days of set type. Katherine was in her own office, staying much later than I’d ever seen, on the phone with the printer well after our deadline. There was Eric, back from a dinner date to try to do everything he could to fix the network. There was Alex, leading a gaggle of 34th Street editors carrying desktop computers to the Radian to finish the next day’s issue of Street, and Paola ushering the copy team to Rodin to take advantage of AirPennNet. There was Analyn, with internet restored to one small part of the office, leading the design and photo teams in finally putting together the paper’s layout well past three in the morning. All of this effort would have been irrelevant without the contents of the paper: the many

articles written by our amazing news and sports reporters and columnists. The Valentine’s Love Notes that hundreds of students had submitted, painstakingly collected by Megan and the marketing MATT MANTICA team, waiting to reach their recipients. And the ads that our customers were counting on us to deliver to the eyes of the Penn community. There will always be times in the life of a modern student news organization — especially one that still goes to print four days a week — when things are like this: chaotic, desperate and urgent. But thanks to the brilliance and dedication of the students who commit so much of their time and their selves to this organization, most days aren’t. On those days, we were able to do incredible things, from reorganizing the entire structure of 34th Street to creating an internal consulting team to publishing engaging online features. As the end of the reign of the 131st Board of Editors and Managers draws ever closer, I find myself thankful for the memories and bonds formed during the chaotic days. But I’m even more thankful for the good days and all that we managed to accomplish together. MATT MANTICA is the outgoing president and executive editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He is a College senior from Okemos, Mich., studying urban studies and political science. His email is mantica@thedp.com.

ehind my desk in the windowless office, I’ve spent an absurd number of hours in this year, you can find a cork board littered with business cards of Managing Editors from years gone by. With a swift vote this January, the 131st Board of The Daily Pennsylvanian changed that cork board forever: My title of Managing Editor was eliminated, and I became the DP’s Editor-in-Chief. It may sound like semantics, but to me, the change was monumental. The “Managing Editor” position at the DP has been rapidly losing its luster. In recent years, it’s become a job comprised almost solely of overseeing nightly production of the newspaper — crucial, yes, but not at all focused on the bigger picture. When I was elected last November, I had no intention of following in the footsteps of my predecessors. What the DP needs is forward thinking, and a title change was one small step toward making that happen. The new position came with new responsibilities. Most importantly, integrate the DP, Inc.’s three publications — Under the Button, 34th Street Magazine and The Daily Pennsylvanian. Though we may market ourselves as three separate entities, each publication can and should learn from the other two, and we are stronger together. This has been my mindset throughout the entire board: By encouraging all the bright minds that walk into this old office on any given day to work together, we can produce something that matters. Ultimately, we are here to make an impact at Penn, whether that’s by getting students to laugh at a hilarious blog post or holding the administration accountable for its handling of sexual assault. By engaging our audience, we as an organization can take immense pride in our work.

Throughout the course of the year, hard work by the DP’s amazing editors has in so many ways made the company more relevant, engaging and wor t hwhile to the Penn JILL CASTELLANO c o m m u n i t y. We produce weekly photo features in print and online to showcase photographers’ work, we conduct brainstorming sessions in the news department to develop story ideas, and we create an encapsulating centerpiece on the front page of the DP every day. We also publish content online throughout the weekends, we regularly produce encapsulating long-form sports features, we established a focus on producing engaging headlines and we write thorough editorials each and every week. From our social numbers to compliments I’ve received from students, faculty and alumni, I know we’ve made major internal improvements that are reflected in the quality of our publications. Of course, there is always more to do. But I hope that some of the many Managing Editors from decades prior have had the opportunity to see what we’ve produced this year and that they’re proud of the job we’ve been able to do. I sure am. JILL CASTELLANO is the outgoing editor-inchief of The Daily Pennsylvanian. She is a College senior from Ardsley, N.Y., studying psychology and criminology. Her email is castellano@thedp.com.

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n about a month or so, we Penn students will most likely have forgotten all the material we crammed for finals and instead be entirely focused on one thing: GPA. It’s easy to say that GPA shouldn’t define who we are as individuals and doesn’t have the greatest effect on our future, but to a certain degree, the grades on our transcripts matter, whether we like it or not. In order to enter a specific course, internally transfer or receive acceptance to a highly selective study abroad program, GPA can be a deciding factor. In many cases, we might even alter our Penn experience in response to that reality. At the beginning of this semester, The Daily Pennsylvanian published an article about the most popular classes at Penn, with “Victimology” being a selection, partially due to the requirement it fulfills and its reputation for being an

SMALL TALK | What Penn can do to decrease the role of grades in scheduling easy class. One of my teaching assistants was a bit shocked to hear during a recitation that Penn students rely heavily on Penn Course Review to assess the difficulty of courses, but the administration must realize that certain classes have notorious reputations as “GPA boosters.” This is not inherently a problem, since professors of classes that are known for being requirement-fillers understand that students taking the courses may not be incredibly passionate and thus may decide to reduce the difficulty level of the course. But a problem arises when professors implement grading systems that are inconsistent with other professors. For example, there are certain classes where the median grade is thought to be a B or Bplus, with a bell-curve model deciding the A-range grades and the Cs and Ds. Yet there are also classes in which only

a few select students receive A grades while the majority of the class will receive B- or Clevel grades. Neither of these models is necessarily better, especially

Penn Course Review and word of mouth, it becomes very easy to figure out whether a course is “worth it” based on a calculation of interest and potential grade. There are certainly

What Penn needs to do is decide on a uniform grading system and stick to it.” because it is dependent on the subject, but professors and graders must understand the effect that a grading system has on students taking the class and even on students who may be interested in the class. A student might be interested in a particular course, only to decline to take it simply because it might negatively affect his or her GPA. With the ease of information about courses thanks to

many students who are willing to lower their GPA slightly in order to take what they want, and for certain fields, GPA simply tends to be lower or higher. The average GPA, according to data from 13 years ago, for a humanities student is 3.50 while the average GPA for a natural sciences student is 3.07. Granted, the information is a bit dated, but most students at Penn would probably say

that it is still relevant. This doesn’t change the fact, though, that there shouldn’t be so much variability simply based on what will give students a higher GPA, which many students believe will lead to a better future and a more promising job. In an ideal college system, a student would feel that whatever course he or she decides to enroll in would give him or her an equal chance at getting a (comparatively) good or bad grade. Factors such as teacher philosophies toward grading should not make a difference both in the selection of courses that students want to take and in generally skewing GPAs in a certain direction. What Penn needs to do is decide on a uniform grading system and stick to it. It doesn’t matter if that rubric establishes a median grade of a B or an Aminus. Creating this precedent can allow students to pursue subjects outside of their com-

ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK fort zone without compromising their GPA or having to use pass/fail methods to do so. It doesn’t matter how the regulation operates, as long as it’s consistent enough to free students from the constraints of scheduling based on grades. ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK is a College sophomore from New York, studying economics. His email address is alevan@ sas.upenn.edu. “Small Talk” usually appears online every other Saturday.

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woman of minority status. Godiwalla’s inspiration for the book stemmed from a desire to start a conversation on how corporations can create an environment where people want to stay and are set up to succeed. “I wanted a dialogue around how we could change,” Godiwalla said, mentioning her experiences as an investment banker. “I’ve seen so many women and minorities go into investment banking — or even just a variety of Wall Street experiences — and they would leave and not quite understand why they were having such a challenging experience.” However, Godiwalla emphasized that the book is a personal account, and is not meant to be a generalization of how all women should navigate the workplace. “It’s about my personal experience, not a roadmap. I want to create a conversation about change,” she said. She hopes the book can serve as a tool to help others who may not understand the circumstances faced by minority women in the work place. “If you don’t experience [these challenges], it’s hard to imagine what another person might go through,” she said. “It’s an opportunity for the other people to see situations through a different lens that they would not experience themselves.” After the book was published, Godiwalla founded MindWorks Leadership, which aims to provide leadership and diversity training programs for major corporations and national organizations. As her book became increasingly popular, her professional options began to evolve. “At that point, I had two choices: stay in the corporate world, or respond to all the companies that were eager for me to speak and train their staff on diversity issues,” Godiwalla said. While she says that much has changed since she first entered the financial industry, Godiwalla emphasized that there is still a lot that needs to be done to increase diversity and inclusion. “Investment banks have already been trying to increase their diversity and inclusion efforts,” Godiwalla said. “Certain industries are challenging because the

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“incredible alumni base.” Goffner said the prevalence of cancer was a motivating factor for the brothers’ enthusiasm in raising money. “All of us in some way, shape or form … have or will be affected by cancer,” he said. “I think we did really well this year. We’re really happy.” Other brothers said their

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environment status quo is not very inclusive.” She added that she was intrigued by the opportunity to start a discussion around changing environments that have historically had trouble retaining women and minorities.

covering your differences just to fit in,” Godiwalla said. Godiwalla believes that in order to make effective change, everyone needs to be on board. Part of this includes understanding our unconscious biases. Research shows that in the first seven seconds of meeting someone, we unknowingly make 11 judgements about them. “When people start to become aware of this unconscious bias, then we can start to make change,” Godiwalla said. “Often when people act in a discriminatory manner, they don’t realize it.” This underlines the importance of having open and honest conversations about diversity. Sometimes people might not realize that those around them can have similar challenges. “One of the first steps is to bring people together to get to know each other — to hear that the experiences and challenges they’re facing are not unique,” Godiwalla said. “Other people might be facing similar challenges.”

Challenges faced by women across industries and solutions G o d i w a l l a’s personal experiences have shaped her understanding of the minority status in the business world. “It is easy to be aware of the differences when you are one among the few,” Godiwalla said. “There is no question; as I moved through my life, I needed to be aware of the positive traits my differences brought to the table.” Godiwalla considers the lack of female presence and advancement opportunities in certain industries as the biggest challenges women face. “If you have people that are similar to you, it makes the environment a little bit easier but not necessarily as productive,” Godiwalla said. “The challenge is that sometimes there is a bias against you, and you’re not given the opportunity. You’re not perceived as capable of taking the more challenging assignments.” She mentioned a concept called “covering up” developed by Kengi Yoshino. “If you are not working in an environment with people that are similar to you, you may be spending a lot of energy

Diverse academic interests drove her success Godiwalla has pursued academic interests in a diverse range of fields. After earning an undergraduate business degree from the University of Texas at Austin, she pursued a master’sdegree in creative writing from Dartmouth College. In 2006, Godiwalla earned an MBA degree from the

personal connections to cancer helped make the campaign successful. “I personally have been affected by cancer in my family — I think everyone has,” Wharton senior Jeffrey Horowitz said. They also owed much of the success to Perry Goffner’s own enthusiasm and his ability to create excitement for the campaign within the fraternity. “I think my biggest contribution was trying to excite the rest

of the fraternity about donating,” College junior and ZBT President Ryan Greenberg said. “I don’t think I would have been able to do that without Perry.” As a result, nearly the entire fraternity participated in the campaign and 17 of them personally raised more than $100. Greenberg plans to continue participation in the campaign next year — and he is setting his sights even higher. “We could ra ise ou r

Wharton School. Godiwalla considers her multi-dimensional academic background to be incredibly valuable for her career development. “There is no question that I feel very grateful that I was in two very different disciplines,” Godiwalla said. At Dartmouth, Godiwalla focused on a variety of liberal arts subjects in an interdisciplinary program. The innovative program brought professors of two varied disciplines together to explore new topics. She found the critical thinking skills coupled with the diverse perspectives to be extremely valuable when she arrived at business school. “In the business world, ideas are often contemplated in a binary fashion. Often solutions are right or wrong,” Godiwalla said. “When you are in the liberal arts world, ideas become much more complex. I developed invaluable critical thinking skills that I can now apply to the business world.” But that doesn’t mean that Godiwalla’s time at Wharton wasn’t valuable to her. She appreciated Wharton’s quick problem-solving mentality. “Wharton’s frenetic environment was amazing because you’re constantly put into different situations and there is no expectation that you will be an expert at one thing,” Godiwalla said. “What Wharton really taught me is how to get comfortable with ambiguity and not fear challenging

New chapters unfold — diversity in the law industry Godiwalla now serves as the U.S. director of diversity and inclusion at Norton Rose Fulbright, the third-largest global law firm, where she focuses on recruiting, retaining and developing diverse talent within the legal industry. She views her current role as a continuation of her previous experience in workplace leadership and diversity. Godiwalla was drawn to this role because she knew she could bring lessons from the corporate world to the legal industry. “I saw it as a great opportunity to make changes within an industry that is known to be behind in diversity,” she said. “The creation of my position and the support I have received is a testament to the willingness to change.” The firm’s goal is to have 30 percent women partners by 2020. In comparison to the industry’s 17 percent average, this is an substantial goal. “At Wharton I learned that if it is not measured, it is not managed. Organizations need to set goals and targets,” Godiwalla said. “Our aggressive 30 percent goal has pushed our leaders to really strive for better results.” Advice for Penn students Godiwalla encourages students to take risks while pursuing their passions. "When the governor of Texas inaugurated me into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame, he asked ‘What do you think made you stand out?’ I realized in that moment that it was my risky choice to move in and out of the corporate world that ironically led to my success in business. First, I left to pursue a liberal arts master’s and second, to publish the book. Until then, I’d mostly been above-average, but often just followed the herd,” Godiwalla said. “But I only took risks when I was passionate about the move. It’s about taking risks I was passionate about.” “I grew up in a risk-averse immigrant family so I had to marry being practical and following my passions. If you feel strongly drawn to something in your gut,

don’t ignore it. Passions live within you and are part of a larger purpose that you can’t always envision or articulate in the short term. At Wharton, I was a leadership fellow who designed and led a meditation and yoga program because it was one of my personal interests. I would have never guessed I’d use all of those skills later to develop leadership programs for executives at major corporations,” Godiwalla said. “There’ll be some sort of thread later in your life that connects everything together.” For Godiwalla, finding the intersection between passion and practicality is what paved the way to her success. “It’s figuring out ways to integrate things that you enjoy doing with what you are doing because by the time you get to your thirties, if you’re not enjoying what you’re doing, you’re not going to be very successful,” Godiwalla said. “You stand out when you choose a profession you love because your energy is contagious.” In addition to urging students to find their passion, Godiwalla also emphasized the importance of choosing the right working environment. “I’m a business person at heart so I can’t deny that money, power, prestige all factor into my career decisions, but my tie breaker is choosing an organization that is based on how much I like the people,” she said. “If I really don’t like the people, I know I won’t succeed there in the long term." Godiwalla also stressed the importance of having a growth mindset and living in a world where you can learn from everyone around you. “As a member of ‘The Wall Street Journal’s’ Task Force and other CEO forums, I’ve had meaningful discussions with the country’s top business leaders, but I’ve come to realize the most important lessons can be learned from the most unexpected sources. Right now, I’m learning about resilience from a friend who cares full-time for her special needs-son with violent tendencies. I’ve applied many of these lessons in my workplace. Whether someone is seemingly similar to you or not, the diverse perspective you can gain by actively engaging those around you, is a cumulative knowledge base with unparalleled power.”

fundraising goal,” Greenberg said. “The next logical step is to see if we can get $15,000.” For next year’s campaign, he hopes for greater involvement from both brothers and alumni, in order to raise funds and awareness for the cause. “While a bunch of … oddlooking kids in ZBT had beards for a month, it meant a lot more than just that. Raising $10,000 for cancer [charities] was really important for us,” Greenberg said. “It’s for a really good cause.”

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Next semester will mark the launch of the Penn Wellness Partners program, one of the many programs intended to promote conversation between faculty and students. Modeled after the LGBT Center’s “SafeZone” initiative in the College Houses, the program was organized by the Undergraduate Assembly, the Vice Provost for University Life and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. In the coming

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middle income brackets don’t look at schools like Penn because of the flat tuition fee. They simply look elsewhere,” Catalan said. Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said efforts like the current push to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and outreach workshops that Penn offers in the community like “Ivy In Your Backyard” can help with this disparity. But he acknowledges that there’s still work to be done. “The gap of information that low-income students have is for a whole range of reasons, from lack of counseling to a lack of other resources to just trying to survive day to day,” he said. Even if certain students get turned off by the high price before filling out an application, more and more Penn students get some form of need-based financial aid each year. According to Student Financial Services, 45 percent of students are on some sort of aid package for the 2015-16 school year, up from 36 percent 15 years ago. Fortunately, Penn has been able to meet the growing demand for financial aid. “Since 2008 our financial aid budget has doubled,” said Vice President for Budget and Management Analysis Bonnie Gibson. When asked if the increase was sustainable, Gibson said “fundraising for financial aid continues to be one of the president’s top priorities.” Furda pointed out that compared to some peer institutions, Penn’s endowment isn’t actually all that reassuring to be able to meet such a need. “We’re doing this with an endowment of $9 billion compared to institutions that have endowments three times as large as

weeks, faculty and administration across the twelve schools will begin displaying Penn Wellness Partner stickers on office doors and windows to signal that they are knowledgeable about Penn’s mental health resources and willing to assist students. UA President and College senior Jane Meyer said that the program was created to bridge the information gap between students and the administration. “CAPS has so many great sources — but a lot of students don’t know about them,” Meyer said. “By letting them know that accessible people like their professor or advisor could help them in wellness issues, we’re trying to

ours,” he said. “We’re operating in that group while we don’t have the financial resources.” Furda said Penn makes up the difference with tuition dollars and fundraising, and Gibson confirmed annual giving as the primary means of raising funds for financial aid. But the yearly increase of students who receive aid requires substantial yearly increases in fundraising as well. If those numbers can be sustained, Penn can continue to help make tuition affordable for students from a variety of backgrounds. If not, economic diversity among the student body could suffer. Catalan said middle-income students might be the first ones to look elsewhere if their financial aid package isn’t comprehensive enough. That would amplify an economic rift in Penn’s student body. “Students who are from the middle class and the lower middle class are hurt most [by rising tuition],” he said. “They don’t have access to federal grants and they often times get low financial aid packages. Those students are already looking at other schools.” But Finney isn’t so sure. She said as long as those middle-income students can get accepted to places like Penn, “their families will find a way to pay for it.” She said that the only places that might draw them away are less expensive, but still prestigious, in-state public universities. She drew on the example of students choosing University of California, Berkeley over Stanford. “You could see some movement to the public if [private schools’] prices just keep marching forward,” she said. But she added that even without middleincome students, schools like Penn still only educate a “tiny, tiny fraction” of the nation. The loss of the middle class of

close this information gap.” UA Communications Director and College sophomore Sola Park said that the Wellness Partners would be selected internally within VPUL. The partners will be drawn from a pool of administrators and faculty who are certified I CARE responders, CAPS Liaisons and/or those who have completed 16-hour Anti-Violence Advocate Training. Since the announcement of the program, VPUL has received over 100 applications from faculty and administrators interested in becoming Wellness Partners. Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum said that the program hopes to

recruit anywhere between 35 and 50 partners for the upcoming semester. Wellness Partners will be offered an educational orientation to ensure they are aware of all resources. They will also receive a resource guide and other information on how to best assist students and make referrals. Developing close relationships and personalizing issues of mental health is critical to the program, Meyer said. “These partners are ideally someone in your life who is normally there day to day,” she said. “And when you see the sticker on their door, you feel comfortable asking them questions relating to wellness.”

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Over the past few years, Penn tuition has risen as much as twice the inflation rate.

students at Penn wouldn’t really make an impact, “except that it’s symbolic,” she said. *** So what’s to be done? Catalan said the only way he sees college costs stabilizing universally is for a prestigious school to decide to freeze their own tuition. It may seem like there is no incentive to do this, but he said it could provide a competitive edge for a school that didn’t raise their cost of attendance. “A college education is a commodity — there’s a lot of marketing and strategy that goes into this,” he said. If one school froze their price, others would theoretically follow suit in order to compete.

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“The change needs to start with Harvard or Yale or Penn or Brown and that will then ripple through to have other schools change,” he said. Finney said that many schools “often want to emulate what elite institutions do,” seen most clearly in the attempt on behalf of a number of state colleges to become research universities. If one school took the plunge, the problem of rising tuition costs could start to be resolved, leading to greater accessibility and access to places like Penn for larger amounts of student with a variety of economic backgrounds. But Catalan added that it would require a weighty acknowledgment on behalf of these types of schools “that there is a factor of pricing that keeps students from attending schools like Penn.” He’s skeptical that anything else would keep prices stable. Even if talk of free community college by politicians becomes a reality, Catalan thinks it won’t really have an effect. “It might put some pressure on them but I doubt that will happen,” Catalan said. “The majority of student who attend schools like Penn are paying close to full tuition. There’s still going to be demand.”

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On the first episode of the webseries “Granted,” a local high school football team, the Williamstown Braves, was grieving over the loss of one of its players . Gathered on the field during practice, the team erupted in cheers after hearing that they would get to meet the Philadelphia Eagles. The webseries is a new project launched by Bianca’s Kids, a nonprofit organization dedicated to granting the wishes of children

who have experienced great hardship and need some reason to be happy. The organization has helped 13,000 children in need, including children who are handicapped or living in difficult economic conditions. Director of Bianca’s Kids Debbie Savigliano worked with a group of Wharton freshmen as part of the Management 100 course, in which students are tasked with working on a project for a nonprofit client. Bianca’s Kids recruited these freshmen to help to promote the webseries. Savigliano founded the nonprofit after her niece, Bianca Yodice, was killed in a car

accident. Yodice always enjoyed working with foster children, including those with separation anxiety. On the nonprofit’s website, anybody has the opportunity to submit a wish for a loved one whom they believe is in need. Savigliano and the rest of the organization’s board review each submission. Savigliano said Yodice’s memory continues to impact the organization’s mission. “It was Bianca’s dream and passion to work with children. At the time she was killed, she was walking to the daycare center where she worked. I felt that Bianca’s dream didn’t have to die because she did,” Savigliano said. Bianca’s Kids is a nonprofit, and all of its 10 board members work for no pay. The organization primarily raises funds for wish-granting through individual donations, along with contributions from large companies such as Chick-fil-A. Savigliano said she considers her staff to be incredibly devoted in dedicating their time to the nonprofit.

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College GameDay set to return to Philadelphia for Army-Navy game Show was in town for Temple-Notre Dame NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor-elect

For the second time this season, “College GameDay” will make its way to Philadelphia on Saturday in anticipation of the 116th Army-Navy game, which will be played at Lincoln Financial Field. There are the makings of a tradition in GameDay’s coverage of the Army-Navy game, attending the contest last year in Baltimore as well. GameDay previously found its way to Philadelphia in November, when they set up shop outside of Independence Hall prior to the Notre Dame’s 24-20 over Temple, only the second time the program had come to the City of Brotherly Love. The decision to come back to Philadelphia was made somewhat easy by the fact that Saturday’s contest will be the only game in

the Football Bowl Subdivision on the weekend. The rest of the FBS concluded the regular season this past weekend, with the four teams in the College Football Playoff being announced on Sunday. Navy leads the all-time series, 59-49-7, and has experienced a period of historic dominance of late. The Midshipmen have won each of the last 13 meetings between the two academies, the longest such streak in series history. Particular attention will also be paid to Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds, who has the potential to have the best finish in Heisman Trophy voting out of the military academies since Dee Dowis, of the Air Force Academy, finished sixth in 1989. No member of the academies has won since Roger Staubach did as a member of the Midshipmen in 1963. Reynolds also currently holds the FBS record with 83 career rushing touchdowns, and looks to add to that total before his final regularseason game. The game kicks off at 3 p.m.

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As Penn men’s and women’s swimming showed over the weekend, sometimes, when David gets matched up against Goliath, Goliath wins. Matched up against a field composed mainly of Division III programs — including host Kenyon, the nation’s top-ranked D-III squad — the Red and Blue dominated at the Total Performance Invitational, winning 28 events across men’s and women’s competition en route to two commanding team victories. Over the course of the threeday event, both teams combined to put up 5,698.5 points. Kenyon — which finished second in both men’s and women’s competition — did not even break a combined 4,000. No Penn swimmer was more representative of the program’s overall dominance than sophomore Rochelle Dong. In what is generally regarded as one of the faster pools in the nation, Dong broke three separate school records — the 100yard fly, the 100 back and the 50 free. The youth movement would continue for the women’s side in the 200 fly, as freshman Nancy Hu came just one-hundredth of a second short of a school record. Meanwhile, senior captain

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Red and Blue event victories Chris Swanson notched a school record of his own in the 1650 free, a performance that earns him an automatic bid to NCAA’s later this season. The senior, who earned honorable mention All-American honors last season, is showing signs of his complete return to form after

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a relatively slow start to the season. On the men’s side, the Quakers would go on to establish an additional four school records, courtesy of Eric Schultz, Mark Andrew, Grant Proctor and the team’s 800 free relay group. Following their outstanding

performance, the Red and Blue will get some time to rest over the upcoming holiday break. Both the men’s and women’s squads will not return to competitive action until Jan. 9, when they take on Dartmouth and Yale in their first Ivy tri-meet of the year at Sheerr Pool.

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What’s a story involving swords without three musketeers? This weekend, Penn fencing sent three of its finest to Baltimore, Md., for the December edition of the North American Cup. Junior Alejandra

Trumble and the freshman pair of Simone Unwalla and Julian Merchant competed in epee, foil and sabre, respectively. After a headline-snatching sweep of the Elite Invitational a fortnight ago, the three carried high expectations with them to Baltimore, but they are also riding on high momentum after such a feel-good performance in Philly two weeks prior. And while Merchant will not finish his bouts in Baltimore until tonight, the two female

delegates from the Red and Blue have returned home having claimed quite a few scalps. Trumble finished in 29th place out of 136 competitors in the epee, while Unwalla enjoyed a stellar series of duels, ending her endeavor in the foil section in seventh place out of 110 contestants. Meanwhile, the third combatant for Penn is seeking to fight his way to the top of a highly competitive field of over 100 men in the Division I sabre

category. Merchant is hoping to make it three for three successful showings at this North American Cup for the Quakers. The freshman from New York will likewise be looking to make his name for the Red and Blue at his first major opportunity to do so. If he can follow the footsteps of his fellow fencers, it can be one for all in terms of another positive weekend for the Quakers.

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competition is really valuable,â&#x20AC;? Tirapelle commented. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The way that those guys wrestle, where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at now, it reminds us what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to do. With hundreds of wrestlers entered in the tournament, the Open represents some of the toughest competition Penn faces all year. And the Quakers, competing at the Open for the first time since 2010, performed admirably in the face of such staunch competition. The team placed five over the course of the day, with No. 10 Lorenzo Thomas and Casey Kent leading the way for the Red and Blue. Thomasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; showing was particularly impressive, as, despite being stricken with a bout of illness, he managed to reach the final of the 184-pound weight class. Before he could start the match against Michael Macchiavello of North Carolina State, his sickness worsened, and he was forced medically forfeit the first-place bout. Tirapelle recognized the determination of his star wrestler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Lorenzo showed a lot of heart. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had wrestlers in

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Usually, comparing Penn to its state-funded counterpart elicits irritated exclamations or dismissive scoffs. On Sunday, however, Penn wrestling traveled to University Park, this time looking to emulate the success of the Nittany Lions. Ranked the No. 1 team in the country by InterMat, Penn State hosted the annual Nittany Lion Open on Sunday, inviting many of the top Division I teams from across the country. Coached by legendary former NCAA champion and Olympic gold medalist Cael Sanderson, Penn State wrestling has recently been a force within collegiate wrestling. Coach Alex Tirapelle says his team welcomed the challenge of facing such talent on the mat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real positive for the team. I think going up against and seeing that level of

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some food come up. He knew going in that the gas tank wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t completely full, and he wrestled smart. He picked his spots and picked up a couple of tough wins.â&#x20AC;?

Thomas was the not the only grappler to make his mark on Sunday. With No. 8 C.J Cobb sidelined after sustaining an injury during Novemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Keystone Classic, the Quakers

five games. With an astonishing victory within reach, Odell scratched out a triumphant final game to cement Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s status atop the scorecard by the thinnest of margins. It was deja vu at Ringe as the Red and Blue streamed onto the court. Odell explained the gravity of the situation, and how he fought through it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think when I was up 10-6 and saw everyone crowding around the court, I realized it was up to me,â&#x20AC;? Odell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, I had to stay strong and keep doing what I was doing to

get me to that point in the match. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never had a match come down to me [at] four-all so it was definitely a special and great feeling.â&#x20AC;? In two days, the Quakers had defeated the third- and fourthranked teams in the nation. With their collective confidence at an all-time high, they made light work of Williams later that day with an easy 9-0 victory, keeping the flawless record intact. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not at the top one or two level yet, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think, maybe we are, but we thought maybe we could achieve top five this year, Penn coach Jack Wyant said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To see the guys perform this well under the pressure of knowing they were not gonna get too many chances against the top-five teams before break was really special.â&#x20AC;? The captain shared his thoughts on what gives this team that

winning edge with these monumental matches on the line. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think this year we came in really knowing we would have to work hard and give it our all to have a shot at the Ivy Championship and finish at the top of the country. And everyone was hungry, and knew that though we had a lofty goal, it was attainable,â&#x20AC;? Odell said. Meanwhile, the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team once again showed no sign of weakness Sunday afternoon, dominating the visitors from both St. Lawrence and Williams to the tune of 9-0 victories and improving to 4-0 on the season with 36 individual matches won and zero lost. The match was almost anti-climactic for the second-ranked team in the nation, which took most matches in three games en route

to capping off the perfect weekend for the Red and Blue . For Wyant, the success of the two programs is shared, and he expressed pride in how far both teams had come since he came to Penn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was lucky to be hired here 12 years ago to coach the women and try to get them to an elite level, and then was even luckier to have the opportunity to coach both teams. I remember sitting down with thenAthletic Director Steve Bilsky and saying that our goal was to get the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program on par with the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s,â&#x20AC;? Wyant said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interesting that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna go into break as the second-ranked team on both sides.â&#x20AC;? With a long break ahead, the Quakers have time to rest and recuperate, and come January, make a run for the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top seed.

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Senior captain Lorenzo Thomas made the first-place bout at the Nittany Lion Open in State College, Pa., this weekend, but was forced to medically forfeit after battling illness throughout the tournament.

third-ranked Saint Lawrence as well as Williams were coming to Ringe to square off. And for the Quakers, a second top-five upset was looming. The home team traded matches with the visiting Saints, with a key victory coming from sophomore Derek Hsue, who battled back from a two-game hole. Hsueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victory brought each side level at four wins and placed all the pressure on the shoulders of senior captain Tyler Odell, who engaged in a nail-biter with Julian Jervis that went the distance of

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the same situation before, where they were less than 100 percent physically. Lorenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s [situation] was worse though because he was really sick â&#x20AC;? Tirapelle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He had a little diarrhea and had

needed to find another key performer to ensure success. Kent, coming off an injury of his own, responded in kind, posting a 5-1 record for the meet and recording two major decisions, a technical fall and a pin. With his lone loss to Myles Martin of Ohio State, Kent finished third at 174 pounds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were looking at almost a month without any competition [for Kent]. So the first one back is always going to start a little rusty,â&#x20AC;? said Tirapelle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was still less than a 100 percent but he found a way to bounce back after he lost in the semifinals. Caleb Richardson, Frank Mattiace and May Bethea also placed for the Red and Blue, finishing fourth, fifth and fourth in their respective weight classes. Penn wrestling, as a whole, finished third with 120 points, behind only Rutgers and host Penn State. The Quakers are off until the new year. Following the weekend, they return to campus, where they will have almost a month to prepare for their next competition, the Southern Scuffle at Tennessee-Chattanooga.

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Friend and foe: Quakers begin season with Red and Blue meet contest a tight affair JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Reporter

This weekend, Penn gymnastics faced a very familiar opponent: itself. The Quakers split up into two teams for a night of flips, twists and turns at the Red and Blue meet Friday night at the Nalitt Family Gymnastics Center. Although the Blue team narrowly edged out their Red counterparts, 111.95-111.65, each team took two of the four events — the Red team winning beam and floor, while the Blue team captured vault and bars. However, this meet was not as much about the score as it was getting the team ready for the season. “Getting in the competitive setting like tonight is very motivating as a gymnast, so once they get a taste of it, they work harder,

they want to keep up their routines and be ready for that first competition,” assistant coach Kirstin Strausbaugh said. The meet featured a much looser setting than normal. Gymnast introductions started off the night, and fans and athletes continued interacting throughout the entire meet. In the background, upbeat music played the whole time, with several of the gymnasts dancing along. Despite the laid back environment, the team brought lots of energy in the form of consistent cheering. It didn’t matter which team the gymnasts had been assigned — the Quakers cheered regardless of the side each competitor was on and often lined up to congratulate each competitor after they finished their routine. “I liked the energy, I liked the way they finished strong on all of their routines, and just the whole atmosphere and camaraderie was excellent,” head coach John Ceralde said.

jumps and routines. more pressure than at an away “A lot of girls hit their rou- meet where they don’t know tines, which is obviously what anyone in the crowd even if there we’re looking for, but even the is a crowd, so just getting them girls [for whom] maybe some- of any spectators is a step in the thing small went wrong, they right direction,” she said. kept fighting through until the Even though the Quakers ofend, and that’s exactly what we ficially kicked off their season wanted to see tonight,” Straus- with the Red and Blue meet, baugh said. they still have more than a month For the Red and Blue’s seven until their return to action— and freshmen, Friday represented their first real competition— their first experience in a colle- against George Washington. giate setting. Even though this That prolonged break might meet had a different atmosphere derail the momentum and energy than most meets they will com- of some teams, but not this one. pete in throughout their career at “We just continue what we’ve Penn, the experience is one that been doing from day one,” Cerwill be vital to them. alde said. “We just work on “It’s a step to be competitive, being consistent and work on just to get [the freshman] in front minor details and become stronof a crowd,” Ceralde said. “And ger and being more consistent.” with the podium being right The next time Penn has a 4 4 4 3 33 ST STILANA ST meet, they’ll go up against an WURMAN | DP FILE PHOTO there, it added a little pressure Although a number of Penn gymnasts saw their first action on Friday, because on beam they’re seeing unfamiliar opponent. But the senior Morgan Venuti enters 2015-16 ready to build on a solid junior year. everyone at their eye level. people they competed against Strausbaugh agreed. this weekend will all be there, The team’s performance was so early in the season, as many “Sometimes, when they’re cheering them on in a similar quite encouraging, especially Film gymnasts fullyyou completed inhow front of you their peers, it’s even fashion. Film Film polled polled polled you you totofitond fitheir find nd out out out how how you you are are are getting getting getting your your your Sunday Sunday Sunday afternoon afternoon afternoon

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pressuring them and getting a hand in their face, and we, in the post, really locked down the paint.” In the second half, Penn didn’t budge, maintaining control the rest of the way thanks in part to a nine-point run from Brzozowski. With the Quakers commanding a 29-22 lead with 5:53 remaining in the third quarter, the sophomore guard checked in. After hitting a layup with 4:30 left in the period, she would hit three jumpers, including one from deep. “I think we have six starters here. Beth is playing upwards of 20 minutes,” McLaughlin said. “She can shoot the three, she opens the floor up, she can handle the ball, she has good court vision, and she really opened the game up for us today.” The Quakers are still a team transitioning into the season. After graduating Kathleen

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Roche, Kara Bonenberger, Katy Allen and Renee Busch in May, Penn has gone with a different look on offense, with Chambers taking over the point and Whitlatch stepping into a larger shooting role. While Whitlatch shot just 1-for-11 from the field — every single one of her shots came from three — on an off day, McLaughlin is confident she will make up for the loss of sharpshooters Roche and Busch. “I’m liking the way Lauren is confident shooting. She can shoot the basketball, she has a great, quick release,” the said. “She didn’t make shots today, but she did okay. But yeah, we have to shoot the three. We have to show we can make perimeter shots to open the court up for our post players.” The Red and Blue will make the short trip to Saint Joseph’s on Tuesday to open Big Five play against the 2-4 Hawks.

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Dan Dwyer made his second career start in Penn basketball’s third straight loss.

As the old cliche goes, “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.” But when teams dig themselves into big, early holes, there is often no chance to recover, and Penn men’s basketball learned this the hard way on Saturday. On the road against George Mason, the Quakers fell behind early and couldn’t make up the lost ground, culminating in a 63-44 loss. The Quakers (4-4) found themselves down by a significant margin for the third straight game. With just under four minutes played, the Patriots (4-5), held an 8-0 lead. The run finally ended when senior Darien Nelson-Henry finished in close to the basket. The Kirkland, Wash., native finished with 10 points and 11 rebounds, joining sophomore guard Antonio Woods as the only members of the Red and Blue who finished the game with double-digit points. Coach Steve Donahue noted that one of the keys to George Mason’s success was its ability to effectively contain Nelson-Henry, who has led the way for Penn’s offense of late. "[We] just didn’t do a good job of moving the ball properly. They guarded Darien really well, the first time someone’s really guarded him, and they did a terrific job,” he said. “Terrific defensive team on the road, SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 15

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SQUASH | Teams sweep

weekend, stay perfect GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

Still perfect. During an action-packed weekend, Penn squash won a combined five matches as both the men’s and women’s teams remained undefeated on the season. On the men’s side, the No. 7 Quakers pulled off upsets of No. 4 Rochester and No. 3 St. Lawrence before sweeping Williams, while the women, who faced only the

latter two teams on the weekend, coasted through their matches without dropping a single game. The men (6-0) came into the day having beaten three ranked opponents to start off the year and continued the trend with an upset of Rochester, 6-3, at Ringe Courts. With five match victories needed to claim the day, the Red and Blue went up 4-3 and could nearly taste victory amidst the sweat and adrenaline. As all storybook endings must play out, both of the final two matches went five games. On court four, Penn freshman Max Reed was deadlocked with opponent Micky Bertocchi, having

fought back to force a decisive game five. With the crowd swelling around the glass and cheers coming down from the upper tiers, Reed ground out a decisive 11-6 victory, granting Penn its fifth match and the win for the day. As he dropped his racket and started to exit the court, Reed could not even get as far as his water bottle before a mob of his Red and Blue teammates carried their hero around Ringe to shouts of triumph. “That was pretty sweet,” Reed said of the post-match chaos. “So awesome. Just surreal to be honest.” After winning the pivotal match for Penn, Reed lent much of the

credit for his own success to his support staff behind him and on the other courts. “All my coaches and teammates have just given me a ton of confidence, and the captains especially,” Reed said. “Everyone has so much confidence in each other, it’s hard not to have confidence in yourself while you’re out there.” After winning a key match of his own, sophomore Hayes Murphy shed some light on what this victory means for the program, which moves forward with much to gain in the weeks ahead. SEE SQUASH PAGE 14

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Penn defense sinks Navy as Quakers win fifth straight

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coach nears milestone JACOB ADLER Associate Sports Editor

WILLIAM SNOW | SPORTS REPORTER

Sophomore guard Beth Brzozowski scored all nine of her points during a crucial third quarter run for the Quakers on Saturday . Brzozowski has been a key presence of the bench for Penn all season, serving as essentially a “sixth starter.” SEND STORY IDEAS TO DPSPORTS@THEDP.COM

Winning streak: five. Career wins for Mike McLaughlin: 499. Penn women’s basketball sunk Navy, 57-43, at the Palestra on Saturday afternoon, the fourth time in five games the Quakers have managed to hold their opponents under 50 points. The win gives the Red and Blue (5-1) some momentum going into the Big 5 portion of the season. The Mids (4-4) took an

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early 8-0 lead in the first quarter, holding the Quakers scoreless until a three-point play from junior center Sydney Stipanovich six minutes into the game. Penn narrowed the gap as the quarter wound down, coming within a single point at 11-10 as the second quarter began. The teams exchanged baskets throughout the second period, but after a threepointer from sophomore Lauren Whitlatch gave the Red and Blue the lead with 2:38 remaining in the half, they never trailed again. Stipanovich led the Quakers with 16 points and 15 rebounds — her second-straight game

with a double-double — and chipped in three blocks on the defensive end. Sophomore forward Michelle Nwokedi came close to a double-double of her own, adding 11 points and nine boards, while three guards — senior Kasey Chambers and sophomores Anna Ross and Beth Brzozowksi — scored nine points apiece. Neither offense saw much success in the first half, with the Quakers shooting 9-for-23 and Navy managing just 8-for29 from the field. The teams combined for 16 turnovers and only five three-pointers on 19 attempts, as strong defensive SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 15