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DPS HAS IT ON Fattah sentenced to 10 years Longtime Philadelphia Rep. convicted for racketeering conspiracy CHRIS MOUNTANOS Staff Reporter

Former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on corruption-related charges, according to a report from Philly.com. He will begin his term on Jan. 25.

Fattah, whose area of representation during his 21 years in Congress included Penn’s West Philadelphia campus, also earned a degree in 1986 from the Fels Institute of Government. He later gave the school’s commencement address in 2012 and received a Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.

This prison term is the second-longest sentence ever given to a member of Congress, but fell below the 17 to 22 year sentence prosecutors requested.

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Some students object to policy, claiming an invasion of privacy CARL-EMMANUEL FULGHIERI Staff Reporter

Worried about leaving your place uninhabited during winter break? Penn’s Division of Public Safety has your back.

As students leave their residences for break, they need not fear that their property is at risk. During Thanksgiving, winter and spring breaks, students can take advantage of free residence visits by Penn Police to check for signs of criminal activity or security breaches.

This service, which has been provided for years, is free and available to all residents in

the Penn patrol zone, stretching from 30th to 43rd Street and from Baltimore Avenue to Market Street. In the past, exterior examinations of residences have successfully found unlocked doors, open windows and other potential security threats.

Some students are hesitant to use a program involving the police. A sophomore fraternity brother at an off-campus house, who wishes to remain anonymous, felt that the program was unnecessary.

“If we need someone to check up on our house we would just ask the landlord,” he said.

“Kids in this house leave their bong out … don’t want the cops seeing that.”

However, the danger of burglary always exists and DPS says that the special checks

focus on the exterior of the building. Over Thanksgiving break, a house on Spruce was burglarized after one of the residents unwittingly left a door unlocked. After not signing up for the program, College senior Michael Palamountain thought that if he and his housemates had signed up, they may have avoided the trouble.

“We like to think of ourselves as immune to crime, living in the Penn bubble but we cannot let that blind us to the reality that we live in,” he said. “If we don’t protect our personal belongings and property, there are people who will be cunning enough to take it from us when we least expect it. I think this service offered SEE DPS PAGE A7

Penn activists plan for future protests Groups aim to increase campus awareness of social issues

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Future protests organized by Penn Democrats will focus on women’s rights, LGBTQ issues, immigration and gun violence.

Students across campus are planning to promote continued dialogue surrounding the Trump administration, which they see as a necessary first step for the future of campus electionrelated protests.

Students who created a public art installation critiquing Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, as well as newly elected Penn Democrats President and College

sophomore Rachel Pomerantz, agreed on the importance of protests to make the public aware of the Trump administration’s activity in the coming months.

This was the main objective of the recent cabinet installation on Locust Walk, according to College sophomore Jolie Gittleman.

The display was created by a group of students, including Gittleman, as an assignment for the class, “Art, Design and Digital Culture” in the Fine Arts Department. It provided information SEE ACTIVISM PAGE A2

Penn students weigh in on short length of reading days Peer schools have up to nine days to study for exams REBECCA LIEBERMAN Contributing Reporter

With finals getting closer every minute, Penn students have hit the libraries to cram during the two-day reading period. Meanwhile, students

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at Harvard University have had all week to prepare for their exams.

This year, Penn has set aside Dec. 12 and 13 as days for students to study without having to attend classes. However, peer institutions such as Yale University and Harvard University devote an entire week to the reading period, and Princeton University has a nine-day reading period.

“I think people are really happy about having an entire week of no classes,” Harvard freshman Lily Jacobs said. “I also don’t have any rehearsals this entire week, so I can spend as much time as I want just in the library studying.”

Jacobs added that having a whole week without obligations requires serious time management, as students

tend to procrastinate.

“Also, there are weirdly a lot of formals during this week and things like Primal Scream,” she said, referring to Harvard students’ tradition of running a lap, while naked, around Harvard Yard.

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Pennsylvania blocks Steinbacked election recount

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Voters can still initiate a recount through affadavits

This field of research emerged in the 1980s

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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is now one for three in her quest for statewide vote recounts in the 2016 election.

On Monday, United States District Judge Paul Diamond ruled against recounting all paper ballots in Pennsylvania and blocked Stein from inspecting voting machines in certain counties, according to a Politico report.

This decision is consistent with the Michigan Supreme

Court’s refusal last week to undergo a statewide recount at Stein’s behest. Wisconsin is the lone state that approved Stein’s recount request, which is scheduled to be completed on Monday.

Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin are all battleground states in which President-elect Donald Trump narrowly beat Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton. Stein was fighting an uphill battle in Pennsylvania, as it is the only state where candidates cannot initiate a direct recount request themselves and must typically go through the courts.

However, a path separate from the courts still remains

for a vote recount in Pennsylvania, which would have to be initiated by voters.

A statewide recount in Pennsylvania can be issued if voters in every precinct submit affidavits to their clerks asking for recounts in their respective divisions, according to Politico. Three voters from each precinct must sign and file an affidavit. As of Nov. 28, 100 of the necessary 9,163 voting precincts had submitted requests — only a fraction of the requests needed to successfully initiate a vote recount.

It appears as if Trump’s 70,638 vote lead in Pennsylvania will stand.

Students share plans for upcoming winter break Some curtailed plans due to shortened break BOWMAN COOPER Staff Writer

Nayef Yassin Yassin, an Engineer ing sophomore, felt the two-day travel time to his home in Palestine was too long for this year’s shortened winter break, so he decided to make alternative plans. He instead connected with his Palestinian friends living in the United States. He and his friends plan to travel around Florida and then take a road trip to meet up with more friends in Texas.

Jackson Betz Betz, a College sophomore, was was surprised to find out that his high school calculus teacher gives ghost tours in Gettysburg. “Never would have expected my calculus teacher to do ghost tours,” he said. “She’s this really logicalminded civil engineer.” Betz plans to get together with his high school calculus class over break to attend one of the tours of their former instructor.

Madeline Kleypas Kleypas, a College senior, plans to take a trip around Ireland with her boyfriend and his family over break.

They will be spending every night from Christmas to New Year’s in a different city, beginning and ending their trip in Dublin. “They’re renting a

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Engl ish Ph.D. st udent Clare Mullaney was recently awarded the 2016 Irving K. Zola Pr ize for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies.

At Penn, Mullaney works towards building an intellectual community on campus around disability studies.

Disability studies is a relatively new field that emerged in the 1980s primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Mullaney said that the field analyzes the meaning, nature and consequences of disability as a social construct.

“Disability studies focuses not on the fixed medical trait, but focuses more on the social and cultural experience,” Mullaney said. “A lot of scholars and activists use the example of wheelchair users. They’re not necessarily disabled until they encounter a curb on the street that doesn’t have a cut in it. Disability studies is invested in the idea that the world disables people rather than people being inherently disabled.”

Mullaney became interested in disability studies as an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr College when she was doing mental health advocacy work while completing her degree

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Some students are escaping the winter weather on campus and traveling to Serbia, Israel and Ireland.

big car so we’re going to do a road trip around the country, seeing all the major sights and little towns here and there,” Kleypas said.

Ana Miletic College junior Ana Miletic will be spending her winter break visiting friends and family in Serbia. She plans to work in Serbia after graduating, so she hopes to meet with Serbs working in marketing.

She also hopes to start a blog during break, documenting “a bit of the modern-day Serbian perspective towards American politics,” she said. Miletic is also excited to celebrate New

Year’s Eve in Belgrade, which was ranked the world’s best party town by an online travel website.

Emily Lurie Lurie, a College sophomore, is going to travel to Israel over winter break with the Jewish National Fund. According to the program’s website, JNF’s Alternative Break in Israel is “a week-long service trip for Jewish college students and young adults ages 18-24 to volunteer in Israel.” The goal of the trip, according to the website, is to allow its participants to “make a personal impact in Israel.”

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about Trump’s recent cabinet picks by featuring actual cabinets adorned with information, photographs and quotes. Students also handed out flyers to supplement this information. Gittleman and College sophomores Caroline Kuchta and Vanessa Levy said they felt that their project was a success.

“We are very satisfied with the responses we got,” Levy said. She added that many members of the Penn community reported feeling more informed after viewing the art installation.

Gittleman added that there “really was no negative response” despite her initial concern that protests might be less effective now than they were before the election.

“We were wondering if a lot of people were sick of hearing political things,” Gittleman said. “We found that they weren’t.”

She cited the nuanced and specific nature of the cabinet installation as what drew people in and distinguished it from other election-related protests.

“We were able to keep a dialogue going and make our project

in English.

“When I was thinking about grad school and pursuing my interest in academia, one of my professors mentioned that I could think of mental health as a disability and go into this new field called disability studies,” Mullaney said. “It is great that I can combine my passions of activism, mental health and scholarly work.”

Disability studies started out in the social sciences but then in the 1990s, a professor at Emory University, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, wrote the book, ”Extraordina r y Bodies,” which discusses the literary representations of people with physical disabilities, such as Captain Ahab in Moby Dick.

In the summer of 2016, Mullaney taught a class on disability studies, which examined topics such as ability, ableism, access, accommodation, representation and stigma through literature and film.

Mullaney has worked to build an intellectual community on campus around disability studies and cofounded the Penn Disability St ud ies Work i ng G roup, where faculty and students — both graduates and undergraduates — interested in questions about disability and access can convene.

“We’ll meet to discuss new articles that have been published in the field,” she said.

“Often we’ll have a speaker come to share a work in progress or deliver a paper that they’re working on. But in the future, I would like to do more advocacy work in making Penn a more accessible campus.”

Becoming a more accessible campus would include encouraging professors and graduate students to put accessibility statements on their syllabi.

“And for the access statements, it could also include making sure not to just copy the statement that Student Disability Services gives you and instead asking the students about how we could change the physical classroom to accommodate a variety of different abilities,” Mullaney said.

At universities like Penn with old buildings, it can be a challenge for students with physical disabilities to access all of campus. Mullaney said it is important for students to consider the obstacles students with disabilities go through.

“At a school like Penn, that is very high achieving, disabilities can be very hard to think about because it works against everything we pride, like success and ability,” Mullaney said. “So we need to think of ways to alert people that thinking about disabilities puts pressure on some of the assumptions that we make about what we prize and take for granted.”

specific,” Gittleman said.

Kuchta also emphasized the role of post-election protests in continuing dialogue.

“I was really worried after the election that the protests were going to stop. I almost think it’s more important to do protests now than it was immediately postelection,” Kuchta said.

“We need to make sure that people are actually making concrete actions toward fixing the things that they’re protesting,” she added. “The election isn’t just a thing that happened three weeks ago and is now over.”

Pomerantz echoed this sentiment and stressed the importance of continued awareness.

Other than focusing on upcoming political races, next semester, Penn Democrats hopes “to be visible and not complacent,” Pomerantz said.

“We will not let people forget how important the issues are and how perverted the Trump administration’s positions are from the norm,” she added. “The cabinet art installation by the group of Fine Arts students was a great example of how this could be achieved.”

Student were unsure about what future election-related

protests will look like, but all reported feeling hopeful about campus activism.

Penn Democrats is “still in the formulation stage” of deciding what types of activism the group will conduct next semester, but will likely focus on women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, immigration and gun violence, according to Pomerantz.

The students that created art installation agreed that artwork is only one of the ways to make political statements.

“Though art tends to be political, hopefully people will be making use of other mediums to make political comments,” Levy said.

“People will use whatever skills they have to make an impact,” Gittleman added.

Pomerantz predicts that future protests “will take a multitude of forms” and emphasized the importance of staying informed.

Kuchta also stressed the importance of dispersing information through a mix of mediums.

“I just think it’s really important in this age when we don’t trust the media to have transparency in other ways and to get information across to people in ways that they actually will listen to,” she said.

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‘Bells’ on Locust Walk ring in memory of Penn alumni Sounds come from an instrument called the carillon GENEVIEVE GLATSKY News Editor-elect

Every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the hour, the sound of bells fills Penn’s campus. But unlike universities with prominent bell towers, Penn’s bells are nowhere to be seen.

That’s because the sound comes from an automatic instrument called a carillon kept in the Sweeten Alumni House.

The carillon, which Kristina Clark, the director of operations and Association of Alumnae referred to as “the secret of the Alumni House,” has a story rooted in tragedy.

It was originally installed due to the efforts of Mike Huber, a 1953 Wharton graduate, who for years served as associate vice president

of alumni relations. He donated it in 1989 in memory of his daughter Michele Huber and her fiance Bryan Giles, both 1987 graduates from Wharton and Engineering, who were killed in a car accident in 1988.

Clark recalled that Huber visited another college and noticed that the sound of bells was missing from Penn’s campus.

“They were young, they were happy, and they were in love. I know they’d appreciate this is here today,” Huber told The Daily Pennsylvanian in 2011 before his death in 2015. “It’s good to know that they’ll never be forgotten.”

When the carillon was first installed, Huber managed it through the alumni office. When he retired, he took it on as his own project, making a contribution every year to pay for its upkeep.

But although the carillon has

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When 1953 Wharton graduate Mike Huber, a passionate alumnus, passed away, well-wishers sent monetary donations in lieu of flowers.

been a fixture on Penn’s campus for several decades now, few students know that it exists.

“People are always wondering, ‘Where are the bells coming

from?’” Clark said. “They’re looking for a bell tower, and it’s a tiny little box.”

Speakers for the device used to sit atop several campus buildings

Philadelphia embraces the holiday season De-stress by getting off campus this week ISABELLA CAITO Contributing Reporter

If puppies, holiday-themed study breaks and free cookies aren’t enough to distract you from the stress of finals season, check out these Philadelphia events to get your mind off that last exam: Christmas Village in Philadelphia For a quick dose of holiday spirit, head to the Christmas Village, located in front of City Hall until Dec. 24. This holiday market — designed after traditional German Christmas markets — features more than 80 wooden booths selling gifts, jewelry, toys and delicious holiday foods.

Rothman Ice Rink Also in front of City Hall is the Rothman Ice Rink, now in its third year there. You can

forget finals by focusing on trying to keep your balance and then grabbing hot chocolate afterwards at the Rothman Institute Cabin. This year, the rink also features the America’s Garden Capital Maze, a brand-new pop-up holiday garden in the form of maze. If you don’t get a chance to catch this before the end of finals season, don’t worry — the rink will remain open until Feb. 26.

Linvilla Orchards’ Christmasland Linvilla Orcha rds offers more than just apple picking — Linvilla’s Christmasland runs through Dec. 24. Cut down a Christmas tree if you’re feeling particularly into the Christmas spirit or just enjoy the decorations, hot mulled cider and smell of freshly cut pine.

Gourmet Latkes at Latkepalooza If you’re a stress-eater, Latkepalooza, held at the Gershman Y on Sunday, Dec. 18,

can provide you with a festive outlet for all your finals worries. At this event, some of the top chefs in Philadelphia — including the chefs behind Sabrina’s Cafe and Federal Donuts — come together to present their takes on the traditional Hanukkah treat. A general admission ticket buys you 10 latkes and access to the event’s live music and Hanukkah crafting.

Gingerbread Architecture Challenge Cha nnel yo u r finals stress into a different sort of competition — gingerbread architecture. This event, offered at the Center for Architecture and Design now through Dec. 24, challenges anyone and everyone to come up with the most elaborate, impressive gingerbread display they can for a chance to win $500. The competition’s registration period has passed, but you can always go to marvel at the creations

including Sansom East and West and Irvine Auditorium, but sometime around the 1990s, the old speakers stopped functioning due to construction projects. Huber again paid to maintain the carillon, although now it only plays from the top of the Sweeten Alumni House on Locust Walk.

In 2004, a new digital carillon replaced the older one. Huber covered the cost, which Clark estimated was $12,000 to install and roughly $5,000 annually to maintain.

In addition to playing traditional bells, it plays songs randomly from its portfolio of around 40 songs, from artists like Beethoven, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel and albums such as the Star Wars soundtrack. But that’s not all — the carillon can play any song programmed into it. When Penn hosted the Ivy Plus conference, the carillon played the songs of the

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Penn spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy declined to com ment on Fattah’s sentencing on Monday afternoon.

At Monday’s hea r ing, Fattah said the trial “has been the most disappointing event in my now 60-year life,” according to Philly. com’s report. He added, “I’ve helped tens of millions of people and that has nothing to do with the fact that I have been found on the wrong side of these questions by a jury.”

Fat t a h was convicted on June 21 of 18 counts,

and cast your vote for the best display. “ Headed to the W hite House” at the Constitution Center For a holiday-unrelated but still timely activity, head to the National Constitution Center and check out its “Headed to the White House” exhibit before it ends on Dec. 31. It’s an interactive exhibition that examines the U.S. election system and allows you to roleplay as a presidential hopeful.

You’ll join the race, try to earn the nomination and then try to win the election.

visiting schools. For homecoming weekend it plays traditional Penn songs, and on occasion it plays for weddings on campus.

When Huber died last year, in lieu of flowers, people were asked to make donations to the University to care for the carillon. Thanks to gifts from friends and family, as well as groups like the Mask and Wig Club and Friars Senior Society, there is now enough money in the fund to maintain it for many years to come.

“In his memory, it will forever play now,” Clark said.

Although few students know the story of the carillon, Clark said Huber would have wanted it that way.

“He liked the fact that the students heard it and didn’t even necessarily know where it came from, that it was just part of their college life.”

i n clu d i n g r a ck e t e e r i n g conspiracy and money laundering tied to his misuse of ca mpa ig n cont r ibut ions, federal grant funds and charitable donations to compensate for his personal and political debts. Two days after the charges were released, he resigned from his seat after initially promising to stay the full length of his term. Fattah would have been ousted the following year regardless because he lost his April 26 primary to State Rep. Dwight Evans.

In addition to his prison sentence, Fattah is also required to pay $614,000 in restitution, according to Billy Penn.

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Engineering graduate student Stephen Kyle Wilshusen died over winter break.

His death was ruled a suicide. Wilshusen was a first-year Ph.D. student in computer science. He worked in the general robotics, automation, sensing and perception lab, a specialized lab within the Engineering School that does research in robotics.

Dean Vijay Kumar announced his death in an email to the Engineering community on Jan. 11.

With powerhouse Princeton coming off an historic 30-0 regular season in 2015, the Ivy League women’s basketball world was wondering who would be able to take down the juggernaut Tigers.

With star veterans Sydney Stipanovich, Michelle Nwokedi and Anna Ross joined by the presence of incoming transfer Kasey Chambers, Mike McLaughlin’s Penn squad was up to the task.

Two instant classic Penn-Princeton games were decided by a combined four points, and the Quakers came out on top of both, with four players scoring in double figures in an emotional 62-60 win at Princeton to clinch the school’s fourthever league championship.

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In what would be his last in-season race with the Quakers, then-senior Chris Swanson won the NCAA championship in the 1650yard freestyle. Swanson had finished 11th in the nation in 2015, just short of being an all-American, but shattered that mark in 2016 by finishing first. In a fairytale comeback, Swanson made up a three second deficit in the final 50 yards to steal a win, finishing just .12 seconds ahead of South Carolina’s Akaram Mahmoud. Swanson would go on to swim at US Olympic trials later that year.

CIA Director John Brennan’s moderated speech at the Penn Museum was shut down early by protesters who repeatedly interrupted to speak out against the United States government’s use of drones. A mixture of people who were and were not affiliated with Penn held up signs that read: “Drone strikes breed terrorism.”

They shouted phrases like “drones kill kids,” and “black lives matter.”

Many were escorted out of the building and the event sparked debates about free speech on college campuses in its aftermath.

Following the event, the administration sent out an email to Penn undergraduate students urging them to remember the importance of free speech.

Wharton junior Olivia Kong died in the early morning at the 40th Street station stop on SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line.

Her death was ruled a suicide. Students held a candlelight vigil on College Green that evening to remember her life. In response to Kong's death, criticism arose directed at both the University's culture surrounding mental health and the administration's handling of the announcement. The initial email from the President's office reported the incident but did not provide Kong's name, and an email from Wharton initially described her death as an "accident." Students circulated a petition to the administration that included a list of proposed mental health reforms. On April 20, the administration sent an email announcing the extension of CAPS hours and a guide to supporting peers.

Chance the Rapper performed at Franklin Field for Penn’s 2016 Spring Fling concert — after he almost called off the show due to illness. The Social Planning and Events Committee Concerts directors received a call from Chance’s management during opener DJ 3LAU’s set, detailing his reasons for cancellation. Chance eventually appeared onstage over an hour after the end of DJ 3LAU’s performance. The Chicago-born rapper had previously performed at the SPEC-TRUM fall concert in 2013. Since his performance at Spring Fling, Chance has released the mixtape “Coloring Book” and received seven Grammy Award nominations.

On the grandest stage in collegiate track and field at the Penn Relays, Penn picked up its first win in the 4x1600 since the Korean War. A good start by Keaton Naff, Chris Hatler, and Nick Tuck kept the Quakers in the race heading into the last leg. Even though he was down with 200 meters to go, Thomas Awad, the team’s last leg, was in prime position to take the lead and steal the win for the Quakers. As coach Steve Dolan said shortly after the race, "To be in the Penn uniform and win at the Penn Relays is about as good as it gets.” For Awad and the rest of his relay team, winning at the Penn Relays was the cherry on top of a banner year for track and field.

The summer was a big one for beverages. On the same day, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed a bill into law to make it easier to buy and sell beer, wine and liquor in Pennsylvania, and a City Council committee in Philadelphia approved a new tax on sugary drinks and diet sodas.

Manifestations of the alcohol law have since sprung up at Penn, with wine now available for sale in the Fresh Grocer and longer hours for the liquor store on 43rd and Chestnut. The soda tax doesn’t go into effect until Jan. 1. Experts are still unsure about how dramatically it will affect the cost of soda, but those changes could happen abruptly.

Philadelphia hosted the Democratic National Convention over the summer, and thousands descended on the Wells Fargo Center in late July to officially nominate Democratic candidates for president and vice-president in the 2016 presidential election. Hillary Clinton was chosen as the party’s nominee for president by a 59.67% majority of delegates, becoming the first female presidential candidate to be nominated by a major national party in the United States. Penn students volunteered at the convention and welcomed delegates through the Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee, chaired by former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell. The DNC was not without its controversies. In the weeks leading up to the convention, emails from the Democratic National Committee were leaked, and allegedly showed bias against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The chair of the committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned her position, and many Sanders supporters staged protests during the convention.

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Hundreds of flyers featuring an email allegedly sent by the off-campus organization OZ were posted across campus. The email, which was reportedly sent to freshman girls, included the subject line “Wild Wednesday” and a poem addressed to “ladies,” which read in part, “May we have your attention please/We’re looking for the fun ones/And say f**k off to a tease.”

The flyers were stamped with the words "THIS IS WHAT RAPE CULTURE LOOKS LIKE" and "WE ARE WATCHING". The protests sparked a media firestorm, with coverage from BuzzFeed, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Business Insider. The email also provoked condemnations from the Interfraternity Council, the University administration, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.). Nine hundred women from 17 affiliated sororities, off-campus organizations, coed fraternities and multicultural groups signed an open letter denouncing the "overarching culture" of misogyny in fraternities and other all-male organizations. Penn announced a task force in November to address the “negative influence of unaffiliated and unsupervised groups."

Second-year medical student Ari Frosh died early in the semester at his home in Massachusetts.

His death was ruled a suicide.

Frosh was 26 years old and on a leave of absence at the time.

He received his undergraduate degree from Colorado College in 2012, and worked at Bryn Mawr College and the National Cancer Institute before he enrolled at Penn. An email from Vice Provost for University Life Valarie SwainCade McCoullum read, “In sadness and with affectionate reflection, we write today to share that Ari Frosh, a second-year Medical student, died suddenly last week.” The email was co-signed

by Senior Vice Dean for Education at the Perelman School of Medicine and was sent on behalf of Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price.

Campaign surrogates for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton flocked to Philadelphia in droves this fall. President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren all made appearances at different points.

Just weeks before the election, Clinton and her running mate Tim Kaine (D-Va.) held a rally at Penn Park and addressed a packed crowd of students on a chilly night in October. In her remarks, the former senator and secretary of state mentioned The Daily Pennsylvanian’s endorsement of her candidacy and implored, “Friends don’t let friends vote for Trump."

Over the hump and then some. Penn sprint football has been a successful program for a number of years now, but with one everpresent caveat — that against Army and Navy, the Quakers wouldn’t stand a chance.

That caveat is no more. This season, in some of the most exciting Penn athletics games this semester in ANY sport, the Red and Blue knocked off both Army and Navy to claim a historic CSFL championship and their second-ever undefeated season. Senior captain Mike McCurdy unanimously earned the CSFL Player of the Year award, shattering numerous team records along the way. To say this season was a success would be a stark understatement.

Penn cross country had one of its most successful seasons in recent memory on both the men's and women's sides. Led by a strong class of seniors, the men captured their first Ivy Heptagonal Championship in 43 years, and five runners earned AllIvy honors. Senior Nick Tuck also qualified for the NCAA Championship after a sixthplace finish in Regionals. On the women's side, the team made its first ever NCAA Championship appearance, placing 24th overall. Senior Ashley Montgomery led the way for the Red and Blue, finishing 13th — good enough to make her a USTFCCCA All-American and tie the program record for best individual performance at NCAAs.

Engineering graduate student Alfredo “Freddy” Abravanel died, and his death was later ruled a suicide. Abravanel had sub-matriculated into Penn's master’s program in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics after graduating with his bachelor’s degree in 2016. The University sent an email to the entire School of Engineering and Applied Science, notifying them that he died "unexpectedly." President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price also announced a support session that was held later that day in the Towne Building.

A Penn alumnus was finally elected president. In an incredible upset, 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump flipped several key swing states by narrow margins to defeat Hillary Clinton. Trump capitalized heavily on the popular anti-establishment messaging that also fueled the candidacy of Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) earlier in the year. Several of Trump’s core policy positions — specifically those relating to religious freedom, immigration and climate policy — have drawn criticism at Penn, and the mood on campus was somber after Trump's election. Three of his children, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Tiffany Trump, also graduated from Penn. William Henry Harrison, the ninth president, briefly attended Penn's Medical School but did not graduate.

Several black freshmen were added against their will to a GroupMe titled "Mud Men” and “Trump is love” at different points, in which they were sent racist messages, an image of a lynching and an event called “Daily lynching.”

Penn officials announced that the three individuals linked to the GroupMe were all Oklahoma residents and that no Penn students were involved in sending the racist content.

After FBI and police investigations, a student at Tulsa Community College was placed on “interim academic suspension,” and a student at the University of Oklahoma was suspended.

The OU student is now no longer enrolled.

The incident was condemned by more than 460 Penn faculty members who signed an open letter urging President-elect Donald Trump to denounce the messages. Over 3,000 alumni also signed a five-page letter of support that appeared in the Nov. 15 issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian. Condemnations of the event also came from civil rights activist Deray McKesson, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), among others.

Maybe it wasn't as unexpected as the title run of Ray Priore's first season, but that doesn't mean Penn football's second Ivy League championship in as many years was any less sweet. In eerily similar fashion to last year's squad, a pair of non-conference losses dampened optimism around the program early on, but it was all business once league play hit, with the Red and Blue winning their first four conference games by a combined 80 points. After Penn took a 28-0 drubbing at the hands of Princeton, it was "win or go home" from there on out, and the Quakers did just that, with Alek Torgersen and Justin Watson leading a twominute drill for the ages to upset first-place Harvard before the squad officially locked up the title with a win at Cornell a week later.

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OPINION Freeing time GROWING PAINS | On reteaching ourselves how to let time pass

TUESDAY DECEMBER 13, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 122 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor WILL SNOW Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

When I finish my last day of classes each semester, feelings of happiness and relief sweep through me when I think about how I no longer have to wake up early, no longer have to speed-walk to class and come close to twisting my ankle on the Locust cobblestones. I can finally get a reprieve from the stringent, hectic schedule that I’ve been following for the past 15 weeks. Yet this final thought also makes me feel slightly anxious, slightly uncomfortable. This feeling is exacerbated whenever I look at my planner and am confronted with the seemingly endless expanse of time allotted for reading days and the ensuing week of finals.

During the semester, I often feel like my life is defined by hour-long blocks of time, as if I’m living inside a giant clock. Wake up, take shower, class, another class, lunch, study, class, meeting, meeting, dinner, study, go to sleep, repeat.

I am constantly looking at

my watch. What time is it?

How many more minutes until class starts? When do I have to leave to get to this meeting? How many hours of sleep will I be able to get tonight?

Once classes end, the rigid structure of my daily life begins to relax. And although during the semester, I talk about how much I can’t wait for the hectic pace of school to finally slow down, when it actually does, I don’t know what to do. I love the idea of free time but don’t know how to handle it.

I’ve been thinking about my paradoxical relationship to time a lot recently, because in some ways the nine-day gap between the end of classes and the end of the semester doesn’t feel like nearly enough time to study for my finals and write my papers. On the other hand, aside from some meetings and hangouts with friends, I have nothing planned except studying, which makes the time seem interminable. I

oscillate between panicking over how little time I have to do everything and panicking over how much time I have to fill before I can go home for break.

And when I do go home, one of the most difficult

30 minutes of free time between a class and a meeting. I was too tired to go to the library and study, so I came up with the very creative solution of sitting in Fisher-Bennett and scrolling through my phone.

We have to remind ourselves that letting time pass in stillness is not the same thing as wasting time.” transitions for me is temporal. The first couple of days, I think nothing of lying around the house, watching TV, reading, talking to friends and family. But after a week or so, I start to feel antsy because I’m not used to such an open and flexible schedule.

Small-scale versions of this happen at Penn all the time. The other day I had

After about 10 minutes, I became annoyed with myself. Why did I feel the need to “kill time” between events, instead of just being okay with the idea of time passing? Why did I feel the need to occupy those 30 uncharted minutes by mindlessly thumbing a phone screen? What made it so difficult for me to wrap my head around the idea of

“doing nothing” (just sitting there and thinking) that I tried to appear as if I was “doing something” (using my phone)?

Why are we so uncomfortable with the idea of stillness? We’re so uncomfortable with it that we pull out our phones to fill the two minutes it takes to log into the computers in Van Pelt. We’re so uncomfortable with it that we talk constantly of the need to “fill” empty time slots.

We’re so uncomfortable with it that we can’t fully appreciate our breaks from school because of our sensitivity to the concept of time. We count down how many days we have left to relax, but we also count the number of days before we’ll return to a predictable schedule. And thus, time passes.

It seems to me that free time cannot really be free time unless we stop thinking about, stop measuring, time. It is precisely for this reason that the transition from school to break is dif-

EMILY HOEVEN ficult: We have to reteach ourselves how to exist without alarms and due dates and blocked-out calendars.

We have to remind ourselves that letting time pass in stillness is not the same thing as wasting time. This is, after all, the only way we can bridge the gap between how often we say we want free time — how much we need it — and how unsure we are of what to do with it.

EMILY HOEVEN is a College junior from Fremont, Calif., studying English.

Her email address is ehoeven@ sas.upenn.edu. “Growing Pains” usually appear s e v e r y o t h e r Tu e s d a y.

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I wish I could say that 53 were some significant number in my life — my home address, my lucky number, something like that — because that would be one hell of a lede. But sadly, the number 53 holds no special significance for me, except that this column will be the 53rd installment of “Talking Backward/Fair Enough” — and also the last.

At the end of December, I’ll be graduating from Penn, and also changing roles within the DP after two years of being a weekly columnist. I have decided unilaterally that that’s a significant enough event to warrant some retrospection.

The DP’s analytics people tell me that there are a fair number of people (enough, at least, that they can’t all be my relatives) who for some unfathomable reason read this column nearly every week it comes

out. I find that hard to believe, but also tremendously humbling. The prospect of such people’s existence also provides me with a brilliant defense to the charge of pure self-indulgence which would otherwise arise fairly from my decision to write a self-reflection column in my final week: The computers told me somebody else might care.

So, having offered that apologia, a few parting thoughts and recollections.

First and foremost, I’ve really enjoyed writing this column, no matter how you slice it. I’ll try to avoid some of the usual “farewell” tropes by saying that it’s been a really excellent experience, and I’ll leave it at that.

I’ve had some fantastic exchanges with readers over email, both pleasingly laudatory and strikingly hostile, which is all well

and good. A student who I’d never seen before once spat at me while walking on campus, which I regard

still waiting for my invitation to join the Pizzagate conspiracy. I’ve also developed a bizarre paranoia

I’m calling it quits, but none of these problems are, and the hypocrites will win by default if they’re allowed to go unchallenged.” as something of a badge of honor. To paraphrase Charlie Young from “The West Wing,” if they’re spitting at you, you know you’re doing something right.

One time, my column got me interviewed on NPR, which I’m pretty sure is a qualification for membership in the highest rank of coastal-metropolitan liberal media elites — though I’m

which causes me to suspect that I’ve just been recognized unfavorably any time someone on campus looks twice at my face.

To my enduring surprise, despite frequent forays into hot-button campus controversies, I’ve still never written anything as unpopular as the column in which I suggested that the Fling concert should be defund-

ed. I think that says more about Penn than anything I’ve ever managed to put on paper.

I don’t want to overstate my own extremely limited impact on any issue of consequence, but if you’ve cared at all about any of the things I’ve written about consistently — the sorry state of campus political engagement, disturbing trends and behaviors in higher-ed administration, viewpoint diversity in academia, and so on — please keep your eyes open. I’m calling it quits, but none of these problems are, and the hypocrites will win by default if they’re allowed to go unchallenged. They always seem to anyway, but stay mad nevertheless.

There are, in my opinion, very few windmills out there that don’t deserve a good tilting.

And finally, the inevi-

ALEC WARD table thank-yous. Thanks to you, dear reader, for elevating this endeavor to some degree beyond pure selfindulgence. Thanks to the DP staff, Shawn and Isabel in particular. Thanks also to Alan, Bruce and Clara. It’s been fun.

And that’s all he wrote.

ALEC WARD is a College senior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard.

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New video dating app lets users ‘spin the bottle’ The new app targets 18 to 20 year olds BENJAMIN DUKAS Contributing Reporter

On Thursday, a video dating app called Spin the Bottle Video Chat was launched at Penn.

The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with the app’s CEO and co-founder, Matthew Cohen, to discuss this unique new way of dating.

Daily Pennsylvanian: How does Spin the Bottle Video Chat work?

Matthew Cohen: Spin the Bottle is a live video dating app, and it lets you go on 30 second live video dates. In the app, you actually play spin the bottle. But instead of playing in a room with friends, you are playing on your phone with compatible people nearby. Compatibility is determined based on age, gender and location, similar to most dating apps.

Then you spin a virtual bottle by swiping your finger. The users move around in circles, so you have to strategically decide when to spin. You are set up on a 30 second video date with the person it lands on. The app uses face detection, so if your face moves out of the camera it will automatically blur the image — this not Chat Roulette. You can feed the clock to extend the date. The dates are anywhere from thirty to ninety seconds long because each user can feed the clock once for thirty seconds. After you match up, we offer free voice calling, video calling and text messaging, all within the app. So you don’t have to give out your number before meeting, which our users really like.

DP: Who does the app target?

MC: We launched at Columbia University last month and we had a really positive response. We were going to launch

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city by city, but we wanted to get more people in the app sooner.

So we’ve begun rolling it out at colleges nationwide, including UPenn. We are focusing our promotional efforts on big schools in major cities. We are really targeting college students, ages 18 to 22.

DP: How did you think of this idea?

MC: I’m always brainstorming start-up ideas. I thought of doing a live video dating app because most dating apps today are photo-based, and after I established the general concept, I started thinking of names, themes and how it can make the user experience fun and memorable. The dating industry is a very crowded market, so I knew we would need more than just live video to stand out. And then I realized that the suspense of not knowing the people you are video chatting reminded me of the alternate party game spin the bottle. Live video and dating can be intimidating, so by doing it in the context of a fun, iconic, familiar game, we thought it would help take away some of the pressure.

DP: What are the advantages of video dating?

MC: Dating apps today are all photo-based. You don’t really know who you are meeting until you show up for that first date. You don’t know how they act, what they sound like, what their personality is like, whether there will be any chemistry. You can get some insight from a photo, but that is assuming that they actually look like their picture. Not to mention that photo-swiping is impersonal, superficial and based almost entirely on looks. The solution to this is simple: live video. Video allows for faceto-face interaction right from the first contact, which gives a sense of the person’s personality and whether there is any

chemistry. We believe that live video dates will lead to more meaningful connections, better in-person dates and will reduce the number of dates needed to find your match. And that is really what it’s all about, creating better interactions, better dates and eliminating that awkward first date experience.

DP: Is the app free?

MC: The app and all its core features are free. We do, however, offer free bonus features.

There are daily bonus spins where you can win coins every day, and you can use those to unlock those bonus features, or you could also purchase coin packs to unlock those features.

All the video chatting, spinning, video dates, messaging — all that is completely free and unlimited.

DP: Do the people on your spin floor have to be on the app at the moment you spin?

MC: They don’t necessarily have to be on the app. As long as you have the game turned on, you can be brought back into the app because you will receive a notification alerting you that someone landed on you, and as long as you get back to the app in time you will be pulled into that video date. But obviously it is live video, so eventually both people have to be in the app to connect.

DP: Is the app only available for iPhone?

MC: It’s only available for iPhone right now. We are focused on getting it to Android early next year. However, Android users can sign up on our website for our upcoming information.

DP: What if I’m nervous about meeting people in a live video chat?

MC: Give it a spin. You never know who you’ll meet.

This interview has been edited lightly for clarity.

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Health violations cited on campus Restaurants ordered to temporarily shut down DAN HAYES Contributing Reporter

The Penn Bookstore cafe and Capogiro Gelato Artisans were slapped with health violations late last month after a series of inspections by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

Between Nov. 21 and Dec. 6, the health department visited more than 500 restaurants and food retail stores. While most violations are fixed on the spot, 20 restaurants were ordered by the city health department to temporarily shut down, including the Penn Bookstore cafe and Capogiro.

Philly.com first reported the

health violations on Monday.

When visited by inspectors, the Penn Bookstore cafe had no hot water and employees were using improper hand washing procedures. Other violations included dirt beneath the sinks and improperly dated food packages. The cafe agreed to temporarily close on Nov. 28.

Capogiro, which reportedly did not have any person in charge present at the time of the inspection, also agreed to shut down on Nov. 29.

Other local eateries recently hit with health violations include Bobby’s Burger Palace on Walnut Street near 39th and Tarka, located at the intersection of 38th and Chestnut streets.

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by the Penn Police would have been a great service to us, to help us prepare, but we must also remain vigilant ourselves.”

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush had other recommendations for students leaving their homes unattended over break.

“Remember to lock your doors and windows before you leave for break,” she said. “Also close your curtains or blinds so expensive items are not in full view.

Remind your roommates to do the same. As extra insurance, take advantage of our Special Checks Program.”

The service for the winter break period will begin at 5 p.m. on Dec. 19 and continue until Jan. 8. Students can find more information and sign up on the DPS website.

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Q&A with new Penn Dems President to talk future plans The club is advocating for immigration reform NATALIE KAHN Contributing Reporter

Now that the presidential election is over, Penn Democrats must shift its focus. It seems fitting then, that the club elected a new president: College sophomore and mathematical economics major Rachel Pomerantz.

Penn Democrats provides political activism opportunities for Penn’s Democratic community. Pomerantz sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to speak about Penn Dems’ agenda for the spring semester.

Daily Pennsylvanian: How do you interpret the significance of Penn Dems to the fabric of the University?

Rachel Pomerantz: Penn Dems

should be the first place on campus for anyone who calls themselves a Democrat and, along with that, who wants to do something to oppose the incoming presidential administration.

DP: Since Penn Dems will not be supporting the incoming Republican president, will you have to lead a realignment process within the club?

RP: Our mission was going to change from this semester to the next regardless of who won because we’re shifting from electoral politics to issue advocacy. I think that we’re going to continue to be strong advocates for the progressive issues that we care about. It’ll be different, but we’re up for the challenge — Dems has done phone banking, canvassing and voter registration as often as we possibly could over the past two semesters for the 2016 election.

We’re going to stay involved with the down-ballot races coming up, but issue advocacy is going to take a more prominent role.

DP: In what ways are Penn Dems going to fight for different issues?

What are your priorities?

RP: I think it’s going to take a variety of forms, whether it’s protests, canvassing or just publicity about these issues. As far as the issues that we care about, our members care about a diverse range of issues, particularly women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, climate change and gun violence.

DP: What are you plans for Penn Dems to advocate for and stimulate change in society with regard to those issues?

RP: I think that there are multiple levels involved. First of all, it’s creating awareness about the issue and the deeper factors at play. We talk

about these broad issues on campus, raising publicity from that respect. It also is calling our legislators in Harrisburg and Washington, as well as applying pressure to city officials here in Philadelphia depending on the issue. It’s a mix of protest, publicity, phone banking and more direct action.

DP: Has this process begun yet or is it still in the works?

RP: We’ve done protests in the past but those were more linked to elections. We’re still in the stages of formulating what we’re going to do next year.

DP: Speaking of changes, President Amy Gutmann just deemed Penn a “sanctuary campus.” Do any of your future plans for Penn Dems involve fostering this concept?

RP: We were really excited by President Gutmann’s letter; I think it’s a very important symbolic step.

Penn lacking in socio-economic diversity Some students feel low-income status is stigmatized REBECCA TAN Staff Reporter

While student leaders of minority groups on campus said they were not surprised with the results of a recent study

by Brandeis University, which found Penn to be lacking in socio-economic diversity and “hostile” to students of color, they felt the study left out certain nuances of their experiences at Penn.

The Brandeis study found that none of the 1,113 Penn students they surveyed lived in ZIP codes in the lowest quintile of median income prior to coming to Penn. Wharton senior and board member of Penn First Seidy Pacheco said that while it is “not surprising at all” that low-income students are underrepresented at Penn, she is not sure that ZIP codes are an accurate measurement of socio-economic background.

“Some of us live in ZIP codes with way higher median incomes than our own families’ median income, so I would not be surprised to find Penn students within that lowest quintile,” Pacheco said.

She added that it can be difficult for external institutions to accurately identify Penn’s socio-economic profile because having a low-income status is still stigmatized and students may not be comfortable “sharing this label with the world.”

College junior and former board member of Penn First David Thai agreed, adding that Penn administrators should ma ke t he socio - econom ic breakdown of admitted students more accessible and transparent.

“It would be very empowering not just for low income students here, but for high school students looking into Penn,” he said.

Penn Admissions reports on its website that 12 percent of the students in Class of 2020

are first-generation college students, but does not provide information on the socio-economic profile of the class. Thai said it is important to recognize that first-generation students are not necessarily low-income, and that separate statistics should be provided.

The Brandeis study also found that there is “a hostile environment toward people of color at Penn.”

W ha r ton sophomore and Political Chair of UMOJA Victoria Brown said the findings did not surprise her “at all,” citing incidents such as the Phi Delta Theta 2014 holiday card which featured a dark-skinned blow up doll. Brown added however, that the findings of the Brandeis study need to be qualified because Penn is not a “monolith.”

“Penn is made up of very different people,” she said, “For example, there are administrators who make black students on this campus feel extremely safe and extremely valued just

as there are administrators who make you feel like you’re very miniscule.”

Brown said that both institutions and individuals at Penn need to take responsibility for their influence on campus culture.

Pacheco agreed, adding that enhancing socio-economic diversity at Penn does not just entail recruiting more students from low-income backgrounds, but rather ensuring that Penn is a hospitable environment for them.

“Students are your best recruiters,” Pacheco said. “If you make students here feel like they belong, feel like they have a home, then they will go back to their communities and talk to their high school friends, siblings, cousins.”

“What it comes down to is making Penn into a home and a community that serves all students,” she added. “Not just those who can afford to be part of the main ecosystem.”

We’re going to keep applying pressure to make sure the administration follows up that symbolic step with concrete measures to protect some of the most vulnerable students at Penn.

DP: What does Penn Dems hope to see from the administration to help undocumented immigrants?

RP: I think that pressuring the administration to have the staff resources to support undocumented students and to follow through on their commitments will fulfill what they mean by “sanctuary campus.”

Also, the administration should provide more clarity to what they mean by “sanctuary campus.” It has a legal meaning for cities — there’s such thing as a “sanctuary city” —but as far as “sanctuary campus,” they need to define that. It’s a relatively new concept.

DP: Finally, on a personal note,

why did you want to be the president of Penn Dems? What does this position mean to you?

RP: I’ve been involved with Penn Dems for the past year and a half. I was first a Senior Deputy member — which means you work under an executive board member — and then I was the Political Director for the past year. It has just been the most amazing community of people and I’ve had the most unbelievable opportunities over the past year. We took a fall break trip to DC my freshman year and we got to go to the White House. Also, getting to hear from amazing panelists has really broadened my horizons and understanding of political issues. I just couldn’t imagine not wanting to give back more to this great community.

This interview has been edited lightly for clarity and condensed.

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Aiden Reiter expressed his view that Harvard generally focuses more on prestige than on taking care of its undergraduates, but he acknowledged that Harvard’s students certainly benefit from having a full week to prepare for exams.

“Harvard is doing something right in that it’s allowing its students to have this time to actually absorb the material and learn it as opposed to us, who are just cramming now,” he said.

Reiter felt that Penn students could certainly benefit from having more time to prepare for exams.

“Obviously I want more time,” he said. “I think it’s ridiculous that we don’t have a full week to really prepare and make sure that we all do well because really, at the end of the day, it’s not about academic intensity. It should be about intellectualism and our ability to learn.”

Reiter added that cramming material in just two days does not allow for true learning.

“In the future, I would like to see Penn prioritize intellectualism and academics over rushing and working hard,” he said. Reiter proposed rearranging the academic calendar to allow for the reading period to be a full week.

College freshman Lucia Kim acknowledged that attitudes toward the length of the reading period depend on the spacing of each student’s final exams.

“I had one of my finals last week, and then another one of mine is this Thursday,” she said. “So having no classes starting basically from Monday and having two reading days I think is ample time for my one final on Thursday, and then my other one is on Dec. 22.”

Kim, however, acknowledged that while she may be relatively unaffected by Penn’s short reading period, many students are not as fortunate and have several finals throughout the week.

“I think that for people whose finals are all this week, it’s definitely a lot to cram in there,” she said.

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our showdown against Cornell would require a full newspaper by itself.

But to keep it brief, that team had us beat. Cornell had the perfect plan to pull off the upset, and our sideline was absolutely imploding. Down eight points with only 101 seconds to travel 93 yards, it looked like our undefeated season would go down the drain against a team we knew we were better than.

Then Mike led the two-minute drill of his life, punctuated by an eight-yard two-point conversion pass. Personifying that game as well as any play possibly could, offensive tackle Angelo Matos somehow caught a touchdown in the second overtime, then Jack Hennigan (and kind of Tom Console) secured a pick on Cornell’s next play, and we stole a game we had no

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Junior May Bethea and the rest of Penn wrestling have a busy schedule with several important contests in front of them over winter break.

on myself.”

At this point in the season, the Red and Blue are looking to take advantage of their strengths while also building on some areas of weakness before heading into dual season at the start of second semester.

“We have great work ethic this season and we have a lot of young guys who are willing to push the older guys which will help us improve as the season goes on,” Oliva said. “We need to have more confidence in matches and get more comfortable in competition as we head into winter break.”

As the team prepares for the Southern Scuffle and the Lehman Open, they have to put these skills to the test to develop individually and as a group. Although these tournaments overall are not the most important ones in the season, the Quakers are still looking to keep up a high level of intensity to ensure success.

“I think we are prepared and we are going to continue training hard to get some good wins as we prepare for the dual season and the conference tournament,” Oliva continued, looking further ahead into the season.

“The good thing about competition is that it identifies what you need to work on. We’ve made progress and I’ve been impressed with some guys so far this season,” Tirapelle said. The Quakers had a couple of setbacks during the season including some early injuries, so they are hoping for a healthier start in the new year.

“A lot of guys like Joe Oliva have been taking some big steps forward, and May Bethea is pretty much a mainstay and is always reliable. Joe Heyob will be going 184 for the first time at the Scuffle so I’m expecting big things from him,” Tirapelle added.

While most of the upperclassman will be competing in the extremely competitive Southern Scuffle, the younger crew will be stepping up and making some bold appearances in the Lehman Open later that week.

The squad will continue to train hard heading into these two key tournaments as they hope to gain momentum leading into their dual season. For now, it is about the right training, the right mindset, and the right attitude as they approach the winter break match ups.

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This year was an unbelievable ride, and I couldn’t be more grateful to my teammates, coaches and whoever is responsible for sprint football existing as a sport for letting it happen. We wanted nothing more than that championship, and we’ll all remember that journey for the rest of our lives.

So when that ring finally does show up, I won’t be taking it off for a long time.

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Being a walk-on, I finished high school thinking I would never put a pair of pads on again. To be granted a second chance to play this sport is a blessing on its own – but to have that experience come for a title-winning team, when I, like most of my teammates not named Console, had never won any form of football championship prior to Penn, is more than I ever could’ve asked for.

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The Quakers are approaching winter break ready to work hard and win some key matches.

As winter break approaches, Penn wrestling is preparing for two major tournaments, the Southern Scuffle in Chattanooga, Tennessee and the Lehman Open in Lancaster, Pennsylvania before a dual meet against Princeton on January 8.

“Right now during exams we are trying to get more workouts in and focus on the physical things during exams,” coach Alex Tirapelle said while explaining the current training program for the squad.

“We are allowing for a little bit of rest of this break, but in addition we want to make some strides in our training to improve and win a lot of matches in Tennessee,” junior Joe Oliva added.

The Southern Scuffle on January 1 and 2 is the first tournament the Quakers are training for.

“It is a really good gauge of the national tournament at the end of the year. It’s the most competitive feel we have during the season where our starters will compete.

It’ll tell us where they are at,” Tirapelle added.

As always, the squad is looking to score points as a team, but each athlete also has his own individual goals in mind as they head into these winter break matches.

“We’re always trying to improve and make progress, but individually I’m focusing on effort and attitude which our coach is constantly preaching,” junior Joe Velliquette said. “This tournament will be tough and there [will] definitely be guys I need to scout, but I am looking to wrestle my own style and focus

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All season long, Penn men’s basketball appeared to be on the verge of improvement in coach Steve Donahue’s second year in charge, but the Quakers still needed that signature win to prove to the college basketball world that they were for real.

Thanks to a breakout performance from Sam Jones, that big-time victory is in the books.

Behind five three-pointers from the junior forward in his first start of the season, the Red and Blue shocked the nation on Monday night, going to Central Florida and stunning the Knights, 58-49.

“I think it is a huge win for the guys; we’ve had a heck of a ninegame stretch with six monster road games … and then to save your best for last I think really speaks volumes for these guys’ perseverance and belief in themselves,” Donahue said. “We needed that big win to prove it to ourselves more than to anybody else that we’re a good basketball team, and I think that’s what we saw today.”

Although Penn’s upset effort was helped by the recent broken thumb suffered by UCF’s leading scorer, B.J. Taylor, the Knights (7-2) still entered Monday’s contest ranked 25th nationally in RPI with their lone loss having come at the hands of top-ranked Villanova.

But the Quakers (4-5) would not back down to their highly-ranked foes remotely, aggressively attacking a UCF defense that ranks second nationally in points allowed per game with an onslaught of shots from beyond the arc.

And at the forefront of that barrage was none other than Jones, who only had played 56 total minutes in the team’s first eight games before getting the nod to replace fellow sharpshooter Jackson Donahue in the starting lineup. Jones’ five three-pointers matched his combined total in the season prior to Monday, as Steve Donahue’s gamble to mix up the starters paid off dividends for an upset-hungry Penn squad that ended up shooting 11-for-26 from deep.

“He hadn’t been healthy for the first month, and then we started games and it was just difficult to

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get him into a routine, but I really wanted to see what he was like before Christmas break, and I just thought this was a great opportunity because they’re one of the best defensive teams anywhere,” Donahue said of Jones, who finished seventh in the Ivy League in threepointers as a sophomore before taking a reduced role early in 201617. “They don’t let you get near the paint, and their size makes it difficult for smaller guards to shoot over them, so if there was ever a night we needed Sam Jones, it was this game.”

It would be impossible for Donahue to exaggerate that UCF

frontcourt size, as the Knights are led in the interior by monstrous center Tacko Fall, listed at 7-foot-6 and 270 pounds and averaging a double-double entering Monday’s contest.

Needless to say, this matchup would be a massive test literally and figuratively for Penn freshman center AJ Brodeur. And while to say Fall was completely shut down would be a stretch — the sophomore did lead his team with 17 points and 17 rebounds — the rookie phenom still held the behemoth to three second-half points as Penn never led by fewer than four points throughout the entire second

period.

“I thought he was incredible, and he had a chance for even a couple of more open shots that he missed,” Donahue said of Brodeur, who finished with 10 points in addition to four rebounds, three assists and — most impressively — four blocks.

“He took a guy — honestly I’ve watched every game of film — no one has scored in the paint against Tacko, and AJ did it three times, and could’ve done it five. I thought it was an incredible performance and he competed so physically, and he was a huge part of why we won.”

With this major win in the books, the Red and Blue will enter conference play with a newfound swagger, now owning the Ivy League’s top non-conference win of the season, according to RPI. “To win this one against a highmajor team on the road is a huge boost to our guys, it just validates all the things that we tell them,” Donahue said. “We played all 40 minutes, and that’s essentially how we’re going to be good. We have to compete at both ends every minute, and we’re going to be a real good basketball team when we do that.”

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But it wasn’t a championship season. The Quakers lost – by a decisive 28-0 margin – to co-champion and fellow 6-1 conference finisher Princeton on Nov. 5. And as I wrote a year ago, that should give the Tigers the conference title. Outright.

That is not to disparage the 2016 Red and Blue squad.

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assuaged by stellar secondary play — most notably in the form of up-and-coming sophomores Sam Philippi and Mason Williams. Williams led the conference with six interceptions while Philippi picked up 58 tackles on the year.

Watson, Philippi and Williams are part of a solid core of underclassmen that will return in 2017 and beyond – of the Quakers’ 14 All-Ivy selections, 11 will be back for more in the fall. With highly touted freshman quarterback Michael Collins (the all-time Connecticut high school leader in touchdown passes) expected to step into the starting role next

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Penn could tack on an athletics requirement, since that’s the aspect that really seems to be lacking. There are dozens of theater and a capella groups, but where is the school spirit?

It may be down, but it’s not out.

And it’s not impossible to build it back up. It will take a concerted effort, though, on the parts of both Penn Athletics and the student body to make it happen.

From the administrative side, one requisite is that those in charge start understanding that making athletic events any less fun will ruin any spirit-building project before it’s even started.

Trashing Penn students’ plans to get trashed for the Princeton football game was the cardinal sin they should never repeat. The Fan Fests are a good step in the right direction, but I fear the blow done by the Princeton fiasco might have countered any progress such events might have made.

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A lot can happen in three weeks.

When Penn women’s basketball next takes to the court, three weeks will have gone by since the team’s last outing.

Last Saturday, the Quakers won a nail-biter against Richmond, 47-44, but now they’ll have a new challenge – not playing basketball. “It’s a chance for us to take a little bit of a pause and reflect on where we are at,� coach Mike McLaughlin said. “It’s the first time we talked about a record.�

Sitting at 4-4, the Red and Blue firmly know where they sit after this early bout of non-conference play.

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— Watson, Collins, Williams, Philippi et al — seem to be early favorites to take home the conference title. After coming in as the Ivy Offensive POY runner-up in both 2015 and 2016, Watson in particular seems poised to put the team on his shoulders.

And if the Quakers are lucky enough to pick up that Ancient Eight championship next November, I hope that, as a change, it will come without an asterisk.

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strong on the road.

Penn has won all but one of its five away contests, having dropped the season opener at Duke.

Yet, the team’s three home showings have resulted in three straight losses, two of which were close games against Big 5 rivals.

This break will serve as an opportunity for the Quakers to assess their standing and make refinements over the break. “It’s the one time we can get away from studying and get away from all the school work, so once we get in the gym we are all focused and locked in,� junior Michelle Nwokedi said. “The key is to continue working hard and challenging ourselves each and every day, and we will be successful when we get back to playing.�

Last year, McLaughlin’s side took its winter break trip to Hawaii, winning both of its games against BYU-Hawaii and Hawaii. This

season’s edition will see the Red and Blue take their talents to California, where they will play CSU-Northridge and UC Riverside.

The trip presents another opportunity for Penn to impress on the Pacific coast, but it will still take some restructuring to address the team’s issues that McLaughlin hopes to remedy. “I think we’ve left a few [games] on the table,� the eighth-year coach said. “We had some opportunities out there, probably more on our home floor. We’d love to have a couple of those games back perhaps.

But we play really, really well together on the road. I think one of the things if we want to be good is we’re going to have to be much much better at home.�

Three weeks, however, is nine days longer than last year’s break in play, meaning the Quakers will have to figure out how to keep progress moving forward and utilize this

opportunity. “The momentum is something hard to keep over a long period of time,â€? McLaughlin said. “To keep consistency is really what we are looking for‌ That’s our charge. I think we’re going to put this together at some point.â€?

The two games over winter break will also provide the last opportunities for Penn to refine its game before Ivy play opens up on January 7 against Princeton.

When the team reunites in California to play on New Year’s Eve, the rest of the Ancient Eight will be looking at the defending champions to see just where they stand in this campaign.

With this most recent win, McLaughlin knows where his team lies and has made it clear to his players that there is room for improvement. “They know that,� McLaughlin said. “We have to put it together.�

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to defend the honor in a year’s time.

The Ivy League is already a small conference — a full league title is a one-in-eight proposition, not exactly the most challenging of odds. When one quarter (or three-eighths, as was the case last year) of its members can lay claim to the conference’s top spot, the allure of that distinction is diminished.

When there is a clear 1a and 1b — as was the case in 2016 — it is only right that the better team have exclusive claim to the top spot.

As I said above, the Red and Blue will return an excellent team in 2017. That nucleus

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For students, meanwhile, we need to make a concerted effort to deconstruct the ‘Penn Face’ that keeps us out of the Palestra and in Huntsman instead. How many trips to CAPS and untreated mental breakdowns will it take for us to realize that there is so much more to college than worrying about the future — which, for many of us, is already an inevitable success?

We’ve seen how difficult it can be to enforce mandatory programming at Penn — look no further than “Thriveat-Penngate� earlier this semester — but the benefits of attending games could be too great to give up on such an idea.

The Penn Athletics Fan Fests were one small step in the right direction. But maybe we ought to take one giant leap instead.

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season, the offense is poised to maintain the efficiency that generated the Ivy’s second-leading scoring attack.

So, to be sure, the 2016 Quakers were a good team; they finished tied for the best conference record. However, that tie can and should be broken — Princeton was the better squad this year, as was demonstrated on that early November afternoon. Tiger quarterback John Lovett accounted for two touchdowns on the day, part of the eye-popping 31 total TDs the junior registered on the season. Lovett deservedly beat out Watson for the Ivy League Player of the Year and is poised

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When Yale men’s basketball beat Baylor in the first round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament, the entire sports world celebrated the win as a “victory for the nerds.�

The kids who studied textbooks at halftime had defeated a Big 12 school on the biggest stage. The David and Goliath references came from almost every media source.

As one of those nerds, I was beyond ecstatic as I watched fellow Ivy Leaguers take down a team of 5-star recruits, including some we may someday be watching in an NBA arena.

With all that said, Yale’s victory also reminded me of the borderline irrelevance of sports here at Penn, and on most campuses across the Ivy League. We simply do not care.

Every year, one of my fellow Daily Pennsylvanian sports section writers tries to fight the apathy. They plead for the student body to start caring about their school’s sports. Head down to the Palestra on a Friday night!

Rhodes Field is only a 40-minute walk, you can do it! Uberpool to see a squash match at Temple!

I too, was disappointed when my freshman year Homecoming football game was more than 75% empty. I was more disappointed to cover my first college basketball game, the season opener for the men’s team. There was the Penn Band and a group of loud moms, but little else.

Believe it or not, we actually have a history of college basketball success here at Penn.

The Quakers made a historic run to the Final Four in 1979, falling to Magic Johnson and Michigan State in the national semifinals. Not until 2010 when Cornell, led by current Quakers head coach Steve Donahue, was there another Ancient Eight team in the Sweet 16. But according to Donahue and other collegiate basketball experts, that is going to change.

At the beginning of the season, the DP sports department sat

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down with Donahue to preview his team’s season.

When asked about the future of Ivy basketball, he proceeded to speak, uninterrupted, for several minutes about how Yale’s win is just the start of success at the national level that the Ivy League programs have been without for over 50 years. He felt with new recruiting tactics, along with the aura and prestige of attending an Ivy institution, programs are now better able to reach out to a whole new type of recruit (i.e. outside of northeastern private, prep schools). He said that not only will Ancient Eight schools be more competitive at the national level, but watch as more players overlooked by the top level of Division I basketball, after three or four years to work on their games, will be on NBA rosters.

Well, I have another change that could make Ivy League basketball more competitive, and maybe, just maybe, will get some students out of Van Pelt and into The Palestra. Scholarships.

The top D-1 programs usually, under NCAA rules, can offer up to 13 men’s basketball scholarships. The Ivy League, with its worldwide reputation of academic excellence (and connections) has always scoffed at the idea of giving out athletic scholarships.

We don’t need them for any other sport, and that includes football. Our Penn football team, the “back-to-back Ivy League title winners� (sharers), doesn’t need scholarships. They play in the FCS, and when it comes to Ancient Eight football, all that

matters is the Ivy Title. Basketball is different though.

Not only does Penn basketball actually play matchups with top NCAA squads (see: Villanova) every year, but the winner of the Ivy League gets a showdown with a team at March Madness that is usually a five seed or higher. We could witness a Penn team compete at the highest level, on national TV. People may be betting on us for a change.

Just two scholarships per team are all I ask for. If programs are already changing their “recruiting tactics� to go after top-level talent, why not offer these kids a free ride? Penn often recruits some of the best kids in the country, but doesn’t really come close to getting them. We don’t have the basketball reputation, the fan base, and the spotlight, to get those kids. Not to mention, they will still be stuck with paying thousands of dollars.

Scholarships won’t change the nerdy vibe that makes the March upsets even sweeter. Instead, they’ll give Ivy programs a couple of top-level players that may allow the conference to compete at the national level.

Maybe at-large bids for an Ivy League team won’t be automatically out of the question any more. Maybe just a little extra talent will make another 1979 run possible again. Maybe then we will care again.

MATT FINE is a College junior from New York, NY., and is associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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enn men’s basketball will take a vacation over the next few weeks, with its next game coming December 28 against Drexel at the Palestra. Christmas came early for the Quakers, though, after they stunned UCF with a 58-49 upset in Orlando on Monday night.

Senior forward Matt Howard has continued to shine and has averaged 13.1 points and 6.5 rebounds per game while logging 13 steals in the team’s first eight games. However, it is the emergent freshman forward A.J. Brodeur who leads the Red and Blue in scoring, with 14.4 points to go with 6.1 rebounds, figuring to be a key contributor down low the rest of the way in the first season since Darien NelsonHenry graduated.

In the Quakers’ first three victories, they won big, with margins of victory of 17, 22 and 29 over Robert Morris, Central Connecticut and Lafayette. The Quakers (4-5) have also seen winnable games fall beyond their grasp, falling to Navy by two and recently, surrendering a 13-0 run to George Mason late in the second half.

Losses to Miami, Villanova and Temple were likely, though they featured positives. Against Miami, the Red and Blue were competitive in the first half before the Hurricanes went on a tear in the second half, and against Temple, Penn cut a once17-point lead down to two in a valiant comeback effort.

Coach Steve Donahue is a proponent of giving the players the time off to deal with final exams and the holidays.

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After a series of tough non-conference games, Penn basketball finally broke through with a 58-49 upset of UCF on Monday night. Over the winter, they’ll try to keep up the momentum before Ivy play starts.

thing for these kids,” Donahue said. “First of all, their academics, stress level is off the charts, and I also think it’s good for basketball. We have nine games of tape to evaluate.”

After the Quakers return to work, they will host Drexel and Fairfield at the Palestra.

The Dragons have started 4-5 and will not have the same time off as the Quakers. Drexel will play Rider, D-III Kean and Quinnipiac before having seven days off between Dec. 21 and Dec. 28. For the Dragons, forward Rodney Williams and rookie guard Kurk Lee each average 16 points per game, who have scored at least 71 points in each of their last seven games and average 75.1 points per game on the season. On the defensive side, they’ve surrendered 77.3 points per game and have allowed opponents to shoot 40.7 percent from three.

Fairfield (5-3) has dropped two straight after taking five of its first six games. Its most recent game was on December 6, and the Stags will play a pair of ACC schools in North Carolina State on December 18 and Boston College on December 21 before

taking a recess. The Fairfield offense runs through guard Tyler Nelson, who averages a teamhigh 19.9 points per game, with guard Curtis Cobb adding 13.8 points per game.

The team has received a boost this year with the return of forward Amadou Sidibe, who missed last season due to injury and is playing as a graduate. Although he averaged just 5.7 points and 6.5 rebounds per game across his first three seasons, he is currently well above those figures at 9.8 and 11.9.

Thus far, the Stags have been turnover-prone, coughing it up 16.4 times per game and allowing 8.3 steals per game. On average, they have outscored opponents 73.5 to 70.8.

Donahue noted the importance of the coming weeks for preparing for the looming Ivy League season.

“We’re building this program,” Donahue said. “We don’t start our league until February, so the next 6-8 weeks are a great area for our team to figure out who are the best eight or nine [guys], and it could be that some aren’t playing.”

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first conference game of the season at Princeton. The Tigers are 4-4 but boast a robust 61st rank on college basketball analytics site KenPom.com due to facing the 31st-toughest schedule in the country. Three of Princeton’s losses came at the hands of highly-regarded teams BYU (56th), VCU (49th) and Cal (50th). The Tigers have a packed schedule, playing Saint Joseph’s, Monmouth, Bucknell, Hampton and Cal Poly before the end of 2016. Forward Steven Cook has scored 13.5 points per game, including 36 in his last two en route to picking up Ivy League Player of the Week. Guard Devin Cannady has added 11.0 points per game for the Tigers. Princeton has outscored opponents 72.8 to 66.0 on average, although the number is skewed considering its 108-46 win over D-III Rowan.

Penn fans won’t have to wait much longer to witness conference play at the Palestra, as Yale and Brown visit the next week for the first doubleheader weekend of the season. That will be followed by a pair of Big 5 matchups against Saint Joe’s and La Salle, before it is doubleheaders from then on out.

f I told you that Penn could be a great place to be a college sports fan, how would you react? You would probably laugh at me, and for most people, this statement doesn’t hold up. But for me, it’s completely true.

With Penn’s Early Decision results being released this past weekend, it brought me back to my decision to ultimately apply ED to Penn. In the end, it was down to two schools: Penn and Duke. Penn had pretty much everything I wanted over Duke: a nice campus, near a large metropolitan area, the right distance away from home, the Ivy name, and more. But there was one thing that Duke had over Penn: athletics.

Sports were then, and continue to be now, one of the most important parts of my life, and it was natural that they would be important to me in choosing where I went to college. Of the caliber of schools I was looking at, Duke was perfect in terms of athletics. It’s a school in a Power Five conference with perennial title contenders in several popular sports and lots of school spirit.

While Penn Athletics certainly has its perks, it just can’t match up to that.

In the end, I chose to apply here to Penn. In addition to the other factors, I was mollified by what several current Penn students had told me: you find other things to fill your time. But in my year and a half experience so far here, it just hasn’t been true. Despite being at a place that does not have reputation of being a sports school, I have thrown myself into Penn Athletics all the same.

Even though it might not be the same quality of play or as large of

a stage, I have devoted myself to following this athletic program, both as a journalist and a fan, just as I would have had I attended Duke. One of the first things I sought out to do on campus last year was to join the sports section of The Daily Pennsylvanian so I could immediately get a closer look at our teams and athletes.

I’ve been to countless games, meets, and matches, both as a reporter and a fan, and I continue to keep track of the vast majority of our teams here. Just because we’re not packing 2,000 people into the student section for every basketball game doesn’t make my experiences with Penn Athletics any less special.

And the fact that not everyone is as invested in our sports teams has not made my experience worse — in fact, it has done quite the opposite. Because there are fewer people who are engrossed Penn sports, I’ve had the ability to experience what they are all about first hand. I’ve met coaches who are nationally recognized, athletes who can hold their own on national and international stages, and really had the chance to see how college athletics at a Division I school truly function.

Looking back on my biggest hesitation coming into Penn, I realize now that I had nothing to worry about. I’ve certainly had a different experience with college athletics here than I would have had at Duke, but that doesn’t mean my experience is any worse. I’ve gone to a few games at Cameron Indoor and stood in the student section, and the experience is like no other. But to be completely honest, I don’t need that to make my college athletics experience complete.

JONATHAN POLLACK is a College sophomore from Stamford, Conn., and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2016

COLUMNIST ISSUE

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filling empty WILL SNOW

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he Penn administration should mandate the attendance of athletic events.

That’s right, you heard me. Penn should require its students to show up to a certain number of events over the course of their years at school here.

Obviously, the mandate should not be restricted to sports events, but I will argue the case for that specific aspect in this column. And no, I don’t think everyone should have to go to every game. But ideally, I’d have students attend 12 in order to graduate — enough to go to one each season.

This semester, I took a communication

statistics class in which I had to participate in a final group project. My group chose to study Penn’s athletic culture and its effects on social inclusion and integration. Before we even gathered any data, we all agreed that it would only make sense to discover that attending and playing in sports at school helps students feel more welcome here.

What we discovered with the data from our admittedly amateur, extremely-underpowered survey was that participating in athletic culture here is positively associated with students feeling more “at home” on campus. Obviously, those who actually played at the varsity level felt this effect the most, but we have no reason to believe that there was no effect on students who merely attended Penn Athletics events.

So if we want to make students feel at home, why not encourage them to attend a game every once in awhile?

My girlfriend goes to a liberal arts school

seats that requires the accumulation of 24 “Culture Credits” in order to graduate. The goal is simple: get students to engage with the different aspects of campus culture, like lectures, art events and theater productions. Through this, their administration says, they will become better-rounded individuals with a wider range of perspectives. The students there generally buy into the system because they see its benefits despite its strict enforcement.

Its implementation is actually quite clever.

You swipe your student ID card at the event to get in for free, and then you turn in a stub at the end to prove that you were there the whole time and get your one Culture Credit.

This system seems entirely feasible to me if the Penn administration chose to adopt such a stance.

But instead of just arts and culture events, SEE SNOW PAGE B5 ALEX FISHER | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Trust The Process on and off the court YOSEF WEITZMAN

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rust The Process.”

The phrase is only three words, but for Philadelphia 76ers fans, it has come to mean so much more. And while every Sixers fan has a strong opinion on “The Process,” I’m sure it is a little less well-known here on Penn’s campus. So for those of you have never even heard of The Process, here’s my best effort at explaining it in under 100 words.

The Process refers to the rebuilding efforts of the 76ers, which most would agree began with the hire of General Manager Sam Hinkie in 2013.

Acquiring a team that had been mediocre for years, Hinkie decided it was time for change. Seeking a fresh start, Hinkie traded away most of the Sixers’ proven veterans in return for young players and draft picks. Since Hinkie took over, the Sixers have gone 19-63, 18-64, and 10-72. Hinkie resigned at the end of last season, but with many of the players he drafted just starting to hit the floor, The Process lives on.

Now that we have a working understanding of The Process, it is important to realize that it is very controversial. There are many – we’ll call them the “distrusters” – who see The Process as a disgrace to the game.

The distrusters believe teams should always try to win as much as possible now, not later. At the same time, there is a growing contingency of so called “trusters.” The trusters have bought into the Sixers’ future – they think everything will all eventually come together. In simple terms, the trusters believe the ends will justify the means.

While I respect where the distrusters are coming from, I want to be clear. I trust The Process.

I trust The Process because it has given the Sixers a purpose. I trust The

Process because youthful energy is fun to watch. And yes, I even trust The Process because of the losing.

It isn’t that I’m rooting for the Sixers to lose, but I think their lack of success does make them more fun to root for.

Everyone loves a good underdog, and the Sixers are the underdog in literally every game they play. Now there are other teams out there that lose a lot too (looking at you, Cleveland Browns), but I’m not sure if any losing team loses with the same tenacity and optimism that the Sixers do.

I feel weird praising a team for how they lose, but I think the Sixers are teaching a lesson that we can all really learn from. Sometimes you just have to “take the L,” and the Sixers do that better than anyone else. The Sixers lose a lot, but you’d never be able to tell that from how they approach their games. They come ready to play every single day and don’t let their past losses haunt them.

And as students entering finals season, I think this is the perfect time to start trusting The Process of everyday life. We are going to be tested over the next couple of weeks, and we may or may not fail a couple times along the way. It is important though, that we don’t get down on ourselves and let those losses impact our future performances. We should follow the Sixers’ example and face every new challenge as a new opportunity.

While I hope this message inspires a few more people out there to start trusting The Process, I think another Philadelphia sports legend actually puts it best – and you’re probably a little more familiar with this one.

To quote Rocky Balboa, life is about “how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!”

YOSEF WEITZMAN is a College freshman from Lower Merion, Pa., and is a sports reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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Sprint football’s title-winning season was one hell of a ride COLE JACOBSON

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ometimes, there are just no words.

Summing up the experiences of Penn sprint football’s championship season is not a feasible task, but these past few months were so magical, so unprecedented, so perfect, that I owe it to my squad to try.

First off, the hunger this team had was unlike anything I’d ever seen before. In 2015, the team had a de facto league championship game at Army, but lost in double overtime after a high snap pushed us out of field goal range near the end of regulation.

A single snap. If that ball is six inches closer to Mike McCurdy’s torso, Penn likely finishes 2015 on top of the CSFL world. You cannot come up short of a championship by a slimmer margin.

So throughout the offseason, it was clear that this group of guys wanted nothing more than to get that ring we knew was deservedly ours. Having only served as a manager in 2015, I wasn’t on the field during that fateful night in West Point, but I inherited that hunger, that “ring or bust” mentality, that the returners had.

On paper, we shouldn’t have had any doubters from the start. But in the sprint football world, it’s always been the service academies and then the rest. So we knew that no one outside our locker room gave us a chance – and we loved it.

In Week 2, we faced the defending champs themselves. As much as we might try to say that every game is equally important, there was no denying the rise in emotion that the painful memories from 2015 brought.

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It was a historic year as Penn sprint football finished unbeaten for the first time in 16 years, and as Cole Jacobson writes, these players won’t ever forget it.

Before we left our locker room, captain Chris Colavita pulled up an image of Army’s players storming the field after beating us a year ago.

He asked us to remember that pain, to make sure we’d never experience that again. It was on now.

So we came out with unparalleled energy, jumped out to a 14-3 lead by the half, and held on when Quinn Karam intercepted Army’s Hail Mary attempt on the final play.

It was straight out of a movie; underdog beats favorite, players storm the field, etc.

For most teams, if you beat the defending national champions on a walk-off play, that’s probably the pinnacle of your season. But we were just getting started.

Navy came to Franklin Field two weeks later, holding a 3-0 record that matched ours. We knew a battle was coming, but even we couldn’t have predicted the craziness of the game’s conclusion.

The Midshipmen scored a touchdown with under a minute remaining, tying the score at 23 apiece with only an extra point needed to send us into

the loss column.

There aren’t many feelings worse than that. We’d just let our championship slip away. Then the kick goes up. Wide right.

Holy sh*t. We have new life. Or so we think, before a flag comes down.

It’s roughing the kicker – Navy gets another chance at most routine play there is.

But then that kick goes wide left.

Navy just needed to make one of two kicks to send us home, and missed both.

What. Just. Happened.

This wasn’t even straight out of a movie – professional script writers have standards. We go on to win in overtime as Colavita recovers a fumble. Again, we get the storming of the field, the scoreboard pics, the celebration at the Blarney Stone – everything. Even if our season stopped right there, we’d have gone down in history.

Which is why it was pretty surprising that our most insane game hadn’t even come yet. To summarize SEE JACOBSON PAGE B2 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640