December 8, 2014

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INSIDE NEWS MEET THE NEW 5B Umbrella coalition for minority groups selected new leadership PAGE A2-A3

END TO SEQUESTRATION? With Republican Senate, Penn resists sequestration cuts PAGE A5

OPINION A DIFFERENT KIND OF FINANCIAL AID Donation and wealth redistribution must be done carefully to make change PAGE A4

SPORTS W. HOOPS LOSES AT HOME A strong second half propelled Hampton past the Red and Blue PAGE B1

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Engineering sophomore Sam Gaardsmoe of the Penn Pygmy Puffs was the golden snitch who was caught by the seeker of the Muhlenberg Quidditch Association.

99 problems but a snitch ain’t one Penn Quidditch hosted the first Winter Wonderpuff Cup

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This weekend, students didn’t have to board the Hog-

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CIS 110 uses a digital queue system for students who attend TA office hours EMILY OFFIT Staff Writer

Some students in computer science classes find themselves spending upwards of 10 hours a week in the same room working on one assignment.

Many students come into entrylevel computer science classes with different levels of programming experience. Office hours are a way to get feedback on the homework, which accounts for 50 percent of the overall grade.

There are 44 Computer Science 110 teaching assistants for this semester alone, and each are responsible for holding two office hours a week. This amount of manpower devoted to this aspect of the class reflects the department’s belief on the importance of these office hours in helping students learn how to code. CIS 110 offers office hours between five and nine hours per day, four days a week.

But that’s still not enough to satisfy the demand for assistance.

Office hours are typically overcrowded as class sizes increase each year. Although there are sometimes four TAs circulating the room, some students find themselves sitting in the online queue waiting for help for periods of up to an hour. College sophomore Julia Olson will spend four to five hours a day in the Moore 100 room working on CIS 120 homework assignments.

On the day an assignment is due, all the chairs in Moore 100 are full, and students are lined up sitting along the walls, waiting for their name to be SEE COMP SCI PAGE A3

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Jersey Hellhounds and the Muhlenberg Boggarts.

On the freezing cold December morning, players sprinted toward the middle of the field, wrestling one another for the quaffle. As the game progressed, the full-on contact did not relent. With two wins and one loss, Penn came in second

to the Philadelphia Honey Badgers.

For co-captain and Wharton senior Lucille Alexander, Quidditch isn’t just a hobby.

“I think that you’d find people this passionate about a lot of different sports,” Alexander said.

A mixture of rugby, lacrosse,

tag and dodgeball, Quidditch is a sport adopted from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Participants score points by managing to get a deflated volleyball, or quaffle, through one of three hoops. The game ends when a member of either SEE QUIDDITCH PAGE A5

First in five years: Rhodes for Rutendo Penn’s first Rhodes Scholar since 2009 hails from Zimbabwe COREY STERN Staff Writer

In Comp Sci office hours, a long wait for help

warts Express to watch some Quidditch.

On Sunday, the Penn Pygmy Puffs — Penn’s Quidditch team — hosted the Winter Wonderpuff Cup at Penn Park. The competition was between the Pygmy Puffs and three local Quidditch teams, the Philadelphia Honey Badgers, South

When the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 American members of the Rhodes Scholars class of 2015 last month, no Penn students were named.

Many thought this would mark the fifth year that no Quaker would receive the prestigious scholarship to study at Oxford University. They were wrong.

While the United States obtains the largest allocation of Rhodes Scholarships, the honor is bestowed upon students from several other nations across the globe. Among these other nations is Zimbabwe, the native country of College senior and newly named Rhodes Scholar Rutendo Chigora.

Chigora, Penn’s first Rhodes Scholar since 2009 College graduate Sarah-Jane Littleford,

has been named one of Zimbabwe’s two recipients this year.

The achievement is the latest honor Chigora adds to a resume that includes being a social challenge venture winner at the Clinton Global Initiative University 2014 and the founder of ZW Connect, a grassroots effort to create economic opportunities for Zimbabweans.

The international relations and political science major is both a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and Penn World Scholar. She is an associate editor for the Sigma Iota Rho Journal for International Relations and a former vice president of Penn Mock Trial.

On Dec. 5, College of Arts and Sciences Dean Dennis Deturck tweeted his applause for the College student.

“Congratulations to International Relations major and College Cognoscenti member Rutendo Chigora, just announced Rhodes Scholar!” he wrote.

Chigora could not yet be reached for comment.

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Zimbabwe awards Rhodes scholarship to college senior Rutendo Chigora.

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Crimes against people, like robberies and assaults, and crimes against property, including thefts and burglaries, are down from last November.

Robbery is down 66 percent from last November, and forcible sex offenses are down 40 percent.

“Crime against people is the category we’re most concerned with, and we are happy to see that going down,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

Theft from auto decreased significantly — by 70 percent — dropping from 10 last November to three last month. Rush said this has been a result of the auto theft task force, which the SEE CRIME PAGE A5

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CHAIR OF LATIN@ COALITION Nicholas Garcia / College junior THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO WORK ON One of the big things we want to work on is unity among the Latino groups. We want to make sure that we’re having connections built between our groups [and] that our groups are willing to work together and holding events. Second issue that I want to touch on is faculty diversity. This year we learned that to do faculty diversity, we have to go through the deans of different departments.

We want to work on having specific campaigns to work on each department that we feel should have more Latino faculty and minority faculty in general and working with the 5B on that initiative. Another thing I want to work on is pushing out into the Latino community in Philadelphia, and engagement is something we haven’t really worked on in the past but something we really should. With near 50 percent of Latinos in Philadelphia in poverty, we want to make sure that we’re able to help our community here in Philadelphia.

ONE THING THIS YEAR’S BOARD COULD HAVE DONE BETTER I think just being a little more transparent with the Latino students in our organization. We want them to receive the information on what we’re doing and make sure they understand the work that we’re doing so that we get the proper feedback and the proper direction from what they want us to do.

ONE THING YOU WANT PENN STUDENTS TO KNOW ABOUT LC The Latino/Latina community at Penn is a very diverse community. We represent many different individuals from all across the Americas both domestic and international students. There is a pan-Latino culture, but there are specifics to each one. Each culture is a little different, and we represent all given types of people.

CO-CHAIRS OF UMOJA Rachel Palmer & Ray Clark / Wharton junior & College sophomore THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO WORK ON Ray Clark: The first thing that I ran my campaign on, and really want to see, is improving the amount and scope of black leadership on campus, whether that be in the six different student government branches or groups in general that are making changes on campus. I feel like there should be more representation as a whole.

Rachel Palmer: Something we also think is really important is dealing with sexual assault and sexual harassment that happens on all college campuses, not just here, but figuring out ways we can really work with that and combat that especially within minority communities at Penn. Also, as it pertains to queer identified bodies just as well as it pertains to non-queer identified bodies. We want to make sure we’re having inclusive and productive spaces around that to move ahead on that issue.

Overall, we really want to make sure that we’re doing the best work we can do with our constituents. That’s one of our strongest focuses, is to make sure those constituents — that we are supporting them, with funding, with any questions that they have … that we are there for them.

ONE THING THIS YEAR’S BOARD COULD HAVE DONE BETTER RP: It’s not so much that they could’ve done anything better, it’s just that we’re here to keep on progressing the things they’ve laid the groundwork for and add our own two cents to that to keep moving forward.

ONE THING YOU WANT PENN STUDENTS TO KNOW ABOUT UMOJA RC: We want them to know that no matter what, if [Penn students] have a concern or if they want to address an issue concerning the African diaspora as a whole, we would like them to know that, feel free to reach out to us, feel free to come talk to us, whether it’s at Makuu, on campus or on Locust, anywhere.

They can come talk to us about any concerns they have.

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CHAIR OF LAMBDA ALLIANCE Erich Kessel / College junior THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO WORK ON One, I’d like to improve accountability over faculty diversity across the University and make sure that when students come to campus, there is faculty that’s diverse and robust and can fortify students academically but also in terms of their identity. Secondly, I’d like to work to make sure the needs of queer students are addressed on the newly formed Student Financial Services Advisory board. Finally, I’d like to make sure the inclusion of queer-related issues come to the table when discussing sexual assault prevention and making sure those issues are heard. There’s a student group formed by Jessica Mertz, and that group is really pointed towards making sure students boards across campus are being involved in the discussion on sexual assaults. The role I’d like Lambda to have in that is to voice the concerns of queer students in relation to sexual assault.

ONE THING THIS YEAR’S BOARD COULD HAVE DONE BETTER This is something I’d like to do in the coming term, [which] is to make Lambda more of an open and accessible space. Sometimes, I’ve heard critiques that it’s too closed off to the greater queer community at Penn and even to the greater Philadelphia community. So I’d like to work with the currently elected board to change that.

ONE THING YOU WANT PENN STUDENTS TO KNOW ABOUT LAMBDA We’re here for you, and we’re very open to hearing what students need in relation to their connection to administration but also campus life. We’re here for students as an agent of advocacy, and we’re willing to work on their behalf for the greater good.

The 5B — the five different umbrella coalitions which represent minority groups on campus — recently held elections for their new executive boards. The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with the chair of each group to ask them what's on their agenda for minority students next year. The interviews have been edited for clarity and space.

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CHAIR OF UNITED MINORITIES COUNCIL Tanya Jain / Wharton junior

CHAIR OF ASIAN PACIFIC STUDENT COALITION Jin Kim / College junior

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO WORK ON One thing I want to do with UMC is to make it more provocative. I want UMC to be the source that people come to when an issue erupts on campus and ask for our statement. Another thing is for our constituents in particular, I want to make what UMC does more transparent. A lot of times we have initiatives that we work on but our constituency isn’t really aware of it. I want to increase the flow of information. The last thing I really want to do is not let UMC get bogged down by past structures. A lot of the times, we do similar programming that has been done in the past, but I want UMC to break all bounds and do what it feels best achieves its mission.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO WORK ON One, I think we need to improve our GBM structure. I don’t think we put in as much work as we could’ve last year as a board, and that’s how most of our constituents interact with the executive board. Two, we want to work more with the Asian American Studies department. I think if we develop a relationship with them early on and we decided to work with them to come up with more initiatives to work on, it would be great. And the third one is reaching out more to the community.

Because Asian Pacific Islanders make up 20 percent of the Penn population but it’s definitely not 20 percent that regularly comes to our events. So there’s always work we could be doing in terms of reaching out more to community here.

ONE THING THIS YEAR’S BOARD COULD HAVE DONE BETTER I think we could have been more involved in political issues. UMC has a hard task because it has such a wide range of people it represents, so it’s sometimes difficult to take a specific stance and run with it because it tends to polarize our student body. But I think UMC can serve better to educate both sides of the argument.

ical Engineering and Applied Mechanics 347, use a lab format to achieve a similar goal of “assisting students with the ideas that they are trying to incorporate while facilitating independence,” Justin Thomas, a TA for MEAM 347, said.

These engineering labs are required for students and are not necessarily centered around completing homework.

Other classes like CIS 160 allow students to work in groups on more math-based assignments. With this format, “it’s helpful to be able to bounce ideas off of people in the class,” Olson said.

Yet Brown feels that neither of these structures would work for computer science entry-level classes.

“Part of the learning process is getting stuck and having a little pain as you try and find the answer,” Brown said.

“But finding this trivial error can make you learn and understand it more, and this can get lost working in pairs.”

ONE THING THIS YEAR’S BOARD COULD HAVE DONE BETTER We could have done more programming events for the constituency as a whole.

We had one President’s Dinner at the end of last semester, but other than that, we didn’t have that many constituent wide events.

ONE THING YOU WANT PENN STUDENTS TO KNOW ABOUT APSC It’s actually really easy to get involved in APSC. I personally got started my first semester freshman year, but I know people who got started second semester junior year. It’s definitely not too late to get involved. You can go on our website or PAACH’s website to learn more about that.

ONE THING YOU WANT PENN STUDENTS TO KNOW ABOUT UMC You don’t have to be a constituent to join UMC, there’s a lot of different ways to get involved. Even coming to our GBMs and participating in the discussions helps really increase the flow of information and I think it’s worthwhile.

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called from the online queue, which can reach up to 30 people for the hardest assignments.

Brown asserts that the overcrowding of these office hours is not atypical and that the department is “working on ways to improve the efficiency so that [they] can give quicker and better help to students.”

Despite the difficult nature of the class and the many students who struggle to work through the homework assignments, College junior and CIS 110 TA Hunter Steitle supports the way the class is structured. “You have to put in the time to learn how to do it,” he said. “The only way to learn how to code is coding.”

Benedict Brown, a CIS 110 lecturer, strongly believes in the benefits of holding 30 office hours a week in both Moore 100 and Ware College

House.

“By having these hours we can have a more fast-paced class than if we expected students not to have that kind of availability,” Brown said. “It compensates for the diversity in backgrounds and allows students to learn more quickly.”

Brown compared the help that students get on their programing to “getting paragraph-level help on writing an essay” he said, which is important in a discipline where one minor typo can affect the entire assignment.

Steitle feels that students can get caught in a bad cycle if they rely on TAs too much.

“Programming is just like a foreign language, and I can see where people need instruction, but I don’t think people need to be there for hours,” Steitle said. “Students get caught in a trap of ‘I can’t do this,’ and it becomes hard to catch up.”

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WHAT’S THE T? | Donation and wealth redistribution at Penn must be done carefully in order to make real change

ecently, my fellow columnist Yessenia Gutierrez wrote about challenging the misguided notion about low-income students being “privileged” and “lucky” for not having to pay tuition. I want to expand on this in order to illuminate some of the major problems with the way that we talk about scholarships at Penn.

Once a semester, I get dressed up in clothes that I feel neither comfortable nor myself in, make the trip to either Annenberg or New York City and join hundreds of other students receiving financial aid for Penn’s Scholarship Celebration.

This is an opportunity for students who receive financial aid to gather together with our scholarship donors.

It’s a large and formal celebration, during which we hear speeches from President Gutmann, George Weiss and two students whose educations have been made financially possible because of the gifts that these donors make.

President Gutmann always says that this is her “favorite event of the year,” and it’s understandable why.

The event presents a unique opportunity to gather donors and urge them to continue donating to Penn and so that our school’s “all grant, no loan” policy can stay intact.

The name implies that Penn students don’t need to take out loans to finance their education, which for so many of us is completely untrue.

Furthermore, this event is emblematic of some major issues that often go unaddressed about donations and wealth redistribution.

I want to make it very clear that I personally am extremely grateful to my donor for making my education at this school possible. Attending Penn has been an overwhelmingly positive experience, and I recognize that it is opening up so many doors for me moving forward. But that is part of the problem.

We must not forget that the doors and resources opening for us are made possible

through closing doors and taking resources away from others.

Urging donors to continue to funnel money into Penn by using individual students as cases of success is troubling.

First of all, the way that we

itly tone down our politics, appearance and sometimes even gender expression.

Secondly, talking about the prosperity of certain students who are able to come here from difficult financial and other life circumstances

the responsibility of continuing to provide more and more financial aid for low-income students, we should also consider other places in which our money can make a difference.

Does donating to Penn

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We must not forget that the doors and resources opening for us are made possible through closing doors and taking resources away from others.” as students are expected to present ourselves when we meet our donors is extremely uncomfortable. Not a single one of my friends with whom I’ve interacted at these events feels comfortable with how they feel they must act and dress. We all put on airs because of the clear power dynamic that exists when we are physically in the room with those funding our education.

It is clear that in return for financial assistance, we are to put on a show and implic-

can very easily take attention away from the systematic problems that put certain people in positions to attend institutions like Penn while leaving others out completely. We have to question why we are where we are while others are not.

When we graduate, those of us who have the resources to redistribute wealth will be sought out to donate to Penn.

While this is a worthwhile cause, and while it is absolutely vital that Penn takes

really change the system in which elite universities are the most respected form of education providers while the majority of the population does not have access to these financial and educational resources? I would say no, and we are not only complicit in this, but actively enabling it.

From grassroots activist and humanitarian aid organizations to online donations for chronically ill people or people in particularly dif-

ficult financial times, there are much more important and impactful places to redistribute our wealth into.

We can choose to invest in a few students and their educations, but if we really want to make a social impact, then we need to use our resources to change entire systems, not just funnel money into already wealthy institutions.

RODERICK COOK is a College junior from Nesquehoning, Pa., studying gender, sexuality and women’s studies.

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“I charge the United States of America with genocide.”

This is how College senior Victoria Ford began her final poem “Elegy” on Friday night at Incendiary, The Excelano Project’s fall 2014 show. Ford walked to the center of the stage holding a large scroll with the names and ages of 95 black murder victims. After reading each name, she shared a heart-breaking report of how the murderers were not prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

The audience was both stunned and speechless. As Ford progressed through the chilling list, the paper she held inched forward as it unrolled,

GUEST COLUMN BY PETER LABERGE AND AMANDA SILBERLING then dangled, then found the floor. At the end of the performance, the list was itself a kind of body: limp, curled into itself and quiet, embodying the pain of so many victims and families.

Over the past few weeks, there have been two days during which the student group Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation has put red handprints on people’s bodies.

The first handprint represented the decision not to indict Michael Brown’s murderer as a slap in the face. The second was a handprint around people’s necks, intended to show how Eric Garner was choked until he could no longer breathe.

I didn’t wear the red paint either time. Maybe it was because I didn’t know where to get the handprints, or because I

felt too caught up in academic stress to really immerse myself in these issues. Don’t get me wrong: I fully support and encourage the actions of groups like SOUL. When I saw my classmates and friends wearing the red paint, it made me proud to know them and to be a Quaker. So why wasn’t I wearing the paint?

As a white person, it’s easy for me to choose cramming for an exam over finding out where to get a red handprint on my body. It’s easy for me to watch a walkout occur just blocks away while I merely retweet a picture in solidarity.

But I’m not doing this country justice if my only attempts at activism are statuses, retweets and reblogs. White privilege allows me to selectively tune in and tune out of these protests — to nod in approval at

my friends who get their faces painted, reblog a few protest photos on Tumblr and then resume my regular schedule. On Friday, Ford and The Excelano Project reminded us that this relative ambivalence is not enough.

Penn students are lucky to engage in a community that — for the most part — understands that the issues raised in Ford’s poem are worthy of alarm and must be addressed.

We are lucky that we live, study and grow in a place where it’s OK (even encouraged) to cultivate original thought and advocate for a better, safer America.

As a white person, I will never know what it’s like to face racial discrimination. I will never know what it’s like to fear that my young cousins will be shot in broad daylight for playing with toy guns. But

while I don’t know what it’s like, I know that it’s happening, and I know that I want it to end.

This is white privilege: being outraged, but not terrified.

And I know that if I opt to remain unaware and uneducated for fear of standing up or saying something stupid, I’m a part of the problem.

So, what’s the solution? For starters, we must adopt a mindset that allows our views to be reflected by our voices and actions — we must participate in the walkouts and wear the red paint if we believe in the power of calls for change. We must, as video blogger Franchesca Ramsey says, “Speak up, not over.” At the end of the day, unlearning problematic things is difficult, and it’s possible we could make a few mistakes in the process. But we must

remember that it’s our responsibility to listen when we’re called out, to apologize and to open our eyes as we move forward.

About halfway through Ford’s performance, she stepped back from the microphone, wiped away her tears, collected herself and charged onward. Ford did what each of us could only hope we would have the strength to do: speak in spite of the hand gripping her throat.

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YOUR VOICE To the Penn Community: Last week, there was a controversial banner on Locust Walk for a Hillel event that

included an exclusionary and derogatory phrase. The display of this banner was a mistake.

The banner was produced by the featured book’s publisher

and was not vetted by Hillel leadership. While the author is a professional comedian and provocateur, it is our responsibility to live up to our value of

inclusivity. The banner does not reflect the values of Penn Hillel, and we apologize for its display.

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team manages to catch the golden snitch, a non-biased player with tennis ball attached to his or her leg. Staying true to the novels, players must keep a “broomstick,” usually a pole of some sort, between their legs.

Before the game, the teams stretched and ran down the field.

Similar to soccer, players swarmed around the rival chaser attempting to score a goal. When a player did manage to get the quaffle past the rival team, the point was celebrated similarly to a touchdown in football.

Despite the full-contact and athleticism of the game, the Penn community, and many people in general, are unable to accept Quidditch as a true sport, Alexander

funding to the Perelman School of Medicine and reduced the amount of federal student aid and workstudy jobs for students. Penn views new leadership in the Senate Budget and Appropriations committees as key to restoring funding for important programs.

“I think the biggest issue here is the whole question of the spending caps that are in place ... and the fact that sequestration is back in play,” said Penn’s Associate Vice President for Federal Affairs Bill Andresen, who acts as Penn’s chief lobbyist in Congress.

Since spending limits prevent Congress from increasing funding to numerous programs, “we could have the best members of

said. She added that this causes many problems for the team, such as having limited University support and a lack of funding.

Recruiting is also difficult, with the turnover rate not as high as Alexander would like to see. Because of this, the team is focusing on building a consistent membership instead of increasing their competitiveness. "[Quidditch takes] dedication, practice and athletic skill,” Alexander said. “It’s just like any other sport — you get out of it what you put into it.”

Penn Quidditch was founded in the fall of 2011. Somewhat of a mantra of the team is one of the team’s co-captain’s favorite quotes, reading, “It takes a very special kind of person to play Quidditch, and that’s who you want to be friends with.”

Congress who really want to increase funding on some of these programs that we care about, but it’s hard under these caps,” Andresen added. “Basically any program that receives funding from the federal government can be affected ... by these limitations on spending and sequestration.”

The Budget Committee, which will either be chaired by Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) or Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), determines how much money the federal government can spend, whereas the Appropriations Committee, which Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is expected to chair, decides which programs get funding. Because of sequestration, the power to allocate

federal funds has been limited, but both of these committees still play a major role in shaping the federal budget.

Although gridlock has plagued Congress over the last few years, bipartisan agreement exists in eliminating the budget limits caused by sequestration. However, Penn administrators remain worried about some Republicans’ continued support for spending caps.

Members of both parties have indicated that they want to eliminate budget caps, which they see as “problematic for both domestic and defense programs,” Andresen said. “But there are a lot of other members, particularly in the Republican caucus in the House and

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Division of Public Safety created earlier this semester.

Burglary went down from six to three, while bike theft increased from 11 to 14.

Burglary and bike theft for the calendar year, though, is significantly higher than last year. Rush attributed this to the high number of bike thefts and burglaries earlier this semester. “These were the times when the students didn’t lock their bikes and their doors,” she said.

Rush advised students and faculty members to register for the holiday specialchecks program. She said that every winter break, DPS offer this service free

of charge to Penn community in the area. Students and faculty members can register their property with DPS online, and Penn Police will do special checks to make sure the doors and windows of these properties are secured while the residents are away.

Rush said that during the last winter break, there were over 100 homes and apartments registered, and none of these property had crime take place. During the past Thanksgiving break, of the 37 registered properties, no crimes were reported.

“It’s something we really encourage students and faculty members to take advantage of,” she said.

Senate, who don’t want to eliminate the spending caps and sequestration.”

“We will just have to wait and see who emerges as the chair of those committees and what kind of approach Congress wants to take,” he added.

Although Republican resistance to increased spending might worry Penn’s lobbyist, other new Senate Committee Republican chairmanships could prove beneficial for higher education.

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) is expected to lead the subcommittee that controls funding for the National Institute of Health, which provides Penn and other universities millions of dollar a year in re-

search grants. In addition, former Secretary of Education and President of University of Tennessee, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn), will chair the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

“Sen. Alexander of Tennessee is a former university president, and I think he understands where most universities’ interests are and where priorities and concerns are,” Andresen said. He also spoke highly of Moran, noting he “has been an outspoken champion for funding NIH.” “So those are good things,” Andresen added. “To some degree we will just have to wait and let the process play itself out and see.”

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QUAKERS UPEND BINGHAMTON M. HOOPS | Six players finish in double figures as Penn wins its second straight game

BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor

AT BINGHAMTON For Penn basketball, two double-digit scorers were better than one.

Er, make that five. No, six.

Spurred on by their most balanced attack of the season, the Quakers (2-5) built an early lead on the road against Binghamton and never looked back in a 79-70 triumph.

Almost from the opening tip, the Quakers were faced with serious foul trouble. Junior guard Tony Hicks picked up two quick personals and wound up playing for only 1:55 in the first half.

Despite relying on three freshmen to play more than 23 minutes apiece, Penn’s offense didn’t fold.

Instead, it thrived.

Penn shot 16-for-31 from the field in the first half thanks to six three-pointers,

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Freshman Darnell Foreman and the rest of Penn’s offense came alive, with six players scoring at least 10 points in the Quakers’ 79-70 victory.

three of them from freshman forward Sam Jones. Even better for coach Jerome Allen, his 2-3 zone worked wonders, holding the bricklaying Bearcats (1-8) to 31.3 percent shooting from the floor as the Quakers built a 40-34 halftime lead.

“It was just an overall solid team effort,” Allen said.

“They shared the ball, they looked for one another. … I was more so pleased by their chemistry and service to one another.”

Hicks was limited to 16 minutes on the afternoon, but made the most of his limited time on the floor. The captain scored all 18 of his points in the second half, including a pair of dagger three-pointers to keep Binghamton at bay after the Bearcats had pulled to within two points with less than nine minutes to play.

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W. HOOPS | Penn struggles with shooting, rebounding

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VS HAMPTON For Penn women’s basketball, the difference between the first half and the second half of Friday’s game was night and day.

After shooting 40 percent from the floor and 45 percent from beyond the arc in the

first 20 minutes of the game, the Red and Blue went icecold. And they were never able to recover.

A game that was once competitive turned into a display of speed and athleticism for Hampton as the Quakers fell, 58-43.

Hampton (1-5) dominated the boards. They raked in 58 total rebounds — including 30 offensive rebounds — compared to 35 total rebounds for the Red and Blue.

“You can’t give up 30 offensive rebounds and beat anyone anywhere at any time,” coach Mike McLaughlin said.

And the Quakers (3-3) struggled on offense perhaps

even more than they did on defense. They opened the second half shooting 1-for15 from the floor and only managed to sink their first field goal with 12 minutes left in the half.

In this span, the Pirates went on an 18-3 run, dominating and claiming the lead for the remainder of the game.

“We just didn’t have control of the game after the first 18 minutes,” McLaughlin said. “We need to find ways when we don’t score to show some life, and we couldn’t get life in anyone, and we just felt bad for ourSEE W. HOOPS PAGE B4

FOOTBALL | Current Albany coach will lead defense

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ond in both of Thursday’s distance events on the women’s side, the team quickly gained momentum on day two of racing, capturing the top spot in five of the day’s eight events.

Sophomore Rochelle Dong proved vital to Penn’s second day success. In addition to helping the Quakers secure victories in both the 200 free

Four days after officially taking over the reins of Penn football, head coach Ray Priore hasn’t waited long to put his own stamp on the program.

With the defensive coordinator position vacant after Priore’s promotion, Penn Athletics has confirmed that current Albany defensive coordinator Bob Benson will fill the same position with the Red and Blue.

“I’m thrilled to add someone of Bob’s experience to our staff,” Priore said in a statement. “We shared our first coaching jobs at Albany, and he has found success at every level since that time.”

“He is of outstanding character, a great family man and [an] excellent role model. I’m excited to be working with him again.”

Priore and Benson first worked together at Albany in the mid-1980s. Benson served as a graduate assistant for defensive backs for the Great Danes in 1986, the second season of Priore’s two-year stint as defen-

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Sophomore guard Melanie Lockett’s seven points were the team high for the Quakers, who struggled offensively for much of the game.

Red and Blue take home two victories at Kenyon SWIMMING | Penn powers through three-day meet

BY SAM ALTLAND Staff Writer Even far from home, no swimming record is safe.

In their last competition before winter break, Penn men’s and women’s swimming both

emerged victorious from the annual Total Performance Invitational Meet and broke quite a few records along the way.

The meet, which was hosted

by Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, saw the Quakers face off against a competitive field of schools including Kenyon, Johns Hopkins and Carnegie Mellon.

Although Penn placed sec-

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“It’s a testament to their toughness that we had girls going out there and swimming five or six events, and they kept getting faster each time,” coach Mike Schnur said. “If we continue improving at this pace and making these type of steps, then we are going to be in an excellent position a few months down the road.”

On the men’s side, the Quakers also emerged from the weekend victorious with 2,709.5 team points. However, Kenyon kept things interesting by scoring 2,462 to keep pressure on the Quakers.

The Quakers jumped out early, as junior Chris Swanson set the tone for the team by winning the meet’s opening event in dominant fashion. Swanson broke his own school record — and set meet and pool records in the process — by winning the 1650m free event in a time of 14:43.87.

His time, the second fastest in the country, also put him under the NCAA Championship automatic A-cut threshold.

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and 400 medley relay events, the sophomore also finished first in the 50-meter freestyle, with a time of 23.06.

Two more individual events fell Penn’s way on Friday. Senior Taylor Sneed’s 2:00.72 finish in the 200 fly was good for the top spot, and sophomore Ellie Grimes broke the meet and pool records in the 400m IM with a time of 4:20.94.

Grimes was also one of three Quakers to finish atop the podium on the last day of racing, helping Penn maintain its lead through Saturday.

Grimes set pool and team records in the 200m breaststroke, winning the final in a time of 2:15.99.

Dong and freshman Ryan Alexander also scored maximum points on Saturday in the 100 fly and 200m backstroke respectively, as Penn coasted to a team total victory, outpacing runner-up Kenyon, 2,6351,574.5.

Swanson also finish ed first in the 500m free with a time of 4:21.15 — good for new pool and meet records.

“I think you saw just how much work the guys have put in when you saw Swanson race,” Schnur said. “He has never made the A-cut, and he has never been as fast as he is now, and watching him in that race was pretty special” Thursday also saw the men’s 800m freestyle relay Ateam break the pool, meet and school records as the squad touched up in 6:31.98.

However, even a performance like this doesn’t buy the team any respite.

“We are going to get right back to work tomorrow,” Schnur said. “We have a lot of swimmers pointed towards NCAAs, and it is totally worth killing ourselves now so that we can be in a position to succeed two months down the road.

“We are going to continue to get faster, and we hope to do a lot of damage come February.”

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New head coach Ray Priore wasted no time filling his old position of defensive coordinator, tapping former colleague Bob Benson to take the job. Benson has worked as Albany and Towson’s defensive coordinator in recent years.

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“To have the opportunity to work with Ray again, and to be a part of the tradition of Penn football and the Ivy League, is very special to me,” Benson said. ”[Priore] helped build a tradition of winning at Penn, and to have a chance to help return the program to the top of the Ivy League is just a special opportunity.”

Following his initial work at Albany, Benson spent time as an assistant at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Johns Hopkins from 1988 through 1993.

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Since leaving Georgetown in 2005, Benson has returned to his roots as a defensive guru. In 2006 and 2007, Benson spent two years as Towson’s defensive coordinator before taking over as the defensive signal caller at Colorado School of Mines from 2008 until 2013.

2014 marked Benson’s return to the program where it all began: Albany. In his first and only season as defensive coordinator in the Empire State, Benson helped the Great Danes defense rise from 102nd to 42nd in terms of total defense, a key factor in Albany’s six-win increase from 2013.

Now Benson is excited to help turn around Penn’s defense.

“Penn historically has played great defense, and all I want to do is try to make those improvements in a very diligent and well-thought manner,” he said. “That’s what I’ve always tried to do regardless of the situation.

“I’m just excited to be a part of this thing and to help Penn get back to the top of the Ivy League. If there’s one thing about me that you realize when you get to know me, I want to win and that’s why I’m sitting here.”

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BY GARRETT GOMEZ Staff Writer Sunday afternoon proved to be heartbreaking at Ringe Courts for Penn men’s squash.

During a match in which four positions in the ladder were forced to five games, only one of them went Penn’s way. At one point, the Red and Blue were up 4-1 in the match. However, the Diplomats would go on to win the next four matches to edge the Quakers 5-4.

Riding a four-game winning streak heading into Sunday’s match, Penn (4-1) was set to face a Franklin & Marshall team that was ranked No. 7 before the season began but had since fallen to No. 12 after losses to

VS. F & M Princeton, Columbia and Yale.

Meanwhile, the Quakers began the season ranked No. 9 but entered the match at No. 8 thanks to a hot start to the season.

Nonetheless, it would be the Diplomats (5-3) that ended Sunday with the upper hand.

“This stings for all of us: individually and as a team,” junior Augie Frank said. “Whether any of us individually won or lost, it all stings equally. But it’s just got to be motivation.”

Frank proved to be one of the bright spots for the Quakers on Sunday. Playing in the eighth position on the ladder, he battled back from a 2-0 deficit while on his way to a 3-2 individual match victory.

“The coaches were reminding me in between games how hard we’ve been working this entire season with morning practices and fitness,” he said, “and I knew that if I could push him to a fourth, I could push him to a fifth and I could take him.”

Other positives for the Red and Blue included wins for freshmen Anders Larson and James Watson in the fourth and sixth spots respectively and a 3-0 victory for junior Liam Quinn in the fifth spot.

“Going forward, how we deal with this loss is really what’s going to define our season,” Frank said. “The loss itself — we use it as motivation and then throw it away. It will sting every day of practice, but it means nothing to how good we are and how talented we are.”

Coach Jack Wyant’s speech in the post-game team meeting was simple.

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“I told them that Franklin and Marshall did a better job of taking their chances today meaning they played the big points, the most important points, the ones at the end of the game, better than we did,” he said.

Despite incurring their first lost of the season, Wyant says that he doesn’t plan on changing much for the team in terms of preparation or strategy.

“We’ll probably do a little more fitness, but other than that, we’re happy with the team.

We’re happy with the progress they’re making,” he said. “You just got to give credit to Franklin & Marshall - they were the tougher team today and they snuck a win.”

Sunday’s match against F&M finishes competitive play for the Quakers until next semester.

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Allen said of the rebounding margin. “I just thought, collectively, just because one of the bigs didn’t get a rebound on that particular possession, that ‘that’s it.’ Darnell comes up with it, for example.�

Penn has now won consecutive games for the first time since Feb. 7-8, when the Quakers swept Cornell and Columbia at the Palestra.

But as the Red and Blue return to the Palestra for a home date with Marist before finals, why not do something that hasn’t been done since 2006-07: win a third straight nonconference game?

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Allen said. “[When] he got in the game, he made the right plays.�

Though the turnover numbers remained less than pretty (18 total), many of the problems that plagued Penn in its loss to Wagner last Saturday appeared resolved. The Quakers easily broke out of Binghamton’s fullcourt press in the second half.

Most importantly, the Red and Blue dominated the game on the glass. They won the rebounding margin by 13 boards and got key contributions from both junior center Darien Nelson-Henry (nine rebounds) and freshman guard Darnell Foreman (eight rebounds).

With all five players on the

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selves. We couldn’t score and couldn’t do anything about it.�

Not one player on the team scored in double-digits with sophomore guard Melanie Lockett leading the way with seven points.

The Red and Blue’s struggles to score stemmed from not having solidified a go-to shooter when things aren’t going the team’s way.

McLaughlin said that they haven’t quite figured exactly who will step up on the offensive end when the team faces adversity, but that they will focus on this moving forward.

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hand, had no trouble getting buckets as freshman guard Malia Tate-Defreitas took over and scored 27 points on the night. Seventeen of those points came in the second half, helping the Pirates pull away.

The early fouls by three of Penn’s top scorers — freshman guard Beth Brzozowski, sophomore center Sydney Stipanovich and senior forward Kara Bonenberger — as well as 18 total turnovers did nothing to help the Quakers’ cause. Stipanovich provided a small bright spot with six blocks on the evening.

Nevertheless, McLaughlin never questioned his team’s desire to win, but he noted that the Quakers need to improve, and improve quickly,

if they want to compete at the highest level. “We care. We really compete,� he said. “We really try hard, but this game is going to give you some adverse times, and you have to be mentally strong. We are working on it in practice. I’ve seen little pieces of growth, but I thought tonight was a step back in that department. “I was just really disappointed in how we responded to a little adversity. We just have to grow very quickly as a unit.�

On Friday night at the Palestra, when the going got tough, the Red and Blue did not get going. And McLaughlin made it very clear that they must in order to succeed in the future.

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The Red and the Blue lost decisively to No. 11 Lehigh on SaturA trip to Bethlehem didn’t go as day in Bethlehem, as the Mountain Penn wrestling would have liked, Hawks emerged with a 31-6 vicbut more than one star emerged. tory at home.

Lehigh, who entered Saturday’s match with a 5-1 record, were favorites to come out on top in the annual matchup. Penn was missing some of its top wrestlers — including injured senior Lorenzo Thomas — which did little to improve the Quakers’ prospects.

“We knew it was going to be a tall order,” coach Alex Tirapelle

said, recognizing the recent strong form of the Mountain Hawks, whose only loss this season came at the hands of No. 5 Penn State.

Tirapelle lamented the loss but nonetheless found delight in some of the individual performances.

“We finished on a high note,” Tirapelle explained, as the Quakers went down by a startling 25-0 deficit before salvaging the 31-6 final score.

After a difficult start, senior C.J. Cobb managed to overpower and take down Lehigh’s Drew Longo at 149 pounds for Penn’s first bout win.

Another of the highlights came from freshman Joe Heyob, who managed to turn around and come out on top at 174 pounds against Lehigh’s fifth-year senior Marshall Peppelman in the final bout of the day.

With a 7-4 score and a win for Heyob against a more experienced opponent, the result meant a second-bout win as well as encouragement for the relatively young Penn squad.

“It was a little bit intimidating,” Heyob said, recalling how he felt in the moments before the bout, held in the middle of a gym filled with Lehigh fans.

“You’ve got to focus and block out the distractions,” he continued, explaining how he successfully managed to build momentum after a crucial turnaround in his bout.

Tirapelle also praised the performance of sophomore Caleb Richardson, who, despite his 3-2 loss, had an impressive showing against Lehigh’s sixth-ranked Mason Beckman at 133 pounds.

With the wins from Cobb and Heyob, the Red and the Blue ended with two wins out of a total of ten bouts.

The seemingly bleak outcome of Saturday’s match against Lehigh does not do the squad performance justice, commented Heyob, who said that the team is still improving.

Even though a win might have seemed unlikely, Tirapelle urged the importance of not overlooking any loss — including this one.

“As a whole, we’ve got some work to do.”

The Quakers are recharging as they look ahead to the Midlands Championships at the end of the month.

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