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Penn President Amy Gutmann joins protesters in a “die-in” at her annual holiday party, where they laid on the ground for four and a half minutes in memory of Michael Brown.

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Penn Police considers body cameras Launched on Dec. 1, the program consists of 31 volunteer officers who are now patrolling the 22nd Penn Police already has more District with the new technology. than 130 cameras set up around The pilot program is a result of a campus. Now the Division of Pub- year of research on the use of body lic Safety is considering putting cameras at the PPD, Public Inforcameras on its officers. mation Officer for the PhiladelPenn is researching the possi- phia Police John Stanford said. He bility of following in the footsteps added that this initiative echoes the of Philadelphia Police Depart- presidential task force on 21st cenment’s body camera pilot program. tury policing recently established JOE LI Staff Writer

by President Barack Obama.

The program employs six different brands of body cameras that will be narrowed down based on the best fit for the department. Currently, the body cameras are only on during the daytime, mainly due to storage limitations, but Stanford said they will “slowly progress into the night time.”

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From combat to college: Veterans face unique challenges at Penn

Protesters take over President Amy Gutmann’s holiday party JENNIFER WRIGHT & JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Writers

Penn students took over Penn President Amy Gutmann’s annual holiday party on Tuesday night, demanding that the University pay money to support Philadelphia schools.

Tuesday night’s protest follows one from last week where students from the Student Labor Action Project demanded that Penn pay $6.6 million in payments in lieu of taxes — also known as PILOTs — to the School District of Philadelphia.

The students, who were members of Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation and SLAP, first laid on the ground for four and a half minutes in memory of Michael Brown, the Ferguson teenager who was fatally shot by a police officer. Caught off guard, Gutmann joined the protesters, lying down on the ground to participate in the “diein.”

Remarks from protesters linked the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo., to SEE SLAP PAGE 7

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Daniel Bergmann is currently taking two Penn classes through the College of Liberal and Professional Studies’ Young Scholars program.

Like many students, Daniel Bergmann sometimes worries that he is doing college wrong. Not necessarily because he regrets falling behind on work or not joining enough clubs.

It’s because for Daniel, college isn’t just an education — it’s a cure.

“Am I misusing college for my personal health?” Daniel, 19, typed out on an iPad during a November interview. He guided his interpreter’s hand over the letters on an app he and his parents developed called iMean. He needs a steady hand to help him concentrate his thoughts into words and keep his autism from getting in the way of communicating. Daniel, who takes two classes at Penn through the College of Liberal and Professional Studies’ Young Scholars program, has come to think of education as a form of healing.

“Popcorn!” Daniel would shout out in the middle of the interview, rapidly rubbing his thumbs against his fingers and shaking his head loosely. “Pop-corn,” he repeated slowly, the syllables snapping off his tongue like bursting kernels. At the same time, Daniel would be typing an eloquent reply about the nature of language and communication on his iPad with the help of his interpreter — either his father Michael or 2014 SEE AUTISM PAGE 11

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PENN ENGAGEMENT PRIZES Deadline delayed to be more “realistic” for applicants PAGE 7

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(From left to right) Tyrell McCurbin, Tristan O’Brien, Deborah Trimble

Vets rally for more resources; Penn hesitates with demands YUEQI YANG Senior Writer

During his first week at Penn, Tristan O’Brien walked into the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, looking for his classroom. Another man walked into the Center, also looking for a classroom.

When they couldn’t find them, a security guard directed them to the building next door, the Annenberg School for Com-

munication.

After a few steps, they turned to each other and, at the same time, asked: “You were in the military, weren’t you?”

“Just the way he carried himself,” O’Brien — a United States Navy veteran and a junior in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies — explained. “He looks like he would have been military.”

Running into another veteran, however, is a low chance event at Penn. Veteran students represent less than 1 percent of the student population at the University. There are 202 identified veteran students, ac-

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cording to Berthilla Wiscount, director of Graduate Financial Aid Programs. The exact number of veterans is hard to pin down because veterans selfidentify, and some may choose not to report.

As troops continue to return from Iraq and Afghanistan, veterans at Penn say the community is growing in number. Now, the Student Veteran Association is circulating a petition requesting that the University establish a resource center with one dedicated staff member for veterans on campus. A month SEE VETERANS PAGE 13

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Spring Fling likely to have two acts this year

SPEC uses survey to gauge Penn students’ Fling preferences SONIA SIDHU Staff Writer

Spring Fling will likely feature two acts instead of three in April.

The Social Planning and Events Committee is utilizing a student survey to gauge Penn students’ preferences for Fling performers, and responses so far overwhelmingly support a two-act show with one opener and one headliner, as opposed to the three-act show last year. Because SPEC has a $180,000 budget for talent in the spring, two acts will allow for greater expenditure on each artist.

SPEC’s survey also asks students to suggest artists as potential Fling performers and genres. Cur-

rently, the top contending genres include electronic, pop and hiphop.

1500 students, or about 15 percent of the student body, have currently responded to the survey.

SPEC is waiting for more responses to make a final decision and will continue to check the form and contact additional artists, so the top genres could change.

“We wanted to remain true to the purpose [of SPEC] and brings artists that the Penn community wants to see,” College senior and SPEC Concerts Co-Director Suvadip Choudhury said.

Choudhury added that SPEC originally had an inclination that the students would not want an electronic artist because the past three Fling artists have all been electronic artists. However, he said that electronic music has received “a decent percentage of the

votes” so far.

Choudhury could not reveal the identities of the leading artists because SPEC is in the process of contacting many of them. One may end up as the Fling opening act or headliner in April.

While SPEC still won’t be able to get Beyonce, Choudhury said that some students still listed such out-of-budget artists as Queen Bey, Taylor Swift and Kanye West. However, enough students listed artists that are within budget and SPEC has started contacting booking agencies for some artists.

Aside from budgetary considerations, SPEC must consider logistics. When deciding on a headliner, SPEC must see if the artist is even booking shows or if the artist can easily come to Philadelphia.

The lineup for the Fling concert will likely be announced in early March.

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Body cameras are useful in enhancing community-police relationships since they provide reliable accounts of interactions between law enforcement officers and citizens.

“Videos generally don’t lie.

It’s a win-win option in many ways,” Stephanos Bibas, professor of law and criminology at Penn Law School, said. Body cameras will reduce abusive police power, but will also makes it harder to make false charges against police officers, he added.

However, Bibas also raised concerns about privacy, especially when they enter resi-

dence buildings and other private places. To that concern, Stanford said, “Once [the police officers] arrive at the scene, they will ask the residents if they are comfortable with the camera on. If not, the officers will document it and turn the cameras off.”

Keeping these concerns in mind, Penn Police is also analyzing the effectiveness of body cameras. PennComm, the emergency communications response team of DPS, already operates an extensive system of static cameras. The cameras rotate 360 degrees and can see up to three blocks away.

“Those cameras are very similar to the body cameras,

and are always on and store images for a long time,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

Stanford said that body cameras are the natural next step in police technology, calling them “the future of policing.”

“It’s a reality of the world,” he added. “Back in history, radios were only installed in police cars. Now you have officers carrying radios.”

Alluding to the recent public attention on police brutality, Bibas pointed to body cameras as a possible solution.

“Imagine,” he said, “what if we had a body camera video in Ferguson? A lot of these problems might be easier to figure out.”

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West Phila. high school senior takes Penn calculus

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Syeda Islam was a half hour late to her first Math 103 class this semester because she was lost in David Rittenhouse Laboratory.

She had to ask for an extension on the first homework assignment because she couldn’t figure out how to access it on MyMathLab — a first day scenario that might sound familiar to any new undergraduate.

The difference is that Syeda is a senior in high school. In fact, she is the only student from West Philadelphia High School taking a class at Penn this semester.

The Young Scholars program through the School of Liberal and Professional Studies invites high school juniors and seniors from around the city to apply. If accepted, they enroll as an undergraduate in a non-degree program in classes ranging from anthropology to political science.

Fortunately, that first day hasn’t done much to dampen Syeda’s spirit. As she talked about her aspirations to be an engineer and hopes to go to Penn since she moved to West Philadelphia from Bangladesh a year ago, her smile never left her face.

Syeda’s situation is an interesting one: She is 19 years old and should be a sophomore in high school if things had gone as planned. Her visa came through last minute, so she didn’t have the chance to take the international university admission exam — called the TOEFL — before she came to the United States from Bangladesh. That left her with the choice to either go to a community college or to repeat the last two years of high school.

She chose high school for the chance to improve her English as well as to get recommendation letters and scholarship opportunities to attend a four-year university.

“I was frustrated because I had to repeat my grade, I was a little bit angry,” she said. “My dream was to go to UPenn.”

Now she has the chance to because the Young Scholars are made to feel like traditional undergrads. For example, they get an academic advisor and receive a PennCard with access to Penn facilities like Van Pelt Library.

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if they had a high school student among their class. “They’re LPS undergraduates,” he said. “They’re qualified to be here.”

Juniors and seniors from public or charter schools in Philadelphia are able to take a class for no tuition through LPS, although the program is open to other students outside the district for a little over $3,000 per class for 2014-15.

For Syeda, the chance to attend tuition-free was a major reason to participate. “We just settled here,” she said. “If I have to pay something like a thousand or two thousand I don’t think my parents could afford it right now.”

Director of Moelis Access Science through the Netter Center Joanna Chae met Syeda when she participated in the science fair.

She also had the chance to work in Penn laboratories as part of activities in her chemistry class.

Chae learned about the opportunity quite close to the deadline and then offered to help Syeda with her application. “The time was right and we had the right student,” she said, noting her high GPA and glowing recommendations from teachers.

Chae noted Syeda’s unique qualities that made her stand out

for the opportunity.

“She’s someone that has always accepted a challenge,” Chae said.

“It’s not often you find students who are so hopeful and motivated.”

While Penn hosts many programs targeted specifically at students close to Penn, Syeda is the only one from her high school, located nine blocks from Penn’s campus.

Manager of Summer Sessions and High School Programs at LPS Lauren More explained that the enrollment from certain schools fluctuates year to year, though the program has seen overall growth in the past few years.

“It’s a great way for high school students to supplement the curriculum,” More said. “It’s a pipeline to the University for students who don’t understand the college process.”

Young Scholars doesn’t actively recruit for the program they way other organizations do toward schools in this area. Young Scholars relies mostly on organizations they work with, like Upward Bound and the Netter Center, to spread the word about the opportunity to qualified students.

The program criteria are rigor-

ous. The average applicant has a 3.3 GPA, strong test scores, writing ability and recommendation letters — possible barriers for some students.

For someone like Syeda who is struggling with her SAT score — the critical reading section is challenging for her, she said — a program like Young Scholars could be tough to get in to.

Lesser and More both said that Young Scholars is open and wants to enroll qualified students — there’s no cap to the enrollment each year.

“There’s a good developing synergy between the program and Netter,” Lesser said.

Because Netter works extensively with students from West

Philadelphia, they can be a good channel in which to reach students for Young Scholars, Chae explained.

Chae said she has been asking around to her Penn volunteers to look out for students — capable, motivated and interested, Chae said — who would be a good fit for the program for the future.

As for now, Syeda has told a friend about the program and Chae said she is working to help the friend apply for next semester.

If students maintain a 3.0 GPA in the fall they are automatically allowed back in the spring to take another course. Syeda is focused on passing her Calc exam on the 16th and hoping to take Math 104 in the spring.

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President’s Engagement Prizes application deadline pushed to January

Amy Gutmann said the new deadline is more “realistic” KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus New Editor-Elect

Students interested in applying for the inaugural round of President’s Engagement Prizes have some extra time to bolster their project proposals.

Originally supposed to conclude during the fall semester, the application deadline has been extended to Jan. 16, 2015 — the first week of the spring semester.

“There was a very strong interested in the Prizes, which led me to extend the deadline to what I think is a more realistic deadline for Penn seniors,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said.

Originally announced by Gutmann late this summer, the

Prizes will provide up to three recipients with up to $150,000 to devise and implement a local, national or global engagement project during the year following their graduation from Penn.

Applicants are required to submit proposals for projects through which they hope to develop and implement during the year after graduation.

As this will be the first time the Prizes will be awarded, applicants are forging new ground. The application guidelines leave great leeway for student creativity, requiring only that projects focus on engagement. “My biggest expectation is to be surprised by the range of projects,” Gutmann said.

“We know from experience that you don’t know how many candidates will ultimately apply until the application deadline,” Associate Director for Undergraduate Research at CURF Wallace Genser said.

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The Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships provided a series of early information sessions to provide students with an overview of the nature and purpose of the prize, selection criteria and suggestions for project development.

More recent informational sessions have focused on creating budgets for potential projects.

“We believe the extended deadline will accomplish its goal of providing seniors more time to reach out to potential resources, sharpen their proposals and polish their final submissions,” Genser said.

Once applications have been submitted, the Provost Vincent Price will bring together a committee to read the applications and recommend semifinalists to Gutmann, though she is admittedly eager to see Penn students’ promise.

“I may in fact read all of the applications,” Gutmann said.

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racial issues related to the Philadelphia School District, which serves primarily students of color.

“Selective disinvestment in black and brown communities is racism,” SOUL member and College junior Gina Dukes said in remarks addressed to Gutmann during the protest. “Every day that Penn lobbies against PILOTs, it writes a new page in this country’s legacy of racial justice.”

PILOTs are contributions that property tax-exempt organizations voluntarily make to local governments to cover costs of services like police and firefighters. “Penn is a nonprofit, so it doesn’t pay taxes on any of its properties and Penn is the biggest property owner in the city, so this a big reason why schools are closing and the district is really underfunded,” SLAP member Chloe Sigal, a College senior, said after the protest.

Protesters demanded a statement from Gutmann following the remarks by Dukes. Penn has previously attempted to head off calls for PILOTs, commissioning a report along with other Philadelphia universities last year defending their economic contributions to the city.

At a Board of Trustees meeting in October, Vice President for Government and Community Affairs Jeff

Cooper argued against PILOTs. “We’re not a social service agency — we’re a university,” he said at the October meeting.

Despite the protests, many students continued to eat, although many were also visibly uncomfortable. “I feel trapped,” said one student, who was not a part of the protest.

The demonstration continued with protesters sitting cross-legged lining the hallway from the foyer to the back door of Gutmann’s house.

They chanted and individual protesters took turns speaking to the group.

Holiday party guests left and the doors to the yard were closed, leaving Gutmann’s staff standing by the protesters. Penn Police were called to the scene, but uniformed officers only came as far as the front door.

Protesters left Gutmann’s house voluntarily and reconvened at DuBois College House to discuss the events of the protests. The groups requested that the meeting remain closed off from reporters.

Two men who identified themselves as Penn detectives arrived and stood outside of DuBois for 15 minutes before leaving.

Dukes, along with SLAP member Daniel Cooper, addressed Gutmann personally as she was leaving, asking her for comments about the PILOT contributions.

Gutmann responded that this was

not the right time, and described the protest as an “ambush.”

Dukes requested to arrange another time to talk, but Gutmann did not commit to a meeting.

“I’m glad we have your attention,” Dukes said as the conversation was ending.“You had my attention before this,” Gutmann responded.

After Gutmann left, the demonstration continued. At one point, party organizers made the holiday music louder in order to drown out the continued chanting, angering protesters.

“Don’t you dare try to turn up the music to shut us down,” one protester said.

“Black lives matter — all lives matter. Black lives have not been served the way I and others would like them to be served,” Gutmann said.

On the note of PILOTs, Gutmann defended Penn’s commitment to Philadelphia schools.

“I’m doing everything we can to strengthen schools in Philadelphia,” Gutmann said, taking the microphone. “We must be consistent with our mission of higher education.

We’re very proud of what we’ve done with the Penn Alexander school.”

However, Gutmann was interrupted multiple times while speaking. Finally, annoyed, Gutmann stopped talking, instead attempting to continue with the holiday party.

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after it was released, the petition has collected 518 signatures.

However, the petition’s demands will not be met in the short term.

“The University is aware of the issues the students are presenting and the petition. We are not pursuing a center or dedicated staff member for veterans at this time, because we’ve already agreed to further study the specific needs of our veteran students,” Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs Hikaru Kozuma said in an email.

In response to the University’s current decision, Wharton senior Timothy Kolb, the president of Penn Student Veterans Association, said he understood that it takes time for changes to happen.

“The coordinator is our most pressing need — someone with the interests of student veterans foremost in mind who can reach out to different University departments in an official capacity,” he said.

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Returning from the military, the biggest challenge that many veterans face is the sense of loneliness.

“The hardest thing I’ve found coming here is that there’s nobody that has your back,” said Deborah Trimble, an LPS senior who served in the Air Force for eight years. Unlike in the military, where time is managed for each person and every task is done in a team, in college everyone is on their own, she said.

Engineering junior Tyrell McCurbin agreed. “It was just rare that you will find people that are able to relate to you and people who understand the experience you had.”

McCurbin was deployed in Iraq, like many recently returned veteran students. After surviving through the battlefield and making it back to campus, some think that many Penn students take their freedom for granted.

The age difference adds another level of distance between them and typical Penn undergraduates.

After years of service, veteran students are usually over 26 years old when they enter Penn. Most veterans don’t live on campus, and some need to take care of their families or work part-time jobs after school.

“You have this challenge as being older and being a little ostracized, because you are different

from everybody,” Trimble said.

She has found that her closest friends are other LPS students.

Many veterans keep quiet about their status because it can draw uneasy responses.

“Oftentimes, there are people who don’t know how to respond.

So it can be awkward for somebody to find out that you are not a typical student, you are a veteran,” McCurbin said.

Occasionally, veterans receive questions that can be hurtful and are considered taboo. When Trimble introduced herself as a veteran in her first semester at Penn, she received some difficult questions.

“Things like, did you kill somebody, or do you have PTSD?” she said. “People have this idea of the military which is often very incorrect.”

She decided not to talk about her veteran status, until this semester.

Most of the time, though, people respond to veteran students in a supportive and friendly way.

Because there are so few veteran students at Penn, finding other veterans can be a challenge — it requires both good luck and good eyes.

“One time I was taking chemistry last year, and I noticed somebody had on some familiar boots,” McCurbin said. He approached the student and found out that he was involved with the military.

Besides spotting them in class and on the street, veteran students usually get to know other veterans through the introduction by their academic advisors and through events such as LPS gatherings.

In 2012, Cory Boatwright — a 2014 LPS graduate and Air Force veteran — founded the Penn Student Veteran Association. Since last year, the group has worked on the petition requesting more resources for veterans.

Trimble said a resource center would be important to provide a home for veterans on campus. “I would know if I am struggling with something this week, I can just go somewhere and meet somebody, because that’s where the veterans are. There’s going to be somebody there.”

Another area of challenge for veterans — aside from the social transition — is academics.

Majoring in public health and doing pre-med at Penn, Trimble sat in the same organic chemistry classroom with other Penn students who are 15 years younger than her.

“I feel like I don’t have the capacity to memorize stuff like they do,” she said, commenting that the class is “a little too much memorizing for [her] pleasure.”

The first two semesters had been a struggle for Trimble, who was home-schooled before her military service. She frequented

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But gradually, she figured out her own method of learning. “I teach an empty classroom with chalkboards. There’s nobody in the classroom, but I just try to teach the lesson.”

O’Brien — the student who ran into another veteran in the Annenberg Center — said he has an advantage in classes that touch on real-world experience. When his professor taught about the Iraq War, O’Brien could talk about his personal experience.

“I said, I was there, and these people are kind of like this...”

O’Brien said. Later, in a recitation on 9/11, he talked about how the event prompted him to join the military. Most of his classmates recounted their vague memories from elementary school.

However, O’Brien said that he performed better academically after returning from the military, but felt a time crunch to catch up with his peers.

“I do better in school now than I ever would have before, because you have that discipline background. You come in, and you are like, ‘This is your job,’” O’Brien said.

O’Brien applied to Penn when he was deployed in Afghanistan.

Growing up outside of Philadelphia, he served in the U.S Navy for six years after graduating from high school.

Two years into the military, he decided that he wanted to go back to school and found out about Penn’s LPS program from his friend.

“They should go down to the bases and make travel trips because they can get some really good and really smart people in if they advertise more,” O’Brien said. The petition also advocates that Penn increase its promotion among the military.

As a prospective student, O’Brien received guidance from Kathy Urban, the director of LPS. “[Veteran students] have really done a lot of thinking on why they want to come to Penn,” Urban said. “Oftentimes they would contact me before they separate from the military, and then we would identify some courses for them to take somewhere else to create a college transcript, and then they will apply.”

With the GI Bill and the Yellow Ribbon program, O’Brien, like many other veterans, was able to support his education and receive a stipend for living expenses.

The petition also requests assistance with veterans’ financial needs, such as coordinating with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for financial aid and educating veterans about potential scholarship opportunities.

“They need more people just to work on the financial aid stuff, like more people working in the GI Bill office,” O’Brien said.

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With finals fast approaching, Penn students are increasingly more likely to be found hunched over a textbook in a secluded corner of Van Pelt. The Daily Pennsylvanian reached out to students and teaching assistants to get their take on the most effective study tricks for the overworked, overstressed and sleep-deprived student.

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for science classes, listening to music always helps me feel more creative for artistic ones. Whenever I start to feel less motivated I make lists — lists of pros and cons and of goals. They give me something to work toward. I also make a lot of tea. If I associate studying with a yummy tea, it

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Daniel’s form of communication is similar to a controversial method known as facilitated communication, which became prominent among people with autism in the 1990s. In facilitated communication, people who cannot verbally communicate guide interpreters’ hands over letters to form words and phrases. Daniel’s parents said that the person he learned from claimed the method is not facilitated communication — a method that was called into question by a series of studies showing that even well-meaning interpreters subconsciously interjected their thoughts into the communications.

However, Daniel and those close to him are not concerned about ensuring his communication is completely independent.

“If you can tolerate the uncertainty, if you can tolerate the idea that there is some sharing in the communication, not only can you figure out what Daniel is saying, but you realize that all communication is shared,” Michael, Daniel’s father, said.

“Nobody could get Dan to spell that autism is a privilege,” he added.

In some ways, Daniel’s explicitly shared form of communication makes him especially suitable for English 88 at the Kelly Writers House — one of the two classes Daniel is currently enrolled in.

Before Penn, Daniel had only attended special education schools.

Now, he has applied for admission in an LPS degree program.

A New Yorker, Daniel found Penn in 2012 through the massive open online course “ModPo,” taught by English 88 professor and Writers House Faculty Director Al Filreis.

“This course [English 88] is about writing that is open rather than closed, and that meaningmaking in modern art is collaborative. It’s a collaboration between writer and reader,” Filreis said. “The writer does his or her art and the reader must do the same.”

Herzlin, Daniel’s in-class interpreter, said his form of communication is really “just a microcosm and a more obvious way of how we all communicate.”

“We think we have these 100 percent individual minds, but the way that I explain the way I love something to you is different from the way I explain something I love to my mother,” Herzlin added.

For Daniel, his interpreter acts not only as a medium of communication, but as a support. It’s “not the technique as much as the loving help of someone standing with me against the disease,” Daniel said.

As far as loving support goes, Daniel has plenty. His parents drive him from New York to Philadelphia every Tuesday for the class, and stay in a hotel through Thursday, after the second class of the week. Filreis said his class learned quickly to adapt to Daniel’s communication style,

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“He has a very strong understanding of how important it is to build community through literature, and I think I’ve learned that there’s so much that I can learn from what I read when I talk about it with other people,” College senior and classmate Dawn Androphy said.

Through working so intimately with Daniel, Herzlin has learned to listen more closely to her peers and be fully present in every conversation. She’s also realized the deep power of education in “how much it can transform someone’s life.”

Filreis said that Daniel is not the only ModPo student who has an inspiring story. Across the globe, he’s had students in the MOOC who suffer from fibromyalgia, cancer or are surviving a hurricane disaster.

“There’s a lot of people out there who want to learn and they’re not all between the ages of 18 and 22 and somehow able to pay $60,000 for it,” Filreis said.

While his autism may keep him from conversing aloud in a conventional way, or from playing an instrument — “Damn it, no,” he typed when asked — Daniel recognizes that his condition grants him a unique perspective on the world. A perspective that highlights the collaborative form of communication we all use every day.

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The finals conundrum: To sleep or to study?

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BY ANTHONY KHAYKIN movie fixes. Here’s whatwillwe learned. be getting by taking naps to pain, the pain gets worse, Dinges With finals underway, the promote memory retention, she said. Dinges also said that the flu hough we all know the watch Hugo in theaters. And we you guess then that Penn stusleep, if any, will come once the said. vaccine will not work as well eit this mold of overworked to get their studyingInternet is done. is for porn fiWharton sophomore MonicaIvy ther.dents Sleepwould shouldprefer be considered (thanks Avenue Q), the NgLeague students only as fundamental RomCom fias x diet online Sixteen percent of surveyed has four finals well, left, with but she andwith exer- free bedroomstudents is no longer the that only always aboutwishes 17% of Penn streaming college reported that she undergrads got more cise, he said. websites like SideReel they received lower gradesterrion sleep.

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bar because there is nothing to distract me,” she said. “I get about 10 times as much as reading done at a Walking into the Blarney Stone bar that I would at home.” at 5 p.m. on a Wednesday offers a While students might be wary that very different scene than the average drinking could hinder their studying, Friday night throw down. Just three an article published by The Journal people sat at the bar, making the of Neuroscience in 2011 proves that Borrow from Library quiet atmosphere an optimal place alcohol, while deterring the way Don't Watch Moviescan to study. memory, 24.6% we process conscious Finding a seat in Starbucks dur- improve subconscious memory and Theaters ing finals week can be more difficult increase our capacity to learn. than booking a GSR. But for the But if drinking while studying is Free Streaming price of 47.7% a grande soy caramel mac- not a concern, other aspects of work16.9% chiato, you can pay for almost two ing in a bar Paid mightOnline be. InServices Blarney’s, Yuenglings at Blarney’s. locked Wi-Fi and dim lighting may Earlier this semester, College ju- make it hard to read and access as9.2% signments. It might take a while to nior Lauren Hunter was frustrated with the lack of seating at the Star- find an outlet to plug into — check bucks in the Penn Bookstore. Instead the ceiling by the TV. 1.5% Smokey Joe’s, by contrast, has of heading to another almost certainly full coffee shop, she thought, louder music, but their booths ofsince it was 5:30 p.m., the Blarney fer more comfortable study seatStone might be empty. Her hunch ing, akin to the booths in Weigle was correct.

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One night, her friends convinced her to go to Quizzo, Spanish reading in hand. She said if she had stayed in her room, she probably would’ve fallen asleep with the reading, but being in the Blarney’s helped her stay awake and finish her reading.

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ore information exists at your fingertips than ever before, but how much do you really know about what’s going on in the world? Better yet, how much do you really know about what’s going on at Penn?

Not being informed about the things going on around us may seem like a non-issue, but the fact is, even if it doesn’t affect our grades on our finals, our performances on our presentations and our job opportunities, it still has an impact on our lives.

The media is extremely powerful and has a massive influence on the way we all view the world. We have access to an incredible amount of information but most of the time we actively choose to ignore it. Information

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Penn and matters related to the larger Penn community.

I am extremely grateful for having had the privilege of

Board of the Daily Pennsylvanian is that much closer to accomplishing that goal, and I feel extremely proud of

The media is extremely powerful and has a massive influence on the way we all view the world. We have access to an incredible amount of information but most of the time we actively choose to ignore it.

Information overload is no excuse.” we have to affect change. The tools are here, but they don’t matter if we don’t use them.

We can’t do anything with information that we don’t have, and that’s exactly why the DP matters.

In yesterday’s paper, an ad ran listing the 250-plus students that it takes to ensure that you have the opportunity to be informed about

leading this group and The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. through what has been a tumultuous year.

I showed up on the scene at the beginning of the year with one broad goal in mind: increasing our relevance on campus in every aspect of what we do. I am happy to report that after a year of taking bold steps, the 130th

how far we’ve come in such a short time.

We revamped the entire business side of the company, creating new promotions, analytics and circulation departments to bring our business operations into the 21st century media organization it should be. We created the Innovation Lab to encourage an innovative culture and

push the status quo. We cut the Friday print edition and redesigned our websites in the hope to focus more on our digital presence.

None of these moves have come without their fair share of challenges and bruises.

And there’s still a lot to be done and to improve — as is always the case here at the Pink Palace.

In recent years, print media has often been referred to as a sinking ship. We’re all seemingly aware that we need to turn the ship around, and many would say that we’ve done so. But I go a step further — it’s not just that we’ve turned the ship around. It’s that we’ve started to build an entirely new ship.

A new way of thinking for a new time. We have a ship to be proud of and I hope you’re all on board for what I know

TAYLOR CULLIVER EXECUTIVE EDITOR is only the beginning of a revolutionary time for the DP and the students who will continue to move this new ship forward.

TAYLOR CULLIVER is the President and Executive Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at culliver@thedp. com.

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ccording to popular assumption, there’s a simple dichotomy between science and religion. Science represents collective knowledge of objective reality; religion, a traditional codification of subjective experience. Everyone is entitled to their own religion just as they are to their own cheesesteak — provided, of course, that the pursuit of your cheesesteak doesn’t upset somebody else’s bowl of peas. Whether you subscribe to a religion with sacred scrolls and ceremonies that predate history or give your God your own first name, it’s assumed that you don’t relate empirical observation and rational deduction to faith.

Highly-educated “believers” are — it follows — simply fond of playing an elaborate psychological trick on themselves. They fool themselves into a mental state in which they feel convinced of some god’s existence.

Then they deliberately muddle their brains until they can feel that some old book written by a

KEEN ON THE TRUTH | A rational look at religion collection of dogmatic delusionals must be that god’s word on morality.

This stereotype is, in many instances, justified. However, it fails to tell the whole story. While there have always been religious

had looked into many philosophical systems but none could “work without God.” More recently, scientists like 1996 Nobel-prize recipient Richard Smalley have claimed that their study of the intricate design of the natural world

As far as the rational observer is concerned, the individual tenets of a religion must still stand or fall based on external evidence and internal coherence.” believers who accept the basic tenets of their faith dogmatically, many devout intellectuals have claimed to arrive at their worldviews because they found them the most plausible explanation based on the available information.

James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest physicists of the 19th century, reasoned that “because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent, it must have been created.” He also claimed that he

gradually pushed them away from agnosticism into a settled belief in the supernatural. Some, such as Dr. Michael Behe of Lehigh University, have written quite persuasive works arguing that the complexity of biochemical life could not have randomly arisen under the natural laws.

For such scholars, this belief in the supernatural need not be a matter of subjective feelings or deliberate self-delusion. C. S. Lewis, a Cambridge professor

and writer, described the gradual development of his belief in God as the painful culmination of too much careful thought. For example, Lewis was deeply concerned with the problem of materialistic determinism. Lewis argued that if human beings are purely material and matter follows natural laws, then our thoughts — being mere agitations of neurons — must follow those natural laws as well.

But in that case our beliefs about logic and the world around us are simply the tail end of a chain of chemical interactions, all of which were predetermined by the natural laws — and the random positioning of atoms at the beginning of the universe. Thus, Lewis concluded, if there is to be truth there must also be some things that are not made of matter.

Of course, such limited arguments in favor of the supernatural do not confirm the truth of the vast array of beliefs attendant upon any particular religion. But the fact remains that Agnosticism has never held a monopoly on rational thought. As far as the

rational observer is concerned, the individual tenets of a religion must still stand or fall based on external evidence and internal coherence.

For example, many claim to find contradictions in the Quran.

If these contradictions legitimately exist, then it is not possible that every word of the Quran was directly inspired by an infallible deity. The Bible contains extensive and detailed historical accounts of ancient Near Eastern history.

If these accounts can be proven false, the Christian claim of Biblical inerrancy can likewise be invalidated.

On the other hand, Christians and Muslims alike claim that their holy books contain predictions which prove their inspiration. If such predictions are numerous, specific and accurate, then the rational enquirer may be inclined to consider the possibility that they are legitimately supernatural. If, on the other hand, they are vague, few in number or false, it equally makes sense to ignore them.

JEREMIAH KEENAN But in neither case does it make sense to reject or embrace a religion purely on the grounds of feelings or prejudice. Empirical observation and rational deduction may militate against particular beliefs or belief systems, but rationality should not be discarded when considering the nature or possibility of the supernatural.

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

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THE FAITHLESS QUAKER | We’re the best and brightest; it’s time we started acting like it

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hen you think of Penn’s ideological father, Benjamin Franklin, what comes to mind? He was a polymath in the truest sense of the word — a writer, philosopher, inventor and scientist who somehow found time to be one of the Founding Fathers.

While our university reveres him as the embodiment of its nobler values, the student body remembers him for distinctly other qualities. He loved beer, cavorted with abandon and conquered Paris with his relentless social navigating.

Unfortunately, that’s often the extent to which many of us follow his example. At best, he’s someone we cite to justify drinking too much. At worst, he’s a collection of epigrams we trample on the walk to class and a statue that tourists make the regrettable mistake of touching.

There’s a paradox when it comes to Penn students. Empirically speaking, we’re fairly smart.

We did well on the SATs and got good grades in honors classes in high school. Yet we seem to treat intelligence like a dirty secret — it’s okay to have it, but keep it to yourself. Awkward glances warn the more outspoken that their intellect is showing.

Our unforgivingly competitive and pre-professional environment teaches us to place getting ahead before genuine human connection.

in a room is OCR.) Instead of learning together, we scrap with each other for grades.

We don’t even drink together; we get drunk beside each other. Conformity is the norm, except when you’re out-doing everyone else.

Ours is a culture that values gradegrubbing and networking.

It’s ironic that we don’t know how to be our own individuals, given that a core aspect of Frank-

Our unforgivingly competitive and pre-professional environment teaches us to place getting ahead before genuine human connection.”

But too many people get caught up in the flow of “every man for himself,” and too many students bristle at sharing notes for fear that someone else might get a chance to excel. (Pennsylvanian lawyers say that 16 women in a house is a brothel. I say that 16 Penn students

lin’s story was rejecting a family job and fleeing abroad to find his own way. If he were a freshman at Penn today, he would have probably been bounced from every frat party and dismissed as a hopeless nerd.

This all seems to be what Wil-

liam Deresiewicz was getting at when he wrote that elite American education has ceased to promote true greatness. Today, he argues, students are hyper-achievement oriented, uncurious and anti-individualistic — livestock for finance and consulting. The universities of the past created men and women of thought; now they pump out “excellent sheep.”

That herd mentality is only worsened by mainstream social values, or anti-values. The thing pop culture seems to care most about is not caring; it’s surprising how insistent we are on being nonchalant. Our generation thinks it’s cool not to care about ideas, others, anything besides grades and evening plans — getting ahead and going out. As the “social Ivy,” we exist at the juncture between increasingly corporate classrooms and an anti-intellectual mass culture, with the shortcomings of both.

These symptoms won’t disappear until we take ownership of

ourselves as human beings. We shouldn’t have to feel forced into choosing between having a social life and an inner life. Let’s take our identities, passions and values back into our own hands.

The key is to actually give a damn about something beyond ourselves. After all, there’s a difference between IQ and intellectual curiosity. We must want to better ourselves and discover new things. Our time here would be so much better spent if we allowed ourselves to fall in love with learning — to light a path and keep our studies aflame.

While we’re at it, shouldn’t we hold ourselves to a higher standard of decency? Decency is somewhere between politeness and kindness; it’s about having a code by which we treat strangers with unconditional consideration. Beyond cohorts and Greek letters is a collective struggle inside of every person on this campus, and we all deserve respect.

We live under constant pres-

JONATHAN IWRY sure to be excellent. But as Franklin himself said, “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning.”

It’s up to us to care about ideas and about each other. We’re only sheep if we choose to be.

JONATHAN IWRY is a 2014 College graduate from Potomac, Md., who studied philosophy and history.

His email address is jon.iwry@ gmail.com. “The Faithless Quaker” appears every Monday.

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Body talk GUEST COLUMN BY STEPHANIE VIRBITSKY

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es, let’s talk about body image.”

Research has shown that up to 80 percent of women are dissatisfied with their bodies. An estimated 2 percent of the population is struggling with an eating disorder, approximately 10 to 15 percent of which are men. The phenomenon is especially common in people our age — 95 percent of those with eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25. Thinking about your last trip to the gym, the dining hall or walk down Locust, are these statistics surprising to you?

The plague that is body image issues seems to have affected each of us at some point in our lives. Let’s be honest, who wasn’t at least a bit unhappy during our wonderful years of pubescence?

It is because of this feeling that Penn Poised was created, so that yes, we can talk about our eating disorders in public without stigma.

Poised was created because a group of students found the numbers mentioned above troubling, but also unsurprising. We felt the need to do something productive to change them. Vera Krillov’s guest column last Wednesday showed that other students found the body image pressures on campus troubling as well.

Why is it that so many of us are dissatisfied with our bodies — the same bodies that keep us moving, thinking, loving, dreaming, living?

Over the past year, Poised has sought to explore the answer to this question through a large scale photo-

shoot that drew on inspiration from the What I Be project as well as sessions aimed at creating positive conversation surrounding the causes and effects of body image issues in the media and everyday life. Clearly this has not been enough, for as Vera brings up in her column, while Penn is on its mental health discussion kick, discussion regarding eating disorders and body image in general has been skimmed over. We are proud that Vera had the courage to be vulnerable with her fellow students and give us the opportunity to begin talking about eating disorders and their prevalence on campus, as well as to share that there is a safe space being created to talk about these issues.

It’s time to stop avoiding the topic or pushing it away for a later date. While it gets the conversation out from the shadows, thinking and writing about body image alone can only go so far. Let’s talk about body image together — whether it be related to an eating disorder, a bodily “defect,” race, “healthy” living, athletics, sexuality or ableism.

Together, we can support each other and create a lasting positive space for this type of discussion on Penn’s campus. Many people have helped to start the conversation, but now it’s up to each one of us to let our voices be heard.

STEPHANIE VIRBITSKY is a Wharton sophomore from Clifford Township, Pa. Her email address is vsteph@ wharton.upenn.edu.

Penn street panhandlers are, too, always ‘On the Run’

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rom “My daughter is sick right now. I need to ride the next SEPTA down the Media/Elwyn” to “It’s been weeks since I could shower, help me buy some soap?” to a simple, highpitched “Spare a quarter?”, they come to Penn often. Some are better than others. Some are more intrusive than others. Almost all of the scenarios sound like total lies. A Penn police officer once told me, “The stories are all a scam. They are all con artists. Don’t ever talk to any of them again. He even had a box cutter in his pocket. What if he decided to mug you all of a sudden?”

Urban studies seniors read a book this semester based on an ethnographic study of a lowincome, heavy-police neighborhood in Philadelphia — “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City” by Alice Goffman. When Goffman was an undergraduate at Penn, she came across some friends — by starting out as a tutor first — who were living in a much different environment from campus. The neighborhood’s residents were always “on the run” from the tough-on-crime police. She then moved there and hung out with her new friends for six years,

GUEST COLUMN BY JACK PARK documenting their everyday struggles. In this year’s Urban Studies Public Lecture with over 200 attendees in College Hall last Wednesday, she discussed targeted imprisonment, the “war on crime,” and the “fugitive slave” status of lowincome minorities. On average, black males with one offense must apply to over 75 lowest service sector legal jobs for one callback while white counter-

the CVS next to the bookstore

by Penn Police, got full body searched and was told intimidatingly to never come back to campus — ever. After being asked if I was okay, I stood befuddled. I was just going to buy soap for him and go to class. In a giftbag, I gave some Dove as a good gesture and wished him happy holidays. Most likely, I will never see this man again in my life. Sitting down on a

A Penn police officer once told me, ‘The stories are all a scam. They are all con artists.

Don’t ever talk to any of them again.’” parts get much more.

As an international student new to America, I always had questions for myself such as: Why were there metal detectors and policemen in local Philadelphia high schools where I volunteered? “Penn Police?” Why do we need a separate police for the University? It seemed weird.

I talked to one of them again recently just to say hello again and then goodbye. Last time we met, he was dragged out of

bench, he swore that he didn’t have a box cutter on him, “My man, why the hell would I carry a box cutter around?” he questioned. “In my neighborhood, that won’t keep you safe anyway if I am attacked or something.”

Did he have one or not? One of two parties was not telling the truth: the Penn Police officer or this seemingly genuine hustler. Before reading Goffman, I felt certain that the latter was always fabricating stories to extract emotions and dollars

off compassionate, privileged Ivy students. Now I am actually a little bit more open to the idea that, frighteningly, the former might have made things up to do his job right — to ensure the safety of Penn’s campus and its students using whatever method necessary. The number of panhandlers these days, I think, decreased significantly.

“And why are the police always after me on college campuses?” he added to our short conversation, expressing that he felt racially profiled all the time. “I didn’t do nothing wrong legally, just trying to ask politely for people’s generosity from time to time. Let’s just say if I was the victim of something, will I get any protection from the police?” We then talked about how Christmas shouldn’t be as materialistic as marketed by big companies and Americans should stick to the original celebration of Jesus’ birthday.

We blessed each other and fistbumped. I still don’t trust most of his stories, but the conversation was enlightening to say the least. Buying some soap

JACK PARK is a College senior from Seoul, South Korea studying Urban Studies. His email address is jparkh@sas.upenn.edu.

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Wrestlers resolve to forget first half of season in the new year WRESTLING | Penn will look to move past injuries after break

BY THOMAS MUNSON Associate Sports Editor For Penn wrestling, hopefully the stress of exams coupled with the joy of the holiday season will enable it to put the first half of the wrestling season behind it as the Quakers prepare for the Midlands Championships on Dec. 29 in Evanston, Ill. The season began with promise. Senior 184-pounder Lorenzo Thomas returned after an AllAmerican campaign alongside senior 149-pounder C.J. Cobb, a veteran returning after he sat out last season. With new coach Alex Tirapelle at the helm, the Red and Blue were ranked No. 24 in the nation in the preseason.

However, amidst numerous injuries, a 10th-place finish at the Keystone Classic and losses to No. 25 Rider and No. 10 Lehigh, the Red and Blue (1-2) have seen their national ranking fade. “We’ve faced our fair share of adversary,� Tirapelle said. “We just don’t have a ton of depth so when your better guys are dinged up and can’t go, it makes a big

difference.�

Yet if depth is the problem, the Red and Blue are about to find two solutions in fifth-year seniors Canaan Bethea and Brad Wukie. Both are former NCAA qualifiers and will likely return to the roster at 197 and 164 pounds, respectively.

The pair was forced to sit out the first semester due to eligibility reasons and will provide welcome relief to the ailing Quakers when they suit up for their first matches of the year at Midlands.

Despite its lackluster start, Penn has plenty of reasons to be confident that its luck will change.

Primarily, despite battling a nagging injury early in the year, Cobb has been a force of late.

As a result, the 149-pounder has climbed to No. 9 in the country.

And considering that eight wrestlers qualify for All-American status at each weight class, Cobb is within striking distance of graduating on top come March.

But Tirapelle isn’t surprised by this resurgence. “I don’t think it takes a genius to see that C.J. has a lot of talent,� Tirapelle said. “When he left, he had talent. He came back, he still had talent. It didn’t

go away.�

Another bright spot has been the impressive campaign of Joe Heyob. The 174-pounder was the only wrestler other than Cobb to record a victory against Lehigh, a victory that improved his dual meet record to 2-0.

Heyob has proved that he can compete with the best, something that Tirapelle has noticed. “He just needs to keep getting better on a day-to-day basis,� Tirapelle noted. “As talented as he is, I would say he still is learning a lot of wrestling so his upside is substantial.�

The early success of these two grapplers, in addition to sophomore 133-pounder and 2014 NCAA qualifier Caleb Richardson’s reliability, combine to provide hope for the Quakers as they prepare to regroup.

With Thomas likely back in the lineup coupled with the season debuts of Bethea and Wukie at Midlands, there’s reason to be optimistic. “Wrestling is kind of like riding a bike,� Tirapelle said.

The Quakers haven’t forgot how to wrestle. They’ve faced setbacks but now they have the reinforcements to take on the nation’s top teams in the Windy City.

“We spend 10 days where pretty much the only thing we have to do is eat, sleep and work out,� Schnur said.

The physical labor of the training trip is taxing. Spending four to five hours in the pool swimming thousands of yards a day forces the teams to compete and push themselves. The Quakers engage in out-of-water gaining as well, as they spend much of their time ashore lifting, running and doing aerobic

exercises.

Despite the work, Schnur points to the training trip as a “tone-setter� for the team both in the water and as a community. Spending every minute together, including free time events such as lounging by the pool or attending the Orange Bowl, enables the Red and Blue to bond during the long winter break. “You’re not really a team until you get back from Florida,�

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men had 22 swimmers make the “B cut� for nationals, the second highest tier of qualifying scores— will focus primarily on finals and the holidays until the end of the month. While the swimmers will stay active and practice independently throughout the next couple weeks, the training trip will be a huge, strenuous transition.

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BY COREY HENRY Staff Writer While most students take the upcoming winter break to recover from finals and spend time with friends and family, Penn squash will be taking no days off as they continue to prepare for the tough Ivy slate ahead.

The Quakers will be thrust into new environments and pitted against tough competition on their road to the Ivy League opener at the Ringe Squash Courts, including a trip across the pond. “The boys are looking forward to the England trip,� assistant coach Gilly Lane said. “This is a good opportunity for the boys to refocus and get ready for the second half of the season.�

The men’s squad will be traveling to London as part of an international training trip.

Along with plenty of practice time, there will be a few squads competing with the Red and Blue.

After a heartbreaking 5-4 loss to Franklin & Marshall, Penn finds themselves on the outside looking in on the Potter Cup picture. The race for the eighth and final spot in the Potter Cup has become a logjam of teams with the Quakers sitting near the front of the pack. “Everyone from 16 and up has a shot at the top eight,� Lane said. “Hopefully we can come out on top in the end.�

Last year’s the men’s team travelled to San Diego for winter break and returned firing on all cylinders en route to their eighth place finish. “San Diego was a good jumping off point for us last year,� Lane said. “We were able to come out strong and upset Dartmouth in our first match after break.�

While the men’s team has to rebound from a tough loss before the break, the women will look to continue their hot streak of three straight 9-0 victories.

The women will be staying in GARRETT GOMEZ/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER the country, but they won’t be Freshman Anders Larsson has been a solid part of Penn men’s squash’s success so far, including an individual victory against Franklin & Marshall. within the friendly confines The Quakers are now set to head to England for training over break, getting ready for the rest of the season after some early success. of Ringe. The Red and Blue 23rd trip to Maine. against teams that are always they can’t get too comfortable.

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Penn began the second half by making its first seven shots, led by Stipanovich and Roche, who hit Penn’s first three-pointer of the game to give the Quakers their first lead.

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of her points in the second frame as she hit three treys to help the Quakers extend the lead. “I was slightly more nervous than usual but I’m always a little bit ‘pregame nervous,’ which is a good feeling,� said Busch about starting.

While Busch couldn’t miss from beyond the arc, Saint Joe’s went cold. Penn’s defense kicked it up a notch, holding the Hawks to 29 percent shooting in the second half.

Despite the strong second half, the first half still displayed some glaring weaknesses for the Red and Blue. The squad turned the ball over 13 times, with nine out of the 10 players that entered the game turning it over at least once.

The turnovers prevented Penn from getting into an offensive rhythm as the team shot just 34.8 percent from the field in the first half, unable to make any threepointers.

But the Quakers stayed within striking distance with their potent defense, forcing nine turnovers themselves while holding the Hawks to just 33.3 percent shooting.

It really helped that we started out well defensively in the first half because it kept us in it,� senior captain Katy Allen said. “When we start out well defensively, it doesn’t how much we score as long as they can’t score.�

Senior forward Kara Bonenberger also added eight points and six rebounds to the winning effort while Allen had an impressive all around effort off the bench, adding eight points, six rebounds and three assists. Roche finished with nine points.

The Quakers now have an 11day break before their next game, a quick road trip across the street to face Drexel.

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ondary scoring options to pick up their third straight win. Senior forward Greg Louis displayed nice range with a pair of early elbow jumpers and finished with 13 points and nine boards.

While the Red and Blue have seemingly left their rebounding woes from the past behind (Penn won the battle on the glass, 4531), unforced errors continue to be an issue. After committing only six giveaways in the first half, the Quakers wound up finishing with 20 turnovers.

Allen was less than pleased with his team’s mistakes after the contest.

“It’s my responsibility to challenge these guys to play a perfect game,” he said. “So with that, having six turnovers at halftime and ending up with 20 for the game is unacceptable.

“I think it’s three out of our last four games we’ve had 14 turnovers in a half and it’s not what good basketball teams do.”

Though certainly a work in progress, the Quakers have shown plenty of improvement in other aspects of the game.

It’s become apparent that the offense can survive when Hicks and/or Nelson-Henry, the team’s two primary scorers, have an off night.

Most importantly, Penn has shown that it can close out a weaker opponent, putting the clamps on Navy, Binghamton and now Marist after dropping its first five.

“I said to [the team] in the locker room, I can’t remember the last time we won three games in a row [the Quakers won seven straight between Feb. 11 and Mar. 3 in 2012],” Allen said. “I don’t want to diminish that accomplishment, but we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us.

“We’ve got to get better.”

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to become a focus when the season started because I had a role to fulfill.”

While Priore has spent a significant amount of time on the road meeting with recruits since the end of the 2014 season, Bagnoli’s longtime assistant has also focused on accumulating information and opinions from his players.

In meeting with every player from last year’s roster, Priore

says he sought to take in as much information as possible in order to figure out which

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minor aspects of the program need to be altered.

“It was a pretty open thing,” Priore said of his player meetings, highlighting the discussions he had with the squad’s outgoing seniors. “Their feedback spanned everything from how we practice to mentoring younger kids and other things we can do moving forward.”

Undoubtedly, following a second consecutive subpar season, one in which the Quakers managed only two wins against the worst teams the Ivy League had to offer, the program’s supporters have clamored for change.

But Priore doesn’t think every

takeaway from 2014 is negative.

“The one thing that is true about us is that we got better as the season went on,” Priore said. “Although that may not have shown on the scoreboard, I think we saw the kids’ effort and mindset changing and improving over the course of the year.”

Despite the marked improvement the Red and Blue demonstrated as the season developed, it’s obvious that Penn will need to make some changes moving forward.

“You’re either getting better or you’re getting worse,” Priore

said. “We can’t sit back and think ‘well we’ve won before, we’re alright’ because we want to win again and we need to figure out what we can do to make that a reality.”

As Penn floundered in the secondary last year, allowing long touchdowns in several games, Priore heard his fair share of criticism for the Quakers’ defensive output. But the program’s new boss has not let those comments affect his mindset as he prepares to guide the Red and Blue into a new era.

“I think as a coach, you have to self-examine and see what went

right and what went wrong last season,” Priore said. “We were not at our highest level defensively and there’s no excuse, we should have done better.”

As he continues to settle into his new office, Priore’s work environment should not be terribly different than years past. With Bagnoli assuming an administrative role in Penn Athletics, Priore knows he has an invaluable aid at his disposal.

“I look at someone who has been in the profession as long as he has as a great resource for me,” Priore said. “He doesn’t expect me to be him and to

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NEXT GAME: AT VANDERBILT | DEC. 22

BLOWOUT BEFORE BREAK M. HOOPS | Penn destroys Marist before 13-day layoff

BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor Live by the three, die by the three.

Tuesday night, both Penn basketball and Marist found themselves embodying opposite clauses of that basketball cliché.

While Sam Jones’ five treys lifted the Quakers to a 59-42 victory, the Red Foxes were done in by a near-incomprehensibly bad performance beyond the arc, shooting 4-for28 on the evening.

The Red and Blue (3-5) forced bad shots, rushed shots and everything in between.

And yes, they got lucky when Marist (1-8) flat out blew wide-open looks.

“I thought a couple of them just didn’t go in tonight.

We talked about not helping from the strong side … I want to win not because we’re lucky defensively, I want to win because we execute the gameplan,” coach Jerome Allen said. “But with that being said, I thought we were locked in. We got to shooters, we made them shoot challenged shots.”

Jones, in contrast, was hardly challenged at all.

The freshman forward spotted up from the right elbow,

the left corner and straightaway. No matter where he was on the floor, Jones made the Red Foxes pay dearly for leaving him open. Two Jones corner threes between 10:26 and 8:46 in the first half — sandwiched around a Tony Hicks trey — extended Penn’s lead from 10-4 to 19-4 and brought the Palestra crowd to its feet.

“I had some quick, easy looks at the beginning of the game and it got me locked in,”

said Jones, who finished with a game-high 19 points. “And [my teammates] just kept giving me the ball in great spots, it was nothing I did. I just got to the spots and they hit me when I was open.”

With both guard Tony Hicks (1-for-8 from the field, fouled out in the second half) and center Darien NelsonHenry (five points, none in the first half) struggling, the Quakers relied on their secSEE M. HOOPS PAGE 19

FOOTBALL | Priore takes over after 28 years as an assistant

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Freshman forward Sam Jones hit five three-pointers, helping the Quakers to an easy victory over Marist.

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Ray Priore has taken over as Penn football head coach after 28 years as an assistant, winning 10+ championships.

BY RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor-elect The name on the door next to his new office — a room now occupied by the new defensive coordinator — still bears his name. Inside the corner office, the one that seems like the biggest space in the building, the words “Congrats Coach” are still fresh on the white board across from his desk.

For the first time in over two decades, that office is filled by someone other than Al Bagnoli. But Ray Priore is settling in without any problems.

“My first day in, I went into my old office because that’s where I’d gone for so long,” Priore said. “It’s been a little strange with the new surroundings, but the transition is going well.”

Okay , other than that minor hiccup, the beginning of Priore’s tenure since the “in waiting” aspect of his title has been removed has been both successful and action packed.

Although Priore says much of what he has worked on since officially assuming the position on Dec. 1 is new, he prepared for the transition from defensive coordinator to head coach following the announcement of Bagnoli’s retirement last spring.

“What I tried to do at the end of last spring and into the summer — during the down months — was things like learning about the budget, fundraising and other administrative matters,” Priore said. “I did not want that SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 19

Priore officially in charge of Penn football

A not-so-relaxing break awaits Quakers SWIMMING | Penn heads to Florida for intensive training trip

BY CARTER COUDRIET Associate Sports Editor What could be more relaxing than a winter break in the Sunshine State?

For Penn swimming, pretty much everything.

On Dec. 27, the men’s and women’s squads fly down to Florida for a ten-day intensive training trip. In preparation for the remainder of the Ivy season, the Ivy Championship and, potentially, the National Championships, the Quakers will endure coach

Mike Schnur’s swimming boot camp.

“Our entire season pretty much comes down to what we do in this next month,” said Schnur, who went on his first Penn training trip as a student-athlete himself in 1986. “It’s a tricky transition we make now from racing our best to real nasty hard work during the next four or five weeks.”

The training trip will come immediately after a brief hiatus from full-intensity practice. After both teams won the Total Performance Invitational meet last weekend — a meet at which the SEE SWIMMING PAGE 17

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Penn women’s basketball came into Tuesday’s matchup with Saint Joseph’s struggling offensively. Those issues continued for the entire first half.

But when the second half began, the Quakers came alive, defeating the Hawks, 65-51, to end a two-game losing streak.

The Red and Blue (4-3, 2-0

VS. SAINT JOSEPH’S Big 5) have won their first two Big 5 games to begin a season for only the second time in program history, while the Hawks (3-6) fell to 2-1 in Big 5 play.

“First time we’ve been able to beat Saint Joe’s in a while so I want to celebrate that before we go onto the next task at hand,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. It was just SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 18 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640