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Dau Jok, senior, wins national award

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A college freshman is documenting the ‘Humans of Penn’

BY RILEY STEELE Sports Editor

Penn men’s basketball player Dau Jok has made a habit of picking up accolades for his volunteer and humanitarian work over the past three-plus years.

So when the senior receives national recognition for his efforts off the basketball court, it should come as no surprise.

On Thursday, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association honored Jok with its Most Courageous Award.

Jok is one of three individuals to receive the accolade this year along with Dan Peters, Akron’s director of operations, and Kirsten Moore, the coach of Westmont College’s women’s team.

Jok will be presented with his award at the USBWA honors breakfast when the Final Four takes place in Dallas in April.

Though he is involved with myriad off-the-court philanthropic initiatives, the USBWA cited a foundation

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One snowy day, an anonymous college freshman decided to start a Facebook page inspired by Humans of New York. Today, Humans of Upenn has garnered 1,380 likes for photos of the colorful denizens and visitors on Penn’s campus. “There are interesting people everywhere. It was kind of a way to force myself to reach out and build connections with people,” the photographer said of her work.

Can I take your picture?”

A Penn student shields her camera from the flurries falling from the sky, waiting for a group of tourists to respond. Finally, one man nods his head, and the group assembles into a colorful array of winter jackets. The photographer asks if the group is ready, and one boy raises two fingers in a peace sign.

After snapping a picture, the photographer strikes up a conversation with the group: Where are they going? What do they think of Penn? How do they know each other? She asks for permission to put their photo and their story online and, after gaining approval, continues her walk up Locust.

This is the process behind the Facebook page, Humans of Upenn, which has garnered almost 1,400 Facebook likes since its inception on Jan. 21. The page is an online compila-

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The men’s basketball player received the Most Courageous Award from the U.S. Basketball Writers Association established by Jok when he first arrived to Penn as the primary reason for honoring him.

Born in South Sudan, Jok’s father was a Sudanese army general. After his father was murdered when Jok was six, Jok’s family came to the United States and settled in Iowa.

After arriving at Penn in 2010, Jok established a foundation in his father’s honor with the hope of educating Sudanese children through athletics. Over the course of his Penn career, Jok has balanced his playing career with his charitable work.

Since the foundation’s creation, Jok has provided soccer balls and basketballs to children in Sudan.

The USBWA honor isn’t the first award Jok has received since the start of 2014.

In January, the senior was named one of the five finalists for the Wooden Citizenship Cup, an award given by the Athletes For a Better World Foundation.

Additionally, the Allstate National Association of Basketball Coaches named Jok and four others to its Good Works Team last week.

Despite the fact that he will play in his last game for the struggling Quakers in just under a month, Jok’s time at Penn will ultimately be defined by his successes off the court helping others.

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History and Tradition College Rep. claims Sector Requirement under review financial aid policies violate laws

BY LAUREN FEINER Staff Writer

As midterm season tumbles along, the College of Arts and Sciences is undergoing it’s own evaluation.

The school is in the process of assessing the effectiveness of the History and Tradition sector requirement through the use of focus groups, as part of an ongoing examination of each sector requirement, Associate Dean of the College and Director of Academic Affairs Kent Peterman said. Last year, focus groups met to examine the Society sector.

The Arts and Letters sector will come under scrutiny next year.

“We went into this knowing there is no such thing as a final

exam for our curriculum,” Peterman said. Due to the broad nature of the sector requirements that allows students from different levels of background knowledge to find a course to meet their skill levels within the sector, there is no finite standard upon which to evaluate these requirements, he added.

The panel in charge of assessing the humanities sector requirements recruited two groups of freshmen who have yet to take courses in this sector, three groups of freshmen and sophomores who have recently completed a course in the sector and three groups of seniors who have completed the requirement well in advance of the focus groups to participate, Assistant Dean and Associate Director for Academic

Affairs Eric Schneider said.

The focus groups last an hour and a half and are led by a graduate student. Participants discuss the objectives of the sector and are asked to write about a historical document they presumably have not been exposed to previously. Underclassmen are chosen at random from class lists of related courses. The seniors chosen to participate in these groups are in majors that do not overlap History and Tradition courses.

These sessions are recorded so that the audio can be transcribed and dialogue can be allocated to anonymous speakers. Once this is done, a faculty committee from the related panel, which meets regularly to focus on the four SEE SECTOR PAGE 7

Dildos, hermaphrodites and old-age intimacy

BY JESSICA McDOWELL Contributing Writer Even 3,000 years ago, people were kinky.

Last night, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology hosted its annual Valentine’s Day presentation, this year called “Blurred Lines,” sponsored by the Young Friends Society.

The event, which was rescheduled from Feb. 13, didn’t suffer in attendance - more than 50 people sat in the audience in the Egyptian gallery.

Surrounded by dozens of artifacts, each thousands of years old, professors Jennifer Wagner and Brian Rose took turns discussing different artifacts and myths from SEE INTIMACY PAGE 7

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Egyptian research specialist Dr. Jennifer Wegner presented at a Penn Museum event that featured pieces in the museum’s collection concerned with sexual imagery in ancient Greece and Egypt. Here, a statue resembles a photograph of singer Miley Cyrus making a face.

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The Director of Financial Aid said the claims about Penn were a ‘misunderstanding’

BY JENNY LU Staff Writer A U.S. congressman claimed earlier this month that Penn and over 100 other colleges may have been violating a federal education law.

However, Penn’s director of financial aid said the representative’s action was the result of a “misunderstanding.”

In a letter sent on Feb. 3 by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Cummings named 111 institutions of higher education, from an investigation of more than 200, that appeared to require that students complete additional, costly forms to apply for financial aid.

To apply for federal aid, students only need to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. But Cummings’ letter said some schools also seem to require that students submit forms, like the CSS Profile, which come with a submission fee.

The CSS Profile costs $25 for the first school and $16 for each additional college. According to the Higher Education Act that Congress passed in 1992, it is illegal for schools to charge students a fee to apply for federal financial aid, as that would create additional hurdles for students seeking that aid.

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Researching mental health at Penn

Professors are studying peer advising, computer therapy, antidepressants

BY MELISSA LAWFORD Staff Writer

The new mental health task force is not the only way Penn approaches mental health issues.

Hundreds of studies relating to mental health are always underway at Penn, explained Perelman School of Medicine professor Trevor Hadley, former director of Penn’s Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research. “Psychiatry here is enormous,” he said.

Research ranges from “cutting edge” basic biological studies to service design, Hadley outlined. He estimated that 35 studies are currently ongoing at the Center alone, describing it as “a kind of think tank” for mental health organizations.

Examining life expectancy Hadley’s own team hopes to discover why the average life expectancy of someone suffering from a mental illness is 25 years shorter than that of a nonsufferer, he explained.

The team recently surveyed Philadelphia’s mental health services and found that the facilities were well-run, showing that they were not the cause of the estimated shorter lifespan.

Hadley believes that raising awareness of resources could increase this life expectancy. He explained that his team’s next step is to design “micro-intervention” - small-scale programs to increase awareness of the available primary care services among people who have mental illness and don’t seek help.

Alternatives to antidepressants Jay Amsterdam, director of the Depression Research Unit, said

a “really scary” issue that his department studies and addresses is the problem of resistance to antidepressant treatments.

He said studies “almost invariably” show that the longer a person is exposed to antidepressants, the less impact the drugs have. The department is currently researching alternative therapies, such as botanical medicines, that will provide a second option in case antidepressants become ineffective.

After conducting the first ever double-blind study - a study where neither participants nor researchers know the condition into which they have been placed - on the properties of chamomile a few years ago, Amsterdam and his team found that the plant has very potent anti-anxiety effects.

These were “monumental findings,” he said, which the team are currently exploring further.

Other anxiety-reducing drugs Ketamine is another new alternative treatment for sufferers of long-standing depression, Penn research might indicate.

The Center for Mood and Anxiety Research is currently examining the capabilities of the drug to reduce anxiety, Project Manager Marna Barrett said.

The team is beginning a study in which patients are given a dose of six ketamine nasal sprays over three weeks, Barrett explained. The dosage should be enough to see an effect, but it is not significant enough to cause addiction, she added.

Computer therapy Computers can also be used to treat mental illnesses, Barrett said, outlining the department’s examination of a “unique” web- based program called Good Days Ahead.

The program targets how negative thinking begins, Barrett said. It sets tasks teaching patients to recognize how they react negatively to situations.

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HIGHER ED ROUND-UP Brown University A group of Brown students created a satellite that NASA will launch into space by 2017. EQUISat was chosen along with 16 others by NASA. The satellite is covered in LED lights, meaning that it will be visible to the naked eye from space. The satellite’s ability to transmit radio signals will allow anyone to interact with it without any special equipment, the Brown Herald reported. The students involved hope to spark people’s interest and engagement with space.

It then teaches them how to replace negative thoughts with a positive approach, Barrett explained.

Good Days Ahead differs from other computer therapy programs, as a patient also receives 50 percent of their treatment from a therapist, Barrett outlined. If the study is successful, the technology will still be able to drastically reduce the time a patient needs to spend with a therapist.

The study has been running for several years and has followed about 90 people so far.

Barrett expects the program to conclude in September.

Cornell University In a University-wide effort to promote mental wellness and provide stress relief for students, Cornell University implemented a February Break. The two-day break that took place this week is one of several schedule changes that the University is introducing this year. In a statement made by Cornell Provost Kent Fuchs, other measures will include reducing the number of instructional days from 70 to 69 and scheduling spring break two-thirds of the way through the semester.

Peer-provided mental health services The School of Social Policy & Practice also examines forms of mental health treatment.

SP2 professor Phyllis Solomon and doctoral student Ryan Petros are currently seeking funding for a project they hope to launch in the summer to find the “magic” behind peer-provided mental health services.

Peer-provided services are mental health support given by someone with a mental health illness. For example, this can take the form of self help groups.

In particular, Solomon and Petros want to explore whether there is an “inherent quality” of being a peer with mental illness which enables the delivery of a higher quality of mental health treatment and, if so, how this should be supported.

Solomon explained how this research is part of a recent shift in approach to mental health.

In the past, people considered symptom reduction to be the best that could be done, she said, outlining the development of a new “recovery orientation.” In the modern day, it is understood that people suffering from mental health issues can learn how to manage them - “it doesn’t define them,” she said.

University of South Carolina Upstate and College of Charleston The South Carolina House of Representatives has tentatively approved a proposal to cut funding from the College of Charleston and University of South Carolina Upstate because they assigned nonfiction books about LGBT individuals to freshman students. The College of Charleston assigned Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel “Fun Home,” which tells the story of Bechdel’s coming out as a lesbian and her relationship with her closeted gay father, to incoming freshman as a summer reading book. USC Upstate taught “Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio,” a collection of stories from the state’s first LGBT radio show, in a required freshman course.

New York University As the trial of a graduate student at the New School in New York City approaches, NYU students expressed their disapproval of the NYPD’s conduct during the Occupy protest movement that took place in in 2012.

Graduate student and Occupy supporter Cecily McMillan was arrested in 2012 for allegedly assaulting a police officer, the Washington Square News reported.

McMillan’s defense say that she was defending herself from a policeman who allegedly sexually assaulted her.

NYU students say that this conduct was a perfect example of how NYPD abused protesters, especially women, during the movemen t. The open trial will take place on March 3.

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UMOJA Week celebrates black community with art, spirituality

BY JAVIER CASTRO Contributing Writer On Thursday, UMOJA Week hosted an event celebrating arts and religion.

Students gathered in the ARCH Building for “Arts and Spirituality in Black History” performances and discussions surrounding the intersection of arts and faith.

UMOJA Week is several days celebrating black heritage at Penn. UMOJA is the umbrella organization for black student groups.

Wharton sophomore and U MOJA I nt er na l A f f a i r s Chair Joshua Butler hoped students would see this event as “a reinforcement in how important religion still is and how important religion is to performing arts is in the black community.”

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SFS clarified its website after the letter FINANCIAL from page 1 Director of Financial A id Joel Carstens called the congressman’s letter a “misunderstanding” of how the University distributes funds to financial aid applicants.

Carstens said that Penn has always required only the FAFSA of students applying for solely federal financial aid.

What may be unclear in the process is that Penn also provides some of its own funds for financial aid, and a CSS Profile and other forms are required for students to be eligible for Penn aid.

At Penn, Carstens estimates that federal aid contributes about $10 million of grant money to financial aid for undergraduates. Penn’s own funds constitute about $190 million of eligible grant money.

“I would say 99.9 percent of applicants apply for both [federal and Penn financial aid],” Carstens said.

Student Financial Services thought in the past that the distinction between applications for federal and Penn aid was clear. However, to ensure that all prospective applicants understand this, SFS updated their website on Feb. 4, the day after Cummings’ letter was published.

The updated site now has the following statement: “If you are intending to apply for only federal and/or state financial assistance, you need only submit the Free Applica-

and 2012 College alumna Nicole Royer praised the collaboration of the two groups for bringing Christianity and the black community to the forefront on campus.

African American Arts Alliance members and College sophomore JaLinda Dunovant , College junior Kristie Gadson and College senior Alexis Van Eyken started off the night with poetry readings about the struggles of slavery. The three later recited an original piece about the impact of the Civil Rights Movement.

Royer mentioned the latter piece as a performance that stood out to her. “[The poem] showed the history of what the black community has gone through and used the art form to express how they’re feeling,” Royer said.

College junior and 4A Vice President A lexander Rafi

also recited an excerpt from a speech originally given by President Barack Obama.

The event featured performances of spirituals like “Ku mbaya , My L ord ,” “I Open My Mouth to the Lord” and “We Shall Overcome” by New Spirit of Penn Gospel Choir.

The event concluded with a discussion moderated by College juniors Stephanie Jideama and Victoria Ford, who are also members of black Christian group God’s Property.

College senior Janelle McDermoth appreciated the discussion questions raised

by Jideama and Ford. “It’s important to acknowledge the history of something and to speak about it in a modern context,” she said. “It’s important to understand how it’s relevant for us today and how it influences us as Christians and as artists.”

tion for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by the appropriate federal and/or state deadlines.”

“We’ve tried to make it even more clear,” Carstens said.

In response to the potential misinterpretation, Cummings said in an emailed statement that “the problem is not how I interpret financial aid requirements, but how potential applicants interpret them.”

“If a school’s requirements are unclear, it may be contravening the Higher Education Act,” he added.

However, Cummings also said he was “encouraged” that many of the schools listed in his letter - like Penn - have since taken action to address and clear up potential confusion surrounding financial aid application requirements.

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TAYLOR CULLIVER, Executive Editor AMANDA SUAREZ, Managing Editor JENNIFER YU, Opinion Editor LOIS LEE, Director of Online Projects FIONA GLISSON, Campus News Editor HARRY COOPERMAN, City News Editor JODY FREINKEL, Assignments Editor WILLIAM MARBLE, Enterprise Editor GENESIS NUNEZ, Copy Editor MATT MANTICA, Copy Editor YOLANDA CHEN, News Photo Editor MICHELE OZER, Sports Photo Editor CONNIE KANG, Photo Manager

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n Wednesday, the University announced the creation of the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare, a commission responsible for assessing the state of mental health resources at Penn and releasing a report in 2015 with their findings and recommendations.

This was big news — big enough to warrant an email from Amy Gutmann to the entire undergraduate population — and for good reason: Students have been speaking out about the needed improvements in Penn’s mental health support system for years now, with criticism becoming particularly urgent after a number of recent student deaths.

The task force is certainly not lacking in credentials. It will be

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co-chaired by former School of Arts and Sciences Dean Rebecca Bushnell and Director of Education for the Department of Psychiatry Anthony Rostain.

Despite the abundance of degrees the committee members hold, however, there’s one glaring, crucial, inexcusable hole in this task force: a student voice. Indeed, on a committee responsible for assessing the state of mental health resources for students at Penn, there sit a whopping total of zero students.

No one on the committee has ever tried to schedule an appointment with Counseling and Psychological Services. No one on the committee has ever attempted to juggle classes, extracurriculars and mental illness at Penn (at least,

not in the last decade). No one on the committee has firsthand experience with the student resources they have been put in charge of evaluating and improving.

This is an unacceptable oversight, and the University should make it a priority to add students to the committee. Yes, we are proud of the University for demonstrating its commitment to reassessing the state of mental health services at Penn. And we’re glad that they have made it a time-sensitive, public priority. But without even a single student voice involved in a conversation that is fundamentally about Penn students — with countless students’ well-being at stake, no less — it’s hard to see this task force succeeding in the way it needs to.

Beyond ‘Born This Way’

WHAT’S THE T? | The acceptance of queer and trans people shouldn’t be dependent on an “inability” to change

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have no idea if I was born this way.

Lady Gaga’s LGBT “anthem” sounds loud at pride parades and in the hearts of queer and trans youth, and for good reason. She empowers us to embrace our identities and be who we are. A more recent song, “Same Love,” features a beautiful chorus that says, “I can’t change, even if I tried, even if I wanted to.”

These words remind queer and trans people, as well as everyone else, that we cannot change who we are, so you should accept and love us.

But perhaps this mindset does more harm than good.

Part of this message is important: Queer and trans people should be loved and embraced for who we are.

However, when we add the disclaimer “because we can’t change,” it seems to imply that, if our sexuality and gen-

der were not things that we were born with, it would be OK to hate and oppress us for those qualities.

This type of thinking is dangerous. This reinforces hierarchies so that being straight and cisgender is always seen as preferable. Cisgender straight people are never asked to justify their identity by proving they were born that way. It’s only when we get away from the “norm” and toward what people see as undesirable identities that we are treated in this way.

It essentially says to society that although you may not be comfortable with us, it’s not our fault and you will just have to accept it.

Further, this mindset also leaves out people whose identities change over time. It seems to imply that sexuality and gender are set at birth and there is no room for fluidity. While for some people this

may be the case, for others it is not.

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We are perpetuating the idea that queer and trans identities are things that we need to be okay with, but things that objectively are not good.”

Unfortunately, many people both within and outside the LGBTQ community look down on sexual and gender f luidity and write it off as something that people do to be different or for attention.

Those experimenting with gender or sexuality are often accused of just trying to be

“trendy.”

“Just stop for a minute and think about how much gender is forced on you from birth,” College sophomore Kate Campbell said. “Is it really that weird that after becoming more educated about these issues, people are self-reflexively realizing that they’ve spent their lives identifying a certain way because they were told to?”

Kate’s point rings true for me and for some of my friends and acquaintances within the Penn LGBTQ community.

Since coming to Penn, my personal definitions of both my gender and sexuality have changed a lot. This is not because I have tried to “fit in,” but because I have met people who have opened up discussions and brought forth ideas about gender and sexuality that I was simply not exposed to before.

Having grown up surround-

ed by straight and cisgender people all of my life, I wasn’t really given an opportunity to critically engage with my sexual and gender identities.

My family and friends were extremely supportive of me and were true allies to my community, but it wasn’t until I met queer and trans people that I was able to talk about these parts of my identity with people who had similar experiences. My identity is not simple enough to be something I’ve known since birth.

This type of “born this way” thinking usually corresponds with certain types of words surrounding sexuality and gender: things like “acceptance” and “tolerance.” We sometimes throw around this language with the best of intentions, but what are we really saying here? We are perpetuating the idea that queer and trans identities are things that we need to be OK

RODERICK COOK with, but things that objectively are not good.

I want to encourage all of us, regardless of how we currently see our sexuality and gender, to move toward ways of speaking and thinking about those parts of our life that show that queerness and transness are not things that we need to tolerate, but rather things that we should embrace.

RODERICK COOK is a College sophomore from Nesquehoning, Pa., studying gender, sexuality and women’s studies. They can be reached at rodcookdp@gmail. com.

Showing and not telling

THE INTERNET EXPLORER | John Legend will make a great Commencement speaker — but why was he chosen?

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ere’s a couple of things we k now about John Legend: He’s a talented musician with nine Grammys who has made at least that many men and women cr y with his beautiful voice. He’s a notable Penn alum with experience in studio recording, television and philanthropic endeavors. At 35, he looks great. And he’s an inspirational public speaker, which makes him a great choice for the 2014 Commencement Ceremony.

Here’s another thing we k now about John Legend: He’s a repeat speaker at Penn. Don’t get me wrong — John Legend is qualified to speak on a number of topics and dish out life advice to aspiring career men and women. I also love that he’s a Penn alum; I imagine that he remembers the range of emo-

tions that we will feel when we’re sitting in lawnchairs on Franklin Field waiting for our names to be called.

But in the context of a greater tradition of unpopular speakers, the announcement of John Legend as our c o m me nc e me nt s p e a k e r c omes a s d i sapp oi nt i ng.

The day the news broke, my phone blew up with texts from friends lamenting the choice and asking for more.

This feels like another big organizational letdown — sort of like when SPEC seemed to promise a big-name headliner for Spring Fling last year and couldn’t deliver last minute. The artist wasn’t the issue — it was that students didn’t know why. We didn’t have insight into SPEC’s process, and we couldn’t sympathize with them.

With regard to Commencement, last year we had Joe Biden — whose granddaugh-

ter is a student at Penn. Two years before, we had Denzel Washington — whose son was also a student at Penn.

And John Legend has spoken at Penn before. Many times.

Just last spr ing, he per formed at the biggest event of the year — the outdoor festival and concert celebrating Penn’s latest multibillion dollar fundraising success.

Penn loves him! He loves Penn!

But I can’t help feeling like Penn is coming up short, sort of like I did when I was in first grade and forgot that Thursday was show and tell, and I walked up to the front of the class with my left shoe in my hand. Ta-da!

Maybe we’re being spoiled.

Penn attracts world-class athletes, activ ists, politicians, career creatives and so on as speakers every year.

We’re used to seeing them speak on campus, or chaper-

one their offspring down Locust on Penn Preview days, or just see and be seen at the Starbucks on 34th.

But if you think about it, there’s something else that’s wrong with the picture of John Legend as our commencement speaker. In the past 22 years, the time most of us graduating seniors have been alive, only three women have served as commencement speakers. Jane Alexander and Hillar y Clinton spoke within two years of each other in the ’90s, and then there was no one else until Jodie Foster in 2006.

I know this isn’t a new argument. Last year, students spoke out about the lack of female musicians at Spring Fling. This isn’t a problem that’s unique to Penn, or unique to Commencement, or unique at all. But that doesn’t mean it’s not problematic.

We’ve had eight years of men

speak at graduation — let’s have eight years of women next. What’s so wrong with that picture?

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If John Legend really is the right guy for the job, I challenge the selection committee to share why they have picked him.”

Our student government and its affiliated committees should tr y to include more women at these seminal calendar events. A nd they should disclose their selection process, so that we can better inform our opinions on these speakers. Last

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year, SPEC’s Spring Fling committee didn’t announce what happened when its first headliner backed out — and I think a lot of students resented them for it. Not everything in this life is PR. If John Legend is really the right guy for the job, I challenge the selection committee to share why they have picked him.

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An eco-friendly hoops game The Palestra will host its third game today where all products will be recyclable or compostable

BY JENNY LU Staff Writer When the men’s basketball game against Harvard is over tonight, don’t forget to recycle or compost your waste.

The Athletic Eco-Reps are turning the Palestra green by hosting a “zero-waste” game.

This means “all materials from vendors inside the Palestra [will be] recyclable or compostable,” said Athletic Eco-Rep and College senior Shannon Macika. In fact, there won’t be any trash bins in the Palestra at all.

Waste would only go in a landfill if it became contaminated, Eco-Reps Program Coordinator and College junior Sara Allan said.

This event has been in the works since the beginning of

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the school year, Macika said.

The Athletic Eco-Reps have been planning this in conjunction with staff from Green Campus Partnership, PennAthletics, the Green Sports

Alliance and Palestra vendors such as Aramark.

Earlier this year, the Athletic Eco-Reps hosted several “waste-awareness” games, but this is the first zero-waste

event. For Homecoming last semester, Quakerfest was also zero-waste. The first zerowaste athletics event was a basketball game in 2011.

Zero-waste events at Penn are now possible because of the Wilmington Organic Recycling Center that opened in 2009. Prior to that, there was no place to send food waste, Julian Goresko, sustainability associate director for Facilities and Real Estate Services, said in an email.

This event on Friday is part of the Eco-Reps’ goal to transition the Palestra to a full-time zero-waste facility, pending the success of this game.

The Eco-Reps have also teamed up with Penn Rewards to promote sustainability awareness. The first 50 people to check in at the Eco-Reps Table at the Palestra will receive a free water bottle, and Penn Rewards is giving out double the Rewards points for all who complete the Eco-Reps survey.

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Advertising AEDs: You can save lives, too Penn Med is looking for unique designs that empower people to use defibrillators

BY JESSICA PENNINGTON Contributing Writer A picture is worth a thousand words - but some pictures are worth more than others.

A team of researchers at Penn Medicine is soliciting images that could save lives through the Def ibr illator Design Challenge. The challenge is a nationwide contest to increase awareness about Automated External Defibrillators.

“The idea is that some submissions will be very design based and eye-catching, while others will be very educational and effective about promoting a message about what AEDs are, what they can do and how they are really life saving,” Defibrillator Design Challenge Director Raina Merchant said. Merchant is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine at Penn.

‘Erect phallus’ was symbol of prosperity INTIMACY from page 1 Egypt and Greece, respectively. But this wasn’t just a normal talk. Each story and image projected on the screen detailed the “blurred lines” of sexuality in ancient Egypt and Greece. From winged penises to hermaphrodites to wind chimes made out of dildos, the professors spoke intimately about how sexuality was por-

Photos lead to friendship HUMANS from page 1 tion of portraits featuring the people across Penn’s campus.

An international freshman College student, who requested to remain anonymous to preserve the photographic authenticity of the page, decided to launch the page on a snowy day in January.

She was inspired by the popular Facebook page, Humans of New York. Launched in 2010, HONY has collected over 6,000 portraits and 3.2 million Facebook “likes.”

The site also spawned simila r projects a round the world. Another Facebook page, called Voices of Penn, follows a similar model, posting portraits and quotes of individuals across campus.

“I was bored out of my mind ... I was in my room, and I just looked at my camera and decided to go take pictures of people,” she said.

“It’s not my idea. I can’t take credit for it.”

She follows no designated schedule, venturing out with a camera whenever she has a lull in her schoolwork. No particular type of person attracts her lens. Rather, she walks across campus searching for potential subjects ranging from Penn students and staff to tourists and Drexel students.

A lthough only a small group of friends knows she runs Humans of Upenn, the photographer has forged a unique community with her subjects. After she photographed another student carrying a back scrubber on Walnut Street, the two started discussing classes at Penn and became friends.

“There are interesting people everywhere. It was kind of a way to force myself to reach out and build con-

A EDs are dev ices used to shock the heart when a person undergoes sudden cardiac arrest. According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, even those with no training can effectively use an AED in emergency situations. AEDs provide spoken instructions regarding if and when to administer shocks to a victim.

“The idea is that there may be 10 designs that emerge, which could in the future be installed in public locations throughout the city, in different buildings,” Merchant said.

“There may be a universal sign or symbol that emerges from this process, but really we are at phase one of generating designs that look and feel very different.”

An inaugural design has been created and is currently on display in 30th Street Station. Four red chairs on wheels, in the shapes of the symbols, spell out “#aed.”

Passengers in the lobby can sit on the chairs.

“30th Street was really a concept - could we design an installation around an AED

trayed in the ancient world.

“I always love it when we get asked to do these kinds of talks,” Wagner said as she took the podium. “They force us to look at these objects and these cultures in new ways.

I’ve worked with and studied these societies for years, but it’s not every day that I get to look at ancient phalluses and fertility symbols ... I just hope the University doesn’t find my search history!”

The aud ience chuck led as Wagner showed images of ancient papyrus scrolls that make up a sex manual of sorts. She referenced an ancient myth about a creator god whose masturbation led

nections with people,” she said.

In the future, she hopes to grow the project into a larger movement or club on campus, saying that the Facebook page could be updated more frequently with multiple people posting photos.

On College Green, the photographer beelines toward a woman and her dog, inquiring whether she can take a moment of their time. Noticing the camera, the woman responds, “You can’t take a picture of me, but you can take one of the dog.” The photographer snaps several pictures of the dog, while asking such questions as “What’s her name?” and “How old is she?”

“I’m not sure, exactly,” the woman replies. “She’s a rescue dog.”

Two days later, Humans of Upenn features a new photograph: a brown and white dog, accompanied by the caption, “She was a rescue dog.”

that would be interesting?”

Merchant said.

As of Feb. 20, 2014, there are already two winners on the contest’s website. One design, by graphic designer Benjamin

Ivey, features geometrically abstracted concentric circles that radiate around the image of a red AED. The words “SAVE A LIFE” frame the AED. Its use of the compli-

mentary colors green and red create an eye-catching image.

The other winning image so far is much simpler. The design is a photograph on a white background, and a nar-

rative above the photograph says, “In a long hallway, a man clutches his chest ... What do you look for?”

The photo is of a hallway with red tape along the ground that ends in front of an AED. Simple black text below the photo indicates that the red tape is an AED locator strip.

There are five monetary pr izes available, rang ing from $100 to $1,000. Winners can also have their work featured in various public spaces across Philadelphia. The monetary awards will be given to those with the most votes, which can be earned through “shares” on Twitter and Facebook. Each share counts as a vote.

Winners may also be chosen through an expert panel of judges. “The expert panel winner will be chosen through the design that is the highest quality and the most engaging,” Merchant said.

The contest is r unning until April 6, 2014. Designs may take any visual form, but should incorporate an image of an AED and may be submitted to the contest website.

to the birth of lower Egyptian gods.

In keeping with the “blurred lines” theme, though, she didn’t just detail sexually explicit objects. Wagner also examined their cultural implications. For ancient Egyptians, sexual imagery was a symbol of rebirth and prosperity, and they were sometimes even used as political commentary or a method of passage into the afterlife.

One object in particular was almost an ancient and explicit version of a modern political cartoon. Drawn at the bottom of a political text, an artist depicted the infamous Egyptian pharaoh, Hatshepsut, having

sex with her male servant.

Hatshepsut was known for disguising herself as a man.

When it was Rose’s turn to speak, he highlighted a few objects in the Penn Museum’s own collection, including a series of bronze amulets shaped like phalluses. He laughed along with the audience as he showed images of men with grossly enlarged penises, a common depiction in ancient Greek art. He also showed humanoid figures having sex with different animals.

Rose even described the ancient city of Sardis as the “center of dildo manufacturing” in ancient Greece. But, like in ancient Egypt, sexual

images often had a deeper meaning.

“It was very common to see phalluses in the home in ancient Greece,” Rose said. “An image of an erect phallus was a symbol of prosperity and procreation. It was seen as a way to demonstrate a family’s success and even a way to keep evil spirits away.”

After the event, attendees stayed to enjoy a cash bar and an optional tour offered by the professors to look at some of the sexual objects described

in the talk.

“We’re really happy with the turnout this year, especially given the postponement,” Emily Goldsleger, assistant director of membership and annual giving at the museum, said.

“We love doing these events because they attract such a broad audience.”

With this event, the museum hoped to attract a younger audience. “Human sexuality is something that everyone can relate to,” Goldsleger said.

Courtesy of Benjamin Ivey, Faith Lafazia

The designs of Benjamin Ivey and Faith Lafazia were chosen by an expert panel as early winners of Penn’s Defibrillator Design Challenge, which closes April 6.

Previous round resulted in syllabi changes SECTOR from page 1 humanities sectors, reviews and assesses the information provided.

Even after the extensive evaluation process, the administration cannot say with certainty that the results are tied to the sector courses they took at Penn.

“It’s a really squishy thing because we don’t know where [the students] acquired [their knowledge],” Peterman said.

Ultimately, he added, it is about asking, “Are we satisfied that our seniors are leaving with this disposition?”

Last year, the College enlisted its first round of focus groups to evaluate the per for ma nce of st udent s who complete the Society

sector. They found that students tended to be unclear on the objectives of the requi rement . This fa ll, the administration brought the information to professors who teach courses that fulfill this sector and asked them to be more explicit on the aims of the class in their syllabi.

Peterman does not anticipate a similar assessment of Foundational Approaches. He said that the courses, such as the writing seminars, have built-in systems of evaluation.

The current system of general education requirements was fully enacted in 2006 after a pilot program where students could opt to take the new curriculum.

The previous set of requirements mandated 10 courses, two in each field. This was cut down to one course in each of seven fields, and interdisciplinary requirements were added as a way of, “trying to bring faculty together from different parts of the curriculum,” Schneider said.

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to break records and to make history not just at any school, but at Harvard.�

When Harvard added Hufnagel to the staff in 2010 as the team’s recruiting coordinator, the Crimson began to get solid prospects from all around the country.

With players like current seniors Brandyn Curry and Rivard, junior Wes Saunders and sophomore Siyani Chambers, Harvard began to stockpile talent all over the court, loading up the team for its current run of success.

And the victories have come in abundance. The Crimson won a share of their first Ivy title in 2011 before losing to Princeton in a playoff. After that loss, the program continued to take strides, making the NCAA tournament a year later. “That’s the vision that coach Amaker sold to us when he was recruiting us and that’s what we wanted to do,� Rivard said about Harvard’s success. “We wanted to come in and win the first Ivy championship Harvard ever had. “After we did it, we were definitely disappointed to not go to the NCAA tournament, so we just kept working and coach Amaker kept putting more pieces together.

A NEW CHALLENGE After beating out Penn by one game for the Ancient Eight crown in 2012, the Crimson appeared ready to repeat as champions in 2013.

But before the season began, the team lost two of its stars

— Curry and fellow senior Kyle Casey — who withdrew from school after being implicated in an alleged cheating scandal involving a take-home exam.

Without Curry and Casey, the squad was left to a group of underclassmen, leading critics to believe that the Crimson wouldn’t be able to repeat. But Harvard was unfazed. “I think coach Amaker is the best manager of personnel that you can find anywhere,�

Hufnagel said. “And I think he has such an incredible pulse on his team.�

Behind coach Amaker and a young core led by Chambers and Saunders, the Crimson navigated their way through a tough nonconference schedule and captured the Ivy title. “I thought our team really sacrificed last year,� Hufnagel said. “I thought we were really well connected and we showed tremendous resolve to come back the last weekend and win a pair of games at home.�

After Harvard won the Ivy title, the squad also won its first NCAA tournament game, beating No. 3 seeded New Mexico. “It’s been a great experience,�

Rivard said. “To play in the tournament is something that everyone dreams of when they are little.�

GOING FOR FOUR AND MORE With Casey and Curry returning along with the same young core, the Crimson are back at it again this season. The team has already eclipsed 20 wins and is tied for first in the Ivies.

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If Penn hopes to have any shot at competing for the Ivy title, the team will likely need to win every game for the rest of the season.

But that’s no small task for the Red and Blue.

On Friday, first-place Harvard (20-4, 7-1) comes to town. Though the Crimson defeated Penn by 30 when the two played on Feb. 1, the Quakers know what it takes to upset an Ivy League giant.

Last season, one in which Penn failed to crack double digit wins, the Red and Blue shocked Harvard at the Palestra. The defeat was one of only three Ivy losses for the Crimson in 201213, and it would be the last time coach Tommy Amaker’s squad lost before the third round of the NCAA tournament.

Harvard is led by a group of veteran players including senior guard Laurent Rivard and defending Ivy League Player of the Year junior Wesley Saunders. “They get out in transition, they play hard, they spread you out and they don’t make mistakes,� Allen said. “Harvard is a tough team to beat.�

Following the matchup with Harvard, the Quakers will take on Dartmouth (9-13, 2-6).

It’s been a difficult year for the Big Green. After losing junior Gabas Maldunas for the year midway through the season, Dartmouth has had trouble scoring consistently.

The Big Green are second-tolast in scoring in the Ivy League and do not have a player ranked in the top-15 in scoring. Sophomore guard Alex Mitola leads Dartmouth with 10.5 points per contest.

Despite Dartmouth’s struggles this season, Penn isn’t taking anything for granted this weekend. Allen and company believe that any game is winnable regardless of the stature

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THE LAST TIME: Saturday Feb. 1, 2014, 80-50 Harvard, at Lavietes Pavillion. The Quakers came into the weekend against Dartmouth and Harvard with high hopes but after losing to Dartmouth, laid an egg up in Cambridge. Behind six threepointers from senior captain Laurent Rivard, the Crimson blew out the Red and Blue, 80-50, taking a 20-point lead before halftime.

Amaker gave players chance to ‘have it all’ HARVARD from page 10 his senior season before going to the NBA, where he has made waves for the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets. “Jeremy gave us a presentation [in recruiting] that certainly had more clarity because he proved you can still play in the NBA and go to Harvard,� said Yanni Hufnagel, an assistant coach under Amaker from 201013 before becoming an assistant at Vanderbilt.

But it wasn’t just Lin that brought energy to the program.

Amaker, as well as his assistants, presented recruits with the idea that they could get a top-flight education and be a part of something special with the basketball program at the same time. “We talked about the idea of having it all,� Hufnagel said. “So the chance to go to arguably the best school in the world but then to do something that had never been done before.�

That idea was enticing to a number of recruits, including senior captain Laurant Rivard. “[Amaker] just used the words ‘making history’ and especially making history at a place like Harvard, where not much has been done,� Rivard said. “It was a really big part of my decision,

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of the opponent. “For us, when we face adversity and an unfamiliar setting, we need to do a better job of trusting the system,� Allen said. “We need to get some easy shots, play

But the road hasn’t been easy.

Yale upset Harvard in Cambridge three weeks ago, and the Crimson received another big scare at Columbia last weekend.

Tied in overtime, the Lions had a chance for the final shot, handing the ball to forward Alex Rosenberg. Rosenberg drove to the basket, making a shot that would have beaten the Crimson.

But he was called for an offensive foul as Rivard absorbed contact while guarding the 6-foot-7 junior. “I knew all game long that he tries to get as close to the basket as he can, get fouled and get to the free throw line,� Rivard said. “I got knocked down on my back. I saw the ball go in, and I didn’t actually know what the ref had called but I saw my teammates running after me ... so I knew it was a charge.�

As the squad has done all year, or each of the last three seasons for that matter, Harvard took a team’s best shot and kept standing tall, beating Columbia in double overtime to stay tied for the Ivy lead.

Moving forward, the Crimson have a strong chance to win another Ancient Eight title this year, and a solid group of underclassmen remaining for next season.

But it remains to be seen whether Harvard can maintain this amount of Ancient Eight dominance. “I think one recruiting class can sustain you through a period of four years,� Hufnagel said. “But to follow it up and follow it up given intense academic

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WRESTLING | Penn will be challenged this weekend by upstart Ivyrival Princeton

BY SEAMUS POWERS Staff Writer

While not grappling at the Palestra, Penn wrestling will finish up the home stretch of its dual season close to campus this weekend.

The R ed and Blue (6 - 6), coming of f a 24 -10 v ictor y against Columbia, are slated for a Saturday doubleheader against nearby Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association foes Princeton and Drexel.

W h i le Pen n has won 2 2 straight duals against Princeton (11-2), the Tigers will be hungry for a home win, which would snap their lengthy losing streak to the Quakers and also add to their current six-dual win streak.

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“Princeton is a team that you can’t take lightly,” Eiter said. “It’s gonna be different.

They’re wrestling on a lot of Luke Chen/Senior Staff Photographer emotion right now.

“This is Princeton’s sea- Coming off a bounce back win last week, freshman 197-pounder Frank Mattiace son right here, so we’ve gotta will take on fellow Blair Academy alum Aba Ayala of Princeton on Saturday. make sure the team understands that going into their in victories with 26 and has st ra ig ht dua l w i n aga i nst gym.” won 13 of his last 15 duals. Krop on Saturday after beatJu n i o r A d a m K r o p , a t Penn captain Andrew Lenzi ing Columbia’s Ryan Ponte 149-pounds, leads the Tigers will be looking for his fourth last weekend.

The 197-pound match between Penn and Princeton features a pair of grapplers that share local roots.

Penn freshman F rank Mattiace and P r inceton sophomore Abe Ayala , who attended Blair Academy in New Jersey at the same time, will go toe-to-toe on Saturday.

Mattiace said he was excited for the match, but that he wouldn’t let the familiarity affect his approach.

Mattiace, who had a bounce-back win last weekend, also talked about the impor tance of his and the team’s performances against Columbia, which came on the heels of a loss the week before against Brown.

“It was important to focus and get a win last week, especially as we’re getting ready for the postseason,” Mattiace said.

Penn’s f inal dual before the EIWA Championships —

its matchup with Drexel — comes just hours after the squad finishes up in Princeton.

Drexel (7-13), also but not quite to the extent of Princeton, has performed better t his season t ha n i n yea rs past. No. 17 Brandon Palik, who wrestles at 197 pounds, is Drexel’s top grappler.

But Penn comes in w ith histor y on its side, hav ing shut out the Dragons, 37- 0, last season, highlighted by t he per for ma nce of t henfreshman Casey Kent.

If winning its last dual of the season is not incentive enough for Penn against the Dragons, something extra is in play for the first time ever in the Penn-Drexel matchup.

“We’ve been talking about trying to create a rivalry with Drexel’s coach,” Eiter said.

“He has a trophy — it’s a cheesesteak. So we’re gonna battle for the cheesesteak.”

May the best squad feast.

Penn rests up for Ivy Championships TRACK AND FIELD Red and Blue split up between Haverford and Princeton for weekend

BY COLIN HENDERSON Associate Sports Editor The athletes of Penn track and field could certainly use a break.

Following a busy stretch of important invitational tournaments, this weekend will give them a chance to do just that.

With Ivy Championships on the horizon, most of the men’s and women’s teams will be resting this weekend.

But while those athletes get prepared for the biggest meet of Penn’s season, the rest of the

team will participate in low-key meets at Haverford and Princeton on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

Both of Penn’s track and field teams are coming off of highly competitive meets at Penn State and New York Armory, where all athletes performed at a high level.

“They had a big meet last weekend,” jump and multievent coach Joe Klim said.

They did really well.”

For many of Penn’s top athletes, including senior highjumper Maalik Reynolds, this weekend will yield some welldeserved time off.

With the Heptagonal and NCAA Championships fast approaching, Penn’s athletes have faced a significantly lighter work

load in training as of late.

“The work load has definitely decreased,” Reynolds said.

“It’s been more maintenance work.”

Different event groups have tapered at various rates. For example, almost all long-distance runners have stopped training hard, while some middle-distance runners are still working on their speed.

Despite the differences in training at this time of year for Penn’s track and field athletes, the general theme of tapering for the Ivy Championships has remained consistent across the board.

However, from the program’s perspective, this weekend will give any individuals recovering from injury a chance to get some

Red and Blue look to repeat last year’s upset M. LACROSSE from page 10 season, Duke hasn’t seen tape of this year’s squad.

“We have the advantage of knowing something they have done, and they have the advantage of playing a couple of games and ironing out the kinks,” Murphy said. “We haven’t played a game yet, so we really haven’t done this stuff when it matters so it’s a tradeoff.”

Though the Quakers have yet to show their skills in an official game, the team is working to play much faster and more aggressively this year.

“We are definitely playing a lot faster, getting the ball up, out of the defensive end to the offense faster and really just attacking the first 10 seconds,” Meyer said.

Penn also features a core of solid veteran players returning from last year’s upstart team.

In addition to Meyer, senior goalkeeper Brian Feeney, senior midfield Zack Losco and junior attack Will Lacoare expected to help guide the Red and Blue through a difficult schedule.

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Quakers face 3-19 Big Green on Saturday W. HOOPS from page 10 a season last weekend, tallying 13 blocks to raise her season total to 82. The freshman center is third in the NCAA with 3.90 blocks per game, and she held Fagbenle in check during the two squads’ first meeting.

But the weekend does not stop with the first-place duel.

While Harvard takes on the

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Senior defense Maxx Meyer was a major reason for Penn’s 2013 nation-best goalsagainst average, but is looking for his team to take a more offensive mindset this year. too far down the road and think about competing for an Ivy League championship, all sights are currently set on the matchup with Duke.

While learning from Friday’s game is most important, nothing but a win will be considered a success in Meyer’s opinion.

“We are not afraid of them at all, we’ve beaten them two years, they are the same guys we played against in high school, most of us know each other,” Meyer said. “So we aren’t afraid of Duke, they are just an old competitor of ours.”

But Murphy views the situa-

tion a little differently.

“If we can play better than we did last year and not win the game, I can live with that,” Murphy said. “At the end of the day we want to win an Ivy League championship and then try to compete for a national championship, and beating Duke isn’t going to guarantee that and losing isn’t going to prevent it.”

Either way, the Red and Blue are excited to get their season under way. With a strong senior class and some new fresh talent, this might be the year for Penn to capture that Ivy title, but only time will tell.

other Ivy squad tied for first place — Princeton — Penn travels to Dartmouth (3-19, 0-8) to take on a fledgling Big Green squad.

Dartmouth has been unable to pick up a win in eight tries against Ivy foes, including a 71-53 loss at the Palestra on Jan. 31.

Belle Koclanes, Dar tmouth’s first-year coach, has only two seniors on her roster and has received some impressive performances from her freshman class, especially Fanni Szabo.

Szabo leads all Ivy freshmen with 15 points per game and will have to be a focus for Penn’s defense, which leads

the Ancient Eight, giving up just 57.2 points per contest.

This weekend will have significant Ivy title implications moving forward. With Harvard playing its final games against Princeton and Penn, the Crimson have the opportunity to take a significant lead over the two squads if they can hold court in Cambridge.

But it will be tough for Harvard to sweep the Quakers and Tigers, who have the top defense and offense in the Ivy League, respectively.

So on Friday, the Ivy season begins to come to a close. And it all starts with Penn and Harvard.

important competitive action. “[Some athletes] may have been a little banged up earlier in the season,” Klim said.

“They still need to train. They don’t have enough behind them to taper them.”

Additionally, Penn’s coaches still need to make some decisions regarding who will compete at Heptagonals and in what events they will compete.

“We can take 33 women and 33 men,” Klim said. “We’ll find out more [about who will compete] this weekend.”

With limited spots, there will inevitably be athletes who are unable to compete, and this weekend will provide their last competitive action until the outdoor season starts three weeks from now.

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Coming of a grueling cross country season, long-distance runners like star sophomore Thomas Awad have shut down their training in preparation for Heps.

This weekend, the Quakers will do what they have done all season: build for the future. But

eager fans of the Red and Blue can be sure that the “future” is only a week away.

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BACKS AGAINST THE WALL M. HOOPS | After dropping both games last weekend, Penn returns home to face Harvard, Dartmouth

BY RILEY STEELE Sports Editor At this point, it’s likely that the only thing Penn men’s basketball has left to play for is pride.

With that in mind, maybe playing to

salvage a shred of respect from this dismal season will help a scuffling squad turn its fortunes around as it heads into the homestretch of the 2013-14 campaign.

Following two grueling defeats at the hands of Yale and Brown last weekend, the Red and Blue (6-15, 3-4 Ivy) will now return home for another Ivy doubleheader, this time against Harvard and Dartmouth.

The last time the Quakers played at the Palestra, it seemed as if coach

Jerome Allen’s squad had finally turned a corner. Penn took games against Cornell and Columbia two weeks ago, its first Ivy weekend sweep in nearly two seasons.

Riding high and back in the thick of the Ivy League race heading into last weekend, the Red and Blue were looking to string together consecutive strong performances.

But up against Yale, a team currently tied for first in the Ancient Eight, Penn returned to its inconsistent ways, losing

69-54. The Quakers followed that up with a seven point defeat to Brown in Providence the next evening.

“Last weekend, there were some stretches ... where we defended even though we weren’t scoring the ball,” Allen said. “We just couldn’t finish.

“Obviously, we didn’t do a good job taking care of the basketball and that’s really been our focus this week, trying to limit teams to one shot and just trusting the system offensively.”

After last weekend, it’s nearly impos-

sible to envision Penn contending for the Ivy title. Both Harvard and Yale sit atop the standings with only one loss, and the Quakers haven’t won more than two games in a row in either of the last two seasons.

“We’re trying to take everything one game at a time,” Allen said. “Mathematically we still have opportunities and we’ll need a little help, but we can only control what’s in front of us.”

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Coach Tommy Amaker has been the catalyst for the transformation in Harvard’s men’s basketball program, leading the team to three straight Ivy titles after the Crimson had never won the Ancient Eight title in their history. Amaker has made Harvard basketball a national brand, getting recruits from around the continent. For example, the team has as many players from Massachusetts as it does from Canada.

Penn goes to Harvard for first place duel

W. HOOPS | The Quakers look to sweep Harvard and jump ahead in the Ivy standings

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor First place is on the line.

Penn women’s basketball heads up to Cambridge on Friday for a battle with Harvard for first place in the Ivy League, followed by a date with last-place Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. The Quakers (16-5, 6-1 Ivy) are on their second eightgame winning streak of the year, having swept each of their last three Iv y weekends. The most recent weekend sweep came at home against Yale and Brown in convincing fashion.

But the Cr imson (17- 5, 7-1) pose a major threat to the Red and Blue. Harvard has won four straight Iv y matchups and is looking for revenge against Penn, which beat down the Crimson, 67-

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With seven regular season games left, freshman center Sydney Stipanovich has already broken Penn’s season record for blocks with 82 rejections. dynamic post presence in junior for ward Temi Fagbenle. But Penn will be able to match her with its freshman frontcourt star — cen-

ter Sydney Stipanovich.

Stipanovich broke Penn’s program record for blocks in

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38, when the two squads met in early February.

“It’s going to be a battle,” coach Mike McLaughlin said to Penn Athletics. “We’re expecting to go out there and compete [and] to challenge ourselves.

“It should be a great game, great atmosphere and our team is really looking forward to it.”

Harvard is led by senior guard Christine Clark , who leads the team in scoring at 16.7 poi nts per ga me.

Clark was a major part of Harvard’s lone victory over Penn last season, scoring 18 points in a 67-54 win up in Cambridge.

The Crimson also have a

Seven years ago, Harvard basketball was little more than an idea.

A big-name school with little, if any, basketball success. An Ivy League school without an Ivy title. And a team with a coaching vacancy and no NCAA Tournament appearances in over 60 years.

But Harvard began its transition to becoming a national program on April 13, 2007, as former Seton Hall and Michigan coach Tommy Amaker was named the new coach of Harvard basketball.

Amaker, a former player and assistant under legendary Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, came to Cambridge after failing to make the NCAA tournament at his previous two positions. But he also came to Harvard with a plan: to turn a fledgling program into a brand name.

“Harvard is a magical name that presents the feelings and the thoughts that your dreams are possible,” Amaker said in an article in SLAM Magazine.

And seven years later, the results are undeniable: five straight 20-win seasons, three straight Ivy League titles and the first NCAA tournament victory in program history.

‘MAKING HISTORY’ When Amaker arrived on campus, one piece of the puzzle was already there: Jeremy Lin, a sophomore point guard with immense potential.

Over the course of three years under Amaker, Lin developed into one of the best players in the Ancient Eight, becoming a unanimous All-Ivy guard by

As birds begin to return north after the long and cold winter, a different kind of flock is heading south.

After a nine-month layoff and rejuvenated following a surprising 2012-13 campaign, the Penn men’s lacrosse team begins its season this weekend in Durham, N.C., against the defending national champions, No. 1 Duke.

“We always play Duke first game of the season,” senior defense Maxx Meyer said. “They are defending national champions, we actually beat them my freshman year, three years ago when they were defending national champions, so it’s always good to play that type of team

right out of the gate.”

“It’s great because one, they are very good; two, they are down south, so it’s a trip for us to take south this time of year; and three, it’s a good school so we recruit some of the kids,” coach Mike Murphy added.

The Quakers have dueled the Blue Devils (2-0) each of the past four years. Over that period, the teams have split all four meetings, with the Red and Blue taking both matches in Philadelphia and Duke standing tall in Durham.

While Duke has the home field advantage this time around, the Blue Devils also have game experience under their belt. Coach John Danowski’s squad opened its season with a win over Jacksonville before knocking off thenNo. 4 Denver last weekend.

But the Red and Blue have different assets. Because this is the first game in No. 18 Penn’s

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