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Double Legends

Some Ph.D., medical and graduate students heard Legend speak at their College graduation in 2009

Legally helping college athletes overcome ‘a blurred line’ A Penn Law student group’s symposium will address issues in college sports law BY COSEtTE GASTELU Staff Writer

the College graduation ceremony in 2009. Seventeen students who received bachelor’s degrees from the College in 2009 will hear him speak for a second time when they graduate from Ph.D., graduate and

The 50-yard line on a football field might be clearly demarcated, but getting into the pros from college comes with a bit of legal “blurred lines.” Speakers at the Penn Law Entertainment and Sports Law Society’s inaugural symposium on Friday, entitled “A Blurred Line,” will discuss the gray area surrounding athletes’ transitions from amateur to professional sports. The event - which will take place at the Law School from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. - is bringing some of the biggest names in sports law to Penn. Jim Delaney, commissioner of the Big Ten Conference, will give the keynote address. Other speakers include Yahoo Sports’ Legal Analyst Rand Getlin, General Counsel for the NCAA Scott Bearby and CEO of Relativity Sports Group Happy Walters - a leading sports agent who inspired the title of Adam Sandler’s film “Happy Gilmore.” “We have orchestrated the event to mirror the transition from amateur to professional athletics, with discussions about amateur sports in the morning, and pro league discussions later on,” said David Simon, second-year law student and the group’s treasurer and symposium chair. The symposium comes at a time when many of the regulations limiting college athlete compensation have come under fire.

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BY LAUREN FEINER Staff Writer For several Penn students, the announcement of John Legend as commencement speaker felt like deja vu. Legend, a 1999 College alum, spoke at

Capping UMOJA Week by looking at past and future

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BY ESTHER YOON Contributing Writer P e n n’s bl ac k c o m mu nity celebrated progress in spite of adversity at UMOJA Week ’s capstone event on Saturday. U MOJA hosted a d inner a nd d iscussion i n Du Bois College House to reflect on the events of UMOJA Week. The week is an annual week celebrating the culture of the African diaspora at Penn. At the event, called “Sankofa, Our Family Dinner,” speakers and students talked about “looking back to look forward,” according to Director of Makuu and Africana Studies professor Brian Peterson. He set the stage for discussion by posing questions to the audience. “How do we as a community want to respond when there are serious incidents and issues?” He asked. “How can you get the community moving so that you can go where you want to go?”

Peterson mentioned the “internal and external difficulties” that minority students face. “How do you take on the backpack of being a student of color on a pre dominantly white campus,” he asked. “Or when something impacts you because of your direct culture or connection?” Peterson said that although minority students face challenges, Penn is committed to diversity. That commitment is “not just to benefit people of color but for the entire university,” he said. “We can’t be afraid to talk about race and our struggles - we all have to have these hard conversations.” W har ton sophomore and Co-Director of UMOJA Week Valencia Lewis hoped that this week’s participants rea lize that “U MOJA ca res, the community cares, and no one is alone. UMOJA Week

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The Penn Med Art Show opened at the Fox Art Gallery in Claudia Cohen Hall this weekend. The exhibit features artistic works by faculty, staff and all types of students at the Perelman School of Medicine, the School of Veterinary Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the University of Pennsylvania Health Care System. The exhibit is free and will be open until to the Penn community during normal gallery hours until March 5.

Penn study finds poverty risk factors affect school performance

The study built on previous ones by using data from across municipal organizations BY JILL GOLUB Staff Writer

Poverty does not affect a school’s performance as significantly as having students with risk factors associated with poverty, a recent Penn study found.

The study co-authored by Graduate School of Education professor John Fantuzzo found that having enrolled students with risk factors, including homelessness, maltreatment, lead exposure and poor prenatal care, will impact other students’ educational experience. It also showed that students with risk factors generally do worse in school. The study also found that concentrations of risk factors are more important than poverty in examin-

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ing classroom outcomes because poverty causes different disadvantages which affect people in different ways. “Going to school with kids with risk factors [affects] students who aren’t going through that,” Fantuzzo said. “Take homelessness: If a school has a high concentration of kids coming from emergency shelters, that school is going to then have a high turnover.” When schools have high turnover

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rates, the curriculum, teachers and other students are impacted, often negatively. While past studies only used data from schools, Fantuzzo explained that his study expanded the knowledge base by synthesizing public data from Philadelphia agencies to examine factors other than education that impact the third grade students he studied. Jean Boyer, a professor of education at Temple University, praised

the novelty of the study. “Rather than looking at an individual child and looking at risk factors, [the study] was able to do some really important developmental psychology looking at this cohort of third graders,” Boyer said. Fantuzzo, who also directs the Penn Child Research Center at GSE, used an integrated data system he helped create to link data SEE POVERTY PAGE 3

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Legend’s 2009 speech ‘memorable’ COMMENCEMENT from page 1 medical programs in May. Elizabeth Mongol-Gunter, a 2009 College alumna who will graduate from the School of Veterinary Medicine in May, thinks Legend’s return to Penn is merited. “He earned the spot of a speaker,” she said. “I am proud to call him a fellow Penn alum.” School of Social Policy & Practice graduate student and 2009 College graduate K atha r ine Cunningha m agreed. While she was surprised at the choice of Legend because he spoke at a ceremony recently, she was not disappointed. Most graduating students will not have heard him speak, and his 2009 speech encouraging students to pursue careers about which they are passionate was “extremely memorable,” she said. “It’s a message I don’t think a lot of Penn students hear too often,” Cunningham said, adding that most tend to be focused on tangible success rather than happiness. It’s also a message Cunningham has carried into her graduate studies in the field of social work. Charlotte Lawson, another 2009 College graduate and a current medical student, remembers being more excited to hear then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt make the 2009 Commencement speech. To her surprise, she enjoyed Legend’s speech more. “You can be more interested in the background of one person than another ... [but] how they deliver their speech is more important,” she said. Lawson added that added she is still deciding whether to attend the ceremony. Mongol-Gunter, however, is excited to be there. “Things are coming full circle,” she said.

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Highlighting Reproductive Health

A new student group seeks to publicize and clarify campus resources BY LAURA ANTHONY Deputy News Editor College sophomore Sheila Shankar thought there was something missing at Penn. B e f or e t h i s s e me st e r, there was no active group on campus specifically focused on reproductive and sexual health, so Shankar and four other students sought to change that. Penn for R eproductive Health held their first General Body Meeting last week, which was a lso Nationa l Condom Week. PRH generally aims to be a support system for students who have questions about reproductive health, PRH co-founder and College sophomore Isabel Tejeda said. “In college specifically, especially at Penn, it’s kind of a hard topic to deal with by yourself,” she added. The group plans to work with Penn Women’s Center in the future and hold their GBMs there ever y week , Tejeda said. Planned Parenthood prov ided PR H w it h f ree condoms to hand out on Locust Walk during National Condom Week t o i n for m students about the new organization and sexual health in general. Shankar says one of the main goals of the group is to provide students with volunteer opportunities with Planned Parenthood. PR H a lso intends to promote the reproductive health resources that are available on campus, making sure that students know what their options are. “The information is there, people just don’t know how to get it,” Shankar said. One of the main ways they plan to increase awareness about reproductive health

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(Clockwise from top left) Sheila Shankar, Isabel Tiscareno, Emily Marcus, Twenewaa Adu-Oppong, Hadja Diallo, Sangeeta Sarkar, and Kristy David-Ramphal met for the inaugeral general body meeting of Penn for Reproductive Health at the Penn Women’s Center last week, which was also National Condom Week. at Penn is a planned coll ab or at ion w it h St udent Health Services and Campus Health Initiatives, the public health arm of SHS. Helath Educator for CHI Ashlee Halbritter explained it would be a valuable reciprocal relationship between PRH and SHS. “ T he pla n is t hat Student Health can ser ve as the sexual health expertise whenever the student group has questions or needs an-

swers,” she said. “What the student group does for us in return is it helps us understand how we can better promote the resources that are available to students.” SHS will work with members of PRH to make sure that the information about sexual health on their website is helpful and accessible to students, she added. They plan to go through a number of specific sections, like those related to wom-

en’s health, sexual health and LGBT health, with PRH. They can let “us know if the information is clear from the student perspective or if there are resources that they still have questions about that we haven’t listed,” Halbritter said. Shankar also hopes the collaboration will encourage students to consult SHS if they need health resources. She said some students have misconceptions about SHS’s

privacy policies, which she hopes to clarify. Halbritter said that SHS works hard to make sure that students understand their policies. “One of our big initiatives is to protect the privacy of the students and that their health info is theirs to own,” she said. “It doesn’t really make sense for us to not be aware of the resources that are available to us,” Shankar added.

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Collaboration called for by study POVERTY from page 1 from separate government agencies in order to examine the impact of risk factors on third graders across the Philadelphia public school system. “Through the use of an integrated data system we were able to look at a whole child — a child’s experiences — not just what was resident in a child’s record,” Fantuzzo said. The study ultimately called for social service agencies to partner with education and health systems to target problem areas for children throughout Philadelphia. “It really is a call to action for these social service systems to work together with the public school systems to try to identify collaborative programs to support children’s well being outcomes,” s a i d c o - aut h o r He a t h e r Rouse, the health policy research director for the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. “We have to use all that we have available to us and in this case we’re talking about publicly monitored information,” Fantuzzo said. “So the question is how can that information be disciplined and used so we can inform education policy, public policy and health policy.” In order for the findings of this study to be effective, collaboration among government agencies is essential, Fantuzzo said. “Being able to collaborate across agencies has been shown to benefit kids. When different departments and a genc ie s wor k t oget her, things get better for kids,” said Boyer, whose research includes early literacy initiatives. “This is a very important piece of research,” Boyer added. “It’s allowing us to look at students in high poverty, high need schools in a different way.”

transit routing. There are now hundreds, if not thousands of transit apps out there, both large and small ... Our users, because we had so many of them, would oftentimes write into us and tell us what they liked and what they didn’t like, what worked and what didn’t work and what we could work on and improve. And we took that feedback from users and really used that information to improve and evolve the service. So, we were very user-driven and user-focused. DP: Can you tell me about some of the changes you made at the company? How did the company grow under your leadership? J M: The company was around three to four years old when I took it over as CEO. The then-founder who was CEO until that point gave me almost free rein. He gave me a lot of autonomy, flexibility and control.

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HopStop offers an app and website that help New Yorkers navigate the city’s streets and public transit. Former CEO Joe Meyer visited campus on Friday.

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Former Chief Executive Officer Joe Meyer of New York-based company HopStop visited campus on Friday to speak with current students about entrepreneurship. HopStop, which was acquired by Apple in July, offers transit navigation help online and through a mobile app. Meyer received his MBA from Wharton in 1997 and spent time at eBay, Inc. and America Online before joining the HopStop team. The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with him to discuss his experiences with leading a startup. Daily Pennsylvanian: Why were you attracted to HopStop? Joe Meyer: HopStop was a very popular service and a good brand in one market - being New York - and it was webonly. I thought to myself, “Here is a search-driven technology and service that is consumerfacing, that gives you access to peoples’ location. We could take this web service ... and turn it into a mobile experience, which it should be more conducive to. And, if you know the locations of millions of users, then that gives you an insight into their interests and their behaviors. It should be a good opportunity to target messages, offers, deals, coupons, ads to those millions of users based on the location information that’s coming from their searches.

you want to add? JM: [A]nyone who is curious about entrepreneurship or curious about start-ups or pursuing a start-up career should know that the best way to go about it is just to jump in head first and figure out how to embrace risk instead of being scared by risk. ... I think undergraduate students and graduate students not only at Penn, but other universities throughout the country are coming out with really good degrees, and they’re smart kids with tangible skills. That’s the time to expose yourself to different types of opportunities. Oftentimes, I think too much emphasis is placed on playing it safe and doing what you should do instead of doing what you want to do.

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In some ways, it was a little bit of a turn-around. Oftentimes, the types of employees that are a good fit for start-ups years one through three aren’t necessarily the best fit to take the start-up from that point onward. So, I brought in people that were more accustomed to scaling and growing start-ups, rather than incubating them. ... DP: What specifically do you think HopStop offered that made it attractive to other companies? JM: Whenever you have strong technology, proprietary technology that’s hard to replicate, and a team that’s really good, especially on the engineering and data side, and the service that you provide is a service that is needed globally that big companies are competing in, there’s usually interest in start-ups that bring those sorts of assets to the table. DP: Is there anything else

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To the Editor: Friday’s editorial in The Daily Pennsylvanian on the announcement of the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare expressed pride in the University for demonstrating its commitment while noting concern that the Task Force does not include a student member. Student input is essential to the work of the Task Force, and we anticipate that it will establish two working groups to carry out its charge, both of which will include students, faculty and staff. One of the working groups will examine practices, programs and policies concerning outreach and education, and the other will focus on practices, programs and policies related to intervention and treatment. We are confident that both groups will effectively engage with

students’ ideas, first-hand experiences and perspectives. In addition, as we announced, the Task Force will engage broadly across campus and beyond in executing its charge, for example, by calling on faculty experts, student leaders, administrators and staff. Finally, we should note that, while we have asked the Task Force to conclude its work by early 2015, we will not hesitate to implement any new or improved practices or policies as soon as they are identified, should they be needed to ensure the psychological health and welfare of Penn students. Sincerely, Amy Gutmann, President Vincent Price, Provost

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The key to failure SHAT’S SHOTS | The first step in embracing failure is recognizing that it happens to everyone

NICK MONCY is a College sophomore from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu

What’s obvious in your courses

GUEST COLUMN BY CHASE HARROW

f you’re a Penn undergraduate right now, t hen you’ve chosen cou rses before a nd you’ll be fine choosing them again when fall courses are released Friday. It’s likely that picking courses isn’t something that you get better at with time: you just have a new set of restrictions to work against. Given that, it’s still not easy to connect the courses on the screen with the courses you picked last semester. Did you expect this cinema class to have so much reading? Did you realize how nice it was going to be to walk to the classroom next door for your back-to-back classes? And even more importantly, what did you learn this semester? Did your history class change how you view the past? Did your physics class give you a new way to think about the world? Did you pick your classes so that you could learn big truths? Is that what you want your education to be? If so, did that really happen? I’ve heard a lot of people say that Rebecca Stein’s opportunity cost lecture in Economics 001 opened their eyes to something meaningful and important. I can say I am one of those people. But the idea of

opportunity cost is that when you make a choice, you aren’t making a different choice. Written out like that, it seems trivial and obvious. Take this as an exercise. What were the big ideas you learned in your favorite classes? Can they too be written out as something that seems trivial and obvious? If so, then what exactly happened in those other classes that aren’t your favorites? Did they fail to teach you something trivial and obvious? There’s something wrong in this. Did I oversimplify a nuanced idea about opportunity cost into sounding trivial? Or is that closer to what all the math does when you apply it in class? The challenge here is probably what we mean by trivial and obvious, and I’ve certainly seen those words called into question in classes. Professors who have spent decades on a subject throw it around like their material is the most intuitive thing in the world. We do it to ourselves studying. Who hasn’t spent an evening reviewing notes that seem so easy, only to be confounded on the test the next day? I think the solution lies in understanding the difference bet ween what’s easy a nd

what’s obvious. They don’t have to be the same thing. A lot of the humanities have to do with how important it is to understand and love other people, and while that’s something so obvious that Barney the Dinosaur knows it, that doesn’t make it easy. So i f you’re d ism issi ng a class because it feels like ever ything you’ve learned is really obvious, maybe it’s good to be reminded of those obvious facts every once in a while. And if you’re upset that a great class feels able to be reduced to a more obvious statement, don’t be. It’s likely there is a lot of work and effort you and others put in to making it obvious. Likewise, if it’s obvious to pick classes that have good professors, that fulfill your requirements efficiently, that don’t stress you out too much, that have students you like in it, that aren’t too far away, that let you use your skills in new ways, then just remember these obvious things when you log in to start looking at courses. CHASE HARROW is a College junior from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. studying mathematics, economics, and English. Email him at charrow@sas.upenn.edu or follow him @ChaseH108.

might end up being w icked successf u l one day. At a place like Penn, there’s nothi ng p a r t ic u l a rly u n ique about that. Everyone here has already achieved something significant, already exhibited signs of future p ot ent i a l t h at m ig ht f it neatly into the eventua l broad na r rative of thei r success. It wouldn’t take long to construct a similar, if boring, narrative out of my own experiences. I’m generally happy, I have okay enough grades, I like the people a rou nd me a nd my iCa l tells me I’m adequately involved on campus. I graduated from an academically strong New England prep school, and by the grace of the OCR gods, I’ll have a cushier job out of college than anyone in my family before me. It would be easy to end the stor y there. It would also be fraudulent. It would leave out that I don’t have as much fun every weekend as I would like, that my daily internship search has come up empty for months, that I’ve been rejected from more student group boards that I’ve applied to than not and that I continually don’t perform — whether it’s making a presentation at a meeting or making a first impression at a semi-formal — as well as I would like. None of these “failures” a r e c at a st r o p h ic . T he y don’t constitute any large setback. But I’ve realized two things from talking to my friends around campus: These failures happen to ever ybody, and they happen all the time. F r o m ou r g r a d u at io n speeches to the informal compliments of our friends a nd fa m i ly to P resident Gut ma n n’s soa r i ng convocation address, we have been overloaded with the words of those who want t o a f f i r m ou r p ot e nt i a l success. But those same well-wishers are loath to m e nt i o n h o w c o n s t a nt ,

nagging failures riddle the road to our desired destinations, even for those of us with the most promising backgrounds and sparkling resumes. We are sur rounded by tales of heroes who overcome ex t raor d i na r y ad v e r s it y, b e it c r i p pl i n g disability or extreme poverty, and the people behind those stories are rightfully lauded. But for the vast major ity of us, our challenges are pedestrian and g rating. The failures we live through are bor ing, and they are not always the productive opportunities for reflection and selfimprovement spoken about in self-help manuals. Sometimes, they just suck.

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None of these ‘failures’ are catastrophic. They don’t constitute any large setback. But I’ve realized two things from talking to my friends around campus: These failures happen to everybody and they happen all the time.” We don’t h ave t o em brace those failures. We don’t have to like them any more than we do now, and we don’t have to stop working to avoid them where we can. But we do need to recog nize explicitly that they happen, happen universally, and happen often, sometimes daily, both for us and for the most successful people we know. We need to acknowledge that not only are these failures OK, but that they are inescapable for anyone trying to achieve on the daily basis what most students at Penn are.

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AKSHAT SHEKHAR For a lot of us, that recognition won’t materially cha nge much. We might have adopted a productive way to work and to strive without the pressures of notification beeps and hourly deadlines chafing against our health and well-being. But for those of us who can feel worn out, or worse, because of our obligations, accepting the ongoing nature of little failures might lessen some d iscomfor t. We can cake over reality by t alk ing about “str ugg fests” and “not being a real person,” but that kind of lang uage reinforces a harmful notion: that messing up, even messing up a lot, means we’re doing something wrong. When we continue to talk about the daily pressures of college life as if they were abnormal, we can continually make people feel as if their failures are ultimate rather than transient, and wor se, t hat i f on ly t hey could “get their life together” (whatever that means) like responsible people do, the daily grind would disappear. No one on as talented a campus as this one deserves to blame themselves so severely for such a universal problem. A f ter all, we might all end up being wicked successful one day. AKSHAT SHEKHAR is a Wharton sophomore from Boston. His email address is ashek@wharton.upenn.edu.

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Insight from curator of new PMA exhibit Members of art appreciation society went on guided tour BY YING PAN Contributing Writer Some Penn students were seduced by surrealism this weekend. Penn Art Appreciation Society hosted an excursion to view the surrealist exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of A rt on Friday. Students gat hered i n t he Perelman Building of PMA with the exhibition curator Joh n V ick . V ick , who re ceived his master’s degree i n a r t histor y f rom Pen n in 2007, called surrealism more “seductive” than “attractive,” because it is often distorted and invites more imagination than more conventional aesthetics. “The Surrealists: Works f rom t he Col lect ion” features paintings by some of the most celebrated surrealists, including Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Roberto Matta and Dorothea Tanning. Everything in the exhibition is from PM A’s collection. “Rather than focusing on the specific parts of surrealism - say paintings or sculptures, or women of surrealism or dreamy images - this is more of an introduction and broad view of a movement,” Vick said. On the tour, Vick talked about works like “The Poet and His Muse” by Giorgio de Chirico and Salvador Dali’s “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War).” The former shows two abstract human forms wearing togas, while the latter is “a visualization of self-destruction,” according to Vick. “It’s grotesque. It’s disgusting,” he added. “Yet it’s the one that people all want to come and see.”

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Curator and 2007 Penn alumnus John Vick led members of the Penn Art Appreciation Society on a tour of “The Surrealists: Works from the Collection,” a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that pulls from the museum’s own collection and features pieces by Salvador Dali and Max Ernst, among others. College and W har ton sophomore and PAAS president Elaine Liu hoped club members would be more exposed to Philadelphia’s art resources. “It is not different from v isiting a friend you haven’t see for a while or going to an amusement park where you know some great

sensor y ex p er iences a r e learn and talk about the arts. have access to the exhibiwaiting for you,” she said. Wharton sophomore An- tion’s curator. “W hile I’m PA AS is a new club that thony Chen was excited to sure we all appreciate art to dedicates itself to sharing the knowledge and love of arts. In addition to excursions to local museums and galleries, PA AS also organizes art dinners and minisymposiums for students to

some degree, it’s an elevated experience to see the collection from the eyes of the person who selected the works,” Chen said. Engineering sophomore Scott Collins agreed. “The curator of the ex hibition, John Vick, was very insightful. He illuminated surrealism - both the artists and their art - in a broad scope,” he said. “I now feel more at home with the movement, ready to delve deeper into its secrets.” Despite Friday’s stormy weather, 20 students participated in the trip. They came from a variety of academic backgrounds, including computer science, finance and communications. The event concluded with a questionand-answer session about surrealism and art appraisal.

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UMOJA looks to offer community UMOJA from page 1 was about showing what we have to offer to the black communit y as well as to the larger community.” She said that UMOJA is trying to get involved in college preparation for elementary and middle schoolers. The black student groups that participated in UMOJA

Week have unique ongo ing visions for affecting the community at large. “Since freshman year, I always felt that we could always do more and build something,” College senior and President of Penn Afr ic a n St udent s A ssociation Kevin Rugamba said. “We’re open to the Penn community, we’re a door on Penn’s campus into ... the different African cultures and also home to members here and the African diaspora.” R e p r e s e nt at i ve s f r om Big Brothers Big Sisters of fered opportunities

to match Pen n students with local elementary and middle schoolers to give children a firsthand look at higher education. BBBS also strives to “become a bigger part of West Philadelphia communit y and schools by giving back,” according to representatives. In addition to BBBS and PASA , the Black Student L e a g u e , t he C a r i b b e a n A mer ica n Student A sso ciation and UPenn NAACP were represented at UMOJA Week. University Chapl a i n C h a z Ho w a r d a l s o spoke at the event.

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Heisman Trust donation aided group’s plans SPORTS LAW from page 1 Last year, the NCAA caused a stir by suspending Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel for the first half of the first game of the season because he allegedly received payments for autographs. (The NCAA eventually acknowledged that Manziel did not receive payment for the autographs.) Currently, football players at Northwestern University are undergoing hearings that will determine whether the players classify as

university employees, which could allow them to unionize. Accordingly, panelists will grapple with the idea of “why, as a society, so many people are offended by the idea of paying college athletes,” Penn Law ESLS Vice President Grant Darwin, a third-year law student, said. With four panel discussions on tap for the event, speakers will delve into more specific aspects of sports law, like collective bargaining and the ethics of representing athletes who are new to the professional level. “A lot of these athletes don’t have the financial background to be able to manage themselves,” Darwin said. “In the first steps, there’s a lot of handholding, so one of the things that will be discussed is where that hand-holding should take place.”

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Since this symposium is the first of its kind for Penn Law ESLS, producing the event required considerable “elbow grease,” Darwin explained. “It has been a combination of being realistic and being optimistic,” Penn Law ESLS President Eli Klein added. The idea for the symposium came after Klein, Darwin and Simon attended a sports law conference in Atlanta last year. When the three assumed their new leadership roles in the club, they immediately reached out to the various luminaries who are now slated to attend the event. At first it was a challenge for the group to plan the event so organically, especially because Penn Law ESLS did not have a faculty connection or a funding background. “It was a bit of a chicken or the egg situation,” Klein said. “We knew we wanted a keynote speaker and other big names to surround that, but you can’t really get one without the other.” Reaching out to the Heisman Trust, however, proved to be a game-changer. The Trust, named in the memory of 1892 Penn Law graduate John Heisman, made one of the largest single donations to a Penn Law conference to help the student group cover the costs of the symposium. Currently, the group is still offering free tickets to Penn Law students, $30 tickets for outside students - including Penn undergraduates - and $35 tickets to attorneys and non-students. The group hopes that the symposium will become an annual event that the younger generation of Penn Law ESLS members will be able to carry on. Darwin pointed out that the organization’s first year law students were an invaluable resource and have made him confident that the event will be “sustainable”. The symposium marks a major development for both Penn Law ESLS and the discourse of sports law at Penn Law overall. “We really wanted to put sports law and entertainment law on the map in the law school,” Klein said.

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Penn controls its own destiny in Ivy W. HOOPS from page 10 second half, just as it did in Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first matchup with the Crimson. The Quakers held Harvard to just 26.5 percent shooting in the second period, including a paltry 1-for12 performance from beyond the arc. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did a lot of the same things we did the first time,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really matched up well on the perimeter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We kind of willed ourselves to a really, really good road win for us.â&#x20AC;? For the game, Baron finished with a game-high 21 points while junior forward K a ra Bonenberger a nd freshman center Sydney Stipanovich each picked up a double-double, as Bonenberger

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The Ivy Championships brought quite a bit of success for Penn senior Shelby Fortin. One of the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most decorated swimmers, Fortin helped guide the Quakers to a fifth-place team finish and managed a second-place finish in the 500 freestyle.

W. SWIMMING | A variety of swimmers could qualify for NCAAs after this weekend BY SAM ALTLAND Staff Writer Over the course of a weekend of racing, the Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s swimming and div ing team put together an impressive string of results against the rest of the Ancient Eight at the Ivy League Championships. C o m p e t i n g a t B r o w n â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s K atherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, the Quakers finished fifth overall in the team standings with 882 points, the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best finish since the 2010-11 season. The highlight of the weekend for Penn was when senior Shelby Fortin broke both the meet and pool record for the Championships in the womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 200 yard freestyle. Fortinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time of 1:45.69 also put her under the mark for the NCAA B Finals and now provides her with the possibility of racing at nationals. This was the third time Fortin won the event in her four years with the Quakers.

In order for Fortin to qualify for NCAAs out of the B group, her time in a particular event needs to be among the top-64 in the nation. Among Fortinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other impressive results this weekend was a second-place finish in the 500 freestyle in 4:44.12, where she broke the pool record in Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preliminaries race. The veteran notched another second-place finish in the 100 free. Fortin could make the B cut for the NCAA finals in both the 500 and 100 free. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shelby has been one of our top performers since she walked in the door four years ago,â&#x20AC;? coach Mike Schnur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She simply exceeded everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expectations and has overcome a ton of obstacles in her four years, and she just blew the other girls out of the water this weekend.â&#x20AC;? Several other members of the Red and Blue also had standout individual performances. Freshman Rochelle Dong placed fourth in the womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50 free with a time of 23.01. Dong also placed fifth in the 100 butterf ly, and her time qualified her for the B side of the NCAA finals. Sophomore Lauren Church

took home a fou r t h-place finish in the 100 backstroke event, and her time of 54.57 scored 26 points for her squad. While Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time in the 100 backstroke put her below the NCAA mark, the sophomore also could qualify in the 200 backstroke for the NCAAs. Junior Taylor Sneed finished third for Penn in the 200 butterfly, and her time of 1:59.51 also gained her qualification for NCAAs. Haley Wickham later became the fifth Penn swimmer to qualify for the NCAA Championships, as the freshman placed fifth overall in the 100 backstroke. Penn capped off the meet in style on Saturday night as the Quakers raced to a second-place finish in the last event, the 400 freestyle relay. Church, Dong, Fortin and Christina Hurleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s combined time of 3:21.52 marked the best relay event for Penn of the weekend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we just had an outstanding performance,â&#x20AC;? Schnur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had so many girls make an A or B final, and to have every single one of your swimmers score points and contribute to the team is just fantastic.â&#x20AC;?

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and all but ensure Penn the victory. It was Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only assisted goal of the day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been stressing all week to run through our motions to keep them going and not just do one thing,â&#x20AC;? Brower Corbett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think what happened in the first half is that the first part of our motion was just working and they started to double us and we just got stuck doing the same thing.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also just started shooting better. Once we started a motion and got the ball moving, they ended up fouling and giving up the eight-meter shot.â&#x20AC;? The Quakers will have a week off before they travel to North Carolina to take on the Tar Heels for just the seventh time in school history. Last year the Quakers went down 4-0 early and were unable to overcome the deficit.

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Penn took its first lead in the final minute of play off junior Katy Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s put-back layup. But Dartmouth senior Nicola Zimmer made basket of her own, and Baronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final chances didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reality is that we had our opportunities,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we needed a big stop with 27 seconds left and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re up one and we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a really disappointing end to what could have been a really special weekend.â&#x20AC;? After the weekend split, the Quakers still control their destiny for either first or second place in the Ivy League, the latter finish of which would give Penn an automatic bid to the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Invitation Tournament. But if the Quakers are going to stay near the top of the Ancient Eight, they will need to bounce back after the heartbreaking Dartmouth loss. â&#x20AC;&#x153; Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not out of this, and our kids are resilient,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bounce back.â&#x20AC;?

had 11 points and 11 rebounds while Stipanovich posted 13 points and 12 boards. McCullough added a strong all-around effort in both games of the weekend, playing 79 of a possible 80 minutes between the two games. But on Saturday, Penn was nowhere near as successful in the frontcourt. Dartmouth (4-20, 1-9) used a strong game plan to shut the Quakers out of the post and force them into jump shots. And the plan worked to perfection. The Big Green took a 26-17 lead into halftime, holding Penn without a basket for the first seven minutes of the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They loaded up the lane and they came out to say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna take away your post play,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They left our wings open and left our three open, and [we] didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shoot it particularly well that day.â&#x20AC;? It took Penn a while to get going in the second half, as Dartmouth held a 12-point lead with 13 minutes to go. But thanks to a large run,

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THEY SAID IT Jerome Allen Penn coach

Ivy weekend is 7-16, 4-5 Ivy microcosm of 6-6, 4-1 Ivy 1-10, 0-4 Ivy Penn’s season THE RECORD

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STATISTICS

STEELE from page 10

Harvard 83, PENN 63 PENN

FG-A FT-A R A Min Pts

Nelson-Henry

f 3-4

0-0 3 0 20

Dougherty

f 6-9

2-4 5 1 22 15

Cartwright

g 3-5

4-5 2 5 30 10

Hicks

g 4-8

4-5 2 2 27 13

Rennard

g 2-6

2-3

3 3 34

Brooks

1-1

0-0 1 0 11

Lewis

0-0

1-2 2 1 14

Harvard

FG-A FT-A R A Min Pts

MoundouMissi

f 5-9

4-6 5 0 21 14

Casey

f 4-7

4-5 3 0 19 12

Rivard

g 5-8

0-0 3 2 27 13

Chambers

g 1-3

6-6 3 10 30

Saunders

g 3-7

6-6 3 2 26 12

Nesbitt

0-0

0-0 0 0

Brown

0-0

1-2 0 0

TELLING NUMBERS

Turnovers by the Red and Blue. With Penn’s struggles to hold onto the ball, Harvard capitalized with 24 points off turnovers, many of which were assisted by sophomore point guard Siyani Chambers.

Minutes played by freshman guard Matt Poplawski, who came off the bench in his first game since getting called up by the JV team. Poplawski, an honorable-mention All-Ivy player for Penn men’s soccer, scored two points on two free throws.

That’s the Dr. Jekyll side of Jerome Allen’s squad. Despite the successes, too often have the Quakers relapsed this season, following up an excellent effort in one game by laying an egg the next time out. Or vice versa. One needs to look no further than Penn’s past three weekends. After sweeping Cornell and Columbia on Feb. 7 and 8, respectively, the Quakers failed to score more than 55 points in either game the next weekend in losses to Yale and Brown. Perhaps the microcosm that best describes Penn’s season is what happened this weekend against Harvard and Dartmouth. On Friday, the Quakers turned the ball over 20 times and allowed the Crimson to shoot 50 percent from the field. Junior Henry Brooks managed to foul out with 10 minutes remaining, leaving an already injury-plagued roster even more shorthanded.

Rennard shut down Mitola’s offensive game M. HOOPS from page 10 said. “It was a matter of being in the right place at the right time.” On the offensive end, Brooks had plenty of help. F ive Qua kers scored in

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In another disappointing Penn outing, Harvard point guard Siyani Chambers scored nine points and dished out 10 assists in the Crimson’s 20-point win on Friday.

“I don’t think I was given this opportunity to be mediocre or sub-.500, so, at the end of the day, it’s my responsibility to right the ship.” — On Penn’s struggles after losing to Harvard

and one emphatic, momentumbuilding block. So it’s clearly not a case of one step forward, two steps back for Penn. In reality, it’s a case of one step forward, one step back. Thus, we return to the question that has surrounded the Red and Blue from the very beginning of the season: How can a team with this much talent and experience be so inconsistent? Truth be told, I don’t have an answer. Neither, it seems, does Allen, who summed up his team’s sporadic hot streaks after the game by saying: “Well they say a broken clock is right at least twice a day, right?” As the Quakers move forward into their final five games of the year, it’s impossible to predict how this tumultuous season is going to end. Because, as is said in Stevenson’s text, “the less I understand of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge its importance.” So between now and March 11, don’t try and explain or gauge Penn basketball, because it’s a hell of a task each night to predict whether Jekyll or Hyde will be sporting the Red and Blue.

So what did Penn do to follow up that effort? Did a talented basketball team continue to underwhelm and underperform against lesser opponents, making the narrative of this head scratching season somewhat easier to understand? Of course it didn’t. The Red and Blue put together one of their most complete perfor-

mances to date. Penn turned the ball over only 11 times, shot 49 percent on the night and allowed only two Big Green players to score in double figures. And it was Brooks who was the Quakers’ MVP on Saturday. The veteran had what was likely the best performance of his college career, notching 11 points to go along with nine rebounds

RILE Y STEELE is a College sophomore from Dorado, Puerto Rico, and is an sports editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at steele@thedp.com.

double figures on the night, including senior guard Steve Rennard, who was a perfect 3-for-3 from behind the threepoint line and finished with 11 points. “I thought [Rennard] was huge,” Allen said. “I thought he stepped up, made some shots and — I think more importantly — defensively committed to chasing [Dartmouth guard Alex] Mitola around and not giving him any easy looks.” With Rennard’s hands in his face all night, Mitola struggled

mightily at shooting, hitting only one of his four shots from the field. Whenever Dartmouth tried to make a run after the Quakers built up a sizable lead, Rennard and fellow senior guard Miles Jackson-Cartwright would beat them back with their outside shooting. By the end of the night, the Quakers had hit six of their 14 three-point attempts and committed only 11 turnovers. In a statistical oddity, Saturday night was the first time

all season that the Quakers won a game while committing fewer turnovers than their opponent. Now the Quakers can regroup after following up one of their worst performances of the season with one of their best. But if Allen has his way, the Quakers won’t get complacent with Yale and Brown coming to the Palestra next. “Tonight we can enjoy it,” Allen said. “Hopefully not too much.”

STATISTICS PENN 74, Dartmouth 65 PENN

FG-A FT-A R A Min Pts

Nelson-Henry

f 2-6

Dougherty

f 6-10 1-2 8 1 32 13

2-2 0 1 21

Cartwright

g 5-10 2-2 3 9 39 15

Hicks

g 7-16 4-4 3 5 34 18

Rennard

g 3-3

2-2

3 2 26 11

Brooks

5-9

1-2 9 2 26 11

Lewis

0-2

0-0 2 0 11

Dartmouth FG-A FT-A R A Min Pts Boehm

f 3-8

0-0 3 1 18

Golden

f 3-4

0-1 7 2 32

McDonnell

f 8-14 2-4 7 2 28 18

Melville

g 1-2

0-0 1 1 10

Mitola

g 1-4

2-2

0 6 29 4

Ngwudo

0-1

1-1 3 0 10

Fleming

1-3

2-2 0 0

TELLING NUMBERS

Number of turnovers committed by the Quakers. Saturday’s game broke a three-game streak in which Penn turned the ball over 20 times.

Minutes played by senior Miles Jackson-Cartwright. The veteran’s 15 points and nine assists paced Penn.

Misses from Steve Rennard against the Big Green. The senior was perfect from both the free throw line and didn’t miss any of his three three-point attempts.

Scoring drought dooms Penn this time around M. LACROSSE | After knocking off Duke last year, Penn can’t take down champs in opener BY COLIN HENDERSON Associate Sports Editor Last year, the Penn men’s lacrosse team danced with the Blue Devils and came out on top. This year, the team wasn’t quite as lucky. In its season opener against the defending national champions, No. 18 Penn lost to No. 1 Duke, 9-6, in a hard-fought battle on the road on Friday night. After falling to an upstart Penn squad in the Quakers’ season opener last year, the Blue Devils came into this weekend’s matchup more focused and ready to play. Duke (3-0) knew it couldn’t take the Quakers (0-1) lightly, and the team was aggressive from the start. “The fact that we beat [Duke] and had a pretty good season last year I’m sure motivated them to prepare for this game,” Penn coach Mike Murphy said. Duke put the first goal on the board just 39 seconds into the contest, but the Quakers responded quickly with a goal from senior midfield Zack Losco. The Blue Devils’ more experienced offense took control of the game in the first quarter, imposing their will on the Quakers and building a 4-2 lead at the end of the period. Penn refused to quit though, shutting down Duke’s offense in the second quarter. The Quakers managed a goal with 10 seconds remaining in the half, moving the deficit to one heading into the break. Senior goalkeeper Brian Feeney, who recorded 10 saves on the day, was instrumental in keeping the Quakers within striking distance in the backand-forth affair. “Feeney played extremely well in goal,” Murphy said. “He

at Duke was just fantastic.” Midway through the third quarter, Penn was still battling, down 5-4. However, the Quakers showed their inexperience when a careless turnover in the midfield led to a breakaway goal by Duke’s Chris Hipps. “That was, I think, the difference in the game,” Murphy said. “That’s just our maturity level.” Hipps’ goal sparked a scoring barrage by the Blue Devils, one in which they tallied three goals. The stretch was exacerbated by a scoring drought that lasted over a full quarter for the Quakers. Losco and junior attack Isaac Bock tallied goals for Penn in the fourth quarter, but it was too little, too late. The senior duo of Feeney, who kept the score close throughout the game, and Losco, who put up three points and caused two turnovers, stood out for the

Quakers on Friday. Overall, Murphy was pleased with his team’s first effort of the season, considering that it came against the top team in the NCAA. “They’re the defending national champions, and I think they’re going to be great this year,” Murphy said of Duke. “[We are] close to being great.” Moving forward, Murphy would like his team to generate confidence from its defensive performance but work to smooth out some of its offensive kinks. “We played well on defense for the most part,” he said. “I think we could be a little sharper on offense. “We’re not built for power. We’re built for speed. We kind of tried to force things a little by running through people ... It’s not a major overhaul. It’s just tweaks, and hopefully we’ll make them in practice.” The Quakers will look to rebound on Tuesday night, when they play their home opener against city rival St. Joseph’s.

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As one of the Red and Blue’s most experienced and skilled players, senior midfield Zack Losco led the Quakers with two goals, seven shots and three points this weekend in the first test for Penn this season against the Blue Devils.

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Brooks bounces back off bench M. HOOPS | Following a dismal performance against Harvard, the junior led the Quakers on Saturday BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor After fouling out against Harvard, Henry Brooks was in need of a bounce-back effort. And a bounce back was in order with one of Brooks’ best performances of the year. Brooks’ play, along with a diverse offensive attack, was good enough to give Penn basketball a 74-65 win over Dartmouth, salvaging a split after a bad loss to Harvard on Friday. For three years, Brooks has been plagued by foul trouble when on the floor — he fouled out Friday night against Harvard with more than 10 minutes to go in the game. Brooks’ apparent inability to get out of his own way has characterized the Red and Blue’s effort as a whole this season. But against the Big Green, the fouls disappeared — Brooks only finished with three on the night — and so too did many of the Quakers’

usual issues. The Quakers entered Saturday night’s matchup averaging 16.8 turnovers per game, the second-worst rate in Division I. Yet the issue that coach Jerome Allen likened to a broken record after Friday’s 83-63 loss to the Crimson didn’t crop up nearly as often. Penn protected the ball well in the first half, committing only five turnovers while pressuring the Big Green into seven turnovers of their own. And Brooks displayed that pressure on the defensive end over and over again. “I just wanted to come off the bench and give a spark,” he said. When placed on Dartmouth forwards Connor Boehm and Brandon McDonnell, who had scored 10 points in the first five minutes, Brooks stif led their cuts and thwar ted their post-ups. His vicious block on Boehm off the glass with 4:37 to go in the first half sent the Palestra crowd into a frenzy. “I just was running back in transition, and I saw [Dartmouth] was passing back, and I happened to be in position to get the block,” Brooks

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Nothing has come easy for Penn junior forward Henry Brooks in his three years with the Quakers. After fouling out with 10 minutes remaining against Harvard, Brooks rebounded with a near double-double against Dartmouth on Saturday night.

Quakers keep up Jekyll and Hyde act

A great win with a disappointing finish W. HOOPS | The Quakers beat Harvard in Cambridge before falling to last-place Dartmouth on Saturday BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor

RILEY STEELE

nother Ivy weekend doubleheader has come and gone, and Penn men’s basketball’s season draws nearer to a close. Two more games, 80 additional minutes of playing time, one win and one loss. After this weekend, the Quakers have played 23 games in the 2013-14 season. Yet as the Red and Blue’s season finale against Princeton approaches, one thing has become perfectly clear: The more Penn plays, the less we know about who this team actually is. In fact, over the course of the Quakers Ivy League slate, it’s become evident that Penn seems to be the athletic embodiment of both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And what a strange case this team is. In almost every sense, no aspect of the Red and Blue’s season has been consistent over an extended period. In a variety of games this year, Penn has shown flashes of brilliance. The Quakers came out and played energetic, unselfish and confident basketball against Princeton, Cornell and Columbia, to name a few contests in particular.

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Senior captain Meghan McCullough played 79 out of a possible 80 minutes over the weekend, earning praise from coach Mike McLaughlin for helping to set the tone in Penn’s win over Harvard.

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Going into this weekend, many may have expected a split for Penn women’s basketball. Just not the split that actually happened. The Quakers began the weekend with a big victory on Friday at Harvard, 63-50, before last-place Dartmouth upset the Red and Blue on Saturday night, 53-50. The victory over Harvard (17-7, 7-3 Ivy) moved Penn (17-6, 7-2) into a first-place tie with Princeton, but the Dartmouth loss leaves the Quakers a game behind the four-time defending champion Princeton (17-6, 8-1) with five games to go. After taking down the Crimson in blowout fashion on Feb. 1, 67-38, the

Red and Blue knew they had a major test on their hands with the then first-place Harvard squad. Both teams got off to a quick start, with senior captain Alyssa Baron helping Penn hang with Harvard from the opening tip with 16 first-half points. “She set the tone,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “The confidence that she showed and [guard Meghan McCullough] showed really helped our other players understand that we’re going to be able to win in this environment.” And after a fast-paced first half, Penn’s defense took over in the

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Penn holds off Blue Hens, starts 2014 in style

W. LACROSSE | Red and Blue fend off early onslaught from Delaware, manage to rebound in second half BY SUSHAAN MODI Senior Staff Writer It was a sunny start to the season for Penn women’s lacrosse. Playing at Franklin Field beneath a clear sky, mild 50-degree temperatures and blustery winds, the Quak-

vs. Delaware ers shrugged off a slow start to notch a win in their season opener against Delaware, 11-8. The No. 16 Red and Blue (1-0), who are without their top three scorers from last year due to graduation and injury, took some time to get into the flow of the game, trading two goals apiece with Delaware (1-2) for the

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first 15 minutes. The Blue Hens built a two-goal lead midway through the half as Delaware attack Shannon Hawley used great moves and a head fake to get around the defender before scoring low. Sophomore Kara Dattellas followed that up by working behind the Penn goal and finding Delaware’s Chelsea Fay streaking toward the net who then put it away. That put the Blue Hens ahead, 4-2, and it would be another five minutes before Penn could pull within one.

Sophomore Lely DeSimone, who started her run from the 25-yard line, took one jab step around her defender and finished off a great solo effort neatly tucking the ball away. DeSimone finished the game with two goals. Then with a little less than three minutes remaining in the first half, senior attack Tory Bensen opened her account with a free-position goal. That was the first of five goals on

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