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UA postpones budget after petition to impeach pres.

The petition to impeach the UA president fell short by one vote, sources say

BY FIONA GLISSON & KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor & Staff Writer Each year the Undergraduate Assembly completes their budget negotiations before spring break to avoid the political infighting which can characterizes election season.

But this year, infighting seems to have arrived early, the latest hitch in a tumultuous budget process which has failed to produce a finalized budget for the next academic year.

It came in a failed petition to impeach UA President and Col-

Waiting on the ward to change

Community leaders hope to increase Penn participation in local party committees

BY SAMUEL BYERS Staff Writer

lege and Wharton Senior Abe Sutton, signed by a reported 11 UA members - one short of the necessary 12, or one third, of the UA’s 36 members.

This was followed by a closed door meeting, where the Office of Student Affairs mediated between UA members. Budget negotiations were postponed to make room for the event.

“Abe was abusing his power, working for the title instead of action,” an anonymous UA member, who said she sympathized with the motives of the authors but chose not sign the petition.

Wharton senior and UA treasurer Tiffany Zhu, who did not respond to repeated requests for comment, allegedly was pres-

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Penn’s all-grant, no loan-policy is unique to the University, but how does its undergraduate student aid rank among some of the other Ivies?

On Friday afternoon, President Amy Gutmann announced a new initiative - effective immediately - that aims to raise $240 million for undergraduate financial aid.

As undergraduate costs rise in the upcoming academic year, the University estimates that the average grant for eligible students will increase to $41,700 for the 2014-2015 school year.

This academic year, the total financial aid budget was $188 million and the average grant per student was $40,200.

The DP takes a look at financial aid around the Ivy League.

Princeton University At Princeton, where the 2013-

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Financial Aid Across the Ivies

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Ward 27 Ward 27 Divisions (on Penn’s campus) Penn’s campus Graphics by Analyn Delos Santos Map tiles by Stamen Design

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2014 total cost of attendance for undergrads was $53,250, the average freshman received $41,450 in grants. The average grant covers the entire cost of tuition, according to Princeton’s Undergraduate Admissions. For expected family contributions, Princeton does not take into account the value of a family’s home when considering their assets.

Princeton is one of six colleges that offer need-blind admission and full-need financial aid to international students. The other five schools are Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Amherst College, Yale University and Dartmouth College.

Princeton offers its own financial aid application and does not require students to fill out or pay the fee for the CSS Profile.

While Princeton’s tuition has increased by 58 percent since

asheen Crews is on a mission.

In the basement dining area of the New Deck Tavern, he addressed a crowd of 20 or so community members gathered on a snowy Wednesday night in early February.

“We want to fill all of these divisions in,” said Crews, referring to the empty sections of a map of University City that he had given to each table earlier in the evening.

The map depicted the 27th ward, one of 66 regions of the city used to organize elections and determine representation. It was further subdivided into 23 “divisions,” each a few square blocks in size. Penn’s campus and the surrounding area where most students reside encompass 10 divisions - over 40 percent of the ward.

However, only four of 20 seats near Penn on the Democratic ward committee - a political group which represents the party on a local level - are currently filled, and none of them are held by Penn students or faculty.

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Held every four years during Congressional midterms.

Elected to represent their political party in the ward.

Candidates must acquire 10 valid signatures from registered voters of their party living in their neighborhood and submit them to the City Commissioners before March 18th in order to be nominated.

Elected during the party primaries in May.

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SEPTA to install elevators at 40th and Market street station

BY CLAIRE COHEN Deputy News Editor

Students, such as the ones who were studying on the basement floor of Huntsman Hall on Monday, are preparing for all of their last minute work due for classes before spring break begins next week.

Ward Committee Members — Elections:

After years of community advocacy, SEPTA will finally install elevators at the 40th Street Station.

Councilwoman Jannie Blackwel l a n nou nced pla ns last Wednesday to install elevators and renovate the station located on 40th and Market streets so that it complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This update will allow more than 1,000 residents with limited mobility to access the MarketFrankford Line.

Senior citizens and mothers with strollers are people who might face the stairs as “a roadblock” to entering SEPTA at that station, SEPTA Director of Media Relations Jerri Williams said.

“We wanted to bring ADA

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compliancy to that station, we know it’s a very active station and we want people able to be able to use the Market-Frankford Line,” Williams added.

SEPTA is still in the design phase of the project, but it plans to start and potentially finish it by the end of 2016. Other than new elevators, renovations will include new signs, doors, gates, painting, flooring and ceiling systems.

While the elevator location has not yet been decided, potential areas include the northwest corner and southwest corner of the 40th and Market intersection. The estimated cost for the installation will be $6.2 million, Williams said.

Despite these changes, the station will not shut down during any point in construction, she added.

The changes follow the Jan.

22 death of Penn biochemistry professor Ellis Golub, who fell headfirst down the station’s stairwell after trying to avoid a ladder at the bottom of the stairs. Golub’s wife, Linda Golub, told the Philadelphia Daily News that she wants SEPTA to accept responsibility for his death.

“I want somebody to say t hey ’r e sor r y ... t h at t h i s shouldn’t have happened,” she said. “This man died for no reason, and I want to keep it from happening to somebody else.”

Williams said that the plans to install elevators at the station were not due to Golub’s death.

She declined to comment further about his death due to the possibility of future litigation.

Installing elevators at the station has been a community priority since at least August

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Leaders say political committees foster neighborhood community, drive conversation WARD from page 1 Because of this lack of representation, key duties of ward committee members go unperformed on Penn’s campus. Members of each party’s committee build support for local, state and national candidates and get out the vote on Election Day. They also communicate the needs of their community to their party’s ward leader, who works with local elected officials to address those needs.

Crews sees this lack of engagement as a problem.

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rews’ goal is simple - to get more students and community members involved with the ward committee.

H o w e v e r, C r e w s , w h o works for State Senator Anthony Williams (D-Philadelphia), has a tough path ahead of him.

No students attended his F e b r u a r y w a r d - i nt e r e s t meeting despite his efforts to advertise through student political organizations and Penn students have been reluctant to run for either the Democratic or Republican ward committee in the past.

But in Crews’ eyes, increased committee involvement is a cornerstone for a strong neighborhood and community in the 27th ward.

He believes increasing membership on the committee will help everyone - students and community members alike in the long run.

More students involved in the ward committee, he believes, will ensure that more students vote, especially in years without a federal election. He said that student voices aren’t heard in local government if they don’t vote in the city where they live nine months out of the year.

Penn Democrats President and Wharton junior Amiyr

Jackson said that Penn Dems is currently work ing with Crews to try to fill the gaps in representation for students that currently exists in the 27th ward.

“When you think about it, a lot of Penn students have aspirations to impact the world in a positive way but I think we should all take a step back and aim to positively impact the West Philadelphia community,” he said.

C r e w s r e me m b e r s h i s mother used her position on the ward committee to bring members of her neighborhood together. They would often gather in each others’ homes to dine and socialize with their neighbors and with each other.

He hopes that greater student participation in local politics can help bridge the gap between the surrounding University City community and Penn.

“The 27th ward should feel like a family,” Crews said.

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he 27th ward’s Republican committee leader, J. Matthew Wolfe - who graduated from the College in 1978 - sees his job somewhat differently. “Our job is to represent the Republican Party in this neighborhood,” he said.

When Wolfe came to Penn, he quickly became involved with the College Republicans, working for a time as the organization’s vice chairman. He first ran for the ward committee as an undergraduate and was selected to be ward treasurer by the time he graduated from Penn. The following year, he was voted ward leader, and has served in that role since.

Throughout his time on the ward committee, Wolfe has worked to address important neig hborhood issues. He cited a recent scandal with

the Penn Alexander School’s admissions process - in which a politician’s three children were enrolled at the local public school even though his children were not zoned for the school - as an example of the type of issue he tries to bring attention to through his position as ward leader.

In an guest column publ ished by t he Un iver sit y City Review on Feb. 5, Wolfe called for greater transparency in the admissions process for the school, so that local parents know that their children all have a fair and equal chance of admission.

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harles Gray, a 2012 Wharton and College graduate, remembers his time on the R epublican ward committee as one where he could influence the local political conversation.

“It was important for me to be there and say ‘I’m a student and I believe in these [Republican] values,’” said Gray, who represented the Quad and Stouffer College House on the committee from his election in 2010 until his graduation.

In 2010, several Penn students won elections to serve on the Republican Ward Committee. However they were unable to serve the full four years of their terms because they left the city following their graduation from the University.

A f ter graduation, Gray, a former Daily Pennsylvanian columnist, was forced to resign his committee seat because he returned to his home state of Wyoming to run his family’s business. Other Penn alumni contacted for this article who were former Republican and Democratic ward committee members either declined to comment or did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

“I was concerned about the direction of the country,” said Gray, describing his motivation to run for the ward committee. At the time, he saw the committee as a way to direct the local political conversation, which in turn “drives the national conversation.”

As a committee member, Gray focused on getting already registered voters to the polls and educating them about the Republican Party’s candidates. He preferred not to focus on registering new voters, something he felt groups such as Penn Leads the Vote, the College Republicans and Penn Democrats were doing enough of already.

Gray, a former College Republicans president, believes that while these groups fill a valuable role in political life at Penn, they can’t ever fully fill the void created by the lack of ward committee involvement on campus. Both Penn Dems and College Republicans are too focused on national issues, Gray said, adding that “they don’t want to focus on local politics.”

Jackson, the Penn Dems President, denied the bias towards national issues. “I think we focus on issues important to the campus,” he said.

He also noted that campus organizations could work effectively with ward committees and other local political organizations to address issues affecting the community. “I think that there is a lot of value and potential for growth in terms of community partnerships.”

President of the College Republicans Anthony Cruz, a College junior, refuted Gray’s criticism, saying that the organization has entered “a new era” of local involvement since he joined as a freshman.

“The College Republicans have been making an effort to be more involved in local issues and on the state lev-

el,” he said, noting a renewed connection to the Pennsylvania GOP and increased dialogue with local party leaders such as Wolfe as evidence of a change of priorities since Gray graduated.

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olfe concedes that the transience of Penn’s student population makes it difficult to get students involved in off-campus politics, but he prefers to see this as a challenge, rather than a problem.

“I’ve had some Penn students who were dynamite serve on the committee,” he said, adding that just because they don’t stay long doesn’t mean they don’t work hard and have an impact.

However, a local Republican Party proposal to reduce the term length for committee members from four to two years could make it easier for students to serve a full term on the committee, if it is adopted.

For politically active students interested in working in the community, the ward committees can be a good opportunity, Wolfe said.

He hopes to have several students run for committee positions in this election, which will be held on May 20, and has already begun distributing nomination petitions to eligible students and committee members.

Deputy City Commissioner and former 52nd ward Democratic committee member Dennis Lee echoed this sentiment.

He remembers the eight years he spent on that committee as a time where he was able to work with his neig hbor s t o accompl ish goals for his neighborhood.

“Being a committee person was one of the best things I have done in my life because I saw a real change in my community,” Lee said.

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Ward Committee Members — Duties: Represent your political party in the division Help register members of the community to vote and distribute information about upcoming elections, their polling places, and the candidates on the ballot Circulate nomination petitions for your party's local, state and national candidates and educate community members about their policies and positions Communicate problems in the community to local government officials through the party structure so that they can be properly dealt with Get out the vote for your candidates on election day

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Grant and loan amounts differ

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014 PAGE 3

How does Penn’s financial aid stack up against other Ivy League schools?

Undergraduate cost of attendance (living on-campus) compared to average financial aid package awarded for the 2013-2014 school year

Yale

Dartmouth

Cornell

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$63,659

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Cornell University Cornell’s Award Match Initiative commits to matching the family contribution and financial aid offers from other Ivy League schools as well as Stanford, Duke and MIT. Additionally, its Loan Initiative offers need-based loans that are capped based on family income.

The total cost of attendance for a non-New York state resident in 2013-2014 was $61,618.

Dartmouth College At Dartmouth, once a demonstrated financial need has been determined, the first

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Graphic by Laine Higgins source of aid comes from student self-help which consists of student loans and on-campus employment. As of summer 2012, Dartmouth eliminated loans from financial aid packages of students with family incomes of less than $100,000.

Grants and scholarships are

awarded to those who still have a remaining financial need and students eligible for Federal Pell Grants are prioritized.

Outside scholarships can be used to reduce the self-help level of financial aid packages.

Dartmouth’s cost of attendance for the incoming Class

of 2017 was $63,659.

Yale University For the 2013-2014 academic year, while cost of attendance was $60,900, the average Yale

Scholarship was $41,250. The University provided a total of $119 million in need-based financial aid this academic year.

Student self-help is the first

form of financial aid and consists of a federal Work Study job or institutionally funded Term-Time job. Loan options are only made available at student request.

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CUTLER REYNOLDS is a College freshman from Arlington, Va. His email address is reynoj@sas.upenn.edu.

An article on the front page of yesterday’s paper titled “Beyond the glass, a contested history” incorrectly referred to Rosita Worl as a member of the T’akdeintaan clan. She is a member of the Thunderbird clan. The DP regrets the error.

From the outside looking in

FROSH OFF THE BOAT | A look at LGBTQA issues from a culturally conservative background

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n response to actress Ellen Page coming out of the proverbial closet, a friend of mine confessed that while she is open to the notion of homosexuality, she cannot help but be mildly perturbed by the thought of two women kissing each other.

As a foreigner to this country who has spent most of his life insulated from any gay individuals, I must admit that I was once subject to the same unease.

Never a wholly religious man, I do not consider homosexuality an outré and immoral vice. Regardless, an unidentifiable feeling made me cringe when I first saw two men kiss in Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain” nine years ago.

To a certain extent, my discomfort might have been a product of Hong Kong’s culture.

Homosexuality was not decriminalized until 1991, anti-discriminatory laws exist only for government jobs and same-sex marriage and unions are not formally recognized.

Even with recent progress made in advancing advocacy of LGBT rights, behind the façade of political correctness still lies a palpable aversion among members of Hong Kong’s older generations.

I thought attending an all-boys school would perhaps change my feelings by possibly exposing me to more members of the particular sexual orientation.

I was only partially right. My feelings of unease did dissipate throughout the years ­— but not because I was subsumed in a milieu that welcomes gays with open arms.

Attitudes towards homosexuality in my Chinese boy school could range

from fascinated to apprehensive to hostile. The more effeminate of us were often subjects of needless speculation and mockery; the gays were often closeted. Homophobic banter was commonplace, and though most of it was but good-natured fun to bored teenagers, I could understand why some of our homosexual friends would be apprehensive to make their sexuality known.

Just before I left for Penn, a good friend of mine finally came out to me.

At first I was alarmed — after all, he was the first homosexual friend I have ever had. But then I realized how much hurt he must have suffered at the hands of young men who have yet to learn of sensitivity in the three years we have been friends.

Perhaps it was the realization that my friend’s sexuality changed nothing about my perception of him — except for a newfound respect for his perseverance and courage ­— that changed my feelings. I believe that was the moment I truly recognized the cliché saying that sexuality is but another aspect of a person’s identity.

Coming to Penn brought forth a surprise ­— perhaps an overwhelming one at first, but a pleasant one nonetheless.

My gay friends here are more vocal and unabashed about their sexuality (nor should they have any reason not to be).

Even as a straight male, the transition to an arguably more open-minded culture has helped make the Penn experience gayer, in both wonderful senses of the word.

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WILLIAM ZHANG & JASON CHOI

columnists collide

WILLIAM ZHANG is a Wharton freshman from Hong Kong. He can be reached at willz@wharton.upenn.edu JASON CHOI is a College freshman from Hong Kong.

He can be reached at jason. choi.ht@gmail.com

he pervasive social liberalism that exists within the Penn community has recently brought me to the realization that as modern, diverse and international as the self-dubbed “Asia’s World City” is, my hometown of Hong Kong is still very much permeated by underlying conservative Chinese social values.

I have always considered my stance on social issues to be on the “liberal” end of the spectrum, so it was quite a shock to arrive to a community where “liberal” is considered the norm.

In particular, it has been the Penn communities’ overwhelming acceptance of homosexuality that has stood out and impressed me the most.

Although I have grown up in an international, Western-influenced setting, the concept of homosexuality has always been a bit of a taboo and awk ward subject, and at times a subject of amusement and ridicule. I remember my primary 5 teacher introducing herself on the first day of class as “Gay” (that was her first name), and then finding the immediate need to clarify a definition of “joy” and “happiness” amid a chorus of callow laughter.

Even as simple, naïve children, unaware of the true meaning and implications of this taboo word, my peers and I found it to be a source of amusement.

From attending an international secondary school, one of the main principles instilled in us was the idea of diversity and acceptance. Yet, I clearly recall the uproar and controversy (extending to teachers and staff ) when an upperclassman “came out” through his vlog.

I don’t believe that many, if any, of my peers are truly homophobic. Instead, it is likely that it is the unfamiliarity of homosexuality that brings the oftentimes unfortunate amusement that accompanies its mentioning, and that has led the word “gay” to subconsciously become insulting and negative. ` In reflection, I imagine it is the importance that traditional Chinese values place on family that has resulted in the unfortunate ignorance and stigmatization that meets homosexuality within the wider Hong Kong community.

Yet coming to Penn has truly made me appreciate the value of acceptance and openness.

Because only when an issue no longer remains taboo, and when a community is willing to approach and accept the foreign and unfamiliar, can true dialogue and harmony exist.

And thus, this is why I express my pride and admiration to be a member of the Penn community, where each and every one of us can all be equally as proud, just to be who we are.

-WILLIAM

A call to the Class of 2016 GUEST COLUMN BY BRADEN AMUNDSEN, IMRAN CRONK, WILLIAM DOSSETT, ROBERT LUNDQUIST AND JORDAN RODNIZKI

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wo weeks ago, an article appeared in 34th Street written by a sophomor e who h a s been raped three times at Penn. Did you read it?

F irst , we would like to thank the survivor for having the courage to write that extremely powerful article.

A s sophomores, we were emotionally wrenched, and stunned, that someone who has been here for the same amount of time as we have could experience rape three times — and twice within 10 days.

That the author is a sopho-

more makes it all the more real for us as sophomore men of this community: This survivor could be one of the many friends we know and love, and we refuse to sit quietly as this important piece is drowned out by other, less pressing discourse within The Daily Pennsylvanian and our everyday conversations.

Let us think about why this story has flown below the radar: Is it because rape is still considered a private issue?

Maybe. But it is our responsibility as human beings to make it clear that rapists are not welcome in this community, and that rape culture will

not be tolerated. Why don’t we want to talk openly about issues of sexual violence?

Rape is a difficult topic — no one is denying that — but if we avoid addressing rape and the culture that perpetuates rape because it makes us uncomfortable, how is that fair to the countless people who are assaulted during their time at Penn?

Maybe it’s kept quiet because survivors don’t want to share their stories. That’s totally understandable, and we would never push our friends to share something they don’t want to think about. But at the same time, we should all work

a little harder to foster an environment where survivors aren’t marginalized.

By not actively supporting our fellow classmates, we’re letting their words be drowned out by trivial headlines. Penn’s ranking this year in the U.S. News & World Report. The hardship of seeing John Legend twice as commencement speaker.

A quantitative explanation of why SPEC is too poor to afford Beyoncé for Spring Fling.

The front page of this newspaper, though, is a reflection of what the campus community chooses to discuss and prioritize. As a student body

and administration, we are letting other things hold our attention, topics of lesser importance. We’re silencing this issue, letting the very real threat of sexual violence on this campus slip back under the radar.

When we let the issue go unnoticed, we’re allowing the powerful force of rape culture to take hold. Maybe we don’t talk about it because we don’t really think it is actually that big of an issue. Maybe “we don’t know anyone” who has been affected by sexual violence and therefore find it hard to become invested in the cause.

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Helping community members improve health Community health workers help patients meet self-imposed goals

BY ALEX GETSOS Staff Writer Community health workers are at the heart of a new program implemented at Penn hospitals in order to help improve patient outcomes postdischarge.

T he com mu n it y he a lt h workers, who now work for the newly created Penn Center for Community Health Workers, operate in two different settings: some in a primary care clinic and others at a hospital. A CHW is not a physician, but rather someone from the same community and background as the patient he or she works with.

Through Penn’s new center, each CHW is embedded in a particular team, whether it be the medicine team at Penn Presbyterian Medical Centeror teams at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. All are assigned patients based on a daily- generated list.

“Workers go into patients’ rooms, introduce themselves and have an open and informal conversation with them about what they view as the major health issues and what they need to do to get healthy,”

UA from page 1 sured to make allocations for food in the budget for the UA Steering meetings. Sutton allegedly said he would complicate motions regarding the SAC moratorium, this representative, a former UA member familiar with the situation and College Junior, UA vice president, Gabe Delaney said.

These sources also say that a former UA member penned a letter saying Sutton made her feel “emotionally distressed,” as Delaney said.

“Our mental health needs to come first. I never intended to hurt anyone and hope that every student feels safe and secure. Our personal interactions are what matter in the long run and apologize if I have unknowingly hurt someone I consider a friend,” Sutton responded in an emailed statement in response to questions f rom the Daily Pennsylvanian.

Sutton also cited his work as UA president in response to allegations, iterated work with PRISM, the Interfaith center, and the other groups, “My time on the UA has been focused on action... I have spent my time supporting students,

Project Manager of the Center for Community Health Workers Casey Chantonsaid.

This approach was found to improve overall patient outcomes post- discharge, according to a recent Penn study. In light of the study, Penn decided to implement the CH W approach in its health care facilities.

Through this approach, CHWs are each assigned case loads depending on where they work. Chanton said the workers in the primary care clinic have on average about 25 patients, whereas the workers for patients in transition - people working with patients getting ready to leave the hospital - pick up about three patients a week.

Chanton explained that CHWs in primary care clinics work with patients for six months, setting management goals for ways they can deal with their chronic illnesses.

For in-transition patients, intervention lasts for a minimum of two weeks, but can take longer.

Chanton added that the approach is patient-driven in that the patient decides what needs to be done in order to improve their own health.

Among other tasks, the workers help ensure that the patient meets their own goals.

“If a patient has a goal to control her diabetes, I would

not seeking the limelight,” he said. “It has never been about me nor should it be.”

However, the petition seems to have dispersed as soon as it appeared. Members of the UA who complained now mostly want to talk about the budget process and getting things done.

The budgeting process is carried out primarily by the UA Budget Committee, led by Wharton senior and UA treasurer Tiffany Zhu. Typically, the entire budget process occurs earlier in the year.

According to Delaney and the UA sources, there was a mix-up in when Zhu’s budget was due. The Budget Committee consequentially faced a choice of whether to release a rougher draft of the budget that night and follow the initially proposed timeline, or to delay the entire process.

Ultimately, Zhu drafted the budget on February 16th and it was debated February 23.

The Amendment meeting will be held on March 16, at which UA members and other student government branches can discuss the budget, and a final vote will take place on March 23.

Brenda Wang contributed reporting.

ask her what she thinks she needs to do to get her diabetes under control,” community health worker Irene Estrada said.

“She might say things like, I want to check my sugars twice a day or cut down on sweets or work out at the YMCA,” Estrada said. “Then I meet with her for six months to help her achieve those goals. I might call her to remind her to check her sugars or meet her at the YMCA to work out.”

Because of the amount of interaction between patients and CHWs involved in this approach, there are many qualities the workers must have.

“The job of a CHW entails having a passion for this type of work , tr ustworthiness, patience and good listening skills,” community health worker M a r y W h it e sa id .

“Without these qualities, it would be hard to relate and work towards making a difference in another person’s life.”

CHWs function to break down the goals into realistic steps and oftentimes go places with the patient, whether it is to sign up for programs in the community, get discharge medications or get access to home care.

“The most rewarding part for me is when the patients

have reached their health goal and I get to speak with them about their success at the end of the six months,” said Estrada, who works in primary care. “I get to see how excited they are ... it makes me feel accomplished and proud of them.”

Although the workers form the basis of the support system for patients, and the experience is positive for all parties involved, there are still persistent problems.

“Sometimes there aren’t always enough resources or funding in the community for things that patients need, such as a ramp to get out of

the house in a wheelchair,” Estrada said. “Sometimes we have to get creative with the resources that are available.”

In addition to difficulties with appropriating resources, CHWs also struggle when they move to helping another patient.

“The most challenging part about being a CHW is forming relationships with the people you work with and then having to end them,” White said.

“Even though you feel proud and happy for them achieving their goals, there’s that part of you that will miss working with them.”

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Five Penn-bred businesses to keep your eye on

BY CHRIS WU Contributing Writer

The W har ton Business Plan Competition is a yearlong event that attracts entrepreneurially-minded Penn students from across years and backgrounds. The Daily Pennsylvanian profiled five of the most promising semifinalists, which were announced at the end of February. The competition’s finals will be held on May 1.

Prayas Analytics When Wharton juniors Yash Kothari and Pranshu Maheshwari met in the middle of the Utah desert during a Wharton Leadership Venture, they immediately became good friends. Together, they created Prayas Analytics, a startup that uses cutting edge statistical models to give of-

fline retailers data about their customers.

“Right now, if you think about the huge online companies ... they have such an incredible amount of data about their customers that they can pretty much optimize to the color of the button,” Kothari said. When he and Maheshwari looked at brick-and-mortar companies, however, they found there were very limited data sources. The co-founders then conducted extensive research and found a great opportunity for data in retail.

According to Kothari, Prayas Analytics uses unique technology to answer the three primary questions of “who, what, and when” for those retailers.

Prayas Analytics is distinguished by the depth of analytics collected for clients.

Kothari and Maheshwari recently signed a deal with a top

50 retailer to provide custom analytics. Going forward, they hope to improve their models and expand the reach of big data.

Black Box Denim Wharton sophomores Adina Luo and Molly Liu founded Black Box Denim with the goal of providing shoppers with custom-made, designer-quality jeans.

“We’re moving into the age where people are getting increasingly more comfortable with custom and ordering things online,” Luo said. “Our goal is to make this process as seamless and unified as possible.” Black Box Denim evolved from an idea to customize handbags, and received 122 backers on Kickstarter where its campaign surpassed the fundraising goal of $25,000.

Luo and Liu spent last sum-

mer sourcing in China and establishing their supply chain.

Their research helped them write a good business plan for the Wharton Business Plan Competition. They plan to launch in the next few months and are establishing relationships with a network of tailors.

Luo and Liu hope to advance the brand and partner with a major retailer to increase Black Box Denim’s reach and appeal.

IDENTIFIED Technologies Corporation IDENTIFIED Technologies brings futuristic technology to the present. Founded by graduate student Andy Wu and Engineering undergraduate Richard Zhang, IDENTIFIED Technologies uses autonomous teams of robots to scan, survey and analyze data for companies in tough environments.

“Our initial target market is the oil and gas industry,” Wu said. “We’re analyzing both visual data ... and gas data for oil companies along their pipelines.”

Wu and Zhang developed their interest in robotics by doing research at Penn’s GRASP Lab on developments in unmanned aerial vehicle technology. They won first place at the Y-Prize last year for their innovative idea. In the future,

IDENTIFIED Technologies plans to enter the markets for agriculture and explosives detection. Wu and Zhang have already established offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

AirCare AirCare is an app that uses technology to make health care more efficient.

While working as a nurse in the intensive care unit of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, founder Stephanie Hwang realized that released patients frequently make return visits to the hospital. “Maybe they weren’t educated properly before they left the hospital, maybe they couldn’t adhere to their medication regulation or protocols ... sometimes they come back to the hospital because they’re just sick,” Hwang said. She realized that returning patients often simply lack immediate access to health care practitioners.

With AirCase, providers are able to contact and advise patients remotely. The app connects patients with providers regardless of their respective locations. Hwang is in the process of identifying key customers for AirCare.

Matt and Marie’s W ha r t on M BA s Just i n Sapolsky and Nicole Capp submitted their plan for sandwich

shop Matt and Marie’s to the Wharton Business Plan Competition.

According to Sapolsky, the idea was inspired by gourmet sandwiches and the Italian culinary art of charcuterie. “[We’re] taking elements of fine dining and bringing them into a fast food scene,” he said.

Matt and Marie’s will bring high quality, modern Italian food to customers in all five flavor profiles: salt, sweet, bitter, sour and umami.

Sapolsky and Capp worked with an artisan chef to craft a catering menu that launched in the fall. They are currently building their first store and have spent hundreds of hours running simulations of customer flow to ensure perfect optimization and a great hospitality experience.

Sapolsky, a former Wharton undergraduate, worked in banking and private equity before returning for his MBA. “In both those careers, you just really have a great appreciation for people who have gone out and started their own companies,” he said. “Looking at a lot of business models, the ones that interested me the most were the ones where you build based on a good business model and then you expand it.”

Matt and Marie’s hopes to expand outside of Philadelphia in the future.

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“From a social equity perspective, it’s a huge difference for people with limited mobility to access the station with an elevator,” said Andrew Frishkoff, executive director of Local Initiative Support Corporation Philadelphia. The current state of the station “is really a problem,” he added.

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Building your own Flappy Bird

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014 PAGE 7

Buy more for less: Penn alum’s startup makes buying local cheaper

BY BEN HSU Contriubuting Writer

Courtesy of Fawn Qiu

Qiu is planning on launching a Kickstarter campaign which will allow people to purchase kits to build their own Flappy Bird in a Box. The proceeds would go to help aspiring female engineers.

Penn alum brings popular mobile game Flappy Bird to life

BY BOOKYUNG JO Staff Writer Flappy Bird is back, and this time in 3-D. Fawn Qiu, a 2010 Wharton graduate, built a physical version of the mobile game Flappy Bird, called Flappy Bird in a Box. Flappy Bird was downloaded over 50 million times before it was shut down by its founder in February because he was worried that it was too addictive. The notoriously difficult game consists of making a bird fly between pipes without touching them or falling to the ground.

Recognizing the huge popularity of Flappy Bird, Qiu decided to make a real world version of it for Tribeca Hacks, a national hackathon held by the Tribeca Film Institute. “I wanted to bring that experience to the physical world,” Qiu said.

Flappy Bird in a Box consists of a simple cardboard box with three motors. The motors recreate the digital game by rolling a background and moving a paper bird up and down. Players must tap a button to keep the bird up in the air, and if they fail, a magnetic sensor detects the loss and closes the lid of the box, ending the game.

“The box tries to visualize this game so that people

who don’t really play [on their phones] will also know what Flappy Bird is like,” Changbo Li, a College freshman who found the Flappy Bird in a Box highly interesting, said.

Qiu is about to launch a Kickstarter campaign to make a kit which would allow people to build Flappy Bird in a Box themselves. The proceeds would go to engineering workshops for low-income female high school students in New York City that Qiu hopes to start.

“If people can make those kits themselves, it will be very empowering,” Qiu said, referring to the huge number of complaints the developer of Flappy Bird received due to the difficulty of his game. She believes that if people build the game themselves, they will be less frustrated with Flappy Bird’s difficulty.

Qiu first came up with the idea for Flappy Bird in a Box because of her interest in turning technology into art using simple tools. With her idea, she applied to Tribeca Hacks, which aims to build relationships between media artists, technologists and designers.

Her current position in the Digital Media Department of Sesame Workshop — a nonprofit organization producing educational children’s programs like Sesame Street — also inspired her to make Flappy Bird in a Box, as she was “aware of what’s happening in the digital environment.”

Although Qiu found that “there was a learning curve”

in building Flappy Bird in a Box because she did not have any coding background, her many programmer friends helped her in the process.

“Sometimes it was time consuming because you don’t know which component went wrong,” she said, describing how she had to test possible variables in the game over and over.

Qiu ended up receiving a mixed response to her game.

Some found the box a “pleasant surprise,” Qiu said, whereas others thought the creation was a waste of time.

Li thought Flappy Bird in a Box was very creative. “Even those who knew the game will be surprised at how this can be displayed in a different manner,” he said.

With a new startup, the discounts stack up as you add items to your cart.

Called Packagd, the startup provides online deals for local services like massages, pet sitting and oil changes.

Launched in December of 2013 by Jeremy Elser, who received a doctorate in Bioengineering in 2012, Packagd is different from services like Groupon and LivingSocial because as users add purchases to their cart, the cost of each service decreases.

Packagd also differs from competitors because of its vendor policy. “We are less brutal to vendors. We don’t cut into their pockets as deep. We want vendors to be sustainable at the deal cuts they are offering. That’s why people who would have never entertained Groupon or LivingSocial will work with us,” Elser said.

There are currently six businesses offering deals on their website, packagd.com.

Part of Elser’s motivation in starting Packagd comes from his childhood. “My parents owned a small electronics store and it was hard to compete with the bigger guys.

I want to help local businesses compete with larger companies,” Elser said.

Packagd is also a product of Elser’s entrepreneurial spirit. During the summer of his sophomore year in college, Elser teamed up with his

brother and entered the real estate market. He bought a small house, renovated it and then rented it out. “The first led to the second, which led to the third,” Elser said. He even built a website to automate data analysis in order to understand the best areas to buy real estate.

Elser currently works at the Boston Consulting Group during the week and dedicates time to Packagd on the weekends. “However, if it becomes successful, we will start making full time commitments,” he said.

He is also currently working on making improvements to

the Packagd website and getting more vendors on board.

Packagd participated in the Penn Start-Up Fair this February and Elser is working on bringing people onto the team in part-time and internship roles.

C u r r ent ly most of t he vendors are in Center City “because it has the highest density of local businesses,” but Elser said they are working on expanding to other parts of Philadelphia like University City.

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THE BUZZ: ROUNDTABLE

What to expect from the Red and Blue as their season winds down

BY SPORTS EDITORS From The Daily Pennsylvanianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sports blog, THE BUZZ

L a s t wee k e n d a g ain s t Brown and Yale, Penn basketball suf fered its third weekend sweep of the season in Ivy play, an ugly mark on an even uglier season. With one more Ivy weekend remaining against Columbia and Cornell, in addition to the season finale at Princeton, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lef t for Penn fans to watch? Our editors discuss: Sports Editor Ian Wenik: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one question thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pressing on my mind.

What happens if Penn loses all three games to end the season and finishes 7-21? It seems to me that a loss at Levien Gymnasium to Columbia is inevitable, considering how good the Lions are on their home court. Cornell is a should-win game and the Quakers already have a win over Princeton, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen this team lose eminently winnable games before.

A 0-3 finish to the season would mean that Penn would end the season having lost eight of its final nine games.

At that point, I would imagine that with a new AD coming on board to replace Steve Bilsky, serious questions about the state of the Penn program would need to be asked.

Spor ts Editor R iley Steele: Ian raises a good point regarding the state of Penn basketball and the questions that will need to

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With senior forward Fran Doughertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time on the floor running down, sophomore center Darien Nelson-Henry will need to play an increased role in the frontcourt next season and beyond. Nelson-Henry has averaged 10.6 points per game this season, but has missed time due to a concussion and struggles with conditioning. Nelson-Henry will play a big role in the post during Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last three games. be asked if the Quakers end up dropping their final three contests. But I know for a fact that Jerome Allen is trying to keep his team focused on these games and not worrying about what lies beyond the end of the season.

One thing that I am in-

trigued by is whether or not Allen will alter his lineup and rotation at all as the team enters the homestretch. By this point, it is clear that the players being relied upon are not getting it done. While I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think drastic changes are needed, I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for

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Allen to allow some of the freshmen to see increased playing time.

Once these three games are over, Miles Jackson-Cartwright and Fran Dougherty wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put on a Penn uniform ever again. If Allen is to be the coach of this team next season, he needs to figure out who will fill the gaps left by the seniors. Is Tony Bagtas suited to take over for Jackson-Cartwright running the point? Can Dylan Jones develop into a formidable big

man? Allen should use the rest of the season to evaluate his talent moving forward.

S e n io r S p o r t s E d it o r Steven Tydings: Forget the Athletic Director search. Forget the state of the program.

Those are topics for after the season.

As Riley said, after these final three games, we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see Jackson-Cartwright, Dougherty or any of the five seniors put a Penn uniform on again, excluding the annual Alumni Game. And watching Jack-

son-Cartwright and company over the last few weeks tells me the senior class will get the most out of their final three games.

After dealing with injuries and being relegated to limited minutes off the bench, it is a shame that there are only 120 minutes left for Steve Rennard to play, considering how well the senior guard has played in recent games.

Since joining the starting lineup, Rennard has done a solid job of shutting down the opponentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top guard while regaining his three -point shooting stroke that was key to Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ivy title challenge in 2012.

While I think Rennard and his fellow seniors will be giving their all for these final three games, that effort likely wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be enough.

Despite losing to Penn four weeks ago, Columbia has dominated its home court as Ian mentioned, losing just once in Ivy play at Levien (a double-overtime heartbreaker against Har vard). A nd Princeton has shown some of the fight that had the Tigers riding high before losing to Penn in January, having won five of its last seven games.

So predictions-w ise, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say Penn wins only one game (Cornell) in its next three, but I think the senior Quakers will go out with their heads held high.

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Biggest test will be at Jadwin Gym TYDINGS from page 10 and Columbia before playing a winner-takes-all duel for the Ivy title, assuming neither slips up against the Big Red or Light Blue.

Bet you didn’t expect this last week.

But what makes this iteration of McLaughlin’s Red and Blue squad special is that it wasn’t about to give up after a single loss. “ We’re not out of this, and our kids are resilient,” McLaughlin said following the Dartmouth defeat. “They’ll bounce back.”

Resiliency is important for any team in any sport if you want to compete for a championship, and Penn’s ability to respond in the face of adversity gives any fan hope that the Quakers can come out on top.

When the Red and Blue lost their first two games of the year and had last year’s starting point guard - sophomore Keiera Ray - out for an extended period, all they did was reel off a program-record eight straight nonconference wins behind the steady ballhandling of senior point guard Meghan McCullough.

And when that gave way to a three-game losing streak which started at the hands of Princeton, the Quakers bounced back again, winning nine straight games until they arrived in Hanover, N.H. to face Dartmouth.

So it should come as little

surprise that the Quakers came out of that loss to the Big Green with a new focus and have already made the leap back into first place.

That’s not to say that dethroning the four-time defending Ancient Eight champs will be easy. Princeton has shown the same ability to recover from losses and it would be foolish to think that coach Courtney Banghart won’t refocus her squad this week.

While Penn has looked solid week by week in Ivy play, the Tigers have looked dominant.

They have four conference road wins by at least 22 points, including that 31-point clobbering of the Red and Blue on Jan. 11.

And Penn is far from finished when it comes to overcoming adversity. In fact, with junior forward Katy Allen suffering a season-ending foot

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injury, Penn will have to face its biggest test - a rematch with Princeton - without one of its main stalwarts from its strong frontcourt.

Yet if this season has taught us anything, it’s that the Quakers can’t be counted out, especially when things seemed stacked against them.

So when the ball is tipped in one week at Jadwin Gymnasium in what may be the de facto Ivy title game, Princeton will go in as the heavy favorite.

But, as this past week has displayed very clearly, the Ivy League is anything but predictable and McLaughlin’s squad will be ready for its biggest opportunity yet.

STEVEN TYDINGS is a Wharton sophomore from Hopewell, N.J. and is senior sports editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at tydings@thedp.com

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Coach Mike McLaughlin has seen Penn women’s basketball improve its win total each of his five seasons at the helm. The Quakers have reeled off two win streaks of at least eight games this year, including a nine-game win streak that ended on Feb. 22. Penn now stands in a first-place tie with Princeton for the Ancient Eight lead.

Allen can’t show effort from bench PHILLIPS from page 10 Philadelphia sports lore.

When Iverson stepped to the podium, the first thing he said was, “I feel like I’m dreaming.”

Allen had similar words four years ago, when he was officially hired as Penn’s new head coach. “It feels like I’m living a dream,” he said at his introductory press conference.

In Iverson’s case, Saturday night was a celebration of the past.

For Allen, it was simply a reminder of how dark the future looks.

Iverson’s image has endured, sur viving off-thecourt problems and allowing fans to still stand and applaud him years after he donned a Sixers jersey for the last time. He is still living his dream.

Allen, however, has quickly watched the dream of which he spoke when he was hired fade to a harsh reality. While Iverson still feels at home amongst the Philadelphia faithful, the Palestra faithful are quickly racking up just as many negative memories for Allen as coach as it did positive memories during his time as a player. His teams are just 33-36 at the Cathedral of College Basketball.

While Fran Dunphy had a 160 -52 home record as Penn’s coach, Allen’s style of home cooking is more akin to Dunphy’s successor, Glen Miller. But even Miller posted an above .500 mark at the Palestra, going 24-23 in home games during his tenure.

Saturday was Senior Night at the Palestra, the last home game for the five seniors Allen inherited when he took over for Miller. Before the game, he said goodbye to one of the best people off the

court for Penn basketball in Dau Jok , strong leaders like Fran Dougherty and Miles Jackson-Cartwright and important role players in Cam Gunter and Steve Rennard.

But once the game tipped off, the crowd slowly shifted from energetic to apathetic.

Yet again, Allen’s team came up short, this time unable to provide a deserving group of seniors the chance to leave the Palestra with a win.

“We’ve been through a lot together,” Allen said. “I obviously wish we could have won more games, but as human beings, they have great character and they never take a day off. I respect them for giving us what they could.”

On the court, people respond to effort. That is why Philadelphia has not since fallen for an athlete in the same way as it did for Iverson. He cared about winning just as much as the craziest Sixers fan in the stands on any given night. If you watched him play for just a minute in crunch time, it was impossible not to be drawn to him.

People loved Allen for the same reasons as a player.

But when he beca me a coach, he lost his ability to show the effort that he gives.

As a coach, all that matters is wins and losses.

And on the last Ivy home weekend for 11 months, Allen came up short yet again.

Iverson is still living the dream because he let his play speak for itself.

When Allen took over as Penn’s coach, he gave up that ability.

A nd so, when he says following another winless Ivy home weekend, “There aren’t any easy wins in this league,” the words fall hollow, because the numbers have already told the story.

JOHN PHILLIPS is a senior English major from Philadelphia and is a senior staff writer for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at jphil2010@ gmail.com.

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A tale of two Allens JOHN PHILLIPS Allen Iverson and Jerome Allen shared an NBA court once, on Jan. 19, 1997.

A llen was a second-year bench player for the Pacers, while Iverson, more memorably, was in the process of taking the NBA by storm in his rookie season.

On that night, Allen provided much-needed energy off the bench, posting five points in 22 minutes of play.

Meanwhile, Iverson went off.

Despite shooting just 9-for-24 from the field, the Answer lit up the box score, posting 37 points, his sixth-highest scoring total from that rookie year.

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Despite taking over his dream job as Penn head coach, Jerome Allen has struggled to generate results from his players, as indicated by his 33-36 record at the Palestra.

Resiliency’s the name of the game for Penn

STEVEN TYDINGS A ll it takes is one week to change everything.

On Feb. 22, Penn women’s basketball suffered its most disappointing defeat in coach Mike McLaughlin’s tenure as coach, surrendering its tie for first place in the Ivy League by losing to lastplace Dartmouth.

And as Penn lost, Princeton, the four-time defending Ivy champions, took a stranglehold on first place by coming back to defeat

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Harvard. After that win, it seemed as if the Tigers were going to waltz their way to another Ivy title and NCAA Tournament appearance.

But a funny thing happened just a week later.

Penn took care of business, sweeping Brown and Yale on the road behind some solid play from juniors Kara Bonenberger and Kathleen Roche.

And Princeton lost.

Brown defeated the Tigers for the first time since 2006, marking the first Princeton loss in Ivy play to a non-Harvard squad since 2009.

Now, the playing field is officially even, with Penn and Princeton each tied for the top spot in the Ancient Eight at 9-2.

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(24-4, 11-1 Ivy) What a statement. After needing a controversial charge call to survive Columbia back in February, the Crimson thoroughly eviscerated the Lions at home, 80-47. Senior guard Laurent Rivard nailed six of his eight three-point shots in the contest to lead the Crimson to the gates of the promised land. One more win, and Harvard will play in its third consecutive NCAA tournament.

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Red and Blue’s season opener postponed SOFTBALL | No makeup date has been set for Penn’s matchup against St. Joseph’s, which was originally scheduled for today

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Due to snow and icy conditions at Penn Park, the Quakers were forced to push back their season-opening matchup against St. Joseph’s to an as-yet undetermined date.

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Because of Iverson’s performance, it almost didn’t matter that, thanks to Reggie Miller’s excellence, the Pacers were still able to defeat the Sixers, 111-107.

Allen’s NBA career ended that season in Denver, after the Pacers swapped him for Darvin Ham late in the year, while Iverson took all of Philadelphia on a passion-filled, “Practice?”laden roller-coaster ride over his 12-year career.

But last Saturday, just miles away from one another, both men entered their respective sanctuaries once again. While Iverson’s home was always in South Philadelphia, Allen was most revered during his time as an Ivy League superstar at the Palestra.

And in both cases, a chapter in their lives ended.

For Iverson, the Sixers celebrated his retirement, raising his jersey to the rafters and forever cementing his place in

It looks like Penn softball is going to wait a little bit longer to kick off its 2014 season.

As snow, vicious wind and cold weather blanketed Philadelphia on Monday, the Quakers’ season opening doubleheader against St. Joseph’s - initially scheduled for Tuesday - has been postponed.

No makeup date has been announced for the matchup between the cross-town rivals.

Regardless, the postponement means that Penn will not begin its season until this Friday. The Red and Blue are scheduled to take on Troy in the UCF Spring Fling tournament in Florida on Friday afternoon before going up against Western Carolina later that evening.

So even though the Quakers won’t be playing in their scheduled season opener on Tuesday, at least the team will get to enjoy the sunshine of Florida in exchange.

Finally, some clarity. After a weekend punctuated by blowouts, the Ivy title situation is clear: one Harvard win or one Yale loss will clinch it for the Crimson, but the combination of a 2-0 Bulldogs and 0-2 Harvard weekend will set up a one-game playoff. Good thing both teams play each other in New Haven on Friday. As for the rest? Well, it’s not pretty:

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2 YA L E (15-11, 9-3) If the Bulldogs wind up falling short of Harvard by only one game, they will kick themselves every time they think of their 57-46 loss to Princeton on Friday. The Elis shot a hideous 15-for-51 from the field in the potentially season-killing loss, with star forward Justin Sears contributing eight of those baskets. Sears came up big again in a Saturday win over Penn, but it may not be enough.

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(15-11, 7-5) The Bears may be out of championship contention, but sophomore forward Cedric Kuakumensah is showing that Brown is a big threat in the future. The Bears split their weekend with Penn and Princeton despite Kuakumensah’s best efforts, as the wiry big man contributed an solid nine blocks and 20 rebounds on the weekend. A season-ending matchup against Harvard will be intriguing.

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4 C o l u m b i a (18-11, 7-5) What a disappointment. The Lions got their doors blown off in a must-win game against Harvard, falling behind by as many as 26 points in the second half. Though Columbia is out of title contention now, it still has a strong chance at achieving a previously unthinkable total of 20 wins after it hosts Penn and Princeton at Levien Gym, AKA “Fort Neverlose.”

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(17-8, 5-6) Wasn’t this what the Tigers were supposed to do all year? After taking down Yale and Brown, Princeton picked up its first weekend sweep of the year, albeit long after taking itself out of Ivy contention. Senior guard T.J. Bray scored 40 total points on the weekend, and Princeton somehow still has a shot at finishing above .500 in the Ancient Eight.

(7-18, 4-7) Penn’s seniors slumped to an ugly end at the Palestra last weekend, committing 29 total turnovers in ugly losses to Yale and Brown. Senior guard Miles Jackson-Cartwright turned in a classic 20-point effort against the Bulldogs, but in a nightmare season for the Red and Blue, that wasn’t nearly enough to stem the constant tide of self-inflicted mistakes that has led to mounting losses.

(10-16, 3-9) If two utterly irrelevant basketball teams play each other in the forest, does it make a sound? The Big Green tried to answer that vexing philosophical question when it hosted Cornell up in Hanover, N.H. on Saturday. Alex Mitola’s 33-point explosion was good enough to give Dartmouth the win and snap a losing streak that had reached seven games the night before against Columbia.

(2-24, 1-11) The end is (mercifully) near. Friday, the Big Red received a 72-47 beatdown from Harvard, its seventh double-digit loss in Ivy play this season. A disheartening 87-78 loss to Dartmouth was just the icing on a noxious cake. Just four seasons removed from a magical Sweet Sixteen run, Cornell fans are now staring at a slumping and downtrodden program.

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