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Early Saturday morning, two women woke up in the Quad with a suspicious man in their rooms. Following the two separate incidents, Penn Police was notified and a UPenn Alert was issued to all residents of the Quad at 6:59 a.m., warning them to be on the lookout for a suspicious 5’7” Asian male with long dark hair. As of Saturday afternoon, Penn Police detectives have successfully identified the suspect, a Penn student and Quad resident. His access to all buildings on campus including residential buildings has been revoked, and he is currently in custody of the Penn Police until his family arrives on campus to remove him voluntarily. The first reported incident was from a female resident of the Quad, who contacted Penn Police at 4:58 a.m. The resident reported SEE BREAK IN PAGE 2
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Phi Delta Theta’s Christmas card featuring a dark-skinned Beyoncé sex doll is far from the first or most provocative fraternity incident in past years. The racist and sexist implications drawn by some from the Phi Delta Theta photo were more explicit in an incident at Zeta Beta Tau in 1988. The fraternity was accused of hiring black women to perform at a rush event. The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that an estimated one to two hundred men attended the event. “While the women were removing their clothing, members of the audience shouted racist remarks such as, ‘Where did you get them niggers?’" the DP article said. “Members of the audience helped to ‘insert quartered
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A College junior returned to her room in Harnwell College House after winter break to discover that residential services had removed all of her belongings from her room. The student — who is also a Daily Pennsylvanian staff photographer and spoke on the condition of anonymity because she did not want her name connected to “whistle-blowing” in job searches — lost $200-300 in cash, a social security card, a hard drive, camera equipment and whole drawers full of clothing. “There is stuff that can’t be replaced, and I have to remember
everything I lost,” she said. She said that she discovers another belonging lost in this incident every day. Prior to winter break , Residential Services emailed students in oncampus housing to inform them of routine Health and Safety inspections. “These will be inspections only. We do not open closet doors or drawers, or move or remove items during these inspections,” read an email from Dionicia Roberson, the residential services manager of Harnwell College House. The junior was moving from the double to the single in her high-rise apartment because her fall exchange roommate was moving back home. Two new roommates were moving in to maximize housing space. She was in the middle of switching rooms when she left for break, so
College junior arrived after winter break to an empty dorm room.
half of her belongings were in the single, while the rest remained in the double. Penn Residential Services sent an email regarding preparations for a new roommate. The email stated that residents should ensure that
“Designated drawers, closet space and bed for the new resident are empty (and obvious to the person moving in that it will be theirs).” “What is more obvious than SEE HARNWELL PAGE 5
Penn hopeful with new federal college ratings system Ratings system aligns with Penn’s main objectives CAROLINE SIMON Staff Reporter
The White House is launching its
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own metric for college ratings before the start of the next academic year, and Penn is hopeful that some of its initiatives will be reflected in the rankings. In December, President Obama announced that the White House was working to develop a new federal college
ratings system to measure the value of universities in light of the increasing price of higher education, with metrics including “access,” “affordability” and “outcomes.” “We’re creating a new college ratings system that will give parents and
students the kind of clear, concise information you need to shop around for a school with the best value for you — and gives us the capacity to recognize schools that offer a great education at a SEE RATINGS PAGE 2
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reasonable price,” Obama said in a speech in Tennessee on Jan. 9. Over the past year, the government has been soliciting feedback on the system from colleges and universities nationwide. In a letter submitted last year on Jan. 30, Penn President Amy Gutmann urged the government to avoid implementing a system with limited numerical ratings, highlighting many of Penn’s initiatives that are difficult to quantify. For example, Penn’s policy of providing exclusively needbased financial aid to recipients is relatively unique, and cannot be easily compared to the policies of institutions that provide aid based on scholarly or athletic merit, the letter reads. Additionally, Penn argued that such a numerical ranking cannot fully represent its outreach programs, which aim to serve students from underrepresented areas and diverse backgrounds. Since many details of the federal ratings system have yet to be announced, it is unclear whether Penn’s feedback will line up with the system’s structure. However, regardless of what the final
system looks like, it will affect federal funding for colleges and universities everywhere — including Penn. Higher-rated institutions will receive more federal funding. Despite Penn’s criticism, the rating system’s metrics parallel many of Penn’s primary objectives. “Access” incorporates information like the percentage of students receiving Federal Pell Grants, while “affordability” considers net price and loan debt. “Outcomes” measures everything from graduation and transfer rates to earnings of graduates. Vice President for University Communications Stephen MacCarthy supports the program and is confident that Penn will be ranked highly once the system is enacted. “We applaud the attention the White House is giving to issues of access and affordability in higher education,” MacCarthy wrote in an email statement. “Regardless of the criteria used in any ranking system, we are confident Penn will continue to be recognized as a national leader with its no loan financial aid program.” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda discussed the importance
of having a ratings system that measures the value of universities as the cost of BARACK OBAMA educat ion TYLER DRISCOLL/ CREATIVE continues to COMMONS rise. “Higher e ducat ion needs to be accountable,” he said. However, Furda hopes that applicants’ decisions will not be overly influenced by one set of rankings. “You have to be careful about what comes from this,” he said, warning against using the system as an “exclusive measure.” Like MacCarthy, Furda is optimistic that the new ratings will reflect positively on Penn. “We’re in an incredible place,” Furda said. The Department of Education continues to gather feedback from universities, students, families and college experts as it moves closer to finalizing the system. Although there has been considerable resistance from Congress, the system’s release is scheduled to occur before the start of the 2015 to 2016 academic year.
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waking up in her dorm room to the suspect standing above her before he fled the room, according to the Division of Public Safety. Penn Police responded and were on the scene within 2 minutes. The resident was unable to give a description of the suspect. At 5:02 a.m., Penn Police received a second call from a roommates Sarah Figgatt, a College freshman, and Christine Esserman, a Wharton freshman, who reported seeing a similar young man in their nearby Quad room. Figgatt says she awoke at 4:45AM to see a young, Asian, dark-haired male looking through the door of her triple from the common room she shares with Esserman and College freshman Arlo Gordon. Gordon was not present at the time of the intrusion and Esserman was asleep in the other bedroom. Figgatt gave the description detailed in the UPenn Alert. Figgatt and Esserman both recall locking the door of their common room, however Penn Police did not find any evidence of forced entry. Figgatt said that Penn Police interviewed her several times from 5:02 a.m. until early in the afternoon. Within the hour after the incident, she was brought to identify two possible suspects within the Quad.
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The first man did not fit her description, but when she was brought to identify the second suspect, Figgatt said Penn Police “asked exactly how sure I was that he was the guy on a scale of one to ten, and I told them I was a six.” Figgatt was later brought to the Penn Police Station to meet with the first young woman to call and to be formally interviewed by Penn Police Detectives. Penn Police later alerted her that the second suspect had confessed, and that he admitted to being intoxicated at the time of the incident, Figgatt said. In one week, the suspect will return to campus for a scheduled appointment with the Vice Provost of Student Life to discuss his future at the university. He is cooperating with the police and maintains that all actions committed were
unintentional. The two young women are aware, yet the identities of the victims and the perpetrator are not being released or confirmed at this time by DPS. Currently, no criminal charges are being filed. DPS said that Quad security was not breached, and both dorm rooms were unlocked at the point of entry. At 7:51 a.m., another UPenn alert was issued stating that all residents of the Quad could resume normal activity. DPS’s Special Services are assisting the two victims, and Penn Police’s investigation will include further interviewing students, residential advisors and house deans to gather more information. DPS urges that all students in the Quad keep their doors locked at all times to prevent unwanted intrusions.
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cucumbers into the vaginas of the two women and poured or squirted catsup on the women’s exposed genital area.’ A freshman rush, drunk according to some audience members, danced naked
on stage with the women. The memo describes that, as the freshman danced with the women, the two engaged in oral sex.” In 1965, three members of Beta Theta Pi allegedly violated regulations about entertaining women in fraternities. A female student was injured, and initially claimed
‘Year of Discovery’ to include race relations ‘The Big Sea’ to fuel discussion for incoming freshmen JILLIAN MOELY Staff Reporter
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Penn announced that next year will be the “Year of Discovery.”
Despite student criticism of the lack of race and identity inspired in the theme accompanying next year’s Penn Reading Project book, New Student Orientation Director David Fox said that the “Year of Discovery” will encourage discussion of race. Last semester, the “Year of Discovery” designation met criticism, with some students claiming that the theme could have been more tailored to the issue of race. Next year’s Penn Reading Project book, Langston Hughes’ ”The Big Sea,” chronicles Hughes’ experiences as he travels the country and world, frequently addresses race relations. Fox said the broadness of the theme has a purpose, though. “We want the umbrella title for the theme year to be something everything can work within, and race relations is certainly a key part of the book and will be a key part of programming,” he said. “But we wanted every one of the twelve schools to be able to participate in this, and so I think the broader title is more appropriate.” A revamped selection process for the year’s theme and Penn Reading Project book may be partially responsible for the criticism. Unlike
in past years, the Council of Undergraduate Deans chose the book first and subsequently selected a corresponding theme. They did, however, accept theme and book suggestions from the community, as in recent years. “We realized that [if] we chose the book without the restrictions of the theme, we could look a little more broadly at books,” Fox said. Without having to choose a book based on a predetermined theme, the Council of Undergraduate Deans could more easily focus on literary merit. “It‘s the story of a young man... discovering himself in different ways in different parts of the world,” Fox said. “It’s not a new book in any sense, but the issues felt very fresh.” And indeed the “Year of Discovery” and ”The Big Sea” do have a broad appeal, both within the school and for incoming students. “Personally I’m pretty excited to get to read and discuss Hughes’s story with my classmates because it’s so relevant,” incoming Wharton freshman Caleb Carter said. “I think The Big Sea’s theme of discovery speaks powerfully to the brink on which my class and I now stand.”
to have slipped in the snow. However, she later confessed at the hospital that her injuries were inflicted upon her by one of the Beta brothers. More recently, in 1990, 10 members from the fraternity commonly known as Castle — Psi Upsilon — carried out a
plot to kidnap a particular Delta Psi brother, but they kidnapped the wrong man. William A. O’Flanagan was lured from a Delta Psi residence with a flower deliveryman as a decoy. He was blindfolded and tied at his hands and feet. Despite his insistence that they had the wrong
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The recent reorganization of the Penn Women’s Center will make its objectives smoother internally and clearer to students. Last August, former Associate Director of PWC Jessica Mertz was named Director of Student Sexual Violence Prevention and Education, leaving her previous position to be filled by former Program Coordinator of PWC Brittany Harris last December. Harris’ title change is part of PWC’s reorganization, which included the formation of a second Associate Director position, rather than the one director and one program coordinator, that PWC previously had. The second associate director position was filled by Michaela Pommells, who took office last Tuesday. “Right now, there is a huge attention to sexual violence and we could see that the work was growing in size, and we want to be working on a broad array of issues,” PWC Director Litty Paxton said, citing the White House administration’s current commitment to sexual violence prevention. Now with two associate directors in PWC, their tasks will be divided. Harris’s job is primarily concerned with advising students seeking support around sexual violence, including advice and
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referrals. Pommells, on the other hand, will focus on communication, outreach and research. This reclassification of job responsibilities will allow the PWC to broaden its focus and deepen its advocacy for issues ranging from sexual violence prevention to gender equality in the classroom to pregnancy support. “My goal is to open up the PWC to be a place where people will come to relax and network, have fun, embrace a broad platform of issues, an expansive view of what it really means to promote gender equity,” Paxton said. Additionally, the new organization of PWC will allow for more direct communication between the
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econd-semester salutations of “What’d you do?” signal the wrapping up of winter break. Many of us will have vacationed abroad. Some of the more free-spirited types will have gone off the beaten track — as recommended by their Lonely Planet guidebook — to hidden treasures like Laos, “the next Thailand”; Nicaragua, “a lessAnglo Costa Rica”; or Budapest, Hungary, “the poor man’s Prague,” to backpack, couchsurf and maybe even hitchhike. With a GoPro in one hand and youthful determination in the other, the world is their oyster. Very often, they do so to “find themselves,” hoping that their experiences will solidify some worldly identity and a sense of noble purpose, enlightened by human diversity. The pursuit is noble, right? Though never at such an attainability as now, this sort of edifying escapism isn’t particularly new. Warlpiri walkabouts, Candide, Huckleberry Finn
WHEN | Real progress comes from within and, more recently, the fairytale memoir “Eat, Pray, Love” all reflect a cross-cultural motif of a physical journey effecting a metaphysical one. The idea is that travel makes for a better person. To travel is to discover the world, its diver-
world becomes your oyster. The liberty of being able to experiment without consequence — You’ll never see these people again! — affords a sense of social giddiness and risk taking. You learn to surrender to chance and forge five-minute
more profound, whatever that means. When it’s back to home, the routine seeps back quickly. For the longer-term travelers, running away and putting life back home on pause — while friends, family and community are still moving forward — will
Self-discovery is an inner journey, not an outer one. While the chronicles of experiences may aid in this meditative and visceral process, motivation still must come from one’s own will and selfunderstand.” sity and its humbling magnitude. The opportunities, the novel challenges and the kind souls and rough patches along the way all make for a wiser individual. While I easily agree with this pursuit and its benefits, those who are looking to find themselves — be it their emotions or their identity — won’t do so abroad. To travel is to play in a sort of fantasy world, where the
connections with strangers, with each turn a possibility of adventure and novelty. Survival mode turns on. But these are distractions. Short trips abroad end up feeling like a one-night stand: It’s lots of fun, and the feeling’s nice, but you didn’t really get to know the place well enough to be able to connect with it. Oftentimes, you end up wishing for something
only delay the eventual comedown. The same problems will still be there when the traveler returns, and at some point they must to come up with a feasible solution. Self-discovery is an inner journey, not an outer one. While the chronicles of experiences may aid in this meditative and visceral process, motivation still must come from one’s own will and self-understanding.
Propelled by anxiety and a sense of aimlessness, I suddenly decided to take a gap year two weeks before college was to begin. From being a shepherd in Israel to bindle-stiffing in London, I fell into a sort of bum-bohemian lifestyle, vine swinging on unsolicited generosity, Chabad invitations and snap friendships with fellow travelers and lost souls along the way. The stories and the personalities are rich, but I’ll resist sharing. These were the most memorable and formable moments in my life. Yet the same self-doubting insecurities of posterity continued to linger, and there was nothing about being in the desert that made grappling with these questions easier. Well, I learned I didn’t want to be a shepherd forever. But being abroad taught me to be independent and trusting of strangers, who more or less kept me alive. These lessons were invaluable, and I am more relaxed as a result. Despite the temptations —
JASON TANGSON It’s pretty cold in Boston — I resisted traveling this winter break. Instead, I stayed home partly to spend time in my hometown, with my hometown friends and to strengthen old connections rather than forging new ones. But mostly, traveling is damn expensive and consumptive. That money could be used instead for tuition.
JASON TANGSON is a College junior from Cambridge, Mass., studying linguistics. His email address is jasontangson@icloud.com
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GSE professors reform education with new online course GSE students contributed to MOOC creation JENN WRIGHT Deputy News Editor
If you’ve ever wanted to learn about the history of education reform in the United States — and wanted to do it for absolutely free and on your own schedule — you have the chance starting today. Penn Graduate School of Education professors John Puckett and Michael Johanek are co-teaching the first Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, to come out of the school. The eight-week course, titled “American Education Reform: History, Policy, Practice” will survey the progress of American education from the colonial period to the modern day. The class is developed from an existing upper-level education course of the same name taught by Puckett. MOOCs gained popularity several years ago as a way for an unlimited number of students to gain access to non-credit bearing courses taught by elite university professors. Coursera, the system in which Penn-sponsored MOOCs live, allows the user two enrollment
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telling your incoming roommates that you will be back before they come back to finish moving out some stuff?” the junior said. “I made it obvious to the people moving in that the room would be theirs by telling them — it didn’t say make it obvious to someone who is going to check the room and clean it out.” “Our best guess is that Housekeeping threw away the items,” Building Manager Barry Lasley wrote in an email to the junior. “They were asked by Residential Services to clean the empty bed space in the double bedroom and they did so.” The junior is in the process of pursuing reimbursement from Penn Residential Services. “They didn’t answer my questions about who was in my room and how this happened,” she said.
options. To get a certificate of completion, students pay $49 and are required to complete all class quizzes and do two additional peergraded assignments. Otherwise, students can simply follow the course syllabus and watch the lectures for free. Puckett and Johanek developed the class over the course of a year with $43,000 in funding from Open Learning, Penn’s initiative to create MOOCs out of the Provost’s office. Director of Penn GSE Films Amitanshu Das collaborated with the professors to bring 50 episodes worth of script from page to screen. In a room converted from conference room to TV set each day, Puckett and Johanek tag-team lecture in five to eight minute segments — each of the eight modules contains several segments. “MOOCs are not new in the way that education television is not new,” Das said. What set this course apart are the documentarystyle videos and a collection of over 16,000 historical and illustrative images that are mixed in at specific points in the lectures. “I love images, and I love maps,” Puckett said, “My notion of always the best way to teach and understand is to have at your ready
command a ton of images.” Das said they focused on creating high production value for each segment. “We wanted the students and the audience to enjoy the time and to like John and Mike,” Das said. “Their personalities should come through the screen.” Filming for entire days over a three-week period, the team had to compete with obstacles ranging from construction noise from down the street to learning to deliver their lines well. 1979 Wharton graduate Sheldon Simon, along with his wife Ruth Moorman, donated money toward the creation of the course, which allowed them bring on Devin DeSilvis to manage the amount of copyright information for the images used. DeSilvis said many MOOCs focus only on the instructor, making students feel like they are being talked at, but that the sheer amount of images in this MOOC “helps the quality so much and makes you want to stay involved and keep watching,” she said. For several GSE students, the MOOC is a class within a class. Over three semesters, GSE students in the seminar gathered images and developed the curriculum by creating quizzes and
questions to accompany the lectures. This semester, the seminar dedicated to the MOOC is focused mainly on facilitating the course. Teams of students will take turns monitoring the discussion boards. “You’re taking a MOOC class, and at the same time you’re taking an education reform class,” said Qingzi Gong, a GSE student in this semester’s MOOC-seminar. Gong said that as exciting as it is to see a year’s work culminate on Jan. 25, she’s a bit nervous for the start of the course. “We view this course based on our own thinking and now the target audience gives you their real responses,” she said. Lack of engagement with the professor or the course feeling “too robotic” is an issue for MOOC users in general, Johanek said. The team is working on ways to address this through social media like hosting “live office hours” with the professors and engaging students’ question via Twitter. The course will use #AmEdMOOC to keep track of course-related conversations. “If a very small percentage of students complete the class, it doesn’t necessarily indicate the success of the class,” said Kai Evenson, another
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MOOC-development seminar student. “It’s how the students are engaging.” Puckett said that the systems for image cataloging he and his team created for the MOOC development could potentially be profitable for Penn. Other institutions that might want to have a similar course could use this program and it could be updated periodically, he said. Johanek added that a course like this has the potential to open up conversations about education and reform to a global audience interested in looking at comparing
reform across cultures. “You have an opportunity with these tools to bring some of those folks together,” he said. As of Sunday, 3,805 students are enrolled with 119 different countries represented — some other MOOCs draw upwards of 100,000 students. For Puckett and Johanek, the success of the course is more about reaching people than completion rates. “I call it a success if you get someone who logs in to look at a single video, and that’s all the person wants to use it for,” Puckett said.
Student activism: phase or movement? Mixed feelings about protestors’ messages JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Reporter
Following t he M ichael Brown and Eric Garner decisions, activism surged last semester on campus, causing mixed reactions from students. But over a month since the end of the fall semester, activist groups are looking for ways to keep the momentum going. The activism in the fall came in the form of town hall meetings hosted by UMOJA as well as die-ins and marches hosted by activist groups such as Students Organizing for Unity
and Liberation and the Student Labor Action Project. U M O JA Co -P resident Rachel Palmer praised the activism for creating “dialogue” on campus around important issues. “The [protests] brought more awareness to campus,” she said. In addition to the students participating in the protests, Palmer also believes that many students who were not previously involved have now become interested in issues of racial injustice. “The students that are participating clearly care, but students are showing they care about it in different ways as
well,” Palmer said. However, some students feel like the protesters aren’t doing enough to promote their issues. College freshman Sydney Morris felt that the Amy Gutmann die-in — occurring during one of the larger protests last semester — was not as effective as it could have been. “I’m not sure how successful that was,” she said. “Their purpose wasn’t clear enough.” She wor r ies that there haven’t been enough events this semester to build on last semester’s momentum. “The passion was there last semester, there needs to be something now,” Morris said. “I think they were effective,
but they can still do more.” While some students worry the protesters aren’t doing enough to get their message out, other students disagree with the protesters’ message in the first place. “I do not think these protests against police are effective at all,” College sophomore Danielle Petsis said. “I, myself, am the daughter of a police officer... It hits home when people are attacking the occupation your father holds when I know that he is so passionate about helping people. It is hard not to take it personally. I believe there is good and bad in all groups of people — police officers alike — but when I see
awful things being said and the labeling of them, it hurts.” Despite her feelings about the protests, she doesn’t see them ending any time soon. “I think they will continue on campus because students feel passionately about it,” Petsis said. However, some students — even those not directly involved in the protests — admire the work that protesters have done. College sophomore Rhiannon Miller believes that the work the students are doing is vitally important. “The point that we’re at today is by fighting against what they believe is wrong, none of it just magically happened,” Miller said.
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SWIMMING | Penn seniors juniors, respectively.
“We knew the meet was over at that point, and we wanted to make sure it stayed fun,� Schnur said. “The guys talk a lot of smack to each other about which class is the fastest.� Junior Eric Schultz delivered the meet’s marquee moment, finishing only 0.17 seconds away from breaking a 35-yearold pool record in the 100-yard freestyle event. Schultz’s standout performance, one of his two event wins from the weekend, was done without the aid of a fast suit. Schnur has said throughout the entire season that the team will save the advanced swimwear for its championship races. While the women’s squad (5-4) was not as dominant as its male counterpart, it still recorded its second nonconference win, 174-126. The Quakers won nine events and started off the meet with an eight-event win streak. Starting off with the 200-yard medley, the Quakers took first in the event, one in which the Red and Blue set the Sheerr Pool record back in November. The quartet of senior Lauryn Brown, sophomore Haley Wickham, senior Taylor Sneed and sophomore Rochelle Dong finished in 1:45.7, more than a second faster than the Delaware ‘A’ team. Sneed went out with a bang,
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BY CARTER COUDRIET Video Producer The Quakers kept the Blue Hens in their coop this Saturday, as Penn swimming emerged from Sheerr Pool victorious against Delaware. In their final home meet of the season, both the men’s and women’s squads retained momentum during the limbo period between the Ivy regular season and Ivy Championships. With both Penn teams set to contend for a top-three finish in the Ivy League at season’s end, the Red and Blue rested few swimmers and won convincingly against their challengers from the Colonial Athletic Association conference. Penn’s men’s team (4-5) blew away Delaware, winning 12 events en route to a 184-98 victory. Cole and Jordan Hurwitz helped Penn sweep the 100yard breaststroke as the twins finished first and second, respectively. The 400-yard freestyle relay ended up being a battle of the classes, as coach Mike Schnur organized the teams by academic year. On Senior Day, the class of 2015 swimmers were bested by the sophomores and
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On Saturday, Penn swimming celebrated the 16 members of the class of 2015 with roses and speeches from coach Mike Schnur before they took to the water for the last dual meet of their collegiate careers in Sheerr Pool. The women handed Delaware its first home lost of the season.
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post] when it was open, cutting and moving around,� Allen said. Penn made up for some sloppy ball movement with energy and defense, shutting down the Hawks — unlike the two teams’ last
winning all four events in which she raced. Her last event win of her Sheerr Pool career came from the 200-yard butterfly, a race in which she holds the pool record “Taylor’s had a great four-year career,� Schnur said. �[She’s] definitely one of the top-five
swimmers in school history.� The divers were again unable to record an event victory, with the Blue Hens taking both the three- and one-meter dives. sophomore Sivan Mills placed third in the 1m, and freshman Maggie Heller placed second in the 3m.
As the season approaches its end, the Quakers prepare to head to two additional road meets. Staying in-state for each, Penn will travel to West Chester on Friday before taking on La Salle the following day. However, if the message this season has been that the Ivy
regular season meets are unimportant, these nonconference meets will matter even less. What will be most important for the teams is the balance between staying in shape while also remaining rested entering the all-important Ivy Championships in February.
meeting — at the three-point line. St. Joseph’s (8-10), on the other hand, ran the vast majority of its offense through forward DeAndre Bembry throughout the game, allowing him to make some tremendously athletic offensive plays but limiting the offense as a whole.
“Call it what it was, we were a one-man offensive team,� St. Joseph’s coach Phil Martelli said. The Red and Blue clearly fed off of the crowd’s energy, playing physical, swarming defense. Particularly inspiring for the team was a hustle play made by junior center Darien NelsonHenry, who threw his 6-foot-11 frame to the floor in an attempt to recover a loose ball on the sideline in the first half. Senior forward Greg Louis also chipped in three crucial buckets along with key hustle and leadership. The Red and Blue entered halftime on a 12-6 run to take a 20-17 lead. Junior stars Nelson-Henry and guard Tony Hicks were held largely silent in the first half. But in the second half, they woke up.
Nelson-Henry started to assert himself in the paint, fueled by a couple exciting and-one layups. Meanwhile, Hicks got going after not attempting a shot in the first half with two three-pointers along with seven free throws. The duo ended the game with 14 and 15 points, respectively, 25 of which came after halftime. Although freshman guard Antonio Woods put up a valiant effort defending Bembry, the St. Joseph’s star carried his team, finishing with 25 points. His effort, along with 19 Penn turnovers, allowed the Hawks to hang around even when Penn threatened to pull away. “You have to give it to [Bembry],� Woods said. “He’s a great athlete.� Down the stretch, St. Joseph’s
turned up the on-ball pressure with a press in an attempt to close the gap. But unlike recent games for the program, Penn was able to make just enough plays to preserve the four-point victory. “It was a sign of growth,� Allen said. “I could point to a number of things that were reasons why we won tonight, but for 40 minutes, every guy gave us what we needed.� An emphatic dunk by freshman forward Mike Auger down the stretch pretty much put the game out of reach and sent Penn’s fans into a frenzy. “I think this sends a message to the rest of the league — Ivy and Big 5 — that we’re getting better,� Hicks said. “We can’t have any letdowns for the rest of the season.� Moving forward, the Quakers will prepare for the Ivy League slate, starting with Dartmouth on Friday.
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W. HOOPS | Nwokedi,
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BY RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor
VS. NJIT Following a 26-point loss to Big 5 rival Villanova on Wednesday, Penn women’s basketball was prepared to rely on its seniors and stars to get the squad back in the win column. Maybe it didn’t have to. In their last nonconference matchup before kicking off the remainder of Ivy League play, the Red and Blue rode impressive performances from freshman rookie Michelle Nwokedi and sophomore Sade Gibbons to a 59-29 win over NJIT on Saturday. Entering the matchup, the Quakers (9-6) were looking to overcome the offensive struggles that had plagued them all month. In its four other games in 2015, Penn’s highest scoring output was 54 points in the team’s 29-point loss to Princeton on Jan. 10. And for a few minutes on Saturday, it seemed like the Red and Blue might have confronted those issues. Despite racing out to an early 11-2 lead, both the Quakers and Highlanders (8-14) went scoreless for ILANA WURMAN/SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR several minutes midway through the In Penn’s final nonconference matchup of the season, freshman forward Michelle Nwokedi dominated the squad’s opponents first period. But Penn managed to overcome from NJIT. The rookie finished with 14 points on six-for-10 shooting to go along with seven rebounds and five blocks.
the slight lull in a hurry. Sparked by three baskets from Gibbons, the Quakers opened up an 18-point lead with five minutes to play before halftime and eventually went into the break up 30-15. “Sade came in at a really crucial point in the game in the first half and gave us three incredible baskets,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “She set us up with some really good play. “She is someone who is going to do really well for us in her junior and senior years, but she showed today that that her development is coming along a little bit earlier.” The Red and Blue were absolutely dominant on the defensive side of the ball on Saturday. Penn limited NJIT to only seven field goals in each half, holding the Highlanders to 23.7 percent shooting for the entire game. Much of that success was made possible by the strong play of the Quakers’ frontcourt. Although she scored only seven points, sophomore Sydney Stipanovich collected nine rebounds and blocked two shots, while seniors Katy Allen and Kara Bonenberger combined for nine boards. “We’ve been effective defensively, but Villanova knocked down some crucial early shots on Wednesday,” McLaughlin said. “In response, I thought we were tremendous on the inside tonight.” No player was more tremendous on either side of the ball than Nwokedi. The Missouri City, Texas, native put together her best
Red and Blue come up short in Ithaca
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WRESTLING | Quakers
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BY STEVEN JACOBSON Staff Writer Despite split results, Penn wrestling should be able to move forward with confidence after a strong weekend. The Red and Blue took a trip north to upstate New York to face vaunted opponent and historic rival Cornell on Saturday and EIWA opponent Binghamton on Sunday, splitting the two matches. No. 6 Cornell (10-1) has not lost against an EIWA team since 2010-11 and was last beaten by an Ivy League opponent in 2002. Despite the tall task at hand, the Quakers (4-4) began the meet with an intensity that carried them to a 9-8 lead at halftime. Sophomore Caleb Richardson and senior Jeff Canfora had already scored victories in the 133 and 141-pound weight classes, respectively, when No. 14ranked C.J. Cobb took the mat to face No. 7-ranked Chris Villalonga in the 149-pound bout. While Cobb only had two takedowns in the entire match, it was all he needed to finish off Villalonga in the sudden-victory round. “I think he was able to wrestle his best,” coach Alex Tirapelle said of Cobb. “C.J. controlled the time, controlled the scoring, took him down twice and that was the match.” However, the match would soon turn south as the Quakers suffered through four hard-fought losses to begin the second half. Junior 165-pounder Ray Bethea was taken down by sophomore Dylan Palacio for the win by fall. Senior Brad Wukie lost to junior Duke Pickett in the 174-pound class by a score of 7-5 after Pickett took Wukie down for a sudden victory.
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Senior Jeff Canfora picked up a win in his 141-pound bout, helping propel the Red and Blue to a 9-8 halftime lead against a tough Cornell squad. The Big Red would storm back for the overall victory, but it was a strong performance from the Quakers.
And then came the matchup everybody was waiting for. Penn senior Lorenzo Thomas and Cornell sophomore Gabe Dean faced off in one of the Ivy League’s most anticipated contests. Thomas, ranked No. 5 in the 184-pound class, was looking to knock off his No. 1-ranked opponent after Dean defeated him in the consolation semifinals at the NCAA Championships last year. Thomas fought hard, answering an early escape of Dean’s with an escape of his own in the third period to tie up the match at 1-1. However, Dean would take Thomas down fifteen seconds into the sudden victory round for the 3-1 victory. Senior 197-pounder Canaan Bethea looked strong in his match against senior No. 14-ranked Jace Bennett but was edged by a score of 3-2. Penn freshman heavyweight Patrik Garren lost to Cornell senior Jacob Aiken-Phillips to end the
meet. “I think in the moment, immediately, I would say it’s frustrating and disappointing because you know you’re right there and you can win those matches,” Tirapelle said of the close losses. “But when you step back from it, and take a couple of deep breaths, calm down, look back at the match, yeah, we accomplished a lot. We’ve got something to build on moving forward.” In addition, the Quakers’ 26-9 loss this year is markedly better than the 32-1 beating that the Big Red inflicted upon last year’s team. The Quakers completed their New York road trip with an easy 26-10 win against Binghamton (5-7) on Sunday. Penn won seven of the ten matchups on the day, with highlights including Richardson’s fall over freshman Joe Nelson and Cobb’s 12-0 thrashing of freshman Nick Tighe.
all-around game in a Penn uniform, scoring 14 points — the second highest mark of her career — on sixfor-10 shooting. The rookie also added seven rebounds, five blocks, three assists and two steals to emphatically pace the Quakers in their blowout win. “At this point, coming into this game, Michelle has had huge upside potential for us and she’s been progressing consistently all season to a pretty high level,” McLaughlin said. “It was a great game for her, and she’s ready to get into Ivy play. “I’d expect her to play a lot more moving forward.” Junior guard Ronni Grandison led the Highlanders with 10 points, while senior center Nicole Maticka scored six of her own. The nine nonconference wins for Penn mark its second-highest win total outside of Ivy play in program history. The Quakers won 10 nonconference games in 2013-14 en route to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in a decade. “The takeaway is the 15 games [thus far] as a whole,” McLaughlin said. “We’ve played some very good teams, we’ve been competitive against some very good teams, so now we need to get prepared for 80 minutes in an Ivy League weekend. “I’m excited, I think we’re better than we were a week ago, than we were a few weeks ago. And we’re excited to move forward.” Penn will next be in action on Friday on the road against Dartmouth in the first game of the team’s first Ivy doubleheader of the season.
Tirapelle still sees a lot of room for improvement in his grapplers. He was careful with his words when asked whether the past two weekends’ results mean the team is hitting its stride. “I think so,” he said. “It’s difficult to say. We split two matches, we competed well, but we didn’t compete our best. We’ve got to continue to improve our performance each time out. We want to be where we need to be at the end of the year.” With dual meets against Harvard and Brown in two weeks, Penn will hope to turn that cautious optimism into a wave of victories as it enters the season’s home stretch.
a contest that the Red and Blue might historically have given away, the squad did its home arena proud in winning against a competitive opponent for the first time in a long time. While the Hawks may be struggling this season, rivalry games are always the toughest on any team’s schedule. The disappointing aspect of both Saturday’s win and last weekend’s closer-thanpredicted matchup with then-No. 5 Villanova is that Penn can only take 50 percent of the credit for those games and the enthusiastic Palestra environments they generated. With half the crowd in both of those games composed of the opposing team’s fans, only around 4,000 people in attendance on Saturday know what a Big 5 win is like. If — at best — one-fifth of that figure represents Penn students, only 800 people to whom Penn Athletics should cater understand this win. But there is no reason it cannot be like this every night at the Palestra. From the past two Big 5 games alone, two contests in which attendance crossed 17,000 and the Quakers played their best basketball, it is clear that the Red and Blue feed off the venue’s energy. While it may seem circular to debate whether winning increases attendance or attendance increases win totals,
it’s now on Jerome Allen and his players to give the program’s supporters a reason to come back (or come for the first time). With Ivy weekend doubleheaders set to begin next weekend at, you guessed it, the Palestra, there has been no better opportunity for the team to cultivate legitimate momentum like this in years. Right now, this is one Big 5 win. But if Saturday’s victory can translate into one Ivy win, then an Ivy weekend sweep and eventually a .500 Ivy record this season, it may be the first building block for Allen to turn this program around. Because building blocks aren’t simply players; they are the results one gets while on the court. So Saturday’s win may not mean anything in the long run. It is, after all, a nonconference win for a team that only need measure itself in relation to its seven Ivy opponents. But if it’s a win that gets people to show up and reinforce the team’s spirit, it may be the beginning of something interesting. Who knows? I certainly don’t. Let’s just hope we don’t have to wait two years, four months, two weeks and six days to find out. RILEY STEELE is a College junior from Dorado, P.R., and is senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at steele@thedp.com.
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have been a Penn student for two years, four months, two weeks and six days. But before Saturday night, for all the games I’ve covered, I had never seen Penn basketball win a Big 5 game. I did not know what a Big 5 win looked, sounded, tasted, smelled or felt like. Nor did the majority of people with whom I associate. Along with every member of the junior, sophomore and freshman classes, the Red and Blue were a scathing 0-for-our-college-careers against other teams from Philadelphia, having lost every Big 5 game since Jan. 21, 2012. Yet in front of a sold-out Palestra crowd, with junior guard Tony Hicks on the bench for most of the first half due to foul trouble and St. Joseph’s guard DeAndre Bembry on his way to 25 points, the RILEY Quakers did STEELE something else that fans haven’t seen them do in quite a while: They persevered. Albeit during a low-scoring first half, the combination of play from senior guard Cam Crocker and senior forward Greg Louis and the raucous Palestra crowd were enough to help Penn stay alive before Hicks and junior center Darien Nelson-Henry combined for 25 second-half points to put the game and the Quakers’ first Big 5 win in 12 attempts away down the stretch. It’s hard not to feel some sort of positive emotion after a game like that. In SEE STEELE PAGE 7 SEND STORY IDEAS TO DPSPORTS@THEDP.COM
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Junior Darien Nelson-Henry scored 12 of his 14 points in the second half to help lead Penn to an upset over St. Joseph’s.
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contest played out exactly as expected: the Red and Blue batIt’s always a bit unusual tled their Big 5 rivals, earning a when Penn basketball plays an hard-fought 56-52 victory. away game at its usual home, The result marks the first Big the Palestra. 5 win for the program in its past However, doing battle in 12 tries and a crucial rebound front of a crowd split between after a subpar performance fans of the Quakers and their against Monmouth on WednesSt. Joseph’s opponents, one day. aspect of Saturday evening’s “I feel like we can play with
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any team on [our] schedule,” Penn coach Jerome Allen said. “Tonight, we seemed like a team that was determined, focused and ready to play.” It was a tight-fisted affair throughout the first half, with neither team able to take control of the game. Penn (5-10) featured a balanced and opportunistic offensive attack throughout the period. “I thought we did a pretty good job of throwing it in [the SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 6 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640