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After nearly four months of construction delays by the leasing company University Realty, about 70 Penn students were finally able to move into their new apartment building last month. However for many, moving in has not indicated the end of their housing woes.

While residents were originally told that they could move into their apartments at 4046 Chestnut on Aug. 15 last year, construction and electrical issues delayed the movein seven times. University Realty, the leasing company, finally allowed them access to their units on Dec. 14.

During the delayed move-in period, the company reduced the rate for all residents from original rates of $800 - $1,000 to $650. All tenants will be charged the original rent specified in their leases starting this month.

In December, the company provided moving services to 64 displaced students living in temporary units at the Homewood Suites hotel located at 4109 Walnut St. or Vue32 located at 3201 Race St. Tenants who did not want to use their services were given a budget to hire third-party movers instead.

Despite being granted access to their apartments, moving in has continued to pose various challenges for tenants.

The elevators in the new building have not been working, which has forced many tenants living on the SEE U. REALTY PAGE 6

Sorority hopes in jeopardy

all the houses so they told me ‘you can still rush but you’re less likely to get invites back from the sororities,’ and at that point I don’t think it’s worth rushing because I actually want to see all the sororities out there rather than just going with whatever I have left,” Park said.

This year, the weeklong Panhellenic rush process started formally on Jan. 9, one day before the start of classes. After Convocation, potential new members, or PNMs, visit a list of houses each day, which will be narrowed down throughout the week as both the PNMs and the sororities submit their preferred choices.

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Penn students and faculty were joined by community and family friends to honor the life of College freshman William Steinberg, 18, who died in a fatal plane crash on Dec. 31 at a memorial service in Houston Hall on Jan. 9.

Along with his parents, Bruce and Irene, and his two brothers, Matthew and Zachary, Steinberg was one of 10 American tourists who died in the crash while traveling in the resort town of Punta Islita to San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica. The New York Times reported that San Jose was the family’s final destination before returning home to Scarsdale, N.Y. Steinberg was the eighth Penn student to die in 2017, two weeks after the death of a Penn Dental Departmental Chair Ricardo Teles.

The memorial was planned by close friends and family members, University Chaplain Charles Howard, staff at Counseling and Psychological Services, Penn Student Intervention Services, and rabbis from Penn’s Chabad and Hillel Houses.

“I think the grief of the loss is overwhelming,” Howard said.

The Class Board of 2021 notified all freshmen about Steinberg’s death in an email message sent on Jan. 1. The University notified all Penn undergraduates on Jan. 2. The class board and Penn Hillel sent emails to some members of the Penn community detailing the memorial service on Jan. 7 and 8, respectively.

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Those delayed by the ‘bomb cyclone’ worry about their rush chances AMANPREET SINGH | Staff Reporter

While many Penn students may be enjoying the last few moments of winter break, hundreds of freshman and sophomore women have been back on campus for several days to prepare for Panhellenic sorority recruitment. However, for a few eager hopefuls, the recent spate of extreme weather may prevent them from even starting the process.

The “bomb cyclone snowstorm” that hit the Northeast last week has caused various travel delays for students, preventing them from coming back to campus in time for rush. The extreme weather conditions and the recent flooding at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York led more than 500 flights to be canceled, and

nearly 1,400 to be delayed by over a day.

College freshman Angela Yang said she changed her flight ticket to make it back in time for rush. She moved her original ticket back to campus to after spring break, and purchased another ticket to arrive in time for the first formal event of recruitment.

Sewon Park, an Engineering freshman from Seoul, South Korea, said her flight to JFK on the night of Jan. 7 was among several flights to New York that were canceled. She added that it was “impossible” to get a flight the next day, which meant that she could only arrive after the first day of recruitment.

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The 5B coalition groups elect new boards and plan for future

The groups plan to improve collaboration and advocacy GIOVANNA PAZ Staff Reporter

The main minority coalition groups on campus, commonly known as the 5B, have elected new boards and are focusing on maintaining advocacy efforts and promoting inter-group collaboration this year. The Daily Pennsylvanian interviewed the newly-elected leaders of each group to discuss their proposed goals and priorities.

Asian Pacific Student Coalition The 24th board of APSC, which functions as a representative body for the Asian Pacific Islander community at Penn, will be headed up

by College and Wharton junior Soomin Shin.

Shin said she wants to focus on improving interactions within the coalition and maintain the group’s advocacy work. She added that one of the group’s main advocacy goals is to restore resources to the Asian American Studies Program. Following the resignation of one of the Program’s founding faculty members in

January last year, students embarked on a year-long effort for the University to direct more resources to the program.

Despite multiple petitions from students as well as faculty, Penn’s top administrators have not hired any faculty members to replace the former Director of ASAM Grace Kao, who left for Yale.

Shin said APSC, along with ASAM’s Undergraduate Advisory Board, are still waiting for a response from Penn before moving forward.

“We want to continue the fight for developing a concrete plan for preserving the Asian American Studies Program,” Shin said. “It has been a very long and ongoing fight. We also want to support other marginalized departments that are facing historic, institutional erasure.”

Lambda Alliance This year, College junior Julia Pan will lead the 13th board of the Lamba Alliance, which functions as a representative body for gender and sexual minorities and their allies at Penn.

Pan joined Lambda in her freshman year and also served as vicechair of outreach and vice-chair of

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political affairs on previous boards of the Alliance.

Pan said the main change she plans to enact this year is turning Lambda more toward education and programming. Pan has plans to create a programming committee that will focus on organizing a speaker series and social events for the group’s constituents.

By the end of her tenure, she hopes to have a programming chair on Lambda’s board, which would be similar to the other 5B groups.

Pan also said she wants to focus on supporting student endeavors such as the University Council Committee on Facilities’ research on gender-neutral bathrooms.

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nandez was elected as the chair of the LC’s 24th board after working on various Latinx initiatives such as Festival Latinx, a weeklong celebration for the Latinx community, and the Latinx Magazine La Vida, Penn’s only Latinx-interest publication.

Hernandez heads an all-female board, marking the first time that the LC is being led entirely by women.

Members of APSC congratulated the new board with a Facebook post that included the hashtag “AllWomxnBoard.”

Hernandez said the group’s main focus this year will be on improving “personal bonds” within their constituent groups and also among the 5B. “Something we talk a lot about is

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the programming we do and how it affects everyone,” Hernandez said.

“So keeping our events, and making sure we have a lot of events, focused on impactful things – wellness, mental health, sexuality politics – that are going to make us get to know one another on a different level.”

“We’re away from our families, we’re away from our homes, so we want to make sure our constituents, and us as the LC, are having events where we can be vulnerable to talk about those things,” she added.

UMOJA College juniors Calvary Rogers and Tonna Obaze have been elected as co-chairs for UMOJA, the representative coalition group for students and student groups of the African diaspora.

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Rogers, a columnist for The Daily Pennsylvanian, was a co-chair and correspondent on previous boards.

In an interview, he said he wants to prioritize transparency within UMOJA’s constituencies and work to preserve the work of the African Studies department.

Rogers also said the group wants to encourage collaboration within the coalition by expanding funding for events through the Vice Provost for University Life and MAKUU, Penn’s black cultural center.

On a shorter timeline, Rogers said the new UMOJA board is working to create an online database that documents the black history of Penn, going back to the arrival of the first SEE 5B PAGE 7

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Penn Vet dogs will train to detect stolen artifacts They hope to disrupt the illicit antiquities market KATIE BONTJE Staff Reporter

For years, dogs have worked with law enforcement officials to track down a variety of illicit substances.

Now, experts at Penn believe that dogs might also be capable of sniffing out another type of contraband: stolen ancient artifacts.

The Penn Vet Working Dog Center and the Penn Museum are collaborating with Red Arch Cultural Heritage Law and Policy Research, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting cultural property, to host a program called K-9 Artifact Finders.

Given that the annual value of ancient artifacts looted, stolen, and/ or smuggled comes up to between $4.5 billion to $6 billion per year,

the theft of cultural property has been a growing concern for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "[K-9 Artifact Finders is] an innovative way to disrupt the market in illicit antiquities, and that’s really what needs to happen to slow down the pace of looting and theft in conflict zones,” consulting scholar for the Penn Museum and 2000 Penn doctoral graduate Michael Danti said. “Currently, art crime, that means fine arts, antiques, antiquities, is usually ranked as the fourth or fifth largest grossing dollar criminal activity in the world on an annual basis.”

Danti said terrorist organizations often use stolen cultural artifacts to fund their operations, deliberately destroying them and using them for propaganda and “click-bait.” He added that high-profile groups like the Islamic State have continuously

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The Penn Vet Working Dog Center will be training four dogs to work with customs officers and detect stolen cultural property.

done this, setting a precedent for other similar organizations to employ the same techniques.

According to the WDC director and Penn Vet professor Cynthia Otto, the WDC will begin training four dogs this month. She added

that these dogs were selected based on “their availability and their odor detection skills.”

According to the Red Arch website, the K-9 Artifact Finders program will occur in three stages.

Phase one will entail training the

dogs at WDC using archaeological artifacts from the Penn Museum. If successful, phase two will be “onthe-ground” testing, while phase three would be training the dogs to work alongside customs officers to detect stolen cultural property.

Otto said there is a special procedure to introduce the smell of artifacts to dogs without compromising the artifacts.

“Our main training approach will be to use cotton balls and let the artifacts and cotton sit together in a closed non-permeable bag. That way the odor from the artifacts is absorbed by the cotton and we don’t have to risk damage to the artifacts,” Otto said. “We will also train the dogs to ignore the odor of the plain cotton and other things that might be similar but not the actual artifact.”

The artifacts will mainly be selected from regions in Iraq and

Syria, which Danti claims are the “hotspots” for cultural heritage looters.

Danti also said they are aiming to find scents that apply to a “wide range of antiquities.” However, it will be difficult to ensure that the smell of the artifacts are not similar to common odors, he added.

Danti said the aim of the program is to make the implementation of this program as easy as possible for Homeland Security and other border protection agencies and personnel.

“We first want to know, can it be done?” Red Arch Executive Director Ricardo St. Hilaire said to the Penn Current. “Secondly, if it can be done, we’d like to offer a demonstration or a methodology that, for instance, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials can use to train their own dogs.”

Penn graduate students will proceed with unionization vote

DILLON BERGIN Staff Reporter

After 203 days awaiting a response, Penn graduate students have finally received permission to legally move forward with a vote on whether to unionize or not.

On Dec. 19, Philadelphia’s National Labor Relations Board issued an affirmative decision concerning a petition filed by Penn’s graduate student workers for the right to vote for union representation. The election, which will consist of a secret ballot to ensure voter anonymity, will take place this spring.

This is the second time the prounion organization Graduate Employees Together – University of Pennsylvania has held an election to unionize at Penn. The first election took place in 2003, where an exit poll conducted by The Daily Pennsylvanian confirmed two-

thirds of voters voted yes to unionize.

However, in mid-2004, the University had not yet counted the votes when the NLRB overturned its rule that allowed private universities to form graduate student unions.

The ruling was reversed a second time in 2016, after a case with Columbia University in which the NLRB concluded that graduate student workers at private universities are “statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act.” Abiding by the standard NLRB unionization process, GET-UP filed its petition in May 2017.

While the University challenged the petition in June, which resulted in a three-week delay, GET-UP’s petition went unanswered for an unusually long amount of time.

According to NRLB’s website, 98.5 percent of its elections in the fiscal year 2017 took place within 56 days of a petition’s submission.

However, Philadelphia’s NLRB is- such as “healthcare issues, lack of sued a response after 203 days. funding, discrimination, or an inad“We are disappointed with the equate grievance procedure.”

NLRB ruling,” University spokesDespite the positive exit poll reman Stephen MacCarthy said in sults following the 2003 election, a emailed statement. “As we have students remain divided on what stated before, we view our graduate the outcome is likely to be this time student scholars as students and our around. future colleagues rather than em“It could go either way. Anyone ployees, and believe we can better who says otherwise is speaking support them without the interven- from pure conjecture,” said Ian tion of a labor union.”

Heinrich, the president of the antiProvost Wendell Pritchett ex- union group No Penn Union and pressed a similar opinion in an pharmacology Ph.D. student. email sent to Penn graduate stuHeinrich also said that No Penn dents the day after the NLRB’s an- Union plans to hold town hall fonouncement. rums leading up to the vote, enIf the majority of graduate stu- couraging graduate students to pose dents vote yes to union represen- questions and inform themselves. tation, GET-UP will become the Graduate and Professional Stuexclusive bargaining representative dent Assembly President and thirdfor nine of the 12 graduate schools. year Design and School of Arts The School of Engineering and and Sciences professional masApplied Sciences and the Wharton ter’s student Miles Owen said that School are recent additions. Previ- GAPSA will also be working with ously, seven schools were repre- 34both GET-UP and the University 3434 sented. According to their website, STadministration to inform graduate STST GET-UP will negotiate for matters students to make the decision that

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Member of both GAPSA and GET-UP Olivia Harding said that at a meeting on the last day of classes last year, GET-UP members became frustrated that they had waited so long.

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know. It was affirmational because it referenced the Columbia decision, which was extremely clear that graduate students are both students and employees,” Harding said. “Penn is both an educator and an employer of us, so [this decision] justified everything we had been working for.”

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Penn has a record-breaking low ED acceptance rate Penn admitted 18.5 percent of ED applicants SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor

Penn admitted 18.5 percent of its early decision applicants for the Class of 2022, a dramatic drop from last year’s 22 percent ED rate and the previous year’s 23.2 percent rate.

Penn also received a recordbreaking 7,074 early decision applications this year, a 15 percent increase from last year’s 6,147 ED applicants. Since the Class of 2018 applied, the early decision application pool has grown by 38 percent, according to a press release from Penn Admissions.

Of those accepted this year, 25 percent had a parent or grandparent who had attended Penn, as opposed to the 16 percent of legacy applications received in November.

Eleven percent of accepted students are first-generation college students, which is consistent with the percentage of first-generation applications received this year.

From this year’s applicant pool, 1,312 were admitted, which is similar to the 1,354 applications admitted last year. Penn typically admits around half of its total class in the ED round. Last year, approximately 55 percent of the total 2,445 spots available were filled by early decision applicants.

The drop in the ED rate this year largely results from the increase in

applications received, rather than a decrease in the number of applications accepted, based on the data provided.

Twelve percent of students accepted this year are not United States citizens or permanent residents. There are representatives from 45 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and 54 foreign countries.

In an emailed statement, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda wrote that “it does not appear that travel bans and immigration legislation has impacted Penn’s applicant pool.”

He added that this year’s admissions process was the first year the redesigned SAT test was accepted and the old SAT test was not. Last year, serving as a transition year,

both tests were accepted, in addition to the ACT test.

“With changes to format and scoring instituted by The College Board in 2016, most students received higher scores on the rSAT than what they would have received in the older SAT format. The rSAT represents a significant change within the larger college application landscape that may have impacted college search, choice, and application behavior on the part of individual students,” Furda wrote in the statement.

The dramatic drop in the ED acceptance rate appears to not simply be a result of the rSAT, according to Brian Taylor, a managing director at the college consulting firm Ivy Coach.

“This is a record year in terms of admission rate being 18.5 percent,” Taylor said. “I would give more credit to Eric Furda than he’s giving to himself. Every one of these schools is impacted by this SAT and they would all have better numbers, but Penn’s numbers are drastically better this year.”

Incoming Wharton and College freshman Shyama Dave, who was accepted early into the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, said that she much preferred the rSAT than the previous version.

“I actually took the old one in ninth grade and [the rSAT] was way better than the old one because the old one had a lot of obscure vocabulary which no one really uses out-

side of the SAT,” Dave said. “But with the new one there wasn’t much — only vocabulary you should have seen through English class.”

Incoming College freshman Abigail Metzler, who had never taken the old SAT, said that she took the rSAT only once and didn’t think “it was too bad.”

According to the Class of 2021’s profile on the Penn Admissions website, however, the testing means for the middle 50 percent of admitted students for the old SAT reading and math sections were 710-790 and 740-800, respectively; means for the redesigned SAT reading and math sections were 680-750 and 690-770, respectively.

The testing breakdown for the Class of 2022 has not been released.

Study from Penn researchers shows benefits of eating fish

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Consuming fish could improve cognitive functioning

He will formally begin his position on Jan. 16

ZACH JACOBS Staff Reporter

Children who eat fish more frequently score higher on IQ tests and get better sleep than those who eat fish less frequently, according to a recent Penn study.

The findings, published in December, showed that the average IQ scores of children who ate fish at least once a week were 4.8 points higher than those of children who rarely ate fish, which is rich in omega-3 fatty acids.

Penn researchers from the School of Nursing as well as the School of Arts and Sciences concluded, after controlling for sociodemographic differences, that consuming fish may lead to less disturbed

sleep. This would, in turn, lead to better cognitive functioning.

Previous research has shown a relationship between supplements of omega-3 – the fatty acid found in oily fish – and improved intelligence, as well as a relationship between omega-3 supplements and better sleep. However, the study is the first to connect fish to omega-3’s cognitive benefits.

Lead author of the study and Nursing professor Jianghong Liu suggests that this link is an important step forward in an “emerging” field of research.

“Here we look at omega-3s coming from our food instead of from supplements,” Liu told EurekAlert!.

For the study, 541 Chinese schoolchildren between the ages of nine and 11 took IQ tests and questionnaires about

how often they consume fish.

Additionally, their parents answered questions about their child’s sleep habits and their family’s demographic information.

Jennifer Pinto-Martin, a Nursing professor and coauthor of the study, said that the research contributes to an increasing amount of evidence that shows the positive dietary benefits of fish. She suggests that parents start introducing fish to their children as young as 10 months old.

“Introducing the taste early makes it more palatable,” she said. “Children are sensitive to smell. If they’re not used to it, they may shy away from it.”

According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, omega-3s have also been shown to help with rheumatoid arthritis and prevent heart disease.

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Penn has appointed Matt Sessa as the executive director of Student Registration and Financial Services.

As executive director, Sessa will be responsible for developing the University’s first “student-centered” one-stop model — a “thorough integration of traditional services such as registration, financial aid, billing, all under one virtual and/or physical roof,” according to the job listing. His appointment will formally begin on Jan. 16.

Penn News reported Sessa will also design financial literacy programming for students and “provide strategic and operational leadership on financial aid, billing, registration, and opera-

tions.”

Sessa, who has worked with federal and state financial aid programs for over two decades, will take on his role at a time when policies within student financial services are a hot topic of discussion among students.

In July 2017, fifth-year students were sent into a frenzy after they were informed that their final semesters in school were not being covered by financial aid. In December 2017, groups of low-income students also discovered that they were not being included in University programs designed to support those in need. Sessa will likely need to address these inconsistencies during his tenure.

Before Penn, Sessa worked at the office of Federal Student Aid in the U.S. Department of Education. At the department, he served as the deputy chief operating officer of FSA, until former

Chief Operating Officer James Runcie resigned in May, writing to his staff that he was “incredibly concerned” with the department’s management, reported the Washington Post. Sessa assumed Runcie’s duties after his resignation.

Before working at DOE, he held several senior leadership positions at the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. Sessa received his executive MBA and a master’s degree in science in information systems from Pennsylvania State University, according to Penn News.

“I am delighted to welcome Matt to Penn,” Vice President for Finance and Treasurer MaryFrances McCourt told Penn News. “His vast expertise in federal aid programs and managing a complex organizational structure will make him an invaluable member of our leadership team.”

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OPINION Stop swiping and take a break from Tinder SIMONETTI SAYS SO | Online dating can be a breeding ground for poor self-esteem and racism

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 10, 2018 VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 1 134th Year of Publication DAVID AKST President REBECCA TAN Executive Editor CHRIS MURACCA Print Director JULIA SCHORR Digital Director HARRY TRUSTMAN Opinion Editor SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor JONATHAN POLLACK Senior Sports Editor

To download or delete; to swipe right or swipe left; to ghost her or slide into her DMs. Why didn’t I match with her?

Am I unattractive? Will I ever meet anyone? These are the questions we constantly ask ourselves. They’re exhausting. And we need to take breaks.

In 2016, Penn was named one of the top schools for online dating by The Grade, as well as the most attractive Ivy on Tinder by Business Insider. We are at the epicenter of a major part of the hookup culture that has come to define our generation: dating apps.

Tinder, Bumble, Grindr, The League — pick your poison.

Penn can be lonely, and it’s difficult to meet people here organically. These apps sometimes provide relief from what feels like a stale hookup and dating scene.

Furthermore, it is important to acknowledge the added challenge for queer students, many of whom feel they don’t have a place in the heteronormative party scene where hookups tend to occur. Many queer students, like myself, feel compelled to use these apps to meet people they’re interested in sexually.

But an online world of people seeking sex with no strings attached, waiting to pass judgement on our appearances, can be toxic.

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Researchers from the University of Amsterdam found that casual sex was one of the top two reasons people use Tinder.

What’s more, Tinder reported that its users spend an average of 90 minutes per day on the app.

Ninety minutes of evaluating the attractiveness of potential matches, hoping the ones we like swipe right for us too. These apps damage our self-esteem.

They reduce us to a couple of

Instead, we need to understand and acknowledge the toll they take on our mental health and remember to unplug every once in a while.

By taking a break from dating apps, we allow ourselves to avoid the stress they induce, gain some perspective, be more present, and try to forge more organic connections with people.

Temporarily removing ourselves from these sometimes harmful

An online world of people seeking sex with no strings attached, waiting to pass judgement on our appearances, can be toxic.” pictures, short bios, and statistics.

There’s a certain shame that can come with using apps like Tinder. Some of our friends criticize us and laugh when we confess to using them. These people are wrong to tease us. Apps offer an efficient way to connect with people; they allow members of the LGBTQ community to meet one another, which can be difficult in real life; they make it easier for introverts to assert themselves. Completely abandoning dating apps would be unrealistic.

online environments is important. It gives us the opportunity to assert control over dating apps, instead of allowing them to dictate our thoughts and feelings.

Tinder and its competitors are addictive. We seek validation through swiping. Who doesn’t want to feel desired? But the compulsion to swipe and match with others stimulates a great deal of anxiety.

By participating in these apps, we open ourselves up to the hateful opinions of others. Perhaps it

ISABELLA SIMONETTI may come as a surprise that Tinder has taken one of the greatest tolls on men. Its regular users are more likely to have body image and self-esteem issues.

Dating apps also can facilitate racism. Researchers from the University of North South Wales in Sydney, Australia found that 15 percent of gay men on Grindr included sexual racism on their profiles. Users pepper their bios with phrases like “black=block” and “no gaysians.”

There’s no question that these apps are dangerous. Still, permanently deleting them isn’t the best answer. While it might be ideal to meet people in real life, online dating is becoming reality. I’ve deleted and redownloaded Tinder and criticized my indecision when it comes to dating apps. I don’t see this cycle ending any time soon.

ISABELLA SIMONETTI is a College freshman from New York. Her email address is isim@sas.upenn.edu.

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And there, proudly, it stood: a big, fat C on my transcript.

Who knew a single letter could conjure up such a range of emotions: shock, disbelief, anger, and slowly, after emailing my teaching assistant and my professor for explanations, acceptance. In a student’s life, few things are scarier than the thought of a C — barely good enough to scrape by, not bad enough to properly retake a course and forget the previous failure.

My first thought, after confronting this monster, was how it would affect my GPA — and more importantly and perhaps dramatically, how it could affect my future. Thoughts can quickly spiral into panic, and as many students receive their grades after just a week of winter break, I’m sure I’m not alone.

It’s strange to think how much of our lives has been defined by our GPAs, and even now, amid thoughts of potential graduate schools, this number still dictates our academic careers. We get into email fights with our professors, begging to be rounded up to the next grade, confident that each precious hundredth of a point on our transcripts is worth every battle. Professors complain about

how students feel entitled to good grades after constantly being the best before college.

They’re not wrong — at a school where 97 percent of admitted students were in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class, we are used to being the best. But perhaps more importantly, we are students obsessed with quantifying our self-worth and intelligence, made to believe that these numbers are the only way to validate ourselves and succeed. GPAs are no longer just what they should be — a numerical summation of the grades we earn — and are, instead, viewed as indications of our intelligence.

In reality, however, GPAs in college do not reflect how smart we are.

They’re designed to reflect how much we are willing to work for each class. It isn’t simply a number we can manipulate so we can land an impressive-sounding job. Being mindful of our GPAs should allow us to shape our work ethic and hone our self-discipline, so we can be mindful and hardworking wherever we are in the

future.

Grade inflation is a real concern. According to The Harvard Crimson, Harvard University’s median grade is an A-minus and the most common grade is an

pose of our grades.

I admit, it’s hard to see this from a professor’s point of view.

When I saw that C on my transcript, my first thought was to fight, tooth and nail, for a better

JESSICA LI

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A. Professors and other leaders in academia have railed against softer and softer grading curves, arguing that students have been coddled to expect and demand As without doing the work that truly merits one. As a whole, I agree with this statement: As students, we have forgotten the true pur-

grade — how could someone like me get a C? However, when I think deeper about the purpose of grades, and what the true purpose of a GPA is, I re-evaluate how much I truly worked in this class and what I truly deserved. I put myself in the perspective of a professor handing out grades, and the

work I would expect. The reality of this situation is that the work I produced was more average than exceptional, and though this wasn’t the grade I wanted, it may have been the grade I deserved.

So, fellow students looking at a rough semester of grades, I am here for you. I know what you are feeling. But before you hit send on your carefully (or perhaps notso-carefully) worded argument as to why you deserve that higher grade, think critically about the work you produced — and resolve, whether you succeed in getting it or not, to work harder next year.

JESSICA LI is a College sophomore from Livingston, N.J., studying English and psychology. Her email address is jesli@sas.upenn.edu.

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Our approach must change in the digital age, but our values will hold strong LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT On New Year’s Day, a new group of leaders took over The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. It’s the 134th such group to do so at the company — an accurate statement because The DP really is a company, independent of the University and responsible for its own survival. We take the helm at a time of great upheaval in the media industry, but that’s nothing new.

For years now, the media landscape has shifted and bucked, and chances are it’s not settling down now.

I don’t need to tell you about how media has changed, because you’ve all watched it happen. The important thing is that the essence of what we do at the DP hasn’t changed.

Despite the social media and digital publishing boom, the DP’s aim to spark and shape conversation on campus isn’t going anywhere.

Of course we face the challenge of adapting to the new, evolving nature of media, but that’s not the only one. The real challenge is maintaining

— and refining, for that matter — the DP’s values and mission in the digital age, when too often pageviews trump facts and ideology supersedes truth.

The Daily Pennsylvanian and the publications under its umbrella look different than they did a year ago. We reduced our print schedule to two days of the DP and one day of 34th Street Magazine each week. Street cut the Round Up while Under the Button solidified its brand as a satire publication. We have worked hard to improve our social media presence and our video production, to build new products that serve the Penn community, and to find more engaging, innovative ways to inform our readers.

Our company and its products will likely look different again a year from today, but we will not allow our purpose or integrity to be corrupted by these changes. Instead, the changes we make are intended to further our ability to serve and inform our audience.

Because we’re independent from the University, we must address the same concerns that “professional” media companies do. Print advertising revenue shrinks by the minute, and digital advertising can’t make up for it. News moves at the speed of light now, and everyone with a keyboard and

tion will never come at the cost of fair, nuanced, responsible journalism.

Everything we do at the DP is meant to benefit our audience. Benefit can mean many things, and in this age we need to define that broadly. Web projects that provide utility to students subletting their place,

The real challenge is maintaining the DP’s values and mission in the digital age, when too often pageviews trump facts and ideology supersedes truth.” an internet connection has the chance to break a story on social media. We need to adapt to survive, it’s true, and we will continue to adapt. It is my solemn promise that adapta-

or looking for something to do on the weekend; a satire website; Puck Frinceton T-shirts; these are all meant to provide value to the Penn community, to enrich and improve the stu-

dent experience. We will do more of this in the future, because innovation is necessary.

The DP has and will continue to expand its ability to produce sponsored content, hold events, and experiment with new forms of digital media.

These endeavors are not secondary to our mission, they are critical to it.

Every department of the DP contributes to our mission of serving the community.

Our writers, photographers, videographers, and designers find new ways to inform and entertain readers. Student advertising reps connect local businesses with interested students. Our analytics team helps us understand how to better reach and engage with our audience. The dozens of other teams and departments at 4015 Walnut St. play equally instrumental roles in creating, distributing, and funding the things that make the DP so important to Penn.

None of this is possible without fresh ideas and new

DAVID AKST staffers. If this mission resonates with you, if you’re looking for an unparalleled professional experience, or want to be a part of a fun, inclusive, and driven community, join us.

Expect the DP to change in the next year. Expect a more digital focus, novel storytelling methods, a more active Instagram, and many more videos. Above all, expect great journalism to remain our priority.

DAVID AKST is a College junior from Tivoli, N.Y., studying history. His email is akst@thedp.com. He is the president of the 134th board of The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Washington needs Penn students

SPENCER’S SPACE | If you’ve been disillusioned with the government, consider joining it Winter break has drawn to a close as the spring semester, the New Year, and all the fresh beginnings they represent welcome us back to campus.

But before losing ourselves in the demands — and fun — of our daily lives at Penn, let’s think about the world beyond West Philadelphia.

Whatever our personal triumphs over the last 12 months, 2017 was a truly tumultuous year on a national scale; political scandals, mass shootings, and unprecedented weather calamities occurred almost every few weeks without fail. To make matters worse, we have a president laughably inept at facing any of these issues without making a fool of himself.

Natural disasters, violent

conflict, and political unrest have become the norm, with headlines delivered at lightning speed onto our screens through 24-hour news and social media. Processing such an enormous volume of depressing reports inevitably takes a toll on our psyches.

In fact, polls show that the average individual feels that the world is more than a bit out of control. The American Psychological Association’s new report, “Stress in America: The State of Our Nation” reveals that almost two-thirds of Americans — 63 percent to be exact — are extremely stressed about the future our country. Leading causes of anxiety include social divisiveness, hate crimes, terrorist attacks, and climate

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change.

Somewhat surprisingly, while we seem better informed and more emotional about the world than ever before, the very civic involvement which could give us some sense of control is transparently lack-

is far “behind most of its peers in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.”

So what does this have to do with any of us here at Penn?

While much of what happens in the world is beyond

It is a challenge to think about jumping into the swamp that so many are shouting about draining.

But, members of the Penn community are precisely the sorts of individuals that America needs now.” ing. America citizens, particularly young people, have shown that they deeply distrust the government.

According to a Washington Post survey, conducted in the spring of 2016, “faith and confidence in the federal government among 18- to 29-year-olds is at a historical low: below 23 percent.”

And disturbingly, this dissatisfaction manifests itself as apathy, instead of translating into action. The Pew Research Center reports that America’s voter turnout per population

our control, being actively engaged in our communities can help us feel less helpless. If we’re not satisfied with the status quo, whether that’s because of income inequality, racism, gun violence or a conviction that governments should be smaller and less involved in our lives, we must be engaged. At the very least, we must vote, and not only every four years in the presidential election, but also in congressional midterms, as well as state and local races.

For many of us, politics

may seem irrelevant, but as the 2016 election showed, being politically apathetic in no way insulates us from the impact of elections.

And as members of an exceptional university, some of us should seriously consider becoming active politicians ourselves. I’ve noticed that many Penn students dream of becoming leaders in business, finance, or consulting, but few of us aim to take on leadership roles in politics.

According to Career Services, only 3 percent of the Class of 2016 planned on working for the government after graduation.

I appreciate that it is a challenge to think about jumping into the swamp that so many are shouting about draining.

But, I’d maintain that members of the Penn community are precisely the sorts of individuals that America needs now.

As students of a dynamic community that draws from all corners of the globe and many walks of life, we have all already been fortunate enough to be exposed to greater diversity than most Americans.

We’ve learned not only to cope, but also to thrive. Some of us have already learned to harness our diversity to achieve great things together on campus and beyond.

So before we embark upon

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SPENCER SWANSON the new semester, before we get lost in the daily demands of classes, clubs, and camaraderie, let’s take a moment to define a path through which each of us can help define a new more promising future for Penn, the United States of America and the world. As a first small step, I’d agree with University of Minnesota professor William Doherty who suggests we each “make an effort this year to reach out to a couple of people on the other side … Not to try to persuade them to change their mind, but to try to just understand them better.”

Perhaps this could lead to a future in which Penn has a graduate in the White House that it is proud of, instead of deeply ashamed.

SPENCER SWANSON is a College freshman from London, studying philosophy, politics, and economics.

His email address is sswanson@sas. upenn.edu.

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The GOP endowment tax’s effect on Penn The bill places a 1.4 percent tax on endowments MAX COHEN Staff Reporter

On the first day of the new year, just days after President Donald Trump signed the GOP tax bill into law, many universities across the country became subject to a new excise tax on their multi-billion dollar endowments.

According to calculations from the most current data, Penn’s endowment will be susceptible to this statute.

The final version of the bill, which passed in the House on Dec. 20, places a 1.4 percent excise tax on endowments on private universities with endowments of more than $500,000 per student. While Penn’s endowment per student in 2016 was $496,301, which would fall just short of the cutoff, Penn’s endowment per student in 2017 is $571,215.

“The rationale behind the bill is that someone feels that universities should be penalized for having excess cash,” said Jonathan Sambur, a lawyer who specializes in U.S. federal tax issues at the law firm Mayer Brown.

A large portion of the endowment has also historically gone to support financial aid.

In 2017, Penn’s annual financial report reported that the endowment accounted for 24.5 percent of operating funds for student aid.

The 1.4 percent tax would be applied to the University’s net investment income — which would amount to just under $7.6 million for Penn. Kimberly Burham, managing director of Legislation and Special Projects for the Penn Wharton Budget Model, identified the endowment tax as the section of the tax bill that will have

the biggest impact on Penn and other universities.

However, Burham noted that ambiguities still exist when it comes to calculations of the tax because the bill did not prescribe a specific way to count total students, leaving some experts uncertain as to how to assess the impact of the law. "[The impact] could be different for any university, depending on how they use their endowment,” Burham said.

Although some students on campus opposed this increased excise tax, others saw the cut to Penn’s endowment as a justified move in response to partisan attitudes in higher education.

“The heads of universities are pretty often engaging openly in politics, universities have drifted far away from their initial mission, so the logic of why you wouldn’t tax universities doesn’t work anymore,” said College and Wharton sophomore Michael Moroz, who is co-director of College Republicans’ Editorial Board.

However, other students argue that this tax is destructive. President of Penn Democrats and Wharton sophomore Dylan Milligan said the tax “will have a deleterious effect on Penn missions, such as providing financial aid to students and improving research in the natural and life sciences.”

Douglas Warner, a trustee at Yale University who oversees its investment committee, argued in a recent Politico article that taxing endowments is a counterproductive measure, as endowments are ways universities foster innovative research in medicine and technology, offer financial aid to students in need, and boost the local economies surrounding the universities.

Endowments grow when alumni donate to a university or when investments made with endowment money return a profit — which is why Penn’s own $12.2 billion endowment grew by 15 percent in 2017.

Past provisions of the bill had included measures that graduate students had sharply opposed, such as the taxation of tuition waivers that many claimed would have made a graduate education unattainable. But the final version of the bill that Trump signed into law did not include this statute.

Graduate and Professional Student Assembly President Miles Owen said he viewed the excise tax as negative, but was ultimately glad that the proposed changes for graduate students were eventually taken out of the bill. The elimination of tax-exempt tuition waivers for graduate students, which was included in the original House bill, was cut out of the final version.

“Anything that taxes higher education in this regard is something that I am personally against,” Owen said. “It will have some impact on graduate students because the less money the University has to support students in general will invariably affect graduate students.”

Ultimately, both Moroz and Milligan said that they viewed the endowment excise tax as a minor but potentially impactful section of the bill.

“As far as all of the provisions of the tax bill go, I think it is not the most egregious aspect of the bill,” Milligan said of the endowment tax. “Penn as an institution can probably withstand this, but I do think it will have a deleterious effect on Penn missions, such as providing financial aid to students and improving research in the natural and life sciences.”

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upper floors to manually move their furniture upstairs. An email sent to all tenants on Dec. 14 said the elevators would be ready “sometime next week.” Another email sent on Jan. 5, three weeks later, said the elevators would be “operational” within the next two weeks.

Wharton and Engineering junior Varun Jain said the delays on the elevators have further inconvenienced his move-in. Jain and his roommates moved in last month during finals week, which he said was not “ideal,” and they are still trying to furnish their apartment.

“Finals week definitely wasn’t an ideal time to move in because we wanted to use as much time as possible studying for our exams, but I was just relieved to finally move into my apartment,” he said.

University Realty Leasing Manager Brian Feller did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

A first-year Penn Dental student who wished to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation from the leasing company, said he had only three days to make plans to move out of Vue32 and furnish his new apartment.

Other tenants, including the Dental student, noted other

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University Realty has released leasing options for next year and has informed residents to sign up quickly to guarantee housing.

maintenance issues with their apartment units, such as issues with heating and lighting. The student said maintenance workers left paint chips on his clothes and shoes while fixing his closet.

“I would recommend University Realty if the building was already completed,” the student said. “The apartment is nice, but they are so uncommunicative. Back in October, they just stopped replying to our calls and sending us regular updates.”

He described the company as “super unorganized” and said that he felt “disrespected” throughout the past semester.

On Jan. 4, University Realty management emailed residents informing them that they had opened leasing options for next

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During the memorial, four friends, Engineering freshman Ben Robinov, College freshman Dani Bergman, and Wharton and Engineering freshmen Robert Epstein and Dylan Diamond, shared memories of Steinberg, including experiences from the pre-orientation program PennQuest and the Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Residential Program in Ware College House.

Howard said that Epstein, who is also a Scarsdale resident, was one of the first students to contact the administration suggesting a memorial.

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During the memorial, four friends shared memories of Steinberg and a remembrance gift was presented to a close family friend.

Epstein recounted several instances in which Steinberg was

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The company also wrote in the email that they realized it was “early” for residents to decide to sign again, but that they were “obligated by our corporate leasing management to offer our units to any potential resident who is interested.”

Jain said that although he will remain in the same unit next year to avoid moving again, he thought it was too soon to be asked to make the decision.

“I understand from a business perspective, but we’ve stuck with them through all of this and they didn’t even give us more time to think about it,” he said.

“good to complete strangers and [to] people he never met.”

Steinberg’s roommate, Diamond, reflected on Steinberg’s political awareness, altruism, and humility.

“I most remember him for his modesty. He had so many gifts — his personality, family, intelligence, and ability to understand people — yet his focus was always on you,” Diamond said during the memorial. “He was very selfless and thought of others a lot, he never put himself first.”

Diamond, along with other friends of Steinberg, said he felt motivated to “carry on his work in the world.”

“There’s this other way of processing our own grief and our loss, by serving, going out, and loving others and caring for the world and working for peace like Will did,” Howard said.

CAPS Deputy Director Michal Saraf said emotional support was available for grieving students and faculty. At the event, she encouraged them to reach out for help or give support during this difficult time.

Steinberg’s resident advisor, College and Wharton junior Ryan Leone, said it has been difficult for his residents to come to terms with the loss of a hallmate.

He added that he hopes students will cope with the tragedy by asking themselves what Steinberg would want them to do.

“After any tragedy, it’s impossible to be the same person in the aftermath, but I think people are able to get accustomed to the new emptiness that they might face,” Leone said. “Nobody who passes would want everyone around them to stop living their lives, and that definitely stands true for Will. He’d want everyone to keep being successful and doing the things that make them happy.”

In addition to a performance

by Penn Glee Club members, Levi Haskelevich and Josh Bolton, two campus rabbis, recited prayers at the memorial. Sharon Smith, director of Student Intervention Services, presented a remembrance gift for Steinberg’s extended family to Jill Goldstone, a close family friend.

“There is this aspect of hope and aspect of comfort when you see Will’s friends rise and honor him and share stories about him,” Howard said. “As painful a day like today is, there’s something very beautiful about it as well.”

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Efforts to find missing Penn sophomore expand Blaze Bernstein has been missing since Jan. 2 SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor

A Penn student from Orange County, California has been missing for nearly a week.

College sophomore Blaze Bernstein, 19, went missing on Jan. 2, just days before the start of the new semester. Bernstein, who was home for winter break, was last seen entering a park in the Lake Forest area of Orange County at 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 2. He has not been heard from since. “Witnesses said he met up with a friend and the two drove to Borrego Park, where the teen exited the vehicle and entered the park,� an Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson said to local news outlets.

On Jan. 7, Bernstein was supposed to return to Philadelphia for the start of the semester. Bernstein’s father had to cancel Bernstein’s flight the night before — an experience that his father, Gideon Bernstein, described as heartbreaking. “I know he was really looking forward to going back to school,�

Bernstein said. “He missed out on a lot of stuff I know he wouldn’t want

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black students on campus. According to Rogers, this database will be released this month. “The point of the database is for future students, and us here, when we try to start an initiative we actually have a cohesive site to go to see what students worked on, why did they work on it, how did they work on it, so we’re not repeating steps and losing our traction,� he explained.

United Minorities Council College junior and newly-elected chair of UMC Evanie Anglade

to miss. There has to be some reason why — we’re trying to uncover what was going through his head that night, why did he leave home.�

To consolidate search efforts for his son, the elder Bernstein has set up a public Facebook page to gather information. On Jan. 7, Bernstein’s family and friends increased efforts to find him by using about a dozen civilian drones on in the park where Bernstein was last seen.

This was the first day Gideon Bernstein, Blaze’s father, decided to coordinate search and rescue efforts independently from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

Since Bernstein went missing on Jan. 2, the Sheriff’s Department has employed a variety of tools in finding Bernstein, including search and rescue missions, helicopters, and trained dogs, Bernstein’s father said. “We feel like even if we just help out with one percent of the effort to try and find Blaze, and we uncover something as civilians, you know, that’s good enough for us. We have to do everything in our power to try to get this young brilliant man back to us,� Bernstein’s father said.

Reports from certain news outlets emerged on Jan. 8 that the search for Bernstein had ended, but authorities assert that efforts to locate the Penn

student are still underway.

Carrie Braun, the public information manager for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, said search and rescue missions would not continue in the Whiting Ranch area, which is where Bernstein was last spotted, but added that the case was still active and that investigators were pursuing several different leads in other locations. “Although that specific search and rescue effort in that specific area has ended does not mean the search for Blaze has ended,� Braun said. �[This case] will continue to be actively a missing person’s case investigation until they find something that will lead them otherwise, and up until this point, everything that we have found is still leading us towards a missing person’s case.�

Public awareness for Bernstein’s case has also continued to grow.

Bernstein’s father started a public Facebook group on Jan. 5 in the hope of creating a central point to disseminate information and collect any tips from the public. What started as a few dozen members in the Facebook group grew to approximately 6,000-7,000 members on Jan. 6 and reached almost 10,000 members by Jan. 8.

Various celebrities have also

helped to publicize the search efforts. Long-time former NBA star and fellow Californian Kobe Bryant shared the missing persons poster for Bernstein on his Facebook page.

Friends and family of Bernstein have expressed confusion over his sudden departure. “He was with a high school friend prior to his disappearance and we believe he was planning to come back home that night since he left his wallet and glasses at home,�

Bernstein’s father wrote in a Facebook post on Jan. 5. “There is no clear motive and he was in good spirits that evening.�

Bernstein was recently elected to be the managing editor of Penn Appetit, the student-run magazine on food at Penn. Penn Appetit Business Manager and College sophomore Kate Kassin said Bernstein had not been responding to messages in their new board-wide group chat. “He was very excited about [the magazine],� Bernstein’s father said. “He was working on that over the winter break and showed us the magazine they just published, which he significantly contributed to.�

Annee Della Donna, an attorney and friend of the Bernstein family made similar remarks to CBS Los Angeles.

served as the co-programming chair on a previous board of the Council.

Anglade said she hopes to make practical, tangible change by working with administrators to increase faculty diversity across all departments. “I started thinking there are some people who are minorities who will never have a professor that is of their same race or ethnicity,� Anglade said. “I feel like that is something of concern. There’s this element of support and comfortability that comes with being taught by someone who might have a similar experience as you.�

Anglade added that she also

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“He was on the Internet that night buying things,� Della Donna said. “It all points to a kid who was not depressed, who was happy and wanted to go back to school.�

College sophomore and writer for 34th Street Amy Marcus said she and Bernstein met during New Student Orientation and “have been pretty much best friends ever since.� “We share a circle of friends for the most part,� Marcus said. “We’ve all been sort of frenzied and trying to speculate what might have happened, and there’s no way for us to know what went on, but we’ve all just been trying to take our guesses and calm our nerves a little bit.�

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ing,” Park explained. “If they get a bid and join a sorority I feel like I’ll be missing out … it’s kind of like the experience I’ll never have just because my flight got like canceled.”

In an attempt to accommodate travel delays, the Panhellenic Council moved an opening event from Monday night to Tuesday morning after the University sent an alert suspending all Penn operations.

When a conflict arises, students looking to rush are advised to submit a Google Form to inform the Panhellenic Council. With this information, Vice President of Recruitment and College senior Andrea Klein said the council works to rearrange the PNM’s schedule.

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Klein reaffirmed this message in an interview.

“It’s up to the chapters whether or not they want to keep the girls on their list — we don’t tell them you have to include them I guess if you didn’t meet them during Open House,” she said. “They are free to do what they want because it’s their sorority; we try to let them have as much ownership of the process as we can.”

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Last year, Panhellenic recruitment was condensed and held several days before school re-opened for the first time.

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FENCING | Quakers set to impress on national stage COLE JACOBSON Sports Editor

Who: Penn fencing What: Penn State Invitational against Penn State, North Carolina, Columbia, Haverford, Duke, Yale, Temple (women only) Where: State College, Pa. When: All day, Jan. 13 Why it’s the Game of the Week: Penn fencing had a stellar 2016-17 season by any measure. Despite a disappointing eighth-place finish at the NCAA Championships, the Red and Blue men upset the nation’s No. 1 team Columbia, won their second straight Ivy League championship, and finished the regular season ranked fourth nationally. The women, though coming short of conference title glory, did upset Ohio State and finished the season No. 6 in the nation.

But this year’s teams have shown potential to be even better, and this weekend’s Penn State Invitational will be a prime opportunity to show that to the

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improved Rothschild – demand extra attention. When teams do commit numbers down low however, the rest of the floor opens up for the guards. Penn forces teams to pick their poison: either defend Betley and the guards and risk a big game from the bigs, or focus on stopping Brodeur and Rothschild and risk the opposite.

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“Bella’s really good. She creates a problem, because she can play inside and outside,” Penn coach Mike McLaughlin said.

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nation.

Returning five of their six AllIvy selections from a season ago — the most in the entire conference — expectations were high for the Penn men entering the year, and the team hasn’t wilted under the pressure. Penn holds a 9-1 overall record, with the only loss coming to defending national runner-up Ohio State in a 15-12 decision where Penn was missing both Justin Yoo and Connor Mills. Though the women graduated All-Ivy selections Dana Kong and Alejandra Trumble, they also have gotten out to a strong start, holding an equal 9-1 record with the loss also coming to Ohio State.

But as strong as the Quakers have been, they’ll be put to the test against the stacked field at the Penn State Invitational. Four of the men’s teams and five of the women’s teams competing on Saturday finished in the top 10 last season. The field is headlined by Columbia, who ended at No. 1 for both genders despite being upset by Penn’s men, and will be especially hungry for revenge in the men’s teams’ first matchup since then.

Both the Penn men and women are already 2-0 this year against teams they will be facing on Saturday, having each topped Penn State and North Carolina. But the Nittany Lions, whose men finished last season ranked No. 6 and women were No. 4, have the advantage of being in their home arena this time around.

This helped them in last year’s edition of this tournament, when the Penn men and women both lost to Columbia and Penn State en route to third-place finishes.

With elite foes like Penn State, Columbia, and Duke on tap, Penn will have no shortage of top competition to put its elite records to the test. If this is truly the year that Penn contends for something more than an Ivy League championship, it’ll be on full display this weekend.

Our take: Based on its performances over the past few years, Penn fencing has established itself as one of the nation’s top programs, but this year’s men’s squad just might be the best yet.

Columbia’s men and women are both undefeated this season, but the Lions haven’t faced any squads of the same caliber as

Penn. Meanwhile, Penn State did have the Quakers’ number last season, but Penn men’s team’s 19-8 blowout over the Nittany Lions only five weeks ago proved that this version of the Red and Blue can hang with anyone.

It’s unclear whether the Penn

men will be at full strength with stars like Yoo and Mills competing. But if the Quakers have all of their best athletes on the floor, we think the Red and Blue men will drive home as tournament champions. As for the women, closing the gap with the Lions — who topped Penn, 18-9, at

the 2017 Ivy Championships — might be a tall task, not to mention that the women have a harder field because Temple does not have a men’s team.

But still, we expect the Quakers to improve on last year’s effort with a second-place finish here.

team. We never say who we’re going to go to or who’s our go-to guy,” Donahue said. “We’re one of the few teams in the country that – nobody in our team has more than a 22 percent usage rate at the end of the possession. I think that’s a good thing.”

Early in the season, Rothschild did not have as much success alleviating pressure from Betley and Brodeur. Now that he has established himself as a legitimate offensive threat, with both his size

and increasingly with his vision, the Quakers have become a very scary team to play against.

It’s rare that two teams shoot as well as Penn and Princeton did.

The Quakers shot 52 percent from the floor while the Tigers made 45 percent of their shots. Both teams shot above 53 percent in the second half. Those types of numbers would make it seem like both teams struggled defensively, but that could not be further from the truth.

Both teams limited each other to mostly contested, well-defended shots. They just kept making them.

“I thought that was a wellplayed basketball game, very well fought,” Donahue said. “For me, limiting them to seven assists is a big number, because it means we’re guarding our man, not overhelping. … So I thought we guarded them, we didn’t over-help, and for the most part I didn’t think we fouled.”

Rothschild in particular shined

defensively, helping limit Princeton’s Myles Stephens, one of the Tigers’ best scorers, to eight points, including just two in the second half. The junior also supplied five assists, bringing his season total up to 31 through 15 games, a solid number for a big man.

“I thought he was terrific,” Princeton coach Mitch Henderson said. “He made big plays, he was calm, he played like a veteran in the league. I thought he was a big

part of it.”

Up two with under a minute to go and the ball, the Quakers needed a bucket to make it a twopossession game. With Princeton forced to respect every shooter on the court, Penn was able to get the ball to Brodeur in a one-on-one situation. Brodeur doesn’t miss many of those — and he didn’t on Saturday afternoon, scoring a clutch bucket to help ice Penn’s first win over Princeton in nine tries.

for Penn, but whoever she plays.”

While the Tiger’s frontcourt made the biggest difference in the second half, it was junior Gabrielle Rush’s shooting which put Princeton up at halftime to begin with.

Rush scored 14 of her 17

points in the first two quarters, including four makes from downtown and a perfect five-for-five shooting from the field. Entering Saturday, the guard averaged less than four points per game.

“They made shots,” McLaughlin said. “The bottom line is they

made some really difficult shots at the right time, and we didn’t.”

In addition to Parker and Nwokedi, Penn also got solid contributions from senior guards Anna Ross and Lauren Whitlatch, who scored 11 and nine points respectively.

Ross connected on only 30

percent of her shot attempts, but she provided solid ball handling and facilitating for the Quakers all game. Ross finished with seven assists and didn’t turn the ball over once.

While this is a tough start for the Red and Blue’s quest to defend their Ancient Eight title,

they will look to rebound next weekend when they take on Cornell and Columbia at home.

“Hats off to Princeton. We’ll learn from this one. We’ll be back at it Monday and Tuesday,” McLaughlin said.

“We’ll be ready for next weekend.”

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One game.

That’s all it took to convince me of Penn men’s basketball’s fate this season.

Last year was different. The Quakers had an up-and-down nonconference slate, with the young team turning in inconsistent performances at every turn. In one game, they dispatched La Salle comfortably behind an insane 35-point performance by then-freshman AJ Brodeur. The very next game, Brodeur only scored seven and Penn lost its fourth straight Ivy League game.

I never did end up giving up on the Quakers last year, even when the conference losing streak hit six.

The same can’t be said of all of us at DP Sports, but the moral of the story is that it took half the Ivy season for the editors of this paper to be convinced.

Maybe my optimism is just stronger than the collective pessimism in our office, but it only took one Ivy League game for me to be sold on this year’s Quakers. You read it here first – I personally guarantee that Penn men’s basketball makes the Ivy League Tournament.

I’m fully prepared to eat my words, but I’m confident I won’t have to.

I don’t even think it’s a hot take.

The balance of the evidence so far points to a top half finish in the conference. For starters, the Quakers have run off their best start in years.

The last time Penn started a season 10-5 was more than ten years ago. That year, the Red and Blue went on to win the Ivy title and an NCAA tournament bid.

Last year, the Quakers came up with a big win over Central Florida.

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After a victory over Princeton in the Ivy opener, Penn men’s basketball is set up to make a run to the Ivy tournament.

They also lost to Navy and George Mason. This year’s performances have been more consistent, the season opening loss to Fairfield notwithstanding.

The beauty and the pain of sports is that those results don’t necessarily tell us anything about what the team will do in conference play.

Past performances do not guarantee future results.

That being said, Penn’s performance so far, this year is that of a hungry team ready to challenge for an Ivy League title. The wins over Dayton, Monmouth, and now Princeton have proven that much.

Just as important as the wins was how the Quakers got the job done.

Coach Steve Donahue seems comfortable with his starting five.

The group – juniors Max Rothschild and Antonio Woods, senior Darnell Foreman, and sophomores Ryan Betley and Brodeur – have been steady. Each have played the lions share of the team’s minutes and rank in the top five in scoring.

Offensively, balance has made the Quakers hard to defend, while newfound depth has provided the ability to lift the team when it needs a spark. On the other side of the ball, the Red and Blue have limited opponents to just over 70 points per

game, three points below the national average.

Of course, the non-conference schedule doesn’t mean much. Until the Ivy League proves itself worthy of an at-large NCAA bid, Penn’s non-conference schedule effectively becomes a series of exhibition games.

With that in mind, the Quakers are 1-0 in the games that matter.

That’s as small of a sample size as you can get. But the win over last season’s undefeated champion – the first win over Princeton since 2014 – means something more.

To be the best you have to beat the best, and Penn knocked down that challenge on their first try.

Penn men’s basketball has me convinced. They are legitimate, serious contenders for an Ivy title this year. If last year’s team could make the tournament at 6-8, this year’s edition should have no problem getting in with two or three losses.

I’m not guaranteeing a title just yet, but I’ve seen nothing to suggest the Quakers can’t get it done.

THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS is a College sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pa. and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at papazekos@thedp.com.

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Ivy League basketball is back, and with it comes a familiar weekend format.

Penn men’s and women’s basketball are both set for the first weekend back-to-back of the Ivy season. Both teams will square off at home against Cornell on Friday and Columbia on Saturday.

After defeating Princeton for the first time in nine tries, the men (10-5, 1-0 Ivy) find themselves with a newly earned status in the Ancient Eight: contenders.

But with their new label, the Red and Blue also find themselves facing an even higher level of expectations. That doesn’t seem to bother the team very much heading into the weekend.

“We know what this means,” senior guard Darnell Foreman

said. “We know what every weekend means and how important it is, and how important it is to come out and play your best, especially at this time.”

Against Cornell on Friday, Penn’s defense will especially be put to the test. Junior guard Matt Morgan leads the entire Ivy League in scoring, with 24.9 points per game, and as a team, the Big Red are averaging 77.2 points each time they take the floor.

“This is my 27th year since I started in the league, and [Morgan is] as good a scorer as I’ve ever seen in so many different ways,” Penn coach Steve Donahue said.

Even if the Quakers are able to hold Morgan in check, things won’t get much easier on Saturday when they take on Columbia.

The Lions are also led in scoring by a dynamic guard, as 5-foot-11 sophomore Mike Smith averages over 18 points per game.

Last year, on the road against Columbia, Smith lit Penn up for a game-high 20 points to help end the Quakers’ five-game winning streak and put the Red and Blue in

serious jeopardy of missing the inaugural Ivy League Tournament.

As costly as that loss had the potential to be at the time, Penn overcame it and gained some valuable experience along the way.

“All of the things that we did last year — going 0-6, getting back in it, then competing on this stage in the Ivy League Playoffs — I think those are all things that will benefit us now,” Donahue said.

As for the women (6-5, 0-1), a poor performance against Princeton has the Quakers hoping for their first conference victory this weekend. The defeat was a humbling one, as Penn was dominated in the second half, but the squad has plenty of time left to turn things around.

In Cornell (4-9, 0-0), the Red and Blue will face an opponent that has struggled to score all season. The Big Red are the only Ivy team averaging less than 60 points per game, and have topped 70 points only three times.

The Big Red do have one of the better scorers in the Ivy League

Historic effort earns Mattiace DP Sports Player of the Week WRESTLING | Grappler upset tourney’s No. 1 seed, moved into top 10 nationally JONATHAN POLLACK Senior Sports Editor

There were plenty of great moments from Penn Athletics over winter break. A 36-yearold pool record was shattered, Penn men’s basketball took down Princeton for the first time in four years, and Penn women’s basketball’s Eleah Parker won three straight Ivy Rookie of the Week awards.

But only one athlete took down a ranked opponent.

Penn wrestling’s Frank Mattiace had himself an extremely

successful winter break. Highlighted by his takedown of No. 6 Nate Robert, Mattiace’s efforts were enough to earn him DP Sports Player of the Break.

The fifth-year senior dominated his matchup with South Dakota State’s Robert at the Ken Kraft Midlands Championships, upsetting the tournament’s No. 1 seed by a score of 8-1. The Montville, N.J. native entered the tournament as the No. 5 seed, then advanced all the way to the finals. Despite losing to Iowa’s No. 8 Cash Wilcke in the final bout, Mattiace became only the 11th wrestler in program history to reach the finals at the Midlands.

But even after the strong performance at the Midlands, Mattiace wasn’t done. At a pair of dual meets in California, Mattiace recorded victories against both Cal Poly and Stanford. His win against Stanford’s Nathan Traxler was especially significant, as it gave Penn its only lead of the day.

Mattiace’s performance over break was also enough to move him up in the national rankings. He now sits as the No. 8 wrestler in the 197-pound weight class in the country, up from No. 15.

With the season beginning to heat up, Mattiace seems to be hitting his stride at just the right time.

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Senior guard Darnell Foreman and freshman center Eleah Parker are two key players for the Quakers this weekend as they each will task with defending some of the top scorers in the Ivy League.

in sophomore Samantha Widmann. The guard is averaging 15.5 points per game, and is coming off a 23-point, 14-rebound performance against New Jersey Institute of Technology.

On Saturday, Penn will face off with Columbia (6-9, 0-0), where the team will be tasked with stop-

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For Torgersen, the signing represents a chance to start over after a rough start to his NFL career. Penn’s former star was cut by the Washington Redskins just a month after signing with their practice squad in September, and was cut by the Atlanta Falcons in September after failing to impress enough during the preseason.

Just a few days after Torgersen signed with the Lions, O’Malley was added to the Giants’ active roster.

The 2016 graduate was a captain and two-time All-Ivy honoree with the Quakers, and scored nine touchdowns in his 40 career games.

O’Malley has previously spent time on the Oakland Raiders’ and Buffalo Bills’ active rosters. He spent nearly two months of his rookie sea-

ping senior guard/forward Camille Zimmerman. The Ivy League’s leading scorer torched the Quakers for 28 and 31 points in the two games last year, and the Lions’ offense runs through her.

That job will mostly be left to senior forward Michelle Nwokedi and freshman center Eleah Parker,

as a large chunk of Zimmerman’s points come near the basket. Parker, in particular, has played well as of late, earning three straight Ivy Rookie of the Week awards over winter break.

The action begins at 5:30 on Friday, when the women tip off against Cornell.

son on Oakland’s active roster, appearing in one game.

O’Malley first signed with the New York Giants as a member of their practice squad on Dec. 12. Eighteen days later, O’Malley was promoted to the active roster ahead of the Giants’ Week 17 game against Washington, though he didn’t appear in New York’s 18-10 win.

However, the NFL dreams weren’t limited to former students, as Urban was hired by the Ravens after working for the Bengals for seven seasons as a wide receivers coach.

As such, Urban’s most pressing task will be to help 2013 Super Bowl MVP and 2008 NFL Rookie of the Year Joe Flacco improve in his 11th NFL season. Excluding the 2015 season in which he only played 10 games, Flacco’s passing yardage (3,141), passing touchdowns (18), and passer rating (80.4) in 2017 were all his lowest outputs

since his rookie season.

“I want to win football games, do what it takes to win football games, and put people in place to win football games,” Urban said in the Ravens’ press release. “The Ravens are about tough, physical, disciplined football, and those are appealing things to me.”

Urban has been in the NFL in some capacity for the past 13 seasons, working for the Bengals from 2011 to 2017 and the Eagles from 2004 to 2010. Prior to his tenure with the Eagles, Urban had a tremendously successful fouryear stretch as Penn’s director of football operations, during which the Quakers won three Ivy League titles.

Overall, the NFL was the gift that kept on giving for Penn football this holiday season — and if all goes well for these former Quakers on and off the field in coming months, there could be a lot more to be merry about.

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It started with a whimper, but PennPrinceton men’s basketball didn’t stay quiet for very long.

The much anticipated – and once delayed – Ivy League season opener stalled out the gate as neither team seemed able to land a punch: the first points came almost three minutes into the game. Once that was out of the way, the two archrivals treated those in attendance with one of the most exciting regular season games in recent memory: a 76-70 Penn win over defending conference champion Princeton.

Princeton (7-8, 0-1 Ivy) drew first blood to end the scoreless stretch, but Penn (10-5, 1-0) quickly responded. The Tigers’ largest lead occurred four minutes into the game at 5-0. The Quakers took a 9-7 lead a minute later and never

relinquished it, making seven of their next nine shots after missing their first five.

Penn sophomore Ryan Betley was easily the best player on the court in the first twenty minutes. The guard didn’t sit for a single second of the game and scored 19 first-half points, finishing with a gamehigh 21. Betley finished the game shooting 73 percent from the floor, including a perfect 3-for-3 from beyond the arc.

As electric of a first half Betley had, his final twenty minutes were a lot quieter. Princeton guard Amir Bell locked onto Betley and didn’t allow him many looks. Instead of forcing the ball to him, Penn was content to look elsewhere – particularly to junior center Max Rothschild.

“Ryan was hot; most of the stuff was off the double in the post in the first half, and they were scrambling. He took advantage of it,” Penn coach Steve Donahue said. “They didn’t double in the second half, and I thought we hurt them in the low block with Max and AJ [Brodeur] and then cuts off of that.”

Penn’s balance is perhaps its biggest strength. The Quakers’ two bigs – sophomore forward AJ Brodeur and a muchSEE MBB PRINCETON PAGE 14

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Former Penn football players and staff enter NFL ranks

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Penn women’s basketball falls flat against Princeton in Ivy opener

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After an up-and-down season, former Penn quarterback Alec Torgersen saw his 2017 end on a high note, as he was signed to the Detriot Lions’ practice squad before the final week of the NFL season.

Despite holding Princeton star Bella Alarie in check, senior guard Anna Ross and Penn women’s basketball couldn’t keep up with Princeton’s high-flying offense and hot three point shooting.

Torgersen, Watson see NFL hopes progress over break

Quakers lose to Tigers for the first time in three years

COLE JACOBSON, THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS, WILL SNOW, & CARTER THOMPSON Sports Editors, Senior Sports Editor-Emeritus, & Associate Sports Editor

It was a good holiday season for Penn’s NFL hopefuls.

Former Penn football products and affiliates saw themselves making imprints all over the NFL. Penn saw senior wide receiver Justin Watson invited to the EastWest Shrine Game, 2017 graduate and quarterback Alek Torgersen signed by the Detroit Lions, 2016 graduate

and tight end Ryan O’Malley signed by the New York Giants, and Penn’s Director of Football Operations from 2000 to 2003 James Urban hired as the Baltimore Ravens’ quarterbacks coach.

The first news came regarding Watson, whose pro career might have just gotten one step closer.

Following another historic season in which the senior set Penn’s all-time records in career receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns, Watson was invited to the 93rd East-West Shrine Game, an annual all-star game featuring top college football seniors from schools around the United States.

“I am thankful for the opportunity to represent Penn one more time at the Shrine

Game,” Watson said in a press release. “My coaches and teammates have all helped me become the player I am and have helped put me in the position to play at the next level. I look forward to this challenge and taking the next step in my football career.”

For Torgersen, his journey in the NFL will live on as he was signed by the Detroit Lions to their practice squad in late December.

The Lions added Torgersen following the release of 2017 sixth-round draft pick Brad Kaaya, and Torgersen could have the chance to gain his footing on the Lions’ practice squad for several months as the NFL’s offseason apSEE NFL PAGE 15

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Sometimes, the shots just don’t fall.

On Saturday, Penn women’s basketball fell to Princeton, 7055, at the Palestra. The Quakers shot just 33 percent from the field, while the Tigers connected on 24 out of 51 of their shots, including 8-for-21 from three.

The game was the Ivy League opener for both teams and the first rematch of last year’s Ivy League championship, which

Penn (6-5, 0-1 Ivy) won 57-48 to punch its ticket to the 2017 NCAA Tournament. The two favorites to win the Ancient Eight — who have combined to win eight straight conference titles — will meet again at Princeton (11-3, 1-0) in February, but the victory gives the Tigers a big lift in the opening stretches of Ivy play.

Entering the game, the battle in the paint seemed to be the key matchup as both teams boasted dynamic starting frontcourts.

In the first half, center Eleah Parker and forward Michelle Nwokedi more than held than their own against the Tigers’ bigs, as the Quakers trailed by just three at the break. But after the intermission, Princeton’s Bella Alarie and Leslie Robinson made the Quakers pay.

The two Princeton forwards

combined for 21 points in the second half, and the Tigers broke the game open in the final quarter. The Quakers trailed by just six entering the fourth, but Princeton scored the first four points of the quarter to push its lead to double digits. The Red and Blue would never come within eight points for the rest of the game.

“I give a lot of credit to our inside game,” Princeton coach Courtney Banghart said. “I feel like Bella in particular was incredibly physical.”

Alarie’s defense and rebounding also caused Penn a lot of problems down the stretch. The 6-foot-4 Maryland native flirted with a triple-double as she added 12 rebounds and eight blocks to her scoring total.

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