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uphoria spread across the wet streets of Philadelphia last night as the clock on the Super Bowl ran out, and it became clear that the Philadelphia Eagles had beaten the New England Patriots 4133 in Minnesota. Penn students, staff, and faculty joined thousands of Philadelphians in every corner of the city as they celebrated the team’s

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first ever Super Bowl win. Minutes after the game ended, Penn students were seen charging down Spruce Street in the rain, yelling “Go Eagles!”; cars heading into Center City were honking non-stop as firecrackers were set off on Broad Street and throngs of people in green marched down Market Street waving Ea-

gles flags and chanting, “We all we got. We all we need.” Swarms of Philadelphia police attempted to control the crowd as it spread across the city but to little avail. Even as garbage trucks were used SEE EAGLES PAGE 9

Penn students design space adventure for Disney contest

Blaze Bernstein’s memorial to be held at Kelly Writers House

The Engineering juniors made it to the finals

Family and friends will cook Bernstein’s recipes

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A team of four Penn students presented their ideas to Disney executives as finalists in Disney’s 2018 Imaginations design competition last week. Disney Imagineering, the research and development division at Disney responsible for creating the company’s worldwide parks and attractions, sponsors the annual Imaginations competition which culminates in California. Teams of college students and recent college graduates nationwide complete a project challenge in only a few weeks to compete in the contest. The process mimics a realistic workflow for Disney Imagineers when they’re developing company projects. This year, the challenge was to locate an “actual, abandoned ‘ghost-town’ from anywhere in the world and revitalize it” in a way that would appeal to the masses. Penn’s team, comprised of Engineering juniors Jess

To honor the life of College sophomore Blaze Bernstein, the Kelly Writers House will host a memorial on campus on Feb. 18. The goal of the memorial, which was planned in collaboration with Bernstein’s friends and other Penn administrators, is to memorialize Bernstein in a way that would be most fitting to who he was, said Bernstein’s pre-major advisor Jamie-Lee Josselyn. “When we thought of Blaze as a group, and this was very much led by his friends, we didn’t think about a formal service. We thought about just getting some people together,” Josselyn said. “And, of course, eating.” Bernstein went missing a month ago on Jan. 2. A week later, his body was found dead in a park in Orange County, Calif. A suspect has since been arrested in connection to Bernstein’s death, which authorities have confirmed to be a homicide. More recently, reporting from ProPublica has found that Samuel Woodward, the 20-year-old who has been charged with Bernstein’s death, had close links to a neo-Nazi hate group.

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Bennet Caraher, Anthony Nardone, Jess Peng, and Liz Reckart created the project to provide an immersive space experience

Peng, Liz Reckart, Anthony Nardone, and Bennet Caraher, settled on what they called the Kessler Project — a space adventure that takes place in abandoned space landmarks, like the International Space Station and China’s Tiangong-1. Their idea landed them a spot among six finalists in the competition this year, and on Jan. 21 they flew to Imagineering headquarters in Glendale, Calif. to pres-

ent to a panel of Imagineer judges. Peng said the Kessler Project aimed to get people excited about space exploration and its history by taking users into space on a rocket ship. “What we wanted to do was provide a really immersive experience in traveling through space and being able to appreciate a lot of SEE DISNEY PAGE 3

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Bernstein’s parents are planning to speak and share a tribute video that was shown at his service in his hometown, Orange County, Calif.

As investigations into Bernstein’s disappearance and homicide have unfolded on the national stage, Penn students, staff, and faculty who knew the College sophomore have found various ways to mourn his loss here on campus. After his death was confirmed, Writers House held an intimate vigil for him on Jan. 10. The University also hosted a support group for the entire Penn

community in Houston Hall the following day. On campus, Bernstein was involved in the University’s food magazine, Penn Appetit, and had just been elected to be the managing editor prior to returning home in December 2017. He was also a copy associate for the literary magazine, Penn Review, and was SEE MEMORIAL PAGE 8

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Penn removes name “Wynn Commons” from plaza

The Penn Biden Center launches Feb. 8 in Washington, D.C.

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Penn revokes Wynn and Cosby’s honorary degrees Wynn’s name also removed from his eponymous plaza SARAH FORTINSKY & REBECCA TAN Senior News Editor & Executive Editor

Nearly a week after reports emerged of a decades-long pattern of alleged sexual misconduct by former Penn Trustee Steve Wynn, the University announced on Feb. 1 that it would revoke Wynn’s honorary degree, which was granted in 2006, remove the name “Wynn Commons” from the common area outside Houston Hall, and remove Wynn’s name from the scholarship fund that he established by donation. “The nature, severity, and extent of these allegations, and the patterns of abusive behavior they describe, involve acts and conduct that are inimical to the

core values of our University,” Chair of Penn’s Board of Trustees David Cohen and President Amy Gutmann wrote in an email to the Penn community. Early on Feb. 1, the name “Wynn” in the large seal outside Houston Hall was covered with a metal rectangle, the next day, the University had removed Wynn’s name and replaced it with bricks. The announcement comes one day after the University of Iowa also announced that they would be removing Wynn’s name from their Institute for Vision Research. If the change is approved by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, it will mark the first time in UI’s history that a donor’s name will be stripped from a building or institute. On top of removing Wynn’s name and revoking his honorary degree, Penn has also announced that it would be revoking the

honorary degree granted to Bill Cosby, who has been accused by over 50 women of sexual misconduct. This is a departure from the position taken on by the University two years ago, when these allegations first emerged. In a statement provided at the time, University spokeperson Steve MacCarthy said, “While the allegations against Mr. Cosby are deeply troubling, it is not our practice to rescind honorary degrees.” Just two days prior to Cohen and Gutmann’s email announcement, the signage for “Wynn Commons,” which was named after the 1963 College graduate following a $7.5 million donation in 1995, was defaced. Streaks of black paint were seen across Wynn’s name and some reported to have seen police on the scene. The Division of Public Safety said then that it had

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The decision to revoke Wynn and Cosby’s degrees comes at a moment of nation-wide reckoning with sexual assault and harrasment — a culture which students want the University to better deal with.

yet to find the culprit behind the defacement. In the emailed statement sent on Thursday, Gutmann and Cohen wrote that the process that went into deciding to rescind Wynn’s honorary degree “made it also clear that the multiple and highly credible charges involving Bill Cosby warranted the same action.” This is the first time in over a century that Penn is rescinding an honorary degree. German Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm II was awarded an honorary degree in 1905, and German Ambassador to the United States and Mexico Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff received one in 1911. Both had their degrees rescinded in 1918 following the United States’ diplomatic break with Germany during World War I. This decision to rescind the degrees given to both Wynn and Cosby came after a recommendation to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees from a group of trustees, alumni, deans, and faculty, “who deliberated carefully on the nature of the charges made against Mr. Wynn and the correct course of

action the University should take in response,” Gutmann and Cohen wrote. They added that the Trustees unanimously decided to accept these recommendations and to take immediate action. “Our nation is currently undergoing a profound reckoning regarding the role and extent of sexual misconduct in all areas of our society,” Gutmann wrote. “As a University, we have always been, and will always continue to be, looked to by our alumni and neighbors, our faculty, and most of all by our students, for moral leadership. We must not – we cannot – fail to provide it.” While many student leaders applauded the administration for cutting ties with Wynn and Cosby, some students want Penn to focus more on campus policy and ensure reporting sexual assault becomes less burdensome. “The most important thing is if that same philosophy carries over into how administration deals with sexual violence issues on Penn’s own campus especially where it comes to policy and the violence issues that students come into contact with,” said College senior Ariana Martino,

who is the producer for V-Day and the Vagina Monologues show. “That should be getting equally as much attention if not more in terms of what students are looking for,” she added. Fifth-year Graduate School of Education student Mark Lewis, a member of the pro-union group Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania, said Penn’s move was a “symbolic gesture” and that the “real significant ways to address sexual violence and sexual harassment need to include looking at our own policies.” “The first thing I thought of was that it was a symbolic gesture and a much needed additional response would be to implement a serious grievance procedure so that students who experience sexual harassment have a process to go through,” he said. Lewis helped author a petition last semester calling for a better system to report incidents of sexual misconduct within GSE, after several incidents involving faculty members in the graduate schools highlighted discrepancies in the reporting procedure.

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Penn Police morale ‘low’ as negotiations remain at standstill No progress has been made on salary contracts JAMES MEADOWS Staff Reporter

Penn Police officers have been working for six months without a contract and the president of their union said morale is at an “all-time low” as negotiations between the Division of Public Safety and the Penn Police Association have ground to a halt. The contract between the PPA and the University expired on July 31, 2017 and has yet to be renewed because representatives from the union and DPS have not been able to agree on the terms of the contract. Over the past couple of months, union members have voiced their grievances about being required to work overtime on a fairly consistent basis, such as during the “Bomb Cyclone” in early January 2018 when officers had to assist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, PPA President Eric Rohrback said. Although officers who are tasked with mandated overtime are paid time-and-a-half, Rohrback added that the impromptu hours are particularly hard for officers with family commitments and issues at home. Even though they are given extra compensation, they still are required to work. Despite there being no formal contract that permits the assigning of overtime, Maureen Rush, the DPS vice president, said, “the collective bargaining agreement between us and the union solidifies the right to assign overtime. We need to assure that we serve the public need.” Overtime notwithstanding, wages and pensions continue to be points of contention between the PPA and DPS. The union submitted an ad-

vertisement to The Daily Pennsylvanian in early September 2017 to publicize their frustrations with the negotiations and call on the Penn community to advocate for their interests. The ad encouraged students to ask the University to “compensate their police department fairly.” Penn officers have a starting salary of less than $52,000 and a maximum annual salary of less than $65,000, according to data provided by the Penn Police. Both rates are lower than those for the Philadelphia Police Department and those of officers at other campuses such as Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, Rutgers University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University. “They keep telling me that there is no more money for us, and that we can go three years without a contract,” Rohrback said. “I tell the members that, and they go, ‘OK.’ This is something that they are passionate about. They feel that they deserve this.” Additionally, Rohrback said Rush told him that if Penn police officers were not happy with their current conditions, they could take their employment elsewhere. When the DP reached out to DPS to confirm Rohrback’s accounts of conversations with Rush, DPS neither confirmed nor denied that they took place, and instead provided a general statement. “We are happy to discuss any issues regarding the contract at the next round of communications with the Penn Police Association. My command staff and I are proud of the great work being done by the dedicated officers of the Penn Police Department,” Rush wrote in the emailed response. Even so, Rohrback said many

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The main grievances voiced by Penn Police Association members are the consistency of overtime work and inadequate compensation.

officers who join the force from the Philadelphia or surrounding county departments partly do so because of Penn’s competitive health care benefits and tuition benefits for their college-aged children. In November 2017, for the 10th consecutive year, DPS was ranked No. 1 in safety and security in the higher education sector in Security Magazine’s “Security 500” list. DPS comprises 178 personnel, 117 of whom are sworn University of Pennsylvania Police Officers. Of those 117 police officers, 87 are members of the Penn Police Association — nearly three quarters of the force. The remaining 30 nonunionized officers are primarily composed of higher ranking, or “A1,” officers such as lieutenants and captains whose terms of employment do not allow them to formally unionize.

Rohrback contends that some of these A1 officers have quietly voiced their support for the PPA’s efforts. According to Rohrback, however, they remain relatively uninvolved in union negotiations, out of fear of retribution from Rush and other senior DPS administrators. In early October 2017, DPS gave the PPA a “final offer” for a 9-percent base-salary increase over three years, but members of the PPA rejected it with a vote of 59-to-4, Rohrback said. The PPA’s labor attorney, Stephen J. Holroyd, a lawyer with the firm, Jennings Sigmond P.C., did not respond for comment. Despite the ongoing negotiations, both Rush and Rohrback assure the surrounding community that internal disputes will not affect the standards of normal security operations. “We want to solidify the collective bargaining agreement for everyone,” Rush said.

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those historical places that are now forgotten or just haven’t been visited by astronauts,” she said. The team proposed an inter-orbital museum based in the now-unused Tiangong-1, which was China’s space station prototype and orbital laboratory. Their submission also incorporated spaceships which could transport guests from the Tiangong-1 to other abandoned space landmarks among the clouds of debris orbiting Earth. Teams were asked to evaluate the environmental, social, and cultural impact that their proposal might have on the communities involved. Peng said the team chose to call attention to potential issues facing space travel. “We wanted to bring awareness to something called Kessler syndrome, which basically describes how space debris multiplies due to collisions with abandoned satellites in space,” she said. The team hoped that their imagined inter-orbital museum would raise public awareness of the issue and help to reduce the amount of space debris in orbit, which could make space exploration nonviable in the future.

Clearly, the Imaginations proposals were not expected to be immediately practicable: The winning team, from Savannah College of Art and Design, proposed an underwater exploration center of sunken, 17th-century ruins in Port Royal, Jamaica, according to a press release from Disney. Though the Kessler Project did not ultimately place among the top three Imaginations proposals, the Penn engineers felt their experiences were invaluable. Reckart said that she was the happiest about having met fellow finalists and current Imagineers. “A lot of it was networking and learning about what Imagineering is and seeing what the people do and it was just a really great learning experience,” Reckart said. The team also met “alumni” from the Imaginations competition who now work at Imagineering. Disney promotes the competition as an avenue for “seeking out and nurturing the next generation of diverse Imagineers,” according to their website. Peng said she appreciated seeing a diversity of roles and backgrounds among Imagineers. “They were all incredibly talented,” she said. “We were blown away.”

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Penn Biden Center will officially open on Feb. 8

The Center will try to integrate academic perspectives MANLU LIU Staff Reporter

Almost exactly a year after former Vice President Joe Biden was named a Penn professor, the Washington, D.C.based Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement will celebrate its official inauguration on Feb. 8. The Center’s “soft opening” was in March 2017, Director of Communications Carlyn Reichel said, and since then Biden has led its work in diplomacy, national security, and foreign policy. Located in a suite within a larger office building, the Center has already been involved in several projects concerning foreign policy. Reichel noted that Michael Carpenter, the senior director of the Center and a former aide of Biden, had recently written a 10-page essay on Eastern Europe as part of his work in the center. She added that Biden uses the Center as his main office

when he is in D.C. According to Reichel, one of the major goals of the center is bringing Biden to Penn. The exact nature of Biden’s professorship at Penn, however, has been a source of confusion for some students and professors. Many students had thought that Biden would be teaching courses at the University, but in February, Biden spokesperson Kate Bedingfield confirmed he would not be instructing classes. Over the past year, Biden has appeared at several events on campus, including a public conversation with Penn President Amy Gutmann in March 2017. Many Penn students were moved by his talk in November 2017 about his new book “Promise Me, Dad,” which included an exploration of his grief following the death of his son, Beau. “As a person who wants to enter politics, it was incredibly inspiring to hear about how he thought that working in politics was one of the most honorable things a person could do,” Col-

lege freshman Rachel Steinig said after attending the book talk. On Feb. 15, Biden will be coming again to Penn to take part in the 2018 Silfen Forum at Penn to discuss asylum seekers, refugees, and immigration policy. “[Biden] will certainly be on campus several more times before the end of the semester,” Reichel said. However, she added that it’s policy not to reveal the details of Biden’s events in advance because plans often change. While the Center works to give Penn students access to conversations with world leaders, Reichel said that the Center benefits from the intellectual discussions and research provided by Penn faculty and the Perry World House. She added that she believes this collaboration with “Penn’s academic resources” sets the Center apart from “other D.C. think tanks.” “Sometimes there’s a policy divide between the policy practitioners and the academic community,” Reichel said.

“We think by having the Penn community as a resource feeding into the work we’re doing, we’re going to form a really critical function here in terms of the policy-making role.” Several Penn undergraduates have had the opportunities to take on semester-long internships at the Center. In addition to assisting in the day-to-day operations of running an office, interns take part in planning social media strategy and conduct research on foreign policy topics such as Eastern Europe and Russia, Reichel said. She added that for now, these internships are open to Penn students only and not to those from other universities. College and Engineering sophomore Kavin Jagnarain, who is part of the Penn in Washington internship program in Washington, D.C., said he was able to meet Biden when he attended a conference that the former vice president held for student interns last week at the Center. Jagnarain added that he will be helping out at the Center

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Biden has appeared at several campus events, including a conversation with Penn President Amy Gutmann about his new book in March 2017.

on Fridays starting next week because his internship at Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) office is only four days a week. Reichel said the official opening of the Center on Feb. 8. will feature a small program between journalist Andrea

Mitchell and Joe Biden, and a reception. The reception will be attended by foreign policy thinkers in the D.C. community, Biden’s former collaborators on policy, members of Perry World House, and Penn faculty.

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College alumna to lead ‘Girls Who Invest’ program The group holds a program at Penn every year GIOVANNA PAZ Staff Reporter

In early January, the nonprofit organization Girls Who Invest, started by a Penn alumna, announced its new chief executive officer, a College graduate. 1996 Wharton graduate Seema Hingorani founded the organization, which provides exposure to investment management to girls in high school and college, in April 2015. Janet Cowell, its new CEO, is a 1990 College graduate who received a master’s degree in international relations and an MBA in 1995. Cowell previously served as the state treasurer of North Carolina from 2009 to 2016, the first woman to ever hold the position. According to Business Wire, she managed more than $100 billion in “assets,

and health and retirement benefits.” “Janet is a highly accomplished industry professional, and she will propel our organization and its mission to the next level of growth,” Hingorani said in Business Wire’s press release. “I look forward to working with Janet along with my fellow Board members as we continue to deliver on our goal to have 30% of the world’s investable capital managed by women by the year 2030.” For the third year in a row, Girls Who Invest will host its annual fourweek summer program for young women interested in asset management on Penn’s campus. Cowell noted that this summer, the organization will also host a cohort of 50 girls at the University of Notre Dame. After the program, Girls Who Invest works to maintain a connection with the young women and helps them find junior internships or jobs

after graduation with the help of sponsors like Goldman Sachs, Vista Equity, and Bloomberg Philanthropies, Cowell said. She added that the team is currently reviewing more than 600 applications they received last fall for the 100 available slots for the programs at Penn and Notre Dame. The organization also places a heavy emphasis on finding a diverse class of young attendees. “We’re looking for different majors, so these are not young women who are necessarily finance majors but some are science, some may be heavily involved in ROTC,” Cowell said. “But just a really rich mix of young women. All of whom have a threshold of ACT scores, SAT scores, GPA, that show they’ve got the chops to actually do the finance that’s going to be core to investment management.” Wharton finance professor Bilge Yilmaz has helped since the incep-

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Penn can sometimes feel a bit like the Upside Down. These brave columnists have made it their missions to call out our campus’ Demogorgons including mental health, sexual assault, preprofessionalism, and hyper-competitiveness. What they lack in Eggo’s, they make up in egos.

ALEX KUANG is a College freshman from Pleasanton, Calif. studying biology. His email address is akuang@sas.upenn.edu. "Trapped West Coaster" usually appears every other Monday.

AMY CHAN is a College senior from Augusta, Ga., studying classics. Her email address is chanamy@sas.upenn.edu. "Chances Are" usually appears every other Sunday.

JENNIFER LEE is a College sophomore from Fairfax, Va. studying international relations. Her email is leej@dailypennsylvanian. com. "The Wallflower" usually appears every other Monday.

SPENCER SWANSON is a College freshman from London, studying philosophy, politics and economics. His email address is sswanson@sas. upenn.edu. “Spencer’s Space” usually appears every other Tuesday.

CALVARY ROGERS is a College junior from Rochester, N.Y., studying political science. His email address is calvary@sas. upenn.edu. “Cal’s Corner” usually appears every month.

CARLOS ARIAS VIVAS is a College freshman from Stamford, Conn., studying communication. His email address is cariasv@sas.upenn. edu. "Convos with Carlos" usually appears every other Wednesday.

JESSICA LI is a College sophomore from Livingston, N.J., studying English and psychology. Her email address is jesli@sas.upenn.edu. "Road Jess Traveled" usually appears every other Wednesday.

LUCY HU is a College sophomore from Auckland, New Zealand, studying political science. Her email address is lucyhu@sas.upenn.edu. “Fresh Take” usually appears every other Sunday.

DYLAN REIM is a College senior from Princeton, N.J. studying philosophy and political science. His email address is dreim@sas. upenn.edu. "DReim Journal" usually appears every other Thursday.

CHRISTINE OLAGUN-SAMUEL is a College sophomore from Paramus, N.J. studying health and society. "Ebony and Ivory" usually appears every other Monday.

MATEEN TABATABAEI is a College freshman from Newton, Mass. His email address is mateen@sas.upenn.edu. "Taba's Take" usually appears every other Wednesday.

NAJAY GREENIDGE is a College junior from Jamaica, studying cognitive science. His email address is najayg@sas.upenn.edu.

JAY SHAH is a College junior from New Hyde Park, N.Y. in the Behavioral Basis of Behavior Program. His email is shahjay@sas. upenn.edu. "Shah Speaks" usually appears every other Thursday.

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about to start his term as a copy associate for 34th Street Magazine. The official memorial for Bernstein has been scheduled for Feb. 18 so that the student’s parents, Gideon Bernstein and

Jeanne Pepper, could be in attendance. “We want to celebrate Blaze’s memory with his Penn family. Penn was Blaze’s pathway to greatness which was being paved by KWH, Penn Appetit, and Penn Review amongst other organizations and activities,” Gideon Bernstein wrote in a

statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian. “Our family wants to help to bring closure to all of Blazes friends and colleagues who mourn his loss with us. We look forward to hearing stories about Blaze, and sharing them as well.” College sophomore Amy

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Marcus, one of Bernstein’s closest friends on campus, is helping to organize the memorial. She said the Writers House was “by far Blaze’s favorite place on campus,” and that they are planning a memorial “that honors his amazingly quirky self.” “We’re trying to combine everything he loved in life for a moving ceremony that honors everything we loved about him,” said Marcus, who is also a writer for 34th Street Magazine. The format of the memorial will be communal and will start with a lunch provided by the Writers House, Josselyn said. Guests will be encouraged to bring side dishes and desserts, and Josselyn said some have already begun thinking of ideas of what to make. Josselyn said someone plans on baking a “spiced rum and plum upside down cake,” which Bernstein made on New Years Eve, and someone else has decided to make cranberry cake, which the College sophomore made for Thanksgiving at the Writers House. Marcus said she decided she would make snickerdoodles, since every time she got sick, he would bake them for her and bring them over. “In a symbolic way, we all want to cook the foods that Blaze used to cook for us because if there was anything

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN | THEDP.COM Blaze loved more than cooking, it was sharing his food with his friends and family,” Marcus said. Bernstein used food to bring people together, Marcus said, who recalled numerous times where Bernstein would show up at her door with food he just made and say, “We’re eating. Here’s what we’re doing: I made this food, and we’re gonna eat it.” Their ultimate goal, however, is to make sure the memorial does justice to who Bernstein was. Currently, the students, Josselyn and others are planning to incorporate certain elements that might be “quirky and irreverent” and that “may be a little funny and seem a little weird for a memorial services, but the kinds of things that Blaze would have wanted.” Most recently, Marcus said she and Josselyn had discussed getting temporary tattoos of La Croix, a brand of sparkling water that Bernstein always used to drink, since Bernstein had joked of getting a tattoo of La Croix over break. “Even though of course there’s a lot of sadness, we want his energy and his humor to be reflected in that day, which is why we’re thinking about this as more of an informal gathering than a formal ceremony,” Josselyn said. After the lunch, there will be a section for Bernstein’s parents

and friends to speak. His parents will also play a memorial video, which was created for the service at home in California, after which any of the attendees who wish to speak will have the chance to do so. Penn Hillel will also be working with the LGBT Center to open up a space in Hillel’s building on Feb. 18, LGBT Center Director Erin Cross said. The event, which will start at 3 p.m., is meant to provide space “for those affected by Blaze’s loss and its aftermath,” Cross explained. Josselyn acknowledged that the impact of Bernstein’s death has extended beyond just those who knew him personally. “I know that this situation is one where a lot of people have felt it even if they didn’t know Blaze,” Josselyn said. “I just hope that anybody who feels like having some community around this will feel comfortable attending, and our doors are open.” Marcus added that this memorial will be different from the funeral and memorial in California. “I think what we’re looking to do here is more of a celebration of his life and all of the quirks and all of the personality traits that all of us came to know and love so much over the last year and a half,” Marcus said, “and to show his parents the Blaze that we all knew and loved.”

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for crowd control, fans in Eagles jerseys were seen climbing traffic poles, moving vehicles, and buildings in various states of undress. By midnight, cars had been turned over and vandalized, and multiple traffic poles outside City Hall had been taken down by fans. College freshman Daniel Acosta who was celebrating downtown said, “The city is transformed, everyone is incredibly happy.� “It’s just so amazing. You want to be part of the history,� said Wharton senior Isabela Peralta, who is from Costa Rica. “Where we come from, Latin America, it’s super big to go down to the streets and see everybody united for a cause, so it’s pretty cool to be here now and go through the same thing here. And it’s our senior year so it’s ten times cooler.� But some students who traveled down to Center City said the excitement of the situation escalated too quickly. College sophomore Kaila Helm said she saw “people running up and down the road, people climbing walls, people climbing lampposts.� She added, “It’s just really crazy.� Helm said she decided to return to campus once she witnessed a group of people flip over a car. “A bunch of people flipped a car and there were three or four people including myself yelling ‘stop’ and everyone else just watched and cheered them as they defaced someone’s property, which is absolutely insane,� she said. After finishing 7-9 for the past two seasons, the Eagles found much more success this year, finishing as the top seed in the National Football Conference with a record of 13-3. The last time the team reached the Super Bowl was 13 years ago, when it lost to none other than the Patriots. Even before the start of the game, city officials had been making preparations for the crowds. Over 50 police officers were stationed along Broad Street, which was closed from City Hall to Pine Street. The bars on Broad Street were overflowing with fans cheering throughout the night, and many — Penn students and local Philadelphians alike — gathered in the pouring rain outside the full-capacity

Masculinity summit discussed harmful pressures men face

bars to watch the television screens through the foggy windows. Located on the corner of 15th and Walnut streets, the Fox & Hound Sports Tavern Bar and Grill was packed to capacity. Howl at the Moon, a bar at 15th and Latimer streets, was also completely full. People were lined up down the block waiting to get a seat in these bars. Penn football players, College sophomore Choyce Bostian and Wharton junior Nico Ament, were standing outside of the Fox & Hound Sports Tavern Bar and Grill during the game. Bostian made a somewhat prescient warning during the game, “If Philadelphia wins this game I doubt there will be laws in the city tonight. It will be absolutely wild.� During the game, there was little to no room for servers to move inside, and drinks were being passed out from the bar as everyone’s eyes were glued to the game. Every 10 minutes or so, people chanted “free beer!� “I’m always rooting for the underdogs, so I’m hoping we pull through,� College freshman Kelsey Padilla said, as she was watching the game in Houston Hall. A large group of students also gathered to watch the game in Hill College House. “Yo, it’s my first year in Philly, and it’s the first year the Birds going to win. Let’s watch it, let’s get it!� Wharton freshman Lobo Itzol from Guatemala said toward the middle of the game. “It’s my first time watching football, and they’re doing a good-ass job, so I’m with it.� College freshman Kevin Zeno, who was also watching the team in Hill, said he had ties to each team. “I’m from Massachusetts, but I want the Eagles to win,� Zeno said during the game. “Either way, I’m going to be happy, but I want the Eagles to win, so I can celebrate here in Philly.� It was a nerve-wrecking two hours, but many of these students got exactly what they wished for. If the scenes on campus and across the city last night were any indication, the Super Bowl celebrations aren’t about to stop anytime soon. News Editor Madeleine Lamon and Staff Reporters Lucy Curtis, James Meadows, Avni Kataria, Julie Coleman, Dan Spinelli, and Manlu Liu contributed reporting.

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At Penn’s first Men & Masculinities Summit, Penn students, administrators, and high schoolers gathered to discuss issues relating to men’s gender identity on Feb. 3. The conference, which took place in Houston Hall, sought to educate people of all backgrounds on the toxic effects of masculinity and provide a safe space to discuss its impact. The conference comes a week after news broke of former trustee and College graduate Steve Wynn’s reported decades-long pattern of sexual misconduct and just days after Penn announced its decision to remove Steve Wynn’s name from Wynn Commons, revoke his honorary degree, and remove a scholarship in his name. The same email announced that the University would also be revoking Bill Cosby’s honorary degree. “We started planning much of this before a lot of these conversations became national focal points, so I’m glad that we have this ready,â€? said Malik Washington, the associate director of Sexual Violence Prevention & Education. Washington said that the conference consolidates discussions about masculinity that were already taking place around campus. “I think there’s also a lot of men who want to be engaged and want to be involved and they just don’t know how yet,â€? Washington said. “I hope that this summit provides those opportunities and knowledge to do that.â€? JosuĂŠ “JQâ€? QuiĂąones, a

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OPINION Does ‘pulling trig’ actually prevent nausea and hangovers? TRAPPED WEST COASTER | Making yourself throw up can lead to health problems down the line

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It’s one in the morning on Friday night — somehow, with a lot of luck and the aid of the meandering zigzag on Locust, you’ve staggered back home. You’re perfumed with the cheap scent of Franzia (Sunset Blush, of course) and perched on your knees in front of the toilet. One hand desperately clasps the porcelain and the other is barely holding on to the bathroom wall. Should you pull trig? Ah, to hell with it. You’ve got a busy day tomorrow and you’ll feel better immediately. I had never heard of “pulling the trigger,” or “pulling trig,” before coming to Penn. The act is not unique to our school; even back in California, friends would throw up to avoid a hangover the next day. And I’m sure people have made themselves yak ever since alcohol was invented back in who-knows-what year. It seems to make sense. Your body will naturally make you throw up once you drink a certain amount —

what’s wrong with speeding up the process? “Pulling trig” is thrown around so often here that it sounds like a fun social activity you and your friends do on a Friday night. Picture this: four of your friends in a circle around a white toilet bowl, blasting Drake, taking turns while laughing the whole time. Pulling trig has become the holy cure for a wild night of debauchery, but no one seems to know exactly what it does. From talking to my friends, I’ve heard theories that it “gets the alcohol in your body out of your system” and that it is a “guaranteed hangover cure.” I decided to see for myself what exactly made it so effective. Here are the facts I dug up: Your body absorbs a bit of alcohol from your stomach and most of it from your small intestine. Once the alcohol enters the bloodstream, it goes to your liver, where it is metabolized. The whole absorption process takes 30 to 90 minutes

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depending on a variety of factors, including differences from person to person (genetics, age, sex, and race) and how much food you

formation, pulling trig may actually make you worse off. Then I was curious — why does everyone say that pulling

There may be a potential placebo effect involved as well; if you believe that it helps, you may feel better.” have in your stomach. The reason you feel drunk is that the alcohol in your bloodstream also circulates to your brain. Throwing up, forced or otherwise, will clear the contents of your stomach. Logically then, if it’s been more than 90 minutes since you last ingested alcohol, all the alcohol has entered your bloodstream and there is no reason to pull trig. An examination of the harms of vomiting takes us all the way back to seventh-grade health, when we were cautioned on the dangers of bulimia. Among other things, if done often, it can erode teeth and cause damage to the mucus lining of the esophagus. Vomiting also dehydrates you. Though this may not increase the chances of having a hangover, dehydration is a separate and severe issue with concurrent effects. Given this in-

trig makes you feel better? According to one theory, your body releases endorphins when you vomit, which make you feel better. You focus less on the stresses on your body and feel like you’ve purged the alcohol from your system. There may be a potential placebo effect involved as well; if you believe that it helps, you may feel better. At this point I was quite shocked. All the research I’ve done has overwhelmingly indicated that pulling trig has no tangible benefit, so how did the phenomenon get so big at Penn? I think it comes down to a lack of formal instruction about alcohol and its effects on the human body. When browsing the abstracts for research articles, I was blown away to discover that dehydration is not the hypothesized cause of a hangover. Some of my closest friends

ALEX KUANG have told me to chug a 44 oz. Wawa water to feel better the next day, and now I’m left wondering how much that actually helps. Granted, it has to be said that not much research has been done on this exact topic. When browsing through Google Scholar, EBSCO, and NCBI sites, I found much research on vomiting, alcohol absorption and metabolism, and bulimia, but zero literature on self-induced vomiting for the purpose of preventing hangovers or lowering body alcohol. All things considered, your body is yours and what you choose to do with it is no one else’s business. But, if you want my advice — take it easy on pulling trig.

ALE X KUANG is a College freshman from Pleasanton, Calif. studying biology. His email address is akuang@sas.upenn. edu. “Trapped West Coaster” usually appears every other Monday.

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The classroom should not be a passive environment DREIM JOURNAL | Now everybody put your hands in the air I once heard a professor joke that “you can explain 80% of what happens in a classroom by the students’ desires to get dates.” He meant to point out jokingly that students — particularly younger ones — are often concerned with how they appear to their peers to the point that it can define how they approach and engage with their classes. Though I’m sure we’re not (quite) as date-fixated as the joke would suggest, there is a truth to it. Getting the full benefit out of our education requires us to engage with the class experience itself, and the awkwardness of meandering through a question you don’t quite know how to ask

or the potential embarrassment of giving a plainly wrong answer in front of all one’s peers shouldn’t stop us from getting there. I talk in my classes — and it isn’t just raising my hand to answer the professor when they ask a question. There’s a lot of room in the idea-based political thought and philosophy courses I tend to take for opinions and interpretations, and I’ve often found the ideas of my peers as interesting as the professor’s, so I try to ask questions of other students to help me sort through and inform my own process. I’d like to issue a general apology to anyone who has gotten sick of my input in a lecture they enrolled in expecting not to

have some random student pose questions to the room. But, I want to believe there’s value in the classroom being more than a series of two-way relationships between professor and student. There’s a backstory here. My freshman year, I took an intermediate-level German class taught by a professor notorious for being a stickler for German grammar and syntax (I’ll let you decide for yourself what to call that). Each class began with a dense, fast opener in full German to which one student was meant to give a detailed response. I remember us all being fairly good speakers for our experience level, but the professor’s openers were often beyond us. Needless to say, people weren’t exactly fighting for the chance to respond. When someone was finally picked each session, there was a clunky, tense, awkward few minutes in which their response was picked apart and restructured word-byword in front of the class. For a while, most of us were visibly uncomfortable during the process. It’s embarrassing to be put on the spot, even more so to CATHERINE LIANG | DESIGN ASSOCIATE be put on the spot in a

language you’re struggling to speak conversationally. After a few go-rounds of this, I started wondering why I — a person who is rarely embarrassed or shy of the spotlight in my personal life — was freezing up in this class. I came to realize I was only uncomfort-

So I started being wrong. Like, really wrong. And really often. The finer points of my German grammar were about as real as Krampus (he’s like an evil German Santa — Google it), so my professor had a lot to work with. But once I started volunteering and energetically DYLAN REIM

Getting the full benefit out of our education requires us to engage with the class experience itself, and the awkwardness of meandering through a question you don’t quite know how to ask … shouldn’t stop us from getting there.” able because of the knee-jerk reaction that this was an uncomfortable situation. The only one really judging me in those moments was myself. There were no classmates rolling their eyes that I struggled with the plusquamperfekt (don’t ask) or deciding I was inferior because I didn’t use the genitive case. Those reactions were ascribed to them by me to fuel the discomfort I thought was supposed to accompany being on the spot.

going at these small discussions, I started to learn and retain so much more than I had before. In addition to actually learning more, it seemed that the whole class was more willing to be wrong, too. If someone else volunteered first and broke the ice with a few mistakes, there would often be multiple others ready to jump in and follow suit. Some would even give perfect responses — I want to be-

lieve they went on to be German majors. But the bottom line is: once I stopped imagining that class was a scary place full of judgment and shame where you speak only when spoken to, I began getting the real value out of the experience. That’s the energy I try to bring with me to all my classes now, and one I think we’re all capable of bringing in our own way. Ask that question. Share that opinion. Respond to a student about something they said, rather than using the professor as a go-between. Have a conversation. Put yourself on the spot until it feels natural — you’d be surprised how quick you own it. DYLAN REIM is a College senior from Princeton, N.J. studying philosophy and political science. His email address is dreim@sas. upenn.edu. “DReim Journal” usually appears every other Thursday.

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Wading through a dry spell in my writing CHANCES ARE | How my friend’s success made me hate what I love Sometimes, I think each of us has a limited well of passion, which lasts as long as we know how to use it. Some of us are wiser — we conserve it. We trickle it, filter it, run it through some sort of recycling system so the well will never dry, accrue a surplus which only becomes purer the older we get. And some of us use it all at once. We gulp it up, let it splosh in our stomachs until we can’t breathe, pee it out in one brilliant stream which dies as quickly as it started, leaving us with only an

unpleasant stench and a feeling of emptiness. Lately, I’ve been wondering whether my well has run dry. Writing, which I used to love, has become something I hate. This turmoil exploded over something as superficial as an award. My friend and I had both submitted some writing to a competition to win some money and a title. I figured I had it in the bag. My friend, who studies business, isn’t a prolific writer. In fact, she confessed herself that writing was merely her hobby.

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And I, arrogant as I was, a selfprofessed “wri-TEUR,” twirling my invisible handlebar moustache and mentally murmuring all the French I knew, assumed naturally I would win. To my chagrin, as karma and the universe and the Furies who punish all with too much hubris would have it, my friend won. She hadn’t hoped for anything, had entered her writing for sheer amusement, and she had won. When she told me, I tried my hardest to smile for her, but I was distraught. It wasn’t as if I didn’t want her to win. But in my pride, I thought I deserved to win more. As if somehow, because I was louder about my love of writing, I had been worthier of the award. As if recognition is given based on desire, not talent. I thought to myself, “Why do I write if no one will recognize how good I am?” I grew bitter. My bitterness had long been germinating in my stomach, fed by envy and the excesses of dinner. Even before my friend had won the award, I had resented writing. The power of having this column, having a voice which people listened to, was going to my head. Whereas I started out

writing for myself and others, to assuage my fears and any of those like me, I now wrote to obtain reads, numbers, hits on my column. I wanted to be acknowledged. My love for writing was distorted into a greed for success, which in turn degenerated into a hatred of writing, because

wanted. We are taught that ideals do not matter if we cannot translate them into numerical, material success. We grow cynical, detached from our dreams. How, then, are we supposed to rediscover our original passion? What do we do when something we love becomes something we AMY CHAN

My love for writing was distorted into a greed for success, which in turn degenerated into a hatred of writing, because it could not give me the recognition I so craved.” it could not give me the recognition I so craved. A lot of us experience this phenomenon when we enter college. We set foot on campus, naive dreamers with nothing in hand but an ideal and a passion. And each time we fail, or each time we succeed, we are taught that what really matters is not how much we wanted something, or how beautiful the thing we wanted was, but how effectively we could take what it was that we

hate? The simple answer would be that we forget everything else, let the sheer joy of doing what we originally loved be enough. But that would require a near-pathological ignorance of the world around us. The truth, as unpleasant as it sounds, is that recognition in some form does matter. There has to be a need for our work for it to be useful. So, the real answer is, we wait. In waiting, we can step back

from doing the thing we love — attaching less personal value to it. Or we can stop doing it completely — finding other interests to complement our main passion. Because, when something we love becomes something we hate, what we really need is space. Separated from the thing we love, we’ll find what it was that called us to it in the first place, and the newfound appreciation of old passion will overshadow the allure of success. Because if we ever truly loved something, we can and probably will love it again. AMY CHAN is a College senior from Augusta, Ga., studying classics. Her email address is chanamy@sas. upenn.edu. “Chances Are” usually appears every other Sunday.

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — If you had to pick a pair of games to describe Penn women’s basketball, these would be the two. The Quakers won twice this weekend by sticking to the game plan that has worked so well for them in recent years: stingy defense and balanced offense. Penn dominated Brown, 88-55, on Friday, and dispatched Yale the next day, 69-54. On Friday, the Quakers’ defense, especially the guards at the top of the zone, did an excellent job shutting down two of the premier offensive threats in

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eton-Penn? That’s kind of like saying you and your little sibling are “rivals.” Penn is that little brother that you have that always tries to talk smack and say they’re better, yet always ends up with their face in the mud after a fight. And Princeton? Well, we’re the ones that put him there. After a while, it starts getting kind of boring to beat up on your brother.

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does it really count as home court advantage if your court is under 90 years old? Besides, at the end of the day, what really matters are the games in March. Those ones will be played in the holiest building in college hoops. When that time comes (if for you), the Palestra will be rocking, Penn will be winning, and your band will still be wearing

the Ivy League in Brown’s Shanya Mehta and Justine Gaziano. The pair combined for just 12 points in the first half, and only put up bigger numbers in garbage time. “I think we kept them in front of us,” coach Mike McLaughlin said after the game on Friday. “I think we kept changing up our pressure, we varied what we were doing, as they were changing, we were trying to adjust to them.” Against the Bulldogs (10-9, 3-3 Ivy), the Red and Blue (135, 4-1) put up another stalwart defensive effort. In addition to four blocks and 10 steals, Penn limited Yale to 33 percent shooting by forcing them into taking low-percentage shots. And that number is misleading still, as the Elis shot much better towards the very end when the game was out of reach. On the offensive side, both games saw production up and down the lineup. While five different players recorded doubledigit points against Brown (135, 1-4), six different players had at least six points against Yale.

And it wasn’t just the starters either. Senior guard Beth Brzozowski tied a career high with 16 points against Brown, while sophomore guard Phoebe Sterba and freshman forward Tori Crawford put up 13 and six points respectively against Yale. Everyone who saw the floor had valuable offensive contributions. “I think Lauren [Whitlatch] said it best yesterday, if it’s not a posts game, it’s a guards game,” senior forward Michelle Nwokedi said. “The post gets double-teamed, and it leaves [the guards] wide open.” That type of multifaceted offensive attack is when the Quakers are at their best. When all five players on the court can hurt opponents on offense, teams get burned by focusing on any one individual. And on any given night, a different player can lead the charge. The Quakers also feasted on the offensive glass, totaling 38 across both games. That effort was spearheaded by Nwokedi, who racked up six in just the Yale game, giving the Red and

Maybe you just ignore him for a bit, or maybe you leave entirely. In your absence, your little brother has tried to fill your shoes, getting a little stronger and thinking that when you come back, maybe they’ll finally win a round or two. And sometimes they get the better hand. But where will they inevitably end up? With their face in the mud. So give us our 3-2 conference record, give them the 1st place standing and give us a home game when half the

school is preoccupied with Eating Clubs. But no matter what you give us, you can’t change the facts: Princeton is the big brother of this relationship and will continue to be until Penn can prove us otherwise. Penn, maybe one day you’ll feel what it’s like to win 11 of the last 12 games in this matchup. Maybe one day you’ll rise to the top of the standings and put us in our place. But until then, we hope you like the taste of your face in the mud.

those ridiculous hats. (By the way, why does half of your band hold props instead of playing instruments?) And have some dignity. Please try not to cry in your mashed potatoes in front of your eating club friends. It’s pathetic, but at least you won’t be eating alone. Congratulations if you made it this far! (We weren’t sure how long New Jersians could read before they ran out of gas – and had to find someone else to fill up their

tank for them.) Oh, one more thing. If this column has you in your feelings a little too much, you know where to find us. Just come down to the Palestra and we’ll settle this the old-fashioned way: a couple of editors, a ball, and a hoop. And when you lose that too, take a minute and check out the old scoreboard in the back: Penn 125, Princeton 113. We’ll see you then, little brother.

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Senior guard Anna Ross helped guide the Quakers to another Ivy weekend sweep against Yale and Brown by recording 13 points, five rebounds, and six assists across against Yale.

Blue multiple second-chance scoring opportunities. Both the defensive and offensive efforts serve as evidence that this team is truly starting to play cohesively as a unit. “I’m just loving the way we’re playing,” McLaughlin said after the Yale game. “We’re

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more punch left in them though. The atmosphere quickly went from comfortable to worrisome at the very end of regulation when Yale pulled back within five with under a minute to play. A missed free throw by Betley gave Yale a tiny glimmer of hope, with the chance to go two for one to end the game. But Betley made up for the miss with a clutch defensive play on the other end to force a Yale turnover. Caleb Wood finished the job by hitting a pair from the stripe, to squash the Elis’ upset bid. “It’s different this year,” Betley, who scored twelve points on the night, said of the team’s late game calmness. “Last year I feel like we might have crumbled, but this year I was confident the entire time,” Betley continued.

sharing the ball, we played 11 players in the first half, I think that’s giving us some flow, it’s giving everyone an opportunity, keeping everyone on the edge of their seats.” Penn has extended its win streak to seven, and seems to be playing its best basketball

“Sometimes we make it scary, but I think within our team we’re very poised this year and we understand what we have to do to close it out.” Sophomore star AJ Brodeur embodied that confident demeanor all night. The big man had trouble finding the basket throughout the game, scoring his first bucket with under five minutes left in the game, but his influence was felt on the glass and on defense. At one point, he grabbed a steal and then blocked a shot on consecutive possessions. Then, moments later, he took a charge to force another turnover. Brodeur’s defensive presence proved to be plenty, as his teammates picked up the slack on offense. Four Quakers finished in double figures, accounting for a combined 49 of Penn’s 59 points. Caleb Wood led all scorers with fourteen while juniors Antonio Woods and Max Rothschild contribut-

at just the right time. With the heart of Ivy play yet to come, the Quakers are coming into their own, and the rest of the Ancient Eight should beware. But, if McLaughlin is right, the best could be yet to come. “This team is getting better and better every day.”

ed with double digit stat lines of their own. Following the offensive fueled nail biter against Brown the night before, points were at a premium, but the Quakers showed no signs of fatigue as they marched to their fifth conference win of the season. At this point last year Penn was 0-6 in Ivy play. The team has gone 11-2 in Ancient Eight play since, and sits atop the league with the conference’s only perfect record. A quick turnaround will challenge the Quakers when they travel to Princeton on Tuesday, and they still have to play second place Harvard twice. But, at this point in the season, the Quakers have the pole position in the league title race. This group is sharp, and Penn looks poised to be playing a couple extra home games come March, when the Ivy League tournament comes to town.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL TAKES DOWN YALE On Feb. 3, Penn men’s basketball defeated Yale 59-50. Four different players scored in double figures, including Max Rothschild, pictured on the bottom right, who recorded 10 points and 8 rebounds.

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Clutch peformance by Woods earns him Player of the Week Junior guard put up 21 points basket at will. Against Brown on Friday night, in game against Brown BREVIN FLEISCHER Associate Sports Editor

Needless to say, it was a strong weekend for Penn men’s basketball. The Quakers defeated Ivy rivals Brown and Yale on consecutive nights to improve their spotless conference record to 5-0, and they couldn’t have done it without the herculean efforts of Antonio Woods. The junior guard was all over the court in both games, constantly attacking the opposing defenses, seemingly getting to the

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how the team is approaching the game. “I just don’t really like to think that way,” Donahue said. “It’s about figuring out, ‘Can we get better?’ ... I don’t want human nature to step in here and stop our progress. Somehow we have

Woods was particularly effective, especially from range. He knocked down four three-pointers en route to a season-high 21 points. Equally impressive was Woods’ efficiency. The junior scored on six of his 12 shots for the contest and forced the Brown defense to afford him extra attention, which only created additional openings for his teammates to exploit. The game against Yale proved to be much more of a defensive struggle, but that didn’t impede Woods from delivering on the offensive end. The confidence apparent from the Brown game

clearly carried over to Saturday night’s contest against the Bulldogs. Again, Woods attacked the basket throughout the game, drawing fouls, and finishing at the rim. He scored 13 points and added two assists and even a block. If Woods continues to exhibit such confidence, the Quakers’ sterling 5-0 Ivy League record will only improve. The Red and Blue have been the Ivy League’s premier team so far, but much of that success came before Woods’ breakout games. With a new offensive catalyst emerging, the rest of the conference better watch out. Antonio Woods, this week’s DP Sports Player of the Week, is coming.

to keep getting better.” Even if Penn isn’t approaching Tuesday’s game any differently mentally, the quick turnaround from Saturday will force the Quakers to alter their typical game preparation. Normally, Ivy League teams get six days to prepare for opponents as games are played every Friday and Saturday — but with a game in the

middle of the week, the Red and Blue will have less time to prepare both for their game against Princeton, and their back-to-back games after Princeton during next weekend. It only adds to the challenge that after nearly two straight months of playing at home in the Palestra, the Quakers’ next five games will all unfold on the road.

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“I think the guys are hungry to get on the road, to be quite honest with you. Part of college basketball is loading up the bus, getting in there, and being the villain,” Donahue said. “I think we’re looking forward to that.” Penn junior center Max Rothschild, whose emergence this season has proven to be one of the biggest differences from last

year’s team, echoed that sentiment. “I like going on the road,” Rothschild said. “We kind of like the challenge it brings.” Penn has only played in six true road games all season so far, but the team has been fairly successful in those games, going 4-2. But now that the Quakers sit alone atop the Ivy standings, the

atmospheres in opposing gyms will only be more hostile. While Rothschild was proud of both his own and his team’s improvements, he doesn’t seem to be dwelling too much on Penn’s success. “We just gotta carry that momentum and keep going,” Rothschild said. “There’s still more to be done.”

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In this rivalry, it’s okay to be our little brother

An open letter to our little brother Princeton

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It’s that time of the year again for Tiger fans. Time to get pumped for basketball season and time to flock en masse to Jadwin to watch the Tigers take on the team that looks ready to grab hold of the Ivy League. Bring out your trash talking Facebook posts, your crying Jordan memes, and anything else needed to send the other team packing, hoping that they won’t have to play at Princeton anytime soon. This year, time to throw your energy at none other than … Penn. Wait … seriously? Princeton’s biggest game to date is a home matchup with the Quakers? Talk about a bit of a buzzkill. We get so excited to roast Harvard and Yale, but now we are going to have to spend extra time wrapping our head around a new opponent before we are able to throw some shade. Haven’t thought about Penn basketball recently? It’s okay if you haven’t; neither have we. The last few years, Penn has become a bit of an afterthought because of how many times we have beaten them, which is a real shame considering how hard they try to make PennPrinceton a rivalry. Last season was an especially impressive effort from the Penn faithful: convince an entire league to be the host for an inaugural Ivy Tournament and sneak into the 4th place spot with a LOSING RECORD only to try and do what no other Ivy League team — yes no one — was able to do last season: beat us. But yet, they tried. For the 11th time in 12 games, Princeton beat the Quakers and ultimately got the satisfaction of hoisting a never-before-seen trophy in the hallowed Palestra. Cheer up Penn fans, at least you got a good view. But I digress for the moment. After all, this season the tables may have turned. While Harvard and Yale threw away everyone’s confidence with loss after loss during the non-conference, the spotlight turned to who would step up and fill the top of the conference. Naturally, every sane person looked at Princeton as the team to do it. But the Quakers have rewritten the script and find themselves undefeated and in sole possession of first place. I can’t help but give the Quakers credit; I am shocked by this early season’s development and applaud them for getting to where they are now. But now it’s February and it’s time for the true winners to take over a game, a season, and a conference. Let’s go back to that word “rivalry” for a second. When I think of rivalry, I think of Cavs-Warriors, Real Madrid-Barcelona, Falcons-Saints, etc. What I DON’T think of is Penn-Princeton. Princeton-Harvard? Absolutely. Princeton-Yale? Probably. But PrincSEE PRINCETONIAN PAGE 12

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Flashback to February of last year. Princeton was undefeated in the Ivy League and Penn men’s basketball couldn’t buy a win. After the Tigers defeated the Quakers for the second time in the season to push Penn down to 0-6 in the Ivy League, Penn coach Steve Donahue’s diagnosis of his team’s struggles was simple.

“Mental toughness — Princeton has it. We’re trying to get it,” Donahue said after the loss. A year later, the Red and Blue has found themselves getting ready to square off against Princeton on Tuesday for the second time in the season. But this time, it seems safe to say that the Quakers (15-6, 5-0 Ivy) have found their mental edge. “We have an attitude about us,” Donahue said after Penn’s win over Yale on Saturday. “We have guys that are physical, that are tough. That’s how I think we’re going to win.” While the Tigers (11-9, 3-2) are still viewed as a major contender in the Ancient Eight, they’ve shown vulnerabilities this season that were never visible during their undefeated Ivy championship season last year. In its Ivy-opening loss to Penn, Princeton struggled to contain Penn sophomore guard

Ryan Betley, who torched the Tigers for 19 first-half points. More recently in Saturday’s overtime loss against Brown, guards Desmond Cambridge and Brandon Anderson dominated Princeton all game long to combine for 57 of the Bears’ 102 points. Penn also needed an overtime period to beat Brown on Friday, so it’s tough to put too much stock into the Tigers’ upset loss. But if the Red and Blue can leave New Jersey with another win over their rival on Tuesday, the door to a top seed in the Ivy League Tournament will open that much wider. As exciting as that might be for the Quakers’ fans who are hoping to see Penn advance to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2007, it doesn’t appear to have any effect on SEE MBB PRINCETON PAGE 13

Dear Princetonian children, little brothers, and the editors of what apparently passes for a paper: Well, well, well, how the turn tables. Here at the historic University of Pennsylvania, things are looking up — but before we continue, we thought it would be wise to make sure you were ready for this. We know you need three weeks off to take your finals, so if you want to interrupt this column and come back to it next month we totally understand. We’ll just schedule some Big 5 content instead. Take a deep breath of that disgusting New Jersey air. You ready? Last year, your Tigers completed a threegame sweep of the older brother in this rivalry, but in the words of the legendary coach Rick Vice, “You got lucky! Lucky!” (Google it). This time around, things are back to normal. It’s Penn that finds itself at the top of the Ivy League standings, with Princeton left to grovel at our feet. The view is the same if you’re behind the lead dog, and we’d appreciate it if you’d stop sniffing our butt. Penn is no longer an 0-6 team. (By Tuesday night, it’ll be the opposite.) This year, now fully into the Steve Donahue era, it’s finally time for you to witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station. Darth Donahue may not be your father, but he is your daddy. Set basketball aside for a moment. If you’d rather play football like you did last year, that’s fine too. By the way, did your kicker ever get that fruit basket we sent him? Speaking of football, we just wanted to let you know that the greatest player to grace the Ivy League with his presence in the last decade is finally gone. Don’t know who we mean? We’ll give you a hint – it’s not one of your 18 starting quarterbacks. You might remember him from the time he put up eight catches for 124 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner last fall. In case you’ve repressed the memory of his name, we’ll remind you: it’s Justin Watson, a name you might want to get used to hearing on Sundays. And yeah, before you bring it up, we did see the recruit that turned down ‘Bama. All we’re saying is that anyone that chooses Princeton over Alabama clearly isn’t smart enough to go to an Ivy League school. Someone call the NCAA. Doesn’t matter, back to us. The last time these two teams played, some guy named Ryan Betley dropped 19 in the first half. Let coach Henderson know that they might want to try to stop him this time around. And sure, this time, it won’t be in the single greatest building in Philadelphia, the Palestra. But SEE DP SPORTS PAGE 12

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For the second straight night, Penn took care of business at the Palestra, marching to a 5950 win over Yale.

After surviving a scare from Brown (10-9, 3-3 Ivy) in Friday night’s overtime win, the Quakers (15-6, 5-0) had little trouble keeping the Bulldogs (9-13, 2-4) at arms length for most of the night. Fueled by stingy defense and phenomenal offensive play in the paint, Penn jumped out to an early lead, which they never relinquished on their way to a 59-50 victory. Their interior offense was especially vital because for much of the night, the Red and Blue couldn’t buy a three. They started just one of eleven from beyond the arc, but two quick triples from sophomore Ryan Betley and senior Caleb Wood

to start the second half helped Penn begin to find its stroke. It wasn’t until the middle of the second half when Penn began to feel pressure from Yale. The Elis scored a putback with 11:20 left to scrape within one possession, but then Jake Silpe quickly put Yale’s momentum to rest. The junior point guard from Cherry Hill, N.J. ignited the crowed with two straight threepointers. Betley followed with a fancy drive and finger role to stretch the lead to eleven with nine minutes left, and from there the Quakers were cruising. Silpe was only on the floor for six minutes, but his tenacity on defense and timely shooting

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were just what Penn needed to jumpstart its offense. “The reason he’s playing is because he carved himself a role,” coach Steve Donahue said about the scrappy guard. “It’s not the coach making the decisions. In all honesty, he made the decision,” Donahue continued. “He never hung his head, he asked what does he need to do to get better.” From the time of Silpe’s first triple, until there were four minutes left in the game, the Quakers held the Bulldogs scoreless, forcing bad shots and securing nearly every loose rebound. Yale would still have one SEE MBB RECAP PAGE 12

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An unlikely guard came off the bench to lead Penn men’s basketball in scoring in both games this weekend: senior Caleb Wood.

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