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1963 Wharton alum Stuart Weitzman designs shoes for the red carpet that retail for hundreds of dollars a pair CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor-elect

Kate Middleton has been spotted dozens of times wearing his “corkswoons.”

Beyonce loves that she danced “a thousand miles” in his heels. Despite photoshoots with Gisele Bundchen or video collaborations with James Franco, designer Stuart Weitzman still counts his time at Penn as the best four years of his life.

The 1963 Wharton graduate is founder and designer of high-end shoe brand Stuart Weitzman. From strappy gladiators to luxurious overthe-knee boots, countless celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Megan Fox and Jennifer Aniston have worn Weitzman shoes.

Stuart Weitzman Holdings, LLC is a $300 million business with 103 stores worldwide and a namesake classroom in Steinberg-Dietrich.

CEO Wayne Kulkin, who has worked with Weitzman

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for more than 25 years, cites the designer as a “master engineer of footwear” and also “one of the most gifted businessmen on the planet.”

“The one thing I respect the most about Stuart is how he makes all his business decisions — making a profit is secondary,” Kulkin said.

“Creating the best product and doing the right thing to allow the customer to succeed is always the top priority.”

When Weitzman moved into the second floor of Ware his freshman year, design was strictly a hobby. He credits his Wharton education, however, with the techniques to solve problems and think critically in his post-Penn career.

After his father, Seymour Weitzman, passed away in 1965, Weitzman and his brother took over the family shoe business, although he

only committed to designing for the company for a year.

Yet only a few months later, his shoes were on a store window in Fifth Avenue in New York.

“It was my shoe in the window!” Weitzman said. “That was all I had to see, I was so excited. Since then I feel like I worked my hobby my whole life.”

While he had a beautiful and surprisingly comfortable product, Weitzman initially struggled with branding.

“He had a fantastic product, but he didn’t have the right brand,” marketing professor Barbara Kahn said.

“He was very thoughtful on how to build a brand over and above the product.”

Through a series of Vogue advertisements, celebrity appearances in his shoes and store designs by renowned museum designer Zaha Hadid, Weitzman began building

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Penn likely to join new college app platform, once it’s created

Elite schools, including Yale and Harvard, requested proposals for a new app platform BOOKYUNG JO Staff Writer

Penn will likely join a new college application platform for which a group of selective universities is soliciting proposals.

The new platform — which would serve as an alternate option to the Common Application — intends to give more flexibility to each member college by reducing the number of required items for all schools, according to a confidential request for proposals obtained by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Several elite schools, including Georgetown, Harvard, Yale and Princeton universities and Dartmouth College, have already expressed interest in creating a new system.

While Penn has not committed to join the new platform yet, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said once the platform is created, Penn will have to joint it.

“If all your peers are there, you need to be there — it’s a herd mentality,” he said.

The application platform is intended to be used by member schools of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education and the Association of American Universities — two large college coalitions. Penn is a member of both COFHE and the AAU. “By definition, that’s going to be an elite group of schools,” Furda said. “It’s a club that has membership criteria that is very high.”

Laurie Weingarten, director of OneStop College Counseling, said that these colleges are likely soliciting input for a new system because of the trouble many had with Common App glitches last year. As a result of the glitches, several colleges, including Penn, needed to push back their early decision deadlines to accommodate students.

However, she was not sure how this new addition will affect the college application process.

“Right now, I’m not that excited about it because it’s going to add confusion to the process,” Weingarten said.

For example, students might not know which platform they should use when applying to colleges.

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Jose Antonio Vargas to speak Dec. 8 The Pulitzer Prizewinning activist is SPEC’s fall speaker SONIA SIDHU Staff Writer

Jose Antonio Vargas will speak on Dec. 8 as the Social Planning and Events Committee’s annual fall speaker, student groups announced Sunday night.

Vargas, a face of the the undocumented immigrant movement, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and creator of the Define American movement, which promotes discussion about immigrant rights. Vargas has been featured on the cover of TIME magazine and recently released a documentary about his life that aired on CNN in June.

Over the summer, Vargas made national headlines when he was detained at a Texas airport by U.S. Border Patrol officers after

telling them he was in the country illegally. After public outcry, he was released from custody on his own recognizance.

Vargas’ speech at Penn comes at a time when the national spotlight is focused on immigrant rights. On Nov. 20, President Barack Obama proposed executive action that would protect nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation.

The organizers of the event hope that Vargas’ presence will emphasize the intersection of issues facing various minority communities, as Vargas represents the undocumented immigrant, Asian and LBGTQ communities. Director of Penn for Immigrant Rights Cristian Montoya, a College senior, said that the image of an undocumented immigrant is that of a Latino and COURTESY OF CREATIVE COMMONS that having an Asian speak Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas will be could break down that stespeaking at Penn on Dec, 8. reotype.

Vargas’ speech was planned by SPEC Connaissance, the Penn Philippine Association, Penn for Immigrant Rights, Queer People of Color and Penn Queer and Asian.

This is the first time that SPEC Connaissance has partnered with other student groups to host its semesterly speaker, which SPEC Connaissance Co-Director Gabriel Jimenez said would send a message that SPEC is open to working with other groups.

SPEC tries to vary the types of speakers it brings to campus each semester, and past SPEC speakers include actor Matthew Perry, political activist Lilly Ledbetter and comedian Jason Sudeikis. However, Jimenez said that this event will differ from past events because “it’s not something that everyone agrees on.”

“It will disrupt campus discourse,” he said.

Wharton explores undergraduate student interest in San Francisco campus A survey was sent out on Thursday to Wharton undergrads COREY STERN Staff Writer

Wharton undergraduates may be a step closer to having the opportunity to spend a semester at the epicenter of the tech world.

On Thursday, Vice Dean Lori Rosenkopf sent an email to all Wharton sophomores asking them to complete a survey on their interest in studying at the school’s San Francisco campus in the spring of 2016.

“Many students have expressed interest in the opportunity to study at Wharton San Francisco for a semester, and the Undergraduate Division is assessing its feasibility,” the email read. The survey asked students about their likeliness to take part in the program if it were of-

fered to them and went on to ask how factors like cost, prerequisite requirements, food and housing could affect their interest.

Wharton launched its first San Francisco programs in 2001, and the school opened its new campus at the base of the Bay Bridge in 2011.

Today, the campus is home to Executive MBA programs and hosts full-time MBA students who choose to spend one semester of their second year out west.

Rosenkopf’s email came just a week after Wharton senior Larry Fan created a petition on Change. org on Nov. 12 titled “Extend Wharton’s Semester in San Francisco Program to Undergraduates.” The petition was created for Adam Cobb’s Management 104 class, in which students were challenged to start a social movement. Fan, along with fellow seniors Vybhavi Bharadwaj, Amanda Chin,

Shaun Lee, Carpus Tin and Theresa Tse, decided to push for a new opportunity for Wharton undergraduates.

“A couple of the people in our group have worked in the Bay Area and appreciated the value of being out there in the center of the tech world,” Fan said. “We looked at Wharton’s MBA’s program that allows them to study in San Francisco for a semester, and with the infrastructure and the demand there, it made sense for undergraduates to be able to do it as well.”

“We want to see the administration at least take on the initiative to consider this opportunity to expand Penn’s presence on the West Coast,” he added.

Though he’s unsure whether his petition played a role in the vice dean’s decision to send the email, Fan is nonetheless thrilled that the administration has decided to take the next step in con-

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Hillel gets Bar Mitzvahed Steindhart Hall celebrated its 13th birthday on Saturday EUNICE LIM Staff Writer

Mazel tov, Hillel! The Steinhardt building, home of Penn Hillel, celebrated its 13th year on campus in style on Saturday in traditional Jewish fashion — with a bar mitzvah.

The celebration featured a kosher spread, open bar — for students and staff over 21 years old — a dance floor, a throwback playlist and bar mitzvah games like “Coke and Pepsi.”

“I hope other students see that Hillel is a place where more diverse events happen,” said Hillel social chair and College junior Michael

Mitzner. “People can come and have fun that’s not fraternity- or sorority- or downtownrelated.”

For many, the bar mitzvah was a walk down memory lane.

“We’re reliving old childhood memories, the halcyon days of my youth,” College sophomore Talia Beck said.

The construction of Steinhardt began in 2001 and was completed in 2003. The building has since offered a kosher dining hall and has been the meeting place for 25 different Jewish student groups. For many Jewish students on campus, however, Hillel — an independent Jewish organization on campus — offers more than just kosher food and religious support. It is a second home and a close-knit community.

“Of course the religious observance aspects are important and it’s good to have a place to keep kosher and Shabbat, but it’s even better because I’m doing it among friends,” Beck said.

College senior Gregory Segal echoed Beck’s sentiments.

“Hillel is home. It’s a place where I can come back to when classes get crazy, a place where my friends are.”

Mitzner, who planned the event, said that throwing the bar mitzvah was like a personal thank you to the building and all that it offers to the Jewish community on campus. “I came to college with a much different view of Jewish life and it’s been expanded in so many great ways through Hillel, and I’m incredibly thankful.”

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Penn receives no Rhodes Scholars for fifth year in a row BOOKYUNG JO Staff Writer

For the fifth year in a row, no Penn student has been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.

The Rhodes Trust announced on Sunday the 32 scholarship winners in the United States who will receive a full scholarship to pursue a degree at the University of Oxford. Among Ivy League universities, Columbia University

and Penn were the only schools without any Rhodes Scholarship recipients.

The university with the most Rhodes scholars this year was Yale University, which produced four. Princeton and Brown universities and MIT each produced three scholars this year. Harvard and Stanford universities received two. Dartmouth College and Cornell University each had one scholar.

The last Rhodes Scholarship

winner from Penn was 2009 College graduate Sarah-Jane Littleford. Twenty-one Penn students have received the Scholarship since it started in 1904. The longest gap between the recipients is 24 years, when Penn did not have a winner between 1939 and 1963.

The Rhodes Scholarship is a highly competitive prize which selects 80 students worldwide to send to Oxford. This year, 877 students in the U.S. applied to receive the scholarship.

Man found beaten to death near campus last Monday JOE LI Staff Writer

An unaffiliated 60-year-old male was found dead in his apartment just blocks away from campus, the Philadelphia Daily News first reported on Wednesday.ok The victim, Theodore Hudson III, was found beaten to

death last Monday morning at his home on 42nd Street and Chester Avenue, the Daily News reported. Investigators believe Hudson was beaten to death by a pair of dumbbells found near his body, and the door to his apartment — which seemed to have been ransacked — was unlocked, according to the Daily News.

Hudson was an employee of Earl Trent Realty, according to the Daily News.

Representatives from the Philadelphia Police Department’s 18th District and Homicide Divisions deferred comment to the Philadelphia Police Department’s press office, which did not respond to phone calls or emails on Sunday.

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Fighting crime, one coordinate at a time DPS’s digital crime map helps Penn Police monitor nearby crime JOE LI Staff Writer

Mitch Yanak isn’t your typical Division of Public Safety officer.

His job isn’t about arresting criminals or patrolling Locust Walk.

Yet he and his team are at the forefront of fighting crime by staring at computer screens, analyzing data sheets and literally keeping track of crimes on Penn’s campus through a state-of-the-art mapping system.

Yanak is the director of Communications for the Division of Public Safety, commonly known as PennComm. Described internally as the “eyes and ears” of Penn Police, PennComm serves as the center for processing emergency calls and dispatching police officers. Deep inside the PennComm office at 4040 Chestnut St., there is a desk armed with almost 10 computer screens of different sizes — the crime map desk.

DPS’s crime mapping system is consistently being updated with new technology. The most recent addition to the map allows Yanak and his team to mark locations of interest for recently released criminals, thanks to a database shared by the Philadelphia Police Department.

“Not every university is able to get crime data from the police department in its city,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. “We benefit from our great relationship with the Philadelphia Police.” Both Rush and Yanak, like numerous DPS officers, had worked for the Philadelphia Police before coming to Penn.

The daily-updated crime map keeps track of reported incidents either shared by the Philadelphia Police Department or gathered

by Penn Police. But the system does much more than just mark circles on a map. It can analyze aggregated crime data and trans-

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Mitchell Yanak, director of communications for the Division of Public Safety, explained the map he helped create to address crime trends in real time.

form it into useful information for making predictions. By counting the occurrence and frequency of crimes categorized by location and time — on the month, week, day and hour level — the system can identify crime patterns and point officers in the right direction for solving or preventing crimes.

PennComm operators usually set a threshold for each type of crime, and when the system detects that the actual occurrence of that crime reached the threshold, it will automatically send a notification to all relevant DPS officers.

The area monitored by the crime map system spans from 20th Street on the east to 60th Street on the west, and from Girard Avenue in the north to Passyunk Avenue in the south. It is a significantly larger area than the Penn Patrol Zone, but Yanak said this is necessary for tracking crime and taking preemptive measures. “It’s important not only to know what happens in your area, but what happens around you,” he said.

Dispatchers also have access

to the crime map system, which helps them guide officers to crime locations and familiarize them with the surrounding environment, such as roads and buildings. Even a new officer on his first day will know how to get to Huntsman Hall or the Quadrangle from any location on campus, Yanak said.

Rush said the success of this summer’s retail-theft task force — which reduced retail thefts by 75 percent at top theft locations — can be largely attributed to the crime map system. Yanak and his crew used the crime map system to go over data of retail theft over the past few years to pick the locations that retail thefts happened most frequently. DPS then dis-

patched Penn Police officers and AlliedBarton guards to stand in front of the stores in order to deter crime.

PennComm has been using its crime map system for nine years — a significant upgrade to premodern technology. “In the old days, you would have a map on the wall and put pins of different colors on it [to mark crime],” Yanak said. There were dangers doing this, Yanak said, because pins can be easily moved around and they may fall off from the map, which could damage the accuracy of crime tracking. Over the past nine years, the system has been upgraded with new features whenever there was a chance.

Police officers started using

digital crime maps about 20 years ago, said Penn Law professor of law and criminology Stephanos Bibas. One of the first police departments to start using these crime maps was the New York City Police Department, which used a system called CompStat to track all types of crime, the locations and the time periods.

“Having the information was extremely valuable,” Bibas said.

“By having this information, they could make better and more effective use of police force and resources.

“You are able to see the pattern you can’t figure out until you look at the map. Modern technology has made pattern recognition a lot easier,” Bibas said.

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Taylor also feels that the Common App doesn’t give applicants enough flexibility, since it doesn’t allow for students to upload essays, which limits how creative they can be with content. Supplemental questions embedded in the Common App also create a lot of confusion among students, she said.

“I think the Common App is way too restrictive,” she added.

The request for proposals asks for developers to create a new platform that will “make it much easier for students to understand, apply for, and, for those who have financial need, to receive need-based financial aid.” But Furda, who is chair of the Common App, does not think the application platform will increase access in applying to colleges.

“If [the new application platform] is going to work, it needs to be more common than customized,” he said.

However, the Common App’s chief isn’t sure what to think of the new proposal at the moment.

“Because so little has been made public about this prospective alternative to the Common Application, it is hard to know what to say,” interim CEO of the Common App Paul Mott said in an email statement.

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YESSI CAN | Financial aid is not a cure-all for low-income and first-generation students

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’ve been told by too many people to remember that it must have been easy for me to get into Penn.

That I have it so easy because I am on full financial aid and don’t have to take out loans.

That I was the perfect diversity candidate. And I am sick of it.

There is nothing easy about growing up with parents supporting not only themselves and six kids, but also providing for family members in Central America. Or worrying that your parents or siblings might get deported before you even finish high school.

Or your family not being able to finance your education. Or knowing that you have little to no safety net to fall back on if you don’t find an internship for the summer, or a job after graduation.

So yes, while students on full financial aid don’t necessarily have to worry about tak-

ing out a loan to survive as a Penn student, some of us have to worry about a lot of other financial concerns the average Penn student does not have to.

Some of us have to worry about pitching in to help pay for medical bills for a family member without health care.

Some of us have to worry about whether our family will be able to pay their mortgage, and whether we’ll have a “home” to return to during breaks. Some of us can’t afford to go home during breaks at all, for financial or emotional reasons.

Some of us have to spend a significant portion of our work-study funds to finance things that we never had access to before arriving at Penn, things like business casual and formal clothes, dental care or even medical exams. Some of us use this “extra” mone — money that our peers might use for BYOs or spring break

trips — to help our families, pay for MCAT or LSAT prep courses and, yes, even go to a BYO once in a while.

Telling a low-income student that they are “lucky” for being from a lower-income family is incredibly ignorant, not to mention disrespectful.

It is ignoring the lived experiences, daily challenges and unequal footing on which we all stand. It implies that low-income students are “lucky” to be here, when really, it is Penn who is lucky for having attracted such a driven student, who is able to balance all their familial and financial stressors on top of the academic and professional pressures that Penn necessitates.

These students aren’t “lucky” to be low-income. If anything, students from lowincome and first generation backgrounds had to fight harder to reach schools like Penn.

Some of these students had to

navigate through college application and SAT fee waivers, defy guidance counselors who discouraged them from aiming so high (if they had guidance counselors at all) and research colleges in a language other than their own first language, with minimal help from parents because they themselves didn’t go to college.

and post-graduation obligations into every class, every student group meeting and every work-study interview they go to.

Perhaps we should acknowledge that a student who goes back home during winter break and does housekeeping with their mother or landscaping with their father doesn’t

Telling a low-income student that they are ‘lucky’ for being from a lower-income family is incredibly ignorant, not to mention disrespectful.”

These are not easy things to do. And they are realities that don’t go away once we’ve stepped onto Penn’s campus.

Low-income and first generation students carry with them the weight of their upbringing, their familial responsibilities

face the same challenges as someone who goes back home and works the front desk or as an assistant accountant at their parent’s or family friend’s business.

As long as comments like “You’re Latina, low-income

YESSENIA GUTIERREZ and first-generation? It must have been so easy for you to get into Penn!” and “You have it so good, you don’t have to take out any loans!” are still thrown at low-income and first-generation students on campus, the already toxic environment at Penn remains even more so for some of its most marginalized students.

YESSENIA GUTIERREZ is a College fifth-year senior from Hollywood, Fla. Her email address is yeg@sas.upenn. edu. “Yessi Can” appears every other Monday.

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wo months before I’ll step into my next semester courses, I already have my schedule. I know what classes I’ll take at what times in what buildings. But I have no clue if I’ve chosen the right courses.

I hate the add/drop period. It’s messy, it’s stressful and it pushes me to crane my neck in my poli sci lecture to watch the girl in front of me register for the Spanish section I’m trying to get into. Selecting classes is hard in the first place; nerdy as it sounds, I get academic FOMO. I don’t want to miss out on a phenomenal class, especially when the cause is Penn InTouch’s constant crashes. But besides brief meetings with our advisers, we receive no real guidance for picking courses. I found myself, somewhat aimlessly, just signing up for classes that sound interesting.

There’s an easy solution,

THE DANALYST | An academic shopping period is required to be an informed consumer and one other schools have been using for years. Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia and Stanford, among other top universities, have shopping periods: structured blocks of time to test out courses before enrollment. Yale, for example, defines its shopping period as a two-week stretch that “allows you to participate in courses that interest you without enrolling in them right away.” The university encourages students to sample classes and make more informed course selections.

Penn should follow suit.

Over the past few weeks, friends have told me they think there’s a lack of intellectual curiosity at Penn.

I don’t buy that. So many people here are genuinely passionate about what they study, and I see that manifest in class discussions. But while some schools allocate the week after winter break to shopping periods, we devote that time to rush. It’s a

small step, but a shopping period would place more of an emphasis on learning for its own sake, rather than fulfilling pre-med/pre-law/Wharton requirements. A Harvard grad described his shopping period in a 2005 Atlantic article as having “… a boisterous quality to this stretch, a sense of intellectual possibility, as people pop in and out of lecture halls, grabbing syllabi and listening for twenty minutes or so before darting away to other classes.” We should work to create a similar environment at Penn.

Furthermore, as college students, we’re consumers of a product. Penn’s tuition is $47,668 a year. If the average student takes five courses a semester, that’s $4,766.80 per class. We wouldn’t buy a $4,000 dress without trying it on, and we shouldn’t have to register for courses without testing them out. There are so many courses I want to take and so little time; I

want to ensure I get the best undergraduate experience I can. Why not let us preview classes for a week, instead of starting off with handing out syllabi? As a friend at Columbia told me, “The shopping period really eases my stress about picking the right classes in the first go, and it allows me to sample different subjects to see if I want to dedicate a semester to them.”

of my friends tried to switch into a course this semester at the end of the add/drop period and was told she had missed too much of class to enroll. What’s more, the add/ drop period often reinforces the emphasis of grades over learning: Most people use the add/drop period to drop classes they’re doing poorly in, instead of exploring academically. Many professors

We wouldn’t buy a $4,000 dress without trying it on, and we shouldn’t have to register for courses without testing them out.”

I understand that many students change around courses during the first few weeks, but it’s a difficult process. Some professors start teaching on the first day of class; it can be hard catching up with missed work. One

ensure they give their first assignments before the add/ drop period ends so that low performers can switch out.

Incidents like that defeat the purpose of having an add/ drop period at all.

As it is now, the add/

DANI BLUM drop period discourages us from exploring intellectually, a problem that would be easily remedied with a structured shopping period.

We have incredible academic resources at Penn. The administration should allow us to take full advantage of them. We deserve to make the best-educated decisions about our education. We deserve a shopping period.

DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” usually appears every Tuesday.

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A California foodie favorite has opened its doors only a few blocks from Penn’s campus.

Wahoo’s Fish Taco has recently opened its first east coast location on 31st and Chestnut streets.

The eatery specializes in burritos, enchiladas and, of course, tacos, including a new salsa made from four different types of chiles. Locally sourced items range from $3 to $10, and the restaurant is stocked with a full bar. Many offerings are available in vegetarian, gluten-free and vegan options.

Wahoo will be open Sunday through Wednesday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Thursday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

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and his team have a meeting scheduled with Rosenkopf this week to discuss the potential for this program.

“We want to ask, ‘How else can we help the administration move forward with this process?’” Fan said. He added that his team was happy to help however possible, whether it meant talking to students and teachers or working on logistical issues.

“Even though we’re all graduating, this is a time for us to give back to the community that we love,” Fan said.

Wharton has already planned to test out an undergraduate program in San Francisco with a small trip over winter break.

Rosenkopf, along with Lee Kramer, the director of Student Life for the Wharton Undergraduate Division, is running a program for undergraduates at

Wharton’s San Francisco campus from Jan. 5 to Jan. 11. Forty students will be partaking in the Wharton Industry Exploration Program, where they will listen to an array of speakers from the tech industry and make visits to company offices.

The Daily Pennsylvanian reported in early October that Rosenkopf was eyeing the possibility of a full-semester program for undergraduates in San Francisco.

“We do hear that there is interest in longer-term sorts of opportunities, and we’re just starting to explore that as well,” Rosenkopf told the DP at the time. “Obviously, we are very aware of the MBA semester in San Francisco and we are assessing the cost and benefits of doing something ... like that.”

A Wharton representative said no one was available with any new information on San Francisco on Nov. 21.

rant in 1988, when brothers Ed, Mingo and Wing Lam decided to infuse their newfound addiction to Mexican fish tacos with a mix of Brazilian and Asian flavors. Today the franchise has achieved a cultlike following in more than 65 locations.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Catching Zzzs for MGMT PennSleeps hopes to raise awareness on the importance of sleep

BY STEPHANIE BARRON Contributing Writer

Few students at any competitive college will have reached this point in the semester without hearing the old adage — “studying, socializing, sleeping — choose two.” Recognizing that the third in the tricolon is often placed on the back-burner, PennSleeps was created to raise awareness of its importance.

“It’s almost like a badge of honor to get only a little bit of sleep,” PennSleeps’ founder and Wharton junior Eric Kim said.

“But there are a lot of benefits to healthy sleep that people kind of

know about but often overlook: it helps with memory consolidation and maintaining body regularity, which is very important for managing stress.”

Kim hopes to raise awareness and alter this mindset to a more healthy one with the launch of his new student group.

Pennsleeps is Kim’s project for his Management 104 class.

The assignment was to spend the semester creating some sort of social movement on campus to enact positive change.

“We’re trying to get students to acknowledge the value of healthy sleeping habits in the context of academics,” he said.

The first event organized

by PennSleeps took place on Thursday Nov. 20 in Huntsman Hall. Sandra Herman, an expert on a variety of wellness issues

and an employee of Student Health Services offered a question and answer session on practical ways to improve sleeping habits to all interested Wharton students.

The meeting began with over 20 attending students introducing themselves and explaining their interest in PennSleeps.

Many of the testimonies suggested a demand for practical advice for maximizing productivity.

As PennSleeps is a movement launched in order to complete the assignments for a class, and as the semester is now drawing to a close, it is unclear exactly what the future of the group will be.

“Our initial goal was just to get the awareness out,” Kim said.

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a brand that appealed to a younger audience.

After years of growing success, Weitzman set out to make it big in 2002. Frustrated that the media ignored footwear at awards ceremonies, he decided to create a product people would have to notice.

At the 2002 Academy Awards, nominee Laura Herring stepped out in a pair of “million-dollar shoes,” courtesy of Weitzman. The sandals, worth $1 million, were adorned with 464 diamonds.

“He figured out ways to get his shoes into his conversation and it was not lucky,” Kahn said.

One segment on E!’s Fashion Police and 400 articles later, Weitzman had changed the world of fashion coverage with new ‘shoe cams’ now capturing footwear at awards shows.

Regardless of his growing success, since day one, Weitzman kept in line with Marketing 101 and put the customer’s needs first.

“I spent the first few years making sure that if a woman

CREATIVITY & AGING

wore my shoes she would keep coming back,” he said.

“The DNA of the company was the engineering of the shoes.”

Someone who wanted to wear Weitzman’s shoes happened to be Beyonce, who wears Weitzman shoes while performing on tour.

“The first time Beyonce called us and wanted to come to the showroom to meet us and tell us what she wanted, my two daughters made me more giddy than I might have been,” he recalled. “They said, ‘Daddy, can we pretend like we’re working?’”

While Weitzman took the Wharton core curriculum, the one class that truly stuck with him was his freshman year mandatory sociology class.

On the first day of the course, the late Professor E. Digby Baltzell pulled out a jug and a canister of golf balls, asking a student to fill up the jug as far as he could.

“We thought it was filled to the brim with golf balls until [Baltzell] filled M&Ms between the golf balls,” Weitzman recalls.

“We thought it was full and it wasn’t.”

Baltzell continued filling

the jug with sand, and finally, water, to teach the class that the golf balls — symbolizing career — isn’t the only thing that fills the jug of life. The candy represented relationships, the sand were students’ hobbies and the water became family.

“Those elements that actually fill up the jug has been a lesson,” Weitzman said. “It’s been a goal of mine to make sure that the golf balls aren’t the only thing in the jug.”

While at Penn, Weitzman filled his jug with relationships with his fraternity brothers in Sigma Alpha Mu and as a member of the varsity golf team.

Fifty-five years later, Weitzman now stands at the front of a classroom, presenting his business strategy to Kahn’s consumer behavior class. She was excited to bring him in since he is both the creative and strategic power behind his company.

He begins his appearance talking about what else — his shoes.

As the lecture continues, he circles back to one, overarching point: “If you never think big, you’ll always be small.”

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Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors: Work Hard, Play Safer New student group to tackle painkiller abuse, binge drinking and addiction

BY GRACE KIRKPATRICK Contributing Writer

At the so-called “social ivy,” the saying “work hard, play hard” is part of Penn culture.

The newly formed Penn Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors are seeking to redefine our conception of “play,” or at the very least, make sure students do so

smartly.

Completely separate from the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives, Penn DAPA is a student-run organization looking to reduce the harm caused by substance abuse.

Within the past year, several students have transformed the Penn Drug and Alcohol Resource Team into this new club, modeled on initiatives being taken at peer institutions, including Harvard and Dartmouth.

For the academic year of 2014 to 2015, Penn DAPA has established three areas of priority — prescription painkiller abuse,

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An unaffiliated 60-year-old male was found dead in his apartment just blocks away from campus, the Philadelphia Daily News first reported on Wednesday.ok The victim, Theodore Hudson III, was found beaten to death last Monday morning at his home on 42nd Street and Chester Avenue, the Daily News

binge drinking and addiction.

As a club, the DAPAs decided that these three topics are plaguing not only the Penn campus but the general American population as well. “[Binge drinking is] the one that we think is probably the hardest to address just because it is a part of student culture but it is also a tough personal decision for people to make,” DAPA copresident and Wharton sophomore Theodore Caputi said.

Caputi also stressed the notion of simple strategies to implement while drinking, such as counting drinks or making sure

friends are accountable for one another.

However, Caputi and Program Coordinator Aman Goyal added, there is a large population at Penn that does not drink or rarely does so. According to the AOD, 4,000 Penn students drink twice or less per semester. Caputi and Penn DAPA would like to gather further information about substance use at Penn.

“One of our goals is to collect more accurate information about students on campus… to see if the trends have changed,” he said.

Additionally, Penn DAPA has

begun holding events such as the Non-Drinker’s Social and has assumed responsibility of a faculty series on drug research.

On Nov. 11, Adolescent Communication Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center Dan Romer spoke on “The Challenges of Reducing Drug Abuse in College Youth.”

Next semester, Goyal hopes to see the DAPAs — after they receive formal training — visit the college houses to have open discussions about drug and alcohol usage, a program originated by Penn Drug and Alcohol Research Team. Goyal is also

anticipating an intercollegiate symposium the DAPAs will attend at Harvard in February to discuss what initiatives various schools have started and what has been successful.

For Goyal, watching students like Caputi step up to address substance use has been very encouraging.

“It has been really exciting to see students who are interested in changing the climate a little bit, making it a little healthier, and a little more accessible for all types of people who choose not to drink or do it less so without judgment,” he said.

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Ray sparks tough win for Red and Blue over Navy the third consecutive half in which the Quakers held their opponent under 20 points.

Coming out of intermission, it was more of the same for Penn. Spurred by six straight points from Ray, the Quakers led 40-19 with 12 minutes to go.

Spurred by a barrage of three-pointers by senior guard Chloe Stapleton and sophomore guard Danielle Poblarp, the Midshipmen (1-3) mounted a comeback, trimming the Quakers’ lead to 51-40 with four minutes remaining. “We defended them extremely well for the first 30 minutes, but to their credit, they started to hit some threepoint shots,� McLaughlin said of the Navy run. “They gave us a bit of a scare at the end.�

However, a nifty three-point play by Ray with under three minutes remaining gave the Quakers the breathing room they needed to hold on for the 60-51 victory.

In the eight times the two programs have squared off, Saturday marked the first time Penn has beaten Navy in Annapolis.

Next up, the Quakers will play host to New Hampshire on Tuesday at the Palestra. The Wildcats, who finished third in the America East Conference last year with a 19-12 overall record, are a perfect 3-0 this season and are coming off a narrow 60-57 victory over Brown. “I haven’t really looked through the film yet, so I can’t go into any great detail, but they’re a winning program,�

McLaughlin said of his team’s upcoming opponent. “We’re definitely going to be challenged again.�

If the last year-plus has been any indication, the Red and Blue have shown that they are capable of rising up to meet those challenges.

Saturday’s game at Annapolis was simply another piece of evidence.

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Junior guard Keiera Ray produced a throwback performance on Saturday, scoring 22 points to lead Penn after struggling with injuries last year.

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Various injuries limited Ray to just 11 games last season, but on Saturday she showed the flashes of brilliance that helped her score 10.6 points and notch an honorable mention All-Ivy nod during her freshman campaign. “She played terrific,�

McLaughlin said of Ray. “She kept the ball alive, she’s a real leader and she’s an attack, attack, attack type player.�

Penn raced out of the gate quickly, taking a 17-6 lead in the game’s first 12 minutes.

Powered by a couple key baskets from freshman forward Michelle Nwokedi — who scored eight points on the night — the Red and Blue pushed their lead to 29-17 going into halftime.

Combined with Wednesday’s effort against La Salle, it was

Another game, another victory for Penn women’s basketball.

After dismantling La Salle during their home opener on Wednesday, the Red and Blue defeated Navy, 60-51, in Annapolis on Saturday, another impressive victory for the defending Ivy League champs. “We’re still learning, still developing, still figuring out who we are,� coach Mike McLaughlin said. “We played a really great first home game, and tonight we put together a full 40 minutes on the road.�

The Quakers (2-1) were led by junior guard Keiera Ray, who notched five rebounds to go with her team-high 22 points.

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Junior captain Tony Hicks had a standout game against Lafayette on Saturday, dishing out 13 assists, tying a program record, while turning the ball over just twice.

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Down 45-30 at the half, the Quakers quickly rebounded, using Hicks as a facilitator to get the offense going. After the team hit no three-pointers in the first half, the triples were plentiful in the second frame, with six falling for the Red and Blue.

Hicks finished with 13 assists — tying a program record — while hitting two threes. His presence also helped freshman Antonio Woods get open looks, as the freshman guard scored 11

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A one-handed dunk by Auger brought Penn to within two points, 62-60, and the Palestra crowd to its feet with under 10 minutes to go. But the momentum shifted soon after, as the Quakers simply couldn’t tie the game. “We never took the lead, so I think that was the most important thing to let the guys know that we were still losing and we have to stay composed,� Hicks said.

The Quakers got three straight stops defensively but their offense stagnated, failing to score for over five minutes.

By the time Penn scored again, the Leopards had put it out of reach. Yet this time, it was a junior, not a senior, who did the damage for Lafayette.

Junior guard Zach Rufer, who was a perfect 3-for-3 from the field, hit a clutch three-pointer to put the Leopards up seven with just over five minutes to go. And after Nelson-Henry made a shot from the free-throw line — one of his 13 points — Trist and Rufer each hit layups to extend the lead to double digits.

Lafayette finished the game out with free throws, as senior forward Seth Hinrichs, the Leopards’ leading scorer from a year ago, made up for a poor night from the field by going 8-for-8 from the charity stripe.

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But give these Quakers some credit.

Against a more experienced and talented Lafayette squad that was hot from the start, Penn made an impressive comeback effort that put its full potential on display despite ultimately falling short, 83-77.

And the squad did so relying heavily on freshmen Mike Auger and Antonio Woods , both of whom proved able to rise to the occasion.

Auger, who provided a key post presence with Darien Nelson-Henry playing limited minutes, scored a team-high 18 points and was central to the Quakers’ comeback.

The athletic forward scored 10 of his points during the second half run, and his transition dunk that cut the lead to two with 9:28 remaining was the highlight of the game for Penn. “I thought he was phenomenal,� coach Jerome Allen said of Auger. “He brought us alive in the second half with his relentlessness, whether it was at the top of the press or after we got the ball.�

Auger’s performance not only impressed Allen, but also reflected the style of play the coach wants to see more consistently from his team. “We have to roll our sleeves up,� Allen said. “That has to be our identity — we have to leave it on the floor. Right now we think we can play a sexy game and that’s just not us.�

Coming off Ivy-League Rookie of the Week recognition, freshman guard Woods continued to put his fair share of work in to help the Red and Blue cause.

Woods poured in 11 points on a team leading three triples in 32 minutes on the floor.

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Freshman forward Mike Auger was an offensive force, scoring a team-high 18 points on 7-for-10 shotting. He has been a bright spot for the winless Quakers.

Tony Hicks were also on display on Saturday. These qualities explain why he plays more minutes than anyone other than Hicks.

Despite a pair of strong freshmen efforts, Hicks may have had the most impressive night for the Red and Blue.

It wasn’t the flashiest Hicks performance, but it was certainly well rounded.

The junior guard put up 14 points and 13 assists (tying a school record) along with a team-leading four steals — exactly the type of effort Penn needs from the veteran.

The reigning Big 5 Player of the Week’s pinpoint passing and heightened intensity on the defensive end helped fuel the Red and Blue’s comeback bid, although he was unable to take his squad over the top.

Part of that was due to Hicks

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himself — he missed several game tying attempts — but Penn’s inability to complete the comeback had more to do with the difficulty of the young squad maintaining a high level of play and energy while also remaining disciplined.

Becoming a more consistent and complete team is Penn basketball’s top concern moving forward.

While that process tends to be a difficult and lengthy one for young teams like Penn, the performances of Auger, Woods and Hicks on Saturday provide a glimmer of hope for the slow starting Quakers.

SEAMUS POWERS is a Wharton sophomore from Falmouth, Maine, and is a staff writer for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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tor was just not something we’ve been good at and today was pretty reflective of it.”

The rest of the half saw the two teams trade touchdowns and fumble the ball five times with only one fumble changing hands.

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PENN Corn. champions have a tendency to First Downs 25 19 come in cycles, the Quakers have Rushing Yards 161 129 Passing Yards 331 316 been a championship rock under — Attempts 37 39 Bagnoli.

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quick to recognize the greatness of Awad’s performance. “[Nationals is] a who’s who of collegiate runners,” he said. “He ran extremely well. … It’s just a great result. I’m really proud of him.”

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even more impressive were barriers he had to overcome, as he faced his fair share of adversity throughout the race.

After a decent start, Awad found himself falling back in the pack, getting pushed around in the meeting of the nation’s elite collegiate runners. Compounding the problem, Awad hurt his Achilles tendon after getting

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fourth and goal in another.

Torgersen found Kulcsar deep midway through the third quarter for the pair’s third touchdown connection of the day — a 78-yard burner. A fourth quarter drive from the Red and Blue resulted in sophomore Brian Schoenauer’s first career touchdown, as Penn solidified a 34-18 lead.

Despite a late touchdown and two-point conversion from Cornell, the Quakers would hold on for the win.

“It validates all the hard work,” Bagnoli said. “We’ve

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been getting a lot better the past three or four weeks, but we don’t have a ‘W’ to show for it.”

The team celebrated the win, and Bagnoli’s final game, with a Gatorade bath for the outgoing coach.

“We had been talking about it all week. Coach Bagnoli’s had a great career, you can go on and on about coach,” senior defensive back and captain Evan Jackson said.

“It just felt right to get the [win] and celebrate the way we would if we had won the championship.”

THEY SAID IT “It just felt right to get the [win] and celebrate the way we would if we had won the championship.”

— On the win in Al Bagnoli’s final game

It was the grand finale to a historic coaching career. Bagnoli ended his career with 234 career victories and 148 at Penn — the most for a coach in the program’s history. It may have been the last time Bagnoli took the field to coach, but his legacy will continue to live on.

“For anyone that’s ever played for him, they always have stories. He’s a phenomenal coach and a legend,” Kulcsar said.

“To be able to play under him and with him in our final year, is something I won’t forget.”

Alek Torgersen will be back under center, but without two of his favorite targets: Conner Scott and Spencer Kulcsar.

The defense will need to replace championship players in Jackson, Dan Wilk, Kevin Ijoma and Dan Davis, among others.

But one thing is for certain: Bagnoli’s influence will not be forgotten by anyone that’s spent even five minutes at Franklin Field in the last 23 seasons.

“Anyone who’s ever played for him, they always have stories,” Kulcsar said. “And they always end up being good stories.”

Here’s to 23 years of stories.

IAN WENIK is a College senior from Short Hills, N.J., and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at wenik@thedp.com.

stepped on in the middle portion of the race.

“I was getting bumped around a little bit,” Awad noted. “Someone stepped on my heel … and ended up hurting my Achilles a little bit. I had to go on the podium in crutches after.”

He worked hard to get up toward the front of the pack, eventually working all the way up into

Quakers come up short in three-way meet eton still beat them, 167-133, Penn’s close contest with Cornell raises bigger red flags for the Big Red and shows signs of hope for the Red and Blue. Cornell captured all but one event over Penn in 2013-2014, but sophomore breaststroker Haley Wickham joined Dong as first-place finishers for Penn, accompanied by a few more victories just over Cornell.

The diving unit struggled in the Garden State, winning against neither school in the 3-meter dive and only defeating Cornell in the 1-meter. While freshman Maggie Heller improved her 3-meter score from her last meet against Connecticut, sophomores Cassidy Golden and Sivan Mills saw drops.

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148 of those came as Penn’s coach, the most in program history. Bagnoli’s 111 wins against Ivy League opponents are second all-time.

421 Passing attempts this season by sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen, a program record. Plagued by a litany of injuries in the running game, the Quakers were forced to rely heavily on Torgersen’s arm this season.

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Recieving yards for senior Spencer Kulcsar, a career high. For the wideout playing in his final game, it was yet another impressive performance.

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the top 20.

From then on, as some of the more rested runners started to kick, it was just a matter of holding on for the Red and Blue star, and despite losing some ground, he was able to hold on to a precious, All-American spot.

“He might have moved up 100 places through the middle of the race,” Dolan said. “It’s definitely

big for Penn cross country … to perform that well on the national stage.”

Coming off of a more pedestrian performance at nationals last year, Awad views the result as a significant step forward in his athletic development.

“Running with the top guys at 10K … where I’m stronger in mile, 5K kind of stuff, it’s a

pretty big step looking forward,” he said.

Awad, along with the rest of Penn cross country, will take some time to get healthy before heading full bore into track season.

But for now, he will enjoy the fruits of his labor: the culmination of one of the most successful seasons in program history.

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Four failed extra point attempts. Nine fumbles. Questionable calls from the referees.

In the end though, Penn would prevail over Cornell, 34BY HOLDEN McGINNIS 26, behind a career day for seSports Editor nior receiver Spencer Kulcsar in his final collegiate game. The It wasn’t the cleanest game converted running back notched from either side, but coach Al 11 receptions for 187 yards and Bagnoli is heading out with a three touchdowns to lead the win.

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A toast to 23 years of Bagnoli IAN WENIK

The way Penn football celebrated at midfield after defeating Cornell, giving retiring coach Al Bagnoli a ceremonial Gatorade shower, you’d almost have thought the Quakers somehow managed to capture a 10th Ivy title for their leader on some sort of technicality.

But the Ivy trophy belonged in Cambridge, hundreds of miles away, to undefeated Harvard. The Red and Blue would have to settle for the forgettably-named Trustees’ Cup and the pride of knowing they had managed to send the legendary Bagnoli out happy.

“We had been talking about it all week,” fifth-year senior safety Evan Jackson said of the postgame celebration.

“Coach Bagnoli’s had a great career. 23 years, nine outright championships. You can go on and on about Coach. It feels right to get the ‘W’ and celebrate how we usually would if we were winning the championship up here.”

Jackson got to celebrate with the Ivy trophy twice on Cornell’s Schoellkopf Field, but Saturday, he would have to settle for his team’s best defensive performance of the year, albeit against a moribund 1-9 Big Red squad.

The Quakers held Cornell to no points on three of four red zone appearances in the second half, sacked quarterback Robert Somborn five times and came out with all the fire and enthusiasm that has become commonplace under Bagnoli.

And for the outgoing coach, Saturday was the culmination of all the incremental progress he had seen in painful nearmisses against Princeton and Harvard.

“I think [this win] validates all the hard work we’ve been telling them,” Bagnoli said.

“We’ve been getting better the last three or four weeks but we really haven’t had a ‘W’ to show for it.

“And so you keep trying to tell your kids: ‘Hang in there, keep playing better, keep going, keep fighting, keep clawing, keep scratching. And you like to get rewarded for a ‘W.’” SEE WENIK PAGE 9

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In the final game of his coaching career, Al Bagnoli got one last victory as Penn football took down Cornell, 34-26. Bagnoli finishes his time with the Red and Blue as the all-time winningest coach in program history. His nine outright Ivy titles are the most in Ancient

“If you had told me before this game that I was going to get three touchdowns, I would have called you a liar,” Kucsar said of his own performance.

“It was really great to go out on a high note both personally and as a team, send [Bagnoli] off on the right note.”

The teams played close for most of the first half, trading touchdowns and turnovers.

The Big Red (1-9, 1-6 Ivy) opened up the scoring on their first drive, taking the ball 67 yards down the field in just six plays. Sophomore quarterback Robert Somborn capped off the drive with a 32-yard pass to fellow sophomore receiver Collin Shaw.

The Quakers (2-8, 2-6) started out slow on offense, but responded following a strong

defensive drive to force a threeand-out. Taking the ball on Cornell’s 23-yard line, sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen drove Penn to the end zone to take the lead.

On the Big Red’s next drive, Penn forced a fumble, but due to the referees’ questioning the original fumble call, Kevin Ijoma’s return (for a touchdown) was nullified. Torgersen pro-

ceeded to throw an interception on the next play.

“We left so many points on the field — I’m sure they feel the same way too — we’ve been doing that for two or three games,” Bagnoli said of all the fumbles in the game.

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Leopards outlast Red and Blue M. HOOPS | Late rally falls short despite Hicks’ double-double

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor For the third straight game to start the 2014-15 season, Penn basketball got off to a slow start.

And despite a furious second-half rally, the Quakers fell

VS. LAFAYETTE to 0-3 on the year, losing to Lafayette, 83-77, to finish a threegame season-opening homestand.

The first half was all Leopards (3-1) from the start. The Quakers turned the ball over on each of their first three possessions, prompting an early time-

out from coach Jerome Allen.

“I was disappointed by how we approached the start of the game, not really having the posture like they were ready to compete,” Allen said.

From there, Lafayette found success, particularly outside the paint. It was a pair of seniors that did the majority of the damage with forward Dan Trist playing well inside the arc and guard Joey Ptasinski making his

mark outside, hitting three firsthalf threes. The two combined for 26 points in the opening frame.

Meanwhile, junior captain Tony Hicks kept Penn in the game. The guard hit a couple early midrange jumpers before finding a rhythm with fellow junior Darien Nelson-Henry to rack up a few assists.

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Awad races to AllAmerican honors XC | Junior standout places 27th at nationals in Indiana

BY COLIN HENDERSON Sports Editor The fall season may be coming to a close, but on Saturday, Penn’s most accomplished fall athlete got yet another chance to cement his status amongst the school’s elite. And he took full advantage.

On Saturday, junior Thomas Awad represented Penn’S cross country at the 2014 NCAA Cross

Country Championship in Terra Haute, Ind., placing 27th and earning All-American honors.

Going into the meet, Awad knew full well that expectations were high — and that a top-30, automatic All-American qualifying finish was a very realistic goal. As a result, he felt relieved to accomplish just that.

“Trying to go All-American was the goal,” he said. “I’m pretty relieved to live up to the expectations that others had.”

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Junior Thomas Awad came back from an injury to his Achilles partway through the race to finish 27th overall, good for All-American honors.

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