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Engineer ing gradu-ate student Stephen Kyle Wilshusen died over winter break, an email to the Engineering com-munity from Dean Vijay K u m a r a n n o u n c e d Monday morning. He was 25 years old and from Boulder, Colo.

His death was pro-nounced on Dec. 31 and ruled a suicide, Jeff Moran, a spokesperson for the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office, said.

Wilshusen was a first-year Ph.D. student in computer science, where he worked in the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception lab, a specialized lab within the

2016 has already been a noteworthy year for two Penn basketball players no longer with the team.

Mere hours before the Quakers tipped of their Ivy League opener against arch rival Princeton on Sat-urday, Penn Athletics revealed that Antonio Woods, a sophomore guard who led the team in minutes and assists while scoring 10.7 points per game, is academically ineligible for the remain-der of the season.

According to a release from the

program, the Cincinnati native is no longer with the Quakers “due to in-sufficient academic progress under University policy” and cannot re-enroll at Penn until the spring of 2017.

Meanwhile, Tony Hicks, the former Red and Blue star who was slated to serve as a team captain in his final season with the Quakers before leav-ing the program in October, has elected

to transfer to Louisville. He will be eligible to play for Rick Pitino’s squad during the 2016-17 season after his graduation from Penn in May.

The news of Woods’ departure from the team in the middle of the season sent shockwaves through the Palestra on Saturday. Following the Red and

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Homeless student earns ticket to Penn

For many, heading off to college means leaving home — but for one student, it means finding a home.

Johnathan Phillips, a senior at McKinney North High School in Texas who has struggled with home-lessness for most of his life, will become a Penn freshman in the fall of 2016.

Phillips has been homeless on and

off for months at a time since he was about seven years old. He has lived with friends, in a homeless shelter and sometimes for a few days on the streets. His mother, Deanna Phil-lips, was unable to work because of an illness and was also undergoing a custody battle for Phillips’ half-sister — some of the circumstances that financially drained their family.

“We take care of each other. It’s just been kind of our thing,” Phil-lips said.

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After months of presidential can-didate and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump’s inflammatory in-sults, Penn for Trump has finally had enough. The organization dissolved last month after founder and Wharton freshman Patrick Lobo decided to no longer support Trump as a presidential candidate.

The decision came shortly after Trump, who is known for his many extremely controversial comments, called for a complete ban on Muslims

entering the United States because they “have no sense of reason or respect for human life.” The announce-ment, which was criticized by leaders from both Penn Democrats and Penn College Republicans, was the latest in a string of Trump comments that Lobo found difficult to swallow.

Lobo, who established Penn for Trump in September, was originally attracted to the Trump campaign for its policy platform — specifically Trump’s proposed tax plan — which he felt was more realistic and moder-ate than policies proposed by other candidates. He believed that, as presi-dent, Trump’s policymaking would not be as drastic or radical as the ideas he presented as a candidate. But however

strong Trump’s policies were, his bom-bastic demeanor and harsh rhetoric became an inevitable source of con-cern.

“It was just always hard to publicly align with some of the comments that he made,” Lobo said. “It got more and more difficult to say that I support someone who could say some of the things that he did say.”

Doubt about Trump’s suitability had been building up for a long time when Trump made his Muslim travel ban an-nouncement. Lobo said it was the straw that finally broke the camel’s back.

“Once he goes to insulting a mas-sive group of people’s religion, that’s not something I can align with,” Lobo said.

Lobo had previously been in con-tact with the Trump campaign for funding and official recognition. The campaign, however, did not get back to him until shortly after he had decided to abandon the Trump camp. He had originally planned to spend the fall semester building a membership base before starting regular club functions in time for the presidential primaries, which begin in February. The group’s Facebook page had 63 likes when it was deactivated in late December. Alternatively, the satirical Penn for Trump Facebook page currently has 98 likes.

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Penn’s Class of 2020 received the highest number of applications in University history.

In total, there were 38,792 ap-plicants to the Class of 2020, from both the early and regular decision rounds. The number of applications Penn received has increased 4 per-cent from last year and 22.5 percent from five years ago.

“I want to reiterate that applica-tions do not increase every year,” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said in an email, calling this year’s increase “impressive.”

For the second year in a row, the deadline for the Penn regular de-cision application was Jan. 5, four days later than the traditional Jan. 1 deadline. Previously, the deadline had only been extended in the case of extenuating circumstances, such

as Common Application glitches in 2014, and Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Meanwhile, this year’s deadline was not extended, but set as Jan. 5 from the beginning of the applica-tion process.

“Last year I was going to make our deadline for regular decision on January 5 so it would no longer be on a holiday when the University was closed,” Furda said. “We made the deadline last year and stayed with that deadline.”

Other colleges have also started setting later deadlines for their applications — including Duke University , which was Jan. 3 this year, and Johns Hopkins, which was Jan. 4 .

Brian Taylor , director of the pri-vate college counseling practice Ivy Coach, attributed the later deadline to an increasingly common strat-egy among colleges to increase the number of applicants to the school.

“Penn is not the only school to do this. It’s been a trend for the last three years. It started with

Hurricane Sandy, but now schools just do it with no excuses and are doing it just to secure more appli-cants,” Taylor said.

Taylor does not believe that the later deadline changes the way most students apply to schools like Penn and attracts only procrastinators.

Anirudh Prabu, a regular deci-sion applicant to the Class of 2020, thought that the Jan. 5 deadline was helpful as it allowed him to apply to all of the schools with Jan. 1 dead-lines first, and then gave him more time to work on the Penn essay. Eric Teichner, another regular decision applicant to the Class of 2020, did not feel as if the deadline changed his application process to Penn.

“I started my application pretty early, so I had it in pretty early as well. I did submit on the 5th but it didn’t really affect how I was plan-ning my application, ” Teichner said.

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On Oct. 28, 2014, President Obama delivered a statement re-garding United States health care workers’ response to the spread-ing Ebola outbreak, assuring, “This disease can be contained. It will be defeated. Progress is pos-sible.”

At the time of Obama’s state-ment, tensions were high across the country. Penn, which is home to a large international commu-nity, was no exception.

But on Jan. 4, 2016, the Phila-delphia Department of Public Health announced a revision of screening guidelines following the World Health Organization’s Dec. 29 announcement that Guinea — the last West African nation affected by the disease — was Ebola-free . According to the new guidelines, PDPH will no longer monitor travelers from countries where Ebola was known to be a threat.

To address the growing epidemic, the University of Penn-sylvania Health System had been cooperating with the PDPH to follow Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention guidelines to monitor travelers to and from the West African nations affected by the virus: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Mali.

However, even before PDPH began its new protocol, UPHS began monitoring travelers out of concern for its community — University City and its greater surrounding area feature one of the most prominent West African communities in the country.

The initial screening for symp-toms began in the early fall of 2014 and involved screening every patient who came in contact with a health system, regardless of the origin of their visits.

This policy was put in place to ensure no one went unchecked and to prevent any instances of racial profiling. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania also worked in conjunction with the PDPH to monitor a shorter list of possibly affected patients.

Former HUP doctor Trish Hen-wood , for example, who fulfilled several tours of Ebola aid work in Guinea, was monitored by the PDPH with the help of HUP upon her reentries to the country.

Associate Chief Medical Of-ficer and Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Neil Fishman over-saw the Penn hospital system’s preparations.

“We trained an army because the challenge of caring for some-one with even possible Ebola required that we essentially re-define healthcare,” Fishman said. “Even the simplest activities had to be redesigned. You couldn’t just get a blood sample. You couldn’t just bring in a food tray.”

An evaluation unit and sub-sequent treatment unit were established in the Department of Emergency Medicine . A total of seven patients were evaluated over the course of the epidemic, all of whom were eventually di-agnosed with other maladies. The PDPH evaluated 25 of the total 961 patients it monitored for the virus, all of whom were also Ebola-free.

Dr. Fishman described the Penn healthcare system as work-ing at the highest possible level in response to the crisis. In a time of public health hysteria only matched by that of the early AIDS era, he cites the faculty and administration as demonstrat-ing the epitome of teamwork. Penn Police provided security at Penn hospitals and were taught to recognize viral symptoms they might see in passersby on campus.

Dr. Fishman believes that this outbreak leaves a protocol frame-work that must be conserved. “As we prepare for the future this [crisis] has really highlighted the need to always be prepared, ” he said. “We have built a phenom-enal infrastructure that needs to be maintained as we don’t know what possible crisis could be next.”

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Self-nominations from the University community are being sought for individuals to serve on an Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Divestment

University policy provides that an Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Divestment be established when a proposal to divest from the Penn endowment has been received by the Steering Committee of University Council, and found to be sufficiently substantive for further review. This Committee will consider whether a proposal submitted by Fossil Free

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Committee members must be able and willing to conduct a careful analysis of all sides of the issue, remain impartial, and reach a decision only after completion of deliberations on the proposal. Committee members must be prepared to attend and participate in meetings for up to 12 months, beginning March 2016. The Committee will be expected to submit its

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many Penn students after it was created, including from a joke “Penn for Trump” Facebook page that was also created early last semester. Lobo said he was not dis-couraged by the backlash and did not take anti-Trump reactions to heart.

Lobo doesn’t expect someone else to start a new Penn group sup-porting Trump. When this group disbanded, it had four active mem-bers.

“I think it’s pretty much done at this point,” he said.

When asked if he thought Trump could actually win the Republican Party nomination, Lobo noted that it’s still too early to know for sure. Despite the near-endless fallout from his repeated inflammatory

comments, Trump has remained a GOP front-runner. In the latest poll from Quinnipiac University released Jan. 10 , Trump tops GOP polls with the support of 31 percent of Republicans in the important electoral state of Iowa, whose Re-publican presidential caucus takes place on Feb. 1.

With the end of his involvement with Trump, Lobo plans to refocus his political engagement on campus with the College Republicans and the Penn Political Union.

He noted that Penn for Trump encountered relatively little hos-tility from right-leaning Penn students even though several groups supporting other, less con-troversial Republican candidates already existed.

“The right-wing students gener-ally, regardless of which individual they support, respect that because

there are so few students at this school who are conservatives,” Lobo said.

Lobo has not decided if he wants to support another Republican candidate yet, noting that it is still relatively early in a historically un-precedented election cycle that has already been prone to unexpected changes in polling data. He does, however, have a general idea of candidates he won’t support, such as Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

“There are a few that are almost too conservative for me and too far right socially,” Lobo said.

Even though Penn for Trump has officially disbanded, Penn is still home to active groups support-ing Republican candidates Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Rand Paul and Jeb Bush, as well as Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

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I’m not someone who regularly writes down New Year’s resolutions,

mainly because they often remain consistent across the years: do well in school, go for a decent amount of runs every week, keep in touch with friends and fam-ily, journal more.

But on the six-hour plane flight home after an exhausting and stressful semester, pale from lack of sleep and anxiety and anxious about my anxiety and lack of sleep (causing further anxiety and lack of sleep), it hit me that I was missing something. I should have felt relieved that I was done with my five finals and wouldn’t have to create decks of flashcards or write a paper for the next four weeks, but all I felt was more appre-hension: In four weeks, I’d have to go back and do it all over again.

I have berated myself over and over again for my bouts of anxiety. I tell myself that I shouldn’t get

worked up so easily, that I should be able to get a grip and handle myself in a nor-mal fashion, that I should always be in control of my thoughts and emotions.

But somewhere in the midst of writing two 15-page papers, muttering French monologues to my-self in my room to prepare for an oral exam, going through hundreds of slides of neuroscience lectures and trying to understand what in the world a pump-ing lemma is and how to use it, I found myself locked in an uncontrollable cycle of panic.

I would suddenly begin to feel anxiety and panic bubbling up within me, and then I wouldn’t be able to concentrate, which would make me more anxious. I felt nauseous whenever I looked at food, I couldn’t sleep well and I would pace around my apartment and campus in an effort to calm my jittery nerves. I didn’t want others to detect my anxiety because I didn’t

want anyone to wonder why I was projecting a persona other than my “normal” one.

However, masking my anxiety only served to

make me feel like the tem-perature had been increased in the pressure cooker of my mind. I had effectively isolated myself in my brain.

What this unceasing cy-cle of mental torment led to was a New Year’s resolu-tion to practice more self-love. As I looked back at my habits over the past se-mester, I realized that I had taken very little time to tru-ly care for or treat myself. I often rebuked myself for

taking an hour to talk to a friend or cook a meal when I could have been study-ing. Never once did I sit down to watch a TV show or movie. I didn’t splurge

on a massage or an exercise class that would have re-freshed my body and mind. I ran from meeting to meet-ing, used my study breaks to ferociously type emails, attended all the guest lec-tures I possibly could and simultaneously told myself that I wasn’t doing enough — when, in fact, I was do-ing too much. I was doing too much, and I couldn’t admit it to myself because I didn’t want to believe it

was true.At Penn, too much is

never enough — until you find yourself utterly broken down at the end of the se-mester, afraid you won’t be able to recharge in time for the next one and afraid of showing anyone your anxi-eties or fears.

But who said that putting on a brave face can’t be the same thing as wearing your real face? The same as showing someone your weaknesses? Your vulner-abilities? Your stress? We have got to get away from the notion that anxiety is something to be ashamed of or that it marks us as less fit in the survival of the fittest. We have got to change the culture of col-legiate competition which says that our individual ac-complishments must reach the absolute pinnacle of achievement for us to be worth anything.

But before we can change the culture at large, we have to change the culture of our minds. We have to tell our-

selves. We have to convince ourselves. We have to own ourselves, believe in our-selves, accept ourselves, stand by ourselves, trust ourselves, be willing to be ourselves — even if we’re messy, even if we get anxi-ety attacks, even if we have weird quirks we’re reluc-tant to show other people, even if we’re afraid. What else — who else — do we have?

A new year is always a time of reflection. Though a gentile

myself, I’ve always liked the idea embedded in Yom Kip-pur, the Jewish day of atone-ment which follows the Jew-ish new year. The practice of reflecting upon failings of the prior year at the start of a new one seems to me both honest and educational, particularly as someone whose somewhat inherently deceptive role is to publicly assert each week that I have a good answer to a sig-nificant problem or question.

As such, it seems appropri-ate in this new year, which coincides with the one-year anniversary of my column, to self-audit, acknowledging failures and victories alike and to check in with new de-velopments on some of the issues I’ve covered.

In re-reading a year’s worth of columns, two ma-jor oversights jumped out at me. In my column “This isn’t Jeopardy,” I critiqued students at the University of North Carolina for implying that a speech by conserva-tive writer David Horowitz

criticizing pro-Palestinian ac-tivism represented a threat to their physical safety.

In making the point that such rhetoric troublingly implies that “dangerous” speech should be suppressed, however, I failed to note that Horowitz himself is no friend of open expression. He has repeatedly called for colleges to ban or punish pro-Pales-tinian groups and to adopt policies, as the University of California and the U.S. De-partment of State have, that declare harsh criticism of the state of Israel as pre-sumptively anti-semitic. This fact doesn’t change my point about the rhetoric of safety and comfort, but it was signif-icant to the case study I chose to illustrate that point, and I overlooked it. Mea culpa.

Secondly, in my piece “But for Wales?” I criticized the activist group SOUL without seeking a comment from the group itself. In addition to be-ing good journalistic practice, doing so would have been more intellectually rigorous and appropriately respectful of fellow students. Me pae-

nitet.In some cases, however, I

managed to get things right. My columns about the Uni-versity’s flawed and capri-cious system for adjudicating sexual assault cases and its

failure to stand up to misguid-ed and possibly illegal federal pressure to adopt policies that obstruct justice for students seem particularly prescient.

The American Associa-tion of Universities’ climate study, though not without serious methodological flaws, served to remind us that there remains much to be desired in the way universities handle campus sexual assault. On the heels of the study came the announcement that Chris-topher Mallios, hired last spring to investigate sexual violence allegations for the

University, would be leaving after just one year on the job. A source with knowledge of the investigative process said that prior to his depar-ture, Mallios had expressed a frustration with conflicting

pressures to investigate com-plaints diligently and respect due process while both pre-serving the University’s pub-lic image and demonstrating to a crusading Department of Education that Penn takes all complaints seriously.

To me, this confirms that any university’s proper role is to take steps to prevent and educate students about sexual assault and to offer compas-sionate support to victims, while leaving the messy business of investigating and adjudicating allegations to law enforcement and courts.

Legislative efforts to overrule the misguided Department of Education regulations, which force colleges to perform hopelessly flawed in-house investigations, have stalled.

Also, the Office of Admis-sions has again vindicated my assertion that it’s running a numbers racket by filling more than half of an incoming class with binding early deci-sion applicants (disclosure: I was one), continuing to insist that it is doing its utmost to build the best class possible while filling more than half the available spots from a pool likely to represent only slightly more than one-eighth of the total applicants.

Furthermore, ED candi-dates are disproportionately likely to come from a small number of elite, privileged private prep schools, able to commit to binding agree-ments because they do not need to compare multiple financial aid packages (me again). It’s clearer than ever that they’re far more concerned with how ad-missions decisions affect Penn’s rankings than about

building an optimal class.I don’t doubt that, in the

year to come, I’ll mess up again or make a predic-tion that turns out to be dead wrong. As the saying goes, I only can hope that I make new mistakes. As far as I’m concerned, turkey for Thanksgiving, lamb for Christmas and crow for New Year’s is all right by me as traditions go.

EMILY HOEVEN is a College sophomore from Fremont, Calif., studying English. Her email address is [email protected]. “Growing Pains” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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Match is a college and schol-arship process that supports academically gifted students with a financial disadvantage to acquire full scholarships to uni-versities such as Penn and Yale University. Tammi Saffell, an advisor at McKinney Education Foundation — a nonprofit asso-ciated with high schools in the district — assisted Phillips to begin his college search during his junior year.

On Dec. 1, 2015, Phillips re-ceived the news that he had won a full scholarship to attend Penn.

“My mom’s reaction was very much excited and happy. I was just relieved,” Phillips said.

In 2015, Penn admitted about 50 other QuestBridge winners.

Saffell said that Phillips is one of the most humble students she has ever worked with and that his teachers did not know about his hardships until the media began writing about them .

“He doesn’t see himself as dis-advantaged,” Saffell explained. “He really sees himself as ad-vantaged. He sees the good in every situation. He’s an awesome kid.”

At Penn, Phillips wants to study political science and chem-istry. He hopes to design the very first commercial hydrogen engine. However, Saffell envi-sions him as a writer as well.

“He is an incredible writer,” Saffell explained. “I won’t be surprised if he writes a book or becomes a journalist.”

Kevin McPherson, Phillips’ 11th grade English teacher and his academic coach, also attested to his wisdom.

“Johnathan is mature beyond his years — the way he con-ducts himself, the way he talks to adults, his world views are more sophisticated than most high school students,” McPher-son said.

McPherson pointed to the fact that Phillips’ father died before he was born. Growing up, his uncle served as a father figure for Phillips until he also passed away last year. Through it all, Phillips remained strong.

“Everything that he has, he has earned. No one deserves this [scholarship] more than Johna-than,” McPherson said. “He doesn’t allow his past to become his excuse.”

Currently, Phillips lives with his family in a rented apartment.

However, they have trouble keeping up with rent payments. Penn will not only offer him an education, but also a stable place to live. People from McKinney Independent School District are paying for Phillips’ and his mother’s airfare, hotel, meals and spending money to attend Penn’s Quaker Days in April. Southwest Airlines provided the pair with four free round-trip tickets to Philadelphia after Phil-lips’ story was featured in the local news.

Saffell said that Phillips is a cautious young man because of the many disappointments he has experienced in his life. She added that both Phillips’ obsta-cles and his passion for learning are sources of inspiration for others.

“Other students could see that there is a way, if they really wanted [something] and really worked at it. [Johnathan] has such a strong desire to learn new things. I know that’s going to take him really far,” Saffell said.

Phillips encourages everyone to fight for their dreams.

“Anything you want to achieve is not just going to come to you,” he said. “You have to go out and get it.”

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Woman hit by car and injured at Penn intersection

On the afternoon of Jan. 12, a woman was hit by a car on Locust Street between 40th and 41st streets, closing traffic at the inter-section.

The woman was injured when a maroon Ford Flex backed into her and knocked her to the ground. Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said the woman was in her eighties and was a former employee of Penn’s health

system.The driver was seen screaming

for help according to witnesses.She was later taken away from

the scene in an ambulance and brought to Penn Presbyterian Medi-cal Center, where Rush said she is in

stable condition.Police quickly responded to the

incident and put up police tape. The incident is being investigated by the Accident Investigation Unit of Phil-adelphia Police Department, Rush said.

Police tape blocked traffi c around 40th and Locust

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Engineering school that does re-search in robotics.

Wilshusen came to Penn from Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. where he graduated with dis-tinction in Computer Science in 2014. He was published by Carn-egie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, where he worked on agricultural yield estimation as a research associate. He received multiple awards and honors in academia, including the Robert C. Eslinger Computer Science Award and a Goldwater Scholar honorable mention.

“In the short period of six months, he established himself as a creative researcher, an inde-pendent thinker, and a friendly, collaborative member of the ag-riculture robotics team,” Kumar’s email said. “Many of us knew him and worked closely with him, and we are in shock. News like this always saddens us, but the loss of a young life with so much prom-ise is especially devastating. Our thoughts and prayers are with Kyle’s family and friends.”

His family was unavailable to comment as of Monday morning.

Wilshusen is the tenth Penn student to have committed sui-cide in less than three years.

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STUDENT DEATH>> PAGE 1Phila. Mayor Jim Kenney inaugurated

A government that works with its people stays with its people — or rather, as newly elected Mayor of Philadelphia Jim Kenney said in his Jan. 4 inauguration, “Gov-ernment functions properly when it’s accessible and accountable to the people.” Standing amid former mayors and the newly inducted members of the Philadelphia City Council at the Academy of Music in Center City, Kenney focused on the cooperation of City Hall, local businesses and average citizens in his inauguration speech.

In a concise speech, the former Fels Institute of Government instructor laid out his goals to combat poverty, expand pre-kin-dergarten and create community schools. He also prominently addressed racial unrest over po-licing, a topic that the nation has grappled with over the last several months.

“We will have to all put aside our differences and acknowledge both: that black lives do matter, and that the overwhelming major-ity of our police are decent, hard working public servants who risk

their lives every day,” he said, stressing his focus on the ability to feel safe and dignified on the streets of Philadelphia.

“It was great to hear him say that black lives matter during the inauguration, and something that Philly is going to need to address,” President of Penn Democrats and College junior Max Levy said. “Obviously it’s a long way ahead, but I think having the mayor of one of the largest cities in the nation embrace that proudly is a huge step.”

Among his primary speaking points, Kenney addressed the ef-forts Philadelphians are putting toward their community. These initiatives included volunteer service in city schools and social activism, both of which have at-tracted Penn students.

He added, “We will need the private sector and our nonprofit partners to come together with the city to create community schools.”

Students actively involved in city affairs agreed but pointed out the importance of financial assis-tance as well.

“Volunteering is really valu-able, but we also think that volunteers can’t replace things that money can buy like teachers and books and school nurses,” said Student Labor Action Project

member and College junior Devan Spear. SLAP has most recently turned its attention toward the revival of the PILOTs program, which provoked a protest at Presi-dent Amy Gutmann’s holiday party in December 2014.

PILOTs refer to Payments in Lieu of Taxes, which involve nonprofit organizations making voluntary monetary contributions to local governments. PILOTs take the place of property taxes,

which help to fund public schools, and from which nonprofits like Penn are exempt. A previous PILOTs program in Philadelphia ran from 1995 to 2000, during former Philadelphia Mayor and 1965 College graduate Ed Ren-dell’s administration, but it has not been renewed since. Mayor Kenney has previously shown his support for the PILOTs program.

Mayor Kenney repeated the phrase “providing efficient and

effective services,” defining it as having an ethical government, educating children closer to home, increasing safety and decreasing the effects of poverty.

“I promise to serve you, to be accountable to you and, most im-portantly, to work with you. So we can make every Philadelphia neighborhood the best that it can be,” he said, ending the inaugu-ration speech of the city’s 99th mayor.

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For many Penn students as well as for students at Temple University, Drexel University, Saint Joseph’s University and University of the Sciences, taking SEPTA to explore the City of Brotherly Love can become ex-pensive. But the SEPTA Youth Advisory Council has a solution: a student discount program.

The council has 1,156 sup-porters who want to help them implement the program, accord-ing to a Change.org petition the SEPTA YAC filed four months ago.

Under the SEPTA student discount program, colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area would partner with SEPTA to purchase transportation passes for students at a discounted fare. Students would receive unlimited

rides so they could commute from home, explore Rittenhouse or participate in a community service project in West Philadel-phia.

“We are at a unique time when not only both parties [the local colleges and universities and SEPTA] are interested in seeing something potentially work out but also the technology capa-bilities are much better with the advent of SEPTA Key coming soon,” Executive Chair of SEPTA YAC and Wharton and Engineer-ing senior Jeff Kessler said.

SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch said that due to the rollout of SEPTA Key, a reloadable card that will largely replace tokens and cash as payment for train rides, SEPTA could phase in the student discount program as long as there is an arrangement with local colleges and universities to adopt a specific fee structure for the program.

Pittsburgh has implemented a similar student discount program,

which allows college students’ IDs to act as a free pass onto any Port Authority Transit Bus or Pittsburgh Light Rail. With Pitts-burgh’s program, there is a tuition increase of $180 per student each year.

As of January 2015, students in Philadelphia receive a 10 percent discount on a SEPTA TransPass. With the current student dis-count, the pass still costs about $1,000 a year. The high expense might contribute to SEPTA’s low approval rating by college stu-dents.

Campus Philly, a nonprofit that encourages college students to explore Philadelphia and to stick around to live and work after school, found in December 2014 that only 42 percent of Philadel-phia area college students give SEPTA a positive approval rating.

Implementing the SEPTA student program could decrease student driving and therefore reduce the need for campus park-ing. Additionally, if students

learn and become more familiar about Philadelphia, according to the survey by Campus Philly, there is about a 20 percent increase in likelihood that stu-dents will stay in the city after

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Penn wrestlers were back on campus a few days early this se-mester to kick off the 2016 dual meet season in a hard-fought 27-10 loss to Lehigh at the Pales-tra on Sunday.

The Quakers had already gotten a taste of the 10th-ranked Mountainhawks over winter break at the Southern Scuffle in Chattanooga, Tenn. The Red and Blue finished a respectable 10th in the field of 28 back on January 2. Senior Lorenzo Thomas was one of the brightest stars for the Quakers at the tournament, and his lone loss was a thrilling 5-3 semi-final defeat courtesy of Le-high’s Nate Brown.

Thomas’ rematch with Brown was the selling point of Sunday’s match and it didn’t fail to enter-tain the crowd.

After trading takedowns in the first two periods, third-ranked Brown was able to carry out a 4-2 victory over No. 9 Thomas to increase the Penn deficit to 11 points in the match with only one bout to remaining, thus clinching a victory for Lehigh.

Despite the loss for Thomas and the Quakers, the break did not end without positives.

Junior Caleb Richardson, the two-time NCAA qualifier, may not have had his best show-ing at the Southern Scuffle but the 133-pound Virginia Beach native came into his own when he took on two-time All-Ameri-can Mason Beckman in the dual

meet. The win not only repre-sented a breakthrough for the veteran grappler but could also be a key victory down the road when seeding is determined for the Eastern Intercollegiate Wres-tling Association tournament in March.

The biggest story for Penn wrestling, however, is no doubt the reemergence of 174-pounder Casey Kent. The senior grap-pler has catapulted himself up the rankings over the last month following an impressive — and team best — third-place finish at the Southern Scuffle.

Kent is now undoubtedly one of the Quakers biggest stars to go along with Thomas, Rich-ardson and fellow senior C.J. Cobb. Kent’s continued improve-ment will be vital to keep Penn’s chances at an Ivy and EIWA titles alive. Additionally, he is another potential All-American in the Red and Blue lineup at 174 pounds.

Penn’s 10 points in the Lehigh bout came on impressive vic-tories from three of those stars. In addition to Kent’s 12-3

domination of Gordon Wolf and Richardson’s 4-3 victory over Beckman, Cobb edged out a 2-1 triumph over Laike Gardner at 149 pounds.

The win over No. 19 Gard-ner was a necessary rebound for Cobb, who struggled to find his groove at the Southern Scuffle. Cobb, who was looked at as the Quakers’ best bet to be on the NCAA podium in March, will need to tough out more wins like that one if he wants to get past the blood rounds at Madison Square Garden during his final cam-paign.

The Quakers will get a bit of a break after the tough early sched-ule when coach Alex Tirapelle takes his squad on a bit of an in-teresting road trip this weekend. Penn will face off against Sacred Heart in Fairfield, Conn., at noon on Sunday and then the team will head to West Point for a matchup with Army at 5 p.m.

These two bouts shouldn’t prove too difficult for the Quak-ers, who could use a couple of additions to the win column ahead of the conference schedule.

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Another year, another lossWRESTLING | Quakers fall in first dual of 2016THOMAS MUNSONAssociate Sports Editor

Though 2016 has just begun, senior Casey Kent is already off to a hot start in the 174-pound weight class with a crushing win last Saturday.

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the first period. Up two at the end of the frame, the Red and Blue went into the break leading, 21-15, as the Tigers (11-4, 0-1) were held to just 6-for-31 shooting in the first half and five second-quarter points.

Out of the break, things got in-teresting.

After the Quakers captured their largest advantage of the day up by 10, a 13-0 run for Princeton opened up a 29-26 lead with 3:30 left in the third period.

But junior Kasey Chambers broke the drought with a jumper before the Quakers’ freshmen gave them some life.

In just her third game of the year, freshman Ashley Rus-sell drained a three to put Penn up 34-33. Two free throws from Princeton’s Vanessa Smith with seconds left in the third quarter gave the Tigers a one-point advan-tage heading into the fourth. The foul to send Smith to the line was the fourth on Stipanovich, call-ing to question what McLaughlin would do with his frontcourt in a tight final frame.

The reigning Ivy League Player of the Week, Michelle Nwokedi, had been quiet on the night until the fourth quarter rolled around. After a steal from sophomore Anna Ross, the sophomore for-ward decided to throw a shot up from three.

It fell.Although the 39-38 lead the

basket gave the Quakers would soon vanish, control of the game changed perceptibly. With just over three minutes to go and the Tigers up, 44-43, leading-scorer Alex Wheatley fouled out and put Penn in the bonus for the rest of the day.

The Quakers extended the lead to three as Stipanovich came back off the bench to nail a jumper with 2:15 to play. But by the time the final minute rolled around, Penn’s lead was just one.

Yet Stipanovich’s smart play with four fouls made a difference down the stretch, as the Tigers were unable to keep players with foul trouble in the game.

“I know that, once I got into foul trouble, I just had to play smart, stay straight up,” she said. “And I think that’s achieving a

great team defense, in the 2-3 and in our man.”

With 25 seconds to play, Princ-eton took another blow as Smith, whose 10 points were second on the team, fouled out while guard-ing Nwokedi.

The Tigers still had the chance to win down one. Senior forward Annie Tarakchian put up a shot to give her squad the lead with 10 seconds to go and it rimmed out. Nwokedi nabbed the board and a foul was called as she got the ball out to sophomore Beth Brzo-zowski.

As Brzozowski stepped to the line, the referees huddled before reviewing the foul and sending Nwokedi to the line instead. This drew protests from Banghart after the game.

“The rules are that if you send the wrong person to the free throw line it’s a technical foul,” she said. “The wrong person went to the free throw line. … And the refs just said ‘We’re sorry about

that.’”With Nwokedi at the line —

up one with 8.9 seconds to play — the first shot fell. The second rimmed out as Princeton took the ball and a time out.

“I was just really thinking, ‘Just make them,’ obviously,” she said. “But regardless, I trusted my teammates, make or miss, that we were going to get a defensive stop.”

Tarakchian took a three for the win and missed, but the Tigers re-tained possession as the ball went out with 1.3 to play. It was senior Michelle Miller’s turn to try to win the game from beyond the arc but Nwokedi would have none of it, swatting the shot and sealing the game.

It was a defensive win, and McLaughlin was proud of it.

“[Banghart] can say anything the way she wants,” he said. “I’m really proud of our 2-3 zone. I thought that we play as hard as anyone, we compete.”

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After a 12-point, 11-rebound performance against Princeton, junior Sydney Stipanovich won Penn’s fourth straight Ivy Player of the Week.

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An ugly game, a beautiful win to open Ancient Eight play

By any conventional metric, the matchup between Penn women’s basketball

and Princeton on Saturday was anything but aesthetically pleas-ing.

After all, the squads that have split the last two Ivy League titles hit 35 shots ... combined, as the Quakers converted only 27 per-cent of their attempts. In their own right, the Tigers barely did their Ancient Eight rivals better, shooting 28 percent from the field while going a paltry 2-for-15 from three-point range and committing 17 turnovers.

On top of that, Penn lost the rebounding battle by 16, relin-quishing 19 offensive boards to a team headlined by frontcourt stal-warts Annie Tarakchian and Alex Wheatley. Meanwhile, reigning Ivy League Player of the Week Michelle Nwokedi went over 32

minutes before knocking down her first shot of the contest, while Penn’s backcourt duo of Anna Ross and Beth Brzozowski each went 3-for-13 from the field, in-cluding a combined 0-for-9 from deep.

And, depending on who you ask, the press-to-zone defense that the Quakers have been run-ning for weeks could be construed as ugly, as Tigers’ coach Court-ney Banghart termed it “a junior high school 2-3 zone that we were scared of.”

But no matter the outcome, Penn-Princeton always goes beyond the numbers. And when it comes to Saturday, you have to go deeper than any statistics to un-derstand how exactly the Quakers won a game that was incredibly beautiful.

More than anything, it was a copious amount of the matchup’s smaller aspects that made the Red and Blue’s 50-48 win so remark-able.

As the game unfolded slowly, it became clear that, in order for Penn to grab the win, it would need key contributions

from its backcourt. That, how-ever, was nothing new for Mike McLaughlin’s squad: In the Quakers’ second game in Hawaii, Brzozowski’s career-high 15 points offset an off-night from Stipanovich in Penn’s 10-point victory.

On Saturday, it was more of the same for the sophomore from Highland Heights, Ohio. Al-though the numbers may not show it, Brzozowski stepped up with three enormous first-half baskets when the Quakers couldn’t con-vert anything down low, and her six points were the difference at the break.

To compound Brzozowski’s play in the backcourt, freshman Ashley Russell made her debut at the Palestra after two brief stints of playing time in Hawaii. And boy was she impressive: In just her third game back from a torn ACL, the rookie made sev-eral hustle plays, taking a charge and diving for loose balls while hitting two key threes — includ-ing one to give Penn its first lead late in the third quarter after a seemingly backbreaking 13-0

Princeton run.From there, midway through

the fourth quarter, it was Ross’ scintillating driving floater to give the Quakers a 44-43 lead that showed the team was unwill-ing to back down in the face of adversity. Ross, like the entirety of Penn’s offense, may have strug-gled from the floor early, but she hit the ones that mattered late.

After a leaping steal and two

free throws by Kasey Chambers gave the Red and Blue a lead they wouldn’t relinquish, it became time for superstars to do what su-perstars do: Step up in the clutch.

Despite missing most of the final period with four fouls, Sti-panovich canned a long jumper out of a timeout before hitting two shots from the charity stripe to make it 49-46. Nwokedi, who only went 1-for-6 from the line in

the last 3:52 of the game, made up for it, blocking Michelle Miller’s potential game-tying shot at the buzzer.

So, from the outside, maybe Saturday’s game wasn’t a terribly appealing sight. But when you factor in Brzozowski’s tough-ness off the bench, Ross, Russell and Chambers’ resiliency and the inability for Stipanovich and Nwokedi to let Penn lose, those small pockets of action made for something beautiful.

And halfway through a season in which the Quakers have endured several exciting experi-ences, including facing Duke in their season opener, McLaugh-lin’s 500th win and, oh yeah, a week-long excursion to Hawaii, this win over Princeton gives Penn the best thing it could ask for: An inside track to the Ivy title.

Hard to think of anything more beautiful than that.

RILEY STEELE

There was cause for celebration at the Palestra on Saturday as Penn women’s basketball’s won in beautifully ugly fashion over Princeton.


RILEY STEELE is a College senior from Dorado, P.R., and is a senior sports reporter for The Daily Penn-sylvanian. He can be reached at [email protected].

Blue’s 73-71 overtime loss to the Tigers, coach Steve Donahue re-vealed that he and the coaching staff had only found out Woods was ineligible late Friday night.

According to Athletic Direc-tor Grace Calhoun, once she and Donahue were informed of the situation, they brought the matter to both the media and Woods’ at-tention.

“We talked to Antonio and we said that, in short, as we released in the statement, he made inad-equate progress toward Penn’s academic standards,” Calhoun told The Daily Pennsylvanian on Tuesday. “So we felt it important to state [in the release] that it was not NCAA ineligibility, it was not any sort of misconduct.”

With Woods out of the pic-ture, the Quakers’ backcourt

looks decidedly different. Head-ing into 2015-16, Woods and Hicks’ scoring ability — along with newcomers Jake Silpe and Jackson Donahue, as well as vet-erans Darnell Foreman and Jamal Lewis — was projected to guide the Red and Blue, while provid-ing the team with immeasurable depth as it adjusted to a new of-fensive system.

Now, as evidenced by Penn’s heartbreaking defeat to Princ-eton over the weekend, Donahue will instead have to rely heavily on his younger talent throughout Ivy play. Silpe and Jackson Do-nahue started against the Tigers, combining for 27 points, nine re-bounds and seven assists.

Moving forward, it remains unclear what exactly Woods will do from both an academic and athletic perspective. Because he was not declared ineligible by the NCAA, the sophomore could

attempt to transfer to a different school.

In the meantime, Woods is unable to re-enroll at Penn for two semesters, and he will not be able to play for the Red and Blue until what would be the second half of his junior season. He is also unable to use the Quakers’ athletic and training facilities.

“Obviously, time will tell what Antonio chooses to do. The in-dication is, from what he’s told us, that he’d like to stay around Philadelphia,” Calhoun noted. “We’d love to have him back in our program at some point. Coach Donahue, I think, has found to really view Antonio not only to be a talented player, but more im-portantly to be a real solid, high character person he wants in his program.

“So we’d love to think that we’d get Antonio back.”

As for Hicks, the two-time

All-Ivy honorable mention con-firmed early last week that he would play at Louisville as a graduate transfer next year. After taking in the Cardinals’ home win over Wake Forest in person on Jan. 3, the South Holland, Ill., native spoke with Pitino the fol-lowing day, opting to spend his final season at Louisville over Oregon, Miami and Nevada.

“I wanted to choose a school where I felt I would be a prior-ity,” Hicks told the DP last week. “I didn’t want to go somewhere where a school called last minute and was just trying to fill a roster spot.

“So once I got the call from Louisville, it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. They’re an ACC school, they play a phenom-enal schedule every year and play some of the best basketball in the country.”

Adding graduate transfers has

become something of a trend for Pitino of late. The Cardinals’ two best players this year are con-cluding their college careers at Louisville after spending a bulk of their tenure at other schools, as guards Damion Lee and Trey Lewis have averaged a combined 31 points per game since leaving Drexel and Cleveland State, re-spectively.

In fact, it was Lee — Hicks’ close friend from their mutual time in Philadelphia — that put Louisville on the senior’s radar.

“As soon as he heard that I wasn’t playing, he contacted me to see if I was okay and things like that,” Hicks said of Lee. “He also told me not to be surprised if Lou-isville came calling. So I was just at home during winter break and he gave me a call and asked me to come to a game to see how it is and if I liked it.”

By voluntarily sitting out his

final year with the Quakers, Hicks retained the right not only to grad-uate from Penn, but to transfer to any program immediately without having to sit out another season.

For Hicks, the opportunity to play at Louisville represents both a chance for him to play against some of the nation’s best teams while filling one of the team’s big-gest perceived holes next year.

“[Lee and Lewis] are their lead-ing scorers, and they don’t have a ton of guards right now,” Hicks said. “They’re very big-heavy and very young right now besides those two seniors, and I just felt I could come and fill that void.

“Hopefully I’ll score some points and play some good de-fense for them. I am just there to do whatever they want, they just want me to come be myself and I just want to come help them win games and try to be the best team-mate I can be.”

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Throughout the game, Penn was hampered by both the quan-tity and quality of its free-throw shooting. Princeton got to the line 30 times, converting 73 percent, while the Quakers were only 4-for-11 on the night. The Red and Blue actually managed to shoot more efficiently from three-point range than from the free-throw line, shooting 39 per-cent to 36.

“Free throws and getting to the line really saved us,” Princ-eton coach Mitch Henderson said. “And they missed some wide open shots.”

In the second half, on the strength of Silpe’s ball handling, Hamilton and Donahue’s three-point shooting and an emphatic put-back dunk, the Red and Blue came streaking back. An extended offensive run put the Quakers up 64-53 with 3:38 re-maining.

However, the Tigers re-sponded with a much-needed burst of their own. Princeton closed the half with a 13-2 run, tying the game at 66. A layup at-tempt by Nelson-Henry rimmed out at the buzzer sounded, send-ing the two teams to overtime.

“I’m really proud of our team. Two years ago, we came down here and took a really, really difficult loss,” Henderson said, referring to a 77-74 nail-biter in January 2014.

“This was a really resilient group. The difference was that they believed.”

Bell, whose 28 points were a game high, sustained a facial injury in the final minutes of regulation, knocking him out of the game. But despite the ab-sence of their offensive star, the Tigers pounced in overtime.

The Quakers, on the strength of a Darnell Foreman layup and Donahue three, jumped out to a 71-66 lead to open the bonus period. But the Tigers sealed

the game from a place they were familiar with all night: the free-throw line. Seven unanswered points from the line — including four from freshman guard Myles Stephens, his only points of the night — gave Princeton a lead they would never relinquish.

Foreman’s game-tying layup as time expired didn’t fall, and the Red and Blue were dealt a frustrating loss.

“It was a great Penn-Prince-ton game at the Palestra,” Steve Donahue said. “We just couldn’t put them away when we were up 10 or 11. Give Princeton credit.”

Though disappointing, Sat-urday’s effort was a marked

improvement for Penn over it’s last matchup with the Tigers, a 73-52 blowout last March in the final game of coach Jerome Al-len’s Penn career. Considering the Red and Blue have since lost two of that squad’s leading scor-ers in Woods and Tony Hicks, the near-victory was a clear step forward for the program.

And much of that change has been brought about by fresh faces: Donahue, in his first year at the helm, relied heav-ily on three freshmen down the stretch.

But on Saturday, the Quakers failed to change the thing that matters most: the final score.

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As many people start their new years with resolutions and hope, the Penn fencing team is following suit in preparation for a trophy-laden 2016.

Coach Andy Ma and the fenc-ing program sent 14 of their finest to St. Louis last weekend to this season’s final edition of the North American Cup.

Although the team did not perform up to the standard of their previous two North American Cups, Ma still found positives to draw from the event.

“They’re doing pretty good,” he said. “We didn’t have any guys at the top, but some of them got to the last 32, so pretty good.”

Those top-32 performances came from Julian Merchant, Arabella Uhry, Stephanie Wolf and Alejandra Trumble. Mer-chant placed 17th in Division I men’s sabre, while Uhry placed 22nd in D-I women’s sabre. Wolf also came in 22nd for the junior women’s epee category, and team co-captain Trumble rounded out Penn’s highlights with a 31st place in the D-I wom-en’s epee section.

Several factors could explain the Quakers’ subpar perfor-mance, but Ma believes that the long break was the most impor-tant.

“They had a long holiday, and this was their first meet back,” he said. “They really don’t have that much training, and they came back and had only two

days’ camp. Overall, [the result was] pretty good.”

Penn’s third and final North American Cup of the season came directly on the back end of the holiday break, so the coach was quick to play down the event’s importance.

“The previous two North American Cups, they were al-ready in good shape,” Ma said, “because we started training in September. This one was differ-ent. It was kind of a warm-up.”

He hoped that the meet would get the gears turning for his fencers in anticipation of his ul-timate target for the season.

“Our goal is to win the Ivy,” Ma continued. “We have three more meets to prepare for the Ivy. It is most important for us to shoot not for this weekend or next weekend, but the Ivy.”

By t a k ing of f the pressure from the team’s imme-diate schedule, Ma explained, his fencers would be able to peak at the right time.

“We don’t want to push too much now, or the kids get in-jured,” he said. “We’ll be very cautious. We don’t want anyone getting injured before the Ivies.”

Such a strategy, which calls for less strenuous work for now, may have inadvertently also boosted team morale.

“This year the team spirit is really good,” Ma said. “We have a lot of team bonding ac-tivity, and we have weapons coaches who work with the fenc-ers. Every week we have a team meeting, captains’ meeting, so this year it looks good.”

With a tight-knit squad like the current one, the gaps in quality between fencers is at a minimum. Even the head coach is finding it difficult to tell who his Ivy League title-challenging squad will be.

“At this time, all fencers are pretty much even,” Ma said. “Maybe in the next couple weeks we will see who stands out.”

Mixed results in Ivy tune-up at North American Cup

First-year coach Steve Donahue is no stranger to the Penn-Princeton rivalry, having served as an assistant for the Quakers from 1990-2000.


Sophomore Stephanie Wolf was one of four Quakers in the top 32 for Penn fencing, but none of them finished near the very top.

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Though we all know the Internet is for porn (thanks Avenue Q), the

bedroom is no longer the only area being ceded to digital terri-tory. For every girl with daddy’s AmEx, window browsing on Fifth Avenue has been replaced with online shopping. And FYEs everywhere have virtu-ally been rendered useless (pun intended) with the existence of the multifarious iTunes store.

Things are no different here at Penn, where the Rave gets nearly half the traffi c for the midnight screenings of block-buster hits like Twilight as Hulu does the day after the newest episode of 30 Rock airs. This makes sense. We Penn students are too busy procrastinating on Penn InTouch and design-ing funny lacrosse pinnies for the clubs we’re involved in to leave the comfort of our beds to

watch Hugo in theaters. And we fi t this mold of overworked Ivy League students well, with only about 17% of Penn undergrads watching movies at the Rave ev-ery semester.

But how about the other ste-reotype, the one that says all col-lege students are poor? The free movement of information made possible by the interweb makes

entertainment accessible and inexpensive to anyone with an AirPennNet account. Wouldn’t

you guess then that Penn stu-dents would prefer to get their RomCom fi x online with free streaming websites like SideReel and Ch131 rather than pay for services provided by Netfl ix and Redbox?

While 75% of us watch mov-ies online, nearly 50% pay for it. I hear Horrible Bosses — a new release on iTunes — is hys-

terical, but is it worth the 1.5 salads at Sweetgreen it would have cost if I had seen it in theaters? Ramen noo-dles aren’t that bad, I guess.

The average Penn student (who is anything but average, if you ask Amy Gutmann) watch-

es seven movies, more or less, every semester. Simple arithme-tic proves that it’s $40 cheaper to watch said movies on Netfl ix than at the Rave, and an addi-tional $20 less on iTunes (cost of popcorn and Mike and Ikes not included in these calcula-tions). The low cost of watch-ing seven movies on iTunes for less than 30 bucks is worth the many conveniences that online paid services afford us: not be-ing interrupted by incessant buffering and commercials, the immunity to computer viruses and most importantly, not hav-ing to wait 54 minutes after watching 72 minutes of a movie on Megavideo.

Not to mention, it’s a small price to pay when you look at the big picture — the combined savings of the 47.7% of Penn students who pay for their online services rather than going to the movie theater is somewhere be-tween $196,136 and $295,344, depending on whether they use Netfl ix or iTunes, respectively. Moral of the story is: we won't judge if you just stay in bed.

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But the crowd of 5,029 people had some life in it, although it took a while to reach its peak. Penn’s comeback from down nine got the crowd on its feet, particularly after a transition dunk by Matt Howard. On the following possession, freshman Tyler Hamilton drew a charge, getting up to a thunderous cheer.

After all, the players, even the newcomers, have already been immersed into the rivalry. Lewis said his first exposure came during his recruiting visit when he made the fateful mis-take of wearing bright orange shoes, immediately drawing the ire of then-coach Jerome Allen, who demanded he take off the Princeton-colored sneakers. The players know from the moment they reach campus who their top rival is and they’re told by count-less alums that those games are must-win.

As rivalry matchups tend to

do, the game ebbed and flowed. Princeton’s young talent — particularly sophomore Amir Bell alongside freshmen Devin Cannady and Myles Stephens — overtook Penn’s inexperienced core at the end, claiming a vic-tory at the buzzer with the crowd hopeful for a Penn equalizer. The yin to Penn’s yang won the day.

Yet in the future, each regular season matchup may not carry the same weight.

The arrival of a conference tournament would have im-mediate ramifications for the structure of the rivalry. Media reports have circulated in recent weeks that such a tournament is highly likely to debut in 2016-17, bringing the Ivy League in line with every other Division I bas-ketball conference.

“There is heavy coach support for a tournament,” Calhoun said. “But we have to balance honor-ing tradition. We don’t want to do something just because the rest of the country does it. We stand for some pretty lofty ideals.

“But if there are compelling reasons to consider changes, we need to have that full and com-plete dialogue.”

Some have argued a tourna-ment would detract from the value of the home-and-home ri-valries.

“Very seldom does the cham-pion out of this league have two or three losses,” said Penn Direc-tor of Athletic Communications

Mike Mahoney. “If you lose [your first two games] you still have 12 of your 14 games left and you’re already behind the 8-ball.”

And given this format, the Penn-Princeton matchups have historically been the confer-ence’s de facto title games.

“It means so much ... to know you can screw up the other per-son’s season by beating them,” Penn coach Steve Donahue said.

“There’s not another regular season like this in college athlet-ics because of the set-up of the Ivy and what these two programs have done over a long period of time.”

***After nearly everyone had

cleared out of the Palestra on Saturday, a local youth game took the court. The fans were long gone and just a few people

remained who had seen another classic game in the historic ri-valry.

Princeton’s bus had just pulled away. Penn senior center Darien Nelson-Henry had just played his final home Princeton game yet he stayed, talking with alums like Fran Dougherty who were drawn to the Palestra for yet an-other game.

The 73-71 overtime loss pro-vided several bright spots as freshmen like Hamilton, point guard Jake Silpe and shooting guard Jackson Donahue shined, evidenced that under coach Donahue, the rivalry may be trending back towards the days of old.

However, as a potential tour-nament looms and programs like Harvard continue to rise, the An-cient Eight’s renowned rivalry faces an uncertain future. But no matter what uncertainty re-mains, the history that binds the programs persists in the hearts and minds of each player, coach and fan.

RIVALRY>> PAGE 14

As Penn and Princeton battled on Saturday, fans milling about the hallways were presented with a reminder of the importance of the teams’ rivalry — and made clear which program holds the series edge.



For a rivalry so old, Sat-urday’s Penn-Pr inceton basketball matchup featured a whole lot of new faces.

The Tigers took down the Quakers, 73-71, in a hotly contested overtime battle at the Palestra. 28 points from sophomore guard Amir Bell and missed buzzer-beating layups from Darien Nelson-Henry and Darnell Foreman keyed the Orange and Black’s Ivy play-opening victory.

The Red and Blue (6-8, 0-1 Ivy) — playing without former star Antonio Woods — relied heavily on new cast of char-acters. Freshman guard Jake Silpe (11 points, seven assists) took on much of Woods’ offen-sive burden while classmates Jackson Donahue (16 points)

and Tyler Hamilton also saw significant minutes.

“I’m extremely disap-pointed, especially after the week we’ve had,” Penn coach Steve Donahue said. “But in life, if you never learn from failure, you’ll never be a suc-cess.”

Woods was announced to be academically ineligible to play earlier Saturday, and he will not be able to re-enroll at the University until the spring of 2017.

The Quakers experienced an up-and-down first half in which Darien Nelson-Henry scored nine points — includ-ing his second three-pointer of the season. However, the Red and Blue suffered through a scoreless drought of nearly seven minutes towards the end of the period, resulting in a 13-0 run which gave the Tigers (10-4, 1-0) a 36-29 advantage going into intermission.

“It was a junior high school 2-3 zone that we were scared of. And it was really, really competitive Penn kids who made plays.”

That very defense held Princeton coach Courtney Banghart’s squad to 48 points on Saturday, as Penn women’s basketball downed the Tigers to open Ivy play, 50-48. It was Princeton’s first conference loss since the Quakers (10-2, 1-0 Ivy) clinched the Ivy title at Jadwin Gymnasium in March 2014.

The Red and Blue shot only 27.4 percent from the field, but it was just enough, as junior Sydney Stipanovich’s 12 points and 11 rebounds paved the way for the two-point victory.

“We’ve been in some really close games and we’ve been fortunate enough to win a lot of them,” Penn coach Mike McLaughlin said. “It really helped them.

“But the magnitude of a Penn-Princeton or an Ivy win is something special. I think the team understands that it’s one in a long season ahead of us, but I’m just really proud.”

Offensive production was scarce early, with Penn captur-ing a 5-2 lead midway through

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Penn hands Tigers first Ivy loss since 2014W. HOOPS | First home rivalry win since 2008NICK BUCHTASenior Sports Editor

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From the minute the warmup began, you could tell that some-thing was special about this Penn basketball game.

The Palestra crowd, often all too sparse in recent years, today was sizable, raucous and often on its feet. Though the student sec-tion was largely barren, an ocean of alumni, children and casual

fans donning red and blue gear drowned out the pocket of orange and black.

A large sign in a Palestra hall-way provided a reminder of the stakes at hand.

PENN: 124 PRINCETON: 108As the game remained tight

throughout regulation and into overtime, each side exalted with particular zeal — and became irked at the other teams’ suc-cesses.

“Every time their bench got going, their fans got going, I

really disliked that,” Penn Ath-letic Director Grace Calhoun said. “It goes deeper than it does with other schools.

“You respect them, but at the same time you just don’t like them.”

***There was a time when the

annual Penn-Princeton match-ups weren’t just two of the 14 Ivy games scheduled. Until the mid-2000s, those games were essentially the only ones that mattered.

From the Ancient Eight’s inception in 1956 until Penn’s last Ivy championship in 2007, either the Quakers or Tigers won a share of every single Ivy title save five. Each school has had its runs of dominance in the league. Penn took home eight Ivy cham-pionships in 1970s — including its 1979 Final Four run. Princ-eton had shares of eight titles in the 1960s, making the 1965 Final Four on the back of future Sena-tor Bill Bradley.

With the games fought to

the bitter end and often decid-ing NCAA Tournament bids, fans would pack the teams’ two arenas, leading to a cacophonous atmosphere that allowed fans to play a role in each game, suffo-cating the courts with cheers and boos.

“For so long, it was just Penn and Princeton going to the tournament, Penn and Princ-eton winning the league,” senior guard Jamal Lewis said. “That in itself breeds great rivalry.”

Saturday’s game at the

Palestra wasn’t sold out by any means. None of the current play-ers on either side have won an Ivy title, Princeton most recently winning in 2011. The drought is even longer for Penn, arguably in the midst the worst stretch in program history. It didn’t help student attendance that the game occurred during Penn’s winter break, leading to a very small student contingent mostly con-sisting of the Penn Band.

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TIME TO DUALPenn wrestling had a busy winter

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M. HOOPS | The Penn-Princeton rivalry

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TOM NOWLAN & STEVEN TYDINGSSports Editor & Senior Sports Reporter

Quakers come up just short in overtime

A TALE OF TWO

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