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U. City sees an uptick in armed robberies
Following the buzz about a cockroach problem in 1920 Commons,
the dining hall remains as crowded as ever.
Many students learned of the issue two weeks ago when Under the
Button published The Inconvenient (Health-Threatening) Truth Behind
Your Meals, which detailed several Philadelphia Food Safety
Inspection Reports of Penns dining halls. But Penn Dining says it
has taken mea-sures to ensure the health and sanitation of its
facilities.
These free, publicly-available reports also reveal vari-ous
sanitary concerns for Kings Court English House, Hill House and
Falk Dining Commons in Steinhardt Hall. Most notably, the reports
indicate a lack of cleanliness in the mens bathroom at Kings Court
in February 2013, past evidence of rodent and insect activity at
Hill in January 2013, mouse droppings in the main kitchen of Hillel
in December 2014 and live roaches observed in breakfast and ice
cream station areas at Commons last October.
The UTB article quickly spread across Penn students Facebook
walls, provoking some gut reactions to Penn Din-ings food safety
practices.
I find it a little worrying that we didnt find out about the
[food safety] problems until someone posted the reports on
Facebook, College freshman JinAh Kim said.
Criminals dont usually like the cold, says Vice President for
Public Safety Mau-reen Rush. Not so this year. Despite low
temperatures last week, Penn and Drexel police are facing a spike
in armed rob-beries, with five armed robberies and one unarmed
robbery reported between Feb. 7 and Feb. 15.
Over the course of approximately one week, two armed robberies
occurred on Penns campus, and three armed robber-ies and an unarmed
robbery occurred on Drexels campus. No suspects have been ar-rested
in any of these cases, and five of the six were highway robberies,
meaning the victims were robbed while walking down
the street. The sixth was a residential rob-bery.
The first robbery at Penn occurred at 7:50 p.m. on the 4100
block of Pine. A female student reported a male suspect had pushed
her from behind and then asked her to empty her pockets. When she
turned around, she saw that the suspect had a small black handgun.
She handed over her cell phone before the suspect got spooked and
ran away, Rush said.
The woman described the suspect as a black male, 5 feet 11
inches tall, with shoul-der-length dreadlocks and dark-colored
jeans. He escaped from the scene in a dark colored vehicle, headed
eastbound on Pine Street.
The second robbery at Penn occurred at 11:11 p.m. on Feb. 8 on
200 South 38th Street. The victim, who is related to a
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Penn launches 24/7 hotline
Students who dont know where to turn now have a central option
for mental health con-cerns: 215-898-HELP.
Penn launched its mental health HELP line on Dec. 1, 2014. Since
then, 54 students have called the number. Of these calls, two were
made on behalf of a student who the caller wanted to check in on,
17 were transferred to Counseling and Psychological Services and
eight were requests for information, according to the Mental Health
Task Force report.
This really just is the catch-all for people in the crisis who
might not feel they have the energy to look up the numbers, Vice
President for Public Safety Maureen Rush, who sat on the Mental
Health Task Force, said.
Setting up the HELP line was not a simple task, Rush said. We
had to acquire the phone number, we wanted to ensure that the
PennComm call-takers were trained to re-spond.
Callers reach the HELP line for a variety of reasons. Rush said
some callers simply request information about CAPS, others are
parents who are worried about their children and still others are
students calling for personal help.
Some of the calls might be a parent who says, I havent been able
to reach my son for a whole weekend. Im worried, Rush said. She
said DPS would respond by sending police of-ficers to find the
student and ask them to call their parents.
Alternatively, she said, a student will say, Im feeling like Im
wanting to hurt myself, and I need help. In this case, the
dispatch-ers will immediately connect that person to the on-call
CAPS person. In urgent cases, DPS will arrange transportation for a
person to a hospital, if this is what the CAPS clinician on duty
recommends.
We are not psychologists. We are trained to be a crisis center,
Rush said. When students do reach CAPS, the clinicians take
over.
Theres a mechanism where the dispatcher keeps the caller on the
line and reaches the CAPS clinician on call and connects the two so
that the person never goes off the line, CAPS Director Bill
Alexander said.
He added that the system is not simple. If a student calls on a
Friday, for example, CAPS will follow up multiple times over the
course of the weekend. Throughout the weekend, CAPS may send a
clinician to visit the student if
Dispatchers will connect callers with clinicians from CAPSDAVID
CAHN Staff Reporter
Despite health inspection reports, dining hall has maintained
the same level of activity
Five armed robberies were reported in a one-week period
JEFFREY CAREYVA Staff Reporter
DAVID CAHNStaff Reporter
SEE COCKROACHES PAGE 7
SEE ROBBERIES PAGE 2
SEE HELP LINE PAGE 5
Instead of intuition, our
choices are tempered and tampered by our fear of not
succeeding.
- Jason TangsonPAGE 4
GONE TO COLUMBIABACK PAGE
College junior dies of cancerAlexsandra Bilotti, a College
junior, died early Saturday morning of Ewings sarcoma. She
turned 22 years old last Wednesday.
Alexsandra, known to her friends and family as Alex, was a
Philadel-phia Mayors Scholar and member of Penns Zeta Tau Alpha
sorority.
Alex is the air that I breathe. She
was every breath that I take and she was my sunshine, Sandy
Bilotti, Alex Bilottis mother, said. She was my hero. She was all
that I wanted to be in my life. I wanted to be like her and she
just gave me strength and she gave me lots of love. I dont know
what Im going to do the rest of my life without her.
Ewings sarcoma is a rare form cancer that affects the bodys
bones and tissues. Bilotti was diagnosed at age 11, and she fought
the disease for 10 years and eight months. After going into
remission for a few years
and nearly being considered a survi-vor, her cancer returned in
2009.
She always set goals in life and thats what got her through a
lot of this, her mother said. The day she found out she got into
Penn was one of her happiest days.
Over the course of her illness and its extensive treatment,
Bilotti was held back a grade and took off a se-mester from Penn.
After taking some time off again this spring, she had hoped to
return to Penn in the fall.
Alex was an amazing young woman who is going to be missed by
the chapter, Zeta chapter president Julia Peng said on behalf of
the so-rority in an email. When Alex first joined Zeta, we learned
of her di-agnosis. It made our philanthropy even more personal for
us, and we will do everything we can to honor her not only in
our
Alex Bilotti was a mayors scholar and member of ZTAJILL
CASTELLANO Editor-in-Chief
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Cockroach problem fixed in Commons
Madison Hollerans friends, family reflect on Penns mental health
effortsSOPHIA WITTESenior Reporter
The friends and family of Madison Holle-ran, a Penn student who
committed suicide last spring semester, see Penns new mental health
efforts as a move in the right direction, but they believe more
must be done to create a stronger sense of community and support
across campus.
Following six student suicides in 15 months, the Task Force on
Student Psychological Health and Welfare published a report last
Tuesday that reviewed and made recommen-dations for Penns mental
health resources.
In reference to the drive for perfection in academics and all
aspects of student life, the Task Force report emphasized an
approach of cultural rather than structural change.
There isnt an easy fix to this issue, and I think its great that
Penn is really taking this issue seriously, but I think Penn can do
more to help students who are overwhelmed and need someone to go to
and trust, Madison Hollerans father Jim Holleran said.
For Hollerans father, Penn would more effectively spur the
cultural change it hopes to achieve if it also focused on creating
official programs, such as a formalized men-toring program in the
athletic department, that would encourage students to talk openly
about personal issues.
In the Penn environment, I think its tough to achieve that level
of depth in friendships, Wharton sophomore Logan Gardner, a close
friend of Hollerans, said. You think you know someone really well,
but then when they go and do something like suicide that you never
wouldve expected, you realize you had no idea
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ALEX BILOTTI
Courtesy of Sandy Bilotti
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A referendum this week will reveal if Penn students support
fossil fuel divestment, but the vote is only the first step in a
long pro-cess leading to change.
Starting Monday, Penn under-graduates can vote in a referendum
on whether or not they believe the University should divest from
fossil fuels. The student group Fossil Free Penn launched the
referendum with a petition, and the Nomina-tions and Elections
committee is overseeing the voting process.
In order for the referendum to
pass, at least 15 percent of the un-dergraduate population must
vote, with at least 50 percent of voters fa-voring divestment.
However, even if the referendum passes, there is no guarantee that
the University will divest from fossil fuels the motion will then
go through six ad-ditional steps of approval, ending with the
Executive Committee of Trustees, which has the final vote.
The hurdles are very, very high for those that are looking to
divest [from fossil fuel], professor of philosophy and chair of the
Social Responsibility Advisory Commit-tee Michael Weisberg
said.
Although Penn does not pub-lish a breakdown of its specific
investments, members of Fossil Free Penn used a variety of met-rics
to estimate that $315 million
of Penns $9.6 billion endowment is currently invested in fossil
fuel companies.
Support for fossil fuel divest-ment is gaining momentum across
peer institutions. On Feb. 12, a group of Harvard students
protest-ing fossil fuel investments staged a sit-in in
Massachusetts Hall, which contains the offices of high level
administrators, including the presi-dent.
Although Stanford decided to terminate its investments from
coal, but not all fossil fuels, last May, no Ivy League school has
yet divested from fossil fuels.
On things like this we like to be comfortably among our peers,
and our peers have not divested from fossil fuel, Weisberg
said.
Penn has divested from
particular industries in previous years, albeit in rare
circumstances. In the 1980s, Penn divested from companies that did
business in South Africa, and in 2006 Penn divested from oil
companies in Sudan in response to the genocide in Darfur. In 2011,
Penn decided that it would not put future invest-ments in HEI
Hotels and Resorts, which was accused of unlaw-ful anti-organizing
practices and unfair working conditions.
Last year a movement advocated for divestment from the tobacco
in-dustry with overwhelming support from the University community
including students, professors and the University Council. Yet, the
proposal did not meet the Trustees standard for divestment, which
says that an investment must constitute
a moral evil implicating a core University value that is
creating a substantial social injury, and the Trustees decided not
to divest.
Penns divestment policy en-courages financially-minded decisions
unswayed by public opinion, reading there is a strong presumption
against the University making investment decisions based upon
political, social, or ethical positions held by members of the
community.
The Trustees have the sole re-sponsibility for making investment
decisions, with the overarching goal of protecting and maximiz-ing
the resources of the University in support of its primary mission
of teaching, research and clinical care, Executive Vice President
Craig Carnaroli said in an email
statement.However, Weisberg challenged
the idea that only financial con-siderations should shape Penns
portfolio. Penn is not a corpora-tion, it is a community of
scholars, he said.
Even though the referendum may not lead directly to divestment,
Fossil Free Penn coordinator and College sophomore Peter Thacher
thinks it will be effective.
The goal of this referendum is to contribute to our pressure on
the University to divest, he said. I dont personally expect the
University to agree to divest right after this referendum, but we
think that after broad student support is proven we can go into
negotia-tions with them and we will have a strong case.
FOSSIL FREE PENN493 signatures on a petition needed to create
the referendum
REFERENDUMAt least 15% of under-graduates need to vote, and at
least 50% of them must vote in favor of divesting
UAIf the referendum passes, the UA will present the proposal to
divest to the University Council.
UNIVERSITY COUNCIL STEERING COMMITEEDecides whether they believe
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pass on the proposal to Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on
Divestment.
AD HOC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON DIVESTMENTWill further study the
proposal to determine whether it meets the high standards for
divestment. If so, it presents the proposal to the Trustee
Subcommit-tee on Divestment.
THE TRUSTEE COMMITTEE ON DIVESTMENTConsiders the proposal and
provides a recom-mendation to the Executive Committee of the
Trustees.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF TRUSTEESUltimately decides how to act
on the recommen-dation.
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Referendum is early step in fossil fuel divestmentStarting
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SCHROEDERStaff Reporter
graduate student at Penn, said a man approached her from behind,
told her he had a knife and then asked for her money. The suspect
was described as a 5-foot-11 black man of medium build, wear-ing
dark clothing, black Nike
sneakers and a dark beanie cap.While both Penn victims were
female and the suspect in both cases fit a similar height
descrip-tion, to Penn Police it is still unclear whether the two
suspects are the same person.
We never rule out anything, Rush said.
At Drexel, a student reported
that three men hit him in the back of the head with what he
believed to be a handgun. The alleged crime occurred on Feb. 7 at
1:59 a.m. on the 3600 block of Hamil-ton Street. The men then
knocked him to the ground and fled with his wallet and bike,
according to The Triangle, Drexels newspa-per.
The next night, at 10:40 p.m. a non-Drexel affiliate was hit
over the back of the head with a hand-gun and took cash at 200
Baring Street, The Triangle reported. The Drexel Department of
Public Safety was unable to be reached before this article went to
print.
Armed robberies are not frequent at Penn, Rush said,
especially in the winter.The University City Public
Safety Group, which includes Philadelphia Police, Penn Police,
Drexel Police and the district at-torneys office, is working to
investigate and solve the robber-ies, Rush said. The departments
are sharing intelligence and look-ing for citywide robberies that
fit
similar descriptions.Rush urged Penn students to
use walking escorts until the cases are solved, who can be
ap-proached on the street or called through the Penn Walk
number.
Everyones so bundled up, so clearly just being aware of your
surroundings is important for staying safe, Rush added.
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what was going on in their head.Without any major mental
health
issues before coming to Penn, Madi-son Holleran, a track star
known for also balancing her academics and social life, committed
suicide in January of her freshman year. Holle-rans friends and
family commended several parts of Penns Task Force recommendations,
including the clarified leave of absence policy, the shortened
timeline for Counseling and Psychological Services appoint-ments
and the I CARE training program to recognize warning signs of
student distress.
However, they emphasized the need for tangible criteria to
measure the success of Penns efforts, a criti-cism pointed out by
many students on campus.
I think the approach of cultural change as an overarching theme
is a very good step forward for Penn, but that being said, I dont
think you can get much accomplished without concrete goals, Gardner
said. Even though its hard to measure, you have to start somewhere,
and I think having a general timeline is a pretty standard step
toward getting to any goal.
CAPS director Bill Alexander said the effectiveness of Penns
poli-cies and programs will be measured by the oversight team a
group of students, faculty and staff that will watch over the arc
of mental health on our campus and guide it with suggestions for at
least the next four years.
But the need for benchmarks was also highlighted by another
close friend of Hollerans, who preferred to remain anonymous. She
said the rec-ommendations have good intentions, but will ultimately
be ineffective not only based on the missing implementation plan,
but also due to the lack of student representatives on the Task
Force.
It almost feels like the adults of the conversation are making
all the decisions that impact the students, she said. Solving a
problem within the Penn community needs to in-volve the people who
see and deal with it first hand: the students.
While the Task Force met with student groups and
incorporated
their suggestions, the need for more student voices was also
criticized by Edward Modica, one of Madisons elementary school
teachers whose petition for a law is being drafted into proposed
New Jersey state leg-islation he wants to call the Madison Holleran
Law. Modica also said Penn should make data available on the number
of attempted suicides on campus, a component of the
legisla-tion.
Bill Alexander explained that the gray area of what is
considered a suicide attempt makes collecting such data extremely
challenging, and Penn would be limited by privacy laws and family
wishes in making the information public.
Beyond these specific criti-cisms, Madison Hollerans family and
friends all touched on the need for Penn to foster a greater sense
of community on campus. Though her suicide resulted from many
complex factors, Gardner and two anony-mous friends said Madisons
stress was likely influenced by her drive to excel, coupled with a
culture at Penn that makes opening up to people very difficult.
I think Madison had trouble communicating even to her close
friends about how she was feeling, since I think she really felt
that her problems were a weakness, Holle-rans father said. Its very
difficult for high-performing people to admit they need
assistance.
It all boils down to creating a communal environment, which I
think is a central part of getting people to open up, Gardner said.
I think Penn really lacks the feeling that there is a community to
support you, and not having this sort of net-work is one of the
main things that [Madison and I] would talk about early last year
when we bonded a lot over our mutual unhappiness in tran-sitioning
to Penn.
Another friend of Madisons who preferred to remain anonymous
said Penn has done a good job at making its resources more
available, espe-cially given the campus culture of competition that
drives students to be ambitious in all of their pursuits.
I dont think people would be as successful at Penn without the
competitive environment thats fostered here, she said. But at the
same time, theres also a cost to that
the impact on Madison being an example so its really important
that they continue to promote mental health.
Through initiatives like a new peer counseling group and a
mobile app designed to centralize the informa-tion of mental health
resources, Penn is trying to shift this cultural cost by making
resources more accessible and by educating and training people on
the topic of mental health.
We want to emphasize mental wellness, not mental illness,
Alex-ander said. The existing resources for treating mental illness
are abun-dant at Penn, but almost all of Penns new initiatives are
aimed at keep-ing people healthy, with a focus on making it a
community responsi-bility to help with stress reduction,
building support networks and recognizing those who might be in
trouble.
According to Victor Schwartz, a doctor from the Task Forces
partner, the Jed Foundation, Penn is taking the right steps by
using its resources mostly to prevent rather than treat mental
illness after students get to the point of suicide.
Meanwhile, some students still dont believe the University
targets the source of mental illness.
Theyre treating the effects and not the causes of depression at
this school, said one of Hollerans two friends who remained
anonymous. They find a cultural rather than structural change is
needed, but the culture will not change unless the structure
does.
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On Friday, two rappers came to Penn to prove that Iggy Azalea
isnt the only non-stereotypical hip hop artist.
In honor of the Lunar New Year, the Asian Pacific Stu-dent
Coalition and Korean Student Association hosted a concert headlined
by two of the most well known names in Asian-American rap at the
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology.
Awkwafina is a half-Chi-nese, half-Korean rapper from New York
City. Her real name is Nora, and she performed songs including
Fresh Water Salmon, Marijuana, Day-dreaming and Queef. Shortly
after Awkwafinas performance, Dumbfoundead closed the show. His
real name is Parker and is a male Ko-rean-American rapper from Los
Angeles. He performed a medley of his songs from the past eight
years of his career including Are We There Yet?, Genghis Khan and
Korean Jesus.
College sophomore and Vice Chair of External Affairs of APSC
Sarah Cho organized the event in collaboration with the KSA and the
Penn Con-sortium of Undergraduate Women.
It is about celebrating and recognizing Asian culture. A lot of
[Asian Pacific Islander] artists do not get recognized, she
said.
Both Dumbfoundead and Awkwafina are known as ex-tremely popular
in the Asian community at Penn. Their recognition spurred a lot of
hype on campus and drew in a roaring flood of audience members.
We turn on the TV and turn on the radio, and we dont get many
Asians represented. Its important because other ethnicities are
represented; we are the last ones, Dumbfoun-dead said.
Awkwafina agreed.Asian people make up
a group that doesnt have a voice. There is much staunch racism,
and Asians are still the butt of a lot of jokes, she said.
This isnt Dumbfoun-deads first time on campus. Last year, he
came to Penn to speak on Asian culture aware-ness. This time, Cho
said she wanted to bring Dumb-foundead in for an authentic concert
experience.
I want people to know
that there are also eccentric Asians, and that is the way we are
on stage. Dumbfoundead added.
Prior to their careers in the music industry, Dumb-foundead was
a high school drop-out and Awkwafina was a publicist for a
magazine. They found their voices in a unique medium, which the
language society has grown to know as rap.
Symbolic of something bigger; we dont have a voice in this
country yet. Im not Iggy Azalea or Nicki Minaj, and I can never be
that [with societys racial inequality]. What [Dumbfoundead] and I
promote is an Asian face. We are Asian American. We need to make
people understand the difference between Asians and Asian
Americans, Awk-wafina said.
Awkwafina and Dumb-foundead represented Asian Americans at Penn
TIFFANY YAU Contributing Reporter
Ringing in the Lunar New Year with rap
Awkwafina and Dumbfounded performed at Penn Museum on
Thursday.
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LETTERS
This week, we, the undergraduates of Penn, face a his-toric
decision. We see the first referendum in six years, and its on the
is-sue of climate change. We must decide whether or not the student
body should send a mandate to the University administration that
invest-ment in fossil fuel companies is unacceptable. However, this
demand is one we should not make it will harm us, Penn and the
environmental movement. Voting to divest will cause far more harm
than good.
Penn Fossil Free, an off-shoot of the Go Fossil Free movement
developed by radi-cal environmental group 350.org, has made strong
argu-ments and engaged directly with the Penn community. Pe-ter
Thachers guest column in Thursdays The Daily Penn-
sylvanian is commendable for its strong emphasis on the dangers
of climate change. He challenges Penn to take a stand on major
issues and cites the dangers of not acting on the massive threat of
glob-al warming. But the way we, the students of Penn, as well as
the University itself should help fix climate change is not by
divesting, but taking con-crete actions.
Divestment is a finan-cial decision disguised as a moral stance.
If fossil fuel companies were true finan-cial liabilities, as
alleged by Fossil Free Penn, then Peter Ammon, Penns chief
invest-ment officer, would drop them from our investment
port-folio. Instead, divestment is significant because it means an
organization in this case Penn is choosing to weaken its economic
base in order to make a public point.
Voting yes to the referendum means you, a Penn student, wish to
see our financial en-dowment be limited, and po-tentially weaker.
This is an endowment that funds new developments like Penn Park,
our Financial Aid program or hiring our diverse faculty.
Is taking such a moral stance worth it? Many would argue yes, it
is wrong to make profits from such a dangerous and evil industry
and, without brave individuals and groups making a statement,
system-atic change cannot occur. Some argue that by taking our
money out of companies such as ExxonMobil with a market cap of $377
billion and re-investing in renew-ables, we can help foster a new
energy economy. How-ever, Penn has a $9.6 billion endowment that
invests less than one percent in any single company, or
alternatively,
owns less than 0.02 percent of ExxonMobil selling will not
change anything. Instead, we may want to buy more of ExxonMobil and
collaborate with other universities in or-der to force changes to
their behavior as large sharehold-ers. Simply selling our shares
will hardly affect them at all.
This divestment statement however will cause additional harm: it
will deepen ideologi-cal divides on the environ-mental issue, when
everyone Republican, Democrat, art student or engineer should agree
that we must act swiftly and decisively to save our planet from
further damage. Instead of trying to cause behavioral shifts
through pu-nitive actions divestment, banning SUVs or making our
houses colder during this in-fernal winter we should seek out less
divisive, com-mon sense actions that ev-
eryone agrees with. Incentiv-izing more fuel efficient cars,
switching to more efficient light bulbs or replacing coal power
plants with cleaner natural gas are ideas that everyone supports.
No one is upset when we discover new research by professor Chris
Murray that enables homeowners to have cheaper solar panels, or
when profes-sors Daeyeon Lee, Kathleen Stebe and Shu Yang develop
new membranes to clean up fracking water, or when the Alberta
Energy Regulator (of Keystone XL/tar sands infa-my) hires a team of
Penn law professors led by Cary Cogli-anese to find safer
regulatory practices.
Investing in research, economic development and education is
invaluable and universally celebrated. Ban-ning SUVs or calling out
fos-sil fuel companies however,
causes fights.To save our planet, we
must focus on actions that have an impact, instead of symbolic
actions that feel good but have little real-world benefit.
Divestment is one of those actions it sure feels good to demonize
the fossil fuel industry, but our time and energy can be bet-ter
spent enacting concrete changes that benefit everyone around the
world. Climate change should be a unifying idea, a call to arms,
but in-stead, actions like divestment keep it stagnating as an
ideo-logical battle.
What do expired yogurt and Penn have in common? The culture is
toxic.
After a whole year of psy-chiatric fieldwork and rumi-nation,
Gutmanns task force just dropped its debut bedside short-read
Report of the Task Force on Student Psychologi-cal Health and
Welfare. The 8,000-word-long report high-lights what Bloomberg
Busi-ness calls Penns pressure cooker environment in our shared
inability to cope with imperfection, effecting an in-stitutional
malaise across the student body. To be anything less than five-star
is fatal.
While the mental health problem is paramount, we must also
realize that the anxiety against averageness is also limiting
creativity.
Instead of intuition, our choices are tempered and tampered by
our fear of not succeeding. These metrics of success rarely arise
from our own organic origins, and in-
stead come from being envel-oped in Penns homogenous zones,
which are aroused only by the touch of tradi-tional success. We are
too afraid to bleed for our true desires. This stifling reaction
puts a damper on the libido of experimentation with the distracting
thoughts of fail-
ure, and makes us too stiff to dabble in Pollockian
sponta-neity. In short, Penn suffers from performance anxiety.
We often forget that we are college students, that we are naive
and that we still have some more time to de-velop.
This privilege is recog-nized almost universally; both people
and cops spare an extra degree of leniency to college students. To
put it
bluntly, students can get away with things only at this time of
their life. And we need to use this chance to the fullest
potential.
Now, let me first be clear: I do not condone financial fraud,
Wharton. I also do not condone murder except for certain terrorists
and similar-
ly bad people nor assault, rape, hate crimes or any simi-lar
traumatic event. But it is not in my place to judge; Im an opinion
columnist, not a legal ethicist.
What I mean is to flout the mores that have marked your life, to
leave your comfort zone and leave it far behind. Only at the
borders can you stretch. From brief stints with new things, be it
Leninism or lesbianism, college is a Rum-
springa, an environment to experiment. Wharton, Nurs-ing and
Engineering have more rigid requirements and invariably stiff
schedules, so this may not apply as staunch-ly, sorry.
The luxury of being a stu-dent is the clemency to com-mit risky
behavior with the
assurance that, ultimately, everything will be fine.
Physi-cally, this may be realized as the ability to binge drink,
but I mean noetically.
The task forces report nebulously calls for cultural, not
structural changes. To narrow down the Areciboian scope just a bit
more, I be-lieve that Penn bureaucracy can do this by first
affording its students more freedom to experiment.
We can do this by loosen-ing the tight rigidity of aca-demics;
many classes at Har-vard and Yale meet for only two hours per week,
contra to Penns three, allowing for more time for extracurriculars
and personal projects, such as start-ups like the Facebook. Browns
open curriculum the lack of any course requirements makes it an
intellectually free-range campus, and peckish students often find
kernels of passion where theyd least expect it. A faculty committee
at Princ-eton recently recommended kicking grading on the curve to
the curb, finding it to inter-fere with psychological fac-tors and
campus atmosphere.
We also need to stop com-paring ourselves to other
in-stitutions, and instead learn to appreciate our merits for their
own. At Penn, most students are above average, warping
expectations. This arms race fuels the cultural myopia that
normalizes high-stress high-achieving as the baseline,
leading to a sink or swim ul-timatum, where either choice is
inevitably exhausting. We need to step back and appre-ciate the
tranquility of life; for me, field trips into West Philadelphia
have been medi-tative.
Because at the end of the day, death is the great
equal-izer.
We often forget that we are college students, that we are naive
and that we still have some more time to develop.
Exhortation for exploration WHEN | We need to step back and see
the greater picture
CARTOON
ANNEKA DECARO is a College freshman from Austin, TX. Her email
address is [email protected].
Divestment is dangerousGUEST COLUMN BY SASHA KLEBNIKOV
JASON TANGSON is a College junior from Cambridge, Mass.,
studying linguistics. His email address is
[email protected].
JASON TANGSON
SASHA KLEBNIKOV is an Engineering junior from New York, studying
mechanical engineering. His email address is [email protected].
He is a writer for Penn Sustainability Review.
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hearts, but also in our philanthropic work in years to come.
I cannot recall a moment with her when she was not beaming with
positivity, even throughout the ups and downs of her illness, Zeta
member and College senior Genna Garofalo, who spoke on behalf
of
herself and not the sorority, said in an email. Alex was one of
the strongest and most beautiful people I have ever had the
pleasure to know. Her brav-ery and light will forever inspire all
who had the privilege of knowing her.
Doctors and nurses came to Bi-lottis bedside throughout the day
on Friday, thanking her for touching and changing their lives,
Bilottis mother
said.I cant say enough. A million
words couldnt explain Alex.A viewing will be held on Satur-
day, Feb. 28., at the National Shrine of Saint Rita of Cascia on
Broad Street in South Philadelphia, and will tentatively begin at 9
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try to get them in here on Monday.
Once a person reaches CAPS, from then on, the persons our
client, Alexander explained. Usu-ally, he said, callers appreciate
the help, but others are still hesitant to follow-up with CAPS
after the initial call.
Alexander commended the PennComm dispatchers, saying they have
been doing a great job parceling out calls. They are very
experienced talking to people who are in danger and who are upset,
he said.
Rush said the HELP line gives students in need a place to turn.
It is not meant to replace the PennComm emergency number, nor is it
meant to replace CAPS during the day, she said.
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In the midst of fraternity and sorority pledging season, some
question the effective-ness of the methods used to bond new members
together.
Many friends share stories about forced heavy drinking and
various acts of humilia-tion carried out behind closed doors during
this time of year. All of this, supposedly, is for the sake of
forging strong bonds within organizations.
Pledging is effective to a certain point, and beyond that point
it just becomes cruel and unnecessary, said one College freshman
currently in the process of pledging an on-campus fraternity. One
class gets through it all, and theyre so happy to be done with it
that they have to watch somebody else go through it.
Everyone always says that pledging is the best time you never
want to have again.
Psycholog y p rofessor Gordon Bermant, an initi-ated member of
Phi Delta Theta at UCLA, contrasted fraternity pledging to
mili-tary combat. He said that in combat, what people talk about is
how others sacrificed for them. However, from his memory as a
pledge, he said the process seeks to simulate a similar kind of
adversity, but in fact creates a highly artificialized kind of
playtime adversity.
It doesnt create the reality of those who have suffered
to-gether and come out the other end, Bermant said. Its not done in
a way that people can consolidate and fight back or help each other
in a time of great need.
Psychology professor Coren Apicella explained that it is human
nature to look out for one another.
Bonding may be a mecha-nism that sustains cooperation between
people after painful and negative events, she said.
Our species biological success is largely attributed to our
remarkable capacity to cooperate, Apicella added. The fact that
natural disas-ters and other tragedies are rife with examples of
selfless acts acts where people go to extraordinary lengths to help
others in need is not surprising.
However, the freshman pledge said pledging events supposedly
designed to foster cooperation often have coun-terproductive
motives.
I dont think its that effective when people are in-dividually
being forced to put the rest of the pledge class on their back, the
pledge said. Obviously it works out well when that person does a
par-ticularly good job at whatever the task is, but often theyre
set up to fail.
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Before attending Penn, Wharton senior Katlyn Grasso googled the
phrase female entrepreneurs and found few search results.
Currently, women own 41 per-cent of all businesses, according to
a recent CNBC article. How-ever, research shows that only 8 percent
of women-led businesses gain professional investments, the article
said. Given these numbers, its not hard to see why Grasso had a
hard time finding a female business role model.
I realized there were just so few women leading companies, so I
always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur, Grasso said.
She launched GenHERation, a female empowerment network for high
school girls, in March 2014 to instill confidence in young women
wanting to pursue leadership positions.
When I came to business school I saw that even though there were
almost equal women, theyre just not starting compa-nies or leading
companies at the same rates as men are, she said. At Wharton, 41
percent of the Class of 2018 is female. I de-cided whats really
important is to address girls and make them confident in their
leadership abilities when theyre young.
GenHERation is a media outlet that connects young girls with the
opportunity to work
with national corporations and nonprofit organizations, rang-ing
from the American Heart Association to ESPN-W, the branch of ESPN
that covers womens sports. Every month, GenHERation partners with a
different company or non-profit that will challenge girls to raise
awareness about a social issue. Students from around the country
can submit ideas to the GenHERation website, and the winner then
works with the company or organization to im-plement her idea.
Most recently, GenHeration and ESPN-W chose a young girl from
the Philadelphia area to host a basketball game at her high school
to raise awareness about the Womens Sports Foun-dation.
GenHERation whose website launched March 1, 2014 additionally
serves as an outlet for current events, tech talks, a financial
literacy campaign and a Question and AnswHER section featuring
other women entrepreneurs. Thus far, GenHERation has reached 10,000
people online.
Grasso said that there is a perceptual leadership gap. If girls
dont see a lot of women in powerful positions theyll
sub-consciously think that they cant amount to that, and they fall
victim to their own self doubt.
Still, Grasso noted that the amount of women involved in
entrepreneurship at Penn is growing. As a member of the Wharton
Venture Initiation Program, Grasso interacts with other
entrepreneurs on campus.
VIP is an entrepreneurship educational program managed by
Wharton Entrepreneurship that connects students with re-sources
including mentors and a work space in Vance Hall.
Managing Director of Whar-ton Entrepreneurship Clare Leinweber
said there is no short-age of women in VIP, adding that it is a
very vibrant, inclu-sive culture.
Still, she would love to see more diversity in the program in
general.
We would love to see more [women] just like we would love to see
more here from other schools [in the University], Leinweber said.
We would like to see an increase in interest from students all
across Penn in participating in our programs.
Other female-led businesses whose founders were mem-bers of VIP
include Black Box Denim, a custom jean company, and My Best Friends
Weekend, a bachelorette party-planning company led by Wharton MBA
students.
Recent studies show the busi-ness world might be starting to
tilt in favor of women in some areas.
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, together with professor Jason
Greenberg at New York University, recently found that women were 13
percent more likely than men to meet their Kickstarter goals.
Upon graduation, Grasso plans to expand GenHERation to encourage
even more young women to start their own busi-nesses.
Wharton students network reaches out to female leaders ALEXIS
BLOCKStaff Reporter
A GenHERation of entrepreneurship rises at PennThe thought of
live cockroaches
at Commons was the most unset-tling for some. I will never set
foot in Commons again, said College freshman Youssef Semlali
Yacoubi . In my eyes, Commons did not meet the minimal standards I
thought they had.
The health and sanitary reports, however, have not coaxed many
students to stop eating at the dining halls, particularly not at
Commons. According to Bon Apptits data, there was a small increase
in the number of diners served at Com-mons since UTB published the
article, compared to the same time period last February. Bon Apptit
de-clined to offer more specific statistics on the number of
diners.
Penn Dining manages 17 sepa-rate dining facilities that turn out
slightly over 10,000 meals a day. We run a huge operation, yet for
the past couple of years, we have always passed our health
inspections on campus, resident district manager of Bon Apptit
Stephen Scardina said. All of the dining halls, Scar-dina said,
including Commons, have corrected any past violations cited by
Philadelphias Office of Food Inspection. The live-roach violation
from October was the only such vio-lation Commons had received
since August 2011.
Students who eat at Commons can
now rest assured that their scoop of ice cream or breakfast
platter will not contain an unwelcome friend.
Just in the past week we had an inspection done for the 1920
Com-mons facility, and the technicians report came back negative
there has been no recent activity in 1920 Commons, Scardina said.
The cockroach infestation was cleared up immediately following the
October inspection and has remained cleared up since, he said.
The health and wellness of our students is paramount to
everything that we do, Pam Lampitt, the di-rector of Business
Services who oversees Penn Dining , said. We take the food safety
and cleanliness of our buildings very seriously this is not
something to take lightly. Food safety is our business.
But Bon Apptit and Penn Dining depend on more than health
inspec-tions to determine whether or not every dining facility is
safe. We are assessing food safety all of the time, Lampitt said.
We dont just start to respond after one Philadelphia health
inspector that is not a prudent way to go about things.
Bon Apptit has its own inspector regularly checking every
operation without prior notice, but Bon Ap-ptit also hires
additional help from outside Penn, such as Ecolab Pest Elimination
. Depending on the size of a dining operation, a technician comes
once or twice a week to in-spect each building and provide pest
control.Bon Apptit also contracts with
EcoSure, a company that comes in once a semester to assess the
food safety of every Bon Apptit-run fa-cility on campus. Another
thing we do is biweekly self-inspections, Scardina added. Different
manag-ers go to a different operation from their own and do a
self-inspection with fresh eyes.
Penn Dining launched Student Ambassadors in the fall of 2014, a
program that has turned a dozen Penn students into a fleet of
under-cover dining facility inspectors. These student ambassadors
are trained to inspect for proper food safety practices at dining
facilities regularly.
There are things that we can constantly control, and there are
things like pest movement that we can only respond to, Lampitt
said. We cannot control the construction or trash situations across
the street which alter pest movement, but we do responsibly manage
the response to pests. The construction of the Perry World House
was a likely con-tributor to the cockroach infestation, she
said.
If a student has any type of con-cern at all in a dining
facility, they should direct that concern to a man-ager on duty who
will take care of it, Scardina said. If there is ever any type of
sighting, we will contact Ecolab who will immediately send out a
service technician.
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Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation held a Student Debt
Demonstration this past Friday to protest Penns no-loan policy as
part of their Ferguson Friday series.
Throughout the day, students visited stations in the ARCH
building and Houston Hall and wrote their level of indebtedness on
a plaque, which they then wore around their necks for the rest of
day. Other students participated via social media by posting
pictures of themselves along with a plaque de-picting their
accumulated debt.
This is an issue of accessibility and equal opportunity. Who
gets to participate in certain opportuni-ties that Penn has to
offer is limited to ones socioeconomic status, SOUL wrote in a
statement. Penn must revise its no-loan policy to truly support
impoverished students to graduate from Penn without debt.
SOUL believes this issue affects students all across campus.
The issue of students no-loan policy isnt just a SOUL issue this
is an undergraduate stu-dent, graduate student, all student issue,
said College senior Breanna Moore, SOULs co-founder and chair .
While SOUL is most well-known for its demonstrations regarding
racial equality, it be-lieves that economic freedom is just as
important.
For a University to promise low-income students, who are
mostly students of color, the option to go to this school and be
able to graduate debt-free with a no-loan grant or scholarship aid
package, this is something that must be ad-hered to, Moore
said.
Despite the Universitys no-loan policy, 36 percent of Penn
under-graduate students take out loans, the third-highest rate
among Ivy League universities. College of Liberal and Professional
Studies students, who do not have a no-loan guarantee, often have
it even worse.
It is very important for people to understand the real story of
what students are experienc-ing and how that differs from the
no-loan policy, LPS junior Casey Bridgeford said. You have
people moving across the country to come to school at Penn, and Ive
heard there are people who only eat every other day because they
have no food to eat while theyre at Penn.
Fridays Student Debt Dem-onstration was SOULs first
financial-focused Ferguson Friday event.
There is no shame in us having or showing that we have loans,
rather Penn should be ashamed for telling the world that it is
accessible when many of the students of low-income backgrounds are
forced to take out loans, SOUL wrote on their Facebook event
page.
JACK CAHNStaff Reporter
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While it was not a f lawless regular season for Penn wres-tling
in all facets, two wins on Saturday allowed the Quakers home
faithful to end 2014-15 having seen nothing but wins the entire
year.
The Red and Blue defeated both Princeton and Drexel at the
Palestra on Saturday to com-plete its home dual meet season with a
perfect 6-0 record. The meets were the final duals for seniors
Canaan Bethea, Geof-frey Bostany, Jeff Canfora, Anthony DiLonardo,
Andrew Lenzi and Brad Wukie, all of whom were honored before taking
the mat against the Tigers.
We have a lot of people in that class that really care about the
program, senior 149-pounder C.J. Cobb said.
Wukie and Bethea could have graduated before the season but the
duo took last semester off in order to retain their final year of
eligibility before returning this winter. Bostany, whose wres-tling
career was ended before last season by a concussion, stayed
involved with the team as a student assistant coach with Penn
(9-4).
The Red and Blues seniors notched key victories in the two
matches, including Wukies wins over Princeton junior Judd
Ziegler in sudden victory and Drexel freshman Stephen Loi-seau
in the 174-pound class.
The Quakers other two senior wrestlers who competed on the day
141-pounder Can-fora and 157 -pounder Bethea both lost close
matches against Princeton (9-9) but emerged victorious in their
bouts against Drexel.
Betheas loss to Princeton junior Abe Ayala ranked 12th in the
weight class was espe-cially heartbreaking as it was his second 6-5
loss to the Tiger this season. However, Bethea dominated Drexel
redshir t freshman Brandon Litten, 14-4, in his final home match
with the program.
On top of extending its per-fect mark at home this year, Penns
victory against Princeton extended another streak. Satur-days win
was the Quakers 24th consecutive victory against the Tigers, a run
that dates back to 1992.
Princetons a tough team, Cobb said. That was a tough match. It
feels good to have bragging rights over them.
Cobb was actually recruited by Princeton out of high school and
considered attending there before ult imately choosing Penn.
It just shows that I made the right decision, Cobb said while
laughing.
The Quakers only led the Tigers by four when freshman
heavyweight Patrik Garren took the mat against sophomore Ray
ODonnell. However, buoyed by a five-point first period, Garren
took the match, 7-4, to seal Penns 19-12 victory.
You really just have to get fired up for a match like that,
Garren said of his win. Just go out and perform better than you
usually do. Make sure we get the win over Princeton.
After sophomore Jeremy Schwartzs loss in the 125-pound category
to Drexel redshirt freshman Zack Fuentes, sophomore Caleb
Richardson, ranked No. 18 in the 133-pound class, was unable to
overcome Drexel redshir t sophomore Kevin Devoy.
Devoy, who is ranked No. 15 in the category, held on for a 7-3
win to stake Drexel out to a 6-0 lead.
However, the Quakers pulled together and only lost two more
matches for the rest of the af-ternoon, winning by six, 21-15,
after facing a six-point deficit early in the dual.
By defeating the Dragons (8-14), the Quakers were able to hoist
the Abners Cheesesteak Trophy, annually awarded to the winner of
the Penn-Drexel meet, as the two are Philadelphias only two
Division I wrestling programs.
Its a lot of fun wrestling Drexel, Garren said. Obvi-ously,
theres the Cheesesteak Trophy, which is always fun to have. The
cheesesteak is a pretty big deal around here.
Its definitely nice knowing were the best wrestling team in
Philly, he concluded.
And with the performances that Penn has put up in Philadel-phia
this year, the Quakers have shown that to its home crowds this
entire season.
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years 31-7 win at Franklin Field being one of only two victories
in his last season at Penn.
I think it definitely adds an emotional aspect to make the game
very entertaining, very exciting, former Penn punter and 2013
College graduate Scott Lopano said. To be frank, Co-lumbia, they
havent been very competitive against us in the past so it hasnt
been the biggest rivalry, but this adds a totally different dynamic
to it.
Bagnoli could not be reached for comment when contacted by The
Daily Pennsylvanian on Sunday.
At the time of Mangurians resignation, Columbias athletic
department was in the midst of a search for a new athletic
direc-tor. Following the resignation of M. Diane Murphy in
Septem-ber, the university hired former Villanova Associate
Athletic Director Peter Pilling earlier this month to fill the
vacancy created by Murphy.
When he was hired, Pilling emphasized that his primary goal was
to find a reputable coach that could put Columbia football in
contention in the Ivy League.
We need to hire a football coach, Pilling told the Spec-tator.
Thats priority number one.
While Bagnoli has been in his new position within Penn Athletics
for only two months, it appears the 62-year-old was dis-satisfied
with the less dynamic nature of a desk job.
You can imagine after a long career of running a big football
program and youre immersed in that and suddenly youre sitting
behind a desk, Constantine said. It can be a great desk with great
things to do, but it would be a life change, and Im not sure anyone
fully understands what retirement is.
Although Pilling established
mid-March as his soft deadline for a new boss, he wasted no time
in finding Mangurians replacement. A source close to the situation
confirmed to The Daily Pennsylvanian late last week that it
look[ed] like the move to Columbia will happen.
I think he was ready to step down from 23 years at Penn,
Constantine said. I dont think he envisioned sitting on his
backside in retirement, although I dont think he saw coming back
into coaching.
Hes still a relatively young man. He has energy. He has passed
along the baton at Penn.
For the Lions, the hire repre-sents a clear desire to improve
the state of their football pro-
gram. During his time with the Quakers, Bagnoli twice won three
Ivy titles over the span of four seasons with his final
championship with the Red and Blue coming in 2012.
Between 2001 and 2004, Bagnolis Penn squad put to-gether the
longest winning streak in Ivy history, capturing 20 consecutive
conference vic-tories. After 10 years at Union, Bagnoli led the
Quakers to two undefeated title-winning seasons within his first
three seasons.
Its manna from heaven to have Al available and make an offer he
couldnt refuse, Con-stantine said. I dont think Al sees it or [new
Penn coach] Ray Priore or I see it as abandoning
Penn. Its not like he quit the head coaching job to go to
Har-vard, Yale or Princeton.
Sources have informed the DP that Bagnoli is set to bring
current Yale defensive coordi-nator Rick Flanders and Union head
coach John Audino onto his staff. The reports have yet to be
confirmed.
Despite the programs suc-cess under Bagnoli over the past 23
seasons, Penn has struggled over the past two years, finish-ing a
combined 6-14 since the 2012 Ivy championship. That included a
nine-game losing streak that bridged the 2013 and 2014 seasons and
a defense that allowed over 31 points six times in its past 10
games.
You had a year to acclimate to the fact that coach Priore will
be the one coaching, Holder said. I hope the guys in [Penns] locker
room are to-tally behind him because he is a great coach and a
better man, and hes going to do all he can to bring Penn football
back where it was.
To be in one place for 23 years, its somewhat unusual, but Ive
loved it, and Id like to think weve had more good mo-ments than
bad, Bagnoli said before his final home game against Harvard in
Novem-ber. Were all caretakers to a program that is over 130 years
old, and the seniors and I are happy to pass it on to the next guys
who will get it all back on track.
Although Bagnoli intended to enter the 2015 season as part of
Penn Athletics, its clear that those close to him are support-ive
of the decision.
Al told me that Mary Ellen, his wife, said, Are you kidding me?
Ill shoot you if you dont take it, Constantine said. I think its
all good. I think Penn should applaud it from a league competitive
standpoint and ap-plaud this next role for him.
Theres no downside from [Penns] standpoint.
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Penn wins last Palestra match PRINCETON19 12PENN DREXEL21
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Red and Blue take crown
For the first time since 2011, the Ivy Classic came to the
Palestra. For Penns gymnastics team, the home-coming was especially
sweet, as the Quakers walked away from the afternoon of Ancient
Eight competi-tion with their first title since 2012.
Capturing the crown was no easy task for the Red and Blue,
however. The team scores for all four teams Brown, Cornell, Penn
and Yale remained close through competi-tion on uneven bars and
beam.
The highlight of Penns indi-vidual competition came on beam,
where three Quakers finished on the podium. Senior Amanda
Sch-laefer took second and sophomore Rachel Graham and freshman
Emily Shugan tied for third, along with Browns Corey Holman, and
Cornell gymnasts Joy Gage and Courtney Spitzer.
Then, in the third rotation, Penn began to pull away from the
field, recording a season-best 48.950 points on the floor. Freshman
Megan Finck led the way for the Red and Blue, earning second-place
honors.
Despite the nearly one-point lead heading into the vault, Penn
faced steep competition from Brown, who won the Ivy Classic both
times in the two-year interim between Penns titles. Led by senior
captain Wynne Levys first-place mark of 9.775 a career best for the
vault specialist the Quakers racked up 48.400 points on vault,
another season-best for the team.
Penns vaulting performance was just enough to propel the team to
the title, the 14th in school history, by only .300.
His wife said Are you kidding me? Ill shoot you if you dont take
it.
- William ConstantinePenn Football Board of
Overseeers Member
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Penn basketball junior guard Tony Hicks was suspended by the
program for last weekends Ivy doubleheader against Harvard and
Dartmouth, Penn Athletics announced on Friday.
The suspension came after the Quakers contest against Brown on
Feb. 14. In that matchup, Hicks received a technical foul midway
through the second half for a comment he made to an official.
Fol-lowing the incident, coach Jerome Allen sat the team captain
for the re-maining 6:22 of the Red and Blues eventual 71-55
loss.
However, Hicks suspension ap-pears to stem from more than the
technical foul itself.
Tony did some things during and immediately following last
Satur-days game against Brown that did not meet the standards of
the Penn basketball program, Allen said. After reviewing the
incidents earlier this week, I have decided to sit him for this
weekends games.
I have spoken to Tony and the team about the situation, and they
will learn from this. We look forward
to having him back on the court next weekend.
This weekends suspension marks the third consecutive year in
which Hicks has found himself barred from at least one of Penns
games.
In his freshman season, Hicks was suspended for the Quakers
matchup with Delaware. After the suspension and Penns loss to the
Blue Hens, a source confirmed that the suspension for Hicks and
four others was the result of failed drug tests.
Late in the 2013-14 campaign, Hicks was suspended again, this
time in a game against Columbia on March 7. With seven minutes
remaining, Hicks punched Lions then-junior guard Meiko Lyles in the
jaw, received a flagrant-2 and was ejected from the game.
Allen suspended the South Hol-land, Ill., native for Penns game
the next night against Cornell before playing Hicks in the season
finale against Princeton three days later.
Hicks is the Quakers leading scorer in 2014-15, averaging 13.0
points per contest. Sophomore guard Matt Poplawski who played the
remainder of the game against Brown after the junior was benched
started both games over the week-end in Hicks absence.
Despite the closeness of the opening frame, the Big Green seemed
poised to break the game wide open after halftime. After the two
squads traded buckets, Mitola scored eight consecutive points to
give Dartmouth a 39-30 lead.
Yet the Quakers charged back. A three by rookie Darnell Fore-man
eventually knotted the score up once again, this time at 43. Jones
then hit his third three of the contest to cap a 16-4 run for the
Quakers, one that gave them a 46-43 lead.
But after cutting their deficit to 55-53, Mitola hit a clutch
three before Carpenter drew a foul on a floater to put the Big
Green ahead for good. Mitola then canned consecutive buckets to cap
off his night with 18 points and give Dart-mouth a 63-57 advantage
en route to its eventual five-point win.
The previous night, Wesley Saunders led the way for the Crimson
(19-5, 9-1 Ivy) with a game-high 15 points while shoot-ing 77.8
percent from the field, and Steve Moundou-Missi added 14 points to
go along with four offensive rebounds. The loss was the hundredth
of Allens
career at Penn as the weekend dropped his overall record to
63-101.
With Hicks out of the lineup as a result of a two-game
suspension, Poplawski took the junior captains spot in the starting
lineup. An All-Ivy midfielder for Penn soccer, the Bellevue, Wash.,
native scored four points against Harvard before adding seven on
Saturday night.
Despite his excitement to find his way into the starting lineup,
Poplawski noted the entire teams disappointment at the news of
Hickss suspension.It was tough to hear. Hes
the leader on our team, so we definitely wanted him with us,
Poplawski said. But at the same time, he wants us to do well
whether hes here or not regard-less of whos here, were going to try
and play the same way every single game.
Now sitting alone in last place in the Ancient Eight, the Red
and Blue will next be in action on Friday when they travel to
Provi-dence to take on Brown.
For many years, Ivy League swimming has been just a three-horse
race between Harvard, Princeton and Yale. But at this years Ivy
Championship meet at Harvard, Penn womens swim-ming showed the rest
of the league that it isnt far behind.
The Red and Blue finished fourth overall with 952 total team
points, the most the team has reg-istered at Ivies since 2008. This
years finish was also the high-est by the Quakers since the team
registered three consecutive fourth-place finishes at the
Cham-pionships from 2009 to 2011.
The thing that separates our team this year from the ones we
have had the last few years is that all 20 girls we brought to the
meet scored points, coach Mike Schnur said. In the past, we have
usu-ally been carried by four or five girls who would score all of
our points, but this year we had every last swimmer and diver
contribute important finishes and that is phe-nomenal to see.
Ironically, Penns only top finish of the three-day meet came in
the first individual event on Thursday, when freshman Virginia
Burns came out of nowhere to win the 500-yard freestyle event.
Burns who entered Thursdays meet with a personal best time of
4:54.43 swam a 4:49.72 in the preliminary round, before dropping
another four seconds to win the final in 4:45.67.
With that race, Burns became only the seventh female swimmer
in program history to be crowned an Ivy Champion.
Watching Virginia race had to have been one of the most
satisfy-ing moments Ive had as a coach, Schnur said. To see her
drop almost 19 seconds from where she started this year and
actually win an event that she still has really no experience in is
a coachs dream.
She really just set the tone for us on that first day and really
got ev-eryon