January 21, 2016

The word “terrorism” is often tied to various crimes — but the recent shooting of a Philadel-phia police officer has sparked disagreement over the usage of the word.

The debate over what counts as terrorism comes after Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio spoke out against Mayor Kenney’s denial of terroristic action as the cause of the Phil-adelphia shooting. Expert Piotr Szpunar, George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, said that the word can spark disagreement because of the openness of its definition.

“I think that one of the reasons there can be this disagreement is because of the mutability of the definition itself, the openness to kind of interpre-tations,” Szpunar said.

Currently, there is no single agreed-upon defi-nition of terrorism. Each institution, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Defense and the United States legal courts, has its own standards for what action can be deemed terrorism.

“Whoever perpetrates this sort of violence is doing so for a political reason, and that itself is ill defined,” Szpunar said .

Rubio and Kenney had different interpretations of terrorism in their debates.

“The mayor of Philadelphia — who I know nothing about other than the fact that he’s delu-sional — said this has nothing to do with ISIS or Islam,” Rubio said.

However, Kenney had a much different inter-pretation of terrorism.

“He [Rubio] is not representative of Islam. Period,” he said. He added that Rubio was label-ling an entire population and religion just based on the violent actions of those “with deranged views of Islam.”

Kenney also went on to criticize Rubio’s exploi-tation of the shooting of a police officer in order to gain political points.

During election season, politicians often use extensive rhetoric to fall back on what Szpunar calls the “reductive tie” between religion and crime. In his choice to reject the possibility of a terrorist occurrence, Szpunar said that Mayor Kenney “is really not falling into the trap of claiming that Islam is to blame for violent ac-tions”.

Kenney is looking to avoid the consequences

On Monday, OAX gave bids to its first pledge class since the ma-jority of Alpha Chi Omega moved off campus and formed the new group in April.

The recruitment process for OAX started in the fall, unlike other soror it ies on campus. Throughout the semester, the organization held a series of informal events where cur-rent members were able to meet prospective members. The new pledge class has 43 members, a reduction from previous classes

of around 50 members.“We wanted to downsize a

bit, since now we have a bit more freedom,” the former OAX president, who wanted to remain anonymous, said. Due to the off-campus nature of the organization, all OAX mem-bers interviewed for this article wished to keep their identities private.

The group has existed as an off-campus, philanthropic or-ganization since last April after the Office of Fraternity and So-rority Life placed 22 sanctions on the sorority. Instead of com-plying with the seemingly harsh sanctions , however, they almost

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‘Undecided’ the most popular intended major

For high school seniors fill-ing out college applications, figuring out a major is a given for some and a headache for others. In the College of Arts and Sciences, ‘undecided’ is the most popular intended major — only around 30 per-cent of students actual ly indicate a major on their appli-cation.

The College tends to encour-age exploration throughout different fields, as evidenced by its sector and foundational requirements. Associate Dean of the College Kent Peterman explained that there is no rush to make a decision.

“We want to use that infor-mation to say: Relax, if you don’t know what your major is, that’s okay,” Peterman said.

Both Peterman and Dean of Admissions Eric Furda agreed that marking an intended major does not give an applicant an

advantage or disadvantage — it all comes down to explaining the decision in the essay and supplement.

“Undecided is a perfectly good major. You can’t infer whether an applicant is a good match for Penn based on whether they put undecided or, say, physics, ” Peterman said. “It’s more how they address that major and how they write about it in their essays to Penn.”

Brian Taylor, director of the college counseling practice Ivy Coach , however, believes that students should indicate a major on their application.

“It’s important to have an angle while applying to a se-lective college,” Taylor said. “You should focus on a major to create that angle if you’re pretty certain that you want to study it.”

Perhaps more students are starting to think this way. The number of students who indi-cate their intended major on their application to the Col-lege is growing, as well as the number of students who stick with that major throughout

their time at Penn. Peterman at t r ibutes this

shift to an increasing desire to use college as a pathway to

a predetermined future, espe-cially after the 2008 recession.

“We just had a major reces-sion and people don’t feel like

they have the freedom to just go to college and explore — that sounds too risky,” Peterman said. “They want to know what

this is going to get them when they’re done. They’re less will-ing to engage in a liberal arts education for its own sake.”

However, indicating a major on their application does not necessarily mean that the stu-dent will follow through. Of the 30 percent of College students who indicated an intended major, only a quarter ended up sticking with that major.

Engineer ing jun ior Pia Kochar was one student who changed not just her major but also her school. Kochar ini-tially applied to the College and indicated math as her intended major. However, after fully exploring her course options, Kochar decided to major in computer science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

“When I put down math, I really just didn’t know what I wanted to do,” Kochar said. “I’m glad I was in the College because I just took a class in everything I was potentially interested in, and then I just found computer science, which I hadn’t ever done before.”

For College applicants, no rush to indicate majorSOPHIA LEPORTEStaff Reporter

Most high school applicants to the College of Arts and Sciences are undecided when they apply to Penn. School administrators say it’s perfectly fine to apply without a major in mind.

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December crime trends down from last year

Overall crime is way down on Penn’s campus, thanks to a series of programs.

Total crime in the month of December decreased from 52 to 35 instances. The calendar year difference is also high, with 871 crimes in 2014 and 649 this past year.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush points to three specific programs as cause for the decline. Bike thefts have dropped from 167 in 2014 to 106 in 2015, which Rush attributes in part to the success of the Depart-ment of Public Safety’s Bait Bike program.

Retail theft was down from 87 to 61 counts, which could be due to a DPS program in which officers are stationed at retail lo-cations with a high risk of theft.

Operation Building Safe, an-other DPS initiative, has helped bring theft from buildings down from 301 to 241 counts. Specifi-cally, Rush alluded to the Sector Integrity Program, a part of

building safe as a major factor. Under the program, Penn Police supervisors are assigned to in-dividual buildings so that those stationed in the buildings will have a fixed point of contact.

Operation Building Safe also ensures that any visitors to campus will have to sign in and identify themselves to security guards, discouraging them from committing theft.

In 2015, reports of forcible sex

offenses were up to 25 from 15 in 2014. Though this would seem to indicate an increase in sexual assaults on campus, it is more likely that changes in reporting procedures as well as awareness training account for this change.

While University City has seen its population increase from 48,589 in 2014 to 49,489 in 2015, the overall decrease in crime in-dicates the effectiveness of these programs.

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unanimously decided to de-activate and revoke their charter.

However, OAX’s biggest hesitation moving off campus was recruiting new members.

“By the nature of us being in uncharted territory, we had some concerns about creating a completely new system,” the former OAX rush chair and current president said.

After over 300 girls showed up to the first rush event in September, however, the members were able to relax, “since we knew we could exist in the long term,” the former OAX President said.

A new freshman member of OAX said that the sorority’s

off-campus status did not affect her decision to rush.

“I had no reservations going into rush even though OAX is off-campus, and I feel like it’s the place for me,” she said. She added that she knows many girls who exclu-sively rushed OAX without participating in on-campus rush.

With the freedom to design new recruitment events, OAX decided to focus on creating genuine connections between rushes and current members. The current president said that during events, members spent a much longer time conversing with rushes on an individual basis.

“There was an emphasis on getting to know people on a one-on-one basis,” she said.

“We emphasized meeting girls for a much longer period of time instead of having short conversations.”

Despite differences in the process between OAX and on-campus recruitment, the last night of OAX pledging, sometimes called preference round, shared similarities with the on-campus process. Like preference rounds for on-campus recruitment, prospective OAX members agreed to accept a bid should they receive one prior to the actual bid night.

“We wanted to encourage girls to rush both OAX and on-campus sororities” the OAX President said. “We did everything we could to preserve the integrity of on campus recruitment.”

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Since middle school, every student has been taught just about all there is to know about crafting an argument. While differ-ent teachers have differ-ent styles, there is almost a unanimous model of the standard essay: three to four body paragraphs, an introduction and a con-clusion with a firm thesis and supporting evidence. Schools are obliged to teach their students how to write convincing and intrigu-ing arguments, but classes that teach students how to debate verbally, rather than just on paper, are rarely of-fered.

While I can’t speak for many of the students at Penn, my high school did not offer any courses spe-cifically focused on debate. Yes, the occasional sem-inar-styled debate would occur in English or history classes, but the only way one could learn proper rhe-torical strategies seemed to be in the extracurricular clubs such as Model United Nations, Model Congress

and, of course, the debate team. Because of this, many of my classmates in high school — myself included — were able to write pin-point essays but couldn’t even dream of maintaining a civil and professional ar-gument with one another, whether it be about poli-tics, science, music or any-thing in between.

Penn offers Critical Speaking Seminars, which are courses that use oral communication assign-ments instead of written ones. They have an enroll-ment cap of 16 students per class and, though they aren’t required, they aren’t particularly popular among the general student popula-tion.

The Critical Writing Pro-gram, on the other hand, is required for all Penn students, and while these courses are very extensive in their coverage of aca-demic writing, there is little to no attention paid to oral debate. I propose that the writing seminar either be reformed to include this as-

pect, or that some iteration of debate class be required of or more predominantly offered to students.

Sure, it is incredibly important to know how to write professionally and academically, but know-ing how to argue in person will have greater effects on most of us than we might think. Debate isn’t some-thing solely used by poli-

ticians and lawyers. When interviewing for a job or asking one’s employer for a raise, proper oration and verbal argument skills can make a huge difference. In just about any negotiation or deal, verbal communica-tion takes precedence over

writing. Therefore if we are only taught how to argue through the latter, we are at a huge disadvantage in the real world.

Simply look at the ef-fects of oratory skills by presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Regardless of whether you agree with his stances or not, there is no denying that Cruz is an ex-cellent debater who has a

commanding voice that can make even absurdities seem rational. Cruz won many awards both at Princeton and Harvard Law and was named National Speaker of the Year, and now his pro-ficiency in debating and speaking has put him on a

stage to potentially become the president of this nation.

For the past four months, my roommate and I — be-ing on different politi-cal and ideological sides — have engaged in many debates, some on politics, philosophy and even the arts.

What I found is that even though neither of us ever seemed to be able to con-vince the other to adopt a certain position, we accu-mulated respect for each other, and more impor-tantly, we became better at debating. The arguments began to evolve from shout-ing the loudest to genuinely listening to and interpret-ing opposing viewpoints in a way that promoted an exceptional level of under-standing and compromise.

Not all of us at Penn will become lawyers or politicians, but the art of speaking is universal and is simply not taught enough in the average course load. When we think of debate class, we tend to imagine the more competitive na-

ture of the classic debate club structure, but there are many more applica-tions for debating that can easily be glossed over. And of course, one of the major prerequisites for becom-ing a great speaker is be-ing a superb listener, and if anything, that’s a quality we could certainly benefit from.

There is a line of reason-ing that goes as follows: Playing the Powerball lot-tery may not make much financial sense, but the joy you get from dreaming about winning over a bil-lion dollars is well worth the $2. It’s a roller coaster ride that inevitably takes you back to where you started, but newly filled with memories of adven-ture. I am sympathetic to this line of reasoning. Pay $2 and hop on a ride you know will probably end — but who knows.

What I am not sympa-thetic to is the gross hypoc-risy of states that legalize gambling for themselves but not for others. The lot-tery is nothing short of state-sanctioned gambling.

In the United States, gambling is heavily regu-lated by states and many times is considered illegal. Why is this not true for the

states as well?Take for instance sports

gambling, which is only legal in Nevada. Betting on sports requires more skill than betting on the lottery, which entails zero skill. I have never heard of con-sistent lottery winners, but I have heard of consistent fantasy football winners. Now try to imagine a busi-ness setting up a lottery system where people are charged for a completely random chance to win a large pot of money.

But for states, the lottery is just too good a source of income to pass up. Run by a consortium called the Multi-State Lottery As-sociation, all profits from the lottery are kept by the states. In 2014, Americans spent a whopping $70.15 billion buying lottery tick-ets — nearly seven times more than what they spent on movie tickets, accord-

ing to a CNN study. States who do not live within their means find that they can pay their expenses us-ing lottery proceeds. They

argue that the money from the lottery goes to good causes like education and park cleanup. This is not necessarily true.

Firstly, oftentimes the lottery revenues go into the

state’s general funds and are at best only targeted for some causes. Secondly, in many of the 44 states that partake in the Powerball

lottery, the legislators take into account the revenue from lotteries before allo-cating money to causes like education. Subsequently, they allocate less money for education knowing that

it will be augmented by the lottery revenues.

But if you are not con-vinced, let’s look at those who spend money on the lotteries. It is often those who do not have the means to buy lottery tickets.

A Cornell University study has shown that it is lower income individuals who are disproportionately playing the lottery. The states are encouraging the most vulnerable people to partake in a gambling scheme that is heavily stacked against them and convincing them to engage in poor financial practice. It’s almost as if they are putting up huge billboards saying, “Buy a pack of cigarettes today, because the proceeds from the taxes on these products will help finance cleaner air for your kids.”

Now, I must admit I have no problem with legalizing

gambling. However I am hesitant when our govern-ment is engaging in such activity despite often pur-porting to be the forbear-ers of good practice. I also don’t encourage gambling and am all for the govern-ment discouraging people from gambling. But I think it is the height of hypoc-risy for states to legalize a gambling business for themselves but not for in-dividuals who run online poker or fantasy football websites. So once and for all, let’s stop the Powerball politics of the states or at least let’s make it fair for all and legalize other forms of gambling.

The Powerball lottery: state-sanctioned gamblingGUEST COLUMN | Why state gambling policies are hypocritical

Room for debateSMALL TALK | The case for teaching debate, even in college

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BEN CLAAR is a College freshman from Scarsdale, N.Y. His email is [email protected].

The states are encouraging the most vulnerable people to partake in a gambling scheme that is heavily stacked against them and convincing them to engage in poor financial practice.”

...the art of speaking is universal and is simply not taught enough in the average course load.”

ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK is a College sophomore from New York, studying economics. His email address is [email protected]. “Small Talk” usually appears online every other Saturday.

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DAVID HARTMAN is a first-year master’s student, originally from New York studying systems engineering. His email is [email protected].

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Penn gives a break to busy profs. pursuing tenure

In light of nationwide atten-tion on paternity or maternity leave, Penn is placing new emphasis on opportunities for faculty members to take advan-tage of leave policies.

To combat pressure that faculty members may face to make progress towards achiev-ing tenure, Penn encourages its faculty to take advantage of a long-standing policy that allows for a one- to three-year tenure clock extension for members with a new child in the home, an illness, caregiving responsibili-ties or a research catastrophe.

In order for tenure approval, on the sixth year of the seven-year track, a faculty member’s

department will assess an indi-vidual dossier including letters from outside experts on the member’s academic perfor-mance, teaching evaluations and grant information. If the member is approved by the de-partment, the dossier is passed on to the individual school for approval, then to the vice pro-vost for Faculty Affairs, and finally to the provost and the Board of Trustees.

Quality of life issues sur-rounding parental leave have become a major concern for Americans in recent times, with federal paid leave a hot-button topic on the campaign trail. In addition to providing maternity leave, Penn offers all faculty members the op-portunity to have a 50 percent reduced teaching load the first returning semester after a new child. These measures, as well

as the new emphasis on tenure extensions, are Penn’s way of providing support through these complications.

Vice Provost for Faculty Af-fairs Anita Allen noted that there has been an increased em-phasis on following established guidelines regarding the pro-cess of obtaining tenure itself. While the process, known as “coming up,” is more or less uniform for most Penn faculty, the standards on which an indi-vidual is evaluated depends on the discipline.

“In history you’re expected to have a second book by the time you get tenure, whereas in law, you don’t need any books to get tenure. Your tenure could be en-tirely based on a group of law review articles,” Allen said . “A design professor, to give a dif-ferent kind of example, doesn’t have to have a Ph.D. Tenure

for a person in design might be based in part on tangible, artis-tic design projects as opposed to just books and articles.”

Such an exhaustive process is meant to ensure the highest level of scholarship at Penn, and recently the practical applica-tion of the process has become even more stringent, especially surrounding the mandatory six-year review.

“There had been a practice at Penn of allowing people the option of coming up in their seventh year, but in order to

achieve a more uniform and fair system we now require that ev-eryone comes up in their sixth year, which is what the hand-book calls for,” Allen noted. “We want everyone to have the same standards.”

Many faculty in the Penn community find the leave poli-cies helpful in finding work-life balance.

“Several people that have come up for tenure since I’ve been here have had the clock stopped for having a child. My department’s very

family-friendly, and lots of us have young children, so this has certainly been something that people have taken advantage of,” Philosophy Department Chair Michael Weisberg said . “In fact, we encourage people to do it.”

“I think it relates to the nationwide emphasis on work-places being fr iendly and humane,” Allen said. “These kinds of rules recognize that people have family, personal and health reasons to use a little bit more time.”

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Penn administrators encourage faculty to make the most out of leave policies. The policies allow more flexibility for new parents and injured professors who need to take time off when applying for tenure.

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statement made by Rubio, such as discrimination and violence against the targeted group, Szpunar said .

The election season, however, also brings policymaking in dealing with ISIS to the forefront of debates. The importance of foreign policy makes it difficult not to connect Ru-bio’s statements with his campaign for the Republican nomination.

“Rubio’s play is to also show that he has a hard stance on terrorism,” Szpunar said.

Though it is not easily defined, terrorism is more easily dealt with. Rubio’s label of “terrorism” ensures that there is no room for ambiguity. Since the United States has a system in place for combating terrorism,

Szpunar said that there is often no need to look inward at the political and social issues occurring, causing the violence.

He added that labelling an action

as terrorism leaves no room or even need for an explanation.

“When you call someone a ter-rorist, they don’t have a legitimate foot to stand on,” Szpunar said.

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Penn professors explore new computer science field

“Everything that has a com-puter in it will fail. Everything in your life — from a watch, to a car, to a radio, to an iPhone — it will fail if it has a computer in it,” Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak once said.

A group of Penn professors, however, is working to try and make those failures a little less common.

Engineering professors Ben-jamin Pierce, Stephanie Weirich and Steve Zdancewic have joined a group of professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology, Yale and Princeton to work on a project called The Sci-ence of Deep Specification.

“ D e e p sp e c i f i c a t io n”

— DeepSpec for short — is de-scribed by the project’s team as “gritty, precise descriptions of the behavior of software based on formal logic … that will enable engineers not only to build bug-free programs but to verify that their programs behave exactly as they should.”

Despite their potential to make life easier for consumers, deep specifications have not been a pri-ority in the past.

“It’s hard to create specifica-tions, and for the most part, the software industry has found it not cost-effective at all,” Weirich said. “They’ve kind of abandoned it as an academic enterprise, something that professors do but that is never going to have an impact at all. But we think this is wrong.”

She and the other professors hope to make deep specifications more of a priority in the software

industry.The project has a board of tech-

nology industry advisors which include representatives from Mi-crosoft, Google and Facebook, as well as lesser-known companies like Quviq, which tests automo-tive software.

Weirich and the other profes-sors hope to change standards in academics, as well as in the tech industry.

“A big part of the pitch of our ‘expedition’ was a proposal to revamp certain aspects of the undergraduate computer science curriculum,” Pierce said.

While classes on core com-puter science components, like compilers and operating sys-tems, have had similar curricula for decades, Pierce hopes to add additional focus on the functions and intended behaviors of these systems.

“It’s not so much revamping

the curriculum as augmenting it,” Zdancewic said .

Zdancewic teaches a course on compilers, which he imag-ines could have a secondary component or companion course teaching complex mathematical proofs that are involved in deep specifications.

He and the other professors hope that this new computer sci-ence curriculum will become more standard across universities. The professors from MIT, Yale and Princeton are working to-gether with professors from Penn to test drive new material, each building off of their own areas of expertise.

“One of the great things about a research university is that the re-search leaks into our educational mission,” Weirich said. “We want to share this, right? And we hope through this project that we’ll be able to do even more of that.”

Hope to include Deep-Spec in software industryJINAH KIMStaff Reporter

Penn professors are working to eliminate computer bugs- and plan to augment computer science curriculums to achieve that.

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“There’s much more depth, and our base of players has increased dramatically in the past four or five years, so that’s exciting,” Wyant said.

“Throughout the 2000s, Trin-ity essentially cornered the international market. Now that’s not the case,” he added.

The massive influx of talent into the world of college squash has weakened the hold of a select handful of perennial power-houses, meaning that with enough recruiting in the office and an equivalent amount of work on the court, more and more teams have a shot at challenging the top.

“We get our season started early here at Penn, earlier than any other team,” Larson said. “So we have the talent and the work ethic, and I think with some of the other teams we’re starting to see

them put in the same hustle.“Just a few years ago we were

number 14 in the country, and now we were up to number two. People saw that, and I think that’s why there’s so much fluctuation this season.”

Nobody said that beating Trin-ity will be easy, though.

“I’ve heard through friends of [Trinity squash] coach Assaiante that he thinks this is the most tal-ented team he’s ever had, so if he’s saying that, then that speaks vol-umes,” Wyant said.

“Nonetheless, we’re going to go up there and do a better job adapt-ing to a new situation than we did up in Cambridge. We’re gonna work on our away game, and I think if we play our best we’ll have a good shot to win.”

Penn squash may still have more work to do before they can truly be a championship team, but the program is reaching new heights, and this weekend will offer just a hint of what the future holds for the world of college squash.

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Q&A: Getting to know volleyball recruit Ariana Wiltjer

On Tuesday, Penn volleyball and coach Kerry Carr announced the five members of the 2016 re-cruiting class, including Ariana Wiltjer, a middle blocker from Portland, Ore. The Daily Pennsyl-vanian spoke with Wiltjer about why she chose Penn, what she brings to the Red and Blue and, most importantly, what she would do if she won the Powerball.

Daily Pennsylvanian: What other schools were you choosing from, and what were you looking for in a school?

Ariana Wiltjer: I was actually looking at a really broad range of schools. I’m from Oregon, so I looked at a lot of [West Coast Conference] schools like Gon-zaga and University of San Francisco. And I also looked at the other Ivies. My other two main ones were Yale and Har-vard. And then besides that, I looked at bigger volleyball pro-grams, but not as good schools, like Kansas, schools like that. But the main thing I was looking for in a school was a really good degree, really strong academics, so that’s what drew me to the Ivies so much.

DP: So why Penn, over Har-vard and the other Ivies?

AW: During Spring Break last year I took a bunch of unof-ficial visits to a few of the Ivies. I really loved the atmosphere that Kerry creates. Kerry was really welcoming, so were the rest of the girls. I also really liked the trainer, and that’s important for me, because I was out of vol-leyball for a while because of a concussion, so getting back in shape is especially important to me. And I loved the campus and the team chemistry. ... All the girls are so close.

DP: So which of the players did you get a chance to connect with?

AW: I stayed with Michellie [McDonald O’Brien] the first time, and then my official visit I stayed with Brooke Behrbaum, which is cool because I’m going to Engineering and she’s in Engi-neering right now, and she’s also from the Northwest.

DP: So did you get a chance to know some of the people in your recruiting class who you’ll now be playing with?

AW: Yeah, I actually got to meet all of them during the of-ficial visit, which was super cool because it worked out that we were all able to fit into our sched-ules to come the same weekend, and we all instantly connected which was amazing — I love all of them. We all talk still because we have a group message and ev-erything.

DP: What are some of your biggest strengths?

AW: I’d say my biggest strength is my arm swing, my hit-ting.

DP: And things you want to work on?

AW: The thing I want work on the most is getting in peak shape, improving my jump and quick-ness, since I’m a middle blocker.

DP: Your brother Kyle plays college basketball at Gonzaga, and is an NBA prospect. Has he been able to give you any advice on Division I athletics?

AW: Yeah, definitely. Me and

my brother are really close. And he’s really real with me in the fact that he always tells me when I need to suck it up and work harder. He’s always direct with me, which is really cool, because he’s a really good role model. And being able to see how hard he works and how far he’s come in the past year is something that’s really good for me. He definitely talks to me a lot about how tough it is to balance school and D-I athletics. Especially because he’s already graduated and is working

on a masters, so he’s in some really tough classes right now. So he just tells me how you just gotta push through and always work harder.

DP: What three items would you bring to a deserted island other than food and water?

AW: My phone, and — I don’t know what else. Like a book, maybe, and um —

DP: A volleyball?AW: Yeah, a volleyball.DP: What would you do if you

won Powerball? And you’re not

allowed to say “help others.”AW: I would probably invest it

first, and then I’d buy my family a house.

DP: How many times can you listen to a song you really like before you end up hating it and skipping it every time?

AW: A lot. Probably like a hun-dred times. I can listen to a song a bunch of times if I’m really in love with it.

DP: What would we find in your refrigerator right now?

AW: Fruit.

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freshman guard Jake Silpe were the only players to convert mul-tiple shots before the break.

“Part of the issue with our team is that, since Dec. 9 against Temple, I think it’s been 47 days and we’ve played six games,” Penn coach Steve Donahue said. “Every game feels like another

new seaosn just the way the schedule is. We’ll have to try and figure it out better in the future.”

It was more of the same for the Quakers after halftime as Saint Joe’s managed to push their lead to as large as 19 late in the game. With the air out of the building and a majority of Penn’s fans heading for the exits, the Red and Blue struggled to contain the Hawks’ two leading scorers,

Bembry and senior Isaiah Miles, who scored 13 points while rack-ing up nine rebounds before fouling out.

“Saint Joe’s is one of the most remarkable teams in the country, one of the most improved teams out there,” Steve Donahue said. “I thought we competed extremely hard, but our execution was poor and our poise was not great. Give Saint Joe’s credit, they forced us

into taking a lot of quick shots and that performance wasn’t what we were capable of.”

Jackson Donahue did finish with a game- and career-high 19 points, albeit on 6-for-15 shoot-ing. Howard and Silpe both ended up with 11 points while fellow starters Sam Jones and Darien Nelson-Henry combined to go a paltry 4-for-19 from the field.

An impressive spurt midway

through the period saw Penn brought the Hawks’ lead down to 10, but the Quakers failed to cut the deficit down to single digits. As a result, what was left of the Red and Blue faithful left the Pal-estra unhappy on an incredible night for Philadelphia basketball.

“It’s great to see this building like this, it was a great night. TV doesn’t give it justice because I watched the first bit of the first

game before walking in and ev-eryone’s on top of each other, it’s an incredible atmosphere,” Steve Donahue said. “I think the fans are so intimate within the game that they can have a feel for changing the time, especially during a home game.”

Penn will next be in action on Jan. 29 when it travels to Yale before taking on Brown the fol-lowing night.

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“QUAKER. OATS.”So goes the conclusion to Penn

fencing’s team cheer. Perhaps an unusual way to bring the hype, but the Red and Blue are shaping up to be anything but ordinary this season.

The men’s team has shown substantial promise both on the world and collegiate stages. Two members of the squad — epee fencers sophomore Jake Raynis and freshman Justin Yu — are returning to the lineup this weekend after medaling at the World Cup. Fellow epee spe-cialist and sophomore captain Zsombor Garzo is also coming off of a 16-2 match record at the Penn State Open last weekend. With this sort of momentum, the Quakers (10-1) are coming into

this weekend’s home match at the Philadelphia Invitational feeling confident in what their team can accomplish.

“It’ll be good practice for us in preparation for Ivies. We have our home meet this weekend, and Northwestern next weekend, so we’ll be getting in good prac-tice,” senior sabre captain Shaul Gordon said.

On the women’s side, the Quakers are expecting another strong performance out of junior Cassidy Seidl, who led Penn’s foil squad at last week’s Penn State Invitational. The Red-mond, Wash. native finished 9-4 and posted a perfect seven wins in the points won by the Red and Blue.

Though the meet is not as competitive as last weekend’s Penn State Open, the team is ready to further hone its skills and encounter some teams who will be tougher to beat. Though competing teams like TCNJ and Haverford will pose less of a threat, strong programs from North Carolina and Duke will also be in attendance, ready for a rematch.

“We fenced both of them last weekend, and we won against both,” Gordon said of the Tar Heels and Blue Devils. “But we’re going to have to fight against them. We can’t just take it easy.”

Sophomore epee special-ist Stephanie Wolf will look

to repeat her dominant perfor-mance from last weekend, which included a 3-0 win over the Tar Heels and two wins against the always formidable Columbia.

The Quakers will have to keep up that sort of tenacity as they look towards the Ivy League championships, where they

will face a powerhouse in No. 1 Columbia. Though Penn has momentum from the Penn State Open going into this weekend’s match and beyond, it remains aware of the tough tests ahead.

“We have to make sure we’re consistent. We beat Penn State last weekend, and they’re a great

program, but if we can’t stay consistent, we’re not going to beat programs like Columbia,” Gordon said.

The team is also eager to show what it’s made of on its home turf. Though fencing is not tra-ditionally a spectator sport, the extra excitement of a home crowd

— albeit a small one — is not to be ignored. Garzo is particularly ready to fence in front of a home crowd.

“I’m really excited,” Garzo said. “Friends come out, and sometimes even professors do — I’m really excited to show them what Penn Fencing can do.”

Red and Blue rely on epee strength in Philadelphia Invite

Penn fencing captain Zsombor Garzo went 16-2 at the Penn State Open last weekend and looks to continue that success as the Quakers serve as hosts for several top programs at the Philadelphia Invitational this weekend, including North Carolina and Duke.

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their schedule.“Coming into Ivy league play,

[being the focus of opposing

defenses] is something I’m really going to have to deal with,” Dona-hue acknowledged.

Donahue’s emergence comes as Penn desperately looks to re-place the offensive hole left by

former guard Antonio Woods, who was declared academically ineligible for the remainder of the 2015-16 season on Jan. 9. While Woods’ sudden absence is clearly a major wrench in the team’s plan,

it has been far from the death knell that it very well could have been.

Behind the recent stellar play of Donahue and fellow freshman guard Jake Silpe, the Penn back-court has not seemed to hiccup in the slightest. While it will re-quire a bit of temerity for coach Steve Donahue to rely primarily on freshman to carry the offen-sive burden during the grind of conference play, the youngsters’ performance — and that of (Jack-son) Donahue in particular — has

not been a flash in the pan. At this point, it is a full-blown positive trend.

So while Wednesday’s game — the nightcap of a Big 5 double-header at the Palestra — was not the earth-shattering, season-mak-ing victory that the Red and Blue dreamed it might be, it was yet another positive step in the right direction.

And leading that charge has been led by a plucky 6-foot-yeah-right freshman making just his fourth start of the season. Nobody

saw this coming — not even his coach.

“He’s got a fire, a competi-tiveness to his that I kind of estimated,” Steve Donahue ac-knowledged.

“Sometimes you can’t judge a book by its cover, and he’s a per-fect example.”

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Likewise, Hamas and other Palestinian jihadists havekilled hundreds of innocent Jews in Israel in suicidebombings and missile attacks with a similarobjective—to conquer Palestine and expel non-Muslims. Indeed, since Hamas violently seized controlof Gaza in 2007, it has ruled with an iron Islamisthand, imposing strict sharia religious law and drivingChristian Arabs out by the thousands. Hamas’s charterstates its goal is to conquer the entire Holy Land andkill all its Jews. The Palestinians’ latest “knife intifada,”which has already killed 20 innocent people andinjured more than 350, underscores this commitment.No surprise that recent polls confirm an overwhelmingmajority of Palestinians—over 80%—agree that all ofPalestine belongs to them and there can be no Jewishstate.

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ISIS terror acts in France—and more recently in San Bernardino—are motivated by the same Islamistobsession that inspired the 9/11 bombings in the U.S., as well as deadly knife, gun and car attacks inJerusalem and throughout Israel—a fanatical conviction that Christians, Jews and moderate Muslims mustbe driven out of “Muslim lands.”

It’s time for countries endangered by the global Islamist jihad to join in solidarity to defeat this cruel andbloody scourge. We must condemn Islamist terror in all its forms, we must confront this enemy on theground, and we must challenge Muslim leaders to help us in this battle. Only in this way can we preventhorrors such as those we suffered in Paris, Jerusalem, San Barnardino and other targets worldwide.

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Quakers prepare for first Ivy challenge against Bulldogs

Despite chilly temperatures this week, things are starting to heat up for Penn’s gymnastics team.

Less than a week after open-ing its season in the nation’s capital, Penn has its next test when it travels to New Haven to take on Yale on Saturday in its first dual meet of the year.

The Quakers had an encour-aging showing in their first meet, the Lindsey Ferris In-vitational, with a team score of 190.625 and a fourth place finish out of five teams.

For the Red and Blue, the focus this week is the same as last week: continue to improve, work hard, and firm up the little things so that the big things can

happen.“We had a solid start, we just

have to focus on minor details,” coach John Ceralde said. “We just have to build upon what we established in the first meet.”

In particular, the Quakers are looking to bolster their routines on the beam, which is where they faltered the most last week. The team opened the meet with a total score of 46.725 on the beam, which was its lowest team score, but Cer-alde believes that this is not a cause for concern.

“We had a slow start on beam, but I felt that all we have to do is hit and we’ll be fine,” he said.

Penn faces a fairly young Yale team (0-1) that lost its first meet against New Hampshire by a score of 196.075 to 189.700. Yale placed third in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships last year, just above Penn. And although the Bulldogs graduated four se-niors, they wield a weapon in last year’s ECAC Rookie of the Year recipient Anna Merkuryev.

Just like the Cornell and Temple teams Penn faced last week, Yale competes in the

ECAC with the Red and Blue. Despite the fact that the Quak-ers are facing yet another familiar opponent, they are not fazed.

“It doesn’t really affect us at all,” Ceralde said. “It all really depends on how they prepare in the gym, and the idea is that we want to make sure that they’re able to perform the same way.”

This meet – the first of three dual meets for Penn this season – features a head-to-head matchup. The majority of the meets this year, however, are invitationals featuring sev-eral different teams. But the circumstances of the meets have little effect on how the team ap-proaches them.

“Be it a dual meet or an invi-tational, we still have the same mindset,” Ceralde said.

While the gymnasts have to practice and improve their routines, much of the sport is mental, and they have to avoid psyching themselves out.

“It’s a lot of mental prepara-tion,” Ceralde said. “Everyone already has all of the high level skills, we just need to put it to-gether.”

Above all, the team just needs to perform up to its potential, which, given the early season indicators, seems pretty high. If the Red and Blue thrive again this weekend, they should be setting themselves up to suc-ceed for the rest of the season.

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To Jackson Donahue: You’re welcome

TOM NOWLAN

On Wednesday night, Penn men’s basketball was beaten by a much better team.

The Red and Blue were routed by Saint Joseph’s, a well-oiled juggernaut of a squad that sits as the nation’s 30th-best team by RPI. The Quakers, for their part, sit closer to No. 300.

Despite the predictably disap-pointing result, the Quakers had one undeniable bright spot in the 75-60 loss: the continued excellent play of freshman guard Jackson Donahue. The rookie notched a game-high 19 points on 6-for-15 shooting — the entirety of which came from three-point range.

“One that first one goes down, it really gets me going,” Donahue said. “I was really feeling it today.”

Donahue got off to an inauspicious start in the first half — apart from a long jumper on the game’s first pos-session, the Connecticut native was essentially a non-factor, scoring only those three points. Meanwhile, the Saint Joe’s duo of Deandre Bembry and Aaron Brown combined for 20 points to fuel a 39-23 Hawk lead at in-termission.

The freshman, however, was an entirely different player in the second half. As the crowd slowly filtered out of the arena while the clock ap-proached 11:00 p.m., Donahue logged 10 points in the period’s first seven minutes. While the game’s outcome was never truly in doubt, the Quakers were able to whittle down the lead to 12 points with 11 minutes remaining in the contest.

Earlier this season, as the team entered winter break, I called out Donahue in a roundtable of Daily Pennsylvanian sports editors for his disappointing start to the season — at the time, he had played a total of only 20 minutes through the team’s first six games, averaging just 1.2 points per contest.

Clearly, I lit a fire under Donahue. The rookie has averaged 17.5 points over his last four contests, never scor-ing fewer than 16 in a game over that span. A rotational afterthought just a month ago, Donahue is now the squad’s premier perimeter threat as the Quak-ers head into the Ancient Eight part of

NEW KID IN TOWNAn interview with 2016 Penn

volleyball recruit Ariana Wiltjer, a 6’5” middle blocker.

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A PACKED PALESTRAHosting the first Big 5

doubleheader since 2004, photos highlight a crowded Palestra

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Quakers’ Trinity matchup set to be a clash of titans

Things have been going pretty well for Penn squash so far this season. This weekend, against No. 1 Trinity, the year might just keep getting better.

In what will be their most difficult test since falling to Har-vard over winter break, the Red and Blue will travel to Hartford, Conn., on Saturday to take on the Bantams.

On the women’s side, the No.

2 Quakers (6-1) haven’t beaten the No. 6 Bantams (6-1) in three years. The men’s drought goes back even further; No. 3 Penn (7-1) hasn’t topped No. 1 Trinity (9-0) since 1996.

While Penn coach Jack Wyant stresses that beating Trinity does not determine the success his teams have had this season, get-ting a win from the men against the No. 1-ranked team is not out of the realm of possibility.

“This is the best chance we’ve had to beat them since they’ve gone on their unbelievable run of 14 straight national champion-ships,” Wyant said.

In seasons past, this matchup would be an all but guaranteed win for the Bantams. But it has been a special season so far for the Quakers, as the both the men’s and women’s teams have put up their best performances in recent memory.

While Trinity’s status as the powerhouse program in college squash has been long established, that reign may soon be in jeop-ardy. This season has included

plenty of upsets across the circuit, including Penn’s victories over St. Lawrence and Rochester as well as Dartmouth and St. Lawrence’s victories over Harvard. Many in college squash see this as a sign of things to come.

“There’s simply more talent in college squash than in years past,” Wyant said. “It’s coming interna-tionally — which everyone sees, as they continue to dominate the top ranks of college squash. But what is a little harder to recognize and appreciate is how much better the Americans have gotten.”

The players are beginning to recognize this change too. In just a few short years, Penn has grown from a middle-tier team into one of the best teams in country, and other programs are beginning to follow suit.

“We have great talent here at Penn squash,” sophomore Anders Larson said. “The top of our lineup is filled with freshmen and sophomores, and the captains have been doing a great job of

SQUASH | Bantam men No. 1, women No. 6DAVID FIGURELLISports Reporter

Heading north to Hartford, Conn., Penn squash coach Jack Wyant sees an opportunity for his teams to do what they’ve done all season — take down top-flight opponents — as they battle two top ten Trinity programs.


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No. 1 Trinity (9-0)

Hartford, Conn.

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No. 6 Trinity (6-1)

Hartford, Conn.

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It was a beautiful night at the Palestra on Tuesday, one full of pomp and circum-stance.

With the Big 5 celebrating its 60th anniversary, Penn’s famous arena played host to a classic doubleheader, one that featured four of Philadelphia’s most prominent basketball teams in a twin-billing honor-ing hardwood heroes from the past six decades.

And it was a beautiful night at the Palestra on Tuesday for

the Quakers. That is, until their game got fully underway.

Despite going toe-to-toe with Saint Joseph’s in the con-test’s first five minutes, Penn failed to sustain an incredibly hot start from the field, falling victim to a five-minute scoring drought midway through the first half. On the other hand, the Hawks shot 47 percent from the field in the opening period, as junior forward De-Andre Bembry’s 17 points led the squad to a 75-60 win over

the Quakers.Penn (6-9) now heads into

the remainder of Ivy League play having lost four of its last five games and seven of its last nine, including a heartbreak-ing 73-71 overtime loss to Princeton on Jan. 9. Yet even though the Red and Blue were forced to wait 11 days between that defeat and Tuesday night’s affair, the team came out hot.

The Quakers shot out to an 8-3 lead and went into the game’s first media timeout

knotted at 10. Courtesy of a thunderous putback dunk from junior forward Matt Howard as well as the Big 5 legends on hand, the crowd at the Palestra was rocking.

“Collectively, we knew that this is one of the games where we’ll have the most people in attendance, so there was an added incentive there to per-form well,” freshman guard Jackson Donahue said. “Per-sonally, it was my first time playing in a game like this with

a Big 5 doubleheader, so I was excited and I don’t think I was nervous at all. I think that’s what we did and that’s what got us out to a good start.”

Then, suddenly, it wasn’t. Over the final 15:15 of the half, Penn scored only 13 points, and went into the half trail-ing the Hawks (15-3) by 16. The Red and Blue shot only 26.7 percent from the field in the period, as Howard and

A crowded Palestra was left in disappointment as a strong start for

Penn fizzled as the shots wouldn’t fallRILEY STEELESenior Sports Reporter

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