For high school students ap-plying to Penn, clicking the sub-mit button on the Common App is only the beginning of a nerve-racking process. Next come mock interviews, memorization of au-thors and keeping up with current events — all in preparation for an interview with a Penn alumnus.

“Students are pretty nervous about the interviews,” said Lau-rie Weingarten, a 1986 Wharton alumna and director of One-Stop College Counseling. While ap-plicants prepare answers for pos-sible questions and do mock in-

terviews, alumni volunteers also try to get the most out of the in-terview.

Roughly 7,000 to 10,000 alum-ni volunteer as interviewers every admission cycle, with each con-ducting four to fi ve interviews on average — either face to face or virtually. Last admissions cycle, 86 percent of applicants were interviewed and the University hopes to off er an interview to ev-ery applicant by 2015.

Frankie Baughn, co-chair of the Camden County, N.J., Alumni Interview Program, is interested in sharing her experience as a minority student at Penn. In her recent interview with an applicant through QuestBridge — a non-profi t program that assists low-in-come students in achieving higher

Frequent hot water shortages have become a pressing issue within Rodin College House, to the frustration of numerous resi-dents.

Three reported incidents relat-ed to hot water occurred in Rodin this fall. Two of these incidents resulted in a total shutdown of hot water for all residents. The most recent incident, which started on Nov. 11, persisted into the follow-ing day.

In total, residents have received three emails notifying them of a lack of hot water, a number some students feel does not accurately depict the amount of time they have gone without hot water.

“Those emails defi nitely don’t account for all the times we don’t

At a panel discussion on race relations and law enforce-ment Wednesday night, Penn Police was forced to answer to a breach in protocol whereby a young black boy was hand-cuff ed around a tree after at-tempting to steal a bike.

During the Q&A section of the event at Houston Hall, a student held up a photo of the handcuff ed boy next to a Penn Police offi cer. The pho-tograph has been circulating on the Internet at least since mid-September, paired with a picture of a black slave in a

similar position.The student asked Vice

President of Public Safety Maureen Rush what she knew about the situation depicted in the photo.

Rush was quick to answer, telling the group, “When I saw the picture, I thought it was terrible.”

She went on to explain that there had been a rash of bike thefts in and around the Uni-versity and that the pictured offi cer had seen a group of boys attempting to cut the U-lock off an unattended bike. The offi cer approached them, but was only able to appre-hend one of the boys, and in a

fi t of misplaced zeal, detained one of the boys by attaching his arms around a tree so the offi cer could go after the other suspects.

Rush added that “from a good sense position his [the offi cer’s] decision was stupid.” She said that the boy was not charged, but rather returned to his home where the situation was explained to his parents. Rush said the police depart-ment recognized the mistake that it had made in handcuffi ng the boy to the tree. The off end-ing offi cer has been chastised, but Rush did not mention

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Despite the higher cost, SEPTA’s subways will continue running for 24 hours per day on weekends to encourage millennials to live in Philadelphia.

In June, SEPTA introduced the Night Owl subway service — which runs from mid-night to 5 a.m. on the Market-Frankford and Broad Street lines — to replace the overnight bus service on Friday and Saturday nights. Though the subways cost $34,000 more than the buses each weekend, the Night Owl weekend trains have had around 60 percent more riders.

“We have to pay more to provide this ser-vice, but the rising numbers were so strong and consistent that it really makes sense to provide transportation that people want,” SEPTA spokesperson Jerri Williams said.

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The School District of Phila-delphia is currently adminis-tering standardized exams for which it does not have the re-sources to ensure student suc-cess.

While the district places a heavy emphasis on the use of benchmark exams — which pre-pare students for statewide Key-stone Exams required for gradua-tion for students graduating after 2016 — Christopher Shaffer, the deputy chief of the Office of Curriculum, Instruction and As-sessment in the School District of Philadelphia, was not able to provide concrete costs or future contract plans for implement-ing the tests at a public hearing Wednesday afternoon.

The hearing was held in City Hall by the Philadelphia City Council’s Education Commit-tee and was presided by Coun-cilwoman Jannie L. Blackwell. Parents, students, policymakers and educators gathered to ad-dress their concerns with district

spending on non-mandatory and additional testing. Members of the crowd shouted out disap-proval for Shaffer’s failure to present a timeline for assessing the results of the benchmark ex-ams toward which they put tax-payer dollars.

Despite the fact that educators are devoting up to one-third of their instructional time to pre-pare for standardized tests, fewer than one-half of Pennsylvania public school students are pass-ing the statewide standardized Keystone Exams.

While impoverished school districts, like that of Philadel-phia, struggle to pay for pencils and paper for students to use in test taking, the state spends millions on the Keystone Ex-ams. Panelists and Education Committee members expressed concern over the way that these exams can act as barriers for many graduation-aspiring public school students.

“You can’t pass a test if you don’t have the books to study for them,” Temple University assis-tant professor of journalism and panelist Meredith Broussard said in an interview prior to the event.

Shaffer said that it is impor-tant for students to take bench-marks so teachers have “oppor-

tunities to make changes and look at pockets where there are holes of information.” Council-men Mark Squilla and David Oh expressed concern with the implementation of these bench-marks, as they add even more costs to a school district that is short on funds and emphasize the importance of teaching to the test.

Councilwoman Maria D. Quinones-Sanchez pointed out Keystone testing can impact language minority students in a detrimental way. An audience member’s sign addressed this same point, reading, “Mono-lingual tests can’t fairly assess multi-lingual learners.”

Shaffer responded that stu-dents who have lived in the United States for over a year must take the Keystones, regard-less of their English-language proficiency. He agreed that this policy could be harmful to stu-dents whose first language is not English, but no formal request has been made in Philadelphia to waive testing for language-minority students.

“We are no longer going to continue to label our kids’ fail-ures,” Quinones-Sanchez said, “We need to stand up and say ‘Enough is enough.’”

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whether he had violated proto-col or had been let go.

Another student called Rush out on her evasiveness, asking what happened to the offending cop, and rule-breaking cops in general. “I want to know what happens when they do some-thing wrong. As human beings. When they fail and make a mis-take. What are the repercussions for them?” she asked.

Rush did not answer that question directly either, but in-

stead reaffirmed that she shared the community’s concerns.

Students also failed to receive what they qualified as substan-tial answers to questions about Mike Brown’s shooting by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Mo., and the possible racial implications involving the black man’s death.

“I do have opinions but I’m not going to voice the opin-ion that it was racist because I wasn’t there,” Rush said. “To give an opinion that it was to-tally racist on the police’s part, would be ingenuous of me. Was

that cop in a battle where he felt like he was going to get hurt? I don’t know. Don’t take my not answering in the way you want me to answer as saying that he [Darren Wilson] is a racist or that he isn’t. I wasn’t there, I don’t know what was in his heart when he pulled the trig-ger.”

When asked whether they had been satisfied with the an-swers that Rush and the other panelists gave to their questions, multiple students answered with a flat “no” and asked not to be identified.

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Two new charters proposed in Penn’s ZIP code

Two new charter schools might appear in Penn’s zip code in the near future.

Forty organizations submit-ted applications for new charter schools to the Charter Schools Of-fice of the School District of Phila-delphia, with at least one applica-tion coming from every ZIP code in West Philadelphia.

The flurry of applications is the result of the stipulation tacked on to the $2-a-pack cigarette tax legislation passed in September. The law requires charter school applications to be accepted yearly by the school district and makes it easier to appeal when the School Reform Commission rejects an ap-plication.

The district has not accepted any applications for new charters since 2008, district spokesman Fernando Gallard said.

The applications will be re-viewed with the help of outside

experts, although the school dis-trict has not yet released the names or affiliations of the experts.

Public hearings for each appli-cation will be held within 40 days, and then the SRC will have 75 days to vote on each proposal.

The two proposals for schools nearby Penn are from operators al-ready established in Philadelphia. One, the Independence Charter School, hopes to expand beyond its existing K-8 school in Center City to create the Independence Charter High School by 2016.

The Community Education Al-liance of West Philadelphia ap-plied to open Belmont Charter High School in 2015. This would be in addition to Belmont Charter School for grades K-8 and Bel-mont Academy Charter School for pre-kindergarten children already located in the area.

”We believe if we have a high school we will have almost no kids drop out,” founder of Belmont Charter Michael Karp said.

Karp speculates the district will approve about 10 charters, optimistically 15. Karp hopes that their aim to be a replicable model and non-violent school culture will count in their favor. “We’re look-

ing not to be a bunch of schools — we’re just there to be a school for our community,” he said.

Critics of charter schools say that in a budget crisis, critical funds for school districts shouldn’t be taken away from public schools. Comparisons between the academic performance of stu-dents at charter and public schools also don’t necessarily indicate that charter schools provide better edu-cation.

Pennsylvania State Senator James Roebuck’s April 2014 Charter & Cyber Charter School Reform Update reported that for 2012-2013, 51 percent of the char-ters open 10 or more years scored less than the minimal level of aca-demic success.

However, Philadelphia School Partnership Director Mark Glea-son said in a press release that he believes allowing the charter oper-ators at high performing schools to open more schools creates oppor-tunities for more students to attend “an effective school.”

“The opportunity to create ef-fective new charter schools is great news for low-income and minority families in Philadelphia,” Gleason said.

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education — she had the opportu-nity to explain how going to Penn helped her with her future career.

Baughn is particularly commit-ted to letting the applicants know about the resources on campus in an attempt to sell them on Penn.

“Penn is just another place to them,” she said. “Students in my area would apply just because it’s close to their home.”

Until recently, she had been keeping in touch with a student she had interviewed and introduced to Makuu, the University’s black cul-tural center. She would occasion-ally come to campus to grab a meal with her former interviewee.

Other alumni volunteers con-duct interviews to give back to the University.

“I started interviewing for Penn because it was a way for me to stay in touch with the University,” said Maria Ho, chair of the Hudson County Alumni Interview Pro-gram in New Jersey.

Ho said her county has a diverse community, and thus interviewing is an interesting experience for her because many of the applicants’ out-of-school activities center on their families and church commu-nities.

Before Weingarten started her college-counseling job, she also volunteered as an interviewer for 25 years.

“For some reason I became very interested in the admission pro-cess when I got to campus,” she

said. She was a tour guide during her four years at Penn and contin-ued her involvement through the Alumni Interview Program.

“The best interviewees told me something interesting or some-thing ordinary but with a new twist,” Weingarten said. For in-stance, she remembered an appli-cant who dropped out of his high school program to look for his true interest, and another who partici-pated in a debate format where the competitors had only two minutes to prepare.

However, not all interview ex-periences are as positive. One applicant came to the interview thinking he had applied to Penn State. Another didn’t show up be-

cause he was “very busy.”Patrick Bredehoft, director of

the Penn Alumni Interview Pro-gram, said the applicants and in-terviewers both learn from each other.

“Our alumni come back to us all the time and say that students have read more books than they have and recommended an amazing set of books,” he said.

“[Applicants] tell me things about the community that I never knew,” Weingarten added. She also learns more about the Univer-sity by interviewing students who are applying to schools other than Wharton — her alma mater.

Ho said that some interview-ees who are accepted and gradu-

ate from Penn circle back to the community as alumni. “Because they had a good experience being interviewed, it is part of the reason why they want to volunteer to be an interviewer,” she said.

“Everybody doesn’t have thou-sands of dollars to give back to the University, but you can through interviews,” Baughn said.

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Political scientist Charles Murray posited at an event on Wednesday night that the lack of communication between so-cioeconomic classes threatens the fulfillment of core American values.

“Places like Penn are the in-cubators for the new emerging class,” Murray said.

Widely-known for his book,

“The Bell Curve,” which argues that class and race are linked to intelligence, Murray spoke at an event hosted by the Penn chapter of the American Enterprise In-stitute on his most recent work. His book, “Coming Apart,” sheds light on his opinions on the “new economic frontier,” as College junior and chair of AEI Elizabeth Oppong termed it. Changing cultural attitudes have contributed to this economic shift. Today, Murray said, it is

mostly upper-class people who are married and religious, rather than in the past when most of so-ciety held these traits.

The institutions of marriage and religion, he argued, provid-ed lower- as well as upper-class people with meaning that was de-rived from being part of a com-munity. Now, however, there is a growing elite class that is out of touch with daily working-class life. The lack of contact between the “New Upper Class” and the

“New Lower Class” has led to a cultural divide never before seen in America, Murray said.

UMOJA board member and College junior Abel McDaniels had mixed feelings about Mur-ray’s points. “I don’t really agree with his comments on income inequality, but I found some of his other thoughts interesting,” said McDaniels, a former col-umnist at the Daily Pennsylva-nian.

AEI council member College

sophomore Jennifer Knesbach hopes that AEI’s expanding pres-ence on campus will open up av-enues for discussions that depart from political norms at Penn. She said that “the opportunity to have more academic speakers at Penn introduce a diversity of thought was refreshing.”

Many students at the event were glad that Murray didn’t touch on the divisive theories he proposed in “The Bell Curve” and appreciated that he spoke on

concepts applicable to college students’ lives.

Murray admitted that he didn’t have any solutions to help solve this problem, but believes it must come from a cultural awakening rather than through policy.

He urged students like those at Penn to buy a one-way ticket to “some place interesting” upon graduation, and get a job that re-quires immersion into an alien culture. “London and Paris don’t count,” he said.

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Fraternity pledges are stripped of their be-longings and cloth-ing and forced to

parade around.New student leaders are

verbally belittled before as-suming their positions.

Members of a club are dragged out of bed in the middle of the night, doused with alcohol and pressured to drink.

These are certainly not new phenomena for college students. But often, when we encounter these situations in our own social circles, our first response is to compare them to the other stories we have heard from friends. “Sure, my group had me do embarrass-ing things — but at least they didn’t take my clothes from me.”

Most defenders of these kinds of social rituals argue that they elicit a sense of soli-darity between new members of a group. It is true that hard-ship can foster strong bonds.

Siblings who have dealt with problematic family upbring-ings will often have a strong relationship if they provided a support system for each other. We may feel closer to a friend after that friend has helped us through a difficult time in our lives. But why is it that we think the only means of foster-ing community and camarade-rie are through emotional and/or physical torment?

Obviously, many students see hazing as harmful — the worst case scenarios result in serious injury or death. In a recent case at Baruch Col-lege, a CUNY school, a fra-ternity pledge died from brain trauma after participating in a dangerous hazing ritual. But it shouldn’t take a death to make us reconsider the implications of “traditions” that put our peers in danger. The bigger issue is that we have allowed a culture to persist that makes social groups think that proper rituals should involve some baseline level of discomfort in

order to welcome new mem-bers.

By accepting behavior that makes us uncomfortable, we allow those in a position that we perceive as desirable to exert power over us. So many students on campus are work-ing to challenge oppressive and violent behaviors. Why are we so quick to excuse it from our peers in our more in-timate social settings?

I have been in spaces where new members are encouraged to speak out about things they see or are told to do that bother them. But the pressure to con-form to the group is strong enough to dissuade this, and often these vocal protests are ignored when the activity is seen as especially significant to the group. It is especially troubling when these social groups are perceived as safer spaces — this usually means a place that tries to be accepting of people regardless of their race, sexual orientation and other identities. It was these

instances that often left me feeling distanced from peers, especially as a lowerclassman who was still very much eager to fit in. To me, my friends were brainwashed, while I was disillusioned.

The need to prove our-selves as valid members of the Penn community, be it though talent, intelligence or accom-plishments, is prevalent. But dealing with mistreatment in silence is not the type of endurance or resilience we should be praising.

The more unspoken parts of social life at college are so problematic because they casually reinforce systems of power gone unchecked and

normalize violent behaviors. This continues to feed into a broader college culture that allows for things like discrimi-nation and sexual assault to be so widespread.

Groups, such as the anti-hazing task force that has been developed in the Greek com-munity, are working to change this. But Greek spaces are by no means the only guilty par-ties when it comes to hazing behaviors. Blaming them as a whole for campus problems is largely reductive and uses

them as a scapegoat to avoid discussions or critiques about social life as a whole.

The issues we face as a modern university are not

disjointed problems. Rather, in our larger discussions of health, prejudice and sexual violence, we must point out the norms of our student body that facilitate these circum-stances. Excusing hazing and violence in social groups as benign fun or just the way college works does all of us a huge disservice.

What is intelli-gence? What distinguishes an intelligent

human from a skillfully pro-grammed computer?

These are the big questions that my “Introduction to Cog-nitive Science” class aims to examine through psychology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy and more. The most fascinating angle for me, how-ever, is the neurological per-spective. Each biological dis-covery that puts together one more piece of the puzzle only increases my awe at the beauti-ful complexity of humankind.

For instance, how do we explain empathy? While not unique to humans, emotions are certainly a rarity in the liv-ing world and nonexistent for inanimate objects. Such sen-sory feelings are an essential aspect of humanity that we should explore as much as pos-sible.

After crying at the ending

of a novel for my English class — George Eliot’s “The Mill on the Floss” — I started wonder-ing at my tendency to invest myself so thoroughly in both books and movies that I am strongly attached to the charac-ters by the end.

More generally, humans have an enormous capacity for empathy as it relates to art, be it literature, music, dance, theater or film. We are able to com-pletely immerse ourselves in such forms of expression and even relate to them. People are profoundly affected by art in ways that other animals don’t seem capable of experiencing. Art is vital to us as a species. And there is a fascinating rea-

son for this.The scientific explanation

lies in mirror neurons. Italian neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese discovered mirror neurons af-ter observing imitation in ma-caque monkeys, but they seem to be most highly developed in humans. These neurons in the frontal cortex fire both when you do something and when you see someone else doing it.

That is, when we watch or read about someone laughing, crying or blushing from embar-rassment, mirror neurons allow us to experience the sensations as if they were our own. In fact, the only reason we don’t feel physical pain when seeing someone else get punched is that other relevant frontal cor-tex neurons do not fire. This “tells” the brain that nothing is happening to us.

In a 2011 paper, Gallese and Hannah Wojciehowski investigated the link between literary studies and neurosci-ence that allows such a vivid

experience of literature. They call the phenomenon “Feeling of Body.” According to this theory, readers use their own sensory-motor systems to in-ternally mimic the actions and feelings of characters and thus can directly identify with them. The authors describe “Feeling of Body” as part of the larger cognitive-science concept of “Embodied Simulation,” which enables direct communication of others’ thoughts and emo-tions through these neuronal capacities.

This theory is evolution-arily significant because it ex-plains the rapid growth of hu-man learning about 75,000 to 100,000 years ago in terms of language and tool use, as neu-roscientist V. S. Ramachandran explained in a 2009 TED talk. This meant that people could form a social, civilized soci-ety. Mirror neurons allow us to learn from parents and peers by watching and imitating them, because your brain can learn

what to do based on which neu-rons fire for various actions.

While none of us really need to learn how to build a fire or hut anymore, mirror neurons are still important in the mod-ern world. As college students in an environment that will shape our lifelong opinions and beliefs, we should use these neurons to expand our knowl-edge of other people, times and places.

Read a novel. Visit an art museum. Attend a dance show or music concert. The possibilities, especially in a cultural city like Philadelphia, are seemingly endless, not to mention highly affordable. Last weekend at Annenberg, I saw Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company for free through my college house, as well as the Arturo Sandoval jazz quintet with a $10 student rush ticket.

As a friend recently told me, feelings make you more human. Art lets us experience these feelings. We have the

unique and incredible ability to empathize with characters that originate from other people’s imaginations, and to relate to their own emotions as ex-pressed through visual or per-forming art forms. Take every opportunity you can to glance in these mirrors into each oth-er’s souls.

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A study led by a Penn professor shows that homelessness is on the decline, but shelter workers say they are still turning people away.

“Philadelphia is way below the national average in terms of un-sheltered [persons],” said Dennis Culhane, a professor at the School of Social Policy & Practice and an expert in homelessness. He said that the percentage of unsheltered homeless people in Philadelphia is about 14 percent, compared to the national average of around 30 per-cent. Culhane was the co-principal investigator of the research team

that created the Annual Home-lessness Assessment Report , which was released last week. The number of people experiencing homelessness across the country dropped to 578,424 in 2014, down from 591,768 in 2013 — a two percent decline.

However, Philadelphia shelter workers say they don’t see the im-pact of the decline in their daily lives.

“We certainly see more people who meet our criteria than we have housing or we can serve,” Kali Karras, director of operations of Pathways to Housing, said. Her organization is a non-profit agency that serves chronically homeless

people who have serious mental health issues and or chronic sub-stance abuse problems. Pathways to Housing operates on a referral system, rather than by recruiting individuals off the street.

Even the more traditional emer-gency shelters, such as the Bethes-da Project, experience this type of overflow.

“All of our shelters are pretty much full, especially at this time of year,” said Yarissa Reyes, director of communications at the Bethes-da Project. Even so, there are still more homeless people who do not seek assistance, whether it is due to a previous bad experience in a homeless shelter, mental illness or

fear of the unknown.Counting unsheltered homeless

people can be an arduous task. The Point in Time count, which reports the number of homeless people that exist in the United States at any particular point in time, is the source of data for the Annual Homelessness Assessment Report. The report relies on volun-teers to locate and count unshel-tered homeless people.

While there is still work to be done in eliminating homeless-ness, Culhane said that the overall decline in numbers nationwide indicates that “the whole country is prioritizing a solution to home-lessness.”

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have hot water,” College sopho-more Dorian Ledbetter said.

The reactions of students are incredibly mixed. For the most part, residents seem to view these shortages as a nuisance.

“I think it’s annoying,” Col-lege sophomore Ian Masters said. “I have to wake up earlier to shower before the hot water is shut off!”

Other students don’t feel the shortages are that big of a deal.

“It doesn’t affect me,” Engi-neering sophomore Scott Free-man said. “I don’t mind having to take a cold shower once in a while.”

However, other residents of Rodin find the shortages to be more than a trivial issue.

“It’s irritating I live in a [place] where hot water is scarce,” Whar-ton sophomore Taylor Brown said. “All the while, outside my

window, the Radian — which is only a couple hundred more than what I currently pay for a similar apartment — probably almost never has these problems.”

Penn’s Facilities and Real Es-tate Services insists that workers are doing the best that they can to clear up the issues that have led to the shortages, and the Uni-versity is asking that students be patient and understanding.

“Ongoing maintenance and repairs such as these are usual in a building that is 40 years old and houses more than 750 peo-ple,” FRES Executive Director of Operations & Management Ken Ogawa said in an emailed statement through a spokesper-son. “Facilities and Residential Services work together to ensure that problems are quickly re-ported, investigated and repaired and that communications are made to the building’s residents through the House email listserv and posters.”

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Since a nursing student ex-pressed dissatisfaction regarding nursing advising a month ago, two members of the Undergraduate As-sembly have been trying to fi nd out if the problem aff ects many more nursing students.

College freshman Nathaniel Rome, new student representa-tive of the UA , was contacted by a freshman nursing student who was dissatisfi ed with his or her advi-sor’s inability to meet with the stu-dents, Rome said. Rome kept the student’s identity anonymous. For other nursing students, dissatisfac-tion may also stem from diffi culties in matching a student interested in a particular nursing specialty with an advisor of that fi eld, Rome said.

Since the issue was brought up, Rome and senior nursing student and UA representative Leah Quinn have met with Christina Costanzo Clark, assistant dean for Admis-sions and Academic Aff airs at the School of Nursing. Clark has been “very receptive and open to work-ing with us and seeing what we can do together,” Rome said.

However, without knowing ei-ther who the particular nursing stu-dent is, or which advisor prompted the student’s dissatisfaction, Clark said that she would be unable to directly address the problem and help the student switch advisors, if needed.

The School of Nursing has 95 undergraduate advising faculty members, Clark said. She cited un-released data from the 2014 senior surveys and said that 72 percent of nursing graduates were satisfi ed with their advisor, as compared with 56 percent of Penn seniors overall. The trend has been consis-tent since at least 2010, Clark said.

Nursing advisors must meet with their advisees at least once a semester to sign-off on course registration. Students are assigned to advisors, but Clark’s offi ce asks incoming freshmen about their spe-cialty interests and tries to match them to advisors according to avail-ability, Clark said. In addition, stu-dents are assigned to a peer advisor, who is an upperclassman in the Nursing School.

Logan MacLean, a 2014 Nurs-ing and Wharton graduate, said that he had “an excellent experience”

and is still in touch with his faculty advisor. MacLean said that he once spent an hour talking with his ad-visor when he initially came in to discuss courses.

“We were just talking about life, what I was interested in,” MacLean said.

New advisors must attend a train-ing session in order to gain access

to Advisor InTouch, Clark said. If an advisor is unable to attend the specifi c dates, then Clark and her colleagues will work with the advi-sor during one-on-one training.

“I let them know what students think of advising,” Clark said, “and I think they take that role very se-riously and they really care about their advisees.”

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a fast, comfortable and afford-able public transportation option that benefits the entire youth community.”

With more millennials com-ing to Philadelphia, overnight service not only accommodates this growing demographic, but also serves as “a factor when people are considering where they want to go to college and where they want to live,” Wil-liams added.

From 2000 to 2014, Philadel-phia’s young adult population increased by 78 percent, ac-cording to data from the federal American Community Survey.

“Philadelphia has changed,” Williams said, “so we had to consider changing as well by en-hancing our services to make the city more competitive.”

“It’s a combination of peo-ple not leaving as often for the suburbs and some more people coming back,” PennDesign pro-fessor John Landis said. “Young people have been coming back

into urban centers, and it is a significant national movement that is helping a lot of cities.”

Over half of millennials in the 10 largest U.S. cities would consider moving to another city if it offered better public trans-portation options, according to a survey released this past April.

“Subway trains are the mode of public transit that people pre-fer, and being able to provide that service at all hours will really benefit the entire youth community,” Kessler said.

Since millennials tend to go to restaurants, clubs and other businesses late on weekends, “Philadelphia businesses see this late-night transportation as an opportunity for them since people become more willing to travel throughout the city know-ing they can get back on SEP-TA’s service,” Kessler added.

The SEPTA Night Owl trains also improve the overall safety of the city. With up to two police officers on each overnight train, SEPTA “rarely gets reports of violent crime, and the under-ground stations make people

feel more comfortable than they are when waiting on a street cor-ner for a bus in the middle of the night,” Williams said.

“This overnight service adds to the general sense that Phila-delphia is a convenient and safe place to live,” Landis said.

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A skin pigmentation research-er who visited Penn Wednesday night said that racist ideas are recent and can be unlearned.

Nina Jablonski, an anthropol-ogy professor at Penn State Uni-versity, spoke at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Ar-chaeology and Anthropology to discuss skin color as part of the Penn Humanities Forum.

Jablonski is working on de-veloping new approaches to sci-ence education with the aim of improving the understanding of evolution and human diversity.

“People have been interested in their own skin and the colors of other people’s skin for a very

long time,” Jablonski opened, citing other scholars who have researched the topic. “I became really interested in the evolution of skin pigmentation because in the late 20th century there were new bodies of data that allowed us to gain new insight into why human skin pigmentation may have evolved in the patterns that they did.”

Jablonski explained the physi-cal and biological determinants of skin color variation. Per-manently dark pigmentation evolved 1.2 million years ago and, since then, individuals evolving in Africa have been darkly pigmented. When popu-lations entered into far North-ern habitats and were not able to get Vitamin D from the sun,

skin tones lightened. According to her research, 86 percent of total variation in skin color can be accounted for by ultraviolet radiation, and there are over 120 genes influencing human pig-mentation.

“Skin pigmentation is a beau-tiful example of natural selec-tion on the body,” Jablonski said.

While Jablonski sees skin col-or variation as beautiful, popu-lar thinkers like Immanuel Kant introduced the idea of skin color as a characteristic indicating inferiority and superiority. Al-though many of his ideas were hotly debated, they triumphed because of the prevalence of his work.

“All of us can fight racism

through the tools of educating our children through formal and informal environments,” Jablon-ski said.

Students were drawn to the event because of its connection of biology to the human experi-ence.

“I came to the event to hear about race from a biological, as well as a moral, standpoint and was fascinated by Jablonski’s research,” College sophomore Samantha Rahmin said.

“It was an extremely informa-tive and interesting lecture that spanned biology, anthropology and American history,” College senior Jennarose Placitella said. “The most interesting part for me was the idea that genes don’t come in packages.”

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Big Red were defi ned by an effi cient passing off ense led by Jeff Mathews, who set 18 Ivy passing records and is now on the Indianapolis Colts’ practice squad.

But with Mathews graduated, the Big Red’s air attack has col-lapsed. Cornell has rotated through four quarterbacks this season, who have combined to throw for a piti-ful 177.3 yards per game, by far the worst mark in the Ancient Eight. As a result, the Big Red lost their fi rst eight games by an average of 21.1 points before fi nally getting off the schneid last week with a 30-27 win against the Lions.

Penn enters the matchup com-ing off of an upset bid over No. 14 Harvard that fell painfully short —

the Red and Blue gave up 17 unan-swered points in the fourth quarter after entering the fi nal 15 minutes with a 24-17 lead.

A nationwide stunner in front of Penn’s fans on Senior Day would have been a Hollywood ending for a veteran like Conner Scott, but the chance to end a career this week with a win at the same fi eld he cel-ebrated an Ivy title on in 2012 is no small consolation prize.

“We wanted to accomplish a little bit more this year, obviously,” Scott, a fi fth-year senior, said. “Me, Dan [Wilk] and Evan [Jackson] have two rings each, I think that means a lot. It means a lot to us. We wish we could have gotten another, but at least we got our picture up on the wall — and to do it twice was fun.”

Saturday’s game may not mat-ter much in the Ivy standings, but

it means the world to seniors like Scott.

“Knowing it’s Al’s last game, knowing it’s our last game, knowing how the season’s gone so far, there’s a ton of motivation to win,” he said. “I love the young guys on the team. I want to set a good example for them in this fi nal game and kind of set them on the right track for next season.”

Though he’s always insisted the focus of this season remain on the Quakers’ on-fi eld play and not de-volve into a grand retirement spec-tacle, Bagnoli can look back on the sum total of his career with pride at this point in the season.

“I’ve been blessed to have a lot of good moments, and it’s been a tre-mendous 23 years,” he said.

There’s certainly room for one more victory.

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And then there was one.While almost all of Penn’s cross

country runners ended their sea-sons last weekend, junior captain Thomas Awad is the lone Quaker that still has one more race left in his season. And no race this sea-son may be as important to Awad as the one he will compete in this Saturday.

For the second year in a row, Awad will be traveling to compete in the NCAA Championship meet, where he will face off against a fi eld of 255 of the top distance runners in the county. This time, he will make the trip out to Terre Haute, Ind .

Last year, Awad became the fi rst Quaker since 2005 to receive an automatic bid to the champion-ship, and this season, he stamped his ticket to Indiana with a third place overall fi nish at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship.

“Last year was great because I had a real chance to get used to the atmosphere and the days lead-ing into the championship race,” Awad said. “Obviously getting used to running against guys of that level was big for me last year, and I think that’s given me a big boost in terms of confi dence.”

Awad placed 176th out of the 253-man fi eld in last year’s cham-pionship. However, the defending Heptagonal champion feels that he is in a position to far exceed his performance from last year.

“While last year physically I think I had the ability to run with the lead pack, I didn’t really have the confi dence I do now to put

myself up with that group,” Awad said. “This year, though, there’s an expectation that I can be maybe top 30 and even All-American, so I think I will be much more com-fortable going into this race and have a lot more confi dence.”

“I think it’s a great goal for Tom to aim for All-American recognition,” coach Steve Dolan said of Awad’s race objectives. “This is an extremely competitive event that really features some of the world’s best distance runners, but Tom has performed very well all season, and he should feel very confi dent about competing in this fi eld.”

In addition to having a better mentality entering the race, Awad

also believes he is physically ready for the demands of one fi nal race, despite how long his season has run.

“Racing 10k back to back is pretty tough, but I think I defi nite-ly have one more solid race left in me,” Awad said of his physi-cal state. “This week has been all about recovery for me, and hope-fully I’ll have the type of race I want to have on Saturday.”

And if Awad does have the race he wants to have, Penn cross country could very well have an All-American on its roster by the end of the week, and Awad will have added yet another accolade to what has already been an in-credible career.

How do the Penn women’s swimming coaches reward their swimmers during the two-week break after sweeping rival Co-lumbia?

“Simple,” coach Mike Schnur said. “Beating the you-know-what out of them.”

Focused on avoiding com-placency, the Quakers (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) have spent their bye week working toward their next match — this weekend’s tri-meet against Cornell and powerhouse Princeton. While the team is concerned primarily with Feb-ruary’s Ivy Championships, Schnur has been pushing his swimmers to constantly improve and lower their times.

“We’ve been beating on them every day, and they’ve responded really well,” Schnur said. “We’re interested in going fast in February, so we don’t pull back for dual meets, we just keep

training.”His squad will have two

very diff erent racing opportuni-ties this weekend to show their progress. Cornell’s squad, which fi nished seventh in the Ancient Eight last year, will enter Fri-day’s meet with the built-in ad-vantage of fast suits. This type of compression swimwear, worn by both the Quakers and Lions in Penn’s rout of Columbia, can signifi cantly better a swimmer’s times, thus giving Cornell (2-1, 1-1) an obvious upper hand .

One thing Cornell does not have is Rochelle Dong, Penn’s sophomore stud . After shatter-ing pool records against Colum-bia, Dong and her teammates enter the weekend with their focus not on the fast-suited Big Red, but on last year’s Ivy run-

ner-up.“I think we’ve gone back into

intense training mode,” Dong said. “We defi nitely continued to work hard and train hard to focus on Princeton.”

The Tigers (1-1, 0-0) return several familiar foes that will stand in the way of the Red and Blue winning their fi rst ever Ivy Championship. Though Lisa Boyce , who set multiple Princ-eton records, has graduated, ju-niors Nikki Larson, Liz McDon-ald and Sada Stewart should all return as threats in February.

However, with the champion-ship months away, the Quakers have an interesting opportunity this weekend. Schnur has nev-er beaten Princeton as Penn’s coach, as the Tigers possess one of the most successful programs in the Ivy League. A win this weekend, especially when Penn is not in its fast suits, would be an awesome, albeit very un-expected, indicator of unprec-edented success in February.

“If we do happen to beat Princeton, it will be a really big shock for us,” Dong said. “It’ll give us a good sense of where we’ll be at Ivies.”

Two days, three matches and early top 25 drama are slated for Penn squash this weekend in Maine, and a long 10 hour bus ride is all that stands between the Red and Blue and their fi rst offi cial games of the 2014-2015 season.

Colby, Bates and Bowdoin are on the horizon in a three-match opening weekend for the Quakers .

The ninth-ranked men’s squad fi nds itself in an early season battle to keep its lofty preseason ranking with three matches against top 25 opponents.

“The pressure’s on us to go up there and perform,” coach Jack Wyant said. “Hopefully we can come back with three victories.”

After being slighted in the preseason polls and dropped out of Potter Cup contention, Penn men’s squash looks to prove the coaches of the College Squash Association wrong. Using their “underdog” mentality as fuel to improve this year, the Quakers want to continue their ascent up the ranks of the CSA.

“You can liken us to Ohio State [in college football],” Wyant said. “We believe that we belong, but others aren’t convinced yet”

“We’ve defi nitely noticed, and it made us more hungry,” senior captain Michael Mutscheller add-

ed. “We believe we can defi nitely fi nish higher than ninth with the talent we have.”

Bates, a team that split its two matchups with the Quakers in the 2012-13 season, is not a squad that Penn will take lightly this time around.

“We’re not overlooking them,” Mutscheller added. “We want to see the hard work we put in this off season pay off .”

According to sophomore Anaka Alankamony, No. 3 Penn women’s squash is approaching this weekend as an opportunity to knock the rust off before its more meaningful matches later in the season.

“It’s a good experience for us to play easier teams early in the season,” Alankamony said. “Play-ing Harvard, Princeton and Yale

later in the season will be benefi -cial to us.”

Due to the laid-back nature of this weekend, there will be plenty of opportunities for the younger players to gain valuable experi-ence playing on the ladder for the Quakers. Despite their lack of experience with college-level squash, the Red and Blue aren’t too worried about any growing pains.

“Most of the freshmen are in-ternational,” Alankamony said. “They have a lot of experience al-ready playing on a ladder for their country.”

In Wyant’s fi rst ever trip to the Pine Tree State, Penn looks to bring its success from last season along in order to leave with an unblemished record and defended ranking.

Awad looking for top 30 finishXC | Penn’s top runner ready to run with lead

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MICHELE OZER/DP FILE PHOTOJunior Thomas Awad returns to the National Championship for cross country for the second stright year. Penn’s captain plans on improving on last year’s finish.

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ZOE GAN/DP FILE PHOTOSophomore Rochelle Dong entered the bye week after taking part in four of the five pool records broken against Columbia. She will need similarly fast performances to stand a chance against Princeton and Cornell.

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MICHELE OZER/DP FILE PHOTOSenior captain Michael Mutscheller, along with the rest of men’s squash, will look to prove the voters who kept Penn out of the top eight nationally ranked wrong.

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Penn’s high expectationsBY COREY HENRY

Staff Writer

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The Palestra will see some se-rious star power on Sunday.

Penn wrestling will host the Keystone Classic tournament, welcoming Drexel, Northwest-ern, Pittsburgh and Stanford, among others. Last year, the 12 teams that competed at the Clas-sic combined to send 49 wrestlers to the NCAA Championships.

Coach Alex Tirapelle is specif-ically looking forward to having his team wrestle against Stanford, where Tirapelle was an assistant coach until he took over the Red and Blue’s head job this season.

“It’ll be fun,” Tirapelle said. “I’m looking forward to it, actu-ally. The colleagues and I trade texts and e-mails and phone calls — I’m always following them to see how they did the past week-end. I try to razz them a bit, and they razz me.”

Senior 184-pounder Lorenzo Thomas is also looking forward to Sunday. Thomas will carry some momentum after winning the 184-pound title in the East Stroudsburg Open last Sunday. In addition, Thomas won his weight class in last year’s Keystone Clas-sic.

“I expect a good perfor-

mance,” Tirapelle said of Thom-as. “He looked good [on Sunday], and he wrestled some pretty good competition. He went about his business, as always.”

Thomas will likely face off at some point in the day against Pitt senior 184-pounder Max Thomusseit , who is currently ranked No. 4 in the weight class to Thomas’ No. 3 ranking.

Thomas is excited to face Thomusseit, especially since he wasn’t able to wrestle him at last year’s Classic as Thomusseit re-cuperated from an injury.

“He’s a high-quality kid,” Ti-rapelle added. “There are a lot of quality kids in the weight … It’ll be a couple-score match — if one score goes the opposite way, you can end up on the short end of the

stick.”Tirapelle won’t be the only one

to recognize some familiar faces from across the mat.

“I know a majority of the guys of the Pitt team,” said Thomas — a Pittsburgh native — cracking a smile.

Sunday’s meet will bring 19 wrestlers ranked in the top 20 of their weight class to the Palestra. Some notables include sopho-more 149-pounder Jason Tsirtsis and senior heavyweight Mike McMullan , both from Northwest-ern and both ranked fi rst in their respective classes.

“[Facing Tsirtsis] is a tall order,” Tirapelle said. “He’s a national champion. The guy’s legit.”

If a Penn wrestler is to face

Tsirtsis, the duty will likely be left to senior Jeff Canfora . Senior C.J. Cobb is still day-to-day after having suff ered an injury in prac-tice last week and is doubtful for Sunday’s tournament.

However, Tirapelle believes Canfora — or any wrestler the Quakers send out, for that matter — is up to the challenge of facing the national champion.

“He’s defi nitely prepared to compete with him,” Tirapelle said. “Every time we step on the mat, we expect to win.”

Another notable performer to watch is sophomore 174-pounder Dan McDevitt , who fi nished as runner-up at the ESU Open. All of this came after McDevitt won a combined six matches over his entire freshman year.

McDevitt believes that com-binations the team worked on in the preseason were the keys to his success. He also credits summer workouts with his club coach, former Harvard wrestler Craig Vitagliano , as helpful in his de-velopment.

McDevitt could face off against another highly ranked wrestler in Pitt senior Tyler Wil-ps , who is No. 5 in the class.

“I look forward to it,” McDe-vitt said of the possibility of wrestling Wilps. “It would be a great challenge.”

This sounds like a mantra for what should be a highly competi-tive tournament on Sunday.

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Ancient Eight’s best defense as a freshman The four senior cap-tains — Kathleen Roche, Kara Bonenberger, Renee Busch and Katy Allen — will also play large roles as they look to double up on Ivy championships before getting their diplomas this spring.

Ultimately, the Quakers took the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of their labor from last year, but,

as evidenced by their strong play against La Salle, the Red and Blue were not content to rest on their laurels.

“They were ready to play,” McLaughlin said. “They wanted the culmination of this day to end in something really special.”

But with conference play still a couple months away, the fo-cus, at least for one more night, was on last year’s successful title quest and not the upcoming title defense.

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its basket-less drought on a Sti-panovich jumper, though the of-fense would never heat up to its early fi rst-half dominance. The Quakers would fi nish the game shooting just 36.4 percent, but a strong defensive eff ort was suffi -cient to carry them.

Freshman guard Anna Ross got the start in her second col-legiate game and put together an effi cient performance, scoring seven points on 3-for-4 shooting to go along with four rebounds and four assists.

Junior guard Keiera Ray was another bright spot for the Quak-ers, looking fully healthy for the fi rst time in a while. She put up a season-high six points and two assists in 19 minutes of play.

Penn’s win was the Quakers’ third in a row against La Salle — the fi rst time the Red and Blue have tallied three-straight from 1999-2002.

However, Big 5 play is cer-tainly not the focus of Penn’s play, as McLaughlin was quick to enunciate.

“Our goal — we look to win

every game and if it’s the Big 5, that’s awesome,” he said. “We won two games last year and we were in the two other ones. The intensity of these games lets our kids turn it up another level.”

The win was McLaughlin’s fi fth against the Big 5. The team looks to build off of a program-best two Big 5 wins last season. Penn won’t have another game of that variety until early January against Saint Joseph’s.

Penn takes to the court against Navy this weekend and will look to continue to build upon their defensive success.

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THOMAS MUNSON/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Junior guard Keiera Ray played an aggresive 19 minutes for the Quakers on Wednesday, scoring six points and dishing out two assists.

Home sweet home.By the time Penn basketball

fi nishes its game at the Palestra on Saturday, it will likely feel comfortable playing in front of a friendly crowd. But it better not get used to it.

After two straight disappoint-ing losses to begin the 2014-15 season, the Quakers (0-2) are hoping to use this weekend’s matchup with Lafayette to not only notch their fi rst win, but also generate some positive takeaways from an early three-game home-stand.

After all, following Penn’s matchup with the Leopards (1-1) on Saturday, the Red and Blue will seldom play at the Palestra over the course of the next month. The squad faces eight of its sub-sequent nine opponents through Jan. 17 on the road.

Despite its winless record, Penn has played well in stretches throughout its fi rst two games this year.

In the team’s season opener against Delaware State, junior guard Tony Hicks led the Quak-ers with 31 points while freshmen Antonio Woods and Mike Auger combined to contribute 11 points, seven rebounds and four assists off the bench. Penn led at half-time and had a chance to win the game at the buzzer before falling short in overtime, 77-75.

Hoping to build off their opening performance, the Red and Blue instead fell fl at in their matchup with Rider on Tuesday.

Due in large part to early foul trouble among its starting big men, Penn was unable to respond to a surge by the Broncs late in the fi rst half. The 16-point defeat marked the fi rst time in coach Jerome Allen’s tenure that the Quakers began a season with two consecutive losses.

“I didn’t think we played with the right sense of urgency… [nor] with the right sense of selfl ess-ness,” Allen said after Tuesday’s defeat. “It’s unfortunate that we

wasted this opportunity.“But for some of these younger

guys, [the fi rst two games] have been an important learning expe-rience, and we need to get better.”

Allen has relied heavily on his highly-touted freshman class in the early portion of the season. Rookie Darnell Foreman has started both games at point guard, while fi ve of the eight players to see double-digit minutes on the court in Penn’s matchup with Rider were freshmen.

“I think it’s a good learning experience to be thrown into the mix this early in the season in-stead of being thrown in later on in the season with less experi-ence,” Auger said after Tuesday’s game.

Against Lafayette, the Quakers are facing a team that is almost completely opposite in its com-position. Unlike Penn, the Leop-ards feature four upperclassmen in their starting lineup, including three seniors.

Lafayette kicked off its season in impressive fashion last week-end, scoring a 27-point win over Robert Morris, but the Leopards fell by an equal margin to West Virginia in their fi rst true test.

Saturday’s contest marks the second of three consecutive games against Ivy League oppo-nents for Lafayette. After taking on Princeton on Wednesday and Penn three days later, the Leop-ards will travel up to New Haven, to do battle with Yale next week.

If the Red and Blue are able to grab their fi rst win of the season, it will likely stem from how well the squad shuts down Lafayette senior forward Dan Trist. The Australian leads the Cougars in both points and rebounds this sea-son, averaging 16.5 points and 6.5 boards per contest.

It’s safe to assume that, given the Quakers’ schedule and Trist’s talent, if the 6-foot-9 forward manages to get Penn’s frontcourt into foul trouble as it did on Tues-day, it could be awhile before the Red and Blue faithful see a vic-tory in person.

Penn must impress at end of homestead

ILANA WURMAN/SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR-ELECTFreshman Mike Auger and his fellow rookies have already played a huge role on the hardwood. He will be challenged in the paint this weekend by Lafayette’s Dan Trist.

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New coach seeks to defy former team

LUKE CHEN/DP FILE PHOTO Senior 149-pounder Jeff Canfora will look to build off his performance in the East Stroudsburg Open this weekend at the Keystone Classic.

WRESTLING | Coach Tirapelle to meet

familiar facesBY STEVEN JACOBSON

Staff Writer

Penn men’s swimming is looking to show its resilience on Friday as it heads to Princ-eton for the fi rst conference tri-meet of the season.

The Quakers (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) started off their Ivy season against Columbia in record-breaking fashion with a Uris Pool 200-yard medley relay record. However, Penn was un-able to hold onto that momen-tum and fell to the Lions in their den, 159.5-136.5.

The Red and Blue are hop-ing to leave Princeton’s De-Nunzio Pool on Friday with their fi rst conference win.

Cornell enters the week-end after an impressive per-formance in Cambridge in their fi rst conference tri-meet against Dartmouth and Har-vard. The Big Red (2-1, 1-1) defeated Dartmouth handily, 213-87, and almost knocked off the Crimson — last year’s Ivy champions — in a close 131-169 loss.

Cornell’s biggest strengths this season come from sprint backstroke and distance free-style. Penn’s roster is similarly stacked in the distance freestyle events, led by junior captain

Chris Swanson. Princeton has yet to face a

conference opponent, but had a strong showing at the Ohio State Invitational on Nov. 8. The Tigers walked away with a 136-209 loss to No. 12 Ohio State and a resounding 262-91 win over Division III Deni-son. After posting quick times in Columbus, Princeton (1-1) appears to be riding high, es-pecially considering that the Quakers have not been able to defeat the Tigers during coach Mike Schnur’s 14 seasons at Penn’s helm.

However, after a third place conference fi nish in the 2013-14 season, the Red and Blue may be able to upset the Tigers, if not this weekend then per-haps in February. The Quakers’ roster is seasoned, after only graduating three members last year and bringing in one of the most talented freshman classes in program history.

If anything, Friday’s meet will show that no opponent should ever be overlooked — especially in the Ivy League.

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Quakers will attempt to bounce back

AARON CAMPBELL/DP FILE PHOTO Distance freestyler Chris Swanson heads a Quaker squad looking to push past a close loss to Columbia. They face Cornell and Princeton.

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For as much as he’s loathed talking about it, the time has fi -nally come: Al Bagnoli’s last game is this Saturday.

And with both Penn and Cor-nell football struggling this sea-son, the action on the fi eld will likely be secondary.

The Quakers and Big Red enter this weekend’s matchup with identical 1-8 records, their only victories having come over woeful Columbia. After starting the season with hopes of perhaps sending their coach off with one last Ancient Eight title, the Red and Blue have been decimated by injuries and defensive struggles and are mired in a four-game los-ing streak.

But one losing season does little to diminish the entirety of Bagnoli’s time at Penn, a career that has included a record nine outright Ivy League titles and the third-highest winning percent-age within the conference since its 1956 inception (.694).

On Wednesday, Ba-gnoli received a big surprise at his weekly press conference: a visit from numerous

Penn coaches, the likes of which included volleyball’s Kerry Carr, fi eld hockey’s Colleen Fink and track’s Steve Dolan, alongside numerous football assistants.

Bagnoli grew visibly emo-tional at the press conference but was in good spirits at practice when asked to refl ect on the turnout.

“That was hard,” Bagnoli said. “It was really nice of them to do, completely surprised me. It was really a classy thing.”

A victory over Cornell wouldn’t be nearly as much of a shock.

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For as much as he’s loathed talking about it, the time has fi -nally come: Al Bagnoli’s last game is this Saturday.

And with both Penn and Cor-nell football struggling this sea-son, the action on the fi eld will likely be secondary.

The Quakers and Big Red enter this weekend’s matchup with identical 1-8 records, their only victories having come over woeful Columbia. After starting the season with hopes of perhaps sending their coach off with one last Ancient Eight title, the Red and Blue have been decimated by injuries and defensive struggles and are mired in a four-game los-ing streak.

But one losing season does little to diminish the entirety of Bagnoli’s time at Penn, a career that has included a record nine outright Ivy League titles and the third-highest winning percent-age within the conference since its 1956 inception (.694).

On Wednesday, Ba-gnoli received a big surprise at his weekly press conference: a visit from numerous

Penn coaches, the likes of which included volleyball’s Kerry Carr, fi eld hockey’s Colleen Fink and track’s Steve Dolan, alongside numerous football assistants.

Bagnoli grew visibly emo-tional at the press conference but was in good spirits at practice when asked to refl ect on the turnout.

“That was hard,” Bagnoli said. “It was really nice of them to do, completely surprised me. It was really a classy thing.”

A victory over Cornell wouldn’t be nearly as much of a shock.

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The fall season was certainly a disappointing one for Penn Ath-letics, but the women’s basketball team’s Ivy League champion-ship banner-raising ceremony on Wednesday night reminded Quak-ers fans of better times while stir-ring optimism for the future of the Red and Blue.

The ceremony took place right before the Red and Blue’s matchup with Big 5 rival La Sal-le, a contest they would eventually win.

“You’re celebrating the past and hopefully moving right into the future with a history,” coach Mike McLaughlin said prior to Wednesday’s ceremony. “It should be pretty special for them.”

“It was especially great to see all the seniors,” senior guard Kathleen Roche added. “It was great to see where we’ve come.”

However, McLaughlin ac-knowledged that the Quakers are by no mean guaranteed to repeat.

“This isn’t the same team from last year,” he said.

It sure isn’t.The Quakers’ backcourt will

feel the absence of Alyssa Baron

and Meghan McCullough, who comprised Penn’s top two in min-utes played, assists and steals last year before graduating in May. Baron was also the leading scorer

for the Red and Blue.In spite of the departures of

Baron and McCullough, Penn still has a good shot of raising another banner in a year’s time.

This is thanks in large part to sophomore center Sydney Stipanovich, who anchored the

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Strong defensive eff orts have been a staple of Penn women’s basketball in the Mike McLaughlin era.

And Wednesday night was no diff erent. In a game that started with the raising of the Quakers’ 2013-14 championship banner, Penn took control from the get-go, stifl ing La Salle in a 57-29 victory.

Sophomore center Sydney Stipanovich put together her fi rst double-double of the season, and 11th of her career, with 15 points and 15 rebounds.

With Explorers senior guard Alicia Cropper sitting out due to injury, the Quakers (1-1) de-fense had little trouble holding La Salle (0-2) to 22.0 percent shooting on the night. The 29 points allowed are the fewest by a Penn team in McLaughlin’s era as coach and the fewest since a 1995 game against Temple.

“When [Alicia] Cropper was out, we didn’t change what we were going to do,” coach Mike

McLaughlin said.“We smothered their perim-

eter players and Sydney [Sti-panovich] was really good de-fensively in the middle. That’s the way we were going to play, whether she’s in or not.”

The Red and Blue kicked it into high gear off ensively to be-gin the game, knocking down seven of their fi rst 10 shots to claim a 16-6 lead through the fi rst eight minutes of play.

The Quakers would cool down as the half progressed, end-ing the half on a 1-for-9 shoot-ing stretch that saw them fail to make a fi eld goal in the last six and a half minutes. However, de-fense proved to be enough, as La Salle ended the half with more turnovers (15) than points (13).

“It started on the defensive end [early], we were really ag-gressive on defense and that helped us pick up our off ense,” Stipanovich said. “Kathleen [Roche] knocked down a couple shots and we got a fl ow going.”

Penn would eventually end

Penn ‘D’ stifles La Salle

W. HOOPS | Quakers claim third straight win over Big 5 rivalBY HOLDEN McGINNIS

Sports Editor

FOOTBALL | Bagnoli set to coach final game of 23 seasons at the helm of the Red and Blue

BY IAN WENIKSports Editor

VS. LA SALLE

Champs celebrate past, pursue future Quakers unveil banner

for 2013-14 Ivy title before La Salle game

BY TOMMY ROTHMANAssociate Sports Editor

THOMAS MUNSON/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER In celebration of their Ivy League title last season, the Quakers raised their championship banner in the Palestra before Wednesday’s victory over La Salle. The banner celebrates Penn’s 12-2 Ivy record in 2014-2015 and their first title since 2004.

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