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Hidden under a veil of anonym-ity, Penn’s Yik Yak users are free to rant, joke, complain and event make threats without fear of being identi-fied. And while other colleges have taken steps to prevent cyberbullying on the platform, Penn’s focus on free speech makes any similar action very unlikely.

At the University of Missouri, users

posted shooting threats directed at all black students . At Western Wash-ington University, posts called for the black student body president to be lynched . And at Emory’s Oxford Col-lege campus a student was arrested in October for posting a shooting threat .

Due to posts of this nature, Ameri-can college campuses have seen a growing trend of banning the app on the school Wi-Fi network or enforcing a geo-fence — a virtual fence that does not allow the app to be used — around the campus.

Of 5,300 colleges that receive alumni donations, Penn receives the 10th highest amount — part of a group of 20 schools that gets

roughly 30 percent of all college donations in the United States.

According to the report by The Council for Aid in Education, Stanford and Harvard topped the list, each with over $1 billion in do-nations. Penn was ranked No. 10 on the list and No. 5 among the Ivies, pulling $520 million in donations in 2015, a significant increase from

$367 million in 2014.“It’s been an extraordinary

year for education, in terms of total support given,” Vice Presi-dent of Development and Alumni Relations John Zeller said. “Our numbers continue to be campaign-level numbers without being in a campaign.”

Penn recently concluded its

Making History campaign in 2013, which raised $4.3 billion in alumni donations — the largest amount amassed from a fundraising effort to date. Just a year later, President Amy Gutmann launched another initiative, Penn Compact 2020, to help increase financial aid funding

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Welcome to the world of keys, where losing the sliver of metal in your pocket will leave you down over $200 . Much to the disappointment of Penn conspiracy theorists, there is a reason for the high fee other than Penn wanting to make a profit on your misfortune.

This doesn’t stop many students from com-plaining that Penn greatly overcharges key replacements as a means to scare students into keeping better track of their belongings, rather than simply covering the costs of changing the locks and cutting new keys.

“I’ve checked all over the internet. A competi-tive lock change is nowhere near the 225 bucks they charged me, nor is a replacement key,” Col-lege freshman Carl Fulghieri said.

“You can have a copy made for almost noth-ing. It’s the same reason they charge you at the information desk for forgetting your PennCard in your room too many times. It’s a good motiva-tor, but it seems incredibly excessive,” he added.

It turns out that making new keys really is that expensive. Senior Associate Director of Build-ing Operations for Residential Services Derek Hunsberger explained that the high price tag is

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CONCORD, N.H. — Over the course of four days, The Daily

Pennsylvanian staff has attended political rallies for seven candidates across New Hampshire, meeting partisans from every part of the po-litical spectrum (even, yes, Vermin Supreme supporters).

Spread out across the state, these supporters with disparate political

preferences were united by two commonalities: race and age. Nearly all were old and white, and some used not the kindest language to describe immigrants, foreigners and Muslims.

Whether it was media-anointed nativist Donald Trump or

self-proclaimed democratic social-ist Bernie Sanders, the rallies were lily-white.

This reality isn’t necessarily a surprise. Primary voters tend to be much older than the general elector-ate, and white people comprise 92 percent of Iowa’s population and 94

percent of New Hampshire’s, ac-cording to U.S. Census Data.

Every four years, media pundits lambast the early voting states as unrepresentative of the country and irrelevant to later contests with

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POLAR CANDIDATES TAKE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARYDemocratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and Republican presidential candidate and 1968 Wharton alumnus Donald Trump came out on top in Tuesday night’s vote in New Hampshire. The vote is the second to occur during this year’s primary season. Sanders was the favorite to win in the state, though the Republican race was more highly contested in the state up until the end of the voting.

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Calling an UberX for a ride to a Thursday night downtown is not exactly legal.

In most of Pennsylvania, ridesharing services such as UberX and its competitor Lyft are allowed to operate, as long as they are granted a two-year agreement by the Pennsylvania Public Uti l-ity Commission. However, in Philadelphia, UberX and Lyft are not legally approved to op-erate. UberBlack, however, is legal in Philadelphia as it func-tions similarly to a limousine service. In an attempt to crack down on these ridesharing ser-vices, the Philadelphia Parking Authority has been conducting sting operations.

“It was not only the taxi me-dallion owners that was [sic] helping the Parking Author-ity; it was UberBlack drivers,” President of the Taxi Work-ers Alliance of Pennsylvania Ronald Blount said. “If there is someone burglarizing a neigh-borhood, it’s not uncommon for the police to come to the community and ask for help in locating the criminal that’s bur-glarizing the residents … it’s not unusual for the Parking Au-thority to go to the taxi owners and ask for help in finding these illegal UberX operations.”

In its sting operations, the Parking Authority targets in-dividual UberX drivers by having undercover officers use the Uber application to call cars to pick them up. Parking Authority officers wait at the destination in their vans and impound the drivers’ cars upon arrival.

Raymond Reyes, who has been driving for UberX since 2014, was a victim of one of the Philadelphia Parking Author-ity’s stings.

“What started my rideshar-ing advocacy was when the PPA

took my car,” Reyes said.Reyes normally drove at

night, but one Saturday he chose to work in the morn-ing instead. His day was going normally until he picked up a couple of riders in Center City.

“Throughout the whole trip, they asked the same questions — ‘how are you doing?’ and ‘how long have you been work-ing?’” Reyes recalled. “They were trying to build a rapport with me, just to give me a false sense of security.”

The small talk ended when Reyes arrived at the riders’ re-quested destination in northeast Philadelphia.

“After I dropped them off and unlocked the door, the two people ran out of the car, and my passenger door was f lung open and some … guy reached for my keys,” Reyes said. “My driver’s door opened, and I saw a Philadelphia policewoman, who told me to cease and desist.”

When Reyes looked around, he real ized he had been completely blocked in by Phil-adelphia Parking Authority vans, and so he was unable to move his vehicle. The Park-ing Authority did not have arresting power, but the officers investigating Reyes were able to confiscate his Uber phone and impound his car.

“They kept my car for two-and-a-half weeks,” Reyes said.

At the time, driving for Uber was Reyes’ only source of income. Unable to pay his bills, his car was repossessed, and he was evicted from his home. This left him without a way to drive himself to receive the medical care he needed.

“During the two-and-a-half-weeks that I was without my car, I had doctors’ appoint-ments,” Reyes said. “I go to VA up in Brooklyn, New York, to get my treatment. Without a personal car, I was not able to do that.”

The Philadelphia Parking Authority did not respond by the time of publication.

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My experiences within the Jewish community at Penn have almost exclusively per-tained to politics and religion. While touchy topics have been discussed, dialogue has oc-curred in a contained setting with a homogeneous compo-sition. I’ve found that when it comes to Israel-Palestine, students claim to want dia-logue, “substantive” facts and a non-propagandized setting. However, most students want anything but that. In a recent op-ed, Jeremy Jick referred to certain realities as “noise.” Jeremy used a recent PIPAC leadership statement as an op-portunity to unsubstantially attack a campus memorial and installation, which occurred last year. In my mind, a me-morial and campus criticism of Israeli policy are not exis-tential threats to the US-Israel relationship, so I cannot un-derstand the relationship be-tween the PIPAC statement and aforementioned events. Unsupported and unoriginal, the argumentation employs deceptive distractions and is dependent upon an attempt to discredit pain and suffering, instead of providing insightful analysis.

I think that for many stu-dents, the presentation of facts regarding oppression and state-sponsored violence can be hard to swallow. In turn, such information will be disregarded or discredited. However, I find it disturbing for anyone to call the death of thousands of civilians just “noise.” In what world should the loss of innocent lives be discounted or considered propaganda? The summer of 2014 was the most fatal escalation of violence since 1967. The excessive military actions were a continuation of previous methods. In the past, Avi Dichter, a former direc-tor of the Shin Bet, has called similar measures overkill. The Gatekeepers, an award-win-ning documentary that fea-tures former heads of the Shin Bet, provides clear insight in this regard.

Moreover, an apartheid wall on Locust Walk does not equate to just “noise.” It’s simply a term that is un-comfortable for individuals like Jeremy. For Palestinians living in the West Bank, life under the occupation consists of frequent unlawful arrests, the separation of families,

restrictions on mobility and illegal seizure of Palestinian land. Jeremy’s article implies that Palestinians have lim-ited mobility because of terror threats. However, the Likud governments of the 1980s be-gan imposing unlawful treat-ment before the rise of Hamas

and suicide attacks. As Wil-liam Cleveland and Martin Bunton explain in A History of The Modern Middle East, “In addition to constructing new settlements, the Likud-dominant governments of the 1980s adopted measures designed to isolate and sub-jugate the Palestinian inhabit-ants. The Israeli state stepped up its practice of confiscating plots of Arab land, and the Israeli security services de-ported an increasing number

of suspected political activ-ists. Administrative detention, a practice that permitted Pal-estinians to be arrested with-out a warrant and held for up to six months without being charged, was employed with greater frequency. The occu-pation intruded on the daily

lives of Palestinians in count-less ways: They were required to carry identity cards and pay special taxes; they had to overcome a maze of bureau-cratic obstacles and security checks to obtain the most ba-sic licenses and business per-mits; and they were arrested, imprisoned, and sometimes tortured by the Israeli authori-ties at the slightest suspicion of political activism.”

The United Nations Gener-al Assembly defined apartheid

as “inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establish-ing and maintaining domina-tion by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and system-atically oppressing them.” It is therefore understandable that individuals have classified the treatment of Palestinians as apartheid. However, should disagreement over terminol-ogy equate to noise? Termi-nology aside, everything on the apartheid wall in reference was supported with research and data from B’Tselem, a well respected Israeli human rights organization. My sug-gestion to Jeremy and other students would be to critically analyze new information that may not align with their own ideologies, instead of dismiss-ing material as “superficial and devoid of context.” Just because information does not originate from the power player does not make it irrel-evant.

Like the United States, Is-rael has its own flourishing society that creates meaning-ful innovations, but it is not simply a place where differ-ent cultures and faiths “work together.” Like the United

States, Israel struggles with institutionalized racism. Non-Ashkenazi Jews, Arabs, Er-itreans and Sudanese are dis-criminated in the workforce, education system and hous-ing. To oversimplify Israeli society as a society in which Muslims, Christians and Jews interact is an injustice for mul-tiple reasons. It’s an injustice to the Israeli Black Panthers, to the Eritreans and Sudanese living in refugee camps and to the Arabs who have no rights to their ancestral land. Most of all, it’s an injustice to the occupation and conflict. In the same way that unsubstanti-ated criticism of a memorial and installation should not be used in conjunction with a leadership statement, Israeli society should not be used as a defense against human rights violations. Rather, let’s use relevant information that pertains to the conflict, not information relating to com-puter technology.

“SOCIALISM REVIVED” proclaimed last Thursday’s print DP headline, introducing a feature on a student group calling itself Students for a Democratic Society and Penn’s chapter of the eponymous ’60s radical group.

Despite the shamelessly sen-sational headline, the group’s birth is basically a non-event. There has long been a far-left community at Penn, active un-der a number of familiar names. So far, SDS draws its small membership from their ranks.

More significant, I think, is the impression apparently held by these not-so-newcomers that they are the ideological heirs of the ’60s SDS movement. Although the revived group’s president, College junior Lucas Lipatti, told The Daily Pennsyl-vanian that the new SDS is “not … try[ing] to emulate” their bygone namesake, the choice to take up their name invari-ably points to a belief that they are fighting for the same values SDS professed generations ago.

I posit, however, that the paradigm of today’s campus activism, which Lipatti said he could see “New SDS” working within, has ideologically less

in common with its nominal predecessor than its adherents might imagine.

Statistics blog FiveThir-tyEight analyzed the collected demands of student protestors at 51 universities nationwide and compiled a list of the most common ones. In order of fre-quency, they were increased faculty diversity, mandatory “diversity training” or social justice classes, funding for cul-tural centers, collection of data on racial climate, expanded mental health programming, renaming of buildings and mascots, increased retention of minority students, expanded financial aid, apologies from administrators, expanded speech regulation and removal of school officials.

It’s easy to imagine yester-year’s SDS supporting some of these demands, particularly those related to faculty and student diversity — the most common demand — and in-creased affordability. Some, however, jump out as perhaps more objectionable to a group that, while indubitably leftist, remained committed in prin-ciple to the foundational ide-als of the American liberal (by

which I mean “concerned with liberty”) tradition. They saw themselves not as the destroy-ers of an oppressive American value system, but as defenders of American aspirations from which the powerful of the day had strayed.

SDS’s manifesto, the Port Huron Statement, affirmed that “The goal of man and society should be human independence … a quality of mind not com-

pulsively driven by a sense of powerlessness, nor one which unthinkingly adopts status val-ues, nor one which represses all threats to its habits …”

Reading this, I can’t help but be skeptical that the stu-dent activism of today lives up

to its lofty standards. Does the student who calls for expanded racial speech codes not display a “quality of mind which … re-presses all threats to its habits?” Do insistences that building names, mascots, administrative titles and offhand remarks rep-resent insurmountable barriers to equality not speak to an ethic “driven by a sense of power-lessness?”

The demand for ideological-

ly-driven course requirements also seems to clash with the ethos of the Port Huron State-ment, which blasted academia for indoctrinating students. “The actual intellectual effect of the college experience is hardly distinguishable from that

of any other communications channel,” it charged, “passing on the stock truths of the day.”

Of course, the “stock truths” of 1962 were those of postwar cultural conservatism. Today’s academic bias, however, is to-ward the same identitarian pro-gressivism many activists wish to see professed in mandatory classes. The demand for “diver-sity training” is one not to relin-quish orthodoxy, but to double down on it.

Additionally, I see the atti-tude of today’s campus activists toward administrative power as divergent from that of their ’60s predecessors. Today’s activists, despite their deposition of a few university presidents, seem to view deans and vice provosts as their saviors in potentia. The Port Huron Statement, con-versely, denounced “cumber-some academic bureaucracy” and its outsized ability to ma-nipulate a university’s values, a power which they believed rightly belonged to students and faculty.

I don’t mean to pretend that the SDS of yesteryear shared in full my own political values or vision of higher education. They were a creature of the

radical left; I am one, I like to think, of the principled center. I do believe, however, that those who gathered at Port Huron shared with me a sort of faith in the small-l liberal ideal, an essential dislike of dogma and coercion which seem to be uncomfortably wrapped up in 2016’s activist ethic. Perhaps this new group that claims their name seeks to recapture that ideal and bring it into today’s paradigm of campus activism. I hope so, but I fear not.

ALEC WARD is a College junior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard. “Fair Enough” usually appears every Wednesday.

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The times, they aren’t a-changin’FAIR ENOUGH | Today’s campus activism is no ’60s revival

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RONG XIANG is a College freshman from Cherry Hill, NJ. Her email is [email protected].

However, I find it disturbing for anyone to call the death of thousands of civilians just ‘noise.’”

Today’s activists, despite their deposition of a few university presidents, seem to view deans and vice provosts as their saviors in potentia.”

The real noise on campusGUEST COLUMN

MARISSA PRICEMAN is a junior in the college studying economics and sociology. She is a founder and organizer for the Progressive Jewish Alliance.

This ban is considered “sym-bolic” by some universities, since students can still access the app through their phones when they are not connected to the Wi-Fi. Administrators nevertheless have gone ahead with the ban because they want to assure students that they are aware of the harm the app can cause.

But when asked whether Penn would consider banning the app,

College sophomore and Commit-tee on Open Expression member Josh Glahn replied, “Absolutely not.”

“In our last committee meeting we did discuss Yik Yak, and basi-cally it was a unanimous decision that even though it’s anonymous and that can lead to abuses, it also can lead to open expression for people who might not have that forum otherwise or might not feel the ability to say things with their name behind it,” Glahn said.

Penn Law professor Stephanos

Bibas agreed that Penn is unlikely to ban Yik Yak. Bibas argued that legally problematic posts rarely show up, and when they do they should be handled through a legal process, not through a ban on the school’s server.

Bibas and Glahn both also agree that banning the app is not an ef-fective way of dealing with the problem of hateful and threatening speech, as anyone who wishes to

post hateful things can always find a way.

“There’s a lot of it [offensive and racist speech] online. Students are going to have to live with it else-where, and they’re going to have to learn not to look at it or ignore it or fight back,” Bibas said.

Bibas worries that by banning Yik Yak on the school’s Wi-Fi, the University would be showing that it endorses all other apps and

websites that function on the server.“Penn should not be in the

business of saying we implicitly en-dorse the speech we allow on our email accounts or on websites we let students access,” Bibas said. “I think it’s technologically infeasi-ble, practically infeasible, unlawful given that Penn has committed to follow the First Amendment, and a dangerous precedent.”

Last year the committee worked

on broadening its Guidelines on Open Expression to include online speech so that controversial issues such as this one would be covered.

“Basically the University ex-pects its students and people using its Wi-Fi networks to be mature in using these applications, " Glahn said. “And they feel that it’s im-portant to have a forum for open expression and not to close it on the possibility of someone abusing it.”

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Vice President Joe Biden’s recent efforts to promote cancer research have placed a spotlight on bigger changes in the way cancer is treated — even at Penn.

More attention has been placed on ways to combat cancer in the wake of Biden’s visit to Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center on Jan. 15 to launch a White House cancer research initiative. University

researchers hope that a new na-tional focus on collaboration in cancer research — a change high-lighted by Biden’s visit — will see a greater focus as well.

Biden is leading a “moon shot” effort to create tangible milestones in cancer treatment, which is espe-cially meaningful after the loss of his son, former Delaware Attor-ney General Beau Biden , to brain cancer only last year. The $215 million Precision Medicine Ini-tiative uses therapy that attacks a tumor’s specific set of mutations.

“The Vice President’s visit to the Abramson Cancer Center to

launch the Cancer Moonshot was exhilarating,” said Dr. Robert Vonderheide , the associate di-rector for translational research at the Center. “We were proud to show him the work we are doing and share our insights regarding cancer care and research. Even since the visit, the initiative is rapidly gaining momentum with unprecedented national resources being prepared to find cutting edge new therapies and novel prevention of cancer.”

Less than a week after the Vice President’s visit, six direc-tors of leading Pennsylvania

cancer centers participated in a panel that was featured in a con-ference called, “Cancer Precision Medicine, Big Ideas in Research, Treatment and Prevention.”

The conference, hosted at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, provided a unique opportunity for the clinical and re-search leadership of Philadelphia to meet to discuss developments and goals for the future in keeping with Obama’s initiative.

Dr. Dario C. Altieri, president and CEO of the Wistar Institute, was one of the six panelists to speak at the conference.

“We all work in different in-stitutions, we have different organizational priorities and objec-tives, but in the end, we really need to work together,” Altieri said. “That was really the spirit of the summit and the message that the audience took home with them.”

Altieri added that collaboration across organizations should be a lesson for Penn students involved in research. He explained that un-dergraduate and graduate students are trained to use personal, indi-vidual achievements as a measure of their scholarly success, but this mode of thinking stands in the way

of collaboration that is essential for scientific progress. The kind of professional collaboration dem-onstrated by the Big Ideas summit is a practice undergraduates might also keep in mind as they continue on in their careers.

“What counts more: a first authorship paper published in a very selective journal that maybe three labs in whole world will ever read?” said Dr. Altieri. “Or does it count more to be a co-author with twenty others on a paper published in the New England Journal that changes the standard of care of a disease?”

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DO YOU PAY PER VIEW?Film polled you to fi nd out how you are getting your Sunday afternoon movie fi xes. Here’s what we learned. BY ANTHONY KHAYKIN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*A simple random sample of 100 Penn undergrads were surveyed to collect data about their fi lm viewing habits.

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$153,701>> Total amount of money spent in movie theaters* by Penn students each semester

$196,136>> Total amount of money spent watching online, if all people who paid for online services used iTunes*

$295,344>> Total amount of money spent watching online, if all people who paid for online services used Netflix*

*$12.50/ticket at the Rave*$3.99 to rent a movie on iTunes*$7.99/month on Netflix

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more ethnically diverse popula-tions. That reputation hasn’t been entirely earned, given the results.

In previous elections, New Hampshire voters have still ended up picking relatively moderate candidates. Mitt Romney, George W. Bush and John McCain have all won the New Hampshire primary, as have Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Al Gore.

This year, Granite State voters opted for something else entirely.

At a Tuesday night rally for New Hampshire primary winner Donald Trump, DP reporters heard Mexican people called “flies and trash” by supporters they interviewed. Before Trump came on stage, a group of attend-ees discussed the shootings in San Bernardino by Muslim terrorists, spurring another attendee to say, “Kill them all!”

On Tuesday night at Trump’s victory party in Manchester, DP reporters could only find two non-white people in the entire venue,

one of whom was a journalist, the other a vendor.

These views are hardly anec-dotal. ABC News conducted an exit poll of New Hampshire voters on Tuesday, which found that two-thirds of Republicans in the Granite State supported Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Mus-lims from the U.S.

And the results, easily pinned on Republican voters, hardly affect them exclusively. A New York Times analysis of 11,000 Re-publican-leaning voters identified Trump’s strongest supporters as “registered Democrats who iden-tify as Republican leaners.” He had 43 percent of their support, most of which came from older and whiter voters, the study said.

“It can be problematic that two tiny states with predominantly white electorates can be so impact-ful on [the race],” Penn Democrats President and College junior Max Levy said.

This cross-party support played a key role because in New Hampshire, voters can register on

the same day of the primary and change their party affiliation at the polling station.

The favorable demographics likely benefited Trump the most

though. New Hampshire has one of the oldest populations in the country, according to an NPR study from last week.

Sanders, the other victor in

New Hampshire, also played host to largely older, white rallies — surprising given his traditional college-aged voter base.

At his victory rally on Tuesday

night, the one black supporter I could find, Will James, wasn’t even from New Hampshire. That didn’t stop James from being slightly optimistic about Sanders’ chances with black voters in south-ern states.

“I think when his message is a little bit clearer, he’s going to prob-ably draw a reasonable number of African-Americans because they all see and understand his ap-proach to issues is substantive,” he said.

Another supporter, Chris Demers, was more pessimistic about Sanders’ chances.

“I think it’s going to be harder for him, certainly,” Demers said, given the mindset of voters from southern states.

This time in New Hampshire, voters made it certainly easy for Sanders. The looming question for him and Trump is whether the rest of the country will be so kind.

Design Editor Ilana Wurman, Staff Reporter Nicole Rubin, Staff Reporter Luis Ferre Sadurni and Digital Director Carter Coudriet contributed reporting.

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The early primary states are disproportionately white compared to the rest of the country. In New Hampshire, 94 percent of the population is white, and in Iowa, 92 percent, according to U.S. Census Data

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goes along with Penn Compact 2020, aims specifically to raise $1 billion from 2005 to 2020 for undergraduate, graduate and professional student aid.

Critics have pointed out that

donors should not be giving millions of dollars to emblazon their names on buildings at elite colleges when the money could be spent towards other areas of need in society. Zeller objected to this statement.

“[Just] because someone is generous to their alma mater doesn’t mean they’re not gen-erous in their own community

or to other charities,” he said. “These are people who make gifts based on impact. I think donors are very much attracted to [giving to Penn], but that also doesn’t mean they’re not gener-ous to other causes as well.”

Zeller said that donors typi-cally made contributions less for recognition and more for a specific goal they want to see

carried out at the university. Donors who give to Penn are investing in research, arts and a chance to make an impact.

“It’s very seldom about, ‘Oh, I’m going to put my name on a building,’” Zeller said. “What attracts a donor is what the building enables the institution to do. It’s what goes on inside the building.”

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not to “scare” students, but rather it’s the outcome of Penn’s strict ad-herence to “safety measures.”

“We keep a very strict inven-tory of keys. The last thing we want is for a key to end up in the wrong hands,” Hunsberger said . “Once a key isn’t accounted for, a locksmith is dispatched and com-pletely changes the room’s locks. If we left a key in circulation that wasn’t accounted for, someone could say they lost their key and then find it. They could give it to a friend or keep it for the next year. We don’t want to risk it.”

Many students question the se-curity of physical keys, arguing that they could make a $10 copy at The Home Depot . However, Penn has a stock of patented key blanks

that is unique to the University and its locksmith. This means that making a copy of your room key is extremely difficult, though Huns-berger acknowledged it is possible for copies to be made illegally.

While some students are satis-fied with the large fee in exchange for increased security, others argue that the fee makes students less likely to report a missing key.

“When I first lost my key, I waited for weeks before I finally reported it. I debated going the whole year and hoping that it would turn up so I wouldn’t have to pay the $225 ,” Fulghieri said. “Making it so expensive just makes it more difficult for stu-dents to admit when they lost their keys.”

Luckily for both students and administrators, the school is hoping to slowly phase out keys

in favor of electronic locks, which can be opened using PennCards .

Until this happens, hang on to your keys.

Losing a campus residential key can incur exorbitant prices for students at over $200 per lost key.

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the ball longer, there’s not really a shot clock,” Myers commented. “Because the game isn’t as fast, you have to be ready for more of a six-on-six game, which is a definite change from the college game.”

Despite the difficulties ahead, the players themselves are ec-static and honored at the prospect of representing their country.

“It’s pretty crazy,” Roesner said of his selection. “You don’t even know what to think. In the tryout process, I was trying to make it to the final 50 and I would’ve been happy with that.

“To be able to represent the United States of America is a

dream for any lacrosse player. I’m excited to get on the field with guys I’ve been playing against my whole life. But this

time, we’re on the same team.”Dunn, who is projected to play

midfield for the Quakers, re-flected on the motivation behind

his auditioning for the national squad.

“I think the first thing that came to mind was that I wanted to become part of the U.S. la-crosse family,” Dunn said. “I wanted to represent my com-munity, Penn and my family. Everyone who’s supported me to this point, I wanted to do it for them.”

Penn’s national status will cer-tainly be on full display over the summer, as it is one of only four programs — along with North Carolina, Penn State and Ohio State — to send three players to Canada.

Head coach Mike Murphy views this distinction as a ring-ing endorsement of the future of his program and as emblematic

of Penn’s allure among elite la-crosse prospects.

“We knew it was a good class a year and a half ago when it was first [put] in place. A couple of publications ranked it in the top five and the U.S. selections vali-dated that. We hope that it’s a permanent change in the way we do things on that front,” Murphy said. “This tournament will be extremely impactful for these players. They’re going to get a lot more competitive lacrosse and will almost be playing a whole

other season.”While the selections have

certainly provided a lift to the Quakers’ morale, there is no doubt that their priorities lie firmly in the present. With prac-tices in full swing and the season opener approaching, athletes and coaches alike do not have much time to dwell on anything else.

But as they walk onto the field, draped in the colors of both school and country, they are jus-tified in envisioning a brighter future.

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Which team has the most important weekend?

As the winter sports start to head down the final stretch, we discussed which Penn Athletics team has the most critical games in the upcoming weekend.

Associate Sports Editor Matt Fine: Men’s basketball has the most important weekend of all Penn sports.

Following a disappointing start to their Ivy League season — including a blowout loss to conference-leading Yale — the Quakers had two fantastic perfor-mances in wins against Harvard and Dartmouth at the Palestra this past weekend. While this may be foreshadowing good things to come for the Red and Blue, we shouldn’t

get ahead of ourselves...yet.Dartmouth and Harvard make up

the bottom two teams in the Ancient Eight standings, each with only one conference win in six outings. For Penn, which currently sits in fourth in the standings, this weekend will showcase its true place in the con-ference.

The matchup against second-place Columbia (16-7, 5-1 Ivy) will test whether the Quakers can hang with the teams most expected to compete for an Ivy title and NCAA tournament berth. They will also take on fifth-place Cornell (9-11, 2-4) in a game that will either see Penn separating itself from the bottom half of the Ancient Eight or settling into the middle of the pact as a team unlikely to compete for a championship this season.

Despite the good wins last week-end, we still don’t know just how

good the Quakers are. This week-end, we will find out.

Sports Editor Tommy Roth-man: The women’s basketball team has the most at stake this weekend. Why? They’re in the hunt for an Ivy title. In fact, they’re in the driver’s seat at 5-0.

But a loss in Saturday’s game against second-place Cornell (13-7, 5-1) would bring Penn’s title chances into question. Last season, a loss at home against the Big Red crippled Penn’s already slim chances of de-fending its Ivy title. This year, the Quakers have a much better shot, but that also means they have more to lose in any given game — so even if they top Cornell, the other contest this weekend (against a struggling Columbia team) is a must-win, too.

And don’t forget, even if the Red and Blue win the Ivy League by a wide margin, they’ll face a lot of

scrutiny from the NCAA selec-tion committee when it comes to seeding in the Big Dance. Losses to Cornell, Columbia or any other Ivy team won’t look good on their resume.

Associate Sports Editor Thomas Munson: When Cornell walks into the Palestra on Saturday, it will present Penn wrestling with arguably its toughest matchup of the season.

While the Big Red are clearly the kings of the Ivy League, having won 13 straight titles, the Quakers have finished second in each of those seasons and the winner of the Penn-Cornell matchup has produced the Ivy League champion for the last 29 seasons. If the Red and Blue want to keep their second-place streak alive they will likely have to upset the Big Red this weekend because of their loss to Princeton earlier in

the season.For Penn to have any shot at

mounting an upset they will need all of their ranked grapplers to pro-duce victories. Most notably, senior 184-pounder Lorenzo Thomas will have to overcome the brick wall that has been Gabe Dean.

If there’s a time to overcome that wall, however, it’s now. Dean saw his 52 match win streak snapped last weekend, making him appear vulnerable. If Thomas can finally take down his old foe, the Quakers stand a puncher’s chance at dethron-ing the Big Red.

If Penn wrestling is going to take down Cornell this weekend, the team will need a strong performance from 184-pounder Lorenzo Thomas.

GUYRANDY JEAN-GILLES | ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR

M. LAX>> PAGE 12

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he said. “She far exceeded my ex-pectations. She went on and had a great freshman year and really stepped up for the team.”

These notable numbers weren’t the only thing Ray contributed to the team her freshman year. Ray’s mentoring presence and contribu-tions off the court were evident even though she was one of the youngest members of the team.

“Even for me, when I was a soph-omore and she was a freshman, I felt like she was a mentor for me,” Roche said. “She was always think-ing about finding a way to win, and she was a good friend — always there for me. If I was shooting badly, she would come up and say ‘keep shooting, keep shooting.’”

‘I knew that there was something not right...’

But soon the fairy tale began to fade. Ray — who had dealt with injuries in the past — was forced to face to her fear that something was not right with her knees.

Despite her successful rookie season, Ray had a sense that there could be deep-rooted issues with her

knee, a feeling she recognized from tearing her ACL in high school and her meniscus before her freshman season.

“I knew that there was something not right about it,” she said. “My knees would give out on me, and it got to the point where I would go for layup and have to fall because I didn’t want to land on my knees be-cause it hurt so bad.”

After the season ended, she went to see a doctor. The exact date of her surgery is still etched distinctly in her memory. It was May 18, 2013. When doctors went to repair what they thought was just another torn meniscus, the surgeon discovered that her ACL was not functioning either.

She went on to have a double knee surgery, a grueling procedure that takes part of the patellar tendon from one knee to repair the muscles in the other.

“I was in two braces for about two weeks, so I couldn’t really do much,” she said. “That point was really

difficult for me. I stayed in my room for 12 straight days. I had to have people help me do everything.”

Despite the daunting road to re-covery, Ray’s competitive spirit never wilted, and she never ques-tioned her desire to return to the court.

“I actually never thought about my knees not being able to take it [at that time],” she said. “I got so caught up in thinking that [the doctors] would just go in, sew some stuff up, [do] whatever they need to do, and then I would come back within the designated time frame and be back on the court.”

Eventually, Ray recovered from the procedure and was able to see limited action late in her sopho-more season. As junior year rolled around, Ray readied for a full season back. Despite showing flashes of her freshman-self, scoring 22 points in the November matchup against Navy, knee injuries soon sidelined her again for the remainder of her year.

“I just had problems every day,” she emotionally recalled. “It got to the point where it hurt to walk, let alone run. Just walking, I was mis-erable.”

It was at this moment — at the

urging of doctors, physical thera-pists and friends — that Ray began to wonder if her body could hold up to the stress of Division I basketball any longer, but she wasn’t ready to accept this fate just yet. Even today, she still hesitates to use the word “quit.”

“I had never actually thought about quitting basketball...not nec-essarily quitting but just having to stop because I felt like all the other times [surgery] worked, and when the last time it didn’t work, it was like, ‘Okay. Wow.’”

While Ray internally struggled with the decision that no athlete ever wants to face, her teammates and coaches supported her uncondition-ally.

“It was challenging to watch her go through it,” McLaughlin remem-bered. “We went through two years of hypotheticals and roles and ‘if I can play, it might be only play a little bit.’”

Before making any final deci-sions, Ray spoke to four doctors both

at home and in Philadelphia. And each time she heard the dreaded words: “You need to stop.”

Still, she says she was in denial. Her competitive nature was telling her that she could overcome any-thing even if the doctors said she couldn’t.

But soon, the reality of the poten-tial long-term damage began to set in.

“Finally, my physical therapist at home said, ‘If you don’t stop now, you’re not going to be able to run around with your kids when you’re older.’

“He just started breaking things down for me, and I was like alright. I guess it’s that time to stop. And then on the other side, I wanted to be here to help my teammates, and I didn’t think I could help them on the court at that point to be honest. It got worse than where I was before.”

A new chapterDespite deciding to hang up her

basketball shoes, Ray had a strong desire to stay on as a captain and mentor for the team — a role that she has fulfilled exceedingly well.

“She and I sat down and talked about ways that you can be satisfied with the end of your career without

putting a jersey on,” McLaughlin said. “She said she would love this role, to be a mentor and off she went.

“I think ultimately, the decision [to retire] was made for her,” he said. “We talked about embracing it, and now establishing a new set of rules and expectations in this different role and how you can make the pro-gram better, and she has embraced it all. She hasn’t missed a practice, a workout [or] a film session. She is all in, and she has done some fantastic things for us so far this year.”

This intense commitment to the team is not a new phenomenon and doesn’t surprise her teammates at all.

“When she was playing she gave it her all and even now that’s she’s not playing, she still puts 100 per-cent energy into every day,” junior captain Sydney Stipanovich said. “I think not many people would do what she has done in staying with the team. It just shows her leadership — coming to lifts at 6 a.m., coming to every single practice.”

Roche isn’t surprised either about Ray’s dedication to the program de-spite her inability to contribute on the court.

“She would always come to ev-erything in addition to going to all of her physical therapy,” Roche said. “She was always there for us in the locker room — always there as a presence.

“Just because she’s not playing anymore doesn’t mean she isn’t any more part of the team. I feel like she has found a way to become a very very important part of the team without being on the court which is hard to do.”

Fellow senior captain Brooklyn Juday echoes these sentiments and praises Ray for her unwavering commitment to Penn basketball.

“Her biggest trait — and this just speaks to the fact that she is still with the team after her injuries and she still plays such a big role — is that Keiera’s a very very loyal person,” she said. “She is loyal to her team-mates, loyal to her friends, loyal 100 percent. She knew that even if she wasn’t going to be able to be on the court she was going to do everything she could do to make us the best that we could be, and that’s the role she has taken.”

Although there are still difficult moments when Ray wishes she could drive to the basket or go up for a rebound, she re-

mains fully dedicated to her role as captain and is relishing her remain-ing time with Penn basketball.

“Some of [my teammates] con-stantly ask me, ‘Why are you still doing this?’ and my answer is be-cause of them and because of the coaches. It’s them. I came in and they have been my family.”

And her “family” has similarly loving things to say about her.

“Keiera is probably one of my best friends on the team and one of my best friends off the court too,” Stipanovich said. “I think that’s how she is with a lot of people. She is the definition of what you want in a friend. She would put anything on the line for you as a teammate and a friend. Her being a great teammate makes all of us want to be. She is such a great example for all of us.”

One of the biggest roles Keiera has stepped into as a captain is mentoring the freshmen girls.

Whether she is talking to a freshman during the game or helping line up a tutor for a team-mate, Ray, in her role, has been able to maintain connections with the team on and off the court.

“I try to be there to talk to them on the sidelines like, ‘Hey use your right leg more’ but I don’t strictly focus on the basketball aspect,” Ray said. “If you’re strug-gling with school work, I make sure to talk to you about different school possibilities like tutoring or any-thing like that.”

She even goes out of her way to remind younger players like Prin-cess Aghayere, or “Prin Prin” as

Ray calls her, to set their alarms in the morning and to call her when they wake up. Juday says that in this sense Ray has “become more moth-erly in her role.”

While Ray clarifies that she still views herself as a player first, her ability to step into the mentoring role so seamlessly has impressed McLaughlin too.

“She runs everything. She does a lot of off the court stuff — the team bonding. She gets the team together. She talks to them about [what] the expectations are for road trips and the professionalism we want to carry ourselves with. She has taken the lead for everything. Anything I asked her to do, above and beyond, she does.”

Not only has Keiera’s effort to stay involved and mentor younger players meant a lot to her teammates and coaches, but her story alone has inspired others to give 100 percent to the game while they can.

“She had so much — so much — more to give to the program [on the court],” Roche said. “And it just got cut short and that happens, but it just makes you cherish the games that you are able to play because you know that Keiera would kill to be able to keep playing.”

Despite facing adversity in the past, Ray views her new position on the team as an opportunity to grow and analyze the program from an outsider’s role with an insider’s per-

spective. Her teammates recognize this as well.

“Having her as an extra set of eyes when the coaches are focused on bigger, team-oriented things [and] having her there to help each person individually is really nice,” Juday said.

Through it all, Ray has main-tained a positive attitude and has

gradually reached the acceptance stage despite having to give up the game that she loves.

“I think I’ve matured so much to be honest just from this. My whole attitude has changed so much. I un-derstand people more. I’m calmer. Just not having to be so angry at the fact that I can’t play because my knees are hurting or waking up in the morning and knowing that I had to go to practice but my body is just aching so badly.”

Beyond the PalestraWhile she is cherishing her role

as mentor this season, Ray has de-cided not to pursue coaching after graduation — at least for now. Next year, she will be attending Penn’s Graduate School of Education in hopes of becoming a teacher and implementing her mentoring gifts in a different arena.

In her mind, the time has come to say goodbye to the game, a bitter-sweet goodbye but one that can still have a happy ending nonetheless.

And that is what her teammates and coaches want for her: to go out on her own terms.

“She was determined to finish on her terms and I think this is it,” McLaughlin said. “I think she’s going to have a Penn uniform on her senior day, and she’s going to be able to walk out at the Palestra for her last day with her family by her side.

“I want her to be completely sat-isfied that she gave everything of herself to the university and to her teammates. I want to see a smile on her face and her to feel satis-fied. It’s a little different from satisfying it on the court because she’s not able to play, but she can still impact us and she does impact us everyday.”

Keiera Ray may be sitting on the bench at the start of each game, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have goals for the team this year. She wants an Ivy League title for

the squad, but that’s not all.“I really want to win some games

in the [post-season] tournament as well. I don’t know if its been done yet, but I’m all about making his-tory here, so I think that’s one of the things we can do.”

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the line for you as a teammate and a friend.”

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hasn’t seen much of an effect from the transition on his squad.

“I think we kind of fell right into it,” he said. “I don’t really see it changing who we are. I think that we were pre-pared for it. And I don’t think it’s changed the game a great deal.”

As the women are get-ting used to the new rules, a lot of attention is being paid to the effects. For his part, McLaughlin views this as a change that won’t just be lim-ited to the women’s side of things, and that the men will adopt quarters as well before too long.

“From talking to other coaches, I think people like it, ” he said. “And I wouldn’t be surprised to see the men start talking about the idea of 10-minute quarters.

“I think that’s what ev-eryone plays growing up, I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t find its way into the men’s game in the future here.”

At the end of the day, how-ever, senior guard Kasey Chambers pointed out that, regardless of rule changes, the game itself is still the same.

“I definitely think [quarters make the game flow]. I liked the halves. I love the game of basketball, no matter what format it is in. But I think it was a good change.”

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COMING UP NEXTThe editors discuss which Penn Athletics squad has the most important weekend on tap.

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If it seems like Penn women’s basketball is playing a slightly different game this year, that’s because they are.

At the start of the 2015-16 season, the NCAA transitioned from 20-minute halves in wom-en’s basketball to 10-minute quarters. And since the start of Ivy play in early January, Penn coach Mike McLaughlin has focused on making play even shorter: relying on five-minute segments for his team’s strategic purposes.

“Quarters just become another stoppage for us,” he explained. “But we talk about it. We get to the first media timeout, and we just say, ‘We got outplayed that five minutes, let’s finish the last five minutes of the quarter. It’s a way to really keep on task a shorter amount of time. Keep

them focused.”McLaughlin’s strategy seems

to be working. Since the Princ-eton game on Jan. 9, the Quakers have gone 7-1 and have outscored their opponents by an average of almost 15 points a game.

Still, although the transition to quarters may have seemed rela-tively seamless — the Quakers are 16-3 on the season, after all — there were bumps along the way.

“It took a little bit of getting used to,” senior guard Kasey Chamber said. “Anything does when it’s that drastic of a change. But I think we found a way to make it work for us in a very posi-tive way and positive direction.”

Despite the early adjustments needed — especially for players like sophomore forward Michelle Nwokedi who went from quarters in high school to halves in college to quarters again in a three-year span — the Quakers were quick to notice some of the benefits to how they now have to approach gameplay.

“OK, so at first I was so against it — we were all really against the

quarters — because we were just so used to playing the halves,” Nwokedi said. “But now that the quarters are here, the 10-minute quarters we divide up into five-minute segments. Coach always says, ‘If we’re playing one game, it’s eight, five-minute segments.’

“So it’s like, ‘Five minutes. OK. What can we do? What things can we do in five minutes?’ Then it’s the media timeout. Then it’s the next five minutes. Just keep focusing on those little, five-minute segments. So I actually like it better.”

When the NCAA announced the change in June 2015, McLaughlin brought his staff together to determine how they would approach the change.

There were a number of fac-tors he felt that the staff needed to look at — particularly the effects on conditioning and of getting rid of the one-and-one after the seventh foul in favor a straight double-bonus after the fifth foul in a quarter. Nonetheless, he

Donning the Red and Blue is a point of per-sonal pride for many of Penn’s athletes. The colors represent the essence of the University, a reminder of its long and storied athletic tradi-tion.

This summer, however, three members of the men’s lacrosse team will add white to their color scheme and play for a different and per-haps more meaningful purpose.

In July, the Canadian city of Coquitlam will host the Federation of International Lacrosse World Championship, where teams from around the world will compete in a nine-day tournament that stands as the pinnacle of the sport. Along with the main draw, youth squads will take the field, and Penn freshmen Alex Roesner, Tyler Dunn and Noah Lejman will join 22 of their countrymen as members of the U-19 U.S. Men’s National Team.

After a rigorous selection process, which saw a pool of 105 athletes narrowed down to 25, Roesner, Dunn and Lejman will begin train-ing in June as part of the national squad. The Quakers will also be well-represented on the sideline, as Penn associate head coach and re-cruiting coordinator Patrick Myers will join his three players as an assistant coach for the U-19 squad.

Myers had high praise for the effort exhib-ited by the three freshmen, who have yet to play a game for the Quakers, in making the team.

“For Alex, Tyler and Noah, it’s been years and years of hard work,” Myers said. “It was a very competitive talent pool, and the guys who ended up making the team have put in a lot of hours over the years to make themselves into elite lacrosse players. It’s a real credit to them over the course of their high school careers.”

Myers views the tournament as beneficial in several ways, ranging from personal to athletic.

“I think, along with developing into better players, playing for the national team is about developing them as men. The people that they’re meeting, everything from life skill de-velopment to the speakers that they’re listening to and the fellowship with the other athletes and coaches will make them better people,” he added.

“And then, of course, iron sharpens iron so I think being around the best players in the world is always going to make you better.”

Myers also stressed that the three young players will be confronted with even greater challenges in the summer. International lacrosse differs from the high school and col-legiate game, forcing players to adjust to new rules and to employ different offensive and de-fensive strategies.

“The pace of play is different. You can hold

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Quakers keep the change despite move to quarter playW. HOOPS | Penn adjusts to new time regulationsNICK BUCHTASenior Sports Editor

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Red, (White) and Blue

The change from 20-minute halves to 10-minute quarters hasn’t had a huge impact on Mike McLaughlin’s women’s basketball squad, which has gone 16-3 in the first year under the new rules.

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M. LAX | Three freshmen selected for U-19 U.S. Men’s National TeamSANJAY DURESETISports Reporter

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It’s a Tuesday night game at Villanova for Penn women’s basketball. At tipoff, in the first chair on the bench, senior captain Keiera Ray intently watches a contest that she won’t be able to enter.

Donning her Penn sweats, she is still one of the players. And with clipboard in hand, she is now one of the coaches as well.

Stepping back a few short years ago, it’s hard to imagine a time when Keiera Ray would not be on the court control-ling the game as the starting point guard for the Quakers.

As a freshman, the Chicago native played and scored in all 31 games for the Red and Blue, starting in 27 of them. Today, as a senior, she spends games on the bench, a mentor to her teammates

after a series of knee injuries cut short a promising career.

While the opportunity to start as a freshman came about unexpectedly when then-junior point guard Meghan McCullough tore her ACL three games into the 2012-13 season, Ray did not shy away from the challenge despite play-ing forward throughout her high school career.

“It was a big transition,” she said. “It was really nerve-racking... not going to lie, but Coach McLaughlin said, ‘We really need you’ and I was like ‘OK.’ I knew I had to put more work in the gym.”

And that is exactly what she did. Ray continued to hone her craft as the team’s primary ball-handler, improving each week for the Quakers.

Her breakout performance came on a tough Ivy League weekend in which the Red and Blue faced Harvard — the eventual Ancient Eight runner up — and Dartmouth.

At the Palestra, Ray had the hot hand from the beginning, dropping a

career-high 31 points, notching six steals and leading the Quakers to a 77-72 win over Harvard, the team’s first victory over the Crimson in nine years.

The next night against the Big Green, the freshman continued her impres-sive performance, netting 19 points and matching her 60 percent shooting from beyond the arc from the previous game.

A star was born. Some slated Ray as the face of the program for the next four years.

Unbounded potentialLooking back to games like these,

peers and coaches alike praise her play and intensity on the court.

“Keiera had a competitive drive,” McLaughlin said. “She was very team oriented but very competitive. She got to the basket as hard as any Penn player I’ve seen.”

Kathleen Roche, a Penn guard from 2012-15, also described this X-factor that Ray possessed on the court.

“She had a presence when the ball was

in her hands,” she said. “She really had a knack for scoring the ball. She was a very smart player who understood the game.”

And people weren’t only paying at-tention in the Palestra. Her performance in these games was recognized on a na-tional scale too. The following Tuesday, Ray was named U.S. Basketball Writers Association National Player of the Week, becoming the first man or woman in Ivy League history to claim this honor.

Maintaining steady numbers all season, Ray averaged 10.6 points per game and finished with the second-high-est assist total on the team with 65.

While McLaughlin expected Ray to be prepared for the collegiate level due to the high caliber of play at her high school, Bolingbrook, even he was impressed by the numbers she put up during her freshman season.

“I knew she would take the challenge because she is extremely competitive,”

SEE RAY PAGE 10

W. HOOPS | Ray thrives despite a career cut short

ANNA DYERAssociate Sports Editor

LIONS RISINGA look at the rise of Columbia

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