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A Penn administrator may have been misrepresenting his educa-tional background, according to an article retraction by an independent

student-run blog at Pennsylvania State University.

The retraction called into question Associate Director for Community Development Kenny Jones’ academic credentials. The original article pub-lished by the blog, Onward State, described a speech he gave at Penn State last week. The retraction speci-fied that he “misrepresented portions

of his background and story during his presentation.”

The Office of Fraternity and So-rority Life did not immediately answer a phone or email request for comment, but Jones’ credentials have been updated on the Penn website.

A previous version of Jones’ biog-raphy on OFSL’s website said that he received a doctorate from Morgan

State University in Higher Educa-tion Administration and that he was a member of the Phi Beta Sigma frater-nity for over 10 years. His biography has since been updated to remove his Ph.D. from Morgan State University. While it still says that he is a member of Phi Beta Sigma, it no longer states that he has been a member for 10 years.

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Firms’ fall recruiting eff orts prompt decline in spring OCR

For some, spring semester is a hurricane of nerve-wracking interviews and sweaty handshakes. For others, it is the calm waters of relaxation that follow the acceptance of an internship.

Official on-campus recruiting for summer 2016 begins this month. Usually, most students secure their summer internships in the spring, but this semester, relatively few students are on the search because they found their posi-tions in the fall.

Patricia Rose, director of Career Services , said that in recent years, the finance and tech-nology industries have been recruiting more in the fall.

“For the last year or two, investment banks have had an accelerated process. Many banks will be doing OCR as well this spring, but the fall process is growing,” Rose said.

However, because internship positions at some companies have already been filled by fall recruits, students looking to be recruited in the spring have more limited choices.

“The banks did a lot more accelerated re-cruiting this year than we’ve seen in previous years — it really ramped up,” Wharton senior and Career Services Associate Director Bar-bara Hewitt said. “People who are still looking

Growing up in Tarkwa Breman, a region in western Ghana, 2015 College graduate Shadrack Frimpong noticed that many of his female peers, seen as second-class citizens in the community, would stop going to class. Frimpong had also witnessed many of his friends and family suffer from diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B. To receive treatment, the closest comprehensive medical clinic was 150 miles away.

With the President’s Engagement Prize he won in spring 2015, Frimpong is now working to solve these problems of education and healthcare inequality

in his home village.The President’s Engagement Prize

was started by Amy Gutmann to give Penn seniors the ability to design and lead a local, national or international project after they graduate. The prize was awarded to Frimpong in 2015 in order to build the Tarkwa Breman Model School for Girls and Community Clinic.

“I have enjoyed seeing people’s ex-citement in the community,” Frimpong said. “I see hope in the girls’ eyes and their parents’ eyes because they can see a brighter future for their family and community.”

Frimpong and the Tarkwa Breman Community Alliance will create a school that will hopefully educate 200

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Last month, Penn Masala’s unique musical blend of Indian and American sounds became a worldwide hit — its ninth album, “Resonance,” reached No.1 on

iTunes World charts on Dec. 11.This is not the first time that

the 15-member, all-male a cap-pella group has produced a successful album. Their eighth studio album, “Kaavish,” which was released in 2013, also hit No. 1 on iTunes World charts . However, Wharton junior and Penn Masala Business Manager Pranay Sharma said that “Res-onance” stands out among the

rest.“I think [“Resonance”] is the

reflection of how the group has matured as a whole,” he said.

Engineering senior Prashant Ramesh, a singer in Penn Masala, said “Resonance” is the fruit of his entire college career.

“In this album, we turned to our roots a little more,” he noted.

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girls between the ages of five and 17, as well as a community clinic with consultations rooms, a pharmacy, a dressing/injection room, a labo-ratory, a delivery room, an on-call hospital room and a farm that stu-dents’ families will be responsible for cultivating once a week as a pay-ment for their daughters’ education.

Professor Richard Wesley and lecturer Scott Aker from the School of Design’s Department of Architec-ture, along with their students in the undergraduate program, proposed

design drawings for the school and clinic. They plan to visit the village to join Frimpong, a local architect and the community in building the structures.

“In the United States, a project is sustainable if it is LEED-certified . However, we are trying to take sus-tainability to the next level,” Aker said. “We are looking at this com-munity as an agrarian society. The farm will provide an income by sell-ing cash crops and will also provide healthy food for the students. It’s a more holistic form of sustainability.”

Frimpong and his team have worked with local leaders in the

village to obtain knowledge of the area, develop trust with members of the community and make the project sustainable. The village’s chief has already donated 50 acres of land to Frimpong’s project leaders so con-struction on the school can begin.

Along the way, however, there have been challenges.

When surveying the land they secured, Frimpong’s team came to the realization that a river running through the village, the Ankobra , had been severely polluted due to illegal gold mining. However, the Community Alliance partnered with the nonprofit Clean Water for

Everyone to build two boreholes to provide clean drinking water. Through the many obstacles, the team remains motivated.

“There can be many obstacles but what keeps us motivated is re-membering why. Why are we doing this?” Frimpong said . “Because we

want to transform the rural com-munity to be self-sustainable. We believe that basic healthcare is a basic human right. We want to send a message to the world that girls have so much potential when they are able to get an education. Because human lives are on the line. ”

The goal is to open the facilities by September 2016.

“Everyone believes in this project and Shadrack; from the University, to the Penn senior architect students working on the project, to the local villagers,” Aker said . “This a recipe for a successful project.”

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In June of 2010, President Barack Obama introduced his Opening Doors program, a plan meant to prevent and eventually end homelessness in the United States. Since the program’s introduction, Penn professor Dennis Culhane has tracked its progress, finding a significant decline in home-lessness that is still continuing steadily.

The results of Dr. Culhane’s research are encouraging, especially those figures re-garding veteran homelessness. Since 2010, he found that un-sheltered homelessness has dropped 26 percent, chronic homelessness has dropped 22 percent and veteran homeless-ness has dropped 36 percent nationally. This data was gath-ered using a point-in-time count, which determines the number of people that are homeless on a given day in the last week of January each year.

A computer system that reg-isters entries and exits from the shelter system also aided in the data collection. A huge amount of resources — in the ballpark of $6 billion — has been allocated to fighting homelessness since 2010, which encouraged improve-ment.

“That’s a lot of money,” Cul-hane said. “So we expected to see progress.”

On top of the incred-ible amount of resources, the actual methods used to combat homelessness were expected to contribute to a decline in the overall rate.

“We’re using the inter-ventions … that have been demonstrated in research to be effective. So we knew that they would work,” Culhane said .

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homelessness nationally is also reflected in Philadelphia. Culhane said the city has expe-rienced an extreme decline in veteran homelessness in par-ticular, nearly to the point of eradication.

“They’re down to fewer than 200 homeless veterans in the city,” he said. “There’s been a lot of work and attention focused on that effort in Phila-delphia.”

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“My work focuses on work-ing with folks that are living on the streets,” Sparks said. “And I have to say the number of those experiencing home-lessness and living outside in the city of Philadelphia has stayed pretty constant.”

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housing units,” Culhane said.Sparks has noticed a decline

in veteran homelessness com-parable to Culhane’s results.

“Many veterans who spent a lot of time on the streets are now not on the streets anymore, which I think is amazing,” she said.

However, she does not agree with any claims that veteran homelessness has ended in the city. She spoke of a recent press conference held by city officials stating that veteran homelessness had been eradi-cated.

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On a frigid Thurs-day in November, Penn students gath-

ered in a mass outside of President Amy Gutmann’s house. They were gathered in a showcase of solidarity for Yale and Missouri stu-dents who faced cases of racism. In a different, recent protest that united students from Penn and Drexel, pro-testers listed their demands for greater awareness of minority issues, promotion of diversity in faculty de-partments and much more. These were two in a series of protests that have been occurring across the coun-try in response to an amal-gam of racial incidents, snowballing into a collec-tive sentiment of frustration against the status quo.

I once took part in a march against rape cul-ture when I realized some of the problems with a slogan-backed argument. What was I fighting? And how was I helping? These thoughts constantly perme-ated through the chants that pulsed incessantly around me. It was hard to find that line between fighting

blindly and fighting with purpose.

Student demonstrations have been at the forefront of minority culture news in American universities. Whenever there is a tragic or painful incident, there is also a reaction from the community. This spans from the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ferguson and Baltimore protests to the Million Student March. It is a strategy of getting eyes and ears on topics that permeate extensively throughout all aspects of our lives. Although protest and demonstration culture exists as a way of conveying hurt, it can fail as a pointed analysis of specific prob-lems with specific solutions.

Perhaps when we make a statement about oppression, it is often more symbolic than it is practical. Meta-phorical rhetoric was the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches, and they are not without power. But this is an age where racial inequality is vastly more nuanced. An argument is made less effective when it is being produced in a

one-way speech, because it directs itself only at those who are willing to listen.

Protests are symbolic at their core. They signal a dissatisfaction with the

greater system — whether it be white supremacist, patri-archal, imperialist — mani-festing beneath the surface of an otherwise functional society. Nowadays, they sig-nal change, but they don’t necessarily create it.

Those who are unwill-ing to listen are capable of dismissing these speeches, walking away without hav-ing a chance to look deeper within themselves. Like-wise, lumping together vari-ous issues, each with their separate complications, into one general movement is less effective in communi-cating the roots and reasons

for individual problems. The majority “other” is pushed away out of fear, perhaps even misread antagonism; the individuals belonging to a majority group, being the

people who need to listen to the messages the most, are driven away from an honest, informative dialogue.

Demonstrations are a showcase of an emotional reaction to the corruption of a larger sociopolitical system. But they cannot be spaces for education in the same way that a sermon cannot teach the Bible to neophytes.

Open and ongoing dia-logue that encourages dis-cussion from multiple sides of an issue is a stronger so-lution to getting people to understand more abstract concepts. Moreover, direct

communication and inter-action with the local com-munity (which exists just a few blocks away from our campus) encourages a well-rounded and informed gen-eral public. An opportunity to have a diverse space that encourages participation from all affected groups can actually enhance the value of the speech. Instead of having large groups of people speaking into mega-phones, having a small group of people who listen to each other might work better.

Like most of us at some point, I’ve been exposed to different settings where social issues are verbally explored and expressed, from lectures by profes-sors, to student minority group meetings, to even a living room conversation that drifts toward sensitive issues. Discussion-based communication that pulls in a diverse group of perspec-tives from different minor-ity (and majority) cultures opens the door for dynamic communication. This sort of conversation not only takes in various opinions, but also

highlights the areas of con-fusion and contention.

But student protest still has its place. It may not solve any real problems, but it is symptomatic of a great-er change, a shift in ques-tioning the large, powerful institutions that are meant to defend the people. The potential to impart knowl-edge and fight for minority voices to be heard rests in the ability to actively vocal-ize our concerns with each other.

I have been deeply trou-bled by the extreme ac-tions of radical actors

in my cultural community. The fallout of the events surrounding Paris, San Bernardino and — even to this day — 9/11, have put me and many others like me in a very difficult situ-ation. The vast majority of us are not extremists, and we despise these radical viewpoints as much as any-one on the outside looking in. And yet, many have in-sisted that we — the mod-erates and rational among us — have not done enough to denounce extremists.

So let me say this on be-half of all of my people: We are sorry for Donald Trump.

Like Trump, I am a white, upper-class, Whar-ton-educated, balding, American male. The demo-

graphic variation between me and Trump is much smaller than the differenc-es you will find among the diverse groups we sweep-ingly refer to as “Mus-lims” or “Arabs.” Simply because Trump and I share several demographic char-acteristics does not mean we share anything else. His comments and rheto-ric regarding Muslims and recent terrorist attacks do not represent me or anyone else who happens to share our demographic profile. It would be ridiculous if someone assumed I support (or even have sympathy for) Trump’s fringe viewpoints, such as his suggestion to keep a “Muslim database” after the Paris attacks or his delusional insistence that Muslim Americans were partying in the streets on 9/11.

Of course, this all goes without saying. Nobody has ever assumed that I share any of Trump’s other

colorful characteristics or misguided political opin-ions. Nobody has ever held me responsible for the de-plorable actions of other white, WASP-y, Ameri-can males. In fact, nobody seems to have been held responsible at all in some cases (e.g. the 2007 global financial crisis).

And yet, after every ter-rorist attack, the animosity

and bigotry against Mus-lim Americans intensifies. Media pundits and online commentators alike ask,

“Where are the moderate Muslims? Why don’t they condemn these actions in their communities?” (No need to bother with the fact that they do.)

The idea that Donald Trump speaks for white American men or Whar-ton graduates or even all Republicans is absurd. Equally absurd is the idea that the beliefs and dispo-

sitions of all Muslims are represented by the images and videos of terrorists we are constantly exposed to in our media feeds. Neither Muslims nor I am obligated to apologize for the actions of extremists who happen to look like us.

Even though the rational and level-headed among us bear no responsibility for the actions of unrepre-sentative extremists, we do have the practical respon-sibility to ensure that our public discourse doesn’t get hijacked by polarizing rhetoric. It is our obliga-tion to make sure well-rea-soned, nuanced ideas from all over the political spec-trum get amplified in our public discourse.

It is true that the next major terrorist attack will likely be perpetrated by radical Muslims, but that

does not justify unilater-ally discriminating against millions of Americans based on their religion or ethnicity. Let’s not let lazy stereotypes and irrational cognitive biases determine our policies and behaviors. Rather, let those of us on all sides of this divide stand up for civil liberty and stop holding entire demographic populations responsible for the actions of unrepresen-tative extremists.

ALEX MILLER is a Ph.D. candidate in Information Systems and Technology at the Wharton School. His email is [email protected].

An apology on behalf of my peopleGUEST COLUMN | We will tolerate radicalism no longer

Protests versus discourseREID ABOUT IT! | Student protests and demonstrations on campus

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Rong Xiang is a College freshman from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Her email is [email protected].

The idea that Donald Trump speaks for white American men or Wharton graduates or even all Republicans is absurd.”

Perhaps when we make a statement about oppression, it is often more symbolic than it is practical.”

AMANDA REID is a College sophomore from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, studying Cinema Studies & English. Her email address is [email protected]. “reid About It!” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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Shark Tank fans at Penn can now watch the drama unfold on their own campus.

AppItUP , a competition run by the Penn Center for Innovation , challenges anyone with a Penn email and a big idea to build a busi-ness. After the first pitch session in November, the six finalists from a pool of over 300 applicants are readying prototypes and pitches for a Shark Tank-style pool of in-vestors.

The competition has a Septem-ber-to-April timeline. During the first four weeks, applicants can submit ideas online, which are then considered by a team of investors and developers. The review board

ranks the ideas and selects a group of 10 semi-finalists, who then pitch their ideas at a public forum in No-vember. At the forum, developers bid over the chance to develop a prototype of their favorite ideas. After the finalists are chosen and matched with developers at the forum, they start to form their company, product and business strategy to pitch in April in front of venture capitalists.

This year, investors have pledged to provide a total $100,000 to two different companies in April — an increase from $50,000 and just one company last year.

Assistant Director of PCI Ven-tures Karina Sotnik masterminded the contest. After coming to PCI, she wanted to find a way to tap into the pool of knowledge among the university body to create positive change.

“We started to think about how we can make a bigger impact on

the University and not just do it every time someone has an idea — but actually motivate the entire University to generate mobile app ideas,” Sotnik said.

This was how AppItUP was born.

However, she faced challenges. There weren’t any similar ventures at other universities so PCI had to work from scratch. Most ideas were heavily skewed to the life sci-ences in the beginning, and PCI wanted to encourage a wide vari-ety of pitches from more than one field .

This year, which is AppItUP’s third iteration , has seen more di-versity in ideas than ever. The projects of the six finalists range in topic from health sciences to

sociology.One finalist, Wharton MBA

student Alan Holden , said that the competition allowed him to use the theoretical knowledge from classes and apply it in a real world situation. Holden’s invention Be-yondBars gives former prisoners an organized way to keep track of their actions, encouraging pro-so-cial behavior. Holden said Karina and the PCI team were very sup-portive and provided useful insight in helping an idea become a busi-ness.

As part of the competition, con-testants can register as “upstart,” where they choose not to be CEOs of the company and would like as-sistance in finding a board team to help grow the company or “app

advisors” where they choose to lead on their own but still receive support from PCI.

Beth DeSouza is one of the CEOs recruited by PCI to take the helm of a company called Vifant , a startup from the second AppItUP challenge that helps detect vision problems in children under five years of age and will launch its app this year. Most children don’t receive vision screening until they start school, which can negatively affect development because of the

importance of vision in identifying the surrounding world.

DeSouza was recruited by PCI after a rigorous screening process and still maintains close contact with the creator of the idea, work-ing with him to maintain his vision for the company. Her experience is emblematic of PCI’s commitment to forming entire businesses from a single idea.

“We’re not interested in building apps,” Sotnik said. “We’re inter-ested in building companies.”

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Though students can get the process out of the way and enjoy the spring semester by recruit-ing in the fall, they also face a lot of stress and time pressure. Christine Yang, a College and Wharton junior who was re-cruited by Barclays this fall, said that though she, like many other students, had planned to recruit in the spring, many companies announced at their information sessions that recruiting was ac-celerated and “no one really saw it coming.”

Other industries still primar-ily recruit in the spring. Ira Ko, College and Wharton junior and Penn International Impact Consulting president, said that “networking events occur in the fall ... in the form of coffee chats and info sessions.”

Ko added that official recruit-ment starts around Jan. 20, when

many applications are due.In both the fall and the spring,

students can find recruitment op-portunities through a variety of portals. They can get involved in on-campus recruiting, browse listings on PennLink, find

opportunities through contacts, apply directly or attend career days.

Hewitt added that if students do not see the types of listings that they’re interested in on PennLink, they can schedule

an appointment with Career Services to discuss how to strategize and reach out to employers “because some types of employers ... don’t tend to do a lot of on-campus recruiting.”

Students searching for summer internships this spring may be faced with limited choices due to the recent shift to fall on-campus recruitment.

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Two Penn seniors and two alumni were named Schwar-zman Scholars on Jan. 11, receiving admission to an all-expense-paid master’s program in China.

Wharton seniors Angela Chen and Aaron Goldstein, 2013 College graduate Dan Goldstern, and 2014 Whar-ton and Engineering graduate Ryan Marschang will be able to choose between concentrating in public policy, economics and business, or international studies

during the one-year program.The scholarship covers tu-

ition, housing, books and travel. Schwarzman Scholars also re-ceive a laptop, a smartphone, health insurance and a stipend.

A $450 million privately- funded endowment supports the program for up to 200 students per year, primarily from the United States and China. About 35 percent come from other countries. Schwarzman Scholars study at Tsinghua University in Beijing on the Schwarzman Col-lege campus, where all classes are taught in English.

The Schwarzman Scholars web page says candidates are selected on the basis of their academic abilities as well as leadership potential.

Two students and two alumni chosen

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Students among first class of Schwarzman scholars named

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“At the same time, we tried new styles and new arrangements that makes it fresh and new.”

Ramesh went on to say that the group tried to produce an album that appeals to an audience rang-ing from children to adults.

“I am so happy all of our effort went into producing music that people will enjoy for [a] long time,” he explained. “That makes it all worth it.”

Penn Masala was formed in 1996 in a Penn dorm room by four Indian-American under-graduates who longed to make music that represented their cultural background. The group recruits newcomers each year — staying true to its founders’ musical roots while also embrac-ing the distinctive styles of their new singers.

“Each individual that we take has a different style, so every album and every song is con-stantly changing,” Penn Masala singer and College senior Anil

Chitrapu said.As a result of the group’s con-

tinuous changes, members have created a tight-knit brotherhood around their music that regularly improves their craft.

“There is very strong sense of mentorship,” Sharma said.

The artists sing in English, but they also promote Indian culture through their music by incorpo-rating Hindi, a widely spoken language in India, and other South-East Asian languages in their songs. The word Masala is a mixture of spices in Indian cui-sine that provides a certain kick.

“Masala is much more than just food. It represents the incor-poration of South-East Asia and the West,” Chitrapu said.

In some of their performances, they wear kurtas, Indian wed-ding garments.

“We try to take the things we love about Western music whether pop, R&B or hip-hop and put it together with current Bollywood music,” Chitrapu said. ”We have a very iconic sound.”

The group has performed in many cities around the world including London and Montreal and has also showcased its talent

before world leaders such Presi-dent Barack Obama and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Today, the majority of the group members are Indian-Americans raised in Indian households. However, Penn Masala is welcoming to mem-bers of different cultural backgrounds — like Brendan McManus, a white Wharton junior who doesn’t speak Hindi but liked the chemistry of the group and joined.

“It’s about having a genuine interest in South-East Asian music, have the drive and mo-tivation to want to learn that and sing it. Brendan exempli-fies that,” Chitrapu said. “The interest in Indian culture is actu-ally more important than being Indian.”

Because a cappella music relies on individuals’ voices to act as instruments, both Sharma and Chitrapu highlighed the value of every member of the group.

“New fans sometimes come up to us and say, ‘I didn’t even know that was a cappella,’” Chi-trapu noted. ”‘I didn’t know all the sounds I was hearing were

people’s voices.’ A cappella is supposed to emulate music in-struments — seems like we did.”

This semester the singers are scheduled to perform in about seven shows around the United States. Chitrapu and Sharma admit how difficult it is to bal-ance their studies at Penn with their busy schedules of studio times and performances.

“You learn to manage your time,” Sharma explained. “It takes some late nights, studying on the flights instead of sleeping and working in hotel rooms if that’s what you’ve got to do.”

Penn Masala performed in the 2015 International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, and their music was the soundtrack of the movie “Pitch Perfect 2,” where the group also had a cameo appearance. The movie grossed nearly 70 million dollars in its opening week last May.

“We thought … ‘Wow,’” Chi-trapu said. “We are making a splash not only in the industry of Bollywood, but in the industry of Hollywood.”

MASALA>> PAGE 1

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Bring out the brooms

Not a bad start.On Saturday, Penn men’s tennis

opened up its season with a strong 7-0 victory over Navy, logging wins all across the board.

“There’s no greater way to start off the season than with a 7-0 win, especially because this match was so close to winter break,” captain Vim De Alwis said.

The doubles teams of the No. 1 flight, featuring sophomore Nicholai Westergaard and senior Austin Kaplan, and No. 3 flight of freshman Kyle Mautner and sophomore Josh Pompan, played strongly, easily dispatching their opponents, 6-1 and 6-2 respec-tively.

In the second flight, however, the Quakers (1-0) found them-selves in a tighter situation. The doubles team of juniors Matt Nardella and Thomas Spratt faced off against Navy’s Krishna Jana and Tyler Tossavainen, eventu-ally going to a heated tiebreaker. The extended set concluded in a Quaker victory of 7-5.

Over in singles play, the Red and Blue fought through some close contests, as Mautner and Kaplan both saw their matches extended into third sets. Con-tinuing their resilient play, both defeated their opponents in the tiebreaker with matching scores of 10-4.

There is resolve among both players and coaches to repeat — if not improve upon — the successes of last year’s season leading up to conference play, when the team won 12 out of their first 15 matches. This year, the Quakers want to improve their performances in Ancient Eight matches.

“I think we’re like every other team at the beginning of the season — in that we want to try to win the whole thing,” coach David Gaetz said.

Despite a great start in their

first match of the season, the play-ers find that the competition in the conference itself is an entirely new ball game.

“Ivy League is incredibly tough,” Kaplan said, contrasting the conference’s competition to that of Navy (0-2).

Although the team shortened its winter break to return to Phila-delphia to practice and prepare for the season, the Red and Blue still have their work cut out for them.

“We’re all just dusting off cob-webs,” Kaplan said. “But we can and will be sharper.”

Gaetz, however, wants some players to do more than become sharper. He’s hoping for a speedy and successful recovery of the team’s injured players.

“I want to get two of our play-ers back on the lineup, our team captain, Vim (De Alwis) and Blaine Willenborg. For a good part of last year we were one of the best teams that Penn’s ever had but towards the end of the year we fell. We weren’t as com-petitive without our top guys.”

Despite the two injured veteran players, the team’s rookies bring very positive prospects to the

table, especially after Mautner’s performance this past weekend.

“He’s one of the top four play-ers in the Ivy League right now,” Gaetz said. “He has a lot of poten-tial to be the best player in the Ivy League.”

Gaetz also has high hopes for freshman and Moscow native Dmitry Shatalin, who has played competitive tennis on the interna-tional circuit.

“He has to sit out the first six matches of the year, so when he becomes eligible I know he’ll have a really big impact on our team. He may be our best doubles player, and that’ll help us a lot.”

Coming off the high of this Saturday’s victory, the team re-mains more determined than ever for the matches that come before declaring a successful season and potential comeback in the An-cient Eight. Taking the season one match at a time, they look towards next weekend’s competitions that will be taking place in Seattle.

“The competition in Seattle from Washington and Tennessee are really good so I think it’ll be a great game,” Gaetz said.

“We’re looking to win.”

M. TENNIS | Penn sweeps Navy in season openerCASSANDRA DINHSports Reporter

Freshman Kyle Mautner opened his season with Penn tennis in style, taking home wins in both singles and doubles against Navy.

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suit with 3-0 wins of their own.All attention then turned to

senior Haidi Lala who found herself in an extremely close 2-2 battle with her Cardinal op-ponent, an outlier in what was mostly an afternoon of utter domination for the Red and Blue.

The Cairo, Egypt, native eventually went on to take the deciding game with an 11-4 score, giving Penn an emphatic 9-0 sweep to close out the day.

The result brought the team’s shutout tally to six in seven matches. The Quakers’ only other result being a 6-3 loss to No. 1 Harvard over the break.

Disregarding the loss to the Crimson, things have never been better for the Red and Blue as it finds itself as one of the stron-gest teams in the nation, a claim this weekend’s result against Stanford reinforces.

“It’s an unusual year in that there is so much talent

concentrated in those [top] three or four teams that even when we go up against another top ten team, the result might seem lop-sided when it’s really not that far off,” Wyant said.

According to Wyant, the two other teams that have separated themselves from the rest of the pack alongside Penn and Har-vard are perennial powerhouses Trinity and Princeton.

“Winning the Ivy title is out of reach I think in this stage,” Wyant said. “It’s certainly not in our control, but we have short-term goals.”

One of those short-term goals was defending its home courts against Stanford, but with Trinity and Princeton on slate for the next two weeks, those benchmarks will only get more difficult to attain.

“I just asked the seniors, and I was like, ‘I think the last time we beat Trinity was your fresh-man year,’ and they said, ‘That’s right,’” Wyant said. “It’s been a long while since we’ve got the better of them, so that’s our next

goal.”Win or lose against Trinity

this coming weekend, the next goal will be getting a result against the Tigers the week after.

But Penn should know that the hegemony of New England and Mid-Atlantic squash will face serious challenges from its Stanford counterparts in the coming years.

The Cardinal recently added the top two ranked GU19 players in the nation to their most recent recruiting class, posing a threat to the eastern dominance.

Wyant and the Quakers, how-ever, remain calm.

“It’s going to get tougher be-cause they’ve got a lot of depth right now,” Wyant said. “But I am confident in who we have returning and who we have coming in, so I think we’ll be ok.”

For now, the team will continue to work on those short-term goals, confronting each challenge as it comes and relish-ing the satisfaction that comes with being on top.

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and sophomore Ally Podsednik, as they tied for 10th with scores of 9.675.

“Freshman Morgan Hunker stepped up on vault,” Ceralde said. “She scored 9.600 in her first col-legiate competition performing a Yurchenko layout.”

In addition, Levi and senior Elyse Shenberger also tied at ninth place on bars with scores of 9.725.

While the Quakers finished fourth, the home team took the crown scoring 195.425. Cor-nell and Temple, two foes well known to the Red and Blue, also beat Penn this weekend, scoring 194.025 and 191.375 each.

Rounding out the Invitational was North Carolina, unable to surpass the Quakers with their score of 188.925. Despite the placement of the Red and Blue, it was a strong start.

“The idea is to build upon what we established here,” Ceralde said.

“We just need to work on being consistent, that’s it.”

GYMNASTICS>> PAGE 12

Junior Grace van Arkel delivered the knockout blow for Penn women’s squash against Stanford, securing the Quakers‘ fifth win in the match.

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It’s Harvard’s world, and un-fortunately for Penn swimming, they are still living in it.

On Saturday in Cam-bridge, Mass., both Red and Blue squads easily dispatched Brown, the men by a score of 207.5 to 90.5, and the woman 176 to 124. However, Harvard’s depth proved too much for the Quakers to handle, and both the men (7-2, 5-2 Ivy) and women (6-3, 4-3) suffered identical 192-108 defeats at the hands of the Crimson in their final confer-ence meet before the Ivy League Championships.

The men’s team started off the meet strongly by taking third in the day’s first relay, and by capturing the top spot in the first two individual events. The 200-yard medley relay team of junior James Jameson, senior Kyle Yu, junior Mike Wen and senior Eric Schultz finished third with a time of 1:31.49, fall-ing just behind the Harvard A and B squads.

Junior Kevin Su won the 200 freestyle in a time of 1:38.98, and senior Chris Swanson

continued his dominant per-formance in the 1000 free, touching in a time of 9:10.11. Swanson also captured the top finishing time of 4:30.65 in the 500 free for his second win of the day.

Schultz would also contrib-ute major individual points for the Quakers, finishing atop the podium in the 100 freestyle with a top time of 45.22 and took home a third-place finish in the 50 free as well.

The men would claim two other individual victories on the day, one in the 200 indi-vidual medley, where freshman Thomas Dillinger’s time of 1:50.62 was good for first, and Su and sophomore Mark Andrew went one-two in the 200 free, posting times of 1:38:98 and 1:40.68, respec-tively.

However, despite the multiple individual victories, Harvard’s dominance in the backstroke and butterfly proved to be the difference.

“We just aren’t ready to go and challenge Harvard in their own pool, not when they are swimming at the level they are capable of,” coach Mike Schnur said. “I thought we swam well, and I was happy with about eighty percent of our perfor-mance, but we weren’t at our

best today.”The women’s side faced a

similar level of opposition in their meet, and it was junior Rochelle Dong that carried the bulk of the individual victories for Penn.

In the 50 and 100 free, Dong was the only Penn swimmer in the top five, but her times of

23.24 and 51.32 paced her to the top of the podium on both occa-sions. The junior would also win the 100 butterfly in a time of 55.57, followed closely by fresh-man Nancy Hu who touched for third place in the event.

“Rochelle had a really good day out there, and we needed her to have a big day to stay

competitive,” Schnur said. “She was able to take away a lot of Brown’s strengths, and overall I was very happy with the way she and the women’s side went out and competed. “

The freestyle events contin-ued to give the Quakers their strongest returns. Freshman Madison Visco and sophomore

Virginia Burns both finished atop the podium in the 500 free, with times of 4:56.39 and 4:57.14 good for first and second place, and sophomore Carolyn Yang finished second in the 1000 free with a time of 10:13.03

The women would also pick up key points from a pair of freshman, as Hu’s time of 2:01.88 in the 200 butterfly, and Carter Orth’s time of 2:06.92 in the 200 IM both earned second place in their events.

“At the halfway point of the meet we were only up by twelve points over Brown which is almost nothing in a meet like this,” Schnur said, ”but I was impressed with the way the team refocused and took care of business in our later events. The girls went out there and did their job”.

With the Ivy tri-meet season officially wrapped up, all eyes will begin to turn to the Ivy League Championship meet in February. The Quakers will finish up their regular season with tune-up races against La Salle and West Chester on Jan. 29 and 30. And hopefully for Penn, these last two chances to work out the kinks will be enough before they get back in the pool again with the Crim-son.

SWIMMING | Teams fall to Harvard, best BrownSAM ALTLANDSports Reporter

In Saturday’s meet, junior sprinter Rochelle Dong continued her scorched earth campaign through Ivy League swimming, with three individual victories in the 50- and 100-yard freestyles and 100-yard butterfly.

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to the other, triggering a drive from Ashley Russell for the freshman’s second basket of the game. In another, a series of slick

passes found sophomore Lauren Whitlatch open from deep as she went 2-for-4 from beyond the arc in the quarter.

Despite Penn’s momentum coming out of the second quar-ter, La Salle never gave in. The

Explorers outscored Penn 15-12 in the third quarter, before the fireworks began in the fourth.

As the fourth quarter pro-gressed, the pace quickened, with Penn scoring 16 points over one three-minute stretch as both

teams shot effectively and made numerous trips to the line.

Sydney Stipanovich contin-ued an impressive stretch of play with a team-high 21 points, 14 rebounds and six blocks. The junior forward’s strong perfor-mance is nothing unusual, as she’s earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors in three of the past four weeks in the midst of a six-game win streak for the Quakers.

The game was an uncharac-teristically high-scoring one for

Penn, which has topped 78 points just once this season — putting the team in a situation which doesn’t particularly suit a squad more comfortable in low-scoring defensive battles.

Over the course of the next week, Penn will take on its final two non-conference opponents: on the road against local rivals Temple and Villanova. The Quakers still remain in conten-tion for the Big 5 title, which the team won a share of last season.

But the Big 5 event on

everyone’s mind is the upcoming men’s basketball doubleheader at the Palestra on Wednesday, with a game between La Salle and Temple followed by a Penn-Saint Joseph’s finale.

“I want them at that game on Wednesday night. Sometimes they don’t get to celebrate the Big 5 because we don’t have the same crowds and intensity,” McLaugh-lin said.

“I do want them to capture that and see what it’s about a little bit.”

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By the end of the day Sunday, the members of Penn wrestling probably thought they were back in high school. A lengthy seven-hour bus ride, however, proved fruitful in the end.

The Quakers faced off against Sacred Heart and Army West Point, earning two victories in their first road matchups against Eastern Intercollegiate Wres-tling Association opponents this season. Penn easily dispatched its conference foes, recording 106 total takedowns in the process.

The team started the day in Connecticut, contesting matches across 10 weight classes. Al-though Sacred Heart held its own against the Red and Blue throughout the beginning of the dual — the score was knotted at 6-6 after four matches — the

closeness would not last.The Quakers crushed all

hopes of an upset, as their star wrestlers came through with timely and thorough perfor-mances. At 149 pounds, senior C.J. Cobb put on a technical clinic worthy of his No. 11 na-tional ranking. He tallied 8 takedowns and four nearfalls en route to a 22-6 victory.

Not to be outdone, the Bethea brothers — May and Ray — both notched solid wins on the day. May, a sophomore, han-dled a second-period comeback with aplomb, as his escape and takedown in the final frame extended Penn’s overall lead to 14-6.

To top it off, sophomore Joe Heyob’s promotion to 197 pounds from his usual 184 did not affect his wrestling. He soundly defeated his Pioneer counterpart by a score of 18-6, clinching an overwhelming 31-6 team victory.

After the match at Sacred Heart, Penn once again boarded

the bus, bound for West Point. Helmed by former All-Amer-ican Kevin Ward, Army was celebrating Senior Day, as the Quakers’ visit marked Army’s last home meet of the season.

By the end of the evening, the Black Knights didn’t have much to cheer about.

Despite an impressive show-ing by Army senior Brian Garvey, who defeated No. 15 Casey Kent, Penn never trailed en route to a 24-12 win.

The Bethea brothers both won again, remaining undefeated on the day. May’s victory over No. 14 Russell Parsons, how-ever, was a controversial one. The match — tied after three periods — went into overtime, with Parsons accruing a second stall warning that gave May the sudden victory.

Shortly thereafter, Lorenzo Thomas, ranked No. 11 nation-ally, earned his second decision of the day, recording a com-fortable victory over Samson Imonode.

More conference action awaits the Quakers, who hope to lock up a top seed for the impending

Eastern Intercollegiate Wres-tling Association championship tournament. Their next meet

will be at the Palestra, as Bing-hamton travels to Philadelphia for a dual meet.

WRESTLING | Bethea bros fuel blowout victoriesSANJAY DURESETISports Reporter

Senior 184-pounder Lorenzo Thomas proved he deserved his No. 11 national ranking, notching a pair of handy victories over Sacred Heart and Army. Thomas was one of six different Quakers to go 2-0 on the day.

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2016 campaign begins in capital

While most winter sports begin the season well before the frost hits, one squad began their season with the cold front that just moved in this past weekend.

This weekend, Penn gymnas-tics made its season debut at the Lindsey Ferris Invitational in the nation’s capital. Hosted by George Washington, the competition fea-tured five competitive teams and signaled the start to a new year and a new season.

“I think we did pretty good,” coach John Ceralde said. “We went 190.625, so not a bad outing at all.”

The Quakers’ team score landed them fourth of the five teams — a strong showing for the Red and Blue’s first competition, especially with a few shakes early on.

By crossing the 190-point mark, Penn showed a strong first perfor-mance and reason to think that the team will be even better than it has been in the past few years.

Penn began the meet on beam, where the top scores produced a team total of 46.725, the lowest of

the four event scores for the Quak-ers on the day. Despite a strong finish to the event, the first few routines on beam were not without some “first meet jitters.”

“We had a slow start on beam but we picked up at the end,” Cer-alde said. “Simple mistakes like falls, but they finished strong on the event.”

The Red and Blue continued strongly not only on the other events, but also by the end of the first rotation on the balance beam.

After beam, the squad traveled to floor where they scored the highest event score of 48.500.

“Our best event was floor, we were pretty strong there,” Ceralde said. “We were consistent on floor, just small things we need to take care of for our next meet, but they did pretty good just being consis-tent.”

This was reflected in the perfor-mance of sophomore Kyra Levi, who tied for seventh on floor with two tenths of deductions, a 9.800 score.

The Quakers kept their momen-tum moving as they finished out the meet on vault and then beam, scoring 48.125 and 47.275, respec-tively. Headlining the scores on vault were senior Morgan Venuti

GYMNASTICS | Penn women place fourthALEXIS ZIEBELMANSenior Sports Reporter

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LET’S TAKE TWOIn separate duals on Sunday,

Penn wrestling took home wins over Sacred Heart, Army

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START WITH A SWEEPIn the first match of the year,

Penn men’s tennis swept Navy, 7-0 at home

>> SEE PAGE 8

It isn’t always pretty.Coming off of a big win over Princ-

eton last weekend, the Quakers came out flat against La Salle before fighting off a late comeback en route to a 78-68 win on Martin Luther King Day. Junior guard Kasey Chambers had her best game of the season, scoring 13 of her career-high 18 points in the fourth quarter to go along with eight rebounds and six assists.

“I thought the big play there was they got a three, we got to the foul line, made the first one and then Kasey got a big of-fensive rebound,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “I thought Kasey was tremendous.”

The Quakers (11-2) are in the midst of a three-game Big 5 stretch before return-ing to conference play in late January. The win over the Explorers (3-15) gives the Red and Blue their first Big 5 win of the season, after a four-point loss to Saint Joseph’s in early December.

In the first quarter, Penn couldn’t find the bottom of the net. Shooting just 2-for-19, the Quakers stayed in striking distance of the Explorers with impressive defense, blocking six shots.

“We definitely got outplayed in the first quarter. They out-willed us, they went after the ball a lot harder than we did,” McLaughlin said. “We turned it around and had one of our better quarters of the year.”

As soon as the second quarter began, the team looked entirely different. Penn put together one of its best quarters of basket-ball this season, dominating the Explorers from the start and jumping out to a 10-point halftime lead.

In one sequence, sophomore guard Anna Ross dished the ball from one corner

W. HOOPS | Quakers take down Big 5 rival on the roadHOLDEN McGINNISSenior Sports Reporter

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Sophomore Kyra Levi finished 7th in floor with a score of 9.800 in the first meet of the season for Penn gymnastics.

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Penn squashes upset-hungry Stanford

A peculiar calmness perme-ated the Ringe Squash Courts last Saturday.

For a meeting between two of the top five women’s sides in the country, the contest between No. 2 Penn and No. 5 Stanford seemed to carry little of the ten-sion that one would expect from such highly-ranked goliaths.

Win after win for the Red and Blue reinforced the composed at-mosphere of the players, coaches and fans as the Quakers (5-1) rolled through their Cardinal opponents (7-2) with clinical pre-cision.

After the first round of

matches, Penn claimed a com-manding 4-0 lead, having won all matches at the No. 2, 4, 6 and 8 positions with 3-0 scorelines.

At this point, it became clear that the Red and Blue hosts were a class above their West Coast visitors. While each individual game featured a hotly contested skirmish, the scoreboards almost always fell in favor of the Quak-ers as Stanford failed to stop the inevitable.

“Our goal today was to take care of business, and our ladies did that,” coach Jack Wyant said.

On Court 5, junior Grace van Arkel sealed the deal for Penn with another 3-0 shutout at the No. 9 position.

Freshmen Reeham Salah and Rowaida Attia along with senior Yan Xin Tan quickly followed

W. SQUASH | 9-0 sweep for No. 2-ranked womenANDREW ZHENGAssociate Sports Editor

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