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Among President Barack Obama’s vari-ous proposals outlined in Tuesday’s State of the Union address, one in particular resonated with College senior Emanuel Martinez.

In his speech, Obama formalized his plan — announced two weeks prior — to make the first two years of community col-lege free for students who maintain a 2.5 GPA in a degree program.

“Forty percent of our college students choose community college,” Obama said.

Martinez, along with many other Penn students, is part of that 40 percent.

After one year of community college, Martinez transferred to Penn from Essex County College in Newark, N.J. His edu-cation there, which was funded through a

scholarship, motivated Martinez to apply to Penn.

Martinez, who was homeless while completing his community college degree, sees his experience as invaluable due to the familial bond formed with his fellow students. “Community colleges build com-munities faster than four-year colleges, because the student bodies are smaller. Faculty and students have a much closer relationship,” he said.

He appreciated the diversity of age and background in community college at-tendees. “In community college, you have classes with 30 and 40 year olds. You live with these people and develop a sense of humility and self-awareness. That is dif-ficult to develop at a four-year school,” he said.

According to the American Association of Community Colleges, in Fall 2012, 56 percent of all Hispanic undergraduates

Last week, a widely publicized discovery by a group of Stanford stu-dents turned Penn’s college admis-sions offi ce upside-down.

When a group of Stanford students publicized a method of obtaining one’s admissions fi le, Penn’s admis-sions offi ce saw an explosion of re-quests for access to their fi les.

The students, who run an anony-mous newsletter called the Fountain Hopper, recently gained access to their admissions fi les through the Family Educational Rights and Pri-

vacy Act. Under FERPA, universi-ties must release educational records to accepted students who request them within 45 days. These records include parts of the application like teacher recommendations, as well as comments made by admissions offi cers. Students who did not gain admission to a university are not eli-gible to request their fi les.

Previously, the Penn admissions offi ce received approximately fi ve requests to view applicant fi les per year. In the week since the Stanford students publicized the opportunity to access fi les, it has received over 20made number — already four times the yearly average.

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Miscommunication, misleading marketing and the struggles with Student Financial Services

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Six weeks into her senior year at Penn, Rachel found out herwork-study grant was gone. Rachel, a College senior and a Residential Ad-visor in the Quad, was completely surprised. Used to making appoint-ments and talking with Student Financial Services, she had been at the office for a different reason when she also found out about her work-study grant.

Rachel was an RA, and in order to comply with federal regulations, SFS had cut her work study grant so that the amount of aid she received did not exceed her cost of atten-dance. But Rachel did not know any of this information until she walked into the office.

Stressed and frustrated,Rachel burst into tears in front of her finan-cial aid counselor. Her counselor

could only tell her, “Sorry, but I can’t help you.”

More than anything, Rachel was upset that she got the news six weeks into her senior year. Having been an RA last year as well, it bothered her that “they hadn’t told me that before I signed my RA contract for this year,” she said.

Like Rachel, several students interviewed by The Daily Penn-sylvanian in 2014 said that they experienced problems in communi-cation with SFS. The students, many of whom asked for their names to be changed to keep their financial situations private, said problems ranged from unclear messages about financial aid policies to a lack of transparency in how aid is calcu-lated.

While SFS administrators said they have tried to communicate with students as quickly and ef-fectively as possible, given the

communication gap with several student RAs last semester — as well as issues regarding summer study abroad aid and unexpected loan cancellations — it is clear that issues still remain.

Connecting with studentsWhile SFS uses a number of

methods to communicate with stu-dents regularly, when situations outside the norm arise, communica-tion can break down.

One source who has close knowl-edge of SFS, and wished to remain anonymous due to not being of-ficially authorized to comment on such matters, said that the office’s weakness is communication.

A perfect example, he said, was what happened to RAs who lost their work study grants. “It has to do with when changes that are made that are not part of the standard

process.”John, a Nursing senior who is

also an RA that lost his work study grant, said in a previous interview with the DP that he was upset with the delayed communication in his case. “If we’re not supposed to have work study because of whatever policy, first of all, that should be made explicit from the very begin-ning. Second of all, you can’t just do it part way through the year and make me change my plans,” he said. “My problem was that you didn’t tell me in June.”

Communicating with students is an issue not unique to Penn, and one that colleges across the country face.

Colleges generally have problems communicating financial aid poli-cies with students in part because of the sheer volume of information they are required by law to send out, and in part because the language offices must use to describe their

policies can be overly complicated.“I think one of the biggest chal-

lenges that [a financial aid office] faces is that ‘What is the best way to communicate with students and make sure they actually see it?’” said Jesse O’Connell, assis-tant director for federal relations at National Association of Student Fi-nancial Aid Administrators.

To ensure students are under-standing relevant financial aid policies at their schools, offices — including Penn’s — use email, snail mail and even social media to get information to students, O’Connell said.

The situation at Penn is not des-perate. A 2013-2014 SFS customer experience survey shows that for the most part students are satisfied. For instance, 85 percent of respondents said they agree or strongly agree

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Dr. Suhnne Ahn and her cat Beauregard have packed up their belongings and made a cross-country move.

Ahn has left her post as house dean of Harnwell Col-lege House to become the dean of Residential Life and Student Activities at the Col-burn School, a performing arts school in Los Angeles. She has led Harnwell since 2002, and before that she was direc-tor of student aff airs at Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Preparatory. Ahn announced both her de-parture from Penn and her new role in an email to Harnwell residents on Dec. 19 .

“I recently received an excit-ing opportunity that will take me away from Philadelphia and from our beloved Harnwell College House, where I have served as House Dean for many years,” she wrote, adding that the off er at the Colburn School was one that she “simply found too diffi cult to resist.”

Having a doctorate in musi-cology from Harvard, Ahn has always been passionate about the performing arts. Since 1997, she has also taught musi-cology courses at the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hop-kins. While taking care of her responsibilities at Penn most of the week, she would take the train down to Baltimore on Saturdays to teach her graduate seminar at Hopkins.

While she is excited about her new opportunity, Ahn feels bittersweet when leaving Penn, explaining that she’ll always cherish her Harnwell memo-ries like Casino Night and the Sapphire Ball . But most of all, she’ll miss her Harnwell stu-dents.

“Harnwell and Penn stu-dents are wonderful,” Ahn said. “They’re bright, they’re creative, they’re hardworking. We had a peaceful, wonderful environment at Harnwell.”

College sophomore Christi-na Roldan, a Harnwell resident, expressed her appreciation for Ahn as house dean.

“I got to know Dr. Ahn through the house events, and she was always a very sweet and personable lady,” Roldan said. “She was defi nitely your dream house dean.”

Roldan explained that among her best memories of Ahn are the monthly dean’s tea sessions she held for house residents. The sessions were an opportunity for both inti-mate discussions and delicious treats.

“She would have everyone sit in a circle, which for a big house like Harnwell is hard to do,” Roldan said. “But she al-ways managed to have enough food for everyone. It was very nice.”

While students and faculty at Harnwell enjoyed nibbling at the English delicacies, it wasn’t all about the food.

“Instead of just being a food distribution point, dean’s tea was a place for conversation,” Harnwell Faculty Master Dr. Kent Bream said. “She started that tradition here, and hope-fully we’ll continue it.”

Bream added that he also valued the role that Ahn played at Harnwell for so many years. He understands that Ahn’s new role is one that perfectly fi ts her passion for music and the per-forming arts.

“I know she loved Harnwell dearly. She has written songs that have become Harnwell’s theme songs,” Bream said. “But the opportunity to take such a high leadership role at an academic institution like Colburn in music, which is her fi eld, she couldn’t turn down.”

with the statement that “your expe-rience with the SRFS representative ‘met my expectations.’”

But many students and two sources with knowledge of SFS’s internal operations still feel that issues in communication do arise. In another instance last fall, students were surprised to find out their loans had been canceled through an email from the loan office.

Wharton freshman Hannah Stulberg received an email in mid-October notifying that her loan had been cancelled. The loans were canceled because students, in ac-cordance with federal regulations, have to pay a slightly higher origi-nation fee for the loan after Oct. 1, and therefore had to reapply. It did not ultimately change anyone’s fi-nancial situation, but it did stress out students like Stulberg, who told the DP in October that she found her loan canceled out of the blue.

This was a case of a lack of inter-nal communication, according to the source with knowledge of SFS. The loan office is housed under Student Registration and Financial Services, the larger structure which includes SFS, but the loan office is not a part of SFS. “The loan office sent that out without consulting us,” the source said.

SFS, in response to questions about how they communicate with students, said they send out infor-mation about changes in policy to students as soon as possible, through both email and hard copies of letters to students’ home addresses. “We’re trying to do everything we possibly can to give them the ability to see what changes have occurred,” Di-rector of Financial Aid Joel Carstens said. He also points to the portal on Penn InTouch as another place where students can get information.

“Our greatest concern is to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to give our students the best in-formation as quickly as possible,” Carstens added.

Misleading marketingProblems in communication can

also arise from students being unin-tentionally misled by the brochures and information packets sent to them before they get to Penn.

Anna, a College senior who

transferred from a liberal arts col-lege, said that she expected a lot of aid when she decided to come here because Penn had more resources. “I just sort of assumed they’ve got a lot bigger endowment. It seemed obvious that I would get more aid here.”

For Anna, it was not an unrea-sonable expectation, as Penn often advertises its financial aid budget and initiatives. President Amy Gut-mann recently announced a new goal for the University to an addi-tional $350 million in financial aid by the year 2020, and one of the first links on SFS’s website for parents leads to an article about financial aid featuring Gutmann.

“Penn’s No-loan Financial Aid Program for 2014-15 Backed by Penn’s Largest Financial Aid Budget,” the article’s headline reads. There are facts about this year’s financial aid budget for undergradu-ates: “$197 million — the largest in the University’s history” and “the program has helped to reduce the number of students borrowing today by 11 percent from those bor-rowing in 2008.” Penn is the largest university in the country to offer a “no-loan” financial aid policy.

Confronted with articles and lan-guage like this, Anna had expected a financial aid package. But she didn’t receive any aid from Penn because her family had assets — in other words, wealth that can be lev-eraged to get money to help pay for college.

Anna said she only transferred from the liberal arts college because she was not receiving enough aid there. But since coming to Penn, her parents ended up taking a line of credit against their home equity. And she’s receiving even less aid than at her previous school.

Penn says it will meet 100 per-cent of a student’s “demonstrable need,” but the key part is what SFS determines as one’s demonstrable need — the gap between the cost of attendance and this need is what a student and his family would end up paying. But if the expected family contribution is too high for the family to pay out of pocket, then students may have to take out a loan.

Barry Johnson, a College sopho-more, said one of the main reasons he came to Penn was because of the no-loan policy. But he ended up with a loan (a relatively small one) in his sophomore year, which seemed

contradictory to him.“They do give good financial aid,

but that no-loan policy is something SFS needs to work on,” he said, be-cause some students who go to Penn will take out loans.

According to the federal gov-ernment’s college scorecard, Penn students take out an average of $20,407 in federal loans, the high-est amount in the Ivy League. That compares to Harvard’s $11,000 in loans, Dartmouth’s $13,000 and Brown’s $16,756.

“You can make it very clear during the materials you send out to prospective students: You may ac-cumulate loans,” said Jesus Fuentes, a former United Minorities Council board member and a College senior.

A turnaroundSFS has come a long way since

the late 1990’s, when it was severely understaffed, said sociology profes-sor Camille Charles, who was part of a committee in the late 1990’s on pluralism and issues affecting students. One of the contributing factors to student retention was fi-nancial aid.

Back then, Charles said, she would have students coming to her during her pre-freshman program who were concerned about their aid packages, before they even of-ficially started college. She used to buy course books for students.

In a more extreme case, pro-fessor Herman Beavers, chair of undergraduates and graduates in the Department of Africana Stud-ies, said he had a student who had to work 35 hours a week at a full-time job. He reached out to SFS on her behalf and was able to help her re-solve her financial aid situation.

SFS responded to the critiques quickly then, Charles said. At the time, for students on financial hold who tried to purchase items through their bursar accounts, an alarm would sound indicating the charge could not go through. After hearing recommendations from the committee, including Charles, SFS replaced the system with a more discreet notification. The institution also hired more staff and changed its name.

This year, SFS has a budget of $197 million for undergradu-ate financial aid, a number which Carstens said has grown every year in the past few years.

“I think no system is really going to be perfect, but my sense is that things have gotten substantially better,” Charles said.

Closing the gapFor its part, SFS has been in-

creasing its work with students. It recently announced the creation of the Student Financial Aid Ad-visory Board — an initiative that was led by the 5B, the five different umbrella groups for minority stu-dents. UMC was one of the groups on campus who brought about the creation of the student financial ad-visory board because of complaints from its constituents. This was also the case for other 5B groups like the Lambda Alliance.

“I think SFS is really starting to get it more and they’re really start-ing to try to make efforts,” said Undergraduate Assembly president Joyce Kim, a College senior. Kim was one of the students who had initially brought about the imple-mentation of the board. “They’re being a lot more proactive.”

The advisory board is meant to address the issues of transparency and communication that students have raised. The idea was first brought up in December 2013, and the board had originally planned to launch in last fall. It was delayed, partly due to a lack of response on the part of administrators, and is expected to launch in January. The resolution for the board passed in the UA on Dec. 7.

The board, though an important step forward, is not the saving grace. Fuentes said that those on the board may not be the students who really need to be heard, because those who do have severe financial constraints are usually working 15 to 20 hours a week or maybe even a full-time job. “Often times these students should be speaking about it, but they don’t have the time,” he said.

Even if the numbers of students affected are small — and there’s no way to get an accurate count on how many students have had problems with SFS — it is still important to address these concerns, Fuentes said.

“I’ve never had my aid withheld from me; I’ve never had to fight for my work study grant,” he said. “Just because it worked for some of us, doesn’t mean we should be satisfied with that.”

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Penn Law School alumnus and may-oral candidate Ken Trujillo dropped out of the mayor’s race Wednesday morning.

Trujillo’s exit comes as a surprise to observers who saw the political out-sider as a wild-card candidate.

In a statement, Trujillo cited “family matters that require my full attention”

as reason for his withdrawal.Trujillo was still campaigning as of

Tuesday night when he hosted a watch party for the State of the Union, a Penn student who volunteered on Trujillo’s campaign said.

“People were getting very excited about his opinions. It was sad to see him step out of the conversation going on in the mayor’s race,” the campaign volunteer said.

An anonymous source told the Phil-

adelphia Inquirer that Trujillo planned to use his $3 million of campaign re-sources to sponsor another candidate. Trujillo “did not believe any of the remaining candidates fi t that bill” and plans to “advance the chances of the right candidate.”

The Democratic candidates for may-or have narrowed to state Senator An-thony Hardy Williams, former District Attorney Lynne Abraham, and former City Solicitor Nelson Diaz.

attended community college, as did 48 percent of black undergraduates. The average age for community col-lege students is 28 years old.

Obama’s plan also earned praise from Penn President Amy Gut-mann.

Gutmann is one of the most vocal supporters of Obama’s plan, primar-ily due to its investment in low and middle-income students. In an inter-view with CNBC’s “On the Money,” Gutmann affirmed the necessity of “making college more accessible to more people.”

She noted the scarce financial aid available from state and community colleges, and expressed her desire to see all deserving students educated. Gutmann praised the program as helpful in accomplishing that goal.

Transfers from community col-lege enter Penn mostly through the College of Liberal and Professional Studies. According to the Direc-tor of Enrollment Management at LPS Miriam Wright, 68 percent of entering LPS students in Fall 2014 transferred from community col-lege. Additionally, 43 percent of these students identified as the first members of their family to attend college.

Obama’s proposal could increase enrollment at Penn, said Direc-tor of the BA and BFA Programs Kathy Urban. “Increased access to a college education at a commu-nity college, which as you can see is a significant source of Penn LPS

students, will broaden the range of potential students who may consider Penn,” she wrote in an email.

Despite optimism about its ambi-tion, Obama’s plan has also received criticism for its ambiguity and fail-ure to address structural problems in the education system.

“More needs to be done to im-prove credit transfer, academic achievement and completion rates in our community college system,” said President of the Government and Politics Association and College sophomore Sarah Simon.

“Flooding the system with more students won’t solve those struc-tural concerns,” Simon, who also co-founded a nonprofit geared at increasing college matriculation, added. She also found the GPA re-quirement troublesome as it may “accelerate grade inflation” and potentially devalue credits earned in community college.

Chair of the Higher Education Division at the Graduate School of Education Laura Perna also rec-ognized potential pitfalls among Obama’s generally positive pro-posal.

The plan could result in more economic diversity in community colleges by encouraging higher-income students to enroll. However, the plan may also further segregate lower-income students into commu-nity college, she said.

Perna is apprehensive about the plan, fearing “four-year colleges being further separated from lower-income students.”

Martinez also recognized

structural inequalities in the edu-cation system. “It is important that community colleges are provided with infrastructure and resource de-velopment,” he said.

“Tied to this is the importance of having an economic system that is able to provide a living wage to graduates of community college,” he added.

While Perna agrees with the spirit of Obama’s plan, she ques-tions the “political feasibility” of the proposal. If introduced as formal legislation, Obama’s plan will have to make it through a Republican-controlled Congress that is unlikely to be receptive of a new spending bill.

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When I was younger, I i d e n t i f i e d strongly as

pro-life. I saw abortion as a pressing matter of public interest and human rights. Today, while I still identify as pro-life, I see abortion as more than just about the rights of the fetus. When I say that I am pro-life, I mean that I believe that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness should be extended to all hu-mans. Without the right to life, all other rights are im-possible. Perhaps most im-portant is the realization that with life comes love.

I believe that love wants what is best for others. I be-lieve that a woman is worth more than abortion. When a woman has an abortion, she may harm herself emotionally and physically. And every time a woman is coerced into having an abortion, women’s rights takes a step back. Abortion can be exploitative

— taking advantage of a woman regardless of whether or not she thinks she has ben-efitted. Abortion deceives women into thinking life will

go on as usual following an abortion. Abortion misleads women as to what is forming inside their womb.

I believe that love seeks truth. I believe that the un-born are human, from the moment of fertilization. As a nursing student, I know that science suggests no less. As a person of faith, I know that God intricately formed me in my mother’s womb.

I believe that love sup-ports autonomy. Every time

an abortion takes place, the human within the womb is stripped of his autonomy. When a woman aborts be-cause of coercion, lack of in-

formed consent or the knowl-edge that she cannot succeed in life if she chooses to parent her child, not only is her au-tonomy reduced, but also sex-ism claims a victory.

I believe that love cherish-es and accepts. The label of “unwanted” reflects not on the recipient of the label, but on the giver. Children, disabled persons or older adults con-sidered unwanted are not so because of anything they have done. Instead, the label is

indicative of the society that dismisses and rejects them. “Every child a wanted child” suggests that fewer unwanted children decrease child abuse

cases. But the problem is that abortion — as the suggested solution to unwanted chil-dren — kills them, instead of “wanting” them.

I believe that love begets love. Adoption can be a beau-tiful picture of loving beyond bloodlines, race and culture. Instead of allowing a child to grow up family-less, adop-tion receives and calls a child “wanted.”

I believe that love values people. The physically and

developmentally challenged are to be protected because value is determined not by what a person can potentially “contribute” to society, but by who they are.

I believe that love lasts.The old are not too old for us to provide them with op-timal medical care. I believe that a society that marginal-izes the weakest is forgetting the meaning of respect and is forging a path of destruction for itself.

I believe that love is self-less. In our society, the mean-ing of love is often distorted; one might use the word when talking about a gyro or a hero, or anything in between. True love, the sort of love that gives instead of takes, is self-less. Love that regards oth-ers better than self looks out for the best of others. This is seen in the mother who gives up her child for adoption be-cause she wants the best for her child. This is seen in the husband who lovingly cares

for his spouse while she is on a ventilator. This is seen in a family that adopts a child with developmental disabili-ties so that the child can know the meaning of family.

I believe that love pursues and upholds justice. One of the greatest injustices is that of the consistent minimizing of the smaller and weaker. Working to reduce abortion and infanticide and speaking against euthanasia is seeking to promote justice for those who cannot speak up for themselves.

I believe that love builds up. Whenever we encourage someone who is struggling, we show love. Whenever we reach out to help another life, we show love. And when we love, we are being pro-life.

The awakening came in the form of a text. A quick, absent-minded text

sent from my mom’s Subaru as we drove back from my grandparents’ and catalyzed by the boredom only six hours of my sister’s Dave Matthews Band CD could produce. The words fluttered from my fingers before I could question them.

“So, like ... what if I dyed my hair blue?”

I’ve flirted with the idea of hair dye for a while. Like most — okay, some — people, I endured a middle school counterculture phase that caused me to paste a “Make Love, Not War” bumper sticker above my desk and read too much Al-len Ginsberg. I wanted a physical manifestation of my newfound rage against the machine. Blue hair would signify that I was different, a separate class from my brunette past. Of course, my thirteen-year-old angst didn’t

factor my indecision into account; for someone who holds up the line at Starbucks weighing the merits of coffee

versus tea, changing my hair seemed like a life-altering decision.

I know that this is stupid. Perched behind my laptop in the Law Library basement, I can laugh at myself. But this week when I stood in front of my mirror, attack-ing my face with a makeup brush in preparation for rush and new classes, I glanced at my reflection and wondered the kind of first impression my appearance made. I’m a pretty ordinary-looking per-son on the surface: long hair,

brown eyes and pale, like so many other girls waiting in the cold outside sorority houses. I don’t stand out on

Locust Walk — and with my dark peacoat and Longchamp bag, I certainly don’t stand out from my Rho Gamma group. I wish I had a more superficial distinctive qual-ity.

Hair dye isn’t my only attempt to differentiate my-self. Since my middle school days, I’ve flirted with differ-ent fads. I went vegan for a week before hamburgers and ice cream proved too seduc-tive. For a semester in high school, I stayed away from jeans and wore only skirts

and dresses. I had a hip-ster period. During my first months at Penn, I’ve tried to be everything from “The Girl

Who Shakes People’s Hands When She Meets Them” to “The Girl Who Always Smells Like Strawberries.” Sometimes, these fads stick — as my roommate can attest from the pile of strawberry perfume on our bookcase — but more often, I just trade them into new ones. When the Common App asked me to concisely express my per-sonality, I had a stockpile of taglines I’d amassed over the years to define myself. But self-identity gets a lot mess-ier when it’s not crammed

into a word count.As I bounce back and

forth between different rush events, I’m frustrated that I can’t summarize myself. I can’t articulate some spiffy conclusion from the various odds-and-ends that make up who I am. I’m comprised of insignificant details — the fact that I have E.E. Cum-mings taped above my bed or hate bananas or subsist on black coffee — that add up to something I can’t con-vey with my choice of shoes or the color of my peacoat. What I can control is whether I look like an interesting per-son, whether the five-minute chat I have with a sorority sister indicates I’m worth getting to know. As trivial as it sounds, blue hair offers a pretty compelling way to stand out.

By the end of the car ride though, I had decided to leave my hair in peace. For one thing, hair dye can be expensive; for another, I’m happy with my hair as is. I’ll

burn it with my straightener, I’ll tease it into 12 different styles while I prepare for Open House and Pref Night and the seemingly endless slew of other rush activities, but ultimately, all my hair will do is flounce over my collar while I shake some sis-ter’s hand and introduce my-self. It won’t guarantee that I’m memorable. For that, I’ll have to rely on what’s inside my head.

When we love, we are being pro-life

DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is [email protected]. “The Danalyst” appears every Thursday.

One of the greatest injustices is that of the consistent minimizing of the smaller and weaker. Working to reduce abortion and infanticide and speaking against euthanasia is seeking to promote justice for

those who cannot speak up for themselves.”

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HANNAH F. VICTOR is a Nursing junior from Cheltenham, Pa. Her email address is [email protected].

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As I bounce back and forth between different rush events, I’m frustrated that I can’t summarize myself. I can’t articulate some spiffy conclusion from the various odds-and-ends that make up

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Mental health, sexual assault and drug and alcohol use are just a few of the topics on which the Student Committee on Undergraduate Edu-cation wants the administration to hear their voices on.

This week, SCUE released its 2015 White Paper — a document that is published every five years with student recommendations to the administration.

One of the big questions of this year’s White Paper is on how to

improve quality of life once stu-dents get on campus. They describe a campus culture in which students’ busy academic and extracurricular schedules pressure many students to forgo healthy habits.

SCUE’s new holistic education initiative originally stemmed from the fact that Penn does not offer credit in physical education unlike many other peer institutions. The proposed system would include an “alternative credit system” that would incentivize participation in activities that reinforce non-aca-demic personal development.

Under the proposal, students could get non-academic credit for activities such as exercise classes, healthy eating classes, community

service, and intramural sports. Credit would potentially go towards rewards from scholarships, stipends and priority housing selection to tickets for events on campus.

“We wanted to address how to teach students to be more well-rounded and manage their challenging lives in a way that re-duces stress and educates them about different cultures and civic engagement opportunities,” SCUE Chair and College senior Lucas Siegmund said, adding that they wanted students “to use their ex-perience here not just to learn in the classroom but to develop as a person.”

Additionally, SCUE proposed greater centralization of community

service opportunities on campus, which are currently divided amongst the Netter Center, Fox Leadership House and the Civic House, as well as expanding student participation in Academically Based Community Service courses.

One way the university will ad-dress these issues even before Penn students come to campus is through online modules similar to Penn Alcohol Module, which incoming freshmen have had to complete in past years, and expand them to in-corporate other topics. Modules in the works include sexual assault, ac-ademic integrity policies and mental wellness.

The goal is that students, in-coming freshmen as well as

upperclassmen, will be engaged in learning about these issues through-out their undergraduate experience and will have time to reflect on them instead of facing the type of infor-mation overload that tends to happen during New Student Orientation.

“These kinds of general les-sons about life at Penn are helpful throughout your college ex-perience,” Siegmund said.

Another initiative aimed at ad-dressing quality of life is by calling attention to the gap year as a valuable option for students. SCUE proposed organizing a university database of students’ gap year experiences, as well as compiling a panel of students who have taken gap years to advise interested students.

Siegmund said SCUE defines a gap year “not just to mean a year between high school and under-graduate experience, but to mean any period in your four years at Penn where you leave — the goal of which would be to achieve some personal objective.”

Students at Penn often take gap years for work experience, volunteer opportunities, creating businesses or taking time to reflect on their goals before getting their degrees. The goal of the database and panel would be to take away the negative stigma against taking time off from Penn and celebrate students’ unique experiences, letting them know that it is okay to take time to figure things out.

Group releases white paper once every five yearsELLIE SCHROEDERStaff Reporter

SCUE recommends non-academic classes, gap year database

HOLISTIC EDUCATIONDevelop an incentive system for students to make choices that will contribute to their non-academic development such as exercise and nutrition classes, arts groups, intramural sports and volunteering.

NSODeveloping modules on sexual assault, mental wellness and academic advising to educate both upperclassmen and incoming freshmen without information overload during NSO.

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Dean of Admissions Eric Furda spoke about the admissions of-fice’s response to this “avalanche” of requests. While the University must comply with FERPA, Furda plans to remove certain personal comments from applicants’ files before granting students access, particularly comments referenc-ing other applicants or specific school groups. Per FERPA’s stip-ulations, admissions offices need only release information explic-itly about the applicant requesting documents.

“If there’s anything personal that we need to redact within any of the notes that we have, we will do that,” Furda said.

If the University continues to receive a high volume of requests, the admissions office may enact significant changes in the way it handles admissions files, balanc-ing a goal of respecting students and a need for honest conversa-tion about applications.

“What you want to make sure of is that [admissions officers] can have open dialogue while you’re trying to admit a class,” Furda said.

Furda also noted that the grow-ing trend of students requesting to

view admissions files may spark changes in other institutions’ ad-missions processes, as well as at Penn.

“It will make admission offices across the country take a look at everything we do,” he said.

Incoming freshman Janice Hur, who was accepted early decision, said that she would consider re-questing to see her admissions file.

Hur believes that increased transparency would force admis-sions offices to discontinue prac-tices such as judging applicants based on more subjective factors, such as race.

“Once students are given the right through FERPA to access these documents, I think admis-sions officers will be kind of forced to change their method,” she said. “How they choose or re-ject students would change drasti-cally.”

Incoming freshman Neel Daugherty-Shrivastavadid he want to be known by both last names?, who was also accepted early decision, believes that giv-ing accepted students access to their admissions files would nega-tively affect the application pro-cess.

“Students shouldn’t see that information because then they

stop pursuing their passions and their dreams, which colleges re-ally want to see, and they start worrying about numbers and dif-ferent admissions requirements or factors,” Daugherty-Shrivastava said.

For students who wish to view their admissions files, The Foun-tain Hopper’s website offers sample letters that can be sent to college admissions offices and instructions for completing the process.

STANFORD>> PAGE 1

Pennsylvania is part of a mi-nority of states that does not have a minimum wage over the fed-eral standard, but newly elected Democratic Governor Tom Wolf wants to change that.

On Tuesday, Wolf, who beat former Republican Governor Tom Corbett by 10 percent of the vote in November, was sworn in as Pennsylvania’s 47th governor. While Wolf’s campaign touted lofty goals, such as raising the state minimum wage, passing legislation will likely require a lot of compromise with the Re-publican-controlled legislature.

During his campaign for governor, Wolf advocated for Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to increase from $7.25 an hour to $10 an hour. In addition, the min-imum wage would be indexed to inflation.

“If we come together with a sense of shared purpose, we can build the better future that Penn-sylvania deserves,” Wolf said in his inaugural speech on Tuesday. “Being inclusive, being fair, and paying good wages are not just the right things to do, they are the smart things to do.”

Wolf wasn’t the only politician to advocate for better wages on Tuesday.

“To everyone in this Congress

who still refuses to raise the min-imum wage, I say this,” President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address on Jan 20. “If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest-working people in America a raise.”

While Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) did not address the minimum wage issue in her GOP response to Obama’s address, Republicans firmly oppose a higher minimum wage because its additional busi-ness costs could cause increased unemployment.

For Penn students, an in-creased Pennsylvania minimum wage could be beneficial. Most students with work-study jobs would see a pay increase if Wolf’s proposal took effect.

“The proposal, if enacted into law, would affect nearly all on and off-campus student jobs,” Director of Communications for Penn Student Financial Services Marlene Bruno said in an email.

While the newly-elected Wolf remains hopeful and optimistic that Pennsylvania can increase its minimum wage, a Republi-can-controlled legislature has cloaked his proposal in uncer-tainty.

“He has said what he wants and he has said what he doesn’t want, but what we don’t know is what he is willing to give the other side,” said Terry Madonna, director of Franklin and Mar-shall College’s Center for Politics

and Public Affairs. “There is far more that we don’t know than we do know about how this process is going to unfold.”

The solution seems to rely on compromise between Wolf

and the legislature. While com-promise hasn’t exactly been pervasive in Pennsylvania politics in recent years, new lead-ership in Harrisburg can set a new precedent.

The Republican leadership and Gov. Wolf are “trying to develop a relationship with each other, something that did not exist with Corbett,” Madonna said. “Even Republican leaders did not have a relationship with Corbett. They complained about it.”

“So you got two things going on,” Madonna added. “The development of personal rela-tionships and the notion that each side has to give something.”

Raise would affect on- and off-campus student workersJONATHAN BAERStaff Reporter

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regardless, of the final team scores.

The 184-pound bout will fea-ture two of the nation’s finest wrestlers: Penn senior Lorenzo Thomas and Cornell sophomore Gabe Dean. The pair of 2014 All-Americans both possess top-five rankings.

The duo currently makes up two-thirds of Ancient Eight wrestlers ranked in the top-five of their weight class. It is due to this caveat that the match will be getting serious attention from

Ivy League and collegiate wres-tling fans alike.

The Red and Blue faithful will have to hope that Saturday’s clash of titans will be reminis-cent of the matches they had dur-ing the 2012-2013 season. In that season, Thomas won all three meetings, although both wrestled unaffiliated with a team.

To do so, however, Thomas — who lost all three matches against his rival last season — will have to flip the script on the elusive Dean.

Despite the implications the 184-pound bout holds for EIWA and NCAA championship seed-

ing, it would be foolish for the Quakers to only focus on the day’s marquee matchup.

This meet holds its own championship implications for both teams as well. For the last 25 years, the winner of the Penn-Cornell dual has gone on to cap-ture the Ivy League team title at the end of the season. It would be no surprise if the same holds true this season.

While the Red and Blue have been somewhat flat in their op-portunities to solidify themselves as a top team in the nation, there is little doubt that outside of Cornell (8-1), they possess one

of the most balanced and solid rosters in the conference. What is bound to bolster their lineup this semester is their newfound depth.

With the return of former NCAA qualifiers seniors Ca-naan Bethea and Brad Wukie, as well as the emergence of fresh-man Joe Heyob, the Quakers are deeper at the heavier weight classes, a luxury they didn’t have during the first half of the season. Additionally, the Quakers no lon-ger have to forfeit the 125-pound bouts due to sophomore Jeremy Schwartz’s return from injury.

Alex Tirapelle will take his

first trip Cornell as Penn’s head coach and will likely face the most hostile environment thus far in his brief tenure guiding the Red and Blue.

Even though the dual meet is in Cornell’s 4,473-seat basket-ball arena, it would be a pretty safe bet to assume that it will be packed Saturday for the rivalry match.

With that in mind, the chances of the Red and Blue pulling off the upset are steep, although maybe not quite as steep as the frozen-over gorges that they will cross in upstate New York this weekend.

The last time Penn wrestling made its way to Ithaca, N.Y., to take on the Big Red and grapple with a top-10 squad, the Quak-ers were the 24th-ranked team in the country. But that wasn’t the only stark difference in the matchup.

Headlining Cornell’s squad in Jan. 2013 was Kyle Dake, arguably the greatest collegiate wrestler in history.

Fresh off three straight na-tional championships at an unprecedented three differ-ent weight classes, “The Kid” bumped up another weight class to 165 pounds for his se-nior campaign, one in which he would yet again be crowned champion, therefore cementing his legacy the best ever in the eyes of many.

And it was no surprise then that he took down Penn’s then-freshman Casey Kent via a pin.

In addition to Dake, there was another defending national champion on the Big Red roster — 184-pound Steve Bosak who defeated then-sophomore Ca-naan Bethea five to nothing.

While the Quakers put up a valiant effort against their Ivy foes, they ultimately fell, 24-9.

But the score did anything but show the whole story that Sat-urday in Ithaca.

Penn held a lead in seven of its 10 matches — despite only winning three — and recorded two more takedowns than their rivals.

Still, there was an upset that day. Then-sophomore C.J. Cobb took down sixth-ranked All-American Mike Nevinger in dominating fashion, 7-2.

Penn also recorded victories at the hands of then-senior All-American Micah Burak, who was ranked tenth in the nation at 197 pounds at the time. For Burak, the victory was one of many in a season in which he was unanimously named First-Team All-Ivy, captured an EIWA title and a Round of 12 finish at the NCAA tournament.

Then-sophomore Ian Korb also recorded a win for the Red and Blue at 174 pounds against Duke Pickett. Korb willed his way to a narrow 5-3 victory, playing defense as time expired to escape with the win.

The match was indicative of a strong year for Penn wrestling and coach Rob Eiter. The Quak-ers defeated all other Ivy oppo-nents and finished a strong third at the EIWA Championships as well as an impressive second at the Keystone classic.

perate attempt to get back in the game.

For a few minutes at least, it worked.

Penn clawed to within 11 points of Monmouth when freshman guard Antonio Woods — who was so good against Villanova five days earlier when he scored 18 points — went hard in the paint and drew an and-one with heavy contact heading into the under-four minute media timeout.

But Woods missed the foul shot that would have drawn Penn within 10, senior forward Greg Louis couldn’t get a good handle on the ball before it bounced out of bounds into the student section and the Red and Blue never threat-ened further.

Despite his outstanding effort against the Wildcats, Woods man-aged only five points in Wednes-day’s contest. Junior guard Tony Hicks scored only eight points on three-for-eight shooting and cen-ter Darien Nelson-Henry added 12 points and six boards for Penn.

The Quakers have now lost four of their last five contests and could not escape this game without in-jury added onto insult.

Sophomore guard Matt How-ard — who led the Quakers with 14 points and added three steals on the defensive end — suffered an apparent right wrist injury and had it wrapped after the game.

“I think he’ll be fine,” Allen said. “I haven’t spoken with our medical staff yet.”

Penn will close out its Big 5 and nonconference slate on Satur-day against Saint Joseph’s at 7:00 PM.

M HOOPS>> PAGE 10

Penn’s most recent trip and star-studded trip to Ithaca

MEREDITH STERN/DP FILE PHOTO In Penn’s most recent trip to Ithaca, N.Y., then-sophomore C.J. Cobb scored one of the most prominent upsets of the season for the Quakers, upsetting No. 6 and former All-American Mike Nevinger, 7-2. Although the Red and Blue lost, 24-9, Penn put up a tough fight against one of the toughest squads in the nation.

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concerned. Led by forward Kavunaa Edwards’ four three-pointers, Villanova took a com-fortable 12-point lead into the half on just below 60 percent shooting.

McLaughlin went into half-time knowing that his team needed to make adjustments, and the Quakers certainly seemed poised to. The Red and Blue increased on-ball pressure on defense and made a more

concerted effort to feed their forwards in the paint.

However, the second half yielded similar results.

Within eight minutes of the second half, the Wildcats had increased their lead to 22 off the strength of sharp passing and scrappy interior defense. From then on, all they had to do was cruise to an easy victory.

It was a dominant perfor-mance from the team in blue and white, and the stats showed it.

The Wildcats played unselfish basketball, notching nine more

assists than the Red and Blue while shooting an impressive 50 percent from the field.

All of which this made more impressive by the fact that it came at the Palestra, where the Quakers have been almost un-beatable as of late.

There are a couple silver lin-ings for the Quakers to take away from the game, however.

Junior forward Kara Bonen-berger put together a strong 13-point performance and looked threatening on the offen-sive end throughout the evening.

Furthermore, despite the ugly loss, Penn still retains a share of its first Big 5 title in school history.

“I know it’s not the time to talk about it 10 minutes af-ter getting your butt kicked,” McLaughlin said. “But to win three Big 5 games for the first time and share this title.

When we look back at it, we’ll celebrate for sure.”

The Quakers will look to bounce back this Saturday on the road against NJIT.

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While Delaware has been swim-ming well in recent weeks, the Quakers have put together a few strong performances of their own. Although Penn split both of its tri-meets the past two weekends, the Red and Blue looked strong in Prov-idence last Saturday, claiming two event wins and nine second-place finishes.

Sophomore Ellie Grimes cap-tured a victory in the 200-yard breaststroke against Brown and Harvard while fellow sophomore Rochelle Dong led the Quakers to a one-two finish in the 100-yard fly.

Similarly, against Towson on Saturday, Blue Hens’ junior Morgan

Whyte put together a noteworthy performance of her own, capturing individual victories in the 50- and 100-yard freestyles in Delaware’s 205-95 loss.

While Penn may rejoice in host-ing its first meet since Nov. 9, road contests have posed little trouble for the Blue Hens this season. Delaware is undefeated away from the Raw-strom Natatorium in 2014-15, hav-ing won all five of its meets on the road, including four in the month of January alone.

With the women’s squad expect-ed to have a tough battle on its hands against the Blue Hens, Penn’s men’s team is prepared for a much easier

test on Saturday.Like its female counterparts,

Delaware men’s swimming (4-5) bounced back from a loss against Towson on Saturday with a pair of wins against Iona and St. Peter’s on Sunday. Blue Hens’ diver Patrick McCann won three of his four events last weekend, including both his 1- and 3-meter dives at the tri-meet.

But the Quakers have their own collection of talented swimmers, particularly junior Chris Swanson. The Tampa, Fla., native secured vic-tories in the 1000-yard and 500-yard freestyle events, helping the Red and Blue to an eight-point win over Brown.

Because it is Penn’s final home event of the season, the program will honor the 16 seniors comprising the two squads. In addition to com-memorating the athletes during the meet on Saturday, the Quakers will also hold a banquet for the Class of 2015 once the meet concludes.

For the Red and Blue, everything up to this point has and will continue to be a warmup for the Ivy Champi-onships in Princeton next month.

And while Penn has looked sharp at times this season, it has obstacles to overcome this weekend before putting their focus squarely on Ivies.

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BIG WEEKEND FOR QUAKERSBY LAINE HIGGINSSports Editor

CAROLYN LIM/DP FILE PHOTO In the Red and Blue’s first action since the fall, senior Jeremy Court will lead the Quakers into the City 6 Tournament against fellow Philadelphia squads.

COURTESY OF PENN ATHLETICS In Penn’s second meet of the spring semester, Cleo Whiting will lead the Quakers in a variety of distance events at the Princeton Invitational on Saturday.

The men’s tennis teams from the City of Brotherly Love will become rivals on the courts on Saturday as they compete in the City 6 Tournament at Penn’s own Levy Tennis Center.

The Quakers will go up against Drexel as well as the four other Big 5 teams, La Salle, St. Joseph’s, Temple and Villanova. The toughest compe-tition for Penn will likely come from the Wildcats, a squad that was solid throughout all of its four tournament appearances in

September and October.This weekend marks the

Quakers’ first taste of compe-tition since the culmination of the fall season in mid-October. The Red and Blue finished their fall bout of tournaments with a meager showing at the North-east Regional Championships at St. John’s. Penn’s strongest performance came from the doubles pair of co-captain Jere-my Court and freshman Nicolas Podesta that lost to Harvard in the quarterfinals.

On Saturday at the Tse Ping - Cheng Cheung Ling Sports Center, the Penn men’s and women’s fencing squads will host the Philadelphia Invita-tional, the Quakers’ first home competition of the New Year.

The Red and Blue are com-ing off of a strong showing at the Penn State Invitational last weekend in Happy Valley. The tournament was especially eventful for the women’s team, who knocked off last year’s na-tional champion — Penn State — to end the weekend with a 4-1 record. The Quakers’ sole loss came from Ivy foe Colum-

bia, a team currently ranked second in the nation. Last weekend was less exhilarating on the men’s side, as the team finished 3-1 and won 72 of 108 bouts.

This weekend, the Quakers will go up against fencers from Cornell, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins and North Carolina. Penn’s eighth-ranked men’s squad should easily handle its opponents, while the women — currently ranked sixth — can expect the steepest competition from Northwestern, rated ninth in the nation.

The men’s and women’s track & field teams head to Princeton on Saturday to com-pete in the Princeton Invita-tional, the teams’ second meet of the spring semester.

If last weekend’s perfor-mance at Lehigh’s Angry Birds Invitational is any indicator of what is to come, the Quakers can expect more fast times and near record-setting marks from its stars. It seems that Penn’s only weakness going into the weekend will be battling the cold weather doldrums.

In particular, junior thrower

Sam Mattis has literally shoul-dered the success of the men’s team’s results in the field — last weekend in the weight throw he tallied the eighth best throw in school history.

On the women’s side, a pack of four freshman sprinters make Penn a force to be reck-oned with in the 60-meter and 200-meter races. The Quak-ers are also formidable in the long distance events bolstered by consistently fast times from twins Cleo and Clarissa Whit-ing.

MEN’S TENNIS

TRACK & FIELD

FENCING

It’s a busy weekend for Penn Athletics, as 11 teams will compete over the next several days, with six teams set to throw down on the Quakers’ home courts, pool and track on Saturday and Sunday. Here’s a quick look at what to expect from three of the seven sports competing this coming weekend.

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A trip to Ithaca is never pleasant this time of year due to its lack of cellphone service and subarctic conditions.

But a trip to the home of the Big Red can easily get a whole lot worse with a matchup against Cor-nell’s sixth-ranked wres-tling team

just over the bleak horizon.On Saturday, Penn will send its grapplers

north for the daunting task of taking on the cream of the Ivy League crop in its fi rst league dual meet of the season.

While it would take a miracle for the Quak-

ers (3-3) to pull off the upset, one match will demand the most attention Saturday afternoon,

Throughout its season, Penn swim-ming often has fewer home contests than any other sport. With a majority of the program’s meets taking place on the road, it’s on the Quakers to make the most of their time on campus.

As a result, this weekend the Red and Blue will try to take advantage of a rare opportunity as both the men’s and women’s squads prepare for matchups with Delaware at Sheerr Pool on Sat-urday.

In what will be the fi nal home meet for both of coach Mike Schnur’s squads, Penn’s matchups with the Blue Hens will be the fi rst of three consecu-tive nonconference meets before the program swims in the Ivy Champion-ships starting on Feb. 19 for the wom-en and Feb. 26 for the men.

Against Delaware (10-3), Penn’s

women’s squad (5-4) will do battle with a team that has lost only once in eight dual meets since Nov. 1. Despite dropping their fi nal home meet of the 2014-15 season last Saturday, the Blue Hens bounced back with two blowout wins against Iona and St. Peter’s.

For a moment, it looked as if Penn basketball had turned a corner when it gave then-No. 5 Villanova a serious scare at home on Saturday.

Apparently not.Playing in front of a mostly-empty

Palestra crowd, the Quakers came out sleepwalking against Monmouth and paid dearly. The visiting Hawks hit 21 of their fi rst 33 shots and trounced the

Red and Blue, 71-56, in a game that was over early.

Penn (4-10) couldn’t get anything to fall in the early go-ing, despite using its motion off ense to get many open looks. The Quakers missed eight of their fi rst 11 shots and trailed by double digits for much of the fi rst half.

“The thing that’s most frustrating is that they played with such attention to detail, a ton of energy and ef-fort Saturday night,” coach Jerome Allen said. “And then to come back tonight and start the game the way we did or play it in pockets the

way we did is disappointing.”Meanwhile, Monmouth (10-9)

burned the Red and Blue at will. The Hawks had nine assists in the fi rst half and shot 56.3 percent from the fi eld.

No one did more damage to Penn, though, than Hawks guard Max DiLeo.

Former Temple guard Anthony DiLeo’s little brother, the younger DiLeo, converted on al-most every opportunity the Quakers presented him, including a thun-derous breakaway dunk with 22 seconds left in

the fi rst half that sent the sizable con-tingent of Monmouth fans in the arena

into a roar.“I saw the opportunity as soon

as [Andrew Nicholas] went for the steal,” DiLeo said of the dunk. “And I knew it was gonna be huge at the end of the half.

“It’s already hard when you’re los-ing at halftime and then you come off getting a fastbreak dunk. It really helped us, and I think it probably hurt them a little bit, just [because of] the momentum it gave us.”

Junior guard Deon Jones led all scorers with 17 points while DiLeo and fellow Monmouth sophomore Collin Stewart added 12 apiece.

As the Hawks’ lead swelled to as many as 23 points in the second half, Allen shifted his defense into a press-ing and trapping scheme in a des-

ILANA WURMAN/SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR Although Penn came out flat against Monmouth on Wednesday night, sophomore Matt Howard was one of the lone bright spots for the Quakers. The second-year guard led all Red and Blue scorers with 14 points and managed to come away with three steals on the defensive end. Howard injured his wrist towards the end of the game and his status moving forward is unclear.

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Quakers can’t handle ‘NovaW. HOOPS | Penn fails to grab Big 5 title outright with lossBY COLIN HENDERSONSports Editor

VS. VILLANOVA

ILANA WURMAN/SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR Senior forward Kara Bonenberger was one of the few bright sports for a lackluster Penn team on Wednesday..

Penn women’s basketball will need to share its throne atop Philadelphia college basket-ball.

Looking to go 4-0 in the Big 5 on the sea-son, the Red and Blue instead found them-selves at the mercy of a Villanova squad fi ring on all cylinders, losing 70-44.

The Wildcats (11-8) knew they were in for a test from a tough Penn team (8-6), and they came out red hot.

In fact, they pretty much couldn’t miss.In the game’s fi rst eight minutes alone, Vil-

lanova took a commanding 24-8 lead over the Red and Blue. The Wildcats’ impressive scor-ing output in that stretch came primarily as a result of an obscene 6-of-7 three-point shoot-ing performance.

“They just made shots,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “We worked really hard to take away some angles, but they move the ball so quickly.”

The Quakers have been strong defensively throughout the season, but quite frankly, Vil-lanova picked them apart. When the Wildcats had the ball, the ball moved crisply and al-most always ended in the hands of an open shooter.

“We broke down,” McLaughlin said. “And we paid for it … They simply outplayed us.”

Penn managed to fi ght back in the fi rst half, led by the high-energy play of freshman guard Beth Brzozowski, who contributed fi ve points and two steals in short order off the bench.

“I think we treated it like any other Big 5 game,” senior guard Kathleen Roche said. “They came right at us, and we could have come out harder on them.”

However, the Wildcats never looked too

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M. HOOPS | Quakers trailed by as many as 23 in blowoutBY IAN WENIKSenior Staff Writer

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Penn’s toughest test lies aheadWRESTLING | Winner of meet with Cornell has taken last 25 Ivy titlesBY THOMAS MUNSONAssociate Sports Editor

VS. MONMOUTH

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One final go-around at SheerrSWIMMING | Penn preps for Senior Day vs. Blue BY RILEY STEELESenior Sports Editor

THOMAS MUNSON/DP STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Against Cornell, senior Lorenzo Thomas will match up with the Big Red’s top wrestler, Gabe Dean.

FREDA ZHAO/DP STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER After setting a pool record in the 200-yard butterfly against Columbia in November, senior Taylor Sneed is looking to end her career at Penn in similar record-setting fashion.

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The thing that’s most frustrating is that they played with such attention to detail, a ton of energy and effort Saturday night.

-Jerome Allen Penn coach

GETTING A LEG UP

With 11 teams in action, this weekend is set to be a busy slate for Penn Athletics.

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