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Students call for more diversity in CAPS staff

In November, Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation held a protest to stand in solidarity with students at the Univer-sity of Missouri and Yale, who had been protesting the unfair treatment of minority students on their campuses as well as the failure of their administrations to proac-tively address the issue of racism.

SOUL leaders at Penn provided their own list of demands on the administration in order to address issues of racism. One of these demands was increased “underrepre-sented minority employees” at Counseling and Psychological Services.

"I think there’s value in talking to some-one who looks like you or may have similar lived experiences.” said UMOJA President Ray Clark.

The importance of a diverse CAPS staff

Why your roommate is probably from Westchester, N.Y.

As high school graduation ap-proached, College sophomore Shelby Barlow was one of the few students in her small Mississippi town preparing to leave the state for college.

Many of her high school class-mates from Long Beach, Miss. had recently enlisted in the military. Others were heading off to the local community college.

Barlow, who grew up in Long Beach, described it as “a small town where Southern hospitality is still alive and families stay for gen-erations.” As the only student from her high school to attend Penn in her memory, Barlow was excited to step out of the confines of her small hometown.

Her transition did not come with-out obstacles. “A lot of people don’t know anything about Mississippi, or they have a really disparaging view,” Barlow said.

While Penn prides itself on diversity, statistics reveal it isn’t quite so geographically diverse.

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BYO owners dish on Penn

It’s no secret that Penn students have an insatiable appetite for events that include drinking. But in the world of Penn social life where almost anything can (and probably will) be pregamed, there is no better example than the time honored tradition of the Bring Your Own.

Yes the BYO, where college students ven-ture out into the city, sometimes bringing their drunken antics with them. For the staff at some of Penn’s most popular BYOs, a group of Penn students is a welcome sight.

Manager John Lewis from Iztaccihuatl. John is no stranger to the Penn social life. “They come here to get drunk and wild,” he said of his restaurant.

Iztaccihuatl is perhaps the prime example of when a restaurant and the Penn students who go there are in complete sync. Lewis describes his restaurant as a “hall party with food that’s BYO.”

After years at Iztaccihuatl, Lewis has de-veloped a strong rapport with Penn students. Even when they get rowdy, “Penn students are

For some owners, Penn students are a welcome sightCAMERON DICHTERContributing Reporter

Minority leaders demanded changes from administrators at protestJESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Reporter

A look at geographic diver-sity within the student bodyVIBHA KANNANStaff Reporter

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What we learn in the exercise

of giving thanks is that maybe it’s OK to fall short.”

- Clara Jane Hendrickson

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On a typical weekday around noon, lines of hungry students wait for delicious food from their fa-vorite food trucks snaking down Spruce Street outside the Quadran-gle. Meanwhile, right up the street similar lines can be seen through the windows of the various restaurants along Spruce toward 38th Street.

Whether you prefer an early morning breakfast sandwich from Lyn’s or Bui’s or a vegetarian meal from Magic Carpet, a large amount of Penn students partake in Univer-sity City’s food-truck culture every day. With over 60 trucks to choose from, students and faculty alike can enjoy a variety of different foods, ranging from Asian to Mediterra-nean and from bagels to desserts.

However, a lesser known fact about the food-truck scene at Penn is the big changes that have oc-curred around the University City food trucks. Specifically, a trend in more recent years sees thriving food trucks expanding from the truck model to full-time brick-and-mortar locations. Restaurants such as Greek Lady, HubBub Coffee and Pari Cafe Creperie in Houston Market have smoothly made the transition with the help of Penn Facilities and Real Estate Services.

Food trucks at PennThe food-truck culture at Penn

has been vibrant for about five years, according to FRES Executive Di-rector Ed Datz. Over this period of time, it has evolved quite extensively, Datz said.

Tony Sorrentino, executive director of the Office of the Execu-tive Vice President, attributes the

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When food trucks become food establishments

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Getting into law school this admissions cycle might be harder than it’s been in years.

Kaplan conducted its annual survey of 120 law schools and found that 88 percent are con-fident that their number of applicants will increase this year. In 2014, only 46 percent thought they would see a spike, and later saw the smallest pool of applicants in 40 years.

The Associate Dean of Ad-missions and Financial Aid at Penn Law School, Renee Post, said the survey results are “en-couraging.” She said Penn Law has been watching numbers of LSAT takers, and that they saw an increase in test takers this past October. According to the Kaplan report, the number of test takers jumped in December 2014, February 2015 and June 2015 as well.

“The predictors are positive

so far,” Post said, adding that the number of applicants will not be certain until applications close late this spring.

Post said the biggest factor dragging down law school ap-plicant numbers nationally in the past few years has been the aftershock of the 2008 reces-sion. She added that Penn Law applications have stayed pretty consistent despite national num-bers taking a hit.

“Penn has fared that storm very well,” she said.

College senior Brooke Rogers is applying to law school this year and said she didn’t know about the Kaplan survey.

“I’ve always been under the impression that it’s been com-petitive no matter what,” she said.

Rogers said the pre-law ad-visors at Penn told her to apply to at least 14 different schools, but not because of the jump in applicants. She said their rec-ommendations weren’t different from those made in previous years and attributed the high number of recommended

applications to factors that have stayed constant like the uniform nature of personal statements.

“Personal statements are pretty generic,” she said. “You have to somehow convey all these things in two pages dou-ble-spaced.”

She added that the number of schools a student chooses to apply to is also personal — it depends on factors such as the applicant’s LSAT scores and GPA.

Rogers currently plans to apply to 18 schools, but she said the number might go down. Most of them are in and around D.C. because she said she is interested in criminal law, liti-gation or working for the army or the U.S. Department of State. But Rogers will only have to pay application fees for about four or five of the schools because certain schools have free appli-cations to try to encourage more people to apply.

“Because not as many people are applying they’ve waived a lot of the fees ... if I get it in before a certain time,” she said.

is something that is acknowl-edged by CAPS Director William Alexander.

“With underserved minor-ity populations, it is important to have representation on any staff, our staff, just because it portrays a more welcoming and open community to talk to,” Alexander said. “If you look at the counseling center and you see all white faces, and you’re an international student, you might be a little more hesitant.”

CAPS Director of Outreach and Prevention Meeta Kumar said that some mental health issues are more likely to effect minority students at Penn, an issue that might be better ad-dressed by CAPS workers of minority backgrounds.

“Many of the issues are those common to any Penn stu-dent,” Kumar said. “Others that

are more specific are national incidents and issues of racism or homophobia, which have a negative impact on students and communities.”

Kumar argued that stigmas sur rounding mental health are often prevalent in minor-ity communities, which could prevent students from seeking treatment.

“There are a range of stigmas in various minority commu-nities” Kumar said. “Lack of mental health discussions; di-chotomous ideas of illness, being ‘strong’ means capability to deal with any adversity and ‘weak’ as in needing support; feelings of guilt in disclosing personal problems to others, et cetera.”

These stigmas can affect the extent to which students are able to discuss mental health within their families.

“Family members of minor-ity students may not be attuned

or sensitive to mental health issues that may create addi-tional challenges,” she said.

Kumar also believes that a “Western lens” on psy-chology might not f it a l l cultures, which is why CAPS employs “cl in icians with exper t i se /cer t i f ica t ion i n specific group care, such as Afr ican-Amer ican, Lat ina , Asian-American, Pacific Is-lander, African, Asian and multiracial identity issues and counseling.”

Despite CAPS’ insistence that its staff is diverse, mi-nority student leaders at Penn are calling for a CAPS staff that is more demographically representative of the Penn community.

“The administration should make sure that representation of CAPS workers matches the demographics of Penn’s popu-lation at least. It’s definitely within their reach,” Clark said.

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popularity of food trucks at Penn and West Philly at large to the uniqueness of retail in the area.

“We’re proud in West Philly of this mix between the national retailers and the small mom-and-pop retailers,” Sorrentino said.

Additionally, Sorrentino be-lieves that the growth in food truck popularity within the past decade comes in part from the re-cession, during which consumers were looking for “a delicious, but inexpensive product.”

With cheap prices and quick serving time, food trucks are per-fect for universities such as Penn that have “grab-and-go cultures,” Sorrentino said.

Furthermore, food trucks bring variety to University City’s food culture. “If you’re an undergradu-ate student, we have really great dining halls, but sometimes you want something that the dining hall doesn’t offer. If you’re an employee, there are really great restaurants to choose from. Sometimes you want something that isn’t one of our restaurants,” Sorrentino said.

Why food trucks in the first place?

Food truck vending has ex-panded nationally due to the low barrier to entry for entrepreneurs interested in the the restaurant industry.

“It’s a way to get into the main-stream economy for people who are immigrating and for people who are learning American busi-ness and commerce,” Sorrentino said.

Additionally, owning and op-erating a food truck is a viable option for those interested in opening their own business but incapable of committing the time and resources into keeping a full-time restaurant running.

For example, Dean Varvoutis and Deb Carson, owners of the popular Magic Carpet food trucks located at 36th and Spruce and 34th and Walnut Streets, opened their first location on Spruce back in 1984. They employed the food truck model because they had a growing family and couldn’t devote enough time to operating a full-time retail location.

Since the restaurant business is difficult and costly to enter, emerging food entrepreneurs, especially in the University City, are incentivized to start their business in a food truck. Accord-ing to Pricenomics, a blog about data, economics and business, 25 percent of restaurants fail in their first year and 60 percent in their first three years. Food trucks are cheaper, less risky, and make for a situation in which it is easier for entrepreneurs to break out into, as seen in a number of food trucks around University City.

An important component of FRES operations with food trucks around Penn over the past couple decades has been the development of “open-air food courts,” also known as “food truck plazas” around campus. There is one plaza out-side Meyerson Hall at 34th and Walnut Streets, one next to Pot-truck Fitness Center located at 3701 Walnut Street, one outside Weightman Hall at 235 S. 33rd Street and one at 40th and Locust

Streets.As opposed to operating under

Philadelphia regulations on the street, vendors at these loca-tions operate on Penn property. They pay rent to Penn, and they are able to leave their trucks after hours instead of having to move them.

One of Magic Carpet’s loca-tions is at the plaza at 34th and Walnut. Roughly 23 years ago, Penn invited Magic Carpet to this private location, Carson said. Op-erations are roughly the same at both locations, Carson said, but there tend to be more grad stu-dents over at 34th and Walnut.

Going brick-and-mortarFRES helps many entrepre-

neurs, including food trucks, locate and move into real estate around University City when they express interest.

“The Real Estate team has

provided guidance over the years to multiple entrepreneurs seek-ing to move from a food truck to a ‘brick and mortar’ location. Two have successfully made this

transition: Hub Bub and Greek Lady,” FRES Executive Director Ed Datz said.

After opening and successfully operating his coffee truck on 38th and Walnut Streets back in 2009, Hub Bub owner Drew Crockett decided to expand into a full-time retail location.

“My goal was to build a brand and company,” Crockett, a 2005 graduate of the College said.

Crockett made an effort to pro-vide his customers with a “high quality experience and product in a different way,” but found himself limited by weather and

regulations due to the nature of operating out of a truck.

“It made sense to go to brick and mortar,” Crockett said.

In 2010, Crockett met with FRES to move forward with ex-pansion. Datz worked directly with Crockett to secure a store-front on campus, as locations tend to be competitive.

FRES focuses on helping en-trepreneurs, including food truck operators, come up with a busi-ness plan and find a location on campus to get started. They be-lieve it is important to help small business thrive on campus.

“We help formulate the busi-ness model for them,” Datz said. “We believe in entrepreneurship, and we promote it.”

The Office of the Executive Vice President, which oversees FRES, then steps in. FRES typi-cally tries to place businesses in suitable Penn-owned retail spots if possible. If none are available, they leverage connections with other local property owners to find spaces for the entrepreneurs.

“Craig Carnaroli, the executive vice president, is involved with the retail leasing decisions that are made and campus planning decisions that are made,” Sorren-tino said.

While operating as a food truck proved to be “a good type of testing ground,” for Crockett with Hub Bub, the business is happy with their new brick-and-

mortar location at 3736 Spruce Street.

The next food truck restaurantSince opening in August 2013,

Schmear It has become a staple in many Penn students’ breakfast diets, offering New York style bagels with a number of different topping options.

After graduating from the Col-lege in 2011, Dave Fine worked for a non-profit, but wanted to start his own socially conscious business. Now, he owns and op-erates the bright-red bagel truck usually parked at 38th and Locust

Streets, and donates a part of his weekly profits to selected non-profits.

“I thought that was a very compelling model, and I wanted to see if it could be done in the food industry,” Fine said.

Schmear It began featuring a bi-weekly cause immediately after opening, and in operating on this model, Fine allows con-sumers to “do good while eating the food.”

“We’ll automatically donate a percentage of your purchase to our featured nonprofit organiza-tion,” the website states.

After operating for a couple of years and examining busi-nesses such as Hub Bub Coffee that thrived on the opportunity for growth model, Fine made the decision to look into ex-panding to brick-and-mortar.

“It doesn’t work for every-one, but I want to be able to provide greater capacity,” Fine said.

Opportunity arose for Fine to expand into a full-time lo-cation with new construction bringing real estate to 36th and Market Streets. The develop-ment known as 3601 Market is a new apartment building next to the University City Sci-ence Center. When completed, ground level retail will include Schmear It as well as a number of other restaurants including Herban Quality Eats, Danlu,

PWS, Dunkin Donuts, and Jimmy Johns.

“We’re still waiting [to move in],” Fine said. His goal is to be up and running this Spring.

But not all food trucks want to go brick-and-mortar. Magic Carpet hasn’t made the effort to expand into a full-time res-taurant over the past thirty or so years, but says it’s not to-tally out of the question for the business to join Hub Bub and Schmear It.

“The model we have here could be expanded into brick-and-mortar,” Varvoutis said.

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Recently, at the rec-ommendation of a friend, I read author

Rebecca Solnit’s essay col-lection “Men Explain Things to Me.” In the essay, Solnit tells a series of personal sto-ries wherein various men con-descendingly “correct” her about topics in which her ex-pertise far exceeds their own. She concludes that beneath their bloviation lies a so-cially ingrained presumption that women are ignorant and can’t possibly outmatch male knowledge.

What struck me about the men in Solnit’s anecdotes was their rudeness. Had I been in Solnit’s shoes, I’d have been less inclined to think “sex-ism” and more inclined to think “jackassery.” This is, of course, precisely Solnit’s point: Unlike me, she’s a woman, and so perceives such slights to be lesser cases on a continuum of misogyny that, at its extreme, includes coun-tries that forbid female court testimony.

As with complaints of race-based “microaggressions,” one could argue that this per-

ception is unwarranted. Even if that’s right — and my mind isn’t made up on the subject — it still doesn’t address Sol-nit’s concern that repetitive condescension makes wom-en hesitate to express their knowledge in public for fear of being dismissed. Enough women and racial minorities have testified to feeling that same hesitation that any egali-tarian ought to be concerned.

Many of my free speech-focused compatriots are more convinced than I am that such slights represent nothing more than quotidian rudeness — the sort that white men also regularly experience. They argue that the best way to end these bad consequences is by refuting the claim that slights are harbingers of serious prejudice. If women and ra-cial minorities don’t perceive slights as racialized and gen-dered, they argue, then rude-ness is deprived of its power to frighten, and so to silence. Many intelligent social-justice progressives sincerely dis-agree.

It occurs to me, however, that if we agree broadly that

discomforting remarks are bad in most cases, we don’t have to agree on whether or not they’re commonly preju-diced. Whether they’re mans-plainers and microaggressors or just run-of-the-mill jerks,

people who routinely say hurtful things probably don’t think they’re “being rude,” be-cause there are so few broadly agreed-upon rules of rude-ness. The prejudice question doesn’t have to be resolved to address this.

Modern America’s lack of extensive standard mores is rooted in recent history. For-mal etiquette declined along with other rigid markers of social status which accom-panied the sweeping cultural restructuring of the late 20th century.

But maybe something valu-able was thrown out with traditionalism’s indubitably dirty bathwater. A broader set of non-legal, universal taboos might be a valuable tool in easing some of the discom-

fort which comes with living in our pluralist, multicultural society.

Take Solnit: Maybe it should be universally taboo to correct someone in casual conversation, even if they garble the facts. The stakes are low, and the risk of giving offense is high. Universal ta-boos against unsolicited ques-tions and comments about physical appearance, wealth, employment and family might serve the same ends.

Crucially, these kinds of taboos are enforced by peers,

against peers. The conse-quences for violating them are purely social. They are not backed up by the coercive power of institutions or gov-ernments and violations are generally not widely publi-cized. Small-scale embarrass-ment is unpleasant, not life-al-tering. Importantly, it does not make martyrs the way public shamings often do.

Etiquette doesn’t arise overnight and isn’t propagated by authorities. It is consen-sual, rather than mandatory. The formation of a new eti-quette will require continued good-faith public discourse about rights and responsibili-ties, plus careful attention to both those who say they feel wronged as well as the de-fenders of the status quo. If we desire a society which is sen-sitive but unafraid, pluralist but harmonious, affirmative but not dogmatic, we need to know that where to draw the lines of taboo will never be obvious or uncontrover-sial. But that is no reason to abandon the exercise of line-drawing altogether. It seems we have done so at our peril.

Of course, manners can only obscure prejudiced at-titudes, not eradicate them. But if, as Solnit says, per-ceived expressions of subtle bigotry have direct negative consequences of their own, then targeting this “symptom” could have positive effects. It doesn’t solve the whole prob-lem, but if ongoing harms can be mitigated, why wouldn’t we try?

Last week, I enjoyed a Thanksgiving meal with my family.

Every year, I find myself dissecting what exactly it is I’m supposed to be cel-ebrating on this holiday. I wonder what the exercise of giving thanks is really meant to entail. It is this time of year when I typi-cally breach the damning question, “How much of who I am is the blessing of my unearned circum-stances?” It is this time of year when I typically feel excruciatingly indebted to the fortune of my place in the world.

I often feel guilty asking such a question when I’m supposed to find clarity as I ground myself in some expression of immense gratitude. It feels that such a question complicates the relationship between thank-fulness and personal influ-ence. Is it trite to be thank-ful for that which is out of my control? Given that I am

thankful for my unearned fortune, who is it that I am thanking? Does challeng-ing the premise and prac-tice of gratitude somehow distract from the sanctity of the Thanksgiving holiday and its accompanying fam-ily time? I believe the two need not be mutually exclu-sive — it is the nature of Thanksgiving that invites a discordant experience. In fact, it is what the holiday requires of us.

The Thanksgiving holi-day reminds us that we hold many intentions and values that we do not and will not always live up to. This failure to measure up to our ideologies does not mean we should reject them wholesale. It also does not mean that we must begin to see ourselves as bad people for failing to live up to our values in the way we would like. Instead, what we learn in the exercise of giving thanks is that maybe it’s OK to fall short.

Asking tough questions of ourselves helps remind us that what we seek when we attempt to find some kind of resolution through giving thanks is not some-

thing that can be categori-cally reduced to just good or bad. While I may firmly root myself in a belief sys-tem, living my life by some moral compass, not all I participate in can be said to be good or bad. And I would venture to suggest that most of us are not ready for the kind of sacrifices living re-ligiously by a values system requires — which means, we must find a way to be content with our contradic-tions. Determining how to

be a graceful hypocrite is a challenge worth tackling.

It is OK to fall short be-cause it is not the goal of the practice of gratitude to look for a way out of

our contradictory nature. Perhaps the resolution we seek is not about giving ourselves a path towards absolution, balancing grati-tude with hypocrisy. In-stead, we should engage in an exercise of profound self-awareness that forces us to live with our tensions. Who do we allow ourselves to be when we understand that the match between our values and how we lead our lives is less than ideal, let alone feasible?

I am less concerned with the ramifications of not living up precisely to a moral code than I am with the ramifications if we do not even breach the tensions between our life-style and values. That kind of curiosity regarding our own hypocrisy prevents us from opting for merely idealism or cynicism. Ide-alism applies our values in a perfect, but closed, system and negates a con-sideration of the damning reality in which we live. Cynicism, on the other hand, opts for an effort-less position that fails to see humans as agents of historical change. Instead, this view contends that humans are merely the inheritors of the world’s harsh blows.

Perhaps the Thanksgiv-ing table we should strive to sit at is the one that treats gratitude as an at-tempt to comprehend our own existence and place it

somewhere meaningful in an otherwise indifferent universe. Nothing is going to inherently make us bet-ter people without our ef-fort. While Thanksgiving is one day out of the year, it is a manifestation of the everyday struggle over the choices we make that de-fine who we are.

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

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CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON is a College senior from San Francisco studying political science. Her email address is [email protected]. “leftovers” typically appears every other Thursday.

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… what we learn in the exercise of giving thanks is that maybe it’s OK to fall short.”

If we agree broadly that discomforting remarks are bad in most cases, we don’t have to agree on whether or not they’re commonly prejudiced.”

the most respectful,” he said.The only issues that Lewis

ever had with Penn students is that sometimes they break things.

“One week I went through three toilet seats,” he said.

One restaurant where you hopefully won’t find Penn stu-dents breaking toilet seats is La Viola. La Viola is another one of Penn students’ favorite BYO lo-cations, although dining there is a very different experience than dining at Izaccihuatl.

The manager of La Viola, who would not allow his waitstaff to be interviewed for this article, had kind words for Penn stu-dents, saying, “The students are respectful. They sing and like to have fun.”

Respect was not mentioned at another popular BYO restaurant, Banana Leaf, where the wait-staff said, “Groups with only boys can get kind of rude.” They added that larger groups were

often brought to back areas be-cause they could get pretty loud.

The staff also said that groups of Penn students are easily

identifiable.“You can always tell when

it’s [Penn] students,” one staff member said.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Philadelphia is the most im-poverished of the 10 biggest cities in the United States, according to a recently released report — but improvements are being made.

This fact was shared in a progress report released by the Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportu-nity on Nov. 20, when the group hosted a Uniting to Fight Poverty Summit at Huntsman Hall on Penn’s campus. The event focused on poverty, inequality and race, as well as the city’s future.

The Mayor’s Office of Com-munity Empowerment and Opportunity was founded in 2013 and its plan, Shared Prosper-ity Philadelphia, has been one

of the initiatives aimed to help fight poverty. The plan has five main goals: economic security and asset building, housing secu-rity and affordability, access to public benefits, job creation and workforce development and early learning.

The summit on Friday opened with a keynote speaker, author Dale Russakoff, followed by breakout sessions, and ended with the release of the Shared Prosper-ity Philadelphia 2015 Progress Report by Mayor Michael Nutter and Eva Gladstein, the executive director of MOCEO.

According to the report, new benefit centers, called BenePhilly Centers, have helped provide the impoverished in Philadelphia with around $13 million in ben-efits over the past year. These centers help provide benefits and programs to Philadelphians that are eligible. The Office has also

made many new partnerships in the past year to other organiza-tions and businesses to increase the effort to reach their goals.

The report showed that A Run-ning Start, an early learning plan for Philadelphian children aged zero to five, has been developed and is currently being imple-mented.

However, there is still a lot of work to be done to fight poverty in Philadelphia, which has the highest deep poverty rate of large cities in the U.S., according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

According to the report, 26 percent of Philadelphians still live in poverty, down only a little from the 26.3 percent reported in 2013. As Mayor Nutter hands the office over to his incoming suc-cessor, Jim Kenney, in January, time will tell whether this statis-tic will continue to fall over the next year.

City releases report on anti-poverty initiativesReport reviewed new inia-tives by Mayor NutterSOPHIA LEPORTEContributing Reporter

According to a recently released report, Philadelphia ranks as the most impoverished out of the 10 biggest cities in the United States.

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Male and female are terms that everyone knows, but gen-derqueer is a term that might turn a few heads.

I met up with the student at Greek Lady. As we sat down, I asked about their pronouns, and they told me he or she was fine, but then corrected them-self.

“Use they. I always feel like gender pronouns are kind of a statement in the community.”

They it is. While there are no standard pronouns for non-binary or genderqueer, people often go by pronouns such as they, ze or hir.

Like much of the other de-mographic information for the LGBTQ community at Penn, all population numbers are self-reported and anecdotal.

“Anecdotally we know that the population has increased in recent years,” LGBT Center Senior Associate Director Erin

Cross said. “More folks are starting to know about nonbi-nary/genderqueer.”

So what does being nonbi-nary or genderqueer mean? It’s a term that has multiple defi-nitions, and different people have different experiences. For the student I met, they took a moment to think about what it was like for them.

“The most direct way would be I don’t feel feminine but I don’t feel masculine enough,” they told me.

“I have something of both sides, but I’m not on fully both sides,” they said. “For the female end of the spectrum, since I’m born as a female, it’s kind of already ingrained into my system, and I’m leaning toward the masculine side of nonbinary, but I’m just too used to being female. On the other side, inherently I feel like I’m more of a male. It’s kind of a weird feeling to describe.”

They might have a different experience from many gender-queer people in the community since they are from Hong Kong, where the LGBTQ culture is

very different. They gestured to their short hair and more mas-culine-leaning clothing, and

explained that they had been known as a tomboy in Hong Kong, and that being a tomboy

was a relatively common iden-tifier for girls.

“O ne ve r y i n t e res t i ng

observation I’ve made is that there’s a lot less tomboys with short hair here. I find myself a minority in a way,” they said. “Back in Hong Kong, nobody talks about this ... short hair prob-ably means you’re a lesbian.”

At Penn, being nonbinary is not really an issue for them, al-though there are the occasional inconveniences.

“At Penn, I guess being non-binary itself does not bring a lot of inconvenience,” they said. “The bigger inconve-nience would be brought about by gender noncononformity.”

In some ways, they feel that being genderqueer has differ-ent challenges than being trans, because of the ambiguity. The gendered nature of formal clothing, business clothing and parties at Penn is also some-thing that concerns them.

“I think, in a way, gender nonconforming to nonbinary is kind of an annoying phase,” they said. “You’re passing but you’re not actually passing ... there isn’t much nonbinary vis-ibility so I don’t really have a role model or someone to reference.”

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Students like Barlow from underrepresented geographi-cal areas say that the transition to Penn can be initially jarring, both socially and academically. And unlike many of their peers, they usually enter college without knowing anyone.

Increased recruiting efforts in recent years have created a di-verse undergraduate population at Penn. But the student body’s geographic distribution is still far from representative of the United States population. According to the Admissions Office’s profile for the Class of 2019, only 10.8 percent of students are from the Southeast, while 44.4 percent hail from the Northeast.

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said that Penn has no set standards for geographic diversity that it has to meet, but that “the University touches every state during college recruitment.”

Despite Penn’s efforts, how-ever, undergraduates from highly underrepresented areas face social and academic challenges — ones that many of their peers never experience — when they arrive to Philadelphia.

Penn’s Geographic ProfileOnly in the last few decades

has Penn become a truly national institution. Originally, it was a local college for young men in the surrounding Philadelphia area.

While diversity at Penn today has progressed far past its founding days, the geographic distribution of the undergraduate population is still imbalanced.

College Factual ranks Penn as the 35th most geographically di-verse school in the country, with all the other Ivy League schools except Cornell ranked above it.

According to the profile for the Class of 2019, 53.2 percent of non-international students at Penn come from just four states: Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and California. However, these states only make up 25.2 percent of the population of the U.S., according to 2014 popula-tion projections based on the 2010 U.S. Census.

While 371 students hail from Pennsylvania in the Class of 2019 — 17.4 percent of the class — only two are from Mississippi. Barlow is the only person from her state in the Class of 2018.

Admissions office data also notes that students who attend boarding school in the North-east are still counted as residents of their home state. Disparities between geographic regions, therefore, might be even greater than the data suggests.

A College Prep CultureThe day Penn early decision

results came out, Wharton sopho-more Eddie Zilberbrand, who is from Brooklyn, N.Y., waited at Shake Shack after classes ended. Right before 5 p.m., Zilberbrand swiped back into Stuyvesant High School to open his decision with all his friends.

“You could hear screams in the hall and people were even crying with their friends,” Zilberbrand said with a chuckle. At the elite Manhattan public high school, which Zilberbrand and others call “Stuy,” the tradition of opening college decisions at school con-tributes to a pervasive precollege culture.

“It was unimaginable that someone wouldn’t go straight to college after high school,” he said. “For a lot of people, Cornell was almost like a ‘safety’ — 50 or 60 people get in every year [from Stuyvesant].”

New York, Zilberbrand’s home state, is the second most represented state in Penn’s undergraduate populat ion. According to data from the Admissions Office, 314 under-graduates, or 14.7 percent of non-international students, hail from New York in the Class of 2019.

Zilberbrand said that geo-graphic location plays a large role in creating this culture.

“Stuy is really close to so many of the Ivies, so there is a greater awareness about college,” he said, adding that his school’s college open house was ten floors and filled with representatives from all over the world.

At Stuyvesant, every home-room has its own guidance counselor, and there are also three separate college counselors. “They really take care of their students,” Zilberbrand said.

Barlow, a graduate of her town’s public school, recounts a starkly different experience of applying to college. Only about a third of her graduating class went to a four-year college. Barlow said that in her town, enlisting in the military was probably more common than heading off to

school.She also remembers that her

high school never made an effort to see that students go out of state for college. All of the information and scholarships she could find were confined to Mississippi.

“There was no Ivy culture — there wasn’t really even a college culture at my school,” Barlow said.

Reaching OutBarlow’s journey to Penn re-

flects the difficulties that the University faces when recruiting students from underrepresented areas.

“A lot of students do have fairly tight circumferences about where they are going to college,” Furda said. He added that Penn uses a variety of recruitment methods, such as collecting names from standardized testing services.

Through standardized tests like the PSAT, Penn can use the data they receive from College Board to mail and email prospec-tive students. However, even this outreach method has its limita-tions in attracting students from remote geographic locations.

Barlow said that she was one of the few students in her high school to enroll in a college out-side of her home state.

“There is a kind of stigma about leaving Mississippi,” Barlow said. “My friend’s par-ents refused to let her go to art school in New York because they thought she was abandoning her hometown.”

Barlow had to take her own ini-tiative to apply to schools outside

of Mississippi. She looked into different scholarships and used the QuestBridge program to con-nect her with elite institutions outside of Mississippi. However, she said that her road to Penn was not neatly paved.

“I had to seek out teachers to talk to and college information,” Barlow said. “You really had to take an initiative to go out of state.”

A Social Safety NetWhen Barlow arrived at Penn

as a freshman, she did not know anyone on campus.

Although this didn’t bother her, she recalls feeling socially isolated initially because most people could not relate to her ex-periences.

“I met this freshman girl from Mississippi, and talking to her about our home state is incred-ible,” Barlow said. “So many other people get to experience this, but it’s not like that for me.”

Barlow has adjusted well to social life at Penn. But after growing up in a small town where she knew everyone since childhood, Barlow still remem-bers the novelty of having to form a new friend group.

In Long Beach, people are familiar with each other’s back-grounds, Barlow said, but at Penn, most students do not know anything about her home state.

She recalls one instance in her linguistics class. While the instructor played recordings of different accents, a barely under-standable Southern accent arose as an example.

“Someone blurted, ‘I think that person is from Mississippi’,” Barlow said. “It’s like Mississippi and parts of the South are a dif-ferent world for people here.”

Barlow’s experience is starkly different from her peers from well-represented areas.

Wharton sophomore Derek Hsue, a New Jersey resident and graduate of the Pingry School, said that he came into Penn knowing at least ten students. In just his graduating class, six people enrolled at Penn.

“Coming from the Northeast to a similar environment like Penn

is an advantage because a lot of students have prior connections that help them get set up,” Hsue said.

Barlow also remembered the moment when she realized that most of her peers had friends at other elite schools.

“People would reference their friends at other Ivies like Har-vard or Cornell, and I realized that the only person I know is my ex-boyfriend’s older brother who got into Harvard a few years ago,” she said.

Hsue, in contrast, said that he has at least one good friend in almost every single Ivy League school.

After the Transition PeriodBarlow and Hsue both agreed

that after the first few months at Penn, geographic association became less important.

“In some sense, people almost forgot my geographic region,” Barlow said. “Some of my friends were surprised I like country music — but it’s like, I’m from the South.”

Zilberbrand and Hsue said that their friend groups are relatively diverse and they are close with people outside of the Northeast.

“I still get to be the city-snob when I go to New York with my friends, but it’s not my defining characteristic,” Zilberbrand said.

Barlow said that although her Southern origins have affected many of her experiences at Penn, it is not her defining characteris-tic.

“It might have been a little bit difficult at first, but I think it’s not just my background that affects how prepared I am for Penn,” she said. “There’s also my work ethic and personality.”

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certainly influenced him along the way. His father, Will Andrew, was a three-time All-American swimmer at Williams College, and his mother swam there as well.

“I’ve been swimming for about as long as I can remember,” Andrew said. “My dad introduced me to the sport when I was really young.”

His success so far is due to more than just talent, something to which coach Mike Schnur can attest.

“He works hard every day, he’s talented and he’s confident,” Schnur said.

Andrew agrees with this, but feels that there is something else that he learned from swimming in high school that helps him suc-ceed.

“What I’ve retained from high

school is just the ability to race, which is such a key aspect in swimming,” he said.

Andrew also believes he brings more to the table than just his ability in the pool.

“What I like to bring to the team is a positive energy,” he said. “You want to be the guy that’s up cheering, but you also want to be the guy that people are up cheer-ing for.”

The main event for Andrew is the individual medley, which combines the four strokes: butter-fly, backstroke, breaststroke and

freestyle. Because of this, he does not have a particular specialty, which opens up myriad possibili-ties for his role on the Penn team.

“When you have someone like Mark, his greatest strength is his versatility,” Schnur said. “The most difficult part about him is figuring where to put him, be-cause he can do so many things for us.”

Andrew is not alone in envi-sioning himself having a very successful career with the Red and Blue.

“I think Mark has unlimited

potential,” Schnur said. “He could be an Ivy champion, he could be an NCAA qualifier, he could be an All-American, he might be NCAA champion some day.”

Andrew heads a freshman class that was ranked seventh in the nation last year by Colleg-eSwimming.com, so others will find success as well. However, he has the opportunity to do something special here at Penn: to compete, win and leave his mark on the record books of not just Penn, but the NCAA.

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Quakers look to fend off surging Navy team

After Penn men’s basketball’s first loss of the season on the road against Washington, the Quakers responded emphatically, playing arguably their best game yet in an 80-64 victory over Big 5 foe La Salle.

Today, following a 92-86 upset at the hands of Lafayette, the Red and Blue will have another chance for a strong rebound. Penn will welcome Navy to the Palestra, looking to repeat last week’s performance and keep its home record unblemished.

“I think our energy level was so great for La Salle after the disappointing loss at Washing-ton,” coach Steve Donahue said. “Conversely, at Lafayette, they beat us to the punch. We learned a tough lesson because we didn’t

understand how ready you have to be, so hopefully we grow from it.”

For Penn (4-2), one bright spot from the weekend was the re-emergence of senior guard Jamal Lewis, who missed the entire 2014-15 season due to a staph infection and has gradually re-turned to peak condition since.

Lewis posted a season-high 18 minutes in the loss and scored 10 points, securing his first double-digit scoring performance since February 2013 and providing op-timism that he will be able to fill the departed Tony Hicks’ role as the lone upperclassman leader of an extremely young backcourt.

“It’s great to have someone who’s been through as much as he’s been through,” Donahue said. “I think he’s in game shape now, and I would assume he’s going to play more minutes as we move along.”

While Penn is coming off of a disappointing setback, Navy (6-2) will enter today’s matchup with strong momentum. The Midshipmen took first place in the inaugural Spartan Showcase tournament at UNC-Greensboro last weekend, giving the program

its first six-game win streak since 2008.

Fifth-year coach Ed DeChellis has brought a Navy program that went 3-26 in his first season back to respectability, as the team has increased its win total in each of his four seasons and is on pace to comfortably continue that streak this year.

“It’s such a difficult coaching job at the military academies,” Donahue said. “Ed was a great coach at Penn State [where he won the 2009 Big Ten Coach of the Year], and he has built this program back up. He’s a hard-nosed coach, no B.S., and the kids play hard and unselfishly.”

Penn’s Sunday defeat was

an offensive shootout, but to-day’s matchup with the red-hot Midshipmen will likely be far from it. Navy has only allowed 58.9 points per game thus far – its lowest mark since College Basketball Reference began re-cording such data in 1995, and the 14th-best out of 351 Division I teams.

“We have to be efficient break-ing the press and we have to push the ball in transition before their defense can set,” Donahue said. “When we’re in the half-court, we have to cut hard and move the ball, keep attacking but keep sharing. We can’t relax in terms of moving the ball half-speed.”

One key figure in Penn’s of-fensive attack will be sophomore guard Antonio Woods, who led a frantic comeback effort at La-fayette by scoring 11 points in the game’s final 75 seconds.

Like the team, which is shoot-ing 28.5 percent from three-point range, Woods has struggled from beyond the arc, converting 5-for-27 so far. But Sunday’s closing effort has the squad confident that it can get back on track.

“My teammates and coaches tell me to keep playing regardless

of whether shots fall or not, so that’s what I try to do,” Woods said. “The shots we took on Sunday were mostly good shots, and they just didn’t fall. All we can do is keep shooting and they’re eventually going to go in.”

Inside the paint, a key battle of senior centers will unfold between Penn’s Darien Nelson-Henry and Navy’s Will Kelly, who ranks 17th in the nation with 2.8 blocks per game. Following a double-double in last season’s 57-46 win at Navy, Nelson-Henry will face a stiff test in the 6-foot-9 Kelly.

Ultimately, in a battle of evenly matched teams — Navy is only 20 spots ahead of Penn in the Pomeroy rankings — the Red and Blue’s home-court advantage may provide just enough separa-tion.

“You always have that ad-vantage when you’re used to the court and used to the at-mosphere,” Woods said. “I’ve always believed that you have to protect your home court, and I really think we’re going to be back on our game on Wednes-day.”

M. HOOPS | Penn coming off disappointing lossCOLE JACOBSONSports Reporter

Sophomore guard Antonio Woods has been effective for the Quakers this season, scoring 9.8 points per game along with a team-high 19 assists.

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teammates for her skill.“Not only does she hit it hard,”

head coach Jack Wyant said. “She hits it consistently as well.”

“And precise too,” associate head coach Gilly Lane added.

With two sweeps to her name already, Salah’s squash career is off to a great start. The Ham-mer’s dominance has been on

display early on, as she has al-lowed an average of only three points per set.

Salah has had many opportu-nities to sharpen her skills before eventually coming to Penn. On top of winning the most recent U-19 U.S. National Squash Tour-nament, she has also represented Team USA for the annual World Junior Championships every year since 2013.

In squash, pace of play is often

dictated by the power behind the opponent’s hit speed. The same way Serena Williams dominates opponents with blistering hit speeds, Salah has done the same on the squash court.

“The Hammer” has backed up her impressive moniker by using her strength to overpower her opponents. Known for tattoo-ing the back wall with her shots, the sheer power exerted by Salah during matches has earned her

the nickname straight out of the toolbox.

The world record for the hard-est squash ball ever hit is held by Cameron PiIley, currently the world’s 24th-ranked men’s player, at 176 miles per hour. Salah isn’t quite ready to break any world records with her shots just yet, but that hasn’t stopped her from using her speed to force opponents into committing errors.

At fastest, her hardest hit came out to 134 MPH, but her velocity continued to climb as measure-ments were taken. Lane set the benchmark for the team with a team-high speed of 151 MPH, and sophomore Marwan Mah-moud on the men’s side came in right behind him with a blistering 150 MPH.

Speedometer ratings aside, Wyant made sure to stress that what separates The Hammer

from others is the fact that she can translate her skills directly into the game settings.

“Anyone can hit the ball hard in practice,” Wyant said. “But she does it in the game as well.”

The thunderous sounds of her shots are enough to strike fear into any opponent that draws the Hammer. In order to preserve her perfect 2015 squash record, Salah will have to continue to channel her inner Asgardian deity.

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Freshman swimmer Mark Andrew is off to a good start for the Red and Blue — he broke a Sheerr Pool record in his first collegiate meet - but he and his coach both believe the best is yet to come.

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Awards season isn’t quite over for Penn football.

A week after coach Ray Priore was named Ivy League Coach of the Year, two Penn players — senior linebacker Tyler Drake and sophomore wide receiver Justin Watson — have been announced as two of the four finalists for the Asa S. Bushnell Cup. Watson joins Harvard senior quarterback Scott Hosch as a finalist for Offensive Player of the Year, while Drake and Dartmouth senior linebacker Will McNa-mara are the finalists on the defensive side.

The last time a Penn player

was honored with the Bushnell Cup — which honors the An-cient Eight’s players of the year each season — was in 2009, when linebacker Jake Lewko shared the award with Brown wide receiver Buddy Farnham. The award will be announced on Monday, Dec. 7 at 12:30 p.m. with a press conference and reception at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.

Wat son , a una n i mous first-team All-Ivy selection, finished the season as the Ivy League’s leader in all major receiving categor ies and has already made a dent in Penn’s career receiving re-cords through his first two seasons. The sophomore from Bridgevil le, Pa., a l-ready ranks seventh all-time at Penn in receptions and re-ceiving yards with 116 and

1,579, respectively, and stands at eighth in career receiving touchdowns with 11.

“You could see during his freshman year that he was going to be something spe-cial,” Priore said earlier in the season.

Meanwhile, Drake has been a disruptive force on the de-fensive side of the ball for the Quakers all season. The senior pass rusher led the league in sacks (8.5), tackles for a loss (12.5) and forced fumbles (4), while also tallying a pair of in-terceptions and a team-high 80 tackles.

“When your hardest workers are your really good players, that’s a really good thing,” Priore said in late October. “You’ve seen that rebirth and re-energization on that side on the ball thanks to a lot of the plays that Tyler has made.”

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everything I had to do was on my own,” Mattiace said. “No one kind of made me do anything, so I had to do it all myself.

“I think that’s a big part of the wrestling world, since even though we’re on a team, you gotta be able to do it for yourself or you’re not gonna get it done.”

Undoubtedly, both grap-plers are simply thankful to rejoin Penn’s squad and get back out on the mats.

Kent summed it up best, saying, “The most exciting thing is being able to go out and wrestle again. When you sit out, it’s just a whole differ-ent experience sitting in the stands and watching. I just wanna go back out there and wrestle.”

As enthusiastic as the guys are about returning to compe-titions, Quakers’ coach Alex Tirapelle rivals their excite-ment — their wins were the things he missed most last season without them.

“They’re two really expe-rienced guys, they go out and

get the job done for the team,” Tirapelle said. “Obviously, we miss[ed] their wins individu-ally, but the team feeds off their success as well, so it’s easier to compete at a high level when you see your team-mates around you doing that already.”

Despite the duo’s time away from competition, Tirapelle is optimistic about what Kent and Mattiace can do for the Red and Blue moving for-ward. Although both wrestlers “got dinged up” in their first competitions of the year, the second-year coach recognizes how beneficial Kent and Mat-tiace’s contributions can be in the long run.

“It [was] November and the season goes through March, so it’s more of a marathon than a sprint,” he said. “So we want to make sure they’re ready to compete at a high level when they step back on the mat.”

And with Penn preparing for an important matchup this weekend at the Nittany Lion Open, only time will tell if the previously fallen athletes can complete their long road back up.

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Watson and Drake named Bushnell Cup finalistsFOOTBALL | Award honors top Ivy playersHOLDEN McGINNISSports Editor

Linebacker Tyler Drake was a force to be reckoned with for Penn’s defense in 2015. The senior finished the season leading the Ivy League in sacks (8,5), tackles for a loss (12.5) and forced fumbles (4).


Which team is most likely to improve?

Penn Athletics saw its fair share of improvement this past fall. After finishing in the bottom half of the Ivies last year, Penn football won a share of the Ancient Eight title, while Penn men’s cross country had possibly its best season in program his-tory.

But now, the fall season is behind us. So, which of the Red and Blue’s team will see the big-gest improvements this winter?

Sports Editor-elect Tommy Rothman: Women’s basketball has a chance to make a big im-provement this season.

Of course, the Quakers fin-ished second last year and won a game in the WNIT, so hand-ing them Most Improved honors wouldn’t be the same as reward-ing the horrible kid in little league who shows up almost-half-decent the next year. Even if the Red and Blue just tread water, they’ll post yet another strong season under coach Mike McLaughlin. But the jump from second to first is a huge one, and it’s one the Quakers have a real chance to make.

Knocking off Princeton, coming off an undefeated regu-lar season, won’t be easy, but the Red and Blue have looked great in non-conference play, and if they handle business against the rest of the Ivy League, they’ll have a shot to knock off the Tigers head-to-head and claim their second Ivy title in three years.

President-elect Colin Hen-derson: I’m going to keep things in the Palestra and go with men’s basketball.

Last year, the Red and Blue finished tied for last in the Ivy

League. But coming off of three straight years on single-digit win totals, the 2015 Quakers look like a completely differ-ent team. In fact, sitting on four solid wins only six games into their seasons, they look like they may even be able to contend for a spot in the top half of the An-cient Eight.

In his opening salvo lead-ing the program, coach Steve Donahue has wasted no time making his mark on the team’s style of play. Penn’s ball move-ment is crisper than it has been in years — and it is paying major dividends. Helped by impressive individual scoring displays from Sam Jones and Darien Nelson-Henry made possible by team offensive play, the Quakers have already broken 75 points in four games this year.

Yes, the team still needs to improve defensively. And it

needs to get more individual production out of its primary ball handlers. But with a strong start already behind them, the Red and Blue look fully poised to improve mightily from a dis-appointing 2014-15 campaign.

Sports Editor Holden Mc-Ginnis: I think the men’s swim team has the most room to exceed expectations this year – at least the expectations that everyone else in the Ivy League swimming world has set for them. Given the historic domi-nance of Princeton and Harvard, picking one of those two teams as the conference champion would be the safest bet. But the Quakers aren’t going for safe this year; they’re going for the crown.

After a thrilling third-place finish in 2014, the Red and Blue settled back to fourth in the Ivies in 2015. But with the deep talent

and untapped potential the team has this year, 2016 could be the year that an Ivy title fi-nally comes within clinching distance for Penn.

The Quakers return two star seniors in co-captains Eric Schultz and Chris Swanson, who racked up four individual Ivy titles in 2015. While the junior and sophomore classes are deep in talent, particularly in the distance and breaststroke events, the freshman class could be the boost Penn needs to breakthrough to a top finish. Rookie IMers Mark Andrew and Thomas Dillinger finished the 200-yard individual medley last weekend in blazing fashion, taking first and second, respec-tively, against a tough Tigers squad. If the duo and the rest of the Class of 2019 can step up in February, the sky is the limit for the Quakers.

While freshman Thomas Dillinger has been swimming sprint freestyle events for the Quakers in dual meets, his biggest strength might be in the 200 IM when Ivy League Championships roll around in February.


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When all is said and done, he just wants to leave his Mark.

That is the mindset of fresh-man swimmer Mark Andrew, who has the potential to have an illustrious career here at Penn.

The Middletown, Ohio, native has set lofty goals for himself during his time for the Red and Blue, both for this season and those to come.

“This year, I’m shooting for a couple Ivy titles in both the 200 and 400 IM, looking to make it to NCAA’s,” Andrew said. “By senior year, I’m shooting for All-American, so top six in one of my events.”

Such high goals might be hard to attain for the average swimmer, but Mark Andrew is no average swimmer.

Andrew’s list of accolades

is already quite impressive. At the Speedo Junior Na-tional Championships this past August, he placed first in the 400-meter individual medley with a time of 4:22.10, and second in the 200 IM with a 2:02.60 performance. He also captured a gold medal in the 200-yard IM at the Ohio Championships, and in Sep-tember he was named to the U.S. Swimming Junior Na-tional Team.

Here at Penn, Andrew has already etched his name into the record books, breaking the Sheerr Pool 200-yard IM record that had stood for over 20 years with a time of 1:50.13 in the meet against Columbia — his first college meet for the Red and Blue. He also placed first in the 200 IM in the tri-meet against Cornell and Princeton.

Andrew comes from a family with a history of suc-cess in the pool, and that has

When you get knocked down, you get back up again.

For Penn wrestling, this is true both on and off the mats, as two of its mainstays return to the lineup after significant time away. Heading into the season, the comeback kids are senior

Casey Kent and junior Frank Mattiace, neither of whom competed for competed for the Quakers last year.

It is here that their stories di-verge. Although the duo missed the entirety of 2014-15 for the Red and Blue, Kent remained in the bleachers while struggling through injury, while Mattiace left school for the year.

For Kent, the time off al-lowed for a perspective change: For once, the two-time second

team All-Ivy winner had the chance to be a spectator.

“It was a lot different of an experience last year, because I don’t think I ever sat out a wres-tling season,” Kent said. “That was the longest break I’ve ever taken [from] wrestling in my whole life. But I think it got me more motivated, because I got to go to all the tournaments and watch everyone wrestle.

“It got me excited to get back out there.”

He made quite an impact in his first competition back, re-sulting in a semifinal finish at the Bearcat Open for the 174-pounder early in Novem-ber. Although Kent suffered a minor setback to his knee and thumb during the contest and was forced to sit out during the Keystone Classic, he should be back up for the next competition at Penn State.

“I think I’m ready to go for next weekend. I had a couple

of injuries, but they’re getting better,” Kent said.

Meanwhile, Mattiace spent the 2014-15 season dedicated to his personal training, taking advantage of the region’s top fa-cilities and elite coaches.

“I was able to train here at Penn through the Regional Training Center, which opened up last year,” Mattiace said. “I went to some tournaments on my own unattached, and I got to wrestle that way. I also got to

spend some time at the Olympic Training Center.”

Aside f rom improving his technique and physique, Mattiace, a top-10 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Asso-ciation finisher two years ago, believes his mental edge got a significant boost while outside the program.

“Last year was really good for my confidence because

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Quakers ready to drop ‘The Hammer’SQUASH | Salah snags top spot on ladderCOREY HENRYSports Reporter

Freshman Reeham Salah has already made her name known on the international squash stage. Now, as No. 1 on Penn’s ladder, the rookie is taking the collegiate squash cirucit by storm with her high-velocity attack.


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New Penn arrival brings great expectationsSWIMMING | Sky is the limit for rookieJONATHAN POLLACKSports Reporter

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POTY FINALISTSAfter winning an Ivy title, two

Penn football players will try to add to their trophy cases

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Thor isn’t the only one with a hammer, one that can strike fear into the hearts of oppo-nents.

The Norse God of Thun-der has some company now that freshman Reeham “The Hammer” Salah has taken over at the No. 1 position for Penn women’s squash.

Freshmen are no strangers to occupying the apex of the Red and Blue ladder. Senior co-captain Yan Xin Tan as well as junior Anaka Alanka-mony both saw action at the No. 1 position during their rookie campaigns. But as she holds down the top spot on the ladder for the women’s team, the Sammamish, Wash., native will have her hands full going up against the best college squash has to offer.

Despite having only com-peted in two matches thus far in her nascent squash career, she has quickly become re-vered by her coaches and

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