november 30, 2015

ALUMNI INTERVIEWS

THEN AND NOW

51%of applicants received alumni interviews

4,000alumni interviewed

14,000students

9,000alumni interviewed

34,000students

86%of applicants received alumni interviews

For the ninth consecutive year, Penn was ranked as the best in safety and

security by Security Magazine.Security Magazine’s “Security 500”

list, published every year, serves as a benchmark for security organizations, allowing them to see where they stack up as part of SM’s ongoing peer-review process. The Division of Public Safety’s networking and trust-building skills

were crucial in this year’s ranking.“Penn Public Safety has earned the

considerable trust of its many stake-holders and therefore receives funding which consistently leads to their high ranking,” said Security Magazine Edi-tor-in-Chief Diane Ritchey.

Rush also gave praise for the support

from some of Penn’s most impactful leaders and administrators. “We are only able to be so successful because we have the financial and moral sup-port of the administration,” Rush said. In particular, Rush considered support

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Sharing campus experiences with racial diversity

Penn prides itself on being a diverse and welcoming campus, but some black students question how the campus’ racial diversity — or lack thereof — influences their college experience.

College senior Camden Copeland, who identifies as black, said her experiences at Penn began mostly with students of color. In her freshman year preorientation pro-gram, however, she was overwhelmed by the number of white students in the pro-gram.

“It shocked me. It was weird. It was very strange,” Copeland said.

According to Penn’s 2014 diversity study, 45 percent of undergraduates iden-tified as white, and 7 percent as black. Among graduate students, 45.6 percent identified as white, and 5.1 percent iden-tified as black. In addition, 77 percent of

faculty were white, and 3.6 percent were black.

Copeland got used to being one of few blacks or the only black student in various groups, like her field hockey team. She said she came to Penn with a strong sense of identity, which helped her remain con-fident in herself.

“Growing up, I felt I had the right to be in any academic environment,” she added.

Copeland noted that although Penn can be somewhat isolating, she has found communities of people she identifies with and that allow her to feel comfortable on campus. Incidents like Phi Delta Theta’s photo with a black blowup doll, however, offended her and made her feel marginal-ized.

“I understand the University cannot fix structural racism, but it should make more of an effort to say this is not okay,” she continued.

She acknowledged that black students have varying experiences on campus, but

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Penn’s leaders recognize the

importance of combating mental health issues on campus.”

- The Hamlett-Reed Mental Health Initiative

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Almost every student cur-rently applying to Penn this year will have an alumnus reach out to them for an inter-view, but it wasn’t always this way.

In 2012, there were about 4,000 volunteer alumni in-terviewers, and they only interviewed about 14,000 stu-dents — half of the application pool at the time.

The main reason

participation was sparse was because the program was “no one’s full time job,” said Di-rector of the Alumni Interview Program Patrick Bredehoft. Bredehoft was director in 2012 when the program moved from the Admissions Depart-ment, where it had been for the last 50 years of its existence, to the Alumni Office.

The idea was to have des-ignated staff organizing the alumni interview process, rather than continuing to lump the program onto admissions officers’ already-full plates, which had proven to be inef-fective.

“I need to think about high

school students, guidance counselors, and I love our alumni but they might be third or fourth in a given day of who I need to think about,” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said.

And with so few students interviewed, it couldn’t really be taken into account as an im-portant part of the application, he added. Furda wanted to change that. He looked to the successful programs at Princ-eton and Brown, and noticed that the key to their success seemed to be the interview program’s integration with their own alumni offices.

Due to reform, almost all applicants are interviewed

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For many students, study abroad is an integral part of their undergraduate experience. But for others, study abroad is funda-mentally incompatible with their studies at Penn. Penn data show that study abroad heavily favors College and Wharton students who choose to go in the fall of their junior years.

Of the 450 students currently enrolled in study abroad programs, only 41 of those students are en-gineers, and just four are nurses. This stands in stark contrast to the 279 College students, 84 Wharton students and 40 students dual-en-rolled in Wharton and the College who are currently studying abroad.

These numbers are nothing new. For the 2013-14 academic year, Penn Abroad stated that roughly 25 percent of juniors in the College of Arts and Sciences studied abroad, while 26 percent of juniors in the Wharton School studied abroad. Similar to the current semester, Penn Abroad reported that roughly 7 percent of engineers spent a se-mester abroad, as did just 5 percent of students enrolled in the School of Nursing.

For the entire 2013-14 academic year, 385 College students, 85 Wharton students, 30 Engineering students and 12 Nursing students went abroad. Of those, six College students, one Wharton student and one Engineering student were abroad for the entire year.

But the distinct correlation be-tween schools or programs and the number of students they send abroad is perhaps not a surprise. For students enrolled in either the Nursing School or the School of Engineering and Applied Science, academic requirements are often much more extensive, leaving little time for students to study abroad. Students enrolled in programs like the Vagelos Molecular Life Sci-ences Program in the College have a similar experience.

“Life sciences is very dependent on physical measurements and instrumentation,” Vagelos MLS Program Director Ponzy Lu said in an email. “Thus it is important to start with the basic chemistry, mathematics and physics courses which have two layers — freshmen and sophomore years.”

Lu added that the Vagelos MLS curriculum is not different from the curriculum required of a stu-dent enrolled in the Engineering School for the first two years in terms of rigor and flexibility.

But while Lu emphasized that after their first two years, stu-dents often had more flexibility to determine their schedule, he also acknowledged that very few students in the program spend a semester abroad. “I am aware of maybe six or so of our 197 gradu-ates who did a semester abroad,” Lu said, adding that roughly an additional six students spent a summer on a study abroad pro-gram for which they earned Penn credit.

Lu also acknowledged that students enrolled in the program would need to plan in advance if they wanted to study abroad be-cause of the differences in science curriculum in the United States versus universities abroad. “They need to plan ahead — science at an American university is done in lumps — interspersed with foun-dational and sector stuff. In almost all of the rest of the world, if you want to be a chemist, you study only chemistry. This makes taking a few courses not practical,” he wrote.

College senior Samuel Allon has personal experience of trying to gain abroad experience while being enrolled in the program. “Coming into Penn, I was initially interested in studying abroad for a semester,” he said. “However, remaining in Vagelos MLS was a higher priority for me, and the two activities seemed mutually exclu-sive.”

Instead, Allon spent time abroad during two different sum-mers, both as part of his scientific lab work. The summer after his

freshman year, he spent 10 weeks working in a biochemistry lab in Germany. Last summer, he trav-eled again, this time spending a week in Austria to attend the So-ciety for Molecular Biology and Evolution conference, for which he was awarded a scholarship.

For Allon, while neither of his abroad experiences fit the typical mold of a study abroad experi-ence, they gave him many of the same experiences a normal study abroad experience might. “The experiences that I had abroad were probably more professional and more independent than the typical organized study abroad,” he said. “Overall, my experiences abroad taught me many of the typical les-sons, plus a couple of unexpected lessons,” he added, saying that he walked away with an apprecia-tion for how valuable the English language is in modern sciences and a greater understanding of the struggles immigrants who come to the U.S. face.

Lu doesn’t see the small num-bers of students studying abroad

in the Vagelos program as an issue, because many students in the program already have or gain international experience through their own field of study. “I would estimate that easily one-third or more of our students are foreign born, and another one-third come from foreign-born families that speak something other than Eng-lish at home,” he said. “There are many research groups at Penn that are 100 percent non-U.S. born in composition, and most of them have very high numbers of non-U.S. nationals.”

“Since all of the Vagelos MLS students work two full summers in a research group and most of three academic years part time, they have considerable exposure to the rest of the world,” Lu said.

Nursing junior Jackie Nikpour echoed Allon’s sentiment that studying abroad would be difficult given the requirements of the Nurs-ing school. According to Nikpour, study abroad options for nurses are limited to a few main programs, the largest of which are in London

and Australia. “I went to an info session for the Australia program and it seemed like you were basi-cally in your own separate world away from Queens University,” she said. While Nikpour said that she was sure there was a way some Nursing students had found to study abroad, it was difficult be-cause “Nursing is really planned out from day one.”

Instead of going abroad during a semester, Nikpour said she hopes to participate in one of Penn’s Summer Abroad programs.

Despite numbers showing that very few students enrolled in En-gineering or Nursing study abroad, both schools’ websites have pages devoted to study abroad experi-ences.

Demographic trends extend beyond just the school students are enrolled in, though. Another trend shows that more than five times the number of students who go abroad in the spring go abroad in the fall.

In the fall of 2013, Penn sent 411 students abroad, compared to

just 94 last spring. The trend has continued this semester, with 450 students abroad. Penn Abroad has not yet released its data for the number of students who will be abroad next semester.

Both students and faculty have generally attributed this trend to the combination of the fact that stu-dents do not want to miss Spring Fling and Hey Day in the spring and the fact that, in past years, the on-campus recruiting process for juniors started in the spring.

In March, The Daily Pennsylva-nian reported that OCR would be moved to the fall for students in the Class of 2018 and later. The initial timeline for the change was sup-posed to affect the Class of 2017, but was changed when students who had planned to study abroad in the fall considered canceling their participation.

Many have predicted that numbers of students in the Class of 2018 who study abroad in the spring will be greater than in years past to reflect this change.

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So, the program moved to the Alumni house and received a staff all its own.

The system worked for Penn, too.

The numbers speak for them-selves — last year, 9,000 alumni conducted interviews and reached out to 34,000 students. Furda said the interview component matters a

lot more now.“We’ve become accustomed in

this office to having an alumni in-terview,” he said. “When we don’t have it, we feel like we’re missing something — an element, a voice, a perspective, an insight — even if it’s just confirming what you already thought you knew, or if it’s provid-ing a broader perspective.”

Rachel Cohen, a 2012 College graduate, is one of the alumni who provides this valuable insight. She

has conducted many interviews in the past, and is currently in charge of coordinating virtual interviews that take place around the world.

Virtual interviews are offered to students who could live anywhere, but specifically where there aren’t any Penn alumni nearby to make an in-person interview feasible. And although that might sound like it could be Thailand or Nicaragua, Cohen said one of the areas with the fewest students interviewed

in-person was actually California.“There are large pockets that ac-

tually might surprise you,” she said.Cohen takes on what is essen-

tially an extra job because she’s passionate about giving back to Penn.

“I believe the future of Penn is bright and I want to be a part of making sure the best and the bright-est students are admitted,” she said.

1994 Wharton graduate Ter-ence Cooper, who also received a

Wharton MBA in 2003, is another Penn alumnus and interviewer, but he organizes interviews that happen in and around Houston, along with a couple others. He called on foot-ball metaphors to explain how the system works, saying that the dif-ferent chairs “run a zone defense” to make sure every student in the Houston area gets an interview.

Cooper was interviewed when he lived in Houston and applied to Penn in 1990, but when he moved

back to Houston in the late 90s he found out that interviews were no longer conducted in the area.

“I ended up calling Penn,” he said.

Cooper said he likes being in-volved with the interview program because it keeps him feeling young.

“When you get older you might get jaded,” he said. “But seeing the applicants come in and they’re very ambitious and optimistic — it’s in-vigorating.”

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most detect the systematic racism.“[Black students] are forced to

think critically about how their race impacts their interactions on campus, whether social or aca-demic,” she said.

On Nov. 13, President Amy Gut-mann sent an email to the Penn community in the wake of national and local racial debate. Approxi-mately 300 students from colleges

like Penn and Drexel University marched on Nov. 12, from 30th Street Station to Penn’s campus in solidarity with students of color at Yale University and the University of Missouri. They demanded that the presidents of area colleges ac-knowledge the racism that students of color face.

“Racism has a long and terrible legacy in our country. It can take many forms, both subtle and overt. Whatever form it takes, it is wrong. It creates an unacceptable added

burden to the college experience of students of color and it has no place at Penn,” Gutmann wrote.

Mariano Gomes, a College of Liberal and Professional Studies junior from Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, said racism doesn’t bother him much, though he knows racism is alive and well.

“We cannot deny that racist people exist,” he said.

He pointed out that many Afri-cans experience double racism in the U.S. from both black and white

Americans, and that he has dealt with racism in the U.S., but not at Penn. He wants Penn’s adminis-tration to continuously engage the University in discussions about race because pretending that they don’t exist worsens the situation.

“Everyone’s perspective is valu-able in this conversation,” he said.

Jazmyne Simmons, a College senior who identifies as black, voiced a similar thought.

“Penn administration should acknowledge that there are racial

issues on campus and on the na-tional level,” Simmons said.

She explained that her genu-ine desire to learn about other people led her to immerse herself in diverse circles at Penn since her freshman year. But both her archi-tecture major and her soccer team include very few people of color, she said.

“I am very aware of my race in these circles, but I’ve gotten to know the human race better as a whole, and I’ve learned more

about myself in the process,” she said.

She added that a white faculty member mentored her during tough times.

Glen Casey, a College junior and a black student, said he has experienced microaggressions on Penn campus, which he describes as racist statements, interactions or reactions. He noted that some-times Penn staffers question his presence in certain buildings and insist on seeing his PennCard.

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The number of prestigious scholarships awarded to Penn students this year continues to increase.

Following the announcement of two Rhodes Scholars at Penn, Engineering senior Carla Winter was named one of 12 Mitchell Scholars last Saturday along with fellow Quaker Phillip Cohen, a third-year medical student.

Selected from 284 applicants

by the U.S.-Ireland Alliance, each Mitchell Scholar is given the opportunity to have one year of post-graduate study at an in-stitution of higher learning in Ireland. Winter, who is majoring in bioengineering with minors in mathematics and biophysics, will be studying for a master’s degree in regenerative medicine at the National University of Ireland Galway, which is ranked among the top two percent of universities in the world.

“In the past I’ve had the great experiences of conducting re-search at Penn, outside of Penn and previously at Cambridge, and

I thought being able to research and study at different places can give me a different perspec-tive on the problem I’m trying to solve,” Winter said, who is focus-ing on neuroengineering and the regeneration of the central and peripheral nervous systems in particular.

“There’s one lab in particular that kept coming up in my lit-erature reviews that was out of Galway, so that really turned my interest into pursuing research at Galway in particular because it has a regenerative medicine insti-tute, which really aligns with my research and academic interests,”

she added.Although the Mitchell Schol-

arship is a relatively young program compared to the more well-known Rhodes and Mar-shall Scholarships, the selection progress is just as rigorous. After submitting her application, Winter had a Skype interview as a semifinalist, another interview in Washington D.C. as one of 20 fi-nalists and was finally chosen by a selection committee made up of a CEO, a former governor, an ac-claimed director, a law professor and other distinguished individu-als.

Named after George J.

Mitchell, who was a United States senator from Maine and con-tributed to the Northern Ireland peace process as the U.S. special envoy for Northern Ireland under President Bill Clinton, the Mitch-ell Scholarship seeks to introduce future American leaders to the island of Ireland and promote in-tellectual achievement, leadership and public service.

“What I’m most looking for-ward to is being in Ireland and experiencing a culture I’ve never been exposed to before and also being in the community of Mitch-ell Scholars,” Winter said. “I think that’s a very important and

special part of this pro-gram that you are in this com mu n it y of 12 schol-ars and you’re really able to learn from each other. The scholars range from all different academic interests, from history and medieval art to medicine to economics, so we would really be able to learn from our peers as well as Ireland itself.”

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from Penn President Amy Gut-mann, Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli and Provost Vin-cent Price to be critical.

On Monday, Rush and others from the DPS team traveled to Washington D.C. to receive the award at the annual Security 500 Conference. At the conference, Rush and her team received particular praise for their Bait Bike program — which sets up bikes with GPS de-vices to catch bike burglars — as an example of DPS’ cutting-edge work.

Penn and DPS’ work over the September papal visit also re-ceived praise from the magazine’s editor-in-chief. Ritchey talked about the effective collaboration that occurred between DPS and Philadelphia Police, especially in ensuring hospital access and busi-ness supply delivery routes.

The rankings are determined from data supplied directly by the organizations included in the list, and also obtained from public resources and records, according to Security Magazine. Security

programs are broken down by sectors and individual programs are ranked accordingly. Penn was joined in the top three in the “Higher Education” category by its West Philadelphia neighbor, Drexel. At an open hearing on ac-creditation earlier in the month, several members of the Drexel Public Safety team mentioned that DPS and Rush were instrumental in the founding, development and success of Drexel’s Public Safety program.

The praise for her depart-ment comes on the heels of an individual award Rush won this September when she was named one of Security Magazine’s “Most Influential People in Se-curity in 2015.” Rush gave credit to her entire staff for the award, saying “although it’s my name, the whole team really won.”

Whether they be with school administrators like Gutmann and Price, colleagues like Drexel or public safety partners like AlliedBarton, DPS’s con-tinued success seems to stem form Rush’s slogan, “It’s all about relationships.”

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For the ninth consecutive year, Penn was ranked the best in safety and security by Security Magazine. Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush credited the award to the teamwork of her strong staff.

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After three months of deliberation, Penn administrators have

agreed to take substantial steps forward in making Penn a healthier campus. In honor of Thanksgiving, we commend them.

In September, the Hamlett-Reed Initiative called on Penn to address prevalent mental health issues on campus. In the past two years, seven Penn stu-dents have died by suicide, and countless others face depres-sion and loneliness. The Na-tional College Health Assess-ment reports that almost a third of college students have felt “so depressed they were unable to function” at some point in the last 12 months. We mask these feelings with the “Penn Face.”

We requested six specific reforms to make a tangible impact on mental wellness at Penn: designated wellness counselors; online scheduling of Counseling and Psychologi-cal Services visits; the ability for students to schedule anony-mous CAPS visits; proactive communication regarding men-tal health issues on campus; an external review of CAPS best

practices, especially regarding student-athletes; and a New Student Orientation event to discuss mental health and in-troduce students to CAPS.

Our recommendations gen-erated a broad consensus on campus. Student leaders joined with the family members of students who have died by suicide to call for immediate reform.

To date, our letter has been signed by almost a dozen in-dividuals whose families have been personally impacted by suicide, along with the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Class Board presidents, the president of The Daily Pennsylvanian, the Inter-fraternity Council and Panhel-lenic chairpersons, the presi-dents of the six major mental health groups on campus, along with the chairperson of Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation and the Penn Association for Gender Equity.

Our unity in calling for spe-cific changes had an impact. Following our Silent March for Mental Health in September, student leaders met with ad-ministrators including the Vice Provost for University Life,

and agreed to a framework for reform. In early November, ad-ministrators informed us that the following changes will be made in accordance with our recommendations.

Designated CounselorsPenn will appoint approxi-

mately 50 wellness partners to serve as a resource for students. In the spring, VPUL will select additional student wellness partners to join this program. We originally called for stu-dents to be assigned a wellness counselor on PennInTouch so they know exactly who to reach out to for support. Nonetheless, this is a major step forward for students on campus. It cre-ates a strong new resource for students in need of help in the form of more accessible advice.

Online SchedulingWe called on Penn to allow

students to schedule CAPS visits online. Many students have said that calling CAPS feels uncomfortable because of the stigma around mental health. Many students want to call but end up choosing not to do so. Administrators agreed

to set up an online scheduler for triage calls (initial consulta-tions), which is now available at https://uapps.vpul.upenn.edu/capsform/. This eliminates a substantial barrier to entry for students seeking to engage with CAPS.

Anonymous Visits to CAPSAdministrators rejected this

recommendation. We think the Wellness Partners program sufficiently meets the need de-scribed here, which is to pro-vide an alternative resource to students who feel that privacy issues are a barrier to seeking help from a CAPS clinician.

Proactive, Ongoing Com-munication

The administration needs to be more forthcoming about communicating with students about the resources that are available to them. Many stu-dents suffering from mental health issues simply do not know whom to turn to. We think the most effective avenue of communication for this in-formation would be via email. Administrators are not yet ready to make progress here.

CAPS Best PracticesWe asked administrators to

review and report on the poli-cies and practices of CAPS so that students can understand how CAPS works. Specifically, we called on administrators to review students leave policies and investigate how CAPS en-gages with students who face distinct stress factors, such as those abusing drugs, members of minority communities and student-athletes. The Jed Clin-ton Campus Advisory Group has spent this semester evalu-ating work issues and priori-ties for mental health at Penn. We look forward to receiving a transparent report of their find-ings soon.

NSO EventIt is important that new

students be exposed to CAPS in a personalized way to help reduce the stigma around seeking help. For this reason, we believe Penn should host an NSO event introducing the CAPS staff and human-izing the organization. The administration has agreed to implement of “virtual” tour,

introducing CAPS staff and the CAPS facility. We believe that students will react more strong-ly to a personal interaction with CAPS and know that there is plenty of time for such an event during NSO. Still, this virtual tour is a step forward. It will help students feel more com-fortable with the CAPS team and the services they provide.

There is still much to be done on campus. Students need to fight the stigma around men-tal health. We need to create a culture where it is okay to seek help and where students can be comfortable being vulnerable. As the administration makes more resources available, it is up to the students to take ad-vantage of them. From both a student and administrative per-spective, the path forward is a long one.

We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Penn administrators. Not only do Penn’s leaders recognize the importance of combating men-tal health issues on campus, but they have now also taken a number of significant steps for-ward to address this issue.

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OPINION4

MONDAYNOVEMBER 30, 2015VOL. CXXXI, NO. 108

131st Yearof Publication

Unsigned editorials appearing on this page represent the opinion of The Daily Pennsylvanian as determined by the majority of the Editorial Board. All other columns, letters and artword represent the opinion of their authors and are not necessarily representative of the DP’s position.

THIS ISSUE

lETTErS

I don’t get why, as Amer-icans, we have become so terrified of people

speaking their minds sim-ply because it may offend someone.

This country has allowed us — all of us — to live our lives generally any way we want. I am sure someone is reading this and com-menting that America is not perfect, that there are oppressed and repressed members of our society or that opportunity is not shared equally in this na-tion. While those things may well all be true, the fact remains that we live in a country where you have the freedom to make that very point as publically and loudly as you like. Our lives are not dictated by a tyran-nical leader or an extremist sect that will immolate you, behead you or even parade your lifeless body in a cage simply because you do not share their view of the

world. And to be clear, that is a very, very good thing.

However, I fear that we are starting down a road of figurative immolation in this country that is just as dangerous. Any time anyone says anything that is controversial or deemed unacceptable by any par-ticular group, that person is hoisted on a petard via internet shaming, mass pro-tests, calls for the person to be fired, thrown out of the particular group or other-wise punished. We seem to exist in a world where po-litical correctness and the desire to ensure that each person’s “safe space” is not threatened trumps freedom of speech and expression. And to be clear, that is a very, very bad thing.

The freedom of speech and expression is crucial to ensure that minority voices are not silenced and that a multitude of viewpoints, a diversity of ideas and a

melting pot of experiences are circulating in this na-tion. Some of those views will be racist, homophobic, misogynistic, Islamophobic

or just plain evil. As repug-nant as they may be, we can-not forget that these voices are equally important to the healthy functioning of free and open society.

Open discussion of view-points provides opportunity to engage in a national dis-course on difficult issues. By way of example, the undergraduate student gov-ernment at the University of Minnesota rejected a 9/11 remembrance ceremony because it could elicit anti-

Islamic rhetoric, and thus, degrade the university’s “safe space.” Ignoring en-tirely whether or not people have the right to remember

and memorialize the Amer-icans that lost their lives on that fateful day, the focus on ensuring a “safe space” robbed the university com-munity of any possibility for a dialogue on this issue. Had anti-Islamic rhetoric bubbled up publically rath-er than simply simmered under the surface, it could be confronted and dis-cussed. For example, I am sure only a small percent-age of Americans under-stand that the Islamic ex-

tremist threat in Iraq, Syria, the Levant, the Horn of Africa and Nigeria, stems from radically fundamen-talist sects of Islam, such as Wahhabism and Salafi Ji-hadism. Furthermore, most Americans are ignorant to the fact that the Muslim world is responsible for creating algebra while Eu-rope languished in the dark ages. Could this discourse have changed the mind of someone who harbored a hatred, dislike or distrust of Muslims? We will never know because the discus-sion never took place. We were more focused on the perception that all was well than confronting the reality that it is not.

We have become so over-ly concerned with being po-litically correct and about avoiding offending anyone that we are unable to actu-ally have a free and open conversation. I believe we are at war with the evils

we face in society as well as the evils we face abroad. We should be at war with racism. We should be at war with prejudice of reli-gion and of people of dif-ferent genders. We should be at war with hatred itself. Unfortunately, a war re-quires confrontations, and those are never comfort-able. They are never safe, and they are messy. But ultimately, they are how change occurs. Without moments that challenge our beliefs, without having to defend everything that you hold to be true, we will be forever imprisoned in this dreadful perception of real-ity that we find ourselves in today.

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At around 4:00 p.m. on Nov. 20, Penn Hillel sent an email to its listserv subscribers announc-ing its executive board for the spring 2016 semester. But not every member of the upcoming executive board received the news at the same time.

Three of the 15 incoming board members are abroad. Presi-dent and College junior Katie Hartman, currently studying in Israel, is Hillel’s first president to be elected from abroad. Incom-ing Vice President and College junior Sophie Ranen, and Israel

sector chair and College junior Avi Colonomos, are studying in Brazil and Hungary, respectively.

Hartman, who is a member of Sigma Delta Tau and a former 34th Street writer, is also the first woman elected to be president since 2010.

Hartman hopes to continue the trailblazing that has surrounded her election.

“Some people don’t have what they need Jewishly at Hillel right now,” Hartman said. She de-scribed many of these people as her friends and cited that there are “a ton of Jewish students at Penn” who have a false impression of Hillel. She added that she hopes to show them that there is “so much Hillel could offer to them,” in the form of a community with a

wonderful staff.Hartman intends to expand

Hillel’s community by first un-derstanding students’ needs. She plans to hold office hours when she returns next semester for students to share with her what they’d like to see more of in Hillel. Hartman also plans to bring more Jews of varying back-grounds together through “more social justice opportunities,” she said.

Her vision for greater inclu-sion is shared by other incoming board members. College sopho-more and incoming Social Chair Nicolette Almer said she wants “people to see Hillel as a home.” She plans to organize a master list of students in all classes to ar-range study groups, initiate Cafe

Hillel, a makeshift coffee bar in the Berkowitz Lounge for people to schmooze and study, and — along with Ranen — create a mentoring program between up-perclassmen and underclassmen.

“I want social [activity] to be the SPEC of Hillel,” she said, adding that she hopes to create a vehicle for students get in the building and from there feel comfortable participating in other available programming, namely religious life.

Ranen said she looks forward to “implementing pluralistic pro-grams to welcome all types of Jews.”

Her goals will likely be real-ized with the help of College freshman and incoming educa-tion chair Elana Burack. Burack

recognizes that many Jewish students feel culturally Jewish as opposed to religiously Jewish and aims to “incorporate [educational programs] that people don’t turn to Judaism for normally.”

Burack said that she plans to host events exploring how Judaism views self-esteem, to offer a new perspective on Penn Face and other wellness related Penn issues. She’d like to get a dialogue started among various students about universally Jewish issues — like their grandmoth-er’s traditional recipes — and using those links as a portal into deeper learning.

She also looks forward to or-ganizing speaker events between Hillel staff and the faculty of the Religious Studies Department — University Chaplain Chaz Howard may be on the roster Burack said.

All of the board’s events

will be publicized by Engi-neering sophomore Maddie Gelfand, communications co-chair specializing in design, and by College sophomore Zoe Stoller, communications co-chair specializing in social media. Other members of the predomi-nantly female board include holiday chair and College junior Rachel Freilich, Israel program-ming chair and College junior Zach Nessel, Shabbat chairs and College freshmen Elisheva Blas and Avital Stein, Tzedek social justice chairs and College juniors Dorothy Newman and Rebecca Pritzker and welcoming chairs and College freshmen Talia Seder and Jeremy Wilson.

Hartman has high hopes for the incoming board and Hillel’s next year of leadership.

Hillel is comprised of Penn students, she said. “Penn stu-dents have a lot in common.”

The Yale University faculty masters whose words sparked the #WeAreYale movement have inti-mate ties to Penn.

Before becoming residential faculty masters of Yale’s Silliman College, professor Nicholas Chris-takis and his wife Erika Christakis were educated at Penn.

Nicholas Christakis, a re-nowned sociologist and physician, completed his residency in inter-nal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in 1991. He then began his gradu-ate studies in sociology, earning a master’s degree from the College of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and a doctorate in 1995.

Meanwhile, Erika Christakis, a childhood education and pedagogy expert, earned one of her three master’s degrees from the Annen-berg School for Communication in

1993. The couple made headlines

early this month when Erika Christakis sent an email criticiz-ing top-down guidelines from Yale administrators discouraging culturally-appropriated Hallow-een costumes. The email sparked enormous controversy, with many Yale students calling for the couple’s dismissal and removal from Yale’s campus. Videos of emotionally-charged students ad-dressing Nicholas Christakis, who has so-far stood by his wife, in the Silliman courtyard quickly went viral.

The incident was one of several recent cases of perceived racial and cultural insensitivity on col-lege campuses that prompted demonstrations at universities nationwide, including a march in University City led by Students Or-ganizing for Unity and Liberation and other Penn student groups.

Nicholas Christakis, who taught at the University of Chicago and Harvard University before joining Yale’s faculty in 2013, was already

breaking ground as a researcher during his time as a Penn student. In 1991, he was selected for the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program from Penn, where he worked under now-retired sociology professor Renee Fox. Two years later, Christakis received a National Institute of Health fellowship for research in both Penn Med’s Division of Gen-eral Internal Medicine and Penn’s sociology department, according to his curriculum vitae.

One of his projects from these years examined how doctors’ biases influence the exact medi-cal procedures they follow when they decide to take a patient off life support. Christakis conducted the study, published in Septem-ber 1993, with bioethicist and Penn professor David Asch, who teaches in Wharton’s Health Care Management Department.

“Physicians are making deci-sions in many cases that seem to reflect their own personal views about things that are largely irrel-evant to the case at hand,” Asch

told the Philadelphia Inquirer of his and Christakis’ research in 1993.

Since graduating from Penn, Christakis has returned several times to give various academic presentations, according to his curriculum vitae. In 1999, he gave a talk on physician anxiety as part of a conference honoring his mentor, Fox. The following year, he gave another talk titled “Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care” at Penn Med’s Leonard Davis Institute on Locust Walk.

More recently, he spoke at the Annenberg School in 2010 about the role of social networks in understanding healthcare and in 2012 at an event titled “Social Network Structure and Func-tion Across Space and Time” as part of the Penn Sociology Col-loquium Series, according to the Annenberg School and Sociology Department’s websites.

Neither Nicholas nor Erika Christakis could be reached for comment by press time.

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N.J., native received very little interest from Division I schools in his recruitment out of Pitman High School and chose Penn after then-coach Jerome Allen reached out to him in Spring 2014.

Due to injuries and players leaving the program, Foreman — along with the rest of his freshman class — found plenti-ful playing time, earning over 20 minutes per game in his first year. Although his inexperience was apparent at times, his ad-mittance that he made a lot of mistakes has helped him grow

from those same miscues.But his personality shined

brighter, even in tough moments for the Red and Blue. Before play-ing their final game under Allen — who was forced to resign at the end of last season — the entire team donned No. 53 T-shirts to honor their coach. Allen said after the game that it was Fore-man who organized the gesture, although Foreman humbly de-murred that it was a group effort.

“We just wanted to commemo-rate him going here, being a great influence on us, recruiting us to come here, so we wanted to thank him for that,” he added.

According to Darnell, Allen

had a “major impact” on Fore-man and the team, teaching them a lot. Foreman has even remained in contact with Allen into this season. But with their former coach gone, this summer meant a big transition for the remaining players in the program.

Yet, based on Betley and Rothschild’s anecdotes alone, Foreman has kept moving for-ward, trying to bring his game to another level.

Within a new system that demands decision-making by playing percentages, Foreman has adjusted through his usual method: Practice. Each day before practice, he is visible working on a different part of his game, most often his three-point shooting. He’s also tried his hand at the ball-in-each-hand drib-bling drill that Stephen Curry has made famous, although he hasn’t mastered it quite like the NBA’s Most Valuable Player.

While Foreman can handle the ball, when you ask any person in the program what stands out about the sophomore, it’s his per-sonality. Beyond his skill set on the court, the Jersey native brings a vibrancy that impacts everyone around him, to the point that it’s infectious among his teammates.

“It was amazing over the spring and summer [when] you need some of the guys to come in and play pick-up and his abil-ity to pick up his phone and have 10-15 guys here in an hour,” coach Steve Donahue said. “I think that’s the thing about Dar-nell that’s so valuable to our program.”

Combined with Donahue’s new system, a strong incoming recruiting class that included multiple guards meant that Fore-man had to earn his playing time all over again this year. Dona-hue stressed Darnell’s need for consistency with the ball and in making jumpers. While senior guard Tony Hicks left the pro-gram, fellow senior Jamal Lewis returned, meaning the backcourt was just as packed and full of competition, off of which Fore-man thrives.

“That grit, that competitive-ness, that’s one thing [Donahue] preaches, so I think I’m perfect to try and embrace that to the team,” Foreman said before the season

began.So how has Foreman stuck in

the Quakers’ rotation this year? It all starts with his tenacity on defense. The sophomore con-tinues to take on the role as one of Penn’s primary on-ball de-fenders, using his wingspan to befuddle opposing guards.

This was especially appar-ent in the Red and Blue’s second game of the year against Central Connecticut State. Foreman came off the bench early in the second half and was part of a lineup that held the Blue Devils to four points while scoring 19 as a unit. That five-minute stretch was es-sential to the 77-61 Penn victory.

Foreman has also improved offensively this year, averaging over six points per contest. He is third on the team with 2.2 assists per game. Yet his numbers, as one might expect, aren’t a big deal to the sophomore, who couldn’t help mentioning the team when asked about his individual expectations.

Instead, he continues to try to help the team get better, whether it’s in a sweat-soaked Palestra at night in the middle of summer or at practice in season.

“Me being a sophomore now, I’ve realized that every time, every minute on the court is

very special,” he said. “I try to play practice like it’s a game. ... The same things that you see in practice are going to happen so if you make practice very much

game-like, it will translate.”If Foreman’s role from practice

continues to translate onto the court, his impact on the team may be immeasurable.

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Darien Nelson-Henry streaked down the lane on an out-of-bounds play late in the second half on Wednesday.

Surveying the court, sophomore guard Antonio Woods saw nothing impeding the senior center’s path to the basket. Woods hit Nelson-Henry with the pass. Slammed home. And the foul.

The free throw following the dunk with 7:09 remaining gave Nel-son-Henry his 31st point of the day, a career high. It also gave Penn bas-ketball a double-digit lead it would not relinquish the rest of the evening, helping the Quakers clinch their first Big 5 win of Steve Donahue’s tenure with an 80-64 victory over La Salle.

Nelson-Henry’s dominant effort — he added a career-best 14 re-bounds to go along with his first 30-point game with the Red and

Blue — marked the fifth time in as many games in 2015-16 that the Kirkland, Wash., native scored over 10 points. While the veteran contin-ued that trend against Lafayette on Sunday, Penn was unable to main-tain its momentum from earlier in the week, falling to the Leopards on the road, 92-86.

“It feels amazing. It’s the first time I’ve beat La Salle, and I want to keep it going,” Nelson-Henry said after Wednesday’s win. “We played well tonight, and there’s no reason we can’t continue this.”

The victory for Penn (4-2) came a few days after a 37-point drubbing in Nelson-Henry’s home state, a game in which the Quakers struggled out of the gate before falling to Wash-ington, 104-67. And at the beginning of the Red and Blue’s midweek matchup with the Explorers (4-1), it seemed like the trend may continue.

Forced to contain forward Jordan Price, who entered the contest av-eraging over 29 points per game, Penn held serve early before fall-ing behind, 30-20, shortly before halftime. Following a timeout, the

Quakers managed to stymie La Salle’s offense, while a Matt Howard triple and three consecutive buckets from Nelson-Henry allowed the squad to enter the break only down 32-29.

“You can’t close a lead like that if you don’t get stops. I think defense is what got us back into it,” Nelson-Henry said.

“I thought the first half was the key. For us, as we grow as a pro-gram, when you don’t play well against a good team like La Salle, but you hang around, and you cut a 10-point deficit to three before halftime, I thought that was a big example of our growth,” Donahue added.

While Penn hit only one of its eight three-point attempts in the first period, the squad allowed its offense to run primarily through the senior center after the break. As Nelson-Henry shattered his previous career highs in points and rebounds — in-cluding a run in which he scored 22 of the Quakers’ 28 points — he also was able to get the team’s shooters more open looks.

“I know that we have great shoot-ers on our team and opponents want to take that away from us,” Nelson-Henry said. “So I just want to do what I can down low to help them out on the outside.”

Led by sophomore Sam Jones’ four treys, the Red and Blue con-verted seven of their 13 attempts from beyond the arc in the second half, allowing the Quakers to out-score the Explorers in the frame, 51-32.

“I don’t think any of us played up to our potential in the Washington game, and, coming in, I wanted to make a point out of showing what we’re capable of,” Nelson-Henry said. “And I think we did.”

While Penn may have responded after laying an egg against the Hus-kies, the squad failed to maintain that momentum to conclude its Thanksgiving break slate. Facing off with former Red and Blue assis-tant Fran O’Hanlon in Easton, Pa., the Quakers struggled to contain the Leopards offense, allowing Lafay-ette to hit over 52 percent of its shots.

Though Nelson-Henry added

another 20 points and nine boards, Penn missed 19 of its 26 threes. Howard, Jones, Woods and senior Jamal Lewis all scored in double figures, but it was not enough to

avenge last season’s 83-77 loss to the Leopards.

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With Colorado State down 49-48 and eight seconds

remaining, Ellen Nystrom drove for a pull-up jumper over Penn women’s basketball’s Sydney Stipanovich.

The ball hit front iron and landed safely in the hands of sophomore Beth Brzozowski, securing a four th straight win for the Red and Blue.

The Quakers (4-1) came from behind to hand Colorado State (5-1) its first loss of the season as the Rams held a 12-point advantage midway through the third quarter.

The win was the 498th for coach Mike McLaughlin, who narrows in on 500 career wins

as a collegiate head coach. McLaughlin is 91-88 with the Quakers, who he has brought from a two-win team in his first season to back-to-back 20-win seasons in the past two years.

The Red and Blue started out the game relatively strong, holding even with Colorado State through the first quarter and coming out of the opening period with a two-point edge, 17-15. The Quakers limited the Rams offense on most plays, but gave up 10 second-chance points in the period as Colorado State collected eight offensive rebounds.

D efe n s ive r eb o u nd i ng was an issue for the Quakers

throughout the game, as the Rams recorded 18 offensive rebounds and owned the re-bounding margin, 47 to 39. The extra offensive possessions al-lowed Colorado State to stay in the game despite shooting just 27.1 percent from the field.

While Colorado State only made seven of their 31 shots from beyond the arc, quick spurts of hot shooting helped them nearly separate from the Quakers on a few occasions. The first came midway through the first quarter when three long balls in a two-and-a-half-minute span brought the team out to a 13-10 lead. The second came at the beginning of the

second quarter, when a trio of three pointers staked the Rams to a seven-point lead.

Colorado State’s real run came in the third quarter, though, as a 9-2 run out of the gate brought the team to a 12-point lead with just over 16 minutes to play. Penn wasn’t finished, however, as Stipanov-ich scored the next four points, followed by a Brzozowski three-pointer to bring Penn’s deficit to just five.

In the end, sophomore forward Michelle Nwokedi came through with consistent offense in the fourth quarter, scoring 10 of her 25 points to close out the game. Nwokedi scored 10 of the last 12 points for the Quakers as the team locked down defensively to hold Colorado State to just six points in the final period.

Stipanovich finished the game with a 14-point, 10-rebound double-double, along with four blocks to help pace the Quak-ers. The junior center became the program’s all-time leader in blocks with her second swat of the game, and finished the game with 197 on her career — three more than longtime leader Kata-rina Poulsen.

For Colorado State, forward Keyora Wharry — the only Rams player to score in dou-ble-digits — led the way with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Wharry has been the team’s leading scorer this season with 10.8 points per game.

In the end, it was a gritty, defensively-minded win for the Quakers, who have made that commonplace during the McLaughlin era. Penn didn’t lead for a 25-minute span during the middle of the game, but made the plays they needed to at the end of the game to secure the victory.

After playing five games during the first 11 days of the season, Penn now waits until Dec. 5 to host Navy at the Pal-estra.

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Sophomore Michelle Nwokedi helped pace Penn in its 49-48 comeback win against Colorado State with 10 points in the fourth quarter.

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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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With Penn football’s Ivy title-clinching victory two weekends ago, Penn Athletics wrapped up a surprisingly successful fall season. And now, the program has the hard-ware to show for it.

Of course, the Red and Blue foot-ball team is likely most pleased with its Ivy championship, but the squad also has plenty of other accolades to show for its efforts this season.

In his first year at the program’s helm and his 29th overall with the Quakers, coach Ray Priore was named Ivy League Coach of the Year. To bring home the honor, he beat out seven other coaches — most notably his former boss, Columbia’s Al Bagnoli. Priore led his team back

from an inconsistent 1-3 start and is one of only two coaches in Penn his-tory to bring home an Ivy title in his first year as head coach.

But the team wasn’t done picking up awards. Not by a long shot.

In addition to Priore’s honors, the Quakers garnered 11 All-Ivy awards. Of their total four first-team selections, two were unanimous: sophomore wide receiver Justin Watson — who put up 1,082 re-ceiving yards on the season — and senior linebacker Tyler Drake, who averaged eight tackles per game and tallied 8.5 total sacks.

With their impressive seasons, both Watson and Drake will likely be considered for Ivy Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year, respectively. The finalists for those top honors will be announced by the Ivy League this Tuesday.

Similarly, Penn cross country was recognized both for its coaching and its top performer as, earlier in

November, Penn coach Steve Dolan was named Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year by the United States Track

and Field and Cross Country Asso-ciation.

He earned the award on the

heels of a breakout season for his program. 2015 saw the men’s team finish second at the Heptagonal Championships and earn a bid to NCAA’s for the first time since 1975, while the women’s team im-proved mightily off of its last-place Ivy finish in 2014 and yielded national-qualifier in Ashley Mont-gomery.

Meanwhile, men’s senior star Thomas Awad got some recognition of his own. In leading his team to a 24th-place finish at NCAA’s, Awad added to his Ivy-champion resume by earning All-American honors for the second straight year.

Not to be outdone, Penn field hockey — which fell just short of an Ivy championship to end its season — notched four All-Ivy selections, headlined by sophomore Alexa Hoover. The Ancient Eight’s most dynamic player, Hoover has already been named first team All-Ivy twice in her career with the Red and Blue.

Rounding out Penn Athletics’ All-Ivy honorees, the Quakers’ vol-leyball, men’s soccer and women’s soccer teams earned one, two and four selections, respectively.

However, possibly the most pres-tigious award earned by a Penn athlete this season has very little to do with athletics at all.

A week ago, senior women’s rower Jenna Hebert was named one of the year’s 32 Rhodes Scholar-ship award winners from the United States. She is the first Penn athlete to receive the honor in over 30 years and only the fifth to do so in school history.

One of the top performers on her rowing squad, Hebert certainly has quite a future ahead of her on dry land as well. However, before she crosses the Atlantic to study at Oxford next year, Hebert will look to lead the Red and Blue to even more athletic awards for the remain-der of the year.

Priore, Dolan both win Coach of the Year awards

COLIN HENDERSONSports Editor

Strong fall earns Red and Blue plenty of honors

Under Ray Priore, Penn football won its 17th Ivy title in 2015, marking the fifth time ever a first-year coach has won an Ancient Eight crown.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALLVS. PRINCETON

Jan. 9

The Palestra

The Quakers are off to another strong start

this year, but all roads to a potential Ivy

championship will go through Princeton.

And although they have already lost this

year, the Tigers — who return four starters

from their dominant 2014-15 squad — look

formidable again. A win here would be

huge for Penn’s title chances.

MEN’S BASKETBALLAT VILLANOVA

SQUASHAT HARVARD

Dec. 28

Villanova, Pa.

The Steve Donahue era for Penn basketball has gotten off to a great

start, but three days after Christmas, Penn will have its toughest test

of the year. Villanova is currently ranked No. 8 in the nation and is

undefeated on the year (6-0).

Jan. 9

Cambridge, Mass.

In early January, Penn men's and women's squash — Nos. 7 and 3 in the

latest rankings — will take on Harvard, which will be the key for both

teams' Ivy title hopes. The Harvard men and women are currently ranked

Nos. 2 and 1 respectively and are perennial favorites in the conference.

Feb. 13

The Palestra

This year, the Ancient Eight’s top wrestling

program is coming to town. Heading into

the season, the Red and Blue boast possibly

their deepest roster in years, and they will

face their biggest test of the year against

Cornell. It also features a possible

redemption match for senior Lorenzo

Thomas against his archrival, No. 1

184-pounder Gabe Dean.

May 7-8

Ithaca, N.Y.

This fall, Penn men’s and women’s cross

country both took massive strides, making

noise both regionally and nationally. Now

it’s time to see whether or not coach Steve

Dolan can continue that growth on the

track, and the best measuring stick this

winter will come against the rest of the

Ivies at Heps.

TRACK & FIELDAT INDOOR HEPTAGONALS

WRESTLINGVS. CORNELL

IMPORTANT GAMES OF THE WINTER SEASON

LEADING BY EXAMPLE

This summer, after a long day as coun-selors for Penn basketball’s summer camp, the program’s student-athletes were ready to turn in for the evening. But now-sopho-more Darnell Foreman had other plans.

“It’s like 10 p.m., [and he says], ‘Who wants to go shoot?’” freshman forward

Max Rothschild said. “I’m like, ‘No way. Not right now. Go shoot? What?’ Then we walk back to the place we were staying and it’s like 11:30, almost midnight, and he’s like, ‘I’m gonna go.’”

After a small speech from Foreman, Rothschild and the others quickly got the message, and left to shoot around at the boiling hot Palestra in the midst of summer.

“I knew what he was trying to do,” Roth-schild said. “It wasn’t like him trying to scare us freshmen, but it was really more influential and inspiring to see him want to go shoot at midnight at the Palestra.”

For those in the program, this action doesn’t come out of the ordinary from the hard-working guard. Despite his status as a freshman, Foreman was a consistent voice at practices last season, taking a leadership role he’s assumed for every team he’s been on since middle school.

A sterling example came in early May when Quakers’ recruit Ryan Betley was getting ready for a workout at the Pales-tra during his official visit. Foreman told Betley to show up at 3:00 p.m., but the re-cruit arrived half an hour early.

When Betley got there, Foreman was

already in the gym, steadily working on his game by his lonesome.

“Even in the little scrimmages we had there that day, he was definitely the one who was going hard, coaching me, helping give me tips while I was playing,” Betley said. “He just seem[ed] like he would be a great teammate to have, someone who wants to win at all costs.”

While Foreman takes a leadership role on the court, he stepped up his game as soon as he arrived on campus. The Camden,

FOREMAN | Sophomore guard leading by example in practiceSTEVEN TYDINGSSenior Sports Reporter

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A CAREER NIGHTPenn basketball’s Darien Nelson-Henry had career highs in points

and rebounds in a Big 5 win

>> SEE PAGE 8

COMEBACK KIDSOn a night dominated by their

frontcourt, Penn women’s basketball beat Colorado State

>> SEE PAGE 8

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