After the Nov. 4 midterm elections, the Pennsylvania state government and the fed-eral government now look quite similar: a Democrat in the executive branch and a Republican-controlled legis-lature, both fi ghting for their legislative objectives.

Pennsylvania Governor-elect Tom Wolf, a Democrat, won by nearly 10 points in an election year that proved very favorable for Republicans. In the Pennsylvania legislature, Republicans picked up eight seats in the Pennsylvania State House and three seats in State Senate, solidifying conserva-tive control of both chambers.

With a new balance of power also comes new lead-ers. On Nov. 12, Republicans elected Rep. Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny County) as the new Speaker of the State House and Sen. Jake Corman (R-Centre County) as State Senate major-

Benefactors of affi r-mative action spoke on Wednesday night about their experiences and com-plicated relationship with the topic at an event en-titled, “Affi rmative (Re)Ac-tion.”

The panel, moderated by UA President Joyce Kim, was attended by approxi-mately 100 undergraduate and law students at Hous-ton Hall . Two law profes-sors and three students each made 10-minute cases in favor of racial affi rmative

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Sybrina Fulton , mother of the late Trayvon Martin, and civil rights leader Mi-chael Skolnik will speak at Penn next January as part of a week-long commemoration

of Martin Luther King Jr.Fulton and Skolnik will

speak at an event called “Love in a Time of Horror,” hosted by the Offi ce of the Chaplain and the African-American Resource Cen-ter, which focuses on black youths’ struggle for civil rights, justice and healing amid police violence.

“To have Ms. Fulton visit our university will not only

be a tremendous honor, but it’s a powerful opportunity for healing and hope during a very diffi cult time in the U.S. and around the world,” University Chaplain Charles Howard said. “What she has been able to do in the face of the violence and pain that her family has faced is an amaz-ing and beautiful model that I think Penn students, faculty

Civil rights leader Michael Skolnik will also speak in January

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SYBRINA FULTONMother of the late

Trayvon Martin

Student engagement discussed at State of the School

Penn was in the news this week after a controversial vid-eo at a University conference re-emerged featuring MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, who helped draft the Aff ordable Care Act, saying the law only passed because of the “stupidity of the American voter.”

The video, which was post-ed on Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Econom-ics website, showed Gruber addressing an audience at a health economics conference in October 2013. The video gained views on Monday after a conservative group, Ameri-can Commitment, posted an excerpt on YouTube. The clip was originally uncovered by Philadelphia investment advi-sor Rich Weinstein, who has been researching Gruber’s statements in an attempt to dis-credit the health care law.

The University briefl y re-moved the video earlier this week, sparking speculation that Penn attempted to cover up the controversy.

However, a University spokesman said this is not the case.

“The video was offl ine [Monday] for about an hour after a question had come in regarding rights to it,” Vice President for University Com-munications Stephen McCar-thy said. “There are all sorts of conspiracy theories fl oating around on blogs that continue to say that it is still offl ine. It is not. It was offl ine for about an hour midday on Monday and has been back online since Monday afternoon.”

Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute Daniel Polsky did not respond to re-quests for comment.

Gruber’s remarks came in response to a discussion about political transparency during Penn’s 24th Annual Health

State of the School is an annual event hosted by Penn Student Government that involves all associated branches in their annual report to the student body.

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Anita Allen, Vice Provost for Faculty and Professor of Law and Philosophy, was one of the panelists who spoke at Affirmative (Re)Action, a panel discussion that focused on the impact of affirmative action.

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The Sheraton was abuzz with chatter as students and faculty leaders gathered Wednesday night to discuss the future of student life and government at Penn at the

State of the School address.This year’s event featured

discussions of new innova-tions for the upcoming year by speakers from six dif-ferent student government committees, followed by a Q&A session. This year’s State of the School com-

memorated the 50th anni-versary of the Student Com-mittee on Undergraduate Education.The event cost $2,300.70, according to last week’s Undergraduate As-sembly GBM. It also intro-duced two new awards for a selected student govern-

ment faculty member and undergraduate participant.

The need for student en-gagement in government and the importance of serv-ing the community as un-dergraduate representatives

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Can a Democratic gov-ernor and a Republican house get things done?

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WHARTON MBA PROGRAM POSTS TOP EMPLOYMENT STATS

Although Duke took the top spot in Bloomberg Businessweek’s MBA rankings, Wharton led the pack with the best employment statistics among the elite business schools.

Businessweek’s biennial program ranking of the top business schools for 2014 was released Tuesday. Duke’s Fuqua School of Business took the top spot for the first time since the rankings’ inception in 1988, with Wharton following in second place. Wharton graduates had the most employment offers and highest acceptance rates of any of the top schools.

To determine which business schools offer the strongest education and best prepare MBAs for their careers, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked 112 full-time MBA programs on three measures: student satisfaction, a survey of employers who hire the schools’ graduates and the expertise of each school’s faculty — measured by faculty research in esteemed journals.

*Percentages measured 3 months post-graduation(Data gathered from respective schools’ websites)

6. Yale

1. Duke (Fuqua)

2. Penn (Wharton)

3. UChicago (Booth)

4. Stanford

5. Columbia

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Full-time job offers

Full-time job acceptances87%96.1%90.8%90%90%

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1. Duke (Fuqua)

2. Penn (Wharton)

3. UChicago (Booth)

4. Stanford

5. Columbia

6. Yale

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RANKINGS BY PERCENTAGE*

5. Duke (Fuqua) — 87%

1. Penn (Wharton) — 96.1%

2. UChicago (Booth) — 90.8%

3. Stanford — 90%

4. Columbia — 90%

6. Yale — 85.2%

Full-time job acceptances

6. Duke (Fuqua) — 91%

1. Penn (Wharton) — 98.2%

4. UChicago (Booth) — 93.7%

3. Stanford — 94%

2. Columbia — 97%

5. Yale — 91.1%

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Huntsman Hall namesake, Jon M. Huntsman Sr., perhaps one of Penn’s most renowned alumni, held a book signing at the Penn Bookstore on Wednesday eve-ning for his newly released mem-oir.

Huntsman’s book, “Barefoot to Billionaire: Refl ections on

a Life’s Work and a Promise to Cure Cancer,” tells of his entre-preneurial success as founder of Huntsman Corporation, one of the largest petrochemical com-panies in the world, as well as his commitment to donating his fortune to cancer research. The book also discusses Huntsman’s short tenure in the Nixon admin-istration and his involvement in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Event attendees ranged from interested students to community members with long-time con-nections to Huntsman and his

business. Christine Taber, for ex-ample, is connected to Huntsman through her father-in-law, who was one of his earliest investors. She purchased the book for her sister, praising Huntsman’s ac-complishments and the way he has “helped to raise more gen-erations of people interested in business and educated them.”

College freshman Chris D’Urso is just one of many people inspired by Huntsman’s story. He believes that Hunts-man has been infl uential in the business world and that he is a “positive role model” for future

business leaders.Attendee Sam Hageman

pointed out that in a world where businesspeople are trusted in-creasingly less, Huntsman has made positive contributions through his philanthropic work. “There’s a lot to learn from him,” he said.

Hageman also emphasized Huntsman’s “touching story” — his rise to the top and his deci-sion to translate his monetary success into good. “The Univer-sity and other places would be much better if we created more Jon Huntsmans,” he said.

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Huntsman signs new memoir at Penn Bookstore‘Barefoot to Billionaire’ covers his business and philanthropy success

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JON M. HUNTSMAN, SR.Philanthropist businessman

Economics Conference. “This bill was written in a tor-

tured way,” Gruber said. “If you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in — you made explicit — healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed.…Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.”

“Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to get the thing to pass,” he added.

Gruber was the architect of the Massachusetts health care re-form that served as the blueprint for the Aff ordable Care Act, and he worked on drafting the federal version that passed in 2010.

Fox News and other conserva-tive media outlets have zeroed in on Gruber’s comments.

“In the annals of elitist con-tempt for ordinary Americans, the remarks of an Obamacare archi-tect [Gruber] stand out,” Michael Goodwin, a Fox News contributor and New York Post columnist, wrote in an opinion column on Wednesday.

But not everyone was so quick to attack Gruber.

A headline for a Washington Post article by health policy re-porter Jason Millman called Gru-ber “the man who’s willing to say what everyone else is thinking.”

Gruber has apologized for his comments, saying he misspoke.

“The comments in the vid-eo were made at an academic conference.…I was speaking off the cuff and I basically spoke in-appropriately and I regret having made those comments,” Gruber said in an MSNBC interview on Tuesday.

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was a widely discussed theme of the night. Vice Chair of Education of the Nominations and Elections Committee Elizabeth Oppong, a College junior, opened with a speech about this topic, and Execu-tive Director of the Offi ce of Stu-dent Aff airs Katie Hanlon Bonner also touched on it in her keynote speech.

President of the UA and College senior Joyce Kim announced the upcoming launch of the Penn Mo-bile App next month. The app was born of a partnership between Penn Labs and the UA and will function as a directory for student and fac-ulty contacts and as a collection of course locations and service hours of Penn Dining locations. She also talked about the addition of a stu-dent advisory board composed of members of the 5B Coalition of minority groups onto Student Fi-nancial Services.

Next, College senior Lucas Sieg-mund, chair of Student Commit-tee on Undergraduate Education announced that the 2015 White Papers, a pent-annual compilation of policy reports and recommenda-tions for undergraduate education, are in the process of being com-piled. He said that SCUE hopes to create new opportunities to in-crease civic engagement among students by holding symposiums for them to share their opinions on the White Paper fi ndings.

Wharton junior Devin Gross-man, chair of the NEC announced the addition of an undergraduate advisory committee to the Dining Board, which works with Penn Business Services and Penn Din-ing on dining-related issues.

College senior Renata O’Donnell, chair of the Student Activities Council, announced a partial lift of the moratorium, thus allowing some new student groups to receive SAC funding. She also discussed a new policy that will give SAC-funded groups up to $100 that they can choose to use toward advertisements in the Daily

Pennsylvanian at reduced rates. O’Donnell then introduced new resources for student organization treasurers. SAC offi ce hours will begin at the start of the next bud-get cycle, allowing club treasurers to drop by to discuss budget plan-ning with the group. New modules on Canvas will also be available to train treasurers.

After, the Class Board presidents announced their latest tasks. Col-lege senior Ariel Koren announced plans for the annual Feb Club ac-tivities, College junior Jesus Perez announced the 100th anniversary of Hey Day , College sophomore Darren Tomasso announced Harry Potter T-Shirt distribution on Nov. 23, and College freshman Vadim Ordovsky-Tanaevsky announced a pre-fi nals spa day on Dec. 10.

The event was closed with the presentation of the two new awards. The Penn Student Govern-ment Steering Faculty Award was awarded to Executive of Alumni Relations Elise Betz. The Student Leadership Award was presented to Co-Chair of UMOJA Denzel Cummings.

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Members of Penn’s Black Stu-dent League discussed their satis-faction — or lack thereof — with what they termed “Black Penn” at an event by that name on Wednes-day night.

The vast majority of students agreed that they had mixed feelings about the state of the black commu-nity at Penn. They explained that those who took advantage of places

like Makuu, the University’s black cultural center, are often able to fi nd an atmosphere of support and ac-ceptance. They also acknowledged, however, that there are far too many students of all races who do not hear much of anything about what goes on in the black community and never really feel its presence.

Three guest panelists and Penn alumni who were part of the organi-zation as undergraduates answered what “Black Penn” meant when they were students.

Daina Troy, who graduated from Wharton in 1998, talked about the growing involvement of black students in Penn life. She was one of only 10 black women in her Wharton graduating class. Yaadira Brown, a 2013 College graduate, discussed her initial lack of support and trouble connecting with other black students at Penn with diff er-ent backgrounds. She later realized that it is important to seek out these connections anyway and ask for support.

Jerome Allen, head coach of the men’s basketball team, recalled his unlimited access to frat parties and other social gatherings due to his status as a star of the men’s basket-ball team in the early 1990s. A black friend of his, on the other hand, had experienced frequent rejection and isolation at these same events. It made him realize that while some black students, like him, would have had glowing reviews of “Black Penn” upon graduating, others like-ly harbored entirely diff erent views.

After the panelists shared their memories of “Black Penn” from the past, students were asked to de-scribe the culture today. Answers included the words “small,” “exclu-sive” and “misunderstood.” In addi-tion to providing these words, how-ever, participants also expressed a strong desire to replace them with more positive ones.

One participant proposed events to join together BSL with other clubs and organizations on campus in order to raise awareness and pro-

mote schoolwide discussion about the black community.

Attendees agreed on the impor-tance of thinking about not only the issues of the moment, but also those of the future. The speakers’ stories revealed how much can change in just a few decades.

“It’s interesting to see how the black experience has changed over time.” College freshman and BSL member Krisna Maddy said. “It opened my eyes to issues I wasn’t aware of.”

Students, alumni discuss state of ‘Black Penn’ then and nowJOHN BARTLETT

Contributing Writer

SIMPLE ASSAULT:Nov. 3: An unaffiliated 27-year-old woman reported at the intersection of 37th and Spruce streets at 11:30 a.m. that she was punched in the face by another person. The suspect also spit at her. There were no signs of injury observed by the police.

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT:Oct. 31: A confidential assault was reported. Nov. 3: An affiliated 22-year-old man reported at Van Pelt Library (3420 Walnut St.) at 7:11 a.m. that he was struck in the head by a group of three juveniles when walking behind the library. The police identified two males fitting the flash description, who were positively identified by the complaint.

OTHER OFFENSE:Oct. 31: An unaffiliated 39-year-old man was arrested on the 200 block on S. 43rd Street at 2:17

a.m. as police found the suspect to be wanted for probation violations.Nov. 4: An unaffiliated 30-year-old man was arrested on the 3700 block of Sansom Street at 11:47 a.m. for being involved in a disturbance in the highway. Upon investigation by the police, the suspect was found to have an outstanding warrant.Nov. 5: An affiliated 34-year-old female complainant reported being threatened by a discharged patient at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania at 9:45 a.m. The suspect yelled and made threats against the woman.

DEFIANT TRESPASS:Nov. 3: An affiliated 22-year-old man was arrested at Fisher-Bennett Hall (3340 Walnut St.) at 10:24 p.m. for using equipment in a room he was told not to enter.

VANDALISM:

Nov. 1: It was reported that a locked door was forced open by an unknown person at the Presbyterian Hospital (51 N. 39th St.) at 3:15 a.m.

HARASSMENT:Nov. 2 : A confidential harassment was reported.

NARCOTIC:Nov. 3: An unaffiliated 32-year-old man was arrested at the intersection of 40th and Market streets at 11:44 a.m. after his vehicle was stopped for investigation and he was found to be in the possession of narcotics.

SEX OFFENSE:Nov. 6: An unaffiliated 20-year-old woman reported at 6:05 p.m. on the unit block of S. 33rd Street that an unknown suspect ran past her and slapped her on the buttocks.

THEFT FROM BUILDING:Nov. 1: A theft was reported from

Presbyterian Hospital (51 N. 39th Street). Nov. 4: A theft was reported from Penn Optometrics (3600 Market Street).Nov. 6: A theft was reported from Presbyterian Hospital (51 N. 39th Street).

BIKE THEFT:Nov. 2: A bike theft was reported from the 4000 block of Walnut Street. Nov. 4: A bike theft was reported from Harrison College House (3910 Irving St.). Nov. 4: A bike theft was reported from 3920 Spruce St.Nov. 5: A bike theft was reported from the 400 block of South 40th Street.

THEFT FROM VEHICLE:Nov. 5: A bike theft was reported from the 3800 block of Ludlow Street.

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Fulton and Tracy Martin, Tray-von’s father, founded the Trayvon Martin Foundation, a nonprofi t that provides support and advo-cacy to families that have been impacted by violent crime, after their son was shot by neighbor-hood watchman George Zimmer-man in 2012.

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Only just this sum-mer, Defense Sec-retary Chuck Ha-gel revised United

States military regulations. Previously, natural black hair was ruled “unkempt” and unfit for the military. Even after the revision, Jessica Sims, a Navy officer, was discharged from the Navy for refusing to change her hair. For individuals like Jessica Sims, being true to themselves comes at a cost that some do not have to pay. The idea that natu-ral black hair is unacceptable persists even outside the work-place. When photos emerged of Beyonce with her baby, Blue Ivy, with her natural hair, some people started a petition to pres-sure Beyonce to comb or braid her baby’s “nappy” and “un-kempt” hair.

This pervasive notion that black people have to change their bodies is ingrained in our society and makes it difficult to recognize how external forces

have been internalized. Wheth-er this self-loathing comes in the form of using makeup or chemicals to brighten skin tones or using heat or treat-ments to straighten hair, the goal has been to meet a stan-dard of beauty that elevates one group of people and si-multaneously demeans another. Given this current climate, we realized that the contemporary relevance of Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” cannot be overstated. The story is more than a tale of struggle — it of-fers us a glimpse into an often forgotten and silenced group of our society.

“The Bluest Eye” tells the story of three young black girls living in Ohio in the 1940s. We see everything through the eyes of Pecola, Claudia, Frieda and their families, who are all prod-ucts of a culture that existed in our recent past and still affects us today. Pecola struggles to make her dark body invisible,

hopelessly wishing to open her eyes to a world where she is loved and respected and bad things don’t happen to her. For Pecola, such a world is only possible for the one who pos-sesses the bluest eyes.

While working on our stage production of “The Bluest Eye,” we both were reminded of our experiences at Penn when it sometimes seemed such a world of unquestioned acceptance was

only possible for those with the bluest eyes. Whether it was hav-ing a friend explain why black guys are not attractive or being told by some friends that “you look really Asian without your glasses,” both of us were in situ-ations where our bodies were measured against a standard that only pointed out our differ-ences.

Working on this production has given us a historical context to our own self-perceptions and our experiences overall. We see that even to this day, black-ness is a thing to be smothered, dampened and even removed. In the media, we see light skin favored over dark skin. We see straight hair treated as some-thing to be admired and desired while tighter curls are seen as a burden that need to be treated. For example, a few years ago, when Gabby Sidibe, the star of “Precious,” appeared on the cover of Elle magazine, her skin was noticeably lighter than her

actual skin tone. We continue to see black bodies sexualized, demonized and stereotyped, but they are never seen as beautiful in and of themselves. Instead of beautiful black curls or beauti-ful black skin, the media shows us what we do not have — yel-low hair and blue eyes.

This play is relevant even to-day because Morrison makes no attempt to disguise the flaws of her characters. Whereas the me-dia reduces the bodies and be-haviors of blacks to stereotypes — often emphasizing their inferiority — she recreates the struggle without bias. Her char-acters are raw, often caught up in the horrors of their struggle, and we see them flustered, cry-ing, fuming and joyful.

Readers of the story and viewers of the play see the char-acters down to the most guarded parts of their psyches — and in doing so, are compelled to reflect on their own. We hope that the theatre will be a new

way to interact with these heavy and complex subjects that are often left to the internal.

Since the election of President Obama, many people have tried to claim that we

are a colorblind, post-racial so-ciety. It is an all-too-common claim of tolerance, especially on a campus as culturally di-verse as ours: “Some of my best friends are Black/Asian/Latino/etc.,” “I don’t see race,” “Color doesn’t matter to me.”

The notion of being color-blind is a widely claimed iden-tity for individuals who want to express their openness and respect for all cultures, par-ticularly when this tolerance is challenged by others. They will point to a diverse group of friends, or even a significant other, as proof of this accep-tance. This is pretty common at schools such as Penn, which has students from many differ-ent countries and backgrounds.

When people say they are colorblind, they most likely mean to demonstrate that race or ethnicity do not influence their judgments of a person, or hinder their ability to be respectful towards someone else. People will be proud of themselves for not describing race when discussing another individual. This only promotes the idea that it just isn’t polite to talk about or mention race, but the racial problems of so-ciety and the conversations around them do not suddenly disappear.

Those who express the idea of colorblindness often have the privilege of not need-ing to constantly think in terms of race. As a person of color, I don’t get to be colorblind.

“Seeing” race doesn’t make someone a racist — re-ducing an individual to their race does. The pervasiveness of the idea of colorblindness has taught people to attempt to overlook race and ethnicity altogether, which prevents us from learning from each other the nuanced perspectives our individual cultures bring to the table.

As a black and Romanian-American woman, I have great pride in my rich family heritage. But I have also had to develop a strong sense of self-esteem to protect my identity from people of all races who still see the mixing of black and white as unacceptable. Throughout the course of my life, I have encountered many situations in which I felt like I didn’t belong anywhere — people often pick and choose the parts of my identity they are comfortable with and ig-

nore the rest. I am reminded constantly of the consequences of my blackness, my biracial identity, my otherness in so-ciety.

It is clear that there are se-vere flaws in the way that we conceive of race. But my eth-nicity, my cultural heritage, is an important part of who I am. It has shaped not only my views of myself but my out-look on life. My mother was brought up with Southern-American values that influ-enced the way she raised my brother and me. My grandpar-ents were immigrants from Eu-rope, and they encouraged my father to work hard to make a better life for himself in a new country. This was an ethic he instilled in me.

People who say they are colorblind miss the point of cultural acceptance. Yes, you should not make assumptions about me or treat me un-kindly because of the color of my skin. But you should also not strip me of the rich back-grounds that have shaped my life and made me who I am today.

People of all races and eth-nicities are influenced by the impact their cultures have on their upbringing and experi-ences, even in ways we do not immediately realize. We are a nation of many different peo-ples, and those varying sub-groups bring different perspec-tives, ideals and views. We do not live in a vacuum — we are influenced by our national as well as ethnic culture.

My parents were not color-blind. They were all too aware of their racial difference and what it entailed. But it did not stop them from seeing a like-ness in each other and being able to start a family. That is the true meaning of transcend-ing intolerance.

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The Graduate School of Edu-cation kicked off it’s fi rst formal researcher-practitioner partner-ship with the School District of Philadelphia at a mini-conference on Wednesday.

Held at the school district’s headquarters, the conference brought together about 100 teach-ers, administrators and commu-nity members to discuss current strategies and possible improve-ments for the district’s school reform eff orts. It was the fi rst step in a two-year project, called Shared Solutions for School Im-provement, that was announced in September and will study ex-isting school reform methods.

By connecting researchers and people who work in schools, the Graduate School of Education hopes to make it easier for edu-cators to turn research into real change at school.

Kirsten Hill, a Ph.D. candidate at GSE, said there is a diff erence between what research says and what actually gets accomplished afterward. “By including the peo-ple who do the school improve-ment eff orts right in the begin-ning — that’s going to make it more practicable and actionable,” she said.

GSE and the school district will develop a set of measure-ment techniques that can be used in all district schools to evaluate school conditions, classroom in-struction, teacher eff ectiveness and progress of student out-comes. The data collected will be used to make improvements

or adjustments to current school reform methods, according to the grant funding the research.

The series of mini-conferences — at least one more is planned — gives practitioners the chance to say what could be missing from the research or what contextual factors about individual schools they think should be considered, GSE professor and co-principal researcher Laura Desimone said.

“We all talk about bridging the research to practice gap,” she said, “but none of us are exactly sure how to do it.”

GSE student Irene Atkins, who is also a teacher at Mastery Char-ter Schools’ Shoemaker campus, said the event made her hope-ful. “I was very happy to hear that our ideas will be taken into consideration,” she said. “Host-ing an event like this shows to the public that they want to hear our voices.”

The mini-conference included a panel discussion and break out sessions about six topics related to the district’s Action Plan V2.0, which promoted the District’s vi-sion of what education could be in Philadelphia.

Chief Administrative Offi cer of Birney Preparatory Academy Charter School Tanya Glen-But-ler said she received valuable feedback from colleagues during the breakout sessions and looks forward to the next conference for the chance to be a part of the discussion. “None of us do this work independently,” she said. “We work as a team.”

Maritime Academy Charter School teacher Elizabeth Weiss said she enjoyed the discussions, but she hoped for more specifi c suggestions from the breakout sessions to take back to her work at school.

Closing the event, Desimone

said the conference was “just the beginning of many forums and conversations”.

The research is supported by $400,000 grant from the Institute of Education Sciences within the U.S. Department of Education, which was split between GSE and the School District.

The community engagement aims of the Penn Compact 2020, which outlines University’s goals, are cited as one motiva-

tion for the research partnership according to the IES’s posted de-scription of the grant.

Penn President Amy Gutmann mentioned GSE’s history of part-nering with West Philadelphia schools. “The initiative will ana-lyze successes and failure within the district and its turnaround schools and identify areas for improvement and that’s what we

want to do,” she said.“We have a faculty that is deep-

ly engaged in research. That’s our comparative advantage, as a Uni-versity in doing the research on the ground that can then be trans-lated into practice. So it’s really important to begin with excellent research.”

Deputy News Editor Kristen Grabarz contributed reporting.

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The Graduate School of Education and the School District of Philadelphia came together for their first mini-conference, bringing together about 100 teachers, administrations and community members to discuss matters pertaining to the district’s school reform efforts.

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ity leader. “What we have going on in

Pennsylvania was an election that was part of the national wave,” said Terry Madonna , director of Franklin and Marshall College’s Center for Politics and Public Af-fairs . “But secondly, it was also a rejection of the incumbency of Tom Corbett, which puts it clearly in a diff erent realm then what we saw in diff erent states.”

In addition to gaining control of the U.S. Senate and picking up seats in the House of Represen-tatives, Republicans nationwide increased their share of governor-ships. Most surprisingly, Republi-cans won governorships in several Democratic states, such as Maine, Maryland and Illinois. Wolf’s election stands as one of the only outliers.

Nonetheless, some hope that compromise and cooperation have a better chance in Pennsyl-vania than in the capital.

“I think with our governor-elect, Republicans in our House and Senate will see, for a change, a governor who is willing to talk to everyone,” Pennsylvania Dem-ocratic Party Chairman Jim Burn said. “This governor will talk to everyone about a commonsense approach and a business-like ap-proach to running this state ... but I believe that they will be able to at least sit at a table and fi nd a common ground on issues, and where they disagree, they are go-ing to have to work a little harder.”

While Democrats remain opti-mistic that Wolf will be success-ful in moving legislation through the state legislature, others are not as sure.

“Wolf, who has an ambitious agenda, will now have a tough time with a more conservative legislature, both in the House and in the Senate,” Madonna said. “It’s going to be a really tough task.”

“Corbett couldn’t even really get a conservative agenda through the legislature and couldn’t even get his pension bill out of the House, which is a very conserva-tive chamber,” he added.

On the other side of the aisle, Republicans say they want to meet the Democrats halfway, but both parties have yet to outline how bipartisanship could take place.

“Throughout the course of the election, Governor-elect Wolf wasn’t very clear on his policy positions on some issues and Re-publican leaders were very clear,” Communications Director for the

Republican Party of Pennsylva-nia Megan Sweeney said. “But I’m sure as Governor-elect Wolf wants to work with and learn about those positions, he is cer-tainly welcome and encouraged to meet with those leaders.”

The possibility of gridlock in both Harrisburg and Washington persists because of continued po-larization. According to a study conducted by Pew Research Cen-ter this summer, both parties are not on the same political page: 92 percent of Republicans are more conservative than the median Democrat, whereas 94 percent of Democrats are more liberal than the median Republican.

For Penn, gridlock in the state and national legislatures could

halt some of its legislative goals, such as continued funding for Penn Vet, immigration reform and patent reform.

Penn’s lobbying arm — the Offi ce of Government and Com-munity Aff airs — declined to speak about how specifi c elec-tion results will aff ects its agenda, but expressed its continued eff ort to sway legislatures on behalf of Penn’s interests.

“Leadership changes at the na-tional and state levels create new opportunities for promoting im-portant initiatives such as Penn’s eff orts to increase access to higher education, aff ordability and job-creating innovation agenda,” Ex-ecutive Director Dawn Maglicco Deitch said in a statement.

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GUTMANN WINS AMERICANISM AWARDAmy Gutmann was honored yesterday with the Americanism Award, which recognizes leaders in the community who are dedicated to the advancement of causes of human rights, dignity and equal opportunity. She was awarded for driving partnership efforts between Penn and the Anti-Defamation League that included resource training workshops for Philadelphia school teachers and Penn students.

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action. Penn’s Office of Affirma-tive Action and Equal Opportu-nity Programs website states that ”Penn’s robust commitment to diversity” is “grounded in equal opportunity, nondiscrimination, and affirmative action.”

The event was the result of a year’s planning between Kim and the Vice Provost’s Office. More than a dozen student groups sponsored the event.

Professor of Law and Vice Provost for Faculty Anita Allen opened the discussion by giving a historical run-through of af-firmative action from the 1935 Wagner Act to President Ken-nedy’s Executive Order 10925, before talking about her feelings on being a self-identified recipi-ent of this policy.

Allen remembered a time as a graduate student at the Universi-ty of Michigan in the 1970s when a junior faculty member told her, “I don’t think you’re cut out for this work ... You got in by affir-mative action.”

Other panelists also shared stories of having their aptitude questioned in the context of af-firmative action.

College senior and UMOJA Co-Chair Denzel Cummings described how his self-doubt began to emerge as he received comments similar to those Al-len received about his acceptance to Penn being tempered by this policy.

These comments begged a question raised by College senior Katherine Mateo. “How does it feel to be on a campus where half the campus feels like you didn’t deserve to be accepted?” she asked.

Penn Law professor Tobias Wolff asserted that these experi-ences were not about affirmative action.

“Instead, they’re ways of peo-ple telling you ‘I don’t think you belong here,’” he said. Wolff, who advised the Obama cam-paign on LGBT issues for the 2008 presidential election, be-lieves that a more diverse student body through affirmative action helps society by fostering inter-

actions between different demo-graphics, reducing underlying racial biases.

In addition to breaking down traditional prejudices, affirmative action can also expand opportu-nities to otherwise underserved minorities. College junior and President of Sigma Alpha Epsi-lon Ken Schindler shared how his acceptance to Penn enabled him help recruit more Native Ameri-cans like himself on behalf of Native Americans at Penn.

Some of these Native Ameri-cans had never left their land reservations before, and many would not have even thought of applying to college, Schindler said. “If it weren’t for Penn, I would have joined the military [in pursuit of] higher education,” he added.

In the following Q&A session, the audience joined the panelists in sharing their own experiences with affirmative action and being an underrepresented minority at Penn.

Allen reassured, “Everyone who is admitted deserves to be here.”

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When a once-in-a-generation player like senior forward Duke Lacroix enters his fi nal match, people take notice.

This Saturday, Penn men’s soc-cer will need to rally behind the team’s fi ve seniors when Harvard comes to town.

Although the Red and Blue (6-8-2, 2-2-2 Ivy) are offi cially out of the Ivy race, the team will enter Saturday with full force, trying to get one last victory for the senior class that includes starting back Jason deFaria, midfi elders Kamar Saint-Louis, Louis Schott and Mariano Gonzalez-Guerineau, in addition to attack Lacroix.

“Our guys are going to come out with a lot of energy,” coach Rudy Fuller said.

“The guys on the team think the world of the fi ve seniors. They see what they’ve put into it over their career, and they certainly want to do everything they can to send them out winners.

“And those fi ve seniors obvi-ously want to end out their career in the Red and Blue with a ‘W.’”

“At this point it means every-thing,” Lacroix said of getting a win in his fi nal game.

After losing to Princeton in a heartbreaking 3-2 defeat, Penn is looking for a more refi ned style of play on both ends of the fi eld.

On defense, last weekend was the fi rst time Penn allowed three

goals or more since Oct. 14. This weekend, the Quakers will look to stop a Harvard team that has scored just seven goals in six Ivy matches.

On the off ensive side of the ball, Fuller believes that Penn’s scoring ability is the team’s great-est strength and the big-name scorers, like Lacroix, sophomore forward Alec Neumann and ju-nior midfi elder Forrest Clancy, will look to get going against a team that has been strong on the defensive side all year.

Refl ecting on entering his last game, Lacroix looks back favor-ably on his time as a Quaker.

“It’s a bit surreal to me. I feel like I’m living someone else’s life,” Lacroix said. “I remember fi rst day of freshman year coming in here, thinking this day would never come and now it’s three days away.”

Lacroix isn’t the only one amazed that his fi nal game is right on the horizon. After all, these se-niors have seen the good and bad of Penn soccer and reached the pinnacle of the Ivy league last season.

“[It’s] pretty crazy,” Saint-Lou-is said. “It’s really weird because you kind of get into the mental-ity where it’s one training after another, one game after another and you don’t see the fi nish line. It’s kind of a routine but then you realize that it can’t go on forever.”

Fuller is proud of his team’s play this season as well, even if they were unsuccessful in win-ning the Ivy title.

“I think they came in ready to go. They came in fi t. And they’ve given it their best eff ort this sea-son,” Fuller said.

“Take nothing away from what we put into it, even though we’re disappointed that we’re not enter-ing the fi nal game as champs.”

What a long, strange trip it’s about to be.

This Friday, Penn men’s swimming begins the fi rst of seven straight Ivy League road matchups at Columbia.

After a win last weekend against UConn (which fi nished undefeated in dual meets last season), Penn (1-0) will look to build momentum heading into a tough stretch away from home.

Junior Chris Swanson , who set an Ivy League Championship record in the 1650-yard freestyle last season, will lead the Quak-ers into Ivy League play. In addi-tion to setting a record, Swanson was also named the ‘Phil Mori-arty Swimmer of the Meet’ at the Ivy League Championships.

Junior Brendan Crystal and sophomores Cole Hurwitz and Wes Thomas — all three of whom were Academic All-Americans — add to a deep Penn roster. The group led the Red and Blue to third place at the Ivy Championships last season, their best fi nish since 1972.

The Lions (2-0), who fi nished fi fth at the Ivy League Cham-pionships last season, will also be kicking off their Ivy League season.

Last season Penn beat Co-lumbia handily, 185-113. Lions’ senior Kevin Quinn will anchor the Columbia squad, which is

coming off wins against Iona and Army in a tri-meet last Friday at West Point.

The Quakers must start the season off right if they are to

overcome a schedule with no home Ivy League meets. Colum-bia will be the fi rst of many tests, and that test is set for Friday at 6 p.m. in Manhattan.

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with its worst record in Bagno-li’s illustrious career.

As the Red and Blue attempts to fi nish the year out strong, it’s unlikely that the Crimson will make that task easy. Coach Tim Murphy’s squad has been stel-lar this season, winning games by an average of 23.8 points per contest.

“We’ve played against teams that are as good as they are on off ense, and we’ve played teams that are as good as they are on defense,” Bagnoli said. “But we haven’t played anyone in

our league that is as good on both sides of the ball and well-coached as Harvard is.”

The Crimson are coming off a 45-point shutout of Columbia — the only team Penn has defeated this season — due in large part to three interception returns for touchdowns. With that win, Harvard is only one win away from capturing at least a share of its second consecutive Ivy championship.

“Harvard is a great football team. Every year it seems like they have some great kids,” se-nior defensive back Dan Wilk said. “They like to utilize their tight ends in the passing game

which is unique — not a lot of Ivy League teams do that.”

Like fellow defensive back Evan Jackson, wide receivers Conner Scott and Spencer Kulc-sar and linebacker Dan Davis, Wilk is one of many seniors playing in his fi nal home game for the Red and Blue on Satur-day. However, unlike most of those players, this will be the second time Wilk goes through the Senior Day experience.

“It’s a bit weird because last year [Jackson and I] technically had our Senior Day, and now we’re coming back for another one,” Wilk said. “It defi nitely means a lot more this time be-

cause you recognize the mag-nitude of everything going on around you.”

Despite the disappointing win total and the players set to leave the program following the season, Bagnoli knows that Penn is in good hands moving forward.

“To be in one place for 23 years, it’s somewhat unusual, but I’ve loved it and I’d like to think we’ve had more good mo-ments than bad,” Bagnoli said. “We’re all caretakers to a pro-gram that is over 130 years old, and the seniors and I are happy to pass it on to the next guys who will get it all back on track.”

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AARON CAMPBELL/DP FILE PHOTOJunior Chris Swanson and the rest of Penn swimming will make the short

Quakers look to begin 2014 season on a

positive noteBY THOMAS MUNSONAssociate Sports Editor

So now we know where Penn cross country stands in the Ivy League, but where does that put the program in the larger scheme of things?

The Red and Blue will pro-vide an answer to this question this Friday as they look to im-prove on their results from Ivy Heptagonals at NCAA Region-als.

At Heps, junior star Thomas Awad stole the show. With a determined kick over the last 200 meters, Awad took home the fi rst individual Heps title for Penn since 1975.

His performance, along with a gutsy run from senior Conner Paez , led the men’s squad to an impressive third place fi nish in the league.

They may be underdogs go-ing into Regionals, but the group hopes to put together a

strong team eff ort to catapult themselves into the top three — along with perennial power-houses Princeton and Villanova. If they do so, they give them-selves a chance, depending upon the results from other Regional meets, to qualify for NCAA Na-tionals as a team.

Awad is no stranger to Na-tionals himself, having quali-fi ed for the meet last year as a sophomore. He looks poised to do so once again this season, and he will most likely compete with star Villanova sophomore Patrick Tiernan for the Regional title.

Coming off a last-place fi nish at Heps, the women’s squad en-ters the meet with signifi cantly lower expectations. However, the team hopes that — much like last year — it can put to-gether its strongest performance of the year at Regionals and carry that momentum over into track season.

Last year, then-freshman Cleo Whiting qualifi ed for Na-tionals at the meet. She has been slowed down by injuries all year and has yet to fi nd her racing

groove, so this weekend could prove to be an opportunity for her to get back in her rhythm.

All year, observers of the

program wondered how big of a step the program could take.

They’re about to get their an-swer.

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MICHELE OZER/SPORTS PHOTO EDITORJunior Thomas Awad will be looking to capitalize on his Ivy Heptagonals championship with a strong showing at NCAA Regionals this weekend.

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It’s a few days before Penn wom-en’s basketball opens its season at No. 4 Tennessee, and the message in practice is clear: The team will need to fi nd some way to counter the Lady Vols’ length and athleticism.

“What’s important for us is to be able to cleanly move the ball from side to side of the court, which we worked a lot on today,” coach Mike

McLaughlin said.“We need to try to alleviate some

of the length by playing in small ar-eas with them. It’s defi nitely going to be a challenge.”

Tennessee — a perennially strong program — is coming off a Sweet Sixteen exit in last year’s NCAA Tournament and was the No. 1 seed in Penn’s region. Though it graduat-ed honorable-mention All-American guard Meighan Simmons , the team returns most of its starters and looks

poised to put together another domi-nant campaign.

Senior center Isabelle Harrison and guard Ariel Massengale were among the Lady Vols’ top scorers last season, and the former has been named a preseason second-team All-American by multiple news sources.

Opening the season in the home of an SEC powerhouse is a challenge in and of itself, but the Quakers also have the challenge of starting a freshman at the point.

“It’s going to be a challenge for them against Tennessee or whomev-er else we’d be playing,” McLaugh-lin said of his two freshman guards, Brzozowski and Anna Ross .

“First game jitters against that level of athlete is going to be a chal-lenge. We’re going to be patient with them and instill some confi dence in them, but there’s no doubt they’re going to be challenged.”

At this point, McLaughlin hasn’t come to a decision as to who will start between Ross and Brzozowski, as the two continue to compete for playing time.

The Quakers will also see a fi rst-time starter at the two-guard, as sophomore Melanie Lockett will get the start alongside the three re-turning starters from last year in sophomore Sydney Stipanovich and seniors Kathleen Roche and Kara

Bonenberger .Bonenberger had been limited in

practice earlier in the preseason, but she returned to practice last week and will get the start against the Lady Vols.

Stipanovich and Bonenberger will have their hands full with Ten-nessee’s forwards, who fi gure to be one of the team’s greatest strengths. Three of the Lady Vols’ top four re-turning scorers check in at 6-foot-2 or taller and a fourth, junior center Nia Moore , put up 29 points in the team’s public exhibition against

Carson-Newman .While the team is focused on the

game at hand, Penn is also excited for the chance to travel on the road for the fi rst time with the full team.

“It’s the fi rst time traveling to-gether for us, the fi rst fl ight trip for us with everyone together, since not everyone was going to Italy [this summer],” senior captain Renee Busch said.

“Playing in a big gym against a big-time team like Tennessee is a challenge we’re really excited about.”

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QUAKERSGAMEDAY THEY SAID IT“Guys are gonna emerge, guys are gonna adapt to roles.”— On the possibility of shuffling the rotation in the early going.

Jerome AllenPenn coach

TELLING NUMBERS

3Double-doubles recorded by Red and Blue forward Darien Nelson-Henry in 2013-14. The Quakers will need the big man to score early and often against Delaware State big man Kendall Gray on Saturday.

7Number of seasons since Penn last played a foe from the MEAC. On Nov. 17., 2007, the Quakers fell to Howard at the Palestra, 80-65.

1Number of nonconference home games against Division I foes on the schedule for Delaware State. The Hornets play 11 of their first 13 games on the road.

PLAYERS TO WATCH

PENNFr. G Darnell ForemanThe vocal guard will have plenty of sets of eyes on him Saturday night , as he looks to

seize an opportunity to capture valuable minutes at point guard.

Delaware StateFr. G Todd HughesA f irst- team All -Delaware player his senior season, H u g h e s w a s a t remendous in -

state recruiting pickup for coach Keith Walker and his staf f. Hughes is a solid scorer and possesses strong rebounding abilities for a guard.

Hicks — will be relied upon to be one of Penn’s top contributors on a consistent basis, both on and off the court. Fortunately for the Quakers, he has embraced the challenge.

“It’s not too much to ask,”

Nelson-Henry said. “Get a couple more rebounds a game, score a little more. It’s what should be done as you get older.”

To take full advantage of his size, Nelson-Henry will need to develop both his relationships with Penn’s primary ball handlers and his own game.

“Our main focus is to run the off ense through DNH,” Bowman said.

“Looking back on results last year, I think we could have done a better job with our interior game,” Nelson-Henry said. “We had a whole diff erent playing style last year, but I think with the new guys

and our returners, we’re gonna do a really good job.”

It remains to be seen how he performs this season, but a couple things remain certain: The Quak-ers expect big things from their big man, and if he comes through, the rest of the Ivy League could have a big problem on their hands.

NELSON-HEN RY>> PAGE 10

lar — but there will be plenty of op-portunities for some once-sidelined veterans to make names for them-selves.

One upperclassman in particular to keep an eye on is senior forward Greg Louis. After playing in all 31 games his sophomore season, Louis suff ered through an injury-marred 2013-14 campaign, seeing action in only nine nonconference matchups.

Now fi rst in line to see playing time at power forward, Louis will be battling hard for rebounds — and working to restrain the excitement that comes with playing in his fi rst basketball game since Jan. 4.

“I pray a lot before games just to keep my mind in check and to not get too nervous,” he said.

If the Red and Blue want to get nonconference play off to a good start, their freshmen will need to be equally adept at managing their emotions. It only takes one player trying to do too much to collapse a game plan.

“It’ll be interesting to see, we’re gonna be counting on a lot of young

guys,” assistant coach Nat Graham said. “How they respond [to live action] will be interesting and there will invariably be some bumps in the road. They’re gonna be very good and we’ve got to get them to that point as quickly as possible, and hopefully keep them as consis-tent as possible.”

Delaware State has certainly gone through some changes of its own. The Hornets fi red longtime coach Greg Jackson last year mid-way through a 9-21 campaign, re-placing him with assistant Keith Walker. Walker had been an assis-tant under Jackson since 2000, and coached the fi nal 11 games of 2013-14 before being permanently named to the position.

The Hornets don’t appear to possess much sting at fi rst glance. Delaware State’s 61.6 points per game scoring average was 10th worst in Division I last year, and the team lost nine of its 11 nonconfer-ence games against D-I foes by an average margin of 17.1 points per contest.

But Walker’s squad does man-age to possess at least one piece that could give the Quakers a hard time.

Senior center Kendall Gray was named a MEAC Player of the Year candidate in the preseason, and with good reason. Standing at 6-foot-10, Gray set a school record for blocked shots last season with 81 and led the Hornets in rebounding. His size and strength should be a tough matchup for Nelson-Henry in the early go-ing.

“It’ll be a good test for Darien,” Graham said. “Darien’s still coming along a little bit from his surgery and everything, but I would expect that he’ll be raring to go for that fi rst game.”

Whether or not Nelson-Henry will handle Gray is just one of many questions that will have an answer come Saturday.

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MIKE WISNIEWSKI/DP FILE PHOTOSenior forward Greg Louis will be seeing game action this weekend for the first time since a Jan. 4 matchup with La Salle.

SAM SHERMAN/DP FILE PHOTOAfter missing much of the preseason due to illness, senior captain Kara Bonenbergerwill start at No. 4 Tennessee and should prove to beintegral to the Quakers’ success.

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Penn wrestling will sport a much different look this year.

The most prominent change, of course, is among the coaching ranks, where coach Alex Tira-pelle has replaced Rob Eiter after Eiter resigned last May. Tirapelle is also joined on the staff by new addition assistant coach Pete Friedl, who was Tirapelle’s team-mate while wrestling at Illinois.

The lineup for dual meets will also be quite different, as it appears that only two or three wrestlers will return to the same weight class as they competed in last year.

With so much turnover, it’ll be difficult for Tirapelle to determine who will wrestle in which class in dual meets until the team par-ticipates in its first competition, Sunday’s East Stroudsburg Invi-tational.

“I have an idea from seeing what guys have done in the [wres-tling] room, but obviously, the room and the competition mat are two different animals,” Tirapelle said. “We’ll have a better idea

after this weekend after we see all the able-bodied guys we have compete, where we have some depth, where we can make some shifts and do some things for the duals.”

In addition to evaluating each wrestler, Tirapelle sees the meet as a good opportunity for the athletes to get into competition mode, especially as they look ahead to important dual meets against rivals Lehigh and Cornell later in the season.

“They’ve put in a long pre-season. … How many weeks have they just been wrestling each oth-er, beating up on each other?” Ti-rapelle chuckled. “It’s nice to get some fresh faces in there.”

Senior Andrew Lenzi agrees.“East Stroudsburg is a stepping

stone for the season,” he said. “I think it’s a good tournament for people to get their feet wet in.

“For a lot of freshmen, it’s the first taste of competition, so it’s really just a stepping stone. It’ll give people a read of where they’re at and what they need to improve going throughout the season.”

Lenzi is a stalwart of Red and Blue wrestling, as he is embarking upon his fourth year as a member of the team and has served as team captain since last season. However, he will be occupying a

new role as well, as he will drop from the 149-pound weight class to 141.

“It’s a process of fine-tuning,” Tirapelle said of the change.

Lenzi isn’t letting the adjust-ment bother him at all.

“My focus this season is to wrestle my best,” he said. “Not worrying about winning or los-ing, just wrestling my best, going out there and competing, just ful-filling my potential — that’s what I’m seeking to do, and the rest will take care of itself. “

Other wrestlers that will shift weight classes include sophomore Caleb Richardson, who will bump up to 133 from 125, and senior CJ Cobb, who will be at 149 pounds after competing at 141 when he last wrestled for Penn as a sopho-more.

One constant, however, is se-nior co-captain Lorenzo Thomas, who will compete at his usual 184 pounds. Thomas, an All-Amer-ican last year and the Quakers’ best wrestler, is looking forward to possibly facing Brown senior Ophir Bernstein, who was also an All-American last year. Thomas has also tried to provide a source of steady leadership for the transi-tioning team.

Despite all of the changes, however, it boils down to a simple formula for Tirapelle.

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MICHELE OZER/SPORTS PHOTO EDITORSenior captain Andrew Lenzi will lead a new-look Quakers team this weekend in its season opener. Penn enters the East Stroudsburg Invitational with a completely different look under new coach Alex Tirapelle.

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After 23 years, it’s time for Al Bagnoli to say goodbye to Frank-lin Field.

Coming off a sloppy defeat to archrival Princeton, Penn football

is not simply preparing for one of its toughest on-fi eld tests of the season against No. 17 Harvard this weekend. The Quakers (1-7, 1-4 Ivy) are also getting ready for the emotional toll that accompanies the circumstances surrounding a game like Saturday’s matchup with the Crimson (8-0, 5-0).

In addition to celebrating the careers of the Red and Blue’s se-nior class, the program will also honor one of the most decorated

coaches in Ancient Eight history. In over two decades at the helm, Bagnoli has guided Penn to nine outright Ivy titles and 147 victo-ries, winning nearly 70 percent of his games against conference op-ponents.

“Every game comes with its own distractions, and you need to be able to block out those distrac-tions once the game starts,” Bag-noli said. “Our kids have done a good job of doing that.

“It’s going to be a bittersweet day for the seniors — it will be bittersweet for me — but when the game starts, we need to put our best foot forward and try and get that win.”

Unfortunately for the Quakers, wins have been hard to come by in 2014. Defi ned by inconsistent play and a roster decimated by injuries yet again, Penn will likely fi nish

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It’s Inauguration Day and the Swamis are ready to welcome our newly elected Commander-in-Chief to the Franklin Field side-lines.

As President Bagnoli prepares to exit his own Oval Offi ce, the Swamis are unsure exactly what a new administration will bring.

The President has had a lot to deal with in his fi nal season.

Not only has his trusted aide Ray Priore been accused of giv-ing state secrets to the New York Times, something that explains why the defense has been so bad, his scrappily bearded Chief of Staff , Billy Ragone, tragically left the show on Election Day.

It’s never been easy for Presi-dent Bagnoli, especially after he lost Aaron Sorkin and Deputy

Communications Director Bran-don Copeland midway through his fourth season.

But that’s never stopped Bag-noli from sticking his hands in his pockets, looking away and smiling when he’s made up his mind.

So after Bagnoli off ers one fi -nal speech in Latin to his staff and another lesson on the best knife with which to cut a turkey to his

players, he’ll simply sit back and ask: “What’s next?”

And as Bagnoli sits aboard Air Force One after leaving Franklin Field for the fi nal time, he will open up a gift the Swamis have left him. Inside, he’ll fi nd a framed napkin with a simple motto.

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BY RILEY STEELESenior Staff Writer

After an off season of tur-moil, change and speculation, there’s nothing more that Penn basketball would like to do than to just get on the court and play.

Saturday, the Quakers will get their wish, hosting Delaware State at the Palestra to kick off the 2014-15 season.

The Red and Blue enter the start of nonconference play with a rotation in fl ux. They re-turn only two players that start-ed more than eight games last year — guard Tony Hicks and

forward Darien Nelson-Henry — leaving the vast majority of available minutes up for grabs.

“Guys are gonna emerge, guys are gonna adapt to roles,” coach Jerome Allen said. “I just think the beauty of this team is that I’m not really sure how things will play out, but what I do believe is that this team is ready to compete.”

Some of that fl oor time is expected to be fi lled by fresh-men — forward Mike Auger and guards Darnell Foreman and Antonio Woods in particu-

Right now, Penn basketball’s Darien Nelson-Henry is the big man on campus. But then again, that’s nothing new for him.

“I’ve always been one of the big-gest players on the court,” he said.

That’s an understatement. Listed at 6-foot-11 and 265 pounds — ac-cording to assistant coach Ira Bow-man , he’s probably closer to 280 — and sporting a monstrous beard to match, Penn’s junior center is a rare commodity in college basket-ball nowadays: a bona fi de big man.

“He’s one of a dying breed,” Bowman said. “Looking around the United States … there’s not too many guys who really want to mix it up in the paint.”

To give some perspective on Nelson-Henry’s size advantage, let’s take a look around the rest of college basketball.

Penn’s upcoming opponent, Delaware State, has only one play-er listed at 6-foot-10, and he is 25 pounds lighter than the man Penn fans fondly refer to as DNH.

In the Ivy League, there are only three players listed at 6-foot-11.

On Kentucky, a perennial bas-ketball powerhouse, Nelson-Henry would be the second-tallest and overall biggest player on the current roster.

In his two previous years with the team, the Red and Blue have already seen the big man turn this tangible advantage into concrete results.

In his freshman year, it did not take Nelson-Henry long to emerge as a key contributor, scoring 7.6 points per game, blocking 25 shots on the year and earning 13 starts in the process. Last season, he was even more eff ective during his time on the court, scoring 10.6 points per

game on an Ivy-leading 59 percent shooting.

And he hasn’t even come close to reaching his ceiling as a player.

Both of his fi rst two years have been plagued by injuries, which — in addition to his large frame — have made it diffi cult for him to stay in good cardiovascular condition. As a result, he was only able to play

21 minutes per game last year.However, after undergoing sur-

gery over the off season, both Nel-son-Henry and his coaches are con-fi dent that he will be able to take the next step forward this season.

“I’m feeling great,” Nelson-Hen-ry said. “As far as I’m concerned, I’m 100 percent going into the sea-son.”

“He’s changed his diet,” Bow-man added. “He’s increased his muscle mass. … He’s done every-thing we’ve asked of him.”

With key players like Miles Jack-son-Cartwright and Fran Dougherty gone to graduation, Nelson-Henry — along with junior guard Tony

“Euro, Euro! ” freshman guard Beth Brzozowski shouts as she runs up the fl oor in prac-tice.

A few quick passes and screens later, sophomore forward Jackie Falconer deftly lays it in, and the team goes sprinting back the other way.

M. HOOPS | Junior is Penn’s and Ivy League’s

big man on campusBY COLIN HENDERSON

Sports Editor

Quakers’ rotation gets its first test

M. HOOPS | Penn hosts offensively-

challenged HornetsBY IAN WENIKSports Editor

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ISABELLA GONG/DP STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Junior center Darien Nelson-Henry stands above his competition at 6-foot-11, which is taller than every player on Delaware State’s roster. One of the four tallest players in the Ivy League, “DNH” will look to stay healthy and dominate .the paint.

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