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Students, profs react to Penn Against Gun Violence

Since the formation of the new student group Penn Against Gun Violence was announced last week, campus discussion on the already con-troversial issue of gun rights has intensified. Students have expressed mixed reactions to the group, especially online.

Penn Against Gun Violence was formed by College freshman Natalie Breuel in the wake of the online threat against an unnamed Phila-delphia school in October. The group’s two-fold mission is to bring awareness to gun violence issues, as well as to advocate for gun safety legis-lation in Pennsylvania.

While many individuals, including com-menters on a previous Daily Pennsylvanian article about the group, expressed harsh cri-tiques and even described the organization as anti-freedom, representatives of political groups and experts on campus maintain more positive stances.

“It is great to see the formation of the Penn Against Gun Violence group. Although Penn is a progressive campus community with countless

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One Management 100 team is out to destigmatize mental health, one artwork at a time.

Team iCare has been working with CareLink, a nonprofit that provides those with mental ill-ness in Southeast Pennsylvania and South New Jersey an alterna-tive to hospital care. On Tuesday night, the group opened an art ex-hibit in Claudia Cohen Hall called “Beyond the Eyes: Art Exhibition and Sale,” an event that featured the work of CareLink clients.

“We try to organize art ac-tivities for our clients because of their illnesses; they may not have gotten the same opportunities for doing art as the rest of us,” Eileen Joseph, the president and CEO of CareLink said. “Many of them

create works with the goal of showing. It is self-fulling to recog-nize their work has greater value when someone other than family sees it.”

This is the seventh year Care-Link has worked with Wharton students, the third of which in-volved putting on an art show. This year’s show will remain in Cohen Hall through Nov. 28.

Wharton freshman Victoria Brown, one of the 10 members on Team iCare, said her team was drawn to CareLink since the proj-ect allowed them to use creative and logistical skills in the project and for the cause itself.

“With the art exhibit, people are forced to see that even though you are diagnosed with mental ill-ness, that doesn’t mean that you can’t be a great artist or a great human being outside of that,” Brown said. “People kind of tend

Exhibit held by local non-profit and MGMT 100 teamEMILY CIESLAKContributing Reporter

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Despite criticism, group receives strong support on campusEUNICE LIM Staff Reporter

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Ayan Aidid was meandering through the streets of Prague after dinner with friends. Luis Ferre Sa-durni was in a Spanish bar in Paris. Gabriela Vidal-Irizarry was having dinner with her aunt. Peter Herbst was on his way home from a day of solitary museum visits. Hannah Fagin was making her way to her friend’s apartment. I was in the middle of an interview in a cramped AirBnB in Brussels.

But for all of us, at that moment,

the world stood still.Last Friday, at approximately 9:30

p.m., the city of Paris experienced the largest terrorist attack in its history. The series of coordinated shootings and bombings throughout the city, which unfolded over the course of several hours, left 129 people dead and hundreds more wounded.

The next day, ISIS claimed respon-sibility for the attacks. Seven of the attackers died at the scenes of the at-tacks on Friday, including multiple natural-born French citizens and at least one Syrian who entered France posing as a refugee. Also on Satur-day, several people were arrested in Belgium in relation to the attacks. Since the attacks, French police

have conducted more than 150 raids throughout Paris, and on Tuesday, five people were arrested in Ger-many.

The attacks captured interna-tional attention. In the following days, countries around the world lit their buildings in the colors of the French flag, and the attacks featured prominently in most news cycles in-ternationally.

For all of us, though, the attack was more than just a headline. We are all College juniors and, for the past three months, Paris has been our home. As study abroad students based in Paris, we all experienced the night of the at-tacks in real time.

Almost universally, students

remember initial reactions of shock and confusion.

Fagin was trying to meet up with friends and intended to transfer at the metro station Republique, which was at the center of the shootings. When the conductor announced that the train would not stop at Republique, Fagin said she didn’t think much of it and got off the train to find an-other way to the station. She said she remained unfazed when the entire metro station was evacuated and only realized something had happened when she made it to her friend’s apartment and saw the news.

“When I finally got to my friend’s,

Students abroad recount experiences in ParisJESSICA McDOWELL Enterprise Editor-elect

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Team iCare held an art exhibition in partnership with nonprofit CareLink on Tuesday night. The exhibit, called “Beyond the Eyes,” aims to destigmatize mental illness.

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New performance group promotes Jewish values

In the next couple weeks, a new performance group will be flyering students on Locust.

In January, College junior Mi-chelle Guefen founded J*Stage Theatre Company — Penn’s newest acting group. The orga-nization’s mission is to produce theatrical performances that help spread Jewish values to broader social contexts. Many of these Jewish values, like social justice, community acceptance, family and lifelong learning, are “applicable to everybody,” ac-cording to College sophomore Zoe Stoller, the vice president of J*Stage.

Guefen has been involved in musical theatre for most of her life. Growing up in San Diego, she performed in shows at her local Jewish community center. She said performances were ful-filling and enjoyable experiences for her.

When she came to Penn in 2013, Guefen said she hoped to join an acting group that was similarly “Jewish-based, among Jewish people.” She became in-volved with Hillel, where she noticed a Jewish acting group was “something that was really missing.”

For Guefen and Stoller, being part of J*Stage has been a re-warding experience. “Theatre is very important to me,” Stoller said. “Judaism is very important to me. It’s very special to be in-volved in those together.”

Stoller first learned of J*Stage at its inception in January. She read about the club in Hillel Highlights and immediately reached out to Guefen.

“I tried to find people who were as passionate as I was,” Guefen said. “So when I got an email from Zoe saying how ex-cited she was, it was like, ‘Yes, someone else agrees!’”

From there, it was all about “getting people involved, get-ting our name out there,” Guefen said. The J*Stage executive board expanded over time to

include a marketing chair, social chair, treasurer and tech director. Together, they have been meet-ing to discuss future productions.

In the coming months, J*Stage will be holding auditions for its spring production — Wendy

Wasserstein’s 1984 play “Isn’t It Romantic.” The play is set in 1980s Manhattan and follows two twenty-somethings, Janie and Harriet. They are in the “fig-uring things out” stage of life — searching for happiness and

love in New York, all while re-defining their relationships with their parents and staying afloat in their careers.

“Isn’t It Romantic” does more than provide comic relief. It also explores ideas of Judaism,

like Jewish self-authorship and self-identity. Judaism plays an important role in Janie and Harriet’s lives as they build re-lationships and venture into adulthood. One of J*Stage’s goals is to inspire dialogue and discussion — “Isn’t It Romantic” is their next platform for that.

Some of the themes of the play are the centrality of family and the problem of self-doubt. “A big question [in the play] is what you owe your parents,” J*Stage Trea-surer and College sophomore Ethan Friedson said. “Janie feels a lot of pressure. Her parents expect her to do certain things, like be a lawyer and marry some-one successful. [There are] really high expectations, and that’s something Penn students can really relate to.”

While auditions for the play are right around the corner, there are many other ways students can get involved in J*Stage. J*Stage encourages Penn students to “not only audition, but also be members of the club, to come to fundraisers, social events and movie nights,” Guefen said.

Company fills a niche for Jewish-themed shows CAROLINE HARRIS Contributing Reporter

groups dedicated to important issues, there certainly is a space for an organization committed to raising awareness about and advocating the prevention of gun violence,” said College senior and Penn Democrats president Sean Foley.

College senior and College Republicans President Will Cas-sidy is also supportive of students forming a group on a topic they are passionate about, and he approves of the group’s focus on advocat-ing for gun safety legislation just within Pennsylvania.

“I think to a large extent, gun control is a state issue. I come from a state that has a large number of recreational hunters and people who use guns in a very benign way. And we have different

attitudes towards guns than say, someone in New York does. In different states, the culture of gun ownership is different and people tolerate different levels of risks when it comes to guns,” Cassidy said. “So my overarching belief is that as you very reasonably look in Pennsylvania to limit access to guns, I think that effort should stay within Pennsylvania as this issue should be handled on a state-by-state basis.”

Social Policy & Practice profes-sor Susan B. Sorenson, the group’s faculty advisor, has conducted re-search on gun violence prevention for over 15 years. Sorenson com-mented that the online reactions to the new group is not a surprise.

“Guns are but one issue around which people polarize these days. Some people value guns and buy a lot of them whereas others wouldn’t take a gun if it was given

to them,” Sorenson said.Foley hopes that the group will

foster more dialogue and activism

over the divisive issue.“I think Penn Against Gun

Violence can be particularly

beneficial to the community if they highlight the terrible toll that gun violence inflicts on

Philadelphia and build off that to lobby for comprehensive gun safety legislation,” Foley said.

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J*Stage Theatre Company’s mission is to produce theatrical performances that help spread Jewish values to broader social contexts. Board members of J-Stage: Zoe Stoller, Michelle Guefen and Ethan Friedson.

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Penn Against Gun Violence has received mixed reactions from students. Members include (from left to right): Candy Alfaro, Camille Rapay, Jillian Jones, Natalie Mullins, Madeline Freeman, Natalie Breuel, Helen Dai.

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Last Thursday afternoon, students gathered on College Green to protest racial discrim-ination on college campuses, standing in solidarity with students at the University of Missouri and Yale University. The protest touched on some of the deepest, most controversial issues that students face — race, inequality and freedom of expression.

Yards away, nestled ob-scurely in the Duhring Wing of the Fisher Fine Arts Library, a History professor and an em-ployment lawyer were hard at work hearing, considering and resolving complaints, some of which dealt with those very problems.

Their office, cozily fur-nished and finely decorated, is designed for safe and open conversation. Confidentiality is a key aspect of the Office of the Ombudsman — when stu-dents, faculty and staff come to the office to seek help with interpersonal issues, they are assured in almost all cases that

whatever they say will never leave the room.

Penn Ombudsman and His-tory professor Lynn Hollen Lees, who has held the role since 2014, explained that the Office of the Ombudsman works to “help people think through situations of stress or conf lict in which they’re involved, to help deescalate conflict and to help people move forward to a resolution.”

The Office does not perform formal investigations, but will help members of the Penn com-munity by referring them to other offices, like the Office of Student Conduct or the Women’s Center, or facilitating informal media-tion through meetings or shuttle diplomacy.

So if a student comes to the office with a complaint that one of their professors has made a racially insensitive comment, Lees said, the Office of the Ombudsman would listen to the student’s concerns, then refer them to the Office of Affirma-tive Action or address the issue itself, depending on what the student wanted to do.

There are only two excep-tions to the confidentiality rule — complaints that place anyone in danger, or situations

in which there is a legal ob-ligation to report an issue. Otherwise, it is entirely up to the individual making the com-plaint to determine whether he or she would like to make a formal accusation or com-plaint.

The Office also strives to maintain neutrality in all its ac-tions.

“We don’t take sides; we’re not an office that advocates for anything other than fairness and promoting a climate for success within the University,” said Associate Ombudsman Marcia Martinez-Helfman, a lawyer with a background in human resources. “We don’t advocate for a particular point of view, for a person, for a de-partment, for a school, for the University.”

Of the 137 complaints re-ceived by the Office between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015, 59 came from staff, 31 came from faculty, six came from post-doctorates and 36 came from students. The most common category of complaint was “Employment, General” with 49 complaints, followed by “Academic Procedures” with 23 complaints and “Abra-sive /Abusive / Inappropr ia te

Behavior” with 17 complaints.The reason for the compara-

tively low portion of student complaints, Lees said, is be-cause students — particularly undergraduates — have a number of other places on campus where they can voice their concerns. But for the most contentious issues, such as free speech, Lees said that the Office can play an important role.

“I think this whole area of free speech, and violations of free speech, is an area where the Ombuds Office could be very important because what one wants to have happen on campus is individuals taking responsibility for their behav-ior and respecting the rights of others,” Lees said. “It’s often not a question of right or wrong ... it’s a question of discussion; it’s a question of engagement.”

And instead of escalat-ing tensions by making an accusation or doling out con-sequences, the Office of the Ombudsman aims to decrease them.

“We try to turn the heat down,” Mar t inez-Hel fman said. “We want things to settle down and enable people to un-derstand each other — even if it’s to agree to disagree, to do so in a respectful way.”

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The Office can help re-solve numerous conflictsCAROLINE SIMONCampus News Editor-elect

Profit and social impact aren’t always seen as forces that go hand in hand, but 1984 Wharton graduate Bobby Turner, principal and CEO of Turner Impact Capi-tal, has been a pioneer in social impact investing.

On Tuesday evening, the Whar-ton Social Impact Initiative and the Center for High Impact Phi-lanthropy at the School of Social Policy & Practice hosted a fire-side chat with Turner, responding to popular student demand for a more intimate conversation with the alumnus.

The previous day, Turner had led a discussion with hedge fund manager and philanthropist Bill Ackman as part of the Turner Social Impact Executive Speaker Series, which has previously brought big-name speakers, such

as Ashton Kutcher and Eva Long-oria, to campus. The packed event allowed students to hear from the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management and learn ways to in-corporate social impact into their lives and work.

Now in a smaller group setting, Penn students had the chance to hear directly from the man who endowed the Speaker Series in 2010. Committed to inspiring the Penn community with leaders who are “doing well and doing good,” Turner shared his insight and passion for impact investing with undergraduates and Wharton MBA students alike.

Some students may associ-ate Wharton with learning how to generate wealth, but Turner argues that profit and purpose are not mutually exclusive.

“Social impact investing is about generating good, fair returns for investors while produc-ing a meaningful impact on the communities we invest in. There is an interdependency between

profit and purpose,” Turner said.Moderated by Professor Kath-

erine Klein, the vice dean for the Wharton Social Impact Initia-tive, the discussion touched upon Turner’s diverse endeavors and revealed how Turner used market forces to transform how school-ing, affordable housing and other societal issues are addressed in the nation.

“There are 1.2 million children on waitlists for charter schools. Regardless of market indices, the demand for charter school seats is not going to change,” Turner said. “We are just building im-pactful infrastructure where there is an existing mismatch be-tween the supply and demand.”

Turner has teamed up with professional tennis player Andre Agassi to build charter schools in high-need areas and has worked with former NBA star Earvin “Magic” Johnson to enrich urban communities by providing increased law enforcement, edu-cation resources and healthcare

access. This in turn decreases the turnover rate in apartment leases, reducing the operating costs of investing in an apartment com-plex.

Turned argued that profit-based approaches to creating meaningful change can some-times be more effective than pure philanthropy.

“I had donated to causes I cared deeply about, but that was just putting band-aids on the issue and funding a legacy of de-pendency,” he said.

The event reflects Wharton’s increased focus on social impact in investing and finance. The Wharton Social Impact Initia-tive, established in 2010, seeks to create “business strategies for a better world.”

Turner recognizes the general trend that more and more people today are committed to socially conscious capitalism.

“When I was young, we viewed the corner office as des-tiny, but millennials’ values have

shifted,” Turner said. In twenty years, he said that his generation will be out of power — it will be

the millennials in positions of leadership and affecting positive change in the world.

Turner shared his experi-ence in impact investingCHERRY ZHIContributing Reporter

Bobby Turner, principal and CEO of Turner Impact Capital led a fireside chat about how to incorporate social impact into daily life and work.

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In the wake of protests against racism on campus-es around the country last

week, many of my acquain-tances took to social media to declare their status as “allies” of the protesters and to affirm their solidarity with the various movements participating.

It was far from the first time I’d seen the term “ally” used in conjunction with social justice movements, but it raised the concept afresh in my mind. Specifically, I got to wondering about my own ability to claim alliance with those striving to bring attention to their belief that they are routinely denied full and equal partnership in the academic community and in public life.

On the one hand, I long to see a world where nobody’s identity is seen as grounds for social subjugation. Members of those groups clearly feel deeply that such a world is not

at hand, and I agree whole-heartedly with a number of their reasons for thinking so. On the other hand, I’ve been publicly and vocally critical of the methods and stated goals of some of these groups, particu-larly where they have sought punishment for the perpetra-tors of perceived racial slights. These criticisms, I suspected, would exclude me from ally status in the eyes of many.

A former classmate of mine took to Facebook to make this point explicit. The obligation of a white ally, she insisted, was not to speak, but to listen only: to offer no criticism, no response, no comment. The criterion for alliance was un-conditional agreement and support. For me, this was a moment of clarity.

Good-faith dissent and criti-cism are not enmity. Indeed, they have the potential to be far more sincere manifestations of

support than the silently-nod-ding total acquiescence which my former classmate suggests that alliance with the marginal-ized demands.

No leader is correct about all matters in all cases at all times. It is inevitable that sometimes we all make errors, neglect the obvious or allow our biases and our emotions to cloud our judgement. Such oversights are not reprehensible failings but often-laudable features of our humanity. It is at the times when such features threaten to lead us badly astray, however, that the true ally makes himself known not by his automatic as-sent but by his voice raised in earnest disagreement. Good leaders know this, and they do well to heed their critics, rather than to demonize them.

Activists for historically per-secuted groups are often quick to note that those outside such groups cannot possibly under-

stand what it’s like to be inside them and to experience living with the legacy of that persecu-tion. They are absolutely cor-rect; I will never know what it feels like to be black, gay or female in America. I’m not a part of those groups, and the legacies of their subjugation don’t affect my life the way they would if I were.

I don’t agree, however, that these facts render my voice devoid of value when I speak about the efforts to overcome those legacies. Of course, there are some things I’m simply not qualified to speak about; if I claimed I knew firsthand what types of emotions gay people feel when they’re called an an-ti-gay slur, you’d be justified in dismissing me out of hand. Our commitment to diversity in ed-ucation, however, is anchored in a belief that the pursuit of truth and justice is aided, rather than hindered, by the contrib-

uting presence of people with many different, discreet life experiences. We do not declare that the privileges or hardships afforded to some render their voices devoid of value; we be-lieve that each life experience provides a different perspec-tive through which to examine the world and thereby to know it better. Those seeking social justice ought to realize that the same is true of their goals and to embrace as many diverse views as possible, regarding each as a potential contribution to the achievement of a more just society.

And so, to those who have raised their voices in protest, I offer myself as a different sort of ally. I will neither unques-tioningly affirm your every position, nor leave your every claim unchallenged. Rather I will raise my own voice in earnest dissent, in the hope that in doing so I might strengthen

yours. In such a partnership, I do not doubt that I will learn and grow and change as well. This is not a condescension but an earnest offer of aid.

Injustice and violence are rampant, equality is still a dream, the civil

rights movement is in Act 2 of a seemingly never-end-ing play and innocent lives are taken on a daily basis for reasons that are both il-logical and unsubstantiated. At times it seems like things will never change, like we as citizens are powerless to a system too deeply rooted in a society that was not built with almost half of its members in mind.

While some people have given up and given in to it, others are either established in their methods of con-tributing to the movements they are passionate about or still trying to figure out how to “make a difference.” It is completely normal to grapple with finding your role in the movements that you are passionate about, whether it be Black Lives Matter, LGBT rights, femi-nism, etc. Everyone ap-proaches them differently and do so at different paces. However, it is undeniable that we all have the po-

tential to contribute to the progress that we strive for.

As we make use of our voices, it is important to recognize the platforms that we occupy as well as the mediums of commu-nication accessible to us. For example, in discussing his recent take to Twitter sharing information about current events at colleges in this country related to student athletes, Wharton sophomore and football player Tre Solomon said, “A lot of us coming out of high school have to do the ‘recruiting dance’ and sell ourselves to different schools, and we grow up being told that our place is on the field. But now we see that we can make tre-mendous impacts socially and help move our schools in the right direction.” He pointed out that seeing black student athletes at Mizzou joining each other to combat racial issues on their campus demonstrates “that together [we have] more power than we pre-viously imagined.” This is

a testament to recognizing one’s influence and power that in speaking, people will listen.

Once one can recognize the power of their plat-form, they can then choose the mode of protesting that they prefer. Marches, art and social media, for ex-

ample, are powerful as they have the ability to capture the attention of masses of people and promote aware-ness.

At times, I have found myself looking down on social media as a medium for activism because for each movement there are always some people that take advantage of the mo-ment, spew ignorance for attention and change their

cover photos to suit a trend. However, from the Twit-ter movements related to the Arab Spring to the re-cent stand for solidarity with Mizzou and Yale, it is evident that social media provides a space for indi-viduals who are miles apart to unify and support each

other in a way that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to do. Furthermore, the vid-eos, photos and other posts that are shared on Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms to docu-ment these causes are in wfact the primary sources for the history books that will be written about these years.

In considering our roles in the movements that we

choose to participate in, it is important to realize that we can take on multiple roles simultaneously. Fur-thermore, all of the roles that we take on contribute to the much broader picture beyond us. Lauren Shapiro, a College senior and Black Lives Matter ally spoke on the role of an ally saying, “I think an ally is someone who acknowledges that they don’t know best but is will-ing to listen to and help the people who do know best, in this case black Ameri-cans who have experienced racism and state oppression firsthand.”

While this advice is es-pecially relevant for allies, it is even more crucial that everyone follows Lauren’s example. Whether you personally identify with a movement or are an ally to one, never stop educating yourself about the cause and be willing to listen to oth-ers. Education is imperative for understanding the cause as well as to create solu-tions. Education grounds the movement as we share

knowledge to promote awareness and extend sup-port. At the same time, as we begin to piece together our own roles and act col-lectively, we must continue to listen to each other for we bring a myriad of expe-riences with us.

So whether it’s archiving, leading the marches, spreading awareness etc., recognize that we all have the potential to positively contribute to movements toward progress.

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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.

*A simple random sample of 100 Penn undergrads were surveyed to collect data about their fi lm viewing habits.

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Every Penn student who has lived in a dorm has inevitably seen one of many posters warn-ing of the dangers of drugs and alcohol and suggesting safe prac-tices. While they may question the posters’ intent and impact, the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives stresses that their primary goal is to help students.

Director of AOD Noelle Melar-tin said that the posters are trying to bring education on issues of substance abuse to “another level.”

“We wanted to grab attention with bold images and simple text because we know that students are not going to read something

for 20 minutes,” Melartin said. “If a student sees the medical am-nesty poster hanging on a wall, in case they didn’t hear about medi-cal amnesty from other places, now they can get this informa-tion and know in the back of their minds that they can get help on this campus and they won’t get in trouble.”

The posters, which have been a staple of Penn dorms’ decor for a number of years, are updated every semester and come in two main styles: “Penn Plays Safe” and “It’s a Science.” While the “Penn Plays Safe” posters focus on providing concise facts related to reducing the harm of alcohol and other drugs, the “It’s a Sci-ence” posters delve into certain topics in greater depth.

Many students, especially freshmen who are new to seeing posters like these around campus, are unsure of the impact the

posters have.“They definitely mean well,

but I don’t think they do anything. I mean no one seems to read them and a lot of them are just on the floor at this point,” College fresh-man Sydney Acquaye said.

College freshman Jackson Betz also said he questions the posters’ effectiveness.

“People are still afraid to call for help, despite the medical am-nesty posters. It’s also weird how they seem to be promoting alco-hol,” Betz said. “For someone like me who is not a big partier or drinker, it’s weird that the posters are almost encouraging drink-ing.”

Despite some students’ claims that posters encouraging students to count their drinks or drink water during a night out condone alcohol consumption on campus, Melartin stresses that the AOD’s purpose is to simply educate and

help students.“What we are trying to convey

through these posters and the rest of our work here is that there are ways to drink and not experience those negative consequences,” Melartin said. “Our office is a harm reduction office. Harm reduction means that we rec-ognize that students are doing certain things like consuming alcohol whether or not it is legal for people their age, and we also recognize and see all the time the consequences that students, or any humans, can experience as a result of drinking in a high-risk way.”

While Melartin stressed that all of their information is “sci-entific,” some students like Engineering freshmen Jason Grosz and Vedang Joshi still question the validity of some of the posters.

“I don’t even think some of [the

posters] are true. I mean, there’s no way a cup of jungle juice would cause someone to black out,” Grosz said.

“It seems like they are just trying to scare people,” added Joshi.

No matter students’ opin-ions, the AOD posters that line the halls of Penn dorms harbor

important messages that are meant to help.

“We provide alcohol [and drug] education to the campus from a number of different angles,” Melartin said. “So we put this in-formation up so that maybe you can learn a new fact that might help you stay safe if you’re going to be drinking.”

Posters have been a staple of Penn dorms for yearsJACOB WINICKContributing Reporter

Students question use of substance abuse posters

Posters on college house walls are part of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives’ education intiative.

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The “drip-drip-drip” sound of falling water was College sophomore Amanda Silberling’s first hint that something was not right.

Silberling, then a freshman in a double room in the Chestnut Hall of Ware College House, looked over to see a stream of water falling on her roommate’s bed.

“It wasn’t a thing and then one second later it was,” she recalled. A pipe had frozen and burst behind the wall of her room, Silberling later learned.

She told her residential advisor about the leak, and the RA sent out a maintenance request. Then they waited. And waited. After three hours, mechanics from Penn Facilities and Real Estate Services finally arrived in her room.

“By the time maintenance came, half of our room was being flooded,” Silberling said.

‘Wait until tomorrow’Nearly any FRES mechanic or manager will agree

that responding to active leaks trumps most other main-tenance problems.

However, the 10 employees interviewed referred to numerous examples where management specifically told them to “wait until tomorrow” to respond or to, in some cases, blatantly ignore leaks.

Jim, a FRES mechanic with decades of experience, said he was told to ignore a leak in Sansom East that occurred near the end of a workday.

“[FRES] didn’t want anybody to stay to fix this thing and make the repair. So they said, ‘Let it go until tomor-row,’” he recalled.

FRES employees said the reason managers didn’t want them to stay late was so they wouldn’t have to be paid overtime.

Delaying response time to leaks allows them to in-tensify, as in Silberling’s case, or dampen walls and insulation, creating fertile areas for mold. Sometimes, students have to move their belongings to another room to allow FRES mechanics time to clean and contain the leak.

Two students living in the room above Silberling were displaced, and she was moved into a single room in Fisher. She was told she would only be there for about a week; she didn’t return to her original room until a

month later.“I was living in a hall with people I knew pretty well,

then suddenly I didn’t even know the people living around me,” she recalled.

Other students affected by leaks were moved to the Sheraton Hotel near campus. College sophomores Taylor Daniel and Rive Cadwallader, who lived in Fisher-Hassenfeld College House last year, were

displaced by a sewage leak last October.“Water just started seeping through our ceiling,”

Cadwallader recalled. “I didn’t really know what to do because I was in a rush.”

Cadwallader and Daniel reported the initial leak the day it happened but never pressed the issue with FRES because the leak appeared to dry up. Only after water started gushing through their ceiling and in other rooms on their floor did FRES finally respond to their main-tenance request.

Around 10 people on their floor and the floor above them were displaced by the leak, they recalled.

Administrators attribute the wait time to an over-worked staff and backlog of requests, rather than any systemic aversion to paying overtime.

FRES Executive Director of Operations and Mainte-nance Ken Ogawa said there is a “significant backlog” of maintenance requests.

“It’s an embarrassingly large amount,” he added.T h o u g h

Ogawa didn’t cite a specific nu mb er, a FRES spokes-woman said in a phone con-versation with a Daily Penn-sylvanian editor that there was a three-month backlog.

FRES has begun implementing a new program to speed up response time for work orders, and so far has seen a successful reduction.

According to statistics provided by FRES, plumbing orders — encompassing leaks, some of the most trou-blesome maintenance problems — averaged response times of 19 days in the 2011 fiscal year. This past fiscal year, the average response time was nine days.

Deferring maintenanceMechanics believe the number could be even lower if

managers prioritized leaks over other requests and let employees work overtime to address complaints.

FRES mechanics work a traditional 40-hour work-week based on an hourly wage. Jobs that require more intensive work, like leaks, may run past the end of the workday, requiring employees to work overtime. Managers avoid paying overtime, the employees said, instead urging them to defer maintenance issues.

“They prefer not paying us overtime to stay over to

finish these jobs and to correct problems,” Jim said.Interviews with FRES administrators showed a di-

vided, even contradictory point of view on the issue of overtime.

Ogawa said that the maintenance staff never defers maintenance issues because of a budgetary constraint.

“We’re not not doing work because we don’t have money,” he said. But his boss offered a different re-sponse when asked the same question.

“We always have to manage our budget,” Vice Presi-dent for FRES Anne Papageorge said. “There are times where we say, ‘Yeah it doesn’t need to be done on over-time. We’ll do it on Monday.’”

She added, “We have pressure to keep our expenses reasonable.”

The cost-cutting practice makes little sense to the mechanics, given that their overtime pay is reportedly the same as their hourly wage (not the traditional time-and-a-half) and deferring problems just creates more costs down the line if leaks worsen.

Another decried management tactic is prioritizing maintenance complaints, however small or insignifi-cant, based on whether the students’ parents call FRES about the issue.

“It has to go through the parent and then they’ll really address it, and then they’ll put priority on it,” Lou, a FRES plumber said.

Ogawa disputed this characterization.“Emergencies and a lot of imminent life safety issues

are taken care of first,” he said. “If a parent calls and says my door is squeaky, [and] it’s a choice of doing that or taking the leak, clearly we do the leak first.”

However, managers may prioritize requests of an equivalent nature if a parent complains.

“If everything is exactly the same, if a parent is

screaming [about] your squeaky door and the parent of the kid down the hall isn’t, we’re likely to take your squeaky door first,” Ogawa said.

Financial toll for Penn, mental toll for studentsBy deferring maintenance requests until they become

unavoidable, FRES creates more expenses for itself by repairing walls, plaster and ceilings, funding hotel stays for displaced students and reimbursing students for damaged belongings.

Penn paid for Cadwallader and Daniel to stay in the Sheraton Hotel for a week, compensated Cadwallader for the cost of some damaged bedding and gave the girls gift baskets and chocolate (“Lots of chocolate,” Daniel recalls) after they moved back to Fisher.

Silberling was also reimbursed for damaged items,

and mechanics had to replace her entire wooden floor and parts of the ceiling and walls.

FRES’ “wait until tomorrow” mantra doesn’t seem to have saved them money and has only angered displaced students.

“It’s completely illogical that one of their arguments for not helping immediately is to save money,” Silber-ling said. “None of that would have happened if they would have come into the room when we called.”

Beyond more expenses for Penn, they also inconvenience students by having them undergo a time-consuming, bothersome and stressful moving process.

Silberling ended up dropping out of her writing semi-nar shortly after being displaced. Her professors were very accommodating and helpful, she said, but the stress of the early weeks of the spr ing semester, combined with her unstable housing situat ion, left her hardly at peace.

“I feel l ike the f lood was a break ing point ,” she said.

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to see people who are diagnosed with mental illness as just their illness. So what this is going to do is say yes, they have a mental illness but look at the beautiful art they can also create.”

More than 50 CareLink clients submitted pieces to feature in the show, with a total of 90 works now on display, Joseph said. Ranging from painting to draw-ings to glass, some of the pieces were created in CareLink’s work-shops, which are funded through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Others, like

artist Robert Wentzel’s photo-graphs, were created outside the organization. Wentzel said he has been taking photos for 30 years, working professionally for 10.

“I remember sitting in the car as a kid, looking out the window and thinking, ‘That would be a cool photo,’” Wentzel said. “Behind the camera is my happy place.”

Though Wentzel is used to showing his work, he said he was excited for other CareLink artists see their work on display. He added that he saw some of the artists’ eyes light up when their work was shown. Viewers were equally impressed with the show.

“I’m super art illiterate, but art is something everyone can enjoy. It brings people together for a good cause,” College freshman Emilio Frayre said.

Following the reception in the gallery, Phyllis Solomon, who is a professor at the School of Social Policy & Practice, and members of the Department of Behavioral Health and Intel-lectual Disability Services in Philadelphia spoke about the role of art in addressing mental health.

“Exhibits like these really demonstrate recovery to me,” Solomon said. “Art gives you a way to express yourself.”

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she was panicked but shocked that I was so calm. I had no idea what had happened until she told me,” Fagin said. “My first reaction was confusion, but as soon as we got inside and turned on CNN, it turned to terror.”

Sadurni remembers a similar experience. Out with friends at a Spanish bar in the second ar-rondissement of Paris, he got a text from a friend asking if he was safe.

At first, Sadurni said, he brushed off the news as “just an-other shooting” and didn’t think much of it. “I just assumed that it was something that happened far away from me and that it probably [would] be handled soon,” he said. “We’re all kind of numb to things like threats and shootings,” he added, saying that he didn’t real-ize until later the magnitude of the events.

Vidal-Irizarry didn’t realize what was happening until she was in the middle of it. She had just finished having dinner with her aunt just two streets from where the street shootings happened when she decided to venture out to meet friends in the Montparnasse area of Paris. She estimated that it

was about 10 p.m. when she left.“I started to walk down the

street and all of a sudden there was just this huge crowd of people all running away and screaming and crying,” she said. “It was a real fight or flight moment. My only instinct was just to run.”

It took Vidal-Irizarry 45 min-utes to find a cab and make her way to her friend’s apartment, where she finally turned on the news to see what happened. “It just kept coming in waves. Every few minutes things just got worse,” she remembered.

Students who were outside the city for the weekend had a differ-ent experience.

Aidid, who was with other Penn students in Prague, said her primary feeling in the immediate wake of the attacks was fear that she wouldn’t be able to return to Paris.

Shortly after initial reports of the attacks, French President Hol-lande announced that all French borders would be closed. His an-nouncement was later clarified to say that borders would be strictly patrolled, but would remain open. No Penn students based in Paris who were out of the country had trouble returning to the city at the end of the weekend.

Aidid said that the attacks

tainted the rest of her trip to Prague. “Everything felt very dragged out. It felt so wrong to get up and go do touristy things knowing that people back in Paris had just experienced so much tragedy.”

In Belgium, I was in my rented room for the night with five other students from my study abroad program when we heard the news. After a feeble attempt to go out and enjoy the night in Brussels for what couldn’t have been more than an hour, we huddled together around computer screens, holding each other just a little tighter with

each new piece of information or increase of the death toll. The rest of the weekend consisted of subdued visits to churches and a continuous dialogue of shock and sadness.

Once the initial shock of the re-ports wore off, students expressed wide ranges of emotion.

Vidal-Irizarry, who has spent every summer in Paris since she was 10 years old, felt very emo-tionally connected to the city. “This city is so powerful — even as a foreigner, it has such a power-ful draw to it. When it is attacked, you want to defend it — it feels

personal,” she said.Herbst agreed. “For me, Paris

will not just be a place I lived for four months. It’s a place I am more personally attached to than that,” he said. “Going through this has made it a very special place for me. I really feel like I have a stronger connection here that goes beyond just going to museums or class. It’s an intangible connec-tion,” he said.

Aidid said that through her initial feelings of shock and sad-ness, she has felt anger. “When I’m walking around the city, usually I like to listen to music — those are some of my favorite moments of being in Paris. I had this moment the other day when I was walking home and I realized that I probably shouldn’t be listen-ing to music — that I do live here and that I need to be vigilant,” she said. “And then I just got really angry. These guys have ruined my walks for me. I used to be so comfortable walking around with headphones in, but now I feel like I can’t because I have to be on high alert.”

All of the students also noted how quickly life has seemingly moved on in Paris.

“I went out for a run on Sunday, and it was a beautiful day, and people were out reading and

picnicking and running, just like any other day,” Herbst said. “For me, it was really reassuring to see that — to see that, despite everything, people were doing their best to return to their normal lives. Personally, I think that’s the best form of self-protest.”

Fagin agreed. “I live with a host family, and they have really encouraged me to continue to live my normal life and not be afraid to go to museums and use the Metro and things like that,” she said. “La vie continue,” she added.

Vidal-Irizarry expressed a sim-ilar sentiment, saying that it has reinforced for her the resilience of the city.

“We all only have this one life. Things like your morning crois-sant — that is all we have. The strength of Paris is that, despite everything, people move on, and they still have their morning croissant,” she said.

But despite the city moving on, students said people are still vis-ibly hurting.

“Paris is not the same. You can see the trauma written all over people’s faces,” Vidal-Irizarry said. “Once you live through something like this, the fear is so tangible — nobody can take that feeling away from you.”

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Stifling defense, Stipanovich’s 19 points help Penn grab win

Holding an opponent to 14 points in a half is not bad for a football team. But for a basketball team, holding an opponent to 14 points in a half is downright ri-diculous.

On a quiet Tuesday night at the Palestra, Penn women’s basketball did just that, ceding only 14 points to Lafayette in the first half and dominating on defense en route to a 54-37 victory.

The Quakers (2-1) started the game with high intensity as they sought to avenge last year’s heartbreaking loss to the Leop-ards (0-2). After jumping out to an early 9-5 lead, the Red and Blue continued their defensive onslaught and did not relinquish the lead for the remainder of the game.

Junior center Sydney Sti-panovich and sophomore forward

Michelle Nwokedi dominated the boards from start to finish, notching nine and 10 rebounds, respectively. Nwokedi finished the game with a double-double — her second in the team’s first three games — while Stipanovich fin-ished with a team-high 19 points.

This dominant defensive duo is certainly something that has evolved since the Quakers took on Lafayette last year. After a successful freshman campaign, Nwokedi has settled in to her role as a starter and looks confident driving to the hoop as well as taking occasional pull-up jump-ers.

Stipanovich, a co-captain and seasoned veteran, never fails to establish her presence on the court — both physically and as the team leader.

“Overall, we played good team defense,” the St. Louis native said. “And when we get big stops on defense, it carries over to offense too.”

Penn saw defensive suc-cess turn into offense all game. The team created its own extra

opportunities throughout the night, forcing 17 Lafayette turn-overs and grabbing 38 rebounds compared to only 26 for the Leop-ards.

While the Red and Blue dis-played their defensive grit on one end of the floor, the team did not have its best offensive showing, shooting only 15 percent from behind the arc and 40 percent overall.

“I thought we did enough to-night,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “Offensively, we weren’t great, but, defensively, we were consistent. The defense kept us in check.”

While McLaughlin credits the defense for the victory, he knows that the offense has the potential to be just as successful with a few tweaks.

“The biggest challenge for us is that we are playing Beth [Brzo-zowski], Anna [Ross] and Kasey [Chambers] together a lot, and they are all used to being the point guard and having the ball in their hands,” he said.

This year, Ross, a sophomore,

has stepped in the two spot while Brzozowski provides a valuable presence off the bench. Because positions have shifted, McLaugh-lin acknowledges that it will take a little time before everything is in sync.

“I think moving to another po-sition a little bit is challenging,” he said. “The spacing breaks down when point guards are used to going to always getting the ball, so I think we need a little bit of work on that end, but it’s comfortable that I got three players out there all the time that can handle the ball.”

One of these players is

Chambers, one of the team’s four captains. For her, the first three games of the 2015 season have the been the first times that the 5-foot-7 guard has been able to the play for the Red and Blue, as she transferred from Monmouth and sat out last year due to NCAA rules.

Despite her year off, her en-thusiasm for the game and her intensity on the court show no sign of rust.

“I’ve been impressed with Kasey since she walked on our campus,” McLaughlin said. “She’s got tremendous desire and

will and all those intangibles that lead to someone who is so pas-sionate about basketball.”

Chambers played 37 minutes on Tuesday, finishing with nine points, five rebounds and five as-sists.

The whirlwind start to the Quakers season — the team nar-rowly lost to Duke, a top-15 team in the nation, routed UMBC on the road and returned to the Pal-estra to down Lafayette — and the poise that this young group has shown so far only foreshad-ows good things to come for Penn women’s basketball.

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Last season’s results are es-pecially impressive for Cobb because they directly fol-lowed his voluntary one-year hiatus from the sport — a year that Cobb spent focusing his energy on friends, family and academics, as well as redis-covering his love for the sport.

“Maybe I would be a better wrestler if I hadn’t taken a year off, but I also have a clearer vision now of why I wrestle,” Cobb explained. “It made me realize there are a lot more important things in life than wrestling.”

The veteran will take a spe-cial role on the team this year, acting not only as the team’s top wrestler but also as one of its biggest leaders.

“I like to lead by example,”

Cobb said. “I think when I wrestle, people are watching, and I have to show them how to succeed.”

Coach Alex Tirapelle echoed the importance of Cobb’s leadership to the rest of the Penn team.

“C.J. is a guy who goes out there and doesn’t mind being under the lights,” Tirapelle said. “He probably performs better the more people that are in the venue. The guys feed off of that, it’s a great energy to have in the program.”

Cobb began this season with a spectacular showing at the Bearcat Open two weeks ago in Binghamton, N.Y. In the Red and Blue’s first event of the season, the senior clinched the championship in his 149-pound weight class after six convincing victories,

including a tough grapple with fellow 2015 NCAA D-I Wrestling Championship par-ticipant Ken Theobold.

According to Cobb, this season is one that features different ambitions than in previous campaigns.

“In past years, it was all about an outcome,” Cobb said. “It was ‘I need to be an All-American’ or ‘I need to be a national champion.’ The goal this year is to overcome things I never overcame. The goal is to be able to wrestle through fatigue, wrestle when I’m not feeling that well and to beat people I don’t think I can beat. I want to overcome adversity.

“In the past, it’s been me against the person across from me. But this year, it’s about being the best I can be. It’s me versus myself.”

aware that we’ve been working hard. So we need to keep training,” Martino added.

After being sidelined during his sophomore season due to injury, Martino made huge strides last year. His 2014-15 campaign cul-minated with a bid to the NCAA Tournament, a second team All-Ivy selection and NWCA All-Academic team honors. As a result of his recent success, he climbed into the rankings at No. 20 in the 157-pound weight class.

Cobb has also gone through a resurgence of sorts over the last 12 months. Just over a year removed from serving as a teaching assistant with his wrestling days seemingly behind him, the senior begins the year ranked as high as seventh in the country amongst 149-pounders.

But that fact isn’t on the polished grappler’s mind.

“It’s really easy to get excited when you have seven ranked wres-tlers starting the season,” Cobb explained. “But that doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t even matter who you beat now.

“People talk to me like, ‘Oh if you win [the] Keystone [Classic], you’ll be ranked in the top three.’ Well, it doesn’t matter at all be-cause I could be ranked in the top three and then not even qualify for nationals.”

One wrestler who knows all too well that preseason rankings don’t necessarily mean anything is senior captain Lorenzo Thomas.

The 2014 All-American began last year inside the top five but was ultimately unsuccessful in his quest to reach the podium again in 2015.

Thomas begins this year ninth in the 184-pound weight class, behind Ivy League rival Gabe Dean. The question remains whether or not Thomas will be able to overthrow his old foe. Dean, a Cornell prod-uct, sits atop the rankings as the defending national champion.

Joining Cobb, Martino and Thomas in the polls are juniors Frank Mattiace (18th at 197 pounds) and Caleb Richardson (15th at 133 pounds) and seniors Ray Bethea (24th at 165 pounds) and Casey Kent (16th at 174 pounds).

“It’s incredibly positive and in-credibly stressful at the same time,”

Tirapelle says of the recognition his wrestlers are receiving. “[It’s] positive in the sense that we have the talent and we have the ability to have an outstanding season.

“The stressful side of it is ‘Okay, there’s a lot of expectation now.’”

A contributing factor to the success is undoubtedly the work ethic Tirapelle has emphasized. With a whole season and an entire summer together, the squad is as prepared as it can be.

“There’s less wasted time feeling out each other,” Tira-pelle said. “We’re efficient with our time. We’re always moving forward. When someone messes up, it’s not a miscom-munication or that they don’t understand what the expecta-tion is. They just messed up, and we can address it and continue forward.”

Last season, five Quakers qualified for the NCAA Tourna-ment in March.

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At this rate, Steve Donahue may never lose a game as Penn basket-ball’s coach.

For the third time in as many games in this young 2015-16 season, the Quakers picked up a hard-fought victory in a 60-54 win over Delaware State on Tuesday night. Whereas the Red and Blue (3-0) were paced by torrid three-point shooting in their first two games of the season, senior center Darien Nelson-Henry was the main im-petus for Penn’s midweek win, notching 16 points while scoring in double figures for the third straight affair.

“Darien’s done a great job. He’s someone that we can throw it to on offense and he’s such a good defen-sive rebounder,” Donahue said. He’s just a really confident player right now, and he’s someone we can really rely on when we need a bucket or a rebound on the other end.”

Throughout the first half, the Hornets (0-2) didn’t give in to Penn’s high-octane offense, limit-ing the Quakers to 26 points in the period. On the night, the Red and Blue went a paltry 3-for-23 from beyond the arc, as sophomore for-ward Sam Jones — who entered the night averaging 22 points per game on 48 percent shooting from deep

— scored only 10 points on 2-for-10 shooting on threes.

In a slow-moving opening frame, Delaware State jumped out to a 12-5 lead midway through the half, with Jones contributing all five of Penn’s early points. But over the course of the next eight minutes, the Quakers used a 15-7 run to take a 20-19 lead.

Though the two squads entered halftime tied, the Red and Blue wasted no time distancing them-selves out of the break. Penn surged ahead on a 9-0 run to make it 35-26, but the Hornets managed to cut the Quakers’ lead down to 41-40 with under eight minutes to play.

“I told the guys, ‘Let’s embrace this challenge and go out, and I think if we get these shots in the second half we’ll make them, and if not let’s find a way to be gritty and get a win,’” Donahue said about his comments to the team at halftime. “And that’s what the guys did.”

From that point forward, the two teams went back and forth down to the wire. With the two teams tied at 49 with less than three minutes re-maining, Nelson-Henry scored with one second left on the shot clock to give Penn a 51-49 lead. After the Hornets went ahead, 52-51, on a three-point play, the Quakers took the lead for good as consecutive bas-kets from junior Matt Howard and Nelson-Henry made it 55-52.

After Jones missed a three with under a minute to play, a tip-in by Howard proved to be the back-breaker, giving Penn a five-point lead with 36 seconds remaining.

From that point forward, the Quak-ers forced a third straight miss by Delaware State before sealing the game at the free-throw line. With the victory, the Quakers avenged a 77-75 season-opening overtime loss at the Palestra a season ago.

While Penn hasn’t played the toughest of foes in the first week of its 2015-16 campaign, it’s undeni-able the impact that Nelson-Henry has had within Donahue’s offensive scheme. Despite the fact that the Hornets played a relatively smaller lineup throughout the game on Tuesday, the veteran from Kirkland, Wash., scored his 16 points on 8-for-11 shooting from the field.

Across the board, the Quak-ers managed to weather a difficult environment in Delaware State’s gym while also adapting to their struggles from deep. After only converting two of 15 threes in the first half, Penn connected on 11 of its 14 shots from inside the arc in the second period.

“We had a lot of open threes that we did not make. What I liked is that we didn’t settle for that in the second half,” Donahue said. “We just man-aged to execute in the second half. It’s good to go on the road, not play great yet figure out a way to win the game.”

Now with its first 3-0 start since 1981-82 under its belt, the Red and Blue now turn their attention to their biggest test of the young season: A 2,800-mile trip to Seattle and a date with Pac-12 opponent Washington on Saturday.

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young child. On top of that, the rookie participated in judo from ages 5 to 9, whereupon he made the transition to wrestling.

And he always had his eyes set on Penn wrestling.

“This is always what I’ve been working towards,” John-son said. “I’ve always wanted to come here.”

Guevara, on the other hand, came to the team via a differ-ent path, although he too had connections to Penn wrestling before he donned the Red and Blue. The 125-pounder did not begin wrestling until high school and never thought he would participate at the colle-giate level until his sophomore year, when he began to see dramatic improvements in his ability on the mat.

During this time, Guevara became involved with Beat the Streets Philly, an organization

dedicated to promoting youth and high school wrestling in the Philadelphia area. As he made his mark on the Philadelphia high school wrestling scene, winning Philadelphia Public League championships during his junior and senior years, Guevara got to know Beat the Streets’s executive director, former Penn wrestler Chris Hanlon.

Hanlon noticed Guevara’s talent and talked to coach Alex Tirapelle, who needed some depth in the 125-pound cat-egory. When then-sophomore Jeremy Schwartz missed time last season with an injury, the Quakers were forced to forfeit matches for that weight class in some dual meets as they had no other grapplers to take his place.

As a result, Guevara was not recruited through the usual pro-cess involving official visits. But after Hanlon’s testimony

to his talent and a face-to-face meeting with Tirapelle, Gue-vara was offered a spot on the team through his prowess on the mat and academic aptitude.

Besides Hanlon’s leadership of the program, Beat the Streets features heavy involvement from Penn’s program, so many of Guevara’s teammates’ faces were familiar even before he joined the team.

“The wrestlers here have worked really closely with Beat the Streets, and they go and mentor high school students,” Guevara said. “So that helped me too.”

Johnson could eventually face some familiar foes from the high school wrestling scene in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association, such as Cornell freshman Jake An-derson and Harvard freshman L.J. Barlow, both of whom also wrestled at Philadelphia prep schools. However, Guevara’s

feat is rare, as few — if any — wrestlers from Philadelphia public high schools manage to move on to collegiate wrestling.

“There are a lot of kids with talent, but the funding isn’t

there,” Guevara said of Phila-delphia’s struggling public school district.

Both freshmen appreciate the state-of-the-art facilities and high-quality coaching that they

now receive as wrestlers for the Red and Blue.

“It’s great to be here,” John-son said.

After all, it’s always great to come home.

Palestra to trade hoops for mats, host elite tourney

A new sport is prepared to take ownership of the storied Ca-thedral of College Basketball.

On Sunday, Penn wrestling will play host to 12 other Divi-sion I teams in this season’s edition of the Keystone Classic. The tournament, which will fea-ture 10 weight classes, figures to be incredibly competitive, as four visiting teams finished in the top 30 at last year’s NCAA Championships.

Many stars of collegiate wrestling will filter through the Palestra’s doors on Sunday, hoping to cement their status in the upper echelon of the nation’s grapplers. The 149-pound divi-sion stands out, as defending Big 10 champion and former NCAA

national champion Jason Tsirtsis will wrestle for Northwestern. Rider’s B.J. Clagon, ranked No. 4 nationally by Intermat, and Drexel’s seventh-ranked Matt Cimato, will also take to the mats in the division.

Penn, however, will not be out-matched by this talented group. The Quakers boast a 149-pound star of their own in senior C.J Cobb, who holds Intermat’s No. 8 ranking. Cobb will be wres-tling after a highly successful first meet, where he claimed first place at the Bearcat Open at Binghamton, N.Y. He recorded three pins on his way to the podium, more than he had all of last season.

Despite his early triumphs, Cobb is aware of both the strength of Sunday’s competi-tion and of what he needs to do to emerge victorious at the tour-nament.

“I’ve got to make sure I do

everything right. I’ve got to be crisp,” Cobb said. “I have to be more aggressive and more offen-sive.

“Clagon has an interesting

style, he likes to back up and wait for you. So when I do shoot, I should commit to it and shoot hard.”

Two years after stepping away

from wrestling, Cobb has re-turned with a vengeance, racking up awards in his junior season. Although he was not able to compete in last year’s Keystone Classic due to injury, he finished the campaign with first team All-Ivy recognition and a Round of 12 appearance at the NCAA Na-tional Championships.

Cobb is not the only wrestler looking forward to Sunday’s action. Fellow senior Lorenzo Thomas, coming off a finals ap-pearance in the 184-pound class at the Bearcat Open, is also ex-cited to compete against some new grapplers.

“I think Pitt’s going to be there, Northwestern will and some Big 10 schools,” said Thomas. “I’m ready to wrestle some non-conference op-ponents.”

After a finals loss to rival Gabe Dean of Cornell at the Bearcat Open, Thomas has been

honing his technique in prepara-tion for the Keystone Classic.

“I’m working on my posi-tioning and hand-fighting,” elaborated Thomas. “There’s some stuff that I’ve been work-ing on in neutral to work the match to my advantage.”

Historically, strong perfor-mances at the Keystone Classic have foreshadowed achievement at the end of the season. 31 wres-tlers at last year’s tournament went on to qualify for the NCAA Championships — the crown jewel of collegiate wrestling.

“It is still early in the season, but I think the tournament will be a great predictor for how the season will turn out,” Thomas said. “[Our] main goal is to win a national championship.”

With that lofty ambition in mind, Penn will hit the mats this weekend looking to ensure that the Palestra remains safely in the hands of the Red and Blue.

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Although Penn wrestling doesn’t often feature Phila-delphia natives on its roster, this year’s squad includes two freshmen who call the City of Brotherly Love home. And now that they’re with the Quakers, home is where they get to stay.

Jon Guevara of Philadel-phia’s Central High School and Des Johnson — who attended Springside Chest-nut Hill Academy, a private school in the northern part of

the city — count themselves as two of the team’s three locals. Senior Casey Kent is the other.

Although both fresh-men hail from Philadelphia, each started their wrestling careers in very different fashions. Johnson, who will wrestle in the 184-pound class this year, has Penn wrestling in his blood — his father, Morris Johnson, was an assistant coach under leg-endary Penn wrestling head coach Roger Reina.

The younger Johnson grew up as part of the program and can remember his father taking him to practices as a

There’s an aura of familiarity surrounding Penn wrestling this season.

Seven of the Quakers’ up-perclassmen grapplers begin the season nationally ranked inside the top-25. The group, which is comprised of veterans of at least two seasons, also has the advan-tage of having a campaign under its belt with second-year coach Alex Tirapelle.

“This time last year we’d be going into our second tournament with a brand new coach,” senior captain Brooks Martino said. “But now we know how it’s going to be.”

Of course, if this season turns out how the Red and Blue want it to, it’s going to be different than in years past.

Heading into the 2015-16 campaign, the program is not necessarily accustomed to having so many potential stars in its start-ing lineup. But senior C.J. Cobb — who fell one win shy of All-American status at last season’s NCAA Tournament — has no-ticed a transformation throughout the team even though there have been few personnel changes.

“I don’t remember the last time that’s happened,” Cobb said of having seven wrestlers ranked at once. “I don’t think we even expected to have that many good people on the team. So people are battling. People are better than in years past.”

Martino has noticed the improvements as well, and men-tioned that “95 percent” of the team remained on campus over the summer to wrestle and lift to-gether.

“Obviously, that doesn’t mean much except that people are

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Penn enters season with stars, depthQuakers have seven grapplers in top 25

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SEE DEPTH PAGE 10Senior Brooks Martino made enormous strides in the 2015 season, securing second team All-Ivy honors en route to an NCAA Tournament appearance.

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Philly-native freshmen ready for homecomingSame city, different paths for two rookies

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SEE FRESHMEN PAGE 11

MENTALITYAt the start of last

season, most sen-tences involving C.J. Cobb ended in a ques-tion mark. But after f inishing one win shy of All-American

status in 2015, Cobb provided the answers to those questions and planted the seeds for what is set to be a limitless swan song for the Red and Blue.

Cobb enters his final year of collegiate wrestling fol-lowing a stellar junior campaign that saw him achieve a superb 23-7 record, scoring a staggering 39 points for the Quakers at the expense of only three points al-lowed.

Cobb’s 2014-15 season earned him a trip to the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, where he wrestled in the 149-pound weight class against other top wrestlers.

After winning a first-round matchup, Cobb re-corded an impressive victory against Iowa’s Brandon Sorensen, who was ranked fourth in the weight class. Unfortunately, his dream of championship glory was cut off in the quarterfinals with a loss to Cornell’s Chris Villalonga, a grappler Cobb had beaten in a dual meet earlier in the season.

Despite the impressive display, the man from Wil-liamstown, N.J., insists that he still is not completely content.

“I was happy with how well I did, but it wasn’t well enough to be satisfied,” Cobb said. “There’s still a lot more for me to accomplish. I have guys I lost to that I have to avenge.”

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