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SECOND EDITION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Shots fired near campus
U. plans new
Law building
FACILITIES | Project
will replace Pepper
Hall and cost an
estimated $33.6 mil.
BY JENNY CHUNG
Staff Writer
In fewer than three years,
the Law School’s Pepper Hall
will be replaced by a new, larger building, the University announced at last week’s trustees
meetings.
According to Dean Michael
Fitts, the Sansom Street building will complete a 10-year
process of renovation and rebuilding. He added that it is an
“incredible statement” about
Residents reported hearing several
gunshots fired near 40th and Spruce
BY EMILY SCHULTHEIS
City News Editor
ONLINE
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Penn Law alumni that the
school can proceed with new
construction “at a time like
this.”
Design and construction are
estimated to total $33.6 million,
half of which has been promised in signed gift agreements,
according to Mark Winkelman,
chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee.
Constr uction plans were
driven largely by space issues,
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Real men and women fold or raise, and
that is what politicians prefer to do.”
Director of Harvard’s Carr Center
for Human Rights Policy Rory Stewart,
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Police responded to
gunshots fired near 40th
and Spruce streets shortly
before 2 a.m. Tuesday.
Paramedics took one
middle-aged man from the
scene in an ambulance. He
did not appear to be critically injured.
Police at the scene said
they did not know further
details about the incident
early this morning.
R esidents repor ted
hearing several gunshots,
and said they saw people
fleeing from near Copabanana, located at 4000
Spruce St., after the shots
were fired. The group fled
southbound on S. 40th
Street.
“I saw people running
from Copa in hysterics
— screaming, laughing,”
said College senior Melissa Metelits, who lives
across the street from the
restaurant.
Police were interviewing people outside Copabanana after the incident,
and told residents who
were on their porches to
stay inside.
Check thedp.com for further details later today.
Online editor Emily Babay contributed reporting
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to this article. Rachel Baye/DP Senior Photographer
A man is loaded into an ambulance at 40th and Spruce streets after gunshots were
reported in the area early this morning. He did not appear to be critically injured.
Ivy reputation: leg up or crutch?
Many students see Ivy
League status as boost,
but don’t pick Penn
just for its name brand
BY ABBY JOHNSTON
Senior Staff Writer
The Ivy League is technically an athletic conference,
but to most of the country and
beyond, the name connotes so
much more.
Being part of the Ivy League
implies academic excellence
and a certain level of prestige,
but in this age of hundreds of
undergraduate institutions and
hundreds of thousands of students, the classification doesn’t
influence people in a single dimension. In some cases, it provides an incentive for admission
and pride in enrollment. But for
others, the title is practically a
hindrance.
“I came here because [Penn]
is an awesome school,” College
junior Lindsey Scott said. “But
if anything, the title of “Ivy
League turned me off.”
Scott believes that, after college, no one will distinguish
among different types of undergraduate educations. She
said she feels sorry for those
who will attempt to “rest on the
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Proud Quakers show off their red and blue gear. Strong academics and robust alumni networks may provide a boost in employment
and grad school, but many students, along with Career Services, say the Penn brand is only as strong as students make it.
Penn Nurses fight
for healthy babies
the art of cooking
Alumni, student canvassed in Memphis to
educate mothers about infant care and health
BY TRISHULA PATEL
Staff Writer
With the highest rate of infant
mortality in the country, Memphis, Tenn., has a separate area
at its local cemetery dedicated
just to infant burials.
But one student and two recent alumnae from the School
of Nursing have been trying
to remedy this problem. They
traveled there earlier this year
as part of the U.S. Office of Minority Health’s “A Healthy Baby
Begins With You” campaign,
aimed at educating young
mothers about infant health
and care.
Their work will be featured in
a short documentary produced
and directed by Tonya Lee
Lewis — the campaign’s honorary chairwoman — and her
husband, Spike Lee on Nov. 13
at 6 p.m. at the Claire M. Fagin
Hall auditorium.
A long with students and
alumni from other schools
across the country, 2008 alumna Tushana Fowlin, 2009 alumna Stephanie Chu and Nursing
senior Jaleisha Jackson walked
door-to-door, seeking donations
for and educating mothers in
need of financial help.
In one case, they collected donations for a 22-year-old mother
who did not have enough money
to buy a crib for her newborn
baby.
Nursing professor Mary Lou
Siantz, who organized Penn’s
involvement with the campaign, has been secretary to
the Advisory Committee on
Infant Mortality since the Clinton Administration was in the
White House. Penn is the only
school that sent nurses on the
campaign.
“Public health nurses are integral to the health education
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offseason with an intensity and a determination that would make
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option and are looking to make more moves in the coming weeks.
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Calling a political bluff
Rory Stewart discusses
U.S. foreign policy in
the Middle East during
Penn’s Global Forum
BY BECKI STEINBERG
Contributing Writer
As disparate as they may
seem, Rory Stewart insists
that U.S. policy in Afghanistan
and a game of poker have a lot
in common.
Stewart, director of Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy,
discussed this slightly quirky
approach to global challenges
and more when he spoke Monday night at Penn’s Global Forum.
The annual prog ram —
co-sponsored by the Student
Committee for Undergraduate
Education, Penn World Scholars, Philadelphia Industrial
Development Corporation and
the University Honors Council — aims to explore issues
of both local and global importance, according to Penn Provost Vincent Price.
As poker players, Stewart
Mustafa Al-ammar/DP Senior Photographer explained in his talk, “we feel
Rory Stewart, director of Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, compares U.S. policy in Afghanistan often, it is childish to match a
to a game of poker in a lecture to students and faculty last night at Penn’s annual Global Forum.
bet.”
“Real men and women fold
or raise,” he pronounced, “and
that is what politicians prefer
to do.”
In other words, politicians
either give in or launch fierce
assaults, especially when faced
with foreign policy issues such
as the Taliban in Afghanistan.
But instead of adhering to
this policy, Stewart said now is
the time to “call, because the
Taliban’s cards are not that
strong.” The only question
left, he explained, is what to
do next.
While Stewart did not propose a solution to the problems
in the Middle East, he emphasized that either abandoning
U.S. efforts in Afghanistan or
toppling the Taliban would
have disastrous humanitarian
effects on the Afghan people
— a people with whom he has
become very familiar since
walking from one end of the
country to another in 2000.
During his two-year journey, he explained, he began
to question America’s foreign
policy system after listening
to his hosts’ perspectives on
the world. He realized that
Afghanistan houses flourishing communities and a strong
sense of pride, so foreign ef-
forts need to be “rooted in the
community’s values and virtues.”
With this realization in
mind, Stewart launched Turquoise Mountain, an organization dedicated to regenerating
K abul while protecting its
culture and empowering its
citizens.
Since its inception, the
foundation has cleared 15,000
truckloads of trash from the
streets, improved the city’s
sewage and water systems and
created both an elementary
school and a Higher Education Institute for Afghan Arts
& Architecture in Kabul.
Stewa r t concluded that
ultimately, he envisions Afghanistan “knitting together
different powers within the
national scene” so that the
Taliban and the Karzai governments “are not the only colors
dominating the quilt.”
College and Wharton junior
Matt Eldridge, a SCUE member, said attending the event
was inspiring.
“[Stewart] is acting from an
academic position,” he said,
but through his experience in
Afghanistan, “he is still able
to figure out how to bridge the
gap and effect change.”
Need to find a book? Now the answer is one txt msg away
Penn Libraries’ new texting service intended
to complement existing chat, IM programs
BY JARED McDONALD
Staff Writer
You might not have gotten
the number of that “librarian” on Halloween, but now,
thanks to Penn Libraries’
new text-messaging service,
you can text a real librarian
every day of the week except
Saturday.
Launched Oct. 1, the texting ser vice is intended to
complement Penn Libraries’
existing chat and instantmessage services, according
to Marjorie Hassen, director
of public services for the library system.
Hassen said the service is
part of the system’s attempt
to provide a variety of means
of communication between
students and librarians, since
“people work in d if ferent
ways.”
For ex a mple, a student
without his or her computer
could ask a question of a li-
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UCL creates award
in Keeler’s memory
University College London has established a fellowship to honor Ella Keeler,
the 20-year-old British exchange student who died at
Penn on Oct. 2 after a heart
attack eight days earlier.
The UCL History Department created the a nnua l
Eleanor Keeler prize, according to Car ingBr idge.
org, where the Keeler family
set up a web site to post updates about Ella’s condition
before she passed away.
The prize will be awarded
to a student who has distinguished him or herself
through “enthusiasm, altruism, integrity and participation in the life of the
department,” according to
the CaringBridge site.
The Staff Student Consultative Committee, members
of staf f and students w ill
be invited to submit nomi-
nations. The prize will be
awarded on the recommendation of the Departmental
Tutor and Undergraduate
Administrator.
Initial funding for the program will come from staff
at the university, as well as
students.
So far, the Eleanor Keeler Fellowship has topped
£3,000, Ella’s parents posted
on the CaringBridge site.
The Keelers a nticipate
meeting with Penn administrators in early 2010, where
they will discuss a way to
honor E l l a’s me mor y at
Penn.
I n t h e m e a nt i m e , t h e
family is organizing several
fundraising events. Ella’s
sister, Suzanne MacDonald,
for example, is planning a
ball in the Keelers’ hometown of York, United Kingdom.
The event is slated to take
place in March 2010.
— Darina Shtrakhman
brarian via text message, said
Charles Cobine, coordinator
of digital outreach services
for the library system.
Since its inception, librarians have gotten a total of 34
text messages through the
system as of last Friday, according to Cobine — which
averages out to approximately one message per day.
But Hassen and Cobine
weren’t fazed by the pro gram’s slow start.
“F ra n k ly, we’re getti ng
more than I thought we would
at the start,” Hassen said.
Cobine added that the service’s existence still needed
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which have until now been addressed by renovating existing buildings, resulting from
Penn Law’s expansion of its
academic programs.
“Over the last 10 years, we
have greatly expanded our academic programs,” Fitts said.
“The nature of classes have
changed in that they are now
much more interdisciplinary,
and there are more classes
and smaller classes, but the
physical footprint of the Law
School has stayed the same.”
The school intends to demolish the 11,000-square-foot
Pepper Hall and replace it
with the new building, which
w i l l o cc upy ab out 4 5 ,0 0 0
square feet.
After a two-round competition, Penn Law decided to
employ the services of Bos-
to become known to students,
both through word of mouth
and librarians’ presentations
to classes.
“We don’t know how people
are going to use it,” Cobine
sa id. Thoug h most of the
questions received via text
message thus far have been
relatively simple, he said,
some have been “intense” research questions.
Penn Libraries originally
launched its chat service in
2001 and added instant messaging in 2005, according to
Hassen, who said similar services have become “standard
practice” in college libraries
across the country over the
past few years.
Cobine said the chat and IM
services have seen a steady
increase in traffic since their
launch.
Nearly 40 librarians from
across campus monitor the
combined chat, IM and text
message system from 9 a.m.
to 11 p.m. Monday through
Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Friday and 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. on
Sunday, Hassen said.
She added that the service
has increased its hours in response to student demand, including creating a 6 to 9 p.m.
shift last year.
ton-based firm Kennedy &
Violich Architecture.
Architect Sheila Kennedy
said the new building will be
organized to preser ve the
courtyard in the middle of
the Law School. On one side,
it will complement the Georgian architecture of Silverman Hall.
Kennedy elaborated that
the Silverman Hall side of the
new building will be taller and
“more like the ‘palazzo’ of Silverman,” observing that as of
now the “grandeur of Silverman Hall is interrupted by
Pepper Hall.”
The building’s grand entra nce w ill be located on
Sansom Street , through
which the courtyard — one
of the “signature elements”
of the Law School, according
to Kennedy — will be clearly
visible.
In add ition, the Goat
Lounge, a meeting place overlooking the courtyard, will
also undergo renovations. The
room currently holds a “very
special, almost iconic place in
the hearts and minds of law
students,” according to Fitts,
and is known for the statue
of a goat at its center, which
supposedly grants whomever
touches it eternal wisdom.
The three-stor y building
will contain an auditorium,
cafe, student center and moot
courtroom on its ground level, faculty offices on the second story, as well as a public
conference room, administrative offices and a roof terrace
overlooking the courtyard on
the Tannenbaum Hall side,
according to Kennedy.
The second story will also
include a bridge to Silverman
Hall, where additional faculty
offices will be located.
Fitts speculated that once
the building is completed,
Penn Law will boast the “finest urban law school campus
in the country.”
Constr uction w ill beg in
May 2010 and end December
2011. The building is scheduled to open January 2012.
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the library’s message
services at thedp.com
“Students are not working
a nine-to-five schedule,” Hassen said.
College freshman Jessica
Chung said she has heard of
the text messaging service
but has yet to use it — though
she said she might if she needs
help writing a research paper
for her writing seminar.
To send a text message to
a librarian, send “upennlib”
and a question to 66746.
Building up Law
- The new building will cost
an estimated $33.6 million.
- It will include 19
faculty offices, a 340seat auditorium, 24
administrative offices,
common space, additional
space for academic
programs, informal meeting
areas and an office for a new
student journal.
- The project will also
include a new moot
courtroom and a bridge from
Silverman Hall to the new
building, which will take the
place of Pepper Hall.
- Construction will begin in
May 2010 and is expected to
end in December 2011.
- The building is scheduled
to open in January 2012.
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Safety
first
When DNA is TMI
EDITORIAL | No College House
should put reputation above students’
safety where alcohol is concerned
E
a r l ie r t h i s mont h , t he hou se
dean of DuBois College House,
T r ish W i l l ia ms, sent an e-mail
out to DuBois residents, requesting
that they not bring back “drunkard”
friends on the verge of alcohol-related illness to the House for care. The e-mail’s
rationale was that alcohol incidents reflect poorly
on the House. Further, it cautioned that students
who brought sick friends to DuBois before sending them to a hospital would themselves have
to attend First Step, Penn’s alcohol education
program.
This attitude concerns us. While the sentiments were extrapolated upon in a second
e-mail, we still believe that student safety
should be placed above any concerns about
reputations of one College House or group of
students, and students should not be discouraged to assist friends in need. Under Penn’s
Medical Amnesty Policy, students are not to be
punished for assisting friends that are on the
verge of alcohol sickness, and the declaration
that students doing so would face repercussions certainly sounds punitive to us.
No one should have to think twice before trying to help a sick friend, and this declaration
could very easily lead to that. Furthermore,
we strongly believe that few at Penn would
judge an entire House based on the number of
alcohol-related instances there — in fact, this
warning tarnishes a reputation more.
The second house-wide e-mail emphasized
Williams’ and the House’s commitment to
students’ safety. We hope that students and
the House leadership continue to put student
safety first, and not behind reputation.
ON A ROLL | A halted plan to gather employees’ DNA at
another university raises questions about uses of technology
W
hat if your employer knew
m o r e a b o ut y o u
t ha n you d id?
Sounds scary, but
it could happen in the near future. Recently, the University of Akron in Ohio
modified its procedures for hiring new
employees. The new policy included a
clause stating that applicants “may be
asked to submit a DNA sample for the
purpose of a federal criminal background
check” — making Akron the first employer in the U.S. to ask for such samples.
The university defended the modification by citing changing methods of
criminal investigation, claiming that DNA
technology will soon supplant fingerprinting in identifying perpetrators. While it’s
an interesting comparison, this rationale
did not justify the implemented procedural change, and demonstrated both a misunderstanding of new technologies and a
lack of respect for employees’ privacy. The
university removed the phrase from its
policy last Wednesday, but the ramifications of the original clause deserve some
attention, lest other employers consider
implementing similar policies.
Background checks using employee
DNA sequences may, eventually, become
common. However, handing over one’s
DNA in any situation raises both practical
and moral issues that bear close examination.
To begin, background checks constitute an inherent invasion of privacy. Some
jobs may necessitate this invasion, but
many do not. The American Association
of University Professors recommends
that schools conduct them “only as nec-
essary to secure information that may
ensure that applicants are qualified to
meet the particular obligations of specific
positions,” according to a (long-winded)
2004 report. Penn, for its part, requires
checks for some jobs, but not all. DNA,
however, provides much more information than when a job candidate got his last
parking ticket.
Let’s conduct a thought experiment,
keeping in mind that the University of
Akron placed no written restrictions on
the eventual fate of the DNA samples
collected. Imagine that, rather than simply determining an applicant’s criminal
background (which would compare key
sequences to those stored in a national
criminal database, assuming they could
obtain legal access), the university decided to sequence the DNA provided and
see what it could find.
The answer? Due to 50 years of fastpaced, medically revolutionary genetic
research, the school could encounter
details about a person that she didn’t
know herself.
Take, for example, the potential faculty member with 36-plus repeats of a
specific amino-acid sequence in the HTT
gene. This faculty member will eventually develop Huntington’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder causing a decline
in physical abilities and coordination as
well as cognitive decay and, one day, dementia. The applicant quite possibly has
no knowledge of her condition.
As an employer, do you hire this applicant? Do you tell her of her condition?
Years later, do you grant her tenure?
These are difficult questions better left
to bioethicists.
LINDSEY STULL
Another example: Consider a transgender applicant. A quick karyotype
shows that the man in front of you has not
an X chromosome and a Y chromosome
but, rather, a nice XX. Due to concerted
effort on the part of Penn’s LGBT organizations, Penn’s anti-discrimination policy
prohibits gender identity from playing a
role in hiring decisions; many institutions, including the University of Akron,
have no such clause. What then?
Without specific language clarifying
the fate of any samples an employer
might collect, these scenarios could
come true.
At a time when a simple Google
search provides access to basic data
and intimate personal details alike, it
is reassuring that limits on the invasion
of privacy still exist. As medical technologies change how we think about our
genes and the information they encode,
it is important to carefully approach
each new step in the use of these developments. Critical coverage of Akron’s
DNA-collection policy meant that it lasted only a few months, and the school did
not collect any actual samples.
Next time, perhaps, the university
in question will think it through before
trying to implement such a policy.
lindsey stull is a College senior from
Oklahoma City. Her e-mail address is stull@
dailypennsylvanian.com.
The People-Who-Voted-Nov. 3rd Society
BIELER’S DAY OFF | Only 171
students rocked the vote last
Tuesday — did you?
E
xclusive clubs are f un. Members get their ow n inside
jokes , t hei r ow n handshakes
and most importantly, the fun of
excluding people and getting that
warm, elitist feeling that comes from looking down on others. That’s why I am proud
to exclude most of you all from the venerable
People-Who-Voted-November-3rd Society, because statistically, dear reader, you are almost
certainly not a member of this club.
Last year 3,833 people voted on campus.
This year only 171 people took the 20 minutes
needed to cast a vote for the district attorney
of Philadelphia, as well as a host of other offices. And if you lived in Harrison or Harnwell
College House, the time was even less — If
you didn’t notice, the polling place was in your
building. In fact, according to College senior
Annassa Corley, president of Penn Leads the
Vote, 60 percent of registered voters live in
on-campus housing, meaning that a majority
SAM BIELER
of us are fewer than 10 minutes away from
our polling places. While I’m not one to weigh
blame, there’s even less of an excuse here.
College junior and Penn Dems President
Jordan Levine offered a number of reasons
why student turnout was so low: “Penn has a
transient population; people perceive these
elections to be unimportant. There is also not
enough publicity.” All these are reasonable
explanations for why turnout was so low. None
of them are excuses for not voting.
1.) Transience. Many Penn students only
call Philadelphia their home for four years
before moving on to grad school, law school
or a particularly comfy couch in their parent’s
basement. This naturally limits student’s ef-
forts to make changes and improvements.
The counterargument to this is that no effort
is required — You have to walk past the polling place to get to class. Penn voters have the
best election opportunity in the world. Just
walk into Houston, pull the lever, and you have
a bulletproof excuse for skipping the first 10
minutes of chem lab.
2.) Unimportant. In this most recent election
we elected a new district attorney, Seth Williams. Our previous DA, Lynne Abraham, had
been in the job since 1991 and since that time
had been applying the death penalty with such
zeal that she was labeled “the Deadliest DA”
by Time Magazine in 1995. Now, with a new
DA, and he could single-handedly be setting
legal policy on such issues for years to come.
That is as important an issue as exists, and
we helped effect this change. Well, me and 170
other people on campus.
3.) Publicity. Most of you probably know the
date of every one of your finals, where the next
good party is and what line you have to use to
get your parents to send more money. How
hard is it to remember Election Day? And if
you did forget, Penn Leads the Vote was out on
Locust on both the day before and on Election
Day. Beyond that, voting isn’t something that
should have to be advertised or sold to you.
It is your civic duty, not a gently used Ford
Taurus.
Apathy actively harms the University and
its ties to the city. If you look at DP articles
from 2007 (the last comparable election),
politicians went on the record stating that
University City was an electoral wasteland.
Tom Knox, a former candidate for mayor,
said flat out that Penn students don’t vote. If
there is one thing you never see in politics,
it is a politician insulting the electorate. We
are too many votes to take this kind of sass
from politicians.
Corley stressed that there must be “different expectations for different elections,” and
this is absolutely true. I don’t expect the same
turnout for DA that the presidential election
got. But it says something about the lack of
involvement on campus when fewer people
vote than attend Math 104 — even on a nonquiz day.
SAM BIELER is a College sophomore from Ridgewood, N.J. His e-mail address is [email protected].
News
Penn e-mail addresses are here to stay
TECHNOLOGY | Students say Penn e-mail
may evolve but will continue to be relevant
BY ALEX BALL
Staff Writer
Now that Microsoft Outlook
and Gmail are ubiquitous on
campus, Penn’s web-based
e-mail ser vice has become
something of an afterthought
— but according to University
administrators, these e-mail
addresses are here to stay.
Fewer t ha n one -f i f t h of
Penn’s 40,000 student and
faculty e-mail addresses are
not forwarded or sent to personal accounts, said Adam
Preset, IT Technical Director for Systems and Services
in Infor mation Systems &
Computing.
Simila r trends have led
some colleges to drop school
e-mail altogether. In a 2008
national survey conducted by
the Campus Computing Project, 42 percent of colleges reported that they had already
migrated or were about to
mig rate to a n outsourced
student e-mail service, compared to 2 percent in 2004.
According to Preset, some
of Penn’s schools have also
taken steps in a similar direction.
T he School of A r ts a nd
Sciences, Graduate School
of Education and Wharton,
a mong ot her s, have been
considering alternatives to
traditional e-mail accounts,
outsourcing or adding features to meet modern communication standards.
I n 2 0 0 7, S A S move d t o
Penn Live, a Hotmail-based
system that increased e-mail
storage to 5 gigabytes, more
than 125 times that of a mail.
sas account.
W h a r t on h a s move d t o
Outlook Live, a service that
provides students with a calendar, tasks, contact lists
and instant-messaging capabilities.
However, these changes
don’t mean SAS and Wharton plan to discontinue their
e-mail services altogether.
Preset said there are no
university-wide initiatives to
get rid of Penn’s locally-run
e-mail addresses, largely because they provide better control, speed and are“less likely
to get lost out in the cloud.”
E-mail use in general has
also been on the decline, in
compet it ion w it h tex t i ng,
BlackBerry messaging and
video chat.
L o c a l e - m a i l b e g a n at
Penn over 20 years ago, dating back to the 1980s when it
was a new and growing technology for researchers.
Students and groups have
had access to school e-mail
since 1993, when the technolgmail vs. sas
ogy was still emerging.
“ T h i ngs have cha nged”
since then, according to Dan - Fewer than one-fifth
Alig, senior IT director for of Penn’s 40,000 e-mail
addresses are not forwarded
Wharton Computing.
“Students are looking for or sent to personal
more versatile ways to com- accounts.
municate,” he added.
But many students say that - Across the country, 42
despite the new communi- percent of colleges said
cation options available to they had already migrated or
them, they think e-mail will outsourced student e-mail
continue to have a place on service.
campus.
“I’ve heard Google Wave - This figure was only 2
might revolutionize commu- percent in 2004.
nication,” said Benjamin Martinez, College and Wharton
freshman, “but e-mail’s defi- students f ind va lue [in e nitely not on the way out.”
mail], it’ll be available,” he
A lig agreed. “As long as said.
DePaulo: celebrity unmasked UA seeks new MERT housing
GQ Correspondent
discusses celebrity
profiling and the
magazine industry
BY BECKY BAILEY
Staff Writer
College junior and Undergraduate Assembly member
Rico Moorer was shell-shocked
when he arrived, before 10:30
p.m., at a UA meeting that was
already ending.
Still, in less than an hour and
a half, UA members had unanimously passed three resolutions at their meeting Sunday.
The PennCard PIN resolution, authored by UA associate member, former Daily
Pennsylvanian columnist and
reporter and College junior Colin Kavanaugh, was written in
response to a study regarding
social security numbers.
The study showed that it is
possible to guess many of the
nine digits of someone’s SSN
just by knowing the last four.
Kavanaugh viewed the use of
this number to sign into buildings on campus as a security
BY WILLIAM KORCHEK
Contributing Writer
Lisa DePaulo has made a
career out of revealing the human side of celebrities, from 50
Cent to Donald Rumsfeld.
Yesterday afternoon, GQ
Correspondent Lisa DePaulo
discussed celebrity profiling,
dealing with publicists and
the future of the magazine
business at the Kelly Writers
House. DePaulo, a College
class of 1982 alumna and former Daily Pennsylvanian
writer, spoke to an audience of
about 15 as part of the Sylvia W.
Kauders Lunch Series.
DePaulo has profiled celebrities including Jamie Foxx and
Matt Damon, and is currently
writing a piece on Rihanna.
Over the years she has also
gained respect for her profiles
of political figures such as General David Petraeus and Republican National Committee
Chairman Michael Steele.
Her question-and-answer
with Steele made its own headlines, as he implied in the interview that he was pro-choice.
DePaulo spoke to students
about interview techniques
and her goals as a profile writer. Profile writing, she said, “is
the most interesting, compelling form of journalism.”
“My thing is common sense
and fairness,” she said. “Some
people deserve a little more
understanding.”
She added that she tries to
ask the questions that her interviewees haven’t been asked
before — for instance, she
once had a conversation with
former Secretary of Defense
risk.
Currently, students can alter
their PIN through the Division
of Public Safety web site, but
Kavanaugh said most students
are not aware of this.
The resolution urges the
adoption of a new system that
would assign all new students,
beginning with the class of
2014, a random nine-digit number, drawing the PIN from the
last four digits of this number.
Students would also be alerted, prior to coming to Penn, of
a way — Kavanaugh suggested
through Penn InTouch — to
change the PIN to a number
they can remember better.
The resolution also urges the
University to increase awareness of options that students
currently have to change their
PIN.
The next resolution was
about housing for Penn’s Medical Emergency Response
Team.
Currently, the group, a student-run, volunteer organization, is housed in Sansom Place
East. College junior and MERT
Operations Chief Josh Lipman
said this location slows their
response time, owing to the
current bike-storage system,
as well as being far away from
the majority of incidents.
The proposal calls upon the
University to search for a more
suitable location for the group’s
headquarters.
The final proposal was a letter to faculty members regarding the cost of textbooks. The
letter cited a UA survey from
last spring, in which 73 percent
of respondents said textbook
prices at the Penn Bookstore
were unsatisfactory.
The letter also asked faculty
members to consider methods
which would make materials
more affordable to students
when choosing texts for next
semester.
Before going to Memphis,
Fowler, Chu and Jack son
attended training sessions
in Washington, D.C., where
they lear ned about infant
mor t a lit y a nd how to ap proach the problems they
may face while campaigning.
While there, they were also
given the task of bringing
the message back to Penn’s
campus and the West Philadelphia community.
Jac k son de sc r ib e d t he
whole exper ience — both
Memphis and D.C. — as being “pretty phenomenal.”
“I was planning on going
into nursing anesthesia,”
she said. “Now I’m definitely
looking at a career in public
health after going to Memphis.”
For many of the families
in the areas they v isited,
“a k nock on the door isn’t
always the most pleasant
thing,” said Chu. “More often
than not it’s the police, and
so it wasn’t always easy getting them to listen to us.”
According to Siantz, however, reaching out to the
mothers who did take the
time to listen to them was
made easier because the volunteers were often close in
age to the mothers.
“We need to close the gap
on infant mortality,” Siantz
said. “And it’s pretty clear
how vital nurses are to the
whole educ at ion pr ocess
because by the end of the
week, every team wanted a
nurse.”
Jake Spinowitz/DP Staff Photographer
Lisa DePaulo, a GQ Correspondent who is renowned for her political profiles,
talks about celebrity profiling and the future of magazines yesterday.
Donald Rumsfeld about Paris
Hilton. Finding these unasked
questions, she said, can be a
difficult task for some widelycovered celebrities.
DePaulo discussed the difficulties of dealing with publicists and “gate keepers,” as
she called celebrities’ staff
members. She said in order to
get the material she needs, she
tries to get through the publicist to the “human side” of a
celebrity.
But this can sometimes
prove difficult. DePaulo said
she will occasionally tell the
interviewee directly that a
publicist’s interference is negatively impacting the story. In
addition, in several of her pub-
lished profiles she has directly
mentioned these interfering
publicists.
When she is interviewing the
celebrities themselves, DePaulo said she tries to “get them
to forget [she’s] there.”
She said she always asks
herself, “How do I put the
reader in the room with this
person?”
“I thought it was fascinating,” said College junior Alicia
Rodriguez, who came to the
discussion. “She gave us good
tips.”
T he Sylv ia W. K auder s
Lunch Series will also present
journalists Dan Biddle and
Murray Dubin, who will visit
the Writers House Dec. 9.
Nurses work
to reduce
infant deaths
BABY from page 1
process,” she said, “so when
we were organizing the campaign this year, I stuck my
hand up and insisted that we
have nurses on the team.”
Fowlin ag reed. “I don’t
k now why they had n’t
thought of involving nursing
schools before,” she said.
A l l t h r e e Pen n nu r ses
involved were selected because they specialize in minority health.
Ivy education can open doors, but not without strong job performance
IVY LEAGUE from page 1
crutch” of having gone to an
Ivy League school, thinking
it will give them some sort of
real-world advantage.
Many other students,
though, take a completely
d i f f e r e nt s t a n c e . P e n n’s
reputation is often considered a major leg up in graduate school and employment
searches.
Cara Bumgardner, a College alumna and candidate
for a Masters of Science in
Cr iminolog y and self-pro claimed “Ivy League elitist”
said being at Penn made a
difference both in her level s o f p r e p a r e d ne s s a nd
confidence for applying for
Masters programs last year,
and PhD programs for next
year.
Her Penn education prov ided “oppor tunities to
develop my social and intellectual skills more than …
other schools would allow,”
she said. While acknowledging that success in any env ironment is “really what
you make of it,” she pointed
out that a Penn education is
“typically of a different caliber” and that expectations
and standards are “higher
here.”
Pat r ici a R ose , d i r ect or
of Penn’s Career Ser vices,
agreed that a Penn education can make a difference in
students’ lives.
“I do believe our students
have access to more employment opportunities than do
students at many other top
colleges,” she wrote in an email.
She at t r ibut es t h i s not
only to the school’s academic
strength and notable faculty
members, but also because
of its long-standing relationships with many employers
who “have hired Penn students and k now f irst-hand
how able and well-prepared
our students are.”
But Rose emphasized the
i mp or t a nt d i f f er enc e b e tween going to Penn and being in the Ivy League. While
at Career Services they “absolutely encourage students
to say they went to Penn,”
she wrote an in e-mail, “we
do not urge students to talk
about the Iv y Leag ue, unless they have, for example,
league-based sports accomplishments.”
Yet while the distinction
may have originated as an
at h let ic one , it has t r a n scended those boundar ies
and continues to hold weight
for broader perceptions of
the school.
Bumgardner put a lot of
stake in others’ awareness
of what it means to be an Ivy
League student. “It’s just our
social and human nature to
think someone’s more qualified and competent if they
came from an Ivy than a lower ranked school,” she said.
That is what motivates her
to apply exclusively to PhD
programs at “top -ranked”
schools. Even if their Criminology programs rank better
than Penn’s, she explained,
the prestige affiliated with
the Ivy League can be more
important than numbers —
“ just because of what the
name implies.”
W harton and College junior Scott Lefever agreed
that prestigious institutions
of ten prov ide cer t a i n ad vantages, such as extensive
alumni networks, but thinks
that it is far more important
to work hard than to rely on
status alone.
“For better or worse, there
is some advantage to name
and going to a place that is
known to be the best,” said
Lefever. But, he added, “at
the end of the day, it’s about
how you perform.”
Wharton 2009 alumna Melissa Ho agrees. “The name
‘Penn’ opens up doors,” she
said, “but by no means will it
get you a job — it just sparks
an interest.”
And while many students
don’t come to Penn just for its
aura — citing instead factors
like location, programs and
financial aid — that doesn’t
mean it isn’t a cherry on top.
College freshman Caitlin
Dougherty’s decision to attend Penn admittedly “was
a lot to do with reputation,”
she said. “Penn was the best
school I got into and the financial aid worked out.” But
once she got involved on campus, she realized she made
the r ight choice: “I didn’t
think I would, but I ended up
loving it here.”
College sophomore Annie
Weinstein, who is from Phil-
adelphia, said she wanted
to stay local and Penn was
“kind of the obvious choice”
b e c au s e it w a s t h e b e st
academic institution in the
area.
College junior Sean Flanagan also said he chose Penn
partially for its location, as
well as its excellent academics
and the sense that it seemed
like a fun place to go.
“I was aware it was an Ivy
school,” he explained. “The
title is nice … but it wasn’t
really a crucial component of
my decision.”
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Bulldogs’
seniors set
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history of her own. She broke
a 32-year old record, scoring
100 points in her collegiate career.
Shortly after halftime, the
Rye, N.Y., native got the goal
she needed to tie the record off
a one-on-one with the Bears’
goalkeeper.
Ivy sports from page 8
But in the 49th minute, McCauley tipped the ball into the
hockey team continued its cage to become the first Yale
record-breaking streak with a field hockey player to reach the
6-2 victory over Brown.
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With six wins over Ivy opponents, the squad now holds the
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“Getting the six Ivy wins was finishes at the Big One at Smith
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Cantore added another assist event, including junior Jonato her record for most in school than Yu, who finished eighth.
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At tonight’s 18th annual Ms.
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Contest, Penn athletes and
some very well-built students
will compete for the title of
the school’s king and queen of
brawn.
Tickets to the event are $8
for open seating and are available today on Locust Walk. The
competition begins at 7 p.m. in
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Women’s track and field assistant coach Anthony Tenisci
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The field is one of the largest
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in years, with 21 men and 16
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number thirteen — the number on the defensive side of the ball
of players with a carry or recep- was established early in the
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Olson completed passes to nine
different receivers — including
himself (off of a deflection by a
defensive lineman). Six separate running backs teamed up
with the quarterback to net 215
yards on the ground.
It’s nothing new to say that
the Quakers have tons of talent
at the running back position.
Through eight games, four
different running backs have
carried the ball over 30 times
for more than 100 yards apiece.
Additionally, fullback Luke DeLuca leads the team with five
touchdowns on the ground.
“We’re blessed to have some
really talented running backs,”
coach Al Bagnoli said after the
game. “They all come in with a
little bit [of a] different style, so
it’s a little bit harder to prepare
… It becomes a handful when
every time a new back comes
in, he’s fresh and he presents a
little bit [of a] different style.”
The number of pass catchers,
however, was unexpected. A
week after hauling in a careerhigh eight catches and his first
touchdown of the season, senior
Kyle Derham again looked like
a true number-one receiver
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Junior Bradford Blackmon was one of the many offensive players to step up
Saturday. He had two carries for 17 rushing yards and added two catches.
with 75 yards on five catches
and a touchdown. Olson’s favorite target on the day, however,
was junior wideout Tuten, who
caught six passes for those 92
yards. But Olson insists that he
doesn’t target anyone specifically and is simply following the
coaches’ gameplan.
“Some plays Tuten’s gonna
get the ball and some plays are
designed for Derham to get
the ball,” he said. “I’m just the
middleman, I’m just putting the
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members of track and lightweight rowing as well as students and a Penn Recreation
employee. On the women’s side
competitors include members
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There are 10 judges for the
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ball in their hands.”
Sometimes, though, the ball
went where no one could expect it. Olson’s second pass of
the game went to a wide open
DeLuca. The 240-pound fullback rumbled 29 yards to the
one-yard line and punched it in
himself on the next play. Later,
towards the end of the third
quarter, facing a second-andgoal from the three-yard line,
Olson faked a sneak before lobbing the ball to backup tight end
Luke Nawrocki for the sophomore’s first career touchdown.
But Olson still takes little
credit for spreading the ball out
to a variety of targets.
“I really just put the ball
where the coaches have keyed
in to me every week,” he said.
“They tell me where to go with
the ball when a certain situation
arises. And I just did what the
coaches told me.”
The coaches, then, have
devised a gameplan in recent
weeks that effectively utilizes
the abundance of talent at both
the running back and receiver
positions. If thirteen players can
make plays to move the football
at any given time, defenses will
go crazy trying to stop them all.
With the way the offense has
been clicking lately, it appears
that any number of the Quakers’ offensive weapons could be
the difference against Harvard
Saturday — and thus the difference between an Ivy Championship and runner-up status.
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WRESTLING from page 8
of what it could be like.
“ I ’ ve def i n it ely worked
harder [now] than I have my
past three years,” he said.
W it h t hese t wo ju n ior s
primed for success and other
top wrestlers Rollie Peterkin
and Cesar Grajales returning, it’s no wonder the preseason polls present reason
for optimism.
The team overall has been
r a n ked 2 4t h i n I nt er m at
Wrestling’s NCAA Division I
rankings. Perhaps even more
impressive were some of the
individual standings. As a
senior, Peterkin is currently
ranked sixth in the 125-pound
weightclass.
The two captains of this
year’s squad, Grajales and
fellow senior Matt Dragon,
were also recognized. Grajales occupies the seventh
seed of the 149-pound weightclass, while Dragon is ranked
17th at 157 pounds.
The Quakers will also benefit from the addition of Matt
Valenti to the coaching staff.
Some Penn fans may remember Valenti, who graduated in 2007 as a two-time
NCAA champion and Penn’s
all-time leader in wins with
137.
And while Valenti’s insight
into the sport will prove an
invaluable resource for coach
Rob Eiter, he will be able to
help in more ways than just
coaching.
“He relates at all levels
with the guys,” Eiter said.
Andrew Gardner/DP File Photo
174-pound wrestler Scott Giffin (right) drinks lots of water and eats three meals
a day in order to lose weight, rather than resorting to starvation or dehydration.
Giffin breaks
mold, avoids
starvation
GIFFIN from page 8
Captain Cesar Grajales was ranked seventh by the Intermat Division I preseason standings in the 149-pound weightclass. Rollie Peterkin and Matt Dragon are also ranked sixth and 17th, respectively, in their weightclasses.
He further explained that
what makes Valenti such a
great asset is his ability to
help the younger wrestlers
adjust both to the transition
from high school competition
and to the academic side of
Penn.
On the other hand, Valenti
can also help the upperclassmen who hope to have the
same success that he had
during his reign.
Penn will look to start off
what looks to be a promisi ng season w ith a tr ip to
Binghamton, New York on
Sunday for the Binghamton
Open, where the squad will
face other Ivy opponents including Princeton and No.
22 pre-season ranked Harvard.
Yr.
Cory Beaver
Tyler Blakely
Marty Boroswky
Phil Boyer
Gabriel Burak
Matt Dragon
Zack Ellis
Scott Giffin
Cesar Grajales
Colin Hitschler
Jake Hunter
Zack Kemmerer
Bryan Ortenzio
Rollie Peterkin
T.J. Polacek
Mark Rappo
Thomas Shovlin
Tom Timothy
Dan White
Weight
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in order to drop a few extra
pounds.
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and dehydration have more
of a negative than positive effect on performance.
Traditional thought dictates that wrestlers should
lose the pounds in whatever
way possible.
Giffin contends that this
method is self-defeating.
In order to avoid losing
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exercise, be it weig htli f ting or w restling practice.
He stresses that this is an
impor tant time to get the
body up and running so that
whatever food is ingested
throughout the day is used
and not stored.
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Sports
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2009
online at thedp.com
Lucky
number
thirteen
Wrestling season preview
Wrestling with changes
Losing seniors to graduation, wrestlers like Zack Kemmerer
will have the chance to step into their roles
BY Kevin esteves
Contributing Writer
For Penn’s wrestling team, this season
will be business as usual, but with a few
very important tweaks.
This year’s squad will have to deal with
the loss of six seniors, but the detrimental
experience presents a great opportunity
for others to step up and fill the void.
Junior Zack Kemmerer finally has an
opportunity to start. Kemmerer, who redshirted his sophomore year, remains the
lone wrestler in the 141-pound weightclass and will see a huge increase in action now that he has secured the starting
position. The prospect of wrestling each
and every week will certainly be a transition for Kemmerer, but one that he feels
he’s ready to make after two years of
preparing for this moment.
“It was a rough first two years” he ad-
mits, “but it was a learning experience
too.”
For others, like junior Scott Giffin, this
year signals the opportunity to take the
next step. Wrestling at 174 pounds, Giffin
hopes to expand upon the success he had
last year and has set pretty high goals
for himself.
“I want to be on the podium more than
anything,” Giffin said of his aspiration to
be nominated as an All-American.
The fact that he was able to defeat a
top-10 wrestler last year assures Giffin
that he can compete at the highest level.
Though he did not receive All-American
honors last year, he is as motivated as
ever to get there now that he’s had a taste
NEIL FANAROFF
T
he biggest statistic from Penn’s 42-7
drubbing of the Tigers was not the
35-point margin of victory (the Quakers’ largest since 1943).
It was not quarterback Kyle Olson’s
career-high three touchdowns, Matt Tuten’s career-best 92 yards receiving or cornerback Chris
Wynn’s career-high seven tackles.
All of those impressive numbers speak to the
incredible group and individual performances
at Franklin Field, but the biggest takeaway from
the Princeton contest was the usually unlucky
Senior 125-pounder Rollie Peterkin and the rest of the team
will have to fill the void left by the graduation of six seniors.
SEE WRESTLING PAGE 7
Weighing in on discipline
SEE FANAROFF PAGE 6
Two goals lead
to back-to-back
W. Soccer titles
Ivy sports | Harvard’s Baskind
scores both goals in a 2-1 victory
over Columbia for outright champs
BY jennifer scuteri
Associate Editor
With the help of sophomore midfielder Melanie
Baskind, the Harvard women’s soccer team was
able to win its second consecutive Ivy League title,
outright.
Baskind netted two goals in the Crimson’s matchup against Columbia (7-7-3, 3-3-1 Ivy), earning both
Ivy League Player of the Week and Top Drawer
National Soccer Team of the Week honors.
The Framingham, Mass., native’s first score
came in the ninth minute of play when she dribbled
from the 18-yard line and sent the ball past the
Lions’ goalie into the right side of the net.
With just 15 seconds left in regulation, the Crimson (9-6-1, 6-1) led Columbia 1-0. But when the Lions’ Lauren Cooke was awarded a free kick off of a
Harvard foul, the game was sent into overtime.
Baskind kept the hopes of an outright victory
alive. Just 5:08 into overtime, she found the net
once again off a pass from Katherine Sheeleigh.
“I was trying to ask some people after how that
actually happened,” Baskind explained to The Crimson. “I know I got the ball from Sheeleigh, and it went
in the right side of the goal, but it was all a blur.”
Katie Rubin/DP File Photo
Junior Scott Giffin (left) is naturally 195 pounds, but sticks to an intensive diet and exercise plan in order to make weight for the 174-pound weightclass.
Scott Giffin’s weight loss regiment includes
eating three meals a day and staying hydrated
BY ELI COHEN
Staff Writer
Attention all University of
Pennsylvania students. Feel the
need to shed some pounds?
Forget ‘The Zone.’ Forget
crazy liquid diets that make
you feel like a human waste
disposal facility.
Penn junior 174-pound wrestler Scott Giffin has you covered.
In order to drop from his natural heft of 195 pounds down to
his wrestling weight of just 174,
Giffin has instituted a serious
diet and workout regimen.
“The biggest part is drink-
ing a lot of water,” Giffin said.
“A few years ago Oprah did the
whole water weight loss thing.
It works.”
Giffin contends that staying
hydrated throughout the day
can not only “clean your system
out” — gross — but can also
speed up the metabolism and
help burn off calories.
This strategy f lies in the
face of conventional wrestling
weight-cutting, in which athletes dehydrate themselves
SEE GIFFIN PAGE 7
Penn Wrestling: 2009-2010 Season
Nov. 15 Binghamton Open
at Binghamton, N.Y.
Nov. 22 Keystone Classic
The Palestra
Nov. 28 Northeast Duals
at Albany, N.Y.
Dec. 6 Penn State Open
at State College, Pa.
Dec. 11 PENN vs. Maryland
at College Park, Md., 7 p.m.
Dec.29-30 Southern Scuffle
at Greensboro, N.C.
Jan. 9 Rider vs. PENN
The Palestra, Noon
Jan. 9 Binghamton vs. PENN
The Palestra, 2 p.m.
Jan. 16 Virginia vs. PENN
Jan. 23 PENN vs. Pittsburgh
at Pittsburgh, Pa., 2 p.m.
Jan. 23 PENN vs. Clarion
at Wexford, Pa., 7 p.m.
Jan. 31 PENN vs. Hofstra
at Heampstead, N.Y., 1 p.m.
Feb. 6 PENN vs. Brown
at Providence, R.I., 10 a.m.
Feb. 6 PENN vs. Harvard
at Providence, R.I., 3 p.m.
Feb. 13 Cornell vs. PENN
Feb. 14 Columbia vs. PENN
Feb. 20 PENN vs. Princeton
at Princeton, N.J., 1 p.m.
Feb. 21 Lehigh vs. PENN
Mar. 6-7 EIWA Championships
at Bethlehem, Pa.
Mar. 18-20 NCAA Championships
at Omaha, Neb.
Record-breaking Bulldogs. The Yale field
SEE IVY SPORTS PAGE 6
Countdown
to the first
hoops game
3
Friday, November 13
at State College, Pa.
Iv y Le agu e Standings
Field Hockey
Princeton
Ivy
Pct
Overall
7-0
1.00
14-2
M. Soccer
Football
Harvard
Ivy
Pct.
Overall
5-0
1.00
6-2
Harvard
W. Soccer
Ivy
Pts.
Overall
4-1-1
13
12-3-1
Volleyball
Ivy
Pts. Overall
Harvard
6-1-0
18
9-6-1
Yale
5-2-0
15
10-6-0
Ivy
Pct.
Overall
PENN
11-0-0
1.00
20-4-0
Yale
8-3-0
.727
18-4-0
Yale
6-1
.857
12-5
PENN
5-0
1.00
6-2
Brown
4-2-0
12
9-2-5
Cornell
4-3
.571
10-5
Brown
3-2
.600
5-3
Dartmouth
4-2-0
12
10-5-1
PENN
4-3-0
12
10-4-2
Princeton
7-4-0
.636
9-13-0
8-5-3
Dartmouth
4-3-0
12
10-7-0
Dartmouth
7-5-0
.583
11-11-0
3-3-1
10
7-7-3
Harvard
7-5-0
.583
11-12-0
Dartmouth
4-3
.571
9-8
Yale
2-3
.400
4-4
Princeton
3-2-1
10
Columbia
3-4
.429
9-8
Dartmouth
2-3
.400
2-6
PENN
2-3-1
7
6-7-3
Columbia
Harvard
2-5
.286
5-12
Columbia
1-4
.200
2-6
Yale
2-4-0
6
5-8-3
Princeton
3-3-1
10
7-7-3
Cornell
3-9-0
.250
6-17-0
2-5-1
6
5-9-0
Columbia
2-10-0
.167
11-14-0
0-7-0
0
1-13-1
Brown
1-10-0
.091
5-17-0
PENN
2-5
.286
5-12
Cornell
1-4
.200
2-6
Columbia
2-4-0
6
4-11-1
Brown
Brown
0-7
.000
5-12
Princeton
1-4
.200
2-6
Cornell
0-3-3
3
5-6-5
Cornell
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