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Dischord and Quaker Notes learned Hebrew songs for the concert. The Israeli flag flew proudly last night as a crowd of all ages -- students and non-students, Americans and Israelis alike -- gathered to watch Israeli pop star David Broza perform at the Harrison Auditorium in the University Museum. The show -- which was sponsored by Hillel, the Undergraduate Assembly and the Consulate General of Israel in Philadelphia -- marked the culmination of the campus-wide Israel Day, an annual celebration of Israeli society and culture. The Israeli Music Festival packed in several hundred fans of Broza from all over the city. But before he took the stage, Penn Israeli dance troupe Yofi!, and two a cappella groups each performed. With an electric guitar wailing in the background, Yofi! danced to one of its standard songs, "Pitom Kam Adam." Yofi! member and College freshman Micah Liben described opening for David Broza as "a huge honor." Dischord took the stage next, followed by the all-female Quaker Notes. Both a cappella groups worked hard to learn the necessary Hebrew to be able to sing their numbers in the language for the show. Organizer Jesse Rubenfeld, a College and Wharton sophomore, arranged their songs and backup music. "We worked pretty hard," Rubenfeld said. "They put in a lot of time." Rubenfeld, who originally intended the festival to be composed entirely of student performances said he'd like to have more a cappella groups perform at next year's event. After the stage was reset, Broza, garbed entirely in black, made his entrance -- and the audience made it clear through their rousing applause that he was who they had come out to see. Despite feedback problems with the sound system, Broza did not hesitate to start his set, stopping only to tell the audience, "It's good to be back here." His last performance at Penn was in 1997 at Irvine Auditorium, and he also played in Harrison Auditorium about 15 years ago. Broza, 43, has been compared to American musicians like Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen. He has gained international renown during his 20 years as a performer and sings in several different languages. Broza opened himself up to requests and sang his repertoire of folk, blues and rock. The audience members, almost all of whom were familiar with his songs, responded by shouting out numerous suggestions and later proceeded to sing along. Breaking only occasionally to converse with the audience in English, Broza sang every song in Hebrew except one. Midway through his performance, he sang a Spanish song off of his first Spanish album, which will be released tomorrow when Broza performs in Madrid. Those who attended clapped and sang along to Broza's last song of the set, "M'tachat Hashamayim," or "Under the Sky." Applauding in response to Broza's "thank you," the audience members begged for an encore with a standing ovation. Broza then returned to the stage to sing "Yiyeh Tov," or "It Will be Alright," one of his most popular songs. At one point during the song, Broza even stopped singing and, in typical rock star fashion, allowed the crowd to finish off the line. College freshman and Yofi! member Marjie Rosenfelt said she was amazed by the performance. "I was so moved," she said. "He's among the greatest."
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The two-time defending Heps champ Tigers will also host Penn State and Villanova. The members of the Penn men's track team don't need a scoreboard to tell them how they're doing. The Quakers are more than pleased with their first two performances this spring, and the fact that neither has been officially scored has not been particularly bothersome. But to provide more of a measuring stick of how Penn stacks up against its competition, this weekend's meet at Princeton will be the first one scored this season. This will be the first peek the Red and Blue will have at the Tigers, considered by most to be Penn's peskiest adversary in its quest to win the Heptagonal Championships. The Orange and Black have been victorious in the last two outdoor Heps. Saturday holds particular importance to pole vaulter Josh Coleman, who will compete against Princeton's top man in the event, Jonathan Jessup. Coleman is coming off a solid outing at last week's Raleigh Relays in which he placed 10th in an extremely deep field. At Raleigh he was able to withstand a brisk wind that caused several of his counterparts to no-height. The junior from Arroyo Grande, Calif., realizes that any successes achieved by the vaulting unit at this stage are something of a bonus. Senior mainstay Bob Reynolds continues to take time away from the team, and junior Luke Stokes remains out of action with an injury. "We're definitely hoping for a big finish," Coleman said of the vaulters, hoping that the squad fuses at just the right time. Despite a couple of absences down South, though, the entire team seems consistently focused on the task at hand, while perhaps being ultimately driven by what is a rather distant goal. "I've seen a difference in the excitement level," said junior sprinter Laethe Coleman, who acknowledges that hosting Heps this year may very well serve as a motivating factor all season long for Penn. Coleman, of no relation to Josh although the two are roommates, feels that he is in the midst of something special, not only from a team perspective, but also personally. "This is really looking like a breakthrough season for me," said Coleman, who seems to be shedding the self-termed mediocrity that characterized his career in the past. "I have a lot more confidence than I've ever had." Coleman is not only proud of his accomplishments on the track this spring, but takes equal pride in his maturation in the locker room as he now views himself as one of the leaders who can spread the overall optimism now surrounding the Quakers. Assistant coach Tim Beach, who Coleman partly credits for his progress and one of the sprinter's staunchest supporters, agrees that a better spirit now pervades Franklin Field. He says the competitors feel good about themselves but they should be cautioned about not becoming complacent. "We have good athletes in all areas," Laethe Coleman said. "We're really a well-rounded team." With their current enthusiasm, the Quakers want to use these next few meets, beginning with Saturday's at Princeton, as preparation for what promises to be a thrilling 2 1/2 week stretch in West Philadelphia in which Penn will play host to the Penn Relays and Heps. "I'm very excited about this season. There's nothing like track and field," Laethe Coleman said.
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Penn Greeks will speak out against sexual abuse, help fund a breast cancer research center and promote Holocaust awareness -- all in a single weekend. Greek Weekend -- an annual tradition for the InterFraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council and the Bicultural InterGreek Council -- will include philanthropic projects, social events and a guest speaker for Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is Penn's second Greek Weekend. The event started in 1998, but was canceled last year after the death of Phi Gamma Delta alumnus Michael Tobin. "[Greek Weekend] is an opportunity to do something good for the community and at the same time have a really good time," said IFC President and Alpha Chi Rho brother Andrew Mandelbaum, a College junior. And according to IFC Executive Vice President John Buchanan, a Phi Kappa Psi brother, Greek Weekend is intended to showcase the strengths of the Penn Greek system. "We aim to expose the rest of the campus to all the different things that the Greek community does at Penn," said Buchanan, a College junior. To mark the beginning of the weekend, Greeks will be participating in the annual Take Back the Night rally, which protests violence against women, particularly sexual abuse. The rally is sponsored by Penn women's groups, and Panhel is co-sponsoring it this year for the first time. "Being the largest women's organization on campus, it's important that we stand up with [other women]," said Panhel President Jennifer Chanowitz, a College junior and Sigma Delta Tau sister. "We want to give the events our numbers and make them feel strong and powerful." On Saturday, the Greeks will take to the streets -- along with Penn's UC Green organization -- to pick up garbage and plant flowers in University City. The effort is part of an Ivy League-wide community service program called IvyCorps. "We'll be? trying to make the neighborhood more beautiful and more presentable," Chanowitz said. The weekend's main attraction is Saturday night's Dance for a Cure -- sponsored by the IFC, Panhel and the BIG-C -- in which participants must collect $20 in sponsor money in order to attend. The money will go toward the construction of the Rena Rowan Breast Health Center, Panhel's official philanthropic cause. Greek Weekend's final event will be an IFC-sponsored program for Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday. At the program, a former skinhead, who is also a former member of the White Power movement will speak about racism and anti-Semitism. Other events include a Junior Panhel Powder Puff football game, a Greek Shabbat dinner, a Greek coffeehouse and an IFC-sponsored field day for the children in the PennPals mentoring program.
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The number of applicants for resident advisor and graduate associate positions in the college houses increased dramatically this year, with 40 percent more RA applications and 20 percent more GA applications than last year. The students selected for positions were notified by mail before spring break. Those who received offers from multiple college houses have time to decide which to accept before committing. "I've always liked working with people, and the college house system is a great way to get to know people," said College junior Robin Rolewicz, who will be a first-year RA in Harrison College House next year. Two hundred and seven students applied for the 90 RA positions, compared with 144 applicants last year, according to Director of College Houses and Academic Services David Brownlee. And Brownlee's office has received 114 applications so far from students interested in becoming GAs. The application process for GAs is rolling and applicants are accepted until all 111 positions are filled. "We're still looking at GAs and still getting applications from them, because the graduate school [admissions] process takes longer than the undergraduate," said Associate Director of College Houses and Academic Services Pamela Robinson, who coordinates the application process for RAs and GAs. Perhaps the greatest perk of the position is the fact that all RAs and GAs receive free housing and a free meal plan. Although the exact number of RAs and GAs renewing their contracts was not immediately available, Robinson said there were more openings for RAs this year than last because many of those currently holding the positions are graduating seniors. "There was, as usual, a very high caliber of candidates," Robinson said. Once students apply for GA and RA positions, their applications are reviewed by the appropriate house deans, who select promising applicants for interviews. Depending on the house, candidates go through one or more interviews, conducted by a panel of faculty, administrators, students and staff, who then make the selections. Robinson said the college houses look for RAs who are "very enthusiastic about undergraduate life in residence, who themselves come from diverse backgrounds in which they have often held leadership positions." She noted that students applying for RA positions frequently have worked as camp counselors. Robinson said she was particularly pleased with the number of applications submitted online using a system established two years ago. The system allows house deans to begin reading candidates' applications immediately after they have been submitted, speeding up the selection process.
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The University unveiled a prototype of the newly revamped Penn InTouch program at a meeting Tuesday attended by student leaders and faculty representatives. Penn-In-Touch 2000 will allow students and their advisors to view and manipulate schedules in new and innovative ways. Among the new features that will be added is the ability to run schedules through a variety of "what-if" scenarios that allow students and advisors to easily prognosticate whether or not their classes fulfill a specific degree's requirements. This feature will initially be available for several majors in the fall. All four of the University's undergraduate schools and the Graduate School of Education will adopt the new changes, which cost a total of about $250,000. Some of the Penn InTouch changes have already begun. In late February, the Information Systems and Computing Office implemented the first phase, entitled "Advisor-In-Touch." Faculty advisors can currently access their students' records via a Web-based program whose interface is like that of Penn InTouch, but whose functions are limited: Advisors can merely view records and approve restricted courses. Next semester, however, students and advisors will have access to the new program whose database and programming algorithms will help facilitate the rather complicated task of cross-checking courses with those that are listed as requirements. The program will sort out courses according to the criteria of whether the class fulfills a general requirement or a specific requirement for a major or concentration. Designers and students hope the new Penn InTouch will improve the University's much-criticized advising system. "It'll help advisors and students and everyone who helped put it together," said Student Nurses At Penn President Lance Feldman, a Nursing sophomore. "It's a good start toward revising the entire system." Once in place, however, only those students majoring in Classical Studies, History, Math and Sociology will be able to use the "what-if" feature until programmers can fully test the feature for all majors in the database. Students will ultimately be able to see whether or not they meet the general requirements for their respective schools and see if their courses allow them to change schools or even pursue a dual degree. "I think ideally that students would have an opportunity to try out various scenarios before they even get into the advising office," said Wharton Interim Director of Academic Affairs Anne Greenhalgh, who oversees Wharton advisors. "The quality of the advising session will be greatly advanced."
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This year is a record breaking one for Penn student recipients of the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Awarded for excellence in the areas of mathematics, science and engineering, Penn boasts three winners of the highly competitive national award. According to John Keenan -- a professor of civil engineering systems and a member of the University's two-person selection committee, along with Assistant Dean for English Advising Alice Kelley -- this year marks a record for Penn in the number of Goldwater recipients. "It is the most we've ever seen before," he said. "In fact, last year's winner was Penn's first winner in five or six years." Penn's Goldwater scholars, who were nominated by the University based on their academic credentials, are College junior and physics major Daniel Sherman; Wharton and Engineering junior Clifford Haugen; and College sophomore Joshua Gruber, a biochemistry and physics major. Over 1,176 students were nominated by universities across the United States and Puerto Rico for the award. Of those nominated, 309 were chosen to receive the award. "Its an award that registers the potential of people [in research]," Sherman said, adding that it is encouraging to find that "the stuff I'm planning to do is worthwhile." Students who receive the award their sophomore year are provided with a two-year scholarship, while junior recipients receive one year of funding. The scholarships are intended to cover costs of tuition, fees, books and room and board, up to a maximum $7,500 per year. "The award is unique because it is geared toward people who are looking to participate in research," Keenan noted. For the application, students were asked to describe some research that they had either taken part in, or wished to participate in, as well as to provide a transcript and recommendations to the selection committee. Gruber, who has been involved in research since his high school days, has participated in medical and biological studies, including gene therapy and neuroscience. Haugen has done extensive research overseas examining marine park management technology. And Sherman's research background includes involvement in a study at a physics laboratory at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Each student is already planning for his future, from continuing education and applying for such prestigious awards as the Thouron and Rhodes, to traveling to the Pacific Rim to conduct a hands-on study of sustainable energy sources. The organization that presents the award -- the Goldwater Foundation -- is federally endowed in memory of former Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater. In existence for 12 years, the Goldwater Foundation has to date awarded 3,021 scholarships valued in total at approximately 31 million dollars.
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The Quakers won two relatively high-scoring games at Lehigh. The Penn softball team snapped out of its recent funk with an offensive explosion yesterday afternoon in Bethlehem, Pa. After producing just one win in their last eight contests, the Quakers swept host Lehigh, 6-5 and 11-8, with something that had been missing in their last few games -- runs. And their offensive potency could not have come at a better time. The Quakers (11-16-1) are heading into the most important part of their season as they square off against Yale and Brown this weekend to kick off their Ivy League slate. Thus, the two victories were extremely important for building confidence and momentum heading into Ancient Eight competition. "The Ivy League is up for grabs this season," said freshman pitcher Becky Ranta, who tossed a complete game in the opener yesterday. "We're on a roll now, and we'll hope to carry that into this weekend." The Quakers put their hitting shoes on in the opener. After falling behind 4-1 in the third, Penn's bats caught fire. Shortstop Crista Farrell had an RBI double in the fourth to bring the Quakers within two before the Red and Blue got a little help from Lehigh's fielders to tie the game in the fifth. Penn did not record a hit in the fifth, but two Engineers errors and a wild pitch helped produce the Quakers runs. After Penn and Lehigh exchanged runs in the sixth, senior first baseman Kari Dennis provided the game-winner in the seventh, driving home sophomore third baseman Jen Moore with a single to right-center field. Ranta, who gave up four earned runs on 13 hits, set Lehigh down in order in the bottom of the seventh to preserve the 6-5 victory. Ranta picked up her seventh win on the year. While the Quakers took advantage of some Lehigh miscues and picked up some timely hits in the first game, the second game was an absolute offensive barrage that was called after five due to darkness. In just five innings of play, the Quakers produced their highest run-total of the season, scoring 11 runs on 13 hits -- this coming from the same squad that scored only four combined runs in their last three defeats. "It's nice to score a lot of runs," Farrell said. "We've been leaving a lot of runners on base and losing by a couple lately, but today we did a good job getting a lot of clutch hits with two outs." In the second game of the twin bill, sophomore left fielder Clarisa Apostol led off with a single up the middle and was driven home with a three-bagger from freshman right fielder Deb Kowalchuk. Two batters later, Kowalchuk crossed the plate with a sacrifice fly from freshman designated hitter Heidi Albrecht. But Lehigh also had some extra pop in their bats. The Engineers cut the Penn lead in half with a run in the bottom half of the first, and after a Quakers run in the second, Lehigh took a 4-3 lead behind a two-run dinger from Tara Stine in the bottom of the second. After the Quakers and Engineers exchanged three runs a piece in the third, Penn put up three more in the top of the fourth to take a 9-7 lead -- a lead that it would never relinquish. The Quakers added two more runs in the fifth, and freshman pitcher Dina Parise got out of a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the fifth to give the Quakers an 11-8 victory. Parise, who gave up four earned runs off seven hits in 3 2/3 innings, picked up her first collegiate win. But this was not a game for pitchers, as this slugfest produced four lead changes, 19 combined runs and scoring in every inning. The Quakers will look to continue this high level of offensive production when they host Ivy rivals Yale and Brown in consecutive double dips on Saturday and Sunday at Warren Field.
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Penn Greeks will speak out against sexual abuse, help fund a breast cancer research center and promote Holocaust awareness -- all in a single weekend. Greek Weekend -- an annual tradition for the InterFraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council and the Bicultural InterGreek Council -- will include philanthropic projects, social events and a guest speaker for Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is Penn's second Greek Weekend. The event started in 1998, but was canceled last year after the death of Phi Gamma Delta alumnus Michael Tobin. "[Greek Weekend] is an opportunity to do something good for the community and at the same time have a really good time," said IFC President and Alpha Chi Rho brother Andrew Mandelbaum, a College junior. And according to IFC Executive Vice President John Buchanan, a Phi Kappa Psi brother, Greek Weekend is intended to showcase the strengths of the Penn Greek system. "We aim to expose the rest of the campus to all the different things that the Greek community does at Penn," said Buchanan, a College junior. To mark the beginning of the weekend, Greeks will be participating in the annual Take Back the Night rally, which protests violence against women, particularly sexual abuse. The rally is sponsored by Penn women's groups, and Panhel is co-sponsoring it this year for the first time. "Being the largest women's organization on campus, it's important that we stand up with [other women]," said Panhel President Jennifer Chanowitz, a College junior and Sigma Delta Tau sister. "We want to give the events our numbers and make them feel strong and powerful." On Saturday, the Greeks will take to the streets -- along with Penn's UC Green organization -- to pick up garbage and plant flowers in University City. The effort is part of an Ivy League-wide community service program called IvyCorps. "We'll be? trying to make the neighborhood more beautiful and more presentable," Chanowitz said. The weekend's main attraction is Saturday night's Dance for a Cure -- sponsored by the IFC, Panhel and the BIG-C -- in which participants must collect $20 in sponsor money in order to attend. The money will go toward the construction of the Rena Rowan Breast Health Center, Panhel's official philanthropic cause. Greek Weekend's final event will be an IFC-sponsored program for Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday. At the program, a former skinhead, who is also a former member of the White Power movement will speak about racism and anti-Semitism. Other events include a Junior Panhel Powder Puff football game, a Greek Shabbat dinner, a Greek coffeehouse and an IFC-sponsored field day for the children in the PennPals mentoring program.
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Penn's Nursing School offers distance-learning courses via computer. At a Memphis, Tenn., hospital, seven nursing students sit attentively while their professor lectures to them on subjects including pediatric oncology and pharmacology. But there's a difference here from a traditional nursing class -- the professor is broadcast live from Philadelphia on TV. Since 1994, Penn's Nursing School has offered students in far away places access to some of the school's specialized courses through cameras, video tapes and computers, all without having students step onto its campus. "We can ask questions and we can stop the professor if we don't understand something, just like if we were there," Cindy Burleson, a nursing student at St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis, said of the interactive broadcast. The program was originally started to increase the number of trained midwives in rural parts of Pennsylvania, explained Sister Teresita Hinnegan, a Penn Nursing professor and the director of the school's distance learning program. To this effect, the University began offering master's degree courses in midwifery at distance learning centers in the state. Now they teach in Allegheny, Scranton, Coalport and Hershey, Pa. The state pays the technological and tuition costs. Since then, the program has expanded beyond the state's borders. St. Jude doctors said the decision last fall to have Penn educate their nurses reflects the high regard they have for their colleagues in Philadelphia. "We have access to more than a dozen experts in pediatrics that we would not have otherwise," said Pam Hinds, of St. Jude's hospital. "We have a tremendous match with what's being offered and what we need." The Nursing School's distance learning program in Memphis currently offers two master's degree courses, midwifery and pediatric oncology, and St. Jude's covers the expenses. Students in Pennsylvania and Tennessee spend three to six hours a week watching lectures on their television screens while interacting with their professors in real time. During the rest of the week, the students -- who are already registered nurses -- conduct the clinical portion of their training under the direction of a Penn-appointed preceptor, who is selected by the Nursing School from a pool of applicants local to that area. "It's getting education out to people in rural areas who would never get to a campus at Penn or anywhere else, especially to women," Hinnegan said. "It's more difficult for women to leave their families." The midwifery course that Hinnegan began uses Pennsylvania's T1 Healthnet connection to link the distance learning lab in the Nursing Education Building with that of classrooms linked to the network across the state. A similar network links the Nursing School with St. Jude's. Kevin McGuire, technical manager of the distance learning center, said that the technology itself does not diminish the learning experience. "It's almost as if they're sitting in the same classroom," McGuire said. "After a while, you stop paying attention to the technology and pay attention to the people at the other end." When St. Jude's decided to expand its number of nurses trained in pediatric oncology -- the center treats the most cases of childhood cancer in the world -- they turned to Penn's Nursing School, which services the world's second largest number of childhood cancer cases -- at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "It is helping them expand in terms of the numbers of patients and in the number of services," said Nursing Professor Jan Deatrick, who is helping coordinate the program. At St. Jude's, there is also a full-time instructor supervising the seven enrolled students. As the boundaries of technology are pushed further forward, popular expectations abound that flesh-and-blood professors will be replaced by pre-recorded lectures. But according to Hinnegan, given the nature of the nursing field, that won't ever happen. "Human interaction is very important in a profession that is hands on," Hinnegan said. "We're a relationship profession."
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There were few charges filed against candidates for UA and class boards. After seeing voter turnout skyrocket for this year's student government elections, the Nominations and Elections Committee will announce the fate of the Undergraduate Assembly and class board candidates tonight. The NEC announced yesterday that approximately 2,508 students -- about 30 percent of eligible voters -- participated in this year's elections, the first to be done entirely on Penn InTouch. The number is nearly double that of last year's election turnout, when 1,220 students -- 17 percent of the voters -- cast ballots. Election results will be announced after the NEC's Fair Practices Code hearing at Steinberg-Dietrich Hall tonight at 7 p.m. During the hearing, the NEC reviews any campaign violations brought to its attention by other candidates. There were few alleged violations this year. Senior class treasurer candidate Matthew Thornton charged the NEC itself with violating the FPC because of an incorrect link from the Penn InTouch election page to his picture. And three candidates were automatically disqualified from the races for not handing in their spending forms on time -- UA candidates Wharton freshman Christopher McLeester, College junior Maria Wormack and Sophomore Class Board candidate Nicole Shevins, a Wharton freshman. NEC members attribute the high turnout to the new and versatile voting platform -- Penn InTouch -- which allowed students to cast their ballots with little or no problems. "The first year on Penn InTouch was great," NEC Vice Chairwoman of Elections Teresa Lee said last night. "The UA will have more legitimacy," the Wharton and Engineering junior added, saying that the high voter turnout will give students a student government more representative of their interests than it has been in the past. Lee added that the freshman class was the most active voting group. Approximately 1,000 of the 2,508 students who cast ballots were first-year students. Of the 59 students running for the 25 seats for upperclassmen on the Undergraduate Assembly, 14 of them are incumbents seeking re-election. Eight seats on the 33-member assembly are reserved for next year's freshman class. Thirty-four candidates ran for the 16 available College seats. Of the 34 students, seven are College UA incumbents. There were nine students running for the four seats available for Engineering students on the UA, of which three are incumbents. Fifteen students ran for the four Wharton seats on the UA, making the race the most competitive in the elections. Of the 15 candidates, four are UA incumbents. One Nursing candidate is running unopposed for the one seat for his school. Results for the three class boards will also be announced after the hearing. Of the 56 students running for class boards, 10 students are incumbents seeking re-election. Due to the extension of the petition deadline and alleviated signature requirement for class boards, all positions have applicants with the exception of the Junior Class Board Nursing representative. This unfilled position will be filled by appointment by the NEC in the fall.
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Officials are planning a more aggressive strategy to combat low returns. Although the University's $3.19 billion endowment still ranks 12th in the country, Penn's investment portfolio has significantly lagged the market averages for the past two years, raising concern among the University's top financial officials. "No one is satisfied with the performance," said University Trustee Richard Worley, who chairs the committee that oversees management of the endowment. "This is a major setback -- a very disappointing result." In response to the weak performance, officials say they are planning a more aggressive growth strategy for Penn's investment portfolio -- a dramatic change from the conservative deep value orientation that Penn has held for more than 20 years. The endowment's poor performance -- including losses over the past six months totaling almost $80 million -- could have significant consequences for Penn's budgets over the next several years, University President Judith Rodin said. Over the past year, the total value of the University's investments has grown just 9.8 percent, while the S&P; 500 and other broad market indexes have been averaging increases of between 17 and 20 percent. According to figures from The Chronicle of Higher Education, the average college endowment grew by 11.6 percent last year. Harvard University has by far the largest university endowment at more than $14 billion, followed by the University of Texas system and Yale University. While Penn's has a 12th place ranking, it masks a low per capita ranking on account of the University's large student body. Penn now has about 50 percent of its portfolio in stocks, about 20 percent in bonds and about 15 percent in private equity and venture capital. Another 15 percent is invested in diversifying assets, such as real estate. "We don't have our heads in the sand," Chief Investment Officer Landis Zimmerman said. "There is a movement to the broad market and a shift away from our deep value bias." Despite the recent trend to invest in dot-com and Internet firms, Penn has eschewed investment in the high-flying technology sector, instead choosing to invest in more stable value stocks, blue chip companies such as Walmart or IBM. A policy of more aggressive growth could yield higher returns, but it brings with it greater risk. According to Zimmerman, in the past few months the University has increased its previously limited broad market holdings -- such as Wilshire 5000 index funds -- so that Penn now owns more small and mid-cap stocks, which have performed better this year. Broad market funds now account for about $400 million, or approximately one third of Penn's domestic stock holdings. Over the past several months, Penn has also reduced its portfolio of value stocks -- heavily weighted in the U.S. market -- by around $567 million. Investments in growth and international stocks have increased by $193 million during the same time period. And following a nationwide trend for colleges and universities, Penn has begun to move away from the safety of bonds and into the riskier private equity and venture capital markets, which typically offer higher investment returns. But perhaps the most significant change has been the replacement of two of its six independent investment managers with new ones who are more growth-oriented. "We picked a number of managers based on past prior performance and some of those managers underperformed," Rodin said. Still, many of Penn's current problems are as much rooted in policies institutionalized by Penn's former endowment manager John Neff as they are in the present. Widely regarded as one of the greatest investors of all time, Neff chaired the Trustee's Investment Board from 1979 to 1998. He volunteered to single-handedly manage the University's entire endowment, free of charge, and did so for all but the last few years of his tenure. In nearly 16 years, he took the fund from a paltry $200 million to more than $1.7 billion. Outside managers were brought in 1995, but they largely shared Neff's long-term, value orientation. Over the last few years, however, that approach has been less successful. As high-technology and Internet stock prices soared over the last two years, the value stocks which Neff championed trailed the market. "Value investing goes in cycles," Zimmerman said. "Sometimes it's great. Sometimes it's less good." Penn's historically deep value-bias has also hindered its involvement in private equity, venture capital and buy-out investments. Schools from Stanford University to Williams College have boosted their returns by entering these newer, riskier investment markets. But Penn has remained relatively underexposed, Worley said. And according to University Vice President for Finance Craig Carnaroli, Penn's limited involvement has caused it to miss out on a number of highly successful ventures and get locked out of others. "When you look at the the high returns our peer institutions are earning over the past few years, it is probably due to their early entry into the private capital markets," Carnaroli said, noting that there are now more institutional dollars chasing those investments than ever before. "A lot of [venture-capital] funds are now closed off," he added. Others now, he said, are restricting the amount of capital Penn can invest.
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About 50 students gathered on Tuesday night to share stories about how alcohol abuse has affected their lives and brainstorm for ways that Penn can address the problem as part of the National Issues Forum program. The forum -- sponsored by the Sigma Chi fraternity, the Drug and Alcohol Resource Team and the Office of Health Education -- marked the first time that Penn participated in any national public forum program. The National Issues Forum program runs discussions on complex issues, like substance abuse or death, among students on 13 campuses, including Penn, across the country. "This is not going to be your typical unstructured conversation, nor is it going to be a debate," said Harris Sokoloff, Penn's director of the Center for School Study Councils at the Graduate School of Education, who introduced the program. "The aim is not to reach a decision, but to move closer to reaching a decision." Sokoloff then showed a video produced by the National Issues Forum explaining three different approaches to dealing with alcohol abuse. The first method was to demand individual responsibility by enforcing and tightening existing alcohol laws, the second was to treat alcohol abuse as an illness and the third was to promote social change through education. The students were divided into three groups, each led by five trained student facilitators. The groups discussed their feelings toward the three possible ways to address alcohol abuse. The discussion within each group was recorded and the results will be presented to Penn's Working Group on Alcohol Abuse. Although most of the participants were Sigma Chi brothers, the facilitators came from such diverse campus groups as Navy ROTC, the Queer Student Alliance and the Athletic Department. Participants' reactions to the forum were generally positive. "It definitely wasn't a waste of time," College freshman Dina Parise said. "I know more now than when I came in. I think more can be done, but I think it was definitely informative and educational." Many other participants also expressed a desire for more action to be taken to combat abusive drinking behavior, saying that a voluntary discussion forum was not sufficient. But Drug and Alcohol Resource Team President Molly MacDonald said it is difficult to get students involved in programs like the forum. "This is a self-motivated kind of thing," the Nursing junior said. "You can't mandate this." MacDonald said, however, that DART is currently working toward including a more comprehensive alcohol education session in the New Student Orientation program.
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Although the meet was not scored, many Quakers did well against stellar competition down South. Despite the fact that many of their competitors counted them out, that did not stop the members of the Penn women's track team from having a surprisingly impressive performance as they competed against some of the best track programs in the nation at the Raleigh Relays this past weekend. Having teams such as Virginia Tech, N.C. State and North Carolina as competitors is enough to make any Ivy League team a little nervous. Overall, though, the Red and Blue gave a solid performance in many different categories. Penn assistant coach Tony Tenisci referred to the meet as "the Penn Relays of the South" and felt that, "The kids handled themselves very well in a meet with such high caliber teams." The Quakers had several standout finishes including a seventh-place finish in the triple jump(39'6.5") by Ruthie Neuhaus, a third-place finish in the pole vault by Liz Wittels, an 11th-place finish by Julie Siebert-Johnson in the javelin and a sixth place finish by the Penn 4x800 relay team(9:10.02). Senior captain Ruthie Neuhaus was pleased by her fellow Quakers' performances, as well as her own. "As a team, we did well. We stepped up overall and that is going to give us a good base for the meets to come," Neuhaus said. "Individually, I'm also happy because I have been jumping consistently well and that's important to me." Siebert-Johnson -- who thus far has had a stellar season, placing first last week at Penn's own Quaker Invitational -- did not feel she performed as well she wanted to with her 11th-place finish, but she was also competing against athletes who had already graduated college. The Raleigh Relays also allows athletes who do not attend college to participate. With some of these athletes using this meet as practice for the Summer Olympics in Sydney, they unquestionably had an advantage over some of the less-experienced intercollegiate competitors. Siebert-Johnson admitted that it was "definitely intimidating," but that her disappointing finish has motivated her to gear up for her next meet. With a time of 9:10.02, the 4x800 relay team proved that Penn has the talent and depth to compete well not only at the Raleigh Relays, but more importantly, in the Ivy League. Sophomore Samantha Desposito, a member of the relay team, was "excited by the good competition" in the race. More importantly though, Desposito is just as excited to race against other Ivies so that she can establish where Penn will stand in its own league. Up next for the Quakers is just that. The University of Pennsylvania Invitational will be held this Saturday. The meet will allow the team to get a feel for where they stand in the Ivy League, as they will face Cornell and Princeton. According to Tenisci, from here on in, "every meet is very important," especially with conference competition looming in the distance.
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The Penn men's lightweight crew team opened its season with a loss to Rutgers this past Saturday. After a long day on the Raritan River in New Jersey, the Quakers returned home late Saturday night fully aware of their improvements since the fall and also cognizant of their weaknesses. "We've gained speed since the fall," sophomore varsity rower Joel Frankel said. "We just need to keep practicing harder." Penn coach Bruce Konopka was happy with his team's performance and recognized that Rutgers is a hard race with which to open the season. "Rutgers is a good team," Konopka said. "They just have a lower stroke rating than us." Penn commodore Michael Smolenski was also happy with the team's performance and recognized that Rutgers is a quicker team. "We did a good job," the senior said. "But Rutgers was just better." Penn's first varsity boat got off to a quick start and was able to keep up with the Scarlet Knights during the beginning of the course. But Penn was unable to keep up its speed and fell behind. "Our guys were rowing at a higher stroke rate than Rutgers," Konopka said. "But eventually the guys ran out of gas and slowed down." The Red and Blue were enthusiastic about their speed, but most agreed that they started out too fast. "We rowed too high [of a stroke rate] for this early in the season," Frankel said. "We're just not ready to row that high yet." Despite their loss, the Quakers remain optimistic about their improvements and about their overall performance. "We raced real hard," Smolenski said. "We just need to get the fundamentals back together and get stronger." The second varsity boat was not as successful and had trouble steering. Konopka blames this on the fact that the team could not practice on the Raritan River prior to the race. "The water tide was too low to practice before the race," Konopka said. "This contributed to the loss." Overall, team members seem to be using Saturday's race as a source of energy for the rest of the season. "Our main goal is the national races at the end of the season," sophomore junior varsity rower Paul Tomlin said. "This race was a building block toward the rest of our season." In response to this weekend's performance, Konopka hopes the team will refine its race tactics. "Once we work on our speed and strokes per minute, we'll be back on track," Konopka said. "We're ready to win." Next weekend, Penn will have an opportunity to win at Cornell against the Big Red and Harvard. At that race, the Quakers will have a chance to see if the speed they displayed against Rutgers will bring them a victorious season.
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The Penn men's heavyweight crew team opened its season this past weekend on the West Coast. The San Diego Crew Classic marked the beginning of an exciting spring for the Quakers and provided valuable racing experience against teams from across the nation. The first and second varsity boats finished fifth and sixth, respectively. The Red and Blue are looking to use these somewhat mediocre results to improve and build speed as the season progresses. After taking second place in its heat on Saturday, Penn's first boat went on to the grand finals on Sunday to take fifth place overall with a time of 5:57.3. California won the race in a time of 5:44.2. Washington and Harvard rounded out the top three. "This was our first race, and we rowed well technically," senior captain Greg Jenemann said. "We are confident in our abilities because we are a tough team with one of the best coaches in the country." The Quakers are looking to produce greater speed and a higher level of finesse through further racing opportunities. "San Diego provided us with good racing experience together," junior Keith Sutter said. "We have a young boat, but as long as we maintain poise and confidence, we will become faster as a unit." According to sophomore Justin Clemow, the Crew Classic also provided a gauge with which to measure the team's abilities. "All in all, the weekend was good for us because it showed our strengths, our weaknesses and the points we need to work on," Clemow said. "If we can combine the technical precision of our heat with the power of our final, it is apparent that there is a lot of potential for success." Penn's second heavyweight boat placed third in its Saturday heat and advanced to the grand final on Sunday to finish sixth overall with a time of 6:20.9, behind first-place Washington, which posted a time of 5:56.1. "This weekend was a good test of where we stand among the top crews in the nation," sophomore John Fife said. "With less rowers to pool from, we are looking to draw more speed by rowing as a more cohesive boat." The Quakers intend to utilize their practice time to improve their ability to row as a single unit. "We need to work on getting faster every day and make gains at every practice," junior coxswain John Whittaker said. "To row more cohesively, we need to tap into the raw power that each member brings to unleash the potential that we all know exists." With the spring season now underway, the Quakers are looking to build on their performance in San Diego to physically and mentally prepare to race against Princeton in two weeks and Harvard next month.
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Football star Kris Ryan and two other students spoke at yesterday's Jesus Week event. Kris Ryan had something other than touchdowns and tackles on his mind yesterday afternoon. The star running back of the Penn football, who was known for crossing himself every time he scored a touchdown during his breakout season last fall, discussed his faith in Jesus Christ before a crowd of about 225 students who braved the rain on College Green. Ryan, a College sophomore, has become the poster-child for Jesus Week 2000, inspiring the orange "i agree with kris" posters and T-shirts that have been displayed on Locust Walk. During yesterday's event three students offered testimonies about their strong religious convictions and relationships with God. Jesus Week -- an independent, student -organized event not affiliated with any Christian group on campus -- is a five-day celebration of the life of Jesus. A variety of speakers will discuss various issues concerning Christianity throughout the week. A five-cent advice table and lemonade stand have been set up on the Walk for the entire week. Ryan discussed his parents' divorce and his stepfather's drug abuse and outbursts of domestic violence. "It was a really hard time for me and for her -- he started hitting her," he said to the crowd, in reference to his mother. "One day, I went to see my mom in her bedroom, and she wasn't there. She left us, and I wondered why she would leave us," he added. Four months later, Ryan's mother, who had moved to another city, returned to retrieve him. "I questioned things: If there is a God, and I do believe there is one, why would He put me through this, why would He put my family through this?" Interestingly, Ryan said, his family had never been churchgoers when he was a young boy. Seeing the evolution of his mother from downtrodden to confident, Ryan began his own quest to understand God's role in his life. "If [God] could do this to my mother after all she's been through? I believed he could do this to me." "Living in welfare conditions, living through domestic abuse and now being at a prestigious university is a blessing," he added. Regarding the T-shirts that bore his name, Ryan expressed irritation. "It's been frustrating to see all these shirts," Ryan said. "I don't want people to think this is about me because everything I am I owe to Him." The next person to take the microphone was Wharton senior Art Canning, who used his personal tale of undergoing cancer treatment to illustrate his growing religious faith. Canning was recently told that he was suffering from Hodgkins disease, a type of cancer. That night, Canning explained, he went to bed "telling God that whatever happens to me is up to you." "When I woke up, I felt this confidence that God was going to take care of me," Canning said. "Since then, I've been through surgery, my hair is falling out -- I'm going through hard things right now, but it's so amazing -- the strength and optimism in how I'm dealing with it is coming not from me but from above," Canning explained. Finally, College sophomore Kate Moore had a rather different story to tell. Unlike Ryan or Canning, who had been skeptics, Moore always believed in God. "There were all these roles and expectations of me. I didn't want to disappoint God," Moore explained. Her feeling of "incredible condemnation" led her to develop an eating disorder. It was not until last year that Moore understood that meeting perfection was not an aspect of Christianity because God "looks at you without condemnation."
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The Quakers travel to Lehigh for a doubleheader, hoping to pick up their offense. The Penn softball team will have one more chance today to tune up a sputtering offense before the Quakers open their Ivy League season this weekend. The Red and Blue will head to Bethlehem, Pa., for a 3:30 p.m. game against Lehigh. The Quakers, who stand at 9-16-1, will be looking to gain some momentum heading into their Ancient Eight opener this Saturday at home against Yale. "This gives us a chance to build up our confidence heading into the Ivy League season if we can get two wins," senior first baseman Kari Dennis said. "We want to try to hit the ball hard, play some solid defense and just make sure that we have worked out any kinks." If Penn is to have success at Lehigh and, more importantly, for the rest of the season, the team will need to up its offensive output. The Quakers have struggled of late to get runners across the plate. Penn, which did manage six runs in their 6-2 victory over Temple last Saturday, has scored only four total runs in their last three games, all of which were losses. "We need to come out aggressively and try and play our best," Penn head coach Carol Kashow said. "We scored six runs against a tough Temple team, so we know we can do it." Offensive inconsistency has definitely been the Red and Blue's most pronounced weakness thus far. The biggest problem has been an inability to get hits with runners in scoring position. "I think at this point it is more of a mental than a physical obstacle," senior co-captain Suzanne Arbogast said. "We're hitting well in practice, but it just isn't happening in the games." One pleasant surprise for the Quakers in this young season has been the remarkable ability of numerous freshmen to make major contributions. Freshman hurler Becky Ranta has made an immediate impact, being credited with six of Penn's nine wins. Ranta has also pitched an impressive four complete games. "We had some people step up and play well over the weekend, but we just didn't get enough runs," Ranta said. "We're not playing badly, but we need to be more consistent and play as a team." Lehigh could definitely present the Quakers with some problems. The Engineers are playing much better after a slow start and have won two straight games. The Engineers may be back on the winning track, but they lost six of seven before taking both games in their doubleheader against Bucknell. Penn will probably be going against junior pitcher Emily Deia in the first game. Deia has been pitching well of late and stands at 8-5 on the year. The Engineers' offensive attack is led by sophomore third baseman Chris Duncan, who is batting .342. "We all know that it's important for us to come out and play well against Lehigh," Dennis said. "The Ivy League season is the most important, so everyone is getting excited and pumped up for that."
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The Quakers cruised past visiting La Salle last night at Franklin Field. This one was over almost as soon as it began. The Penn women's lacrosse team scored on its first two shots and put home 12 first-half goals en route to a 18-6 thrashing of La Salle (1-7) last night at Franklin Field. The victory was the Quakers' (5-2) third straight and gave the team an extra measure of self-assuredness heading into a tougher Ivy League slate in the upcoming weeks. "It was very good for our confidence to score that easily on our fast break, and it was real nice that everybody played tonight," Penn coach Karin Brower said. "That was kind of the goal -- we knew that we could beat La Salle, and I was hoping we could do it relatively easily. "All of the games from now on are a lot tougher, so it's nice to have this win now. It helps with our confidence and with team camaraderie." Quakers freshman attacker Kate Murray opened the scoring 90 seconds in with a fast-break goal courtesy of a pass from junior Annie Henderson. One minute later, the duo hooked up again to make it 2-0, and Henderson followed shortly thereafter with a goal of her own to give the home team a quick three-goal lead. "Those first goals were just off of fast breaks, which really worked well tonight," Henderson said. "Towards the end, Karin really wanted us to settle down and set up our plays, but in the beginning most of the goals were just coming in from the top." La Salle coach Jenn Harpel called a timeout after Penn's third goal to settle her team, and the move paid immediate dividends. Following a defensive sequence that saw the Quakers pick up three fouls and a yellow card, Explorers midfielder Mary Quinlan found the net to cut the Penn lead to 3-1. "Going in, we knew that Penn had good speed, and we tried to adjust to that. But our kids just got planted a little bit too soon on defense and couldn't make the adjustment," Harpel said. "But the thing that hurt us was that 10-minute period where they pretty much had a goal run." Seconds after the La Salle goal, the floodgates opened. Traci Marabella netted two scores, Brooke Jenkins chipped in a pair, and Murray, Henderson, Jayme Munnelly and Alison Polk-Williams all found the net as Penn tallied eight goals in an 11-minute span. When the barrage finally subsided, the score was 11-2, the Explorers were on their second goaltender, the Quakers were on their second string and the outcome was all but decided. La Salle, in its third season as a varsity program, got four goals from sophomore Jami Wilus, who was the focal point of its attack. But the Explorers struggled to match the speed and the aggressive defense of Penn. "We definitely have a lot of speed, especially with the freshmen. And with their speed, and the settling abilities of Brooke [Jenkins] and -- I like to think -- myself, we're able to strike up a good balance," Henderson said. "This was the game where we really wanted to come out and explode offensively early on, and I think we were taking advantage of what we had." With the considerable halftime lead, Brower used this opportunity to give all of her players game experience. Penn's freshmen responded, as Lindsay Smith and Abigail Franchot each recorded their first collegiate goals. Smith tallied a hat trick, including a field hockey-esque slapshot for her first collegiate score. "The first one, at first I thought it was a trashy goal, but I guess it was a good one," Smith said. "It was very satisfying to be able to get into the game and to help the team out. This is the second game I've gotten in, and it shows me and proves to me why I play lacrosse and why I actually go to all practices and work." Freshman Dalton Cox contributed a goal and three assists, and Emily Foote, a Daily Pennsylvanian sports reporter, finished off the Quakers scoring. Penn goalie Christian Stover made six saves in a half of work, and Alaina Harper and Melissa Rantz held La Salle to three second-half goals. Knowing the tough Ivy slate that awaits the Quakers, Brower scheduled this game in an attempt to help her squad bolster its confidence and to "learn how to win." With a 30-to-21 edge in ground balls and a 28-to-17 edge in shots, Penn can consider those goals achieved. "It was a great win because it was a complete team effort," Smith said. "I think everything was really in control. We were doing the fundamentals really well."
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The two presidential hopefuls focused on November's elections. With their presidential campaigns in full swing, Al Gore and George W. Bush both made quick campaign stops in Philadelphia yesterday. Victories in recent primaries have already assured them of their party's nomination, but Pennsylvania's status as a crucial swing state in November means the candidates are keeping a constant eye on the Keystone State. Gore met with a group of 80 local residents -- largely consisting of senior citizens -- in a South Philadelphia community center yesterday morning to discuss revamping Social Security to enhance benefits for women. "Social Security is a lifeline for millions of American women, but there are ways in which Social Security treats women unfairly," Gore said yesterday. He announced he wants to make "modest but crucial changes in our Social Security system that will make it fairer for women." Meanwhile, Bush held an education roundtable with local Latino leaders in the Philadelphia suburb of Abington. The Texas governor largely focused his education-based discussion on returning control of schools to the local level. The talk followed his announcement of new literacy and teacher aid programs last week. Although the two candidates were miles apart, they still managed to exchange heated attacks. "If [Bush] gets his hands on America's retirement system, it will quickly become a system of social insecurity," the vice president said yesterday. Gore announced during his talk that if he is elected in November, he would push to help stay-at-home parents -- most of whom are women -- receive Social Security credit for up to five years of work while they raise their children. Because many women often leave the workforce to raise children, Gore said the Social Security status quo penalizes women. He added that his plan will increase benefits to women by about $600 each year, emphasizing the important role stay-at-home parents play in their children's lives. "Anybody who's [raised children] knows what hard work that is," Gore said. "We should honor it, and we should respect it." Gore also proposed giving widows increased Social Security payments upon their husbands' death. Currently, a widow's payment can be more than halved when her husband dies. The vice president also continually attacked Bush's five-year proposed plan to cut $483 billion in taxes, calling it a "risky tax scheme." From across town, Bush threw criticism right back at Gore. "I can't think of a better reform than allowing women to manage their own personal savings account, particularly younger workers in our society," Bush said in a statement released after his talk. "It's going to be an important debate in the campaign for president," he continued. "It's the status quo in the administration that does not reform Social Security -- versus an administration that will put capital on the line? to make sure that Social Security is available in the long run." Recent Gallup polls indicate that the vice president and Texas governor are running neck and neck, with 46 percent of likely voters favoring Bush and 45 percent supporting Gore.
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The Quakers pestered Princeton but lost at Old Nassau to give the Tigers their 27th straight Ivy win. The Penn men's lacrosse team may have gotten Princeton somewhat out of its rhythm yesterday afternoon, but the Tigers' beat goes on. By defeating the Quakers, 10-4, at Princeton's Class of 1952 Stadium yesterday afternoon, the No. 4 Tigers extended their Ivy League winning streak to 27 games and upped their season record to 5-1, 2-0 in the Ivies. Although Princeton won both halves of yesterday's contest, 5-2, the Quakers (3-5, 0-4) did a laudable job of disrupting the Tigers when the Ivy powerhouse had the ball on offense. "Our team defense really solidified. Any time you hold a team like that to 10 goals or so, it's a moral victory," Penn freshman goalie Ryan Kelly said. "We can't get used to being satisfied with those, though." Kelly performed pretty well in between the pipes for Penn. He had 15 saves on 36 shots in 59 minutes of action, but he was at a loss when it came to stopping Princeton's B.J. Prager. The sophomore attacker equaled his career high with four goals, which he has now done four times, including last Saturday against Yale. Prager, a quick and scrappy threat with the shortstick, has a knack for darting away from defenders off the ball. He demonstrated this ability by throwing in a quartet from very close range, twice in each half. "You can't ever lose him. He's too dangerous," Kelly said. "We'd lose him, and all of a sudden he'd be right there to put one in." Prager's day might have been even better, had two of his shots not hit the pipe. He has now scored a goal in 17 straight games and 18 of 19 for his career. Due to Penn's tenacious team defense yesterday, however, Prager was the only Tiger to score more than one goal on the day. "In general, I think that both our team defense and Ryan [Kelly] did a good job of holding them to 10 goals," Penn coach Marc Van Arsdale said. "I thought Bill Fowler did a great job on Matt Striebel." Striebel, a junior attacker who plays something of a quarterback position for Princeton, was held to just one assist on the day and scored no goals. This was only the second time thus far this season that he has been held to fewer than two points. Josh Sims, the Princeton attacker with the most points on the team who is now tied with Prager with the most goals at 15, was also held to a mere assist yesterday at Old Nassau. But the Orange and Black did an even better job silencing Penn's big guns. Pete Janney, Penn's leading scorer on the season with 25 points on 14 goals and 11 assists, was held scoreless by the Tigers. Junior middie Kevin Cadin was the only one of the Quakers' four leading goal-scorers to put one in the net. "One of the best things that they do is shutting down a team's attackers up front," Van Arsdale said. Cognizant of this fact, Van Arsdale put Janney in the midfield for much of the game -- drawing some Princeton defensive pressure away from the cage in the hopes of freeing up scoring. Van Arsdale's attempt was obviously unsuccessful on the whole, given the scant four goals produced. Also, none of the four goals scored came from an attacker -- all four came from middies. Cadin, Billy Reidy, Jake Martin and Billy Sofield each notched a goal. "They slid really well and shut us down a lot," Kelly said. "It looked like they were the best team we've seen so far with defensive quickness." The Quakers had numerous promising moments yesterday. After being down 3-0 after the first quarter, the Red and Blue battled back with a flurry on the offensive end. In a span of merely 38 seconds in the beginning of the third period, Martin and Sofield deposited balls in the cage, each off an assist from Todd Minerley to make it 3-2. "I thought we did a good job there," Van Arsdale said. "Todd Minerley fed both of those. We were moving the ball around, which was what we needed to do against a team like that." This was as close as the Quakers would get, however. The Tigers defense collapsed, and Sean Hartofillis and Prager made it 5-2 at the break. Three unanswered Princeton goals late in the third quarter gave the Tigers a six-goal lead and put the final nail in the Penn coffin.
