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(04/12/00 9:00am)
The Penn men's lightweight crew team fell again this weekend in its race for the Matthews-Leonard Cup at Cornell. All five Penn boats finished behind Cornell and Harvard, leaving the Quakers with nothing to show for their effort. The varsity boat finished last in its heat, with a time of 6:02.55. Cornell placed second with a time of 5:57.9, and Harvard won with a race time of 5:50.06. Despite their loss, the Quakers made many improvements in this past weekend's race. The varsity boat finished six seconds faster than last week at Rutgers, and the Quakers agree that their overall performance has improved in many aspects since the fall. "We are faster than we were in the fall," varsity rower Garrett Cameron said. "If we go six seconds faster each race, we'll be flying by the time [Eastern] Sprints come around." Cameron was also happy with the improved race strategy over last weekend's race. Penn didn't go out as quickly in the early going on Saturday and had more energy to finish the race off with improved speed. The second varsity boat also placed last in its heat. The Harvard and Cornell boats collided at the beginning of the race and were allowed to row the race again. The Quakers, however, weren't granted the right to a re-race due to their initial loss to both of the other boats. Many Penn rowers were disappointed with the official's decision not to grant them another chance at the race and blamed it for their defeat. "They didn't allow us to race again," sophomore rower Brendon Tavelli said. "That might have had something to do with our performance." The third varsity boat and the two freshman boats also finished behind Cornell and Harvard. Harvard won in the third heat, and Cornell won in both freshman races. Despite the definitiveness of their most recent loss, the Quakers are trying to remain positive for the rest of their season. "We can't blame ourselves," Penn commodore Michael Smolenski said. "We just need to get out and try as hard as we can every day at practice." The Quakers are also trying to use last weekend's competition as a source for further improvements. Many of the rowers are switching boats for this weekend's race at Columbia, where the Quakers anticipate a tough race against Yale and the Lions. "There are many personnel changes," Tavelli said. "Hopefully they will improve our performance." Included within these personnel changes, the varsity boat will race without one of its strongest rowers, junior Dave Wilson, who will be taking the MCAT. Nevertheless, the Quakers hope for a good race. "We're not throwing the towel in yet," Smolenski said. "We still have a lot of time left in the season."
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The Penn men's golf team traveled to the U.S. Naval Academy this past weekend, where it finished a respectable seventh at the Navy Spring Invitational. The tournament spanned only one day due to the 30-mile-per-hour winds and snow that descended on Annapolis, Md., on Sunday. The Quakers, who combined for a 26-over 310, finished behind longtime rival Princeton. The Tigers won the event by shooting a 15-over 299. "We didn't play as well as we could," Penn freshman Chad Perman said. Todd Golditch and Perman led the Quakers with rounds of five-over 76. Senior Rob Goldfaden shot a six-over 77; Kyle Moran posted a 10-over 81; and Peyton Wallace fired a 15-over 86. If these inflated scores seem like an aberration for the Quakers, that's because they were. "It was very windy," Perman said. "The greens were extremely fast and undulated." According to Golditch, the Quakers would have liked to played the second day of the tournament. "It would have been nice to get in one more competitive round before the Ivy League Championship," Golditch said. After 12 holes of the tournament, Golditch led the 19-team field with a score of one under par. "Things sort of fell apart on the 13th and 18th holes, where I made double bogey," he said. Golditch watched his hopes of winning disappear after he played the final four holes in four over par. However, his confidence in himself and in his team remains high. "I feel really good going into next weekend," Golditch said. "It's been Rob [Goldfaden]'s, Kyle [Moran]'s and my goal to win the Ivies for a long time. I feel extremely confident in my team's ability and our chances next week." The Quakers will have four days of practice this week before they depart for the Ivy League Championships in Jackson, N.J., on Friday morning.
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Penn hopes to get back at Villanova for an upset loss on the Main Line last year. The Penn men's lacrosse team (5-5) will have revenge in mind when the Quakers face Villanova tonight at 7 p.m. at Franklin Field. In what was probably the biggest upset of the 1999 season for Penn, the Red and Blue dropped a 7-5 heartbreaker to the Wildcats last year on the Main Line, allowing four goals in the final quarter. "We have a bad taste in our mouths from last year," Penn co-captain Pete Janney said. "That's really pushing us to work hard for this game." The Quakers are coming off their first Ivy League win, a 7-4 victory over Dartmouth this past Saturday, marked by an impressive defensive effort. The backline must continue its strong play tonight against a Wildcats team that boasts a high-octane offense. Villanova returns 13 seniors, including its three best players -- Chris Lawson, Eric Dauer and Jack McTigue -- in the midfield. Lawson leads the team with 19 goals; Dauer has tallied 16 thus far this season; and McTigue has 25 assists to go along with two goals. "They are all strong, very powerful athletes," Penn coach Marc Van Arsdale said. "The midfield line is probably as good as we're going to see all season." Those three players had the biggest impact for the Wildcats in last season's game against the Quakers. In that contest, Penn got off to a slow start when Lawson put a crisp shot past Matt Schroeder, the Red and Blue's goalie of a year ago. Just minutes later, Dauer scored when the ball bounced off a defender's stick and into the goal. The Quakers rebounded, however, and held the Cats scoreless for the rest of the half. After two goals from Janney and one each by Scott Solow and Todd Minerley, the Quakers took a 4-3 lead into the fourth quarter. But that was when Penn shut down. Villanova stormed back to tally four goals in the last quarter, including Lawson's second goal of the game. McTigue assisted on every goal of the quarter, as the frustrated Quakers could not net one and were upset, 7-4. In a display of futility, the once-strong Penn offense was not only held to a meager four goals, but was also outshot, 36-27. The defeat sent the Red and Blue into a downward spiral as the team lost its last two contests by a combined 12 goals. Despite last year's game being being billed as an upset, the Wildcats have no reason to believe they can't beat the Quakers again. Villanova (6-3) is coming off a convincing victory last weekend against Fairfield. The Wildcats jumped out to a 2-0 advantage at the end of the first quarter and extended that to 5-2 at the half. Villanova continued its strong play in the second half and defeated the Stags, 12-7. Dauer totaled three goals, while Lawson added two and McTigue tallied three assists. "They are very confident right now," Van Arsdale said. "They've been playing very well recently, and the game should be two evenly matched teams with some momentum coming off wins." While the Wildcats offense has been given much attention by opposing teams, adversaries must also be mindful of their reliable defense. In last year's game, junior defender Brian O'Hagan shut down Minerley, which prevented the Quakers offense from getting quality feeds. A win at Franklin Field today would give the Quakers their first winning streak since the first two games of the season, when Penn upset Notre Dame it its home opener and followed that up with a win against Bucknell. The victory would also give the Red and Blue confidence going into the tough three-game stretch that ends their season. Before the month is out, the Quakers will face Brown, Syracuse and Delaware -- Penn lost to all three last season. "Syracuse is one that will probably take a little more than extra on our part and a little less on theirs," Van Arsdale said. "But the other two games are very winnable." If the Quakers can pull of a win tonight, maybe they can get used to the feeling of revenge and end their season on an upswing.
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The Quakers will look to avenge their loss to Temple in this March's Liberty Bell Classic this afternoon. Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Unfortunately for the Penn baseball team -- which has lost 10 of its 13 games by two runs or less -- almost doesn't count in baseball. But today at Murphy Field at 3 p.m., the Quakers have a chance to get one of those close losses back. Penn (13-13) welcomes Temple (12-17-2) to the West Side, looking to avenge its heartbreaking 5-4 loss to the Owls in 10 innings at the Liberty Bell Classic on March 28. On a drizzly day at Veterans Stadium, the Quakers squandered a 4-1 lead and an excellent outing from sophomore Mike Mattern, as the Owls rallied to hand Penn its eighth consecutive loss at the Liberty Bell Classic. The Quakers appeared set to cruise to a victory when they tagged Temple starter Chris Joyce for two runs in the fourth and two more in the fifth. But Joyce and reliever Jeff Rugg stymied Penn's bats after the fifth, allowing just one hit -- Chris May's leadoff triple in the eighth inning. But Penn's bats have not been very quiet since. After the Temple game, the Quakers have averaged almost 12 hits a game, including an amazing 33-run, 27-hit outburst against La Salle. But the pitching staff has been another matter. Penn's relievers let the team down last weekend, as the Quakers dropped three of four games to Ivy rivals Dartmouth and Harvard to fall into a three-way tie for first place in the Ivy League's Gehrig Division. Cornell, Princeton and Penn all have 4-4 league records, while Columbia is one game back at 3-5. "Pitching had a rough weekend," said catcher Jeff Gregorio, who leads the Quakers with four home runs and 34 runs batted in. "We're swinging the bat well right now, so that's going to carry us along." Junior Brian Burket starts for the Quakers today. Burket, who is second on pitching coach Bill Wagner's staff with a 4.08 earned run average, has made six appearances in relief for Penn this season. "Brian is kind of a middle guy, but he'll throw strikes," Penn coach Bob Seddon said. "Temple swings the bat. We would love to have a left-handed pitcher for this game." Seddon expects up to four or five pitchers to see action in today's game, mostly ones who will not be depended on for extensive work this weekend, when Penn officially opens its new ballpark at Murphy Field with two doubleheaders against Cornell. Even though the midweek game does not have ramifications for the Quakers as far as postseason play is concerned, the Quakers insist they are not looking past Temple to the weekend series. "It's not an Ivy League game, but you still want to brush up," Gregorio said. "The last thing we want to do is fall below .500." Further spurring Penn is the bitter taste left by the 5-4 loss at the Vet. "We probably should have beat them the first time," Gregorio said. "That's one motivating factor that'll drive us to play better." While Seddon has his lineup mostly solidified, outfielder Jeremy McDowell and catcher Ralph Vasami will see action today. With freshman Andrew McCreery out sick earlier in the year, the senior McDowell made the most of his opportunity to play. McDowell leads the Quakers with a .444 batting average, and in 12 games he has 12 hits and 10 runs scored. The Quakers bench will be a little short today. Sophomore catcher Brian Fitzgerald and freshman standout Zach Hanan are both troubled by back problems. In 14 games, Hanan has managed a .378 batting average, second-best on the Quakers, and he leads the team with a .622 slugging percentage. May has been playing through a pulled groin, and freshman pitcher Kevin Wells' arm problems further stretch a struggling pitching staff.
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The Wildcats, a female a cappella group, complained about their treatment at the Penn Six show. The final song of the Princeton Wildcats' set during last Thursday's Pennsylvania Six-5000 show was Aretha Franklin's "Respect," but the visiting all-female a cappella group felt they were treated with anything but. The Wildcats e-mailed University President Judith Rodin a letter of complaint yesterday about Penn Six's conduct at the Irvine Auditorium show, entitled "Busted Interface." In the letter, the Wildcats expressed their anger over what they perceived as offensive actions by members of Penn Six and Penn Six fans. "We felt in retrospect that we had been invited specifically to be made fun of," the Wildcats wrote. The Princeton group's chief complaint, according to Wildcats President Jessica Williams, was that several men streaked across the stage during the Wildcats' set and allegedly touched some of the women. In the letter, the Wildcats wrote, "Members of a fraternity with ties to the Penn Six-5000 and likely with the knowledge of the singing group ran naked across the stage during one of our songs. There was unwanted physical contact made between these men and two of our members." But according to Penn Six Business Director and Engineering junior Jake Peters, the group had no prior knowledge of the incident. "We had no idea that was going to happen," Peters said. "We were backstage, we heard the noise and we came, but we missed it." The Wildcats were also upset about several other incidents that occurred at the show -- their names in the show's program were listed as suggestive names such as "Heywood Jablomi" and "Mike Hunt," Penn Six alumni were allegedly loud and disrespectful during the Wildcats' performance and members of Penn Six came onstage in costume during the Wildcats' last song. Williams said that many of the incidents taken alone would not have bothered the group, but that the "combination of everything created a situation that made us feel uncomfortable." Penn Six Musical Director Andrew Tam, a Wharton sophomore, said that antics such as the made-up program were meant to be funny. "The names were completely farcical," he said. "In addition, they introduced themselves as those names." Peters added that Penn Six's alumni denied saying anything derogatory to the Wildcats. Penn Six also received mixed reviews for an appearance at Princeton on March 25, with Princeton a cappella group the Roaring 20. According to Williams, Penn Six's antics at that performance should have clued them in. Adam Friedlander, president of the Roaring 20, said that "the general a cappella community here is really pissed off." Friedlander also said that when Penn Six performed at Princeton, the members did some things the Roaring 20 felt were not "quite appropriate for the 11-year-old cousins in the audience," including using profanity and making jokes about masturbation. Peters said the response Penn Six received from the audience at the Roaring 20 show was "one of the most warm and welcome receptions from a road show. We didn't hear one negative thing about that show."
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Even though the Cold War ended nearly a decade ago and more and more former communist-block countries across the globe are adopting the ideologies of democracy, one bitter battleground remains. North and South Korea, 55 years after their first division, are now trying to enter a new era of economic relations, and eventually, national unification. This effort was the main theme of talks given by Hong-Koo Lee, South Korean ambassador to the United States, and Stephen Bosworth, the American ambassador to South Korea, both of whom spoke to about 50 students and faculty members in Vance Hall yesterday. The talk was co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and the Korean Economic Institute of America, and was part of the 2000 Korea Caravan, a lecture tour of major American cities. To start the discussion, Lee spoke of the turbulent history of the Korean peninsula in the 20th century. "In 1910, Korea was taken over by Japan," he said. "It was an age of imperialism, and Korea was a victim." However, in spite of this foreign occupation and the ensuing split between North and South, Lee insisted that South Koreans have struggled to earn prosperity. "Koreans have been working very hard to build up their country," Lee said. Stressing the economic progress that has been made, Lee compared the current per capita income of South Korea, which is around $10,000, to the meager per capita income in the 1950s. "At the end of the Korean War, our per capita income was $70 or $80," he said. After praising the South Korean economic recovery, Lee explained that re-unification will be an arduous -- but necessary -- task. "North Korea is a textbook example of a totalitarian regime," he said. Lee then turned the lecture over to Bosworth, who reinforced his fellow ambassador's message. He commended the South Korean people's recovery from the recent Asian economic crisis. "It was remarkable for me to be there at that time and watch how, from the depths of crisis, in a period of a few days, Koreans began to work to recover," Bosworth said. The chances of re-unification, he added, are bolstered by the recent decision of North and South Korea to hold a summit. Several students in attendance said they were not discouraged by the two men's skepticism that the reconciliation will come soon. "I think that in the context of 50 years, a little more time isn't going to matter," College sophomore Angie Kim said. Similarly, College senior Ji-Ye Hwang said she believes a slow re-unification is actually necessary, and that the world should not expect North Korea to fall apart. "That's probably the only way," she said. "China wouldn't let North Korea collapse."
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The Arizona senator will talk Friday as part of a program encouraging youth to vote. After losing the race for the Republican presidential nomination, it might seem that John McCain would stop campaigning. Yet on Friday, the Arizona senator will be stopping in Philadelphia to encourage young people to get involved in the political process and vote in the upcoming presidential election. McCain will kick off the We the Future 2000 national convention -- sponsored by the Foundation for Individual Responsibility and Social Trust -- at noon. The event, which will be held at One Liberty Place, is free to Penn students with valid identification. The specific topic of McCain's speech is not yet known, FIRST Associate Director Melinda Scott said last night. The former presidential candidate will also attend several other events in the Philadelphia area on Friday evening. Continuing the weekend's activities, University President Judith Rodin will introduce Jason Nastke -- the 20-year-old mayor of Valatie, N.Y. -- to audiences at the Penn Tower Hotel on Friday night. The three-day convention is designed to let people in the 18-to-35 age range "come together to discuss what issues are important to them and present them to the presidential candidates," Scott said. She added that the presumptive presidential nominees, Al Gore and George W. Bush, were invited to attend the event but are sending campaign representatives instead. People from both campaigns will face off in a debate on Saturday afternoon at Drexel University. The event is open to students. Approximately 1,000 delegates from across the nation -- who can register to attend the convention online -- are expected to travel to Philadelphia for the convention this weekend. On Saturday, Chuck D of the rap group Public Enemy will address delegates about the importance of First Amendment rights, and Marian Wright Edelman, president of Children's Defense Fund, will also speak. Delegates will spend Sunday attending skill-building workshops on topics such as grass roots organizing, lobbying, handling the media and running for office in their home town. Scott said the idea was to give delegates "action they can take in their own communities? to make a positive impact." FIRST was developed in 1995 when current president John Smith, a Philadelphia-area lawyer, wrote a newspaper column "calling for a bill of responsibilities to match the bill of rights," Scott said. "The basic idea is that not only is it your right to vote, but it's your responsibility," she added. FIRST has hosted dozens of regional conferences in the past several years in an effort to re-engage young adults in the political process. This weekend's convention marks the third national convention FIRST has hosted. At the convention, delegates will put the finishing touches on a Generational Action Plan -- a three-year-old document that has passed from convention to convention -- designed to give young people ideas for how to become more politically active in their own communities. The final version of GAP will be presented to delegates on Sunday night.
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Police will be present at all Fling events to minimize underage drinking this weekend. For most Penn students, the phrase "Spring Fling" is synonymous with alcohol -- and lots of it. But the University Police will join forces with the state Liquor Control Enforcement bureau this weekend to combat the underage drinking that has historically characterized the annual event. University Police Chief Maureen Rush said that, similar to last year, numerous Penn Police, Philadelphia police and LCE agents will be present throughout the weekend's activities to minimize underage drinking. "We're working on a protocol with the college house system, and we'll be using Spectaguards," she said. Rush added that the LCE is expected Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and the agency will be using the University Police headquarters on Chestnut Street as a base of operations. "[The LCE] is looking for underage drinkers, establishments serving underage drinkers and houses serving underage drinkers," Rush said. "We help [the LCE] in any way we can." LCE officials could not be reached for comment yesterday. Unlike last year -- when there was a ban on alcohol at most on-campus undergraduate parties following an alcohol-related death -- University security officers are not conducting mandatory searches for alcohol in students' bags at all dormitory entrances. According to University Police Deputy Chief of Operations Michael Fink, security guards will only check "suspicious" packages to ensure underage students aren't bringing alcohol into dorms. However, from Thursday until Saturday, no alcohol -- regardless of whether the student is of legal drinking age -- will be permitted into the Quadrangle, Hill College House or Hill Field. For Fling events in the Quad, no beverage containers will be permitted to be brought into the area. Any individual bringing alcohol into one of the other college houses may be required to show identification for proof of age. University officials emphasize that the current alcohol policy will be strictly enforced throughout the weekend, adding that University Police will give citations to those found with alcohol at Fling events. Last year, only 16 students were cited by the University Police and the LCE for violating University policy or state law -- down significantly from the 180 students cited in 1996. Cited students must either plead not guilty at a hearing, risking a large fine, or pay $100 to attend a three-hour alcohol awareness class on Saturdays. And students who receive citations will lose their driver's licenses for 90 days, regardless of which state issued the license.
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Deejay Young Eller will open the concert, which will feature the Roots and Ben Folds Five. The lineup is finally set for Friday's Spring Fling concert. Joining the Roots and Ben Folds Five will be New York-based deejay Young Eller. According to SPEC Concerts co-director and Engineering senior Ari Jaffess, the organizing committee selected Young Eller to open because he plays an eclectic selection of music. "We wanted both headliners to have a lot of time," Jaffess said of the committee's decision to hire an opening deejay. "And the bands both wanted a lot of time as well." So far, ticket sales for the concert, which will be held on Hill Field rain or shine, have been steady, according to SPEC Chairman Jon Herrmann. With a total capacity of 6,000, Herrmann said the event organizers were hoping to sell more than 4,000 tickets. As of yesterday, 2,900 total concert tickets had been sold, Jaffess said. Of that number, Jaffess estimated that 2,250 were sold to students, and 650 to the general public. Last year's show, headlined by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Run DMC, sold about 2,500 tickets. Tickets have been for sale on Locust Walk since March 27, and will continue to be sold on the Walk from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. today and tomorrow. They are priced at $15 for Penn students and $23 for the general public until Thursday. "Ticket sales have been going crazy on the Walk," Jaffess noted. "We have been averaging about 400 tickets per day." The concert has also been advertised on radio stations, and tickets were made available to the general public through Ticketmaster. Herrmann said he believes the big-name bands headlining this year's Fling played a role in the high sales. "Ticket sales are always defined by who is playing," Herrmann said. "And this year is a bigger show, with more popular bands." The day of the show, tickets will be sold at the concert with student tickets priced at $20 and general public admission at $25. Students will be admitted onto Hill Field at 7 p.m., while the concert itself is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. The theme for this year's Spring Fling is themed "Fling Me Baby One More Time," inspired by teen singing sensation Britney Spears' hit single. Philadelphia-based rap and R&B; group The Roots have been making waves on the music scene since 1987 with their unique blend of vocals and drum beats. Their recent album, Things Fall Apart, brought them critical and commercial success. Ben Folds Five, a unique guitar-free trio, made a mainstream name for themselves with their hit single "Brick" in 1997. Their album Whatever and Ever Amen went platinum that same year.
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Academics blended flawlessly with song, dance and poetry on Saturday afternoon in the DuBois College House's multi-purpose room, where the 15th annual Souls of DuBois Conference showcased the varied talents of the house's residents and extended community. The small gathering of about 40 students and faculty members viewed performances by various performing arts groups like the Inspiration, Total Praise Dancers, New Spirit of Penn and Onda Latina. In addition, the four-hour performance featured oral presentations by students in African American Studies 310, "Without a Struggle," as well as an awards ceremony to honor graduating house residents and other residents for contributions to the arts, athletics, academics and community service. "Our goal in the house has always been to try to connect cultural talent? with intellectual pursuit," DuBois Faculty Master Howard Stevenson said. The theme of this year's conference was "Sounds of DuBois," which organizers said was representative of the different talents displayed in the conference. "Sound isn't just what you hear, it's what you see," added House Council member Yolande Tomlinson, a College sophomore. "It also takes the form of academia." This year's conference was the first to be entirely organized by the College House Council. "It worked well and I think it will become tradition," DuBois House Dean Sonia Elliott said. An award was also presented to Brian Stevenson, a graduate student in the Graduate School of Education who has lived in DuBois for the better part of 10 years but will be leaving at the end of the year. "Brian has been, in many ways, the shoulders of the house," Elliott said. "He has kept us mindful of our mission. Wherever he goes, his spirit will be with us." One of Peterson's contributions to DuBois was the creation of African American Studies 310. According to Peterson, the course urges students to examine issues relevant to the African-American collective identity. Stevenson now co-teaches the course with Peterson and Elliot. Stevenson explained that a major theme of the course was that people "need to gather information for a purpose." "The course teaches you to get tools for research and to ask culturally relevant questions yourself," he said. The students who delivered presentations offered proposals of upcoming research projects. Among the issues being studied are body image, television stereotypes, enrichment programs and the digital divide. Students will use surveys, the Internet and previously conducted studies to draw a general conclusion, which will be presented on the last day of class. The course was the brainchild of five students who, along with Peterson, took advantage of the opportunity to create their own college house seminar. It was approved this year to become an official African American Studies course. Students have made various contributions to DuBois through the course, including a Saturday school that brings 45 sixth- and seventh-graders from around the area to DuBois. "Our class is about giving students the outlet to try whatever ideas they have? and to do some good work in community," Peterson said.
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In addressing a packed room of Wharton graduate students yesterday afternoon, motivational speaker and best-selling author Stephen Covey used a seemingly unconventional teaching technique to convey a rather conventional lesson: It is always best in business to join together and work toward a common goal. Covey, the internationally known author of The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, asked the roomful of students to close their eyes and then point north. When nearly everyone began pointing in opposite directions, Covey told the audience that, "The essence of leadership is to get people pointing in the same direction." Covey came to Penn as part of the Zweig Executive Dinner Series Committee. His appearance in one of the largest rooms of Steinberg-Dietrich Hall proved so popular that every seat was taken, leaving groups of students standing in the aisles and sitting on the floor. Covey was recently named one of Time magazine's 25 most influential people. Over the past 30 years, Covey has worked as a consultant with international companies, focusing largely on leadership and time management skills. But he is perhaps best known for his motivational book, which was a mainstay on The New York Times bestseller list for several years. Covey discussed several of his now-famous "seven habits" of success in his talk yesterday. Drawing on both personal and professional experiences, Covey, dressed in a stylish black suit, lectured for the first half of his hour-long talk on what he considers to be four qualities of good leadership: modeling, pathfinding, aligning and empowering. Making his talk Penn-specific, Covey also applied his common goal theory with Wharton's program of team-learning. "I think that is so important, so valuable, that you are having team-learning experiences," Covey said. "The world is very interdependent. You cannot think independently in an interdependent world." To draw an example, Covey equated being overly independent with trying to play tennis with a golf ball. "You can do it, but it doesn't work well," he joked. When asked what advice he could give to graduating seniors, Covey offered some tips that could well be relevant to all students at Penn. "Write a personal mission statement and live by it," the author said. "Read and take full advantage of the learning opportunities here. Try to get the job that taps into your passions." Writing a personal statement is one of the "seven habits" of success that Covey outlined in his book. Calling his experience on campus "tremendously pleasurable and positive," Covey wished the students luck in finding the jobs that they wanted. Many of the students who attended Covey's talk were at least familiar with the "seven habits," but had not necessarily read his book. "My husband has read several of his books, and he says that they are very good," said Vanessa Pfeiffer, a second-year Wharton student pursuing her master of business administration degree. "My friends said that I shouldn't miss this opportunity." First-year MBA student Dave Sturek added, "I thought it was very interesting. It was very typical of what I heard and discussed before, but he is very inspirational and gives a lot of people hope that they can live their lives in a similar way that he does."
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An East meets West cultural extravaganza came to Irvine Auditorium on Friday night. Hindi a cappella group Penn Masala performed with jazz a cappella group Counterparts for a one-night-only performance dubbed Curry and All That Jazz. The show marked the first time a minority a cappella group has performed with an English singing group in Penn's history. Though Counterparts and Penn Masala have appeared at each other's shows in the past, this was the first time they held a formal joint show. "We guest performed for [Counterparts] last year," said Penn Masala singer Abhi Patwardhan, a Wharton senior. "They're an awesome group." More than 1,000 students were in attendance. Audience members said they enjoyed the contrast between the two distinguished singing groups. "I'm very delighted by it," Engineering junior Kevin Chan said. "It's a good mix. Penn Masala is very entertaining and funny, and Counterparts is an excellent group." The performance opened with a spoof of Michael Jackson's Beat It, in which the two groups duked it out on stage to an applauding audience. Counterparts, decked out in tuxedos and black dresses, performed from its vast repertoire of jazz and pop classics, while Penn Masala, garbed in colorful punjabees, sang popular Hollywood hits and English pop songs. Both groups mixed a good dose of humor with their musical talent. Penn Masala provided comic translations of some of their songs and poked fun at South Asian stereotypes with their song Show Me The Meaning of Being Desi, a parody of the popular Backstreet Boys song. This was also the last big performance on campus for each of the groups this year, and they took the opportunity to honor their outgoing seniors and their alumni, who came on stage to sing a few songs with them. The two groups came together for the show's grand finale, in which they performed popular Hindi song Tu Cheez Badi Hai.
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The leases of the Gold Standard and Palladium expire at the end of 2002. Penn's announcement last week of plans to reinvigorate Locust Walk leaves an unclear future for the Palladium Restaurant and the Gold Standard, both of which have been central fixtures on the Walk since 1983. Both restaurants reside in the Christian Association building -- located on the corner of 36th Street and Locust Walk-- which is one of four buildings that will soon hold several student groups. This past fall, the University purchased the CA building, taking control of the 27,000-square foot property in the heart of campus and ending 20 years of on- and off-negotiations. The dining establishments' lease expires December 31, 2002, according to Roger Harman, who owns both establishments. "We're not sure if the University wants us to stay here in a reduced capacity," Harman said yesterday. He added that he had been aware that his restaurants would be affected by the University's acquisition of the CA building. "There's no big secret here," Harman said. "We knew our lease was up." Harman said he has his eye on several other properties in the neighborhood to possibly relocate one or both restaurants, anticipating the committee's report. He added that he will discuss plans over the next few weeks with the Locust Walk Advisory Committee -- a 12-person task force of students, faculty and staff that University President Judith Rodin charged in February with determining how best to fill a number of recently vacated properties along the Walk. The CA building's ground floor, currently occupied by the Gold Standard, will eventually house a performing arts hub. Plans call for about a dozen campus organizations to get new homes and will spawn the creation of a cultural and performing arts center, a research hub for undergraduates, a graduate student center and common space for student religious groups. According to Provost Robert Barchi, who chaired the committee, Penn would reclaim much of the space the two restaurants now use, though he said the committee wanted to keep some type of food operation in the building. "It will be up to the University and specifically, Business Services, to work out whether or not it makes sense to continue with the current restaurant owners or to explore other alternatives," Barchi wrote in an e-mail yesterday. Students on the committee said that keeping the Palladium is a possibility. "There is the thought that there should be some outside dining," said Undergraduate Assembly Chairman Michael Silver, a College senior who sat on the committee, adding that a food venue adds character to the corner. Harman noted that renovations to the building may impact the restaurants' plans, as well. Starting this summer, the University's renovations will address safety issues stemming from structural inefficiencies and will tailor the CA building to the needs of its future occupants.
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Budding student filmmakers got a chance to screen their works Friday night in front of a roomful of their peers as part of the first-ever West Philadelphia Film Festival. The student-run festival allowed more than a dozen students from Penn and other local colleges, as well as West Philadelphia residents, to showcase short films that they had written and directed. A documentary about the Vietnam War, The Weight, was also shown. Filmmaker Sid Holmes spoke briefly to the audience following the film festival. The films ranged in content and filming techniques from one that poked fun of VH1's hit program, Behind the Music -- the documentary chronicled the lives of two famous karaoke singers, "Kier and Courtney" -- to one, titled Our Vacation, that featured a man being chased through the woods and killed. Most of the filmmakers were students. Of those, some are currently enrolled in film classes, while others are just finding a new hobby. College juniors Zach Miller and Justin Carey, for instance, decided on a whim to make a film after hearing about the festival. Their short film, titled Liquid Assets, was filmed with a computer camera and then played on a computer screen. Though to many in the audience displaying a small gray screen with computer commands on top might have seemed like an artistic decision, the two filmmakers insisted that their decision was really based on a lack of equipment. "I wish they had more stuff like this on campus. We need more of a medium to show our stuff," Miller said, adding that he was impressed with the camera effects of several of his fellow filmmakers. College senior Saryn Chorney, the filmmaker of Lola and a Film Studies minor, said she felt the festival was beneficial to those interested in film. "It's cool to see what other people are doing. I'm trying to come up with ideas," the College senior said. "When you see the creative process at work, it makes you think of ideas," she said. Chorney felt that the other films viewed were each very unique. "Each of the films had a different angle." Penn last year began offering a Film Studies minor, but still does not offer a major -- a fact that seemed to dismay many interested students. The audience and filmmakers' response to the event was overwhelmingly positive, as many said they hoped that there would be a continuation of film festivals. One of the film festival's organizers, College junior Barry Schwartz, said he felt that having a film festival was important to promote and encourage students interested in film and to allow filmmakers from different schools around the area to meet. "I think there's a large film contingency at Penn," Schwartz said. "This event brings together West Philly artists and students from surrounding schools? who share a common interest in film. We need to create a venue so we can work together in the future."
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Adam Solow scored twice in his return to the school that he attended for two years. After four unsuccessful attempts, the Penn men's lacrosse team came back from Dartmouth this weekend with its first Ivy League victory of the 2000 season in hand. The Quakers (5-5, 1-4 Ivy League) had lost to Ivy rivals Yale, Harvard, Cornell and Princeton before picking up the 7-4 victory against the Big Green (3-4, 0-1) on Saturday afternoon in Hanover, N.H. "It was definitely huge to get the win at Dartmouth," co-captain Pete Janney said. "Losing to the other Ivy teams was getting a little stale, and we didn't want to go 0-6 in the league." While the win gives the Red and Blue confidence for the remaining four games in the season, the victory was not always a given. The Quakers jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead after goals by Janney, middie Kevin Cadin and middie Adam Solow. Janney scored 51 seconds into the game off a set play following a face-off. Janney won the face-off and passed the ball back to Penn's Billy Reidy. Reidy fed the ball to Janney, who fired it on goal for the first score of the game. Cadin followed suit 10 minutes later, netting his first of two goals on the day for the Quakers. The third score of the first quarter came from Solow. His goal was especially meaningful considering the fact that he transferred from Dartmouth this season after leading the Big Green in scoring in 1999. "It was important for Adam to get going early," Penn coach Marc Van Arsdale said. "He did, and played a good game." Penn's momentum would switch quickly, as Dartmouth capitalized on Quakers turnovers and knotted the game at three going into halftime. "We made really stupid mistakes in the second quarter," Janney said. "We didn't handle the ball well on the perimeter. We made a lot of bad passes and didn't give the offense enough opportunities overall." The lack of focus illustrated in the second frame did not carry over in the third, however. The Quakers, who spent time in the nation's top 20 earlier on in the season, rebounded to pull away from the Big Green, the usual cellar-dweller of the Ivy League. Dartmouth goalie Mike Gault went out early in the third quarter with an injury, and the Quakers took advantage. With just over four minutes gone by in the second half, Reidy, unassisted, scored the most crucial goal of the day to make the score 4-3 in Penn's favor. "Reidy was all over the field," Van Arsdale said. "He got to a bunch of ground balls, and we were able to let out a sigh of relief after he scored in the third." Five minutes later, Cadin put the ball past backup Dartmouth netminder Patrick McClammer, in what turned out to be the game-winning goal. Cadin had two assists to go along with his two goals. "I was just working off the ball, and I was in the right place at the right time," Cadin said. "We moved the ball around pretty well in the second half." Following Casey Burlage's second goal of the day for the Big Green, the Solow brothers scored the last two goals of the contest. First, Adam found the net. Then Scott scored to preserve the 7-4 win. Scott also tallied two assists. Penn goalie Ryan Kelly made 15 saves in the victory. With the victory at Dartmouth, the team hopes it can relax now that it no longer needs to worry about winning an Ivy game. "Hopefully, because the team has more confidence, it will lead to us loosening up a little," Van Arsdale said. "The effort and intensity was certainly there, but the execution isn't always there, which can be a sign of the team being a little uptight." One area of the field that certainly gained confidence from Hanover was the defense. Besides holding the Big Green to just four goals, the backline consistently held off Dartmouth attackers on breakaways when the offense turned the ball over. "The team defense was very strong," Janney said. "They were really convincing in the first quarter and continued that play throughout the game. Ryan played a great game in goal as well." With four games to go, the Quakers know they can still make something of their season. With games against Villanova, Brown, Syracuse and Delaware, they know all the games will be hard-fought but winnable. "We've been practicing well for the last week," Van Arsdale said. "The game this weekend was not picture perfect, and we know we can keep getting better."
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Against Princeton last Saturday, less-than-stellar doubles play did in the Penn women's tennis team. The Red and Blue seemed to learn their lesson, however, as the Quakers went undefeated in doubles this weekend in two victories on the road at Brown and Yale. Penn (10-9, 2-1 Ivy League) breezed by the Bears (1-12, 0-2) on Friday, not allowing the home side to win a single match in Providence, R.I. None of the matches were even close -- in all six of their singles matches, the Quakers never let more than three games slip in any set. At No. 1 singles, Penn junior Lenka Beranova pulled off a 6-1, 6-1 win against Brown's Maria Elena del Valle, while Penn junior Shubha Srinivasan dominated the Bears' Jeanine Baillie and took her No. 2 singles match, 6-3, 6-0. Senior co-captain Anastasia Pozdniakova was equally dominant at No. 3 singles, winning her match, 6-1, 6-0. After Louani Bascara, Jolene Sloat and Justyna Wojas completed the singles sweep of the Bears, Penn had already won the match -- but there was no decline in the Red and Blue's dominance when it came time for the doubles showdowns, for the Quakers had practiced in pairs more heavily than usual during the week. "Having known that you won singles and knowing doubles doesn't count, there sometimes is a letdown," Bascara said. At Brown, though, the Red and Blue's momentum didn't falter. In the top spot in doubles, the duo of Beranova and senior co-captain Elana Gold easily took their match, 8-4. Bascara and Pozdniakova skated through to an 8-1 win at No. 2 doubles, while Srinivasan and sophomore Sloat swept their foes, 8-0, at No. 3 doubles. Last spring, the Bears (1-12, 0-2) gave Penn more of a challenge -- the teams split singles before Penn took all of its doubles sets to win the match. "[Brown was] drastically worse than last year," Penn senior co-captain Gold said. "We got on them early, and they folded really quickly." In all fairness, Brown is a very young team. After losing four of last year's starters to graduation and injury, freshmen alone make up half of the Bears' roster. While Gold believes Brown left the Quakers "well-rested" for their match against Yale on Saturday, Penn's victory over the Elis wasn't nearly as easy as the Brown match was. Singles victories from Beranova, Pozdniakova, Sloat and sophomore Rochelle Raiss -- who competed while she had a bad case of the flu -- brought the Quakers to a 4-2 lead before the doubles matches. Penn needed only one doubles victory to ensure a match win over the Elis, but that was no certainty. "It's difficult and rare for a team to come back being [down 2-4]," Bascara said. "But by the same token, it's difficult to close out a match like that. "After having lost all our doubles to Princeton and having seen the style they play -- which is basically all power and [aggression] -- that urged us to step it up a notch in terms of aggressiveness. We were up at the net, closing and being aggressive. That's how it was on most of the courts that day." Beating the Elis in doubles was not as hard as it was against Princeton, but it was still no easy task -- and the effort required some of the Quakers' best tennis of the entire season. Gold and Srinivasan's 8-5 victory at No. 3 doubles wrapped up the victory in the match for Penn, while their teammates continued to battle the Elis on the first two doubles courts. After starting their match down 4-0, Raiss and Beranova fought their way to an 8-6 win at No. 1 doubles, while Bascara and Pozdniakova finished with the same score at No. 2 doubles. The win brought Penn to 2-1 in the Ancient Eight, meaning that the Quakers are still in contention for the league title, but they must beat both Harvard and Dartmouth at home this weekend.
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Penn's match with Yale was particularly intense, but the Quakers survived for the win. "Come on!" yelled the accented voice from Lott Court No. 1. The sound came from Penn sophomore Fanda Stejskal, signaling that he had won another point against Yale's Greg Royce. Stejskal's shouts were met with increasing enthusiasm from the crowd of parents and Stejskal's fellow Alpha Epsilon Pi pledge brothers as he battled back from a 6-3 loss in the first set to win the final two sets, 6-4, 6-4. The Penn men's tennis team beat Yale, 5-2. "In the beginning [Royce] played really well. He missed like two balls during the entire first set. I thought, 'I'm getting killed,' and that's when Mrs. Barki told me to hang in there," Stejskal said. "Then I started returning. During the middle of the second set I played better and I didn't let it go like yesterday." Unfortunately, Penn sophomore tennis player Brian Barki's mom wasn't there to advise Stejskal on Friday, when he lost his match against Brown's Justin Natale in a 7-5 tiebreaker. The Quakers still managed to beat the Bears, 4-3, with freshman Ryan Harwood returning from a 4-5 deficit in the third set against Brown's Nick Malone to clinch the match, 7-5. Harwood's win allowed Penn to walk away with the meet, paving the way for a rare achievement the next day. This was the first time that the Quakers have swept an Ivy weekend since 1995, when, like this year, Penn beat Yale and Brown in back-to-back competitions. There was no love lost between the Quakers and the players from Yale. The match between Stejskal and Royce included frequent accusations by Stejskal that Royce was unfairly calling his serves out. Royce, visibly annoyed, became more impatient with his requests that the match simply continue. "I think he hooked me a couple of times," Stejskal said. "The shots were never obvious but I think they were in. There's nothing you can do though." Harwood also had difficulties with his Yale opponent, Scott Carlton. At one point, Harwood yelled, "Open your eyes," to Carlton in reference to a call made by Carlton. Harwood's outburst was met with a penalty call by the referee, which cost him a point in the match. The penalty call by the referee on Harwood also resulted in an interference call in Stejskal's match, since the referee yelled the penalty verdict during Royce's serve. Royce had double faulted with the point going to Stejskal, but the interference call meant that the point had to be replayed. Despite the personal conflicts during the matches, the Quakers were all smiles after junior co-captain Eric Sobotka clinched Penn's win against Yale by defeating Kevin Park at the No. 4 position. Penn players mobbed Sobotka on the court after his win, as Stejskal was still battling Royce on court one. Penn faltered a bit in doubles this weekend, with Zupan and Barki at the No. 3 position the only doubles team to beat Brown. Senior Brett Meringoff and Harwood at the No. 1 position were the only doubles partners to defeat a Yale duo. This weekend's matches bring the Quakers to 3-1 in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League, which is already an improvement over their 2-7 EITL season from last year. The addition of Stejskal and Harwood to the team, as well as strong performances by returning Penn players, has made the rest of this season look a lot brighter than last year's.
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Penn split a doubleheader with Dartmouth and fought hard with Harvard, but lost both games in Boston yesterday. The Penn baseball team opened up its New England road trip successfully, winning the first of four games at Dartmouth and Harvard. Unfortunately for the Quakers, that was as good as it got. The Red and Blue (13-13, 4-4 Ivy) finished 1-3 on their road trip, losing the nightcap at Dartmouth on Saturday after winning the opener. They then dropped both contests at Harvard yesterday after being forced to stay an extra night in Boston -- the doubleheader between Penn and the Crimson scheduled for Sunday was moved back one day because of the freak snowstorm that descended upon the Northeast. With the 1-3 weekend, Penn fell into a three-way tie for first place in the Lou Gehrig Division of the Ivy League with Princeton and Cornell, which both went 3-1 this weekend. Both the Tigers and the Big Red faced the easier foes of the Red Rolfe Division -- Yale and Brown. Columbia, which had been tied with the Quakers in the standings before this weekend, was swept by Harvard and Dartmouth and fell a game behind the pack with a 3-5 Ivy record. On Saturday, Penn raced out to a 2-0 lead over Dartmouth starter James Kelly and never looked back. The closest the Big Green would come was 3-1 in the third inning, when they scored their only run off of Penn hurler Mike Mattern -- a solo home run off of the bat of Dartmouth shortstop Matt Klentak. Mattern was dominating in his first win of the year, going the distance in the seven-inning game, giving up one run on five hits and striking out eight Dartmouth batters. He walked just one Big Green player. The Quakers, who put a run across the plate in the top of the fourth to take a 4-1 lead, faced a Big Green scoring threat in the bottom of the fifth when Dartmouth put men on first and second with two out. But first baseman Ron Rolph picked up a smash grounder off the bat of Dartmouth second baseman Joe Rockers, not only ending the inning but also -- with Mattern on the mound -- effectively ending the Big Green's chances for a victory in the first game. "Mike was outstanding," Penn coach Bob Seddon said of his victorious pitcher. "It was clearly his best performance of the season." In the nightcap, Dartmouth ace Connor Brooks showed the Quakers why he has been one of the Ivy League's best pitchers for the last four years. In his first-ever appearance against the Red and Blue -- an odd happenstance, considering the fact that Brooks is a senior -- the talented righty fanned 13 batters en route to a nine-inning complete game victory. Penn gave itself no chance against Brooks, as freshman Ben Krantz, who took the loss, surrendered eight runs on 11 hits in 4 2/3 innings. The Quakers were already behind 9-0 by the time they managed to get to Brooks in the eighth inning. Right fielder Kevin McCabe drove in one run with an RBI single before third baseman Oliver Hahl stole home, cutting the Big Green lead to 9-2. But against Brooks in the late innings, there was no realistic chance for any kind of Penn comeback, and Penn eventually fell by the score of 10-2. With a win and a loss in the books, the Quakers traveled to Boston and expected to take on the three-time defending Ivy champion Crimson on Sunday afternoon in a twin bill. But one day after Mother Nature had laid waste to these best laid plans of the Quakers, the Crimson laid waste to the Quakers themselves, leaving them with nothing to show for their impromptu overnight stay in the city of beans and Fenway Park. While the Quakers had excellent chances to win both games, they came closest in the second game of the twin bill, coming within three outs in the ninth and two in the 11th of beating Harvard for the first time in nine tries. But Penn's relief pitching abandoned it. With a 5-4 lead going into the ninth, freshman Andrew McCreery, who had replaced fellow freshman and starter Ben Otero, was brought in to try and seal the win. But he quickly blew the save, as the first batter he faced, right fielder John Franey, blasted an opposite field homer to tie the game at five. McCreery, who was pegged with the loss, pitched a scoreless 10th before loading the bases in the 11th. Paul Grumet was then given the ball and the unenviable task of getting the Quakers out of the mess. The first batter Grumet faced, pinch-hitter Joe Llanes, laced a two-RBI single to win the game and complete the Harvard sweep of the doubleheader. The Quakers had taken the lead in the top of the inning thanks to back-to-back RBI singles by shortstop Glen Ambrosius and catcher Jeff Gregorio. The loss ruined a magnificent effort by Otero, who had another strong start after his complete game against Brown two weeks ago. "Otero was extremely strong," Penn pitching coach Bill Wagner said. "But our relief pitching did not seal the deal." In the first game, Penn held a 2-0 lead going into the fifth inning when pinch-hitter Joe Hopps' three-run double put the Crimson up for good. They would add one more in the inning to take a 4-2 lead, which is the way the game ended. Harvard sophomore Ben Crockett, who was credited with the complete-game victory, was able to shut the Quakers down after his teammates gave him a two-run lead. "We played well, we just didn't hold the leads," Seddon said. "We just didn't get it done."
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The Quakers fell behind 8-1 before their furious comeback fell just short. Due to inclement weather on Sunday, the Penn women's lacrosse game scheduled for 1 p.m. on Franklin Field got off to a late start. Its contest with Harvard was delayed by nearly an hour, as extra time was needed to clear snow off the turf. But even after a warm water treatment made the field presentable, the competition still didn't get fully underway for almost another hour. After all, the Quakers didn't really show up until midway through the second half. Unfortunately, when Penn put together its 5-0 run to end the game, it was too little, too late. The Quakers came up short by two goals and fell, 11-9, to the Crimson. "It's frustrating to see them play the game in the last four minutes when it's an hour long," Penn coach Karin Brower said. Penn actually put the first goal on the board when freshman Crissy Book scored five minutes into the contest. But the Quakers held this advantage for just 90 seconds, and it was their only lead of the afternoon. Lizzy Frisbie countered and began a 5-0 run for the Crimson, who took a 5-1 lead into the locker room at halftime. The trend continued after intermission, as Harvard tallied three more unanswered goals before Penn's Traci Marabella finally restarted the Quakers offense after its 30-minute sabbatical. Penn outscored the Crimson, 7-3, from there in, but despite efforts by Marabella, senior captain Brooke Jenkins and freshman Kate Murray, Penn could not make up for its early mistakes. "We weren't aggressive; we didn't go to goal; we didn't challenge on attack; and we didn't run the plays well," Brower said. "They out-hustled us. I don't think they were a faster team than us, but they just wanted it more." The Quakers had already dropped their first two Ivy contests of the year against Yale and Cornell, and with their only win coming against Columbia, yesterday's loss puts them at 1-3 in the league. According to Brower, the same problems keep spelling defeat for her team. "Cornell, Yale and [Harvard] -- we could have won those games, but we looked intimidated," Brower said. "I don't know if it's inexperience or what, but they say that they think they can beat a team, and then they don't play that way." After losing to Harvard, the first-year coach couldn't even find comfort in what seems to be her greatest feat to date. The Quakers have put five wins together this season -- a marked improvement from last season's 1-12 record. "[Brower] has done a really nice job," Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder said. "The team is obviously playing so much better than last year. But they're young, so they're still going to make a lot of nervous mistakes." But just being better than last year isn't enough for Brower. "The thing that really bothers me is that I feel like -- yeah, we're better than last year -- but that wasn't so hard to do," Brower said. "We've got to win a game that counts, and that's important. We've beaten the teams that we should beat. We need to beat a team when it's a close game." Judging by the 11-9 score, one would think the game against Harvard was one such close contest. But anyone who braved the weather and journeyed to Franklin Field on Sunday could tell you otherwise. Even though the last few minutes provided plenty of excitement and hope for the Penn faithful, Harvard held a commanding lead for most of the contest until Penn changed its offensive strategy in the final minutes. "I'd been telling them the whole game that they could take their kids to goal and then finally -- in the last four minutes -- they go to goal," Brower said. "We didn't challenge their defenders and then finally like [Murray] decided to take her girl to goal and she got three shots off." Some personnel changes by the Crimson late in the game also made the Red and Blue's job a little bit easier. "They did change their goalie, which helped a lot," Brower said. "But whether or not they switched the goalie, at least we were getting the shots off." In addition to pulling goal keeper Nora Guyer, Kleinfelder also cleared most of her bench. When asked if the new lineup contributed to Penn's late run, the Crimson coach did not hesitate to respond with, "Oh yeah, no question." "Of course, it was still nerve wracking since it was a game that we'd had total control over, but I got everybody in who was sitting on the bench. We didn't play as well, but I always had [the starters] to put back in to stop it," Kleinfelder said.
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The Penn's women's track team continued its recent success and outshined its competition at the University of Pennsylvania Invitational at Franklin Field on Saturday. The Red and Blue dominated in their third outdoor meet of the season and recorded four first-place finishes against a field of 14 teams. Penn coach Betty Costanza called the competition "very good." However, the teams, including Rutgers, Temple, La Salle, Delaware State, Princeton and Villanova, were no match for the strength of the Quakers' hurdle, jump and sprint squads. Juniors Jajuan Gair (13.98) and Bassey Adjah (14.10) captured first and second place, respectively, in the 100-meter high hurdles. In addition to setting personal records in the event, the times set by Gair and Adjah qualified them both for the ECAC Championships on May 27-29. The strong performances of of junior Jen Thompson and senior captain Ruthie Neuhaus also earned them places at the ECACs. Thompson and Neuhaus held down both first and second place, respectively, Saturday afternoon in the triple jump competition. Freshman Meredith Bunche added to Penn's domination with a fifth-place finish in the event. The women concluded the meet by stealing a victory in the 4x400 relay. Sophomore Melissa MacIntyre, Adjah, sophomore Jeraldine Cofie and freshman anchor Petra Stewart ran a near flawless race to win the event. Their performance, as well as that of the 4x100 relay team, also earned them a berth at the ECACs in Princeton, N.J. Further burying the competition was Adjah's personal-record-setting measure of 5.77 meters in the long jump. Her closest competitor was Latisha Conte of Delaware State, who finished a full six inches behind Adjah. Penn's Melissa MacIntyre and Bunche finished third and fifth, respectively, in the event. That means that, of the top 10 finishers in the long jump and the triple jump, a total of six were Penn athletes. This weekend, the Red and Blue will face a healthy serving of Ancient Eight competition in New Haven, Conn., in a tri-meet in which they will face both Yale and Princeton. Costanza maintains that the competition will be tough because Yale shares many of the same strengths as the young Quakers squad. The sprints, jumps and hurdles will prove to be deciding factors once again. Though the Penn team is very young this year, its successes throughout the outdoor season have been roundly promising. All this success has come following the loss of 13 top seniors and the frustrations of a disappointing last-place Heps finish in the indoor season. But the Quakers are not looking back. Senior captain Richelle Clements, who placed fourth in a field of over 40 competitors in the 200, attributes the recent success of the team to the responsibility assumed by the team's three seniors. And as the entire team has shined as of late, the senior leadership has been naturally pleased. "It has been especially fun to watch the young talent [on the team] mature," Clements said. With only two meets left before the Penn Relays, the Quakers are happy with their improvement and are keeping their expectations high. "And we can only get better," Adjah said.