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Clark to play through stress fracture again

(02/28/03 10:00am)

In a season that has seen little momentum overall in either the win or the loss direction, the Penn women's basketball team has been able to bank on one thing -- winning at the Palestra against the Ivy League. Penn (11-11, 5-4 Ivy) will look to continue the trend this weekend, as they plan on giving both Brown and Yale unwelcome visits to the confines of college basketball's most historic gym. Penn is 3-1 at home in Ivy League play, falling only to Harvard last week. With four games remaining on its schedule, Penn has its eyes set on a second place finish in the Ivy League, and its third winning season in the past four years. Penn had just one winning season in an eight-year span, before coach Kelly Greenberg transformed the Quakers into a perennial contender upon her arrival at Penn four years ago. To take second, victories over a struggling Yale squad and a physical Brown team will be essential. Brown (7-3 Ivy) is undefeated at home but is a lowly 2-3 on the road. Posing an inside threat with a center measuring 6-foot-5, Brown will look to capitalize on its height advantage by controlling the offensive glass and dumping the ball into the key as much as possible. Nonetheless, Penn is optimistic it can knock off Brown, who is currently situated at second in the Ivies. "We are very anxious for the Brown game because we lost up there and it's a tough matchup for us because they are very big," Greenberg said. Adding to that advantage will be the fact that Penn's overall leader, Jewel Clark, may continue to be hobbled by a stress fracture in her right foot. Clark, who claimed Ivy League Honorable Mention honors for Player of the Week, will start however, and plans to continue leading the offense of the Red and Blue. Clark, now ranked sixth on Penn's all-time scoring list, posted a double-double yet again against Harvard in the Penn loss last weekend, scoring 16 points and hauling in 12 rebounds. Greenberg lauded Clark's effort in playing games that will be crucial to securing a second-place finish in the Ivy League. "Most people can't play on a stress fracture and Jewel Clark is playing 38 minutes on one," Greenberg said. "She's our go- to player." To reckon with Brown's inside presence, Penn center Katie Kilker intends to play a physical style of play, keeping Brown off the boards. Kilker was flawless from the field against Harvard making all field goals and free throws attempted. "By using our strength and not letting them do what they want to do is how we are going to stop them," Kilker said. "We're going to make sure we always have contact." The Quakers will also be looking to utilize 6-foot-3 freshman Jenn Fleischer off the bench to help neutralize the Bears' height advantage. Yale (2-8 Ivy League) has not been a dominant force in the league this year. However, the Bulldogs battled Penn to an overtime game previously this season and the Red and Blue will be leery of their deceiving record this time around. "They're the types of games you hate because you know they come fired up and they play hard," Greenberg said. "At this point in the season there is no point to not have a lot of energy and not be ready."

https://www.thedp.com/article/2003/02/clark_to_play_through_stress_fracture_again

W. Hoops needs wins to stay in race

(02/07/03 10:00am)

The Columbia and Cornell women's basketball teams may be visiting Philadelphia on Friday and Saturday, respectively. They will both face a determined Penn women's basketball team, as the Quakers know they will need to win both games to remain a contender for the Ivy League crown. Although Columbia and Cornell will both outsize the Quakers on the hardwood, Penn coach Kelly Greenberg expressed confidence in her team's ability to win both games. "We obviously want to play well, and if we play well, we will walk away with two 'W's,'" Greenberg said. "If we are able to come out and start the game with a lot of energy and play smart, I think that will be the key to our weekend." Some energy will certainly come from junior Jewel Clark. The forward was named last week's Ivy League Player of the Week after averaging over 20 points and 14 rebounds per game against Delaware, Dartmouth and Harvard. The Red and Blue (7-9, 1-2 Ivy) emerged victorious against Delaware and Dartmouth but lost to Ivy-favorite Harvard on Sunday. Cornell (7-10, 1-3 Ivy) has struggled as of late -- losing four of its last five games. The Big Red, however, are coming off a win against Yale in their last contest and will look for point guard Karen Force once again to lead the team's efforts. Force scored a game-high 28 points against Yale last weekend. Penn starting point guard Tara Twomey will be responsible for holding Force at bay. Twomey, who dished seven assists at Dartmouth last weekend, is looking forward to returning home to the confines of the historic Palestra. "It's definitely a positive to play on your home court," Twomey said. "We practice here everyday and the traveling takes a lot out of you." The Penn coaching staff will be leery of the fact that former assistant coach Dyana Smith will be sitting on the opposing bench this time at the Palestra. The new Cornell assistant has not slipped off Greenberg's radar. "She certainly is familiar with everything we do and our personnel, so that puts a different twist on the game," Greenberg said. "We will have to be ready to make adjustments accordingly." Once the Big Red depart, Penn will face a more challenging opponent in Columbia (9-8, 2-2 Ivy), who have already defeated Cornell twice this season. The Quakers will attempt to declaw the Lions, who sit one spot above the Red and Blue at fourth in the Ivy League standings. Columbia, like Cornell, has gone cold as of late, losing its last two games to Ancient Eight foes Brown and Princeton. Opponents have outrebounded the Red and Blue by an average of five boards per contest. The Quakers will once again be challenged inside by the Lions, who have out-rebounded their opponents by over five per game this season. For this reason, Twomey stressed a need to gain an early lead, not only against Columbia, but also Cornell. "We just want to jump out on both teams early on and set the pace for the team from the start. It's really important that we get two wins this weekend for the rest of the season," Twomey said. If all goes according to plan, come Saturday night Penn will move into third -- and back into contention for the Ivy League Championship. With this in mind, Greenberg expressed a need for two victories this weekend. "After being away last week we are certainly ready to play at home this weekend," Greenberg said. "We've been playing pretty well and need to keep our momentum up. We wont be happy with anything else."

https://www.thedp.com/article/2003/02/w-hoops-needs-wins-to-stay-in-race

W. Hoops to face Delaware tonight

(01/28/03 10:00am)

Yogi Berra once proclaimed that the game isn't over until it's over. Perhaps this year's Penn women's basketball team's results live up to that claim. In a season that has seen 12 out of 13 games decided by 10 points or fewer, the women's basketball team will be looking to trap the Delaware Blue Hens early on tonight at the Palestra. Penn (5-8) plays host to the invading Blue Hens (11-4). After a lackluster start to the season -- in which they dropped their first three games -- the Blue Hens have flown to new heights, winning 11 out of their last 12 games in convincing fashion. Penn senior forward Sunny Pitrof expressed the need for strong play from her team tonight against the Hens, beginning at the opening tip. "We're definitely preparing to come out strong -- that's been a problem of ours in the past," Pitrof said. "Recently, we've done a lot better at increasing the intensity in the past two or three games, so we're trying to come out strong again tomorrow." Delaware will bring an up-tempo style of play into the confines of the Palestra, led by guard Allison Trapp. Trapp -- coming off a 34-point performance against Hofstra earlier this month -- and the rest of her offense-minded teammates have not gone unnoticed by the Quakers and their coaching staff. "She's the quickest player we will play all year," coach Kelly Greenberg said. "Our players are aware of her, and we're not going to be able to stop her totally. But if we can contain her and limit her shots, then I think we will do well." Penn will be attempting to avenge last year's loss to the Blue Hens, when they traveled to Newark, Del., and fell, 79-58. However, the Quakers will also be focused on fine tuning their skills in the final regular season matchup before their Ivy League schedule fills out their season starting Friday. Starting point guard Tara Twomey noted the closeness of the games played this season and the need for consistent play at this point in the schedule with Ivy League competition looming just a few days away. "There definitely are a lot of good things that we do, but a lot of games that we have lost we should have or could have won," Twomey said. "We just need to work on being consistent overall." This week will be telling for the Quakers, as the Red and Blue leave the Penn campus this weekend for matchups against Harvard and Dartmouth, two of the perennial favorites in Ivy League women's basketball. Yet Greenberg is welcoming the challenge of the two teams who out-size the Quakers and also tower over the passage to an Ivy League crown and postseason appearance. "We lost a lot of tough games early to very talented teams, and I really like our team -- the versatility, the youth, the leadership -- and I feel good going into the Ivy League," Greenberg said. "We are excited we are going right into the thick of things against Harvard and Dartmouth, who are traditionally the two best teams in the Ivy League."

https://www.thedp.com/article/2003/01/w-hoops-to-face-delaware-tonight

Students angry over Web post

(04/09/02 9:00am)

Some Penn students are angered by a message posted on a Penn newsgroup calling for the death of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims. The message, entitled "Time for Palestinians to Die" was posted on the newsgroup upenn.talk by School of Arts and Sciences graduate student Stephanie Winters on Friday, March 29. In the post, Winters labels Palestinians as "animals" who are "cognitively and genetically inferior to the rest of the human race." Winters made her remarks in reference to the Middle East conflict and recent suicide bombings. "If every Muslim has to die, so be it," the post read. "If all Muslims die, then we can take over their lands." Student leaders of minority groups were taken aback by the intensity of the post and say they have no doubt that the post is an example of "hate speech." "I was quite disgusted. it was so blatantly racist," United Minorities Council Political Chairman Shaun Gonzales said. "The comments were inflammatory and racist," Penn Arab Student Society Undergraduate President Yasmine El-Shamayleh added. Winters' is a Linguistics teaching assistant, and some students say they are concerned about the effect she could have on her colleagues and undergraduates. "You don't expect to see such incidents of hate speech" at Penn, UMC Chairman Papa Wassa Nduom said. "I don't know if I would feel comfortable as a minority being in her classroom," said El-Shamayleh, a College junior. Winters did not return an e-mail requesting comment. Members of PASS, a constituent member of the UMC, said they are anxious to publicize and tackle statements they view as extremely offensive. They have appealed to the administration, asking it to take action against what they view as Winters' abuse of authority. "With power comes responsibility," El-Shamayleh said. "When you're in a position of being a TA, you're put in a situation where you need to be held accountable," Gonzales added. PASS members have also distributed a letter among groups all over campus asking for a condemnation of hate speech. There are more than 20 endorsements so far from diverse groups, including the UMC and Penn Hillel. "We want different groups at Penn and different individuals to voice their opinion, and this is happening," PASS board member Amel Ahmed said. In the letter, PASS asks the Penn community to imagine that they were the subject of Winters' post and warn of hate speeches that could be directed against their own ethnic group. "This time around it was Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims," El-Shamayleh said. "Another time and place it could easily have been someone else." Winters has not broken any laws, though, and as she has made no threats against a specific person, she is still acting within her constitutional right to free speech. "I definitely have respect for the principle of free speech," Gonzales said. "Certainly anybody can say whatever they want to." But some students say that Winters, as a teaching assistant, crossed the line. "There are certain requirements, certain factors that have to be considered. in the context of the classroom," Nduom, a College sophomore, said. One notable faculty member disagreed with the students' course of action. "I don't think students need the administration to adjudicate their verbal disagreements," History Professor Alan Kors said. "You don't go running to mommy and daddy." Kors has experience on the topic of free speech, dating back to the 1993 "water buffalo" incident at Penn. That January, while a number of black students performed ritual songs for their sorority, 1996 College graduate Eden Jacobowitz yelled out of his high rise window, "Shut up, you water buffalo." The students claimed this was a racist remark, and the University attempted to bring charges against the student for violating Penn's speech code. However, Kors defended Jacobowitz and eventually won the case. Kors said he thought last month's racially-charged post was "particularly thoughtless," but that "moral outrage and moral condemnation" were better responses. "To say what you think of her is far more effective than making a free speech martyr of her," Kors said. "You're allowed to say hateful things. And the appropriate response is more free speech." Joshua Brown, the President of the Penn branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, echoed Kors' recommendation. "People must be vocal in denouncing hatred. everyone should speak out against her," Brown, a College sophomore said. Brown is concerned that the administration will play too great a part in the affair, leading to another University-wide controversy. "If the University starts punishing TAs and professors. they're not fostering an educational environment," Brown said. "What I'm worried about is that they're going to put restrictions on Winters' ability to TA." Both Kors and Brown say that the constitutional right of free speech is the most important consideration in these types of cases. "As abhorrent as the speech is, she still has the right to say it," Brown said. "You have to tolerate differences of opinions outside the classroom." PASS will hold an open board meeting tonight at 6:30 p.m. in Houston Hall, room 218.

https://www.thedp.com/article/2002/04/students_angry_over_web_post

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