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When Penn basketball met Dartmouth at the Palestra on Jan. 30, the Quakers picked up their first Ivy win of the season largely because they limited Big Green guard Alex Mitola to six points. On Saturday, the Red and Blue were nowhere near as lucky. In a game that featured 11 lead changes, Dartmouth rode 15 second-half points from Mitola and managed to surmount Penn's largest lead of the game with a clutch 17-6 run late in the contest, one that allowed the Big Green to pull away with a 67-62 win.




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Cathy Young, the author of the Daily Beast article telling the story of the alleged rape of Emma Sulkowicz's from Paul Nungesser's — the alleged rapist — point of view, is finding inconsistencies in Sulkowicz's story that she believes are "an invitation for people to suspend healthy skepticism" when it comes to charges of sexual assault. Following the piece on Jezebel.com "How to Make an Accused Rapist Look Good," written in an effort to challenge Young's story, Young became more doubtful of some of Sulkowicz's claims.  In one instance, Sulkowicz had told Young that during a visit to the Office of Gender-Based Misconduct, staff had asked her if she had tried to talk about the issue with Nungesser and that taking this to be a suggestion,she "sent him a text message saying she wanted to meet, but then back down realizing she was unable to face him." However, Sulkowicz changed her claim in the Jezebel article, now saying that she had texted him to talk, but "realize[d] that this is a silly thing to do" and did not go through with the meeting.  Young explains that though traumatic events may alter recollections of events, "when someone's story keeps changing in fairly significant ways, it's a potential red flag, and dismissing all such inconsistencies with the stock 'this is typical of rape survivors'" can lead people to not be as skeptical of evidence and claims as they should be.  "The reaction to my Daily Beast story," says Young, "shows just how fanatical and irrational the 'Believe the survivor' mindset of the campus crusade against rape has become." Read Young's full argument at Minding the Campus.





Freshman guard Antonio Woods stepped up in the absence of junior captain Tony Hicks, put up a team-high 12 points and four assists. However, the effort was not enough as Penn fell handily to Harvard, 69-46

Penn men’s basketball started Friday with the announcement that junior captain and leading scorer Tony Hicks was been suspended for the weekend’s games against Harvard and Dartmouth. Matters only became worse from there. The Quakers suffered a 69-46 slaughter at the hands of the four-time defending champion Crimson at Lavietes Pavilion Friday night, as Harvard won its 7th straight contest and Penn coach Jerome Allen recorded his 100th loss at the helm of the program. Wesley Saunders led the way for the Crimson (18-5, 8-1 Ivy) with a game-high 15 points while shooting 77.8 percent from the field, and Steve Moundou-Missi added 14 points to go along with four offensive rebounds. Playing without Hicks, who averages 13.0 points per game, the Quakers (7-15, 2-6) committed just three turnovers in the first half and entered the intermission down, 31-24, in large part due to 14 early second-chance points for the Crimson. The Red and Blue managed to cut the lead down to 31-28 with 17:23 remaining in the second half, but after that point, the tide turned for good.


Sophomore guard Matt Poplawski set a strong example for his teammates on Friday, making his first career start in the place of suspended junior captain Tony Hicks.

Well, this is getting pretty familiar. On a snowy Boston night at a sold-out Lavietes Pavillion, the Quakers were handed another humbling loss by Harvard, a 69-46 defeat that emphasized just how far Penn is from the Ancient Eight’s top tier. It was the fourth consecutive loss for the Quakers, with each defeat coming by at least 16 points.



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Penn students aren't the only ones questioning their school's mental health reforms. After Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin announced in an email that the University would be expanding its mental health services, students were still skeptical of Yale's changes.


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Massive open-online courses, or MOOCs, aren't just for Penn. Cornell is set to offer four new MOOCs starting next school year, ranging a variety of subjects. The four MOOCs will focus on shark biodiversity, engineering simulations, debate surrounding Genetically Modified Organisms and the principles of mergers/acquisitions, respectively. None of the courses have official names yet and will be taught by multiple professors, including some guest lectures.  Penn has examined MOOCs itself with some Wharton professors praising the online learning process.  For the full story, check out the Cornell Daily Sun.