4/22
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Penn guard Jelani Williams’ first college basketball home game was 1,795 days in the making
After suffering three consecutive ACL tears and enduring a canceled season last year, Jelani Williams, a fifth-year senior, played in his first collegiate home game this month, with an 85-57 win over Lafayette at the Palestra. Williams suffered a torn ACL for the first time as a senior in high school, and it would be nearly five years before he had the chance to play in a real basketball game again.
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Penn guard Jelani Williams' first college basketball home game was 1,795 days in the making
Jelani Williams, a senior, was profiled for his accomplishments on Penn’s basketball team. "All of the stuff he went through and how he handled it was, to me, a lesson in perseverance that all of us should learn from," Coach Steve Donahue said.
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NCAA panel backs spring athlete eligibility relief
In an email to a large group of administrators and other parties working in college athletics, NCAA Division I Council Committee chair Grace Calhoun, the athletic director at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote that the committee will “also discuss issues related to seasons of competition for winter sport student-athletes who were unable to participate in conference and NCAA championships.”
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The Ivy's last stand: Penn's 1979 Final Four run marked end of an era
An Ivy League team in the Final Four? Yep. Coach Bob Weinhauer’s basketball team didn’t seem to belong— the Quakers came from a bookworm conference that didn’t, and still technically doesn’t, allow athletic scholarships. Somehow, they found a way to accomplish a ludicrous goal and advance to the Final Four. It’s a feat no Ivy team has accomplished since.
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What happened to Salvador Cabañas?
The Perelman School of Medicine’s Ramon Diaz-Arrastia commented on soccer player Salvador Cabaña’s recovery from a traumatic brain injury. “Some people refer to these injuries as ‘hidden injuries,’ because if you were to look at the individual, on the surface – say you meet them at a cocktail party – they’d look perfectly normal, but the problems they are having are in the areas of executive functioning, in the areas of mood and emotional lability,” said Diaz-Arrastia.
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‘Professor Cope’: NFL linebacker’s offseason job? Teaching ‘Life 101’
Wharton alum and New York Jets linebacker Brandon Copeland was profiled for the financial literacy class he’s co-teaching with Brian Peterson of the School of Arts and Sciences. “I don’t care if you’re an engineering student, a nursing student, if you’re going to build rockets when you grow up or if you’re going to sweep floors. You’re going to have to use something in this class,” said Copeland.
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‘Professor Cope’: NFL linebacker’s offseason job? Teaching ‘Life 101’
Brandon Copeland, the New York Jets linebacker heading to free agency next month, and a Wharton graduate, returns to his alma mater to teach Inequity and Empowerment, Urban Financial Literacy along with Brian Peterson, the director of Makku, Penn's Black Cultural Center, calling the course Life 101.
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Penn makes clutch plays down the stretch to upset No. 17 Nova
Villanova tries to make a comeback against Penn, but the Quakers keep responding and come out with the 78-75 victory.
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What’s holding Carson Wentz back? Medical experts weigh in
Brian Sennett of the Perelman School of Medicine discussed possible treatments and results for Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz’s surgically-repaired knee.
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Video: Divide Between Black Football Players and Black Students A Concern to Both
Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education is cited for conducting a single-site study focused on student-athletes and race.