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Penn’s Lambda Phi Epsilon banned after alleged hazing Alleged activities involved physical exertion

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Lambda Phi Epsilon, Penn’s only Asian-interest fraternity, has been shut down indefinitely by the national headquarters after “significant evidence of hazing.”

The national Lambda Board of Directors voted on Dec. 21 to with-

draw the Lambda chapter following a university-led investigation into the hazing of pledges, according to a press release from Lambda Phi Epsilon Executive Director Jim Gaffney. Former Lambda members at Penn and University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy also confirmed the chapter’s closure.

Bwog, a Columbia University student news blog, reported in December 2018 that members of Columbia’s chapter of Lambda Phi Ep-

silon sent pledges to Penn’s campus to compete with Penn pledges in activities involving extreme physical exertion. The December post attributed information to an anonymous Columbia student who allegedly pledged the fraternity in spring 2018, but no official report confirmed the allegations at the time.

“We can confirm that our chapter has ceased all operations. We will not comment on any specifics about our new member education

process, but will say that parts of the December report from Bwog were misleading and dishonest,” an email sent to The Daily Pennsylvanian from the chapter’s official email account read. “Our hundreds of alumni over the past 25 years have strove to make positive change in the [Asian Pacific Islander Desi American] community at Penn and beyond and will continue to individually do so.”

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Senior Associate Athetic Director leaves Penn David Leach oversaw recreation and wellness SAM MITCHELL Podcast Editor

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David Leach, senior associate athletic director for recreation and wellness, has “stepped down from his position,” according to emails sent

by Penn Athletics Director M. Grace Calhoun on Jan. 18. Of all the administrative positions within Penn Athletics, Leach’s former role has the most direct impact on students — especially those who aren’t athletes.

The emails, sent to the Penn Recreation Advisory Committee and Leach’s staff on Friday, described his departure the day before as voluntary. Calhoun wrote that Scott Ward, senior associate athletics director and chief operations officer, would take over Leach’s role on an interim basis.

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Penn Athletics did not respond to a request for comment.

However, Leach’s departure came as a surprise to some who worked with him. At least one person who worked with Leach reported having ongoing conversations with him and a regular meeting planned for next week. The source wished to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution.

“I’m very sorry to leave Penn,” Leach wrote in a statement to SEE LEACH PAGE 8

UA pushes for free Penn given D+ on mental health report menstrual products Highest Ivy League grade goes to Penn

Students are working to provide tampons and pads CONOR MURRAY Staff Reporter

Penn has been lagging behind peer universities in making menstrual products available at no cost across campus — but some Undergraduate Assembly members are working to change that.

UA New Student Representative and College and Wharton freshman Nikhil Gupta is leading a project that will expand the accessibility of free pads and tampons in bathrooms and gender-neutral areas across campus.

He said he was inspired to take on the initiative after hearing other students say the lack of availability of these products on Penn’s campus is an inconvenience. Since the fall, Gupta has been working with University organizations, such as Stu-

dent Health Service and the LGBT Center, to make access to menstrual products more widespread.

Gupta said he aims to tackle highly frequented buildings on campus first, including Huntsman Hall, Van Pelt Library, college houses, and other high-traffic locations.

Making these products available in gender-neutral spaces is intended to increase accessibility to everyone regardless of their gender identity, Gupta said. He is also pushing for these products to be free to expand access to first-generation, low-income students, as well as to reduce stigmas that prevent menstrual products from being viewed as a necessity.

The UA is also tackling the related issue of a lack of tampon disposal containers in bathrooms across campus. College sophomore and associate member of the UA Armaun SEE UA PAGE 7

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Penn scored the highest in a recent mental health report out of all eight Ivy League schools — with a failing grade of a D+.

The report, conducted by the Ruderman Family Foundation in December, scrutinizes the policies surrounding leaves of absence across the Ivy League, particularly how universities sometimes force students with mental illnesses to take leaves of absence. None of the eight colleges received a passing grade. Yale University and Dartmouth College both received F’s, putting them at the bottom of the list.

The foundation’s Senior Program Officer Miriam Heyman, who wrote the paper, argued that, while a leave can be beneficial for students, it can also be used

by Ivy League universities to unfairly discriminate against students.

Heyman wrote in her report that Penn has policies that include “community disruption” as grounds for making a student take an involuntary leave. She also argues that Penn does not adequately notify students that they are entitled to alternative options, such as reduc-

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The report awarded all eight Ivies low grades for harsh leave of absence policies. Penn recently responded to mental health discussions with projects like the Campus Conversation series.

ing course load or receiving assignment extensions.

“The University has no comment on the report,” Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“Leaves are unique academic matters overseen by the student’s school, in collaboration with many campus partners.”

At Penn, approximately five percent of undergraduate students take a leave of absence for various reasons, including health concerns, preprofessional opportunities, and family needs, according to the University website.

The report also states that

mandating a minimum length of time for a leave of absence is harmful to students.

“The trajectory of mental illness and treatment varies from one person to the next, and the student should be allowed to return whenever he or she is ready,” the report read.

In 2015, the DP released an in-depth look into how students managed taking a leave for mental health reasons and found the process of returning back to campus significantly harder.

Melissa Song, College junior and co-director of peer counseling group Penn Benjamins, said she was aware

of instances when the University has put pressure on students to take a leave of absence.

“It should be the students’ own volition whether they take a leave of absence” Song said. “If the student wants to stay, then the school has an obligation to take care of that student and do whatever is necessary to keep them happy during their time at Penn.”

“For the school to step in and take away that agency can be extremely detrimental to students and loved ones,” she added.

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Penn Dems and PAGE unite for Women’s March Two groups attend marches in Center City CAMI DOO Staff Reporter

Chants of “I refuse to lose” and “I choose to be more than what you think of me” rang throughout the crowd. Signs read “Intersectional Feminism” and “Black Lives Matter.” Posters depicted U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dressed as Rosie the Riveter.

Among the crowd, a group of more than 30 students from Penn Democrats and Penn Association for Gender Equity joined thousands at the Women’s March in Center City on the morning of Jan. 19.

This year, there were two concurrent women’s marches in the city on Jan. 19 — the original, locally organized Philly Women Rally along Benjamin Franklin Parkway, along with a new, nationally organized event at LOVE Park. The national Women’s March

on Washington has recently been embroiled in controversy after the march’s co-chairs were accused of anti-Semitism.

Penn Dems and PAGE intended to participate in the locally organized event. The delegation of students met at the Women’s Center at 9 a.m. and arrived at the national march at LOVE Park. After listening to several speakers at the national march, the two student groups realized that they were at the incorrect event and walked to the locally organized Philly Women Rally at 11 a.m. The crowds at the Philly Women Rally far exceeded the numbers at the LOVE Park march.

Penn Dems President and College sophomore Emma Carlson said the group took a delegation of students to the march this year to encourage students to go, especially freshmen who have not had the chance to attend a women’s march before.

“We can’t be a solely on-campus club,” Penn Dems Political Direc-

tor and College sophomore Owen Voutsinas-Klose said. “Our goal was to bring everybody off-campus into the Philadelphia community and play a small part in the Women’s March.”

“It was remarkable how many people, beyond online posts or likes, actually turned out in person on a cold Saturday morning to protest what [President] Donald Trump’s doing, for women’s rights, to keep on the spirit of a movement that started two years ago,” Voutsinas-Klose said.

Carlson, who attended the march last year, noted that there were fewer people this year, but the same energy level and enthusiasm remained.

The #MeToo movement and continued instances of sexual assault also compelled College freshman Aidan Mayer Ahearn to attend the march with Penn Dems.

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Voutsinas-Klose also added that everyone, including men, should be supportive of the national women’s movement.

“Men can be active supporters in the women’s movement by listening to the voices of women and hearing exactly what their concerns are,” Voutsinas-Klose said.

College sophomore Rachel Steinig also spoke at the local Philly Women Rally to advocate for the gun control movement, March for Our Lives.

“As a queer Jewish woman, it’s terrifying that there are bigots out there that believe people like me shouldn’t exist,” Steinig said on stage. “What’s even more terrifying is how easy it is for these bigots or for anyone to get access to a gun in America. But instead of cowering in fear, we need to rise up — we need to demand comprehensive gun control legislation.”

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Members of the Penn and Philadelphia communities gathered on campus Monday for a Day of Service to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The day’s executive planning committee hosted a series of events both on and off campus for the annual MLK Commemorative Symposium on Social Change, which will continue until Feb. 1.

The program started with a Day of Service Breakfast featuring a guest lecture from Uva Coles, associate vice president for civic and global engagement at Widener University. After the breakfast, Houston Hall remained the base for many of the day’s projects. Activities included creating bags of toiletries for women in local shelters and working with Helping Hands to create gifts for West Philadelphia residents.

Penn President Amy Gutmann also stopped by different events shortly before noon as many tables in Houston Hall saw growing lines of eager participants.

“I’m so proud of the Penn community for engaging the youngest children from our community to citizens who have been here for generations,” Gutmann said. “We’re all together today, which is really important.

And the message we’re sending couldn’t be more important or more timely.”

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policy, “students whose psychiatric, psychological, or other medical condition causes them to pose a threat to themselves or others, or causes them to significantly disrupt the educational and other activities of the University community, may be required to take a leave of absence from the University.”

Universities may want to force students struggling with mental health to take a leave of absence for several reasons,

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brary, attendees created audiobooks of multicultural children’s books as part of the Penn Reads Literacy Project. Both the audio recordings and physical copies will be donated to Philadelphia youth.

The Day of Service also included a panel of graduate students who spoke to local high schoolers about careers in STEM fields. Day of Service committee member and fourth year Penn Dental student David Mazor created the panel last year.

“A lot of times these careers are very rigid and you kind of have to know even before you are college which track you want to do and which courses to take,” Mazor said. He added that the panel was meant to emphasize King’s core principle of using education as a means of selfimprovement.

Daniel Song, a second-year exchange student from the University of Melbourne, said he first heard about Martin Luther King Jr. Day when it was discussed during his orientation.

Song said he saw the day as a chance to contribute something meaningful while experiencing a celebration unique to the United States.

“It was a good chance to experience what it’s like living in America,” he said.

Some service-oriented student groups also took part in the Day of Service. CityStep, a group that mentors local Philadelphia youth through arts education, helped with a community beau-

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The Day of Service featured speakers and activities including creating bags of toiletries for women in local shelters and helping create gifts for West Philadelphia residents. A panel of graduate students also spoke about careers in STEM to local high schoolers.

tification project at the Laura Sims Skate House, where they cleaned floors and bathrooms.

“I think it’s nice to maintain relationships with West and South Philly schools, especially since we go into a lot of them,”

Heyman wrote, including the fear that the school might receive negative media coverage and the possibility of being found legally responsible for students who die by suicide.

Students have raised concerns related to leave of absence policies in recent years.

In 2017, Penn saw significant dialogue about mental health, following the deaths of seven students. The University responded to pushback from students by organizing a Campus Conversation series. Just this month, Penn announced

CityStep member and College junior Grace Wu said.

The day concluded with a candlelit vigil featuring songs and quotes from King as students and faculty marched from Du Bois College House to College

Green.

Reverend Charles Howard said he hoped students would come away from the day recognizing the importance of both doing service and working for justice, adding that the current

that a new executive director of Counseling and Psychological Services had been hired, as the school aims to decrease waiting times “between a first consultation and a first counseling appointment.”

“I think the Ivy League schools are leaders of the sector of higher education, so I hope they see this as an opportunity for leadership,” Heyman said.

“They all have a lot of room to improve and I hope that if they take steps to address some of the issues that our papers identify, other schools will follow.”

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OPINION Acknowledge the narratives of black students at Penn KEEPING UP WITH KALIYAH | Why I decided to join The Daily Pennsylvanian

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But my narrative cannot be brushed aside with the optimistic notion that all Penn students are experiencing the same Penn.”

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he art of being black at a predominantly white institution isn’t always

pretty.

It is noting the experiences you have that others do not, simply because of the color of

your skin, whether those experiences bring tears of grief or joy. It is searching the school newspaper’s website for the word "black," to read about problems that are unique to your community, and coming

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up with only a few articles that cover what it means to be a black student.

It is noticing how few people there are like you on your school’s publication and finding yourself looking for a black newspaper, as if your issues are just yours.

It was for this reason that I decided to join The Daily Pennsylvanian this past fall. I felt I couldn’t complain about the issue if I wasn't taking any action toward improvement.

In my first couple months at Penn, I have experienced unintentional racial segregation.

I have found myself slowly giving into the “them and us” mentality, often unaware that as a black student at Penn, it is easy to live a thoroughly removed life from my white classmates. It's true that there are articles in the DP that are applicable to people of all races, and many people have made efforts to diversify the newspaper. In fact, dur ing my short time as a columnist, I have not once received any backlash or hesitation from my editor on my race-related articles.

I went to boarding school, another place where diversity was meant to be abundant.

There were substantially fewer black people at my school than at Penn. I was the minority in almost any setting other than a Black Student Union meeting.

My friends and I spent four years in each other’s rooms, at a dining hall table, and in

the toast room — a boarding school snack room — talking about religion, love, and family in any and all contexts. There were not many people around that looked like me then, so I leaned into discomfort, or rather, was gently shoved into it.

High school is a challenging time for all, but I felt that as one of few black people in my graduating class, I was made to be a spokesperson on race issues more often than was appropriate. While I did my share of educating friends on racism in high school, I do believe that my experience with racism alone does not define my being. My individual exper iences of love, fa m ily, community service, and academic passion are shaped by my identity with blackness — influenced by oppression, but not necessarily tainted by it.

But my na r rative cannot be brushed aside with the optimistic notion that all Penn students are experiencing the same Penn.

This article was my pitch to join the DP months ago, and before writing it, I reached out to mentors to make sure that it didn’t come off as abrasive. I don’t believe any conversation about race should have to be so stressful. I think that we can have conversations about race in ways that don’t only focus on racism. Yes, police brutality and the 13th Amendment a re very real and pressing issues; that does not mean that

KALIYAH DORSEY those are the only things that affect black students at Penn.

What is important is that we hear each other as peers. I can talk for hours about why I feel like I needed the HBO series “Insecure” or why my mom worries about me being careful in college for different reasons than your mom worries about you — I’m certain anyone on this campus has stories specific to their identity that they would love to share if given the chance.

This is not a contest for who has it worse. This is a call to acknowledge that the narrative of your black peers is different from your own. A call to give all students stories that they can truly identify with — schools and school newspapers are for students, after all.

While statistics have their use, we know that diversity is more than a number. Let’s start talking.

KALIYAH DORSEY is a College freshman from Pennsauken, N.J., studying English. Her email address is kaliyahd@sas.upenn.edu.

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t’s time for Penn to follow other universities in offering free pads and tampons to students across campus. The Undergraduate Assembly recently announced it is working to increase accessibility to menstrual products, an initiative that will entail placing tampons in gender-neutral spaces and reducing “stigmas that prevent menstrual products from being viewed as a necessity.” The UA’s initiative is a step in the right direction. Still, Penn must take action too.

Periods can be expensive.

Tampons, which on average cost $5.99 a pack in the United States, are costly in and of themselves.

This excludes the price of painkillers like Midol, heating pads, and panty liners — all products that many women make use of.

This is a heavy cost to shoulder for low-income college students who often worry about paying their rent and their student loans.

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Last February, Sasha Mennino and Iris Peron-Ames — two local eighth graders — worked to bring tampons to Penn for first-generation students who can’t afford them. They held a tampon drive and named their project “Kalina’s Cabinet” in honor of their friend

Kalina Kozlowski. who took her own life.

When discussing the inspiration for their project, Mennino and Peron-Ames cited an experience that Peron-Ames’ mother Melanie Peron, a French professor at Penn, had with one of her

female students. The student told Peron “that money is so tight she must sometimes choose between eating breakfast or buying tampons.”

Many of our Ivy League peer institutions have made strides in increasing accessibility to men-

strual products on campus. Every Harvard University dorm now provides free menstrual products.

Brown University offers free tampons and pads in every campus bathroom. In 2017, Cornell University began dispensing free tampons in some campus bathrooms. Why is Penn lagging behind other schools to combat such an important issue?

Menstrual products are a necessity. While it is encouraging that the UA recognizes this, Penn’s administration has a responsibility to do so as well.

Menstrual products are just as necessary as toilet paper and paper towels. They should be made available in bathrooms across campus. The administration should make concrete steps to increase accessibility to menstrual products on campus because students should never have to choose between eating breakfast and managing their periods.

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Joining a sorority isn’t the only way to make the most of your Penn experience EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

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orority recruitment can be unforgiving. It demands hours of small talk, trudging through the cold, and being subject to the opinions of older peers. Each year, freshmen emerge from rush with bids from sororities, hundreds of friends stronger than they began. But it is inevitable that the process will leave many young women feeling inadequate, disappointed, and confused about their futures at Penn.

At first glance, it might not

another club. It is certainly not the be-all and end-all of your Penn experience, even though it might seem that way right now.

As you watch some of your friends begin pledging, attending formals and date nights, and being paired with big sisters, you might feel excluded or upset. Penn is a challenging place to go to school, and it can be lonely. Being in a Greek organization might alleviate that a bit, but there are plenty of other groups and individuals on campus that are here to sup-

A sorority is just like another club. It is certainly not the be all and end all of your Penn experience, even though it might seem that way right now.” seem like Greek life is a huge part of the culture at Penn. Only 25 percent of students are involved. Still, especially as an underclassman, it can feel like sororities and fraternities dominate the social scene. It can feel like not gaining membership to a sorority or deciding to leave the process is a very big deal.

Joining a sorority can be extremely rewarding. It lends itself to extensive networking opportunities, making friends, and providing freshmen a place at Penn. But, for the women who weren’t as lucky, you will be fine. A sorority is just like

port students. Take advantage of them.

Freshman year is full of challenges: adapting to a different environment, living away from family, taking difficult classes, and making new friends. But being comfortable here often takes more time than just one semester, or just a few days of rush.

Greek life isn’t for everyone.

We all must find what is right for us.

Discovering what you want to make of your time at Penn is challenging. Still, there are countless options. Start a peti-

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tion about something you care about, join a club you’ve always wanted to but didn’t get around to, ask your favorite professor to get coffee.

It’s okay to be hurt if you were cut from a sorority that

you wanted so desperately to join. Rejection can be painful.

Take the time that is needed to process those emotions. But don’t get too hung up on them, because there are plenty of freshmen feeling exactly as you

do right now. You just might not have found them yet.

This message extends beyond sorority recruitment. All of us will have to face rejection at some point during our four years here, whether that

be from a summer internship, from a club, or from a class you wanted to join. Don’t let it distract you from why you’re a student at Penn. A year from now, you probably won’t give it a second thought.

Gendered organizations are a problem — even outside of Greek life OUT OF TURN | Why Penn should follow Harvard in reexamining single-sex clubs on campus

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he r ush process for Interfrater nity Council a nd Pa n hellen ic organizations is ending, and the chance to earn coveted spots in these sororities and fraternities is dominating the conversations of hundreds of underclassmen. Outside of the Greek scene, many popular performing arts groups restrict membership to performers with a certain gender identity. Gendered groups abound at Penn, and while it’s rare for anyone to take issue with that fact, maybe more of us should.

Across the Ivy League and outside of it, students are “standing up to Harvard.” The university’s policies of banning “gender-exclusive” social groups — including fraternities, sororities, and final clubs — and of sanctioning members of unrecognized single-gender groups by barring them from

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campus leadership positions and university backing have been met with pushback at every

say the measures promote “nondiscrimination and inclusivity,” while critics have said that Har-

Repurposing gendered systems like Greek life might make them palatable to a more progressive generation, but it doesn’t change the fact that on a structural level, they advance a certain set of expectations about how men and women are supposed to interact.” stage of their development and implementation over the past few years. University officials

vard is denying its students the right of free association, going too far in the name of “political

correctness,” or alternately, disenfranchising women and minority students by taking away their spaces and subjecting its students to a “culture of intimidation and fear."

While Harvard and Penn are peer institutions, I can’t imagine a similar policy being proposed here, much less being successful. We might not have final clubs, but gendered spaces dominate our campus. Fraternities loom large — both in their physical presence on campus and their outsized influence on the social scene.

Just because highly gendered groups and spaces are so prevalent at Penn doesn’t mean the phenomena is natural or inevitable. Let’s admit it: It is kind of weird that we, as a campus, are gender segregated to such an extreme. It is vital that we discuss the impact of these organizations on the Penn community.

Penn is old, and many of our student groups have storied traditions. But the flip side of that is many of them emerged from a time with a different social climate — when female undergraduates were still “coeds” and outsiders, when Hill was built with a moat to keep men away from the then all-female dorm, when your gender was tied to assumptions about why you were in college and how you would behave.

Repurposing gendered systems like Greek life might make them palatable to a more progressive generation, but it doesn't change the fact that on a structural level, they advance a certain set of expectations about how men and women are supposed to interact. Mixers are fine, but “brotherhood” and “sisterhood” are off-limits.

Men and women can party together, but not perform together.

Underlying all of this is the assumption that women will be more comfortable in the company of women, and men in the company of men. In 2019, that assumption is outdated, exclusionary of other identities and gender expressions, and juvenile.

There are many arguments for the value of single-gender groups, some of which are more valid than others. Not every kind of group is equally suited to integration — for instance, Harvard Athletics is keeping teams gendered for logistical and legal reasons (and no one is arguing that they shouldn’t). But we have to think critically about when gender-exclusive spaces are honestly necessary, and when they are just the result of tradition. Across clubs at Penn, we need to push for more groups and organizations to accept students of all gender identities.

Much has been made about the fact that Harvard's policies are erasing sororities and allfemale groups — taking away valuable spaces for women. Not

ANA WEST only does this feel like an incomplete truth in that sororities at Penn and other institutions can be expensive and selective in a way that excludes many undergraduate women, but it also seems like a dubious one. In an era where “safe spaces” are being decried and diversity of opinion is being mourned, why is it that organizations which are set up so only one gender’s voice is heard get a pass? Gender identity is a charged issue, and sometimes tailoring the conversation to specific groups can be beneficial. Still, we could gain so much more by opening up those spaces — but that will never happen when every group claims it would not work for them, and that they are the exception.

The organizations we belong to at Penn matter. They dictate what our schedules look like, the classes we take, the careers we pursue, and — maybe most importantly — the people that we spend time with. For that reason, we need to discuss what makes a member of the communities we belong to here, and whether or not gender is a crucial component of our groups' identities. A policy like Harvard’s might not be popular or feasible — now, or ever — but a student-led push to break down the barriers of the gendered spaces and organizations at Penn is long overdue.

ANA WEST is a College sophomore from Spring Lake, Michigan studying English. Her email address is anawest@sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn alum gives PJs to support moms with NICU newborns She launched her initative at Penn Medicine KATHARINE SHAO Staff Reporter

After giving birth, most mothers are discharged from the hospital with balloons and a baby in their arms. 2015 Master’s of Bioethics graduate Bridget Nolan-McKinney said she had to leave the hospital empty handed.

Her daughter Nora was born prematurely and would have to spend time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

When she arrived home, NolanMcKinney, who is an obstetriciangynecologist at Penn Medicine, said her mother had given her a fresh set of pajamas, a reminder for NolanMcKinney to rest and recover. After bringing her daughter home two weeks later, Nolan-McKinney said she was determined to provide support to every mother who also had

to leave the hospital with her baby staying in the NICU. She said this is what prompted her to launch her new initiative, PJs with a Smile, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

“I realized that there’s so much focus on baby that there’s not enough focus on mom during this time, and I wanted to do something special for moms,” she said.

Through the project, every mother discharged without her baby is given a care package containing a fresh-cut flower and a new set of pajamas.

To launch her initiative, NolanMcKinney worked with The Superhero Project, a nonprofit founded in 2015 that aims to help NICU families. The Superhero Project was founded by Kelly Gallagher, whose own experience as a NICU mom inspired her to help other NICU moms through a difficult time.

The PJs with a smile package also includes a note from a former NICU mom and her contact information.

For Nolan-McKinney, connecting NICU moms with one another is one of the most important aspects of the initiative.

“Unless you go through the experience, you really can’t know what it’s like or have the right advice.”

Nolan-McKinney said.

“It’s that whole line of having empathy, not sympathy, and being able to say to somebody ‘I understand what you’re going through’ is so important for moms,” Gallagher said.

NICU moms are at a high risk of developing postpartum depression and anxiety. One study showed up to 70 percent of women whose babies spend time in the NICU have experienced postpartum depression to some extent.

Sarah Wadsworth, a clinical practice leader at Penn Medicine, said while the hospital does host some support groups for mothers, there was no formal support given specifically for NICU moms. She added that though doctors and nurses offer

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“A lot of times the moms don’t even know what questions they have,” Wadsworth said. “They don’t know if the feelings they’re feeling are normal. I think it’s really important for them to know that it’s OK to feel stressed, it’s OK to feel upset, and to know they’re not the only ones [feeling this way].”

Though PJs with a Smile only launched last November, NolanMcKinney already has plans to host a 5K in May to fundraise for the initiative and launch a nationwide NICU mom letter-writing campaign.

Nolan-McKinney said she hopes to eventually expand the initiative to hospitals around the country.

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Jackson named dean of Annenberg School for Communication The previous dean held the position since 2003 JULIE COLEMAN Deputy News Editor

When Penn President Amy Gutmann offered John Jackson the position of dean of the Annenberg School for Communication last year in 2018, he said he felt the “stars aligned.”

Jackson, who served as dean of Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice before taking on the new role, took office Jan. 1, 2019. Communication professor Michael Carpini had held the position for more than 15 years, since 2003.

Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett announced Jackson’s appointment on Feb. 6, 2018 after a search committee to fill the position was formed

in October 2017. Jackson has worked at Penn for more than 12 years, serving as dean of SP2 since 2014. He is also the Richard Perry University Professor, as well as a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with appointments in Annenberg and the College of Arts and Sciences.

One of his goals, Jackson said, is to collaborate with SP2 to “take advantage of the sparks that fly when social policy and communication connect.”

Jackson added that he is assuming the role at a critical moment for Annenberg because of the nation’s widespread political and social polarization, adding that the school was designed to help answer questions about the link between a changing media and political landscape.

“So [the media] is both ubiquitous but also almost universally demonized in some ways,” Jackson said. “How do we really get past all of the histrionics about how mass media landscape is changing and really try to figure out what we can learn about what these new technologies provide [and] how it transforms our sense of social community?”

“The discussion should be organized not around people’s ideologies or their impressions but around data and the facts,” Jackson said.

Carpini said he “could not be more excited” for Jackson’s tenure given his leadership and ideas for the school.

“I think he is the ideal choice for the school given how much he knows about [Penn],” Carpini said.

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John Jackson took office on Jan. 1, saying that he hopes to collaborate with Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice in his new position. He was previously dean of SP2 since 2014.

City Hall confronts gentrification after local apt. put on sale Meeting involved activists and housing company CHRIS DOYLE Staff Reporter

The impending sale of an 80-year-old West Philadelphia apartment building has united the fight against losing affordable housing in the city. As the deadline approaches for all 19 residents to vacate the building, the city government and community members are working together — believing that Penn can help in the future with promoting affordable housing.

The Arvilla, located at 45th and Osage streets, is a 16-unit apartment building that housed primarily low-income residents. On Oct. 18, some Arvilla residents were notified that the building would soon be sold to for-profit developers, terminating their leases.

At a City Hall meeting on Jan. 16, councilwomen Jan-

nie Blackwell and Helen Gym hosted a joint meeting with the affordable housing nonprofit Mission First Housing Group — which owns the Arvilla and terminated the residents’ leases — and the community group Protect Arvilla Residents, also known as PAR. The decision to sell the apartment has sparked intense backlash, prompting PAR to campaign to create more low-income housing in the city.

“I think [the meeting] went well,” Blackwell said. “Most people had the same mission [with the Arvilla] but it didn’t really work out that way, so going forward we’re going to work together a little more closely.”

The decision to sell the apartment was made because Mission First lacked funding to renovate the Arvilla, Mission First Director of Business Development Mark Deitcher said.

The building, he notes, was in desperate need of renovation.

He stated that rising incomes

in Spruce Hill disqualified the building from receiving certain, important tax credits Mission First Senior Project Manager Kevin Smith added that the group has worked with residents throughout the relocation process, covering moving costs and working to get the residents preferred housing.

Still, the decision to sell the apartment has come under fire.

Over the past three months, PAR has organized a prolific campaign to help Arvilla residents, garnering support and attention from the press, including through community zoning meetings and social media.

Although many Arvilla residents have already vacated the building, PAR organizer and 2002 College graduate JJ Tiziou said the group remains committed to their goals.

“It seems like it’s maybe now too late for [the Arvilla],” Tiziou said. “But it seems that the tune has changed and there

are conversations to be had in the future.”

Both members of PAR and Mission First said that they were open towards the idea of working together to help provide affordable housing — including involving Penn.

“At the end, one of the members of PAR said ‘hey, let’s work together moving forward,’” Deitcher said, “and we said ‘great, let’s bring the University of Pennsylvania to the table and let’s try to build some affordable housing.”

PAR member and 1971 College graduate Mary McGettigan said that considering Penn’s tremendous impact on real estate values in the city, she thought it was appropriate the University helps try to make Philadelphia more affordable.

Penn’s investments in West Philadelphia, such as the Penn Alexander School and Penn Home Ownership Services for its staff and faculty, have driven

up real estate values in some neighborhoods near campus.

These recent investments are correlated with the loss of lowincome housing units in West Philadelphia.

Tiziou said that by addressing this role, Penn would satisfy the core values it lists on its website.

“President Gutmann stated intentions around ‘inclusion and innovation and impact,’ that’s what this is about,” Tiziou said.

“There’s an opportunity here to have a significant impact on the trajectory of the neighborhood and to find innovative ways to make it more inclusive.”

Tiziou said on Jan. 3 that PAR met with Penn’s Vice President for Government and Community Affairs Jeffrey Cooper to discuss expanding its role in the advancement of affordable housing.

Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs did not respond to request for comment.

Along with the desire for Penn to contribute, there may also be the need for greater community involvement as a whole.

Councilwoman Gym, who is a 1993 College graduate, said that change rests on broader, citywide involvement.

“Where the conversation goes now actually goes back to the community,” Gym said.

“If we’re going to be able to do more, we’re going to need to get communities to organize for the values they believe in.”

Longtime West Philadelphian Mary Battle Cook was a resident of the Arvilla since the first notice of sale was issued. She said that she is looking towards the activism of groups like PAR to help improve the situations that low-income Philadelphians continuously face.

“I’m hoping it helps change things,” Cook said. “[So] when we do get placed somewhere else, that it’ll be somewhere that we’ll want to be.”

Du Bois event explores African Diaspora for MLK Day Panelists spoke about ties to African ancestors AMANDA O’BRIEN Contributing Reporter

To a crowded room of about 90 people, six panelists spoke about the relationship between African American people and Africa on Friday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. The event, titled “Strengthening Ties within the African Diaspora,” was organized by Penn Dental clinical receptionist Sonja Claxton as part of the annual Penn Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. Hosted by Du Bois College House, the talks were co-sponsored by the Penn Women’s Center and the AfricanAmerican Resource Center.

Claxton said the Jan. 18 event

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commemorates 400 years since the first Africans were sold as enslaved people in North America.

“We take this time to really thank our ancestors who made the trip and those who were unable to make it,” Claxton said. “We honor [King’s] legacy, and we honor his ancestors’ legacy and journey from Africa to America and the work that they have done.”

Panelists included Michael Griffin, CEO of Ashanti Produce International, and Lydia Henry, co-producer of the 2018 Global Women X Business and Professional Conference.

The speakers discussed the different connections between African-American people and Africa, including the importance of business ties.

“I’ve been doing business in Af-

rica for the past 27 years,” Griffin said. “I look at Africa as the new melting pot.”

Panelist and filmmaker Nware Burge talked about the value of taking on traditional African names over the names passed down by white owners of enslaved people.

“Last names like Jackson, Johnson, Wilson, Smith, O’Neale … come from England, from the slave master,” Burge said.

Lawyer Mark Gyandoh, another panelist, also told the crowd about his family’s history to emphasize the importance of the connection between African-American people and their ancestors.

“I’m married to an American from New York actually and we took our kids back [to Ghana] for the first

time,” Gyandoh said. “Those kids are American but I wanted them to see their roots as well.”

“I think they have the best of both worlds,” he said. “They are connected to their ancestors from both sides.”

Claxton added that the event was inspired by Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon,” a nonfiction book based on her interviews with Cudjo Lewis, one of the last living survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.

Students said they attended the event to learn more about Africa and its people.

“African Americans should learn more about Africans than we know right now,” College freshman Beyonce Lightfoot said.

Jessica Adedipe, a School of Social Policy & Practice graduate

tampons themselves or other sorts of products, but I had never really considered that the actual containers they have to be disposed in would be lacking on this campus,” Rouhi said.

The absence of these containers “poses an environmental risk,” Rouhi said, since flushing these products may cause harm to oceanic life.

Rouhi first started working on the 1920 Commons, which now has tampon disposal containers in women’s bathrooms. Since then, Rouhi has ensured that restrooms in Houston Hall, ARCH building, and Fisher Fine Arts Library all have these containers. He is also looking to work on Van Pelt next, especially

the popular ground floor restrooms.

Rouhi’s project has revealed other inadequacies of Penn’s bathrooms, which he has started addressing.

“On top of tackling the tampon disposal containers, we also got a lot of stall locks and other things in bathrooms fixed up,” Rouhi said.

Rouhi said he hopes to imple-

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Gaffney said he could neither confirm nor deny the accuracy of the article’s quote. Former members of Penn’s Lambda chapter also declined to comment on the specific initiation process of pledges.

Bwog also reported that New York University’s Lambda chapter was involved in the hazing as well, sending members to Columbia’s campus to take part in the hazing.

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Panelists spoke about the relationship between African American people and Africa, including the importance of business ties.

student pursuing a master’s degree, said she believed the event connected well with Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, adding that the event reflected King’s “pride in black people.”

“I think celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. is a fabulous thing that we always need to promote,” Adedipe said. “I think by doing so we are celebrating African culture and black people.”

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when he took over, and he was sort of everything I had been hoping for when he took the position,” College senior Justin Bean said. “[He] knew everyone by name and knew things about us; he was a very good manager, a very nice, kind person. Also he was very receptive to feedback: that was sort of emulated by the fact that he created the Recreation Advisory Committee. …

I think a lot of the managers were pretty receptive to what his vision was, which was a pretty strong vision.”

Eng i ne er i ng sen ior Eve Phelps, who worked wit h Leach through the Recreation Advisory Committee, and Col-

Leach was hired in February 2017 and has since led Pen n Ca mpus Recreat ion, which oversees club sports, intramural sports, and other health and wellness activities hosted at the Pottruck Health and Fitness Center, the Hecht & Hamlin Tennis Center, and other facilities. At the time, Calhoun described Leach as “a top-notch professional” and said he would be a member of the “senior leadership team” at Penn.

“I first met Dave Leach

lege junior Kiran Raja felt that the club sports program was unorga nized a nd str uggled with finances and communication prior to 2017. Both work closely with the club sports administration through their membership on the Spor ts Club Council. Leach led a push to improve communication and consolidate club finances.

He brought back Wellness Wednesdays, a promotion featuring free classes at Pottruck, and promoted other popular programs, helping students

and the Campus Rec staff to create new fitness classes, and expand access to club sports.

According to Phelps and Raja, Leach also worked to improve the financial system for club sports. Prior to 2017, club sports finances were decentralized to the point that Penn had little to no records of how money was being spent and what dues were being collected by the 37 club teams. A few teams even ended up in debt because of the lack of accountability, eventually leading to a freeze on adding new clubs.

Now, the Sports Club Council oversees a l l f ina ncia l decisions and meets weekly, including regular budget meetings. Members of the council have worked, under Leach’s direction, to communicate directly with club sports about finances, mandate clear financial reporting, and allocate funds effectively.

Although the depa r tment made progress over the nearly two years of Leach’s leadership, Campus Rec was still understaffed, chief ly because the role of Sport Club supervisor was left unfilled after the selection committee offered the role to two candidates and both declined the position, according to Raja, who was involved in interviewing candidates for the position.

“There has been a lot of turnover and the staff is pretty stretched thin and has a lot going on at all times [so] that even just running the baseline level is a little hectic,” Raja said.

This sentiment is echoed by some on the club teams themselves.

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were unable to put much distance between them and the Owls for much of the first half.

Coach Steve Donahue continued to have faith in his offensive approach, and it paid off for the Quakers, who shot 40 percent from three on the day.

“The shots may not fall some games — they did tonight — but we know what we’re going to get defensively every night,” Donahue said.

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ki was key for Penn’s offense in the first half. After checking into the game early on, he knocked down two threes to help the Quakers establish a small lead. Mijakowski again caught fire late in the half, hitting two more threes to put the Quakers up by as many as 12, giving him an impressive 14 first-half points. “[Mijakowski] gave us exactly what we all know he’s capable of,” junior forward AJ Brodeur said. “If

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“In my two years I’ve enjoyed putting the Recreation Advisory Committee together, getting a wonderful staff in place, and working on major improvements to an aging Gimbel Gym — the Multi-Purpose Room and addition of air conditioning.

“I’m confident my staff will continue pushing forward great initiatives for the students, faculty and staff at Penn and continue to make the health and well-being of the Penn Community a top priority.”

There has been a lot of turnover and the staff is pretty stretched thin and has a lot going on at all times [so] that even just running the baseline level is a little hectic. - Kiran Raja

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making two of them. By the end of the first half, 18 of the Penn’s 28 shots were threes.

Leaning on the three ball may have hurt the Quakers early, however, as they could not reliably translate their suffocating defense into points on the other end. Because of this, the Red and Blue

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Senior Associate Athletic Director for Recreation and Wellness David Leach parted ways with Penn Athletics on Thursday. In his two years here, Leach was well-liked by both students and staff who worked with him.

“ T h e m a n a ge m e nt h a s changed, and so when the management changed, a lot of information was not passed on or people don’t have welldefined roles or seem confused about what they need to do and so that has been kind of frustrating,” Wharton senior and club volleyball captain Tiffany Chang said. “We’ve missed a lot of dates and opportunities because of the inefficiency.”

you came in to any of our practices you would know why he played as much as he did today, and you would understand why he’s going to continue to give that kind of production.”

In their recent losing streak, the Quakers finally started to show how much they were missing leading scorer Ryan Betley after his early season injury. They needed a spark from the bench, and they got it from an unlikely trio of Mijakowski, sophomore forward Jarrod Simmons, and junior guard Ray Jerome.

Late in the first half, this big three of bench leaders took over, giving the Quakers quality minutes as they built up a ten-point halftime lead. This was not unexpected for Donahue, who had seen these three give the starters stiff competition in practice. It was a matter of whether they could all perform on both ends of the floor.

“I thought one sign was [Mijakowski] had a great interior rebound in the first half that said to me he’s not just a shooter … it was always down on the other end; the defense, the rebounding, the toughness that I think he’s now someone who can really help us,” Donahue said.

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has been on since Donahue took over four years ago, has already been well-documented. But even if the Quakers’ recent accomplishments make a win like Saturday night’s less surprising, they shouldn’t make such a win any less significant.

For starters, this was probably Temple’s best team since the Lavoy Allen-led 2009-10 squad that went 29-6 and won the Atlantic 10. That Temple squad was in the top 25 all year long until falling to an upstart No. 12 seed Cornell in the first round of the NCAA Tournament — a team coached by, of course, Steve Donahue. And in Donahue’s first win over former mentor Fran Dunphy since then, the stakes weren’t quite as high as a win-or-go-home March Madness showdown, but the implications are almost as great.

Penn simply wasn’t supposed to win the Philly mini-conference this soon. Really, no one besides Villanova is supposed to take it — the Wildcats had won 25 consecutive Big 5 games before the Quakers pulled off last month’s upset. But Penn? The lone Ivy in the miniconference? After not even having finished .500 in Big 5 play once in the past twelve seasons?

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Leach made improved communication a goal for the depa r tment, putting it into practice by making connections with his subordinates and creating the Recreation Advisory Committee to increase the amount of student input and feedback.

In a role that already had more potential for student interaction and involvement than most administrators, Leach

distinguished himself by graciously accepting feedback from students, work ing to improve, and making real connections outside the scope of his job description, according to Bean and others who interacted with Leach.

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Energy from Penn men’s basketball’s bench was present all night long as the Quakers led nearly from start to finish to clinch the Big 5 title.

try to reward guys who do it in practice.”

Temple displayed a real sense of urgency to open the second half with its Big 5 fate on the line.

The Owls were evidently keen on preventing the Red and Blue from shooting as often from three-point land as they did in the first half.

The Quakers responded in kind, aggressively attacking the basket and drawing fouls. Junior guard Devon Goodman and Brodeur found success in and around the rim, as they often had a first-step advantage on their defenders as a

result of Temple’s focus on pressuring the Quakers at the threepoint line.

Despite all of this, the Owls were able to hang around, never allowing the Quakers to completely put the game away. That is, until senior guard Jake Silpe hit the dagger three from the top of the key with under a minute remaining.

The Red and Blue’s next game is their only remaining Big 5 matchup on Jan. 26 against Saint Joseph’s, where they will be trying to lock up their first outright Big 5 title since the 2001-02 season.

son plays out, Penn is in a position relative to the Big 5 where no one outside the Quakers’ locker room expected them to be: first. And that’s extremely fitting, because Donahue’s brief career at Penn has been defined by ‘firsts.’

They started out pretty small: first season with double-digit wins since 2012 in the coach’s rookie year, then first season in the conference’s top four since 2012 the following winter. But little by little, the domino effect continued, and the program quickly became a juggernaut: first time finishing 7-0 at home in Ivy play since 2007. First Ivy championships — both regular season, and conference tournament — since 2007, with an ensuing NCAA Tournament appearance. First win over a Power Five conference team since 2003. First win over a ranked Villanova team in 30 years.

Is Saturday’s win the best “first” so far? It’d be heresy to call the Big 5 title more memorable or meaningful than last March’s Ivy title win. But strictly in terms of the more difficult accomplishment, one could easily argue the Big 5 title to be superior to the Ivy crown. Sure, there are far more necessary games to win in the Ancient Eight. But the Big 5 has two unanimous top-75 teams in the country, where the Ivy League has none.

Any further semantics of that argument are for a different day, but what can be agreed upon by all parties is this: in any given year, the best team in the Big 5 is generally a lot better than the best team in the Ivy League. Unless they happen to be the same one.

I’m not saying Penn is a lock to win the Ivy title this year. With a strong field that includes the defending Ivy co-champions (Harvard), the newly-anointed Ivy tourney hosts (Yale), a team that is already 2-0 against Penn this season (Princeton), and a sleeper that owns the league’s second-best overall record (Brown), guaranteeing a second straight March Madness nod is foolish.

But the fact that a second straight March Madness nod is even in the discussion is a testament to where the program has already gone in such a short time, and where it can continue to go.

What will the next “first” be for Donahue and his rapidly growing program? It’s impossible to say, but all I know is that I want to be the first to see it.

COLE JACOBSON is a College senior from Los Angeles and a Senior Sports Reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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Even when you score as much as the rest of your team combined, it sometimes still isn’t enough.

Eleah Parker learned this the hard way this past Wednesday when Penn women’s basketball narrowly lost to Villanova, 58-50.

Although the team couldn’t pick up the W on the court, Parker earned a win herself in the form of DP Sports Player of the Week.

Against the Wildcats, the

Charlotte, N.C. native matched her career high with 25 points — half of the team’s 50 — and also added 17 rebounds for another career best.

The sophomore center is no stranger to accolades, having unanimously been selected Ivy League Rookie of the Year last season and already earning Ivy League co-Player of the Week earlier this season.

In addition to leading the Quakers in points with an average of 14.3 per game, Parker also has the most rebounds (107) and blocks (41) of any of the Red and Blue this season.

She has also cracked conference and nationwide rankings

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and currently leads the League in offensive rebounds (4.0) and blocks per game (3.4). Her blocks average is good enough for third-best individually in the entire country and is higher than the average of over 200 Division I teams.

Luckily for the Quakers, Parker still has two seasons after this one to continue her dominance on the court. With an Ivy win over Princeton already under the team’s belt, Parker and the Red and Blue will have their sights set on a bid to the Ivy League Tournament and beyond come March.

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Penn track continued its hot start to the season with great performances this weekend.

The Red and Blue hosted the Penn 8-Team Select in Staten Island, N.Y. on Saturday, with the nine other teams in attendance being Monmouth, Providence, St. John’s, Stony Brook, Temple, Rutgers, St. Joseph’s, Fordham, and Wagner. Temple and St. John’s were only represented in the competition on the women’s side.

“It was fun to host an event; we had a great group of schools together,” coach Steve Dolan said.

“It was our second meet back from the new year, and we got off to a good start.”

The men’s team finished in third place with a score of 92, falling more than 17 points shy of Monmouth, the first place finisher. The women’s squad dominated from start to finish, scoring 160 points, which was 62 points ahead of Monmouth in second place.

In just their fourth meet of the season, the two Penn teams combined to set eight different top 10 all-time program performances.

On the men’s side, freshmen Payton Morris and Mason Gatewood won their respective events.

Gatewood won the 800-meters with a time of 1:54.49, while Morris won the pole vault with a height of 5.11m.

Morris’ height was a personal record and was good for fifth all-time in Penn track history. It was also the third best in the Ivy League this season. However, he was only able to take one healthy attempt after this jump due to cramping in his calf.

“It always feels good to get a [personal record],” Morris said. “I know I can do better; I know I can put up a bigger height.”

Freshman Cameron Landis and senior Sam Webb also set all-time Penn marks. Landis recorded the sixth-best shot put effort in Penn history, coming in second place in the competition. Webb, who finished third in the 800 with a time of 4:06.70, recorded the eighthbest time in program history.

On the women’s side, the Red and Blue showed their versatility through top performances in nine

different events.

The group’s night was highlighted by performances from juniors Nia Akins and Cecil Ene. Ene took first and second in the 200 and 60m dash, respectively. She recorded a time of 6.67 seconds in the dash preliminaries and a 24.25 in the 200. Her 200 time was good for the third-fastest in program history.

“In the sprints, I thought that one of the top performances for us was Cecil Ene. She had a great meet.

Cecil continues to run great every meet,” Dolan said.

Akins set a program record that previously stood for more than 10 years. In the 800, Akins ran a 2:05.86, winning the event for the Quakers. This time was also the fifth-fastest in the country this season.

“We had some really good middle distance performances,” Dolan said. “The 800 was probably our most exciting event; [Akins] set the school record. She had a great race — the woman from Monmouth was in the NCAA finals last year, and she got second.”

Looking ahead, the Quakers will begin to prepare for the Penn State University National Open next weekend.

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The Quakers’ early woes in conference play have been offset by their resounding Big 5 success.

After Penn men’s basketball dropped its first two Ivy League games against Princeton, the team responded with a hard-fought, 77-70 win over Temple to clinch at least a share of its first Big 5 title since 2001-02.

For coach Steve Donahue, this was an emotional win in the final matchup against his friend, mentor, and current Temple coach Fran Dunphy, who hired Donahue as an assistant on his Penn staff in the 1990s.

The Quakers (11-6, 3-0 Big 5) entered the Liacouras Center looking to snap a four-game losing streak, but they expected a tough battle from the red-hot Owls (14-4, 2-2), playing in their home arena on a four-game winning streak. Temple scored at least 70 points in each of those games, but the Red and Blue pressured Temple’s dynamic scorers from the tip to a high degree of success.

On the offensive end, the Quakers weren’t afraid to pull up from behind the arc, shooting seven threes in just the first five minutes — and SEE CHAMPIONS PAGE 8

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Only 10 months after a championship that was supposed to be impossible to happen as quickly as it did, Penn men’s basketball already has an even more unlikely one: Big 5 champions, for the first time in 17 years.

Alright, so it’s only a share of the championship as of now: the team needs to beat 8-10 Saint Joseph’s at home next week to clinch outright, which is no guarantee. But even if it ends up as only a co-title, what it represents for the ridiculous arc that coach Steve Donahue’s program is on goes far beyond that.

First off, the way in which Saturday’s 77-70 contest was won personified Donahue’s cultural change to a tee. After the Quakers struggled to a four-game losing streak in which they averaged only 56.75 points per game in regulation, Penn got back to the team-first mentality that thrived all of last year. With Jakub “Kuba” Mijakowski coming off the bench to hit four first-half three-pointers, Jarrod Simmons playing significant minutes at the 5 when AJ Brodeur was on the bench, and Jake Silpe hitting a dagger three-pointer to put the margin at eight points with under a minute left, Saturday night exemplified what last year’s Cinderella story was all about: on any given night, any player on the roster can make winning plays.

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On Wednesday at the Palestra, the Red and Blue will face the Cherry and White.

Penn women’s basketball is set to face Temple, its last Big 5 foe of the season, in what will cap off an exciting season for Big 5 basketball.

The Quakers (9-3, 2-1 Big 5) are fresh off their first home loss of the season to rival Villanova, the team that upended the Red and Blue’s hopes for a second consecutive Big 5 title.

However, this matchup against the Owls (4-13, 2-1) still has

significant implications. A win on Wednesday at the Palestra would lead to the Red and Blue’s best start through 13 games since going 11-2 during the Ivy League title 2015-16 season. In addition, a win would keep Penn firmly in control of the best overall win percentage across the League.

Temple is coming into the game having lost five of the team’s last six matchups while Penn has won five of its last six games, despite the loss to Villanova last week. The Quakers might be favored on paper, but both the Red and Blue and the Owls hold a 2-1 record in Big 5 play, further showing how Big 5 basketball brings along with it a different edge to the players and teams involved.

The Red and Blue have had a defensively-oriented mindset throughout this season, as they have only allowed opponents to score an average of 50.7 points per game and shoot at a 31.8 percent clip, both best in the Ivy League. This is due to not only

a dominant frontcourt of senior forward Princess Aghayere and sophomore center Eleah Parker racking up the majority of the conference-leading 5.42 blocks per game, but also a dominant presence on the glass.

The Quakers lead the Ivy League in defensive rebounds per game at 30.3, making second-chance opportunities hard to come by and forcing opponents to make the most of each and every possession. Senior Ashley Russell has been an underrated force on the glass so far this season, averaging 7.1 rebounds despite a disadvantage in size and position as a guard.

The Owls have also relied on glass dominance this season, as each of their wins have featured impressive rebounding numbers in the stat line. Sophomore forward Mia Davis and junior forward Shantay Taylor will look to have big games, as the two players account for more than a third of Temple’s total boards.

In losses, Temple has struggled behind the arc and when han-

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Senior guard Ashley Russell is averaging 7.1 rebounds per game despite a height disadvantage relative to forwards and centers. As a team, the Quakers lead the Ivy League in defensive rebounds per game.

dling the ball. The Owls average only 27.5 percent from deep on the season while the Quakers have had slightly more success behind the arc, shooting at a 31.8 percent clip. Turnovers have also plagued Temple this year, as the Owls have averaged

nearly 17 per game, leading to a loss of critical possessions throughout matchups.

For both Penn and Temple, the glass and paint are key.

Whichever team dominates the glass and paint not only controls second-chance points but

also dictates tempo on both ends of the floor and in transition. Against an efficient Penn defense, the Owls will need to handle the ball well in order to have a chance to match the Quakers throughout the game, especially down the stretch.

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