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ens of millions of dollars are going into completing a major renovation of Hamilton Court.

Yet, despite the prospect of a karaoke speakeasy bar and a rooftop pool, many Penn student residents in HamCo say they don’t see the value of many of the new amenities, especially considering the increase in prices.

College junior Aiysha Scott pays about $1,100 per month for her share of her threebedroom apartment in HamCo. If she were to stay next year, she said that amount would see a $300 increase, to $1,400.

The renovated apartments, which HamCo Asset Manager Josh Guelbart said he hopes will be in working order by July 2018, will now have new kitchen appliances, cabinets, bathroom tiles, and plumbing systems.

And in addition to the karaoke speakeasy bar, HamCo will also include a Halal Guys restaurant, as well as a 10,000 square foot, $7 to 8 million “amenity building” with a rooftop pool, hot tub, gym, and outdoor kitchen for residents. The surrounding courtyard, he added, will be landscaped with bocce courts and fireplaces as an area for residents to socialize.

The project also included updates to the hallways and a new, several hundred thousand dollar internet system to replace the old one that Guelbart called “beyond antiquated.”

College sophomore Natasha Cheung said if she moved from her current five-bedroom HamCo apartment to the three-bedroom she wants for next year, she would have to pay

The bathroom, cafe, and escalator will all be updated wihtout impeding University events KAITLYN BOYLE Staff Reporter

The Penn Bookstore has just completed the first phase of a major multi-year construction project.

The main goals of the project, which began over this past winter break, are the replacement of both escalators with a newer model, as well as renovations to the bathrooms, elevator, and cafe. Another objective is to organize construction so as “not to impede major University events” according to an announcement in the Penn Almanac.

“The store as a whole will stay open and maintain its regular hours,” said Associate Vice President of Business Services Christopher Bradie.

Additionally, some construction is scheduled after hours, and potentially disruptive work will be halted during major University events such as commencement and move-in.

Barnes and Noble is ultimately responsible for the cost of renovations. However, Penn will provide some financial support. The last major renovations to the store occurred five years ago, and the escalators have been in place since the original building was constructed in 1999.

“The manufacturer is no longer in the elevator business, so that makes things like maintenance and serviceability more difficult because parts are more scarce and things like that,” Bradie said. “It’s not a current model.”

Phase one of the project included the construction of a temporary staircase that will provide an alternate path upstairs when the escalators are removed. Bradie admitted, however, that he and others involved in overseeing the project actually like the stairs, and may leave them in place after construction finishes.

“I think we should keep the stairs,” said College freshman Saachi Datta. “They are more convenient. You don’t have to walk all the way around to the other escalator.”

While the bookstore itself will not close throughout the project, the upstairs Starbucks cafe will close for approximately two months during phase two. During that time, bookstore employees will be relocated to other

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Research group to study Penn founders’ ties to slavery Penn faculty will examine student researchers’ historical findings MANLU LIU Staff Reporter

A team of student researchers discovered that many of the founding trustees of the University had substantial connections to the slave trade.

Over a month after the research was unveiled, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett announced on Jan. 23 that Penn would form “a working group to examine the role of slavery in Penn’s early years.”

“While it has long been known that Penn’s founder, Benjamin Franklin had owned slaves early in his life before becoming a leading abolitionist,” the statement read, “the student’s work cast a new light on our historical understanding of the reach of slavery’s connections to Penn.”

As a part of the Penn History of Slavery Project, five undergraduate researchers worked closely with History professor Kathleen Brown throughout 2017 to investigate the University’s past ties to the slave trade. By December 2017, the students had found that of the 28 founding University trust-

ees they investigated (there were 126 founding trustees in total), 20 held slaves between 1769 and 1800 and had financial ties to the slave trade.

“We have always acknowledged that our founder, Ben Franklin, owned slaves early in his life,” University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

In 2016, after Georgetown University publicly acknowledged the university’s own connection to the slave trade, Penn Director of Media Relations Ron Ozio told The Philadelphia Tribune that “Penn has explored this issue several times over the past few decades and found no direct University involvement with slavery or the slave trade.”

“Our statements last year regarding any further University nexus were based on the best information that was then known to the University Archives.

Through the student’s research, we are now aware of additional information, and as the statement yesterday noted, we have established a high level working group to explore it further so that we might fully understand the affects of slavery on the early days of our University,” MacCarthy wrote.

The undergraduate group did not

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find evidence proving that Penn, as an institution, owned slaves.

Gutmann and Pritchett’s statement indicated that after administrators met with the students, the University decided to form its own research group, chaired by Pritchett and including Senior Vice President for Institutional Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer Joann Mitchell, Law and Sociology professor Dorothy Roberts, Africana Studies professor Heather Williams, and Brown.

The “broad contours” of the group’s work could likely be finished this semester, the statement read, “to allow a fuller illumination of this part of Penn’s history.”

The University’s acknowledgement of the possible connection of its trustees to the slave trade comes a little over a year after Ozio made his statement, in which he explicitly denied the proposition.

Penn is not the only Ivy League institution under scrutiny for its former ties to the slave trade.

Two months before Gutmann’s statement, the Princeton & Slavery Project unveiled dozens of archival documents about Princeton University’s ties to slavery.

Since its own public admission,

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Student researchers found that, out of the 28 founding trustees they investigated, 20 held slaves. There is no evidence so far of institutional slaveholding by Penn.

Georgetown has taken steps to offer reparations for its past harms including the possibility of preferential admission for descendants of the enslaved people owned by the university and its

leading Jesuits.

“Our intention is to seek the truth and acknowledge it, and to offer recommendations for any next steps,” Gutmann wrote in the statement.

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Penn will adopt new financial aid calculator The calculator will be on Penn’s admissions page FERNANDO BONILLA Staff Reporter

Penn’s cost of attendance is over $70,000. For many, the prospect of applying for financial aid and navigating the process correctly can be daunting.

In an effort to help demystify university policy regarding aid, Penn is looking into adopting a new financial aid calculator.

MyinTuition, developed by Wellesley College Economics professor Phillip Levine, is a financial aid calculator that allows prospective college students to get an estimate of what their financial aid package might look like in a fast and easy way.

With just a brief three minute questionnaire, the calculator’s speedy and accurate approach to delivering cost estimates has caught onto many colleges and universities nationwide.

University Director of Financial Aid Elaine Papas-Varas said that she is interested in bringing MyinTuition to Penn.

The calculator would serve as a new tool for applicants to use in Penn’s admissions page or portal so that they could quickly and easily compare costs with other schools that have MyinTuition in place, she said.

“It’s a great, simple, easy tool,” said Papas-Varas. “I’m really impressed it’s picked up so quickly.”

Recently, the issue of financial aid has become more prevalent on campus. Student Residential and Financial Services changed the amount of financial aid students off campus would receive last spring, and many students said they were never notified of the shift.

SRFS changed its policy on financial aid for fifth-year students, many of whom were then informed they would not be receiving the aid they said they had been granted.

Penn’s current financial aid calculator is provided by the College Board and is accessible to all prospective students, but the process can be cumbersome and time-consuming as it requires numbers from tax returns and W-2 forms.

The existing calculator was implemented after the 2011 Obama-era policy that mandated colleges to offer net price calculators on their websites. It is meant to cover a lot of financial ground, taking in a variety of assets, income types, and family circumstances.

“It’s a very involved, very detailed calculator,” Papas-Varas said. “The intention is to try to get closer to what will actually be the package.”

In contrast, MyinTuition is less concerned with capturing every intricacy of a student’s finances.

“MyinTuition does not satisfy the federal requirements, but it has the advantage of providing a much easier interface,

and much easier questions to answer, and it takes less time,” Levine said. “People actually complete it.”

Papas-Varas added that MyinTuition helps remedy “sticker-price shock” so that families can more accurately gauge which colleges fit into their budgets. This effect would help Penn improve its outreach efforts, she said.

“It’s very difficult for any private institution that has a significant high cost to message that you should still apply and see what the institution can offer you,“ said Papas-Varas.

“Families see a dollar number and they just walk away.”

Since Wellesley first adopted the new calculator in 2013, the tool has spread to 31 schools, including several Ivy League peers like Yale University and Columbia University.

Yale most recently adopted the calculator this month to complement its existing net price calculator. Unlike its traditional calculator, MyinTution allows prospective students to get an estimate of their financial aid value just by answering six simple questions, without submitting any paperwork, Yale Daily News reported.

Levine decided to create MyinTuition after experiencing difficulties with his son’s financial aid process.

Levine found that combing through university sites left him with a trove of unanswered questions over his son’s

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financial aid eligibility. Soaring tuition prices and often ambiguous need-based guarantees made finding a trustworthy estimate of college costs difficult to find.

“That led me to realize that there was a serious problem out there,” Levine told The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Dissatisfaction with the complexity and shock factor associated with paying for college

Russian journalist invited to Penn campus She visited for new Writerin-Residence program COURTNEY BUTTERWORTH Contributing Reporter

The Kelly Writers House and Perry World House launched the new collaborative annual Writer-in-Residence program by bringing in Yevgenia Albats.

Albats visited campus in November and shared her experience as a Russian opposition journalist.

During her week-long residence, Albats spoke at events both in KWH and in Perry World House. She also conversed with students individually in Communications and Russian and East European Studies classes, Penn News reported.

Albats is an investigative reporter and editor-in-chief of a Russian independent political weekly called The New Times.

She won awards, including the Golden Pen Award in 1989, the Soviet Union’s most prestigious journalism honor at the time.

One of the classes Albats visited was a course on postSoviet Russia. A student in that class, College sophomore Kate

Byrne-Slepicka, said that Albats discussed journalism and media in Russia with a “unique perspective” that wasn’t present in the class readings.

“I was glad that she came to the class because I thought that her info was pretty relevant,” Byrne-Slepicka said.

Al Filreis, faculty director of KWH and Kelly Family Professor of English, said programs held with Albats drew large, standing-room audiences.

KWH Director Jessica Lowenthal said people enjoyed hearing Albats’ tales of journalism in a country that places little value on free speech, adding that Albats even received death threats as a result of her writing.

“People were just impressed with how bold she is,” Lowenthal said. “She just seemed like the right first guest.”

The Writer-in-Residence program chose Albats before Russia became a prominent part of the United States’ daily news cycle — especially in light of the Russian probe — but it “certainly made her visit so well timed,” Lowenthal said.

Filreis said the program was

a great way to bring the KWH and Perry World House communities together because their “perfect intersection is journalism.”

“The more people in the United States are thinking about how risky it is to be a good journalist — an honest, truthtelling journalist — the better,” Filreis said.

The Perry World House opened in the fall of 2016 to promote international affairs and global research.

Lowenthal and Filreis said the program is currently looking to invite a writer for next year.

KWH and Perry World House may be located beside each other, but they are also linked by a joint purpose.

“Our missions are about drawing people together,” Lowenthal said. “So we knew that if we combined forces, we could still have this same shared mission of bringing people together.”

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The Kelly Writers House and Perry World House brought Yevgenia Albats to campus, where she shared her experience as a Russian journalist.

led Levine to design the simple alternative to sifting through blocks of text on financial aid sites.

Lucia Ortega, a Wellesley junior studying Spanish and Chemistry, said that her financial aid award matched MyinTuition’s estimate exactly.

“I come from a low-income household and Wellesley paid almost everything,” said Ortega.

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$200 more per month.

“I just kind of feel like the whole pool thing is unnecessary,” Cheung said. “I wouldn’t see myself using it a lot.”

She added she would rather see the renovation budget put toward elevators, easier access between the disconnected buildings, or better pest control initiatives.

Although she said HamCo is full for next year, very few of Cheung’s friends are staying in HamCo since they question the worth of the new facilities and doubt the construction will be finished on time.

Both Scott and Cheung noted inconveniences due to the ongoing construction as well.

In order to get to the apartments, Cheung said she has had to walk further than usual to get around all the work zones.

She added that one of the factors that initially excited her most about moving in was that she was told the restaurants would be done for this year. But since they still are not open, she worries that the amenity building may follow the same course for next year.

Scott echoed that same sentiment, noting that she will not be living in HamCo next year partly out of concern that the renovations will not be completed in time.

Instead, she and her roommates leased a house on Baltimore Avenue for which they will each have to pay about $700 per month, albeit for fewer amenities.

Cheung is still unsure of where she will be living next year, but said she would only consider staying in HamCo if the prices were lower.

But Guelbart said HamCo’s rising rates match its better offerings.

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positions both in the bookstore and in local Barnes and Noble stores, wrote Barbara Lea-Kruger, director of Communications and External Relations at Business Services, in an email. Phase two will also include renovations to the bathrooms and elevators.

Phase three and four will consist of removal and installation of the escalators, and

As Levine is working to expand MyinTuition’s reach across undergraduate institutions, Papas-Varas is hoping to give families a clearer view of what Penn can offer them, even before committing.

“We really need to give applicants and families an opportunity to see, ‘How do I manage the cost and know ahead of time before arriving at a school campus?’” she said.

affordable option,” he said.

“Especially with what we’re offering now, I think the value has changed dramatically.”

He added that HamCo has a long waiting list for the next academic year.

College sophomore Reginald Lamaute, who will be living in HamCo next year, expressed excitement about the restaurants and amenity building.

“It looks like they’ve made progress since the last time I walked by, and that was encouraging,” he said.

Compared to similar establishments’ prices, HamCo’s prices have become more similar to other off-campus buildings in the area.

Its lowest rent — for an unfurnished, five-bedroom apartment — will come in around $1,300 per person.

Meanwhile, the lowest rent for a room in the Radian is its four-bedroom, furnished room for about $1,400 per resident, according to its website.

Cheung said she thinks the Radian may be a better value than HamCo, citing the Radian’s “new-ness,” its elevators, and its security personnel.

Chestnut Hall’s basic twobedroom base price comes in around $1,300 per resident, while the lowest rate for a three-bedroom apartment in Domus is $1,566 per person.

On campus, the high rises cost almost $1,400 per month for rooms where no residents share rooms, or about $1000 when some residents share.

HamCo’s management still believes its product is competitive with the market.

“Comparatively, of all of the buildings in the neighborhood that have anything even remotely comparable as far as the finishes,” Guelbart said of HamCo, “the location and amenities are much more.”

Cheung is not so sure.

“I feel like they mean well,” she said, “but it just doesn’t really carry out.”

potential removal of the staircase. Minor organizational renovations will also occur over the coming summer.

Phase one concluded exactly on schedule with the timeframe, and phase two is expected to commence smoothly and with student accessibility still in mind.

“We were really thoughtful about how to do this major thing so that it wouldn’t impact students,” Lea-Kruger said.

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Inconsistent aid packages leave students confused

Outside scholarship recipients see changes in aid YONI GUTENMACHER Staff Reporter

College freshman Cassandra Jobman received $25,000 for her tuition after winning the ChickFil-A’s True Inspiration Award.

She applied for the scholarship after receiving financial aid through Student Registration and Financial Services, which would require her family to pay $4,000 per year, or $16,000 total over four years.

This would leave Jobman with an extra $9,000 to spend outside of her tuition. Jobman said she planned to put the leftover Chick-Fil-A scholarship money toward a laptop for herself and new winter clothes.

But over the next few months, Jobman received responses from multiple financial aid administrators at Penn who provided her with conflicting information. She was told that the University would lower the amount of financial aid initially provided to her to account for the outside scholarship.

In trying to make sense of the

different information from multiple SRFS officials, Jobman joined the many students at Penn also frustrated with the “confusing” and “inconsistent” policies at Penn.

“Chick-Fil-A could’ve given my unused scholarship to another student who really needed it,” Jobman said. “Penn has billions of dollars in endowment. Why do they need to take my scholarship money?”

Ultimately, SRFS adjusted Jobman’s aid package so that she would receive $300 each semester. The office also provided her with a laptop three months after courses began in the fall.

In addition to having her financial aid package readjusted, Jobman said she dealt with false guarantees made by SRFS officials, repeated meetings canceled by her financial aid advisor, and varying answers from different SRFS officials.

Senior University Director of Financial Aid Elaine Papas-Varas said SRFS is aware of the inconsistencies among responses from its staff members and is currently working to address them.

Two months ago, an outside consultant hired by SRFS completed an

“extensive documentation” of its financial aid policies and practices to examine their consistency. Since then, SFRS has started training their staff members again to ensure they all give consistent answers to student inquiries.

“We still have work to do but we have now embarked on a process of how we ensure every student gets the same answer,” Papas-Varas said.

According to the website, SFRS has a “dollar-for-dollar reduction” policy which says that for every dollar a student earns in the form of outside scholarships, Penn deducts a dollar from the “self-help component of [their] financial aid package,” which includes expected savings from summer earnings and work-study earnings.

This means that students can lose part of their financial package when they receive outside scholarships, raising the overall cost of their family’s contribution.

Engineering freshman Claire Pince was awarded $25,000 worth of tuition money upon receiving the Horatio Alger National Scholarship.

With an updated financial aid

Congressman Schiff postpones visit to Penn The government shutdown delayed his visit MAX COHEN Staff Reporter

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) canceled his scheduled talk at the Perry World House on Jan. 23, as a result of the federal government shutdown over the weekend.

Schiff, the top Democrat on the United States House Intelligence Committee, was required to be in Washington, D.C. for votes related to the government shutdown.

The shutdown began on Jan. 20 and ended on Jan. 22 after a bill was signed into law that approved funding through Feb. 8, on condition that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is re-addressed.

The California congressman was set to deliver an address entitled “Threats to Democracy at Home and Abroad,” with a focus on the ongoing Russia investigation. Schiff has become a “chief White House antagonist,” according to Politico, due to his role as Democrats’ top Russia investigator.

He even drew the personal ire of President Donald Trump, who called the congressman “sleazy” and “totally biased” in a July

2017 tweet.

“For many high-level policymakers, their schedule isn’t always their own,” said John Gans, a program manager at the Perry World House. “This is an opportunity to learn a little more about what it’s like to work in government and be subject to these exchanges.”

This was the second time the event was postponed. Schiff was originally supposed to speak at Penn on Dec. 5, but had to reschedule the event due to “a change in the Congressional schedule for the day,” Ashley Napier, the assistant to the director of the Perry World House, wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian in December 2017.

Jan. 22 had originally been chosen as the make-up date because Congress was scheduled to be in recess, but the events of the past weekend threw the planned break into chaos, Gans said.

President of Penn Democrats and Wharton sophomore Dylan Milligan said he was “disappointed” that he would miss the chance to meet the congressman during a planned meet-and-greet before the event. The meetand-greet with Schiff had been scheduled with 13 Penn Dems members from California, and al-

though he was regretful the event didn’t work out, Milligan held out hope.

“He’ll come eventually,” Milligan said.

Gans reaffirmed these hopes, as he said that staff at the Perry World House were already in contact with the congressman’s office and were searching for new dates for the event.

This turmoil was witnessed firsthand by Gans and about two dozen undergraduate fellows from the Perry World House who traveled to Washington, D.C. on Friday and met congressional staffers and visited the Pentagon and a think tank.

“The shutdown provided the students with a really interesting moment in Washington, both an educational one and fascinating one, to see how Congress, the press, and military officials were planning to react to the shutdown,” Gans said. “It was not your typical day down there.”

The shutdown began on late Friday night, when the Senate failed to agree on a stopgap spending measure. Senate Democrats had largely voted against the bill, as the measure did not contain protections for young undocumented immigrants or increased disaster aid for Puerto Rico.

Penn student groups prepare for November midterm election The 2018 midterm elections will happen on Nov. 6 AVNI KATARIA Staff Reporter

Just over a year after President Donald Trump officially was sworn in as president, the nation is preparing for what many expect to be an extremely critical midterm election season.

The 2018 midterm elections will take place Nov. 6, and party lines are already being drawn, both on Penn’s campus and around the country, as Republicans and Democrats prepare to fight over control of Congress for the next two years.

To help students get involved, Penn Democrats Communication Director and College junior Jack Weisman said Penn Dems would be “phone banking and canvassing for candidates up and down the ballot, most notably in the gubernatorial and senate races, as well as competitive congressional races in the Philadelphia suburbs.”

Weisman said he hopes Democrats can reclaim at least one chamber of Congress to prevent what he calls “overarchingly disastrous” Trump policies. He cited the repeated attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the

lack of congressional involvement in the Russia investigation as examples of such policies.

“2017 was really a year of Republicans trying to see what they could get away with,” Weisman said. “The only way to ensure the Congress is serving as a check on the president is to take it back.”

On the Republican side, President of Penn College Republicans and College Junior Ryan Snyder agreed that the consequences of these elections would primarily be legislative.

“If Republicans can ride on the economic prosperity seen over the past year and a half to two years and success from the tax bill, they can convince voters to help them maintain a majority,” Snyder said.

Looking to the future, College Republicans’ focus is more on issue advocacy.

“However, later in the semester and more so in the fall, we will likely coordinate tabling, canvassing, and phone banking” he added.

Currently, Republicans hold the majority in both the Senate and the House — with 47 representatives to the Republicans’ 51 in the Senate and 193 representatives to Republicans’ 239 in the House.

After these elections, 33 Senate seats and 435 House seats have the potential to turnover.

As for election predictions, Snyder hypothesized that Republicans would continue the trend of outperforming Democratic voter turnout in midterm elections and pull ahead.

Political Science professor Marc Meredith, whose focus of study is largely on voter decision making and the American elections, said that the outcome of this election will significantly influence whether or not the Trump presidency will have the ability to enact legislative changes.

Some of the most controversial issues set to permeate the halls of Congress include the future of healthcare policy, tax reforms, investigations into Trump’s ties with Russia, and the future of the Supreme Court nominees.

Still, Weisman said that “polling looks very good” for Democrats despite it being too early for speculation.

The two could agree, however, that this election will impact the American political landscape for decades to come, and both stressed that public engagement will be of utmost importance given the stakes for both parties.

“If you’re a voter who cares about policy on either side, it’s important you go out and vote and support your candidate,” Snyder said.

package that accounted for her awards, Pince and her family still struggled to understand how much they were expected to pay to the University.

In fact, after her family paid her tuition bill for the fall semester, they received some money back because they had misunderstood their expected contribution value.

“Financial aid is really confusing, especially when scholarships come in,” Pince said. “I don’t actually know what I owe.”

“Knowing exactly what I owe and how to access this money to use it for textbooks and stuff like that, that would just be really great,” she added.

Despite the frustration experienced by some students as they try to utilize outside scholarships, others say they did not encounter any issues with application of such scholarships.

Wharton and Engineering freshman Shannon Lin won an outside scholarship worth $5,000 which replaced the loan she was expected to

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As a result of receiving outside scholarships, Penn students have experienced changes in their financial aid packages as a result.

receive from Penn.

Lin said she was pleased with how Penn dealt with her award but did note that her case was rare among those who did receive outside scholarships.

“There’s money that Penn would’ve offered [financial aid recipients] in the first place, and I feel like they are already entitled to that

money if Penn already agreed to give it,” Lin said.

Ultimately, outside scholarship recipients want clearer information on how their awards will be handled

by Penn.

“If SFS could be more transparent and more communicative with students, that would just be really helpful,” Pince said.

U. City proposed as potential location for Amazon’s HQ2 Penn supports Phila.’s proposal to Amazon ALICE GOULDING Staff Reporter

Amazon named the city of Philadelphia as one of the 20 finalists left in the quest for the perfect location to host the tech company’s second headquarters.

Within Philadelphia, two of the three proposed locations to construct the HQ2 are in University City and West Philadelphia, just a couple blocks from campus at uCity Square and Schuylkill Yards. The third proposed location is at the Navy Yard in South Philadelphia.

“We keep telling everybody that West is the best,” councilwoman Jannie Blackwell said.

Blackwell represents District 3 of Philadelphia, which includes Penn and the surrounding West Philadelphia area.

“We love our city, and we are super excited about the prospect of getting this investment,” she continued. “We would love to have those jobs — that will make such a great difference to people in [West Phila.].”

Penn has been at the forefront of the support for Philadelphia’s application. In an interview with the

Huffington Post, Penn President Amy Gutmann cited the creativity from Philadelphia’s universities as a major bonus for the tech company. Gutmann also co-signed a letter with the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, urging Amazon to consider the east coast city as a top contender.

Wharton students had the opportunity last semester to participate in the Wharton-Amazon Writing Competition, which asked participants to submit memos for the city government that outlined why Amazon should select Philadelphia for the sister branch of its current Seattle headquarters.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney issued a public statement responding to Amazon’s latest list of potential cities, stating that Philadelphia will “look forward to working with Amazon’s team on the next steps of this process to further highlight all that Philadelphia has to offer.”

The Office of the Mayor worked in conjunction with other branches of city and statewide government and several private organizations to promote the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania application for HQ2.

Pittsburgh was the only other Pennsylvania city to make the cut from the original 238.

The Pennsylvania Department

of Community and Economic Development supports business ventures throughout Pennsylvania and has been supportive of the Amazon HQ2 projects in Philadelphia and other major cities.

Michael Gerber, spokesperson for the DCED, said the department, as well as Gov. Tom Wolf, are excited about the prospect of Philadelphia or Pittsburgh becoming the site for HQ2.

“Amazon recognized that Philadelphia and Pittsburgh both offer a prime location, abundant natural resources, job-ready workforces, and an unparalleled quality of life that would enable a company like Amazon to thrive,” Gerber said.

The project is expected to bring more than 50,000 jobs to the chosen location, according to the statement released by Amazon.

Amazon also plans to invest $5 billion into the community it selects.

Pennsylvania officials are offering more than $1 billion in tax breaks to Amazon if the headquarters end up in either city.

“The Wolf Administration will continue to actively support Philadelphia and Pittsburgh as Amazon narrows down its shortlist in the weeks and months ahead, and eagerly awaits Amazon’s final decision,” Gerber concluded.

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OPINION Stress at Penn shouldn’t be a competition DREIM JOURNAL | Your snaps don’t need to prove how busy you are

THURSDAY JANUARY 25, 2018 VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 5 134th Year of Publication DAVID AKST President REBECCA TAN Executive Editor CHRIS MURACCA Print Director JULIA SCHORR Digital Director HARRY TRUSTMAN Opinion Editor SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor JONATHAN POLLACK Senior Sports Editor

I’m a second-semester senior writing my first column – this is the college equivalent of the “old man yells at cloud” meme. That said, I was a transfer student from New York University, so maybe my desire to keep talking about Penn comes from the memory of being at a school radically different from this one.

I don’t point that out much anymore, but I think it’s particularly relevant when I reflect on Penn and how it has changed in my time here.

I would not have left NYU had I not gotten into Penn — it’s the only transfer school I applied to — but the central issue I had with the school was the sense of disconnected negativity. It seemed when I was at NYU

that it wasn’t “cool” to be happy and value the college experience, and I get a similar sense now that struggle has an irrational value at Penn.

We’re aware of issues regarding stress culture, hyper-competitiveness, and all the other buzzwords, but awareness doesn’t require us to become competitors in a struggle Olympics. There is a performative component to stress culture which only compounds the problem.

I’d wager nearly everyone at Penn has received a Snapchat saying something along the lines of “been studying in VP for 12 hours lol dead.” I think we all rationally understand that that person hasn’t actually been at Van Pelt for 12 hours pumping nonstop information into

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their brain like a new Google AI. They’ve been on Facebook, they’ve texted friends, they’ve sent you the same Snapchat you’re thinking about now. But what if they haven’t?

What if they have literally been mas-

The flip side of that coin is total disconnectedness: telling our friends we’re extremely behind on our work and have no chance at a decent grade, but have given up on the situation. It makes sense if you think

There is a performative component to stress culture which only compounds the problem.” tering material at inhuman rates and are composed enough to joke about it after? I couldn’t do that. Maybe I already felt a little unprepared, but now? Now I have no chance. My stress levels rise. I watch Netflix in shame.

Has anyone gotten a snap captioned “just studied for an hour to learn the material lol gonna go to bed by midnight?” I haven’t. The sort of performative idolization of the struggle for grades and need to let everyone know how stressed we are puts undue pressure on the process. Do what you have to do, and it’s fine if that means studying from 1-2 p.m. every day and then getting to bed by midnight.

about the treatment of failure and image examined by many columnists before me. If we don’t project that we’re trying our hardest to get an A on this exam, it doesn’t seem like we came up short if we get a B. If I “like never did any of the readings or studied and totally winged it,” then that B that I got seems like a victory to a casual observer.

“How did he pull that off without even thinking about it,” they might think, “when I might have had to put in work to get that grade?” Obviously, these excuses are meant to be casual, light-hearted statements to blow off steam, but it would do us well to cast them off once in a while.

I have loved Penn and am incredi-

DYLAN REIM bly grateful for my time here. In fact, I’m hoping to get a few more years here as a grad student. As someone invested in the Penn experience, I don’t want it to be defined by stress.

We shouldn’t let the stereotypes speak for us. Whether it be in our perceptions of our own efforts, readiness, and general ability as students, or our perceptions of those features in our peers, I want to challenge us all to lower our guards, recognize where we might be casually or competitively negative for the sake of negativity, and see if honesty helps reduce some of the latent stress of Penn life.

DYLAN REIM is a College senior from Princeton, N.J. studying philosophy and political science.

His email address is dreim@sas. upenn.edu. “DReim Journal” usually appears every other Thursday.

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Stories can bring us together when we need each other most ROAD JESS TRAVELED | How a retreat helped me discover the importance of storytelling This weekend, I had the privilege of going on a leadership retreat focused on Asian Pacific Islander American issues. While I learned more about APIA history and topics, the most important thing I learned — or rather, relearned — was the astounding impact of stories, and how they bring people together.

On the last night of retreat, 16 of us sat around in a small room of bunk beds, huddled in the dark.

We shared personal struggles and obstacles we’ve faced in our lives, finding solace while listening to our collective experiences. In the end, I learned more about myself in two days than I had in months.

College sophomore Michelle Lu, a fellow Asian Pacific American Leadership Initiative participant, recounted her experience.

“I felt empowered. This entire retreat revealed a lot about myself that I never knew, because sharing these stories helped me be more in touch with who I am and with other people.”

At so many moments at Penn, I’ve felt alone — whether I was going through academic struggles or emotional hurdles, my first instinct was to sit in my dorm room and stew. I, along with so many other students on campus, tend to forget that we’re all on this col-

lective campus together, and that we have so many more things in common here than we have apart.

Imagine my relief, then, when I discovered a space where sharing our feelings is the first inclination, and our stories, big or small, were of immense, breathtaking importance. Throughout these one-and-

weekday nights are for the work grind and weekend nights are for going out. In this black-and-white social equilibrium, where are the moments where we sit down and talk for hours with a friend? Engage in a friendly conversations with the security guards in the high rises? Strike up a discourse

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a-half days, I was immersed in people’s words and backgrounds — what Disney movies they liked, personal items they cherished, realizations and formations of their API identity. It brought on a warm feeling inside: a feeling that can only be described as true human connection.

Our institution is hailed as the “social Ivy,” which implies that

with a stranger in the painfully slow high-rise elevators?

During freshman year, if I stayed in on a Friday night and spent that time alone or even with a few friends, I almost felt guilty — shouldn’t I be out there, making spontaneous memories that you can only get in college?

Even in sophomore year, it’s hard to separate what we think should

be a fun, meaningful time and what we actually think is fun and meaningful. Realizing that the simple act of telling our stories to each other are some of the most influential experiences in college is a somehow novel concept, but nothing truly new.

The beginning of this semester and this retreat re-solidified my belief that the most important thing that brings us together are our stories and our experiences — when we share them with each other, we hit a deep, underlying current of connection, something we cannot recreate in any other way. The specificity of our own experiences translate into a universality we can all engage in, especially in college, when we’re all lost, roaming, and trying to find ourselves.

In our everyday lives, we underestimate how good it feels to recount our day to a friend, or even call our parents and laugh about something that happened at home. All these social interactions, from a quick anecdote to a long, heavy conversation, are the some of the only moments we feel like we’re not alone in our routines and observations, which can often feel solitary and lonely.

Our stories shape our identities and lives, and the art of storytell-

JESSICA LI ing is something we can all engage in, no matter how seemingly small. In the midst of our own problems and concerns, we can forget that even with our stark differences, we are all in the same, rocking boat.

Penn can be a lonely place.

We all know this, deep inside. In these formative years of growth, it often feels like we are trying to fit inside molds we don’t know how to conform to, shape our lives into something that makes sense. Along the way, we need to realize we are truly not alone — and all we need to do is reach out and tell our stories.

JESSICA LI is a College sophomore from Livingston, N.J., studying English and psychology. Her email address is jesli@sas.upenn.edu. “Road Jess Traveled” usually appears every other Wednesday.

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How Aziz Ansari made me rethink rape culture at Penn REBECCA ALIFIMOFF | How the desire to be in the ‘in-group’ leads to exclusionary practices The website babe.net published a story two weeks ago on sexual assault allegations that detailed a date and subsequent sexual encounter between a woman (who went by the pseudonym Grace for the purposes of the story) and the comedian Aziz Ansari.

It’s a detailed account of how the two met at a 2017 Emmy Awards after-party, traded numbers, and eventually went out in New York City.

They had dinner at a restaurant and later returned to Ansari’s apartment, where Grace alleges that Ansari aggressively tried to hook up with her, even after she asked him to “chill.”

When he persisted, Grace told him, “I don’t want to feel

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forced because then I’ll hate you, and I’d rather not hate you.”

Ansari didn’t take the hint and the encounter continued.

Most of the response to Grace’s account has centered around whether or not her interaction with Ansari was truly sexual assault or just an awkward date and bad sex. There were scores of opinion pieces published, and impassioned Twitter threads from both sides. Comedian and political pundit Bill Maher declared that #MeToo was now McCarthyism.

Watching the internet erupt, I felt an overwhelming sense of sadness. Grace’s story was a heartbreaking read, not just because I was a huge fan of Aziz Ansari, but because it was achingly familiar.

Throughout my high school and college years, I’ve listened helplessly as friends and acquaintances have described encounters with their own Azizs, and I’ve cried to them when I had my own. It’s an ugly tapestry of close-calls and unwanted sexual encounters. Litigating whether Grace’s encounter fell under the vague definition of sexual assault felt like it was missing the point. Grace’s own

identification of the encounter as sexual assault comes at the end of the piece, after she talked it over with friends because she “wanted validation that it was actually bad.”

It became clear to me that there is no consensus of what

her voice was silenced — was lost in an argument about semantics, where everyone had a hand in defining and explaining what happened to Grace except her.

We’re obsessed with defining women’s sexual experi-

Throughout my high school and college years, I’ve listened helplessly as friends and acquaintances have described encounters with their own Azizs, and I’ve cried to them when I had my own.” the term sexual assault means, and its usage becomes an easy way to stop or deliberately confuse conversation about how we as a society approach sex, and how our attitudes about sexual relations are broken.

The meat of Grace’s story — an uncomfortable sexual encounter that left her feeling confused and taken advantage of, where she felt like her boundaries were crossed and

ences for them. We want clear definitions because they make for easy solutions. If we let nuance into our conversations surrounding sexual assault and rape culture, then we’re suddenly faced with the reality that our most basic societal script for sexual encounters is based on antiquated ideas of female virtue and toxic masculinity.

According to the 2015 Association of American Universi-

ties Campus Climate Survey, by senior year, nearly a third of Penn’s female undergraduate population will experience sexual assault. In the survey, which spanned 27 institutions, the most common reason women cited for not reporting their sexual assaults was that they did not believe the incident was serious enough.

Now, just weeks ago, a new public survey has highlighted sexual harassment committed

by Penn faculty and victims’ frequent frustrations with the administration’s response. To the majority of people in the Penn community, none of this will come as a surprise In 2016, members of the offcampus fraternity, OZ, infamously sent a sexually suggestive email to Penn freshmen.

When faced with this scandal, Penn’s administration made a show of concern and appointed a task force whose eventual recommendations were that parties and alcohol were to blame. Instead of listening to survivors (or even Penn’s student community at large), the task force instituted a series of rules that only served to give more social power to fraternities and incentivize a move toward more off-campus social-

REBECCA ALIFIMOFF izing, putting potential victims out of reach of the Penn Police Department and its sexual assault resources.

The national events of the past few weeks have left me more hopeful that we can change some of the fundamental issues that lie at the heart of rape culture and campus sexual assault. But none of that will happen if we don’t listen to women, and really listen, when they are highlighting experiences where they felt uncomfortable or violated. Here at Penn, we still have a lot of work to do.

REBECCA ALIFIMOFF is a College sophomore from Fort Wayne, Ind. studying history. Her email address is ralif@sas.upenn.edu.

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Last year was a bad one for Mother Nature SPENCER’S SPACE | It’s time to get our act together on climate change In line with last years’ slew of distressing news stories, the recent reports that 2017 saw some of the highest average surface temperatures ever recorded on earth were not surprising.

Nevertheless, the reports – and the temperatures — were devastating. In the United States alone the natural disasters associated with climate change, including hurricanes and wildfires, cost a record $306 billion in damages – making 2017 the costliest year ever. This should really provide a serious wake up call for not only the White House, but also for our own Penn trustees.

The national government continues to fail to rise to the challenge of supporting green initiatives. But, as we all know, Trump-appointee and director of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, is leading Washington on a crusade to revitalize the coal industry and roll back decades of environmental legislation. Even here in Philadelphia, Penn continued to choose not to divest its endowment from fossil fuels investments.

While depressing, this shortsightedness does not mean that individuals cannot take action.

Of course, we should continue to hold our trustees’ feet to the fire to divest an estimated $315 million, representing about 4 percent of Penn’s endowment, currently invested in fossil fuels. Following and supporting the group Fossil Free Penn is a great way to stay on top of this effort. But there are actually other significant ways here at Penn to help address climate change.

Encouragingly, the University itself continues to take a lead on environmental issues in other ways, including “enhancing and leveraging existing efforts in campus sustainability, academics, and research regarding climate change and energy.” Per the website, Penn is, among other things, making strides to incorporate sustainability issues into curricular and noncurricular activities, to “design green” in campus buildings and landscapes, to conserve energy, reduce emissions and minimize solid waste, and to offer locallyproduced foods at all Penn Dining halls.

This means there are ways for any one of us to get involved in environmental initiatives. Academically, terrific opportunities exist on both the undergraduate and

graduate levels to build the skills necessary to pursue a career in sustainability.

Undergrads may want to incorporate a course from or even pursue a minor within the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL), and grad students have a number of powerful options

become a “hub for business and sustainability, connecting and leveraging academic capital at Penn to help business leaders of today and tomorrow to create more sustainable industries.”

Beyond academics, students in the Penn community can get involved in any number of envi-

Trump-appointee and director of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, is leading Washington on a crusade to revitalize the coal industry and roll back decades of environmental legislation.” to study environmental risk management. IGEL is led by Wharton but is a Penn-wide initiative to promote “knowledge for business sustainability through world-class research, transformative teaching and constructive dialogue between top alumni, academic, corporate, government, and non-government organizations.” As such, IGEL has

ronmental sustainability student groups on campus. Since 2010 the Student Sustainability Association at Penn (SSAP) has fostered “cohesion among environmentallyfocused student groups, develop strategies for impacting campus sustainability, and create a unified student voice on green issues at Penn.”

If neither academic nor extracurricular group involvement is for you, individual actions including reducing solid waste provide some meaningful solutions. For instance, you can carry your own reusable shopping bag when buying multiple items or simply add small items to the rucksack or book bag you’re already carrying.

You can remember to turn off the lights when you leave a room, consider turning down the heat or AC, and chose to walk, bike, or take public transport whenever you can.

Rather than purchasing water in a plastic bottle, you can use your own refillable water bottle (such as the one you should have received from Penn Dining at move-in) at any of the numerous “water bottle refill stations” around campus. Or, if you must purchase pre-packaged water for your dorm room or in bulk for an event, consider buying Boxed Water which packages water in an “impermanent” box composed 75 percent of paper.

As its founder points out, most of the box will decompose naturally, whereas “100 percent of a PET water bottle is going to be in a landfill for a thousand years.”

SPENCER SWANSON We can also encourage local restaurants to filter, chill, and bottle tap water in reusable glass bottles rather than selling bottled water that has traveled far.

It would of course be terrific if our leaders in Washington and at Penn made sustainability a priority, and we should continue to advocate for this. In the meantime, our individual actions can make a difference – especially when these actions are widespread and aggregated.

SPENCER SWANSON is a College freshman from London, studying philosophy, politics, and economics. His email address is sswanson@sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn admins launch brand new wellness website It will operate as part of the Campaign for Community AMY LIU Staff Reporter

Penn has unveiled a wellness website three months after announcing plans to do so in October last year.

Paired with this initiative, the Campus Conversation was announced and held on Oct. 30. It set out to start a discussion on what the University could do to foster wellness in the wake of student deaths, natural disasters, and political instability.

This announcement comes amid a series of student deaths at Penn. On Dec. 31, College freshman William Steinberg died in a plane accident with his family, becoming the eighth Penn student to die in 2017. Following his death, reports emerged that College sophomore Blaze Bernstein had died in a homicide. Samuel

Woodward, a high school friend of Bernstein’s, has been arrested in connection to his murder, which may potentially be investigated as a hate crime. Less than a week after Bernstein was found dead in Orange County, Calif., Penn Law student Jonathan Lumpkin, 25, died in his apartment in Sansom Place East.

Penn’s reconvened mental health task force concluded last summer that ongoing initiatives around mental health were adequately addressing student needs, though students on Penn’s campus have indicated an increased desire for dialogue around mental health at Penn and what administrators can do to improve it.

In an email sent to the Penn community on Jan. 23, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett announced the wellness website’s launch. The email also introduced a section of the website where students can submit ideas on how to improve the website and general campus wellness.

“We make it clear in the email that we expect [the website] to change,” Pritchett told The Daily Pennsylvanian. “We want the community to give us advice about how to make it as good a webpage as it can be.”

The wellness portal aims to centralize all of the University’s resources, events, and news, dividing the topic of wellness into eight distinct types: emotional, physical, mental, social, sexual, spiritual, financial, and occupational.

Under each of the eight tabs on the website, there is a list of resources related to the specific type of wellness and a list of events at Penn that students can attend to focus on wellness.

In addition to the schedule of upcoming wellness events for the Penn community, users can access news from sources like the DP and Almanac, with the goal of making resources more accessible.

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a revamped version of the “Take Your Professor to Lunch Campaign” and expanded College programming — is part of the University’s Campaign for Wellness. It operates as part of the Campaign for Community, an initiative launched in April 2015 to promote events centered around racial diversity and freedom of speech.

“It’s not unfixable,” Faculty Senate Chair-Elect Jennifer Pinto-Martin, a nursing professor, said. “When I hear [Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett] talk about this, I can see that this is something they care deeply about. It’s going to make a big difference.”

The campaign is a response to issues that student leaders have brought up during meetings with administrators and in the Campus Conversation, Undergraduate Assembly Vice President Jay Shah said.

During their meetings with administrators, student leaders frequently discussed increasing partici-

pation in the program, Pritchett said.

“They did a lot of listening to the problems on campus and part of what they heard was the resources are really disconnected, you don’t know who to call when you need to do something,” Pinto-Martin said.

“This will be a one-stop shop.”

The campaign also includes a revamped “Take Your Professor to Lunch” program which aims to facilitate closer relationships between faculty and students and to address the fact that many students reported feeling distanced from their professors, Shah said.

Pinto-Martin added that the program will provide students with a chance to feel that they have “a trusted adult that cares about [their] well being.”

“Many of my classes are over 100 people, and coming into Penn, sometimes not really knowing your professors — when you had great relationships with your teachers in high school — can be a bit scary,”

Shah said.

“Getting to know your professor plays a big role in making the campus a smaller space. And that’s what we need, to make the campus feel smaller,” Shah added.

In addition to more wellness events in the college houses and the Division of Recreation, Counseling and Psychological Services is looking to expand its I CARE program as part of the campaign.

“We are interested in continuing to expand it and providing the training to more and more members of our community,” Pritchett said.

However, for the campaign to have a long-term impact, students also need to put in effort, Shah added.

“It also depends on how we treat other students, such as club recruitment and how that impacts students early on,” Shah said. “We really need to prioritize our well being in terms of getting sleep, eating healthy and taking time for ourselves.”

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Penn to host dog photo contest for Chinese Year of the Dog The Penn Museum launched the contest

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ZACH JACOBS Contributing Reporter

The Penn Museum is celebrating the upcoming Chinese New Year and start of the Year of the Dog by hosting a dog photo contest on Instagram.

The contest, part of the Penn Museum’s 37th annual Chinese New Year Celebration, requires each Instagram entry to include the dog’s name and a New Year’s resolution for the pet in the caption.

Penn Museum Social Media Manager Tom Stanley said this marks the first time that the Museum has integrated a social media contest with the annual Chinese New Year event.

“The Year of the Dog came around, and we knew that people love dogs,” Stanley said. “Certain years on the zodiac calendar are a little less photogenic than others, like the Year of the Rat for example.”

Albert Lee, a local Instagram personality known for portraits of everyday Philadelphians and landscape shots of the city, will narrow the entries down to nine finalists. Attendees of the Museum’s Chinese New Year festivities on Jan. 27 vote on the finalists’ photos.

The winner of the contest, determined by whose photo gets the most votes in the final round, will receive a one-year membership to the Penn Museum. Second and third place winners will earn gift certificates, while all finalists get a “goodie bag for their dog,” according to the contest rules.

So far there are over 60 entries to the contest, which began on Jan. 6 and ends on Jan. 22.

For the museum staff, the increased attention that the contest brings to the Chinese New Year Celebration is heartening because of how important they believe the new year festival to be.

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Entrants are required to provide their dog’s name and a New Year’s resolution for their pet in the caption of the Instagram post.

Tena Thompson, the assistant director for public programs at the Penn Museum, said the event helps illuminate a culture many living in Philadelphia never get to see.

She said the annual celebration for Chinese New Year is part of the Museum’s World Culture Days, a series of programming that celebrates various cultures from around the world throughout each year, such as the Day of the Dead.

“Many cultures share things, but it’s important that we see cultural similarities and explore differences to understand this different part of the world,” Thompson added.

The celebration at the museum will include many activities, such as an illustrated lecture from Penn Museum Curator of Asian Art Nancy Steinhardt about dogs in Chinese art. Thompson said the celebration will end with a traditional Chinese lion dance

parade.

Chinese New Year celebrates the turn of the lunar calendar.

Each year is dedicated to one of twelve zodiac animals. The upcoming year, which traditionally begins in February, honors the dog zodiac. The Penn Museum event press release says that according Chinese mythology, people born under the Year of the Dog are “loyal and honest.”

While the competition comes with a prize for the winners and finalists, some entrants simply want to showcase their dogs.

College sophomore Stephanie Lee said she learned of the contest through Facebook and thought it would be cool to enter her “faithful and loyal” 8-yearold Maltese, Jamie, into the competition.

“I don’t think the reward matters that much to me,” she said.

“I just think it’d be fun to enter and see his photo featured at the Museum.”

Unlike PennCash and Dining Dollars, which don’t have much use outside of Penn’s campus, Drexel University’s equivalent — Dragon Dollars — are accepted at numerous vendors in University City.

Restaurants on and off Drexel’s campus, including New Delhi and Shake Shack, accept Dragon Dollars. In fact, the currency is accepted at all Drexel campus dining locations, in addition to over 50 privately owned restaurants and retailers in University City. The Fresh Grocer, White Dog Cafe, and Saxbys Coffee are some of the vendors that accept Drexel’s special currency.

Drexel’s website describes Dragon Dollars as creating a “cashless campus environment” for students, which essentially serves the same purpose as PennCash — a “pre-paid debit feature available on your PennCard which reduces the need to carry cash on campus.”

Despite their shared purpose to make spending money on campus easier, the two currencies have a wide gap in the number of nonUniversity owned vendors that accept them.

Unlike Dragon Dollars, PennCash only works at select oncampus establishments — some of which include Tortas Fronteras at the ARCH, The Energy Zone at Pottruck Center, and Houston Market.

The widely accepted Dragon Dollars have become the envy of

many Penn students. For years, they have expressed frustration that PennCash is not accepted by any outside vendors.

College freshman Declan Schoen said he wished Dining Dollars would spread to more businesses.

“I do think it’s odd that oncampus restaurants don’t take Dining Dollars,” Schoen said. “Like Williams Cafe, that’s where my first class in the morning is, and it would be really nice if I could use Dining Dollars to buy my coffee there instead of having to go somewhere else or spend cash.”

Schoen added that he would appreciate being able to use Dining Dollars at other locations as well.

“If they took Dining Dollars at Wawa, I would be out fast, but it would be beautiful,” he said.

Retailers, additionally, have expressed interest in working with Penn to bring PennCash or Dining Dollars to their establishments.

Unlike PennCash and Dining Dollars, which don’t have much use outside of Penn’s campus, Drexel University’s equivalent — Dragon Dollars — are accepted at numerous vendors in University City.

Restaurants on and off Drexel’s campus, including New Delhi and Shake Shack, accept Dragon Dollars. In fact, the currency is accepted at all Drexel campus dining locations, in addition to over 50 privately owned restaurants and retailers in University City. The Fresh Grocer, White Dog Cafe, and Saxbys Coffee are some of the vendors that accept Drexel’s special currency.

Drexel’s website describes Dragon Dollars as creating a “cash-

less campus environment” for students, which essentially serves the same purpose as PennCash — a “pre-paid debit feature available on your PennCard which reduces the need to carry cash on campus.”

Despite their shared purpose to make spending money on campus easier, the two currencies have a wide gap in the number of nonUniversity owned vendors that accept them.

Unlike Dragon Dollars, PennCash only works at select oncampus establishments — some of which include Tortas Fronteras at the ARCH, The Energy Zone at Pottruck Center, and Houston Market.

The widely accepted Dragon Dollars have become the envy of many Penn students. For years, they have expressed frustration that PennCash is not accepted by any outside vendors.

College freshman Declan Schoen said he wished Dining Dollars would spread to more businesses.

“I do think it’s odd that oncampus restaurants don’t take Dining Dollars,” Schoen said. “Like Williams Cafe, that’s where my first class in the morning is, and it would be really nice if I could use Dining Dollars to buy my coffee there instead of having to go somewhere else or spend cash.”

Schoen added that he would appreciate being able to use Dining Dollars at other locations as well.

“If they took Dining Dollars at Wawa, I would be out fast, but it would be beautiful,” he said.

Retailers, additionally, have expressed interest in working with Penn to bring PennCash or Dining Dollars to their establishments.

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the NLRB ruling was overturned and Penn students were not able to unionize.

New York University, whose graduate students were able to unionize before the NLRB overturned the ruling in 2004, remains the only private university with a recognized graduate student union.

Not all private universities are refusing negotiations, though.

Though “disappointed in the outcome” of the vote, Tufts University agreed to bargain with the graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences after an affirmative vote in May 2017.

Brandeis University, American University, and The New School have also agreed to respect the outcome of the students’ vote and begin bargaining.

Graduate students at public universities, notably at the University of Michigan, have collective bargaining rights protected under state law, and many have been operating for decades.

At the time of this article’s publication, Penn has not filed an appeal. Given past precedents, Smith remains worried that the University will fight unionization, but said he would “love it if Penn would prove us wrong.”

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Women’s squash’s Alves returns to action after injury Captain provides needed maybe better than that,” coach experience at top of the ladder Jack Wyant said. “To have her MOSES NSEREKO Sports Reporter

She’s back, by popular demand.

As Penn women’s squash (5-3, 1-1 Ivy) enters its main extended stretch of conference play of the season against Princeton (9-0, 2-0), the Red and Blue’s lineup will be bolstered by the recent return of senior No. 2 Melissa Alves. A native of French Guiana, Alves suffered a second injury to her foot over the summer, injuring the same foot that kept her from full-time play during her sophomore season.

“It’s huge. She’s a top-five, top-four player in college squash,

mendous. That is, unless you ask Alves herself.

“It was a bad loss this weekend,” Alves said. “Bad for me because I didn’t play my best, but she played great still. I think I just need to get into the rhythm of playing matches like that.”

Alves started training on court again in December.

Her own lofty standards aside, Alves has overcome a lot just to get back on court. Dealing with a second injury to the same part of her body required a more rigorous surgery and recovery period.

Alves recalls there being more metal screws and plates required for this surgery than the one in her sophomore season.

The senior captain has still found a way to bounce back even more than last time. In her sopho-

back in the lineup has meant a tremendous amount to the team.”

Alves is looking to reclaim her elite form from last season, when she was the country’s only undefeated player to play all of her matches in one of the top three lineup slots. She earned a firstteam All-Ivy selection after a perfect 13-0 campaign, including a 6-0 record against Ivy League opponents.

Alves has already completed three matches since her return to competitive play, winning her two matches against Ivy opponents from Yale and Brown. Her only loss was a tight five-game bout against No. 2 Trinity, where she held two match points.

She’s been no less then tre-

more season, Alves played four games all season. Now, when she takes the court for the Quakers’ match against Princeton, it will already be her fourth match in what is a budding comeback.

“This time I just learned patience. Literally, trust the process,” Alves remarked. “The first time I think I tried to get back on court to fast, that’s why I rebroke it. I learned that you can’t beat nature.”

While she exhibited patience in the healing process, her training since she has returned demonstrates her dedication. Wyant stressed that, now that Alves is back on court, her determination to return to playing has inspired her teammates.

“First and foremost, she is reminded how much she loves the

game, and how desperate she was to get back on court,” Wyant said.

“For the younger team members to see that, to see her passion and her drive to get back on court was a positive example of her leadership.”

Alves praised her teammates for helping her to continue to stay involved without having to pick up a racquet. The rehab period not only provided her a chance to heal her foot, but also a chance to do something she loved doing almost as much as playing: mentoring her teammates. Often, she found herself giving the same advice to them from the sidelines that she gave while on the court during practice.

While she counseled others, Alves would often learn things herself as well.

“You earn a lot from watching people play,” Alves said. “You learn the right way to play, you see their mistakes, and you try not to reproduce them. You’ve gotta try to find anything to make yourself better, even if you can’t be on court.”

Though her return is in its nascent stage, Alves’ play has been stellar. In all the matches the she has played, she has at the very least held a match point. This was against opponents who had had three more months of training and match play than she. Alves is already back to her No. 2 spot in the lineup, and she is looking ready for the Quakers’ impending showdown against the undefeated Tigers.

Her goals for the rest of the season? No losses until nationals.

Penn men’s hoops looks to bounce back against Saint Joseph’s Hawks are the Quakers’ last non-Ivy foe of regular season

to do,” Penn coach Steve Donahue Still, playing time has become said of the team’s future goals. available for players further down “That’s how we recruit. We like to the depth chart. In last Saturday’s think of ourselves as a Big 5 team 60-51 loss to Temple, junior guard TOM NOWLAN that competes in the Ivy.” Jake Silpe — who came into the Senior Sports Reporter While Penn will not top the game having played just 36 minquintet in 2018 — that honor will utes on the season — saw an exgo to Villanova, the nation’s No. tended 15-minute look off the SATURDAY 1 ranked squad — contests versus bench.

Philadelphia rivals inevitably bring “We experimented a little bit Penn an added amount of energy, urgen- against Temple because we need (12-6, 0-3 Big 5) cy, and gravity to the Palestra. to get better. I don’t want to stay St. Joseph’s “It’s a sort of desperation men- stagnant.” Donahue said. “Jake has tality; it’s the same thing we had been improving over the last two (9-9, 0-2 Big 5) last year when we were 0-6 [in Ivy months. He deserves an opportu7 p.m.

League play],” junior forward Max nity.”

The Palestra Rothschild said. “We don’t want go “We as players can’t act like winless in the Big 5.” we’re [guaranteed playing time],” Through the early part of the Ivy If Penn is to pull out of its Phila- Rothschild added. “We just need to League schedule, Penn men’s bas- delphia funk, it will need to rely remain humble, with a workmanketball has gotten off to a perfect heavily on its stalwart core — the like mentality.”

3-0 start in conference play. Within Quakers have used the exact same Saturday’s contest will come the Big 5, though, things have not starting five in each one of the sea- during something of a lull for the been nearly as rosy. son’s 18 games, a marked level of team — since beating Columbia The Quakers (12-6, 0-3 Big 5) • stability for aand team that gave starts two Saturdays ago, the Red and Flexible Leasing Single Double Rooms • have gone winless in the famed to nine different players a season Blue have had consecutive weekIndividual Leases Included Philadelphia circuit, dropping their• All ago.Amenities and Utilities ends off from conference play, first three contests to Villanova, La “I know what those five will with the Temple and St. Joseph’s Salle, and Temple. On Saturday, bring every game,” Donahue said home games representing the only the Red and Blue will get one fi- of guards Darnell Foreman, An- action between the Jan. 13 and Feb. Call nal chance to avoid a Big 5 shutout tonio Woods, and Ryan Betley as 2. While Big 5 play is far from a when they host crosstown rival St. well as forwards A.J. Brodeur and reprieve, the squad has welcomed 215.662.0802 Joseph’s (9-9, 0-2).

Rothschild. “They’ve deserved it. the opportunity to stay home and “We want to win Big 5 champi- They’ve competed in all aspects of prepare for the Ivy League’s stretch onships. That’s a thing we’re trying the game.”

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Despite getting little playing time coming into Penn men’s basketball’s game against Temple, junior guard Jake Silpe recorded 15 minutes in the Quakers’ loss last weekend against the Owls.

“We’re doing a lot of scrimmaging in practice; we want to try different guys, try different things,” Donahue said.

“We had a lot of away games; we were pretty tired right before

winter break,” Rothschild said.

“It’s nice to have some time to practice, focus on ourselves, and get better.”

Saturday’s contest will represent the Red and Blue’s final noncon-

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Buchholz makes quick impact as a walk-on

W. SQUASH | Freshman had won seven straight

didn’t expect her to be winning matches in the middle of the lineup, which she already started to do,� coach Jack Wyant said. “She is a testament to hard work, dedication, and real passion.� “She is someone who cares so deeply about the game, about maximizing her improvement, and you can just see that day in and day out. It doesn’t matter whether she is here for practice or playing in a match she cares about getting the most out of her ability, and she is on her way to doing that.�

Everyone loves an underdog story, and the Quakers have found one in Buchholz. She has taken the league by surprise and does not want to slow down, with her coaches seeing her strive to become the best that she can be.

The veterans on the team have been helping Buchholz climb the ladder. Last week, senior Melissa Alves met with Buchholz in the morning to do pressure sessions.

STEPHEN TANNENBAUM Sports Reporter

From just around the corner in Fort Washington, Pa. Julia Buchholz watched Penn become one of the best collegiate squash teams. Now, she’s a part of it.

Since joining the team as a walk-on, the freshman has accumulated a seven-game winning streak. She has now risen all the way up to No. 6 on the squash ladder. “I knew I wanted to play before I applied to Penn,� Buchholz said. “I couldn’t imagine my life without playing squash, so I decided to walk on to the team.�

As a walk-on, Buchholz tries to bring extra enthusiasm to the game. And according to her, her greatest strength on the court is her grit. “We thought she would be a good college player but

“The top of our ladder are some of the best players in college squash, so they often volunteer their time to hit with me,� Buchholz said. “They are always going the extra mile to put in the work to help us catch up — their leadership is awesome. Melissa is a great captain — she inspires the rest of us to do our best and play our best.�

This year Buchholz has worked through an ankle injury, but when healthy, she has performed well, even as the rest of the bottom half of the ladder has struggled. “I think that if she stays injury free, and if she continues to improve her fitness level, she will reach her potential,� Wyant said. “That’s the only thing that’s separating her from another jump forward. Then she can continue to win higher in the ladder, so I think she is just starting to scratch the surface in terms of her potential.�

Next week against Princeton, this underdog story will look to continue.

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The Quakers get plenty of recruits each year, but freshman Julia Buchholz is quickly making a name for herself without that distinction, as she walked on to the team at the beginning of the season.

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Big 5 coaches share a special connection off the court M. HOOPS | Rivalry does not get in way of friendship CARTER THOMPSON Associate Sports Editor

Big 5 basketball is special.

The history, tradition, and passion of the Big 5 is truly unique; there is nothing else like it in all of college basketball.

A major part of the Big 5’s special nature is the unparalleled relationships that the different coaches in the conference have with one another. These relationships, based on mutual respect, competitiveness, and shared experiences, create one of the most remarkable coaching fellowships in the country. “Each and every one of us is the other’s biggest fan,� Saint Joseph’s coach Phil Martelli explained. “We pull for the other teams.� “All of us in the Big 5 are really close,� Penn coach Steve Donahue said. “I’ll get text from guys after this game [against Temple].�

Sometimes coaches simply say this about the other teams in their conference. But after spending time talking to the coaches of the Big 5, you realize they genuinely support their own and want them to succeed.

When Donahue was asked about Villanova in his press conference following a loss to Temple, he offered praise for the spectacular job that “one of our own� had done and called the Wildcats’ current run of success one of the greatest in the history of college basketball. Martelli texts the other coaches if they get a big win or if they land a prized recruit. Fran Dunphy, Temple’s coach and former Penn legend, praised the job that Donahue has done after he described how talented the rest of the Big 5 was. “I wouldn’t be here without Fran,� Donahue said. “I was a real bad Division III player with no experience, and he took me on his staff. He’s a very good tactical coach, but he’s way more about people and relationships and how he treats people, [and from] that I learned a great deal.�

Even when the buckets aren’t dropping, the coaches all support one another and are quick to let their brethren know that they are not alone. “In the toughest time [I try to text the other coaches],� Martelli said. “[To] let them know we’re think-

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ing about you, things will get better.

And they do the same.�

One reason why the coaches might be so supportive of one another is because they’ve all been around one another for a long time.

Martelli’s career at St. Joe’s began in 1985 as an assistant coach before he became head coach in 1995. Jay Wright has been the coach at Villanova since 2001. John Giannini of La Salle has been in the conference since 2004. Finally, Dunphy, who has been nicknamed “Mr. Big Five,� is well documented as being a part of the Big 5 for the better part of the conference’s existence. He played at La Salle from 1967-1970, was later an assistant coach at La Salle (twice), was the head coach at Penn for 17 years, and is now in his 12th season as the coach of the Owls.

Donahue is the shortest tenured head coach in the Big 5 with only three years of experience leading the Red and Blue. But when you factor in his 10 years coaching as an assistant at Penn under Dunphy, he is right up with the other coaches in terms of familiarity and experience with the league. “At a lot of places, there might be a quick reaction to a downturn,�

Martelli explained when asked why the coaches in the Big 5 have coached in the league for so long. “But in Philly you’re measured by the man you are, more so than the results you’ve produced.�

In fact, the coaches share a personal connection to Philadelphia.

All of the coaches, except for Giannini, were born in Philadelphia.

Of those four, only Wright did not attend college in the greater Phila-

delphia area.

The coaches also stay aligned through the Philadelphia section of Coaches vs. Cancer, where they attend events and host Q&A’s in order to increase cancer awareness.

Being from Philadelphia and understanding the history of the Big 5 and what it stands for, gives the coaches a different perspective on what it means to coach in the league. “You realize you’ve been given a responsibility,� Martelli explained. “You’ve been given the keys to a house, and all you’ve been asked is to not burn the house down. “I wouldn’t trade the label of ‘Big 5 Coach’ for anything,� he added. “It’s a unique city,� Donahue emphasized. “College basketball in this city is passion, its huge. I’ve been in another city, this [much interest] doesn’t happen. [Philly] is a fun place to coach, you get the Eagles chant in the middle of the game. They’re not doing that in Boston for the Patriots.�

It shouldn’t be surprising that the Big 5 coaches are such a respected and special group; nowhere else in the country can you find four out of five teams from the same city who rank in the top 40 all-time in DI wins.

Regardless of what happens on the court, win or lose, the coaches of the Big 5 will be supporting their own through and through. “We don’t break bread, or muck it up,� Martelli explained. “But the other coaches in Philadelphia know, we’re watching each other and hoping for success.� “It’s an extraordinary fellowship.�

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with guys or girls that are better than her.�

Echoing Wyant, Sedky reaffirmed the importance of pushing herself further, especially with respect to the distinctly challenging playing styles possessed by the men’s side. “They definitely push me to become better. They run so much and smack the ball, whereas girls have a different type of game, so I get to practice different styles,�

Sedky said. “With the conditioning games, the guys have stronger legs physically, so it’s tough. I think I’m a lot more consistent and can reach a lot more balls, because when I play with guys, I’ve gotten used to them getting everything, so that’s translated to my game.�

Having just taken top prize in the Men’s A division of the Reggae Cup over winter break, this atypical training seems to be working for her. Interestingly, it’s not just “the Hammer� that’s benefiting from these inter-team training sessions. With her in the mix for drills and hitting, the tempo and competitiveness has certainly spiked for the guys as well, as attested to by senior captain Hayes

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thus far. “He has the opportunity to be the best American player ever,� Lane said.

His play has not just been great, but it has been heroic as well.

On Jan. 10, Penn and No. 6 Rochester were tied at four games apiece going into the final match. It was only fitting what would happen

Murphy. “Whenever you’re on court with Reeham you can expect her to be focused and putting you under pressure. It’s great having her — she fits right in and she competes with everyone on the team,� Murphy said. “There’s usually a little bit of a separation between women and men in the pace we play at, but not with Reeham. She’s often the one pushing the pace, and it’s good practice for us.“ Concurring with the assessment of his No. 2 player, men’s coach Gilly Lane sees Sedky’s participation in his squad’s practices as a means to bring everyone’s game up a notch. “I think it’s a win-win for everyone. She’s a two-time intercollegiate finalist, and she’s put herself as one of the best, if not the best, player in the country on the collegiate and international level,�

Lane said. “She brings a great style, an attacking style of play to the men’s practices, and it’s great for our boys to see different styles of play and adjust to the pace that she plays at.�

Adding that there is some precedent for Penn’s women to train with the men, Lane mentioned that some of his most productive workouts were with female pros when

he was on the professional tour. He continued that while there may be two teams, it’s all just Penn squash. “We’re a family here both programs, and we want everyone doing well, and however we can succeed in both programs, we’re gonna do it,� he said.

From cheering on one another during matches, sharing unending bus rides to Hanover, N.H., and now practicing together, both teams certainly have each other’s backs. Sedky noted that this camaraderie supports an atmosphere where all the Quakers can excel. “I think this year, our guys’ and girls’ teams are closer than ever.

[Senior captain] Melissa [Alves] also plays with them, and we do extra fitness with them, so it’s a great dynamic between us,� she said.

For those wondering where Sedky would rank on the men’s ladder, no one knows for sure.

While Lane couldn’t quite put his finger on the number, Wyant encouraged challenge matches down the road for her to really prove her worth.

Although already at the top of the squash game, Reeham Sedky has no plans of stopping here, as she is always in search of that next level of greatness.

next.

Douglas got the opportunity to win the match for his team.

He went down two games early on, but made a miraculous comeback. Douglas won his next three games, fighting off three match points in the final one, and taking match for the Red and Blue in a heroic fashion.

Stories like these leave a legacy that will give Douglas the chance to go down as one of the greatest Penn

squash players in men’s history. As for now, Douglas is still looking to improve as a team and individually. “We have the potential to be a top-two team in the country,�

Douglas said. “Individually, there’s no ceilings for my own goals. I’m just a freshman, so I have four years to get better.�

Douglas and the Quakers will look to continue a great start to the season in their next contest at home against No. 8 Princeton on Jan. 30.

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Penn men’s squash off to best start in 33 years Quakers were cellar-dweller just five years ago PAUL HARRYHILL Sports Reporter

In 1985, Ronald Reagan was president, the original Super Mario Brothers was released, Michael Phelps was born.

And Penn men’s squash got off to a start that wouldn’t be matched — that is, until now.

That team in the mid-80s got its season off to a prolific 10-0 start, and eventually finished the season with a 10-2 record. The men of 2018 currently stand at an 8-2 record, are ranked No. 5 in the nation, and are showing plenty of signs that their season can eclipse that of the 1985 team.

It has been a long road to get to this place for the Quakers. In the 2012-13 season, the team hit its nadir: five wins, 12 losses, and a seventh-place finish in the Ivy League, which was the lowest in program history. In the following seasons, the Red and Blue returned to the middle of the conference, consistently logging fourth and fifth-place finishes in the Ivy League. Last year, coach Gilly Lane took control of the team and led it to another fourth-place finish.

This season, the list of accomplishments is already quite lengthy: the Quakers notched

their first victory over Yale at home in over 20 years, defeated perennial heavyweight Rochester in a thrilling comeback, and performed clean sweeps of Franklin & Marshall, Virginia, Williams and Brown.

So, what has made the difference this year?

Lane sees the early successes of the team as a product of a team dynamic that is uniquely experienced and skilled for the Penn men’s squash program.

“I think this year, we have finally the combination of veteran presence and combine that with … guys who have played at an international level,” Lane, a 2006 Penn graduate, said.

“We’re combining that skill and talent with veteran leadership … and when you add all that together I think that’s a big reason for this success.”

One of those veteran leaders, senior Marwan Mahmoud, holds a similar belief as to the origin of the team’s success, but additionally, he finds that the order that the matches have been scheduled in has played a role, as the team has been able to get early momentum with a schedule that is less heavily frontloaded than in years past.

“The biggest difference this year is that we had a different start this year. We usually play Harvard and Dartmouth in the first matches—we were not lucky in the past three years,” he

stated. “But, this year we started with Yale and Brown, and we had two great wins.”

This past weekend, the Quakers squared off against the undisputed best team in the nation, Trinity. Penn was dealt its second loss of the season; however, Lane knows that this team has what it takes to overcome defeat not just in terms of skill, but also in terms of grit.

“The team’s hungry. They’re fighters. We really take that blue-collar mentality to heart,” he said. “This year, more than any year… [the team] has shown that they can pick each other up when someone else is down, and they can play in big situations.”

Even with that loss, the team is set up well for the coming weeks. And with the heart of Ivy play coming up, you can bet that the Quakers will be hungry to keep the ball rolling.

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she emphatically swatted away, and continued to make her presence known.

While the seniors had already experienced a Big 5 title during their freshman season, no one else on the team has seen the team win this title. And with it being just the second time in school history that the Quakers have finished in first, there’s plenty of reason to rejoice.

“I want them to celebrate,”

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And celebrate they did. The team could be heard cheering in the locker room from the court, and everyone was smiling as they left the arena.

But the celebration cannot last long. The Quakers have one more game before they return to Ivy play.

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s the classic song goes, “anything you can do I can do bet-

ter.”

For Penn women’s squash’s Reeham Sedky, this very well could be the case. The twotime defending College Squash Association finalist has taken her game up yet another level, now training with Penn’s men’s team.

As the reigning United States Olympic Committee Athlete of the Year, the No. 1 ranked female player, and the proud owner of a 23-leaguematch winning streak, the unstoppable junior is always seeking out new challenges.

This year, Penn’s registrar helped force the issue with CIS course offerings incompatible with the women’s training schedule. For an Aca-

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demic All-Ivy honoree and a dedicated engineering student, school requirements do have to take the front seat. So, like all champions, Sedky made the best of the situation which, per her coach Jack Wyant, has been a blessing in disguise.

“So, what happens is when she has a class conflict, Gilly and the men are very open about her getting on the court with them. It’s true in just about every sport that if you have the opportunity to compete with better players, that will help you improve the most,” Wyant said. “She does that for all the women on a daily basis. So, for her to have an opportunity to train with the men has been really positive, because she needs the competition, to be out there SEE REEHAM PAGE 10

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Andrew Douglas already dominant as a freshman

Quakers win share of Big 5 title in 15-point romp over Temple

M. SQUASH | Rookie has started 9-1 in top spot

W. HOOPS | Ross falls one short of assists record

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JONATHAN POLLACK Senior Sports Editor

He might be a rookie, but he’s not acting like it.

In large part due to freshman phenom Andrew Douglas, Penn men’s squash is off to its best start since 1985. Douglas, who has played at the No. 1 spot all season, has come in and made an instant impact. In fact, the Quakers (8-2, 2-0 Ivy) are currently ranked No. 5 in the nation.

“The five seniors have made a large impact on the program,” men’s coach Gilly Lane said on the team’s improvement. “But to add someone like Andrew, combined with those five, we knew he would make an immediate impact on our team.”

Douglas, 9-1 in his individual matches, has been the answer the Quakers have needed at the top spot, leading his team by example on the court.

“Historically, Penn has been very deep,” Douglas said. “But we’ve struggled at the top. We now have me and Hayes [Murphy] and it really helps because we’ve always had that depth at the bottom.”

Douglas’ squash career started when his father, a former squash

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Freshman Andrew Douglas has brought a spark to the No. 5 Quakers, winning nine staight before taking his first loss against No. 1 Trinity.

player, introduced him to the sport at the young age of six.

Ultimately, Douglas did not take squash seriously until freshman year of high school. This lifestyle decision placed him on the path to be a Quaker.

“I felt best with the squash team [at Penn],” Douglas said. “I felt most comfortable here and thought I could be my best.”

Currently ranked No. 161 in the world, Douglas is one the best re-

cruits in recent memory.

“Andrew had a great junior career,” Lane said. “So when he committed to Penn, we knew he would make an immediate impact.”

In his first season, the Quakers are already off to an incredible start. Last season at this point, the Red and Blue were 5-5, a full three matches back to this season’s pace SEE DOUGLAS PAGE 10

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This one’s for the history books.

In the final Big 5 matchup of the season, Penn women’s basketball took down Temple, 74-59, to earn a share of the Big 5 title for the first time since 2014-2015 and only the second in team history.

Junior guard Ashley Russell paced the way for the Quakers (105, 3-1 Big 5) with a career-high 19 points, including the first seven of the game. In typical fashion, the Braintree, Mass. native was flying all over the court, and she filled out the rest of the stat sheet with a career-best nine rebounds, four assists, a block and a steal.

“Just ball movement, especially with having such an eye on Eleah and Michelle down low, that kind of opens up our perimeter a lot,” said Russell when asked about the key to her success.

But even with Russell having a great individual game, the story of the contest was the full team effort.

Especially in the first half, all five players on the floor played cohe-

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Junior guard Ashley Russell had a career night against Temple, setting new personal bests in both points (19) and rebounds.

sively on both sides of the ball.

On offense, the Red and Blue had one of their best passing games of the season. As a team, they raked up 20 assists, but the numbers don’t do it justice. Eight different Quakers recorded an assist, and the team did an excellent job of making the extra pass to find an open look.

And on defense, the big number was 16: turnovers committed by the Owls. Penn’s defense smothered Temple (9-10, 2-2), coming up with big stops seemingly at will

to quell any attempt at a comeback.

“They turned the ball over in it,” McLaughlin said of his team’s 2-2-1 zone. “They did make a couple shots, they did spread us wide, but they did turn it over, and I thought that was a reason to stay in it.”

Another big reason for the defensive dominance was yet another strong game down low from freshman star Eleah Parker. The rookie had three blocks, two of which SEE WBB PAGE 11

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