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The UPennAlert system has become an integral way for Penn students to receive breaking crime updates and to remain safe on campus. But for some situations, the Division of Public Safety decides not to send out an alert, even when the incident takes place on campus.

Several UPennAlerts have been issued since the beginning of January. On Jan. 25, an alert was sent out notifying students about a burglary on campus and on the night of Jan. 28, another UPennAlert was sent out about a man who allegedly sexually assaulted someone on 38th and Woodland Walk. But on Jan. 17, when there was a suspicious package in the Quad package room and Philadelphia Police barred students from entering, a UPennAlert was not sent out.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said as soon as a crime is reported, she gets on a conference call with 18 to 19 members of DPS to get details from the scene as it develops. Rush said DPS considers all available information, including the proximity of the threat to campus and the ability to keep the area closed off.

Rush added that if the incident is considered an ongoing threat to the Penn community, they issue a UPennAlert via text message, email, and on the DPS website. If the threat is over or deemed contained, however, they will not release an alert.

Rush said the package in the Quad was likely just “one that had gone around the world too many times.”

That afternoon, DPS contacted Philadelphia Police Department’s Ordnance Detection Unit and blocked off the area to prevent entry. Philadelphia police X-rayed the package and determined it not to be a threat. Because there was no ongoing threat to the Penn community, Rush said a UPenn Alert was not sent out.

The UPennAlerts generally cover the Penn Patrol Zone, which covers an area from the Schuylkill River to 43rd Street and Baltimore Avenue to Market Street, including the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, the DPS website stated.

However, if a threat is on the bor-

A University Council meeting on Jan. 30 provided a forum for Penn’s administrators and student leaders to report the progress of various wellness programs and for Associate Vice Provost and Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé to describe the initiatives he plans on undertaking.

Over the past year, the Penn community has seen significant developments in mental health and wellness resources on campus, demonstrating the administration’s shift toward focusing on wellness as a priority for the University. Most significantly, Dubé became the first chief wellness officer in the Ivy League when he began in fall 2018.

The Office of the Vice Provost for University Life grouped five wellness-oriented services — Counseling and Psychological Services, Student Health Service, Campus Health, Penn Violence Prevention, and Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives — under one umbrella led by Dubé. At the meeting, he highlighted statistics showing the services’ reach, noting specifically that 20 percent of students used CAPS last year.

Dubé said he aimed for a cultural shift at Penn that would allow people to be vulnerable about their difficulties and ask for help. He said the campus conversations, of which there have been three iterations, would continue but in a format that allowed smaller group discussions.

Dubé also announced the establishment of a student wellness advising group that would advise him on wellness policy, as well as a contest that would ask the Penn community for ideas to promote wellness on campus.

Originally slotted for two hours, the University Council meeting adjourned more than an hour early.

Vice President and University Secretary Leslie Kruhly said there has been no further action on issues brought up at the last University Council Open Forum, including Penn’s investment in the coal and tar sands industries and the mandatory second-year on-campus housing policy.

President Amy Gutmann said in the meeting that redefining wellness “is an ongoing process that requires self-monitoring and that acknowledges that stress is part of

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann was paid $3.9 million in 2016, according to the most recent report Penn filed with the Internal Revenue Service.

The salary, which is a 10.5 percent increase from her last reported salary of $3.5 million in 2015, makes her among the highest-paid university presidents in the nation.

Gutmann is now the thirdhighest paid president in the country and the second highest-earning president in the Ivy League, after Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, who earned $3.95 million in 2016. Gutmann’s

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A 10.5 percent increase from the previous year

salary recently became available with the release of the University’s Form 990 for the 2017 fiscal year.

Penn Board of Trustees Chair David Cohen said Gutmann’s salary has spiked over the years because of her long tenure and performance — namely, the success of both of her fundraising campaigns, the Power of Penn and Making History. Since the beginning of her tenure, Gutmann’s salary has climbed 347 percent.

“The Trustees believe that in part because of the complexity of the University, that Amy Gutmann is the best university president in the country,” Cohen said.

“We hold the president to a very high level of performance, and Dr. Gutmann has, fortunately for the Uni-

After 20 years at Penn, Head Coach of Strength and Conditioning Jim Steel abruptly resigned from his position on Jan. 10. This marks the second departure from Penn Athletics this month after Senior Associate Athletic Director David Leach also parted ways with the department.

“Coach Steel resigned unexpectedly earlier this month,” Penn Athletics wrote in a statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian. “Jim served Penn Athletics and its student-athletes admirably during his nearly 20 years in the Division, and we wish him nothing but the best moving forward.”

Although the details are not clear, Steel wrote in a statement to the DP that his resignation was due to a philosophical dispute with the administration.

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lustrating his feelings toward coaches and administrators. The more than 2,500-word post was published the morning of Jan. 14, four days after his resignation. The post includes several anecdotes in which Steel felt slighted by coaches and administrators he worked with, without naming any of them. Steel also recounted multiple instances of sexism from both coaches and administrators in his blog.

“The problem is that most coaches and administrators have such huge egos that they just can’t help themselves,” Steel wrote. “And god forbid if you are a big guy or have any muscle on your body. Then you are labeled as a meat head who trains all sports ‘like football players.’”

Steel was responsible for

"most coaches and administrators have such huge egos that they just can’t help themselves."

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that the Sports Performance administration and I didn’t see eye-to-eye on the best way to run the strength and conditioning program,” he wrote. “I really love the athletes at Penn and will miss them.”

On his blog, Bas’ Barbell, Steel published a lengthy post il-

working with Penn football, volleyball, wrestling, and men’s and women’s lacrosse during his time with the Red and Blue, overseeing the training plans for more than 200 athletes every year.

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Penn rarely fact-checks applications Admissions officers cite lack of time, resources GIANNA FERRARIN Staff Reporter

Like most universities, Penn does not have a standard system for fact-checking applications.

Admissions officers perform initial reviews in as little as four minutes, and a call to a high school guidance counselor or an email to an applicant is as thorough as checks get.

The New York Times reported in December that a student was admitted to Wharton after writing a compelling essay about the death of his mother.

But after admissions officers called his home and his mother picked up the phone, Penn rescinded his acceptance.

Given the massive volume of applications the University receives — 44,957 applicants for the Class of 2023 — current and former admissions officers agree that fact-checking applications is not feasible and instances of outright fabrication seem to be rare.

“I don’t think rigorous factchecking is necessary, but I also don’t think it’s feasible,” Eliza-

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beth Heaton, a former regional director of admissions for Penn, said. “A whole industry would have to spring up around that.”

Penn Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said rigorous factchecking would involve extensive documentation and place an unwanted burden on both applicants and admissions officers.

During his tenure, Furda said

there has only been one enrolled Penn student whose acceptance was rescinded for false application materials.

“At what level do you put up such barriers for either students or the people that are on the other side of this that basically paralyzes yourself for what may be a handful of cases,” Furda added.

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Kathryn Bezella, Vice Dean and director of marketing and communications for Penn Admissions, confirmed that following up with a guidance counselor or applicant is rare.

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Penn officially proposes sexual misconduct office The policy centralizes sexual misconduct reports OLIVIA CHENG Staff Reporter

The University of Pennsylvania released a new draft policy centralizing sexual misconduct reporting in a single office, which would oversee investigations and resolutions of complaints against members of the Penn community. The new position of Associate Vice President for Equity and Title IX Officer would lead the office.

In the past, graduate student misconduct claims were handled by deans of the accuser’s school, which slowed responses to claims, said Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Sexual Harassment Committee Deputy Chair Blanca Castro, a second-year master’s student in the School of Social Policy & Practice. Many students have also said they are uncomfortable issuing complaints of sexual misconduct with their respective deans, who often knew or worked with the accused parties.

Castro said the proposed policy allows the Associate Vice President for Equity and Title IX Officer to handle specific reports “instead of getting lost in a sea of other issues

that may be happening within the school.”

The proposed policy also clarifies campus policy surrounding consensual sexual or dating relations between members of the Penn community in unequal positions of authority. Relationships between undergraduates and faculty or staff are prohibited, and graduate students are prohibited from engaging in relationships with faculty that have any supervisory role over them. The proposed policy strongly discourages relationships between graduate students and non-supervisory faculty or staff.

The proposal from the University was released on Jan. 22, and all members of the Penn community are able to comment on the policy until Feb. 22. The school’s policy was officially released just over a week before the period for public comment closes on United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ proposed Title IX overhaul.

DeVos’ regulations, released in November 2018, would add protections for students accused of misconduct. The new regulations propose a more narrow definition of sexual harassment, live cross-examination between the accuser and accused, and higher standards of evidence. If the Department of Edu-

cation implements these guidelines, Penn’s Title IX coordinator will be legally bound to enforce them.

Penn acknowledged its own proposal might not be in effect for long, depending on the modifications made to DeVos’ regulations following this comment period.

“The U.S. Department of Education issued proposed regulations under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in November 2018. When final regulations are issued, they will be reviewed and any necessary revisions will be made,” the University’s own report read.

“In the meantime, the advice that we overwhelmingly and enthusiastically received was that centralizing the intake and investigation of complaints of sexual misconduct should be accomplished as soon as a search can be completed.”

The proposed centralized office comes nearly a year after students strongly criticized Penn’s sexual assault reporting procedures during a University Council Open Forum.

In September 2018, Joann Mitchell, Penn’s chief diversity officer and vice president for institutional affairs, and Wendy White, senior vice president and general counsel for the University, presented a proposal for a centralized office to the Faculty Senate Executive Commit-

tee. White, however, said a draft of the policies would not be published until later that fall.

Mitchell said Penn plans to move forward with finalizing the proposed policy later this semester, even if the new policy, once it’s completed, is not in effect for long.

Mitchell said she did not foresee the federal policies being finalized until next year, at which point Penn would have to readjust its sexual misconduct policy to be in compliance with the official federal policy.

Penn’s sexual misconduct policy “will be in effect until we change it,” Mitchell said.

In the meantime, The Association of American Universities, which includes Penn among 59 other research universities, has made comments in response to the proposed Title IX changes. However, the University has no comments or complaints of its own, Mitchell added.

Penn Association for Gender Equity Chair and College junior Tanya Jain said the federal policy changes “will obviously decrease the likelihood of reporting and make it even more difficult for women to report.”

A working group of administrators wrote the policy in consultation with student and faculty leaders.

White wrote in an email to The

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DPS did not issue a UPennAlert on Jan. 17 when there was a suspicious package in the Quad and Philadelphia Police barred students from entering the area.

der or nearing the patrol zone, an alert will also be sent out, Rush said.

After the initial UPennAlert, the DPS website serves as a bulletin board for further updates on developing crime incidents. Additional details, such as safety tips and suspect descriptions, can be found on the website, which eliminates the need to repeatedly send out mobile alerts as new information is found throughout the investigation.

UPennAlerts were created in light of the Clery Act of 1990, which required all universities receiving federal funding to inform the public of crime in the vicinity of campus. These efforts were particu-

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An Associate Vice President for Equity and Title IX Officer would lead the office. The policy comes after graduate student activism.

Daily Pennsylvanian that the new procedures address the handling of misconduct complaints but “do not address the many programs and other resources across campus that serve to educate the community about sexual misconduct, and strive to prevent it.”

Mitchell and White presented the proposed policy to the Faculty Senate Executive Committee on Jan. 23. Jennifer Pinto-Martin, Nursing professor and Faculty Senate chair, likened the consolidation of sexual misconduct handling under the As-

sociate Vice President for Equity and Title IX Officer to the consolidation of wellness activities under the Chief Wellness Officer.

While it is unknown what the finalized policy will look, Pinto-Martin said, “I think it’s an enormous step in a very important direction for Penn to recognize that this issue is one that’s really critical to everybody on campus — to the whole campus community — and we need to provide the best resources possible and the most accessible resources possible.”

larly enhanced following the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting, the deadliest school shooting in United States history, DPS Director of Operations and External Affairs Kathleen Anderson said.

College and Engineering freshman Michelle White said she always reads through UPennAlerts and commits them to memory to help prevent getting into dangerous situations. White was most alarmed by an alleged rape case near her dorm, New College House.

“It was just one or two nights before that [when] I myself went out around 3 a.m. to the nearest Wawa.

I personally had no bad experience, but it’s crazy to think that in the same area, around 34th and Chestnut at the same time of night, some-

one else — some young vulnerable girl — had a much worse experience than I did,” White said. “These kinds of things are very relevant to the rest of the student body, and they’re just good to know about.”

Wharton freshman Laura Abrishamkar said she believes UPennAlerts make students more vigilant.

“When there was the assault on 30th and Walnut, that’s four blocks from where I live, so that was really eye opening,” Abrishamkar said.

“People often forget how easy it is to become a victim. Especially if you’re a young girl walking back alone at night at 2 a.m. and you think you are invincible and that you’re safe, but there’s really a lot of danger.”

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Phila. mayor announces new gun violence initiative Homocides increased by 25.4 percent since 2015 CHRIS SCHILLER Staff Reporter

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney recently announced a new gun violence prevention initiative on the heels of a year in which the city saw its highest homicide rate in more than a decade.

The report, titled “The Philadelphia Roadmap to Safer Communities,” states that homicides in Philadelphia have spiked 25.4 percent since 2015, resulting in the sixthhighest homicide rate among major American cities. Out of 10 major American cities with the most homicides in 2017, Philadelphia was only one of two cities whose homicide rate increased that year. Baltimore was the only other city that saw an increase on that list.

Kenney released the set of policy recommendations in the Jan. 17 re-

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said, adding that she reviews applications from Washington, D.C. and South and Central Asia.

Bezella said these follow-ups are not necessarily intended for fact-checking purposes, and can also involve clarifying questions or requests for more application materials.

Despite the lack of a formal fact-checking system, former admissions officers say they have still caught applicants lying.

port, which aim to address violence on an urban and systemic level.

The initiatives focus on reforming Philadelphia policing practices and promoting community engagement in neighborhoods that typically exhibit high levels of gun violence.

City officials said they would invest $4.4 million to begin implementing the new policies over the next six months, Philly Magazine reported.

The city lists various strategies such as connecting “young adults at a high risk of violence to education” and establishing “public health infrastructure focused on violence prevention.”

Penn’s March for Our Lives Advocacy Director and College freshman Michael Nevett, who was featured in Time magazine for his gun violence advocacy, said he supports the mayor’s new gun violence initiative.

“The public health aspect is something that’s often ignored in terms of gun violence,” Nevett said.

“With gun violence prevention, you can’t look at it from just one side.”

Penn Law professor David Rudovsky, who is also a defense attorney in Philadelphia, is cautiously optimistic about the mayor’s plans.

Rudovsky works in civil rights and criminal defense, specifically tackling police misconduct and prisoner rights.

“It’s right to try to put together a program that addresses this problem more effectively than we’ve done in the past, but he’s really just at this point outlining some general ideas,” Rudovsky said. “It’s much better than what we’ve done with the war on drugs.”

The city’s report identifies educational deficiencies, prior incarceration records, and involvement with the child welfare system as “key risk factors” in Philadelphia’s increasing homicide rate. The mayor’s plan aims to take an approach to violence based in education and health, especially given Philadel-

phia’s recent history.

“We have in the past wasted billions of dollars on harsh and racially biased policing,” Rudovsky said.

“To the degree that we see more gun violence in areas with high unemployment rates, there is a public health and social side to the problem.”

Last year, Penn students addressed gun violence by participating in a campus walkout in April 2018 that brought more than 150 students onto Locust Walk to protest widespread gun violence in classrooms and schools across the nation.

Nevett emphasized the need for students to pay attention to gun violence in their city.

“It can be easy to pretend that we’re not in Philly, but you can just walk a few blocks and you’ll be in areas with relatively high rates of gun violence,” Nevett said. “We should make sure that we get engaged and vote in local elections.”

The initiatives include educating young adults at risk of violence and focusing on reforming Philadelphia policing practices.

Heaton recalled an instance when a Regular Decision applicant plagiarized their essay based on an essay written by another student who had already been admitted Early Decision. The former Penn regional admissions director said when she noticed the stark similarities between the two essays, she decided to make a call to the student’s high school.

“I had the time and I guess the interest and I went back and looked and discovered that yes, in fact, that’s what had happened,” Heaton said. “We denied the student who

had plagiarized and the other kid was able to keep his acceptance.”

Without a formal system in place, the validity of a student’s application is almost entirely determined by an admissions officer’s intuition. Bezella said because of the high number of applications she reads and familiarity with her region, she can typically identify false transcripts and essays written by college consultants.

“After you’ve read several thousand essays by 17-year-olds, you do have some sense of ‘this is not how a 17-year-old writes’,” Bezella

said.

Even if an applicant is caught lying, Penn cannot legally notify other universities. Antitrust laws prohibit colleges from sharing information about applicants with each other, and colleges are also barred from asking candidates where else they applied.

Daniel Evans, a former Penn admissions officer from 2001 to 2004, also said he once found out an applicant falsely claimed he had Native American heritage after he reached out to the high school.

“It’s hard for me to say the col-

lege needs to spend more time [on fact-checking],” Evans said. “A lot of colleges are seeing really robust increases in applications, and their staffs are not necessarily growing proportionally.”

While outright lying is rare, applicants exaggerating on their applications is more common, Director of One-Stop College Counseling and 1986 Wharton graduate Laurie Kopp Weingarten said. As a personal consultant for students applying to college, Weingarten said she often corrects students who state unrealistic total number

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of hours spent each week on extracurricular activities. She added that she questions students who have “50 hours a week of activities” on their applications.

“Though this year, I did have a parent say ‘so how much can we fabricate,’” Weingarten said.

Exaggerations are more difficult to fact-check, however, and it is still not an effective use of time for admissions officers.

“With an eight percent admit rate if we’re not quite sure about something, guess what, we don’t have to take the risk,” Furda said.

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OPINION Editorial | President Gutmann’s accomplishments justify her $3.9 million salary

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n 2016 — the most recent year for which Penn’s data is public — Penn President Amy Gutmann earned a record high of $3,908,031. This is a 10.5 percent increase from the previous year, the number makes her the second highest-paid university president in the Ivy League. Still, The Daily Pennsylvanian Opinion Board supports Gutmann’s high salary for her work fundraising, diversifying opportunities for students, and building new spaces for our campus.

Granted, her salary was 20 times the median Penn professor’s salary in 2016, and could have paid for tuition, room, and board for nearly 66 students during that academic year.

Gutmann made more than double the salaries of each Ivy League university president, except for Columbia University President Lee Bollinger who made approximately $3.96 million. The next highest paid president in 2016, Harvard University’s Drew Faust, made only $1.53 million. Regardless, the money she makes is justified, as the institution would not be able to function, nor would the student experience be as robust, without her in charge.

Gutmann’s fundraising prowess is extremely impressive. Her first capital campaign as president launched in 2007. The Making History Campaign raised $4.3 billion — $800 million more than its initial goal. Nearly half of the money brought in was allocated to a variety of research and programs. Other large sums went towards undergraduate and graduate financial aid, as well as faculty endowments and building construction.

already grown by 171 percent, and the campaign seeks to raise an additional $334 million for undergraduate student financial aid.

As a result of Gutmann’s impressive leadership, the campus has seen — and continues to see — substantial physical growth. Her new campaign is set to raise money to finance various renovations and extensions of buildings on campus, as well as fund eight new buildings.

These projects include the construction of the Wharton Academic Research Building, Tangen Hall, New College House West, a new indoor training facility behind the Hollenback Center, Penn Dental’s Schattner Pavilion, renovations in the Penn Museum, and the new Pavilion at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. They hopefully will improve the experiences of a diverse range of people on Penn’s community — from anthropologists at the Penn Museum to patients and staff working at the hospital.

With a contract extension through June 2022, there is a reason that Gutmann will be Penn’s longest serving president. The Penn community often forgets to acknowledge the scope of Gutmann’s job.

She is responsible for overseeing the operations of Penn’s 12 schools and the city’s largest private employer — that is no simple feat. There is no doubt that Gutmann receives substantial compensation. That does not mean it is not justified. So long as President Gutmann continues to do a thorough job advocating for the Penn community, she will continue to be well deserving of her multimillion dollar paycheck.

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Gutmann’s current campaign, the Power of Penn, is the most ambitious fundraising campaign in the history of the University. In its quiet phase over four and a half years, the campaign raised $2.7 billion. While the public phase of the campaign aims to raise $4.1 billion in four years, Gutmann is up to the task.

She has been traveling the globe to fundraise — launching the campaign in places like London, Los Angeles, and Boston, and will be in Hong Kong this March.

Her ability to fundraise is often

linked to Penn’s successful endowment. Since Gutmann took office in 2004, Penn’s total endowment has grown by 243 percent — a rate that has exceeded every other Ivy League university. In 2018, Penn’s endowment ballooned to $13.8 billion.

While students don’t often see Gutmann on Locust Walk, her travels to fundraise throughout the world have contributed directly to the growth of student opportunities at Penn. It is clear that Gutmann’s time and energy is going toward is-

sues that matter to undergraduates, like making the University more accessible to people from a variety of different backgrounds. One of the main priorities of Gutmann’s Power of Penn campaign is to “expand student opportunities.”

In an October 2018 University Council meeting, Gutmann noted that this campaign helps the University increase global opportunities, making them more available to first-generation, low-income students. Under Gutmann’s leadership, Penn’s financial aid budget has

Under Gutmann’s leadership, Penn’s financial aid budget has already grown by 171 percent, and the campaign seeks to raise an additional $334 million for undergraduate student financial aid.

Kaliyah Dorsey | What Kiese Laymon’s ‘Heavy’ taught me about vulnerability KEEPING UP WITH KALIYAH | Secrets can get heavy — don’t let them weigh you down

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like to think of myself as an independent person. The idea of being independent used to make me feel strong, and it made me want to focus on being happy rather than on being upset when I was upset, which usually made me the girl that never seemed sad. That wasn’t a terrible thing.

What independence did not do for me was make me into a vulnerable young person.

Somewhere along the way, while I was growing up and de-

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It’s not about feelings, though it can be, but it’s about coming to terms with real-life events and, on a basic level, acknowledging that hard things do happen. ciding exactly what things were important to me, I decided that being a good listener for the people I love bore more weight than being a good truth-sharer to those people and myself.

I say “truth-sharer” specifically and intentionally. It’s not about feelings, though it can be, but it’s about coming to terms with real-life events and, on a basic level, acknowledging that hard things do happen.

I don’t mean that I was a liar

or that there’s something wrong with keeping some things private. To be independent, I truly believed that I shouldn’t confide in anyone but myself, meaning I should give myself motherly advice and friend advice and mentor advice and therapy sessions.

Part of this was that I felt like there was something weak about struggling and something weaker still about letting people see me go through it. This

mindset, at Penn, is especially present. I am surrounded every day by high-achieving students at what is often coined “the social Ivy,” which means that vulnerability isn’t high on anyone’s list of priorities, though almost everyone has to have struggled juggling social, personal, and academic expectations.

I very recently read Kiese Laymon’s book, “Heavy: An American Memoir.” It is written to his mother. In the foreword, he clarifies that he wanted to write a lie about what it means to be a black American raised by her and he knew his mother certainly wanted to read that lie, but he wrote instead everything that he was supposed to forget.

I believe that most people have memories they want to forget, which usually means they try not to think or talk about those things. Laymon addresses the role that shame plays in secret-keeping and

goes into detail about all the ways that shame and keeping secrets broke him and the people who loved him and he loved, too.

He struggles with an eating disorder that leaves him with close to zero percent body fat, too weak to get up off the carpet one night. He writes, “I sat on the floor knowing my body broke because I carried and created secrets that were way too heavy.”

The eating disorder is a physical representation of the way keeping dense truths buried deep will come with real consequences, regardless of how well you’re able to pretend they don’t matter or exist. I know now that being independent does not mean putting on a show like you’re the best and happiest person in the world because, in all honesty, you won’t ever make your best better if you don’t face the heavy stuff.

Laymon taught me a lot about owning your truth, and he continues, in his writing, to demonstrate what real honesty, with yourself and with the people you love, looks like in all its terrifying and uncomfortable glory.

I won’t say that you should run out tomorrow and tell everyone all of your deepest, darkest secrets. I will say that it is true when Laymon writes, “We can not responsibly love anyone … if we insist on making a practice of hiding and running from ourselves.” This means parents to children and children to parents, friends and teachers and partners and siblings.

I’m still not convinced that I want to be a vulnerable young person, but I do know I should be. You should, too.

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

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Julia Mitchell | What Birthright taught me about Judaism at Penn SNAKE PIT MEMOS | How Birthright made me rethink my identity

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f you haven’t heard about Birthright, it sounds like fantasy: an organization that offers a free 10 day trip around Israel to thousands of young Jewish adults each year.

My first thought when I heard about this program through Penn Hillel? There is definitely a catch.

My second thought? I am definitely not Jewish enough for this.

Of course there was a catch.

If I were writing an unequivocal endorsement of Birthright, it would belong on the organization’s website alongside a promotional hashtag and a camel selfie. Still, like many other relatively ill-prepared American tourists who sign up, I accepted the free trip without researching where the program’s funding comes from. (For the record, over a quarter of the trip is paid for by the Israeli government.)

I also conveniently set aside moral judgments until after I got my $250 deposit back, despite the harsh account of Israeli occupation in the West Bank that I’d heard from a Jewish family friend working to provide healthcare to Palestinian refugees, who described the detainment and torture of children by Israeli authorities. To be honest, I had blocked out the details of the Arab-Israeli conflict and hoped to return from the trip better informed.

I am the demographic that Birthright targets: an impressionable young adult lacking a strong attachment to or under-

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ment, which has been the source of protests on the New York University campus after its student government passed a pro-BDS resolution.

Although Penn has three Israel advocacy groups and one Palestinian advocacy group, their presence on a not-so-activist campus is somewhat muted by comparison.

But almost as overwhelming as the politics were the Hebrew songs, prayers, and traditions that I didn’t know quite how to participate in. As advertised, Birthright is a powerful experience for many that go – it can’t be written off as Zionist indoctrination or bible camp or a Jewish match-making service or a mystical journey.

Participants can choose to mold it into any of those things. It’s a deluge of information and travel-

My first thought when I heard about this program through Penn Hillel? There is definitely a catch.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the glaring omission is a visit to the West Bank or a meeting with a Palestinian from occupied territory, experiences most Birthright trips can’t or don’t provide. Recently, anti-occupation groups like IfNotNow have encouraged American Jews to protest Birthright for the purported bias of the organization and for Israel’s human rights abuses. This suggestion has been bolstered by a growing sentiment that Birthright is out of touch with young Jews,

many of whom are repelled by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s far-right government and by the Palestinian occupation.

Regardless, Birthright has a powerful presence at Penn, even sending dozens of Penn students abroad for summer fellowships and internships every year. For most Birthright participants, myself included, it is easy enough to push these ominous feelings to the sidelines during the trip enough to have fun and take full advantage of the lower drinking

age. The back and forth of grief and joy — visiting Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum during the day and a pub in Jerusalem at night — creates a disorienting emotional turbulence, but this duality also a long-standing practice in Judaism.

Birthright worked on me in a major way – I’ll no longer hesitate to say that I’m Jewish, and I feel more comfortable in my own skin. At Penn, blocking out Jewish life altogether is nearly impossible, especially since about 17

percent of undergrads identify as Jewish, but I still managed to do it first semester. Now, home from the Holy Land, what I plan to do is ask questions, regardless of whether or not their answers lead me closer or farther from Judaism and Israel.

JULIA MITCHELL is a College and Wharton freshman from Yardley, Pa. studying international relations. Her email address is jcmitch@wharton. upenn.edu.

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When people ask me about my religion, I answer Jewish about 95% of the time, often qualified by statements about being agnostic or about my dad’s Catholic rearing. Growing up, my family didn’t belong to a synagogue or observe Shabbat, and I even attended a Quaker school for five years. Understandably, I always felt more comfortable emphasizing the “ish” part of being Jewish.

Before I knew it, I’d passed a security interview from El Al Airlines and was in Tel Aviv, surrounded by a group of Penn and NYU students animatedly debating the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Move-

ing, and for those lucky enough to get a good group and an engaging Israeli guide, the experience can be transformational – especially if, like me, you’ve never been tied to a Jewish community before or bombarded by a collective Jewish memory spanning several millennia.

Hovering inescapably over the trip is the unsteadiness of the region, a vague feeling that this New Jersey sized country could go up in flames at any second, leaving only the 2,000-year-old fortress of Masada standing.

Though the trip covers a lot of ground and includes several lectures and discussions about the

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versity, been able to deliver at that very high level of performance.”

In June 2018, Penn’s endowment reached 13.8 billion, which was a 345 percent increase from the endowment’s $4 billion valuation when Gutmann took office in 2004.

Gutmann’s Making History Campaign brought in more than $4.3 billion — exceeding its initial goal of $3.5 billion dollars — from

a total of 326,592 donors. The campaign launched in October 2007 and ended in late 2012.

The Power of Penn campaign is Penn’s most ambitious fundraising campaign in history. The campaign, which was announced in April 2018 and is slated to end in 2021, has already raised more than $3.2 billion to date.

Cohen said the president’s salary is formally approved by a compensation committee composed of three trustees he appoints. Cohen added that the consulting firm

Korn Ferry aids the compensation committee by providing them with data on other university presidents’ salaries as well as advice on how to structure the salary.

Every year the Board of Trustees asks the president to write a set of goals for the year. At the end of the year, they also ask her to write a self-evaluation of her achievement of these goals.

These documents are then given to the compensation committee for review.

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Penn biology researcher PennDesign proposes World Park project runs for City Council Rivera-Reyes studied cell and molecular biology at Penn KATHARINE SHAO Staff Reporter

The day after Adrian RiveraReyes attends his graduation ceremony from the Perelman School of Medicine and walks across the stage with a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology in May, he could be elected as the first openly gay person and only millennial serving in Philadelphia’s City Council.

Rivera-Reyes, a democratic socialist, is currently campaigning for an at-large seat in the Democratic primary, all while balancing cancer biology research at Penn. He defended his Ph.D. dissertation in December 2018 and is now pursuing postdoctoral experiments. The primary election will be held May 21.

Reyes added. “Especially because this is affecting our people, our family, our neighborhood,” he said. “I’ve had family members die because of the opioid epidemic. So all of these issues are also personal.”

Rivera-Reyes was born in Puerto Rico to a struggling working-class family. At one point, he said his family was forced to sell their house and move constantly to find affordable housing. He added that despite the hardships he faced, he is grateful for the educational opportunities he received, allowing him to continue following his passion in cancer biology and study at Penn.

Philadelphia’s City Council, Rivera-Reyes said, is mostly composed of politicians, lawyers, and others who are not representative of the average individual, which is something he hopes to change if elected.

turned-politician, Rivera-Reyes has been involved with politics for several years. His history of student activism includes three years serving as president of the Penn Science Policy and Diplomacy Group, a graduate student group that advocates for “science-informed policymaking,” and as an organizer for Graduate Employees Together – University of Pennsylvania, Penn’s graduate student union. He has also served as a policy analyst for Molly Sheehan, a former U.S. Congressional Candidate and 2014 Penn Medicine graduate.

In 2017, Rivera-Reyes, along with three other Penn students, helped plan the March for Science in Philadelphia.

“I genuinely feel that kindness and hard work are his mantras,” said Karin Eisinger, an assistant professor in cancer studies, whose lab Rivera-

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Rivera-Reyes could be the first openly gay person and only millenial serving in Philadelphia’s City Council.

He aims to focus on providing more opportunities for working class people and people of color.

“I saw that our local government wasn’t doing their job, [they weren’t] implementing changes that I wanted to see,” RiveraReyes said on his switch from cancer biology to politics. “So I said ‘I’ll grab a clipboard and get the signatures [for my candidate nomination petition].’”

Rivera-Reyes’ campaign, which was announced last November, focuses on providing more opportunities for working class people, people of color, and LGBTQ+ communities.

His campaign is also focused on increasing funding for Philadelphia public schools and investing in solutions to the opioid epidemic. “[These are issues that] have to be dealt with now, with the urgency of today,” Rivera-

The Penn researcher added that although he is not a typical candidate, he is not deterred. He said his experience is what makes him stand out from other candidates and could help bring “moral clarity” to the City Council.

“Perspective is key. Experience without perspective won’t get you too far along [in politics],” Rivera-Reyes said. “It’s really important that we bring perspective in decision making.

We need the perspective of a Hispanic Latino person, a gay man, a perspective of a scientist.”

“It’s impossible to be [a good] leader if you don’t listen to the people and their struggles,” he added.

Despite his untraditional background as a biologist-

Reyes currently conducts research in. “You instantly get a sense that he’s a very open, very kind person who just wants to help.”

Third-year Ph.D. student Olivia Harding, who has seen Rivera-Reyes speak, said one of her first impressions of Rivera-Reyes was that “he was extremely warm, and generous and really passionate about the work that [PSPDG] was doing.”

Rivera-Reyes said that he wants to continue his advocacy work and pursue a career in science policy.

“Whatever I end up doing, I want to do it here,” RiveraReyes said. “It’s not about me, it’s about the work, it’s about solving issues that are hard to solve.”

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lowering costs such as dues for clubs and travel costs for certain classes.

Krone said the UA was working with administrators and student groups to “make sure students have a quick one-stop shop in some way shape or form to access [wellness resources].”

Graduate and Professional Student Assembly President and Sociology Ph.D. candidate Haley Pilgrim described similar efforts among graduate students. GAPSA is looking to address financial stressors and promote a healthier campus culture among graduate students in response

to the organization’s mental wellness survey results.

Following the meeting, Dubé told The Daily Pennsylvanian that Penn will take part in the Association of American Universities’ campus climate survey, which will launch on Feb. 11 to gauge how students feel about stress, safety and sensitive topics such as how well sexual violence is being addressed at Penn. But data will likely not be available before September 2019. A similar survey was administered in 2015 at Penn and at 27 other universities within the AAU.

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our lives.”

Gutmann and Dubé both emphasized the importance of “listening.”

Gutmann added that she “could not have hoped for a better partnership between students, faculty, VPUL, and the whole University.”

Undergraduate Assembly President and College senior Michael Krone spoke about the UA’s approach to wellness, which consisted of improving advising, making club recruitment more welcoming, and

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The project aims to help animals migrate GORDON HO Deputy News Editor

Penn’s School of Design will begin a project to build a World Park spanning five continents, creating walking and biking trails to help endangered animals migrate amid habitat loss and climate change.

While many national parks exist, parks that expand across continents and combine landscape architecture and environmental conservation are unprecedented in scope, PennDesign experts said. The PennDesign project leaders are currently waiting for approval from countries that the two proposed trails would run through.

Once constructed, one of the paths will run north-south from Alaska to Patagonia and another will run east-west from Indonesia to Morocco. The first trail will cross through North and South America, with the second trail spanning through Asia, Africa, and Europe.

The two World Park trails are named “Pat-aska” and “Indoroc,” after the departure and destination locations of the paths.

The “Pat-aska” trail will be 25,000 km long, will pass through 15 countries, and would take two years to walk through.

The “Indo-Roc” trail will be 35,000 km, will pass through 24 nations, and would take three years to finish walking through.

The project’s exhibition opened with a public event on Jan. 25 in Meyerson Hall where Richard Weller, project leader and chair of Landscape Architecture at PennDesign, introduced the project. Weller said it aims to build structures into natural habitats to alleviate pressing environmental issues.

“If you’re locked in a room where it’s getting hotter and you

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months to assist with training our student-athletes. The Sports Performance Strategic Plan includes increasing the number of strength and conditioning coaches over the next several years, and increased staffing is a priority within that plan,” Kevin Bonner, associate AD for Administration and Strategic Communications, wrote in a statement to the DP. “Penn Athletics has commenced a national search for the next head strength and conditioning coach. As one of our Centers of Excellence, our Sports Performance unit has a critical role in providing an unrivaled experience for our 1,000 student-athletes, and we will endeavor to find the best fit for that position. The goal is to have a new head [strength] coach in place later this semester.”

The Penn Athletics website and staff directory do not show any evidence of these two new hires.

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The proposed park, spanning five continents, aims to help endangered animals migrate amid habitat loss and climate change.

can’t move, you’re in trouble,” Weller said, adding that different species cannot migrate amid rampant habitat loss and climate change.

Once they begin mapping out the routes, the team attempted to pass through as many regions containing unique and endangered biodiversity as possible.

They also tried to link future trails with existing trails to cut costs and to form continuous protected areas, Weller said.

The PennDesign team will also examine current models such as the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, a habitat stretching from Canada to the United States, to work out specific aspects of trail building.

The World Park aims not only to be touristic — as everyone can enjoy the trails — but also hopes to encourage global governments to start landscape restoration projects along the trails, according to a PennDesign press release.

Zuzanna Drozdz, a PennDesign graduate student pursuing a master’s in landscape architecture, said she was largely motivated to come to Penn by the prospect of working on the World Park project.

Previous landscape architecture projects, such as PennDesign’s Atlas for the End of the World, examined how future urban growth can endanger spe-

cies, Drozdz said. But the new World Park project will provide the tangible mechanisms to help endangered species.

Candidate for a master’s in landscape architecture Shannon Rafferty, who is working on the project, said she hopes the park can be a corridor for species that is unrestricted by territorial boundaries.

Penn is currently the only academic institution that will take part in the project, but the school plans to collaborate with The Nature Conservancy and the United Nations, Weller said.

Weller added that resistance from uncompensated landowners and suspicion from participating governments could be potential obstacles for the project.

After receiving consent from the affected countries, the PennDesign team plans to secure funding from governments and philanthropic sources. A board will manage the funding and oversee the park’s planning committee of engineers, landscape architects, anthropologists, and environmental scientists, according to PennDesign’s website.

“We’ve developed the idea, now we’re going to push the boat out into the ocean and see what happens,” Weller said.

The exhibit will be on display until Jan. 30 in the Upper Gallery of Meyerson Hall.

Steel suggested that the problems he faced are not unique to Penn, writing in his blog that “there are some issues that should [be] addressed when it comes to the profession.”

Those issues include increasing interference from administrators and coaches, and feeling overworked and underappreciated — with a schedule, he wrote, that had no off-season, “ridiculous hours,” and what he characterized as “usually very low pay.”

“Yeah, let me give up seeing my family to make 44,000 [dollars a year] as a head strength coach somewhere with 10 teams to coach and the football coach bringing you ideas that he saw on the Internet or written in the sky somewhere. And some bumbling administrator who lifted a weight back in 1982 and feels like that gives them all the expertise to tell you how to coach your athletes,” he wrote in his blog.

“The problem is, the best strength coaches that I know got so

fed up with the meddling from the know-nothings (most coaches and administrators) that they got out of the college coaching and went into business for themselves.”

Steel’s departure means an already short-staffed strength and conditioning coaches’ room will need a new leader. Penn Athletics will hire someone of its choosing to fill his role.

In an interview with the DP on Jan. 16, Associate Athletic Director for Sports Performance Andrea Wieland, Steel’s direct supervisor, said that his departure was a “a huge opportunity to get someone new in here.”

“The best thing about the whole profession is that the kids get it,” Steel concluded his post. “They get that you care for them and that you are trying to make them great.

That’s why you do it, for the kids.

Funny thing is, in all the meetings … I never heard one of the administrators mention the athletes or what is best for the athletes. Who are we there for anyway?”

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Quakers prepare for weekend of back-to-back road games against NY Ivies Ancient Eight, junior forward AJ Brodeur believes the Quakers’ Big 5 success will help them get back to the top of the conference. “That four-game streak we had, it really just looked so uncharacteristic of us. For whatever reason we started to slow down,� Brodeur said. “We just beat two really tough teams in Temple and St. Joe’s. We know that getting into Ivy League play is a lot different than our nonconference schedule, so we are going to have to really lock in and focus, and if we do those things, I really feel like we will be able to pick things up to get back to where we need to be.�

Despite the slow start, there is still plenty of time to make up ground in the League. Despite this, senior guard Jake Silpe understands the challenges that come with Penn’s current position in the standings. “Being 0-2 now in the Ivy League, it’s a whole new season,�

Silpe said. “Our backs are against the wall a little bit. We know the work that’s cut out for us, and we need to approach every week in practice like we have the past two weeks.�

While Cornell (9-9, 1-1) and Columbia (6-10, 1-1) might not be traditional Ivy powerhouses like Princeton, Harvard or Yale, there is certainly plenty for the Quakers to prepare for as they make the trip to New York. First on the docket for the Red and Blue is coach Steve

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Back on track, now it’s time for Penn men’s basketball to get back on top.

The Quakers are preparing to resume their Ivy League title defense with a weekend slate against Cornell and Columbia, fresh off of claiming the outright Big 5 championship with victories against Philadelphia rivals Temple and Saint Joseph’s.

Penn’s Big 5 success came off the heels of a rough four-game stretch where the Red and Blue (12-6, 0-2 Ivy) dropped two games to Ivy foe Princeton along with contests against Toledo and thenwinless Monmouth. While there is a dramatic difference playing nonconference games and those in the

Donahue’s former team, Cornell.

Donahue coached for the Big Red from 2000-2010, and his tenure is most famous for three straight NCAA tournament trips, including a run to Sweet 16 in 2010. Since coming to Penn, Donahue has never lost to Cornell, boasting a perfect 6-0 record against them in his three full seasons at the helm.

This season’s Cornell team is led by first team All-Ivy senior guard Matt Morgan, who is the likely frontrunner for Ivy Player of the Year so far. Morgan lead the League in scoring last season and is once again at the top of the list with 23.3 points per game. “I have played him for the last four years, so I have a lot of experience against [Morgan],� Silpe said. “He’s just a very quick guard, very athletic and explosive. He kind of lulls you to sleep on the offensive end, so you never really know when he’s going to shoot or drive, and he has a quick burst.� “The game plan for Cornell is relatively simple: Limit [Morgan’s] touches, limit his shots,� Brodeur said. “If we can manage to slow him down, then it will put us in a great position to win that game.�

While limiting Morgan’s production will be crucial to the Quakers’ success against Cornell, Columbia provides a different challenge with a more balanced scoring approach. Three different players are averaging more than 13 points per game this season for the Lions.

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Senior guard Jake Silpe is undefeated against Cornell and Columbia in his career. Last season, Silpe recorded four assists and three rebounds off the bench in the away game against Columbia.

“Personnel wise, they are very similar to how they have been the last few years,� Brodeur said. “They have a lot of good players who can hurt us in a lot of different ways. Playing up at Columbia

is always tough to do. For some reason they always give us a very good game.�

While the Quakers defeated each of these teams twice last season, going on the road in the Ivy League

is never an easy task, especially when coming in with a winless conference record. However, as the Quakers showed the last two weekends, they are more than capable of bouncing back from the tough start.

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Now they are ready to hit the road in back-to-back games against Cornell and Columbia. The team already has an Ivy win under its belt, after taking down Princeton on Jan. 5.

Cornell (7-6, 1-1) has had a sea-

son of ups and downs. At home, Big Red have been especially strong, winning all six of its games in Ithaca, N.Y. Junior forward Laura Bagwell-Katalinich, who is averaging just under 15 points per game, and a defense that is allowing just 57.1 points per game are two key reasons for this success at

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As January comes to an end, it’s time for conference play.

After losing the Ivy League championship game and graduating four seniors last year, Penn women’s basketball has been able to reinvent itself this season.

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McLaughlin said. “They also switch defenses a lot, so we need to be focused and play really well there.�

Columbia (5-10, 1-1) has had a tough season thus far, as the team is currently in the bottom half of the Ivy League in scoring margin (-2.7). But this may be the perfect

opportunity for the Lions, especially after a win against Cornell on Saturday and solid performances from junior guard Janiya Clemmons and freshman forward Lilian Kennedy. “We definitely need to focus on our defense and turn it into a transition offense,� sophomore center Eleah Parker said. “If we can lock up our defense, we can be very successful in this game.�

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For several Penn teams, the Bubble provides winter refuge Varsity and club athletes make use of the space BREVIN FLEISCHER Senior Sports Reporter

During the late fall or early winter each year, one of Penn Park’s two turf fields seemingly disappears. While the James F. “Ace” Adams Field remains usable and visible to the average Penn student, Dunning-Cohen Champions Field becomes enveloped in a colossal white structure known as “the Bubble.”

For many Penn students, the Bubble, or the “seasonal air structure” as it is described on the Penn Facilities website, is a mysterious, largely inaccessible dome. While varsity and club athletes alike utilize the Bubble to practice during the winter, most students are left to wonder about its contents.

A tour inside the Bubble led

by Ian Lencick, the building manager for Penn Athletics, revealed a well-lit, well-equipped structure with ample space for the Quakers’ athletic programs

to conduct full practices during the freezing weather. With amenities such as soccer goals, lacrosse goals, netting, and batting cages, as well as electricity and controlled climate, the Bubble serves as an ideal place for teams that would otherwise be completely weather-dependent.

“From the time it goes up until the time it goes down, it’s utilized morning, noon, and night from 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning to sometimes 2:00 in the morning, with rental groups on the weekends,” Lencick said.

“We don’t have an indoor training space inside a field house or anything, so the Bubble gives our teams like baseball, softball, and lacrosse scrimmage advantages in the winter and early spring.”

A group of 40 to 50 electricians, groundsmen, and Penn Facilities managers orchestrate and conduct the installation and takedown of this massive structure. The process, as one might imagine, is complex and demanding.

The Bubble is usually erected around a week or two before Thanksgiving, and that process,

according to Lencick, can take up to three weeks.

“Typically around [late November], the soccer seasons are coming to an end, so there’s more field availability,” Lencick said. “You’re not overlapping between soccer practices, lacrosse practices, and other field rentals.”

When first installed, the Bubble is totally bare and dark, with the lighting, electricity, security cameras, and then eventually the sporting equipment added in the following days.

The takedown process, although a much quicker process at only three or four days, can often be more complicated than installation, especially in terms of timing.

“We do takedown in late March, hopefully before or after any bad weather has rolled in,” Lencick said. “We take it down allowing for rainy days because you can’t roll it up wet, or else it could get moldy, or dingy, or smelly. We need a really solid weather window, but we have to be careful not to run into Penn Relays, Spring Fling, and the other events that need these

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The Bubble allows Penn teams to maintain a consistent practice schedule, even in the inclement weather.

The structure is typically installed about a week before Thanksgiving break and comes down in late March.

fields in the spring. It’s a really tight window.”

Still, despite the potential complications, the Bubble has proven itself to be a useful resource not only for Penn’s varsity and club programs but also

for some other well-known teams.

According to Lencick, the Bubble has housed the Philadelphia Union of the MLS, the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL, and the United States Women’s

National Soccer Team, among others, demonstrating a value that not only aids but also transcends Penn Athletics, a value that more than justifies the work that so many people do to make it possible.

Players to Watch: Track, gymnastics, and wrestling athletes stand out Meet the top Quakers getting ready for the weekend slate OJ SINGH Associate Sports Editor

In the midst of an exciting basketball season, which has seen much success come the way of both the men’s and women’s teams, the accomplishments of athletes of other in-season sports can often go overlooked.

Here are a few impressive athletes who can make a big impact in their respective events this upcoming weekend.

Jordyn Mannino — Gymnastics Sophomore Jordyn Mannino has put in consistent performances in events that yielded Penn’s top two combined scores in a tough loss to Yale. After only competing on the uneven bars twice in 2018, Mannino received a career high of 9.675 for her performance. She shined on the floor in the third rotation of the day, during which she earned a 9.800, the best score on the team and the third-best score at the meet.

“This year I’ve really started

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Sophomore Marvin Morgan set a new Penn record in the 60-meter dash last week and will run in one of track’s three meets this weekend.

to trust myself more, but really, the thing that has helped the most is knowing that my team always has my back,” Mannino said.

For her efforts, she garnered the Eastern College Athletic Conference Coaches Choice Weekly Award on Jan. 23 and will be a key figure for the Quakers when they host Brown, Cor-

nell, and Ursinus at the Palestra this weekend.

Anthony Artalona — Wrestling Freshman Anthony Artalona’s ascent in the collegiate wrestling world came as no surprise to anyone, as InterMat ranked the grappler No. 20 in his class at the time of his commitment to Penn in 2017.

Now wrestling in the

149-pound category, he stormed to the title in his Penn debut at the Michigan State Open, finished third in the Keystone Classic, and is now 15-3 this season.

Artalona’s stellar start hasn’t gone unnoticed nationally, as he is ranked No. 15 in the country by the NCAA Division I Coaches’ Panel. He will continue to be a crucial point-scorer for the Quakers when they take on Brown and Harvard at the Palestra this weekend.

Carmen Ferrante — Wrestling Another wrestling freshman who has been red hot is Carmen Ferrante.

Ferrante is ranked No. 27 in the country at 125 pounds by the Coaches’ Panel and was a runner-up in his weight class in the Keystone Classic. He leads the team in wins with a 16-5 record and is undefeated in dual meets at 6-0. Alongside Artalona, Ferrante can make a huge impact on the Quakers’ Ivy League fortunes this weekend.

“They’ve both been extremely consistent, and have led the way on the mat and off the mat,” coach Roger Reina said.

“They are young, so the poten-

tial to improve is endless; we need to stay focused and keep on improving.”

Marvin Morgan — Track Sophomore sprinter Marvin Morgan broke the Penn program record for the 60-meter dash by blazing through the prelims in 6.75 seconds en route to winning the title at the Penn State National Open last weekend. Coach Steve Dolan gave props to Morgan for his consistency, as the sophomore also ran the second fastest time in program history just a week earlier at the Penn 8-Team Select, clocking in at 6.82, after only making his collegiate debut in this event last December.

He will look to add more milestones to his tally, as Penn track

will split up between three meets this weekend.

Anna Peyton Malizia — Track Senior jumper Anna Peyton Malizia, or “AP”, as she is lovingly called by her teammates, added another feat to her storied career by bettering her personal record, and setting a program record, by clearing 1.81 meters to win the high jump at the PSU Open last weekend. Last year she was an Ivy League Heptagonal champion, both individual and team, and was heavily commended by Dolan.

“AP has so much grit, she lives for the tough moments,” Dolan said. “Last weekend it came down to an extra jump between her and another jumper, and she went out there and seized the moment.”

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Three freshmen showing poise beyond their years Rookies Yang, Caravela, and Kraez are each averaging a score of 9.500 KRISSY KOWALSKI Sports Reporter

Three freshmen are somersaulting themselves into the spotlight for Penn gymnastics.

The Quakers’ newcomers have been a major part of the team’s success this season. Freshmen Ava Caravela, Sydney Kraez, and Natalie Yang have all proven themselves on the mat.

Caravela came to Penn as a Junior Olympic Qualifier. Kraez, a Massachusetts native, was a state champion in the vault and bars. Yang was a NorCal State Championship runner-up on the beam and third-place finisher in the vault. All three have demonstrated massive success before starting their careers with the Red and Blue, and they continued the trend once they got to University City.

According to the three, Penn has provided them with a unique opportunity unlike anywhere else in the country. ”I think balance was the biggest thing for me,” Caravela said. “Focusing not only on gymnastics but also academics as well. [The coaches] are pretty good with figuring out how to cater to each person and where they need to have help,” Caravela continued. “They don’t let us do whatever we want. We work really hard so it’s a good balance.”

In the Quakers’ most recent competition at Temple’s quad meet, Kraez finished second-highest on

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the team in the vault, with a score of 9.525, while Caravela finished third-highest on the team in the same event, with a score of 9.275.

On the floor, Kraez tied with sophomore teammate Jordyn Mannino for third overall with scores of 9.775, and Caravela earned a 9.700. Yang had the third-highest score for the Quakers on the beam with a 9.700.

Both Caravela and Kraez are averaging a score of 9.500 in the vault and on the floor. On the beam, Yang has earned at least a 9.700 in all three of the Red and Blue’s competitions. The trio consistently finished as some of Penn’s top performers at events this season.

Gymnastics doesn’t create a divide among athletes from different classes, which has made the transition to college intensity much easier. Kraez cited support from her fellow teammates as a motivator.

“From the start, [the upperclassmen] made us feel welcome and right at home,” Kraez said. “They carry us into this process because it is very different than what you are doing in high school. They have been so supportive, and it has made us feel like we can do it. It doesn’t matter that we are freshmen or they are seniors or sophomores or anything. The class label doesn’t matter. We can all go in and do the same thing.”

The three freshmen have bought into the team mentality and want to make a difference out on the mat.

“I think this team is something really special,” Kraez said. “We have 22 girls that are willing to put in the work to get the outcome we want and change what you have seen from Penn gymnastics in the past.”

Caroline Moore never expected to be the senior leader she is today

A look inside gymnastics’ leotard design process

Captain now comfortable in her leadership role

Red and Blue update their leotard rotation every year

JUSTIN DECHIARIO Sports Reporter

TYIRA BUNCHE Associate Sports Editor

Caroline Moore was born to compete in gymnastics. That was evident from a very young age. It is her growth as a captain and a leader that is truly remarkable and has taken even Moore herself by surprise.

Moore started gymnastics at the age of three and was performing competitively on a team by the age of five.

“I was first put into gymnastics when my mom told me that I was not sitting still,” Moore said. “When I was at home, I was constantly in a handstand or practicing my splits.”

It didn’t take long for her to fall in love with the sport. She was really good and the sport came naturally to her. She soon found herself ascending through USA Gymnastics’ junior levels — starting at level four, which requires gymnasts to be at least seven years old, all the way through level 10, the elite level.

“As a little kid I was definitely in love with the sport,” Moore said. “That’s not to say there aren’t bumps in the road, so it’s definitely been a long ride, but a fun ride at the same time.”

That long ride, which included a ton of hours, dedication, and hard work, culminated in the chance to compete at the collegiate level, and after looking at several schools, it

Not many sports allow for the creativity and freedom that gymnastics does, and that creativity shines through the team’s leotards.

In sports, it’s rare to hear about what athletes wear. Dark-colored home uniforms, away whites, and an alternate color is what is typically expected. However, in gymnastics there is more creativity and style in the athletes’ leotards.

From sparkles and mesh to the elaborate red and blue designs, a lot goes into the Penn gymnastics leotards.

While other Penn teams may get new uniform designs ev-

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Captain Caroline Moore came to Penn as a promising freshman. Now a senior, her ascension to leadership came with new responsibilities.

was Penn that stood out the most.

“I really knew that I wanted to go Penn on my unofficial visit my junior year,” Moore said. “I just met [coach John Ceralde] and all the coaches and all the teammates, and it just seemed like the environment that I wanted to be in.”

After standing out her first two years on the team, Moore was named captain her junior season at Penn. Moore wasn’t so much surprised at the fact that she was named captain but by how much she had changed since her first year.

“Coming into freshman year, I didn’t really consider myself to be much of a leader,” Moore said. “As time went on, I really found the type of leader that I was supposed to

be and that’s not only leading by example, but also picking people up and figuring out how people respond to things.

That is the most important part about being a leader.”

While Moore may have been surprised by her own capabilities, her teammate, senior Nicole Swirbalus, didn’t expect anything less.

“I think she works really hard in the gym and inspires everybody,” Swirbalus said.

“Caroline is an incredible leader.”

It’s one thing to be able to compete at such a high level and succeed, but that is what Caroline Moore has done her whole life. What she didn’t expect was to grow into the type of leader that makes those around her better as well.

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ery couple of years, gymnastics updates its leotards every year.

The process starts in May, eight months before the first competition, when every major leotard company releases their catalogs showcasing the new designs.

That’s when assistant coach Brittney Miller, who has been in charge of designing the leotards for the past three seasons, looks through the catalogs to decide which company’s designs would work best with Penn’s colors.

After Miller chooses a company and design, the company incorporates Penn’s colors and logos. With a first draft ready, the design is sent back to Miller, who then adds the final touches, completing the design.

“With Ozone [the company for this year’s leotards], we’ve [built] a leotard with them on a video conference,” Miller said. “We

built a leotard with them from scratch through the computer.”

In total, the gymnasts have over eight different types of leotards for the year. The first of those is their warmup leotard, which is in the style of a tank top rather than long sleeves like the competition leotards. The athletes get one per year but are able to keep them after the season, so by their senior year each of them will have four tank leotards to choose from.

“Before the competition starts, they wear [the warmup leotard], and then when competition starts they’ll change into a longer sleeved leotard with more sparkles and something that stands out a little more,” Miller said.

Throughout the season, the girls will go through seven differSEE LEOTARDS PAGE 8

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Penn gymnastics has a collection of leotards with at least eight designs, which are updated for each season. This includes two all-pink outfits to help commemorate breast cancer awareness.

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