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Huntsman Hall CAPS extends its hours

Summit explores gender identity

The 6B hosts first town hall meeting

On-site clinician now serves for 17 hours

The summit took place on Feb. 2

Students and admin. discussed minority wellness

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In response to growing need, Wharton students now have increased access and privacy to the CAPS clinician stationed in Huntsman Hall starting this semester. Three months after the Wharton School placed licensed social worker and psychotherapist Courtney Hutchison in Huntsman Hall, Counseling and Psychological Services and Wharton found that the “embedded model” has been widely used by Wharton students. Hutchison will now be stationed in Huntsman Hall for 17 hours a week, an increase from the previous 12 hours. “It’s just one clinician, and she’s been fully booked,” CAPS Deputy Executive Director Meeta Kumar said. “It’s a bit too soon for us to do a deep dive into a full

Penn’s second annual Men and Masculinities summit gave students a chance to discuss healthy norms surrounding gender and identity on Saturday. The event, hosted by Penn Violence Prevention, featured a keynote speech followed by panels and small group discussions. Workshop topics included, “Feeling Our Way Through Consent” and “Men, Mental Health and the Media: What lessons have we learned?” Jeff Perera, who speaks across North America about the difference between healthy and toxic masculinity, gave the keynote lecture on “Building Bridges Between Us.” For four years, Perera curated the “What Makes a Man” conference in Toronto, which featured

“It’s just one clinician, and she’s been fully booked.”

“this is the kind of conversation that should be happening everywhere.”

The newly elected 6B — Penn’s six main minority coalition groups — held its first town hall the night of Jan 31. to discuss issues surrounding student wellness, faculty diversity, and marginalization on campus. Approximately 50 students attended the event in Houston Hall, which was an open forum where students could voice their concerns to the University administrators in attendance. The 6B student leaders represented the United Minorities Council, Asian Pacific Student Coalition, Latinx Coalition, Lambda Alliance, UMOJA, and Penn Association for Gender Equity. “We wanted our first event of the year to be with the administration,” PAGE Chair and College junior Tanya Jain said. “Just so we can really know what Penn students want and how to work for them this year.” The 6B leaders discussed finding an accessible and prominent space on campus that would be large enough to accommodate meetings for cultural clubs, which are currently hosted in the basement of the ARCH building,

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data analysis and utilization report, but anecdotally, [Hutchison] has been very busy, the utilization has been great, well-received, and she’s seeing a pretty good balance between MBAs and undergrads.” Hutchison is now available Tuesdays and Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in room 418. The embedded model consists of having a clinician in an on-site location where students have easy access. Kumar said the CAPS office, located at 3624 Market St., still remains a central hub that offers a fuller range of services provided by clinicians with various specialty areas. Wharton junior Max Grove, who has been seeing the Huntsman Hall clinician every week since December, said he likely would not have visited CAPS if a clinician was not stationed in Huntsman. “I honestly don’t have time to go all the way to Market Street,” Grove said. “Some students want a faraway location to escape campus, but I think a lot of students want somewhere where they are used to being everyday and somewhere that’s familiar to them. For me, Huntsman is just a very familiar place where I have four classes per day.” The location of the coun-

Terry Crews and 2004 College graduate Carlos Andrés Gomez. In the workshops, students discussed how masculinity affects their daily lives and perceptions. Students shared their perspectives on topics including implicit biases and how gender issues intersect with race and sexuality. Malik Washington, associate director of PVP, planned the event with the help of a student organizing committee. The summit was held for the first time in 2018. Washington said the main goal of the summit was to “bring these people in the room hoping that they can have a space to be vulnerable, that they can learn more, and they can ask the questions that maybe they wanted to ask and they can see that there’s a lot of people and examples who care about this and who are moving the conversation forward to a healthier masculinity.” Members of the student organizing committee agreed that the event helped facilitate meaningful conversations surrounding toxic masculinity. “We frequently talk about issues of gender equity or anti-violence issues, but less frequently through the frame of masculinity,” summit organizer and College senior Luke Clements

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Penn Bookstore flooding leads to temporary closure

On Feb. 2, flooding inside the Penn Bookstore caused the store to close. The same day, the basement ceiling in Harnwell leaked water for more than an hour. MANLU LIU News Editor

Massive amounts of flooding inside the Penn Bookstore caused the store to close on Feb 2. The same afternoon, the ceiling in the basement lounge of Harnwell College House was leaking water for more than an hour. Water started to pour down outside of the bookstore, which is located at 3601 Walnut St. At approximately 3:05 p.m., all custom-

ers were asked to evacuate the building. The cause of the flood is unknown. “I don’t know if it was a pipe or the sprinkling system or over-leakage of the water system, but it’s now leaked over into the bookstore,” Robert Smith, a Penn Bookstore SEE FLOODING PAGE 3

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Flyers call on U. to return ‘stolen’ artifacts

The Penn Museum exhibits two Chinese stone horses AMY LIU Staff Reporter

Anonymous flyers found on campus have called on the Penn Museum to return two “stolen” stone horse artifacts back to China. The two horse sculptures, which are currently on display, are part of a complete set of six stone horse reliefs called the “Taizong Horses” — four of which are on display at the Stele Forest Museum in China. The reliefs were originally commissioned by Emperor Taizong, the second ruler of the Tang Dynasty. In 1921, the Penn Museum bought the two horse reliefs for $125,000 from C.T. Loo – a notorious Chinese art dealer whose methods of obtaining and exporting art have come under controversy. The six horse reliefs were stolen by unknown dealers, and while four were intercepted and remain in China, two were reportedly smuggled out of the country. On Jan. 22, the anonymous flyers, titled “Prestigious UPenn: We Call On You To Return Stolen Horses to China,” were found in Williams Hall. The flyer argued that because the horse reliefs were originally stolen from China, the Penn Museum’s purchase of the artifacts is invalid. “The theft and sale of the two horses were themselves crimes,” the flyer read. “UPenn buying them

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does not make the illegal legal.” Despite the debate, Penn Museum continues to stand by the legality of the purchase. “The Penn Museum legally purchased the Taizong Horses in 1921, allowing us to share China’s remarkable cultural heritage with visitors from all walks of life, helping to foster empathy and create understanding in a complex world,”

Penn Museum Public Relations Director Jill DiSanto wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian. This is not the first time Penn has been pressured to return the two horse reliefs. In January 2017, the Zhao Mausoleum Museum in China issued a statement on their public WeChat page calling on Penn to return the horses. At the time, Penn Museum Director Julian Siggers

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said the museum was not aware of how the artifacts came into Loo’s possession before they were sold to Penn. The debate has sparked controversy on campus, with professors and students divided over whether Penn should return the two horse artifacts. SEE HORSES PAGE 7

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Penn Dems hosts panel PennCase club helps on intersectionality students avoid scams Club educates students on their legal rights NAJMA DAYIB Staff Reporter

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Tiffany Thompson (left), Hazel Edwards (middle), and Elisa Foster (right) were all panelists at Penn Democrats “Intersectional Feminism and The Women’s March” event on Jan. 31.

Panelists discussed the recent Women’s March GRANT BIANCO Staff Reporter

At an event hosted by Penn Democrats the night of Jan. 31, students and panelists discussed the importance of intersectionality in light of the recent Women’s March in Philadelphia. The event, titled “Intersectional Feminism and The Women’s March Panel,” featured a discussion with several panelists, including LGBT Center Associate Director Tiffany Thompson, Penn Women’s Center Associate Director Elisa Foster, and Hazel Edwards, an educator and outreach specialist at the Attic Youth Center, a community center for LGBT youth in Philadelphia. Penn Dems Legislative Director and College sophomore Sarah Jones facilitated the panel and said the event had added significance because of last month’s Women’s March. The national Women’s March on

Washington came under fire after the march’s co-chairs were accused of anti-Semitism. The march has also been criticized in the past for failing to be inclusive of all women. “I really want people at the event thinking more broadly about feminism and about human experience,” Jones said. “It’s important to allow all kinds of people to speak.” Edwards said the march excluded key groups of women, including transgender women. “Where do I fit in?” Edwards said. “There is no space for me if everybody’s only talking about women’s rights through the lens of genitals.” The event was also co-sponsored by campus groups Penn Association for Gender Equity, the LGBT Center, United Minorities Council, and Penn Non-Cis. Thompson said the march was not inclusive of all women, adding that leaders of the march “miss the mark” and continuously fail to address key questions surrounding inclusivity. “It’s an issue that we continue to kind of wash over until next year,”

Thompson said. Foster said a key part of intersectionality is understanding and acknowledging the experiences of others, adding that “we all experience and navigate the world in different ways.” The panelists also shared their own personal experiences and challenges with inclusivity. Edwards said her experience as a transgender woman of color significantly differs from that of a white transgender woman. “I see a lot of white trans women being able to have opportunities because they’re not prone to racism,” Edwards said. Penn Dems Membership Director and Wharton sophomore Chris Cherian said the event helped those interested in feminist and intersectionality theory understand the perspectives of others. “Intersectional feminism is really important to make sure that different groups can get together and achieve a goal,” Cherian said. “At the end of the day, the more people working towards something, the better.”

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While some Penn students are still on the search for off-campus housing, a club at Penn is helping students navigate legal complexities and avoid being scammed. Founded by 2018 College graduate Christopher D’Urso in 2014, the Penn Consumer Assistance, Support, and Education group hosts workshops and provides online resources to help Penn students avoid various cases of fraud. “These [scams] range from consumer fraud to something as serious as identity theft or debt collection,” Penn CASE President and College junior Eren Ozer said. Ozer added that many students who encounter issues, ranging from subletting to dating scams, are often not aware of their legal rights. “I was really surprised to learn that despite the fact that Philadelphia is the fourth major city in the U.S., there was no proactive consumer fraud program or education outreach or anything along those lines,” D’Urso said. “I asked, ‘well if someone wants to know what are their consumer rights and resources under Pennsylvania law, how do they find that out?’” Penn CASE members noted the challenges students face when searching for off-campus housing options. Students who live off-campus said the process of finding housing is particularly difficult for international students, who may not have a guarantor who is a United States citizen who agrees to support or sign a lease.

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Penn CASE President and College junior Eren Ozer said students are often not aware of their legal rights when dealing with fraud.

“If you’re an international citizen who doesn’t have family in the U.S. then I would suggest reaching out to close friends or somebody before you sign your lease because it could be a problem,” College freshman and international student Ashna Sethi, who signed a lease with The Radian, said. Sethi also said that without a guarantor at The Radian, she is required to pay $2,000 upfront, rather than the typical $200 security deposit. Sethi, however, added that many students can have significantly different experiences if they live in other off-campus units. Ozer said while The Radian and Domus Apartments provide students more guidelines for approaching the application process, not all off-campus housing options give students

clear guidance or additional resources. The organization has also received national recognition. In May 2017, D’Urso won the Sol Feinstone award at the 2017 Ivy Day ceremony for founding Penn CASE. This award is given to sophomores, juniors, or seniors who have contributed to “constructive social and educational change” at their universities. “That’s what it was all about, making sure we had an impact and helping people at Penn and in the Philadelphia community,” D’Urso said. “The last thing you want to do is create an organization and the community starts relying on it, and then it just dies. To see that it has continued to flourish and go beyond my expectations has been really amazing.”

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Grad. students ask for more graduate-specific spaces on campus Grad students only have two well-known spaces COURTNEY DAUB Deputy News Editor

While graduate students make up more than half of Penn’s 25,000 students, many have grown frustrated with the lack of graduate-specific spaces on campus. In response to these concerns, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly passed an official resolution to address the lack of specific spaces for graduate and professional students on Jan. 30. While the resolution does not say that GAPSA will create additional spaces on campus, the passing of the resolution represents that the entire grad student population supports the issue, GAPSA Student Life and fourthyear Nursing Ph.D. candidate Chair Matthew Lee said. He added that the resolution places the issue on the GAPSA executive board’s agenda. The members of the executive board could potentially meet with administrators to advocate for establishing more graduate-specific spaces on campus. GAPSA Student Life Committee member and second-year Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations graduate student Rawad Wehbe, who drafted the resolution, said the Graduate Student Center on 36th and Locust Walk and the Graduate Study Lounge in Van Pelt Library are the only well-known graduate-specific spaces on campus. “Common spaces dedicated for graduate and professional students contribute to a sense of recognition and appreciation in an environment that is predominately undergraduate-centric,” Wehbe wrote in the resolution. “Often too crowded, or unaccommodating, the GSC alone fails to address graduate and professional

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GAPSA passed a resolution to expand spaces for only graduate students on campus. The resolution comes after a policy barring graduate students automatic access to undergraduate dorms.

students’ needs.” The resolution comes after a newly-implemented policy barring graduate students automatic access to undergraduate dorms in fall 2018. Executive Director of College Houses and Academic Services Marty Redman said the decision to limit automatic access to undergraduate dorms was collectively made by Penn Police, Residential Services, and CHAS. Previously, anyone with a Penn Card could gain access, a number exceeding 40,000 people. Lee, who used to hold wellness events in Harnwell College House’s rooftop lounge, said “[the policy] is not just an issue of exclusion from community spaces that we can use for events.” He added that it also complicates access to dining halls for graduate students with dining plans. Redman said the decision to limit graduate student access was made in light of increased security concerns and respect for the private living spaces that under-

graduate students occupy. “The real rationale is that we’re being a little more protectionist,” Redman added. “I think there’s a lot of access being provided — it’s just not automatic anymore.” Wehbe said the resolution to address the lack of space for graduate students follows the results of a mental health survey conducted by GAPSA in spring 2018. In the open-response portion of the survey, students called for more communal spaces to interact with other graduate students and do work when the GSC, libraries, and lounges are overcrowded. “Grad school can be isolating, so a place to casually interact with other students from the program would be nice,” a student said in the survey. “The grad student center is OK, but too far for me to go if I just want to work away from my desk for half an hour between experiments. Basically, I think the grad student center needs satellite locations.” Graduate need for space extends beyond just group events,

fourth-year Criminology Ph.D. candidate Asminet Ling, who is also the School of Arts and Sciences graduate student government president, said. Graduate students often have additional responsibilities as teaching assistants and need to store materials and hold private meetings, Ling added. “We don’t have a space where we can rent out just for grad students,” Ling said. “We kind of have to compete with other organizations. That could be undergrads or grads, and so there are times when we end up having to shift details and logistics for our events because we keep hitting unavailable blocks or spaces.” Graduate students have expressed concerns over graduatespecific space as far back as 1996, which led to the Graduate Student Center being built in 2001. Students have also cited poor living conditions and lack of renovations at Sansom Place East, Penn’s only dorm for graduate students.

manager, said. He added that the bookstore will likely reopen tomorrow. When a bookstore staff member attempted to examine a ceiling tile inside the store’s Starbucks, a rush of water burst through the tile and caused it to collapse on the employee. Starbucks employees were mopping the floor to clean up the remnants of the tile and the excess water. “I was sitting in the study room doing some homework and I looked over and there was water coming down from the roof,” College junior Skylar Deutsch said. “They’re closing the cafe.” Smith added that the Inn at Penn, which is located on top of the bookstore, may have also flooded and caused the water to leak through the bookstore’s ceiling. The majority of the flooding affected the Starbucks cafe located upstairs, the atrium inside the bookstore’s main entrance, and the building’s exterior. The area in front of the bookstore’s main entrance was also sealed off. Later that day, Hamilton Village Building Administrator Max Reyes-Rosario wrote in an email to Harnwell residents at 4:58 p.m. that the fan coil unit and air handling caused a leak in the building. The water affected the building’s basement lounge, the College Houses and

Academic Services kitchen, and music rooms in the basement. Facilities staff stopped the leak at approximately 4:00 p.m. after it started leaking at 2:30 p.m., according to the email. An Allied Security guard said the flood leaked out to the basement elevator area. Residents were not allowed to take the elevator down to the basement. Another Allied Security guard added that a similar ceiling leak happened last winter in the package room, ruining some packages when the heat was turned on after winter break. College senior Hannah Sanders said there were large amounts of water in the basement when she went there for a dance rehearsal. Reyes-Rosario added that housekeeping was cleaning the water off the floor, and that Belfor, a property restoration company, was contacted to make sure the area was properly dried. The ceiling water damage at the Penn Bookstore and Harnwell comes days after two maintenance issues occurred on campus. A pipe burst in Harrison College House on Jan. 21 in response to cold weather, causing a sprinkler to go off in the lobby. The next day, the hot water in Harnwell College House was not working, in a non-weather related incident. Staff reporters Daniel Wang, Ashley Ahn, and Courtney Daub contributed reporting.

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Kaepernick hasn’t left. Neither should Penn’s criminal justice reform efforts. THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN EDITORIAL BOARD

ast year, Penn celebrated when the Philadelphia Eagles became the Super Bowl LII champions. This year, as the country again turned to watch the top NFL teams compete, attention on Colin Kaepernick’s protests against racist police practices is renewed. While the Super Bowl may be the only time some pay attention to these issues, police brutality and structural racism are not distant phenomena for many on and near Penn’s campus. The Super Bowl this year and Kaepernick’s movement should be a wake-up call to the Penn community. Penn is a historically white institution that still has a long way to go in reducing its own institutional racism and promoting diversity and inclusion across racial and class lines. This means that Penn itself has played a role in supporting a racist system. Many members of the Penn community are insulated from these realities by their own race and class. An institution can’t be equated to the people who make it up. It’s important to recognize that many people of color at Penn likely know all too well about the dangers posed by racist police practices. Penn as an institution, on the other hand,

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creased police presence on and around campus. The crime rate went down, along with the national crime rate in the early twenty-first century, but it came

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has contributed to these practices. In an attempt to reduce crime on campus in the 1990s, Penn intentionally gentrified areas of West Philadelphia and in-

at the cost of the lives and the well-being of the majority-black populace in University City. In Philadelphia, the past year has seen an increase in public consciousness around funda-

mental flaws in the criminal justice system. Last year, the Eagles’ presence in the Super Bowl brought heightened attention to the plight of Meek Mill, a Philadelphia-born rapper who came to represent the need for criminal justice reform. Mill’s jailing following a parole violation was used to bring attention to the mass incarceration crisis in the United States, which disproportionately affects black men. Last April, two black men had the police called on them due to racial profiling by a Starbucks employee. After the incident gained national attention, the prosecutor’s office decided not to charge them with a crime. In Nov. 2017, Larry Krasner, a former public defender and criminal defense lawyer specializing in civil rights, was elected Philadelphia District Attorney on a platform that emphasized

criminal justice reform. In his first months in office, Krasner fired 31 prosecutors, effectively decriminalized marijuana possession, and reformed city bail policy to stop disenfranchising poor defendants. While these measures demonstrate a significant step toward justice for the Philadelphia community, there is still a lot of work to be done. In the criminal justice system, people of color are profiled and disadvantaged at every step of the way — from policing, to jury selection, to sentencing. Philadelphia is far from immune to these issues. In 2011, the Philadelphia Police Department settled a lawsuit contending that its “stop-and-frisk” policy used racial profiling. A recent analysis led the Pennsylvania American Civil Liberties Union to report that in the first half of 2018, “Black men are still stopped more often than

any other group, and the racial disparities in stops are ‘statistically significant’ and ‘are not explainable by non-racial factors.’” Here at Penn, there are some who are taking action. 2018 College graduate Alexus Bazen began kneeling during the national anthem at Penn football games in 2016 and wrote a column for the DP explaining that she knelt to protest against injustices against people of color. BARS, a student group at Penn, aims to promote criminal justice reform in the city. These issues are present at Penn and in the greater Philadelphia community. Even if they don’t disenfranchise everyone in our community, we all have a responsibility to listen to the stories of those victimized by racism and support action to reform policing and the criminal justice system.

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Penn Nursing needs to require a class on LGBTQ healthcare

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urses have a responsibility as health care providers to administer holistic care to their patients. Holistic care is a philosophy dating back to the 1850s — spearheaded by Florence Nightingale — that emphasizes caring for the patient as a whole, not just their physical body. It is one of the very first concepts that Nursing students at Penn are taught. It is ingrained into the nursing practice to ensure that we care for the patient’s

aspects of LGBTQ healthcare, simply because I or my partner have lived them. Finding supportive providers and dealing with insurance issues relating to transgender care are very challenging. I don’t claim to be an expert on LGBTQ healthcare, but the fact still stands that important aspects of our education as caretakers are being allowed to fall by the wayside. I can recall multiple instances when a student’s question about LGBTQ-specific health-

I can recall multiple instances when a student’s question about LGBTQ-specific healthcare was not adequately answered. mental, emotional, and physical health equally. However, we cannot properly care for patients of diverse backgrounds if we are not adequately educated. A majority of our classes either assume that all of our patients are going to be cisgender and heterosexual, or perform the bare minimum of education regarding LGBTQ patients. As a queer person with a trans partner, I feel it is my duty to bring these concerns to light. I have the privilege of understanding certain

care was not adequately answered. It’s also highly likely that there are questions about how aspects of healthcare apply to the LGBTQ population that students just aren’t asking because it hasn’t occurred to them or they don’t know how to ask. Furthermore, there are important considerations regarding the unique healthcare needs of the LGBTQ community, especially hormone replacement therapy and genderaffirming surgery for trans people. Many forms of gender-affirming

care change a person’s risk factors for future illnesses and impact what medications they can be given. A critical role of the nurse is patient education. We explain diagnoses, treatment options, procedures, and more. We are responsible for answering all of our patient’s questions to the best of our ability. This includes treatments like hormone replacement therapy and at least a base understanding of how genderaffirming surgery works. Nurses are also responsible for discussing sex with their patients — making sure they know how to have safe sex if they are sexually active. When a provider is visibly uncomfortable discussing sexual activity with a patient, the patient will be less likely to open up. As someone who has been assumed to be in a cisgender heterosexual relationship before, it’s infuriating, and it makes you want to end the conversation. Having a compassionate nurse that knows how to talk about sex in a way that isn’t exclusively cisgender and heterosexual makes a significant difference. The sad truth is that many high schools don’t adequately teach safe sex practices. It becomes the role of the nurse to fill this gap and educate adolescent patients on safe sex. In order to fill this role, they need to be equipped with knowledge of inclusive sex education.

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As nurses, we are the caretakers of a patient’s mental and emotional well-being. LGBTQ people are almost three times as likely to face mental illness. The suicide attempt rate among transgender people ranges from 32 to 50 percent across countries. It’s a simple fact: Being queer isn’t easy. When my mom found out I was bisexual, she told me not to tell anyone. This is a mild reaction compared to those that some people face, and in my experience, a majority of queer people have a similar or worse story about coming out. Many queer people have been subjected to conversion therapy, os-

tracized by their communities, and thrown out of their homes simply because of their identity. There is a unique kind of trauma associated with that and we as nurses need to understand this about our patients. My goal here is not to criticize the School of Nursing or my professors. Each class makes an effort to include LGBTQ patients in their teachings, but it’s not enough. LGBTQ patients deserve to have equally competent and caring nurses as straight, cisgender patients. My proposal is this: Rather than only scratching the surface of LGBTQ issues in classes, Nursing students

should be required to take a course on LGBTQ healthcare. As the first ranked nursing school in the world, Penn Nursing has a social responsibility to set the standard for nursing care to be inclusive.

ABIGAIL SWARTZ is a sophomore nursing student from Oakdale, Connecticut. They are a member of Student Nurses Understanding Gender and Sexuality and Vice President of the Alpha Delta Phi Society. Their email is aswartz@ nursing.upenn.edu

How to treat yourself at Penn THE OXFORD C’MON | Truly learning to love and value yourself is more than indulging

’ll admit it. I probably spend more money on coffee than I spend on literally anything else. Every day when I swipe my card at Starbucks and I hear, “That will be $3.65,” I say to myself, “It’s okay. girl. Treat yo self.” While I think it’s perfectly okay for me to treat myself to a cappuccino in the morning, especially when I’m spending my own hard-earned money on said cappuccino, I know it’s not some magic elixir that will suddenly make me feel worthy of being treated well. Urban Dictionary claims that a “treat yourself” mindset allows someone to enjoy themselves as much as possible even if the activities they’re performing are detrimental to their health. Made popular by the television show Parks and Recreation, when two characters spent an entire day gorging themselves on life’s luxuries, the “treat yourself” mindset has come to be a form of medicine for any and all of life’s ailments. Trying to heal a broken heart? Treat yourself. Trying to get yourself out of a slump? Treat yourself. Forgot about a quiz and feel bad about your grade? Treat yourself. However, treating yourself isn’t a permanent solution to feeling bad about ourselves. Truly working

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tution where the pressures put on students are monumental should be sympathetic and periodically allow or understand these circumstances. We all deserve breaks sometimes. But, when treating yourself to a mental health day turns into letting your daily CIS homework slide to the backburner in favor of going out to dinner with some friends, we should evaluate whether that’s a needed treat or a lapse in priority. You can only quiet your insecurities with online shopping for so long. Eventually the joy of treating yourself to that collagen face mask you just had to have will fade, and you’ll be left searching for some-

Eventually the joy of treating yourself to that collagen face mask you just had to have will fade, and you’ll be left searching for something new to quiet your thoughts. on yourself takes time, hard work, and more than caffeine. That little jolt of excitement that comes with the occasional treat can do wonders for your mood. When I’m feeling low, you’ll find me at any ice cream shop with a large milkshake in my hand. But if I went running to Ben and Jerry’s after every uncomfortable interaction, I’d diminish the excitement of my favorite “treat” (because trust me, I have a lot of those.) Our generation, when faced with increasingly daunting prospects of adulthood in an increasingly unstable world, needs to recognize the importance of fortifying oneself, instead of always letting yourself off the hook. I’m a major advocate for a mental health day. If you need to call out of work and put your homework aside for the evening for personal reasons, then by all means, be your own judge and allow yourself that break. Professors at an Ivy League insti-

thing new to quiet your thoughts. True self-care runs deeper than this. Treat yourself to kindness, to positive affirmations, to an early night so you can wake up refreshed the next morning. Treat yourself to a cathartic cry and then get back on the studying grind because it will be worth it in the end. If we fall into cycles of pushing yourself too far, burning out, and then treating yourself to copious amounts of whatever it is that makes you feel temporarily better about yourself, the cycle will never end. Temporary relief is all you’ll ever feel. The other day my roommate saw me crying for the first time ever. He didn’t know what to do and in a fit of nerves, he offered me some ice cream. This was incredibly kind and while I appreciated the gesture, I knew in my heart it was better for me to not accept the ice cream and instead take a shower and go to bed early. Looking out for my best inter-

est was declining the treat I would normally want and choosing a less delicious, but healthier option. Learning to love myself isn’t a journey I claim to have completed. It’s a journey peppered with different roadblocks for different people. I’m not going to stop buying lattes in the morning (mainly because of my caffeine addiction) but I am going to try and respond to smaller inconveniences with greater strength, instead of automatically reaching for my wallet. Treating yourself is a great example of being kind to yourself, but truly learning to love and value yourself is more than being kind. It is being strong, making the difficult but necessary decisions, and finding the right balance between it all. Penn can sometimes hit us like an avalanche, hailing stress onto our shoulders. The “treat yourself” mindset can be a great catalyst for getting yourself out of bed in the morning, but it shouldn’t always be an excuse to skip classes and miss opportunities when the going gets tough. Treating yourself and pushing yourself to do your best aren’t mutually exclusive and, contrary to Urban Dictionary, we can treat ourselves to luxuries that aren’t detrimental. You can have your ice cream while coding for CIS. I can have my morning coffee and study at the same time.

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where the cultural houses are located. A student attending the forum said “being shoved into a basement” made the student feel more marginalized at Penn and affected their mental wellness. Students also raised concerns about faculty diversity on campus. Attendees said they wanted to see more Penn faculty members who have also experienced marginalization and could better relate to their experiences. Lambda Alliance Chair and College junior Wesley Neal also expressed concern about LGBTQ+ students’ access to campus facilities. “Pottruck [Gym] as a facility is not gender neutral at all,” Neal said. “That is prohibitive for many students who want to access these resources.” Many students expressed concerns over Student Registration and Financial Services and how they were treated by financial aid officers while discussing their financial options. SRFS has taken steps

throughout the past year to address student concerns, such as streamlining the work-study job application process and restructuring staff to provide specialized training to financial aid counselors. Representatives from the Office of the Vice Provost for University Life — including Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, Associate Vice Provost for University Life Sharon Smith, Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs Tamara King, Associate Vice Provost for Equity and Access Rev. William Gipson, and Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé — were in attendance. At the end of the event, Dubé emphasized the administration’s support, and VPUL representatives at the town hall said they will relay the information to Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett. “Some of the stories I heard just broke my heart and made me wonder why did this happen on our campus,” Dubé said. “Now we’re charged with preventing these aberrations from happening again.”

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said. “I think this is the kind of conversation that should be happening everywhere, and why not here?” Summit organizer and College senior Bella Essex said summit attendees were open and willing to have conversations with and challenge each other. “The thing I really appreciate about today is the fact that [the summit] gave people language to have those conversations,” Essex added. Another student organizer, College freshman Wyatt Perez, said “the masculine gender in itself is very performative in certain instances, so creating dialogue and conversation as to what not to do and what’s toxic about that performance is impactful to the kind of interactions you have on campus with other people.” Washington said he plans for the summit to continue to be held annually. This year’s event was co-sponsored by several campus groups, including the Vice Provost for University Life, Penn Wellness, Year of Why, the Interfraternity Council, Tangible Change, the Intercultural Fund,

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the Ortner Center on Violence and Abuse in Relationships, and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Department. Jax Lastinger, a first-year master’s student in the Graduate School of Education and a Grad-

uate Associate at Stouffer Hall, said he brought several undergraduate students to the summit. “As a [graduate associate], I work a lot with undergrads of various genders and we often see students who have a lot of inter-

nalized toxic masculinity,” Lastinger said. Lastinger added that they came to the summit “to offer students a chance to have those conversations in a more structured setting with people who are experts.”

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Loo has been studied in Chinese language professor Grace Wu’s introductory Chinese writing class, CHIN 032. “In the Chinese perspective, he’s a thief,” Wu said. “He stole national treasures and sold them to the U.S., but some people think he made a big contribution introducing Chinese art to the Western world.” Chinese language professor Jiajia Wang, who has also incorporated the history of the horses into her course work, said the focus of the debate should be on the illegal smuggling of cultural relics, and

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not which items American museums should return. She added that the artifacts have important educational value at Penn and said their return could bring logistical hurdles, such as shipping damage. But some students disagree with keeping the horses at Penn. “I would say the claim that the artifacts represent Chinese culture in the Museum is pretty weak,” 2018 College graduate Michael Kwok said. “The marginal representation it does provide is weaker than the obligation to return the artifacts to the place where they’re most culturally relevant.” College and Wharton sophomore Katherine Hsu also emphasized the need for museums to

better respect requests to return cultural artifacts. “A lot of times when [Western museums] took these artifacts, not just from China but from countries in Africa or Latin America, I don’t think there was a fair power dynamic,” Hsu, who is also the vice chair of political affairs for the Asian Pacific Student Coalition, said. “I think this encourages all Penn students, no matter if you have a personal connection to Taizong horses or not, to think critically about these institutions.” “When countries demand rightfully that artifacts be taken back, we need to pay more respect and attention to these demands,” Hsu said.

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On Jan. 22, the anonymous flyers, titled “Prestigious UPenn: We Call On You To Return Stolen Horses to China,” were found in Williams Hall.

seling service within Huntsman Hall has also changed this semester. Hutchison is now seeing students on the fourth floor of the building, in room 418 — an area that is more secluded than the previous location on the ground floor. “Originally [the counseling sessions] were in G94 which was fine, but it wasn’t great because it’s kind of awkward standing there outside the room waiting for your appointment,” Grove said. “Some people would just come into the classroom while I was in sessions and that’s just really uncomfortable when you’re laying out your life story.”

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that she would not personally assess them. Individual CAPS staff members are also assigned to four graduate schools – the Law School, the Perelman School of Medicine, the School of Veterinary Medicine, and the School of Dental Medicine. Students have previously expressed frustration that the embedded model was not offered to all students. Kumar said there is no concrete plan to delegate CAPS clinicians specifically for College, Nursing, and Engineering undergraduate students. “There are no tangible plans, but there might be more conversations down the line,” Kumar said.

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Students taking the course “Cross-Cultural Awareness” learn about racial and social class divisions in a small-group setting. The graduate level course also allows students to swap roles with the instructors and lead the class for the second half of the semester. The course, EDUC 566, is offered in the spring through Penn’s Graduate School of Education and the Greenfield Intercultural Center. Every week students discuss various topics related to cultural diversity, which can range from race, class, and immigration. The course is offered through GIC’s Programs for Cross Cultural Awareness to both undergraduate and graduate students. Holly Link, who received a Ph.D. from GSE in 2016, has been teaching the graduate course since 2014. Link leads the class with a co-instructor, and the two leaders work on “placing [themselves] as learners alongside students.” During the second half of the semester, pairs of students take turns leading class discussions while the professors respond as students, which helps students learn facilitation and public speaking skills, the course website states. She added that even though some course topics can be difficult to discuss, professors encourage students to be open and

College and Wharton junior Phyllis Parkansky said she accidentally walked into another student’s private counseling session in Huntsman last semester. “It was very awkward when we saw two people talking in the classroom, so we quickly closed the door and ran away,” Parkansky said. While Wharton students are fully using the program, students in other undergraduate schools currently do not have access to an embedded model of their own. NonWharton students are not permitted to access the CAPS clinician in Huntsman. Kumar said last semester that Hutchison would help students get the care they need, but

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vulnerable. “It was the first time I was having this facilitated dialogue with other folks about really difficult subjects,” 2012 College graduate Angbeen Saleem, who took the course in 2011, said. “Everyone showed up to this course with a lot of vulnerability and a lot of honesty.” The course includes a retreat prior to the first day of classes that introduces students and professors to each other in a more intimate way. This close connection continues throughout the semester as students and professors write and share autobiographies. Second-year GSE student Tianyu Liu, who completed the

class last spring, said instructors “introduce [the material] in a way that doesn’t make you feel like they are better than you or more knowledgeable than you.” The class culminates in a final project where each student focuses on a particular social issue. The projects range from websites to academic papers, but each project aims to promote social change around a specific issue. Link said the course tends to attract “students who are really interested in engaging with issues around diversity and oppression” and draws fewer “students who are from privileged white backgrounds.” She added that through the

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Penn wrestling got the hardearned break theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been fighting for in their first Ivy League dual meets of the season. The Quakers hosted Brown at the Palestra on Saturday afternoon, followed by Harvard in the evening, with both meets ending in exciting and important victories for Penn. The Red and Blue (3-5, 2-0 Ivy) defeated Brown (4-6, 0-3) in a close match, 18-16, and continued to dominate as they scored 29 more points than their opponents, crushing Harvard (1-7, 0-3) by a score of 35-6. Each winning five of the 10 bouts during the match, both Penn and Brown had their work cut out for them on Saturday. Along with substantial contributions from freshman and No. 13 Anthony Artalona and senior Joe Oliva, the Quakers secured the margin of victory with three critical major decisions in the lower weight classes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think on paper coming into this meet against Brown, [Brown] was probably favored slightly. Not by a big margin, but I think they

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on Friday, recording her sixth double-double of the season with a career-high 26 points along with 12 rebounds. She was a force on defense as well, blocking six shots and helping limit the Big Red to only 46 points on the night. While

Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s freshman Carmen Ferrante secured a victory over Trey Keeley of Brown at 125 pounds early on in the meet in a shutout, 8-0, and his momentum fueled the team through the rest of the meet. Freshmen Doug Zapf and Grant Aronoff also posted notable results during the meet, adding to the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; early lead. Zapfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s match ended in a score of 12-4, a major decision in his favor, and Aronoffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win, 14-5, in which he also scored four team points, pulled Penn ahead to lead 12-10 overall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The resilience that the team has shown [is critical], and coming into today, we really looked at this as a fresh start to the second half of the season,â&#x20AC;? Reina said. Later in the day, Penn secured wins in all but one of the 10 weight categories in an impressive showing against Harvard. Against Harvardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nolan Hellickson, against whom Ferrante wrestled previously in the Keystone Classic, he again shut out his opponent in a match that ended in a score of 14-0 and over four minutes of riding time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been fighting all year, and we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really gotten the results, but today we broke through,â&#x20AC;? Ferrante said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harvard and Brown are both tough teams â&#x20AC;Ś I was really excited to see us break through and get those points weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working for.â&#x20AC;? Artalonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aggression on the mat also payed off, as he secured a victory by technical fall with a score of 20-3. He asserted his dominance early on and held his opponent to three points while he secured over 10 points in a row to

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Freshman Carmen Ferrante shut out both of his opponents at 125 pounds in Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ivy League doubleheader. He first beat Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Trey Keeley, 8-0, before overcoming Harvardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nolan Hellickson, 14-0, in a matchup in which he had over four minutes of riding time.

Parker didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make quite as big an impact in the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; victory over Columbia, she still contributed 33 productive minutes and was the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second leading scorer. Loser â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three-point shooting Both the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teams struggled this weekend

win the match. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were looking at the margin of victory between Princeton and Harvard, which happened earlier today, and we were trying to beat them by more, just as a little statement to Princeton, and I think we pulled that off today,â&#x20AC;? Reina said. Another particularly impressive match was that in which freshman Willy Kaiser defeated

his opponent from Harvard, Aaron Kruk. Although he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t compete earlier against Brown, Kaiser got the opportunity to wrestle against the Crimson and did not disappoint. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had been recruited by both of the teams, so it was nice to be able to go out and wrestle against one of the teams I almost committed to,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Kruk led during the first period of the match, but in the second period, Kaiser pulled ahead after a surprising shot, scoring four points in a row and bringing the score to 6-5. The third period saw Kaiser score two more points and hold on for the 8-6 win. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mostly about mental preparation and expecting to be called on if the team needs

me,â&#x20AC;? Kaiser added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thankfully, the shoe fit today, and it was able to work out in my favor.â&#x20AC;? Picking up their first dual meet wins in two months, the Red and Blue will look to keep the momentum going when they travel to New York to continue Ivy competition, facing Cornell and Columbia on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

from beyond the arc. After a strong start from deep during the Cornell game, the men cooled off significantly, shooting only 26.7 percent from that range in the second half and 25 percent against Columbia. The Quakers began Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contest with nine consecutive misses from three, putting them in an early deficit.

While the women won both of their games, they had some issues from behind the arc as well, making only 16.7 percent of their threes against Cornell and taking some unnecessary contested chances from deep throughout the weekend.

The men have struggled for much of the season from the foul line, but they performed much better in the win over Columbia. The Red and Blue made 77.8 percent of their free throws, including their first 10 of the contest. Goodman and Brodeur both made several shots from the line in the second half, allowing Penn to take

a slim lead and maintain it in the final minutes. The women put up an impressive performance from the charity stripe on Saturday as well. With the game tight down the stretch, Parker, along with guards Ashley Russell and Michae Jones, made a combined eight free throws in the last minute of the contest to lock up a victory.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s super exciting when you find a way to win in the Ivy League on Saturday.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you can get a win like this on the road, at a place like Columbia, where the fans are really loud, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really big,â&#x20AC;? Russell said. Against Cornell, the Quakers had much more success inside. Parker essentially scored at will, earning a career-high 26 points along with her 12 rebounds and six blocks. Her dominant effort helped Penn cruise past the Big Red, 5946. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anytime the defender is on the outside of [Parker] and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s between them and the basket, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unstoppable. She can go both sides,â&#x20AC;? coach Mike McLaughlin said. aâ&#x20AC;&#x153;We put in a couple lobs for her on some sets, but most of all, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just to get the defense to shift and get her the ball deep. When we do that, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very effective.â&#x20AC;? After an even first quar-

ter, Penn pulled away across the second and third periods, thanks to a 12-0 run spanning halftime, and key contributions from Parker, including on defense, where the center blocked shots but altered countless more as shooters struggled to get the ball past her outstretched arms. The Red and Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s threepoint shooting was weak against the Big Red, as Penn shot just 5-of-30 from beyond the arc, its worst rate all season. That stat didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter in the end, though, because of the dominance from the forwards down low. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If Eleah can do what she did [against Cornell], I like our chances more often than not. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll leave it at that,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. All three of the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ivy wins have come on the road. Next weekend, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get a welcome respite from the travel as they host Brown and Yale.

guard Bryce Washington came through in a big moment, sinking a three-pointer with 3:21 left to put the Quakers up by four. After watching Columbia make shots from all over the court in the second half, Penn then put together a few key defensive stops to maintain its slim lead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought the level of execution in the second half from both teams was so amazing,â&#x20AC;? Donahue said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought we showed true grit, which is our calling card. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how we typically win games.â&#x20AC;? Up by just two points with about 30 seconds remaining, senior guard Antonio Woods barely missed an off-balance layup to give Columbia a chance to tie or win the game at the buzzer. However, Stefaniniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final contested jumper missed as time expired, giving Penn the victory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Stefanini] was making so many shots. We had three guys

guard him that last possession,â&#x20AC;? Donahue said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Antonio comes over because he reads it, and I thought he really was the one who distracted the shot.â&#x20AC;? One day prior, the Red and Blue lost to Cornell, 80-71, for their third consecutive loss to open the Ivy League season. With that contest tied entering the final minutes, the Quakers had to make something happen, but offensive miscues ended up costing them the game. Three consecutive missed free throws from Brodeur, who shot 2-for-7 from the line on Friday, along with several missed shots meant that Cornell finished the game on a 10-0 run and won by nine. Penn then bounced back against Columbia, and with their first conference win now under their belt, the Quakers will try to build momentum in another pair of away games at Brown and Yale next weekend.

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guard Gabe Stefanini, who led the Lions with 27 points. Columbia kept sinking its shots, making 70.8 percent from the field in the second half, and the Red and Blue needed someone to step up and keep them in the contest. Junior forward AJ Brodeur did just that, recording 24 points, making 8-of-10 free throws, and providing a constant presence in the paint. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it was more of the team just trusting me down the stretch to start getting things back to where we know they can be,â&#x20AC;? Brodeur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have the confidence in myself to make those types of [inside] shots. It means a lot to have that encouragement, trust, and brotherhood from my teammates.â&#x20AC;? With the game tight entering the final minutes, freshman

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DP Sports Player of the Week: AJ Brodeur Brodeur’s free throws helped Penn secure win at Columbia ISAAC SPEAR Associate Sports Editor

Junior forward AJ Brodeur has been the leader of Penn men’s basketball all season, and he continued to show why this weekend. Brodeur led the Quakers in scoring in two strong performances against Cornell and Columbia to earn him DP Sports Player of the Week. Even though the Quakers fell to the Big Red, Brodeur was a force in the paint, using his nifty post moves to put up quick shots on the way

to a 17-point night. Brodeur cleaned up on the glass as well, racking up an impressive 16 rebounds, his highest single-game total so far this season. His double-double against Cornell was sixth of the season. Brodeur is clearly the focal point of the offense for the Red and Blue, as he leads the team in field-goal attempts (232) and points per game (15.4). His reliable scoring down low opens up many other opportunities for the offense. Columbia’s focus on stopping the Quakers’ three-point shooters resulted in plenty of space for Brodeur down low. Faced with just one defender on an island in the paint, Bro-

deur took advantage, scoring on 8-of-12 field goal attempts. He would finish with a teamhigh 24 points on the night. Not only was Brodeur able to score with ease from the post, but he also drew numerous shooting fouls which he capitalized on by shooting 8-of-10 from the free-throw line. The eight free throws are the most he has made in a single game all season. Brodeur’s consistent offensive and defensive contributions were vital in delivering the Quakers their first Ivy League win this season against the Lions. The junior will look to continue his success next weekend on the road against Brown and Yale.

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Men’s and women’s squash beat Dartmouth, fall to Harvard in split Reeham Sedky lost her first match of the season JACOB WESSELS Associate Sports Editor

So close but yet so far for Penn men’s squash. This weekend, Penn men’s and women’s squash continued their Ivy League season with home matches against Dartmouth and Harvard. Both teams found success against the Big Green, claiming 6-3 victories, while Harvard proved to be a greater challenge, dispatching the women, 9-0, and the men, 6-3. The weekend slate began Saturday against Dartmouth (4-5, 1-3 Ivy), with the women taking the court first. The Quakers (8-4, 2-3) started strong with a dominant victory from senior Reeham Sedky, who took her match in consecutive games, dropping just five points. The Quakers would go on to receive wins from each member of their top five, including an impressive three-game

victory from sophomore Julia Buchholz, which helped seal the victory. “We were excited about the opportunity this match presented us. It didn’t help us [against Harvard], but it should help us in some tight matches coming up,” coach Jack Wyant said. On the men’s side, Dartmouth (7-5, 2-3) proved to be no match, as the first shift saw the Quakers (11-2, 4-1) claim three 3-0 victories. The Red and Blue would not look back after this hot start, as freshman sensation Aly Abou Eleinen continued his undefeated season with another sweep for the Quakers at the No. 2 spot. The match’s clinching victory would come from another freshman, James Flynn, who finished off the Quakers’ fifth sweep of the day. Fresh off two victories, Penn hoped to continue the momentum into its matches against Harvard on Sunday. Unfortunately for the women, this would not be the case as the Crimson (7-0, 3-0) took care of business in resound-

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Senior and defending national champion Reeham Sedky lost for the first time in 31 matches. She lost against her Harvard rival Sabrina Sobhy.

ing fashion with a 9-0 victory. The story of the afternoon was Sedky, who lost her first match of the season, 3-1. After claiming the first game, Sedky looked poised to continue her dominant play, but after difficulties with the referee and the finesse shots of senior Sabrina Sobhy, she would go on to lose the next three

games. “Given that Reeham loses so infrequently, this gives her an opportunity to do some self study and figure out how to be better,” Wyant said. “I know she is going to rebound from this.” The women’s loss set the stage for the weekend’s marquee matchup, as the men looked to

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continue their superb season against the No. 1 Crimson (100, 5-0), a team the Quakers have beaten just three times in program history. Harvard would jump out to an early lead, grabbing two quick victories, and with sophomore Andrew Douglas trailing 2-0 in his own match, it seemed like the Quakers may go away quietly. However, after dropping his first game, junior David Yacobucci rallied by winning the next two games, getting the Penn crowd back into the match. Riding the energy of the fans, Yacobucci would finish his victory in an epic five-game match. While Yacobucci celebrated, the energy began to shift, and in the shadow of his teammate’s victory, Douglas had climbed out of his 2-0 hole and evened the match. With all eyes on Center Court, the two Nos. 1 would trade points until the score was 8-8, when Douglas took control and pulled away to an 11-8 win. “We wanted to show who we were,” coach Gilly Lane said.

“They have a lot of talent and so do we. I thought the boys showed a lot of heart.” It seemed as if Penn was poised to pull off the upset, as the Quakers led by a score of 3-2 after another win. At the same time, the Red and Blue also held 2-0 leads on two different courts. However, the Crimson pushed both matches to pivotal game fives, when Harvard’s Julien Gosset emerged victorious, 106, and Penn freshman Michael Mehl fell, 13-11. This turned the momentum back to the Crimson and all but ended Penn’s upset bid. “This is a tough one to swallow,” Lane said. “The result isn’t what we wanted, but it also isn’t what we have been thinking about all year. We are building towards something big, we have a young team, and they can learn from losses like this.” After an up and down two days, the Quakers will look to get back on track against Cornell and Columbia in the final weekend of Ivy play.

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Women’s basketball coasts past Cornell and outfights Columbia to move to 3-0

Men’s basketball struggles late at Cornell before beating hot-shooting Columbia

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MICHAEL LANDAU Sports Editor

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NEW YORK — It wasn’t smooth sailing, but when it mattered most, the Red and Blue got the job done. In a game of runs, Penn women’s basketball held on late to beat Columbia, 72-60. The Quakers (13-3, 3-0 Ivy) remain the only undefeated team in the Ivy League thanks to a win over Cornell on Friday. In the first quarter, the Quakers jumped out to an early lead behind some hot three-point shooting and stayed there, thanks to senior guard Ashley Russell’s all-around game. The captain finished with 16 points and seven assists. The 19-7 lead after the first period quickly evaporated. A 9-0 Columbia run brought the Lions (5-12, 1-3) within four — they would ultimately score 21 in the quarter after only managing seven in the first. Columbia’s hot shooting was paired with a Penn cold streak from beyond the arc — the Quakers went 1-of-13 for a stretch spanning the first two quarters — letting Columbia back into the game. Penn managed to hold onto a 31-28 lead at the half. “It was a really good game,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “I just loved the way we responded; we had a long trip last night — we were running on fumes a little bit at the end.” “Saturday to me is all about heart and guts. Who is ready to come and play?” Columbia coach Megan Griffith said. Penn, with Russell leading by example, had more heart and guts in the end than a young Columbia team. Russell’s experience with the Ivy weekend helped the Quakers to steady the game and dictate the tempo they wanted. “Every year, I’ve become more accustomed to playing back-to-back nights, and it’s just getting the freshmen and sophomores to come along with it. It’s really more mental than it is physical toughness,” Russell said. The third quarter was more of the same. Both teams started hot, with the Quakers holding a slight edge. However, when Penn’s shooters cooled off, the Lions went on a run to even the score. After trading buckets for most of SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE 8

CHASE SUTTON | SENIOR MULTIMEDIA EDITOR

Senior guard Ashley Russell led the Quakers past Columbia with a veteran 16-point, seven assist performance.

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Junior forward AJ Brodeur scored 24 points against Columbia, eight of which came from the free-throw line.

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NEW YORK — That’s more like it. One day after falling to Cornell in a game that came down to the final minutes, Penn men’s basketball defeated Columbia, 72-70, for the team’s first Ivy League win of the season. The game did not start off well for the Quakers (13-7, 1-3 Ivy), who were unable to get into a rhythm on offense in the opening minutes. The Red and Blue missed their first nine three-pointers of the game and committed some sloppy turnovers, with five coming in the first 10 minutes. These struggles allowed Columbia (6-12, 1-3) to go on a 10-0 run early on and seize the lead. With the Quakers in a quick hole, they needed to find a way bear down, and they were able to do so on defense. The Red and Blue held Columbia without a point for over five minutes and went on a 12-0 run of their own to take the lead back. While Penn continued to struggle from behind the arc, where it shot 17.6 percent for the half, the team performed well from the free throw line, which has been a trouble spot all season. The Quakers made their first 10 free throws of the game, contributing significantly to their early comeback. “I do think [free throws] were a key thing,” coach Steve Donahue said. “That [10-for-10] in the first half when things weren’t going well was really key to this game because we probably wouldn’t have been able to hang with them if we didn’t.” Junior guard Devon Goodman was a difference maker for Penn in the opening 20 minutes, scoring 11 points and hitting a three with 1:05 left in the half to give the Red and Blue a slim 32-31 advantage, which they held at the break. “As a point guard, my teammates really look at me to lead the team and to stay positive no matter what,” Goodman said. “When [Columbia] went on that run, my teammates knew and I knew that it would be our turn to make a run.” As the second half began, the back and forth contest continued. Penn began to play more efficiently on offense, making 66.7 percent of its field goals, but Columbia countered with some strong possessions of its own. In particular, the Quakers struggled to cover sophomore SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 8

Winners and losers from basketball’s weekend doubleheaders

Both teams struggle from three but excel from the line MICHAEL LANDAU Sports Editor

Penn basketball had a busy weekend in New York against Cornell and Columbia, with the women’s team winning both games and the men splitting their pair of matchups. Here are some winners and losers from the two days of contests. Winner — Devon Goodman The junior guard was a workhorse for the Quakers all weekend, sitting for only three minutes combined across the two games. While Goodman was able to score 12 points in Friday’s loss to

Cornell, his real impact came the next day against Columbia. With the Red and Blue in an early double-digit hole, Goodman, along with fellow junior forward AJ Brodeur, helped bring them back into the game. He recorded 11 points in the first half and 19 overall, made 8-of-10 free throws, and maintained a high level of intensity on both ends of the floor. Loser — Men’s basketball’s turnover problem The Quakers played some sloppy offense in the loss to Cornell, turning the ball over 19 times and wasting several key possessions throughout the game. Coach Steve Donahue identified this as one of the main factors in the defeat, and he talked about

the team’s need to minimize those mistakes and execute better. However, the beginning of Saturday’s game didn’t go any better, as Penn committed five turnovers in the first 10 minutes, contributing significantly to its early deficit. While the Red and Blue played more disciplined basketball later in the contest and came back to beat Columbia, the turnover issue is still one that needs to be addressed going forward. Winner — Eleah Parker It’s no surprise to see the sophomore center on this part of the list, but that doesn’t make her play any less impressive. Parker dominated in Penn’s win over Cornell SEE TAKEAWAYS PAGE 8

CHASE SUTTON | SENIOR MULTIMEDIA EDITOR

Junior guard Devon Goodman played almost every minute for Penn men’s basketball this weekend, scoring a total of 31 points across two games. Defensively, he was tasked with guarding Columbia’s leading scorer for most of the game.

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