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Mental health task force releases final report Recommendations come a year after announcement JODY FREINKEL Senior Reporter

Created in the wake of six student suicides in 15 months, the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare released its final report on Tuesday.

Penn lacks hard ban on studentfaculty sex

Penn only prohibits relationships that violate academic conflicts of interest ELLIE SCHROEDER Staff Reporter

While half of the Ivy League, with Harvard most recently joining the ranks, rely on strictly defined policies to enforce sexual misconduct regulations, Penn’s 20-year-old policy lets social norms do the work. On Feb. 2, the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which includes Harvard College, introduced a ban on all sexual relationships between faculty and undergraduate students. The policy change marked a departure from the previous rules, which did not explicitly ban sexual relationships between faculty and students to whom they did not have teaching or advising responsibilities. Contrarily, Penn’s policy, last updated in 1995, reads, “ … although this policy prohibits consensual sexual relations only between a teacher-supervisor and that individual’s student, the University strongly discourages any sexual relations between members of the faculty (or administration) and undergraduates.” Columbia and Princeton also currently hold policies similar to Penn’s. In enacting the policy change, Harvard joined Yale, Dartmouth and Cornell, all of which do not permit sexual relationships of any kind between undergraduates and faculty members. Harvard professor and Chair of Faculty of Arts and Sciences Committee on Sexual Misconduct Policy and Procedures Alison Frank Johnson said rather than being spurred by any single event, the policy change came as part of a larger process of reviewing sexual misconduct policies. Frank Johnson said the policy was “absolutely non-controversial” at Harvard because it only reaffirmed existing behavioral norms. “Since we all think it’s a bad idea, why not just write that down?” she said. Although Frank Johnson acknowledged the ban does limit people’s private lives, she said the new measure is “well worth the benefit of affirming that we are here as teachers, prioritizing the pedagogical relationship between faculty and undergraduates.” Currently, Penn’s policy on student-faculty relationships has two main components: prohibiting sexual relationships between students — both graduate and undergraduate — and faculty that have any kind of academic, advising or mentoring role, as well as banning faculty from evaluating students with whom they have been romantically involved. Penn’s Vice Provost for Faculty Anita Allen said that Penn’s current policy is a “very strong way to deal with inappropriate sex between teachers and students.” “I can see the argument that a more categorical ban on relationships between undergraduates and faculty would make some sense,” Allen said, adding that the large presence of Liberal and Professional Studies undergraduates at Penn, who are older than traditional undergraduates, would make it more difficult to justify and enforce such a policy. However, although Allen believes that Penn’s sexual misconduct policy already effectively protects its students, she remains open to future change. SEE SEX PAGE 8

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The eight-page report focuses on “cultural change rather than structural change,” Co-Chair of the task force Anthony Rostain said. “Destructive perfectionism,” according to Rostain, is one thing the Penn community needs to fight. The report contends “the drive for academic excellence along with the perception that in order to be successful one needs to hold leadership roles

in multiple realms contributes to the amount of stress and distress experienced by Penn students.” Specific recommendations include completing a website that centralizes the University’s health resources by the fall of 2015 and clarifying leave of absence policies to students. The report emphasizes four key recommendations: increasing communication about mental health

resources, making information about resources more accessible, educating and training the Penn community on mental health and optimizing the resources devoted to Counseling and Psychological Services. The task force was announced last February by President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price to research SEE TASK FORCE PAGE 5

SHE’S GOT THE POWER Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., is Penn’s 2015 Commencement speaker COREY STERN Deputy News Editor

Though her audience usually consists of diplomats from around the world, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power will address the graduates and attendees at Penn’s 259th Commencement on May 18. Power, who is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, was named today as this year’s commencement speaker. A cabinetlevel officer, Power is currently one of the most powerful women in the federal government. Power will be Penn’s first female commencement speaker since actress Jodie Foster in 2006. Prior to Foster, actress

Jane Alexander, who also served as chairwoman of the National Endowments for the Arts, was the last woman to speak at Penn’s Commencement in 1995. “Not only is she a woman with a very high level position in the government and someone who is incredibly accomplished as a scholar and human rights advocate, she also is in a position … where there are very few women,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said. “I think it will be great to hear from someone who has been as successful as she has and will only go on to do more.” In addition to the several cabinet-level officers, two other U.S. representatives to the United Nations have delivered addresses at Penn Commencements. John Foster Dulles spoke in 1949, and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. spoke in SEE COMMENCEMENT PAGE 8

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Fling in the making: planning the year’s biggest weekend Directors began planning Fling in October JESSICA MCDOWELL Deputy News Editor

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Students discussed Spring Fling plans at a SPEC meeting earlier this month

In the midst of chilling winter weather and potentially the first real snowstorm of the year, Spring Fling seems like an eternity away. But for some students, Fling has been on their agendas for months. Spring Fling is an annual tradition that, with the exception of final exams, is the only thing all Penn students experience together. For one weekend in April, all of Penn comes together for a few days of music, carnival attraction and, for many, some ethanol-heavy partying. But one thing

that is often overlooked amidst the day parties and star-studded performances is the work that goes into making the entire event possible. Approximately 50 undergraduate students plan the massive weekend-long event — from the concert to the food vendors for the quad. While Fling itself is still far away, the planning is not. At this point in the year, the Fling and concert directors of the Social Planning and Events Committee have decided on the theme and logo for the weekend and have known who will headline the concert for about a month and a half. Wharton senior George Li is one of the Spring Fling directors. Along with the other Fling directors and members of the SEE SPRING FLING PAGE 3

Fifty shades of sexual violence

and abuse. The volunteers handed out notes, one of which read “True manhood does not seek to compromise a woman’s purity, true manhood stands BRIGITTE DESNOES up to heroically protect it.” Contributing Reporter The controversial movie, based on At 8 p.m. on Feb. 13, hundreds of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy by Penn students crowded into The Rave E.L. James, illustrates a romantic retheatre to watch a sold-out showing lationship developing in the context of “Fifty Shades of Grey." of the main character’s obsession On the other side of the country, a with BDSM. BDSM — which engroup of students at the University of compasses bondage and discipline Southern California stood outside of (B&D), dominance and submission a local theatre in protest to the show- (D&S) and sadism and masochism ing of the same film. The students (S&M) — practiced by 5-10 percent donned “Blue about Grey” T-shirts to of the population, according to the emphasize their disgust at the picture National Coalition for Sexual Freethe movie and books paint about a dom. relationship that promotes obsession Penn students’ responses to the

Film sparks debate about healthy relationships

movie was much less volatile than at some other schools. College senior Joanna Kamhi has attended almost every Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention meeting since her freshman year, but believes that sexual violence has no place in the discussion of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” “BDSM calls for the informed, mutual consent of all participants, and so sexual violence really doesn’t play into it. Thus, I think that BDSM is a totally valid choice for people who are interested,” she said. “Unfortunately, BDSM gets stigmatized because people don’t understand that BDSM community members act within a very strict structure of consent.”

ASAP is one of many groups that are part of the Penn Women’s Center, and focuses specifically on raising awareness of sexual violence on campus. Every spring, they host “Take Back the Night,” a campuswide protest and survivor vigil. Communications professor Carolyn Marvin believes that regardless of the real-life implications of BDSM, what should be emphasized when approaching the “Fifty Shades of Grey” phenomenon is its fictional nature. “While imaginative works always have license to transgress the moral rules of real life if their creators SEE 50 SHADES OF GREY PAGE 7

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A monk, a soldier, a student, turned businessman Wharton freshman takes leave for business ventures JACK CAHN Staff Reporter

Wharton freshman Ying Cong Seah was 13 years old when he was ordained as a monk for the first time. He traveled from Singapore, where he grew up, to a Buddhist monastery deep in the forests of his native Malaysia, where his head and brow were shaved. Stripping down, he donned a traditional monk’s robe, and for days at a time, he meditated and lived independently of earthly possessions. Once a day, he traveled barefoot to a nearby city to collect food from those willing to donate, all before taking the SAT. On his last night at the monastery, Seah went to a Chinese cemetery where he sat on a grave, the decomposed body of a dead Chinese Malaysian below him. After chanting prayers to rid himself of evil spirits lurking among the deceased, he meditated, facing his fears of death and evil. Seah has come a long way since. A two-time former monk and former elite third sergeant in the Singaporean military who was detained by the Singaporean intelligence services for a time, Seah was a Wharton freshman living in Kings Court English House until this December. He took a leave of absence to work full-time on Glints, a recruitment startup he cofounded with two other students who have also taken leave, that has since received $380,000 in an oversubscribed round of seed funding. Now, Seah is Singapore’s hottest young entrepreneur. Since taking his leave, he has been featured in the Business Times, Singapore Business Review and Tech in Asia and received funding from high-profile investors, led by East Ventures, for a 30 percent stake in the business.

Seah’s partner, former University of California, Berkeley freshman Oswald Yeo Hexiang, said that Glints received so much interest that it had to turn down over $250,000 in seed funding. “People know about him. People know that I know him so they always ask me about what he’s doing right now,” Wharton freshman Nicholas Tan, who is a childhood friend of Seah’s, said. “He’s appeared in the papers quite a lot, on a pretty regular basis.” Still, Seah sometimes misses the peaceful life of the monastery. Sometimes he even thinks of going back. “I never felt so calm and serene. The only way you can rid yourself of suffering is to control the very thing that is between your ears, which is your mind — but most people have no control over their mind; it just runs like an operating system subconsciously,” Seah, who also studied computer science during his one semester at Penn, said. “Meditation teaches you how to hack that operating system by becoming aware of it in the first place and then writing a program for it.” He may sound like a hippie, maybe even a little like Steve Jobs, who went to India at the age of 18 in pursuit of enlightenment. But unlike Jobs, who returned to the United States with long hair and an admitted tendency to smoke marijuana, disappointed by what he had found in India, Seah returned from Malaysia to Singapore invigorated. Today, he wears his ash-black hair short, does not believe in sex, drugs or alcohol and is more modest than bohemian. Just a few months ago, he walked alongside thousands of Penn students on Locust Walk, studied rigorously for midterm exams in Huntsman Hall and Skyped with Indonesian investors by night, all while flying under the radar, unnoticed by the Wharton students and faculty typically

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Ying Cong Seah with his two Glints business partners Looi Qinen and Oswald Yeo Hexiang.

Seah rock climbing in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

eager to network with tomorrow’s leaders. From NSO to Singapore While some freshmen were drinking at fraternity parties, bonding with their roommates and nervously calling home, Seah was already contemplating leaving Penn. He decided to go to college after serving in the Singaporean military, despite investor interest in his start-up, so that he could decide whether or not “he needed Penn,” Wharton freshman Elaine Chao, who lived near Seah, said. In the back of his mind, however, he realized that investors would only take him seriously if he worked on his startup full time. Twenty-one years old when he arrived at Penn, Seah was old enough to buy alcohol but was wholly unused to the party culture of American colleges. “He went to one frat party and was like ‘WTF, what is this’ and never went back,” Wharton junior

Chao described Seah as one of Penn’s most eligible bachelors. “The girls I know all think he’s pretty cute,” Chao said. “I’m not saying I had a crush on him, but I wouldn’t mind going out with a guy like that ... He’s a gentleman, he’s smart, he treats girls really well, he’s one of the few chivalrous guys and he’s really mature.” The most common word his friends used to describe him, however, wasn’t sweet or cute, but humble. Seah did not mention his full-ride scholarship, fame in Singapore or success in the army when first interviewed by The Daily Pennsylvanian — his friends filled in these blanks. While his Facebook wall is filled with friends’ congratulatory posts, he never publicizes his accomplishments. And he is rarely, if ever, quoted in articles about his company. Seah is also modest in his lifestyle. Rather than placing

Connie Chen, one of Seah’s closest friends at Penn, said. “He thought [NSO] was kind of crazy, there was too much stuff to do all the time and it was really overwhelming.” Seah had other problems with NSO as well. “I saw how much money Penn was spending on NSO and all I could think was ‘I could be doing so much more with that money’,” he said. Despite his aversion to Greek life, Seah made friends in other ways. He bonded with fellow techies in Kings Court’s Science and Technology Wing, where he lived, in his classes and as a member of Penn’s tight-knit Singaporean community. “He’s always been there for me. He is a really brotherly figure and gives me advice about things I would freak out about,” Chao said. “I always feel secure, put together and safe around him. He’s a really great guy, and he’s really well-loved too.”

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value in money or material goods, his ambition is driven by a desire to make an impact through technological innovation. At Penn, he owned very few clothes and “could fit a bed in his closet,” Chen said. To this end, Seah spent most of his time at Penn working and managed to earn a 4.0 GPA while taking 5.5 credits and running Glints on the side. “He was kind of a workaholic,” Chen said, laughing. This was a common theme among Seah’s friends. Seah coded throughout his New York Thanksgiving dinner and, as a result, fell asleep while Black Friday shopping, Tan said. Whenever Chao knocked on his door, Seah was usually working, she said. But he made time for friends and even squeezed in time for a girlfriend during his freshman fall here. “He’s a very organized guy. He keeps his work life and social life very separate. I remember if I wanted to have dinner with him or hang out with him, I would always have to pre-plan it,” Chao said. “He focuses a lot on his work, but he also doesn’t forget his friends either.” Seah’s organization manifested itself in strict work schedules and daily routines. He went to sleep by midnight on nights when he didn’t have investor calls scheduled, despite his workload. This discipline, Chen says, is a result of his time in the Singaporean army. Singapore’s Elite Third Sergeant Seah’s platoon had been trekking for days under the hot, blazing sun. On his back, he carried 30 kilograms of pots, pans and ammunition. “Sedi-A!,” his officer shouted. Stand at Attention. Lock elbows. Stare forward. Chin up. No movement. Seah took out a shovel and began to dig. His arms and back ached. “Too slow, too slow,” his officers shouted. The sun fell. His one-man trench, called a shell scrape, took form. And then it began to rain. All night, he lay awake cold, wet and pushed beyond his limits. Seah joined the Singaporean military at the age of 19 and learned to lead a life of discipline. When a fellow soldier violated army policy at the end of a five-day mission, Seah’s whole platoon had to do pushups for hours and trek an extra 15 kilometers as punishment. Basic training was difficult, but Seah excelled and was invited along with the top 10 percent of recruits to Officer Cadet School as a result of his high IQ and leadership potential. Even among the creme de la creme of the Singaporean military, Seah made a name for himself. “He was the top of his wing. Each year we have 300 to 400 cadets coming in and we split up into three or four wings,” Tan said. “Of his wing, he was the top cadet all the way until one day we were doing an obstacle course and he jumped off a wall and tore his ACL. And that’s when he started out the whole business thing.” His military discipline is still with him today. At Penn, Seah woke up at 6:30 a.m. every day for two weeks to run before his 9 a.m. classes with Tan, until the weather became too cold. “That was our military minds working again,” Tan said. Seah’s dorm SEE SINGAPORE STARTUP PAGE 7

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SPEC Spring Fling Committee — a total of about 15 people — Li started thinking about Fling last fall. “First semester, it’s really just about getting to know each other. We also might start talking about the theme and logo for that year,” Li said. “This year, we wanted to get started on things a little earlier,” he added, saying that they have had the theme and logo for Fling designed since the beginning of the calendar year. Last year, SPEC released the theme and logo during the last week of January. This year, however, the process will be a little bit different. “In past years, we haven’t done a great job of hyping up the theme, so we’re trying to change that this year,” Li said, adding that the theme and logo will be announced through a video the Spring Fling directors are currently working on. “People can look for that announcement sometime either the week before spring break or the week after,” Li said. Students will have to wait to get news about the concert, too. College senior Suvadip Choudhury is one of SPEC’s three concert directors, responsible for organizing both the fall concert and the Fling concert. “At this point, we are finishing securing the lineup for the concert, which will be on April 17,” Choudhury said. “We are locking in all of our artists for the show, but this has been an ongoing process,” he said, adding that the search for Fling headliners began as early as October of last year. While Choudhury did not specify the genre of the performer for Fling, he did say that a survey SPEC Concerts launched a few months ago, which received about 1,500 responses, defined the direction of the concert. “One common misconception that students seem to have is that we reach out to artists directly about coming to Fling,” Choudhury said. “At first, we reach out to large booking agencies with our budget and date, and then they give us an idea of artists that could work. Sometimes we follow up about artists they didn’t

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THE IDEALISTIC PRAGMATIST | Why we should be more modest in our relationship with biology

harles Darwin was hesitant, and rightly so. The implications of his crowning achievement, “On the Origin of Species,” would reach far and wide, setting off an upheaval in our conception of the natural world and our place within it. The idea that we are the latest iterations in a gradual biological process would infringe on certain sacred beliefs about the human ontology, the ramifications of which we still struggle with today. Though we have moved away from bickering over whether we are descendants of earlier species, there remains a controversial notion about the human condition to which many still adhere. There is a sanctity of the mind, as one might call it, which sees the mind as independent of the body — a sort of mindbody dualism reminiscent of Descartes. In a context of the nature versus nurture debate, where a dichotomy between factors of hereditary vis-a-vis environmental origin in shap-

ing human behavior is often painted, this idea of the mind amounts to an unequivocal adherence to the side of nurture. This dichotomy, however, is problematic. The scientific understanding that the mind

of the mind-body dualism survives in the mainstream consciousness of the 21st century. To understand why, we must move from biology to the realm of philosophy. By recognizing that there are dif-

de-emphasized for imagined moral motives. A popular argument against this aforementioned fear is that differences, existing or not, must not necessarily lead to differential treat-

The idea that we are the latest iterations in a gradual biological process would infringe on certain sacred beliefs about the human ontology, the ramifications of which we still struggle with today.“ could be a faculty wholly free from influences stemming from outside its own purely cognitive interpretation of its environment was largely abandoned in the 20th century. Today, there is a consensus that behavior is the product of a continuous, complex and bidirectional interaction between biological and environmental factors. What was once a debate of nature versus nurture is now rather about how and to what degree these sides determine behavior. In spite of this, the myth

ferences, the reasoning goes, we justify differential treatment and discrimination — nothing short of an opening of Pandora’s box. The story seems familiar. We saw it in the condemnation of Copernicus’ heliocentric theory and in the recoil against Darwin’s evolutionary theory. These discoveries, if recognized, were thought to threaten the establishment and push society down a slippery slope towards the end of the world. Today, it is a form of obscurantism, where scientific findings are

ment. But what if there is a real danger here? We recall the atrocities of the 20th century, where biology was used to justify eugenics. These were ideologically-motivated perversions of biological ideas, not adoptions. Not unlike today, biology was used as a tool to pursue a certain political and moral ideology. A moral universalist, like Kant, would detest this, precisely since morals should not be relative, which a “moral act” like this supposes them to be. But are there other ob-

jections? A poststructuralist might argue that our entire system of understanding biology, i.e., science itself, is inherently flawed. The perceived differences, if they are there, are only the product of a constructed system which finds such “truths” as a part of its raison d’ être. This leads to subjectivism, and though we cannot refute it on its own grounds, a pragmatist might respond that, for all its flaws, the sciences have bestowed us with valuable insights and that it is better than the alternative, such as a rejection of science. A pragmatist may on the other hand argue that, if the outcome of rejecting these scientific advancements is beneficial to us, we are right to reject them. On rare occasions, then, perhaps (scientific) ignorance is bliss. After all, most of us would not subject love for a family member or religious faith to scientific scrutiny, so should we in this case? Darwin himself, a religious man, decided to present his idea to the world. Despite the profound inner conflict it

OSCAR A. RUDENSTAM posed to his religious conviction, and the prospect of indignity, his faith in human beings prevailed. His idea, as it became understood, would come to humble our conception of our own place in the world. Much like then, we should greet novel biological insights today not with self-censoring out of fear, but with curiosity and optimism.

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most distasteful and disappointing things I have ever read. I personally never have felt the way Mr. Tangson seems to about West Philadelphia, and I know there are many more like me who are outraged by the editorial. I would like to conclude by expressing my anger that a newspaper that represents the university I attend would choose to publish something like this. It is not merely the offensive and distasteful viewpoints which were expressed, but the way Mr. Tangson expressed them. By insinuating that all students feel uncomfortable in West Philadelphia, Mr. Tangson misrepresented my views and opinions. I’m frustrated that The Daily Pennsylvanian would allow these views to be published, as I think opinions such as these are some of the main forces driving Penn and

the community in West Philadelphia further apart. I’m frustrated that The Daily Pennsylvanian would use its position as a mouthpiece for the University to publish an opinion that could be so offensive. I hope moving forward more discretion can be shown and the DP can get back to reporting on real articles, not offensive opinions that pretend to speak for the entire student body. William Shuldiner C‘17

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mental well-being and make recommendations to improve the quality of student life. The current task force follows the 2002 Mental Health Outreach Task Force, which was commissioned by then-Provost Robert Barchi in response to increased concern for mental health after the 9/11 attacks. The University implemented only four of that task force’s six recommendations. It did not implement a recommendation to create an outreach council to plan and implement the 2002 report’s suggestions. This time, an oversight team will be established to “help Penn align its efforts ... with national standards,” in accordance with the Jed and Clinton Health Matters Campus Program. Penn recently affiliated with the program, whose team works with universities over the course of four years to “enhance mental health and substance abuse programming,” according to its website. However, no timeline has been established for following up on the task force’s recommendations and the report does not delineate metrics for measuring its impact. According to Rostain, attempting to measure culture change could bring the University into “the thorny business of surveillance.” Colleges and universities nationwide are seeing an upward trend in reported mental health concerns. A recent report by the UCLA Institute of Higher Education noted a 56 percent increase in the number of college freshman who “frequently” felt depressed versus five years ago, while 54.7 percent of undergraduates reported “overwhelming

Month, “Negro History Week,” began in 1926 when historian Carter G. Woodson announced the holiday would occur on the second week of February. Since then, “Negro History Week” has changed from “Negro History Month” to what we now call Black History Month, a month-long celebration of African-American history. Last week, members of UMOJA — the umbrella organization for black student groups at Penn — also celebrated its annual UMOJA Week.

“I think Black History Month is good at providing awareness, but we should aim to make progress year round,” UMOJA co-chair and College sophomore Ray Clark said. “I generally like Black History Month because it is a time for people to learn about, discuss and recognize the achievements and contributions that African-Americans have made throughout history,” College sophomore Courtney Sloan said. Despite her belief that Black History Month promotes positive

anxiety,” according to the 2014 National College Health Assessment. Penn is not different from peer institutions, the report says. CoChair of the task force and former School of Arts and Sciences Dean Rebecca Bushnell said while the task force cannot change U.S. culture, it wants to see Penn make changes for its population. The report recommends the translation of CAPS’s I CARE program — a curriculum that teaches how to recognize and approach students with mental health concerns — into electronic modules disseminated to faculty, staff and students. The report suggests an I CARE-trained liaison in each major student group. The report also recommended standardizing the language used to communicate the schools’s leave of absence policies and making a leave of absence seem like a more acceptable choice. The task force found the four undergraduate schools had the same underlying policies on leaves of absence but described them differently. “Taking time to take care of oneself ... is a means to the successful completion of a degree and not a barrier to degree completion,” the report says. Five percent of the class of 2013 took a leave of absence and “almost all” students who take leaves complete their degrees, according to the report. The task force also recommended centralizing mental health resources for the University. During their interviews with members of the Penn community, Rostain and Bushnell said they found an overall lack of awareness of resources already available. The task force charges the University with creating a

website that condenses mental health information by the fall of 2015. Elana Stern, a member of the Green Ribbon Campaign, was among the students who met with members of the task force last spring. She found the task force receptive to the campaign’s suggestions, even though a student representative was left off the task force itself. Before reading the report, she said she hoped to see insight on increased resources for CAPS and the addition of specializations for specific concerns, like eating disorders. The report itself does not address specializations within CAPS. Already, Rostain and Bushnell said, the 2015 task force seems to have had a positive impact. Gutmann and Price took their suggestion to create and launch a 24/7 Penn help line, 215-898HELP, answered by staff trained to help students with varying personal problems. CAPS also added three clinicians and a postdoctoral fellow last year, who have helped reduce wait times for initial appointments from 21.6 days at the end of 2013 to 8.5 days as of December, according to the report. Director of CAPS Bill Alexander could not immediately be reached for comment for this article. The task force will present its recommendations at the University Council meeting Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Bodek Lounge. The first step, Bushnell said, is for the Penn community to read the report. “People have to ... take seriously what it is that we are saying,” she said.

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discussion, she also sees a negative implication of dividing black history from American history as a whole. “I also feel that the celebration of this month sort of implies that there are two historical narratives: American history and black history,” Sloan said. “But black history is American history. Black people’s achievements and accomplishments should be recognized as an integral part of

the general American narrative, not as a separate story that can be only taught and celebrated one month a year.” She is not alone in her reservations. Sydney Morris, a College freshman, worries that Black History Month can also potentially marginalize the black experience overall. “Black history should not be a month to look at a few famous black people and then forget about

them in March,” Morris said. “It’s not a bad thing I guess, but I’m not sure it’s a good thing either.” Visiting political science professor Paul Finkelman, a historian specializing in race and constitutional law, sees both sides of the argument. “You can cut it both ways: Yes, it perpetuates a form of segregation, or you can say without this, we have nothing.” Finkelman said. “ I don’t know the answer.”

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This fall, Penn students may have the chance to shake hands with the pope during his visit to Philadelphia. Pope Francis will likely visit either a children’s hospital or a juvenile prison while in the City of Brotherly Love, Archbishop Bernardito Auza told the Catholic News Agency. As one of the few pediatric hospitals in the city, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will plausibly attract the pope directly to Penn’s campus. CHOP has a strong link to the Penn community, with the Department of Pediatrics of the Perelman School of Medicine closely allied with CHOP. “CHOP would be honored if Pope Francis were to take some

time out of his very busy schedule to visit with some of our patients and their families,” CHOP’s Director of Public Relations George V. Bochanski said in an email statement. “We are certain they would carry the memory with them for a lifetime.” According to the official website for the World Meeting of Families , Pope Francis’ visit will fall on Sept. 26 and 27. He will attend the Festival of Families and Papal Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway during his stay, which is estimated to draw two million people to the city, according to the NBC reports. This is part of his itinerary to attend the World Meeting of Families, a triennial conference held by the Church. Pope Francis will also visit New York and Washington, D.C. during his trip. This will be Pope Francis’s first visit to the United States, and he will be only the fourth reigning pope to visit the country.

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room walls were blank, save for a list of goals. His days, dates and meals were scheduled down to the hour, his friends said. But tearing his ACL would have a much bigger impact on his life than achieving the rank of Third Sergeant. After his injury, Seah used his downtime to experiment with entrepreneurial endeavors and eventually to launch Glints, the business that launched him to the top of Singapore’s start-up scene. This downtime, however, got him into a bit of trouble at first. Detained and Interrogated Seah was still practically a teenager when he was detained and interrogated by the intelligence arm of Singapore’s army for the first time. His crime: launching an unsuccessful business while serving in the military. “I started a social enterprise so that I could write about it when I applied to Wharton,” Seah said. Although the business bombed, Seah pushed past the failure and, after tearing his ACL, partnered with Yeo and Stanford University freshman Qinen Looi, his current business partners, to run entrepreneurship workshops and try out new business ideas. Their first project to gain traction was Art’N’Sew, which sold t-shirts with pictures of international aid items at the cost of those items and donated their profits to charity. “We were featured on the newspaper, which is free. But because of that our Army immediately called us down and interrogated us because we’re not supposed to do anything outside of Army and it’s considered moonlighting,” Seah said. “The only way we got out of the situation was because we weren’t making any profits at the time ... We were that close to being arrest[ed].” This wasn’t the first time Seah and his partners ran into trouble, and it certainly wasn’t the last. Bucking Tradition It’s the end of the semester in Singapore in 2012. Most students are busy studying for final exams, but high school seniors Seah and Tan are not. “Him, me and two other guys just went crazy and we didn’t care about our final exams and we just did the [Economic Development Board] business competition,” Tan said. “We didn’t win, but we got second. For him, it catalyzed his interest to start his own business from the ground up.” This wasn’t the last time Seah sacrificed education for a business endeavor — then, Seah risked poor performance on his final exams for business success. Now, he risks much more by taking a leave of absence from Wharton. “What YC is doing is taking a step away from the very basic norms that are the fundamentals of our society. When people hear what he is doing they are like ‘Wow, this guy is flipping mad,’” Tan said. “He has his scholarship, he’s in a very good place, and he’s giving all that up for something that might or might not work. He’s taking that risk, but he knows that his passion is there, so that’s what he is going for.” By leaving Wharton, Seah is bucking tradition and doing something that Tan says virtually zero Singaporeans have done before. This is “the stuff of many Singapore parents’ nightmares,” The Straits Times, a Singaporean publication, wrote

wish, all adults are always responsible to keep straight the crucial distinction between fantasies in imaginative works and the obligations of real life,” she said. Despite these claims, the consensus among students is certainly not unanimous. Penn Political Union Progressive Caucus Chair Klaudia Amenabar believes the “Fifty Shades Of Grey” franchise not only

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for women, but that only makes it worse,” she said. “That means that romanticized abuse is so internalized that it can be mass-marketed to women, and only demonstrates femaleproduced content as of lower quality, which isn’t the truth.” With the "Fifty Shades of Grey” movie setting records for the highest grossing President’s Day weekend opener of all time, it certainly has become a means of critical discussion.

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on Wednesday. Seah’s risks are monetary as well. After getting a 2400 on his SAT and excelling academically, Seah was given a full-ride scholarship and guarantee of employment by the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, a governmental investment arm and sovereign wealth fund that typically recognizes Singapore’s top five high school graduates. Of his two business partners, Yeo, the salesman, has also taken this risk and left Berkeley, while Looi, the developer, who is also on a government scholarship, intends to take a leave of absence from Stanford this March. Today, Yeo and Seah live together with an artist on Singapore’s waterfront, their lives consumed by the ever-changing, ever-demanding needs of their business. Business As Usual Check the newspapers in Singapore and you might see Seah’s name. Just this month, he was ranked among the top fifteen entrepreneurs under twenty-five. Glints is a recruitment portal that connects interns with employers and provides hiring managers with performance analytics. Sea h a nd h is pa r tners launched Glints in fall 2014 after finishing their service in the army. They originally partnered with The HUB Singapore, a company that calls itself a “home for purpose-driven people who use entrepreneurial ideas to create sustainable impact.” In May, Glints was the youngest company invited to participate in a 100-day startup program through JFDI.Asia, a well-known Singapore-based accelerator. This led to investor interest resulting in $380,000 in funding. Seah is a role model for entrepreneurial Singaporeans. His company has worked with over 8,000 interns in Singapore and 700 companies including Puma and Adidas. Seah has been invited to talk at various conferences and institutions, including the Hwa Chong Institution where he jokingly described his team as a couple of pimps who connect interns with employers and run a mafia — a tight-knit group of brothers sharing a common purpose. Moving Forward The future is bright for Seah. He is following in the footsteps of this era’s greatest

entrepreneurs in leaving college to pursue his passions in the technology business. He has funding, a team and, with a 4.0 GPA at Penn and a perfect SAT score, unparalleled raw intelligence. When he took the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory — a personality test that evaluates whether or not you live in the past, present or future — his focus on the future was practically off the charts. So far, this has paid off. Seah’s immediate goal is to build Glints into a successful enterprise and make his first $10 million in the next few years. Over the next six months, he plans to partner with IBM to develop an “intelligent career charting tool with the aid of Watson AI,” he said. But his long term goals are far broader. “[His] end goal is to maximize his impact and the amount of technological change in the world,” Chen said.

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The Van Meter Professor of Neurology Emeritus at Penn Med will receive an honorary Doctor of Sciences. Best known for his clinical studies on peripheral neuropathies, he has held multiple leadership positions within Penn Med including interim dean.

The founder and executive artistic director of the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts and the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) will be given an honorary Doctor of Arts.

The current director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, home to NASAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Misson Control Center, Ochoa will receive an honorary Doctor of Sciences. In 1993, during her mission on the Discovery space shuttle, she became the first Hispanic woman to go to space.

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The president of Columbia University since 2002 will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws. Previously the president of the University of Michigan, he was the defendant in two historic Supreme Court cases that challenged the constitutionality of Michiganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affirmative action policies.

One of only twelve individuals to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, Moreno will receive an honorary Doctor of Arts. In her more than sixty year career, she is best known for her role in West Side Story.

Sustein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University and the founder and director of Harvard Lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy. An author, legal scholar, behavioral economist, and former public servant, Sunstein will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws. SARAH TANG | DESIGN ASSOCIATE

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1956. Additionally, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was the commencement speaker in 2005. Before being named to her post in the United Nations, Power served as special assistant to President Obama and senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights on the National Security

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like the fact that the range of our speakers reflect at least a small fraction of the range of our University,â&#x20AC;? Gutmann said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We like to bring in honorary degree speakers who can speak meaningfully to our students and can be role models for them. I think both John Legend and Samantha Power hit all the bases.â&#x20AC;? Power will also receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the commencement ceremony. Other honorary degree recipients include astronaut Ellen Ochoa, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, Perelman School

of Medicine professor Arthur K. Asbury, Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) founder Joan Myers Brown and Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awardwinning actress Rita Moreno. The final recipient will be Cass R. Sunstein, the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. Sunstein has one additional distinction on his resume â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he has been married to Power since 2008. The couple met working on Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first presidential

campaign. While Penn has previously given honorary degrees to married couples â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the most recent being Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson for their work in paleoclimatology in 2013 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it is unusual for two spouses to be recognized for different fields of work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On their own, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re both eminently worthy honorary degree recipients,â&#x20AC;? Gutmann said of Sunstein and Power. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And given how busy their lives are, we thought it would be nice for them to at least spend this day together.â&#x20AC;?

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Former Penn football star, assistant coach died on Friday Lemonick was on staff for first Ivy title RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor Bernie Lemonick, one of the most illustrious players in Penn football history and an assistant coach with the program throughout the late 1950s, has died. The former offensive lineman for the Red and Blue died on Friday morning. Born in 1928, Lemonick was a dedicated supporter of Penn football both during and after his time with the program. A Wharton graduate in 1951, the Philadelphia native was twice named national lineman of the week throughout his playing career – once in 1949 after a game against Dartmouth and

once in 1950 after a matchup with Wisconsin. Following his senior season with the Quakers, Lemonick was honored in various ways, including being named second-team United Press All-American and Grantland Rice All-America Honorable Mention. He played in both the Hula Bowl and the EastWest Shrine Game before being drafted by the New York Giants in the 21st round of the 1951 NFL Draft. Although Lemonick never played in the NFL, he stayed in Philadelphia and began coaching. Before returning to Franklin Field to serve as an assistant coach for the Red and Blue in 1955, Lemonick was a line coach at Saint Joseph’s Prep beginning in 1951. Lemonick’s contributions to Penn football as an assistant

mirror those from his playing career. A line coach under head coach Steve Sebo, Lemonick was on the sidelines when the

Bernie had illustrious careers, both as a player and coach. ” - Ray Priore Penn football coach

Quakers clinched their first Ivy League title in 1959. “We are incredibly saddened by the loss of such an iconic member of the Penn football

family,” said current Penn football coach Ray Priore. “Bernie had illustrious careers both as a player and coach, and continued his unparalleled support of Penn football as an alum.” Lemonick was part of Penn Athletics’ initial Hall of Fame class in 1996 and was named to the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. He also served as Chairman of the University of Pennsylvania/Cornell University Trustees Cup annual awards dinner, a ceremony that recognizes the winner of the annual rivalry game between the two programs. “Bernie will forever be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the Red and Blue, and we could not be more thankful for that,” Priore said. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Lemonick family at this time.”

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Former Penn football guard Bernie Lemonick died on Friday. Lemonick eventually became a coach and was on staff for Penn’s first Ivy title.

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st time that Penn has lost to both Yale and Brown at the Palestra in consecutive years.

years in which Penn has lost to Yale and Brown at the Palestra in the same season (2013-14 and 2014-15).

point loss to Brown was the Quakers’ worst ever home loss to the Bears. The worst road defeat was a 32-point defeat in 2008.

point loss to Yale was the t-2nd worst loss all-time and worst home loss to the Elis.

is the last (and only other) time has Penn lost by 27 in an Ivy League game at home.

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THE BUZZ: FEATURE

More awards for Nwokedi

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From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ Whaddayaknow: she did it again. Following a pair of solid road wins for Penn women’s basketball, rookie Michelle Nwokedi notched her fourth Ivy League Rookie of the Week nod of the season and third since the beginning of 2015 alone. The freshman forward — starting for only the second and third times this season, respectively — averaged 15.0 points, 9.0 rebounds and 5.0 blocks per game in a pair of Red and Blue victories over Yale and Brown. Since taking over as a starter for senior guard Renee Busch, Nwokedi has scored in double digits three times, recording double-doubles each in each game. The Missouri City, Texas, native has now earned the honor in three of the past four weeks. Her dominance in the paint has helped the Red and Blue win five of their seven conference games, a mark good enough for sole possession of second place in the Ancient Eight. Nwokedi kicked off this past weekend by scoring a game-high 13 points in a comfortable 61-42 triumph over then-second-place Yale. The rookie followed that game up with a near triple-double in Providence, tallying 17 points, 10 boards and seven blocks in an 83-75 victory in against the Bears — the fifth straight contest in which she scored over 10 points. The freshman converted 83

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own to bring to the table. In addition to their 10 starters, the Quakers rotated in seven extra men in Saturday’s game, showing the true depth of this 2015 team. Additionally, several of the key players from the Red and Blue’s victory over UMBC were some of the younger members of the team, including freshmen Reilly Hupfeldt and Kevin McGeary. One big difference for Penn, however, is the task of choosing who will fill the position of starting goalkeeper. With recent graduate Brian Feeney having played

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ILANA WURMAN | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

Forward Michelle Nwokedi was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Monday, the third time in the past four weeks that the freshman has received the award.

percent of her free throws over the two-game stretch last weekend, a much-needed boost for a Penn squad that has converted only 66 percent of its shots from the charity stripe this season.

Now sporting an average of 7.7 points and 6.2 rebounds per game on the season, Nwokedi will look to stay in a groove as the Quakers welcome Harvard and Dartmouth to the Palestra this weekend.

gave them an opportunity to run in their comfort zone. “What happened with that group is we kind of were setting them up for Boston,” Dolan said. “This was their chance to show what they could do.” In particular, senior Tom Timmins stood out in the 400-meter for the Red and Blue, posting the school’s top time in 12 years. Freshman upstart Jeff Wiseman and sophomore Carey Celata also put up strong performances for the Quakers in the 800meter. While the meets in New York and Boston were all

almost every minute of his four-year stint with the Red and Blue, junior Jimmy Sestilio and senior John Lopes are vying for the coveted spot with little experience between them. “They’ll both get a shot at it again until one really separates himself,” Murphy said. “They’ve both earned the right to be in there and that’s the way we’re going to go for now.” Because Penn is still so early in its schedule, the name of the game is improvement for the Quakers. “Given the fact that it’s late February, we want to make some steady progress this time of year,” Murphy said.

And based off of Saturday’s performance, there is the most room for improvement in clearing the ball, which according to Murphy saw problems that were “mostly self-imposed.” Although the Red and Blue have room for improvement, there is a bright side surrounding Tuesday’s contest. Because both squads recruit locally, many athletes will face former high school teammates as they battle the first of three Pennsylvania squads. However, regardless of the distance between the two schools, once it begins, Tuesday’s matchup will be anything but friendly.

about outstanding individual performances, the Monmouth Invitational focused on the team as a whole. “[Millrose and Boston] are places where people really try to run great performances against top competition,” Dolan said. “The Monmouth meet was more of a chance for the whole team.” And the Red and Blue were up for the challenge, as the women’s and men’s squads finished first and second in the meet, respectively. While Penn’s event groups were strong as a whole, the women’s 60-meter squad was especially impressive, finishing one-two-three in the event. Moving forward, the Red

and Blue have one final meet before the all-important indoor Ivy Heptagonals meet two weekends from now. Meanwhile, next weekend’s meet at Haverford will serve multiple purposes for the Quakers. “A number of people will compete in Haverford as a tune-up,” Dolan said. “And others will compete in Haverford to kind of earn their spot with the travel spot for the Ivy League Championships.” The temperatures may or may not rise above freezing before then, but regardless, competition is definitely heating up on the track. Additional reporting contributed by Jacob Adler.

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Former Penn football star and assistant Bernie Lemonick passed away on Friday.

at Saint Joseph’s Philadelphia, Pa. 4 p.m.

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Short trip, large goal M. LACROSSE | Quakers take on St.

Joe’s in second nonconference contest ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN Senior Sports Reporter

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Freshman midfielder Kevin McGeary scored three goals in his debut and looks to continue his success on Tuesday.

While it may not be a home matchup, Penn men’s lacrosse will not have to venture far for its game on Tuesday as it visits a local foe. In the midst of their earliest week of play in program history, the Quakers will travel to take on Saint Joesph’s, seeking to defend their undefeated mark against the Hawks. Tuesday’s contest marks the second game of the Red and Blue’s season following their season opener against UMBC on Saturday. After receiving permission from the Ivy League to start their season a week earlier than normal, coach M i ke Mu r phy and the team have TODAY chosen to stack Saint Joseph’s noncon ference games in Febru(1-1) ary and March 4 p.m. rather tha n in Philadelphia, Pa. April, a tactic that Penn has employed in previous years. “Our guys are generally more fresh in February than they are in April so it makes more sense to play that way,” Murphy said. “There’s such an emphasis on the Ivy League games that the only way we can have a full week to prepare for each of them is if we play more games in February and March.” Penn (1-0) also faced the Hawks a year ago on a Tuesday after its first game of the season. Including that victory, the Quakers have won all 11 matchups between the two squads but there are no guarantees what the outcome will be this time around. Last season, St. Joe’s finished 11-4 and won its conference. Like the Red and Blue, the Hawks (1-1) have some key new players to accompany their previously strong crew, which proved true in a win this past weekend against High Point. “I think they’re more talented [this year],” Murphy said. “They’ve got a transfer who is on the first midfield line and their attack is a year older. “They’re a good team. This is going to be a battle for us.” However, Penn also has a strong hand of its SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 9

18-7, 7-1 Ivy

The Bulldogs rebounded from their ﬁrst Ivy loss of the season with a sweep of Penn and Princeton after a tough contest with the Tigers. Although he only scored seven points against the Quakers, junior Justin Sears was named Ivy League Player of the Week after putting up 25 points and nine boards against Princeton.

17-5, 7-1 Ivy

The Crimson like to keep things interesting. Despite racing out to a 17-point halftime lead, Harvard allowed Columbia back into the game before holding off the Lions by four. A 21-point win over Cornell pushed their winning streak to six, and a second win over Princeton next weekend could vault the Crimson to the top of these rankings.

11-12, 4-3 Ivy

Unlike Penn last weekend, the Tigers managed to beat Brown by 11 before putting up a tough ﬁght against the Elis. While the Ancient Eight's top two teams have distanced themselves from the rest of the conference, Princeton seems like the formidable choice to ﬁnish third at the end of the season.

12-12, 4-4 Ivy

The gap between Big Red and Columbia is small, but Cornell took care of business in beating Dartmouth on Friday (albeit in overtime). Other than large losses to Yale and Harvard, the Big Red are a Tony Hicks floater away from having a one-game lead on Princeton for third in the Ivy standings.

11-11, 3-5 Ivy

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Now losers of ﬁve of their past seven, the stage was set for the Lions to continue their team narrative: lose on Friday night, orchestrate a blowout on Saturday. Unfortunately for Kyle Smith's squad, Columbia came out flat against Dartmouth and fell behind by double digits midway through the second half before falling. A matchup with Yale on Friday won't make things any easier. The Big Green may only have two Ivy wins, but they were both fairly impressive. After handing Harvard its most recent loss on Jan. 24, Dartmouth's last three games included a three-point loss to Brown, an overtime defeat against Cornell, and a 12-point win over Columbia. At least the Big Green have been competitive.

The Bears are probably better than their Ivy record indicates. At least, that's how it seemed on Saturday night as Mike Martin's squad laid the wood down on the Quakers, using a second-half surge to clinch Brown's second win in three games after nearly stunning Harvard in overtime on Feb. 6.

The lowest-scoring team in the Ivy League (at 60.7 points per game), the past five games have been ugly for the Red and Blue. Other than a comeback win against Cornell on Feb. 6, the Quakers have dropped four of their past five by a combined 95 points. Penn needs to win three of its final seven games to avoid a third straight single digit win season. JOYCE VARMA | SPORTS DESIGN EDITOR

Red and Blue divide and conquer over weekend TRACK & FIELD | Awad

breaks another record

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It’s still early in the track season for him, but junior Thomas Awad is already off to a fast start. In his first two meets of the indoor season, he has already broken two school records — in the mile and the 3,000-meter run. SEND STORY IDEAS TO DPSPORTS@THEDP.COM

Convent iona l wisdom holds that when it gets cold outside, it’s best to stick together and huddle up. Penn track and field must not have gotten the memo. Despite the frigid Northeast temp erat u res, t he program decided to divide and conquer, sending some of its top runners to compete in New York and Boston while the rest of the team participated in the Monmouth

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Invitational last weekend. The program achieved strong results across the board, but star junior runner Thomas Awad managed to steal the show for the Quakers once again. As the Red and Blue’s lone representative at New York’s historic Millrose Games, Awad dropped an astounding 7:54.81 in the 3,000-meter run, improving his own personal best time in the event by 10 seconds and surpassing Penn’s previous record of 41 years by a hefty four-second margin. The run is just another addition to Awad’s recent string of incredible performances,

but coach Steve Dolan sees it as significant nonetheless. “He’s getting to an elite level, so it’s getting every bit more challenging to keep taking steps,” Dolan said. “So this weekend was a big deal for him. “The time actually gives him a chance to make Nationals.” Meanwhile, a group of Penn’s top middle-distance runners made the trip to New England to compete in Boston University’s Valentine Invitational. Many of the middle-distance specialists have focused on sprints early in the season, but the meet SEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE 9 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640