February 19, 2018

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Grad students withdraw their petition to vote for unionization

The shocking decision is a ‘strategic’move HALEY SUH & REBECCA TAN News Editor & Executive Editor

In a dramatic turn of events, the graduate students who spent the last two years campaigning for a union, have withdrawn their petition to represent Penn’s graduate and professional students who serve as teaching and research assistants.

“We made this decision in a Special General Body Members’ Meeting on Thursday, February 15, and our petition to withdraw was submitted to the NLRB today and we are waiting for an official acceptance notice,” Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania, GET-UP, said in a statement posted on Facebook at 7:40 p.m. on Feb. 16.

Just a month ago, GETUP celebrated a victory in its campaign to unionize: After 203 days, Philadelphia’s National Labor Relations Board announced that the group would be allowed to hold an election on whether to unionize.

“When we finally got the answer on Dec. 19, it was a such a relief to know,” member of GET-UP Olivia Harding said at the time.

“Penn is both an educator and an employer of us, so [this decision] justified everything we had been working for.”

Now, GET-UP’s decision to rescind its petition means

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Family of Blaze Bernstein comes to campus The Bernsteins came to campus for the first time since the death of their son, College sophomore Blaze Bernstein, to pack up the things he left behind and to attend a campus memorial on Feb. 18 SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor

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n the weeks following the tragic death of College sophomore Blaze Bernstein, his parents, Gideon Bernstein and Jeanne Pepper, have emerged as the central figures in the eye of a media firestorm, stoic and loving in their grief. This weekend, for the first time, the Bernsteins came to Penn to mourn with the staff, students, and faculty who knew — and loved — their son.

Just days after the news of Bernstein’s death, his parents set up a memorial fund for those looking to honor Blaze’s memory. As reports came in of the arrest of Bernstein’s alleged killer, Sam Woodward, and his ties to a neo-Nazi hate group, the Bernsteins have maintained their message

of love, generosity, and inclusivity.

“As this began to unfold, we realized that we had an opportunity to set an example for people everywhere,” Jeanne wrote earlier this month. “To show them how even in the face of tragedy and loss, there is something better to concentrate on rather than bitterness, revenge, self-pity and regret. We wanted people to embrace love, tolerance and kindness, to do good.”

At Penn, students and faculty alike have felt the effects of his death on campus. Many have long awaited his memorial, which took place this Sunday. The College student was a central figure in the Kelly Writers House and in the wider writing community. He was slated to become SEE BLAZE PAGE 2

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The Bernsteins came to collect Blaze’s belongings, including this toolkit that his parents gave him.

that graduate students will not be able to expect a union in the coming months.

“This action means that there will no longer be an election later this semester to determine whether eligible graduate and professional students will choose to be represented by GETUP,” wrote Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett in an email to all graduate students at 5:40 p.m.

Student leaders say that GET-UP’s decision is a strategic move to help graduate students across the country retain the right to unionize in the long-term.

Following in the footsteps of other pro-unionization groups at the University of Chicago and Yale University, GET-UP wants to delay its vote because of worries that the GOPdominated NLRB might use the vote as a chance to overturn the 2016 landmark decision that formally categorized graduate students at Columbia University as “employees.”

This ruling, known as the “Columbia decision,” came after students at the university appealed to the NLRB in hopes of unionizing. It set a precedent for graduate student workers at various other institutions to begin their own campaigns toward forming a union.

GET-UP is worried that if its vote passes through, Penn will file an appeal to SEE GET-UP PAGE 6

1vyG conference held at Penn for the first time

At Bernstein memorial, friends and family share memories

The conference took over a year to plan

The event, which was held at Kelly Writers House featured a potluck with Bernstein’s favorite dishes

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More than 300 first-generation, low-income students from universities across the country flooded campus this weekend to attend the first 1vyG conference on Penn’s campus.

This is the first time the conference has taken place at Penn, but KOS MANTE | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER the fourth year it’s been in existence. It featured panels and dis- 1vyG, which is the largest conference in the United States for firstcussions on topics ranging from generation, low-income students, saw over 300 attendees this year. career advice to mental health awareness for FGLI students. on Saturday. Although Gutmann the 1vyG Conference, wrote a Beginning with registration initially said she would not be 26-page application to bring the and opening ceremonies on Fri- speaking at the event, she an- conference to Penn alongside Colday, the conference lasted through nounced two days before that she lege junior and co-chair Candida mid-day Sunday, and this year’s would attend.

Alfaro. Moore has been directpanels and workshops focused For FGLI students at Penn who ing board members and planning on the future of students in atten- have been organizing the confer- for the weekend-long conference dance. ence, this weekend’s activities since June 2017.

Penn President Amy Gutmann, were the culmination of nearly a On Saturday, five first-gena FGLI student herself, and Penn year of work. eration 1991 Penn graduates Provost Wendell Pritchett opened In April 2017, Anea Moore, SEE 1VYG PAGE 8 the second day of the conference College junior and co-chair of

As the snow from the weekend melted away this Sunday afternoon, friends and family of College sophomore Blaze Bernstein gathered at the Kelly Writer’s House to share food and memories of the Penn student, who died early this year.

Bernstein, whose tragic death has stunned members of Penn’s campus in many ways, was an active member of the KWH community and closely involved in many publications, including Penn Review and Penn Appétit.

To honor Bernstein, who was known for his love of food and cooking, the KWH hosted a potluck featuring many of his favorite dishes. Boxes of La Croix, Bernstein’s favorite drink, were placed on a table next to a whisk.

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College sophomore Amy Marcus, one of the organizers of the memorial, baked snickerdoodles for the memorial.

Marcus said when she had a concussion last semester, Bernstein brought her snickerdoodles to cheer her up.

Stacks of black #BlazeItForward shirts were given to guests, along with copies of his poem, “Picking Marbles from Dirt,” which was published in the Penn Review while he was a high school student at the Orange County School of the Arts.

Bernstein’s pre-major academic advisor, Jamie-Lee Josselyn, was the point person coordinating the memorial, along with Bernstein’s parents, four students — three of whom spoke at the event — and

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some University officials, who helped with the logistics.

Guests were encouraged to write down their memories of Bernstein on a colorful note card, folding and dropping them in a jar labeled, “Memories of Blaze.”

A poster with a collage of photos of Bernstein stood behind the podium where his parents, Gideon Bernstein and Jeanne Pepper, along with friends and Penn faculty members shared their stories of Bernstein. The walls in KWH were lined with tissue boxes for anyone to use as the speakers shared their stories.

Following Josselyn’s introduction, Gideon Bernstein, Blaze’s father, was the first to speak. He shared memories of times in the kitchen with his son and moments that were characteristic of his son as he was growing up.

“He was a person who was SEE MEMORIAL PAGE 3

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the managing editor of the food magazine Penn Appétit and was involved in a range of other publications.

After weeks of communicating with Blaze’s closest friends on campus, his parents, along with their two other children, 14-year-old Beaue and 18-yearold Jay, finally got to sit down with Blaze’s friends this weekend. They also packed up the things he left behind in his apartment and attended his memorial on Sunday.

The Bernsteins arrived in Philadelphia on Thursday from their home in Orange County, Calif. They headed to Blaze’s apartment at 4111 Walnut St. where they started to pack up his things. Throughout the process, there were moments where Jeanne or Gideon hugged a child — or each other — as support.

Just after 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jeanne sat on Blaze’s black leather couch, which peered over the Philadelphia cityscape. Her 14-year-old daughter Beaue collapsed into her mother’s arms, weeping.

“We all have our moment of

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Blaze Bernstein’s parents, who came to campus for the first time since his death, brought two boards filled with photos of the Penn student. The two boards were later brought to Bernstein’s campus memorial.

utter despair,” Gideon said. “It’s kind of expected at this point in time.”

With a five-year age difference, Beaue’s relationship with Blaze was not unique: sometimes contentious, sometimes loving.

In recent months however, the two had grown closer, Beaue said.

“We got a lot closer after he left [for college] and when he came back,” she said. “We just

started to get along better because I finally got older.”

Beaue marveled at her brother’s style. At Blaze’s apartment, she meticulously picked out items from his wardrobe with plans to wear them when she got home.

Blaze always left a trace of himself wherever he lived, and his apartment on campus was no exception, his family said.

He had cases of La Croix

stacked in the fridge, along with cans of vegetables that sat next to a large jar filled with Kombucha tea that he had been fermenting himself for weeks. To the left of the fridge was his cabinet, which was stacked with spices and ingredients, likely for one of the many recipes scribbled down in his black spiral notebook.

In his bedroom, Blaze had his clothes rolled up perfectly in the drawers and a to-do list written

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN | THEDP.COM in the top left corner of a fulllength mirror. He had been in the process of putting up curtains in his new room; one latch was already fastened on the wall, while the other lay on the top shelf in his closet next to the folded offbeige curtains packaged neatly in plastic.

Most of what Blaze owned was intentional and meaningful, but he also held on to certain souvenirs, especially when he went travelling, his family said.

When the Bernsteins buried Blaze last month, they included two objects: a small craft turtle Blaze brought home with him from a family trip to Guatemala and a cooking spatula.

Food had a special place in Blaze’s heart. When he was home, Blaze would routinely cook the family five-course meals, Jeanne said. The night before he went missing, he cooked his family an elaborate butternut squash gnocchi from scratch.

As the Bernsteins went through Blaze’s items, Beaue and Jay shared stories about their brother.

“He was good at everything,” Beaue said. “He just won. He just always won even if he wasn’t trying to compete.”

She sat down and went through every funny Instagram photo Blaze had ever posted. His sense of humor is hard to capture in writing and just as difficult to explain it verbally, but Beaue tried.

She pointed to a collage Blaze had put up, featuring a picture of Penn’s campus, a photo of Blaze feigning signs of distress, some Quakers, and a screenshot of the “grades” section on Canvas, indicating there was a new unread notification. In the caption, Blaze cited “The Climb” by Miley Cyrus.

Beaue scrolled to another example. This time, a slideshow of a mock wedding ceremony between him and a La Croix can bride, draped in a carefully crafted white paper gown with an extremely detailed veil to match.

The bride, wed to Blaze in what looks from the photos like an official wedding ceremony, still exists in Blaze’s apartment.

Jeanne suggested they auction it off but Beaue objected; she declared that they’re going to seal it in a glass box when they get back home. Later, she added that when she grows up, she is going to dedicate an entire room to Blaze and his tchotchkes.

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Bernstein’s younger sister, Beaue, said her brother held a mock wedding with a can of La Croix, which was his favorite drink. She added that she wants to seal this “bride” in a glass box in memory of Bernstein.

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Bernstein always left a trace of himself wherever he lived, his family said. In his apartment at 4111 Walnut St., he had left large jars filled with Kombucha tea that he had been fermenting for weeks, reflective of his love for cooking and making his own food. ­­

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Faculty examine links between U. and slavery

Reparations or preferred action not yet off the table GIOVANNA PAZ Deputy News Editor

After student research surfaced in December exposing findings tying Penn’s early trustees to the slave trade, the University formed a faculty working group to address the new research and delve into the University’s ties to slavery.

University spokesperson Ron Ozio previously told The Philadelphia Tribune in 2017, “Penn has explored this issue several times over the past few decades and found no direct university involvement with slavery or the slave trade.”

The group, which was announced on Jan. 23 by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett, consists of Senior Vice President for Institutional Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer Joann Mitchell, History professor and Director of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Kathleen Brown, Africana Studies professor Heather Williams, and Law and Sociology professor Dorothy Roberts. Pritchett serves as its chair.

“After meeting with the students to hear of their work firsthand, we agreed that the University would form a small working group to explore the matter further so that we might improve our community’s understanding of the impact and implications of slavery on Penn’s past and what it means for the present

and the future,” the announcement read. “Our intention is to seek the truth and acknowledge it, and to offer recommendations for any next steps.”

In an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Pritchett, the group’s chair, wrote that its purpose is to better “our understanding of Penn’s connection to slavery and the implications of these findings.”

Roberts and Williams did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

“Over the semester,” the email read, “we will be continuing to work to understand Penn’s connection to slavery, and we will be soliciting advice from members of our community and others about how to disseminate, reflect upon, and act upon this greater understanding.”

The student research group, otherwise known as the Penn Slavery Project, began last semester under the supervision of Brown and has continued into the spring.

The undergraduates found that many of the University’s founding trustees had substantial ties to the slave trade. Of the 126 total trustees at the time, the group examined 28 trustees. Of those 28, the group found that 20 had held slaves between 1769 and 1800.

“We aim to continue the rigorous and dispassionate examination of the past begun by a remarkable group of Penn students,” Pritchett continued, “and our hope is that this work will advance our collective understanding of the place of

slavery in Penn’s history and lead to further reflections and campus-wide conversations about how that past shapes our present and our future.”

“I don’t have anything to add to the statement from Provost Pritchett who is leading the working group,” Mitchell wrote in an email.

Brown said the faculty group is currently looking into University resources that can be utilized moving forward, not just for this semester but for future years as well. She also said the group is thinking of how the research can be institutionally represented.

“Whether it will be a website or a class or outreach to the community, these are things that are on everybody’s minds,” Brown said.

Two weeks ago, according to Brown, the faculty group attended a presentation at the Graduate School of Education by History professor Craig Wilder at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wilder, who is researching the connection between Ivy League institutions and slavery, spoke with the group about “institutional fear about reparations” and how it can sometimes get in the way of a school’s research.

Brown said her main goal for the faculty and student groups is the completion of the research and the avoidance of preoccupation with the consequences of the possible findings.

“With the students I’ve worked with and the Provost’s committee, the idea really is to do what institu-

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College senior Matthew Palczynski and his classmates speak at a Dec. 11 presentation on preliminary findings of the University’s connections to slavery with the Penn Slavery Project.

tions of higher education should do really well, which is to try to get as much information as we can, to shed as much light on what we can know about the past.”

Brown noted that the group does not yet have a consistent schedule, but that its members are in constant communication. She added that she is in touch with Pritchett on a weekly basis.

Member of the group and 2017 College graduate Matthew Palczynski said he feels the University’s acknowledgement of its history with

slavery is a step in the right direction.

He noted that the students were not informed after their meeting with top administrators that the investigative group had been formed.

“I’ve only heard through the DP that this thing exists,” Palczynski said.

Brown said the research group, which is looking to expand as more students show interest, has ongoing meetings to figure out what else they want to unearth through their investigation.

She added that the group is interested in possibly examining the slave-owning trustees more closely, or even looking into 18th Century Southern students whose family wealth was heavily based in the slave trade.

“Based on what is known now,” Palczynski said, “I think it’s still premature to start offering scholarships or preferred action but I hope in the future once we start to get more names and we can track down the genealogies of the slaves, hopefully we’ll be able to do that.”

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Penn Law professor Amy Wax sparked extensive criticism last year after she co-wrote a contentious editorial promoting bourgeois cultural values. Now, she’s back in the spotlight with the publication of another oped – this time in the Wall Street Journal – alleging that Penn Law has asked her to step aside in the face of ongoing backlash.

In August 2017, Wax set campus abuzz with the publication of a controversial op-ed where she, and professor Larry Alexander of the University of San Diego School of Law, claimed that “not all cultures are created equal.”

She later said in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian that she thinks Anglo-Protestant cultural norms are superior.

“I don’t shrink from the word ‘superior,’” she said. “Everyone wants to come to the countries that exemplify” these values.

“Everyone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans.”

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from fellow legal professors, students, and alumni, Wax defended her position several times, including at a talk sponsored by the Federalist Society in October 2017 where she openly criticized her colleagues’ treatment of academic discourse.

In her latest editorial in the Journal, entitled “What Can’t Be Debated on Campus,” Wax railed against the ostensible lack of “civil discourse” on college campuses across the United States.

“The reaction to [her Aug. 9 op-ed] raised the question of how unorthodox opinions should be dealt with in academia — and in American society at large,” she wrote. “The proper response would be to engage in reasoned debate — to attempt to explain, using logic, evidence, facts and substantive arguments, why those opinions are wrong.”

She accused many of her detractors, including 33 of her Penn law colleagues who published a critical open letter in the DP, of using “unreasoned speech” in attacking her arguments.

“Offense and upset go with the territory; they are part and parcel of an open society. We should be teaching our young

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In a fiery new op-ed called “What Can’t Be Debated on Campus,” controversial Law professor Amy Wax rails against what she described as a lack of “civil discourse” on college campuses like Penn.

people to get used to these things, but instead we are teaching them the opposite,” Wax wrote. “Disliking, avoiding and shunning people who don’t share our politics is not good for our country. We live together, and we need to solve our problems

together.”

She also alleged that Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger asked her “to take a leave of absence next year and to cease teaching a mandatory first-year course.”

A Penn spokesperson said Wax is still a member of Penn

Law faculty.

“Prof. Wax is a valued member of our faculty. Nothing has

changed in her status, and she will be teaching in the fall,” Penn Law spokesperson Steven Barnes said in a statement.

Many students and legal groups have previously questioned Wax’s role as a professor of a required first-year course on Civil Procedure following the release of her August editorial.

“The reason that ‘nothing has changed’ in my status is that I refused the Dean’s request,” Wax wrote in an email to the DP. According to Penn InTouch, Wax is currently teaching two courses this semester: a legal lecture entitled “Remedies” and a seminar called “Conservative Political and Legal Thought.” “[Ruger] explained that he was getting ‘pressure’ to banish me for my unpopular views and hoped that my departure would quell the controversy,” Wax wrote. “When I suggested that it was his job as a leader to resist such illiberal demands, he explained that he is a ‘pluralistic dean’ who must listen to and accommodate ‘all sides.’”

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a Renaissance man,” the elder Bernstein said. “He really reached out to areas that many of us could only dream of reaching in his short time.”

Gideon Bernstein also talked about how to honor and carry on Blaze’s memory moving forward.

“This all has happened for a reason and there has to be a way to enhance and brighten our lives from the amazing legacy [Blaze] has left behind,” he said. “How many good deeds would have been forgotten, how many would be ‘Blazing it forward’ if it wasn’t for you?”

Just days after the news of Bernstein’s death, his parents set up a memorial fund for those looking to honor Blaze’s memory. As reports came in of the arrest of Bernstein’s alleged killer and his ties to a neo-Nazi hate group, the Bernsteins have continued to call on people “to embrace love, tolerance and

kindness, to do good.”

At the memorial, people in the room occasionally stopped to embrace each other for support, but many also shared smiles as they listened to the stories that characterized Bernstein’s witty sense of humor.

College senior Jacob Gardenswartz, who helped organize the memorial, shared a memory that was “quintessentially Blaze.”

Gardenswartz recalled that he had offered one day to pick up items from the liquor store for Bernstein, as Gardenswartz said his older friends used to do for him when he was younger.

Bernstein’s response was a “very lengthy and detailed list of everything he requested, which included several different kinds of fortified Asian rice wines I had never even heard of before,” Gardenswartz said, prompting a wave of laughter from the audience.

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very long time,” Gardenswartz added.

Several other attendees spoke, including University Chaplain Chaz Howard, and the Director of Student Intervention Services Sharon Smith.

A video that was shown at Bernstein’s funeral in California also played at the memorial Sunday. It featured home videos of Bernstein growing up and as a baby and photos throughout his life.

Jeanne Pepper, Bernstein’s

mother, concluded the memorial by challenging attendees to carry on her son’s legacy.

“Our goal is twofold now.

One is to ensure that they have a bright future,” Gideon Bernstein said, referring to his two other children, “and the other is to perpetuate the good name of our son who had an impact on people.”

“We know that he was going to change the world and now we have to change it for him,” he said.

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OPINION Honoring those we have lost means keeping their individuality alive CHANCES ARE | Reflecting on the unprecedented number of student deaths

MONDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2018 VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 12 134th Year of Publication DAVID AKST President REBECCA TAN Executive Editor CHRIS MURACCA Print Director JULIA SCHORR Digital Director HARRY TRUSTMAN Opinion Editor SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor JONATHAN POLLACK Senior Sports Editor LUCY FERRY Senior Design Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Design Editor CHRISTINE LAM Design Editor

In the first two months of 2018, two Penn students have died, adding to a total of seven who have died this academic year. William Steinberg and Blaze Bernstein were added to the list of Jonathan Lumpkin, Nicholas Moya, Justin Hamano, Brett Cooper, and Henry Rogers. No matter where we look, death has overtaken us. And though I did not know these students personally, I have wondered with each death, “How do we honor those we’ve lost?”

French professor Mélanie Péron emailed me about writing a column for her daughter’s friend, Kalina. Mélanie’s daughter and her two friends, Sasha and Kalina, all eighthgraders at Greenfield Elementary, had organized a drive for first-generation low-income students in Philadelphia.

Kalina died by suicide in

December before the project launched. Hereafter, the drive was named “Kalina’s Cabinet,” and it officially accepted toiletry and cash donations until Feb. 2, earning $3,556 as of Feb. 8.

The GoFundMe page is still accepting cash donations, and the drive will occur annually.

I am taking the time now to talk about this story and to deviate from my normal subjects for two reasons. First, I want to help someone who has always helped me, and second, I want to show by both example and explanation how we should remember those we lose, even those of us who hardly knew them.

When someone dies, a common consolation is to say that we should “live the way that person would have wanted us to live.” I am not here to say any differently. From all I’ve read

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this year about those who have left us, the old saying rings true.

I think of the story Mélanie told our class the first day of this semester, how Kalina, a girl who had always helped others,

centered around a theme Blaze had chosen, while incorporating several of his articles, recipes, and notes. The Kelly Writers House, with which Blaze was highly involved, posted one of

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To live the way someone would have wanted us to live … requires intimate knowledge of the person we lost and acknowledges that they were more than some casualty in the circle of life.” had ended the note she left her friends and family with “F**k Trump,” declaring her convictions to the very end.

I think of Jamie-Lee Josselyn’s commemoration of Blaze.

Josselyn wrote, “I can’t help but think about how Blaze’s name is a verb. And not just any verb, one that means ‘to burn fiercely or brightly.’ That was Blaze.

He was active, not passive. He was never complacent. He was funny and sassy.”

And those who knew Blaze have worked to keep his spirit alive. Penn Appétit, the food publication at which Blaze was the incoming managing editor, has decided to run its next issue

Blaze’s pieces from the Penn Review — Penn’s literary magazine — called “Picking Marbles from Dirt.” Both groups, by introducing the things that Blaze loved to people who didn’t know him, have given everyone a piece of Blaze.

Ultimately, when we live the way someone would have wanted us to live, it doesn’t necessarily mean being the best version of ourselves that we can be, or being good, or whatever other blanket assumption people throw out when they are too lazy to truly consider the concept. It means that we reflect on them as a person, remember what it was that made them in-

dividual, incorporate their spirit into our spirit, and ensure that at least their essence doesn’t die.

To live the way someone would have wanted us to live is a grand, beautiful task, because it requires intimate knowledge of the person we lost and acknowledges that they were more than some casualty in the circle of life.

Honoring someone looks different for each person, just as life looked different for each person. For some people, it’s more public, setting up donations in their names, contributing to the charities they loved.

And for others, it’s more private, smiling a little more at that lonely person in the corner, being more patient with someone who gets on your nerves.

And that difference encompasses all the true respect.

AMY CHAN is a College senior from Augusta, Ga., studying classics. Her email address is chanamy@sas.upenn.edu.

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Letter to the Editor by CAPS Director Bill Alexander I write on behalf of Counseling and Psychological Services in response to the story, “Increased staff and student demand leaves CAPS looking for more space.”

CAPS is deeply appreciative of the superb and sustained institutional support we enjoy from President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett. As the writer correctly notes, CAPS has benefited greatly from generous increases in funding for staff, space, and programming. We are especially grateful for the most recent commitment to add five additional clinical providers to our caring and committed team.

We also want to clarify that the

Vice Provost for University Life and I are delighted to be working very closely with students, staff, faculty, and school partners on how to deploy these important clinical and facility resources to innovatively meet, indeed exceed, student expectations. We are listening closely to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students as we consider all options.

We look forward to having more information to share in the coming months.

BILL ALEXANDER is the director of Counseling and Psychological Services.

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We all have a role to play in the Campaign for Wellness SHAH SPEAKS | There is no room for bystanders when it comes to change Upon returning from winter break, we were all greeted by a school-wide email informing us of the launch of the Campaign for Wellness program. Many of us were pleased that our concerns were being heard, while others among us doubted the effectiveness of such a program. But how can we judge its effectiveness without taking a look at what exactly it is?

While most of us might view this campaign as a single action in response to the fall Campus Conversation, I encourage everyone to think about this campaign as a larger conversation about how we can make this campus a healthier place.

According to Penn Provost

Wendell Pritchett, the “campaign is a platform for us to gather more ideas about improving campus.”

Pritchett said that the overarching goal is to have “a climate where everyone feels a sense of belonging and support” as well as “continually improving how we are doing and whether we are moving in the right direction.”

This goal consists of three main components: academics — including facilitating student-faculty interactions, co-curricular activities, and programming from the administrative end. “If we see progress in all three, then we have a climate where people like to be here,” he went on to say.

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So what exactly does this progress entail? First, it definitely requires participation from everyone at the table, including students, faculty, and administrators. Through the countless meetings and discussions, one of the biggest mistakes I have seen is assumption.

We should not view the process of changing campus culture as an interview where one individual asks questions and the other has answers. Students assume that the administrators know how to fix everything, and administrators many times ask students for concrete actions they can implement. However, it is important to remember that this process of change is unchartered territory for all of us, and thus requires a mutual effort.

So if we don’t have the solutions, what can we do? The most effective discussions that I have been a part of and enjoyed are ones where most of the time spent is not on the issues, but rather what we can do about them. If you have an idea, I encourage you to continue this greater conversation by writing your recommendation on the new wellness website. “We view [the website] as a dynamic platform for continuing the conversations,” Pritchett said.

Penn Wellness Advocacy Chair and College Junior Brian Chao said he “appreciates that the website aims to promote a message of wellness in the community,” and he is “excited to see any future develop-

ments.”

Behind the scenes, recommendations are read and many times lead to tangible change. Pritchett explained that the feedback from the Campus Conversation in the fall revealed that, “One, we should continue this conversation. Two,

College junior Julia Pan, the chair of Lambda Alliance, stated, “I would love to say that it’s every student’s responsibility because everyone individually contributes to Penn’s culture in our daily interactions. I think if students come from a place of genuine care, concern, JAY SHAH

We should not view the process of changing campus culture as an interview where one individual asks questions and the other has answers.” we should be more targeted in communicating with the community as to what is happening and what is working, as well as what needs work.” He said this feedback led to two things: a new website that centralizes resources at Penn and an expansion of CAPS. “We are doing a strategic review right now about what is needed,“ Pritchett stated.

I’m biased, but I will say that students are the most powerful forces on campus. Students often ask me what they can do as a singular person on campus, and I am always awed at the question. There is a lot that we can do.

curiosity, and flexibility, they can minutely change the culture.”

But it’s ironic how the same students advocating for more CAPS staff members are implementing harsh club recruiting practices. The same students sitting in on administrator meetings discussing hazing issues go home at night and haze other students. The same students who advocate for a healthier campus are the ones displaying characteristics of toxic masculinity. The same students who claim Penn is a competitive place perpetuate the culture by boasting of their lack of sleep, all-nighters, and packed course load.

Change doesn’t involve drastic actions. Rather, we really just need to focus on ourselves and take care of the people around us. Pritchett echoed this sentiment by stating, “We should be self-reflective, and we should be honest with each other. If you have a college that is not living their ideals, then it’s our responsibility to say it.”

Change is not impossible. It really isn’t. Many individuals are overwhelmed by the process of creating change. Well, you don’t have to. No one has to create change, neither students nor administrators. All we have to do is encourage healthier lifestyles, whether at home or in the classroom, and practice what we preach. Change will come. I promise.

JAY SHAH is a College junior from New Hyde Park, N.Y. in the Behavioral Basis of Behavior Program. He is the vice president of the Undergraduate Assembly. His email is shahjay@sas.upenn.edu.

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Not all Monologues are universal GUEST COLUMN BY MARISSA ALEXA MCCOOL Marissa Alexa McCool is a 2017 graduate of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies. McCool performed in this year’s Penn production of “The Vagina Monologues.”

My feelings on this show are a series of contradictions.

Not the production or the cast, mind you, but the material itself.

It’s a vicious cycle of wanting to be grateful for something that has helped the words of feminism and sexual violence awareness reach so many new eyes and ears, but also being aware that the narrative seems directed toward a specific audience, as well as coming from the perspective of one.

Then I feel guilty for not wanting to be the Ungrateful MillennialTM, but also acknowledging that, at the age of 32, the cast I’m working with grew up in a drastically different world than the one I did, and their experiences don’t relate to this narrative as much. Campus violence, the internet, and social media — three issues ubiquitous to the traditional student attending Penn right now, are glaringly absent from these stories.

I appreciate there being a trans

story. Even in 2018, our visibility is difficult, and to be visible is dangerous. Yet, the story itself is problematic, both for story reasons that I don’t have the time or space to get into, but also, as I consider my husband who is trans in his own right. He was born with a vagina, and the only mention his perspective gets at all is from the board being sure

mention it in passing as far as I can tell. Not to mention, even as wonderful and sincere as the cisgender performers of the piece are this year, it speaks a bit to the perception the show has that no trans performers are present for that piece. I was cast as a fill-in last year, and somehow in 17 years of the production, that was the first to include trans per-

backstage to whom I speak who are from marginalized communities, especially POC, struggle to find their voices and representation found within these words.

Given my aforementioned contradictory feelings of the trans narrative, I can somewhat relate.

I acknowledge how important this show was for women and feminism. Yet for all the good it does, wonder why the license and copyright are so stringent, to the point that I wrote my own Monologue speaking to my experience last year, and couldn’t perform it because of license difficulties that prevent performers working in their personal experiences to a show that’s supposed to speak of personal experience.

Performing my own piece this year comes with the acknowledgement that I am a spotlight performer coming in from the outside world as a Penn alum, and that’s a huge deal, considerIDIL DEMIRDAG | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ing it was out of the question last year. If the point of the show is to specify the phrase “women or formers. to speak for women, why make people born with vaginas.”

I appreciate the awareness and it so difficult for women to speak And while trans women are attention the show brings toward their own words? given that specific monologue, sexual violence. The #MeToo However, the place I harbor that’s the only time they’re era was possible in part because no contradictions is my love for represented in the entire show. of the unapologetic assertiveness the production of the show and None of the other stories even of this show. Yet, the women its cast.

Last year, being a part of the production, I heard not a single member of the cast question my gender or my being there. Before the show, in an intimate gathering where everyone was free to speak, I read the Monologue I wrote and felt nothing but welcomed, protected, and loved.

This year was more of the same.

I was blown away by the disclaimers these brave people put into the opening of the show, acknowledging these same tangled webs that I’ve mentioned and beyond. I imagine that, like me, it’s the community of the production, and the truly safe place within it, that draws so many back, despite the problematic nature of the show itself. The first interaction I had with a cast member in the locker room mentioned how cisnormative the show is. Some spoke of their trans friends who refuse to attend this show for that reason, and I can’t blame them.

The awareness and empathy I’ve observed and experienced from this production are second to none. That’s why driving the entire way from St. Paul was worth it to be here.

As I write this story from my hotel room after the Friday night

show, I can’t help but share what I told my husband once we were in the car. After he had dried my tears of gratitude from the countless cast members and people from the audience saying such wonderful things to me and giving me hugs (all of whom asked first, which was amazing in and of itself), I spoke of the age and generation difference between me at age 32 and the cast and production team, 1014 years my junior. I said that if these are the people who are going to run the world, we’re going to be okay. We’re going to make it.

It was this show, even with its well-documented problems, that made that experience possible.

I can also say that the community and the safety felt within it are what brought people like me back, and I know I don’t only speak for myself in that regard.

MARISSA ALEXA MCCOOL is a 2017 graduate of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies who majored in English and Cinema and Media Studies. She is currently living in St. Paul, Minn. Her email address is rismcwriting@gmail. com.

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Internship search for 2019 has begun for some Big banks have started info sessions, coffee chats UROOBA ABID Staff Reporter

While many students across the country are still making their plans for the coming summer, some students at Penn are thinking two steps ahead for jobs and internships in the summer of 2019.

In recent weeks, a handful of big-name companies like Bank of America Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan have begun promoting coffee chats, information sessions, and other networking events for the summer 2019 on Penn’s campus.

The phenomenon has to do with shifted timelines for recruitment at Penn, particularly in certain industries like investment banking.

In 2016, Penn shifted on-campus

recruiting for summer internships from the spring to the fall, as many employers began hiring earlier.

Along with earlier calendar recruiting, employers also began paying closer attention to younger students.

As of last year, various employers in consulting, marketing, banking, and technology held their recruitment efforts in the fall. Students have said that this accelerated timeline can introduce stress and disrupt other plans such as study abroad.

However, the “race” between employers may pull this process even earlier for students.

“It’s about wanting to go after what [employers] see as the best talent, as early as possible. It’s really a race they’re in with each other,” said Claire Klieger, the Senior Associate Director for College advisement at Career Services. “We are seeing employers specifically targeting

sophomores for opportunities, specifically in certain industries.”

The various networking events that have started on campus are meant to introduce students to analysts at various companies so that they can maintain relationships with potential employers as applications open up later on.

“I think especially for sophomores this was the first year where a lot of internships came out in August or even earlier,” said Wharton Sophomore Varun Vallabhaneni.

“People that were doing banking got jobs by the end of September or the start of October at the latest.”

The fast-forwarded recruitment timeline has led to increased pressure for participating students, some of who have yet to secure an internship or job for this coming summer.

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“I think it’s crazy how I haven’t gotten anything for this summer and I’m already recruiting for summer 2019. It just leads to a lot more stress.”

Wharton sophomore Linda Ashmead said that she also did not secure an internship yet for this summer, but had to start looking for summer 2019 internships.

“I think people are mostly just annoyed and frustrated that they have to do this so early,” Ashmead said. “The one nice thing about it is that the potential of having the opportunity to have an internship before school starts. For me I’m willing to be more stressed now if it means that I don’t have to be stressed in the fall.”

“Every year, the timeline for recruiting new interns is getting earlier and earlier,” said Wharton senior Julianne Goodman.

“Morgan Stanley is coming to campus in February for its main info session. It used to be way later – possibly even in the next fall semester,” Goodman said.

“There’s always pressure in Wharton to get an internship, whether it’s your sophomore or junior fall,” Vallabhaneni said. “I think people who follow traditional career paths, like consulting and banking, especially feel that pressure.”

Wanting to work in the tech industry, Engineering sophomore Ciara Brown said that she felt increased pressure coming into her sophomore year.

“Companies like Google and Facebook were visiting campus in September and October,” Brown said. “I also had applications due in that time period – it all felt very quick.”

“Students love to talk about who

their upperclassmen friends are that have worked at Goldman or Google.

Those constant reminders of these things that people are doing made me worried that I had to start as early as possible to ensure that I was doing something,” she added.

The increased emphasis on job search can take away from academics. Brown recalled feeling overwhelmed by classwork and internship applications.

“I was not prepared for all the time it would take away from my classes,” she said. “But I guess you can’t tell companies to come back in April.”

College sophomore Ella Bei said that she also felt stressed after seeing people around her begin to get internships. However, she said that although the internship scene at Penn was competitive, she urges people to relax because there are “a lot of opportunities out there.”

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ized union.

“Essentially, GET-UP is sacrificing their petition in order to preserve the right for graduate students to unionize,” Graduate and Professional Student Assembly President and third-year School of Design and School of Arts and Sciences professional master’s student Miles Owen said. “If there is no vote, then there is no appeal and no potential to reverse the Columbia decision. It’s a strategic move on their part.”

While GET-UP will be temporarily giving up its central mission in pushing for a union, it said that it still plans on continuing to advocate for graduate student workers.

“Withdrawing our petition helps protect grad workers’ rights across the country and our ability to organize for an election in the future. To that end, GET-UP, in partnership with the American Federation of Teachers, will continue to organize graduate students, to advocate for graduate worker rights at Penn, and to press for union recognition directly with

our administration,” the organization wrote.

Penn’s administration has long-opposed GET-UP’s campaign for a union, and had recently become more explicit in discouraging students to vote for it. Earlier this week, Penn deans and administrators, including Pritchett and Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein, wrote emails to students, urging them against voting for a union.

Moving forward, student leaders say they hope to see the University follow through on the commitments that Gutmann and Pritchett made in their announcement today.

“We are committed to redoubling our efforts to learn more about the evolving needs of our graduate and professional students and to develop new initiatives that shape the graduate education and student life of the future,” they wrote, adding that the Graduate Student Center plans to host a series of events to hear from graduate students on issues that matter to them, including “diversity, mentoring, and harassment.”

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the NLRB and that the NLRB will make a decision that overturns the precedent set in 2016.

Right now, the NLRB consists of two Republicans and two Democrats, but President Donald Trump has already appointed a third Republican nominee who, if approved, will tilt the board towards the GOP. “In response to these challenges, GET-UP took an important and powerful step to withdraw our election petition in order to ensure that Penn and the NLRB cannot use our campaign to set back grad workers at private universities around the country,” the group wrote in a statement.

Other student leaders explained that GET-UP’s decision is part of a wider trend.

“GET-UP’s withdrawal fits a pattern that has been happening across the country,” said Ian Heinrich, a pharmacology Ph.D. student, who is a member of No Penn Union, a group that opposes GET-UP becoming a central-

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Penn tutors rethink Black History Month curricula Tutees learn history of local Philadelphians KATIE STEELE Contributing Reporter

At an after-school program in West Philadelphia, a Penn student has created a space for students of African background to receive a comprehensive Black History Month education.

Aminata Sy, a College of Liberal and Professional Studies junior studying international relations, founded the African Community Learning Program in fall 2017 as a setting for West Philadelphia students of African background to receive free tutoring and mentorship.

Twelve elementary and middle school students — most of whom lived in African countries before moving to Philadelphia — spend time in Sy’s house working on

homework, playing games, and learning about Africa every day after school lets out.

This month, Sy has pushed the students to focus on black history.

After carefully compiling a list of 23 figures — most of them closely connected to Africa, like her students — Sy asked her students to pick a person to research and present on.

The list includes figures such as Trevor Noah and Nelson Mandela.

Many of the students, including Sy’s 6-year-old son Ibra, chose to research ACLP Secretary Hazim Hardeman, a recent Temple graduate and a 2018 Rhodes Scholar.

Hardeman, who attended Philadelphia public schools growing up, met Sy when they were attending the Community College of Philadelphia together and has been volunteering with the ACLP since its launch last year.

“I think there’s a sort of com-

mon approach to Black History Month — you include some of the more-known figures: the Dr. Kings of the world, the Rosa Parks, the Frederick Douglasses,” he said.

“But [ACLP students] study a lot of figures who were actually born in the same countries that [ACLP] students were born in — and these figures probably aren’t as mainstream as some of the figures that are included in the traditional Black History Month curriculums — so I think [the ACLP] is a corrective to that sort of narrow focus.”

Aminata Traore, a first-year Medical student, has also been volunteering with the ACLP students this month. Traore, who was born in Cote d’Ivoire, first came to the United States when she was 11, and sees some of herself in the students in the program.

“I remember how it was trying

to adjust to a new environment and a new culture,” she said. “I like having the opportunity to help kids manage some of the situations that I went through when I came to the United States.”

Hardeman said he feels strongly that teaching the ACLP students about African history will help them understand their identities in ways that their classroom educations might not.

“Black History Month in this country is just sort of cursory, something you speed through,” Hardeman said. “It’s looked at as outside of the American experience, or at least sort of tangential to the American experience, and that’s reflected in the ways it’s taught.”

Traore agreed.

“It’s not something that people who aren’t black pay attention to on a regular basis, so I do think it’s important for the kids to be

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Students have chosen Trevor Noah, Nelson Mandela, and various local Philadelphians to base their history research project on.

involved and learn more about their history and what it means to be black in America,” Traore said. “Because it’s not something

that’s necessarily going to be emphasized outside of spaces like the ACLP.”

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discussed the professional challenges they faced throughout their time at Penn at a session titled “Effective Strategies for Career Planning and Job Search” in Irvine Auditorium.

The presentation featured essential career tips, from writing cover letters to following up after an interview by writing thank-you letters. The panel ended with a discussion that opened up for questions from a packed room filled with dozens of FGLI students and alumni.

“I did work-study and summer jobs. It’s doable, but it’s not a free ride, no matter what people may say or think,” Lynn Cetin, a 1991 College graduate and panelist, said.

“This is something we really work and struggle for.”

Jenny Chan, a freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of five students who came to the conference from MIT. She said she hoped to see expanded resources for FGLI students at MIT in the near future, such as a resource center specifically for first-generation students.

In 2016, Penn became the second school in the Ivy League to open a dedicated resource center for FGLI students.

“I just wanted to meet more people who are first-gen. like me. I don’t think the culture or community is as big as it maybe could be [at MIT],” Chan said. “At these Ivy-League level colleges, it’s hard to find people that are open to talking about these issues.”

On Saturday, 1vyG also featured a mental health panel hosted

by Crystal Austin, a psychology doctoral intern at Counseling and Psychological Services, and Jeannine Barker, a CAPS psychologist.

Attendees shared their struggles as FGLI students at competitive universities, including the pressure to provide for their families and to follow pre-professional paths like law or medicine.

Keynote speaker and 2003 College graduate Eugena Oh talked about her experience as the President and CEO of the “I Had a Dream” Foundation, an organization that

empowers low-income communities and helps to guide residents to pursue higher education.

“I came here to learn about what other schools were doing for firstgeneration students because I want to be able to bring back those ideas to our university,” Henry Villarreal, a freshman at Harvard, said. He added that the First Generation Student Union at Harvard is planning to start a pre-orientation program for firstgeneration students this summer.

On Sunday, session topics included “First Gen Dreams: Reconciling Ambition, Social Mobility, and Home,” “Being A Minority Within the Minority”, and “Thinking of Grad School?”

One panel explored how FGLI students could give back to the communities around them. Philadelphia nonprofit leaders discussed topics including privilege in community service and whether FGLI students have a responsibility to be service leaders.

“There’s no achievement gap, there’s an opportunities gap,” Director of MAKUU Brian Peterson, a 1993 Engineering graduate, who received his master’s in education from Penn in 1997 as well as his Ph.D. from the University in 2013, said about being a FGLI student, gaining snaps of approval from the audience.

The closing ceremony featured a speech from Wil Del Pilar, vice president of higher education policy and practice at The Education Trust, an academic advocacy group. Del Pilar, a first-generation student, stressed the importance of finding mentors and supportive peers and discussed the challenge of FGLI students not feeling that they belong.

“You have just as much knowledge, you have just as much understanding, you have just as much of a right to be in that room as those other people,” he added.

Del Pilar concluded by urging first-generation students to serve as educational advocates.

“Conversations are happening at the institutional, at the state, and at the national level about college students,” he said. “You have to ensure that your voice is a voice that is included in those debates.”

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Two Quakers take home titles at Ivy Championship W. SWIM | Burns, Scannell finished first in their events SOPHIE RODNEY Contributing Reporter

Despite a fourth place finish out of eight at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championship meet this past Saturday, Penn women’s swimming is walking away, or swimming away, feeling like winners.

After four long days of competition, the Quakers finished with 921.5 points, behind Princeton with 1301.0, Yale with 1490.5 and eventual champion Harvard at 1616.0. However, it was the individual titles and record breaking in the Blodgett Pool at Harvard that showed Penn’s strength as a team.

Penn had two different athletes win titles at the Championship meet for the second time in program history, and the first since 2011. Freshman Quinn Scannell, with a time of 1:54.64 in the 200yard backstroke, broke a program, meet, and Blodgett Pool record.

Senior Virginia Burns took home the title in the 500 free, her fourth win in a row.

Burns also became the first swimmer in school history to win the same Ivy title four times in as many years.

“For Virginia, it was four in a row … It was a great thing to see her do it because it was a lot of nerves. There was a lot of pressure on her to win that fourth one,” coach Mike Schnur said. “And for Quinn, to win her first [title] coming out of certainly not going into

the season as someone you look at would be able to win, passed an awful lot of women.”

The Quakers (6-5, 3-4 Ivy) faced a lot of great competition with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton showing consistent strength. Penn had also already faced Harvard and Brown this season, losing to both at a trimeet. Harvard and Princeton combined have won 17 out of the last 18 Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships, so it is safe to say Penn’s fourth place finish was definitely still a success.

“We were a good united team.

We had a lot of spirit. The girls were really into it, especially the first couple of days when we were establishing our position in the meet,” Schnur said. “They were a really good cohesive team and I enjoyed watching that.”

Penn’s swimmers secured their fourth-place position on day three, widening the gap between them and Brown. Harvard sophomore Miki Dahlke, who barely lost to Burns in the 200-yard freestyle in 2017, came back for revenge this year and finished before Burns in this year’s event.

In the final day of the meet, the highlight for Penn was definitely Scannell’s win in the 200-yard backstroke, a race that included Scannell upsetting each of the two most recent league champions in the event.

Penn is not stopping now. Fresh off a satisfactory result, the team hopes to use the post season to train and swim even better the next season.

“You want to put yourself in a position to compete even better

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Senior Virginia Burns accomplished something no other Penn swimmer has ever done: an Ivy title in the same event for four straight years.

next year. To improve as a swimmer, you have to approach your offseason like everything you’re doing now is going to make you better next year,” Schnur said.

“Whether it’s hard work in the pool or the weight room or running or preparing yourself for the summer season, we’re trying to get better for next year.”

Men’s hoops’ Silpe fights his way back into the rotation with hard work Junior guard has logged valuable minutes in Ivy play JACOB ADLER Associate Sports Editor

The score is 35-35 with 14:03 remaining in the second half. Penn men’s basketball, which had started the season 6-0 in Ivy League play, finds itself struggling to break away from 0-6 Dartmouth.

Jake Silpe checks in, along with freshman Jarrod Simmons and guard Antonio Woods. Silpe, a junior guard from Cherry Hill, N.J., made his presence felt immediately.

A Silpe trey put the Red and Blue ahead 38-35. Two minutes later, a second splash from downtown gave the Quakers a 41-40 advantage. A minute after that, he struck again, putting Penn up 46-40 with 10:16 left.

He checked out with 7:58 left, and played most of the last five minutes. Penn emerged with a 64-61 victory to improve to 7-0 in the conference.

“If you pick one guy who won the game for us last Friday, it’s Jake,” coach Steve Donahue said. “We were really struggling on offense and he guarded their best player on three consecutive possessions.”

Prior to Penn’s game against Temple on Jan. 20, Silpe had only appeared in seven games this season, and 25 of his 33

minutes came in blowout victories against Penn State Brandywine and Delaware State. As a sophomore, he played in 15 games off the bench, seeing over 10 minutes in only four of those games.

His recent time on the bench is a stark contrast to his freshman year. Silpe maintained his commitment to Penn after coach Jerome Allen’s firing, but guard Tony Hicks, who led the Red and Blue in scoring the previous two years, left the team before the season and vacated a spot in the starting lineup for Silpe.

As a rookie, Silpe started 19 games, appearing in 28, and played 22.4 minutes per game under then first-year coach Donahue. He averaged 5.0 points, 3.2 assists, 2.6 rebounds, and 1.0 steal per game.

Silpe did not start in three of the final four Ivy games of the 2015-16 season, and by the start of the ensuing year, he was no longer a regular in the team’s rotation.

“Stuff changes all the time in every program, so it’s sort of expected. I got a lot of good experience freshman year, but my game wasn’t where it should have been,” Silpe said.

Donahue said after that season he and the coaching staff gave Silpe a few things to work on, and were impressed by his perseverance. He argues no player has worked harder in

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After not gettting many minutes last season, junior guard Jake Silpe has become an important bench player for Penn in the past few weeks.

practice than Silpe.

“A lot of kids would have been discouraged, in particular when it’s taken away from you, because he played a lot as a freshman,” Donahue said.

While he did not see immediate returns on his efforts during his sophomore year, Silpe was determined to earn back a spot

in the rotation.

“I never lost sight of getting better and figuring out how to get on the court,” Silpe said.

“The little things mean a lot and you have to value communication, energy, hard work, bringing 100 percent every day because that’s something you control. You can’t control play-

ing time.”

Fast forward to Jan. 20 against Temple this year. Penn had two Big 5 matchups left before a run of Ivy League games to close out the regular season, and Donahue hand-picked these games to tinker with lineups.

One objective was to strike some sort of balance between offense and defense — the Quakers rank among the best in the nation in a variety of defensive metrics but lag behind on offense — and another was to solidify the team’s depth for the back-to-back game scenarios that arise in Ivy doubleheaders.

“I do think the weekends are different than any other situation in college basketball,” Donahue said. “There’s a couple things. One, I do think we need additional guys at this point in the season. Guys are getting worn down, back-to-back, but it has to be someone who’s playing well.”

Senior guard Caleb Wood, senior Sam Jones, and Silpe were a few of the Quakers to see looks against Temple and Saint Joseph’s. Donahue said Silpe earned the playing time based on strong performances in games and in practices.

“I try to preach all the time, I play the guys that play well and practice and deserve time to make us better,” Donahue said. “It’s not a perfect science, but if the kid comes to practice and wants to know what he can

do better, and he works at it and doesn’t hang his head, then he deserves an opportunity and that’s what Jake did for all this time.”

Silpe saw 15, 13, and 12 minutes in the next three games, which included wins over Saint Joseph’s and Brown. The Brown game was his first meaningful playing time in conference play since his freshman season.

He has continued to factor into the rotation, including logging 19 minutes this past weekend against Columbia.

When asked how Silpe is a different player from two years ago, both Silpe and Donahue agreed he is a more mature basketball player.

“He plays poised and lets the game come to him, although he has that aggressiveness that we need,” Donahue said. “He’s a really good player and that’s what he learned, that he doesn’t get caught up in the mistakes as much, and plays with a pace and calmness about him.”

“I think I carved a role for myself, and it all stemmed from overcoming adversity,” Silpe said. “Basketball was a roller coaster last year and the end of freshman year, but just sticking to it, never losing sight, know there’s going to be a light at the end of the tunnel and you have to pursue it and embrace.”

As Penn closes out the regular season, expect to see more of Silpe.

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McGeary’s second half push earns him DP Sports Player of the Week

Red and Blue fall to Stanford in consolation finals in Howe Cup

M. LAX | Senior tallied five points on the day

W. SQUASH | Quakers dropped opener to Princeton

BREVIN FLEISCHER Associate Sports Editor

So far, so good for Penn men’s lacrosse and senior captain Kevin McGeary.

The team’s first game of the year was an unbridled success.

After starting the contest down 3-0, the Red and Blue regrouped at both ends of the field, scoring 12 of the next 18 goals en route to 12-9 victory over a solid Michigan team.

The Wolverines controlled possession early, scoring three goals before the Quakers had even advanced the ball onto their own side of the field. But once they finally did, the Penn offense, led by McGeary, caught fire.

The star attackman scored four goals and added an assist, leading the team in points for the game.

But even more impressive than the sheer volume of production was McGeary’s timing. Whenever Penn needed him most, McGeary delivered.

Down 3-2, it appeared as if Penn would have to score each possession to keep up with Michigan’s impressive performance at the Faceoff X, so McGeary’s dish to junior midfielder Joe Licciardi on the crease was especially important. Licciardi caught the ball and flung it over his shoulder and into the net with just one hand to knot the score at three.

From that point on, McGeary took over the game. His first goal tied the contest at seven and sparked a run that would see Penn take its first lead.

After that lead had been es-

tablished, Michigan tried desperately to battle its way back into the game, only to be met by McGeary. Twice the Wolverines drew within one and twice McGeary answered with goals of his own.

Finally, at the start of the fourth quarter, McGeary tallied his fourth goal, which increased the lead to 11-8 and effectively placed the game out of Michigan’s reach.

Such a clutch performance has become typical of McGeary in his Penn career. Last season, he was the team’s second-leading point producer, whose powerful shot kept a young Penn team in many games. If this first game is any indication, McGeary has only improved upon his game, and if that’s true, he should have many more DP Sports Player of the Week awards in his future.

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F12or the first time in three years, the Howe Cup finals will not feature the Red and Blue.

Penn women’s squash dropped their first match at the Howe Cup to Princeton on Friday, putting them in the consolation bracket where they defeated Columbia before ultimately losing to Stanford.

The loss on Friday meant the Quakers (8-8, 3-4 Ivy) would not be able to avenge back-to-back losses to Harvard in the Howe Cup finals.

The match against the Tigers (15-2, 6-1) was nearly identical to the match during the regular season.

The Red and Blue took the first three spots on the ladder, with Reeham Sedky, Melissa Alves, and Marie Stephan dominating their matches.

But just as it went in the first match, the Quakers dropped the next six spots to lose the match 6-3.

The loss landed the Red and Blue in the consolation bracket to finish up the weekend.

Although it was not where they wanted to end up, the Quakers did not lay down. And it might be because they had unfinished business with their next opponent.

Columbia (10-7, 5-4) came into the Ringe Squash Courts last week and spoiled senior day for the Red and Blue with a tight 5-4 victory, but this time around, the Quakers wouldn’t be denied.

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Senior Marie Stephan was one of three Quakers to win all three of her matches this weekend at the Howe Cup.

In addition to wins by their top three, the Red and Blue received strong performances for their final three points against the Lions.

Haley Scott avenged her prior loss to Columbia’s Jui Kalgutkar in the No. 4 spot in a gutsy performance, coming back from two sets down to win 3-2. Freshman Julia Buchholz bounced back from a loss in the first set by winning the next three for a 3-1 victory, while classmate Cameron Munn battled for her own five set victory at No. 7.

The win put the Quakers in

the consolation final against Stanford (15-4).

Although the top four spots of Sedky, Alves, Stephan, and Scott managed victories, none of the players in the final five positions were able to push their matches past the third set.

The result left the Quakers in a sixth place finish at nationals, their worst finish in the last three seasons.

This was the final action for the Red and Blue as a team, but some of the players will be competing in individual post-season play before finally completing their season.

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M. HOOPS | Quakers clinch spot in Ivy Tournament with wins over Columbia, Cornell

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he Quakers are a second half team.

Penn men’s basketball saved its best for the last 20 minutes in each of its two road games this weekend. The day after they outscored Columbia 43-28 in the second half, ultimately winning 74-62, the Quakers put together a similar performance in the second half against Cornell. What was a tied game at halftime ended up being a 7971 victory that clinched a spot in the Ivy League Tournament for the Quakers.

After trailing by three at the half versus Columbia (7-16, 4-6), the Red and Blue (19-7, 9-1 Ivy) started to catch fire late in the game, ripping off an 18-0 run to put the game out of reach. The next night at Cornell (10-13, 4-6), Penn got out to a double-digit lead with 10:27 remaining in the second half, steadily holding on to defeat the Big Red. Sophomore forward AJ Brodeur was an impact player in both games, filling up the stat sheet on Friday and Saturday. The big man from Northborough, Mass. totaled 14 points, five rebounds, and four assists against Columbia. On the defensive end, he added three blocks and two steals. Brodeur, who went a combined 15 for 20 from

the field in the two games, was even more dominant offensively at Cornell, finishing with 21 points in a very efficient showing.

Meanwhile, sophomore guard Ryan Betley found his stride on Saturday after an unusually quiet performance versus Columbia in which he scored just two points. Betley’s bounce-back game included six three-pointers and a total of 23 points.

“Last night, I thought [Betley] played okay, but [Columbia] didn’t let him get anything,” coach Steve Donahue said. “But tonight, [Cornell] kind of zoned him, he got loose and he really took advantage of it.”

The Quakers, similar to when Cornell came into the Palestra earlier in the year, did a good job of limiting the scoring output of star guard Matt Morgan. The junior, who leads the Ivy League with 22.7 points per game, was held to just 12 points on 2 for 12 shooting.

The Big Red saw contributions from multiple sources, including a solid shooting night from guards Jack Gordon (12 points), Terrance McBride (14), and forward Stone Gettings (11).

While the Red and Blue jumped out to a lead in the second half on Saturday, they

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let it get a little closer down the stretch, with Cornell cutting the lead to five with 2:47 left in the contest. However, the Big Red couldn’t come up with enough stops down the stretch as they saw Penn pull away in the last couple of minutes.

Perhaps the most impressive part about this weekend for the Quakers was the array of solid performances from different players. Sophomore guard Devon Goodman, who had very little Ivy playing time this season prior to this weekend, was a spark plug coming off of the bench, while guards Jake Silpe and Matt MacDonald saw extended minutes in the two games in New York.

“I love this team, I love coaching them,” Donahue said. “Going into the game, we’re not sure how we’re gonna win, although it’s usually by defending, and we take care of the ball and we rebound. After that, it’s up to somebody stepping up, and that’s usually what happens.”

With this pair of wins, the Quakers set themselves up for an opportunity to regain sole possession of first in the Ancient Eight, as they will take on Dartmouth and Harvard next weekend at the Palestra.

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That’s how you respond to adversity.

Just a few days after perhaps its worst performance of the season, Penn women’s basketball responded with two convincing victories. The Quakers used a burst of second half scoring to top Columbia on Friday, 75-39, then a strong defensive effort to take down Cornell 53-39 the next day.

In Friday’s matchup, the Red and Blue (17-6, 8-2 Ivy) started off rusty, missing looks they normally make. It didn’t help that two of Penn’s best ball handlers, senior guard Anna Ross and junior guard Ashley Russell, got into early foul trouble and sat more than usual. All told, the Quakers took a four-point lead into the second half, and that’s when they exploded.

Penn shut down Columbia (717, 1-8) in the final 20 minutes, holding the Lions to a paltry 16.7 percent shooting and 15 points.

Meanwhile, the Quakers’ offense let loose, putting up 47 points, their most in a half this season.

“We changed our pressure in the full court a little bit [in the second half],” coach Mike McLaughlin said after the game. “We also wanted to spread [Columbia] out.

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Senior forward Michelle Nwokedi was nearly unstoppable against Cornell, leading the team with 20 points and 13 rebounds.

I think sometimes we get a little stagnant ... we opened up the baseline, and I think you saw a couple drives to the baseline, so I thought we did a good job of that.”

One of the keys to Penn’s victory was limiting senior Camille Zimmerman, the Ivy League’s leading scorer. Although she totaled 12 points, Zimmerman shot just 18.6 percent from the field.

On Saturday, the Quakers were just the better team on the floor.

The Big Red (6-17, 2-8), owners of the lowest scoring offense in the Ancient Eight, struggled to beat the Quakers’ zone and find adequate space to take and make open looks.

Instead of the usual 2-3 zone, McLaughlin felt that his team matched up better in a 3-2 zone.

The team switched back and forth throughout the game, but played most of the second half in the 3-2.

“It kinda just gives us a different look, but we’ve had success with it, so we stayed with it a lot longer than I would ever anticipate. We match up better with them on the perimeter in a 3-2,” McLaughlin said.

Much like in the Columbia game, Penn’s defense did an excellent job neutralizing Cornell’s best scorer, Samantha Widmann.

The sophomore guard, who is

fourth in the Ivy League with 15.3 points per game, was held to just 10 points, including only two in the first half. Widmann only had seven shots, as the Quakers guarded her tightly and dared other players to beat them.

“I just think it was a group effort tonight, on her, but I thought collectively the defense won the weekend for us,” McLaughlin said.

On the other end, the Big Red had no answer for the dynamic duo of senior forward Michelle Nwokedi and freshman center Eleah Parker. The pair combined for 30 points and 22 rebounds, and Nwokedi recorded her fifth double-double of the season.

Nwokedi was especially effective down low, where Cornell’s only way of stopping her was by fouling. As a result, the senior forward had 12 free throw attempts, her most in a game this season.

“I think Michelle, as I told her, she carried us, she willed us in this one. She was terrific in terms of her leadership out there... I thought she was the difference,” McLaughlin said.

Penn’s response this weekend was big. And with just two weeks left in the regular season, it was an encouraging sign of things to come.

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If this is what Penn women’s lacrosse looks like when it’s angry, watch out.

Facing live competition for the first time since being stunned in last year’s NCAA Tournament, the Quakers looked ready for redemption against Delaware. Led by seven combined goals from senior Alex Condon and sophomore Gabby Rosenzweig, the Red and Blue overcame a sloppy start to finish on a 7-1 run, turning a close game into a comfortable 12-5 win.

“I think we played really well today. I know we have a lot of young players, but they performed great today,” said Condon, who led both teams with four goals. “Everyone played with confidence, we played great team defense and we executed on offense in the second half, so I think we played really well.”

Some initial sloppiness, whether due to rust or over-excitement, prevented No. 14 Penn (1-0) from breaking the game open early. Though the team’s offensive balance was on display, with four different Quakers finding the back of the net in the opening 30 minutes, the Red and Blue still found themselves plagued by 12 first-half turnovers.

“That first half, it was like we were shot out of a cannon, and we were like going in overdrive and just making mistakes,” coach Karin Corbett said. “We wanted to play fast, but we did not want to play rushed. There was a long stint of no goals, and that was just our own mistakes.”

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Senior midfielder Alex Condon picked up right where she left off last season, scoring four goals in the Quakers’ season opening win.

But as the offense struggled to get going early on, it was the program’s biggest question mark entering the season that kept the Red and Blue in front the whole way.

With 2017 graduate Britt Brown no longer manning the goal, lacrosse pundits everywhere questioned whether the Quakers would be able to replicate her defensive impact. But time and time again, starter Maggie Smith wowed the Franklin Field crowd in the first half with several point-blank saves, allowing Penn to head into the break with a 5-2 lead.

Both Smith and sophomore Mikaila Cheeseman played a half in goal. And though Smith’s final stat line of six saves to two goals allowed was more impressive, both earned praise from players and coaches surrounding their ongoing competition.

“Obviously Britt left the bar high, but Mikaila and I have been working hard all fall, trying as hard as possible in as many reps as possible and definitely looking to follow in her footsteps,” Smith said. [Mikaila] is an incredible goalie, and we definitely feed off each other and we get better every single day.”

With almost all of Penn’s highpowered offense returning this season, it seemed like a matter of time before the Quakers would break

through on that side of the ball. That time finally arrived early in the second half after Delaware had cut the lead to 5-4, when crisper ball movement led to quality shot after quality shot and turned the game into a blowout.

Freshman midfielder Abby Bosco scored the season’s first goal on an assist from fellow rookie Zoe Belodeau, and Belodeau and freshman Laura Crawford each pitched in with goals of their own later on. More impressively, Belodeau also displayed passing vision and smarts beyond that of a typical freshman, leading both teams with three assists.

“Those are three freshmen who are making a big impact, no question.

Zoe is kind of in charge of our attack as a freshman, calling the plays, and that’s not easy,” Corbett said. “The three of them are playing beyond a freshman level right now, and I’m really excited about that.”

This talented group of freshmen may prove to be the future of the program, but the focus is all about the present as Penn seeks its 11th conference title in 12 years. And if this crop of eventual stars can continue to mesh with the Quakers’ plethora of returning ones, Penn’s vengeance tour might have many more stops to go.

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