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Taco Bell employee fired for using a racial slur

The employee used the racial slur to describe a Penn student on his receipt NAOMI ELEGANT Staff Reporter

The Taco Bell employee who used a racial slur to describe a Penn student was terminated from his job, according to branch manager Dontae Freeman and confirmed via email by a media representative from Taco Bell.

“We do not tolerate this behavior. This employee no longer works for the brand, and the franchisee is retraining its staff to ensure this incident will not happen again. Management has reached out and apologized directly to the customer,” Taco Bell Public Relations wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

In Young Lee, a first-year Ph.D. student, visited the Taco Bell at 1037 Chestnut St. at approximately 1:30 a.m. Saturday, after a night out with his friends. He noticed that one of the cashiers had used a racial slur to describe him on his food receipt.

Lee detailed the incident in a Facebook post.

He wrote that he told the cashier his name was Steve for convenience. He wrote he was surprised and “infuriated” upon noticing that the cashier had also written “Chink,” a derogatory term used to describe “a person of Chinese birth or descent.” Freeman, who does not work weekends, said he did not witness the incident. He said that the employee had been terminated, but could not provide any more details about when the firing occurred.

Lee said that he “didn’t think it was necessary” for the employee to be fired and was worried that the termination might make the employee “more resentful, rather than acknowledging he’s done

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She discussed the decision to rescind Wynn’s and Cosby’s honorary degrees REBECCA TAN Executive Editor

Penn President Amy Gutmann has said that the University’s decision to rescind the honorary degrees granted to Steve Wynn and Bill Cosby was “very logical” given the circumstances.

Speaking for the first time on the issue since Penn made its announcement on Wynn and Cosby two weeks ago, Gutmann said revoking the two honorary degrees came as a natural follow-up to the decision to remove Wynn’s name from “Wynn Commons,” the public area outside Houston Hall.

Wynn, a former Penn trustee and a 1963 College graduate, was accused by multiple people of sexual misconduct in January, sparking a strong response from the Penn community that eventually led to the Board of Trustees stripping a former member of his honors.

“The group [of University leaders] unanimously recommended that we take Mr. Wynn’s name off of Wynn Commons. And once we did that, it was important also to rescind his honorary degree. And once we did that, we thought it was also important to rescind Bill Cosby’s honorary degree based on similarly serious and credible allegations,” Gutmann said in a 30-minute interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian. “It’s very logical.”

Cosby, who has now been accused of sexual misconduct by over 50 women, received a Doctorate of Laws from Penn in 1990.

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As February wears on, the influenza virus has officially returned in full force to Pennsylvania.

The state is experiencing its worst flu season in several years, experts say.

As the flu enters week nine of a 16-week cycle, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health has tracked 47,752 reported cases in Pennsylvania compared to 26,675 cases this time last year.

There have also already been 91 flu-related deaths this season — a significant rise from 38 at this point in the 2017 season. However, Penn doctors say campus is faring pretty well in comparison to years past.

Despite the fact that the Pennsylvania Department of Health has tracked the high increase in influenza cases this year, Executive Director of Penn Student Health Service Giang Nguyen said SHS was seeing “a fairly similar volume of cases as in busy seasons in the past.”

Experts say the reason for this overall rise across the state may be ineffective flu vaccines.

Many flu patients had already been vaccinated, but the vaccine seems to be ineffective against the particularly aggressive strain, H3N2, currently

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f a single ball is heard bouncing in the Palestra, chances are that senior guard Darnell Foreman is getting his early workout in. In fact, he’s probably already been there for an hour or two.

“We automatically know it’s him,” said junior guard Antonio Woods.

“I want to be the first person working on my game,” Foreman explained. “Not just against my teammates, but anybody in the country.”

As a freshman in 2014, Foreman was already an early riser, but veteran guard Tony Hicks pushed him to go the extra mile.

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“I would always come to the gym at 8 o’clock and he’d be there at 7. So I was like ‘alright I’m going to come to the gym at 7:30’ and he’d already be in there,” Foreman recalled. “He got that from Zack Rosen and Zack Rosen got that from the previous guys.

It just carried along.”

Despite sharing their drive, Foreman has an opportunity to separate himself from the likes of Hicks and Rosen. Unlike his predecessors, he can complete the quest to bring an Ivy League title back to Philadelphia.

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Students raised concerns about sexual assault reporting procedures and single-gender campus organizations to Penn’s top leaders on Wednesday.

Just a day before the biannual University Council Open Forum, The Daily Pennsylvanian discussed these same issues with Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett, who indicated at the time that they had not heard substantive critiques of the University’s sexual assault reporting procedures and had no plans to ban single-gender clubs on campus.

A Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Education and a member of Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania, Chloe Kannan, said graduate students are worried that Penn’s current system for reporting sexual assault places their academic careers at risk. Earlier this year, four graduate students anonymously described incidents of sexual assault in a public survey.

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Grad students promote Black Lives Matter movement They sold BLM t-shirts and distributed flyers NAOMI ELEGANT Staff Reporter

Students at Penn’s Graduate School of Education participated in the Black Lives Matter Week of Action this month as part of a city-wide effort among Philadelphia teachers and students. Their goal was to raise awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement through classroom education and community dialogue.

Last year, Philadelphia teachers held a Week of Action to educate students on the Black Lives Matter movement and the issues that BLM is concerned with. This year’s Week of Action has extended from Philadelphia to New York, Los Angeles, and other major cities.

Two BLM Week of Action events were held at Penn. On Feb. 3, the Penn LGBT Center hosted a conversation with LGBT youth about race, gender and sexuality — the week’s first official event.

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agreed with Kannan, adding that Penn needs to do more to make sure that students who have been victims of sexual assault do not have to interact with their assailants while on campus.

Kearney also said the office has been dishonest to students about the laws governing the discussion of ongoing cases.

“The reason you only hear vague statements about the failure of the process is because Penn lies to victims about their free speech rights,” Kearney

for discussion,” Monique Perry, who graduated from Penn GSE in December, said. “The feedback was that people really enjoyed that conversation.”

There was also a Feb. 6 screening at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts of “Precious Knowledge,” a 2011 documentary about high school students and teachers in Arizona campaigning against the Arizona Department of Education’s successful attempt to ban an ethnic studies program at a school. This past December, the ban was blocked and ruled “unconstitutional and racially motivated.”

Besides encouraging Penn students to participate in the week of action, GSE student organizers tabled in their student lounge all week to sell BLM t-shirts, distribute flyers and journal articles, and encourage students to write down suggestions for Penn.

Perry said that she and the other student organizers received support from the GSE administration and met with GSE Dean Pam Grossman to discuss the Week of Action.

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of GSE Student Affairs Office Ann Tiao wrote in an emailed statement that the school is “impressed” with the Black Lives Matter Week of Action.

“They have deployed their skills as educators to connect and prepare curriculum,” Tiao wrote. “We are proud at Penn GSE of the passionate and committed response of our students on social justice issues.”

The GSE students also asked Penn faculty to sign a statement of support for the week of action and encouraged professors to incorporate BLM principles into their coursework for that week.

Perry, who is an organizer for the Philadelphia chapter of Black Lives Matter and a member of the Caucus of Working Educators, said that she and the other Penn organizers chose to focus on GSE because of the impact that many of its graduates will have on future public school students.

“We’re training teachers – people who are going out in the field, who are going to be talking amongst K-12 students,” Perry said. “It’s important to discuss the things that

they’re saying.”

Perry added that these classroom discussions are also important because they enable students to talk about issues like injustice and inequality, which may be affecting them personally. “[It’s] a platform for students and educators to talk about things that are happening in their lives – so they’re not pretending these things aren’t happening, and then they come to class and they’re separate,” Perry said. “These things that are happening, including injustices and inequality, those are things we can utilize in our conversations.”

The week’s events were sponsored by the Caucus of Working Educators, an activist group within Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, which is the union that represents educators and other workers in Philadelphia public schools. Though the Caucus of Working Educators is part of the PFT, the week of action was not sponsored by the PFT, but independently organized by caucus members.

Still, third-year GSE student Katie Pak, who helped promote BLM

The GSE students asked Penn faculty to sign a statement of support for the week of action and incorporate BLM principles into their coursework.

Week of Action at Penn, said that the GSE student organizers “did not go far enough”, and wants to see bigger changes such as an “institutional commitment” to discussing the issues of “oppression and structural racism.” “[We are] encouraging everybody at GSE to actually be reflective and action-oriented and strongly in favor of doing something for social transformation,” Pak said. “We want it to be an integral part of Penn GSE and

Penn’s life and culture of academia.”

Perry said she hopes that events like the BLM Week of Action will lead to activist efforts that go beyond “one week in February”.

“The goal is to make sure that this conversation moves past today – that if we say that we care about social justice, we take tangible steps towards that,” Perry said. “I think that’s one large goal – to make sure this conversation doesn’t just stop here.”

said. “Penn has never expelled a student for rape. Never.”

While the two students raised strong critiques of the current reporting system, Pritchett had indicated just a day before that he had not heard any significant negative feedback about the policies in place.

“I think our procedures [around reporting sexual assault and harassment] are, as Gutmann said, pretty good. We haven’t had feedback that they are deeply problematic, so I don’t have an answer to your question about what else we’re going to do other than we’re investigating and we’re continu-

ing to improve our practices,” Pritchett said.

The Provost also said during the interview that while the University was working to make existing procedures around sexual assault and harassment clearer and more accessible, the administration was not aware of significant criticism that suggested otherwise.

“One of the things we’re thinking of is, ‘Is it easy for everyone to report situations that they are concerned about?’

Again, I haven’t gotten feedback that it isn’t easy but we’re going to continue to ask that question,” he said.

Towards the end of the forum, Zubaida Salman, representative of the United Minorities Council and College sophomore, voiced her support for the improvement of Penn’s sexual violence investigation

policies.

In response, University Secretary Leslie Kruhly said, “I think the point of the forum is to bring issues forward to be addressed by [The] Steering [Committee], which encompasses all our constituents and probably not to talk about the specific cases. But your comments are heard.”

At the forum, which was held in Houston Hall’s Bodek Lounge, seven pre-selected individuals were given three minutes to address the council. The council functions as a representative body consisting of students, faculty, staff, and executive administrators.

While all the council members have the opportunity to provide an immediate response to each speaker, most opt not to do so.

College senior Ilan Gold opened the forum advocating for the dissolution of the Penn’s single-gender organizations on campus. Gold cited the events taking place at Harvard University, which has decided to mete out a range of punishments for students who continue to participate in single-gender groups.

“Affording a subset of our population a primary real estate

and an undue social influence simply due to their ability to drink, spend money, and pledge sends the wrong message,” Gold said.

He called on the University to address the issue and questioned why it has yet to act on the matter.

“Consider that our own experience includes multiple deaths, racist holiday emails, and very misogynistic emails to name a few, are we in a place to disagree with Harvard’s position?” Gold asked.

In the interview Tuesday, Pritchett had said that Penn is a different institution from Harvard and therefore cannot be examined in the same way.

“Harvard and Penn are just sort of different in this. I don’t think there’s much for us to learn in Harvard’s experience,” Pritchett said to the DP. “We’re focused on Penn in the kinds of things that we’re talking about.”

At the open forum, no council member responded to Gold’s comments.

College senior Esther Jou argued that the discussion of the University’s mental health policies should not rely solely on

data collection. She added that Penn should focus on providing professional mental health training to residential advisors and graduate associates on top of reevaluating Student Intervention Services.

“With the statistic of 14 suicides in the past four years, we need more than data collection and vague assessments. We need focus,” Jou said. “And to invoke Professor Angela Duckworth’s research, we need grit.”

Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, administrative member of the council and vice provost for university life, responded to Jou, noting that the University already provides mental health training to RAs and GAs. The final non-council member on the agenda was Fossil Free Penn’s Outreach Coordinator and College sophomore Jacob Hershman.

As Hershman was speaking, about a dozen FFP members stood holding up signs such as “Climate change causes over 150,000 deaths per year” in silent protest. FFP members have taken similar action at the last two Open Forums to condemn the University’s continued investment in fossil fuels.

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FIVE PIONEERS IN BLACK HISTORY AT PENN In light of the annual, month-long observance of Black History Month, The Daily Pennsylvanian dug into the University’s archives to present a brief history of black students, faculty, and staff at Penn. All information and photos gathered here is from the University Archives and Records Center.

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After a year at Penn’s Graduate School of Medicine, Helen Octavia Dickens successfully became the first black woman board-certified OB-GYN in Philadelphia. In 1956, Dickens joined as a member of the staff and faculty in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the School of Medicine. She was the first black woman in this position.

William Fontaine earned master’s and doctorate degrees in philosophy at Penn in 1932 and 1936, respectively. After two years as a visiting lecturer at Penn, he was promoted to assistant professor — the first fully-affiliated black faculty member. Fontaine later became the first black faculty member to receive tenure at Penn.

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Ida Bowser (1869-1955) enrolled at Penn in 1887 to pursue her passion for music.

Upon her graduation in 1890, she recieved a Certificate of Proficiency in Music and, in doing so, became the first black woman to graduate from Penn.

Taylor’s collegiate success on Penn’s track team led him to the 1908 Olympic games, where he won a gold medal as a member of America’s 1600-meter relay team. With this victory, Taylor became the first black person to win an Olympic gold medal.

After becoming the first black graduate of what is now the Graduate School of Fine Arts in 1902, Abele worked for a firm run by architect Horace Trumbauer. Abele designed notable Philadelphia buildings including the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Chair for Communications Octavia Sun, a second-year master’s student in environmental studies, described the employee’s use of the slur as “unacceptable.”

“I’m happy to hear that [Taco Bell] is setting the example for other companies who should not be tolerating this word,” Sun said.

Asian Pacific Student Coalition Chair Soomin Shin, a College and Wharton junior, said the employee’s termination was “a step,” but added that “there has to be some bigger step.”

Shin referenced the appparent behavior of the other employees and manager described in Lee’s original Facebook post.

She said the manager “failed to deal with the situation very respectfully and cordially” and cautioned that there should be a “larger dialogue” among companies like Taco Bell about educating employees on using racial slurs.

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circulating the state and country.

Another reason for the sharp rise in cases nationally may be that another strain, H1N1, has presented itself in some parts of the country.

Director of Campus Health Initiatives at SHS Ashlee Halbritter said the virus may not have hit Penn’s campus quite as hard as the rest of the city because of the annual flu clinic held in Houston Hall, which saw its largest turnout in eight or nine years this year.

This year, 6,400 people got vaccinations at the clinic, surpassing last year’s count of 5,420 people.

Although the current strain circulating the city is more resistant to vaccines, which Halbritter agreed are not 100 percent effective, the overall increase in campus immunity helped to decrease the epidemic’s impact on Penn.

“What we saw last year and still have been seeing this year is that if you do have the flu vaccine and still feel like you’re having flu-like symptoms, they’re much less severe than for those who did not get the flu vaccine,” Halbritter said.

Halbritter and Nguyen both emphasized the importance of getting rest as an immediate course of action after contracting any illness.

“Make sure you listen to your body and back off on any extra things you may do,” Nguyen said. “If you’re feeling sick, it’s your body telling you that you need to slow down.”

Things are rarely that simple on Penn’s campus, though, as students said they often feel pushed to go to class and engage in extracurricular activities when sick.

“I felt almost forced to go to school,” Wharton freshman Nathalie Falcão said. “I don’t want to be penalized for missing class.”

Nguyen said students who do not suffer from a chronic illness and are not pregnant shouldn’t contact SHS for at least a few days and should instead focus on self-care, a tip that sick students say they take primarily due to SHS’s inconvenience.

“I didn’t go to SHS because if I move too much when I’m sick I feel like I’m going to throw up,” Falcão said. “If you’re seriously sick you’re not up to walk that far, especially not now in the cold, just to get the one absence.”

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The student visited Taco Bell after a night out and noticed that one of the cashiers used a racial slur to describe him on his food receipt.

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Lee said he was happy to hear that Taco Bell is retraining the branch’s other employees.

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OPINION From cornfields to Connecticut: missing my hometown ALIFIMOFF’S ALLEY | What happens when your parents move while you’re in college

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The problem was this: My mother was cooking Thanksgiving dinner and she needed sour cream. The obvious solution was that I should be a helpful daughter and offer to pick some up from the grocery store. Under normal circumstances, I would have agreed without hesitation. But this was our first Thanksgiving in the new house in the new state in a strange part of the country, and I had no idea where the grocery store was.

Thankfully though, we live in a world with Google Maps and turnby-turn navigation, so I climbed into the trusty Subaru that had ferried me to and from high school every day and haltingly made my way to a store called “PriceChopper.” There, I wandered up and down the foreign

aisles in search of the dairy section.

When I found the sour cream, I was oddly emotional, moved by the strange melancholy of grocery stores on Thanksgiving and an overwhelming wave of homesickness.

I wanted my grocery store. The one with the amazing chocolate chip cookies, where the sour cream was logically placed between the cheese and the yogurt and not inexplicably with the dip mix.

But alas, this was the strange new world of Mansfield, Conn. and it was nothing like the one I knew in Fort Wayne, Ind. When your parents move while you’re in college, it creates a strange tear in your identity. I am from Fort Wayne, although I will likely never return there. All of the minutiae of

home exists there: my favorite coffee shop, with its terrible mochas that I sucked down in succession while working on my junior year research project; the IHOP where my friends and I crowded into booths after the opening night of every high school play; the grocery store closest to my house, where the checkout ladies always called me “sweetheart.”

The irony is not lost on me. In high school, I wanted more than anything to move away from Indiana and never return. Now that I’ve gotten my wish, I miss it with a longing ache.

Over fall break I tried to explain this to my mother — this feeling that I will never be home again, not until I settle somewhere on my own,

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as I banged angrily through the kitchen, in search of a coffee mug.

I opened one cabinet after another, revealing plates and then pasta, but never the coveted mug.

“I just don’t have a home anymore, you know?”

My mother looked hurt.

“I’ll always be your home.”

I understood what she meant, metaphorically, but it’s hard to call someplace home when you don’t know how the shower works.

I know that I am enormously lucky and privileged. Growing up, I was always jealous of my friends whose families were close at hand, who went to school with their cousins, and were babysat by their grandparents. My family was always a plane ride away, dotted along the East Coast and only seen during Christmas and family vacations.

At Penn, I am closer to my family than I have ever been in my life.

I have family in Philadelphia who have graciously opened their doors to me. They have cooked me dinner and dutifully attended my performing arts shows. They’ve made me feel unbelievably loved and welcomed in a city that is not my own.

But the transitory nature of college makes it hard to adopt Philadelphia as my home. No matter how much we try to assimilate or explore, as students we’ll always be guests here. It’s not just a matter of geography either. Yes, summers and breaks often take us far from the

REBECCA ALIFIMOFF city. Yes, most of us will leave after graduation and never come back.

But it’s almost a matter of ourselves as well.

In high school, I felt solid, cobbled together by the things that I thought I knew about the world and about myself. But in college, the ground is constantly shifting.

I’m growing up, shaping my future, shedding versions of myself like mad.

I don’t just miss Indiana. I miss the person I was when I lived there.

Not entirely. I’m older, and wiser in certain hard-fought ways. But I miss the confidence of feeling like I knew everything, the way the world felt small and malleable when I lived in the island-town surrounded by a sea of corn.

REBECCA ALIFIMOFF is a College sophomore from Fort Wayne, Ind. studying history.

Her email address is ralif@sas. upenn.edu.

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Last week, a Penn Ph.D student was referred to as a c**** on his receipt at a local Taco Bell. Since then, the story has been shared across a multitude of media, from The Washington Post, The New York Post, local news stations, Asian-American sites, and even Reddit. It’s amazing that a lot of people have rallied in support against the usage of the anti-Asian slur, but some comments have also responded with tones of racism in the form of anti-blackness, as well as classism. If we want a meaningful dialogue on how these incidents can be prevented from happening again, we need to realize that structural racism goes beyond one-time events, and find productive ways to advocate for Asian Americans without putting others down.

Anti-Asian and xenophobic sentiment is nothing new, and the slur that the Penn Ph.D student received is not an isolated incident; last October, a Korean-American man in NYC had his name spelled out as “ching” on his Starbucks order. Discrimination also takes place beyond transactional settings, and intrudes other aspects of life. According to a White House Report in 2016, more than one-quarter of Asian-American and PacificIslander students aged 12-18 reported being bullied or harassed at

school. In addition, in the months after Donald Trump’s election, the Southern Poverty Law Center recorded that 25 percent of bias incidents were motivated by antiimmigrant sentiment — not a coincidence.

What the Taco Bell employee said was horrible and wrong. However, belittling him for being a minimum-wage food service employee perpetuates the classist stereotype

complex, corruption in the judicial system, and erasure in academia.

To understand anti-blackness within the Asian-American community today, we have to look at the history of pitting Asian PacificIslanders against African Americans, which goes back at least to the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. Southern plantation owners imported around 4,000 Chinese laborers as replacement and com-

When people respond to antiAsian sentiment with anti-blackness, we distance ourselves further from combating white supremacy.” that food service employees are lazy, uneducated, and somehow don’t have the intelligence to understand racial slurs. Additionally, we can also be critical of the Taco Bell employee without being anti-black.

Comments about “well if [the student] were black, then this would have never happened” conveniently ignores the racism that black Americans face today through police brutality, the prison-industrial

petition to former slaves who had escaped, according to University of Washington History professor Moon-Ho Jung. Chinese workers were considered to be more apolitical and productive than black workers, resulting in ethnic tensions.

Additionally, the concept of the model minority, first coined in 1966 by sociologist William Peterson in The New York Times magazine, places on Asian Americans as

a group that each individual will be smart, wealthy, hard-working, selfreliant, docile, submissive, living the “American Dream”, according to The Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas. After World War II, the model minority concept became a way to allow Asian Americans into white-approved success and propel the image of a post-racial America, which in turn, pits marginalized groups against each other.

Although the model minority trope is sometimes seen as a “good” stereotype for Asian Pacific-Islanders, the trope is harmful because it invalidates Asian Pacific-Islanders’ experiences who do not fit that trope. Moreover, the idea of a model minority sets Asian Americans as the standard other racial groups should follow. If you comply with the rules and continue to work hard, you will be guaranteed success (yet Asian Americans still face barriers in holding CEO and top leadership positions). Furthermore, the expectation of being “docile” and “passive” in the face of injustice can discourage Asian Americans from speaking up.

Hence, when people respond to anti-Asian sentiment with antiblackness, we distance ourselves further from combating white supremacy. Although the employee was fired, that does not mean

that the issue of racism has been “solved.” It means that we have initiated a dialogue on racism that is a good start toward taking action on social injustices.

We need to now focus on including cultural sensitivity into the daily curriculum because racism isn’t the fault of one person, but rather a power structure — a societal problem. This is not the time for us to be pitting our groups against each other. There has never been a more important time than now to work together because white supremacy can’t be dismantled by one person for one group. Last year, when a Korean beauty store owner in North Carolina strangled a black woman, were the same people standing up for the black woman as much as they are calling out the Taco Bell employee? As much as we need to speak out about anti-Asian sentiment, we must speak out about anti-blackness as well. That way, we can truly combat racism on all levels.

SOOMIN SHIN is a junior in the College and the is Chair of the Asian Pacific Student Coalition OCTAVIA SUN is a second-year Master of Environmental Studies student in the School of Arts and Sciences and is the Public Relations Chair for the Pan-Asian American Graduate Student Association

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Penn students stand against gun violence GUEST COLUMN BY SARAH HINSTORFF, JANA KORN, & ELISE REYNOLDS There is a mass shooting nine out of every 10 days in the United States.

We see the breaking news icons flash across our screens. Our hearts drop. We get mad, we read some op-eds, and then, we go back to our lives. Then it happens again. We repeat the process. We’ve almost become numb to the anger, to the fear, to the panic.

On Feb. 14, 17 students, teachers, and staff members were killed at a high school in Parkland, Fla. It was a story we’ve heard before: A gunman enters a public place with a semi-automatic weapon; people are killed. 20 first-graders in Sandy Hook. 8 parishioners at a black church in Charleston. 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando. 58 concertgoers in Las Vegas.

The victims of gun violence extend beyond this initial number.

We must remember that these acts of gun violence ripple out, touching and traumatizing survivors, witnesses, and loved ones. The 22,000 other people at the concert in Vegas. The other 3,000 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Injured or not, each of these survivors feels the sharp pains of loss.

Despite this widespread trauma and the demands that follow, our nation has yet to make real progress in enacting common-sense gun reform.

Earlier this week, we, the organizers of the Penn Students Stand Against Gun Violence action, decided that we must take a stand. We were inspired by the Parkland students who are using their community’s grief to amplify their voices and demand answers. We want to support those who have been directly affected by gun violence and join them in pushing for reform.

Real, tangible progress takes time. Time takes patience, some-

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Wharton freshman Arushi Kewalramani and College freshman Amelia Galbraith promoted the upcoming demonstration outside of Houston Hall.

thing we’re short on right now.

Ultimately, we recognize the importance of responding not only to Parkland but to the history of violence and reluctance to change that allow massacres like this to occur.

We must remember that Parkland is only the most recent event in a long narrative of trauma and vio-

Thursday, Feb. 22. We will make our presence known on campus by lining Locust Walk, standing sideby-side, each holding a handwritten sign with the locations, dates, and number of victims of each of the 371 mass shootings since January 2017. We will then hold a moment of silence for 497 seconds to honor

Despite this widespread trauma and the demands that follow, our nation has yet to make real progress in enacting common sense gun reform.” lence. We must also acknowledge that marginalized communities are disproportionately impacted by gun violence of all forms, including mass shootings, domestic abuse, and police brutality.

To join our demonstration, please meet us by the LOVE statue (36th and Locust streets) at 12 p.m. this

those who have been killed in mass shootings during this period.

We hope that our demonstration will inspire a greater conversation on campus about gun reform. We recognize that visibility and conversation alone won’t change the status quo. If you are looking for some other ways to get involved in

the fight for new, safer gun legislation, we have some suggestions.

Come find us at the event to register to vote. Our gun legislation won’t change unless we elect new leaders who support common sense gun reform. We need representatives who enforce universal background checks, close gun show loopholes, and require gun ownership licenses.

Call your Senators, Pat Toomey (215-241-1090) and Bob Casey (215-405-9660) — demand answers and action.

Rally with us at the March For Our Lives next month. This event, organized by the Parkland survivors and students, will be a nationwide effort to make our voices heard. Support their work by contributing your voice to the movement in Philadelphia.

Support local organizations that are doing work to support common sense gun reform: Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action, or CeaseFire PA. We ask you to join us in taking a stand against gun violence. Nothing will change unless we take action to disrupt the status quo. Together, we can amplify our voices.

We can make sure our legislators understand that we demand change.

We can show the world that we are not backing down on this critical issue of eliminating gun violence in our communities.

So we hope that you participate – we need you to participate – but we want your participation to be just the beginning. Change is possible, but only if we do not forget.

SARAH HINSTORFF is a College senior from Palo Alto, Calif. studying international relations. JANA KORN is a College senior from Washington, D.C. studying urban studies. ELISE REYNOLDS is a College junior from Ithaca, N.Y., studying urban studies.

Disagreeing on politics is one thing.

Demonizing your opponent is another.

DREIM JOURNAL | Abortion, Amy Wax, and understanding our opposition “Abortion is good.” “Abortion is bad.” “Hate speech is not free speech.” “Freedom of speech is an imperative.” “We need guns for self-defense.” “Reasonable societies ban guns.” None of these statements are true. Not really, anyway.

It seems to me that, at both the national and individual level, the prevailing political outlook for many people is not “my position is … ” but rather, “the objective moral truth is … ” This is hurting our discourse and ability to work together.

As a philosophy and political science major with a focus in political thought, I’ve spent more than my fair share of time considering vague concepts like goodness, morality, and justice.

While many disciplines always teach you to learn, one of the deepest benefits of my education has been teaching myself to unlearn. Unlearning that our natural outlook is the objectively best one. This unlearning is something I think we could use more of in our discourse.

Last year there was a contentious “debate” on abortion between abortion-rights and anti-abortion groups on campus in the form of a chalk fight on Locust. Every day, one group would scribble out or deface the other’s messages, and the pat-

tern would continue.

In a 34th Street feature on the incident, 2017 Wharton graduate Andrea Pascual said, “This was just completely trying to invalidate a stance different from your own.”

More recently, some of the responses I saw (and continue to see) to Penn Law professor Amy Wax’s Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed demonstrate the idea that we think people with fundamentally different views are attacking us.

then calculate what is “good,” “just,” etc. like we would solve a math problem. But then, how can we grapple with the idea that people disagree?

In the case of the chalking at Penn, we could just cross out the ideas of anyone we disagree with. They’re wrong.

They’re bad people and they know it. We need to block them out, right? We could write ambiguous condemnations of Amy Wax without actually worrying about why or how we disagree

At both the national and individual level, the prevailing political outlook for many people is not ‘my position is … ‘ but rather, “the objective moral truth is … ” This is hurting our discourse and ability to work together.”

Maintaining an unwavering conviction that there is an objective truth to which philosophical political outlook one “ought” to have implies that we can just take that position and

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with her. We could write “why is she still employed here??” in a Facebook article comment section. She is bad. She doesn’t belong here, right?

Instead of furiously giving up and cursing the air as to why and how so much of society could be so, so misled from the proper outlook, take a breath and realize none of us holds the truth in our hands. “Caring about people” might look very different to you than it does to someone else, but these differences are the result of the same human spirit. A lot of our fundamental opinions aren’t generated because we haven’t read the right statistic yet or haven’t attended the rally that changes it all for us. These differences stem from different philosophical outlooks about what constitutes these vague things like “good” and “fair” and “just,”

DYLAN REIM and those outlooks can’t be explained away with a passiveaggressive tag on an article we liked.

According to a series of University of Virginia studies, liberals and conservatives actually rely on different sets of moral foundations. On a psychological level, people across the aisle assign moral value differently — with no clear cause. No one is avoiding goodness — we’re just sorting through different ideas of what goodness is.

I wish I could say that morality is like science. I’d love to suggest we run tests and wait for the people in white lab coats to tell us how things are supposed to work. But no matter how desperately we want it to be true, no matter how many tears we shed when Trump was elected, no matter how closely we cling to our originalist Constitutional interpretation, that isn’t the case.

Sure, it will be frustrating to disagree so fundamentally that any compromise will be a heavy concession on both sides. But, we should never declare the very essence of those we disagree with as wrong, and should never be so vain as to believe we have the ultimate truth in the bag. I think going forward with that in mind will make us better in our moments of both conflict and cooperation.

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

His email address is dreim@sas. upenn.edu.

In memory of the victims of the Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting.

VERONICA FENTON is a College freshman from Penn Valley, Pa. Her email address is fentonv@sas. upenn.edu.

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Wharton graduates establish a new fintech startup It provides an alternative product to student loans JULIA KLAYMAN Contributing Reporter

2017 Wharton graduate Zach Pelka and 2016 Wharton graduate Connor Swofford are making a splash in the education finance space with their new startup, Paytronage.

The fintech startup, launched on Feb. 15, provides an alternative product to student loans by creating a marketplace in which students interested in taking out Income Share Agreements are connected with lenders. Pelka described Paytronage as “Shark Tank for students’ future income.”

These lenders provide upfront capital in exchange for a set percentage of the student’s future income over a fixed number of years. The goal is to provide students with flexibility and affordable payments post graduation in order to alleviate traditional debt burdens.

As CEO of Paytronage, Pelka focuses on fundraising, finance,

accounting, and financial structure. Co-founder Swofford is the company’s COO. Pelka first had the idea for a student loan alternative during an internship in growth equity venture capital his sophomore year. While learning about investment in major tech companies such as Facebook and Spotify, he said he began to wonder, “Why is there not an investment vehicle to invest in the entrepreneur rather than the company?

Rather than investing in Paypal or Tesla, wouldn’t one rather have equity on Elon Musk himself?” Paytronage would give traditional capital sources the chance to invest in a student.

When Pelka decided to begin building Paytronage last summer, he called Swofford, whom he met in a Management 100 class at Penn. They also partnered during a strategies and operations class in which they had to create a business plan and present to a venture capital firm to raise money.

Penn students have been borrowing less since Penn implemented an “all-grant” policy

in 2009. This provides students with a financial aid plan that includes grants and a work-study job, but no loans. Many students still take out loans because their family’s income is too high to qualify for aid, but not high enough to fully cover tuition.

According to Student Registration and Financial Services, 32 percent of Penn’s class of 2015 took on student loans to support their education. This group ended up with an average debt of $18,900 in federal and non-federal student loans.

Pelka and Swofford coldemailed companies such as Commonbond, a successful startup company that came out of Penn and has originated over $1.5 billion in student loans.

Commonbond co-founder Michael Taormina, who received a Wharton MBA in 2015, has since become one of the Paytronage advisors.

Paytronage draws help not only from professionals and alumni, but also from Penn students. The startup currently has 18 undergraduate and graduate interns, with collectively over 50

students on campus, including students from a previous Management 100 class, working on its behalf.

Wharton and Engineering junior Mia Mansour, a member of the MGMT 100 team, said the main focus of the project is looking at force of customers.

“To do that, we’re going to conduct and analyze primary and secondary research to see what are some patterns in customer preferences,” Mansour said. “We’re going to see what are the needs of different customer segments and then we’re going to try to gauge a level of awareness.”

Market surveys of the Penn community conducted this past semester showed that over 65 percent of students prefer an ISA to a student loan when comparing the two side by side. “This is a vehicle people want. There’s just a lack of knowledge and awareness of the product,” Pelka said.

To promote awareness of Paytronage, a Thursday launch panel event at Penn featured alumni speakers as well as speakers

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The startup creates a marketplace in which students interested in taking out Income Share Agreements are connected with lenders.

from the student debt industry, including Taormina.

The event included Paytronage’s website reveal. “One of the really interesting elements of our website is you can plug in public data and see what your predicted income is going to be,” Pelka said. They will focus upcoming months on fine-tuning the algorithm.

College freshman Adam Vukosa, who attended Thursday’s launch panel, said he was “shocked” that he had never heard about ISAs. “I actually thought the only way you could pay for college, if you could not afford it with what was given to you, was through a loan,” Vukosa said. “I didn’t know there was an alternative.”

Vukosa said he found Paytron-

age’s student-loan alternative “very efficient” and would definitely consider using Paytronage.

Other students have more reservations about the student-loan alternative. College freshman Cullan Gilroy said that although Paytronage sounds like an interesting idea, he could not see himself using it.

“If I’m taking small loans from the government and then have to pay interest once I graduate, that just makes more sense than giving a portion of my future salary when I don’t even know what my future salary would be,” Gilroy said.

Gilroy added that he does, however, see why Paytronage may be an appealing option for students taking out larger loans.

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Grad schools’ CAPS staff members prove useful The use of CAPS by grad students has now increased AMY LIU Staff Reporter

Counseling and Psychological Services announced the hiring of four new CAPS staff members approximately a year ago. Since then, the four CAPS employees, each directly serving one of four graduate schools, have been integrated into the schools and are working toward some noticeable progress.

The newest full-time employees are assigned to serve four of the graduate schools — the Law School, the Perelman School of Medicine, the School of Veterinary Medicine, and the School of Dental Medicine — for six-to-10 hours a week.

Each therapist works out of a private office in a building associated with one of the four schools and they generally work from 3 to 7 p.m., so as not to conflict with the graduate students’ daily schedules.

“It is the best time for all of these schools, where students may be working 8-5,” CAPS Director of Outreach and Prevention Services Meeta Kumar said. “Many of them don’t live on campus and for them to come back later can be restrictive.”

According to Graduate and Professional School Assembly President Miles Owen, a thirdyear Design and School of Arts and Sciences professional master’s student, the use of CAPS’ services by graduate students has increased from 12 percent in the 2016-2017 academic year to more than 17 percent for the current year. He added that the utilization in the Dental School alone has nearly doubled over the course of the last year.

While graduate students

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from any of the University’s 12 schools are able to use general CAPS resources as well as the four special staffers, CAPS is still in the process of expanding resources for all graduate students. Owen cited issues with space as one of the issues facing expansion of resources.

“Confidentiality is a big issue. It’s one of the obstacles of CAPS expanding to other schools because there just aren’t facilities for CAPS to see students with privacy,” Owen said. “It makes it difficult sometimes for CAPS to do outreach in all the different graduate schools.”

These numbers, however, include any registered contact, not necessarily continued treatment. Although the staff can perform on-site therapy, they are not meant to be long-term solutions and usually refer graduate students to CAPS or outside providers, according to Kumar.

“It’s an enhancement of the larger CAPS team,” Kumar said. “They are primarily meant to increase access to CAPS. We try to move students to network providers as soon as they can. For professional students sometimes, it’s more appropriate that they see a private practitioner in the community.”

The first employee was installed in the School of Veterinary Medicine in 2015, and the skyrocket in student use led CAPS to introduce staff to the Dental School the next year, and then Law and Medicine this past year.

CAPS’ increased accessibility was especially necessary due to the decentralized nature of graduate schools, Owen said.

“They’ve been doing a good job with increased presence and ability to reach and screen for people who may need their services,” fourth-year dental

student Matthew Breglio said.

Kumar said one of CAPS’ goals while hiring the new staff was to reflect the diversity of the student body in their faculty.

“I think the more minority intersectional identities we can have, we expand our reach and make it more welcoming for students to seek services here,” she said. “We are able to expand our cultural competence and be able to serve unique needs.”

Students find job pressures, time management, workload, financial security, and feelings of isolation to be the primary sources of stress of graduate school.

A faculty member of Penn’s Critical Writing Program Julia McWilliams, who received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and urban housing from Penn in 2017 and started at the Graduate School of Education in 2011, said that although she found that graduate school to be “extremely isolating” and that she “definitely dealt with some anxiety” during her time as a student, “the conversation was largely about undergraduate student health.”

Ignoring mental health issues can at times take a toll on students’ performance, Breglio said.

“It’s even more taboo to talk [mental health] in the professional area because it’s assumed that we’ve already achieved so much, we’re in this program, we know what we want to do, we’re older, we should know how to handle stressors,” Breglio added. “Sometimes I think it can be stigmatized even more with us.”

“The people who have an academic struggle, more often than not, struggle because they have a personal issue running with them,” he added.

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How Penn’s application fee compares to other Ivies Penn earned $1.8 million from application fees YONI GUTENMACHER Staff Reporter

The millions of college applications that students fill out every year translate to a hefty source of revenue for colleges and universities.

An application fee is a required part of a student’s application for many undergraduate schools, but the price varies across institutions.

For Penn’s undergraduate application process, applicants must pay $75, which is in the lower 50 percent among application fees for Ivy League universities.

Taking application fee waivers into consideration, Penn made approximately $1,817,730 from application fees during this past 2017 admissions cycle.

Columbia University’s fee — $85 per student — is the highest in the Ivy League, while Princ-

eton’s $65 rate is the lowest.

Despite the little variance in students’ individual application payments among the Ivy League schools, the total revenue earned by these institutions from application fees varies by millions of dollars.

According to Penn Dean of Admissions Eric Furda, the $75 price tag is not the result of a precise calculation. Rather, it is based on a consideration of the range of the application free prices among Penn’s peer institutions.

“We looked at what our Ivy cohort looks like, our Ivy plus group,” Furda said. “We make sure we are not on the high end of it — we are comfortably in the middle of the pack.”

Despite allegations that the fees are arbitrary costs simply meant to generate revenue, universities substantiate the need for the large revenue by pointing to large admissions staff and expensive technologies that are needed to process the increasing number

of college applicants.

Furda said that the revenue earned by application fees funds a portion of the total cost of the Office of Admissions’ operations.

“Those dollars help pay for our outreach, our recruitment, our fly-in programs,” Furda said. “So, it does help defray the actual cost of our operations.”

Nonetheless, most colleges including Penn offer the option of an application fee waiver for applicants who are unable to pay for them.

The Common Application, the website which functions as the baseline application for over 700 colleges around the world, offers a simple application fee waiver for students who qualify for at least one of over eight indicators of financial need.

According to Furda, between 35 and 40 percent of applicants to Penn receive application fee waivers every year.

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“A first gen student here communicated this — that if you just add it up: to take your tests a couple of times, to apply to X number of schools, financial aid applications, the CSS Profile. You add all that up, and I’m doing this somewhat off the top of my

head, it could add up to $2,500 to $4,000 to apply to college,” Furda said.

When applying to colleges, College freshman Vraj Shroff was initially worried that he would not be able to apply to colleges simply because of their application fees. However, after speaking with his guidance counselor, he found out about the Common

Application fee waiver request and soon applied to Penn through its early decision process.

“Applying to college is really expensive — sending AP scores, SAT scores, ACT scores,” Shroff, who is also a Social Media and Web staffer at The Daily Pennsylvanian, said. “I wouldn’t have been able to apply to Penn without the fee waiver.”

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Gutmann confirmed this in the interview on Feb. 20.

“We, along with other Universities, decided not to rescind,” she said. “The Trustees had a practice, a century-long practice [...] of not rescinding honorary degrees.”

When asked what had specifically prompted the University to change its position from 2016 to 2018, Gutmann referred again to the series of steps that the Board

of Trustees took to come to its conclusion, starting with the decision to remove Wynn’s name from “Wynn Commons” and ending with the decision to rescind Wynn’s and, therefore, Cosby’s degrees.

“That was the right decision at the right time,” she said.

Gutmann also said the Trustees “were hoping to learn something” from a trial involving Cosby that was scheduled in 2016. The case eventually ended in a mistrial in 2017, with a jury that was deadlocked even after six days of deliberations. While the jury did not come to a final decision on Cosby, Gutmann said this “additional information” contributed to the Trustees’ change in mindset.

Penn’s announcement on Feb. 1 marked the first time in a century that the University decided to rescind an honorary degree.

Some Penn alumni have said that they think the decision to do so was “premature” because neither Wynn nor Cosby have been criminally charged for the allegations brought against them.

“In the current environment, it’s just fashionable to take someone down without the process completing itself,” 1963 Wharton graduate Burke Asher said.

Gutmann seemed to respond directly to these comments in the interview.

“These are honorifics that we are rescinding,” she said. “We are not a court of law. We are not meting out legal punishment. We are rescinding honorifics.”

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filed against Cosby. During that period, over a dozen universities rescinded honorary degrees from Cosby, though Penn said at the time that this was not the University’s practice.

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Penn men’s basketball hasn’t hoisted a new banner since 2007. So, when Foreman made the commitment to play for the Quakers four years ago, his primary goal was to end the drought.

In 2014, it wasn’t clear if Penn would reclaim league dominance before the freshman graduated. But now, with only four regular season games left in his career, Foreman is closer than he has ever been to an improbable conference title.

“A realistic goal for me was getting Penn basketball — somehow, someway — where it needs to be back at the top of the league and being competitive again,” Foreman said.

At 19-7, and with only one Ivy loss, Penn has clinched a winning season for the first time in Foreman’s career. That has only increased the motivation for the senior to elevate his game.

“Realizing that that goal is close to being reached just adds more pressure to myself and it just concentrates me more,” he explained. “Because when you get close to your goal that’s not

fense.

“Oh he’s a great on ball defender,” Donahue exclaimed.

“Thank god we have someone like Darnell that really, really competes.”

Foreman credits that attribute to focus, rather than skill.

“I think defense is more just effort,” Foreman bluntly stated.

Extra effort is not something that the Camden native has ever been accused of holding back.

“What are you willing to do to not let your guy score? What is the team willing to do to not let the opposing team score on them? That’s just effort,” he explained.

“Everybody could do it. But the question becomes ‘do they want to?’ Do they want to give multiple efforts for one possession? Do they want to constantly do it over the course of a game?”

Foreman wants it. That fact is obvious to the casual fan when they see him dive for a loose ball, but it’s even clearer to his teammates and coaches.

“He has the characteristics of a leader,” Woods said. “He’s always working. When he’s

his career.

In his freshman year, Penn finished dead last in the Ivy League. In his second season, the Quakers remained in the bottom half of the league.

Midway through his junior season, after an 0-6 start, it looked to outsiders as if a transformation might not be possible in the near future.

But throughout the struggles, Foreman’s vision never wavered, and he never lost sight of his goals.

“Obviously my first three years, even my first two years really, we weren’t there yet,” Foreman said. “But that goal was always there. I learned a lot more throughout those tough times. I learned how to go about things, basically how to lose.”

Foreman remained consistent through the losses by staying true to a few key principles.

“Accepting that you’re not always going to be at your best,” he stressed.

“There’s going to be downfalls in what you’re trying to do and what the team is trying to do. The question then becomes

“I want to be the first person working on my game. Not just against my teammates, but anybody in the country.”

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That drive caught Woods’ at- always going to be perfect.”

Those aren’t empty words tention from the beginning of Suddenly, after their slow coming from Foreman. He’s their careers together. start last season, something not just the Quakers’ leader.

“When we first came in we changed for the Quakers. They He’s their motor. definitely butted heads a lot,” won six of their last eight According to coach Steve Woods admitted. “Where I’m games to propel themselves Donahue, there may have been from, I didn’t have another run- into the inaugural Ivy League past players who worked as ning mate to push me the way Tournament. hard as Foreman, but no one he does. He’s still on me a lot, Since then, Foreman and the has ever worked harder. That but I’ve learned to listen. He Red and Blue have been on a tenacity has kept Foreman in has the best interests for me tear. They have gone 25-10 over the rotation from the second he and I have the best interests for the last 12 months, swept archstepped foot on campus. him. We just want to see both rival Princeton this season, As with most Ivy League of each other succeed.” currently sit tied with Harvard teams, Penn is deep at the Together, the duo has ma- atop the league standings, and guard positions, and every year tured on the court. They have already clinched a second they have added new highly emerged as the stalwarts of straight conference tournament touted recruits to the roster. As the 2014 recruiting class, and appearance. a result, Foreman was forced to amidst a coaching change and Throughout it all, Foreearn his minutes every single roster reshuffling, they have man has remained focused on season. He did so by being the navigated the path to champi- the now. As the team’s vocal first guy in the gym and never onship contention. leader, he hasn’t reminded the letting up.

“We mesh very well. The team of the losing they used to “I always thought ‘hey, we challenge for us was just learn- experience, or become too carmay get someone better, some- ing how to both play off the one here might outplay him’, ball. For us coming in we were and Darnell just didn’t let it both ball dominant players,” happen, through his work ethic Woods continued. We’re still and through his determina- working on it, so you should tion,” Donahue said of his cap- see more things to come.” tain.

Regardless of who has the “You got a feeling that Dar- ball at any given moment one nell would’ve figured out a way thing is clear. to be on the floor 30 plus min“We’re following behind utes no matter what. He’s just him,” Woods stated. that type of kid and that type Coach Donahue shares that of leader.” sentiment.

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because that has nothing to do with them and that’s not going to help the program move forward,” he explained.

“The best thing I can tell them is ‘know the reasons why we’re winning now. Find those aspects and keep doing it knowing that some days it’s just not going to work.’ But you’ve got to keep working at it.”

As the senior captain of a first place ball club, Foreman has the same calm, deliberate demeanor that he has always carried.

He knows better than anyone that nine Ivy wins won’t put a new banner in the rafters. Neither will another opening round loss in the Ivy Tournament. Until his goals are reached, Foreman won’t let up.

“Nothing’s changed,” Donahue said of Foreman’s focus.

“We’re no closer yet. Until we do it, I think you’ll see the same Darnell every day.”

“I’m not going to have time to reflect on the past because you’ve still got your future. So I got to keep focusing on the now,” Foreman said.

“Right now is the present.”

For the first time in a long time, the present is good for Penn basketball. There’s hardly anyone recounting old glory days and even fewer looking a few seasons ahead.

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Quakers set to take final Ivy road trip of season said. “So just getting mentally prepared, being the best we can, and just trying to execute will be key.�

One of the biggest components of the Quakers’ success this season is their consistent offensive output. Penn has scored 65 points or more in 15 of its 23 games so far this season, already a higher total than the three previous seasons with at least four games still to play.

Penn has also shown that it can push the score high, scoring more than 80 points in four of its games. In the team’s last two seasons, they only achieved this feat a total of three times. “Our returning kids got a little bit better over the summer, and we’re playing at a faster pace,� coach Mike McLaughlin said. “We’ve made open shots, and I think the addition of [freshman center] Eleah [Parker] in the middle is causing a lot of teams to crowd her, and it’s given our guards some good space.�

Unlike many other teams, the Red and Blue are not led by one star player. Instead, the scoring is fairly well split among the team’s starters.

Parker and Nwokedi lead the team with 11.9 points per game each, but all five starters average at least 7.7 points. With only a few points per game separating the starters, the Quakers have benefitted from one of the most even squads in the Ivy League. “With this year, you never know who’s gonna be on,�

Nwokedi said. “So many people have stepped up in different games, and in previous years it’s

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This weekend will be a telling one for Penn women’s basketball, as the team gets ready for its second straight pair of road games. This time, it’s against the Ivy League’s joint-third place teams Harvard and Dartmouth.

After blowing away struggling Columbia and Cornell this past weekend, the Quakers (17-6, 8-2 Ivy) proved they were able to bounce back after a bad loss to Princeton last Tuesday.

This weekend, they will be eager to continue their good form.

However, the competition will be much tougher, and the stakes even higher. “Coming off of those wins was huge for us, but we know it’s gonna be a really tough weekend for us, probably one of the toughest we’ve had,� senior forward Michelle Nwokedi

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Donahue, however, chalked the move up to Penn’s team mentality, which depends on throwing whoever is going to create an advantage at any given moment out onto the floor. On those particular nights at Columbia and Cornell, Darnell Foreman, Woods, Jake Silpe, Devon Goodman and Brodeur gave Penn the best chance to win in Donahue’s mind, and clearly coach played the odds right. “I don’t necessarily think we may ever do that again, and, then again, we may. And I think that’s a strength of our team,� Donahue said. “You try to scout us, and there are so many different things we do.�

Besides the team’s commitment to team basketball and beneficial matchups, the difference for Penn this time around might be the Palestra. Against Harvard, Penn shot worse percentages than the Crimson in field goals, three-pointers, and free throws, demonstrating fatigue on the road as well as the effect of a hostile crowd. Now at home, the Quakers hope to demonstrate an improvement in their game. “We missed a lot of tough baskets that we normally make,�

Woods said. “So for us, it’s knocking down shots, making the right plays, and being fundamentally sound.�

Considering Penn’s opportunity to earn a conference title with a win against Harvard, many students and Penn fans, along with those loyal to Harvard and Dartmouth, will be flooding into the Palestra this weekend hoping to witness something special and exciting.

If Penn is truly a better team than it was two weeks ago, the Quakers may be able to make it happen.

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Senior forward Michelle Nwokedi headlines a balanced Penn offense that is scoring more than in previous seasons. All five starters are averaging at least 7.7 points per game.

been one or two people leading the team, but we’re getting a lot of key contributions this year and it’s been helping us down the stretch.�

Last week on defense, the Quakers were efficient at shutting down the top scores for both Columbia and Cornell, but this week will be tougher as Dartmouth (14-9, 6-4) and Harvard (14-9, 6-4) both have more balanced rosters.

The Big Green have a trio of players averaging over 10 points a game and the Crimson’s starting five is the most productive in the Ivy League, so strong defense throughout the weekend will be essential for the Red and

Blue to return to Philadelphia with two more wins.

However, Penn is the only one of these three teams to have seven players score over 100 points at this point in the season, a statistic that proves the Quakers’ depth and explosive bench.

Although the team only ranks fourth in the Ivy League in terms of points per game at 67.6, this year’s number is a dramatic increase from the last two seasons (61.3 and 62.5). Additionally, Penn currently averages more than league-leading Princeton, who fall just below at 67.4 points a game.

The Quakers had some of their lowest offensive efforts

of the season against Princeton, where they scored only 95 combined points from the two games. If these contests are removed, Penn’s point average per game would rise to 69.5, good enough for second best in the Ancient Eight.

With the increased firepower of their offense, the Quakers are harder to beat this year than ever.

As they prepare to take on Dartmouth and Harvard and attempt to clinch a spot in the upcoming Ivy League tournament, keeping up their recent scoring frenzy will be crucial.

This weekend more than ever, it’s time for Penn to show what it’s made of.

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Red and Blue prepares for Indoor Ivy Championships

Baseball opens season with trip down south

TRACK | Quakers focused on team-first mentality

Quakers have a three-game series at Northwestern State

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Penn men’s and women’s track and field eye the Heps, with an added hop in each of their steps.

With the outdoor season well on the horizon, the Quakers travel to Hanover, N.H. this weekend to compete in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, the last meet of the indoor season before the NCAAs. The women look to continue their success in the championships this time around as the team placed second in the meet last season. Likewise, the men have grown vastly throughout this past season and look to improve upon their fifth-place finish a year ago.

“The men have been amongst the top teams in the Ivy League, so we hope to make a push and win the title this year and set the stage for years to come,” coach Steve Dolan said.

The Ivy League Championships are a true team meet and the Quakers have surely embraced a team-first mentality. Penn will need contributions in a wide array of events to bring the title back to Philadelphia.

The teams have been continuously preparing for this weekend’s meet throughout the season, building momentum and gaining confidence every step of the way.

“Our entire coaching staff has worked really hard to prepare everyone and our strength coaches have done a great job in the weight room,” Dolan said.

Sophomore distance runner Colin Daly is confident his team is improving each day and will push themselves to new heights.

“We have been moving in the right direction the past couple of years and we’ve definitely become

deeper in more events through good recruiting and we continue to grow as a team with our hard work,” Daly said.

Daly finished in sixth place in the mile run in his first opportunity at the Heps as a freshman and will look to build from that strong showing a year ago.

“I’ve been telling myself this entire season I just need to keep moving forward and really see how high I can go,” Daly said.

The women will certainly have their work cut out for them as they look to overtake Harvard atop the standings, as the Crimson have won the indoor competition each of the past five years, dating back to 2013.

However, the Quakers remain confident.

“The women had a great meet last year and we’re certainly excited for the opportunity to make a run at the title,” Dolan said.

Senior sprinter Taylor McCorkle has been especially eager for this competition as she’s been limited to participating in only three meets thus far through the season, nursing a fractured tibia she endured during the preseason.

McCorkle is more than ready

for the challenge that stands before her, however, and will rely mainly on her hard work to give her the advantage.

“I am excited for this weekend to show everyone what I have,” McCorkle said. “I hope to be one of the top athletes to cross the line in the finals.”

Although individual storylines are sometimes hard to ignore, the focus remains on the team.

“I think if we can end this meet with a great team win, it’s just going to build the momentum for outdoor and set the stage for what we can do this season,” Daly said.

In the field portion of the event, Penn is lead by pole vaulter Sean Clarke, who has broken the school record in that event twice this year already. Clarke’s newest best, 5.32 meters, is only eight centimeters away from a top 20 place in the national rankings. If the sophomore breaks his own record again, he will likely turn heads on a national level.

The Quakers look to put their best foot forward this weekend and become the first team since Princeton in 2011 to capture the men’s and women’s Ivy League indoor titles in the same season.

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Sophomore pole vaulter Sean Clarke eyes NCAA qualification after breaking the program pole vault record twice this season.

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Beat the drum, and hold the phone, the sun came out today, and a new Penn baseball season is upon us.

After winning the Gehrig Division for the first time since 2007 last season, expectations should be high going into the 2018 campaign. Without their top-flight talent and main leadership from a year ago; another challenging season looks to be on the horizon for the Quakers.

As the Quakers prepare to head down to Natchitoches, La. to kick off the season against Northwestern State, they are looking for answers to fill a starting rotation that lost its three top pitchers from last season as well as a new bullpen anchor. Jake Cousins, Mike Reitcheck, and Adam Bleday tossed a combined 194 innings last season, and closer Billy Lescher added 28 of his own in relief, notching four saves.

On the offensive side of the ball, the absence of outfielder Tim Graul’s bat will leave a gaping hole in the Quakers’ lineup.

Graul led the team in almost every major offensive category last season, and he followed up his 2016 Ivy League Player of the Year campaign with another unanimous First-Team All-Ivy selection as a senior. As one of Penn’s two captains last year along with Reitcheck, Graul’s leadership will be sorely missed.

Entering his fifth season leading the Quakers, coach John Yurkow has some very important lineup decisions to make.

Pitchers Gabe Kleiman and Mitchell Holcomb project to lead the starting rotation, and

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One player the Quakers will rely on offensively after the loss of star catcher Tim Graul will be junior first baseman Sean Phelan.

there are a number or junior sluggers including catcher Matt O’Neill and first baseman Sean Phelan who can help shoulder the load for the offense.

The 2018 schedule for Penn baseball is sure to bring plenty of excitement and intrigue. The Quakers will first embark on a tour of the warmer climates, playing non-conference games in Louisiana and South Carolina before returning to the Meik in mid-March. The conference slate of games is where it gets interesting: the Quakers will close out conference play this year with series against Columbia and Yale.

The Tigers and Elis sit perched atop the Ivy League preseason media poll, while the Quakers were placed in the fourth spot. Yale is the reigning Ivy League champions, and Columbia, having barely missed the ILCS last season at the hands of the Quakers, returns 2017 Ivy League Player of the Year Randell Kanemaru.

These two series could shape up to be the deciding games for a

team that may be in a position to control its own destiny late in the season.

First, however, the Red and Blue must play through a lengthy schedule, and it all begins on Friday against Northwestern State. This team is in a similar boat with the Quakers in terms of questions in the lineup and at the top of the rotation. The Demons came into the 2018 season with 18 new players on the roster, many of whom will start right away, as they have played previously in junior college.

The games this weekend and the other early-season contests that follow will be of vital importance to the Quakers for finding a team identity and solidifying the lineup and pitching rotation. Playing against tough competition will help prepare Penn for what promises to be a tough Ivy League season.

Penn will try to overcome these challenges as it looks to end an Ivy League title drought that has lasted over 22 years. It’s sure to be an entertaining season.

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Men’s soccer hires Brian Gill as new head coach After one year as an assistant, Gill will take over following Rudy Fuller’s promotion COLE JACOBSON Sports Editor

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Harvard

(14-11, 9-1 Ivy) 7 p.m.

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Dartmouth

(6-17, 2-8 Ivy) 7 p.m.

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Brian Gill was announced as the new head coach of men’s soccer, his first collegiate head coaching job.

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repare for some bad blood to flow in the Palestra this weekend.

After suffering its only Ivy League loss this season to Harvard two weeks ago, Penn gets a chance at revenge this Saturday in the Palestra when the Crimson come into town. But first, Penn will have to face Dartmouth — a clear underdog in this matchup, and yet one that Penn had a hard time handling two weeks ago in Hanover during a 64-61 win.

The outcome of these two games will be crucial in determining seeding heading into the Ivy League

tournament, which will be held at the Palestra during Penn’s spring break. And once the dust clears, either Harvard (14-11, 9-1 Ivy) or Penn (19-7, 9-1) will be at the top of the regular season standings, most likely having secured at least a bid to the National Invitational Tournament as well as some confidence prior to the conference tournament – an affair of March-Madness-sized proportions.

Although clearly the game against Harvard will hold more implications in terms of the postseason, the Quakers are adopting a mindset of “one game at a time.”

“If you start wandering a little with your mind about [the Harvard game], you can really slip up,” coach Steve Donahue said regarding Friday’s contest against Dartmouth (6-17, 2-8).

“For us every game is important,” junior guard Antonio Woods said. “We’re still trying to get a regular season Ivy League title. We still haven’t done that in ten years.”

The last instance in which Penn faced these two teams in succession, the results yielded rumblings surrounding Penn’s legitimacy as an Ivy contender. But the past is the past, and, the road is the road. Now

on a two-game win streak and defending their home for the first time in five games, the Quakers clearly hold the momentum heading into this weekend’s challenge.

An interesting aspect of the Quakers’ recent success has been Donahue’s fielding of four guards in the lineup. Although not a novel idea, especially in college basketball, the move is unprecedented for Penn given their season-long dominance down low with starting big men Max Rothschild and AJ Brodeur.

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After losing momentum this past weekend, Penn gymnastics is looking to spring back against their biggest competition thus far.

This upcoming weekend, the Red and Blue will travel to Brown for the Ivy League Classic. There will be a total of four Ivy League teams at this tournament – Yale, Brown, Cornell, and Penn.

“There’s no one team in particular [we think will be the hardest competition]. It’s a matter of who hits that day,” senior captain Krya Levi said. “We are focused on the fact that we have to be our best in order to beat any of them.”

As the de facto Ivy championship, this weekend will determine who takes home Ancient Eight glory. In order to be successful, the Quakers (3-8, 2-2 Ivy) will have to defeat three tough opponents.

“I think we have a pretty good standing [in the Ivy League],” junior captain Caroline Moore said.

“We just have to go in with a confident energy, ready to perform our best.”

The competition will feature one very familiar foe. This will be Penn’s fourth match this year against Cornell (9-5, 2-1). Heading into this weekend, Cornell has won two of these matches, one of which came last weekend at Penn State, while Penn has only won one.

“We’ve gone in to every meet [against Cornell] thinking it’s a new team,” Levi said. “We’ve seen them before, but Sunday could be a totally different day for them, as it could be for us.”

Additionally, this is the Quakers’ second contest against Yale (6-7, 0-1). Earlier in the year, Penn defeated Yale, but lately the Bulldogs are on a hot streak. Yale is 4-0 after placing first of four teams at the Don Tonry Invitational.

“Yale probably will be our biggest competitor,” Moore said.

“They’ve gotten some high scores this season, but it’s nothing we can’t beat.”

The host team, Brown (3-11, 0-0), will get their first taste of Ivy League competition so far this season. The program has had a rough start to the season, but a win at this competition could quickly turn the tone and goal of its season around.

To this point, Brown’s season high total for points is 193.325, just .400

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Junior captain Caroline Moore is confident in the team’s ability to perform in this weekend’s Ivy Classic, where the Quakers seek their first title in three years.

points off of the Quakers’ season high of 193.725.

This has not worried the Quakers, though, as the team is confident that they are still improving and hitting their stride.

“I have a good amount of faith that we are going to break that [top] score for the season before the end

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of the year,” Levi said.

If the Quakers can succeed in improving on that score this weekend, they can all but assure a victory at the critical Ivy League Classic. This Saturday will bring the most significant trial for the Quaker’s quest for an Ivy League title this season.

Well, that was fast.

Only six days after Penn Athletics announced that former men’s soccer coach Rudy Fuller would be leaving his post to begin as the University’s Senior Associate Athletic Director, the Red and Blue have already found their next leader on the touchline. On Wednesday afternoon, the school announced that it would be hiring Brian Gill – who just finished his first season as an assistant for the Quakers – as its next head coach, effective immediately.

Next year will be Gill’s first as a head coach at the collegiate level.

“It is a tremendous honor to be selected as the next head men’s soccer coach at the University of Pennsylvania,” Gill said in the Penn Athletics press release. “The program has a rich tradition of success, and I am excited for the opportunity to expand my role and lead this program to help further that tradition. I want to personally thank Dr. Grace Calhoun for having the trust in me to lead this program going forward. Additionally, I would like to thank Rudy Fuller for believing in me and for his mentorship over the last year in showing me how special the Penn men’s soccer community truly is.”

The announcement of Fuller’s promotion came less than two months after Sherryta Freeman, who worked as the Senior Associate Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator, left the school to begin as the Director of Athletics at Lafayette. But it didn’t take long for Penn to decide on its next man in charge.

Though Gill’s first season in Philadelphia was underwhelming, with the Quakers stumbling to a 4-12-1 overall record and a sixthplace finish in the Ivy League, the 2004 Rider graduate’s coaching career saw some stellar results prior to his arrival on Penn’s campus.

From 2010 to 2016, Gill served as an assistant coach at Georgetown, where he contributed to a program perennially near the top of the national rankings throughout his seven-year tenure. Among the highlights of his time there were five trips to the NCAA Tournament, a run to the national championship in 2012 before the Hoyas fell to Indiana, and four Big East championships.

Before that, Gill spent a total of three years working as the goalkeeper coach at Lafayette and Seattle.

Gill’s next task will be to change the culture at a Penn program that is seeking its first Ivy League title in five years. The Quakers haven’t finished above .500 overall or in conference play since their 2013 championship season, but following Joe Swenson’s decision to return for a fifth year, the team only graduates one starter and two total players from this year’s squad, giving Gill a solid base of returning talent to work with.

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