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Machetecarrying suspect enters VP He was arrested by Penn Police after being found with a machete

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A man with a machete entered Van Pelt Library around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday morning and was promptly arrested. He was taken into custody on the fourth floor of the library and had a box cutter, machete and stolen ID card in his possession.

Around 11:25 a.m. on Tuesday morning, a Penn employee spotted the man walking near 34th and Walnut streets with what appeared to be a knife. The man was homeless, about 5’9” tall and between 35 and 40 years old, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

After trailing the man from a safe distance and seeing him enter Van Pelt, the employee called Lieutenant Gary Williams of Penn Police on his cell phone to alert him of the situation.

At this point Williams alerted the PennComm center and officers were dispatched to the area.

At 11:32 a.m. PennComm initiated a UPenn Alert conference, in which Rush gave the order to evacuate the library, send out an alert and post information on the DPS website. She also gave SEE KNIFE PAGE 5

Students, faculty reflect on Nursing school’s practices

With Zika case at Lehigh University, Penn readies itself

REBECCA HEILWEIL Staff Reporter

Last fall, while working on a bone marrow floor, Nursing junior Christian Peruchook lost a patient half an hour into beginning his clinical.

Minutes later, his student group performed postmortem procedures, caring for a body after death. It would not be the only time this happened that semester.

“I don’t know how some of the other people felt,” he said. “ I don’t know how some of my classmates might’ve taken that, if they didn’t have the mental preparation

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Power Down Challenge loses competitive aspect

KATHLEEN HARWOOD Staff Reporter

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the clinical course, but throughout the curriculum. We never really talk about what it feels like to go through the grieving process from the viewpoint of the healthcare provider,” Perucho said. He said this attitude is reflective of how people often avoid generally discussing death, despite

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There are currently four confirmed cases in Pennsylvania

On Monday, two new cases of the Zika virus were confirmed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, bringing the total number of infected people in the state to four. One of the infected people was confirmed as an unidentified student at Lehigh University.

With Penn so close to Lehigh and featuring a very large, international student body, Student Health Service was ready to respond.

SHS had been aware of the Zika virus since the illness hit the news last May. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put out several travel advisories for the Caribbean area, Central American area, South America and Mexico in January, SHS began actively uploading information on its website.

Ashlee Halbritter, the Campus Health Initiatives director, said there have been active efforts to keep both students and faculty alike informed.

“It’s a very fluid situation and there is so much that is unknown,” she said. “With that said we have

beforehand. It made me think that we never really talk about that aspect of clinical.”

Though nursing students question whether death is sufficiently addressed in the curriculum, patient loss can be a routine part of healthcare professions.

“We never really mention how to go about that as students, not just in

The program reinforced education and info sessions JACOB WINICK Staff Reporter

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The Power Down Challenge aims to reduce energy usage in the college houses. This year, the event will not include a competitive aspect.

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It’s time to turn down the thermostat and find a dark room to do your homework. That’s right — Wednesday is the culmination of the Power Down Challenge, a campus-wide effort to reduce energy usage.

This year’s event is much different than it has been in the past. The old model — which Penn’s Sustainability Office has used for the past

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six years — was an Inter-House competition to use the least power as a dorm during the entire month of February. This year, however, the office, along with student Eco-Reps, decided to stay away from the competitive side of the challenge.

“The competition aspect was a good idea in theory, but in reality, it was not,” Eco-Rep and College freshman Zachary Rissman said.

“People were going to other houses and using a lot of energy to help their own house win. That’s not how SEE POWER DOWN PAGE 2

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Senate candidate addresses students at Irvine “Know the last step before you take the first step,” Admiral Joe Sestak said of military intervention during his foreign policy talk in Irvine Auditorium.

The former admiral and congressman — who announced his 2016 Democratic Senate campaign at Penn — returned to campus on Tuesday to discuss the tenets of his foreign policy plan.

He launched his bid for Senate

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it should work.”

Last year, the majority of college houses actually used more energy during the month-long challenge than they normally did.

“When you think about how

added, “Where’s our leadership as the honest broker? That should be our strategy.”

Sestak’s campaign advocates for diplomacy not only between nations, but also across party lines. He mentioned his close friendship with Republican Chuck Hagel during his time in Congress as an example of bipartisan kinship.

While he praised President Obama’s diplomacy in the Iran nuclear deal, he stressed the importance of avoiding another “tragic misadventure like Iraq.”

“Very few U.S. soldiers knew the difference between the Sunni

and the Shiite. They were not concerned with securing the peace,” he said.

He specifically cited the loss of $3 trillion during the Iraq war as wasteful.

“That tragedy has harmed our national security,” he said.

The event was organized by the group Penn for Sestak. College junior Sam Kaplan founded the organization this year after reaching out to the campaign over the summer. Kaplan was enthused

by Sestak’s promise to bring accountability back to government and restore trust in Congress.

College sophomore Bianca

Donadio, a member of Penn for Sestak, said that she first heard of Sestak through another student at Penn. She supports Sestak because of his firm grasp on issues and his practical plan to “move towards quality in our military and Navy, and not necessarily quantity,” she said.

Sestak mentioned the role of education, instead of militarization, as a foreign policy tool. Improving literacy rates in places like Afghanistan, where 98 percent of women are illiterate, would help stabilize those places so, “we don’t have to keep going back,” he said. In Congress,

he was a proponent of education transfer programs.

“Education is our homeland defense,” he added.

The greatest foreign policy threat college students should concern themselves with as they begin their political lives is nuclear proliferation, Sestak said.

He cited the threat of North Korea developing and selling nuclear weapons to other hostile nations.

Five of Sestak’s six sisters went to Penn and he recently spoke at Penn in October.

“I come back every year,” he said of the University. “I love it.

It’s like a mecca in West Philly.”

energy is used, it really doesn’t make sense for it to be a competition,” Eco-Rep and Wharton and College junior Austin Bream said. “We interact with energy in more than one building.”

This year’s Power Down Challenge focused on information sessions and talks to educate students on their energy

consumption throughout the month of February. The actual challenge to use as little energy as possible was shortened to a single day: Wednesday, Feb. 24.

“We made intentional changes to really broaden the program and to move away specifically from the building against building competition into a more

collaborative model,” Sustainability Outreach Manager Julian Goresko said. “We felt like we’d run our course with that model.

We’ve done all that we can do with it. In order to keep things fresh and exciting, we wanted to move to a different type of campaign.”

The Sustainability Office

hopes that it will help increase awareness about how behavioral changes can have an impact on energy usage.

“Some of this is just designed to raise awareness about your use of energy,” Environmental Sustainability Director Dan Garofalo said. “Putting off laundry until tomorrow is not going to

save energy in the long run, but by making that point, we are making the connection between people’s activities and our ability to conserve energy.”

That mission — reducing energy usage across campus — will not end with the finale of this year’s Power Down Challenge.

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last summer by walking 422 miles across Pennsylvania.

The 30-year Navy veteran and former Pennsylvania congressman is the highest-ranking military official ever elected to Congress. His foreign policy experience was also informed by his position as the director for defense on the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton.

Sestak called for diplomatic relations that secure peace without forcing structure on foreign powers.

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Event at Du Bois intended to inspire social justice Domingo Guyton discussed the history of the N-word CARL FULGHERI Contributing Reporter

On Tuesday night, the president of HOPE Multimedia Company Domingo Guyton led an interactive discussion and analysis of the effect of language on the identities of marginalized groups, focusing on use of the N-word.

Guyton was the guest speaker of “Straight Outta Ya Mouth: Why Words Matter,” an event at Du Bois College House that investigated the history of the N-word and its effect on black identity. It is the second part of a three-part series called

“Identity, Intersectionality, and You,” a Year of Discovery program designed to inspire social justice on Penn’s campus.

Second year student in the Graduate School of Education Moe Jackson is the Graduate Assistant for the LGBT Center, which is organizing the series with Du Bois and Civic House. He said a major goal of this series is to mobilize what he called the upsurge in interest and awareness of marginalized groups.

“I think that the new wave of social activism is creating a lot more interest in the experiences of marginalized communities,” he said.

Guyton asked the crowd whether

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Du Bois College House hosted an event on Tuesday night focused on the effect of language on marginalized groups.

n****r and n***a are equivalent terms with identical connotations.

Some members of the crowd,

Guest speakers address lack of diversity in media Speakers led discussion focused on Afro-Latinas ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

People of color are often underrepresented, misrepresented or not represented at all in mass media. Some activists have fought to change this internally, while others have combatted this disparity by creating their own media.

On Tuesday night, Queer People of Color, La Vida magazine and Sigma Lambda Upsilon /Señor it as Latinas Unidas Sorority, Inc. held an event entitled “Minorities in the Media” to address that very problem. Guest speakers Alicia Maule and Suhaly BautistaCarolina led an open discussion in the ARCH building about the issues that minorities, especially Afro-Latinas, face in the world of media.

Maule is a Brown University alumna who has worked for President Barack Obama and MSNBC. She is now working for the Innocence Project, a nonprofit which uses DNA evidence to exonerate wrongfully incarcerated people.

“I wanted to manage and do my own thing, and you don’t

get that in a lot of corporations,” Maule said.

Bautista-Carolina works on promoting social justice from a different angle. She works for Creative Time, a company that commissions public art projects. Aside from her job, she hopes to publish a photography book that highlights Afro-Latina women.

“Why is there a narrative that black and Latino people don’t camp or don’t like nature?” Bautista-Ca rolina said. She hopes that her work will differentiate the ways that people envision people of color.

Both women emphasized the importance of getting minority peoples’ ideas out there.

“Represent at ion mat ters,” Bautista-Carolina said. ”That reigns supreme over everything.”

One of the difficulties of limited representation is that it is hard to do justice to an entire race or culture with only a few characters that are widely known. Different people within the same ethnic group can have very different experiences.

“I’m going to get a whole different story about what it’s like to be Afro-Latino in New York City than in Puerto Rico,”

Bautista-Carolina said.

The mediator of the discussion, College junior Abby Cacho, asked the guest speakers how much accountability to give to celebrities when it comes to their status as minority figures in the media.

“I can’t defend Kanye [West] anymore but I can enjoy his music,” Maule said, “Let’s not put so much accountability on [Kanye and Beyonce] because it’s a waste of our energy.”

Maule feels that we cannot depend on others to represent us. Individuals should do what they can in their life to create represent ation, ot her wise, “we’ll always be disappointed,” she said.

“We need to be represented everywhere,” Maule said. You do not have to be an activist to make an impact, she added.

The speakers added that another way that everyone can make an impact is through consumer choice. “Every time you consume, that’s a vote,” Bautista-Carolina said.

When it comes to making a change, you have to take action where you can and when you can. “They don’t want us to have the keys,” BautistaCaroline said, “so we take the hinges off the door.”

including a woman from New York, said the words have the same meanings.

Second year student in the Graduate School of Education Briana O’Neal, who is from North Carolina, said she had a different understanding.

“In the South the former [n****r] is used by whites and carries racist meaning,” she said.

Guyton proceeded to describe the history of the word “n****r.”

He said its first sign of adoption by the black community in the United States was as an “internalization of their pain” and carried no “endearment.”

Guyton said the word can be traced back to postcards of lynchings mailed to and from southerners in the early 20th century. He said its first use is in a postcard that reads

“Bo pointn [sic] to his n*ga.”

He argued against the the use of the N-word as a term of endearment in hip-hop. He said it was originally used in negative contexts with degrading connotations, citing lyrics from songs by Biz Markie and EPMD released in 1988.

He disagreed with the idea that the word could be reclaimed by the black community as a term of endearment and compared using it to reflect solidarity to putting rat poison in a cake.

“Bury the word,” he said.

The series culminates in a final event in March. Jackson said his goal is the “mobilization of the entire student body towards social activism.”

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updated our website consistently as new information has become available and have pushed prevention messages to our colleagues across the campus.”

Although the national push for travel screening has died down due to the end of the Ebola epidemic, SHS continued screening students who had come in for clinic appointments knowing there could be enormous implications for any kind of travel they had recently completed. The ongoing practice has made addressing the Zika virus easier, as it has become a greater issue in recent weeks.

In the case that a student screened positively for the virus, SHS would draw a blood sample and cooperate directly with the Pennsylvania Department of Health to coordinate the sample’s processing and testing.

As there is currently no proven cure for the Zika infection, any treatment of patients at SHS would be purely supportive in order to remedy common symptoms such as fever, rash or joint pain. The most concerning risk associated with Zika is a debilitating birth defect of the brain called

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The Student Health Service urges students to be aware of risks for exposure to the Zika virus while traveling during spring break.

microcephaly, which causes a child to be born with a smaller head. This may be experienced if a woman is infected with the virus during her pregnancy. Unfortunately, this effect can only be prevented by taking precautions against contracting the virus.

Currently, SHS’s main concern is to promote means of prevention so that none of these symptoms arise in the first place. While the virus is typically spread by mosquitoes, much like malaria, dengue and yellow fever, a case of mosquito-borne contraction in the United States has yet to be reported. Within the United States, the main means of contraction has

been sexual transmission, which can be averted by using condoms.

People who are travelling to affected countries are encouraged to take extra measures to prevent mosquito bites, including wearing long shirts and pants, using insect arepellent, mosquito nets and treating clothing with permethrin.

Giang Nguyen, executive director of SHS, said that in the weeks before and after spring break students should remain very aware of the means of prevention. “It is important in any community where there is a lot of international travel to be aware of the global nature of conditions out there,” he said. “We promote preparedness.”

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Wednesday, February 24 Panel Discussion 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Reception 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Silverman 245A, Levy Conference Room Penn Law School Information: http://www.law.upenn.edu/ile The Institute for Law and Economics is a joint research center of the Law School, the Wharton School, and the Department of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences.

This program has been approved for 1.5 substantive law credit hour for Pennsylvania lawyers. CLE credits may be available in other jurisdictions as well. Attendees seeking CLE credit should bring separate payment in the amount of $40.00 ($20.00 public interest/non-profit attorneys) cash or check made payable to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.

This event is sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economics, a joint research center of the Law School, the Wharton School, and the Department of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to reduce their energy usage over a 24-hour period, from 12:00 A.M. to 11:59 P.M. on Wednesday, February 24th.

Turn off your lights, unplug your appliances, turn down the heat and put on a sweater! Let’s see how much energy we can save, together.

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OPINION Retracting an Erroneous Post letter from the president

WEDNESDAY february 24, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 22 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor

This past Saturday, The Daily Pennsylvanian made a post to our DPolitics blog detailing an encounter between Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio and a staffer of fellow candidate Ted Cruz, in which Rubio comments on a book that the staffer was reading.

We transcribed the video of the interaction reflecting our genuine and honest interpretation of what was said, but it’s now clear that our transcription, which appeared as subtitles on the video embedded in the post, was incorrect.

Around 2 a.m. on Sunday, we discovered from another Cruz staffer that the book in question in the video was the Bible, and we updated the post accordingly. But this significantly changed the meaning of Rubio’s words as originally transcribed, as it now purported to show Rubio pointing to the Bible and saying “not a lot of answers in there.”

Later, the accuracy of that transcription was brought into question due to the unclear audio; upon returning to Philadelphia Sunday evening, we updated the post to reflect uncertainty over what was said.

But Cruz Communica-

regardless of the accuracy of the story, “our campaign should not have sent it.”

On Monday, we acknowledged the inaccuracy of our original transcription and replaced the original subtitled video embedded into the post with the raw foot-

script from the encounter, we should have reached out to the parties involved to confirm what was actually said and what book the Cruz staffer was reading once we realized Rubio was referring to the book in the interaction. We failed to do

We sincerely regret and apologize for these errors … It is only fair that we have been publicly held accountable for failing to fulfill our editorial responsibilities.” tions Director Rick Tyler had shared the original post on Twitter and Facebook earlier Sunday. He later posted an apology for posting the story, but on Monday, Cruz asked him to resign for a “grave error in judgment.” Cruz said that

age of the encounter. On Tuesday, we fully retracted the post.

This inaccurate transcription and reporting is the direct result of editorial mistakes on our part.

First, before reporting on and publishing the tran-

so.

Second, upon learning later in the day that the book in question was the Bible, we should have taken the time to understand how the new information changed the context and weight of the situation and should

have reevaluated our reporting accordingly before publishing any updates. Again, we failed to do so.

We sincerely regret and apologize for these errors.

In the days since the original post was published, we have actively taken steps to correct these errors and provide context for why and how they were made. It is only fair that we have been publicly held accountable for failing to fulfill our editorial responsibilities.

We have always taken these responsibilities very seriously, and we will continue to do so. We have met as an editorial board to discuss what we can take away from the situation to inform our reporting in the future, and we will continue to have these conversations.

We have also reached out to alumni who are professionals in the world of journalism to diagnose where we are at fault and how we can do a better job next

COLIN HENDERSON time. We sincerely appreciate the support we have received.

We will continue to discuss the takeaways from this particular incident internally, and we are confident that our evaluations will inform how we can better serve the Penn community moving forward.

COLIN HENDERSON is a Wharton junior concentrating in finance and marketing from Nazareth, Pa. and is the president of The Daily Pennsylvanian.

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Small talk | Institutions like the NIH help fund much of Penn’s research, so give them adequate funding Penn’s total budget allocates approximately $7.6 billion for expenditures during the 2016 fiscal year.

Obviously much of the money goes into salaries, maintenance and daily operations, but as a research university, quite a bit of Penn’s funds are spent on faculty research.

As students, we often think that the main purpose of the University is to educate us and prepare us for the “real world.” But arguably the biggest contribution to society that Penn makes happens in its research labs and in faculty fieldwork.

But the work that is done in these labs requires a tremendous amount of funding; much more than even Penn can offer. Although Penn’s total budget in the 2015 fiscal year for research grants was $851 million, many faculty members had to go outside the university to receive private grants — notably grants from government

institutions, like the Perelman Medical School’s use of National Institute of Health (NIH) funding.

Take, for example, Carl June’s work at the Perelman School of Medicine on finding new forms of immunotherapy to cure patients with cancers such as pancreatic cancer. June has received numerous grants from joint donors like the Cancer Research Institute and the Lustgarten Foundation, as well as yearly grants from the NIH for his work on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy.

Considering how long the process of performing clinical trials and collecting data can take in some instances — the quest for optimal CAR T-cell immunotherapy has been in progress for over 15 years — it’s easy to call investment in these fields risky and potentially a waste of funds. This is most certainly why funding for the NIH has waned since 2004,

but nevertheless this funding is crucial to fight diseases and keep our nation healthy.

The efforts of scientists like June have produced brilliant results, with a clinical trial in 2013 conducted by June along with help from researchers at various hospitals receiving

slim. Clearly, government funding has had its influence.

Our politicians have fought about how much government should actually spend per year, but regardless of which side you take on this, it’s important to realize that much of the research done in this uni-

... it’s important to realize that much of the research done in this university is thanks to funding from government-sponsored institutions. ” response rates of between 60-100 percent. The test subjects had failed conventional chemotherapy regimens, meaning that had they not entered June’s trial, their chances of survival would have been very

versity is thanks to funding from government-sponsored institutions.

President Obama has proposed a $2 billion increase in NIH funding for the 2017 fiscal year and for researchers across the

country like June, it’s crucial that this is added to the federal budget. While organizations like Planned Parenthood have received backlash towards their funding because of their involvement in abortions, more money for the NIH should be a bipartisan measure, as more research in medicine helps just about every single person in the country.

Politicians from across the political spectrum, from Obama to Republican Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, have called for a cure to cancer and other deadly diseases, and we can only hope to achieve that goal if we’re willing to put in the time, effort and necessary funding.

Penn is certainly equipped with the power to help stimulate not only our learning, but our society’s ability to tackle vital problems in the world — from cancer to economic inequality. But it can’t do it alone. There will always

ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK be a need for outside funding at Penn and just about every other research university in the country and if we’re not willing to allocate the necessary funds, we’ll miss out on the potential our school has to offer.

ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK is a College sophomore from New York, studying economics. His email address is alevan@sas.upenn.edu.

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the order for all available officers to assist in locating the suspect.

Some in the library were unaware that anything was occurring until the UPenn Alert.

Engineering graduate student Anjali Rajaratnam said she was unaware of any situation in the library until receiving the alert, but was surprised by how quickly and effectively it was handled.

“Good thing I was in the library when there’s a guy with a knife,” she said. “It’s just weird because it was someone who was able to get in.”

After the alert was sent at 11:36 a.m., officers conducted a search of the library.

By 11:41 a.m. the man was apprehended on the fourth floor of Van Pelt on its west side. The arresting officer found a machete, box cutter and stolen ID card belonging to an unknown woman.

The suspect is now in the custody of Penn Police detectives and will

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be charged with numerous violations.

Minutes later, an all-clear message was sent out by DPS for a total time of 16 minutes from dispatch to apprehension.

Rush said that there are two ways to gain entrance to Van Pelt: with a Penn Card or through the library’s Visitor Management System. In this instance, the suspect gained entrance as a visitor, which requires presentation of a photo ID and a picture taken at the visitor’s desk.

Penn detectives were able to use the name given at the desk to find the suspect in JNET, Pennsylvania’s criminal database. His entry also had a photo, which was texted out to DPS officers and detectives. The responding and arresting officers were able to use both the photo from the desk, as well as the one from the database to identify the suspect within the library.

DPS said it perceived no further threat to the community after the suspect’s arrest.

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finding his clinical faculty members supportive and understanding.

Death in the curriculum Palliative care is currently offered as a minor in the School of Nursing, and requires two core courses and an elective. Palliative care is defined as coordinating care between families, physicians and patients with serious illnesses. This care is distinct from end-of-life and hospice care, which focus on dying or terminally ill patients.

Currently, nine students are enrolled in the Palliative care minor, and 75 have completed the program since its inception.

For students not in the minor, Penn offers a single elective case study. “Principles of Palliative

care,” which Perucho has taken, “focus[es] on the care of persons with life-threatening, progressive illness,” according to the Nursing School website. He found the experience useful for approaching his clinicals and understanding how nurses experience the loss of patients.

For most students, palliative care is not a significant part of the nursing curriculum. While students understand that patient death is a possibility, Perucho said the real experience is difficult to anticipate.

“I think that’s a conversation that we haven’t really had yet. This is more a case by case basis, but we’ve never had wide or a break-out group instruction, which I would like to have in the future,” he said.

Students said that the program works hard to take care of its students, and administrators and

faculty actively engage with students to ensure their wellbeing and progress toward a degree.

The Nursing School has structured its courses to help students adjust to the healthcare profession, according to Assistant Dean for Admissions and Academic Affairs Christina Costanzo Clark. Simulation labs are capped at eight students or fewer in order to cultivate strong relationships with instructors. Clark added that instructors are generally professional nurses themselves, which allows them to empathize with students.

“They do see things that they may not have seen before. Difficult things happen in healthcare.” Clark added that the school maintains a strong relationship with Counseling and Psychological Services. The school maintains two liaisons with CAPS and administrators meet regularly to discuss ways of supporting students.

“We refer students to CAPS, if something has happened in a

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clinical area that’s upset a student,” Clark said. “Nursing students are just like other students on campus.

They get stressed during finals, but sometimes you add on the stress that they have a clinical profession.”

CAPS Director William Alexander, however, said that most of the preparation nursing students get for their clinicals comes from within the nursing School. “The students are well prepared and well trained for that, and the nursing faculty is better equipped to handle those situations … I would guess that the faculty is really tuned in and really prepared for those situations,” he said, adding that CAPS has seen students in the past to help them deal with treating fellow Penn students.

“You know, the nursing faculty has so much experience in this area that CAPS counselors don’t have.

We don’t know what it’s like to see a body on a stretcher — they do,” Alexander said.

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Finding solidarity with each other HUGS, which stands for Helping, Understanding, and Giving Support, is a growing student group that hopes to provide a space for nurses to discuss student life, mental health and professional development.

Nursing senior and HUGS President Amanda Borst said that approaching patient death is, “not a concrete part of our curriculum, but it’s something that’s very important.”

“There should be a more formal way of discussing difficult situations encountered in the healthcare professions,” she added.

She said the group members hope to discuss the Nursing School experience, and how the community and school can better support students. For some, the 2013 suicide of Nursing student Arya Singh still reverberates in conversations surrounding mental health and death.

Encountering patient loss, both in medical simulations and in hospital clinicals, has further contributed to student interest in the topic, a subject that HUGS hopes to address.

While several versions of HUGS have formed over the past few years, last semester the group gained new momentum. The organization has plans to arrange panels, and bring in a speaker to talk to student nurses about handling difficult experiences in the healthcare field.

“Since I’ve gotten here, it’s definitely gotten better,” Borst said.

to healthcare. She pointed to a Dartmouth College report on the treatment of late-stage cancer, which concluded that dying patients can see more than ten or more physicians in the last six months of their lives.

With such a complicated approach to care, it is difficult to coordinate an emotionally and physically supportive relationship between a patient, family and physicians.

“Nobody wants to talk about dying,” she said.

‘Nursing School becomes a completely different game’ Perucho said that it is difficult to discuss the intense experience of clinicals with those outside the program — what he calls a “hidden stressor.” Demanding schedules that can stretch from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. widen the separation felt between Nursing students and those enrolled in the other undergraduate schools.

Students are assigned their first patients during their sophomore year, and by the fall of their junior year can spend almost three-quarters of their time in hospital settings.

The third year Nursing program includes a separate course that focuses on treating older patients, where students are more likely to see and talk about patients passing away, according to Clark.

Beyond clinicals, the nursing curriculum is demanding. Exams in the Nursing School are two-fold; for many classes, students must pass a traditional test, while also perform the tasks that they have learned in the semester. “In every health discipline school across the country, because it’s a very practically based profession, you have a lot of simulation test-outs,” said Christian, can be the most stressful part of the Nursing curriculum.

Christian says the mental health needs of students shift as training transitions from the classroom to a clinical environment, when faculty emphasis on mental health increases. “Nursing School becomes a completely different game,” he said.

And while younger students may have to confront a stressful workload and difficult tests, Perucho said “that conversation is completely different from being in a clinical setting and talking about ‘my patient just died in front of me’ or ‘I watched a patient code.’”

‘Nobody wants to talk about dying’ The American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s accreditation standards require that students be prepared to “implement patient and family care around resolution of end-of-life and palliative care issues, such as symptom management, support of rituals, and respect for patient and family preferences.”

However, a National Institute of Medicine brief published in 2014 reported that few health-care professionals, including nurses, are trained in palliative and hospice care. Penn Nursing professor Salimah Meghani, who contributed to the report, said that beyond the palliative care minor, Penn, like many schools, does “not offer a lot of training.”

Meghani said that the current state of care reflects the United States’ fragmented approach

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An unconventional path for Reed led right to Penn M. SQUASH | Freshman

offers unique background GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

As Drake so eloquently said, “Started from the bottom, now we here.” For Max Reed, that story is all too true.

The freshman from Lebanon, N.H., has taken a unique and — at times — bumpy path in his short career, but certainly is back on top.

At a young age, he first picked up a racket on the advice of his father, Mark, who himself played for Dartmouth squash.

“That’s how I first got into it, around when I was 10, and I quit hockey and really focused on it,” Max said.

This transition was not easy for the avid fan of the ice, seeing as the outlets were few and far between for Max to get involved in squash around Hanover, a region most known for its passion for hockey.

“My favorite part of hockey was the kids I was playing with. So what I missed the most was those guys because it’s a great team sport and you’re traveling with all of

them. So when I went to squash, I was totally on my own,” Reed said.

Going solo, Reed had to scramble for opportunities to better his game, an issue unknown to the vast majority of players combed through the junior circuit systems.

“A lot of kids played in Connecticut or Massachusetts and they had a school team or a club team and some junior clinic, but I didn’t really have anybody,” he explained. “I played with a bunch of adults, and sometimes the Dartmouth players but there really wasn’t a huge junior squash scene in Hanover. That’s probably what I missed the most.”

Along the way, Reed began training with Dartmouth men’s squash coach Hansi Wiens, an icon in the sport. However, even after putting hockey behind him, Reed was still not dedicating all of his athletic attention to squash. A true athlete, kept his springs free for tennis, in which he lettered all four years of high school.

“I’ve always felt like squash made my tennis better and tennis made my squash worse, but it may have actually helped in the long run because it gave me a mental break and was good cross

training.”

Reflecting on the interplay between the two sports, Reed believes some of the tendencies from the hardcourt may have manifested on the wood court.

“My game is a lot more physical. You’ll see a lot of players that are really polished and have nice strokes. I would say my game is a little rougher around the edges.”

Coach Jack Wyant agrees with this notion, noting that Max’s serves sometimes resemble those found in tennis. The coach gave his mid-ladder stalwart much credit.

“The main thing that I notice about Max positively is that he has a great understanding of the game and what to do,” Wyant said. “I think in large part it stems from his lack of instruction and the fact that he learned the game from watching and practicing on his own, thinking about it and competing at a high level.”

Although the vast majority of his team has developed via the typical processes, Wyant lauds the individualist approach to learning the game.

“The only downside to being part of a junior squash program at big club is you don’t really think as

much, you just do what you’re told because you have great coaches around you,” he said. “Max wasn’t afforded that opportunity so he got to figure some things out on his own which is one of the reasons he’s such a good player.”

While developing into one of the nation’s top rising stars, things turned south for Reed when injury devastated him in his freshman and sophomore years of high school. After suffering hamstring and abductor injuries, he was prevented from competing in the Under-17 National Championships both years.

However, in Reed’s junior year, the World Junior Team Championships were being held, and it was indubitably his biggest challenge to make the cut.

“I was just coming back from my injury and I played a bunch of tournaments, and barely squeezed on. It came down to one match in the playoffs to make the team and I won, like, 13-11 in the fifth.

It was between me and the other kid: Whoever won made the team, whoever lost didn’t. He had like three match balls, but luckily I won.”

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to go to Africa with the rest of U.S. delegation to compete on the world stage in 2014. Not bad for someone still nursing wounds and essentially taught himself the sport only a few years prior.

“Namibia was awesome,” Reed reflected. “That was so cool for me because I had never really gotten to play on a team, so [it was great] training with a bunch of other kids my age at the same level of squash that had the same love and passion for it.”

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for Team USA was Penn’s associate head coach Gilly Lane, who helped guide Reed to don the Red and Blue down the road.

Looking forward, Wyant expects Reed to bulk up some more.

“Physically he’ll get a little bit stronger and I think that will make him tougher to beat than he already is.”

In the meantime, with Nationals on the horizon, the unconventional maestro is looking to continue his journey from zero to 100, real quick.

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Unfortunately, he missed four games due to injury that year and while he would appear in all 28 of Penn’s contests the following season, he was plagued by discomfort from an off-season hip surgery. “Junior year obviously was a rough year for me coming off the surgery,� Nelson-Henry said. “My body last year has probably never felt worse while playing basketball.�

This season has represented a 180-degree turn for the Penn center. Finally healthy, he was able to spend the summer training, improving his post skills and getting in better shape. “When I got here I thought he dedicated himself to the weight room, really slimmed down, got stronger at the same time, bought into the system that we play,� Donahue said.

That summer work was essential because his game relies on exploiting defenders by using his body. “He’s not the most explosive cat on the earth so he’s doing it on sheer physicality,� assistant coach Nat Graham explained. “He has an

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Donahue says of the transformation. “The game starts slowing down. You start getting more confident.�

The results of Donahue’s gameplan and Nelson-Henry’s health are evidenced by the numbers. Now the focal point of the Quakers’ offense, ‘the Big Hyphen’ is leading the team in scoring and rebounding with 12.8 points and 8.4 boards per game (fourth in the Ivy League) to his credit. Perhaps most impressive, however, are his 43 assists, which are tied for second most on the squad behind only freshman facilitator Jake Silpe.

Still, true to his personality, Nelson-Henry remains humble when describing his ongoing renaissance. “Everyone goes through lulls and high points throughout the season.

You can’t lead the team in scoring and rebounding every single game,� he said. “I wouldn’t say it’s me so much as my teammates and the coaching staff doing a really good job setting me up to succeed.�

But Howard is quick to give Nelson-Henry the credit for his improvement. “He’s gotten more patient.

He has better composure in the post,� Howard explained. “If he’s getting doubled he’s passing and finding the open man.

If he’s getting covered by one person, he’s scoring.�

With only five more regular season games in his future, Nelson-Henry can only impact the team so much with his play.

Now, he is beginning to think about what kind of legacy he will leave behind as well as what state the program he called home for four years will be in after he graduates.

school,� he said despite his status as team captain his junior and senior years.

At Penn, he has had a much different experience. “The same sense of holding people accountable wasn’t there because it was public high school basketball. If kids wanted to not care they were allowed to not care.

But here you’re here because you’re expected to put forth a certain amount of effort,� he explained. “For me I’ve never been in a position like I am here where I’m expected to hold people accountable. But I like being a leader of this team because it’s easy to do.�

Nelson-Henry also has a deeper message for the young kids on the team, one that he expresses with maturity well beyond his years. “I’m just a good example of what not to do,� he said. “There have been a lot of positives that I’ve taken away from my playing time here, but there’s been a lot of negatives too. I wanna make sure that they don’t have to see those negatives. I wanna make sure that they learn from the mistakes that I made.�

When Hicks left the program, not only did a door open for Nelson-Henry to grow as a spokesman; the big man also found — and seized — an opportunity to be the center of the offense. As a result, he’s been - Nat Graham filling out the stat sheet like never before.

He’s not the most explosive cat on the earth, so he’s doing it on sheer physicality.�

Numbers game During his first three seasons, Nelson-Henry could be a menace with the basketball in his hands but, entering his senior campaign, he had yet to have a true breakout season.

Statistically speaking his best season came during his sophomore year, when he scored 10.6 points, collected 5.3 rebounds and blocked 0.9 shots per game.

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IQ for the game and knows how to utilize his girth and use angles and he’s got tremendous hands.�

The system, coupled with his health, has seen him play more minutes and get more touches. A ball screen-heavy offense has kept him close to the rim and helped save his energy. Most importantly, he has been staying out of foul trouble. “That’s what happens when you become a senior sometimes,�

Clock winding down Donahue has reiterated that a big part of his message to this team has been focused on restoring excitement within and around Penn basketball and bringing it back to its old glory. “[Penn] has such a historic tradition and great legacy to the program

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that when you lose the kids really feel it,� Donahue said. “I thought this group was really down on themselves and basketball. I just wanted them to have fun again.�

Nelson-Henry has embraced that sentiment with open arms.

Photo by Thomas Munson “For me to say I fell out of love with it is not the case, but I definitely started looking at it more as like a job,� he said. “I think when Coach Donahue got here that definitely changed for the better. Not only did I get into a system that I enjoyed more, but I started having more fun with the team.�

As for what has been the exact cause of the new attitude amongst the team and coaches, NelsonHenry isn’t exactly sure. “I don’t know if it’s directly the way Coach Donahue is changing the program or the system or if it’s just that through the adversity of losing a coach we gained a tighter knit unit.�

But one thing he is sure of is the

direction in which Penn basketball is heading.

“While I may not have the ability to win an Ivy League championship

Whether he goes on to play in Europe, the NBA Developmental League or a landing spot somewhere else, Nelson-Henry will have four proud years to look back upon at Penn.

If things go according to plan, he will be walking down 33rd Street to see his alma mater raise championship banners for years to come.

When that happens there will be many to thank, but Nelson-Henry will undoubtedly be one of the first.

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Quakers are coming in with a supreme abundance of confidence knowing that they will be one of the teams to beat rather than an outsider looking to beat others. “I am happy that we’re finally in the mix,� Wyant said. “We’re a team that has endured difficulty, drama and injury this year and

we’ve been successful�

The last two rounds of the tournament this weekend will be a matchup of goliaths trying to stake their claim as the best in squash for yet another year. This time, Penn hopes that they’ll be the one to finally wrest the crown away from Harvard or Trinity.

“The best part about the way that this season has progressed is that I see so much potential for where this team is and where it can go with Coach Donahue.�

After the final buzzer Nelson-Henry never got the chance to be in the hunt for an Ivy League title, and while this season has been better than the last couple, he again will miss out on a championship run. But he isn’t letting that get to him. As a result, Penn could eclipse seven league wins for the first time in his career.

Nelson-Henry hopes that he can look back at his time with the Quakers and see that he was a catalyst for a new dominant chapter in the history of the Red and Blue.

while I’m here I certainly wanna set the tone back to where it used to be for Penn basketball and get some other people where I couldn’t go, and try and leave it better than where I found it.�

Sounding like a true veteran, Nelson-Henry is at peace with the career he has had. This weekend he will play his final games at the Palestra, and he will likely eclipse the 1,000-point mark on Friday night, sitting just eight points shy of the milestone.

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Junior Anaka Alankamony is confident that Penn women’s squash can win an NCAA title. But two historic powerhouses stand in the way as the Red and Blue try to prove they belong among the nation’s elite programs.

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career that saw him spread very thin across the spectrum of swimming events, he prioritized shorter races that rely more on raw speed than endurance.

“As you get older, you need to change your workout strategy,” Schnur commented. “In law school, he was doing a lot of lifting and trying to get bigger.”

The results paid off, as McHugh stunned the American swimming scene by submitting a dominant performance in the 50-meter breast at the 2014 National Championships. In preliminary heats, McHugh set a U.S. Open record with a time of 27.10 and dropped an almost-as-blistering 27.24 in the final to win the event. With his stellar swim, McHugh automatically qualified for the FINA World Championships — a rarity for a 24-year old operating on the fringes of the sport.

It was a meteoric rise, one that cemented his status as an elite American swimmer and ushered in a new chapter of his athletic career.

In the present, however, McHugh views these achievements — which include an 18th-place finish in the 50 breast

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Over the past few months, he has returned to his aquatic roots as a volunteer assistant coach for Penn swimming, a role which has allowed him to train under his former coach and defer a career in law in favor of pursuing loftier athletic ambitions.

With national and international competition under his belt, McHugh has set his sights on Rio de Janeiro and the 2016 Olympic Trials, which take place from June 26 to July 3.

He will have his work cut out for him, however, as his best event, the 50 breast, is not included on the Olympic schedule of races.

Instead, McHugh will concentrate on the 100 breast, a race that combines both speed and endurance, a combination that can be hard to regain so many years removed from college training.

“I’ve had an interesting runaround. In high school, I was better at the 200 breaststroke. It was a lot longer and I had no speed. When I first got to Penn and through my graduation, I was probably best at the 100. But in law school, with not much time to train, with lifting a lot and with me getting older, the 50 was a lot easier to train for,”

McHugh reflected.

“But Mike loves to focus on swimming a lot, on getting in a lot of laps. That’s going to help me a lot. Training recently has probably been the most intense of my life. And, hopefully, I can use the speed that I have and that no one else in America does. The strategy is to go out and see if anyone can catch me.”

Schnur reiterated that McHugh’s preparation is designed to transform him into a leaner, more efficient swimmer, one capable of displaying both Olympic pace and Olympic stamina.

“After he got a lot bigger in law school, some of our tasks over the past four or five months have actually been to get him smaller,” Schnur said. “Long-course [meters] competition in the Olympics is far more difficult than the short-course [yards], and we discovered after the first semester that he was a little big, a little heavy. So over the past two months we’ve got him to slim down and he’s been swimming faster.”

Despite the intensity of his training, however, McHugh has not lost sight of a more lifelong desire. Completing his degree and pursuing summer internships at law firms strengthened his conviction in pursuing a legal career. In

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And, while McHugh’s return to Penn’s campus can be seen as one of purely personal motivation, there’s an element of family drawing him back too. McHugh’s youngest brother, Colin, is currently a freshman on the team and is following in the footsteps of his older brother as a breaststroke standout. The middle McHugh brother, Dillon, also swam for Penn and graduated in 2015.

Schnur insists that the eldest McHugh’s presence has been greatly beneficial to the current Quakers’ roster.

“I hope they get some inspiration from him. I hope the guys appreciate seeing a 25-year-old combine full-time swimming with his legal ambitions,” said Schnur.

“To see a guy who gave up a firstyear associate’s salary at a major law firm for swimming shows these guys what’s possible. When you go to a school like Penn, you’re completely unlimited in your life.

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Darien Nelson-Henry shut the locker room door behind him during halftime of Penn basketball’s annual visit to Cornell on Feb. 13.

With the coaches outside and the Quakers clinging to a one-point lead over the Big Red, the senior captain — and star center — spoke his mind to the team.

“He was telling us it’s his last time being at Cornell as a player and he really wanted to win that game,” junior forward Matt Howard said. “It was really emotional.”

Instead of just playing out the strings in his final games in a Penn uniform, Nelson-Henry got real with his young teammates.

“Sometimes people’s feelings are gonna be

hurt and sometimes people are gonna agree with you and sometimes they won’t,” he said. “But if you know deep down that whatever you’re saying is best for the team and best for the future of this program, it needs to be said.”

And while he doesn’t think anyone’s feelings were hurt by his comments that night, their sentiments sent waves through the Red and Blue who rallied in order to win a 92-84 slugfest.

Growing into his shoes Nelson-Henry has as dominating of a presence as life allows. At 6-foot-11 and 265 pounds, he is not only often the tallest person in a room but is also frequently the largest player on a basketball court at any given moment. Yet his demeanor is calm and his words are often filled

with encouragement.W/C? But this season, after co-captain Tony Hicks left the program, Nelson-Henry emerged as the vocal leader of Penn basketball.

“My role had to change in terms of maturity level,” the Kirkland, Wash., native said about the effects of Hicks’ departure.

“I was always the positive leader,” he explained. “Tony would be more the overseer.

Now I’ve had to mold my leadership style into a combination of the two, having to hold people accountable but also doing that in a positive way that’s enforcing the right kind of culture on this team.”

The Red and Blue have taken to their leader’s new style, and head coach Steve Donahue thinks the role change has been a product of

Nelson-Henry’s deep connection to the program.

“I think he’s comfortable speaking his mind to guys because I think he feels that he’s indebted to the program in the sense that he’s really worked hard,” the first-year coach explained. “This is his last run and he wants us to play really well. He’s leading by example and he expects other guys to follow him.”

While most college stars may be able to refer back to their days playing high school or AAU ball as the first time they become the centerpiece of a team, Nelson-Henry is in a unique spot this season.

“I wasn’t expected to lead so much at my high SEE DNH PAGE 8

Olympic dreams alive Penn set to prove status for Red and Blue alum as part of NCAA’s elite

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Sometimes everyone just needs a little break. Just ask former Penn swimming superstar Brendan McHugh.

McHugh, now four years removed from his college career, is in the books as one of Penn swimming’s finest performers. By the time he graduated in 2012, his name appeared 11 times on Sheerr Pool’s record board, with two first team All-Ivy distinctions, an Ivy record in the 100-yard breast and honorable mention All-America honors as icing on the cake. Two of his team records, in the 100 and 200-yard breaststrokes, still stand to this day.

Although he and coach Mike Schnur had discussed the possibility of a professional swimming career, McHugh decided to go a more practical route following graduation. After a solid performance at the 2012 Olympic Trials where he finished 10th in the 100meter breast and 16th in the 200, the combination of a broken wrist and an acceptance to the Washington and Lee School of Law

Looking at the rankings for men’s and women’s college squash tells two very different stories. On one side you see a constant reshuffling of the top teams as parity reigns.

The other side shows just a few powerhouses maintaining a stranglehold on the top positions.

The latter scenario is indicative of the women’s side, where a triumvirate of sorts has formed at the top of the rankings between Harvard, Trinity and Penn.

It hasn’t always been this way. Until recently, the Quakers often found themselves on the outside looking in as other elite teams took home Ivy and national championships.

Penn coach Jack Wyant has seen the team through both sides of the coin. In his first few years as head coach of the women’s team, he often found himself on the opposite end of 9-0 score lines after going up against the top teams like the

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Brendan McHugh, a 2012 Penn grad, is an assistant swimming coach at the University — with a shot at the Olympics on the horizon.

spurred McHugh’s wholehearted commitment to his other dream of becoming a lawyer.

But soon, he discovered that his return to the grind of school and study was missing a key ingredient. Not long after his arrival on campus, located in Lexington, Va., he began working as a volunteer assistant coach for the Generals’ swim team and was back in the pool before he knew it.

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“I just missed it,” McHugh said.

“I continued to swim and to swim well. Mike had actually planted the idea in my mind and I guess I couldn’t give it up.”

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Crimson and Bantams.

“We were miles away,” Wyant said. “Despite us being ranked higher we weren’t in the same league.”

The tide started to turn as the Quakers started to bring in better and better recruiting classes. Having talent from top to bottom in all four classes helped Penn finally break through against the teams they were trying to emulate.

“I didn’t appreciate the talent gap until you actually see it,” Wyant added. “I tried to observe the players they had at each position so we knew where we needed to recruit.”

The 2007-08 season was the first time the Red and Blue reached became elite, capturing the Ivy title and advancing to the Howe Cup finals before falling to Princeton. The following seasons saw Penn fall behind Harvard and Trinity as the two teams traded off Howe Cup championships.

The past two seasons have given birth to a Philadelphia juggernaut as — outside of the matches against Harvard and Trinity — most of the matches have been 9-0 or 8-1 Penn wins.

Last season’s Ivy championship for the Quakers remains a

huge milestone for the team. “[Last year’s 5-4 win over Harvard] was one of the best experiences I have had at Penn,” junior Anaka Alankamony said.

“It increases our confidence and lets us know that we can win nationals.”

Despite their rise into the upper echelon of college squash, the coaching staff still looks to the more traditional powers to judge their progress.

“How we do against Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Trinity,” Wyant said, “is how we measure ourselves even today.”

The coaches have been quick to point out that the game is evolving. While the upsets may not flow as freely as they do on the men’s side, parity has begun to emerge in the women’s game.

Schools such as Stanford were able to rocket up the rankings after beating Trinity earlier in the season.

Penn may have finally reached the pinnacle rankingswise, but there’s a huge target on its back from teams hoping to upset the Quakers’ success.

Their competitors aren’t just rolling over, so the Red and Blue have been forced to be SEE W. SQUASH PAGE 8

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