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Historic West Philadelphia High School building to become apartment complex BOWMAN COOPER Staff Reporter

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Penn student launches clothing line to share her faith Smith attempts to tackle stigma of being open about religious beliefs

he old West Philadelphia High School, only blocks away from Penn’s campus at 48th and Walnut streets, is about to find new life as a luxury apartment complex.

Alumni feel sentimental about the historic structure, which was built over a century ago, and at first, the news of its closing was not necessarily welcomed.

“Initially, back in 2005 when we found out that they were going to

close the old West Philadelphia High School, we were concerned that they were taking away a school for the community,” Alumni Association President Michael Brown said. “We didn’t want to lose the identity of the old school.”

The school’s legendary fourstory Gothic building occupied a full city block between Walnut and Locust streets, bounded by 47th and 48th streets. When the old building

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Philadelphia High School” being developed into apartments.

“We don’t feel bad about it, because we have the new school,” he said. “Our legacy of West Philadelphia High School continues.”

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College sophomore Jazmine Smith is so passionate about her Christian faith that she put it on a t-shirt.

Over winter break, Jazmine decided that clothing featuring Christian messages would be the best way to share her beliefs with others. She quickly began working towards making her idea a reality and launched her clothing line, Rep Yo Faith, shortly after.

“When you wear it, it’s a way to start a conversation” Jazmine said.

There is sometimes a stigma associated with being so open with your religion.

“Often times when Christians speak up

closed in 2011, students relocated to a new building at 49th and Chestnut streets.

West Philadelphia High School added “School“had opened in 1912 with an excess of 5,000 students.

This current academic year, the School District of Philadelphia “the” and “of Philadelphia” enrollment records lists only 538 total students.

Brown has no hard feelings about the high school“old West

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Penn’s endowment, along with that of other wealthy colleges, is being called into question after reaching $10.13 billion in the 2015 fiscal year.

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The United States federal government has launched an open inquiry into Penn’s astronomical endowment, which rose in fiscal year 2015 to $10.13 billion.

Penn, along with 55 other wealthy colleges in the U.S., received a letter from the Senate Finance Committee and the House Means and Ways Committee on Feb. 8. The letter contained 13 questions regarding Penn’s endowment and how the money is used.

The investigation comes at a time when tuition costs are continuing to

rise across the country at rates above inflation.

“Colleges and universities and their spending is of interest periodically for government officials,” said Dawn Maglicco Deitch, the executive director of the Office of Government and Community Affairs. “There will be a group coming together to put together Penn’s response here on campus.”

In 2015, Penn’s endowment was the No. 7 largest of any private college in the country. The college’s endowment has increased steadily in the past five fiscal years, rising $3.55 billion from $6.58 billion in fiscal year 2011 to its current level in 2015.

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Siblings at Penn a draw for prospective students

Conversations can provide valuable advice SOPHIA LEPORTE Staff Reporter

When Wharton freshman Sabrina Sidhu found out her older sister got into Penn, she was ecstatic. A sophomore in high school at the time, Sabrina started crying while her sister was “relatively calm” after announcing that she had been admitted. Two years later, Sabrina started looking at colleges for herself, and she said she was influenced by her sister in deciding that Penn was where she wanted to go.

“Since she was my sister she would tell me everything about the school, not just try to present the best side of it,” Sidhu said. “So I felt like I had a better

understanding of Penn holistically, which definitely influenced my decision to come here.”

Having an older sibling at Penn may seem as if it could be hard to live up to throughout the admissions process, but many current freshmen with older siblings at the University agree with Sabrina that their sibling was actually a great resource at the time.

Engineering freshman Julian Mark didn’t quite have the same reaction to his older sister getting into Penn. A high school freshman at the time, Mark recounts that he “actually didn’t care that much at the time,” but was “really happy for her.” However, Mark agrees that visiting his sister while applying to colleges himself definitely influenced his decision to come to Penn.

“Her going here gave me a

positive feel about this school just in general,” Mark said. “When I went with her I just had a nice experience so it made it easier to see myself here as a student.”

College freshman Eric Selzer had a similar experience when he was applying to Penn. His older brother and College junior Evan, while supportive, “let him make his own decision.”

Selzer, Mark and Sidhu all felt that their siblings didn’t actively try to persuade them to come to Penn, Mark even adding that his sister “joked that she didn’t want me to go here.”

But they said that experiencing the school through their older sibling was a huge influence. “I’m really happy to have someone there for support,” Selzer said of his older brother.

Some speculate that already

having a sibling at Penn means higher chances of getting into the school, even though it does not grant an official legacy status — something Sidhu experienced after getting in early decision last year.

“People at my school, after I got into Penn, they would be like, ‘Oh, that’s great. Your sister goes there too, right?’ and I kind of got the sense that they think that helped me,” Sidhu said.

In a 2009 Q&A posted on The New York Times blog, The Choice, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda noted “having a sibling at Penn does not carry the same weight as a parent or grandparent.”

Furda went on to add that he felt the biggest perk of having a sibling at Penn was the conversations one can have with them about the school.

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Like many siblings at Penn, College freshman Eric and College junior Evan Selzer support each other academically and extracurricularly.

“Conversations with your sibling(s) about faculty and peer interactions and observing their

interactions across campus can provide valuable insight into the community,” Furda wrote.

Penn Museum prepares for Penn Tower demolition Vibration sensors implemented to provide updates STEPHAN CHO Contributing Reporter

With demolition underway at nearby Penn Tower, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology braces for impact.

As work progresses on demolishing Penn Tower to make way for a new Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania patient pavilion, the Penn Museum is taking precautionary steps to protect its collections.

The museum began its preparations last spring, with the installation of vibration sensors, led by Dr. Andrew W. Smyth, a professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University specializing in structural mechanics. Smyth previously led a similar project at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

in New York.

The sensors trigger phone and email alerts if they detect vibrations that exceed one millimeter per second. These alerts provide demolition and construction workers with continuously updated information on how to regulate their work.

Smyth said the sensors have been placed specifically to check especially sensitive supports, including floors, shelves and cases, which produce an “amplification effect” when impacted by outside force.

These concerns have been considerations for the project since plans emerged to demolish Penn Tower 18 months ago. In coordination with the museum and other nearby buildings, the choice was made to take down the building floor by floor, rather than by implosion.

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Penn Museum officials take lengthy precautionsin order to preserve their collection from nearby demolition.

Medicine, said that 21 floors have been removed from the tower, with demolition expected to be

completed by August 2016.

However, museum officials are still preparing for the riskiest

stage of the project — the early construction following the demolition. When the construction begins, workers will begin striking the bedrock that the museum is built on.

The construction poses a particular risk for the museum’s Egyptian Lower Gallery, or Sphinx Gallery, which was constructed in the 1920s and which has an outer wall that faces the ongoing Penn Tower demolition site.

Robert Thurlow, Penn Museum Registrar’s Office Special Projects Manager, said work is already underway to protect the museum’s Egyptian collection.

To protect current installations in the gallery, the museum is using sorbothane, a rubberized shock absorbent material, to keep installation platforms from carrying vibrations from construction upward to the museum’s artifacts.

The Egyptian storage collection, which contains over 40,000

artifacts, will also be moved to an off-site storage facility during construction. Thurlow also said the museum will launch a conservation project for its collection of Egyptian murals, which are made of fragile materials like mud, straw and plaster.

Thurlow said he hopes to provide a “teaching experience” with the conservation efforts surrounding the nearby demolition. At the museum’s Artifact Lab, visitors can witness museum employees in the conservation department preparing vulnerable artifacts for display, including artifacts of ancient Egyptian burial rituals, mummified remains and small models of ships that were intended to carry people to the afterlife.

“Our goal is to impact the stuff that’s on display as little as possible, but also teach people some of the conservation techniques and the importance of caring for our objects,” he said.

Wednesday, FEB. 24 & Thursday, FEB. 25

Dr. Kurt Stenn “Hair: A Human History” Wednesday, February 24th, at 6 p.m.

In Hair, Penn Professor Dr. Kurt Stenn — one of the world’s foremost hair follicle experts — takes readers on a global journey through history, from fur merchant associations and sheep farms to medical clinics and patient support groups.

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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Kurt Stenn has over 30 years of expertise studying hair.

He had a distinguished twenty-year academic career as a Professor of Pathology and Dermatology at the Yale University School of Medicine and was for ten years Director of Skin Biology at Johnson & Johnson.

Dr. Asali Solomon “Disgruntled” Thursday, February 25th, at 6 p.m.

Dr. Asali Solomon, author of Disgruntled, grew up in West Philadelphia. Her book is an elegant, vibrant, startling coming-of-age novel, for anyone who’s ever felt the shame of being alive. A portrait of Philadelphia in the late eighties and early nineties and an examination of the impossible double-binds of race, Disgruntled is a novel about the desire to rise above the limitations of the narratives we’re given and the painful struggle to craft fresh ones we can call our own.

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Pickpockets plague students during study abroad Phones are a common steal in popular cities JAMIE BRENSILBER Staff Reporter

Columbia University senior Chinyere McKenzie had just gotten off the metro while studying abroad in Paris when she realized her phone was gone.

Like so many other American students studying abroad, McKenzie had just become a victim of pickpocketing.

“It was near the Louvre, so it was a bit more of a touristy area ... I had just finished an Art Hum visit,” McKenzie said, referring to Columbia’s core class Art Humanities, which took trips to museums throughout the semester. While McKenzie was a Columbia student, she was abroad on a joint program with Penn in Paris.

“We were chatting really animatedly and not really paying attention to what was going on,” she said.

McKenzie checked the time on her phone before boarding the train, and when she got off to transfer, she realized her phone was gone.

“It had to have been [when I was] on the train,” McKenzie said. “So I got back on the train going the opposite direction, and I went back to the station. But of course there was no phone there.”

Like many other students who are pickpocketed, McKenzie did not see the person who pickpocketed her or feel when they took her phone out of her pocket.

“I was like, woah, my phone is gone. It’s probably been gone

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for a few minutes.”

McKenzie went to the metro’s information center and asked them if they had found a phone.

“After that, I was exceptionally cautious always, if my phone was in my pocket, to have my pocket zipped up, or to have it in my hand and holding it.

Live and learn, right?”

McKenzie replaced her phone after the incident and discovered that the person who pickpocketed her had made phone calls on her phone. “When I replaced my phone, I had a couple voice messages from someone who was looking for them.”

McKenzie is not alone — pickpocketing is one of the leading crimes students face while studying abroad. Jaime Molyneux, the director of International Risk Management at Penn, cited opportunistic crime (pickpocketing, purse snatching, iPhone theft, backpack stealing), as the number one travel risk students encounter while abroad.

Molyneux mentioned Paris, France; Ba rcelona, Spain; Madrid, Spain and Gaborone, Botswana as the top cities where Penn students were pickpocketed while abroad. She noted that this also reflected Penn’s travel population, since most Penn students choose the big cities in Europe.

Generally, students do not report their stolen property to Penn, as it is often impossible to recover the property. However, “if the theft results in a safety or health issue, then I want to respond,” Molyneux said.

“We had a student who lost her mental health prescription

medication,” Molyneux said.

“I logged it as a mental health emergency.”

Molyneux also mentioned that she tries to help when students lose their passports so that the students can return home.

Penn Abroad requires all students to attend a pre-departure orientation meeting and/or complete online pre-departure modules. These modules inform students about how to prepare for studying abroad, culture shock and safety concerns.

“Foreign travelers are targeted because they’re not familiar with the environment, because they may not be as vigilant as they are in their home cities or their home towns,”

Molyneux said. “It’s a new environment, and it’s exciting; it’s different; they’re looking around. They’re just not quite as self-aware as they would be when they’re walking a Philadelphia street.”

Molyneux also said that Penn students and Americans in general may be perceived, whether correctly or incorrectly, as wealthy and be targeted in that way.

Columbia junior Emily Clagett was also studying abroad on the same program as McKenzie when her phone was stolen on the metro.

“I was on the metro, and I was having a pretty bad week because my computer had crashed

and a bunch of other stuff ... not having a good day; I was crying,” Clagett said. “I was a target, I guess, because I was crying and American and that’s a no-no.”

Clagett was on the phone with her mother, speaking through her headphones while her phone was in her pocket. “Usually I have my pocket zipped, but I was a little off on this particular Thursday.”

She observed some men on the metro that seemed a little suspicious. “I got a weird feeling. They started moving more around me,” Clagett said. “I felt one guy’s arm go up behind me.”

Clagett did not think much of it at the time, but as the metro

doors opened, she realized that she could not hear her mother on the phone anymore. After finding that her phone was no longer in her pocket, Clagett hopped off the metro.

She called out, “Excusez-moi, puis-je peux avoir mon portable” (excuse me, can I have my phone) repeatedly in the direction of the men she had observed on the metro.

“I was already kind of crying, but then I started really crying,” she said. “This was the worst week, and it just got worse somehow.”

People saw her crying and asked if she was okay. Clagett explained to them that she was having a really bad day and that her phone had just been stolen.

Suddenly, one of the guys who pickpocketed her came back and asked if she wanted her phone back. When Clagett said she did, he gave her a drying rack he was carrying as collateral and went to retrieve her phone.

“He came back with my phone, and he gave it to me. And I gave him back his drying rack, and I said, ‘Merci,’” Clagett added.

Clagett thinks her pickpockets returned her phone because they felt bad for her. “It’s a funny story now.”

Molyneux explained how Penn Global’s website, as well ISOS, and the Department of State provide country-specific information for travelers. In the end, though, students have to be aware of their surroundings.

“If you don’t want it to get stolen, don’t take it,” Molyneux suggests. “If there’s a safe, use it. If there’s a lock, use it.”

concerns about the ever-rising cost of college tuition in the country despite some schools’ efforts to provide financial aid to their students.

In particular, one member of the House of Representatives, Tom Reed of New York, called

for colleges with endowments above $1 billion to spend 25 percent of their annual endowment income on financial aid.

Colleges are required to report specifics of their financial activity to the International Revenue Service each year, but with this

new inquiry by Congress, more information on endowment usage and tax code compliance is expected to be forthcoming.

“We are in partnership with the federal government in that we are recipients of so much grant funding,” Maglicco Deitch said.

“There are [a] number of ways in which we are involved in reporting on [our] finances and spending [to the government].”

The letter from the government asked for a response from colleges by April 1, a deadline with which Penn expects to

comply.

“It seems pretty straightforward,” said Maglicco Deitch. “It just requires the attention of an executive team to put together the details. Our institutional spending and reporting is routine activity.”

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OPINION Justice Scalia’s replacement should get a timely hearing TOE THE LINE: PENN DEMS | Senate Republicans should fulfill their constitutional obligation and vote on President Obama’s nominee

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25, 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 LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor JOYCE VARMA Creative Director ALEX GRAVES Design Editor ILANA WURMAN Design Editor

The sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia on Feb. 13 almost immediately became a dominant news story in American politics. Within hours of Justice Scalia’s death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stated that “this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.” On Tuesday, McConnell affirmed that any person that President Obama nominates will not even get a hearing in the Senate.

To say this even before a nominee has been announced is a new obstructionist low from Senate Republicans. Barack Obama should nominate a replacement, and the Senate should hold confirmation hearings in a timely manner. We should have a national debate about the merits of the president’s nominee, not about whether or not the Senate should fulfill its constitutional obligations.

If Republicans truly want to adhere to an originalist view of the Constitution, they ought to at least hold a hearing on President Obama’s nominee. To do otherwise would be in direct contradiction with

their originalist mantra.

The Constitution of the United States does not cease to apply in the last year of a president’s tenure. The appointment of a justice should not be prevented on the grounds that it is an election year.

Article II, section 2 of the Constitution says that the president “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... Judges of the supreme Court.” This is not an ambiguous statement.

As Sen. Elizabeth Warren noted, there is no qualifier here that reads ” ... except when there’s a year left in the term of a Democratic president.” To disregard what the Constitution unequivocally states on this topic is a blatantly partisan attempt to undermine both the presidency and the judiciary.

Republicans would point to Abe Fortas’ failed 1968 nomination to contradict this, and the socalled “Thurmond Rule.”

They have already pointed to Joe Biden’s comments from 1992 arguing that a potential vacancy on the Supreme Court should not be filled until the next

president was sworn in.

However, Fortas’ nomination and Biden’s comments both occurred during the summer months of an election year; the Thurmond rule also only applies during this time frame. A more

rationale. The American people already have had our say. We elected Barack Obama in 2008 and again in 2012 — with full knowledge that he might have the opportunity to nominate Supreme Court justices. In

The appointment of a justice should not be prevented on the grounds that it is an election year.”

representative precedent was set when President Ronald Reagan nominated Anthony Kennedy in the final year of his second term, and he was confirmed by the Senate 97-0. Again, this is not surprising, given the uncontroversial meaning of Article II, section 2.

One of the most frequently cited reasons for delaying the appointment of the next Supreme Court justice is that the American people ought to have a say in the matter. However, this is a flawed, ahistorical

fact, President Obama appointed not one but two justices during his first term, and the American people overwhelmingly chose to re-elect him. That’s one of the most fundamental roles of the president and Congress. It’s not a radical idea found in some hidden constitutional clause that Nicolas Cage discovered written in invisible ink. It’s a wellestablished democratic precedent. To disregard the will of the American people from the 2012 election because it is politically

expedient is shameful.

More pragmatically, with Justice Scalia’s death, the Supreme Court is split at 4-4 between generally conservative and generally liberal justices. This means that it will likely not be able to issue rulings on many crucial cases coming up if a new justice is not appointed. Instead, lower court rulings would stand, but without a national precedent. Public sector unions, immigration rights, a woman’s right to choose and affirmative action are just a few of the topics with pending decisions that could face a 4-4 tie and receive this treatment.

Without a nationally consistent ruling, many of these subjects would likely appear before the Court again over the next few years, wasting judicial resources. These issues — whatever your position on them may be — are some of the most pressing of our time. By refusing to even hold hearings for President Obama’s nominee, Senate Republicans are impairing the right of the American people to have a functional court system interpreting laws.

This Congress has been

riddled with obstructionism, and it has been one of the most dysfunctional Congresses in American history. In its last year in session, that can change.

By holding hearings on President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Senate Republicans can accomplish two fundamental goals. They can honor the roles of the president and Congress as plainly written in the Constitution, and they can move the court closer to fulfilling its responsibility in a year with critical issues on the docket.

LUKE HOBAN is a College junior and the Penn Dems communication director.

He is a science, technology & society major and a philosophy minor.

Penn Republicans declined to participate in Toe the Line this week, but will be participating in subsequent weeks.

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On Feb. 23, a man in possession of a machete and a stolen ID card was arrested in Van Pelt library.

He was trailed into the library by a Penn employee and apprehended by Penn Police within the span of 16 minutes. While 16 minutes might seem long to anyone witnessing the event, the arrest was fairly quick, and some students in the library were unaware of what had happened until the situation had passed.

We commend Penn and the Division of Public Safety for their quick re-

sponse and prompt arrest of the man with the knife.

Their awareness and communication was excellent and stopped a situation that could have gotten very out of hand.

However, this is a situation that should not have existed in the first place. A man with a machete should not have been able to gain access into Van Pelt, regardless of the fact that he was able to sign in using the visitor management system, which requires photo ID and a picture taken at the visitor’s desk.

At this point, the man had already been tailed by a Penn employee who saw that he was carrying what

becomes, “How was he allowed access into the building?” We can see no reason for the man to have been

What truly matters to the safety of Penn students is not what leaves the library, but what enters it.” appeared to be a knife. If he was so suspicious that he was noticed outside the library, the question then

given access to Van Pelt — a closed area with largely defenseless students studying — judging by the afore-

mentioned suspicion.

Van Pelt seems to pay lip service to safety and security. As we wrote in a previous editorial, bag checks on the way out of the library are the bane of Penn students. The appearance of concern over safety is made, yet actual safety is perhaps created to a lesser degree. We’re not suggesting that bag checks should be instituted on the way in, but perhaps more oversight of who gains entrance is warranted. What truly matters to the safety of Penn students is not what leaves

the library, but what enters it.

On a tangential note, some students did not receive the UPennAlert that there was “Increased Police Activity at Inside Van Pelt library.” Others who did receive the email, but weren’t checking their email every few minutes, missed the immediate alert.

Thankfully, the holes in information dispersal didn’t affect anyone in this particular instance, but there is clearly a bug in the system that needs to be fixed.

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New policy to address issues of short-term leave

Lack of maternity leave among biggest obstacles SOPHIA LEPORTE Staff Reporter

For Penn employees, taking a maternity leave quite often means not being able to take off any more days after returning to work, even if their child is sick.

This is due to restrictions in the current short-term disability policy that applies to employees when they go on maternity leave.

But this is about to change.

The Committee on Personnel Benefits and the Division of Human Resources have recently revised the policy, which will be effective July 1. The new policy only requires an employee to use up 10 days of their sick leave or vacation time before being able to switch to a short-term disability leave. In addition, an employee

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about our faith, we are shut down,” College junior Chaz Smith said.

Jazmine chose the name Rep Yo Faith to speak to the younger generation. The shirts have a message, but the designs are simplistic.

“It’s not too many words,” Jazmine said. “[It’s] sweet and to the point.”

Jazmine is not concerned with creating a huge return on investment. The only reason she charges for the clothing is to pay for the production and delivery from the shirts. She advertises

will quickly become eligible for full coverage, without needing to save up sick days.

Reed Shuldiner has been the chair of the committee for two years, and he says that there has been a high demand for changes in the policy for a while.

“My understanding when I started chairing the committee is this is something that was being brought up as a regular problem,” Shuldiner said. “It was a common occurrence that people would go out, and they would come back and have nothing.”

The short-term disability leave covers not only maternity leave, but also any other sort medical treatment that requires an employee to be out of work for over 10 days.

Shuldiner cites two weaknesses with the current short-term disability policy. The first concerns the requirement for employees to

use up all of their sick days and half of their vacation days before using the short-term disability,

which he believes is particularly a problem for new mothers.

“If you are out on maternity

leave you’d come back and you’d have no leave left even if you have a sick child or something, which

her brand through social media and said that she hopes it gains attention through word of mouth.

“I try not to look at the quantity, because that’s not what it’s about,” she said. “I want to get the news out there.”

She has expanded her original line to include a purity campaign. She said that sometimes people who are waiting until marriage to have sex feel skeptical about telling others.

“Why can’t waiting be cool?”

Jazmine asked. Her shirts in the purity campaign have subtle messages like “Worth the Wait” and “True <3 Waits”.

Jazmine gets the word out about her faith in other ways

as well. She currently writes a Christian blog called The Chosen Ones 2.0. On the blog she addresses everyday issues that teenagers face, and she hopes to be a positive role model.

Jazmine encourages everyone to check out her brand, even if they’re not Christian. She doesn’t want people to feel excluded. “[Christians] have a bad rap about judging people,” Jazmine said. “They think we’re so unfriendly.” This is the kind of attitude that she wants to change using her clothing brand . She hopes to open up conversation and make the topic of faith less

daunting.

“It’s very difficult, but don’t feel ashamed of your faith,” Chaz said. “Even when you feel like you’re being told so often to be quiet.”

In the upcoming months Jazmine will be working on designing a colorful Rep Yo Faith clothing line for kids.

“I’m an outgoing person, and outreach was something that was always easy for me,” Jazmine said, on why she chose to take on this project. She encourages others to use their gifts and not to hesitate to start something.

“I thought up the idea on a Thursday,” Jazmine said. “A nd I was working on it by Sunday.”

Jazmine Smith’s clothing line is designed to express and share Christian messages in an accessible way.

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The Committee on Personnel Benefits and the Division of Human Resources believe the revised short-term disability policy will benefit both mothers and those with sudden medical issues.

frequently happens,” Shuldiner said. “That seems to be a real problem.”

The other weakness with the old policy that Shuldiner referenced was the requirement that an employee must save up a bank of sick days to use for their shortterm disability leave.

“If you had a more serious problem, if you hadn’t been at the University long enough or you didn’t have a big enough of a bank, you would have a period with no coverage at all,” Shuldiner said.

The new policy will hopefully solve both of these problems.

“This was not done to save money,” Shuldiner said. “In fact, overall, the evidence we saw was that this would cost the University more. But we thought this was a reasonable cost with what we thought were substantially better benefits.”

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UA project to help religious students sees pushback UA pushes to record classes for absent students CHERRY ZHI Staff Reporter

For students who have to miss class because of religious holidays, getting access to lecture material is not always a click away on Canvas. While many classrooms are equipped with recording equipment, not all professors record their lectures or post PowerPoint slides or class notes online.

Three years ago, the Undergraduate Assembly Student Committee on Undergraduate Education pushed to get more classes recorded and posted online, but have since given up after administrative inaction.

Last year, Undergraduate Assembly member and College sophomore Michelle Xu picked up the project again and has been

looking for a new solution.

Xu explained that every year, the Vice Provost for University Life sends a list of of nationally recognized holidays to professors, who then schedule midterms and big projects with these holidays in mind and try to avoid conflicts. Although a generalized list is on the provost’s website, a specific list of dates on which professors cannot schedule midterms is not made publicly available.

“A lot of schools like Harvard and Duke post their lists, and I feel like Penn would be at the top of accommodating for their students, but there seems to be a slight lack there,” Xu said.

Since school is in session on many of these holidays, Xu reached out to building managers to try to get all lectures recorded on these specific dates.

“I found that there are over 200 classrooms on campus that record

and in Huntsman, you can record in every classroom,” Xu said.

Yet despite the availability of technology, the administration has pushed back on the project and denounced it on the grounds that it would “require too much manpower, and many professors would feel annoyed by all the extra work.”

Individual schools within Penn decide which classrooms will receive recording equipment and once it is installed, faculty can request recordings without a lot of work.

“The recording just starts and stops automatically, and faculty don’t need to do anything except to remember to put on the microphone,” IT Technical Director of Classroom Technology Services Jeff Douthett said.

Chief Information Officer of Wharton Computing and Information Technology Dan Alig reiterated Douthett’s claim and said

that recording “is not a hassle.” In each Huntsman Hall classroom, there are three cameras, and a central system either allows faculty to request recording schedules for the whole semester or a single session at the touch of a button on the lectern.

Alig also believes that recording a class is not only important because it captures the substantive material but also because of the classroom dynamics themselves.

“Some of the classes in a business school are focused on the conversation and what’s going on ... it’s highly necessary to be able to review that,” he said.

Yet, the administrative roadblock has prevented classroom recording from being standard, and Xu has looked instead to work-study students who take notes for Student Disability Services in hopes that they can pilot a program to take notes for students who have to miss class for religious holidays.

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With its long history of over 100 years, West Philadelphia High School has a legacy that the Alumni Association wants to maintain, even after moving into a new structure.

“It’s just a new face,” Brown said. “We did not want to lose the image of the old West Philadelphia High School.”

In an effort to keep that legacy alive, the Alumni Association works diligently to maintain contact with current students and to make sure that they are informed of their school’s rich history.

“We meet with all the incoming students each September, to identify ourselves so they know who we are, and so they are aware that this school has a history dating back to 1915,” Brown said. “Our feelings, initially, were that we were losing something in the community that we were all attached to, but the

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Despite limited effort to record lectures, Penn’s administration will not go foward with the UA’s plan to assist absent students.

Jesselson Director of Student Disability Services Susan Shapiro explained that “the funds [for SDS notetakers] are for students with disabilities who are expected to be in class” and that the service is not a substitute for students who have to

miss class.

“It’s really important to partner with faculty,” Shapiro said. “How do you determine who to give [note takers] to? For what religion and for what holiday? Every cultural group has different levels of observance.”

transition from the old school to the new school has been a relatively smooth one.”

Brown realized that although he had a sentimental attachment to the building that he graduated from in 1969, the most important part of maintaining his alma mater’s legacy was keeping its reputation alive.

“What the Alumni Association does here is stay in contact — network with the staff and the students — to keep reminding the students that the legacy of this school will live as long as this building stands,” he added.

The Alumni Association does still recognize the original structure’s historical significance, however.

“It’s not only important to West Philadelphia, but it’s important to Philadelphia — you know, why this structure was put there in the first place,” Alumni Association Vice President Johnny Williams said. “The legacy is significant.”

Another way the Alumni Association worked to protect that

legacy was by bringing memorabilia, including basketball championship banners, sports trophies and old yearbooks, from the old West Philadelphia High School to the new building.

“West Philadelphia High School is known for its domination of sports,” Brown said.

Brown and Williams believe the Alumni Association’s greatest responsibility is to maintain a link between the current West Philadelphia High School and its former iteration. They pointed out that the architect of the new building is Emanuel Kelly, who graduated from the old location and based some aspects of the new high school on parts of the old building. Along with this physical connection, the Alumni Association works hard to maintain an emotional link to the school’s history within the student body.

“We work diligently with students to maintain that image — the aura, the mystique — of West Philadelphia High School,” Brown said.

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The real challenge was getting there.

When both Penn squash teams travel to nationals this weekend, they do so knowing that the hardest parts of the season are all things of the past. All that lies ahead is one guaranteed game on Friday and the possibility of a place in the finals on Sunday.

“At this point in the season, all the hard work is done,” coach Jack Wyant said. “Now what we have to do is just go out and perform in a pressure situation.”

Competing at the highest levels of collegiate squash, the Quakers will have their fair share of pressure situations, but the potential outcomes look a little different depending on the perspective.

For the No. 2-ranked women, a place in the finals looks to be a near guarantee.

When Penn goes up against Columbia in the first round on Friday, it will be the two week anniversary of the Quakers’ 9-0 trumping of the Lions. Should they advance to the semifinals, the Red and Blue will face the better of Stanford and Princeton, teams which it handled 9-0 and 8-1 respectively earlier this

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I think our gameplan going into it, because we’ve already played them,” Whitlatch said.

“They already know us, our

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Junior BG Lemmon has big expectations for Penn men’s squash this weekend, especially against a familiar foe in No. 4 Rochester on Friday.

season.

“Everyone feels like they are ready to win,” senior Haidi Lala said. “Everyone knows that this is our best chance to win.”

Awaiting the women at the end of the road will almost for certain be an undefeated Harvard. But the Crimson will find no rollover in the Quakers, who came the closest to defeating the defending champions in a 6-3 loss.

Sitting at No. 5, the perspective from the men’s side may not seem as rosy, but the Red and Blue also have good reason to be confident going into this weekend’s tournament Just a month ago, Penn stood not as underdogs but with a No. 2 ranking of its own before a recent slide gave the team a sharp wake-up call.

“We stumbled up a little bit the last three weeks,” junior BG Lemmon said. “Our last three matches with Yale, Columbia and Cornell sort of took the wind out of our sails.”

“I think we did get a little

gameplan is just to clean everything up and make sure that we execute really well.”

If one thing could knock the Red and Blue off their game, it’s the weekend’s unusual setup. Instead of the

caught up with [the rankings] at the beginning of the year,” Lemmon continued. “The more we realized how it affected us, we tried to remove it from our minds. “ In the first round, the Red and Blue definitely cannot dwell on rankings as they face a familiar foe in No. 4 Rochester, who they defeated, 6-3, on Dec. 5.

“We’re going to have to play our very best to beat them again,” Wyant said.

And yet, win or lose, Wyant and his teams have sufficient reason to call this season a success. Amidst one of the most competitive fields in recent memory, both Penn sides are poised to improve on last year’s rankings.

For Wyant, that may be enough, but he has done nothing to hide the team and particularly Lemmon’s ambition.

“I think we’re in a very good spot to do something big at nationals this week.”

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qualifying for the A-final in the 200, finishing ninth.

Schultz’s junior season was one of emergence, as he finally became what Schnur describes as a “complete swimmer.” With two years of Christian’s mid-distance training under his belt, Schultz finally developed the strategic endurance to match his sheer speed – a combination necessary to dominate all eight laps of the 200 free.

“He had the willingness to put in extra work to train more towards the 200,” Christian explained. “And that’s really why he’s developed into a great 200 freestyler.”

Indeed, in 2015, Schultz won his second Ivy title in the 200 free with a time of 1:34.80 and qualified for NCAA Championships with a B-cut time of 43.09 in the 100 free.

Heading into his senior season, it seemed like Schultz had already accomplished almost all he could individually in the sport. He held team records in all three of his individual events and all five relays, had qualified for nationals and won two Ivy titles. All that was left was winning the 100 free at the conference championship meet in February.

Despite his accolades, Schultz would not cease to dream. For his ultimate season swimming for the Red and Blue, he turned his focus away from himself and towards his team. When asked what his personal goal for the Ivy League Championships this weekend was, he responded, “to get the team to come together and accomplish a goal that we set out at the beginning of the year.”

That goal? Finishing higher as a team than Penn has ever before — or at least in recent memory. This year the Quakers

Although the Friday-Sunday weekend could potentially mess with the Quakers’ groove, the players are unconcerned.

“We have to treat it like every other weekend,” W hitlatch said. “It doesn’t matter where

are definitely in the mix with perennial powerhouses Princeton and Harvard, and a top-three finish seems inevitable. Taking second would be the team’s highest finish since the 1970-71 season when Penn won the first — and only — team Ivy League title in the program’s 110-year history.

While unlikely, a first-place finish for Penn this year would be even more historic.

“Last year was definitely all about NCAAs. He wanted to make it for the first time,” Christian said. “But this year it’s been about getting the team to a place it’s never been. It’s not really even about him.”

Perhaps that is a sign of the kind of leader Schultz is. In practices, he is the swimmer that leans over to the guy swimming behind him on the wall during quick five-second breaks in the set and whispers, “C’mon you’ve got this.” He is the swimmer that gets in his teammates faces and yells at them to “get rowdy,” in sets where Christian asks his training group to test their endurance by sprinting multiple times from the blocks. And he is the swimmer that can give every other kind of encouragement in between those two extremes.

“He always pumps guys up in a set,” Schnur said. “I think that sprint to middle distance group needs that. They do a little more racing, they do a little more quality work. I think they need someone in there to get them a little crazy every day.”

But leaders don’t become great from motivating their teammates through words alone — leaders become great when their actions and their words serve the same end.

“He is more of an actions rather than words guy,” Schnur explained. “He always trains hard, he always gives his best.”

Schultz’s immense work ethic

or when we play as long as we play our game, so we’re ready.”

For the Quakers, a potential title is on the horizon, and this weekend could bring them that much closer. Last year, Cornell proved the only Ancient Eight

is not lost on Christian either.

“He’s definitely been the key leader in the group in terms of consistency and practice habits and opening up peoples’ mind of what you can do in workout and translating that to competition,” Christian said. “I think when you have a guy that’s really excelled over his four years he can help people connect the dots.”

The dots have certainly connected for Schultz so far this year.

In the men’s team’s home season opener against Columbia, the senior broke the longest-standing Sheerr Pool record in the 100 with a time of 44.29. Then, at the Total Performance Invitational at Kenyon College in December, Schultz lowered his own team record in the 100 to a blazing 42.83 seconds — a mark that currently stands as the 12th-fastest in the nation this year.

As Schultz heads into his final Ivy League Championship meet this Thursday, he seems primed not only to match his success from past years, but to build on it. And while the pressure of living up to such high performance expectations may seem daunting, Schultz doesn’t seem to fazed by it. In fact, on race day he won’t even be thinking about it.

“I’ve found in the past that kind of going into a championships and having a time goal or really specific personal goal makes you think a lot makes you get in your head and sometimes that doesn’t bode well for good swimming,” Schultz said. “I kind of let the coaches think for me.”

So when prelims begin on Thursday, when Schultz walks behind the blocks for what will be the beginning of his swan song as a Penn swimmer, there will be no thoughts or expectations. It will just come down to him and the pool and the shot at making what once was an impossible dream a reality.

opponent capable of felling the then-defending Ivy champs other than Princeton, and they may yet do it again.

There are five stops left on the road to a perfect Ivy slate.

Next up: Ithaca.

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Red and Blue take on Ancient Eight rivals at Heps

TRACK & FIELD | Squads

The women finished seventh in 2015 but have high hopes for this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Top three in the league is a great goal. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a step forward on womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and a great meet for menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s,â&#x20AC;? coach Steve Dolan said.

With the addition and return of some great talents, the Red and Blue are right to dream big heading into the end of their indoor season.

Dolan commented on the positive atmosphere bouncing around his team as championships approach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can noticeably see the difference in the way people are at practice. A little more excitement.

Little more focus. Little more determination because they know the big one is coming. â&#x20AC;Ś Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an extra energy level that you feel in Heps week.â&#x20AC;?

This season the team is gifted with an even mix of both seasoned veterans and charged, wide-eyed freshman. Heps will give these young athletes a chance to experience the true team unity and excitement that accompanies a championship meet.

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GEORGIA REILLY Contributing Reporter SATURDAY & SUNDAY

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Come Friday morning, a bus full of track stars will roll out of Philadelphia and eventually arrive in Ithaca. With it: a seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s worth of work, dreams and authentic promise. This record-breaking team is ready to challenge their Ivy League competitors at the 2016 Heps Indoor Track & Field Championships.

At last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s championships, the men finished fourth in the league, just behind Brown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the big names, Cornell and Princeton,â&#x20AC;? junior Chris Hatler said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more of an outdoor team so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just trying to compete, see how we can do and steal points.â&#x20AC;?

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As Penn track and field looks to improve off of 2015â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s indoor Heps finishes, junior Chris Hatler will be among the leaders of the effort.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a freshman you get in there and it gives you a lot of energy, but if no one warns you of it, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh wow this is the first time Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve

felt like this,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? junior Ashley Montgomery described.

With experience comes confidence, as the upperclassmen now

thrive under this same electric environment that was once overwhelming. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel more confident and familiar with the space. Excitement doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make me nervous, it makes me more excited,â&#x20AC;? Montgomery said.

Yet despite being new to the scene, the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s freshmen are in no way taking a back seat. On the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side, three records have already fallen at the hands of freshmen, all eager to improve their own newly-set standards at their first Heps. Freshman Imani Solan is looking to make a big impact this weekend, having already broken Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 200-meter dash record with a time of 24.08 and placing third on the 60m all time board. Rachel Wilson, a thrower, raised Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record to an incredible 17.25 meters.

Completing the talented trifecta is Nicole Macco, edging out the 11-year-old pole vault record with a new bar of 3.86 meters.

The freshman men are not to be ignored either. Calvary Rogers became third all-time in the 200m dash with his time of 21.74. Elias

Gracias found his name in lights as part of the record-breaking distance medley relay team two weeks ago â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at the Fastrack National Invite on Staten Island, Gracias, along with Thomas Awad, Jeff Wiseman and Chris Hatler, lowered the 2005 record to 9:38.81. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Certainly in the last few years, this is the strongest weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone in where, in all different event groups, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something to be excited about,â&#x20AC;? Dolan said.

The magic of Heps stems from the togetherness, the bonding across a team as they collectively strive for greatness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all get together, talk about what we want to accomplish,â&#x20AC;?

Hatler added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but at this point everyone knows what they have to do really so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not much else you can say, just do what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been training to.â&#x20AC;?

With nerves and excitements running at parallel highs, Penn can expect unprecedented performances and the echoing cries of, â&#x20AC;&#x153;UPENN UKNOW,â&#x20AC;? to follow its track team on to their final leg of the indoor season.

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Traveling to Ithaca this weekend, the Red and Blue will get the chance to become Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first team to win a solo league championship this year, taking on Cornell, Brown and Yale in the Ivy Classic.

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Since Tan is competing again, she generally tweets score updates during the vault and bars events while Neistat takes the floor and beam, making gymnastics the only Penn team to have athletes provide coverage during competition (I think). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having the perspective of someone on the floor is more engaging, and keeps the audience moment-by-moment up to date with whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening,â&#x20AC;? Neistat said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I definitely think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increased our following, and our fan base really likes it.â&#x20AC;?

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anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game,â&#x20AC;? senior bars and beams specialist Amber Hu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the teams have been really strong, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really going to be just who has the best day.â&#x20AC;?

Still, although Penn will enter the title meet ranked third in the league, the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recent performances have provided some optimism. On Feb. 6, the Red and Blue put up a seasonal best score of 190.800 points while avenging a January loss to Cornell. And the team has only improved further since, securing 191.775 points at Towson before yet another seasonal best of 192.400 in last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second-place finish at Rutgers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a lot of good momentum these past few meets, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really been just hard work, staying focused and being mentally strong,â&#x20AC;?

Hu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We plan to continue that this weekend.â&#x20AC;?

Continuing the trend might be necessary for the Red and Blue, since each of the past three Ivy champions have put up scores of more than 193.000 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 2015 effort of 193.750 that was a mere 0.300 points ahead of the runner-up Bears. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think [a seasonal best] will be needed to win,â&#x20AC;? Hu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obviously what we want to do.â&#x20AC;?

With all four teams being so evenly matched, the Quakers will take any edge they can get, and one boost might come in the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social media presence. Since the 2014-15 season, the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Twitter account has been operated by athletes during meets, with junior beam specialist Kelly Tan and sophomore bars specialist Olivia Neistat running the show this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year I was out for the season, so the coaches had me do social media for all of the home meets, and it was a success,â&#x20AC;? Tan

This weekend the Penn-Penn State rivalry will play out yet again on the courts of Hecht Tennis Center as the schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis teams will engage in a battle of squads ranked in the top 60 of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.

The Quakers (4-6, 1-2 Ivy) look to continue rolling after an easy win over New Mexico last weekend.

Securing that win, along with beating No. 38 Dartmouth and losing closely contested matches to No. 52 Princeton and No. 32 Harvard, has propelled the Red and Blue into 59th in the rankings, their first national rank this season.

The undefeated Nittany Lions (9-0) will visit Philadelphia ranked 21st and ready for revenge. Early last season the Quakers shocked Penn State in

State College.

Coach David Geatz recognizes the importance of defeating the Nittany Lions for the second straight year. And although the national ranking has inspired the Red and Blue, they know there is a lot more left on their plates if they are going to make it to the postseason later in the spring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think this is really significant,â&#x20AC;? Geatz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the type of match where if you win, you could jump into the top 40s or even 30s and we need to be in the high 30s to have a shot at making the NCAA Tournament.â&#x20AC;?

Geatz believes that the Penn State match is just one step along a long, difficult path to the NCAA tournament. With numerous matchups against ranked opponents, the Quakers have as difficult a slate as any Ivy League team this season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;God, we have a hard schedule,â&#x20AC;? Geatz laughed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our best player last season left to play pro tennis, and we had several top recruits come in, so maybe I overscheduled a little bit. We only play two teams all season that are

not ranked or have not previously been ranked in the polls already this season. Everyone we play is really good. The plus is if you beat a few of those top teams, you end up in the NCAA Tournament.

The downside is, your win-loss record may end up not-so-good at the end of the year.â&#x20AC;?

This weekend, the Quakers will continue to rely on their young talent, including freshman and top singles player Kyle Mautner, and sophomore Nicholai Westergaard, who was just ranked No. 25 in national doubles polls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mautner has performed great for us all season, even though he only has 10 college matches under his belt,â&#x20AC;? Geatz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And Nicholai is an extremely talented kid and when he puts it all together, he is a really special player. Our young guys have been great.â&#x20AC;?

This test will be important for Penn on Sunday, but with all the confidence the Quakers have at the moment, they have a good shot at handing Penn State its first loss of the season.

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For Penn women’s lacrosse, it is time to write a new story. Last year’s once in a lifetime senior class is gone and their departure came without renewing Penn’s claim on the Ivy League championship. This year, the narrative changes especially a new opponent enters the fray.

For the first time since spring 2012, the sixteenth-ranked Quakers (1-0) will face-off against twelfth-ranked Duke.

Originally the fourth place team at the start of the season, the Blue Devils (2-2) have faltered against top-12 opponents Northwestern and USC. They look to right the ship against a Quakers team that showed signs of a smooth transition in last week’s win over Delaware.

In road games against ranked opponents, Penn is 1-5 since 2013, the year the current senior class arrived. Most recently, Penn traveled to Duke in 2012 and lost, 12-5. Nonetheless, coach Karin Corbett is looking forward to this early season clash.

“I’m excited to travel. It’s a

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own, as seniors Maodo Lo — the Ivy League’s scoring leader a year ago — and Alex Rosenberg also rank among the conference’s top 10 in PPG. Along with Princeton and Yale, Columbia is a clear member of the Ivy League’s elite tier, currently sitting at third in the conference

team that really is close. The chemistry is good,” Corbett said about her squad. Despite being only one game into the season, the Red and Blue have shown that they have the talent and rapport to keep pace in 2016.

The team’s six returning starters have helped keep open the floodgates for the team. It is never easy to replace half of the starting lineup but the Quakers have shown in the early stages that they can do it with great thanks to the team’s new starters.

Starting in net, junior Britt Brown earned the start after impressing in preseason practices.

After acknowledging that there was a tight competition among freshman Maggie Smith, senior Courtney Rushford and Brown, Corbett made it clear that she was impressed by the junior’s performance against Delaware, and does not see a reason to make the switch (but left the option open).

“What we have told them is that it’s kind of week to week and practice to practice and getting them to really try to compete each week,” Corbett said, adding that goalkeepers could even substitute in at halftime. “[Brown] had a great game and that is something that we want to look at.”

Not only did Brown succeed in net, but the new-look defense also kept the ball away from the goal. Captain and midfielder Lely DeSimone lauded the defense’s play on Saturday and

standings.

The Quakers managed to keep the game relatively close during their 63-53 loss to the Lions on Feb. 12 despite shooting only 36 percent from the field in a rough offensive night the Penn coach is confident his team will not repeat.

“Columbia played really well that night,” Donahue said. “I’d like to think we’re better now.

looks forward to seeing their development first-hand.

“I think that having such a young defense, they’ve all stepped up. They’ve all embraced their new roles. They’re really quick learners and we’re

really lucky to have them all,” DeSimone said.

Going up against a potent Duke attack, the back end will need to be even more stout than they were against Delaware, where they let a five score lead

dwindle down to a two goal advantage in the game’s final 10 minutes. The Blue Devils’ top three scorers have combined for 44 points over four games.

Notably, Penn presents a new type of challenge for Duke as the first of their opponents who do not abide by a zone defense. Corbett remains aware of the Blue Devils’ abilities on the attack and knows that solid team defense is paramount.

“They have good challengers, and we’re going to have to really do a good job as a team defense to stop their challenge.”

On offense, the Qua kers match up well with Duke.

Captain Nina Corcoran tallied four assists on Saturday while playing behind the net and also picked up two scores. She leads a Quakers offense filled with scorers but lacking the nationally acclaimed firepower that they had last season in Tory Bensen. Senior Catherine Dickinson believes that Corcoran’s presence behind the net can help mitigate Bensen’s departure.

“I think Tory was an incredible player. Obviously it’s hard to replace that talent. But we have a lot of attackers who really have a lot of experience under their belts.” Dickinson said.

“I think Nina’s a great player who is able to dish out the balls but I think she can score anywhere on the field and everyone’s just ready to go to goal and be a threat and feed and do whatever we can so we’re

We’ve learned from that experience.”

If the Quakers are to win either game, they will likely need to rely on continued excellence from junior forward Matt Howard. Though his play has often been overshadowed

by Darien Nelson-Henry’s solid senior season and the emergence of a deep freshman class, the South Carolina native sits

second on the team in both points (12.6) and rebounds (5.8) per game.

“We really feed off his energy,” sophomore guard Darnell Foreman said. “I’m not sure if the fans can see it from the sideline, but he’s really a major game-changer.”

“He’s really efficient from both ends of the floor,” Donahue added. “He guards bigger guys.

He is one of our best rebounders, and he’s one of the best twopoint shooters in the country.

He’s number one in the league; he shoots 67, 68 percent [from two-point range.]”

Perhaps most importantly, Howard has stepped it up when the games have mattered most – he’s averaging a team-high 14.4 points per game in Ivy play while making 52 percent of his

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Senior Catherine Dickinson offers the experience needed if Penn women’s lacrosse is going to upset No. 12 Duke on the road this weekend.

excited to spread out that opportunity.”

Moreover, the team showcased sophomore Ca roline Cummings at attack to rave results. She recovered four draw controls, attacked the net and put both of her shots in the net.

Corbett believes that Cummings brings a new element to the team.

“I think that Caroline Cummings coming in had some great draws and a couple of really nice goals... She’s very creative, and so it’s fun to see that and see her creativity that she can bring out on the field,” Corbett said. “She’s a tremendous stick.”

The team’s offense will need to find a way to put balls in the net against Duke’s stingy defense. Kelsey Duryea minds the net for the Blue Devils and has been very successful to date: she’s saved 54.2 percent of shot directed at her, which would have led the NCAA last season.

In a battle of top-20 programs, the Quakers have their work cut out for them. Nevertheless, the team is enthusiastic to take on a new opponent on the road to the Ivy League championship and NCAA Tournament.

“I think it’s exciting. You’re always excited to play a top-15 team and see what your team does against them. I think we’re really looking forward to this game against Duke, and we’ll see what we have in store for them.”

field goals.

However, this weekend will primarily test the junior’s defensive ability, as Howard will likely be tasked with guarding some combination of Morgan, Hatter, Lo and Rosenberg.

And if the first part of the season is any indication, Howard will be more than up to the task.

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They say there’s no “I” in team, that all players are created equal.

But Penn basketball will be soon be reminded that some players are more equal than others, as the Quakers will take on four of the conference’s top players when Cornell and Columbia visit the Palestra this weekend for the men’s final home games of the season.

The Red and Blue (10-13, 3-5 Ivy) will first square off with Cornell (9-15, 2-8 ) on Friday night. In the teams’ first meeting, the Quakers prevailed, 92-84, in Ithaca in a shootout that featured seven different players scoring at least 14 points. Freshman Jackson Donahue scored a team-high 25, contributing to Penn’s highest single-game team point total since Nov. 2009.

The Big Red are no strangers to high-scoring efforts, as freshman Matt Morgan and junior Robert Hatter have taken advantage of the team’s high-octane system and occupy two of the top three spots in the Ivy League’s points per game leaderboard. Morgan leads the conference with 19.1 points per contest while Hatter has averaged 17.3 of his own.

“They press you, they force you to go fast. That’s part of their strategy,” Penn coach Steve Donahue said. “You just have to take good shots, make good passes and not turn the ball over.”

However, as their game versus Penn suggested, the Big Red’s frenetic, shootout style of play has led to plenty of points for themselves — but often even more for their opponents. Cornell currently sits tied with Brown for last in the conference with its 2-8 Ivy record.

After the Red and Blue spend a day catching their breath, they will take on Columbia (19-8, 8-2) Saturday. The Lions have a dynamic duo of their

qualifier that he is today.

“I knew he would be a good swimmer — we knew how big he was, how strong he was, what kind of technique he has and what kind of limited background he had,” Schnur said. “But I don’t think any of us dreamed he would be a 1:34 200 freestyler coming in.”

In high school, Schultz was a pure sprinter who excelled in the 50-yard freestyle and reached the limits of his endurance in the next shortest college race, the 100 free.

Fast forward nearly four years under the watchful eyes (and stopwatches) of Schnur and Christian, and Schultz has become one of the best sprint freestylers in the Ivy League. In addition, Schultz has become a two-time Ivy League

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hen Eric Schultz was a senior at La Salle College High School and considering Penn as the place he would spend the next four years swimming, he never dreamed of becoming an Ivy League champion.

“I never thought about personal goals like Ivy League champion,” the senior co-captain of Penn men’s swim team said. “I maybe thought it was something I couldn’t do.”

Even the coaches that recruited him, head coach Mike Schnur and assistant coach Marc Christian, didn’t expect Schultz to become the bona fide star and NCAA

Champion with titles in the 50 free in 2014 and the 200 free in 2015, making his dreams a reality.

The path to the top of the Ancient Eight in the mid-distance freestyle events for Schultz was not immediately apparent — both for the coaches and for the North Wales, Pa., native himself.

During his freshman season, Schultz’s training focused more on the shorter events due to his sprint-based background. Although he excelled throughout the regular season training in Christian’s sprint group, he came down with tonsillitis on the eve of the 2013 Ivy League Championships and never got to make the most of the season-ending taper meet.

Due to the changing roster on the team the following season,

Christian’s training group became more focused on the mid-distance freestyle events, including the 200 and 500.

“As Marc’s group evolved away from so much sprinting, Eric evolved with that group,” Schnur said. “We realized that in order for Eric to achieve his potential, he couldn’t concentrate on the 50 free.”

The transition for Schultz was gradual though, as races requiring raw speed came more naturally to the then-sophomore. At the 2014 League championships, Schultz won the 50 free — the first time a Penn swimmer would stand atop the podium in that event since World War II. Schultz took second SEE SCHULTZ PAGE 7 JULIO SOSA | NEWS PHOTO EDITOR

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As sophomore guard Lauren Whitlatch has become an offensive force for Penn women’s basketball, teams have been forced to pay her more attention outside — often at the expense of defending the post.

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The rest of the Ivy League is running out of chances to stop Penn women’s basketball.

Nine games into the 14-game Ivy season, the Quakers (20-3, 9-0 Ivy) remain perfect — and only Princeton has even kept the game to single digits with a 50-48 decision on Jan. 9. In the coming edition of Ivy Weekend basketball, Cornell and Columbia are next up to challenge the league

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leaders.

As the other seven members of the Ancient Eight deal ready for their second bouts with the Red and Blue, the search for answers to coach Mike McLaughlin’s squad remain elusive. A large portion of that fact stems from the way the Quakers’ boss runs his practices.

“We always talk about in the scout, what we’re going to do against certain things to counter, you know, if this isn’t effective, we’ll go to this,” McLaughlin said. “We practice ahead of time if we need to change. So hopefully that helps them get acclimated to it quicker in live play.”

The biggest change the Red and Blue have seen from game to game revolves around sophomore guard Lauren Whitlatch. McLaughlin noted that teams tend to be responsive to the Bloomington, Ind., native’s performances, focusing on her play outside the arc — often at the expense of manpower in the post.

Perhaps this was most clear just two weekends ago, when Penn hosted the Lions (12-13, 1-9) and Big Red (13-11, 5-5). Friday night,

as the Quakers coasted to a 71-51 win over Columbia, Whitlatch posted a career-high 20 points on 5-for-8 shooting from three. The next evening, Cornell was able to make it closer as the Red and Blue emerged victorious, 65-50, as they made a conscious effort to go after the sophomore guard.

But even as Whitlatch was limited to three points on two shots, forwards Sydney Stipanovich and Michelle Nwokedi logged 21 and 12 points, respectively.

Therein lies the root problem the Quakers’ opponents face: They can lock down the threats in the post and let Whitlatch launch threes. Or they can open things up down low to slow the free-wheeling shooting of the team’s leading shooter from outside the arc, letting Stipanovich and Nwokedi take over the game.

In the second go-around for each of these teams, it remains to be seen if there’s an answer to the inside-outside dilemma.

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