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rika James, dean of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, will become the next dean of the Wharton School on

July 1.

James will succeed Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett, who will leave Penn to serve as dean of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business beginning July 1, according to a press release issued by Penn on Wednesday afternoon. Upon assuming her position at Wharton, James will become Wharton’s first female and first Black dean.

James became dean of Goizueta in 2014, becoming the first Black woman to head a top-25 United States business school. By the end of her first term at Goizueta, James grew the business school faculty by 25%. She also led a significant redesign of the undergraduate business curriculum by integrating immersive learning, technology, and the Emory College’s liberal arts curriculum.

“Erika is an award-winning scholar and teacher and a strong, proven leader who serves as dean of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University,” Gutmann said in the press release. “A passionate and visible champion of the power of business and business education to positively transform communities locally, nationally, and globally, she is exceptionally well prepared to lead Wharton into the next exciting chapter of its storied history.”

James said although it was a difficult decision to leave Emory, Wharton’s impact on the business world ultimately compelled her to accept the position.

“The ability to continue to do this work on behalf of students and faculty and spread the important role that business plays at an institution that has so much global reach was very attractive,” James said.

James said that before she officially assumes the position in July, she will begin working with current Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett and the alumni network in Atlanta, where Emory is located, to become more familiar with the Wharton community.

“One of my first goals will just be to get to learn about the faculty, staff, students, and alumni and understand what motivates them, what they’re excited about, and where they see opportunities for the future,” James said.

Before serving as the Goizueta dean, James was the senior associate dean for executive education at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. She has also served as a visiting professor at Harvard Business School and assistant professor at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business.

“I want to make sure that we continue to elevate [Wharton students’] scholarship and ensure that it is applicable to help solve the world’s greatest

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NCAA sanctions Penn for Jerome Allen scandal Penn Athletics receives probation for two years MICHAEL LANDAU Senior Sports Editor

Penn Athletics and Penn men’s basketball received sanctions from the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Wednesday for the bribery scandal involving former coach Jerome Allen.

After a negotiated resolution process was carried out by the NCAA, Penn was given several significant penalties.

For the Athletics Department as a whole, these sanctions include two years of probation and a $5,000 fine. The men’s basketball program was handed a three-week ban on all recruiting communication this spring and a seven-day reduction in allowable recruiting-person days during the 2019-20 school year.

Potential participation in the NCAA Tournament will not be affected.

Allen received penalties as well, including a 15-year show-cause order. He will be unable to participate in an athletics-related role for

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any NCAA member school during that time. According to an NCAA statement released on Wednesday, Allen did not cooperate with either the NCAA or Penn Athletics while investigations were occurring.

A Penn Athletics statement also released on Wednesday indicated that the Athletics Department accepted responsibility for Allen’s violations, while also hoping that the NCAA would change the way it approaches situations like this in the future.

“Penn Athletics was proactive in this review and fully cooperated with NCAA enforcement staff,” the statement read. “While Penn Athletics and its men’s basketball program accept the penalties handed down by the NCAA, it is unfortunate that this process did not fully differentiate wrongdoing for personal gain versus wrongdoing for competitive gain in penalizing the institution in addition to the involved individual.

The University of Pennsylvania was harmed by the actions of its former head coach, and the men’s basketball program received no competitive advantage.”

Penn Athletics indicated that

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changes have been made to the admissions process for studentathletes to prevent future violations.

“Penn Athletics and the University’s Office of Admissions have significantly enhanced the procedures for the recruitment of studentathletes, including: an expanded recruiting history timeline, proof of recruitment documentation with the athletics compliance office, proof of athletic talent and accomplishment, and additional layers of review throughout the admissions process,” the statement read.

The Allen bribery scandal began in July 2018, when it was revealed that he had accepted money three years earlier from Miami businessman Philip Esformes to get his son, Morris, accepted to Penn as a men’s basketball recruit. It was later revealed that Allen accepted at least $250,000 in bribes.

After an illustrious career for the Red and Blue from 1993-96, Allen was Penn’s head coach from 200915. He is currently an assistant for the NBA’s Boston Celtics.

Allen was not mentioned by name in either the NCAA or Penn Athletics statement.

Michael Horowitz named director of Perry World House Horowitz researches technology and politics AMJAD HAMZA Staff Reporter

Political Science professor Michael Horowitz has been appointed director of Perry World House and Richard Perry Professor.

Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett announced the appointment on Feb. 25. Horowitz has served as interim director of PWH since July 2019 and will succeed PWH’s founding director, Penn Law professor William BurkeWhite.

Horowitz said that PWH will continue to explore a wide breadth of topics through its diverse speakers.

“One of the things that ex-

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cites me is that Perry World House can be a place where we have both Susan Rice talking about American national security and the vice president of Ecuador talking about biodiversity and climate change,” Horowitz said. “We can have both those kinds of conversations and that’s something that we’re going to continue to prioritize.”

Horowitz has taught at Penn since 2007 and served as associate director of PWH from 2015 to 2019. Horowitz’s research interests include technology and global politics, military innovation, and the role of leaders in international politics.

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Penn Global releases video to quell coronavirus fears and denounce xenophobia The video is titled “Stay Strong, Penn” SHARON LUO Staff Reporter

In an effort to comfort students during the deadly global coronavirus outbreak, Penn Global International Student and Scholar Services released a YouTube video titled “Stay Strong, Penn” last Thursday.

The video, which included Mandarin subtitles, features Penn administrators and students leaders from groups like the Assembly of International Students and the Undergraduate Assembly offering reassurance, information about oncampus resources, and warnings against xenophobic targeting. In the video, Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum urges viewers to “know that [their] Penn family will always be there for [them].”

ISSS Director Rudolfo Altamirano said he decided to make the

video to quell coronavirus-related paranoia he had heard about on campus.

“I think people are just paranoid and anxious — not just students, but also staff,” he said. “It’s normal to be anxious because of the fear of getting sick, but this turns into ‘Well, if you’re wearing a mask, I don’t want you to get me sick!’”

Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé said the video was made to unite administrative groups and leaders on campus to stand in solidarity with students who have family affected from coronavirus.

College senior and UA President Natasha Menon, who participated in the video, said she hopes the video will help foster an inclusive environment on campus.

“We have directed students to the anonymous reporting form from Diversity at Penn if they feel like they are targeted in any way,” she added.

The UA recently collaborated with ISSS, Pan-Asian American

Community House, AIS, and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly on Tuesday for the “Send a Positive Message!” event held at Perry World House, where students and staff could write messages to friends and family across the globe who may be in danger due to the coronavirus.

Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Ezekiel Emanuel, who was featured in the video, stressed the necessity of spreading awareness about the reality of the virus.

“We want to make the campus more aware about [the coronavirus],” he said. “This is not something to be hysterical about.” He added that the University is currently working to monitor the situation and has canceled spring study abroad programs in China.

The outbreak is affecting the Penn community beyond study abroad inconveniences. One student from Wuhan, China — the origin of the virus’ outbreak — was forced to take a leave of absence

this semester when his home city went into lockdown before he could return to campus after winter break.

Wharton senior Ruowen Lu, a Chinese international student at Penn who has family in Wuhan, said that although she didn’t like the video quality of “Stay Strong, Penn,” she appreciated the sentiment.

“From a videography standpoint, I don’t think it’s extremely well done, but the fact that [ISSS] took the initiative to do something like that — I really respect it,” she said.

College junior and AIS president Justine de Jesus, who was part of the video, said she thinks the video was not just an outlet to reassure the Penn community about coronavirus, but also to address biases and debunk myths regarding coronavirus.

She also said she has heard her peers in AIS constituent groups who have family in China discuss their anxieties surrounding the virus and travel restrictions. She said

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ISSS Director Rudolfo Altamirano said he decided to make the video to quell coronavirus-related paranoia he had heard about on campus.

she feels that many Penn students lighten the issue in an unproductive way, especially when Penn students joke about wearing face masks to class.

“There’s memes and jokes that

downplay the severity of this issue,” she added. “While the goal of the video is to produce a positive message, [the goal] is ultimately to address the bias and concerns on campus.”

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How the 2020 census could affect all Penn students, regardless of hometown All students are eligible to participate in April 2020 TORI SOUSA Staff Reporter

Pennsylvania is joining states throughout the nation in preparing for the 2020 United States census, which will affect national funding allotted to Philadelphia and Penn over the next decade.

The census is a constitutionally mandated count of every living person in the United States which is conducted every 10 years by the U.S. Census Bureau, a nonpartisan government agency within the Department of Commerce. Every person living in Pennsylvania, including international students at Penn and those registered to vote in other states, is eligible to be counted in the state census. The census data

and demographic breakdowns of populations are then used to decide the allocation of federal funds related to land development, public safety, and legislation.

Political Science professor Matthew Levendusky said although the idea of the census may seem menial, the process can have a huge impact on government proceedings in Philadelphia and the state as a whole.

“The importance of the census is that its numbers drive federal representation and spending for the entirety of the next decade,” Levendusky said.

“It not only shapes how many members of Congress are allocated to Pennsylvania, but every year, hundreds of millions of dollars are allocated via formulas based on the census figures.”

With newly allocated state

funding, Pennsylvania will spend an estimated $4 million on improving census-taking measures to ensure the most accurate count possible for the 2020 census. Each household will receive a census form in the mail by April 1.

This year is also the first time that the Census Bureau will ask Americans to complete the survey electronically, with the hope that this will be more convenient for respondents.

However, traditional census taking options — such as by mail, phone, or in-person — will still be available.

College junior Jaywon Kim first became interested in the census count after taking an Asian American studies class in which she learned that in general, Asian Americans are most likely to be undercounted because they are the least likely to fill out the form.

“As an Asian American, I found that to be really problematic in that this could lead to disparities in congressional representation and how government funding is allocated, so that definitely motivated me to get more involved,” Kim said.

Kim now works for the Census Bureau and is a student organizer of the upcoming Philly Counts 2020: Census Champion Training taking place in Huntsman Hall on Feb. 28.

The event will allow students to learn about local census volunteer opportunities or available employment positions at the Census Bureau. It will also serve to raise awareness about the lasting impact of the upcoming census.

According to Jennifer Braxton, the Media Partnership Specialist at the Philadelphia Regional Census Center, all college students will be count-

Wharton will launch new finance course to teach students how to avoid making financial mistakes The new course will launch in fall 2020 SHIRALI SHAH Contributing Reporter

Wharton will offer a new course in fall 2020 to teach students economic literacy and how to avoid making financial mistakes.

The course, Consumer Financial Decision Making, will be open to students from all years and schools and will explain how to make financial decisions relating to mortgages and insurance. Although some classes cover similar topics, professors Olivia Mitchell and Nick Roussanov said the courses currently offered explain how markets work, rather than how the markets impact individuals.

Mitchell is a professor in the Business Economics and Public Policy Department, and Roussanov is a professor in the Finance Department. The course will be cross-listed as BEPP 202 and FNCE 202.

Mitchell said the common consequences of financial illiteracy are that people sign up for credit cards that they cannot pay back, take out student loans that they cannot afford, and borrow from other sources without understanding interest rates.

Roussanov said unlike other behavioral finance classes, the new course will focus on how to avoid individual financial mistakes, instead of the psychology behind

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The new course will be titled Consumer Financial Decision Making. It will be cross-listed as BEPP 202 and FNCE 202.

their decisions. Mitchell added that no other course currently focuses on financial literacy.

The course will be structured around the stages of a person’s life and the financial decisions they will need to make, Mitchell said.

The earlier modules of the course are meant to help students make the decisions they will be confronting soon, such as pursuing higher education, starting a business, and buying a home. The later modules of the course will focus on topics such as health care and retirement.

“We know from a number of different surveys in our research that financial illiteracy is endemic in the population, not just in the U.S. but around the world. And it’s very problematic for young people,” said Mitchell. “Immedi-

ately [into] college, I think students need to start to understand their financial world and the decisions they’re making.”

Mitchell cited one of her studies, in which young adults aged 23 to 28 were asked three basic questions about interest rates, inflation, and risk diversification. The results of the survey showed that only 27% of people surveyed could answer all three questions correctly.

Roussanov said the course is important because people are more responsible for their financial future now than ever.

“It used to be that you got a job and it was basically — if not for life — for a long time. You got a defined benefit plan and you didn’t have to worry about saving for retirement,” he said. “It’s not like that

anymore. You have to choose your own contributions to the 401k.

You have to figure out what kind of insurance products you do and do not need to buy.”

The professors plan on making the course accessible by making it open to undergraduates in all schools and years.

“We’re not just interested in students from economics or Wharton. You want everybody to leave college with financial savvy, and that’s kind of what we’re trying to do,” said Mitchell.

Both Mitchell and Roussanov said that becoming financially literate will help Penn students understand current financial issues.

“There’s a lot of discussion in the public sphere about consumer financial protection and what kind of regulation is needed to help consumers,” Roussanov said. “We think Penn students should be well-informed to participate given that this is going to be a hot button issue in the next decade or so.”

Mitchell cited the 2008 financial crisis and how it led to discussions about prohibiting certain financial products. She said educating people could allow them to decide for themselves if certain financial products are right for them.

“It’s better to educate people so they can ask the right questions,” she said. “I think we have a real opportunity here at Penn to work with some of the smartest students in the world and help set their feet on a road where they’re better informed to make those decisions.”

Female leaders tell students to ‘take a leap of faith’ at the fourth annual OWN IT conference The summit focused on gender inclusivity KOMAL PATEL Contributing Reporter

Penn’s fourth annual OWN IT female empowerment summit was held on Saturday, bringing women leaders to University City to share their career experiences with Penn students.

This year’s conference, which was held at The Study at University City, marked the first time that the event was not held on Penn’s campus. Leaders said the change was intended to bring more authenticity and professionalism to the event.

Last year, Penn’s OWN IT chapter shifted its focus from female leadership to women’s empowerment and gender inclusivity, a change the group’s co-presidents continued this year. Co-president of OWN IT Penn and Wharton senior Anna Alvarado said focusing the conference more specifically on gender equality drew a larger variety of people to attend the summit.

By shifting the focus, Alvarado said the chapter has been able to invite women that have had “unconventional career paths” to speak to help attendees “make sure that they’re making the best career moves for themselves, no matter what the field is.”

Featuring 32 speakers and moderators, women of various

career paths and backgrounds led discussions on topics such as the effects of social media on self-image. Speakers included Morgan Brown, a Wharton alumna and social media influencer, and Kalisha Dessources Figures, a Ph.D. student at Yale University and former Policy Advisor to President Barack Obama’s White House Council on Women and Girls.

Panel topics included “OWNing Your Image” to “OWNing Your Impact,” which focused on how to succeed in the workplace, despite systemic obstacles like sexism.

This year’s event began with a Keynote Discussion with Samantha Fulgham, the chief creative marketing officer at Bumble. When asked by a moderator

how she made the decision to join Bumble as one of its first hires in 2014, Fulgham told attendees to “take a leap of faith.”

“Never take no for an answer,” Fulgham said. “Everything’s an opportunity and if you can get past the haters, keep going and listen to that gut.”

This sentiment was echoed in various panels throughout the day, with various speakers emphasizing the need to “listen to your gut”.

In the OWNing Your Impact panel, Tamara Harris, a former Congressional candidate and CEO of Tamara Harris LLC, told listeners to “align your accountability and your authenticity” around your passion.

“When you are in misalign-

ment, it will become so increasingly clear that that is not your path,” Harris said. “When you let go of that dream, that vision, that version of yourself that is not in alignment, then the right things will start to flow to you.”

College first-year Hailie Goldsmith, who attended the event, said she enjoyed listening to “ambitious and driven women who are leaders in their field.”

Master of Behavioral Sciences student Saba Kauser echoed this sentiment, and said she enjoyed “all the insights and conversations” at the conference.

OWN IT Penn is part of a series of satellite summits which first began at Georgetown University in 2014. The conference has since expanded to 11 universities across the nation.

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Samantha Fulgham (center), the chief creative marketing officer at Bumble and keynote speaker, told attendees “everything’s an opportunity and if you can get past the haters, keep going and listen to that gut.”

ed as residents of where they are living as of April 1, as opposed to where they grew up or where their guardians live. At Penn, the rules are the same for non-Pennsylvanian students as well as international students.

Students that live on campus will be counted through coordination with the University, and students living off campus will receive the form in the same way as any other Philadelphia household, according to Braxton.

Kim said she would also like to see the Penn administration be more vocal about the importance of the census because a lot of students don’t realize how this can affect Penn directly.

“I feel like a lot of people don’t realize how it affects our democratic process directly, especially as college students.

Although Penn is a private uni-

versity, the census can help us get more research funding and money for other academic initiatives on campus,” Kim said.

At Penn in particular, Kim noted that international students are much less likely to fill out the form because they are unable to vote and do not think they are eligible to be counted in the census. This can lead to less funding for the university; for this reason, the Philly Counts event will be directed more specifically towards the international student population.

Additionally, since the census is only conducted once per decade, Kim said that if anyone wants to get involved, the time is now.

“This only happens once every 10 years, so if I didn’t volunteer now and take action, I know I’d regret it. We’ll be 30 the next time this happens.”

Pa. state proposal aims to counteract expensive housing in Philadelphia

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The average price of a home in University City has skyrocketed in recent years, increasing from $78,500 in 1995 to $500,000 in 2018.

The plan is called “New Deal for Housing” KATIE BUSCH Staff Repoter

A recent group of proposals in the Pennsylvania Senate, collectively dubbed the “New Deal for Housing,” will attempt to expand affordable housing and fight against gentrification efforts in Philadelphia — which can be fueled by Penn and students who live off-campus.

If passed into law, the legislation would increase access to housing and homeownership for “domestic violence survivors, homeless veterans, people living in houses with toxic conditions, victims of housing discrimination and individuals and families seeking affordable housing options,” according to the proposals’ memorandum. According to a study conducted between 2000 and 2014, the University City district has lost over 882 lowcost rental units.

The average price of a home in University City has skyrocketed in recent years, increasing from $78,500 in 1995 to $500,000 in 2018. This has caused the displacement of many former residents, with the area’s Black population declining by more than half, according to WHYY. State Senator Vincent Hughes (D-Philadelphia) introduced the proposal, outlining the four components of his plan in late January.

He confirmed in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian that he hopes to introduce a bill sometime in the near future.

Vincent Reina, a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, believes that investment in affordable housing in Philadelphia is vital given the aging and decrepit condition of properties currently available. Reina believes that the recent attention paid to affordable housing comes as a result of the situation reaching a breaking point for many people in the city.

“I think people have become

increasingly aware of the importance of housing, and in many ways this is reflective of the fact that we haven’t done something for a while,” Reina said. “So it’s like we got to crisis point, and it’s usually at that crisis point where everyone says ‘Oh, we need to act.’”

Reina also said Penn students living off-campus have contributed indirectly to decreasing housing affordability in West Philadelphia and the city generally.

He explained that the willingness many students have to pay more for housing and the increase in demand they contribute has driven up rent, forcing many lower-income individuals to struggle.

Hughes, a graduate of Temple University, believes that housing is a crucial issue in Philadelphia, especially given the city’s abnormally high poverty rate. Philadelphia is often named the poorest of the nation’s major cities, according to WHYY. “Everyone needs a place to live and housing is generally the largest expense individuals and families carry,” said Hughes. “Having access to safe, affordable housing is critical and it is our job as legislators to make that attainable.”

This effort comes on the heels of the Good Cause eviction law, which was signed into law in April 2019 and prevents Philadelphia landlords from evicting tenants without presenting a reason for doing so. However, Philadelphia Tenants Union volunteer Nicholas Krapf believes that much stronger legislation is needed.

Though he believes that there’s still much to be done to improve Philadelphia’s housing system, Krapf expressed hope that the public is becoming more accepting of the importance of affordable housing in the city.

“Having a place to live and rest, I think, on an emotional level, and having a place to do work and raise a family — if you don’t have a place to go where you feel safe, it affects other parts of your life,” said Krapf.

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Three midterms in one day should not be allowed

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omplaints about the imminent “midterm season” are a ubiquitous part of the Penn undergraduate experience. Many students dread these periods throughout the semester filled with papers, exams, and group projects, but they are standard practice at Penn.

For some students, “midterm season” may mean a couple of tests and essays scattered across a few-week period, but for others, exams can quickly pile up on the same days. Students may find themselves having multiple back-to-back-to-back midterms, with little time between them to even eat a proper meal.

And even if students reach out to professors far in advance to get one of several consecutive exams postponed, the professors have no administrative obligation to do so.

To improve this situation, Penn should institute a policy that allows students with three midterm exams in a single day to get one of the exams postponed.

Currently, Penn has a policy that exempts students from taking three final exams in a single day, allowing them to postpone the middle exam. However, no such policy exists for midterms. Although final exams typically cover more material and are more heavily weighted

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than midterms, having multiple midterms in a single day can cause the same level of stress as having three final exams in one day.

Unlike finals, midterms take place in the middle of the semester, when students bear the additional burden of having regular class and extracurricular schedules. If Penn is willing to offer a postponement policy during the final exam period —

a period that, by design, gives students extra time to study — the University should offer the same policy during a crowded midterm season.

Midterms are often worth upwards of 20% of a student’s final grade in a given course.

Many professors teach new material up to the class period before the midterm and wait until then to reveal the format of the exam. For this reason, it

can be difficult for students to begin studying far in advance.

With three exams in one day, it also becomes harder for students to attend review sessions or study groups for all three courses. In this time-pressed situation, having multiple midterms in a single day can cause one or more of a student’s grades to suffer — not because they were too lazy to study, but because there are not enough

hours in each day to properly prepare for three consecutive midterms.

Throughout the semester, students are responsible for juggling their academic responsibilities, extracurricular activities, and social lives, all while trying to remain physically and mentally healthy.

This is difficult on its own, but having multiple midterms on the same day can bring students’ lives to halt and make them feel it is impossible for them to emerge without their GPAs taking a hit. While rescheduling an exam and finding a proctor for that time period may be slightly inconvenient, it can support student mental health in a school that focuses so much on performance and academic rigor.

A student should not be forced to skip sleep to fit in three different study sessions. A student should not feel overwhelmed because he or she does not have time to eat between consecutive exams. Penn students, by nature, have strong work ethics and are no strangers to long nights of studying. Placing three exams on the same day, however, creates unnecessary and unhealthy stress that could be easily mitigated if Penn had a policy to postpone the middle midterm.

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ith The Fresh Grocer’s inevitable demise in the upcoming weeks, Penn students and the University City populace should take advantage of the sales occurring before they run out.

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lated for years, but now it is definite: The Fresh Grocer on 40th and Walnut streets, commonly known as “FroGro,” is soon to close. Some of the details of this closure are up to speculation. While Penn’s administration has announced that an Acme Supermarket will replace it, many of the details regarding

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tution for the past 20 years, representing convenience and efficiency.

But, as with all things, the old will go and the new will come in. Before FroGro closes permanently, spend some time and get stuff at low prices before they’re gone for good.

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Going to another grocery store is also a non-starter for many students. Between the Fresh Grocer’s closing and the opening of Acme, the closest concrete supermarket will be Heirloom Market (close to Domus).

While these stores are similar to the Fresh Grocer in pricing and only several blocks away from Penn’s campus, a significant downside of them is that they are out of the Penn Police Patrol Zone, and therefore out of the Penn community.

Therefore, students should try to stock up on supplies that they might need before the imminent closure. Some big sales include 48 waters (two packs of 24) for only five dollars. Many other items are significantly marked down, such as perishable items and cleaning supplies.

It will be sad to see the Fresh Grocer close, as it has been an insti-

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the closing remain murky, such as when exactly Acme will be arriving.

As such, I recently visited the Fresh Grocer and found an atmosphere that was devoid of the store’s normal bustling vibe. Like with any business that closes, there likely will be sales at the Fresh Grocer over its final week or two of operation — big sales that can be quite advantageous for the University City community. Therefore, Penn students should take advantage of the sales at the Fresh Grocer leading up to its March closure.

Many Penn students rely on the Fresh Grocer as a conduit for groceries and other household products, such as cleaning supplies.

Since the store will be closed, it will become increasingly hard to obtain said items, other than ordering from Amazon or other e-commerce websites.

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t’s midterm season. For some, this week marks the end of the first set of many exams; for others, it marks the beginning. For many of us, however, mid-February is the first time in the semester that we really hit the books in earnest.

It’s the time of year when the pendulum in Penn’s “work hard, play hard” culture swings toward work.

Group study rooms in Van Pelt Library and Huntsman Hall are occupied until the early hours of the morning, and it’s not uncommon for some to spend an entire day at

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a library working, fueled only by Red Bull. A strong work ethic is undeniably etched into Penn’s culture, but this is by no means a bad thing — the effort that we put into our work is an admirable and crucial part of success. In fact, our own Angela Duckworth insists that “talent counts, but effort, in my view, counts twice.”

This culture, of course, has its drawbacks. In 2015, Penn was ranked the 10th most stressful college in America by College Magazine, and Adam Grant, one of

Penn’s highest-rated professors, has contended that our hyper-competitive culture is not only problematic, but worse than it is at many other schools. The culprit, Grant asserts, is our pre-professional culture.

At its core, pre-professionalism doesn’t carry negative connotations. I disagree with the idea that it’s somehow wrong to want to pursue a career in medicine or consulting, but, like many others here, I am concerned with what pre-professionalism seems to represent at Penn: The careful curation of our academic and, to a certain degree, social lives around a career goal.

While it can be argued that the extent to which Penn is pre-professional is exaggerated, it’s undeniable that pre-professionalism does play a part in Penn’s collective worldview.

And when that rampant preprofessionalism is combined with a devoted work ethic, the result is a student body that puts on the blinders and relentlessly pursues its goals without really stopping to ask the fundamental question: Why? Why are you majoring in that field? Why are you pursuing that path? It’s easy to look around you and think that you ought to be doing something because that’s what

everyone else is doing.

So I urge you to put the books down for a minute, step away from your laptop, and introspect.

Consider what motivates you. Is it passion or interest? Is it a career prospect? Is it money?

My armchair theory is that motivation is a finite resource, something that can fuel your productivity until it runs out, tragically resulting in burnout, an issue plaguing an increasing number of young professionals and college students, including many here at Penn. It doesn’t really matter what motivates you, but to reduce stress and prevent burnout, it’s crucial to ensure that your motives are compelling and sustainable.

Spending the time to think about this now will force you to engage in critical thinking about your goals and values, and can teach you a lot about yourself. Maybe it’ll strengthen your faith in your choices and confirm that you’re on the right path. Or, maybe you’ll discover you’re unhappy and you need to switch gears. Either way, pausing and reconsidering your purpose gives you useful insight into your values, your goals, and your attitude toward them.

Of course, doing this too often can be detrimental. Questioning your values and goals too frequently causes indecision and can stall you on your path. If we jump ship the second something becomes difficult, we can find ourselves on many different trajectories yet going nowhere.

But burying our heads in the sand and powering through coursework, clubs, and extracurriculars without a second thought can contribute to a reckoning years down the road, perhaps long after it’s too late.

VARUN SARASWATHULA is a College sophomore from Herndon, V.A. studying the Biological Basis of Behavior and Healthcare Management. His email is vsaras@ sas.upenn.edu.

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Voters should be wary of Bernie Sanders. Here’s why.

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t’s hard to watch the Democratic debates and not feel like America has lost its way. The absence of an American pandemic team. The incessant infighting among Democratic candidates. Continued talk about Russian interference in our elections. Chaos in the office of the director of national intelligence.

Meanwhile, thousands of families have been separated at the border, racism runs rampant, millions of Americans lack health insurance, our criminal justice system is broken, student debt is rising, voters are being disenfranchised, and the global climate change crisis looms.

Voters are anxious. Despite all these pressing issues that need to be addressed by the next resident of the White House, the 2020 United States presidential election must be a referendum on how President Donald Trump has led America astray and how our republic can be salvaged. It is up to the final Democratic challenger to set the tone for the upcoming election.

The horse race reality of the Democratic primaries has seriously obfuscated the goals of this election. First wakeup call: The nominee needs to beat Trump. Second wakeup call: America will lose if we remain divided.

For many, the wakeup call brings them to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board has argued that Sanders is the person to beat Trump. A decisive win in Nevada has only further solidified his frontrunner status. But despite his domination of the early stages of the Democratic primary, we

must be wary of his candidacy.

A day before the Nevada caucuses, Sanders tweeted “I’ve got news for the Republican establishment. I’ve got news for the Democratic establishment.

They can’t stop us.” It would be naïve to ignore the pervasive issues of elitism and narcissism that plague our country’s political establishment.

But such sentiment coming from a candidate who is running on a Democratic ticket is completely unacceptable. The “us versus them” (“them” being the Democratic and Republican establishment) attitude of Sanders and his supporters is not so different from Trump’s “I alone can fix it” comments.

But can Sanders fix it? Out of senators serving 10 years or more, Sanders ranks last in terms of bipartisan bill support.

Compared to other presidential candidates like Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who ranks second in terms of bills signed with bipartisan support, Sanders’ record is less than desirable. Given the current state of partisanship under President Trump, it is worrisome to see a candidate so unwilling to reach across the aisle.

This divisiveness along with the tendency for Sanders’ policies to incite such discordant passions suggests that pressuring Congress to carry out his ambitious agenda would be especially challenging. Throughout Trump’s presidency, we have seen the American people attempting to pressure Congress by way of strikes, protests, and polls.

Congress simply refuses to be pressured. Two-thirds of Americans said the U.S. Senate should have called witnesses to stand during Trump’s

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impeachment trial. This is not what occurred. The disconnect between what the people want and what Congress wants has never been more prominent than during Trump’s presidency. That disconnect must be addressed by the next president, and given the current nature of the Sanders platform, it is unclear whether this can become a reality.

More concerning is the tendency of Sanders’ supporters to speak negatively about his opponents. At a New Hampshire rally, Cynthia Nixon, a prominent supporter of Sanders, had to shut down boos of Hillary Clinton. The Culinary Union of Nevada most recently accused Sanders’ supporters of cyberbullying them for criticizing Sanders’ healthcare proposals.

In an age where “Lock her up!” is a mainstay at Trump rallies, booing by supporters

of candidates within the same party is unacceptable. A legion of supporters who are unable to engage with different perspectives respectively is unacceptable.

Why has Sanders’ campaign has produced such toxic rhetoric? Democrats cannot expect to take the moral high ground in the upcoming election if we find ourselves reverting to tactics reminiscent of those we wish to expunge.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (DMass.), another presidential candidate, said: “The thing we have to ask as Democrats is whether there will be a broad, bitter rehash of the same old divides in our party, or whether we can find another way … we cannot afford to fall into factions. We can’t afford to squander our collective power. We win when we come together.”

Whether or not you agree

with her campaign, the message behind her words rings true. Trump won in 2016 when he appealed to independents, moderate Republicans, and suburban women. Those same voters are the ones who swung for the Democrats during the 2018 midterm elections to flip the House. Listening to and respecting those voters allowed us to flip 40 seats. Now, those same voters must be retained to defeat President Trump.

At the end of the day, it is easy to look at Sanders’ numbers in the primaries and polls and feel as though he is destined to be the candidate. But Sanders’ political progressivism has never stood the test of the general public. By the end of this primary season, we need to be able to unite around a candidate.

It’s time for our generation to pay closer attention to intangi-

ble talents like electability and coalition building, to ponder other perspectives, and to listen to what other candidates are saying. The Pennsylvania primary is April 28, so let’s take some time to watch the process and educate ourselves as thoroughly as possible. The stakes are high — America is on the ropes and voters cannot afford to be uneducated.

AGATHA ADVINCULA is a College sophomore from Brooklyn, N.Y. studying Health and Societies.

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eb. 24 to March 1 of 2020 marks National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, as designated by the National Eating Disorder Awareness Association. Penn’s Student Health Service offers several resources for those concerned about their struggles with eating.

It takes hard work to understand and reverse the toxic behaviors that eating disorders demand you to perform. During a week about raising awareness for them, I’m here to say that no matter what you’ve endured or how much you have put yourself through, your struggle is valid. One massive component of many iterations of eating disorders is not believing that you are ‘sick enough.’ I believe this is mainly born from the misinformed notion that those struggling with eating disorders have a certain look, a body type that outwardly indicates a starvation diet.

But eating disorders are a mental illness. Body dysmorphia has no body type.

A failure to understand that eating disorders are mental illnesses, where a rejection of food is merely a symptom, is literally a matter of life or death. Because so many people are under the impression that to help those suffering is to give them a plate of food, comment “eat a burger” under their social media posts, and make fun of them if they don’t fit the stereotypical skeletal picture, sufferers continue to suffer while drowning in the idea that they aren’t suffering enough. For 700 consecutive days, I logged the food I ate into MyFitnessPal and for 700 consecutive days no amount of calories, from 0 to 3,000, made me feel any better about myself.

I propose Snapchat creates an option to flag photos that we don’t want to resurface on our memories. The other day, I opened my Snapchat to send my daily ‘streak’ to the three

THE OXFORD C’MON | Not everyone is visibly struggling friends I still regularly snap, and I noticed that I had a notification to view snaps from exactly a year ago. Except, when I clicked to see what I was doing exactly a year ago, Snapchat flung me back to exactly four years ago, when I was 17 years old and scared of toothpaste.

More specifically, I was scared of the calories in toothpaste. I’m not going to bother telling you whether or not toothpaste has any calories, because it’s a ridiculous and harmful thing to worry about.

However, 17-year-old Sophia was worried about this and seemingly everything else that would cross her lips.

While many eating disorders can affect a person’s physical appearance, it is harmful to negate someone’s struggle via reference of their body. We live in a world that immediately applauds someone when they lose weight. I think of the many headlines revering Adele

for her recent weight loss. Before notifying the public on her extreme diet plan, media outlets were lauding the star for shedding the pounds. I was uncomfortable with this immediate and extreme celebration.

I had no idea how she had lost weight, if it was intentional or not, and I didn’t think it was any of our business.

It is overwhelming to be constantly thinking about food; to be constantly worried about what your body looks like instead of how it feels. It is embarrassing to admit that you can’t take care of yourself in the way you know you should.

In a sense, those suffering from eating disorders bear the weight of the disorder, but also the public’s odd fetishization and periodical glamorization of their disease.

I’m thinking of the Netflix film “To the Bone” where star, Lily Collins, purposefully lost weight to play the role of the

anorexic lead. Do you think that film would have been successful had Lily Collins not lost weight? If her character looked ‘normal’ (whatever that means)? That is, if the star of this film didn’t look abnormal,

a bony white woman as the face of all eating disorders.

But this week of NEDAwareness is a perfect time to make the smallest first step. Or, if you have already started to seek help, take this week to

"It is overwhelming to be constantly worried about what your body looks like instead of how it feels." would the intrigue, the desire to understand the plight of the main character, still exist?

I’m not trying to diminish the struggles of those who do look drastically ill as a result of their eating disorders, but I do think it is important to recognize when the public is always being force-fed the same image of

congratulate yourself and look at how far you’ve come. And if you haven’t struggled with an eating disorder take a few minutes this week to try to better understand what they are.

You never know who around you could be in need of help that you could provide if you knew how to recognize signs

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that aren’t persistently being represented on a screen.

The photos that my Snapchat memories showed me horrified me. My body dysmorphia typically prevents me from understanding how my body actually occupies space. However, while viewing those photos, I saw what everyone else must have seen. I looked small and scared, because I was.

The other day I looked at the Health app on my phone to see how many miles I walked so I could compute how many calories I had burned. It’s a good thing I can’t do mental math, because after looking at how many miles I had walked that day, I put my phone down instead of opening the calculator app.

I instead applauded my legs, which have gotten bigger since 17-year-old Sophia used to squat in chairs instead of sitting because it burned more calories, and thanked them for taking me over six miles around the city. I have a body that, thankfully, can walk and move and continue to breathe.

And for this week, that is what I choose to celebrate.

Students concerned about their struggles with eating are directed to contact Leslie E. Thompson, MD, Vanessa V. Stoloff, MD and Amanda J. Swain, MD or Connie Murphy, CRNP, via this number, (215) 746-3535, as well as a member of Counseling and Psychological Services.

SOPHIA DUROSE is a College junior from Orlando, Fla. studying English.

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

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Wharton will launch first artificial intelligence for business class next year An online version launched on Feb. 20 ISAAC LEE Contributing Reporter

A new course, Artificial Intelligence for Business, will be offered

by Wharton to undergraduate and

MBA students in 2021. An online version of the course launched on Feb. 20.

Artificial Intelligence for Business will be the first course to be fully dedicated to studying AI in a business context, said Kartik Hosanagar, a John C. Hower Professor of Technology and Digital Business.

Hosanagar, who will be teaching the course, said he believes the new program will allow students who were not previously experienced with AI to become familiar with the field.

He said the curriculum will cover the importance of big data, the use of machine learning, and other forms of AI in business.

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An online version of the course, also taught by Hosanagar, launched on Feb. 20. The online course is a four-week certification program for working business professionals, according to Wharton Newsroom.

Although the online and in-person courses cover similar topics, the in-person course will be more comprehensive and will cover more substantive material.

Hosanagar said the first section of the in-person course will introduce students to the concept of AI and big data, with a hands-on analysis of some of the algorithms that businesses use. The second section will go over the applications of AI in existing businesses, as well as new businesses that will be created

by AI, like self-driving cars. The final section will address the effect AI will have on government regulation of business, consumers, and society.

Hosanagar is a 10-time recipient of Wharton undergraduate and MBA teaching awards. He has mentored student entrepreneurs and invested in student start ups, such as Yodle, a startup advertising company. He has previously written about AI and one of the inspirations behind the course was his book, A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence, which was released last year.

“The goal of the book was to introduce AI to non-technical people,” Hosanagar said. “A lot of the language I use [in the course] is borrowed from the book.”

Although the book covered the effects of AI on citizens, Hosanagar

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said it did not cover the effects on business managers.

“AI has become fundamental to business, similar to the Internet or Cloud computing,” Hosanagar said.

He said the business world has changed and will continue to change because of AI. He said industries, like shipping and medicine, rely on AI to stock warehouses or provide diagnoses and note taking services.

Hosanagar said student demand also played a role in making the course a reality.

“Multiple students have approached me displaying interest in AI from a non-engineering perspective,” Hosanagar said.

Wharton and Engineering junior

Will Morgus said it made sense for a course to have an exclusive focus on AI. “None of our courses are specifically geared towards using AI in a business context,” Morgis said. He said he believed this course would be relevant for newer Wharton students who have not yet declared a concentration.

Hosanagar said Artificial Intelligence for Business is part of a larger initiative to expand student understanding of AI. “My conjecture is that AI will enable drastic changes in consumer, social, and business life,” Hosanagar said. “It is vital we understand this.”

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someone with a distinct vision for global policy and a robust network of global academics and policy makers to help see that vision through to implementation.

In Mike, we get both.”

Pritchett told Penn Today that Horowitz is the ideal leader to chart the future of PWH. “He has been central to its mission from the beginning, galvanizing dialogue and research to address the most critical global challenges,” Pritchett said.

Horowitz earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Emory University in 2000 and his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 2007.

Founded in 2015, PWH is a center for international exchange and public outreach on pressing global issues that aims to foster international policy engagement within the Penn community.

“I’m excited to have this opportunity to continue building Perry World House and making it a place that is welcoming and inclusive for the Penn community,” Horowitz said.

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cluding The New York Times and Politico. Horowitz is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a consultant to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.

He received the Karl Deutsch Award in 2017, an award presented annually by The International Studies Association to a scholar under the age of 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the study of international relations and peace research through a body of publications.

“Penn being a global university will play a critical role in shaping the way that I lead,” Horowitz said. “Perry World House isn’t just about my own research or anybody’s research in particular.

It’s a venue and a hub for global policy engagement.”

“To lead Perry World House, we searched for an accomplished scholar in the study of global and international issues,” Gutmann told Penn Today. “We also sought

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challenges,” James said. “I think Wharton is particularly primed to be able to do that because of the scale and reach.”

The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, a leading graduate business school organization with a focus on diversity, awarded James the inaugural Earl Hill Jr. Faculty Achievement and Diversity Award in 2019 for her “outstanding academic and professional leadership on campus and to the community beyond the boundaries of the university.”

James was also named one of the Top 10 Women of Power in Education by Black Enterprise in 2014 and one of the Power 100 by Ebony Magazine the same year as one of “the most influential and intriguing men and women in Black America.”

“Erika has consistently and constructively drawn upon her own scholarship in the areas of leadership development, organizational behavior, gender and racial diver-

sity, and crisis leadership, applying her own insights into human behavior to foster a work culture that allows people to thrive personally and professionally,” Provost Wendell Pritchett said in the press release.

James earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Pomona College of the Claremont Colleges in 1991 and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan in 1993 and 1995, respectively.

Goizueta has nine programs, which include a two-year undergraduate bachelor of business administration program for juniors and seniors, a one-year MBA program, and two-year MBA program.

James said that her long-term goal is to leave Wharton better than it was when she began the job.

“It’s had incredible leadership over the years, so that will be a tall task,” James said. “As the environment changes, there will be new opportunities to experiment in business education, and I look forward to being able to work with the faculty, staff, and students there on what that might look like.”

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The Undergraduate Assembly passed a record breaking budget of $2.75 million for the next academic year.

The budget, which was passed on Sunday, represents an approximate 3.7% increase from this year’s $2.65 million. The budget is distributed to Penn Labs, the Medical Emergency Response Team, and the six student government branches which include the Student Activities Council and the Student Planning and Events Committee.

UA President and College senior Natasha Menon said the budget increases by a similar amount each year and is correlated to the cost of tuition, which has also risen by approximately 4% each year for the past decade. Menon said the fund for the budget comes from the general fee, a portion of student’s cost of attendance that funds student activities. The general fee was $5,136 for 2019-2020.

Menon said although the tuition for the 2020-2021 academic year has not yet been released by the Board of Trustees, the UA budget committee plans for a 3.7% tuition and budget increase, with potential for extra funds if the increase reaches up to 4%.

The Board of Trustees will vote on the cost of attendance for the 2020-2021 academic year on Friday.

College junior and UA treasurer

Kevin Zhou said that if the UA receives funding for a larger budget, the extra money will go to SPEC to reduce the number of tickets they need to sell for Spring Fling.

Zhou said while the PSG budget allocated by the UA provides money for SPEC Concerts, the UA budget committee requires SPEC to contribute $135,200 to the 2021 Spring Fling concert costs, using the generated revenue from the concert. He added, however, this expectation in past years has been a “historic problem” for SPEC to meet.

Zhou said SPEC generated a large amount of revenue several years ago after high turnout at concerts such as the 2017 Spring Fling concert featuring EDM DJ Zedd.

Based on the large amount of revenue they made, SPEC projected future budgets assuming revenues would reach similar amounts. In recent years, however, Zhou said the concert has not sold enough tickets to cover the amount the UA requires SPEC to contribute.

“They locked [SPEC’s expected revenue] into the budget a lot of years ago,” Zhou said. “But [the expected amount of revenue] is no longer realistic.”

The Fling concert saw low concert attendance in 2018, the first year SPEC consolidated Fling into a one-day event. SPEC President and Wharton senior Linda Ashmead told The Daily Pennsylvanian that SPEC will revert Spring Fling this year to its two-day format in hopes of increasing concert attendance.

Zhou added that while the UA budget committee has worked to

reduce SPEC’s required revenue in the past few years, they cannot eliminate or drastically reduce the revenue at once. He said that doing so would force the UA budget to cover the entire concert expense and cost the UA too much money.

Nominations and Elections Committee Chair and College senior Olivia Crocker said the NEC saw a 2.3% increase in their overall budget and hopes to expand diversity training for all branches of Penn Student Government. In fall 2019, the NEC opened their diversity training to the other five student government branches after PSG members pushed for sensitivity training.

Crocker added that the NEC plans to increase election publicity to include more Facebook ads.

Crocker said the NEC found these online ads to be the most effective way to increase voter turnout amongst students.

SAC received $844,100, a 3.5% increase from this year, for their regular fund for clubs next year. SAC Chair and College sophomore Grayson Peters said the budget increase will allow SAC to fund on-campus conferences for the first time.

The budget also includes an additional $5,540 for the Sophomore Class Board to fund U-Night, a new tradition which began last year, that celebrates class unity for the sophomore class. The Senior Class Board received an additional $5,500 for non-alcoholic Feb Club programming after students complained about difficulties in reserving tickets for Feb Club, a series of events for seniors, this month.

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How Penn Athletics marketing tries to rally the support of the entire Penn student body

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Atheletes and coaches often talk to students on campus CHARLIE MA Sports Associate

For all of the 33 varsity teams at Penn, there are only two people in the Penn Athletics marketing office responsible for attracting fans to attend sporting events: Denise Fitzpatrick and Emily Jakimowicz.

It’s Fitzpatrick and Jakimowicz’s responsibility to devise creative and innovative ways to increase the relatively low attendance at athletics events, but at a school like Penn, they have their work cut out for them. For Penn students, there are many reasons to not attend sporting events: rigorous academics, lack of school spirit, and the appeal of other events around city are just a few.

So it’s up to the pair to overcome these obstacles.

“There’s a weekly on-campus plan leading into every single game. We’re going on campus every week, whether it’s with our marketing staff or with coaches and student-athletes to interact with people and get them to go to games,” Fitzpatrick said.

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52 overall and 38-12 in offensive boards. While the Red and Blue are 10-1 when winning the rebound battle, they fall to 7-5 when on the wrong side.

The Quakers must stop these second- and third-chance opportunities while maximizing their own if they want to have a chance at victory.

And Princeton’s defense? It allows the fewest points in Division I, just an average of 48.0 per game. The Tigers routinely find ways to neutralize their opponents’ offensive tactics,

women’s basketball coach Mike McLaughlin handing out shirts in Houston Hall? What about senior forward AJ Brodeur offering candy on Valentine’s Day? That’s the result of work from Fitzpatrick and Jakimowicz — the two are looking to build a personal relationship with teams and the rest of the Penn community.

From an administrative standpoint, the Penn Athletics marketing team works with different on-campus organizations one-on-one to engage with the community. Fitzpatrick and Jakimowicz partner with College Houses, class boards, veteran associations, performance groups, and the Undergraduate Assembly to promote a rapport between teams and the student body.

In addition to the on-campus groups, Penn Athletics partners with a third-party rights holder, JMI Sports, to secure sponsorships from companies such as La Colombe and Coca-Cola.

When fans attend games, Fitzpatrick and Jakimowicz want them to have the best experience possible. Of course, they cannot control the outcome of the game, but Fitzpatrick and Jakimowicz have found giveaways to be a great way to keep people engaged.

“Once we get you in the door, it’s our responsibility to make

you have fun so you want to come back, so that’s how we are approaching this. That’s our philosophy,” Fitzpatrick said.

While it is important to get students to attend games, Fitzpatrick and Jakimowicz also look to get members of the greater Philadelphia area to support the Quakers. In order to compete with other sporting events in the city, Penn Athletics offers discounted group tickets and partners with community groups, often hosting them for an event or having them perform at halftime.

However, these tactics to incentivize attendance are not uniform. While Fitzpatrick and Jakimowicz target alumni, casual fans, and students to attend men’s games, they look for groups, youth, and families for women’s games.

“For the women, we are growing the student reach. Last week, we had someone generously donate 76ers suite tickets specifically to raffle at a women’s game to get more students to attend.

We are looking to take advantage of opportunities like these for the women,” Fitzpatrick said.

Similarly, attendance at competitions for some of the smaller sports can be hard to achieve.

Throughout the season, Fitzpatrick and Jakimowicz meet with coaches to discuss higher atten-

limiting all non-Kayla Padilla players to four or fewer points on Tuesday. Overall, the Orange and Black limited Penn to 16-of-50 shooting from the floor, including just 4-of-16 from three, its second-worst mark in both statistics this season. The Quakers cannot be expected to shoot well every night, but they will have to be better to challenge a team of Princeton’s caliber.

But most of all, it’s the little things that can end up making the biggest difference. Penn only tallied one assist on Tuesday, compared to Princeton’s 21.

Make no mistake, the Quakers are a very talented team.

With an 7-3 conference record, they still sit solidly at second in the League standings and are on the doorstep of clinching a bid at Ivy Madness.

In terms of individual contributors, Padilla put up 24 points on Tuesday and will very likely be this season’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year.

Junior center Eleah Parker has been on a tear as of late, putting up a double-double in five of the team’s last eight contests. The senior guard duo of Kendall Grasela and Phoebe Sterba provide excellent sup-

dance, looking to implement the ideas that they might have.

However, not every idea is a slam dunk.

“Something I didn’t see go well was the Red and Blue Bashes. They were these pregame parties for basketball and football games, but [they] just didn’t see the attendance and traction I expected from them,” Jakimowicz said. “What I learned was that the amount of time students are willing to give us is always what I expected it to be.”

On the other hand, some initiatives like the National Women in Sports event have seen rapid growth throughout the years, starting with 30 community participants and now growing to over 100.

While attendance at Penn Athletics events is relatively low compared to some other sportscrazed schools, the Quakers are still one of the leaders in the Ivy League.

“Having more students at games changes the atmosphere,” Fitzpatrick said. “It creates way more buzz and excitement. It improves the student-athlete experience, playing in an environment that’s much more motivating.

Everything we’re doing ties back to the concept of having fun and supporting each other.”

port when the team needs it, both averaging over 30 minutes on the court per game.

But when it comes to facing Princeton, the Red and Blue just can’t slow down their biggest rivals.

The only shot Penn has left at the Tigers can only come during next month’s Ivy League Tournament, where the two teams have a strong chance of meeting in the final.

nior forward struggled mightily.

He scored just 20 points on 35.7% shooting across the two games, which forced the Red and Blue to look elsewhere for scoring.

“Individually, I could have done a lot more,” senior forward AJ Brodeur said. “Against Dartmouth, I was missing shots that I usually make, I wasn’t getting to my spots, and I wasn’t getting as aggressive as I usually am.”

Brodeur’s performance not only hurt his team, but it also took him off pace to become the program’s all-time scoring leader. He would now need to average 20.75 points per game to break the record during the regular season. However, Brodeur is optimistic that he can get back on track on both offense and defense.

“This weekend I’m going to make sure I put a real emphasis to go after every rebound and every loose ball, just limit every opponent to just one shot per possession,” Brodeur said. “I think that’s where I can help the team going forward, especially this weekend where Yale and Brown are two of the best offensive rebounding teams in our league.”

Last time the Quakers faced off against the Elis, they won in thrilling fashion at the Palestra. They were able to hold star guard Azar Swain to just 13 points and limit the impact of Yale’s bench. As they look to repeat their success against the No. 1 team in the Ivy League, this time in a more hostile environment, the Red and Blue will have their hands full.

“There’s no simple thing we can do [to beat Yale], there’s about five or six real important things,” Donahue said. “You can’t let them

get the ball moving and get everyone involved and get threes. With that being said, they’re the best inside scorer in the league. We did a good job of making them work for shots and still protect the three-point line.”

At this point in the season, every game matters. However, it would not be the end of the world for the Quakers if they dropped their game against Yale. That is, as long as they are able to handle the Bears the following night.

As it stands currently, Penn is one game back of Brown in the Ivy League standings at No. 5. Because the Quakers lost to the Bears earlier this season, another loss would cost them the tie-breaker and effectively end their chances of making the Ivy League Tournament. With a win, however, their path to the postseason would become a lot more clear.

The Bears have been somewhat of an enigmatic team this season.

They have looked amazing at times, such as when they defeated Harvard.

However, at other times they have looked like the worst team in the Ivy League, such as last weekend when they were destroyed by Cornell — a team that is not known for playing great defense — by a score of 63-45.

Last time the Quakers and Bears faced off, Penn took a six-point lead into halftime, but was demolished in the second half en route to a twelvepoint loss. This was in large part due to Brown senior guard Brandon Anderson’s stunning 31-point performance. If the Quakers want to walk away with a victory this time around, they will have to limit the senior who is averaging 18.0 pointsper-game this season.

Betley’s veteran experience and Brodeur’s contributions on offense are bound to be a boon for the Quakers as they look to make a final push for the playoffs.

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Junior Boris Yang has stepped up after the graduation of Mark Andrew last spring. He broke the pool record in the 100 breast vs. West Chester, which follows his third-place finish in the Ivy Championships last year.

have wrapped up their regular seasons, and now it’s time for championship competition.

Swimming and diving Starting this Wednesday, Penn men’s swimming and diving will compete in the Ivy League Championships hosted

by Harvard. Last weekend, the

A few Penn players received first team All-Ivy selections KATHRYN XU Contributing Reporter

At this time in the year, most of Penn’s winter sports

women competed in their own Ivy League Championships in Providence, R.I, finishing fourth and breaking two program records, despite not winning any individual titles. Sophomore Catherine Buroker placed second and broke her own program record in the 1000-yard free-

style, with a time of 9:39.60.

The Quakers’ (5-4, 3-4 Ivy) last competition came nearly a month ago against West Chester, where they recorded a meet win. There, junior Boris Yang broke the pool record in the 100 breast, with a time of 54.52. Last year, Yang placed third in the 100 breast at Ivy League Championships, as well as second in the 200 breast. Junior Sean Lee is also poised to contribute to Penn swimming’s success, holding the program record for the 200 fly, with a time of 1:45.20.

With the assistance of the two juniors, Penn men’s swimming and diving hopes to take advantage of time off to find success against its Ivy League counterparts.

Track and field Penn track and field will be heading to the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships this weekend, hosted by Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., in hopes of continuing their indoor season dominance. Last weekend, the Quakers competed at the Princeton Invitational, where sophomore Mayyi Mahama not only obliterated the program record, but also set a new Ivy League best in the weight throw with a mark of 21.43 meters.

Another athlete to watch is senior Nia Akins, who ran the

second-fastest indoor 800-meter time in NCAA history two weeks ago, with a time of 2:00.71. On the men’s side, seniors Colin Daly and Sean Clarke look to continue their impressive performances in the mile run and pole vault, respectively. Heading into Ivy Heps, Penn has seven individuals ranked in the top 30 nationally.

At the end of a record-setting regular season, Ivy Heps promises to be a meet to watch as the Red and Blue hope to build off their women’s title and men’s second-place finish from last year.

Men’s squash This weekend, Penn men’s squash will compete for the Potter Cup in the CSA Team Championships, in Cambridge, Mass.

Last weekend, the women’s team placed eighth while competing for the Howe Cup in New Haven, Conn.

The Quakers received multiple first team All-Ivy selections, including unanimous selections for junior captain Andrew Douglas and sophomore Aly Abou Eleinen. Coach Gilly Lane spoke highly of their performances heading into the tournament. “[Andrew and Aly] have definitely stood out as two of the top players in the country in

college squash, and it was great that they received that reward and recognition,� Lane said. “I couldn’t pick two better people to represent our team and our university.�

The last time the Red and Blue competed was on Feb. 9, against Cornell. The nearly three-week gap between then and this weekend marks the longest break in play Penn has had since the start of the new year.

Lane views the extended time off as a boon to the team. “I think the two weeks provided us with a good time to train, get healthy, and have a good amount of time to prepare for the nationals,â€? Lane said. “Sometimes we only get three or four days after the end of the season, so to have these two weeks has been great, and I think that The Boys™ are ready.â€?

This weekend, the No. 3 Quakers (12-2, 6-1) will first look to beat No. 6 Yale (9-6, 4-3). “Our first match is against a tough Yale program that historically has always been tough to play. We are only looking at Friday and that match,� Lane said. “It’s always tough to play a team twice in the same season, so we’re preparing one day at a time.�

Max Martz extends rare Ohio pipeline for Penn men’s basketball public school in the state’s capital. With the graduation of Antonio Woods last year, Martz is the only Ohioan on the Quakers.

Coming to play at Penn, Martz didn’t know what to expect, other than that there would be heavy competition for minutes between the Red and Blue’s entrenched stars and the other players in his recruiting class. Through the majority of his first season, Martz has stood out, only trailing guard Jordan Dingle among the freshmen with 21.2 minutes played per game.

M. HOOPS | The freshman has contributed key minutes ISAAC SPEAR Sports Reporter

The state of Ohio gave us Quaker Oats. It also gave us another Quaker: Penn men’s basketball freshman forward Max Martz.

Martz is from Columbus, where he played basketball at Upper Arlington High School.

It’s rare for Penn basketball players to come out of Ohio, but even less so from a large

Martz has provided consistency in a clearly defined role for the Quakers this season.

Coach Steve Donahue expected Martz to come in and contribute right away with his size and shooting ability. Martz has delivered, shooting at a 42.1% clip from beyond the arc, the second-best mark in the entire Ivy League. Donahue also praised Martz’s mental game in making the transition from high school to college. “He’s someone that we thought would make the transition to college very smoothly,�

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Donahue had this expectation of Martz going back two years to when he first saw him play live at Penn’s elite camp for high school prospects. Martz impressed the coaches at the camp and was offered a spot on the team shortly thereafter.

This offer came unusually early in the recruiting process, and Martz committed when he was just a junior in high school.

Martz always had an eye on Ivy League programs, but only got as far as an elite camp at Princeton and an offer from Dartmouth before his recruitment was closed. “I committed pretty early in the recruiting process, so I think a lot of my recruitment had yet to unfold,� Martz said.

Donahue was aware of Martz very early in his high school career thanks in part to former Penn basketball guard

Scott Kegler, who played for the Quakers in the early 1990s.

Kegler is not only from Columbus but went to the same high school as Martz in Upper Arlington. While Donahue credits Kegler for jumpstarting Martz’s recruiting, Kegler praised Martz for how much he impressed the coaches at the elite camp. “It’s not like I gave him any help, Max did it all himself,�

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It was ultimately a win-win for Kegler, who got to see a basketball player from his alma mater go to play at his other alma mater and star right away as a freshman. “I was thrilled. I love having somebody from my high school [playing for Penn],� Kegler said.

It’s certainly exciting for Kegler and his family — including his parents, who still follow Upper Arlington basket-

ball — to see another athlete from Columbus excel at the next level.

Kegler has followed Martz closely through his first season, either attending, streaming, or listening to every game and constantly texting back and forth with Martz’s family whenever he has a good game or makes a good play. “I like how he plays with confidence. That’s hard when you’re a freshman,� Kegler said. “He acts like he belongs.�

Martz is hoping that he can continue to improve to become a focal point for the Quakers throughout his career. Martz sees in himself the ability to become a multi-dimensional scorer, not just a shooter, and he has the confidence to defend every opponent from guards to bigs.

Whatever improvements may lie ahead, Martz has already proved that he belongs at the collegiate level.

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go-to moves. She was limited to just two points in 19 minutes on the court.

While Parker had an off night, most of her teammates did not fare any better. As a team, Penn had a total of one assist. Had freshman guard Kayla Padilla, who scored 24 of Penn’s 44 points on the night, not exploded for a 15-point third-quarter, the scoreline could have been much uglier.

Coming into the game, the Red and Blue were ninth nationally in fewest turnovers per game (11.6). However, they turned the ball over 19 times on Tuesday, seven coming in the first quarter alone. This gave the Tigers extra possessions and fast-break opportunities, which they took full advantage of by pouring in 22 points off turnovers.

Credit has to be given to the Tigers’ tenacious defense, which used ball pressure and swift movement to cut off the

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Quakers’ passing lanes. But the Quakers did not exactly do themselves a favor, as the rest of the team, Padilla aside, were ice-cold and did not seem to know what the plan on offense was.

Another significant aspect that was missing from the Quakers on Tuesday night was hustle.

Throughout the game, the possession arrow changed three times. Each of those jump balls involved Princeton freshman forward Ellie Mitchell, who was relentless in getting her hands onto the basketball. She finished the game with five steals, matching Penn’s team total.

Mitchell’s spirit proved infectious to the Tigers, as they outhustled the Red and Blue on both ends of the court. Just 23 seconds into the second half and with her team up by 21, Princeton junior guard Carlie Littlefield dove to the ground to recover a loose rebound off her own miss, and, much to the crowd’s pleasure, called timeout before the Quakers could

force a jump ball.

The Red and Blue were also outdone on the glass. Penn grabbed 27 total rebounds, compared to Princeton’s 48 — 21 of which were offensive.

The team as a whole struggled to box out effectively, allowing the likes of Mitchell and senior center Bella Alarie to crash the glass. The Tigers finished the game with 16 second-chance points. The Quakers only had two.

“You’ve got to appreciate the game, respect the game,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “We talked a little [after the game] about the sport, and what it does to you … the grit and the grind needs to be back in the morning.”

Penn only has a few days to get the grind back before another Ivy Weekend, this time hosting Yale on Friday and Brown on Saturday. The Quakers beat both teams on the road earlier this season, but Penn will need to shake off Tuesday’s loss if it wants to add two more wins and clinch its spot in Ivy Madness.

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“Melissa is near and dear to my heart. She’s a tremendous coach,” coach Karin Corbett said. “It was tough at times because I think she knew what our kids’ tendencies were and how to stop them, and I think that got into our heads a little bit.”

The game started off hot, as Penn and Rutgers traded goals to make it 2-2 early in the first half. The score remained stagnant until the Red and Blue added a couple goals to increase their lead to 4-2. Another few goals from both sides capped off a defensively-oriented first half at 5-3.

Capitalizing on their opponents’ turnovers, the Quakers dominated the first half in terms of shooting, posting 23 shots with 12 of them on target.

Opening the second half, senior midfielder Erin Barry completed her hat trick, add-

ing to a team-best nine goals on the season. Just as Penn seemed to be pulling away with a 6-3 lead, the Scarlet Knights responded with three straight goals to tie the game and ensure a close finish with 13 minutes remaining.

In a true team effort, sophomore attacker Taylyn Stadler, senior attacker Gabby Rosenzweig, and junior midfielder Elyse Decker each contributed to a total of five clutch goals to create enough cushion for the Red and Blue to seal the victory despite three late scores from Rutgers.

Stadler finished with a hat trick, while Rosenzweig and Decker each had two goals on the day.

“I think what sets us apart this year opposed to previous years I have been a part of this team is that we have so many girls who can get to goal,” Barry said. “Someone’s always there, and we have a lot of threats, so I think that’s lethal for our team this year.”

The Quakers will not have much time to rest before their next contest, as they travel to New Haven, Conn. to face Yale for their third game in eight days. Saturday will be the Red and Blue’s first Ivy League competition of the season, and they will hope to extend their win-streak to 13 against the Bulldogs.

“Always a goal is to win the Ivy League, so every Ivy game is really big,” Corbett said. “Winning the Ivy League is a great opportunity to be a champion.”

Rosenzweig will have another chance at a record in the Quakers’ next game. With 124 career assists, she is just three assists shy of tying 2013 graduate Nina Corcoran’s mark.

“Ivy games are a completely different animal. I think any team can win at any moment,” Barry said. “Bringing that energy like we have been is going to be really important, and just playing smart is what is going to set us apart.”

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Kayla Padilla continued her strong rookie season with a 24-point performance, but as a team, Penn was stifled by Princeton’s defense. The Red and Blue made just 16 shots and four three-pointers on Tuesday, and they’ll need to play better offensively this weekend against Yale and Brown.

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Penn women’s basketball knew it had to play a nearperfect game to get a positive result against No. 23 Princeton, and the end result on Tuesday night was far from perfect.

Just like they have done against every other Ivy League team this season, the Tigers raced out to a big lead and never gave the Red and Blue a chance to come back, securing an 80-44 result at the Jadwin Gymnasium.

In what was the Quakers’ (17-6, 7-3 Ivy) worst loss of the season — and biggest since a 45-point defeat to Tennessee in November 2014 — they were all off on both sides of the ball.

The first few minutes started decently for the visitors, with back-and-forth play keeping the Quakers in it early. But then the Tigers (22-1, 10-0) struck, closing out the first quarter with four straight three-pointers to take a 13-point lead after 10 minutes.

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three Quaker possessions set the tone for what would be a showcase of offensive disorganization for most of the game.

The Quakers started off by running their usual action plays, but against the No. 1 scoring defense in Division I, they struggled to get clean looks at the basket as the Tigers went through Penn’s screens like a knife through butter.

Penn was held scoreless for nearly 10 minutes spanning the first and second quarters, allowing the lead to balloon to 21 by the end of the half at 34-13.

The Red and Blue’s offense started to get more looks in the second half, outscoring the Tigers in the third quarter. But Princeton suppressed any comeback in the works, shooting lights out and especially dominating on the glass.

For the second time this season, the Tigers proved too strong and Penn could not figure out a cohesive strategy to stop them.

Usually, the Red and Blue can depend on the low post play of junior center Eleah Parker to bail the team out.

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The Tigers are the team to beat this season, and the Red and Blue haven’t found a way to stop them yet

No. 13 Penn women’s lacrosse topped Rutgers, 11-9, in a backand-forth home battle. After Wednesday’s contest, the Red and Blue improve to 3-0, while the Scarlet Knights fall to 4-1.

Lehman was an associate coach for Penn from 2010-18, during which the Quakers won three Ivy League Tournament titles.

She also led the Quakers to two appearances in the NCAA finals during her four seasons with the program as a player from 200509.

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The Tigers have allowed the least points per game in the NCAA this season, and they’ve routinely found a way to neutralize opponents’ key players. The Quakers scored just 44 points on Tuesday.

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Sophomore attacker Taylyn Stadler scored three goals on 11 shots against Rutgers, and she now has six goals through just three games.

In this year’s Ivy League, Princeton women’s basketball has all but locked down the crown. We’ve seen two games between the rivals, and the New Jersey side has outclassed its rival from across the Delaware River both times.

After Tuesday night’s 8044 drubbing of Penn, the

No. 23 Tigers have won 18 straight games, are a perfect 10-0 in Ivy League play, and stand at 22-1 on the season.

In a year where Penn has also beaten an Ancient Eight foe by an equal 36-point margin, Princeton handily returned the favor and sent the Red and Blue crashing down after they had won their previ-

ous seven contests, all against conference opposition.

The Quakers fell behind early and were never able to recover, partly due to a 21-point performance from senior guard Bella Alarie, last week’s USBWA National Player of the Week.

But on a team of offensive and defensive weapons, Alarie is just one player the Quakers have to worry about.

Junior guard Carlie Littlefield averages 13.2 points a game and leads the team in assists (71) and steals (44).

Sophomore guard Julia Cunningham is shooting at a 32.5% clip from beyond the arc, and senior forward Taylor Baur is a force on all ends of the court, with more than 20 assists, steals, and blocks on the season.

Even bench players, like freshman forward Ellie Mitchell, are regularly at risk of having a big night. The rookie had 13 points and six steals against the Red and Blue.

But the glass is where Princeton really presses home its advantage. In the two matchups between the teams this season, the Tigers have outrebounded Penn 92SEE DiGRANDE PAGE 9

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With just four regular season games remaining, Penn men’s basketball is gearing up for what could be a make-or-break weekend for their playoff chances.

The Quakers are heading up north this weekend for their final regular season road trip. On Friday, the Red and Blue will face off against Yale and look to repeat their success against the Bulldogs from earlier this season. The following night, they will look for revenge against Brown in a game with serious postseason implications.

During their earlier loss to Brown (13-10, 6-4 Ivy), the Quakers (13-10,

5-5) were without senior guard Ryan Betley, who suffered an injury during Penn’s win over Columbia on Feb. 8. That may be different this time around as coach Steve Donahue was cautiously optimistic that Betley has a chance to return.

“We’ve got to see how he looks this week, I’m hoping we get him, I can’t [say] how many minutes he’ll play, but hopefully he’ll be out there,” Donahue said.

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Penn will hope that the outcome of this road trip differs from their last, when it fell to both Dartmouth and Harvard, ending any momentum that it had coming off of a big win over top-ranked Yale (20-6, 8-2).

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Senior Ryan Betley, who hasn’t played since Feb. 8, is hopeful he can return this weekend. He ranks fourth in points per game.

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