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ollege senior Riya Chandiramani was working out at Pottruck Health and Fitness Center when she got a text from her dad. Now, she can’t remember what the text said. But she thought she’d done poorly on a quiz in her marketing class, and seeing the text from her dad — a successful man who’d always held her to high standards — was too much.

Soon, she was on the floor of the bathroom in Pottruck, breaking down. But the overwhelming feeling of stress wasn’t new to her.

It had been a part of her life for years.

She remembers the crushing anxiety of tests she had to take at her international school in Hong Kong, and the feelings of inferiority when her parents compared her to other girls. Trying to find her place in the Penn social scene during her freshman year when she’d never drunk alcohol or hooked up with boys. Feeling her perfectionist personality — what had helped her get here, after all — push her towards eating less and less and less.

And all the while, Chandiramani saw her struggle as a manifestation of her own weakness and failure — something she could push through if she tried hard enough.

That night, Chandiramani called her aunt,

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a therapist in Los Angeles. They talked for hours. Her aunt told her she was probably suffering from symptoms of depression and encouraged her to get counseling.

Chandiramani didn’t want to believe it.

How could she be depressed? Mental health had never been discussed in her family. She was privileged to be studying at Penn. She had every advantage in the world.

Chandiramani soon began counseling, but it would be several months before she began to recover fully from depression and an eating disorder. She ultimately took a leave of absence from Penn — not by choice, but because Student Health Service required it after determining that she was at her 12-year-old weight and had a dangerously low heart rate.

Even then, she didn’t want to believe anything was wrong.

All the while, she was halfway across the world from a family who didn’t even want to believe she was struggling. And Chandiramani herself was unwilling to accept that she was suffering from an illness that had always gone unmentioned in her culture. *** Chandiramani is one of hundreds of international students at Penn. Around 12 percent of students hail from outside the United States, according to the 2015-2016 Penn SEE MENTAL HEALTH PAGE 2

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Hamilton Court will open five new restaurants this summer

Why Harvest has been closed for the past few weeks

Some featured restaurants include Halal Guys and Steve’s Prince of Steaks

Students dismayed as popular watering hole closes doors

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Life at the Hamilton Court Apartments is about to become more appetizing.

Five new restaurants are set to open in the Hamilton Court lobby this summer. Before tenants move back next fall, the apartment complex will be home to Halal Guys, a Middle-Eastern themed fast food chain; Bonchon, a Korean fried chicken franchise; Tea-do, a bubble tea spot; I-CE-NY, a Thai ice cream shop; and Steve’s Prince of Steaks, a Phillystyle sandwich store.

University City District spokesperson and 2006 College graduate Alissa Weiss said that traditionally fast-food options in West Philadelphia and University City have been limited to the stereotypical college diet. She said HamCo’s new restaurants’ low prices and late hours will cater to the diverse tastes of Penn’s everdiversifying community.

“Personally, I’m a Penn alum, and there was really nothing like [the new restaurants] on campus when I was there,” Weiss said. “With these five new places … there’s just so much

Harvest Seasonal Grill & Wine Bar, a popular restaurant among Penn students at 40th and Walnut streets, is closed for the foreseeable future.

The University City location is undergoing repairs after a fire damaged the building in January.

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Harvest Seasonal Grill & Wine Bar has remained closed since a January fire caused considerable damage to the restaurant.

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We merely wish to attend a university which consistently places accountability and integrity over reputation and expedience.”

Although the chain’s CEO said minor issues to the electrical, plumbing and computer systems have been fixed, repairs to the exhaust system and parts of the roof are still underway.

“At first it appeared minor but the combination of the fire and the efforts of the fire department to extinguish the fire caused substantial damage,” CEO of the Harvest restaurant line Dave Magrogan wrote SEE HARVEST PAGE 7

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always in line with what her family expected of her. For years, her academic achievement had also meant pleasing her parents.

Even applying to Penn, where her dad received his MBA, was another step in living up to her parents’ expectations.

“You’re downplaying your achievements already, you’re never going to admit to being good at something because the culture is to be humble. And then you’re also feeling guilty by saying, ‘Oh, my dad has given me this much, and I need to make full use of it,’” she said. “And these themes run strongly in what eventually led to me getting really, really, really ill.” *** Chandiramani was raised

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common data set. Far from their homes and families and faced with navigating a new country, international students face a myriad of challenges that are entirely unknown to domestic students.

When it comes to mental health — a topic thrust into the spotlight at Penn after a string of student suicides, an outpouring of student activism and a subsequent bundle of administrative policy changes — those challenges can be particularly trying.

On one hand, international students dealing with homesickness can’t just head home for the weekend. Many must learn to operate in a culture that’s completely different from their own. Some don’t speak English as their first language, making it harder to find footing in academic and social life. Even little things, like missing food from home countries, can make international students’ first few months in the United States demanding ones.

“They [international stu- - Kara Hu dents] may be extremely smart and high-achieving back in their home countries, in Hong Kong but comes from but just coming to a place where an Indian family. Although the amount of reading that’s re- acknowledging mental health quired, or group projects that issues can be difficult for are required, or class participa- students of all cultures, that tion ... all of those may end up difficulty is particularly probeing, for many, significantly nounced for some students new experiences,” said Meeta from Asian backgrounds.

Kumar, the director of outreach Michael Jonathan, a College and prevention at Counseling and sophomore from Indonesia, said Psychological Services. it took longer for him to accept But many of Penn’s interna- he was struggling with mental tional students also grew up in illness because of how he was cultures where mental health is raised. not discussed or even acknowl“I definitely knew that in edged. Some of these students, high school, I was somewhat hiding their stress from their depressed, but because of how peers as well as their family, mental health is viewed, espebecome isolated and postpone cially in Indonesia, it’s typically treatment, allowing their prob- something that is not a condition, lems to worsen. it’s something that’s viewed as a “If you’re at Penn and you’re weakness,” he said. supposed to be successful, and if Research has indicated that you’re not — ‘what’s wrong with Asian college students face you?’” said Anthony Rostain, a greater challenges in the mental psychiatry professor at the Perel- health realm than their peers. man School of Medicine who was Surveys have found that Asian also on the 2015 Task Force on students are more likely to report Student Psychological Health and feelings of stress, trouble with Welfare. “But it’s multiplied even sleep, and hopelessness — but more when you’re talking about were less likely to seek counselsomeone from another country ing. And one study showed that who is not only supposed to be Asian students were more likely happy to be here, but is also privi- than their white counterparts to leged to be here.” have considered or attempted suiThat’s exactly how Chan- cide. diramani felt as her struggles Jonathan remembered one time mounted. Growing up as an only in high school when he broke child with a mother who suffered down and shut himself in his from physical illnesses, she was room for an entire day. To his parthe perfect daughter — always ents, that wasn’t acceptable. They studying, always well-behaved, couldn’t understand that their

son was struggling with an issue that’s almost completely taboo in their culture.

“I personally think it’s representative [of the culture] — if it [a mental health issue] does go badly, parents will recognize it,” Jonathan said. “But then they’ll go back to saying that you were just overreacting, you’re just exaggerating it, and it can’t be that bad.”

Chandiramani first tried to tell her parents she was struggling during winter break of her junior year at Penn, a couple of months after she broke down in Pottruck.

Although she’d rehearsed the conversation, it didn’t go as planned — her parents were defensive, and upset that she had started seeing a counselor at CAPS instead of consulting them first.

Months later, during October of her senior year, Chandiramani finally told her parents on the phone that she “couldn’t live like this anymore.” That was when they finally realized that something was wrong, and they flew to the United States to help her through the treatment program that she eventually began.

Heng Guo, a psychiatrist at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center who has helped with mental wellness outreach among Penn undergraduates, explained that some Asian families’ first instinct when their children ask for help may be to search for a direct solution instead of just listening.

“Most East Asian cultures are taught to not interrupt the chain of command too much, not to complain too much,” he said. “And I can say in my experience, a lot of the times when we’re going through something and talking to somebody, we don’t necessarily want the problem to be solved, we just want someone to be there.”

Yuhong He, the international specialist at CAPS, said stress can arise when students feel pressure to live up to their family’s expectations. And when they feel like they can’t meet those expectations, they can end up feeling incredibly alone.

“A lot of students talk about the pressure that they have to be a certain way, or they have to perform a certain level, they have to get a certain job, because that’s the family’s expectations,” He said. “But in reality, it may be very hard to accomplish those goals, or it may take a longer time — so if they can’t have that conversation with their family members, it makes it that much harder for them.” ***

Reluctance to accept mental they’re feeling. health issues is far from lim“I think, just like all students, ited to international students. At we take into consideration their Penn, a notoriously competitive cultural backgrounds, their school where high achievements family history, their presenting are the norm, hiding personal concerns and all those different struggles is so common that the factors in their personality and term “PennFace” is now univer- the current stressors that impact sally understood. them,” He said.

But for students coming from It’s not unusual for psychocultures that don’t always ac- logical problems to manifest knowledge the severity of mental themselves as physical ailments illness, expressing their problems in some cultures, He explained. can be even harder.

She said that’s something CAPS “Most people internalize tries to keep in mind when stuthe values of the way they grew dents seek help. up, and if the value is that you Chandiramani believes her just have to tough it out or you stress, which ultimately caused shouldn’t have to get help,” Ros- her to develop anorexia, might tain said, “we call that a double have manifested itself as a physibarrier, because you’re not just cal problem because she wasn’t feeling bad, but you’re feeling bad fully able to express the way she about feeling bad.” was feeling.

Kara Hu, a College sophomore “When you don’t have the from Taiwan, began struggling voice to verbally express what’s with homesickness and, even- going on, you show it, and that tually, depression during her may have been what I was doing freshman year at Penn. She’d with my body — showing my struggled in high school as well, pain and showing my distress,” but was reluctant to tell her mom she said. because of the stigma associated Looking back on her experiwith mental illness in her home ence at CAPS, Chandiramani country. wishes she could have seen a “The few people who are ac- counselor from her own cultural tually depressed or experiencing background, someone who might symptoms of depression — they have been able to understand her don’t think it’s a big deal be- issues on a deeper level. Although cause they see that everyone else she didn’t explicitly request to is working just as hard as them see an Indian counselor when and they seem to be doing okay, she started treatment, she said so it’s just not a topic that people she wanted to switch after her are comfortable bringing up,” she treatment begun, but felt uncomsaid. fortable doing so.

At Penn, Hu sees a range of CAPS, while making an effort openness — some people are to hire diverse counselors, is not willing to openly discuss their always able to place students mental health, others less so. But with counselors of their same in her home culture, talking about background because of schedulthings like depression is close to ing — and not all international impossible. students necessarily want this.

“In Taiwan, literally no one is willing to talk about it — there’s just no discussion,” she said.

Once Hu started seeing a counselor at CAPS and taking medication for her depression, she began to feel better. Jonathan struggled at first to get an appointment at CAPS, but he also found its services helpful. - Michael Jonathan “When I told them that I came from Indonesia, they were so helpful with the fact that However, counselors can do inI was saying that I was home- ternal referrals to place students sick,” Jonathan said. “Because with other counselors who might they really do understand that it’s be able to better suit their needs. a 24-hour-plane ride to go back “We, definitely, in our selechome, and I really like that.” tion processes are always keeping CAPS, the primary source of an eye on the breadth and depth relief for Penn students struggling of backgrounds and diversity with mental illness, says it con- within candidates who apply for siders the cultural backgrounds positions,” Kumar said.

Penn also specifically taiof students seeking treatment, and that counselors are aware that lors its outreach to international it may be more difficult for some families to address concerns students to open up about how over stress that might be new to

foreign students, educating them about how to seek help if they need it. Kumar and He have both attended orientations in other countries designed to prepare international parents and students for what can be a stressful first couple of months at Penn. *** For international students coming from cultures where mental health isn’t even a topic of conversation, the openness of Penn’s culture surrounding mental illness — particularly over the last couple of years — can feel like a fresh breath of air.

And Jonathan said it’s helpful for international students to support each other, especially in the current political climate.

International students from the seven countries named in President Trump’s executive order face highly uncertain futures, and even students from other countries who want to work in the United States after they graduate don’t know what the availability of work visas will look like — not to mention the rising wave of xenophobia and racism that’s accompanied Trump’s rise.

“It’s great to just talk to other international people because as much as Americans and the American community are able to help with that ... the international community can share those [concerns] with you because you never know, one day, your country might be put on a list,” Jonathan said.

After her leave of absence, Chandiramani returned to finish her senior year and will graduate this spring. Her recovery is ongoing, but she’s much more open with her parents about her illness.

Jonathan and Hu, too, are more comfortable discussing their issues with their families than they once were.

In all its efforts to alleviate the mental health crisis on campus, Penn has taken steps to address the needs of students from Asian backgrounds in particular. Guo has held workshops with Asian sororities and fraternities, addressing some of the issues that might apply to their specific cultures and teaching them how to help friends who are struggling.

But, ultimately, mental illness remains a problem on a campus that’s seen twelve suicides in the past four years. Guo is encouraged by the progress he’s seen, but believes there is still room to improve.

“This is still the question [of mental health], all the time,” he said. “And we haven’t come up with a good solution.”

it’s late at night, the only option that I have is like Wawa basically.

So having something that’s like right there [in the HamCo lobby] that’s open at decent hours, is very convenient and I do appreciate that.”

In recent years, the restaurant scene around Penn’s campus

has expanded to include a wider array of cuisines. Weiss pointed out that the new food options reflect the recent trend of economic growth in University City. According to a UCD annual report, the district experienced an 11 percent population increase in the last three years, as its workforce swelled to 75,000.

Meanwhile, its foodservice industry expanded by 24 percent since 2009, most recently

Development, Pennovation, just a lot of activity … and people who are running [restaurants] see this and want to be there to cater to an increasing population and an amazing student body.”

Sinha said he is excited by the development around Penn’s campus. He looks forward to living in University City while the district continues to grow — especially if that means more and different food.

In Taiwan, literally no one is willing to talk about it — there’s just no discussion.”

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variety. So between the diversity of options, the price points, and that they’re intending to keep the places open late, it really speaks to college students.”

College junior and HamCo

tenant Wrik Sinha is one of those students. During his stay at HamCo, Sinha has struggled to find unique places to eat — especially while studying later at night or early in the morning.

“A lot of [the restaurants around HamCo] are so similar,” Sinha said. “And usually, when

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adding franchises such as Spread Bagelry, Dim Sum House and Herban Quality Eats.

Weiss said stores like these, along with the HamCo restaurants, show how new dining options complement University City’s overall development.

“There are trends happening across University City that are drawing more restaurants and retailers,” Weiss said. “You have uCitySquare, the Schuylkill Yard

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Former Cabinet official: Don’t ‘inhibit’ progress Reagan’s Transportation Secretary spoke Wed. night JAMES MCFADDEN Contributing Reporter

This is “the most exciting time in transportation in the last 100 years,” former Secretary of Transportation James Burnley told a room full of students on Monday.

Burnley, secretary of transpor t ation under P resident Ronald Reagan, came to Huntsman Hall discuss the future of transportation and infrastructure policy under President Donald Trump’s administration.

Bur nley had some suggest ion s for t he Tr u mp

administration. He said there should be an update to the technology of the air traffic control system — which is not fully automated — and then recommended that the government refrain from over-regulating the development of new technology.

Drone technology has advanced rapidly in recent years, he said, and companies like Amazon are developing delivery systems that take advantage of this technology. He added that he thinks self-driving cars will become more widespread in the near future.

Penn College Republicans, the Public Policy Initiative Student Group and American Enterprise Institute Executive

Council at Penn organized the talk.

“We invited Burnley, a wellrespected public servant, to hear his conservative perspective on a controversial new administration” College sophomore and College Republicans Communications Director Rich Murphy said.

College sophomore Dominic Gregor io attended the event to learn about potential “exciting changes” coming to transportation under the Trump administration.

Prior to his time as secretary, Burnley attended Yale University and Harvard University Law School. After serving as secretary of transpor tation from 1987 to 1989, he worked

with President George W. Bush’s administration on transportation policy and advised Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) during his 2008 presidential campaign. He currently works as a lawyer representing a wide variety of transportation clients.

When asked to weigh in on transportation issues here in Philadelphia, Burnley advocated for the city to allow Uber and Lyft to compete with SEPTA for riders.

Burnley stressed that technological innovation is ultimately a positive force in the economy.

“When we try to inhibit the progress of technology to save a few jobs,” he said, “we don’t come out ahead as a society.”

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Workshop teaches activists to ‘Know Your Rights’ during protests Event organized in response to spike in protests KATIE BONTJE Contributing Reporter

“Stop Snitching on Yourself,” read the title of a PowerPoint presentation for the activist workshop held in the ARCH building on Monday.

Approximately 25 undergraduate students and one University staff member attended the event, called “Know Your Rights: An Activist Workshop.” Penn Association for Gender Equity, the United Minorities Council and Penn for Immigrant Rights hosted members of the Up Against the Law Legal Collective, a Philadelphia-based group of lawyers and other advocates who provide training and support to activists in addition to legal observation during protests.

In light of rising levels of activism, student group leaders said they felt that Penn students must understand their rights as protestors, activists and

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citizens.

“We want to equip Penn students with the necessary tools to protect themselves and continue to speak and act out in support of the issues they believe are worth fighting for,” UMC Chair and College junior Krisna Maddy said.

PAGE Chair and College junior Meghana NallajerlaYellapragada explained that she helped organize the workshop after participating in a sit-in at the Philadelphia airport following the recent immigration ban.

She described the fear she and other Penn student protesters felt when police closed doors to the building, cutting them off from others protesting outside.

“It was a threatening tactic,” she said. “It made us ask ourselves, what does activism mean? What does it mean to be an activist? The Collective is here to explain the system ... they are here to explain the law essentially.”

The three Legal Collective representatives began the training session by asking for two

volunteers, one to play a police officer and one to play a pedestrian stopped on the street.

After the role-play ended, they said that individuals stopped by a police officer are only legally obligated to state their names, and a piece of identification is only required for individuals on probation.

The overarching message of the presentation was that silence is the best course of action. The presentation included stepby-step instructions for police interaction.

Legal Collective representatives said that, beyond a surface-level frisk, you have the right to say, “I do not consent to this search.”

You then ask, “Am I being arrested?” If yes, be quiet. If not, still stay silent, but walk away.

Should you be arrested, they said, you must say, “I am going to remain silent.”

“There is a reason [the police] tell you: ‘Anything you say can and will be used against you,’” a presenter said. “Nothing you say will be used to help you.”

“Police are allowed to lie, and they will lie to get you to talk,” another Legal Collective presenter added.

Once in jail, individuals should not talk to cellmates about anything regarding the arrest. Presenters told students that the cells are often videotaped, so anything said can be used as an admission of guilt.

They emphasized that, when questioned, any arrested person should remain silent because they have the right to a lawyer.

The presentation concluded with a message of support.

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Penn Medicine’s choice of ‘ambassador’ shows a lapse in judgment EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 24 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor RONG XIANG Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor GENEVIEVE GLATSKY News Editor

Next Tuesday, Irvine Auditorium will host a panel forum entitled “A Formidable Foe: Cancer in the 21st Century” as part of its David and Lyn Silfen University Forum series. While the forum will notably feature Penn President Amy Gutmann and former Vice President Joe Biden, one of the other panelists has stolen some of the spotlight by virtue of being embroiled in a lawsuit over discrimination against an Iraqi family.

Lori Alf, a former Penn Medicine cancer patient and current ambassador, runs an ice skating rink in her home state of Florida. In a lawsuit leveled against her and the business, an Iraqi-American woman alleges that Alf banned her teenage daughter from training at the rink due to the family’s ethnic heritage.

If true, the allegations against Alf represent the kind of conduct that we would certainly hope Penn does not endorse. The com-

plaint filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court claims that Alf directed a number of ethnically charged insults and slurs against the family while attempting to sabotage the daughter’s attempt to earn a spot on the Iraqi Olympic figure skating team.

We do not mean to exaggerate the scope of Penn’s culpability for an individual patient’s actions, nor do we mean to act as judge and jury in Alf’s legal case. We understand that the allegations against Alf are, for the moment, just allegations — and disputed ones at that.

Nevertheless, we cannot help but question the affirmative choice to offer Mrs. Alf up as a public face of the University health system’s greatness without addressing serious questions about her personal conduct in any meaningful way. To be sure, if Alf were truly just another Penn Medicine patient, no responsibility for her actions could fairly be ascribed to

the hospital system. But the fact of the matter is that a choice has been made to elevate Alf for the purpose of enhancing the hospital’s reputation. She, from

cine spokesperson Susan Phillips’ reply, when asked

by The Daily Pennsylvanian about the allegations against Alf, that “Our only focus is maintaining her

… we cannot help but question the affirmative choice to offer Mrs. Alf up as a public face of the University health system’s greatness without addressing serious questions about her personal conduct in any meaningful way.” among the many other Penn Medicine patients who have participated in important and laudable research, was chosen to appear with Vice President Biden at a ceremony which all Penn students were explicitly invited to attend.

Given that, Penn Medi-

health,” sounds more like a dodge than an answer. Alf’s appearance alongside the former vice president at a Penn-sponsored and heavily promoted event elevates Penn’s focus on Alf beyond the constraints of the ordinary patient-hospital relationship. As such, we feel

that Penn bears a higher degree of liability to answer for her personal conduct.

They have, after all, designated her as their “ambassador.” So far, the answer has been unsatisfactory.

At best, the choice of Alf as a public face of Penn’s successes represents an unfortunate failure of vetting.

If this were the case, public honesty and transparency are warranted. At worst, it is part of an apparent pattern of official unconcern with the behavior of individuals who the University places in positions of responsibility or visibility. We are reminded, in particular, of the silent inaction which followed the revelation that a the case, public honesty and transparency are warranted. At worst, it is part of an apparent pattern of official unconcern with the behavior of individuals who the University places in positions of responsibility or visibility. We are reminded, in particular, of the silent inaction which

followed the revelation that a string of allegations of inappropriate behavior in the workplace has marred the tenure of College Housing and Academic Services Executive Director Martin Redman.

If Penn stands by Alf, then the University community deserves an answer about whether the allegations against her were known at the time she was made an “ambassador,” and if so, a straightforward explanation of why the choice was made nevertheless. It is no small thing to be an envoy for an institution which represents so many.

Again, we do not mean to overstate our case. We sincerely doubt that there is any conspiracy here. We merely wish to attend a university which institutionally and consistently places accountability and integrity over reputation and expedience. The choice of Alf as an ambassador does not, to us, reflect those priorities.

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Unboxing Black history: Black staff matter CAL’S CORNER | How Penn’s staff has been undervalued throughout the years James Baldwin once said, “The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.” From the second I started my education here, I’ve constantly seen and interacted with black staff working as servers, security guards, janitors and the like. More now than ever, black staff members at the University of Pennsylvania matter and without them our University wouldn’t be half of what it is to us today.

It may be to the surprise of some, but this problem is not new. In fact, Penn’s recruitment of black staff rather than faculty is woven into Penn’s black history.

The century is the 19th, and what comes to mind is a black man by the name of Albert Monroe Wilson, also known as “Pomp.”

Albert Monroe Wilson was born in October of 1841 on Spruce and 9th streets, which at the time was just blocks from the University of Pennsylvania’s campus. While Albert attended

Bird’s School and was consistently at the top of his class, his education was unfortunately cut short due to social unrest in 1850 that led to riots, in which Wilson — who was just nine at the time — was hit in the head by a brick thrown by a rioter. The resulting head fracture and surgery left him with a lifelong scar and sadly ended his formal schooling.

Later in life, Wilson went on to work as a devoted staff member at Penn who never married due to his dedication to the University. He worked regularly from seven in the morning until later than seven at night, each day except Sunday. Outside of New Year’s Day, Wilson also worked on holidays .

Although he was a staff member with little education, Wilson had a passion for the medical field. He was regarded as a medical healer in Philadelphia’s African American community at the time, and he utilized what he learned in Penn’s medical school laboratories and classrooms to help

the greater good. In fact, Penn’s first African American medical school graduate Nathan Francis Mossell (class of 1882) acknowledged Wilson’s medical expertise and work in his autobiography. According to the autobiography of Mossell, Wilson was allowed to

work and attributions deserve the same reverence as those of us, our professors and our administration. As many staffers on our campus today work to make Penn the institution that it is every day, the vast majority of whom are black, it saddens me that similarly

More now than ever, black staff members at the University of Pennsylvania matter and without them our university wouldn’t be half of what it is to us today.” attend medical lectures at Penn, although he was not allowed to receive any form of a degree from the medical school.

Despite Wilson’s death in 1904, his life and legacy live on campus everyday.

People like Wilson are the core of this University and I firmly believe that their

to Wilson, many staffers fall underappreciated and even forgotten.

Most importantly, the majority of Penn’s staff do not receive the same treatment as Penn faculty due to the hiring process of our University and the fact that many of these staffers are directly employed by third

parties. Faculty members — which includes professors, administrators and the like — receive a number of benefits such as wide tuition assistance for their children and spouses, but these are not extended to our staff members, even if they have family attending the University.

In light of Baldwin’s quote, when I think about this discrepancy I wonder what it means for me to attend a university where its staff, the majority of whom are black, feel undervalued.

The security guards that work night shift after night shift whom I speak (and sometimes dance with) with everyday will not receive the University’s generous retirement plan that is offered to its faculty. The dining hall workers who ask me about my column and my writing in the midst of the long line behind me won’t receive large deductions on tuition. The Gourmet Grocer cashiers whom I argue Steph Curry statistics with and talk about politics at 11 p.m. won’t receive an ease on the admissions

CALVARY ROGERS process because they aren’t considered faculty. And this does not encompass the unfair treatment they receive from students on campus, who largely ignore their hard work.

He was an expert in university life and the medical field but was not allowed to fully develop his passions in the latter. Albert Monroe Wilson taught Penn a lesson in black history that I believe it has ignored: There is no difference between our staff and our faculty.

CALVARY ROGERS is a College sophomore from Rochester, N.Y., studying political science.

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Penn cop shot three times in Sept. is back in action

Ed Miller has served as a police officer for 35 years KOLBY KALLER Staff Reporter

Penn Police officer Ed Miller, who was one of six people shot by a gunman at the beginning of the academic year, is back to work at the Penn Police department after resuming his position earlier this month.

Miller’s co-workers surprised him with a welcoming ceremony on Feb. 8 after he returned from months of rehabilitation for two gunshot wounds in the hip and ankle and a graze wound to the elbow during the shooting spree that occurred outside of the Penn Patrol Zone. The gunman, a 25year old man, had expressed hatred towards police.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said Miller

“got a little choked up” as he was called to the podium on his first day back.

“It feels good to be back after recovering from my injuries from that night,” Miller wrote in an emailed statement. “I’m back on my feet and ready to do the job I set out to do for the Penn community.”

Rush said Penn Police wants him to pace himself as he transitions from recovery back into the workforce, but she believes that Miller — who has served 35 years as a police officer, two of them with Penn Police — is ready to make the switch.

“I think he was bored,” Rush said, and added that protecting the community is “in his blood still.”

A few weeks before the shooting, Miller and the other Penn Police officers underwent a twoday training course that included

situations like shooting while moving to and from behind cover.

Just a few days later he put that training to use, instinctively dragging himself behind a parked car for cover.

“I’m very proud of Eddie’s reaction when he was shot,” Rush said.

“That kind of training isn’t the kind of training you put in someone’s head. It’s in your stomach.”

Miller’s story did not go unnoticed by the larger community.

He will be awarded the Ring of Honor at the Philadelphia St. Patrick’s Day Parade this year.

According to its website, the accolade recognizes “those who have given exemplary service in and to the Irish Community of the Philadelphia Tri-State Area.”

Although Miller’s actions on Sept. 16 have been recognized, Rush stressed that “what he did is what [Penn Police] do every night.”

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Penn prepares to power down on Wednesday Energy Reduction Challenge will last entire day CATHERINE DE LUNA Staff Reporter

Turn off your lights and unplug your phone — Penn’s campus-wide Energy Reduction Challenge started Wednesday morning at 12 a.m. and will end 24 hours later at 11:59 p.m.

And once again this year, it’s for a good cause — the energy saved will help fund research for Penn undergraduate students.

During the 2016 challenge, there was a 5.8% reduction in energy use, which translated to a donation of $5,800 from Facilities and Real Estate Services to fund sustainability research at the Center for Undergraduate Research.

The Energy Reduction Challenge is run by Penn’s Green Campus Partnership and is part of a month

long Power Down Challenge energy conservation campaign aimed at educating the Penn community.

“Part of our vision was [that] this challenge would be collaborative and philanthropic in nature,” Sustainability Outreach Manager Julian Goresko said. “We [FRES] really felt it was important on this day to try to make a connection with the academic research at the University.”

Ann Vernon-Gray, Associate Director for Undergraduate Research at CURF, spoke to the importance of the Power Down Challenge and its unique effect on undergraduate academic life.

“They have a number of concrete ways that they can contribute to energy savings, which then... help people make more targeted contributions in those areas,” Vernon-Gray said.

One of the winners of the grant

in 2016 was now-College senior Lauren Brunsdale. She conducts research on the Ventura River Watershed, a dam in Ventura County, Ca. Brunsdale used the grant to study land use, vegetation and beach replenishment at a result of the dam.

She emphasized that there are thousands of similar dams around the country that hurt the environment — the problem is they are incredibly expensive to remove.

“We have all these old dams and it is going to become increasingly more unstable,” Brunsdale said.

“When you put a dam, that sediment that normally runs downstream, would normally replenish the beach — you clog that and the beaches erode away.”

Despite these issues, Brunsdale said she sees her research as an important step in making more environmentally conscious decisions.

“Hopefully at the end of the day it helps inform decision makers on the ground and how they are going

to monitor the watershed.”

College junior Andro Mathewson was also awarded a grant as part of the 2016 Energy Reduction Challenge. Matthewson worked with Professor Simon Richter and other students to create a sustainability database.

“The basis of the project is to create an open source database of how sustainability is studied in every country around the world,” Matthewson said.

The database includes universities, government agencies, NGOs, activists, public policy experts and professors who are involved in environmental policy.

“A lot of the information can be used for public policy initiatives, for raising awareness about sustainability,” Matthewson said.

Matthewson emphasized the need of a stable political system in order to make sustainability and environmental awareness a feasible goal.

“Sadly, sustainability is always on

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the backburner [for governments].

It is one of those issues which is looking 200, 300 years ahead to the future. It is humanly impossible to plan that far ahead,” he said.

Despite this, the students and administrators believe Penn is taking productive steps to care for the environment through funding research and initiatives.

“Now more than ever, institutions, like universities, as well as cities across the United States at the local and municipal level are going to be standing up and taking leadership around the issues of climate change and the environment,” Goresko said. “You can expect to see a lot from Penn and Philadelphia in that regard.”

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On Feb. 13, Penn launched an online course to aid students and families in the college admissions process, according to PennCurrent.

Titled “How to Apply for College,” the program on the Coursera platform gives information about the steps of the application process. The six week, video-based course includes quizzes, forums and resources from the College Board and Raise.me.

The project is a partnership between Penn Admissions and Steppingstone Scholars. Steppingstone Scholars “works with underserved students in Philadelphia starting in grade school to prepare them to succeed in college,” according to the Current.

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worked as the Associate Dean of Opportunity and Access at the University until 2012, when he joined Steppingstone

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“There are really two things we want to achieve,” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda told the PennCurrent. “One is inspiration, trying to motivate students to make it through the application process. And the other is instruction, giving them some of the tools they need to do it, and then succeed once they arrive at college.”

Furda also touted the course recently as a way Penn is attempting to play a larger role in students’ lives before they get to college.

“Higher education quite often is put in the position that we are the last chance to catch up,” Furda told The Daily Pennsylvanian last week. “We have a great responsibility as an institution that has so many resources, while also recognizing that there’s a very long runway that at any point, if a student doesn’t have the opportunities that they need to, what needs to then take place for them to enter a place like Penn.”

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Johns Hopkins U. looks to Penn for urban revitilization

Penn Book Center will no longer sell course texts

JHU has used Penn’s development as a model

Book shop has sold course materials since 1962

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Penn in the 1990s would be unrecognizable today. Where the Penn Bookstore and Fresh Grocer stands now, there were asphalt parking lots. Students would rush, rather than walk, from one place to another to avoid staying out on the streets for too long. Campus was dimly lit at night and crime was much more common. Penn did not feel safe, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush told The Daily Pennsylvanian in 2014.

The issues that Penn dealt with 20 years ago are currently in the spotlight at Johns Hopkins University, according to Penn’s Anthony Sorrentino, executive director at the Office of the Executive Vice President.

The row houses near the Hopkins campus are dilapidated.

Jobs are leaving Baltimore, where the university is located, and the city’s population has shrunk drastically, Times Higher Education reported.

Johns Hopkins has been making efforts to improve the university’s relationship with the surrounding area. Steven Knapp, the former Hopkins provost and now president of George Washington University, made the university a source of employment for local residents during his tenure, and Ron Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins, has made “improving life in Baltimore a core part of its mission,” according to Higher Ed. Hopkins told Higher Ed that much of the university’s community engagement model was designed after the successful West Philadelphia Initiative led

by Penn.

Then-Penn President Judith Rodin launched the West Philadelphia Initiatives in the mid-1990s in an effort to invest in neighborhood revitalization.

In her book, “Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and into

Next semester, Penn students will no longer see “Penn Book Center” listed next to required texts on their syllabi.

The Penn Book Center sent an email Tuesday informing University capsfaculty that this is the last semester it will be supplying students with course books. The email said that Penn Book Center has been carrying course books for more than five decades, since its opening in 1962.

The email, which carried a subject line “Textbook Change,” said the decision was made because the store has “seen a steady decline in …fixed ellipses coursebook sales and profitability over the past several years.” Ashley Montague and Michael Row, the store’s owners who signed the email, attributed this to the rise of Amazon and the recently installed Amazon@Penn on Locust Walk.

But they added that Penn Book Center will continue its commitment to both expand its collection and sale of “regular trade books,” noting that demand for those texts have been increasing recently.

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the Streets,” published in 2007, Rodin wrote that Philadelphia residents “by and large felt that Penn had turned its back on the neighborhood.”

Meagan Ehlenz, who published a report on the impact of Penn’s WPI, concluded that the initiative significantly revived University City and West Philadelphia, and made Penn “an exemplar in of university intervention in urban neighborhoods.” Ehlenz noted a double-fold increase in police and public safety personnel, installment of more than 850 pedestrian lights and a 50 percent decrease in crime.

The W PI improved the neighborhood infrastructure and relationship in various other ways as well.

“One type of change that has been considered very successful is the support Penn Public Safety provides the various communities around Penn,” Sorrentino said in an interview with the Daily Pennsylvanian.

“It has been very helpful in building relationships with residents, shop owners, local businesses, churches and all the other institutions that make up the civic fabric of the University City.”

Sorrentino also noted the growth of relationship between

Penn students and the local community as a result of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships.

“The Netter Center attempts to engage the community in mutually beneficial ways,” said Katera Moore, director of the Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative at the center.

Moore acknowledged that prior to Rodin’s term “there was still kind of a nasty history with the West Philly community,” but she said that relationship has since improved immensely.

She highlighted that the center’s community advisory board meets with various representatives from University City and West Philadelphia, including school principals, churchgoers and ordina r y citizens to assess what the community needs and how Penn can assist in achieving those goals.

“The university mission is to promote higher education ... but [the university is] also part of the neighborhood, and all these big anchors that are nestled into urban neighborhoods have a responsibility to be a good neighbor,” Moore said.

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For College sophomore Hannah Kanter, Harvest’s temporary close came as a frustration.

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readings and discussions led by visiting writers, the email said.

Peter LaBerge, oka College senior and self-described “serialreader,” who has participated in and organized for local writers with the Penn Book Center said that while he is pleased that the store is increasing their trade book offerings and opportunities for local writers, he’s concerned that people will not shop there.

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But she did say many students go to the store strictly for course books, and she thinks it’s going to take “a more concerted effort or a more intentional efforts to go and visit regularly.”

She plans to encourage her students to buy the books they read on their own time from there.

Josselyn added that Penn Book Center’s policy of ordering books that they don’t have on their shelves for patrons who request them is particularly unique, putting them on more equal footing with online vendors.

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Coin flip could make or break playoff hopes WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor

So as things stand, Penn men’s basketball is currently tied with Columbia at 4-6 in the league for fourth place — the crucial, last spot to be invited to this year’s inaugural Ivy League Tournament. The winner of the new postseason tournament is the recipient of the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament later in March, making the promise of finishing fourth or higher in the conference all the more enticing.

But which team makes it to the tournament — Penn, or Columbia?

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head coach of Virginia in a move that sent shockwaves across the lacrosse world. Tiffany was the man who implemented the fast tempo, run-and-gun style of play that made Brown so fun and effective last spring. To rub salt in the wound, Tiffany brought his prized offensive coordinator Sean Kirwan with him as well as the rest of his staff, leaving Brown scrambling to rebuild.

Unfortunately for Brown, the rebuilding process is not limited to the coaching staff. Although Brown brings back star players such as Alec Tulett, Larken Kemp, and Molloy, first team All-American goalie Jack Kelly has graduated.

Additionally, the Bears will be looking to replace an astounding 292 points from last year’s senior class, as the five leading scorers on

In years past, the two teams tied with the same record would have a one-game playoff to determine the champion. Now, however, there are a series of tiebreakers that should determine the rankings.

First would be head-tohead. Penn won the first meeting between the two teams as it kickstarted its comeback in the league from rock bottom to fourth just two weekends later — but the two teams meet again this Saturday in a high-stakes clash at Columbia. If the Lions were to win, but still end the season on the same record as the Quakers, the scenario would have to go to the next tiebreaker.

The second tiebreaker is decided by which team beat the higher-seeded remaining Ivy League opponent. This scenario

currently favors Columbia, as the Lions beat No. 2 Harvard earlier this season. If Penn can nab a win against the Crimson in its last game of the regular season to bring this tiebreaker to a deadlock, however, then things would go to yet another level.

The third decider of who gets into the tournament comes from an aggregation of rankings agreed to before the season by all of the coaches in the league.

Among these are the RPI and BPI (Basketball Power Index) — and thankfully for Penn, those ratings currently favor the Red and Blue. It’s highly unlikely that Columbia and Penn come to a stalemate in this tiebreaker, but there is one final way to break the deadlock, should the teams need it.

A coin toss.

As unlikely as it is that the first three tiebreakers would fail to decide a fourth-place finisher, the fate of the Ivy League’s bid to March Madness could lay at the hands of a coin.

That being said, after Penn’s 0-6 start to conference play, the team has turned red-hot and won four in a row, and the last three by convincing margins. Meanwhile, Columbia has lost its last four. If these trends continue, the tiebreakers might have to be used to determine the third-place finisher, after Penn beat Yale to bring the team’s two match-ups this season to a split.

The Quakers and the Lions will showdown on Saturday in the de facto fourth-place playoff.

At least if Penn loses, you’ll now know what decides who goes to the Tournament in March.

the team not named Molloy were all seniors. As Brown could very well learn this year, players like Henry Blynn and Kylor Bellistri don’t grow on trees.

Now on to Yale. As is the case with Brown, the Bulldogs retain their star player from last year.

Junior Ben Reeves is among the most dynamic attackmen in the game. As such, he has garnered significant Tewaaraton hype this season after coming up just short of the award last year. However, in an unfortunate turn of events for the entire lacrosse community, the star scorer went down in Yale’s opening game against Villanova and did not return to action. The extent of his injury is yet to be reported, but any missed time for Reeves would be devastating for Yale.

Regardless of Reeves’ availability, Yale will have to replace valuable players from their

star-studded 2016 roster. first team All-American Michael Quinn was not just arguably the best defenseman in the country last year, but he was also an indispensable emotional leader for Yale. The toughness he displayed playing through a torn ACL against Navy in the first round of the postseason last year won’t soon be forgotten by anybody who watched that game. Beyond Quinn, the Bulldogs will have to replace All-American midfielder Michael Keasey, an explosive player capable of taking over a game at any time.

Depending on the severity of Reeves’ injury, it may seem to the casual observer that these losses are normal, cyclical occurrences that won’t have an overbearing impact on Yale’s overall play, but when you look at what Penn has to replace from last year’s team, the gravity of Yale’s losses is quite apparent.

Four: Penn returns everybody

Do you remember reading earlier that Brown has lost 292 points from its senior class? Do you remember thinking that that statistic was meaningless because you didn’t have anything to compare it to? Well, here it is. The Quakers will look to replace 61 points from last year’s seniors. That’s right. 61 points. That’s about a fifth of the production that Brown will have to replace. Even crazier is the fact that those 61 points came from just two players, Nick Doktor and Pat Berkery.

Accompanying Doktor at attack last year were then-freshmen Simon Mathias and Alex Roesner. The two young players performed admirably in their roles, earning the starting spots for this season as well.

Mathias, in particular, quickly established himself as one of the top players in the conference, garnering Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors, an award that he shared with fellow Penn freshman Reed Junkin, the team’s goalie.

However, Penn’s returning star power doesn’t rest solely with the current sophomore class. Aiding Junkin’s efforts on the defensive

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Salah’s athleticism has challenged Wyant to even find adequate competition for her to practice against. “We’ve kind of structured her training such that we’ll have her match up with, in reality, mostly men,� Wyant said. “And what we’ve instructed them to do is to play her in a style that makes her most uncomfortable.�

That training has been a big part of all of Salah’s success this season. Heading into the championships, Salah has yet to lose a single game, let alone an entire match. And yes, that includes a 3-0 victory over Sobhy in a January match that Harvard ultimately won 7-2.

Despite all the individual triumphs, a shadow has hung over Salah’s every match this season. In last year’s championship final between Harvard and Penn, the score was deadlocked at four heading into the final match between Salah and Sobhy. With everything on on the line, Salah came up just short, losing a four-game heartbreaker.

“Mentally, I was pretty down after that match, but it also helped me realize that there weaknesses that I had in my game,� Salah said. “And I think this year, I’ve really been working on that. So I think it was a good learning experience for me.�

While Salah’s learning has gone spectacularly so far, the stakes are raised in the postseason. It’s not guaranteed Harvard and Penn will meet in the finals once again, but the two are certainly heavily favored to. And if a rematch does happen, no one can tell you who will win, but one thing will be clear.

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single goal both of the times they played, and they bring back almost all of their starters. The two teams ahead of Penn last year have lost enormous amounts of talent and, depending on Reeves’ injury, could lose even more.

The Ivy League is officially Penn’s for the taking this year. The team just has to go out and grab it.

Conclusion: Penn could very well make a run towards Championship Weekend this year.

Think about it. Penn might be the best team in one of the best conferences in the country. That typically translates to national championship aspirations. Last season, Brown occupied that very same role and found itself playing on Memorial Day weekend with everything on the line. That could be Penn this year.

The talent is there. The conference is wide open. This is Penn’s shot.

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Those three defensemen — Kevin Gayhardt, Kevin McDonough, and Eric Persky — will look to build off of the impressive season they put together last year when they held high-scoring teams such as Yale and Penn State under ten goals.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly for Penn, first team All-Ivy selection and preseason All-American Connor Keating returns to Franklin Field for his junior season.

Keating registered 17 points from the defensive end last year, establishing himself as one of the best long stick midfielders in the nation.

All in all, Penn returns five of its six leading point producers from last year, as well all three of its starting defensemen and its starting goalie. That should scare the rest of the Ivy League.

Five: Penn has the potential to be the best in the Ivy League this year.

This one is pretty much just common sense when you put points two, three, and four together.

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Predictions for a busy ‘Championship Weekend’

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This weekend, a number of winter sports teams wrap up their seasons with Ivy League championships. While women’s swimming and men’s squash finished up last week, their opposite-gender counterparts along with gymnastics and indoor track & field all compete this weekend for postseason glory.

Without further ado, here are some of our bold predictions for what could happen this “Championship Weekend”: Will Snow, Senior Sports Editor: Reeham Salah will finish her women’s squash season for Penn without dropping a single set in team competition.

That’s right — up until now, the sophomore sensation has not just won every match she’s played in for Penn, but every single set, too. She even swept her arch-rival, Harvard’s No. 1, Sabrina Sobhy, when the sport’s top two programs met earlier this

year. The Crimson pulled away with a 7-2 victory on the day, but Salah beat Sobhy 3-0 in convincing fashion.

And her dominance this season will only continue. The No. 1 woman in collegiate squash will finish team competition on Sunday having swept every single opponent that has dared to come before her. “The Hammer” will come down again with extreme prejudice, knocking to the side anything in her pursuit of a perfect season.

Cole Jacobson, Sports Editor: Led by the historic dominance of Salah, Penn women’s squash certainly is capable of making snagging its first national championship since 2000, but there’s another Red and Blue program with a strong chance to bust into the record books this weekend.

Operating quietly behind the scenes, both Penn men’s and women’s track and field have been crushing indoor season.

Despite losing superstars Sam

Mattis and Thomas Awad, the men have arguably gotten better behind distance runner Chris Hatler — who just broke four minutes in the mile — and thrower Noah Kennedy-White.

On the women’s side, we’ve seen Maura Kimmel already break the school’s shot put record as a freshman, with additional records coming from sprinter Taylor McCorkle, pole vaulter Molly Minnig and thrower Rachel Wilson.

History hasn’t been too kind to either squad, with the men’s most recent Indoor Heps title coming in 1997 and the women’s a year prior. But considering these epic recent performances, don’t be surprised if at least one of these squads finally breaks the barrier.

Jonathan Pollack, Sports Editor: Penn gymnastics is going to take home its first Ivy title since 2015.

The Quakers have everything they need to win the championship this weekend. They have a

perfect mix of front end talent and depth that will consistently earn individual scores in the mid to high 9’s. They have newborn star and sophomore captain Caroline Moore, who has put the team on her back more than once this year. They topped 193 points, which is usually right around where the Ivy champ finishes, for the third time this season last weekend.

But mo st i m p o r t a nt ly, they’ve already proven they can handle their Ivy opponents, with a 2.450-point margin over Cornell and an exhilarating comeback win against Yale.

They’ve got what it takes, all they need to do is to perform to their potential.

Tommy Rothman, Sports Editor: Penn men’s swimming will need a miracle to win the Ivy championship over Harvard, but a second-place finish would be impressive and is certainly a possibility. However, a disappointing slip to third or fourth

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of the season, she broke the school record for the event. She has since broken her own record three times. “[She] has been almost surprisingly good as a freshman in the shot put,” Dolan said. “She’s really just improved a lot since high school.”

The Red and Blue’s throwers have also seen success from Rachel Wilson, who set a new school record in the weight throw, good enough for No. 8 all-time in the Ivy League.

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could also happen, as Columbia and Yale have very solid squads. The IM group should be quite good, and the team could get some individual championships--- possibly out of Mark Andrew or Thomas

Dillinger. This team is as deep as ever, but doesn’t have the star power it did last year. And while the suspension of Princeton’s team clears up the field a bit, this is a sport in which the Quakers are gunning for silver.

people’s success.”

To no surprise, more established names have stepped up in the indoor season as well. Men’s captain Noah Kennedy-White recorded the program’s second best-ever throw in the shot put, while women’s captain Taylor McCorkle broke her school record once again in the 60-meter sprint.

The most notable accomplishment this season might have to be senior Chris Hatler’s performance at the Millrose Games two weekends ago, where he became the second Penn athlete to run a subfour minute mile at 3:59.21. This is the same event in which legendary then-senior Thomas Awad broke the Ivy League record just a year ago.

“I’ve been running at the Armory since I was 16 years old,” Hatler said, “so to be able to go

back and accomplish one of my lifetime goals was something that was pretty incredible.

“It’s something that every miler works for, the magical sub-four mile.”

For Penn, these feats spell out very promising things for the team as it heads into the Ivy League Championships this weekend.

After the loss of some serious talents from last year — namely Awad and former NCAA champion discus thrower Sam Mattis — the men’s side has shown that many of its athletes are able to step up in their place.

And as for the women, there is no end to their improvement in sight.

“I think we’re really hitting our stride,” Dolan said. “This appears to be one of strongest teams in recent history.”

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Over the past month, the Quakers have been tearing up the indoor circuit in the six meets they have competed in

since winter break. Only half of those competitions had team scoring, but a quick look at the individual results shows a Red and Blue side that has been dominant in multiple areas.

“It’s been a really exciting season,” coach Steve Dolan said. “I think one of the things I’m really pleased with is that in track and field you want to be a really balanced team, and I think it’s been fun that in all the different disciplines, we’ve had success in all different areas.”

This past weekend, the team participated in the Princeton Invitational, the

last regular season meet before the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships.

As has been the case for much of the season, many of the Quakers who made good impressions on the day were underclassmen.

On the men’s side, freshman Sean Clarke has been the leading pole vaulter. His most recent score saw him break into Penn’s top-ten all-time list.

Freshman Maura Kimmel has proven to be an absolute standout for the women in the shot put. At the beginning SEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE 9

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Don’t sleep on Penn men’s lacrosse.

That’s not just a message to the students here at Penn or even to the team’s rivals in the Ivy League.

That’s a message to all of college lacrosse.

Not convinced? Here’s five reasons why: One: The Ivy League is undeniably one of the best lacrosse conferences in the country.

For many of the high profile college sports across the nation, the Ivy League is considered a mid-major conference. The teams it produces are typically solid but rarely national title contenders. Whether it be in basketball, football, baseball, or softball, it’s highly unlikely for an Ivy squad to be among the nation’s elite.

However, this pattern does not extend to lacrosse, the sport in which the conference has boasted nine national titles over its history and three Tewaaraton Award winners (the Heisman Trophy of lacrosse) in the past eight years. Just last year, two of the Tewaaraton finalists hailed from the Ancient Eight, including the award’s recipient, Dylan Molloy of Brown.

Every Ivy game is consequential on the national scale. Last season, Brown advanced all the way to the Final Four, and Yale held the No. 1 ranking in the country for multiple weeks. Had one of those two teams not won the Ivy League tournament, many analysts suggested that the conference would have had three bids in the 16-team NCAA bracket.

So when it comes to men’s lacrosse, the Ivy League is kind of a big deal.

Two: Penn was one of the best teams in the Ivy League last year.

Despite a relatively rocky season in which Penn was heavily reliant on freshman scoring, the Red and Blue were able to earn a spot in the Ivy League tournament last year as the No. 3 seed. The Quakers drew a matchup with a highly-ranked Yale team that was sporting a shiny 11-2 record at the time.

The battle that ensued proved to be an epic clash of defenses, which Yale won by a single goal. The Bulldogs would then go on to win the Ivy League title with relative ease two days later, supporting the notion that Penn was among the league’s elite.

Three: The two teams in front of Penn last year lost many of their key pieces.

Brown and Yale were undoubtedly the two best teams in the Ivy League last year. Even the biggest Penn homer in the world would have to concede that point. However, assuming that the 2017 Brown and Yale teams will seamlessly replicate last year’s success is ludicrous.

Let’s start with Brown. The Bears, fresh off their NCAA semifinal appearance from last year, return the nation’s top player in Molloy, but it can be argued that they have lost their most important piece.

Head coach Lars Tiffany left his alma mater for the greener pastures of Charlottesville to become the SEE FLEISCHER PAGE 8

Salah-Sobhy: The best rivalry in collegiate squash Penn, Harvard stars expected to meet again YOSEF WEITZMAN Associate Sports Editor

“The first time I played her was when we were both nine years old,” sophomore Reeham Salah recalled. “We both just started getting into squash, so I won that match in three games, but it was tight from the beginning.”

Tight from the beginning.

That’s a pretty good way of describing the rivalry between Penn’s Salah and Harvard’s Sabrina Sobhy, the collegiate game’s unquestioned two best players. On the court, it’s impossible to say who’s better.

Off the court, they are close friends who are impossible to pull apart.

It’s an unlikely pairing as well. While they have known each other since middle school,

Salah’s and Sobhy’s paths share little beyond the immense amount of time they have dedicated to their sport.

Growing up in the suburbs of Seattle, squash was sparsely played in Salah’s neigborhood. To remedy that, the budding superstar looked east.

Every month, Salah would fly cross-country to compete in the northeast’s esteemed tournaments. It was here in the northeast that she played Sobhy that first time when she was nine, and it was here in the northeast that she would continue to play Sobhy throughout her youth.

Unlike Salah, Sobhy did not have to look nearly as far for top-level competition. A Long Island native, most tournaments were within easy driving range and often, Sobhy wouldn’t even have to leave her house to find competition.

That’s because Sobhy’s older sister, Amanda, was even better

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than her. In fact, Amanda, who graduated from Harvard in 2015, currently stands as the sixth-ranked player in the entire world.

For a ll the differences Salah and Sobhy had growing up, the two now find t hemselves in rema rkably similar circumstances. With undefeated Harvard ranked first in the country and Penn ranked second, both players are gearing up for this weekend’s Collegiate Squash Association Team Championships at their respective teams’ No. 1 positions.

Predicting the winner of a match between them is anyone’s guess, but it’s much easier to see how the two of them have dominated the college game ever since they arrived last year as freshmen.

“I would say that’s the one thing about Reeham and SEE SQUASH PAGE 8

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Sophomore Reeham Salah has had an incredible season for Penn women’s squash, but she has one more massive challenge on the horizon: A likely battle with her archrival, Sabrina Sobhy of Harvard.

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