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On Feb. 22, Penn reduced its energy use by 11.4 percent. This reduction was tracked as part of the one-day Energy Reduction Challenge, which is the culmination of the Power Down Challenge, a month-long campaign to promote Earth-friendly policies.

This decrease in energy translates to 282,350 kilowatt hours, which is equal to 198 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions — the equivalent of taking 42 cars off the road or planting 5,143 trees.

As they did last year, the Penn Green Campus Partnership will donate $11,400 — determined by the 11.4 percent saved — for climate research grants via the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

“We were amazed by the level of participation,” Sustainability Outreach Manager Julian Goresko wrote in an email. “The entire Penn community collaborated to save as much energy as possible by turning off lights, turning down the thermostat, unplugging appliances, and reducing energy in whatever ways possible.”

Last year, energy use was reduced by 5.8 percent.

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The 3.9 percent hike in tuition announced by the University Board of Trustees on Feb. 16 has sparked debate over who will bear the brunt of the increase.

College freshman Michelle Lu, who receives financial aid for approximately half the total cost of attendance, said that while the $3,000 tuition increase doesn’t seem like a lot incrementally, it will be significant by the end of her four years at Penn. Lu said she thinks the hike will affect students who receive partial to no financial aid most dramatically. Most individuals in need of full aid will likely still receive that assistance, she added.

“I can’t do anything but hope Student Registration and Financial Services works to keep all students enrolled and not bury them in loans,” Lu said.

Shane Goldstein, like Lu, is a college freshman who receives about half the cost of attendance in financial aid. He said he trusts that the financial aid scale will meet the tuition increase. He agreed with Lu that the increase in tuition will most likely affect those not on financial aid more, considering the financial aid budget increased as well.

“I imagine that it would probably be more of a difficulty for people who perhaps didn’t need financial aid and were able to pay full tuition, however now are going to have more difficulty paying full tuition,” Goldstein said.

College sophomore Josh Granader, who does not receive any financial aid, disagreed with Lu and Goldstein. He said that if a student is paying for the full cost of attendance, a $3,000 increase probably would not affect them significantly. He, instead, thought that tuition increase is more problematic hypothetically for someone on financial aid who would have to pay more after re-evaluations and wouldn’t be able to do so.

“If you need money, any increase will affect you more,” Granader said.

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Admissions considers scrapping freshman Facebook group

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Since August, three separate acts of arson have been reported in a single hallway on the fifth floor of Mayer Hall, part of Stouffer College House.

The responsible parties have yet to be identified.

“It’s highly unusual,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said of the crimes. “There’s never been a time — I’ve been here 23 years — that we’ve have a series of incidents like these in a college house.”

On Aug. 29, 2016 at 2:08 a.m., a female resident saw a boy holding what Rush described as a “flaming plastic set of cups” in the hallway. When the resident yelled, the suspect dropped the cups and ran.

On Dec. 18, a second incident occurred across the hallway. At 12:30 am, a resident opened her door after hearing a thud outside. She found a gift basket filled with burning candy.

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Official class Facebook groups have traditionally stayed active throughout a student’s four years at Penn as a resource to connect with classmates.

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Posts searching for roommates, keys and PennCards abound on Penn’s admitted student Facebook group.

However, the group’s role in helping future classes look for lost jackets or connect with classmates is in jeopardy.

In a statement issued on Nov. 15, the University announced that

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one of the perpetrators of the racist GroupMe messages that targeted black freshmen had been admitted to Penn and joined the private Class of 2020 Facebook group. The individual used his access to the group to gather the contact information of black freshmen and add them to the GroupMe. The press release added that, “We are working to prevent this type of access in the future.”

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Penn students help English-language learners Program encourages mutual-language learning NINA SELIPSKY Staff Reporter

Enjoy breaking down cultural barriers? This Penn program speaks your language.

Conversation Partners is an initiative of Penn’s English Language Programs that pairs ELP participants with Penn students who want to learn a new language.

ELP is an intensive English-language curriculum for international students and professionals.

ELP Student Services Coordinator Betsy Dougherty describes Conversation Partners as a language and a cultural exchange, one in which the pairs can alternate between speaking each others’ languages.

“A lot of the ways that we teach language in the U.S. aren’t necessarily communicative strategies,” Dougherty said. “People end up knowing a lot of vocabulary, but

having a conversation is the most challenging aspect.”

Conversation Partners gives students extra practice outside the classroom. Students are able to talk to a peer of their own age, which Dougherty believes is one of the best ways to learn a language.

The program is led chiefly by ELP Student Center Coordinator and College senior Joanna Xue. Xue began working with ELP three years ago as a program assistant.

“We try to encourage intercultural friendships, because sometimes there’s a tendency for students who speak the same native language to just bunch together,” Xue said.

Xue went to school in Shanghai, and says she felt a special connection to the ELP job description because it referenced facilitating a safe space for international students and spearheading different activities.

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Penn’s English Language Programs, housed in Fisher-Bennett Hall, aims to help international students experience US college life.

watch friendships unfold, even though I’m not necessarily an active agent other than putting them together,” Xue said.

Conversation Partners encourages a minimum of one hour per week together for each pair, but according to Dougherty, interactions become a bit more natural and less planned as pairs grow into their relationship and become

friends.

Xue loves that Conversation Partners allows Penn students to invite ELP participants into their education experience, giving them a glimpse into what it’s like to be an American college student.

“There’s an Arabic language pair that goes to Chipotle regularly together — that’s their point of meeting,” Xue said. “They’ve

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initiatives Penn undertakes to promote both environmental research and energy savings.

For instance, the ReThink Your Footprint event occurs each fall and focuses on minimizing waste.

In addition, Penn Green Campus Partnership also helps students work with professors to incorporate such topics in the classroom, places students in relevant internships and funds and advises the Student Sustainability Association at Penn.

When speaking with The Daily Pennsylvanian earlier this month, Ann Vernon-Grey, associate director for undergraduate research at CURF, mentioned the importance of such initiatives.

“I think it is helpful to have a concrete link — like, ‘I only have to make a small adjustment and it can have a big impact today.’”

The increase is on par with Penn’s peer schools. Last year, Dartmouth College’s tuition increased by 3.8 percent, Yale University by 3.9 percent, Brown University by 4.1 percent and Georgetown University by 4 percent. Cornell University announced that for the 2017-2018 school year, its tuition will rise 3.75 percent.

SRFS spokesperson Karen Hamilton, said that SRFS evaluates every student’s circumstances annually after the cost of attendance

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also been ice skating together, and chat about faith as well as daily life shenanigans.”

Xue also mentioned a Japanese language pair that spent Thanksgiving together at the native English speaker’s house.

“On both sides, students work as cultural ambassadors, creating that safe space,” Dougherty added.

“If there’s something about the culture that either of them doesn’t understand, they get to ask each other about that in their friendship.”

Signups for the program increased after the Undergraduate Assembly included a reference to Conversation Partners in an email to the entire student body.

“It’s helped a lot in terms of having more Penn students to pair with our ELP students,” Xue said.

According to Xue, there is a mismatch between Penn student interest and ELP demand for some languages. Penn students often want to practice romance languages such as French and

Spanish, but those are often the tongues with the fewest ELP students.

“We have many more Arabic-speaking students than Spanish-speaking students in ELP, but there are so many more Spanish learners who sign up who we can’t pair if we only have three or four Spanish speakers in ELP,” Xue said.

To increase awareness and transparency regarding the number of positions available, Xue hopes to begin visiting classrooms to address students face-to-face.

Xue also believes that Conversation Partners is more important now than ever given the current political climate.

“In light of the immigration ban, I think this program holds even more significance,” Xue said.

“It’s an effort to remind the international community that’s here that they are welcome, and there is an active desire on the campus’ part to incorporate them into the very fabric of Penn.”

is set for that fiscal year.

“The University is never trying to have financial consequences that hurt our families,” Hamilton said.

“For students who are not aided, an increase in tuition, if it impacts their family differently, is something Student Registration and Financial Services will be willing to re-evaluate.”

Bonnie Gibson, the vice president of budget and management analysis, noted that the increase in the financial aid budget is independent of that of tuition. For example, she and Hamilton both acknowledged that the economic recession

in 2008 resulted in large increases in the financial aid budget. Since 2008, the financial aid budget has increased by 122 percent. Its annual average growth has been 8.3 percent even though it has been smaller in recent years, while, on average, tuition has increased about 4 percent annually.

“One of the great drivers [of the dramatic increase in financial aid] was an incredible increase in the number of aided students between 2009 and through about 2015,” Gibson said. Gibson added that the increase in the financial aid budget “is a direct result of the recession.”

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Admissions Eric Furda has not yet made a final decision regarding possible changes to the Class of 2021 Facebook group, which already contains over 1,100 early decision admits.

One thing Furda is considering is deleting the Facebook group after a certain time frame.

“If this is an admitted student group, then we can decide at a certain point, let’s say the May 1 reply date, that that group no longer exists, that we take the group down,” Furda said. “The purpose has already been served.”

The Admissions Office revokes access to the Facebook group for individuals who were accepted but declined Penn’s offer of admission. However, Penn Admissions Marketing Director Kathryn Bezella said students can turn down Penn’s offer at any point leading up to the beginning of the fall semester.

“Someone can say ‘Yes’ and then on August 1, say ‘No,’” Bezella said. “That’s where the challenge comes because there isn’t one day in which everyone who’s going to give us that false ‘Yes’ decides to study somewhere else.”

Class of 2021 early decision admit Adya Aggarwal said while she would support some measures to control the security of the group, she wouldn’t advocate for its deletion.

“I’ve been able to connect with other peers in [my Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology program],” Aggarwal said. “The only way I’d know them is through this group, and that’s how we became a really tight-knit community.”

Aggarwal’s fellow class of 2021 early decision admit Anish Welde concurred that the group shouldn’t have an expiration date, noting that such a policy wouldn’t necessarily address the privacy concerns that led to the GroupMe incident.

Welde said many admits have

started their own student-regulated GroupMe chats, which allow students to contact each other independent of Facebook.

“If you want to protect students from these kinds of things, you might want to have a responsible adult be a part of the GroupMe itself,” Welde said. “That also has the added problem of the students wanting their privacy and them wanting to be able to converse with other students without worrying that the admissions officers are reading their messages.”

For Furda, the issue of admitted student Facebook groups ultimately boils down to the question: When do ‘admitted students’ become ‘Penn students?’

“By the time New Student Orientation starts, the purpose of this specific Facebook group — or any group — is no longer relevant because you’re not an admitted student, you’re now a student here,” Furda said.

“That’s the type of decision that we need to make.”

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resident smelled smoke at 1:05 am and found a book of burning matches in the hallway.

Fifth floor resident and College senior Peter Moon was in the building during the first incident and smelled smoke coming from the hallway.

“It’s kind of freaky,” Moon said.

“We didn’t really know what was going on.”

Though officials are still investigating, the proximity and nature of the crimes has led them to believe that the suspect may be a repeat offender. Rush also noted that the responsible individual would have needed a PennCard on hand in order to access the building.

Moon does not believe the suspect is a resident of the hall.

“I would be pretty weird to me to start a fire in the place that you live,” Moon said.

Penn Police Department’s detective William McCullough, whose investigative skills are

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Three acts of arson have been reported on the fifth floor of Mayer Hall since August. The responsible individual has not been identified.

“on point” according to Rush, is on the case. McCullough has not been working alone, however.

In order to aid the investigation, Stouffer’s house dean Nadir Sharif distributed “Dear Resident” letters to alert residents after each incident and instructed them to contact McCullough at 215898-4485 or to submit a Silent Witness Form if they see anything suspicious.

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good eyes and ears,” Rush said.

“You hear something, say something.”’

Sharif met with Penn Police and Residential Services in January.

In mid-February, DPS scheduled mandatory information sessions and each floor had hall meetings.

In the event of a fire, DPS instructs residents to follow Penn’s Fire Chief Gene Janda’s advice to “get up, get out, account, stay alive.”

Roommates comment on sorority Big-Little week The week elicits mixed roommate reactions ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter

Big-Little week is a major part of sorority pledging season for new members — and their unaffiliated roommates.

During pledging season, an upperclassmen member of the sorority is assigned as a “Big” to mentor a new freshman recruit, who is designated the “Little.”

This takes place after a matching process where the new and upperclassmen members rank their preferred options for mentors and mentees. The identity of the Big is only revealed towards the end of the week, throughout which the Big decorates her Little’s room and leaves presents in the form of food and sorority gear.

“Everything was decorated in the colors of the sorority. [Her Big] decorated the walls with posters and pictures and had balloons everywhere,” Wharton freshman Mindy Wang said. Wang’s roommate is in Zeta Tau Alpha.

“They left a lot of candy and gifts. She decorated the entrance of her room with streamers. On her bed there was sorority gear, passed down through their [lineage],” she said.

But for the Littles, Big-Little week is all benefits.

“You feel so loved the entire time by your Big who is constantly doing your favorite things,” Wharton freshman and Sigma Kappa member Angelica Zhou said.

“Definitely the best Valentine’s Day experience so far and sets very high expectations for the future.”

Wharton freshman Jessica Nguyen is the roommate of a Sigma Kappa member. She described the week as “fun and hectic,” but said she was, at first, somewhat apprehensive to having to leave her door open for her roommate’s Big. “People came in and out of our

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Sorority Littles sometimes receive up to $1,000 worth of gifts from their Bigs as well as fun favors from fraternity pledges.

room pretty frequently,” Nguyen said. “So I was a little concerned about my valuables because we had to leave our door open.”

Big-Little week sometimes allows for collaboration between fraternities and sororities, when sorority mentors ask fraternity brothers to do small favors such as getting their Little coffee or breakfast, or even performing a mock striptease for their Little.

“I think it’s a fun process,” Wang said. “It was funny seeing her get a striptease and getting breakfast delivered to her room every day.”

The Daily Pennsylvanian previously reported that some sisters spend on average $500-$600 dollars on Big-Little week. Some mentors have even spent over $1,000 on their Littles.

Some roommates of sorority members said they were not surprised that some mentors spend so much money for the week.

“Honestly, considering the insane amount of food and gifts that Caroline got from her Big, I’m not even surprised they spent $1,000,” College freshman Amaral Gibson said.

However, most roommates agree that such spending is unnecessary. College freshman Jennifer Le, whose roommate is in Zeta

Tau Alpha, said that she doesn’t believe that the amount a Big spends during the week has a significant impact on the eventual relationship that develops between a new sorority member and her Big. “Spending $1,000 would seem like the Big is trying to buy the Little’s sisterhood, which shouldn’t be the point,” Le said. “I don’t think it’s necessary to spend a lot on this week because once the Big is revealed, the Big-Little connection is either instant or not.”

Even though most roommates had an overall positive experience with Big-Little week, many would not reconsider their decision to remain unaffiliated.

“I don’t feel like I’m missing out on something,” Amaral said. “I don’t think the sorority social life is for me.”

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Humans still need the humanities THE CONVERSATION | A wholly non-practical defense of the humanities

MONDAY FEBRUARY 27, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 26 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 TOM NOWLAN News Editor ALLY JOHNSON Assignments Editor COLE JACOBSON Sports Editor JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Editor

Much has been said and written about Penn’s preprofessional culture, but to me it seems like an inevitable and natural product of Ben Franklin’s emphasis on a practical education. Indeed, three of Penn’s four undergraduate schools are pre-professional in nature, and even within the College, one finds a considerable number of pre-law or pre-med students who are pursuing a particular cursus honorum.

All of which means that to study the humanities here means to be considered somewhat of a deviant — a dreamer at best and an intellectual snob at worst. However, I cannot help but think that there is still a place for the humanities to stand, even on a campus where the shadow of Huntsman Hall looms far and large.

Consider a letter from CNN founder Ted Turner’s father. When Turner decided to major in classics at Brown, his father was infuriated, and wrote an angry letter in which he wrote: “I suppose that I am old-

fashioned enough to believe that the purpose of an education is to enable one to develop a community of interest with his fellow men, to learn to know them, and to learn how to get along with them. In order to do this, of course, he must learn what motivates them, and how to impel them to be pleased with his objectives and desires.”

The younger Turner would go on to become a billionaire and a media mogul — he also got expelled for having his girlfriend over in his room, so maybe he knew a little bit about man’s objectives and desires — but this of course is not the norm for most humanities students.

In fact, the modern focus on STEM, along with the current uncertain economic climate, has led students to shy away from the study of humanities.

The New York Times helped document this trend by finding: “In 1991, 165 students graduated from Yale with a B.A. in English literature. By 2012, that number was 62. In 1991,

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the top two majors at Yale were history and English.

In 2013, they were economics and political science.”

Various people have come to the defense of the humanities in such times, and I’ve eagerly flocked to them, hoping to find as-

I think they’re false, but it just seems so forced to make a pre-professional argument for an inherently non-professional field. If you want to work at a bank, obviously majoring in economics or finance will best prepare you, the same as an

… I cannot help but think that there is still a place for the humanities to stand, even on a campus where the shadow of Huntsman Hall looms far and large.” surance that my choice was a correct one. The most prominent line of argument seems to be a practical one, something along the lines of, “English majors are critical and analytical thinkers, have excellent communication skills, are actually well prepared for any job, etc.”

Yet, I’ve always found these claims to be largely unsatisfying. It’s not that

aspiring doctor for biology.

That a humanities major could prepare you better or as well is just silly.

For me, the hardest part about being a humanities major at Penn is the thought that choosing such a course of study is above all selfserving. The world clearly needs doctors and engineers. It presumably does not need one more kid with

a competent understanding of American modernist poetry. All intentions are selfish in nature, but I would have nothing to contribute to the world as a result of such motivations, that mine would serve no ends outside the classroom is terrifying.

Yet, despite all that, I cannot help but feel that my pursuit is a worthwhile one.

I agree with Turner’s father that the purpose of education is to learn our fellow men. However, I would contend that we can do so through studying the humanities, and that the ultimate end of such learning is not to rise above mankind but learn how best to join it, to appreciate and understand it.

So I don’t think we need practical rationalizations for such learning. My midnight musings with Zukofsky, my half-hysterical debates with Rawls, my obsessive love affairs with Millay — that the end of such quests would be all of the line “excellent communication skills” on a resume seems wrong. The value of

JAMES LEE such human enquiries is at once intangible and obvious, esoteric and ubiquitous.

To understand our fellow man, his stories, and the world he finds himself in is surely an end worth pursuing on its own. I firmly believe that such quests can help form and solidify the core of a person, an intellectual and moral oasis from which we can drink as we make our way through life.

JAMES LEE is a College junior from Seoul, South Korea, studying English and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. His email address is jel@sas.upenn. edu. “The Conversation” usually appears every other Monday.

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Everyone one of us, no matter how smart or hardworking, will at some point face the pain of rejection during our time at Penn.

We’ve all had the experience of waiting desperately by the phone to hear back from a club or of sending out countless cover letters with no return. And yet, despite the universality of these experiences, almost all of us struggle to accept them.

Dealing with the prospect of failure can be difficult enough but it’s made far more arduous by the fact that we feel the need to hide it. The first step towards solving this problem is normalizing the experience and that’s why initiatives like the “Wall of Rejection” are so important. However, in order to fully alleviate the stigma of failure, we first need to interrogate the system that’s created it.

At the heart of the problem is what I consider to be the paradox of Penn culture.

Our hypercompetitive environment pressures us to be perfect while simultaneously making the likelihood of

experiencing failure almost certain.

Even though Penn students are highly successful people, most of us feel overwhelmed by even the slightest of failures. The majority of what we face — a C in statistics, a botched interview — are just road bumps in the grand scheme of things. They are neither life nor career-ending failures and yet we tend to view them not as bumps in the road, but as walls blocking our path to future success.

The anxiety Penn students have about failure can often seem irrational when considered in light of how bright our overall futures tend to be. It seems that, to many professors, this perceived irrationality is just evidence of oversensitivity on the part of us students — likely the product of our coddling parents and overinflated egos. It’s not uncommon to hear a professor explain their grading policy with the caveat that we shouldn’t complain about what we get: “One B-plus won’t kill you.”

While these professors may be right to critique the undue importance that’s put on grades, choosing to make students the subject of their flippant remarks is surely misguided. The truth is that our fear of failure has a lot more to do with the market

of education and experience are entering the job pool.

That means standards are constantly increasing and acceptance rates diminishing.

The reason we’re so afraid to fail is that we know we’ll be judged against

Our hypercompetitive environment pressures us to be perfect while simultaneously making the likelihood of experiencing failure almost certain.” than it does our precious egos.

Higher education is an incredibly competitive environment and increasingly so. Perhaps a few B’s may have been par for the course 30 some years ago, but now the market has changed. Every year more and more applicants with higher levels

someone who hasn’t. In this environment a mistake is not an opportunity to learn and struggling is not a chance to grow. Instead they’ve become impediments to the perfect transcript, the perfect resume, and that can mean the difference between who gets the job and who gets rejected.

Of course that isn’t to say that we’ll all be defined by our failures. Penn students tend to go on to do great things no matter what our transcripts say. But that doesn’t discount the fact that we’re in a highly competitive environment and when you spend all your time being graded, it can feel like every mistake you make is being judged on a curve. Not only does this put an unnecessary strain on our mental health, but it can actually keep us from succeeding.

One of the underappreciated aspects of our hypercompetitive culture is that our fear of failure often outweighs the prospect of success. What that means is, even amidst a school filled with high achievers, we’ve created a drive towards mediocrity.

When it comes to picking out courses we value a lack of difficulty over quality. And most of us would rather drop a particularly challenging course than let the record show we had to struggle. These behaviors don’t make for better stu-

CAMERON DICHTER dents, but they make for better transcripts.

When put this way, it’s hard not to be cynical about the whole process. But luckily many of us here at Penn will go on to shape that process. In a matter of time it will be us sitting in the interviewer’s chair reviewing the next generation of applicants. Rather than holding them to an unreasonable standard of perfection, we should choose to value the struggles — and failures — that shape all of our careers.

CAMERON DICHTER is a College junior from Philadelphia, studying English. His email address is camd@sas.upenn. edu. “Real Talk” usually appears every other Monday.

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UNICEF leader talks value of humanitarian relief Speaker addressed the Syrian refugee crisis JAMES MCFADDEN Contributing Reporter

There are 21.3 million refugees worldwide, according to the United Nations, and the majority are under the age of 18.

On Thursday, Caryl Stern, president and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF came to Houston Hall to speak about the state of the global refugee crisis.

“Children should not be defined by their borders,” she said.

Stern explained her personal connection to UNICEF’s work; her mother was a child refugee whose parents sent her to the U.S. when she was only 6 years old. Now she spends much of her time abroad helping children survive conflicts in their home countries.

UNICEF is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that provides humanitarian relief to children and mothers in developing countries. Stern said that in addition to providing relief in countries mired in conflict, UNICEF also sets up camp along the travel routes of refugees in

order to make their journey less perilous.

In addition to providing basic resources, the organization also strives to educate the children in the camps and provide venues for them to socialize and play games together. Stern said these services are vital both to the children’s well being and to the global community, as these efforts aim to ensure millions of future adults are healthier and more educated.

Stern also took some time to address the nature of the Syrian refugee crisis. She noted that many of these refugees were formerly middle class citizens who enjoyed many of the same modern amenities that Americans enjoy.

When asked about UNICEF’s position on President Donald Trump’s restrictions on refugee admission, Stern reiterated that the organization is nonpartisan and remains focused on pursuing its mission. However, the organization is pushing for the government to adopt a waiver for children exempting them from any new immigration policies regarding refugees.

The event drew not just Penn

students, but volunteers and students from all over the city.

Hailey Andress, a high school student from outside Philadelphia, attended the event with fellow students.

“As somebody interested in a career in foreign affairs, I’m interested in learning about UNICEF’s work, particularly from a woman CEO,” she said.

UNICEF contacted College sophomore and President of Penn for UNICEF Chaereen Pak about hosting an event for their volunteers. She said the goal of the event was to “gather people interested in strengthening the UNICEF community in Philadelphia.”

Ster n emphasized t hat UNICEF helps children on both sides of every conflict on earth.She mentioned that before being members of any nation,

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Hoos to stay unbeaten

SANJAY DURESETI Sports Reporter

They may share their namesake with a team known for pulling off astounding comebacks, but there was no epic rally in the cards for the Cavaliers of Virginia men’s lacrosse at Franklin Field on Saturday.

On an unseasonably warm day in front of a raucous crowd of more than 1,500 people, No. 17 Penn pulled out a wild upset win in a back-and-forth battle between two top-20 teams, beating back No. 6 Virginia’s persistent attack in an 11-10 win. A stark contrast from the Red and Blue’s easy win over St. Joseph’s, the signature win serves as a reminder of the hard road that lies ahead.

For now, however, Penn (2-0) will bask in the glory of the unexpected win while it can. Although the team’s players and staff may disagree, a win over Virginia is a definite upset, as the Cavaliers are traditionally placed in the highest echelons of Division I Lacrosse.

Just last season, Penn lost 15-10 to a Virginia team that was arguably worse than this year’s squad.

In that match, the Quakerswere constantly playing from behind.

But, in Saturday’s contest, the teams reversed roles.

Penn took the lead with an offensive blitz, as junior Reilly Hupfeldt started off the scoring with long shot into the bottom of the net. Junior Chris Santangelo contributed two goals immediately after face-off wins, and sophomore Alex Roesner tallied

one of his own to make it a 4-1 lead for Penn after eight minutes of play.

Virginia (3-1), despite tying the score four times over the course of the match, would never pull ahead of the Quakers. UVA’s offensive sluggishness, a major departure from its 18 goals per game average, can be owed to Penn’s ability to slow down the pace of play. Under the tutelage of former Brown coach, Lars Tiffany, the Cavaliers have relied on their transition game and raw athleticism to generate as many shots as possible.

Penn head coach Mike Murphy agreed that familiarity with Tiffany’s gameplan helped the team prepare for the unique challenges that Virginia presented. “[Brown and Virginia] were very similar.

We played Virginia last year so we looked at their personnel and Brown’s scheme, and we put them together.”

Penn’s stout defense, spearheaded by sophomore goalkeeper Reed Junkin, senior defenseman Kevin Gayhardt, and junior All-American Connor Keating, contained Virginia’s speed by implementing a zone defense.

Junkin, who drastically outplayed his counterpart in tallying 16 saves, has been particularly impressive in the early stretches of the season.

“He’s as good a goalie as there is in the country,” Gayhardt said. “He covers up so many of our mistakes. We’ll go back to the film and we’ll see five or six plays every week where the defense messes up in front and Reed makes an amazing play and bails us all out. It allows us to take a few more chances.”

The collective defensive effort resulted in protracted Cavaliers’ possessions, forcing freshman sensation Dox Aitken and his fellow attackmen to work for every goal.

And work they did.

Every time the Quakers surged ahead, Virginia quickly answered. By halftime, the score was knotted at 7-7, forcing both teams to reconsider their strategies in the locker room. Penn’s response was to increase the pace of it’s own offense. Sophomore Tyler Dunn scored his second of the game in transition off an assist from fellow second-year player Simon Mathias. A few minutes later, an impressive reflex save

by Junkin led to a running score from Keating, who deposited his second goal of the season in between the Virginia goalie’s legs.

Virginia responded by capitalizing on Penn mistakes. An errant ground ball that Keating failed to win after a face-off led to an Aitken goal to bring the score to 10-9. And Penn, finally succumbing to UVA’s relentless full-field pressure, gave up a free score as Junkin attempted to clear the ball himself and turned it over at midfield.

“They were pressing our defensemen really hard,” Junkin said.

“They gave me a lot of opportunities to run up which normally doesn’t happen. So that was a new thing and I don’t think I did great on that, but I think it’s something we can work on.”

Tied at 10, the two teams began an intense fight to tally the go-ahead goal in the last eight minutes of the match. Dunn eventually converted as he scored a lefty fastball to complete his hat

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A large part of Penn men’s lacrosse’s success on Saturday was due to the defensive prowess of sophomore goalie Reed Junkin, who recorded 16 saves in his team’s 11-10 victory over No. 6 Virginia.

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Penn, however, still had to maintain its slim lead. The defense, buoyed by Junkin’s three crucial saves in the final minutes, managed to stave off the nifty passing and backhanded shot attempts by Virginia. Even after committing turnovers and incurring a pair of last-minute penalties, the Quakers survived to hold on to the one-goal win.

Looking ahead, Penn is not satisfied despite beating a topsix seed for only the second time throughout Murphy’s eight-year tenure. The team’s last such victory came against No. 6 Denver in 2014.

One area that demands

improvement is the face-off.

Last year, the Quakers were consistently outgunned at the X, preventing them from employing the zone defense that served them so well this Saturday. This trend, despite the efforts of face-off specialist Santangelo, has continued in the early parts of this season, with Penn only winning 10 of the 24 face-offs on Saturday.

“Face-offs are the biggest thing for us moving forward,” Murphy said. “Chris Santangelo does a good job with the draws and there were a lot of 50-50 balls that we just got beat to.

Kevin McDonough got hurt in the third quarter, which affected our ability to put two poles in the

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face-off. We got to get better at the X and get better on the wings this week.”

These improvements must come quickly as Penn’s next opponent will not let any offensive opportunities slip by without a fight. No. 9 Penn State (4-0), fresh off a win over Villanova, sports an offense led by the leading goalscorer in the country.

True freshman Mac O’Keefe has tallied a whopping 24 scores over the first four games of the season, but if the Quakers’ defensive core can perform similarly to the way it did today, the contest might lend the phrase “Not Penn State” an entirely different meaning.

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to success.

“Our senior class is very good and experienced. They knew how to handle Ivies. We had a lot of great performances from that class,” Schnur continued. “Michael Wen had an awesome meet, and so did Kevin Su and Grant Proctor in the senior class producing eight A finals. Having the seniors perform well in this meet was just great.”

A highlight of day three, Wen broke the Quakers’ oldest record in prelims of the 200 fly, swimming a 1:46.07 to lower the mark set by Steve Kuster in 1993. Fellow senior and butterflier Jimmy Jameson swam in equally impressive fashion, setting a new record in the sprint distance in a time of 46.95.

The Red and Blue have some of the best underclassmen in the country, such as Mark Andrew and Thomas Dillinger, who finished first and second, respectively, in each of the individual medley races. Andrew set new program records for Penn of 1:44.75 in the 200 IM and 3:43.28 in the 400 IM, both NCAA B qualifying standards.

The sophomore’s time in the latter event is currently ranked 15th in the nation and should receive an invitation to the big dance at the end of March.

With the results of this meet, Coach Schnur is excited to see what the team is truly capable of and what it will be capable of in years to come.

“Mark Andrew stepped up as a sophomore after being sick during Ivies last season. He made two A finals and was just awesome. He had a great meet and we’re excited to see what he does in the next two years. He is the kind of guy that will help lead our programs future,” Schnur said.

Morale is high and the Red and Blue now know its capabilities as a squad on an individual and team level. With the ability to have every class contribute to a huge success shows a bright future this team and the legacy of the program.

“Going forward we have to just keep doing what we’re doing. We have one guy going to NCAAs, and we are looking to get to the point where we have three, four, or five guys going to the NCAAs. This is the third year in a row we will be a top-25 team in the country, and that is important to maintain for next season,” Schnur added.

With the season coming to a successful finish, it is this lasting legacy that the squad will have to maintain as they look ahead to future seasons.

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Penn men’s basketball can take heart in defeat

NO. 10 PENN 10 7 NO. 18 JOHNS HOPKINS

Condon’s eight goals power Quakers past JHU W. LAX | No. 10 Penn

keeps perfect start

DAVID FIGURELLI Sports Reporter

Don’t fix what isn’t broken; so goes the old saying. Penn women’s lacrosse certainly did not fall prey to this adage against Johns Hopkins this weekend.

After giving up a first half lead, the tenth-ranked Quakers (2-0, 0-0 Ivy) defeated the No. 18 Blue Jays (3-1) by a score of 10-7, powered by eight goals – yes, eight – from junior midfielder Alex Condon. Condon’s goal tally, which was a career high for her and one away from both the Penn and Ivy League record books, brings her season goal total to ten over just two games.

“Alex just has a knack for the net,” said Penn coach Karin Corbett. “She’s one of the best shooters I’ve ever seen, she has great hands, she’s a great cutter, she’s just a great player. She also defended well, she had some huge ground balls, she just had a complete game today. They tried to face guard her, but it just didn’t matter.”

“I think in today’s game we were moving the ball a little better than last week,” said Condon after the game. “We were able to drive from up top really well, and our girls down low, Chrissy and Gabby and everyone, they were able to see that I was open in the middle and just lay it in for me, and fortunately I was able to grab those

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Rothschild meant that the team wasn’t balanced enough to stay course through 40 minutes. Both players shot a combined 0-for-8, while picking up four fouls.

“It’s always a hard place to play: it’s hot, and they’re on top of you,” coach Steve Donahue said. “Both teams made it really hard on each other. I thought each possession was just a fight.”

That combative atmosphere was present throughout the contest at

and put in the goal.”

Penn would need all eight of those goals to put Hopkins out of reach, as each team took turns making scoring runs throughout the game. After the Blue Jays started the scoring in the first half, Penn scored four goals in a row before Hopkins scored again, eventually taking a 5-3 lead into halftime.

But Johns Hopkins would come out of the break with a vengeance, going on their own four goal run over the first eight minutes of the half to take a 7-5 lead. That would be the last Hopkins goal in the game, as the Quaker defense would clamp down on the Blue Jay offense for the final twenty minutes of regulation. A free position goal from junior Caroline Cummings and a final strike from freshman Gabby Rosenzweig bookended three more Condon goals in the second half to seal the victory for the Red and Blue.

Sophomore Chrissy Corcoran led the Quakers with three assists on the day, while freshman Erin Barry added two assists of her own. Senior Emily Rogers-Healion and junior Natalie Stefan also added assists to the scoresheet, as did Cummings.

Another star-performance came from senior goalkeeper Britt Brown, who set a careerhigh mark with 16 saves on 27 shots, a new career high for Brown and the most saves a Penn goalkeeper has made since 2012. Her performance against Hopkins comes a week after setting a previous career-high with 14 saves against Delaware in a game that Penn won 9-7

Columbia’s gym, with hundreds of fans supporting both sides contributing to the broiling mood on the floor. Penn won’t have to face an away crowd so fierce for the rest of its season, as it plays at home next weekend against Dartmouth and Harvard.

To coach Donahue, a return home is something to look forward to.

“That was our fourth game on the road in a row in this league,” he said.

“It’s mentally taxing, physically taxing, and we could’ve easily won, but we could’ve easily lost — last night [against Cornell], too.”

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despite being outshot 25-14.

“Last year was her first college season where she was in the net as a starter, and I think that she’s gained a ton of confidence from that season,” said Corbett of Brown. “This being her last year, she really wants this team to win and she knows she has the opportunity to come up big for this team. She’s definitely done that over these past two games.”

Although the Quakers have now tallied two victories in a row to start the season, it appears that there is still work to be done. The Quakers will not be able to rely on Brown to make career-high numbers of saves every week, and Condon will not be able to approach impressive records on a weekly basis. That being said, Corbett was pleased with the progress the team has made so far.

“What pleases me is that we were better this week than last week,” said Corbett. “We did a better job clearing the ball, we didn’t have as many unforced errors, so I thought we took a big step forward, which is what you always want to do in the early season.”

“What was important for us in this game was that we had a lead, and then we gave up the lead, and we were able to regain the lead and win the game, and I think that’s really good this early in the season to have a game like that, and come out on top. It shows that we can fight back, and it’s a young offense, so to be able to do that bodes well as we move on and begin playing our Ivy games.”

As Penn men’s basketball just found out, not all losses are created equally.

Despite losing a crucial game to Columbia on the road, the Quakers are not out of the fight. Not only can the team overcome this defeat to potentially earn a spot in the four-team Ivy League Tournament, but they can also build off of the many positives that were obvious in their play.

Penn, playing in the last of its string of four consecutive games on the road, visited a Columbia team that was officially on the brink of elimination. It’s not surprising that the Lions put everything on the line. Their desperation exuded through their play and resulted in a 70-67 win for the home team.

Adding to the raw emotion of the game from a Columbia standpoint was the fact that it was the Lions’ senior night. Fans packed the gym and boisterously cheered on their beloved classmates in their final home game. The enthusiasm of the Columbia students never dissipated, creating a home court advantage to rival anything the Palestra has seen this year.

Despite this daunting environment, Penn never backed down. In fact, the Quakers rose to the challenge in many ways.

The game opened with a three pointer from Columbia’s seldomused guard Kendall Jackson, just moments after he had received flowers and a framed jersey as a part of the senior night festivities.

Needless to say, that sequence sent

Penn was only able to secure the win at Cornell (7-19, 3-8) in the last two minutes of the game, perhaps pointing to a slowing in the team’s recent momentum that carried them to five straight victories after six straight defeats.

But with a chance to return home and rest before the final weekend of regular season play, the Quakers will have time to regroup before making one last charge at March Madness.

“We’re at home [next], and we’ve still got a chance to make this tournament,” Donahue noted.

If they win out, they’re virtually guaranteed the No. 4 seed at the Palestra on March 12. Victories over Dartmouth and Harvard next Friday and Saturday would do the job, but a Columbia loss at Yale next weekend could also seal the deal for the Quakers.

But Penn won’t be looking for help from other teams. Destiny lies essentially in its own hands.

They may not have secured a spot in the tournament this weekend, but they’re still a whole lot better off than the 0-6 team they were three weeks ago.

the crowd into an absolute uproar.

The fans were screaming. The Columbia bench was fist-pumping and jumping up and down. The Lion mascot was dancing and running across the sideline by the student section. The gym was electric with Columbia pride.

The Red and Blue could have easily folded at that point. They could have easily succumbed to the pressure and allowed the fiery Lions to walk all over them on a night that already seemed to be theirs.

But they didn’t. Penn battled.

The Quakers battled in a way they hadn’t been able to earlier in the year— twice against Princeton and against Yale at home. This was one of the few times all season that Penn got punched in the mouth a couple of times and responded with a few haymakers of its own.

The dog fight continued for the rest of the game. Back and forth, the score and momentum shifted like a pendulum, with the only separation coming at the end when Columbia managed to make just a couple more clutch plays than their visitors.

Penn’s ability to battle in a playoff-like atmosphere wasn’t the only positive that could be taken away from that game, though. Coach Steve Donahue’s freshmen proved that they are absolute ballers.

No matter the score, the situation, or the magnitude of the game, AJ Brodeur, Ryan Betley and Devon Goodman come to play.

Brodeur, playing against big men that dwarfed even his 6’8” height, had one of his better games of the season. The rookie scored 16 points while shooting 70 percent from the floor. In addition to his impressive offensive output, Brodeur added eight rebounds in

a game-high 36 minutes of action.

His heart and hustle were evident all night long and undoubtedly contributed to the overall resilience of Penn’s performance.

But again, Brodeur was not alone. In case fellow rookie Ryan Betley hasn’t convinced you already, he is not just a shooter. Even while going a disappointing 3-11 from the field, Betley was able to make an impact. Matched up against Columbia’s Luke Petrasek, a two-time Ivy League player of the year, Betley more than held his own, posting a stat line that included four rebounds and a couple of assists to go along with 12 points.

Although his presence is normally more apparent in his numbers, on Saturday night it was his fight that was most impressive.

Speaking of numbers not telling the whole story, Devon Goodman played like a beast. It doesn’t matter that he only had five points and four assists. The pace at which he plays the game transcends statistics. He glides effortlessly across the court, zooming past opposing players as if they’re standing still. He whips passes all across the floor and effectively drives the lane, finishing acrobatically at the rim when called upon to do so. His and-one, reverse layup was arguably Penn’s biggest play of the night and one of the few times Goodman has shown real emotion all season. He earned his 23 minutes of action last night, and by my assessment, he has earned far more than that.

So, despite the loss, the Quakers have a lot to be proud of from this game. It’s now time for them to channel that pride into improvement and to win the next two games against Dartmouth and Harvard in hopes of securing an Ivy League Tournament bid.

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earns top score on beam COLE JACOBSON Sports Editor

It was almost the comeback of the century.

In last place after the first rotation of the Ivy Classic, Penn gymnastics embarked on a furious rally to catch up to its conference foes, but the Quakers ultimately came up just short of their first league title since 2015, taking second place behind repeat champion Cornell by a mere 0.400-point margin. Despite not bringing home the team trophy, the Red and Blue did secure some jewelry via sophomore Caroline Moore, who individually tied for first place in the vault. “We’re understandably frustrated with the end result, but the team’s energy was always positive and focused,� Moore said. “We never let the past routines dictate how the rest of the meet would go.�

Things didn’t look good for the Quakers (6-11, 4-3 Ivy) early, as the team struggled on the floor exercise to put itself in a deficit from which it couldn’t overcome.

Though floor has been the team’s strongest event all season, the Red and Blue staggered to a 48.025point effort on Saturday — their second-lowest of the year — to put Penn in last place right from the onset. “Sometimes, even when you do your best sets, you have no control over the judging. Being first to go on floor doesn’t make it any easier,� said Moore, who scored 9.575 in the event. “Despite the scores, we moved on and focused on the task at hand.�

But instead of faltering under the high-pressure stakes, the Quakers would prove that they know no form of quit, and their sophomore leader would spearhead the charge.

After memorably putting the team on her back in Penn’s home comeback win over Yale in January, Moore nearly repeated that effort in New Haven, sparking her team’s rally with her historic 9.825-point showing on the vault.

In addition to bringing home the individual championship in the event, Moore’s effort also was the No. 3 score on vault in program history. Overall, the team’s score of 48.075 was its best in the event since its season opener, enabling the Quakers to slowly chip at their

gaudy deficit. “Personally, I have been visualizing, dreaming, and praying for an Ivy League title,� she said. “It truly was the best feeling to stick that vault for my team and show the years of hard work that were put in to perfect it.�

Once Moore got the ball rolling, it was her fellow captain who would take over from there, with junior Kyra Levi leading a personnel on the bars that consisted of herself and five freshmen.

After taking fifth place on floor with 9.750 points, Levi continued her strong day with a ninth-place 9.700 on the bars.

With the support of her rookie teammates — four of whom secured scores of at least 9.550 points in their first ever Ivy Classic — No. 57 Penn suddenly found itself in second place entering the last rotation. “The freshmen were definitely put to the test in their first highpressure meet, but overall, they handled it well and are ready to continue to get better,� Moore said. “It really just takes being calm and confident while reminding yourself how many times you have practiced your routine.�

Still trailing the defending champion Big Red (10-7, 4-1) by

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nearly a full point, the Red and Blue were going to need something special to bring home the title, and the Quakers certainly left it all out there on the final rotation.

Moore returned to action and continued her phenomenal day with a 9.800 score on the beam to take second place behind Cornell’s Kaitlin Green. Rachel Graham contributed with her own score of 9.750, good for fourth in the event. When all was said and done, all five scorers hit at least 9.650, and Penn’s team score of 48.600 on beam was the highest across all four schools.

But there was simply too much ground to cover, as the Penn comeback bid fell just short.

Buoyed by Green’s wins on the beam and bars, the No. 52 Big Red would up with a team score of 193.325 on the day, just barely ahead of Penn’s 192.975.

Despite the heartbreak of the defeat, the day was full of silver linings for the Red and Blue beyond the obvious thrill of Moore’s title. The second-place finish still was two spots higher than the team’s last-place finish a season ago. More importantly, the meet represented Penn’s second consecutive weekend surpassing

ZACH SHELDON | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

As was the case all season, sophomore Caroline Moore powered Penn gymnastics’ comeback at the Ivy Classic by winning the vault.

192 points after not having done so in each of its three prior meets, suggesting that the Quakers are getting back into their elite form that was on display in the team’s first two weeks.

Best of all? The Red and Blue don’t have to wait long at all for their revenge — they’ll see all three Ivy opponents again three weeks from now at the ECAC Championships. And if the momentum gained from the team’s

finish on Saturday is any indication, the Quakers should be ready to make the most of their second chance. “The team huddle after the meet made everyone motivated to get back to work and fix up the little mistakes,� Moore said. “I know I can speak for the team when I say that we are ready to redeem ourselves and show everyone that we are the best team in the ECAC.�

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Women’s basketball scores weekend sweep on senior day Penn clinches Ivy tournament berth JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Editor

Penn women’s basketball had a test this weekend: rebound after a disappointing loss to Yale.

And how did it do? Exceptionally well.

Following a weekend in which they saw their undefeated Ivy hopes vanish, the Quakers responded with two stellar performances, dispatching Cornell 47-34 before taking

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down Columbia 68-59. With the win on Friday, Penn (17-7, 10-1 Ivy) clinched a spot in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament.

The weekend was a showcase in Penn’s biggest strength: its defense. The Quakers’ ability to limit opportunities, disrupt possessions, and force tough shots was on full display in both games. The Red and Blue will need to ride their Ivy-best defense for a few more weeks if they are to have a shot at the Ivy title.

This defensive domination was especially true on Friday, where Penn played arguably their best defensive game of the year. The Red and Blue held Cornell (13-11, 3-8) to just 34

points on 23.5 percent shooting, both season lows for the Quakers. “Defensively we came out here and we knew that everything was going to have to be 100%,� junior forward Michelle Nwokedi said on Friday night. “I think we came out here and set the defensive tone, and we were able to get the win because of that.�

The night was also special for Nwokedi, who became the 22nd player in program history to record 1,000 total points.

The milestone shot came in the midst of a great first half performance, where the junior put up 16 of her team-leading 18 points. She also added 10

rebounds to record her 10th double-double of the year.

On an emotional Senior Night the following night, the Quakers were able to send their seniors off in style against Columbia (13-12, 3-9). Following a pregame ceremony honoring their achievements, all three seniors started and got on the board, including Jackie Falconer, who made her first career start. “It was amazing,� Falconer said on the day’s festivities. “With all the celebration it was really nice but we knew that we still had to get down to business and get the win, so it was really exciting. I’m glad that everyone got to come together for this.�

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place fourth in the 200-meter dash.

Solan placed herself among the record-breakers by running a 23.80 — the fastest 200 in school history.

Cleo Whiting then responded with a school record of her own in the 5K, placing third overall with a time of 16:28.49.

“This was definitely one of my favorite meets that I’ve ever been a part of. It was an incredible experience, and it made it even sweeter to realize how far we’ve come from my freshman 22point total [at Heps that year],” senior captain Ashley Montgomery said. Montgomery took bronze in the mile with a time of 4:47.33 to conclude her final indoor season.

The Penn men weren’t able to find the remarkable success that their female counterparts had, but some epic individual performances exemplified their drive

to rank themselves among the very best.

Chris Hatler, Penn’s newest member of the sub-four minute mile club, became the first Quaker to win the mile race since 2006 on Sunday.

“Traditionally at Heps, the mile is run very tactically,” Hatler commented. “The anecdote I go with is, ‘you run the first half of the race with your head, and the second half with your heart’,” he said.

The Quakers were able to witness a legendary display of combined head-and-heart effort in the 200m dash by sophomore Calvary Rogers, who is also a weekly columnist for the Daily Pennsylvanian. Rogers, under intriguing circumstances, ran his heat of the final completely alone — a notoriously difficult stunt to pull off as a track athlete — and still earn a meet record time of 21.39.

“I was in the final heat, and two of the people — one from Brown and one from Princeton

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2017 — had gotten hurt during the 60meter. It was just me and this guy from Cornell. Then, turns out, right when the gun popped off, he had false-started. Then it was just me,” Rogers said.

Rogers’ race quickly became a spectacle as the commentator and crowd members alike marveled at how fast he was running against himself. After he crossed the finish line, it was evident that something unique had transpired; Rogers had set a new Ivy Heps record completely on his own. He is also the first-ever Quaker to win the 200m at Heps.

Senior Nick Tuck then made a little history of his own with a 14:16.44 5K time, becoming the first Penn athlete to bring home the gold from this race at Heps.

While these unconventional and inspiring performances were only good enough for a fifth place total overall for the men, they were a solid indicator of an exciting spring season to come.

“This spring, I’m trying to reach heights that I’ve never

reached before. I’m looking forward to seeing what’s in store — since I’m a lot faster than I was last year — and just really focusing on staying healthy and running my best. It should be a really good season. My definite goal is to go to nationals,” Rogers said of his expected performance in the coming months.

McCorkle voiced a similar expected trajectory with plans to focus on improvement.

“It’s all about maintaining what we’ve already been doing and building upon that,” she said.

“All the girls are so talented, and we’re very competitive within our own group, so it definitely helps us bring that competitiveness to the next level and helps us succeed.”

With the outdoor season ahead and wind beneath its sails, the Penn track and field team is set to assert itself against its opponents this spring. If the conclusion of indoor competition was anything to go by, more firsts and broken records are sure to follow.

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Penn’s loss to Columbia puts Tourney hopes in doubt

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Penn men’s basketball came tantalizingly close to securing a spot at the Ivy League Tournament over the weekend with a thrilling 69-66 victory at Cornell, but failed to free itself from the pack after falling

to Columbia the following night, 70-67.

A win in New York City couldn’t have guaranteed the Quakers (1213, 5-7 Ivy) a place in the inaugural postseason tournament, but it would have made it highly likely. However, Columbia (11-14, 5-7) kept the dream alive on its senior night by drawing level with Penn in the league standings.

It was tight right until the end on Saturday — in the second half,

neither team ever had a lead greater than seven. The teams tied it up six times, and the lead changed another three before Columbia finally gained the slim advantage that it wouldn’t relinquish.

Simply put, both teams were playing like they had a spot at the Ivy League Tournament on the line.

In fact, Columbia senior Luke Petrasek called it the biggest win of his four years at the school. Teammate Nate Hickman also acknowledged

that his team knew the season was on the line against Penn.

That notion was clear from the get-go, as Columbia negated one of Penn’s recent strengths, starting out strong. The Quakers did come out swinging, but so too did the Lions.

After just five minutes, both teams were on pace to score over 100 points. Penn, courtesy of four straight three-pointers from sophomore Jackson Donahue, came out with unbelievable efficiency.

Donahue scored 12 of the team’s 16 first points, and 14 of its first 22.

“Jackson Donahue was out of his mind,” Columbia coach Jim Engles said. “There’s not much more that you can do about him, other than just throw people at him. We were just hoping that we was gonna cool off.”

Unfortunately for Penn, he did.

After scoring 14 points in the first 15 minutes, the sophomore shooter registered just two in the following

Penn track and field teams boasted record-breaking times and history-making performances this weekend at the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships in New York City. Quakers from a myriad of events capitalized on the large, noisy crowd to garner some of the most impressive achievements they’ve seen in decades.

On the women’s side, the Red and Blue earned a total of 13 podium performances to finish second overall.

This included new school records set by senior Cleo Whiting (5000-meter run), sophomore Imani Solan (200m dash), junior Molly Minnig (pole vault), sophomore Rachel Wilson (throws) and the 4x800 meter relay team of Gina Alm, Nia Atkins, Mikayla Schneider, and Ella Wurth.

The abnormally high point total (109.3) was the most Penn has

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The onus then fell on his teammates to pick up the slack, but only some obliged. The star freshman trio of AJ Brodeur, Ryan Betley and Devon Goodman accounted for 33 of Penn’s 67 points on Saturday, as well as 17 of the team’s 33 rebounds.

Unfortunately, off nights from previously in-form junior Darnell Foreman and sophomore Max

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collected since 1987. Similarly, their second-place finish was the best the team has seen since a landmark 1996 championship performance.

The freshman class was a key contributor this weekend, showing up big and putting serious points on the board to elevate the Quakers over third place Columbia. Freshman Cecile Ene began the freshman insurgence with a silver medal in the 400-meter race, with Nia Akins quickly following suit with a secondplace finish in the 500 to match.

“It was really cool seeing [the freshmen] take their potential and put it out for everyone to see,” junior sprinter Taylor McCorkle said. McCorkle snagged a fifth-place finish in her 60-meter dash and was just behind teammate Imani Solan to

Penn men’s swimming and diving got off to a speedy start at Ivy League Championships over the weekend, scoring 1,335 points to take second to host Harvard. On top of that, the finish was the program’s highest since 1971, the last year that the Quakers took home an Ivy title.

While Harvard took home first place for their 24th overall Ivy League championship behind the record-setting efforts of star freshman Dean Farris, Penn’s second place finish set the all-time program record for total points in the history of championship meets. In addition to setting records for points, the Red and Blue swimmers broke team records in the 200 and 400-yard medley relays, 800-yard freestyle relay, 200 and 400-yard individual medleys, 100yard butterfly and 200-yard butterfly.

Coach Mike Schnur was extremely pleased with his athletes’ performances this weekend, and thought they exceeded expectations in individual swims and as a team.

“It was great to see the guys come together and finish that high. The challenge was to keep the guys motivated all year, but that second place finish is what we were destined for because we were the second best team. We saw the guys do what we set out to do from day one,” Schnur said.

Very proud with his team’s performances and the outcome of the Ivy League championship meet in its entirety, Schnur felt his team was successful because of its hard work and determination throughout the season.

“We have a lot of talent and a lot of depth. Columbia and Yale’s top guys are every bit as good as ours. It’s our number 13 through 17 men that are far superior to what Columbia and Yale have,” Schnur added.

The second place result does come with an asterisk, however. Princeton men’s swim team, who finished second to Harvard at Ivies in 2016, was absent from the 2017 championship meet after being suspended for an incident with inappropriate GroupMe messages. While the Quakers defeated the Tigers at their regular season dual meet in November, it is impossible to say how Princeton’s presence would have affected the outcome at this year’s championship meet.

Heading into the weekend, Penn was focused only on the six other teams competing. Schnur relied on the nine seniors on the Ivy squad of 20 swimmers to guide the team

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For second straight year, No. 2 Quakers come up just short of title W. SQUASH | Harvard

bests Penn 7-2 in final

COLE JACOBSON Sports Editor

With No. 2 Penn women’s squash facing No. 1 Harvard in the Collegiate Squash Association national championship for the second straight season after losing a brutal 5-4 decision a year ago, the narrative was almost writing itself: Heartbreak pushes team to success. Underdog upsets favorite.

Former loser gets all-too-sweet revenge.

But unfortunately, in sports, the Hollywood story doesn’t always hold.

In what was nearly a carbon copy of the teams’ regular season

matchup, the unbeaten Crimson squashed Penn’s upset bid early on in a dominant 7-2 victory. With the win, Harvard took its third straight title and sixth in the last eight years, while the Red and Blue came up agonizingly short for the second straight season.

“Look, second stinks. But I can assure you that it’s a lot better than third or fourth or fifth,” coach Jack Wyant said. “I’m immensely proud of the team; we fought hard today, we fought hard all season …

Harvard was the deserved winner today.”

After Harvard (15-0, 10-0 Ivy) topped Penn by an identical 7-2 score in the regular season, the Crimson got off to a similarly dominant start, going up 2-0 leading into a crazy showdown at No. 3 between Penn’s Marie Stephan and

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Harvard’s Kayley Leonard.

And while Stephan surged ahead to a 10-4 lead in the decisive fifth set, Leonard astonishingly ran off eight consecutive points to steal the match, putting Penn (13-2, 7-2) in a 3-0 deficit from which it could never emerge.

“It was as a killer one for us,” Wyant said. “We needed Marie’s match; we needed it for momentum, and it didn’t go our way, so it was excruciating.”

The Quakers could never recover. When Grace Van Arkel fell in three sets at No. 8 and Jess Davis lost in four at No. 5, the Crimson had clinched the national championship. For the year, Harvard won a ridiculous 128 of its 135 individual matches — with four of those seven losses coming against Penn.

“They’re loaded, they’re very,

very strong at every position, so if they’re not the best [team ever], they’re among the best,” Wyant said. “I would argue that our team has gotta be a top-five best team of all time … our timing just isn’t as good.”

Even with the final decision already decided, the Red and Blue wouldn’t lay down flat. At the No. 2 spot, undefeated Melissa Alves topped Harvard’s Gina Kennedy in straight sets to put Penn on the board.

Soon after, in the latest edition of women’s college squash’s unquestioned best individual rivalry — Reeham Salah and Sabrina Sohby — a packed audience was rowdy from start to finish, as Salah topped her longtime friend and foe in four sets.

With the wins, both Salah and

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Alves remained undefeated — and the former isn’t done yet, as both she and Stephan will compete at CSA Individuals next weekend.

“They’ve done everything that we asked and more,” Wyant said.

“To be honest, I expected that both would finish the end of the season undefeated, but I’m really happy and proud of them.”

Despite the tough ending, the first two days of competition saw strong moments for the Quakers.

In the quarterfinals vs. No. 7 Cornell (9-8, 4-5), Penn only dropped two total sets in an easy 9-0 victory.

Then, in the semifinals against No. 3 Trinity (16-3, 6-0 NESCAC), the Quakers went down 3-0 before pulling off one of the most epic comebacks in school history, winning five of the last six contests to

squeeze out a crazy 5-4 win.

“The momentum was clearly going [Trinity’s] way, and we kind of halted them, started notching some wins,” Wyant said. “I hope when I’m really, really old and really, really gray, that I remember Saturday more than Sunday.”

Still, Penn ultimately came up short in its goal to break its 17-year title drought. The Quakers are now 0-4 against their chief rival over the past two seasons, while they’re 27-0 over the same period against all other squads.

And if one thought the best team rivalry in the sport was coming to an end any time soon, it’d be a foolish misconception. Harvard returns seven of its nine starters from Sunday’s title match. Penn returns six of its nine, including Salah, Alves and Stephan.

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