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Trump, Clinton rein in delegates Penn political groups had mixed feelings about result

LUIS FERRE SADURNI Staff Reporter

On Tuesday night, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump’s widespread electoral

momentum swept over the 12 states and one territory in the Democratic and Republican primaries. Both Clinton and Trump gained a commanding lead in their respective races by finishing first in six states each on the day the most delegates are at stake on the primary calendar.

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victories and their rivals’ resounding losses were felt at Penn, where students paid close attention as news outlets projected wins, often just minutes after the closing of state polls.

On the Democratic side — where 859 delegates were at play — Clinton built on her momentum after beating Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

by a landslide in the South Carolina primary on Feb. 27. Clinton overwhelmingly won the majority of Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas delegates by late Tuesday night.

Sanders had only won his home state of Vermont, along with

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Ivy football coaches agree to ban tackling at in-season practices THOMAS MUNSON

Associate Sports Editor

Last week, at their annual meeting, the Ivy League’s eight head football coaches unanimously made an unprecedented decision to eliminate tackling from all regular season practices.

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the opinion of the coaches, although one school’s athletic director and the director of the Ivy League and her staff did attend the meeting.

While still pending approval from the conference’s respective athletic directors and university presidents, Penn coach Ray Priore is confident that it will become league policy by next season.

“Why would they not want to endorse what we want to do?” Priore asked regarding endorsements from league officials.

“It’s only making the game safer.”

Unfortunately Penn athletic director Grace Calhoun could not be reached for comment.

Assuming that Calhoun and the other ADs and presidents support it, the measure will be the most aggressive move to decrease the number of head injuries sustained by collegiate football players to date. As a result, it could not only change

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Be Here Yoga moves students to calm, empowered living

Sex, love and summer camp at Jewish LGBTQ event

Yoga classes offer welcoming environment to students

At Hillel, the group talked about discovering sex at summer camp

GENEVIEVE GLATSKY Contributing Reporter

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Canoeing and playing capture the flag aren’t the only things that happen at summer camp ... or so it appears for the members of J-Bagel.

J-Bagel, a student organization that serves “members of the Jewish and/or LGBTQAI community at Penn,” according to its Facebook page, met at Hillel Tuesday night for an event entitled “Sexual Awakenings at Summer Camp.” The discussion centered around sexual discovery at summer camp and in other areas of life.

J-Bagel co-chair and College senior Eliana Yankelev hoped for a fun, open conversation that would be inclusive of the myriad of experiences, acknowledging that sexual discovery can be emotional and unique to each person.

In an interview before the event, she said that she hoped to maintain a light-hearted tone throughout the event.

One participant spoke about her experiences at summer camp, both good and bad,

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Wharton junior Makena Finger, one of the co-leaders, helps students with their form during a Be Here Yoga class.

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Two yoga teachers with a vision, College sophomore Karen Zhao and Wharton junior Natalia Chadee, aim to engage the larger Penn community in meditation and yoga.

“I felt that more people could connect to it. My vision was to create a community that promoted health and taking care of people,” Zhao said.

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Together they founded Be Here Yoga, which Zhao describes as “a movement towards empowered living, calm living and authentic community.” The group offers free weekly yoga classes in Harnwell College House’s rooftop lounge in collaboration with the Live Well program there. They have about five teachers, a turnout of between 10 and 25 students for every class and they collaborate with other groups on campus.

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Alternate Spring Break to aid seven U.S. cities Students to work with Habitat for Humanity JULIANNE SMOLYN Contributing Reporter

Alternate Spring Break participants plan to break out of the Penn bubble and step into a different United States community for a week filled with service and reflection.

Alternate Spring Break is running seven trips this March, with four of the trips running through Habitat for Humanity in order to focus on helping to construct homes in Lynchburg, Va., Charlotte, N.C., Alamosa, Colo. and High Point, N.C. The other three service excursions are called Breakaway trips and will be taking place in Austin, Texas, Atlanta and Charlottesville, Va.

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With locations all across the United States, Alternate Spring Break brings students together to build homes for the needy. The trip is an opportunity to leave the Penn bubble.

Breakaway trips are more “spontaneous” than the Habitat for Humanity trips because they usually depend on the site, and they

allow participants to interact with organizations that cater towards that location’s specific needs, College sophomore Nitay Caspi said.

Caspi will be a site leader for the Breakaway trip in Austin, Texas, and his group will be working closely with the Workers Defense

Project to aid immigrant workers in Texas. Caspi went on the New Orleans trip during last year’s Spring Break and is looking forward to creating another connection between the Penn and Austin community, he said.

College sophomore Evangeline Giannopoulos will serve as a site leader for the Habitat for Humanity trip in Alamosa. Last year, Giannopoulos went on ASB’s Habitat for Humanity trip in New Orleans, and she hopes to foster a good environment this year so that her group can have a great experience, she said.

In regards to what her group will be doing in Colorado, Giannopoulos added, “the city of Alamosa specifically has a lot of poverty and a really big issue with affordable housing.”

Giannopoulos is also the Outreach Coordinator for ASB’s board,

and her Spring Break team will likely work together with an organization to provide cost-effective solar heating panels.

Going on her first ASB trip, College freshman Raisa Shah will be a part of the fourteen person team that will be making their mark in Charlotte.

“I know I’m not going out there and saving the world in one week.

I’m doing my part and what I can in a week,” Shah said.

In all of the ASB excursions, participants have the desire to integrate within their community of volunteers.

“These trips bring together such an interesting mix of people that you normally wouldn’t meet, and you’re put together for a week and become really close, and that’s what makes the trip really special,” Caspi said.

New and improved SAT hits the desks this weekend Rehauls include an optional essay and 1600-point scale

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SOPHIA LEPORTE Staff Reporter

This Saturday, high school juniors around the country will rise early to tackle the SAT Reasoning Test . But for the first time since 2005, it’s a different test.

On its website, the College Board says “the new test is more focused on the skills and knowledge at the heart of education,” measuring, “what you learn in high school,” and “what you need to succeed in college.”

To accomplish this, the test is supposed to have more relevant and familiar vocabulary words, and it will require

students to do more analysis with an evidence-based reading and writing section. Every test will also include at least one passage from a United States founding document, like the Declaration of Independence or the Federalist Papers.

The last time the SAT changed was in 2005, when the essay section was added, analogies were eliminated and the math section was expanded to include concepts covered in Algebra II classes. The total points possible also increased from 1600 to 2400.

The new test will go back to being scored on a 1600 scale, and students will also no longer be penalized for choosing the wrong answer. This means students now have nothing to lose when guessing the answer to a

question.

“This is the biggest overhaul the SAT has ever made,” Director of college counseling practice Ivy Coach Brian Taylor said.

For current high school students , these changes might be hard to adjust to, especially in the first year of the new SAT’s release.

Taylor believes that students in the next couple of years will be impacted most since they do not have as many resources to prepare for taking the test.

“The problem for this year is that there aren’t old tests,” Taylor said. “The best way to prep for SATs or ACTs is to take old practice tests, but the new SAT has no old tests out there.”

As a result, Taylor thinks that

students this year will start to look elsewhere for their testing requirement.

“Many students, this year in particular, I suspect, will turn to the ACT,” Taylor said.

The College Board has also made the essay optional in the new version of the test. Last year, just prior to the new SAT’s release, Penn announced that it would also be making the essay portion of the SAT and ACT optional for applicants.

Despite this, Taylor thinks that students applying to Penn should still be taking the essay portion, which will require students to analyze a passage instead of the old essay, which was based on a prompt. He said that even though Penn says it’s optional, he thinks it’s still expected.

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Penn Democrats — which officially endorsed Clinton on Monday — was more than satisfied with her sweeping victory.

“We are excited to see her doing well tonight,” Penn Democrats President and College junior Max Levy said.

“Her wins tonight were pretty expected wins. Sen. Sanders won Vermont as was expected.

Things ran as they should, which is good for everybody right now.”

On Tuesday n ight, the Democratic student group cosponsored a watch party with College Republicans and other candidate groups to follow the primary results from campus.

Sanders fell far short of Clinton’s number of delegates but still managed to meet expectations. The senator upstaged Clinton in his home state of Vermont (winning by over 70 percent of the vote) and managed to win the majority of delegates in Oklahoma and Colorado. While Sanders achieved certain success in the more white and liberal Northeast, his inability to court the African American vote in the southern

states gave Clinton a dominant victory in those states.

Sanders’ Penn student supporters were not concerned with the Vermont senator’s loss in the southern states, as it is not representative of the delegates still up for grabs.

“Super Tuesday is very much the focus because of the amount of states voting on the same day, but still there are a lot of delegates left to play for,” Penn for Bernie Co-President and College sophomore Aran Fox said.

“I think it’s going to be very interesting because a lot of the popular delegates will be a lot closer than people were expecting,” Fox added. “The other thing is that the Sanders campaign has done very, very well fundraising money without a lot of large money donors, such that they are in a position to continue the campaign all the way through. Super Tuesday is definitely not the end of this campaign.”

On the Republican side — where candidates battled for 595 delegates — Trump achieved what no pundit would have predicted last summer, but what polls consistently forecasted in the past weeks: a sweep of all but two of the Super Tuesday states at play by late in the

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Trump was projected to finish first place in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Virginia. This placed the Penn graduate closer to the 1,237 delegates necessary to clinch the GOP nomination.

Penn College Republicans expressed disappointment towards Trump’s strong showing yesterday, explaining that Penn students favored the Republican establishment candidates over the real estate mogul.

“People are pretty disappointed on the whole with what is happening with this primary,” College Republicans President and Wharton and College junior Jennifer Knesbach said. “I think that just by looking at the fact that Penn has only two remaining candidate groups from the Republicans: Penn for Kasich and Rubio, right now.”

She added, “People keep saying that they would never vote for Hillary or Bernie, but that they couldn’t vote for Trump either.”

The businessman’s commanding lead left the fight for second and third place to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.).

Cruz won his home state of Texas and finished first place in

Oklahoma while Rubio claimed victory in Minnesota. In the other states, both candidates lobbied for second place behind Trump. Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former surgeon Ben Carson lagged far behind.

Like the College Republicans as a whole, Penn for Rubio members were concerned with Rubio’s stagnant showing and Trump’s success.

“The turnout tonight has definitely been disappointing,” Penn for Rubio member and College sophomore Makayla Reynolds said. “Rubio has defined himself to be the most clear-headed, reliable candidate and I am disappointed to see a candidate like Trump taking the lead. As a Rubio supporter all we can do is hope for the best moving forward and hope that the other states’ results will be a little different from what we have seen tonight.”

As yesterday’s results begin to sink in, party strategists and losing candidates alike will discern the next steps to take in an attempt to halt Trump’s potent storm. On March 15 — the second most important day of the primaries — Ohio and Florida’s 165 delegates will be up for grabs on a winner-take-all basis.

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Reactions among Penn political groups ranged from excited to disappointed as Super Tuesday wrapped up.

hoping that as the field would get smaller, some of the support for Trump would come back down to the more moderate candidates,” Knesbach said. “We’re

not seeing that. I think that while both Kasich and Rubio are in the race, are they really going to be able to bring down Trump?”

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Last Thursday evening, the University of Missouri’s Board of Curators announced the dismissal of Assistant Professor of Communications Melissa Click, who garnered national attention last year when she was caught on video confronting a student journalist who was attempting to take pictures of a protest in which Click was participating.

In the video, Click confronts the photographer, grabbing his camera and gesticulating angrily in his face. “Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here?

I need some muscle over here!” she calls. A group of protestors gather and advance menacingly on the photographer, as Click continues to egg them on.

Although Click may and likely will appeal her firing, the case poses an interesting conundrum for those concerned about the ability of students and faculty to engage in unfettered expression on campus. On the one hand, Click was, at the least, pretty clearly attempting to impede freedom of the press, obstructing a journalist in pursuit of a story from documenting an event taking place on public property.

Complicating the issue, however, is the fact that established faculty termination procedures were apparently bypassed. Under normal circumstances, a misconduct complaint against a professor would have been considered by the Faculty Council — Missouri’s faculty self-governance body — which would have decided whether any relevant policies had been violated, and if so, whether to terminate Click.

Instead, the decision to terminate Click came directly from the university’s Board of Curators, which, unlike the faculty, is directly accountable to Missouri’s rightleaning state legislature.

Members of the legislature, who can vote to dock the university system’s funding, have been bandying Click’s behavior about in an attempt to drum up political support for a threatened $7.7 million budget cut. As such, there is strong circumstantial evidence to indicate that Click’s dismissal may have been motivated by a desire to placate state legislators unsympathetic to campus protests.

On one hand, I firmly believe that, in this case, dismissal would have been the only appropriate outcome of

a fair termination process.

The kind of physical intimidation that Click facilitated is the precise antithesis of the kind of uninhibited dialogue that academic open expression is supposed to foster. A community that prizes free speech despises the threat of violence for the same reason it rejects institutional

free speech apply to an expansive range of behaviors, there are a few narrowly-tailored exceptions to its protections.

In every American jurisdiction, one of these exceptions is a crime usually called simple assault, which is defined in Missouri as “purposefully plac[ing] another person” — understood by courts to mean

Faculty self-governance is crucial to maintaining academic freedom, which is in turn essential to maintaining the academy’s ability to do what it is supposed to do: pursue truth and new knowledge.” enforcement of particular viewpoints. By conditioning security on subscription to particular positions, it limits the range of locations in which the search for truth may be conducted without fear.

Although the principles of

a specific, identifiable person — “in apprehension of immediate physical injury.”

The Columbia, Mo. prosecutor’s office determined that Click’s actions met that standard. Committing assault is certainly grounds for termination from any job, whether

it enjoys the protections of academic freedom or not.

However, the seriousness of Click’s wrongdoing doesn’t diminish her entitlement as a faculty member to a fair, impartial termination process. Self-governance is crucial to maintaining the Missouri faculty’s academic freedom, which is in turn essential to maintaining the academy’s ability to do what it is supposed to do: pursue truth and new knowledge.

If Missouri professors must live with the fear that their jobs depend on staying in the good graces of the Board of Curators and their bosses at the state legislature, they will hesitate to exercise their rights as surely as will a student journalist who fears violence at the hands of an angry mob. An independent professoriate, whose standards of conduct deliberately take careful account of academic freedom, is the proper body to decide such a case, not a legislature or an administration.

Without qualification, the board of the University of Missouri erred in violating its commitments to these principles. Genuine belief in fundamental fairness in higher education means de-

Alec Ward fending the rights of those with whom one profoundly disagrees and whose actions one deeply disapproves of with equal fervor as one would those of close friends and ideological allies.

Too many in academia have shown themselves willing to apply double-standards based on their own intellectual biases. The same advocates who have condemned Click’s attempt to deprive a student of his rights must now also challenge what appears to be Missouri’s attempt to deprive her of hers.

ALEC WARD is a College junior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@sas.upenn. edu. Follow him on Twitter @ TalkBackWard. “Fair Enough,” formerly “Talking Backward,” usually appears every other Wednesday.

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Three years ago, Sara Allan spoke to the University Council, urging Penn to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry. And despite Penn’s growing list of sustainability initiatives, Penn has, as of yet, not divested.

Since 2007, Penn has been increasing its sustainability initiatives, especially those related to climate change.

With each new climate plan released, Penn shows its commitment to reduce its own emissions through the Climate Action Plan, Green Campus Partnership, Century Bonds and the Power Down Challenge. Specifically, Penn’s 24-hour energy reduction challenge showed a campus-wide reduction of 5.8 percent, which resulted in $5,800 donated to climate action research. However for all their good intentions, these efforts are directly undermined by our fossil fuel investments.

First, by continuing to

invest in the fossil fuel industry over these last three years since divestment was first proposed, Penn’s investments in fossil fuel companies contributed to over 1.8 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions — based off of Penn’s ownership of 0.006 percent of global fossil fuel equity. This was three times greater than the emissions from campus operations over the same period of time, based on the data from the Climate Action Plan progress report.

Penn continues to urge students to power down our laptops and take shorter showers, yet Penn also continues to hypocritically fund these fossil fuel companies, investing in greenhouse gas emissions at rates much higher than any student could ever emit.

Secondly, by not divesting from the fossil fuel industry, Penn is breaching its fiduciary duty to enable the University’s mission of sup-

porting its students and their futures. In order to avoid global warming greater than two degrees, our society can only burn 86 percent of all proven fossil fuel reserves.

These companies are showing no signs of slowing down drilling or staying within this

Despite Penn’s mission to serve its students in the best way possible, Penn continues to fund companies that are contributing to the potential demise of the planet said students live on. If that weren’t enough, Penn is hypocritically continuing these invest-

Penn continues to urge students to power down our laptops and take shorter showers, yet Penn also continues to hypocritically fund these fossil fuel companies. carbon budget. By continuing to invest in these companies, Penn is financially supporting a global failure to meet this critical carbon budget.

ments by simultaneously attempting to “execute a vision of environmental sustainability at Penn” through the Climate Action Plan.

Penn is also breaching its

fiduciary duty to invest in the best performing stocks and thus grow the endowment in a stable manner. By not divesting from the fossil fuel industry, Penn lost at least $80 million over these last three years (from a comparison between non-divested S&P500 versus divested FFIUS based on the same index), which is money that could have been used to cover full tuition for over 1,600 students.

Additionally, the continuous drilling done by these companies is increasing the proportion of stranded assets, a risk that the current market price is not fully accounting for. Over the same period of time, stocks in renewables have outperformed the oil and gas industry.

Penn should be a leader, not a laggard. Yet over the last three years, the University Board of Trustees has been waiting in silence while fossil fuel stocks have crashed, 750,000 people

have died from climate change and over 40 other educational institutions with $130 billion in assets have pledged to divest. 2015 was the hottest year ever recorded. We are running out of time, and it will take institutional power, not just personal action through a Power Down Challenge, to combat one of the biggest issues facing humanity. The University of Pennsylvania needs to not only power down our energy consumption, but to also power down our endowment.

All calculations can be found at http://www.fossilfreepenn.org/power-downthe-endowment.html Rita wegner is a sophomore from Minnesota majoring in environmental studies and minoring in German.

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Young Trump supporters difficult to find Trump’s lead not always reflected in college students CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor

1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump is barreling toward the Republican nomination, securing Super Tuesday victories in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. He’s brash, offensive and highly divisive — yet he strikes a chord with a significant number of Americans.

But Trump’s support does not necessarily reach Americans in college. Interviews with college students at Trump events in South Carolina around its primary two weeks ago, and at the University of South Carolina reveal that the youngest cohort of American voters — even in a more conservative state — often disavow Trump’s views or regard him as a joke.

At Penn, Trump’s support is negligible. If it exists at all, it’s

been silenced by the overwhelming liberal lean of campus and the tendency of conservatives to support establishment candidates like Marco Rubio and John Kasich. The short-lived Penn for Trump student group disbanded early this year after its founder decided he didn’t agree with Trump’s proposals to ban Muslims from entering the country. And at the Penn Caucus on Feb. 1, Trump didn’t see a single supporter.

But even in South Carolina, which overall, is far more conservative than an elite college campus in Philadelphia, Trump’s impact is unclear.

Twenty-two-year-old Troy Hagin attended a Trump rally in Charleston the day before the South Carolina primary because “it was an opportunity to see something cool.” He was joined by his friend, Happy Anmidan, a 19-year-old who “just wanted to see the full experience.”

Neither is planning on voting for Trump.

And 19-year-old Kayla Tripp, who was at the same rally, had never

been to a political rally before and wasn’t sure who she planned on supporting. But Trump left her unimpressed.

“I was hoping for something more — more statistics, more facts, instead of the stuff that he was just pulling out of thin air,” she said.

“What about the jobs? What about abortion? ... Instead of this wall ... and Mexicans.”

At Trump’s South Carolina victory party the next night, young people were nearly impossible to find among the primarily white, middle-aged crowd of supporters.

But one, 21-year-old Jared Kidings, cited Trump’s genuine voice as a reason for his strength as a candidate.

“I want to see my next president,” he said. “He tells it like it is.”

While Trump’s authenticity appeals to a wide range of voters, his lack of concrete policy plans and racially-charged views make him difficult for educated voters — especially young ones — to get behind.

A January CNN poll found that

only 26 percent of GOP voters with college degrees supported Trump, compared to 39 percent overall. And although the Republican party’s non-college educated wing has rallied around Trump, its educated wing remains divided.

Trump’s lead in the polls certainly isn’t echoed at the University of South Carolina, where the conservative presence rivals if not outweighs the liberal one. Of over 20 students interviewed on the day of the primary — most of whom planned to vote Republican — not a single one declared support for Trump.

Cole Houghton, a USC student from Atlanta, said he plans to vote Republican but only supports Trump “sarcastically.” When it comes to his serious opinions, Trump isn’t even an option.

“I don’t like Trump, just because he’s arrogant,” Houghton said. “You can’t run a business the same way you run a country ... Numbers aren’t the same as people. Most of his talk has been about foreign affairs, but not very much about domestic

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1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump scored major victories on Super Tuesday, winning a majority of the states.

affairs.”

And Katie McCarthy, a USC freshman who initially didn’t see Trump as a viable candidate, is unnerved by the support he has inspired.

“I feel like it’s weird ... I thought it was a joke that he was running

— that Donald Trump was running for president. So it’s kind of weird that it’s going so well for him,” she said. “I just don’t think I ever really thought of him as a serious candidate, but the fact that he’s doing so well makes me cry for America a little bit.”

Credit away recognizes certain non-Penn courses Classes taken outside of Penn can count for degree

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SUN JAE LEE Staff Reporter

1. Students request credit on XCAT XCAT is an online tool that students can use to request credit at Penn for courses completed at other institutions. Students are expected to research the details of the course they want to take, obtain the course syllabi and submit the information online. XCAT sends these course requests to a specific person or committee in each department for credit evaluation.

Gary Purpura, the assistant dean for Advising in the College of Arts and Sciences, said that credit away allows students to take courses outside of Philadelphia or at institutions that have lower tuition than Penn .

Though there is no deadline for requesting courses, students should send in requests before enrolling so that there is no risk of the department rejecting the requests later on.

Penn just released its register of hundreds of courses it will offer in the fall — but less advertised is the opportunity students have to take classes somewhere else.

The University allows its students the chance to take up to five credits of credit away — meaning that students can take courses at institutions other than Penn, whether a few miles away or across the Pacific Ocean, and receive credit for them at Penn. Credit away courses are different from courses taken at Penn because they do not affect a student’s Penn GPA and because only the credit transfers, not the grade earned. Many students take advantage of credit away in the summer to fulfill general education requirements, major requirements or receive elective credits.

2. The request goes to specific

departments After students submit information online, XCAT sends these course requests to the relevant department for credit evaluation. In each department, there is a specific person or committee that conducts these reviews, and different departments may make decisions based on different criteria.

“There’s a number of criteria: one is, especially for summer classes, you have to meet approximately the number of hours that a Penn course does,” said Deborah Burnham, the associate undergraduate chair of the English Department. “I also look at the amount of reading.”

For other departments, it’s easier to receive credit for courses taken at other institutions.

“If [the requested courses] look at all similar to [the courses] we offer, most of the time they get approval,” classical studies professor Ralph Rosen said. “The reason is that there’s only a handful of books that people use [in Classical Studies courses], and if [other universities

are] using one of those books, those books are tailored to our course of study.”

3. Students receive a decision on whether they will get academic credit, free elective credit, added credit or no credit Once the department receives the request, professors in the department decide whether to approve it or not.

“If you submitted something to XCAT, I would receive an immediate notification, look at the request, and most of the time, I can make a decision right there,” Rosen said. “I just click all the boxes that say approve … or I don’t approve if they don’t look appropriate to my department.”

Purpura pointed out that departments sometimes approve courses for free elective credit, but not for credit for specific courses.

“For example, if someone took an introductory physics course, it might not match up exactly with the topics that are covered in

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our introductory physics course here, so our Physics Department might not give it exact credit,” Purpura said. “The department might say, ‘Yes, we’ll give you a free elective credit, but it does not satisfy the Physics 150 requirement for physics major.’”

4. Students send their transcripts to the College office After the department has approved the request and the student has taken the course, he or she sends the transcript to the school’s office so the credit can be posted on the student’s Penn transcript.

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The four-time defending Ivy South Division champion Quakers are returning many key players from last year’s campaign, including the 2015 Ivy League Rookie of the Year Jurie Joyner. Along with senior captain Lauren Li, Joyner was named to the CollegeSportsMadness.com first team Preseason All-Ivy. After both capturing first team All-Ivy honors last season, the two look to once again form the backbone of Penn’s offense.

Also receiving nods for Preseason All-Ivy Second Team were senior Korinne Raby and junior Leah Allen, both of whom should play key roles on the team for this upcoming season. Raby figures to be the team’s starting catcher after starting the majority of the team’s games behind the plate last year. Likewise, Allen started all but one game last year in right field for the Red and Blue, and should provide some power in the middle of the lineup for the team. The preseason games also give Penn a chance to try out some less experienced players. “We generally rotate everybody in [over spring break].

Everyone will get some playing time, some will get more time than others, but we’re looking to give everybody some playing time,� King said. “But at the same time, we’re looking to win ball games. If someone gets hot and we need to have them in our lineup, then we’ll have them in our lineup. So it’s very fluid as far as what direction we go.�

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JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Reporter

For Penn softball, spring break is more like a ¨spring beginning.¨ While the rest of Penn’s student body will be busy relaxing and enjoying its week off, the Quakers will be hard at work as they kick off their season at the Under Armour Invitational, hosted by South Florida in Clearwater, Fla. Over the span of a week, Penn will play nine games — including doubleheaders this Friday and Saturday to start the Invitational — against teams from all over the country.

Notable opponents for the Red and Blue include teams such as Texas State and Illinois that have jumped out to strong starts to their respective seasons.

With such a large and varied group of opponents, the Red and Blue will have an opportunity to size up their competition and see where they fall right off the bat.

The Invitational is a chance for Penn to kick off what is shaping up to be another exciting and successful season. “I feel like we’re in a really good place,� Penn coach Leslie King said. “Obviously we all want to get out there and play against someone other than ourselves. We’ve got some really good competition down there, and I think it’s going to prepare us really well for Ivy League play. It’s gonna be nice and warm, so it’s always good

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have a big hole to fill after the graduation of Alexis Borden, the team’s former starting pitcher.

Borden started 23 of Penn’s 42 games last season, and logged a total of 155.2 innings while posting a formidable 2.92 earned run average. “I think for the most part, we want to see where our pitching staff is at,� King said. “It’s gonna be a much different staff this year, in a good way. I’m really excited to see them work together. I think we have some very talented freshmen that are pushing for playing time, and there’s just a lot of depth in general. So we’re gonna be moving people around a little bit, trying to find the best combinations for our team so that when we open up against Brown on April 1, we’re ready to go.�

The squad will look to Li and junior Alexis Sargent, who combined to make 15 starts and 25 appearances in the circle last season, to fill the void left by Borden’s absence. The plethora of games in the upcoming week will give the Quakers the opportunity to test out their pitching depth and see who will step up to take the job as the team’s main starting pitcher.

With a full slate of games coming up, Penn looks to start the season off on the right foot in Florida. The Invitational affords them the chance to work out many of the early season kinks while still giving them valuable in-game experience before conference play begins next month.

A good showing from the team could set them up with the momentum they need to have yet another successful season.

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“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball.

I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.�

Those well-known words, uttered by the legendary St. Louis Cardinal Rogers Hornsby, have all-too-accurately portrayed the offseason for Penn baseball.

After losing to Columbia in a winner-take-all playoff game a year ago, the Quakers have had 10 months to anxiously await the 2016 season.

And their chance to begin their shot at retribution begins this weekend.

The Red and Blue will start off a slate of eight games over spring break when they travel to take on North Florida this Saturday. Penn will play three contests in Jacksonville before continuing on to Port St. Lucie, Fla., to take on Holy Cross and Georgetown.

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Still, even with the newfound spread to other diseases, Fajgenbaum hasn’t been left in the dust.

With the CDCN receiving $9,000 from the team’s fall efforts, Fajgenbaum has reaped the benefits both to his personal health — he is approaching 26 months since his latest relapse, his longest stretch since being diagnosed in 2010 — and his group’s overall research. “Every day is a new record, and I continue to benefit from the research,� Fajgenbaum said. “The thing that a lot of rare diseases offer is the opportunity to spend a small amount of money to make major progress, so that 9,000 dollars went a really, really long way.�

With the money raised by Penn now being distributed to several diseases, it’s understandable for Fajgenbaum to be concerned about a potential diluting of the proceeds acquired by the CDCN. But considering his pre-existing bonds with the Red and Blue — particularly defensive coordinator Bob Benson, who was Fajgenbaum’s head coach during his college career — he should have nothing to worry about. “It’s such a great group of leaders — guys who the team really respects and who have clearly put in a lot of time,� Fajgenbaum said. “I’m excited to see us continue to grow the chapter, and hopefully with the funding they provide we’ll be able to knock this thing out.�

Once again, the team’s

fundraising system will involve donors pledging custom amounts to Uplifting Athletes through PledgeIt, but the competition segment of the event will be handled differently than in the regular season.

Penn football will hold its annual “Iron Quaker� event, in which all players will max out in the bench press, hang clean and back squat exercises, on Thursday morning.

Each of the eight position groups has chosen one specific lift for which donations will be eligible, and donors will pledge money for each pound that their chosen position group averages in its lift. “We thought from the very start that it would fit really well with our culture, because it was naturally conducive to compete to raise money based on the amount we lift,� Tullman said. “It made a lot of sense to us, and we’ve been really excited about it even going back to last summer.�

And while getting physically stronger in an attempt to net Penn’s first back-to-back conference titles since the start of the decade should provide enough drive for the Quakers to finish those last reps, knowing that an extra few pounds could save a life can only add some extra bonus. “There’s definitely some extra motivation, knowing that anything we do will help a great cause,� junior safety Matt Henderson said. “It feels awesome knowing that everything we’re doing is for something bigger than us.�

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Penn now teaches tackling like Seattle Seahawks — and former USC — coach Pete Carroll. “We’ve changed the way we tackle,� he said. “Pete Carroll has a whole narrative on a new way of tackling that’s basically a rugbystyle tackling. “It’s basically taking the head out of the game of tackling, which is very contradictory to old ways of teaching tackling.�

It’s clear how old-school coaches and players may be resistant to such a drastic change that challenges the very way they were taught to play the game. But, Priore ensures that the new method of tackling, coupled with the reduction in exposure to hits, not only makes the game safer, but does so without hindering performance. “We have seen, just in our way of teaching, it has not made us any less productive on the football field by now,� the defending Ivy League champion coach emphasized.

Current college players are not the only athletes that Priore and the conference hope to affect. “We as coaches have to go and do a good job of teaching and going out to the community, to the Pop Warner groups and the high school groups, passing down our knowledge that we get from the studies that we have,� he explained.

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ways the next logical step. “I think it’s going right along with where we were heading anyway,� Priore said of the proposal, “which is try to be as efficient, and smart by how we go and we set our plan for practices every day, every week, every month as we go through it.�

Within the Ivy League it has been Dartmouth — and Coach Buddy Teevens — who have led the charge for reducing players’ exposure to concussive and sub-concussive blows. Teevens eliminated full-contact practices for his team back in 2010 and has continued to do so ever since.

Teevens has fostered a relatively new-style approach that Priore and other coaches have followed. “I hate the saying ‘there’s an oldschool and a new-school about how to do things,’ but I do think there is a new way to practice on a day-today basis and still get those players to stay healthy,� Priore said.

We’ve changed dramatically since when I first got here and there was three sessions of practices a night and two weeks of straight doubles,� he went on to explain. “It was just different.�

Teevens’ model — as well as a joint study between the Ivy League and Big Ten conferences — was part of the inspiration for the decision. Previous aggressive policies have decreased concussions in the Ivy League. The goal of this proposal is to further reduce those numbers and protect the brains of the conference’s student-athletes.

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That this move came from the Ivy League is no surprise. Teams are currently only allowed two full-contact practice a week while the NCAA-wide maximum is set at four.

Yet, despite the prior initiatives that the Ivy League has already undertaken, the news came as a surprise on Tuesday afternoon.

When the New York Times broke the story, discussion of the vote had not yet hit the public or even every administrator within the Ivy League. “It had nothing to do with anything in particular,� Priore said as to why the movement came now. “Only of ‘how do we move further based upon the knowledge and the data, that the amount of exposures that you get only can increase the possibilities of getting more concussions?�

In addition to not being triggered by a specific event, there had not even been extensive talks before the meeting about the proposal. It was simply one of the many suggestions coaches submitted and was near the top of the agenda, Priore explained.

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“I’m sure that this weekend there will be some pregame jitters since we’re a very young team,� coach John Yurkow said. “But I don’t want to ease into it.

I want to hit the ground running, ready to go from the first pitch.�

It is indisputable that the team will in fact be incredibly young, as Yurkow says he plans to start up to three freshmen in both the infield and outfield in the opening game. The pitching staff, however, will be led by juniors Mike Reitcheck and Jake Cousins, who will provide a measure of veteran stability. “The strength of our team is going to be our pitching. We’re older, more experienced there.

We’re going to have to lean on that,� Yurkow said.

One major hole for the Quakers will be behind the plate, a spot left absent by four-year starter Austin Bossart, who graduated in 2015 and is now pursuing a career in the Phillies’ minor-league system. Junior Tim Graul, Bossart’s backup for the last two seasons, is expected to move into the starting role. “I always knew that one day

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of Penn’s Uplifting Athletes chapter. “It’s awesome to be raising money for everyone that we care about.�

Another key figure now eligible to be financially supported is four-year-old Vhito DeCapria, a pediatric cancer patient named an honorary team captain in April 2015 after the Quakers “adopted� him through the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation.

DeCapria was declared cancer-free in August 2015, and he remained a crucial emotional component of the Quakers throughout their historic season. “You turn around and see that little tyke, it puts the world in perspective,� coach Ray Priore told The Philadelphia Inquirer. “When the kids know he’s coming around, they get all fired up — he gives everyone a purpose.�

And while the connection between DeCapria and the Penn football program was facilitated by Friends of Jaclyn, which isn’t associated with Uplifting Athletes, players are eager for yet another chance to financially and emotionally boost their fearless leader. “There were already some strong bonds there, and then this was an incredible way we could develop those even more and try to give back to the people that inspired us,� Tullman said. “These are all really strong people that we look up to as a team.�

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55 three-pointers in his first two seasons, would be able to adjust.

The solution? A “small-ball” starting lineup, with threepoint specialist Sam Jones and Howard playing at the two forward positions complementing 6-foot-11 center Darien NelsonHenry inside.

“Before the season, I knew there were going to be a lot more three-point attempts on my end, so I was just putting in that extra work over the summer and getting up a lot of shots,” Howard said. “Moving to the 4 from the 3 was a little difficult on the defensive end at first, but it definitely gave me an advantage on the offensive side.”

Although an increase in Howard’s three-point attempts hasn’t necessarily resulted in more success — Howard’s three-point percentage is actually a career-low 0.288 in 2015-16 — his overall transformation has allowed him to become a threat from all over the floor.

“When we started working out, I just thought he would be an ideal 4-man in this system

because he’s probably our most athletic player. He’s versatile enough to guard bigger guys and quicker guys, and then on the offensive end he’s a hard guard,” Donahue said. “He’s been inconsistent with his three-point shooting, but I think you’re still seeing someone that teams can’t leave open, and you can see improvement in every other aspect of his game.”

Following the departure of point guard Antonio Woods, Howard’s newfound aggressiveness has become even more necessary, and the junior has responded strongly. At a remarkable 63.8 percent clip from inside the three-point arc, he’s the best shooter in the Ivy League from that range among players averaging at least 10 points per game.

“The thing that would probably hold him back is just his personality and willingness to let someone else do it, but what we’ve seen these last few weeks is his aggressiveness in attacking the rim,” Donahue said. “I never outright said, ‘Take over’ — we generally don’t coach that way on offense — but he’s probably the one guy on our team who can go get his own.”

When combining Howard’s ability to get to the basket

with the presence of two of the league’s top ten three-point shooters in Jones and Jackson Donahue and a dominant post presence in Nelson-Henry, the potential offensive benefits are endless.

“He provides a really good complement, because we can’t have everybody be post-up players or shooters,” Steve Donahue said. “I think Matt does add a little different dimension, and that’s a big help to the other guys.”

Ultimately, to call Howard’s season a career year would be an understatement — but there’s still room for more.

With four starters returning from a team that has already risen three spots in the conference ranks from last season, the sky is the limit for what Howard can accomplish in his final year donning the Red and Blue.

“We’re really going to stress working on his ball-handling, working him to be a better fundamental catch-and-shoot guy, increasing his flexibility, and really just playing fast,” Steve Donahue said. “I think if he continues to do the things he does on defense and just build on the experience he got this year, he could be one of the best players in the Ivy League.”

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Although she has worked to assert herself inside, Whitlatch has made it to the free throw line just three times this season.

Cornell showed an ability to shut down the perimeter look, limiting Whitlatch to three points the night after she scored 20 against Columbia. She was held scoreless the second go-around against the Big Red. “We will face adversity,” Whitlatch acknowledged. “We know that, and we understand that. But it’s just how are we going to react to them, for every action there’s a reaction, and our reaction to every breakdown, every missed shot — we need one another to get back to who we are and what we play for.”

But the price of paying the Red and Blue guard so much attention is opening things up for forwards Sydney Stipanovich and Michelle Nwokedi in the post. There seems to be no way to win.

“She understood we needed someone to spread the floor for our post players and she is not afraid of anything,” McLaughlin said. “We give her the green light when she is open. That’s her role and she has accepted that role.”

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M. HOOPS | Junior thrives

under Donahue’s system COLE JACOBSON Associate Sports Editor

When Penn men’s basketball coach Steve Donahue inherited an offense that averaged a mere 60.3 points per game in 2014-15 — the school’s lowest output since Sports Reference began recording college basketball in 1994 — it was clear that changes had to be made.

Needless to say, forward Matt Howard got the message.

Boasting career-bests in nearly every statistical category imaginable, the 6-foot-4 junior has seized a central role for Penn, leading a team that has already surpassed last season’s win total in both conference play and the regular season as a whole.

“Did I expect [myself taking a primary offensive role] to happen this quickly? Probably not,” Howard said. “But I’m up to it, I see it as a challenge and I have to just keep grinding and doing my thing.”

Usage and efficiency are supposed to be inversely related traits in basketball, but Howard has completely bucked that narrative

this season.

Whether looking at commonlyused numbers such as points per game (Howard averages 12.4), rebounds per game (5.8) and field goal percentage (0.483) or more complex statistics like true shooting percentage (0.571), offensive rating (110.4) and player efficiency rating (17.2), Howard has left his prior self in the dust, becoming one of Penn’s most reliable players despite a career-high offensive usage rate of 20.8 percent.

“I think it’s been a combination of physical and mental improvement,” he said. “I’ve just gotten a lot more comfortable with the game at the collegiate level, I’m a lot stronger and faster, and having Coach Donahue’s offense has paid off.”

Howard isn’t the only figure to benefit from Donahue’s new system, as the Quakers’ scoring average of 68.8 points per game is their highest since 2007 — the last time the program qualified for the NCAA Tournament.

But with Donahue’s strategy being so heavily predicated on the long ball, there were questions about how Howard, who had only attempted a total of SEE HOWARD PAGE 7

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When Kathleen Roche graduated in 2015 — taking her 155 career three-pointers with her — Penn women’s basketball coach Mike McLaughlin had to figure out who could step in as the team’s threat from beyond the arc.

He found the answer in an unlikely source. After attempting just six three-pointers her entire freshman year, Lauren Whitlatch emerged as the Quakers’ new sharpshooter heading into her sophomore season.

Despite averaging just 3.9 minutes per game and 1.2 points during her rookie campaign, the newest addition to McLaughlin’s starting rotation made her presence felt early. In the 2015-16 season opener against Duke, Whitlatch launched 17 attempts from beyond the arc.

She sank six of them. It was a sign of things to come.

“I think after last year, I saw that there was a spot open, and it needed to be filled,” she said. “It wasn’t

gonna be given to me, and I understood that. It was going to require putting in lots of time in the offseason and getting myself mentally ready for a new role.

For the Bloomington, Ind., native, however, it hasn’t always been smooth sailing from three. In the game against the Blue Devils, she missed all seven first-half attempts — but McLaughlin kept her in and she kept shooting.

On the year, Whitlatch is now 53-for-156 beyond the perimeter — seven makes shy of Roche’s career high in 2014-15 and already tenth most in a season in program history.

And she has almost doubled the three-point attempts of sophomore guard Anna Ross, whose 85 shots from three are second on the team.

Her 2.1 treys per contest rank fifth in the Ivy League and she averages the second-most threes per game in Ivy play.

“She knows it doesn’t matter when she makes shots — it’s helpful when she does — but she knows she’s not going to come out from missing shots,” McLaughlin said.

“The only way she doesn’t play as much is if she stops competing and that just doesn’t happen with her.”

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Taking over at the three-spot has involved a good deal of in-season adjustments as well. Only 28 of Whitlatch’s 184 shot attempts this year have come from inside the arc, and the sophomore has had to work to avoid becoming a one-trick pony.

Perhaps most significant about the Indianan has been her in-season growth. On Feb. 5 at Harvard, she led the team with a career-high 11 rebounds. The next night at Dartmouth, it was a team and season-high 19 points.

The following weekend against Columbia, Whitlatch scored 21. In part because of her newfound aggressiveness inside, the sophomore has been able to create shot opportunities she wasn’t getting in the first stretch of the season.

“If you look at the progress she has already made from the beginning of the year, she takes the ball and gets closed out on really hard, she’s being guarded really hard behind the arc,” McLaughlin noted.

“She has probably five times over the last four games where she went by her defender and was able to get a shot around the rim.“ There is still room to grow.

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Associate Sports Editor

A 2015 regular season for the record books may be complete, but Penn football still wants one more.

During the Quakers’ stunning run to the Ivy League championship, the Red and Blue raised money for the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network in an effort to help Perelman School of Medicine professor David Fajgenbaum — who played quarterback at Johns Hopkins under current Penn defensive coordinator Bob Benson — cure his own illness.

But now, following a nationwide change in the structure of the Uplifting Athletes organization allowing teams to raise money for multiple rare diseases, Penn will be taking its fundraising efforts to the next level.

“That change made it a lot easier to get everybody involved,” junior Tyrone Quarterman said.

“Obviously we love Dr. Fajgenbaum and we think that cause is great, but the more people you can reach, the easier it is to get more people on board.”

As a result of the organization’s

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tactical shift, the team will now be able to raise money to help junior Kaleb Germinaro, who was on the football roster in 2013 and 2014 before being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis last winter.

Despite Germinaro leaving the roster, the Quakers refused to let natural circumstances sever the bond between him and his former teammates. Germinaro has embraced a role as a student coach of the team, allowing the former wideout to remain close to the game and the people he loves.

“At first, it was really tough trying to figure out a new identity,” Germinaro said. “Becoming a student coach on the team has really filled that void of actually playing. … It just means a lot to see these guys [raising money], because that

really shows the initiative of our team.”

Even with his career having concluded, Germinaro still found himself receiving national attention, having been selected as one of six nominees for the 2016 Uplifting Athletes Rare Disease Champion Award.

And although Germinaro ultimately came up short — falling to blind USC long snapper Jake Olson — there was no shortage of inspiration among his former teammates.

“Kaleb is in our class and he’s very near and dear to us, and we were all super excited [when learning of his nomination],” said junior Sam Tullman, the president SEE UPLIFTING PAGE 6

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