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s Joe Biden emerged from Super Tuesday as the Democratic presidential primary frontrunner, oncampus political groups began preparing for a brutal competition between the former Penn Presidential Professor of Practice and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Students running Penn for Biden said they anticipate a close race, and despite the setback, Penn for Bernie remains determined to secure their candidate’s nomination. As the two candidates double down on their campaign efforts, both Penn for Biden and Penn for Bernie will do the same — phone-banking, door-knocking, and hosting events for their presidential favorites. Super Tuesday revealed the two obvious presidential frontrunners for the Democratic primary were Biden and Sanders. The former vice president emerged from the nation’s most consequential primary day with the majority vote across numerous Southern states, as well as in Texas, Minnesota, and Massachusetts, while Sanders was victorious in Vermont, Utah, Colorado, and the delegate-rich state of California. Biden currently leads with 529 total delegates, with Sanders following closely behind with 455. Either will need 1,991 delegates to secure the party’s presidential nomination, and 13 states have yet to hold primaries. Penn for Biden Co-founder and Wharton senior Dylan Milligan is optimistic Biden’s Super Tuesday successes show Biden holds the widest appeal among Americans, especially older voters of color and more moderate Democrats. “Biden definitely exceeded expectations by all measures,”

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Milligan said. “He proved that he can build a coalition that’s incredibly broad, not just amongst his solid base of voters primarily in the South — he also picked up that surprise victory in Massachusetts and Minnesota.” Penn for Biden Co-founder and College senior Gabriel Barnett said Biden’s Tuesday victories show that he is the best candidate to defeat Republican incumbent and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump. “[Biden’s supporters] trust him to beat Donald Trump, to keep the House, to be the person at the top of the ticket to win the Senate, and to get results in Washington,” Barnett said. Despite their optimism, Milligan and Barnett do not think Biden’s win will be an easy one. “Going forward, there’s still a big race up ahead,” Milligan said. “I anticipate it being quite competitive, given that Sanders, if anything, is a persistent man. So we’re going to focus on turning out voters who support Biden in the Pennsylvania primary.” Penn for Bernie Co-director and College sophomore Jack Cahill said the group is not deterred by Sanders’ setbacks, even though the Senator himself expressed frustration in the lack of Super Tuesday youth voter turnout. “All the students for Bernie groups I’ve talked to are still very energized, still very excited, and not at all stalled in terms of the energy that they are going to bring in the future,” Cahill said. “It’s obviously going to be a much longer fight than what we had hoped it would be just two weeks ago – we’re definitely ready for it.” Penn for Bernie Co-director PHOTOS BY KYLIE COOPER, CHASE SUTTON, AND SHARON LEE

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Penn student forced to quarantine in Israel due to coronavirus A College junior is stuck after a trip to Italy ELIZABETH MEISENZAHL Staff Reporter

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A Penn student studying abroad in Israel has been required by the Israeli Ministry of Health to self-quarantine after a visit to Italy, which has been plagued by a recent coronavirus outbreak. College junior Talia Rosenberg said she and approximately 40 other students studying abroad at Tel Aviv University traveled to

Florence, Italy on Feb. 13 for a vacation and returned to Israel on Feb. 22. Rosenberg said Tel Aviv University and the Israeli Ministry of Health emailed the students five days after their return, instructing them to self-quarantine by isolating themselves in their residences. Rosenberg said she and the other students began quarantining on Feb. 27 and expect the quarantine to end on March 8, approximately two weeks after their return from Italy. On Feb. 27, the Israeli Minis-

try of Health required all people returning from Italy to self-quarantine for 14 days. Since then, Israel has mandated that people traveling from France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and Austria must also self-quarantine. Approximately 100,000 Israelis are currently in isolation, according to The Jerusalem Post. Rosenberg said she has not left her apartment since the quarantine began approximately one week ago. Upon returning from Italy, Rosenberg said she read online that Israel may require

people returning from Italy to self-quarantine, so she stocked up on groceries in preparation. She added that the Israeli government has provided quarantined students with 100 shekels, approximately $30, per day to order food. Rosenberg described being in self-isolation for a week as “a weird kind of dystopian feeling.” Rosenberg added that her professors at Tel Aviv are aware of her situation and reassured her that the quarantine period will SEE QUARANTINED PAGE 2

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PAC added groups for the first time in six years

The Performing Arts Council, an organization that allocates oncampus space to Penn performing art groups, barred new groups from joining in 2014 due to space limitations. Six years later, PAC has temporarily lifted the moratorium with the addition of two new groups. College senior and PAC A Cappella Chair Levi Cooper said a cappella group Dischord and theater group Penn Chinese Theater joined PAC last month. Both groups said their PAC membership will help increase their recognition at Penn and allow access

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A capella group Dischord and theatre group Penn Chinese Theater are now eligible to receive funding from the Student Activities Council.

to rehearsal and performance space on campus. Dischord Copresident and College junior Aaron Kahane added that groups who perform dance, a cappella,

musical and comedy, and theater at Penn must be part of PAC in order to receive funding from the Student Activities Council. PAC halted the addition of new

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groups with a moratorium from 2005 to 2007, citing rehearsal and performance space limitations and lack of resources. PAC placed a second moratorium in September 2014 and had not accepted a new group since last month. PAC said in 2014 that they would consider lifting the moratorium when they were able to support the needs of current groups and new groups. From 2007 to 2014, PAC added 10 new groups. Since then, Cooper said PAC has consistently had 46 groups. College junior and PAC Technical Chair Hannah Paquet said that while non-PAC performing arts groups can secure space on campus for rehearsal if a space is vacant, PAC groups are pri-

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In response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak, Penn is suspending all University–af-

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MERT experiences an increase in emergency calls during fall 2019 semester MERT attributes rise in calls to outreach efforts AMJAD HAMZA Staff Reporter

Penn’s Medical Emergency Response Team received an increased number of calls in fall 2019. MERT Chief and College junior Andrew Lam attributed the jump in number of calls to increased efforts to educate students about their services. He said MERT has increased programming with Greek life organizations and first-year students, particularly during New Student Orientation. The Division of Public Safety declined to provide exact numbers of MERT calls in recent semesters but confirmed last semester’s increase. Lam added that the rise in calls has not inhibited MERT’s ability to respond to medical emergencies. MERT currently has 46 emergency medical technicians on staff and has responded to over 5,000 calls

since its founding in 2006. MERT responds to all medical emergencies within the Penn Patrol Zone between 43rd and 30th streets from Market to Baltimore streets and records an average response time of five minutes. Wharton first-year Derek Nhieu said MERT’s outreach efforts directed toward first-year students through NSO made him feel more confident that he could call for help after accidentally cutting his eye last November. Lam added that he thinks the increased outreach has also reduced misconceptions students have about MERT, particularly that students must pay for its services. “There used to be a myth that MERT costs upwards of $1,000,” Lam said. “MERT is free. We’re all volunteers, but the myth comes from the ambulance transport.” Kathleen Shields Anderson, Division of Public Safety executive director of operations and chief of staff, also attributed the recent

increase in calls to greater awareness of the University’s Medical Amnesty Policy in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian. The policy states that “no student seeking medical treatment for an alcohol or other drug-related overdose will be subject to University discipline for the sole violation of using or possessing alcohol or drugs. This policy shall extend to another student seeking help for the intoxicated student.” Anderson added that the increased awareness of the Alternative Response Unit may have also contributed to the rise in MERT calls. Before September 2018, students who used MERT services and were then taken to the hospital by the Philadelphia Fire Department were billed $950 to $1170 to their insurance plans. Since then, Penn created the Universitysponsored ARU which transports students suffering from medical emergencies to hospital for free.

Lam said the program operates Wednesday night through Saturday night from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m., adding that most of MERT’s calls happen during that time period. “We will continue to work with MERT and our Wellness partners to identify and respond to these trends,” Anderson said. College junior and Undergraduate Assembly Treasurer Kevin Zhou said the ARU was not available when he first came to Penn in fall 2017, but since then, the UA has worked with MERT and the administration to eliminate hidden costs when receiving medical treatment. Zhou said MERT discussed the recent increase in calls at the Feb. 23 UA budget meeting, which approved UA’s contribution to MERT’s budget for the 2020-2021 academic year. MERT’s budget is also funded by the Division of Public Safety, Fox Leadership, and Student Health Service. The UA allocated $14,515 to MERT’s 2020-

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not affect her standing in class. She said that because most of the class material is online, she does not feel behind in any of her classes. Rosenberg said Penn has not communicated with her aside from an email explaining that Tel Aviv contacted the University about her quarantine. “It’s just not 100% clear what’s happening, but I think it’s because everyone in the world is not really 100% clear on what’s happening,” Rosenberg said. “It’s kind of hard for Penn to be taking the lead in that kind of a situation.” Rosenberg said not all students quarantined at Tel Aviv are strictly following the self-quarantine guidelines. She said some students leave their isolation room to go out at night. According to the Israeli Ministry of Health website, home quarantine requires the person to stay indoors for the duration of the quarantine.

2021 budget, a 2.98% increase from this year’s $14,095. “I think it’s better to have more

calls than less calls,” Nhieu said. “The fact that students are less hesitant to call MERT is a good thing.”

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MERT currently has 46 emergency medical technicians on staff and has responded to over 5,000 calls since its founding in 2006.

Rosenberg added that failure to comply with the quarantine could result in up to seven years in prison, but she said she does not know of any arrests made yet. Rosenberg said she and other students at Tel Aviv planned to visit Dublin for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, but have since canceled their trip, fearing that they will not be let back into the country. Since the spread of the virus, Penn has canceled Universitysponsored travel to China, South Korea, Iran, and Italy. Provost Wendell Pritchett, Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Ezekiel Emanuel, and Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé also recommended that students and faculty avoid personal travel to these countries. Penn has relocated two Global Research and Internship Program sites originally in China for this summer, and has barred students from studying in China this semester. The University has also recommended a 14-day self-iso-

lation for all students returning from China. The CDC has issued a level three warning for China, Iran, Italy, and South Korea and advises travelers to avoid nonessential travel to these countries. Rosenberg said she does not know of anyone in the group of 40 students who returned from Italy with symptoms of the coronavirus. There have been 3,089 reported cases of coronavirus and 107 deaths in Italy as of March 4. Rosenberg said she feels optimistic that she will remain at Tel Aviv University and complete her semester. She added that she feels comforted by the fact that Israel is relatively far from the recent coronavirus outbreak in Italy and that the Israeli government is taking precautions by restricting travel and requiring quarantine to prevent the spread of the disease. “You talk about your junior year being the year you go abroad, and it’s crazy that the one time you’re abroad, there’s this global pandemic,” Rosenberg said.

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New building connecting GSE and Stiteler Hall is expected to open by fall 2022 GSE aims to centralize and expand its programs ABI MURUGADOSS Staff Reporter

Construction for the merger of the Graduate School of Education building and Stiteler Hall, which aims to provide more space for the growing GSE programs and to centralize the school, is expected to be completed in fall 2022. Penn announced in fall 2018 that Ann Beha Architects will construct a building that connects GSE’s central building at 3700 Walnut St. with the neighboring Stiteler Hall, located by Locust Walk on 37th Street. The connection will include a new entrance to the GSE building, a four-story student pavilion of student lounges and group study rooms, and a two-story addition to Stiteler Hall with more student and classroom spaces and an innovation lab. Kat Stein, GSE’s executive director of communications, said that GSE has struggled to accommodate the increasing numbers of

GSE students. GSE’s masters programs have approximately 1,000 full and part-time students, representing a 50% growth over the last decade, she added. “This expansion will connect buildings and give students a more cohesive experience at Penn GSE and create a more cohesive Penn GSE community for everyone,” Stein said. Some GSE students voiced concerns over the lack of space in the central GSE building. First-year International Educational Development master’s student Ellen Miller said the few on-campus spaces GSE students tend to congregate around include the small student lounge on the first floor of the GSE building and study spaces in Van Pelt Library. “The GSE student lounge is often packed out and noisy, and the Graduate Student Center on campus is also pretty limited in terms of space and outlet availability.” Miller said students often have a difficult time finding electrical outlets or even a space to take a private phone call.

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The connection merging Stiteler Hall and the Graduate School of Education building will include a new entrance to the GSE building, a four-story student pavilion of student lounges, and a two-story addition to Stiteler Hall with more classroom spaces and an innovation lab.

Sixth-year Educational Linguistics Ph.D. student Aldo Anzures Tapia said Stiteler Hall and the GSE building are surrounded by social spaces like coffee shops but currently lack internal spaces for graduate students to collaborate and interact with each other. “I think people live in very iso-

lated ways, so any effort for the School of Education to create new space for people to hang out and create intellectual communities is great,” Tapia said. Miller said she hopes the expansion will introduce more collaborative classroom environments for GSE classes, most of which are

currently held in lecture-style classrooms. The merger of Stiteler Hall and the GSE building is part of the Extraordinary Campaign within Penn GSE, a $75 million fundraising effort that aims to bring the majority of GSE’s degree programs into a central location and to tackle the

growing demand for space with the corresponding growing student body. “As we expanded over the past decade, we have had programs scattered in rented spaces in West Philadelphia,” Stein said. “[This expansion project] brings student and faculty back to campus.”

Lyft buys Halo Cars, a startup founded by four Penn students in 2018 Halo Cars displays ads on screens atop vehicles ANYA TULLMAN Staff Reporter

Lyft Inc. has bought Halo Cars, a startup founded by three Penn students and one Penn graduate, that pays drivers to display digital advertisements on top of their vehicles. Halo Cars attaches smart LED screens to the top of rideshare vehicles to show “hyper-targeted” advertisements that are calibrated to appear based on location, weather, and consumer profiles, according to the company’s website. Prior to Lyft’s purchase in February, Halo recruited fulltime Uber and Lyft drivers to attach the company’s lightweight screen to the top of their cars. 2019 College and Wharton

graduate Kenan Saleh, Wharton junior Ryanne Fadel, Engineering junior Nabeel Farooqui, and Wharton second-year MBA student Faizan Bhatty founded Halo in fall 2018, according to Forbes. The group observed ineffective advertising around Penn’s campus and decided to create “contextual messaging” — advertisements relevant to the client’s current location and current activity. Bhatty told Forbes that Halo can reduce sexual assault and murder by people pretending to be Uber drivers. Bhatty said Halo can display cars’ license plates on the screens atop the cars to help passengers identify the correct driver. “We saw a few of those articles that came out and figured we had the platform, we have what we need to build this,” Bhatty told Forbes.

Halo won the Launch Award at the Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Startup Showcase in 2019, earning a $10,000 cash prize for the best “go-to-market strategy and demonstrated traction.” The team also won the Summer Venture Award the same year. The $10,000 award financially assists students over the summer in place of full-time internships so they can concentrate on working on their ventures full-time. The company currently has operations in New York and Chicago, according to The New York Times. Halo told Forbes that using the screens has led to higher ratings and tips for rideshare drivers. Drivers can also earn up to $400 per month when driving full-time with Halo screens, according to Forbes.

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THURSDAY MARCH 5, 2020 VOL. CXXXVI, NO. 15 136th Year of Publication ISABELLA SIMONETTI President BENJAMIN ZHAO Executive Editor MAX COHEN DP Editor-in-Chief SUKHMANI KAUR Photo Editor AVA CRUZ Design Editor JULIE COLEMAN News Editor ASHLEY AHN News Editor CONOR MURRAY Assignments Editor GRANT BIANCO Opinion Editor WILL DIGRANDE Sports Editor MICHAEL LANDAU Sports Editor ZOEY WEISMAN Copy Editor NAJMA DAYIB Audience Engagement Editor SAGE LEVINE Video Editor ALEC DRUGGAN Podcast Editor

Students should not be penalized for sick days as coronavirus spreads

arlier this week, Penn suspended University travel to several countries affected by the coronavirus outbreak, including China, South Korea, Iran, and Italy. Since coronavirus was declared an international public health emergency by the World Health Organization in January, concerns have been picking up around Penn. Penn-affiliated individuals receive regular updates on the University’s response to the virus from Provost Wendell Pritchett. The latest update included a suggestion to rethink international travel over spring break, the creation of a University-wide task force, and a recommendation that anyone not feeling well should stay home. In light of these concerns, Penn professors and academic departments should be more lenient about sick days, both with class and on-campus jobs. The updates on coronavirus disseminated to the University community contain one standing recommendation: Stay home if you feel sick. Self-isolation is the recommended course of action for any-

one experiencing flu-like symptoms, whether due to possible coronavirus or to other illnesses. But the demands placed on college students make self-isolation difficult, particularly with reference to course absence policies. Penn must address this tension in order to contain the spread of illness and promote students’ wellbeing. Professors form their own absence policies at Penn, and some are stricter than others. Some professors mandate that students can only miss a certain number of classes or else their grades will be reduced. Even if professors leave room for special circumstances which may arise, the documentation needed to prove these special circumstances varies not just from department to department, but often from professor to professor. If a student were to self-isolate due to symptoms but not a diagnosis, they might fail to meet the standard for a course absence. Even when professors are lenient with absences, students may feel they cannot miss a class due to the volume of makeup work required, as well as the stress of

explaining a potentially undiagnosed sickness to a professor. This practice of students attending class even while feeling ill puts classmates, faculty, staff, and neighbors at risk. To combat this, Penn should work to standardize professor absence policies and implement a minimum number of sick days required for each course. This principle of flexibility extends not just to classes at Penn, but also to work-study and other on-campus jobs. The New York Times Editorial Board recently made a similar argument on a national scale, advocating for paid sick leave to combat coronavirus concerns. The March 3 editorial states: “The problem now and going forward is making sure that sick workers stay home. That means not forcing employees to choose between penury and working while coughing.” Students with work-study jobs often have hours requirements on which their financial aid is contingent. And they often need the money they make from oncampus jobs for food security, paying rent, and the many other

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expenses that come with attending Penn. With hourly pay and no paid sick leave, these students are disincentivized from prioritizing not just their own health, but also the health of their coworkers and the people with whom they come in contact. Giving students more options for sick leave could help address these concerns. This issue is not just limited to the recent coronavirus outbreak. On any college campus, students share living spaces, eating spaces, and classrooms. Containing a spread

of illness, whether it is hand, foot, and mouth disease, mumps, or influenza, becomes more difficult in a confined campus area. And to better incentivize self-care and selfisolation of sick students during illnesses, Penn needs to be more lenient on sick days. If Penn wants to prove its commitment not only to coronavirus prevention but also to protecting students’ health in the long-term, sick leave policies must be standardized, well-communicated, and adaptable to fit students’ needs.

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Penn needs to be more transparent with tuition increases REMARKS WITH LARK | A higher cost of attendence demands an explanation

n Feb. 28, 2019, Penn’s Board of Trustees approved a 3.9% increase in cost of attendance for the next academic year, increasing the total cost of tuition, fees, and room and board for the 2019-2020 academic year amounts to $73,960, from last academic year’s $71,200 cost of attendance. This recent bump in cost and attendance fits the larger trend at Penn; seemingly every year Penn announces an increase in the cost of attendance. In fact, for the past nine years, to-

tal costs for Penn undergraduate students have steadily increased by an average of nearly four percent each year. Each year Penn’s Board of Trustees voted to increase tuition, yet each year there is no thorough or proper explanation provided. Given that the rise in cost of attendance directly impacts students and inflicts potentially long-lasting consequences, it is critical that Penn be more transparent in their decisions to increase costs. There are many reasons why

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institutions choose to increase tuition. One is due to the basic theory of supply and demand, where the sheer number of people attempting to receive a college education outnumbers available spots. Another could be from having to increase budgets for faculty and on-campus student services. An article in The Atlantic suggests possible long-term operating expenses for “tangential jobs that may have more to do with attracting students than with learning” as another reason for increasing tuition. The list is unending. So what, exactly, is Penn’s reason for annually increasing our tuition? The short answer? We don’t really know. Sure there are several possible reasons for why Penn chooses to increase tuition year after year, but that information isn’t easily accessible or at least published to the larger Penn community. Every time a new report is issued on annual increasing costs, it almost seems as though these numbers are derived arbitrarily and presented to students without any sort of input or explanation. Funding breakdowns, resource allocations, factors considered, the individuals involved when deciding the cost of attendance and whether or not to increase tuition

all seem to be deep secrets Penn is desperately trying to hide. As the ones who pay the price for Penn’s lack of transparency, it is reasonable that Penn’s students should be better informed about these critical decisions that may shape their financial futures years after graduating. This is not a trend unique to Penn. Take other Ivies, for example. These universities, despite having vastly different endowments and often times being in different geographical locations, are still able to regularly increase tuition at approximately the same rate. This effectively amounts to what some believe is price–fixing, or “an agreement (written, verbal, or inferred from conduct) among competitors that raises, lowers, or stabilizes prices or competitive terms.” The potential for antitrust issues arises among higher education institutions who might have the ability to share information in order to fix prices. In fact, in 1991, the Justice Department even brought a lawsuit against the Ivy League schools for anticompetitive practices in tuition. Clearly, there is room for much error and misuse of funds and price–setting practices by many universities, not just Penn.

Recent trends of Penn constantly raising tuition fees and the overall cost of attendance for undergrad students are particularly frustrating because students are often unaware of where these figures come from. Not only is it frustrating, but it’s belittling. As the ones paying the bill, it seems only right that students receive at least more information and price transparency on how and why these decisions were made. Receiving thorough reports and a say in the tuition fees will allow Penn undergrads and families to approach the financing of their education with much more autonomy and dignity as opposed to being kept in the dark.

LARK YAN is a College sophomore from Toledo, Ohio studying Health and Societies. Her email address is larkyan@sas.upenn.edu.

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WANNA BE A BALLER | The Penn community needs to be more inclusive towards student parents

very now and then, I think how chaotic class would be if I showed up with my twin two-year-old sons in tow. Would I be allowed to access my class buildings while holding two additional tiny hands inside of my own? Would little pairs of feet trotting through Van Pelt turn lots of heads? Penn doesn’t have a policy against bringing children to class. Yet, I cannot imagine the nature of the average small child meshing smoothly with a Penn classroom. Thankfully, I do not have to worry about bringing my twins to class with me. They attend a full-time program at a Montessori school in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. We commute roughly two hours a day, sometimes a tad more depending on traffic. This daily routine is not easy, but it is a necessary aspect of the current stage of my life and academic career. Penn Children’s Center is the only Penn-affiliated child care facility on campus available to Penn stu-

dents. However, the waitlist is years long. To my knowledge, I have not met a single person who has a child or children enrolled at Penn Children’s Center. When I first learned about the circumstances surrounding Penn Children’s Center’s waitlist, I was taken aback. It seemed unfair that so many people were not able to have access to an on-campus child care center. I was more shocked when I learned there were about 1,500 student parents at Penn the last time data was collected in 2017. Why haven’t more child care centers been created to relieve the demand of child care needs for Penn students? As soon as possible, more child care centers should be made available at Penn to accommodate the needs of student parents and post-docs. As a Student Parent Advisory Board member, I often discuss the difficulties associated with being a parent and a student at Penn. Blending the identity of a scholar with parenthood is not easy. There are

complications inside and outside of class. Parenting can feel stressful and exhausting by itself — adding more stress through the avenue of worrying about who will care for your child/children while you’re attending class and/or working can be overwhelming. Although my twins are in school full-time, their dad and I are over an hour away from them when they are at school and we are on campus. As he and I are both Penn students, each of us spend at least five days a week on campus. When there is an urgent need for one or both of my twins to be picked up, it takes over an hour to get to them and an additional 40 minutes for us to get from their school to our home in Manayunk. We live about a 15-minute drive from campus. But if child care was available on campus, the bulk of our travel time would be eliminated. That could mean more concentrated family time or more study time, both of which would be greatly welcomed. My commuting routine is tiring, but

not uncommon among Penn students with children. The Family Center is currently conducting a child care needs assessment survey to obtain data on how many student parents there are at Penn, and what their child care needs are. It is exciting to know that student parent voices across campus will soon be heard. I enthusiastically filled out and submitted my survey last week. If not performative, this is a huge step in the right direction towards appropriate child care accessibility for the Penn community. Parenting is not a new societal concept; Penn needs to be more inclusive towards the needs of student parents. In terms of comparisons, Harvard has six on-campus child care centers available to its student body. Princeton University, which has far less than half the student population of Penn, has two on-campus child care centers available to its students. Penn is not keeping up with the needs of student parents; access to more child care centers is impera-

tive. Not having access to adequate child care can be detrimental to any parent. For student parents specifically, not having access to adequate child care can erode the opportunity to obtain the education of your dreams. Penn students with children should be able to behold the beauty of parenthood and flourish in the curiosity of academia as seamlessly as family life will allow.

JESSICA GOODING is a College junior from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania studying History and English. Her email address is jgooding@sas. upenn.edu.

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GUEST COLUMN BY CHRISTINA MIRANDA

eb. 27, 2020 marked another year that I got to participate in National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. It also marked another year that I feel grateful to be alive to do so. As the president of UPenn’s Project HEAL organization, advocating for people with eating disorders is important to me during this week and every week. Thirty million Americans will suffer from an eating disorder in their lifetime, but only 20% will receive treatment due to financial barriers and social stigma surrounding the disease. I feel lucky that I had the support from family and friends as well as access to quality treatment. Others are not as fortunate, as eating disorders continue to be one of the deadliest

mental illnesses, surpassed only by opioid addiction. Every 62 minutes we lose another innocent life due to the direct effects of an eating disorder. Following recovery from my own battle with an eating disorder, I feel a personal duty to help others suffering from this illness in any way possible. So, when one very brave Nursing student approached me with concerns about a diet tracking assignment in her nutrition class, I felt compelled to act. I know what it’s like to look at a plate of food and be able to tell the exact calorie and fat content of every item on it with shocking accuracy. I was my own personal MyFitnessPal for years. In the height of my eating disorder as well as through my

recovery, I would count calories, track my weight, and use a dieting app any time I had the opportunity to do so. An assignment encouraging me to do all of these things would have been nearly impossible to turn down. I would have given into my eating disorder. I would not have had the strength to ask for an alternative assignment nor the awareness to recognize that I was fueling my own eating disorder by completing the one originally assigned. One of the hardest things about eating disorders is that many of the symptoms can be disguised as healthy behaviors. Going to the gym all the time, tracking calories, or logging food intake may seem healthy. However, for a person with an eating disorder, it is not. What

One of the hardest things about eating disorders is that many of the symptoms can be disguised as healthy behaviors.”

may seem like a harmless assignment with a simple alternative for one person may not be for those who have suffered, currently suffer, or may be at risk for developing an eating disorder. Some students’ appreciation for this assignment cannot overshadow the struggle or

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risk that other students face. I am a firm believer that full recovery is possible and I am proud to say that I have been recovered for more than five years now. However, I admit that in the past when given the choice between my eating disorder and literally anything else, my eating disorder would win every time. Eventually, the voice in my head became quieter with years of therapy, nutritional counseling, and perseverance. I have learned to unlearn all of the calorie contents of foods that I once had memorized like the back of my hand. We can avoid another situation where students have to fight this voice. It is our responsibility to do so. In addition, amending this Nursing assignment to be more sensitive to students vulnerable to eating disorders will not detract from the capacity to provide quality nutrition care for future patients. As an aspiring physician, I recognize that my primary responsibility will be my patients and to understand the importance of nutrition and its implications in health and disease. In a situation where a patient’s illness requires them to track food, weight, or calories, it is something I will be happy

to help them with. But, as one Nursing student explained to me, “I don’t need to count my own calories or track my own weight to be able to help a future patient that has a medical necessity to do so.” Thus, depersonalizing this assignment by focusing on the nutrition of hypothetical patients with a variety of diseases could help protect the well-being of students vulnerable to eating disorders. As a result of the overwhelming responses that I have received from so many students affected by this assignment, I have drafted a petition to help make improvements to this assignment that will hopefully make it more inclusive and positive for all. I am open to suggestions on how we can adjust the assignment to teach students the importance of nutrition while also protecting students that are vulnerable to eating disorders, and I would love to discuss further. Please sign this petition or reach out to me if you believe that we need to put students’ mental health first. Thank you so much to the brave student that brought this to our attention and the many others who have shared their experiences with me since. Your voice matters and you are not alone. For questions, suggestions, or to discuss further, please contact me at cmm5567@sas. upenn.edu For support and resources, please see Project HEAL or contact the National Eating Disorder Association helpline. CHRISTINA MIRANDA is a College junior from Milford, NJ majoring in Biological Basis of Behavior. Her email address is cmm5567@sas. upenn.edu.

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On the morning of Super Tuesday, Penn Democrats announced in an official statement that the club will not endorse Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. The anti-endorsement comes just days after the club co-hosted a Bloomberg campaign event at Woodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, an LGBTQ bar and dance club in Philadelphia. In the statement posted on Twitter, Penn Dems cited the former New York City mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stop-andfrisk policies, which have been criticized for disproportionately target-

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the youth vote.â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bernieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s track record of staying committed to the material interests of the vast majority of Americans has always been the same, whereas Bidenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s have always been about political calculations.â&#x20AC;? Cahill agreed with Chowdhury, and said the group is ready to fight for Sanders until the end. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to continue doing weekly canvasses, phone banks, holding watch parties and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be right there until Bernie Sanders wins the nomination and defeats Donald Trump.â&#x20AC;? Cahill said that he hopes Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will endorse Sanders and add momentum to his campaign. But despite Warrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappointing Super Tuesday performance, the senator has not left the race â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and neither has Penn for Warren. The groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Membership Director Borna Saeednia said the group will continue to campaign for Warren as long as she stays in the race. The former Penn Law School professor did not win any state majorities on Tuesday, and came in third place in her home state of Massachusetts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are not discouraged by the results and will strongly support Sen. Warren in the upcoming races,â&#x20AC;? Saeednia said.

pledged his support to Biden. Although Buttigieg endorsed Biden, Penn for Pete will not officially endorse anyone, as club members prefer different candidates, Wharton sophomore and cocoordinator of Penn for Pete Manoj Simha said. Simha said the club wants to see Buttigiegâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s platform embraced by the front-running candidates. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Particularly because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s endorsed the Biden campaign, we are hoping to see a lot of the things that Pete was talking about in terms for the vision for the future of the Democratic Party being embraced by Biden,â&#x20AC;? Simha said. As the April 28 Pennsylvania primary approaches, Penn Leads the Vote, a nonpartisan organization on campus, hopes to empower student voters to make their voices heard in the swing state. Penn Leads the Vote Director Harrison Feinman said he found the low voter turnout on Super Tuesday to be disheartening, especially on college campuses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were stories of four hourplus wait lines that really showed that a lot of students do try to get involved, but there are still barriers,â&#x20AC;? he said. Staff reporters Tori Sousa and Kami Houston contributed reporting.

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oritized and guaranteed weekly rehearsal spaces and two performances on campus every year. PAC guarantees performance and rehearsal spaces in buildings such as Platt Performing Arts House, Houston Hall, or college houses, Cooper added. Cooper said PAC decided to accept a group earlier this year when they noticed the PAC schedule consistently had space for six to eight hours of rehearsal a week. Kahane said PAC first voted to temporarily lift the moratorium on Feb. 25, and the A Cappella Council, a PAC subcommittee, endorsed Dischord as a potential new group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A group like Dischord doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really take up too much space, because we can rehearse anywhere,â&#x20AC;? Kahane said. Kahane said that Dischord is currently self-funded through ticket sales, but will now be eligible to apply for funding from SAC as a member of PAC. He added that PAC membership would also provide opportunities for more on-campus rehearsals and performances. Kahane said in the past, Dischord has held performances at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church Hamilton Village located at 3916 Locust Walk, the Penn Museum, and Meyerson

Hall. He added that joining PAC will allow Dischord to form better relationships and facilitate more collaborations with other performance groups. Penn Chinese Theater Co-president and Wharton sophomore Homer Wang said PCT often rehearses in college house lounges or performance spaces. Wang said PCT has held performances at the International House located at 3701 Chestnut St. in the past. He added that the accessibility to oncampus venues will give PCT more opportunities to perform in front of a Penn audience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Before we were facing more to the international communities,â&#x20AC;? Wang said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With PAC membership, we really hope to expand to a local audience.â&#x20AC;? Wang added that he hopes PAC membership will help fund PCT. He said PCT currently has a fundraising team dedicated to gaining sponsorships from local Chinese restaurants and businesses to cover facility costs. Cooper said PAC is open to accepting any groups that apply as long as space is available. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hopeful that in the future, the University will renovate spaces or make more rehearsal space available and more performance space available,â&#x20AC;? Cooper said.

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NYT best-selling author Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her novel at KWH She wrote â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;My Year of Rest and Relaxationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; BENJAMIN MOSS-HORWITZ Contributing Reporter

Award-winning author Ottessa Moshfegh spoke to a packed house on Tuesday night at Kelly Writers House, reading from her recent best-selling novel and giving advice to aspiring writers. Moshfegh is a fiction writer whose novel, â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Year of Rest and Relaxation,â&#x20AC;? was a New York Times bestseller in 2018. At the event, Moshfegh read two excerpts from the novel, shared intimate stories about her work and writing process, and answered questions from the audience. Moshfegh was invited and introduced by Religious Studies professor Justin McDaniel, who teaches the popular course, Existential Despair. In his introduction, McDaniel read an excerpt of her work and explained how he understands Moshfeghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s writing as intrinsically related with his study of religion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the most fundamental way, what sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teaching is an interpersonal struggle with existential despair,â&#x20AC;? McDaniel said.

McDaniel said after the event, he would be bringing Moshfegh to speak to the students in his Existential Despair course. Each Tuesday, the students meet for seven and a half hours and read a book cover-to-cover. This Tuesday night, the class read â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Year of Rest and Relaxation.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get the honor of meeting her at 10 p.m. after they finish reading her book,â&#x20AC;? McDaniel said to laughter from the audience. At the event, Moshfegh summarized the novel as a story of an unhappy young woman on the Upper East Side of Manhattan who spent a year resting in hopes of forgetting her traumas. Moshfegh said although she relates to the lost feeling of her protagonist, she has always felt destined to be a writer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew my destiny, and even if I had tried to avoid it, I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have been able to,â&#x20AC;? she said. During the Q&A section of the talk, Moshfegh gave advice for aspiring writers, telling them not to impose themselves on their stories, because â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just going to get embarrassing.â&#x20AC;? She also shared how part of her comfort with first-person narrative writing stems from challenges she

had from a young age with oral comprehension. Once she learned to read and write, she developed a system where she would see the words in her head as people spoke to her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That just became the way I understood language, as a voice Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hearing narrated,â&#x20AC;? she said. Moshfeghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prior novel â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eileenâ&#x20AC;? was recognized with multiple accolades, including a PEN/ Hemingway award and nominations for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her short stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Granta and won her a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Over 60 people, many of whom were not undergraduates, attended the event, which lasted more than an hour. The audience extended beyond the Writers House Arts Cafe and into the living room. Tim Livingston, a Philadelphia resident, came to the event after seeing it on a local email chain earlier that day. He said that he loves Moshfeghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work for her sharp humor and insight with intimate topics and found her even more funny in person.

Comparative literature Ph.D. candidate Nancy Roane said she enjoyed the way Moshfegh tied re-

ligious thought into her literature and is now interested in taking McDanielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s course.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;It ended up being a lovely mix of things that are important to me,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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Moshfegh was invited by Religious Studies professor Justin McDaniel, who teaches the popular course Existential Despair. McDaniel said the themes of Moshfeghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work are related to his study of religion.

Trump nominates Penn grad Kenneth Braithwaite as next Secretary of the Navy CONOR MULLER Contributing Reporter

Kenneth J. Braithwaite, a Penn graduate and the current United States Ambassador to Norway, was officially nominated as the new Secretary of the Navy on Monday. The White House announced its intention to nominate Braithwaite last Friday. Braithwaite graduated with a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in government administration from Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fels Institute of Government in 1995 and was appointed to his ambassadorial role in October 2017. He served in the Navy in active duty from 1984

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Craig Carnaroli, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Ezekiel Emanuel, and Chief Wellness Officer Benoit DubĂŠ sent a Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;wide email on Monday afternoon, strongly recommending that Penn students and faculty avoid personal travel to these countries. With spring break beginning on March 7, administrators also asked students to rethink any international travel plans, which can increase the risk of exposure to coronavirus. According to the email, Penn has created a Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;wide task force to review and update the â&#x20AC;&#x153;existing pandemic planning procedure.â&#x20AC;? The task force is led by Dr. DubĂŠ and Michael Fink, Deputy Chief for Tactical and Emergency Readiness at Penn Police. The email states that DubĂŠ and Fink will continue to work with Penn experts, the CDC, and other government agencies. The CDC has issued a level

to 1993, and in the reserves from 1993 to 2011. The role of Secretary of the Navy has assumed increased importance and attention in recent months. Richard Spencer, the last Secretary of the Navy, was fired in November 2019 by Defense Secretary Mark Esper. Spencer had proposed a private compromise to the Eddie Gallagher scandal, where a Navy SEAL who was accused of war crimes was set to be dismissed from the Navy. Spencer went directly to the White House to instead propose that Gallagher be allowed to retire from the Navy, angering Esper and leading to Spencerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forced resignation. The White Houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announce-

Braithwaite graduated from Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fels Institute of Government in 1995. He received a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in government administration.

three warning for China, Iran, Italy, and South Korea and advises travelers to avoid nonessential travel to these countries. The entry of foreign nationals from China and Iran has also been suspended. According to the email, the University is in touch with students who are studying abroad and is advising them to come home. On Feb. 28, Penn Abroad sent an email to students studying at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy to help facilitate their departure from the city and continue their studies online. Some students, however, have chosen to stay in hopes that their schools will reopen. These students must sign an acknowledgment of risk waiver from Penn. Many Penn students have already canceled their spring break trips to countries like Italy, Spain, France, and England due to fears of facing quarantine upon returning to the United States. Asian Penn students raised concerns over racist or xenophobic attacks while

abroad because of the coronavirusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; origins in China. The University recommends that if members of the Penn community do travel to any countries with a significant outbreak, they selfâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;isolate for 14 days before returning to campus, according to the email. Penn staff, students, and faculty should also register all Pennrelated travel so that the University can provide assistance in case of an emergency. As of March 2, cases of coronavirus had been detected in 10 states in America, according to the CDC. CBS News reported that six people have died in the United States, all in Washington state. Since its detection in Wuhan, China in December 2019, the novel coronavirus has killed more than 3,000 people and infected more than 88,000 people, according to CNN. In January, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak an international public health emergency.

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ment of its intent to proceed with Braithwaiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nomination confirms what fellow Penn graduate and President Donald Trump announced via Twitter on the day of Spencerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resignation. Trump thanked the outgoing Navy Secretary for his service and called Braithwaite â&#x20AC;&#x153;a man of great achievement and successâ&#x20AC;? who would do â&#x20AC;&#x153;an outstanding job.â&#x20AC;? In January, CBS News reported that Braithwaite may have failed to disclose a business partnership agreement with Cambridge Analytica, the firm that reportedly misappropriated data from Facebook profiles to lead a targeted disinformation campaign during the 2016 presidential election. Willfully failing to fully dis-

close job history on government forms, such as the nominee report Braithwaite submitted, is a violation of federal law. Braithwaite denied any relationship with Cambridge Analytica that would have required him to include this information, telling CBS News that he had â&#x20AC;&#x153;discussionsâ&#x20AC;? with the firm but that he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;never an employee of CA, never referred any potential customers to them and never received any compensation from the company.â&#x20AC;? Senate Armed Services Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) told Politico that he is inclined to support Braithwaite, but said he has not spoken with him about his alleged connections to Cambridge Analytica.

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Blue led 73-63 with less than two minutes to go. Seniors AJ Brodeur and Devon Goodman each had over 20 points, and the Quakers looked to be well on their way to a season sweep over the Ivy League’s best team. Instead, they turned the ball over seven times and allowed the Bulldogs to go on a 13-0 run to end the game. The Red and Blue regained their mojo against Brown in what was a must-win game. If they won, they’d put themselves in a position to control their own destiny. If they lost, they’d likely miss the Ivy League Tournament. They won, and the stakes of the game seemed to raise the level of play from Penn. “If we recapture that energy and that level of competitiveness we had on Saturday against Brown, I think that’ll put us in a great position to make the tournament,” Brodeur said. These final home games have some sentimental value for the seniors, too. Regardless of the outcome of these last two games, they’ll be the last two games the seniors play in the Palestra. Brodeur is less than 40 points away from becoming Penn’s all-time record holder in points. To accomplish that at home is difficult, but certainly attainable. “It’s such a historic program. Not just in NCAA basketball, but in all of college sports. Penn has so much history,” Brodeur said. “If things go that way this weekend, that’d be awesome. If not, hopefully I’ll have a couple more games to do it elsewhere.” Donahue was quick to note, however, that Brodeur’s influence on the floor extends far beyond scoring points. “More importantly, all the things he accomplished to help us turn this program around,” Donahue said. “Sometimes you think of an all-time leading scorer and think, ‘He’s just a scorer.’ As I said, his ability to guard, I think he’s the best defensive player in the league. I think he’s the best playmaker. All those things are more important.” The Quakers will hope to end their regular season with two wins, if not to move them one step closer to the tournament, then to honor their seniors.

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hard to grind out a 86-84 victory over the Lions in overtime. One of the Lions’ biggest threats comes from their longrange ability, as they rank second amongst Ivy teams in both three-point percentage (34.3%) and three-pointers per game (7.7). Penn therefore has to effectively utilize its length to contest shots along the perimeter in order to shut down Columbia’s three point threat. In particular, the Quakers must figure out a way to limit the offensive output of Columbia ace Abbey Hsu. In the reverse fixture last month, Hsu torched the Quakers with 28 points on 11-17 shooting, including six three-pointers. The Quaker guard trio of Kendall Grasela, Kayla Padilla, and Michae Jones took turns guarding Hsu, with mixed effects. If Hsu continues to dominate on the offensive end, the Red and Blue may have to double up on her or even defend her along the full length of the court, in order to throw her off her game. For the Quakers themselves, one major thing to work on before the playoffs is to construct a more consistent offense. Junior center Eleah Parker had a 24-point game against Brown, but that was preceded by four-point and two-point performances in losses to Yale and Princeton, respectively. McLaughlin must figure out a way to utilize Parker’s strengths more prominently against highoctane defenses, such that the Quakers will not fall into long offensive slumps and watch the game slip out of their hands. Although the final four have already been decided, there is still more to play for this week, and Penn will have to bring its A-game to the floor if it wants to avoid a first-round matchup against the defending champions, No. 21 Princeton.

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Penn men’s basketball seniors reflect on four games that defined their careers, including 2018 Ivy Madness The Red and Blue upset No. 17 Villanova in 2018 JACOB WESSELS Sports Associate

In a historic four-year run, there is still time for more memories. As Penn men’s basketball’s most successful senior class in recent memory enters its final Ivy League weekend, there is still an opportunity for the trio of Devon Goodman, Ryan Betley and AJ Brodeur to further etch their names in the history books. But no matter what happens, the group will leave Penn fans with lifelong memories. Looking back at four key games — one from each year — reveals how this crop of seniors developed into the stars they are today. Freshman Year: Ivy League Tournament semifinal vs. Princeton After starting Ivy League play 0-6, the Red and Blue seemed dead in the water early on, but a late push and five-game conference winning streak allowed the Quakers to sneak into the first-ever Ivy Tournament with a 6-8 record. On their home court, the Red and Blue drew a tough challenge in a Princeton team that finished the regular season undefeated in League play. Despite the long odds, the Quakers jumped out to an early advantage and held a lead for almost all of the game. “Throughout the whole game, even as time began to wind down I was thinking we’re about to do this,” Brodeur said. “And then some defensive lapses and missed free throws, they started to just whittle away.” After a crucial missed free throw from then senior Matt Howard, the Tigers were able to force overtime. The extra period was all Princeton, as the Tigers eventually came out with a 72-64 victory. “As soon as overtime came around I remember so clearly, I was like, ‘Oh man, back to playing the game’ because we really thought we had it,” Brodeur said. While the young Quakers’ inexperience hurt them down the stretch, the group used the crushing defeat as an opportunity for growth and appreciated the valuable playoff experience they received. “It was my first real experience of a game with that much meaning. … It was such a new type of experience,” Brodeur said. “It gave us a great mantra and mentality moving forward. The whole next year, everyone had that chip on their shoulder.” “We learned so much from that game,” Betley said. “It really showed us that we could not just compete with the best in our league, but in that environment anywhere.” Sophomore Year: Ivy League Tournament final vs. Harvard

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me than hitting Phoebe [Sterba] for an open three and hearing her family cheer and seeing the smile on her face. Or getting Eleah [Parker] a dump pass on a fast break. Or hitting Kayla [Padilla] with a three. I love the feeling I get when I create for others and give others the opportunity to score because it just drives the environment and the crowd.” It’s this kind of selfless approach to the game that makes Grasela a natural playmaker and team leader. “Everyone looks to her in almost all the moments during games,” senior co-captain Phoebe Sterba said. “She’s such a constant motivator; she never seems to get tired. She’s always playing full-court defense and running the offense. So I think when we’re kind of struggling we always turn to her because she has this constant drive, and

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Senior forward AJ Brodeur dominated offensively in the paint against Harvard in the 2018 Ivy League Tournament final. Penn defeated the Crimson after Harvard’s game-tying three-pointer fell short.

the group of seniors prepared for a trip to Tuscaloosa, Ala. to take on Alabama on opening night. Looking to make a statement, the Quakers came out of the gate trading blows with the Crimson Tide. “That was a game I had been anticipating for a while. It was the first time I would be playing in a real game for so long,” Betley said. “I just wanted to go out there and put everything on the floor.” Beyond the expected dominance of Brodeur, the game served as a passing of the torch of sorts, as the standout player on the evening was freshman Jordan Dingle. The rookie scored 24 points, the most ever in a Penn debut. Dingle iced his excellent performance with a game-winning layup to put Penn ahead with just seconds to go. “It showed the younger guys at any given time [that] we can beat anyone in the country,” Betley said. “A lot of people were wondering what the culture was going to be like now that we had a lot of our culture guys graduate from that senior class,” Brodeur said. “That we could take that winning mindset on the road to a Power Five school was huge.” The win was also the first time this group of Quakers had defeated a major conference opponent on the road. “It’s a really unique experience going out there to a raucous gym like that,” Betley said. “You’re really only out there with your teammates. It’s really an us versus the world type of mentality. Those are the type of games you live for.” Heading into the final weekend of their Ivy careers with an Ivy Tournament berth on the line, there is no doubt that this group of seniors has been battle tested every season of their careers. Only one question remains: What will be the final defining moment in an already historic run?

The following season, the Quakers hit the ground running in Ivy play, dropping just two games all season in conference and finishing tied for the regular season championship with Harvard, riding the first of Brodeur’s first team All-Ivy appearances, along with leading scorer Betley. Penn would eventually get a decisive matchup against the Crimson for the Ivy League title. After falling behind big early, the Quakers closed the first half on a run of their own, with Darnell Foreman’s buzzer-beating three sending the Quakers to the halftime locker room with the lead. After the teams traded runs throughout the second half, the Quakers were eventually able to get a crucial threepointers from Caleb Wood, whose big basket put the Quakers ahead for good. “The place was so loud. We all knew how big of a shot that was,” Betley said. The Quakers were able to do what they failed to do the season before, winning the free-throw battle and closing out the game. They claimed an NCAA Tournament berth as Harvard’s game-tying three-point attempt fell short. “I was running back to the bench while the shot was still in the air to tie the game,” Brodeur said. “I didn’t even know if the shot was going to go in, but I felt like the game was already won. … The Penn students stormed the court, Amy Gutmann came on the court, and I lifted her up.” “It meant so much for our program. It showed our fans, our alumni, and everyone who has really invested in our program that we are to be reckoned with,” Betley said. Junior Year: Upset of No. 17 Villanova Now the defending Ivy League champions, the current group of seniors entered their junior year with high expectations. However, the team’s repeat hopes took a hit when Betley suffered a season-ending leg injury just

Penn took an early lead against No. 17 Villanova and didn’t look back. The Quakers would ride the momentum for their big win and sweep their Big 5 schedule, claiming their first title since the 2001-2002 season.

I think that just motivates everyone else on the court.” As close friends, Sterba and Grasela share an inseparable bond. As captains, they’ve tried to maintain a balance between striving for excellence and enjoying the game. Before many of the team’s Friday games, senior Liz Satter will host photo shoots of the players. The most recent one features Sterba in a wedding dress alongside Grasela and fellow teammates decked out in tacky bridesmaid dresses. The pictures are featured on the women’s basketball Instagram and were reposted by several Penn Athletics accounts. The caption? Married to the game. While funny in its own right, the shoot encapsulates the commitment to their sport shared by the team and its co-captains. Grasela has been able to make a large impact in a leadership role on the team, all while attending the School of Nursing. “She’s definitely one of the

hardest workers I’ve ever met academically,” Sterba said. “She’s very good at time management. With clinicals and all these exams and labs and prep tools, she makes it seem easy, but she’s actually just a deeply hardworking person to her core.” Whether it’s attending games during promotional nights or sending team performance updates to nursing students, the Penn Nursing faculty is almost as committed as the athletes themselves. After a huge win against Yale, Grasela awoke the next morning to an email from Dean Antonia Villarruel. “I am so proud of you — and all our Penn Nursing athletes — you are leaders on and off the court!!!,” the email read. With eight-hour clinical shifts twice a week and an intense course load, the nursing schedule is notoriously difficult. For an athlete, it can be nearly impossible. Regardless, the senior has balanced her academic pursuits

five minutes into the year. The Quakers soon rallied around Brodeur and emerging star Devon Goodman, entering a contest with defending national champion Villanova with just two losses on the season. “We thought that we had a real chance as soon as the season started,” Brodeur said. “We knew they had a relatively young team and [that] we would be able to exploit that as an older, more mature team.” Jumping out to an early lead, Penn never looked back, as strong shooting nights from Michael Wang, Antonio Woods, and Brodeur helped keep the defending national champions out of reach for most of the contest. “Villanova is known for their tough style of play,” Brodeur said. “We really had a couple moments where we feel like we beat them at their own game. I remember a few times when Jake Silpe dove on the ball in a crowd of three or four Villanova players. It

was plays like that I feel like elevated us to win that game.” Despite late game heroics from Villanova star Phil Booth, his game tying threepointer would fall short, and Penn students would have a reason to storm the court for the second consecutive season. The Quakers defeated their Philadelphia rivals for the first time since 2002. “That Villanova game was electric,” Brodeur said. “We had a really strong student presence there. I think that made it way more fun.” “It was hard not being out there for that one,” Betley said. “It was such a special night for our program. ... It was everything you dream about when you are a college basketball player.” The Quakers would ride the momentum from their big win over Villanova and sweep the Big 5 schedule, claiming their first title since the 2001-02 season. Senior Year: Opening-night win at Alabama Entering their final season,

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with her role on the team, all while drastically improving her game. “I have a great story in that it can inspire people who maybe don’t play much freshman year,” Grasela said. “I’ve tried to communicate that to the freshmen and younger girls. It’s really about role identity. I know that I’m never going to be the leading scorer in every game, but I can control what I can control.” Grasela, who attended Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pa., grew up watching games at the Palestra. Less than an hour from her hometown, she had her sights set on playing on the historic court from an early age. “I was able to grow up and come to the Palestra and watch the team play and envision playing here. Being given the opportunity to do so has been so incredible and so surreal,” Grasela said. It was this kind of nostalgic

energy that pervaded her Senior Night last weekend, and one that McLaughlin witnesses every year from the senior classes. “I’m just so happy for Kendall. She’s emotional right now. She knows that at some point, as every senior does, there comes an emotional end. You’ve been told your entire lives that you’re going to get that one last time to play, and I think they’re feeling it a little bit,” McLaughlin said. “The community support, the atmosphere at Penn, there’s nothing like it,” Grasela said. “[Senior Night] was very surreal. I never really imagined the day coming. You build such an identity, and you have so much pride to play for Penn.” With the end of their season looming, the Quakers are bleeding Red and Blue more than ever. While it was Sterba who wore the dress, Grasela is truly right alongside her, married to the game.

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rookie campaign, going 20-5 overall and 8-1 in EIWA play, and he’ll look to make a deep run this weekend as well. Notably absent will be sophomore Anthony Artalona, who has not wrestled since dropping a decision to senior Larry Early of Old Dominion in a dual meet on Jan. 10. Women’s lacrosse The season is still relatively

young for Penn women’s lacrosse, but the Quakers may face their toughest challenge of the year this Saturday against Loyola (Md.). Ranked third in the country by US Lacrosse Magazine, Loyola (4-0) is coming to Franklin Field fresh off two blowout road victories against ranked opponents — the first a 17-6 win over No. 4 Florida,

and the second a 22-12 win over Penn State. The Red and Blue (4-0, 1-0 Ivy) — ranked No. 7 by USL Magazine — are also coming off an impressive performance on the road. Last weekend, Penn defeated Yale 11-5 in New Haven in the team’s Ivy opener. Given the Greyhounds’ high-scoring offense, goalie play could prove especially

critical for Penn this weekend. It remains unclear who will get the start in goal for the Quakers after freshman Kelly Van Hoesen and sophomore Krissy Kowalski, who is also a staffer for The Daily Pennsylvanian, split time equally last week. On the offensive end, Penn will be led by senior Gabby Rosenzweig who is the final year of a historic career for the

Red and Blue. Men’s lacrosse After suffering a 18-17 heartbreaker last weekend to No. 2 Penn State, Penn men’s lacrosse will have an opportunity to get back on track against two other in-state rivals this weekend. On Friday, the No. 6 Quakers (1-2) will face off against No. 14 Villanova at Franklin Field. Then on Sunday, Penn will make the short trip across town to play Saint Joe’s. The game against Villanova (3-2) will serve as an especially important test for the Quakers as they are in the midst of a brutal start to their schedule. Both of the Red and Blue’s losses thus far have been against teams ranked in the top five nationally, but the Wildcats most likely represent the Quakers’ last chance to get a non-conference win over a ranked opponent. Missing out on this opportunity would put a major dent in the team’s resume for a potential atlarge bid in the NCAA Tournament. Beating Villanova will be no easy task, however, as the Wildcats have been playing excellent lacrosse after dropping their first two games of the season. Last weekend, Villanova took care of Delaware on the road, 19-10, and two games before that, the Wildcats upset Maryland 13-12. The Terrapins defeated Penn 17-15 in the Quakers’ season opener.

“Phoebe is a constant ray of sunshine and is the goofiest person I have ever met,” senior center Emily Anderson said. “It is impossible to be around her and not feel that positivity. She is also such a dedicated person on the court, and that sets a great example for us.” While Sterba’s off-the-court presence has been her defining trait as a Quaker, teammates and coaches say that there is some-

thing even more unique about the senior. “What I’ll really remember about her is her dad making it for every [home] game,” McLaughlin said. “He is out here early in the day with her shooting; it is something that bonds them together.” Having a supporting figure in the stands has been an important factor in Sterba’s ability to remain calm in any situa-

tion on the court. Although her teammates and coaches have come to love the Sterba family tradition, Sterba herself sometimes cannot help but laugh at her father’s passion for basketball. “I think he at times loves it more than I do,” Sterba said. “He always says, ‘You don’t understand, you play in the Cathedral of College Basketball.’ But to know he is always going to be

here for any game is more than I could ever ask him to do, and I don’t even ask him to do it.” Sterba has been a consistent factor in Penn’s success over the past four seasons. At the same time, the senior has left a lasting impact on the program, as well as its players and coaches. However, if it were not for a chance second visit to campus, Sterba could have instead spent her four years elsewhere.

With her final season for the Red and Blue is coming to a close, Sterba has been able to reflect on her sudden decision to become a Quaker. “Penn has given me so many amazing opportunities on and off the court,” Sterba said. “It has given me so much that I never thought I would be able to experience, and to experience it with my best friends, that is the icing on the cake.”

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As classes pause for spring break, Penn sports keep going strong. As one of the final winter sports to remain active, wrestling faces postseason competition this weekend, while men’s and women’s lacrosse continue with more tough opponents. Wrestling Dual meet season is over for the Red and Blue, but the postseason is just getting started. Penn wrestling will face the best of the conference this weekend as the squad gears up for the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships in Bethlehem, Pa. While the team score will still be counted, the focus is on individual performance, as the highest-placed wrestlers in each weight class will qualify for the NCAA Championships. Wrestlers to watch from Penn include sophomore Doug Zapf and freshman Michael Colaiocco. Zapf finished the EIWA regular season undefeated with a perfect 16-0 record, and currently has a 25-5 mark on the year. The 141-pounder is slated to be the top seed in his class and is poised to contend for the title. Colaiocco had a standout

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she has won a lot here, and she has been through some tough losses here, so I think she can kind of be that coach for us in the locker room after a tough day, game, or stretch.” In addition to being a leader that her coaching staff can rely on, Sterba has also been a favorite among her teammates.

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Freshman Michael Colaiocco had a standout rookie campaign for the Red and Blue. He went 20-5 overall and 8-1 in EIWA competition, and he’ll look to make a deep run this weekend as well. Sophomore Doug Zapf, who is undefeated, will also compete in the EIWA Championships.

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Penn women’s basketball may have already clinched a spot in Ivy Madness, but it still has work to do in the final week of its regular season. “We might have to play a little bit different down the stretch than we have all year,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “Trying to see if there’s certain areas of the game, [especially] on the offensive side, that we can tweak [those areas] so that we’re clean with it. But I want them to go into

[this week] and really start getting themselves back in a good flow so that we’re peaking at our best heading into the Ivy playoffs.” The Red and Blue (18-7, 8-4 Ivy) will get the chance to do just that in a challenging road trip to Cornell (10-14, 3-9) and Columbia (17-8, 8-4) this weekend. Penn had an easy time with Cornell earlier on in the season, beating them 63-41 at the Palestra. The Quakers used a strong first quarter, in which they outscored the Big Red 24-10, to run away with the game. However, Penn must be aware of the threat posed by Cornell’s forward duo of se-

niors Laura Bagwell-Katalinich and Samantha Widmann. Both feature in the League’s top 10 in points and rebounds per game, and can be unstoppable in the paint at times. Contain them, and the Red and Blue have a great chance at extending their current seven-game win streak against the Big Red. On the other hand, Columbia will prove to be a more formidable opponent for the Quakers. The winner of this game will likely gain sole possession of the second seed, which the teams currently share. The last time both sides met, the Quakers had to work SEE WBB PREVIEW PAGE 8

CHARLIE DOLGENOS Sports Reporter

The Quakers have only two games standing between them and an Ivy Madness appearance. Two wins will go a long way, but the Quakers might need some outside help to clinch the spot they need. Blocking their path are Cornell (6-19, 3-9 Ivy) and Columbia (6-22, 1-11), who Penn (14-11, 6-6) will take on this Friday and Saturday, respectively. They are the two worst teams in the Ivy League, at least by record. Though nei-

ther team poses a huge threat on paper, they won’t be taken lightly. “All I know is we have to play Cornell and beat Cornell,” coach Steve Donahue said. “We had a really good game up there [in Ithaca], I assume they’ll have [Jimmy] Boeheim back, that’s an AllIvy type of player, so that’s our focus.” Senior guard Ryan Betley, who is battling back from an injury, always looks forward to playing Cornell. Their third leading scorer, Josh Warren, was a high school teammate of Betley’s. “He always has a lot of people for him, cheering him on. To play against him one last

time in our college career is gonna be a lot of fun. It’s always a good time to see him,” Betley said. “I’ll say something to him when he’s at the free throw line. It’s all love, though.” Betley was limited to just 12 minutes in Penn’s game against Brown, but his minutes will creep up this weekend. Following a road trip that featured 78 minutes of great Penn basketball, the Quakers are staying home at the Palestra for their final two regular season games. When they played Yale this past weekend, the Red and SEE MBB PREVIEW PAGE 8

Senior Kendall Grasela has grown into a leader and facilitator for the Red and Blue Senior women’s basketball W. HOOPS | Grasela is captain Kendall Grasela’s stosecond in League in assists ry was more of the latter. JESS MIXON Senior Sports Associate

Some athletes arrive at the beginning of their freshman year and immediately rise to the top. For others, countless hours of hard work and commitment are required to claw their way there.

The Huntingdon Valley, Pa. native has been a staple for the Red and Blue throughout her junior and senior seasons at point guard. It wasn’t always that way, however. In her freshman and sophomore years, Grasela was a backup for then-captain Anna Ross, who graduated in 2018. Ross led the team to two Ivy

League titles and two NCAA Tournament appearances. She holds the all-time program records in both career and single-season assists at 491 and 151, respectively. Ross played and started every single game of her collegiate career. It’s the mentorship of a figure like Ross that coach Mike McLaughlin credits to Grasela’s development as a leader on and off the court. “Having Anna Ross ahead

of her was fundamental to her development. [Grasela] learned to lead people by pushing them and challenging them,” McLaughlin said. “She’s turned into a point guard who we can’t take off of the floor. This season has been a great culmination of a phenomenal career here up to this point.” Grasela is currently second in the Ivy League in assists at 107 on the season, or 4.3 per

game. Even more impressive is her assist to turnover ratio, which sits at 2.7, good for first place in the Ancient Eight by a significant margin. “I feel like a lot of times when I actually turn the ball over it’s because I passed up my open shot to try to look for someone else. That’s just part of my nature,” Grasela said. “There’s no better feeling for SEE GRASELA PAGE 8

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Kendall Grasela was a backup in her first two years, but has since stepped up for Penn.

She didn’t expect to be at Penn, but Phoebe Sterba has found her home here W. HOOPS | She considered Harvard before committing JOEY PIATT Sports Associate

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Sterba has grown from a freshman role player to a senior captain for the Red and Blue, averaging 10.5 points per game.

Sometimes the best decisions are the ones we never saw coming. For Penn senior Phoebe Sterba, this has proven especially true. Sterba, a Cleveland native, played basketball at Magnificat High School, an all-girls college preparatory school. Coming from a rigorous academic and athletic

high school experience, Sterba was looking for a collegiate program that would offer the same challenges. While Penn might seem like an obvious choice for those criteria, it was not originally the school Sterba saw herself attending. “I visited [Penn] once, and it was like a ‘snowpocalypse’ weekend,” Sterba said. “Everything was going wrong, and I was really dead-set on Harvard, so I didn’t consider other schools. But then I came to Penn again in April, and I don’t know what it was, but I was like, ‘I want to go

here.’” Once she came to Penn, Sterba began to contribute right away, as she appeared in 24 games off the bench during her freshman year. Although her talent alone would have impressed her coaches, Sterba’s willingness to grow and learn is what helped her take the next step forward. “As a freshman, she came in and was skilled, but she had to learn the college game and be patient,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “She never really had to be patient in sports, but she learned a great deal about herself

and how [basketball] should be played at this level.” This willingness to learn has helped Sterba throughout her career, which has seen her grow from freshman role player to senior captain. That progression has helped Sterba experience all of the ups and downs that college basketball has to offer, which is something she uses to her advantage in her role as a team leader. “I think her experience has really helped her,” McLaughlin said. “She has played a lot here, SEE STERBA PAGE 9

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