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Parent in bribery case linked to admissions scam Penn parent contacted consultant in national scandal GIOVANNA PAZ News Editor

The Miami executive who bribed former Penn athletics coach Jerome Allen to list his son as a basketball recruit also asked for admissions advice from William Singer, the college consultant at the center of the nationwide bribery investigation. Court documents show that Philip Esformes called and texted

court that he received about $300,000 in bribes from Esformes, the father of a current Wharton senior.

The alleged crimes in the national scandal included cheating on entrance exams and bribing college officials to falsely identify students as part of athletic recruitment. Peer institutions, such as Yale University, Stanford University, Georgetown University, and the University of Southern California, were named in the legal documents unsealed on March

"I got his son into Penn; I got his son into Wharton. None of that would have happened without me."

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The Penn Muslim Students Association organized the vigil on March 15 to remember the 49 victims of the New Zealand mosque attacks.

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Penn remembers victims of New Zealand mosque attacks President Gutmann attended the ceremony HAWTHORNE RIPLEY Staff Reporter

Members of the Penn community gathered Friday on College Green to honor the lives of the 49 people who were killed at the New Zealand mosque attacks.

Standing in front of the LOVE statue, students and administrators offered their support for

Penn’s Muslim community, condemned Islamophobia, and vowed resilience at the Vigil For Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Shooting on March 15. The vigil was hosted by the Penn Muslim Students Association and included speeches from

MSA President and Nursing junior Tafshena Khan, Penn President Amy Gutmann, and University Chaplain Rev. Charles Howard.

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Singer, CEO of college preparatory company The Key, to ask whether his son could be recruited into Penn.

The new ties between Esformes and Singer were introduced in Miami federal court a few days after more than 50 individuals, including athletic coaches, university administrators, and famous actors, were implicated in the nationwide admissions scandal. Days before the scandal came to light, former Penn men’s basketball coach Jerome Allen testified in federal

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Miami federal court records, filed on March 14, show that in February 2014 Esformes exchanged text messages with Singer about his son’s chances of getting admitted to Penn given his SAT score at the time, The Miami Herald reported.

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Students unsatisfied with Penn’s plans to fix DRL issues Grad students sent a petition to admin on Feb. 27 DANIEL WANG Staff Reporter

After a petition surfaced calling on administrators to improve the recurring maintenance issues in David Rittenhouse Laboratory, the University took steps to address the building’s poor working conditions. Despite the progress, students do not believe these actions will fix the long-term issues they continue to face.

Graduate students sent administrators a petition on Feb. 27 demanding Penn to solve the frequent ceiling leakages and pest infestations in DRL. The petition, which was signed by more than 150 students, faculty, and staff, was sparked by a major ceiling leak last month, which forced 10 graduate students to relocate out of their offices and resulted in damage to 18 rooms. The leak was caused by several abandoned pipes in DRL’s cooling system, which are filled with pressurized chilled water that caused them to burst.

Since the petition was sent, Facilities and Real Estate Services removed the frozen pipes that caused the flooding on March 2 to prevent future leaks.

FRES also contacted the ento-

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The petition, which was signed by more than 150 students, faculty, and staff was sparked by a major ceiling leak (pictured above) that forced 10 graduate students to relocate out of their offices and resulted in damage to 18 rooms.

mologist who surveyed the building in April 2017 to request that they do another analysis of pest control in the building. There will be a “multi-year and multi-phase effort” to update the heating,

ventilation, and air conditioning system in DRL, with some renovations currently underway, Faramarz Vakilizadeh, executive director of FRES Operations & Maintenance, wrote in an email

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Facilities also began doing restorative cleaning on the public areas of DRL, which involves stripping, scrubbing, and waxing hard surfaces and deep cleaning

carpets.

Fourth-year physics Ph.D. student Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez, who helped write the petition, said she and her fellow petition writers are “generally satisfied

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with the response.” But they remain concerned that there is no short-term solution for the temperature control problem, which will only take effect after they graduate. They also added that the long-term temperature plans for renovating the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system were “vague.”

Fourth-year physics Ph.D. students Lucas Secco said plans to improve pest control were also unclear. He mentioned that although the administration said they would get in touch with the entomologist and send the petition writers updates, the grad students have not received any updates almost three weeks after they sent the letter.

Physics professor Gene Mele, whose office was flooded in the recent burst pipe burst, said he remained in his office until March 15, when the replacing of ceiling tiles and carpeting forced him to relocate to another office.

“I got an email here at home saying you ought to come in here, there’s a leak, the door is open, you might want to salvage some stuff,” Mele said. “When I got in, it was literally raining from the ceiling in my office. There were a number of things that were disposed of.”

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tect our Muslim students and to be here for them,” Khan said.

“Everyone is experiencing this differently, but our job is to make sure that each and every person here is safe and accounted for, and doesn’t feel hindered in practicing their religion and doesn’t feel fear.”

In the early hours of Friday morning, a gunman with military gear opened fire on Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, the Washington Post reported. Police are investigating a manifesto posted online by the alleged shooter, which contains far-right, extremist language. At least 49 people were killed and at least 20 more were injured. Police said a 28-year-old man was in custody and had been charged with murder.

Khan said she had been up working when she heard about the tragedy in the early hours of Friday morning. When the news broke, she said she dropped everything and immediately began to organize the vigil in collaboration with the Chaplain’s office.

The vigil also included Islamic prayers, a song for peace, and Quran passage readings from MSA members. Among others,

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Nursing junior and President of MSA Tafshena Khan (above), spoke about the implications of the tragedy on the Penn community.

The vigil also included Islamic prayers, a song for peace, and Quran passage readings from Muslim Students Association members.

religious leaders Rev. Megan LeCluyse and Rabbi Josh Bolton delivered messages of solidarity and unity.

Gutmann preached unity within the Penn community, calling Penn “one body” which collectively feels the pain of all its members, and emphasized her support for the MSA and Penn’s

the future.

“When a tree or flower gives off pollen, maybe it seems like it’s dying,” Howard said. “Yet, as we know, when these things hit the ground and light hits them, and water touches them, they grow into something better. That’s why I have hope. As I grieve, and as we hold each

Muslim community. She said Penn must show solidarity for its “Muslim brothers and sisters.”

She condemned fascism, quoted the Hadith, and referenced the strength religious diversity provides to the Penn community.

At the vigil, Howard drew a connection between fallen pollen seeds and his optimism for

other, I still think a better world is coming.”

For College and Wharton senior Tiger Huang, who grew up as an immigrant in New Zealand, the

dent Rachel Covert said. “I have a very special place in my heart for New Zealand and know it as a very peaceful country, so to hear that this kind of evil has come

"As I grieve, and as we hold each other, I still think a better world is coming."

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to a place like that is very heartbreaking.”

Toobah Wali, a fourth-year pharmacy student at the University of the Sciences, said she was stunned and heartbroken when she learned about the attack.

“That could have been my mom, my dad, my aunts, my uncles. It could have been my own mosque,” Wali said. “Hearing about it made me realize how we need to stand together. I just hope that this inspires everyone to reach out to their friends that are part of those minority groups, support them and make sure they’re okay today.”

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attack came as a shock because in his experience, the country is an “inclusive environment.”

“We didn’t have much of a history of terrorist attacks, so this event really hit us hard,” Huang said.

Students from the local Eastern University and University of the Sciences also traveled to Penn’s campus to show their solidarity with the Penn community.

“I personally came out because I studied in New Zealand last semester, so I know people who live right outside of Christchurch,” Eastern University stu-

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Penn Med doctors honored for treatment of rare leprosy case

The doctors were awarded for their collaboration CLAIRE OCHROCH Staff Reporter

Two Penn doctors have won an award from the American Academy of Dermatology for their collaboration to treat a patient with a rare case of leprosy.

Carrie Kovarik and Keith Hamilton, doctors at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania were recognized as Patient Care Heroes in February. The doctors, who also teach at Penn, teamed up to help treat a patient with leprosy, using both Kovarik’s dermatology specialty and Hamilton’s infectious disease expertise to cure the patient.

“Treating leprosy is a very challenging undertaking and there are always adverse reactions to treatment,” Hamilton said. “You’re always walking a fine line between therapeutics and toxicity. So during this case, as with many others, you’re always having to evaluate, re-evaluate, adjust, and readjust treatment based on the patient’s response.”

In order to treat leprosy, a patient usually has to take antibiotics for around two years, and for some cases, their immune system has to be suppressed to avoid collateral damage, Hamilton said.

In this case, the patient contracted leprosy from traveling outside of the United States and was referred from a hospital outside of Penn’s system. He traveled to Philadelphia from Delaware, with members of his family, Kovarik said.

Leprosy is an infectious disease that starts out as a bacterial infection and affects the skin

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Former Penn Athletics coach Jerome Allen (left), testified to taking about $300,000 in bribes from the father of a current Penn senior.

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The doctors teamed up to help treat a patient with leprosy, using both Carrie Kovarik’s (right) dermatology specialty and Keith Hamilton’s (left) infectious disease expertise to cure the patient.

and the nerves. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 150 to 250 cases are reported in the United States each year, and most people contract the disease from traveling.

“Those cases that are acquired in the United States, many of these are people that have contact with armadillos because armadillos can be infected with leprosy as well,” Hamilton said.

The case was referred to Hamilton, and when he learned the patient had leprosy, he immediately sought the help of a dermatologist to control the body’s immune system response.

“We have to find that balance with treating the infection as well as decreasing the immune response,” Hamilton

said. “And dermatologists have an expertise, much more than we do in infectious diseases, using medications that help modulate or suppress the immune response in cutaneous or skin diseases.”

Kovarik was then called onto the case because of her vast experience in working on dermatology cases internationally.

“I worked in Peru for many months and saw a lot of leprosy patients there,” Kovarik said. “I walked in and just as soon as I saw the patient I knew that he had lepromatous leprosy,” referring to a specific form of the disease.

Hamilton also pointed to the strong role that other healthcare professionals played in the case, such as a pharmacist that provided the vital medications necessary to treat leprosy, which

Arthur Ross Gallery hackathon blends art and computer science 60 data analysts of all levels attended the event DANIELLE CAPRIGLIONE Contributing Reporter

While hackathons have long catered to students primarily interested in technology, the Arthur Ross Gallery hosted its first Art + Data Hack-a-thon Wednesday to attract students from arts backgrounds.

The event drew about 60 data analysts and art enthusiasts who created coding projects based on art exhibit data. Participants received links to download curatorial data and images of artwork from the Arthur Ross Gallery. They then worked in small groups to write programs that incorporated this data in some way.

Wharton sophomore Kirti Shenoy wrote a program to detect the main color of an image and group images of the same color to produce a randomized collage.

“I think this is a great example of the interdisciplinary nature of Penn,” Shenoy said. “It incorporates aspects of data, coding, and art and brings it all together.”

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Director and Associate Curator Heather Gibson Moqtaderi, one of the organizers of the hackathon, said the event was designed to be inclusive of students from art backgrounds. “[We] wanted to offer the opportunity to work with data to people who might be more from an arts background and make it less intimidating and inspire people in the arts to look toward technology and data for their curatorial and artistic practice,” she said.

Moqtaderi added that the hackathon was inspired by the gallery’s “Citizen Salon” popup exhibit. The exhibit, which opened Dec. 1, features pieces that were voted on by the public and selected from Penn’s art collection. Moqtaderi said her team was interested in exploring this unique, data-based way of selecting art pieces by holding a hackathon using the exhibit’s voting data and the selected art pieces themselves.

“Because of that data-based curation, I thought it was important to incorporate one event that allowed us to really look at that with a team of people who are more accustomed to looking at

data than a traditional art historian or curator,” Moqtaderi said.

The event was co-sponsored by the Penn Art Collection, the Office of the Curator, and the Office of the Provost. The Price Lab for Digital Humanities provided additional coding resources and data sets to help participants create their projects. “[The Price Lab] did a good job of giving us a variety of tools to use based on which level we were at,” Shenoy said. “They made it more inclusive.”

Attendee Bridget Goldhahn agreed that the hackathon brought together a diverse set of people. Goldhahn is the communications director for the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, a community of education researchers housed in Penn’s Graduate School of Education.

“I think that there’s a big effort at Penn to nurture creativity and get different people from different disciplines to get together and apply their different skill sets,” Goldhahn said. “This room is full of artists, internal and external, people of the Penn community, but also people who are programmers, musicians, graphic designers, and art historians.”

are not readily available in the United States and sometimes require special approval.

“We also have a wonderful team beyond just the physicians, of pharmacists,” Hamilton said.

“As well as nurses that provide support and care and access to these medications.”

The main focus of the Patient Care Heroes Award is to encourage collaboration among dermatologists and other physicians, said George J. Hruza, President of the American Academy of Dermatology.

“We didn’t expect to get this much attention, but we don’t feel like heroes, we feel like we were just doing our job,” Kovarik said. “But what we really want the message to be for other physicians is that communication with other physicians can really help in patient care.”

that his son needed to take the test again in order to improve his chance of being admitted to Penn. Esformes also asked Singer whether his son’s chances were better if he applied as a student-athlete.

Esformes also asked Singer through text message about an upcoming college-entrance exam in Arizona while the family lived in Miami, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Singer arranged for many students to take the SAT or ACT at locations far from their homes, where he coordinated with test proctors to correct the students’ answers after they had taken the exams, according to his indictment.

Adam Barnes, a basketball trainer who worked with Esformes in 2013, said that he believed Esformes’ academic record may have been a major factor in his recruitment.

Undergraduate admissions at Ivy League colleges uses a system called the “Academic Index,” which ranks students on a scale from 60 to 240 based primarily on SAT/ACT scores, subject test scores, and high school grade point average. As of 2011, the minimum score for any Ivy League student-athlete is 176, though most candidates get scores far higher than

that.

“I accepted the money to help Morris Esformes get into the school,” Allen testified in Miami federal court, the Miami Herald reported.

“I got his son into Penn; I got his son into Wharton. None of that would have happened without me.”

After Allen pleaded guilty in October 2018, Penn hired an outside consultant to review admissions procedures.

In light of the nationwide bribery scandal, Penn Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said the University will once again consider revising its processes related to recruitment and evaluation.

“Penn Admissions and [the University’s Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics] have worked with an outside consultant to review and strengthen our processes for the recruitment of student athletes and, in light of the current charges, will again consider whether any further changes are called for in our recruitment and evaluation processes,” Furda wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Esformes also faces charges of obtaining $1 billion through Medicare fraud. A portion of this money was used to bribe Allen, who is serving as a witness in Esformes’ trial.

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Penn must remove Jerome Allen from the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN EDITORIAL BOARD

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Former Penn men’s basketball star and coach Jerome Allen pleaded guilty to bribery in October 2018 and recently testified in federal court that he received approximately $300,000 in bribes from Philip Esformes, the father of a current Wharton senior, in order to help Esformes’ son get into Penn as a recruited athlete. This testimony came just days before the national college admissions scandal, which has called into question the values and practices of elite universities.

Penn Athletics, which inducted Allen to the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame in May 2017, has not yet commented on whether it plans to remove this honor. In light of the revelations that Allen accepted bribes, however, he must be removed from the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame.

While Allen had a storied history as a basketball player, having been named Ivy league Player of

the Year twice and a part of three Ivy championship teams at Penn, his accomplishments do not make up for the fact that he broke the law.

“I accepted the money to help Morris Esformes get into the school,” Allen testified in Miami federal court, the Miami Herald reported. “I got his son into Penn; I got his son into Wharton. None of that would have happened without me.”

Some may argue that Allen’s achievements as an athlete are not related to his character and moral values and that it is possible to separate the artist from the art.’However, according to the Penn Athletics website, “The University of Pennsylvania Athletic Department established the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame in 1996 to honor the greatest athletes and coaches ever to wear or coach the Red and Blue.” It is up to Penn to define what being a great athlete

means, and we believe that should encompass both character and skill.

The honor of being a member of the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame should be reserved not only for distinguished athletes, but also those with honorable characters. It devalues the accomplishments of other notable alumni or coaches while Allen — who participated in bribery in order to help someone’s son get into Penn on false pretenses — is allowed to maintain membership.

“I failed on many levels. Primarily, I had a failure of character. I did not live up to the high standards I set for myself, or were expected of me in the position that I held. I am sorry. I let down my family, my friends, my alma mater, and my Celtics family. Even more important, I was not true to my faith. I let down my God,” Allen said in a statement after pleading guilty.

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Penn has previously removed the names of and revoked honorary degrees from alumni who have allegedly taken part in morally ambiguous practices like Steve Wynn and Bill Cosby. While the circumstances in Allen’s case are much different, it is imperative that the University

hold members of the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame to a high standard, and not put those who have committed crimes on a pedestal.

When Penn honors a man who has broken federal law, it lowers the bar for the University, and sets a bad precedent for current students.

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Christians at Penn have a responsibility to stand by the LGBTQ community OUT OF TURN | Christian faith communities need to make a change

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The acceptance of LGBTQ people and identities is one of the biggest debates in many forms of organized religion in the world today. While the issue is widespread and not confined to any one group or country, the handling of LGBTQ issues by Christian churches in America is one of the most prominent and complicated examples. While more Americans support gay marriage than ever before, select Christians and churches have been some of the most vocal critics of LGBTQ rights.

The issue is complicated, because not all Christians view being queer or transgender as sins within their own belief systems. In the past several decades, many popular denominations have begun to ordain LGBTQ clergy, officiate same-sex weddings, and affirm queer and transgender identities. Around two thirds of both Catholic and Protestants in America support same-sex marriage, as do a majority of young Evangelicals.

I was raised Christian in a deeply religious and conservative community, where social justice was often viewed as being at odds with adherence to the faith. When I came to Penn, I saw explicitly inclusive congregations and met accepting faith leaders for the first time, and it made me genuinely optimistic for the future of the Christian church.

But there is a massive amount of progress that needs to be made — and recently, some of that progress has been reversed.

At a conference of clergy and members in late February, the United Methodist Church — one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States — rejected a proposed plan that would have given individual churches the option of ordaining LGBTQ clergy and performing same-sex marriages for congregants. Instead, the church decided to affirm and strengthen its existing view that “[t]he practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching.”

This news is frustrating and heartbreaking, but it would be naive to call it surprising. Even when individual Christians make a large show of denouncing prejudice and mistreatment directed at LGBTQ people, their public declarations aren’t enough to heal the deep spiritual wounds that churches have historically created. Many Christians I’ve met at Penn support queer and trans rights, but view this support as separate from their faith and sit in quiet discomfort when homophobic, transphobic views are espoused in their own faith communities. In light of the UMC’s vote, it is clear now more than ever that silence isn’t sufficient — all believers, especially

There is a massive amount of progress that needs to be made — and recently, some of that progress has been reversed.” young straight and cisgender allies, need to challenge toxic rhetoric and explicitly welcome queer and trans people into their places of worship.

Many horrible things are said and done in the name of Christianity, and while the extreme views might be far removed from mainstream views, they still have significant impact.

For example, the Trump administration’s most severe actions against transgender people — like banning transgender service members from the military, and transgender kids from using the right bathrooms at their schools — have stemmed from his ties to the most far-right swaths of Evangelical voters. No faith is a monolith, and Christians with more tolerant views are not responsible for the actions of these groups, but when the consequences of extremism are so visible and normalized, believers who want to differentiate themselves have an opportunity to challenge their fellow Christians

(and need to do so before they can bemoan their image problem).

But Christians who think they are practicing a tolerant form of faith still need to examine their beliefs.

Too often, what passes for LGBTQ acceptance in Christian communities is sugar-coated bigotry, repacked so that those who espouse it can still take the moral high ground.

This is what is going on when people say “hate the sin, love the sinner” and dismiss LGBTQ identity as a valid aspect of personhood. It’s what is at play when Pope Francis says “who am I to judge?” about gay priests but calls gay parents a “threat to the family”, and it’s what underlies ridiculous demands that queer congregants live completely celibate lives when no such demand is made of heterosexuals. Tempered acceptance is not acceptance. Embracing queer and trans people into the faith means embracing them as they are, and changing practice to accom-

ANA WEST modate them — not making them transform their lives for outdated doctrine.

As a Christian, I love my faith; I think that it can and should provide spiritual fulfillment and healing for anyone who desires it. But before that can be a reality, there are significant barriers that need to be cleared, and Christian faith communities have to put more work into doing so.

Hanging a pride flag in the window of your church is great, but creating a truly inclusive faith demands work that is much more intensive, challenging, and potentially uncomfortable. This work will be difficult, but it’s worthwhile and necessary if we want the practice of our faith to live up to its ideals.

ANA WEST is a College sophomore from Spring Lake, Mich. studying English. Her email address is anawest@sas.upenn.edu.

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THE OXFORD C’MON | Accepting our flaws doesn’t mean we need to broadcast them For $2.99 on the App Store, you can join the 50 million other users who have downloaded Facetune. You can also join the ranks of celebrities and everyday people accused of presenting a false version of themselves online.

Platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat already encourage posting the best parts of yourself. So how is editing out a stray lock of hair or cinching your waist any less harmful than only posting your spring break pics to Cancun and not your sleepless nights in the library drying your tears with Spanish flashcards? Everybody everywhere publicly posts the parts of themselves they are comfortable with the world seeing, so why are we so opposed to editing these parts even more?

Picture this — you snap a photo with your friends right before a party, and no one can agree on the best photo to post. In the first, one of your best friend’s eyes are closed; in the second, there’s an annoying blur in the background; the third just isn’t your best angle. With Facetune, these minor areas of chagrin can be blurred into non-existence, or manipulated into details you approve. It might sound like I’m being paid to say all of this, but I promise you, I am not a Facetune sponsor. I’m not even a Facetune user. But I do feel strongly that using Facetune isn’t the “catfishing” pit of evil that many seem to think it is.

The insecurity I feel about my body is mine, meaning learning to be comfortable with my appearance is an internal journey.”

I’m no stranger to insecurity. Who is? Often times, I look at a picture of myself and instantly wish I looked thinner. Contrary to my Instagram use, I hate taking pictures of myself.

I don’t like subjecting myself to the comments I know I’ll make when my friend snaps a photo, shows it me, and I focus on only what I’d like to change. Using Facetune or other forms of photo editing to alter an image, to brighten your eyes, smooth out your skin, or tighten your waist to the size it was before lunch, isn’t the problem. Insecurities are personal, and would exist with or without altered images on the internet. Penn students are constantly accused of putting on a “Penn Face,” and to a certain extent, social media accounts are an extension of this same principle. Debunking the allure of Penn Face is brought about by recognizing and accepting our communal lack of perfection.

And, it’s important to keep in mind that just as insecurities are different in everyone, our acceptance of our insecurities are similarly varied. Accept-

ing our flaws doesn’t mean we need or want to broadcast them.

Comparing yourself to others is an unfortunate phenomenon that occurs with both a Facetuned photo and an unedited one. My insecurity over the size of my waist wouldn’t suddenly vanish if I looked at an unedited version of Kim Kardashian’s. The insecurity I feel about my body is mine, meaning learning to be comfortable with my appearance is an internal journey. And yes, it is immensely discouraging to be bombarded with images of models who seem so pictureperfect. But I think it’s important to take responsibility and ownership of our insecurities. I can’t blame Instagram for my self-doubt, so it would be unfair that I demand others not to use editing apps that make them feel better about the pictures they post.

Just like anything else, photo-editing can be taken too far. I encourage everyone to consider why they’re editing a photo when they do so. We all know that blemishes are a natural part of life.

We all know this because we all get zits

and we all know how annoying these breakouts are. But if posting a photo where you’ve retouched your skin so that zit on your forehead can’t be seen makes you feel more confident, who am I to judge? We can change our hair color in real life with wigs or hair dye, so why is doing the same thing on a photo-editing app so frowned upon?

We have a right to put our best face forward. I’m in no way saying you have to edit your photos. In this polarized culture of pro-editing versus antiediting I’m saying that people should not be vilified or cut down for enhancing a photo of themselves just as a makeup and filter-free photo should not be seen as unusual or out of the ordinary. Our online presences are culti-

SOPHIA DUROSE vated and people should be allowed to prune in whatever way they wish.

SOPHIA DUROSE is a College sophomore from Orlando, Fla. studying English. Her email is sdurose@sas.upenn.edu.

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Fourth-year physics Ph.D. students Lucas Secco and Anushrut Sharma, who were both authors of the petition, said the poor temperature regulation in their offices have also affected their health, leading them to develop colds.

Sharma said he measured the humidity levels in his office and found it to be 10 to 15 percent, although normal levels are 30 to

50 percent.

College senior Ali Ghorashi said the short-term response to the petition was adequate, and that there is not much damage left in areas the undergraduate students frequently use, like the Math/Physics/Astronomy Library.

“I think we have to stress long term fixing of DRL, because these sorts of issues recur and then they’re always fixed temporarily, but I think the real test will be if these sorts of repairs last long term,” Ghorashi said.

Even with the long-term solutions in place, students and facul-

ty said the building is still broken down and should be completely rebuilt.

Gonzalez said although she wants DRL to be renovated, she understands the logistics could be expensive and complicated because labs would have to be relocated. College senior Abigail Lee also said she thinks the best fix is for DRL “to be torn down and rebuilt.”

Physics graduate group chair and professor Joshua Klein said an architect was commissioned in 2013 to provide a plan and estimated cost of completely renovating the building. The option

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The petition writers and professors were worried the flooding damage would impact the prospective physics graduate student Visit Day, which took place on March 11. Despite facilities working to remove the frozen pipes and start restorative cleaning before Visit Day, prospective students still mentioned the poor building conditions during their visit.

Klein said prospective students brought up the building conditions on Visit Day, but said he told them that was not a highlight of the physics program.

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As Penn students rush to polish resumes and submit job applications, a student group has created the opposite: antiresumes.

The Signal, a student publication aimed at promoting alternative career paths, launched the Anti-Resume project on March 11. The website features “antiresumesâ€? from recent alumni, which include categories such as “‘Thank you for applying but‌’ jobsâ€? and “Failures that seemed like the end of the world back then but doesn’t matter in hindsight.â€? The profiles also highlight successes that are not typically celebrated, like “Leaps of faithâ€? and “Succulents that survived until senior year.â€?

Student leaders of The Signal said the project aims to destigmatize failure and encourage students to take risks. “The resume is the embodiment of ‘Penn face,’� said Wharton and Engineering junior Qi Linzhi, a co-director of The Signal who developed the idea for the project. “The ‘anti’ part would be working against that to show people that it’s okay to fail, it’s okay to be vulnerable.�

Project co-leader and Wharton junior Sophia Ye said the project is meant to show students that successful people before them have gone through the same struggles. “People fail so often here,� project co-leader and Engineering sophomore Olivia O’Dwyer said. “People coming into Penn were so successful in high school and aren’t used to experiencing and bouncing back from failure.�

The project has so far profiled four recent alumni. One of them, 2018 Wharton graduate Laura Gao, is a co-founder of The Signal and now works as a product manager at Twitter. Members of The Signal said they were surprised when they learned how many times Gao had failed prior to reaching her current position — her anti-resume includes receiving 33 job rejections and sleeping through two final exams and one final round job interview. “Seeing [Gao’s] anti-resume was so enlightening,� O’Dwyer

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said. “It really made me want to take chances even if things don’t work out.�

2015 Engineering graduate and first-year Robotics master’s student Matt Lisle, another profiled alumni, said his definition of success changed when he cofounded Everwaters Inc., a company that sells affordable water filters to Kenyan consumers.

Lisle said as an undergraduate, he defined his success by grades and coursework; however, he came to value interpersonal relationships when he worked with labs, certifiers, and manufacturers in the startup world.

2014 College graduate Gabrielle Piper, who was also profiled, emphasized the importance of being persistent despite failure. Piper, who is also a third-year Penn Law student and second-year master’s student in the School of Social Policy & Practice, said she graduated from Penn without a job offer.

But after she took a summer internship with Edelman, she was hired to join the firm full time despite having been rejected by them earlier. “Recruiters aren’t the same as the people you’ll be working with,� Piper said. “Those people may not want to work with you, but it doesn’t mean the whole company isn’t right for you.�

2018 College graduate and first-year Nonprofit Leadership master’s student Tiffany Yau is the founder of Hult Prize Ivy and FulPhil, two organizations which help university students become involved in social impact. Yau, who is a former beat reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian, highlighted her transition from a pre-med student with a 2.7 GPA in her sophomore fall to the 2019 winner of the Greater Philadelphia Social Innovation Award. “Success in entrepreneurship and anything in life is doing the thing that makes you happy, that keeps you up at night and keeps your heart beating,� Yau said.

Leaders of The Signal said moving forward, they plan to create Anti-Resumes for graduating seniors and recent alumni.

At the end of the year, they will hold a culminating event featuring a panel of speakers who are featured on the project website. “This project is meant to celebrate the intangible characteristics that shape who you are,� Ye said.

Sabrina Qiao was this year’s student recipient SIMONA VIGODNER Contributing Reporter

Over spring break, College senior Sabrina Qiao was holed up in an isolated cottage near Astoria, Oregon working on her creative writing honors thesis.

Qiao was chosen to complete the annual nine-day writer’s residency hosted by English professor Buzz Bissinger and his wife Lisa Smith at their home in the Pacific Northwest. The writers’ residency gives one student each year a chance to travel to Bissinger and Smith’s home and spend a week working on a writing project.

Qiao, a former special issues editor for 34th Street Magazine, used the isolation of the cottage to make progress on a memoir she is writing for her thesis. She spent most of her mornings and afternoons writing before joining her hosts in the evenings for dinner and a cocktail party with writers and artists.

Bissinger started the residency in 2015 in collaboration with Kelly Writers House. A 1976 College graduate and acclaimed author and journalist, Bissinger found that he liked re-engaging with the Penn community when he worked as a Kelly Writers House fellow in the spring of 2014. Wanting to give back further, Bissinger approached Kelly Writers House Faculty Director Al Filreis about starting a writer’s residency.

Since then, Bissinger and Smith have been hosting one student writer each year during spring break. Smith, a documentarian who has worked in news and public radio, said she has enjoyed hosting the residents. “I find each of them to be truly wonderful human beings,� she said. “I think that by being here, we allow them to focus. There is virtually no distraction at all.�

Bissinger said each year, he makes an effort to immerse residents in the artistic community of the Pacific Northwest. �We [try] to introduce

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This year’s resident, Sabrina Qiao (pictured above), used the isolation of the cottage to make progress on her creative writing thesis. She spent most of her days writing before joining her hosts in the evenings.

them to artists in the community because this is a really artistically oriented community centered around Astoria, Oregon,� he said.

The residency is open to any student from any of Penn’s schools and is applicationbased. Filreis said the number of applications has increased over the years, but the commitment to give up spring break self-selects a dedicated and talented pool of applicants.

Bissinger said the residency focuses on providing a space for students rather than formal mentorship. “We don’t read anything they write during the time,�

Bissinger said. “We don’t want anyone to think they have to produce a certain number of pages. This is their time and we’re offering a beautiful and

quiet space.�

Residents are free to work on any type of writing project, and past residents have explored a variety of genres.

2017 College graduate and 2017 writer’s resident Nikhil Venkatesa said the program was crucial in validating his voice as a writer.

Venkatesa, who is from South India, worked on a screenplay that he wanted to resonate with a global audience, so he workshopped the play with Bissinger and Smith to see how an American audience would interpret its cultural elements.

Venkatesa added that meeting independent artists in the community was inspiring to him as someone who wanted to go in that career direction. “This is one of those oppor-

tunities every writer dreams of,� Venkatesa said. “It definitely gave me the confidence and told me this is something I want to do.�

2016 College graduate Alina Grabowski, who is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University Graduate School, was Bissinger’s and Smith’s first resident. During her residency, she wrote a short story which she published and later used in her MFA application. “I think it was just one of the first opportunities to be totally immersed in my own writing,�

Grabowski said of the residency. “Just having someone take your writing that seriously at that age, someone thinks it’s worth it to give you a week to work, was a pretty important vote of confidence.�

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And that’s what you call a bounce-back win.

Three days after suffering its first defeat of the season at the hands of No. 2 Maryland, Penn women’s lacrosse team rebounded to narrowly defeat Duke by a score of 10-9 at Franklin Field on alumni weekend.

The game was as evenly matched as one could imagine: Only seven spots separate the two teams in the NCAA rankings, with Penn (7-1) at No. 8 and Duke (6-2) at No. 15. This was certainly reflected by the scoreline, as neither team was able to establish a lead larger than two goals throughout the game.

Both teams’ determination to win was evident in the first half. Playing physical defense, chances were few and hard to come by. However, the Blue Devils, riding a four-game winning streak, would get on the board first after 10 minutes of play. The Quakers, behind a raucous crowd that turned up on alumni weekend, rallied back to take a 4-2 lead.

At the heart of that run was junior attacker Gabby Rosenzweig, who put up one goal and three assists during that stretch.

Her four total assists bettered that of the entire Duke team, which was one. In fact, Rosenzweig seems to always thrive against the Blue Devils — last season, she scored three goals and assisted on three against them.

“I think Duke is always really good competition,” Rosenzweig said. “They show up with a lot of fight and a lot of heart. A lot of girls who look at Penn [when choosing schools to attend] also look at Duke. It’s just a deep rivalry between us, so I kind of show up every game wanting to, you know, take it to them.”

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weig, calling her a “complete attacker.”

“Sometimes you have people who are really good assisters, but they don’t have the complete game,” Corbett said. “But [Rosenzweig] really does. I think [her assists are] really important, since we have really good cutters. I think she really has a complete game as an attacker, and that’s been helping our team pull out in games.”

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“We started in a zone today and showed really good confidence,” Corbett said. “I thought Duke did a really good job of cutting and moving, and we switched back to [man-to-man], and I thought we also did a pretty good job.”

Penn and Duke both turned the heat up in the second half, but following two yellow cards assessed on the Blue Devils, the Quakers were able to retake the lead with two goals in the space of 20 seconds. After that, it was a back-and-forth affair, with both teams going scoreless for eight minutes until Duke tied the game up at nine apiece with 5:00 to go to set up a nail-biting finale.

Coming out of a timeout,

Penn would execute flawlessly and regain the lead through sophomore attacker Zoe Belodeau. Despite the Quakers then being penalized for a hit on the head, Duke was unable to capitalize and turned the ball over. A shot clock violation by the Quakers gave Duke the final minute of the game to try and force overtime, but the Blue Devils’ high pass into midfield was intercepted under pressure from senior defender Katy Junior, which all but gave Penn the win.

“I thought we made a lot of mental errors today, which kept getting them back in the game,” Corbett said. “But we came through when it counted at the end.”

Looking ahead, the Quakers will host Cornell next Saturday for their second Ivy League game this season. Corbett is looking forward to getting some more practice done after having midweek games for the past three weeks.

“Our offense needs a lot of work,” she said. “We need to make sure our man-up situations are better, that we make the most of our motions.”

Rosenzweig echoed her coach’s thoughts on offensive improvement.

“Chemistry and pushing the ball hard,” she said when asked about the aspects that the team has to work on. “A lot of times we like to slow it down, but I think pushing [helps] because we’ve got a lot of great girls who can get to goal.”

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On alumni weekend, a giant inflatable castle was set up in a corner of Franklin Field for kids to play in and enjoy.

But Penn men’s lacrosse, who were also playing on Franklin Field, seemed to enjoy itself even more. The Quakers used a strong second-half showing to see off Princeton by a score of 19-10 to win their first Ivy League game of the season.

Much of the first period was characterized by loose balls, turnovers, and missed shots. The Red and Blue (3-3, 1-0 Ivy) would finally get on the board with 5:28 to go in the first period when senior attackman Simon Mathias converted on a man-up possession after Princeton (2-4, 0-1) was called for an illegal body check.

Penn picked up from there, and a last-second goal towards the end of the first quarter by sophomore midfielder Mitch Bartolo increased the team’s lead to 4-2.

The scrappiness continued in the second period, with both

lead midway through the period, it would then cough up five consecutive turnovers, which gave the Tigers some momentum to pull within one goal at the half.

Whatever Penn coach Mike Murphy told his team during halftime, it certainly worked. But not so until Princeton scored twice in the first two minutes of the third quarter to go up by a goal. It took Penn a mere eight seconds after that to tie the game at seven apiece, as sophomore attackman Sean Lulley darted all the way into the Princeton area and got the ball past the goalkeeper.

From then on, with 13:28 to go in the third period, the Quakers would embark on a whirlwind 11-1 run that went all the way until the clock read 6:02 in the final period.

During that pivotal run, the Red and Blue were committed on the tackle and sharp with their passes, leaving Princeton with barely any room to breathe. Eight different players scored for Penn, led by junior attackman Adam Goldner.

Finishing with five goals on the night to take his season tally to 21 in six games, Goldner credited his teammates for helping to elevate his game this season.

“Honestly, I think it’s the people I’m around,” he said. “You have guys like Simon Mathias, Sam Handley, Mitch Bartolo, Tyler

Dunn … those guys have done a great job. If I get a shot, I try and put it in the back of the net, but it’s really on those guys to initiate [those chances].”

And just as the sun was climbing down the horizon, the game itself was also done and dusted. The crowd erupted into loud cheers when backup junior goalkeeper Alex Demarco replaced his senior counterpart Reed Junkin, who had a whopping 18 saves on the afternoon, for the last 2:51 of the game.

“The first half was a little out of character,” Murphy said. “At halftime, we talked about trying to play a little faster, which [we did] in the second half. We were also getting [quicker] transition from the defensive end. [Freshman defenseman] BJ Farrare was excellent. We also got some transition points at the faceoff X.” It was a solid start to Ivy League play for the Quakers, who are certainly looking to build on their third-place finish in the League last season.

“I think every game matters now that we’re moving onto Ivy play,” Goldner said. “Having our first Ivy League game as a win is definitely added momentum, but we have to get back on the field on Monday to improve as a team.”

The Red and Blue will look to carry this positive momentum when they continue Ancient Eight play next weekend on the road against Cornell.

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Junior attackman Adam Goldner led Penn men’s lacrosse with five goals in the team’s big victory over Princeton on Saturday. The Red and Blue had put up 19 goals in a home game since 2006.

Even after Ivy Tournament loss, Quakers’ season was still a success THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS

NEW HAVEN, CONN. — How do you measure success?

Hindsight can make the narrative of a season seem obvious from the beginning. When we revisit history, there can be a tendency to pick out quirks or themes we saw in the preseason and elevate them to the status of harbinger.

Under normal circumstances, you compare postseason reflections to preseason expectations.

But when there are a few destinyaltering moments recognized as such even at the time, expectations have to adjust.

That happened this season for Penn men’s basketball: Two injuries even before the season really got underway requires a re-evaluation.

The biggest one, of course, was junior Ryan Betley, last season’s leading scorer. The Quakers missed his presence throughout the season. It was plain to see that star forward AJ Brodeur needed

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McLaughlin’s face when he said it.

This team had NCAA aspirations.

While they will be playing postseason basketball — McLaughlin confirmed that the Quakers will ac-

a sidekick who could reliably relieve his scoring burden. Devon Goodman made huge strides and did his best to fill that role, but it wasn’t enough. The Quakers needed a guard who could create his own offense.

The other injury was to Jelani Williams, who was projected to get big minutes as a highly touted guard. Instead, Williams tore his anterior cruciate ligament for the second year running and was forced to cheer from the bench.

Those injuries fundamentally altered the expectations. The Quakers went from Ivy League title favorites to Ivy League Tournament contenders. Overnight, the best team in the League became the third or fourth.

All that to say: Penn men’s basketball lost in the semifinals of the Ivy League Tournament. This season was still a success.

“If you told me in the spring: ‘We’re going to lose Jelani Williams, lose Ryan Betley, with the schedule that we had, to sweep the Big 5 and battle like we did all year, and then with our backs to the wall, we figure out a way to get here …’”

Coach Steve Donahue didn’t have to complete the thought.

Penn won the Big 5 — and swept the other four teams — for the first time since 2001-02. That’s important, even if winning the city’s pseudo-conference doesn’t earn an NCAA Tournament berth.

No. 17 Villanova hadn’t lost a city game in six years before Penn beat the defending national champions.

The Quakers won multiple games against NCAA Tournament teams, beat a ranked opponent for the first time in 20 years, and beat the first Power Five opponent in 16 years.

None of that matters in terms of getting to the Big Dance, but Penn wasn’t going to compete for a national title anyway. The list of accomplishments shows progress: In an increasingly competitive League, Donahue’s side proved last year’s success wasn’t a fluke.

That’s not to say that the lack of Betley and Williams — not to mention nagging midseason injuries to forwards Max Rothschild and Michael Wang — count as excuses that wipe away all the missed opportunities of a tumultuous Ivy League season.

A team that wins the Big 5 should do better than .500 in Ivy League play. Period.

The success of this season was

a huge learning experience for a team whose best players are now veterans. The contributions from the freshmen and sophomores are the foundation for them to take a step forward next season.

On paper, next season’s squad will be the most talented in years.

Donahue’s first recruiting class will be seniors, and there is depth.

The talent will be heavy at the top: the senior big three of Brodeur, Betley, and Goodman joined by skilled youth in Washington, Wang, and Williams.

The problem is that over the last two years, Penn didn’t win games on paper. It won because of heart and grit, led by a group of players who are leaving the program this summer.

“I’m extremely concerned [about the seniors leaving] because I’ve been through a lot in my career — and I shared this with the guys — when I came back into coaching after that year off, I wanted something special, I wanted purpose for what I do, and those kids bring it,” Donahue said.

“I think we’ve got a lot of players, but all the other things that go with building a team, this might be on the front of my mind going forward.”

This season didn’t go the way anyone planned. That was apparent before it even got a chance to get underway. But we should still consider it a success.

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cept the inevitable WNIT bid — the WNIT was not their goal.

Again, like I did for men’s basketball, I want to take a minute to compare the full body of work over a season to the preseason expectations.

Penn was not expected to seriously contend for the Ivy title. Princeton

and Alarie are just too good, and Penn’s loss of last season’s senior class was too much to overcome.

That thinking was disproven.

The current seniors, Russell and forward Princess Agahyere, stepped up in big ways to fill the

void. Parker’s game improved relatively to last year as well; if it wasn’t for Alarie, she’d be Ivy Player of the Year.

Penn lost only six games this season and won the Ivy title — both unexpected improvements over last year. The loss of those

two seniors will hurt, but the Quakers have already shown they can improve despite losing senior starters.

Optimism for next season won’t make the Red and Blue feel any better.

The Quakers fell tantaliz-

ingly, agonizingly short. That hurts.

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Senior guard Antonio Woods played a vital role in the success that Penn men’s basketball enjoyed this season, including a Big 5 title.

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kind of got wrapped up in the heat of the moment, and if [Princeton] hit a shot, I think it hit our spirit a little bit. We kept trying to fight back, but every time we got an open look, they just weren’t falling, and I think it was a little defeating.”

After starting the evening in an early 8-2 hole, the Quakers battled back with an 8-0 run of its own. Russell, who was aggressive going to the basket all evening, capped the run with an and-one layup to put Penn up 10-8 with 4:50 left in the quarter. Two-time Ivy League Player of the Year Bella Alarie led the way for the Tigers, scoring 11 of her team’s 19 first quarter points. The junior wound up with 25 points, while also making her presence felt on the defensive end with five blocks.

The second quarter began just as the first one did, with the Tigers getting out to another six-point lead. But yet again, the Red and Blue turned the tables, going on a 14-2 run, which included eight points from Russell, and gave Penn a 31-25 lead. After giving up five quick points to end the half, the Quakers entered the locker room with a 31-30 lead.

Penn remained locked in on the defensive end in the second

half, limiting the production of Alarie and the rest of the Tigers’ players. The Red and Blue controlled the glass — winning the battle, 36-29, on the evening — and maintained a slight lead throughout the third and into the fourth period, but they couldn’t get any sort of breathing room.

When junior guard Kendall Grasela hit a tough runner to tie the score at 51 with 6:28 left, it seemed inevitable that the game would come down to the last possession.

“I felt good all the way until they said, ‘Time’s up,’” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “The game was in our hands; they had three offensive rebounds.

We did a good job on the glass, we won the battle on the glass, which is important. We made a few shots over the top of them, which was important. We just didn’t make enough.”

The Quakers’ slow finish on offense was evidence of a larger problem that they had for parts of the contest: moving the ball.

In total, Penn had just three assists in the contest.

On the other side, one particularly clutch play at the end came from an unexpected source in Princeton’s Julia Cunningham. The freshman guard, who hadn’t scored all game, drilled a three ball with 2:19 left to give her team a 58-52 lead.

Still, the Red and Blue had a prime opportunity to get back into the game but could not get their shots to fall in crunch time, as they were outscored 21-7 in the final quarter. A couple of turnovers and difficult shots, along with Princeton hitting its free throws, spelled the end for Penn.

“We were better when we were a little bit in transition for pretty much the whole game until the last eight minutes,” McLaughlin said. “I thought we kind of got out of our flow, and the ball didn’t move as rapidly.

[Sophomore forward] Eleah [Parker] didn’t get out of the post as easily as she did earlier.”

With the loss, Penn will await its fate, as an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, while unlikely, is not completely out of the question for the Quakers.

“I just want to play basketball with this group again,” McLaughlin said. “We got four seniors that want to play, Ashley being one. I want to see her out here, so I’ll play wherever they want to play outside here, we’ll do that as well. But we want to play again, and we deserve to continue to play basketball at the highest level.”

The Quakers will find out whether they make the NCAA Tournament on Monday, and if not, the most likely scenario is a trip to the women’s NIT.

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The leading goalscorer for Penn men’s lacrosse added to his impressive total on Saturday.

Junior attackman Adam Goldner, who had already notched 16 goals on the year, went off for five more in a 1910 drubbing of Princeton.

Goldner showed no fear in taking advantage of scoring opportunities, taking 15 shots.

Second on the team in that category was senior attackman Simon Mathias with only eight.

Persistence pays off, however, as Goldner’s constant barrage on Princeton goalkeeper

Erik Peters helped lead to the Quakers’ offensive explosion.

All told, 19 balls found their way inside the pipes in an important win to open conference play.

Goldner has been a scoring machine throughout his career at Penn, tying for the team lead with 28 goals last season. His performance in the Quakers’ first Ivy League matchup of the year was reminiscent of another five-goal game to deliver the Red and Blue a close win against Virginia when he was a freshman.

Goldner also had a four-goal game against Saint Joseph’s a week ago, meaning that he could be starting a dominant scoring run. His play has been key to Penn’s current threegame winning streak after the Quakers began the year with

three straight losses. The Quakers have put up at least 12 goals in all but one game this season, showing that their offense, led

by Goldner, is what could potentially carry them to an Ancient Eight title.

The Red and Blue were determined to get off to a good start in conference play against a team they tied with in the standings a year ago. Goldner’s offensive explosion provided the team with momentum that proved to be a large factor in the win.

Next weekend, Ivy League play continues for the Quakers against Cornell, a team that finished one slot ahead of Penn last season. Goldner will surely feature on the offensive end once again in Ithaca, N.Y. and throughout the rest of the season.

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NEW HAVEN, CONN. — As they’ve done all year, the Quakers battled until the final buzzer — but on Sunday, it wasn’t quite enough.

Penn women’s basketball lost to Princeton, 65-54, in the Ivy League Tournament title game, a contest that was much closer than the final score indicates.

NEW HAVEN, CONN. — Penn women’s basketball fought and scratched, but couldn’t turn in a performance good enough to get to the NCAA Tournament.

They were right there with Princeton the whole game — they led for most of it. Penn won three of the four quarters, shot over 35 percent from both the field and the floor, outrebounded Princeton by a significant margin, but still lost.

To be clear, the difference was slim. Despite the 11-point margin, the game only got out of hand within the last few minutes, as Princeton pulled away by cashing in on Penn’s desperation fouls.

The difference wasn’t Princeton star and future-WNBA draft pick Bella Alarie, despite her 25 points, and five blocks. It wasn’t even Princeton guard Gabrielle Rush, who scored 18, including four three-pointers. And despite sophomore center Eleah Parker’s 10 points on 23 shots, her lack of scoring wasn’t the problem either.

The problem was Princeton guard Carlie Littlefield. If Alarie and Rush were going to score, Penn needed to make sure nobody else did. Instead, Littlefield poured in 13 points, eight of which came in the fourth quarter to help the Tigers pull away.

The problem was the last six minutes of the game. Penn didn’t make a field goal in the last 6:28. No team who does that wins games.

What was surprising was why they couldn’t score.

I expected Alarie to give Parker trouble down low. What I didn’t expect was Penn having so much trouble passing the ball.

The Quakers finished with only three assists. In the first three quarters, senior guard Ashley Russell’s drives to the rim were enough to keep them in front, but Littlefield’s emergence required something more.

As coach Mike McLaughlin reminded the media at the postgame press conference, Penn is still an Ivy League champion.

That title is given to the regular season winner. Penn has won (or shared) four of those in the past six years.

The reminder rang hollow. You could see the pain in

The teams traded blows throughout the game, as neither was able to get a comfortable lead. The contest came down to execution in the final minutes, and the Tigers (22-9, 12-2 Ivy) made a couple more key plays than Penn (23-6, 12-2) when they needed to most. The Quakers, on the other hand, couldn’t get a basket to go in the final 6:28 of action.

“I just think it was our flow,” senior guard Ashley Russell said about the team’s problems in crunch time. “We

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NEW HAVEN, CONN. — They gave it their best, but at the end of the day it wasn’t enough.

In a hotly contested matchup that came down to the final minute, Penn men’s basketball fell to Harvard, 66-58, in the semifinal of the Ivy League Tournament. The loss marks the end of the Quakers’ season after the team decided to not participate in any of the lesser postseason tournaments.

While the Quakers led for the majority of the game, cold shooting and a slew of turnovers in the final minutes of the game allowed Harvard to pull away for good. The Red and Blue shot just 36 percent from the field in the second half, including 1-for-6 from three, and committed five turnovers in the

final 10 minutes of the game.

“I just thought it was an incredibly hard-fought game,” coach Steve Donahue said. “It’s what this league has been all year.”

Buoyed by several early runs and stingy defense, the Quakers led for much of the first half.

The Red and Blue scored the game’s first seven points, and even opened up a double-digit lead after consecutive baskets from junior forward AJ Brodeur and a three from junior guard Devon Goodman.

But Harvard clawed back each time the Quakers went on a run and were able to tie the game up and eventually overtake the Quakers toward the end of the half. A good chunk of the Crimson’s scoring came from the free throw line; Harvard made nine of their 11 attempts in the first half, while Penn missed their lone attempt in the half. All told, Harvard entered the locker room up 3634.

“It really comes down to how you respond to those big runs,” Brodeur said. “Are you going to sit back and take it and wait it out or are you going do something to try to disrupt their

flow, … make them uncomfortable, try to make the momentum swing in your favor.”

The second half started off much slower, with both teams turning the ball over and missing shots around the rim. Penn took advantage of the sloppy play, pouring in six of their first 12 points off of turnovers.

The Quakers’ quicker start to the half, particularly by Brodeur and Goodman, helped them build a 48-43 lead with just over 10 minutes to play.

But just like in the first half, Harvard hunkered down and pulled out an 8-0 run, punctuated by a wide-open three by freshman Noah Kirkwood after several extra passes, to retake the lead. And even though the Quakers were able to pull even on the following possession with a three from senior guard Antonio Woods, momentum had shifted for good towards Harvard.

“I think that was just the natural flow of the game,” Brodeur said about the backand-forth runs. “They had their chances and we had ours. They were able to capitalize a little bit more down the stretch. It’s

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a game of runs, it always is, especially with teams with so much talent.”

Fouls certainly didn’t help with that momentum. Goodman picked up his fourth foul with seven minutes left to play, while senior forward Max Rothschild played with four from the 8:37 mark until he fouled out with 37 seconds left.

And the free throws that came with fouls made a huge difference – Harvard made eight more free throws on eight more attempts than the Quakers.

“When Devon gets a fourth foul, I thought that was critical,” Donahue said. “He’s such a big part of what we do defensively, and I thought [junior guard Bryce] Aiken hits his one easier shot that he had all day. … That play there was kind of a backbreaker; I wish I didn’t make the call, now in retrospect.”

Harvard opened a four-point lead with seven minutes left to play on consecutive buckets by juniors Bryce Aiken and Justin Bassey, a lead that they would not relinquish for the rest of the game. Aiken finished the game with a team-high 19 points, including 10 of the Crimson’s

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Junior forward AJ Brodeur had a game-high 25 points in Penn men’s basketball’s loss to Harvard in the Ivy Tournament semifinal contest.

last 16 points. Towards the end he seemed to score at will from anywhere on the floor, making both acrobatic layups and contested threes. Perhaps the biggest one came with about six minutes left, where Aiken knocked down an NBA-range three pointer over the outstretched arm of Woods to give

Harvard a six-point lead.

Harvard moved on to the final on Sunday, where it lost to Yale in search of a spot in the NCAA Tournament. As for Penn, the loss bookends an up-and-down year that saw the Quakers take home a Big 5 championship but struggle throughout much of the conference schedule.

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