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Penn prof. faces death threats after poem Kenneth Goldsmith read Michael Brown’s autopsy as a poem at Brown U. COREY STERN Deputy News Editor

For the second time this school year, Penn writing professor Kenneth Goldsmith has made headlines for his

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eccentric work.

Goldsmith, a conceptual poet perhaps best known for his selfdescribed “uncreative writing” and avant-garde outfits, has been the recipient of much criticism after reading Michael Brown’s autopsy report on March 13 at Brown University’s third annual “Interrupt” conference.

Goldsmith received much media

coverage in the fall regarding his class he’s teaching this semester, “Wasting time on The Internet.”

At the conference that focused on digital culture, Goldsmith read a poem titled “The Body of Michael Brown” as Brown’s graduation photo was projected behind him. The poem was simply a copy of the medical examiner’s report on Brown’s autopsy

with some changes to make the medical terms more understandable to the average person and to enhance the “poetic effect.”

After much criticism online and even death threats, Goldsmith took to Facebook on March 15 to clarify his intentions. He explained that the SEE GOLDSMITH PAGE 2

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Van Dyke hired as new women’s soccer coach Former assistant replaces Ambrose after six-week coaching search

Wharton will waive the MBA application fee for top online students BRYN FERGUSON Staff Reporter

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It was difficult to imagine this week becoming even more hectic for Penn Athletics.

But one day after introducing Steve Donahue as its next head basketball coach, the Red and Blue have hired Stanford assistant Nicole Van Dyke to take over the women’s soccer program after a lengthy coaching search.

A former player at Cal State Bakersfield, Van Dyke spent four seasons with the Cardinal as an assistant to head coach Paul Ratcliffe beginning in 2011. Prior to joining the staff at Stanford, Van Dyke was at the helm of her alma mater for five seasons, helping transition the Roadrunners from Division II to Division I. “There was a strong connection and sense of fit with Nicole from our first conversation,” SEE W. SOCCER PAGE 8

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Taking Wharton classes online may not earn Coursera students a degree, but it may draw them to Huntsman Hall.

Wharton has recently expanded its offerings of Massive Open Online Courses on Coursera with the introduction of the Business Foundations Specialization. The program combines the introductory business classes that were released in 2013 with a new

Capstone Project that users complete after successfully finishing the Foundations classes.

The top 50 students will have their application fees to the Wharton MBA program waived and, if accepted into Wharton, the top five students will be granted a $20,000 scholarship.

“We are hoping someday we can have sponsors to increase the size of the grant,” said Managing

Director of the Innovation Group Don Huesman.

The Foundations Series incorporates part of the basic MBA curriculum, including four introductory courses in Financial Accounting, Operations Management, Marketing and Corporate Finance. The Capstone Project was designed in collaboration with the faculty who teach the existing Business Foundations classes on

Coursera. It provides an opportunity for students to apply the skills learned in the classes to solve a real-world businesses problem.

Students may choose to complete the Capstone Project for music identification service Shazam or e-commerce site SnapDeal India, both of which are either operated or owned by SEE WHARTON ONLINE PAGE 2

Guns: A solution to sexual assault?

Some lawmakers push for campus carry laws

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Many members of the Penn Law Community disagree with the idea that the allowance of guns on campus could help fight sexual assault.

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Despite arguments that the allowance of guns on college campuses could help fight sexual assault, members of the Penn Law School community believe weapons on campus only encourage more violence.

This year, lawmakers in 10 states are pushing bills that would permit the carrying of firearms on campus.

Currently, carrying concealed firearms on campus is banned by law or school policy in 41 states, and openly carrying weapons is usually forbidden as well. In Pennsylvania, guns on campus are not forbidden

by state law, though most universities in the state have chosen to ban them. Advocates of the proposed legislation argue that “campus carry” — the ability to carry a concealed weapon on a college campus — would decrease instances of sexual assault.

“If you’ve got a person that’s raped because you wouldn’t let them carry a firearm to defend themselves, I think you’re responsible,” Rep. Dennis K. Baxley (R-Fla.) said in a House subcommittee debate, The New York Times reported.

But some say this misses the point. Susan Sorenson, a senior fellow in public health and an expert in violence prevention, said the theory that women can protect SEE GUNS PAGE 7

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degree.”

Since Gutmann was unable to attend the event in the nation’s capital, she asked the Dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice, John L. Jackson, Jr., to accept the award on her behalf.

“I think that this award was a wonderful example of the wide recognition Penn and President Gutmann receive from other academic institutions for the substantial and innovative investments the University has made in inclusion and access,” Jackson said. “I was encouraged to see so many University representatives there to acknowledge the significance of efforts being made to make academia more inclusive.”

Gutmann also prepared a video for the event in which she shared the story of Nursing sophomore Elizabeth Bautista, the daughter of a Mexican immigrant who had barely left her hometown of

Santa Ana, Calif. before flying cross-country to attend Penn.

Gutmann explained that among her “proudest achievements” as Penn’s president has been providing significant financial aid for the thousands of students like Elizabeth who otherwise would have never been able to come to Penn.

“Elizabeth had everything it takes to be admitted into Penn and we needed to make sure she could afford it — and we did,” Gutmann said. “She says coming to Penn was the best thing that could have happened to her, to which I could only add it was the best thing that could happen to Penn as well.”

In addition to thanking the ACE for honoring her, Gutmann applauded the Penn faculty for their efforts to make a Penn education more accessible for all those who qualify.

“I’m so grateful to be recognized for my part in this effort

[to advance diversity in higher education] and I humbly accept on behalf of my wonderful colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania who join me in making access Penn’s highest priority.”

Across the Atlantic Ocean, several hours before the video played at the Washington Hilton, Gutmann was on stage at the British Library in London to discuss issues related to bioethics in a global context. As the Chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues since 2009 and the Founding Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, she is a leading voice on the subject in the United States.

The Nuffield lecture was presented as a conversation between Gutmann and medical and science writer Geoff Watts, a member of the Nuffield Council. They discussed issues like responding to public health emergencies, bioethics across borders and whether mitochondrial DNA donors should be considered a third parent (Gutmann says no).

Gutmann was asked to elaborate on the role of the Bioethics Commission and what influence President Obama has over it.

“Although we serve at the pleasure of the president and have charges from him, our reports are in our own voice,” Gutmann said, according to British nonprofit, BioNews.

A video of the event is expected to soon appear on the Nuffield Council’s website.

shooting, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and Michael Jackson’s death.

“In the tradition of my previous book ‘Seven American Deaths and Disasters,’ I took a publicly available document from an American tragedy that was witnessed first-hand (in this case by the doctor performing the autopsy) and simply read it,” Goldsmith wrote. “Like

‘Seven American Deaths and Disasters,’ I did not editorialize; I simply read it without commentary or additional editorializing.”

“Perhaps people feel uncomfortable with my uncreative writing, but for me, this is the writing that is able to tell the truth in the strongest and clearest way possible,” he added.

One day later, Goldsmith

again posted on Facebook, requesting that Brown University not release the recording of his performance out of respect for those offended by it. He also said he would be donating his speaker fee from the event to Michael Brown’s family.

“There’s been too much pain for many people around this,” he wrote, “and I do not wish to cause any more.”

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Wharton graduates. Alternatively, they may work on a problem they faced in their own companies or a generic case.

Leading the production and release of the Business Foundations Specialization is Director of Wharton Online Learning Initiatives Anne Trumbore.

Trumbore said that the decision to release the Specialization follows the success Wharton has had on Coursera since it first brought its classes online in 2012.

“Wharton has been very successful with its courses on Coursera,” she said. “We have over 1 million learners. Over 50,000 have completed courses just in the fundamentals, so that was a very successful experiment.”

By creating the Specialization and offering the Capstone Project, Wharton is “breaking new ground,” as a similar project has not been available in an online setting before, Trumbore added.

“It is not perhaps a big deal for you to go to class and have a final project, but for 50,000 people to attempt a final project, that’s a whole different animal,” she said.

Trumbore said that Wharton decided to offer the Specialization option to “identify and attract some of the best students globally” and to “expand our efforts to bring Wharton knowledge to the world.”

Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader, who teaches the Introduction to Marketing class on Coursera, said he has been pleasantly surprised by his experiences teaching an online class.

“I thought it would be just a lot of people with a lot of time on their

hands — students, retirees, people in jail — but I am continually shocked by the quality of the people taking [the class],” he said.

Fader’s marketing classes are now even being streamed on JetBlue and Virgin America flights in response to customer demand.

“The more the merrier,” Fader said.

Fader also added that he believes the creation of the Specialization program “makes a lot of sense” and that “it’s nice to guide the Coursera audience, instead of letting them pick from an overwhelming selection.”

However, Fader did express some misgivings with respect to the new online course options.

“There are all kinds of questions.

What about the price point? Free, then $50 certifications, now higher,” he said.

Even online, Wharton classes are not free. Specifically, each Foundations course costs $95 and the Capstone Project costs $215 to complete. With a Coursera-verified certificate, the complete series costs $595.

However, despite the increased price point, Huesman said that registration for the Specialization has followed expectations, with between 50 to 100 thousand students already registered.

Huesman added that in the near future, Wharton will expand the Capstone Project options to around six new partners.

Although Huesman had originally expected that garnering partnerships would be a “challenge for the staff,” he cited “growing interest” from the companies.

The first class in the series, Introduction to Marketing, will begin on April 6.

President Amy Gutmann has been in high demand this week.

On March 17, Gutmann received the 2015 Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award from the American Council on Education. The award was given at ACE’s 97th annual meeting at the Washington Hilton in Washington D.C. — Gutmann, however, was in London during the meeting, delivering the prestigious annual lecture of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

Gutmann’s honor was first announced in an ACE press release on March 11. The council cited Gutmann’s Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence launched in 2011, as well as her continued advocacy for increased access to higher education as examples of her commitment to diversity at Penn and peer schools.

“It is a privilege to present the 2015 Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award to Amy Gutmann, whose vision and leadership at the University of Pennsylvania and elsewhere has shown her dedication to increasing access to higher education to all students,” ACE President Molly Corbett Broad said in the press release. “She has worked tirelessly to assist students in pursuing their dream of a college

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poem could be considered an extension of his 2013 book, “Seven American Deaths and Disasters,” a compilation of television and radio reports from the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and John Lennon, as well as the Challenger disaster, the Columbine

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FRES responds to Power Down Challenge failure Cold Feb. temperatures did not help the challenge JEFFREY CAREYVA Staff Reporter

It may be disheartening for some students to see that their power down efforts yielded a null result — but Penn recognizes that progress was made toward raising awareness and promoting sustainability.

The results of the 2015 Power Down Challenge held in February show that less than half of the college houses reduced electricity usage throughout the course of the challenge. Facilities and Real Estate Services emphasized however, that the real objective of the Power Down Challenge is not to achieve improved electrical efficiency results, but to heighten student awareness and

involvement in the ongoing project of sustainability at Penn.

“It’s really easy to get caught up on the competition piece of the challenge,” Sustainability Associate Julian Goresko said, “but really, in the end, the goal for us is to teach energy conservation habits and to empower students who are passionate about environmental issues.”

“I think it’s frustrating for students when there is a disconnect between the effort put forth and the result they see, but there’s a big success story too in the amount of student effort,” Goresko said. Eco-Reps in each college house coordinated special power-down events including handing out energy efficient light bulbs and holding pancake brunches and house parties without the lights on. “What we want to see is students getting

creative,” Executive Director of Operations Ken Ogawa added, “and that’s exactly what we saw.”

This particularly cold February did not help the move to power down. The average temperature for February 2015 was approximately 10 degrees lower than that for January 2015. “We use a two week baseline in order to get a representative average of the season’s temperature,” Goresko said.

“Weather definitely plays an important factor,” Goresko added. “We know from survey data that when it is colder, students definitely stay inside more, of course. When trapped inside by a February snowstorm, it can be challenging to avoid using the lights or the microwave.”

“There are a lot of things in a building that use electricity which many people are unaware

of,” Ogawa said. “Something as simple as taking a shower in the high rises uses electricity, because hot water needs to be pumped to the upper floors.”

Although Penn’s heating is steam powered, the distribution of heat in the winter is dependent on electric fans and pumps.

“There’s a lot of hidden factors that even we hadn’t thought of much before in past years,” Ogawa said.

Each year changes are made to the Power Down Challenge, which has expanded and evolved significantly since its inception.

While it is uncertain what improvements will be made to the challenge for 2016, FRES expects the challenge to continue to evolve and adapt.

“Each year, we look at the data and learn a little bit more on how the buildings operate … behind

what students merely see,” Ogawa said.

One big change in the Power Down Challenge’s setup has been the decision to hold it in February instead of November. “We initially moved the challenge to February because of the difficulty of finding a multi-week period in the year when students are on campus without a break,” Goresko said. Several weeks are needed for the challenge in order to market the challenge to students and to monitor a significant amount of time for energy conservation.

“We need time to spin up the challenge, because as soon as we get going, the challenge is over,” Ogawa said.

November was also problematic because of the effects of daylight saving time, and that the heating in many buildings may be

turned on in November.

“We want to focus on things that are more than just a one-off solution to decreasing energy usage,” Ogawa said. Holding a hall party in the dark may reduce electricity consumption now, “but we are looking for ways to sustain that effort even as a new student body comes in,” he added.

“A lot of buildings did not see much of an increase in energy savings this year, because they kept much of the savings from previous years,” Ogawa said. The baseline energy usage for each year becomes less and less as efficiency and sustainability initiatives have their lasting effects.

“There is less room for improvement by means of changing behavior,” he said, “especially as new technologies make buildings more energy efficient before any effort has been made.”

Melartin as new AOD director Melartin replaces Julie Lyzinski Nettleton CLARE CONNAUGHTON Staff Reporter

The University named Noelle Melartin as the new director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives on Tuesday.

Melartin replaces Julie Lyzinski Nettleton, who left the position in November to serve as director of the Office of Student Conduct.

“I am delighted that Noelle will continue to offer her expertise and support to Penn students,” Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs Hikaru Kozuma said in a press release. “She brings a strong, collaborative approach to this important work.”

Melartin previously served as associate director of AOD, where she has worked since 2010.

During her time at AOD she has

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been a member of the Student Intervention Services on-call crisis response team and oversees the “Alcohol: It’s a Science” promotional series which aims to increase students’ understanding of how alcohol affects their bodies.

The Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives

seeks “to reduce harm related to alcohol and other drug use at the University of Pennsylvania,” according to its mission statement.

In addition to offering interventions and overseeing policies, AOD is responsible for educational programming like the Alcohol Module required for all incoming freshmen and the various posters found across campus discouraging risky substance use.

Melartin holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in social work from Columbia University.

“I’m honored to continue my work at Penn and at AOD,” Melartin said in a press release. “I look forward to engaging the campus community in a broader capacity to reduce the risks of alcohol and other drugs while improving student health and wellness and furthering students’ academic and personal development.”

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OPINION Embracing the Penn bubble

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THE DANALYST | What we gain by staying within the Penn bubble

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am terrified of my roommate’s wall calendar. I am scared of the time running out, of my inability to stay a freshman. My friends and I sieve our schedules through countdowns and deadlines.

Two weeks until Easter. Four weeks until Fling. Seven weeks until finals. I procrastinate meeting with my advisor to discuss classes for next semester — I’m barely recovered from midterms, so I don’t want to plunge into the next batch of classes without thinking. The thought of completing a quarter of college feels more like a punishment than an accomplishment. I just want time to stop, to freeze on Locust Walk long enough to enjoy the spring weather and not think about having to leave. I know freshman spring is too early to feel sentimental, but I can’t shake the idea that the existence I’ve crafted at Penn has an expiration date. I’m stuck in a state of premature missing.

A week at home for spring

break got me thinking about what characterizes my time at Penn, what contributes to my, most likely naive, belief in college as a utopia. While academics occupy a large chunk of my time and energy — and rightly so — college

to escape Penn’s boundaries and take advantage of the tourist destination at our fingertips. I love Philadelphia and have made some of my fondest memories this year exploring downtown, but I’m so attached to the environ-

the dining hall, we debate Spanish politics before going over our weekend plans.

That brand of palpable intellectualism would dilute if we weren’t all cramped onto our relatively small campus and if we fled campus borders at

The Penn bubble intensifies our college experience; it pushes us to interact primarily with people who, despite stemming from myriad different backgrounds, go through the same sets of experiences as us.” isn’t solely defined within the classroom. My friends are an integral component of my life here, but the elements of college that thread through my days are less tangible. During break, I missed the people I’ve grown close with, the nooks I’ve found on campus, but I also missed a part of Penn our campus spends a lot of time complaining about: I missed the Penn bubble.

We’ve all heard the urges to get into Center City more,

ment we create on campus.

There’s something beautiful about life surrounded by passionate, driven people. I take for granted that my friends and I can argue about the Supreme Court while walking to the Palestra or discuss philosophy while meandering aroud the Quad. Rushing down Locust on my way to class, I overhear snippets of conversation on everything from Kerouac to Descartes; over ketchup and fries in

every available opportunity.

The Penn bubble intensifies our college experience; it pushes us to interact primarily with people who, despite stemming from myriad different backgrounds, go through the same sets of experiences as us. Those of us who plan on entering the workforce right after graduation might not have an another opportunity to be surrounded by members of the relatively same age group.

The only adults I interact with on a daily basis are bosses and professors; the only time I’m not in the company of someone my age is during the rare shifts at my job that don’t overlap with other work-study students. We create an unrealistic, idealistic world where the most taxing items on my to-do list involve analyzing political structures or contemplating literary theory. I live in a dorm with some of the most brilliant, accomplished kids I’ve ever met, and still, sometimes none of us can get the damn microwave to work. We live in messy contradictions, bitesized stories to trade with each other about our spring breaks or our last weekends or that one BYO karaoke that got too out of hand.

When the main stretch of campus gets too much for me, I plop down in Penn Park — sometimes with a book, sometimes with just myself.

I sit on the plot of grass that looks like it could belong on any college campus, especially more rural ones. I catch my

DANI BLUM breath, I stop parsing through my planner or overanalyzing (Danalyzing?) the minutia in my life. Then I pick myself up, head back down Locust and pass the LOVE statue.

Penn is a lot to handle.

The Penn bubble, even more so.

But I wouldn’t have it any other way.

DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” appears every Thursday.

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Dialogue won’t stop BDS

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f the long-rumored Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel comes to Penn this semester, you will only be asked one question: Which side are you on? BDS reduces the conversation on Israel and Palestine to a stark dichotomy: Are you “pro-Israel” or “pro-Palestine?” As the chair of J Street U Penn, I believe that being pro-peace requires approaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with far more nuance.

Thus, while I do not support the decades-old Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, I stand with other pro-Israel leaders on campus in opposing BDS. BDS makes the work of ending the occupation and achieving a twostate solution more difficult.

Its divisive and one-sided narrative alienates many allies seeking a just solution to the conflict that achieves peace and statehood for both Israelis and Palestinians.

This year, BDS resolu-

GUEST COLUMN BY LIZA BERNSTEIN tions passed at Northwestern and Stanford. If Penn is going to counter BDS effectively, then we must learn from the lessons of other schools.

Students at Northwestern failed to defeat BDS in part

not let ourselves fall into the same trap.

Providing an alternative to BDS means acting in support of two truths. First: that Israel has a right to exist as a secure state and homeland for

moral character.

While many groups assign absolute blame to one side or another, Think Peace — a newly established group at Penn comprised of pro-Israel advocates and other cam-

… I believe that being pro-peace requires approaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with far more nuance. Thus, while I do not support the decades-old Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, I stand with other pro-Israel leaders on campus in opposing BDS.“ because their “Coalition for Peace” did not offer a true alternative to divestment.

Student leaders were given the difficult choice of either supporting BDS or joining a coalition which tacitly supported the occupation by ignoring Israel’s actions in the West Bank. Unsurprisingly, empty rhetoric supporting “peace” was not enough to defeat BDS. At Penn, we can-

the Jewish people. Second: that its existence and security, along with the rights of millions of Palestinians, are undermined by the ongoing occupation. As a supporter of Israel, I strongly believe in its right to exist as a refuge for the Jewish people and a manifestation of Jewish selfdetermination. But I recognize that the occupation of Palestine is a stain on Israel’s

pus leaders — offers a space for discussion and open dialogue; for this, it should be commended. But we have to ask — ­ when it comes to helping Israelis and Palestinians, is dialogue enough?

Supporting Israel means holding true to my values. It means supporting democracy, equality and human rights in Israel. Yet, the disenfranchisement of millions of Pal-

estinians under Israeli control is not democracy. Restricting where they can travel and where they can live is not equality. The imprisonment of Palestinians without trial is not human rights. When the Think Peace Coalition refuses to address these issues in its mission statement or in any of its statements or actions, it abandons these values and perpetuates a destructive status quo.

It also weakens Penn’s fight against BDS. I’m ready to fight BDS, but I know this fight risks failure if Think Peace refuses to offer a constructive and proactive alternative to divestment. When Think Peace calls for a twostate solution, it needs to reaffirm that this solution will be based on pre-1967 borders with mutually agreed upon land swaps and a shared Jerusalem as a capital — the compromises needed to make two states a reality. It needs to assert opposition to settlement expansion and publi-

cize support for maintaining a democratic Israel alongside an independent Palestinian state.

If Think Peace continues to fail to present a viable alternative to divestment by ignoring the realities of the conflict, then we risk joining the Stanford and Northwestern coalitions that chose to ignore these principles in favor of empty words and now must grapple with the consequences of divestment passing on their campuses.

It is up to us to choose to act on these values of democracy and justice. I invite you to work with me and with J Street U Penn in working towards a two-state solution and real peace.

LIZA BERNSTEIN is a College sophomore from North Miami Beach, Fla., studying MMES. Her email address is lizabe@sas. upenn.edu.

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Donald Trump eyes 2016 presidential bid

Academic publishing in a digital age

This is the fourth time he has expressed interest

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LAUREN FEINER City News Editor

With the digital age driving academic publications online, faculty members and researchers face a changing landscape.

Academic journals, which began life as print, have become increasingly relevant online to both researchers and readers.

Online content, which is published at a faster rate, can affect the tenure decisions and the amount of information accessible to students.

“For scientists, a lot of publishing happens online now, so you don’t have to wait for something to come out. People put their stuff on these preprint archives right away,” Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Dennis DeTurck said. “In a way, the journal process has become an archival process.”

While graduate student Michael Edwards said that for older sources he “relies very heavily on print material,” he admits that “a lot of the times, the journals themselves are online,” and new research is often online longbefore publications are released in print.

But backlogs — collections of content that are accessible online but have yet to be physically printed — lead to their own

Wharton School ‘68 alumnus Donald Trump believes that he is “the only one who can make America truly great again,” according to a statement announcing his creation of an exploratory committee for the 2016 presidential election. The high-profile real estate investor and coproducer and host of the NBC show “The Apprentice” has previously expressed interest in the presidency three times since 1999.

This time, Trump says he is more invested in the possibility of candidacy than ever, though he also made this claim in 2011. He said in the statement that he has hired staff in key primary states, including New Hampshire, South Carolina and Iowa, in addition to his current political advisors in New York.

Last month, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, Trump responded to speculation that he is only expressing interest in the presidency to increase recognition for his businesses. “I’m not doing this for fun,” he said. “I’m doing this because we have to take our country back.”

But even if he chooses to run, a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll suggests he will not have the backing of his own party. About three-quarters of Republican primary voters said they could not envision themselves voting

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Trump has supported some policies that are popularly opposed by most conservatives.

In the past, he’s favored federal single-payer healthcare and a 14.25 percent net worth tax on citizens valued at over $10 million to make up for the federal debt.

In his statement on March 18, Trump cited his business success and debt management, and said he would focus on job creation by hardening policies toward China, which he said manipulates its currency.

Trump’s special counsel, Michael Cohen, told Time Magazine that Trump has not yet renewed his contract for “The Celebrity Apprentice” and has travel plans for the next three months to speak in primary states. Cohen said details on the exploratory committee will soon be available.

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problems. Academic papers are typically published online prior to running in print, creating a longer waiting period for new submissions to be published.

“There are a lot of people out there, and journals get longer and longer backlogs,” DeTurck said.

Backlogs may make it more difficult for researchers to

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publish their work in the highest-ranked journals, although publication in these journals is a part of tenure evaluations.

“The definition of tenure at a place like Penn, on the research side, is that you have to be reasonably well known in your field and the way we assess that is by getting letters from external

referees,” DeTurck said. “But in the case of a younger scholar, how are you going to evaluate them?”

DeTurck went on to explain that while larger backlogs in prestigious journals may make it harder to be published, scholars have other avenues to becoming well-known in their field.

He mentioned that some Penn faculty members, such as linguistics professor Mark Liberman, have significant followings on their blogs — although informal online publications are often harder to rank “when the time comes for tenure or promotion.”

This shift may not be a badomen for academia, though.

With online content easily accessible, the archaic pecking order of journals becomes only one part of academic prestige, DeTurck said, adding that tenure decisions have, in some ways, “become more egalitarian” as online journals and other avenues offer more exposure to scholars who might not have access to traditional routes of publishing.

“It’s a challenge for the journals on the one hand, but you know whats going on everywhere all the time. It opens up doors for collaborations that wouldn’t exist otherwise,” DeTurck said.

“A graduate student has the same access as a professor at Harvard.”

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For students who do not know where to call when they experience mental health issues, the Undergraduate Assembly’s new Wellness Guide will help them figure out the right number to dial.

On March 17, the UA published its Wellness Guide, a compilation of 14 mental wellness centers on campus accessible to students.

The guide includes introductions to those centers, contact information of main staff members and testimonials from students who have used the centers before.

Included with the 20-page guide is a one-page information sheet that lists the locations and phone numbers of the 14 centers featured in the guide, along with four others.

Social Justice Committee Director and College junior Jane Meyer mentioned that the guide will be mass producedand distributed near the end of April, since that will be the time when most people are gearing for finals and dealing with rising academic pressure.

UA President and College senior Joyce Kim said the aim of the guide is to resolve Penn’s decentralized mental well-being resources. “Penn has a lot of resources that can help students with mental wellness, but a lot of students don’t know how to utilize them, so we try to pull them together in a guide and present them to students,” she said.

The guide also features academic resources such as the

Critical Writing Center, the Tutoring Center and Weingarten Learning Resources Center.

“Mental wellness is holistic. Academic stress is a big problem, so we decided to include those as well,” Kim said.

The process to create the guide, Kim said, started a year ago when she was the Social Justice Committee Director of the UA. The committee decided that they needed to respond to the pressing issue of student mental health, following the string of student suicides that rocked Penn’s campus.

“We have to make sure the information is correct and accurate, so that took a lot time. It was also hard to coordinate because we wanted to include so many centers,” Kim said.

Meyer added that mental wellness extends beyond just mental health. “At Penn we have CAPS [Counseling and Psychological Services] who are the professionals, but sometimes you just want support from your peers and the community you are in,” she said.

“So we included those centers that you can talk to fellow students and community leaders.”

Student Life Committee Director and College sophomore Daniel Kahana said they tried to understand individual differences when it comes to mental wellness. “We know that there are people from different backgrounds and different communities. Everyone has different needs in mental wellness and we try to build on that,” he said.

Kim said the UA is working with the New Student Orientation office to have the one-pager distributed to new students in the fall.

The office will also refer to this guide in several NSO programs.

The UA mobile application will also have the guide installed. “We want to go digital, since nowadays most people look at their phones and computers more often,” Kim said.

“We want students to know that there are people out there to help them,” Kahana said. “It took a lot of time, and the UA underwent so many changes and transitions.

I’m glad that we didn’t let it slip through our fingers.”

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themselves from sexual assault by carrying firearms perpetuates the myth that rapes occur by an unknown perpetrator.

“Most sexual assaults, particularly on college campuses, occur between one person and someone else who she knows,” she said.

“One’s reaction when you know someone is not necessarily to pull a gun on them.”

Penn’s official policy regarding the possession of dangerous weapons — including firearms, ammunition and explosives — states that faculty, students, staff, visitors and members of the University community may not possess or use any of these weapons in University buildings or on University property, regardless of whether they have a state license. Violators are subject to disciplinary action from the University and civil or criminal action under the discretion of Penn Police. Authorized Penn Police officers are exempt from the policy.

The Times reported that surveys indicate administrators, faculty and students generally oppose the idea of campus carry laws.

Sorenson said that the most frequent circumstances of sexual assault on college campuses are

PENN POLICE JOIN PROCESSION FOR FALLEN OFFICER ROBERT WILSON III Philadelphia police, including Penn Police, joined together in a motorcade in honor of fallen Philadelphia Police Officer Robert Wilson III, who was killed after being shot at a North Philadelphia GameStop during an attempted robbery last Thursday.

“Any time a police officer is killed in the line of duty it really impacts whole law enforcement community,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. “This is one small sign of respect and sorrow police officers across the city will give to the fallen officer.”

FOLLOWING LACED DRUG OVERDOSES AT WESLEYAN, A LOOK AT DRUG SAFETY AT PENN After Wesleyan University saw 10 students suffer from overdoses of laced MDMA, concern about the purity of illegal drugs and the responsibility of the administration took a front seat at college campuses.

Several drug users from across campus shared their go-to methods of testing drugs, from “try it before you buy it” to rubbing cocaine along the gum line to test for purity.

Per Penn’s drug policy, all University students are expected to comply with local, state and federal laws whether on or off-campus — but while College House staff must comply with University policy, they do not monitor individual students.

In collaboration with the Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor Program, Students for Sensible Drug Policy will organize a harm-reduction policy speaker panel during Spring Fling pass out bags containing educational materials about different drugs, such as alcohol, marijuana and MDMA, as well as information on resources available to students who wish to know more about the drugs they are taking.

WHARTON COHORTS PROGRAM REDUCED TO TWO YEARS

Wharton’s Department of Student Life decided to cut the cohort program, which previously lasted for all four years of a student’s time at Penn, to include only freshmen and sophomores. A junior and senior advisory board will be implemented to give the Department of Student Life staff ideas and suggestions for junior and senior programming.

The decision to cut the program followed extensive department surveys of sophomores through seniors and multiple focus groups and discussions, which found that the program was most beneficial for underclassmen. “[The change] allows us to really understand the needs of the students by class year,” Director of Student Life at Wharton Lee Kramer said.

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not compatible with armed selfdefense. “It doesn’t jive with reality,” Sorenson said. “You certainly would not be likely to have a gun handy at a fraternity party, and if you are, that’s not necessarily a good idea because there is a lot of drinking going on.”

A report on alcohol and sexual assault published by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism says that approximately one half of all cases of sexual assault involve alcohol consumption by the perpetrator, victim or both. Lowered inhibitions and impaired judgement due to alcohol consumption increase the risk of sexual assault, as well as the danger of accidental shootings.

“In circumstances that come in every day — going to class or going out — people get shot accidentally all the time,” said Penn Law professor Kermit Roosevelt, who specializes in Second Amendment law. “The number of fights that turn into accidental shootings is going to overwhelm any safety benefit that you get.”

Roosevelt instead credits national campus carry support to National Rifle Association lobbyists in Washington. “There’s a very well-organized and powerful political lobbyist at work here — the NRA,” he said. “This is an issue that, nationally, people feel passionate about.”

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Improvements may soon be coming to the College’s peer advisor program.

While upperclassmen advisors relish the opportunity to help younger students, some feel that their helping hand is not always reached for. They would like to see improvements in the program that encourage additional interaction throughout the school year.

“I think it’s important to remember to give back to communities that have given to you, and I wanted to be able to provide my freshmen with the same open arms that I received when I first came to Penn,” College sophomore Lindsay Fisher said. “It’s really rewarding when I see a freshman from my peer advising group and they tell me about things that I was able to help them with.”

However, Fisher was disappointed that it seemed her responsibilities ended with the end of NSO. Of her 19 advisees, she says she was only able to develop a relationship with about three or four of them.

“I think the advising program should emphasize to both tutors and tutees that peer advisors are resources that can extend through the entire year and the years to come,” she said. “Peer advising should go beyond just a low-commitment resume booster to instead make an impact on freshmen college experiences.”

Mikie Sakanaka, also a College sophomore, wanted to be able to help incoming freshmen explore as much of Penn as she did in her first year here. She too, struggled to keep in contact with all of her

advisees.

“It’s very hard as an advisor to get many of your advisees involved,” Sakanaka said. “There were some students who called me or emailed me a lot over the summer and the first few weeks, who I feel I was able to form a relationship with, and others who I only saw once or twice during NSO.” Current advisors realize how much influence they can have with their advisees. Some even decided to become peer advisors simply because theirs had been such formative parts of their college experience. Many advisors want to make sure other students are taking full advantage of their resources.

“I know how important it was for me to have an upperclassman I could trust on campus, and I hoped to be that person for someone else,” College sophomore and peer advisor Samantha Rahmin said.

Rahmin is still close friends with her peer advisor, whom she had met over the summer before arriving at Penn. While she has been able to create similar bonds with some of her advisees, she feels that not all of them were looking to her for guidance.

“I feel that I have built a strong relationship with some of my peer advisees but others are not looking for a strong relationship,” she said.

“I hope they know I am there for them, and I hope I can support them in a way they like.”

Susan Hassett, organizer of the College’s peer advisor program, is working on improvements for next year to strengthen the ties between freshmen and their peer advisors.

“We are seeking to create a stronger sense of community within the whole peer advisor program,” she said. “We are looking to grow opportunities for the peer

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Though improvements are on the horizon, Sakanaka believes that the peer advising program is already invaluable to those who make the most of it.

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Spring is in the air at Penn. With the warmer weather and impending fun that comes with the arrival of spring on campus, everyone is anticipating an eventful final few weeks of the semester.

And for Penn men’s tennis, spring means the arrival of the all-important outdoor season.

After a disappointing 7-14 2014 spring campaign, including a sixth place finish in the Ivy League (2-5), their Red and Blue hope to build off of promising fall tournament results and a fantastic start to the spring season.

In fact, the Quakers (12-3) find themselves in the midst of one of the best starts in recent memory, reaching the highest Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) ranking in school history — No. 39 — after shocking the then-No. 16 Penn State in February on the road.

One of the big reasons for that

success is the Red and Blue’s young crop of talent. “We have a couple freshmen that have really contributed a lot, and some of the older guys are having their best years ever,� coach David Geatz said. “I think the biggest factor though is that we have a bunch of really good players and they practice really hard.�

One of the young players contributing the most has been freshman Nicolas Podesta. After starting the season undefeated in six matches at the number one singles position and 3-1 at first doubles with his partner, senior Jeremy Court, Podesta has cemented himself at the top of the Red and Blue’s roster.

Another freshman, Josh Pompan, has anchored the heart of the Quakers’ lineup, fighting his way to a 5-2 singles record.

However, Penn\ has had to deal

with their top players being sidelined by illness and injury. The Quakers’ top two singles players, Podesta and junior captain Vim De Alwis, missed every match on the team’s spring break trip out west because of a virus and a meniscus injury respectively, resulting in tough losses to UT Arlington and No. 45 New Mexico.

Sophomore top-six singles player Marshall Sharp has also missed Penn’s last two matches with a hip flexor injury. “If you take out any team’s top two players and another starter, they are going to struggle,� Geatz said. “And we did.�

After their first outdoor matches against Georgetown and Temple wrap up this weekend, the Quakers will be transitioning into the most important, and seemingly most difficult, stretch of their season: Ivy League play. Seven of the final eight matches for the Red and Blue this season will be against teams from the Ancient Eight, six of which are currently ranked higher than Penn in the ITA standings.

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academic background will serve her well at Penn.�

Van Dyke takes over six weeks after former coach Darren Ambrose’s departure from the program. After 15 seasons at the helm, Ambrose left the Quakers in January for the same position at Vanderbilt, sending shockwaves through the program. “Leaving Penn is the most difficult decision I have had to make to this point in my life,� Ambrose said in a press release at the time of his resignation. “The student-athletes, the coaches and the administration have been a major part of my life, both professionally and personally, for the past 15 years.

“I will leave behind a huge part of me as I make the transition. Penn and its athletic department will always hold a very special place in my heart.�

Throughout Ambrose’s tenure, the Quakers were consistently competitive in the Ivy League, winning the program’s only Ancient Eight titles under him — in 2001, 2007 and 2010 As the Red and Blue move forward, Van Dyke is excited about the opportunity to bring Penn back to the NCAA Tournament. “They have done some incredible things in the past, and some great players have come through there,� Van Dyke said. “I feel like

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defensive eight battled through 60 exhausting minutes of play against one of the nation’s most productive offensive duos in freshman Megan Whittle and junior Taylor Cummings, who combine for 51 goals this season.

Each of the two Terps recorded a hat trick against Penn, with the freshman scoring four and the junior netting three.

While the final score was not in the Quakers’ favor, Corbett believes her team proved themselves on Wednesday - both to its upcoming Ivy opponents and to the rest of the nation. “To play defense for as long as we did against a top scoring Maryland team I think it shows that we have one of the best defenses in the country,� she said.

Despite Wednesday’s loss, the Quakers are poised to bounce back relatively quickly this weekend. In the midst of a stretch in which they play four of its five games at home, Penn will host Dartmouth at Franklin Field on Saturday.

Unlike the Red and Blue’s stout defense, the Big Green (0-5) have struggled to contain their

opponents throughout the first month of the season. Dartmouth has are giving up an average of 14.8 scores per contest and are coming off a 19-11 loss to Vermont in Hanover on Wednesday.

That could spell danger for the Big Green. The Quakers’ potent offense has already scored more than 12 goals in four of its seven games in 2015 after accomplishing that feat only twice last season. “We’re putting this loss behind us and looking ahead to Dartmouth,� Corbett said. “Dartmouth is always a strong team and I think that in Ivy League play anything can happen.

Last season, then-ninth-ranked Penn had no trouble dispatching of Dartmouth in a 10-6 victory.

To add to the Red and Blue’s confidence heading into Saturday’s game, the Quakers have lost to the Big Green only twice in their past 11 matches. “If we can play the way we played [against Maryland], we’ll be fine,� Corbett said. “But we have to play Dartmouth like we’re playing Maryland, mentally coming in with that focus.�

Brooks Martino is the only grappler without NCAA experience amongst the bunch.

Martino, who was an automatic qualifier after his solid sixthplace performance in a tough EIWA tournament, is unseeded at 157 pounds.

Canaan Bethea — the EIWA runner-up at 197 pounds — is also unseeded, but will enter the tournament with high expectations after his takedown of Princeton’s Abraham Ayala.

However, the two biggest storylines for the Quakers are — as they’ve been all season — the All-American pursuits of 149-pounder C.J. Cobb and 184-pounder Lorenzo Thomas.

Thomas, who yet again fell to Cornell’s Gabe Dean at the EIWA tournament, is on the other side of the bracket from his longtime foe, but a second-round rematch with second-seeded Max Thomusseit of Pittsburgh lies in the more immediate

future. The two faced off in the Keystone Classic final where Thomusseit dropped Thomas, 5-3, in a grueling match.

Thomas faces a tough road if he is to reclaim All-American honors, and an early loss at the hands of Thomusseit would only add to the difficulty. Last year, it was in the consolation bracket that Thomas fought his way to the podium, but the wrestlebacks are never an easy hill to climb.

Cobb was Penn’s hottest wrestler heading into EIWAs, but after being upset twice, he needed an at-large bid to enter the NCAA field. He still snagged the No. 13 seed, but the ambitious senior is undoubtedly aiming for a top-eight finish.

This weekend, the Quakers head to the Scottrade Center packing heat, but it may also take a little bit of luck if they want to make it through the tournament and finish on top.

had netted five goals, bringing the score to 5-2 at the half.

However, simply focusing on Maryland’s dominance does not tell the whole story. For what Penn lacked in possession time Corbett estimated that her squad was on defense for five-sixths of regulation - it made up for in efficiency. In the second half, the Red and Blue found the back of the net in five of their seven attempts. “I think that if we had more possessions it would have been a closer game,� Corbett said.

That being said, a major reason why the score remained as close as it did was Penn’s stalwart defense. Senior goalie Lucy Ferguson in particular was phenomenal in the net for the Quakers, finishing the night with 15 saves - 11 of which came in the first half alone. “I think this was the best game of the season for her,� Corbett said.

No doubt, Ferguson got by with a little help from her friends in the backfield. The Quakers’

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and Pac-12 success, Van Dyke established herself as a top-notch recruiter. The Cardinal’s incoming group of freshmen is the highestranked recruiting class in the nation after having showcased midfielder Andi Sullivan, the National Freshman of the Year, in 2014.

Although leading the Red and Blue will be her first coaching job outside the state of California, Van Dyke recognizes the positive similarities between Stanford and Penn. “Penn is an amazing and prestigious academic institution, and I really do enjoy working with the true student-athlete,� Van Dyke said. “It has a lot of parallels to Stanford in that sense and I think that the commitment and drive that they have in the classroom is no different than what they have on the soccer field. “I hope to motivate them in that direction, and hopefully we have a fun journey.�

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Van Dyke is no stranger to playing in the postseason. The Cardinal made the NCAA College Cup in three of her four seasons in Palo Alto, the highlight of which came in her first year with the team in 2011 when Stanford won its firstever national championship. The squad also won 86.6 percent of its games during her time with the Cardinal.

Prior to assuming control at Cal State Bakersfield, Van Dyke was the head coach at Division II’s Cal State Stanislaus, taking over the program when she was only 23 years old.

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As the temperatures rise, so will the pressure on the Red and Blue.

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Penn men’s tennis missed injured junior captain Vim de Alwis dearly over spring break. The Red and Blue will now look to bounce back from a couple tough losses in their outdoor season opener.

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Now, with five wrestlers heading to the year’s culminating tournament in St. Louis, the Quakers are poised to finish the year strong.

At 133 pounds, sophomore Caleb Richardson returns to wrestling’s biggest stage for the second consecutive year. While he failed to win a match at last year’s tournament, his 10-2 EIWA record and two top-20 victories are signs that he could do some damage in his second go-around at NCAA’s.

Richardson was forced to forfeit his final two matches at EIWAs, which resulted in an eighth-place finish. However, his successful season earned him an at-large bid to St. Louis, showing that the selection committee felt his EIWA performance was not indicative of his potential.

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Second baseman Mitch Montaldo had a solid day at the dish for the Red and Blue but also had a crucial error in Penn’s nightmare fourth inning.

The road has not been kind to Penn baseball thus far this season, and a return home was not the antidote that the Red and Blue had hoped for.

The Quakers fell, 9-4, to Villanova on Wednesday in their 2015 home opener and first game in the Liberty Bell Classic. The loss puts Penn at 1-8 on the season, having dropped seven consecutive contests since its 7-4 win over Stetson on March 1.

While the game was competitive early, the Quakers were derailed in a nightmare fifth inning that saw seven Villanova runners cross the plate, turning a 1-1 game into an 8-1 blowout in a matter of three outs.

Through four innings, sophomore starting pitcher Mitchell Hammonds had six strikeouts for

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COLIN HENDERSON Sports Editor

The first week since spring break has seen the sun break through its winter haze, lighting up Penn’s campus with a newfound radiance.

Similarly, Penn track and field will look to jumpstart its run toward a breakthrough season this Saturday when it opens up its outdoor season at home for Franklin Field’s Philadelphia College Classic.

The Red and Blue will take on local competition in a low-key home atmosphere, a preamble to the larger meet action that will be in store in only a few short weeks.

The majority of the Quakers’ top athletes last competed in indoor Heptagonals, where the men’s squad earned a fourthplace finish in the Ivies and the women’s team finished seventh.

There is no doubt that the outdoor season is the more marquee of the program’s two seasons, but the teams’ respective results at indoor Heps are significant in that they are indicative of a larger trend in the program. Both teams have shown progress and individual spurts of excellence, but have not yet been able to establish themselves as complete enough to compete for an Ivy championship.

If the Red and Blue are to take this next step, the program’s top performers will obviously need to step up. This group includes many familiar names: juniors Thomas Awad and Sam Mattis and sophomore Cleo Whiting will all factor heavily in Penn’s outdoor aspirations.

For Penn to move forward, its youngsters will also need to step up in a big way; the Red

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the Red and Blue and allowed only one hit, a fourth-inning solo home run by leftfielder Adam Goss. In the fifth, though, he allowed the first three Wildcats to bat to reach base, with two scoring, before coach John Yurkow pulled him for senior relief pitcher Dan Gautieri. The righthander walked Villanova catcher Zander Retamar before logging the inning’s first out on a failed bunt attempt.

Gautieri proceeded to walk centerfielder Donovan May, which loaded the bases for Villanova with one out. Then, he forced a potential double-play ball from Goss, on which the Quakers forced the out at second base before a throwing error by second baseman Ryan Mincher allowed a second Villanova run to score on the play, making the score

5-1.

With four runs already in the inning, Gautieri walked the next two batters before Yurkow relieved him for junior right-hander Mitch Holtz. The Red and Blue got out of the inning only after three more runs scored, two because of an error from senior shortstop Mitch Montaldo. In total, the fifth inning alone had five walks and two infield errors.

“We haven’t done a good job just minimizing,” Yurkow said. “I can live with it if we’re getting hit, and teams are scoring, but it’s frustrating.

Right now, they way we’re playing, I’m not worried about the opponent because we’re beating ourselves.”

The Quakers had the chance to close the gap later in the game, but failed to string together more than one.

In the bottom of the sixth, Montaldo reached base on a leadoff walk and advanced two bases thanks to balks by Villanova’s Kagan Richardson before scoring on an RBI single from junior right fielder Adam Greskoff.

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“These freshman now, they’ve played enough they’re not [playing like] freshman now,” McLaughlin said of his young players. “They’re experienced.

I’m comfortable with where we sit today.”

Regardless, Hofstra (20-12) poses a number of challenges for Penn.

The Pride finished just six points away from an NCAA Tournament berth, losing, 62-56, to James Madison in the CAA Championship game after finishing third in the conference during the regular season.

Two underclassmen guards — sophomore Kelly Loftus and freshman Ashunae Durant — lead the team in scoring with 12.2 and 11.2 points per game

respectively. However, the team has struggled to shoot the ball from deep, hitting just 26.7% of its three-point attempts.

“We’re looking at an athletic group of guards. Loftus can really shoot the three and they can really offensive rebound,” McLaughlin said. “The three keys for us are to limit the open court turnovers, rebound the basketball on both ends and be able to execute on dead ball situations.”

In the frontcourt, Penn will have to handle sophomore forwards Elo Edeferioka and Anjie White, who stand 6-foot-3 and 6-foot-2 respectively. Penn will shift around its frontcourt rotation slightly to limit Bonenberger’s minutes as she recovers from a knee injury suffered against Princeton.

“We’re just going to play Kara as long as Kara can go. We’re

In the eighth, Montaldo again led off, this time with a single to left field. Greskoff singled, followed by a walk from senior third baseman Jeff McGarry that loaded the bases for the Red and Blue with no outs.

Sophomore catcher Tim Graul, slotted as the designated hitter, hit a long fly ball to left field that lost steam at the warning track and was instead a long sacrifice fly.

The Quakers look forward to a long stretch of games in Philadelphia, with their next 10 games happening in the city. Nine of the 10 will be at Meiklejohn Stadium, with the exception of March 24’s contest against Saint Joseph’s at Citizens Bank Park, home of the Phillies.

Yurkow believes this stretch might help his team get back on its feet.

“We’re built to play at Meiklejohn, so I’m hoping that favors us over the next few weeks,” Yurkow said. “[And] we were in the same situation last year, and we rallied.”

The homestand begins with a four-game set against Lafayette this weekend.

going to bounce everything off her. If she feels good, she’s going to go.” McLaughlin said.

“Katy Allen will be good [filling in those minutes]. It opens things up a spot ... for Sade [Gibbons] to play a bigger role.”

Even with Bonenberger limited, the Quakers figure to continue to run their offense through forwards Sydney Stipanovich and Michelle Nwokedi as they have down the stretch. The pair combined to average 23.0 points and 15.0 rebounds in the team’s conference schedule, commonly referred to as the 14-game tournament.

“Now we’re in a win-or-gohome type situation. I think it’s a good thing. We play that in our league. Every game is that important,” McLaughlin said.

“They’re excited. They just want to get out there.”

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Sophomore runner Cleo Whiting is part of a group of veteran Penn performers who will look to lead the program to a breakthrough season.

and Blue saw some good signs that they can expect just that throughout the indoor season.

Both the men’s and women’s squads featured freshmen who stepped up during indoor competition. Mike Monroe came out of nowhere to take the Heps title in high jump and Taylor McCorkle set a school record in the 60-meter dash, just to name a few.

Coach Steve Dolan has always stressed the importance of patience when it comes to progressing as a program, and Saturday’s meet fits right into his overarching method. The stakes are low for the season opener — a chance for the Red and Blue to shake out the cobwebs after a few weeks away from regular competition.

Of course, a solid performance — especially against

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inter-city rival and Philadelphia powerhouse Villanova — could boost the confidence of the Quakers moving forward. However, this early in the season, staying healthy is the most important thing for Penn.

The Philadelphia College Classic may not hold much clout as a meet in-and-of itself, but it will serve as an appetizer for one meet that certainly does: Penn Relays.

The College Classic is a long way off from the nation’s biggest annual track meet, but the Relays are only one month away.

The spring track season is going to be a sprint for the Red and Blue and the starter’s gun is about to go off.

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Lorenzo Thomas will get a chance to redeem a tough EIWA loss at NCAA’s.

After finishing a dismal 10th out of 14 teams in November’s Keystone Classic at the Palestra, there were many concerns surrounding a talented Penn wrestling team. But following a forgettable fall season, the Red and Blue have been consistently picking up steam heading into Thursday’s NCAA Championships.

The Quakers dug themselves into a hole heading into Ivy play. First, they fell to Rider, 21-12, on Nov. 30. Then, the following weekend, they suffered a jolting 31-6 loss to Eastern Intercollegiate Wresting Association rival Lehigh.

From there it only got worse — before it got better, that is.

The Quakers finished a lackluster 14th at the Midlands Championships over winter break before falling to Iowa State, 41-3, on Jan. 11.

But then something clicked for the Red and Blue.

After a tough loss to sixth-ranked Cornell, the Quakers rallied off six straight convincing victories, vaulting themselves back into the national rankings.

For the first time in its season, the team was firing on all cylinders. Their star wrestlers were consistently excelling, and more importantly, they were healthy.

The Red and Blue were plagued all fall by top grapplers getting scratched from the lineup. In many weeks, Penn was forced to forfeit one weight class or throw a backup into the starting squad.

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In Penn’s game against Hofstra in the first round of the NIT at the Palestra, veterans like senior guard Kathleen Roche, who was named All-Ivy Honorable Mention and has two years of post-season playing experience under her belt, will be key for stabilizing and guiding the Quakers offensive barrage on the court.

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On Senior Night — two and a half weeks ago — Penn women’s basketball clinched its automatic berth in the WNIT following a 59-33 win over Yale that guaranteed the Quakers at least second place in the Ivy League.

It wasn’t until the beginning

of this week that Penn (20-8) knew it would be hosting Hofstra at the Palestra on Thursday.

Staying on campus bodes well for the Red and Blue — they’ve posted a 12-4 record at home so far this season.

“I was really happy,” coach Mike McLaughlin said of the

home game. “I know the players are happy about the opportunity to play here again.”

For McLaughlin and the rest of the coaching staff, it’s the reward for a season that saw the Quakers post 20 wins for the second straight year and just third time in history. The team also finished with a share of the Big 5 title for the first time in program history, winning three of its four games and tying with Villanova atop the historic Philadelphia rivalry.

For the Quakers’ seniors, it’s

an opportunity to postpone their farewell to the Palestra in what may be their final home game.

“We were really hoping for the host seed. Thinking back to sophomore year when we hosted here, it was just so much fun,” senior captain Kathleen Roche said. “Especially, being seniors being able to play on the Palestra court again.”

Roche — along with fellow senior captains Kara Bonenberger, Renee Busch and Katy Allen — is making her third trip to the postseason. Penn lost

in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Texas last season and made a deep run in the Women’s Basketball Invitational in 2012-13, falling in the semifinals after wins against Howard and Fairfield.

For the team’s freshmen — many of whom have played significant roles this season — it’s the first taste of collegiate postseason play and an opportunity to extend an already excellent rookie season.

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Despite immense pressure from one of the highest octane offenses in women’s lacrosse, senior goalie Lucy Ferguson held her own in the net with 15 saves on Wednesday’s game against Maryland.

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What do you do when you’re the biggest fish in your pond? Find a bigger pond.

That’s exactly what the No. 14 Quakers did on Wednesday when they travelled south to take on No. 1 Maryland in College Park. Before the road match up, Penn (6-0) reigned atop the Ivy League with Princeton as one of two

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undefeated squads. That sixgame winning streak was stymied by the Terps’ explosive offense, which eventually took down Penn, 12-7.

Saying that Maryland was dominant is an understatement. The home team won 16 of the game’s 21 draws and outshot the Quakers 36-13.

“We couldn’t bring the ball out

and that was a shame because we didn’t really have time for scoring when we went down on attack,” coach Karin Corbett said.

After the first tip off, which resulted in a rapid-fire goal from senior attack Tory Bensen, it looked like Penn’s offense would be able to hang with the formidable Terps.

The Quakers kept the score within one goal for the first thirteen minutes of play until Maryland began to pull away.

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