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This year, the Social Planning and Events Committee will bring some “acid rap” to the Spring Fling concert on April 15 at Franklin Field. And there won’t be “one gosh darn part you can’t tweet.”

Chancelor Bennett, known professionally as “Chance the Rapper,” will headline Penn’s 2016 Spring Fling concert, joining opener Las Vegas-based DJ 3LAU. “He’s an amazing artist,” SPEC Concerts Co-Director and College senior Spencer Jaffe said. “We think not only is he socially relevant, he’s also just SEE FLING PAGE 5

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Penn women’s basketball went Dancing this weekend, but they only got out on the floor for a single song. A 10-seed in the NCAA Tournament, the Quakers took on seventh-seeded Washington at College Park, Md., Saturday, falling in what was largely a tight contest, 65-53. One of only six players to enter the game for Penn (24-5) prior to the final minute, junior forward Sydney Stipanovich kept the Red and Blue afloat for much of the day with a 16-point, 13-rebound performance. Sophomores Anna Ross and Michelle Nwokedi added 13 and 10 points apiece, but they weren’t enough to match up with a Huskies offense that averages 71 points per game. It seemed like it might be a quiet contest at the same arena where the Quakers fell to Texas in the opening round of the 2014 Tournament. Neither team could find the basket until sophomore guard Lauren Whitlatch drained a three to get Penn on the board more than two minutes into the game. Early on, defense reigned supreme. In the opening quarter alone, Stipanovich grabbed

Serra Kazanc came to study at Penn in 2009, earned an internship at Jefferies — a global financial firm — the summer after her junior year and was offered full time employment at the company after graduating from Wharton in 2013. That year, Kazanc, who concentrated in finance and real estate, started working at Jefferies in New York City. She was happy with

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her job and so was her employer. The Wharton graduate was leasing an apartment and was one of the many Penn students that migrate to New York City upon graduation. But in May 2014, the United States government notified Kazanc that she no longer had permission to work in the country and forced her to move out of the United States, the place she had come to call home for the past five years. Kazanc is originally from Turkey and, like most international students SEE VISAS PAGE 2

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Keynote speaker for Penn Women’s Week released Transgender activist Janet Mock will speak on April 2

a panel on women in entrepreneurship to a discussion on queer women and their coming out narratives to a day-long leadership conference hosted by the gender, sexuality and women’s studies program. Mock’s keynote speech will be the culminating event of the week. “When we were looking for a speaker, we wanted to have someone who brought a very specific perspective,” College junior and Marketing Chair for PAGE Jessica Faust said. “I think it’s special that we are having a trans woman be the speaker for Women’s Week because it really supports the idea that we believe that trans women are women. This is Women’s Week, and we are celebrating women.” Caitlyn Jenner’s campus appearance on Feb. 17 sparked intense discourse, and organizers hope Mock’s appearance will continue that dialogue. “It’s important that she stimulates discourse on what it means to be a person in a marginalized community struggling to come

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Janet Mock — best known for her transgender rights activism, her work at People Magazine and her memoir “Redefining Realness” — will be the keynote speaker for Penn Women’s Week. Her appearance is set for April 2 at 7 p.m. in Claudia Cohen Hall G17. Women’s Week will take place from March 28 to April 2, and the theme of the week this year is empowerment. The purpose of Women’s Week is to have an entire week with events dedicated to supporting and celebrating women for the Penn community, according to an official statement issued by the Penn Association for Gender Equity and the Women’s Week 2016 planning board. Everyone in the Penn community is welcome to attend the events. The week will feature a host of diverse events ranging from

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The problem with obtaining H-1B visas H-1B is a non-immigrant visa that allows employers to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations for up to six years. Obtaining an H-1B visa, which is allocated through a lottery system, has become increasingly hard in the past few years. The

Department of Homeland Security currently caps the amount of H-1B visas granted at 65,000 per fiscal year, with an additional 20,000 reserved for applicants with advanced degrees. Last year, DHS received an overwhelming 233,000 H-1B petitions in as little as a week; only a little over onethird of petitioners received one of the sought-after visas. “I had been living in the U.S. for five years and I think I deserved the right to stay,” Kazanc said, who moved to London to work at her company’s international branch there. “The cap was about 60,000 people and the applications

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to terms with their identity or struggling to achieve what they want to achieve just because of how society can sometimes put down people who aren’t part of the cis, white, powerful, wealthy

community,” said College senior Sabina Spigner, who is the manager of the Women’s Week 2016 planning board. “What she’s all about is just empowering all people to be who they want to be

and go for what you want to do.” Nursing junior Ian Jeong, the chair of Lambda Alliance, hopes that these events aren’t the be-all, end-all when it comes to meaningful discourse on gender and sexuality. “I hope that it’s just a starting point for the continued effort to have this dialogue that questions cis-womanhood and the binary,” Jeong said. Mock, who began her transition in high school, came out publicly in a 2011 Marie Claire article. In 2014, she published “Redefining Realness,” which later became a New York Times bestseller. The memoir recounts Mock’s experiences growing up poor, transgender and multiracial, while encouraging greater selfacceptance and self-realization. That same year, Mock started hosting her own weekly culture show, “So POPular!,” on MSNBC, where she analyzes popular culture through a variety of lenses. Mock has been featured in a multitude of media outlets and been named to a number of lists,

[numbered] 180,000 [in my] year. It is totally not based on merit and totally based on luck, which is not the right way to do things.” Before even thinking about H-1B visas, most international Penn students go through the process of obtaining an F1 visa, an easily obtainable non-immigrant visa for those wishing to study in the United States. To be able to work during the summers and after graduation, students have the option of obtaining an Optional Practical Training permit, which confers a 12-month work allowance. Those who wish to continue working in the United States after using the 12 months of work permitted by OPT have to apply for an H-1B visa. While the U.S.’s current policy makes it more accessible for foreigners to obtain an F1 visa to study in the United States, the current cap level and competition for H-1B visas makes it difficult for graduates to stay and work in the country after graduation. Daniel Bäume, a 2013 College graduate from Germany, also went through an ordeal similar to Kazanc’s. After graduating from Penn, Bäume went on to work for AIG in New York City and expected to do so for a couple of years. His luck changed when he realized that H-1B visas were becoming extremely competitive. “I saw myself staying [in the U.S.] for a couple of years, but then six months into my job I realized ‘Oh sh*t, there is actually this H-1B thing,’” Bäume said. “Suddenly, starting in 2013, a lot of people started getting rejected through the lottery.”

Bäume wasn’t accepted for an H-1B visa, but considers himself lucky because his company was able to relocate him to their London offices. Unlike Kazanc’s company, Bäume’s employer paid for all his relocation costs. “In my experience I was quite fortunate because my company was willing to just transfer me to London, but a lot of people got screwed over,” Bäume said. “In my group of [Penn] friends, it was six people who were in the same situation and we all moved to London. I got lucky, other people completely got screwed.” The competitiveness of the H-1B visa process — in which a company applies on behalf of the employee — affects a significant number of Penn students who wish to work in the U.S. after graduation. According to Penn Admissions’ website, 12 percent of undergraduate students currently enrolled in the university are from abroad. In 2014, threefourths of graduating international seniors across all schools reported that they would stay to work in the U.S., according to Career Services. Penn, however, does not keep track of how many of its graduates eventually apply for H-1B visas, as the process is conducted after graduation and by the graduate’s employer. In fact, H-1B visas have become so difficult to obtain that many companies that recruit on Penn’s campus refrain from hiring students who may potentially need a sponsor to apply for an H-1B visa in the future. “The biggest issue I hear from employers is that there is still no

guarantee, even if they do the paperwork, because there is typically a lot more applications for visas than there are available,” Barbara Hewitt, Wharton senior associate director at Career Services, said. She specified that, in order to guide students, the Career Services website provides a list of companies who have hired international students in the past. “Different industries tend to be much more open to sponsoring,” Hewitt said. “Obviously technology [companies], but also large financial firms have legal staffs that know how to [apply for H-1B visas]. Consulting firms will often do it. Government obviously is not an option and smaller firms sometimes don’t know how to do it.” Increased competitiveness for H-1B visas wasn’t always the norm. Both Hewitt and Jeremy Spohr, an advisor at Penn’s International Student and Scholar Services, noted that the state of the economy significantly affects the amount of companies applying for H-1B visas. During the most recent economic recession, employers didn’t demand as many H-1B visas. “In 2009-2011 the lottery wouldn’t run out for months because companies weren’t hiring,” Spohr said. Historical figures from DHS reports show that, while from 2014-16 H-1B visas hit the 65,000 cap within five to seven days after the filing period opened, it took more than six months for H-1B visas to reach the same cap from 2010 to 2012. “One of the worse things about the H-1B system is that the people who do not get the

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Penn Women’s Week, which will take place between March 28 and April 2, will feature speakers and workshops for all Penn students.

including “The Colbert Report,” “The Nightly Show,” The New York Times, NPR and the OUT100 list. PAGE, QSP2 — the LGBTQ group for the School of Social Policy & Practice —, the United Minorities Council and Lambda Alliance are co-sponsoring Mock’s appearance, aiding the Women’s Week 2016 planning board in terms of funding and publicity. “If your feminism doesn’t include women of color, trans women, women with disabilities, women who are single moms, Muslim women, Christian women, women who don’t have a religion, what does that really mean? And who is left at the table?” Jeong said. The first wave of online ticket reservations to see Mock will go out at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 21, and then the second round on 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 23. Further ticketing information, as well as a full list of Women’s Week events, can be found on the Facebook event page.

visa are also the people who find out last,” said Bäume, who was notified by the United States government two weeks before his OPT permit was set to expire. “You’ll only find out a couple of weeks before you actually leave the U.S. if you don’t get it.” Fixing the nationwide problem Increasing the yearly cap on the amount of H-1B visas the U.S. grants has fallen at an impasse in Congress, where Republicans and Democrats alike have been unable to pass any serious immigration reform. The closest the issue with H-1B visas came to be addressed was in 2013 when a bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform bill emerged in the Senate. One of the provisions of the bill would have substantially increased the annual cap on H-1B visas from 85,000 to 205,000. The bill — which proposed strengthened border security and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants — passed the Senate, but died in the House of Representatives. However, a small triumph came on March 11. The U.S. government published a rule saying that international students earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields in the U.S. will now be eligible to stay for three years of on-the-job training. This is seven months longer than the period under the 2008 rule it replaces for the STEM OPT program, according to a March 9 New York Times article. Not only does it mean that STEM students will have more years of permitted work in the United States, but more years to apply and succeed at obtaining an H-1B visa. “I think its a great opportunity for students in the STEM fields,” Spohr said. “This is a new thing, it just came out last week… They will roll out more details in May.” Adjusting to a new life While much of the backlash against increasing the cap for H-1B visas comes from detractors who state that foreigners are taking American jobs, Kazanc disagreed. She said the United States has a serious white-collar gap and that she helped to fill in that gap when working in New York. “I didn’t think I was stealing an American’s job. When you apply for a company they accept you based on merit,” she said. “Americans had as much of an opportunity as I did. My employer thought I was more competitive than an American [applicant]. That is why they chose me.” She added, “I don’t feel guilty about it.” While both Kazanc and Bäume have adjusted to their news lives in London, they both criticized the U.S.’s apparently contradictory policy when it comes to attracting foreign students for higher education while rejecting their ability to work afterwards. “It was disappointing at the time to have to leave the U.S. so quickly after graduation, but now I’m actually very happy about London,” Bäume said. “At the time I was super upset. You feel completely rejected even though you’ve been paying taxes, making friends. In general, you feel like you have a lot to contribute to the U.S. and then they kick you out.”

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The doubled stress of pre-med and Engineering Students face additional challenges and pressure JINAH KIM Staff Reporter

Being an engineer at Penn is already hard; so is being pre-med. Unsurprisingly, few students try to do both. “We’ve lost a lot [of students],” said Engineering and pre-med junior Hayley Williamson, explaining the frequency of students choosing not to pursue both an engineering degree and medical school. Many students in bioengineering choose to switch to other majors, and many who start as premed decide to do otherwise in their freshman or sophomore year. Bioengineering is the major of choice for most pre-med students at the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Bioengineering students must complete 40.5 course credits to graduate; students in the College of Arts and Sciences need anywhere from 32 to 36, depending on their majors.

The high GPA required for a competitive medical school application can also serve as a source of stress, exacerbated by the difficulty of many required engineering courses. “I think definitely the hardest thing about being an engineer and pre-med is dealing with the GPA,” Williamson said. “When I have to take classes up to Math 241, you know you’re not very likely to get an A ... and if you’re just an engineer, that’s okay. You don’t need a 4.0; you don’t need a perfect GPA.” Given that the average cumulative GPA of medical school applicants in 2015 was 3.60 at Penn and 3.77 nationally, students with a 3.3 or 3.4 — perfectly acceptable and even impressive GPAs in engineering — may worry that they are at a disadvantage. College junior Thomas Seykora also struggled with the Engineering School’s math sequence. Seykora started Penn in the Engineering School, and he hoped that his engineering background might help distinguish him among thousands

of medical school applicants. After doing poorly in Math 240, Seykora began to rethink his choice to study engineering. “I really re-evaluated — is this really the path I want to take? Because, [in] med school, I don’t need this higher-level math,” Seykora said. Seykora decided to switch from the Engineering School to the College fall semester his sophomore year. He says that he doesn’t regret making the shift at all, as the higherlevel biology courses he has taken in the College are more interesting to him than the engineering and math courses he had previously taken. Engineering junior Brianna Wronko made the opposite choice; she had initially been planning on applying to a joint M.D./Ph.D. program upon graduation, but she decided after her sophomore year to drop her plans for medical school. “I love the medical field ... it’s something I was really passionate about, and still am, in a way,” she said. “Honestly at the end it came down to which did I like better

— research or medicine? And in the end I liked research more because of the out-of-the-box thinking and the room for creativity.” Dropping her pre-med plans allowed her to develop a more personally and less grade-oriented approach to learning. Wronko now hopes to go into industry, where grades are much less important and experience in research is more heavily valued. “A lot of my class stopped being pre-med around the same time,” Wronko said. “So it really increased the collaboration and the willingness to work with people rather than compete against people.” Collaboration in the Engineering School is highly encouraged — and necessary. “You cannot survive an engineering class without collaborating with somebody,” Wronko said. Williamson emphasized the supportiveness of her community of bioengineers, which has helped her navigate the difficulty of being both pre-med and engineering. “Sometimes I don’t get the same

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Students at Penn who are both pre-med and are pursuing an Engineering degree face additional stress and a harder workload.

sense of community ... when I’m in classes without my engineers and with just pre-med students,” said Williamson. “It seems like students

are a lot more uptight and worried about their GPA — they’re still willing to help, they’re still reaching out, but I see a difference there.”

New app matches students’ skills and demands The app has already secured Venmo integration LEONARD EISEN Contributing Reporter

It was November of last year when two Jerome Fisher Management & Technology sophomores first came up with the idea for their app, Neevo, which launched this past Thursday. “We were in Detkin Lab, 11 p.m., it was snowing and we needed someone to come trace our code,” said Yassine Elmandjra, an Engineering and Wharton sophomore, who recalled working on his Electrical and Systems Engineering assignments with his classmate, Engineering and Wharton sophomore Sahil Shah. “We’re in the engineering quad and we know that there are hundreds of computer science majors, probably one like ten feet away from [us], but there’s no way for [us] to contact him.” The pair saw the potential demand for an application that would enable students to find a peer with a particular skill set and

has worked for the past year and a half to bring their idea to life. Another recent startup that has launched at Penn called Quickhelp addresses a similar demand, but is more narrowly focused on tutoring. Neevo, however, allows people to solicit a variety of skills that can range from ”‘I need someone to fix my line of java code,’ to ‘I need a graphic designer,’ to ‘I need a photographer,’” Elmandjra said. Neevo divides skills into general life-skills and course-specific expertise. Users, who can both offer and request skills, can search through profiles of people who possess a desired skill and select the one that meets their timeframe and price-point. Neevo takes a 10 percent cut of all transactions made through the app, but Elmandjra said that’s only enough to cover server costs. The app’s profit potential, he said, is in datamining for information valuable to universities. Neither Elmandjra nor Shah had prior experience building an app. They knew some basic computer science, but not enough to build the app — instead, they paid a team of

programmers in Morocco to develop Neevo. Elmandjra’s father, who runs a private equity fund in Morocco and has experience with tech startups, introduced the Penn students to the team of programmers they hired, and served as a vital mentor throughout Neevo’s creation. “There wouldn’t be an app without him,” Shah said. One early user of the app was Shah’s roommate, Wharton junior Anmol Bhansali. Bhansali said he likes the app, and has earned money sharing one of his skills — hookah set up — but hasn’t had luck finding help for one of his higher-level classes. “One thing that I hope will happen is that Penn really buys into it,” Bhansali added. “At the end of the day, it’s a marketplace. You need buy-in from both sides of the platform.” One of Bhansali’s favorite aspects of Neevo is the Venmo integration. Shah says that last summer, he and Elmandjra secured this feature by reaching out to the PayPal subsidiary Braintree, which helps developers use PayPal

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The app Neevo was designed by two current M&T sophomores, Yassine Elmandjra and Sahil Shah; they spent the past year-and-a-half developing the app.

services like Venmo in their apps. Shah believes this is a crucial element because students can be hesitant to put their credit card information into new apps. Although the app is available for download nation-wide on the

App Store, Elmandjra and Shah said that at the moment, their concentration is just at Penn. Moving forward, they hope to expand to other universities. “For people who are interested in any sort of entrepreneurship, I

really believe that now, in college, is the time to do it,” Elmandjra said. “The whole idea of dropping out of school, I’m completely against. This is a learning experience, and you have something to fall back in which is a college degree.”

Personalizing cancer treatment App aims to use past data for new cases JACQUELINE UY Contributing Reporter

Chemotherapy is inching its way to a more efficient process, thanks to a new app co-founded by a Perelman School of Medicine student. Oncora is a startup that compiles data from millions of patient records in order for doctors to gain predictive insight into what type of cancer treatment will work best for a patient, making the overall process more personalized. Medical student David Lindsay created Oncora with his longtime friend, Chris Berlind. The

idea stemmed from Lindsay and Berlind wanting to find a way for doctors to use past data for their current cases. “I had a chance to see what medical care was like and I just felt like more data should be used by physicians,” Lindsay said. “I got the idea at med school, shadowing, and I saw that doctors didn’t have a good way of integrating past data into their cases. It’s not that the doctor didn’t want to, it’s basically that the data was stored in nooks and crannies of the hospital that they didn’t have access to,” he added. The process of making Oncora into a successful startup was not a simple one. As both Berlind and Lindsay recall, they faced barriers trying to set up their application

within the context of a complex healthcare system. “The system is very complicated,” he said. “How hospitals set up who makes decisions, purchasing products — all of that is very complicated in a hospital setting so one of the challenges we faced is trying to get to the right person in the hospital who can help us get data we need and help us set up our application. We are lucky that I had experience working in a hospital so I had a bit of an advantage there.” This advantage, Lindsay said, stems partly from the experience that he had at Penn which provided him with resources from three disciplines: medicine, engineering and business — all of which he used in founding

Oncora. Lindsay is currently on a leave of absence and plans to come back to Penn Med in a few years. “My time at Penn has been great,” he said. “There’s just so many things that Penn is good at. I was able to have the med school, take classes at the Engineering school, and also take classes at Wharton.” The startup is looking toward building its strength and reach for the future. “Our immediate goals are hiring a great team and then second of all, building our product,” Berlind said. “My hope as the lead on the technical side is to build a product and get people interested just by showing them the product and what it can do.”

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If you’re ever abroad and feeling homesick, here is how to tell where the Americans are: close your eyes and listen for the loudest voice with the harshest “r” that sounds like it’s complaining about something. The voice might not be complaining about something. It might just be ordering a sandwich. Even so, it’ll stand out from other voices around it. From a young age I could tell that American children operated differently. They were generally more confident and more confrontational. As my exasperated mother once said, American kids are the ones who are always whining about having hurt feelings. A lot of people seem to feel the same as my mom about college protests. Following the recent protests at Trump’s Chicago rally (which were organized by students), Obama himself called out American politics for sounding “like a schoolyard fight.” And around December last year, the internet simply exploded with other people older than my mother

telling Mizzou, Yale and others to sit down and quit whining. The irony is that millennials’ perceived attitude of relentless, raging entitlement is the same one the rest of the world has attributed to America. I came to the United States with the same prejudice against Americans that many hold against millennials. Everyone is loud, everyone overshares and everyone feels the need to complain about things that don’t really matter. “Entitlement” is a dirty word to be associated with — but should it be? There’s a difference between feeling entitled to a privilege and feeling entitled to a right. The conventional mindset I’ve sensed here is that you shouldn’t need to earn somebody’s respect or the right to feel just as comfortable as other students on campus. This makes sense to me. You are right to feel entitled to these things and ask for a space that cultivates the same treatment and safety that it provides others. In the American philosophy, it’s natural to demand these.

In other places it’s different — in France, you are expected to adapt to the majoritarian philosophy in order to be treated with respect. Such is the underlying implication of the burqa ban, one which would never be condoned outright in the United States. Islamophobia is by no means a lesser issue here, but legally there is not a single equivalent of such a

that overly religious symbols shouldn’t be allowed in public because they would influence other people’s beliefs. In Singapore the argument is that speech should be controlled for the sake of stability. But in America, most people see freedom of speech as total and intrinsic. The right to free speech in America is used as an attack against college protests,

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ban. Freedom of speech is valued and ingrained to a much higher degree here than anywhere else I’ve seen. In French civic education lessons, I was taught that freedom of speech is dependent on the overarching culture. For example, I was once told

using the argument that students want to be coddled by censoring elements of their environment. But often, people don’t seem to be as upset by what students are demanding as the way that they go about demanding it. The format of these protests — sometimes loud, abra-

sive, and entitled — is perhaps the most American one around. The United States was founded on a culture of yelling. This brings us back to the simple fact that the loud kids on the playground were the ones who people paid attention to. Of course Obama is right — American politics shouldn’t resemble a schoolyard as much as it does. But in a country where someone is allowed to run on a platform based on thinly veiled racism, why are we surprised that students decide to react with anger? The fact is that this outrage — no matter how loud or annoying it might sound — is so important in so many scenarios. The ability to revolt has been curtailed by other governments like Singapore. If Donald Trump were running there he would’ve been arrested for slander and libel ages ago, which some might condone. But if Yale students who attend Singapore’s campus were protesting the same things their American counterparts did in November,

MEERABELLE JESUTHASAN they might have been arrested too. Clearly Singapore’s political climate is not conducive to discussion. America’s, in almost the opposite sense, provokingly invites it. In fact, a lot of the time it requires people to be loud. Yelling is important. Sometimes it is the only way to be heard. American protesters know this and, trust me, we’ve been hearing them for years. MEERABELLE JESUTHASAN is a College freshman from Singapore, studying English and cognitive science. Her email address is jesum@ sas.upenn.edu. “You Speak English?” usually appears every other Monday.

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A little over two weeks ago, the mayor of my hometown of Williamsport, Pa., announced over Twitter that he would become the first mayor of a Pennsylvania town to publicly endorse Donald Trump for president. This announcement led to mixed results from the overwhelmingly Republican city, with a surprisingly large number of people attacking the mayor over this announcement. And from my city of around 30,000 residents there now exists a Facebook page: “Williamsport Protests Trump,” with already almost 2000 likes. The citizens of Williamsport seem to be standing up to Mayor Campana, telling him that he does not speak for the people of Williamsport… except he does. In November of last year, Mayor Campana was reelected to a third term in office, with 59 percent of the popular vote. In that election the people of Williamsport decided, en masse, that Gabe Campana does in fact have the right and duty to speak for the people

of Williamsport. Enough citizens went out on Election Day to decide that he was the best person to represent our great city. Now here is where things get interesting: How many was enough? In the election last year Campana beat opponent Emily Gale with a popular vote of 2,388 to Gale’s 1,633. In this mayoral election only 17.5 percent of the city’s 23,000 voting age adults participated in the election (for reference, 49 percent of the voting population participated in the 2012 presidential election). Almost more disturbingly, the Facebook page, which denounces Campana and his endorsement of Trump, currently has more likes than Gale had votes in the election. In fact, in the near future, the page’s likes will eclipse the votes received even by Campana. Now I am not attempting to equate Facebook likes to votes — that would be ridiculous — but I do think that the likes, along with the voter turnout do showcase an interesting point: The majority of

people honestly do not care about local politics, outside of specific situations such as this where local and national politics intersect. Without the commercials, the polls, the news takeover, the debates and the overwhelming overtake of popular culture that presidential elections have, people for-

zen, they will determine your property taxes, your education and your infrastructure. They decide who plows your roads and when they do it. These things seem mundane, but they are the things that affect you and your family the most. Yes, national elections are extremely important, particu-

Yes, national elections are extremely important, particularly congressional elections, but real change starts at the local level.” get about politics and have no desire to participate. If you want to see change in politics, and make a difference in your day to day life, then participate in local politics, because it all works bottom up. Local leaders are the people who will make decisions that affect your daily life as a citi-

larly congressional elections, but real change starts at the local level. All over campus I see students and student groups urging other students to register to vote. This is all well and good, and I too urge all of you to participate in the political process, but these groups ask you to

register as a voter in Philadelphia or Pennsylvania, not your hometown or state; I would like you to ask you to do the opposite. Yes, if you register here you will be able to vote in person for the presidential elections, but let’s be honest, most of you will only live here for a couple more years and most of you have no interest, knowledge or investment in local Philadelphia politics. I urge you to register in your hometowns and districts, where you are familiar with the people, issues, needs and candidates; local elections where you can use your knowledge, connections and energies, to make real change for your friends and families who live there. Yes, you will probably have to vote absentee. In the national elections, yes, this will potentially lower the importance of your vote, but in local elections absentee ballots still very much matter. And you have the potential to make much more of an impact on the local level. Local politics are not flashy, they are omnipresent, they

BEN FACEY are not always interesting, but they matter. Real change starts small, with a state representative, with a mayor, with a city council, with a member of the school board. Do not put all your eggs of change in the basket of a Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders, but rather put faith, hope, energy and passion behind and with your neighbors right in your backyard. BEN FACEY is a College sophomore from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, studying English. His email address is bfacey@sas.upenn.edu. “At Face Value” usually appears every other Monday.

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BLOOMERS SPRING SHOW — CONTINUOUS: REAL WOMEN, FAKE STORIES Bloomers closed out their spring show Continuous: Real Women, Fake Stories to a full audience this past Saturday night after their fourth performance in Houston Hall. The sketches, which were anchored around the case of a missing prom queen, ranged from the current election cycle (in the tune of “High School Musical”) to Dora the Explorer losing her beloved Boots to a drive-by bombing at the hands of Swiper the Fox. Performances by the Bloomers band interspersed these sketches, captivating the audience. Although the show has closed out at Penn, Bloomers will be performing in New York City on April 9.

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an incredible artist and performer.” SPEC announced Chance as the headliner on Saturday afternoon by unfolding a white banner at the backyard on Pine Street between 40th and 41st. Shortly after the unveiling

on Pine Street, SPEC updated its Facebook event page, which previously had listed “Insert Headliner Here” alongside 3LAU. Chance the Rapper is a 23-year-old rapper from Chicago who first came to public attention with the release of his song, “Windows” in 2011. He was later featured as the opening act for Childish Gambino’s

2012 concert tour. Cha nce, who previously came to Penn for the SPECTRUM fall show in 2013, will be the first rapper to perform at Fling since Tyga, also in 2013. That same year, he released his second mixtape, “Acid Rap,” finding both critical and commercial success. His mixtapes and one studio album, as part of the band, “The Social

Experiment,” have all been self-released for free online. As a guest artist, he has been featured on songs by performers ranging from Justin Bieber to Madonna. Most recently, Chance cowrote and was featured on various songs in Kanye West’s album, “The Life of Pablo.” He performed the record’s opening song, “Ultralight Beam,” with

West on the Feb. 13 episode of “Saturday Night Live.” The album’s release, originally slated for Feb. 11, was delayed until the early-morning hours of Feb. 15, something West not-so-subtlety attributed to Chance, who urged him to tinker with the final tracklist. The Spring Fling concert will take place on Friday, April 15 at Franklin Field. General

admission tickets this year are $40 for Penn students. Floor passes are $50 and restricted to only students while non-Penn attendees must pay $70. SPEC said on the event Facebook page that more information about how to acquire tickets will be released on Monday. Enterprise Editor Jessica McDowell contributed reporting.

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From meeting with Barneys New York to being featured in Paper magazine and fashion blog Man Repeller, College junior Jameel Mohammed is taking his company KHIRY to new heights. KHIRY, founded in 2014, is a luxury jewelry line inspired by the African diaspora. KHIRY

launched a Kickstarter last Monday which aims to fund production at a higher scale, as well as launch an e-commerce site. Through his designs, Mohammed seeks to introduce a new definition of beauty into the world of luxury brands, which he described as European-dominated. “That’s such a limited scope on what beauty and luxury can be. For me, it’s about finding a new possibility outside of that,” Mohammed said. “There’s a constant lineage between a historical

tradition and the modern equivalent of it. What I want to do with KHIRY is to find those traditional cultural elements that existed a long time ago and figure out what their contemporary equivalents would be.” KHIRY’s Spring/Summer 2016 collection does just this, drawing on both traditional and contemporary elements of African culture. Mohammed cites a wide range of influences, from the Senegalese film “Touki bouki” to the Africaninspired jazz musician Fela Kuti.

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The horns on cattle herded by the Dinka people in Sudan inspired the tapered silhouettes of many pieces, including the Khartoum Bracelet. Mohammed was also inspired by West African masks and the sculptures of Constantin Brancusi, combining their aesthetics to create something simultaneously luxurious, modern and African. “The brand embodies feminism, romance, power and luxury,” Temple University senior and Director of Public Relations and Marketing Taylor Madigan said. Mohammed first began designing jewelry while interning at Barneys New York during the summer after his freshman year. Throughout the summer, he brought in necklaces and bracelets to be critiqued by the fashion office there. The next summer, he began to conceptualize the jewelry line that would become KHIRY. As with any startup, KHIRY faces the challenges of limited resources. When Mohammed first began producing his jewelry, it was a process that was largely self-taught. From the initial sketch to ordering a 3-D print mold to adding hand embellishments, Mohammed worked painstakingly to create each sample from start to finish. Director of Finance and Compliance Briana Johnson emphasized the necessity of the Kickstarter in the company’s future success. Mohammed also recognizes the

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benefits of his education at Penn. Wharton classes like Marketing 101 taught him about the nuts and bolts of running a business. He also credits his political science major with challenging him to think critically. “As I’ve been working on this project, I’ve been thinking very critically about what I am putting out into the world … That thought process, that rigor in intellectual thought, has definitely guided the way that I’ve sought to think about every step of the way in making this company,” he said.

Mohammed has no plans of stopping here. “This is my passion — this is why I came to this school,” he said. In the future, he dreams of producing a full collection of products, including women’s wear, bags, shoes and more. “This is an unapologetically African-inspired collection, but you can’t say it’s not luxurious in its imagery and its communication. That’s ultimately my goal — to continue to have a platform to do that.”

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Members of various Greek organizations gathered on Friday in an effort to foster conversation about race and identity. Two years ago, the Multicultural Greek Council, the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Council jointly established “Fostering Unity,” an annual cultural competency workshop for members of Greek organizations. This year, the workshop consisted of two six-hour sessions on Feb. 26 and another on March 18

at the LGBT Center. The sessions are intended to provide members of the Greek community with a comfortable space to voice concerns related to issues of racial inclusion in their chapters. “[The workshop] explores what Greek life fails and does well pertaining to diversity,” College sophomore Sesana Allen said. Conversations are not limited to diversity, however. Attendees have the opportunity to speak about a range of relevant topics including body image, socioeconomic status and sexual identity. They also discussed the concept of diversity: What it means and what each chapter can do to ensure that all members feel included.

“It is a chance to engage, learn and be a little uncomfortable in order to make Greek life more inclusive,” Wharton junior Temilola Ransome-Kuti, the chair of the United Minorities Council, said. Although the event is not mandatory, it is recommended that two members from each chapter attend. Those that attend the event are presumably members who take a vested interest in fixing these problems and promoting diversity within their chapters, Allen said. During the sessions, members speak about their perspectives on these issues. Attendees also share confidential details about their respective chapters.

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A five-game winning streak is quite a feat. But when one of those wins is on the road against a ranked team, the streak looks that much better. On Saturday, No. 17 Penn women’s lacrosse continued to erase any doubts about the team’s ability to contend when they traveled to Baltimore and took down a talented Towson squad, 7-4. There was no tit-for-tat in this game, just a decisive momentum change — in Penn’s favor — that took place near halftime. The No. 15 Tigers (6-2) took control of the game in the first half before relinquishing all momentum to the hungry Quakers (6-1). With just over a minute left in the first half, the Tigers had control of the game, leading 4-0. Coach Karin Corbett credited the first-half deficit to myriad factors, the snowy atmosphere

notwithstanding. “I think that our backs weren’t moving well. We weren’t attacking their zone. We weren’t moving the ball quickly. We weren’t driving. We weren’t cutting. We were getting beat on draws and ground balls and that’s a lot of grit and a lot of fight ... that’s going to win a game today in the weather that we had,” she said, noting that the team answered the call in the second half. At the 29-minute mark, the Red and Blue did indeed answer the call, finding the back of the net, courtesy of sophomore attack Alex Condon. With that goal, Condon opened the floodgates for her team. Those floodgates would remain open for the last 30 minutes of play. The Quakers came out of the intermission with a flurry of offense that resulted in five consecutive scores from the team’s bench — a second goal from Condon, two from senior attack Catherine Dickinson and one from junior attack Sarah Barcia. Ju n ior m id f ield Em i ly

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Rogers-Healion and senior attack Nina Corcoran would add the team’s sixth and seventh goals, respectively, in the second half onslaught. To further underscore the impressive nature of the Quakers’ attack, the six second-half goals were the second-most goals that the Tigers have let up in a half this season. Heading into the weekend, Towson’s defense ranked third in the nation in goals against per game, with an average of just over six per game, making the Quakers’ six-goal half all the more impressive. Perhaps just as impressive was the fact that Penn’s defense stymied Towson’s offense, limiting the Tigers to two shots in the second half. Over the course of their five-game winning streak, the Red and Blue have not conceded more than eight goals in a contest, which has helped to take a lot of pressure off of the offense. Corbett recognized that the team took over possession in the second frame and this mistake-free play kept them in the

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Two goals from sophomore attach Alex Condon were crucial in getting the Quakers rolling in Saturday’s road takedown of No. 15 Towson after going down 4-0 in the first half. Condon’s goals paved the way for the 7-4 win.

driver’s seat. “We caused several turnovers. We put a lot of pressure on them in transition. They were struggling a little bit in transition with turnovers,” Corbett

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the reigning national champions and current No. 1 Maryland Terrapins (6-0) on Wednesday night. The two sides will butt heads under the lights at Franklin Field at 7:00 p.m.

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Over the course of a long season, teams need to find many different ways to win. Penn baseball did just that in its home-opening series this weekend, taking two of three games from Binghamton. On Friday, the Quakers ended a

five-game losing streak by defeating the Bearcats by a score of 6-2. The Red and Blue (4-8) continued with their struggles in the first inning, allowing a run to score on a ground out. Luckily for the Quakers, their bats woke up over the next several innings as they quickly tied and then took the lead. In the third, after back-to-back singles by Gary Tesch and Tim Graul, senior outfielder Matt Greskoff hit a three-run blast over the right field wall to give Penn its first

lead. The Red and Blue would tack on to their lead with runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. Binghamton (3-14) would score in the eighth on a throwing error, but it was not nearly enough offense to get back into the game. Much of the credit would go to junior right-hander Jake Cousins, who pitched brilliantly, allowing only two runs over eight innings of work. He struck out seven batters while conceding only six hits,

earning his first win on the year, a big one for Penn. Saturday brought with it a doubleheader, and the two games were completely different for the Red and Blue. The early game could not have gone worse for the Quakers, getting shut out in a 7-0 loss. Penn continued their habit of allowing runs in the opening inning as Binghamton scored on a home run after giving up a walk, giving the Bearcats a 2-0 lead. A sacrifice

bunt in the pushed another run across home plate in the fifth to extend the lead to three. The score remained the same until the ninth inning, when Binghamton exploded for four runs, including a three-run homerun to put the nail in the coffin of the day’s first game. The Quakers’ pitching staff responded perfectly in the second game of the day, winning a 1-0 shutout to take the series. The Red and Blue’s bats, however, remained very quiet recording only

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two hits. The one run came via an error by the Bearcat shortstop on a hard-hit ground ball by Graul. Regardless of the lack of offense, Penn’s bullpen shut Binghamton down. Gabe Kleiman, Mitch Holtz and Billy Lescher — who got his first career save — combined to shut out the Bearcats and give the Quakers a much-needed win. The Red and Blue will take on Lehigh next with the hopes of continuing their newfound winning ways.

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Thus, Penn coach Wesley Ng aimed to make the day a true gauge of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capabilities off the bat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goals for the first competition were to try to learn about our race preparation as much as we could and see where our strengths and weaknesses would have showed up,â&#x20AC;? Ng said. In the Varsity 8 race, Penn covered the 2,000-meter course seven seconds ahead of second place BC with St. Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rounding out third. Later in the Second Varsity 8, the Quakers pulled ahead even further with a 12-second span between them and the visiting Eagles. The Varsity 4 notched two more

all four Schuylkill races GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

Opening day is meant for mistakes. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chance to find errors and correct them. But for Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rowing, no errors could be found. The Quakers cleaned up in all four races on Saturday against visiting squads from Boston College and Saint Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the Schuylkill River. Penn returned to competition after a long hiatus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last race took place in November.

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Oklahomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Matt Reed â&#x20AC;&#x201D; only this time he dominated from the start. Up 3-0 in the third period, Kent stuck Reed for another pin and became Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first All-American since Thomas in 2014. Not known to show too much emotion after his matches, Kent let out a big exhale and looked up while displaying a calmly clenched fist of elation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It just felt really good,â&#x20AC;? Kent said of the win, â&#x20AC;&#x153;kinda like a little bit of relief.â&#x20AC;? Despite his momentum, the senior grappler stayed poised and in the moment throughout his run. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just wrestling the same,â&#x20AC;? he said after his All-American clinching victory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kinda trying to do what I always do.â&#x20AC;? Only 30 minutes later Kent was back out on the mat, wrestling seventh seeded Cody Walters of Ohio. Miraculously, for the third straight time, Kent recorded the pin, leaving the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous arena Friday night on a ridiculous streak. On Saturday morning, Kent got right back to business, downing No. 12 Nathan Jackson, 9-5, to earn a spot in the consolation finals. The win, his sixth of the tournament, tied the Penn record for most victories in one NCAA tournament. Kentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final matchup of the

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feet with their arms tied up when Kent shifted his weight and flipped Barnes off his feet and onto his back in a swift motion that sent the big Cornhusker slamming to the mat. The move, which seemed to appear out of thin air, caught Barnes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as well as everyone else in the arena â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by surprise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit different here,â&#x20AC;? Kent said of the road to the podium at NCAAs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone wants to place. No one just rolls over like they sometimes do in matches, but not here.â&#x20AC;? That match proved Kent wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t roll over himself and the pin seemed to ignite a fire under the senior, who rode the wave into the night session. After dropping his quarterfinal match earlier in the day, fellow senior 184-pounder Lorenzo Thomas joined Kent in the blood round â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where AllAmerican status is earned. Thomas was facing Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mathew Miller for the third time this season and stepped on to the mat at the same time as Kent. Thomas shot in on Miller early on but was caught and put on his back for the pin, prematurely ending Thomasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; run. As Thomas fell on the adjacent mat, Kent picked up right where he left of against

victories by margins of nearly five seconds and three seconds for the A and B races, respectively, leaving all of their opponents empty-handed. Ng attributes much of the success to the persistence and diligence of his team during rigorous round the clock mental and physical training during the off-season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that the key to our success yesterday was really committing to how we wanted to row and trying to reaffirm our race plan and strategy and also our technical focal points even while being under pressure,â&#x20AC;? Ng said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we tried to stay as internal as we possibly could.â&#x20AC;? The competition also served a secondary purpose. Due to the

weekend, his eighth bout in three days, was a rematch of his opening face-off with Epperly, who was riding an impressive streak of his own to avoid elimination. Unfortunately for Kent, he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t upset the Virginia Tech stud again and settled for fourth place after an 8-4 decision. Kent, who will be returning to the program next season to use his final year of eligibility, will get another crack at the field next year when the tournament moves to St. Louis. Thomas, however, wrestled his final match for the Red and Blue after an incredible four seasons. His sixth place finish in 2014 was the highlight of a 113-win career for the Pittsburgh native. 157-pound sophomore May Bethea and 133-pound junior Caleb Richardson also made the trip to New York. Bethea won his first match but lost his next two, and Richardson failed to advance past the first day of competition. Both will return next season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone just really wants All-American,â&#x20AC;? Kent said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the matches are really hard, so I just went out and I just tried to wrestle as hard as I can.â&#x20AC;? The unseeded Kent never gave up, and finished the season recognized as one of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best.

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unique schedule in 2016, the weekend marked Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first and last outing in Philadelphia and served as Senior Day for the squad. Junior captain Natalie Reynolds explained the gravitas of the day for her squad with emotions running high. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was especially exciting to have all four of our boats win on Senior Day. â&#x20AC;Ś So I know all of the seniors were really excited about that,â&#x20AC;? Reynolds said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obviously they were a little bit sad too, a bittersweet kind of day. I think they were proud of what their class can do.â&#x20AC;? Coach echoed these sentiments, adding the impact the seniors have had on him during his first year on

staff at Penn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the seniors are going to be really missed by the rest of the squad and I hope theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll miss the Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rowing experience too. I know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taught me a lot as a new coach about the team traditions that really make Penn rowing special so I thank them a lot for that,â&#x20AC;? he said. The Red and Blue should be sufficiently challenged next weekend at the Connel Cup featuring perennial Ivy powerhouses Columbia and Yale on the horizon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe that there are absolutely no easy races at all this spring,â&#x20AC;? Ng said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In our next four competitions we will consistently see teams in the

top 10 or 14 in the nation so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no pressure on us to perform..â&#x20AC;? Regarding the lack of home course advantage going forward, Reynolds noted that perhaps this notion is not one of significance for her team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People like racing on the Schuylkill,â&#x20AC;? Reynolds said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also not necessarily as fair of a course as other places because it has a turn in the beginning. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice to get to race on other courses as well because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more straight in general.â&#x20AC;? So with their first victory in the books, the Quakers chart their course forward, leaving their home in their wake.

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eight rebounds while Nwokedi managed to block four shots. That defense also held Washington (23-10) to seven points â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the fourth-lowest for the Huskies in a quarter all season. Even still, the Quakers couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take complete control of the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew they were going to play 40 minutes of game like our kids do,â&#x20AC;? Washington coach Mike Neighbors said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just wanted to make sure it was at our pace. We kept saying if we could keep it close going into the third quarter, our conditioning would take over.â&#x20AC;? Going into the second quarter up 13-7, the Red and Blue appeared ready to take control of the game. But Washington showed why their offense was worth fearing. Talia Walton opened the second frame with a three, kickstarting a 10-0 run that put the Huskies on top for the first time. As was recurrent throughout the game, it was Stipanovich who broke the run, hitting a long jumper off a feed from Ross with seven minutes left in the half. A three from Whitlatch a few possessions later brought the Huskiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lead to 19-18. A jumper from none other than Stipanovich tied the game at 20 before the squads settled into trading shots. When Plum made a layup with 2:52 left in the half to go ahead 24-22, the scoring dried up. For 2 minutes and 51 seconds, no one could score. But then Kasey Chambers decided she wanted a third straight game with a buzzer-beater. With a second to go before the break, the junior guard drilled a long threepointer, sending the Quakers to the locker room with a 25-24 lead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew we could get [the halftime lead],â&#x20AC;? Whitlatch said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great team, they have a lot of great players but so do we, and we understood that.

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The whole time, we believed in ourselves, and I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all you could ask for.â&#x20AC;? Plum tied the score at 25 early in the third quarter. The next possession, Chantel Osahor stole the ball from Ross and tossed up a three. It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go, but Katie Collier got the offensive board and dished the ball to Alexis Atchley for a layup. In the moment, the sequence didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem significant. But it was emblematic of what would eventually doom the Quakers. By the gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end, the Red and Blue had committed 17 turnovers and conceded 13 offensive rebounds to the Huskies. Both made it nearly impossible for Penn to maintain any momentum. With 36 seconds remaining in the third quarter, a pair of free throws from Ross gave the Quakers a 40-39 lead. It was the last one they would hold. Walton sank a trey before the end of the quarter, and Washington didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look back. Chambers hit a three to make it 46-43 with 7:30 to play. Atchley responded with a three. And then another from Walton. And then a jumper from Plum. And then a layup from Collier. For two minutes, a jumper from Stipanovich was the Red and Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only score. When the media timeout finally rolled around, it was 54-43, and the Quakers were

noticeably deflated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eventually fatigue naturally kicks in,â&#x20AC;? Penn coach Mike McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no excuses. They wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make any for themselves either. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure fatigue became some type of factor, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re used to it.â&#x20AC;? Yet another midrange shot from Stipanovich followed by a basket from Nwokedi and a huge three from Ross helped make it 56-50 with four minutes to play. But the run wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be enough. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thought we could get back in it with our own little run, but that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen,â&#x20AC;? Ross said. A combination of turnovers and missed shots kept Penn behind as time dwindled, before both teams eventually pulled their starters with 37 seconds to go. With that move, Penn coach Mike McLaughlin sent Brooklyn Juday â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lone healthy senior â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to the court for the final time. Juday was out there as the final buzzer signaled the end of an historic season, and Juday was left to reflect on the end of a career. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was bittersweet knowing that it was the very end, but nice knowing that the end was in such a great place to play,â&#x20AC;? she said. While Juday is looking back on her years at Penn, Whitlatch is looking forward. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the end, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just getting started.â&#x20AC;?

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. After a rousing comeback to win the first game, 8-4, Penn softball dropped the second game of its doubleheader by a score of 13-0 to Army on Friday night at Penn Park. The Quakers (8-6) got off to a great start early thanks to the continued hot streak of junior outfielder Leah Allen. Her RBI double in the first broke open the scoring and gave Penn a 1-0 lead early in game one. “I didn’t hit well in Florida so it’s nice to come in here and do well again,” Allen said. “I just hope it carries over for the next few weeks.” After the Quakers saw their lead balloon to 2-0 in the next

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So why exactly was the game moved up? The simple reason seemed to be because the previous game, Maryland versus Iona, had finished early. However that implies something greater, that this game — and all the players, coaches and fans who traveled to attend it — were just an afterthought, something that needed to be concluded as quickly as possible. That feeling was further driven home by the fact that ESPN chose to remotely broadcast the first and second round games at Maryland and at Mississippi State, meaning that off-site commentators provided the live commentary on the broadcast. Now, remote broadcasts aren’t entirely uncommon, but this is arguably the highest profile event

inning, the Black Knights (12-11) started to creep back into the picture. Thanks to a few well-placed throwing and fielding errors by the Red and Blue along with a string of hits from the Knights, the 2-0 score line was flipped on its head and became a 4-2 deficit by the middle of the 6th inning. Just when things started to look out of hand, Penn coach Leslie King’s squad dug deep to find their will to win. After loading the bases with zero outs in the bottom of the 6th, sophomore Katie Petroski stepped to the plate with zero collegiate home runs to her name. She couldn’t have picked a better time to join the club, knocking a ball over the centerfield fence of Penn Park and putting the Quakers back in the lead by the score of 6-4. “I think [Petroski’s grand slam] shifted the momentum to our side,” Allen said. “Then just keeping that going was really nice.”

The momentum continued as Allen smashed another ball over the right field fence four batters later to make the score 8-4 after six. “It was nice to see the team answer immediately,” King said. “That’s a good sign when you answer back when the other team scores to get ahead of you.” With the chance to snatch a win from the jaws of defeat, junior pitcher Alexis Sargent came back out for the seventh and finished the complete game to give Penn their fifth win in a row. Allen’s recent hot streak has been a major key to the Quakers’ recent success, after a six-RBI day against Lafayette on Wednesday, her three RBI in the first game brought her total for the week to nine. “She’s been locked in this whole week,” King said. “She’s an RBI machine when she’s locked in and tough to get out.” The second game of the doubleheader wasn’t as kind to the

for which that technique has been used, and this season is the first time ESPN has employed it for the women’s NCAA Tournament. Perhaps most importantly, this isn’t something that would happen on the men’s side of the NCAA Tournament. The expedited start, the remote broadcast, it’s all unfathomable if the genders were to switch. I can already picture the media firestorm if a game was moved up and a favorite was upset. We call it March Madness for a reason, but the focus should be on the madness within the game, not on the logistical madness outside of it. I know that women’s basketball doesn’t have the same widespread appeal that the men’s sport does, but one would think that on one of its biggest stages these players would be shown the same respect as their male peers. Furthermore, now is the

time to build that brand and that excitement surrounding the sport and upsetting fans — who don’t happen to be on Twitter half an hour before the game to see the time switch — isn’t the way to do it. So I encourage the NCAA or whoever was in charge of moving the tip-off and ESPN to think more carefully. We know there’s a market for exciting sports action regardless of the gender involved, just look back to how the nation reacted to the women’s world cup. Next time, show these studentathletes, their coaches and their fans the same respect you’d show on the men’s side. It’s really that simple. HOLDEN McGINNIS is an Engineering junior from Gladwyne, Pa., and is a senior sports reporter at The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

Red and Blue. Army designated hitter Emily Gray opened the scoring first with a quick two run homer early in the game. Junior pitcher Courtney Cuzick wasn’t able to get a reprieve from the offensive onslaught of the Knights, as they added one more run in the third. Staring down a 3-0 deficit in the fourth inning, the Quakers tried to find some way to get their team back in the game, but their troubles were just getting started. With two outs in the top of the fourth, Army put the game out of reach by plating ten runs before Penn could get off the field. With the home team’s offense unable to muster a sufficient response, the game was ended after five innings with the score standing at 13-0. The rare shutout was only the second of the season for the Quakers, and came on the heels of nine straight games with a run. Just three opponents standing between the Red and Blue and

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Sophomore infielder Katie Petroski picked a convenient time for her first career home run, hitting a grand slam in an 8-4 game one win.

the onset of Ivy play; they will have to quickly move on from this defeat if they want to defend their Ivy League South Division title. “We didn’t pitch well, we didn’t hit well, and we didn’t field

well,” King added. “We’re gonna forget about it. I’m not concerned about it at all.” With La Salle waiting on Wednesday, t he Qua kers will have to have a very short memory.

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Despite the unexpected early tip, Michelle Nwokedi managed to get six blocks Saturday.

WRESTLING | Casey Kent

earns All-American honors

THOMAS MUNSON Associate Sports Editor

It was a mistake to leave 174pound senior Casey Kent unseeded — a mistake Kent would make his opponents pay for. Big time. The Norristown, Pa., native, who finished the weekend with a 6-2 record at NCAA Nationals, was arguably the most dominant wrestler at Madison Square Garden on Friday.

The streak not only kept him alive in the consolation bracket but put him in a position to claim a fourth place medal on Saturday morning. Kent reeled off four consecutive wins on day two, three by pin and one by major decision. The third made him Penn’s 28th All-American. Going into day two, there had been a lot of optimism following a very successful first day for the Quakers. But, after two matches and two losses, any momentum that the Quakers brought into the arena from their impressive opening performance was suddenly gone.

Then came Casey Kent. The senior entered his first consolation bout against South Dakota State’s David Kocher as the Red and Blue’s last chance to grab a victory before the night session. Kent, who had already upset eighth-seeded Zach Epperly of Virginia Tech in the first round on Thursday, was fighting to stay alive in the wrestlebacks following a loss on Thursday evening. Kent dominated his opponent from start to finish, earning an 8-0 major decision victory. Because Kent began the day in the

loser’s bracket, he had to grapple for a second time in the afternoon session. This time his foe didn’t go down so easy. Sixteen-seed Micah Barnes of Nebraska awaited the unseeded Kent. Barnes was the aggressor from the opening whistle, jumping out to an 8-1 lead in the first period after nearly pinning Kent. By the time the third period began, Kent was still down by seven and in need of a miracle. After 30 seconds, he got one. The two wrestlers were on their

As I walked into the press room at the University of Maryland, I came across a fellow reporter quickly putting on his tie and grabbing his belongings to head down to press row. “The tip was moved up to 3:43.” It was a strange moment. Now, a full day removed from the game and that moment it’s odd to look back. After all, as far as I can tell, no one knew the game’s start time was changed until mere minutes before. The earliest sign of the change I can find is a tweet from University of Washington women’s basketball at 3:25 p.m. Penn didn’t tweet the change until just five minutes before the actual tip-off. Regardless, it’s fairly shocking to see an NCAA Tournament game’s start time changed. This is a nationally broadcast event, airing live on ESPN2, and one whose participants had been anticipating since Selection Monday. Moving up the start time on such short notice severely impacts their preparation and pregame rituals. For many players this is already a stressinducing matchup and one of the biggest games of their careers. Now, of course, this isn’t any sort of excuse or explanation for Penn’s loss — that can be much more clearly attributed to X’s and O’s rather than start times — but it certainly impacted both teams. “You’ve got all the emotions of coming in here, you have the excitement, you have a game that we anticipated to start at 4:00 and it starts 15 minutes earlier,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “But there’s no excuses and [the team] won’t make any for themselves either.”

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In the midst of a five-goal day, sophomore Kevin McGeary also notched two assists as Penn men’s lacrosse beat Princeton, 20-15.

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Some might attribute it to the luck of the Irish, but Penn men’s lacrosse put on an offensive clinic Saturday against Princeton at the Tigers’ Class of ’52 Stadium, blowing its previous season-high of 12 goals out of the water to cruise to a 20-10 victory in their first Ivy contest of the season and first win at Princeton since 1988. The Quakers (4-2, 1-0 Ivy) saw eight different players score, including a pair of five-goal performances from sophomore Kevin McGeary, who also had 2 assists, and freshman Simon Mathias. Senior captain Nick Doktor had one goal and six assists on the day for his second seven-point performance in three games, while

senior Patrick Berkery and freshman Alex Roesner each had a hat trick. After averaging just 10.6 goals per game in its previous five contests, the young Red and Blue offense scored 20 goals for the first time since 2001 and finally took the next step that Penn coach Mike Murphy said he had been waiting to happen in weeks previous. “Coach [Patrick] Myers did a really good job this week of tweaking the offense to better suit our personnel and we had some young players start to step up,” he said after the game. “We had some guys in some different positions start to produce that hadn’t been before. Kevin McGeary starred with five goals today and Pat Berkery also stepped up today, which was great because they had not been producing at this high of a level for us before.” The defense also had a great

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game, forcing 13 turnovers while holding the Tiger offense scoreless for a stretch of almost 22 minutes over the course of the first half, never allowing Princeton (2-4, 0-1) to make the game close. Freshman Reed Junkin made nine saves. Despite the large margin of victory, the Quakers will need to make some marked improvements to their game if they hope to avenge last year’s triple overtime loss to Cornell next week. Penn continued to struggle at the faceoff spot, winning just 14 of 33 faceoffs, continuing a season-long trend. Murphy also emphasized that the Quakers will have to stay out of the box to avoid man-down situations. The Red and Blue were drawn into eight penalties for a total of 6:30 of time man-down. That combination of man-down time and poor faceoff percentage could be deadly against an Ivy team with one of

the best faceoff percentages in the NCAA at .652. There are however, plenty of other areas where Penn is doing quite well. Their propensity for fouling hasn’t cost them too much; the Quakers are currently ranked seventh in the nation in man-down defense, killing off 77.8 percent of the penalties they take. As of yesterday, the Red and Blue were up to first in the nation in saves per game with 14.8. Offensively, Tewaaraton watch list member Nick Doktor has led the team to a No. 18 ranking in assists per game. So while some facets of the squad may still be a work in progress, they certainly have had plenty going for them so far this season. And at this rate, if their young impact players continue to take steps forward with every game, the Quakers have the potential to make some waves in the Ivy League.