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Within seconds, first Fling tix sold The Social Planning and Events Committee released 50 tickets today

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The first batch of Spring Fling floor passes sold out in 30 seconds on Monday, the first day they went on sale.

A form for passes was released at 1:30 p.m. and the first 50 people were selected almost immediately. Each of the first 50 students to fill out the form has the opportunity to buy two of the tickets.

Students will have more opportunities to acquire floor passes on Tuesday at 9 a.m., Wednesday at 10 a.m., Thursday at 4:30 p.m. and Friday at 2:00 p.m.

Penn’s Social Planning and Events Committee announced this year’s ticketing structure for the Spring Fling concert with a post on its Facebook page Sunday.

The concert will take place at Franklin Field on April 15, featuring DJ 3LAU and Chance the Rapper. SPEC announced on Saturday that SEE FLING PAGE 2

CROSSING RELIGIOUS DIVIDES THROUGH ART PAGE 2

CREATING A ‘CHILLER’ WIKIPEDIA Penn student launched alternative to Wikipedia, alongside controversial Rap Genius Founder ELAINE LEE Contributing Reporter

E In a place where we are rely on participation and lengthy discussions to power creativity, quiet is undervalued, maybe even discouraged.”

- Amanda Reid PAGE 4

veripedia is more than your classic startup led by a team of college dropouts.

Everipedia’s vision is to become the most accessible online encyclopedia that can be edited by members of the public. Branded as “Everyone’s Encyclopedia,” the startup differs from its major competitors like

Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica in that anyone can make their own page by creating a free account.

The company is run by a team that includes the cofounder of Rap Genius, Mahbod Moghadam , and Wharton sophomore George Beall, as well as co-founders Sam Kazemian and Theodor Forselius. The founders say

the company is currently valued at $10 million.

Beall described the company’s goals as sharing and producing information in a way that is less restrictive than Wikipedia’s model.

“Overall, we want to be a lot chiller than Wikipedia and just help share information and not get hung up on stupid details,” he said.

Beall — who is not currently enrolled at Penn — dropped out last year to start his own tech startup, Touch Tiles , which creates customizable hardware devices.

“I wanted to pretty much build legos for technology and so I ended up getting a SEE EVERIPEDIA PAGE 2

Faculty to get mental health training Select group with receive I CARE training in May

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A new initiative beginning next academic year will give a small group of faculty a much larger role in helping students who are struggling with mental illness.

In early May, a group of faculty from Penn’s four undergraduate schools will receive I CARE training, which stands for Inquire, Connect, Acknowledge, Respond and Explore, an intensive sevenhour session of training through Counseling and Psychological Services to “learn the signs of distress and mental health crises that can affect college students,” according to the CAPS website.

The I CARE training will be followed by panels or workshops that partner with important resources

on campus for students, including CAPS, and the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Life, said Beth Winkelstein, Vice Provost for Education.

This group of faculty will then go on to serve as Wellness Ambassadors during the 2016-17 academic school year, disseminating the information they learned throughout their respective schools, and encouraging students who they notice may be struggling with mental illness to seek help.

Law professor and past Chair of the Faculty Senate Claire Finkelstein, along with the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, unanimously voted to submit the proposal for this program to the administration last May. “This was to have been the pilot year of the program,” Finkelstein said, but added, “It’s not for the SEE FACULTY PAGE 6

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patent, working on development,” Beall said.

A f t e r s el l i ng To u ch Tiles in January, he joined Everipedia’s founding team, having met the other founders at a conference in Oct. 2015 at the California State Poly t e ch n ic Un ive r sit y, Pomona. Having worked on both startups, Beall plans to return to Penn in the fall to resume his studies.

Moghadam gained interest in the company because of his struggles trying to get a Wikipedia page for himself. After being fired from Rap Genius, the number one lyrics site in the world, for posting controversial online comments, Moghadam tried and failed numerous times to obtain a Wikipedia page.

He met the Everipedia cofounders at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was giving a talk last year.

“Sam came up to me during the talk and showed me my Everipedia page, and that caught my attention,” Moghadam said. “I was like

holy sh*t, this is such a big deal to me.”

One of Everipedia’s most unique aspects as an online encyclopedia is the feature that allows anyone to create a free account and start an Everipedia page.

The approach, it seems, is working. According to the founders, Everipedia gets one million page views per month.

“It’s really hard to put Wikipedia pages up because you need to know Wiki markup, which is a computer program ... whereas with Ever ipedia, anyone can add stuff, and even do it from your phone; a 10-yearold could use it,” Moghadam said.

While Wikipedia’s restrictions on what can and cannot have an online page prevent internet “trolls” from fabricating and spreading false claims and facts, Everipedia also has a system for accounting for legitimacy while still maintaining an open content creation space.

“Everything has to be verified, so you can’t go on there and not have some sort of reasonable proof that shows

that what you are saying is legitimate,” Beall said. “You can’t make bullsh*t claims and not back it up. We have a pretty big team here that scrolls through every activity on the site, and if something is sketchy, we take it down.”

Both Beall and Moghadam refer to Wikipedia’s rigid and controlling system of pagecreation as one of the most fr ustrating features they avoid at Everipedia.

“O n ly 30,0 0 0 p eople control the knowledge that billions of people see, and it all goes to this bullshi*t bureaucracy where at any point, any editor can say no, and then the idea is killed,” Beall said. “The system is really set up for pages to not be created.”

So far, Everipedia has a r ou nd 2 0 0,0 0 0 pa ge s posted.

“Our team has four very, very talented developers, any one of whom is talented enough that they could be doing their own startup and raising money on their own,” Moghadam said. “The fact that a huge team of people is working together just shows that we believe in this.”

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FLING

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Chance would be the Fling headliner. The Chicago-born rapper had previously performed at the SPECTRUM fall concert in 2013.

Last week, in conjunction with SPEC Concert’s release of the opener, SPEC Spring Fling also released the theme for this year’s celebration. The theme of “Fling of the Future,” is a departure from last year’s theme of “Alice in Wonderland” despite the fact that last year, like this year, featured an EDM artist as an opener. General admission tickets were $45, $5 more expensive than this year.

According to SPEC’s Facebook post, 1,000 floor passes will be available for purchase this year.

These tickets, priced at $50 — $10 more than the general admission price for Penn students — let students stand directly below the stage instead of sitting in the bleachers at Franklin Field. This type of ticket is only available to Penn students.

A lottery also went live on Monday, which each Penn student can enter once until Friday when the lottery closes. Two hundred students randomly selected from the lottery will have the opportunity to buy two floor passes each.

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The first batch of Spring Fling floor passes for opener, DJ 3LAU, and headliner, Chance the Rapper, sold out almost immediately.

general admission tickets will also be available for purchase. Tickets for four sections of the bleachers — ED, EE, EF and EG — will be sold on Locust Walk from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from Monday, April 4 to Wednesday April 13.

Sections EB, EC, EH and EJ will be sold online on the Penn Athletics website. For non-Penn

students the price of these tickets increases from $40 to $70. Sales will be limited to two tickets per transaction and SPEC will be checking PennCards. SPEC also reminded students in the post that the concert is only available to individuals over 18.

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Graduation stoles support Ghanaian weavers Kente Master was started in 2014, involving a Penn grad DAVID MURRELL Contributing Reporter

Three hundred years ago, Kente was the fabric of kings.

Today, you can buy it for your college graduation.

Kente Master, a social impact company founded in 2014, is one of the few authentic Kente suppliers and has been providing graduation stoles at Penn since last year for students affiliated with Makuu, Penn’s black cultural center. At this year’s graduation, the company will also provide stoles to some minority students graduating from the Perelman School of Medicine.

While many of its competitors produce their product outside of Ghana, Kente Master partners with the same villages and artisans around Kumasi, Ghana, that first invented the weaving style.

The company was born following an unlikely intercontinenta l pa r tnersh ip.

Peter Paul Akanko, a Ghanaian student, and Engineering junior Parag Bapna first met in Ghana in 2012 while participating in the International Development Summer Institute, a summer program focused on

international development.

“I got the chance to visit the Kente village where I got to witness how Kente is woven and to know about the rich culture,” Akanko, who still lives in Ghana and is the CEO, wrote to The Daily Pennsylvanian in an email. “A question began to ring in my mind — how come I’ve never seen these?”

Kente Master first brought its product to Penn thanks to a partnership with Makuu. After wearing the stoles at her graduation, 2015 College graduate and Chief Marketing Officer Rafiat Kasumu joined the company.

She and many of her classmates felt honored to be wearing the graduation stoles.

“Wearing a Kente stole has always been a symbol of black success in higher education to me,” 2015 College graduate Jade Parker said. “Receiving the stole was kind of like a rite of passage after seeing everyone before me having one.”

2015 College graduate Kendall Jackson, who also wore the stole for graduation, agreed.

“Getting the stole was an experience I really looked forward to,” she said. “For me it was a really important part of the black Penn community.”

With plans to expand Kente Master to Carnegie Mellon and the University of Massachusetts,

the company hopes more students of non-African descent will wear the stoles.

“We understand that Kente in and of itself is a symbol of African-American cultural heritage, but depending on how people view and like the quality and the symbolic value of the product, it’s definitely something that could be worn by other students at graduation,” Bapna said.

2015 Wharton graduate Justin Malone agreed, but cautioned that the stole might lose its community value if it becomes too widely disseminated.

“I don’t think the stoles have to be limited to students of African descent, but the student has to have actively been part of the black community,” he said.

“I would be very upset if each Penn student received one, since each Penn kid didn’t interact with Makuu or UMOJA groups.”

The company’s focus is not exclusively profit-driven — rather, it aims to support the Ghanaian weavers and their communities.

“We are a company, and we are thinking about profit to sustain the business,” Kasumu said. “But if we aren’t meeting our mission of creating a social impact in the communities in which we operate, we don’t think we’re successful as a company.”

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OPINION The quiet American Reid about it! | The undervalued aspects of quiet

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I still get sweaty palms when I enter into a lecture hall, especially when I’m told participation counts.

A cold fear passes over me when I think about how loud my tiny voice will have to grow in order to be heard by the professor, who seems to stand miles away from me. When you need to command the attention of upwards of a hundred people at a time, speaking out loud is a daunting, if not painful, experience.

I’ve been quiet ever since I can remember other people complaining about it. It’s not a label I give myself; it’s a trait that’s judged by others. Even if my mind is racing and my thoughts feel loud, I’m a quiet person by definition of how others see me. And I’m not alone in this — I’ve found that some people just don’t like to speak as much.

Quietness also grew out of a fear of loudness. In primary school, if I ever talked above a whisper in the library, an intimidating leather–skinned librarian would walk up to me and

tell me he’d glue my ears to the ceiling fan if I didn’t shut up.

I never saw it as such a flaw until I got older, when grades demanded a big voice that could carry itself far enough to be noticed by everyone in the room.

Throughout middle and high school, quiet was not only strange, it was a cause of concern in others. I was interrogated constantly for being myself with questions like “Did I say something to hurt you?” and “Are you scared of me?” and “Why don’t you speak more?” My report card in high school was littered with recommendations for me not only to speak more, but also to speak more loudly.

Susan Cain, who spoke about the Quiet Revolution in her TED talk “The Power of Introverts,” argues that the work and school environments cater to and accommodate a more extroverted community, yet nearly half of the population is introverted. In a sense, our school environ-

ment is dominated by loud spaces, and perhaps is in greater need of quiet ones.

At a place like Penn, loudness can signal assertion and confidence. Loudness is a marker of networking charisma, a means of crafting a sales pitch for yourself. In a place where we rely on participation

we’re not speaking, we’re listening. Oftentimes our own voice can act as a muffling device, shutting out others to keep ourselves as the main focus. We reduce our ability to concentrate on what people have to say when we don’t allow ourselves to be quiet.

Quiet breeds a kind of

In a place where we rely on participation and lengthy discussions to power creativity, quiet is undervalued, maybe even discouraged.”

and lengthy discussions to power creativity, quiet is undervalued, maybe even discouraged.

But being quiet actually works in our favor in a lot of ways. Quiet encourages us to listen to others. When

self-reflection that is absent when there is a consistent need to speak. It allows the mind to pause, take a mental breath and think carefully before communicating. Quiet makes you more aware of ev-

ery movement you make, and every rippling action you produce. Quiet gives weight to the world outside yourself.

Quiet accentuates loudness, so when I do speak, people take notice. Quiet people are often unexpectedly articulate, unexpectedly loquacious or unexpectedly interesting, because no one assumes that quietness can carry its own “voice.”

One of my favorite things about being the “quiet grey mouse” (a description of myself lovingly crafted by a friend) is the ability to remove myself from “me” and notice and observe the little quirks people have.

Maybe they play with their nail beds, maybe they flip their phone around in their hand, maybe their eyes dart around the room rather than making eye contact.

A self-aware silence encourages an observation of others that takes you completely away from yourself.

You see that the world is, in fact, not so quiet after all. Activity is constant.

Amanda Reid Embracing quietness does not mean rejecting having a voice. Like all things, there must be a harmony between loudness and quiet, with one balancing out the other. If we recognize that quiet and loud neither have inherent value nor exist in binary opposition, we can be a little less judgmental and a little more appreciative of people’s qualities.

Amanda Reid is a College sophomore from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, studying cinema studies & English. Her email address is amreid@sas. upenn.edu. “Reid About It!” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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To the Editors, Last week, an article was printed about me in The Daily Pennsylvanian claiming that “Controversial Religion Professor Anthea Butler” was under the protection of the Penn Police because I was not at my posted classroom for a graduate course for several weeks in a row. The article insinuated that because of a poorly sourced article from Campus Reform last semester that seemingly insulted presidential candidate Ben Carson, I was receiving threats because I am hated, and the reporter asked the question “Where in the world is Anthea Butler?”

For the record, I did not call Ben Carson what people have said I did. I made a reference to a friend’s tweet, and that was distorted by right wing press sites.

The facts that are not included in last week’s DP article are simple. I’m at Penn, on campus, every week. I am not being protected by the Penn Police, and I am not meeting in my assigned classroom because I am accommo-

dating one of my graduate students who had a scheduling conflict and needs this course for his doctoral exams. As a favor to him, I agreed along with his classmates to met earlier in the day, and we had to move locations. It is a small seminar, and because we don’t need a classroom, we meet in another location on campus.

Very simple.

Let me assure you all, I’ve been on campus every week since the spring semester began, doing my job as a professor. I’ve been teaching and mentoring my graduate students, participating in a departmental search, and walking around campus like everyone else. In short, I’m doing my job. Whether or not The Daily Pennsylvanian is, that’s another matter altogether.

I have declined numerous times to be interviewed by the DP, in part because of previous reporting on events concerning me that have happened that have been misinterpreted by conservative media sites such as Campus Reform, NewsMax and Fox News.

Unfortunately, reporters at the DP have used these sites to source “news” articles about me. The reporter in question has demanded to know where I am meeting from our administrative assistant and chair in the hopes of ambushing me, even after I refused interview requests politely via email. That is not acceptable. Additionally, the DP did not give

our department and other departments around campus have been harassed, all because I am seen as a racist because I teach and speak about the deleterious effects of racism.

While I am a very strong person, and can stand the attacks of the media, having students I hope to teach and inspire in the classroom write untruths about me is very disappointing

I have declined numerous times to be interviewed by the DP, in part because of previous reporting on events concerning me ... ” Penn police time to adequately respond to a query about me, and proceeded to print the article in question at 3 a.m. in the morning, four hours after sending an email at 11 p.m. AT NIGHT. In the past, I have received numerous hate mails, twitter threats, and

and it hurts. I had to spend a considerable time speaking with my graduate students about the danger of what can happen if you are an untenured professor who has untruths written about them. It can destroy a promising academic career.

Tenure at the University

of Pennsylvania is a tough process. I came to Penn in 2009 having been tenured at four other institutions because of a bidding war for my expertise and intellectual abilities. I chose to come to Penn. Having my commitment to my teaching and scholarship, as well as my job impinged by someone eager to get clicks for the DP is untenable. Hence this letter. I will not have my professional life on campus impinged by someone who has other axes to grind and does not know me. I am a committed Associate Professor in the fields of Religion and Africana Studies. I am well respected in my fields. I give extraordinary amounts of time to my students and colleagues. I am not an invisible punching bag. I hold a Ph.D. from the Vanderbilt University. I am not faceless, nor nameless. Nor do I punch a clock. Academic Freedom is important, and it is why many of you tried and succeeded to get into Penn. We have excellent professors and researchers.

I do not relish writing this letter. I’d rather be

working on an article, or hanging with my students, or reading. Because of the times that we live in today, when bullying is the norm, both on the playground and in presidential campaigns, and discourse is disjointed, it is important to get the story right. We all need remind ourselves that the University is the place where we should be able to have conversations that are not filled with half truths and innuendos, but facts and analytical thinking.

To close, let me use this article to say if you want to find out who I really am, come take my course on Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Black Lives Matter Fall 2016. I can’t think of a better way to get to know me through my scholarship and teaching, instead of a poorly sourced, clickbait article in The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Anthea Butler is the associate professor of Religious Studie s and Graduate Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Penn surveys to include questions on sexual assault Thrive modules also now required for all students

SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Deputy News Editor

Institutional surveys that Penn gives out regularly, including senior surveys, will now include questions about sexual assault.

The University said in November it would add more questions about sexual violence to existing Penn surveys, shortly after the American Association of Universities’ Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct was released.

When the results were released on Sept. 21, Penn President Amy Gutmann called them “deeply troubling.” Students reported a relative lack of knowledge about campus resources — only 12.6 percent of the students who took the survey knew where to go to make a report of sexual violence and only 10.7 percent even knew Penn’s definition of a sexual assault.

They were also less likely than average, among peer institutions,

to think a victim of sexual violence would be supported by other students in reporting what had happened, that campus officials would take the report seriously or that the safety of the victim would be protected.

In response, the administration announced a number of initiatives in November to improve students’ confidence in the University and their knowledge about resources.

First, it said it would require freshman orientation modules for all undergraduates. These modules, which are now called Thrive at Penn, were made available to all undergraduates to optionally complete over winter break.

Before the first day of spring semester classes, 23 percent of sophomores, juniors and seniors had completed the module.

Executive Director for Education and Academic Planning Rob Nelson said the modules will be required before the fall of next year for all students.

Penn’s administration also said they would revise regular surveys to include questions about sexual

assault. They are doing this now, starting with the senior survey, which launches this week. Nelson said the questions will be especially geared toward gauging knowledge about resources for victims and measuring perceptions of sexual assault on campus.

Similar questions will also be included on a survey of graduate and professional students in April, and next year in a University-wide enrolled student survey.

Nelson said the administration wants to see “whether we’ve seen any improvement in those numbers,” in light of their efforts in the past year, especially with regard to the Thrive at Penn module.

Finally, the administration also announced in November that there would be a push for launching and expanding programs that educate students about sexual violence and work to prevent it.

Penn Anti-Violence Educators launched in the fall of 2015, as well as It’s On Us Penn, which is responsible for posters around campus that seek to educate students about being “active

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In light of the AAU’s Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Assault and its findings, questions on sexual assault will now be on all institutional surveys given by Penn.

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don’t just coach each other,� senior thrower Kelsey Hay said. “We have the girls working with the guys, and the guys working with the girls.�

This is extremely valuable for the throwers and pole vaulters alike, since small tweaks in technique can bring about vast improvements in these events — not to mention that the throwing squad is the home to discus superstar, senior Sam Mattis.

Just last weekend, Mattis notched a throw of 67.45 meters, currently the best in the world, which Hay noted provides immense motivation to improve. “It is really nice to have Noah [Kennedy-White] and Sam as counterparts. They set the bar really high in the meets, so it’s nice to have that figurehead at the top of the men’s team to not just set the bar for the men’s team but for the female throwers too.�

And to be sure, Hay, the Ivy League record holder in javelin, undoubtedly provides the same inspiration for the men’s team.

This mutual encouragement and coaching holds true with the jumpers as well. “We are constantly pushing each other,� Benz said. “Specifically with pole vault, we practice at the same time and constantly coach each other.

Off the track as well, there’s that same kind of cohesiveness. We hang out together

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also exceptions — most notably, the track and field team.

While the men and women of Penn track and field do not officially compete together, keeping separate scores at meets, they are a more unified team than almost any other squad at Penn.

The teams practice together, travel together, cheer on their teammates at meets together and even hang out outside of class together. In other words, they do just about everything besides keep score together. “We like to think of ourselves as one team heading into meets,� sophomore pole vaulter Mike Benz said.

This solidarity between the two sides not only is good for team bonding but can really impact performance at the meets as well. “You see the guys doing well, and it gives you a lot of energy to do well yourself,� freshman pole vaulter Nicole Macco said. “Even if it’s not a jumping event, if you see someone on the guys’ team doing a really good race, you get that energy and want to do well too.�

Not only can the other gender provide a spark, but they can also provide critical feedback from a unique perspective that can lead to improvements. “We [on the women’s team]

and study together.�

While the men’s and women’s teams do a lot to coach each other, Penn coach Steve Dolan does not approach men and women differently in terms of his coaching style. “I don’t think of it as gender-specific really,� he said. “I think it all depends on the individual.�

Si m ila rly, t he at h letes see no differences in terms of coaching styles for men and women but applaud the coaches for leveraging the unique strengths of each to help the other.

While rare, the teams do occasionally separate. After the whole group — men and women included — meet together to prepare for competition, the team breaks up into smaller gender and eventspecific groups. “I think it is really nice to have the separate girls’ meeting because at the end of the day, we are being scored by ourselves at [the Ivy heptagonal Championships], and we are all working for the team goal of trying to make some noise at Heps.�

Regardless, the track athletes agree that they wouldn’t change anything about the unique bond the men’s and women’s teams have. “We are very close, and we love to help each other out,�

Macco said. “We are always there to cheer each other on no matter what team.�

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Penn track and field has its fair share of stars, and in 2015 all of the stars aligned.

Fueled by impressive performances by Sam Mattis on discus, Kelsey Hay on javelin and Tom Awad on the track, the Quakers amassed several individual honors while rolling to third and fifth place finishes at Ivy Heptagonal Championships for the men and women respectively.

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Mattis was also impressive on that Sunday, winning his third consecutive Ivy title in the discus while breaking the meet record. That, however, was not the end for Mattis: A month later, he won the NCAA championship with a dramatic, final-attempt 205-foot throw in Eugene, Ore. “He went in for that last throw, and he just wound it up,�

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Last Saturday was Hay’s second meet of the spring season after she, Mattis and junior Noah Kennedy-White competed in the USF Invitational the weekend prior. “That was nice for us since we’ve been dormant over the last couple of preseasons and we’re long throwers, where there is no equivalent indoors,� Hay said. “It was really nice to have that opening meet, just a shake-outthe-cobwebs meet. All of us ended up exceeding our expectations.�

With the goal of being at their best from Heps through the remainder of the season, the Quakers have been training since indoor season. As the outdoor season blooms, these first few meets will be used for evaluating injuries and getting used to being outdoors again. Sophomore Taylor McCorkle said that after the buildup and last weekend’s rough weather, she is excited for the next few months — with hopefully nicer weather conditions. “Coach [Porscha] Dobson tells us at indoor that we’re not expected to peak because we definitely want to keep progressing

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and get faster for outdoors,� McCorkle said, adding that the team has seen some encouraging times from indoor season. “I think we’re ready to open up, get warm weather and run fast.�

McCorkle also spoke of competing in a less stressful environment when at her home track, an emphasis Penn coach Steve Dolan shares. “It’s the second meet at home, and we love competing at home,�

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Still, following that meet, Hay was not quite satisfied; a topthree finish nationally in 2016 immediately became her next objective. “Just getting on that podium in my senior year would be the icing on the cake for me,� Hay said following her 2015 win.

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Five freshmen to watch Rookies ready to make mark with Red and Blue WILL SNOW Associate Sports Editor

With an indoor season already under their belts, the freshmen of Penn track and field have already gotten their feet wet in collegiate competition. Here are some athletes to watch for in the 2016 season: 5. Joseph Novak Joseph Novak enjoyed a quiet but strong start to his Penn track career with an impressive indoor season. A mid-distance specialist, the Wisconsin native earned the most success in the 1,000-meter run, finishing seventh at the Ivy League Indoor Championships. His best time in the event is a 2:26.47, an ideal personal record for a freshman because it is already very fast, but still leaves room for improvement. As the outdoor season progresses, look out for a few seconds’ improvement from Novak.

4. Nicole Macco Nicole Macco has already made a name for herself on the field. The pole vaulter had the best performance by several inches of all of her Penn

teammates this indoor season, and that 12’8” jump PR she landed is a highly competitive height by any standards.

Having finished third at the Ivy Indoor Championships earlier this month, Macco should look forward to an impressive first season out on Franklin Field.

3. Elias Graca Elias Graca is adding to what is already a deep mid-distance squad for the Quakers. The man from the greater Philadelphia area has clearly found the transition to Penn easier than most with a few standout performances already in his track career. Graca finished third in a very competitive 800m dash at the Ivy Indoor Championship meet, and his personal best of 1:50.16 is eye-catching to say the least.

Distance runners only improve with time, so Graca could easily see that personal best drop in the weeks to come.

2. Imani Solan Imani Solan is simply blessed with talent. The renowned sprinter has already found the podium in an Ancient Eight championship meet with a second place finish in the 200m dash, which she ran in 24.10, along with an 8th place finish in the 60m dash. Solan competed in just about every sprint distance while

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GOOD TO FINALLY GET OUTSIDE After a long winter going through the indoor season, Penn track and field finally made its way outside this weekend, hosting the Philadelphia College Classic against a series of local opponents.

in high school in New York, but her greatest potential likely lies in the 200m, an event she can truly make her own. As she refines her form and technique, fans can expect a championshipcontending season from Solan.

1. Calvary Rogers Calvary Rogers has taken Penn track by storm. The sprinter had the 20th fastest time of any Ivy League runner in the 400m dash for the indoor season with a sub-50 second time, the 13th fastest in the 60m sprint at almost 7 seconds flat, and at the Ivy Indoor Championships, the Rochester, N.Y., native took second in the 200m dash with a 21.58, the second fastest time in Penn indoor track history.

“It wasn’t my best race, so I know the only place I can go from here is up,” Rogers said. “It was really humbling to do well and still lose.”

Just a few months into his career with the Quakers, Rogers already stands tall as one of the best sprinters on the team, with the potential to be one of the greatest to ever wear the Red and Blue. Simply put, it’s not that often that a sprinter of such talent passes through Penn. All eyes will be on Rogers as he grows into his first outdoor track season of college.

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by any collegiate athlete born in the United States. He became the first American at any age level to surpass 67 meters since Jarred Rome did so back in August 2011. If placed in the 2012 Olympic Games, Mattis’ throw would’ve taken fourth place in the men’s discus competition — more than five meters ahead of Jason Young, who was the United States’ highest finisher at 18th place.

And, for good measure, the senior proved that his breakout performance was no fluke during the remainder of Saturday’s competition. With two more attempts surpassing 66 meters in that same meet, Mattis now claims three throws past that mark in 2016 — the rest of the world has none.

“We didn’t see this coming at all — this is something that not only moves up the timetable of this season, but also where I thought I’d be in my career,” Mattis said.

“67 [meters] is something where I thought that maybe on an awesome day, I could get this year ... But now that I hit that — and I wasn’t even feeling especially great [going into the meet] — I think this season can be pretty big.”

While Mattis has already clinched a spot in the U.S. Olympic Trials after comfortably surpassing the qualifying standard of 62.00 meters, the path isn’t so easy for Awad, who still has serious work to do for a spot on the national team in 2016.

Awad’s 2015 outdoor season

began similarly to Mattis’, as the distance runner set a school record with a 13:33.29 performance in the 5K — the second-best time in Ivy League history — en route to his third straight qualification for the event at the NCAA Championships.

But Awad didn’t have the same fairy tale ending, as he was ultimately unable to finish the championship race due to stress-related injury. The sting of defeat was only exacerbated by the fact that Awad’s personal best time from earlier in the season was actually faster than the time run by eventual champion Edward Cheserek of Oregon in the title race.

“I needed to take a step back from track for a little bit after that, since I was pretty disappointed because I had pretty high expectations and just kind of burned out,” Awad said.

“Now, it’s been more about doing the right things to make sure that doesn’t happen again, so it’s definitely added more motivation.”

And, needless to say, Awad’s strategy has paid off so far. In February, Awad finished with a 3:57.03 performance in the indoor mile, setting the Ivy League record in the event and currently ranking eighth place in the nation among competitors of all ages in 2016.

Although Awad has not yet reached the U.S. Olympic Trials qualifying standards in the outdoor 5K (where his personal record is 5.29 seconds shy of the mark) or the 1,500m (2.68 seconds shy), the senior remains optimistic that he can hang with the best the nation has to offer in either event.

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Philadelphia College Classic, Franklin Field

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Penn Challenge, Franklin Field

April 1-2

Virginia Quad Meet, Charlottesville, Va.

April 9

Lou Onesty Invitational, Charlottesville, Va.

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Widener Invitational, Chester, Pa.

April 22

Larry Ellis Invitational, Princeton, N.J.

April 28

Penn Relays, Franklin Field

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“I definitely want to go back and do well at NCAAs, and then hopefully get to the trials,” he said. “It’s going to be kind of both [events] depending on the situation — kind of 50-50 right now depending on what I can qualify for and what I’m looking better in.”

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presence of strong national competition, another obstacle for both athletes could come in the form of the athletic calendar. This year’s NCAA Championships conclude on June 1. At the U.S. Olympic Trials, the men’s 5K doesn’t begin its preliminary rounds until July 4, while the discus and 1,500m competitions

Heptagonal Championships Princeton, N.J. ECAC/IC4A Championships Princeton, N.J. NCAA East Preliminaries Jacksonville, Fla. NCAA Finals, Eugene, Ore. USA Junior Championships Location TBA USA Olympic Trials, Eugene, Ore.

both begin on July 7, meaning that Mattis and Awad could be facing nearly a month without meets.

But with a chance to represent the country at stake, both Quakers will do everything in their power to don the Red and Blue once more after their collegiate careers have concluded.

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“Obviously I really want to win nationals, but it’s not worth it if I’m not making that Olympic team,” Mattis said. “That’s once every four years, and that’s a huge deal, something that’s a life goal.”

“I think I should be good to peak in June, but the real peak is gonna be in July.”

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Two of Penn’s own dream of Olympic bid COLE JACOBSON Associate Sports Editor

One set the all-time Ivy League record for the indoor mile. The other claims an individual NCAA national championship to his name.

And both have a lot more up their sleeves.

If all goes as planned for senior men’s track and field stars Thomas Awad and Sam Mattis, this June’s NCAA National Championships won’t mark the end of their respective 2016

seasons. With the U.S. Olympic Trials coming up in preparation for this summer’s Rio de Janeiro Games, both seniors will have an opportunity to swap the Quakers’ Red and Blue uniform for that of the U.S. Men’s National Team.

“These trials are something that’s been on the front of my mind since like the ninth grade,” Mattis said. “It’s finally here and definitely looking more realistic, and I couldn’t be more excited.”

Mattis made a name for himself in 2015, re-defining the term “clutch” with a lifetime best 62.48-meter effort on his last throw of the NCAA Championships to become Penn’s first national champion in any event

since 2003.

“Obviously that was an awesome accomplishment for me; winning that championship was something I’d wanted to do since my freshman year, and to actually get it done was surreal,” the two-time All-American said.

“I’m still not even sure if it’s hit me yet.”

With a maximum of three American competitors per event allowed to head to the Olympics, Mattis still appeared to be a tier below the nation’s elite, as his school record throw was more than 2.5 meters below each of the top three American athletes at the conclusion of 2015.

But with a flick of the wrist at

last weekend’s Philadelphia College Classic, Mattis went from a fringe contender to the arguable favorite in the blink of an eye.

Opening the outdoor season, Mattis picked up right where he left off at the end of 2015 — and then some. On his first official throw of the spring, Mattis surpassed his personal record by more than 16 feet, securing a throw of 67.45 meters to take the best mark in the event on the planet, for competitors of any age, in 2016.

Put into perspective, Mattis’ throw was the fourth best in NCAA history, and the farthest SEE OLYMPICS PAGE 9

Men, women together Quakers stay local as in everything but score outdoor season kicks off Unique camaraderie between track teams

Red and Blue host Philly College Classic

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Associate Sports Edtior

Historically in athletics, men and women of respective professional sports do not train with or compete against each other. Obviously, there are exceptions. Take Danica Patrick or Billie Jean King, for example. But for the most part, this norm holds true.

These men and women may be friends outside of sports, but when it comes to the court or the field or the track, there isn’t much overlap.

This division quite logically occurs at Penn, too. While the men’s and women’s basketball teams playfully competed in a Twitter challenge to gain

For the second consecutive weekend, Penn track and field will host a meet at Franklin Field, with Saturday’s Penn Challenge against Army, Manhattan, Rider, Villanova and Connecticut just days away.

While there will be some similarities between the Penn Challenge and last weekend’s Philadelphia College Classic, sophomore Jeff Wiseman sees is a key difference in the level of competition.

“The competition is a lot stronger,” he said. “There are fewer teams, but the teams coming are bringing their best competitors.”

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Penn track & field is unique in its cross-gender cohesion: the men and women train together, travel together, and hang out together after-hours.

the most followers — with the women’s team even receiving the support of Jay Bilas — the teams still have different coaches, different

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Classic, where Penn officially opened its outdoor season against Philadelphia-area schools, the men recorded victories in six events. Senior Sam Mattis made headlines in the discus with his distance of 67.45 meters becoming the current best mark in the world, surpassing the International Association of Athletic Federations Olympic A Standard and setting new school and conference records as well as placing the senior captain fourth in NCAA history. At the NCAA Championships last June, Mattis won with a throw of 62.48 meters.

Mattis picked up a second win in the shot put and sophomore Sean Ryan won Penn a third field event with a 57.21-meter mark in the hammer throw. Junior Nick Tuck and the Quakers took the top three spots in the steeplechase, with Tuck leading the way with a mark of 5:49.07. The other

two Penn wins came from sophomore Patrick Hally and junior Chris Hatler, who took down the 1,500 meter run and 3,000 meter run with times of 3:51.44 and 8:23.37, respectively.

On the women’s side, two freshmen collected their first wins of the outdoor season in Marin Warner and Nicole Macco.

Warner won the 1,500-meter run in 4:43.71 while Macco secured the pole vault with a 3.5-meter mark. The Quakers’ two other track wins came from juniors Ella Wurth and Ashley Montgomery, who claimed the 800-meter and 3K runs with times of 2:12.91 and 9:31.25, respectively.

Junior Nailah Hill triumphed in the discus with a throw of 45.06 meters, and senior Kelsey Hay’s 47.43 mark in the javelin was good for first place as well.

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