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Safety alerts to be year-round Previously, most students were not notified with alerts in the summer

DAN SPINELLI City News Editor

Beginning on Wednesday morning, all University students will automatically receive UPennAlerts in the summer months. Up until now, most students were removed from the list of people notified for UPennAlerts after Commencement and before the first day of New Student Orientation.

Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli and Provost Vincent Price will send a University-wide email at 10 a.m. on Wednesday to announce this change.

Students will be able to go into Penn InTouch to voluntarily opt out of receiving alerts if they are away from campus. In previous years, only faculty, staff members and some students — such as resident and graduate advisors — remained on the notification list. Even faculty who were not on campus were still included on the list of people receiving alerts in the summer.

“We became aware of the need that students weren’t necessarily leaving campus and we created an interface and give them the power to opt out,” she said.

The Division of Public Safety began working with the Information Systems and Computing office last summer to update their system. The Daily Pennsylvanian previously reported about UPennAlerts not being sent to all students after a shooting over Fourth of July weekend near Kings Court English House. The shooting prompted a UPennAlert that went out to faculty and staff, but not to most students.

At the time, the DP reported that local universities such as Drexel and Temple send safety alerts to at least some students away from campus in the summer.

Rush said even before the Fourth of July weekend shooting, DPS had received requests from students remaining in the University City area to be notified of UPennAlerts.

“We started sometime in the summer and early fall when we realized there would be a need,” she added.

Students who opt out of receiving alerts during the summer months will be automatically re-enrolled on the first day of NSO.

BURGER CHEF, JAZZ MUSICIAN,

SPY The varied man behind the monotonous voice

JULIA BELL Contributing Reporter

“Fill those precious lungs with little helium sprites of the universe,” H. Jon Benjamin’s gravelly voice commanded from the speakers, “now exhale it out. Okay, let’s get started.”

This Tuesday, H. Jon Benjamin played tracks from his own experimental jazz album on the stage in the Harrison Auditorium at the Penn Museum. The voice actor addressed a full house at the sold-out event.

Benjamin is best known for his voice acting as the titular characters on FX’s “Archer” and FOX’s “Bob’s Burgers.” He also played a role in the film “Wet Hot American Summer” and the Netflix show “Master of None.”

The event was organized by the Social Planning and Events Committee.

College junior Tim Bloom, one of the directors of SPEC Film, said that he “spent most of SEE BENJAMIN PAGE 5

Huntsman activity prompts alert The all-clear was sent fifteen minutes after the initial alert DAN SPINELLI City News Editor

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A student concerned with a peers’ actions in Huntsman Hall alerted the Division of Public Safety on Tuesday night.

Concerns over a student’s actions in Huntsman Hall prompted a UPennAlert on Tuesday night, according to the Division of Public Safety.

Around 7:15 p.m., DPS sent an alert that described “increased police activity” at Huntsman. Fifteen minutes later, DPS sent an all-clear message. Nobody was injured, according to DPS. A little after 7 p.m., DPS received

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a phone call from a student in Huntsman who was concerned about a fellow student’s behavior, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

The student in question had been in a meeting with other students in Huntsman. The individual, whose gender was not released by DPS, left with a knife that was being used to cut a cake, Rush said.

“We were very concerned as to the way in which the student left with the knife and were concerned for [the individual’s] safety and the safety of others,” she added.

Once DPS was alerted to the situation,

In mimicking the language of others, I have unintentionally hurt a lot of people.”

they notified security guards in Huntsman Hall and sent Penn Police to the location. The UPennAlert was also sent at that time.

DPS brought the student into custody, where they chose, as of Tuesday night, to not make an arrest. The all-clear message initially said the student was arrested, but Rush said that after the individual was brought in for questioning, DPS “was able to adjudicate the situation without making an arrest.”

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Penn Police skate and bond with local Phila. kids Annual PAL day offers mentorship opportunity

he said. “You’re hard pressed to find a more unique program.”

In the 1990s, Penn struggled with crime in areas around the campus. Some of this crime was committed by juveniles, so the Division of Public Safety decided to create a youth center to provide a safe environment and to keep kids off the streets.

Penn took the lead and raised money for an endowment to create the Tucker Police Athletic League of Philadelphia, which began about three years before PAL began.

Originally, the PAL center was housed at a school in West Philadelphia that closed three years ago, Rush said.

Now, PAL partners with the Elwyn Institute and has a lease for a building on 4040 Ludlow St. The center is expected to open in April or May 2016, potentially with Mayor Jim Kenney present, Rush said.

This PAL center pairs one Philadelphia police officer from the PAL unit with an officer from Penn Police Department of a different gender, Qualli said.

That way the kids can have both a male and female role model.

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On Tuesday, the Philadelphia Police Athletic League hosted its annual PAL day at the Ice Rink, sponsored by the Division of Business Services, the Division of Public Safety and Coca-Cola.

Kids from Philadelphia who participate in PAL events ice-skated alongside police officers and the Penn Figure Skating Club.

The event started around 16 years ago, bringing together citywide PAL groups from 20 different centers in the city.

“Kids get a chance to ice skate, have pizza and hang out in a safe environment,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

Ted Qualli, the Executive Director of PAL, framed the event as a “cops helping kids” event, especially in light of the tension between police and communities following events such as the riots in Ferguson, Miss.

PAL is “part of the solution to some of these bigger challenges,”

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At the Philadelphia Police Athletic League’s annual ice-skating event, kids skated alongside police officers and Penn Figure Skating

One dedicated police off icer, Of f icer Cassa nd ra Parks-DeVaughn, focuses solely on PAL centers.

Parks-DeVaughn has been with PAL for the past 12 years and has helped develop programs for the girls who participate.

She started programs such as

competitive cheerleading, dance, art, tumbling, cooking and a Positive Attitude Ladies Pageant.

Many of these activities run twice a week, so that there will be something on every given day.

PAL has expanded beyond just sports, including events for students who do not enjoy sports.

The program has adjusted to meet the interests of all kids.

“Every kid is a round peg for a round hole,” Rush said.

The program saw a 39 percent decline in juvenile arrests near the Harrowgate PAL from 201011, according to the Philadelphia PAL website. This led to a 6 percent overall decline in juvenile arrests citywide in the same year.

Rush, who serves as the Vice Chair of the PAL board, has tried to expand the focus of the organization over the years. “A lot of the kids who go to PAL might, if not for PAL, be going home to an empty house,” Rush said.

Instead, PAL offers the kids an opportunity for mentorship with police officers. While PAL events used to only include sports, they have expanded to include a homework club, a computer club and a cheerleading squad.

Rush explained that a few years ago, a high school ice hockey team was accidentally double-booked with the PAL ice skating event. Instead of trying to find another time to practice, the ice hockey team volunteered to teach PAL kids how to ice

skate. The Penn Figure Skating Club and the Freeze Women’s Ice Hockey team, a recreational city team, volunteered at the event and helped teach kids how to skate.

One of the board members of PAL is an attorney at Cozen O’Connor law firm in Philadelphia. The firm hosts a prom night for the PAL kids and even brings in dresses for the girls to wear.

Rush hopes that Penn students will volunteer at the new PAL center. Penn students can serve as great role models and mentors for these kids. Rush would like to see Penn students helping the PAL kids study for SATs, think about their futures and think about their future career options.

The program helps build selfesteem, and kids have the chance to do things they would not normally have the opportunities to do, Parks-DeVaughn explained.

For some of the participants on Tuesday, it was their first time ice-skating.

“It’s a great organization,” Rush said. “It’s been around since 1947, and it continues to grow.”

Penn doctors write in support of asylum seekers Documentation of trauma essential to asylum cases ALLY JOHNSON Contributing Reporter

There is a new demand for physicians to save lives — outside of the emergency room.

2015 Perelman School of Medicine graduate Jenna Peart, fourth-year medical student Elisabeth Tracey and assistant professor Jules Lipoff recently published a letter to the editor in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine encouraging

physicians to perform forensic medical evaluations for asylum seekers, and those who seek asylum once they are already in the United States.

Lipoff a nd Pea r t coauthored the letter because they see a lack of awareness in the medical community about this opportunity to defend human rights.

“Physicians really a ren’t aware of the role they can play in human rights crises in general,” Peart said.

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Physicians who per for m these evaluations have a considerable impact on the lives of victims. Asylum seekers’ chances of approval double with medical documentation of torture or other trauma, according to a study cited in the letter.

Asylum seekers with medical affidavits and legal counsel were found to have success rates of 79 percent to 89 percent compared to a national average of 37.5 percent.

Refugees and asylum seekers are distinct in that asylum seekers request protection once they are already in the United States, whereas refugees apply from abroad. Like refugees, those who are granted asylum have suffered persecution or fear that they will suffer persecution due to factors such as race, membership in a particular social group, religion, ethnicity or political opinion.

Asylum seekers whose requests a re denied can be forcibly deported, said Judy Eidelson, a clinical psychologist and adjunct fellow at the Penn Center for Public Health Initiatives who has interviewed asylum seekers from more than 60 countries. Medical documentation of trauma is critical to the success of asylum cases because the United Nations’ Convention against Torture blocks countries from deporting people to countries where they will be tortured or persecuted.

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Penn-affiliated personnel published an article in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal, advocating for medical evaluations on asylum seekers.

persecution. The psychological effects of trauma can actually make victims appear less credible in immigration proceedings.

“They are either inconsistent in the way they describe what happened to them, or their emotional expression seems odd or unexpected, ” Eidelson said.

She added that trauma victims may not have physical scars of

abuse or may only have nonspecific scars. These cases can be even more challenging.

“Ideally a person would have great evidence to support their claim, but usually the government forces who are persecuting a particular minority or social group don’t do so publicly,” Eidelson said.

The number of people who are seeking asylum has soared

in recent years, and more physicians are needed to meet this demand. Physicians can be trained to perform forensic evaluations and prepare medical affidavits for these cases so that they can volunteer on a part-time basis. The School of Medicine’s Penn Human Rights Clinic, cofounded by Peart in 2012, is one organization that provides such training.

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Phila. moves forward with universal preschool Mayor Kenney ran on this campaign promise in 2015 CHARLOTTE LARACY Staff Reporter

Philadelphia is demanding implementation of universal preschool to every 3- and 4-year old, regardless of their need or neighborhood. Mayor Jim Ken ney has made st rong campaign promises to make universal preschool a priority and now the city is trying to bring these promises to fruition.

In May 2015, Philadelphians voted overwhelmingly — with an 80 percent vote — to create the Philadelphia Commission

on Universal Pre-Kindergarten.

The Commission’s goal is to propose a pre-K program that provides quality, affordable and accessible services for threeand four-yea r-old children throughout Philadelphia.

In February, the Commission published a draft of their recommendations to implement universal pre-K. One of their suggestions was to obtain funding from multiple sources including federal Head Start, state-funded Pre-K Counts and local private funding.

While there is no single representative estimate for the cost of quality preschool in Philadelphia, the Commission has found that the average cost

would be $13,000 per preschool child. This would provide quality care for eight hours a day and 260 days per year.

As of now, the city has $60 million in state funding for the preschool program and about 14,000 of the 42,500 — one-third — of Philadelphia’s three- and four-year-old children have access to affordable quality pre-K. T h e C o m m i s s io n h a s asked the Penn Child Research Center, which includes Whitney LeBoeuf, research associate for the Graduate School of Education, to help them prioritize their funds. During an interview with Knowledge @ Wharton Business Radio,

LeBoeuf explained Penn Child Research Center’s work with the pre-K commission.

“We at the Penn Child Research Center have a whole wealth of research that shows some really big risk factors in early childhood,” LeBoeuf said. “There are a whole host of experiences that greatly determine where kids are in their educational experiences later.”

Some of the risk factors include lead exposure, child maltreatment, birth risks and low-maternal education.

LeBoeuf also explained the use of big data in order to show where children with these high risk factors are living in Philadelphia. While there is only

about one-sixth of the necessary funding, this information on early childhood risk factors can be used to to better serve these children.

“We can find pockets of high concentrations,” LeBoeuf said.

“Up to 50 percent of kids have two or more of these risk factors. They’ve been using that in their draft plan to figure out where they’re going to distribute these resources.”

A study by professors in GSE, including LeBoeuf, has found that each additional risk factor lowered a child’s chance of reading proficiency, classroom engagement and attendance in third grade by 30 to 50 percent.

Mayor Kenney is promoting

a soda tax that could achieve universal pre-K, jobs and development projects with about $400 million over five years.

The three-cents-per-ounce soda tax would apply to any beverage with added sugar, including sports drinks and sweetened teas.

Children who attend highquality programs are less likely to be held back a grade, less likely to need special education and more likely to graduate from high school, according to a report by the PEW Charitable Trusts. They also have higher earnings as adults and are less likely to become dependent on welfare or involved with law enforcement.

Penn historian talks about black feminism in Haiti Documentation was primary barrier to research JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Reporter

On Tuesday night, gender and sexuality historian Grace L. Sanders Johnson gave a talk on black feminism in relation to Haiti.

The talk, which was titled “Reimagining the Black (Feminist) Republic: Archival Traces and Gender Meaning in U.S. Occupied Haiti,” was hosted by the Africana Studies Department.

Johnson, a Vice Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow for Academic Diversity in the Africana Studies

Department, discussed her current project, which looks at the transnational feminist movement created by Haitian women following American occupation.

Her work primarily focused on the narratives of the women who started and participated in La Ligue Feminine d’Action Sociale, a feminist league in Haiti which was started in the 1930s after the occupation ended.

In conducting her research on these women and their movement, Johnson ran into several dilemmas.

The most immediate concern was a general lack of documentation on the subject. She found that there were limited records of the

post-U.S. occupation By using time period. Several family networks regimes had banned to pull together collection of documenher resea rch, tation and demanded Johnson was able that other documents be to construct a destroyed. Following narrative of the the 2012 earthquake in movement.

Haiti, many of the reShe is not the maining archives were only speaker to destroyed. have discussed Johnson was also black feminism confronted with a culGRACE SANDERS at Penn this seture of silence.

JOHNSON mester. Earlier “The choice to be this spring Penn silent about something is cultur- Law and Sociology Professor ally embedded,” she said. For Dorothy Roberts discussed her Haitian women, it’s part of their acclaimed book, “Killing The culture to not speak publicly Black Body,” which looked at the about their personal issues. issue of reproductive rights for

black women in the United States.

Roberts also recently gave a TED Talk on race-based medicine.

During her talk at Penn, Roberts called for a discussion of feminism that included and took special interest in the issues facing black women and other women of color in America. She also called out misogyny within the black community, which she argued is complicit in silencing the voices of black women.

Although Roberts’ work was focused on black women in the United States and Johnson’s was focused primarily on the experience of Haitians, both touched on the unique struggle black women in particular face when discussing

feminism.

Following the end of U.S. occupation, many Haitians rejected what they saw as aspects of western ideology, like feminism.

“The idea was that feminism was a western import,” Johnson explained. “They were often ignored in these [activist] spaces” Many of these women left Haiti in order to escape political persecution and state-sanctioned violence against women.

Johnson’s project follows the stories of these women as they continued to work towards gender equalities far from their native land.

“This is a narrative of learning and longing,” she said.

Popular intro class to be revamped as ENVS 100 Course double counts for College requirements CARL-EMMANUEL FULGHIERI Contributing Reporter

Earth and Environmental Science 200, the introductory earth science and environmental studies course, will be updated with a new and more specialized curriculum and listed as Earth and Environmental Science 100.

The course, popular among nonmajors for counting for two general education requirements — Quantitative Data Analysis and Physical World — is becoming more distinct from other earth science courses and aimed at introducing the field of environmental science. The new course will also be offered in the spring, whereas Earth and Environmental Science 200 was offered

only in the fall.

Alain Plante, the course’s instructor and undergraduate chair of the Earth and Environmental Science Department, is responsible for the recently announced change. He began teaching the course in 2007.

On the motivation to change Earth and Environmental Science 200 to Earth and Environmental Science 100 Plante said, “As student demand and interest evolved, I felt it was time to create an actual environmental science course.”

The action aims both to increase accessibility for non-majors drawn towards environmental science and to provide a course more relevant to environmental science concentrations.

Plante expressed fears that students drawn to the environmental science of the course were being turned off by the earth sciences and

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geology aspects of the curriculum.

Referring to the the overlap with the geology curriculum, Plante said, “it’s not geology 100, but when I first started teaching this course I had to learn a lot of geology.”

Penn Course Review rates the class as a 2.4 and the description describes specific disinterest about topics such as soil processes. College sophomore John Holmes, who took the class last year, found that his non-major peers had difficulty pulling something substantial out of the class.

“Dr. Plante will probably not do as much of those topics in an environmental science class as an earth science, so the change will probably be good in that regard,” Holmes said.

Earth and Environmental Science 100 is one of several other classes, mostly geology courses,

that double-count for Quantitative Data Analysis and Physical World requirements. The majority of students take the class with this in mind.

“Out of [150 students] there might be a dozen who become majors.

Most people take it for the general ed requirements,” Plante said.

Students specifically chose Earth and Environmental Science 200 from other double-counting courses, such as Geology 130 “Oceanography,” because of the attention environmentalism has given the field. College freshman Luca Chiaperotti, an economics major taking “Oceanography” to meet requirements, said that the new design of Earth and Environmental Science 100, with a greater emphasis on human interaction with the environment, would attract him.

“The curriculum would inform

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The introductory course to the Earth and Environmental Science major, ENVS 200, will be revamped and relisted this coming semester.

me on things important to understand as I carry out the rest of my life, even if I never take another class regarding the environment” he said.

Earth and Environmental Science 100 will be the new introductory course for environmental studies and the environmental science concentration. The new design aims to provide an accessible and in-depth

introduction of environmental science and human interaction to those with a specific interest or those just passing through.

Plante believes the new course will be a better introduction to environmental science.

“The new course will better reflect the progression of the major,” Plante said.

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OPINION Hey, big spender fair enough | Penn’s financial disclosures are comically opaque

wednesday March 23, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 33 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor JOYCE VARMA Creative Director

Most Penn students probably don’t bother to look through Penn’s Annual Report, the yearly financial disclosure which Penn, as a nonprofit, is required by law to publish.

This is a shame, because doing so provides some interesting insights into how the institution we all attend actually functions. For example, I would surmise that most students wouldn’t guess that, in the previous fiscal year, patient service fees — the bills that Penn charges patients in its hospitals and health system — accounted for just shy of 57 percent of the University’s $7.1 billion revenue, whereas tuition and fees accounted for just 11.9 percent.

Providing such insight is, after all, the purpose of a nonprofit’s annual report.

The tax-deductibility of donations to institutions like Penn, which enjoy recognition under section 510(c) (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, essentially amounts to a public subsidy of such organizations. The idea behind requiring annual financial

disclosures, therefore, is that the public has a right to know how the organizations that their tax dollars effectively support spend their money.

Beyond suggesting, however, that the school I attend should perhaps be renamed “the University of the Hospital of Pennsylvania,” the Annual Report actually doesn’t reveal nearly as much about the University’s financial decisions as it ought to.

The vast majority of Penn’s FY2015 spending — some $3.88 billion comprising 57.9 percent of total expenses — are reported simply as “Compensation and Benefits.” The Annual Report gives no indication of what portion of this vast sum is paid to professors versus administrators, or to administrators versus Health System employees versus security and police, and so on, despite the drastically different functions that these personnel serve in the university.

Even more opaque is the 35.6 percent of the annual operating expenses — $2.39 billion — which are

reported simply as “Other Operating Expenses.” As far as a reader can know, the University might well be funding a small European nation under this category. The GDP of San Marino was only $1.8 billion in the same year.

The consequence of all

self rather vague.

The meatiest portion of the statement reads: “Faithful to the vision of the University’s founder, Benjamin Franklin, Penn’s faculty generate knowledge that is unconstrained by traditional disciplinary boundaries and spans the continuum

... As far as a reader can know, the University might well be funding a small European nation.”

this vagueness is that it is very difficult for community members without inside information to assess the extent to which the University’s spending choices are consistent with its stated priorities. As a 501(c)(3) public charitable organization, everything Penn does is theoretically supposed to be in pursuit of its stated public mission, which is it-

from fundamental to applied. Through this new knowledge, the University enhances its teaching of both theory and practice, as well as the linkages between them. Penn excels in instruction and research in the arts and sciences and in a wide range of professional disciplines. Penn produces future leaders through excellent programs at the

undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels.”

Given adequate information, Penn community members might well quibble about how much spending on instruction versus administration versus research, etc. is appropriate for the furtherance of this mission. If, say, the University reported that it spent seven times as much compensating administrators as on compensating faculty members who teach and conduct research, I might argue that this represented a failure to put Penn’s money where its mouth is. Someone else might disagree.

As it stands, however, the community is unable to have such discussions, and thus to have even an indirect say in the allocation of financial resources. The information necessary for students to educate themselves on the relevant matters just isn’t available.

One could of course argue that students aren’t really stakeholders in the University at all, but merely its customers, and as such have no more right to know the details of its ex-

Alec Ward penditures than do patients in HUP. This strikes me as an awfully cynical line to take, however. Our aspirations for higher education have always been that it be more than a mere transaction of cash for a diploma.

If the University’s leaders would seek to preserve this, they ought to give students the information needed to be more than the passive recipients of yet another prepackaged commercial product.

ALEC WARD is a College junior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@sas.upenn. edu. Follow him on Twitter @ TalkBackWard. “Fair Enough,” formerly “Talking Backward,” usually appears every other Wednesday.

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I’ve only recently recognized how dependent I am on slang. Words like “dope,” “fire” or “swag” have replaced “awesome” in my vocabulary.

Words like “lit” have replaced “exciting.” Words like “classic” have replaced “of course.” I can still convey my ideas using normal language, yet I prefer to speak in slang.

Here is a message I texted to my friend, while planning an outing to eat at Zesto’s Pizzeria: “Bruh this pizza is lit lets bounce fam” Here is that sentence translated: “[Male friend] this pizza is [good] let’s [leave] [friend]” Why do I overuse these words so much? How did I start colloquially speaking in a dialect that barely resembles English?

This is my best answer: People around me who were funny used slang liberally and, at least from my perspective, they were funny in part because they used slang. So I copied them. I got a lot of positive feedback that implied the

usage of these words is good.

I never thought about the etymology of what I was saying.

All I really understood was that these words were funny.

If I say “That class is good and interesting,” that is a pretty generic statement. If I say “That class is fire, fam” it’s a funny statement. Why? Who cares! I said it, people laughed, so I kept using slang.

Now it is an entrenched habit of mine.

On one hand, this tendency has served me well. It accomplished its goal of making others laugh. The phrase “humorous images” might not evoke a response, but the phrase “dank memes” gets a hearty chuckle, even though they mean the same thing.

Using these words has helped me connect with my peers.

Speaking the same memefueled dialect lets me relate to them better.

On the other hand, automatically repeating slang has led to some awful conversations. In my middle school and high school, gay slurs were interchangeable with

more-or-less anything we didn’t like. “That guy is a fag” could take on dozens of different negative meanings. The word “gay” itself became a slang term synonymous with something stupid or irritating.

We could say “This homework is so gay,” and everyone understood what it meant, and the consequences of how others might perceive it never

such words at Penn, albeit infrequently, without the immediate condemnation from others so typical at Vassar.

Does that mean Penn is full of homophobes and condones hatred against LGBTQ people? I don’t think so. Penn is quite progressive on LGBTQ issues. But I do think it means some Penn students were raised in environments where

In mimicking the language of others, I have unintentionally hurt a lot of people.”

crossed our minds.

At Vassar College, the school I transferred from this fall, using “gay” in that context was completely unacceptable and I quickly dropped the habit. However, I have heard

their peers casually tossed around slurs and, like me, they simply repeated them.

It is our responsibility to consider the ramifications of what we say and the words we use. When we use the

word “gay” as a substitute for “bad,” even without any explicit hateful intent, it equates the two. It subtly says “being gay is bad.” This is obviously wrong.

Other words like “retard” fall under the same category of words with troubling connotations that we casually use.

I am not saying slang is bad. That would be pretty hypocritical of me. Most of it, like “chillin” or “lit” is harmless and quite fun. However, mindlessly parroting the slang I heard from other students, at least when I was younger, led to some appalling things coming out of my mouth. The vocabulary we choose to use is learned from our peers, and sometimes it is worth questioning.

In mimicking the language of others, I have unintentionally hurt a lot of people. Callously tossing around slurs because I thought they were funny was, and still is, wrong.

I feel guilty in how readily I adopted the use of hate-based slang terms in the past, and how easily I shifted my vo-

joe tharakan cabulary to fit in at Penn today.

I urge everyone to think about the words we use.

There will be more pejorative, hate-filled slang created in the future that will catch on, and be quickly picked up by people not considering their meaning. And while using the same slang is fun, it is important that we refuse to spew out bigotry in the name of relating to each other a bit better.

JOE THARAKAN is a College junior from the Bronx, in the Biological Basis of Behavior program. His email address is jthara@sas.upenn.edu. “Cup o’ Joe” usually appears every other Saturday.

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Students visited major production studios ALIZA OHNOUNA Staff Reporter

This spring break, Wharton took students of all schools on a trip to Los Angeles to show them that business opportunities exist far outside the world of Wall Street banks.

The Wharton Industry Exploration P rog ra m, wh ich sponsored the trip, offers undergraduates from all four of Penn’s schools the opportunity to travel to a city known for expertise in a specific industry and to learn from leading professionals about potential career paths in that industry.

The trip was packed with tours of major production studios including Sony Pictures, Lionsgate and Nickelodeon.

Each day of the trip also includ e d s eve r a l sp e a ke r s and paneled discussions at Paramount Studios from representatives in the music, movie and television industries.

Panels were moderated by

Wharton professor David Bell and frequently described the career paths that the panelists took to find their places in the entertainment industry. Some of the speakers included Penn and Wharton alumni, most notably Ty Stiklorious. Stiklorious was friends with John Legend when they were both Penn students, and together they later founded a company called Friends at Work, which has signed up-and-coming artists including Meghan Trainor.

Students were also able to get experience performing tasks that would be expected of professionals in the entertainment industry. When they went to Lionsgate Studios, they were able to view a documentary produced and narrated by Katie Couric about gun violence in America. The film has not yet been released in theaters.

Students also participated in a competition at Lionsgate in which they were asked to complete a case study that required pitching twelve films for the viewers of ABC Family network. The winners of the

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Over this past spring break, students from all schools at Penn attended a Wharton-organized trip to Hollywood, where they toured major production studios.

competition got a boxed set of The Hunger Games films. Lionsgate will use some of the winning team’s suggestions.

One of the primary goals of the trip, noted Bell and Kramer, was to expose students, particularly Wharton students, to all the ways in which they can apply their business skills to the entertainment industry.

Holly Li, a Wharton sophomore with a longstanding interest in

the creative arts, was pleasantly surprised to learn that “there are so many different business positions that need to be filled ... strategic roles that require business students.”

College junior Blake Pittell, a Communication major and a former Daily Pennsylvanian reporter, felt encouraged to search for an internship in the creative industry following the trip. He, too, was inspired by

the myriad opportunities in the industry. “It was cool for me to see Wharton guys, finance guys ... that now wanted to do entertainment,” he said.

The trip seemed to inspire many of its attendees to apply for internships in the creative industry. Kramer noted that since their return, he’s sent out several student resumes for various entertainment-related internships. A few students

have already received internship offers — even one at Nickelodeon, he added.

One of the potential impediments, especially for Wharton students, to pursuing an internship in the creative industry lies in the fact that very few creative companies can afford to pay their interns. This makes banking and more traditional business internships more attractive.

T hat, however, has not stopped the demand for Penn interns in Los Angeles, Li noted. Throughout the trip, many of the alumni with whom the attendees spoke with expressed enthusiasm for hiring Penn undergraduates.

Regardless of whether or not the students will choose to pursue an internship in the creative industry, Li felt that the trip inspired everyone.

“If the trip’s mission were to educate us [about] other possibilities and inspire a Wharton student to pursue a dream in music, art, and entertainment, then the trip definitely did its job,” she said.

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from school for personal, academic, or financial reasons and in turn gain a fifth year of eligibility in collegiate wrestling. Right now, there are a total of six wrestlers who are wrestling or will be wrestling for Penn next year who have taken a season off from the sport or have withdrawn from the school.

it, the advantage applies on a caseby-case basis.

“It can [be an advantage], but it’s up to the person. It’s whatever you want to make it,” Thomas said. “It’s an extra year to prepare but it’s not always essential.”

In contrast, senior Brooks Lorenzo Thomas Martino felt that Penn is not at an The first member of the current outright disadvantage, but is aware roster to step back from Penn for a that other schools do have an advan- year is Lorenzo Thomas. The only tage because of redshirting.

100-win 184-pound wrestler in “I would say that it’s something program history, Thomas started that a lot of other schools do take wrestling for Penn in 2011-12 and advantage of and it works [in] their immediately made waves by earnfavor,” Martino said. “I wouldn’t ing a unanimous first team all-Ivy say that it’s working against us, but selection. it’s just that other schools are able to After that season, Thomas made take advantage of it whereas we’re the decision to withdraw from Penn not.” for a year for “financial and personal Tirapelle finds that those who reasons.” As part of this, Thomas retake a year off from their team early turned to his high school, Pittsburgh in their collegiate career struggle to Central Catholic, where he attended find success later on because of the practice. He traveled to tournaments toll that wrestling takes on the body. without affiliation and remembers “In their first years they’re like, his father being in his corner for ‘I wanna be the most competitive. matches.

I wanna be able to challenge to be While home, he was still able a national champion my first year to communicate with the coaches, of wrestling.’ That’s great, but you which he thought was “definitely” gotta think of the back end as well,” helpful.

Tirapelle said. “There’s a big difIn Fall 2013, Thomas returned to ference between wrestling for four school as a sophomore. Re-entering years and wrestling for five years. a cutthroat academic environment That’s an additional year of bang like Penn after a year off, Thomas and mileage on the body, which a lot of the time catches up to you on the back end, unfortunately.”

Quinton Hiles, a Penn wrestler in the middle of a year off who plans to return to wrestling at the school next fall, said that while the Ivy League’s rules can be a disadvantage, going to a school in the Ivy League affords him other opportunities.

- Quinton Hiles “It does [give other schools the advantage], but I guess it’s a part of the Ivy League culture. We said, is a serious endeavor. choose to go here, not just for ath“It was difficult to get back used letic reasons, so we kind of have to school. It was a tough semester that balance,” Hiles said. “So it’s a for me,” he said. “Wrestling-wise it small disadvantage but I mean when was a little different (because I was you’re allowed to take an extra year on my own) and coming back to the and spend it a different way it kind of team was a little different, but after balances out.” a little bit it wasn’t too bad a transiHiles added that, while redshirt- tion.” ing is not allowed, Ivy League After his return, Thomas had his wrestlers do have the opportunity best season to date, jumping two to extend their eligibility by another weight classes and finishing with year. a 30-7 record, an NCAA ChamUnder certain, abnormal circum- pionship berth and All-American stance, wrestlers can take a year off accolades. For Thomas, taking a

We choose to go here, not just for athletic reasons, so we kind of have that balance.”

year off helped him to further succeed in his collegiate wrestling career.

“I think I matured a lot in that year I took off. Especially since it was my second year that I took off, I was able to reflect on my first year and see what I needed to change in order to achieve the goals I wanted to achieve.”

Brooks Martino The 2013-14 season did not go without a hitch for all of Penn wrestling. In wrestle-offs in November, Brooks Martino tore his ACL, erasing any chance he had of wrestling his sophomore year.

As a result, he was granted a fifth year of eligibility for medical hardship. That development meant that he could undergo treatment for the ligament tear without losing out on a year of competition.

The next few months were slow for Martino, who placed a heavy emphasis on weightlifting as a way to stay in shape while also going through the daily grind of schoolwork. Instead of being a year off school, Martino said that 2013-14 was a “year off from wrestling.”

It was not until mid-summer that Martino was able to return to the mat. Because his year away from wrestling prevented him from practicing in any form, it is difficult for Martino to say that this year truly helped his development as a wrestler.

“I haven’t really reflected on that since my career is not over. I did have my most successful year after my injury so you could argue that taking off to lift and refocus and observe the sport from an outside perspective did help me,” he said. “But at the same time everyone else was wrestling and getting better and improving their technique. So I don’t know, I can’t really answer that question.”

Thomas and Martino took years off from school and from wrestling, respectively, but one thing they do have in common is that both of them had their best seasons after, as they both described, taking time to reflect on their career.

Frank Mattiace The next season, 2014-15, saw the arrival of coach Alex Tirapelle from Stanford, a program that heavily utilizes redshirting to delay eligibility

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Before ever being able to see his team wrestle in person, Tirapelle had learned that sophomore Frank Mattiace and junior Casey Kent would not be wrestling for the team that season, with the former withdrawing from the school and the latter receiving his medical hardship.

Mattiace’s decision to take a year off came down to “personal reasons” but did take place right after a 2014 season that saw him place eighth in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association while wrestling to a 16-16 record.

Unlike Thomas’ year off, where the Pittsburgh, Pa., native returned to his high school to train, Mattiace was able to stay in the Philadelphia area. Better yet, he even wrestled on Penn’s campus, thanks to the Regional Training Center, a wrestling program that trains athletes in the Olympic styles of wrestling, freestyle and Greco-Roman, as opposed to traditional collegiate wrestling. The RTC helped Mattiace to keep in touch with his coaches while also building his work ethic.

“It was really nice. It definitely helped me keep my competitive edge and level to where it needed to be to coming back to the school and [gave] me opportunities to go to the Olympic training center as well as [to] compete through other tournaments,” Mattiace said.

Mattiace saw this year away from Penn and organized collegiate wrestling as helpful in his mental, rather than physical, approach to the sport.

“From a sense of not being on the team it’s a little different. It’s not the most ideal situation but its really nice too because it holds yourself accountable and when you’re put in that situation it kind of makes you do things right for yourself and you do it for yourself and not because your coach told you to,” he said. “It helps you [on a] personal level. It helps you make some strides.”

For Mattiace, the transition back to wrestling was more seamless than Martino’s. As Mattiace recognizes, being in the city allowed him to stay in a competitive atmosphere, which helped him feel like a part of the team. Moreover, Mattiace took summer courses and was able to wrestle with the team again before the following season.

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Casey Kent earned All-American honors at NCAAs this year, and his clearance to stay for a fifth year he’ll have another shot at the title.

Casey Kent For entirely different reasons, Kent also did not compete for the Quakers in the 2014-15 season, and was also granted fifth-year eligibility.

Casey Kent arrived at Penn in fall 2012 as a freshman and immediately started for the team at the 165-pound weight class. After a promising freshman and sophomore season, the latter of which ended with a bid to the NCAA Championships, the future looked bright for the Norristown, Pa., native.

However, heading into his junior year, Kent noticed a pain in his back that he couldn’t shake off.

“It was bothering me [during the 2013-14 season] and then the beginning of the next year so I went to the doctor’s and there was stuff wrong with my back,” Kent said. “It was really bothering me to wrestle.”

Kent’s back injury kept him off the mat the entire season and into that summer. Finally he returned to weight lifting and his training regimen. Going into the season, Kent noticed that the positioning and form came back naturally, but that “it was like taking a long break” that required getting back in shape.

Decisions that aren’t made lightly In the 2015-16 season, sophomores Dan McDevitt and Quinton Hiles both withdrew from Penn for personal reasons. They train together at the RTC and wrestle near the same weight class which gives them plenty of practice repetitions together. For them, they both

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worked their way to a decision with help from Tirapelle.

“These aren’t decisions that are entered into lightly. They look at the grand scheme of things, ‘What’s best for me at this moment of my life,’” Tirapelle said. “For [McDevitt], he had some circumstances that when we sat down and really looked at it we said, ‘Hey this is probably what’s best moving forward.’”

Because of their timing, McDevitt and Hiles have the benefit of being able to talk to Mattiace who went through the same exact process in 2014-2015. That has made a world of a difference for the two soon-tobe juniors.

“Absolutely [he has helped me].

Watching him last year opened my eyes that a year off from school does not equate to a year off from work necessarily,” McDevitt said, noting that he works 30 hours weekly, which essentially substitutes going to class.

Next year, McDevitt and Hiles will be competing for their spots in the starting lineup. Before that, the two will need to work to get back to the competition level that the rest of the team currently shares. Tirapelle says that this is a testament to the challenges that come with taking a fifth year.

“But there’s no easy way to do it, if you’re not in it day-in and day-out, really living it, it will be challenging to get back in,” Tirapelle said. “There [are] advantages and disadvantages. I’d say slight disadvantages from jumping back in. It takes some time to get back into it.”

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Red and Blue take home share of Big 5 hardware HOOPS | McLaughlin

wins Coach of the Year NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

While the season may be over for Penn’s basketball teams, the awards keep coming in.

Fresh off a spate of Ivy League awards, the women’s side added Big 5 honors to their Ancient Eight title-winning campaign.

For the third straight year, Penn coach Mike McLaughlin was named Big 5 Coach of the Year after guiding the Red and Blue to a program-record 24 wins.

While he wasn’t able to bring home the second-ever — and second straight — Big 5 title for the Quakers, McLaughlin led Penn to a 2-2 record in city play, which climaxed with a de facto title game against Villanova in January. The Quakers eventually lost, 66-46.

To his name, McLaughlin now has nine Big 5 wins, almost double that of any other coach in program history. “Talking to my dad, he’s so excited about it,� McLaughlin said. “He’s someone that grew up watching Big 5 basketball and all of the greats. So it’s a big thing for him, and I think that it’s really cool — because of that. It means a lot because of where I’m from.�

But McLaughlin was not alone in taking home Big 5 honors.

Penn’s star forwards, Sydney Stipanovich and Michelle Nwokedi, were dominant forces inside this season, and they were recognized with first team All-Big 5 honors.

This is Stipanovich’s second straight year on the All-Big 5

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Junior Sydney Stipanovich was named first team All-Big 5 for the second straight year, adding the honor to Ivy League Player of the Year.

first team, in addition to winning Ivy League Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and unanimous All-Ivy first team honors on the year.

For Nwokedi, the award is the first of her career, having missed out on Rookie of the Year honors last year to Temple’s Alliya Butts.

Ultimately, Villanova took home the city title, and they were rewarded for their performance.

Caroline Coyer, who scored 23 points against the Quakers, was named Big 5 Player of the Year for the second straight year. Her teammate, Adrianna Hahn, brought home Rookie of the Year honors. “She got my vote for Player of the Year for the Big 5,� McLaughlin noted. “She’s very deserving.

We’re happy for her. ... It’s a good thing for her, it’s a good honor, and it’s well deserved.�

For the men, a 1-3 record in city play was highlighted by a dominant 80-64 win over La Salle in November.

That night, Darien NelsonHenry added 14 rebounds to a career-high 31 points in perhaps the most memorable performance of his career. The Big 5 has one last memory to offer the senior center, as he was the only member of the Red and Blue netting city honors after being named second team All-Big 5.

The Palestra will host the Big 5 one more time this year, as the banquet to honor all of the awardees will be held April 11.

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we knew he was going to be pretty good.�

Pretty good he was — the freshman broke the Penn records for the 500-, 1000- and 1650-yard freestyle in his rookie season, winning the Ivy League Championship in the mile. The following year, the Floridian proceeded to break all three of his own records, winning two Ivy League Championship races and finishing ninth in the mile at the NCAA Division I Championship meet in the process.

By the time Alex Peterson entered the swim program as a freshman, the then-junior Swanson had already built up somewhat of a hero status among the team’s younger swimmers. “It’s somewhat dehumanizing to say he’s an icon, but honestly that’s what he’s become in some sense,�

Peterson said. “People look at Penn swimming and they know him.�

The now-sophomore distance swimmer sees Swanson not only as an icon, but also as the benchmark for what he should try to reach. “I can’t express how much he means to the team,� Peterson said. “Being a distance guy like him, he makes practice so easy, because you no longer have to focus on yourself or your performance. All you really need to do is see how close you are to him, and if you’re close, then you’re doing pretty damn well!�

A franchise swimmer of sorts, Swanson now had to deal with the burden of expectation. As his coach explained, though, Swanson’s head was always in the right

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[makes it] an unbelievable opportunity. I know the guys who’ve done it have felt it was very rewarding.�

Be the Match is one of a number of programs the Quakers have been involved with in recent years. In the past, the football team has participated in “Uplifting Athletes� and the “Friends of Jaclyn� program. Running the Be the Match drive during spring

place and his brain is his greatest asset as an athlete. “He has great confidence in himself, and he likes to train,�

Schnur said. “He has no fear, and he has no off switch. He’s a dream.� “My job for the last four years has been to figure out how to continually challenge him,� he continued. “I swear, most of what I do is sit at home at night and think about how to torture the boy, how insane we can make a workout.

And every time I think he can’t do something, he does it. Then I have to come up with something even more insane, and then he does it again.�

Swanson continued to work tirelessly through his junior and senior years. Now, after winning the 500, 1000 and the 1650 free in his final Ivy League Championships, he finds himself with one final weekend in a Red and Blue cap: NCAAs. After being named an honorable mention All-American for two consecutive years in the 1650, Swanson is looking to seal the real deal and finish in the top-eight.

Despite being in the limelight, Swanson has gladly deflected any attention towards his fellow teammates. “It’s really cool to see six guys make it to NCAAs this year,�

Swanson said. “That’s the most that Penn has ever had by far, and the most of any Ivy, which is great because we haven’t been historically seen as a powerhouse swim program.�

He couldn’t be blamed for taking a moment to speak about his own career. After all, the

championship season this year could be more emotional than ever — not just because it is his final championship for Penn, but possibly forever. “I don’t think I will [keep swimming post-graduation]. It’ll probably take a couple years to get back in the pool and train again, if I’m even going to. I might get in every once in awhile and have some fun, remember the good times I’ve had,� Swanson said.

For now, Swanson has the NCAA championship for Penn and the Olympic Trials as an individual to worry about before retiring from competition altogether. No matter what happens at Nationals, he will certainly be remembered as Penn’s greatest-ever swimmer who has impacted the program for years to come. “It’s not the points he’s scored,�

Schnur said. “It’s not the races he wins. His impact has been to raise the level of practice every single day, and also to raise the expectation level of the other guys. “It’s not okay to give a medium effort when Chris is in the pool,�

Schnur continued. “That’s the legacy that Chris leaves. He’s someone who does his whole life 100 percent. Whether it’s school, or swimming, or his loyalty to his teammates and his friends, everything is 100 percent. And that’s the legacy that he leaves, that he shows everyone else that it’s possible to be a great student, to give everything academically which he always does, and to also be the greatest distance swimmer in the league’s history. “You can do it all here, and Chris is living proof of that.�

practices also offers off-the-field benefits for Priore’s squad. “We’re so blessed to be in the position that we’re in playing football here at Penn — most of us being healthy young men,�

Countryman added. “And that opportunity isn’t given to everybody. It’s our job to give back, let our community know that some people need a little bit of help.�

For Hall, the impact of the drive is felt even more strongly as families come together to observe upcoming religious holidays.

“Not to get overly religious, but being at Passover and Easter this year, it gives perspective on what it really means to save a life. Especially with the spiritual context of these next few weeks. It really is very humbling to realize that you have been selected to make the decision to help someone.�

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M. SWIMMING | Chris Swanson

has already built a legacy at Penn

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There’s no other way of putting it — it’s the end of an era.

Penn men’s swimming legend Chris Swanson has one meet left to bear the colors Red and Blue. Before an expected top-10 finish in the NCAA championship mile swim, though, it’s only fitting to take a look at his entire career for the Quakers.

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“He’s not just the best swimmer we’ve ever had,” swim coach Mike Schnur — an alum of the program himself — said. “He’s in the top four or five in the history of the Ivy League. He’s certainly the best swimmer in Penn history — no one is even close.”

Swanson has excelled beyond just the Ivy League level, though. He currently stands as the 20th-fastest mile swimmer in American history.

With all the accolades he has earned, it would be easy to assume that Swanson marched into Penn as a freshman five-star recruit with everyone singing his praise.

In reality, though, his story had a much

different beginning.

Swanson used swimming in an attempt to get into the best academic institutions in the country, rather than the biggest swimming powerhouses. His top priorities — be recruited by Princeton and Harvard.

Things, however, did not go the way Swanson planned.

“Being the geniuses they are, they said he wasn’t good enough. We disagreed,” Schnur said.

After initial rejection, Swanson decided to turn his attention to the possibility of becoming a member of the Quakers.

“I really liked the kids on Penn’s team,” Swanson said, “and I really liked coach Schnur,

so I chose Penn — it was a great fit.”

The soon-to-be star arrived on campus as a mid-level recruit with a ton of potential. Before his arrival, Schnur’s team was slowly developing, but somewhat lacking in real star power.

It was the B.C. era — Before Chris. Soon after Swanson’s arrival, though, the development of a star began.

“We immediately recognized that he went out fast in his races, but he couldn’t finish,” Schnur said. “After learning how he trained in high school, I knew why. I swear, it was maybe a month into freshman year — no more than that — we watched him train every day, and SEE SWANSON PAGE 10

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causes lead to extra year

WILL AGATHIS Associate Sports Editor

There was no grand re-debut for Casey Kent. There was no Palestra, no ovation, no spectacle. That never slowed down Kent before and it would not stop the Norristown, Pa., native at the Binghamton Open.

It was Kent’s first match in nearly two years. By the result, it would have seemed that Kent had not spent a minute away from the mat. He shut out Cornell’s Drew Garcia, 4-0, and took out Harvard’s NCAA championships-bound Josef Johnson and Lehigh’s Ben Haas in the tournament before eventually being eliminated in the semifinals in a tight contest against another national tournament-bound grappler in Jonathan Schleifer.

Perhaps the result was not everything he could have hoped for, but it was his official return to the mat after sitting out the entire 2014-2015 season. And it was just the start of what ended up being his best season to date: He finished

fourth at 174 pounds in the NCAA Championships last week, becoming the 28th All-American in Penn history.

At Penn, Kent is one of the few wrestlers who took a year off from wrestling for the school and in turn gained another year of eligibility. At schools outside the Ancient Eight, however, this is common practice.

The Ivy League disadvantage In collegiate wrestling, there exists a great disconnect between the NCAA and the Ivy League in their policies.

In all sports, the NCAA allows schools to take advantage of a practice called “redshirting.” In this process, schools sideline a player — often a freshman — for a majority of the season’s competition and keep them out of dual meets. In turn, players gain an extra year of NCAA eligibility while still being able to practice with their team.

Many of the nation’s top programs take full advantage of this program in order to give freshmen a year of training and an added year of eligibility instead of essentially losing their first year. Ivy League wrestling, however, bars this

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practice. Instead, athletes begin a four-year clock upon enrolling as freshmen that can only be paused under certain circumstances.

This would appear to be a huge disadvantage for Ivy League programs that wrestle against older and more experienced athletes from other programs outside of the Ancient Eight. However, it is unclear just how disadvantageous this is for Penn wrestling.

Second-year coach Alex Tirapelle, for example, said that outsiders may see lopsidedness more than he does.

“If you asked me coming into college, I would’ve said, ‘Yeah, 100 percent it’s an advantage’ but now having coached for a while I don’t think it necessarily is: at least for our sport, specifically for our sport,” he said.

“It’s whatever you want to make it.”

The wrestlers themselves are equally unsure of the advantages that schools with five-year tracks have over the Ivy League. Senior Lorenzo Thomas said that while the fifth year option is advantageous for the schools that can offer SEE WRESTLING PAGE 10

FOOTBALL | Squad to

set up in Houston Hall

NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

The game of football tends to dominate conversation around Franklin Field, but the game of life is so much more important.

That fact will be on full display Wednesday as Penn football players run the team’s annual “Be The Match” drive to sign people up for the National Marrow Donor Program at Houston Hall.

From 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., the team will sign up volunteers, who will give mouth swabs to be entered into the NMDP database.

“It’s giving back, it’s opening up opportunities to help save someone’s life,” junior wide receiver Cam Countryman said.

“It’s not hard to do, and it’s something that we feel very passionate about and love to do.”

The Red and Blue have taken part in the Be the Match program for seven years after being introduced to it by Villanova football coach Andy Talley, who has made bone marrow donations the

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On Wednesday, Penn football players will set up in Houston Hall to sign up volunteers to register for the National Marrow Donor Program.

primary cause and gotten dozens of Football Championship Subdivision schools involved in the program. Through his “Get in the Game, Save a Life” program, Talley has gotten over 50 schools involved in the drive to expand the bone marrow donor base.

Defensive line coach Malik Hall — who is finishing up his first year at Penn — was a part of the drive for the last five years at Wagner and has taken on a leading role this year for the Quakers’ Be the Match program.

“It lets them know the game serves a bigger purpose at times,” Hall said. “Though, yeah, we play,

we work 365 days a year to play the game, but it’s so much bigger than that. It’s a platform which we can use to be mentors on campus.”

In the past, the drive has borne significant results. Two football players ended up being matches through the 2011 drive, and a volunteer from 2015 was recently matched with a potential recipient.

“I actually was screened and called two summers ago,” head coach Ray Priore said. “But I was not the perfect match. ... The fact that you could actually save a life SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10

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