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SPEC swaps flash sale for lottery 150 floor passes will be sold through lottery starting Friday JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Repoter

The Social Planning and Events Committee has decided to bring back the lottery system for Fling concert

floor passes — for this weekend at least.

SPEC originally planned on hosting “flash sign ups” to sell floor passes until Sunday, but the giveaways will now only last until Thursday. Beginning on Friday and ending Sunday, anyone can enter the lottery for a chance at 150 spots to

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claim the last 300 tickets.

SPEC has decided to end the flash sign ups for floor passes “in response to considerations of equal access and stress,” the group wrote on the Spring Fling page on Facebook. Last year, all floor passes were given away through a lottery.

“We’re answering the desire for

more fairness by offering a lottery system for the last few tickets,” SPEC Secretary Derek Standlee said in an email.

By Wednesday, SPEC recognized that some students were using “bots” to sign up for the Floor passes as soon

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WHERE IS TIMOTHY HAMLETT After 3 months, the former Penn junior has yet to be found DAVID CAHN Staff Reporter

Before he disappeared, Timothy Hamlett wanted to be in the Olympics.

He was a star runner for the Penn track and field team — one of the top recruits of his year, teammates said. He was a role model to underclassmen, a compassionate friend and never one to allow his ego to get in the way of his sense of humor. But as his sophomore year progressed, Hamlett’s behavior noticeably changed. He became distant from friends and family, and in September 2014, was charged with vandalism. Then he went missing.

Who is Timothy Hamlett, and where has he gone?

Hamlett, a native of Teaneck, N.J. and a former Penn junior, vanished on Dec. 26 and was last seen near the George Washington Bridge in the Washington Heights area of New

York. His wallet was found in a nearby park and his cell phone was traced to two young people who said they found the belongings at a park near a school.

Police did not suspect foul play since $10 remained in the wallet.

Today marks the third month of Hamlett’s absence. As recently as the night of March 25, Teaneck Police confirmed the investigation is still open and ongoing. It is still unclear why Hamlett disappeared, but information from Hamlett’s friends and family provides more context on the circumstances leading up to Dec. 26.

A ‘great kid’ To his friends, Hamlett is charismatic, funny and committed to track.

College sophomore Clark Mangini has known Hamlett since they were on rival track teams in high school.

At Penn, they were roommates and trained together. Mangini said he was inspired by Hamlett both because of his talent on the track team and his humility despite his success. During the interview, Mangini was visibly

distraught and emotional over Hamlett’s disappearance.

In high school, Hamlett was a New Jersey state champion for the indoor 400-meter race. Coming to Penn, Mangini said, “I was pretty excited, the prospect of being on a team with him ... I think the opportunity to run with him definitely played a part in my choice to come to Penn.”

Even before he got to Penn, Hamlett made a strong impression on the friends he interacted with.

“Tim was very cool, he was into schoolwork, he was very studious, but at the same time he made separate time to have fun, like with us both on and off the court,” said Jemal Mosley, Hamlett’s high school basketball teammate at Don Bosco Preparatory School.

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The DP’s annual joke issue makes headlines

ACADEMICS

Getting a tutor might take longer than expected

Vanity Fair reported that Emma Watson would be attending Penn

With a limited number, it can take weeks to get help

JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Reporter

JILL MOELY Staff Reporter

If you spent yesterday practicing spells and brushing up on your British accent, you weren’t the only one.

Writers at Vanity Fair unknowingly participated in the Daily Pennsylvanian’s annual joke issue on Wednesday when they reported that Emma Watson was headed to Penn for graduate school.

Beyond reporting that Emma Watson would soon be attending Penn for graduate school, the joke issue also claimed that Penn would be joining Dartmouth in banning hard liquor, that Wharton would begin issuing a GPA requirement and that Netflix was no longer supported on AirPennNet. Wednesday’s articles contained clues to the satirical nature of the content that were spotted by suspicious readers, including the fake all-too-British name of Watson’s “publicist”, Kingsley Pennyton, and a quote from House of Cards character Peter Russo.

“I didn’t see it coming,” Wharton sophomore Taylor Brown said. “Since it was from the DP I thought that it was true,” Brown added in reference to the article on Penn banning hard liquor.

With finals season looming, Penn students can seek help at the Tutoring Center — but some students say the system isn’t perfect.

Penn’s Tutoring Center offers free help in several forms: Students can attend satellite tutoring sessions, participate in student-led discussion groups or workshops, receive tutoring in their college house or request

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Some students report that the process of getting a private tutor is complicated and time-consuming.

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a private tutor.

It’s this latter option, students say, that can be problematic — some students report that the process of getting a private tutor is complicated and time-consuming.

“Last semester, it took a while to get a tutor,” one student who sought Tutoring Center services said. “It can be like a two week-long process.

The system makes it inconvenient to get help.”

On the other side of the system, tutors hold similar views. “I’d like

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to see it easier for people to get assigned,” Wharton senior and current tutor John Herbut said.

“I know sometimes people wait until later in the semester to get a tutor, and by that point it can get pretty stressful.”

Tutoring Center Director Donna Brown said the slow process stems from the fact that they can only hire a certain amount of tutors each year. A limited pool means it may take some time to be matched with an available tutor. The demand for tutors in certain classes varies, so it may be more difficult to get help for high-demand courses such as Math 104.

“Assignments are based upon demand and also upon tutor availability,” Brown said.

“There isn’t an unlimited pool of tutors. We try to keep as many as possible in high-traffic areas, but if we have a great deal of demand sometimes the service goes pretty quickly. So it really is contingent upon what courses the person is requesting, and by the same token, we don’t have a tutor for every

course. So if we have to find someone, that’s going to take us a little time to do that.”

Some students also criticized the limited time allotted for tutoring sessions — generally, students meet with their tutors for an hour each week. However, Brown said that anyone can apply for two extra hours of tutoring per week. The restriction on time is in place, she said, to maximize resources: Time limits allow as many students as possible to obtain sessions.

Despite these complaints, student tutors and tutees alike report that the services are helpful, especially considering that they are free.

“Tutors really enjoy the content and they want to see people succeed, and I think if more people ... understood that they’d feel more comfortable trying to get a tutor rather than looking outside for tutors that are a lot pricier than the free services we offer here,” Herbut said.

College junior Brianna Evans is both a tutor and a tutee with the Center. “Freshman year I took Physics, and I was having a hard time. I’d always been a tutor in high school but I’d

never been tutored in my life and I was like ‘Oh no, I don’t want to be tutored.’ But eventually I sucked in my pride, and it was actually pretty helpful,” she said. Later, Evans said, her time spent as a tutee inspired her to tutor for the courses she excelled in.

The Tutoring Center has plans to improve in the future.

Brown said the program will implement a new online database system, as well as tweak the tutor-tutee matching process to shorten the wait time.

The Tutoring Center is also interested in obtaining a centralized location. Currently, its administrative offices are located at 220 S. 40th Street, near Ben and Jerry’s, but Brown would like for the program to have what she called “a location where we can bring people together.”

“We really try to do the best job that we can with the staff that we have, but again, we’re not a huge organization,” she said. “There are a few of us, and we offer our services in a wide range of formats. Everything we do may not be perfect, but we’re at least trying.”

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as the forms opened. Wednesday’s form included an option to confirm that the entrant was human as well as a CAPTCHA field to verify, which were not on Tuesday’s form. Once floor passes were sold out on Wednesday, SPEC commented on its Facebook page: “Alright the form is closed! Those of you who used ‘bots’ to fill out the DP FILE PHOTO form, we caught you ...”

The last flash sign-up sale on Floor tickets for select sections will be sold on Locust Walk next Thursday will work the same week. as the other days this week.

The first 50 people who fill Wednesday’s form filled up in followed by about 230 responses out a form linked from a SPEC 46 seconds. for “Number of limbs you will social media account will secure About 400 people agreed to give to Spec. Sometimes even two floor passes. The forms preferring a lottery system in first born children.” over the last several days were a user-generated poll posted Deputy News Editor Jennifer closed in under a minute, with on the Facebook event page, Wright contributed reporting.

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Staff and students respond to sexual assualt policy changes Doubts over whether new policy is a good solution CAROLINE SIMON Staff Reporter

On February 1, Penn officially implemented a new set of policies regarding sexual assault. The changes led a group of Penn Law professors to write an open letter of criticism and continue to bring mixed reactions among Penn faculty and students.

The new policies focus on the appointment of a new sexual violence investigation officer, a change that separates cases of sexual assault from other student conduct cases, such as academic integrity infractions. According to the policy, the officer investigates both sides of the situation and recommends specific consequences on a case-by-case basis. If either party does not agree with the recommendations, the outcome of the issue is determined by an all-faculty panel. Prior to the introduction of the new policies, all cases were presented to a student and faculty panel.

Professor of Criminology Emily Owens believes that the policies are too similar to civil legal procedures for a situation that demands criminal legal proceedings, and that Penn is not prepared to handle such serious problems as sexual assault.

“Sexual assaults are crimes.

They’re state offenses. And the University of Pennsylvania is not a government,” Owens said. “It’s not obvious to me that the University is equipped to replace a criminal court.”

Owens also believes the policies should address the issue of underreporting. Among collegiate women between the ages of 18 and 24, only 20 percent of incidents are actually reported. Common reasons for not reporting assaults include knowing the assailant, believing that the process would be too costly and feeling like the incident is not serious enough.

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A group of Penn Law professors wrote an open letter of criticism about Penn’s sexual assault policies.

“My biggest concern is about underreporting, and I don’t know that there is a right solution for Penn,” Owens said. “It’s a very hard problem to solve.”

Although Owens is critical of the policies, she acknowledged that dealing with the issue is an extremely difficult task.

“Until I see if this works, which no one knows, I can’t say this is obviously the solution I would want to see,” Owens said. “Theoretically, it is not obvious what the right solution is.”

Some students, on the other hand, feel more positively about the changes.

“It’s the best thing they could have done, given previous circumstances,” College freshman Kevin Vitalis Kudah said.

Specifically, Kudah supports Penn’s decision to hire a sexual violence expert to handle cases. “In that way, more results are actually achieved because if an expert is dealing with an issue, then chances of getting a better output are better, naturally,” he added.

Nursing sophmore Jackie Nikpour said the policy improves on what she felt was a relatively distant approach to dealing with sexual assault. “A lot of the policies before were very hands off,” she said.

Nikpour also supports the new policies because she feels they

increase student safety.

“The University has a responsibility to make its students feel safe on campus,” she said. “I feel like with the new policy they’re really taking charge of that.”

Nikpour said that she hopes the University’s sexual assault support system will be as universally trusted as the walking and riding escort programs.

“If you are sexually assaulted or you know someone who is, this is a reliable source that you can go to,” she said. “There should be that same level of trust as there is in other safety services that the University provides.”

But students do not necessarily believe that the policies are without flaw. Kudah supports the policy changes, but he believes that more should be done to prevent situations where investigations are necessary in the first place and that the sexual assault education programs provided during New Student Orientation are not sufficient.

“I think they should focus more on prevention,” he said. “Find other ways of making sure that people are well-informed about it.”

Nikpour also feels that Penn has definite progress to make. “Hopefully in the next few months, in the next couple of years, there will be greater progression,” she said. “I feel like this is a step in the right direction, but it is only a step.”

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Mislabeled vegan food sends student to hospital

CRIME LOG Atte mp te d B u rgl a r y

Problems with crosscontamination to blame

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Now there’s a good reason to cry over spilt milk — thanks to 1920 Commons.

In August 2014, Victoria Greene was hospitalized following a severe allergic reaction after eating food at Commons that had been labeled as vegan. Bon Appétit still stands by their food labeling procedures.

“I have a serious food allergy to dairy, so I avoid anything with milk in it,” Greene said, adding that she was cautious to eat at the dining halls at first. “I slowly became more comfortable with it and was having success with food with the ‘vegan’ label on it.”

Vegan foods are prepared without and contain no products from animals, so they are understood to be diary-free. The food labeled “vegan” that Greene consumed one afternoon was found to contain small amounts of cheese, she said, but was not labeled as such.

“It was a wholeheartedly unpleasant experience. I think they fired the chef responsible for what had happened,” Greene said.

“They had assured me that they would be more careful with the labels in the future.”

Communications Director for Business Services, which oversees Penn Dining, Barbara Lea-Kruger said they could not comment on situations with individual students.

Upon returning to the dining halls, Greene did not have much better luck. “About one month later, I got another reaction to a food labeled ‘vegan’, but thankfully it wasn’t nearly as bad — I didn’t have to go to the hospital or anything like that,” Greene said.

She said that normally the labels were accurate and that she didn’t think the problem was the labeling. “It’s very hard not to have slight crosscontamination in an open dining hall, and I have such a sensitive allergy that even a

At 8:45 p.m., an unaffiliated woman reported attempted entry to the side door of the basement of her residence by an unknown person.

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At 11:15 a.m., an unaffiliated 48-year-old male suspect was arrested for sleeping on private property in Houston Hall. He was found to have an outstanding warrant on his name and was arrested.

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little drop of something could trigger it,” she said.

Bon Appétit stands by the integrity of its labeling, saying that they bring “whole, fresh foods” into the their kitchens. “It’s easy for us to know exactly what’s in all of the food we serve,” Bon Appétit Nutritionist Dan Connolly said.

Chefs create the menus of dining facilities with students’ needs in mind. “Each facility has its vegan options all of the time,” Connolly said. Each dining hall has a self-serve salad bar, soup kettles with at least one vegan soup, various vegetable and fruit options and a vegan station.

“We maintain a constant conversation about labeling and food safety that’s always in the forefront of our employees’ minds — from the dishwasher up to the campus executive chef,” he said.

Connolly said he personally inspects the dining facilities daily. “I do spot checks — I go and see how food is prepared and double check that it is what the menu says it is,” he said.

By the end of the lunch and

dinnertime rush, it is typical for the condiments to be moved from their proper location and salad stations to be in disarray. “Selfserve stations have an added risk of cross contamination with other foods, and this is across the board for food establishments everywhere,” Connolly said.

The dining cafes are designed to reduce the cross-contact of different foods, but the possibility is always there although they place potential allergens towards the front to avoid cross-contact.

Bon Appétit is willing to accommodate students with strict diets or severe allergies if they reach out to staff. “We are happy to get food from the back or arrange special meals,” Connolly said.

Penn Vegan Society works with Bon Appétit to both increase vegan dietary options and to ensure that vegan labels are accurate. “One of the first initiatives of PVS was to improve the labeling and to expand the options of vegan food being served,” PVS co-president Brianna Krejci said.

"[Labeling] is an imperfect system still. Not every worker responsible for labeling the food knows every ingredient that has gone into the food or everything the has gone on back in the kitchen,” Krejci said. A chef may accidentally prepare vegan food with a utensil used for something else, or food may splash while being prepared or transported.

“Employees are not all educated in nutrition, so it’s hard to fault them for some of the mistakes that happen,” she said, adding that management has been “incredibly responsive.”

PVS wants to increase the transparency of the ingredients on labels, and increase the food safety education of the employees responsible. PVS hopes to improve the transparency of the ingredients in the vegan options available. “We want to maintain the consistency of labeling,” PVS co-president Berenice Leung said.

“Food that is vegan should be regularly labeled as such, and it’s important to know what’s exactly in the food being served.”

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At 7:20 p.m., an unaffiliated 21-year-old man was arrested on the 4000 block of Sansom Street after shouting at and charging officers who were attempting to cite him for public drunkenness.

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At 2:01 a.m., an unaffiliated 56-year-old man was arrested on the 4100 block of Walnut Street for driving in the wrong direction on a one-way street.

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At 7:23 p.m., an affiliated 29-year-old woman reported receiving a threat over voicemail.

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At 3:48 p.m., an affiliated 28-year-old woman reported that a fraudulent check was cashed against her bank account.

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At 9:30 p.m., an occupant reported smelling smoke at 3700 Spruce Street. Philadelphia Fire Department, FES and UPPD responded. The City Fire Marshall is investigating the cause of the fire. There were no injuries.

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OPINION Endorsement of Jane Meyer and Ray Clark for UA President and VP

TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 33 131st Year of Publication

MATT MANTICA President JILL CASTELLANO Editor-in-Chief SHAWN KELLEY Opinion Editor LUKE CHEN Director of Online Projects LAUREN FEINER City News Editor KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor STEVEN TYDINGS Social Media Director

EDITORIAL

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hat does the Undergraduate Assembly do?

We hear this question a lot, and we’re sure you do too.

They do the airport shuttles — most people know this much, and UA members seem to be well aware that in past years, the assembly rightfully earned the nickname, “airport shuttle club.” Past UAs have been largely aloof and ineffective, only coming in sight of students when an all-undergrad email lands in their mailbox, it’s time to get a cheap ride to PHL or in late spring/ early fall when posters go up on trees bearing a host of new names begging for a vote.

This is what the UA is sup-

posed to do: “In order to provide a means for responsible and effective participation in the organization and control of the affairs of the University.”

We don’t mean to say that past iterations of the assembly have failed at this mission. But as we are in election season (or rather, election week, thanks to the NEC), undergraduates have the opportunity to vote students onto the UA who will succeed at effectively participating in University business inaccessible to most individual students.

To participate properly, the UA, its members and — most of all — its president need to be representative of the entire undergraduate student body.

Jane Meyer provides us all with the best hope of genuine representation and advocacy and has our support.

infamous shuttles being one of them — but the president’s proper role is not to make sure pet projects are implemented

dergraduate, it’s Jane.

Ray Clark is similar in this regard. If any of the vice presidential candidates is ready to

Penn undergraduates need a uniting force and a representative voice. Other clubs or other student leaders can spend their time on shuttles and events.”

While we have concerns about Jane’s ability to follow through on projects, a skill she put on display less than other candidates, the president’s role is to represent all undergraduates to the University. The UA has all sorts of schemes — the

or even started. The president has the enormous, often unfulfilled, responsibility of being our voice to the manyheaded monster that is Penn’s administration. If either of the candidates has a chance at being a good voice for every un-

properly represent the voices of the many undergraduate student groups that have seats on the UA Steering Committee, it’s Ray. His focus is not on projects or advancing his own agenda.

As far as we can tell, he is

dedicated to advocating for others. And he does not just hope to work with or advance the agendas of a select few; Ray appears to be set on listening to others and — most importantly — uniting the diverse array of student groups that he would be elected to represent.

Penn undergraduates need a uniting force and a representative voice. Other clubs or other student leaders can spend their time on shuttles or events. Our next president and vice president, as well as the rest of the next UA, will be tasked with this challenge.

Jane and Ray present the best chance for living up to it. We sure hope that they do.

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Jerome, you deserved better

More than school, it’s our home

GUEST COLUMN BY CHARLES MARK

GUEST COLUMN BY JANE MEYER AND RAY CLARK

erome, if it is how you represented Penn, you should be, to Daily News sportswriter Dick Jerardi, “coach for life.” The question is: Why aren’t you? It certainly is not because of the regular alumni supporters attending the games. Their loyalty could not have been missed by anyone attending the Princeton game.

Why was there need to terminate you? And why before the season’s end?

The leak of your termination, no matter the cause, required you to prematurely explain the sad truth to your team. That they respected and likely loved you were proved by their playing their hearts out every game; for example, beating both Cornell and Columbia the last weekend. No, there was no quit in those men (contrasting to seven games that began 2009-2010).

Fear of availability does not justify the early termination.

Any coaches hired between the Princeton game and selection day, five days later? One cannot reconcile any actions before that game.

On the merits, in your second full year coaching, with talent — Rosen, Belcore, Bernardini — your team was a game shy of tying for the Ivy title (113, 20-13). We can fairly conclude that even in your maiden years coaching NCAA Basketball, you knew how to coach.

What about the past three

years? Admittedly they were embarrassing for winners of 25 Ivy Titles in 41 years. But you earned a five year contract, presumably the time determined necessary to bring back the program.

You had never had experience recruiting. The learning curve must have been quite steep. It would defy reality to expect you to be a super recruiter immediately.

You had lost your critical senior core, explaining the first of the three years given you under the new contract. In the second year, you should have been entitled to a pass when there were critical injuries, including the loss for the year of your best player, a 30-point scorer in an early game.

This year’s team, like all the others before it, never gave up.

Further it was fueled by a deep and talented freshman class; four played major minutes but, of course, they also took the typical frosh year to develop.

You had proven you had learned to recruit. In addition, you had a star recruit from South Jersey, supposedly the next Zack Rosen, and another from Lower Merion, lined up for next year.

And this year’s entire team back.

So why didn’t you get those extra years? The record looked bad. But we have examined the reality — the bottom had been hit and the future promised a bright upturn. Wasn’t this termination then solely because of the appearance!

Look at the values involved.

Is this the lesson a first rate university wants to teach its students? Appearance, not merits, should dominate? And there were reasons for Jerardi’s moniker; you showed and taught the same strong traits of character that your coach Fran Dunphy had shown you. Develop men and wins will come. As an example, your star this year was disciplined to miss a weekend of games as a way of giving him — and the team — a message.

The Ivy League was formed in 1954 to downplay athletics and emphasize academics.

Scholarships would only be based on need. Penn basketball has had a glorious run, but does anyone really believe that forever these seven other excellent schools could not draw some of that talent away!

No, to me, this wasn’t about the program but the appearance of movement: there had to be a head to roll — change for change’s sake. So your head rolled, Jerome, and now Steve Donahue, who should have followed Fran Dunphy, takes over.

He inherits essentially the entire team returning and benefits from the two star recruits, you, Jerome, had lined-up. He will succeed, but whether it will be better than you could have done is debatable. What we do know is that Penn has lost a representative of the university deserving in that respect to be it’s “coach for life.”

You will be missed.

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e are running for president and vice president of the Undergraduate Assembly because we consider Penn to be more than just our school — it’s our home. As candidates, we come from different backgrounds and communities, but our decision to unite on a single ticket is rooted in our desire to represent the best of Penn’s diverse perspectives. That said, we are here to serve all of you. As we have engaged in conversations with students from across campus, we have become familiar with the most pressing issues that you feel need to be prioritized by the UA’s new leadership: Addressing mental wellness, preventing sexual assault, strengthening civic engagement, protecting open expression and bridging the gap between communities on campus.

Many Penn students struggle with accessing resources to maintain mental health and well-being. We will ensure that the UA continues to work with Counseling and Psychological Services to create a video that features campus leaders using CAPS’ services, which we hope will contribute to breaking down the stigma associated with seeking psychological help. Our ultimate goal is to involve more students in conversations about mental health. Strengthening peer support networks is key to this goal.

We also realize that colleges

across the nation, including Penn, have had problems addressing sexual assault on campus. Through our experiences advocating for and working with members of diverse communities, we believe that peer education is an effective way to spread awareness of sexual assault and its prevention. We will advocate for increased participation in PAVE (Penn Anti-Violence Educators), a program run that is a result of a collaboration among Jess Mertz, ASAP, One in Four and the UA. It is also important to increase resources for sexual assault survivors. We are in the process of facilitating an expansion of legal services in partnership with the Penn Women’s Center and ASAP to provide an expedited process for free legal counseling supporting survivors of sexual assault. Our intention is to create a resource that people from any part of the Penn community — regardless of their sexuality, ethnicity or gender — can feel comfortable using.

Penn is known as the “Civic Ivy” because so many people within the student body make it a point to engage with the surrounding community. In the past, the two of us worked on an initiative called College Day, which brought middle school students from West Philadelphia to Penn to give them an idea of what college is like. We intend to build upon Penn’s relationship with West Philadelphia by further partnering with the Of-

fice of Government and Community Affairs, an office that the UA typically has not worked with.

Open expression is a key issue that affects the academic experience of students. Establishing a system of student liaisons for each academic department would create new avenues to broaden communication regarding infringement upon free and open expression in the classroom.

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always have fun, prank each other, just make the best of it,” Mosley, who is a current sophomore basketball player at New Haven University, said of going to an allboys school with Hamlett.

Another time, Mosley remembered Hamlett having a great time at Mosley’s 18th birthday party.

“Tim had the time of his life.

Tim’s not really a dancer, but that night I don’t know what was in Tim, he was dancing like crazy,” Mosley said. “When we’ve seen Tim dancing, we was literally crying on the floor.”

“He came into school as one of the higher recruited players,” John Landro, another high school friend of Hamlett’s, said. Even as Hamlett transitioned to the track team team, “he would give me more advice on the basketball court and help me become a better basketball player.”

Landro, who now plays basketball for Arcadia University near Philadelphia, said Hamlett struck people as a fun person to be around and a good friend.

He recounted a time when Hamlett and his dad, Archie, walked into basketball practice with matching pink and yellow rain boots that went up to their knees. “We were all just laughing at him so hard, and he was laughing back because he knew it was hilarious and he didn’t know why he was wearing them, but it was so funny,” Landro said.

Even at Don Bosco — an all boys school — Hamlett made time for women in his life.

“It seems like there were some lovely young ladies and nothing from what I could tell that was super serious. I think kids these days kind of keep themselves open in that area,” his mother, Katherine Hamlett said.

Hamlett’s friend Mosley mentioned a specific girl — a high school cheerleader who cheered at some Don Bosco games. “I was like

pretty surprised, I was like wow, Timothy, I didn’t know you had game,” he said, laughing.

Landro said Hamlett was not only a serious athlete, but also a serious student, citing a time his mom made him stay home from a Nets game to finish an essay. Hamlett was “always a great kid, one of my better friends on the team, someone you could talk to if you needed someone,” Landro said. ”[An] all-around great kid. I loved him, honestly.”

A change Hamlett’s behavior started to change significantly during his sophomore year at Penn, according to his friends and mother.

College junior Kelechi Okereke met Hamlett during New Student Orientation. “I guess we kind of just like clicked instantly,” he said.

“We pretty much did like everything together ... He was a super cool guy, really funny, really smart and really committed to track.”

But sophomore year, he became a lot more like distant, Okereke said. “It was definitely something like you could tell, ‘what’s up with Tim?’” Okereke assumed that Hamlett’s distance had to do with his busy track schedule. But he soon realized that a lot of people were not seeing him.

“He wasn’t like talking to anyone, at least for me being his close friend. We all kind of were like something was up, but we don’t really know what’s going on,” he said.

When Hamlett’s behavior changed, “none of the roommates held it against him, because we knew it wasn’t him,” Mangini said.

However, a source confirmed that Hamlett’s roommates kicked him out of his room last semester after they realized he had stolen belongings from them.

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coverage of the incident, Mangini said. “Everyone still knew him as a great guy, despite whatever changes there might have been,” he added.

After the vandalism incident, Hamlett took a leave of absence from the University. During that time, his mother said he was addressing medical issues. She declined to give details for privacy reasons, but noted that Hamlett was not home in New Jersey during his leave of absence.

“We made the decision that because of the changed behavior that we needed to address the issue and so that’s what we did,” she said.

She said he returned home to the family’s Teaneck home around Christmastime. “He was home for the holidays and there you have it, and now we don’t know where he is,” she said.

Hamlett’s mother believes her son’s behavior changed due to his use of performance enhancing athletic supplements, which she suspected he started using in spring 2013. She said his behavior noticeably changed that September.

According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, known side effects of using these drugs include muscle cramps, dehydration, diarrhea, nausea and seizures. The Academy does not list behavioral or psychological changes as possible side effects, though Hamlett’s mother said that a number of scientists support her claim. She said her son’s neuropsychiatrist had seen other patients who had experienced brain toxicity from these types of drugs. The morning of his disappearance, Hamlett took a pituitary gland analysis to test for a brain cyst, which he’d been diagnosed with previously from an MRI, his mother confirmed in an interview for a previous article.

“There’s too many young people falling through the cracks,” Hamlett’s mother said.

A shock Hamlett’s friends were shocked

when they heard about the disappearance. “It didn’t make sense for him to disappear out of nowhere,” Okereke said. “It doesn’t fit his personality.”

Allante Keels, a 2013 College graduate and currently a second year Penn Law student who was on the track team when Hamlett joined, described that personality as “infectious.”

“I was a senior and he was a freshman and he was like a little brother to me,” Keels said. He was “always smiling, just a very downto-earth athlete.”

Sydni Lester, a senior basketball player at Southern Connecticut State University, last saw Hamlett during the summer of 2014, when she said he was behaving as usual. “He was his regular self, he was totally fine,” she said. Lester’s recollection runs counter to the account given by his mother, Okereke and Mangini.

When Lester heard about Hamlett’s disappearance, she couldn’t believe it.

“I was upset at first, I thought like maybe his phone died and maybe, you know, he lost it or maybe, you know, it was off the charger,” Lester said. She remembered thinking at the time. “Oh Timothy, he’ll be home. He might have just stepped out and forgot to tell his parents.”

Mosley had a similar reaction.

“When I heard the news, I was pretty much shocked because I knew Timothy was a good kid,” he said. “I was just speechless.”

“Oh my God, I was shocked,” Landro said. “I think I was sleeping and I woke up the next morning and saw texts from my friends and I was shocked, I didn’t know what to say.”

When Hamlett left campus in the fall, “there was no big goodbye, it was kind of him leaving us hoping that he would be back next semester,” Mangini said. “I just want to see him around again. I would love for him to come back to live with us.”

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Six students to ‘Bike & Build’ Gutmann selects 5 winners for President’s Engagement Prizes their way across the U.S. Participants have raised more than $4,500 each

Winners get up to $100,000 in funding and $50,000 in housing

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For six Penn students so far, building a home, biking thousands of miles and raising thousands of dollars are all in a summer’s work.

As part of Bike & Build, a national nonprofit, the student volunteers will ride an average of 70 miles a day, spending days off the road building homes in at-risk communities.

Bike & Build organizes ten teams of nearly 30 volunteers between the ages of 18 and 25.

According to the organization’s website, it has contributed over $4.5 million to housing groups to fund building projects carried out by young adults. It raised nearly $500,000 last summer, and hopes to grant nearly $600,000 to more than 300 affordable housing nonprofits in 2015.

The organization uses grassroots campaigning to facilitate youth involvement in the affordable housing cause, partnering with local groups for each site build.

Nursing senior Stephanie Foster heard about the program through her involvement with Habitat for Humanity at Penn.

“One really cool thing about building with Habitat here is you get to meet the families you are building for,” she said. “It’s very

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Student volunteers will ride an average of 70 miles a day, spending days off the road building homes in at-risk communities.

cool to work side by side with them and hear their stories.”

Her team will ride from Connecticut to California, crashing at local churches, synagogues and YMCAs along the way. Like most volunteers, Foster is an inexperienced rider.

“We have to put 500 miles on our road bikes by the start of the trip,” College senior Zoe Goldberg said, who will be riding almost 4,300 miles from South Carolina to Santa Cruz on her newly purchased bike. “My parents are bringing it down this weekend.”

“Part of me thinks that I’m crazy,” she added. “This feels like the right summer since I’m graduating in May… Everyone who I’ve spoken to who has done it has said it is the best two or three months of your entire life, and I would believe that.”

Goldberg, who will be cycling alongside her sister, looks forward to building. “Part of why we liked

[our route] is because we’ll also end up building an entire house while we’re in Colorado,” she said.

Each rider must raise $4,500 to participate. “I never thought I would hit $4,500,” said Foster.

“Right now I’m just short of $6,000.”

Sponsors donate through an interactive website, where they can fund a specific day or even a single mile. There is incentive to raise the most. “Whoever is the top fundraiser gets to grant an extra portion of their money to a charity of their choice,” Foster said.

“Their goal is to build a young adult base that will go on and continue to do charity work,” she said, citing listservs in major US cities where alumni from the program post charity opportunities.

“I think being a part of the Bike & Build community getting out of college will help me stay connected with all of that.”

Penn researchers find viewers of violent TV more likely to fear crime TV violence has steadily increased since 1996 BENJAMIN ZOU Contributing Reporter

Watching too much “Law & Order: SVU” could actually give you nightmares.

A new study suggests that watching television has made people more afraid of crime.

Researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center Dan Romer, Director of the Adolescent Communication Institute, and Patrick Jamieson, Director of the Adolescent Risk Communication Institute, found a correlation between annual changes in the number of violent sequences broadcasted on prime-time TV dramas and responses to a Gallup poll that asked Americans whether they were afraid to walk alone in their neighborhoods at night.

The researchers looked at poll responses from when it was introduced in 1972 until 2010.

“Previous research in the field goes back to what was done at the Annenberg School under the then-dean George Gerbner, who was the first to think that the violence on television might be having effects on people,” Romer said. “One of the things

he thought was that it made them more afraid, want more police protection, be harsher in terms of punishing criminals … that kind of thing.”

The study shows that as the number of violent sequences per TV hour increased from 1.4 in 1996 to 3.7 in 2010, each additional violent sequence per hour predicted an increase of 1 percentage point in the number of people who said they felt afraid of walking alone in their neighborhoods at night.

Though Romer describes Gerbner’s research as “very influential,” he also says that the studies were scientifically problematic since his correlations could have been negated by setting controls on certain demographics.

“What we did that was different is that instead of looking at just one cross section in one point in time … we took data from the early 1970s to 2010 and compared it to surveys by Gallup,” Romer said, “and this isn’t a change in demographics because from year to year the same people are watching these shows.”While Romer acknowledged that “it could be only certain proportions of the population showing this effect,” he also said that “[the effect is]

certainly correlated to television.”

Romer also expressed concerns that an increase in anxiety over public safety could have darkly ironic consequences.

“When people are afraid of going out at night, they could want to get a gun to protect themselves, and we know where that can go,” he said.

“Seeing these people on these TV shows, which are relatively realistic, frightens people, which has political consequences which politicians can then play upon. They might say we need harsher penalties, and we already have the highest incarceration rate in the world among developed countries.”

“These harsh approaches to crime don’t necessarily make us any safer and just create a larger prison population,” he added.

Romer suggested a disclaimer proceeding popular programs which prominently feature violence and crime.

“It might help if we could educate people about this,” he said. “Make people aware that maybe they are being influenced by these shows and ought to think about them as entertainment, not as realistic truths.”

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While many university leaders across the country trumpet the qualifications of their graduating seniors, President Amy Gutmann is putting money where her mouth is.

And a lot of it, too.

Yesterday Gutmann announced the inaugural winners of the President’s Engagement Prizes, which encourage Penn seniors to take on local, national and global engagement projects after graduation.

The winners will each receive up to $100,000 in funding, as well as $50,000 to cover living expenses.

Gutmann first announced the creation of the prizes, an addition to the Penn Compact 2020, in August 2014.

“I really wanted to show how much we valued our students putting their knowledge to work for the betterment of the world,” said Gutmann. “And the best way to show how much you value something is to create a prize.”

The five winners — three individuals and one duo — come from all four undergraduate schools and have submitted proposals for a diverse array of projects.

“Each and every one of [the winners] takes what our students have been learning and really applies it to something that they hold dear in terms of engaging their world or their community, “ Binns said.

Nursing senior Jodi Feinberg’s goal is to establish “a much-needed bridge between inpatient and outpatient cardiac rehabilitation, ensuring that patients are steadily progressing along the cardiac rehabilitation continuum.” She will work with healthcare professionals from NYU Langone Medical Center and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York to implement the model.

Feinberg believes that home care will be central to the future of healthcare because it cares for patients in a more comfortable and cost effective setting. She is committed to making this kind of care a reality for cardiac patients because she feels it will help treat patients in a holistic manner.

“I think this award will empower me to develop a program that can really help these patients in their homes, help improve their functional status, improve their quality of life, prevent costly readmissions and really make a difference for those that need it,” she said.

Wharton senior Katlyn Grasso will build upon her work with GenHERation, a female empowerment network she founded for high school girls, empowering them to develop their own advocacy campaigns to address community issues. Last summer, Grasso received the 2014 Wharton Venture Award and spent her summer expanding her organization nationally.

“Women are really underrepresented in government, politics and academics, and I think GenHERation is a solution that will help instill the confidence in girls that they can become leaders and that they can pursue those positions later in life,” Grasso said. “I want to help

all girls across the country make their dreams a reality.”

While Feinberg and Grasso will use their prizes here in the United States, the other recipients will be tackling issues in poor communities in Africa.

Engineering seniors Adrian Lievano and Matthew Lisle will team up to develop a system that catches and purifies rainwater for the remote village of Kimana, Kenya. They plan to supplement their work with community education programs.

Lievano said that only 8 percent of the world’s fresh water supply goes to domestic use, the majority of which comes from ground wells that tap into aquifers beneath the Earth’s surface. In areas like Kimana, however, investors are not willing to fund these ground wells.

“One avenue we’re taking now is trying to purify rain water and river water, using organic filtrants that are indigenous to the area,” Lievano said, “[The filtrants] are biodegradable, they’re sustainable, and they’re well known by the community in Kenya, so it’s not some foreign device they are accepting.”

“Water is one of the basic needs that people need to live,” Lisle added. “We can give people cell phones and we can give people access to the Internet but the bottom line is if you don’t have water you don’t survive.”

And finally, College senior Shadrack Frimpong will return to his impoverished home village of Tarkwa Breman, Ghana, to promote both community health and female education. Frimpong will do this by establishing the Tarkwa Breman Model School for Girls and Community Clinic.

When he first came to the United States to attend Penn, Frimpong was astonished to see how much more advanced healthcare is here than it is in his community in Ghana.

“Health is a human right. It’s not something that only people who have the financial means should be able to access,” Frimpong said. “In the same way education is a human right, it’s not something that only men should be able to access.”

All five winners agree that the prizes will empower them to address issues that they are very passionate about. They are confident that with the University’s

backing, they can make a substantial impact in the coming years.

“I’m so honored and incredibly excited that the university believed in me and all of us that we can really make a difference,” Feinberg said.

“I feel that the University has empowered me the knowledge to take action, as a result we are going to improve the health, education status and the lives of many, many people.”

“When I created the prizes, I figured I would find a way of funding them one way or another and within a week there were three great Penn families who all stepped up to the plate,” she added.

Prolific Penn donors Trustee Judith Bollinger and William G. Bollinger, Trustee Lee Spelman Doty and George E. Doty Jr., and Emeritus Trustee James S. Riepe and Gail Petty Riepe, all pitched in for the prizes.

As for the prize selection process, Gutmann asked Provost Vincent Price to create a selection committee composed of one faculty member from each undergraduate school. Chaired by Vice Provost for Education Andrew Binns, the committee also included Marc McMorris, chair of the Board of Trustees’ Committee on Local, National, and Global Engagement. The committee was tasked with reviewing the applications and submitting six semi-finalists to Gutmann, who would ultimately select the three winners.

The Committee reviewed 25 applications submitted by 37 students, but not everything went according to plan.

“I planned on having three winners, but the quality of the projects were just too great and it presented me with the most welcomed hard choice I’ve had in a long time which is how to pick three out of those,” Gutmann said. “I really could not pick three, so I picked four.”

Gutmann and Binns are both equally confident that these students will be successful in their endeavors.

“I was absolutely astounded by the creativity of the student projects,” Gutmann said. “All of the winners have already shown through what they’ve done at Penn that they have the capacity to bring these projects to fruition.”

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The winning streak might be over, but Penn women’s lacrosse is just getting started.

The Quakers will look to continue its campaign for its ninth straight Ivy League title this Saturday against Towson University.

After a convincing win last weekend over Dartmouth, the Quakers improved to a 7-1 overall record. In addition to Cornell (3-0) and Princeton (2-0), Penn is the only remaining team with an unscathed conference record. Despite its lack of a national ranking, Towson (3-3) has proven to be a capable squad after their particularly creditable 14-15 double overtime loss to No. 2 North Carolina.

Throughout much of the season, recently nominated Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week Lucy Ferguson has served as the cornerstone for this team, making an astounding collective 23 saves in her last two games against No. 1 Maryland and Dartmouth.

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In last week’s game against Maryland, senior goalie Lucy Ferguson was phenomenal in the goal, making 23 saves against the Terps.

in her first six games with the program.

Unlike this time last season, the Red and Blue have only suffered one loss. Despite fighting admirably in College Park, the team fell to the Terps 12-7. However, there were several promising performances against the top team in the nation. Among these playmakers were attacks senior Tory Bensen and junior Catherine Dickinson, who displayed dazzling offense against the Maryland backfield. Their impact will be an influential factor in their campaign against the Tigers on Saturday.

As this collection of seniors has consistently proven to be a driving force behind the past three Ivy Championship titles, the sophomore class is a beacon for the hope of further conquest

within the league. Hailing from Canandaigua, N.Y., identical twins Lauren and Kendall D’Amore have taken command of the Quaker midfield, facilitating offensive attacks while remaining prepared to fall back to thwart any attempts on goal.

Such versatile play ought to ease the burden on Coach Karin Corbett, who will be looking for her next line of playmakers at the end of the season.

If the Red and Blue defeat the Tigers this Saturday, their overall record will improve to 8-1, leaving them in a commanding position for their next contest against Columbia on April 1.

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With two months of the 2015 season already in the books, the Penn women’s tennis team has yet to hit its stride. The team is off to a strong but streaky start, and with Ivy League play set to begin this weekend, the Quakers hope to maintain their strong play in order to compete for their first conference title since 2007.

Penn (7-4) got off to a hot start at the beginning of the semester, winning their first three matches against Temple, Florida International and Albany. The Temple and Albany matches ended in hard-fought 4-3 victories, coming down to the wire in the singles matches after clutch wins to steal the doubles point.

The Red and Blue lost their first match of the spring season on the road at Old Dominion in February. Despite winning two of three matches to take the important doubles point, Penn could only muster two singles victories in a disappointing 4-3 defeat.

The Quakers responded nicely the following two weekends, winning convincingly over Richmond and neighbor Drexel, 5-2 and 7-0 respectively.

Senior Sol Eskenazi and junior Sonya Latycheva, the top two singles players and No. 1 doubles team for the Red and Blue, are the clear leaders.

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But Turchin isn’t just deadly with a bat in hand. “She’s got good speed, [she’s a] good athlete, she can do a lot of things with the bat,� coach Leslie King said of the outfielder. “She’s a triple threat, really.�

After just three seasons with Penn softball, she was tied for the second-most stolen bases in program history with 32. So far, barely a third of the way into the 2015 season, the senior has already added four more stolen bases to that total, cementing her spot atop Penn’s program record books once the season culminates in May. But the Red and Blue have a long road ahead of them before they can throw in the towel on 2015. Perhaps the biggest contribution that Turchin will make to the team is not the runs she will score or the outs she will force.

Rather, it is the intensity she brings to the diamond and how she sets the tone for her team, both on and off the field. “As one of only four seniors, her role is really important in terms of showing kids this is how

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Tasked with playing opponents’ best players, Eskenazi and Latycheva have fared very well, going 5-3 and 7-4 in singles respectively, and 3-1 as a team. “We’re physically very strong, we’re peaking at the right time and we are very comfortable with several doubles combinations within the team, which gives us a lot of flexibility in how to play when we get into different matches,� coach Sanela Kunovac said. “Our players are finding a way to win the tough points when the match is a seesaw, so those are the things that are going right.�

The week leading up to spring break was the start of an arduous stretch of the Quakers’ schedule.

Starting on March 1, the Red and Blue played three straight matches on the road against teams ranked in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association top 75.

Penn dropped 5-2 decisions to No. 54 Maryland and No. 51 St. Mary’s; however, sophomore Kana Daniel was impressive in the team’s losses, winning in three sets in both match ups.

Competition did not get any easier for the Quakers, as they had to face No. 39 Arizona State the day after losing to St. Mary’s. The Quakers fought hard, but the Sun Devils — who this week reached No. 19 in the ITA standings — proved too much for the Red and Blue in a 7-0 sweep.

Penn recovered from the losing streak over the past two weekends, defeating both UNLV and Georgetown, 5-2.

The Quakers finish out the

season with seven straight matches against Ivy League opponents.

These matches against fellow Ancient Eight school are not only the most important for the Red and Blue, but also quite possibly the most difficult. No. 23 Dartmouth, No. 40 Harvard and No. 58 Columbia appear to be the most daunting tests ahead for the Quakers, who hope to do better than their sixth-place finish in the Ivy League last year.

Kunovac believes her team can make a statement with a win this weekend against defending conference champions Princeton. “I think if we can take down the defending Ivy League champs at home, it will give us a perfect springboard for the rest of our matches. It sends a message to our Ivy opponents but it would be a huge confidence boost for our team. We’re primed for that.�

She also believes the key to success may be hidden in something beyond what the players do with the racquets in their hands. “I want to see heart. They’ve all sacrificed so much this season and I want to see those sacrifices pay off, but the only way the outcome is going to be the right one is if they put everything on the line. “I want to see raw heart.�

success in the front of the field is junior attack Nick Doktor, who has also been impressive, leading the team with 35 total points.

On the other side of the ball, Yale (5-2, 0-2) will be led by attack Conrad Oberbeck. The senior is in second place on the Bulldogs’ all-time scoring list with 133 career goals and leads his team with 19 tallies this season. “We try not to game plan excessively for one individual,�

Murphy said of the team’s plan to slow down Oberbeck. “He’s a really good player who can score in a lot of different ways ‌ but I think [Penn senior defenseman] Matt McMahon is a good matchup for him.â€?

A turnaround similar to last year’s will only be possible if the Quakers start winning games.

A year ago, Penn ran the table in Ivy play after its two losses to begin the Ancient Eight season.

And in a conference schedule that only features six games, Saturday’s showdown with Yale could be a major turning point.

Still, Murphy is quick to emphasize that his team’s chances don’t hinge on any one game alone. “I don’t think putting any pressure on us is going to make us play better,� he said. “Historically, the fourth team that gets into the tournament is 3-3. But, of course, you have to approach every game as a must-win.�

While the Quakers will not be mathematically eliminated with a loss on Saturday, the Red and Blue need to get back into winning form if they are to have a shot at a second consecutive Ivy title.

Last year’s furious championship run started at this exact point in the season. This weekend, we will see if the Quakers are capable of an encore performance.

we do things at Penn, this is how you handle adversity, this is how you handle a mistake,� King said. “That kind of leadership is invaluable.�

Turchin is aware of the impact she has on her teammates — after all, she is entering her second year as team captain after being voted into the leadership position before her junior season. “Sydney definitely puts herself out there,� second baseman Vanessa Weaver said of her fellow senior classmate. According to Weaver, this aspect of Turchin’s personality has made her a natural leader on a team so filled with youth — of the 25 players, 17 are underclassmen.

As the Ivy season approaches, Turchin has taken it upon herself to set an example for her younger teammates. “I’m really trying to instill that will to win no matter who’s on the field,� Turchin said. “Just going out there like it’s the Ivy League championship every game.�

This Friday might be the closest the Quakers will get to playing as if it were the Ivy League championship until the actual tournament rolls around at the end of April. In fact, the Ancient

Eight opener against Dartmouth set to take off at 2 p.m. at Penn Park is a rematch of last year’s Ivy Championship final in which the Quakers fell to the Big Green in three games.

For Turchin, this might even be the most anticipated game of the season, and not just because she will finally get to replace her usual game-day eye black with red and blue glitter, a sparkly decoration she only dons for conference games.

No, the Dartmouth doubleheader on Friday is important because it is the first step of many towards getting another Ivy League ring. Turchin has been to the Ancient Eight championship every season that she has played for Penn; however she only walked away with a title in 2013. “Coming back from losing in the championship, to coming back and winning and coming back and losing — it’s like this year is all or nothing,� Turchin said. “My biggest goal is winning the Ivy League championship, obviously,� she said. “It’s the pinnacle of your career. I would be so humbled if I was able to experience that twice.�

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freestyles, and enters this weekend’s meet seeded sixth and 32nd, respectively. The junior qualified in the 1650 with an NCAA A-cut time of 14:43.87 back in December at the Total Performance Invitational. Ever since, the junior has had his eyes set on the NCAA Championships. With a ninth place finish in last year’s mile race and an All-American honorable mention, the Tampa, Fla., native appears primed to take the next step towards a podium spot in this year’s race.

“I’m certainly feeling a lot more pressure this year, just because the expectations are show much higher than they have been the past two years, but I’m less nervous going in this year than when I was a freshman,” Swanson said.

“My first year I just remember looking at some of the big names and thinking about how far above me they were. But now that I’m starting to get a lot closer to that top end, it starts to be a little easier to just go in and focus on having a good race.”

According to Schnur, the junior is well on his way to becoming one of those “big names” in the not-so-distant future.

“Chris has trained great this year, he’s competed beautifully, and hopefully he will continue his progression,” Schnur said.

“I believe Chris has the ability to be the top distance swimmer in America at some point, and it’s just a matter of him taking those steps that he needs to realize his potential. I expect him to continue doing what he’s been doing, and hopefully set himself up to be a title contender next year.”

In his first trip to nationals,

Schultz is seeded 28th in the 50-yard freestyle, 33rd in the 200-yard freestyle, and 34th in the 1000-yard freestyle. The junior is also Penn’s school record holder over all three distances.

Schultz is coming off a victory in the 200 at the Ivy Championships in February, and a second place finish in the 50 and 100 distances. After qualifying for the NCAA meet with a time of 19.54 in the 50 at Ivy Champs, Schultz will be looking to break into a top-16 spot in Iowa.

“The 50 is an event where anything can happen,” Schnur said. “If Eric can drop of a tenth of a second, he could make AllAmerican, and in an event like this you never know.

“Eric is as good a 50 swimmer as there is outside the top few guys in the country, and even though this is his first time on a big national stage, I think it will be a lot of fun to watch.”

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“This is probably the strongest crew I have had in six years,” he said.

On Saturday and Sunday, that crew will have to show what it is capable of.

“I think we’re ready,” the coach concluded.

Another crew ready for the spring season are the lightweights. While not going to California, the Quakers will be hoping to see some sun on the Schuylkill River this weekend as they will host the Mercyhurst crew for its season opener.

While Mercyhurst will not be one of the big races of the

season, coach Colin Farrell stresses its role as an early opportunity to assess the crew’s performance to make adjustments.

In contrast to the heavyweights in California, who will only be racing two boats, the lightweights will get to race three varsity eights, a freshman eight as well as a four boat in three separate races, making the weekend an ample opportunity for practice on a broad level.

“We need these races to help us get to top form,” Farrell said.

He too is satisfied with the winter training and is optimistic about their prospects this weekend and onwards.

“In the next couple of weeks, the hope would be that we would start to develop some areas where we could take some more risks,” he added.

A grander challenge is just around the corner, as the lightweights will take on Cornell and Harvard next weekend for the Matthews and Leonard Cups, once again at home on the Schuylkill River.

“It will be a great test,” Farrell said.

As for the women’s crew, they will be heading to New York to take on Columbia and Yale for an annual race. Last year, the Red and Blue finished second behind Yale, a result they are hoping to surpass this weekend.

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Penn baseball is heating up at just the right time.

After struggling early on in nonconference play, the Quakers (4-8) look to extend their three-game winning streak as the squad prepares for the start of Ivy League play this weekend. The team will host a pair of doubleheaders against Harvard and Dartmouth.

One of the team’s bright spots through a dozen contests, Penn’s formidable pitching staff will be put to the test on Saturday against the Crimson (10-8), who have posted at least eight runs in five of their last six games. Senior captain Connor Cuff is set to start the opener on Saturday, while sophomore southpaw Mike Reitcheck is expected to get the nod in game two.

Cuff has been rounding into form recently — the 2014 firstteam All-Ivy selection boasts an ERA of 1.00 and is coming off a complete game victory over Lafayette on Sunday. The Quakers will be looking for a similar performance this weekend from the trusty righty.

Reitcheck has been handling his transition from closer to starter well early in the season.

Set to make his first career Ancient Eight start, the sophomore has a team-leading two wins and has held opponents to a .231 batting average.

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Senior captain Connor Cuff has dominated this year, currently sitting on a 1.00 ERA and coming off of a first-team All-Ivy 2014 season.

Heading into the weekend, coach John Yurkow stressed the importance of being fundamentally sound both on the mound and in the field.

“We’ve just got to continue to keep throwing strikes and limit the walks on the mound, and also play good team defense,” Yurkow said. “That’s what hurt us when we were sputtering earlier in the year.”

Harvard senior second baseman Jake McGuiggan and senior catcher Ethan Ferreira, who have driven in a combined 26 runs this year, are two Crimson bats that could do damage to the Red and Blue on Saturday.

“Harvard is playing really well right now,” Yurkow said.

“They’ve sur prised some people.”

It was a surprise to many last year when Penn downed

Dartmouth (2-14) directly following a sweep of Harvard, but the Quakers are fully expecting to take care of business during this weekend’s homestand. The Big Green’s offense has yet to get going after facing a variety of solid nonconference opponents early on, while junior ace Duncan Robinson has struggled.

Yurkow will tap another senior-sophomore combo — Ronnie Glenn and Jake Cousins — for pitching duties on Sunday against Dartmouth. The pair was able to combine for a 10-strikeout outing in Penn’s 4-2 victory over St. Joseph’s on Tuesday.

Now, with its pitching staff gaining command and timely hitting coming through more frequently, Penn appears prepared to take on the Ivy League.

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Penn swimming has become accustomed to rewriting the record books over the last few years, and even marks that have stood for 44 years aren’t safe anymore.

For the first time since 1971, Penn will be sending two athletes to compete at the NCAA Swimming and Diving National Championships. Junior captain Chris Swanson is making his third trip to the championship, and this year he will be joined by fellow junior captain Eric Schultz, who will be making his first appearance on the national stage. Competition starts Thursday, March 26 and will run for three days, with the University of Iowa playing host to the country’s top collegiate swimmers.

“Any team can send one guy to nationals, and we’ve been blessed to have some really talented guys compete for us over the years,” coach Mike Schnur said. “But it says a lot more about your program when you can send multiple guys.

“Hopefully next year we can turn those two into six or seven, because we have a lot of other guys who were really close, and that’s just good for the entire program.”

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When she strides across home plate to take her lefty stance inside the batter’s box, you might not expect anything out of the ordinary from Sydney Turchin. But her opponents know better by now.

Indeed, the senior outfielder looks quite unassuming when her bat slams square into her back during her practice swings behind home plate. The only clue she gives to pitchers of just how much of an offensive menace she can be is her calm

but focused stare just visible above the brow of her batting helmet.

And then she swings. Suddenly, it becomes clear that Turchin is anything but ordinary. This is a familiar scene for the senior, as she has consistently found herself atop the Quakers’ record books for the season and program throughout her four years as a starter.

Last year, she was third on the team in batting average at .317, and with 126 at-bats, she trailed only then-freshman standout Leah Allen in appearances in the batter’s box. Turchin also came in at fifth in program history with 96 career hits.

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The spring has returned, and with it, so has Penn rowing.

This weekend, all three of the Penn crews are heading their separate ways for early meets which are critical for setting the tone for the season. Following the long weeks of fall and winter training, the spring racing season is where all the hard work is put to the final test, and the Red and the Blue are ready to take it on with full force.

The heavyweight crew, under the watchful eyes of coach Greg Myhr, is heading all the way to sunny California to race in the San Diego Crew Classic on Saturday and Sunday.

After a lighter season opener last weekend — where the crew was able to hold on to the McCausland Cup after overcoming George Washington University in home waters — the crew will bring two varsity boats across the country to row it out with some of the top crews in the nation.

To Myhr, the value of a strong early season cannot be overstated, especially considering the demanding schedule the heavyweights have this season. The crew will race seven weekends in a row, which presents a taxing challenge that gives little breathing room.

“In some respects it is the most important part of the season,” Myhr said, emphasizing the positive psychological effect of emerging strong from winter training.

Myhr and the rowers that will embark for the West Coast on Thursday evening will have to take on not only the likes of home rivals Navy, but also California powerhouses like Stanford and, even more daunting, California.

“Cal is probably ranked between first and third in the country,” Myhr continued, keenly aware of the momentous challenge that lies ahead.

The challenge does not end there. Next week, the crew will host Northeastern, only a few days after returning home from San Diego.

Luckily, Myhr has cause for optimism.

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Throughout her four years of starting for Penn softball, senior outfielder Sydney Turchin has established herself as a force to be reckoned with on the diamond . She leads the team with the most stolen bases in program history ­and is a driven leader to emanate in the dugout amongst her teammates.

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On the offensive front, junior attack Nick Doktor leads Penn men’s lacrosse with 35 points on the season, including a goal and an assist in the Quakers’ most recent game against Cornell.

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It’s time to get down to business.

After dropping its first two games of the 2015 Ivy League season, Penn men’s lacrosse will look to turn its fortunes around as it takes on No. 11 Yale this Saturday.

After losing to then-No. 11 Princeton on March 14, Cornell defeated the Red and Blue (3-5, 0-2 Ivy) last Saturday in particularly frustrating fashion.

After trailing 9-4 at halftime, the Quakers fought back and took the No. 7 Big Red to three overtimes before

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dropping the contest, 10-9.

However, despite the hardfought loss, coach Mike Murphy insists that the atmosphere in practice has been positive all week.

“We played our best half of lacrosse all year,” Murphy said. “Obviously, you don’t want to lose a game, you don’t want to lose an Ivy League game, and you don’t want to lose in triple overtime. But, all that being considered, it was definitely something we can build on.”

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