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Students fight for lost seat with online petition SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Deputy News Editor

Five minority groups, including the Asian Pacific Student Coalition, currently have a seat on the University Council. But APSC has not been guaranteed a spot for the upcoming year. The five groups are the Latino Student Coalition, UMOJA, which

encompasses student groups of the African Diaspora, the United Minorities Council, the Asian Pacific Student Coalition and the Lambda Alliance — known informally as the “5B.” In the latest round of elections, the Nominations and Elections Committee voted to fill nine of the 15 seats that are reserved for student groups. Three of the six remaining seats are designated for the Undergraduate Assembly President, Vice President and Speaker, and the

final three seats, known as “flex seats,” are up for grabs as soon as the NEC elects its new board, which then votes on who will fill the flex seats. Sometimes these seats are decided by the end of the spring semester, but sometimes it takes until the beginning of fall. Either way, APSC is now pushing to be guaranteed one of them. But for now, APSC chair and College junior Sarah Cho said the lack of representation among the nine regular

student groups is problematic. “This adds to several prominent Asian-American issues that are on campus and nationwide: the problem of visibility, the problem of the ‘model minority,’ the fact that our issues aren’t heard,” she said. “It’s allowing more serious problems of discrimination and prejudice to fester right under all of our SEE COUNCILPAGE 2

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or Engineering freshman Hannah Sheetz, Penn’s dining experience has been nothing short of, as she put it, “terrible.” Sheetz suffers from severe celiac disease, which causes her to become violently ill when she consumes gluten. Unlike many people who avoid gluten for dietary reasons, Sheetz’s disease has made planning her meals a lifetime struggle. Even tiny amounts of gluten, unnoticeable to many, can leave Sheetz feeling extremely sick.

Although her dietary restriction all but prevents her from eating at dining halls, Penn Dining and Student Disability Services have continually refused to refund her meal plan. According to multiple lawyers interviewed by The Daily Pennsylvanian, her treatment by Penn Dining and SDS may even be in violation of laws protecting students with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act apply to

Penn as a private college because it receives federal funding. The laws require Penn to reasonably modify their policies in order to provide “equivalent access” to benefits for disabled students, said Rutgers Law School professor and disability SEE DINING PAGE 2

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Third safety alert in four days sent after robbery

Soph. built a following on Instagram for his posts ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

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A Friday night robbery on the 200 block of 42nd Street spawned the third UPennAlert in four days. The Division of Public Safety issued an alert at 7:26 p.m. and were able to declare the area “allclear” six minutes later. Around 7:04 p.m., Penn Police responded to a robbery at a house on 42nd Street near Walnut. The victim, who was affiliated with Penn, received a visit from the suspect, who claimed that the victim had received a package intended for him, DPS said in a statement on Friday. Even though the package was addressed to the victim, the suspect grabbed it and ran off after a “brief struggle,” DPS said. No weapon was used and nobody was injured. On Wednesday night, DPS sent a UPennAlert after a student was seen leaving Huntsman Hall with a knife. The next day, a series of electrical explosions under 34th Street near Walnut Street spurred another safety alert.

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College sophomore Taylor Hamilton takes social activism on to Instagram through his passion for drawing.

College sophomore Taylor Hamilton is turning his passion for drawing into a platform for social activism. Hamilton found a love for drawing when, as a four-year-old, he used to copy the cartoons that he would see on television. Now, he uses his work to draw attention to social injustices. “I mostly want to show in a universally understandable image, for the people who don’t always see the extent of what’s wrong into these certain cases, in a way that everyone can understand,” Hamilton said. At Penn, Hamilton is a part of Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, also known as SOUL, which he thinks goes hand-in-hand with what he writes and draws about. As Hamilton began exploring his potential as a writer, he found themes that he considered worth translating into artwork.

Originally, Hamilton’s work was on his Facebook account, and only his friends and family had access to his pieces. Eventually, he decided to start an Instagram account to showcase his art. He used the alias “Kiakili” on his account. The word “kiakili” is Swahili for “emotional intellectual,” which Hamilton said fits his personality. “I’m a very free-thinking and thoughtful person who tends to show emotions visually,” Hamilton said. His account was originally recognized for his depictions of famous people, until a drawing that he uploaded relating to police brutality went viral. In June 2015, a video circulated on the internet showing a police officer roughly restraining a bikini-clad 14-year-old for being too rowdy at a pool party in Texas. Commentators argued that the girl would not have been treated with such brute force if she wasn’t black. In response to the incident, Hamilton created a photo depicting the scene that garnered over 1,300 likes on his account SEE INSTA PAGE 3

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law expert Katie Eyer. The requirement for “equivalent access” ensures that universities provide equal benefits to students with disabilities. “One could certainly characterize waiving the requirement of purchasing a meal plan as a reasonable modification of the usual rules to allow her equivalent access,” Eyer said. For Sheetz, this type of equivalent access does not appear likely. When dining hall food isn’t for everyone When Sheetz first arrived at Penn, she was intent on “making the dining halls work,” despite her illness. She quickly discovered the options labeled gluten-free served at the dining halls still contained gluten. Bon Appétit’s website even states that its gluten-free foods “are not guaranteed gluten-free, as defined by the FDA” because other items in their kitchens are made with gluten. “At the beginning of the year I ate at dining halls about five times and got really sick four of the times,” Sheetz said. “I don’t feel safe eating at the dining halls.” After Sheetz contacted Penn Dining around Oct. 14 to discuss her situation, she was directed to Dan Connolly, a registered Bon Appétit dietician. Connolly told Sheetz that the only way to provide her with gluten-free food was for her to email the dining halls at the beginning of each week with a schedule telling them exactly where she was going to eat at which times for the entire

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noses.” This has happened before. During University Council seat elections in 2011, APSC was also denied a seat, and this time board members of the group are hoping to make a lasting change to prevent it from happening again. Cho said the group is not only pushing for their own seat, but also for an increase in the total number of seats available

MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2016 week, she recalled. She was unable to do this, citing the amount of time it would take as an undue burden. Stephen Pennington, director of the Center for Disability Law and Policy in Philadelphia, agreed that Penn’s policy was unreasonable. “This is completely ridiculous,” he said. “That is like saying to a wheelchair user, ‘The ramp is too high, but let us know when you’re going to show up and we’ll have some big guys come out and help you into the building.’ That’s not a solution for her.” Connolly deferred comment for this article to a spokeswoman from Penn Business Services, who declined to comment on his behalf due to “privacy issues.” Separately, Penn Business Services declined multiple requests for an in-person interview, but released a written statement outlining their policies in relation to students with dietary restrictions, which said in part, “In most cases, Penn Dining is able to accommodate a student’s special dietary requirements. This is done in a variety of ways including providing education and guidance on available options; adding menu items to our cafes; or even having our chefs prepare meals customized specifically for the student.” Sheetz recalled being instructed by Connolly in a meeting that she had to make the “dining halls work because they work for other students who are gluten-free,” a directive she couldn’t fathom following. “Because I have an autoimmune disease and not an allergy, if I keep eating food that is not gluten-free, it can lead to long-term health issues like intestinal cancer,” she said,

“so that’s not a risk I can take even though Penn wants me to.” Jamie Ray-Leonetti, co-chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s committee of Legal Rights of Persons with Disability, also thought Penn’s request might raise some legal red flags. “The University needs to keep in mind that reasonable accommodation is not what we like to call a ‘one size fits all’ process,” she said. “Simply because there are glutenfree options at the dining halls that work for some students does not mean that it is the appropriate accommodation for this student.” Pennington also criticized the accomodation. “How are they confident to say that she should be able to tolerate?” he asked. “It’s no different than saying to the wheelchair user, ‘That ramp isn’t too steep. You can make it up.’ It’s an opinion without basis in any facts.” After the meeting with Connolly, Sheetz was still getting sick from the dining hall food. That’s when she decided she needed another option. In mid-October, she contacted Student Disability Services to see if she could get her meal plan refunded. As part of her request, Sheetz submitted medical forms from her doctor confirming her illness. “I couldn’t eat anything at the dining halls, so there was no point of having a dining plan,” she said. “My family isn’t rich or anything, so spending $5,000 on a dining plan that I couldn’t use was an insane burden.” After her parents contacted the office, SDS told them on Jan. 13 that Sheetz’s request had been rejected. “I was really upset because that

meant that I had to spend my own money outside of paying $5,000 for the dining plan to try to get food for myself,” she said. “I’ve begged and screamed and they couldn’t care less.” Susan Shapiro, the Jesselson Director of Student Disabilities Services, declined to speak specifically on Sheetz’s case, but noted that although it is extremely rare for students to have their dining plans waived, it has happened. “Students who have special dietary needs are encouraged to meet with a nutritionist and the dining staff of Bon Appétit for the purposes of developing a plan to work best for them,” Shapiro said. “I think that is really important because dining is part of the community there of your peers. That’s part of the college experience to have that community. After the rejection, Sheetz had to rely on food brought from home, gluten-free snacks like pretzels and pop tarts and the occasional trip to a restaurant. Pennington was incredulous upon hearing the University’s refusal to refund Sheetz’s plan. “I’m really surprised. She has individual rights under the ADA,” he said. “To the extent that the food services are not providing her with the same accesses as other students then is in violation of that law, so to say that they don’t believe her is abhorrent to me.” He added, “She should be permitted to opt out from that meal plan.”

for student groups. That way, groups like Penn First, which represents Penn’s first-generation college students and will replace APSC, can also keep their seat. “We strongly support the fact that [Penn First] has a seat. We believe that they should have a seat, and when it comes down to it, that’s why we want more seats,” vice chair of Political Affairs and Wharton sophomore Yen-Yen Gao said. In APSC’s change.org petition, a guaranteed flex seat is the first

demand. Second is the increase in University Council seats for underrepresented and misrepresented organizations. Finally, they also call for permanent seats for the 5B and Penn Association for Gender Equity. Wharton senior and chair of NEC Michael Roberts said twice as many groups applied as the NEC had seats to give. “These decisions become more and more difficult,” he said. To make decisions, the committee uses 10 criteria, which are

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‘Not an adequate solution’ In February, Sheetz contacted Student Disability Services again, this time to see if they could convert her meal swipes into Dining Dollars

so she could at least buy gluten-free pretzels at Gourmet Grocer. When Sheetz was interviewed for this article at the end of March, her account did not yet show a conversion. Only after a follow-up March 20 email from Sheetz’s mother were her swipes finally converted into Dining Dollars. The conversion doesn’t totally solve Sheetz’s problem. There aren’t gluten-free meals she can buy with dining dollars, Sheetz said. Instead, she can only purchase snacks like gluten-free pretzels and fruit. “If you severely limit the categories of food that are available, so that it doesn’t amount to a nutritionallyadequate diet, then that doesn’t seem like a reasonable accommodation,” Eyer said. Complicating matters for students with diseases like Sheetz’s is the dining halls’ insistence on labeling foods as “gluten-free,” when by FDA standards, they are not. “It’s horrible that they don’t make gluten-free food up to FDA standards, and then don’t let kids out of these meal plans even when they don’t feel safe eating the food,”

Sheetz said. “Penn is just trying to make a buck off of me honestly.” Sheetz could have grounds to file a lawsuit, the lawyers interviewed for this piece said. “It sounds like she has requested a reasonable accommodation and Penn’s refusal to refund her meal plan definitely raises some legal issues,” Eyer said. Pennington even recommended that Sheetz file a complaint with the Department of Justice. “When the Department of Justice calls it tends to make them perk up a little bit, if you know what I mean,” he said. “[Penn] is a good school, but every once in a while they need to be reminded that the students who go there have certain rights.” While Sheetz’s situation certainly brings up an interesting question for legal scholars, it is much more personal for her. “It’s really unfair to force students to be in situations where they feel unsafe and are forced to experiment with their health,” she said. “Everyone else who pays gets to eat meals except me,” Sheetz said. “They just want me for my money.”

publicly available on their website. Of the 10 criteria, only one addresses “whether and how the constituency is mis- or underrepresented.” Other criteria address things like the “relevancy of the constituency for upcoming things on the agenda of the University Council,” Roberts said. Cho said she doesn’t think the NEC realizes how relevant Asian American students’ concerns are, citing how the Vietnamese Student Association was heckled at Spring

Fling last year. “People yelled racial slurs at them,” she said. “These issues aren’t necessarily at the forefront of everyone’s mind, and they clearly weren’t at the forefront of the NEC’s mind when they made this decision.” Roberts said there has been a precedent for adding University Council seats for student groups, but only because the UA used to have more seats, and they switched some of them over for determination by the NEC. The total number of

student seats can’t be changed by the NEC or the UA. “It’s written into [The University Council’s] bylaws how many undergraduate seats there are,” he said. “They would need to change their own bylaws.” Roberts said it would make the NEC’s life easier as well if seats were added. “We would love if there were more seats,” Roberts said. “The NEC would love to be a part of that discussion.”

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and was also shared thousands of times on Tumblr and other social networking sites. The drawing shows a black person’s hand reaching out from a body of water. One white hand is holding a phone and taking a video or photo, while another white hand is pointing a gun. Underneath the photo, Hamilton wrote, “Black men and women are constantly drowning within ‘the pool’ of systemic oppression without a hand to pull them out.” Recently, Hamilton has done a drawing about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. He hopes to display his artwork this year in the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention, an annual event in Philadelphia where black artists display their work. Hamilton has been to the event before both as a spectator and as an artist, where he sold children’s books and T-shirts.

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Phi Gamma Delta’s fundraiser for suicide prevention featured Penn’s performing arts and a silent auction.

with a park cleanup scheduled for this week. “We have a big community service event and a big philanthropy event every semester,” Kleiser said. “We want this to be something the brothers support wholeheartedly.” With the intention of making this event a new Fiji tradition, the brothers encouraged students to

look forward to next year’s showcase as well as emphasize their new initiative to opening their space for fraternities, organizations and nonPenn affiliated organizations to utilize. “Be on the lookout for us making this a real tradition and establishing this as a presence on Penn’s campus,” Anderson said.

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Though he no longer sells T-shirts, he is still working on writing a children’s book. Thus far, Hamilton has published one book called “Seven Days With Carole,” a story in honor of the legacy of Carole Robertson, one of the three girls killed by the Ku Klux Klan in a Birmingham, Alabama church in 1963. Hamilton is currently working on writing books on the other three girls who were killed, each of whom received the Congressional Medal of Honor nearly 50 years after the incident. All the proceeds that Hamilton raises from his books will be donated to the Jack and Jill Foundation, an organization that helps African-American kids and teens get the connections and resources they need to find a job. “Once you recognize that you have something valuable,” Hamilton said, “You always want to see how far you can take it.”

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Last Thursday evening, the brothers of Phi Gamma Delta began a new tradition by integrating the arts into their philanthropic endeavors. On March 24, the fraternity, commonly known as Fiji, hosted its first-ever performing arts showcase and silent auction at their chapter house. The fraternity welcomed a total of seven different Penn performing arts groups, featuring swing and a capella. The show, which was organized by students and hosted by Philanthropy Chair and College junior Grant Kleiser, witnessed an audience of around 200 people. Proceeds from the silent auction went to the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. It had been two years since Fiji voted on making this their chapter’s philanthropic organization of choice. “A lot of people have had friends who have suffered through mental crises and struggled with suicidal thoughts,” Kleiser said. “We thought it was a very important thing, especially at Penn, to support and

to show that we care about these people. These people are like us.” The performing arts idea emerged from the desire to put more creative thought into event planning. College senior and Fiji President Ryan Anderson — a member of The Daily Pennsylvanian opinion board — said that when he began his term, “we had been searching for a few years for more creative events, to ramp up the events, organize bigger showings and involve bigger organizations.” The philanthropy committee was especially content to see such a new variety of people in the audience. Kleiser recalls seeing many unfamiliar faces in the crowd and feeling excited at the prospect of “bridging the gap between organizations and social scenes,” he said. College sophomore Elizabeth Camarillo, an audience member, also noted the wide range of attendees gathered at the event. “It’s really nice to see such a diverse group of people, even among performers,” she said. The event earned a total of $1198, with $510 of the total coming from tickets and $688 from the silent auction. Their community service dedication is expected to continue

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In the course of scrolling through a libertarian blog a few days ago, a stray sentence caught my eye. The blogger said something to the effect of “Of course, we all know that opposition to Citizens United is based on a fallacy,” before continuing to make some tangentially-related point. “We do?” I thought. I’m politically well-versed enough to know the broad strokes of the arguments against the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling on independent campaign finance spending. As I turned them over in my head, however, I couldn’t spot an obvious fallacy. My curiosity was piqued enough that I did a bit of searching in the site’s archive to find some of the writer’s previous posts on the topic. I wasn’t entirely convinced by the arguments I found, but I was struck by them nevertheless for one particular reason: They were far more compelling than any that I could have formulated on my own. I like to think of myself as a reasonably thoughtful and

well-informed participant in American political discourse. As such, I like to think that my opinions, including my mild opposition to unregulated independent campaign spending, are born from careful consideration of all relevant perspectives. But here I was, faced with incontrovertible evidence that there was at least one compelling argument I hadn’t considered. Given that my opinions on Citizens United hadn’t been particularly fervent to begin with, this discovery was something less than a major revelation. It did get me thinking, however, about whether my ability to argue persuasively against my own positions was underdeveloped. It’s not hard, after all, to formulate a convincing argument on behalf of a conclusion you already accept, nor is it difficult to think of bad reasons to support a cause you oppose. Doing the opposite is a much tougher task, and it’s one I wish I attempted more often. As college students, we’re

uniquely positioned to seek out and find the arguments we’ve never heard before, the statistics with which we haven’t reckoned, the opponents whom we’ve caricatured and derided rather than en-

evitable or automatic benefit, but only a potential one. Perhaps once in the past it was impossible to go four years without encountering the best arguments against one’s own convictions, but if

I’d be willing to wager that we all spend less time challenging ourselves in this way than we do seeking to confirm what we already believe.” gaged. And yet, I’d be willing to wager that we all spend less time challenging ourselves in this way than we do seeking to confirm what we already think. Academics often talk about “challenging deeply-held beliefs” as one of the great benefits of a liberal education. What gets overlooked, though, is that it’s not an in-

it ever was, it is no longer so. Like our Twitter feeds and our news sources, it’s perfectly possible for our academic careers to be carefully tailored to confirm the values and judgements we bring into the classroom with us. The consequences are anything but academic. A cognitive bias which social scientists call “motive attribu-

tion asymmetry” — the belief that one’s own opinions and preferences come from noble instincts like love and altruism, while those of one’s ideological opponents come from nefarious instincts like hatred and selfishness — is hypothesized to account for intractable conflicts ranging from political stasis in the United States to bloody civil wars in the developing world. The cure for this bias and its destructive outcomes is active self-challenging. In order to dodge the trap of tribalism which our animal nature sets for us, we must always leave room in our convictions for the possibility that we are wrong. There are a number of possible institutional ways of encouraging this, but there are personal remedies as well. We ought to choose to mount hard challenges to our own opinions. We ought to choose to put serious effort into proving ourselves wrong. We ought to deliberately seek out the best reasons we can find to discard or modify our own beliefs.

ALEC WARD Too often, as with myself and Citizens United, we can’t even articulate the strongest case against what we believe. Unless I can argue the best reason to support unregulated campaign finance, and can then refute it, I might be in favor of more money in politics after all. Who knows? I certainly don’t. 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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In an age where every post, ad and BuzzFeed article is competing for space on your online newsfeed, it might seem natural to dismiss social media activism as being just another empty, attention-seeking hashtag. It’s an easy characterization to make and one I’ve read countless times over in opinion columns on the web. But while that may be a fun article to write for all those columnists who revel in telling us just what exactly is wrong with millennials, should they really be so quick to dismiss the work a new wave of activists are doing? Recently, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education held a debate on Penn’s campus regarding the effectiveness of “Hashtag Activism,” and while both sides offered strong arguments, I couldn’t help but worry that this was falling into another old versus young debate. The main argument against hashtag activism, delivered by sociologist Zeynep Turfecki, is that social media movements grow too big and too fast and lack the organizational capac-

ity to pressure authority. But isn’t that the same critique that every older generation has for the new one? “Young people are too brash, young people don’t do the hard work.” That’s not to say Turfecki is wrong, but by leaning on the old versus young dichotomy, she’s missing some of the powerful innovations that hashtag activism can bring to a movement. And while not every activist group has utilized it well, the Black Lives Matter movement is a prime example of how activists can be effective using social media. In her argument against hashtag activism, Turfecki acknowledged the power social media has to sway a narrative, but still viewed this as second to its inability to challenge power and accomplish goals. I’d argue, however, that one of BLM’s primary goals should be to change the narrative. Perhaps one of the biggest steps towards ending racism is also one of the simplest — actually acknowledging that racism exists and creating a dialogue around it. Though this may seem inconsequential,

challenging the narrative that we are living in a colorblind society should be a critical goal of BLM. The myth of colorblindness can not only impede social progress, but it can also set us back as it did in the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn

tivist organizations, BLM is, as stated by its Ferguson Action group, “decentralized, but coordinated.” By allowing for multiple sub-movements to exist under the same hashtag, BLM has made itself more democratic and open than its formally-organized counter-

... it might seem natural to dismiss social media activism as being just another empty, attention-seeking hashtag.”

key features of the Voting Rights Act. Another issue Turfecki found with hashtag activism is that it creates movements too quickly without building strong organizational structures. And while it’s true that BLM has grown quickly and often organizes sporadically, social media has also provided BLM an alternate way to structure itself. Unlike more traditional ac-

parts. This decentralized structure becomes extremely important for maintaining a movement that stays true to the positions of the people in it. In her book, “Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State,” political scientist Megan Francis details how extensive funding from the Garland Fund pressured the NAACP to shift its agenda from racial vio-

lence to education. However, a decentralized social-media based movement like BLM is more difficult to co-opt because it’s comprised of multiple organizations with separate sources of funding. The decentralized structure of BLM also makes it more open to a variety of participants. As community organizer Zellie Imani brought up during the debate, a young woman like Claudette Cohen — who at the age of 15 refused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks — was not allowed to be the face of the bus boycott because NAACP leaders thought she was too young, too dark and too loud to be an icon. But if she were on that bus today, the powerful voice of Claudette Cohen would most certainly have an outlet in the BLM movement. The Civil Rights Movement of the ‘60s was full of recognizable leaders, such as Dr. King and Malcolm X, who should be celebrated for their accomplishments. But what’s so powerful about social media movements like BLM is that those few influential voices

CAMERON DICHTER have been replaced by the voice of the collective masses. With every new technological advancement there will always be those who are quick to dismiss it. That’s not to say building a movement online doesn’t have its drawbacks, but without the platform of social media, a movement founded by and dedicated to elevating the voices of Black queer women, may never have been possible. CAMERON DICHTER is a College sophomore from Philadelphia, studying English. His email address is camd@ sas.upenn.edu. “Real Talk” usually appears every other Monday.

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Where’s the Love Philadelphia’s project gallery featured a collection of photographs and narratives of Philadelphians affected by gun violence.

Neil Cholli. Kurland became interested in the issue of gun violence after going to the emergency room at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for heat exhaustion and watching a young man die of gunshot wounds. “I remember it being a traumatic and horrifying experience,” Kurland said. “It really opened my eyes to the suffering that some Philadelphians are faced with on a daily basis.” College junior Tia Yang, the creative director for WTL, said that they started interviewing those affected by gun violence for community-level research. “We knew we wanted to start a project to address gun violence and raise awareness of it, and once we interviewed these people we found that the best way to do that is to just get these stories out there,” she said. “They’re just really really powerful.” The gallery, which featured several dozen photographs of

community members displayed next to an iPad or printed page with their personal narrative, emphasized the cultural and social context surrounding gun violence. “I expected to hear some of the rhetoric you hear about how guns are sort of problematic on their own,” said College senior Aidan McConnell, one of about 50 attendees at the event. “This is much more about a community reformation process. How do you get them to put down a weapon and sort of see the person you otherwise would’ve shot as a fellow human?” Williams, the outreach coordinator, encouraged Penn students to get involved in this issue by engaging with children and young adults in the Philadelphia community beyond Penn. “Find out where the community centers are,” he said. “Listen to them, read a book or how about just giving them a hug?”

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SOFTBALL | Allen adds

trio of homers in routs JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Reporter

Perfection is hard to achieve in sports. To be able to play an entire game without a single blemish is something that few athletes can claim to have done. But this past Saturday, Penn softball’s Alexis Sargent came pretty darn close to joining that elusive club. In the first game of a doubleheader against Rider, Sargent, the Quakers’ newfound ace, came just one out short of completing the second no-hitter in program history while leading the Red and Blue to a 5-0 victory. Penn completed the sweep later in the day with a 12-4 win. In perhaps the best outing of her career at Penn, Sargent continued her season-long dominance from the circle. The junior fanned 14 batters, a new career high, walked none and allowed only an infield hit en route to her eighth win and seventh complete game of the season. Sargent also lowered her earned run average to a miniscule 1.01.

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Especially this year, the field was really good.” Later, at Ivy League Championships in February, the men’s team was able to match a dominant Columbia squad, with each team earning a share of a threeway tie for first. The Ancient Eight crown was Penn’s first since 2009 on the men’s side. “I don’t think [Columbia and Princeton] were necessarily better, I just think they performed better at this specific competition,” Gordon said.

“She pitched a phenomenal game, one of the finest I’ve seen her pitch,” coach Leslie King said. “She really attacked the strike zone and got ahead in the count. I was disappointed for her that we couldn’t come away with the last out, but it didn’t take away from her performance.” The Quakers (11-7) jumped out early in the first game, capitalizing on sloppy defense from Rider (3-18) to put a run on the board in the first inning. Freshman Sam Pederson started the rally with a single up the middle and was eventually brought home on a dropped fly ball hit by Sargent. Penn tacked on another run in the third inning, as freshman Sarah Cwiertnia drilled a two-out, RBI double to score sophomore Jurie Joyner. However, the squad put the game out of reach with a three run seventh, highlighted by a two-run dinger from junior Leah Allen and another RBI double from Cwiertnia. While the first game was a comfortable win for the Red and Blue, the team had a little more trouble with Broncos in the second half of the doubleheader. Sophomore Mason Spichiger got

ANANYA CHANDRA | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

Junior pitcher Alexis Sargent came within an out of a no-hitter on Saturday, netting a win against Rider in the first end of a doubleheader.

roughed up on the mound, giving up four runs — three earned — in three and two-thirds innings of work. Senior Lauren Li, who relieved Spichiger in the fourth, allowed two of her inherited runners to score, but shut out the Broncs after that. “We would like to see more consistency out of the other pitchers, it has been a bit of a mixed bag from them this year,”

Indeed, the Lions would go on to take home their second-consecutive national title in 2015-16, a streak Penn had hoped to stop this year. Despite a result that was perhaps lower than expected, Gordon and the rest of his team are not walking away from the year with a bitter taste in their mouths. “We worked hard for NCAAs as well, and even though we didn’t get the result we wanted, I’m pretty happy about the team as a whole and the work we put in this year,” he said. “It was a great run.”

King said. “Some games it has been good, and others have been bad, but I’m confident that they’ll get better as we head down the stretch.” While the Quakers hung around with Rider to keep the score close, again capitalizing on their opponent’s poor defense, the real offensive outburst came in the fifth inning when the team batted around and

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scored nine runs. Senior captain Kanani Datan and freshman Jessica England both contributed with RBI base knocks. The key to the offensive onslaught was Allen, who hit her second and third home runs of the day, driving in four runs. “She’s a very important component to our lineup, and her getting hot at this time of the year is ideal,” King said. “I don’t see any reason why her performance wouldn’t carry through to Ivy play, she’s really been working hard to play to her potential.”

With conference play less than a week away for the Quakers, the sweep of Rider this weekend will provide them with the confidence and momentum that they need to start off on the right foot in the Ancient Eight. After one last tune up in a doubleheader against Lehigh on Wednesday, Penn takes on Brown at home on Friday, kicking off a month long stretch of mostly Ivy play. Perhaps they can learn a lesson from Sargent on Saturday and strive for perfection.

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No matter the team, it is commonplace to worry about the potential for trap games. Regardless of the opponentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record, an Ivy League contest is a battle with a rival and wins never come easy. Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lacrosse fell into a trap against Dartmouth, falling, 10-9, in a gut-wrenching loss. The No. 14 Quakers (6-3, 1-1 Ivy) have now lost two straight after winning their previous five matches. In Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contest, Penn started quickly, building a 6-4 lead by the end of the first half. However, coach Karin Corbett was not satisfied with her teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play in the opening frame. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know that we were ahead at halftime but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel that it was a great first half. We had a lot of turnovers in the first half,â&#x20AC;? Corbett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were ahead, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we played that well in the first half.â&#x20AC;? The second half saw a collapse from the Red and Blue. The Big Green (5-3, 1-1) came roaring back to the tune of six unanswered goals and turned the game into a 10-6 outing with just 15 minutes left. The Quakers would break their 22-minute scoring drought when junior midfielder Lauren Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Amore netted her second goal of the season with just under 10

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Senior Lely DeSimone brought Penn within a goal of Dartmouth, but the Quakers couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t manage to score again in the 10-9 loss.

minutes left to play. The team would go onto scoring two more goals to bring the deficit to one, but could not equalize the score in the gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waning minutes, despite a handful of chances. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had some turnovers in transition. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we made very good decisions on the attacking side. We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t moving the ball that well. We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t finding the open player,â&#x20AC;? Corbett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a great day for us.â&#x20AC;? With this loss, the Quakers now face an uphill battle to reclaim the Ivy League championship after falling short in 2015. They still control their own destiny, but performances like Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will not bring the title to the Red and Blue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought Dartmouth came out to win this game,â&#x20AC;? Corbett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They played with a lot of

heart and a lot of fight and they outfought us today.â&#x20AC;? The Quakers have a two-week break before continuing Ivy play, but they will also face a ranked Northwestern squad that was just below the Red and Blue at No. 15 last week. It will now be up to the team to break out of its funk before the Ivy schedule resumes against Columbia. Corbett recognizes the importance of the next two weeks as it pertains to the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ivy chances. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re huge. This was a big test for us today and we have to find a way to fight more on ground balls and draw controls and really play with a lot of confidence and a lot of grit and a lot of fight and a lot of heart. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we did that today and we need to find that in the next couple weeks.â&#x20AC;?

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Two for two. After a 9-6 victory over Cornell this past Saturday at Franklin Field, Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lacrosse remains undefeated in the Ivy League. As fans soaked up the sun from the upper deck, the Red and Blue (5-2, 2-0 Ivy) scored the first six goals of the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were sharp,â&#x20AC;? coach Mike Murphy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Especially on offense, we were attacking and dodging hard and they threw some fouls so we had some man-up opportunities and we had possession because we won face-offs and cleared well.â&#x20AC;? In the first quarter alone, the Quakers had 17 shots, four of which hit the back of the net and brought the score to 4-0 at the end of the first 15 minutes, one of which was in a man-up opportunity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We got off to a great start which helped us throughout the game,â&#x20AC;? sophomore Reilly Hupfeldt said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know when we start fast in practice we can do it games, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done in a couple games in a row so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really good for us to get that early lead; it helps at the end of the game.â&#x20AC;? The first goal of the day went to freshman Alex Roesner with the assist from senior Nick Doktor less than three minutes into the game. But that was not all Roesner and Doktor. Roesner scored again at the start of the second period and then came back in the third quarter to extend Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lead to 7-3 at the periodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end. Doktor recorded three assists on the day. The latter two helping sophomore Connor Keating and Roesner again. Freshman goalkeeper Reed Junkin finally let up his first

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A hat trick from freshman Alex Roesner (6) helped Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lacrosse take a 6-0 lead over Cornell as the Quakers held off the Big Red, 9-6.

goal of the game with 2:16 remaining in the second period with a score from Cornellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Emmy Poccia. At halftime the score was 6-1. But the Big Red (3-4, 1-2) would build on their total when the two teams took the field again. Cornell scored twice more in the third quarter before the Quakers got on the board again with Roesnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third goal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always going to be a game of runs,â&#x20AC;? Hupfeldt said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once we get hit back we just got to sustain it and know that now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our turn and bounce back and respond like they did.â&#x20AC;? And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly what the Red and Blue did for a while. Cornell responded to Roesnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s score but Penn didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop. Tyler Dunn was next to put a point on the board, with his second completion of the day from Eric Perskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assist. Chris Hilburn followed suit and brought the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; score up to nine, where it would remain for the last 5:35 of the game. But the Big Red still had some steam left in them, making a run in the last five minutes for a last comeback attempt. The Red and Blue held them to only two goals though and the game finished with the Quakers victorious. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We held them to six so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like they lit us up down the stretch but they made a few adjustments and

started getting some shots and on their defensive end,â&#x20AC;? Murphy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were a little more aggressive but I think we just werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as sharp as we were in the first quarter or in recent games.â&#x20AC;? The first quarter was certainly the highlight of the game for Penn. Not only in terms of goals and shots but in the face-offs and possession times that allowed them to get there. In the first period, Penn won three of four face-offs and followed through with four goals. Subsequently, the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; either matched or were outdone by the Big Red, allowing Cornell to get more possession time that resulted in goals. But despite the Big Redâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s runs, Penn was able to hold onto its early lead through the end. This win puts the Quakers at 2-0 in the Ancient Eight going into a non-league game this Tuesday against Maryland. While the Terps will be no easy foe, the Red and Blue are coming in with confidence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We played great on offense against Princeton last weekend and we played great defense today against Cornell,â&#x20AC;? Murphy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice to know we can win games either way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If a team wants to play up and down then we will run with anybody, if they want to slow it down, we can buckle down and keep a good team to six goals.â&#x20AC;?

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SPORTS 11

MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2016

Red and Blue sweep both sides of Penn Challenge

TRACK & FIELD | 18 total

individual event wins

WILL SNOW Associate Sports Editor

Franklin Field must be a fortress. At least, that’s what it was for Penn track and field this weekend. Both the men’s and women’s squads took first place during the Penn Challenge, winning by sizable margins — the men beat out second place Connecticut by 19 points, while the women dominated runners-up Villanova by 104 points. The men took first place in nine of the 19 events, including victories

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time, and touched in a time of 14:31.54, good for a school record and Penn’s first-ever national championship. “His entire race was perfect, and he could not have gone out there and executed the race plan that we had any better,” coach Mike Schnur said. “With 300 meters left, we didn’t think he was going to catch [Mahmoud], but there is no stopping Chris at the end of the race, and it was pretty incredible to watch him pull even and win.” According to Swanson, something beyond just the will to win helped him through the final yards of the race. “I always know that if I look over at my teammates at the end of the race that they’ll really get me through it in the end, and that’s what they did,” Swanson said. “They were going wild, I’ve never seen them jump around so much.” Swanson’s time was .12 seconds faster than Mahmoud’s, the smallest margin of victory ever in the NCAA 1,650 championship. It also was the 12th fastest all-time swim in the event’s history — only .25 seconds slower than the 11th fastest event time, set earlier this year by Clark

from every spectrum of the sport. For the throwers, senior Sam Mattis once again maintained his dominance of the discus — even if his 61.69-meter throw was not world class like his record-smashing one last week. Junior Noah Kennedy-White was just behind, taking second. In the shot put, junior Billy Bishop won convincingly with a throw of 16.12m. Elsewhere on the field, Mike Monroe leaped to gold in the high jump with a 2.10m mark. On the track, the Quakers found success both in short and long distance events. Freshman phenom Calvary Rogers won a tightlycontested 200m dash, sophomore Jeff Wiseman sprinted to victory in

the 400m and senior Drew Magaha took gold in the 800. The consistently successful junior duo Chris Hatler and Nick Tuck came out victorious in the 1,500m and the 3,000m steeplechase, respectively. The final event of the day — the 4x400m relay — also ended with 10 points for the hosts. The women, meanwhile, made the claim that anything the men could do, they could do better by making the podium in seemingly every event they competed in. Freshman Rachel Wilson and senior Kelsey Hay predictably won their respective hammer and javelin Throws, adding a valuable two gold pieces to the womens’ mountain of medals.

Sprinting highlights included a 1-2-3 sweep in the 200m, thanks to sophomore Taylor McCorkle, Rachel Hlatky and Taylor Hennig, along with a pair of victories in the 4x100m and the 4x400m relays. For the distance runners, the best performances were a 1-3-4 finish in the 1,500m led by junior Ashley Montgomery and an impressive win by sophomore Isabel Griffith in the 5K with a time of 17:20.42. A total of 216 points for the women in Red and Blue would be dominant to win any meet in the nation, but they will first have to test themselves against more formidable opposition in the near future. The Quakers will find that

Smith of Texas. For the final chapter in an impressive season, Penn sent six total swimmers down to Georgia Tech in Atlanta to compete in eight events at this year’s NCAA Championships. Penn’s four individual bids was the highest among all Ivy League programs this year, and also marked the most competitors Penn has sent to the championship since 1971. Senior Eric Schultz rounded out his incredible career at Penn with three individual races in the 50, 100 and 200 freestyles. The senior swam to a 44th-place finish in the 50 with a final time of 20.11, finished 40th in the 200 in 1:37.00 and capped off the weekend with a 22nd-place finish in the 100. Penn’s underclassmen were also well represented. Sophomore Alex Peterson made his NCAA debut in the 500, 400 individual medley and 1,650, touching in 4:22.97 to place 45th in the 500, clocking a 3:48.15 for 27th place in the 400 IM and finishing 30th in the mile with a time of 15:14.42. Freshman Mark Andrew also competed in two individual events, placing 36th and 32nd in the 200 IM and 400 IM events, respectively. Andrew also combined with Schultz, freshman Thomas Dillinger and junior Kevin Su in the 400

free relay to place 23rd in a time of 2:56.07. “It’s a great experience for these guys to get to race in this atmosphere so early in their career, the same way guys like Chris have,” Schnur said. “It’s a very difficult environment, but guys like Mark and Alex are going to be back here next year, and it’s awesome that they’ve already gotten to have this opportunity to race the best guys in the country.”

However, the weekend truly belonged to Swanson, who, despite already being considered the best swimmer in Penn history, found a way to add to his legacy. “I don’t think anyone really expected those results,” Swanson said. “As great as it is for me, it is also great for [the Penn swimming community]. They’re just as excited as I am, if not more.” While the collegiate racing

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A pair of wins from sophomore Taylor McCorkle helped propel Penn women’s track and field to first place in this weekend’s Penn Challenge.

formidable opposition next weekend as the men and women travel to a myriad of meets in Texas, California and Florida. With the high

level of travel and the high degree of competition, Penn will need to find a fortress away from Franklin Field in order to find further success.

season may be over for Penn, several athletes from the men’s and women’s sides will be gearing up for the Olympic Trials in June, where swimmers like Swanson will get one last chance to go for glory. “There’s a chance he can end up in the final heat at trials, with the chance to be one of the eight fastest guys in the country.” Schnur said. “Chris is a guy who though who will swim till his heart gives out, so it

will be exciting to see him get in the pool for one final time.” Even though Swanson has become the fastest collegiate mile swimmer in the country, he hesitates to depict himself as the swimming great he is. “I feel like people like the underdog, the little guy.” But as the program’s first ever national champion, Chris Swanson is an underdog no more.

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Every senior hopes for a storybook ending when they get ready to compete for the last time, and that’s just what Penn men’s swimming senior Chris Swanson got at this weekend’s NCAA National Swimming and Diving Championships. On a weekend already made historic by the number of Quakers participating at the meet, Swanson became Penn’s first ever national champion, winning the 1,650-yard freestyle in a time of 14:31.54 in incredible come-from-behind fashion. The senior started off on Thursday by picking up an 11th place finish in the 500 free, and his time of 4:15.73 was good for a new Ivy League and Penn team record. This eclipsed his own mark of 4:16.13 which he set four

weeks ago at the Ivy League Championships. Swanson also earned himself another All-American honorable mention, his first in the 500 to go with consecutive recognitions in the 1,650 in 2014 and 2015. The highlight of the weekend and of the senior’s career came on Saturday in the finals of the mile. Entering the event, Swanson had recorded the fifth fastest time in the nation at 14:40.18, a time he swam at Ivies where he broke the Penn and meet record. Last year Swanson finished 11th at NCAAs in this distance, just short of his goal of becoming an All-American, an honor bestowed upon the top eight finishers. This year, it looked as if Swanson was destined for a second-place finish after trailing South Carolina sophomore Akaram Mahmoud for most of the race. However, Swanson closed the last 50 yards in a blisteringly fast time of 24.38, eating into Mahmoud’s lead the whole SEE SWIMMING PAGE 11

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In its final hurrah of the 2015-16 season, Penn fencing fought through four days of intense competition at NCAA Championships in Waltham, Mass., to take eighth and score 98 points. In addition to the top-ten team finish, four Quakers earned All-American honors. The highlight of individual performances came from senior captain Shaul Gordon, a saber specialist. Through two days of Olympic style competition, the Canadian tallied a record of 14-9, which was good for sixth place and an All-American finish. “I came in trying to win,” Gordon said. “I came close as a freshman and a sophomore, and now I’m a senior. That didn’t happen, but I’m glad I made it into the top eight.” Joining the senior as All-Americans on the men’s side were epee specialists freshman Justin Yoo and sophomore Zsombor Garzo. Yoo’s record of 14-9 earned him a seventh place finish while Garzo’s 12-11 performance put him in eleventh. Arabella Uhry was the sole woman to earn All-American honors for Penn. The sophomore took tenth in sabre with a record of 12-11. Despite the handful of impressive performances, many Quakers walked away from the national stage disappointed with Penn’s showing. “I think we underperformed as a team,” Gordon said. “A few weeks ago, we were named No. 1 as a team in the country. A lot of our guys wanted to make All-American and to stand on the podium, but we weren’t really able to do that.” This year’s eighth place finish matches the team’s performance at nationals from 201415. But the consistency of results at NCAA’s doesn’t reflect just how much stronger the team grew under coach Andy Ma’s direction in 2015-16. “We only lost two bouts this year — one against Columbia, and one against Princeton — and we were able to beat both of them the second time around,” Gordon said. “But the competition was really tough [at NCAA’s]. SEE FENCING PAGE 9

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Lafayette offered a chance for Penn baseball to tune things up a bit before heading into Ivy play next weekend. This weekend, the Red and Blue showed they could adapt. After falling in the first of two games on Saturday, 3-1, a late rally from the Quakers netted them a 7-5 win to split the day at home. On Sunday, the two squads headed north to the Leopards’ realm, where the Red and Blue dropped game one, 5-4, before routing Lafayette, 12-2. Both games on Saturday featured similar starts: Penn (7-10) conceded a first-inning run to Lafayette (6-13) and was forced to play from behind. But the Red and Blue responded to two very similar situations very differently. In game one, the Quakers were unable to muster much of a response. Freshman Matt McGeagh belted his first career home run to tie things up, 1-1, in

the third. “Right off the bat, I knew it was gone,” McGeagh said. “I thought it was going to go foul for a second, so I didn’t want to showboat or anything, but it’s really cool to finally get one and know you’re meant to be here.” But it was an isolated spark for the Red and Blue, who struck out 11 times in the seven-inning affair. A pair of RBI singles in the fourth and seventh gave the Leopards the 3-1 lead they held at game’s end. “They’re just being a little bit too passive,” Penn coach John Yurkow said. “We’re guessing a bit with runners in scoring position. But if we can start taking some better at bats with runners in scoring position, I think we’ll be OK.” Just a short while later, game two started off with yet another 1-0 Lafayette advantage. But after going down 5-1 in the seventh, the Quakers mustered a response. Four doubles helped net Penn six runs as the Leopards burned through three pitchers trying to stop the Red and Blue run. “I felt like we were dead in the water for a while, we couldn’t

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generate much offense,” Yurkow said. “But we finally started getting ourselves into some decent counts and guys just kind of relaxed and put some good swings on the balls.” Lafayette proved incapable of the comeback, finalizing the Saturday split before Sunday’s travel to Easton, Pa. In both, Yurkow’s squad got on the board in the first. Thanks in part to three hits and a pair of stolen bases from senior Gary Tesch, the Quakers took a 3-2 lead into the seventh inning of the opening contest. That score would not hold, however, as the Leopards’ Drew Aherne tied the contest with a two-our homer. An RBI single from junior catcher Tim Graul gave Penn a 4-3 lead in the ninth, but it fell apart as Nelson surrendered a two-run double with Penn up, 4-3. Following the walk-off, the Red and Blue responded with intensity. After plating a run in the first, four hits and a pair of errors allowed the Quakers to score four more in the second. The lead only got larger from there, paced by Graul, who logged three RBI on a double

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Over four games, junior catcher Tim Graul totalled six RBI for Penn baseball, including a three-RBI performance in the second game on Sunday, helping lead the Quakers to a 12-2 win to close out the weekend.

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anything else, finalizing the weekend split. For Penn, Lafayette offered one of the final pre-Ivy tune-ups. Although Villanova awaits in the

Liberty Bell Classic on Tuesday, Ancient Eight play is hot on its heels, beginning with a doubleheader at home against Brown on Saturday.