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Admissions rate drops to record-breaking 8.39% YONI GUTENMACHER Deputy News Editor

Penn admitted 3,731 out of 44,482 applicants for the Class of 2022, setting a record-low acceptance rate of 8.39 per-

cent for the incoming freshman class.

The drop from last year’s acceptance rate — which broke a previous record-low of 9.15 percent for the Class of 2021 — is the most drastic decrease in recent years.The Class of 2020 had an acceptance rate of 9.41

percent, the Class of 2019 was 9.92 percent, and the Class of 2018 was 9.90 percent.

The total applicant pool of 44,482 saw a drastic increase of 4,069 students since last year’s 40,413 total.

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Protest demands Penn fund local schools Locals, students challenge Penn to pay government MAX COHEN Deputy News Editor

Chants of “Pay your fair share!” filled the air outside College Hall on Wednesday afternoon as a group of about 50 protesters campaigned for an increase in funding for Philadelphia public schools, challenging Penn to give more back to the city’s school system.

Co-organized by Our City Our Schools and the Penn Chapter of Student Labor Action Project, the rally featured speeches from students, parents, and teachers of the Philadelphia public school system.

Antoine Little, the chair of the Our City Our Schools Coalition, described the organization’s goal to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue in order to properly fund public schools.

According to the organization’s Proposal for Equitable School Funding in 2018, it proposes the end of the city’s

10-year tax abatement, the postponement of reductions to the business income tax, the increase of the use and occupancy tax to 1.5 percent of property value, and the collection of PILOTs — Payments in Lieu of Taxes.

“Imagine what our schools could be if the 1 percent of this city paid their fair share?” Little said. “You could have books in every classroom, counselors in every school, nurses in every school, and you could lower the amount of students in classrooms.”

PILOTs refer to payments willingly made by nonprofit organizations to their local governments in place of property tax.

As a nonprofit, Penn is exempt from paying property taxes under the tax code even though it is the largest private employer in the city.

In the past, Penn has cited the economic benefits it gives the city, such as adding jobs to the local economy and contributing $2 million annually to the University City District, as a reason for not participating in PILOT

Asian American Studies program leaders say there is no ongoing search for a director of Penn’s ASAM program — which has been operating without a director since Grace Kao’s departure in January 2017 — despite indications from the University administration otherwise.

In an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian this February, Provost Wendell Pritchett said that there was an ongoing search for a full-time ASAM lecturer being conducted by School of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Fluharty. When asked whether that included a search for a new director of the ASAM program, Pritchett responded, “that’s my understanding.”

Administrators, students, and faculty members have confirmed there is an ongoing search for a full-time lecturer, but ASAM faculty members and involved students are under the impression that there is no search, however, for a permanent director.

While Fluharty confirmed that the “School of Arts and Sciences remains firmly committed” to ASAM, he did not confirm whether there is still an ongoing search for a director.

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“We are always watching to see if appropriate leadership emerges from a departmental faculty search,” Fluharty wrote in an email to the DP. “The lecturer search is still in progress, which is not unusual; beyond that I don’t comment on the specific details of personnel matters such as ongoing searches.”

History professor Eiichiro Azuma, who is currently serving as the ASAM interim director, wrote in an email that English professor Josephine Park will act as the interim director for the 2018-2019 academic year. Aside from that, however, Azuma said he does not believe there is any search for a permanent director.

“As far as we know, there are no ‘plans to search for a new director,’ not to mention an actual search for that position right now,” Azuma wrote.

He added that he and other members of the program had communicated their wish to find a new director for the program to the deans, “but they gave us no commitment or clear answer to our request,” he wrote.

ASAM Undergraduate Advisory Board Chair and College senior Lindsey Lui also said “there are no updates” that she’s been given regarding the search for a permanent director and that “there are currently no plans for a director,” to her knowledge.

The Interfraternity Council announced last March it was looking to introduce a diversity chair position to its executive board. A year later, however, the IFC board still is without a diversity chair and is no longer searching for one, instead looking to address diversity in other ways.

Following a racially-charged incident at Phi Gamma Delta — a member named his beer pong team “VietPong” and later faced backlash from the Asian community at Penn — the former IFC president and current College senior Bradley

Freemen told the DP in March that the IFC was “looking towards accelerating.”

Freeman declined to comment on this article.

The previous IFC board decided that they would not establish a diversity chair last fall, IFC current President and College junior Reginald Murphy said. Instead, last year’s board elected to make diversity considerations a “bigger component” of each elected officials’ positions. This decision is being carried on by the current board, Murphy said. One of the board’s biggest focuses this fall will be the New Member Education program.

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Penn to hold second ‘Campus Conversation’ SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor

Penn Wellness — the umbrella coalition of student wellness clubs — will host the second Campus Conversation on April 2 to kick off the Mental Wellness Week 2018.

The first Campus Conversation was hosted by Penn’s administration last October in response to a string of student deaths, natural disasters, and political instability.

It was presented as an opportunity to engage with Penn’s administration and to hear about concrete steps to address University policy, but many students felt it actually prohibited any conversation with the University leadership.

“I feel the students were very underrepresented from the discussion on stage,” College sophomore Grace Bridy told The Daily Pennsylvanian after the first event in October, adding that she thought the content

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Faculty and students affiliated with the program have been lobbying for a new permanent leader ever since longtime former director Grace Kao accepted a position at Yale University in January 2017. Protests erupted across campus as faculty and students rallied for more funding and support for ASAM. “For many of us, Asian American Studies is our first opportunity to realize the power of our voice, the richness of our history and take pride in our race and culture,” former Asian Pacific Student Coalition Chair and

of the conversation was lacking.

“I think we all know that we should be compassionate and understanding. I think people came here looking for answers, and it kind of sounded like rhetorically driven speech.”

This time, administrators will be even further removed from the conversation as student groups take charge of the event.

The first Campus Conversation was moderated by Undergraduate Assembly President and College senior Michelle Xu, who asked Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett pre-submitted questions.

In an email to the DP, Executive Director of the Provost’s Office Leo Charney wrote that Chaplain Charles Howard will moderate the conversation and that James Pawelski from the Positive Psychology Center will be a member of a panel, but that “other than that, it is completely student-driven.”

Charney noted that Pritchett will attend the event.

“As in the first Campus Con-

versation, we hope to bring together our community to continue our efforts on what we can do to take care of ourselves and others and to foster individual and community resilience,” the upcoming Campus Conversation’s program descriptions reads.

Just as the first panel followed a series of student deaths in the fall semester — College senior Nicholas Moya, Penn Vet student Brett Cooper, Wharton senior Henry Rogers, and Penn Law student Justin Hamano — the second Campus Conversation comes after great tragedy as well.

On Dec. 31, College freshman William Steinberg died in a plane accident with his family, becoming the eighth Penn student to die in 2017. Soon after, campus was struck by the news of the disappearance and subsequent death of College sophomore Blaze Bernstein, which was later ruled a homicide. Less than a week after Bernstein was found dead in Orange County, Calif., a first-year Penn Law student,

Jonathan Lumpkin, died in his apartment in Sansom Place East.

Many leaders of wellness groups, however, are excited about planning the second event.

Wharton senior Phillip Isom, the former director of external affairs for Penn Benjamins, attended the initial conversation and said he was pleased to learn that the wellness community would be hosting a second event.

“The panel was very interesting and put together, so I hope there’s the ability to ask questions from the crowd to engage with them more,” Isom said.

“In general, as to addressing more things, just the fact that there is a second conversation is super helpful because a lot of these issues can’t be solved in one or two afternoons, so periodic events is a huge step in the right direction.”

College junior Serena Vargulick, the co-chair of Penn Wellness, has been helping plan this event. “[Members of Penn Well-

Wharton junior Yen-Yen Gao said during a February 2017 protest. “Without ASAM, the legacies of key Asian American figures like Yuri Kochiyama, Grace Lee Boggs, and Vincent Chin would not be preserved.”

Shortly before her departure, the ASAM undergraduate advisory board published an editorial in the DP calling on the University to hire “a standing senior Asian American sociology professor to replace Kao” and to provide more administrative support for the program and other similar ethnic and minority studies programs on campus.

Program leaders have also lobbied for additional funding and

more teaching space along with a formal director.

The struggle for administrative support within the ASAM program, however, is not unique across the Ivy League. Penn’s peer institutions have largely struggled to create structured Asian American Studies programs.

Penn and Cornell University are the only Ivies currently offering an independent Asian-American studies minor. Princeton University recently announced the creation of a certificate, which is the equivalent to a minor, in Asian-American studies. It will be offered for the first time in fall 2018.

Administrators and faculty members have confirmed there is a search for a full-time lecturer, but ASAM faculty members and involved students believe there is no search, however, for a permanent director.

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UA President Michelle Xu spoke with President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett at the first ‘Campus Conversation’ last year.

ness] wanted to gauge what people really wanted from this one, and we can’t talk to each student individually to see what they want, but we did try to implement more Q&A,” Vargulick said.

Mental wellness has recently become a focal point in Penn’s

agenda. In January, the University unveiled a new wellness website centralizing all campus mental wellness resources and launched an administrative review of Counseling and Psychological Services’ operations guided by a team of management experts at Penn Medicine.

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nior Tobias Milligan, College junior Maxwell Abram, and Engineering senior Ben Riedel all declined to comment on this article. Former IFC Executive Board members Wharton senior Nico DeLuna and Wharton senior Andrew Kerber did not respond to multiple requests to comment on this article.

Murphy said that he felt “outside forces” were “pressuring [the IFC] to do it” because the Panhellenic Council had just created the position of diversity chair.

Murphy explained, however, that the way Panhel’s diversity chair functions is not the most effective way. By having one point person responsible for diversity, it would require the chair to coordinate the implementation of diversity with other members of the executive board, Murphy said. Instead, each member of IFC board will be responsible for implementing diversity.

“Our goal was not to have a diversity chair just because people asked us to have one. We wanted to make sure that we had something concrete for that person to do,” he said.

However, Murphy did note that the discussion of this position brought the issue of diversity to the forefront of the IFC. “Before those weren’t things we thought about and I think that having been pushed to make this diversity chair was something that made us focus on diversity more,” he said. “Now in the future, if we think it becomes a need, if we think that each specific person is not able to handle it as part of their duties, then we’ll relook at possibly adding a position,” Murphy said.

Murphy said he and the rest

of the new IFC executive board are planning to do this with a revamped New Member Education system for the fall, following a newly expanded program that piloted this spring. He said he believes that new member education is the “most important place for diversity,” as it can help guide members to make Greek life more “accessible” to minority communities by teaching them how to make minorities feel comfortable.

College sophomore and Vice President of New Member Education Michael Pearson echoed this sentiment. Pearson, along with Assistant to the Vice President of New Member Education and Engineering sophomore Daniel Leiser, plan to reach out to different cultural groups and host presentations during the fall semester to make IFC fraternities more accessible.

Leiser said that the board is making a “more concerted effort” to “include a more diverse demographic.” The board is planning to work with Makuu, the University’s Black Cultural Center, and the LGBT Center to educate members on how to best ensure that potential members do not feel nervous or isolated while attending rush events.

Pearson and Leiser also said they hoped to reach out to other cultural centers like the PanAsian American Community House, La Casa Latina, and the Greenfield Intercultural Center.

Current IFC Executive Board members Engineering senior Kevin Hayes and College junior Noah Gelles did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this article.

Current IFC Executive Board members College junior Matthew Moore and Engineering and Wharton sophomore Lucas Almada-Sabaté both said diversity does not play a significant

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The previous IFC board decided that they would not establish a diversity chair last fall. Instead, last year’s board elected to make diversity considerations a “bigger component” of each elected officials’ positions.

role in their jobs, serving as judicial inquiry board manager and vice president of administration, respectively. They both said that, since their jobs do not involve interactions with students, they both did not have anything to add about diversity initiatives in their respective positions.

The current Vice President of Diversity for Panhel, College sophomore Alexis Broussard, said she thinks the news that there is not going to be a diversity chair is “unfortunate.”

“My position within Panhel has launched a very important journey in terms of increasing diversity and inclusion initiatives within Panhellenic, and I feel it will have a great impact on the Panhellenic community.

It’s too bad that IFC does not feel the same,” Broussard said.

Murphy said that while many may take the decision to forego adding the diversity chair posi-

tion as an indication that the IFC does not care about diversity, this remains an important issue for himself and the rest of the board.

“I think I am a good person [to be IFC president] for the current state of Greek life, and I think that because I think I am not the status quo. I think when you think of an IFC president, my picture doesn’t pop up into your mind,” Murphy said. “I’m obviously a minority, so I care quite a bit about it.”

Murphy said he thinks the main reason most minorities decide to not rush is because of misconceptions about Greek life.

“There are not many barriers to entry for minority students into Greek life … most of the hindrances are the stereotypes about what Greek life is, and

those are the things we’re looking to change,” he said.

While acknowledging that the Intercultural Greek Council — “the umbrella organization for the historically African American, Latino and Asian Greek letter organizations at the University of Pennsylvania,” its official description reads — offers opportunities for students to make their cultural identity the focus of their Greek experience, Pearson also hopes that students of color will feel comfortable in IFC fraternities as well.

“The IFC is a growing body.

We try to change and adapt based on the years previous,” Murphy said. “We’re going to continue to do our best. We’re not where we should be, but I always say this — there’s a place for every student at Penn to be a part of Greek life.”

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OPINION Why study abroad shouldn’t count in your GPA ALIFIMOFF’S ALLEY | Penn should trust students to try in their courses without the threat of GPA

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ext semester I will be going abroad to Paris, leaving Philadelphia behind for what will hopefully be a semester full of on-point Instagram posts, chocolate baguettes, and

that no courses taken pass/ fail can count towards major requirements, minor requirements, Foundational Approach requirements, or Sector requirements.

I believe that this is a policy

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If Penn only trusts students to do well when a class is taken for a grade, then it has a poor estimation of the supposedly bright and intellectually curious students it itself selected.” stories that will almost immediately bore all my friends when I return home. It’s an exciting thought, and as I rush through my preparations, the excitement is of course tinged with sadness.

I cannot take my friends, my performing arts group, Bloomers, or my carefully decorated apartment with me. But my excitement is also tinged with a small amount of terror. I am going abroad to Paris, where I will take all of my classes in French.

What the hell have I just done to my GPA? Penn students who study abroad are subject to the pass/ fail policies that govern their home schools. For students like me in the College, this means

that greatly limits the feasibility of study abroad for students who are pursuing more than one major or a minor, and undermines GPA as an effective metric at academic success at Penn. It also enables a limited view of what a successful study abroad experience looks like.

Penn should not count courses taken abroad as part of the student’s GPAs. The reasons are simple.

First, it is impossible to regulate

the academic expectations and rigor of all study abroad programs. Each host institution has its own academic reputation and each study abroad program has its own expectation of students.

Although Penn tries to send students to programs that match its academic strength, some students will invariably find that the courses in their program are easier than Penn, while others, most notably those who chose to take study abroad courses in languages other than English, might find their courses to be more difficult.

This places study abroad students and students taking classes at Penn on an unequal playing field. When calculating the GPAs of transfer students, Penn has a simple solution. It doesn’t count the grades received in

courses not taken at Penn. This is presumably because our Penn GPAs are reflections of how we have succeeded within the confines of Penn as an institution, and Penn, with its students, its teachers, and its academic reputation, are supposed to be considered when looking at our GPAs. The addition of courses taken outside of Penn into students GPAs adds another variable to the equation. The GPA no longer becomes a useful measure of success at Penn, but masks a hidden set of variables and expectations that might have impacted student performance.

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REBECCA ALIFIMOFF sonal and intellectual growth.

But the thing about real growth — the kind of growth that comes from pushing ourselves outside our comfort zones — is that it is often difficult, and it is very frequently accompanied by some kind of failure.

All study abroad courses should be taken pass/fail.

The need to count grades in the courses that students take abroad reflects a larger failure in the way that we understand academic and intellectual success at Penn. If Penn only trusts students to do well when a class is taken for a grade, then it has a poor estimation of the supposedly bright and intellectually curious students it itself selected. Penn students should be trusted to make the most of their study abroad experiences, both academically and personally, without being limited by the narrow metric of the GPA. REBECCA ALIFIMOFF is a College sophomore from Fort Wayne, Ind. studying history. Her email address is ralif@sas.upenn.edu.

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10 Passover lessons for Jews and non-Jews alike GUEST COLUMN BY RABBI JOSH BOLTON

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he springtime festival of Pesach (“Passover”) begins sundown this Friday evening. From Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, Scarsdale, N.Y. to Namutumba, Uganda, Jews around the globe will

birth of the Jewish people, it would follow then that we gestated in slavery, which is just a strange thing to say. But the reality is that we become truly selfconscious in the midst of life’s most profound challenges. 3.

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gather in each other’s homes to eat symbolic foods, drink four cups of wine, and to retell the saga of our people’s exodus from slavery in Egypt toward freedom in the Promised Land.

The Pesach story is essential to an understanding of Jewish history and destiny, but some of its lessons would seem to be significant for anyone living through this frantic, globalized, postmodern moment. I’ll try to name 10 of these lessons, as I see them.

1. We are surrounded by chametz When the Jews fled from Egypt they didn’t have time to let their bread rise. During Pesach we commemorate this story by only eating unleavened bread (matzah). Leavening (chametz) symbolizes everything inflated and full of itself in this world: The unchecked ego, shirtless Insta pics, community service to boost a resume, elitism for elitism’s sake. To jumpstart freedom, we must burn the chametz.

2. Destiny is often conceived through trial I have always been perplexed: If the Pesach story is about the

Our own successes may come at another’s failure Jewish redemption comes at a terrible, basically unimaginable cost for the ordinary Egyptian.

During the Pesach Seder, the ritual meal, we spill 10 drops from our wine glasses, marking the 10 plagues visited upon the Egyptians. We take away a little of our rejoicing. We will not be so callous as to be oblivious to how our own happiness came at the expense of another’s sorrow.

4. Everything can change in an instant The Jews of Egypt went from top to bottom of the social food chain in less than a generation. “A new Pharaoh arose who didn’t know Joseph.” That’s all it took. From a privileged vantage, the stability of socio-economics seems certain. But all around us (and within many of our recent family histories) are living examples of humans in flight from the chaos of conflict and

economic collapse in homelands that once were characterized by stability.

5. Miracles require acts of chutzpah, firstly Even the ancient rabbis were uncomfortable with the idea that human redemption could come about without any human effort — that the sea might split simply by divine intervention.

So they “remembered” a story about a courageous Israelite, Nachshon, who, stuck between the deep sea and Egyptian charioteers basically said, “F**k it”, and just started to walk into the water. The sea split. If you want miracles to happen, you have to be willing to put yourself out on the line.

6. It’s OK for leaders to suffer from self-doubt When God first approaches Moses with the big plan, Moses (OG disruptive innovator) is honest about not feeling up to the job. It’s OK for leaders to demonstrate something other than cocky self-assurance. It’s OK for leaders to have faults and to be human. Moses eventually builds a good executive team, surrounding himself with people that compliment his skills and don’t worship him as untouchable.

7. God seems to be asleep at the steering wheel of history, sometimes It’s not until long after the Israelites are enslaved and building cities for Pharaoh that God “remembers” His people and all

the big promises He had made about their destiny. Now, as a spiritual leader, this is obviously a complicated point to make,

all things good and right. Let us have the courage and persistence to face these challenges with determination and the (perhaps ir-

The Pesach story is essential to an understanding of Jewish history and destiny, but some of its lessons would seem to be significant for anyone living through this frantic, globalized, postmodern moment.” but I’ll go ahead and say what we’re all thinking: There is an unholy and confounding amount of injustice in this world. I cannot easily ascribe it all to God’s “mysterious ways.” Frankly, it sometimes seems to me that we humans have been left all alone to attempt to eke out an imperfect survival on this small rock floating through the silent cosmos.

8. There will always be a Pharaoh Conniving, mean spirited, chaos-oriented, perplexing, etc. In the various struggles for hopeful societies, clean environments, peaceful minds, open hearts, there will always be individuals and realities whose job it will be to stand in the way of

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rational) long view that sees the arch of history bending toward an outcome of righteousness.

9. The Torah is given in the desert Related to No. 2, but different enough to deserve its own point: The Jewish people are not given the Torah (the ancient code of wisdom) in a place of security and settlement. The Torah is given in the wild, barren, insecure wasteland of the desert.

Wisdom is always gifted to us in moments when we least expect it, usually in situations that find us maximally vulnerable, raw, and farthest from home.

10. Sometimes the leader doesn’t make it to the Promised Land Technically not a Pesach lesson, but if you fast-forward through 40 years of entrepreneurial desert wandering leadership, you learn that for all his sacrifices, for all his investment and incubation, Moses is not permitted to enter the Promised Land. Like another game-changing leader with the initials MLK once said, “I may not get there with you.” Once-in-a-generation leaders think way beyond themselves. They’re concerned more with raising others up than they are with their own personal success. They would rather prophet than profit.

RABBIA JOSH BOLTON is the director of the Jewish Renaissance Project at Penn Hillel. His email address is jbolton@jrp.com.

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Having faith at Penn MERICAN IN AMERICA | Searching for meaning this Easter

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n many walks back to my college house at night, I often look up at the moon, and ponder the beauty of its iridescence. The moon, hanging like a glowing orb from the star-sprinkled carpet of the night sky, is a reassuring, constant presence, even in its many phases. It is that one moment in each hectic day here when I gaze at the sky and contemplate something above the madness.

In a way, I see a connection between these contemplations of the moon and my inclinations toward religion. Looking up at the moon, no matter what I was

God, no matter how messy my life here got, constantly centered and renewed me.

Reflecting on every “crisis” I’ve experienced at Penn, I’ve realized that each “crisis” was ultimately a crisis of meaning.

Whether it was a conflict with a friend, lukewarm feedback from a professor, growing to dislike a subject I thought I would major in, social insecurities, a bad grade, or just the uninvited feeling of emptiness that visited most unexpectedly in the quiet morning or lonely evening — all these fundamentally challenged what I had thought gave my life meaning.

losing? What did I value? Who am I really, without all these things? These moments often made me feel disoriented, lost, confused, anxious.

Throughout our lives, we construct paradigms of meaning for ourselves, like being smart, being good at sports, being recognized as a leader or being a good friend — which honestly hold up well. For a while. But every now and then, whether it is in 20 days or 20 years, these paradigms of meaning suddenly collapse and disintegrate before our eyes.

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dealing with at Penn, gave me a sense of perspective on life.

Similarly, looking up toward

Each crisis wasn’t a crisis because of what it was about, but what it was. What was I afraid of

class, the next day you are failing Orgo in college. One day you are president of the busi-

ness club in your high school, and the next day, you are facing four rounds of interviews and an 8.5 percent admit rate for a consulting club in college. One day you are in love, the next day you fall out of it. One day you’re the life of the party and the next day, you’re that person standing in the corner, awkwardly making eye contact with anyone who

Bible, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

Christianity for me was not

Christianity for me was not the end to the search for meaning, but rather, something that pointed me to where I should search.” looks in your direction.

We soon realize that these paradigms of meaning that we construct for ourselves are not stable. We go to college, move to a new city or experience a setback and suddenly, these paradigms of meaning start to crumble. Are we meant to always be building and rebuilding these castles of meaning throughout our lives?

Or is there a source of meaning out there that holds true, no matter the circumstance?

One of my favorite lines from a hymn goes, “Turn your eyes upon Jesus / Look full in His wonderful face / And the things of earth will grow strangely dim / In the light of His glory and grace.”

And one of my favorite verses comes Matthew 6:19-21 in the

the end to the search for meaning, but rather, something that pointed me to where I should search. The quotes above remind me that any earthly, selfconstructed paradigm of meaning will ultimately fail, as it has often in my life — but a heavenly, eternal one will hold fast no matter life’s trials and tribulations.

My Christian faith encourages me now to live in a way that seems to be radically different from my “old life” and old paradigms of meaning. Where there was a constant struggle to attain and achieve, the Christian faith assured me that there was no longer a need to; where there was a constant desire for the approval and applause of others, the Christian faith assured

SARA MERICAN me that I was already accepted without condition.

Where I searched for something that spoke deeper than the readings I was studying for English class, or philosophy, the Christian faith whispered a lifegiving, profound truth; where I struggled to get past the small talk to real conversations, the Christian faith assured me there was a God who understood the deepest, most desperate desires of my heart; where I struggled to “fit in” at Penn, the Christian faith blessed me with a community of loving, open-hearted people, no matter how very imperfect we are.

This week is a particularly meaningful one for the Christian community, as it leads up to Easter Sunday. Easter is a time for me to remember key events in Christianity, but also a time when I also experience the joy of sharing this important part of my life with friends curious about the faith.

SARA MERICAN is a College sophomore from Singapore, studying English and cinema studies. Her email address is smerican@sas.upenn.edu.

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What Penn’s drag performers taught me about self-exploration

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fter surviving a second round of midterms, I was burnt out and I needed a quick “pick-me-up.” For some, this might entail going to a party. For others, it might be resting up and binge-watching Netflix. After being placed in the mental pressure cooker of my exam, I wanted a fun Friday night. So, my friend and I decided to attend the Penn Queer Student Alliance’s annual drag show.

The whole hour was an experience. From the opening act, the whole room was hyped up, creating a space that was free and welcoming. Musical numbers, ranging from renditions of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer,” with one performer blessing the audience with “fake holy water” from a ladle in a pot, to the funky groove of Bruno Mars’ “24k Magic,” scored well with the audience.

The outfits, makeup, and props of every performer contributed to an elevated showmanship. In addition, the countless kicks, splits, and tricks from every performer

CONVOS WITH CARLOS | The annual drag show is a space for all left the audience speechless.

I was even taken aback for a second to process the intricate choreography that occurred, despite the joke announcement that none of the acts were really prepared.

Growing up with a gay brother, I have been exposed to the LGBTQ+ community and culture from a young age. This has had a big impact on me as an ally also and helped me expand my perspectives as I grew up when I met people from all different backgrounds.

But, this was my first time attending a drag show in person. The night at the drag show showed me a new level confidence I know I can adapt in my daily life.

Drag is something everyone can participate in; it doesn’t have to follow strict gender norms. Performances showcased different types of drag: both drag queens and drag kings. Diverse events like these on campus foster inclusivity and welcoming environments

to people from any background to come and have a good time.

Every act was so different and unique in its own way that we were all able to leave with unforgettable memories

from that night. Personally, I think that the essence of drag is showing a more extravagant version of yourself without any limitations. It is meant to accentuate all of your current features, or maybe new ones that are created. Honestly, at the

end of the day, it is a fun way to express yourself.

I spoke with College sophomore Amber Auslander, the chair of the Queer Student Alliance, to learn more about the

ploring before.”

Auslander added that the QSA is considering donating a portion of the proceeds of the show to the Attic Youth Center in Philadelphia, the city’s only independent LGBTQ+ youth center.

The LGBTQ+ community and drag culture have influenced young people’s vernacular. When people refer to “throwing shade,” “slay,” and exclaim “YAAAAS,” not a lot of people realize that these phrases were popularized by drag culture.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race,” a reality TV show competition where 14 drag queens compete to become the “America’s Next Drag Superstar,” has become REBECCA TAN | EXECUTIVE EDITOR appointment TV, increasing awareness of drag in behind-the-scenes planning. the process. RuPaul Charles, Auslander said that the drag the show’s host and one of show is an important event be- the world’s most famous drag cause it allows performers to queens, has won two Emmys explore “an aspect of gender for his work on the show. presentation/gender identity Recently, RuPaul has come that they usually aren’t able to” under fire for comments reor “haven’t thought about ex- garded as a transphobic during

an interview with The Guardian, saying, “Drag loses its sense of danger and its sense of irony once it’s not men doing it.” Season 9 runner-up and openly female transgender contestant Peppermint disagreed in a video interview with Mic, where she expresses that drag is something any man, woman, or person who might not identify with any gender can take part in.

When it boils down to it, drag is a performance art. It breaks away from any restrictions implicated by associating an act with any particular gender. Drag and drag shows are meant to captivate audiences and rejoice in the fierceness of every performer who has the charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent to stand onstage and entertain. Audience members feel an immediate connection when a drag performer steps on the stage and gets ready to slay.

CARLO S ARIA S VI VA S is a College freshman from Stamford, Conn., studying communication.

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The Early Decision acceptance rate for the Class of 2022, released in December, also set a new low at 18.5 percent — a significant drop from last year’s 22 percent ED rate and the previous year’s 23.2 percent rate. The current total acceptance rate of 8.39 percent takes the ED acceptance rate into account.

One in every seven admitted students to the Class of 2022 is the first in their families to attend college, according to a statement released to The Daily Pennsylvanian. Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said this is a dramatic increase from the one in every eight first-generation students admitted last year.

The number of international applicants increased by 6 percent

as well.

The admitted class includes 178 students who applied through Questbridge, a national scholarship program that seeks to aid high-achieving, low-income students gain enrollment at top universities.

Members of the class hail from all 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam. Pennsylvania, New York, California, New Jersey, Florida, and Texas are the states with the most representation.

There are 104 countries represented in the admitted class as well.

On March 1, Penn’s Board of Trustees increased the financial aid budget by 5.3 percent, providing for Penn’s largest financial aid budget in history.

The number of admitted students affiliated with communi-

ty-based organizations, including National College Advising Corps, EducationUSA, and National Hispanic Institute increased to 465, more than double last year’s 225 students.

Regular decision applicants to Penn and other Ivy League schools can view their admission decisions starting Wednesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time.

Penn already accepted 1,312 applicants in December’s Early Decision round and plans to enroll a total of 2,445 students across all four undergraduate schools.

“We are thrilled about the possibility of these students joining our community, brining their intellectual curiosities, analytical minds and collaborative spirits to enrich our campus,” Furda said.

“We can’t wait to meet them.”

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For National Women’s History Month, students are holding the annual Penn Women’s Week March 24-31 — this year’s theme is “Existing as Resistance.”

“We’re hearing a lot now about the resistance in the age of Trump,” said College sophomore Jenna Liu, who is serving as the manager of Women’s Week. “So

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Penn Women’s Week works closely with the board of Penn Association for Gender and Equity, which elects organizers for the week, according to Engineering sophomore and PAGE Chair Curie Shim.

She discussed the significance of narratives in planning the week-long celebration and the struggle to include all of them.

“I think it’s always hard to do Women’s Week because there’s just an incredibly large number of narratives that you want to focus on and can’t always,” Shim said. “Something good that we have achieved this year is having events that focus on people whose narratives may not always be centered.”

Liu said planning for the theme and various events began last November. Women’s Week has gotten support from the LGBT Center and also Penn’s Women

Center, which provides a budget for the cultural week.

The week kicked-off Monday night with a Quizzo-style event called “Remember the Ladies.” From discussions to movie screenings, the board wanted to make sure the programming presented attendees with intersectional issues.

Women’s Week has partnered with a variety of organizations like Penn Dems, PAGE, TableTalk Penn, and Beyond Arrests: Rethinking Systemic Oppression to host events covering topics such as Title IX, criminal justice reform, and discrimination.

College junior Zoe Colbert, and member of the subset group FemDems in Penn Democrats, said she had attended past Women’s Weeks and helped with programming for the Title IX panel event.

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“SVIO is not incredibly present in the undergraduate body to those of us who have not yet needed the resource,” Colbert said. “We thought this was a good opportunity to make sure everyone knew what resources there are on campus.”

Liu mentioned that this year’s Women’s Week will not include a traditional keynote speaker, which she attributed to the interest in local leaders and the desire to avoid the potentially high costs associated with bringing in a high-profile individual for the event.

Last year, the annual event included a panel discussion about feminism and gender equity under the Trump administration. The year before featured a keynote speech from transgender rights activist Janet Mock.

The board wanted to highlight women who might not be directly engaged in political advocacy, and everyday women who “fight for themselves or fight against oppressive forces,” according to Liu.

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Amazon ‘Prime Now’ service coming to campus The service delivers within two hours of ordering JULIE COLEMAN Staff Reporter

As Amazon narrows down choices for its second headquarters — a list of 20 which includes Philadelphia — the second most valuable company in the United States may be opening a delivery service right next to Penn’s Campus.

The Amazon service Prime Now, which delivers groceries and household goods to Amazon Prime members within two hours of ordering, may soon occupy a building at 4100 Chestnut St. Philadelphia is not currently one of the 32 cities to which Prime Now delivers.

Although an opening date for the Philadelphia Prime Now has not yet been released, Amazon received a license on Feb. 2 to operate a site called “Prime Now,” intended to be

a “food establishment” and “retail perm location.” The license will expire on Feb. 1, 2019.

The permit was issued for a 35,000-square foot property Amazon purchased in August 2017, which had previously been owned

by Campus Apartments since 2011, reports West Philly Local.

Prime Now was first launched in parts of Manhattan in December 2014, and according to its website, the service now offers two-hour delivery options at in-store prices for Whole Foods, local restaurants, and for miscellaneous household goods consumers may desire.

If Prime Now opens, it may become competition for local grocery stores and other food delivery services like Seamless and Grubhub.

Director of Strategic Initiatives and Communications for the University City District Alissa Weiss said the district had not had any collaboration or communication with

the company so far.

“UCD doesn’t actually know more than what’s been reported publicly about the Amazon Prime site at 41st and Chestnut,” Weiss said.

Penn Facilities and Real Estate Services spokesperson Heidi Wunder said that to her knowledge, the new Prime Now location is not affiliated with Penn. In 2016, Penn did partner with Amazon to open Amazon@Penn at 1920 Commons, the first Amazon shipping and delivery service of its kind in the Ivy League.

Many Penn students say they are looking forward to the addition of a Prime Now service.

“I’ve had a lot of convenience using Amazon@Penn, and I’m sure Amazon Prime Now will make my campus experience even easier and better,” College freshman Chris Cherian said. “It’ll save so much time knowing that I’ll only have to order online and not plan out gro-

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College senior Adrian Kase said he had not previously heard about Prime Now, but thinks it is a good idea at “surface level.” “[Amazon@Penn] is super convenient, so if it’s something like that, which makes stuff from Amazon more easily accessible, I would be interested in that,” Kase said.

“Especially because things from places like CVS can be so much more expensive than the same stuff on Amazon.”

College freshman Lizzie Youshaei said she thinks Prime Now’s convenience may steer students away from other local grocery stores like Fresh Grocer. “[Prime Now] is definitely convenient for college students with little time so I think it would be a huge hit for Amazon and a huge blow for many local businesses.”

College freshman Luis Gomez said that despite the appeal of Prime

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The Undergraduate Assembly administered a survey to undergraduate students to gauge interest for specific mental health initiatives, including the location of Counseling and Psychological Services, the presence of student-led mental health groups, and the possibility of walk-in CAPS sessions in buildings on campus.

The survey is not connected to the University’s Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare, which Penn reconvened in 2016 following 14 student deaths by suicide in three years. The UA survey is led by students and geared toward student awareness of resources, rather than administrative review of campus culture.

The deadline for submission to the Mental Health Resources Awareness and Utilization Survey, which the UA emailed to Penn undergraduates Feb. 27, was scheduled to be March 17, but was extended a week to March 23 in order to maximize response rate.

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Blunt described the worrying trend of school closings in Philadelphia, which she said hit economically-depressed and socially-marginalized neighborhoods the hardest.

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vey. Freshmen had the highest response rate, comprising 32 percent of the total responses. Since the survey closed, no updated numbers have been released.

“We know students on a more personal level because we are college kids. When your peers are caring about [mental health], it can make you more comfortable talking about it,” College freshman and UA New Student Representative Kevin Zhou said. “It’s always been the authority looking into the problem, but now it’s your peers and friends.”

Earlier this semester, the administration launched several initiatives to address problems brought up in the survey, including a Wellness website launched on Jan. 22 that acts as a guide to Penn’s wellness resources, and a review of CAPS’ operations conducted this past January.

One of the main goals of the survey is to assess student opinion on the potential of CAPS implementing an “embed model,” which would allow students to see CAPS clinicians designated for specific schools for walk-in appointments at buildings on campus rather than at the CAPS office on Market Street.

CAPS has already implemented this model at four graduate schools, and has seen graduate student usage

rates increase from 12 to over 17 percent. The survey was originally intended to only address the “embed model,” but the UA eventually decided to add more questions about how students utilize other resources.

“There’s mental health at CAPS, and then there’s Penn. Physically, there’s that distance,” Zhou said.

“The main purpose of the survey is for Jessica and I to know whether or not we should keep pursuing the projects we had in mind, like the embedded model.”

Before releasing the survey, the UA also received assistance from the Office of Student Affairs and the CAPS assessment specialists, a team of statisticians that helped the students word questions correctly.

Director of Outreach and Prevention Services Meeta Kumar said that this collaboration was “possibly the first time they have worked with students” for a student-led survey.

Initial survey responses indicated that the majority of students believe that CAPS is too far away and are interested in implementing an “embed model” for CAPS, Nursing sophomore and UA Associate Member Jess Andrews said.

“The tide has shifted to more people wanting it to be more con-

venient and accessible,” Andrews said. “The stigma is less of a problem.“ Allowing more options for shortterm treatment could decrease wait times and help “alleviate the pressure” on CAPS and its increasing levels of student demand, Andrews said.

“This is a student-led survey

from beginning to finish. Administration was informed about the survey and they offered suggestions and a lot support, but please note that they did not force anything onto us that we did not want to do,” Zhou wrote in an email to the DP. Andrews added that the survey indicated that undergraduates are not all aware or utilize student-led

wellness groups, such as Reach-aPeer Helpline and Penn Benjamins.

After it closes the survey, the UA hopes to give the data to CAPS and meet with other student groups to discuss how they could increase accessibility.

“We know the resources are there, they just need to better suit the student body,” Andrews said.

of this city,” Blunt said.

This observation was corroborated by Little, who mentioned the multitude of schools that were closing in his North Philly neighborhood.

“Black and brown communities are being taken under siege by a system that is designed to fail our children, and what we cannot and will not do, is stand back and allow it to happen,” Little said.

Martin Luther King High School senior Michael Xavier Samuel described his personal struggles with a lack of school funding.

Samuel said he realized how concerning the problem had become when he was looking at his school’s past yearbooks and real-

ized many programs, such as a drama program, a marching band, and a swim team that had once existed, had vanished.

The school district, which has the eighth largest student enrollment in the nation, has been consistently plagued with funding issues.

Just last week, the School Reform Commission approved the basics of a new $3.2 billion budgetary plan for the system. The proposal depends heavily upon city money promised by Mayor Jim Kenney and does not call for additional school closures.

The budget proposal provides a possible solution to funding issues, including those mentioned by past projections which forecast

that the school district would face a $105 million deficit by fiscal year 2019.

In addition, Samuel characterized schools as a pipeline to the jail system, describing schools as oppressive environments in which children are stripped of individuality and forced to fit into a system.

“It’s systematic in the breaking down of our minds,” Samuel said.

“With more school funding we can afford to have more books, more programs, more things where kids can find themselves and find what they want to do with their lives.”

College junior Aiden Castellanos-Pedroza said the initial happiness at receiving a full schol-

arship from Penn was quickly negated by his discovery of the University’s role in the gentrification of West Philadelphia.

“I was honestly ashamed; being here is absolutely disgusting,” Castellanos-Pedroza said. “Penn has hurt so many people here in Philadelphia, and Penn has the opportunity to be able to give something back. This is all we are asking for, for them to go over and pay their fair share.”

Castellanos-Pedroza described Penn’s decision to build a new dorm as questionable, in the face of the struggling condition of many Philadelphia public schools, and noted that the University’s granting of scholarships does not exempt the institution

from assisting public education in the city.

“Don’t use me as a reason for why you will take advantage of the rest of the city. Don’t use me as an opportunity for you to take opportunities away from others,” Castellanos-Pedroza said.

The participants’ calls for Penn to play a larger role in funding Philadelphia public education are not new.

In 2015, dozens of students marched through campus, protested outside College Hall, and distributed petitions calling on the University to pay $6.6 million in aid to the city’s schools.

Just last month, SLAP reignited debate over the issue by hosting a protest in the snow.

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Quakers boast numerous offensive options, from rookies to veterans ZACK ROVNER Sports Reporter

How does a defending champion improve?

Experience.

After winning last year’s Ivy

title, fans can expect more of the same from Penn women’s lacrosse this season as the Red and Blue are returning more than 90 percent of total points scored on offense from last season, including their top six scorers from last season.

“It’s really nice having a lot of people come back who are comfortable with the attack and are confident to take the ball to the

goal and score,” senior midfielder Alex Condon said. “We were able to pick up where we left off last year.”

This season has been highlighted by the excellent play from the veteran leaders on offense.

Condon, alongside attackers Caroline Cummings and Emily Rogers-Healion, is one of three seniors that has taken control of

Belodeau gives Penn yet another offensive weapon

both the offense and the leadership of this team. The trio thus far has combined for 38 goals and 26 assists, accounting for about 37 percent of the Quakers total points this season. Additionally, this trio is currently taking about 44 percent of the teams shots.

However, the offensive firepower is not the only thing that these veteran players bring to the team.

Brown was second in the nation in save percentage

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Most collegiate lacrosse players would be happy to accomplish in a career what Penn’s Zoe Belodeau has accomplished in the first half of this season.

However, what separates her from most players is that the Maryland native is only a freshmen. In her first nine career games, Belodeau paces Penn women’s lacrosse in draw controls (47), is second in points (35) and assists (15), and is third on the team in goals scored (20).

With at least six games remaining, Belodeau is already only 10 points shy of tying Erin Brennan’s single-season school freshman record, set in 2009.

Besides being at or near the top of every relevant offensive category for the Quakers, Belodeau was also one of only three freshmen named to the midseason Tewaaraton Award watch list, an award known as the “Heisman of college lacrosse.”

Still, her impact on the team goes beyond her stats. In the biggest games, the freshmen

member almost trying to tackle Caroline Cummings right after that and everyone just swarming each other,” Belodeau said. “It was such a big team moment because we knew we came together. There was such a big buildup for a team moment.”

Over spring break, her clutch play continued. With Penn failing to break away from a struggling Drexel

Coming into this season, Penn women’s lacrosse had a pretty good idea of what its offense would look like with the top six point-scorers returning from last year’s team returning.

What was much less clear was who would be filling the void left behind by 2017 second team All-Ivy goalkeeper Britt Brown.

With junior Maggie Smith and sophomore Mikaila Cheeseman both showing promise, the pair battled with one another throughout the offseason to take the starting role, and that friendly but competitive fight didn’t even conclude by the start of the regular season.

For the first few games, the pair had both been playing exactly one half of each game. It wasn’t until after the Quakers’ third game of the season against Rutgers that coach Karin Corbett designated Cheeseman as the regular starter.

And while it was Cheese-

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has provided the spark for the Quakers.

In her second career game, Belodeau notched four goals against Johns Hopkins, including the game-winner with 52 seconds left. On the play, senior Caroline Cummings hit a streaking Belodeau, who stuck the shot in the top right corner.

In addition to scoring clutch goals, the freshman also knows how to celebrate them.

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have all played excellent very early in their careers. They currently have combined for 96 points on the season. Opponents of the Quakers only have a total of 87 points against the team, showing just how dominant this offense and these young stars are.

This offensive firepower has reSEE OFFENSE PAGE 14

Cheeseman replaces Brown in goal without skipping a beat

Freshman is second on the team in assists, points

Freshman attackman Zoe Belodeau is just 10 points away from breaking the program’s freshman single-season point record.

“We’ve been in some tough situations so far this year in some tight games and I think the more veteran people on the field kept the vibe calm and composed,” RogersHealion said.

Beyond the seniors, the offense’s top three scorers are all freshman and sophomores. Midfielder Erin Barry and attackers Gabby Rosenzweig and Zoe Kraus

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But games that need extra days are something else.

Such was the case for Penn baseball in the opening round of the Liberty Bell Classic, as darkness on Tuesday night forced the Quakers’ contest against Saint Joseph’s into a delay. But in a 10-inning, two-day thriller, the Red and Blue came up short of advancing to the tournament semifinals, falling victim to a three-run 10th-inning home run by Hawks freshman Cole Stetzar in a 7-4 loss.

in 1.1 innings, and Sichley struck out four in only 2.1 innings of work — but St. Joe’s (9-11, 0-3 Atlantic 10) had its own freshman standout pitcher in Brian Edgington, who limited Penn to three hits and only one run in five innings of work.

“I thought they [Bean and Sichley] both did a decent job; they’re young kids, so the more you get them out there, the more comfortable they get,” Yurkow said. “In these [Ivy] weekends, we’re playing three nine-inning games now, so guys are gonna get opportunities in the bullpen, and it’s good to see guys getting better each time out.”

With the Hawks leading 4-1 bottom of the seventh, though, the St. Joe’s bullpen wasn’t able to build on Edgington’s stellar day, allowing the Quakers to score pair of runs on a walk then a balk.

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Though junior first baseman Sean Phelan went 2 for 4 with a run batted in, it wasn’t enough to lead Penn baseball to a win in the first round of the Liberty Bell Classic against Saint Joseph’s.

Two innings later, with Penn down to its final two outs, yet another rookie came through for the Red and Blue. Freshman Eduardo Malinowski delivered a clutchgame tying single to send the game to extra innings — and as it turned out, due to Saint Joe’s’ field lacking lights, an extra day.

“He’s off to a pretty good start; he’s an aggressive kid, he’s got a really good skill set, he’s got a little pop in his bat and he can run,” Yurkow said of Malinowski.

“Hopefully he can keep it up, because hitting north of .300 as a freshman is tough.”

Unfortunately, day two didn’t provide quite the same thrills for the Quakers. Only minutes after the teams took to the field, Stetzar de-

livered a two-out, three-run bomb off Penn sophomore Jacob Sadowitz in the top of the 10th, extending Penn’s streak of being the only local school to have never won the tournament. “[The 20-hour delay] is one of those things I’ve never experienced before. I thought we were ready to play, and they just put a couple good swings on balls,” Yurkow said. “Before you know it, you’re down three runs in the tenth inning, so it definitely had a different feel to it.”

The Quakers will have to respond quickly in a series that matters a lot more this weekend. After falling to 1-2 in Ivy play last weekend at Brown, Penn gets a shot to move back to .500 in a home three-

game set against Dartmouth (3-12, 0-0).

Assuming the game stands, these will finally be the Red and Blue’s first home games of the season.

“We really need to win this series, and I think that’d be a big boost for us to get back into the thick of things,” Yurkow said.

“Hopefully finally [being at home] adds a little more excitement to things, guys have a little bit more energy playing in front of our fans.”

So while Penn has the right to be irked at Wednesday’s elimination, there is one silver lining. The team is still alive for a championship that has a lot more value, and there’s not much more room for error if the Red and Blue want to get there.

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“I think in the Rutgers game, Mikaila had some great saves, some really, really tough saves, and she was making a lot of the changes that we’ve been talking about for a year and a half,” Corbett said. “You could see them in that game, just her attacking of that ball, and so we felt really confident with what we saw of her.”

While Cheeseman has also

come to feel more confident in her ability to perform, she acknowledged that she felt a little shakier stepping into her role at the start of the season — largely due to the high bar Brown set last season.

After a stellar junior year in 2016, Brown was even more impressive last season, finishing third in the country in save percentage. She also showed a penchant for turning in her best performances when the stakes were highest. While the Quakers ultimately lost the game, her 14 saves against Princeton last May set a new Ivy League Tournament record.

“I think it’s really natural to feel that pressure, especially with someone so incredible like Britt,” Cheeseman said. “I was definitely nervous at the beginning, but I think since then, I’ve gained a lot of confidence in myself, a lot of necessary confidence to just realize that I’m my own person and I have my own standards.”

And since taking over as the full-time starter, Cheeseman has showed that her standards are pretty high as well. She has already turned in four performances with double-digit saves, and her overall save percentage currently ranks seventh in the nation.

But as good as those numbers are, Cheeseman has her mind set on improvement.

“Our goal is to win a national championship, and so every day, we’re just trying to get better,” Cheeseman said.

“We’re not just going to be okay with the success we’ve have had. We’re going to learn from our mistakes and just try to get better.”

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“We had a couple of opportunities where we didn’t really execute where we could have. Had some opportunities to push some runs across, and we just didn’t do it,” coach John Yurkow said. “And it’s a tough loss, because we did have chances to win it yesterday.”

With the Quakers (5-14, 1-2 Ivy) getting a break from Ivy League play, the team strayed from its usual pitching rotation, instead going with a much younger and much more diverse group of hurlers. For the contest, six different pitchers threw for Penn, none for more than three innings.

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For most teams in college sports, if you win a conference championship, finish the regular season ranked in the nation’s top 10 and make it to the NCAA Tournament, you’re not going to be too unhappy with your year.

But most teams aren’t Penn women’s lacrosse.

A year ago, the Quakers

in the first half. But unranked Navy completely flipped the contest in an 8-1 run spanning both halves to take a 10-6 lead.

Then-rookies Gabby Rosenzweig and Erin Barry led a frenetic late comeback to cut the lead to 11-10, but that was as close as Penn would get, giving Navy its first-ever win over a top-20 team.

“It might have been exciting for fans; I don’t think it was that exciting for us,” coach Karin Corbett said. “We wanna compete for national championships, and that was definitely too early [to be eliminated], so I

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In her fifth and final season, senior attackman Emily RodgersHealion returns as one of the veteran leaders of a powerful offense.

bowed out of the postseason in a Round of 32 upset loss to Navy, marking the first season since 2013 that the dynasty didn’t win at least one NCAA Tournament game. Fast forward 10 months, though, and one silver lining becomes clear: as devastating as last May’s result was, that sting only pushed this year’s Quakers to become even better.

“It definitely gave us a spark before we even needed a spark; it was an unexpected loss that was really hard to swallow,” fifth-year senior Emily Rogers-Healion said. “It made me even more thankful that I had a chance to come back and redeem us, and it gave us even more of a reason to work hard all fall.”

Heavily favored over the unranked Midshipmen despite playing without injured star junior Caroline Cummings, No. 7 Penn jumped out to a 5-2 lead

think all of that has fueled what our goals are for this year.”

It might have looked like the upset of the decade at the time, but only weeks later, the lacrosse world found out that Navy was no fluke.

After celebrating their thriller at Penn Park, the Midshipmen’s Cinderella run was only just getting started. Navy ended up making it all the way to the Final Four, even upsetting No. 2 UNC in the quarterfinals.

Penn was the only team to hold Navy under 15 goals in the tournament.

To the Quakers, this Midshipmen’s run only added a further burn; they could’ve been making headlines nationwide instead.

“I was in bed watching that game, because I had just gotten surgery that day. And watching that … we didn’t reach our potential, and that put a fire in our bellies to really work hard

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“It could’ve been us going all the way to the Final Four. We completely could’ve ridden that power. But we’re just gonna use that to fire us up for this year.”

The Red and Blue are backing up those words, and then some, in 2018.

The No. 6 Quakers hold a stellar 8-1 record so far, with the only loss coming to defending national champion Maryland. Add in Cummings’ return and freshman Zoe Belodeau’s explosion to a team that already returned 93 percent of its scoring from last season has led to a juggernaut on the offensive end. Sophomore Gabby Rosenzweig has stood out in particular, as she is currently on pace to shatter Nina Corcoran’s single-season points record.

On the other side of the ball, sophomore Mikaila Cheeseman has filled the goal in place of 2017 graduate Britt Brown without missing a beat, ranking seventh nationally in save percentage.

“We have a really good chance to go really far in the postseason this year; this year feels different just because we have so much depth everywhere,” senior midfielder Alex Condon said. “All of our attacking core is scoring goals, making contributions, and we just have more firepower than we did last year.”

Combine that stacked personnel with a team driven by the pain of last year’s early exit, and it’s no surprise the Red and Blue have so thoroughly dominated their competition so far.

This is a team with the goal of titles — Ivy League and beyond — and it has no plans to forget the struggles it’s faced on the way there.

“You always remember the losses,” Corbett said. “You always have to move on, but they can always be there in the back of our heads. Remember how we felt that day, and we don’t wanna feel that way again.”

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Things are speeding up at Franklin Field. For women’s lacrosse, that’s just how they like it.

This season, the NCAA is instituting a few new, important rule changes that look to increase the pace of the game and improve player safety. Although there’s always a learning curve that comes along with any changes, the reviews are mostly positive from the Quakers. “I think that in some ways that we’re pretty proficient on the attack, we have a lot of opportunities for a lot of kids to score,� coach Karin Corbett said. “I think that defensively we have a strong defense so I think having that shorter amount of time on stances is helpful for a good defense. So, I feel that it’s fine on either end for us. I think that the transition part of it can get tiring for our middies, and that’s a challenge.�

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sulted in a very successful season so far. The Quakers are undefeated in the Ivy League and are currently ranked No. 6 in the nation. Penn’s only loss has come against No. 2 ranked and defending national champion Maryland just one week ago.

Another factor in the teams success thus far has been a change in their attack. Already possessing a top-ranked attacking unit in the

tuted gradually. Last season, it was the institution of a 90-second shot clock. This season, the NCAA has approved free movement for players after the whistle.

Previously, players had to stop whenever a whistle was blown for a foul call, creating an awkward and difficult situation for players that impeded the natural flow of the game. According to the NCAA, “Under the new rule, players can keep moving after a foul or violation while the player possessing the ball restarts play.� “There’s not as much stalling, you can’t take as much time off the clock, so you want to limit their opportunity bringing the ball up, trying to take as much time off the clock as you can,�

Corbett said.

Outside of a two-meter nonengagement area, players are free to move around after the play, potentially setting up better opportunities for the offense and creating more possessions per game.

Along with the shot clock, this puts a greater strain on defenses and allows the offense more opportunities to score. According to sophomore attackman Gabby Rosenzweig, this stands to benefit Penn. “I personally like to play at

a faster speed, and I think that we’re really good when we push the ball,� Rosenzweig said. “I think we’re able to score more fast break goals then we normally would be able to, it’s just definitely made the game a lot faster.

I think it’s more fun to watch and to be a part of.�

However, this rule doesn’t strike fear into the hearts of Penn’s defensive players. In fact, they’re enjoying it as well. “I like it all, it keeps the game a lot more fast paced and I think defensively you have to be locked in and focused for every moment of the game. You can’t really have a mental lapse, you can’t really beat yourself up on a play because that could result in a goal if you’re not ready enough.

I think it’s fun, it keeps the game quicker and more what it should be,� junior defenseman Katy Junior said. “I think it works better for the defenders than it does for the attackers.�

Due to the way that Penn’s defense plays, they may stand to gain even more from this new, faster style of lacrosse. “As a defensive unit we have a very athletic and very focused group,� Junior said. “I think it’s actually been good for us.�

Another important rule change this season is that during eightmeter free possessions, players will not be permitted in the box.

According to the NCAA, “The Women’s Lacrosse Rules Committee believes the change will alleviate the concerns of shoot-

country, the Quakers have decided to play a significant portion of their season with a fifth attacker, straying from their traditional four attacker game plan. “It depends on what we need and what we think will help us,� coach Karin Corbett said. “Offensively, defensively, whatever [the opposing] team’s strengths and weaknesses are.�

This combination of returning faces and great coaching strategies has placed Penn in a great position heading into the final third of the

season. “We’re all striving for the national championship. There is no doubt about that,� Cummings said. “We set that goal at the very beginning of the season and we’re all trying to remember that.�

The Red and Blue have their eyes fixed on their goal, and their next step on this journey will be this upcoming Sunday against Northwestern at Franklin Field.

Our take: Penn returns almost all of its scoring from a team that finished last season ranked seventh

nationally, and even though losses like Britt Brown and Megan Kelly will be tough on the defensive end, this team undoubtedly looks better than it did a season ago. This offense has depth it didn’t come close to resembling last year, and Mikaila Cheeseman looks like a great heir to Brown thus far. Expecting Penn to take down juggernauts like Stony Brook and Maryland may be asking for too much, but with such a strong group of senior leaders, we see the Quakers making their first Final Four appearance since 2009.

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Junior defenseman Katy Junior is among the Penn defenders in favor of the new rules despite the fact that most of the changes seem to benefit offenses, while giving defenses more to do.

ing space and dangerous slides from low to high during 8-meter free positions.� “It’s much better, I think a bunch of kids were jumping into shots on eight-meters, and so I think that’s been really helpful to minimize the risk of injury,�

Corbett said. “That’s been a good change.�

No matter what, the Quakers are ready for the challenge of adapting to these new rules. And, given the team’s skillset and affinity for fast play, they may give Penn an extra edge this season.

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squad, Belodeau scored the game-tying goal early in the second half. The goal provided the momentum necessary for the Quakers to pull away in a hard fought 16-11 win.

However, her biggest performance came in her seven-point outburst at No. 19 Duke. In a game featuring ranked opponents, Belodeau hit on all dimensions, accounting for nearly half of the Quakers offensive output in a 15-11 win.

She led everyone on the field with seven points and five goals, in addition to leading her team with three draw controls.

“It was a surreal moment to play against a team you’ve been hearing about your whole life.”

Belodeau said. “Just being able to have done that was such a confidence builder because it doesn’t matter who we are playing. We are Penn and we can play to the best of our abilities.”

THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2018

After the Duke game, Belodeau racked up more individual awards, winning Inside Lacrosse National Rookie of the Week and Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week.

Amidst the accolades, her early success should not come as much of a surprise.

Coming into Penn, Belodeau had lofty expectations. InsideLacrosse.com ranked her as the No. 18 recruit in the country and No. 5 at her position.

Even with the high expectations, Belodeau is outplaying her high school ranking. As of now, Belodeau has more points and draw controls than all the attackers ranked ahead of her coming out of high school.

Still, the transition between high school and college is tough for any athlete with the increase in physicality and skill level.

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