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Is requesting admission files worth it?

Students underwhelmed by quality of information CAROLINE SIMON Staff Reporter

Opening doors at Penn for immigrants

Although future Penn students are only a day away from viewing their regular decision results, the Admissions Office has been busy accommodating the enormous volume of FERPA requests submitted by current students.

After a group of Stanford students discovered a way to access

admissions records under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, students at colleges across the country — including Penn — have been submitting requests to view their files. Admissions offices are legally required to provide access within 45 days. For students who requested their admissions files early this semester, the 45 days have elapsed.

Following a large uptick in FERPA requests, Yale Law School has deleted admissions evaluation data for enrolled students, reverting to an old policy of deleting numerical scoring

data, as well as the associated identities, after the annual admissions cycle.

“Recent F ER PA requests prompted us to look at our recordkeeping practices, and the decision was made to revert to our previous practice, which was to discard evaluation records after they had fulfilled their intended purpose,” Yale Law School Associate Dean Asha Rangappa said in an email in a Yale Daily News Article.

Stanford has also returned to a policy of deleting its admissions

JACK CAHN Staff Reporter

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SOPHIA WITTE Senior Reporter

Inefficiencies in Penn’s mental health resources and cultural stigma both serve as barriers to mental wellness

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s he walked to the class that he told himself he would definitely not miss again, Jack stopped to focus on the cars whizzing by on Spruce Street. With each passing car, flashing visions of closing his eyes and darting into the street became increasingly vivid and realistic.

“It felt like a bad horror movie – everything was fear and everyone felt like enemies that would never understand or be able to help,” said Jack Park, a second semester freshman at the time.

“Every day and everyone around me seemed to prove how meaningless my life was.”

Shaking his head in hopes of erasing this impulse, he continued walking briskly to class until the looming high rise buildings to his left once again invited intrusive thoughts about what it would be like to jump from the

top.

“I know it’s not logical to feel like the only option is no option, but with my disease at the time, I just felt that leaving this world would end my misery and be better for everyone around me.”

Earlier that year, Park had gone into Penn’s Counseling and Psychological Services in hopes of finding support after arriving to an unfamiliar campus from his home of Seoul, South Korea.

But after a twenty minute meeting and assessment, Park did not reach out to CAPS or other mental health resources again when CAPS determined his case as mild and never followed up with him.

“I realize my condition was in a mild state at that time and it’s really tricky because they do have to prioritize the more urgent cases, but following up with milder cases could probably prevent mild problems from

becoming more severe and potentially fatal in the future,” Park said.

After his first attempt at suicide a couple weeks into second semester, Park finally called to tell his parents in Seoul about the severe state of what would be diagnosed as clinical depression and bipolar disorder. Park did not want to give any description of his attempt because he believes that people suffering from suicidal thoughts are more likely to take action when they hear details of another person’s attempt.

After getting professional treatment in New York and then taking a year-long leave of absence back in Seoul, Park now feels settled in his third year of studies at Penn and values the power of open discussion and the support he has recently gotten from Penn resources.

“In the bad place I was in during my freshman year, I

thought I was a worthless person who didn’t deserve any help,” Park said.

The lack of sufficient follow ups is just one of the many inefficiencies that continue to impact the effectiveness of Penn’s mental health resources.

For many students who deal with mental illness, the problem at Penn is not the lack of resources, but the barriers involved with first reaching out for help.

Released last month, the Report of the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare focuses on the key issue of Penn’s campus culture, a problem that Penn students also highlight as a crucial obstacle to getting people to open up about mental illness.

While the report may have invigorated student initiatives and new awareness programs to SEE MENTAL HEALTH PAGE 3

Know Your Rights at Fling ANNA HESS Staff Reporter

With Penn’s annual Spring Fling around the corner, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush gave the Daily Pennsylvanian the scoop on how to emerge from Fling without a criminal record.

It is unlikely that a panacea to the problems of undergraduate student government exists …”

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The root of Penn’s mental health problem

Programs make finding financial aid easier for undocumented students

No state ID. No driver’s license. No public benefits. No FAFSA money.

These problems commonly faced by immigrants residing illegally in the country, as listed

by Penn for Immigrant Rights, show that getting by is difficult — but getting into a prestigious American university and being able to pay for it is nearly impossible. But that’s all changing now. Immigrants who illegally migrate to the United States are “coming out of the shadows” and joining the ranks of the Ivy League thanks to recent actions by the federal government and University administrations.

The New York Times reported in February that financial aid for migrant students is losing its stigma. Universities have expanded their financial aid programs to meet the needs of immigrants who cannot afford to pay increasing tuition rates and are ineligible, as a result of their legal status, for federal tuition aid programs like Pell grants.

“SFS has never been aware of who is an undocumented student, and [therefore has] treated them as other students,” SFS Director of Communications Marlene Bruno said in a statement.

“In 2013-14, we put this in writing since we were receiving questions.”

To reduce financial barriers and foster a sense of community, Penn organizes an “UndocuOrientation” for every incoming class, which familiarizes these students with resources available to them at Penn. It also provides resources through cultural centers such as La Casa Latina, which offers workshops and personalized advice on navigating issues faced by the community.

Students themselves are working to make Penn a safer and more welcoming community for those living in the country illegally. Class of 2014 alumna Tania Chairez and Class of 2013 alumnus Angel Contrera founded Penn for Immigrant Rights, an advocacy group that supports immigrants at Penn and in the greater Philadelphia community who have entered the county illegally. The University also offers private aid for these students through its endowment and tuition

files, but are responding to FERPA requests with all records available at the time the request was made.

Penn has not moved to delete its digital admissions files.

When students submit a request, they are invited to arrange an appointment to come to the Admissions Office and view their files electronically during a 30 -minute time window. Nursing freshman Delaney Jenkins, who viewed her files on March 6, was underwhelmed at the

Penn Police officers and agents from Philadelphia’s Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement will work together for the third year in a row at this year’s Spring Fling to keep the event safe, Rush said. “Students come on the radar screen of the police or [B]LCE when they are walking around with an open container or walking around drawing attention to themselves,” Rush said.

Show a Real ID: Rush added the key to avoiding conflict or serious repercussions from the Penn Police or the BLCE is cooperation. If Penn Police or the BLCE agents approach a student with an open container, the student most show ID. Rush warns that no student should present a fake ID as this is a criminal misdemeanor that would go on a permanent record.

Alcohol and Marijuana Possession: Underaged students found in possession of alcohol or under one ounce of marijuana can receive a summary offense citation, but they will not be arrested or processed. However, if “you resist or walk away or get argumentative, chances are you’re going in another direction that is a lot more serious,” Rush said.

Supplying Alcohol to Minors: In regards to “nuisance houses,” Rush also warned that if residents over the age of 21 are caught providing alcohol to underaged students, they can be charged with a misdemeanor that would appear on a permanent criminal record.

Possession of Other Illegal Drugs: If a student is caught in possession of any other form of illegal drug — such as cocaine, heroine, pills, LSD, roofies, molly or ecstasy—the student will go straight into narcotics processing as this would be considered a criminal possessory offense, Rush said.

“If you are being over the top, and people are coming out of the windows, and the police ask them to stop and they don’t, you will be cited,” Rush said.

“Don’t make yourself stand out in the crowd, and simply cooperate.”

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Entrepreneurs get bites of advice at ‘Shark Tank’ Penn Fashion Week brings panel of recommendations and criticisms SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Contributing Reporter

When thinking about entrepreneurship at Penn, fashion might not be the first thing that comes to mind. But at the Penn Fashion Week-hosted “Shark Tank” on Friday, Penn’s fashion entrepreneurs proved themselves as forces to be reckoned with when they answered difficult questions and took criticism from a panel of experts in the fashion field.

“For [the entrepreneurs] it’s definitely very valuable to get feedback from a variety of industry experts,” CEO of Penn Fashion Week and College senior Grace Guan said.

On the entrepreneurial side, representatives from the companies

Frackit, Prayas Analytics, Avenue One, Barring Eyewear and Kyu Mélange all attended the event.

They each gave short presentations about their companies, answered questions and received recommendations from four panelists. The panel were Senior Fashion Director of Barneys New York Tomoko Ogura, Executive Vice President of Women’s Wear Jennifer Sunwoo, CEO of AR Consulting Alexandra Reese and entrepreneur Allison Berliner.

Berliner urged College juniors Caroline Calle and Melissa Greenblatt, founders of Frackit — the low-cost “fraternity jacket” designed for nights out — to more ISAEBLLA CUAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER heavily invest time and energy in e-commerce instead of campus A cross between “Shark Tank” and a TED Talk, the Penn Fashion Week Start-up Showcase allowed fashion representatives. “Right now entrepreneurs from the Penn community to present their startup ideas to fashion industry executives. they’re your friends, but eventually you’re going to graduate,” she the inside of their jackets to “get the MBA graduate and CEO and her environmentally conscious said. Reese suggested they have a brand more out there.”

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money, University Director of Financial Aid Joel Carstens said in an interview with 34th Street Magazine in spring 2013.

Carstens did not respond to requests for comment for this article.

Penn’s actions are on par with a national increase in openness towards financial assistance for immigrants pursuing a college education, incited by the Obama administration’s 2012 issuance of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive action, which granted immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children permission to stay in the country for a period of time and legally work.

DACA has not only encouraged colleges across the nation to open their coffers to these students, but has also impacted states. California and Texas, among others, have made students living in the country without legal permission eligible for state financial aid programs and legislators in New York are eager to

follow suit.

Still, universities have a way to go in reducing financial barriers to admission for these students. At Penn, for example, only Mexican and Canadian immigrants are granted the same financial aid as American citizens. The rest are treated like international students, who usually receive little financial aid because Penn is need-aware for these applicants, meaning their financial aid status is incorporated in their admissions decisions. Undocumented students without DACA are not eligible for work-study.

Some think the increased financial acceptance by colleges of students who entered the country illegally is unfair. Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, for example, called financial aid a zero-sum game and noted that by aiding immigrants who are residing illegally, colleges are taking money away from high-achieving, low-income citizens.

Difficulties for these students don’t end with financial aid, even for those whose full need is met.

luxury customer is caring about today,” she said. The panelists were interested, but emphasized a narrower aesthetic for her brand. “I think it should be more targeted, and it will have a stronger message,” Sunwoo said.

A Frackit was passed around the room for the audience to handle as well as the panelists, but only the panelists could handle designer handbags and eyewear.

This year’s Shark Tank was the first of its kind. The panelists were brought in through Penn alumni networks and through Event Coordinator and Shark Tank host Jameel Mohammed’s previous experience working for Barneys.

Guan said that along with the rest of Penn Fashion Week, Shark Tank had been in the works since October.

“We wanted it to be really useful to students who started businesses or wanted inspiration,” she said.

They are often barred from jobs or overlooked by employers who only recruit American citizens. For many, the most difficult aspect of the job search is the lack of information available discussing which companies are willing to hire immigrants who entered the country illegally or non-U.S. citizens, and which are not.

Recognizing this problem, Career Services has made it easier to differentiate between such employers. On the Spring Career Fair app, for example, the list of employers explicitly mentioned whether an employer was interested in speaking with international students.

Lack of information can also be one of the most unsettling aspects of the admissions process. It is difficult enough for high school students to navigate college applications — when immigration status is thrown into the picture, applications become more messy, and immigrants often find themselves applying to dozens of colleges to hedge their bets, or none at all.

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foster a more supportive culture at a school that saw six suicides in 15 months, many students who have used Penn’s mental health resources are disappointed by the Task Force’s inadequate discussion of ongoing problems with existing services.

Inefficiencies

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ithin the University’s existing mental health services, the Task Force recommendations only point out one major inefficiency that Penn has improved upon: long wait times to see a counselor at Counseling and Psychological Services.

According to the report, wait times for CAPS appointments have already been reduced from an average of 21.6 days in December 2013 to an average of 8.5 days in December 2014.

But even with this progress, students continue to face long waits before getting treatment.

Coming from a conservative household where mental health was considered taboo, College freshman Grace Pak saw Penn as an opportunity to finally open up about her anxiety and depression. But after reaching out to CAPS, she was confused when she did not receive a call back.

“When I got to Penn, I thought it would be the first time I’d be able go out and get real help,” Pak said.

“My whole life felt like everyone had been putting my mental health on the backburner, so I was extremely disappointed when I felt like my mental health also wasn’t a priority here and that the school didn’t care.”

After continuing to hope for a call back during the first overwhelming weeks of freshman year, Pak decided to call CAPS back herself. Two calls and three weeks later, she was able to see a counselor.

“It’s great that Penn has so many mental health resources and now I’m really thankful for the help I’ve gotten from CAPS, but I still think that Penn needs to do more to make its services more accessible,” Pak said.

Many students ultimately find Penn’s mental health resources helpful, but several inefficiencies — even beyond the CAPS wait time — undermine the value of these services.

These sorts of barriers to mental off back home in Seoul, College health resources provides an experi- junior and DP columnist Katiera ence much different than the process Sordjan took a year-long leave of of accessing Penn’s physical health absence after struggling with her services. anxiety and depression and falling Before even before starting behind in courses. While the time off classes his freshman year, College helped her recuperate and she now sophomore Luke Hoban, who is di- feels settled in her classes, the buagnosed with Congenital Muscular reaucratic process of returning from Dystrophy, was set up with accom- a leave made her transition more modations for getting around in a complicated than she had hoped. wheelchair and managing his aca“I finally felt ready to come back demic needs for the next four years. to school, but the process to come By affecting the communication back was so confusing and hard for between his brain and his muscles, me since nothing was streamlined,” Hoban’s illness prevents him from Sordjan said. “CAPS, academic and fully using his muscles and causes all other advising and paperwork them to progressively weaken. were all so separated and I think it Student Disability Services im- made things worse for me.” mediately secured his transportation Sordjan has also had to deal with resources, note takers and counsel- the process of being referred out to a ors, and each of his semesters begins therapist outside of CAPS since Penn with meetings to re-evaluate his ser- only offers short-term psychological vices for his new schedule. services — an average of less than “In June, we send out an informa- seven sessions per student, according tional email about our resources and to the report. Since her insurance did we try to accommodate all incoming not cover the first therapist Penn recstudents as soon as possible,” Student ommended, Sordjan is still looking Disabilities Service Director Susan for consistent professional help.

Shapiro said. “We have liaisons in “I understand it’s not practical for each school at Penn and meet with CAPS staff to be able to work with different advisors to ensure we are all students on a long-term basis, collaborating with other parts of but the process to refer students to the school and communicating our outside therapists needs to be impresence to student and faculty net- proved,” Sordjan said. “It felt like I works.” was just handed a list of information On a day when her anxiety and and there wasn’t any check-in as I depression felt especially acute and searched for a fitting therapist.” unmanageable, Pak turned to Penn’s Though these students stressed HELP line, another entry point to that inefficiencies in Penn’s services Penn’s mental health resources. had serious consequences on their Based on an earlier recommenda- mental well-being, the Task Force tion of the Task Force, the University did not find the quality of existing implemented the 24/7 HELP line to resources to be a major reason for the provide an over-the-phone referral students’ mental health problems. service for students seeking informa“There are so many great retion about how to get assistance with sources here and people really are personal issues. CAPS director Bill doing great work,” said Rebecca Alexander said the crisis line works Bushnell, the Task Force Co-Chair well by “calming people down over and former dean of the School of the phone until CAPS personnel Arts and Sciences. “The problem is can bring assistance to the caller.” that not enough students know about But Pak’s first experience with the or have access to these services, service involved more waiting than which is why the suggestions focus expected. on communication and centralizing “When I called in on the verge of information about services.” a mental breakdown, I had to wait for The Task Force Report does thirty minutes as this man with no mention the need for “a smooth experience talked about completely transition” back from a leave of abirrelevant things until I was finally sence, as well as the need “to ensure transferred to someone licensed that the care provided to students by to help me,” Pak said. “I did find it other providers is optimal.” But with helpful once I was finally transferred only these general observations and to a professional, but I was having a without even touching on the HELP really rough time and it should have line wait or insufficient follow-ups, been much more efficient.” the recommendations fall short of Like Park’s decisionNorthwestern to take time many students see SPS | highlighting 5.39” x 10” | what 02/15/15 - 03/03/15

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Cultural Barriers

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hile the report does not make logistical or structural change a focus, the Task Force recommendations do hit on a major concern of Penn students: the cultural barriers to reaching out for help.

Unlike the services for visible physical conditions, mental health resources are much harder to initially access. Beyond the logistical obstacles to overcome within the services, Penn’s culture plays a significant role in discouraging students from taking the necessary first step to confront their mental health problems.

“Physical unhealthiness — basically any problem with the body besides the brain — seems more socially acceptable than mental problems, because people seem to think that an illness of the mind is something you can control,” Park said. “It feels like a weakness much more than something apparent like physical health does.”

While many have criticized the report’s limited implementation plan, the inherent abstractness of cultural transformation means that the most important shifts “require collaborative action from the students, since culture change can’t come from the top down,” Bushnell said.

College junior and Active Minds president Devanshi Mehta — who suffered from chronic anorexia — thinks Penn’s resources helped save her life, but she emphasizes that students must take the initiative to secure their own mental health care, even though speaking out about personal issues is difficult at Penn.

“If I hadn’t taken the first step, I wouldn’t have been introduced to CAPS and all the other student health resources that saved my life,” Mehta said.

Mehta said the transition to Penn initially worsened her eating disorder and mental state due to the competitiveness and overall environment fostered on campus.

“In high school, at least I had grades or something to be proud of in academia, but coming to Penn with so many competitive people, I lost my sense of identity and uniqueness,” Mehta said. “I couldn’t find a

coping mechanism with finding no way to stand out, and food was the only way I felt I could control something.”

Pak also stressed the role of Penn’s culture in contributing to mental instability and the obstacles to opening up about personal issues.

“The desire to be perfect at Penn — or make everything seem perfect — leads to this great stigma around mental health here that I think is a huge portion of the problem,” Pak said. “Only a handful of people at Penn know about my mental illness

people to be able to better identify it and know what to say,” CAPS director Alexander said.

Rostain and Bushnell emphasized that the logic of the I CARE program needs to be extended to the way that everyone interacts with each other at Penn.

“The Task Force Report is a call for all members of the community to do something, so the University must emphasize that taking care of yourself and others is critical to success,” Bushnell said.

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Park agreed that Penn is not the ideal environment for students’ mental well-being, but he refrained from encouraging a complete culture change.

“The environment here does make things worse, but Penn naturally attracts a self-selected group of competitive, perfectionist students who do enjoy and thrive off of this sense of challenge,” Park said.

Though the report identifies the competitive, achievement-oriented culture at Penn, Anthony Rostain — the other Task Force Co-Chair and Director of Education for the Psychiatry Department at the Perelman School of Medicine — said the goal is not to eliminate students’ desire for excellence, but to make sure that this mindset does not turn into a “destructive perfectionism.”

“People need to make sure to appropriately care for themselves and for their relationships,” Rostain said.

“Striving for excellence without focusing on mental wellness is actually what often prevents students from succeeding.”

Since students struggle to reach out for mental health help, CAPS is promoting its I CARE program, which trains teachers, faculty and staff to recognize and approach students with mental health concerns.

“It’s hard to recognize when someone is in trouble so we want

ties Services’ liaisons around the school, Penn is hoping to have I CARE-trained students or faculty members in many networks throughout campus, such as fraternities, clubs and sports teams.

Over the past year, student-driven initiatives, such as the recently released UA Wellness Guide and DAB’s “Deconstructing the Penn Face” project, reflect the hope that idealistic calls for community-wide change may be turning into action.

“Student-led efforts are exactly what we were hoping the report would trigger by sparking more discussion around the issue,” Rostain said.

To foster more open dialogue about mental health, Park has begun sharing his experiences on his blog to encourage students to talk about their past and current struggles with mental illness. He emphasizes the need for much more improvement in the services, but he believes that the core problem with mental health ultimately extends beyond the abilities of Penn.

“It doesn’t help to point fingers at CAPS or anyone else because there really is an entry barrier to all mental health resources at Penn or anywhere in the world,” Park said. “Blaming [Penn’s resources] completely is like thinking they can simply alleviate the symptoms of something almost always caused by internal sources; the patient’s will is the most important determining factor in starting to help with their mental problems.”

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his past week, parts of the undergraduate body were busy talking about the Undergraduate Assembly elections. Major student organizations endorsed candidates, The Daily Pennsylvanian among them. Our own endorsement was based, at least in part, on the reality that the UA’s ability to successfully advocate to the administration on behalf of students is so low that it is best to support the person who might best unite the spirits of the undergraduate body.

This year’s elections are over, and our endorsed candidates — Jane Meyer and Ray Clark — were elected. It may go without saying, but we remain pessimistic about the general power of our undergraduate student government.

It doesn’t seem that we’re the only ones, however. According to the Nominations and Election Committee, only 39 percent of undergraduate students voted last week.

This low turnout is reflec-

tive of the fact that there is a feeling of impotence with the UA. Since the UA holds no real power to effect change, other than to provide recommendations to the president, provost and trustees, students feel a certain amount of apathy towards their student government.

Let’s face the reality that we all seem to agree on but no wants to admit publicly: The trustees and administration don’t give a damn about the undergraduate body unless they begin to pose a credible threat. Maybe it’s because they think we’re unqualified to have opinions on issues ranging from divestment to sexual assault policy, but the answer is likely more simple: pure politics.

Alumni can stop donating, the government can stop providing grants and U.S. World Report can lower our ranking, but the political power of student government is close to zero. If Penn’s administration does nothing its undergraduates ask of it, the

student body will still pay its bills, and we will continue to attend. Undergraduates have virtually no lobbying power.

Besides utter pity, there is no reason the administration would bend to the undergraduate student body’s will.

When they do accommodate

more direct. When student organizations sit down with President Gutmann, they never demand what they really want, for fear of compromising their relationship with the administration. The same is true of Gutmann, who no doubt provides us with the

the futility.” It called for an abolishing of the UA with the steps necessary to fulfill such an undertaking. This option is extreme today; the UA is not in as dire straits now as it was 26 years ago.

In order to be a viable form of student government,

Besides utter pity, there is no reason the administration would bend to the undergraduate student body’s will. When they do accommodate undergraduates’ requests, it is simply out of convenience.” undergraduates’ requests, it is simply out of convenience.

While candidates for positions throughout the UA argued about the success and implementation of projects, espousing their special connections with various administrators, we — and many others — remain unconvinced that the UA has any significant sway with Penn’s administrators.

But the problem is also

political responses, instead of the University’s actual motivation for pursuing certain policies.

This leads to a process without progress. Everyone plays nice, and no one wins.

So what’s the alternative?

The DP provided one option in 1989 with an editorial that stated, “Anything less than a complete restructuring to the UA would be futile and the time has come to end

the UA should be given more representation in the upper levels of Penn’s administration, and a greater voice at the Board of Trustees in particular. Giving the president of the undergraduate student government a seat at Trustee meetings would greatly improve the UA’s ability to communicate the feelings and opinions of undergraduates.

The referendum is an

underutilized option for getting student opinions to the administration and the trustees. Student government has done well the past semester in working with Fossil Free Penn to push the divestment issue. And the UA would do well to encourage more referendums and continue to make recommendations to the trustees; even if most or all fail, it will have succeeded in representing undergraduate interests.

It is unlikely that a panacea to the problems of undergraduate student government exists, but the place to start for the new government is to listen closely to all students from day one. No matter what happens, the challenge for the newest iteration of the UA is to be a proper, effective advocate on behalf of the undergraduate students it has been elected to represent.

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If the LGBT movement and the general mission of the LGBT Center on campus is to foster acceptance and inclusivity, then why is there an exclusionary senior society for this population on campus, which further marginalizes already marginalized people within a community that is supposedly “theirs”? Carriage draws a line in the sand for those who are “in” and those who are not in the LGBT community on campus, which is absurd. Why are minority groups purposefully dividing their communities even more than they may already be on campus?

— Agreed

This is more a criticism of the apparent cultural thirst/ desire that exists at Penn for creation of exclusive groups within an already very exclusive space. It is actually very important to be able to critique the very spaces we occupy - especially if we are in positions of privilege and power.

— Chikezie Wood

Yes, they can be social clubs, but it doesn’t create this elitist hierarchy. In the end, senior societies were developed almost a century ago with the purpose of creating positive changes on campus by interaction of leaders from different groups, ranging from sports to government …

— Alumnus

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o paraphrase Under the Button, President Amy Gutmann is our queen.

That is, she is a constitutional monarch, the living component of the University regalia that symbolizes Penn.

Ordained by the Penn Establishment, she has been an exemplary president. She represents Penn diligently both in stature and status, mixing her applicative academic background with that jazzy air of tailored professionalism.

She also represents Penn safely. Every statement of hers is anodyne and tempered to conform to the wont of the administration. As Penn’s fount of honor, she dispenses degrees, tenures, honors and, most recently, the Presidential Engagement Prizes in her name, but only at the accord of protocol and recommendations. While her initiatives, prizes and motivations may well be her prerogative, they only materialize after exceptional permission and extensive pruning by the trustees, deans and benefactors that dictate Penn’s institutional

WHEN | But may she save us too vision.

To the extent that Gutmann is a professional president for our pre-professional school, she is public relations perfection. Our president plays safe, but as a consequence, she is distant to the student body. As far as monarchs go, it’s a treat to even see President Gutmann.

We’ve all had our anecdotes: being in line for frozen yogurt, surreptitiously leaving

fewer can distinguish between what she stands for and where she stands for the University. Her recounting of her life as a first-generation college student adds a human touch to Penn’s campaign push for increased financial aid, but it also plays as a marketing scheme.

As a symbol of the University, the president should make some effort to personally connect with the stu-

Roth teaching a seminar per semester and occasionally eating in our dining hall, the class deans play a prominent role in hosting lunches, activities and “office hours” to hear the students’ thoughts and concerns.

These events and actions, while small, were all venues for breaking down the barriers between the administration and its students. But the nature of Penn’s administra-

As a symbol of the University, the president should make some effort to personally connect with the students, and not just queueing photo shoots at holiday soirees.” her mansion or swooping in for an impromptu photoshoot with members of UMOJA. Under the Button’s “Chasing Amy” feature similarly takes a starstruck tone when writing about President Gutmann.

Yet, very few students have had personal encounters with her beyond a purely professional capacity; even

dents, and not just in queueing photo shoots at holiday soirees. President Rodin had drop-in breakfasts and luncheons in her office that were open to students and faculty.

Elsewhere, this is supplemented by other faculty leaders in the community.

At my original alma mater, Wesleyan University, in addition to President Michael

tion makes fostering these connections more tenuous and artificial.

Gutmann’s participation in the die-in last semester made news not only for its political content, but because it was a rare act for our president to express herself with such candor. Even if it was made in the rush of the moment. While her reaction

caused more controversy than it was probably worth, it was refreshing, if not novel, to see her “act human.”

Maybe, as lowly undergrads — having barely aged beyond the conviction of teenage geocentricism — we expect an undue weight for the University to cater for the undergraduates, when, in fact, in funding and in office hours, we sit low on the totem pole. Though the real manual labor is done by the deans, the president is also nominally in charge of Wharton, the Law School, the Veterinary School and a few others, all of which demand a fair share of the Presidential Presence, spreading her thin.

In lieu of playing with the kids (i.e. the students) at home, Amy Gutmann is out fundraising billions, buffing up our endowment and representing Penn at superstar platforms like Davos. Clearly, she — or the institution, though the line is never clear — is well aware of the opportunity costs.

But when our monarch, who symbolizes the institution, the administration

JASON TANGSON and all it stands for, appears distant, rigid and unavailable, what does that say about Penn? How does that perception come off to students, many of whom feel isolated and disconnected?

While universities no longer operate strictly in loco parentis, an administration that has an avuncular approachability is crucial to the campus’ mental wellbeing.

JASON TANGSON is a College junior from Cambridge, Mass., studying linguistics.

His email address is tjason@sas.upenn.edu.

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LGBT, Jewish communities hit new milestone Penn Jewish leaders impressed by appointment of Denise L. Eger JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Reporter

Jewish leaders on campus are encouraged by the appointment of the first openly gay president to a Reform Jewish group.

Last Monday, Denise L. Eger became the third women and first openly gay rabbi to be appointed to the Central Conference of American Rabbis — the oldest and largest rabbinic organization in North America.

CCAR held its 126th convention in Philadelphia last week, marking the 25th anniversary of the passing of a resolution within the organization calling for the ordination of gay Reform Rabbis.

College junior Michael Mitzner, the president of Hillel Student Board — the umbrella organization

RABBI DENISE EGER The third woman and first openly gay president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis

of all Jewish activities at Penn — views the appointment as a positive step.

“I personally think of this as great progress,” Mitzner said.

College sophomore Ian Fiedler, a co-chair of J Bagel — Penn’s LGBT Jewish group — agreed that Eger’s appointment is an important milestone but was more impressed by

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the reaction it received by the community overall.

“I would say the lack of news worthiness over this appointment is a positive sign,” Fiedler said. “I think that this rabbi’s appointment — while obviously a huge accomplishment for her personally and a huge accomplishment for the LGBT community and the Jewish LGBT community — I think it speaks to the state of affairs for LGBT people as whole in 2015 that the Jewish community at large is very accepting of this and that this was a non-issue in her appointment.”

College sophomore Hannah Schwartz, another co-chair of J Bagel, believes that the appointment speaks to the accepting nature of Reform Jewish culture today.

“Mainstream Jews aren’t feeling like that’s okay anymore,” Schwartz said, speaking about homophobia.

Despite the progress, both Fiedler and Schwartz felt that there was still work to be done with the issue of full acceptance of LGBT members in the Jewish community.

“I feel that LGBT people might not always feel comfortable stepping into the Hillel building,” Schwartz said.

Fiedler added that, “there is always work that can be done.”

At the end of the day, both chairs felt the appointment marks a moment of progress for the Jewish community, particularly for the LGBT Jewish community. Fiedler pointed out that the nature of the religion lends itself to this type of progress.

“Judaism as a whole invites you to explore. It invites you to question, and that’s really good,” he said.

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amount of information she was able to see.

“It wasn’t really much in terms of quality of information that was there,” Jenkins said. “I wish I had seen more.”

When Jenkins arrived at the Admissions Office, she was given a paper with directions and access

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to a computer. Although she had waived her right to view her teacher recommendations during the application process, a step taken by many students when applying online, she was able to view her Common Application and essays.

The Admissions Office provided Jenkins with a spreadsheet containing numbers that the Admissions Office had used to weigh various parts of her application — but no

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MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015 information about the meaning of the numbers was provided. “I could see the numbers but I didn’t understand what they meant,” Jenkins said.

She was also able to view around three or four simple comments that admissions officers had made about her essays. “They were really basic,” she said. “It wasn’t anything that I hadn’t expected to see.”

However, Jenkins was unable to

see another three or four comments that had been made about her application. FERPA only requires admissions offices to provide students with individual information about their application, so Penn chooses to redact all comments referencing other students or specific school groups. For Jenkins, roughly half of her feedback dealt with information involving others.

Overall, Jenkins felt that viewing

her files was not as informative as she had hoped. “I feel like it wasn’t really worth seeing,” she said.

At Penn, over 240 requests have been received since January.

Before the discovery of the Stanford students, the Admissions Office received roughly five requests per year.

Earlier in the semester, the Admissions Office was struggling to manage the large number of

requests. However, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda believes that the Admissions Office is now better prepared to meet the challenge.

“I think we have a good process in place, we’re giving individuals an opportunity to take a look at their record,” Furda said. “I think we’re in much better shape now.”

Students who wish to view their admissions files can contact the Admissions Office via email.

2015 s e n i o r H o n o r a w a r d e l e C t i o n s

Alexis Richards(CAS): President, Fashion Show Producer, Professional Apparel Coordinator, Penn Fashion Collective and The WALK Magazine; CoProducer, Events Coordinator, The Vagina Monologues and UPenn V-Day Campaign; Finance and Fundraising Chair, Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention[ASAP]; Co-Editor-in-Chief, Co-Managing Editor, Features Editor, Features Writer, Her Campus UPenn; Writer and Cast Member, Penn Monologues; Alpha Chi Omega Sorority

Amanda Acosta Ruiz(CAS): Treasurer, Undergraduate Assembly[UA]; Executive Board Member, Student Activities Council[SAC]; Treasurer, Vice President of Internal Affairs, Vice President of Communications, Assembly of International Students; Coordinator, Peers Helping Incoming New Students[PHINS]; Chi Omega Fraternity; Puerto Rican Undergraduate Student Association[PRUSA]; Undergraduate Researcher, Dr. Michael S. Marks Lab, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia[CHOP]

Ariel Koren(CAS): President: 2015 Freshman, Sophomore, Junior & Senior Class Boards; Founder, Director: ACTION (Active Cross-Cultural Training In Our Neighborhoods); Cast Member, Penn Chinese Theater; Cast Member, Vagina Monologues, Truman Scholarship; Dean’s List; Critical Language Scholarship in Xiamen, China; Taiwan-US Sister Relations Alliance Scholarship; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Philadelphia Dragon Cup Winner for Chinese rap

Dawn Androphy(CAS): Chair, University Council Representative, Vice Chair of Outreach Programs, Lambda Alliance; Co-Producer, Fundraising Chair, Donations Manager, Vagina Monologues; Leader, PENNacle Pre-orientation Program; Carriage Senior Honor Society; CoChair, Supplement Co-Editor, QPenn Planning Committee; Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism (DCC) Undergraduate Grant Recipient; LGBT Alumni Association Student Leadership Award; Department of History Honors Thesis Program; Dean’s List; Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society

Diana Estefanía Estrada Alamo(CAS): CoChairwoman, University of Pennsylvania Queer People of Color [QPOC]; Youth Co-Founder, Food Empowerment Education & Sustainability Team [FEEST]; Chapter Recruitment & Retention Coordinator, Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Incorporated, Beta Epsilon Chapter; Undergraduate Research Assistant, Ortner Center for Family Violence Philadelphia, PA; Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice; David Acosta Revolutionary Leader Award; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Onyx Senior Honor Society; Carriage Senior Honor Society; Pride Foundation Scholar

Grace Truong(CAS): Co-Chair, Arts-Based Liaison, Civic House Associates Coalition[CHAC]; Chair, Mentor, PEER Mentoring Program; 1st Place Winner, Microsoft Imagine Cup National Finals; Vice-President, Fundraising Chair, Awareness Chair, Penn Speaks for Autism; VicePresident, Shelter Committee Head, American Medical Women’s Association; Vice-President of Programming, Community Service Chair, alpha Kappa Delta Phi Sorority; Founding Member, Penn Dragon Boat Team; Alumni Relations Chair, Oracle Senior Honor Society; Dean’s List; Phi Sigma Biological Sciences Honor Society

Joanna Kamhi(CAS): Chair, Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention[ASAP]; Civic Scholars Program; Associate Producer, Penn Monologues; Research Assistant, Penn Women’s Center; Teacher’s Assistant, Honors Anthropology at University City High School; Manager, Schaye Café & GSE Café; College Access and Career Readiness Center Mentor, Sayre High School; Alumni Relations Director, PPE Undergraduate Advisory Board; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Carriage Senior Honor Society

Jordyn Feingold(CAS): President, Vice President, Business Manager, ACK/PAC/SAC Chair, Off the Beat; Minister of Fun, Friars Senior Honor Society; Executive Vice President, Panhellenic Council; Panhellenic Delegate, Sigma Delta Tau Sorority; Jewish Provocateur/Intern, Jewish Renaissance Project/CEI; Committee Member, Penn Traditions; Cast/Crew Member, Vagina Monologues; Winner of “Pennaisance Person” Senior Superlative (34th Street Magazine); Recipient of Harriet Burgher Outstanding Panhellenic Representative Award, SDT Nationals; Dean’s List

Joyce Kim(CAS): President, Social Justice Committee Director, Secretary, New Student Representative, Undergraduate Assembly[UA]; Chair, Financial Chair, United Minorities Council[UMC]; Founder, Facilitator, Fellowship for Building Intercultural Communities; Leader, PENNacle Pre-orientation Program; Cast Member, Vagina Monologues; Kathryn W. Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Oracle Senior Honor Society; Dean’s List; Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society

Kanisha Parthasarathy(CAS): Chair, Fall Activities Fair Director, Student Activities Council[SAC]; Co-Chair, Seniors for the Penn Fund[S4TPF]; Co-President, Liberty Bell Classic Director, Round Robin Director, Penn for Youth Debate; Vice Chair for Education, Chair of Penn Student Government Steering, Vice Chair for Nominations, Nominations & Elections Committee[NEC]; Ambassador of Service, Friars Senior Honor Society; Vice Chair for Communications, BFS Advisory Board; Admissions Dean’s Advisory Board; Peer Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences; Benjamin Franklin Scholar; Dean’s List

Katherine Mateo(CAS): Program Director and Founder, Global Youth United (nonprofit); Vice President, Latin@ Coalition; Executive Member, 5Boards; Teaching Assistant, Political Science 335 ABCS Course; Resident Advisor, Ware College House; Cipactli Latino Honor Society; Civic Scholar; Benjamin Franklin Scholar; Gates Millennium Scholarship; Rhodes Scholarship Finalist 2014

Melanie Young(CAS): President, Vice President, Penn Education Society; Residential Advisor, Fisher Hassenfeld College House; Volunteer/Class TA, Music and Social Change Program with the Netter Center; Co-Chair, The Christian Association Community Service Coordinator, Onyx Senior Honor Society; 2-time participant/Leader, Ghana International Development Institute; Assistant Researcher, Education Research with Professor Rebecca Maynard of GSE; Mentor, Dana How Scholars Mentoring Program; Peer Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences; Ben Franklin Scholar

Tess Michaels(CAS/WH): Founder and CEO, Soceana - Generating Social Good; Vice President of External Affairs, 2015 Freshman, Sophomore & Junior Class Boards; Executive Vice President, VP of Marketing, Corporate Relations Committee, Wharton Undergraduate Finance Club; President, VP of Entrepreneurship, VP of Research, Penn Undergraduate Biotechnology Society; VP & Physician Liaison, Penn Pre-Medical Association; United Nations Foundation, ‘Top 10 Global Women Entrepreneurs to Watch’; Clarkston Scholarship Awarded by PA BIO Association, ‘Most Promising Bioscience Student in Pennsylvania’; Primary Inventor on Patent-Pending, Social Currency – Philas; Featured in Washington Post, Philadelphia Daily News, WWDB-AM TALK 860, Business Insider, Tech Cocktail, Philly Technical.ly; Wharton Women’s MBA Shark Tank Competition, Winner

Victoria Ford(CAS): President, The Excelano Project; Director, The Vagina Monologues; Columnist, “The Vision,” The Daily Pennsylvanian; Scribe, Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Onyx Senior Honor Society; Recruiting Assistant, The Kelly Writers House; Dean’s List; English Honors Program; Questbridge Scholar; Presidential Scholar in the Arts

Yessenia Gutierrez(CAS): Editor-in-Chief, FWord magazine; Finance Chair, Penn Consortium of Undergraduate Women[PCUW]; Penn CoAmbassador, 1vyG First Generation Ivy League Student Conference; Political Chair, United Minorities Council[UMC]; Opinion Columnist, Daily Pennsylvanian[DP]; LGBT Center Advisory Council; La Casa Latina Advisory Board; AΦΩ: National Service Fraternity; Cipactli Latino Honor Society; Phi Sigma Biological Sciences Honor Society

Ángel García de la Garza(CAS): President, International Mentorship and Orientation Chair, Assembly of International Students; Director of Community Outreach and Engagement, Deputy Director of Academic Affairs, International Affairs Association[IAA]; President, Social Chair, Mex@ Penn; Vice Chair, Cipactli Latino Honor Society; International Orientation Coordinator, PHINS, Peers Helping Incoming New Students; Executive Director, Director of Outreach, Penn International Relations Conference; Representative, International Student Advisory Board; Mentor, International Mentorship Program; Chair, University of Pennsylvania Model United[UPMUNC]

Chris Cortes(WH): Student Life Director, Civic & Philadelphia Engagement Director, Wharton Representative, Freshman Representative, Undergraduate Assembly[UA]; Tour Shift Captain, Tour Guide, Kite & Key Society; Founder, Student Leader, Quaker Days Committee; Vice Chair of Finance & Development, Lambda Alliance; Deputy Vice President of Finance, Wharton Retail Club; Co-chair, QPenn; Admissions Deans Advisory Board: NEC Appointee; Ray Greenly Scholar, National Retail Federation; Wharton Alliance Diversity Case Competition, Wharton Alliance; Cipactli Freshman Leadership Pillar Award, Cipactli Honor Society

Daniel Fine(WH): Founder and CEO, Glass-U, Dosed LLC, MatchTutors, Team Brotherly Love; Client, Management 100, Team Brotherly Love, Glass-U: Rock the Cause; Wharton VIP: Glass-U, Dosed; Executive Board Member, Penn Hillel; Bell Senior Honor Society; Features: NY Times, Inc, Forbes, Time, Bloomberg, Today Show, Philly Mag...; Worlds Top 5 Student EntrepreneursEntrepreneurs Organization, Philadelphia Magazine 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year; US Delegate- G20 YEA Summit- Moscow; Recipient of the President’s Volunteer Service Award from Presidents Bush and Obama; Penn Swimming

Denzel Cummings(CAS): Co-Chair, UMOJA; Co-Founder, Black Ivy Coalition; President, Society of Pre-Law Students of Color; ViceDirector of Academic Affairs, International Affairs Association[IAA]; Deputy Volunteer Coordinator, Penn Democrats; College Cognoscenti; Onyx Senior Honor Society

Gabe Delaney(CAS): Vice President, College Representative, Undergraduate Assembly[UA]; Co-Founder, Speaker [Chief Executive Officer], The Penn Political Union; National Championship Intercollegiate Debater and Assistant Director of Debate Program, International Affairs Association/ Model United Nations; Senior Editor of International News, The Penn Political Review; John Thouron Summer Research Prize for Cambridge University; Dean’s List; 2014 Milstein Foundation Campus Allies Award; Pi Sigma Alpha, Beta Tau Chapter of the National Political Science Honors Society

Gabriel Jimenez(CAS): Director, President, Without a Net; Director, Social Planning and Events Committee [SPEC] Connaissance; Integrated Studies Program (ISP) Resident Advisor, Riepe College House; Friars Senior Honor Society; Vice President of Finance, Penn Society for International Development [PennSID]; Leader, PENNacle Pre-orientation Program; Executive Board, Skimmerfest Planning Committee; Sigma Iota Rho International Relations Honor Society; Think Tank Member, Penn Social Entrepreneurship Movement; Wharton Social Impact Initiative Award Recipient

Isaac Lin(SEAS): President, Cultural Vice President, Cultural Creative Co-Chair, Stage Director, Penn Taiwanese Society; President, Social Chair, Lambda Phi Epsilon Fraternity Inc. Sigma Chapter; Research Associate/Programmer, Hearing Sciences Center at Perelman School of Medicine; Programming Chair, Oracle Senior Honors Society; Co-Founder, Finance VP, Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers; External Affairs Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, Engineers in Medicine; Programming Chair, Asian Pacific American Heritage Week[APAHW]; Graduate, Asian Pacific American Leadership Initiative[APALI]; Secretary/Treasurer, Facilities Committee Chair, Harrison House Representative; Dean’s List

Jacob Meiner(CAS/WH): SAS Chair: 2015 Freshman, Sophomore, Junior & Senior Class Boards; Vice President, Alumni Liaison, Penn Glee Club; President, Business Manager, The Pennchants; Co-Chair, Seniors for The Penn Fund[S4TPF]; Minister of Fun, Friars Senior Honor Society; Legacy Chair, Osiris Senior Honor Society; Tour Guide and Ambassador, Kite and Key Society; Dean’s List; Ibrahim Leadership and Dialogue Project Fellow; Featured Author, Kedma: Penn’s Undergraduate Journal on Israel

Joshua L. Chilcote(CAS): Vice President, Speaker, Speaker Pro Tempore, Legal Services Coordinator, Undergraduate Assembly[UA]; Co-Chair, Advocacy Chair, Finance Chair, Programs in Religion, Interfaith, and Spirituality Matters[PRISM]; Leader, PENNacle Pre-orientation Program; Carriage Senior Honor Society; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Office of Undergraduate Admissions; Rush Chair, Parliamentarian, Sigma Nu Fraternity; Vice Chair for Greek Life, Seniors for the Penn Fund[S4TPF]; Internal Vice President, Tournament Director, Parliamentary Debate Society

Kyle Webster(CAS): Men’s Track and Field; President, Onyx Senior Honor Society; President of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. Alpha Chi Alpha Chapter; President, Political Action Chair, University of Pennsylvania Chapter of the NAACP; Co-Chair of Membership, Penn Political Coalition; Co-Chair, Synergy Committee; School of Arts and Science Representative, Undergraduate Assembly[UA]

Pranshu Maheshwar(CAS/WH): Co-Founder of Prayas Analytics; Chair of Wharton Leadership Ventures Undergraduate Advisory Board; Director, Robin Hood, Stimulus Children’s Theater; Volunteer, Generation Enterprise; Student Facilitator, Intercultural Leadership Program; Research Assistant, Lauder Institute; Student Coordinator, Penn World Scholars Dean’s List; Benjamin Franklin Scholar; Joseph Wharton Scholar

Reginald Stewart(CAS): Chair, Political Chair, Admissions and Outreach Chair, United Minorities Council[UMC]; Vice President, Opportunity and Access Chair, Overnight Host, Multicultural University Student Tour Proposal Drafter, Kite and Key Society; Onyx Senior Honor Society; Friars Senior Honor Society; Executive Member, 5 Undergraduate Minority Boards[5B]; StudentRun Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphia; Big Brothers Big Sisters; Peer Counselor, Penncap Program; Penn Varsity Freshman Rowing Team; Sol Feinstone Undergraduate Award Recipient

Rishi Simha(WH): Chairman, Community Service Chair, Academic Chair, Digital Chair, The Mask and Wig Club; President, Chief of Staff, One in Four; Wharton Ambassadors; Resident Advisor, Fisher Hassenfeld; Recruitment Chair, Wharton Council; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Oracle Senior Honor Society; Dean’s List

Robert Hsu(CAS/WH): President, Founder, Healthy Food Truck Initiative; Vice President, Project Leader, Social Impact Consulting; Columnist, The Daily Pennsylvanian; Research Assistant, Professor Karen Glanz at the Center for Health Behavior Research; Research Assistant, Professor Andrew Strasser at the Tobacco Use Research Center; Marjorie Bowman Undergraduate Public Health Service Award; College Alumni Society Research Grant; Harnwell College House Research Fellowship; Civic Scholar; Dean’s List

Taylor Culliver(WH): President and Executive Editor, Innovation Director, Advertising Manager, The Daily Pennsylvanian; Campus Ambassador, Penn Traditions; Research Assistant, Wharton Sports Business Initiative; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Onyx Senior Honor Society; Bell Senior Honor Society

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o t e o n l i n e F r o m m a r c h 3 0 — a p r i l 3 These are the finalists for the Class of 2015 Senior Honor Awards (Hottel, Harnwell, Goddard and Brownlee for women; and Spoon, Bowl, Cane and Spade for men). These awards recognize outstanding campus leadership. Nominations were solicited from the faculty, staff and students. A committee of administrators and the senior class board then narrowed the list to these finalists. The senior class will choose the final eight award recipients in an online election. Voting will be accessible online at https://medley.isc-seo.upenn.edu/studentElections/jsp/fast.do Winners will be announced on April 29th. The awards will be presented at the Ivy Day ceremony on Saturday, May 16th.

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Wharton vs. Penn Law: a face off in the boxing ring

Investigating the morality of neuroscience

Fight Night brings together Penn’s graduate schools

Bioethics Commission offers recommendations

TIFFANY YAU Contributing Reporter

Introducing, from the red corner ... a Wharton MBA? On Saturday night at the Class of 1923 Ice Rink, 2,500 spectators “hurrah’ed” and raged on at the 11th annual Wharton vs. Penn Law Fight Night. During Fight Night, known for being the largest graduate student event at Penn every year, Wharton MBAs and Penn Law students box against one another. The Boxing Club of Wharton and the Boxing Club of Penn Law co-hosted this event to donate all of their profits to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia.

The event brought in a line of judges including lawyer and former professional boxer Jacqueline Frazier, Wharton Vice Dean of Student Life Kembrel Jones and Joe Hand, owner of the Joe Hand

Boxing Gym. The panel used their expertise to determine the victors of each round.

The majority of the boxers consisted of graduate students from Wharton and Penn Law, with a few boxers from the School of Nursing. But not all participants were Quakers: the co-chairs were able to bring in a “secret boxer” for their last and final round to intensify the anticipation.

Being able to interact with the different schools was one of the major highlights for the participating boxers and one of the reasons for the event.

“It’s a huge benefit to be able to fight with other schools,” secondyear Wharton graduate student Chandni Chopra said. “Unfortunately with graduate programs, we don’t intermingle very much.

This is the first event throughout history that we had Penn graduate students come together to fight and enjoy this event.”

This is the second year that Fight Night was hosted at the 1923 Ice Rink. Hosting Fight Night on

campus, Chopra said, contributes to the immense support and involvement among spectators, which is mostly Penn’s student body and alumni.

Event co-chair and third-year Penn Law student Zach Spencer, who is a former fighter, contrasted his past experience of fighting in a warehouse for 2013’s Fight Night.

“It was fun, and it’s very different. When I fought, it was in a warehouse. As far as comparing the two, they were equally difficult.”

This year’s event raised $65,000 for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia.

“Our focus this year is to build upon literacy centers with computers,” Spencer said.

Along with great support from its students, Fight Night also is well funded with a total of 12 sponsors.

“It is one of the most well sponsored events,” Chopra said. “It has one of the highest attending rates between two schools. People come out to support their fellow students and fellow peers to see how hard everyone has worked.”

As a tradition, there is an after party following Fight Night. This year, it was at Sound Garden, featuring performers MIMS and Chingy.

“Looking at this today, it’s really nice to see the team putting off their efforts and paying it off this way,” Spencer said.

COREY STERN Deputy News Editor

Some of the best brains in medicine, ethics and bioethics have come together to offer President Obama wisdom on moral issues in neuroscience research.

On Thursday, the Bioethics Commission, chaired by Penn President Amy Gutmann, released a report outlining 14 recommendations addressing some of the ethical questions raised by neuroscience. “Gray Matters: Topics at the Intersection of Neuroscience, Ethics, and Society” is the second part of the Commission’s report to President Obama in relation to his Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative.

The most recent report focused on three main ethical issues: cognitive enhancement, consent capacity and the use of neuroscience in the legal system.

“There are many topics at this intersection [between neuroscience, ethics and society], but these three are among the most hotly debated by scholars and the public alike and illustrate the ethical tensions and societal implications of advancing neuroscience and technology,” Gutmann said in a press release. “By collaborating with philosophers and ethicists, scientists will keep the full picture of personhood in view.”

Cognitive enhancement is the modification or improvement of brain functions in order to improve cognitive functioning,

treat neurological disorders or expand the capabilities of the human brain. The commission called for an emphasis on researching existing low-technology methods of improving brain functions such as diet and exercise. It also recommended that standards and guidelines be set for modifiers that can be used to expand the capabilities of the human brain beyond normal levels and encouraged equal access to these modifiers in order to prevent unfair advantages.

Consent capacity — the ability of neurological patients to fully comprehend the experiments they take part in as test subjects — was another hotbutton issue addressed.

“Researchers have made substantial progress in the past decade in characterizing and understanding consent capacity,” the report said. “However, gaps remain, and further research can support development of best practices for ethical research involving participants with impaired consent capacity.”

The report also cautioned against the use of new neuroscience findings in court proceedings and called for more scientific literacy and reliability in the legal sphere.

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and misinformation” that often exists in conversations on neuroscience.

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Obama first announced his BRAIN Initiative in April 2013, along with $100 million in federal funding dedicated to better understanding the human brain and the disorders that affect it.

Since then, the 10-year project has seen millions of dollars spent annually on neuroscience research by federal agencies, non-profit foundations, universities and corporations.

Several months after announcing the BRAIN Initiative, Obama wrote a letter to Gutmann asking that the Bioethics Commission “engage with the scientific community and other stakeholders, including the general public, to identify proactively a set of core ethical standards — both to guide neuroscience research and to address some of the ethical dilemmas that may be raised by the application of neuroscience research findings.”

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Sophomore designated player Leah Allen has lit up the Quakers’ bats all season, inlcuding her second home run of the season against Dartmouth.

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Not a bad way to start things off.

Penn softball took three of four Ivy League games over the weekend, splitting with defending league champion Dartmouth on Friday and sweeping Harvard on Sunday. After finishing 13-6-1 in conference last season, the Quakers opened Ivy play in excellent fashion thanks to strong weekends from junior Lauren Li and freshman Jurie Joyner.

In the first game against the Big Green (10-13, 3-1 Ivy), Penn fell 3-2, as Dartmouth starter Kristen Rumley pitched 5.1 effective innings, holding the Quakers to only 6 hits and 2 runs.

Later on Friday, the Quakers saw sophomore Leah Allen hit her second homer of the season en route to a 5-4 victory. In the circle, Li

tossed six innings of three-run ball, surrendering only seven hits while notching five strikeouts.

Dartmouth’s Katie McEachern led off the seventh inning with a homer off Borden, who was in for the save. However, Borden recovered, forcing a groundout followed by two strikeouts to close out the victory.

The Red and Blue struck early and often in the first half of Sunday’s doubleheader against the Crimson (8-15, 1-3), striking for four runs on four hits and a walk to knock out Harvard starter Laura Ricciardone after only one inning.

Taylor Cabe relieved Ricciardone in the bottom of the second and held the Quakers scoreless for two innings before Penn (11-9, 3-1) exploded for five additional runs in the fourth.

Senior Alexis Borden, who pitched in all four games this weekend, excelled in the circle, going all seven innings against the Crimson, spreading out 10 hits and allowing only one earned run to go along with

eight punchouts.

At the plate, the top of the Quakers’ lineup — senior left fielder Sydney Turchin, junior center fielder Kanani Datan, Li and designated player Leah Allen — all scored two runs. Joyner went 2-for-4 with two doubles and four RBI, while Li went 3-for-3 in the game.

The Red and Blue plated three runs on a Joyner home run and forcing starter RHP Morgan Groom out in the second inning. In came Ricciardone, who quieted the Red and Blue through the fourth inning while the Crimson offense built a 6-4 lead.

The Quakers stared down a 10-4 deficit in the bottom of the fifth, before taking the lead with seven runs in the inning, capitalizing upon two errors from Harvard shortstop Emily Gusse and another from center fielder Maddy Kaplan.

Penn loaded the bases with no outs for senior second baseman Vanessa Weaver, who singled. Li, who came up with three on and one out, smacked a pitch deep down the left field that would have been a goahead grand slam, but was called foul. However, she proceeded to drive in three with a double into the right-center alley.

A whopping six lead changes occurred from the fifth inning onwards, as the teams combined for 19 runs in the fifth through eighth innings.

Li added a home run in the bottom of the sixth to drive in Turchin, and Joyner started a seventh-inning rally with a double to right field. The Quakers went on to tie the score at 14 in that inning with Joyner crossing the plate after Cabe hit a batter and walked two more with two outs in the frame.

Borden held Harvard scoreless in the top of the 8th, setting up Weaver’s game-winning bloop hit to first base in the bottom of the inning.

The Quakers will play Lafayette in a doubleheader at Penn Park on Wednesday before resuming Ivy play next weekend at Brown and Yale.

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Red and Blue squads have strong open to spring season

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Penn rowing kicked off its spring season with a strong start over the weekend, as the lightweight crew took down No. 12 Mercyhurst while the heavyweights finished in second in San Diego.

ROWING | Heavyweights explaining the difference from ahead of Drexel’s 6:11.72 mark.

finish second in Calif.

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It was a busy weekend to start the spring season for Penn rowing, with boats in the water on both coasts for each of the program’s men’s squads. In the end, it proved to be a successful one, too.

The 11th-ranked lightweights opened their season at home against No. 12 Mercyhurst.

While the Lakers won the freshman race and the fours, the Quakers won when it counted most.

Penn’s first varsity boat finished in 5:49.3, comfortably ahead of Mercyhurst’s 5:57.9, while the Quakers’ second varsity boat snuck in just ahead of the Lakers’ top rowers at 5:57.5, making Penn’s win even more convincing.

It was the first spring race for the lightweights under first-year Penn head coach Colin Farrell, whose excitement was unbridled after the win.

“The fun things about today and just getting into the spring racing is that now the crews are side by side,” Farrell said,

the fall season, in which the teams race single-file.

“They get to race and see their opponent right next to them, and you know how you’re doing at every moment of the race. And it’s a much shorter race. So the spring is just the greatest. It’s a lot more intense and personal because of those things.”

Rowing is a sport in which individual performances mean almost nothing. Still, Farrell was pleased with the actions of a few specific individuals before the race even started, explaining how the upperclassmen held a team meeting to give some advice to the freshmen.

“I was pretty proud of what I heard there, and just the way that they’re bringing the young guys along and trying to give them some veteran leadership. I really think all of our upperclassmen are doing nice job.”

On the other side of the country, the 13th-ranked heavyweights took part in the annual San Diego Crew Classic.

On Saturday, both the first and second varsity boats performed well in their heat races.

The first team finished second in its heat at 6:01.34, significantly behind No. 2 California — who finished in 5:49.68 — but well

The second team won its heat in 6:12.28, topping No. 12 Stanford.

In the final on Sunday, the first boat finished second behind Cal yet again in 6:03.68, but ahead of two teams above it in the rankings: Stanford (6:04.41) and No. 10 Navy (6:05.63).

The second boat finished in third in its final race, behind a pair of Cal boats but — like its teammates in the first boat — ahead of Navy and Stanford.

With their performance, the Quakers figure to move up in the next edition of the rankings, and their morale is certainly on the rise as well.

“It’s huge,” Greg Myhr, coach of Penn heavyweight rowing, said when asked about the team’s confidence following the weekend.

“Confidence is such a big part of the sport. We have a pretty solid team.

“Nobody got done feeling like ‘That’s the best we can do.’ But everybody got done feeling like ‘Hey, that was pretty solid, now let’s go home and make it better.’”

Both teams will be in action again on Saturday at home. The heavyweights will battle Northeastern for the Burk Cup, while the lightweights will take on Cornell and Harvard in the Matthews-Leonard Cups.

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knee injury only a few games into the season, leading to a lost junior year. While it took just an instant for both guards to miss their third campaign, it was a much longer road back to recovery.

In the meantime, Crocker and Lucas-Perry maintained a strong presence among the 2013-14 Quakers squad, still attending all games and some practices. While their teammates carried the load on the court, the duo became the Red and Blue’s biggest fans off it, celebrating and encouraging from just behind the bench. “It was tough for both of us because you want to be out there with your team,� Crocker said about the duo’s lost junior season. “But we still had to find a way to support the team and support each other.�

Game after game, Crocker and Lucas-Perry threw up three goggles before listening intently to Allen’s in-game instructions to their teammates, silently preparing to carry the torch as leaders for their senior season.

And after a long offseason of arduous rehab, it seemed that both men had gotten past the worst of their injuries and would be able to lend a hand to a turnaround for the

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friends both on and off the court, and coaches saw them as inseparable at times.

Each player began to make his mark on the program during his sophomore year. A strong senior class graduated, leaving playing time available for the two guards’ taking. Both guys made an impact in very different ways.

Lucas-Perry dominated beyond the arc, earning a reputation as one of the Ivy League’s top threepoint shooters. He surprised teams with his strong shooting off the bench early in the year, especially in a near-upset of Temple in December, shooting over 44 percent from deep throughout the season.

Crocker didn’t have the flashy shot of his friend and teammate, but his passing ability gave him the chance to stand out. The California native was third on the Red and Blue in assists per game and moved into the starting lineup by the end of the year. Needless to say, both players expected to make a bigger impact heading into their junior year.

But then the injuries started.

Each player suffered a severe

CAROLYN LIM | DP FILE PHOTO

Penn basketball senior captain Patrick Lucas-Perry made a name for himself as dependable three-point shooter but missed most of his final two seasons with knee injuries. After his career came to an end, his teammate Cam Crocker wore Lucas-Perry’s jersey at practice.

Quakers after a lackluster 2013-14 season.

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Before the season started, for the second time Lucas-Perry had a piece of cartilage fall off in his knee. Instead of going through another round of microfracture surgery, he underwent a two-part surgery known as an ACI implantation, which ended his basketball career.

And with that, No. 30 would no longer be worn on the court

by Lucas-Perry, in neither games nor practices. For the remainder of his time at Penn, he would be limited to suits and ties while unable to play for the second straight season.

Thankfully, Crocker was there to pick up the slack. “It’s tough,� Crocker said. “Patrick is one of my best friends, if not my best friend, here and just his situation and how he’s dealt with it with a positive attitude, always having a smile on his face, it really helps me.�

The senior honored his teammate and friend by donning his jersey in practice, providing a shining example of camaraderie and friendship for the young Penn squad to follow. “I wear his jersey every day in practice, not just for him but also to remind myself and the rest of the guys how easily basketball can be taken away from us,� Crocker said toward the end of the season. “A lot of times we take it for granted, but he’s just been nothing but like a light. It’s really unfortunate what happened to him but that’s sort of where life comes in sometimes. The way he handled it has been phenomenal.� “It’s really good to know that I have someone out there, a teammate who has my best interest and also really cares for me,� LucasPerry said. “It really touches my heart and means a lot to me.� *** The move by Crocker didn’t go unnoticed by teammates, as it was one example of the captain’s leadership in his final season. After players returned from summer vacation for practice, Crocker began to pave the way for a much-needed culture change Penn had just suffered through an 8-20 season, one in which several players left the program, moves that created significant turnover and a young core just beginning to tap into its potential.

With the coaching staff looking for people in the senior class to lead, both Crocker and LucasPerry were obvious choices to become captains.

So once Lucas-Perry’s injury worsened, Crocker’s choice to wear No. 30 and take on a bigger role as a captain didn’t shock Allen and his staff. “I wasn’t surprised by the gesture,� Allen said before his final Ivy weekend doubleheader in early March. “It just shows you how in-tune he is to the moment, how much he appreciates this opportunity. He and Patrick share a special bond just in terms they came in together as freshmen. “They saw the ups and downs and us trying to build the right culture and I think he was wounded when Patrick’s career had to be cut short, so it is a great way to honor his friend, his teammate, his brother by carrying him every day in practice.�

Crocker played the role of liaison between the staff and the players, helping keep the team

I wear his jersey every day in practice, not just for him but also to remind myself and the rest of the guys how easily basketball can be taken away from us. �

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positive despite a long losing streak in the middle of conference play. The senior didn’t play as significant a role during his final season as he did during his sophomore year, taking a backseat to the development of a strong freshman class.

But it was a sign of his maturity as a player that he kept going, putting an 11-month rehab behind him to still contribute to the Quakers. “His commitment to getting back on the court in any capacity he could, the level of health and strength he’s been able to regain in his knee, to me is the ultimate testament to his commitment to this program, to the game,� assistant coach Mike Lintulahti said before the end of the season. “I think it

has ‌ validated his leadership in a lot of ways because he put in a lot of work and a lot of personal sacrifice.â€? “Over these four years, I’ve learned to be more selfless,â€?

Crocker said. “When you come in, you think you’ve got it all figured out and this is what I’m going to do and how it’s going to happen, but sometimes you’ve got to go through some things and learn from experiences.� *** While Crocker did his thing on and off the court, Lucas-Perry once again found ways to contribute, playing the role of mentor and leader from afar. “I hold him accountable,� Allen said. “[I told] him, ‘Just because you’re on crutches doesn’t mean I won’t be looking for you. I expect you to be here and I’m going to critique whether your tie is straight, your shirt is dirty.’�

Lucas-Perry still cheered on his teammates as only he could while showing off his personality in the process. In a reference to the 1996 classic film “Space Jam,� LucasPerry still had his water bottle under his chair at games with a label that read “Secret Stuff� a la Michael Jordan. Even with no minutes played, there was still some of PLP’s flair found at the Palestra throughout the season.

In the end, Penn’s season wasn’t as successful as any player would have hoped, with team finishing 9-19. The senior class exited with a 46-74 record while going out with Allen, who left following the season.

Despite the record, each of the two senior captains left his mark on the program, providing an example for the players that will come after them. “When Penn wins again — and we will win again — it will be because they helped lay the foundations for the culture,� Allen said.

While Penn may be indebted to the two players for changing the culture in the locker room, they appreciate the opportunities that the basketball program afforded them. “Although we haven’t had the best years [on the court], we’ve had a great experience,� LucasPerry said. “We’ve forged great relationships with alumni and past teammates that I don’t think we could ever have [had] in any other place. “I’m very grateful to have Cam and coach Allen in my life.�

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discussing her sport. However, on the field, she is an absolute killer.

“When you’re on the field, Tory knows that people can’t stop here,” junior Nina Corcoran said. “And she takes advantage of that.”

Bensen was solid in her first few years with the Quakers, persevering through a season-ending ACL tear in 2012 to remain a consistent presence on the team’s attack. But it wasn’t until the 2014 campaign that she sent her production into the stratosphere.

“She started off as a little more of a perfectionist,” coach Karin Corbett said of her senior star. “I think last year she realized what a great attacker she is, what a great shooter she is, and for us to really win, we need her to perform.”

In her 2014 campaign, the Darien, Conn., native led the team in both goals (43) and points (55), nearly doubling her

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output from any other season and earning her second-team All-Ivy honors.

Perhaps most impressive was her play in the postseason.

She was dominant throughout the Ivy League Tournament, notching a double-overtime game-winner against Harvard in the semifinals and earning Tournament MVP. She continued that strong play with a hat trick in what would ultimately be Penn’s last game of the season against Maryland.

Some things have changed since last season. Bensen no longer takes anyone by surprise — she is the player that other teams spend the most time planning for on Penn’s attack.

A fifth-year senior, Bensen has also had to step up as a leader — both on and off the field — for the Quakers throughout 2015.

“This year, the big thing has been taking ownership of the entire offense and shepherding along some of the younger players,” she said.

But some things simply

haven’t changed from last year, and that’s a good thing. Bensen has already notched an impressive 31 goals this season, and with six regular season games remaining, it is very realistic that she could eclipse her scoring totals from last year despite increased defensive attention.

Bensen’s outstanding play has contributed greatly to what can be considered a milestone year for the team’s attack, which has been one of the most consistent and dynamic to grace Franklin Field in the past decade. The Quakers have scored at least nine goals in all of their games this season, save for their hardfought loss to No. 1 Maryland, in which they still scored seven.

Penn has been considered a defensive stalwart for years now, and with preseason All-American Meg Markham, that won’t change this season. However, the Quakers’ offensive efficacy is the result of a new team dynamic. Bensen admirably serves as the team’s top threat, while juniors Corcoran and Iris Williamson keep teams on their toes

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by providing additional support.

“I think Tory makes it easy for me,” Corcoran said. “She’s an awesome cutter.”

This dynamic was on display for the Red and Blue on Saturday when they defeated Towson, 12-5. Three players, including Bensen, notched at least three goals, while Corcoran recorded three assists of her own.

“We have a lot more threats on attack, playing at a faster pace,” Corbett said, “and they’re creating a lot of havoc on the opposing defenses.”

It seems that through years of hard work, Penn has finally started to change its image as a defense-heavy program, and Bensen is at the heart of this change. But despite all of her success and accolades, there is still one thing in particular that remains on Bensen’s mind.

“It’s just the culture of this team [to] never to get complacent and never to stop working in practice,” Bensen said. “There’s always something bigger to strive for … the national championship.”

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Championships — a respectable performance but not exactly in line with what he had hoped.

Nevertheless, Powell refused to let that keep him down, committing to refining his stroke and improving his physical fitness in the offseason in preparation for his senior campaign.

His hard work did not go unnoticed, as many of his teammates looked up to him and sought to replicate their captain’s actions.

“He is our leader by example,” Heintz said. “His teammates have responded, and this team is working harder than it used to.”

When the pieces began to fall into place for Powell this year, all his hard work made his recent victory even sweeter.

“The best part about it is that it validated all the hard work I put in this offseason, “

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Heintz echoed Powell’s sentiments, and praised the senior captain’s work ethic and commitment.

“Certainly, his junior year was disappointing for him,” he said. “I am just proud that he went back to work over the summer, and it’s paying off with some really good results.

“This is a big win for him personally against some very fine players from the ACC.” As for the rest of the season, Powell naturally would like to continue to win tournaments — maybe even an Individual Ivy Championship — but it’s clear that it’s not his main focus.

“I want to be content with how I play every round for the rest of the way,” he said. “Even if that means I play my best and finish fifth. I want to leave knowing I laid it all out on the line.”

It’s safe to say that his teammates and coaches believe he will do nothing less.

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Bensen leading Quakers hot attack

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Senior captains Patrick Lucas-Perry (left) and Cam Crocker (right) played a big role in changing the culture for Penn basketball this year. When Lucas-Perry lost his final season with a knee injury, Crocker honored his teammate by donning Lucas-Perry’s No. 30 during practice, displaying the duo’s strong bond.

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Before Penn basketball practice starts, it is every man for himself.

Each player begins warming up, doing what he needs to do in order to feel “ready” for the next two hours. Guards shoot jumpers, some forwards take layups and senior Greg Louis takes laps around the court,

circling his teammates on the Palestra floor.

To signify each player’s presence is a uniform number on his back, a practice version of the real jersey he wears in games. Sophomore Matt Poplawski drains a jumper while wearing the No. 14 he’ll have on his back on gameday.

Louis dons his No. 23 while working up a sweat.

That’s how it tends to work for the Red and Blue. You get one uniform number at the beginning of the year — one that you pick out — and you wear it

throughout the season, during practice, during games, during everything.

But one senior decided to do things a little differently.

Throughout his career at Penn, Cam Crocker was normally identified by the 15 on his back, the number he wore on gamedays. But interestingly enough, in 2015 he donned the No. 30 during practice, the digits belonging to teammate and fellow senior Patrick Lucas-Perry, whose career was ended by a knee injury.

In more ways than his

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Senior attack Tory Bensen leads Penn with 31 goals this season after scoring 43 in 2014.

uniform, Crocker was out there on the court for more than just himself. *** Since Lucas-Perry arrived on Penn’s campus as a freshman in 2011, the No. 30 belonged to him. Recruited by former coach Jerome Allen, the 5-foot-11 guard left the state of Michigan to come to Penn, joining a freshman class that also included Crocker.

Crocker and Lucas-Perry immediately became close

How can Penn women’s lacrosse continue to push the envelope and improve as a program when the eight-time reigning Ivy League champions have seen such exorbitant success in the last decade?

For senior attack Tory Bensen, the answer is one which many comedic film series turn to: getting more offensive.

“For the past four years that I’ve been here, our attack has been our weak point,” she said.

“And that makes us mad. We want to be a powerhouse.”

Don’t take that the wrong way. There’s nothing offensive about Bensen off the field — she is consistently friendly and approachable without being aggressive when

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Penn senior uses strong mindset to capture tournament M. GOLF | Powell

finished first out of 103

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After finishing a respectable tied for 35th at last season’s Ivy League Championships, senior Austin Powell has excelled in 2014-15, including a first-place finish at 6-under in the Mission Inn Spring Spectacular two weekends ago.

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When senior Austin Powell steps onto the golf course, approaches the first tee box and looks out on the fairway, he believes his potential is limitless.

“Any tournament I play in, I can win,” he said.

Despite this confident attitude, Powell is quick to clarify that winning, in his mind, is never an expectation but rather a possibility if he plays his best.

And his performance on March 14 and 15 at the Mission Inn Spring Spectacular hosted

by George Mason proved that he knows exactly what he is talking about.

In a field of 103 golfers from talented programs across the

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country, Powell claimed the top spot to win Individual Medalist honors. Going into the final round, Powell found himself two strokes behind the leader, but he was able to make up ground and ultimately notch his first-place finish.

With a score of 6-under par (72-69-69), Powell was the only Penn golfer to place in the field’s top 10, and one of two, along with freshman Amay Poria, to place in the top 40. As a team, the Quakers finished eighth out of 18 teams.

The tournament — the Red and Blue’s first of the spring — took place in Howey-in-theHills, Fla., at the challenging El Campeon course, something that made Powell’s victory all the more impressive.

“It’s a tough golf course,” coach Bob Heintz said. “It is very narrow, and it was a little windy, so it is easy to get in

trouble.”

Despite the difficult conditions and some ups and downs throughout the tournament, Powell’s confidence and mental toughness proved to be beneficial down the stretch.

“Even in my final rounds where I played well, there were definitely some times when I had to dig deep.”

And when it mattered most, he was able to keep his poise and come up with big shots.

“His iron play was better than anyone else’s in that tournament,” Heintz said. “Not just our team, but anyone else I saw playing that week.”

However, this impressive combination of mental toughness and skill hasn’t always come easily to Powell.

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