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West Philadelphia High School: A Closed Path to Penn Refathun Momo, the daughter of college-educated parents and a senior at West Philadelphia High School, is a native of Bangladesh who came to the United States in 2013. Interested in studying psychology, she failed to apply to Penn, fearing that the University would deny her acceptance. Since English is her second language, she did not think her SAT scores were up to Penn’s standards. Last year, the middle 50 percent of admitted students scored between a 2100 and a 2370 on the test. “You have to have very high SAT scores to get in, and I don’t have that,” Momo said. “I know I will get rejected.”

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lose to home but a world away for many Philadelphia high school students, Penn’s high standards make it nearly impossible for many of them to apply to or to be accepted at the Ivy League University. Among the 3,697 high school students admitted to Penn last year, just 483 of them were from Pennsylvania. Only 170 of those students called Philadelphia home. For students at some Philadelphia high schools, the path to Penn is clearer than others. On Thursday at 5 p.m., regular decision applicants will find out if they have a future at the University.

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Even if she were able to attend Penn, she is still intimidated by the fast-paced environment of the campus. For Momo, her perception of Penn is only counterbalanced by the students she interacts with in her advanced placement classes; Momo said she has never seen a Penn admissions representative at her school. “I think they don’t come to our school because it’s a neighborhood school,” she said. Penn’s Office of Admissions wrote in an email earlier this month that it was unavailable to comment on this and other articles, as it is preparing to release regular decisions on Thursday. Despite the fact that she didn’t apply to Penn, Momo made applying to college a priority — and she has already received eight acceptance letters from other colleges, including La Salle University and Saint Joseph’s University. In the future, she wants to go back to Bangladesh and build two free hospitals for women and children. Ultimately, she believes what matters is how a student benefits from a school. “If you go to a good school, it doesn’t make you a good person,” Momo explained. “The important thing is what you are learning from that school and how the school is shaping you.” She said SAT scores do not reflect a student’s overall academic and personal abilities. “If a student doesn’t have good SAT scores, it doesn’t

mean that he or she is a bad student,” she said. For Momo, this sentiment applies to Penn. “[Penn] should be more focused on what the student is doing and how that student is working hard toward their goals.” Crystal Little, school counselor at West Philadelphia High School, is puzzled by the lack of relationship between her school and Penn. The school, which reopened at a new address in 2011, had a negative reputation at its previous location, which Little speculated might be part of the reason her students are so disconnected from the University. However, in order for that relationship to change, Little said she needs to better understand what Penn is looking for in her students. “We need to know what we’re not doing,” she said. Little said if the two schools had an open communication, West would know how to better prepare its students to fit the “Penn mold.” “I feel like we’re neglected,” she said. “If none of our kids apply there, that would be a problem for me if I were working at Penn.” She added that she would have asked, “West is right down the street — why don’t we get any applications from them?” Little couldn’t hold back her tears as she described Momo’s drive to succeed and how she feared applying to Penn. “I am not going to apply to Penn because of my language,” Little recalled Momo telling her. “I don’t think

I will get in.” Little said Momo is the kind of student who could thrive at Penn because of her determination. “I will put my job on it,” Little noted. “She is going to be the one that does something monumental in the world. For her to get doors slammed in her face upsets me.” She added Penn should take a chance on her students even if they are off on their SAT scores. “We’re good enough for the programs,” Little said, referencing the tutoring and partnership programs that currently exist between West Philadelphia High School and Penn. “Why aren’t our students good enough to attend your school?” she asked. Principal of West Philadelphia High School Mary Dean expressed a similar frustration and urged Penn to offer her students access. “My issue has always been that Penn sees West Philadelphia High School as a place where their students can earn community service hours,” she explained. “I talked to them about individuals from this school attending Penn. It doesn’t happen.” Last summer was the first time Penn admitted West Philadelphia High School students to their “first taste of college life” program, Dean said. She added Penn SEE PATH TO PENN PAGE 5

Campus experiences a sweep of power outages

Penn Med profs study twin in space, twin on Earth

At least ten buildings lost power briefly, including Van Pelt Library

Researchers look into outerspace’s biological effects

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The Division of Public Safety sent out a UPennAlert on Tuesday at 11:29 a.m. about a large power outage on campus. Penn experienced power outages in Van Pelt Library, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Law School, English House, Annenberg Center and School, the Franklin Building, Franklin Annex, Golkin Hall, parts of 3401 Walnut Street, the Jaffe Building, Kings Court, Sansom East and the tunnel entrance of Sansom West, according

Twins are normally compared for their similarities and differences, but only one set of twins can say they have been studied for their reactions to space flight versus time on Earth. Astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent 382 consecutive days in space — the record for any American — completed a one-year mission on the International Space Station this March 1. He was analyzed for the effects of microgravity on his functioning in comparison with his identical twin brother who remained on

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Earth, retired astronaut Mark Kelly. The brothers came up with the idea for the study. Perelman School of Medicine professors Mathias Basner, David Dinges and Ruben Gur have been working with NASA to research the cognitive and behavioral effects of space flight, or lack thereof, on the twins. “Now that the in-flight data collection has been completed, the post-flight data collection has commenced,” Dinges said. The scientific investigators are not allowed to talk about their findings yet as they are still in the process of making sense of them — the data is on lockdown by NASA until the Kellys SEE ASTRONAUT PAGE 9

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Prof. tracks declining interest in local politics

New book tackles issues of voter participation NICOLE RUBIN Staff Reporter

An old adage may say that “all politics are local,” but interest in politics is clearly not. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, only 61.8 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2012 presidential election and only 41.9 percent in the 2014 Congressional election. Those numbers have both declined from highs of 64 and 48.9 percent respectively in 1978. One Penn professor thinks that decline is emblematic of a growing disinterest in local politics. In his soon-to-be-published book,

“The Increasingly United States,” political science associate professor Daniel J. Hopkins says that people are more engaged in national politics and are losing interest on the local level. “Our identity as American is frequently much, much stronger than our identities as residents of Philadelphia or Baltimore or the state of Pennsylvania,” Hopkins said. But it hasn’t always been this way. Hopkins explained that in the 1983 Chicago mayoral election, turnout was higher than in the presidential election of the next year, “which is a really striking demonstration that people really were very, very engaged in that election.” Declining local participation is ironic, he said, because when

the founders originally set up this system of federalism, they created more localized branches to be more democratic. The House of Representatives, for example, was the smallest democratic branch, in contrast with the executive branch, which has one leader and is inherently less democratic. Hopkins said our nationally focused political participation follows a trend set by modern media. Newspapers and television stations are becoming more nationalized in scope. It is possible to watch Fox News or read The New York Times “in any corner of this country,” he said. The main problem, Hopkins said, is not just that voters are more nationally focused, but that there is

a “mismatch” between the national focus and the powers held by states and localities in the federal system. “States and localities make consequential decisions about broad aspects of our lives,” Hopkins noted. “We are engaged in the national spectacle, and missing out on the decisions about who is going to educate our children or how we are going to clean up our streets.” The United States is currently in a period characterized by high rates of distrust in the federal government and Hopkins believes that as politics becomes more nationalized, distrust will rise. He said that this is because “we are thinking about the level where things [issues] are remote, they are a spectacle of party competition and not the level where the

trash actually gets picked up or the police actually serve the neighborhood.” The irony here is that people also tend to have more trust in their local governments, but participate less, which can continue to hurt them in a self-reinforcing cycle. It is not uncommon to hear criticisms of politicians and government officials, but according to Philadelphia Magazine, only about 27 percent of voters turned out to vote in the most recent mayoral election. One of the foundations for the Donald Trump presidential campaign is distrust or dislike of politicians. Hopkins believes, however, that this can be a “selfreinforcing cycle where voters think poorly of politicians so they’re not

interested in getting engaged in the process.” “They’re going to start to worry more and more about the narrow constituencies that do vote, and that can just perpetuate the cycle,” he said. There has been an increased focus and worry concerning the recent decline of political participation on the national spectrum, but Hopkins believes that the problem is more severe locally. In a national election, an individual can make up one of potentially hundreds of millions of voters, whereas in a local election in a smaller city, that same individual can be one of only hundreds or thousands of voters. Their vote, which matters much more proportionally, is going to waste.

Authors of ‘Notorious R.B.G’ Tumblr and book speak at Penn Law

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a feminist, progressive JAMIE BRENSILBER Staff Reporter

She is a revolutionary figure: a feminist, a progressive and a leader. She is the “Notorious R.B.G.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined the Supreme Court in 1993, becoming the second woman on the high court after Sandra Day O’Connor. I r in Ca r mon and Shana Knizhnik gave a talk about their book “Notorious R.B.G.: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg” on Tuesday night in Golkin Hall. Penn English professor Salamishah Tillet moderated the discussion. Knizhnik started a Tumblr about Ginsberg in 2013 as a rising second-year law student around the time when the Supreme Court released a series of disappointing decisions for progressives. She was inspired by Ginsburg’s stirring dissents. The

justice “broke the record for the number of oral dissents given from the bench,” Knizhnik said. “My peers a nd I were frustrated with what was happening,” she said, and they “needed space on the Internet to celebrate her.” She started posting quotes from Ginsburg online on her Tumblr page, Notorious R.B.G. One of the pivotal moments for Notorious R.B.G. was Ginsburg’s dissent to the Voting Rights Case in 2013, Shelby County v. Holder, by which the Court struck down a part of the VRA that required states to pre-clear their voting laws. K nizhnik attr ibuted this change to the majority’s belief that the country no longer had a discr im ination problem. Ginsburg wrote in her dissent, “Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away an umbrella in a rainstorm because you’re not getting wet.”

The idea for the book came when an editor from Harper Collins approached Knizhnik about her Tumblr page and suggested she turn it into a book. This editor connected Knizhnik with Carmon, a journalist, to write the book. “It didn’t fit into the preconceived categories,” Knizhnik said, describing the unusual task of turning a Tumblr into a book. Knizhnik described the inter-generational aspect of the R.B.G. phenomenon. “It’s unusual for us to have these icons of older women. Now people are really curious about who Justice Ginsburg [is],” Carmon said. “We wanted our book to be for both [lawyers and non-lawyers].” Throughout her professional life, Ginsburg’s views were formed in part by the circumstances of her ascent to the Court. K nizhnik said, “I don’t think she did consider herself a feminist at first. She had a conventional trajectory,” despite

being a Jewish girl in Brooklyn who was the child of immigrants. “She was forced into radicalism again and again by her circumstances,” Knizhnik said. During a stint volunteering at the American Civil Liberties Union, Ginsburg received a stack of letters from women, Knizhnik explained. These letters helped her realize that she was not the only woman facing discrimination and sexism. “She needed to use her talents to change the status quo,” Knizhnik said. Even today, Ginsburg is ahead of her time and still questions sexist laws. “Her life made her a feminist,” Carmon said. The two authors also spoke about Ginsburg’s marriage. Her marriage to tax attorney Marty Ginsburg was anything but conventional for the time. Instead of playing the role of supportive housewife, she rose to success, and he supported her. Ginsburg noted that traditional marriage does not exist

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anymore, as traditional marriage was the case where a woman was inferior to her husband, Knizhnik explained. This helped her support same-sex marriage before some of her colleagues. When Sandra Day O’Connor

left the Court, Ginsburg felt her absence. Ginsburg was pleased when Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor were appointed. Famously, asked when there would be enough women on the bench, Ginsburg said, “When there are nine.”

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Wharton app connects A new collaboration to eductate students on hazing students with local cooks The app’s pilot run proved to be a success

Penn athletics, Greek life, and clubs work together

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From being forced to wear Teletubby costumes, to drinking excessively, many students in Greek life, varsity sports and even student clubs have experienced many kinds of hazing. On March 28, an estimated 2,500 students were required to attend an anti-hazing speaker event in the Palestra. All varsity athletes, a percentage of members from each Greek chapter and three members from every SAC-funded group were required to attend. The speaker, Michelle Guobadia, director of fraternity and sorority life at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, gave a presentation entitled, “Hazing Makes You a Better Teammate/Greek/Leader and Other Stupid Myths.” Guobadia travels around the country talking about hazing, not just in the context of Greek life, but also in athletics and student organizations. In her speech, she dismissed 10 myths about hazing, including the belief that it builds loyalty and eliminates “bad apples.” “She has a very straightforward, genuine and relatable way of speaking,” Executive Director of Student Affairs Katie Hanlon Bonner said. However, some students disliked the speech and disagreed with the speaker. One College sophomore — who wished to remain anonymous because she did not want to get in trouble with her sorority — said she believes hazing does make you a better teammate. In her sorority, she believes the lack of hazing meant that she could not bond with her sisters. She felt almost limited by it, as the rules prohibiting hazing meant that pledging could not include activities such as scavenger hunts.

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Representatives from every SAC group, athletic team, and greek organization gathered to attend a mandatory anti-hazing event.

“I think the University deals with hazing for sororities much more harshly than it deals with hazing for fraternities,” College sophomore and social media associate at The Daily Pennsylvanian Gomian Konneh said. “It’s a very sexist system.” A College freshman — who also declined to use her name for fear of getting in trouble with her sorority — said she thinks the University is taking the right steps, but these actions still will not have a strong enough effect to stop hazing. “They do most of what they can do, because people are going to haze no matter what. It’s just unfortunately a reality of being in college,” she said. “I think it’s good to get people talking about it in these types of events, but I’m a realist.” Bonner says the administration has a realistic approach and does not expect the speaker event to drastically change hazing at Penn.

“We want to get students used to a more regular conversation about hazing and how to build healthy student communities that are respectful,” Bonner said. “We don’t think that after going to this speaker, students are going to turn around and say ‘Oh my god, we’re stopping everything we’ve ever done.’” This event was the first time the Office of Student Affairs, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Penn Athletics collaborated on a hazing education program. In the future, they plan to work together on smaller-scale events that would engage students more. “This isn’t a one and done thing,” Bonner said. Although there have not been any major incidents on campus recently, Bonner said that leaders of the three communities wish to take a preemptive approach to hazing education, rather than creating these programs in response to an incident.

Whether you love to cook, live to eat or loath 1920 Commons’ herb-marinated chicken dinners, LocalStove plans to cater to the culinary and dietary interests of the Penn community. T h roug h L o ca lStove’s website, local cooks will be able to sign up and inform potential eaters what they are cooking for that day, how much they are making and what time the meal will be ready by. Anyone interested in indulging in a homecooked meal can schedule to pick up the food at a convenient time from their neighborhood chef. Steven Finn, Greg Dubin a n d H e n r iq u e S e t t o n ,

co-founders of LocalStove and current Wharton MBA students, came up with the idea after realizing that they were not the only ones who were dissatisfied by the food options available on Penn’s campus. “We were t horough ly disappointed in the food allaround campus. It was not necessarily cooked with the love that you want to eat,” Finn said. “We wondered how we can make something profitable out of our passions. We loved to cook. We loved to eat,” Setton said. After Finn and Dubin witnessed Setton br inging delicious, home-cooked mea ls to t hei r va r ious entrepreneurial club meetings, the trio realized that the Penn community would benefit from having this kind of quality food at their

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fingertips. The three men bring different things to the table, literally and figuratively. Dubin is LocalStove’s communications expert, Finn is the team’s software engineer, and Setton focuses on the products for early startups. “After our spark, everyone we talked to knows someone or is someone who is an amazing cook who has been told their whole life they should open up a restaurant,” Finn said. “They may not have the time, the flexibility, the money, whatever it is, but would cook in their spare time and sell it without having the business acumen to run a restaurant or dealing with the hours that they want.” LocalStove did a pilot run for five days in the fall at Wharton, and it turned out to be very successful, Finn said. A majority of the customers came back an additional day for another home-cooked meal “made with love.” LocalStove is focusing on launching in the University City and Center City neighborhoods with hopes of expanding in the future. “Starting in Philly makes sense because here we have a huge food scene, and being a part of Philadelphia and this community here is extremely important to us,” Setton said. “We have plans of expanding to the broader Philly area and of course to other cities and metropolitan areas. We are looking to democratize this industry and bring very good food at an affordable cost.” LocalStove plans to come to kitchens near Penn on Tuesday, April 19, with a free meal to anyone who refers a chef.

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Katie Clonan-Roy, Penn Graduate Student, Graduate School of Education Jonathan Katz, LGBT Activist and Scholar, SUNY-Buffalo Gina Duke, Penn undergrad, founder of SOUL (Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation) Sheri Davis-Faulkner, Member, Crunk Feminist Collective; Director, Westside Communities Alliance; Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Tech

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OPINION Divestment, at what cost? Guest column | Why modern environmentalism is not true social justice

wednesday March 30, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 37 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor JOYCE VARMA Creative Director

Fossil Free. Divestment. Social Impact. These terms are trendy. Sexy, even. But divestment is based on the principles of modern environmentalism, which disadvantages the world’s poor and is not social justice. In one short article, I cannot — nor do I purport to — address all of the claims of the Fossil Free movement. Rather, I ask you to examine the group’s basic assumptions, and from there you can determine the validity of each individual claim that Fossil Free Penn makes. What is the goal of the divestment movement? As Francis Leong of Penn Sustainability Review noted, “Most proponents of divestment realize the strategy’s small potential for financial impact, especially in the case of universities.” Matthew Yglesias explains in Vox that, “divestment is really just a symbolic act of disapproval.” Indeed, though Penn’s $10 billion endowment is far larger than most universities, it is but a drop

in the $5 trillion fossil fuel asset bucket. So while there are reasons to doubt that divesting would actually impact climate change, as well as reasons to doubt that it would be financially beneficial for the University, the question I raise here is not about efficacy but about moral validity. The problem with divestment is that it is but a proxy of modern environmentalism, which combines Western, post-industrial privilege with a callous disregard for the poor, both in our own society and abroad. Those on the environmentalist bandwagon claim they will “save the world,” but disregard the impoverished who will be directly doomed, rather than saved, by their policies. And divestment supporters are just one extension of this ideology. Attempting to divest from, discredit and destroy the non-renewables industry will unquestionably lead to higher energy costs. Those who claim that renewable energy is — or

soon will be — cheaper than fossil fuels are wrong. Alternative energy sources are very expensive and cannot compete without large subsidies and guaranteed market shares. Rising energy costs regressively hurt the poor both in the United States and around the

that use wood, coal or dung as their primary cooking fuel. This indoor pollution leads to the development of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases and cancers and caused 4.3 million deaths in 2012 alone. Helping the poor access affordable and abundant electric-

... Attempting to divest from, discredit and destroy the non-renewables industry will unquestionably lead to higher energy costs.”

world. The elites behind the environmental movement seem to have forgotten that affordable and dependable energy is the key to modern civilization and prosperity. The World Health Organization estimates that 2.9 billion people live in homes

ity would exponentially improve their lives, but the trendy topic of “climate change” seems to trump our compassion for the disadvantaged. When we understand the very strong correlation between energy consumption and GDP growth, then

we see that making access to energy HARDER for the poor is really denying them access to becoming rich like we are. And as has been proven time and again, wealthier is healthier. Preventing the poor from becoming rich is also preventing them from living longer, more prosperous lives. The post-industrial world has unquestionably benefited from the use of fossil fuels, and there is a blatant hypocrisy in preventing developing countries from pursuing the same success. We are in effect saying, “The post-industrial West is done with fossil fuels now. And since we are done, so is everyone else!” Of course, the United States, being the “one percenters” of the world, will not be as affected by rising fuel costs (although the poor in the United States will be affected as well.) After all, the rich can afford to pay higher energy costs and access expensive alternative energy. It is the poor who will suffer. We must resist embrac-

ing the hypocrisy of the current generation of Rockefellers, of whom Benjamin Zycher writes, “Their central objective is loud applause at the uppercrust cocktail parties for a divestment that will have no effect on the fossil-fuel sector, that will cost them literally nothing, and that is part of a leftist campaign that views ordinary people as a liability.” Penn is better than this. Protecting the environment is a noble goal, but you must be ready to answer the question “at what cost?” If you, like me, believe that environmentalism should not come at the expense of the world’s poor, then I urge you to join me in opposing Fossil Free Penn’s divestment effort, as we seek to steward our environment in a way that does not disproportionately affect those who already suffer most. Taylor Becker is a College junior from Lebanon, OR. He is also an elected member of the Penn Undergraduate Assembly

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Penn’s process of deciding whether or not to divest from fossil fuels is biased. We will start by giving a quick update on our campaign. In February of 2015, Fossil Free Penn initiated a referendum, in which 87.8 percent of voting students voted in favor of divestment from fossil fuel holdings. Then, in October of this year, Fossil Free Penn submitted a proposal outlining the reasons supporting divestment to the Board of Trustees. Soon after, it was deemed that there was enough evidence in support of divestment for an ad hoc committee on divestment to be formed. It is important to note that the Trustees’ guidelines mandate that this committee must remain impartial and critically examine all of the evidence on both sides. After a delay releasing the names of the members of this committee, the University Secretary finally

released the names on Monday, March 1. However, sadly, two members of this committee exhibit clear bias, a detail that jeopardizes the integrity of not just this committee, but the entire divestment consideration process. Climate change is among the most pressing issues facing our world today. It is an issue that is extremely urgent and dire, and it is our responsibility as a university to do everything we can to counteract the effects of our changing climate. However, biased members of the committee responsible for recommending the Board of Trustees to either vote for or against divestment can easily block any forward progress and have reason to, due to either ties to the fossil fuel industry or outspoken disagreement with divestment. The two members with clearly demonstrated bias on the ad hoc committee for divestment are David Roberts,

chair and alumni representative of the committee, and Engineering senior Dillon Weber who will be serving on the committee. We are not attacking these members, just pointing out flaws in the sanctity of the committee itself. First, committee chair David Roberts is the current

lending strategy maintains a “focus on investments in oil and gas, oilfield service ... and other energy-related companies.” This means that Roberts has a personal stake in the fossil fuel industry through his affiliation with Angelo, Gordon & Co., as the company both invests in and is invested in

It is important to not only uncover the biases in the ad hoc committee, but also in other steps of the process ...” chief operating officer and senior managing director of Angelo, Gordon & Co. Private Equity Group. According to its website, Angelo, Gordon & Co.’s energy

the fossil fuel industry, displaying clear bias. Roberts is the current chair of the ad hoc committee and should therefore be the member with the least opportunity

for bias, not the other way around. The other member who displays clear bias against divestment is Dillon Weber. Weber has spoken out against divestment many times. Weber wrote articles and arguments against divestment from the fossil fuel industry in both the Penn Sustainability Review in 2015 and in The Statesmen Energy Issue in 2013. In December 2015, Weber openly spoke out against divestment to the University Council at its Open Forum and, on December 3 of 2015, was quoted in an article by The Daily Pennsylvanian stating divestment is “not a good tool” and that divestment would be a “hypocritical and empty gesture.” Because Mr. Weber already made up his mind on divestment back in 2013, and has not issued a public recant since then, by definition it is impossible for him to “remain impartial.” It is important to note that

none of the other members have any publicly stated bias in favor of divestment. With some members of this committee so clearly biased against divestment, it is difficult not to question the legitimacy of an entire process designed to assess whether divestment is necessary. It is important to not only uncover the biases in the ad hoc committee, but also in other steps of the process including the Board of Trustees’ final vote on whether to divest. Do we as a student body really want to put the future of our university and planet in the hands of those who are clearly biased against divestment, the most impactful and symbolic action that a university can take against climate change? For us, the answer is a resounding no. zach rissman is a College freshman and the current Student Outreach CoCoordinator of Fossil Free Penn

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apply there, and Penn is right down the street,” he said. A student at the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts hoping to study medicine at Penn, Damell’s twin sister has recently been interviewed by the University. “We’re willing to make an effort to come to Penn,” Martinez added. “All we need is some guidance or encouragement to take the step.” During the course of her childhood, Yanting Liu, a senior at West Philadelphia High School, has spent time both in the United States and in China. Due to poverty, her par-

can help her students by supporting them in their coursework in a way that would prepare them for Penn. She added that because of their low SAT scores and lack of money, her students have gotten the impression from Penn that the University is not for them. "[My students] have been told by Penn that they don’t meet the qualifications,” she said. One of seven siblings, Breiona Caldwell, a senior at West Philadelphia High School, is about to become the first one in her family to go to college. Her parents didn’t attend college, nor did her three older siblings. She uses her older siblings’ mishaps with the law as a source of motivation to pursue her education. “Everyone older in my family right now has either been in jail or is in jail,” she said. “That’s why I want to choose a different path.” Although a high performing student at her school, Caldwell - Crystal Little, WPHS Counselor scored about 1200 on the SAT — a number that makes it nearly im- ents didn’t go to college. For her two possible for her to set foot on Penn’s older sisters, who came to the United campus. She applied to nine other States during their teenage years, colleges and was accepted to eight of English has been their biggest barthem, Pennsylvania State University rier to pursuing an education. and Albright College among them. But neither has stopped Liu from She shared Momo’s view that reaching high. Since her school Penn should focus less on test scores moved to its new location in 2011, and instead prioritize each student Liu is the only student to apply to experience as revealed in their ap- Penn — a reality her principal made plication essays. sure she knew. “An SAT score doesn’t really “My principal told me they never determine how smart a person is or accepted any student from our isn’t,” Caldwell noted. “Not every- school,” Liu said. “She was pretty one is good at testing.” upset [about that].” Damell Martinez, also a senior Her SAT scores are low — someat West Philadelphia High School, thing she hopes Penn will overlook has a mixed background in his in favor of her experiences and exfamily when it comes to a college tracurricular activities. education. His father did not attend “Penn should give us a chance to college, but his mother earned a get in,” she noted. “Some people are master’s degree and his older sister not good test takers.” a bachelor’s degree. Liu will find out whether she was He has nine siblings, one of them accepted to Penn when regular decihis twin sister. For Damell and his sions are released on Thursday. twin, though, college is a must. He is looking forward to attending West Catholic High School: A Temple or Penn State, where he has Narrow Path to Penn already been accepted. Martinez, Although about 80 percent of its who hopes to become a neurosci- graduates attend four-year colleges, entist, hesitated to apply to Penn not for most West Catholic High School only because it is a predominantly students, Penn is not considered an white school but also because the option. University does not reach out to his The other 20 percent either go to school. two-year colleges or trade schools or “Not once did I get a college enlist in the military. West Catholic email from Penn wanting me to High School students face the same

obstacle as West Philadelphia High School students of low SAT scores. “It is extremely hard to get in with lower SAT scores,” West Catholic college counselor Jennifer Davis said. “You have to have near perfect scores.” Even among the few who had been accepted to Penn, Davis said some couldn’t continue because of insufficient financial aid. For these reasons, many of their graduates attend the Community College of Philadelphia. West Catholic’s relationship with Penn is noticeably better than West Philadelphia High. For the last three years, Penn has been reaching out more to the school, Davis noted. However, in this year’s graduating class of 55 boys and 45 girls, only Jasmine Mays followed through with her application process. Mays is an only child whose parents did not go to college. She has been at the top of her class throughout high school, and she is confident she can handle Penn. “I feel prepared for Penn,” she noted. “I don’t think the name or prestige intimidates me.” During her application process, Mays said she did not receive the support of a Penn representative. She also awaits her admission decision on Thursday. Graduates of West Catholic High School, College freshman Marta Teferi and College sophomore Frehiwet Alfa, have a similar background. Daughters of immigrant parents from Ethiopia, the childhood friends from Southwest Philadelphia experienced a doubtful journey to Penn. “My parents said I should I apply to Penn, but I didn’t think I would be accepted,” Teferi noted. “I was smart [at West Catholic High] but not the smartest. I thought I was good for West but not for Penn.” Alfa’s emotions regarding Penn went from intimidated to excited to discouraged. While chatting with other prospective students during Quaker Days, she learned just how much more prepared those students were. Both Terefi and Alfa had a difficult time adjusting to Penn’s courses and culture, but the two are slowly adapting to their new environment. “With each semester, it’s getting better in a different way,” Alfa said. Teferi is also on a mission. “I am trying to find that thing that I am passionate about,” she said.

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for Ahmed after he submitted his application to Penn and awaited a response. “I was nervous about the Penn name and how spectacular I would have to be,” he said. This year, he was among the 1,316 students accepted during Penn’s early decision period. He credits Masterman for supporting him, but he admits that his journey to Penn came with its downside. “Earlier this year, I felt like I was stretched too thin — doing too many extracurricular activities,” he noted. He has since shifted his focus solely to academics. Down the line, he wants to work in mechanical engineering, designing planes or safeguarding people’s personal information online. From his perspective, Ahmed thinks people have tremendous control over their lives. “My family came here for me to have a better opportunity,” he added. “So I should go to the best school I can, get the best job I can.” Masterman junior Reem Larabi said she has dreamed of attending Penn ever since she was in seventh grade. Larabi’s parents, who didn’t go to college, are natives of Morocco, where boys’ education is valued more than that of girls. Still, Larabi’s parents saw that she could excel in school and decided to have

Masterman High School: A Clearer Path to Penn Unlike the West Philadelphia and West Catholic High Schools, students at Julia R. Masterman School say Penn’s admissions representatives are visible, and they are hopeful that they could get into Penn. Penn accepts at least five Masterman students every year, according to Masterman college counselor Gilda Abney. During her students’ junior year, Gilda learns who the “Penn students” are through their discussions about college. “Most ‘Penn students’ already have their minds framed to Penn, Penn, Penn” she said. “For them, it is an Ivy League in the backyard.” Having done their research, usually these students go on to apply for Penn’s Early Decision. Masterman students do their best to have the SAT scores Penn expects. “A big majority of [our students] feel like, ‘I am at Masterman; I should apply to Penn,’” Abney said. For students at Masterman, pressure begins long before they reach their senior year, with students often taking three to five advanced placement classes and participating in multiple extracurricular activities. “By the time they become seniors, the pressure is not how - Damell Martinez, WPHS senior to get to Penn, but did you get to Penn?” Abney said. Masterman senior Mahmood her apply to Masterman. Ahmed has been accepted to “At Masterman, there is a whole Penn and is ready to begin his col- realm for you to excel and be your lege career at the University come best,” Larabi said. August. She is fascinated by biomedical Both of Ahmed’s parents at- engineering medicine, and has big tended college in their native dreams for her future career. country of Sudan. Ahmed’s three “I want to do something big,” older siblings also went to college, she said. “I know that sounds like a including one who went to Penn. cliche. But for someone who comes Born and raised in Philadelphia, from humble beginnings, I am not Ahmed has always believed that col- doing it for me. I am doing it for my lege is a part of his destiny and Penn parents,” she added. “I want to be was his first choice. that person who comes up with pros“I was especially interested in thetic kidneys, that person who finds Penn’s engineering program,” he a way to 3D-print organs.” said. Larabi said she doesn’t have time It was many weeks of nail-biting to have fun. Instead, she prioritizes

her studies and researches the medical field during her free time. “Part of the plan is to get into Penn,” she explained. “I have been working really hard.” She is afraid people won’t take her desire to become a doctor seriously, or that her SAT scores won’t be high enough for Penn. “There are people who are brilliant, have high SAT scores, but they don’t care about what they are going to do in life,” she explained. “I know what it is like to be determined and use that determination to get your work done.” Larabi will also find out if she was accepted on Thursday. But even for Masterman students, the path to Penn is not always clear. College junior Enxhi Rrapi, a graduate of Masterman, assumed that the transition between her high school and Penn was going to be smooth, but this was not the case. Originally from Albania, Rrapi attended Masterman from sixth to 12th grade, but neither of her parents went to college. She anticipated that Penn would be similar to Masterman but found out during her first semester at the University that Penn was a different world than that of Masterman. “I had a small-scale idea of what college is going to be like,” she said. “I thought I did well at Masterman, so I am going to do well at Penn.” She soon discovered how much bigger Penn really is and the lack of connection between her and her professors and her peers. “At Penn, it was a more competitive environment,” Rrapi explained. “If I didn’t have that preconceived idea, I would have had a smoother transition.” As she reflected on her first semester on campus, she recalls how independent she had to be in planning for her studies and in managing her time. “I remember being stressed and overwhelmed,” she said. “I didn’t necessarily know how to manage my time. Everybody tells you how Masterman is wonderful — don’t get me wrong it is — but it’s not Penn.” As a freshman, Rrapi kept to herself, not really asking her professors for help. She said Penn’s competitiveness drives students to lose focus of the purpose of college. “It is important to know that it’s okay to not necessary do the best in one class – to focus on the main goal — you versus the course, not you versus your peers,” she said.

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Ivy League colleges have a major economic impact on the cities in which they are located, taking up top spots on the lists of largest employers in their areas. In Philadelphia, Penn was ranked as the city’s largest private employer in the second quarter of 2015, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. The University was also Philadelphia’s third largest employer overall, falling behind only the City of Philadelphia and the federal government. The trend of higher education companies dominating the

private sector exists in other cities with Ivy League schools. Columbia University was New York City’s largest private sector employer in 2014, followed by Consolidated Edison and JPMorgan Chase & Co., according to the New York Department of Labor statistics. In the smaller cities of Cambridge, Mass. and New Haven, Conn., Ha r va rd a nd Ya le eclipsed public sector employers to rank as the city’s top overall employers, based on data from Yale’s Office of New Haven and State Affairs, as well as the Cambridge Community Development Department. Harvard University ranked as the number one private and overall employer in Cambridge, according to 2015 data. The university had a total of 11,997

employees on its payroll. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology followed as the second largest overall employer in Cambridge, with 8,763 employees in 2015. As the city’s top private employer, Penn created one out of every nine jobs in Philadelphia, totaling 90,400 jobs created directly and indirectly in 2015. According to the University’s 2015 Economic Impact report, Penn directly employed 37,000 people, with another 53,000 indirectly connected to Penn through construction, retail and professional service industries. As a result, the University contributed $14.3 billion in 2015 to Pennsylvania’s economy, $10.8 billion of which went directly to Philadelphia’s economy, according to the report.

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Decrease in international college students nationwide Penn continues to accept many international students SOPHIA LEPORTE Staff Reporter

While the rest of her classmates were sea rching for colleges in the United Kingdom, Wharton freshman Pearl Banjurtrungkajorn, a student at Shrewsbury International School in Thailand, decided to forge her own path and come to an American school — Penn. According to a recent study, however, students like Banjurtrungkajorn are becoming less common. New research from the U.K. Higher Education Inter national Unit shows that in the last decade, the number of international students going to college in the United States has dropped by over 6 percent. The study revealed that in 2000, about 22.8 percent of international students headed to college in the States, but in 2012, the number had decreased to 16.4 percent. While the United States as a whole may have seen a decrease in international students, Penn has not. In fact, over the past 10 years, international students have consistently made up between 11 and 13 percent of the admitted class. Penn has actually seen an increase in the range of countries from which students are applying in the past 15 years; international students at Penn represented only 66 foreign countries in the Class of 2005 while in the Class of 2019, international students come from 84 different countries. Banjurtrungkajorn’s choice to come to the United States was particularly unusual given that she went to a British international school, so all of her schooling had been compatible with the U.K. education system,

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have been debriefed. “Because the twins’ study involved taking their bodily fluids to analyze them for genomics, metabolomics and microbiomics, the Kellys will have to agree to what aspects of their biology are shared before the findings are released,” Dinges added. The findings from the twins’ study should be released by the next meeting in February 2017. Basner said that they have been working with NASA for years and that the process of doing research on the ISS is very professional, but not always easy due to many constraints. He said that it is a pleasure to work with the twins. The Penn research project is just one of 10 of the studies being conducted on the brothers. The team from Penn provided cognitive and behavioral data on sleep,

sleep quality and different aspects of cognitive functions including emotions, abstract thinking and memory. “No one really knows what effects space flight has in these domains,” Dinges said. The researchers had previously completed a study of 24 astronauts who stayed in space for approximately six months each. Dinges said that the six-month studies will provide the data set by which they can compare what happens when a person stays in space longer. Dinges is also planning a separate project for the occasion of another one-year space mission, which he said is likely to occur in the next two to three years. He anticipates having their prior measurements and what they’re currently developing for space flight included in later missions . The Penn researchers are in a special position because not

many other investigators have had access to flight time measurements. This allows the team to utilize the same technical procedures as in the past. “We hope our investigation is useful to NASA in terms of scientific discovery so that we learn novel things about what it means to live in microgravity and in understanding what risks to health and behavior might occur in space flight and how you would mitigate those factors,” Dinges said. The information learned would be beneficial to know for a mission to Mars, as it would take more than a year. Additionally, there may be fundamental discoveries made with the physiological work of how the human body functions. “I’m confident that there will be novel and important findings coming from the study,” Dinges said.

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The number of international students attending universities in the U.S. dropped 6 percent from 2000 to 2012.

and not the U.S. one. But Banjurtrungkajorn decided that she wanted to come to Penn because she saw more social opportunities here than at university in the UK. “I decided to come to the United States and specifically Penn because there were a lot of opportunities to do research and hands on community service,” Banjurtrungkajorn said. “You can’t really do that in a school in the UK because they’re more focused on studies, grades and getting your degree over.” College freshman Yoon Joo Kim had the opposite experience. She went to an American international school in Korea

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accomplished by the current iteration of the team. The short season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; featuring just three tournaments in the spring and eight overall â&#x20AC;&#x201D; still saw its fair share of successes for the Red and Blue. In September, the Quakers opened play with one of their best performances of the season, finishing second out of 15 teams at the Chesapeake Bay Invitational in Annapolis, Md., as thensophomore Isabelle Rahm shot a tournament-best 219, followed by teammate Amanda Chin four strokes back in third. At the Delaware Invitational a month later, Penn matched its Chesapeake Bay finish, taking second out of 10 teams. Although five strokes behind Georgetown as a team, Chin took away the individual trophy after beating Delawareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Amanda Terzian in a playoff. Fall play concluded in Delaware, resuming in April as the Red and Blue headed to New Jersey for Seton Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pirate Invitational. A 626 team score was good for fourth place, behind Georgetown, Princeton and Columbia. Brown hosted Penn next as the Quakers took fourth again.

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While the spring season is just getting started for Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a journey long in the making, dating back to last year. The current academic year featured four fall tournaments â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and they started with a bang. At the Chesapeake Bay Invitational, the Quakers opened play with a team title, placing first of 11 squads as three golfers placed in the top 15. A pair of tournaments hosted by Ivy rivals Princeton (eighth of 15) and Yale (seventh of 16) brought about some middling results before the fall season concluded with a third-place finish at the Delaware Invitational. Looking back to 2014-15, a squad comprised of one senior among a team otherwise entirely underclassmen helped pave the way for what has already been

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In Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quest to repeat as Ivy champions, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a bumpy ride so far. Starting off the 2015-16 season with five fall tournaments, the Quakers moved in quick succession, competing in four straight weeks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fall season is nice because we break in with three or four events right in a row,â&#x20AC;? Penn coach Bob Heintz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like mixing up lineups to see how they react, especially the young guys,â&#x20AC;? he added. At the Cornell Invitational, though the squad finished seventh out of 14 teams, the Red and Blue still placed three golfers in the top 25 as sophomore Carter Thompson finished a team-best 11th. Just a couple weeks later, at the David Toms Intercollegiate Tournament hosted by LSU, Penn again

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Penn is ready to improve after graduating only Amanda Chin.

At the BEAR Invitational, Chin and Rahm again paced the Red and Blue, taking 13th and 17th, respectively. As Harvard took home the Ivy title the following week, Chinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 14th-place individual finish was tops for Penn, which finished fifth as a team. The loss of Chin alone to graduation means that the fifth-place finish is just a start for the Red and Blue, who now head to the 2016 spring season ready to build on the foundation thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been laid.

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Sophomore transfer Carter Thompson placed a team-best 11th at the Cornell Invitational and will have a large role on the team this spring.

took seventh place out of 14 teams. Freshman Josh Goldenberg, shooting 219 on the weekend, was the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; top finisher, taking seventh place on the weekend. The fallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best performance was also its final one, as the Red and Blue took third at the City Six Shootout in Ardmore, Pa. In the close-fought contest, Penn finished just one stroke behind second-place Drexel and four back of champion Saint Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Senior Patrick Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Leary tied the Hawksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Brian Turley for a tournament-best 71 as the Quakers prepared for a five-month respite. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a long time to keep the momentum going, but the experience is

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good,â&#x20AC;? Heintz noted. Thus far, Penn has seen action only once in the spring, heading to Florida for the Seminole Invitational from March 11-12. Although the Quakers tied for 12th out of 14 teams, Thompson netted a top-25 finish in a crowded ACC and SEC field. On tap next for the Red and Blue is the Princeton Invitational from April 9-10, followed by the Wolfpack Spring Intercollegiate Tournament. Beyond that, only the all-important Ivy Championships await, held in New Jersey from April 22-24. And there, the chance to repeat as Ivy champs remains.

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Penn baseball hosted a familiar midweek foe on Tuesday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with an all-too-familiar result that followed. In the opening contest of the Liberty Bell Classic, Villanova came over to Meiklejohn Stadium after beating the Quakers, 6-1, on March 16. Once again, the Red and Blue found themselves on the wrong side of history, falling 9-4. It was the Wildcats (8-19) who got on the board first. JP Radvany launched a solo shot in the top of the second, but Penn (7-11) responded in the bottom half of the inning as freshman catcher Matt Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill hit one out of the park to knot things up. Three batters later, senior shortstop Ryan Mincher thought he had hit a two-out, two-run blast to make it 3-1 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but the home plate umpire had a different opinion. After his deep drive down the left field line was called foul, Mincher struck out looking, preventing the Quakers from breaking the game wide open early. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know the bats are there to respond,â&#x20AC;? reigning Ivy League

Player of the Week Tim Graul said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just got to be better with the timing. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just got to keep getting people on at the right time, get some big hits. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very confident that this team is going to do well and this team is going to do whatever we want to do.â&#x20AC;? Play quieted down for the next few innings, with no runs scoring in the third or fourth although Villanova threatened with two on and one out in the fourth. Senior Mitch Holtz navigated the trouble in his final frame on the mound, and an inning later his squad seized the lead. After Mincher scored off of a double by senior Gary Tesch, Tesch himself crossed home on a wild pitch from Villanova sophomore Ryan Doty. The inning ended with the Red and Blue up, 3-1, as Graul was thrown out after a beautiful diving stop by Wildcat third baseman Kevin Jewitt. Following a scoreless sixth and seventh frames, freshman Grant Guillory got into early trouble â&#x20AC;&#x201D; walking two men between striking out Jewitt. Senior first baseman Max Beermann stepped up next for Villanova â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and gave the Wildcats a 4-3 lead with a threerun homer. Guillory walked the next man up and the day was over for him after that; Elijah Connell was brought in to stabilize the

affair. Connell hit the only man he faced, forcing Yurkow to turn to junior Nick Pedalino as his third pitcher of the inning. But Pedalino immediately surrendered a single of his own followed by a sacrifice fly to make it 5-3. The inning finally came to an end as Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill gunned down the Wildcatsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Zander Retamar as he tried to steal second. The Red and Blue had a chance to take back the lead in the bottom half of the frame, loading the bases with one out. Freshman Matt McGeah then brought home a run after being hit by a pitch, but a Mincher and sophomore Andrew Murnane struck out looking to send the game to the ninth with Villanova up, 5-4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought we took some decent at-bats today,â&#x20AC;? Penn coach John Yurkow said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But again, when it counted, I thought there were some times where we had some opportunities to drive some balls with runners in scoring positions and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just struggling to rise to the occasion when we needed to.â&#x20AC;? Working the ninth, Pedalino conceded four more runs, including a three-run homer with no outs that sealed the eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outcome. The Quakers couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get any more across the plate, finishing off the final contest before the start of Ivy play this weekend.

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work on identifying the fourth and fifth guys in our lineup.” Penn also has to deal with the target on its back that comes with winning championsh ips. Tasked wit h defending their City Six championship at the famous Merion Golf Club this Fall, the Red and Blue were only able to muster a third-place finish. Chalk it up to a championship hangover, or even a team still trying to find its identity, but with just two tournaments left to go before the Ivy championships, the Red and Blue have to find a way to improve their team’s performance. “We’re not deep enough,” Heintz said. “We need to get good play from all five guys, not just the top three, if we want to beat teams like Yale or Princeton.” Underclassmen Josh Goldenberg and Carter Thompson have emerged early as two players capable of giving Penn the production it needs to round out its lineup. While both players are seeing their first collegiate tournament action this year, they have quickly made an impression on their coach. “I saw some excellent work from Goldenberg who’s had a couple of top finishes this year,” Heintz said. “I think [Thompson] has contributed a sense of stability to the team. I think people feel he’ll be there every day and shoot a good score.” After pulling off an improbable worst-to-first finish in the Ivy League standings last season, the pressure is now on the Quakers to prove that it wasn’t a fluke.

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A loss to an unfamiliar foe snapped the Quakers’ winning streak. After two consecutive Ivy wins, the Red and Blue fell, 13-8, to No. 6 Maryland at their home turf of Franklin Field on Tuesday. “Face offs and getting the ball was the difference in the game,” coach Mike Murphy said. “It’s been our killing zone, and we’ve been looking for ways to fix it all year.” Overall, the Red and Blue only won 7 of 25 faceoffs, which drastically impacted their possession time and scoring opportunities. Penn (5-3) came out of the gate quickly, notching the game’s first two tallies on scores by Simon Mathias and Austin Kreinz. However, Maryland came back quickly. Three different Terrapins scored four goals on the Red and

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tournaments. “College play is very different than anything they’re used to,” women’s coach Mark Anderson said. “I think it is a great learning experience for them, with balancing travel times and practices and

Blue within six minutes to destroy Penn’s early lead and turn the score in their favor. “At the beginning we were playing a little scared,” freshman goalkeeper Reed Junkin said. “They’re a top five team with a really good offense. … We let up some easy goals we probably shouldn’t have, like some cuts right on crease and stuff like that.” By the end of the first quarter, the Terrapins (6-2) were up on the Red and Blue, 6-3. The teams then stayed even with three goals apiece throughout much of the second quarter. However, a Maryland goal in the half’s final seconds gave them a 10-6 halftime lead. As the two teams went to the locker room, the Quakers trailed by four, their largest deficit of the game to that point. “They obviously tightened some things up at half time and so did we,” Murphy said. “It wasn’t anything different drastically, we didn’t make big tactical differences defensively but we cleaned and tightened some things up.”

school as well as getting collegiate experience.” Now, for Penn’s six golf newcomers, the breaking-in period of fall play is over; it’s time for the meat of the college links calendar. And judging by their early progress, the potential of Penn golf’s freshmen is just as high as their scores are low.

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The reigning Co-Ivy League Player and Rookie of the Week, freshman Reed Junkin (16) was key to Penn keeping pace with No. 6 Maryland.

Three consecutive stops from shots by Maryland less than five minutes into the second half fueled the Quakers’ renewed strength on defense. But as hard as hard as the Red and Blue persisted, their steam ran out and at 4:03 into the third quarter, Colin Heacock scored his third goal of the game for Maryland. “As the second half came around I think we got it together on defense and kept our composure

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even though we were down by a good amount,” Junkin said. “Reed Junkin played pretty well today,” Murphy said. “And he’s the freshman playing the most on the defensive end and he’s been as consistently good as anyone on our team this year.” However, the offense was unable to find the back of the net on a few key possessions in the period. The fourth saw more of the same strong Penn defense and

attacking Maryland offense. But this time, Penn found the net, and after even more saved shots, Simon Mathias put the Quakers on the board again for the first time in the second half and scored for the second time in the game. And the Terps responded with two more goals leading into the last five minutes of play. “We let up 10 goals in the first half but only three in the second, which was a good job for the second half,” Junkin said. Penn still had some steam though. With 2:43 left in the game, Pat Berkery put one last one in the net, for his fifth goal of the year, bringing the final score of the game to 13-8. “We weren’t quite sharp enough defensively in the first half and not quite sharp enough offensively in the second half,” Murphy said. “We’ll get back at it tomorrow and try to get better.” And better the Red and Blue will try to be as they prepare to take on Yale in their next Ivy battle this Saturday.

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complete a full round during their practices. Because of this, the teams often have to adopt other methods of practice. “18-hole practices are tougher to squeeze in because we are only supposed to be there for four hours, so we normally reserve them for Fridays or Saturdays when we are preparing for tournaments,” men’s coach Bob Heintz said. “Other days we do an hour long warm up and play nine holes or work on drills for ball striking, chipping and putting.” The golf teams are also in a unique position because they have a resource that many teams here at Penn do not: the golf simulator. Located on the third floor of Pottruck, the golf simulator has a medium-sized putting green that can fit a couple of people at a time and simulation bays that can hold up to 10 people. “We use TrackMan [with the simulator], which is a radar system that tracks club and the ball. Through the TrackMan there are a bunch of tests that show what they need to work on,” Anderson said. These simulations provide the team with a plethora of data that allows them to pinpoint weak spots and better their game. “It is much easier to get accurate video of the swing because the cameras are mounted on the wall and not held by hand,” Heintz said. “The simulator gives us lots of different types of data, from launch data to ball spin rate to club path to attack angle and much more.” In addition to the data analysis, the simulator also gives the teams an option for practice that is closer to home. Rather than taking the half-hour drive to and from the course, the teams can just walk in to Pottruck. The simulator also gives the teams an option on poor weather days, as practicing outside in the rain can often be difficult. “Nothing really compares to outside practice, but the simulator offers us a lot of good things inside like a putting green to practice on,” Anderson said. Because of the fact that both teams use the simulator in season, they often have to compete for time with the simulator. However, conflicts are normally avoided. "[There is] only one day a week that we compete for the simulator,” Heintz said. “Each team does a workout and simulation work, but the entire schedule is mapped out.” They say practice makes perfect, and for Penn’s golf teams, despite the unique circumstances surrounding them, they make their practices work.

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Watch the throne. Those three words will likely be echoing in the hearts and minds of the Penn men’s golf team as they embark on the defense of their 2015 Ivy League championship. Success came early and often for the men’s team in 2014-15. After coming within a stroke of winning the Cornell Invitational to open up the fall season,

the Red and Blue followed it up by taking home the City Six Championship just a few weeks later. The team stayed relatively quiet as the calendar transitioned from fall to spring, but the fireworks were saved for the last tournament of the regular season. After finishing in eighth place in the 2014 Ivy League Championship tournament, expectations weren’t high for the Quakers in 2015. After the first day of competition, it seemed the Red and Blue would continue to toil away in the bottom half of the standings, but that’s when things started to change. “We weren’t terribly out of it after

the first day,” coach Bob Heintz said. “We knew we were a dangerous team.” Heading into the final day of the tournament, Penn found themselves needing to make up five strokes on Princeton to take home the title. At the top of the lineup, seniors Austin Powell and Ben Cooley kept the Quakers in contention by combining to birdie eight holes on the back nine. With a couple eagles tossed in from then-sophomore Dane Walton, the team combined to shoot seven strokes under par on the back nine, just good enough to edge the Tigers by one stroke for the Ancient Eight title. “This is probably the hardest

working team I’ve had in my three years here,” Heintz said. “We had really good leadership starting with our captains.” With the graduation of Powell and Cooley, a large hole has opened at the top of the lineup. Patrick O’Leary, now the only senior on the team, has been tasked with not only taking over a leadership role on the team, but also finding a way to get the entire team to contribute up and down the lineup. “Luckily Patrick has really matured and come into his own as a captain,” Heintz said. “We really just need to SEE CROWN PAGE 11

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For most Penn athletes, practices are simple. The players go to facilities that are on or right off of campus that present game-like conditions for them to practice in. They put in a couple hours of work, and then they are right back as on campus as students. But that is not the case for the men’s and women’s golf teams. Unlike other Penn sports teams, the golf teams do not have a course that they can practice on located on or very near campus. The course that they do use, the Philadelphia Cricket Club — albeit one of the nicest courses in the Philly area — is nearly 20 miles away, around a half-hour drive in each direction. This leaves the teams and the players with extra time spent on their sport for the three or four

What’s a team to do when it’s already reached the pinnacle of a conference? Reload, of course. Penn men’s golf will rely heavily on new faces if it is to contend once again in 2016. And through a talented three-man freshman class and a sophomore transfer, the Quakers seem poised to do exactly that. After losing senior stars Ben Cooley and Austin Powell — both of whom stepped up especially big in the Ivy Championships — to graduation, the Red and Blue will need to look for reliably low scores elsewhere on the roster. Judging by the fall season, the best candidate to immediately fill the void will be sophomore Carter Thompson. After averaging

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Despite the struggle of off-campus practices, Isabella Rahm has thrived as a leader of Penn women’s golf, often pacing her squad.

days a week that they practice at the course. “We have to drive 25-30 minutes both ways, and this just adds a little more time to the day,” women’s coach Mark Anderson said. “We get there and try to be as efficient as possible with our time.”

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below par his senior year of high school, Thompson sat out his freshman year at Florida State before transferring to University City this fall. The Tallahassee, Fla., native then proceeded to impress in his first college action, shooting a 68 in his very first round at the season-opening Cornell Invitational. Thompson then proceeded to shoot a Penn-best 218 over the 56-hole tournament, leading the Quakers to a 7th-place finish out of the field of 14. The Red and Blue also got impressive fall production from traditional freshmen. Leading the way was Josh Goldenberg: After leading Scarsdale (N.Y.) High School to a New York public high school state championship in 2014, he notched several impressive scores in his first college action, including a Quaker-best 219 at LSU’s David Toms Classic in October. “A few freshmen this year had a good showing in the fall season.

Josh Goldenberg was one [of them],” Penn coach Bob Heintz said. “He stepped up big time.” Also tasting their first action for the Red and Blue last fall were freshman KJ Smith and Zareh Kaloustian. Though their scores were not quite as low as Thompson and Goldenberg, Heintz was impressed by the maturity of his young players. “Anytime in golf when you step up to next level, you always have the feeling of ‘do I belong here?’ and you’re just trying to keep chin above water,” he said. “To be able to get in when its not life or death and to prove themselves is really big for them.” The women, of course, will also be adding some freshmen to the team. Georgia native Rachael Dai — who led the team with a 77.1 scoring average in the fall season — and Canadian Janet Zheng have also made waves in their first handful of college SEE FRESHMEN PAGE 11