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Weighing racism and free speech Amy Gutmann discusses the debate surrounding the OU scandal COREY STERN Deputy News Editor

From nooses to swastikas and repulsive chants, college campuses in the United States have had no shortage of racial tensions. But where is the line drawn between racism and free speech?

In an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, President Amy Gutmann, who is trained in political philosophy and political science, discussed the balance between fighting racism while protecting free speech. Gutmann has written extensively about deliberative democracies and has been a vocal supporter of having all beliefs — even the most unpopular ones — openly expressed.

Even for an expert like Gutmann, it’s a tricky issue.

“There is no simple way of drawing a line.

It’s not that you can draw a line and something is on one side or the other, and that’s all you have to do.” Gutmann told the DP. “I begin with the time-tested belief that free speech is the lifeblood of a thriving democratic society, and it is also the lifeblood of universities and institutions of higher education like Penn.”

“We can only succeed in addressing complex SEE GUTMANN PAGE 5

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YIK YAK MEETS COLLEGIATE ACB New app a source of cyberbullying in Greek community

week ago, the app has quickly gained popularity in the Greek community at Penn. But concerns about cyberbullying on the app have already arisen.

DAVID CAHN “One of my friends deleted the app Staff Reporter because she was on it and she was so Which girls have the best breasts? offended by [it],” Wharton freshman Who would you rather have a three- Tali Vogelstein said. “When they some with? Who would you least want ask questions like who’s hotter, to be stuck in a room with? These are who’s uglier, whose dick’s dirtier, the types of questions being asked that’s just mean and disgusting,” by users on a new app called Whats- she added. goodly.

Some questions on Whatsgoodly Since its launch at Penn just over a are specifically limited to male and

female respondents. Founder and recent Stanford dropout Adam Halper said the app was intended to allow students to share their opinions on issues.

He thought up the idea for the app while debating a question with friends in a dorm room.

Halper, who was in his second year at Stanford University when he dropped out this spring to pursue Whatsgoodly full time, said he began to develop the app over the summer as he attempted to learn how to code.

He said he received assistance from a

tutor he met online, though he eventually scrapped the code they worked on together and rebuilt the app from scratch.

In the fall, when he returned to school, he brought on co-founder and fellow Stanford sophomore Christopher Sebastian and an advisor who had recently graduated from Stanford and had his startup acquired by a major San Francisco tech company.

Halper said the app’s purpose is to allow people to share information and

PAVE-ing the road to anti-violence

Six instructors describe their journeys to and experiences at Penn

Penn Anti-Violence Educators to include student leaders

DIA SOTIROPOULOU Staff Reporter

Both those reluctantly jumping through the hoops of Penn’s foreign language requirement and those taking up a new tongue for pleasure or professional advantage have gotten to know the mixed bag of characters in what is Penn’s Romance Languages Department.

The department’s squad of lecturers samples every kind of language specialist imaginable — from linguists and literature wonks to pedagogy experts and translation specialists. They deliver lessons daily in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Catalan to packed seminar rooms in Williams Hall. Between classes, they convert its cafe into a cozy, miniaturized Babel buzzing with multilingual chatter. Every language learner can tell you his favorites and most-feared; they range from the endearingly eccentric to the scarily rigorous to the plain awe-inspiring.

They come from all corners of the world, but indisputably common to all of them is an overpowering enthusiasm for language and a need to share it.

What follows is an attempt to cross-section the department through interviews with a few of its faces. Though this only hints at the array of personalities in the polyglot fortress that is Williams, the common passion of these lecturers is impossible to ignore.

Lenir Dos Santos – the Part-Time Lecturer Language of instruction: Portuguese Lenir Dos Santos has a luminous grin and a demeanor as warm as her native Brazil. Her original specialization is in translation between Portuguese and English. Before coming to the

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There’s a new way to get involved in the fight against sexual violence on campus.

This fall will welcome the Penn Anti-Violence Educators to campus — a new program slated to lead the fight against sexual and relationship violence at Penn.

Created through a collaboration between Director of Student Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Jessica Mer tz, the Undergraduate Assembly, Penn Women’s Center, 1 in 4 and Abuse and Sexual Prevention, the program will select and train five to 10 passionate and confident students to run workshops focusing on intervention strategies, Mertz

We should be critical of media reporting rather than simply be passive consumers.”

said.

Workshops will be run by a group of students that is “ideally made up of a lot of diverse voices around campus — not just folks who have already been working on these issues in the past,” Mertz added.

Selected students will co-facilitate two to three workshops a month in the coming semesters that focus on bystander intervention and the role that every student plays in preventing sexual violence and relationship violence on campus. The student group will be made up of paid volunteers that will be compensated $15 per hour for workshops and training, and a one-year commitment is required.

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Teams compete for more than money at PennVention

Projects include diabetes management and consumer analytics MARGARET SCHROEDER Contributing Reporter

Teams competing in PennVention aren’t just looking for the prize money.

PennVention, run by the Weiss Tech House, is the premier tech innovation competition at Penn.

Regardless of whether participants win the contest, PennVention aims to give student entrepreneurs the motivation and resources they need to turn their ideas into a real product or service.

“A lot of people get stuck at the idea stage,” said PennVention Co-Director and Wharton and Engineering junior Guthrie Gintzler.

In February, close to 100 teams comprised of 350 individual participants within the University entered the competition. This year, PennVention had the highest number of first-round submissions in the competition’s history — up 30 percent from last year — from a more diverse pool of competitors,

including teams from Penn’s GSE and Nursing school.

The first-round competition requires teams to make a presentation of just five slides. In the second round, about 25 semifinalist teams will create a five-minute video pitch. PennVention grants semifinalists $200 and provides video editing resources for teams. Even if they don’t make it past the second round, semifinalist teams walk away with a high-quality video they can use to market their product.

In the final round — to be held on April 8 — teams will give a live presentation and answer questions for an audience and a panel of judges. Leading up to the presentation, teams work with a Wharton professor on developing the necessary skills to make an effective venture capital pitch.

The top three teams win prizes of $5,000, $3,500 and $1,500, respectively. Additionally, there are four Name Prizes awarded by sponsor companies to teams of their choosing.

According to past competitors, the most valuable takeaway from PennVention is the mentorship

program. PennVention has an extensive alumni network of over 65 entrepreneurs in various fields across the world. Notable PennVention alumni include projects such as uBeam, BioBots, Fever Smart, GoogolPlex, GovPredict and Identified Technologies.

“Our goal is that our alumni will be able to be successful, either with this idea or some other idea,” Gintzler said. He added that many teams who do not make it past the initial round continue to work on their ideas after PennVention.

“We like to think of PennVention as the early stage in where these teams are headed. We do our best to nudge these teams along to get them from the idea stage to actually having a marketable product,” CoDirector and College junior Ben Feis said.

Dosed, one of the 25 semifinalist projects, is a mobile solution intended to revolutionize how Type I diabetics manage and track their insulin dosage. It also helps loved ones stay alert about the status of their family members and how clinicians may observe and treat their patients.

Dosed was co-founded by Wharton senior Daniel Fine and his brother Jake, who suffers from Type I diabetes. From Jake’s experience, the brothers learned that the difficulty for many diabetes patients is not in doing the math, but in estimating how many carbohydrates a food item actually contains.

Dosed has two ma in

components. The first is a calculator that uses several algorithms to compute how much insulin a patient needs based on the number of carbohydrates they’ve consumed and their blood glucose levels. The second is a database of menus from 525 of the nation’s most prominent restaurant chains, in addition to a half million different food items.

When a user eats out, the app uses location services to automatically load that restaurant’s menu.

For Fine, who has started other ventures on his own, competing in PennVention has been a lot of fun.

“It adds another factor to the excitement of what we’re creating and what we’re doing.” Fine said.

“Something I like specifically about PennVention is that it gives people the incentive to commercialize concepts. A lot of people at Penn have ideas in general ... but the actual creation and implementation of a business is limited.”

Similarly, semifinalist Harrison Xue, Wharton MBA candidate and co-founder of Avenue One, has found building his business on Penn’s campus to be a “tremendous” experience due to the research, knowledge and resources readily available.

Avenue One is a consumer analytics company that helps companies test their new apparel products with prospective customers before they launch. The results will help designers and retailers optimize assortment decisions and reduce excess inventory.

“Instead of paying for expensive

inventory to find out if a new design will be successful, we help leverage existing e-commerce channels to pre-sell three to five samples and use data mining, modeling and statistics to predict what to expect if a product is launched,” Xue said.

Avenue One co-founder and Wharton MBA candidate Pietro Lomazzi, a former model, found through his experience in fashion retail that the assortment process is usually very inefficient and often lacks analysis.

“Designers don’t have direct feedback from the market. In some sense, we’re trying to connect those two worlds and let them talk,” he said.

“The question of what to include

in your inventory and what not to include involved a lot of guesswork, and that’s still true today,” Xue said. “Our philosophy is to focus on small data. We believe there’s a lot of companies chasing after very big and complex analysis, and we want to focus on finding the most simple, most straightforward analytics that makes business sense.”

Regardless of the competition’s outcome, both teams said they are planning on moving forward with their companies.

“We’re taking a very long term approach to this business because I think we’re solving a massively complex problem that no one has been able to effectively address since the dawn of retail,” Xue said.

WHATSGOODLY

Halper said his team is working to prevent malicious content by using moderators to delete inappropriate posts. The app also allows users to flag inappropriate content so it can be deleted and so the poster can be banned. Halper said that as Whatsgoodly’s audience has grown, the quality of the posts has too, citing Stanford and other schools that were early adopters. He described the negative content as a “growing pain” for the company.

“Users, if they continually abuse the feed, then we have to suspend them. But generally we’ve noticed that users just kind of self-regulate after that initial period and content overall becomes a lot more high quality, interesting, meaningful and less about bullying and targeting specific people,” he said.

The app initially launched at Stanford’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, before spreading to Chapman University and University

of California San Diego. Now the app has spread to colleges including New York University, Columbia University, University of Michigan and University of Virginia, among other schools. College sophomore Kamber Moss helped bring the app to Penn, which he started promoting at his fraternity, Theos.

Moss said he initially heard about the app from Halper, who he knew from high school at the Brentwood School in Los Angeles. Now, as the campus representative for the app, he hopes it will spread beyond the Greek community.

Moss said his favorite poll was one that asked which sorority would win in a fight. He said Alpha Chi Omega won the poll.

Moss uses the same term as Halper to describe issues with content, calling them “growing pains.”

“Most of the really mean comments — not like the lighthearted comments, but the really mean comments ... let’s say like 95 percent of the user base does not make those comments, but like 5 percent do, so their accounts just get banned,” Moss said.

“Closely monitoring the polls is just the best way to combat that,” he added, “and as we’ve seen with the Stanford growth, when you start with a really small base, there are a lot of inside jokes and jokes about specific people, but as the base grows, the questions start to encompass a lot more people and you don’t get as many specific person questions.”

However, a sophomore — who asked to remain anonymous because of her sorority affiliation — said the controversial nature of the posts is key to Whatsgoodly’s success.

“It’s interesting to see things that are hurtful to other people. The more controversial it is, the more views it’s going to get,” the sophomore, who has been mentioned on the app, said.

“The more restrictions they put on the questions that people ask, the less people are going to be offended, and the sooner it’s going to die out,” she added.

As a result, she believes the app’s future comes down to a decision about whether to prioritize the business interests of the app and the interests of the general user base, or the interests of the people who are mentioned in the app.

“There’s a decision to be made with regards to whether the entertainment of the many is worth the hurt that this is going to inflict on the few,” she said.

She said the app contributes to insecurity, both among those who are mentioned, and those who are not.

“The funniest thing is that people are actually offended that they aren’t mentioned,” she said.

The sophomore compared the app to Notice, an anonymous messaging board that was popular last year. “It kind of just faded away,” she said of the app. “Eventually, I think they all do.”

When asked if she will continue using the app, the sophomore said, “Yes, until the questions get boring.”

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answer questions. In the company’s project overview on AngelList, a platform that connects angel investors with startups, the team wrote, “Whether students want to know what bar everyone’s going to tonight, or which class has the more interesting professor (or less homework),” Whatsgoodly is an app for them.

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jobs in nonprofits offer better “work-life balance,” something hard to get in the corporate world.

Indi Eka naya ke, a 2013 Graduate School of Education graduate, has been working for Teach For America since graduating. He studied health care insurance as an undergraduate but did not continue down that path because he wanted to do service for others.

“For me, a big motivation is to help someone’s life to be better,” Ekanayake said. “We can help build systems that help students realize their potential, and that’s much more rewarding than just making money.”

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For many students, the lure of the corporate world has long been a draw over things like nonprofit work. But in the past few years, the University has taken steps to support students interested in nonprofit careers.

David Grossman , director of Civic House and the Civic Scholars Program, said there are plenty of resources available to students, including the Civic House Philadelphia Nonprofit Internship Program and summer funding at Career Services for nonprofit-related work.

“Over the years, there are more funds available for students to do nonprofit work.

Apart from the programs at the Civic House, there is also the Wharton Social Impact, the Public Policy [Initiative] and so on,” he said. “This year we have the President’s Engagement Prizes, which is an award given by the school to encourage students to work for the common good after they graduate.”

Grossman noted that the obsession with business at Penn shouldn’t interfere with students’ intention to explore different options. “Pre-professionalism isn’t exclusive to traditional for-profit careers.

It is important to inform our students of the broad variety of opportunities and create the perception that there are a lot of alternatives to just making money,” he said.

But making money may not always be an issue in the nonprofit sector.

According to career survey reports from Career Services, Penn alumni who graduated more than 10 years ago and are now working in nonprofits can earn an amount comparable to the salary in the consulting

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industry. Average pay for entrylevel positions in nonprofits also increased 9.4 percent from 2013 to 2014, compared to roughly a 1 percent increase in financial services and an 8.6 percent decrease in consulting.

“There are certain industries that are never going to pay as high as others, but there have been several jumps in salary in recent years, including nonprofits,” Career Services Senior Associate Di re ctor Cla i re Klieger said. “You can now certainly make a living out of this, and most people choose to do it because they think the work is important and meaningful.”

Klieger also pointed out that

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Houston Hall, Bodek Lounge 3417 Spruce Street How do the political participation, the cultural assimilation, the philosophical perspective, and the overall identity of the Jewish people in Europe differ from their cousins in the U.S.? What in their future seems likely to be common and what may well be very different? How have the existence and policies of Israel—a land outside the boundaries of both continents and yet central to the consciousness of all Jews—affected these conclusions? These questions become critical considering the latest episodes of terrorism in various European countries.

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OPINION Passing the torch: mentorship in black leadership

TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 37 131st Year of Publication

MATT MANTICA President JILL CASTELLANO Editor-in-Chief SHAWN KELLEY Ornery Irish Bastard LUKE CHEN Director of Online Projects LAUREN FEINER City News Editor KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor STEVEN TYDINGS Social Media Director PAOLA RUANO Copy Editor RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor HOLDEN MCGINNIS Sports Editor LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor

THE VISION | Fostering relationships with younger students in our community is essential to make a lasting impact

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n his senior year, Rasool Berry, co-founder of UMOJA, wrote a senior thesis entitled, “The Black Student Experience At Penn: What Every Black Student Should Know.” When writing his thesis, Berry examined the legacy and stories of several black leaders who have been key to founding some of the most impactful organizations in our community. He also pinpointed the advice and lessons from their stories that could be imparted into the new generation of black leadership. In reflecting on what black leadership meant to him, Berry wrote, “The process of struggle has gradually directed the students, especially student leaders, to redefine themselves in the racial context they have inherited, as well as shift their primary focus in life from selfcentered to community-centered in many outstanding cases.”

Fast forward to today; when thinking about leadership in the black community, service and tradition come in a cycle, with

the older generation willing to pull up the younger to achieve new heights. If you talk to many of the seniors in the black community now, their journey in

importantly, catalysts of change for black students on campus.

Without individuals encouraging us to run for the board, and without support and help from

and truly examine the intrinsic ability that we all have to make a difference.

Developing this relationship is imperative to our common

The conversation must change from how much one belongs, to what a person is willing to devote to the community if given the chance.” leadership began with someone seeing the potential they had to become a great servant to their community and reaching out to expand upon that success.

For both of us, our path to leadership began in similar ways: Someone in our sophomore year examining our potential and telling us what we could achieve if we put our minds to it. Whether it was cultivated during a retreat for black leaders or after a meeting on student government, we both had an individual hone in on our undeveloped ability to become co-chairs of UMOJA and more

both students and faculty members, we wouldn’t have been able to accomplish even a percentage of what we have done on campus now.

It was in these very same moments that we also understood that our positions mean nothing if we are not enabling others to get to the same level. We realized that our positions are not just meant to fill a space; they are meant to empower and mentor members of the black community to the best of our ability. That has required us to embrace people from different backgrounds

goals because without it we will continue to face the systemic problems that plague our community on a regular basis. Sometimes, it takes a person who has come before us and faced these issues in the past to warn us of the pitfalls, so that the next generation can achieve even bigger and better things.

It is also important to remember that the exact goals that we strive for may be shared by those who we least expect it from. That means incorporation of people who may not be considered members of the community. The

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the diaspora to succeed, it requires all of us to pass the torch and light the next flame that will burn after we leave Penn.

DENZEL CUMMINGS AND RAY CLARK are a College senior and sophomore respectively. Their email addresses are denzelcu@ sas.upenn.edu and rayclark95@gmail.com.

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conversation must change from how much one belongs to what a person is willing to devote to the community if given the chance.

It is our job to practice inclusivity because without unity, we all fail.

When we fail to pass on initiatives, organizations of great historical importance or simply the lessons we’ve learned while navigating this space for four years, we fail to pass the torch to our contemporaries. This can lead to us as a community being stagnant or even losing the progress that was built on the backs of those who have given their blood, sweat and tears to ensure black students would have a space on campus. We cannot allow ourselves to drop the torch that we’ve been carrying without passing it on to the next generation.

At the end of the day, we were able to make an impact on campus because someone laid the foundation for us to do so.

Whether African-American, Caribbean or African we are all a part of the diaspora. In order for

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GUEST COLUMN BY JADE HUYNH AND LAUREN BALLESTER

istorically, students have been at the forefront of change by demanding accountability from their own institutions. Penn students are no exception.

In 1981, a broad group of students formed a divestment coalition, calling on the Penn Board of Trustees to divest its holdings from companies that conducted business in apartheid South Africa. In 2006, Penn unanimously voted to divest from companies complicit in the Darfur genocide. A month ago, Penn students voted overwhelmingly to divest from fossil fuel companies. We are especially poised to demand change in this moment because of the financial power that our University holds in its $9.6 billion endowment. Unfortunately, Penn makes money by investing in corporations, and too many corporations make money from hurting people and communities.

Corporations profit from displacing people by running private prisons that disproportionately incarcerate black, Latino and indigenous people. Security firms run immigration detention centers in the United States that separate families and abuse people. Oil and mining companies contaminate water and land by building pipelines and mines on Native lands. Machinery companies manufacture equipment to conduct mountaintop removal coal-mining in Appalachia that contaminates natural resources and displaces working-class communities.

Other bulldozers are created

to demolish homes, and computer systems are designed to restrict the movement of marginalized communities both at home and abroad — immigrants in the U.S., and Palestinians under occupation. And weapon manufacturers sell drones that target Muslim communities.

We believe that it is imperative that our administration be held accountable and make ethical decisions re-

of America (CCA): largest private prison company in the U.S. Caterpillar: Produces both weaponized bulldozers designed to demolish Palestinian homes in the West Bank and equipment used by coal companies for mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.: Produces drones that terrorize

family members deported.

Among us are students of color who have had experiences with incarcerated loved ones. Palestinian students at Penn are affected by the Israeli Occupation, and some are refugees. Trans and queer people of color and those who are disabled are disproportionately affected by mass incarceration.

By beginning the movement to hold our University ac-

We believe that it is imperative that our administration be held accountable and make ethical decisions regarding Penn’s endowment.” garding Penn’s endowment.

As an open group of dedicated Penn students representing eight student groups, Penn Divest from Displacement is calling on the Penn Board of Trustees to withdraw investments from companies that profit off of displacement. With the help of research conducted by organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee and Human Rights Watch, we have identified seven companies as having committed egregious and well-documented human rights abuses related to the displacement of peoples.

Many of these companies have been targeted by other campaigns for their abuses: Group 4 Securicor (G4S): world’s largest global private prison and for-profit security company Corrections Corporation

Muslim communities in South Asia and the Middle East Penn Divest From Displacement calls on the Board of Trustees to ensure that no future investments in securities, endowments, mutual funds and other monetary instruments are made in these companies, and that students have greater control and oversight on investments of our endowment.

As a broad coalition of student groups who represent communities targeted by these companies, we seek to create awareness amongst other Penn students who care about these issues because their families are being directly impacted by them, and students who refuse to allow their tuition dollars to fund displacement. Among the Penn community there are students who are undocumented and who have had

countable for investing in companies that profit from displacing members of our communities, we are continuing a legacy of Penn students demanding change and accountability from their university.

Signed, Penn Amnesty International, Penn Arab Student Society (PASS), Penn Disability Advocates, Penn for Immigrant Rights (PIR), Penn Non-Cis, Penn Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) and Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation (SOUL)

JADE HUYNH AND LAUREN BALLESTER are a College junior and Engineering senior respectively. Their email addresses are nhuynh@sas. upenn.edu and ballau@seas. upenn.edu.

sk many people, and they will tell you that journalism has an iden-

tity crisis.

Whether it’s the increasing number of comments on The Daily Pennsylvanian website lamenting the loss of journalistic integrity, or the fall of once highly trusted national personalities like Brian Williams, it is clear that we are suffering from a persistent problem. Put simply, the American public doesn’t trust, or understand, what journalists do.

It’s easy for even those of us who aspire to be a part of the profession to harbor a sort of disdain for the current media climate. Much of it is due to the same old frameworks that tirelessly haunt our public dialogues.

In the aftermath of airline tragedies like Malaysian Airlines Flights 17 and 370, information about the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash came out very quickly. Once it had been discovered that an individual co-pilot was responsible for the “deliberate” crash, the same trite questions of mental health came into play: How do we stop the mentally ill from harming others? Rather, the questions we should be asking, are if our view — and coverage — of mental illness is so stigmatized that it would lead someone to hide their condition from their employers.

Our racial debates are also no exception to this problematic framing. At first, it was almost disturbing to see the change in journalistic tone post-Ferguson.

Everything suddenly became a black-versus-white issue, with many left caught in the middle.

I was angered at what seemed like countless clickbait articles, hoping to simply get audience attention by latching on to the surging racial unrest in the country. “Black man found hanging from Mississippi tree,” “Bloody arrest of black student at UVA,” “Are white students learning hate on campus?” are snippets of some of the most recent story titles in such a vein.

The issues are by no means new, and unfortunately, happen all the time. Do reporters really care about stories like these all of a sudden, or is it just about readership numbers?

Here is where suspicion of the journalist comes in. Some argue that we shouldn’t even be covering these stories in the first place. With race for example, many white Americans feel that racism towards them is more of a problem than racism towards blacks, according to an op-ed piece by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. My hesitance on the other hand,

KATIERA SORDJAN was how disingenuous I perceived these conversations to really be. I didn’t trust that the polished and primped reporters on channels like CNN really cared that men who looked like my brother or cousin were being mistreated in their own hometowns and schools.

We should be critical of media reporting rather than simply be passive consumers. We must also move past idle criticism of these conversations. Instead of dismissing them entirely we need to take advantage of their place at the forefront of discussion. Now that they are in the open, it is up to us as citizens and consumers to reform this dialogue.

We need to be constantly reminded of the pervasiveness of mental health stigma in our culture. We need to be aware that racism in America is far from a thing of the past, relegated to historical legacies of slavery and Jim Crow. Our social media platforms and increasing connectedness have not destroyed journalism as we know it, but have allowed us to be part of a two-way street when it comes to circulating, and correcting, information. And as any journalist knows, sources are everything.

At Penn, we are no strangers to being amidst a vocal student body. Our concerns about mental health, for example, are not just limited to our campus media environment, but have expanded to local and even national dialogues. By and large, the news depends on a body of active and engaged citizens. It is easy to tune out the frenzy of noise around us. But so long as we remain silent about the true issues that affect us, we cannot hope to change the course of the discussion. The upcoming generation of journalists will have the challenge of re-earning the trust of the people. But all of us have the responsibility to be critically invested in reshaping a public sphere that reflects our true values and concerns.

KATIERA SORDJAN is a College junior from New York studying communication.

Her email address is skati@ sas.upenn.edu. “The Melting Pot” appears every other Tuesday.

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and controversial issues if we commit ourselves as a community to respecting diverse perspectives or beliefs of others,” she added.

Gut ma n n bel ieves t hat freedom of speech is most vulnerable when it involves unpopular speech.

“The challenge of free speech is when there is speech you really don’t like and we have to live up to that challenge,” Gutmann said.

“We have to stand by free speech when it’s offensive speech, as well as when it’s speech we like.”

Gutmann conceded, though, that there are limitations to free speech that must be considered, including threatening others or falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater. She added that the context in which the statements are taken must be examined carefully.

Regardless of whether certain speech is protected by the first amendment, Gutmann says that everyone has a responsibility to respond to speech they do not like.

“The right to free speech is often defended without the understanding that it comes along with the responsibility, when we can and as long as we’re protected, to speak our minds in response to

offensive, sometimes disgusting and demeaning speech,” she said.

When a video surfaced earlier this month of members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter shouting racist chants, the school’s president, David L. Boren, took swift action. Boren, a former governor and senator, quickly severed the university’s ties with the SAE chapter and expelled two students involved.

“To those who have misused their free speech in such a reprehensible way, I have a message for you,” Boren wrote in a letter to all students, faculty and staff at OU. “You are disgraceful. You have violated all that we stand for.

You should not have the privilege of calling yourselves ‘Sooners’.”

Boren, who also joined hundreds of OU students in a public protest, was later criticized for violating the First Amendment rights of the SAE students and punishing them for speaking in a private setting.

When asked if she agreed with Boren’s decision to punish the students for their chants, Gutmann declined to take a side.

“There are facts of that matter that I am not privy to and I wouldn’t want to speak on a particular action like that,“ she said.

“As I said, it’s very context specific.”

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program and whether they liked it,” Mertz said. “We’ll be doing pre- and post-tests where we’ll be measuring if there has been any change in their knowledge or their ideas.”

Undergraduate Assembly memb er s Tr av is Shingledecker and Jane Meyer worked closely with collaborators to decide on a peer-led program because they believe

that student educators will be able to connect with their peers in a way that will promote dialogue and create a com for table envi ron ment, they said.

PAVE will teach different intervention strategies with students, such as how to intervene when they see a threat of sexual assault, as well as what to do if a friend confides that they have been sexually assaulted.

“Students to a certain extent want to feel empowered in a

real situation. They want to walk away from a training session with skills they can use in the real world,” Meyer said.

Despite researching preexisting programs that focus on bystander intervention, collaborators of the program ultimately decided to develop their own curriculum in order to tailor the workshops to Penn’s culture and resources.

Meyer added that hearing about some of her peers’ experiences with sexual assault at Penn was part of the reason

that this issue is so important to her.

“Hearing these anecdotes and how they could have been helped in a situation, or how they didn’t know which resources to access, made it a priority even more so in terms of something that I wanted to work on,” Meyer said.

The official application deadline was Monday, but Mertz encourages any students interested in getting involved to reach out for more information.

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Mayor Nutter not sold on PILOT agreements Nutter disagrees with Council’s endorsement DAN SPINELLI Staff Reporter

Despite City Council’s endorsement of PILOTs in last week’s resolution, Mayor Michael Nutter is not so easily convinced of their benefit.

On Thursday, the Council approved a resolution asking the mayor to request PILOTs, or payments in lieu of taxes, from “mega-nonprofits” in the area.

PILOTs are contributions that nonprofits can make to local governments to account for the usage of essential city services like trash removal and fire protection.

Under Pennsylvania state law, nonprofits like Penn are exempt from paying property taxes.

Renewed calls for PILOT agreements come in the midst of an $80 million budget deficit in the School District of Philadelphia.

Property taxes go in large part towards funding public schools.

The resolution, which was introduced by 1986 College graduate and Councilman W. Wilson Goodeok, passed on a 15-1 vote.

Despite its landslide approval in the Council, Nutter has not expressed support for PILOTs. “I don’t think a PILOT program here or, demonstrated in any other city, is the kind of sustainable, long-term, serious funding that our school system needs,” Nutter told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Saturday.

The mayor also emphasized that he “can’t order the nonprofits to give us money for anything.” PILOTs are, as Nutter suggests, voluntary payments.

Absent a change in the tax code affecting nonprofits, the decision to make voluntary contributions to the city rests ultimately with the nonprofit institution itself.

However, PILOT agreements have existed in the past in Philadelphia.

From 1995 to 2000, former Mayor Ed Rendell’s administration set up a PILOT agreement with major nonprofits in the city.

Under that plan, Penn contributed $1.93 million annually.

Rendell, a 1965 College graduate and instructor in the Fels Institute of Government, has remained supportive of greater nonprofit contributions to the city government.

In a 2013 Philadelphia Inquirer article, he said, “It’s hard to say the University of Pennsylvania is a charity.” Rendell and others have argued that large nonprofits like Penn that do not act as charities should not receive such generous tax exemptions.

The University has remained staunchly against PILOT payments. Penn officials have cited the University’s $800,000 annual contribution to the Penn Alexander School, a total of $106 million in revenue through taxes in the 2014 fiscal year and

other programs and initiatives in public schools, like the Lea School, as evidence of Penn’s contributions to the city.

The Student Labor Action Project is the principle force on campus behind the movement for Penn to pay PILOTs. Members of SLAP spoke with Councilman Goode about the resolution, and College sophomore and SLAP member Devan Spear testified in front of the Council last week about the issue.

SLAP members view Mayor Nutter’s reticence to request PILOT payments as counterintuitive to funding the school district.

“We don’t know why he wouldn’t want this funding if he could get it,” Engineering sophomore and SLAP member Lucas Dagostino said.

Dagostino agreed with Nutter that “other sources of funding are important and that PILOTs [alone] won’t solve the funding deficit.” However, nonprofits like Penn should be held accountable, Dagostino added.

“Regardless of Mayor Nutter’s opinion, the vast majority of City Council wants PILOTs,” he said.

Nutter acknowledged to the Inquirer that he would still review the resolution.

The coming mayoral election could shift government support of PILOTs. Several mayoral candidates — including Doug Oliver, Jim Kenney and Nelson Diazall — have all gone on the record supporting PILOT payments, with the other major candidates broadly supporting greater nonprofit contributions as well.

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3:00 – 5:00 p.m., reception to follow Fitts Auditorium | University of Pennsylvania Law School The study of risk management across a variety of domains is an essential part of policymaking today. From public health to national security, market analysis, and natural disaster emergency response, the question of how to assess and to respond to risks is of the utmost importance.

The purpose of this Symposium is to foster multi-disciplinary and inter-professional conversation about risk perception and strategies of emergency management. The panelists will engage in a conversation about emergency preparedness and how our perceptions of risk factor into those efforts.

Panelists:

• Professor P.J. Brennan, M.D. Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for the University of Pennsylvania Health System • Lieutenant General (Ret.) Russel Honoré Led the Department of Defense Task Force in response to Hurricane Katrina • Professor Dan Kahan Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School, specializing in risk perception • Vice President Maureen Rush, M.S., CPP Vice President for Public Safety, University of Pennsylvania

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• Professor Claire Finkelstein Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Founder and Director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law

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U.S. in 2000, dos Santos majored in translation in her hometown of Sao Paulo and then worked at a translation center, handling simultaneous interpretation, transliteration of contracts and even volunteer work in disadvantaged communities.

She got married and moved to America at 25 years old, first teaching Portuguese at Montgomery County Community College.

Penn is “completely different from a community college” — students here are younger, dedicated and vibrant, “so it was a good transition,” she said. Dos Santos made that transition in 2010 after having her daughter, and now plays concurrent roles as parent and part-time lecturer, handling two to three classes per semester.

She said she is most fulfilled when she sees her students’ learning come to fruition. “I think the most interesting part is seeing the students at the end of the semester being able to communicate and fulfill their goals,” she said, “seeing some of the students going abroad, saying [they] used a lot of the things we did in class, seeing how much they accomplish.”

Christine Moisset-Edelstein – the Course Coordinator Language of Instruction: French An emblematic Parisienne, Christine Moisset-Edelstein is known for her understated elegance. As course coordinator for the first two levels of French language, she is a fierce champion of language instruction and is critical of what she sees as its second-fiddle role to literature in her department.

“Some universities value language professors,” she said, by creating tenure-track professorships for them. Penn does not do this, she explained, and has a tendency to place a higher premium on literature professors despite the fact that the language professors essentially initiate their pupils.

“They wouldn’t have students if we weren’t here,” she said plainly. Moreover, she continued, it is “difficult to get ahead professionally when teaching so much — you can’t really do research.”

However, Moisset-Edelstein has no intention of departing any time soon; “If I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t be here,” the 25-year veteran pointed out.

She discovered her love of teaching French after earning her master’s degree in France and coming to the United States on an exchange program. She enrolled in graduate school at Penn, eventually completing a doctorate in French linguistics. As course coordinator, a position she has held since 2000, she manages a laundry list of duties, including drawing up lesson plans, choosing textbooks, training new instructors and holding weekly meetings to incorporate everyone’s input.

“My favorite part [of Penn] has a lot to do with the department,” which has a high number of native speakers, she said. “I get to speak French every day with my colleagues,” she continued. “I would not work at a smaller institution where I would not speak my language.”

not be reluctant,” she said of her students.

Though DiMaggio overflows with palpable zeal for Italian, it took her some time to decide to pursue Italian Studies. She originally was a “full-force” journalism major, she said, and went on to get a master’s degree in magazine writing from New York University. However, she soon underwent a “quarter-life crisis” and had to reexamine what she wanted — “I dreaded my journalism classes and always looked forward to my Italian classes,” she said of her time at NYU. She decided to get a second master’s degree, this time in Italian Studies from Florida State University, and discovered there that she loved teaching. When looking for a Ph.D. program, she found Penn offered the most nurturing and welcoming environment. In graduate studies, a good mentor “makes all the difference in getting a job, lobbying for you,” she explained, and she found one at Penn in Dante specialist Kevin Brownlee.

DiMaggio’s own research is on Dante’s work, and she has plans to eventually teach both Italian language and literature; her plans for this summer involve tracking down a citation in an old manuscript in Milan, Italy. “I just like the experience of teaching every day,” she enthused. She gets to know her students more and more each day through Italian, she explained, by virtue of the constant interaction inherent in language learning. “The experience of that one-hour [class] lifts my spirits,” she said.

Antonio Esposito – the Undergraduate Chair Language of Instruction: Catalan, Spanish Antonio Esposito’s charisma immediately engulfs visitors that come to his small office on Williams’ fifth floor. The acting Undergraduate Chair of the Hispanic Studies Program, Esposito specializes in Hispanic historical linguistics and how culture influences language development.

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“When I first started teaching, there were more literature courses,” McMahon said, whose specialization is in medieval French literature. “Over the years, I grew interested in language pedagogy,” she said, and only “in the late 70s and 80s ... it was coming into its own as a field of research.”

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Vijay Kumar, a professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and a researcher in robotics, is set to take the helm of the school when he replaces Dean Eduardo Glandt beginning June 1.

Kumar has held several administrative positions in the Engineering School during his time, including director of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab and chair of the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics department.

The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Kumar to hear about his plans for the future of the Engineering School and the field of technology.

The Daily Pennsylvanian: You’ve done some outstanding work in robotics — what have you found most rewarding in your work here at Penn?

Vijay Kumar: That’s easy — working with students. If you think about it, this is the only job where you can work with the youngest and smartest people and watch them grow. At the same time you can have them contribute to a vision that you have in research. Penn in particular is very special: The undergraduate students are off-scale.

DP: What are your goals as dean of the Engineering School next semester?

VK: I’d really like to increase the footprint that technology has on campus. Technology is playing a more important role in our lives and society, and it’s only natural that we make sure technology plays a bigger role on campus. I also think a goal is that Penn Engineering has a bigger footprint outside of campus — I’d love to increase the number of faculty, research space and students.

DP: What do you mean by increasing the footprint of technology?

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Saturday proved to feature the first choppy waters of the season for Penn women’s rowing.

The annual Connell Cup race saw Penn lose out to Yale and Columbia in the varsity eight race on the Schuylkill on Saturday.

The race, originally scheduled to be held on Columbia’s training grounds in Overpeck County Park in New Jersey, had to be moved to the Schuylkill due to excessive ice.

Despite the unexpected home advantage, Penn’s main varsity eight was unable to reclaim its second

place finish from last year, as it fell behind Columbia.

Penn finished with a time of 6:34, behind Columbia’s 6:28 finish. Last year’s winner, Yale, had no difficulties defending the cup, as it finished comfortably ahead of its Ivy rivals with an impressive 6:12 time.

The main varsity eight race was the last in a series of races on Saturday between the three crews, which included two more varsity eight races (one without Columbia) as well as two varsity four races.

Yale rowed to victory in the lot, finishing comfortably ahead of both Penn and Columbia. In three of the races, Penn was able to show strength by overcoming Columbia by narrow margins.

Only in the main varsity four race were the Quakers able to mount a challenge against the Bulldogs, where Penn finished with a time of 7:03, eight seconds shy of the winning boat which finished at 6:55.

Penn was able to edge Columbia in each race other than the varsity eight, although the two teams were very evenly matched throughout the day, often finishing with only seconds between each other.

In the third varsity eight race, which only included Penn and Yale, Penn finished 36 seconds behind Yale’s 6:26 with a time of 7:02.

Next weekend, Penn women’s rowing will race in the Orange Challenge Cup.

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Overall, the Quakers placed 36th out of the 52 teams competing in the championships.

The team tallied the most points of the five Ivy League schools in attendance, besting Columbia, Harvard, Princeton and Yale.

In addition to the 1650, Swanson swam in the preliminary 500-yard freestyle, while Schultz swam in the preliminary round for the 50-, 100- and 200-yard freestyle races. However, both failed to advance.

The meet — which took place in Iowa City over the weekend — marked a historic event for the Red and Blue, as it represented the first time since 1971 that the team sent two swimmers to compete at the championships.

Schultz qualified for NCAAs for the first time in his career after swimming well at the Ivy League Championships last month whereas Swanson swam

his A-cut time back in December, making 2015 his third appearance in as many seasons.

For Schultz, swim m ing against the best in the nation was a valuable opportunity. “It was a really eye-opening experience for me,� Schultz said. “I have never been at a meet where the swimmers are at this caliber, and [NCAAs are] probably one of the best meets in the world. “Seeing such high levels of talent gets me hungry for next year’s season.�

The Quakers’ performance at the event comes after a respectable fourth-place finish at Ivies in February. “The three teams that finished ahead of us at Ivies — Harvard, Yale and Princeton — are all very talented and present their own unique challenges,� coach Mike Schnur said. “However, with that said, it was very satisfying as a coach to see us place at the top of the Ivy League at the NCAA national championships.�

As the season comes to a

close, Schnur expects Penn’s swimmers to maintain their form over the offseason, as many of the team’s members will be training for non-collegiate events, such as the US National Championships in August and the qualifying events for the 2016 Olympic trials. “A lot of our guys are working towards a spot in Omaha [the site of next summer’s Olympic trials], so they will be training hard this offseason,�

Schnur said.

While the team had its fair share of strong performances this season, it seems realistic to suggest that the Quakers will come out even stronger next year. “Next year’s freshman class is shaping up to be one of the strongest set of recruits in recent memory,� Schnur said. “If the incoming freshmen just follow the lead of the more experienced swimmers, we will have a great shot at repeating and hopefully exceeding our results from this season.�

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awkward bounce caught the Dartmouth right fielder by surprise as he fumbled the ball, allowing Campbell to score, giving Penn the walk-off victory.

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The second game would not bounce Penn’s way, however.

After RBI by senior catcher Austin Bossart and senior first baseman Matt McKinnon staked Penn out to a 2-0 lead, the bullpen squandered a scoreless seven innings by sophomore pitcher Mike Reitcheck, as

two relievers combined to give up four runs in the eighth and ninth innings.

Penn would get its momentum back, however, in its first game against the Crimson (10-12, 0-4) on Monday with a fantastic start by senior pitcher Ronnie Glenn. After

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Junior outfielder Gary Tesch provided walk-off magic in Penn’s 4-3 victory over Dartmouth in its first game on Saturday, one of the Quakers’ three final-inning victories of the weekend.

giving up a run in the first inning, Glenn proceeded to reel off eight scoreless innings, striking out five along the way to save the bullpen in what would become an extra-inning game.

“That’s a little higher pitch count than my arm’s used to,” Glenn said, laughing. “But that’s what we condition for. I’ll work hard this week to get my body ready for next week, that’s for sure.”

The game stretched into the ninth inning of what was originally intended to be a seven-inning game. Junior second baseman Ryan Mincher walked to lead off the bottom of the ninth, and after advancing to third base, senior left fielder Connor Betbeze drove him in for the walk-off win.

That was just part of a banner weekend for Betbeze, who batted a torrid .615 (8-for-13) in this weekend’s action.

Betbeze began the weekend batting seventh, but he later moved all the way to the leadoff spot by the end of Monday.

“I’d really like to lead Connor [Betbeze] off,” Yurkow said. “I’d like to move everybody else back in the lineup. I’d love to have him at the top of the order.”

The Quakers took the field again

for their final game on Monday afternoon. With McKinnon on third in the bottom of the ninth, Tesch stepped up to the plate with the chance to play the hero once again.

He did not disappoint.

Tesch singled, driving McKinnon over to third base. And, like the previous day, Penn found a stroke of good luck when Harvard’s left fielder fumbled the ball, allowing McKinnon to score to give Penn the win.

“You know, [pressure situations]

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While the weekend certainly brought him plenty of stress, Yurkow isn’t complaining about the results.

“This team’s starting to show some toughness late in games,” Yurkow said. “And really, if you’re going to be in championships, you’ve got to find a way to be in close games. You’ve got to find a way to win them.”

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n the midst of 30 degree weather at last Saturday’s Penn men’s lacrosse game at Franklin Field, I found myself asking an important question while I still had sensation in my fingers and toes.

As I watched the Red and Blue fall to No. 9 Yale, 15-7, I wondered what specifically makes this year’s squad different from the Ivy title winning team from last year?

It’s easy to say it’s because of the group that graduated in 2014.

Last year, they were a critical part of the Quakers’ success, and now they are no longer around.

One senior in particular made his mark on the Red and Blue, and the squad has struggled to

find a successor up to his caliber.

Former goalkeeper Brian Feeney played almost every minute possible during his four-year tenure at Penn.

Junior Jimmy Sestilio and senior John Lopes have split time in goal for Penn so far this season.

Both have performed well, but not well enough to give the Quakers a winning record midway through the 2015 campaign.

However, it is too simplistic to put all the weight on these two players, and the problem on that end of the field can be attributed to the defense as a whole.

If Sestilio and Lopes were able to stop every shot fired their way then yes, the Red and Blue would be winning more games. But the Quakers’ problems on defense extend far beyond that.

Saturday’s performance against Yale was the “low-water mark� for Penn’s defense, according to coach

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Senior goalkeeper John Lopes has split time with junior Jimmy Sestilio between the pipes for the Red and Blue this season. Only one season removed from the departure of goalkeeper Brian Feeney, the Quakers have struggled to find consistency on the defensive end.

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back to the success it knows it can achieve. “We are not as good defensively as we were last year,� Murphy said. “We led the country in defense two years ago, and last year we were good. But last year, we call timeout, and we had six seniors and a junior on the field. “This year, only one of those guys is playing, so there is only one back there who is experienced.

The realistic assessment of who we are defensively is somewhere in between [the performances against Yale and Cornell].�

It is clear the Red and Blue have the skill and potential. It is just a matter of displaying it on the field to produce a win, even if they are not the squad they were last year.

So, as spring blossoms and life and growth emerge out of the dead of winter, perhaps the Quakers can do the same and change the direction of their season.

ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN is a College junior from New York City and is a senior sports reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian. She can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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achieve a winning record, the defense needs to perform more like it did in Ithaca and less like it did on Saturday. It needs to prevent its opponents from taking so many quality shots and therefore lighten

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As my 10-year-old loudmouthed bleacher companion yelled on Saturday, “What kind of defense is this? Who plays defense away from the ball?�

My new friend, in his youth, simplified the situation. But his analysis was not wrong.

Murphy offered a more nuanced assessment to the problem, but it fits right in line with my little neighbor’s view. The former attributed the breakdown to the defense as a whole, saying “There were maybe only three out of 15 [scores] that the goalies might have been able to get.�

Yale outshot the Red and Blue 36-29 on Saturday, and though Penn actually made more saves than the Bulldogs, Yale claimed the victory because of its ability to work around the Quakers’ defense and shoot well and frequently.

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On Sunday, Penn basketball recruit and Lower Merion High School senior Jule Brown decommited from the program >> SEE PAGE 13

After a subpar start to the season, Penn men’s lacrosse needs a turnaround on the defensive end >> SEE PAGE 14 TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015

This Weekend’s Top Ten 3. Men’s Swimming

1. Baseball

For the first time since 1971, Penn sent two swimmers to NCAA Championships. Juniors Eric Shultz and Chris Swanson took part in the event, with Swanson finishing 11th overall in the 1650-meter freestyle to earn All-American status.

After its doubleheader with Harvard was moved to Monday, Penn split two games with Dartmouth on Sunday. The Quakers walked off in game one before dropping the day’s second contest. The thrilling “weekend” moment came early Monday when senior Ronnie Glenn hurled nine innings of one-run ball before senior outfielder Connor Betbeze hit a walkoff RBI single to beat Harvard, 2-1.

7. Softball Penn’s offense ran roughshod over Harvard this weekend, scoring 25 runs in a doubleheader sweep on Sunday. After taking the first game, 10-4, the Red and Blue clawed back from a 10-4 deficit to take game two 15-14 in extra innings.

9. Women’s Lacrosse The Quakers played their penultimate nonconference game of the season, squashing Towson, 12-5. The Quakers are now 8-1 overall to go with their perfect 2-0 Ivy mark.

5. Women’s Lacrosse

In the San Diego Crew Classic over the weekend, Penn heavyweight rowing kicked off its spring season and finished second behind only California while placing ahead of Stanford and Navy.

6. Track and Field

Junior Iris Williamson has been stellar for Penn in 2015. She tied her career high with five points on Saturday.

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4. Men’s Rowing

After a strong performance last weekend, the Quakers excelled in Maryland this time around, as six athletes, including freshman Candace Taylor in the 400-meter, won events.

2. Softball The Quakers started off Ivy play by splitting a doubleheader against defending Ancient Eight champ Dartmouth on Friday. Junior Lauren Li went 2-for-3 in a game one defeat before a Leah Allen homer — and two more hits from Li — helped the Red and Blue secure their first conference win in a 5-4 game two victory. The Red and Blue now sport a 3-1 Ivy Record and are 11-9 overall.

While their heavyweight counterparts succeeded in San Diego, No. 11 Penn lightweight rowing went head-to-head with No. 12 Mercyhurst, taking down the Lakers to give firstyear head coach Collin Farrell his first spring win.

10. Men’s Lacrosse Saturday’s matchup with Yale was not pretty for Penn, as the Quakers fell, 157. Freshman Kevin McGeary played well, leading Penn with two goals.

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Penn junior Chris Swanson capped off his season with an 11th-place finish in the 1650-yard freestyle at the NCAA Championships, earning All-American honorable mention status for the Red and Blue.

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There’s no better way to finish the year than with a chance to compete for a national title.

With its season nearly over, Penn men’s swimming sent two representatives — junior captains Chris Swanson and Eric Schultz — to the NCAA Championships for one last hurrah, giving the Quakers an opportunity to showcase their top performers on a national stage.

Swanson’s time of 14:50.66 in the 1650-yard freestyle was good enough for an 11th place overall finish, which gave Penn six team points. Swanson finished two spots lower than his ninth-place mark in 2014, but it was the second consecutive NCAAs at which he earned All-American honorable mention status.

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Penn baseball had a wild first weekend of Ivy League play.

The Quakers split a doubleheader against Dartmouth on Sunday, winning 4-3 on Sunday before falling to the Big Green by the same score in the day’s second game. The Red and Blue (7-9, 3-1 Ivy) then walked off twice against Harvard to sweep Monday’s twin bill.

“Let’s put it this way: If I had hair, I’d be pulling it out,” coach John Yurkow said while laughing about the weekend’s many nailbiters. One run decided each of the four games.

Penn’s ace, senior pitcher Connor Cuff, went the distance in the first game against Dartmouth (4-16, 2-2), pitching seven innings while giving up three runs and striking out six.

It was not vintage Cuff, but it was enough to keep the Quakers close.

With the score tied at 3 in the bottom of the seventh, junior right fielder Jonah Campbell singled and later advanced to second base, and then junior center fielder Gary Tesch stepped to the plate.

“I was just trying to get myself in a good count to hit, get a good pitch to hit,” Tesch said of his strategy in the at-bat. “I was looking for a fastball.”

Tesch singled, and an SEE BASEBALL PAGE 13 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640