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PENN BRACKET SEE PAGE 4 How Admissions avoids unforced errors The Office has protocols to prevent mistaken acceptances BRIAN ZHONG Staff Reporter

Elated reactions to college acceptances abound on Facebook and Twitter. Students hug their friends and parents, order apparel and post their college destinations on social media.

But for 277 applicants to the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the initial wave of euphoria suddenly turned into disappointment. Last month, Columbia’s graduate program mistakenly sent 277 acceptance letters to applicants who were actually denied. The frequency of similar incidents at other colleges is well-documented. Time Magazine reported that in 2009, the University of

California at San Diego had to apologize to 28,000 applicants who initially received acceptance notices. More recently, in 2015, Carnegie Mellon University’s master’s program in computer science rescinded admission letters that were incorrectly sent to 800 applicants. Laurie Kopp Weingarten, cofounder and director of One-Stop College Counseling and a 1986

Wharton graduate, called errors like this “the cruelest joke you could ever play on somebody.” “I don’t think it’s something kids ever get over, even if they get accepted to a college that they end up loving,” Weingarten said. While Columbia told applicants it was “work ing SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE A2

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Tournament game against No. 5 Texas A&M in L.A. JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Editor

Penn women’s basketball is going back to Cali. After earning the Ivy League’s automatic bid with a victory over Princeton in the Ivy League Tournament final on Sunday, the Quakers drew a 12 seed in the East Region of the NCAA Tournament. Penn (22-7, 15-1 Ivy) will head to Los Angeles, Calif., to face No. 5 seed Texas A&M on Saturday at 9 p.m. Eastern time. The fanfare began early before the 7 p.m. selection show, with each member of the team being introduced as well as interviews with coach Mike McLaughlin and several players. Once the show began, the Red and Blue did not have to wait very long, as their game was the third one to be revealed. SEE MARCH MADNESS PAGE B4

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Penn students aim to make Phila. March for Science inclusive

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Four graduate students lead the diversity committee

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On Earth Day, April 22, Penn scientists plan to ditch their laboratories and take to the streets for the March for Science in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia march, one of over 350 marches that will take place across the United States from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., is intended to be a nonpartisan show of support for public policy based on scientific fact and a celebration of the role science plays in daily life. The march’s leadership structure includes a Diversity and Inclusion Committee, which is led by four Penn students. “What we want to show to the greater community is that we come in all races, religions, gender identities, sexual orientations, ability,

socio-economic backgrounds, political perspectives and nationalities. You name it and it’s in science,” said Adrian Rivera-Reyes, a doctoral candidate in the Perelman School of Medicine who is a leader of the diversity committee. Rivera stressed the importance of diversity in science. “This brings different opinions, different perspectives and different ideas which we know is critical for the scientific process which helps society as a whole,” he said. Rivera has reached out to the deans of diversity and inclusion at Philadelphia colleges such as Drexel University, Temple University and Thomas Jefferson University to publicize the event. School of Medicine doctoral candidate Julianne Rieders, another leader on the committee, said the committee is working to make the march SEE SCIENCE PAGE A3

One of the goals of the march is to improve communication between the scientific community and the general public at large.

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Jezabel Careaga has been bringing traditional Argentine cuisine to Philadelphia since 2010, when she opened her namesake cafe on 26th and Pine. Now, she’s expanding operations to West Philadelphia — but it won’t be run like a typical restaurant. Careaga plans to open Jezabel’s Studio on 208 South 45th St. within the next few months, Philadelphia Magazine reported. Rather than offer only food or merchandise, the new business will serve patrons snacks and teas, while also offering traditional Argentine kitchenware for sale. These services will complement cooking and craft demonstrations that Careaga will regularly perform for customers who visit the studio. Careaga was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.

College freshman Mer Fagliano is excited about this idea. An international student, Fagliano was born and raised in Argentina, and has been looking for more Argentine food options since starting at Penn this fall. She looks forward to finally having one close to campus. “I’m really excited about [Jezabel’s Studio] because there aren’t too many restaurants in Philly that serve Argentinean food,” Fagliano said. “And other [Argentine restaurants] are in Center City, but this one’s in West Philly, so it’s probably going to be more convenient.” Though specifics are still scarce, Careaga has made some details known to the public. She will be serving her signature empanadas with beef, chicken, spinach and vegan varieties, which have been lauded by CBS-Philly as among the top five in the city back when the restaurant went by the name Gavin’s Cafe. She will also be preparing different mates, traditional tea-like drinks popular in Latin America, and alfajores de maizena, which are dulce de

leche-filled cookie sandwiches. “Alfajores, oh my God, yes,” Fagliano said when she read the menu. The kitchenware available will include hand-made towels and aprons imported from Argentina. Customers will also be able to buy cutting boards, tables and other wood-workings that Careaga makes at a local technical studio. The highlight of Jezabel Studio’s different events may be the monthly Bar de Pinchos. Like she does once a month at her Café, Careaga will host a BYOB, where patrons are invited to watch cooking and craft lessons, while enjoying drinks and a menu of snacks. Fagliano hopes that Jezabel Studio will be successful. “I would love to have more Argentinian restaurants and more Latin American restaurants that are not necessarily Mexican … I would love to see more Colombian, Venezuelan, Uruguayan, Brazilian,” Fagliano said. “We need more diversity and food here in Philly.”

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Penn’s premier DJ and producer group, The Collctve, is offering a new opportunity to learn more about music. Lessns is a series of workshops run by The Collctve to teach students interested in the industry. The two main organizers of Lessns, Engineering junior Jerry Chang and College junior Dennis Dang, said that, given the oftenintimidating nature of the music world, they are looking to lower the barrier to entry for interested musicians. Early in the semester, more than 80 students applied to be part of the Lessns program — and of that pool, around 40 were accepted into three different sub-workshops: DJing, producing and drumming. “The Collctve is a group of ‘creatives.’ We are a home for good music and want to bring good music to the community,” Wharton sophomore Aayush Sanghrajka said. Sanghrajka and Wharton

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assiduously to strengthen our internal procedures” in response to the incorrect acceptance letters, Penn Admissions Office spokesperson Kathryn Bezella told The Daily Pennsylvanian in an email statement that the admissions office has protocols in place to avoid such errors. “Our decision portal is replicated in a test environment where the logic and content can be fully reviewed for all decision combinations,” Bezella said. “Immediately prior to decision release a more intensive and clearly defined set of checks are made that

sophomore Matthew Mizbani are the co-presidents of The Collctve. They both joined the group as freshmen after experiences with music in high school. “I DJed in high school, but I came to Penn not really sure if I could pursue it further,” Mizbani, a former Daily Pennsylvanian video producer, said. “But The Collctve came along and I took it as an opportunity to do different things from the normal.” Mizbani saw The Collctve as an alternative experience that one wouldn’t normally find at Penn, prompting his initial decision to join the group. Chang and Dang added that each Lessns group includes about five people, and they’ve just started getting to work on teaching the material and creating projects. The club is looking to expand its influence throughout Philadelphia by DJing for other events on campus and throughout the city. “We did an art gallery event a few weeks ago,” Mizbani said. “It was just a bunch of people [appreciating the] art and listening to really cool music.” The group also is opening for WRLD + Smle — a collaborative

concert between the EDM groups WRLD and Smle — on March 23 at Coda in Center City, after having recently opened for Cosmo’s Midnight at the same venue on Feb. 21. The Collctve has also expanded its presence across the country. Students at the University of Southern California recently contacted the group and expressed their interest in starting another “chapter” of The Collctve on their own campus. The Collctve supported these students in their efforts, and the USC offshoot group had its first event in late February. “We’ve had a lot of growth this year,” Mizbani said. “There are more social events, opportunities to perform and new members.” The Collctve was founded two years ago by College senior Michael Palamountain. It began with just five members, but now there are 24 official members of the group. There are many different divisions of the club, including rapping, DJing and marketing. “We’re excited by how Lessns is going so far, and we think it will expand even more next semester,” Sanghrajka said. “The Collctve is growing so much.”

specifically focus on decisions themselves.” “Finally, direct decision release activities always involve at least two (and many times more) experienced staff members who both double check the data as well as ensuring decision and decision release times are accurate,” she added. “As an extra precaution, decisions from the Penn Admissions office are never sent via email but are delivered through our portal which draws information directly from our core data.” The Time report did not list any past incidents at Penn. Despite all of the Admissions Office’s precautions and error-free history, Bezella

acknowledged that mistakes — such as the ones made by Columbia, UC San Diego and other universities — can still occur. “There is always the possibility for a human or system error to take place,” Bezella said. Weingarten recommended that colleges call affected applicants or send them a personalized letter, as opposed to merely disseminating a uniform apology. “If [colleges] could explain why they weren’t admitted — a personal apology instead of a form letter — that might be something that would ease it a little bit and maybe give you a chance to make some of your other applications a little stronger,” Weingarten said.

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Some Quakers to graduate in only three years Cost is sometimes a motivation for early graduation LEXI LIEBERMAN Staff Reporter

College is often referred to as the best four years of your life. But some students choose to graduate after just three. College junior Gabrielle Jackson will be graduating this spring, even though she entered Penn as a member of the Class of 2018. Jackson decided to graduate early after the completion of her sophomore year. “I originally went into the advising office by the end of my sophomore year to look into graduating in three and a half years or maybe submatriculating into Penn Law School,” she said. “But when I went, I was told that I was too far along to submatriculate into Penn Law and also that instead of graduating in three and a half years, I could just graduate in three.” Instead of completing her

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inclusive in light of public criticism of other recent protests such as the Women’s March. Rieders attended the Women’s March in New York and thought the march was not inclusive of women of color. The other two leaders of the committee are doctoral candidate Kevin Alicea-Torres, who is the president of Penn’s chapter of the Society for Advancement Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, and Medical student Dorothy Charles who is also an organizer for White Coats for Black Lives.

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senior year of college, Jackson plans on working full-time. “Right now my main focus is finding a job,” she said. “I’m planning on working for a few years and then going to grad school.” “The cost of going to Penn for another year as opposed to making money was a major factor,” she added. While Penn does not encourage students to graduate early, Jackson says the University was generally accommodating.

“One of the things that I wanted to deal with graduating early was that I wanted to walk with my class — with the Class of 2018 as opposed to the Class of 2017,” she said. “And they were really helpful in making that possible.” “I’m definitely going to miss out on some of the senior traditions and on another year with my friends who are mostly juniors,” she acknowledged. “But at the same time, I think I’m ready to leave and move on and

go to the next step.” W ha r ton ju n ior A lex ia Tragakes also plans to graduate early in order to attend law school. But unlike Jackson, she hopes to enroll in the fall instead of taking time off to work. “Before Penn, I knew that I might want to go to law school, and I came into Penn with a lot of credits,” she said. Most of these credits came from her International Baccalaureate program in high school, with others transferring from

One of the main goals of the march is to improve the public’s faith in science. “We need to learn how to communicate effectively with non-scientists, which we have struggled a lot with in the past,” Rivera said. “We are good communicators with ourselves, but we haven’t been great with generalizing these concepts and teaching people about what we do and why we do what we do.” Many science-focused groups on campus such as Penn Education & Public Outreach in Physics and Astronomy are organizing students to attend. PEPOPA Program Coordinator and doctoral candidate Ashley Baker cited President

Donald Trump’s perceived lack of support for the scientific community as a reason for her group’s involvement. “The current administration seems to not give science credibility and we want our voices to be heard.” Baker said. Penn EcoReps Co-Coordinator and College junior Jisoo Kim has encouraged club members to attend as well. Although the march is officially nonpartisan, some of the event’s leaders noted President Trump’s policies have been controversial in the scientific community. “Whenever an elected official proposes any sort of policy that is not based on facts, we as scientists will protest it,” Rivera said. “Scientists will

stand with facts, expose people and policy-makers to facts and suggest policy measures that are supported by facts.” Rieders acknowledged that if President Trump had not been elected, the march may not have been held, but insists that better communication with the public is beneficial in any political climate. “Maybe we wouldn’t [have organized the march], because scientists have traditionally not been political, but maybe we still should have,” Rieders said. “Communicating with the public is a good thing no matter who is in office and we can always improve in that way.”

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summer courses she took. “I think it was towards the end of my freshman year that I realized that with all the credits that I managed to get approved, it was attainable to graduate in three years, and I knew that I wanted to go to law school and that would be the next step,” she said. College junior Cheewin Kittikunapong is graduating early for a different reason: He wants to study internationally next year. Kittikunapong wants to travel outside of the United States and determined that doing so would be difficult as an undergraduate. “Say I went abroad during my junior year. I’d probably have to squeeze in a lot of course units by my fourth year, or else I would need to take an extra semester here,” he said. After squeezing all of his credits into three years, Kittikunapong will pursue his master’s degree in Europe, ideally in the United Kingdom, he said. Another motivating factor for Kittikunapong was his

disappointment in Penn’s biotechnology resources. “I’m studying biology right now, but then I hoped to go into biotechnology, and I felt that the biotechnology scene here isn’t as great as I hoped it would be,” he said. He hopes to pursue his master’s somewhere that offers more opportunities in the field. K it ti k unapong felt t hat graduating in three years was a smooth process, but it depends on the organization of the individual. “I planned it out really carefully,” he said, noting that he made the decision in the middle of his sophomore year. “I was doing a second major – biology and biochemistry – but then my current major advisor in biochemistry was not having it. He wanted me to stay for the fourth year and do a senior thesis or something, so I just figured that if I dropped biochemistry and just did biology, I’d be able to do just three years, so I did that instead.”

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 15, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 31 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor

As faculty members of the University of Pennsylvania, we welcome efforts being made by GET-UP to unionize the graduate student workers in our university. We believe that graduate students have the right to unionize, a right confirmed by the National Labor Relations Board. GET-UP has been active in organizing a union for over a decade now, and while their earlier effort was stymied by the then NLRB, recent NLRB rulings have allowed them to revive their mobilizing drive. At a moment when federal and state administrators have begun to roll back hard won civic and collective rights in a number of areas, it is incumbent on universities to model a different understanding of the relations between administrators and workers, one that is visibly participatory, collective and democratic. We urge the faculty-admin-

istrators at our university to recognize the rights of GSWs to form a union that will address, and negotiate for, better working conditions. Such democratic procedures, we believe, will greatly enhance the quality of both education and life within our larger university community. We believe that this attempt to form a union, and to thus allow GSWs an organized mode of participation in the workings of the university, is part of the mission of the university to prepare wellinformed citizens, confident of their rights and obligations. Some of our colleagues may be concerned that a GSW union will have an adverse impact on facultygraduate student relations. We believe that the opposite is true. The GSW union will negotiate with the central administration of the university, not with individual faculty supervi-

sors or even departmental administrators. Further, a recent study, published in Inudstrial Labor Relations Review (a respected, peer-

ployees: Faculty-Student Relations, Academic Freedom, and Pay”). The authors note: “In cases involving

At a moment when federal and state administrators have begun to roll back hard won civic and collective rights in a number of areas, it is incumbent on universities to model a different understanding of the relations between administrators and workers …” reviewed journal in labor studies) underlines the improvement in facultystudent relations that result from GSW unionization (“Effects of Unionization on Graduate Student Em-

unionization of graduate student research and teaching assistants at private U.S. universities, the NLRB has, at times, denied collective bargaining rights on the presumption that

unionization would harm faculty-student relations and academic freedom… Unionization does not have the presumed negative effect on student outcomes, and in some cases has a positive effect. Unionrepresented graduate student employees report higher levels of personal and professional support, unionized graduate student employees fare better on pay, and unionized and nonunionized students report similar perceptions of academic freedom. These findings suggest that potential harm to faculty-student relationships and academic freedom should not continue to serve as bases for the denial of collective bargaining rights to graduate student employees.” Even as we recognize that our university offers better working conditions than many, we believe that many of us experience forms of vulnerability, even

precarity, that need to be articulated and addressed. Penn is often a leader in instituting institutional mechanisms that affect the conditions of learning and of work; in this regard, the proposed GSW union will allow Penn to join the community of over 60 public universities and three private universities where a union strengthens the GSW collectivity as well as democratizes institutional functioning. As the GETUP announcement states, the GSW union will advocate for the most vulnerable sections of the graduate student community. We urge our colleagues and administrators to join us in welcoming and supporting the efforts being made by GET-UP. This statement was signed by 53 Penn faculty members. To find a complete list of the signatories, refer to the online version of this statement at thedp.com.

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RIGHT ANGLES | On the competition of ideas in higher education College campuses around the country have experienced a slew of violent protests against invited speakers, as students protest guests they deem unworthy and prevent them from sharing their views. Though Penn has a history of protecting free speech on campus, it is not completely immune to similar incidents. Just last year at Penn, former CIA Director John Brennan was silenced by progressive protesters. After the event, the administration reaffirmed the University’s commitment to free speech, calling it a “treasured freedom.” However, it seems as if the frequency and intensity of these protests are increasing. Just two weeks ago, the oftcontroversial scholar Charles Murray was invited to speak at a university-sanctioned debate at Middlebury College. The initial protests — though peaceful — did not allow Murray to speak, causing him and his fellow debater, liberal Middlebury professor Allison Stanger, to relocate to a different site in order to livestream their conversation. The protesters found them there too, and proceeded to bang on the windows and set off fire alarms. Afterward, as Murray and Stanger exited the building with Middlebury’s Vice President for Communications, Bill

Burger, a mob attacked them, shoving Stanger and yanking her hair, causing her to be admitted to the hospital for whiplash and a concussion. The violence has been largely condemned by all, and for this I am grateful. But I do not write to pile on in condemnation of the violence that occurred, but rather to discuss the misplaced responses we have seen. Middlebury College’s “News Room” reported that the college’s student newspaper published more than two dozen opinion pieces in print and online in its March 9 issue. As explained by Middlebury, most of these columns argue “that the Murray event should not have been scheduled, should not have been co-sponsored by the political science department, should not have been attended by President Patton, or should not have been allowed to go ahead once the controversy emerged.” Similarly, the Middlebury Student Government Association is reportedly considering a resolution that would prevent controversial speakers like Charles Murray from coming to campus in the future. The response by Middlebury students has not been to outright condemn the protesters who wish to shut down speech, but to instead criticize the college,

and even those who were the subject of violent attacks, for having created the environment for this to occur. As if the protesters themselves were not to blame, as if they could not help themselves or as if they were in the right to do so. The line of reasoning from students, it would seem, is to expect the college to preempt all violence by shutting down any possibly controversial speaker

country. Stanger, a professor who disagrees with Charles Murray yet wished to debate his views, has been recovering from the mob’s attack for a week in a dark room. This past Monday she gave a tepid response in The New York Times entitled, in part, “Understanding the Mob.” She does not condone the violence, saying that there is “no excusing what happened.” Her

Certainly, the health and safety of minority students ought to be protected, and their right to exist never questioned. But who decides which viewpoints are too prejudiced to be heard?” that could cause students to erupt in a protest. Yet this is not the purpose of higher education and indeed reveals a terrifying state of events in college campuses today. I will not turn this into a discussion of safe spaces and coddled college students. Rather, it is about how we as a society will respond, if at all, to a disturbing trend across the

article is clearly conciliatory, and attempts to help us answer, “How on Earth could this could have happened?” However, Stanger’s article veers from bridge-building and enters the dangerous territory of justifying the actions of the Middlebury students. Of the peaceful protesters, she references the “righteous anger”

which nonetheless prevented Murray from speaking. She is wrong that the students acted in some sort of morally-justifiable anger. She herself notes that professors at Middlebury condemned Murray without reading his work, and students followed suit. Theirs was not an anger of informed moral outrage, but of willful ignorance. Ignorant anger is not justified with nice intent, especially when that anger impinges on free speech and the rights of other students to engage with ideas. “But racist, sexist, anti-gay bigots should never have a platform, their free speech doesn’t count,” the progressives will respond. I certainly understand and sympathize with the argument, though I will leave aside for the moment the fact that Charles Murray is hardly a white supremacist, is married to an Asian-American woman and supports same-sex marriage. Certainly, the health and safety of minority students ought to be protected and their right to exist never questioned. But who decides which viewpoints are too prejudiced to be heard? Who ought to be the arbiter of this question? It seems to me as if these conversations are precisely the ones which ought to be happening on college campuses.

TAYLOR BECKER The responses from those most involved — students and professors at Middlebury — have been lukewarm or misplaced at best. How will our broader society respond to silencing protests and violent mobs? How will we respond as Penn students? Do we react with fear, making it harder for opposing viewpoints to be heard? Or do we react with even more opening, and allowing the great competition of ideas to weed out the truly racist, sexist and bigoted views? Our response must be to guard our commitment to free speech and the competition of ideas as a treasured freedom in higher education. TAYLOR BECKER is a College senior from Lebanon, Ore., studying political science. His email address is tabe@sas. upenn.edu. “Right Angles” usually appears every other Wednesday.

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CAPS to expand mental health training I CARE is a training program developed by CAPS SARAH FORTINSKY Staff Reporter

After four students died by suicide in the 2013-2014 school year, Counseling and Psychological Services convened to tackle the state of mental health at Penn. The result was “I CARE” — a mental health program that trains groups to recognize problems, support peers and learn the proper steps to take when a mental health issue arises. Now, the College Dean’s Advisory Board intends to train at least one member of every registered student group on campus in I CARE. “The Dean’s Advisory Board recognized that this is a program that could be and should be expanded,” said Matt Foman, College junior and head of DAB’s mental

health subcommittee. “So many clubs and organizations have such a social component to them that any club or organization that you might be in is like a community that could serve as a support system.” CAPS has trained more than 1,800 students and faculty members at Penn through various open and privately scheduled training sessions since it launched. I CARE has yielded a success rate of 97.9 percent, as reflected by the share of students who indicated on their post-training evaluation that they would recommend the I CARE workshop to a friend. CAPS Director of Outreach and Prevention Meeta Kumar said she and her team at CAPS aim to train as many students as possible to foster dialogue on mental health, and they hope that working with DAB will help target specific groups of people — such as the greek community — to achieve the

best results. “We would like to have as many [people] trained as possible,” Kumar said. “But also think about who are the really important gatekeepers on this campus, people that really should be trained because of the nature of their role or of the kind of interface that they have with students.” Foman explains that DAB has honed in on greek organizations as the perfect example of a community in which “people are willing to talk with their friends about things that they might be going through.” This will be the starting point of the initiative, and by the end of the semester, DAB hopes to have at least one student from every chapter trained in I CARE. “[Being in a fraternity or a sorority] can be a great stress reliever, but there are definitely great opportunities for it to stress you out,” Foman said. “So we think it’ll be a really

powerful thing to have the conversation really center around greek life, and I CARE has the capacity to mold their workshop around topics that might be particularly prevalent in that group.” As Vice President of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, Foman said he always makes an effort to let members of his fraternity know that he is available for support, but he has witnessed firsthand the impact of the “macho culture where you don’t want to talk about your feelings,” which he thinks I CARE has the potential to overcome. “The nature of greek life, and honestly at Penn in general, is kind of like, everyone is dealing with stuff and you don’t want to throw your problems on people,” Foman said. “And when you’re around people that are doing so many great things, it’s hard to admit you’re going through problems, even to your best friends.”

I CARE has already been a topic of conversation within the greek community. During the sorority recruitment process next year, the recruitment guides — known as “Rho Gammas” — will now go through I CARE as part of their training. This option was chosen as a way to better support the mental health needs of potential new members over other options, including bringing in CAPS counselors or student members of Penn Benjamins during recruitment week. “We felt like it would be better to have Rho Gammas themselves be the main source of advice for PNMs because they’ve been through the process,” College junior and Penn Panhellenic Vice President of Recruitment Andrea Klein said. “They know a lot more about how recruitment works and they develop relationships with PNMs throughout the whole week so we kind of caught on to I CARE

as a way of training them even better in counseling skills, so they could be there for the PNMs.” As of now, residential advisors and graduate associates, as well as certain members of Wharton undergraduate clubs, are required by the respective heads of their groups to undergo I CARE as part of their training. While CAPS cannot require any independent student group on campus to undergo this training, CAPS staff and DAB members see this as an idea with a lot of potential that is already being received positively. “Greek life has wanted to tackle mental health for a while and make it a priority and hasn’t necessarily known how,” Foman said. “This I CARE training is just a really awesome way to get the conversation going, and I really hope that greek life is just the beginning of this and we can continue to expand it to different areas around Penn.”

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Having cracked the famed four-minute mile, senior Chris Hatler is one of several Penn distance runners to dominate this season.

Junior pole vaulter Molly Minnig recently set a new school record with a jump of 3.95 meters at Ivy Heps in late February.

The Ivy League Indoor champion in the 200-meter, sophomore Calvary Rogers is looking to change the culture of Penn sprints.

With team, individual awards, distance runners make history

Throwers and jumpers look to build on on strong indoor season

Rapidly improving core of young sprinters ready to shake up league

Men’s cross country took first title since ‘73 WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor

In track & field, a successful team must rely on all units within the squad — throwers, jumpers, sprinters and distance runners must all perform in order to achieve full success. For Penn, there’s at least one group it can count on: this year’s distance squad is up to the challenge. Focused around a strong core of seniors, both the men and women come into 2017’s outdoor season with momentum from cross country in the fall and indoor track in the winter. It started in November, when women’s cross country qualified for the NCAA Championships for the first time in program history. Led by three seniors in Ashley Montgomery and the Whiting twins, Cleo and Clarissa, the Quakers performed at a consistently high level all fall, ultimately recording what was undoubtedly their best season in the team’s history by finishing it off with a 24th place at the NCAA Championships. The men might have taken a while to recover from the loss of an all-time great, Tommy Awad. The 2016 graduate and sub-four minute miler broke multiple records for Penn, and his loss left huge shoes to fill. Instead, the squad won the Ivy League Heptagonal championships for cross country — its first title since 1973. Seniors Chris Hatler and Brendan Shearn led the way by finishing fourth and fifth overall, and three other Quakers finished in the top-12 to ensure that the team took the title over Princeton. It didn’t seem like there was a whole lot that could get better. And then indoor season came. Senior Chris Hatler broke the fabled four-minute barrier in the mile at The Armory in New York on a cold day in February. It was the race of his life, but he wasn’t done yet. Hatler continued on to

be the first ever Quaker to win the mile at the Ivy League indoor championships later that month. Additionally, Cleo Whiting broke the Penn all-time record for the indoor 5K at the indoor conference championship meet, clocking a blistering 16:28. Montgomery also ran a 4:47 mile to finish third in the league, retaining her top-tier status among the competition. All of the women’s performances were good enough to earn them second at Ivy indoor Heps. The men, meanwhile, finished fifth. But according to head coach Steve Dolan, this team is better suited to outdoors, anyway. “One of the fun things about [the outdoor season] is that we add some new events. So we get the chance to extend a few of our guys to 10,000-meters. Some of the men and women we have are really good at the longer distance, so that’ll be a fun new challenge, to run 10,000. ... We also have some steeplechasers,” Dolan continued, citing two-time steeplechase champion Nick Tuck along with a number of other upand-comers in the event. The addition of the new distance events opens things up for where the Red and Blue are strongest — the ultra-long distance races. With Brendan Shearn in the 10K, back-to-back champion Nick Tuck in the steeplechase, and other distance events, it’s plain to see why Hatler expects them to rack up more points in the outdoor season. “We had a lot of little things go wrong and things go right in indoors, so hopefully we can get it all to come together in the same day, especially with the addition of those [long distance] events. We think that we can be top-three, and maybe even push a little towards second [in the Ivy League].” If the team is to finish third, or even second, it’ll need nothing but the best from its distance squad. And on the backs of the strong senior core of Hatler, Montgomery, the Whitings, Shearn and more, they might just be able to power the Quakers to the top of the Ivies.

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Several Quakers won medals at Ivy Heps YOSEF WEITZMAN Associate Sports Editor

You might not know it based on the snow we just got, but this week marks the beginning of the outdoor track and field season. Despite the storm, Penn track and field is preparing to co-host the Philadelphia College Classic on Friday at Franklin Field. After exceeding expectations during the indoor season, Penn’s throwers and jumpers are gearing up for a big outdoor season. The Quakers saw a very strong performance from sophomore Rachel Wilson with her silver medal finish in the weight throw at the recent Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships in New York City, but the Red and Blue will look to match that success with the addition of new outdoor events. The outdoor season allows the space necessary for long throwing events like the javelin, discus, and hammer. For some schools, being competitive in more events might be difficult, but senior thrower Noah Kennedy-White expects the new events to benefit the Quakers. “We have more people whose events are outdoors than we do indoors, and we also have some people coming back from other sports that are trying to get back into their rhythm now,” Kennedy-White said. “So I think that the outdoor season is just going to be really good for us.” Senior Lisa Sesink-Clee is another long thrower who has patiently been waiting her turn. Coming off two consecutive seasons that saw her qualify for NCAA East Regionals in javelin, SesinkClee is hoping to take it a step further this year. “I’d love to reach nationals,” Sesink-Clee said. “I’d

love to go to Oregon, it’s been the background on my lap for years, so I want to go there. I have the picture up on my mirror, I see it every morning, and that is definitely my goal that I’m reaching for.” Perhaps most impressive for the Quakers was the performance of freshman thrower Maura Kimmel, who broke the school record for shot put several times in the indoor season. She will also be competitive in the discus, an event not held during the indoor season. Coach Steve Dolan is confident that Penn’s depth will help them in jumping events too. “We have a lot of women’s pole vaulters,” Dolan said, “but we actually have a mix of all the grades in the pole vault, so I think we have a nice mix in the jumping events and we’ll need to be good in those events if we want to have a great season.” One of those pole vaulters who will be hoping to help Penn have a great season is junior Molly Minnig. At the Ivy Heps, Minnig set a program record in the pole vault with a 3.95 meter vault that was good enough to earn a silver medal. Despite her own individual accomplishment, Minnig is most excited for what all the pole-vaulters might be capable of this season. “Based on our indoor performance, the pole vaulters have been really strong this year,” Minnig said. “It seems like every week, someone’s been PRing [setting a personal record] or someone’s been moving up on the top 10 list. Come outdoor season, I expect the same thing from all of us.” It remains to be seen how just how well Penn’s throwers and jumpers will be able to do in the outdoor season, but the Quakers certainly have their sights set high. Just hopefully the snow won’t get in the way.

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Rogers, McCorkle already own records PAUL HARRYHILL Sports Reporter

Riding tremendous waves of moment um f rom t he indoor season, Penn track and field’s high-flying sprinters have their sights set on Ivy League glory — and beyond — this outdoor season. After years of sixth and seventh-place team finishes, the sprinters are helping to catalyze a renaissance for women’s track and field. Case in point: the women’s secondplace finish at the 2017 Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships was largely made possible by the acrossthe-board excellence of their sprinters — a group dominated by youth. Star freshmen Cecile Ene and Nia Akins both took home silver medals in the 400-meter dash and 500meter dash, respectively. Sophomore Imani Solan set the school record in the 200 with a blazing 23.80 and placed third in the event. Junior Taylor McCorkle finished just behind Solan in the 200 to place fourth, and secured a fifth-place finish in the 60-meter dash. McCorkle, a 2017 captain, lauded the sprinters’ incredible contributions, and plans to set the bar high for the upcoming outdoor season. “Team-wise, the goal is definitely to maintain where we’ve just finished off in the indoor season,” she said. “We plan on moving forward with the confidence knowing that we can compete at that level.” Harvard stood in the way of the Quakers’ title dreams at Indoor Heps, winning by a wide margin of nearly 20 points. The Crimson’s demonstration of dominance has not dampened the spirits of the Penn sprinters, however. “I definitely see us at the top,” McCorkle responded

when asked where she sees the sprinters in relation to the rest of the Ivy League. When discussing the men’s sprint team, the conversation begins and ends with sophomore Calvary Rogers. The men’s team, as a whole, finished a less-than-glamorous fifth at 2017 Indoor Heps, but Rogers put on a performance for the ages in the 200m. Due to a myriad of disqualifications and injuries in the field, Rogers ran alone in the 200m final. With all eyes on him and nobody to race but himself, Rogers put on a performance for the ages, setting the meet record with a stellar time of 21.63 seconds and becoming the first Quaker ever to win the 200m at Heps. Rather than be intimidated by them, Rogers relishes the heightened expectations placed upon him from his stellar indoor season. “It’s a lot different than last year,” he said. “I think it sets the bar a lot higher for things beyond the Ivy League now.” The young sprint team sees itself in good standing in relation to the rest of the Ivy League, and Rogers believes the sprinters have a lot to look forward to this spring. “I think that we’re a really outdoors-based team because we have so many people coming in from down south and California, so they’re not really as used to having an indoor season,” he remarked. “I’m really looking forward to what the change is going to be outdoors.” Princeton and Cornell have long been the heavyweights in the Ivy League on the men’s side — and with Penn graduating superstars Sam Mattis (throws) and Thomas Awad (distance), some might expect that trend to contiue. But with a phenomenal young core of sprinters, led by Rogers, don’t expect the Red and Blue to fall too far out of contention at this year’s outdoor Heps. CONTACT US: 215-422-4640

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2016 saw major ups, downs for improving squad Three seniors qualified for U.S. Olympic Trials SARA YOUNG Sports Reporter

For Penn track and field, 2016 was a year brimming with accolades and fraught with neverbefore-seen accomplishments. It was a year of historic first-evers, school records and personal bests, as if the team altogether hurdled years’ worth of rungs on the ladder to improvement and landed themselves ahead of the curve — but at the same time, it feels like even more was left on the table. The program has been on the uprise and has proven itself among the best in the Ivy League season after season in recent, and its impressive new heights reached a year ago were not just a big dream for its athletes, but an expectation.

However, the Red and Blue were unable to finish every meet with this emblematic success; certain showings fell short of expectations and left the Quakers demanding more of themselves for the coming fall and brief indoor winter season. While the women’s team enjoyed well-deserved wins throughout the 2016 indoor season, their performance at the Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Championships was a disappointing dénouement to a streak of successes so far that spring. With only 47 points garnered overall for a seventh-place finish, the women’s squad completed the season determined to prove to competitors that their year of hard work was not to remain unnoticed. Strong executions throughout all events during the 2017 indoor season served as a bounce-back from a discouraging close to the

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Despite recording the best discus throw by an American since 2011, then-senior Sam Mattis came up short of his second NCAA title.

previous spring. The Red and Blue leapt five places to finish second place at the Indoor Heps,

rewarding the Quakers fthe achievement that they had prepared for and deserved.

While the Penn men weren’t able to match the consistency with which the lady Quakers secured victories throughout the 2016 season, their showing at last spring’s Outdoor Heps was nothing short of impressive. With a third-place finish overall, Penn only allowed Princeton and Cornell to surpass it for gold and silver, ousting the bottom five Ivy League competitors by at least twenty points each. The victories were well-deserved and much-needed after a spring season riddled with unexpected performances across the athletic spectrum. Beyond the team success, both the men and women saw a slew of individual standouts in the past year. Then-seniors Sam Mattis (discus), Thomas Awad (1500-meter) and Kelsey Hay (javelin) all made history by qualifying for the 2016 Olympic

Trials. Unfortunately, none of the three ended up making it to Rio — and this result was particularly disappointing for Mattis, who had been the 2015 NCAA national champion in the discus throw and entered the U.S Olympic Trials as the top seed. Still, Mattis did conclude his season holding the top discus mark in Penn history, a gargantuan toss of 67.45 meters that represented the top throw by any American in nearly six years. This year, though, Quakers have concluded a wild ride of an indoor season and now look to the spring of 2017 to showcase what they’ve been training to execute all winter. While fans and spectators wait in apprehension to see what the Red and Blue can extract from this opportunity, we can certainly use the outstanding performances at Indoor Heps as a paradigm for what Penn track and field is capable of.

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Freshman class poised for success in outdoor season

Several freshmen have already broken records GRIFF FITZSIMMONS Sports Reporter

Spring is almost here, and if there’s one thing on the mind of every Penn student nowadays, it’s getting outside. No one is more excited than the track and field team, though. This Friday’s Philadelphia College Classic marks the kickoff of the outdoor season, and for many freshmen, the first opportunity to compete at Franklin Field wearing the Red and Blue. Many of their names will sound familiar: most of the team has spent the last few months showcasing their abilities indoors, despite being forced to do so on a half-length track, off a cramped runway, or constrained to only a fraction of their repertoire in the throwing circle. Many put up truly impressive performances, and it’s clear that this recruitment class has a lot of potential. “This year’s really exciting, I

think on the women’s side, it’s one of the largest classes we’ve ever had, so that’s made a really big impact,” coach Steve Dolan. “On the men’s side, though it’s a normal sized class, there’s definitely some really strong individuals in the class.” Outdoor track is a different animal, however, and can present just as much of a challenge to transitioning runners as a reprieve. Moving outside will be a game changer for many of the team’s quickest athletes. For some, it compresses more runners into fewer events. Middistance runners who spent the winter honing their specialized race strategies in either the 400, 500, 800, 1000 or 1600-meter runs are now forced to choose between the 400, 800 and the 1600. Nia Akins, who grabbed silver at Ivy Indoor Heps in the the 500 with a time of 1:12.75, will likely be pushed into a more competitive field, whether it be down to the 400 or up to the 800. Other times, it can be a literal and figurative breath of fresh air. Akins, together with fellow freshman mid-distance runner Mikayla

Schneider, made up half of Penn’s school record breaking 4x800m relay team that locked down another second-place finish later that same meet. Though the team’s 8:45.54 mark alone is a remarkable accomplishment, it’s likely that the Quakers just warming up. Like most races, the 4x800 runs inherently faster outdoors, particularly because of the alleviation of such burdensome indoor features as increased frequency of turns and of passing, especially during later laps when the field is spread more uniformly around the track. Additionally, there’s no doubt that the hurdlers are itching to get outside as well. The men’s team’s hurdle core is made up entirely of freshmen: Xavier Jackson, Joseph Jordan, and Anthony Okolo chalked up sub-55 400m intermediate hurdles times in high school and, because indoor only offers the 60m high hurdles, haven’t yet had the opportunity to show off their primary event at the collegiate level. Also, don’t forget about Cecil Ene and Brynne Bygrave, who were point-scorers in the 400m

dash and the 60m hurdles at the close of the indoor season and will continue to be dangerous as the outdoor season ramps up. Comparatively, as they move into their third athletic season of the year, there aren’t as many uncertainties with Penn’s distance squad. The freshmen have had all of cross country and all of indoor to get accustomed to the collegiate scene, and in the case of a few, to make a name for themselves. On the men’s side, Penn has brought in some weapons in the mile. The Daly twins, Will and Colin, boasted twin 4:10 PR’s in high school. And for the freshmen oriented toward even longer distances, such as Aaron Groff and Andrew Hally, who have both ducked well below 9:20 in the 3200m, new challenges like the 10,000m run and the steeplechase await. For the women, miler Christina

Rancan had an especially notable indoor season this year that should translate into successful outdoor performances so long as she keeps pushing to keep up with veterans like Ashley Montgomery. Erin Feeney, meanwhile, has been so consistent running the same 5,000m to 6,000m across two very different seasons that she should have no trouble with the transition to outdoor track’s 5k and 10k. “We have a ton of great freshmen this year and it’s really motivating to see them and it pushes everybody else to do their best as well,” said junior Molly Minnig. Lastly, when it comes to freshmen, no two have come out stronger than Sean Clarke and Maura Kimmel in the field. They have both set school records in the pole vault and shot put, respectively.

“It’s really great. It’s really amazing,” raved senior Lisa Sesink-Clee of Kimmel’s breaking of the school record. “We all knew she was right there, but it was a big PR for her to shatter that record, and the fact that she has been able to do it so many times. But the outdoor record is another thing, and it’s going to be really exciting to see how far she can push that, too.” Kimmel will also be presented with new opportunities as she moves outdoors: the discus was one of her strengths in high school, and it is one of the multiple throwing events, along with the hammer and javelin, that are not held indoors. “Honestly I’m just sad I won’t be around to see them personally when they’re seniors, just because they’re gonna be so, so good,” said senior Noah Kennedy-White. By the looks of things, he won’t be wrong.

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Penn track and field teams boasted record-breaking times and history-making performances this February at the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships in New York City. Quakers from a myriad of events capitalized on the large, noisy crowd to garner some of the most impressive achievements theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen in decades. On the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side, the Red and Blue earned a total of 13 podium performances to finish second overall. This included new school records set by senior Cleo Whiting (5000-meter run), sophomore Imani Solan (200m dash), junior Molly Minnig (pole vault), sophomore Rachel Wilson (throws) and the 4x800 meter relay team of Gina Alm, Nia Atkins, Mikayla Schneider, and Ella Wurth. The abnormally high point total (109.3) was the most Penn has collected since 1987. Similarly, its second-place finish was the best the team has seen since a landmark 1996 championship performance. The freshman class was a key contributor this weekend, showing up big and putting serious points on the board to elevate the Quakers over third-place Columbia.

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Freshman Cecile Ene began the freshman insurgence with a silver medal in the 400-meter race, with Nia Akins quickly following suit with a second-place finish in the 500 to match. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really cool seeing [the freshmen] take their potential and put it out for everyone to see,â&#x20AC;? junior sprinter Taylor McCorkle said. McCorkle snagged a fifth-place finish in her 60-meter dash and was just behind teammate Imani Solan to place fourth in the 200-meter dash. Solan placed herself among the record-breakers by running a 23.80 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the fastest 200 in school history. Cleo Whiting then responded with a school record of her own in the 5K, placing third overall with a time of 16:28.49. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This was definitely one of my favorite meets that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever been a part of. It was an incredible experience, and it made it even sweeter to realize how far weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come from my freshman 22-point total [at Heps that year],â&#x20AC;? senior captain Ashley Montgomery said. Montgomery took bronze in the mile with a time of 4:47.33 to conclude her final indoor season. The Penn men werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able to find the remarkable success that their female counterparts had, but some epic individual performances exemplified their drive to rank themselves among the very best. Chris Hatler, Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest member of the sub-four minute mile

club, became the first Quaker to win the mile race since 2006 on Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Traditionally at Heps, the mile is run very tactically,â&#x20AC;? Hatler commented. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The anecdote I go with is, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;you run the first half of the race with your head, and the second half with your heart,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he said. The Quakers were able to witness a legendary display of combined head-and-heart effort in the 200m dash by sophomore Calvary Rogers, who is also a weekly columnist for the Daily Pennsylvanian. Rogers, under intriguing circumstances, ran his heat of the final completely alone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a notoriously difficult stunt to pull off as a track athlete â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and still earn a meet record time of 21.39. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was in the final heat, and two of the people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one from Brown and one from Princeton â&#x20AC;&#x201D; had gotten hurt during the 60-meter. It was just me and this guy from Cornell. Then, turns out, right when the gun popped off, he had false-started. Then it was just me,â&#x20AC;? Rogers said. Rogersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; race quickly became a spectacle as the commentator and crowd members alike marveled at how fast he was running against himself. After he crossed the finish line, it was evident that something unique had transpired; Rogers had set a new Ivy Heps record completely on his own. He is also the first-ever Quaker to win the 200m at Heps. Senior Nick Tuck then made a little history of his own with a

to Binghamton at home on November 16 probably cost them a chance at an easier opponent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought we were going to be a 12, 13 seed,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right where we should be, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a top 50 RPI team, I think a 12 seed is respectable for us. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right were we

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He was all alone in the starting blocks, but that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop sophomore Calvary Rogers from winning and setting a meet record in the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 200-meter at the Indoor Ivy League Heptagonals this February,

14:16.44 5K time, becoming the first Penn athlete to bring home the gold from this race at Heps. While these unconventional and inspiring performances were only good enough for a fifth place total overall for the men, they were a solid indicator of an exciting spring season to come. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This spring, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to reach heights that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never reached before. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to seeing whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in store â&#x20AC;&#x201D; since Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m

a lot faster than I was last year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and just really focusing on staying healthy and running my best. It should be a really good season. My definite goal is to go to nationals,â&#x20AC;? Rogers said of his expected performance in the coming months. McCorkle voiced a similar expected trajectory with plans to focus on improvement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about maintaining what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already been doing and building upon that,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the

girls are so talented, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very competitive within our own group, so it definitely helps us bring that competitiveness to the next level and helps us succeed.â&#x20AC;? With the outdoor season ahead and wind beneath its sails, the Penn track and field team is set to assert itself against its opponents this spring. If the conclusion of indoor competition was anything to go by, more firsts and broken records are sure to follow.

location that is relatively nearby, but that was not the case today. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was surprised, I kind of thought we would be closer to the region, that was my first reaction,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I saw our name and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize where we were going, it all came up on us pretty quick.â&#x20AC;? Still, while the location is certainly not close to home for the Quakers, it is a nice change of pace from their last two tournament appearances. In both 2014 and 2016, Penn traveled to the University of Maryland and lost almost identical games.

In last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rendition, No. 10 Penn led No. 7 Washington at half, but a big second half performance from then-junior Kelsey Plum, now the NCAA record holder for points, pushed the game out of reach.

sophomore guard Danni Williams and senior guard Curtyce Knox. If the Quakers manage to advance past Texas A&M, they would face the winner of the matchup between No. 4 UCLA and No. 13 Boise State. Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball has their work set out for them, but they could afford to celebrate for one night longer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to us that we go out there and we try to win a basketball game,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But for now this is about this right now and all the kids that were here.â&#x20AC;?

This year, the Aggies (21-11, 9-7 SEC), who received an at-large bid, will certainly be a challenge for the Quakers. As a team, they are averaging nearly 70 points a game, and they ranked as high as No. 19 in the USA Today Coaches Poll this season. The team is led by a trio of second-team All-SEC players in junior center Khaalia Hillsman,

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Cosi chattime ST. 140 S. 3608 36th CHESTNUT St. Dunkin cosi Donuts 140 SOUTH 36th ST. 3437 Walnut St. magrogan’s Federaldoc Donuts oysterSt. house 3428 Sansom 3432 SANSOM ST. Fresh Grocer dunkinSt.donuts 4001 Walnut 3437 WALNUT ST. Greek Lady 222 S. federal 40th St. donuts 3428 SANSOM ST. Hip City Veg fresh grocer 214 S. 4001 40th WALNUT St. ST. honeygrow gia pronto 3731 walnut st. ST. 3736 SPRUCE HubBubgreek Coffeelady 3736 Spruce St. 40th ST. 222 SOUTH kitchenharvest gia seasonal grill 3716 spruce st. & wine bar Kiwi Yogurt 200 SOUTH 40th ST. 3606 Chestnut St. hip city veg Mad Mex 214 SOUTH 40th ST. 3401 Walnut hubbubSt.coffee Mediterranean CaféST. 3736 SPRUCE 3409 Walnut St. yougurt kiwi frozen 3606 CHESTNUT Metropolitan Bakery ST. 4013 Walnut St.

madTavern mex New Deck 3401 WALNUT ST. 3408 Sansom St. mediterranean cafe Nom Nom Ramen 3401 WALNUT ST. 3401 Walnut St. metropolitan bakery o’Chatto 4013 WALNUT ST. 3608 Chestnut St. NOMFactory RAMEN PhillyNOM Pretzel 3401 WALNUT ST. Philly is Nuts! PHILLY PRETZEL factory 3734 Spruce St. PHILLY IS NUTS POD Restaurant 3734 SPRUCE ST. 3636 Sansom St. POD Qdoba3636 SANSOM ST. 230 S. 40th St. QDOBA Quiznos 230 SOUTH 40TH ST. 3401QUIZNOS Walnut St. Saladworks 3401 WALNUT ST. 3728SALADWORKS Spruce St. Saxbys Coffee 3728 SPRUCE ST. 4000SAXBYS Locust St. COFFEE 4000 LOCUST ST. Smokey Joe’s 210 S.SMOKEY 40th St.JOE’S 200 Taco BellSOUTH 40TH ST. 3401TACO Walnut St. BELL 3401 WALNUT ST. Wawa 3604WAWA Chestnut St. 3604 CHESTNUT ST. 3744 Spruce St. 3744 SPRUCE ST.

adolf biecker studio 138 SOUTH 34th ST.

services

bonded cleaners 3724 SPRUCE ST.

campus Adolf Bieckerbarber Studio shop 3730 SPRUCE ST. 138 S. 34th St. cinemark Bonded Cleaners 4012 WALNUT ST. 3724 Spruce St. citizen’s bank Campus Hair, Skin Nail Salon 134 SOUTH 34th&ST. 3730 Spruce St. inn at penn Cinemark TheaterST. 3600 SANSOM 4012 Walnut St. joseph anthony Citizens Bank hair salon 1343743 S. 34th St. ST. WALNUT Inn pnc at Penn bank 3600 200Sansom SOUTH St. 40th ST. Joseph Anthony TD bank Hair Salon 3743 119Walnut SOUTH St. 40TH ST. PNCUS Bank POST OFFICE SOUTH 200228 S. 40th St.40TH ST. TD Bank UPS STORE 3720 SPRUCE 3735 Walnut St.ST. U.S. Post Office 228 S. 40th St. UPS Store 3720 Spruce St.

This destination district includes over 100 businesses, cultural and recreational venues, and public spaces in and around This penn’s destination district over 100 businesses, cultural and recreational venues,between and public in and around campus, alongincludes the tree-lined blocks of chestnut, walnut and spruce streets 30thspaces and 40th streets. penn’s campus, along the tree-lined blocks of chestnut, walnut and spruce streets between 30th and 40th streets.