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Penn initiative works to help the homeless Team tackles local homelessness in a new way JAMES MEADOWS Contributing Reporter

On a single night in January 2016 more than half a million people were homeless in the United States, with approximately 32 percent unsheltered.

In Philadelphia alone, there were more than 6,000 people homeless on that night.

Wit h so m a ny homeless people, shelters are frequently understaffed and underfunded, sometimes turning people away when they cannot accommodate everyone. Nursing junior Laura Ng said the use of the shelter system

to deal with homelessness can, at times, leave the homeless feeling bitter and alone.

That’s where the volunteers of Penn Project One come in . Ng founded the organization two years ago to alleviate homelessness on a personal level. The project’s philosophy is simple: recognizing those experiencing homelessness

as people first, and their condition of being homeless second. “It’s about treating a person as a person in a system that can, at times, take away their humanity,” Ng said.

“For us, that humanity starts with simply saying hello.”

While the group also frequently SEE PROJECT ONE PAGE 7

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SNAG TOP RANKINGS Both school’s graduate programs topped 2017 lists CAROLINE SIMON Senior Reporter

Penn’s School of Nursing and the Wharton School of Business have both snagged top spots in this year’s university rankings.

Wharton tied for top MBA program with Harvard Business School in the U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings. Business schools on were evaluated on a number of factors including average starting salary and bonus, mean GMAT and GRE scores and acceptance rate.

That’s an improvement from previous years — last year, Wharton was ranked fourth, and the year before it was ranked third.

Penn Nursing also topped the world rankings for nursing

schools for the second year in a row, according to QS World University Rankings. The rankings were based on factors including the school’s research impact, academic reputation and employee reputation.

“We are proud of the ranking, and even more proud of the impact we make every day in the lives of patients, families,and communities,” said Penn Nursing Dean Antonia Villarruel in a statement.

U.S. News & World Report ranked Penn’s graduate nursing program third this year, behind Duke University and Johns Hopkins University.

Wharton and Harvard were followed by the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business in third place and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, which tied for fourth place.

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High school students often feel pressured to take Advanced Placement courses in order to get into top colleges. However, Penn has been accepting fewer and fewer credits from such classes in recent years.

For students entering Penn in fall 2017, changes await for the Department of Chemistry’s and the Department of Biology’s credit acceptance policies. Chemistry 091 — which the department’s website describes as “generic ‘introductory chemistry’” — will no longer be awarded to students with an AP Chemistry score of 5. Likewise, Biology 091 will no longer be awarded to students with an AP Biology score of 5.

Executive Director for Education and Academic Planning Rob Nelson pointed out that such decisions are made on a departmental level.

“The academic departments or school actually decide how to evaluate a course or other experience taken outside of Penn,” he said. “So it’s up to the Department of Biology to decide what an AP course and a test is worth.”

The biology and chemistry credit acceptance reductions come a year after the Department of History made its own cuts. For the students who entered Penn in fall 2016, a 5 on the AP United States History exam would no longer give credit for History 042, and a 5 on the AP World History exam would no longer give credit for History 044.

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Biden to speak at Penn Penn researcher protects again on March 30 coasts from hurricanes

Tickets for the event have already sold out OLIVIA SYLVESTER & TOM NOWLAN Staff Reporter & News Editor

Penn President Amy Gutmann and former Vice President Joe Biden will hold “an engaging conversation” with members of the Penn community in Irvine Auditorium on March 30, Gutmann announced in an email to undergraduate students Wednesday.

The event will last from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. and will be available online via a live webcast.

The announcement did not specify which topics will be addressed at the event. An accompanying graphic included the logo

for the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, as well as the Perry World House, suggesting that the event — much like Biden’s role at Penn — will have a foreign policy focus.

This will be Biden’s second appearance at Irvine in two months, following his participation in a Feb. 28 Silfen Forum panel on cancer research.

Gutmann’s email included Biden’s title of Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor, a position at Penn that, while still unclear in its exact purpose, will include appointments to the School of Arts and Sciences and the Annenberg School for Communication as well as a secondary appointment at Wharton.

University spokesperson

Stephen MacCarthy told The Daily Pennsylvanian in a Feb. 27 email regarding the Silfen Forum that Biden would be “doing a couple of similar events on campus later this semester.”

As of 4:15 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, the event had sold out.

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She looks at how coastal dunes respond to storms HALEY SUH Staff Reporter

When Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast in 2012, Bianca Reo Charbonneau— a biology doctoral candidate at Penn— was one of many looking for ways to help out the affected local communities.

Although she had originally planned on participating in the cleanup effort, Charbonneau ultimately decided to conduct research on coastal ecosystems that would allow shorefront communities to better prepare for the next inevitable hurricane. But what started out as a summer research project quickly snowballed into a master’s dissertation, and eventually, a full research project post graduation.

The overarching objective of her current research is studying how coastal dunes respond ecologically after storm events. In particular, Charbonneau is interested in the vital role that plants play in maintaining sand dunes.

“Coastal dunes are important for a number of reasons,” Charbonneau said. “From an ecological standpoint, they are a really important habitat … from a people community perspective, they buffer up land areas from high tide and storms.”

While various researchers have examined the importance of natural sand dunes in coastal communities, most have neglected the vital role that different species of plants play in building and stabilizing the dunes.

“She’s trying to understand the differences amongst species and their ability to stabilize dunes,” Brenda Casper, chair of the Biology Department, said.

“People know that there needs to be a barrier between the sea and where they live, but they’re trying to construct [the sand dunes] artificially with no vegetation. Those sand dunes without plants can wash away.”

Casper and Charbonneau both mentioned that it is important that the sand dunes with vegetation remain in the coastal ecosystems because they are

the natural ways to protect the shore.

Most recently, Charbonneau received a grant from the United States Army Corps of Engineers to build a wind tunnel that will be filled with various plant species to analyze how well different plants capture sand in the presence of strong wind. Charbonneau plans on spending the next year collecting more data.

“She has a tremendous amount of energy, and [is] very motivated. Always popping into my office about something she’s thought about measuring or some other device that she’s identified that will enable her to measure what she needs,” Casper said.

The beach has always been a place of fascination for Charbonneau.

“I’ve always been a beach person...it quickly became my favorite place in the world,” Charbonneau said. “When I could drive myself, [the beach] is pretty much where I spent all of my allowance...driving down to the shore and spending time there.”

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The overarching objective of her current research is studying how coastal dunes respond ecologically to hurricanes, such as the role that different species of plants play in building and stabilizing the dunes.

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Alliance for Understanding celebrates anniversary The program takes students on a five-day trip OLIVIA SYLVESTER Staff Reporter

After returning from her Alliance for Understanding trip during spring break, College sophomore Aaliyah Meacham decided to reach out to her best friend.

The two hadn’t spoken since Meacham found out her friend had voted for President Donald Trump.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the “transformational” AU trip, a spring break trip that explores the Civil Rights movement and the relationship between the black and Jewish communities at that time.

Meacham said her biggest takeaway from the experience was the importance of listening to and understanding the opinions of others. When she came back from the AU trip she reached out for the first time in four months to her friend who voted for Trump to have a discussion about her friend’s reasoning and opinions.

“Just to meet people and hear their stories and hear their struggle has made it easier to listen to people who might have a different ideology or be a part of a different political party,” Meacham said.

Valerie De Cruz, the director of the Greenfield Intercultural Center, said that every year the AU takes 20 students on a five-day trip to see four southern cities instrumental in the civil rights movement: Selma, Montgomer y, Bi r m i ngha m and Atlanta. The group visits landmarks, museums and synagogues and speaks with people who had been involved in the civil rights movement. Although the trip focuses on the relationship between Jewish and black communities, all students are invited to apply.

“I consistently hear that [the AU] is transformational for students,” De Cruz said. “Alumni consistently tell me they remember this program years after, and that they have formed friendships that continue into their life after Penn.”

College senior Estee Ellis agreed with Meacham that the

trip taught her “the most important thing to do is to listen to each other and try to understand each other better.”

She also discussed the importance of people branching out from the communities with which they directly identify and seeking to understand other groups. Ellis, an Orthodox Jew and active member of Penn Hillel, said that looking back at the relationship between the black and Jewish communities during the civil rights movement exposed both positive and disappointing moments.

“Something that was on my mind throughout the trip was the way that my own community, the Jewish community, can take lessons from the Civil Rights movement for today,” Ellis said.

2012 College graduate Angbeen Saleem, who went on the trip when she was a senior, acknowledged that the AU had a big effect on her life.

“I had never been to the South. I didn’t know much about it. It just really opened my eyes to all the work that’s been going on here,” she said.

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the “transformational” Alliance for Understanding program, a spring break trip that explores the black and Jewish communities during the civil rights movement.

Saleem moved to Montgomery, Ala. to work at the Southern Poverty Law Center

after graduating.

“Sometimes we think it is all in the past, and it’s not,” Saleem

said about the struggles of the civil rights movement. “It is very much present.”

Weeks after FIJI’s ‘VietPong’ event, IFC adds diversity chair

The move comes amid other initiatives by the IFC ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter

The Interfraternity Council is planning to add a diversity chair to their executive committee, similar to the position created by the Panhellenic Council earlier this semester.

This comes after an incident at Phi Gamma Delta, commonly known as FIJI, when a member who named his beer pong team “VietPong” received backlash from the Asian community at Penn.

“We’re still figuring out what the responsibilities would be and how it will work, but after the FIJI incident we are looking towards accelerating the introduction of a diversity chair position,” IFC President and College junior Bradley Freeman said.

Freeman also said the IFC is planning on recording member attendance at the sensitivity presentations that fraternities are required to attend after recruitment, and making them public in order to encourage a sense of cultural and social responsibility within chapters.

“It’s always been a priority of the IFC to get that education,” Freeman said. “One of the things I ran on when becoming IFC president was to promote accountability for chapters. We want to make sure chapters are held accountable for their actions. Student bodies have the right to know ‘Chapter X’ showed up if they had the chance to attend the programming and get the education.”

However, some affiliated students feel that education is not the only solution to solving the problem of cultural insensitivity

within Greek life. President of the Intercultural Greek Council and College junior Angie Wang says the issue has deeper roots.

“I think, on a base level, that there is a societal norm especially in Greek life to tolerate these acts. What it comes down to is that a cultural shift needs to happen in groups,” Wang said.

“People are hesitant to speak up when things like this happen.

We should be finding a way to promote and foster that sort of culture to speak up.”

College senior and member of Delta Psi — also known as St. Anthony Hall — Carter Lewis

added that greater discussion between chapters and members in Greek life is necessary in order to encourage cultural awareness.

“The more you can get frats to talk to each other and have a sit down discussion, people learn from it,” Lewis said. “You know you can’t just call yourself ‘VietPong.’ The issue is larger than offending minority groups.

It reflects poorly on the school.”

Lewis also noted the levels of diversity within Greek life as one of the reasons for a general lack of understanding of what is culturally appropriate. He

added that encouraging diverse recruitment during the rush season could be a potential solution.

“Penn is a very diverse school, but Greek life tends to be the same kind of people. You see the same exact type of kids getting recruited by the same frats,” Lewis said. “But if there was a way to make sure that you are not excluding anybody early on then what will happen is that you’ll have different types of kids, different types of personalities and different types of backgrounds. I think that would help.”

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Flying foul: the sorry state of American aviation COMMON SENSE | More competition would fix America’s broken skies

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A cold wind rushes through the cabin as passengers bundle themselves up in whatever thick clothes and blankets they can find.

The door has been left open for 30 minutes, and the crew is nowhere to be found.

The hydraulic screech of the long machine that hoists food onto the aircraft irks everyone in earshot, not because of its volume or its pitch, but because the flight was supposed to take off two hours ago.

After waiting over an hour longer than they planned — listening to tired music, gnawing on soggy sandwiches and sipping lukewarm coffee — they sit on an immobile aircraft texting their impatient friends at home, desperate to push back.

The patience of the passengers is tested perpetually.

When the aircraft finally finds its destination, there will be meetings missed, appointments cancelled, loved ones busy.

This is not the tale of a rotten return from spring break, although it is indeed inspired by one. It’s the general story of the sorry state

of aviation in America.

In 2014, just 67.7 percent of domestic flights in the United States reached their destinations on time. So far this year, just three-fourths did.

It’s a national embarrassment.

This is the efficiency that we have come to expect of aviation in America — and this is hardly how it works internationally.

Perhaps we expect it because airlines have so normalized delays to the point that they are expected — maybe even planned for.

Or perhaps it’s because aircrafts themselves are these enormous machines that transport us through the skies at incomprehensible speeds, so we forgive their inefficiencies.

Mostly, I’d argue, it’s because we have no other choice.

The aviation industry in America is not a capitalist free market, but an oligarchy — efficient for the executives who reap the rewards, but blisteringly painful for the unfortunate passengers whose dollars keep the planes in the sky.

There are now just nine

airlines in the United States that offer more than 50 national destinations.

The result is that the airlines have carved out their own monopolized routes, leaving you two choices: Either fly their airline or drive. This is true for the vast majority of domestic

and frequently less expensive is because there are almost always three or more competing airlines; they use their newest aircrafts, charge their most competitive rates and prioritize their departures and arrivals.

Aircrafts for domestic flights can be up to 30-years-

The aviation industry in America is not a capitalist free market, but an oligarchy — efficient for the executives who reap the rewards, but blisteringly painful for the unfortunate passengers whose dollars keep the planes in the sky.” flight routes; even in the few routes where several of these airlines compete, customers are typically tied to one airline by frequent-flyer programs and rarely look to the competitors.

The reason that international flights tend to be more timely, comfortable

old, and the computer systems used for ticketing and maintenance are even older.

Crews often don’t know that maintenance is needed until the plane is on the ground, and small computer errors can cause chaos and hundreds of cancelled flights, like in January of this year.

Even if some enterprising young entrepreneurs developed a miracle software that would fix all of these errors, and perhaps even pre-empt maintenance — unless they gave it away for free — they would find few customers.

Because there is no need to compete, there is no need to improve.

The solution, naturally, would be to break up the airlines into smaller companies, forcing them to compete.

“Aren’t you the businessloving libertarian columnist?” I can hear you wondering.

Yes, and that’s why I think this is so important.

The monopolies that have developed in aviation across America have stifled economic productivity and caused countless missed connections — not just to other flights, but to other people. Airlines regularly lie to their customers about departure times, cancellations and hidden fees. They pay their employees poorly and they are always looking for ways to squeeze more money from their customers, because there are no real consequences.

REID JACKSON Aviation in America is not so much an industry as it is a racket.

If the current nine major airlines were divided into 40, a market would emerge.

Prices would decrease, computer systems would improve and new innovations to reduce delays and cancellations would reshape the skies.

The billions of dollars saved would be great for business, but it would be nothing compared to customers finally feeling that their airline respects their time.

REID JACKSON is a College junior from New York, and London, studying political science. His email address is reja@sas.upenn.edu. “Common Sense” usually appears every other Thursday.

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CHANCES ARE | Why studying abroad is embarrassment and embarrassment is a good thing CAMBRIDGE, U.K. — My friend says that “studying abroad is learning how to shame yourself.” I would like to amend that statement by saying, firstly, that I never needed to learn how to shame myself. I was born with a natural talent for self-embarrassment, and secondly, that studying abroad is not so much learning how to shame yourself as it is learning to be okay with shaming yourself.

Before I went abroad, I resolved to do everything perfectly. I watched “Doctor Who” and “Sherlock” religiously to understand British culture. I knew all the — admittedly outdated and posh — slang. “Wind you up” means to make fun of you, to irritate you. Calling someone “fit” means they are attractive. Friends are called “mates” instead of, well, just the word “friends.” Armed with this knowledge, I thought I was prepared for all aspects of British life.

But the second I set foot on foreign soil, I messed up. I was called “disrespectful” and lectured profusely by the immigration officer in an experience

I don’t need to recount again.

And while I thought that would be the worst of it, that was only the beginning.

In these past three months, I have told a barista my name instead of my drink order because I couldn’t understand his accent.

I have sat in the back of the boat while rowing, not doing anything, because I didn’t know what “taking a tap” was. I have stared blankly at a porter when he told me to take out my diary, because I thought he was referring to my personal journal instead of a weekly planner. The more I tried to do things right, the more I embarrassed myself.

And this was because, when I first came here, I didn’t understand that no matter how much we read and learn about another culture, actually experiencing it is a completely different matter. We can never anticipate all the nuances and unspoken social rules that come with years of living a certain way. Because of this, we will inevitably encounter uncomfortable misunderstandings.

Rather than trying to avoid them or dwelling on them, we

should embrace the awkwardness. In fact, embarrassing ourselves can be a good thing.

Part of the reason we hate embarrassment is because it puts us at the mercy of others.

In doing something stupid, we have made ourselves vulnerable

ings, deeply flawed and unable to do everything right. We can breathe easier in knowing that we cannot achieve perfection, and we do not have to.

Moreover, we accept that life is out of our control. American culture nowadays teaches us that

When we embarrass ourselves, we rely on other people not to mock us, to treat us kindly and to understand that they could easily have gone through what we are undergoing. In turn, we pay it forward.” to judgment. We are all, to some extent, vain creatures who care about perfection, and embarrassment breaks our veneer.

But that is all the more reason to embarrass ourselves. Embarrassment humbles us. It reminds us that we are all human be-

we can have everything our way, that we can submit the universe to our will with just a flick of the finger, if only we put our mind to it. On the contrary, there are some things in life that we cannot change, and embarrassing ourselves is one of the milder

ways of reminding us of this.

Finally, embarrassment teaches us the meaning of compassion. We never understand compassion more than when we are given it. When we embarrass ourselves, we rely on other people not to mock us, to treat us kindly and to understand that they could easily have gone through what we are undergoing. In turn, we pay it forward.

The next time we see someone who is suffering, we are a little gentler because of the memory of those who were good to us.

If nothing else, embarrassment leaves us freer to do whatever we want. We don’t have to worry about the worst thing that can happen, because it has already happened. We can just be ourselves.

My friend always says that I’m like a new person when I’m abroad — and that I’m much more confident. The truth is that people don’t come back from studying abroad confident because of some mystical experience, as if they’ve been drinking something in the foreign water.

People come back from studying abroad confident because,

AMY CHAN in contacting new experiences constantly, they encounter so much embarrassment that if they didn’t learn to grow some self-esteem, they’d be forever hanging their heads in shame.

We have to realize that embarrassment is nothing to be afraid of. We will never enjoy our time abroad or even at home if we do not learn to embrace embarrassment. In the end, it’s just a slightly more painful way of breaking in some new shoes.

AMY CHAN is a College junior from Augusta, Ga., studying classics and English. Her email address is chanamy@ sas.upenn.edu. “Chances Are” usually appears every other Thursday.

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Med School faculty member running for office Chuang is running for the New Jersey State Assembly CAROLINE CURRAN Contributing Reporter

Following the 2016 presidential election, some students and faculty have become more involved in political activism through marches and protests.

But one Penn graduate and faculty member is taking a different route — she’s running for public office.

Assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine and 1999 College graduate Jennifer Chuang recently decided to run for a seat on New Jersey State Assembly for District 7.

A daughter of Taiwanese

immigrants, Chuang grew up in Moorestown, N.J., where she also currently lives with her family. Chuang majored in anthropology as an undergraduate at Penn and attended Temple University’s School of Medicine.

After the 2016 presidential election, Chuang wanted to find ways to engage with her community.

“I absolutely did not think that it would involve running for office,” she said.

Nonetheless, Chuang said she was compelled to seek elected office in the New Jersey State Assembly after witnessing national and local government changes she found worrisome. She said the rhetoric that casts doubt on the safety or importance of vaccinations,

especially, upset her as a pediatrician.

Chuang also expressed her support for reproductive rights and abortion access in New Jersey.

“I’m afraid that as we cut away at access and those rights, that women will be seeking very unsafe alternatives,” she said.

Chuang served as a national coordinator for Medical Students for Choice while attending medical school, according to her letter of intent.

Chuang cites her own practice in adolescent medicine as a major factor in her platform’s emphasis on supporting youth, especially underserved teens and LGBTQ youth.

“I’m so proud of the kids that I take care of, and I can’t

overemphasize the amount of potential that I think that these young people have,” she said.

Chuang noted the scarcity of physicians, and especially pediatricians, in elected office.

“Pediatricians are some of the strongest advocates for their patients,” she said. “So I do think that it is very important for pediatricians to have a voice to protect our kids.”

The Democratic primary for the New Jersey State Assembly will be held on June 6. Chuang will formally announce her platform on April 4 at 6 p.m. at the Moorestown Community House.

During her time as a Penn undergraduate, Chuang participated in groups that influenced her current platform, including a student organization called

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Chuang noted the lack of pediatricians in public office, saying “it is very important for pediatricians to have a voice to protect our kids.”

Facilitating Learning About Sexual Health.

“That was the beginning of me getting up and talking about sexual health,” she said. “It was for the good of the community.”

She also wrote for a women’s newsletter, Generation XX, and participated in Take Back the Night, a march aiming to end sexual assault and violence.

Chuang’s own young children also inspired her to run for

office.

“I really feel like our country is potentially going in a direction that fifteen or twenty years from now, they’re going to look back and ask me, what did you do at that time?” she said. “Did you passively watch everything just go by? And I wanted to be able to face my kids and say no, I stood up and spoke out when I thought that there was inequity in the world.”

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Another Biden center to open at U. of Delaware

The institute will focus on domestic policy issues BRIAN ZHONG Staff Reporter

While former Vice President Joe Biden’s plans for the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. are still being worked out, his vision for another institute, the University of Delaware is more tangible.

He spoke about the Biden Domestic Policy Institute Monday at an event at the University of Delaware, his alma mater.

He noted that the institute would be nonpartisan, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. "[Students] need not share my political view on any of the issues,” he said, according to the Inquirer. “I hope I can convince [students] to share my view that they have an obligation, they have an opportunity, and they have the capacity [to participate in politics].”

6abc reported that Biden will spend one day a week working at the institute, relying on senior political aides such as his campaign manager and sister Valerie Biden Owens — who will assume the role of vice chair — to lead the academic center.

According to a University of Delaware press release,

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Associate Dean of the College and Director of Academic Affairs Kent Peterman explained the rationale behind Penn’s decision of whether to accept AP test results for course credit.

“The departmental decision is based on their understanding of how students who receive credit by exam fare in subsequent courses in that discipline,” he said.

“So for instance, if a student gets AP credit for Calculus BC, that more or less maps onto Math 104 at Penn, so they get credit for Math 104, and then the question is ‘well okay, but is that really an indication that they’re prepared to go on to the next course, Math 114?’”

“And so, departments have to look at those kinds of outcomes and decide whether the external exam really is a good indicator of whether the student is ready to move on,” he added.

Departments like the Depar tment of Mathematics, Department of Physics & Astronomy and languages have

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assists various homeless shelters and programs across the city, Project One’s “On The Ground” initiative involves approaching homeless individuals and offering them lunch and someone to talk to.

While working through On the Ground two years ago, College junior and Vice President of Penn Project One Mattie Stokes interacted with a woman who defied her preconceptions of homelessness.

“There was a woman at a bus stop that was nicely dressed, her hair done up, asking for change,” she said. “She was recently laid off, she had three kids and she decided to sell her house in order to continue

paying for her children’s education.”

O f t en, homelessness is caused by problems that anyone can have, such as being laid off from work or lacking affordable housing, according to the website of Philadelphia nonprofit Project HOME. Samantha Hernandez, a College sophomore and the public relations officer for Penn Project One, is constantly working to change people’s preconceptions and lessen the stigma surrounding homelessness.

“I think a lot of time we want to use prejudices and stereotypes we have about people in order to decide how we are going to interact with these people,” she said. “A lot of people believe that a lot of homeless people are also mentally ill, but that’s a small percentage.”

Many members of the project talked about the story of David Brown. “After escaping

an abusive home, David lived on the streets for 25 years,” Ng said. “He got taken advantage of, he got beaten up a number of times, once he was sleeping on the street and saw teenagers set a fellow homeless person’s feet on fire.”

Now he is employed through Project HOME, living in a clean studio apartment and working to make up many years of lost education.

However, his story is still uncom mon. Although Project HOME estimated that the number of homeless people in Philadelphia has decreased over the last couple of years, the volunteers at Penn Project One say there is still much to be done. “The only way to address homelessness long-term is to be comprehensive,” Ng said.

“They need job security, they need adequate housing, they need medical and mental health care.”

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At an event on Monday at the University of Delaware, Biden noted that the Biden Domestic Policy Institute would be nonpartisan.

the institute will tackle domestic public policy issues running the gamut from economic reform to civil rights.

The center will do so in part by inviting political leaders and scholars to discuss these issues.

“If I can sit with a Mitch McConnell before the whole world watching and people see how we actually can interact and get things done, I think it will generate that kind of consensus on a local level as well,” Biden said at the launch event.

“I hope it will become a

source of significant pride and some excitement here at my alma mater,” Biden said, but noted that the institute “is not going to be a political organization trying to challenge Trump policy.”

I n rega rds to Biden’s responsibilities at Penn, University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy told The Daily Pennsylvanian last month his office was unable to “have conversations around [Biden’s] specific role until he left office four weeks ago, so details are still being ironed out.”

deemed that the AP exams offered for their respective subjects are equal to Penn courses, so they still award course credit for a score of 5 on the AP exam.

According to Peterman, The Committee of Undergraduate Education adopted a policy about a year ago where departments could only grant credit if they were willing to count the course within the major.

Courses like Chemistry 091, for instance, used to be counted as a “free elective credit” but could not count toward the major.

Some departments don’t grant course credit but rather offer waivers out of introductory level classes. The Economics Department and the Department of Psychology, for example, both grant waivers if students receive a score of 5 on the AP exam for the respective subject.

Some students a re encouraged by their academic advisors to use the waiver, but others are encouraged to retake the introductory level course.

“It depends on the quality of the course you took [in high school],” Peterman said.

College and Wharton freshman Arman Ramezani saw firsthand the pros and cons of using waivers. Ramezani had the AP scores necessary to skip Economics 001 and Economics 002 upon entering Penn, but only used one waiver.

“I decided to waive out of ECON 001 and took ECON 002 at Penn,” Ramezani said.

“And I saw that the depth of what was covered in ECON 002 was much more than what the AP curriculum in my high school covered, so I was really glad that I took ECON 002 instead of waiving out.”

R a m ez a n i u nd e r st a nd s that sometimes high school AP curricula are not as rigorous as Penn’s curriculum, but he wishes that more of his AP scores would be translated into Penn credits.

“One downside is that I know a lot of students, including myself, are trying to have multiple majors or minors or degrees,” he said. “So the fewer AP credits that are accepted means more credits that we have to take during the school year, which makes Penn – a stressful environment already — more stressful in general.”

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Men’s lax to open Ivy play against rival Princeton High ambitions mean no margin for error

schedule should be easier to navigate, as even with the Quakers’ recent losses, they are still the second-ranked team in the league. On the other hand, fewer Ivy League teams may receive bids to the NCAA tournament, as the current play of the teams has the conference teetering on a becoming a one-bid league.

Therefore, this year, more so than in any recent year, winning the Ivy League is paramount. It may be Penn’s only shot at reaching the NCAAs. But still, even if that wasn’t the case, each Ivy game is crucial — especially this weekend’s game against Princeton.

As if Penn needed any motivation beyond opening up league play against an arch rival, many former Quakers will pack the stands to cheer on the team as part of Penn lacrosse’s Alumni Day. “The Penn-Princeton rivalry is a great one....We all understand the rivalry and what it means to us, to our coaches, and to to our alumni,� sophomore attackman Simon Mathias said. “To have all our alumni back this weekend will be great. It should add some extra buzz to the stadium.�

The Tigers (4-2) hold an impressive win over Johns Hopkins and have been playing their best

BREVIN FLEISCHER Associate Sports Editor SATURDAY

No. 15 Princeton (4-1) 3 p.m.

Franklin Field

Now the real season begins for Penn men’s lacrosse.

After starting off the year with a bang, defeating St. Joseph’s and Virginia in consecutive weeks, the Quakers (3-2) followed with a difficult Spring Break. Onegoal losses at now-No. 2 Penn State and unranked Michigan sandwiched a narrow victory over Navy and have Penn ranked No. 19 by the USILA. The team’s climb back to the top ten begins this Saturday at Franklin Field against No. 15 Princeton in the Ivy League opener.

Disappointing starts from Yale and Brown have made the Ivy League significantly weaker than it has been in recent years, a fact that has both positive and negative consequences for the Red and Blue.

On one hand, the conference

lacrosse of the season. Their catalyst at the offensive end is Michael Sowers, who operates behind the net, feeding shooters and dodging for timely goals. “Sowers is an old school ‘X’ attackman,� coach Mike Murphy said. “He’s very skilled and very athletic, and he has great vision, so you have to minimize his impact as much as you can.

You’re not going to take him out of a game by any stretch.�

Sowers, only a freshman, is joined by All-American midfielder Zach Currier who predominantly operates between the offensive and defensive ends.

The senior’s penchant for sparking transition and scooping up loose balls makes him somewhat of a throwback player, one who is thriving in today’s more structured, role-specific game.

Additionally, the Quakers will have to contend with the strong play of junior goalie Tyler Blaisdell.

Combatting this talented Princeton group will be a Penn team hungry for a victory, only two goals off from an undefeated start to the year. “There are a lot of lessons to be learned from our games over break. We’ve been watching a lot of film on all three of those games to learn about and improve our

own game,� Mathias said. “I’d say, from a tough Spring Break, the message is that we’re focusing on ourselves, taking it one week at a time in order to prepare ourselves for Princeton.�

Challenging Blaisdell to work for his saves will be Mathias, the team’s leader in both goals and assists, and junior midfielder Kevin McGeary, who contributed five goals in the loss to Michigan.

Meanwhile, at the defensive end, sophomore goalie Reed Junkin will need to regain his early season form in order to thwart scorers like Sowers and Sims. Aiding him in that process will be Penn’s three senior close defensemen and long stick midfielder, Connor Keating.

Keating may have to serve as Currier’s foil, as he’s possibly the only player in the nation capable of matching the Princeton midfielder’s abilities to create offense out of an unsettled situation. “It’s obviously somewhat unique to have a defensive player have that level of ability to score goals like [Keating] does,�

Murphy said. “I’ve never seen a guy who handles the ball and shoots the ball as well as he does with a long stick.�

Obviously, Keating is not alone in his explosive abilities. This Penn team is littered with capable

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Sophomore attackman Simon Mathias leads Penn men’s lacrosse in goals and assists. He will need tp bring his A-game against Princeton.

scorers and stout defenders. The pieces are in place. Now, it’s all about focusing and playing the full 60 minutes. “Everyone is really motivated in the locker room this week,�

Mathias said. “We have a pretty good plan to execute a win, so I’m pretty excited. If we focus and execute that plan, I’m pretty optimistic about how our Ivy play will start off.�

Another tough game awaits Quakers as Duke visits W. LAX | Penn has faced

in front of generations of the program’s past champions.

This Saturday has long been marked on the calendar, as the No. 12 Quakers (5-1, 0-1 Ivy) will be welcoming both their own alumni and No. 16 Duke to Franklin Field. Additionally, now marking a full decade, they will be celebrating the in-conference-undefeated 2007 team, who pulled off an incredible NCAA tournament run culminating in a Final Four appearance.

Discussing the impact of fans, junior Alex Condon expressed how much their presence will

several ranked teams

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No. 19 Duke (4-3) 12 p.m.

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It’s always important to give your fans a good show. This is especially true for Penn women’s lacrosse, as they will be playing

mean to the team. “It’s going to be so cool, just being able to see the support from past players coming out to our game,� she said. “I know the weather isn’t going to be that great, but just having them there to cheer us on is special because they’ve been there before and they still have so much love and appreciation for the team.�

Penn will be entering this non-conference matchup with plenty of momentum, stringing together two wins and having not dropped a single game outside the Ivy League. Their hard

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work has not gone unnoticed, as the team picked up accolades such as eighth best defense in the country by allowing only eight goals a game.

Regarding the team’s success so far, Condon believes the squad is still improving day by day, and we’ve yet to see them at their best. “I think we have a lot of raw talent on the team and as the season has been progressing, we’ve really been able to gel as a team and understand each other as players. It lets us go out and put together a uniform game where we are all on the same page and competing and working hard together,� Condon said. “We are ready to get better each game and each practice, which helps us improve as the season moves along.�

However, the Blue Devils (4-3, 0-3 ACC) will not go down easily, and will be looking to turn around a three game losing

streak. They have shown flashes of brilliance, especially when taking down the former No. 12 Stanford last month, and they bested Penn 12-6 in Durham this past season.

Penn will have to keep an eye out on draws, as Duke checks in at 12th in Division I for draw controls per game with 15.1 and posts a tally of 106-57 over their opponents. It is interesting to note that the Blue Devils’ offense is fairly balanced with four players netting in the double digits.

As far as scouting the opponent, Condon said, “They have a strong offense and defense, so they will score and come up with big stops, so we can’t let that bother us or discourage us.�

The Quakers offense has at times been a one man army, with Condon leading the charge. As the primary source of the team’s goals with 19, good enough for third in the Ivies, she is certainly

expected to make an impact once again around the cage. However, she also expressed her desires to adopt a more balanced playing style, and will attempt to redefine herself a bit this weekend. “Personally, I think I need to not be so one dimensional. My favorite thing to do on the field is to cut to the middle and grab a quick feed and score that way, which is easy for other teams to scout and then cover. For this game, I’m definitely going to try to work on being able to facilitate plays off the ball, move the ball quickly and look for assists. I also want to contribute on defense so it’s not just about my offensive performance: it’s about my performance as a whole all over the field,� Condon said.

This weekend will be another tough test for the Quakers, but perhaps, with a little encouragement from old friends in the stands, they can continue their dominant run.

Baseball heads to N.C. as home opener cancelled Team hopes to rebound after rough Florida trip THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Sports Reporter

Penn baseball is going south for the winter.

A week after heading to Florida for a nine-game road trip during “spring� break, the recent weather has forced the Quakers (2-7) to abandon their first home series of the year and relocate to warmer climates.

On Wednesday, Penn was set to host its home opener against crosstown rivals Villanova. Instead, with Meikeljohn Stadium blanketed with snow, the game was postponed, and is likely to be rescheduled sometime next month. The home opener is now scheduled to be against Lehigh next Wednesday.

The weather also forced Penn to alter its weekend plans. Instead of a four game home series against Marist, the Quakers are going south to meet the Red Foxes (6-6) for a three-game series at neutral sites in North Carolina and Maryland.

Despite the loss of homefield advantage and one of the four games, coach John Yurkow seemed thankful that the games are happening at all. “There were quite a few schools in the northeast trying to do the same thing�, he said.

“The guys are excited. There are teams that won’t get to play at all, so we’re fortunate that we can get these three games in.�

A smaller effect of the recent weather is that Penn baseball, along with the other spring sports, has been forced to practice indoors under sub-optimal conditions. That said, the Quakers don’t intend on letting the weather limit them any more than it already has. “We just need to remain focused.� Yurkow said. “[We need to] keep working on things and making the improvements we need to make individually and get set up to have a good weekend.�

The Red and Blue started the season on a six-game losing streak, including being swept by both North Florida and Valparaiso. They finished the Florida trip with a series win against Fairfield featuring an 8-0 complete game shut-out by senior pitcher Mike Reitcheck. The southpaw’s four-hit effort earned him both the Ivy League and Big 5 Pitcher of the Week awards.

The final series marked an offensive explosion for the Quakers as well. After scoring only eight runs in the opening six games, Penn battered Fairfield to the tune of 19 runs over the course of their three-game series. “In the middle of [last] week, we got some hits but left a lot of runners in scoring position, but

finally we started to put things together against Fairfield.�

Yurkow said. “I like the makeup of the team, I think the pieces are there. We’re well rested and we just need to continue to take good at-bats.�

The Quakers face a Marist team that has had slightly more success in the young season.

The Red Foxes have averaged more runs per game and less runs allowed than the Quakers so far. Marist is led offensively by junior third baseman Andrew Rouse, who has already won two MAAC Player of the Week awards this season. The leadoff man leads Marist in both batting average and on-base percentage.

The Quakers seem to be coming into form at just the right time as they prepare for conference play. The offense hasn’t been firing on all cylinders, but the Fairfield series showed a glimpse of what Penn is capable of. Meanwhile, the pitching staff features a rotation full of reliable veterans and a bullpen that seems more than capable of stepping in when it matters most. With the season – if not the weather – heating up, this weekend gives the first real glimpse into the Quakers’ fate this spring.

The projected starters for Penn on the mound are seniors Jake Cousins (1-1) and Reitcheck (1-0) for games one and two on Saturday, and senior Adam Bleday (0-1) on Sunday for game three.

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Gymnasts seek huge win Five wrestlers head to at ECAC championship NCAA Championships

After silver at Ivies, Penn wants it all

Four automatic bids, one at-large to compete

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Associate Sports Editor

The ECAC Championships have just about arrived, and Penn gymnastics is ready to fight for its championship rings.

This Saturday, the Red and Blue will travel to Providence, R.I. to compete against Brown, Cornell, Temple, William and Mary and Yale. The squad is looking for a big finish in order to qualify for USA Gymnastics Collegiate Nationals in Seattle, Washington on April 7th.

“Everyone is feeling incredibly confident and prepared for ECACs,” sophomore Nicole Swirbalus said. “Especially after getting second at Ivies and being so close to winning, we want to win ECACs that much more.”

Following a season-high effort of 193.950 points in last week’s Quad Meet at Temple — including an insane school record of 49.200 on the bars — the Quakers certainly are peaking at the right time.

“After reaching our season high this past weekend, we are all very excited to perform our best routines at ECACs,” sophomore captain Caroline Moore said. “We’ve been training all year for this time of the season, and we are more than ready both physically and mentally to win.”

Not only is this the Quakers’ biggest meet of the year, but they are also taking on opponents against whom they are seeking revenge for recent close losses. On February 25th at the Ivy Classic, Penn took second place to Cornell by 0.400 points, and it most recently lost to Temple last weekend by 1.025.

The ECAC Championship will be a challenge and will ultimately put the Quakers to the test. After overcoming some mid-season struggles, the squad feels stronger than ever and is ready to compete at the highest level this weekend.

“Our main goal is to come back with a ring, but more importantly we are striving to be the loudest team in the arena and be supportive teammates,” Moore said. “We just want to

It all comes down to this. For Penn wrestling, the entire season culminates in St. Louis when five Quakers will travel to the Scottrade Center for the NCAA Tournament.

The Quakers are hoping for a third all-American in the last four years. They will have several key chances to do that, with five wrestlers in the middle of the lineup jockeying for accolades.

First is May Bethea, the 157-pounder and team captain.

In just three years wearing the Red and Blue, Bethea is now making his second appearance in the national tournament. He earned an at-large bid after an impressive regular season and is searching for his third win over a ranked opponent, which would tie him for most on the team.

At 165 pounds is Brooks Martino. After an NCAA performance in 2015, Martino was determined to get back to the big tournament. Despite missing the first few weeks of the year, Martino leveraged an excellent dual season into a high seed at the EIWA tournament.

He upended the competition and even scored a pin against the #2 seed before a second place finish. He will wrestle West Virginia’s Dylan Cottrell for the second time this season. In their first match of the season, at the Southern Scuffle, Martino fell 4-1.

Twelfth-ranked Casey Kent is one of the most likely candidates to be named an All-American after earning those accolades in 2016. The Norristown, P.A. native has had another great season in 2017 at 174 pounds. His first opponent in the tournament

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Sophomore Nicole Swirbalus thinks Penn can take the ECAC title.

The team’s star and captain will see if she can vault them to that.

have fun while doing something we love as a team.”

As Moore stated, it is important to be supportive of every competitor on the team to achieve the best results. It is at meets like the ECACs that the team needs to perform at its best to fully accomplish the goals they have set out for themselves.

“Heading into this weekend everybody is thinking about doing our routines exactly as we know them and having fun with it at the same time. We all would love ECAC rings, but we can’t get ahead of ourselves, and have to stay calm and hit our routines like we know how to do,” Swirbalus said. “We are definitely hoping to qualify for USAG Nationals as team.”

The team hit some struggle points throughout the season, but the team has proven that these moments of defeat and anguish are what has built it up to be stronger and more competitive for important meets later in their season.

T he ECAC cha mpionship will do just that: test the Quakers’ ability to overcome adversity as a squad in order to rise above competitive opponents that have proven to be a threat to Penn in the past.

Heading into the meet, the Red and Blue have high

expectations of themselves, and are holding themselves to the highest standards. With this dedication and motivation, the squad is looking promising for the number one spot at the championship.

“We are completely capable of winning ECACs,” Swirbalus said. “Our bars squad at Temple, which included five freshmen, broke the school bars record, so I am confident that the younger members of the team will rise to the occasion this weekend.”

After this big accomplishment by rookies on the squad, the team is in high spirits heading into this weekend, with a ton of confidence in its rookies.

It is important now to focus on the tasks ahead to prepare for the competition that lies ahead.

“I expect that the whole team will be ready for this weekend and will build off of the successes of this past weekend,” Moore said. “At this point, it’s about the small details, because every tenth of a point counts.”

With the whole team looking to accomplish the same goal and with the willingness to do it together, the Quakers could find themselves on the top of the podium as ECAC Champions.

Perfect routines, team unity, and a drive to succeed can make this dream a reality.

Quakers hope to keep momentum from Break W. TENNIS | Penn had

strong Spring in Florida

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Despite the weather, Penn women’s tennis is starting to heat up.

Following a successful Spring Break trip, the Quakers are looking to stay hot this weekend against St. John’s. On that trip, the Red and Blue (6-6) went 4-1, including a dominant 5-2 victory against No. 36 Florida State.

Coach Sanela Kunovac was thrilled with the team’s performance.

“We had a tremendous Spring Break. We played well, competed hard, and put ourselves in position to win each match,” she said.

One of the best Spring Breaks we’ve had.”

One of the most positive aspects that came from the trip was the strengthening of the team’s chemistry. “We feel a lot closer as a team after spending a lot of time together this weekend,” AllIvy senior Kana Daniel said.

Kunovac echoed those sentiments.

“Team chemistry has meshed really well,” she said. “I thought we were in a great place before, but the team chemistry grew more than we thought it could.”

Penn’s hot play has been anchored by the dominance of sophomore Marta Kowalska and junior Lina Qostal. Kowalska is a stellar 8-1 this spring with wins in six straight matches, and Qostal has an impressive mark of 8-3 with an eight-match win streak.

“They’ve been our two most dominant and clutch players for the past four weeks,” Kunovac said. “It’s so nice to know that when Marta and Lina go on the court, more likely than not that match is going in our favor.”

Kunovac credits the pair’s difference in playing styles for their ability to earn wins.

“Lina is very good at dominating her matchup. She makes her opponent uncomfortable and takes them out of their game, which allows her to impose her game on the opponent,” Kunovac said. “With Marta, you can watch four matches and none will be the same. She is so good at adjusting and reading the match conditions so that she can find the hole in the opponent’s game and exploit it.”

Daniel played a great slate of matches over the break as well, going 4-0. Those wins, which included a win over the 28th ranked player in the country, have given Daniel a lot of belief in her game.

“I feel very confident right now,” Daniel said. “I played four tough matches, a few where I was down and had to find ways to come back, so it was a good learning experience and I think that prepared me well for the upcoming matches.”

St. Johns’ (10-2) is led by freshman Jessica Livianu, who is currently ranked No. 49 in the country in singles. Both Daniel and Kunovac described St. John’s playing style as “feisty” and “fiery”, making them just the sort of opponent the Quakers are hoping for.

“They have a lot of persistence, a lot of fight. It will be a great match for us,” Kunovac said.

“We’re expecting a big battle. A big mental battle and emotional battle, and we’ll be looking to maintain that energy for a fourhour match.”

After such a solid week, one might worry about losing focus, especially with the snow day Penn experienced on Tuesday.

But Kunovac stated that is far from the case.

“Normally, the coach might give a message to the team,” she said. “But the message they are giving us is ‘we’re dialed in’ and at our first practice after getting back, they look so ready and dialed in. They’re as focused as they ever have been.”

The Quakers are locked in and ready to keep winning, no matter who is in their path.

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One wrestler for Penn hoping to end his season on a high note is automatic qualifier and 157-pounder May Bethea, a team captain.

is Navy’s Jaaden Bernstein, who Kent defeated in his most recent match to claim third at the EIWA tournament.

Joe Heyob is the team’s 184-pounder and is perhaps the Quakers’ biggest surprise entrant. He lowered weight classes early in the season but ran through the competition en route to a 22-10 record. He struggled against Cornell’s Gabe Dean in the EIWA tournament -- Dean has dominated all opponents thus far -- but found his way into an automatic bid to NCAAs. The Ohio native still has another year left in the Red and Blue and could become an All-American in 2017.

The teams 197 pounder, twelfth-ranked Frank Mattiace, enters the tournament with the most momentum of the bunch.

He was perhaps the Quakers’ most impressive grappler in 2017, pinning five of his opponents this year. His strong performances continued into the conference tournament, when he picked up two sudden victory decisions and

placed first in his entire weight class.

The five of them have a great chance of making waves in St. Louis, even if the Quakers as a team is unlikely to dazzle on the scoreboard.

Once again, the season will come down to Penn’s wrestlers performing at their highest level.

That is no easy task on such a big platform in front of thousands of fans, but there is plenty of experience on this year’s qualifiers.

Martino, Kent and Bethea have all wrestled at the tournament in prior years and should have no concern about the event itself.

In coach Alex Tirapelle’s tenure at Penn, the Quakers have only sent five qualifiers one other time, in 2015. Adding some more All-Americans to the team’s impressive history could help bring the program back into its days of being nationally ranked. At the very least, it gives the Quakers another opportunity to show the rest of the nation that they have some of the country’s best grapplers.

GLOBAL New College House at the University of Pennsylvania presents a Global Citizenship Forum:

CITIZENSHIP in Context A moderated panel discussion of global citizenship— its challenges, opportunities, historical trajectory and current context

Featured Speakers:

LaShawn Jefferson

Deputy Director, Perry World House

John Jackson

Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor; Dean of the School of Social Policy and Practice

Moderator: Cam Grey

Damon Linker

Senior Correspondent, “The Week”; Consulting Editor, University of Pennsylvania Press

Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies; Faculty Director, New College House

Sunday, March 19 3:00–4:30 PM with reception to follow

New College House Dining Pavilion (3335 Woodland Walk)

THE BAR IS HIGH Penn gymnastics closes out its season with a bang this championship weekend

In a top-20 clash, Penn women’s lacrosse faces Duke this weekend despite the cold

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Quakers travel to third NCAA Tourney in 4 years WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor

They’ve been here before. In fact, this is their third trip to the NCAA Tournament in four years.

But the first NCAA Tournament win in program history still eludes the women of Penn basketball.

The Quakers will be hoping that the third time is the charm when they tip off against Texas A&M in the first round of March

Madness on Saturday night in Los Angeles.

12th-seeded Penn (22-7, 13-1 Ivy) has already left Philadelphia in order to acclimate to Pacific Time and prepare for its opponent, the fifth-seeded Aggies (21-11, 9-7 SEC). According to coach Mike McLaughlin, the Quakers’ tilt with the Texans will be no easy match-up.

“They rebound the ball well.

They’re athletic,” McLaughlin said. “They’re talented, as you’d expect ... we’re gonna have to play exceptionally well to have success.”

And though Saturday’s game is

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yet another instance of Penn playing a better team in the first round of the tournament, the Quakers’ previous two contests in March Madness has taught they that they can, in fact, hang with the best.

Last year, the Quakers went to Maryland to play a seventhseeded Washington team, famous for two star players on its squad, namely, Kelsey Plum and Chantel Osahor. Yet at halftime, Penn led the game, 25-24. Unfortunately for the Red and Blue, the Huskies came out swinging in the fourth quarter, and managed to put the game to bed in the final minutes.

It was the same story when

the team made the NCAA Tournament three years ago, playing fifth-seeded Texas. The Quakers led by as many as 15 in the first half and went into halftime up 38-31. Ultimately, though, the Longhorns pulled out a 79-61 victory.

In both of those games, Penn started out strong, commanding the tempo and dictating the way the contest was played.

Things started to fall apart when the games became shooting contests against those more talented teams. If the Quakers are going to make the second round, they’ll need to manage the pace

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throughout.

“The key for us is that we’re gonna have to rebound with them and try to control the tempo,” McLaughlin said. “They have size, and they have athleticism.

Tempo control is gonna be a key factor for us.”

The whole team will have to come together and function as one unit, too. Just as they have prided themselves on their defense all year, the players will need to rely on the fact that their starting five might have better chemistry than most teams in the country, as they’ve started every game together since January.

In the end, it’s a tournament game, so there’s no telling what might happen. But McLaughlin seemed clear about what he wanted to see come tip-off.

“I hope that we’ll be composed and poised, that we have control of who we are,” he said. “Relaxed, but with a sense of urgency.

I want them to understand and act like each play is the most important one.”

And if they can prevent a lategame slide like in recent trips to the Big Dance, then this Saturday just might have them really dancing, after all — in La La Land, of all places.

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