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Women’s marches in Philadelphia and other cities drew Penn students to the streets in January. On Friday, one of the movement’s national organizers

came to campus to advise students on how to continue their activism.

“If your activism is limited to this particular presidency, then you’ve missed the mark already,” said Tamika Mallory, one of the national co-chairs of the Women’s March on Washington, at an event on Friday.

Mallory, the keynote speaker for Women’s Week with the Penn

Association for Gender Equity, spoke at an event in the Rodin College House Rooftop Lounge about her experience organizing the Women’s March and her views on social issues. Mallory is wellknown for her work as a social justice advocate and a champion for women’s rights issues, reducing gun violence and more.

Mallory worked with others on the

Women’s March Board to organize the Women’s March on Washington that drew over 1 million protesters in Washington, D.C. and 5 million protesters worldwide on Jan. 21. She said that for many people, the large turnout was unexpected.

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Rumors of contaminants frighten Penn students SARAH FORTINSKY Staff Reporter

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nxiety over water quality on campus can make some students opt for alternatives to the tap.

“I don’t drink from the tap, and I actually make a point to not drink from the tap water,” College freshman Ally Schoenberg said. “Some of my friends definitely do drink from the tap and I always tell them not to.”

For Schoenberg, the concern

is largely about tap water’s link to cancer. These worries aren’t entirely baseless — in September, higher-than-recommended levels of the cancer-causing carcinogen chromium-6 were found in Philadelphia tap water. For other students, the concern ranges from the water ”[looking] like milk” — which is likely due to air bubbles in the water — to rumors that it has traces of fluoride in it or iron remnants from

“Some of my friends definitely do drink from the tap, and I always tell them not to.”

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potential corrosion in the pipes. *** Penn does not test its own water on a regular basis. Instead, tests are conducted in specific areas when a student complains, Executive Director of Environmental Health and Radiation Safety Matthew Finucane said.

“We rely on the City of Philadelphia to test the water that they supply to the campus,” Finucane

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… surely the passion and engagement of Penn students is what makes the school so special.”

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“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” filmed a segment in Center City

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Wharton freshmen Victoria Sacchetti and Katrina Arman, dressed as a narwal and shark respectively, competed on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” last week.

Two Penn students won $5,000 each on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Wednesday.

Wharton freshmen Victoria Sacchetti and Katrina Arman beat out thousands of fans to have the opportunity to compete in an obstacle course challenge for the prize.

“There must have been two or three thousand people waiting [there],” Arman said. “We were all cheering and making as much noise as possible.”

DeGeneres tweeted on Monday, March 20, that her crew would be on Walnut Street Wednesday filming a surprise segment. Sacchetti and

Arman were not thinking of going to Center City for the event, but their sisters in Alpha Phi convinced them to.

“We’ve been really stressed with school lately, so a bunch of us in [Alpha Phi] decided to go down,” Sacchetti said. “More than being on the show, it was just a really good bonding experience with the sisters.”

The fans waiting in Center City were all dressed in costumes of famous duos. With only a couple of hours to prepare, Sacchetti and Arman borrowed a narwhal and shark costume from a friend.

They quickly labelled themselves as “Left Shark” and “Right Shark”, referencing costumes made popular at Katy Perry’s 2015 Super Bowl Halftime Show.

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The City of Philadelphia is responsible for testing the sources of drinking water, which Philadelphia Water Department spokesperson Laura Copeland said is “clean and safe to drink,” but problems with the drinking water could arise from the old pipes and brass faucets, according to Pennsylvania’s Department

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Finucane said Penn’s drinking water comes from copper pipes and that most of Penn’s buildings “have been renovated over the years, so we don’t really have any situations where we might have lead fittings on the lines.”

Pennsylvania’s DEP website states, however, that “even legally ‘lead-free’ plumbing may contain up to 8 percent lead,” and that “corrosion of copper pipes in homes is the leading source of copper in drinking water.” Exposure to copper can cause adverse health effects, including vomiting and diarrhea.

In the last year, Finucane said there were “a few times” where students raised concerns about the quality of water, but he wasn’t sure of the exact number.

In at least two instances, they subsequently tested the water in the residential buildings and received normal results, despite the tap running blue water in one case. “[The number is] a little higher than usual,” he said.

“Normally we don’t hear anybody with concerns about the water.”

Finucane attributed this increase in student complaints to the media coverage of the water crisis in Flint, Mich.

“There was just general concern, I imagine,” Finucane said, “that people had been reading the press about Flint, Michigan and were concerned perhaps that the same conditions existed here on campus.” *** Some Penn students said they don’t think the tap water seems completely clean, but they drink it because of convenience and cost.

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his whole life, College junior Peter Beik said he is accustomed to the tap water by now even though he said he knows “it’s not the cleanest.”

“I’ve considered using a filtered bottle, but that’s also a lot of time,” Beik said. “Generally when I’m thirsty, I want to drink water. So I just kind of get it out of the sink, as opposed to preparing for being thirsty later.”

In response to student demand for alternative water sources, Director of Residential Services John Eckhart has been installing automatic water-bottle-filling stations in residential houses across campus over the past three years. Eckhart just confirmed that filling stations will be installed in Stouffer College House this summer, leaving Du Bois College House as the only residential hall at Penn without a filling station.

Eckhart said that for students, filling stations are a

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“convenience” and a “pricecut,” noting that many students now bring water bottles everywhere with them and filling stations facilitate an easier and cheaper alternative to purchasing a new bottle every day.

“I also think people like doing it there instead of the bathroom sink,” Eckhart said.

“It just feels cleaner, just mentally, to use a water bottle refilling station because it’s dedicated for that use.”

The water bottle filling system still uses the Philadelphia tap water and shares the water source and pipes with the water fountains and sinks to which it is often attached.

Other options include a delivery system of water bottles, which can be ordered through Penn Student Agencies or directly at Quaker Corner and quench systems, which uses bottled water instead of the Philadelphia tap water.

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[Perry]’s biggest hits and attracted the attention of [DeGeneres]‘s crew,” according to Sacchetti.

“Basically, they chose five finalists and said ‘Whoever is the loudest and most enthusiastic will be chosen for the obstacle course,’” Arman said.

Sacchetti and Arman competed against a couple dressed as The Black Eyed Peas in a challenge promoting Capital One that involved carrying a large cup of coffee while going through various hurdles — including spinning around a dizzy bat and stepping through multiple tires. Arman and Sacchetti filled their large cup of coffee at the end of the course before the other team, winning $10,000.

“Before the race, they told us that the winners would get $10,000 and the losers would just get a sweatshirt,” Sacchetti said. “So, we were rushing the whole time.”

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As consolation, the losing couple ended up getting $5,000.

The freshmen plan to use the money to explore the world.

Sacchetti hopes to “use the money to travel to Spain,” a country she’s long aspired to visit.

Arman is thinking of using the money to “take [her] three sisters on a vacation or take [her] mom somewhere.”

Sacchetti and Arman’s respective families were also thrilled with the women’s good fortune.

Sacchetti video chatted her grandmother while the show was aired Thursday, as she is a “huge fan” of the show.

The two freshmen stressed how much closer their fifteen minutes of fame brought them with their sorority sisters.

“After we won, everyone in our sorority was so happy,” Sacchetti said. “I’ve never seen anyone so happy before.”

“They were all sharing it [on Facebook], and it was so sweet.”

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Vet School incensed over possible funding cut Pa. state legislature may strip $30 million in funding

Not only does the Vet School create a safe food supply by keeping animals healthy, Galligan explained that it also benefits Pennsylvania’s economy. Agriculture is one of Pennsylvania’s major industries, and animal agriculture, particularly dairy, is the largest and most profitable portion.

Pennsylvania exports about six percent of the nation’s milk and ranks fifth of all states in milk production.

“The Vet School plays a very critical role in ensuring the safety and future productivity of [the dairy industry],” Galligan said. “Animal agriculture is really important to Pennsylvania. It employs a lot of people, it’s important to the state’s economy and the veterinary school is a vital component of ensuring that that remains viable.”

The resea rch and technologies developed by the Vet School help Pennsylvania remain competitive in the dairy industry. Galligan likened it to

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Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine’s faculty and students say the food supply and economy of Pennsylvania will be at risk if the school loses the $30 million in state funding — 20 percent of their entire budget — that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf proposed cutting in his latest budget.

Penn’s Vet School, named the seventh best vet school in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, was founded in 1884 and has received funding from the commonwealth for its entire 133-year existence.

The abrupt cut in funding was not anticipated.

“It came as a huge surprise that we were zero’d out this year,” Dean of the School of Veter ina r y Medicine Joan Hendricks said. “They repeatedly say we’re valuable. It’s not possible to reconcile zero funding with enormously valuable.”

The only vet school in the state, Penn’s Vet School provides services for food animals that are “vital” to Pennsylvania, David Galligan said. Galligan is a professor of animal health economics and a graduate of - Jordan Fairman both Penn’s Vet School and the Wharton School.

“Most people, I find, have really minimal idea of the state’s “essential infrastructhe role that vets are playing in ture.” the whole food chain and how Penn’s Vet School is one of critical that is to the country,” three labs that does animal diGalligan said. “[Vets] maintain agnostic testing for diseases a secure, safe food system and like the bird flu, salmonella and ensure that we don’t have out- E. Coli, which Hendricks says breaks of zoonotic diseases that is the reason Pennsylvania has could harm people.” had few food scandals. Those

labs are partially funded by the state.

The money the school receives from the state only goes towards services in Pennsylvania, and Hendricks noted that if the budget cut was approved, Penn’s Vet School would shift its focus internationally rather than in-state. This change would make Penn’s Vet School “the Wharton of vet schools,” she said.

Second year Vet School student Allyson Anderson worried that without state funding Penn’s Vet School would no longer be as connected to rural Pennsylvania, which means the school would attract fewer students interested in food animals.

“If the school is not receiving suppor t from the commonwealth … there’s not going to be a need to focus on Pennsylvania,” Anderson said.

“Without that food animal focus there’s no reason for a food animal-interested veterinary student to go to Penn — so then the question becomes where do your food veterinarians who work in Pennsylvania come from?”

Right now, Penn’s Vet School is a ‘net importer of vets’, meaning that more vets stay in Pennsylvania than start in the state. Currently there is a Penn veterinarian in every county in Pennsylvania — except Potter County, where Anderson plans to work after graduation.

“Without that Vet School in Pennsylvania, I think there will be a problem of finding enough veterinarians who want to work in this area,” Anderson said.

Second year Vet School student Amy Kraus noted that the Vet School is “setting students

With the budget cuts it feels like what we’ve given back almost doesn’t matter.”

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Pennsylvania’s state government regularly provides funding for the School of Veterinary Medicine.

However, in Democratic Gov.Tom Wolf’s latest budget proposal, the school stands to lose $30 million.

up to work in Pennsylvania,” since vet schools teach on a state specific basis with regards to climate, terrain and geography of farm systems.

“It’s going to seriously affect our education, especially out in the large animal hospitals,” K raus said. “Veterinarians ensure that our entire state has a safe food source and you can’t replace that really, and I’m sure that students from Pennsylvania would go to other universities to get their education and it’s less likely they would come back.”

Both Anderson and Kraus are recipients of the Commonwealth One Health Scholarship, a full scholarship for students from Pennsylvania who plan to return to the state to do fulltime rural, agricultural work.

The scholarship is just one example of a program funded by

state money that could soon be gone.

“Knowing that Penn offered an in-state subsidy of $10,000 was great because going to vet school is a huge investment and it relieved some stress from that,” first year Vet School student and Commonwealth One Health scholarship recipient Jordan Fairman said. “Being a Pennsylvania resident and not being able to get help from your state to go to the only vet school in your state is pretty sad.”

Fairman also said she thinks the proposed budget does not make sense, given what Penn’s Vet School gives back to the state.

“Being here at Penn I’ve realized how much we’ve given back to the community through our research and through veterinarians that have stayed

in-state,” Fairman said. “With the budget cuts it feels like what we’ve given back almost doesn’t matter.”

The Vet School has had trouble with a fluctuating budget since 2008, when the school’s state funding was reduced by $14.4 million, or 34 percent.

In recent years, though, the state funds were increasing.

Hendricks hopes that this uncertainty could be solved by a contract with the state.

For now, Gov. Wolf, whose own uncle was a chair on Penn’s Vet School board, will send his budget to the Republican legislature for a vote.

Hendricks remains optimistic that the budget can be revised.

“We touch a lot of people in all different ways, we will try to make people understand what they’re losing,” Hendricks said.

Profs. and alums work to improve Phila. schools’ LGBTQ policy Team collaborates with community to enact change ISABELLA FERTEL Staff Reporter

Penn professor Amy Hillier worked with LGBTQ students in Philadelphia to reform the School District of Philadelphia’s policy to accommodate transgender and gender nonconforming students.

Policy 252, which went into effect this past June, protects transgender and non-binary students from discrimination based on gender identity and establishes specific guidelines for pronoun usage and gender neutrality in the classroom.

Hillier is currently working on compiling data on the policy to evaluate its effectiveness and the impact 252 has on youth in the school system.

The policy was designed in

compliance with other Philadelphia school district and federal education laws regarding bullying, harassment, and discrimination. It states that schools should adopt gender neutral language as the norm in all documents and written correspondence with students, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation. The policy calls for the reduction, if not elimination, of the practice of “segregating students by gender” in classes — such as physical education — and allows students to be included in the group that corresponds to their gender identity. The policy also outlines guidelines for gender neutral bathrooms and changing spaces, dress codes and gendered uniforms, and athletic teams.

Hillier first became involved as a mother concerned for the rights and treatment of her trans

daughter, who is currently enrolled in a public school within the School District of Philadelphia. Hillier said that while the school her daughter attends is “supportive,” there are things that the school would push back on — such as using her daughter’s name and gender from her birth certificate on automated calls and documents from the school district — due to “policy.”

“The school has been very supportive, but there are some things that they couldn’t do because of the district policy — or the lack of a district policy,” Hillier said. “So I went to the school district and said, ‘Hey, its a problem for my kid, its probably problem for other kids too.’”

Hillier said that she wanted to use her “privilege as a white, Ph.D., professor at Penn” to bolster support for the policy and change the way that the entire

public school system treats all LGBTQ students, especially low-income students of color who she said face greater struggles.

Kel Kroehle, a 2010 graduate from the School of Social Policy and Practice, also wanted to use her education and ties to the LGBTQ community at Penn to give student voices a platform to be heard.

“Institutions respond to institutions,” Kroehle said.

“The policy didn’t come out of nowhere, we just needed a platform to push it...part of which came from Penn” Kroehle was integral in gathering a group of young people to speak with school district administrators. Kroehle, who uses they and them pronouns, linked their work at the Attic Youth Center for LGBTQ youth with their projects at Penn involving gender studies and the role of

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“There is the belief that adults have all the answers,” Edwards said. “But youth understand gender, they know what it means ... and challenge what gender looks like.”

Kroehle seconded the sent i ment , h ig h l ig ht i ng t he importance that the youth perspective played in the creation of 252 and in the LGBTQ community at large.

“Young people’s wisdom is oftentimes more readily available and liberal because they haven’t been broken down by ... institutions yet,” Kroehle said.

“Not only did [the youth] have immediate and relevant insight based on experience, but ... they would plug in humor remembering the spirit and gorgeousness of being gendered, being trans in the dryness of policy.”

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was saying, women can’t do it,” Mallory said. “But hey, you saw what happened. A million-plus [people] ... showed up in Washington, D.C. and five million people came out of their homes across the world.”

Mallory said that the number of people who marched in Washington and elsewhere was inspiring, but that she was worried that many of those people had not shown concern for other civil rights causes, in particular those that affect people of color.

“They didn’t show up for Sandra Bland, they didn’t show up for Eric Garner,” Mallory said, “but because in this moment, everyone was so worried about how they could be personally impacted by Donald Trump’s presidency, everybody showed up in D.C. And for that moment, I felt alone ... because I realized that the people who were there on Jan. 21 to a large degree were not there for me or other brown girls at all. They were there for themselves.”

Mallory also said that the march was challenged more than many others she had worked on in the past.

gender in education.

Kroehle and Hillier sifted through models of reformed school policies from around the nation to “break apart and rebuild” concepts that they wanted to include in the new Philadelphia policy. Both Kroehle and Hillier wanted to ensure that the students had a role in writing and deciding the new policy.

Hazel Edwards, a student educator at the Attic, worked with Hillier and Kroehle throughout the process, drawing on her private high school experience to ensure that all of the accommodations given to her were standard practice for other LGBTQ students.

A nother th ing Edwa rds was determined to eliminate with 252 was the notion of “adultism,” or the feeling of superiority that adults have over children, that she thinks LGBTQ youth face when

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Tamika Mallory worked with others on the Women’s March Board to organize the Women’s March on Washington that drew over 1 million protesters in Washington, D.C. and 5 million protesters worldwide on Jan. 21.

Many people questioned whether the Women’s March had acquired the necessary permits to march, which Mallory said was unusual.

“I have worked with so many men, and no one has ever even asked if we had a permit,” Mallory said, but for the Women’s March “they

challenged us every time. What is the march going to be about? What are you going to say? No one’s going to show up, it’s not going to go well ... On everything we were up against some type of battle.”

Mallory added that the success of the march was a testament to how

hard the team had worked to bring it about and to the power of women in general.

“On Jan. 21, at the Women’s March on Washington, the world was flipped upside down,” she said.

“When women get mad, everything changes.”

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OPINION

What will we leave behind?

THE CONVERSATION | Wrestling with our legacies at Penn

MONDAY MARCH 27, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 37 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 RONG XIANG Design Editor

Who is Michael Zinman?

The name might sound somewhat familiar to about half of the Penn population.

To the other half, let me enlighten you: In the men’s rooms on the basement floor of Van Pelt, there is a sign above each urinal declaring “The relief you are now experiencing is made possible by a gift from Michael Zinman.” This is not a joke.

Assuming that Mr. Zinman is the donor for the funds needed for the restrooms’ furnishings, it is perhaps singularly the creepiest donation ever made. Was the money specifically designated for this “relief?” I can’t imagine that the University would have put the name there unless it was specifically requested. To members of the DP’s News section — I think an exposé and interview are in order.

I bring this up because I’ve been thinking about

the legacies that we will leave behind at Penn. Isn’t it fascinating that name gifts are how we honor contributors? Having your name stand for that of a building or on a piece of brick has no practical value. But given how many people engage in the custom, it still clearly means a lot to people.

This sentimental value extends beyond the world of alumni. As the end of another school year approaches, students are also naturally inclined to consider the time they have spent here and the things they will leave. Many will try to cement their place in the school history by entering senior societies and winning awards. Such indicators serve to assure us that our time here was not wasted — that we were a part of Penn as much as Penn is a part of us.

There are of course some names that have become

immortalized on campus.

But I think it’s safe to say that a majority of students will not be a Van Pelt or a Huntsman. Some of us may never even be a Zinman — urinals are probably expensive? We will never be so important to Penn itself.

Even when considering

athletic glory to the school, nor won a prestigious scholarship. The history and size of Penn means that each of us, when considered individually, are of little significance to the University in the long run.

There’s something a bit discomforting about that.

Our legacies ought to be measured not in terms of such tangible remnants but in our actions that help make the Penn experience possible.” contributions other than financial donations, most of us will struggle to think of something that we’ve bestowed upon the school that will outlast us. I have conducted no earth shattering research, nor brought

Penn is a place where we spend some of our most formative years. We care deeply about the community, as demonstrated by the constant effort to make it a better place in our own ways. Even in this tempo-

rary home of four years, we invest ourselves in ways that may seem unnecessary.

There’s a reason why alums keep coming back year after year, long after any actual affiliation with the University ends. And so we seek to leave our mark here, either physically by leaving our names here or through other means. We do this for personal validation as much as anything else.

But I think this is one of the cases in which such thinking is rather silly. Our legacies ought to be measured not in terms of such tangible remnants but in our actions that help make the Penn experience possible. For surely the passion and engagement of Penn students is what makes the school so special. Directly or otherwise, we help Penn carry out its missions on a daily basis. Without us, all of us, Penn would be a shell of what it is now.

The value of each of us

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We lived and learned, and helped each other live and learn. We each shaped and molded this place we called home. We were here. No record left could possibly represent fully the weight and meaning of that.

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Unintended offense: dealing with racial insensitivity on campus REAL TALK | Our unreasonable standards don’t leave enough room for error In the fall of 1993, Jahmae Harris, then-College senior here at Penn, received a frightening phone call to her dorm, the DuBois College House. The caller said that he intended to “blow up” DuBois and that Harris should die. He called her the N-word and several other students in the house, including then-College freshman Jamil Smith, received similar threats. In an interview on the Reply All podcast in 2015, Smith said that had the caller not backed up his racial slurs with a bomb threat, “… it may have been a situation where a lot of people would not have believed us.”

It’s fair to say a lot has changed since 1993, but in many ways — as the racist GroupMe incident last semester demonstrates — a lot hasn’t. The racial animosity that black students face has not dissolved in the last 24 years, but what has changed is the opportunity students have to make that animosity visible.

The benefit of viral media is that it helps bring the struggles and experiences of minority students to the forefront. The same experience of racism that might have

fallen on deaf ears some 20 years ago can now be echoed thousands of times online, often with accompanying cellphone videos or screenshots as evidence of the offense. This can create a great deal of added awareness and support, especially when the instance of racism is clear and recognizable. But in those situations where the offense is more subtle, the polarizing nature of our online discourse can deter a more nuanced conversation about race and ethnicity.

While media may be invaluable for promoting conversations on race, it hasn’t always made those conversations better. In the case of the GroupMe incident, the fact that it took place online and that evidence of the threats could be spread virally was essential in helping to galvanize a response.

But what about cases where the racism is born of insensitivity rather than maliciousness — where the perpetrator does not perfectly align with our preconceptions of a virulent bigot?

For every swastika drawn on a dorm room wall or tweet about lynching, there are just as many cases — such as the

recent incident when a Fiji member named his beer pong team “VietPong” — in which the offense was seemingly unintentional. But in these instances, the attention provided by media spotlight is often more blinding than it is illuminating.

When an instance of unintentional racism begins to reverberate across the web,

of color. But when all the focus is placed on how best to judge the offender, the response becomes far less productive.

Instead of provoking a constructive reaction, the added attention that media brings may actually enhance the difficulty of interpreting examples of inadvertent racism by stripping responses

Instead of provoking a constructive reaction, the added attention that media brings may actually enhance the difficulty of interpreting examples of inadvertent racism by stripping responses of any nuance.” the situation often devolves into scandal. However, we shouldn’t disregard the issue simply because the offense was inadvertent. Navigating a campus rife with these instances of insensitivity can be debilitating for students

of any nuance. Rather than attempting to understand the complexities of the situation, the increased publicity pressures us to pick sides.

Whenever a situation like “VietPong” captures media attention, the debate that aris-

es out of it is as divisive as it is fruitless. We argue over whether it was really that offensive, or we dispute the sincerity of the apology that followed. Ultimately, we’re left with one side that feels as though the entire incident was blown out of proportion and the other thinking it was underplayed.

This disconnect is, of course, only natural. From the perspective of the fraternity member, this was likely just a thoughtless pun, no malice involved. But for members of the Vietnamese Student Association, it was an act that mocked the memory of one of history’s most vile wars. Ultimately, both are true — it was tactless and offensive but not intended to harm.

Whatever good will is gained by public apologies and new Interfraternity Council positions is often outweighed by the private grumblings of fraternity members. It lends credence to those that are skeptical that these initiatives will lead to concrete change.

But hoping for more repercussions is also an often futile — and somewhat misguided — endeavor. After all,

CAMERON DICHTER whatever reprimanding they receive will never be fulfilling when matched against the historical trauma that made the incident so offensive.

The question of how best to handle these repeated instances of unintended racism is an issue that our campus will have to face. These conversations require a deft hand, a sensitivity and respect that is unfortunately often lost when a story enters the media sphere. Understanding is undoubtedly hindered when both perspectives are polarized. It’s often hardest to get an inch when you’re asking for a mile.

CAMERON DICHTER is a College junior from Philadelphia, studying English. His email address is camd@sas.upenn. edu. “Real Talk” usually appears every other Monday.

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Following the 2016 presidential election, some Americans worried their news came from within a partisan “bubble.” The founders of the app #Newsrooms may have a solution.

2016 College graduate and firstyear Annenberg graduate student Donna Lee and Yonsei University student Todd Seungyoon Oh recently released #Newsrooms, a news aggregator app aimed at exposing users to a greater diversity of sources. Unlike other news aggregators, #Newsrooms uses an algorithm that identifies relevant articles from more than 20 sources rather than generating results based on a user’s previous searches.

Lee and Oh began creating the app during the 2016 presidential campaign because they felt the ways in which people got their news had an unprecedented impact on the election result.

“The so-called fake news in the frames of those news articles from major journalism was part of the reason people could actually go and vote for Trump,” Oh said.

Lee and Oh, who are both from South Korea, also saw flaws in news coverage of recently-impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye. During this scandal, they thought the public did not receive information from a diverse enough range of sources.

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Penn baseball sweeps Lafayette with big wins Quakers take all four weekend home games TYLER SHEVIN Sports Reporter

Consistency and progression were on the agenda for Penn baseball this weekend in Philly.

The Quakers beat Lafayette in four straight games this weekend at home. Penn (8-9) swept the Leopards (2-22) in back to back doubleheaders at MeikleJohn Stadium, outscoring them 22-7 in the process.

The pitching staff led the way on Saturday, allowing just a combined three runs on eight hits in the first two games of the series. Penn defeated the Leopards 2-1 and 3-2 on day one.

In the opener, senior pitcher Jake Cousins pitched seven innings, allowing only five hits and one run, improving to 2-1 on the season.

Junior Gabe Kleiman took the mound for the Quakers next, pitching six and two thirds’ innings and allowing only three hits and two runs in his first win of the season. Sophomore Jake Nelson secured the win for the Quakers with his first save of the season.

The bats broke free on Sunday, as the Quakers scored 13 runs and four Penn players hit multiple RBIs in the day’s opener. Senior pitcher Mike Reitcheck pitched six innings and earned the win in the 13-3 finish. Then, in the day’s second game, senior pitcher Adam Bleday pitched for the Quakers, earning his first win of the season, followed by a save from junior Billy Lescher in a 4-1 win.

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risking a transition-sparking turnover to take one unlikely chance at a goal.

From that corner of the field behind the goal, Mathias rocketed a pass to the crease where a cluster of Penn and Cornell players awaited. Somehow, the pass got through the sea of white and red uniforms and found its way to JJ McBride on the high crease with about two minutes left on the game clock. McBride, a junior midfielder who had never scored prior to this game, demonstrated great concentration catching the ball through traffic and finishing for his third of the contest.

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Crucial to Penn baseball’s four-game sweep of Lafayette was senior pitcher Jake Cousins, who improved to 2-1 on the season.

bullpen was good. We pitched well all weekend,” coach John Yurkow said.

The team is optimistic leading into Ivy League play, especially with the strength of the pitching staff.

“The good pitchers can minimize, maybe let one or two, to stop the bleeding. This weekend, there were no big innings against us,” Yurkow added.

Senior catcher Tim Graul, last year’s Ivy Player of the Year, led by example this weekend. He thrived behind the plate, guiding the pitching staff, and had a breakthrough weekend hitting.

“I’ve just been waiting to break out a little bit. And this weekend it just kind of happened. The swing kind of fell into place,” Graul said.

The Quakers have won five straight games and are showing

positive signs looking forward.

“We’ve been shuffling so much stuff around in the lineup.

It’s good we’ve been starting to get some consistency, and that kind of helps you prepare,” Yurkow said.

After a trip to Florida and some cancelled practices and game time because of inclement weather conditions, the team is ready to maintain the momentum from this weekend.

“Hopefully as we go into April here and go into late March, we’ll get some better weather, and keep trying to have as much fun out here,” Graul added.

The Quakers play Lafayette again on Tuesday, but this time in Easton. The showdown gives the team one more chance to improve before the conference opener in a doubleheader against Dartmouth on April 1.

Aiding her in that effort was senior Megan Kelly, whose five ground balls and two turnovers helped limit senior Britt Brown’s work in the cage to five stops.

“I think we just came out really ready to play on defense, and we’re really comfortable in the zone that we play,” Junior said. “Everyone was pressuring the ball, so when it did hit the ground I had the opportunity to come up with it.”

In the past, the defense has been bailed out by the offense building up a steady lead, but Junior explained how the close fought battles are more exhilarating.

“Honestly, I think it makes it more exciting and fun to contest opponents,” she said. “It gets nerve-racking, but we have a lot

While Mathias and McBride delivered arguably the best performances of their respective careers, they weren’t the only Quakers to step up. Defensive midfielder Austin Kreinz, an unsung hero for the Red and Blue all season long, had a standout game without registering a single point. Facing a disorienting ten-man ride from the Big Red, the senior cleared the ball effectively every time he was asked to do so, absorbing checks throughout, demonstrating extreme toughness.

Apart from clearing the ball, Kreinz was also a significant contributor for a Penn defense that only allowed nine goals, three of which were scored off of fast breaks. Leading that charge

defensively was sophomore goalie Reed Junkin who, after struggling in recent weeks, came up huge with several timely and unexpected saves.

The Quakers will need Junkin’s strong play to continue, as a matchup with perennial Ivy League powerhouse Yale looms next weekend.

However, if the Quakers aim to defeat the Bulldogs, they’ll need to perform at a higher level than they did against Cornell.

Penn’s unforced turnovers and stagnant offense nearly resulted in Cornell’s first Ivy win of the season and, if not addressed, will surely result in Yale’s third.

Still, a win’s a win, and this particular win was massive, keeping Penn in the playoff hunt.

of faith in our attack, so it’s not too stressful. Brown came out hard, but we were ready for what they were gonna do and ready to cover each other on mistakes.”

Having dropped the Ivy League opener to Cornell at home 10-4 a few weeks back, this win puts the Red and Blue back on track. A slate of hardfought non-conference games yielded encouraging results, and consequently their national ranking has been bumped back up to No. 11.

On how this impacts the team’s objective, Corbett put it simply: “There’s no question we want to win out in the Ivies, and we needed this win today.”

Junior echoed her coach’s sentiment, adding that she appreciated the challenge of a fairly arduous non-Ivy slate of matches.

“We’re lucky that we get

to play such a hard out-ofconference schedule and the competitive Ivy League. The Ivies make it more hype because we are playing for that title but we go into every game the same,” Junior said. “The Ivy games matter more for NCAA Tournament berths, but it’s still a one-game-at-a-time mentality.”

Penn will have some time off before traveling to Chicago to face No. 14 Northwestern, which the Quakers will certainly use to get the kinks out of their play.

“We’re glad we have a week, because we need to learn to play cleaner and put the ball as the number one priority, and just do the easy things,” Corbett said.

Having now taken one step closer to a tournament berth and perhaps league title, Penn will need to sustain the flashes of brilliance it has displayed for the long haul ahead.

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Three stars from Penn track’s weekend domination Trio of athletes got two wins each, broke records WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor

Well that’s one way to start a season.

Penn track and field kicked off the outdoor portion of the 2017 campaign with a bang, as both the men’s and women’s squads took first on their home turf at the Penn Challenge.

Maura Kimmel The freshman can do no wrong.

In the first meet of the outdoor season, Kimmel broke the school record in the discus to win the event with a toss of 47.71 meters.

She wasn’t done, though, as she went on to win the shot put next, this time with a throw of 14.10m, the third best mark in Penn history.

In her first ever outdoor meet as a collegiate athlete, she broke a school record in one event and registered the third-best performance in another. It’s very hard to overstate how impressive that is.

But they didn’t just win: the Quakers blew their competition away. The women amassed a total of 277 points — to second-place Villanova’s 100 — while the men finished with 162, ahead of second-place Army by 28 points.

All of the team’s top athletes performed at the top of their game, recording a number of names in the history books in the process.

Here’s three stars who shone brighter than the others on Saturday:

Taylor McCorkle Another Quaker with two wins at the Penn Challenge was junior Taylor McCorkle. The sprinter took first in the 100-meter dash and the 200m, with times of 11.72 and 23.99 seconds, respectively.

The former was just one millisecond off the school record — which she already holds.

The captain had a strong indoor season, and every indicator points to the best female sprinter in Penn

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Penn track and field’s star freshman Maura Kimmel broke the school record for the discus on Saturday with a throw of 47.71 meters.

the Quakers seek out the highest level of competition before the Penn Relays by traveling across the country to high-caliber meets

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second straight year — and the sophomore made history.

In his preliminary heat, his time of 3:41.89 set an all-time record for not only Penn, but the entire Ivy League. Though his time in the finals ended up being slightly slower, Andrew still finished in 15th place nationally, securing his first career All-American spot after taking 32nd place in the same event as a rookie. The performance wrapped up what was already a special season for Andrew, who took home the Ivy titles in both the 200 IM and 400 IM. Elsewhere, men’s golf had a frustrating start to interim coach M ichael Blodget t’s career with a last-place finish at the Colleton River Collegiate during spring break, but the Quakers made some progress toward turning their season around with a strong effort this weekend. Competing at the Towson Spring Invitational alongside 21 other teams — including Ivy foes Columbia and Cornell — the Quakers ended up tying for eighth place with a team score of 31 over par.

Though the squad finished four shots behind Columbia, Penn did edge Cornell by three strokes, giving an encouraging sign as the team approaches the meat of its season. Leading the way for the Quakers once again was junior Carter Thompson, whose personal score of +4 led him to a 12th place individual finish.

Also hitting the road for its own trip, men’s tennis came into the weekend with huge momentum having won five of its last six matches, giving some major hype to Sunday’s in-state rivalry showdown against a strong Penn State squad. In a match that certainly lived up to its gaudy expectations, the Quakers (13-6) came out on top of a 4-3 thriller over the Nittany Lions (9-5).

Though Kyle Mautner took a rare loss at the No. 1 position, Penn did get major boosts

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Sophomore Mark Andrew made history this weekend, securing the top time in Ivy League history in the 400 IM en route to a 15th place finish.

from singles victories by Matt Nardella and Josh Pompan, helping tie the score at three apiece entering the final individual match. And with all the pressure on, freshman Max Cancilla came through with a clutch three-set win over Marc Collado to clinch the match and give the Red and Blue a major non-conference win.

Not to be outdone, women’s rowing racked up its own fair share of wins on Saturday, sending out its veterans emphatically during the team’s Senior Weekend. Competing in none other than the Schuylkill River during the 35th annual Murphy Cup, the Red and Blue were absolutely dominant across the board, taking first place in three of the six divisions that were offered — the Varsity Four, the Junior Varsity Four and the Junior Varsity Eight.

The theme of the day quickly evolved into a rivalry between

Penn and Navy, and the Red and Blue were largely able to get the best of their competitors, with the Midshipmen taking second place behind the Quakers in each of the aforementioned three races.

However, what was already a stellar day for Penn almost became even more spectacular in the most prominent event of the meet: the Varsity Eight. The Quakers finished with the best time among the 24 schools in the preliminary heats, giving them the No. 1 seed entering the Grand Final, but the team came up just short of snagging the championship there, taking second place to Northeastern by nearly four seconds.

Still, with first-place finishes in half of the events, there wasn’t too much to complain about for the Red and Blue. And the same can be said for Penn Athletics as a whole, which had a fantastic weekend from top to bottom.

individual epee championship.

For Yoo, his individual performance was a bit of redemption after an underach ieving per for ma nce at NCAAs in his freshman season.

Like this year, Yoo came into last year’s event carrying an NCAA regional epee title and an Ivy team title. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able deliver on his own expectations, failing to finish in the top four individually, coming in at seventh after the round robins. “I remember last year at NCAAs, I didn’t think it was that big of a deal,� Yoo said. “I remember thinking it wasn’t my main goal, because I [was] competing at World Championships later that year, so I wasn’t hungry enough. I think that was my problem.�

But if you ask Yoo what changed between this season and the last. The answer is

fairly obvious: time. “Over time, you learn more about your sport, and I am definitely a better fencer than I was last year,� the All-American epee said. “I became more experienced, I went to more tournaments and, honestly, stuff clicked for me, it really feels like I brought myself to another level.�

This year, the sophomore Quaker will now head to Leipzig, Germany to the World Championships to compete against the world’s best epeeists. He’ll carry with him a great collegiate season for him and the Quakers.

Reflecting on the big picture for Penn fencing, the 2016-2017 season appears to be more of the same consistency. But glancing toward the future, it’s hard not to imagine Penn improving on what looked to be a rebuilding year.

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Noah Kennedy-White While it was the rookie thrower on the women’s side that took all the plaudits, the best man on the day was senior Noah KennedyWhite. The Jericho, N.Y. native got Penn 20 points by winning both the discus and the shot put, which he recorded a personal best of 16.57m in — 10th best in program history.

It bodes well for the veteran’s last hurrah on the throwing fields.

Hitting a new best with just two months left in his collegiate career, Kennedy-White could be shaping up for an effort to qualify for the NCAA championships in May. While a number of other athletes starred on Saturday, the trio of two-win performers stood tall above everyone else at Franklin Field for the Penn Challenge. And though they all either set personal bests or came extremely close to them, expect a number of new records to be set next weekend when

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campaign as sabre Sara Papp and foils Danielle Ferdon and Nicole Vaini secured third-team distinctions. Junior John Vaiani, the elder brother of Nicole, secured another All-American distinction, marking a successful return to the NCAA Championships with a ninthplace finish after missing last year’s edition due to illness.

Yoo headlined the team’s performance with a secondplace finish in the men’s epee competition. After recording an impressive 15-8 round robin tally, the sophomore qualified to the final four for the first time in his collegiate career.

He defeated Princeton’s Wesley Johnson 15-6 in the semifinals to advance to the final, where he fell to the No. 1 seed Cooper Schumacher in a bout for the

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three goals and assists JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Editor

With a performance that saw him tie a career-high in points in Penn’s 10-9 victory over Cornell, this week’s Pen n Ath letics Weekend MVP goes to men’s lacrosse’s sophomore Simon Mathias.

The Quakers (4-3, 1-1 Ivy) needed a win this weekend after dropping their Ivy opener to Princeton last weekend, and this one was certainly well fought. While Mathias and the Quakers jumped out to a 6-4 lead by the middle of the third quarter, including two goals from Mathias, the Big Red came back to take a 9-7 lead with

10 minutes remaining in the fourth.

But Penn turned the momentum back in its favor, scoring the final three goals of the game to take the win.

Mathias was crucial in this period, earning an assist on both the game-tying and game-winning goals.

Mathias finished the day with six points, tallying three goals and three assists. In addition to tying a career-high in points, his three assists established a new career-high.

His shooting was also very efficient, as he notched his three goals on just four shots on goal en route to his fourth hat trick of the season.

T he sophomor e f r om Ridgefield, Conn. has been Pen n’s biggest offensive threat this season. He leads the team in goals, assists and

shots, and has constantly created problems for opposing defenses. His three goals also prolonged a now five-game streak of at least two goals scored for the attacker.

Mathias’ performance was instrumental for the Quakers, who are now back on their feet following that thrashing

by Princeton last weekend that put them behind in the Ancient Eight title chase. If the sophomore can continue his bright form, Penn might be able to keep itself in the hunt for a long-awaited Ivy League championship and run into the NCAA Tournament.

And with the bulk of Ivy play coming up in the next few weeks, Penn will certainly be looking for Mathias to keep up his MVP-worthy performances.

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n Sunday, Penn fencing closed out its season at the 2017 NCAA Fencing Championships at the Indiana Farmers’ Coliseum. The Quakers came home with an eighth-place finish, scoring 107 points in the co-ed team championship tournament.

Before the start of the four-day tournament, the team had already suffered a setback. Senior captain and star epee Alejandra Trumble was forced to withdraw from the event due to illness. As a result, although Penn qualified a record 11 fencers to the NCAA tournament, only ten fencers would compete, leaving the Red and Blue without a competitor in women’s epee.

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late; I didn’t know until we just landed in Indianapolis,” sophomore epee Justin Yoo said, “We knew that with her not coming, it would be difficult for us to make the top four [teams] because we only had ten people, but I don’t think it stopped us in any way from performing.”

Even only scoring points in five of the six weapon classes, the Quakers were able to record another top ten finish, remaining perfect with top ten finishes in this millennium. Penn continued to boast individual success to supplement the team performances, with half of the Quakers earning All-American distinctions.

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It may not have been pretty, but Penn men’s lacrosse needed a win and somehow found one in Ithaca against Cornell.

In a back-and-forth, sloppy affair, the Quakers overcame a two-goal deficit in the fourth quarter to defeat the Big Red, 10-9.

Leading the charge for Penn (4-3, 1-1) was sophomore Simon Mathias. The attackman, renowned for his consistency, showcased his explosiveness when Penn needed it most, scoring six points and coming up with the two biggest assists of the season.

With Cornell (1-6, 0-2) up by a goal and riding considerable momentum, Mathias set a pick for sophomore midfielder Joe Licciardi behind the cage, creating a favorable short stick matchup for the star attackman. Then Mathias with the ball, drove his man up the left wing and began to re-dodge, drawing a slide from Licciardi’s man. Mathias

The first win is always the hardest. For Penn women’s lacrosse, securing its first victory in the Ancient Eight on Saturday over Brown means it is ready for the title chase.

The Quakers (7-2, 1-1 Ivy) took down the Bears (3-5, 0-3) 7-2 in Providence thanks to a stellar defensive effort, limiting the hosts to merely seven shots on goal and allowing their lowest scoring output from an opponent since 2015.

Opening the scoring was senior Emily Rogers-Healion, giving Penn a lead that quickly faded with a score from Brown before Penn put the game to bed in the second half. Standouts from the game were junior Caroline Cummings, who netted four times to put Brown out of reach, and sophomore Katy Junior, whose seven ground balls marks the team’s best since 2014.

“It wasn’t our best game; I thought the defense played well, with some good individual plays,

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Scoring six points, including an assist on the game-winner, sophomore Simon Mathias played a major role in Saturday’s crazy comeback win.

then astutely beat the help slide by passing the ball immediately to Licciardi on the doorstep for an easy finish, tying the game with about five minutes to play.

While the tying goal was an example of textbook offensive execution, the game-winner was anything but. The Red and Blue, possessing the ball with only a few minutes to play, were assessed a stall warning, meaning that they had to get a shot on target in the next thirty seconds

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or Cornell would be granted possession.

After a Reilly Hupfeldt offering went high and wide, Mathias picked up the ball in the back corner of the field with four seconds remaining on the shot clock. While many teams would opt to simply dump the ball in the opposite corner to set up their ride, the Quakers showcased some aggressiveness, SEE M. LAX PAGE 9

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Although the defense stole the show, four goals from junior Caroline Cummings played a huge role in the 7-2 victory at Brown.

but our attack struggled a little bit. But we pulled off the win,” she said. “The intensity wasn’t quite there, and we didn’t shoot very well and also had a lot of turnovers on the attacking side of the ball.”

Corbett can shake her head at the 18 Penn turnovers, although her defense causing 23 certainly levels the playing field. What’s interesting is that although they created nearly three times as many shots in the second half

as in the first, the Quakers lit up the scoreboard four times in the second half and only three in the first. The overall offensive production definitely faltered, however, when compared to the team’s recent wins with 14, 16, and even 17 goals.

On the defensive side, Junior led the pack contributing to the team’s ground ball tally of 27 and pitching in four forced turnovers.

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