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Giving the gift of coding

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Student startup provides on-demand access to technical outsourcing

HOLDS AT 3,697 students out of 37,267 were accepted

MARGARET SCHROEDER Contributing Reporter

With InstaSource, students can turn an idea into reality at the click of a mouse. InstaSource is an on-demand service launched last week that provides technical and coding outsourcing for everyone. To submit a request, interested clients simply enter their email address on the web site. The service will accommodate requests of any scale, such as an iPhone app for a restaurant, an online store for a small business, or a short script for a data scientist. “You can hit us up, and we’ll take care of you,” co-founder and Engineering sophomore Yagil Burowski said. “We will do edgy things … As long as its not evil or illegal, we’ll get it done.” Although InstaSource provides coding and technical services to everyone, its target audience is entrepreneurs, people with ideas that have already begun fleshing them out. The InstaSource team believes entrepreneurs appreciate good service and are willing to pay for it. “Penn is a very entrepreneurial place. People have ideas all the time … Too often we hear people just not doing anything because they SEE INSTASOURCE PAGE 2

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CAROLINE SIMON Staff Reporter

Penn’s acceptance rate fell below 10 percent for the second year in a row. Yesterday at 5 p.m., regular

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percent. Penn plans to enroll 2,420 students in the Class of 2019 across the College of Arts and Sciences, the Wharton School, the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Nursing. SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 3

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decision applicants to the Class of 2019 were able to access their decisions via the online applicant portal. Of 37,267 students who applied to Penn in the early and regular rounds, 3,697 were admitted, leading to an overall acceptance rate of 9.9 percent. Last year’s overall acceptance rate was also 9.9

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The experimental nature of bringing together a class is what transforms and revitalizes our campus and community each year.” GRAPHICS BY KATE JEON | NEWS DESIGN EDITOR

Underdog mayoral contender looks to keep young people in Phila.

Alum sets sights on being first openly gay

Doug Oliver is also the youngest candidate

Sherrie Cohen graduated from Penn in 1975

JONATHAN BAER Staff Reporter

Most Penn students come to Philadelphia from a variety of cities, states and countries, but when they graduate, a vast majority of them will leave to go work elsewhere. Doug Oliver, the Democratic candidate for Philadelphia mayor, wants to change that. In fact, part of his campaign platform is keeping young Philadelphians here. “When you’re done, you have any option you want. The whole

world is an open book to you, but we want to convince you to stay here,” Oliver said of young Philadelphians. “When we look at the biggest issues facing the city — be it education, job creation or pension challenges — the solution to those things is convincing young folks to stay. Along with them, we keep all of their bright ideas.” When Philadelphians go to the polls on May 19 to pick the Democratic candidate for mayor, Oliver wants the focus to be on young people and new ideas. While Oliver quickly rejects that he is running to SEE DOUG OLIVER PAGE 9

councilwoman DAN SPINELLI Staff Reporter

If you ask City Council candidate and 1975 College graduate Sherrie Cohen what makes her different from the other candidates, don’t expect her to limit her answer to a single issue. “I act in solidarity with people looking for criminal justice reform, working families, feminist issues, LGBT issues, [and] poverty issues,” she said. Her only guide, she said, is to put the people with the greatest

need first. Cohen has championed issues from greater support for libraries and access to affordable housing to issues more personal to her. Cohen is one of two openly gay candidates in the City Council race, among fourteen Democratic candidates vying for an open at-large seat on City Council. While the city’s Democratic party has allied itself with LGBTQ causes, Philadelphia has yet to welcome its own LGBTQ-affiliated politician. If either she or Paul Steinke, SEE COHEN PAGE 8

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After flood, student loses belongings Student returns to room to find possessions gone JEFFREY CAREYVA Staff Reporter

Water, water ever ywhere and personal belongings gone missing — describes College freshman and 34th Street contributor Amanda Silberling’s spring semester. In mid February, a pipe burst behind the wall of Silberling and her roommate’s Ware dorm room. “I woke up one morning at 7 a.m. to my roommate screaming because hot water was pouring down onto her head,” Silberling said. The water dripping from the ceiling and the walls started gradually and got worse. It required several hours for repairmen to come assess the leakage problem, Silberling said. “By the time people came into our room, part of the ceiling had caved in, parts of the wallpaper were peeling off, and the floor was pretty much covered in water,” Silberling said.

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can’t find a coder,” Burowski said. Burowski has observed from a family member’s experience that it is very difficult for people with no technical experience to manage a website. Currently, the process of outsourcing technical work is inefficient and tedious. Finding the right coder requires careful research, soliciting help on a website and filling out paperwork. The customer then

“Incidents where students have to be moved from their rooms due to maintenance issues are relatively rare,” Director of Residential Services John Eckman wrote in an email, adding that when such incidents do happen, students are moved to alternative housing — like in Silberling’s situation — and all costs associated with the move are covered. Facilities and Real Estate Services originally told Silberling that the repairs would take several days, but she could not return to her original room until mid March. In the meantime, Silberling was given a single room in Fisher normally used as an example room in college tours, and her roommate was placed in another single. Silberling was asked to return to her room in Ware last week after it was repaired. On an undamaged wall, she had left 6 corkboard panels of music paraphernalia including signed concert tickets and albums. When she returned to Ware, only one panel was still hanging. “I

don’t understand how five went missing but the one was still there,” she said. It is unclear what happened to her panels, but housekeeping came to clean the room the morning that Silberling was arranged to return. Silberling was told by Residential Services the day before that the things she left behind would be there. Eckman wrote that Facilities and Real Estate Services “clean and prepare the rooms for the student’s reentry.” Aside from the music panels, two coats that were being kept in Silberling’s temporary room in Fisher went missing as her belongings were brought moved back to Ware. Eckman also wrote that Residential Services “uses an outside service that has worked with the University for many years” to move the belongings of students. Residential Services has offered to reimburse Silberling for the cost of her lost possessions, but coming up with a value for her damages has been difficult. Eckman wrote that there are

has to make sure the coders are qualified, select among the bidders and arrange payment. There is also a significant risk for developers taking on a job, as freelancers have no guarantee that a customer will pay them when their work is finished. Developers may also have to field excessive customer complaints. “We vet both sides of the process to make it simpler. We handle payment,” said cofounder and Engineering junior Josh Pearlstein. I nstaSou rce protects its

developers by pre-authorizing the payment amount agreed by the customer. This way, developers can move forward with their work with the security that they will be paid. “We really simplify the process of finding somebody to do something for you. You just send an email and we get it done. That’s what we sell: that ease, that magical black box. Tell us what you want, and you get it,” Burowski said. The InstaSource interface — email — is simple and familiar

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A pipe that had burst behind a wall forced Silberling and her roommate to move out temporarilty. Students collected the water accumulating in their dorms in buckets.

“processes in place to ensure that all students’ belongings are returned,” but that when incidents do happen, “the University works with the student and Risk Management to determine appropriate compensation.”

A similar situation occurred in January where an anonymous college junior’s belongings disappeared after she moved rooms within her own Harnwell apartment. The FRES and Residential

Services staff that Silberling encountered were “helpful and accommodating,” she said. “But no matter how much they try to help, I feel like more could have been done to prevent this from happening in the first place.”

to the customer, who does not have to learn how to navigate a new system. InstaSource has coders available at all times to take any jobs, and the company completely handles the matchmaking process between developers and clients. Although the customer does not see it, there is a lot of work going on behind the InstaSource curtain. After a client submits their request, the InstaSource team decides whether or not to continue with the project. InstaSource then consults the growing database of available developers and decides who is best for the job. The team gets

a quote from the developer, adds the InstaSource premium, and handles all communication with the customer. When all parties are satisfied, the customer enters their credit card information on a secure link and the payment is pre-authorized, at which point the developer begins working. The team recruits developers using online platforms as well as emails soliciting computer science students at Penn. InstaSource looks to work with freelancers with a lot of experience, especially for larger jobs, but finds that students are a good match for short scripting jobs.

Currently, InstaSource is a team of just two, but Burowski and Pearlstein say the company will grow as needed. For now the company’s primary goal is to grow the supply side — the developers — and reach more customers. Specifically, InstaSource has marketed its service to MBAs at top universities. “Our proposition is we can offer tools to your MBAs that will allow them to make their ideas reality and allow them to move fast. Right now, so many people either don’t move at all or don’t move fast enough with their ideas. That’s what we solve,” Burowski said.

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Penn No. 12 in student choice New list analyzes acceptance and enrollment rates JOHN BARTLETT Contributing Reporter

Though Penn’s acceptance rate is as low as ever, a new ranking claims that it isnot the only data point that matters. GradReports has named Penn number 12 out of the “Top 100 Colleges by Student Choice.” The list, created by the SR Education Group on gradreports.com, judges colleges by two criteria: acceptance rate and enrollment rate. These numbers are combined and manipulated to create a single score for each institution. The list places Penn four spots below its eighth place national university ranking on US News and World Report. “We selected our methodology

because we realized that acceptance rate is a great indicator for which schools are most selective but it doesn’t actually represent where students want to attend,”Kim Wetter, a collaborator in the creation of the GradReports rankings, wrote in an email. “So, we factored in enrollment rate.” The list contains many common frontrunners, with five Ivy League schools, Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology placing in the top ten. Cornell is the lowest ranked of the Ivies, coming in at 19. The list also contains four military academies within the top 16, as well as severalliberal arts colleges farther down the list. Above the recently released rankings, the website reads, “We hope to challenge the common perception that prestige alone makes a college desirable and to bring atten-

tion to the wider range of schools that reflect actual student choice.” “I think this broader list will give students a better idea of which colleges are truly competitive but desirable,” Wetter said. In addition to the rankings, most colleges on the list come with one or more reviews submitted to the website by alumni of the given college. Reviews give scores on elements such as financial aid and “quality of instruction,” while also answering questions such as, “Did this degree help your career?” While the current rankings have only a few data points for each college listed, the website has bigger goals for future editions. “We hope to have completely graduate review driven rankings in the future,” Wetter said. “Until we get to that point, we think this was the best way to represent student’s opinions.”

Building bridges to wealth

Prof. spearheads financial literacy classes for locals ZOE STERN Contributing Reporter

The Wharton community is helping close the wealth gap, one free course at a time. Approximately four years ago, Wharton professor Keith Weigelt started Building Bridges to Wealth, a program that helps combat the racial wealth gap in West Philadelphia by providing free financial literacy courses. The program is offered to both adults and students from as young as middle school age to those in high school. “Everyone talks about it, but no one does anything,” Weigelt said of the wealth gap, which has been growing exponentially since the 1980s. Weigelt explained the importance of beginning to invest and

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gain financial knowledge at a young age. “Poor people need interest,” he said. But many people on the lower end of the wealth spectrum put 95 percent of their money in banks, not generating any interest in the process. Four years since its start, the program’s success has helped it spread across the state. Penn State University has expressed interest in getting involved with the initiative, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is looking to expand Building Bridges to Wealth into a statewide program. Building Bridges to Wealth spreads the word about its classes a nd prog ra m m i ng through outreach to community churches, schools and former contacts. According to Weigelt, the program has encountered a lack of engagement in some nearby schools. But of those that

have participated, there has been great success. But according to Stacy Franks, who is responsible for the financial literacy program for high school students and is the associate director of the program, having middle and high school students come to campus not only teaches the students about finances and investing, but can also work to inspire them to attend college. “This is also a way for undergraduates to give back,” Franks said, explaining the reasons for undergraduates to get involved. This Saturday, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in SteinbergDietrich Hall, there will be a course covering everything one needs to know about finances and the economy. It is open for people who have any questions or concerns about their financial situation. The class is completely free and anyone can walk in.

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This year’s admissions cycle was unique in that applicants had an extra four days to submit application materials — the Office of Admissions chose to extend the deadline in order to provide students with more time to enjoy their holidays. Previously, the deadline had only been extended in the case of extenuating circumstances, such as Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and Common Application glitches last year. An all-time high of 54.4 percent of the Class of 2019 was filled with early decision applicants, making the regular decision round more competitive. Students in the Class of 2019 come from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam.

Pennsylvania has the highest representation with 483 students, 170 of whom are from Philadelphia, followed by New York with 439 and California with 412. New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Illinois and Massa chuset t s a lso h ave significant representation in the incoming class. Fifteen percent of the accepted students are international, hailing from 84 countries around the world. Thir teen percent accepted students for the class of 2019 are first-generation college students, while another 14 percent have parents or grandparents who attended Penn. Forty-five percent of the class self-identified as minority students on their applications. Over 8,600 alumni offered interviews to 91 p ercent of appl ica nts

through the Penn Alumni Interview Program, falling short of the program’s goal of interviewing 100 percent of applicants by this year. However, the number is an improvement upon the 86 percent of applicants interviewed last year and 51 percent interviewed in 2012. “These students will come together in late summer to begin their shared experience as a class, but Penn’s admissions officers were drawn in over the last few months by their individual stories,” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said in a statement. “Each class develops their own identity over time, and there are no fixed conclusions. The experimental nature of bringing together a class is what transforms and revitalizes our campus and community each year.”

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Palm Sunday • 29 March 10.30 am Procession of palms and passion reading Wednesday in Holy Week • 1 April 7 pm Tenebrae: Service of Light and Darkness Maundy Thursday • 2 April 7 pm Joint service with footwashing at St. Mary’s at Penn, 3916 Locust Walk Good Friday • 3 April 7 pm Service with solemn reproaches The Great Vigil of Easter • 4 April 9 pm Blessing of ﬁre and light, service of readings, and communion Easter Sunday • 5 April 9.30 am Breakfast 10.30 am Festival service with communion 3637 Chestnut Street Street www.uniluphila.org

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OPINION Dear college, grow up

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TALKING BACKWARD | Student dependence upon their universities has consequences for everyone

was never going to be happy about the Fling headliner. Come spring and the inevitable campus buzz that accompanies SPEC’s announcement of the concert lineup, I find myself perennially annoyed at the University’s decision to use tuition money to subsidize a pop concert. Why, I reason, should Penn spend even a penny of the money students pay for, in essence, an education, on something so egregiously non-academic? The more I thought about it, however, the more I realized how non-specific to Fling that particular grievance was. Under the broad heading of “student life,” Penn operates and pays for a vast range of programs and initiatives to entertain, comfort and care for students. From Fling to recreational programs like Pottruck Gym on down to RAsupervised board game nights in Quad lounges, a panoply of non-academic programs are paid for, at least in part, with students’ tuition and fees. The question all this inevitably raises is: “Why?”

Why does Penn, an institution which at its core is supposed to be devoted to learning and teaching, bother to fund all these services? I think the an-

responsive to demand, universities are eager to try to meet this desire if it will keep application numbers high. The trouble is that this

promoting good behavior among, thousands of students whom they’ve never met, and spending a terrific amount of money along the way.

In the social consciousness of the American public, universities have ceased to be thought of simply as academic institutions, and have come to be regarded as the final step in the developmental process …” swer is simply that we’ve come to expect it to. In the social consciousness of the American public, universities have ceased to be thought of simply as academic institutions, and have come to be regarded as the final step in the developmental process — processing factories for adults, even. Education is a part of the minting process, but it isn’t the only — or even necessarily the most important — element. Equally as crucial, we seem to believe, is a comfortable, worry-free space for students to “find themselves” as they finish growing up. Being essentially market actors and therefore

expectation is deeply out of touch with the realities of academia’s essential goals and capabilities. Try as they might, universities simply aren’t equipped to be optimal environments for human maturation and never will be. Shaping a person’s development requires a level of control and influence that extends far beyond that which instructors can or should be expected to exert. The stopgap measure so far has been to employ a small army of administrators in a clumsy and hopeless attempt to act in loco parentis by caring for the every need of, and

The negative consequences of this misalignment are many and varied. The expense of these attempts contributes to the ballooning cost of college attendance, making the education which is supposed to be the whole point increasingly inaccessible for many Americans who desire it. Students, meanwhile, are left in a bizarre and confusing limbo between childhood and adulthood, granted the non-supervision due the legal adults that they are and yet subject to the pseudo-parental conduct requirements imposed by wellmeaning schools. University of Chicago

law professor Eric Posner recently published an article in Slate suggesting that we solve this dilemma by recognizing students fully as children and giving colleges complete parental control over them, specifically by granting colleges the right to place tight restrictions on students’ freedom of speech and sexual conduct in the way parents do. It isn’t hard to see where he gets his notion; students today rely on their universities for many of the things they relied upon their parents for in childhood — housing, food, healthcare, dispute resolution, comfort and entertainment — but his conclusions are disturbing. My suggestion would be precisely the opposite: affirm that students are adults and reduce their dependence upon their colleges for life essentials while simultaneously reducing the level of control schools exercise over their students. There’s no reason why a university student can’t be expected to live a comparable lifestyle to any other adult, living independently and attending to their own

ALEC WARD life needs, reliant on and answerable to their schools for little else besides academics. Such an approach could make education more accessible, adulthood more meaningful and reduce the prolongation of childishness which results from the current system. For those who aren’t ready to live truly independent lives, well, maybe it isn’t time to leave home just yet.

ALEC WARD is a College sophomore from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. “Talking Backward” appears every Wednesday.

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am fascinated by the graffiti I encounter on a daily basis. The chalk advertisement for dance tryouts — don’t miss the date, come out September 19! –– has been a staple of my morning walk to Williams since my first day of classes. The cut-out stone windows lining Quad staircases are a treasure trove of unruly thoughts: “Love is the answer,” “Milk is good for the body.” The underside of a rock I pass near the Schuylkill proclaims, “C’est la vie!” The steady barrage of messages from strangers seems unavoidable. We leave no stone unturned, no surface unwritten. I’m not huge on graffiti, but I understand the urge. In some ways, a large part of writing columns seems like scribbling on the side of the road. They’re messages for people to see, ones that some will just walk by and others will notice. They’re meant to be read. Sometimes they make some grand pronouncement about

THE DANALYST | The woes of self-censorship life or the universe — “KNOW YOURSELF” I read on the underside of a bridge — and sometimes they’re just flickers of expression. So-and-so was here. Person X loves person Y. And there’s something sweet in that, the writing of a message for anyone to read, with a desperate attempt at

thing out of the experience, but so that, in theory, our names would still be there after we’d grown up and gone away. We thought there was some higher purpose in adding our signatures to the mounds of others. By the time it was my turn to sign (I was 11), the branches were covered in ink.

pretty terrifying thought. It’s also not an uncommon situation. I don’t like to think of my columns as permanent. I don’t consider their staying power. But they’re there, immortalized on the Internet, the first link that comes up when I’m Googled: the largest part of my Internet identity. Yet

The modern tech landscape seems to ease the population into forgetting that our communication stays online virtually forever.”

permanence. We draw symbols in cement so the sidewalk will bear them for years. We scrawl on the underside of bridges so that the rain won’t wash our creations away. In my hometown’s main park, neighborhood kids had a tradition of climbing one of the tallest, most gnarled trees and signing their names — not with any real intention of getting some-

Now, eight years later, we live in a time of constant connectivity. When it comes down to it, much of our technology seems to trap our words where they are. I’m held accountable to what I say, not just in that my name is tethered to my ideas, but that my future self could be held accountable for anything I say in these 700-word packages. That’s a

now, much of our technology capitalizes on the ephemeral — that Snapchat will disappear after five seconds. That photo will stay your profile picture for a few months, tops, before it becomes too old to stay acceptable. The modern tech landscape seems to ease the population into forgetting that our communication stays online virtually forever. For a

student body this concerned about the job market, though, we’re not easily deceived. At Penn, we’re conditioned to be cautious about what we say, what will be recorded next to our names. Otherwise, the all-mighty Employers might catch us saying something stupid. Nearly every student I’ve quoted in a column this year has asked to be anonymous — “Wait, will this come up when people Google me?” is a common question. During a club info session at the beginning of the semester, members urged us to contribute to a blog because our by-lines would “come up when companies search for you.” We place an emphasis on crafting an Internet self-image. News flash: Penn is preprofessional; we add each other on LinkedIn and hope to live up to our sanitized summaries. We inherently worry about the consequences of speech. Uninhibited verbal expression is almost impossible. There are upsides to being held accountable, but we

DANI BLUM lose something when we selfcensor. We miss the goofy sentiments, the random tossout of ideas to the universe, the fragility of paint splattered against a river bank. Too often we lose sight of what we want to say in fear we’ll say something wrong. It’s time we recapture our words, if only to watch them wash away.

DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” usually appears every Thursday.

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another Democratic challenger, wins the Council seat, they will make history in Philadelphia. Their candidacies reflect shifts in cultural attitudes, local history expert and St. Joseph’s University Professor Randall Miller said. “There are two openly gay candidates for City Council. Twenty years ago, that would have been unthinkable,” he said. Despite no direct representation in city government, the LGBT community in Philadelphia “has gotten politically active and politically astute,” Miller said. “It would be a surprise if we didn’t have [members of the LGBT running for public office given the sophistication and

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015 activism in the gay community,” he added. All five at-large seats are up for grabs in May’s election, though the four incumbents are expected to retain their seats. One seat is open since mayoral candidate Jim Kenney resigned from his position in February because of Philadelphia’s “resign-to-run” rule for public officials. Cohen unique brand of social and political activism comes from being in a family of “movement people,” who taught her to embrace protest and activism as political tools, she said. “My parents started as labor organizers in the ‘30s and ‘40s when labor was very militant. They became activists in the Civil Rights Movement and taught [me] to be involved in

all of these movements,” Cohen said. Her father, David Cohen, served in the City Council for 29 years. During his time on the Council, he kept labor issues at the forefront of the political agenda. As an undergraduate student at Penn, his daughter began to follow her parents’ lead. “I would see my parents year after year staying the course [of activism],” she said. While at Penn, Cohen participated in monthly marches against the Vietnam War and, as co-chair of the Community Involvement Council, worked to make sure the University provided affordable housing. On one occasion, her group tried to prevent Penn from displacing local residents through

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t he bu i ld i ng of a hotel near campus. Cohen and her fellow students got a temporary injunction to stop Penn CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE from building SHERRIE the hotel, but COHEN eventually, the University got its way. “Our point was that [Penn was] reneging on [its] promise to support affordable housing financially in the neighborhood,” Cohen said of the injunction’s purpose. Her activism also extended to social issues, especially with regard to women’s rights. When Cohen was a sophomore at Penn in the spring of 1973, a

string of sexual assaults occurred on campus. Cohen recalled them occurring “in the middle of the day,” with the victims “not knowing where to go” for help. “There were no rape crisis counseling centers on campus,” Cohen said. “They went to the Penn Hospital, but felt that there wasn’t enough sensitivity provided to them.” On the heels of these assaults, famed feminist speaker Robin Morgan came to campus to speak. With Morgan’s lead, Cohen and “hundreds of women walked over to Houston Hall and had a ten day sit-in,” Cohen recalled. They demanded the establishment of a rape crisis counselor, a Women’s Center and women’s studies major. “In those ten days, the University agreed [to those demands],”

Cohen said. For years after, “there were implementation committees that were very inclusive of female staff and students.” Cohen recently attended the fortieth anniversary of the Penn Women’s Center and still remembers her time at Penn proving formative to her. Despite in her involvement in different advocacy groups while at Penn, neither the Penn Women’s Center nor the LGBT Center formally endorse candidates in city elections. Cohen now works as an attorney with the Tenant Union Representative Network, where she “represents vulnerable tenants against slum landlords,” according to her website. Cohen had previously run for the City Council in 2011, where she came in sixth place in a race for five seats. This time, Cohen has some added political clout on her side. On Saturday, Philadelphia’s Democratic City Committee chairman Bob Brady announced his support for Cohen’s candidacy. While a formal endorsement from the City Committee won’t come until later in April, Brady’s support is hugely significant in Philadelphia’s political landscape. Brady’s support certainly reflects Cohen’s potential for electoral success, but also an awareness of her existent pedigree. Brady “knows how political winds blow,” Miller said. Such a major endorsement “adds to her appeal in terms of getting other support, [whether it be] financial or other endorsements,” Miller added. Despite greater suppor t from the party, she still faces stiff competition in education leader and fellow Penn alumna Helen Gym and the well-funded Steinke. On her tendency for activism, Cohen said, “You feel that spirit move through you and you want to be on the right side of history.” The coming election will decide whether history will embrace Sherrie Cohen.

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be the mayor of young people, he often circles back to the importance of young Philadelphians in solving the city’s economic and educational challenges, especially if Philadelphia wants to compete with other major U.S. cities. “Growing our tax base for eight to 10 years isn’t good enough,” Oliver said. “It’s good enough to have us treading water and stay as the fifth largest city, but it’s not enough for us to become the fourth. And if we are going to grow, we need to get young folks to stay.” The other Democratic candidates for mayor m ight characterize Oliver as one of the “young folks.” At 40 years old, Oliver is by far the youngest mayoral candidate. The three leading candidates in the race — former District Attorney Lynne Abraham, former City Councilman James Kenney and State Sen. Anthony Williams — are all over 56. “I think my age is an advantage

in this mayor’s race because we’ve got a city where the average age is 33 and the city thinks fundamentally differently than it has in decades,” Oliver said. “I think I am uniquely positioned among the existing candidates to at least understand the mindset of a 33-year-old Philadelphian.” Oliver’s age isn’t the only thing setting him apart from the other candidates. He is the only major candidate for mayor who has never been an elected representative. The other candidates — Abraham, Kenney and Williams — all have over 10 years of experience as elected officials in Philadelphia or Pennsylvania. Nonetheless, Oliver does have lengthy experience in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania politics. Before running for mayor, Oliver worked in former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell’s administration as press secretary for the Department of Public Welfare, served as Mayor Michael Nutter’s press secretary for three years and most recently held the role of Senior Vice President of Philadelphia Gas Works — the largest

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015 municipally owned natural gas utility in the United States. Oliver’s current office is only a door away from the office of Edward G. Rendell LLC. “I’ve been around [politics] long enough to see why it works and to see why it doesn’t work,” Oliver said. But even with experience, Oliver is an underdog. He has no major endorsements and has trailed heavily in fundraising throughout the campaign. By the end of 2014, Oliver’s exploratory committee raised $1,085, while other candidates, such as Williams and Kenney, raised $554,106 and $236,355, respectively. In a poll commissioned by Abraham’s campaign that was released on March 26, Abraham led the pack with 30 percent of the vote, Williams and Kenney trailed with around 14 percent and Oliver remained under 10 percent. While Oliver has less name recognition than some of the other candidates, his focus on young people could be a

beneficial electoral strategy, especially if they turn out to vote in large numbers. According to the Office of the Philadelphia City Commissioners, over 300,000 of Philadelphia’s 1.1 million registered voters are between 18 and 34 years old. With the median age of Philadelphians being 33, young people could be pivotal in the election. “I think if there is anybody who is able to understand what the younger generation is looking for, it would be me,” Oliver said. “I don’t look at young people in the city of Philadelphia as interns. I don’t look at them as the next generation of leadership. I look at them as the right now generation of leadership.” In many ways, Oliver has become part of the new generation of leadership in Philadelphia. With that, he has also brought new ideas. Oliver was the first mayoral candidate to incorporate his support for PILOTs, or payments in lieu of taxes, into his campaign platform. PILOTs are contributions that tax-exempt nonprofits

can make to local governments. This has recently become a controversial issue in Philadelphia politics as people have called for tax-exempt nonprofits — such as Penn — to pay some level of property tax, which would go towards helping the Philadelphia School District’s $80 million budget deficit. Although Oliver is a staunch supporter of PILOTs, he also recognizes that large nonprofits contribute to the city in many beneficial ways, such as through spending, employment and wage taxes. “I’m not suggesting that I am supporting PILOTs because [institutions like Penn] are not doing anything; I am supporting PILOTs because this city needs more,” Oliver said. “There has to be the ability of our large institutions to come together and say here’s the problem we have as a school district.” “The idea of PILOTs isn’t just a money grab,” Oliver added. “It is grabbing the institutional knowledge at the University of Pennsylvania, the access to

resources, their own classrooms, their museums, their buildings, to say ‘We see the need here in the city of Philadelphia and we are going to do our part as a corporate citizen, if not through taxes, through some sort of payment to the city.’” As the campaign enters its final stretch, recent boosts in polling and fundraising show Oliver’s evolution from an unknown candidate into a fresh and relevant face in Philadelphia’s political scene, which is full of familiar faces. “That’s the beauty of having a new perspective, even in the mayor’s race,” Oliver said. “Whether you win or whether you lose, you are changing the conversation.” While many political pundits might rule out a new face, one of Philadelphia’s most familiar faces seems to believe in Oliver. “Doug Oliver deserves a look in the race for Mayor,” Rendell tweeted on March 27, though he hasn’t formally endorsed any candidate. “He’s a bright, engaging young man with a lot of good ideas. He just might catch on.”

Workers demonstrate in front of McDonald’s for increased minimum wage Workers will walk off the job later this month PATRICK ZANCOLLI Staff Reporter

Activists and supporters from the group Fight for $15 announced yesterday that they will be “taking over the city of Philadelphia” on April 15. A drizzle didn’t stop supporters and workers from holding signs and chanting outside of the McDonald’s at 40th and Walnut streets following the announcement that workers plan walk off the job to advocate for increasing minimum wage to $15 per hour and rights to unionize. Similar strikes are planned for cities across the country. The movement began in New York City about two years ago when about 200 workers walked

off the job in similar protest, and it has since spread to other cities. Other low-wage workers will join the Philadelphia fast-food workers who strike on the 15th to say that federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is not sustainable. Kate Goodman, an organizer with $15 Now, a separate group that works closely with Fight for $15, described the upcoming event as the “biggest, most unprecedented strike in Philadelphia.” The group is rallying students to walk out in solidarity with workers. Supporters plan to meet at the McDonald’s at 40th and Walnut and march into the City. “We’re fighting for $15 an hour,” Goodman said, “not just for fast food workers, but for every worker in Philadelphia.” Fast-food workers and students, including some from Temple University, stood by Goodman as she spoke at

Tuesday’s announcement. Andrew Dempsey Miller, a worker at the McDonalds at 40th and Walnut streets, shared his story for onlookers on the street to hear: “I believe that closed mouths don’t get fed,” Dempsey Miller said. “And if you have an issue, you should speak about it no matter who you are or where you’re from.” He said he works at McDonalds “to fund [his] dreams,” and that no one should have to turn to illegal alternatives to “put [their] kids through college.” “I joined [the Fight for $15] because it gave me this feeling of empowerment,” Dempsey Miller said. “I’m going out for my first strike on April 15th, and I hope everybody’s there,” another McDonald’s worker from North Philadelphia said to applause from the crowd. College senior and Student

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Four seniors are 3-D printing lifechanging technology right in the Engineering Quad. As their senior design project, Engineering seniors Julia Sigal, Valerie Cohen, Jonathan Tieu and Sam Ettinger are creating a revolutionary bicycle helmet. The new helmet will include secure protection from concussions and automatic turn signals, and a brake light on the back of the helmet. The helmet is being tested via a MTS machine, which simulates the force of collisions. The group is using the 3-D printers in the Engineering School to test different infills in order to find the proper protection from a concussion. Sigal said that standard bicycle helmets don’t provide enough protection. “They don’t help you not get an injury,” she said. “They just help you not die.” The year-long project hopes to change cycling accident prevention and protection. Developed with the help of independent helmet manufacturer John Larkin , the group anticipates the helmet’s protection to be strong enough to help riders avoid concussions. “We decided we wanted to make a helmet that would get you under a 100 g’s, which is what determines if you have concussion,” Sigal said. “In a situation in which a helmet would protect you from dying, we want it to protect you from getting a concussion.” The prevention is provided by the back of the helmet. Turn signal lights and a brake light will be activated depending on the movement of the cycler’s head. Cohen and Sigal said that helmets’ importance is often neglected. “[There are] twice as many brain related traumas of biking than there are of football,” Cohen said. “It’s a little underplayed.” They said that although a lot of people do not wear helmets, this is not their issue to tackle. “Our purpose was just to find a way to decrease the number of brain related injuries in cycling every year by introducing a helmet that prevented concussions,” Cohen said.

Sigal learned the importance of helmets through her family’s history with cycling. “My dad was in an accident when I was in the fifth grade, and he cracked his helmet,” Sigal said. “A helmet is important because while it might not protect you from getting a concussion or a life threatening brain injury, it is the difference between living and dying.” Project advisor Graham Wabiszewski said this project is revolutionary. “Despite the fact that helmet use is increasing and people in general are being safer on the roads, there are a significant

amounts of concussions and injuries occurring,” Wabiszewski said. In addition to being relevant in cycling, Wabiszewski said this project is important because it is utilizing 3-D printing. “The team has taken advantage of their access of a 3-D printer, and I think it’s unique,” he said. “I can envision a day when 3-D printers are as common as regular 2-D printers.” The team believes their new helmet could change the cycling community. “If this works,” Sigal said, “it could be something that could change the industry.”

Labor Action Project member Daniel Cooper Bermudez said while SLAP was not at yesterday’s McDonald’s protest, the group plans to be part of the April 15 movement. “It’s something that we have been invested in in the past with our Justice on the Menu campaign with workers in our own dining halls,” Cooper Bermudez said. That campaign, which took place in 2013, led to the unionization of some of Bon Appétit’s full-time employees. In December 2013, SLAP organized a demonstration at the same McDonald’s advocating for workers’ right to unionize and increased wages. Cooper Bermudez said since then, the group has been an ally with Fight for $15, adding that it is “part of a broader worker rights struggle that SLAP stands with.”

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Junior Iris Williamson has had a breakout season for the Red and Blue, adding crucial balance to their offensive attack.

Elis was the first conference win for the Light Blue since the 2011 season. So far in the campaign, Penn has outscored opponents 104-63 behind 31 goals from senior attack Tory Benson. Five other players have 10 or more goals in 2015, including junior midfielder Nina Corcoran, who has also racked up 21 assists. Coach Karin Corbett believes her teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attack is robust because of how balanced it is. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having a lot of threats makes you stronger, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not reliant on one or two kids to be everything to our offense,â&#x20AC;? she said. Junior attack Iris Williamson notes that the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offense has been more effective this year while playing at a faster pace. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more confidence out of our attack, we have a lot of upperclassmen leadership, and in practice we go hard everyday,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We play against one of the best defenses in the country, our defense, and that makes us better and more dynamic when we go out and play other defenses.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we started last year playing a bit of a quicker clip, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just creating a lot of movement,â&#x20AC;? Corbett said. The Quakers are coming off home games against Dartmouth and Towson, in which they scored 10 and 12 goals, respectively. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the beginning of the season, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always a little behind because we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have as much practice time [because of Ivy League restrictions],â&#x20AC;? junior midfielder Brooke Kiley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But now that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re meshing and playing together more, our attack has been coming together the past two games.â&#x20AC;? At the other end, Penn has the ninth-best scoring defense in Division-I, allowing only seven goals per game. Notably, senior goalie Lucy Ferguson has notched 66 saves, good for a .512 save percentage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think Columbia has seen a defense as strong as ours,â&#x20AC;? Corbett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we have a good opportunity to wear them down defensively.â&#x20AC;? Columbia boasts a balanced

offensive attack, also with six players who have recorded 10 or more goals thus far in 2015. The group is led by Taylor Quinn, with 21 goals. Between the pipes, the Lionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Kelsey Gedin has a 10.33 goals-allowed average and .486 save percentage. On Saturday, the Red and Blue will attempt to take down Northwestern (6-3), which has played six of its nine games against teams ranked in the top 10, going 3-3. Unlike Penn and Columbia, the Wildcats place the weight of their offense on the shoulders of midfielder Selena Lasota, who leads the Wildcats with 34 goals. Corbett insists the Quakers will prepare for both Columbia and Northwestern by exploiting weaknesses and dictating tempo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to play our offense the way weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been playing, going at a good clip, creating a lot of havoc on their defense,â&#x20AC;? Corbett said. A win against the Wildcats would solidify Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s placement amongst the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top teams as they head into the bulk of Ivy League play.

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Flashback to Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last trip to the NCAA tournament COLIN HENDERSON From The Daily Pennsylvanianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sports blog, THE BUZZ Nowadays, it seems like the closest Penn students come to â&#x20AC;&#x153;March Madnessâ&#x20AC;? (besides spring break, of course) is filling out brackets or watching the Big Dance on TV. But it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t long ago that Penn had the opportunity to experience the real thing on a consistent basis. In fact, in the early to mid 2000s, Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball was a bona fide Ivy League powerhouse, regularly finishing atop the Ancient Eight. Given the recent struggles of the program â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the team finished dead last in the Ivies this year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it may be hard to

envision the Quakers dominating the league, but Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s storied basketball history is actually not that far in the past. So letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use the Final Four festivities coming up this weekend as an excuse to turn back the clock to 2007, the last time the Quakers made it to the NCAA Tournament. Heading into the 2006-07 season, topping the Ivy League had become commonplace for the Red and Blue â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they were two-time defending champions and had won the league in four of the previous five years. But something drastic had changed for the program. Legendary coach Fran Dunphy had left after the 2005-06 season to take the head coaching job at Temple, leaving the program in the hands of veteran coach

Glenn Miller. The Quakers overcame the coaching turnover â&#x20AC;&#x201D; led by seniors Ibrahim Jaaber, Mark Zoller and Steven Danley â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and were able to accrue a 13-1 Ivy record and win the Ivies by a three-game margin, earning them an automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament. They were given a 14-seed and sent to the South region of the bracket, matched up against three-seed Texas A&M. Despite their relative ease getting through the Ivy regular season, the Quakers experienced adversity from the start of the Tournament. In front of a pro-Penn (and anti-A&M) crowd at Kentuckyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rupp Arena, the Quakers were unable to score until more than five minutes into the game.

With Danley hampered by a back injury, the Red and Blue struggled on the offensive end. â&#x20AC;&#x153;W hen you play against such a good team â&#x20AC;Ś you have to knock down a reasonable amount of shots,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We dug ourselves a hole.â&#x20AC;? Meanwhile, the Aggies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; led by All-American and future first-round NBA draft pick Acie Law â&#x20AC;&#x201D; would take control of the game. The Quakers fought back. With Danley essentially a nonfactor, Jaaber and Zoller carried the load offensively for Penn. Within the first nine minutes

of the second half, the Quakers went on a 19-3 run to take their first lead of the game, 39-37, much to the approval of the crowd. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They did a great job of converting those plays, and we did a bad job of finishing them,â&#x20AC;? Law said of the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; run. However, it would ultimately turn out to also be Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last lead of the game. With just under 12 minutes remaining, A&M forward Joseph Jones tip-slammed a Law miss to tie the game. On the very next possession, the same thing happened: Law

missed and Jones slammed it home. The Aggies would not relinquish the lead, overwhelming the Quakers for the rest of the game and taking home a 68-52 victory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Getting taken out of the game, just knowing that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a tomorrow, it kind of hit me there a little bit,â&#x20AC;? Jaaber said of his final collegiate game. The Aggies would go on to lose in the Sweet 16. Meanwhile, the Red and Blue are still searching for their first Tourney win since 1994, with no clear end in sight.

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allowed runs to the tune of a 7.38 ERA. Most recently, the team fought to an 8-8 tie in 10 innings against NJIT, a season-high in scored runs for the Peacocks. Given the fact that Penn is coming off of four games over a two-day stretch, Yurkow will look to rest many of his primary pitchers to ensure theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready for the upcoming Ivy weekend slate of Yale and Brown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably throw a bunch of guys on Wednesday, give some [younger] guys some work,â&#x20AC;? Yurkow said. On the offensive side, Penn will continue to rely on a strong

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SOFTBALL Annie Kinsey in 2007 and fellow freshman teammate and outfielder Leah Allen, who set the singleseason mark after clubbing 13 home runs in 2014. However, despite establishing herself in Penn’s history books, Sargent isn’t focusing on setting individual records. “Honestly, you can’t really think about that while you’re at the plate or else it’s really going to mess up your performance,” Sargent said. “I just try to focus on getting solid contact and helping the team out.” “And if that results in breaking any of those records, I’d be absolutely thrilled, but I just want to win out here.” In addition to her prodigious power at the plate, Sargent also served as Penn’s No. 2 pitcher last year, behind only senior Alexis (AC) Borden. Sargent’s 2.51 ERA placed fifth among pitchers in the Ivy League last year. Despite her dominant run-prevention skills, Sargent isn’t your typical strikeout pitcher. “Comparing myself to the rest of our staff, I’m definitely more

of a pitch-to-contact pitcher,” Sargent said. “AC strikes more people out and I think I’m in there more to induce pop-ups and groundouts.” It’s a style that has worked well for Sargent. Although she only struck out 43 batters in 69 innings last season, she won six games, including a complete game shutout over Yale last spring. Sargent’s double duty is all the more impressive given the constraints on her practice time. The Ivy League restricts spring sports’ practice time in the fall, which means Sargent has to devote the majority of her efforts to honing her craft in the circle when spring rolls around. “All my practice time with the coaches gets devoted to pitching so I really have to work on my hitting,” Sargent said. “That kind of does my hitting a disservice, but it’s a lot of work.” Nevertheless, Sargent has numerous resources to help her at the plate. “I’ve had great coaching all my life,” Sargent said. “I know I can go home, or give a phone call to somebody, tell them that I’m struggling, and they know the right things to say to me. I also have great teammates that are

willing to go down and work with me and help me out too. “So there’s a lot of support.” Despite the extra work that being a two-way player demands, Sargent is always willing to accept the challenge. “On a good day, I love being on the mound,” said Sargent. “But at the end of the day, I want to do whatever will help the team win, so if that means playing first, or pitching, whatever it means.” Sargent has already done quite a bit of that in her sophomore campaign for the Quakers (11-9, 3-1 Ivy), batting .281 in 57 at-bats leads the team with 18 RBI. She has also continued to shine on the mound, as her ERA is a sterling 1.19 in two starts and four relief appearances while limiting opponents to a .239 batting average. Sargent is hungry to win after coming so close to an Ivy League title last year and is confident about her team’s chances. When asked who she was most looking forward to playing this season, her reply was immediate. “Whoever we play in the championship.” But first, the team will have to face Lafayette in a doubleheader at Penn Park.

for coaches when recruiting players from abroad. Penn and other Ivy League schools historically attract some of the country’s best athletes for educational reasons. However, due to the fact that the conference forbids athletic scholarships, many students are forced to go elsewhere, no matter how much a coach may want a particular athlete. The educational aspect of recruiting athletes to schools like Penn does not always work in the universities’ favor. This is especially true for sports such as tennis, in which coaches are in an endless search for the best players from outside the U.S. “It’s actually much more difficult

to recruit internationally because of the differences in grades especially in Europe and even South America, where their focus is much more on professional tennis rather than schooling,” Kunovac said. “By the time they are seniors in high school, they are not prepared for what Penn is looking for. These international players may have financial problems as well, making it hard for them to come here.” As a program, the Quakers do not define their team by their nationalities or native languages. Tennis players from around the world are not all that different, and the competitiveness is certainly universal. “You have to realize that the

players that we have here are some of the best players in their age groups,” Kunovac said. “Most know each other and have played each other in juniors. The tennis world is small, and the culture of competitive tennis is something that resonates among all athletes. “Although a player from Connecticut may be different than one from Florida or Texas, [international] players are really not very different in the way they play or compete.” Penn coaches in all sports simply want the best athletes to come to the school. And for the Red and Blue, there is no preference towards players from here or abroad. The Quakers just want to win.

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5th in the Ivy League

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Filip Kricka purposely target players from outside American borders. It turns out that isn’t the case. “Those two seniors were simply some of the best tennis players in their recruiting class that year,” Kunovac said. “Sol was a top-30 [ranked] junior in the world when we were recruiting her. Most players that good turn pro. “She had offers on the table from some of the best tennis schools in the country, but she chose us.” According to Kunovac, schools with high academic standards like Penn create an interesting situation

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SOFTBALL W. LACROSSE vs. Columbia New York 6 p.m.

vs. Lafayette Penn Park 4 and 6 p.m.

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roster hails from outside of the U.S. MATTHEW FINE Contributing Sports Reporter

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Coming into 2015, Penn softball pitcher and first baseman Alexis Sargent had already recorded the eighth-most home runs in program history, notched the school’s fifth-lowest career earned run average, been named second-team All-Ivy and led the Quakers to the Ivy League Championship series. All during her rookie season. Sargent’s tremendous debut in 2014 wasn’t totally unexpected, as the Virginia native

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Argentinia native Sol Eskanazi calls the No. 1 singles spot at Penn her home away from home.

Late in the third set of her match against Princeton last Saturday, Penn women’s tennis’ top singles player and senior captain Sol Eskenazi was in the middle of an epic battle. Trailing in a tiebreaker, the senior ripped a lefty forehand up the line, leaving the Princeton player dead in her tracks, forced to watch the ball fly by. “Vamos!” Eskenazi, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, roared with a big fist pump. As exemplified by Eskenazi, college tennis has recently become a showcase of the best athletic talents from not only the United States, but nations worldwide. And the Red and Blue are no exception. While walking around Hecht Tennis Center for a practice or a match, one can’t help but notice the diversity among this year’s team. In fact, over half of the Quakers’ roster is comprised of international students. Penn’s two seniors, Eskenazi and Romanian Alexandra Ion, along with Canadian junior Sonya Latycheva and Moroccan freshman Lina Qostal, are the four students who originate from abroad. Additionally, two more Quakers — sophomore Kana Daniel of Spain and freshman Ria Vaidya of Singapore — attended American-based online high schools but hail from abroad. It might appear that head coach Sanela Kunovac — born in Bosnia — and Croatian assistant coach SEE W. TENNIS PAGE 11

joined the Red and Blue after being named to the All-State team three times in high school, among numerous other accolades. However, Sargent’s freshman performance was so good that it even surprised herself. “Coming in as a freshman, I didn’t expect to get as much plate time as I did,” Sargent said. “I was absolutely thrilled with the amount of opportunities I got. I’m really happy with how I showed up, especially in stressful situations to help our team succeed. “I was really proud of myself.” In addition to firmly establishing herself on the Quakers’ career home run leaderboard, Sargent’s nine bombs last year were the third-most for Penn in a single season, behind only SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 11 TODAY

Lafayette (1-19) 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Penn Park

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Sophomore pitcher Alexis Sargent had an outstanding freshman season for the Quakers last year, dominating opposition both at the plate and at the mound. She will look to follow up her breakout rookie performance and avoid the proverbial sophomore slump with another strong season for the Red and Blue.

Red and Blue host lowly St. Peter’s squad

BASEBALL | Penn looks to

continue hot stretch

HOLDEN McGINNIS Sports Editor

It’s pretty safe to say Penn baseball coach John Yurkow could use a little less excitement in his life. On April 1, the Quakers will take on St. Peter’s (Pa.) just two days removed from Penn’s pair of thrilling walk-off wins against Harvard. The Red and Blue (7-9) will look to continue the momentum that has driven the team to a 6-1 record over its past seven games despite preparing for the Peacocks (2-14-1) on a short week. “It’s tough enough if you go Saturday-Sunday, but the fact we went Sunday-Monday, when we practice [Tuesday] it’ll be a light day,” Yurkow said on March 30 following

the sweep of Harvard. “You hope that you can continue to carry the momentum in and play a good game come Wednesday.” The Red and Blue started off the season slow but recently have hit their groove in finding a way to win tough games. Of the team’s seven wins, four have come by just one run, including three this past weekend. While that success may not be sustainable — few teams can work walk-off magic day-in and dayout — it has placed the Quakers in a three-way tie atop the Lou Gehrig Division moving into their second weekend of conference play. “Even when things didn’t go right for us, we still fought back. This team’s starting to show some toughness late in the game,” Yurkow said of the team’s recent weekend stretch. “If you’re going to try to win a

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