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Graduate students continue advocacy efforts

A look into financial support in Greek councils

Students say that their current efforts have been frustrated by administrators

Some orgs. offer scholarships to those who can’t afford dues GIANNA FERRARIN Staff Reporter

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Performance groups were not warned in advance that it would be more competitive to get a slot at the upcoming Fling. Fling directors said this is partly because SPEC was still deciding how to maximize the number of performers.

“We weren’t 100 percent sure how many people we were exactly going to cut,” said Mountanos, who is also a social media staffer for The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Directors also assumed performers knew it would be a more selective process this year after the time and space constraints were announced. “It was implicit,” Fling liaison and College junior Julia DaSilva said.

College junior Callie Holtermann, who is co-president of Counterparts — an a capella group performing at Fling this year — “was not aware” that there would be severe cuts this year. Holtermann said she still does not know the extent of how many groups were included and rejected.

Mask and Wig member and College junior Eric Calvo said that while he expected cuts to be even more severe, he would have appreciated more explicit information about selectivity.

“As far as I know, we didn’t receive any forewarning about any of the changes to Fling before it was announced in the DP,” Calvo said. Wanting to have been more informed about the changes to Fling group performances “is a general sentiment among student performers,” Calvo said.

Three Fling organizers each rated the applicants between one and 10 to decide who to accept as performers.

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When Penn students decide whether or not to participate in Greek life, the cost of dues is often a factor, particularly as the percentage of first-generation, low-income students at Penn continues to grow.

To accommodate the diversity of Penn’s student body, some Greek organizations offer financial aid to members who would not otherwise be able to pay the cost of membership. However, these provisions are not uniformly offered across Greek councils at Penn.

Of the three Greek life councils at Penn, the Panhellenic Council is the only organization that provides scholarships for members in all of its eight chapters. The remaining 41 fraternities and sororities that are governed by the Intercultural Greek Council and Interfraternity Council do not receive scholarships from their respective councils.

However, students in any Greek organization can apply for scholarships offered by the national organizations their chapters are affiliated with.

College sophomore Anita Itaman, who is vice president of programming for Panhel, said hearing about scholarships was one of the main things that reassured her during the rush process.

Itaman, a first-generation, low-income student in Zeta Tau Alpha, receives both a national and campus scholarship to subsidize her dues.

“I personally never realized that [dues] cost as much money as they did, so hearing about the scholarships first on and beginning this was helpful for

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Historically, Spring Fling was held in the Quad and prominently featured student performers like Quaker Notes and The Mask and Wig band. This year’s changes mark a drastic deviation from the previous tradition.

Members of Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania say they are still focused on campaigning for change for graduate students despite withdrawing their petition for a union vote in February — a decision made over fears that the Penn administration would oppose and prevent legal unionization.

A key focus going forward for GETUP is continuing to promote its ongoing campaign for improved sexual harassment reporting policies in the Graduate School of Education.

Since GET-UP withdrew its petition to unionize, GET-UP member Katie Pak, who is in her third year at GSE, said the group has had meetings with the administration about Penn’s sexual harassment policies.

She described the meetings as “all dialogue and no action.”

Pointing to Penn’s decentralized administrative structure, Pak said that GET-UP has met with various administrators, none of whom individually have “a ton of power” over University policies, she said. According to Pak, these encounters have, for the most part, been GET-UP members “just informing [administrators] over and over again about the same things.”

“We’ve been getting the runaround,” Pak said. “We feel like we have a lot to offer but that we haven’t established the type of partnership to move things forward that we would want.”

Shorter Spring Fling, fewer student performances

This year, 18 student groups will perform at Spring Fling compared to 44 groups last year JULIA KLAYMAN Contributing Reporter

With Spring Fling festivities shortened from the traditional two-day-long event with multiple stages to a singleday event with one stage, the Social Planning and Events Committee Fling directors had to reject 23 of the 41 student groups who applied to perform.

This year, 18 student performing groups will perform at Spring Fling. Last year, 44 groups were given gigs at Fling out of the 47 that applied.

Although the Fling directors said they wished it was possible to continue welcoming and promoting the different clubs on campus, the shortened time frame and lack of a second stage forced them to reduce the number of performers.

Although the number of performance groups from last year to this year has decreased by 59 percent, performances will each last 15 minutes as usual.

In past years, “essentially, we just accepted everyone,” Fling co-director and College sophomore Christopher Mountanos said.

About three performing groups were rejected each year, according to SPEC Fling directors, and the cuts for Fling 2017 were only due to groups not meeting requirements, such as including at least one Penn student within the group.

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Asian American Studies gets interim director Josephine Park will be taking over as the interim director MADELEINE NGO Deputy News Editor

English professor and longtime standing faculty member of the Asian American Studies program Josephine Park will be taking over as the program’s interim director for the next academic year. Students and faculty members, however, still say they fear for the future of the program.

Park has been involved with the ASAM program for 15 years and previously served as the director from 2009 to 2012. She also regularly teaches one of the minor’s core courses, Introduction to Asian American Literature. In her position as interim director, she will no longer be able to teach the course, prompting concerns among students and faculty about the structure of the program.

While the term of the director typically spans three years, as of early April, Park will only serve for one year as interim director. Park said that the leaders of the program chose

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to appoint her to the role.

“I am very pleased that Professor Park has agreed to lead the Asian American Studies Program next year. She is a distinguished scholar of Asian American studies and an award-winning teacher with a long commitment to ASAM, including a prior term as director,” School of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Fluharty wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian. “The choice to serve with the title of interim director was Professor Park’s.”

Grace Kao, a former sociology professor and standing ASAM faculty member at Penn, began working at Yale University in early 2017. Her departure from Penn after helping found the program just over two decades ago prompted the resurgence of student and faculty pressure on the administration to give ASAM more attention.

“Dean Fluharty has shown no interest in supporting Asian American Studies,” Kao wrote in an email.

“Maybe this will change with continued pressure from students if students value the work ASAM does.”

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Park has been involved with the ASAM program for 15 years and previously served as the director from 2009 to 2012 and teaches one of the minors’ core courses.

Current Interim Director and History professor Eiichiro Azuma expressed support for Park and said that the department felt an internal need for a new director.

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U. report shows increase in complaints of abuse No complaints were related to sexual harassment GIOVANNA PAZ Deputy News Editor

An annual report released by Penn suggests that during the 20162017 academic year, there was an increase in instances of interpersonal conflict reported to the University, but none relating to sexual assault or harassment.

Every year, Penn’s Office of the Ombudsman releases a report consisting of data related to various types of conflict brought to the office by students, faculty, and staff. The report for the 2016-2017 academic year highlights a growing number of complaints related to aggressive behavior and unfair treatment on campus.

According to the same report, there were zero complaints during the year relating to sexual assault and sexual harassment. The Ombuds’ report from the 2015-2016 academic year also recorded no incidents relating to sexual harassment.

The 2016-2017 report from the Office of the Ombudsman was published in the Almanac on Oct. 10, but has not been posted on Penn’s website like previous reports.

The report breaks down data according to types of issues raised — relating to problems of behavior, academic disputes, and sexual assault — as well as according to types of people who reported issues, such as staff, faculty, and graduates.

“During the past several years, more and more of our visitors have complained about the way they were treated by other members of the Penn community,” the report

reads.

The notable spike in complaints of abusive behavior shown in the 2015-2016 report has continued this year.

The documents also indicate that since 2011, more than 40 percent of the annual complaints stemmed from staff members.

According to Associate Ombuds Marcia Martinez-Helfman, it is difficult to attribute these shifts in the reports to specific events.

“During different periods that our office has existed, some things seem to be more prevalent to others, but I can’t say why,” Martinez-Helfman said.

According to the report, many questions or complaints related to graduate education are regularly brought to the office.

The report attributed such disputes between faculty and students oftentimes to “a lack of transparency” in the implementation of academic policies, especially in situations when there are a lack of written procedures.

“Too often, departments do not have detailed guidelines or handbooks that specify policies and promote consistency and clarity,” the report states. “Irregular contacts between faculty and students compound these problems. Post-doctoral fellows also have raised questions about their rights and responsibilities, complaining of their treatment by faculty supervisors.”

The report also states that for the 2016-2017 academic year, there were no reported conflicts relating to sexual assault and harassment, though various undergraduate and graduate students at Penn have expressed experiences with sexual harassment in the past year.

Earlier this year, four graduate students at Penn anonymously described incidents of sexual assault in a public survey.

Later in the year, two students at the University Council Open Forum described their experiences with sexual misconduct and called on the administration to improve policies around reporting sexual harassment and assault.

At the forum, Engineering senior Carolyn Kearney told council members that Penn does not currently do enough to ensure that students who have been victims of sexual assault are able to avoid interacting with their assailants while on campus.

Kearney also said at the forum that the University has not been transparent in its rules around incidents of sexual assault.

Graduate students have also petitioned for better sexual harassment policies in the Graduate School of Education.

The Office of the Ombudsman is a neutral office, meaning it does not adjudicate matters or attribute responsibility, and it does not conduct formal investigations. Martinez-Helfman highlighted the office’s purpose as “to provide resolution between parties rather than dictate an outcome.”

“When we see recurring themes that we think might require attention,” Martinez-Helfman said, “we will try to identify individuals in administration who might have an interest in hearing what we hear and potentially taking steps to address the situation.”

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Student-led ‘Campus Conversation’ sees low turnout There were only about 100 people at the event CLAIRE SLINEY Staff Reporter

Penn’s second-ever “Campus Conversation” — an event intended to cultivate community resilience amidst mental health and wellness issues on campus — took place Monday evening as the kick-off to the 2018 Mental Wellness Week.

Completely student-led, this event had even less administrative participation than its first iteration, which drew criticism when attendees reportedly left frustrated that the “conversation” omitted any concrete announcement of policy change from Penn’s administration.

Yet despite being organized

by Penn Wellness, the umbrella group for Penn’s mental health student organizations, very few students were present in the audience.

While the first “Campus Conversation” yielded hundreds of attendees, there were only about 100 people at Monday’s event.

And despite the increased student representation on stage, fewer than half of the event’s attendees were students.

The idea to have this “Campus Conversation” include more students and fewer administrators, Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs Hikaru Kozuma said, came from Penn Wellness student leaders, who said they wanted to include the student voices that were absent during the first conversation.

Consequently, Monday’s panel comprised five undergraduate and graduate panelists, two faculty panelists, one student moderator, and one faculty moderator. College senior Serena Bian and University Chaplain Reverend Charles L. Howard shared the stage as comoderators.

At the first “Campus Conversation,” Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett took center stage while Undergraduate Assembly President and College senior Michelle Xu moderated the event. On Monday, however, Pritchett sat in the first row as an audience member, and Gutmann was not present.

Wharton senior and “Campus Conversation” panelist Phillip Isom said that he wasn’t surprised by the lower turnout.

“You definitely are going to get a lot more people who are upset about a situation and are willing to take action on it in that first wave,” Isom said.

“And then to get the continued action is what’s the difficult part,” he continued, adding that the lack of student attendance at Monday’s event should act as a fuel to make conversations about mental health more of a priority.

The conversation itself covered a wide variety of issues centering on mental wellness, including the lack of mental health resources for graduate students of color, the failure to execute policy changes, and the way professors can promote mental wellness within their classrooms.

“We hoped that more people would come,” College senior and “Campus Conversation” panelist

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rial in the DP titled, “Who Killed Asian American Studies?” The student leaders called upon the University to hire “a standing senior Asian American sociology professor to replace Kao.” Although students and faculty members share confidence in Park’s leadership, many expressed concerns about the future of the program especially since there are no clear plans for Park’s replacement after next year.

Seung-Hyun Chung, College senior and co-chair of the ASAM UAB, said the group is still uncertain about the program’s future leadership.

Park said the deans have been cooperative with approving the hiring of a new lecturer, but she would still like to see more work done to secure stable leadership for the program.

“We are always watching to see if appropriate leadership emerges from a departmental faculty search,” Fluharty wrote in an email to the DP in March.

“The lecturer search is still in progress, which is not unusual; beyond that I don’t comment on the specific details of personnel matters such as ongoing searches.”

“It’s hard to keep [the program] going with faculty with

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Azuma wrote in an email to the DP. Along with leading ASAM, Park will also serve as the undergraduate chair of the English department for the next three years, a move which Azuma indicated “illuminates the fundamental problem” ASAM continues to face.

“We need another permanent faculty who can provide much needed stable leadership, not to mention teaching in one of the social science fields that have not been covered after Dr. Grace Kao left,” Azuma wrote.

“The problem is that there is no tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Sociology and no one who is willing to serve as Director of the Program,” Kao wrote.

Kao added that hiring adjunct lecturers is typically cheaper for universities because they have “no job stability” and are “offered no benefits.”

Her departure sparked student protests across campus which called on administrators to hire additional faculty members for the program.

ASAM’s Undergraduate Advisory Board also penned an edito-

Kathryn Dewitt said. “But it’s not always about the numbers — it’s about the quality of discussion and whether or not the message is really reaching each person.”

Nursing sophomore and Associate Member of the UA Jessica Andrews and Wharton senior and UA Treasurer Samantha Shea said that they were frustrated with the low student turnout in light of how big of a topic mental health has become at Penn.

“If you complain about situations, you need to take action to help facilitate the change today,” Shea said.

A student member of the audience also shared the sentiment.

Brian Chao stood up from his seat

during the Q&A session and said, “It’s heartbreaking to see a lot of people just not wanting to make this as much of a priority.”

College sophomore and “Campus Conversation” panelist Rylee Park said that Penn’s decentralized nature results in the creation of plans that rarely come to fruition.

“I think a way to solve that is accountability,” she said. “If there is more accountability between the students and administrators, I think all the great conversations that we have can lead to even better outcomes, better results, a better community at Penn.”

Students also took issue with the schedule of the event. The first “Campus Conversation” con-

tained both a panel discussion and smaller breakout discussions.

While Monday’s initial format was supposed to be the same, the panel ran late, preventing the breakout sessions from happening.

Shea found that during the first “Campus Conversation,” the breakout sessions were “the most impactful thing that we did” and was disappointed that they weren’t included in the second session, especially since top administrators were not included on the panel.

This event comes almost five months after the first Campus Conversation, which Penn’s administrators initiated last October after the Las Vegas mass shooting, and the ongoing uncertainty

faced by students involved in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

The first event followed a series of student deaths in the fall semester — College senior Nicholas Moya, Penn Vet student Brett Cooper, Wharton senior Henry Rogers, and Penn Law student Justin Hamano. Similarly, the second “Campus Conversation” came after a string of tragedies as well.

On Dec. 31, College freshman William Steinberg died in a plane accident with his family, becoming the eighth Penn student to die in 2017. Soon after, campus was struck by the news of the disappearance and subsequent death of College sophomore Blaze Bernstein, which was later ruled a homicide. Less than a week after Bernstein was found dead in Orange County, Calif., a firstyear Penn Law student, Jonathan Lumpkin, died in his apartment in Sansom Place East. Most recently, Penn Engineering employee Benjamin Francis Rivell, 28, died from an “accidental drug overdose” on March 20.

“I think in order to change things, we need to listen,” Dewitt said. “But we also need to speak back and that’s why it’s a campus conversation. It’s not just one direction — it’s listening and then responding.”

“Campus Conversation” is a part of the University’s Campaign for Community, a project launched in April 2015 by former Provost Vincent Price that “aims to strengthen our Penn community by finding ways to discuss and understand key issues that may appear to be difficult or intractable.”

other commitments and departments,” Park said. “That’s another problem with this program structure.” Park noted that due to taking over two major administrative roles, she will not be teaching any courses next year.

Although Park has consistently taught the introductory Asian American literature course for several years, she said the program leaders are unsure if they will be able to offer the course

next semester because of her administrative duties and the lack of ASAM faculty members.

She added that since the literature course is one of the core classes required to complete the minor, the potential cancellation of the course may result in ASAM leaders reshaping the minor’s requirements.

“I think we need to rethink the structure of our program,” Park said. “With Grace [Kao] gone

and the difficulty and unlikelihood of replacing her position, we’re going to have to rethink what’s required of our minor. We can’t staff that core course the way we would like.”

Students minoring in ASAM are required to take two out of three core courses—Asian Americans in Contemporary Society, Introduction to Asian American History, or Introduction to Asian American Litera-

ture.

Chung, who is currently taking an ASAM course taught by Park, said he views the potential restructuring as detrimental to students.

“It’s another greater loss for our program,” Chung said. “With Dr. Park not teaching ASAM lit, it just means fewer courses and fewer survey courses that can introduce students to Asian American studies.”

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The conversation itself covered a wide variety of issues centering on mental wellness, including the lack of mental health resources for graduate students of color and the failure to execute policy changes.

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OPINION Penn Students for Justice in Palestine touts myth of apartheid during Passover

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t does not go unnoticed that Penn Students for Justice in Palestine’s event titled “Israeli Apartheid Week” was planned over the holiday of Passover, when many Jewish students are off

cal discourse on Israeli policy should take place, but not in the form of lies and half-truths.

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campus or unable to mobilize an effective response due to religious obligations. However, this is not exclusive to Penn SJP. Last year, before the first day of Passover, members of Tufts University’s SJP brought forth a resolution to the school senate, calling for an academic and economic boycott of Israeli products and institutions. This excluded pro-Israel voices who could not attend the session in order to get home in time for their Passover seders.

While members of SJP claim this week is about calling attention to human rights violations against Palestinians and Israel’s “apartheid” government, it is merely a way to deceive socially just-minded students into falsely demonizing Israel.

Evidently, this is part of SJP’s broader agenda to delegitimize the only Jewish state’s right to exist and promote anti-Zionism on college campuses. Criti-

President Emmanuel Macron firmly stated, “We will yield nothing to anti-Zionism, because it is the reinvented form of anti-Semitism.”

In reality, Israel is far from an apartheid state.

It is the only country in the Middle East where peoples of all religions, sexualities, and races can live freely without fear of persecution.

While Christian populations are being decimated in Iraq and Syria, the Israeli-Christian population and practice is flourishing, thanks to the Israeli government’s protection. Similarly, the government protects all Muslim holy sites in coordination with the Palestinian Authority and the Jordanian Waqf.

In fact, it is in Muslimcontrolled holy sites

where signs of segregation are most apparent, as only Muslims are permitted to enter, on the condition of a correct recitation of the first chapter of the Quran.

Furthermore, SJP’s failure to discuss the apartheid-like measures against Palestinians in various Middle Eastern countries undermines its mission as a champion of human rights.

Rather, this proves its onesided, deceitful agenda. For example, in Jordan, some Palestinians are trapped in holding facilities known as Cyber Cities and many are restricted from working for the Jordanian government. Similarly, in Lebanon, Palestinians face significant legal discrimination. According to Lebanese law, Palestinians are prevented from pursuing 73 jobs including doctors, lawyers, and engineers. Additionally, they cannot own property and are banned from enjoying the benefits of the national health care system. Palestinians also face similar legal challenges in Egypt, Iraq, and Syria.

In Israel, it is illegal to discriminate on the basis of religion or ethnicity. In Israel’s Declaration of Statehood, it clearly states, “Israel … will be based on freedom, justice and peace … ensure complete equality of social and political rights

… irrespective of religion, race or sex.” Israeli Arabs serve as commanders in the Israeli Defense Forces, chief surgeons at Israeli Hospitals, members

more. Despite obstacles, Palestinians achieve professions as doctors, lawyers, athletes, professors, advocates, and more.

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This event does not promote the mutual respect needed to have a productive conversation on achieving peace in the region.” of the Knesset (Israeli government), and on the Supreme Court. They have voted in every election since Israel’s independence in 1948. Does this really sound like an apartheid state?

Calling Israel an apartheid is not only senseless, it also devalues the experiences of millions around the world who have suffered in apartheid states.

Similarly, Palestinians living in the West Bank have substantial roles in society. It is actually Palestinian Authority civil law (which applies to Palestinians living in areas A and B) that further segregates Palestinians from Israelis by prohibiting them from working for Jews, selling property to Jews, and

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Bank report, Palestinians boast a literacy rate of 91 percent, one of the highest in the world.

If you were to stroll down Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv or Mamilla Mall in Jerusalem, you would not find any signs on park benches or store windows saying “Jews only,” similar to discriminatory ones found in the segregated American South or the South African apartheid regime. Rather, you would encounter an exuberant, multicultural society where Arabs and Jews are shopping in the same stores, eating at the same cafes, and playing in the same parks. This is the true Zionist vision: a Jewish state where peoples of different religions and races live in harmony.

I encourage everyone to broaden their minds by asking an Israel supporter why Israel is so meaningful to them. As a proIsrael student advocate, I would like to see a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I believe this begins with mutual respect and a shared desire for peace. Unfortunately, this event does not promote the mutual respect needed to have a productive conversation on achieving peace in the region.

ARIEL A S TEIN is a C ollege sophomore studying political science and histor y. She is a fellow for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. Her email address is arielas@sas.upenn.edu.

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Greeks have a right to their own narrative DREIM JOURNAL | The observed group needs to be heard

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reek life isn’t really alien to any of us, but in all my years of college and all I’ve heard on the subject, I’ve rarely — if ever — heard a simple public affirmation of Greek life from a present member of Greek life.

When I came to Penn, I immediately felt how active and focused the culture was; everyone was doing something and doing it 100 percent. Greek life offered a nice chance to escape this; to make free time

a side-effect of our role in some serious group. The relationship among fraternity brothers isn’t predicated on resume-building or doing homework together.

The underlying idea is that having a consistent, low-pressure group of friends who don’t need to make fake lunch plans on Locust every other week to have a vested interest in each other’s lives is a good thing. I agree.

The sheer number of articles I’ve read against aspects of Greek life is surprising in

a running joke that there is always an anti-frat columnist at the DP, but I’ve never heard anyone jokingly labeled a proGreek columnist. The fact that such a significant viewpoint is often absent from the conversation should merit consideration.

In any other context, the idea of some outside group telling another what they experience, what the emotional impact of their lifestyle is, why they do what they do, and how to improve their subjective experi-

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more enjoyable rather than to add more structure. If I join 87 clubs, I’ll definitely make a lot of friends, but that’s ultimately

itself, but even more surprising is how few of those writers actually experienced what they claimed to understand. There’s

ence (or that improvement is impossible), would be treated as dubious at the absolute best.

We likely wouldn’t find it ac-

ceptable – or at the very least find it objectionable – for a random man to comment on the sexism faced by women in a particular workplace, for a visitor to a foreign country to explain cultural influences to natives, or for an aged Senator to claim to fully understand “what it’s like to be a kid these days.”

The feeling of being limited

to news outlets on behalf of the chapter even for subjects as benign as fundraising events.

Looking at the public perception of Greek organizations, it’s not surprising that it’s so hard to get comments from Greeks, who are commenting on their own experience, rather than non-Greeks, who are commenting on their outside perception

The sheer number of articles I’ve read against aspects of Greek life is surprising in itself, but even more surprising is how few of those writers actually experienced what they claimed to understand.” to merely an observed group is not an alien one to members of Greek life. Any time a Greek student — particularly a fraternity member — ventures into the public eye, they must prepare for every facet of their mindset to be questioned.

“Philanthropy is just a cover for illegal activities — they don’t actually care;” “they’re only saying they don’t hate pledging because they can’t understand how bad it was due to social pressure;” etc. etc. This reservation actually leads many Greek organizations to stick to policies against any public social media posting or speaking

alone, in related articles. We should be wary of an environment that fosters that sort of reservation.

The responsibility to speak out will always fall on the speaker, but if we want more successful connection between Greek life members and outside observers, there ought to be clear trust in those speakers. Maybe, just maybe, these students aren’t ignorant of their own lives and are content with much of their experience.

We often see responses to Greek life incidents implemented as blanket approaches by outside groups looking not

DYLAN REIM to adapt and develop the system in relevant and compelling ways, but rather the familiar crusade of “less Greek life means we’re improving.”

That isn’t to say Greek life has no problems. I’m not about to defend any incidents leading up to deaths of pledges or other serious harm. What I am going to do is encourage onlookers not to treat students in Greek life as some brainwashed community that is unable to spearhead its own improvement.

Shutting down a chapter doesn’t actually fix anything.

Making sure the frats are far enough off campus that you can pretend they don’t exist doesn’t make it so. Assuming every member is equally at fault for every issue you might have with Greek life isn’t really a compelling reason to treat them as unreliable narrators in their own stories.

DYLAN REIM is a College senior from Princeton, N.J. studying philosophy and political science.

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Reconciling free speech with uncomfortable opinions

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hen my family tells people we’ll be travelling to Tehran in the near future to visit family, many often express concern for our safety. “But … isn’t there no free speech in Iran?” they may ask. My dad has developed the perfect response. With a frown and a shake of his head,

TABA’S TAKE | Putting aside personal feelings is difficult, but necessary ter speech.”

A tried and true crowdpleaser — and tame political critique — all rolled into one.

I’ve lived in the suburbs of Boston my whole life, yet nearannual visits to Iran have kept alive my connection with my family and cultural heritage.

And as much as Iran’s culture or people — let alone the

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he’ll emphatically insist, “No, no there is freedom of speech in Iran! But — ” and here, a pause, and a smile begins to form before he goes on, slowly, “there’s not always freedom af-

mouthwatering foods, stunning art and literature, and regal rugs and palace — are points of pride I wish all westerners were familiar with, there’s a lot I find wrong with modern-day

Iran.

There’s a reason many Iranian-Americans self-identify as Persian: “Persian” is to “rug,” “cat,” or “prince,” what “Iran” is to “nuclear threat.”

Liberties like free speech are among the many reasons why my parents ultimately left Iran to build a family in the States.

Perhaps that’s part of why I value it so highly. But of course, it’s easy to stand for a principle like the right to free speech when the speech in question poses no threat to oneself.

Back at my high school, I signed off on inviting a speaker who was highly critical of Iran.

The speaker was knowledgeable, eloquent, and taught me a lot about Middle Eastern affairs viewed from a different vantage point than my own.

Yet, sitting through the speech was undeniably difficult. I felt compelled to dismiss much of the speech as false, based on my desire that it would prove to be so. Part of me hoped people wouldn’t hear it and have it reinforce an already negative image of the country my extended family

calls home. Talking with my parents and digging into the internet revealed, however, that I had encountered far fewer lies than I had hoped.

In my last column, I defended Penn Law professor Amy Wax’s freedom to speak without facing professional repercussions, even when her speech included controversial observations regarding the relative

aspects of your identity criticized is another.

As conservative icon Ben Shapiro is fond of stating in his characteristically nasal, obnoxiously snarky yet undeniably witty tone, “These are facts, and facts don’t care about your feelings.” For all our political differences, on this, I agree with Shapiro — although to do so is to concede a great deal of

It’s easy to stand for a principle like the right to free speech when the speech in question poses no threat to oneself.” performance of her black law students.

If the success of my own racial group were being called into question, I imagine it would be far more difficult for me to author that same piece.

Abstract ideology is one thing, but the feeling of having innate

the comfort that comes with denying facts that are personally upsetting.

Only by confronting what the facts were — or weren’t — was I able to then dig more into why they were that way.

I came out on the other side a little less naive and a lot more

MATEEN TABATABAEI knowledgeable about both sides of the discussion. This allowed me to challenge some of the arguments I’d heard using reasons and evidence of my own. I realized my pride in my family’s cultural roots and willingness to share details about my summer visits did not burden me with the role of spokesperson or defendant of an entire nation. And, perhaps most importantly, I learned that standing up for the speech you don’t like is crucial — even if you’re forced to grit your teeth through it.

M AT E E N TA B ATA B A E I i s a College freshman from Newton, Mas s. His email addres s is mateen@sas.upenn.edu.

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me to keep in mind if I even wanted to do the process,” Itaman said.

“Because like what’s the point of going through the whole process and not being able to, like, support it.”

According to College junior Julia Keyes, who is the vice president of communications and finance for Panhel, the council distributed $17,200 among 80 of the 100 scholarship applications they received this year. These scholarships constitute nearly half of Panhel’s budget for each school year.

This number has increased since last year, when Panhel awarded scholarships to 40 out of 60 total applicants. While Panhel dues range from $500-900, its scholarships range from $200-400, and no scholarship covers the full amount for dues.

“I would love to work with IGC and IFC and help them kind of put this scholarship — kind of similar scholarship system into place,” Keyes said. “I know it’s difficult.

IFC has rules and IGC has incredibly low funding.”

The IFC has no centralized scholarship program for members of its constituent organizations.

The only scholarship option available is through the national organizations associated with each chapter.

Wharton junior Matthew Moore, the judicial inquiry board manager of IFC, said, however, that it is a common practice for fraternities under the IFC to reduce dues for members on a case-bycase basis. Moore, a low-income student in Sigma Phi Epsilon, added that he himself pays reduced dues.

He noted that even members of fraternities with stereotypes for be-

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2018 ing “super rich” like Castle, “have guys that are paying like nothing for dues.”

Moore also indicated that he believed it would be difficult for the IFC to develop a centralized scholarship program like Panhel’s because of the national guidelines placed on individual fraternities.

“I think I just wish that people knew more about how chapters dealt with this kind of stuff. I think that — I’m sure that there are a lot of kids who maybe would want to join a fraternity or a sorority who don’t because they think it’s going to be a financial issue,” Moore said. “And that sucks because I’ve loved being in SigEp. Like, I’ve loved every minute of it and, like, I’ve been able to do this as a lowincome student.”

College junior Shaisa Pittman, a member of Zeta Phi Beta, noted the differences between IGC chapters and Panhel and IFC chapters.

“I do know that [Panhel and IFC] get a lot more financial support from outside maybe because of, like, alum. And doing things to raise money on campus is a lot easier for them,” Pittman said.

Ida Thomas, the president of Zeta Phi Beta, said that while her IGC sorority does not have ways to reduce dues for members, it works to be flexible in adjusting payment plans for individuals.

She also mentioned, however, that she does thinks IGC dues are typically less than those of Panhel and IFC, even though the organizations do not earn as much money.

“I definitely think fundraising is a little more complicated when you’re an IGC [organization]. The main reason is because we’re very small, so how much reach can you get when there are only a few of you running around making sure that people know about your fundraiser,” she added.

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Nonetheless, Thomas said she never wants students to be barred from organizations due to financial constraints.

“I always never want dues to be a reason that we can’t bring a

woman into the organization and I think that’s been something that would bother any of my sisters,” Thomas said. “If we see someone can’t pay for their dues, we’ll pay for them.”

mead said SPEC made an effort to represent diverse types of performers in the selection, including DJs, a capella groups, bands, and solo acts. DaSilva acknowledged, however, that they tried to pick groups that matched “more of a festival feel” that could fit into the “vibe” of Fling the directors are aspiring for.

The Penn Glee Club Band, which had performed at Fling for several years in a row, at first decided not to apply to perform at Fling this year.

Penn Glee Club Director and Engineering junior Will Drobnick said some members of the group were disinterested in performing after hearing Fling would only take place at Penn Park. In previous years, Drobnick said it was easy to transport equipment to the Quad from Platt Performing Arts House, a common practice and storage space for student performing arts groups.

Once the Penn Glee Club Band decided to apply despite the logistical challenges, the application deadline had passed.

“All in all, we’re not the most disappointed about missing the deadline. [Penn Park] is so far away and from what I hear, the time slots are really rough this year to get,” Drobnick said. He added, however, that the Glee Club Band plans on applying to perform at Fling next year.

SPEC members hope that the Fling changes will also have some perks for student performers. “It’s a little more centralized now,” Mountanos said. “I feel

since it’s only one day, people will be more willing to come.”

In addition, each performance may get more attention with the one-stage setup. Since more than one show occurred simultaneously in the Quad, “some groups don’t get that much of an audience,” Calvo said.

Drobnick expressed concern for lesser-known performers who may not have a chance to play at Fling, “especially for those students who really used Fling to get their stuff out there.”

“They probably aren’t given any time this year,” Drobnick said. “I think it’s a shame, not only as a musician but also as a student.”

Fling directors are hoping to create some sort of rotation system for the future so different student groups will have the opportunity to perform at Fling throughout the years.

SPEC Fling worked with PennLabs and released the official Spring Fling timeline on PennLabs’ app, PennMobile, along with a promotional video of Fling’s student performers this week.

The directors emphasized their apologies for the increase in selectivity this year. “This wasn’t meant to be a way to cut student groups we thought were bad performers or anything like that,” DaSilva said. “It literally was just a slot and time sort of decision.”

“It shouldn’t be a high-stress thing,” Mountanos added.

“We’re just here to relax and have fun and really just appreciate the students here and all the work that they do.”

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percent of female Penn graduate bearing messages like “Grad stustudents were victims of sexual dents say #MeToo” were tacked to harassment. the outside and inside of the buildPak said that graduate students In March, Penn introduced a ing. Participating students handed have been “frustrated” with the new policy banning all sexual re- out stickers and printed copies administration and want to bring lations between faculty members of their recommendations to the more attention to GET-UP’s rec- and undergraduate students — a administration on improving the ommendations for improving shift from the University’s pre- existing sexual harassment policy. sexual harassment policies, which vious policy, which stated that GET-UP’s recommendations have been emailed to various ad- sexual relations between teachers include establishing an indepenministrators, including Provost and students were only prohibited dent third-party body to investiWendell Pritchett. “during the period of the teacher- gate sexual harassment claims, First-year GSE student Amy student relationship.” rather than the current system of Schindelman said she joined the After months of campaigning deans or department chairs. The group after learning about its cam- in anticipation for potential union- group also wants the creation of paign for improved sexual harass- ization, GET-UP decided to with- “an easily accessible flowchart of ment reporting policies in GSE. draw its petition to vote to become reporting possibilities across the Schindelman said that interactions a legally recognized union in Feb- University.” with the Penn administration have ruary. Group members say the dePak said that the University has been “pretty hollow” and that the cision was a strategic one. not even acknowledged the stuadministration seems “resistant to GET-UP feared that the Penn dent activism around improving talking” about sexual harassment administration would appeal the sexual harassment policies. policies. election result, which would have “It’s not like Wendell Pritch“It doesn’t feel like students sent the case to the National Labor ett woke up one day and was like have been listened to by the ad- Relations Board. Trump’s newly ‘Hey, this is something we should ministration,” Schindelman said. appointed anti-union members of change,’” Pak said. “I think we “Instead it seems like kind of all the NLRB would then have the op- brought attention to these issues policies thatFlexible exist rightLeasing now are • portunity to repeal “Columbia and we Single and the Double Rooms • want recognition for what here to protect the school and not precedent,” a 2016 ruling allow- we’ve been doing to make the UniIndividual Leases • All and Utilities versity Included the students.” ing Amenities graduate students to unionize. better.”

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When asked to comment on student concern that the administration’s actions regarding sexual assault reporting processes have been inadequate, Pritchett wrote in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian, “President Gutmann and I take issues of sexual violence, sexual harassment, and all other forms of sexual misconduct extremely seriously. Every member of the Penn community must feel safe and supported on our campus.”

“Last month, to further advance this work, a group of university leaders emailed every member of the Penn community to learn more about experiences and recommendations regarding our procedures for sexual harassment,” Pritchett continued.

“We have received many valuable responses, including from members of the GSE and graduate student communities,” adding that they will review all the responses once the deadline to submit closes

April 6, and report to the community at the start of next semester of the “concrete next steps.”

Other recent efforts by GETUP include speaking at a Feb. 21 University Council Open Forum, where many students — including students from GSE, GET-UP, as well as undergraduates — criticized Penn’s existing reporting procedures.

The student feedback at the open forum indicated a lack of administrative action in response to the GSE petition. One day prior to the forum, Provost Wendell Pritchett had said in an interview with the DP that he thought the existing procedures were “pretty good,” and that the administration had not heard any deeply critical feedback regarding them.

On March 13, three weeks after the forum, members of the Penn administration – including Pritchett – sent a University-wide email calling for suggestions on improving Penn’s procedures around sexual harassment. “[The email] was a joke,” GET-UP member and English

Ph.D. candidate Aaron BartelsSwindells said. “Especially given how long it’s been an issue, how recently we raised it at University Council, and how studiously [the administration is] still avoiding meaningful public conversation.”

Another Open Forum was held on March 29, the day before the GSE work-in held this past Friday.

Schindelman was not able to attend the forum — she had class, as did many other GSE students — but she said that GET-UP members who attended left with many of their questions unanswered.

“We don’t feel like [the March 29 Open Forum] really addressed any of our questions or concerns or provided students with a transparent plan going forward of how they’re going to take those recommendations into consideration,” Schindelman said. “And so that’s one reason why we feel that this work-in is still extremely important and still relevant. At this moment I don’t trust that the administration is going to answer our questions without additional pressure.”

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The tough slate continues for Penn women’s lacrosse. But luckily for the Quakers, they have one of the biggest breakout stars in all of college lacrosse.

This Saturday, Penn will travel to New England to face Dartmouth in a battle for the top spot in the Ivy League. Presumably, few players will have more of an impact on the game than sophomore Gabby Rosenzweig.

After being snubbed from the preseason All-American list, the Tewaaraton Award watchlist honoree has been stuffing that stat sheet, leading the Quakers (8-2, 2-0 Ivy) with 32 goals, 19 assists, and 51

points over the first 10 games. She has recorded at least five points in six of those games and will look for another big performance as Penn looks to take down a much improved Dartmouth (7-1, 3-0).

“Danielle Spencer has done a really nice job with them. They are very athletic and they fight rally hard,” Penn coach Karin Corbett said of Dartmouth’s coach. “She’s from Northwestern and they play a style of really attacking the cage. She’s really brought that to them.”

When it comes to attacking the cage, few do it better than Dartmouth.

Its offense ranks 11th in the country and first in the Ivy League in goals per game. The Big Green have scored at least 15 goals in each of their last five games with no singledigit goal outputs this season.

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It’s time for the biggest stage for two of Penn’s senior gymnasts.

This weekend, Kyra Levi and Alex Hartke will represent the Red and Blue at the NCAA Regionals hosted by Penn State. This season marks the first since 2013 in which the Quakers have any individual gymnasts competing at the Regionals and the first year since 2012 where Penn will send more than one athlete to

compete.

The pair will be heading to State College, Pa. this weekend, which happens to be where Levi scored her personal best and tied her career-high score this season, earning a 9.900 on the bars on Feb. 17.

At that same meet, Hartke anchored the floor team with an impressive score of 9.750.

If the two can perform as well at Penn State as they did last time, they could see possible NCAA Championship spots in their future.

As seniors, the pair has set a great example for their younger teammates all season. Consistently setting high scores and in some cases, filling in for

injured gymnasts, both Hartke and Levi have helped forge a path that the underclassmen will look to follow for years to come.

“There’s not reason that next year freshmen shouldn’t be doing this, or that the team shouldn’t be going as a whole unit,” Levi said. “I think Penn is really on the up and up, and as a program we’re realizing what we’re capable of, so the lesson to be learned is that it’s totally within our reach, and it’s up to us where we go as a program.”

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Senior Kyra Levi earned a spot as a bars alternate for NCAA Regionals after the ECAC Championship.

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Ahead of this weekend’s series at Harvard, Penn baseball beat Villanova 2-1 after a walkoff single from junior catcher Matt O’Neill in the bottom of the 11th inning. This marks the third consecutive game in which Penn (7-15-1, 2-3-1 Ivy) has played 11 innings of baseball.

Although the Red and Blue won Wednesday’s game off of a clutch base hit, this contest was truly a pitcher’s duel.

Freshman first baseman Brendan Bean made his first career start on the mound, and he did not disappoint. The left-hander from North Wildwood, N. J. pitched three perfect innings in his debut, giving up no runs, no hits, and no walks. He also struck out seven of the nine batters he faced in what was a spectacular performance.

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Junior catcher Matt O’Neill played the hero against Villanova, with a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the 11th inning.

lowed just one run, which was unearned, striking out 18 batters in the process.

“Anytime you get that many guys in a game making all those contributions, you know all those arms, it’s always a good thing,” coach John Yurkow said. “You know, we’re gonna need them down the stretch, and we’re starting to get some guys in these roles where we can match-up a little bit, which you’re gonna need to do when there are nine inning games all the time.”

As solid as the pitching rotation was on Wednesday afternoon, the Quakers couldn’t get

their own bats going for much of the game. Villanova’s starting pitcher, Jonathan Rosero, put in six solid innings of work, allowing just one run, which came in the fourth inning when senior designated hitter Daniel Halevy drove in sophomore second baseman Chris Adams to take a 1-0 lead.

The next Penn run came off of O’Neill’s walk-off in the 11th, which plated freshman left fielder Eduardo Malinowski to win the ballgame.

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Quakers have now won three tie Petroski and an RBI single from junior left fielder Jessica of their last four games

England giving the Quakers the lead for good.

But the Quakers’ biggest test came in the bottom of the sixth.

Holding just a one-run lead, freshman pitcher Ciana Curran ran into trouble in the circle after walking the first two batters. Curran wasn’t fazed, however, and she recorded a big strikeout with runners on second and third and one out before getting a fly out to left to end the inning.

“Ciana did a really good job of staying calm and knowing that she had it, because she’s a good pitcher,” sophomore pitcher Jennifer Brann said.

“So she came out there, struck some girls out, and Jess made a really good catch out in left field, which ended up saving a couple of runs.”

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Talk about a big win at just the right time.

Following its first Ivy series win of the season, Penn softball kept the ball rolling Wednesday afternoon, taking down Villanova 5-3. The win marks the first for the Quakers (8-15, 4-5 Ivy) against the Wildcats (1214-1) in six years.

The Red and Blue showed plenty of resilience, coming from behind two separate times. After giving up two runs in the bottom of the first, senior catcher Jurie Joyner tied it up in the third with a two-run double.

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“I think this is a huge win for us, we haven’t beaten this team in such a long time,” Brann said. “Just coming out of a good weekend last weekend, and coming out, showing them what we can do, and now going into Yale, I think this is a huge momentum shift for us.”

As it stands now, Penn and Yale are tied for fifth, but both are just two games back from first-place Harvard. If one team was to sweep all three games this weekend, they could jump up in the standings and position themselves well to fight for one of the two spots in the championship series.

In the Bulldogs, the Quakers will face a team that is strong in the circle but weak at the plate. Yale averages just 2.65 runs per game, the secondlowest mark in the Ivy League, and nearly two runs off the Quakers’ mark of 4.56 runs per game.

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Behind the stellar work of junior Terra Jerpbak and freshman Miranda Papes, runs are

at a premium against Yale, and the series is setting up to be a clash of styles.

“I think we really just need to stay calm and know that we got it, because we play best

when we’re having fun and stuff like that,” Brann said.

And if the Quakers can do just that, they’ll find themselves right in the thick of contention in the Ivy League.

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Harvard (9-13, 1-2) awaits the Quakers, as the two squads will square off in a three-game set in Cambridge this weekend.

The Crimson won one of three games at Columbia this past weekend after going 8-11 in nonconference play to start the season. Outfielders Ben Skinner and Austin Black have been the most consistent hitters for Harvard so far this season. Skinner, a junior, has a .317 batting average and a .429 on-base percentage. The senior Black is hitting .317 with a .462 slugging percentage and two home runs.

The battle between these two hitters, along with the rest of the Harvard batting order, and Penn’s pitching rotation will be a compelling one. Penn will likely start senior Gabe Kleiman and sophomore Mitchell Holcomb in the first two games, while also relying on a bullpen that was terrific in

Wednesday’s victory. “[The series] is gonna come down to starting pitching,” Yurkow said. “We need to get some quality starts; obviously, we’ll be on the road…[Harvard] is playing okay this year. They’ve got a couple of pretty good arms, and they have some guys that can swing it.”

Both Harvard and Penn sit at the middle to bottom of the Ivy League pack. Thus, even though it is relatively early in the season, this series is an important one in terms of gaining ground on Yale and Columbia, who are at the top of the Ivy standings.

So far this year, the Quakers have been inconsistent. They’ve shown flashes of greatness both at the plate and in the field, and on Wednesday, the pitching staff had perhaps its best performance of season. Now would be a great time for the them to put it all together.

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fore that, the Quakers were just a strike away from ending the game and shutting out the Wildcats in the ninth frame. Villanova (5-15) loaded the bases with a single, an error, a sacrifice bunt, and a walk.

Penn’s left-handed pitcher Jacob Sadowitz had a 2-2 count with two outs against Villanova’s Chris Rotondo, and the Wildcats’ freshman infielder hit an infield single to tie the game.

Just like last weekend, though, the Red and Blue thrived in extra innings and notched the walk-off win, this time on Villanova’s own home field.

While this was a consolation game in the Liberty Bell Classic, it could prove to be a nice confidence builder as Penn heads into the heart of its conference schedule.

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Two Penn track athletes look to run for more than trophies Klopf, Davis seek election for spots in student government YOSEF WEITZMAN Sports Editor

With elections of Penn’s two branches of student government underway, two Penn track athletes are running for office with the hopes of utilizing what they have learned on the track to help them as student representatives.

Robert Klopf When junior Robert Klopf III first started at Penn in the fall of 2015, he didn’t see himself running on the track team. He wasn’t recruited to run at Penn, and there had even been several times in high school where he thought seriously about quitting the sport entirely.

But when Klopf got to campus and realized that his times met Penn’s walk-on standards, it wasn’t hard for him to decide to join the team.

“I decided if I was going to do it, I was going to be the best I could be at it. I started to like it and once I started to like it, I feel like with anything, you start to get pretty good at it,” Klopf said. “I wanted to pursue this and keep seeing how good I could be.”

Now — nearly three years after first walking on to the team — Klopf is running for Penn Undergraduate Assembly President

because he wants to see how good Penn can be too. And he thinks his experience on the track can help him do just that.

“I just think that this position would be a great vehicle or great means to change the culture at Penn and I think that it’s through sports that a culture changes,” Klopf said.

And while Klopf acknowledges that it won’t be easy to balance his commitments to the track team with the time that being UA President demands, he thinks being a student-athlete at Penn has prepared him for that type of challenge.

“Being part of a sports team teaches you how to handle that,” Klopf said. “It almost becomes that you manage your time in a way that you have more time in the day than a typical student does.”

Allysha Davis Despite the demands of being an in-season athlete, it didn’t take long for junior Allysha Davis to look to get involved with Class Board after starting at Penn.

By the spring of her freshman year, Davis had been elected as her class’ Wharton Chair — a position which she is attempting to keep in this week’s election. And while she had been involved in her high school’s student government, she knew that working in Penn’s student government would present a whole new set of challenges.

Beyond finding enough time in

the week to manage her various commitments, Davis sought to use her platform to help Penn’s studentathletes better integrate with the rest of Penn’s student community — something she struggled with herself during her first year.

“It’s so easy to get comfortable in the athlete realm and just have friends in that community and not really branch out, so I wanted to put myself out there to not only to get to know people but also to work on projects that were meaningful,” Davis said. “I feel like being an athlete, it kind of gives you a realm to kind of reach out to people who might not be as interested in these events.”

And after two years of working on Class Board, Davis wants to keep working in her senior year to improve what what she’s already started.

For Davis, that means continuing to work to integrate the different corners of Penn’s student community, but she also sees herself as working against the conception that athletes should just stick to sports.

“Being an athlete, I definitely disagree with that statement that athletes should stay in their realm,” Davis said.

“I feel like athletes do have something to offer in that they know what it’s like to balance work and play, as far as being with their sports and being with what’s more important in their life.”

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M. LAX | Group works behind the scenes to help Penn BREVIN FLEISCHER Associate Sports Editor

Sometimes it’s what happens behind the scenes that makes all of the difference.

Saturday may be the first time that Penn men’s lacrosse officially faces off with Brown this season, but the Quakers (5-5, 1-2 Ivy) are already quite familiar with the tendencies and playbook of their conference rivals.

With whom does the credit for this preparedness lie? Look no further than the Red and Blue’s offensive and defensive scout teams.

While the players that occupy these squads are not the names that often appear in the Saturday box scores, guys like senior midfielder Kyle Scheetz and sophomore defenseman Tom Stevens deserve a lot of credit for the success that their more recognizable teammates have on game days.

When Connor Keating causes a turnover by predicting an opposing midfielder’s split dodge, he can thank Scheetz and company. When Simon Mathias reads a slide and dishes to a teammate for a goal, credit can be traced back to Stevens and his fellow look-team defense-

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Coming into the season, few would have thought this weekend’s matchup would feature the two best teams in the Ivy League. Dartmouth has not finished in the top half of the league since 2013, when it finished third. This season, the Big Green have been on a tear, winning every game since dropping their season opener, which includes an upset of then No. 16 Princeton last weekend.

The key to the Big Green’s offense is sophomore attack Ellie Carson, the reigning Ivy

men. When Reed Junkin anticipates and stops a point-blank bounce shot from the other team’s attackman, he does so because of the work of his teammates, most of whom don’t step foot on the field come game time.

Each week, the scout teamers are faced with the unenviable task of studying and internalizing the sets and actions of the opposing team, in this case Brown (4-4, 1-1). Then, they have to recreate those sets on the practice field in order to give Penn’s first team offense and defense a taste of what’s to come on game day.

Every practice, Scheetz, Stevens, and the rest of the second unit serve as the bad guys, the enemy, the opposition. Their successes in practice are equivalent to the successes of Penn’s opponents, and so Scheetz’s goals aren’t met with cheers and Stevens’s takeaways aren’t met with rousing applause. Yet still, in the name of teamwork, they persist, knowing that although they may not receive the praise or the recognition, their hard work is paying off. “We’re just doing our best to get the team ready for game day,�

Scheetz said. “Everybody has a role, and ours is to work hard in practice.

When the guys on the field do well, it’s a reflection on us and our hard work, which is cool.�

Stevens, speaking for the defense, echoes Scheetz’s sentiments, discussing the impact the scout team

has on the starters. “Those guys are our brothers, so being able to make them better and helping them in anyway is obviously motivating for us. We’re a team, so we’re going to do whatever it takes to help the team win games.�

Penn’s defensive coordinator Casey Ikeda, along with the starters and the rest of the coaching staff, immensely appreciates the scout team’s importance, even if the second unit’s success means more work for him and his defense. “I love it when the scout guys are getting after it and having some energy,� Ikeda said. “Obviously, it’s a bit frustrating when the scout guys are beating up on the defense a bit, but I love it because I know that this will help us prepare for Saturday.

They force the first team to step up and match the energy that they play with everyday.�

To outsiders, it might seem difficult for the scout team players to keep up their energy on a daily basis without reaping the rewards of playing time, especially considering that the team is filled with recruited Division 1 athletes who came to Penn with dreams of making their mark on the field.

However, thanks to the culture instilled by Scheetz and those who manned his post before him, a seamless transition from high school star to college practice player is possible.

“Everyone comes in hoping to play and hoping to get on the field, but whatever happens, happens, and you have to make the most of it,� Scheetz said. “At the end of the day, we’re all just trying to get better and to help each other get victories on the field.�

That willingness to sacrifice has not gone unnoticed by the coaches. “Obviously, initially [being placed on the scout team] probably is not the easiest pill to swallow, but guys like Scheetz and Tyler Earley in the past have done a great job of making it known how important the scout team is to our overall success,

so guys don’t feel sorry for themselves,� Ikeda said. “They know that they have a really important job.�

Beyond replicating the offensive sets and defensive slide packages of Penn’s opponents, the second unit is also tasked with getting the entire team pumped up for game day, a role Stevens, a former walk-on, accepts wholeheartedly. “We always try to bring the energy and the enthusiasm to practice,�

Stevens said. “Especially when Kyle Scheetz makes a crazy play down on the other end, we like to scream a little bit and get into it. Competi-

tion just helps everyone, and that’s something that we carry over onto the sidelines on game day as well.�

Such sideline enthusiasm and mid-week practice precision will be necessary for the Quakers this coming Saturday when they face Brown.

With back-to-back losses in the Ivy League, Penn needs a win to remain relevant in the race to the conference tournament.

A win over the Quakers would not only go a long way in the standings, but it would also validate even further the work of Scheetz, Stevens, and the rest of the scout team.

League Offensive Player of the Week. Still, Corbett is less focused on game planning specially for Carson, electing to focus on Dartmouth’s offense as a whole. “For us it is really about team defense. What has got us here so far is not relying on one or two people or stopping one or two kids,� Corbett said of her defense, which ranks first in the Ivy in caused turnovers per game. “It is about a whole unit working together to stop them as eight.�

Even with Penn’s strong defense, the Quakers should expect a shootout. Assuming

Penn will put up a lot of goals to keep up with Dartmouth, fans should look for a huge game from Rosenzweig.

Penn’s star performer credits much of her success to her experiences from freshman year. “I think this season has been really big for me. I was really lucky last year to test the waters a little bit as a freshmen because not all freshmen get that opportunity,� Rosenzweig said. “I just came in with a lot of more confidence and my teammates were supporting me.� One of those teammates is freshmen Zoe Belodeau,

who was also named to the Tewaaraton award watchlist.

Belodeau’s feeding ability and advanced lacrosse IQ have played a pivotal role in shaping Rosenzweig into one of the most deadly offensive threats in the country. “It was crazy, I wasn’t expecting it all,� Rosenzweig said with a laugh when she heard about the watchlist. “It was such an honor, I’ve looked up to those girls for so long. One of my best friends texted me ‘congrats, remember when we were reading those lists and fangirling over all those girls.

I’m [also] so happy for Zoe.

I’m so lucky to have her as a teammate. I’m really glad I got to share that with her.�

However, this weekend, the potential All-American is focused on getting a win against Dartmouth. “One of us will come out of it not undefeated anymore [in the Ivy League],� Rosenzweig said. “It’s really important and I’m looking forward to it. Having fun and coming out strong are the two most important things for that game.�

Penn has struggled to get off to a good start in each of its last three games, falling behind by at five goals in the first half of

games against Northwestern, Brown, and Maryland. “That is a theme for us and we’ve got to change some of that,� Corbett said. “Dartmouth is known for coming out strong, that is something that they’ve always had. They are at home and that’s not an easy place to play. We have got to come out ready to win and play for 60 minutes.�

Rosenzweig and the offense will look to buck that trend on Saturday in a game that will determine the Ivy league frontrunner. If you like high scoring affairs, this is definitely a game to tune into.

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Against Brown, Penn men’s lacrosse will lean on its preparations with the scout team, which mimics the opponent’s style of play each week, to try to snap its two-game Ivy losing streak.

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Ivy League announces deal with ESPN New streaming app to carry over 1,100 Ivy events MARC MARGOLIS Associate Sports Editor

The Ivy League might not be a power conference, but its new media deal helps it resemble one.

Earlier today, the conference signed a 10-year deal with ESPN for the broadcasting giant to be the exclusive national media rights partner of the conference. The deal will feature over 1,100 games annually across ESPN programming. Additionally, ESPN will broadcast at least 24 events each year on its linear networks, which include ESPN2, ESPNU, and other mainstream outlets.

Aside from the typical ESPN channels viewers get on their television, most of those Ivy

League events will be featured on ESPN+, a new direct-to-consumer subscription service similar to ESPN3.

ESPN+ is a new app the company is launching to feature a wide range of content from the network for a more personalized viewer experience. Ivy League fans will be able to see hundreds of events from other sports besides basketball and football.

Still, basketball and football fans will be able to watch every conference matchup, with six men’s basketball and six football games being broadcast on one of ESPN’s networks. Additionally, ESPN+ only costs $4.99 per month, compared to the Ivy League Network, which costs $10 per month, while also streaming more content.

“This takes us to the new level in providing an opportunity for all of our sports,” Ivy League

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overall team score. If this level of improvement continues, with the additional hard work from the team, Red and Blue fans should be excited for future seasons.

“Things might not come easy freshman and sophomore year, but if you work hard and keep doing what you’re supposed to be doing, you’ll get to where you want to be and accomplish more than you thought you could coming in,” Hartke echoed.

Hartke is a perfect example of someone whose hard work has paid off. In the 2015 season, she competed in just one meet on floor. In the three seasons since, the senior has participated in all the team’s meets on floor, including earning the title of ECAC Specialist of the Year for her performance.

For both, this accomplishment is the summation of not only a successful season with

the team, but a lifelong career of work.

“It’s a really exciting opportunity, just to be able to go out there and do another routine,” Hartke said. “As a senior, you start to realize that your opportunities are starting to get limited, so just having one more chance to do my routine is really exciting.”

Levi agreed with her teammate and in particular praised the team as a whole.

“I’m really proud of the work that Alex and I have put in, but I also think it should be noticed that we absolutely could not have qualified if it weren’t for our lineups,” she said. “So while I’m personally proud of us, I’m really proud of the team and really grateful that they stepped up and allowed us to get to this point.”

So when Hartke takes the floor and Levi takes the bars this weekend, they will have their entire team behind them.

Bring on the competition: This pair is ready.

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