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Prof. departures shake up history dept.

Two professors are leaving Penn after end of semester JILL MOELY Staff Reporter

Penn’s history major was ranked eighth-best in the country by College Factual in 2013, but somewithin the department are notso satisfied.

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The magazine officially retracted Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s article JESSICA MCDOWELL Deputy News Editor

On Monday, Rolling Stone Magazine published an official retraction of a Penn alumna’s viral story “A Rape on Campus” along with a rigorous external review of the story by the Columbia School of Journalism.

Published in November 2014, the story was written by 1994 College graduate and former managing editor of 34th Street Sabrina Rubin Erdely and made national headlines for its detailed account of sexual assault cases at universities. Erdely detailed the chilling story of a University of Virginia student known as “Jackie” who described her brutal gang rape at a party hosted by the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi. But within a matter of days, the factual accuracy of Jackie’s story began to unravel.

On Tuesday, Phi Kappa Psi announced that they will sue both Erdely and Rolling Stone for defamation.

“After 130 days of living under a cloud of suspicion as a result of reckless reporting by Rolling Stone magazine, today the Virginia Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi announced plans to pursue all available legal action against the magazine,” the fraternity said.

According to the CSJ review of the article, Erdely did not follow up with any of Jackie’s friends to verify her account, failed to identify any of the men accused in Jackie’s testimony and relied too heavily on Jackie’s testament alone for the story.

“Ultimately, we were too deferential to our rape victim; we honored too many of her requests in our reporting,” Erdely’s primary editor Sean Woods said in the report. “We should have been much tougher, and in not doing that, we maybe did her a disservice.”

The report went on to say that not only could Jackie’s claims not be verified by anyone, but also that the fraternity Jackie named did not even host a party on the night of her alleged attack. The report blamed Erdely for failing to be more forthcoming with information to the fraternity.

If Erdely “had given the fraternity a chance to review the allegations in detail, the factual discrepancies the fraternity would likely have reported might have led Erdely and her editors to try to verify Jackie’s account more thoroughly,” the review said.

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At the forefront of these concerns is the recent slew of faculty retirements and departures. The department’s professors of American history have been most affected by this drop in numbers — a total of nine have retired or died in the past seven years. Meanwhile, top scholars of American history like Thomas Sugrue and Stephanie McCurry are

planning to move to other universities soon.

Past and present professors say these losses are particularly problematic since American historians at Penn have strong reputations in the department.

In response to these losses, the department has rehired not only American historians but some in

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other subject areas like global history. The motivation behind this focus on scholarly diversity is lauded by some professors who point out that Penn’s history department is lacking in several important areas. For example, Penn’s History Department does not currently have a scholar of Indian SEE HISTORY PAGE A5

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Although a string of Greek life scandals have proliferated in the national media, Penn continues to give fraternities and sororities a positive spin to prospective students.

In recent months, fraternities and sororities across the country have received a lot of negative attention due to scandals involving racism, hazing and sexual assault. Penn experienced its own scandal in December when Phi Delta Theta fraternity brothers posed for a holiday photo with a Beyonce sex doll and were placed on probation.

But the scandals and the party culture associated with Greek life are not discussed on student tours. Instead, Kite and Key Society tour guides present fraternities and sororities as just another way to get involved on campus.

“Everything on the tour is trying to give a positive impression,” College and Wharton junior and Kite and Key President Brad Hebert said. “We don’t voluntarily bring up scandals in tours.”

Some Penn students have begun to look negatively on the University’s greek life system. On Tuesday, Penn’s chapter of Alpha Chi Omega voted to move off campus after

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University adds new pre-NSO requirements The new assignments are part of Thrive at Penn program JENNIFER WRIGHT Deputy News Editor

Class of 2019, get ready for even more pre-New Student Orientation information alongside the classic face of Marcus Mundy in the Penn Alcohol Module.

The incoming class will be expected to complete four online pre-orientation programs as part of a new project called Thrive at Penn. The topics will cover how to thrive at a research university, how to maintain wellness and health, the risks associated with alcohol and other drugs and healthy relationships and sexual violence prevention.

The well-known PennAM course about alcohol safety will be incorporated into this new program.

Director of New Student Orientation and Academic Initiatives David Fox said that providing more content pre-NSO will give students the chance to understand the information “at their own pace, at a quieter time before they are thrown in.” The courses will include video, interactive question and answer sections,

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text and other links.

Beginning at the end of NSO last year, many groups have collaborated on the development of the content. For example, Director of Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Jessica Mertz is working on the module that will focus on the policies, procedures and resources on campus intending to complement the event “Speak About It”, a new addition to NSO in 2014.

Student Financial Services, the undergraduate deans and the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Life, among other offices, all had a hand in the project, which includes modules like the “Penn Ten” — or the ten things you ought to remember to do before you get here.

Other aspects of the program will have FAQs. The questions most often asked to the University Honor Council about what constitutes plagiarism and academic integrity will be incorporated into a feature of the site.

“All of these pieces will make for a smoother, more familiar entry into Penn,” Fox said, but added that the program is not meant to substitute for any of the major NSO informational events.

For example, “We’re not going

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The incoming class of 2019 will be expected to complete four online preorientation modules as part of New Student Orientation programming.

to move the safety session online,” he said, saying that it’s helpful for freshmen to feel the “energy of the room” and even to see Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush in person.

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will host the program and will allow students to return to it to access the information provided at any time.

“You’ll be able to go back and use this as kind of an index,” Fox said.

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Penn launches ‘Campaign for Community’ ISABEL KIM Staff Reporter

The beginning of the “Campaign for Community” was announced on April 1, creating a forum for discussion in the Penn community.

The Campaign is a Penn initiative that aims to create conversation and dialogue between different groups on campus, and to foster a more close-knit community at Penn. It is an attempt to “to provide a forum for constructive conversations about the most difficult issues facing our students, campus community and larger society,” according to Provost Vincent Price.

The bulk of the Campaign is aimed to be at least semicrowdsourced, and as the announcement states, “Faculty, undergraduates, graduate

students and staff will all have roles to play in these discussions.” In the fall, a steering committee will plan events and give out grants to individuals and organizations that wish to hold events themselves. The Campaign is intended to give resources and foster dialogue in communities where it already exists, as well as to create dialogue in places it doesn’t.

Programming for the Campaign has already begun, and the first event will feature “six Deans in an open discussion of the challenges, opportunities and importance of having difficult conversations in an academic environment,” according to Price. He added that the Campaign as a whole “will take shape as an ongoing series of conversations, in both smaller and larger contexts, designed to help us talk about our differences and our shared goals and values.”

The creation of the Campaign was inspired by both national

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The “Race Relations and Law Enforcement” event held at Penn last semester generated discussion between two often disparate groups and was a key inciter of the Campaign for Community.

trends and events on campus.

“Over the past semester and a half, watching what’s happening across the country and on campus, we were seeing indications of divided communities and people unable to talk to each other about things,” said Vice Provost for Education and Biology professor Andrew Binns.

“We believe strongly that a university bears a unique responsibility to provide a forum for constructive conversations about the most difficult issues facing our students, campus community and larger society. It seemed to be an important and opportune moment to place a spotlight on this commitment,”

Provost Price said in an email.

On campus, events such as the “Race Relations and Law Enforcement” talk held last semester by the Division of Public Safety, The Office of the Chaplain and the Black Graduate and Professional Student Assembly inspired the creation of the Campaign. The event, which featured Penn Police Officers and various other community figures in a panel where open dialogue was held between the panelists and attendees, sparked the idea of creating a more official umbrella under which more of these types of events could be held.

“Most folks have been very positive. A lot of folks recognize it’s something that’s going on,” Binns said. “We’re a university, we’re a place where these conversations happen all the time.”

“The campaign is going to entail what the community feels it should,” Binns said “The key piece is that we don’t want to be [calling the] shots.”

Former Democrat runs as Republican in mayoral race JONATHAN BAER Staff Reporter

There has not been a Republican mayor of Philadelphia since 1948, but the only Republican candidate running for mayor wants Philadelphians to have alternatives.

Melissa Murray Bailey, a former business executive at international employer-branding company Universum has no past political experience but gathered the necessary 1,000 signatures from registered Republicans to be on the May 19 primary ballot. Bailey is the only Republican currently running, while six Democratic candidates are in the race.

In a city where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 7-1, Bailey’s candidacy remains

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a long shot. However, Bailey, a former Democrat up to just over two months ago, wants to make sure that Philadelphians have a choice come the November general election.

“Its no secret that I was a Democrat for most of my life,” Bailey said. “But as I’ve been in Philadelphia and have looked at what it means to be a Democrat in Philadelphia, that is not what is representative of who I am.”

Bailey lacks experience in politics and government, while all of the Democratic candidates have made careers in both fields. The three leading Democratic candidates — former District Attorney Lynne Abraham, former City Councilman James Kenney and State Senator Anthony Williams — all have over 10 years of experience as elected representatives in Philadelphia or Pennsylvania government.

“I really wanted to be able to give the people of Philadelphia an alternative view, and make sure

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that we are able to give people an opportunity to vote for someone who is representative of the future of the city, as opposed to what the city has been doing,” Bailey said, citing that at 34, she is the youngest candidate in the race. “Given the challenges we’ve had with the budget, pensions and schools, I thought people might want to hear a different point of view.”

Even though Bailey is a heavy underdog, local Republicans remain optimistic. “Looking at the Democratic field, I have no problem saying that she would make a better mayor than any of the people on the other side,” Penn alumnus and Republican candidate for City Council AtLarge Matt Wolfe said of Bailey.

“I understand that the perception is that she doesn’t have a serious chance to win, and unfortunately that is accurate as we stand right now. There is a lot of real estate between now and November ... and the goal would be to try to put her within striking distance

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Bailey’s platform has been centered on changing that. While she acknowledges that her campaign will be an uphill battle, she also views her candidacy as one of the first steps in a longer process of giving Philadelphians more options along the political spectrum.

“The Republican Party in Philadelphia has people who have been die-hard Republicans all their life, but it is also a lot of people who are sick and tired of being Democrats,” Bailey said.

“People who are saying that they have had enough 17 to 0 City Council votes.”

Six accidents have occurred on the busy intersection of 38th Street and Spruce Street since the beginning of 2015. The year before, the accidentprone intersection was home to 19 crashes.

These numbers actually indicate a decrease in incidents, especially more serious crashes, according to the Division of Public Safety. DPS worked with Facilities and Residential Services, local engineers and the Philadelphia Department of Transportation to boost safety measures this past summer, since the intersection is considered a highway that runs through Penn’s campus.

The measures include installing a left hand turn signal going southbound on 38th Street and bump-outs that shorten the distance for pedestrians to cross the intersection. They also added tall cones to the intersection in front of Wawa, which serve to keep illegally parked cars out of the bike lane on Spruce Street. Penn Police also help to enforce traffic throughout all of their patrol area.

Most of the intersection’s accidents were vehicle-to-vehicle crashes, but also included a few crashes between pedestrians and vehicles or bikes.

“That’s a very busy intersection, you have bikes, pedestrians and vehicles,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

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For a Republican mayoral candidate to win in Philadelphia, it would require winning over lots of Democrats. In the 2014 primary, there were 806,181 registered Democratic voters, whereas there were 119,663 registered Republican voters according to the Committee of Seventy, a nonpartisan election research group based in Philadelphia.

“The first step for me is to gain the support of the Republican base, but also have people who are Democrats and Independents listen to the things I am saying and at least take it into consideration,” Bailey said. “I’m not trying to say that all Democrats need to become Republicans, but I would really want the opportunity to share with them my thoughts.”

For some Philadelphia Republicans, local politics is so dominated by Democrats that it is hard to be engaged.

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Mayoral candidate faints at debate Democratic candidates answer difficult questions

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On Tuesday night, the five Democratic candidates for mayor squared off at the Kimmel Center on NBC10 for the first televised debate of the race.

That is, until, former District Attorney Lynne Abraham collapsed on stage. While fellow candidate and State Sen. Anthony H. Williams, was answering a question about education funding, Abraham fainted.

She was rushed offstage and brought to a doctor. Moderator Jim Rosenfield later confirmed that Abraham was “doing well” and “resting.”

She did not return for the rest of the debate.

Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Claudia Vargas tweeted after the debate that fellow candidate Nelson Diaz spoke with Abraham before she fainted. Abraham allegedly told Diaz that “she hadn’t eaten all day” and was prevented by the doctor from returning to the debate because her “blood pressure was low,” the tweet said.

The remaining four candidates continued discussing topics ranging from personal controversies to the question of education funding sources.

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the University demanded they abide by strict sanctions in order to stay on campus. They were found in violation of Penn’s policy on alcohol and drug use in March.

If students ask about controversial topics like underage drinking on campus tours, the guides are supposed to deflect the questions, Herbert said.

“We try to stray away from talking about what social life really is like on campus.”

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda confirmed that Greek life is portrayed just as any other group on campus would be when students are considering Penn. “There are so many options and avenues that students have,” he said. “With the range of options and opportunities that students have here, they can opt into certain things and out of certain things.”

Some Kite and Key tour guides who are members of fraternities or sororities add their own personal anecdotes to tours, but still aim to keep the experiences positive. “They’re saying the basics, but also kind of infusing their own experiences and personalities,” Hebert said.

Applicant to the Class of 2019 Doug Leonard said that he considered Greek life as a factor when he was visiting colleges.

“My impression about Penn’s Greek life was that it was a presence in the school’s social life, but not something that was totally overbearing,” he said.

Leonard also said that he thinks recent fraternity scandals are a result of group behavior among college students and not necessarily of the Greek system as a whole.

“I don’t think that Greek organizations are inherently going to cause problems,” he said. “I

candidates were asked a series of questions with “yes” or “no” answers. The only question that received a uniform “yes” response without qualification or exception was when Rosenfield asked if Philadelphia had a “race-relations problem.”

Rosenfield did not shy away from other hard-hitting subjects, including an awkward question about whether voters could trust former State Sen. Milton Street after his time in federal prison. Street, who was sentenced to 30 months in lockup after failing to pay taxes on close to $3 million in earnings, answered in his typical, irascible style.

“I have a plan that can save your child,” he said. “These other candidates didn’t go to federal prison but they don’t have a plan to save your child.”

Other questions concerned former City Councilman Jim Kenney’s often colorful Twitter persona. Kenney had famously tweeted a profanity-laden diatribe about New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s support of the Dallas Cowboys football team.

“Twitter is Twitter. It’s 140 characters of nonsense,” he said.

A tense moment occurred early in the debate when Rosenfield grilled Williams about the supposed “dark money” funding his advertising campaign. On Williams’ behalf, the independent group American Cities purchased $600,000 in TV ads, with

more money expected to come in the future. Independent groups can now donate unlimited funds for issue-oriented ads per the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC. “My money isn’t dark anymore. It’s written about every day,” Williams said. Independent advertising assists other candidates as well. Williams pointed out that Kenney’s ads are paid for by “dark money.”

Kenney, for his part, pleaded ignorance. “I don’t know who is funding my commercials,” he said.

Other contentious moments centered on the mayor’s role in securing funding for Philadelphia. Some candidates were more optimistic than others.

“Gov. [Tom] Corbett cut everything for Philadelphia from your nose to your toes,” Street said.

Before Abraham fainted, all five candidates on stage rejected Mayor Nutter’s proposed 9.34 percent increase in property taxes. Alternative solutions were a mixed bag of funding options, both recurring and one-time sources.

Doug Oliver, for example, urged nonprofits in the city to pay PILOTs, or payments in lieu of taxes — a policy that could affect Penn. Street, on the other hand, suggested an “independent funding source” for public schools be established by the state, despite his lack of faith in Harrisburg’s willingness to give more funds.

think that groups of college students can do foolish things any time they get together.”

Class of 2019 applicant Lauren Pyfer, who plans on joining a sorority in college, said that Penn’s Greek life contributed to her decision to apply.

“The Greek life [at Penn] helped a little because I’ve heard from different people

who have been involved in Greek life who really felt that it added to their experiences,” she said.

Pyfer agreed with Leonard that recent Greek life scandals — at other universities and at Penn — did not negatively affect her decision. “It was never a concern [for me] at Penn,” she said.

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Once it became clear that the article could not be verified, Erdely issued her own apology.

“The past few months … have been among the most painful of my life. Reading the Columbia account of the mistakes and misjudgments in my reporting was a brutal and humbling experience,” she said in a statement. “I want to offer my deepest apologies: to Rolling Stone’s readers, to my Rolling Stone editors and colleagues, to the U.V.A. community, and to any victims of sexual assault who may feel fearful as a result of my article.”

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TALL, SKINNY, MOCHA | Did Ellen Pao’s race matter?

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ost of the articles I read about Ellen Pao’s case — both leading up to the trial and after it — did not have any mention of her racial identity, and the rest tiptoed around the subject. I think the fact that she is Asian-American is inseparable from her gender when considering the discrimination she alleged to have faced at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Galinsky, Hall and Cuddy of Columbia Business School found in 2013 that “there is an important overlap between racial and gender stereotypes.”

Existing research had concluded that there is a high degree of overlap between the stereotypes attributed to blacks and males, as well as those attributed to Asians and females.

More relevant to Pao’s lawsuit was that in a study regarding leadership selection, Asian females — of the identity groups delineated — were least likely to be nominated for a “masculine” position. As Silicon Valley has consistently been considered a hub for “bro

culture,” in spite of its selfproclaimed pure meritocracy, it is unsurprising that Pao found herself in the position she described.

In the context of psychological research on identity development, the concept of gendered race is relatively new. Gender and race are also not the only aspects of identity

in the wrong.

While the jury disagreed, these recent events as well as the continued research on the intersection of identities, have huge implications for Asian women in professional positions in industries composed of mostly men. In a 2003 study conducted

by Reeves and Bennett, 37 percent of Asian-American women

ership, which is similar to the stereotypes of women. Being an Asian-American female could magnify the effects.”

Returning to the trial, the main concern I have with the way Ellen Pao was discussed was the compartmentalization of her many identities, the result being a narrow focus on her gender. It is unclear why Pao

Gender and race should not be separated in the context of discrimination cases because identity and stereotypes are not always present on those clear lines.” that overlap. Issues of ethnicity, class and sexuality among others all significantly affect the way one acts and is perceived.

But with these findings in mind, Pao’s race should have served as an important detail throughout the trial. If we analyze the alleged discrimination by combining gender and race as layers of her identity, we might come to a different consensus as to whether KPCB was

were found to have professional occupations in medicine, law and business. However, the two identities of gender and race confound their ascent to leadership roles.

Asian-American women thus feel the additive effects of a “bamboo ceiling” and a “glass ceiling,” and Wharton freshman Yen-Yen Gao agrees.

“Asian-Americans are already thought of as lacking in lead-

chose gender as a route to file a lawsuit rather than race, or both.

Though her race never once came up in the courtroom, the way she was described by her former colleagues on the stand and in performance reviews presented in evidence seemed to me to indicate she clearly bore the brunt of both ends. Most of the witness testimony appeared to only amplify the he-said-shesaid nature of the case, but it

hinted at underlying stereotypes related to both her gender and race.

Gender and race should not be separated in the context of discrimination cases because identity and stereotypes are not always present on those clear lines. However, anti-discrimination legislation might not be developed enough to consider multiple identities at once. Attorney Virginia Wei wrote in the Boston College Law Review in 1996 that in multiple identity employment discrimination cases, Asian women in particular experience difficulty in discerning how the components of their identity had been attacked.

The verdict delivered on March 27 could be seen as a setback for Asian-American women’s rights. However, Chia Hong, a former Facebook employee, filed a similar suit on March 19 with race as a significant inclusion in the basis for the “discrimination, harassment and retaliation” she allegedly experienced.

While it remains to be seen whether Hong’s case will go to trial, she will certainly benefit

RAVI JAIN both from the intense media scrutiny recently placed on Pao, and from the worldwide influence of Facebook. The technology sector has proven itself to be just as susceptible to discrimination in the workplace, but Pao represents progress in terms of bringing awareness to these issues.

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After referendum success, many steps remain in achieving fossil fuel divestment

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ust over a month ago, the undergraduates voted whether Penn should divest from fossil fuels, and an overwhelming 87.8 percent of participants voted yes. After this amazing success, it is only natural to wonder what comes next in terms of Penn actually divesting from fossil fuels. Unfortunately, it does not mean that Penn will automatically divest, and the process is slower than optimal.

Even so, we are in it for the long haul and are taking the next steps in order to see full fossil fuel divestment come to fruition.

While the referendum proved undergraduate student support, we plan to continue building support among the Penn community for the adoption of divestment as University policy. Such a decision will not be handed down easily, and with this in

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mind, we are building support among faculty and alumni in addition to students to demonstrate the importance of fossil fuel divestment and its broad appeal.

Despite the influence of student, faculty and alumni support, we know that in the end, the decision to divest is in the hands of the Board of Trustees. Naturally, the next logical step in attaining divestment is contacting the administration in order to begin the conversation and process regarding divestment. While the success of the referendum requires the Undergraduate Assembly to formally suggest fossil fuel divestment on behalf of the undergraduates, we know that the administration is busy and might not make time to take care of the issue. Yet as an institution that is known for caring about climate change and sustainability, we are confident in

the fact that the administration will listen to our case and assist us in our cause.

The pressure on institutions to divest from fossil fuels is building as an increasing number of distinguished organizations and figures have declared their support. Just over two weeks ago, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change stated its support for divestment because “it sends a signal to companies, especially coal companies, that the age of ‘burn what you like, when you like’ cannot continue.”

The UNFCCC joins the ranks of public figures Jon Huntsman Jr., Natalie Portman and President Barack Obama that have made public statements in support of divestment over the last several years. The number of institutions committing to divesting has also been rising; with universi-

ties including Stanford, the University of Maine system and Syracuse University all making commitments, as well as philanthropic foundations such as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Additionally, financial investment advisors have taken large strides in making divestment easier.

For example, institutional advisor Cambridge Associates, which advises 82 percent of university endowment funds, agreed to offer fossil free options to investors in November.

We are aware that the standards for what warrants divestment are high; however, we feel that we have a strong case. We have broad student support, proven by the success of the referendum. We are aware though that this alone does not mean our proposal is within the University’s rules that state only extreme circumstanc-

es warrant divestment. We think, however, that fossil fuel corporations’ culpability in causing climate change means that divestment is absolutely warranted by reason as well as popularity. Recent support from reputable institutions and individuals as those listed above provide us with certainty that our requests of the University are reasonable.

With divestment comes reinvestment. In our opinion, the natural reinvestment opportunity is renewables.

We know that more research needed in order for the world to fully transition towards clean energy. But this is exactly why we need divestment. Penn’s reinvestment into green technology will help facilitate this transition through Penn’s monetary and moral support.

Even so, clean energy is already demonstrating viabil-

ity. For example, Costa Rica’s electricity generation has remained fossil free since the beginning of the year, generating all their energy cleanly.

Munich, Germany, has set a target of having 100 percent fossil free electricity generation by 2025, and it is well on their way towards achieving that goal. We strongly believe that as a leader in sustainability initiatives, Penn is ready to show their support for a stable climate and just future through the divestment of fossil fuels and the reinvestment into clean energy.

RITA WEGNER AND PETER THACHER are a College freshman and sophomore, studying environmental studies and urban studies respectively. Her email address is wegnerm@ sas.upenn.edu. His email address is hapthacher@ gmail.com.

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International students successful in securing jobs after graduation Immigration restrictions are biggest obstacle for international students JOE LI Staff Reporter

Getting a job after graduation as an international student is much more complicated than doing so as an American. Fortunately, Penn’s doing whatever it can to make it easier.

International students make up anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of each undergraduate class each year and, according to Career Services, they are managing to secure jobs after graduation.

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“There were many other areas [besides American history] that needed to be filled out and strengthened,” said former Penn history professor Sarah Igo, who taught from 2001 to 2008.“I think there was a general sense that the kind of dominance in numbers of American historians would kind of get balanced out by other fields, and properly so.“ “Certainly, my perception was the department could only be stronger if it was more even, if there wasn’t such a huge asymmetry,” a current Penn history professor, who wished to remain anonymous, added.

But other professors say these new hires have not restored the department to its former state. The difficulty of obtaining high-profile professors in underdeveloped areas of the department means that after highly visible scholars in American history retire, they are replaced with less-prominent ones in other subjects. This practice, some feel, has notbeen successful.

“If the American group was always the strongest and it got smaller without the other parts necessarily getting stronger, you have a problem,” the current history professor added.

“International students are doing just as well as American students in terms of finding jobs,” Senior Associate Director of Career Services Rosette Pyne said. “They have some really good advantages, having strong cross-cultural experiences and high adaptability. Global awareness is also something appreciated by many employers.”

According to data from Career Services last year, 69.1% of international graduates who responded to career surveys reported that they were employed full-time; Penn as a whole had a 72.7% full-time employment rate. Of those international students who held full-time positions, 76.9% reported that they worked in

This kind of hiring might not reflect undergraduate interests, and could limit the department’s ability to offer widely popular courses in basic subjects. “We offer tons of courses that have tiny numbers of people in them, and we used to have courses that had huge numbers of people,” the current professor said. “Why are we offering courses that nobody wants to take?”

One retired Penn Department of History chair agreed that the focus has shifted to more specialized history courses instead of more common or traditional history courses. “The moving away from courses that are of genuine interest to undergraduates has had a profound effect on enrollments in the History Department,” he said.

Some within the History Department say the debate over which type of historians should be hired has lead to tension between staff.

“The department is much less collegial than it used to be; there’s a much weaker sense of community,” another current history professor said. “The power struggles and the distrust among the faculty is the most worrisome development in the department,” the professor said, adding that tensions like these can be common in the academic world. “I wish it were otherwise. It makes the intellectual

America.

Currently, the biggest obstacle for international students on their career paths in America are immigration restrictions. The H1B visa required for working in America legally after graduation is chosen by lottery because of the huge number of visa applicants every year. To apply for a H1B visa, international students need to be sponsored by their employers.

But this does not happen very easily.

Yuan Yuan is a 2014 College graduate from China who now works full-time at the accounting firm Ernest & Young in Philadelphia. She said that usually only big companies are willing to sponsor H1B visa applications because it costs thousands

of dollars per international employee.

“I once was interviewing for a not-so-big firm, and I passed the first round. Yet when the HR person asked me if I was an international student and I said yes, the recruiter immediately said I wasn’t eligible for the position any more because the company doesn’t sponsor the H1B visa application” said Yuan.

To help international students deal with issues like this, Career Services works together with International Students and Scholar Services.

While Career Services provides guidance on revising resumes and preparing for interviews, ISSS helps students with questions related to their immigration status.

ISSS also provide guidance on completing Curricular Practical Training and Optional Practical Training, which are immigration benefits for international students to apply for internships and jobs after graduation. Yuan got her current job offer by using OPT, and she used CPT for a summer internship during her junior year.

Overall, Yuan said she is very satisfied with the professionalism of Career Services and ISSS at Penn, as she thought the problem she had mostly has to do with class offerings in the College. “I transferred from Boston College and I had been to the career workshops they had. Penn has a much more efficient staff. They are

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life less rewarding than it could be.”

Whether course offerings or other factors are responsible, enrollment has dipped — in 2010 Penn graduated 150 history majors, but in 2014 it graduated just 103.

But most professors within the department maintain that the quality of undergraduate teaching in history courses remains high. Although some faculty members prioritize research, hiring committees do weigh a potential candidate’s ability to teach.

“We have some very strong teachers in the department.

We also have some people that aren’t as strong, but that’s sort of inevitable,” said the second current history professor, adding that he believes that Penn does

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Despite the high quality of undergraduate teaching in Penn’s History Department, professors say, the nature of higher academia dictates that teaching will never be the ultimate priority.

“I don’t think teaching will ever [be] the deciding factor in hiring. You can be a great teacher but if your publication record isn’t stellar than that’s going to be a problem no matter how good you are in the classroom,” the second current professor said. “And that’s true at all of our peer institutions.”

Despite the recent faculty losses and current polarized environment of the department, it plans to continue to move forward and improve.

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Chair Beth Wenger, Penn’s History Department will hire several faculty members, including a senior twentiethcentury American historian and professors in the subject areas of modern European and medieval history. Additionally, a new series of “gateway courses” in American, European and world history will be offered.

They will go beyond traditional survey courses and focus on specific historical themes and events.

“We are in the process of rebuilding in several areas of history. An academic department is a dynamic institution and is always changing,” Wenger said. “We are very confident about our plans to reshape and strengthen History at Penn.”

very helpful,” she said.

“My philosophy at work is to provide the best information on finding jobs for every international student,” Director of ISSS Rudie Altamirano said. Last month, he and his staff received 2,300 emails and arranged 2,900 walk-in appointments with students who had questions about CPT, OPT or the H1B visa with a staff of less than twenty people. In the coming month of May, Altamirano is expecting even more.

“We want our international students to enjoy the same benefits that other Penn students have,” said Pyne.

“So we try our best to help them and have everyone on the same playing field.”

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TAP serves the dual purpose of familiarizing students with how to use the online platform before entering the classroom, he said.

While the courses are not graded per se, they are considered mandatory. Using the statistics that Canvas provides, administrators will know who logs in, for how long and more.

Fox compared it to the Penn Reading Project, saying, “You don’t get an F on your transcript if you don’t go, but we expect you to go.”

In his experience running NSO programming, he thinks freshmen are typically eager to learn as much as possible about Penn prior to arriving and thinks participation will reflect that.

Fox said they intend to follow up with freshmen a few months after completing the course to gather information about how much they remember or how much they believed it helped, as well as continue to modify and add to the content. In the future, there might be a similar lexicon of information and version of TAP available for parents.

While the exact release date is not set since the courses are still in development and await approval, students can expect to be able to access TAP in July or August.

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While Penn track and field’s runners and jumpers practice on the track at famous Franklin Field, the Quakers’ throwing team is almost always hidden, tucked out of view behind the Hollenback Center down River Fields Drive.

As a result of their isolation, the throwers take a different approach to practice and have become a close-knit unit.

The throwing team recognizes that it does a few other things differently from its peers, such as not beginning practice with a long run. However, that doesn’t mean they aren’t working just as hard as their teammates.

Penn’s hurlers are anything but overshadowed by their teammates. The burly bunch has been on a tear of late, and as a result, the conference and the nation is taking notice.

“It’s really easy to get complacent and sit back,” junior

Sam Mattis said. “But as a group, I think one of the reasons that everyone is achieving so much individual success is that — as a team — we are all pushing each other.”

“I think we have one of the best throwing teams in the east,” Penn assistant coach Tony Tenisci, who leads the throwers, said.

With Mattis — junior discus specialist — leading the way, the Quakers were sure to attract a ton of spotlight heading into the season. Yet while Mattis leads the charge, a cast of notable characters have helped propel Penn firmly into the collegiate spotlight.

Last weekend, both the men’s and the women’s throwing squads took enormous leaps forward.

Senior Marcus LaRoche’s 16.90-meter toss in the shot put at the Florida Relays was the fifth-best mark in school history. Sophomore Noah Kennedy-White made a similar jump into the record books by posting a personal best 52.88-meter discus toss, while SEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE B2

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Coming off a strong 2014 campaign in which she was named honorable mention All-American, junior javelin specialist Kelsey Hay has been impressive this season, notching a 44.31-meter toss that got her a first-place finish at the Maryland Invitational. She is one of several athletes in Penn’s throwing squad that have stepped up over the last few seasons to put the program on the national map.

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When his left knee buckled on March 7, junior tennis captain Vim De Alwis thought he might miss one match. But surgery scheduled for next week will cost de Alwis his season.

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“I didn’t think it was a big deal … In the worst case, I thought that I’d be missing one match.”

If only that were the case.

For Vim De Alwis, the junior captain of Penn men’s tennis, a torn meniscus just before the start of Ivy League play this season would prove to be an enormous deal, to put it simply.

And with him now sidelined for the remainder of the season, the Quakers (14-6, 0-3 Ivy) have entered the most challenging stretch in 2015 without their No. 1 singles player.

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Senior captain Sydney Turchin hopes that Penn’s rough weekend will serve as “a wake-up call.”

After a weekend road trip, Penn softball is looking forward to staying close to home.

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fellow sophomore shot putter Billy Bishop also notched a personal record at the Princeton meet.

After success in recent weeks, the entire team’s sights are set on Penn Relays, which begin April 23. And LaRoche is excited by his teammates’ progress as they enter the season’s final stretch.

“For Penn Relays, I think we’re going to do something big,” he said.

LaRoche is not alone in this bold assessment. Tenisci is confident that the squad as a whole will

continue to post personal records as it gains even more steam.

One event in particular that Tenisci predicts will see the greatest improvements leading up to the Quakers’ signature home event is the women’s javelin throw.

Due to the cold weather, he had encouraged his athletes to take it a little easy in this event.

But with the weather steadily improving, Tenisci now has high hopes for his team.

As spring warms up, so too does Kelsey Hay, the junior javelin thrower who already seems to be firing on all cylinders. Her

44.31-meter toss at the Maryland Invitational a few weeks ago was good enough to take home first place.

Hay — who is coming off of a 2014 campaign in which she was named All-American honorable mention — will likely be the main catalyst for the team moving forward.

With the year’s final events just on the horizon, practices for the team as a whole have become more focused. Tenisci noted that time is being devoted to throwing, but due to the academic demands brought on by this time of year, he has tried not to

overstress the team.

“You battle school here too,” Tenisci said. “We are coming to the end and so I’m trying to pace with them to try to get as best quality training with them.

“Even though it’s a very repetitive motion we break the motion of throwing down as many ways as we can,” he said.

A helpful asset for the Quakers as they prepare for the end of the season has been the addition of volunteer assistant Jake Brenza.

The Penn alum is a veteran of the track and field program and has thus been able to provide valuable insight for the team.

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN | THEDP.COM “It’s awesome because he knows the system,” LaRouche noted. “He’s fresh off of doing track, so he knows how to give [both] the coach and player viewpoint. He gives us insight that a coach alone can’t give us.”

The steady leadership Brenza adds to the squad has been multiplied to an even greater degree

by Mattis, who not only has been successful as an athlete with the Red and Blue, but has three Penn Relays championships to name from high school as well.

The 2014 All-American is starting to hit his stride as he prepares for Relays and the national

and world championships.

Mattis’ goals are to win nationals this year and eventually post one of the top three throws at world qualifiers in order to make it to Beijing this summer.

But the East Brunswick, N.J., native is not the only member of Penn’s throwing team with high aspirations. The squad itself has tunnel vision as it prepares to cross the season’s finish line.

And though they may be tucked far away when they train, the Quakers emerge with nothing but the confidence and talent they need to take on the best when the time comes.

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The most wonderful time of the year for Penn sports LAINE HIGGINS

The date was April 13, 2014.

Those of you with keen memories will remember this day as the Sunday of last year’s Fling weekend. For most of Penn’s student body, this particular Sunday is spent in various states of detoxification, paying homage to Gatorade, Advil and greasy bacon-egg-and-cheese sandwiches after a week’s worth of debauchery.

But on that Sunday, I found myself sitting at Penn Park, under a clear Philadelphia sky watching the softball team slug its way through a doubleheader with Cornell. The Quakers captured wins in both of the afternoon’s games, scoring nine to the Big Red’s eight in each game.

The numbers on the scoreboard are beside the point, though. Because it was there, sitting in the plastic stadium chairs at the softball diamond in Penn

Park on that Sunday that it struck me: Penn students have no good reason not to attend the University’s spring sporting functions.

Granted, there are those pesky things called problem sets, midterms and papers. But there is also this little thing called procrastination. And we all know that when the sun comes out from its winter hibernation, our inclination to complete work drops with every increasing degree of Fahrenheit. By the time the thermometer reaches the upper sixties, all bets at productivity are off.

Plus, Penn’s roster of spring sports teams is good. Like, really good. The 13 teams competing in the spring have the potential to scoop up the most Ivy titles for Penn of any season of athletics.

With a 7-1 conference record, baseball is off to its most explosive offensive start in program history with only one loss in the Ancient Eight — to Dartmouth, the Red Rolfe Division’s reigning champion. Last weekend, the team notched 13 home runs and 52 runs in four games. That’s

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2015 has been a banner year for softball’s Lauren Li, as the junior has racked up a team-leading 30 hits and a staggering .400 batting average.

almost madness.

Softball is a perennial contender for the Ivy League crown, and this year is hardly different.

With sluggers like junior Lauren Li and freshman Jurie Joyner

— the Ancient Eight’s current Rookie of the Week — batting above .400, the action on the diamond won’t disappoint.

Men’s lacrosse won the program’s first-ever program Ivy

title in 2014, and despite a slow start to 2015 due to troubles in goal, the Quakers are finally translating their spurts of success on different parts of the field into wins.

Women’s lacrosse, on the other hand, is nothing short of a dynasty. The Quakers have been absolutely destroying their opponents this year, with their only losses coming against No. 1 Maryland and No. 6 Northwestern.

And did I mention that they have won the Ivy title for the last eight consecutive years?

Men’s tennis hit its way to its highest Intercollegiate Tennis Association ranking in program history — No. 39 — back in February. Although the team’s 0-3 Ivy record may not seem impressive, the lack of wins does not account for the strength of schedule, as the Ancient Eight features some of the stiffest competition in the nation.

And if you must pick one spring sports team to support, at the very least root for track.

Seriously, if you had to pick one sporting event to attend for the

rest of the year between now and graduation, it would be Penn Relays from April 23 to 25. Not that you should really need a reason to see Franklin Field full for the only time all year, but the meet is the biggest track meet not just in the nation, but in the world. And it’s Penn Relays!

As an athlete myself, I can attest to just how great it feels to see your friends, or really just anyone between the ages of 18 and 23, in the stands supporting the Red and the Blue. Calling it ‘warm and fuzzy’ might be a little too far, but getting even just the slightest bit of recognition for all of the hours you spend on the field, in the pool, on the courts or in the weight room is nothing short of gratifying.

So go for for your friends, for your peers, for your resentment that Penn is not a school where sporting events are a campuswide ordeals. But really, just go.

LAINE HIGGINS is a College sophomore from Wayzata, M.N., and is a sports editor at The Daily Pennsylvanian. She can be reached at higgins@thedp.com.

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senior catcher Austin Bossart — Penn was able to tally two runs going into the bottom of the sixth. Meanwhile, starter Dan Gautieri had managed to hold Villanova to only one run.

And then the wheels fell off for the Quakers.

Gautieri was pulled after he allowed the first few runners to get on base in the bottom of the sixth inning, and Penn’s relievers were unable to stem the tide. The Wildcats went on to score seven runs in the inning, putting the game away for all intents and purposes. The contest was called due to rain in the eighth inning.

Penn will look to return to its winning ways as the team heads to Ithaca to face Cornell in a four-game series this weekend.

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On April 7, Penn baseball took a seven-game winning streak to Plymouth Meeting, Pa., to take on Villanova in the Liberty Bell Classic. But for the first time in the past eight games, the bell did not toll for a Penn victory.

The Quakers (12-10) had been on fire at the plate in recent games, but they only managed to push three runs across the dish on Tuesday en route to a 9-3 loss to the Wildcats (12-15).

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Part of what makes college athletics so dynamic and fun is its constant turnover of student-athletes.

After four years, or in some sports even fewer, a team’s best players will move on.

There are no long-term contracts and no guarantees. A school’s success in both the immediate future and over the course of several years depends entirely on how well coaches recruit.

In the case of the Penn men’s tennis, the current crop of freshmen has been fundamental to the Red and Blue’s

strong season. As the year comes to a close, it’s difficult not to be excited about next season’s recruiting class, one that already appears poised to be one of the nation’s best.

Every January, a panel of over 20 of the country’s best coaches, national tournament directors, media members and other experts review the early commitments and release a list of the top-25 recruiting classes for the following year. This year, Penn ranked 14th, a huge step up after not even making the list for the previous season.

The 2015-16 recruiting class was originally headlined by three five-star recruits, the second-highest rank a recruit can attain, only behind blue chip.

Ky l e M a ut n e r, from Greenwich, Conn., verbally committed to Penn early in 2015. Mautner was ranked as high as No. 31 in the nation and has been featured as one of the

100 best recruits from his class.

John Karlawish, out of Raleigh, N.C., will also look to make a big impact for the Quakers next year. Ranked No. 61 in the country, Karlawish made the same list of the top 100 recruits for this year’s graduating class.

The third high school senior and five-star recruit who was a major factor in Penn’s winter recruiting ranking is Jack Turchetta. Although originally listed as committed to the Quakers, the Pound Ridge, N.Y., native changed his mind and verbally committed to Columbia.

This is certainly a blow to Penn’s overall level of talent, but Turchetta’s decision to join the Lions stings a bit more for the Red and Blue because he chose a rival team within the Ivy League. Not only will Penn miss out on the opportunity to have him on the roster, but they

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will have to face him every year when they take on one of the top teams in the Ancient Eight.

Columbia, along with other Ivy League programs, also appears to have a strong class arriving at school next year.

In fact, Columbia has the highest ranked winter recruiting class among all of the Ivy League schools, coming in at No. 12. The Lions’ class of 2019 includes blue chip Victor Pham of Saratoga, Calif., and two highly touted international recruits, William Matheson of New Zealand and Robin Nguy from Hong Kong. The Lions topped the conference in 2014, are undefeated in Ancient Eight play in 2015 and look to get even meaner in 2016.

Yale — and its No. 17 class — and Cornell —with its 26thranked class — are improving as well. All in all, four of the top 25 winter recruiting classes hail from the Ivy League, signaling the growth and strength of tennis in the conference.

At the end of the day, these recruiting lists only carry so much meaning. And although it is nice to have a highly rated recruiting class, Penn’s current group of freshmen shows that rankings don’t always predict the ultimate success of a group of athletes. But the group — including Nicolas Podesta, Josh Pompan, Nicholai Westergaard and Gabriel Rapoport — have definitely become a major force for the Quakers this season.

Despite some minor disappointment with the loss of Turchetta, with the current assemblage of freshman and the incoming class of 2019, Penn’s f ut u re look s i nc rea si ngly bright. And if top-level recruits continue to choose Penn, the Quakers could become one of the best teams in the Ivy League even as the status of Ancient Eight tennis keeps rising.

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of Penn’s regular season.

Historically, the rivalry has been somewhat one-sided, (13-13) are coming off a as the Wildcats have the tough weekend, one in series edge at 40-21-2. which the team went 1-3 “I think we match up relaincluding a pair of one-run tively well, they’ve got a losses. well-funded big-time Divi“It was a tough weekend sion-I program. We’re able for us, but it’s a wake-up to compete with them on the call,” senior captain Sydney field,” coach Leslie King Turchin said. “It’s some- said. thing that will help our team “If we were in the same realize that nothing is going conference, I’d like to think to get handed to us in this it’d be really competitive.” league.”

A pair of hot-hitting With five of their next underclassmen has led Vilsix games on the road, the lanova’s offense this year.

Quakers welcome the op- Freshman shortstop Brittany portunity to play at home Husk is the team leader in midweek. batting average (.344), runs “Just being at our home (20) and home runs (three), field, it’s a comfort level while sophomore third basething,” Turchin added. “You man Lauren Herschberg has miss less class, but that just also put together an excelcomes with the territory.” lent campaign.

The team has had a From the mound, the season full of long-winded Wildcats boast a pair of exhome and road stretches. cellent starting pitchers as After the Quakers’ first two sophomore Brette Lawrence games were cancelled due and junior Kate Poppe — to weather, Penn spent its who have combined to start first 11 games on the road in 27 of the team’s 31 games — Florida, including its spring both boast sub-3.00 earned break trip. The Red and Blue run averages. followed that period with It’s unclear who will start 12 straight games at home on the mound for Penn, but before leaving King and her Philadelphia players see the last weekend to value in gettravel to Provit i ng pl aye r s dence and New repetitions, Just being at Haven, Conn. our home field, whether hitting Mea nwh i le, or pitching, to it’s a comfort Villanova (13stay warm for level thing.

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- Sydney Turchin similar sched“ T he more Penn senior outfielder ule, t raveling we can see live to Clearwater, pitch i ng, t he Fla., for the same invita- better. It keeps you in the tional tournament as Penn r ight m indset,” Turchin — though the teams never said. “As long as you do faced each other. Against things how you want to do the squads’ common op- them, you feel good going ponents this season, the into the weekend.”

Wildcats have gone 2-1, With a four-game series while the Quakers are 4-1. against Cornell on the weekVillanova last faced Penn end horizon, the Quakers in late April of last season will look to build momenand came away with a 4-0 tum with a strong showing victory in the final game against their Big 5 rival. >> PAGE B1

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In a sport as dependent on individual talent as tennis, a long-term setback for one player can still affect the team as a whole greatly. When that player happens to be one of the team’s top performers, the significance of the injury becomes greatly magnified.

The injury in question happened during a March 7 win against Radford.

“I just jumped up and came down on my left leg while serving, and I felt my left knee buckle,” De Alwis said. “I saw the trainer down in New Mexico [during the team’s spring break trip]. I tried to play in New Mexico, but I couldn’t move.”

He struggled greatly over that trip, losing in straight sets in matches against both Georgia State and New Mexico.

Even though meniscus tears do not always require surgery, De Alwis has decided that the best option is to pursue an operation on his knee. The procedure is scheduled for next week.

De Alwis’ presence in the lineup has been sorely missed by the team, which was 10-1 prior to his injury but has gone 4-5 since. Penn has lost all three of its matches in Ivy League play, each of which has come since the Jakarta, Indonesia native went down.

While his injury has added a level of complexity to the Quakers’ season, De Alwis has served as an extremely useful resource to the less-experienced players on the team.

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“At every match, I go on court with the guys who are playing,” he said. “I try to help coach on the court and get the players motivated for the match.”

Additionally, De Alwis still attends team workouts and takes part in every practice in order to maintain his cohesiveness with the rest of the team.

Through his continued presence at team events, De Alwis is doing all that he can to help his team succeed and stay driven. Still, there is no doubt that the Red and Blue could use him on the court.

“I wish I could have played that [Princeton] match, to open up the Ivy League season,” he said. “If we had won that first Ivy match, it would give us some good momentum throughout the rest of the

2013-14 season. We ended up losing pretty badly, and so it was kind of frustrating.”

The negative effect of the injury has been felt by the now unranked Quakers, who have fallen from an all-time high national ranking of 39th on March 3.

“If we had a good Ivy League season, I think we could have made the NCAA Tournament, since so many of the Ivy League teams are nationally ranked,” De Alwis said.

Following next week’s surgery, De Alwis hopes to begin training for the 2015-16 season starting in

June.

“I’m really excited for the fall season,” De Alwis said. “It looks like we are going to have some really good recruits.”

If nothing else, it seems as though De Alwis’ untimely injury has ignited a fiery passion within him to perform at the top of his game come next season. As a senior, he will have the opportunity to make up for his lost playing time from this year.

To any of Penn’s opponents next year, you’ve been warned: Vim De Alwis is ready to leave it all on the court.

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