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SPEC stands by Miguel despite assault allegation Students will protest the Fling headliner HAWTHORNE RIPLEY Staff Reporter

SPEC leaders said they do not regret their selection of Miguel, who is set to perform as the Spring Fling headliner this coming weekend, despite student pro-

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tests over a 2017 sexual assault allegation.

After the Social Planning and Events Committee announced that Miguel and J.I.D would headline Fling on April 13, a group of Penn students created a Facebook event titled “Stand Against Miguel at Fling” to protest the singer’s “atrocities.” The organizers call on students to

stand against Miguel by not purchasing a ticket or by leaving before Miguel’s performance. Since the event surfaced, more than 250 people marked “going” or “interested” on Facebook.

SPEC President and Wharton senior Elizabeth Goran said the group was unaware of the 2017 allegations at the time they booked Miguel, despite running a man-

datory background check on the artist.

“I wouldn’t say I regret the decision at all,” Goran said. “I would say as a leader of SPEC, we appreciate that people have varying opinions of the artist, and we’re very sensitive of the concerns that students were bringing up.”

In March 2017, University of New Mexico student Xian Bass al-

leged that Miguel forcibly grabbed her breast and removed it from her shirt without consent after she took a photo with the singer. Bass detailed the alleged incident in an Instagram post with a picture of her and Miguel, Billboard reported. Miguel was not charged for the 2017 incident and he denied the SEE MIGUEL PAGE 8

Parent convicted of bribing Penn coach Former Penn coach testified that he accepted $300,000 SAM MITCHELL & BIANCA SERBIN Staff Reporters

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On April 4, hundreds of students, faculty, and peers gathered for Take Back the Night, an international movement and protest against SEE PAGE 3 sexual assault, domestic violence, relationship violence, and all other forms of sexual violence.

Natasha Menon elected UA President by 47-vote margin Menon’s running mate Brian Goldstein won VP CONOR MURRAY Staff Reporter

College junior Natasha Menon and College junior Brian Goldstein will serve as the next president and vice president of the Undergraduate Assembly, respectively, the Nominations and Elections Committee announced

Thursday.

Menon won with 1,397 votes, a 47-vote margin of victory over Curry’s 1,350 votes. Menon’s running mate Goldstein won the vice presidential seat with 1,373 votes over presidential opponent Maria Curry’s running mate and College sophomore Chase Serota’s 1,323 votes.

“I’m actually speechless right now,” Menon said. “I’m incredibly excited for the body next

DANIEL WANG Staff Reporter

Roy Vagelos, 1950 College graduate, and his wife Diana Vagelos donated $50 million to the School of Arts and Sciences to fund the construction of a new science building focused on energy research. The building, which

will be named after Roy and Diana Vagelos, is the biggest donation in SAS history.

The new energy building, which will be located on 32nd and Walnut streets next to David Rittenhouse Laboratory, will provide research spaces for both SAS and the School of Engineering and Applied Science. It will house the Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology, as well as serve as the home for the Vagelos

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year, for this session. There are a lot of really incredible people on the UA, so I’m really excited that I’m able to facilitate their work.”

Menon and Goldstein ran on a five-point platform, consisting of transparency, inclusivity, accessibility, wellness, and academics.

Some of their campaign promises include expanding Counseling and Psychological Services SEE ELECTION PAGE 9

Roy and Diana Vagelos donate $50 million to SAS The donation is the largest in SAS history

Philip Esformes, the parent who paid a former coach to help ensure his son’s admission to Penn, was found guilty on 20 charges, including bribery, in Miami federal court on Friday.

Former Penn men’s basketball star and head coach Jerome Allen testified last month that he accepted $300,000 in bribes from Esformes in return for recruiting his son, Morris, to help him get into Penn.

Just a few days after Allen’s testimony, the FBI revealed admissions scandals that had occurred around the country, implicating coaches at the University of Southern California and Yale University, among other schools, for accepting bribes and falsifying re-

cords in order to get students admitted to the schools by pretending they were athletic recruits. Penn was not named in the initial Justice Department report.

A witness testifying during Esformes’ trial revealed that Esformes had sent $400,000 to the charity of William “Rick” Singer, the college consultant at the center of the national college admissions scandal. This came a few days after evidence surfaced that Esformes exchanged text messages with Singer about his son’s chances of getting admitted to Penn given his SAT score and about the date of an upcoming collegeentrance exam in Arizona.

An exact date has not yet been set for sentencing for either Esformes or Allen, who could face 10 years in prison for his role in the bribery scheme, according to ESPN. The Miami Herald reported that it is likely Allen will be sentenced in the

Integrated Program in Energy Research, an undergraduate dualdegree program between SAS and the Engineering School.

Roy and Diana Vagelos have made various contributions to Penn in the past, including the Laboratories of the Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences & SEE DONATION PAGE 3

EDITORIAL | Stand Against Miguel

“The Penn community shouldn’t be endorsing artists who have sexual assault allegations against them.” - DP Editorial Board PAGE 4

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Penn History professor Kathleen Brown (left), Penn Law and Sociology professor Dorothy Roberts (middle), and CUNY History professor Deirdre Cooper Owens spoke at the roundtable.

The two-day symposium included panels ASHLEY AHN Staff Reporter

At a symposium hosted by the Penn and Slavery Project, students and faculty presented new research on Penn’s ties to owners of enslaved people and Penn students’ contributions to racial discrimination in medicine in the 1800s.

The symposium, which was a two-day event consisting of panels by historians and presentations by students, took place on April 3 and 4 and was also co-hosted by the Program on Race, Science, and

Society. Members of the Penn and Slavery Project, which was previously known as the Penn History of Slavery project, also introduced their new project — an app that gives an augmented reality campus tour where users can view historical information from their phone at certain locations.

In 2017, an undergraduate student research study, titled the “Penn Slavery Project” and supported by Penn’s History department, found that many of the University’s founding trustees had substantial connections to the slave trade. Since then, student researchers and faculty have discovered that 75 of Penn’s former trustees

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were owners of enslaved people, including Penn’s first provost William Smith.

Penn responded to the students’ findings by forming its own working group to investigate the University’s ties to slavery after meeting with the students who were part of the research group. The findings were a reversal of Penn’s denial in 2016 that Penn had no direct ties to slavery.

During the symposium, a student researcher part of the Penn and Slavery Project, College sophomore Sam Orloff, said the University took fundraising trips to solicit SEE SYMPOSIUM PAGE 9

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Panelists discuss future of finance at Stevens Center Opening The center held its inaugural event on April 3 MADDY STROHM Staff Reporter

The Wharton School launched the opening of the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance Wednesday evening with a panel discussion featuring global financial technology leaders.

The featured panelists, many of whom lead fintech companies, highlighted the central role of technology in finance on April 3.

Panelists discussed topics ranging from the definition and future of fintech to the role of cryptocurrency and platforms like Cash App in a changing financial scene, stressing how important it is for Wharton to remain on top of current trends.

Wharton established the Stevens Center, one of the only centers dedicated to studying finan-

cial technologies across business schools worldwide, on March 14.

Finance Department Chair David Musto, who moderated the panel discussion, was appointed faculty director of the center. It was created after a donation from 1991 Wharton graduate and Stone Ridge Holdings Group CEO Ross Stevens.

The panelists included Robby Gutmann, the CEO of New York Digital Investment Group, 2012 Wharton MBA graduate David Klein, the CEO and co-founder of CommonBond, 1992 Wharton graduate Jackie Reses, the head of Square Capital, and Elad L. Roisman, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett and Penn President Amy Gutmann said the center’s launch is important for keeping Wharton on top of current trends in finance.

“Fintech matters because information is the new collateral,” Garrett said. “The best way to honor the profound legacy of Wharton is to leverage it into the future.”

Klein and Reses talked about how their experiences at Wharton informed their future fintech careers.

Klein co-founded CommonBond, a company which simplifies the student loan process, while he was a Wharton MBA student.

CommonBond also seeks to use student loans as a tool for social impact: every time the company funds a loan, it pays for the education of a child in the developing world.

Reses added that her undergraduate experience at Wharton changed her life on both a personal and academic level. Her company, Square Capital, helps fund small businesses that would otherwise be ineligible for financial assistance.

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The panelists included Robby Gutmann, David Klein, Jackie Reses, and Elad L. Roisman – all prominent leaders in the financial industry.

Wharton Undergraduate Fintech Group President and Wharton and Engineering sophomore Robert Epstein said Reses has

remained involved with Wharton and has supported the club.

“Jackie Reses is incredible,” Epstein said. “When we visited

Square Capital, she inspired every single person in the room with her background and story of how she climbed up from the bottom on Wall Street through adverse situations.”

The event ended with Musto asking the panelists what they want the Stevens Center to achieve.

Klein said he was glad Wharton was one of the first to put their “stake in the ground” for fintech.

Reses added that so many universities lack the curriculum and opportunities necessary for students to become leaders in finance today, but that Wharton is moving in the right direction with the launch of the Stevens Center.

“The future of finance depends upon the curriculum students study,” Reses said. “It needs to be mathematically driven, and the new center can help push Penn to where they need to be to truly keep up with finance.”

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Student ‘Take Back the Night’ to protest sexual violence on campus Philadelphia students marched on campus DANIELLE CAPRIGLIONE Staff Reporter

More than 100 Penn and Drexel students marched to protest sexual assault and relationship violence on Penn’s campus Thursday night as part of Take Back the Night, an annual event hosted by the Penn chapter of Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention.

The event consisted of a rally on College Green, a march around campus, a survivor speakout at Houston Hall, and a debrief at the Penn Women’s Center at the end of the night. It is one of hundreds of protests that take place around the world each year through the Take Back the Night Foundation, which works to eliminate violence against women.

The rally began with a performance by the Drexel African Fusion Dance Team, followed by opening remarks from ASAP Chair and College senior Kara Hardie and speeches from leaders of campus organizations such as Penn Women’s Center, Counseling and Psychological Services,

and Penn Violence Prevention.

Penn Women’s Center Director Sherisse Laud-Hammond spoke about the resources available to survivors on campus, adding that these resources exist to “create and maintain safe spaces” for students. Laud-Hammond said she hoped students left the event feeling encouraged to raise their voices against sexual assault.

Sonalee Rashatwar, a sex therapist and grassroots organizer, gave a keynote speech at the event and said movements such as Take Back the Night too often focus on “thin, cisgender, heterosexual white women.”

She urged students to consider the needs of indigenous women, incarcerated women, men who are survivors, and other groups that are less represented in discussions of sexual violence to “take back the night for all of us.”

After the rally, students marched around campus holding signs and chanting phrases such as “UPenn unite! Take back the night!” and “No more silence! No more violence!”

“Sexual harassment and sexual assault is a conversation that has come up a lot among my class-

mates and my peers,” College freshman Zareen Khan said.

“It was really nice to hear that this event is doing something in a positive way to combat it.”

The march was followed by a survivor speak-out in Houston Hall. Hardie said she hoped the event would “provide a space where survivors feel heard, believed, and supported.”

The event came amid student criticism of Penn President Amy Gutmann for declining to attend Take Back the Night for the past four years. This year, Gutmann did not attend due to a scheduling conflict, and instead sent a written statement of support.

Hardie said Gutmann’s statements have been read aloud in the past, but this year the statement was printed on the first page of the program instead.

“We respect [Gutmann’s] support and we’re glad that she stands by this event,” Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault President and College junior Justin Iannacone said.

“Hopefully, in the future, we’d like to see her come out to one Take Back the Night event.”

“I think it’s quite problem-

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The event started with a rally on College Green. After the rally, students marched campus holding signs that read, “No more silence! No more violence!”

atic,” Khan said of Gutmann’s absence. “But I think it’s more of a reason to have more students come here and pres-

Students curate Penn Museum exhibit

The exhibit focused on objects and memories

exciting contents,” Quinn added.

JASON YAN Staff Reporter

Quinn said the exhibition team at the museum selected several hundred artifacts from the museum collection for the student curators to choose from as “would be impossible for the students to familiarize themselves with the millions of artifacts in the museum’s collection.” However, students could access the larger collection if they wanted specific items.

Penn Museum Director of Academic Engagement Anne Tiballi added that as part of the program, student curators also have the chance to educate visitors about the museum contents. The museum will host a series of “Daily Digs,” where student curators will give 15-minute presentations about one of the exhibit artifacts.

Okech said she enjoys educating museum visitors.

“I am really interested in how the public interact with the artifacts and museum is used to present ideas to the publics,” Okech added.

The student-curated exhibit will be open for a year.

Tiballi added that while it is “unfortunate” that most of the exhibition time will be during the Year of Data, the Provost’s annual theme for the upcoming year, the museum “will be continue to engage the audience by bringing classes and tours to the exhibition.”

A new student exhibit that is being displayed in the Penn Museum explores how people use objects to preserve memories.

The exhibit, “Memory Keepers: Why Objects Matter,” opened March 29 and was curated by College junior Megan McKelvey and College seniors Malkia Okech and Madison Greiner. Okech said the student curators wanted to “look at memory in a more positive sense” by choosing objects that are also relevant to contemporary communities. Some selected artifacts include a stela from Egypt more than 3,000 years ago and a carved ring from late 18th century Italy.

“We were looking at the concept of memorial for a while and remembering people,” Okech said. “[The artifacts] are like time capsules, allowing us to look at different cultural contexts and a range of different time periods, which is reflected in the objects that were chosen.”

The student curators created the exhibit through Penn Museum’s Student Exhibition Internship Program, which has provided paid internships for the past five years to allow students to learn about different aspects of museum curation. Each year, students are invited to apply to

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next several weeks, after pleading guilty on Oct. 5, 2018.

Allen also revealed in his testimony that Ira Bowman, who was then an assistant basketball coach at Penn, knew about the scheme.

Bowman has since been suspended

by Auburn University, where he currently holds an assistant coaching position on the Final Four team.

The jury did not reach a verdict on some of the most serious charges, including the main count of conspiracy to defraud Medicare.

The Miami executive had been previously charged with 26 federal crimes. With over $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims, Esformes’ trial marked the largest health care fraud case ever charged by the federal government, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski said in Friday’s Department of Justice press release.

When the news about Allen accepting bribes broke last July, Penn hired Chuck Smrt of The Compliance Group, an outside consultant, to oversee its internal investigation. Smrt looked into whether or not Allen had violated NCAA rules. The results of this investigation have yet to be released, leaving an open question about the possible ramifications for the Penn men’s basketball program and Penn Athletics as a whole.

“As a result of the Jerome Allen

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The student curators created the exhibit through Penn Museum’s Student Exhibition Internship Program.

design an exhibit related to the Provost’s annual theme with help from professional curators at the Museum. This year, the theme is the Year of Why. “Memory is seen a natural conclusion to why, because it allows us to further the questions of why to questions like ‘why artifacts?’ and ‘why are artifacts important?’” Okech said.

Okech added that she heard about the internship through her work as a Penn Museum research assistant.

“When I worked as a student worker at the museum, I was becoming increasingly more inter-

case, Penn Admissions and Penn Athletics have worked with an outside consultant to review and strengthen our processes for the recruitment of student-athletes and will continue to assess where we can improve our recruitment and evaluation processes,” Penn Athletics wrote in a statement.

Penn Athletics has not confirmed to The Daily Pennsylvanian if Chuck Smrt’s investigation remains open or what the scope it covered was.

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said in October that the recruitment of athletes was a joint effort between admissions and athletics, and that additional safeguards were needed to prevent problems in the future. Furda also expressed concern about overly protective safeguards and acknowledged that there would always be the potential for misconduct to slip through the cracks in the process. Last month, he further expressed that there might be room for admissions to improve their system.

“Penn Admissions and [the University’s Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics] have worked with an outside consultant to review and strengthen our processes for the recruitment of student athletes and, in light of the current charges, will again consider whether any further changes are called for in our recruitment and evaluation processes,” Furda wrote in an email to the DP last month.

ested in what a curatorial position is like,” she said. “I decide to do this internship not only to culminate my undergraduate experience but also for a different sector than before.”

Penn Museum Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs Kate Quinn said the Student Exhibition Internship Program is designed to teach students about the aspects that go into curating an exhibit, such as planning, design, and installation. “[The program] is mainly about giving exposure to the process of creating an exhibit than it is to have than to have

The Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will award the

Elmaleh Prize for an undergraduate essay in the Social Sciences, and the

Humanities Prize for an undergraduate essay in the Humanities.

The competition will be conducted by the Executive Committee and Electorial Board of Phi Beta Kappa, with judging by ad hoc committees. Essays, which can not be senior theses, may be submitted for consideration by faculty or by student authors.

The ad hoc committee may seek the opinion of other members of the faculty in evaluating entries.

One need not be a member of Phi Beta Kappa to submit an entry.

sure for some sort of change.”

Khan added that she hopes Take Back the Night allows students to empower them-

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Management, the Roy and Diana Vagelos Scholars Program in the Molecular Life Sciences, and the VIPER program.

Prior to the Vagelos’ donation, the energy building was designed as the Science Research Building under the Power of Penn campaign.

“At this critical moment for energy research, I am delighted by the generous gift from Roy and Diana. Creating a sustainable planet is a priority for the Power of Penn Arts & Sciences Campaign and the new building is a vital part of that effort. It will be host to the forward-thinking, creative work of Penn’s scientists and engineers and facilitate the collaborative solutions that the problem demands,” SAS Dean Steven J. Fluharty said to Penn Today.

selves to create change without relying on top-down changes from administrators.

“Energy research has been important to me and to Diana for years,” Vagelos said to Penn Today. “We’ve seen students and faculty doing extraordinary work and our hope is that this new building will provide the home and resources that this effort needs to create solutions.”

The new energy building may take up facilities in the High Bay area behind DRL, which is currently used for constructing large detectors and telescopes, Physics Graduate Chair Joshua Klein said to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Roy Vagelos majored in chemistry at Penn before going on to receive a medical degree from Columbia University. In December 2017, the Vageloses donated a $250 million dollar naming gift to Columbia’s medical school.

Vagelos is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.

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Roy and Diana Vagelos contributed to the building of the Laboratories of the Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (picture above).

The Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Announces Five Annual Phi Beta Kappa

Prizes for Honors Theses Four Phi Beta Kappa Theses Prizes of $1000 each and the

Frederick W. Meier, Jr. Thesis Prize of $1000 The competition will be conducted by the Executive Committee and Electorial Board of Phi Beta Kappa, with judging by ad hoc committees.

Essays may be submitted for consideration by faculty or by student authors.

A written evaluation by the thesis advisor must be included with the nomination.

Students must submit two (2) copies of their thesis for review.

Each award will carry an

One need not be a member of Phi Beta Kappa to submit an entry.

The deadline for submission is

The deadline for submission is

Honorarium of $150 Wednesday May 1st

Wednesday May 1st

Essays should be submitted to:

Essays should be submitted to:

The College Office

The College Office

120 Claudia Cohen Hall, 249 South 36th Street

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MONDAY APRIL 8, 2019 VOL. CXXXV, NO. 21 135th Year of Publication JULIA SCHORR President SARAH FORTINSKY Executive Editor BEN ZHAO Digital Director ISABELLA SIMONETTI Opinion Editor MADELEINE NGO Senior News Editor THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Senior Sports Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Senior Design Editor ALICE HEYEH Design Editor JESS TAN Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor TAMSYN BRANN Design Editor GIOVANNA PAZ News Editor MANLU LIU News Editor MAX COHEN News Editor DEENA ELUL Assignments Editor DANNY CHIARODIT Sports Editor

SPEC leaders say they don’t regret booking Miguel.

They should.

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iguel, this year’s Spring Fling concert headliner, was accused of forcibly grabbing the breast of University of New Mexico student Xian Bass and removing it from her shirt without her consent in 2017. While he denied the allegation, students have organized a Facebook event, titled “Stand Against Miguel at Fling,” encouraging students to walk out of the concert early or skip it entirely to “protest his predatory behavior.”

The Social Planning and Events Committee’s choice to book Miguel as this year’s headliner is indicative of a larger problem in SPEC’s selection process. Miguel is the third headliner since 2010 to face significant backlash from students — it’s time for SPEC to take these concerns seriously and implement a more rigorous vetting process for potential artists.

The students who created the event also took issue with misogyny in Miguel’s song lyrics.

“In hiring a sexual predator who is going to sing a song about how cool it is to use alcohol as a weapon to assault women at Fling, that’s just sending the message to all the perpetrators of sexual violence on campus that their behavior is encouraged by Penn,” College senior

Erica Rego told The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Still, SPEC President and Wharton senior Elizabeth Goran told the DP that SPEC does not regret booking Miguel.

“I wouldn’t say I regret the decision at all,” Goran said. “I would say as a leader of SPEC, we appreciate that people have varying opinions of the artist, and we’re very sensitive of the concerns that students were bringing up.”

Goran also said that SPEC lead-

these artists are representative of the Penn community’s values.

There are so many possible artists for SPEC to choose from.

The Penn community shouldn’t be endorsing artists who have sexual assault allegations against them.

SPEC’s reaction is especially troubling in light of the history of controversies around Fling artists in recent years. This is the third year since 2010 that students have complained about problematic

“Need a bitch that can f**k, cook, clean, right. Turn a bitch out, make her lick twice.” That same year, students also objected to Fling performer Girl Talk’s misogynistic lyrics.

Similarly, in 2010, students spoke out against Snoop Dogg’s offensive lyrics by holding a discussion at the Penn Women’s Center and sending a letter to SPEC calling for the organization to carefully consider the messages and behaviors promoted by the artists it

This apathetic reaction to the allegation is deeply troubling. When SPEC pays performers to come to Penn, it is sending a message that these artists are representative of the Penn community’s values.” ers were unaware of the allegation when they booked Miguel. However, the allegation was reported in 2017 in media outlets including Billboard, TMZ, Ebony, Vulture, and Spin.

This apathetic reaction to the allegation is deeply troubling. When SPEC pays performers to come to Penn, it is sending a message that

headliners and called for SPEC to reevaluate the way it selects performers for Fling.

In 2013, when Tyga was slated to perform at Fling, students formed a group called “We Can Do Better” to protest Tyga’s misogynistic lyrics. Students petitioned for SPEC to reform the selection process that led to booking an artist who raps

invites for Fling.

Protests like these drew campuswide attention to the problematic nature of these select artists and serve as an example of why student activism is vital to the Penn community. Students can’t remain silent on Miguel if they want to see concrete change in the future.

Still, the responsibility does

not just fall on us. The fact that students have raised these objections to at least three of the past ten Spring Fling headliners highlights a systemic problem in the vetting process for artists. SPEC needs to conduct more thorough background checks on potential performers and bar artists who have sexual misconduct allegations against them from coming to Penn.

In March 2018, Penn’s administration sent an email to students calling for suggestions on how to improve sexual harassment procedures. “Creating a campus free of sexual violence and sexual harassment is one of Penn’s highest priorities,” the email read.

SPEC’s unequivocal support of Miguel conflicts with the University’s stated commitment to creating a safe campus culture. In the future, SPEC must be more proactive in soliciting student feedback on potential Fling artists from student leaders in groups like the 6B minority coalition and Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention. SPEC should conduct more thorough research on potential performers in order to ensure that it does not overlook issues as serious as reported sexual misconduct allegations.

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OUT OF TURN | The Undergraduate Assembly needs to be more accessible to undergraduate students

ampaigns for Penn’s Undergraduate Assembly have been in full swing. If you’ve walked down Locust recently, you’ve seen the countless posters and flyers, complete with professional photographs and cheeky slogans, of students from every school and class year vying for titles in the UA. Shortly, a new group of executives and representatives will take their seats, and after that the UA — and its members — will become a lot less visible on campus.

Even at the height of election season, student government is not something most Penn students care

about. Turnout numbers are very low, as are engagement and awareness about what the UA does in general. The apathy of the general student body might seem unfair; not only do those hoping to be elected devote large amounts of time and energy to the process, the UA itself — from the bylaws and reports they release, the projects they promote, and the op-eds members write on the UA’s behalf — presents as an organized, prolific, and powerful group constrained by a lack of student engagement. I know that there are a number of UA members who are genuinely passionate about and

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invested in making Penn a better place.

But as a representative body, the UA needs to do more. Penn students don’t just feel disconnected from the UA because they don’t care — they feel disconnected because it’s frustrating to have the issues and concerns facing them discussed for the sake of gaining votes, and then ignored again.

The UA needs to be more accessible to undergraduate students, more accountable and open, and more careful about what promises it makes and projects it undertakes.

Not only does it feel mean-spirited to criticize an organization that a small group works so hard on: It’s difficult. The platforms of potential members and the ongoing projects look incredibly thorough and up to date (within the last week, I received an email from a candidate who said he would push to replace Frontera with a 24 hour diner, days after an opinion columnist first wrote about the idea). But it can be hard to tell whether the person talking to you on Locust Walk about transparency and diversity and accessibility actually cares about any of those concepts, or if they’re just using them as buzzwords. From access to menstrual products to supporting sexual assault survivors to something as basic as making sure all students get to eat, I’m glad candidates are talking

about these issues. But I’m worried that after the election is over, we will stop hearing about them again.

Projects like these take time, and it’s understandable that behind-thescenes bureaucracy slows progress down. But there are more steps that the UA could be taking. Beyond a suggestion box on their website and listing individual members’ emails in a spreadsheet, the UA could be made more accessible by individual members holding office hours, or having open meetings and more publicized opportunities for public comment (like University Council).

They could alleviate concerns about whether or not they’re truly representative of the student body by publishing a diversity report, like the Daily Pennsylvanian does. As busy as members might be, they are the students who represent the rest of the body, and they have an obligation to interact with their peers in this official capacity. This should not be the only time of year that Penn undergraduates get to meet and know about the people representing them; the process needs to be ongoing.

I understand that the UA (or any other branch of Penn’s student government) isn’t capable of doing everything. There are some things that are beyond their power to accomplish; they are necessarily constrained by their powers and

ANA WEST place within the operation of the University. (Some issues — like divestment — might be suited better to student protest and action rather than official channels, and that’s fine.) I don’t want to question the dedication of UA members to their work, and I acknowledge that a lot of their programs are necessary and useful for our community. But I also think members have a responsibility to think carefully about what they campaign on and what they promise, and I hope that they care about it on a deeper level than just election fodder. To earn students’ votes and trust, the UA should be accessible, accountable, and sincere — both during these elections and after they’re done.

ANA WEST is a College sophomore from Spring Lake, Mich. studying English. Her email address is anawest@sas.upenn.edu.

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Why I decided not to re-run for class president GUEST COLUMN BY JONATHAN SCOTTO

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oing into freshman fall, I knew I wanted to make an impact. I found myself so in love with the idea of the Penn community and I hoped to be able to be a leader by taking advantage of whatever opportunity came up. At the time, I knew that I wanted to make this experience — our experience — the best it can be for every member of the Class of 2022.

A few weeks later, I found myself collecting signatures to run for Class Board president.

Serving as Class Board president was one of the most challenging yet rewarding learning experiences I’ve had to date. As an elected member of Penn Student Government, I thought I would be able to make a significant, tangible difference in the life of each person that walks down Locust Walk day-in and day-out. I was fully ready to commit 150% of my time to this title; unfortunately, I found that, although this was a significant part of my Penn experience, it mattered less to others.

As much as we would like to believe that elections shouldn’t be popularity contests, they are. Throughout each election cycle, extroverted students with limitless connections

flood social media with their campaign slogans, raps, videos, and “platforms” promising “inclusivity” and “transparency.” Elections are inherently biased towards those who have less intensive academic schedules, more friends to change their Facebook profile pictures to their banners, and name recognition.

In reality, voters will cast their votes for the names they recognize, not the platforms that those names represent. This elections culture creates a heated race of Instagram followers, social clout, and who you know versus what you want to change.

Soon after the fight is done, votes are cast, elected student government officials take their “oath of office,” and the real work begins. After committing to fight for “inclusivity” and “transparency,” a small percentage of the total Penn population sit in a room and try to tackle some of the University’s biggest problems.

In many cases, successful initiatives by the Undergraduate Assembly and Class Board have worked out, like the UA’s Thrive at Penn or Class Board’s Feb Club. In actuality, however, the driving forces of these initiatives are those few who truly committed to uphold their responsibilities and to fix the problems they promised to tackle during the election season.

Unfortunately, to some on elected PSG bodies, the title is just that — a title. I give major credit to those consistently fighting for what’s right and pushing for an ideal picture of what Penn’s student government should be. Those who run, and run

for the right reasons, truly deserve to sit in on the committees, reap the benefits, and make the difference they sought out in their elections.

Those who treat the title as just a title and don’t respect the weight it carries should step down from their positions, or simply not run. This culture of convenience positionholding and title bearing slows down the growth and change that the elected branches of PSG can enforce.

Walking away from being class president is one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make. I struggled with the idea that my passion and love for Penn, as well as my mental health, was deteriorating. I had trouble understanding how an opportunity this big, an experience so worthwhile, could cause me so much emotional and mental struggle. I saw what was originally 150% of my energy going into the amazing work we completed quickly take a massive downward turn. I felt like no matter how hard I tried, only a few other elected students considered this opportunity as meaningful as I did.

Overall, I lost track of my pursuit of happiness. I realized that I could still be Jonathan Scotto, and maybe a better version of him, without the title. I still want to be that person who you wave to on Locust, the dining halls, or in class.

I still want to be that shoulder to cry on, or someone to laugh at your Overheard at Penn post. I am so proud and honored to have served a meaningful term, but the culture of

the elected branches of PSG needs to change.

I hope for the day that the elected branches of PSG are run by committed, passionate, motivated people in their entirety; I hope that the new elected officials realize the weight of their positions and contributions; I

hope that elections stop being about who has the most connections and become centered around real, tangible change.

In the end, voter turnout and voter standards have a great impact on what type of candidates get elected.

I urge everyone to vote for those

candidates who are true to their platform, are passionate about making a difference, and are willing to give student government their all. It’s time to make a choice of who you want to lead you. I hope you make sure that choice is a well-informed, confident one.

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When deciding on an artist, Goran said SPEC — including the three SPEC Concert co-directors — and outside talent agencies compile a list of artists, consider prices, and send out “bids” to performers they deem appropriate.

The concert directors then send an approval to Penn’s legal team, which includes a biography of the artist and any legal controversies they have faced, specifically arrests or criminal charges.

Goran said SPEC may consider expanding its background checks beyond criminal charges and requiring checks for sexual misconduct allegations in the future.

The Facebook protest was organized by College senior Erica Rego and seven other Penn students on April 5. Rego said she remembered hearing about the allegation in 2017, and following SPEC’s announcement, Rego and her friends decided to organize the event to give students the opportunity to stand in opposition to Miguel’s performance.

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good way for us to band people together who also felt really angry that our school chose a predator as our performer,” Rego said. “In hiring a sexual predator who is going to sing a song about how cool it is to use alcohol as a weapon to assault women at Fling, that’s just sending the message to all the perpetrators of sexual violence on campus that their behavior is encouraged by Penn.”

Rego cited Miguel’s 2012 song “How Many Drinks,” in which he sings the lyrics, “How many drinks would it take you to leave with me?” She said the lyrics were inappropriate and offensive because of the implication that it is acceptable to use alcohol to take advantage of women.

College sophomore Shana Vaid said she plans to boycott Miguel’s performance in light of the allegation.

“A commitment to believing and supporting survivors of sexual violence applies whether it’s a politician you hate or someone you admire,” Vaid said. “Separating the artist from the music is one thing, but actively supporting an abuser in person at one of their concerts is another.”

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chase Fling tickets will not be affecting Miguel’s payment, Goran said, as SPEC has a legally binding contract with his agency and Miguel will be paid a previously negotiated amount following the performance regardless of attendance.

“I would want people to be aware that ticket revenue doesn’t go into Miguel’s pocket or J.I.D’s pocket,” Goran said, adding that the revenue goes toward production costs for the concert.

Goran said students who already purchased a ticket will not be eligible to receive a refund.

Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention Chair and College senior Kara Hardie said she believes “every survivor,” adding that while she understands there may be logistical constraints in finding another performer in time for Fling, she is disappointed that SPEC did not conduct a more thorough background check.

“By each individual using their voice and speaking out against this, I think there is power in that,” Hardie said. “While it won’t make a financial impact for Miguel, it makes a statement about where our values lie and what we care about as a student body.”

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‘Highly-aided’ students now guaranteed summer funding Students are guaranteed up to $4,000 in funding JULIE COLEMAN & AMY LIU Staff Reporters

Starting this summer, “highlyaided” sophomores and juniors will be guaranteed funding up to $4,000 for unpaid or underpaid internships.

Following advocacy by Penn First, Student Registration and Financial Services announced in October that they will introduce new programming for highly aided students, including guaranteed summer funding for internships sponsored

by SRFS. Highly aided students were previously prioritized if they applied to Career Services summer funding for unpaid or underpaid internships, and administrators say that grouping all highly aided students’ summer funding under SRFS will free up summer funding for other students.

The initiative was announced in an email last semester to highly aided students, which is defined by Penn as students who receive full financial aid, have a median household income of $65,500, and whose family tuition contribution is around $4,500. The application for the summer funding went live in January, SRFS Executive Director Matthew Sessa said.

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Students search for summer internships during On-campus Recruiting. Student Registration and Financial Services announced in October that they will introduce new programming for ‘highly aided’ students.

search positions — that is at least six weeks long, and is a minimum of 30 hours per week.

In addition to SRFS funding highly aided students who apply to their initiative for underfunded or underpaid programs, if highlyaided students accept an internship offer with a stipend in Penn’s summer programs, SRFS will fund up

to $4,000 of the program’s stipend, Sessa said.

For the past five years, Career Services has offered its own program for rising juniors, seniors, and students from some graduate schools to grant funding for students with unpaid or underpaid summer internships, which prioritized highly aided students. Last year, nearly

all funds went to students receiving financial aid, many of whom were also deemed highly aided, Executive Director of Career Services Barbara Hewitt said.

SRFS’s new initiative aims to increase the amount of funding available for non highly aided students, said Paul Richards, who is the director of communications for the Divi-

sion of Finance. Hewitt said Career Services’ program always receives more applicants than it can provide funding for: the current program has a 10 to 18 percent acceptance rate.

Because highly aided students are now funded by SRFS, Career Services will be able to fund a greater number of students who are not highly-aided. This means that more Penn students will be able to receive summer funding overall.

“We see from our colleagues across campus who provide funding that there are always more students applying than [there is] funding to give out,” Richards said. “Our hypothesis is that through providing this funding, other funding on campus can expand to other students of other socioeconomic backgrounds.”

“Penn is going to be able to fund all of the highly-aided students who have unpaid or low paid internships for the summer after sophomore year and the summer after junior year. That is going to be way more funding than we could ever provide from office,” Hewitt said.

While creating the initiative was “an institutional commitment” from the University and SRFS had been collaborating with administrators for years before its launch, Richards credits student advocacy from groups such as Penn First for bringing the highly-aided summer funding issues to light.

For many students, the funding is crucial to compensate for unpaid and underpaid summer internships.

College senior Eden Harris, who

is a highly-aided student, received $3,300 from the Career Services’ program to work as a product manager at a Philadelphia-based startup called MilkCrate last year. She said she would not have been able to participate in the summer program if she had not received the additional funding. “[The program] is not meant to give you a profit, really, you’re meant to get work experience,” Harris said.

College junior Amber Auslander is a highly aided student in the process of applying for funding towards their unpaid lab research program this summer. As part of the application, they said they filled out a budget sheet which included estimating how much they needed for rent, utilities, and travel expenses.

College senior Ha Tran said he received funding from the Career Services’ program during the summers after his freshman and junior years, when he worked at advertising firms in New York City and Washington D.C., respectively. Tran identifies as highly-aided, and said he would not have been able to cover his living expenses without funding from Career Services for either summer.

“It’s a really good move for Career Services to help FGLI students, just because internship opportunities are such an important way for students to have career development,” Tran said. “It’s just literally impossible to do those kinds of internships sometimes without the kind of funding that’s available.”

Penn students visit Singapore to learn about ancient epic poetry Both Western and Eastern classics were studied MARIRI NIINO Staff Reporter

In a new classics course, students from Penn and from YaleNUS College in Singapore have the chance to study epic poetry together and visit each others’ home countries.

“Ancient Epic Poetry” is a collaboration between Penn Classical Studies Department Chair Peter Struck and Yale-NUS literature professor Mira Seo. Struck teaches a group of 10 Penn students, and Seo teaches an identical curriculum to nine Yale-NUS students. Students in the class learn about classic epics from the West, such as “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey,” and epics from the East, including “Gilgamesh” and “Ramayana.”

The two groups of students had a chance to visit each others’ campuses back to back over their respective spring breaks. Many said this was the highlight of the course.

The Singaporean students arrived in Philadelphia on Feb. 23.

For many of them, it was their first time in the United States.

The group visited tourist attractions such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Penn Museum, the Constitution Center, and Reading Terminal Market. Carson Huang, a junior at Yale-NUS, said he especially enjoyed being able to walk around Philadelphia without the heat and looking at archeological finds related to the Gilgamesh.

Arriving in Singapore on March 4, the Penn students participated in classes, visited museums, and enjoyed local cuisine.

College junior Maggie Danaher said some of her most memorable moments were learning about the Ramayana dance and Wayang kulit, traditional Javanese shadow puppetry.

College junior Claire Huffman said the visit to Singapore gave her a new perspective on epic poetry, as she found it interesting to “be with people who would recognize statues of characters from Ramayana just as much as I would recognize Achilles.”

Beyond these trips, the two groups of students communicate throughout the semester through GroupMe and posts on a shared blog. Huffman said the Penn and Yale-NUS sections once tried to hold class together over Skype,

but the 12-hour time difference made this difficult.

Students agreed that the course gave them a broader understanding of classics.

“As a classist, it really opened my mind to a more comparative lens,” Danaher said. “It extended what classics are for me — a lot of the times the focus is on Greece and Rome. Bringing in different epics opened up room for more discussions.”

Struck said this comparative approach fits with trends in the field of classical studies.

“We are at a point where we are realizing the importance of understanding the particular antiquity — Greece and Rome — alongside a wider global lens of antiquity,” he added.

“I think global classics is a great idea,” Huang said. “We at NUS had been naturalized to compare western epics to eastern epics, so we don’t think of it as a very strange concept.”

Students said they appreciated learning alongside people from different backgrounds.

“It was really nice making friends from literally across the world — about as far as you can get,” Danaher said. “That’s a pretty rare opportunity.”

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College junior Claire Huffman is a student in the global seminar. She said the visit to Singapore gave her a new perspective on epic poetry, as she found it interesting to interact with a different poetic tradition.

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embedded models to community centers like the ARCH building or the Penn Women’s Center, creating more meeting space for cultural groups, and facilitating the club recruitment process by creating an online resource with information about all clubs on campus.

During the two presidential debates, Menon and Curry primarily agreed on their policy goals but clashed over what experience was necessary to serve as president. Curry touted her outsider status outside of the executive board, while Menon emphasized her experience serving on the executive board as the UA’s treasurer.

At the vice presidential debate, Goldstein similarly highlighted his two years of experience on the executive board — first as secretary, and currently as speaker — while Serota promised to bring a fresh perspective to the role.

At the first debate on Monday night, Curry alleged that the UA executive board used airport shuttle revenue for “inappropriate services” — food and alcohol for a UA social event. Menon and other executive board members, such as current UA President Michael Krone, said no violations occurred and said

donations from wealthy owners of enslaved people in South Carolina and Jamaica in 1771 and 1772, raising the equivalent of 14 percent of the University’s total worth at the time.

Christopher D.E. Willoughby, a scholar-in-residence in the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, said 1855 Penn Medicine student John Ramsay McDow’s dissertation showed evidence that he supported genocide for people of African descent.

In his thesis, McDow used data collected by white people in Africa to claim that African descendants are genetically built for labor in the tropics, Willoughby said.

Willoughby said McDow’s supposed notions of anatomical distinctions between black people and white people was shaped by 1820 Penn Medicine graduate Samuel George Morton. Willoughby said Morton’s skull collection showed significant differences between the skulls of white and black males and oriented much of medical students’ approach of the race and the anatomy of the skull.

“Before his death, Morton was probably the single most important figure shaping how physicians talked about blackness,”

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The results for the rest of the UA and the Class Boards were also released Thursday night.

The 2020 Class Board will be led by Wharton junior Karim El Sewedy, and the 2021 Class Board will be led by College sophomore Lizzie Youshaei; both were incumbents who ran unopposed. College freshman Sam Strickberger won the 2022 Class Board presidential election. Incumbent College freshman Jonathan Scotto did not seek

reelection.

The voting period opened Monday April 1 at 12 a.m. and closed on Thursday April 4 at 5 p.m. This election cycle saw several new NEC policies targeting coercive campaign practices and voter turnout.

Menon and Goldstein will be sworn into their new roles at the UA’s transition meeting on April 14, where the body will also elect their next speaker, treasurer, and secretary to round out the executive board.

Willoughby said. “He even made casts of 10 representative racial skulls purchased by universities and medical schools such as Harvard Medical School and [South Carolina College].”

Willoughby added that McDow concluded his dissertation with the racist exclamation, “That in future histories of Africa, historians will only be able to say, ‘The negro was born, he was wretched, he died.’”

Penn and Slavery Project student researcher and College senior Brooke Krancer also presented findings on Benjamin Rush, a 1769-1789 Penn Chemistry professor. While Rush advocated for the abolishment of slavery, Rush owned an enslaved person and taught ideas that would later be the basis for race science studies at the medical school. Krancer added that Rush claimed that black skin color was caused by leprosy and facilitated the idea that blackness was a pathology that could be cured.

“Rush’s research provided a platform for teaching racial difference at Penn,” said Krancer, who is a former Daily Pennsylvanian editor. “This research proves that even a ‘good’ intellectual, who was president of the Abolition Society and was considered progressive, helped to justify the institution of slavery with his own theories of racial difference.”

Daina Ramey Berry, a History professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said at a panel that

an underground market of bodies, which she calls the domestic cadaver trade, traded black bodies to medical institutions such as Penn for experimentation and research.

Public History Fellow at Penn and Slavery Project VanJessica Gladney introduced their new project, “Reimagining Penn’s History through Augmented Reality.”

In fall 2019, the project will officially launch an app that generates an augmented reality tour throughout Penn’s campus to further reveal the history of Penn’s connection to slavery.

The symposium also displayed two sample augmented reality exhibitions in which people used the app “Zappar” to scan a portrait of William Smith, who was the Penn Provost in the early 1800s, and a painting of an enslaved man, Caesar, and Ebenezer Kinnersley, a professor who worked alongside Penn founder Benjamin Franklin.

The app scanned the paintings and viewers experienced an audiovisual history lesson on their phone.

Drexel Professor of Medicine Steven Peitzman said he appreciated the undergraduate students’ research.

“There are certainly people in Philadelphia who don’t want to talk about it and don’t want to hear about these discoveries, who want to think that we are behind the problem of racial tensions and disparity despite all of the evidence opened to their eyes,” Peitzman said.

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Penn golf has strong showing in Ivy Championship tune-ups The men finished in second and the women placed fourth CHARLIE MA Sports Reporter

It’s already the first week of April, and the Quakers are trying to find their form before the season comes to a close.

Over the weekend, Penn men’s and women’s golf traveled to New Jersey to play in the Princeton Invitational at Springdale Golf Club and Match Madness at Fox Hollow Golf Club, respectively. With high levels of Ancient Eight competition, the tournaments served as good measures for where the Quakers stand just two weeks away from the Ivy League Championship.

For the men, the weekend was highlighted by consistent play from the five golfers who teed it up at the par-71 Springdale Golf Club. The Red and

Blue finished in second place among a 13-team field, the highest they have placed in a competition this season. “[The Princeton Invitational] was very big personally to build momentum going forward. It was huge for the team as we look for an Ivy League Championship in a couple weeks and just having a solid finish against Ivy League competition,” sophomore Mitchell Cornell said.

In three rounds of play, the Quakers shot 281-275-287 for a 9-under-par 843 on Saturday and Sunday, 14 strokes behind first-place Yale. While the Red and Blue were able to stay in second place throughout the competition, they were never able to catch up with the Bulldogs, whose lead continued to grow after each round.

Cornell paved the way for Penn, as the sophomore finished the competition 8-underpar and tied for third individu-

ally.

“It was important that I stayed process-oriented the whole time and not get ahead of myself. I was confident that my best is just as good as anybody else’s,” Cornell said.

In addition to Cornell’s outstanding play, senior Carter Thompson, who is also a DP staffer, finished the weekend tied for eighth, and senior Josh Goldenberg finished tied for 18th.

On the women’s side, the Quakers competed in Match Madness this weekend at the Fox Hollow Golf Club in Branchburg, N.J., where they finished fourth among an eightteam field.

The match-play competition began for fourth-seeded Penn on Saturday morning against Ivy League rival and fifth-seeded Columbia. The Quakers won in dominating fashion, taking five of the six matches.

Advancing to the semifinals in the afternoon, the Red and Blue found themselves facing top-seeded Delaware. Penn tied with the Blue Hens, splitting the matches 3-3. Unfortunately for the Quakers, however, Delaware won the tiebreaker with more winning holes than Penn and advanced to the finals.

“We played a different format than we usually play this weekend, and we practiced it over the last couple weeks,” coach Mark Anderson said. “Sometimes, it literally comes down to one hole — you have one bad shot or you have a three-putt somewhere. That can be the difference in the match.”

On Sunday, the Red and Blue faced Harvard in the third-place match, where Penn lost to the Crimson by a score of 4.5-1.5.

“This was our last tournament before Ivies, and I feel really good even though we lost.

We played well in our first two

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Senior Josh Goldenberg finished tied for 18th helping the Quakers to a second place finish at the Princeton Invitational over the weekend.

matches, and we were hanging with Harvard for most of the day. We just lost by a couple holes in some of the matches, so it was close,” Anderson said.

As the regular season comes

to an end, the men will have one more chance to play — at the Yale Spring Invitational — before the Ivy League Championship. For the women, it’s their next stop.

Rowing shows improvement in weekend races against Ivy opponents Women’s rowing and men’s lightweight both competed CHARLIE DOLGENOS Sports Reporter

There were mixed results for Penn men’s lightweight rowing and women’s rowing this weekend.

The women’s team traveled to Lake Carnegie in Princeton, N.J. to compete in the Ivy League Invitational. In the race, the Quakers held their own against a number of highquality Ivy League opponents, including Dartmouth and Princeton.

Men’s lightweight crew stayed home to compete against Cornell and Harvard, and the Quakers finished second. They

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time ever.

“I think having the confidence was the most important part. It feels really good to be running this fast so early. To be honest, I didn’t really expect to be doing this at this point,”

won the Second Varsity Eights race on the Schuylkill River, improving to 5-0 on the season.

The group posted a winning time of 5:45.9, beating both the Crimson and Big Red. They finished more than two seconds ahead of Cornell and nearly 16 seconds ahead of Harvard. The undefeated squad finished with a time of 6:00.5 in its previous race and were able to improve on that time by almost 15 seconds.

The Varsity Eight race didn’t result in a Penn victory but the group still clocked a very respectable time of 5:40.2 in the 2,000-meter race. The Quakers finished second behind Cornell, which finished at 5:38.2. The Varsity Eight team for Penn was also able to improve its time from the previous race, which

was also held on the Schuylkill.

The Third Varsity Eight team ended the day in third, while the Fourth Varsity Eights came

Sellaro said. “I’m just going to try to stay confident and follow the training plan. Hopefully that will lead to some good runs.”

Even after their record-breaking accomplishments, the Quakers have bigger aspirations.

“I’m planning to throw a lot farther,” Wilson said. “My overarching

goals are breaking the Ivy League record and qualifying for NCAA Nationals again. Training has been going well, and I feel that I have a lot more distance left in me before the season ends.”

The Red and Blue will continue their outdoor meets next weekend at the Tennessee Relays.

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Penn women’s rowing competed in the Ivy League Invitational over the weekend in Princeton, N.J. against several Ancient Eight foes.

in second out of four squads.

These teams hit a mark of 5:58.5 and 5:59.9, respectively, while Harvard ended in first in

each of the races.

The women’s team raced twice this weekend at the second annual Ivy League Invitational.

The relatively new invitational involves two competitions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

In the morning races, the Varsity Eights came in third out of four teams with a time of 6:42.0. Princeton won the event with a mark of 6:25.3. The Second Varsity Eights also finished in third, coming in at a time of 6:46.8.

A third-place finish also came from the Penn Varsity Four group, which ended the race at 7:47.7. To cap off the morning, the Second Varsity Fours had a second-best time of 7:56.6, about 15 seconds behind Princeton.

The afternoon races included Yale and Columbia, who competed against the Quakers; the Bulldogs swept all four races.

Penn came in second in the Varsity Eight, Varsity Four, and Second Varsity Four competitions, finishing with times of 6:23.6, 7:38.9, and 7:41.4, respectively. The Second Varsity Eights finished with a mark of 6:38.9, which was good for third place.

Up next, women’s rowing will race at the Clemson Invitational on April 19 and 20.

That will be the Quakers’ final matchup before the Ivy League Championships on May 19. The men’s lightweight squad will be back on the water next weekend, where it will be hosting Columbia and Yale in pursuit of the Marcellus Hartley Dodge Cup.

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Women notch only win of weekend for Penn TENNIS | The men dropped two matches; women split MAX HAN Sports Reporter

The Red and Blue came into the weekend with high expectations, but they didn’t end up with the results they were looking for.

Penn men’s and women’s tennis took on Harvard and Dartmouth, and of the four matches, the only victory for the Quakers was the women’s win against the Big Green.

On Saturday, the men (16-8, 0-3 Ivy) took on a Harvard team (15-5, 2-0) that it had beaten earlier in the year at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship.

This time, however, the Crimson turned things around and walked away with a 6-1 victory.

This match was quite a struggle for the Quakers. After losing the doubles point, the team saw four of the six singles matches go Harvard’s way in straight sets. Junior Max Cancilla won his first set but fell short in the next two sets.

Senior Kyle Mautner, currently ranked No. 85 nationally, grabbed Penn’s only point in his singles match. Despite losing a close first set, the senior rebounded strong, winning the second set and the super-tiebreaker.

On Sunday, the team looked much sharper but was still unable to take care of business against

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going to do it,� Rosenzweig said. “She’s been so amazing this entire season, so we didn’t doubt it for a second.�

Although the end result proved to be in Penn’s favors, the game’s start was rather inauspicious, as the Bears jumped out to a 3-0 lead and dominated possession early on.

However, Rosenzweig and the Penn offense provided an answer, conjuring up a quick four-goal run

Dartmouth (12-6, 1-1).

The Red and Blue started the day by losing the doubles point, but Mautner again led the team with his solid performance on the top court, winning in straight sets.

The rest of the team also kept the other singles matches close and took their opponents to third sets.

Senior Dmitry Shatalin and freshmen Edoardo Graziani, Kevin Zhu, and Jason Hildebrandt all rebounded in the second set after dropping the first. However, none were able to win the decisive third set. Zhu was also bothered by a hand injury throughout his match.

Cancilla, on the other hand, defeated his opponent to put a second point on the board for the Quakers. He overcame three set points in a tiebreaker to win the first set, and after losing the second set, the senior took the final frame with a clean 6-0 sweep.

This weekend marked the team’s first home losses of the season. Combined with last week’s defeat against Princeton, the Red and Blue are now on a three-game losing streak and have yet to win a match in Ivy play. “We got a little complacent,�

Cancilla said. “These matches are all close, and we were right there.

We are as good as a team as we ever were, but it’s just a couple points that have to go our way from here on now.�

Next Friday, the Quakers will have a chance to redeem themselves when they host Cornell at

BASEBALL | Larsen hit for first cycle in 19 years ISAAC SPEAR Associate Sports Editor

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Senior Marta Kowalska helped women’s tennis claim three of four singles points agianst Dartmouth, winning her individual match in straight sets.

home.

Like the men’s team, the women (12-5, 1-2) also lost to Harvard (14-6, 2-1). Despite winning the doubles point, the Red and Blue quickly dropped four singles matches to the Crimson, which gave Harvard the win.

On Sunday, however, the Quakers turned the tables and grabbed their first Ivy victory at Dartmouth (3-14, 0-3).

The Red and Blue swiftly took the doubles point by winning the first two matches played. In singles, junior Ashley Zhu and seniors Marta Kowalska and OJ Singh — who is also a DP staffer — kept the momentum going for the team. They each dominated their opponents, winning in

that put the Quakers on top.

The first of those four goals came as a result of a clinical passing sequence that culminated with a Rosenzweig feed to sophomore attacker Zoe Belodeau on the doorstep, but the fourth goal was perhaps the most impressive. Off of a clear by the Penn defense, Rosenzweig sprinted down the sideline with the ball before cutting toward the middle of the field and taking a virtually unsaveable shot that hit the crossbar before finding net.

From that point onward, the Penn’s defense settled in nicely, al-

lowing only one Brown goal over the course of the first half’s final 24 minutes, sending the teams to halftime knotted up at four goals apiece.

But in the second half, Brown only further proved its resilience, eventually retaking the lead and expanding it to a two-goal cushion before junior midfielder Erin Barry, Belodeau, and Rosenzweig scored in succession to close the door on the Bears’ upset bid.

Although the high stakes of a such a tight contest might rattle less experienced teams, the Quakers have been in this position be-

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Larsen. In the top of the seventh, the Quakers exploded with five runs, and they tacked on five more in the ninth inning to cap off a 13-1 win. Junior pitcher Mitchell Holcomb pitched a complete game and limited Dartmouth to just three hits in 27 at-bats, while the Quakers stayed hot by recording 17 hits.

Just a few hours later, Penn completed the sweep in a 15-3 rout. Senior catcher Matt O’Neill and Matt each tallied three hits, three runs and two RBIs to get Penn out to a 15-0 lead. Dartmouth scored three times in the ninth, but it wasn’t enough to overcome a 15-run deficit. Junior

pitcher Christian Scafidi fanned seven batters and shut out Dartmouth over eight innings to pick up the win. “When we travel, we can’t take as many people, and after we had a 21-inning game on Saturday, we were worried about our pitching,�

Yurkow said. “But we had two great performances from Mitchell and Christian that were really big in netting us two wins.�

The Red and Blue will look to carry their offensive efficiency into the second half of conference play. They will face Monmouth on Wednesday before traveling to Princeton next weekend to face the Tigers.

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In addition, Larsen made use of his 12 opportunities by hitting for the cycle. In the 13th inning — after already hitting a double, triple, and home run — he dropped a bunt and reached base safely to complete the first Penn cycle in 19 years.

After competing with Penn for over six hours the previous day, Dartmouth had no answer for the Red and Blue on Sunday.

In the first matchup of the doubleheader, Penn slowly mounted a 3-1 lead through six innings, thanks in part to a home run by

The bats were hot for Penn baseball over the weekend, yet no bat was hotter than that of freshman left fielder Craig Larsen.

Thanks in part to the longest game in Ivy League history, in which he set an NCAA record for at-bats with 12, Larsen hit for Penn’s first cycle since Jeff Gregorio achieved the feat in 2000. On top of that, Larsen collected three more hits and five RBIs over the final two games of the series against Dartmouth, both blowout wins for the Red and Blue.

Starting with an RBI double in the top of the first, Larsen’s cycle wouldn’t be completed until he picked up a single in the top of the 13th inning. Through the first eight innings, the offense hadn’t gotten much going until Larsen bashed a grand slam that broke a 6-6 tie.

It’s historic enough for a Penn athlete to achieve a feat that hasn’t happened in 19 years, but even more so for a player in his first collegiate season.

But this impressive weekend didn’t come out of nowhere.

Larsen has been showing that he’s the real deal all season long.

He has started all but one game this season and is one of the primary drivers of a reinvigorated Penn offense. Coming into the weekend, Larsen was hitting .389 with an impressive 1.109 on-base plus slugging percentage as a consistent presence near the top of the lineup.

Coming into the series, Larsen was also tied for the team lead in doubles with 11, and he led the team in RBIs and home runs with 30 and four, respectively. Larsen’s hot bat saw him add to each of these numbers against Dartmouth.

Larsen also exhibited some versatility in the field. The freshman switched over to first base in each of the three games after coach John Yurkow pinchhit for starter Sean Phelan.

The Quakers are now right behind Harvard for first place in the Ancient Eight as they prepare for a midweek nonconference clash with Monmouth.

Over the rest of the season, Larsen will try to bring an end to another long drought for Penn baseball by delivering an Ivy League title.

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Next weekend, when the Red and Blue take on Dartmouth at home, they’ll look to maintain their undefeated Ivy League record, even if doing so requires yet another one-goal game.

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Overall, the Quakers took three of the four singles points and won by a score of 4-1. After suffering two losses to start the Ivy season, the Quakers needed to bounce back on Sunday and did just that with the road win. “We were just more focused,� coach Sanela Kunovac said. “It just looked like we were better prepared both physically and mentally. It just looked like a sharper version of our team today than yesterday. I think it’s a tremendous show of character today.�

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onds after the restart. But with the crowd behind their backs, the Bears refused to give in without a fight.

Despite four penalties being called against Brown and Penn outmatching them 17-9 in shot attempts, the Quakers were unable to extend their lead significantly. That was largely due to the heroics of Goss, who came up with the save of the game by denying Penn’s freshman attacker Dylan Gergar from point-blank range. “I think we didn’t really focus on our shooting the way we should have,� coach Mike Murphy said. “A couple of guys had shots, but they didn’t take enough pride in finishing those [shots] the right way. Instead, Brown made some plays, and they’re a very tough-minded team.�

The Quakers’ 12-7 advantage would last almost half of the fourth period, as both teams struggled to get quality looks at goal. Chasing the game, Brown would pile intense pressure on the Penn defense and on senior goalie Reed Junkin, who notched 15 saves in the game. With 7:27 to go, the Bears finally broke the scoring drought for both teams.

They would follow that up with another goal 50 seconds later, to reduce Penn’s lead to 12-9. “We just talked about focusing on the little things,� Murphy said. “Coming [out] with that next faceoff,

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Junior attackman Adam Goldner paced Penn men’s lacrosse with six goals in the team’s dominant 16-9 victory against Brown on Saturday.

I think that was a defining moment in the game. But credit to Brown for making the run, and credit to us for responding in the fourth and finishing the game the right way.�

Having endured a 10-minute scoring drought, Penn needed a score to seal the deal. And, as they have all season, the Red and Blue turned to their star attacker Goldner, who grabbed his sixth goal of the game to silence the crowd and shift the momentum back in Penn’s favor. Gergar would then atone for his earlier miss to restore Penn’s five-goal cushion with 2:51 to go. A late goal by senior attacker Simon Mathias and a second from Gergar would seal the win for the Red and Blue. “[Goldner]’s more of an off-ball guy for us this year,� Murphy said. “The beauty is that we have so many guys on the perimeter who can beat their guy. When a guy beats his man and the ball starts flying around, gen-

erally people are looking for Adam Goldner because he finishes the ball so well.�

As much as the Quakers’ offense has stood out, their defense is also starting to pick up, as this was the second time this season Penn has limited its opponent to single-digit scoring. “Our three starting close defensemen were out all fall for different reasons: [junior] Mark Evanchick was playing football, and then [junior] Kyle Thornton and [senior] Noah Lejman were out with injuries,� Murphy said. “Those guys are starting to gel now, and we’ve got a couple of freshmen back there that are figuring things out.�

Next up for the Quakers is a visit to Harvard next Saturday. A win would see Penn further extend its lead at the top of the Ivy League standings as the regular season nears a close.

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Red and Blue sweep threegame series against Cornell SOFTBALL | Penn scored 34 runs against the Big Red PARKER JONES Sports Reporter

After the dust settled, Penn softball’s weekend ended with a three-game series sweep over Cornell, extending its win streak to six games.

The Quakers (17-11, 8-4 Ivy) headed to Ithaca, N.Y. for the weekend after winning their previous three games. They were able to sustain their momentum, breaking multiple season and career highs in the process.

Penn started off with a bang in game one, pulling off a 12-7 win.

This marked the first Ivy series in which the team won the first contest.

In particular, it was solid power hitting that gave the Red and Blue the advantage.

A home run from sophomore third baseman Lucy Yang plated

two runs in a six-run first inning to start the game. In total, Penn would smack five extra-base hits, with two doubles from senior first baseman Hannah Gibbons.

The Quakers piled on three more in the second inning to extend the lead to 9-2 thanks to patience at the plate — the ninth run came on an RBI walk which was enough to withstand Cornell’s four run fourth.

In the second game of the series, the team saw a scoreless pitching performance from junior Jennifer Brann end early. A Yang RBI single in the top of the fifth gave the Quakers the requisite 8-0 lead for the mercy rule, ending the game a half-inning later. Brann threw a complete game, striking out five batters in five innings and allowing just three hits.

Freshman center fielder Emma Nedley had a stellar performance during the double-header on Saturday, hitting a home run and a double in game two. She ended the day with five hits and five

RBIs to her name. Nedley’s solo shot was her team-leading fifth home run of the season.

Nedley now sits in the top 10 the Ivy League in several offensive categories, including home runs and slugging percentage (.670).

The Red and Blue finished the three-game set with another fiveinning game, this time a 14-0 rout of the Big Red. Nedthe Red and Blue offensively, as she notched 5 RBIs and four hits in as many at-bats. In the series, she went 9-for-12 and added nine RBIs. Brann pitched another complete game shutout on Sunday, her second in two days. This time she struck out three and allowed four hits. Across 10 innings — all scoreless — Brann allowed a total of seven Cornell hits, the same amount Nedley had for the Quakers on her own.

With the help of the slugger, the Quakers are now at the top of the Ivy League with Princeton as their next competitor this weekend at Penn Park.

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There was no shortage of offense for the Quakers on Saturday.

No. 6 Penn men’s lacrosse overpowered Brown on the offensive end to win its sixth consecutive

game by a score of 16-9.

It was a very scrappy first half with ground balls and turnovers aplenty. Brown (4-6, 2-1 Ivy) opened the scoring, but Penn sophomore midfielder Mitch Bartolo swiftly answered with a longrange bounce shot. Crisp passing from the Quakers (6-3, 4-0) would also allow junior attacker Adam Goldner to notch a quick score.

With the shot clock running down, the Quakers were able to send the ball into the net once more, but the referees deemed it a fraction too late.

Thanks in part to Penn’s energy

and physicality, Brown looked lost on offense and turned the ball over on multiple occasions, including one straight after winning the faceoff. Penn took advantage of the Bears’ slump and stretched its lead to 5-2 with 9:32 remaining in the second quarter. But the Red and Blue would later pay the price for their intense style of play, with an illegal body check being called against senior midfielder Alex Roesner while attempting an interception.

During its extra-man opportunity, the Bears scored twice to cut Penn’s lead to one. That included a

long heave up the field by Brown goalkeeper Phil Goss — off of a Penn turnover — that caught the Quakers at the back and resulted in a simple finish. However, the Red and Blue calmed their nerves and scored three times in the final six minutes of the period, including another quick-fire two goals by Goldner in the span of 44 seconds.

That gave Penn a comfortable 8-4 lead heading into the break.

The Red and Blue kept their strong offensive game going in the third period, scoring just 33 secSEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 12

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Another game, another onegoal win for the Quakers.

No. 9 Penn women’s lacrosse traveled to Providence, R.I. and got quite the fight from a Brown team that hasn’t beaten the Red and Blue (9-2, 3-0 Ivy) in any of the last 16 meetings between the two squads.

The 9-8 victory marks the fifth time this season that Penn won by the slimmest of margins.

Leading the charge for the Quakers was the brilliance of attacker Gabby Rosenzweig on the offensive end, as the junior paced all scorers with six points on three goals and three assists. Throughout the game, Rosenzweig looked to be in command, controlling the pace of play while operating predominantly from behind the net.

With the score tied at eight, with less than two minutes on the clock, and with the shot clock winding down, Rosenzweig saved her best play for last, curling to the

left side of the goal before quickly spinning back to her right hand for a low angle shot that beat Brown (6-6, 2-2) netminder Erin Tucker and proved to be the game-winner.

“We ran two plays that Brown defended really well, but what was important for us was, regardless of whether or not the plays worked, we had to all remain calm, and we did,” Rosenzweig said of the goal. “We were able to get it done. I saw that the shot clock was winding down, and I was just thinking that we were winning this game and that it was our game.”

However, even after that late score, the game’s final result remained in doubt, as Brown was able to generate multiple shots on cage in the final minute, only to be turned aside by junior goalie Mikaila Cheeseman.

Much like Rosenzweig, Cheeseman saved her best plays for the most crucial moments, saving not one, but two Brown free position opportunities as the seconds ticked away.

Despite the high degree of difficulty required of Cheeseman on those saves, her teammates were confident in her abilities to make the big play.

“Those last few saves were just so clutch, but we knew she was SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 12

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Junior attacker Gabby Rosenzweig led the way for the Quakers in Saturday’s win at Brown, totalling three goals and three assists.

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Penn baseball made history in a number of different ways this weekend.

After lighting up the scoreboard against Saint Joseph’s earlier in the week, the Quakers tallied 49 runs in a three-game series sweep over Dartmouth.

The Red and Blue took home their first conference series sweep since 2017 and have now won six of their past seven games by an average margin of 9.5 runs.

“We’ve been playing really hard as of late, and I think this sweep gives us something to show for it,” coach John Yurkow said.

The wins move the Quakers (17-8, 6-3 Ivy) into second place in the Ivy League — just a half game behind Harvard — while also giving them momentum heading into their series with the other half of the League.

Penn kicked off the weekend with a lengthy, record-setting marathon that saw the Quakers rack up 30 hits, the most in program history. They notched the first run of the game when freshman left fielder Craig Larsen doubled and sent junior second baseman Chris Adams home.

The Big Green, however, were resilient, and both teams traded punches until the eighth inning,

On Saturday, Penn men’s and women’s track chipped away at some school records at Princeton’s Sam Howell Invitational.

Even though their Friday meet at Temple was canceled due to weather, the Quakers took home a total of seven wins this weekend.

The women’s team triumphed in five of their events, with an especially strong showing in the field competition. Sophomore Camille Dickson captured the long jump win for Penn with a mark of 5.73 meters, and junior Maura Kimmel’s 14.96m throw secured her victory in the shot put.

Junior Maddie Villalba was the Quakers’ only first-place athlete in the track events with her performance in the 800-meters, ensuring that the women’s team picked up wins in both track and field.

Besides their podium successes, the women’s team had several important personal triumphs.

Junior Katie Schroeder tied her personal best of 3.80m in her pole vault win, and senior Rachel Lee Wilson’s 63.89m hammer throw smashed her own program record.

“For this meet, I was really focused on some key technical things I’ve been working on in training. I went into the meet with the mindset of throwing far,” Wilson said.

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Senior right fielder Peter Matt set an NCAA record with 12 at-bats in the 21-inning marathon game that the Quakers won on Saturday.

when Penn took a 10-6 lead thanks to Larsen’s two-out grand slam. Dartmouth wound up tying the game in the bottom of the eighth and forced extra innings.

“It’s funny because the scoreboard [at Dartmouth] only goes up to 11 innings, so after a while, we lost track of what inning it was,” Yurkow said.

Both teams scored three runs in the 13th before going seven innings without a run. Finally, in the 21st inning of play, Penn outscored Dartmouth, 8-2, thanks to some clutch hitting from junior right fielder Peter Matt, senior first baseman Sean Phelan, and Larsen.

“This was a crazy start to our weekend, and both teams scored a bunch of runs,” Yurkow said.

“We didn’t really play good defense and walked a good amount of guys, but we hung in there and broke back with a big 21st

inning.”

The game marked a number of records for both sides. It was the longest game in Ivy League history and the 11th game in NCAA history to last for 20 or more innings. The teams’ combined 206 plate appearances and 176 at-bats also marked NCAA records. Penn’s 92 at-bats and Matt and Larsen’s 12 at-bats each are the most in college baseball history.

“When you’re in the game, you’re just trying to score runs, but after the stats started coming in afterwards, the history we made started to sink in,” Yurkow said. “Penn baseball is over 150 years old, and the fact that we were able to do the things we did and come out with a win is something I don’t think I’ll forget.”

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Senior Rachel Lee Wilson broke her own program record with a 63.89m hammer throw at Princeton’s Sam Howell Invitational.

Women’s track continued its hunt of all-time spots in the 100.

Senior Imani Solan’s 11.88 second finish moved her into the fourth all-time spot in program history. Fellow sprinter junior Cecil Ene followed closely behind with an 11.95s run that matched Penn’s fifth-best ever time.

The women’s team remained strong in other key events, securing the second and third place spots in the 100m hurdles and finishing in the top three in the 400, 200, javelin throw, and discus.

The men had a more difficult time racking up victories at Princeton, winning two events overall.

Junior Anthony Okolo won the 400m hurdles with a time of 52.35, and two Quakers, junior Nathan Fisher and freshman Payton Morris, took first and second place in the pole vault.

However, this win total is not

indicative of many athletes’ performances. Overall, 16 Quakers made it into the top five in their events.

Although he placed fifth, sophomore Jake Kubiatowicz recorded a 59.83m toss in the hammer throw, the fourth-best mark in program history. Junior Mitchell Poynter finished second in the 1500, and senior Lance Yassay placed third in the high jump.

In the 1500 event, freshman Ray Sellaro and junior Colin Daly had significant personal accomplishments. Daly placed third, with the seventh-best time in program history of 3:34.93.

After finishing with the seventhbest time in program history last week in North Carolina, Sellaro ended his run another step closer to the record with the sixth-best SEE TRACK PAGE 11

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