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University follows other Ivies’ sexual harassment policies The ban on undergraduatefaculty sexual relations went into effect on March 28 NAOMI ELEGANT Staff Reporter

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Krone won 2,906 points and Andrews received 1,240 points HALEY SUH & CLAIRE SLINEY News Editor & Staff Reporter

College junior Michael Krone and College sophomore Jordan Andrews will serve as the new president and vice president of the Undergraduate Assembly, respectively, the Nominations and Elections Committee announced Thursday evening.

Krone ran against College junior Samara Wyant, former Daily Pennsylvanian staffer, and College junior Robert J. Klopf III. “I was really thankful to be running against two really, really great candidates who forced me to really have

a well-rounded and well-positioned viewpoint on everything that needed to happen, needed to be done, who challenged me in debates, met me eye-for-eye when campaigning, so I thank them for that,” Krone said.

“I feel really elated, also really, really honored. I know that we knocked on a lot of doors, but this definitely wouldn’t have been possible without great people behind us, working with us, endorsing us, believing in us,” Andrews said.

Krone received 2,906 points — a 447-point margin of victory over runner-up Wyant’s 2,459 points. Klopf III came in with 1,112 points. Andrews received 1,240 points, a 343-point margin of victory over runner-up Wharton sophomore Max Grove.

Krone and Andrews ran on the platform of improving mental wellness, transparency, inclusivity, accessibility, and community engagement.

In a guest column in The Daily Pennsylvanian, Krone and Andrews wrote, “We want to increase transparency between the Penn administration, student body, and Undergraduate Assembly; improve the accessibility of Penn’s resources and student life; fight for inclusivity and equal opportunity for success; promote mental wellness initiatives and culture change; and lobby for community engagement in West Philadelphia.”

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A new policy banning all sexual relations between undergraduate students and faculty members at Penn went into effect on March 28.

This restriction — which applies to academic advisors and program advisors as well — marks a shift from the previous rule that prohibited faculty-student sexual relations “during the period of the facultystudent relationship.”

For graduate students, however, this new policy does not apply, and sexual relations with faculty members is still only banned during the period of instruction.

The announcement is not unprecedented in the world of higher education. In fact, among other Ivy League institutions, Penn is relatively late to introduce this new policy shift.

Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Yale University, Brown University, Princeton University, and Stanford University all have blanket prohibitions on undergraduate-faculty relationships for undergraduates, similar to the one Penn just implemented.

Columbia University and Cornell University prohibit student-faculty relationships only where the faculty member has academic or professional responsibility or authority over the student — including teaching, advising, and grading the student — similar to Penn’s policy before the March 28 change.

Cornell’s current policy, approved in 1996, has been “a topic of concern” for the last two years, and the university has created a Consensual Relationships

Policy Committee, according to the university’s website.

Yale’s policy states that undergraduates are “particularly vulnerable to the unequal institutional power inherent in the teacher-student relationship and the potential for coercion, because of their age and relative lack of maturity.” Dartmouth’s policy cites the “heightened risk” of a power imbalance in undergraduate-faculty relationships.

The policy change also comes in the context of a wider trend in academia. A recent public survey detailed accounts of sexual harassment in academia, including five entries from students alleging sexual harassment by Penn faculty members. The five entries were made by graduate students, who a 2015 survey by the American Association of Universities says are more likely to be harassed by faculty than undergraduates.

Katie Pak, a GET-UP member in her third year at GSE, said that she did not know enough about the policy update to comment, but that she thought it was “interesting” that the change included “nothing about graduate students,” despite the ongoing campaign for improved sexual harassment policies at GSE. College junior Raisa Shah, who is political chair for the Penn Association for Gender Equity, said that while the ban may be a controversial topic, “some amount of institutional guidance” may be beneficial to students.

“I think it’s good that the ban is referring to undergrads specifically because these relationships particularly can lead to a lot of abuse and maltreatment due to the vast difference in age and power dynamics,” Shah said. “Not that this doesn’t happen at the graduate level […] but I think this is a step in the right SEE HARASSMENT PAGE 3

Community fundraises medical expenses for son of Dining staffer The staffer’s son was shot Feb. 15 while walking home GORDON HO Contributing Reporter

The 17-year-old son of Penn Dining staff member Troy Harris was shot in February near his home in South Philadelphia, and Penn students have been fundraising to cover his estimated $10,000 in medical expenses.

On Feb. 15, Troy’s son Azir was shot as he was walking home from dinner near his residence in South Philadelphia, Troy told The Daily Pennsylvanian. Since then, Troy said Azir has been in the hospital’s intensive care unit and has been undergoing lung, throat, and back surgery. He said Azir is also likely

to remain fully paralyzed below the waist for the rest of his life. For Troy, the high cost of medical bills has only added to the family’s stress.

After the incident — which involved two other people who were shot alongside Azir — Troy said he and his family of eight were devastated.

“The house just feels empty, empty. Everybody’s staying in their room,” Harris said. “Immediately after the event, I was lost. My soul left my body. I was just numb.”

Wharton junior Michelle Lyu, who first met Troy during her freshman year at Hillel’s Falk Dining Commons, went to visit Azir in the hospital. She then decided to start a fundraiser on March 30 to help the Harris family. Currently, 327 donors have raised over $12,000.

Lyu said she met Troy at the hospital when he was visiting his son, who has been staying there since the incident in February.

“The way Troy stood beside his son at the hospital bed and the way his voice cracked when he said, ‘He’s only 17 years old. That’s my baby,’ was heart-wrenching.”

“It’s easy to remain insulated as Penn students to the hard, raw realities of many living in Philadelphia,” Lyu said.

Troy estimated the medical cost to be at least $10,000.

“I know that’s going to be over the roof because he has so many CAT scans, so many X-rays. It was like every day he was getting two or three X-rays,” Troy said.

Lyu later added that the fundraiser also intends to aid with associated

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expenses beyond medical costs, such as implementing handicap accessibility and helping the family move out to a safer neighborhood.

The online fundraiser has taken hold among many members within the Penn community and beyond.

Students, faculty, and friends outside Penn have posted on social media platforms and have donated as well.

Yale student Amy Kim, Lyu’s friend and Los Angeles native, saw Lyu’s Facebook post about Azir and said she felt compelled to donate.

“I come from a background that isn’t familiar with wealth. In fact, I had to take a gap year to help my family afford basic living expenses,” Kim said. “Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy survival.”

Many professors have also con-

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Penn announces contract with police union

The news broke at a ceremony honoring officers JAMES MEADOWS Staff Reporter

After more than six months of officers working without a contract, the Penn Police Association and Division of Public Safety have decided upon a new collective bargaining agreement.

Craig Carnaroli, Penn’s executive vice president, took the stage at an annual ceremony Wednesday to honor community outreach and heroism and to announce the new development in the ongoing PPA negotiations with DPS. “It was a long contract process, probably longer than anyone would’ve liked, but I’d like to thank the PPA for accepting the agreement and your patience in that process,” Carnaroli said.

“These are always not the easiest things or the funnest things to do, but we got through and we got through together.”

The contract between the PPA and the University expired on

July 31, 2017 and until this point had not been renewed since representatives from the union and DPS had not been able to agree on the terms of the contract.

Vice President for Public Safety and Penn Police Superintendent Maureen Rush, in her final remarks, took a moment to reflect on a “little bit of a rough year” that the University had undergone.

The ceremony serves as a way for Penn’s Division of Public Safety, Undergraduate Assembly, and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly to recognize and celebrate members of campus safety for watching over and protecting the community.

As officers were called up to receive commendations, letters of recognition, and unit citations, their superior officers recalled moments of service including community outreach, in-depth investigations, foot chases, and sometimes, moments when life and death hung in the balance.

One captain recalled a har-

rowing account on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017, when officers and doctors were able to save the life of a Penn student who had tried to take his own life by ingesting a formula of sodium nitrate and prescription drugs.

One of the responders to that case was Dr. Joshua Glick, who only eight years ago was a Penn undergraduate and chief of the student-run Medical Emergency Response Team.

When Glick was the chief of MERT years ago in 2010, the club was merely four years old and was made up of only a couple dozen members. But at this year’s ceremony, there were 23 seniors accepting awards for their time serving in MERT — many of whom planned to follow in Glick’s steps by heading to medical school after graduation.

In 2017 alone, according to Eugene Janda, DPS’ chief of Fire and Emergency Services, MERT responded to 431 dispatches and logged over 11,000 duty hours responding to medical emergencies and conducting

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The contract between the PPA and the University expired on July 31, 2017 and until this point had not been renewed since representatives from the union and DPS had not been able to agree on the terms of the contract.

campus-wide safety sessions.

In 2017, there were seven student deaths. Rush acknowledged three figures who are “always on the front lines” of every passing tragedy: Patricia Brennan, DPS’ director of Special Services, Chaz Howard, the University

chaplain, and Sharon Smith, the director of Student Intervention Services.

“There’s not a whole lot we can say other than thank you,” Rush said. “You are on the front lines; you do it with grace.”

As the ceremony came to a

close, Chaplain Howard left campus’ protectors with a heartfelt benediction.

“Go out and make an emotion or relational connection,” he said. “If you do, maybe we can heal some of the brokenness in our country and our world.”

Former Penn employee to direct the Huntsman Program Kelly Cleary will assume the position on May 1 CHAE HAHN Staff Reporter

Kelly Cleary was appointed to serve as the executive director for the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, a position vacated by Inge Herman in October and which has been temporarily filled by Associate Director Marco Alves in Herman’s absence. Cleary’s appointment will be effective on May 1.

Students in the highly-selective Huntsman Program were informed Feb. 28 of Cleary’s new position in an email from School of Arts and Sciences Huntsman

Director Rudra Sil and Wharton Huntsman Director Robert Jensen.

“Professor Jensen and I are delighted to inform you that, after a thorough search, we are all set to bring in a new director for the Huntsman program,” Sil wrote in an email to the Huntsman students. “In time, you will learn more about her impressive background and qualifications, and it will be clear why we are working with her. We can’t tell you how excited we are about the future of the program with Kelly as the new program director!”

Cleary currently serves as the dean of Career and Professional Advising at Haverford College and will follow the term of long-

time director of the program, who left Penn abruptly mid-October of last year, to many students’ confusion.

“Kelly Cleary was selected after a thorough review of many excellent, well-qualified candidates. We are truly fortunate to have her on board, and I am excitedly looking forward to working with her,” Sil wrote in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Cleary is not new to Penn.

Before working at Haverford, Cleary served as a senior associate director at Career Services at Penn from 2007 to 2013. Cleary also earned a doctorate from Penn’s Graduate School of Education in 2014.

“I am sure the new Director is enthusiastic about the program and the students and she knows the Penn culture well,” administrative staff for the Huntsman Program Flora Cornfield wrote in an emailed statement to the DP. The DP reached out to various Huntsman students, all of whom declined to comment until the announcement was formally made by the University. The University has yet to make an official announcement.

The Huntsman Program, a joint program in international studies and business, which grants students degrees both from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton, was

first established in 1994 to “prepare its students to become leaders in today’s increasingly interconnected world.” Herman had been the program’s executive director since 2003, guiding the program for over a decade until October of last year when she retired abruptly — which left some students feeling like they were “being kept in the dark.”

Prior to joining Career Services at Penn, Cleary also served as director of Career Services at Stetson University, career counselor at the University of Iowa, and assistant director of George Washington University’s Athletic Academic Support. She has also worked as a trainer for the United States State Department’s

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Cleary is the first to serve in her current position at Haverford since 2013. There, she has worked to implement a “departmental redesign that calls for greater integration of career planning with core academic advising.”

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Why Fling features ‘throwback’ artists this year Students had asked for older artists for the show JULIE COLEMAN Staff Reporter

Several of the Spring Fling artists invited by the Social Planning and Events Committee for 2018 are “throwback artists,” a decision which has prompted mixed responses from students.

On April 14, rappers CupcakKe and Sage the Gemini, Pop and R&B singer JoJo, and headliner alt-rock band The All-American Rejects will be gracing the Penn Park stage one year after Tinashe and ZEDD. Wharton junior Elizabeth Goran and co-chair of SPEC’s concert committee said the group chose to include more artists in the lineup to add to the festival-feel prompted by the move to Penn Park, as well as to include a wider variety of genres in the concert.

“I’ve been hearing for years that people are like ‘we want a throwback show,’ so giving that to them, along with some cool up and comers like CupcakKe, definitely just kind of fell into line,” Goran said.

Goran added that she has received many requests for a

change in pace by not inviting a DJ, who have been included in the lineup for the past four years. She added that DJs tend to be more expensive due to production costs, and the decision saved SPEC money and allowed them to book more artists.

Goran cited Zedd, the DJ who headlined Fling last year, as one of the reasons for the change.

The DJ required a video wall that cost SPEC an additional half of his asking price.

“By not having a DJ, we don’t have to deal with that cost of production, and also do something different,” Goran said.

“I think it’s definitely a big change, but it’s also one that I’ve been hearing people asking for.”

The concert will run from 7:30 to 11 p.m., a 30-minute increase from last year to account for the additional acts. All artists will perform on the same stage on Dunning-Cohen field where Zedd and Tinashe performed last year. CupcakKe’s set will last for 30 minutes, Sage the Gemini and JoJo for 45 minutes, and the All-American Rejects for an hour. Daytime fling acts will perform on a smaller stage in South field.

Goran said that preparations

for the concert were more complex this year, as the committee had to approve four artists’ contracts and organize four sound checks within a certain time.

“I think it’s going to be really fun for everyone because like every single act is doing a live show,” Goran said. “It’s not just someone standing behind a table DJ-ing, which is fine and still lots of fun, but especially with the All-American Rejects, they’re going to be playing their own instruments and rocking out.”

However, this year’s diverse lineup has received mixed reviews from the student body, many noting that the four different artists don’t seem to fit together.

Some students, like College freshman Brennan Rose, say they feel that the diverse lineup does not align with his interests.

“I feel [the concert] is superfluous,” Rose said. “I’d rather enjoy the content of one or two artists rather than be confused by four artists that hail from completely different genres.”

“It seems to be a conglomerate of throwbacks and up and coming artists designed to appeal to anyone and yet appeals to very few people,” College

junior Jamie McCann said. “I would rather have had them have book one or two artists that got most people excited than book four artists that make up a set that just confuses the entire student body.”

McCann said she does not plan on attending, and Rose, whose band is also performing at Fling during the day, said he is unsure.

“It’s my first year, so I guess I should go to experience it,” Rose said. “It just feels messed up.”

Though College sophomore Rebecca Suh says she also feels unsure about the lineup, she said she does not want to write off the concert just yet and is planning to attend.

“I am really into throwbacks, and I am excited for the AllAmerican Rejects and Jojo,” Suh said. “I hope in the next couple of years we get some more Chance the Rapper-types of performances.”

Other students, like College freshman Declan Schoen, say they are excited by the variety of performers.

“All-American Rejects is a really nice throwback, taking me back to when I was in middle school, and CupcakKe just seems like a wild time,

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even if it’s not the music I generally listen to,” Schoen said.

“It just seems like it will be fun and just you know, a good time to let loose.”

Goran said that SPEC receives criticism each year regardless of the lineup, and thinks that some people have unrealistic expectations about the kinds of artists the group can afford to book.

“Our budget isn’t disclosed and artist asking prices typically aren’t exposed, so I think

there’s a lot of confusion around the realistic artists we’re able to book versus people who are not even just out of our budget, but 10 or 15 times out,” Goran said.

“So it’s hard to balance everyone’s interests but also make the best show for everyone.”

Regardless, Goran said she is optimistic.

“I know a lot of people are disappointed,” Goran said.

“But I think if they give the show a chance they’re going to have a great time.”

New European privacy regulations could affect Penn students The data privacy changes will go into effect May 25 LUCY CURTIS Staff Reporter

New digital privacy regulations will go into place in Europe on May 25, and in order to avoid fines and protect students, Penn will be taking steps to comply with these changes. The University will join many United States-based companies and schools by complying with the new rules, kown as the General Data Protection Regulation.

The change that will be going into effect in May is the expansion of the pre-existing rules to apply to entities outside of the European Union. “Unlike the previous E.U. Data Protection Directive, the GDPR will apply not only to organizations with a physical presence in the E.U., but also to any organization worldwide that processes the personal information of E.U. residents,” Inside Higher Ed reported.

The GDPR requires all data hosted in the E.U. to be regulated by the law’s protections,

which aim “to protect all E.U. citizens from privacy and data breaches in an increasingly datadriven world that is vastly different from the time in which the 1995 directive was established.”

This 1995 directive was adopted by the E.U. in order to protect and regulate the processing of personal information. It is focused on making personal information more secure and increasing accountability when it comes to processing information.

While Penn students who neither live in nor travel to European countries may not be impacted by these policies, Penn is required to implement them because it is liable for the data used by students who will travel to those places. American businesses and schools who do not comply could be fined up to $23 million.

According to Penn Law School professor Christopher Yoo, all data stored by Penn students or faculty in the E.U. after the GDPR is enacted will be subject to its policies.

“If Penn students are traveling in Europe and generate

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Organizations not in compliance with the new General Data Protection Regulation, including American schools, can face a $23 million fine.

data about personal information about themselves, it will probably be subject to the GDPR,” Yoo said.

This means that any time a student sends an email through their Penn email account or logs

onto Canvas or Penn InTouch while in Europe, Penn will be responsible for making sure this data transfer complies with the GDPR. Engineering and College junior Ming Zhang, who is study-

ing in France this semester, said he uses both his email and Penn InTouch while abroad. Zhang said he hadn’t been made aware of these changes, which will come into effect after he leaves.

Scott Schafer, the University privacy and institutional compliance officer, wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian that Penn will be “developing a strategy for compliance that involves appropriate stakeholders from across different sectors of the University.”

“Data mapping, documenting data processing activities, and review of privacy notices and policies are key components to identifying what processes will be implemented as part of Penn’s GDPR compliance strategy,” Schafer wrote.

The GDPR creates protections around several types of digital information. The requirement that all digital data of residents of the E.U. is processed in compliance with the GDPR, no matter where the information is being processed, is one of the more substantial changes the new regulations will bring. Another new policy makes it possi-

ble for organizations not in compliance with these regulations to be fined “up to 4 [percent] of annual global turnover or €20 Million (whichever is greater).”

These policies also require greater conditions for consent, which make it more difficult for companies to manipulate users with confusing language. In addition, all data will be subject to greater protections and those who have personal data hosted in the E.U. will have greater rights to any data on them which is digitally stored.

Director of Penn Global Nigel Cossar wrote in an email to the DP that Penn Global will “comply with any regulations as we are advised by the Office of General Counsel, Privacy, or any other authoritative entity at Penn as it relates to our global programs.”

“Where we have study abroad and exchange agreements in place for our students in Europe, these will continue to be reviewed and amended on the advice of these entities to ensure that we are in compliance with [U.S.] and international laws,” Cossar wrote.

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direction.”

Just this month, professors at Harvard, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design have retired or left after allegations of sexual harassment from students. Colorado College revoked the honorary degree of a former president after documents detailing his sexual abuses were released.

This wider context may point to Penn’s decision to further restrict the ban on sexual relations between students and faculty, according to Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis, author of “Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus.”

“In theory, I think students over the age of consent should be able to have relationships with whomever they wish, but practically speaking professors and students dating is a terrible idea at the moment,” Kipnis wrote in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“The climate of accusation is so intense and the concept of consent is so porous that even in cases where no code prohibits it, professors are losing their jobs for dating even former students.”

“I can’t speak to the student side of the equation, but any professor who gets involved with a student at the moment is putting his or her career on the line,” Kipnis added.

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Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Princeton, and Stanford all have blanket prohibitions on undergraduate-faculty relationships, similar to the one that Penn recently adopted in March.

University of Cincinnati professor Billie Dziech, who has been studying sexual harassment and higher education issues for thirty years, said that institutions like Penn have a “responsibility” to protect students from sexual harassment, including from the abuses of power that can arise out of consensual student-faculty relationships.

Dziech said she hopes more schools will enforce stricter bans on student-faculty sexual relations.

“Some of the more famous schools are now doing it, and

they’re doing it because they’ve been in trouble,” Dziech said.

“There’s almost not a week that comes along that we don’t hear of some collegiate administrator or faculty member engaging in behavior that’s not only inappropriate — it’s unethical, it’s unprofessional, it’s immoral.”

Dziech said that in her lengthy career studying sexual harassment and abuse, she has seen many students become “targets” for “serial harassers.”

“I would be proud if I went to an institution that judged that ‘we’re going to ban this,’ and was very clear to professors

that if you do it you are gone, not a slap on the wrist, but if you do it you are gone,” Dziech said.

The ban comes two weeks after a March 13 school-wide email from Provost Wendell Pritchett calling for suggestions to improve procedures around sexual harassment. Pritchett’s email came during the ongoing campaign for clearer sexual harassment reporting policies in the Graduate School of Education, organized by students in the graduate student union Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania.

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OPINION To the Class of 2022: Penn accepted you. Will you accept Penn?

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ast week, the University of Pennsylvania admitted thousands of applicants to the Class of 2022. If you’re one of those lucky high school seniors, you’ve surely seen Penn’s top rankings by now. You may have strolled down Locust Walk on a cheery campus tour, and you have definitely learned about our

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“unparalleled education” and “diverse community.”

While we hope that many of you will join us next year, we also want to offer a more complete picture of Penn before you decide where you want to spend the next four years.

Like every college, Penn advertises the best version of itself to potential students. This is the version you’ve seen, heard, and read about. And while dozens of majors and extracurricular activities can make for a rich experience, we want to help you

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think critically about aspects of this university that might not be stamped on the front page of your glossy Penn brochure.

Penn is unusually pre-professional. This doesn’t only mean that, unlike other Ivies, Penn offers undergraduate programs in business, engineering, and nursing, but that Penn students throughout the school are almost

graduation also means that Penn does its utmost to prepare you for your first job, and offers resources for all students of all interests.These include numerous grants for research and unpaid internships as well as a wellstocked Career Services center that will help you learn to interview or edit your resume.

While you may be familiar with Penn’s academic intensity, it’s less obvious that our “workhard, play-hard” mantra often translates to an exhausting intensity and competitiveness that pervades social life, extracurricular commitments, as well as classes. Students are called upon to give 100 percent in all that they do, which often means that mental health and wellness can take a backseat.

While student groups and administrators have made efforts to provide more infrastructural support for mental wellness in recent years, many of these initiatives have been limited in their implementation or impact.

By and large, students continue to describe this campus as stressful and lacking in terms or LUCY FERRY | SENIOR DESIGN EDITOR institutional support for mental health. laser-focused on snagging top Fortunately, this stress is parentry-level jobs after graduation, tially ameliorated by the strong often in rigorous fields like con- social groups at the University. sulting and finance. In fact, ac- Penn’s large student body and cording to Career Services, more efforts to accept diverse stuthan 25 percent of the Class of dents mean that, as enormous the 2017 found full-time jobs in as campus might feel at first, finance, and more than 16 per- you’ll find your people. Student cent are pursuing consulting. clubs and organizations cater This pre-professionalism to nearly every interest, and holds true for majors across the whether you join a club sport academic spectrum, and many team, a Greek organization, or students struggle with the pres- even a campus newspaper, your sure to prepare for their careers, Penn friends will be there for even as underclassmen. you.

But this focus on life after That is not to say that Penn is

wholly inclusive. Many of our students hail from wealthy backgrounds, and spending money can often feel like a requirement to gain access to certain essential parts of Penn’s social life. Going out to dinner, taking Ubers, and buying merchandise for student groups is custom-

misconception that venturing past 40th Street is dangerous and unnecessary — we encourage you not to take these claims to heed.

While it may easy to get stuck in the “Penn bubble” in your first year, we encourage you to imagine a college life beyond this

While we hope that many of you will join us next year, we also want to offer a more complete picture of Penn before you decide where you want to spend the next four years.” ary, which might feel jarring for a large percentage of incoming freshmen.

However, a full sixth of the Class of 2022 identifies as firstgeneration or low-income, and if you’re one of these students, there’s never been a better time to attend Penn. In 2016, Penn opened a campus center for FGLI students, and this February, Penn hosted the fourth annual 1vyG conference — a national conference that brings together FGLI students from several different schools.

For decades, FGLI students admitted to Penn have had to undertake challenges that their peers — and even their University — did not fully understand or acknowledge. This is changing.

Finally, we would like to address some of the claims that you may have heard about Philadelphia, and specifically, West Philadelphia, which is where we are located. There is a common

campus. Philadelphia is a wonderful place, and we hope you’ll take full advantage of a city with beautiful neighborhoods, delicious food, countless museums and historical exhibits, not to mention a Super Bowl-winning football team.

Easy access to the city of Philadelphia is one of the things that truly sets Penn apart from its Ivy League peers, and exploring the city can help you make so much more out of your time here.

Penn is a complicated place, and while we hope you will find your home here, we encourage you to do critical research on the University before making that choice. If you spend some time reading through our coverage, it should be clear that while Penn is a world-class institution with a lot to offer, there are administrative, infrastructural, and cultural features of this university that will come define your highs and lows throughout college.

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t’s been an exhausting week.

Or month. Or year.

When I step onto Locust Walk every day, I’m immediately swallowed up by throngs of people, mostly unfamiliar faces in a crowd. When I walk into my classes, meetings, Huntsman GSRs, even my dorm, I’m greeted by people, friends, classmates, acquaintances, professors. College is a vibrant microcosm of thousands of humans, breathing, taking up space and living their lives.

It’s difficult to navigate this kind of lifestyle when you aren’t naturally a chatty, extroverted person, always ready to take on the day and deal with the people in your life with excitement and gusto. While I’m not necessarily a hermit, I still wake up every morning with a tinge of tiredness, sometimes unable to confront the many social interactions I need to take on.

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I identify myself as an introvert.

While I can be loud and gregarious in certain social situations, it often drains all the life out of me. When meetings run back to back or going out once a week becomes multiple times a week, I don’t only want to be by myself, I need to be by myself, to restore and recharge.

Sometimes, Penn especially feels like an incredibly difficult place to be an introvert. If Penn mirrors the harshness of the “real world,” it also leans toward benefitting the extroverts — those that raise their hands over others, thrive in networking events, and take great joy in being the loudest speaker in the room. I often feel inadequate in a community where it seems like so many people are natural-born public speakers and socialites, while these qualities do not come naturally to me.

However, to combat those feelings of insecurity, I often remind myself that I’m definitely not alone,

and if you lean on the side of introversion too, you are not alone either.

Introverts make up a third to a half of the population at least, and in the workforce, many introverts thrive in managerial and leadership positions. Even though college feels like a competition for so many things, from board positions to job hunting, all is not lost for the introvert — in fact, there are so many ways we excel.

In high school speech and debate, the first speech I ever recited was Susan Cain’s Ted Talk about “The Power of Introverts.” In it, Cain discusses how the United States is more extrovert-leaning than ever, with our education based around teamwork and “people skills,” and less focused on independent thinking and innovation. As our culture shifts toward extroversion, however, we lose out on harnessing the power of introversion and tapping into a huge set of people. As introverts, we

discount ourselves and our abilities, when in reality, we have so much to offer in how we think and work.

That speech was the first time I felt validated as a student and person, and at Penn, there were times when I forgot about Cain’s empowering words. All the times I felt guilty about staying in or choosing to be by myself, especially during freshman year, were times that I absolutely needed — time to be thoughtful and reflective, to even restore my abilities to function as a human being.

It’s easy to think that we need to be constantly on the move, always doing something with others or advancing our status in some way. In so many ways, we live conscious of other people, trying to curate an image of sociability and extroversion.

But for many of us, this is not how we naturally live, and not how we can be our happiest selves.

So, introverts, don’t be afraid to

JESSICA LI embrace your introversion here.

Don’t be afraid to spend hours and days alone with your thoughts instead of rushing to social obligations, or recharging in the way that you feel is best for you. Penn doesn’t have to be a never-ending cycle of human beings, all the time — sometimes, it can just be about you.

JESSICA LI is a College sophomore from Livingston, N.J., studying English and psychology. Her email address is jesli@sas.upenn.edu.

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ear after year, Penn’s acceptance rate declines. But what exactly made only 8.39 percent of this year’s applicant pool qualified to attend our university?

Penn’s Class of 2022 surely demonstrated impressive GPAs, SAT scores, and class ranks. But grades alone are not only insufficient, they may not even be the most important pillar of a hopeful applicant’s file.

Characteristic of United States college admissions, “holistic evaluation” processes take into account a student’s academic performance, extracurricular involvements, personal essays, and teachers’ evaluations. According the Penn Admissions website, Penn evaluates “applicants’ record of academic excellence and intellectual curiosity, range of interests and hobbies, leadership skills, and potential impact on our campus.”

This American system does not come without controversy.

It has been described as unpredictable, illogical, and arbitrary.

More emphasis on academic performance would be wise and necessary. But, here’s why the holistic admissions system is a step above the rest: It aligns with, and reaffirms, the purpose of education.

The main discrepancy between American colleges and universities overseas is whether extracurricular involvements are taken into account. Acceptance into a university in New Zealand, where I went to high school, is solely based on meeting an academic scoring threshold. Each field of study has a different score requirement, which is the sole criterion in university admissions.

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This is characteristic of many universities across the world.

Singaporean students, equipped with examination results, could accurately predict their admissions decisions, until YaleNUS College opened its doors in 2011, introducing Singapore

classroom learning.

Therefore, there is no point in comparing admissions systems without evaluating the purpose of education, a widely debated idea. In 2015, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker expressed that the University of Wisconsin’s

The primary purpose of education is to develop students into contributing citizens. Career advancement is merely one branch on the tree of meaningful citizenship, along with character and values.” to an American-based holistic admissions system.

And Penn doesn’t just scrutinize extracurricular activities in order to keep its class size small — even selective universities in the United Kingdom only care about academic performance. The University of Cambridge admits students “based solely on academic criteria.” The University of Oxford advises that “extracurricular activities are only helpful in so far as they demonstrate the selection criteria for your course.”

Some argue that the main crux of university is to take classes and earn a degree, and therefore, academic excellence is key to success. But, the purpose of university is to provide an education, and the purpose of education extends far beyond

mission should be to “meet the state’s workforce needs.”

But, it is rudimentary to purport that education is exclusively for career advancement.

The primary purpose of education is to develop students into

contributing citizens. Career advancement is merely one branch on the tree of meaningful citizenship, along with character and values.

By solely valuing grades in the admissions process, universities tell students that education is only academic. By only setting numeric entrance requirements, they define themselves as specialized vocational training grounds, only designed to pump out graduates for specific workforces. Ultimately, by not paying attention to applicants’ non-academic pursuits, universities disregard the role of education in shaping a student’s character, values, and attitudes, which are all necessary contributors to meaningful citizenship.

Holistic admissions values diversity in extracurricular interests, which leads to a vibrant campus. A vibrant campus is reflective of our multifaceted

society after graduation. And learning how to thrive in this real environment is learning how to contribute to a real society, which is the true purpose of education.

Beyond extracurricular activities, holistic review tends to also place emphasis on personal stories through essays.

Admittedly, judging students based on personal statements can be arbitrary and opaque, and admissions committees must restrain the influence of these stories.

But, usually the essay prompts for the personal story present a chance to explain a non-academic pursuit. This can provide major insight into a candidate’s educational potential, as long as admissions committees properly balance this subjective component with the other objective application elements.

Additionally, holistic review

also proves best for those still convinced that careers should be at the forefront of education.

The admissions office “look[s] beyond GPAs and test scores” to find a “potential Penn classmate, leader, roommate, and citizen.” Learning to thrive in these varied roles not only directly constitutes meaningful citizenship, but is actually es-

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sential for career advancement too. Increasingly, employers look for qualities learned outside the classroom instead of solely seeking specific academic skill sets.

Universities are not merely academic institutions; they are educational, and holistic admissions affirms the true purpose of education. While academia is integral to universities and admissions officers must appropriately balance each component of an application, it is a grave mistake to disregard

Some argue that the main crux of university is to take classes and earn a degree, and therefore, academic excellence is key to success. But, the purpose of university is to provide an education, and the purpose of education extends far beyond classroom learning.”

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LUCY HU is a College sophomore from Auckland, New Zealand, studying political science. Her email address is lucyhu@sas. upenn.edu.

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Speakers encourage resilience at Penn Law event The event featured seven women from Philadelphia KIMAYA BASU Contributing Reporter

In a Penn Law School classroom, seven women shared their personal stories in an event entitled “Women Who Don’t Usually Lecture.”

On April 4, guest speakers from the Philadelphia area were invited to Penn Law and spoke for 10 minutes each about their experiences as women. While the speakers came from different backgrounds, they all encouraged non-conformity and resilience.

“Yarnbomber” Jessie Hemmons, businesswoman Syreeta Scott, hip-hop artist Bahamadia, fashion designer Tamar Daniel, principal Shavon Savage, pastor Michele Ward, and social worker Geremi James-Batista discussed defining moments in their lives. Along with formal titles, they also identified

themselves as “cat whisperer,” “joy bringer,” or “cultural influencer.”

The “Women Who Don’t Usually Lecture” idea is inspired by the ZE.ZE organization in Israel, which hosted a lecture entitled “People Who Don’t Usually Lecture.” The organization seeks to hold events that “bring together diverse members of a community for an intimate and moving large-scale interaction with storytelling.” Penn Law student Tuli Mendelawe, one of the organizers, had the idea to adopt this format with an interesting twist.

Hemmons described her craft as “overtly feminine.” Street art, she said, is often dominated by men, and she made it clear at the beginning of her lecture that “I’m a female making street art.”

Hemmons described a turning point in her life while she was a juvenile delinquent, when she felt isolated for being a minority in the environment she was in. When she

was taught crocheting, a common pastime among the other girls, she felt less socially-isolated, discovering “this new language that I have with all these women in the room.”

She described an event she thought to be hilarious: “yarnbombing” the Rocky Statue by putting a pink sweater on it. The idea was to “emasculate a hyper masculine icon.” For a French TV show, she even put a string bikini on the Frank Rizzo statue.

Scott shared her experiences of being a black woman, and her struggles and victories as a businesswoman in the beauty industry.

She described the feeling of being a “square peg in a round hole,” and noted how women often feel compelled to alter their features to “fit in and feel comfortable in an environment not made for [them],” instead of staying true to their “authentic beauty.”

She discussed her hair care business and how she got on that path

through taking a “brave chance.”

The four women who organized this event are in the one-year Master of Laws program at Penn — a program for lawyers trained in other parts of the world.

“The idea was to get women from really unconventional backgrounds that we don’t have at the Law School usually,” organizer and LLM student Anusha Ramesh from India said. “What I was really curious about was how all of them would come together in one event and how it would all gel together.”

Mendelawe said, “We decided we want to do some kind of event that is different from what we usually have in the Law School. And then we had no idea what, we just knew that we wanted women to be the center of the event.”

LLM student Talya Kornitzer said that the four women who organized the event were all from different places, but were united by “this network of international women.”

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The four women who organized this event are in the Master of Laws program at Penn for lawyers trained in other parts of the world.

“It somehow ended up being our exploration of Philadelphia in a way,” Kornitzer said. “Our goal here was to just explore … human experience.”

Attendee and LLM student Derin Coker said the event was better than she expected. Her takeaway

from the speakers’ stories was that one should “find [one]self and [one’s] space.”

“What stood out to me was the fact that it did all gel together so well,” Ramesh said. “Everyone had their own story to tell and a way to tell it.”

Hundreds attend Penn’s first-ever Blockchain conference Events focused on health care and cryptoassets ALBERT CHOU Contributing Reporter

The inaugural Penn Blockchain conference involved speakers at the forefront of blockchain’s development and more than 300 attendees.

The conference held in Huntsman Hall examined how blockchain could impact society through decentralization across a variety of industries, from economic development, to entrepreneurship, to the fundamental ideas of money and trust.

Dean of the Wharton School Geoffrey Garrett, who gave a keynote speech to open the conference, describes blockchain as “an alternative way to do money.”

“The notion of a decentralized, verifiable, and encrypted ledger

shared by everybody is a really enticing one,” Garrett said.

Conference co-chairs and 2018 Wharton graduate students Abhinav Prateek and Jitin Jain also founded Penn Blockchain club, which they made sure included members from diverse backgrounds.

“Did that come with challenges?

Of course yes. But the benefits have far, far outstripped the challenges,” Jain said. “We realized the importance to start a Penn-wide blockchain club, encompassing students from various fields such as engineering, law, and MBA. From there began the journey of building the club.”

“The interest and enthusiasm of the Penn community has motivated us to achieve more and more,” Jain added.

Garrett agreed with Jain, emphasizing the importance of stu-

dent-led activities on campus in his welcome keynote speech.

“Student-led activities are unbelievably important and they actually play this innovation role in the University, and it is a role that I increasingly embrace,” Garrett said.

“This genuinely is an innovation in the way the University of Pennsylvania works.”

Garrett then stressed that the development of blockchain technology should be a collective effort, which would benefit from the expertise of people from vastly different fields of study.

“The fact that this is not ‘Wharton Finance’ is very important.

It’s more than that,” Garrett said.

“It’s the fusion of technology and finance, and it is interdisciplinary throughout this entire university.”

The conference consisted of plenary sessions for all conference members to attend with several

optional panel events that ranged from social good, to cryptoassets, to health care.

Attendee and 2011 Wharton graduate Franklin Bi said it was great to see “familiar faces” from his industry and to meet “eager students,” but he thought students needed to know that blockchain is not something one can “jump right into” without prior work experience in related fields.

Toward the end of the conference, keynote speaker and IBM’s Director of Global Product Management Kathryn Harrison shared her vision for blockchain and its innovative and interdisciplinary nature. “[Blockchain] is really about changing how businesses and industries rely on each other,” Harrison said. “In order to do that, you need not just technologists, but you need businesspeople, you need

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The conference examined how blockchain could impact society through decentralization across industries including entrepreneurship.

bankers, you need lawyers, you need all sorts of people, in order to imagine … when you can share data and transact across companies in ways that were previously unimaginable, what can you do?”

“I think 98 percent of the block-

chain community is actually after the same goal, which is to make information more accessible, to make the world a better place,” Harrison continued. “Ultimately, blockchain is about trust, more than anything.”

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Pair of junior captains lead the way for softball

No senior captain for Penn for the first time since 2006 COLE JACOBSON Sports Editor

For Penn softball, it’s out with the old and in with the new — the really new.

Fresh off the graduations of program legends Leah Allen and Alexis Sargent, it was clear that the Red and Blue would have an overhauled personnel this season, and that’s nowhere more evident than with the team’s captains. Led by juniors Jessica England and Hannah Gibbons, the Quakers have zero senior captains for the first time since 2006.

Ask anyone involved, though, and the unusual arrangement seems to be working just fine.

“I guess if you looked at it from an outside perspective, it would be kind of difficult.

But in my position, I use [the seniors] as my tools and guiding leaders; when I try to make decisions, I always go to them,” Gibbons said. “I always hear what they have to say, because they have insane insight, so that’s kind of my role as a leader — use the other leaders around me to make the team better.”

Though both Gibbons and England have taken the leadership roles in their third season, the pair has taken completely different paths to get there.

England has started since her freshman year, and her strong 2017 season saw her finish in the team’s top five in batting average (.319) and on base percentage (.423), including a team-high 18 walks.

On the flip side, Gibbons is hitting 3 for 28 in two-and-ahalf seasons.

But when the votes came in, the athletes made one thing clear; attitude mattered far more than numbers, and Gibbons more than met the benchmark there.

“My initial reaction, even when I was just nominated for captain, it took me a minute and made me think about how people saw me as a leader,” she said. “I kind of knew I had some leadership qualities, but I didn’t necessarily know how it was seen by the team. I was really honored that people would see me in such a position, and since then I’ve embraced that.”

Making the situation even more unconventional is the fact that, unlike the 2006 team that had only two seniors on the roster, it’s not like there was

any shortage of seniors who would’ve met the qualifications.

Senior catcher Jurie Joyner is a three-time All-Ivy selection and former Ivy League Rookie of the Year, who entered this season already ranked in the top 10 in school history in home runs and batting average.

Senior third baseman Molly Oretsky had a stellar junior season, finishing with a .339/.409/.558 batting line and ranking alongside Allen and Joyner as one of the team’s clear top three hitters.

Finally, senior pitcher Mason Spichiger actually was a captain herself last year, and has been the team’s ace pitcher following Sargent’s graduation, leading the 2018 Quakers in earned run average (4.60), innings pitched (58.2), starts (nine), and wins (three).

But if there was any shock at the announcement that there would be three underclass captains — sophomore Corey Burrough was also named a captain last summer, though she is no longer listed on the roster — that was put to bed quickly. “[The seniors are] some of the most graceful people I’ve ever met in my life. I don’t think us stepping in as captains was anything that any person took

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Junior captain and outfielder Jess England, second on the team with 18 runs scored, is one of Penn softball’s two junior captains this season. Despite having four seniors, the team nominated England and Gibbons.

to heart, nothing negative toward us at all,” Gibbons said.

“They supported us 100 percent of the way, they gave us the confidence we needed, gave us the advice we needed, and when I’m making decisions I still go to them.”

“They’re still our leaders.

They don’t have the title [of captain], but they’re the ones that really keep us going for

sure.”

Though the Quakers struggled early, winning only four of their first 18 games, it’s clear that this group is hitting its stride right now, having won seven of its last eight games.

But no matter how this season ends up, the Quakers have an edge moving forward. Their younger generation has taken over, and that ascent shows no

signs of slowing down.

“This year has been a rollercoaster, a lot of growing pains, but you can see in our wins how we’ve progressed,” Gibbons said. “Didn’t do so hot at the beginning of the year, but now we’re finally learning, going through those experiences together and getting better.

“Next year, it’s gonna be a force to reckon with for sure.”

Quakers take one game from Harvard in third straight Ivy series loss BASEBALL | Penn won third game on eighth inning rally TEIA ROSS Sports Reporter

After this weekend, the Quakers will still seek to win their first Ivy series of the year.

Despite losing every Ivy series thus far, Penn baseball always manages to scrape out one win in each match-up.

The Quakers bused up to Cambridge, Massachusetts for a typical Ivy Saturday doubleheader against the Harvard Crimson. Reminiscent of their Ivy League opener against

Brown, the Quakers dropped both Saturday games by the scores of 5-2 and 14-5.

In game one, sophomore Chris Adams was able to steal home, giving the Quakers (817-1, 3-5-1 Ivy) their only lead of the day.

Senior Gabe Kleiman started out on the mound and finished the game with eight strikeouts. Despite allowing only six hits and three walks, Kleiman surrendered five runs, as the Crimson (12-14, 3-3) capitalized on every imperfection.

In the eighth inning, Penn junior Matt McGeagh was able to hit a single, allowing junior Sean Phelan to score.

Kleiman had the superior pitching game, compared to Harvard’s Noah Zavolas, who allowed seven hits and six strikeouts. However, the Quakers offense was unable to convert their hits into runs, leaving the score of game one 5-2 in Harvard’s favor.

Sophomore Mitchell Holcomb started in game two but struggled to put away Harvard batters.

The bottom of the second went poorly for Holcomb and the Quakers, as the first Harvard batter was walked, the second hit by a pitch, and the third able to hit a triple off of a fielding error.

In total, Holcomb let up five

runs before being relieved by freshman Cole Sichley. Sichley allowed two more hits before ending Harvard’s second inning eight-point run.

Led by senior Andrew Murnane, Penn was able to respond with three runs.

The Harvard pitcher, Simon Rosenblum-Larson, hit Adams, Phelan, and McGeagh to give the Quakers some life.

Over the next six innings, the Red and Blue were only able to string together two more runs. Meanwhile, Harvard put the nail in the coffin and ended the game with a total of 14.

Freshman pitcher Robby

Cerulle took over the game in the fourth inning, before being relieved by senior Jordan Della Valle in the seventh.

Five of the Crimson players scored with Cerulle on the mound, and one with Della Valle.

Sunday proved to be more favorable for Penn, as the Quakers used an eight inning rally to win 6-5. Sophomore Christian Scafidi started the day, allowing seven hits and the Crimson’s only five runs of the game.

The Quakers brought in four other pitchers to end the game, and they were able to prevent Harvard from adding to its run tally. Junior John Alan Ken-

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Quakers take top spot with win over Dartmouth W. LAX | Red and Blue finish game on 5-1 run REINA KERN Sports Reporter

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Penn women’s lacrosse is running the league and it doesn’t plan to stop any time soon.

After a hard fought battle, the Quakers emerged victorious over Dartmouth, 13-11. The win puts Penn (9-2, 3-0 Ivy) in sole possession of first place in the Ivy League.

Coach Karin Corbett responded positively about the game and was truly happy that her team was about to respond and come out with the win. “I think we showed a lot of grit and a lot of fight. We definitely still need to play 60 minutes and Dartmouth is an athletic team that came to win,� Corbett said. “We did score the first two goals but we let them back in. But I’m still proud of their grit, fight, and determination.�

The Quakers started out strong, taking an early two goal

lead on goals from midfielders senior Alex Condon and sophomore Erin Barry. But the Big Green (7-2, 3-1) responded in kind, scoring four of the next five goals.

The rest of the half was back and forth, but all told the Quakers entered halftime down 8-6.

Both teams traded goals at the start of the second half, until the score was 10-8 with about 20 minutes left. And that’s when the Quakers, especially freshman Zoe Belodeau, turned it on.

The Red and Blue finished the game on a 5-1 run to walk away with a win and remain undefeated in the conference. Belodeau poured in three of her four goals during that stretch, including the game winner, and added an assist as well. “Zoe came up with some key goals at the end. She struggled a little bit with shooting in the beginning but didn’t let it get her down and as a freshman that shows a lot of maturity. Caroline Cummings had 3 goals on the day with one taken back,� Corbett said. “Erin Barry also had a lot of guts in the game overall.

Natalie Stefan played well defensively and brought the ball up with a ton of confidence,� explained Corbett.

According to Corbett, however, there are some areas that the team must focus on to be successful moving forward. “We lost a lot of the draws which caused a lot of turnovers so our defense gave us the chance to get the ball back. Now we just need to capitalize a little better on the attack side,� Corbett noted.

It was most definitely a team effort overall, with the defense backing up the offense when times got tough. With a strong support system to aid the offense in their struggles, the squad was able to fight their way through Dartmouth’s strong defense.

The Quakers now find themselves in a great position as they head into more Ivy League play.

They sit at the top of the league with Yale, Cornell, and Columbia in a tie for fourth place. “We are in the driver’s seat in the league. We have to do our job and take each game one at a time. Dartmouth was also undefeated so we knew how much was on the line,� Corbett said.

There is no better place to be.

With eyes on Ivy League rings, the Quakers must continue to be the unstoppable and untouchable force that they are in the upcoming weeks.

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With five points on the day. including scoring three of the team’s final five goals, freshman Zoe Belodeau was the difference in a win over Dartmouth that gives Penn sole possession of first in the Ivy League.

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Talk about a turn of events.

After starting off its season with an upset of then No. 1 Duke, Penn men’s lacrosse is on the outside looking in to the Ivy League Tournament after a heartbreaking 10-9 loss to Brown.

The Bears (4-4, 1-1 Ivy) got off to a hot start, scoring three consecutive goals out of the gate.

This quick deficit for the Quakers (5-5, 1-2) came out of a clear disadvantage during face-offs along with numerous tiny, but costly mistakes.

Tedd Ottens, the Brown faceoff man, is ranked 24th in the nation for face-off winning percentage — whereas Penn doesn’t have a player within the top 50 — and his skill forced Penn to initially have a D-pole take the faceoff along with a long stick midfielder on the wing at the beginning of the game. Penn was clearly expecting to be on defense. However, this strategy proved fruitless, as the Bears were able to set up their offense, after winning the first face-off, and score. “We were just trying to find somebody who could disrupt [Ottens],� coach Mike Murphy said.

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The first baseman has batted .385 with 13 RBI, and a .481 slugging percentage.

Joyner only trails Pederson in hits with 23, and is second on the team in RBI (16) to go along with a .427 slugging percentage.

Yang has also provided a large amount of offense for the Red and Blue. Yang provides some pop in the Quakers’ lineup to compliment the likes of Cweirtnia and Joyner; she currently leads the team with 23 RBI and 5 home runs. “Her bat has been a really huge impact for us,� junior captain Jess England said.

While Penn has arguably not missed Allen on offense, the loss of Sargent left a big hole in the pitching rotation.

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Senior midfielder Kevin McGeary led the Quakers with four points on the day against Brown, but it wasn’t enough to earn a win.

tricks from attackmen Simon Mathias and Kevin McGeary.

Long stick middie Connor Keating stepped up big time as the breakout man during transition opportunities, even managing to score the equalizing goal in the last quarter. “[Offensive transition] is something we can build on for Harvard,� Murphy said.

However, despite the valiant efforts of the aforementioned players and the team as a whole in the second half, the hole that the Quakers found themselves in following the first half was too deep to overcome. “Ultimately, we made so many mistakes in the first half that we cost ourselves the game that way,� Murphy said following the loss.

A large aspect of their shortcoming was penalties, the Quakers picking up five to the Bears’ one. Two of Brown’s early goals were achieved during man-up possessions, leading to more frustration, and more penalties.

Penn’s offense seemed to only get motivated once they found themselves already down by a fair margin, whereas, prior to Brown building up its lead, the Quakers had little off-ball movement. Murphy attributed the problematic spacing to Brown’s quick slides, yet this lack of ac-

tivity led to many errant shots forced by the shot clock and even some shot clock violations.

On the defensive end, ground balls, despite being ultimately even in the box score, were hard to come by after good defense forced the ball out of Brown’s hands. Brown would then recover possession and, scoring or not, force Penn to exert more energy, hurting the defense in the longrun. Brown ended up netting the game-winning goal after two defenders, attempting to set up a double-team, got beat.

Given its dominant second half, Penn clearly has the talent and team chemistry to dismantle teams such as Brown, yet rampant mistakes and frustrated play have led to tough losses such as this one. Penn displayed similar issues in its loss at home against Cornell, where the Quakers turned the ball over more so than their opponent, accrued three penalties to none, and once again lost the face-off battle.

Penn will face its last two Ivy opponents, Harvard and Dartmouth — with St. Joe’s in between — over these next two weeks and will most likely have to win out in order to still be in playoff contention.

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the bell this season. She has two complete games, including a complete game shutout, in nine starts so far this year.

In Ivy play, Spichiger has been particularly strong. She holds a 3-2 record, with a 2.50 earned run average and two saves. Behind Spichiger is a committee consisting of sophomore Jennifer Brann and freshmen Tabitha Dyer, Ciana Curran, and Abigail Abramson.

Collectively, that committee is 4-3 in Ivy play, but the younger group is trending in the right direction, combining to go 3-1 over their past four decisions.

Though the offense has still been strong and the pitching continues to improve, the Red and Blue needed leaders to step up after Allen and Sargent departed. The impact they had on the program over the past four years couldn’t be overlooked, on or off the field.

The Quakers have addressed that need too, in more ways than one.

Although their two captains, England and Hannah Gibbons are juniors, the role of leadership is spread out.

“The seniors are 100 percent leaders on this team, and still act as our guiding leaders,�

Gibbons said. “But along the way it’s our job to carry all 23 [members] on the team.�

The leadership may fall solely on the captains’ shoulders, but Gibbons particularly prides herself on being able to have meaningful conversations with every one of her teammates. “[One of my qualities is] making sure that everyone is doing ok, mentally and physically, checking in to make sure we’re getting the most out of them and making sure they’re getting the most out of us,� Gibbons said.

According to Gibbons, England is very practical and logical, and they complement each other well as leaders. “She always thinks of feasibility, like what’s the best way we can tackle a problem,� Gibbons said.

Despite losing Allen and Sargent, the Red and Blue have been able to fill the void those players left behind, and they are picking up the pace when it matters the most.

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In final individual meet, Hartke finishes 32nd at Regionals GYMNASTICS | Senior falls shy of a Nationals spot WILL DiGRANDE Associate Sports Editor

She might not be moving on, but she competed her heart out.

Penn women’s gymnastics senior Alex Hartke executed her famous floor routine one last time as an individual at this year’s NCAA Regionals this past weekend at Penn State.

Her score of 9.725 was impressive, but not good enough to advance to the elite NCAA Nationals, as she finished 34th of 42 competitors in the event.

It was a long time coming for Penn to have a gymnast at the Regionals; not since 2013 had a Quaker competed at that level.

This year was even more special because two seniors from Penn were selected: Hartke on floor, and senior Kyra Levi as an alternate on bars.

At the Regionals, Hartke was up against talent from all over the country. Two of the topeight teams, Florida and Wash-

ington, were in attendance, as well as No. 17 Arizona State.

Each of the six all-around teams competing entered six gymnasts per event, plus six at-large selections from squads not competing as a group — how Hartke was picked — totaled 42 participants in each event.

Hartke’s final position may seem far away from the podium positions, but her score of 9.725 was less than two-tenths of a point away from the first place score of 9.900 earned by five gymnasts. The tie at the top was the biggest of all the events on Saturday and illustrates the high level of competition present on the floor.

Even though she could not place at this meet, Hartke still had an outstanding individual season. She never scored below a 9.675, had a season high of 9.925, and was named ECAC Specialist of the Year for her dominance on the floor.

“Senior year is just a culmination of a seventeen year gymnastics career, so going

out with a bang is super exciting, and being recognized by the ECAC is an honor,” Hartke said.

Although Levi made the trip to State College as well, her status as an alternate meant she would only compete if a spot in the field suddenly opened up and a replacement was needed.

All 42 gymnasts selected for the bars event were available to compete last Saturday, so the senior did not get to participate. However, simply being chosen to travel was an honor in itself.

The individual portion of the season may be over, but the Red and Blue will take the floor as a team one last time this upcoming weekend. The Quakers were chosen to attend the USA Gymnastics National Collegiate Championships in Denton, Texas, along with seven other schools, where they will look to end the year on a high note.

Hartke and Levi only have one chance left to impress the judges, but they have already made their team proud.

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MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2018 VOL. CXXXIV NO. 24

THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

After graduating two legends, pitching and hitting prowess of Alexis Sargent. Add that on Quakers retool on the fly CARTER THOMPSON Associate Sports Editor

Replacing program legends is never easy. Just ask Penn softball.

The Quakers had to replace all-time home run and RBI leader, Leah Allen, as well as the

top of the fact that those two were the heart and soul of the squad, the Quakers had big shoes to fill.

Thankfully for the Red and Blue, though, they have responded.

In the batter’s box, Sam Pederson, Sarah Cwiertnia, Jurie Joyner and Lucy Yang have led the offensive attack.

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Pederson has been on a tear this season. The senior has recorded a hit in 13 straight games, and leads the team in hits (27) and on-base percentage (.667).

Cwiertnia picked up right where she left off last season.

The first baseman has batted .385 with 13 RBI, and a .481 slugging percentage.

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Freshman Yang provides boost in heart of the lineup

Ketring twins bring years of experience on the field together

Yang leads the team with five home runs and 23 RBI

Freshmen twins share unique bond on and off the field

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JONATHAN POLLACK Senior Sports Editor

So far in 2018, the theme has been all about adjusting to changes for Penn softball. With the team having to deal with some injuries and losing program legends like Leah Allen and Alexis Sargent, the Quakers were looking for standouts.

From West Hills, California, enter freshman stud Lucy Yang.

The freshman infielder has been playing lights out for the Quakers (11-15, 7-5 Ivy), making an immediate impact.

So far this season, Yang has started and played in all 26 games, the only player on the team to do so. Yang has had an impeccable start at bat, having five home runs so far, the most on the team.

The super-slugger freshman also takes the top spot in the Ivy League for the most runs batted in with 23 total.

“Her bat has been a huge impact for us,” outfielder and junior captain Jessica England said. “Having that power to pick us up is huge.”

Because of her outstanding Ivy League slugging percentage of .464, Yang poses a threat to other teams, making her one of the conference’s biggest competitors.

The competition has recognized Yang’s impeccable hitting, and for that reason she’s been walked 14 times, which ranks Yang with the most in

Over time, athletes become very close to their teammates.

Some might even consider them family.

But what happens when one of your teammates actually is family?

That’s the case for the Ketring twins, Sarah and Kayla, of Penn softball. The freshmen duo from Moorpark, Calif. have taken the journey across the country to go to college and play softball together.

But it wasn’t always going to be that way. In fact, they almost ended up on opposite sides of the country.

“I was looking more West coast, and she was open to anything,” Sarah said. “So she committed here and I kinda had a change of heart and was like, ‘You know what, I can go to the East coast.’ So we just came to college together. I don’t know, it just worked out.”

And worked out it has. Both girls are ecstatic that they have the other one here with them and constantly support one another on and off the field, which has been crucial to their transition to college and the increased level of play.

“We didn’t really go through that low point. I don’t want to say that we didn’t miss our family, but we have a piece of family here all the time,” Kayla said.

Both girls have seen plenty

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Freshman infielder Lucy Yang has given the Quakers an instant lift at the plate, with five home runs and 23 runs batted in.

the Ivy League.

“So far, it’s been a blast,” Yang said. “The team has been very welcoming, and it’s been really nice having a team of 22 to just back you up.”

Despite her gaudy batting statistics, Yang does have some room for improvement in the field. So far this season, Yang has made 11 errors, also a team high.

But with her imposing numbers and drive to get better, Yang’s heart and grit are rec-

ognized by fellow teammates.

“I love Lucy; me and her get along,” England said.

Senior Jurie Joyner, a onetime Ivy League Rookie of the Year, sees a lot of herself in Yang: “That’s my girl,” she said. “She is just very dedicated, and more than just the stats, she’s someone who really cares about the game.”

Yang has been impressing in all realms of the game, and the future looks bright for this impactful freshman.

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Freshman catcher Sarah Ketring and her twin sister Kayla didn’t plan to both end up at Penn, but they are both happy the other is here.

of action so far this season.

Kayla, a right fielder, has appeared in 11 games, with eight starts, 10 hits, eight runs, and three runs batted in. Sarah, a catcher, has appeared in nine games, with eight starts, five hits, four runs, and five RBI. The Ketrings won’t see any action in the near future, however. Both are sitting on the sidelines nursing injuries that came just one week apart. Sitting out, especially in your first season when you’re trying to establish yourself on the team, can be very difficult for an athlete.

Luckily for them though, they have each other to help them get through it. “[We always] support each other in the highs and the lows.

Right now is a low, but we’re always there for each other. It’s pretty awesome,” Kayla said.

Like a lot of siblings, Sarah and Kayla are pretty close.

They’ve been playing softball together all their lives, and all that time spent out on the dia-

mond has led to a special connection. And if you watch the two of them play, you can see a lot of the little intricacies of that relationship.

“I love catching, and obviously I see everything, so I always see her out there, like she makes a good play and it just hypes me up. I love being on the field with her and playing with her,” Sarah said.

“We have like little twin things that we do, we have a little handshake. Whenever I’m at bat, I’m left-handed I can see straight into the dugout, and in the middle of my at bat, let’s say I’m struggling a bit, just every time I look at her, she’ll give me like a little nod or something so small, but it’s so reassuring and puts you back in the zone,” Kayla added.

So while they might be sidelined right now, the Ketrings will be back soon, and they’ve got plenty of time to bring their years of experience together to the field for Penn.

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