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Parents of Penn student file lawsuit against U. They allege Penn knew of daughter’s suicidal thoughts SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor

The parents of former Wharton junior Olivia Kong, who died by suicide in April 2016, are suing the University for allegedly failing to respond to Kong’s pleas for help in the weeks leading up to her death.

The lawsuit, filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on April 10, argues that University officials were notified nine separate times — by Kong and by others close to her — that Kong was having suicidal thoughts in the weeks leading up to her death.

Instead of providing Kong immediate help, the University sent her from one administrative department to another, the law-

suit claims.

Kong’s parents, Xianguo Kong and Zhao Lin, are being represented by Carol Nelson Shepherd of Feldman Shepherd law firm of Philadelphia, which held a press conference on the afternoon of April 10.

Shepherd said at the press conference that Kong had visited Student Health Services, had two extensive telephone conversations

with the counselor on the emergency phone line at Penn’s Counseling and Psychological Services, and spoke with several other officials, including CAPS staff and her academic advisor, about her thoughts of suicide.

In some of these conversations, Kong discussed concrete details, such as concern over the cost of hospitalization if she had sought it, and possible methods and times

Professor had sexual relationship with student in apparent violation of U. policy

of suicide, which Shepherd said should have indicated the gravity of the situation.

“Penn is responsible for all of these individuals and Penn is responsible for the systems that they set up that failed the student to evaluate her, treat her, and save her life,” Shepherd said at the press conference.

The lawsuit alleges that Kong first reported suicidal thoughts to

the University through a routine survey that she filled out at SHS. Kong indicated in the survey that she had suicidal thoughts, and the notes from the SHS visit reveal that Kong had an elevated heart rate.

Kong was seen by Amanda Swain, a physician at SHS, who reportedly instructed Kong to get a good night’s sleep.

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Trustee resigns over treatment of Law School prof.

The trustee sent his letter of resignation on April 6 SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor

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Penn Psychology professor Robert Kurzban was teaching a course called “Human Morality and Emotions” when he reportedly began a sexual relationship with one of his students. His senior position at Penn may now be in jeopardy as a result of the alleged relationship.

Their relationship allegedly began on Tinder MANLU LIU & VIBHA KANNAN Deputy News Editor & Senior Reporter

The former Undergraduate Chair of the Psychology Department Robert Kurzban had a sexual relationship with an undergraduate female student while he was her instructor, according to three sources close to the student. Kurzban’s alleged behavior directly violates University policy, which has stated since 1995 that sexual relations between teachers and students are prohibited “during the period

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of the teacher-student relationship.”

This policy was recently updated to ban all sexual relations between faculty and undergraduate students regardless of time

or context.

“Consensual sexual relations between faculty and student can adversely affect the academic enterprise, distorting judgments, or appearing to do so to others, and providing incentives or disincentives for student-faculty contact that are inappropriate,” states the current policy which is laid out in the Faculty Handbook.

Kurzban’s relationship with the student began in the spring of 2017, according to 10 students who spoke with The Daily Pennsylvanian, nine of whom took the class with the student under Kurzban. At the time, Kurzban, who is a tenured professor, cotaught a mandatory course for

freshmen in the Integrated Studies Program with Philosophy professor Karen Detlefsen.

Kurzban met the student on Tinder, according to two individuals whom the student confided in during the period of the relationship. At the time of the relationship, the student in question was a freshman in the ISP course.

She did not respond to multiple emails and text messages asking for comment on this story. ”At first, [Kurzban] didn’t realize my friend was in his class,” said one source, who asked to be identified only as a College SEE KURZBAN PAGE 3

Penn Trustee Emeritus and Penn Law School Overseer Paul Levy sent a letter of resignation to Penn President Amy Gutmann on April 6 over recent actions taken against Penn Law School professor Amy Wax. A copy of the letter was also sent to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

As of April 9, Levy is no longer listed as a member of Penn’s Board of Trustees or a member of the Penn Law Board of Overseers.

“Preventing Wax from teaching first-year students doesn’t right academic or social wrongs,” Levy wrote in the letter. “Rather, you are suppressing what is crucial to the liberal educational project: open, robust and critical debate over differing views of important social issues.”

“A serious error has been made; please reconsider this illiberal ban on Wax’s pedagogy,” he continued.

Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger’s action against Wax on March 13 came after campaigns from students and alumni calling for him to take a stand against the professor.

Wax, who has become known to make controversial

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statements promoting “bourgeois culture,” most recently declared that black students rarely graduate top of their class, prompting Ruger to ban her from teaching a mandatory first-year law course.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the [Penn Law School] class and rarely, rarely in the top half … I can think of one or two students who’ve graduated in the top half of my required first year course,” Wax said during the video interview, which recently resurfaced and prompted Ruger to make his public statement in March.

Ruger claimed that Wax violated Penn Law School policy by divulging student grades.

Levy castigated Ruger in the letter, claiming that the dean failed to solicit his opinion on the matter before issuing the SEE RESIGNATION PAGE 6

GSE removes portrait of former dean after misconduct allegations He was accused of sexual harassment during tenure NAOMI ELEGANT Staff Reporter

The Graduate School of Education removed a portrait of former GSE Dean Dell Hymes from its building on Thursday after students put posters next to the picture detailing Hymes’ history of alleged sexual harassment and discrimination during his tenure as dean of the school from 1975 to 1987.

In an email to all GSE staff, students, and faculty, current Dean Pam Grossman announced on April 5 that the portrait would be removed. According to secondyear GSE Ph.D. student Kristina Lewis, who put up the posters, Hymes’ portrait was gone from the wall by 2 p.m. that day and had

been replaced by a portrait of Susan Fuhrman, who served as GSE dean from 1995 to 2006.

“Yesterday, someone put up a poster on the 2nd floor of our building, raising concerns about [Hymes] and wondering why GSE would honor someone with a history of harassment,” Grossman wrote in the email. “We hear and share this concern. Although I didn’t know the dean or his specific history, we will be taking down the portrait as we look into this further and determine next steps.”

Lewis put up the poster referred to in Grossman’s email on April 4. The next morning, she taped a photocopied page from a sociolinguistics textbook that described Hymes’ alleged sexual harassment of several women to the window next to the portrait.

Lewis said she decided to put

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A poster addressing Hymes’ sexual harassment accusations was posted next to his portrait in the Graduate School of Education on March 30.

up the signs after learning about the bevy of claims against Hymes during his tenure. This included

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his female graduate advisees being nicknamed “Hymes’ Harem,” female GSE faculty testifying against

Hymes for sexual harassment, and Penn faculty in other schools severing their formal ties with GSE after multiple women filed sexual discrimination lawsuits for being denied tenure.

“Seeing these articles about Hymes in the midst of our work to call for change around sexual harassment policies at Penn really intensified my dismay at continuing to see his portrait displayed prominently at GSE,” Lewis said.

The first poster addressing Hymes’ sexual harassment accusations was posted next to the portrait on March 30 as part of a one-day work-in for improved sexual harassment reporting policies organized by Penn’s graduate student union, Graduate Employees Together – University of Pennsylvania. The bright pink sign read “Dell Hymes groped women.”

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Both GSE Ph.D. candidate and GET-UP member Jennifer Phuong and Lewis are in GSE’s Educational Linguistics Department, which was founded by Hymes, and both said they had heard rumors about his alleged behavior even before last week, when they first came upon The Daily Pennsylvanian articles about him from the 1980s. Phuong described the rumors of Hymes’ misconduct as “institutional knowledge” within the department.

“Those had always been kind of hush-hush conversations because Dell Hymes founded the program,” Phuong said. “We read his work a lot.” Lewis said that at least some faculty seem to consider Hymes’ academic work “fundamental” to the program, which raises quesSEE GSE PAGE 2

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No reimbursement for students abroad in U.K. U.K. strikes caused students to miss weeks of classes DEENA ELUL Staff Reporter

Students studying in the United Kingdom will receive credit for courses missed due to teacher strikes but will not be reimbursed, Penn Abroad announced Monday.

From Feb. 22 to late March, professors at 64 universities in the U.K. went on strikes to protest imminent changes to their pension program. Students, including those from Penn studying abroad, dealt with canceled lectures for up to five weeks. Many students petitioned their universities to reimburse them for missed classes, and some, such as King’s College London, complied to student requests. For a while, Penn students, who pay tuition to Penn, were unsure whether they would be reimbursed or even receive credit for canceled classes.

On April 9, Senior Global Programs Manager Greta Kazenski sent an email to Penn students studying in the U.K. to inform them that Penn Abroad is “striving to ensure” that Penn will give credit to all students who receive credit from their host universities, regardless of class time missed. However, she added that requests for pass/ fail credit will not be considered

and that Penn will not be providing tuition reimbursement to students who receive credit.

Penn Abroad Director Nigel Cossar said that he felt confident in the decision to grant credit because it was in line with other United States universities and because the affected universities informed him that the missed material would not be covered on exams.

Cossar said that of the 76 Penn students studying at affected universities, half were impacted in some way or another by the strikes.

Most students only missed one or two classes for a couple weeks, but seven or eight students faced more severe disruptions.

Because they are receiving Penn credit, Cossar said that students would not receive reimbursement.

Yet some students say the decision should be made more individually, since some claim the work they did abroad would not constitute a full credit.

“If a Penn student receives Penn credit, there will be no reimbursement regardless of what happens with our partner school because we are giving credit,” he said.

Cossar said that Penn Abroad decided to give students credit because “we really want to honor what our partner universities are doing abroad.”

However, Cossar said that if

credit is not given, reimbursement will be considered on a case-bycase basis. He said that as of now he is unaware of any U.K. universities which do not plan to grant credit.

Affected students largely say they were disappointed yet unsurprised by Penn’s decision not to refund students.

Wharton junior Hannah Liu, who is studying at King’s College London this semester, said that Penn’s decision to give credit to all students is a “sweeping generalization” that might not be right for everyone.

“I feel like I don’t necessarily want credit for some of my classes because I don’t think I did enough work,” she said. For example, one of her history classes only covered half of the planned 300-year period.

However, Liu acknowledged that some students may have missed fewer classes than others and that some may need the credits to graduate.

“I feel like Penn should have done it on a case-by-case basis rather than just saying for everyone we’re going to give credit,” she said.

Liu also said that she was disappointed by Penn’s decision not to reimburse for canceled classes, especially given the fact that King’s College will be reimbursing students.

“I’m just wondering since King’s College is giving a reimbursement

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While students abroad in the U.K. will be receiving credit for their courses, they will not be reimbursed for the class time they missed as a direct result of the ongoing strikes by professors that began in February.

why Penn is not doing so as well,” Liu said. “It just sort of doesn’t make sense and doesn’t seem fair, since in this situation Penn is more of a middleman.”

“I’m just wondering where is that money going if not to the students,” Liu added.

College junior Max Alper, who is also studying at King’s College, said that he was not surprised by Penn’s decision not to reimburse.

“All in all, I never really thought that Penn would actually reimburse our tuition,” he said, acknowledging that Penn students already pay

far more than students at their host universities. “Based on their email it seems that they value a credit as a credit and not necessarily us paying for an amount of education or class time.”

“I am disappointed, but it’s not a surprise to me,” Alper also noted.

Wharton junior Michael Gross, who is studying at the University of Edinburgh, also said that he didn’t “really expect to be reimbursed,” especially because only one of his classes was affected. However, he said that “there should be some type of reimbursement” for students who

missed a lot of class.

Gross, a former sports writer for The Daily Pennsylvanian, said that he “wasn’t really surprised” by Penn’s decision to grant credit. He added that not granting credit would be “kind of unfair” because students hadn’t known about the strikes before starting the semester.

The University and College Union is considering planning an additional round of strikes to take place during the U.K.’s exam period. A ballot for professors to accept or reject the latest proposed agreement closes on April 13.

Penn Police and University reach agreement in contract negotiations They took more than six months to settle the deal JAMES MEADOWS Staff Reporter

After more than six and half months of working without a contract, the stalemate in negotiations between members of the Penn Police Association and Division of Public Safety has ended.

The new terms of the threeyear contract, which Penn introduced to PPA leaders on Feb. 27, will provide a pay increase for officers and changes in officer pension plans, and includes new language allowing officers to review body camera footage during disciplinary hearings.

Craig Carnaroli, Penn’s executive vice president, publicly announced the new terms on April 4 at DPS’ annual commendation ceremony.

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tions about how to address his

“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.”

Officers with the union had been working without a contract since July 31, 2017.

After the University proposed the new terms in late February, PPA members voted in favor of the new agreement – 59 voting for and 14 against – at its monthly meeting on March 1. PPA President Eric Rohrback said the PPA signed a memorandum of the agreement indicating that officers would sign the new contract once drafted by the University as long as the agreed-upon terms remained the same.

DPS comprises 178 personnel,

nearly 120 of whom are sworn Penn Police officers. Of those, 87 are members of the Penn Police Association — nearly three quarters of the force.

The remaining 30 nonunionized officers are primarily composed of higher ranking, or “A1,” officers such as lieutenants and captains whose terms of employment do not allow them to formally unionize.

Since the new contract was supposed to go into effect on Aug. 1, Rohrback indicated that the ratified clauses will be retroactively applied to the negotiation period.

During negotiations, the University initially offered a 3 percent base increase over the course of three years, but Rohrback said the union asked for a larger pay increase. Under the agreed-upon terms, officer salaries will now increase at 3.25 percent increments over

the next three years – reaching a total pay increase of 9.75 percent, Rohrback told The Daily Pennsylvanian.

DPS declined to confirm or deny any terms of the agreement, writing that “[w]e do not discuss personnel issues,” according to an emailed statement to the DP from Stacy Lutner Ritchey, associate director of operations and external affairs for DPS. Despite the increase in pay, Penn Police salaries still remain below the rates of both the Philadelphia Police Department and similar universities, according to data provided by the PPA. “We’d love to be up there with the other departments, but we got to whittle away at it,” Rohrback remarked. “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”

The terms were retroactively applied back to Aug. 1, 2017, so that officers received a pay

stipend with the new salary rate applied.

It was “the largest retro[active] payment in [U] niversity history,” Rohrback wrote in a message.

One of the key negotiating points, according to Rohrback, was equipping Penn Police with body cameras and adding language allowing officers to view their camera footage during disciplinary, criminal, and civil hearings.

Rohrback said DPS had purchased, but had to equip all officers with body cameras at the time of signing.

“The DPS Penn Police Department have been researching the implementation of a body camera system for some time,” Vice President for the Division of Public Safety Maureen Rush said in a statement. “Following a successful pilot with the cameras, we will be deploying body cameras

for officer use soon. We are developing the directives which will govern the specific use of these body cameras, including access to review footage and other considerations. We will base these directives on best law enforcement practices.”

In 2015, after the Philadelphia Police Department launched a pilot program for officers to wear body cameras while on duty, Penn students called on DPS to implement the same policy for Penn Police officers.

The new terms also affected officer pensions. Monthly pension checks will be based off of the salaries of the final three years of an officer’s service, rather than the last five, as stipulated in the previous contract.

“With what we got with the body-cam language and the pay increase, [members] are relatively happy now,” Rohrback said.

“Morale is up a little bit.”

legacy — deciding whether or not to cite Hymes’ work, for example.

Lewis said she hopes the removal of the portrait will “stimulate

continued conversations” in GSE about Hymes’ academic legacy.

Karla Venegas, another doctoral student in educational linguistics, said that Hymes’ reputation for sexual harassment “came up pretty quickly” in her first few weeks at Penn. “[It] was never a rumor nor a mystery to me,” Venegas said, comparing awareness of Hymes’ alleged sexual harassment to common knowledge such as what software programs to use or which classes to take.

According to a DP article from December 1988, Hymes had reached out-of-court settlements with multiple GSE faculty who had filed sexual discrimination lawsuits against him and had been named in a court case involving the sexual harassment of a female GSE faculty member. After a “going-away bash” hosted at the

Penn Museum, Hymes left Penn in 1987 for a research post at the University of Virginia. He retired from UVA in 1998 and died in 2009.

Phuong, who wrote the March 30 sign at the work-in, said while she thought removing the Hymes portrait was “great,” she wants the administration to do more to address current issues around sexual harassment on campus.

Grossman’s April 5 email also said that the GSE administration will send a summary of the March 29 Open Forum, where GET-UP members raised the question of sexual harassment policies for students who didn’t attend. She also promised that the administration will conduct a climate survey for GSE students, staff, and faculty, and that she will continue hosting office hours so students can share their

concerns “directly” with the GSE administration.

Despite this, Phuong noted that Grossman’s email made no mention of the March 30 work-in at GSE, despite the fact that it caused “a lot of conversation in the building” among faculty, staff, and students. Phuong said that several faculty members took printed copies of GET-UP’s policy recommendations at the work-in, and others gave positive feedback about the recommendations.

Nelson Flores, an assistant professor in GSE’s Educational Linguistics Department, made a post on Twitter describing the “courage” and “tireless effort” of GSE students that led to the Hymes portrait being removed. Flores also posted a link to GET-UP’s recommendations to improve sexual harassment policies “to prevent what Dell Hymes got away with from happening again in the future.”

“The lack of acknowledgement

[from the administration] of some of the work that students have been doing […] is noteworthy,” Phuong said.

The portrait removal is the latest in a string of events involving issues of sexual harassment at GSE, which started after GET-UP published a petition in September 2017 calling for improved sexual harassment policies. Currently, GET-UP is focused on promoting its list of recommendations to improve University sexual harassment policy, which the organization publicized at the University Council Open Forum and at last week’s work-in.

“Taking down a portrait is in some ways an easy fix, but how can concrete changes be made to sexual harassment policies that are currently affecting students?”

Phuong said. “How can we address the behavior of professors who might be abusing their power currently? How do we avoid another Dell Hymes?”

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sophomore in ISP in order to speak frankly about private conversations. “He realized later, but I don’t think things stopped after that.”

Kurzban declined to directly address these allegations, but sent an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“I take my obligation to academic ethics and integrity very seriously and would never intentionally violate these principles,” he wrote. “In terms of University policies, I leave any allegations of violations to the administration to investigate and I am a firm believer in open, honest cooperation in any such investigations.”

In a subsequent phone interview, Kurzban declined to elaborate on what he meant by an “unintentional” violation of University policy.

“I don’t have anything to add beyond that statement,” he said.

“I think the statement speaks for itself.”

The class that Kurzban taught in the spring of 2017 was a twocredit course entitled, “Human Morality and Emotions,” which merged the two disciplines in four-and-a-half hours of lecture and one hour of seminar discussion per week. Kurzban’s section, where he taught evolutionary psychology, included 85 students that

ogy Department, many undergraduates studied under Kurzban through his role as faculty director of ISP, which enrolls a group of freshmen in a common set of interdisciplinary courses across the humanities and sciences.

Kurzban has also been appointed to a range of other senior positions. On top of leadership roles in the Psychology Department, he regularly mentors undergraduate and graduate students in his lab as the founder and co-director of the

While University administrators have not addressed questions on whether Kurzban will be disciplined for this alleged violation, some ISP students told the DP that they suspect he has been barred from teaching in ISP and stripped of his title as undergraduate chair of the Psychology Department.

According to a cached version of the ISP website, Kurzban was listed as a professor within the program as recently as March 27, but no longer appears on the website.

In addition, as recently as Feb. 24, Kurzban was listed online as the undergraduate director of the Psychology Department. But as of April 1, a cached version of his webpage indicates that this title has been removed. On the undergraduate website for the Psychology Department, the director of undergraduate studies is currently listed as Daniel Swingley. However, on the site for psychology majors as well as a site that lists faculty affiliated with the master of behavioral and decision sciences program, the undergraduate chair is still listed as Kurzban.

It remains unclear whether Kurzban has been formally demoted, and the University has not provided a clear answer.

Five top administrators and four faculty members, as well as the Vice President for University Communications Steve MacCarthy, did not respond to multiple emails asking whether Kurzban was the current undergraduate chair for the Psychology Department or whether he would continue teaching in ISP. Despite hints otherwise, there is currently no confirmation from the University on what Kurzban’s roles on campus are or will be.

Penn’s Faculty Handbook states that “the Provost, Deans [and] Department Chairs” are responsible for responding to reports of faculty violations of this policy and if necessary, implementing disciplinary action.

The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Paul Sniegowski and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Eve Troutt Powell did not respond to multiple emails and calls for comment.

The Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Steven Fluharty responded to multiple emails by referring back to a statement provided by MacCarthy.

“We take all allegations of sexual misconduct seriously and investigate them,” MacCarthy wrote in a statement on April 9.

“However, we do not comment on individual personnel matters.”

In respond to multiple emails, the Office of the Provost Wendell Pritchett also responded by replicating MacCarthy’s statement.

The Provost’s Office did not address whether they were aware of Kurzban’s apparent violation or whether the University was planning to take action in response to it.

In addition, five other relevant faculty members did not respond to requests for comment. This includes Detlefsen, who co-taught Integrated Studies 002 with Kurzban, Sharon Thompson-Schill, the chair of the Psychology Department, as well as Michelle Pinto, Julio Tuma, and Jean-Paul Cauvin, who were all seminar leaders for Kurzban’s class.

None of the nine administrators or faculty members contacted responded to questions asking whether they were aware of Kurzban’s alleged violation, or whether the University was taking — or had already taken — disciplinary action against him.

Heidi Howkins Lockwood, an

“It was super inappropriate of him to do that because of his position of power. In general, it’s against the rules, especially since it’s a student in [his] class.”

- College sophomore in ISP

Penn Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology.

In the current version of this policy in the Faculty Handbook, it states that faculty members who violate the University’s rules on sexual relations between faculty and undergraduates “will be subject to sanctions ranging from written reprimand to tenure revo-

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semester.

As undergraduate chair for one of Penn’s most popular majors, Kurzban served as one of the chief supervisors for undergraduate instruction in psychology and academic policy for the department. Outside of the Psychol-

cation and/or termination of employment or expulsion.”

This policy was recently updated, but even in the previous version, Kurzban would have violated the policy by having sexual relations with a student he was simultaneously instructing.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2018 associate professor of philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University, said she thinks Penn should take action against Kurzban if it confirms the alleged relationship between him and the student.

“A policy isn’t a real policy if the only consequence is going to be a slap on the hand,” she said. *** Faculty-student relationships with “the potential for exploitation” Even though Kurzban’s relationship with the student was consensual, sources close to her felt uncomfortable with the dynamic given Kurzban’s professional relationship with the student.

“It was super inappropriate of him to do that because of his position of power,” said a College sophomore in ISP who is close to the student in question. “In general, it’s against the rules, especially since it’s a student in [his] class.”

A College senior from New York who said the student confided in him about the relationship, agreed.

“Yes, it was voluntary and consensual, but it’s still a conflict of interest because, as a professor, it is his responsibility to ensure that he’s grading evenly and fairly,” he said.

In recent years, many of Penn’s peer institutions have tightened their codes of conduct to prohibit relationships between faculty members and undergraduates, citing the strong potential for an abuse of power within these relationships.

In Yale University’s 2017-2018 Handbook for Directors of Undergraduate Studies in Yale College, the university writes that “the unequal institutional power inherent in this relationship heightens the vulnerability of the student and the potential for coercion.”

Similarly, in Princeton University’s policy, it states that “a sexual or romantic relationship between a faculty member and a person for whom he or she has professional responsibility (i.e., as a teacher, adviser, evaluator, or supervisor) is inherently problematic. With professional responsibility comes power. It is incumbent on faculty members not to abuse, nor to seem to abuse, the power with which they are entrusted.”

Less than two weeks ago, Penn banned all sexual relations between faculty members and undergraduate students, marking the first time since 1995 that this policy has been updated. The new guidelines are a considerable shift from the University’s previous policy, which stated that sexual relations between teachers and students were only prohibited “during the period of the teacher-student relationship.”

The American Association of University Professors has not recommended an outright ban on sexual relations between faculty and undergraduates, but issued a strong statement to The Washington Post in 2015 on the dangers that these relationships can have for students.

“Sexual relations between students and faculty members with whom they also have an academic or evaluative relationship are fraught with the potential for exploitation,” the AAUP wrote.

Lockwood, the associate professor from Southern Connecticut State University, said she strongly disapproves of sexual relationships between faculty and students, particularly during the

period of instruction.

“It flies in the face of all protocol in the corporate world. It is utterly unacceptable,” she said in an interview with the DP. “How can you be sure that a grade, letter of recommendation, or exchange for advice isn’t a quid pro quo exchange … for sex or sexual activity?”

Penn officials have also publicly acknowledged the implications that sexual relations between faculty members and students can have. In a March 24 statement to the DP on the University’s decision to ban this type of relationship, Provost Pritchett directly connected the policy change to an ongoing effort to improve Penn’s policies against sexual harassment and assault.

“It is one of our highest priorities at Penn to sustain a campus free of sexual violence, sexual harassment, and all other forms of sexual misconduct,” Pritchett wrote. “In this light, we have updated the University’s policy on Consensual Sexual Relations Between Faculty and Students, which was originally published in 1995.”

Pritchett did not respond to multiple emails asking whether the University would be addressing Kurzban’s apparent violation of University policy. *** A controversial professor in the classroom A scholar widely renowned in his field, Kurzban is cited in numerous journals in the field of evolutionary psychology. He has taught at Penn since 2002, though his material and teaching style have made him a controversial figure on campus. Multiple students interviewed for this story say they have found Kurzban’s classes on evolutionary psychology offensive.

supposed to have a lot of sexual partners, heteronormative relations are the norm, and everything is about procreation,” she said. “He also asserted that men don’t have committed sexual relationships and women have single partners. This is all literally on his slides.”

Another College sophomore in ISP added that much of the material seemed like it was “him trying to support his own sexist and misogynistic views using data that didn’t even seem legitimate.”

“He was trying to explain that for evolutionary reasons, the most beautiful people that people are most sexually attracted are 18and 19-year-old women,” she said. “He then showed pictures of women’s bodies.”

“The moment he said that in lecture it was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s more like he finds that kind of content attractive and he’s just generalizing it to all of science,’” she added.

But not all of Kurzban’s students agreed. Some described him as an intelligent and charismatic professor “with an offbeat sense of humor.”

Michelle Lu, a College sophomore who was in the same class, described Kurzban in an email as a “good lecturer” and an “engaging” professor.

Thea Farah, a 2017 College graduate who majored in psychology, said she appreciated his approachable sense of humor in her honors psychology seminar.

“I’m sure at some point, someone’s going to be rubbed the wrong way by his humor, but I actually really liked it, as did a lot of other students,” she said.

2017 College graduate Emily Fisher, who also majored in psychology, said that Kurzban was one of her favorite professors during her time at Penn, as he was very approachable.

“There was one time he was wearing this really, really vibrant Hawaiian shirt [in a picture he showed students from a trip he took to the Galapagos], and I feel like that kind of captures his whole vibe too,” Fisher said. “It was almost kind of this nerdy, psych research vacation … and he showed his students the pictures to make it more personal, which I thought was cool. ” Other students, like the College senior from New York, found that Kurzban’s attitude and sense of humor negatively affected their emotional well-being.

“I stopped going to class at one point because I felt like it was harming my experience at Penn.

I just didn’t want to put myself through it anymore,” he added.

Araten echoed these sentiments, noting that she stopped regularly going to class because of how offensive she found the material.

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On his Penn webpage, it states that Kurzban’s research interests include the “nature of evolved cognitive adaptations for social life.” He has published two books, one of which is titled “Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind.”

According to four students across two classes he taught in 2017, his lectures on evolutionary psychology included material some students found misogynistic and inappropriate.

College sophomore Jess Araten, who is part of ISP, said that she “was angry every single day [she] was in that class,” but had to finish the course because it was a required class for ISP students that year.

Araten added that she found one of Kurzban’s evolutionary psychology lectures on the fundamental theories behind mating principles particularly offensive.

“He was saying women are not

Penn kicks off most ambitious fundraising campaign in its history The campaign aims to raise $4.1 billion in four years YONI GUTENMACHER Deputy News Editor

Penn is formally launching its most ambitious fundraising campaign in University history.

The campaign, which Penn’s Board of Trustees voted to approve last month, will start on April 12 and last until 2021.

The campaign is titled “Power of Penn Campaign: Advancing Knowledge for Good” and aims to raise $4.1 billion in

four years, making it the most ambitious fundraising project in Penn history.

Brian Lacy, founder and president of fundraising consulting firm Brian Lacy and Associates, said that this kind of increase in fundraising goals between campaigns is standard practice among universities. He added that ambitious universities like Penn spend months with experts planning the marketing strategy of the campaign, the campaign’s title, its exact goal, and the eventual allocation of funds.

“It’s an amount of money they know how to spend if they get it and they also believe they know who will give it,” Lacy said.

This is the second fundraising campaign conducted during Penn President Amy Gutmann’s 14-year tenure.

The previous campaign, known as the “Making History Campaign,” exceeded its goal of $3.5 billion by bringing in over $4.3 billion — $3.6 billion of which came from cash receipts — from a total of 326,592 donors. The campaign

launched in October 2007 and ended in late 2012.

During the “Making History Campaign,” Penn received its largest single donation in history from Raymond and Ruth Perelman, who gifted $225 million to the University to name the Perelman School of Medicine in 2011.

Over $2 billion raised by “Making History” went toward various research and programs, with other large amounts being spent on undergraduate financial aid, graduate financial aid, faculty, and building construc-

tion.

The success of this campaign was a significant factor in Gutmann’s total compensation increase to nearly $3.5 million.

While the “Making History Campaign” had several goals, including the construction of new facilities and the integration of scholarship with social impact, the specific goals of this year’s campaign remain unclear.

According to Lacy, universities like Penn with large endowments and large donations launch fundraising campaigns

for two main reasons: to raise more money by creating excitement and to create a cultural change in the institution.

“When you want to change structurally something that the University is doing, you make a new campaign,” Lacy said.

University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy declined to comment on the approval of the new campaign, but added that a regional event tour around the campaign was launched in New York on April 19. Events on the tour will be open to Penn alumni and families.

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OPINION Despite the skepticism, there’s hope for Fling DREIM JOURNAL | Weathering the perfect storm of anti-Fling changes

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enn is no longer the place Playboy called the No. 1 party school in 2014.

Given the controversial social policies (#NotMyEventObserver) adopted by Penn as a result of the Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community, we knew that this Fling would be different. What I didn’t expect was how much SPEC and students would contribute to this change.

The increased social stringency

by Penn makes gathering for that classic collegiate scene all the more difficult – windows are covered by trash bags and students shuffle like escaped prisoners through metal cellar doors to give the illusion that there is no traffic at a given house.

As parties move further off campus and free options are less and less reliable, students turn to off-campus events in ever-rising numbers. I’m going to attribute the Pool Party popularity to Dean Furda gracing the door with his

presence (I mean, come on, how could you not want to be there?), but it seems that clamor to get to off-campus venues generally gets higher by the year.

A friend of mine who is at Penn as an exchange student asked me a couple of weeks ago which party he should get tickets for, because he hears that’s what you need to do now. That “need” drives up the price, leading these events to be prohibitively expensive for many, and the social policies necessitate them being available to as few people as possible.

This is the first year I’ve had to request to be invited to Facebook events about Fling gatherings.

So, with the proverbial dogs at our heels, students should use our creative acumen to salvage all we can out of our landmark weekend, right? SPEC doesn’t seem to think so. SPEC’s decision to move all events to Penn Park, to cut nearly half the student events,

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and consolidate the entire thing to one day was, apparently, meant to “bring back the glory” of the ‘70s.

I listen to Sweet’s “Peppermint Twist” cover while I get dressed

ity to campus. It’s Magic Gardens without an open bar.

And students have clued in.

The negativity around Fling that has been on parade leading up to this week is palpable. Just because

The negativity around Fling that has been on parade leading up to this week is palpable.

Just because you don’t like the headliner doesn’t mean Fling is ruined.” before going out and unironically own a pair of white jeans — I will never not be a fan of bringing back the glory of the ‘70s. But when I think about what made those scenes they spoke about — “those photos of the Quad filled with people, and people jumping off the stage, and having fun” — so good, “ample walking space” isn’t exactly what comes to mind.

That’s what the Penn Park change is. It’s management.

What made ‘70s Fling glorious enough to want to bring back wasn’t that it was well-managed, but that it was loud and in your face and people believed in it; it was essential to capping off the year at Penn. Now it’s a one-day event featuring very few student groups in a place with no special central-

you don’t like the headliner doesn’t mean Fling is ruined.

I personally think cupcakKe has a cheap shtick, her music isn’t good, and she shouldn’t be on the roster. But I’m excited for Fling.

I live on 40th and will burn two shots’ worth of calories hiking to Penn Park. But I’m excited for Fling.

I understand why there is pessimistic skepticism leading up to the “Fling of the Jungle.” The criticisms about the negative effects of Penn’s increasingly heavy social policies are well-founded, and SPEC has done what I feel is a less-than-commendable job justifying doing away very suddenly with many hallmarks of the tradition.

That said, Fling was never really

DYLAN REIM about the rules or the SPEC events.

The student-level changes are a response to a fear that faith in Fling is dying out, and the administrationlevel ones to a fear that our unchecked social freedom will burn Philly to the ground and MERT the entire Class of 2021. If we want Fling to continue to be special, we need to prove these fears wrong.

If Fling to you means going to all the clubs, do it. If it means rolling house to house sampling the finest Natty Light West Philly has to offer, do it. If you just want free food from the vendors, do it. But do something.

This Fling will be different, but reacting to that fact by disconnecting from the experience entirely is the one way to ensure that the “glory days” don’t come back. Rules and management aside, Fling is about celebrating the finale of another year in whatever way is most enjoyable to us.

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

His email address is dreim@sas. upenn.edu.

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CHANCES ARE | Grappling with the fear of uselessness

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ll semester long, I’ve been grappling with this question: “Will I live a significant life?”

This is, undoubtedly, a huge question. This may or may not even be the Question. And it is the Question that I have brooded over, not only my last year of college, when, for the first time, I can see my story’s finishing line, but all my life.

Nevertheless, like most people when they are young, the Question was less a question and more a statement.

“Well, of course I am going to live a significant life,” we all tell ourselves. The only uncertainty is how we are going to do it.

For some, we envisage significance in giving ourselves to others. For some, we envisage significance in creation. And for some, we envisage significance in perpetuity — can we make or do something that lasts beyond our personal timeline?

It is the combination of these last two versions of significance that has always plagued me, that plagues most of my

generation. To live significantly means to live divinely, to become the center of our own worlds, to make, shape, destroy the universe in our own image, until finally, reality resembles

may never have significance.”

And though I related to her deeply, though just that weekend, I had cried all day until my head throbbed, worrying over the same thing, I wanted

Being significant doesn’t mean that you have to matter to everyone, or that you have to matter forever, or even that you have to matter to the point that someone knows your name.” our imagination. Except, reality exists outside our power, and what happens when we cannot play God? I was talking with a friend last weekend, another literary type like me. We are both in the same boat: jobless with no impending resolution. We were grappling, grappling, grappling with the Question, when she said, “I’m trying to come to terms with the fact that my life

to tell her that she was wrong.

We often forget that very first version of significance I mentioned, the version our mothers teach us before school ever tells us to create, before society tells us to live forever.

Help others. It’s an almost infantile command, but it’s one that holds the most water in today’s day and age, when maybe 5 percent of people will realize significance the way the rest of

us have mistakenly imagined.

Being significant doesn’t mean that you have to matter to everyone, or that you have to matter forever, or even that you have to matter to the point that someone knows your name.

You simply have to matter — to have done one action which truly helped or made a difference at one point in time — to one person.

Let me spoil “Middlemarch” for you by saying that it’s about what people do when expectations exceed reality, when ambition and dreaming remain unfulfilled — basically, how to keep going when the going gets tough. Eliot ends the story, explaining that the reason “things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

The answer to the question, “Will I live a significant life?” is and will always be “Yes.” Because whether you assist lots of people, whether everyone knows your name, whether or

AMY CHAN not you ever do a deed greater than helping that one old lady cross the street that one time — you have done and probably will do at least one noteworthy thing, even if it is only for your parents.

Noteworthiness is not synonymous with fame, nor even with ambition — although these three are often intertwined. It is important to remember that this first version of significance — helping others — is the truest, most achievable version of significance an ordinary person can grasp on an ordinary day.

AMY CHAN is a College senior from Augusta, Ga., studying classics. Her email address is chanamy@sas.upenn.edu.

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Fling is a time for unity — don’t forget your tank ALIFIMOFF’S ALLEY | How Fling tanks encapsulate all Penn has to offer

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have a confession to make: I kind of love Fling. I love it with an uncharacteristic abandon. Normally, I lack the social stamina to party hop. I find darties somewhat terrifying. (A party? In the daytime? When everyone can see? You want me to do shots before the eyes of God?) But for this one weekend a year, I make an exception because Fling feels like our own personal holiday weekend — a time when campus sheds its business-casual facade and celebrates celebrating.

Several weeks ago, my fellow columnist Dylan Reim wrote about the feeling of unity that swept across campus during the wave of “snarties” when classes were canceled due to inclement weather. Fling weekend calls to mind the same heady feeling of unity and celebration, and there’s nothing that exemplifies Fling better than my favorite type of Penn

enough to take this for granted — the breezy way I scan my PennCard and plethora of locked doors open for me, the sense of ownership and belonging I feel when I walk down Locust Walk. I don’t define myself as belonging to Penn because it would feel redundant. I’m a creature of habit, and in the depths of the semester I get as stuck in the Penn bubble as anyone else. I wake up in an apartment full of Penn students, wait in line for coffee with Penn students, sit in lecture with Penn students … you get the picture.

Instead, I’ve spent the majority of my time here trying to find my niche. That’s the conventional wisdom that is foisted on us when we first arrive on campus. It’s even part of this paper’s editorial advice to incoming freshmen. We arrive and immediately set out on the mythical quest to “find our people.”

I understand that Fling tanks are silly and seasonally inappropriate.

But on an emotional level, I think they’re wonderful.” themed apparel: the Fling tank.

When I’m at school, I don’t often think about the fact that I’m a Penn student. I’m lucky (or arrogant) enough to be able

And most of us do. We siphon ourselves off from the monolithic herd of freshmen, those creatures who travel in pacts during New Student Ori-

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entation all shiny and tainted with the air of having never sobbed in a GSR at 3 a.m. We come to define ourselves as members of clubs and athletic teams, then some of us take the letters of Greek organizations, and even later, some of us get tapped by senior societies.

Once we’ve done it, once we’ve made it through the interviews, the first game of the season, the hazing, or the initiation, we fork over cash for merchandise that signifies we’ve found our people. We belong somewhere.

At Penn, group merchandise plays an important part in signifying our social status to others. It’s a type of social semaphore, indicating where we fit

in the mosaic of athletic teams, performing arts groups, clubs, and Greek organizations that make up Penn’s social scene.

In January, my fellow columnist Isabella Simonetti wrote about how the prevalence of sorority merchandise drove her decision to rush: “Walking down Locust in a Greek letteremblazoned sweatshirt makes a bigger statement than any designer label.”

While I don’t agree with the materialistic and exclusionary connotations that come with comparing Greek letters to designer labels, I understand the feeling. I’m a bit of a merch fanatic. I have hats and crewnecks and laptops stickers that point to my participation in

Greek life, the performing arts, and academic programs.

I remember being a freshman, anxious and jealous of the people who seemed to announce through their laptops and water bottles and clothes that they knew exactly who they were and where they belonged.

While most merch is designed to highlight the things that make us different from the rest of Penn, the Fling tank unites us as a campus. The Fling tank is a rare nod to campus unity, just as Fling is one of those rare weekends when it feels like all of Penn is doing the same thing.

On a cognitive level, I understand that Fling tanks are

silly and seasonally inappropriate. But on an emotional level, I think they’re wonderful.

They’re a symbol of the diversity that makes me love Penn.

In all of this “finding our people” and carving out niches for ourselves, I think we forget about Penn as a cohesive whole. I love Penn not because of its administration, its fancy buildings, or its endowment, but because I love its students.

I love their passion, their tenacity, their humor, their weirdness. And Fling tanks — with their bad puns and inside jokes — are a better reflection of the Penn that I’ve come to love than any admissions brochure could ever be.

So this weekend, I’ll put on my Fling tank and celebrate Penn. I’ll celebrate the fact that we’ll likely never be at a place that puts this many educational resources and free alcohol at our fingertips again.

Hope to see you there.

REBECCA ALIFIMOFF is a College sophomore from Fort Wayne, Ind. studying history. Her email address is ralif@sas.upenn.edu.

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In defiance of ‘dialogue’: responding to Ariela Stein’s pro-Israel column

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hen Penn Students for Justice in Palestine first appeared on College Green, I asked my friends, “Why during the high holidays?” They always point to some urgent injustice or another immediately occurring in Israel. I’ve always felt nauseous afterwards — not from anti-Semitism, but because I realized that the Jewish state gives their every protest no shortage of justification. Why should SJP limit the timing of advocacy when its necessity is regularly reaffirmed by the state we hold so dear?

Ariela Stein’s column last week displays less an earnest desire to understand than a show of power, demanding parameters of discourse when her side already dominates effective speech. These demands are especially disingenuous when those who make them engage in imitation-play of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Or when they are members of a group that organizes Wikipedia propaganda campaigns and maligns critics of Israeli policy as defamers (including Haaretz, the longest-running Israeli newspaper).

Vague allusions to “democracy” are problematic when conversa-

GUEST COLUMN BY CARL-EMMANUEL FULGHIERI tionalists engage in AIPAC-play.

How can somebody gesticulate for respect or talk substantially about democracy, when, at the behest of AIPAC, a bipartisan set of 43 senators want to make boycotts of Israel a felony? When at the whim of the Israeli state, if perceived as and advocate of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, I can be exiled from the land of my kin and heart?

As a French-born Jew, I am amused at Stein’s reference to American liberal heart-throb Emmanuel Macron, whose government joins Israel in enforcing legal punishments for BDS advocacy. To ask for respect is ridiculous when your interlocutor already has so little power and large governments attack what little autonomous power they have left.

Portraying SJP programming during Jewish holidays as cheap antiSemitism is a bit ridiculous when every year representatives from across campus reaffirm the idealized connection between the United States and Israel. This phenomenon of a natural link between the two countries, posited prior to actual argument, is not metaphysical but in fact a mobilization of pro-Israel lobbies run by both evangelical Christians and American Jews There can never

be a dialogue among equals when one group of speakers can be heard behind the closed doors of the chambers of Congress. To then impose demands of respect takes chutzpah.

Toward Stein’s specious defenses of Israel:

really represented in Israel?

In the entire territory, about one in every three people have no parliamentary voting rights. Within the Green Line, Arabs can vote, but can they cannot meaningfully participate in democracy. They rarely hold gov-

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The column treats “Israel” as the body of Israeli citizens and political apparatuses, neglecting its relationship to noncitizen residents, those in Palestinian territories, and transient labor. Israel still regulates various aspects of non-Israeli life, including water rights, border crossings, blockades, illegal collective punishment, discriminatory housing practices, etc. To what degree are Palestinians

ernment positions and Arab parties have never been in a coalition government. Even legislators are treated with contempt: When Mike Pence spoke to the Knesset, Arab members were forcibly thrown out for holding signs in protest.

Beyond political representation, integration is an empty fetish. Tel Aviv, where tourists stroll Rothschild boulevard, is 95 percent Jew-

ish. To drive through the Israeli countryside is to distinguish villages as Palestinian, Jewish, or Druze by their architecture. Inequality strikes along racialized backgrounds, with indigenous Arabs (and indigenous Jews) receiving the short end of the stick compared to their richer and whiter neighbors. Jews of color have suffered throughout Israel’s history, in their own journey to thrive in their purported birthright.

Also present in Stein’s article were ad hominem arguments lacking merit and nuance alike. Palestinian Authority restrictions on sale of property to Jews make sense in the present context of West Bank settlements. To suggest that this law is segregationist, when its absence would mean the introduction of homogenous Jewish settlements, is aweing. I concede that Middle Eastern governments exploit Palestinian refugees as political pawns. But to divert attention to this fact as the real apartheid is to simultaneously justify the original expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and to deflect from Israel’s abuse of Palestinians living under its jurisdiction.

I was also shocked that Stein took the existence of Palestinian athletes as evidence of how good things are

for Palestinians. Have you ever heard of the Palestinian soccer player, Mahmoud Sarsak, who was unduly held and tortured for three years (as if this could be justified)?

Further, the notion that civil rights and representation for Arabs (however limited) living in Israel refutes culpability for apartheid-like policies suggests a totalizing and binary view of Arabs. No distinction is even made for the Druze, a unique ethnic population that tends to have Zionist sympathies.

The bittersweetness of Passover, more than vestiges of charoset and maror, lasts well into Deuteronomy.

The celebration of our liberation precedes the mitzvah to ethnically cleanse Israel of idolaters. Ashkenazi Jews in the US are afforded power in discourses on Israel, and Israel wields power over Palestinians.

We cannot in good conscience, as Stein does, police rhetorical provocations made on a campus and in a country bereft of criticism of Israeli policy.

CARL-EMMANUEL FULGHIERI is a College junior from Carrboro, N.C. studying economics and philosophy. Fulgieri is a former DP staff reporter.

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Graduate group elects first black female president

Penn alumni returned to support her in her election NAOMI ELEGANT Staff Reporter

Sociology Ph.D. candidate Haley Pilgrim was elected to be the president of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly on April 4, marking the group’s first black female president in its 70year history.

Pilgrim, who will take up the post on May 1, is the current copresident of the Black Graduate and Professional School Assembly and chair of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Leadership Council. Pilgrim is also the first IDEAL Council representative to be elected president of GAPSA. Pilgrim said that “the most exciting thing” after winning the election was being able to celebrate with the BGAPSA community.

“It was such a major win for all of us, and we all got to rejoice in that together,” Pilgrim said. “I want to expand the number of students who feel like they are benefiting from GAPSA.” Brie Starks, a BGAPSA member who is graduating this spring from Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice, said she was “overjoyed” with Pilgrim’s “monumental” election.

“It sets the tone for a culture shift that Penn needs as a university,” Starks said. “Having the first black, female president of GAPSA makes me feel just a bit relieved.”

In a joint emailed statement, the outgoing GAPSA Communications chair, Octavia Sun, a secondyear environmental studies student, and incoming chair Emily Dupont, a second-year doctoral candidate at the School of Veterinary Medicine, said that Pilgrim has been “a catalyst of positive change” during her

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Sociology Ph.D. candidate Haley Pilgrim was elected to be the president of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly on April 4, 2018.

time at Penn.

According to the statement, Pilgrim helped increase BGAPSA membership numbers to over half the black graduate school population while co-president of the group. In her position as chair of GAPSA’s IDEAL, which became

a council this past year, she has campaigned for a centralized diversity office and the development of a University-wide bias reporting system.

“We are proud that Haley has made history,” the statement read, “and we are lucky to have her pas-

sion and vision for GAPSA and the graduate and professional community here at Penn.”

BGAPSA member and Graduate School of Education master’s candidate Tinuke Oyefule said that during the election, so many students volunteered to speak in favor of Pilgrim becoming president that the GAPSA Executive Board had to move on to voting even though not everyone had had a chance to speak on her behalf.

Oyefule added that IDEAL Council chair and sociology Ph.D. candidate Leslie Jones, the former BGAPSA president whom Pilgrim called her mentor, postponed a trip out of Philadelphia to stay for the election. Several recent Penn graduates also returned to campus to give Pilgrim their support.

“I think many people gravitate to Haley because she always expresses empathy for the needs of [students],” Oyefule said.

Third-year graduate student Akudo Ejelonu, a BGAPSA member studying public health and environmental studies, said she hopes that Pilgrim’s election, like the 2016 election of College senior and Penn’s first black female undergraduate Class President Makayla Reynolds, are indicative of a shift in the University.

“It kind of shows how women of color are stepping into leadership roles because they’re finally getting the support to do so and the space to really express their thoughts and feelings,” Ejelonu said. “[They can] really shed light on some issues that are important to the larger community.”

Pilgrim, for her part, is excited to start her year-long term serving as president.

“It is an honor to be part of the continual wave of black women breaking down ceilings,” Pilgrim said.

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decision against Wax because he “did not want to encounter opposing views.”

In an email to the DP, University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy wrote that the administration stands by Ruger’s decision to take action against Wax. “Teaching assignments are handled exclusively at the decanal level, and Dean Ruger has thoroughly explained his thinking on the matter and the Administration supports his decision,” MacCarthy wrote.

In the letter, Levy also noted several of his qualifications and his long-time relationship with the University.

Levy, a 1972 Penn Law graduate, chaired the Board of Overseers from 2001 to 2007. His wife, Karen Levy, is a trustee emerita of Brown University and a trustee of the Juilliard School of Music and Rockefeller University. Both have donated large amounts to the Univer-

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In his letter of resignation sent to Penn President Amy Gutmann, Levy noted his qualifications and long-term relationship with the University.

sity including gifts for the Levy Scholars Program and the reconstruction of the Levy Conference Center.

Their daughters, 2003 College graduate Rebecca Levy Anikstein and Charlotte Levy, both received law degrees from Penn in 2009.

In 2016, Penn honored Levy

with an Alumni Award of Merit noting his extensive contributions to the University.

He also helped organize a fundraising campaign — “Bold Ambitions: The Campaign for Penn Law” — for his alma mater under former Penn Law Dean Michael Fitts, which greatly exceeded donation goals by millions.

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Kong also notified CAPS psychiatrist John Stein of her suicidal thoughts on two separate occasions, the lawsuit claims.

The first time was on April 7, 2016, after Kong allegedly called CAPS to request to speak to the on-call after-hours physician, who was Stein that night. The lawsuit writes that according to Stein’s report submitted later that afternoon, Kong said she had suicidal thoughts. Stein also recorded in the report that Kong expressed a “hatred toward [herself]” for being behind on her classes and missing the withdrawal deadline for courses.

The second time Stein was alerted of Kong’s suicidal thoughts came two days later. Stein called Kong after allegedly being notified by a graduate assistant, Kevin, who called the on-call physician, who was Stein again. Kevin, whose last name is not listed in the complaint, was told on April 9 that Kong was “stressed at school” and “thinking about suicide.”

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Stein and Kong spoke on the phone for an hour, and according to Stein’s report of this call, Kong reportedly asked Stein for information about inpatient psychiatric admission, which Stein said was an option “if no other plan can work.”

Kong allegedly expressed concerns over the cost of hospitalization.

“Given her [focus] on the concrete details of the cost [of] going to [the] ER, inpatient unit, I offered that the cost of [an] ER visit is likely less than [the] cost of funeral arrangements just in financial terms,” Stein added in a report, the lawsuit writes.

Stein did not respond to immediate request for comment.

“The thing that so bothers me about this case is that some kids chew themselves up on the inside and don’t reveal a lot,” Shepherd said in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian. “This [case] is the antithesis of that.”

The Kongs are the third group of individuals in the last three years to sue the University for being negligent toward a student who later died by suicide.

University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy said in an emailed statement that the University does not comment on pending litigation.

Kong was the 12th student to die by suicide since 2013. Since her death, two other students, Aran Rana and Nicholas Moya, have also died by suicide.

Kong’s death raised concerns among members of the Penn community about the way the University reported the death by suicide.

Students were first notified of Kong’s death by an email from the President’s Office, which was sent to all undergraduates and did not include Kong’s name.

A subsequent email to Wharton students, which was sent before her death was officially ruled a suicide, included Kong’s name and several details about her life, but described the death as an “accident.”

Since then, the administration has taken steps to work more directly with students involved in the postvention process of a student’s death.

Following Kong’s death, the University also reconvened its

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University officials were notified nine separate times, by Kong and by others close to her, that Kong was having suicidal thoughts, the lawsuit claims, but did not take the appropriate steps to prevent her death.

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initiatives, no significant policy changes were needed on Penn’s campus.

Kong’s parents are not the first individuals to allege that Penn was negligent toward a student who later died by suicide.

Former College junior and track star Timothy Hamlett died by suicide during the 2015-16 academic year, prompting his mother to file a lawsuit against the University and her son’s former track and field coach in May 2017. The lawsuit alleged “gross negligence and a breach of the duty owed given the special relationship between a student-athlete and his coach.” The lawsuit was dismissed in December 2017.

Earlier, in 2015, Penn was sued

by Sujata Singh, the mother of Arya Singh, a Nursing student who died by suicide in 2013. Her complaint, which listed Amazon as a defendant, referred to alleged “unsympathetic, hostile and at times vindictive” actions on the part of members of the Penn administration toward Singh. The case was settled in January 2017.

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and counseling they need.

With the help of Marian Reiff, an assessment specialist with CAPS, Marcus created a Qualtrics survey that aimed to uncover obstacles for athletes to obtain treatment. Two respondents from each sport filled out the survey on behalf of their teammates and Marcus said the results, while specific in desire and need to each particular team, were unanimous in their call for a deep change in the ways athletes accessed mental health resources at Penn.

“It’s not a question of, ‘Do we know about it?’ It’s a question of, ‘How can we access it?’” Marcus said.

Using the survey as an internal mandate to act, Marcus developed a proposal with Valenti that she ultimately presented to her other SAAC members: CAPS would allot one of the five therapists it plans to hire this year to work strictly out of a Penn Athletics building, ideally in a space shared with other staffers like nutritionists and compliance officers that student-athletes have reason to frequently visit. As part of the proposal, Penn Athletics would hire an additional therapist out of its own budget.

If the proposal passed, it would have been one of the most significant steps Penn has publicly taken to expand mental health counseling for athletes in recent memory.

Instead, Marcus says she has been given no indication whether her proposal is even still being considered and, given her impending graduation in May, considers the idea all but dead.

“I don’t want this to be a situation where they wait us out.” *** In interviews with Marcus and other athletes and administrators, a picture emerges of Penn’s sluggish policy formation process, where not all sides have access to the same information and a yearly turnover of graduating seniors makes consistent lobbying from students almost impossible.

After organizing their schedules around practices, weightlifting sessions, team meetings, classes, and travel, athletes barely have time to make it to CAPS before the main Market Street office closes, Marcus said. On Mondays and Fridays,

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CAPS closes at 5 p.m. For the remaining weekdays, CAPS stays open until 7 p.m.

Athletes who responded to Marcus’ survey overwhelmingly said that the best time for them to schedule CAPS appointments was in the late evening, often past 7 p.m.

“Their hours are not very conducive to an athletic schedule,” Marcus said.

In response to similar complaints from graduate students, who tend to also keep highly irregular schedules, CAPS embedded four counselors inside the Penn Law School, Perelman School of Medicine, School of Dental Medicine, and School of Veterinary Medicine for six-to-10 hours a week. A year after that model took off, 17 percent of graduate students used CAPS’ services, a 5 percent increase. (Student usage of CAPS as a whole increased by just 5 percent from 2007 to 2016.)

Marcus believes the same impact could happen within Penn Athletics if CAPS were willing to relocate just one staffer.

“If we have psychologists housed in the athletic department, then it becomes easier to access them. They’re ingrained in the culture of Penn Athletics,” she said.

“And they become a familiar face around athletes.”

She said the issue received wide support from other SAAC representatives, all of whom received the survey.

“The consensus that I got from the women’s rowing team is that people were very, very excited about the idea of getting both a specific CAPS representative for Athletics and also having one on site,” said senior Regina Salmons, a co-captain of the women’s rowing team who solicited feedback from

her teammates to complete Marcus’ survey.

Despite CAPS receiving an additional $860,000 in funding between 2014 and 2016, officials have had to keep up with increasing student demand from all sectors of the University. Most of that funding has been directed toward hiring new staffers in an attempt to offset one of CAPS’ most persistent problems: long wait times for new arrivals.

CAPS Director of Outreach and Prevention Meeta Kumar acknowledged in January that the average wait time for appointments is seven to 10 days. In 2016, CAPS Director

two meetings at CAPS, including one with Alexander and Max King, the associate vice provost for Health and Academic Services. Alexander and King later spoke to all SAAC representatives on Jan. 31 with Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, the vice provost for University Life, for over an hour in Huntsman Hall.

At the meeting, SAAC representatives reiterated Marcus’ call for a CAPS representative within a Penn Athletics building with the justification that for athletes, “accessibility is often a priority over privacy,” according to a copy of the meeting minutes provided to the DP. Marcus and Salmons said the administrators were dismissive of the idea of shifting a counselor to an Athletics building despite CAPS’ own problems with finding enough space for its staffers in the main office.

“It felt like they were giving excuses for why Penn Athletics doesn’t need these resources that we’re asking for,” Marcus said.

"If we have psychologists housed in the athletic department, then it becomes easier to access them.

They’re ingrained in the culture of Penn Athletics."

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- ASHLEY MARCUS Bill Alexander said the office serves about 20 percent of the undergraduate population each year, an amount that has only increased. In September alone, CAPS held 1,000 more sessions than it had the year before during that timespan.

As a byproduct of CAPS’ expansion, its office on Market Street — despite offering 25 percent more space than the division’s previous office — will no longer be able to host all necessary staffers. In an interview with the DP in February, Kumar said of the space, “We are pretty maxed out.” *** From the beginning of November to late January, Alexander and other administrators from the Division of the Vice Provost for University Life met with Marcus and other SAAC representatives to discuss her proposal and the relationship between Penn Athletics and CAPS more generally.

As Marcus began collecting information for her survey, she held

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When asked about the meeting and Marcus’ proposal in general, Cade replied in an emailed statement, “The Athletics Department is considering this proposal with our support.

We won’t know more about this suggestion until the summer for the next academic year as we evaluate this idea with a number of additional, excellent recommendations from students, faculty, and staff that we have received over the last few months as well.”

Alexander, also in an emailed statement, said, “There [is] much more we need to learn about the needs of athletic students.”

He added, “There are still unanswered questions: What is the need?

How will the need be addressed by the CAPS on site? What is the optimal time for CAPS staff on site?

Is the proposed position within the mission and scope of practice of CAPS vs Student affairs? Who will fund the athletic department placement? Will the Provost office approve hiring additional staff to support this position?”

The issues Alexander raised are indicative of the difficulty in establishing any stable working relation-

ship across two disparate wings of the University. Despite both technically reporting up to Provost Wendell Pritchett, CAPS and Penn Athletics operate in practice under entirely separate chains of command.

At Cornell University, the wellness and athletics divisions have forged a stronger working relationship, largely due to Cornell’s Counseling and Psychological Services program being integrated with the university’s other primary care providers.

“At some point or another, I’ve talked to coaches in every [sport],” said Gregory Eells, the director of Cornell’s CAPS. “We have some eating disorder therapists who will work with them if a coach has a gymnast who has some eating issues or body image issues. We’ll do some trainings on some of those issues, as well.”

Because Cornell’s CAPS is integrated with Cornell Health as a whole, Eells has a strong working relationship with the trainers and medical staffers who primarily work with athletes. Penn has physicians, nutritionists, strength and conditioning coaches, and trainers on staff, but CAPS is run separately.

The only psychologist affiliated with Penn Athletics is Fish, who is on staff as a consultant, not a primary care provider.

What relationship Penn Athletics and CAPS will develop in the years ahead has yet to be seen.

In Athletics’ strategic plan for 2017-2022, mental wellness efforts are mentioned just once: “The Division is committed to becoming more involved in campus wellness initiatives by forging partnerships with the Office of the Vice Provost for University Life.”

Matt Valenti, the associate athletic director who helped Marcus develop the proposal, said in a statement on behalf of the department: “Our staff incorporated feedback from Ashley and her peers on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee in creating the Penn Athletics proposal that was submitted to VPUL. That proposal is currently under consideration, along with recommendations from a number of other schools and centers on campus, and we look forward to receiving feedback in the coming months.”

No students interviewed for this piece believed Penn Athletics had the budgetary space to hire two full-

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time counselors. CAPS, whose budget has already been stretched to its limit year after year, might not hold Athletics’ proposal as a priority among competing concerns from across the University.

The answer to whether Marcus’ idea will ever see the light of day may be intertwined ultimately with the question Alexander raised: Who will fund it? *** Administrators did not delve into any of these concerns during their meeting with SAAC representatives. In fact, students said the two sides were unable to even reach a central point of agreement about the need for such an arrangement.

“At no point during the meeting we had was CAPS receptive in any ways to anything that we said,” Salmons said. “In no way were they ever really acknowledging our points or agreeing with us.”

She left the meeting frustrated with Cade and Alexander’s suggestions that CAPS just needed to brand itself better to athletes and was especially annoyed at an administrator’s idea for CAPS to give away merchandise at SAAC’s beginning-of-the-year event.

“It’s not an advertising issue,” she said.

“Handing out pencils at our annual picnic is not going to solve everyone’s problems.”

News Editor Kelly Heinzerling, Sports Editor Yosef Weitzman, and Associate Sports Editor Will DiGrande contributed reporting.

This is the first in a series of stories The Daily Pennsylvanian is reporting about the intersection of mental health and athletics. If you would like to share a comment or add to our reporting, please contact Senior Sports Editor Jonathan Pollack at pollack@thedp.com.

Men’s club rugby dominates local Philadelphia competition Quakers have won two straight City Six tourneys GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

For Penn men’s club rugby, a perfect record on the spring season has cemented an astonishing upward trend for the team.

The Quakers have already played well in multiple City Six competitions. Between the seven-a-side showdown with La Salle, St. Joes, Temple, Villanova, Drexel, and Penn, a tournament at St. Joe’s on March 28, and a game against La Salle on April 4, the squad boasts an 8-0 record and now has two tournament championships under its belt.

In its first outing, Penn bested Temple 26-19 and Villanova 2114 in group play to move onto the single elimination bracket. In the semifinal, the Quakers trounced La Salle 26-0 and rode that momentum to take down the Owls once again, this time at 24-0, in the finals.

After scoring in each match for a total of seven tries, sophomore

Nick Biden was unanimously voted Penn’s player of the tournament.

Senior captain Nathan Xu notched three tries and drilled nine of his 12 kick attempts. Rounding off the group effort, seniors Alex Salazar recorded three tries while senior Jack Smallwood and sophomore Ted McLennan each got a try of their own.

This past week, the team made the short trek over to North Philadelphia for the next installment of the City Six. Ranked No. 1 going in, Penn made quick work of Saint Joe’s, shutting them out for a 20-0 win. Later, the Quakers bested Villanova 20-12 to move into the playoff bracket. There, they beat La Salle 24-5 before toppling the Hawks again, by a score of 15-0, for the championship.

Biden was once again the star of the show, recording another seven tries at this tournament for a total of 14 in two weeks. Sophomore Alex Salazar pitched in with two sets of three tries, while freshman Jonathan Lee scored two this past weekend.

This enormous success marks a major turning point for the program,

which has struggled in seasons past.

In the past four fall seasons, the team has had mixed results in conference play ranging from 0-7, 1-6, 4-3 to 2-4-1. Senior and former club president Matt Caltabiano credits the most recent recruiting class for the turnaround.

“A lot of the freshmen are really talented. There’s a few kids who have played abroad before and they’ve all done really well. They look really poised to keep the club going in the right direction. It’s probably the most talented freshman class we’ve had in a while,” he said.

As a club sport, the team relies on an interesting pipeline to build up a roster each year to varying degrees of success.

“We rely a lot on on-campus recruiting for players, including ones who have never played before like myself. We do have some foreign guys that have played before, and even some Americans as well,” Caltabiano said. “The key is player retention obviously. But I had never played rugby before and then junior year, I became president of the club.

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Unfortunately, the team may not have the chance to shine again this season. With Penn unable to host another City Six tournament due to lack of availability and time constraints, the team must look elsewhere for additional matches.

“We’re not going to the Ivy Sevens tournament that we normally go to because it conflicts with spring fling, and we were worried about player availability. We did really well in that last year and came in third, so we were little bummed that we were not going to go,” he said.

“Right now, were still searching for more competition.”

Sitting pretty with a flawless record, the Quakers will search for its next opponents to continue to prove their newfound dominance.

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Volleyball still practicing Penn falls to Monmouth even without head coach ahead of Princeton series Team enters its third month under interim head coach

BASEBALL | Quakers look to get out of recent slump

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DANNY CHIARODIT Associate Sports Editor

With or without a head coach, they’re doing just fine.

Former Penn volleyball head coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley led the team to its best finish since 2013 last season. But in February, she shocked the community when she resigned to take a position at national powerhouse Penn State, her alma mater.

Two months later, the team is still without a head coach.

In this offseason limbo, assistant coach Josh Wielebnicki has stepped up to fill the gap. And in the eyes of many players, not much has changed. “People are really working on their skills, techniques, and things that could be used regardless of who our coach is in the future,� junior Grace James said. “So while Josh doesn’t have the formal title of ‘head coach’, practices have still been very productive, and everyone’s getting into the gym excited to learn and get better every day.� “He’s great,� junior captain Taylor Cooper agreed. “Through the fall and then through the spring, he’s always been a very steady, constant presence, and we go to him if we have issues relating to volleyball or class. He has an open door policy in his office, so we all stop by and hang out every now and then.�

Since Schumacher-Cawley left the team two months ago, the squad has been without a replacement. Her departure was sudden, but a national search began immediately after her announced resignation and is still ongoing.

But rather than being

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As volleyball embarked on its offseason without a head coach, junior captain Taylor Cooper’s leadership role has only expanded.

“coachless�, James prefers the term “in transition�; Wielebnicki is effectively providing all the help a head coach does, just without the official designation.

Players were uncertain if the school is considering Wielebnicki for the head coaching position or not. “We still have someone who’s coaching us in practice twice a week, sometimes three times a week, during the spring,� she said. “He doesn’t have a formal title, but he’s still there for us, so everyone’s really embracing that right now.�

Like Schumacher-Cawley, last season was also the first at Penn for Wielebnicki. He had previously been an assistant at University of IllinoisChicago under SchumacherCawley for five years, making the move to Philadelphia along with her last spring. His other coaching experience is from stints at Evansville and Western Carolina, in addition to playing club volleyball at

Illinois State.

The team is appreciative of all Wielebnicki is doing to make this transition period easier. As a captain, Cooper isn’t having any difficulty reaching out to him when she needs help. “This spring, more responsibility is falling onto the new senior class, and everyone has done a really good job of stepping up and filling those roles,� she said. “Josh has been great in that process as well. If we ever have a question or need anything as a team or individuals, we can always go to him and he’s ready to help provide an answer.�

In this time of uncertainty, Wielebnicki has been there for the team when it needs it most. Even though it’s the offseason, having a stable force like him around is always useful in the tumult of life as a student-athlete.

Despite officially lacking a head coach, Penn volleyball is thriving just like usual.

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Consistency. The Quakers haven’t found it yet, but they still have time.

Penn baseball lost its Tuesday road matchup at Monmouth by a score of 3-1. The Red and Blue could not hold their early 1-0 lead, as Monmouth scratched a few runs across in the middle innings to take the victory.

Penn (8-18-1, 3-5-1 Ivy) scored its only run of the game in the third inning off of an infield error by Monmouth, which plated freshman outfielder Christian Walton.

The Red and Blue couldn’t get much else going with the bats, going scoreless for the rest of the afternoon, while stranding runners in scoring position in the fourth and fifth innings.

Walton, who went two for three, and junior third baseman Matt McGeagh, who went three for four, accounted for all five of the Quakers’ hits on Tuesday.

Penn’s pitching staff did the best that it could to shut down the Monmouth (9-18, 3-6 MAAC) offense in this low-scoring affair.

Freshman Brendan Bean started on the bump as he did in last Wednesday’s win at Villanova.

Once again, the left-hander put in a nice day’s work, giving up no runs, one hit, and striking out five of the 12 batters he faced in three innings. “We felt all along that [Beane] was gonna be a pretty good arm for us,� said coach John Yurkow, now in his fifth season as Penn’s skipper. “That’s two pretty good starts in a row. You know, they were limited because we kept him on a pitch count because we want him for the weekend. But he’s doing a good job with his fastball.�

After Beane’s solid start, Jordan Della Valle, Cole Sichley, Grant Guillory, and Dylan Mulvihill saw some action on the hill.

The bullpen gave up just two hits, but Monmouth took advantage of the few scoring opportunities they had.

In the fifth inning, Senior Pete Papcun tied the game by hitting into a fielder’s choice, scoring junior Kyle Norman in the process. The Hawks were able to do more damage in the next frame, as sophomore Danny Long knocked in fellow sophomore JP Walsh and freshman Nick Campana to give his team a 3-1 advantage.

Monmouth’s pitching staff held it down from there, with freshman Ryan Steckline picking up the win and senior Ryan Lillie notching the save. Junior starting pitcher Tyler Ksiazek set the tone for Steckline and Lillie by throwing an efficient five innings and giving up just one run.

While the Quakers were surely looking for a win on Tuesday, they’d be more than happy to

trade this loss against Monmouth for a strong effort at Princeton this weekend.

Princeton (7-13, 4-2 Ivy) comes into this matchup second in the Ivy League standings, while Penn has stalled near the bottom of the totem pole, now ranked sixth in the conference. That’s not to say that the Red and Blue can’t get back into the mix, but if it’s going to happen, it has to be soon.

Princeton went 2-1 in each of its series’ against Ivy opponents Cornell and Brown. The Tigers, who won the Ivy League as recently as 2016, are led by a few key hitters who make up the heart of their batting order. These players include sophomore outfielder Chris Davis, senior shortstop Asher LeeTyson, junior outfielder and standout football wide receiver Jesper Horsted, and junior first baseman Joseph Flynn. These four are among the leaders in team batting average and on-base percentage.

As for the Red and Blue, they will continue to search for greater consistency as a team, something that they have lacked in the early going of the Ivy League season. “I’m just looking for our guys to play three consistent games,�

Yurkow said. “And I’m talking about all phases of the game...this team is quite capable of doing that.

It’s just gonna take a couple of the experienced guys to grab hold of things and get us going in the right direction.�

The Quakers are confident that they can right the ship and start heading in that right direction — but only time will tell.

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players have left Princeton softball before their senior seasons between 2010 and the start of this season, according to an online list of letterwinners organized by year. And since current Princeton head coach Lisa (Sweeney) Van Ackeren was hired in the summer of 2012, every player between the graduating classes of 2016 and 2018 has stayed on the team for all four years.

Van Ackeren was an assistant at Penn under King for two seasons prior to being hired to coach the Tigers.

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article was published, the DP was anonymously forwarded an email that Penn Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun had sent to Penn softball alumni. In the email, Calhoun wrote that Penn Athletics had “already received a wide range of feedback� in response to the DP’s article and that additional information could be shared with Associate Athletic Director Matt Valenti.

It remains unclear if Burrough’s reasons for leaving the team are related to issues with King, as both Burrough and the team have stayed quiet.

Penn Athletics did not respond to a request to make King available for comment,

in addition to not responding to multiple requests for comment concerning any internal investigation being conducted on the allegations against King.

On the diamond, Penn softball (11-15, 7-5 Ivy) has had an up and down year. After being picked to finish third in the Ivy League Preseason Media Poll, the Quakers lost their first seven games of the season.

But since the slow start, the Red and Blue have had much more success — especially in the last two weeks. Penn swept Yale last weekend and has won seven of its last eight games overall.

the same story as Josh, “I just thought that this guy is so enthusiastic and had such a great attitude that I knew he was going to be a team leader right away.�

As a captain, Pompan strives to lead by example. “He doesn’t demand anything of his teammates that he doesn’t do himself,� Geatz said.

Pompan certainly rose to the occasion in his new position of leadership in terms of his individual performances, amassing an impressive resume for the season: second team All-Ivy and a 17-5 singles record. But beyond his contributions in competition, he played perhaps a more significant role outside of match play, bringing boundless positive energy to the team atmosphere.

“He brings a lot of enthusiasm,� remarked Geatz. “Every single practice he comes to is better because he’s at it.�

Unsurprisingly, Josh was again elected as a captain for his senior year.

Two of his biggest role models for Pompan as a tennis player are his father and Roger Federer. His father once told him to treat tennis “like golf — improve it one stroke at a timeâ€?, which stuck with him, and Federer is “the best sports man on the court ‌ he loses gracefully, and I think that’s important.â€? “I also love Bruce Springsteen,â€? Pompan noted. “Every show, he gives it his all.â€?

With just a few weeks of college tennis left, Pompan is ready to give this season his all, too.

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strated to his teammates that he might just have what it takes to be their leader. “I was sick that day — I actually threw up on the court.

So, I said to myself that I was just going to give it my heart and soul, and I think that type of leadership is what’s my style,� he said.

Oh yeah — Pompan booted and rallied from four games down to win his match and seal the victory for the Quakers.

He was elected as team captain the next season, which came as no surprise to Geatz, who saw leadership in Pompan from the first time they met. “About thirty seconds into the first conversation I had with him,� he said, recounting

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Gymnastics to finish season at USAG Nationals Penn has an opportunity to end season on a high note JOSH STONBERG Sports Reporter

Penn gymnastics will be competing for the final time this weekend, as they head to Denton, Texas for the USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships.

Penn qualified for the championship by finishing among the top eight collegiate gymnastics programs not offering scholarships. This is no easy feat – it has taken the program years to build to this point.

“We have gotten stronger each year I have been here, and we now have more girls on more events than ever before,” said captain Kyra Levi.

“We have grown a lot, and in

the time we have spent together we have learned so much about each other. We know what triggers people to do the best, and how to tailor our advice to each individual.”

Forming close relationships with teammates is important to team success in every sport, but especially so in the case of a team that has been competing since returning from winter break. Most collegiate teams are not faced with such a long schedule, and at times it can be hard to not feel the sport becoming a drag. Pair the long season with the constant nagging injuries many gymnasts endure, and the need for teammates’ support is even more evident.

Levi credits her team’s success this year to grit – through injuries, aches, and pain, the team persevered, and now has

a chance to win the national championship. An opportunity of that magnitude can seem daunting, but the team feels as if they are ready.

“We are focused internally.

We know this is our last meet of the year, so we have nowhere to go after this,” said Levi. “We are trying to leave everything out there. Many of us have internal goals we have not reached yet in meets thus far, and we want to check them off our list before the season is over.”

After seniors Alex Hartke and Kyra Levi compete for the final time this weekend, the Quakers will lose two of the best gymnasts the program has seen in a while. Hartke qualified for the NCAA Regionals this year, while Levi qualified as an alternate. No Penn gymnast had earned that honor

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Senior Kyra Levi will end her illustrious Penn career at the USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships.

since 2013 (Kirsten Strausbaugh, who now is the team’s assistant coach, was the last to do it), and no pair of teammates had qualified since 2012.

This does not mean a rebuild

is coming for Penn’s gymnastics team though – as teams often like to say, they will reload, not rebuild. Hartke and Levi’s success will hopefully be a signal to the rest of the

team about what each gymnast is capable of with four years of hard work.

In Levi’s own words: “I want this to be a launching pad for what’s to come.”

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Penn athletes want greater access to mental health resources from CAPS DAN SPINELLI Senior Reporter

In the last five years, two members of Penn track and field, Madison Holleran and Timothy Hamlett, have died by suicide — events that spawned dozens of national headlines and in Holleran’s case, a recent New York Times bestselling book.

Despite these high-profile tragedies, the University has not introduced any substantial reforms to the way athletes receive and request mental health care, either from Counseling and Psychological Services or through Penn Athletics, according to more than half a dozen athletes who spoke with The Daily Pennsylva-

nian.

The vast majority of athletes see staffers from CAPS at introductory team meetings, where counselors regularly make an appearance. Over the past four years, Penn Athletics has extended that relationship with CAPS through I CARE training, a workshop that helps peers understand and respond to signs of mental illness. Since I CARE was introduced, more than 100 coaches, administrators, and staffers within the Athletics Department have received it, according to Associate Athletic Director Matt Valenti.

Outside of these scheduled events, most athletes complete a mental health questionnaire or survey as part of their regularly scheduled physical. They also have the ability to schedule appointments with Dr. Joel Fish, a nationallyrenowned sports psychologist who serves as a consultant for Penn Athletics.

In final season with Quakers, Josh Pompan redefines leadership M. TENNIS | Senior star in his second year as captain

"In no way were they ever really acknowledging our points or agreeing with us.”

- REGINA SALMONS These initiatives, current and former athletes said, have spread awareness for CAPS among athletes and ensured coaches are more sensitive to noticing signs of mental illness, but fail to target the main problem impeding athletes from seeking treatment: accessibility.

This past fall, one student leader came up with a proposal to target that very problem.

Senior fencer Ashley Marcus has lobbied administrators before to produce change, having successfully pushed Penn last year to become the first Ivy League athletic program to join the “It’s On Us” pledge against sexual violence, a campaign started by the Obama administration.

She became passionate about reforming the way athletes access mental health resources after a meeting last October with fellow members of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, which convenes representatives across Penn’s 33 varsity teams. Before arriving at a set policy recommendation, Marcus decided to create a survey to solicit feedback directly from athletes on the type of mental health resources SEE MENTAL HEALTH PAGE 9

Questions mount as softball captain quits mid-season Sophomore Corey Burrough started 24 games last year

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YOSEF WEITZMAN Sports Editor

“My dad played — he was on the Harvard tennis team.

My uncle was on the Yale tennis team. My other uncle was at Berkeley,” said Josh Pompan, a senior who is now serving in his second year as a Penn men’s tennis team captain.

“So, it runs in the family, I guess you could say.”

Pompan has been playing competitively since the age of twelve, when he participated in United States Tennis Association tournaments regularly.

When it came time for his college search, he knew he also wanted to go to a place that was “strong academically and athletically.” He was courted by other Ivy League schools, but a meeting with Quakers coach David Geatz changed everything.

“I talked to [Coach Geatz] about the program, fell in love with the program without even seeing the school, and I committed a week after that,” Pompan recalled. “I knew I wanted to go to Penn, and that was the best decision of my life.”

Questions about the Penn softball program are mounting after sophomore captain Corey Burrough quit the team in March.

Burrough, who started in 24 games last year as a freshman, appeared in box scores for each of the Quakers’ first 13 games this season. She then

did not play for three straight games before appearing in a game against Dartmouth on March 24.

She has not played again since and confirmed to The Daily Pennsylvanian that she had left the team in an email sent on April 8. She also no longer appears on Penn softball’s online roster on PennAthletics.com.

In the email, Burrough added that she had communicated her reasons for quitting with the team, but declined to share any further information.

Burrough’s decision to leave the team comes two months after the DP published an article detailing poor player retention on Penn softball and allegations of mistreatment from softball coach Leslie King, who is in her 15th year at Penn.

Archived stat sheets suggest that since 2010, Burrough is the 27th player to quit Penn softball before her senior season.

By comparison, only five SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 10

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Wharton Senior Josh Pompan’s sophomore season showcased his leadership qualities even before he assumed the captaincy a year later.

The California native wasted no time demonstrating his star power. In his freshman season, playing mostly at positions three through five, he notched 24 overall wins over the course of the fall and spring seasons, most on the team.

Perhaps the highlight of his sophomore season came on an

early April day at Brown. With the teams tied at 3-3, Pompan stared down a 5-1 deficit in the third set of his singles match, with everything on the line.

Not good. What’s worse? He was sick. But he nobly fought through the illness and demonSEE POMPAN PAGE 10

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Archived stat sheets suggest that sophomore catcher Corey Burrough is the 27th player to quit Penn softball since 2010. Her departure comes approximately halfway through the season.

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