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U. changes Fling alcohol policies

Eight registered parties will be allowed on Fling weekend ELLIE SCHROEDER & ANNA HESS Staff Reporters

Undercover cops, deported international students and the arrest of fraternity presidents — these were just some of many rumors that

circulated campus during last year’s Spring Fling. The Undergraduate Assembly recently formed a Commission on Alcohol Safety and Communication to increase transparency at this year’s Fling festivities and prevent the types of rumors that abounded last year. But despite clarifying some information about alcohol

policy, concerns remain over this year’s Fling alcohol-related initiatives. One of the main issues was that during Fling last year, fraternities were not adequately informed about whether or not they could register events until the last minute, said the co-chairs of the commission, College sophomore Daniel Kahana and

College junior Andrew Robertson. This year, the policy is much clearer. The University will allow eight registered events with alcohol for the entire weekend of Fling — four Greek and four non-Greek. Some students find the concept of eight registered parties for an SEE FLING PAGE 6

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Young Jains of America held Holi, a full-fledged color and music festival inspired by the Hindu spring festival. Students received colored powder and counted down until 3 pm, when they simultaneously threw their colors into the air and at each other.

SOUL protests police brutality with Klan outfit

Hierarchy brings different experiences for adjunct profs. Graduate students, adjuncts and lecturers see different pay and experiences

The demonstration is part of the org’s “Ferguson Fridays”

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Higher education has seen a recent trend of hiring more adjunct professors, who are not on the tenure track and are paid to teach, not to research. At Penn, however, adjuncts are only a small portion of non-faculty instructors. Penn employs instructors including graduate students, lecturers and adjuncts that are not in the same category as tenure track-professors. Despite the fact that both groups teach classes, their experiences differ in both compensation and role within the University. The Huffington Post reported that adjuncts typically earn between $20,000 and $25,0000 annually, as compared to the $84,303 made on average by full-time instructors and professors. “From a labor standpoint, someone who is a senior lecturer doesn’t have the same pay, same relationship with the faculty. From the student standpoint it may not be so meaningful. They don’t occupy the same space, [but] that doesn’t mean they’re not excellent teachers,” said Bruce Lenthall, executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Advisor on Educational Initiatives to the Vice Provost for Education. But at Penn, different types of instructors are

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A Penn student dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan held hands with another student dressed as a police officer in a staged demonstration on Friday.

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A Penn student dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan held hands with another student dressed as a police officer in a staged demonstration on Locust Walk Friday afternoon that was organized by the Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation group.

… after freshman year, the inequity in housing is exacerbated.”

The demonstration, which took place primarily in front of the LOVE statue, is one of the organization’s weekly “Ferguson Fridays” events that call to attention modern racial issues. The sign accompanying the demonstration stated that “modern American law enforcement originated from Slave Patrols.” The sign also addressed an April 2 incident where two Floridian police officers who were SEE SOUL PAGE 5

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FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS BOOKYUNG JO Staff Reporter Students wanting to live abroad under a government stipend while pursuing their passions might want to consider the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. A year-long grant to either conduct independent research or teach English abroad, the Fulbright Program has been an option Penn students have found attractive. Last year, 26 undergraduate and graduate students were selected as Fulbright scholars, including those who declined. For the 2015-16 academic year, the results are beginning to trickle out, with announcement dates varying by country. At the moment, Penn has 17 recipients. “Smart students with interesting ideas tend to win Fulbright,” Wallace Genser, senior associate director for fellowships and operations of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, said. The government grants roughly 1,600 Fulbright grants to U.S. students, with half for research and the other half for teaching assistant positions.

Engineering senior Nikhil Rajapuram, heard about the program in his junior year, and although he was not sure whether to apply, professor Justin McDaniel encouraged him to go for it.

Based on his previous independent study on pediatric child injury through the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Rachleff Scholars Program, he proposed to research the social stigma that families of children with cerebral palsy face in rural India. “I really wanted to do some work about people with disabilities and social issues,” Rajapuram said. In order to apply for the Fulbright Program, every applicant is required to have an afﬁliate organization in their target country that can provide resources for the research. Rajapuram is going to work with an NGO called Able Disable All People Together, or ASAPT — whose objective is to improve social inclusiveness in rural areas in India. “I just cold-called a lot of organizations,” he said.

Although he said he received a good amount of responses, choosing the right organization was still not easy. “You’re so far away, and it’s difﬁcult to tell the legitimacy of the organization,” he said. While CURF was a helpful resource to learn about the program through information sessions, Rajapuram said it is very difﬁcult for CURF to have an overarching guidance policy given the diversity of each Fulbright applicant. “I honestly gained the most help by reaching out to a former Fulbright winner and professor on the Fulbright board, both of whom knew me and understood what I was going to do,” he said. “CURF has good intentions but was not able to provide the detailed help I needed.” SEE FULBRIGHT PAGE 3

Penn to establish Price Lab in Digital Humanities Project to be online hub for humanities education JOE LI Staff Reporter

While many people may expect Shakespearean novels and Javascript to fall in different academic realms, Penn is finding a way to bring them together. In February, the School of Arts and Sciences received a $7 million donation from 1979 Wharton graduate Michael Price and his wife. The money will be used to establish the Price Lab for the Digital Humanities, a project within SAS’s ”Humanities in the Digital Age" initiative, which aims to digitalize humanities education. Associate Dean for Arts and Letters Jeffrey Kallberg, who leads the planning team of the Price Lab, said the team is currently working on

acquiring hardware, recruiting staff and selecting a location. The lab, he said, is expected to start fully functioning next spring. Kallberg talked about the importance of understanding the significance of digital humanities in the modern information age. “The idea of digital humanities is to integrate the methods of natural sciences into the study of humanities,” he said. “It is a field where people with content expertise and technical expertise come together.” English professor and Director of the Penn Humanities Forum James English mentioned that in the natural sciences, research is often attached to a lab — for humanities research, there aren’t many “labs” or equivalent places to go to apart from the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships. The Price Lab aims to be this “hub” for humanities research that uses computer

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technology to aid students and faculty. While students may wonder how the Price Lab will work, Kallberg gave a hypothetical example. “Suppose you have an English

major student taking a class in 19th century novel, and he is doing a research paper. This student might have to go through 10,000 English novels. Now it is obviously difficult to read through all of them, but

we can construct queries and write programs to answer questions about these novels that no human beings can,” he said. Digital humanities extends beyond just literature. Kallberg mentioned that digital technology has been used in fine arts, archaeology, music and many other subjects. Although officially dubbed the Price Lab, the project will entail more than just a physical structure, English said. “There will obviously be spaces and infrastructure, but that’s not gonna cost $7 million. The money will mainly go to a wide range of activities, including course-related projects, boot camps, summer workshops, certificate programs and research for both faculty and students,” he said. Another benefit of working in the Price Lab will be the interdisciplinary experience. English said that digital humanities projects tend to

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be team-based, unlike typical humanities research, which is based on individuals. Because the field fosters large projects, people from a variety of subject areas, from literature to computer science to linguistics, can get involved. “Ultimately I hope to see more crossover between students on the humanities track and on the quantitative track to work on the same projects,” English said. As the benefactor of the $7 million gift and the SAS Overseer, Price himself is excited about the news. “I believe that humanities is what leads to creativity. And frankly, it’s too hard to study everything in humanities, so we try to save people’s time with digital technology,” Price said. “My end goal would be to enable every Penn student to absorb as much humanities as they want to and to present this content to them in a format that they enjoy.”

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College senior Grace Truong, another Fulbright research grant recipient, said she applied to the program to “make connections in foreign countries and go out of the comfort zone.” GRACE TRUONG She has a particular interest in autism and decided to go to Manila in the Philippines after finding an affiliate organization called Elsie Gaches Village through her friends from the Philippines. “Most of my [previous] research involved animal behavior and histology lab work. Being able to work with people is what I wanted to do but never had the opportunity to do,” Truong said. Despite not having any connection to the Philippines, Truong said reaching out for help has opened up many affiliation possibilities for her research, such as finding faculties through the Pan-Asian American Community House and by connecting to people in the Philippines through the School of Nursing. In terms of filling out the application for the program, she said CURF’s interview process and official endorse-

ment amplified her application. But it wasn’t through CURF that she found out about Fulbright and eventually decided to apply. “After I decided to apply, they have a very encouraging environment, but I wouldn’t have known about the opportunity if I hadn’t known a previous recipient,” Truong said. For other recipients, being able to live abroad is an aspect JOYCE KIM that makes Fulbright an attractive option. “I didn’t choose to study abroad during my time here at Penn, but I wanted to have experiences abroad,” College senior Joyce Kim said. As an extension of her senior thesis on how the South Korean education system affects attitudes toward North Korean defectors, she is planning to research how education impacts the integration of the defectors. For Kim, whose father graduated from a Korean university, finding an affiliation was not as difficult as other applicants. However, she is still expecting to go through some culture shock. “From my understanding, Korea has changed a lot,” she said. She added that

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she has not visited Korea since 2006, and this will be her first time living in a different country. Similar to Kim, 2014 College graduates Samantha Osaki and Quan Nguyen found opportunities to live and work abroad through the Fulbright Program. After coming back from the International Honors Program and Penn’s International Internship Program, Osaki was itching to go abroad and learn about the world that she couldn’t in a classroom setting. “When I looked at all the entry-level jobs available to me, none seemed like the right fit. I wanted to do something impactful, interesting and fulfilling during the two pre-law school years I’d planned out for myself, and it seemed that many of the positions I qualified for lacked one element or another,” Osaki said. She decided to pursue her passion for teaching and traveling by participating in the English Teaching Assistant grant in Cote d’Ivoire. She is currently teaching English in an all-girls public school in Abidjan and conducting workshops and English crash-courses in Cote d’Ivoire. Although Osaki has many previous experiences abroad, living in a country in West Africa isn’t the same. She said because Cote d’Ivoire is a very communal and religious country, people would get concerned if she spends a few hours alone or does not go to a Sunday sermon. She added that her ethnicity as an

Asian American also creates an “enigma.” “Street vendors are shocked to discover I do not hail from China. Children are disappointed when I explain that I have zero talents in the martial arts, and adults are disappointed when they learn I can’t speak to them in an Asian language,” Osaki added. Nguyen has also been interested in education through his various teaching experiences, and after studying abroad for a year in Korea, he decided to come back to do research on the Korean education system. He said he was interested in the competitive educational environment of Korea and its advanced technological landscape and decided to interweave the two. “I wanted to foster a new educational environment that is less stressful,” Nguyen said. Throughout his undergraduate years, he had numerous journalism experiences through working for The Daily Pennsylvanian and through internships and came up with a journalistic research of making a documentary ﬁlm. He is currently working with KBS – the national broadcaster of the country – and hopes to introduce the “flipped classroom” concept in Korea. “My research experience is different from my study abroad experience,” Nguyen said. “I feel more like a local and can immerse myself in the local culture.” Nguyen agreed with other recipients

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that he found out about the Fulbright Program through his friends and previous recipients, not from the University. “I didn’t hear from professors or academic counselors, but so many people would love to apply for this because all it takes is a simple passion,” he said. “For Penn, it’s a shame that OCR takes a greater presence than other post-graduate options. You have to realize that sometimes it’s not the right path for you,” he added. In fact, CURF is introducing new approaches to the Fulbright Program to provide better guidance and attract more students’ interest. Genser said that in addition to the ofﬁce in CURF, it will launch a Fulbright advisor program with faculty members who can provide a more detailed assistance tailored to each applicant’s ﬁeld of interest. CURF is also planning on holding Fulbright Program panels with recent recipients so that prospective applicants would learn more about the program. “Fulbright has so much freedom and flexibility, whereas with Rhodes and Mitchell, they are more formalized degree programs,” Truong said. “I’ll be able to learn more about myself while helping people and making a tangible change.” “I just took a leap of faith and I realized that as long as I continue doing what feels right, I know I get one step closer to that goal, whatever that may be,” Nguyen added.

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EDITORIAL | The relationship between where we live and Penn culture

ith the New C o l l e g e House set to open next year, we wanted to question the role of housing in fostering culture at Penn. Though often taken for granted, housing at Penn plays a substantive role in shaping students’ unique experiences at college. As freshmen, we’re sorted into vastly different living arrangements. Many are lucky enough to be placed in the Quad, which instills a sense of collegiate community. Others are placed in dorms like

Mayer, which most students have never heard of. Some are assigned houses like Kings Court or Hill, which form their own bubbles. But after freshman year, the inequality in housing is exacerbated. Because Penn does not mandate that students live on campus, finances often drive housing decisions, and the student body begins to stratify. Many move into fraternities or sororities, which is often not an option for those on financial aid. Others move off campus to apartments like Hamilton Court. Some are

privileged enough to move to luxury apartments like Domus or the Radian. A significant amount of students remain on campus for a variety of reasons, yet find themselves paying for overpriced and underwhelming living spaces. In this way, Penn almost completely diverges from the rest of the Ivy League. Yale, for instance, sorts students randomly into college houses, where they remain for four years. This sorting system is based on nothing and allows students to interact across socioeconomic, racial and other

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spectrums. Yale students also live in suites (which is only true for some Penn students),

These disparities also affect social relations. Living in a fraternity means you can

If students can self-select where to live, they can choose to leave the very intellectual communities Penn tries to foster.” creating a sense of family within each dormitory. Harvard has a similar system. At Columbia, most students live in on-campus dormitories all four years, as with Brown and Dartmouth. We need to question whether living with those who are like you is useful. Of course, it’s nice to live with a community of those with whom you self-identity. But we also must ask whether this contributes to a groupthink culture and homogenizes discourse. A study by Gary Pike and George Kuh confirmed that “Only living on campus had a direct, positive effect on learning and intellectual development, whereas all four background variables were indirectly related to gains … If an institution is serious about improving first-generation student success rates, then it should require them to live on campus at least for the first year of college.”

afford to host a party, and living in Domus means you can smoke on the balconies and not expect to get caught by your RA. The divergence in housing opportunities brings many of us back to high school, where some have the ability to run the social scene while others are left under strict financial and social restrictions beyond their control. The ability to move off campus likely hurts on-campus living as well. First, the market to move off campus means that Penn has to do less to drive down costs. It can simply expect students to choose cheaper options off campus, often forcing students to choose the option that does not meet their expectations of a college dormitory environment for the sake of saving money. Second, the large offcampus population means that the lobbying force of students living on campus to demand decent living conditions is severely reduced.

And we shouldn’t assume that the off-campus market is out of Penn’s control. That’s simply not the case. The University has purchased millions in off-campus housing, making it one of the largest landlords in West Philadelphia. So is it the availability of offcampus housing that causes Penn to seemingly let its oncampus options grow stale (which also doesn’t explain the building of the aforementioned New College House)? Or is it that Penn chooses to limit its on-campus housing, which would seem to be in direct confrontation with its housing mission: “to bring together undergraduates, faculty, staff and graduate students to form vibrant residential communities within the larger context of our renowned urban campus, right in the heart of historic Philadelphia.” As a community, we have to ask whether our structure and process of housing organization is fostering a helpful and diverse learning community. If students can self-select where to live, they can choose to leave the very intellectual communities Penn tries to foster. The challenge of living with people who vastly differ from you is taken away. Perhaps we’re losing part of a college experience we should spend more time demanding.

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ast week, both The Boston Globe and Tthe New York Times ran front page features highlighting the challenge that first-generation students and poor students — essentially those who aren’t part of America’s upper half of the socio-stratum — faced assimilating into elite universities. These difficulties, captured through various experiences and instantiations of culture shock, are rooted in two disparities: an unfamiliarity with college culture and money. These di-

disadvantaged students into the system that shapes “the future leaders of tomorrow” should reduce the class divide. The Ivy League and its analogs have traditionally been the birthright breeding grounds of wealth and elitism. Affording the disadvantaged the same resources as the successful should, in theory, afford them the tools to be just as successful. But employability has never been the primary focus of the Ivy Tower. The oldest schools in the United States were all established for the

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A college education has become more attainable for those who seek it, but comparatively little has been done to make this education relevant to the newer, wider clientele.” vides are inherited, and overcoming this legacy is an uphill battle. Nowhere are the divides more apparent than in the Ivy League. After tearing down barriers in gender and race, universities are now striving to mitigate the class gap in higher education, even upwind against exponential tuition growth and the widening wealth gap. The handful of schools who can afford to do so have become needblind, all-grant and no-loan — all in order to level the playing field for applicants of lower socio-economic status. The benefits of the zero-family-contr ibution financial aid packages are two fold; they attract hidden talents who might not have otherwise considered such schools and posture the institution into a more moral stature. This “overcoming” of demographics reflects a shift towards merit-based higher education. The days where the rapscallious fifteen-yearold Ezra Pound could enroll in Penn after spending time dallying around Europe are gone. Every student now has to prove themselves for admission. Theoretically, funneling

clergy and the advancement of intellectual crafts, such as philosophy, physics and history; the prospect of jobs was side-stepped. While the emergence of undergraduate trade schools and the rise of pre-professionalism mark a change in institutional focus, elite universities still operate on this legacy: Prove your mettle by pursuing your intellectual curiosities and then go on to find a job. While this institutional model worked well for the wealthy, this sort of meandering is too risky for students of socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds, whose shot at success is perceived to depend on playing the cards right, and opting for “safe” career tracks in medicine, actuarial science and finance. Furthermore, these corrections to enhance social mobility are limited in their capability. Nearly everyone applying to college are adults by the time they matriculate; in the 17-some years leading up to then, the formative variables such as grade school, high school, community and family structure all cause class divisions. The disadvantaged will have taken different courses,

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values and faced additional pressures and burdens from their peers. It is no surprise, then, that 9 out of 10 first generation students don’t graduate from college within six years. A college education has become more attainable for those who seek it, but comparatively little has been done to make this education relevant to the newer, wider clientele. This cultural disparity reflects two different values when operating under the “college is what you make of it” mantra: Socioeconomically disadvantaged students use college as a pragmatic springboard to upper-middle class stability, while the Establishment sees it as a formative rite of passage and an intellectual playground. As universities open themselves to a more diverse population and move beyond a strict relationship with the Establishment, they must recalibrate themselves to better serve their new demographic.

JASON TANGSON is a College junior from Cambridge, Mass., studying linguistics. His email address is tjason@sas.upenn.edu.

his past year, we were excited to lead a campus that was named the best college nationwide by USA Today and, of course, No. 1 Party School by Playboy Magazine. Being good student advocates, we’d like to take credit for that. We can’t, of course. In reality, our role is much more quiet, and our best work is much more slow. Mental health and wellness was our top priority this year. In partnership with Penn Undergraduate Health Coalition, we published the Wellness Guide, which features 14 centers and testimonials to encourage students to take advantage of these resources. PennFaces, a website that provides a forum for students to share their narratives and stories on mental wellness has been launched. Penn Anti-Violence Educators will launch next fall. Students will now be paid and trained to educate the campus on bystander interven-

boards to help reduce Hey Day costs — which, by the way, have decreased by 43 percent this year. These are just a small sampling of the projects we worked on this year. You can find out much more in our annual report, highlighting over 90-plus projects that we have been working on this past year, found at pennua.org. Most Penn students don’t want to spend thousands of hours in meetings with administrators (we counted: The Undergraduate Assembly collectively sat in on nearly 3,500 hours of meetings in the past year — including, The Daily Pennsylvanian’s editorial board will be pleased to know, meetings of Penn’s Board of Trustees, which, with over 50 trustees that have no individual power, overall rarely makes major changes). This is why the students ditched the old student government — an actual direct democracy, with no elections and everyone participating equally

UA meeting after UA meeting of complicated, worthy, but sometimes boring projects. Often the administration takes years to digest a small reform — a 300-year-old institution run by a large group of middleaged people doesn’t change overnight. So we hope that our successors follow in our footsteps, focusing on results and not rhetoric, to better Penn. One of the best parts of our role has been working with the thousands of Penn students that interact with the UA every year to improve Penn. We invite every student with an interest in that work to get in touch with our successors; we’re always looking for partners, and we know we can always do our job better. But if you don’t want to bother with student government, that’s OK too. But we hope you know that about one hundred of your peers — in the UA and across student government — are doing their very best to keep Penn at No. 1. We have made substantial

In lots of small, incremental ways, our no-drama student government made things better, whether they’re noticed or not.” tion training and other issues regarding sexual assault. We worked with the 5B, Assembly of International Students and Programs in Religion, Interfaith and Spirituality Matters to create the Student Financial Services Advisory Board, the first time students will have a voice in the financial aid process. In partnership with Penn Labs, we launched the PennMobile app. Now students can access dining, courses, transit, emergency contact numbers and an expanding array of features including campus maps, the student directory and exact locations of free transit. We worked with the class

— in 1972: Campus came to understand that real change is only made bit by bit, a little at a time. And the only way to do that is to give the job to a bunch of students who are just crazy enough to spend all their time learning the very minute details of Penn’s bureaucratic and slow administration. We’re proud to have run a non-scandalous student government this year. In lots of small, incremental ways, our no-drama student government made things better, whether they’re noticed or not. Most of the things we did made for non-controversial headlines; the DP found little scandal in

steps forward for the campus, things that make us proud of the UA this year. It’s been a privilege and an honor to serve as your student body president and vice president. There’s always more work to be done, and we are excited and look forward to what the UA will accomplish in the future.

JOYCE KIM AND JOSHUA L. CHILCOTE are College seniors studying political science and history respectively. Their email addresses are joycekim77@ gmail.com and JLChilcote@ gmail.com.

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Penn for Hillary: ‘Waiting for this moment’ Clinton announced her campaign Sunday DAN SPINELLI Staff Reporter

In news that surprised hardly any political observer, Hillary Rodham Clinton officially announced her campaign to be the next president of the United States. On Sunday, Clinton’s campaign team released a two-minute video featuring groups of American families sharing personal stories about their plans to take on new endeavors. Ninety seconds into the video, Clinton appeared on screen to announce her campaign. “Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion,” she said. Clinton’s opening message highlighted the importance of income inequality to her campaign. “Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top,” she said in the video. For the students involved in Penn for Hillary, an advocacy group for Clinton’s campaign, the announcement serves as a call to action. “We are very ecstatic. We have been waiting for this movement for ten months. Ever since canvassing a summer ago, we have been waiting for this moment,” College sophomore and co-founder of Penn for Hillary Emily Irani said. Irani and fellow College sophomore Mitchell McVeigh founded Penn for Hillary at the beginning of the fall semester. Their group has been advocating for Clinton’s nomination all year by hosting speakers and drawing awareness to her campaign. “We want to try to increase support for Hillary on campus, whether it’s [by] convincing people that Hillary is the best candidate or increasing voter turnout,” McVeigh said. The group’s members also plan to meet Clinton’s campaign staff to further combine their efforts. They anticipate making a trip to Washington, D.C., in the near future to facilitate more

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coordination. “We want to get involved with the campaign. We want to participate in phone banks and reach out wherever the campaign wants and needs us,” Irani said. Penn for Hillary also hopes to capitalize on the attention the Democratic primary has brought to Philadelphia — which will host the Democratic National Convention in 2016 — while still remaining cautious about her electoral chances.

“Just because Hillary declared does not mean she has the nomination by any means. Up until she gets enough delegates, all of our work for Penn for Hillary will be separate from the DNC,” McVeigh said. Clinton, who lost the 2008 Democratic nomination for president to Barack Obama, will face much less visible opposition in 2016. Various polls place her well atop the sparse Democratic field

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of candidates. An April 2 poll conducted by ABC News and the Washington Post had Clinton leading the Democratic field with 66 percent of the vote, 54 points ahead of the second-place candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who recently announced that she was not seeking the nomination. Clinton’s challengers from the Republican Party include Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul so far. The Republican National Committee has already publicly opposed Clinton’s campaign on Friday with the release of a 30-second advertisement entitled #StopHillary. The video highlighted controversies that Republicans will likely target during the campaign, including Clinton’s response to the shootings in Benghazi, Libya and her use of a private email account as former secretary of state. Without any other declared Democratic challengers, Clinton currently has the stage.

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undergraduate student body of almost 10,000 to be unrealistic. “In the grand scheme of things, these events can only hold a certain number of people — even for students who are 21, [eight parties aren’t] enough,” Robertson said. As a caveat to this year’s policy, the ratio of Greek to nonGreek registered events must be equal — so for every Greek event registered, there must also be a non-Greek party registered. “I don’t think it should be a requirement to have non-Greek events in order to have Greek events,” Robertson said, adding that most student groups aren’t hosting the same type of social events as fraternities. Students have raised several

reasons as to why expecting nonGreek student groups to host an equal number of registered parties could be problematic. “I think it’s kind of stupid to have it be a one for one ratio,” College sophomore and 34th Street writer Harley Geffner said. “There are a lot more Greek organizations that will want to throw registered parties, and a lot of those places don’t have houses to do it at even if they wanted to — it just doesn’t make sense.” It is difficult for most student groups to host registered parties because they cannot use the Student Activities Council funding they receive to pay for alcohol as part of University policy. On and off campus, Penn Police and Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement agents, both undercover and not, will monitor parties and alcohol consumption.

Guest riders from some agencies such as VPUL and Penn Athletics will also tag along. This is the third year the BLCE will be on campus for Fling weekend. The BLCE’s purpose on campus is to enforce state liquor laws. Young undercover agents may enter houses to observe whether liquor laws are being broken, and undercover Penn Police officers are more focused on watching for individuals who may want to take advantage of students over the course of the weekend. The BLCE did not return requests for comment before the time of publication. The commission co-chairs said they had proposed an event on the College Green where students over 21 could be served beer in a safe and supervised environment, like the senior class’ annual Octoberfest event. But the proposal

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was rejected by administrators, they said. Both co-chairs ultimately expressed discontent at the administration’s hesitancy to allow parties and other events with alcohol to be registered. “Drinking is going to happen anyway — nothing they do is going to stop alcohol consumption and things that students do during Fling. Anything they can do to make sure it’s safer for the students should be done,” Kahana said. They added that having a limited number of registered events makes it so that students do more off-campus drinking, where they will be away from University resources such as the Medical Emergency Response Team. For some, the rules associated with partying on campus makes going off campus the more

desirable option. Fling’s off-campus parties, even though they aren’t registered, will still be subjected to much scrutiny from Penn Police and the BLCE, according to the Division of Public Safety. “Yes, the BLCE is very much aware of the Spring Fling season for all the universities including Penn,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. “They are looking forward to meeting our students who are wanting to meet them.” Rush said that DPS’s goal for Fling is to ensure that students have a fun and safe time, and that off-campus parties done in a moderate way with safety precautions in place will not experience trouble from the BLCE or Penn Police. “However, if you are hosting a party that is getting numerous calls for noise to the Penn

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New options up for swipes Changes to meal plan include swipe conversions JEFFREY CAREYVA Staff Reporter

Don’t worry if dining hall food tastes stale to you — a series of changes are already coming to spice up Penn Dining’s meal plans for the fall 2015 semester. The most immediate changes have been made to meal swipes. “We’ve heard from students and even though we created a range of very flexible plans ... a lot of students tend to have meal swipes left over at the end of the semester,” Director of Penn Dining Pam Lampitt said. Two mechanisms have already been put in place this semester to make use of spare meal swipes, aside from giving everyone behind you in Commons a free meal. One change to meal swipes is Penn Dining’s new Meal Swipe Conversion Policy. Any student who signs up for a dining plan by April 30 for the 2015-16 academic year may convert 10 to 50 meal swipes into Dining Dollars to use for the rest of the spring semester. The value of each converted meal swipe is equivalent to $4.75. When purchasing a dining plan or adding swipes to your account, each meal swipe is worth roughly between $11 to $14. Students who sign up by April 30 will be locked into the current 2014-15 dining plan prices before they increase next academic year. “We tried to look very hard at the meal swipe itself and converting it into Dining Dollars for the student,” Lampitt said. “We’ve seen a significant rise in the number of students who have signed up for a meal plan already compared to last year.” The Meal Swipe Conversion Policy will come into full effect for the 201516 academic year. Dining dollars will roll over between the fall and spring semesters. The second mechanism is the recently implemented Swipe Out Hunger campaign, which allows students to give up two meal swipes per event to donate food to the local nonprofit Philabudance. The nonprofit provides assistance to approximately 75,000 people a week. “Swipe Out Hunger was a

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pilot program pitched by two wonderful students” — College sophomores Liza Lansing and Jessica Abrams” — “and the first event was wildly successful,” Lampitt said. The next Swipe Out Hunger event is Tuesday, April 28. A potential program proposed by Penn students is TableTalk — a program where students who would otherwise eat separately would sit together and discuss a variety of topics, over their meal. TableTalk was first implemented at Emory University in the fall of last year. “We still have a lot of students who come to us with great ideas of what they would like to see in dining,” Lampitt said. Penn Dining has also started working with Penn Environment Group and Penn Hospitality Services to improve fresh water filling stations around campus. “I think that’s where we are heading,” Business Services Communications Director Barbara Lea-Kruger said. “If students come to us with thoughtful ideas, we are willing to work with them, and we want to expand our community activities.” “Dining is really about building community,” Lampitt said. “We are encouraging a lot more events like Dining Days to help build a community around dining and to give students an outlet for stress.” Dining Days lasted from March 16 to 20 this year and included events like a dash for food — where students filled boxes of groceries in a short amount of time and would pay for them at a discount — at the Gourmet Grocer and Quizzo at Kings Court English College House. Penn Dining is also continuing to help improve the PennMobile app by adding nutritional information to the Dining section of the app in the near future. “We are putting a lot of resources into the new dining facility for the New College House and also the one for Hill once Hill gets renovated,” Lea-Kruger said. “A lot of our effort is going into planning the future ahead of just next fall.” “We’re spending a lot of time designed a really fantastic dining facility for Hill House to accommodate the diverse student population that will be there,” Lampitt said.

TEDx Penn brings together eclectic range of speakers Penn researchers strongly represented in lineup SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Contributing Reporter

How do you get 1,000 people to pay anywhere up to $100 to spend eight hours in the Zellerbach Theatre on the most beautiful day of spring thus far? Erect a “giving tree” where people can add sticky notes detailing their plans for the future, set up a 3-D printer demonstration with free keychains and mini sharks and provide googly eyes and sparkly hats for spontaneous photo shoots in front of a TEDxPenn patterned backdrop. Sunday was the annual installment of TEDxPenn, which brought together 19 different entrepreneurs, scientists, musicians, artists and professors to give engaging talks and performances about everything from modern day “divination” to testing drugs on microchip simulations of human tissue. The speakers were a far cry from being exclusively Penn-associated, but Penn professors and researchers were still strongly represented. A 2014 graduate even made it back

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best suited for different areas of study. “There are a couple of areas in our curriculum where we rely almost exclusively on non-standing faculty,” Associate Dean & Director of Academic Affairs Kent Peterman said, adding that “different departments work this really differently, and put lecturers in different roles.” Many of Penn’s mathematics, language and writing seminar classes fall under this umbrella. These classes, which are more concerned with teaching students specific skills rather than relying on any specialized information, are particularly suited for specialized instructors, Peterman said. While the teaching quality may not differ, there can be a downside for students taking many classes taught by lecturers or adjuncts rather than faculty members. Lenthall said that for students hoping to perform research at Penn, making connections with faculty who actually conduct research may be more difficult if the student has not taken

for the event — College alumnus Jonathan Iwry. He used his time to freestyle rap, incorporating words that the crowd tweeted in real-time with the hashtag #TEDxPenn. The words popped up on the screen overhead while Iwry freestyled, and he used everything from “intelligent” to “orange.” Iwry also discussed how he felt freestyle rapping was analogous to a lifestyle. On improvisation, he said, “I think it’s more than making do — I think it’s about tapping into the resources within us.” In the break after his talk, Iwry admitted TEDxPenn was a very new experience for him. “I performed at NSO for the class of 2017, but this was unlike anything I’ve done before,” he said. “Not only did I rap in front of 1,000 people, but I also got to talk about what I believe in.” Shifting gears, Peter Struck, Classical Studies professor at Penn, discussed humans’ awareness of how we make decisions. He spoke to the audience about ancient forms of decision-making traditionally viewed as superstitious, like consulting oracles in Athens and reading turtle shells in China.

“We do this today,” he said. “We take a walk, or take a shower or sleep on the problem.” After studying with a group of psychologists at Stanford, Struck said he had created an axiom: “Our ability to know exceeds our capacity to understand that ability,” he said. Other highlights include artist Judy Gelles, who has traveled all over the world photographing fourth graders, transposing the text of their hopes and dreams around them in the picture. Penn professor Lyle Ungar studied over a billion tweets with his team to analyze the correlation between certain key words and the presence of heart disease in a community. Dave Gruber, National Geographic ocean explorer, started out studying phosphorescence in coral and most recently wound up swimming with sharks to see if they also contained the phosphorescent protein — some species did. Jill Wruble of the Yale School of Medicine warned the audience of unnecessary and potentially harmful tests and surgeries for “incidentalomas” — abnormalities found in tests for something else. In these situations, cancer, though unlikely, cannot be ruled out completely.

She recommended “watching and waiting” over anything else. “Be skeptical,” Wruble said. “We’ve been working on [TEDxPenn] for nine months,” said College and Wharton junior and Director of Marketing and Public Relations Osama Ahmed. Ahmed’s job was, in his words, “making sure we sell all our tickets.” The event was almost sold out. On the actual day of the event, “all of us [were] literally scheduled down to the minute,” he said with laugh. He worked a name tag table in the morning, received members of the press and made sure attendees had access to the TEDxPenn app. “The app was one of our biggest challenges ... a lot of us learned a lot,” Ahmed said. The app contained a schedule of the day’s speakers and a chatting function to encourage networking and discussion around the topics. College senior Gabe Jimenez, who hosted the event, tacked on a promo for the app as he wrapped up the first set of speakers. “I put my information in, so feel free to chat with me about these ideas worth spreading,” he said, a nod to the classic TED catchphrase.

a class with them. “Unless a student makes a concerted effort, it can be hard to get to know faculty because the class may be taught by a lecturer,” Lenthall said. Students rarely perceive the differences between tenured professors and other instructors. “I don’t know if I have any classes with an adjunct professor,” College freshman Adrian Kase said. Other factors seem to make a greater difference in students’ experiences at Penn. What makes an instructor “good” seems to be a more intangible quality than a decorated CV. “I’ve found that I’ve liked the TAs that have taught me as much if not more than the tenured professors I’ve had. Oftentimes I find them more enthusiastic and engaging than some older tenured professors who seem out of touch with the best ways to teach students,” Kase said. Other students prefer classes taught by seasoned faculty experts. “To me, teaching quality seems to be affected more by experience,” College freshman Daniel Chung

said. While Penn’s system of nonfaculty instructors might slip under students’ radars, their teaching serves an integral role in Penn’s

academic structure. “We would be a much poorer University without the contributions of people who aren’t standing faculty,” Peterman said.

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After a thrilling end to the Ivy League basketball season, player after player has begun to leave the Ancient Eight for greener pastures. The Ivy League has long enforced a rule that an individual cannot play at a school after graduation, prompting players like Columbiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alex Rosenberg to withdraw from their universities to remain eligible. Many choose to take a different route, graduating with eligibility remaining and transferring to another school without needing to sit out a season. And this year, the Ancient Eight is dealing with a significant outflow of players with leftover eligibility. Dartmouth junior guard Alex Mitola announced that he would graduate early and transfer to another school for his final year of collegiate basketball before pursuing a career overseas. The move clearly caught the ire of Big Green coach Paul Cormier, who told the Valley News that â&#x20AC;&#x153;it floored me. [Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] a total surprise.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was hard because I know

SAM SHERMAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Dartmouth junior guard Alex Mitola has averaged over 10 points per game in each of his three seasons with the Big Green. Mitola is now eligible to transfer to another program for his senior season after finishing classes early.

the situation it puts them in, but I felt it was what was best for me and my career moving forward,â&#x20AC;? Mitola said to the Valley News.

Mitola led Dartmouth in scoring each of the last two seasons, averaging over 10 points per contest in each of his three seasons.

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Mitola has received interest from many schools according to The Recruit Scoopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alex Kline, including Vanderbilt, George Washington, Temple and La Salle But Mitola isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only leading scorer moving on from an Ivy squad. Cornell senior forward Shonn Miller is looking for a new home after he graduates from Cornell, including an upcoming visit to 2014 National Champion Connecticut. Miller missed his junior season after shoulder surgery before averaging 16.8 points and 8.5 rebounds per game in his final year with the Big Red. Miller is receiving more high-major interest than Mitola, including schools like Michigan, Illinois and California. This may come as a surprise to some despite the Ivy Leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s successful season in 2014-15. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no question, people have a misnomer about this,â&#x20AC;? Yale coach James Jones said to the Hartford Courant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The best players at our level, the [Yale forward] Justin Searses of the world, the [Harvard forward] Wesley Saunderses of the world, can play anywhere. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a coach in our league who likes the rule; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a perfect situation for the teams that get them, and it hurts

us.â&#x20AC;? There is no question that losing the final year of star players continues to hurt these Ivy schools. Cornell lost honorable mention All-Ivy forward Ââ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and current Penn coach Steve Donahue recruit Â â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Errick Peck to Purdue after he graduated in 2013. Northwestern bagged Yale forward Jeremiah Kriesberg following the 2013-14 season. And there are even more fifthyear transfers this year. Brown is set to lose forward Rafael Maia while Princeton will lose senior forward Denton Koon, who missed his senior season with a knee injury. Harvard center Kenyatta Smith and Cornell guard Galal Cancer each lost their junior seasons to injury, making them eligible to transfer as well. Penn may be affected as well with seniors Camryn Crocker and Greg Louis retaining a year of eligibility after injuries prematurely ended their junior and freshman seasons, respectively. It is unclear as to whether either player will pursue basketball elsewhere. The epidemic of players pursuing a fifth season at another school could prompt the Ivy League to change its rules about graduating players, but the conference has held steadfast in its rules thus far.

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The first win is always the hardest. Following a rough beginning to the Ivy League season, Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis carved out its first win in Ancient Eight play over

the weekend. After starting off its conference matchups with a string of three consecutive losses, the Quakers split their matches this weekend, capturing a win at Harvard before falling to Dartmouth on Sunday. In Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s match against the 63rd-ranked Crimson (7-9, 0-4 Ivy), the Quakers (8-8, 1-4) started off by securing the doubles point with wins in each of the head-tohead affairs, winning 8-6, 8-5 and

8-4. Penn didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look back from there, cruising to a decisive 5-2 victory. After sweeping the doubles matches, the singles contests were similarly impressive for the Quakers, as Penn showcased a level of dominance not previously on display in Ivy League play this year. At the first singles position, senior captain Sol Eskenazi won in three sets, while junior Sonya Latycheva was simply unstoppable at the No.

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In the midst of a rocky season, Penn men’s tennis has not been able to catch a break. The Quakers dropped conference face-offs to No. 35 Harvard and No. 54 Dartmouth on Saturday and Sunday, respectively, leaving Penn (14-8, 0-5 Ivy) still without an Ancient Eight win entering the season’s final week. The weekend’s play featured numerous close losses at Penn’s expense. “I’m really proud of my guys,” coach David Geatz said. ” The scoreboard doesn’t always say everything, but the guys went out and fought hard.” The Quakers began the weekend with a rough Saturday against the Crimson, falling 5-2. Senior captain Jeremy Court was the only Penn singles player to come out victorious, taking down No. 37 Denis Nguyen in three sets. Penn also won the doubles point by taking two of three matches. First, sophomores Matt Nardella and Marshall Sharp lost 6-3 to Sebastian Beltrame and Jean Thirouin. At the No. 1 spot, Court and freshman Nicholai Westergaard took down a No. 10 doubles team in Nguyen and Brian Yeung 6-4, before juniors Blaine Willenborg and Austin Kaplan broke the tie with a 7-6 victory over the Harvard’s Nicky Hu and Alex Steinroeder. On Sunday, matters weren’t

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the season and give the Malvern Square, Pa., native his fourth multi-goal game of 2015. Rounding out Penn’s attack were Bock, Doktor and senior Joe McCallion, who helped the Quakers to victory by scoring two a piece. Junior midfield Pat Berkery also added to the offensive total, netting one in the end of the first period. On the other end of the field,

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Turchin. Although Cornell tied the game once again in the bottom of the inning, two runs in the fourth and a two-run single by junior Korinne Raby in the fifth were enough to see the Quakers through to an 8-4 victory. “Especially on the road, every single game is important and I was pleased to see the team fight back, even when we had some mental lapses,” coach Leslie King said. “Taking at least three of four games is always important, and I was pleased to see how well we were performing early on.” Errors were the story of the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader and, unfortunately for the Quakers, the team recorded the same number of errors as hits in its 6-2 loss. Cornell scored five runs — three of which were unearned — in the first two innings and never looked back. A solo home run by junior Lauren Li and an RBI groundout by junior Kanani Datan weren’t enough for the Quakers to

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much better for the Quakers, as the Big Green clinched a win after taking the first match’s four points. The tandem of Willenborg and Kaplan won for the second time on the weekend, 6-2, but Penn lost the other two doubles matches to lose the point. Court impressed by taking the first set over Dartmouth’s No. 53 Dovydas Sakinis 6-1, but could not capitalize on his early lead, eventually losing in three sets. The Quakers’ first point came from the racquet of Nardella, who defeated Diego Pedraza in the No. 4 singles spot by a score of 6-3, 7-6. The second came from freshman Josh Pompan, who came back from match point down at 5-4 in the third set to best Ciro Riccardi. Geatz disclosed that Pompan, who appeared to be in apparent pain after winning the last match to finish on Sunday, was experiencing a full-body cramp during the later stages of the match. “He couldn’t have played another point,” Geatz said. “I think he was done.” Despite the underwhelming results in Ivy play this season, Geatz believes in the talent of his team. “We had arguably one of the best teams that Penn has ever had here,” Geatz said. “But I think, with any team in any sport, you take your top two guys out of the lineup, there’s a big difference.” The team was hit hard by the losses of its top two singles players, freshman Nicolas Podesta and junior Vim De Alwis. Podesta logged an 8-2 record as the No. 1 singles player, and De Alwis went 1-6 in the top spot

before a meniscus injury. De Alwis suffered his injury during a 5-2 victory over Radford on March 7. At that time, the Quakers had gotten off to a fast start, winning 10 of their first 11. Since then, Penn has gone 4-7, including five consecutive Ivy losses in the five most recent contests. After this weekend’s games,

the Red and Blue are in the home stretch of the spring season, with three contests in this final week. On Wednesday, the Quakers take on St. John’s, a game that was rescheduled from an earlier date. Over the weekend, Penn will then complete Ivy League play at home against Cornell on Friday before traveling to Columbia on Sunday.

goalkeepers Jimmy Sestilio and John Lopes split the game 30 minutes each with a combined 11 stops for the hour. The two have been splitting most games in goal. One notable exception was Penn’s matchup against Brown last week in which Sestilio went the whole stretch for the Red and Blue, producing their first Ivy win of the season. In Saturday’s game against the Crimson, Lopes did his bit by only allowing three goals into the net in the second half.

Harvard’s counterpart, goalkeeper Bryan Moore, could not stop the seven second-half goals made by the Quakers, which allowed them to pull past the Crimson at the most important juncture. Looking ahead, Penn has just one more Ivy game left to play against Dartmouth next weekend at home. Next Saturday is Alumni Day for both men’s and women’s lacrosse, which will give both squads large home crowds for the pair of important match ups.

With the Big Green currently tied for last place in the league and on a three-game losing streak, prospects for the Red and Blue seem good as they wrap up their 2015 campaign. A win for Penn would cement their position in the Ivy League Tournament at the beginning of May. A strong performance in the Ancient Eight’s season finale could put the Quakers in the running to defend their 2014 Ivy crown and make the NCAA Tournament for a second consecutive year.

overcome their five errors. “We weren’t communicating nearly as well as we should have in the game, and I think we were definitely back on our heels a little bit, waiting for [each] other to make a play,” King said. “We just weren’t aggressive enough and that’s very uncharacteristic of us. "[But] I think it’s something that we corrected very quickly in the next game.” In the final contest of the weekend, the Big Red jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first, before the Quakers retook the lead in the top of the third off of a two-run triple by Li. Penn extended it to 3-1 an inning later off a triple

by Datan. The Quakers lead would be short-lived, however, as Cornell put up five runs in the bottom of the fifth against Borden, leaving Penn trailing for the second time. But it was Li who once again answered for the Red and Blue’s offense, singling with two outs in the top of the sixth to drive in two more runs, cutting the margin to 6-5. Joyner then erased the deficit completely with her second tworun home run of the weekend, putting the Quakers back on top, 7-6. After coming into pitch with two outs in the fifth inning, Li allowed Cornell just one hit in the final two and one-third innings,

securing the Quakers third victory of the weekend. “I think the whole team responded really well mentally to the early game, and I think we showed how tough we can be as a team,” Li said. “It was so crucial to take three of these four games because of how tough the competition is in the South Division, but I think we showed that we are mentally tough enough to go out and compete against any team on any day.” The team gets right back to work with a midweek game against Drexel on Wednesday, followed by a crucial divisional four-game set against Princeton at home next weekend.

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Penn senior Jeremy Court was one of the lone bright spots over the weekend, defeating one ranked player and almost taking down another.

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him up, and score a bunch of runs,” Penn coach John Yurkow said. Fortunately for Penn (1511, 10-2), Cuff’s counterpart wasn’t much better. Brian McA fee a llowed seven runs — four of which were earned — on nine hits and two walks in five innings. After Cornell took an early lead with two runs in the bottom of the first, the Red and Blue evened it up in the second. The hosts scored another pair in the home half of the second, but Penn took advantage of three Cornell errors to score five runs in the third, highlighted by a two-run hit from junior Ryan Mincher and an RBI from junior Gary Tesch. Cornell then scored two runs against senior Dan Gautieri to cut it to 7-6, and the Big Red tacked on a run in each of the next two innings to take an 8-7 lead. But the heroics of the Quakers’ Mitch Montaldo swung the game in Penn’s favor late in the first game. The senior connected for a three-run blast off Cornell reliever Nick Busto in the top of the sixth to give his team a lead, and repeated the feat in the top of the seventh to put the game away. The Red and Blue had a far more convincing win in the second game on Saturday. Sophomore Mike Reitcheck pitched a terrific game, providing the Quakers with eight innings of two-run ball, striking out six while allowing four hits and walking two. “ We n e e d e d t h a t ,” Yurkow said of Reitchek’s outing. “[W hen] you’re traveling on the weekends, you’re going to be a bit more limited [roster-wise]. So for Mike to come out and let us rest our bullpen, that was big. “It really helped us going into Sunday’s games.” Senior Matt McKinnon had three RBI in the game,

while junior Matt Greskoff notched four hits and swiped home on a double steal. Senior captain Austin Bossart added an RBI double in a terrific all-around performance by Penn’s offense against Cornell starter Eric Upton. The Big Red earned their lone win of the series in the first game on Sunday, capturing the shutout behind Kellen Urbon’s completegame performance. Senior Ronnie Glenn pitched a complete game of his own for the Quakers, but he was simply outdueled by his counterpart. “He threw the ball really well,” Yurkow said of Urbon. “He was ahead of us basically the entire game. Sometimes you just gotta tip your cap to the guy.” RBI singles from Tommy Wagner and Spencer Scorza provided all the support Urbon would need, and Cornell secured just its third win in its last 11 games. Gunning for a series win, sophomore Jake Cousins took the mound for the Red and Blue in the weekend finale and struck out three over six and one-third innings, allowing four runs — three earned — on eight hits and three walks. After falling behind early, the Quakers scored five unanswered runs on RBI singles from sophomore Tim Graul, Greskoff, senior Jeff McGarry and McKinnon to take a 5-2 lead. Cousins gave back two of those runs, but sophomore Mitchell Hammonds shut the door on the win with two and one-third scoreless frames, getting three straight outs with the tying run in scoring position to earn the save. Penn has now won 14 of its last 17 games after dropping eight of nine to begin the season. The Red and Blue are tied with division rival Columbia for the best record in the Ancient Eight, and will host Princeton for a four-game set this weekend after a midweek doubleheader against NYIT.

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Penn women’s tennis ended its skid on Saturday, beating Harvard for its first Ivy win

Due to Ivy League rules, several veterans with eligibility are able to transfer out of the conference

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MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2015

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Quakers continue to roll at Cornell

BASEBALL | Penn matches Columbia’s

Ivy record with three weekend wins TOMMY ROTHMAN Associate Sports Editor

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clinches second Ivy win ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN Sports Reporter

It was do or die for the Red and Blue. In Saturday’s game against Harvard — the penultimate Ivy League game of the team’s season — Penn lived to fight another day. The Quakers were able to stay in contention to defend their Ivy title, edging out the Crimson in a tight 10-9 game. Harvard came out of the gate strong, scoring the first two goals of the game. After those two, freshman midfield Kevin McGeary got Penn (5-6, 2-3 Ivy) on the board with 3:11 left in the first quarter while Crimson midfield Brian Fischer was in the penalty box for a minute due to a slashing offense. From the first minute onward, the Crimson held onto the lead. But the Quakers were never far behind, keeping

the score within two goals of Harvard’s total for all but nine minutes in the third period, when the Crimson (6-6, 1-3) led 6-3. Penn managed to tie the score with just under five minutes left in the game, as senior attack Isaac Bock scored off an assist from junior attack Nick Doktor to bring the score to nine apiece. Bringing his game full circle, McGeary scored the last goal of the game for Penn with 2:32 left in the fourth period, giving the Quakers a 10-9 advantage — their first and only lead of the game. But the score at the end of those 60 minutes was the only one that mattered, fortunately for the Quakers. The game-winning goal was the freshman’s second of the fourth quarter, capping off a hat trick for last week’s Ivy League Rookie of the Week. Those three goals bring the freshman’s total to 13 for SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 9 FIRST LAST | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Thanks to his offensive dominance in Penn’s last two Ancient Eight games, freshman midfield Kevin McGeary earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors after the Quakers’ win over then-No. 10 Brown and racked up a hat trick — his first of the season — against Harvard on Saturday.

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THOMAS MUNSON | ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Senior Matt McKinnon’s three RBI helped Penn win its second game against Cornell on Saturday.

The Big Red weren’t able to break the momentum of the red-hot Quakers. Penn baseball took three out of four games from Cornell over the weekend in the teams’ opening series of Lou Gehrig Division play. The Quakers took both games on Saturday, winning 13-8 and 9-2, and split on Sunday, losing 2-0 before bouncing back with a 5-4 victory. The four-game set got off to a wild start, with both offenses exploding in a back-andforth battle. The Big Red (9-20, 6-6 Ivy) jumped on Penn starter Connor Cuff, who surrendered four runs on three hits and a whopping six walks while only getting four outs. “Connor is having a lot of trouble throwing strikes, but it was good to see the team pick SEE BASEBALL PAGE 9

Quakers win three of four to keep pace in South Division SOFTBALL | Clutch Li

keys Sunday comeback

SAM ALTLAND Sports Reporter

It wasn’t exactly an easy weekend, but Penn softball found a way to get the job done. The Red and Blue claimed three of their four weekend games against Cornell, winning in comeback fashion in their final game on Sunday to keep pace with the rest of the Ivy League South Division. In the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, the

Quakers (16-15, 7-5 Ivy) provided senior starting pitcher Alexis Borden with plenty of run support, as the team jumped out to a three-run lead early in the first inning. Borden allowed only two earned runs in five innings of work, and became just the sixth pitcher in Ivy League history to record their 600th career strikeout, doing so in the second inning. An extra run in the fourth followed by eight runs in the fifth helped seal the quick 12-2 victory for the Quakers. Penn once again scored three runs in the opening inning of Saturday’s second game, this

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time thanks to senior Sydney Turchin’s steal of home and freshman Jurie Joyner’s tworun home run. In the bottom of the frame, Cornell (9-18, 3-9) answered with three runs of its own, in part due to two errors committed by the Red and Blue. Despite giving up the three early runs, sophomore pitcher Alexis Sargent stranded three Big Red runners in scoring position throughout the afternoon, while the Quakers took the lead back again in the top of the second off of a run batted in by SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 9

GUYRANDY JEAN-GILLES | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

After the Big Red rallied to take the lead against Penn on Sunday, senior Lauren Li hit a two-run single to cut Cornell’s lead to one, helping lead the Quakers to a comeback win, their third in four contests in this weekend’s South Division matchup.

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