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Taking a stand Students share stories and gather as a community DAN SPINELLI & ELLIE SCHROEDER City News Editor & Assignments Editor

Mental health task force reconvenes

The announcement was made in the wake of Wharton junior’s suicide

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CHERRY ZHI Staff Reporter

tudents flocked to College Green on Tuesday afternoon to promote mental health awareness on campus in the wake of a student’s suicide on Monday.

A group of Penn students read anonymously submitted testimonials about struggling with mental health in an hour-long demonstration on College Green entitled “You Are Not Alone: A Demonstration of Support for Mental Health Awareness.”

College and Wharton junior Sophie Phillips organized the demonstration two days after Wharton junior Ao “Olivia” Kong committed suicide. She urged students to “break the silence” and “lift the stigma of mental health” in their own communities throughout Penn.

Phillips also started a change.org petition on Tuesday requesting greater reforms in University policies regarding mental health.

“We want to continue sharing these stories, not just because they talk about a lot of hard things ... but because they’re also stories of hope and bravery, resilience and courage,” she said.

Following the suicide of Wharton junior Olivia Kong on Monday, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced Wednesday that the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare will reconvene immediately.

The president and provost said in a statement emailed to The Daily Pennsylvanian and other media that they have asked the chairs of the mental health task force that was implemented in 2014 — Director of Education for the Department of Psychiatry Anthony Rostain and former School of Arts and Sciences Dean Rebecca Bushnell — to reconvene the group instantly to “determine as expeditiously as possible what additional steps can be taken to help ensure the health and well-being of our students.”

The task force will evaluate the impact of its previously implemented recommendations and seek changes to further improve the recommendations’ effectiveness.

In the interim, CAPS is extending its hours in the evenings and on weekends and is instructed to inform the University if it requires additional resources to meet all student needs, according to Gutmann and Price’s statement.

The mental health task force was originally

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Man discovered dead in New York City Penn Club

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The man’s death was an apparent suicide

How to stay out of trouble during Fling, according to Penn Police

ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor

A 69-year-old man was found dead on Wednesday at the Penn Club of New York in Midtown, Manhattan, according to a spokesperson from the office of the New York Police Department’s deputy commissioner for public information. The death is an apparent suicide, the New York Post reported.

The man was found in the club at 2:15 p.m. and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the NYPD public information office spokesperson. His name has not yet been publicly released, and it has not been confirmed whether the man is affiliated with the University.

Penn Club employees entered the guest room in which he was staying after he did not check out, according to the Post. Upon entering, they discovered his body, the Post reported.

The Penn Club, located on West 44th Street between 5th and 6th avenues, contains dining rooms, guest rooms and spaces for events. It is a “private social club for alumni, staff, faculty and students over age 21 of The University of Pennsylvania and its affiliates,” according to its website.

A representative from the Penn Club was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.

The Board of Liquor Control Enforcement will keep tabs JAMIE BRENSILBER Staff Reporter

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The Medical Emergency Response Team plays an especially important role on campus during Fling, when alcohol-related illnesses are more common.

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Spring Fling is only one weekend of the school year, but many groups spend much more time than that planning for these three days.

Every year, the Division of Public Safety coordinates with the Vice Provost for University Life and the Medical Emergency Response Team to prepare for Spring Fling to make sure all students are safe.

The school sees many hospitalizations and alcohol-related incidents during Fling. As most students are underage, the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement keeps

a schedule of all of the spring festivities on campus and tracks which houses pose the most problems.

“If you want to meet Penn Police and Liquor Control Enforcement agents, have the biggest party, play the loudest music and have your house look like a clown car with people falling out the doors,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. “Then we’ll meet you.”

“If you don’t want to meet us,” Rush added, “have a nice, orderly party.”

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University ramps up health services for Fling MERT, SHS and DPS will work collectively KATHLEEN HARWOOD Staff Reporter

Spring Fling is a defining part of the Penn experience — but for some students, the desire to have a good time can take precedence over concern about possible risks to their health and safety.

“Honestly, I’d never been MERTed or blacked out or anything before my first Fling,” said Jacob, a Wharton junior who chose not to use his last name to protect his privacy. “And then I was completely gone and had fallen down half a flight of stairs in the Quad, seriously tearing a

muscle in my leg. Luckily someone was able to get me help. I told my parents I had been kicking around a soccer ball.”

Jacob is one of many students who has had to make a visit to the hospital because of Fling celebrations. Every year, people suffer from both alcohol-related and non-alcohol-related health issues and injuries during the festivities.

The Medical Emergency Response Team, Student Health Services and the Division of Public Safety work together during Fling to ensure that students receive the help they need in such cases.

During both the Friday and Saturday events, around 25

EMTs will be on call in the Quadrangle and at Franklin Field. Ambulances will also be on standby for students who require hospital care.

The entire MERT leadership is mobilized for Fling and serves to help adult EMT crews. MERT Medical Director Alvin Wang will work as an EMS physician on both days, in conjunction with a contracted emergency physician from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center on Friday night.

Students in need of assistance should look for roaming workers as well as the medical treatment and observational facilities that will be set up at each venue.

Wang, who worked as a physician at Made in America this past

fall, said that preparations for Fling are made similarly to the popular musical festival, only on a smaller scale.

“We have stretchers, medications, IV fluid, defibrillators placed in accessible areas out in the field like at Made in America,” he said. “But on the whole, I think Penn students are better prepared to face health issues than the general public that attends [Made in America].”

The medical teams on staff are prepared to address alcoholrelated emergencies in addition to other common problems, like asthma attacks, trips and falls and environmental emergencies like dehydration and heat stroke.

In part, these problems are

exacerbated because students neglect their basic needs in the effort to “get the most out of the Fling experience,” SHS Executive Director Giang Nguyen said.

One Engineering sophomore, who wished to remain anonymous, said she was MERTed last year because of sleep deprivation in addition to alcohol consumption.

“By Saturday I was running on basically four hours of sleep,” she said. “I passed out at a party and my friends couldn’t get me to stand up. I felt like I was going to miss out if I took a break but then ended up at the hospital for the last part of Fling.”

Students are encouraged to make sure they get the rest they

need in order to operate at their fullest during the festivities.

This means a full eight hours of sleep as well as naps, if needed, Nguyen said. Drinking water, Gatorade and other un-caffeinated beverages as well as eating carbohydrates and protein-laden food can also mediate the effects of alcohol and exhaustion.

Nguyen emphasized that implementing the buddy system is important to prevent health and safety problems.

“Watch out for each other,” he said. “Some of the situations I’ve seen in the past occur because somebody is off by themselves ... Don’t be afraid to volunteer as the ‘designated driver’ who watches out for your friends.”

SPEC struggles to sell tickets for Spring Fling Last-minute discounts designed to attract students VIBHA KANNAN Deputy Editor

While students are gearing up for Spring Fling, the Social Planning and Events Committee is nearing the last stretch of their year-long concert planning process.

The Fling concert, which will feature 3LAU and Chance the Rapper, is the product of a process that starts soon after the SPEC Fall Concert in October. With less than 48 hours until the show, SPEC members are working to finalize artist demands and ticket sales.

“Last minute, we’re doing a lot of shopping trips to try to get ready with all the things the artist might need the day of show,” said SPEC Concerts Director and College senior Spencer Jaffe. “We’re doing some marketing promotion around Philly and other universities in the area to try to get

some more students out.”

SPEC Concer ts Director and Engineering junior Kelsey Simet also said that the organization works very closely with the artist to coordinate their schedule.

“We’re making sure they can get to and from the airport, and we make sure we have the merchandising all set up,” Simet said.

This year, SPEC is especially focused on promoting ticket sales, since they have been lower than last year. Currently, all f loor passes, EE — the center section of Franklin Field — and most of ED have been sold. Other sections online have “sold a good amount of tickets,” Jaffe said.

“I think that rap itself as a genre is very polarizing,” Jaffe said regarding lower ticket sales. “A lot of people either like it or they don’t. We think that Chance the Rapper is an artist that has a little bit more of a niche audience, and since Penn is a pretty eclectic

university, we thought that Chance fit the fold for a lot of different groups.”

Simet also noted that the lower ticket sales might be a reflection of a trend towards moving downtown for Fling.

“Un for t unately, I t h in k people are hesitant to stay on campus due to increasing Liquor Control Board policies,” she said.

SPEC Concerts Director and College junior Paul DiNapoli also said that many other events are scheduled at the same time as the Fling concert.

“We’ve seen a huge uptake on downtown programing this year and multiple groups have planned their event directly in conflict with the concert — at the same time and the same price,” DiNapoli said. “Some people just don’t want to spend $40 on a Fling ticket and then $30 on another event.”

However, SPEC is working hard to promote ticket sales.

Wednesday night, the organization announced a discount for

all concert tickets. Penn students tickets were reduced from $40 to $25, while other university students with a .edu email can now buy Fling tickets for $40 instead of the original $55.

Tickets for the general public reduced from $70 to $55.

“We’re issuing these new price tiers to kind of get kids to buy tickets last minute,” DiNapoli said. “A lot of people are on the fence. They’re thinking, I want to see Chance and I want to go to Spring Fling, but I don’t want to pay $40. And those are the people that we think we can swing to buy a $25 ticket so they can go to the concert.”

Simet also said that although ticket sales were lower than last year, SPEC was focused on getting the most relevant artists for the concert.

“We’re trying to set a sort of precedent,” she said. “Both of these are artists are probably people that no one listened to two years ago, but are on the cusp of being at the height of their career.”

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Despite excitement surrounding Spring Fling headliner Chance the Rapper and opener 3LAU, ticket sales have been disappointing.

Class of 1954 Lecture

In Memory of Dr. Anita Faatz Presented by

SPECIAL SPRING LECTURE

Jane Golden Founder and Executive Director

City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program

Reverend Charles L. Howard, PhD

Brian Peterson, PhD

Charleston, Freddie Gray And Black Lives Matter: What Has Changed? What Hasn’t?

When: Thursday, April 14th, 2016 @ 3:30 p.m.

Where: The Class of ‘49 Auditorium, Houston Hall Reception: Class of 1958 Café, 4:30-5:30 PM The Reverend Charles L. Howard, PhD is the University Chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania, his alma mater. He is the author of several articles and chapters and his writings have been featured in many publications. Along with his duties as Chaplain, Reverend Howard has taught at Penn in the College of Arts and Sciences and in the Graduate School of Education.

Brian Peterson, PhD is the Director of the Makuu Black Cultural Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a three-time graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Presently he teaches or co-teaches two courses at Penn.

All are welcome to attend this lecture.

“Art and Social Justice”

Monday, April 18

5:00 PM: Registration and Hors D’oeuvres 5:30 PM: Lecture and Discussion Golkin Room | Houston Hall Free and Open to the Public Two free Pennsylvania Social Work CEUs with pre-registration CEU pre-registration and more information: at www.sp2.upenn.edu/1954

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Carriage senior society brings LGBTQ leaders together Many members knew each other outside the society CHLOE CHENG Staff Reporter

Integrative, supportive, fierce.

In three words, that’s how College junior Devon Bankler-Jukes would describe Carriage, the senior society she has just joined.

Carriage, which was founded in spring 2013, is a cultural senior society aimed at recognizing and bringing together LGBTQ students and allies who have made a positive impact on campus. Its name is derived from the official name of the building in which the LGBT Center is located, the Carriage House.

Senior societies recently chose their new members.

Each Carriage class is capped at 25 students, with 15 to 18 juniors accepted in the spring by the previous class, and 7 to 10 senior students accepted in the fall by the members who were chosen in the spring, according to College senior Shan Choudhri, who serves as president or “chief” of Carriage. There are two cycles because “we [the seniors] don’t know them [the junior class] as well as they know their own class,

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Fling while staying safe.

Rush wa r ned students about the danger of throwing house parties when students do not know who is in their homes. Strangers outside of the Penn community could ent er some one’s house during a party and steal their valuables.

During Fling, DPS and MERT also watch out for people who need to be hospitalized for alcohol-related medical reasons or for sexual crimes.

“We’re pretty much experts at this,” Rush said.

Rush noted that during the Penn Police Ride-Along,

so while we pick the majority of the class, we let them have the opportunity to pick people who are from their peers,” Choudhri said.

Although each senior is given two taps, the application process is open, allowing anyone — regardless of whether they were tapped or not — to apply. “We recognize that we tap people based on who we know, and it’s very possible that there are extraordinary people in the community that we might not know personally, and so we give them a chance to apply,” Choudhri said. “And we have accepted people who are not tapped.”

Applicants are then given the chance to become acquainted with current members through a “smoker” — a kind of meet-andgreet — and coffee chats. After this process, current members hold deliberations during which they discuss what they would like the next class to look like, as well as what they would like to see from each person.

“What we really like to see is how people have advocated for people in intersectional ways, being inclusive of different genders, different races and different ethnicities,” College senior and Carriage

coaches, members of the Office of Student Conduct, the Director of the Office of Alcohol & Other Drug Program Initiatives and professors can accompany Penn Police when they are working during Fling.

MERT helps cover the concert on Friday night and works late into the night to ensure the safety of Penn students.

“They are invaluable to us on Spring Fling weekend,” Rush said.

DPS also suggested students download the Penn Guardian app. In case of emergency, students can call Penn Police or contact them through the app, and Penn Police will then be able to

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Members of Carriage senior society come from a wide range of student organizations, which creates a web of diverse individuals.

member Diana Cabrera said.

Each class then elects a board, consisting of a president or “chief,” a secretary or “scrivener,” a community service chair or “altruist,” a treasurer or “chamberlain” and a social chair or “grand dame.”

Current and past members hail from a diverse array of campus organizations, ranging from Lambda Alliance and its constituent groups

track a student’s GPS location.

If a student feels unable to speak about an incident due to an allergic reaction or fear of being overheard, the student could text Penn Police through the app.

Students can also submit confidential tips to police through the app. This can be useful during Fling if a Penn student sees someone in need of medical attention at a party and does not want to be seen as the one who called the police.

“We want everyone to have a great Spring Fling,” Rush said. “Our goal is to make sure that people are safe and that they are protecting each other. Be a good bystander.”

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Tree Campus Celebration 2016 Friday, April 22 11:30AM Ceremonial Tree Planting — followed by guided campus tours • Anne Papageorge, Vice President, Facilities & Real Estate Services • Bob Lundgren, University Landscape Architect • Tony Aiello, Director of Horticulture and Curator, the Morris Arboretum

Our team will be planting a Prunus ‘Helen Taft’ – ‘Helen Taft’ flowering cherry tree in recognition of our 7th year being named a Tree Campus USA. Meeting location: On College Green between the north side of Cohen Hall and the LOVE statue Select your tour in advance: • Significant Trees – presented by Jason Lubar and Bob Wells of the Morris Arboretum • Specialty Gardens – presented by Bob Lundgren and Chloe Cerwinka of the Office of the University Architect

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to UMOJA to Kite and Key Society.

“So many different areas are represented, which is very exciting and goes to show how comfortable people feel on campus in a variety of spaces,” College senior and Carriage member Erich Kessel said.

“Not all spaces, but definitely, they feel comfortable going into spaces that are not labeled ‘queer’ and making an impact and contributing

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St ud ent s a nony mou sly submitted stories of anxiety, depression and other mental health struggles through a Google Form on the event’s Facebook page. Student volunteers then read these stories aloud to the crowd.

One student wrote about the mental health problems she faced while working on her application to medical school. She felt crippling anxiety and questioned many of her life decisions when confronted with the prompt, “introduce yourself.”

Many of the submissions expressed frustration with Penn’s mental health resources, including Counseling and Psychological Services. One student expressed disbelief that she was asked to wait

in a positive way.”

Kessel pointed out that one of the distinctive features of Carriage is that many of the members know each other prior to joining, given the smaller nature of the community, yet such a group gives members the opportunity to “relearn” each other. “Being reintroduced to people when you have grown in maturity and in intellect and wisdom is very special,” he said.

Besides recognizing leadership, Carriage is also defined by its social aspect. Members participate in potlucks, FreeForCoffee chats, service events and semester-end formals, among many other activities and rituals.

“I really got to know people that have been doing really great things in the LGBT+ community and for queer people of color,” Cabrera said. “That’s what I really enjoyed about Carriage.”

Carriage is an ever-evolving organization. “Through conversations at deliberations and other meetings, people have been able to integrate their idea of what Carriage is and to think about how to make the space more inclusive for all different types of people — not

only people of color, but people of different genders who identify outside of the gender binary. Also, disabled people, people who are international students, things like that,” Kessel said. “So that’s a way in which Carriage has evolved, and hopefully, will continue to evolve.”

Bankler-Jukes believes that Carriage can continue to evolve by further integrating members of the Greek community, as she is one of the few members of Carriage who is also in a sorority. Despite this perceived divide, BanklerJukes was motivated to join the organization because when she met its members, she felt as if she could fully be herself, which she described as “something that I’ve struggled with at Penn before.”

While members have enjoyed their time in Carriage, they are aware that senior societies cannot be inclusive of every leader on campus and that some students may not want to be in a senior society.

“While I really enjoyed my time in Carriage, I understand that it’s not for everybody and that some people might not want to be in it,” Choudhri said. “I just want to emphasize that it’s okay to not be in Carriage.”

a week to see a counselor after she contacted CAPS and said she had suicidal thoughts.

“Even after saying I had thoughts of suicide and a history of self-harm, I was going to wait a week,” the student wrote.

At 5:10 p.m., about ten minutes after the start of the event, The Daily Pennsylvanian and other media outlets received an emailed announcement from Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price addressing some of the student’s concerns outlined in the petition and voiced at the gathering.

CAPS will have longer hours on evenings and weekends, though the exact times were not stated. The University will also reconvene the year-long mental health task force which last released recommendations in February 2015 and consult

mental health professionals and campus leaders for further ideas.

“We have not and will not let resources stand in the way of protecting the mental health needs of our community,” Gutmann and Price wrote.

Despite their criticisms against University policy, students showed solidarity by donning Penn gear “to communicate that we are proud to be part of the Penn community and we know that our community and University can do better to address this issue,” the Facebook page read.

“I hope that this project results in tangible change in University policy and campus culture, and that everyone can be a little kinder and more loving to ourselves and to all our peers and friends at Penn,” one anonymous student wrote.

The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program presents

The 16 Annual Goldstone Forum th

Courts, Corruption, and the Future of American Elections

Trevor Potter Founding President of the Campaign Legal Center and former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission

Thursday, April 21, 2016 4:30 p.m.

Annenberg Center, Bruce Montgomery Theatre 3680 Walnut Street Bernie Sanders says that his average campaign contribution is just $27, while Donald Trump promises he won’t be beholden to special interests because he’s self-funding his campaign.

Six years after the Citizens United decision, the debate over campaign financing goes on, with the argument represented as free speech versus undue influence on the election process.

One of the country’s best-known and most experienced campaign and election lawyers, Trevor Potter is a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the founding president of the Campaign Legal Center, and a senior adviser to the reform group Issue One. To many, he is perhaps best known for his appearances on the Colbert Report as the lawyer for Stephen Colbert’s super PAC: Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, during the 2012 election. A Republican, Potter was appointed to the FEC by President George H.W. Bush, and served as general counsel to John McCain’s 2008 and 2000 presidential campaigns. He also served on the legal team that successfully defended the McCain-Feingold reform law in the Supreme Court, prior to the Citizens United decision.

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OPINION Reopening old wounds Guest column | The way in which we fail with mental health

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When Emma opened the door, I saw the extra pair of feet first. “Hi, I’m Jennifer,” she said.

I shook her hand and sat down. My bag and coat and laptop fell against me comfortably, forming a barrier between me and the tag team of social workers. I cannot describe the way I felt violated. No one had told me there were going to be two people in that meeting and, what was more important, no one had asked me. They had assumed that I was okay meeting with two people, when the truth was that I was barely okay meeting with one.

I should explain how I, your average white girl, ended up in a room across from two concerned medical professionals. I suffer from depression and anxiety. I have struggled with anorexia and self-injury.

A few weeks prior to this meeting, I had headed to Student Health Service with what was likely an

ulcer caused by chronic partying that doubled as self-medication.

When I left some concerning answers on an entry questionnaire, I was referred to the social work department by a wellmeaning doctor who knew that I would refuse to go back to Counseling and Psychological Services.

And I left the social work department feeling, for the very first time in my eight years of mental health problems, as though there was something wrong with me.

My friends must all know about this, you might think.

Perhaps a trusted professor or work colleague? But the truth is that there are only about two people at Penn who will not be shocked to see my name at the bottom of this article. I never have felt as though I could share these problems — I prefer to project a “Penn Face” image of myself. Confident, strong and smart, certainly, but anxious and

sad? Not so much.

T here a re cer t a in ly things that Penn could do to fix its mental health systems. I have not met a single person who has found CAPS to be helpful. CAPS is only open during regular business hours, which is not really helpful to most students.

Olivia Kong killed herself

with long-ter m mental problems — I once left their offices with a sheet of referrals who did not pick up the phone (some were no longer practicing). However, I think that Penn’s problem with mental health runs much deeper than the organization of a relatively useless behavioral health group.

The heart of Penn’s behavioral health problem is a culture that treats mental health problems as a transient talking point.” at 7 a.m., a time of the day when most CAPS counselors were likely just trying to get on the train to go to work.

They do not have the resources to deal with anyone

The hear t of Penn’s behavioral health problem is a culture that treats mental health problems as a transient talking point. It ignores the collective decision that we have made to

prioritize our “success” over everything else. In the past few days, my newsfeed has been flooded with messages about “self-care” and “love,” and this discussion is important. But where were those messages when people abandoned selfcare for midterms three weeks ago? Why did it take the death of a student for people to open up to friends and social media about their struggles? Penn needs to implement substantive change not just in its services, but also in the way that it talks about mental health.

I am certainly a willing participant in this rat race. Anyone who knows me would tell you that I rarely talk about my mental health problems and that I wear my stress as a badge of pride. Yet these are exactly the traits of campus culture that we need to shift in order to prevent the next tragedy. We cannot brag about our all-nighters and look down upon those with

fewer commitments or a lower GPA, but claim in the aftermath of a tragedy to be allies for our peers.

Let’s continue to push for structural change to the University and to CAPS, but let’s also embody the love and support that make a strong community where mental illness is not a dirty secret.

And so, I am writing today to do exactly that. I promise, in front of you all, to ask my friends how they are doing and wait for a real answer. I promise to be open about the fact that my depression sometimes takes over and scares me. I promise that I will talk about this when it’s appropriate — all the time — and not wait for the next suicide.

Trudel Pare is a College junior studying political science.

She is involved in Bloomers, Wonk Tank and Wharton Undergraduate Healthcare Club.

She can be reached at trudelp@ sas.upenn.edu, if anyone needs or wants to talk.

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Small talk | Why schools should stand on the side of those who are victims of discriminatory speech Last week, I read an article by Scripps College student Sophie Mann who made the bold claim that feminists — and liberals in general — equate victimhood with status. Believe it or not, Mann makes the claim that students, particularly at her school, welcome racial, sexist or homophobic abuse simply because it gives them the attention that victims of injustice normally receive.

Her article specifically focuses on an incident that occurred recently at Scripps in which a Mexican-American student found that someone had written hashtag #Trump2016 on a whiteboard placed on the door of her room. The student in question immediately contacted the administration to inform them of what she perceived (rightfully so) as a racially-motivated attack, and proceeded to create a Facebook post informing her network about the incident.

The student body president quickly sent out an email stating that the event was a “testament that racism continues to be an undeniable problem and alarming threat on our campuses,” which

infuriated Mann, because apparently being upset about racism on campus is a waste of time.

Of course, the hashtag #Trump2016 is not inherently a racial slur or epithet.

It is simply an endorsement of a certain presidential candidate whose name happens to be in the hashtag itself. But given how said candidate has spoken of Mexican immigrants and the anti-Mexican stance among a significant portion of his supporters, it was no coincidence that the student with the whiteboard was of Mexican heritage.

But surely whoever wrote hashtag #Trump2016 on the student’s whiteboard might have just been supporting a candidate that they are passionate about? Well, given that the student’s whiteboard was the only whiteboard in the dorm hall that was marked with this hashtag, it seems quite obvious that this was a direct message. Mann accuses the school of freaking out over “imaginary racism,” but how deeply in denial do you have to be to ignore the clear evidence that the message was meant to unsettle this student based on racial pretenses?

Mann’s brilliant solution to ending this debacle — erasing the hashtag off the whiteboard and move on. As if all racist speech will suddenly disappear from society if we simply ignore it! Mann thinks that the “overreaction” by the school — which included meetings conducted by resident advi-

over the past several weeks due to the protests at CIA Director John Brennan’s talk two weeks ago, but it should be quite clear that there is nothing intellectual about writing “#Trump2016” on someone’s door. This wasn’t intended to stir meaningful conversation; this was text-

When one individual is harassed by another, it creates an environment where it is much more difficult for the harassed student to fully appreciate a university.” sor’s advising students what to do in the case of hateful language being found on whiteboards — constitutes “coddling of behavior,” as if the school shouldn’t care about the emotional wellbeing of its students.

Freedom of expression has been something of a hotbutton topic on Penn’s campus

book bullying.

If this type of situation were to happen at Penn, I would hope that both the student body and the administration would immediately condemn this act of racism.

Bullying in any form, be it through verbal or physical abuse, has no place in any community, and too often we

forget that being in a university together makes us part of a community.

When one individual is harassed by another, it creates an environment in which it is much more difficult for the harassed student to fully appreciate a university. We should strive to push each other intellectually and make ourselves uncomfortable with ideology or opinions that we may not agree with or appreciate, but once those opinions are used to directly marginalize someone in our community, it simply creates unnecessary conflict.

In situations like this, the solution isn’t to punish the individual who wrote hashtag #Trump2016 or to impose restrictions on speech. This only intensifies the ire of those who may harbor discriminatory beliefs and it is fundamentally against our constitutional right to free speech. Instead, our school, and any other university that holds these beliefs, should make its voice heard on racist, sexist or homophobic incidents and start the conversations necessary to both inform ourselves about discrimination and figure out

ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK solutions for ending it.

Mann’s completely unsubstantiated claim that those in a school like Scripps would rather soak in the victimhood of being racially harassed than do anything about it is absurd and offensive to those who have been victims. They simply wish to spread awareness of discrimination in the community and they are not “coddled” if, God forbid, the school decides to stand up with them against this discrimination.

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Pennsylvania law bans LGBTQ discrimination Law passed after North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” NICOLE RUBIN Staff Reporter

Pennsylvania has joined a number of states in taking a stance on hot-button LGBTQ issues.

On April 7, Gov. Tom Wolf signed two executive orders banning discrimination against employees or applicants for employment based on their sexual orientation, as well as all agencies contracting with the state.

The laws are a marked contrast to other regulations passed recently in North Carolina and Mississippi, which many LGBTQ advocates see as setbacks to their cause.

“It [Pennsylvania’s legislation] is an important first step in equity,” LGBT Center Director Bob Schoenberg said.

Schoenberg said the United States needs to implement national protections for individuals who may face discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Though he said that progress is being made, he maintained that “the fact that something can happen, such as this happened in North Carolina,

is an indication that we still aren’t there.”

Wolf’s actions only cover the public sector, though — excluding those in the private sector.

“I feel that Pennsylvania hasn’t taken steps to protect LGBT Pennsylvanians from the discrimination of other private actors,” Penn Law professor Craig Konnoth said.

One hotly-debated issue is the balance between religious freedom and what Konnoth calls “people being able to function.”

“We cannot allow people to claim idiosyncratic religious beliefs to exempt themselves from these requirements by saying that they are being forced into servitude every time they’ve got to comply with the requirements of civil rights society,” Konnoth said.

Recently, both North Carolina and Mississippi passed laws that LGBTQ rights advocates see as setbacks to their cause. But Konnoth believes these events will be contained in the south.

“I think that this is an isolated regional phenomenon, instead of a country-wide phenomenon,” he said.

On March 23, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed the

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attention and causing economic damage in North Carolina. Bruce Springsteen cancelled his concert in Greensboro and PayPal withdrew its plans to expand in the state.

Since Tennessee is likely the next state to pass similar legislation, Sarah Kate Ellis, the president and CEO of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, is calling to the music industry to stop it. Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Bryan Adams and Bruce Springsteen are among the artists who have spoken out against these bills.

On April 5, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed legislation that allows individuals and institutions to deny service on the basis of religious beliefs. Under this legislation, if it is against a bakery owner’s religion to bake a cake for a gay wedding, that baker can deny service.

Wharton freshman Eric Hoover supported the law, arguing that “no one has the human right of having a cake baked for them. No one has a human right to be served by others.” He believes that this is an issue of religious liberty, but

also of forced servitude.

“It comes down to the key question of: do we have a fundamental human right for someone else to serve us?” Hoover said. “Do we have a right to have a cake baked for us for a wedding, or does a business owner have the right to say no?”

But according to Konnoth, that is not the case. “No one is forcing individuals to go into the marketplace. No one is forcing you to open a restaurant. No one is forcing you to become a civil servant,” he said. “But if you have those jobs, if you take on that role in society, then the idea is that you’ve got to behave in a certain way.”

A board member of the Queer and Asian Society from Mississippi who wished to remain anonymous because she has not yet come out publicly expressed distaste with the legislation.

“I am very frustrated, to be honest ... This is a state where I grew up in and this is a state where I got to know people,” she said. “The fact that this law was passed sort of slaps in the face basically all of that.”

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Phila. charter schools to observe Muslim holidays

Holidays not yet on the calendar for public schools CHARLOTTE LARACY Staff Reporter

Mastery Charter Schools, one of Philadelphia’s largest charter school systems, has voted to permanently add two Muslim holidays to the academic calendar, starting in September 2016.

The two days off are Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha — holidays considered to be among the holiest in Islam. Eid al-Fitr is the “Festival of Breaking the Fast,” marking the end of Ramadan. Eid al-Adha is the “Festival of Sacrifice,” which coincides with the end of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca or the Hajj.

Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, a senior lecturer in the Graduation School of Education and associate director of the International Educational Development Program,

believes this decision can be a catalyst for larger change within the city.

“It is definitely sending a message, and I think it partly depends on advocacy groups who might send messages to the district,” Ghaffar-Kucher said. “I think it is a domino effect. People will definitely be paying attention and watching how people are reaction to this decision. There could potentially be pushback around this.”

At Mastery’s charter network, students attend school between 183 and185 days of the year, a few more than the state-required minimum of 180 days. Mastery will add days to the academic calendar to be able to observe the Muslim holidays.

According to CBS Philly, the Mastery Charter Schools system has a Muslim population of 5 percent to 20 percent. In total, there are about 200,000 Muslims in

Philadelphia.

The decision to observe these holidays comes after efforts by city councilman Curtis Jones, who has advocated for adding these holidays to all Philadelphia schools. Even though the City Council had approved the resolution earlier this year, negotiations must take place between the school district and the unions in order for the two holidays to become official holidays district-wide, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

In the current academic calendar for 2015-16, Philadelphia public schools observe and close for Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Christmas Day and Good Friday.

Philadelphia schools also had off when Pope Francis visited in September.

New York City public schools recognize the two Muslim holidays in addition to the Lunar New Year during the school year.

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Simon Gratz High School is part of the Mastery Charter Schools network, and will now have time off from school in order to observe two of the holiest days in Islam.

Other school districts, such as Montgomery School District in Maryland, have stripped all references to holidays in the school calendar.

Added challenges for international students in finding summer jobs Lack of contacts can make it harder to find jobs JENNA WANG Staff Reporter

In searching for summer internships in the United States, international students face a number of barriers that domestic students don’t have to worry about.

According to a report by Career Services, just over half of international students in the College of Arts and Sciences had summer internships in the United States in 2014, versus 49 percent that reported having internships outside the U.S. 85 percent of U.S. internships taken by College international students were located on the East coast, especially in New York and Pennsylvania. Outside the U.S., just over half of all international internships were located in Asia, with India and China ranking at the top of the list.

Engineering junior Amilcar Cipriano, an international student from Mozambique, struggled to find an internship in the U.S. during his first two years of college.

“It’s more difficult to find internships in the U.S., specifically engineering internships,” he said. “A lot of the [engineering] companies doing really cool things are working under government funding, and they can’t hire international kids. If you appear international, then you just don’t have a chance.”

Due to the sca rcity of mechanical engineering internships for international students in the U.S., Cipriano ended up spending his past two summers abroad. This summer, he finally managed to secure a paid job working at Penn’s

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mechanical engineering machine shop.

While Cipriano noted that his employers “were almost unwilling to hire me because I’m international,” he said he still thought there were certain advantages to being an international student.

“I think it’s very useful to be an international student, to travel abroad and experience something else,” he said. “It broadens your mind and makes you think differently. I think it’s important to have more than just the views you’ve grown up with.”

For Engineering freshman Karishma Nanwani, it was a lot easier to find an internship back home in Indonesia than in the U.S. due to family connections.

Nanwani had originally applied to internships in the U.S., but decided last minute that she wanted to spend the summer back home instead to be around family. She called her parents to inform them of her decision and secured an internship at

Johnson & Johnson in Jakarta within a week.

“My family has lived [in Indonesia] for a really long time, so by now my parents have a lot of connections,” she said. “My dad is good friends with the CEO of Johnson & Johnson in Indonesia, so all he had to do was talk to his friend, and his friend was like, ‘Yeah, send me her resume and I can just put it on the top of the pile at HR.’” Nanwani noted that her lack of connections was the main thing that made it harder for her to find an internship in the U.S. versus at home, rather than her status as an international student.

“It’s just the fact that I’m not from here and I don’t have anyone that I know, so getting an internship [in the U.S.] would be a lot harder because there’s no personal connection,” she said. “You’re just in the pool of applicants with everyone else.”

College and Wharton sophomore Stephen Cho said that

getting internships in the U.S. was “a little more difficult, but still possible” as an international student from Canada.

“I definitely think it’s a little bit harder to find opportunities in the U.S,” Cho said. “There’s more checkpoints for you and your employer, so that complicates things. But I don’t think it’s prohibitive by any means.”

Cho didn’t experience any difficulties landing an internship this summer at a health care equity firm in New York City due to his F1 student visa, which gave him legal authorization to work in the U.S. Finding this internship in the U.S., he said, was an important step in his career given his future ambitions to settle in U.S. “In terms of wanting to have my career and my life here, I thought it was really important for me to start having work experience in the U.S.,” Cho said. “That’s why I looked exclusively in the U.S. [for internships this summer].”

“Philadelphia is becoming a more diverse city and becoming a big immigration city. How do you accommodate to certain groups?” Ghaffar-Kucher said.

“It really depends on what kind of community Philadelphia wants to be. Cities like Philadelphia should pay attention to what is happening.”

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formed in 2014 in response to a string of student suicides and, after a year of conducting research and interviews, the task force concluded its study with an eight-page report outlining recommendations to improve the psychological well-being of students.

The report published in February 2015 gave four main recommendations: increasing communication to students about the importance of mental health and wellbeing, making information about resources more accessible, educating and training the community about mental health and optimizing resources devoted to Counseling and Psychological Services.

Specific recommendations included creating a website centralizing the University’s health resources by the fall of 2015 and clarifying leave of absence policies, which tended to be worded differently across Penn’s schools, as well as involving faculty and instituting an emergency phone line.

After the report was released, a cross-campus oversight team was formed to ensure that Penn would

implement the recommendations and that the University would align its efforts with standards set by the Jed and Clinton Health Matters Campus Program, a program helping universities enhance mental health and substance abuse programming over the course of four years.

The oversight team was created after Penn failed to implement all of the recommendations of the last mental health task force, which was formed in 2002 in response to the Sept. 11 attacks.

This time, the task force will need to evaluate the effects of its 2015 recommendations, which did not set firm deadlines nor include ways to measure the impact of its proposed changes.

“We welcome and appreciate the suggestions offered by our students and other members of the Penn community,” the statement said.

The president and provost said in their message that “we have not and will not let resources stand in the way of protecting the mental health needs of our community … please be assured that the University will explore every possible avenue in our effort to make Penn a model for addressing mental wellness.”

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again, and for better or worse, it all comes down to the Quakers’ performances this weekend. “It is the first time in maybe nine, ten years, that going into the final weekend, we are completely in the full control of our destiny,� Kunovac said.

Sitting in a three-way tie for second, the Red and Blue (10-7, 3-2 Ivy) will go up against the New York contingent of the Ivy League in Cornell and Columbia. The Big Red (14-7, 3-2) join Penn in second place as the Lions (14-5, 4-1) stand alone in first place with a lone loss to Yale.

If the Quakers can defend their home courts this Friday against Cornell and escape from Columbia with a win as well, they guarantee themselves at least a share of the Ivy title.

A quick glance at ITA rankings confirms that No. 52 Penn will face stiff competition in No. 63 Cornell and especially No. 34 Columbia, but time and time again, the Ancient Eight has showed that anything is possible.

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In coach Sanela Kunovac’s first season in 2009, Penn went winless in the Ivies for the first time ever. Now, six seasons later, the Red and Blue have the chance to lay claim to their fourth title since competition opened in 1979.

With two matches left in the season, the time to vie for the Ancient Eight title has come

MONROE is performing on such a high level, perfecting those tiny issues can be quite difficult.

practice.�

Throughout the season, Kunovac and her team have stressed the importance of their training.

Now is the time to see if all that hard work has actually paid off. “What we’re going to do is

One improvement he has already made, however, can aid him greatly as he tries to reach new heights. “Last year I wasn’t exactly consistent,� Monroe said. “This year, I haven’t jumped under 6-foot-10 in a

while. I’ve been around seven [feet].

It’s building to something bigger.

I just PR’d by a centimeter, which isn’t huge, but it’s progress.� “I’d like to be mid 2.20s, which is about 7-foot-3 or 7-foot-4,� he added. “And also to not lose. My goal is to win next weekend, win Penn Relays and win Heps. And we’ll see where we go from there into nationals and stuff.�

After jumping at NCAAs last season, qualification again could only be expected. Furthermore, potentially scoring at the national championship meet would be a huge boost for a Quakers squad that was just ranked No. 23 in the nation last week by USTFCCCA. Because many of the stars for the Red and Blue are seniors, such as discus legend Sam Mattis and distance star Tommy Awad, having a sophomore step up on the national stage would surely give head coach Steve Dolan something to smile about looking beyond this year.

So just what makes Monroe such

a promising jumper? “His mind,� Klim said. “He’s into it more than anyone I’ve ever coached. I mean, he’s really into it.

It really makes a big difference as far as the focus and the drive to be great. But on top of that, it’s the confidence that he’s gonna do well.�

Track and field is often a largely mental sport, and Monroe can thank his fortitude in that regard for a lot of his success. In another vein, the jumper also credited his high school experience in other events and other sports in contribution for his level of performance in the high jump. “Some of the bad meets can go up to, like, four hours,� Monroe explained. “In cross country, you have to have that mental focus, and I think that kind of helped me here.�

While he may have experienced a couple of those bad meets earlier on in the year, it’s now the business end. Of the three meets left before NCAAs, two are virtually astronomical in scale. In two weeks’

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In Penn women’s tennis’ quest for its first Ivy title since 2007, they’ll need strong play from junior Kana Daniel against Cornell and Columbia.

“It’s pretty technical,� Klim admitted, but did elaborate that he wanted Monroe to improve by conserving more momentum after he jumps, and also by rotating more over the bar.

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“We started off the Ivy season with two really tough losses,� junior Kana Daniel said. �But we’ve been doing a really good job of just keeping our focus in the right place and working on improving every day of

we’re going to train as hard as we did all these weeks coming in and look for our normal tennis,�

Kunovac said. “Nothing extraordinary, but our normal should be good enough to put us in the running.� “At this point it comes down to trusting our training,� she continued. “I feel like a champion team is one whose average is going to get them there.�

There is no doubt that there will be at least one championship team on the court when Columbia and Penn confront each other on Sunday, but if the Quakers can pull off the upset, there may very well be two.

For some of the Red and Blue players, however, a win over the Lions may not seem like an upset but a sign that all is well in the tennis world. Sonya Latycheva, the team’s lone senior, has not forgotten Penn’s 5-2 triumph over the Lions from last season. “I still have that in the back of my head,� the Toronto native said.

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The whole team is building up to the Penn Relays and to Heps, but they’ve got another meet first.

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Her efforts were supplemented by an impressive offensive showing from the top of the lineup. The Quakers struck first in the second inning off of back-to-back singles by junior Leah Allen and sophomore Jurie Joyner. It initially looked as if Penn would leave runners stranded after a failed steal attempt by Joyner, but Korinne Raby was hit by a pitch and another single from junior Cedar Slovacek brought home the first run of the day. Slovacek would cross the plate herself on a passed ball by Drexel sophomore Tara Konopka, who accrued her 13th loss of the season.

Drexel (16-22), however, did not go down without a fight. In the last frame of Li’s outing, the Dragons managed to string together back-to-back singles of their own. Junior Paula Ueno, currently ranked second in hits

among Colonial Athletic Association players, provided an RBI base hit, as did Kai Uyesaka. A walk issued by Li aided Drexel’s cause and the game entered the bottom of the fifth with the score tied.

The stalemate wouldn’t last for long, though, as Penn quickly broke through on hits by freshman Sam Pederson and senior Kanani Datan. Datan, a bright spot during the Quakers’ fourgame losing streak, continued her hot hitting through Wednesday, ending the day 2-for-3.

Meanwhile, Joyner excelled in her role as a designated hitter, driving in two of the Quakers’ four runs. Spichiger sealed the deal for the Red and Blue, picking up a save with two solid innings, allowing just one run.

Penn will be hoping that its mid-week win over Drexel will create some momentum going into the weekend. The team will travel to New Jersey and take on Ancient Eight rival Princeton in what will be a crucial matchup in

determining the championship aspirations of the two teams.

The Tigers (11-21, 4-4) currently sit atop the conference’s South Division, and the South’s top seed will take on its counterpart from the North in the Ivy League Championship Series. Despite its losing Ivy record, Penn is still very much in the hunt for the South Division crown. “We still have a division to go. We still feel like we haven’t particularly peaked. We’re still cleaning some things up,� Penn coach Leslie King said. “It’s really important that we win this series. If we can take three games, that would put us in a tie with them. We know the importance of this weekend and we feel like we’ve got the experience of being in this position before.�

With a shot at a division and conference title on the line, the Quakers must learn to exorcise their road demons. If they do, the journey home will be all the more enjoyable.

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As part of this crucial weekend for Ivy League women’s lacrosse programs, the Quakers will be fighting for their lives. The Red and Blue (8-3, 2-1 Ivy) will take on conference rival Harvard at Franklin Field on Saturday afternoon in a game that will be chock full of Ivy League tournament implications.

Both the Quakers and Crimson (7-3, 3-1 Ivy) have lost in-conference, meaning that a loss for either opponent will make getting a tournament berth far more difficult.

Coach Karin Corbett is well aware of the game’s potential ramifications on the postseason.

“This is a huge game,” Corbett

said. “We’re all gunning to get in that tournament and win the Ivy championship and it’s up in the air.

We each have a loss so there is a lot on this game. It’s going to be a very, very competitive game.”

The Quakers’ loss came against Dartmouth two weeks ago in a major upset. While controversial, as Corbett mentions, Harvard’s loss came at the hands of reigning Ivy League champion Princeton. The Quakers have not yet faced off with the Tigers.

“All the Ivies that are left are really difficult. We have three [Harvard, Princeton, Cornell] of the top three to play, Harvard being one of them.”

Undoubtedly, both teams will be attacking full force on Saturday.

Harvard currently has five scorers with over a goal per-game; Penn has six. Harvard averages more than 28 shots per game; Penn takes a sliver more than 23.

Perhaps Penn’s greatest advantage on offense will be senior attack and captain Nina Corcoran.

She has scored 20 points in her last three games, a pace which would

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Senior attack Iris Williamson will look to repeat her six-goal performance from Penn’s 8-6 win over Harvard last year as the Crimson come to town.

be good for first in the nation over a full season. Moreover, she has taken firm control of first place in the nation’s assists per-game race.

As senior attack Iris Williamson points out, Corcoran is not a mefirst player.

“Nina’s awesome. She has really good field vision. We wouldn’t have nearly as many of the goals we had if we didn’t have Nina,”

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Williamson said. “She’s a great leader out there and she really quarterbacks our attack.”

The Red and Blue offense is ticking right along at this point of the season with 30 goals in the past two games. While Corcoran deserves credit, attackers like Williamson, sophomore Alex Condon and junior Sarah Barcia have had a notable effect on this recent

development “Barcia and A-Con are really amazing finishers and if they have balls in their sticks off a feed, they’re going to finish it because that’s their mentality,” Williamson said. “It’s awesome to have so many different girls who can catch the ball, finish and bury it on others’ defense and goalies.”

In last year’s contest, Williamson scored six goals en route to a Penn 8-6 victory. It is a happy memory for Williamson, who hopes to repeat the performance in this year’s rematch.

“It was a really fun day. I remember I was getting set up for 1v1s and ripping it early which is really good and fun. ... Hopefully it’s another good game for me.”

As a unit, the Quakers’ offense faces a difficult challenge this weekend against the Crimson, who rank 14th in the nation in goals against per game. Corbett knew this and changed the gameplan accordingly.

“It’s a team that packs it in.

We’ve got to create a lot of movement and all do our job off-ball,”

Corbett said. “Everybody has to play at a high pace. I think you can get caught jogging and slowing down sometimes when you feel that it’s packed in and things aren’t open.”

On defense, the Quakers will need to shut down a spread-out Crimson offense. Helping matters is the return of junior goalie Britt Brown, who missed two games after sustaining a head injury in practice. Since transferring from Virginia, Brown has made a great transition for Penn in the post-Lucy Ferguson days. She currently ranks 12th in the nation in save percentage. Her presence will surely help stabilize a Quakers defense that has struggled in her absence, allowing 11 goals per game without Brown.

Fortunately for Penn, Harvard’s offense is not all that unfamiliar to the Quakers’ defense; they practice against a similarly styled offense on a regular basis.

“I think it’s the type of attack that we play against every day,” Corbett said. “There are not a lot of weak links out there. ... It’s got to be a real helping day.”

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After the stage comes down and the sun comes up, Franklin Field will transform back from a concert venue to a stadium.

At 3 p.m. on Saturday, Penn men’s lacrosse will host Harvard in an attempt to snap out of a three-game losing streak.

“Coming off a tough loss to Yale in overtime and then being blown out by Brown last week, we’re just trying to rebound,” senior midfield Pat Berkery said.

But Harvard (6-5, 2-1 Ivy) is no easy foe. The Crimson are currently 2-1 in the Ancient Eight, their only Ivy loss coming against Brown in their opening game.

The Red and Blue are also familiar with the Bears’ strength.

Last weekend, the Quakers fell, 17-6, up in Providence.

“We’ve looked at it a lot of different ways and analyzed it from quite a few vantage points,” coach Mike Murphy said. “At the end of the day we just — we didn’t play well against Brown in any phase of the game except for facing off.”

The Brown loss is not representative of how the Quakers (5-5, 2-2) have been playing so far this year. Despite the youth of those who are often on the field, the Red and Blue won their first two Ivy games and fell in overtime to No. 1 Yale.

“It’s not like we’re not capable of playing at a high level,” Murphy said. “We showed we are against Cornell and Princeton and against Yale for 45 minutes.”

While against Cornell and Princeton that was enough, the last 15 minutes of Penn’s game against the Bulldogs caused the contest to end in defeat for the Quakers.

The loss to Brown the next

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A veteran of Penn men’s lacrosse’s run at the Ivy tournament title in 2013, senior Pat Berkerey is pushing his team to replicate the feat this season.

weekend forced the coaching staff to re-examine their strategy.

“We need to get back to the basic, most fundamental things that we do both offensively and defensively,” Murphy said. “And that’s what we’ve been doing yesterday and today.”

Harvard, unlike Penn, is coming into this contest off a win last weekend with momentum and thriving players on both sides of the field.

“They’re in the top 15 or 20 in both [offensive and defensive],” Murphy said. “There aren’t that many teams that are that way but for us, it’s really a matter of containing their attack unit as well as their first midfield line.”

One of the focal points of Harvard’s offense is Joe Lang, a California native and sophomore attack. In Murphy’s words, “He’ll draw some attention.”

But one area in which the Quakers had been struggling, yet are now successful, is faceoffs.

The highlight of the Red and Blue’s loss last weekend was how many faceoffs they were able to win. And even though it did not lead to a victory, it was still a positive.

“We really hope we can continue to win faceoffs this [weekend] and that way if we can have a few more possessions, that really helps us because then you can relax, and if we can get a lead especially, it totally changes the way you play,” Murphy said.

The Quakers are no strangers to being blown out of a game, though. Two years ago, the Red and Blue were in a similar situation when they lost, 17-9, to Cornell.

“We rebounded really well and went on to win an Ivy League championship,” Berkery recalled. “So I’ve been pushing the mentality to the team that we shouldn’t think of this as a bad thing, we should take it as a good thing, it can change our team’s mentality and have a nice push into the rest of the season.”

In order to repeat that feat, Penn needs to win the next two games and secure a place in the Ivy Tournament. But in the immediate, the Quakers need a victory on Saturday.

“Harvard is obviously a really good team,” Berkery said. “We have to bring our A-game to beat them.”

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Monroe burst onto the Ivy stage last year as a rookie, winning the indoor championship in his event. For the outdoor season, however, he stumbled and couldn’t quite hit the same level he had just months before.

“I kinda got a little too hyped up for outdoor,” he admitted. But after a long layoff from competition, he came back firing on all cylinders.

A promising indoor season this time around ultimately ended, however, in disappointment for Monroe.

“He jumped well indoor, he just got beat,” Monroe’s coach, Joe Klim, said, before

offering a positive outlook for the outdoor championship. “He’s definitely jumping better than the person that won now.”

Monroe is even more optimistic than his coach.

“I won it indoor my freshman year,” he said. “Indoor [this year] didn’t exactly go my way, so it’s about time!”

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Second-year high jumper Mike Monroe is enjoying a sophomore surge in anticipation of the big-name meets coming up. With only one competition left before Penn Relays — and then Heps — Monroe hopes he can leap towards greatness this year and claim a title that could have already been his.

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After a grueling weekend road trip that saw Penn softball incur four straight losses — two of which went came in extra innings — the Quakers were happy to head back to Philadelphia. Indeed, the Red and Blue made the most of home-field advantage Wednesday with a 4-2 win over neighboring Drexel in Penn Park’s friendly confines.

Penn (14 -16, 2- 6 Ivy) bounced back from narrow defeats to Ivy League foes Dartmouth and Harvard and earned the victory due to strong all-around play. Senior captain Lauren Li pitched with poise and registered her second win of the season. Li, who entered Wednesday’s match with a 6.56 earned run average and a teamhigh 17 walks, allowed just two runs in five innings while punching out three batters, a feat which more than doubled her total strikeout count for the

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A strong start from senior Lauren Li helped Penn softball end a fivegame losing streak, holding Drexel to just two runs over five innings.

season.

“It’s been kind of a frustrating season for me on the mound this year. I’ve been working really hard on it,” Li said. “I

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really like how both Mason [Spichiger] and I came out and threw really strong today.”

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The Quakers had plenty of time to work on their game during a midweek tune-up for a huge Ivy series, but didn’t get the result they’ll be hoping for this weekend.

Penn baseball fell in 12 innings by a score of 6-5 to the New York Institute of Technology on Wednesday evening.

In what proved to be a long game in the Big Apple, the Quakers (13-14, 5-3 Ivy) got a fairly short outing from junior southpaw Jack Hartman, who allowed two runs — one earned — on three hits and a walk in three innings while striking out four.

NYIT (14-17) got a home run from Joe Daru in the bottom of the first and scored again on an error, but the Red and Blue got those runs back in the top of the third on an RBI double from Tim Graul and an unearned run of their own. Graul had three hits on the day, continuing his

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red-hot junior season.

“It’s funny, I was looking at our stats a few days ago, and I had thought his average [.293] was higher,” Penn coach John Yurkow said of Graul. “He’s probably been our most consistent hitter in terms of putting the barrel [of the bat] on the baseball all year. I feel like he’s lined out more than anybody on the team, and had good atbats throughout the season, so it was good to see him drive some more balls today. He’s doing a good job for us this year.”

“I feel pretty good and comfortable up there,” Graul said.

“I have a good idea of what I want to do, which is just drive balls gap to gap.”

After Penn took the lead in the next inning on a solo shot from senior Matt Greskoff, senior right-hander Mitch Holtz tossed three innings in relief of Hartman. Holtz allowed one run on two hits and a walk, striking out a pair.

The Quakers scored another unearned run in the top of the seventh to take a 4-3 lead, but freshman Grant Guillory got into a jam in the bottom of the eighth and classmate Jake Nelson allowed an inherited runner to score on a groundout to tie the game.

The game went into extra innings, and Penn took the lead in the tenth when sophomore

Andrew Murnane drew a basesloaded walk. But Nelson could not hold the lead, as Daru went deep leading off the bottom of the frame for his second home run of the game.

“He’s a good player,” Yurkow said of Daru. “He actually homered from both sides of the plate, which you don’t see very often in college baseball.”

In the 11th inning, senior outfielder Jonah Campbell was asked to pitch for just the third time.

“He has been working as a pitcher this spring, in spurts,” Yurkow said. “We’ve just gotten to a point where we’ve been comfortable putting him in.”

Campbell, who had yet to record an earned run going into Wednesday, pitched a clean 11th, but an unearned run won the game for the Bears in the bottom of the 12th as Daru doubled, advanced to third on a passed ball and scored on a walk-off sacrifice fly from Matthew DeAngelis.

“We did some things well, we battled, but we left a lot of guys on base today,” Yurkow reflected. “I feel like we had some opportunities early to open the game out, and we just missed out on some of those.”

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