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Nearly all of AXO expected to resign the semester ends, according to estimates by chapter members. Sisters have been told that they cannot revoke the chapter’s charter with the University unless they JILL CASTELLANO have a unanimous vote. Because a Editor-in-Chief few members have expressed interest in remaining in the chapter, the More than 90 percent of Penn’s rest of the members have to officially Alpha Epsilon chapter of Alpha Chi deactivate in order to lose their indiOmega is expected to resign before vidual affiliation with the Office of

Fewer than 10 of 201 sorority sisters likely to stay on campus

Fraternity and Sorority Life. The final straw for some of the sorority members was an email sent to them by the national branch of Alpha Chi Omega comparing an underground sorority to a knockoff Tory Burch handbag, which lacks the “same credibility” as a real one. “The email turned a lot of girls off even further. Nationals didn’t really know what they were getting themselves

into when they were dealing with our chapter,” said one member, who chose to remain anonymous because she is finalizing her resignation from the chapter. Last week, leaders of the sorority were looking to revoke the chapter’s charter because of the seemingly harsh sanctions from OFSL, including social probation for the next two years. The SEE AXO PAGE 2

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“I felt like 10,000 students would have been daunting, but it felt a lot smaller than that.”

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ANNA (VERMONT)

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For the Admissions Office, keeping Quaker Days separate from Fling is a priority. “We intentionally try to avoid pre- and post-Fling as CAROLINE SIMON much as possible,” Dean of AdmisStaff Reporter sions Eric Furda said. Positioning Quaker Days too As hundreds of prospective Penn close to Fling raises several constudents flood campus for Quaker cerns for the Admissions Office. Days, current students are gearing Most importantly, it is more difficult up for the wildest weekend of the to find hosts for prospective students year. when current students are preoccuPenn’s Quaker Days program for pied with Fling activities. prospective members of the Class of Although the Admissions Office 2019 began on Sunday, April 12, and successfully recruited enough hosts runs through Wednesday. Though in preparation for Quaker Days this official Spring Fling activities do year, Furda said that finding volnot start until Friday, many students unteers was a challenge, especially begin their festivities as early as SEE QUAKER DAYS PAGE 2 Wednesday night.

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Quaker Days overlap with Spring Fling festivities

“Quaker Days really gives me a fuller sense of what the students we will be learning beside are like … The students seem happy to be here even though it seems like all of our hosts were staying up late doing homework.”

For international students, aid doesn’t cross borders Foreign students given less financial aid RUIHONG LI Staff Reporter

Is it better to get into Penn and exhaust every option to afford it, or is it better to simply get rejected because of your inability to pay? This is a serious question that many international students ask themselves when applying to Penn. Unlike its Ivy League peers such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, Penn’s need-blind admissions policy only applies to citizens and permanent residents of the United States, Canada and Mexico. All other applicants must either be able to pay full-price tuition or compete for the $6 million in financial aid available for the entire international applicant pool. This has put significant financial burdens on some international students who can’t afford Penn on their own. “Penn will not admit a financial aid candidate for whom we cannot provide aid,” the Penn Admissions

website says. “As a result, some candidates we would otherwise want to admit will be turned away.” Thus, many international applicants who really want to go to Penn but cannot afford it, apply to Penn without financial aid and seek assistance elsewhere. Outside scholarships ... for a price College senior Julia Shin did not want to take the chance of applying to Penn as a financial aid student. “Generally, if you have a Korean passport, you don’t receive financial aid from Penn,” she said. Each year, the South Korean Kwanjeong Educational Foundation provides a limited number of scholarships for Korean students to attend universities abroad. In 2011, Shin was one of six undergraduate students to receive the scholarship. “I probably wouldn’t come to Penn without my scholarship,” she said. “The only requirements are that I should never get a C in my transcripts and my GPA is above 3.5.” She added that the scholarship allows her to study anything other than

law, pre-med or business. While Shin’s scholarship requirements may seem strict, there are other scholarships that place more demands on students. Col lege sophomor e Dayana Mustak receives a scholarship from the Malaysian government. After speaking with older Penn students from Malaysia, she decided it was in her best interest to apply to Penn without financial aid. “I took a risk and essentially applied without financial aid to increase my chances of getting in to Penn,” Mustak said. “I knew that once I got into Penn, I would have a higher chance of getting financial aid from my government.” Mustak’s scholarship required her to sign a contract with the Malaysian government, where she agreed to pursue a psychology major at Penn and then go back to Malaysia to work after graduation. “Most of us [receiving scholarships] have to work for the government or sometimes the company that

Calorie counting is a guessing game Calorie estimates not always accurate in Penn dining halls JEFFREY CAREYVA Staff Reporter

Counting calories is important for many diets, but Penn’s dining halls don’t make the counting easy. Penn Dining and Bon Appétit do not publish precise nutritional information — like calorific content, percent daily values of nutrients and grams of sugar — for all of their foods. Pilot programs are in the works, however, to make more nutritional information available to students through the PennMobile app and elsewhere, Director of Penn Dining Pam Lampitt said in an interview for a previous article on changes in meal plans. Through the Penn Dining website, Bon Appétit already makes a lot of nutritional data available for the public. But students should not take this data as their dining hall Bible. “Rather than creating standardized meals based on specific predefined

recipe books, our chefs at various accounts across the nation create their own menus for their customer base,” Bon Appétit nutritionist Dan Connolly wrote in an email. “Our chefs therefore cook their meals from scratch on a daily basis, and because of this we are unable to list detailed nutrition information of food items we offer in our cafés.” Nutritional information is available for typical menu items like beverages and condiments, but accurate information on specific and changing menu items is not readily available. Knowing the nutritional values of foods can be a guessing game for students. College freshman and previous The Daily Pennsylvanian contributing reporter Anuj Amin has been focused on maintaining a proper diet before he came to Penn. “I have definitely been trying to count calories in Commons, but it’s hard when I’m a vegetarian and the options are already limited,” he said. “Most of the time I have no clear idea how many calories I consumed, so I try to make an educated guess, but even that’s hard when food like pizza is in all

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different sizes.” “It would be great if they could post the amount of calories and nutritional information right next to where the food is served — that would be ideal,” Amin added. What nutritional data is available to students comes from “USDA data, common cooking techniques, and data from our suppliers,” Connolly wrote. Variations are possible due to differences between suppliers, seasonal changes and kitchen preparation, and therefore “any attempt to directly connect this general information to any specific item served at any location would be misleading to the consumer,” he continued. What can students do when nutritional information isn’t easy to obtain? “Whenever I have to eat in the dining halls, I always try to stick to the green foods and what looks healthy,” College freshman Cassie Huang said. “It’s been hard to try to know how many calories or how much sugar is in everything SEE CALORIES PAGE 3

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New initiative to increase dialogue among students TableTalk encourages students to leave their comfort zones ZOE STERN Contributing Reporter

Many believe that come second semester of freshman year, few people branch out. For this reason, College sophomore Sophie Beren brought TableTalk to Penn. The club’s mission is to start and increase dialogue between students, particularly those who would never interact under ordinary circumstances. “This is something Penn needs. Few people want to meet different people and we want to fill that void,” Beren said, who is the founder and president of TableTalk. Originating at Emory University and only recently brought to Penn, TableTalk has three different initiatives. The first, called TableTalk, involves two student groups who decide

that they want to meet and have a discussion. The club then provides a space for conversation, food and a facilitator. “You have much more in common with people you categorize as ‘the other’ than you would think,” Beren said. During the talk, the clubs can ask each other questions and give each other advice. If one group has a strong social media presence, they can help another group which does not. The second initiative, LookUp, partners with Penn dining by placing big placemats and bins for people’s cellphones on tables. The placemats will have different questions to strike up conversation, such as “What is your favorite restaurant in Center City?” This initiative is particularly geared towards freshmen during NSO so that instead of playing with their phones, they will engage in conversation and “look up.” T he t h i rd i n it iat ive,

CampusCouches, will place couches on College Green. One member of the TableTalk team will sit and invite people over to chat, even for people who have five minutes in between classes. “With all the mental health issues on college campuses, TableTalk provides a location, time and place for students to reach out,” Marketing Chair and College freshman Emma Finkel said. The club plans to have two TableTalks and CampusCouches by the end of the semester. Beren emphasized that TableTalks are something group or club members can decide they want to participate in on their own. “We would never set up a TableTalk. We want groups to approach us,” Beren said. “For example, a Penn pro-Israel group and Penn pro-Palestine group would be an amazing table talk, but we would never set that up.”

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sorority was found in violation of Penn’s policy on drinking and drug use after a Penn student’s parent allegedly called the University about a drinking event, according to sorority members. The chapter also violated the sanction placed on them to not communicate with new members while they were under investigation. National representatives held a meeting with members this weekend, but only two out of AXO’s 201 affiliated Penn members attended. Prior to the meeting, Nationals said it would consider any members who did not attend to be resigning from the sorority. Later, the national chapter said sisters could still choose to remain affiliated even if they did not attend the meeting, so the exact number of chapter members that will resign has yet to be finalized. Members have estimated that under 10 women plan to remain in the chapter. Though plans have not

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been solidified, resigning members have said that the remaining AXO sisters will likely recruit in the fall. Though under probation, the chapter would bring AXO representatives from other campuses to help the recruiting process. Resigning members plan to continue operating as an off-campus organization and will look to unofficially recruit new members in the fall semester, similar to the off-campus society, Tabard. There are currently no students signed on to live in the chapter’s University-owned house. Penn was expected to earn nearly $170,000 in rent and $30,000 in other fees in the upcoming fiscal year from residents. The national branch’s current plan is to fill the house with AXO alumnae living and working in Philadelphia, a chapter member said. “The rest of the semester is kind of just making up for the lost time with the freshmen,” one member said. “That’s kind of where this all broke down is that we wanted to

move forward with the freshman activities and we weren’t able to under the restrictions.” Sisters hosted their Big Little Week last week, and hope to conduct more activities with the freshmen before the semester ends. On April 6, more than 85 percent of the chapter voted against agreeing to University requirements in order to remain affiliated with OFSL. They demanded that chapter members complete Penn’s First Step alcohol education program, that the entire executive board resign and that sisters abstain from engaging in any social events, including those without alcohol, for the next two years. “We remain committed to Penn’s vibrant fraternity/sorority community and hope Alpha Chi Omega will remain an active Panhellenic chapter. [Office of the Vice Provost for University Life] staff is working closely with the sorority’s headquarters on this situation,” OFSL Director Scott Reikosfky said in a statement on April 8, adding that he cannot comment on the disciplinary process.

due to Fling. “The way I see it, it’s just a larger demand on students’ time,” Furda said. “It takes more than a year to build a culture.” Since the Quad requires extensive cleanup after the weekend’s activities, allowing prospective students to visit directly after Fling would not provide them with an accurate impression of the heart of freshman life at Penn, Furda said. In previous years, prospective students visited on the Monday after Fling amid garbage and hungover students — but the Admissions Office is set on preventing this from happening again. “On post-Fling Monday, we would not open the Quad up to anybody,” Furda said. Scheduling Quaker Days is difficult for Penn, often forcing the dates of the program to land dangerously close to Fling. This year, prospective students had to visit between March 31, the day they received their acceptances, and May 1, the last day they can commit to a school. The Admissions Office

also faced obstacles scheduling around Easter, Passover and the Penn Relays. “The constraints that we have are similar to other schools but maybe even greater,” Furda said. Danielle Swanson, a prospective Engineering student who is visiting campus for Quaker Days, said she has heard relatively little about Fling, other than a casual conversation in her host’s hallway. “I was completely oblivious to everything,” she said. “They’ve been hiding it from us.” Anna Mujica, another prospective Engineering student, also has not heard much discussion of Fling during Quaker Days. “I haven’t really heard anything, honestly,” she said. But Mujica added that she felt the anticipation of Fling contributed to a more positive atmosphere on campus. “Everyone I think is happy because they’re all looking forward to Spring Fling,” she said. Come Monday, that pre-Fling energy might turn into postFling exhaustion.

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funded us,” she said. “I was lucky to get sponsorship for the course of study I wanted, but I don’t have the liberty to change my major.” The few international students who are fortunate enough to get financial aid from Penn feel much less pressure than students like Shin and Mustak. Kim-Anh Ngoc Dam is a College and Wharton sophomore from Vietnam receiving financial aid. She is grateful for the financial assistance because it both relieves her family in terms of economic pressure and gives her more freedom in pursuing her academic path. “I feel like it gives me more security in choosing what I want to do in college,” Dam said. “If I applied for a government scholarship from my own country, I would most probably not have as many choices in my career when I come back to work for them.” The lack of financial assistance from Penn adds additional pressure on international students in

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their daily lives. For example, in order to minimize their family’s financial pressure, some international students choose to stay on campus over school breaks. The currency exchange rate is another source of concern for some international students. “For every dollar [I spend], it’s three to four times more in my currency,” Mustak said. International students ‘must be prepared to pay for four years’ College senior Angel Garcia de la Garza and Engineering and College junior Alexandre Kleis are the past and current president of the Assembly of International Students, respectively. The pair said that their group has been working to increase financial assistance for international students for more than five years. “In reality, the number of international students who receive financial aid from Penn is very very small,” Kleis said. According to Kleis and Garza, changes in a family’s financial situation is one of the important reasons why international students have a significantly lower four

year graduation rate than domestic financial changes outlined by students at Penn. Unlike domestic the family, as each family situstudents, international students ation is unique. However, there are usually not able to apply for are no guarantees of aid eligibilfinancial aid once they are already ity,” Carstens said in an email. at Penn. “In some cases, “Due to limited after Penn has funding, Penn completed its thorrarely offers fiough review, it is nancial assistance SFS stresses determined that to international sufficient family to international students whose resources exist to applicants at families’ financial pay the full cost of the outset that situations change,” Penn’s education.” Marlene Bruno, Kleis and Garza they must be the Director of also mentioned prepared to pay Communications that Penn has not for four years of for Student Finanprovided a direct education if they channel for intercial Services, said in an email. “SFS national alumni are not applying stresses to internafor financial aid. ” donations until tional applicants at this March, when - Marlene Bruno the outset that they the school adminDirector of Communications must be prepared for Student Financial istrators added a to pay for four Services section on Penn’s years of education donation website if they are not applying for finan- that specifically addresses the cial aid.” needs of international students. The University’s Director of FiThe Giving to Penn website nancial Aid, Joel Carstens, offered now allows donors who wish to a different explanation. support undergraduate scholar“Penn carefully considers all ships to choose between two

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that’s being served, so I just dodge the normal things like desserts or fried foods.” “Bon Appétit is always looking into better ways to inform and increase the overall well-being of their guests, nutrition information being a part of that equation,” Connolly wrote. “Providing the generic information on our website was a first step. We hope to be able to provide additional information that may be helpful to the community in the future.” Any student with a dietary or nutritional concern may contact Connolly for private advice and tips on how to navigate the dining halls.

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funds: the General Endowment Scholarship fund for all students or the Ambrose C. Davis Memorial Scholarship for international students. All of the students interviewed for this article believe that Penn should provide more financial support for international undergraduate students. “Penn is trying to increase [its] international presence [and] it should also increase funds for international students,” Garza said. “A lot of Ivy League schools are doing it, Penn shouldn’t fall behind.” Shin agrees, adding that many of her friends did not apply to Penn and instead chose fully needblind schools such as Dartmouth. She added that her friends were more comfortable going to schools that supported them financially. “Penn always says that it is very committed to diversity and while we are getting representation from a lot of different countries, we’re not sure if we’re getting representation from different socioeconomic statuses … because of the lack of international student

financial aid,” Shin said. “If the University really values diverse backgrounds, they should change the existing policies, whether through adding more scholarships or [becoming] need-blind.” It remains uncertain whether changes will be made to the policy any time soon. “I am not aware of any changes to the international student financial aid policy in the near future,” Bruno said. Carstens added a more positive note to Bruno’s statement. “Penn aspires to have needblind admissions for all traditional undergraduate students,” he said. “Penn believes that through continued, generous undergraduate aid program support from alumni and friends of the University, this aspiration will be achieved in the future.” But for the time being, Shin feels that the current policy puts international students who can’t afford Penn in a pickle. “If you get into Penn … there are really not that many solutions,” she said. “You know Penn can’t give you money and you need to find it somewhere else.”

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TALKING BACKWARD | Disaffiliation may represent a more sustainable future for Greeks and schools alike

n s u r p r i s i n g l y, there’s been a lot of campus buzz over the past week or so about Penn’s Alpha Chi Omega chapter’s decision to disaffiliate with the University and their national organization rather than sign a lengthy and, by all accounts, severe sanctions agreement. While the sisters have vigorously defended their decision on what I think are largely fair grounds, my sense is that many other Greeks lament the move off campus as a blow to the Penn system’s long-term health. In what some see as a harbinger of Greek life’s eventual death, however, I see a possible vision of its brighter future. Greek disaffiliation represents, to me, an arrangement which might just be better for all involved. If you were to ask Penn Greeks about the state of GrecoUniversity relations, I think most of them would tell you that they are not currently at an all-time high. Every semester seems to bring more news of clashes be-

tween the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and this or that chapter, accompanied by a predictable set of gripes about University paternalism. As I’ve argued before, University paternalism is a problem for everyone, but its origins and motivations are hardly a mystery. In the age of instant mass media and ever-expanding tort liability, for Penn to adopt a “live and let live” approach to students’ risky behavior just isn’t a rational choice. To avoid the monetary

The rational institutional priorities of fraternities and sororities, on the other hand, are to violate these policies. Though there’s indubitably much more to Greek living than parties, it is simply a fact that Greek organizations live and die by their social calendar. Recruitment, reputation and financial stability all depend to a large extent on a chapter’s success at providing members with social opportunities of a type that just can’t be done in a way that is fully com-

bly represents a defeat for the other. So it’s really no wonder that relations between the two aren’t great. Disaffiliation potentially represents a solution to this lessthan-optimal state of affairs. From the University’s perspective, disaffiliation would transfer the legal liability they dread onto the organizations themselves — who would incidentally therefore be incentivized to take risk management a bit more seriously — and if done on friend-

These conflicting institutional priorities leave Greek organizations and the University locked in a kind of mutually unpleasant zerosum game, where a victory for either one inevitably represents a defeat for the other.” losses which might result from parental lawsuits or bad press born of Greek antics, it is simply in Penn’s best interests as an institution not to be tolerant of violations of policies it couldn’t really change if it wanted to.

pliant with University rules. These conflicting institutional priorities leave Greek organizations and the University locked in a kind of mutually unpleasant zero-sum game, where a victory for either one inevita-

lier, more controlled terms than was the case with AXO, might mitigate the decrease in alumni donations they may fear from forcing Greeks off-campus. For the organizations themselves, disaffiliation would

provide the autonomy they so desire. An off-campus Greek organization is really nothing more than a private social club of the type that are found in cities around the world, happily governing themselves. There are some benefits, such as automatic coordination of recruitment efforts, which would be lost, but with a little cooperation between them, the best interests of all could be preserved. This is not a call for all Greeks to tear up their charters and set out on their own tomorrow. I simply propose that, given the current tensions between Greek organizations and Universities nationwide, separation might, in the long term, be best for everyone. At the annual commemoration of my own fraternity’s founding, which my chapter hosts each spring, an alumnus gives a presentation on the organization’s history. He reminds us each year that in 1868, when the first chapter was founded, student social groups were disfavored and banned by Universities that sought to exercise tight

ALEC WARD control over their students’ behavior and lives. It was in these conditions that students who wished to be the masters of their own fate came together to form the earliest Greek organizations, independent from and unsanctioned by their schools. It seems to me that, as is often the case, history has come full circle.

ALEC WARD is a College sophomore from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. “Talking Backward” appears every Wednesday.

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hen the federal gover nment passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 1993, the LGBTQ rights movement had hardly begun. The Defense of Marriage Act had not even been passed (1996), and samesex marriage would not be legalized anywhere in the U.S. until 2004 in Massachusetts. Just four years later, in 1997, the Supreme Court ruled that applying RFRA to state governments overstepped Congress’ enforcement powers, and many states began drafting their own religious freedom acts. A few weeks ago, Indiana became the 20th state to pass such a law. Over time, the interpretation of these laws has shifted towards discrimination. Such laws are no longer used to protect minorities from discrimination, but to allow lawful prejudice against women, LGBTQ people and others. People — and in Indiana’s case, for-profit companies — are able to challenge any actions that conflict with their

TOE THE LINE | Debating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act faith. Indiana’s law even states specifically that someone can claim religious freedom, “[…] regardless of whether the state or any other governmental entity is a party to the proceeding.” This results in a slippery slope of judgment calls without any government oversight. For example, a pizzeria in Indiana has already said it will refuse to cater a same-sex couple’s wedding, claiming that doing so would infringe upon the owners’ Christian beliefs. The language in Indiana’s legislation allows for this, imbuing religious meaning on what should be a public, secular service. Florists, photographers and bakers across the country have made similar claims. It is possible, and even likely, that many RFRA laws are established with good intentions. Ideally, these laws work to protect religious groups from being persecuted themselves, such as being forbidden to wear head coverings at work or being required to work on certain holy days. In Minnesota, RFRA

allowed Amish families to light their buggies with reflective tape and lanterns instead of electric lights. Yet, tension arises when the actions being “protected” harm or disadvantage others who do not share the same beliefs. Vague language now allows anyone in Indiana to claim religious freedom as valid justification for refusing service, association or proper care. Religion and society have often been at odds, but we must acknowledge the subtle differences between private observance and public infliction. One’s religious beliefs should never dominate someone else’s. Whether or not RFRA laws are established with religious sincerity, we must recognize and restore possible loopholes so that every group, religious or not, is protected against discrimination. — Allison Schwartz E‘18 Penn Democrats representative

hat those who decry — with religious zeal, I might add — Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act seem to ignore is that these issues involve a balancing of rights. This act would not give license for anyone to comprehensively discriminate against entire groups. And no religion I know of prescribes such actions. The most common cases involve gay marriage ceremonies. Let’s consider the balance of rights here. On one side is a person’s fundamental right to freedom of religion. On the other is a couple’s right to purchase goods in the market. Ruling against the religious person would narrow her available choices to one: She must serve the gay couple. Siding with the gay couple would narrow their choices by one: They could patronize any other establishment they wanted. The former case — I’m borrowing from Hayek here — is a far more coercive limitation on liberty.

Opposing this law shows a fundamental disregard for every individual’s right to define her own conception of the good. There are many cases in which most of us would think it justifiable to refuse service. If a neoNazi group wanted someone to cater a party for them, I don’t think anyone would fault her for refusing. I am certainly not equating gay couples to neo-Nazis, but rather establishing the precedent that refusing service is justified in certain cases. This case generates almost universal agreement, while of course the gay marriage case does not. But the immorality of gay marriage is a part of many citizens’ conceptions of the good; a fundamental feature of democracy is accepting that others have different views from you. Yet, returning to my opening idea, this does not grant comprehensive license to anyone. This is where the balancing comes in. There is an underlying hypocrisy here. Homosexuals,

having been attacked and closeted, cry for respect and recognition. Yet many opponents of RFRA advocate attacking and closeting another group of people for their views. How can people who have experienced real discrimination for their beliefs want to persecute others for theirs? Lest you think I’m being alarmist, consider the many recent examples. Brendan Eich, for instance, was incited to resign as CEO of Mozilla for a $1,000 donation he made in support of banning gay marriage in 2008. Many in academia live in fear of being “found out” as anti-gay marriage and being denied tenure. I could go on, but you can look up more examples for yourself. We must not sacrifice fundamentally protected constitutional rights at the altar of selfrighteous indignation. — Carter Skeel C ‘15 College Republicans representative

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Students try to streamline Penn InTouch Add-ons make course registration user-friendly EMILY OFFIT Staff Reporter

If you are tired of flipping back and forth between Penn Course Review and Penn InTouch, three Penn students might have a solution. Engineering junior Fifi Yeung and College junior Jonathan Dubin have worked together on a Penn InTouch add-on, which they call Penn Course Plus. It integrates the faculty and class ratings that students can find on Penn Course Review into the Penn InTouch interface. This way students can register for classes on the same page that they review ratings. Also available on the add-on is the option to open an interactive scheduler in a separate window, allowing students to search for more courses while looking at their tentative schedule. Fifi and Dubin have nearly 1,000 student users, who have downloaded the app through Google Chrome. “Students are seeing a need for this because it’s so difficult to get what you want out of Penn InTouch,” Yeung said. “We hope

Penn Course Search has a lot of the same features as Penn Course Plus, including teacher ratings and an interactive mock scheduling window, yet it does not allow students to directly register through the interface. “Fifi’s app is similar to mine in terms of making the schedule, and we are in close contact,” Berstein said. “We may share ideas to make them both better.” Bernstein has also been in contact with a friend in Penn Labs, the student-run group responsible for Penn Course Review and the PennMobile App, to see if they can help make his app more widely used by students. Bernstein also hopes to add an auto-scheduler to his app GUYRANDY JEAN-GILLES | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER that would produce different posEngineering junior Fifi Yeung (left) and College junior Jonathan sible schedules that could work Dubin (right) worked together on a Penn InTouch add-on called Penn with the classes users want to Course Plus. take. These two apps are not the eventually Penn will adapt and trademark. only tools useful to students use this in their own system.” While Penn Course Plus is during registration. Penn Course University adm inistrators the most popular hack for Penn’s Notify will email students when have been open to student ad- class registration, it has its draw- a class they are trying to get into ditions to Penn InTouch, unlike backs, including the inability to is open. Penn Course Monkey administrators at Yale University sort by department. has a similar feature but will who blocked a student-created Engineering freshman Ben- notify users via text message. replacement to their course se- jamin Bernstein developed his Student schedules for the Fall lection software. Yale claimed own add-on he calls Penn Course 2015 semester will be posted the software infringed on their Search. today at 10 a.m.

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It was time to have a difficult conversation — for six Penn deans, that is. On Tuesday, the School of Social Policy & Practice , Annenberg School for Communication, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Nursing, Graduate School of Education and Penn Law School deans gathered to discuss social issues relevant on campus and in Philadelphia. Topics discussed ranged from the struggle to maintain a diverse student body to how Penn can better address the issue of sexual assault on campus. “One of Penn’s core values is a commitment to free expression, even when such speech is difficult,” SP2 Dean John Jackson opened. “We seek wide-ranging and innovative ideas and we hold them up for reflection, as in through a mirror, but also for refraction, as in through a prism,” he continued, explaining that this diffraction of the administration’s ideas into the Penn community is essential for producing valuable feedback. The event, advertised as the “Inaugural Town Hall on ‘Having Difficult Conversations in the Academy,’” was a time for academic leaders in at Penn to open up about important but highly sensitive issues that might have otherwise been pushed under the rug. One recurring theme of the discussion was the role of diversity on campus, within both student and faculty populations. While the deans agreed that diversity is necessary for “social justice” and “for a better and more effective work environment,” according to Annenberg Dean Michael Delli Carpini, they also acknowledged several

logistical difficulties in the employment of diversity. “It’s easier to rhetorically support diversity than physically implement it,” he added. College Dean Steven Fluharty discussed the divisions among the natural science, social science and humanity departments within SAS, and Nursing Dean Antonia Villarruel also brought up tensions within the Penn academic community and between Penn and the community of West Philadelphia. “There is always going to be a tension between our neighbors and our university, not just between our respective schools,” Villarruel said.

“There have been significant improvements in West Philly — not enough, and there is still a lot to do. Is that our obligation to our community? I’m not sure,” she said, “but we here at Penn really believe in that mission and want to fulfill that.” Another major topic of the evening was how the administration should address the climate of sexual assault at Penn. “There are a lot of people who have suffered in silence and have not felt supported by the institutions they have been part of, and one of the fundamental challenges we have is that if the people don’t believe the

institution is sincere in helping them, then we can’t help them,” Penn Law Dean Wendell Pritchett said, though he stated that Penn is sincere and committed in its efforts to help victims of sexual assault. In the wake of several race riots including those in Ferguson, Missouri, the deans were also questioned about what role they felt the academy should be playing in community and social justice. “Is it my job as dean to use the platform I have … to talk about my views in ways that are not tied to my role as dean or to my scholarship?” Delli Carpini asked. “That’s a hard question.”

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SLAP protest interrupts Quaker Days Students marched to demand PILOTs from Penn DAN SPINELLI Staff Reporter

Amidst megaphones and blue balloons, nearly 50 members of the Student Labor Action Project marched on April 14 for Penn to pay PILOTs. SLAP has spent nearly all year calling for the University to pay PILOTs, or payments in lieu of taxes. These voluntary payments would go to the School District of Philadelphia, which faces an $80 million deficit this year. Under Pennsylvania state law, nonprofits like Penn are exempt from paying property taxes — which generally go to the school district.

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The march began at noon outside of 1920 Commons. Protestors paraded past confused tour groups while holding signs saying “Fair Share Philly” and “PILOTs for a Better Philadelphia.” One student even held up a makeshift cardboard check for $6.6 million from Penn to the school district. Along the way, the marchers chanted phrases like “Pay your share, it’s just fair, hey Gutmann, won’t you meet us there?” After walking past College Green and into the Perelman Quadrangle, the march ended on the steps outside Claudia Cohen Hall. College senior and SLAP member Chloe Sigal spoke to members and curious observers after the march ended. “We are, after all, the civic Ivy. We should be leading on this issue, not exacerbating the issue,” she said. Sigal also spoke about the 24 schools closed by the school district in the fall of 2013. One of these schools, Wilson Elementary, had a partnership with Penn through the Riepe Mentors Program, where freshmen in a residential program at Riepe College House tutor at the school, and Community School Student Partnerships, a tutoring program at the Netter Center. Sigal, a former tutor at Wilson, was “heartbroken” to see her students’ school shut down. Other marchers also spoke passionately about their desire for Penn to pay PILOTs. “I’ve always thought that education is a tool for lifting people out of poverty,” College freshman and SLAP member Ilan Gold said. Coming from New York City, another city fraught with battles over education funding, Gold recognized the need for greater support of Philadelphia district schools. “PILOTs really spoke to me,” he said. For other SLAP members, the call for PILOTs is consistent with

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Protestors like College freshman Ilan Gold held balloons and painted the letter “P” on their faces in protest of Penn’s refusal to pay PILOTs.

the University’s mission to foster engagement with the community. “When we talk about Philadelphia, we talk about Penn being a good neighbor. I think [PILOTs] is the most structural way for us to affect change,” College and Wharton junior and SLAP member Aashna Desai said. University administrators have staunchly denied the need for PILOTs. Vice President of the Office of Government and Community Affairs Jeffrey Cooper, who was unavailable to speak for this article, has previously spoken out against the way in which

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Penn has been singled out to pay PILOTs. “The issue of PILOTs relates to the nonprofit sector broadly and not Penn specifically,” he said to The Daily Pennsylvanian in March. Cooper also mentioned Penn’s nearly $1 million commitment to the School District though its involvement with programs and staff at the Penn Alexander School and other community-affiliated schools. Penn officials have also cited the University’s $85 million payment in wage taxes to the city as evidence of a further financial commitment. Local activist groups, including SLAP and its parent organization, Philadelphia Jobs with Justice, have targeted the campaign for PILOTs specifically at Penn. College sophomore and SLAP member Devan Spear even testified in front of the Philadelphia City Council before the Council voted to approve a non-binding resolution asking “mega-nonprofits” in the city to pay PILOTs. After the resolution’s passage, Mayor Michael Nutter expressed his ambivalence toward the topic. He told The Philadelphia Inquirer that PILOTs were not a “kind of sustainable, long-term, serious form of funding that our school system needs.” Philadelphia JwJ has also targeted Penn specifically through the hashtag #UPennFairShare and in an open letter to Penn President Amy Gutmann, which was signed by 17 local advocacy groups in March. SLAP members cite Penn’s status as the wealthiest nonprofit in the city, whose budget exceeds the city’s own budget, as further reason for the University to make PILOT payments. “Penn does have the money to be able to fund PILOTs,” Desai said. Despite growing support community-wide and in the City Council, calls for PILOTs have appeared to come to a stop with Nutter and Penn officials. The looming Democratic primary for mayor could upset one of those obstacles. Three of the prominent Democratic candidates for mayor — Jim Kenney, Doug Oliver, and Nelson Diaz — have expressly noted the need for PILOT payments. In a policy paper released in March, Kenney — a former instructor at the Fels Institute of Government — cited PILOT agreements under former Mayor Ed Rendell’s administration and in Boston as models for a new PILOTs program with city nonprofits. According to the policy paper, “Jim believes that many of these institutions, especially the larger nonprofits, have benefitted from City services, and can and should be contributing more.” Support for PILOTs may soon eclipse City Hall, but as of yet, its supporters remain holding up signs and balloons outside of College Hall.

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Captain nominated for national senior honor LACROSSE | McMahon up

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As Penn men’s lacrosse prepares for a do-or-die matchup with Dartmouth on Saturday, its team captain has earned a place in a race for some prestigious individual recognition. The Senior CLASS (Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School) Award — given annually — recognizes those who best live up to both parts of the student-athlete title. Matt McMahon, a key cog in the Red and Blue defense since 2012, was named one of 10 finalists for the award last week. Voting for the award is split evenly between fans, members

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made their way to the top of the Lou Gehrig Division. Also at the top of the division is Columbia, likely the only team that stands between the Quakers and their first title since 1995. The Lions (19-11, 10-2) — who defeated the Red and Blue in a one-game playoff for the division title in 2014 — will look to outdo Penn again this year. However, the Quakers are prepared to focus on the task at hand: taking down Princeton in the four-game series this weekend at home. “I mean we knew at the end of last year that Columbia was good, but I think Princeton can be tough too,” coach John Yurkow said. “We really try to focus on our opponents — one pitcher at a time, one inning at a time.” Yurkow and his staff constantly preach this message to the team at practice because they believe watching teams only serves as a distraction.

of the media and Division I head coaches. McMahon is third in the Ivy League this season with 21 caused turnovers and fourth for the Quakers with 19 groundballs. He ranks fifth in the nation with two turnovers caused per game. Penn sits at 2-3 in Ivy play, half a game behind Brown for fourth place (although Penn does hold the tiebreaker between the two squads). The Quakers dropped their first three Ivy matchups, including a triple-overtime heartbreaker against Cornell. But coach Mike Murphy’s squad has won two games in a row and will host the Big Green in the regular season finale on Saturday. What’s at stake? Pretty much the entire season. The final spot in the Ancient Eight’s postseason tournament and a chance to defend

the program’s first-ever league championship — earned during a 2014 campaign in which McMahon started every game and was named Honorable Mention AllIvy. The New Jersey native also started every contest as a sophomore and saw action in each game as a freshman. The 2013 Quakers had the best goals-against average in the nation, thanks in large part to McMahon’s 15 caused turnovers, good enough for third on the team. McMahon has only one career point — a typical metic given the senior’s position. However, he certainly saved his goal for when it counted, assisting in a goal against Drexel in the first round of last year’s NCAA Championship. The Wharton student and finance major started garnering accolades for his

accomplishments on the field and in the classroom even before arriving on campus as a freshman. As a senior in high school, McMahon was named an AP Scholar with Distinction and earned an Essex County Scholar Athlete award. For the CLASS Award, the national media selected McMahon and nine others from a list of 30 candidates, and the winner will be announced during the NCAA Championships, which take place from May 23 to 25 in Philadelphia. McMahon has a good chance to be present at Lincoln Financial Field in a month’s time to accept the award. With a strong game against Dartmouth on Saturday, he might even be able to help give ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN | SENIOR SPORTS REPORTER his teammates join him with a second straight league champion- Senior Matt McMahon is clearly a leader on the field - the team captain is third in the Ancient Eight in caused turnovers with 21. ship under their belts.

“It sounds cliché, but we have to be careful this time of year if we are counting wins or looking at what other teams are doing,” he said. “We just have to focus on ourselves and playing fundamental baseball.” The Tigers (6-24, 3-9) have struggled this year; therefore, Penn will look to win the series in an attempt to distance itself from Columbia, who faces Cornell this weekend. Winning three out of four games can be huge especially coming down the final stretch of Ivy play. “We just want to win the series,” Yurkow said. “If you do that every weekend in the Ivy League, it puts you in good shape,” Strong pitching from the Red and Blue up to this point has played a huge factor in its success, and coach Yurkow believes it will continue to do so in the future. “Our team feels like any time we run one of those four starters out there, we are going to have a really good chance to win the game. We play with a lot of confidence when

one of those four guys is on the mound.” After several stellar pitching performances over the past few weeks, the Quakers will look to follow that up in their games against Princeton. Sophomore pitcher Mike Reitcheck had an especially strong start against Cornell, going eight innings and only allowing two runs on four hits. In this weekend’s contests, senior Connor Cuff and Reitcheck

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Reportersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; notebook: A trip with Penn club tennis Quakers finish 28th in the nation in trip south ANNA DYER and MATT FINE Sports Reporters

Every April, the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best club tennis teams flock to the USTA Tennis On Campus National Championship. Since the first National Championship in 2000, Penn has qualified for the Big Dance every year. Last season, the team made the trek out west to the desert of Surprise, Az., and finished 42nd overall. This year the event was held in Cary, N.C., so the team decided to drive instead. With captains and seniors seated comfortably up front and the freshmen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including us â&#x20AC;&#x201D; squeezed tightly in the back rows of the two rented minivans, the team set out on its seven hour journey with 14 people in tow. The next three days were filled with fantastic weather, tennis and laughs, and we thought we would

share some of the most memorable moments from our southern excursion to the Club Tennis National Championship. Wednesday 3:30 p.m.: Two main observations as the car is loaded. First, every person in this car has overpacked. Second, we â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the freshmen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are the ones who will suffer the most from this. 9:00 p.m.: Quick stop at Dairy Queen, because every top athlete eats a DQ M&M Blizzard less than 12 hours before they are scheduled to compete. Thursday 12:30 a.m.: We arrive at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Cary. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decked out in tournament logos and advertisements, and is eerily quiet considering there are over 600 college students inside (this certainly wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t last). 7:45 a.m.: After waking up early, we arrive at the tennis courts to find they are soaking wet. Some people immediately pull out their computers to do homework. Others decide to blare, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in love with the

CoCoâ&#x20AC;? on speakers for everyone to enjoy ... 9 a.m.: As Northeastern arrives and begins warming up, the squadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best player puts on a GoPro. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Flex Zoneâ&#x20AC;? blasts from our speakers. So began the battle for most obnoxious team. 12 p.m.: After close singles and doubles matches, we went into the mixed doubles tied. At a critical point in this final match, Northeastern made a terrible line call. Our bench jumps up in rage. Of course, karma doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prevail and Northeastern wins by a single point. 6:24 p.m.: After beating UCF, freshman Anna Dyer (one of our esteemed authors), worried about getting struck by lightning, is too scared to walk to the car after the matches get rained out for the day (Granted, there were a lot of trees.) (No, there were not.) Friday 12:30 p.m.: After beating Indiana and solidifying a spot in the silver bracket, a battle of Ivy League schools ensues as we take on Cornell, the Tennis On Campus Team

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Penn club tennis made a seven-and-a-half hour trek by car to Cary, N.C., over the weekend to compete in the USTA Tennis On Campus National Championship. The team performed well and finished 28th in the nation.

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we are practicing so late at night. #NotPennState 11:00 p.m.: Our match against Harvard begins. Quickly, everyone stops paying attention to the tennis as one Harvard player explains his revolutionary startup idea: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Indisputaball,â&#x20AC;? a ball that secretes gel when it hits the court, leaving a mark for a few seconds to ensure a fair match. We quickly realize we can no longer use the â&#x20AC;&#x153;at least weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re smarterâ&#x20AC;? excuse. Saturday 12:30 a.m.: Once the match ends, junior Eric Shiuey from Penny Loafers serenades Anna as part of her sorority big-little week. Despite his amazing voice, freshman Connie Wang decides she has had enough and throws a minor temper tantrum, running to the car without any of her belongings. 1 a.m.: To continue our healthy late-night eating habits, the team stops at a Wendyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drive-thru. While eating her cheeseburger, Annaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left hand stops functioning. While we probably should have been more concerned that she was unable to open a water bottle with it, most team members were preoccupied eating the rest of her french fries. 12:30 p.m.: After finishing our final match of the tournament, Eric

Shiuey, Evan Selzer and Andrei Tuluc get yelled atfor not wearing shirts. (Huge disappointment for the ladies). 5:45 p.m.: We head back to the courts to watch the final match between California and Minnesota. The crowd is packed and surprisingly rowdy, possibly due to the consumption of a few adult beverages prior to the match. Cal pulls away and wins their third straight national title. 9 p.m.: Parties begin in various rooms throughout the hotel. They get increasingly crazy, giving us a glimpse into what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to attend a state school. #NotPennState 10:18 pm: Managers begin pacing the halls to quiet the various parties that have gotten out of hand. They do not succeed. Sunday 2:30 a.m.: Some of us get locked out of our rooms and have to double up in the small beds. Team bonding at its finest. 6:00 a.m.: We wake up to embark on our seven-and-a-half hour car drive back to Philly. All in all, we finished 28th in the nation, but even more importantly, we had a great time. Thanks to our team and the entire club tennis community for an unforgettable weekend.

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Off the strength of starts like attack Tory Bensen and defense Meg Markham, Penn has fully lived up to the hype that it carried into the start of the year. Every team that the Quakers were supposed to beat, they have, en route to a No. 11 national ranking. However dominant it has been, though, the squad has yet to pick up anything it could call a signature win. In its two games against ranked opponents this season — No. 1 Maryland and No. 6 Northwestern — the Quakers hung

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30 goals lead Princeton and are good for fifth in the Ivy League. On the other side, Penn’s success starts with its staunch defense, which will look to continue its consistent play on Wednesday against an opportunistic Princeton squad. The Quakers’ defense is anchored by senior goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson, who is a stalwart in net. The Montclair, N.J., native leads the Ivy League with a 52.1 percent save percentage and a meager 6.25

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tough but ultimately fell both times. Ranked No. 13 in the nation, Princeton does not appear to be on the level of either of those national powerhouses. However, if the Quakers are to continue their historic streak, it will take some doing to get past the Tigers. Sports Editor Laine Higgins: Every year, there is one event that is the pinnacle not only of the spring season for the Quakers, but for Penn Athletics as a whole: Penn Relays. And this year is no different. The Penn Relays are the biggest track meet in the world — yes, you read that correctly. The April track

meet is bigger than U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., bigger than World Championships and bigger than the Olympics themselves. The finals on Saturday are probably the only time all year that Franklin Field fills to capacity, thanks to the fact that what seems like the entire island of Jamaica makes the trek north to see its professional sprinters throw down in Philadelphia. And with all due respect to Penn’s other spring teams, Relays are simply a level above the rest of the Red and Blue’s competition in the upcoming weeks. What other event can draw over 110,000 fans? 2015 is the 120th running of the

Penn Relays, and the Quakers have several individuals that could make an impact in the collegiate division. Junior thrower Sam Mattis, the runner-up in discus at the Relays in 2014, has already had several throws within feet of his career best this spring and is poised to explode come next weekend. Another junior, Thomas Awad, could impress on the outside of the track. His spring is off to a blistering start, and he looks like he could defend his title in the mile in the Olympic Development division. So really, is asking which spring sporting event will headline the season even a valid question?

goals allowed per game. As a result, Penn’s defensive unit is characterized by experience and depth. Four Penn players have received Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors after senior defender Taylor Foussadier captured the award on Monday for shutting down Harvard’s leading scorer Marisa Romeo. 2014 Ivy League Defender of the Year Meg Markham — a senior who has captured two weekly awards this season — will also be relied upon heavily to slow Princeton’s attack.

“We have a lot of seniors and juniors who have been on the field for several years,” Corbett said. “The game is in their hands. [They know] what this is all about.” While the Red and Blue have a number of award winners that contribute to their success, it is solid team play that they stress and pride themselves on. “We’ve won because of our team defense and our team offense,” Corbett said. “It’s not about one person. We’ve got to have a real solid group of eight in the back who can stop a lot of their scorers,

and we’ve got to have a balanced attack on the other side.” If there’s any conference game that calls for the Quakers to bring their best on both sides of the field, it’s Wednesday’s matchup with Princeton. The Quakers know the stakes. It’s now up to them to play their game and defend their home field like they have done all season. “We know that it’s going to be a battle and that everything’s on the line right now,” Corbett said. “The team that takes this — the destiny is in that team’s hands.”

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The stakes are rising for Penn women’s lacrosse. Winners of eight consecutive Ivy League regular season titles, the resilient Quakers will face Princeton on Wednesday in a battle of Ivy League unbeatens, one that will likely determine the host of next month’s Ivy League Tournament. No. 11 Penn (10-2, 4-0 Ivy) is feeling confident after an impressive 8-6 victory over Harvard last weekend that was fueled by a career-high six goals from junior attack Iris Williamson. The Quakers have kept a sharp focus at practice this week ahead of the matchup with Princeton (9-3, 4-0 Ivy), which coach Karin Corbett calls “the biggest game of the season.” Last season, the Red and Blue fell to Princeton, 9-5, in the regular season contest after falling behind early, but avenged the defeat in the Ivy League Championship with a 9-6 triumph. Previous seasons’ outcomes

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would suggest that winning the opening minutes of the midweek contest correlates with winning the game. But Corbett stressed the importance of competing for the entire contest. “Both teams have the ability to start strong, but they both have the ability to come back,” Corbett said. “For us, it’s really about trying to have a complete 60 minutes, which is something we’ve been talking to our team a lot about.” The Quakers’ chances of remaining undefeated in conference play are high if they can slow Princeton’s explosive pair of midfielders, Erin Slifer and Olivia Hompe. Slifer, a senior, recently earned her third Ancient Eight Offensive Player of the Week award after scoring 11 points between road contests at Maryland and Cornell. She leads the Tigers with 44 points this season. “She’s a great player,” Corbett said of Slifer. “She’s one of the top middies in the league. We’re going to have one of our best defenders match up on her.” After a strong freshman year, Hompe has become one of the Ivy League’s most dangerous scoring threats this season. Her

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With a 2.84 ERA, senior southpaw Connor Cuff is set to start in Sunday’s first game. TODAY

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Senior defense Taylor Foussadier came up big in Penn women’s lacrosse’s recent 8-6 victory over Harvard, holding the Crimon’s star attack scoreless for the first time in her career and earning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors in the process. She will also play a key role in Penn’s crucial matchup with Princeton.

Each year, the start NYIT of spring heralds the most glorious time (7-13) of the year — great 1 & 3:30 p.m. weather, fun times as Meiklejohn Stadium school winds down and, of course, baseball season. While the Philadelphia Phillies may have 154 games remaining in their regular season, Penn baseball is nearing the peak of Ivy League play with only two series remaining against Princeton and Columbia, respectively. And the Quakers (15-11, 10-2 Ivy) have positioned themselves nicely to make a run for the conference title. After a disappointing start to the season — including a spring break trip that saw the Red and Blue go 0-5 against Old Dominion and VCU — the Quakers have rebounded successfully and SEE BASEBALL PAGE 7

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With the end of the spring semester exactly two weeks away, a plethora of key matchups for Penn’s sports teams are on the horizon. A variety of the Quakers’ marquee squads are in contention for the Ivy League title in their respective sports, but the path to Ancient Eight glory won’t be easy. With crucial tournaments and weekend series coming up, our sports editors debate which Penn Athletics’ event they are most excited about between now and the end of April. Senior Sports Editor Riley Steele: As the 2014 Ivy League baseball season wound down, it was a virtual certainty that the Lou Gehrig Division would end up coming down to the final

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series of the campaign: a fourgame affair between Columbia and Penn. And that’s what happened, with the teams splitting their slate before Columbia captured a one-game playoff at Meiklejohn Stadium, 2-0. 60 percent of the way into the 2015 Ancient Eight season, all signs point towards the exact same scenario unfolding. Because the squads have identical 10-2 Ivy records, the Red and Blue do not have a commanding lead in the standings over the Lions like they did at this point last year, when Penn was two games ahead of Columbia before splitting four games with Princeton. But the teams are still on pace for an epic showdown next weekend. The Lions have been on fire recently, capturing 16 of their past 18 with each loss coming by a measly solitary run. But the Quakers haven’t been too

shabby either, battering opponents thanks to a powerful offense that has notched nine runs or more in six of its past 10 contests. Penn is nine days away from its second straight winner-takeall showdown with Columbia. And after last year’s heartbreak, if that isn’t something worth getting excited about, I don’t know what is. Sports Editor Colin Henderson: It’s tough to argue with history, and with every passing year, it seems like Penn women’s lacrosse tries to make more of it. On Wednesday, the Quakers will put their undefeated (4-0) Ivy record on the line against rival Princeton, a team also 4-0 in the Ivies. A win would give Penn the fast track to its ninth-straight regular season conference championship. SEE ROUNDTABLE PAGE 9 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640