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We, as former leaders of the College Republicans, feel compelled ... to reject the article recently published by our organization”

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LEGALLY BOUND The path to a law degree can take different directions DIA SOTIROPOULOU Staff Reporter

Penn student is named a Truman scholar

For many Penn students, post-graduation plans begin to cast their shadow early, in a hazy and frequently terrifying way. Some manage to ease the anxiety with an unambiguous post-graduate trajectory.

There are those who have set their sights on medical school and are slogging with no shortage of grumbles through a morass of bio requirements. There are those who plan to break with fanfare into the investment banking world. And of course, there are those who choose to go into law.

It turns out that the profile of a pre-law student is a fairly flexible one. Todd Rothman has been advising pre-law students for eight years. Though the majors that come to him most commonly are the expected trio of history, philosophy, politics & economics and political science, he said, pre-law majors

can arrive at his office in many different guises.

“I’ve seen the full range of majors - from French to Bioengineering to Theater,” he wrote in an email. “This is, of course, completely fine from an admissions perspective since law schools do not have any sort of preference when it comes to major or academic focus.”

There is a certain skill set he would emphasize, he added, among them critical reasoning, efficient processing of a high volume of information and being a “strong and concise” writer.

With the graduation of the Class of 2015 on the horizon, two seniors with radically different backstories discussed why they have chosen to attend law school. One has been admitted and is ready to move to D.C., while the other has chosen to gain work experience before embarking on his studies. One never anticipated law school as a future prospect, while the other was legally bound since his early high school days. Both have outlined their ambitions clearly and are

determined to achieve them — the unspoken ingredient, perhaps, to Rothman’s formula for success.

Grace Castro “This was definitely not the plan at all,” College senior Grace Castro said of her academic trajectory, which has deposited her at American University’s Washington College of Law. “My mother has been a litigator ever since I was little,” she explained. “She worked from home, and I always saw her being under a lot of stress. So I told myself, ‘There’s no way I’m ever going to be a lawyer!’”

The Penn in Washington summer program changed that. “I realized that I had an actual interest in public policy, lobbying, how laws are passed, things like that,” she said. She switched to a communication major and began contemplating a career as a lobbyist.

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College junior Adam Cohen is invested in the Phila. public schools JOE LI Staff Reporter

Penn has a Truman Scholar for the third year running.

College junior Adam Cohen was named a 2015 Truman Scholar, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation announced on Wednesday.

About 60 American students receive the scholarship — which provides a monetary award for current college students planning to pursue public service or government-based graduate and professional degrees — each year for their potential to become public service leaders. Cohen was awarded the scholarship for his contributions to the public education system.

An urban studies major, Cohen is involved in extracurricular activities that aim to improve public education, specifically for West Philadelphia high school students. He works closely with the Netter Center for Community Partnerships to coordinate Penn student teaching efforts in those schools.

“There is this paradox that in this area: We have a school with some of the brightest people in the country, but right beside it

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Despite national trend, Penn students wait to declare Some majors have extensive pre-declaration requirements JILL MOELY Staff Reporter

Although the uncertain job market has undergraduates declaring majors early at some schools, most Penn students are still open to academic exploration.

A recent analysis by The Wall Street

Journal of colleges within the United States found that students are declaring majors earlier. According to the study, this trend indicates that today’s undergraduates are more focused on pursuing courses of study that lead directly to specific careers than exploring their options or learning for learning’s sake.

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Students join Fight for $15 minimum wage movement An estimated 3,000 students marched PATRICK ZANCOLLI & TIFFANY YAU

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“Happy meals are not very happy without getting $15 of pay,” a sign read outside the 40th and Walnut streets McDonald’s Wednesday afternoon. Underpaid workers across the country assembled to form small scale action in hopes of creating a large scale change.

On April 15, better known as “Tax Day,” a walkout was held for the “Fight for $15” campaign.

An estimated 3,000 students from Drexel, Penn, Temple and other colleges stood in front of McDonald’s and marched down to the Market Street Bridge. City Council at-large candidate and Penn alumna Helen Gym announced her support of the event in a press release. The protest was part of a larger action: 60,000 underpaid fast food workers from around over 200 schools in the country mobilized to rally and march.

The Fight for $15 movement started in 2012, when a couple hundred food workers in New York City went on strike, demanding a $15 hourly pay and the rights to form a union. Since then, the movement has expanded beyond food workers, as home healthcare, childcare and airport workers have

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there are high schools where only half of the students can graduate,” Cohen said. “Penn students are in a position to have a huge impact on these kids’ education.” "[Cohen] is an amazing leader who is able to communicate with our faculty and students as well as West Philadelphia high school teachers and students. He understands how our partnership programs can be made more effective to fulfill the needs of those schools,” Associate Director of the Netter Center Cory Bowman said.

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A walkout was held Wednesday for the “Fight for $15” campaign, bringing together an estimated 3,000 students from Drexel, Penn, Temple and other colleges as they marched from McDonald’s to the Market Street Bridge.

joined in as well.

In Philadelphia on April 15, workers went on strike at 6 a.m. at the Broad and Arch streets McDonald’s to sign up for the Fight for $15. Between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m., allied unions had “speakouts” outside of McDonald’s locations around the city. About an hour later, the protests near Penn’s campus erupted.

McDonald’s is one of the largest employers in the country, with millions of workers. These employees are scraping by on the current

Cohen also devotes himself to academic research on public education in West Philadelphia. In the past few years, Cohen has taken several Academically Based Community Service seminars with Ira Harkavy, who is also the director of the Netter Center.

Cohen’s paper topics have ranged from college readiness and student potential to democratic education and collaborative learning.

Ha rkavy sa id Cohen’s papers were “among the best work he’s read” in recent years, and he has incorporated Cohen’s ideas into his own teaching. “His paper is always a great combination of

federal minimum wage of $7.50.

A full-time worker who works 40 hours per week, 51 weeks out of the year — assuming that they have no vacation — after taxes, make $1112,000 per year, just over poverty level of $10,000 a year for a family of three.

“I think it’s really important to acknowledge the inequality that is taking place every day in the U.S. and how it perpetuates throughout the world in addition to the effects that corporations have on working individuals’ everyday lives,”

case study research and logic theory reasoning, connecting what we learn in class with his on-the-ground teaching experiences,” Harkavy said.

“I am proud to be his teacher,” he added. “[Cohen] fits wonderfully to the ideal image of a student who can make substantial contributions to our society while achieving academic excellence.”

Cohen said that he is considering pursuing his graduate studies at Penn. “I want to stay in Philadelphia and continue working in education,” he said. “It’s something I have become increasingly passionate about.”

Drexel senior Sarah Bodhuin said at the protest. “[This movement] makes people acknowledge what’s going on. These corporations have a social responsibility, but they want to make money.”

The movement has resonated with students and professors on college campuses. With rising costs of tuition resulting in higher levels of student debt, Fight for $15 advocates and Drexel students Adam Bleiman and Chris Quirin feel that it is important for college students to recognize and identify

with the injustices low wage workers are facing.

“Students should be supporting worker struggles for a better world,” Bleiman said. Noting that college students have always been involved in social movements, Bleiman believes it is important that students take the time to express their passions for causes such as Fight for $15. He added that college campuses are really solid meeting places for movements like Fight for $15, as college students are curious about life and their futures.

“People should support this because our economy has become increasingly based on service work,” College sophomore and protest participant Peter Thacher said. “Service work does not pay very well in the fast food industry. In order for the middle class to thrive, they need to be paid living wages.”

Bleiman also pointed out that he sees the Fight for $15 as a “revitalization of the labor movement,” as many jobs today are service sector jobs that are not unionized.

Quirin, a former Jimmy John’s and Sears worker, feels that “we have to recognize that we rely on service people,” as the work these people do comes into play in many of our daily lives.

The fight for low-wage workers might even include adjunct professors. Department of Visual Studies adjunct professor Anna Neighbor

supports the Fight for $15 because she feels that “presenting a united fight for low-wage workers” is important. As an active member of the United Academics of Philadelphia union, which promotes the interests of adjunct professors in the city of Philadelphia, Neighbor recognizes that the Fight for $15 struggle is directly related to the struggles faced by adjunct professors at universities.

“Each of us in our own isolated instances are part of a much larger struggle that goes beyond whether we are working at a university or at a McDonald’s corporation,” Neighbor said. “Adjuncts are incredible professors, they just have to work 200 percent more. They have to work 200 percent harder to be incredible teachers because they are not receiving the support they should be receiving.”

The majority of faculty are parttime, receive no benefits and are hired on a semester-to-semester basis, something Neighbor feels is indicative of a divestment in higher education overall.

“In perspective of us being students, a lot of people have debt and we need to get good jobs after graduating to be able to pay off that debt,” Thatcher said. “It’s the same thing at McDonald’s, where their workers need a living wage.

We can identify with these workers to be able to make a living wage to fulfill their lives and be happy.”

Students react to ‘Black Girls Rock’ Michelle Obama’s comments spark backlash JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Reporter

Following the “Black Girls Rock” controversy that gained traction on national media, Penn students responded to the campaign in mixed ways.

First Lady Michelle Obama stirred up controversy in late March when she spoke at the annual Black Girls Rock event

hosted by Black Entertainment Television, in honor of the Black Girls Rock nonprofit.

The event, which aims to celebrate the power, accomplishments and beauty of black women and girls, has come under fire in the past from critics who claim the event promotes reverse racism.

Following the event, the twitter hashtag #whitegirlsrock began to trend, calling out the event for being exclusionary to women who were not of color.

College sophomore Rhiannon Miller has mixed emotions regarding the Black Girls Rock event, but doesn’t see how it would negatively affect the selfesteem of women and girls of other races. “It doesn’t marginalize white people in any way,” Miller said.

But Miller added that she

would rather see an event that celebrated the accomplishments of all girls, rather then singling out one group.

“I think black girls already know that they rock, so I don’t really see why one would need an event to teach that to them,” she said. “I honestly think that there should be an event promoting the beauty in all woman and encouraging that all girls rock.”

While Miller does not see the need for a separate event celebrating black girls, College freshman Sydney Morris views specialized movements such as these as necessary.

“All this ‘everyone rocks’ or ‘all lives matter’ shit makes me mad,” Morris said. “Obviously all that is true, but only one group has never been told that they matter.”

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Finalists revealed for innovating education business competition GSE announces 20 finalists in two categories JENNIFER WRIGHT Deputy News Editor

Creative thinkers from around the world have ideas for how to innovate education, and a few are bringing them to Penn’s Graduate School of Education.

The 20 finalists in the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition were announced April 10 with ideas like language learning apps and a peer-to-peer college admissions resource.

About 250 applicants were considered this year, but the finalists were whittled down to just 10 for the Idea Path and for the Venture Path.

This year the competition

employed two paths for entry — Idea or Venture — since year after year the initial concepts entered were more fleshed out. In previous years, “It made it hard for people with really interesting ideas to go against people with more developed ideas,” Managing Director of Academic Innovation at GSE Brad Beshara said. Now, there are prizes for innovative concepts, as well as already established projects.

The initial judging is done by crowd sourcing. Judges from outside GSE — education practitioners, researchers and entrepreneurs — are all a part of the process to choose the finalists. They use an online platform where they can see the ideas and rate them.

“Different judges, depending on their background, are looking

for different things,” Beshara said. Teachers, for example, might have an eye for really useful innovations for their classrooms and investors might be thinking about the marketability of the idea.

Education innovations in particular are important because of their social impact, Beshara said.

“There are people that are drawn to investing in the education space,” he said, but added, “They want to have an impact socially, as well.”

An innovation called Osmosis won the $50,000 prize last year.

Osmosis is an organizational study app designed for medical school students. The finalists are drawn from applicants from around the world — this year two of the finalists chosen for the Venture Path are international

entries.

This sixth annual competition is backed by the Milken Family Foundation, a family of Penn graduates who devote much of their philanthropic work to innovation and education. The W.K. Kellog Foundation, McGrawHill Education and Microsoft are among the other sponsors.

The final competition and accompanying conference is by invitation only, but it is set to take place on May 12 and 13. Finalists will have the chance to pitch their ideas to the panel of judges.

The grand prize for the Venture Path is $40,000, with four additional winners receiving $20,000 each, and the Voter’s Choice will get $1,000. The Idea Path winner gets a grand prize of $10,000, and four additional winners receive $2,000 each.

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OPINION The cost of practicality THE DANALYST | Rising tuition costs keeps us from experiencing true academic growth

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erched on the roof of the Singh Center lounge, two of my best friends and I stared at our piles of homework and groaned. My friend in an Engineering and College dual degree had problem sets.

My friend in Wharton grappled with a marketing assignment. I had a column to write and a book to read.

“You don’t even get what work is,” my friends joked with me. I droned about the critical thinking skills I’d obtain, the value inherent in absorbing a text. They didn’t understand.

Last week, an article in The Washington Post stated that the number of English majors at the University of Maryland has plummeted by 39 percent in the past five years. The university is striving to obtain people who want to study English. Just as college students are struggling to compete with each other for post-graduation jobs, so are English depart-

ments across the country seeking to compete with other departments for prospective students. In a climate where we constantly focus on the paycheck after graduation, it’s difficult to persuade students towards subjects that don’t exactly have the automatic monetary connotations as business or computer science.

That decline hasn’t occurred at Penn, according to Undergraduate Chair of the English Department Michael

jors do extremely well in the job market.” With the recent USA Today ranking of Penn with the second best English department in the country, it’s clear the department excels.

But I still see students on an everyday basis foregoing majors like English in favor of “more employable” areas.

The drop in humanities majors seems, at least to me, directly correlated to the rising cost of college. The economy is recovering too slowly, the

how I’ll crash on their couches when I’m failing to write the great American novel. A friend in Wharton prefaces bets with me by saying he’ll give me his first month’s salary if I win, and it’ll be three times the size of mine. Penn’s Student Financial Services has treated me kindly enough that I don’t need to take out loans, but some of my friends — who will be crushed with debt the moment they graduate — don’t have the same luxury. One of

When we choose our fields of study based on the potential outcomes, we lose the central purpose of selecting a major at all: to narrow down a field we’re truly interested in, and then to push for excellence in that area.”

Gamer. “We have not seen a significant drop in the number of majors over the past decade,” he wrote in an email.

“In part it’s because the department is in a very good place right now … because our ma-

price of college has increased and, to be fair, graduating with a degree in English doesn’t guarantee me the same job security as one from Wharton. I’m the first to joke with my Engineering friends about

my closest friends swears he would major in history if he didn’t have to pay off his expenses. When answering the standard, “What are you studying?” question from a Wharton student I just met, I was told

that my English and Political Science double majors were “the dream,” but he chose business out of practicality.

The high price of college sucks the meaning out of college itself. When we choose our fields of study based on the potential outcomes, we lose the central purpose of selecting a major at all: to narrow down a field we’re truly interested in, and then to push for excellence in that area. There’s beauty and meaning in following our guts and studying what we are genuinely passionate about.

Too few of my friends seem genuinely enthused about their classes; instead, they focus on simply getting through the required work, just making it by until the weekend. We’re too young to compromise in a place with so many academic opportunities. We came to Penn to pursue our interests.

The cost of attendance should not force our hands.

My humanities studies provide me with an education for life. I can carry snip-

DANI BLUM pets of E.E. Cummings poems through every stage I progress through; “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” moves me in a way no equation can.

To recognize the value of an education, we need to improve access to college — or miss out on the purpose of college at all.

DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” appears every Thursday.

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s former leaders of the College Republicans here at Penn, we would like to express our utter dismay at the position that the recent College Republicans article took on the issue of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Not only was the implicit comparison between serving neoNazis and gay couples grossly inappropriate, but also the entire theme of the article was antithetical to what had formerly been the creed of the organization on Penn’s campus.

Let us remind readers, and the current College Republicans board, that the Penn College Republicans openly endorsed gay marriage in a 2013 statement co-sponsored with Penn Democrats.

Likewise, College Republicans again bucked the party line this year when the group endorsed immigration reform. College Republicans on this campus has long billed itself as an organization maintaining a moderate, centrist outlook — a voice of reason within a party

that has oft expressed social positions that we as college students view as politically and morally untenable.

If we are to have a serious discussion about the boundary between religious freedom and discrimination, then we should bear in mind the immense lessons of the Holocaust, which was officially memorialized by the Jewish community worldwide this past week.

While the author of the College Republicans article claims to have no knowledge of a religion which would prescribe discrimination, it is impossible to ignore the theological underpinnings of historical European anti-Semitism and of the continual discrimination against homosexuals on a global level that resulted in centuries of persecution. Would the College Republicans author deny that the religious belief that Jews were responsible for the death of Christ or that homosexuality is an abomination, both of which have been prominently held

beliefs in the doctrine of various churches, opens the door to societal discrimination? While there are certainly many good people of every faith that would reject interpretations of their religion that would cause harm to others, there is no doubt that such interpretations have always existed and persist in our world today.

George Washington once described the United States as a nation “which gives to bigotry no sanction, and to persecution no assistance.” In keeping with the ideals of our country’s first leader, we as former leaders of the College Republicans feel compelled not only to reject the article recently published by our organization, but also the very statute it sought to defend. Any law that would sanction bigotry against homosexuals or any other group in the name of freedom of religion is contrary to our values as conservatives, as Republicans and as Americans.

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on “Personal freedoms, public conciliations and discrimination” | Toe the Line (see thedp.com/opinion for the column)

“but how bout for one time in our lives Penn we call him out for his logical fallacies rather than taking the easy way out by pulling the white privilege card.”

How about you name some of those “logical fallacies”. I am a liberal, in favor of gay marriage, generally against the Indiana law, and yet, I consider Carter’s argument to be generally logically sound.

— Connor Skill

Legally, who is and who isn’t a “protected class” has to be defined by congressional legislation, not by some moral principle.

And that list has now grown so long … we now have something like 70% of Americans treated like discriminated minority groups.

And yet, gays are still not a protected class under Federal legislation.

— sinz54

In truth, such religious freedom restoration acts are simply asking for the legal ability (right) to not be coerced or forced to be complicit in an event or ceremony that one deems is against their religious beliefs. While the above author’s comparison was incredibly misguided and offensive, the principle he is going for holds true.

— Garrett

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Students critique curriculum, community of BFS program Changes aim to improve program for future classes JILL MOELY Staff Reporter

The Benjamin Franklin Scholars program promises to offer undergraduates a fulfilling, intellectually rigorous way to pursue their interests at Penn — but some students say the program could use improving.

BFS takes different forms in each of the four undergraduate schools, and each has its own requirements and acceptance process. In the School of Nursing, the School of Engineering and the Wharton School, students join immediately upon acceptance into Penn, while interested students in the College of Arts and Sciences must apply separately after being admitted.

Although each school requires different courses within the program, College students who participate in BFS have arguably the most comprehensive experience: capital FFreshmen live together in Riepe College House and take an intensive, interdisciplinary multi-credit course called the Integrated Studies Program.

Next fall, students in ISP will study themes of identity, inheritance, and change through the interdisciplinary lens of anthropology and classics. In the spring, they will investigate decisions and learning through the study of cognitive neuroscience and philosophy. It’s a downgrade from the past three years, which integrated three subjects instead of two.

The courses, Classics professor

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Benjamin Franklin Scholars classes are designed to be engaging and challenging, although they recieve varying opinions from students.

and BFS Director Peter Struck said, are meant to be engaging and challenging.

“What’s distinctive about the program is a certain amount of raw intellectual curiosity,” he said.

“We’re looking for students who want to do something hard — and that’s not everybody.”

Students in the Integrated Studies Program agree the experience is engaging, but also say that improvements could be, and have been, made.

“My initial experience was kind of rocky because there wasn’t much transparency between the administration of the program and the students at first. Everything was a little vague,” College sophomore and BFS Advisory Board representative Mary Peyton

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Sanford said of her first year in the program. “They have improved this and continue to do so, which I imagine would be extremely helpful for incoming students.”

Other students raised concerns about the curriculum itself, saying that the program’s goal of meaningful interdisciplinary study isn’t always achieved.

“The program could ideally improve on its consistency to choose good subjects to integrate and good

methods of integrating them,” College freshman Richard Potter said. “There was a wide disparity between this semester and last semester with the strength of integration.”

“It felt like we were doing the same thing over and over again. We weren’t really learning,” one student in the program who requested to remain anonymous said. “It felt like we were really just throwing out words that had to do with each

discipline, but no one knew what they meant. It can be kind of disheartening, like, ‘Why am I doing this?’”

Students have varying opinions on the program’s sense of community. Some feel that living in Riepe and taking small classes together creates a sense of unity, while others disagree.

“Your classmates become your closest friends, considering that these are the same people that you study with, go to class with and live with,” College freshman Ivana Kohut said. “It was a way for me to find a niche at Penn and to make a big campus seem smaller.”

Other students, however, report different experiences.

“It would be nice if the BFS community was more tightly knit,” Sanford said. “There are so many interesting, brilliant and unique students in the program and it would be incredible if we could all get together more often to learn about and be inspired by each other.”

“Some people find their community there, but some people really don’t,” the anonymous student added. “I’m not there [in Riepe] very often, and most of my hall isn’t either.”

Struck says the program will continue to integrate feedback and improve. In order to gauge and

implement student opinion, the BFS program has included student representatives on its Advisory Board and encourages students to voice any concerns at Monday night study hours and other programs.

“As we go on, and develop and change pieces of BFS, we’re doing that with constant feedback from students and trying to be responsive as we can,” Struck said. “Each year, we do revise and streamline the offerings, so we’re definitely very interested in what our students tell us. We do our best to be as responsive as we can be.”

Despite any difficulties students may encounter, most say their experience in the Benjamin Franklin Scholars and Integrated Studies program has been worthwhile.

“At the time I thought, ‘this is useless, why am I doing this?’”

College sophomore Alex Palmer said. “But a lot of the readings were key readings that people mention all of the time — in a lot of other classes, I recognized things I knew from ISP.” “The process of being able to discern exactly what pieces of knowledge you need to find the ‘sweet spot of integration’ is challenging, but once you see how things can come together, it’s not only rewarding but beautiful and elegant,” Kohut added.

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New fund will strengthen ties to Penn Wharton China Center

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Penn’s ties with China are not over yet — the recently-announced Penn China Research and Engagement Fund is a grant program “designed to stimulate and support activity in China and engagement with the Penn Wharton China Center.”

The Penn China Research and Engagement Fund is closely tied to the Penn Wharton China Center, which opened in March. The fund aims to develop new and strengthen existing relationships with Chinese partners, highlight the Penn Wharton China Center as a space for knowledge sharing, support outstanding research projects across the university and increase “the study and understanding of China at Penn,” as well as create “opportunities for student engagement,” according to the announcement.

The Fund will award up to $2 million to qualifying Penn senior administrators and faculty this year.

There is no maximum award size and the grant terms will be up to three years. $1 million will be contributed by the office of the Provost, and $1 million from matching internal and external funds.

“Projects supported by the Fund

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degree,” she said, due to the sheer competitiveness of the field. “I feel like I need as much leverage as I can get.”

Castro put in an impressive amount of independent legwork to achieve this ambition; many around her disputed whether law school was even worth considering. She shepherded herself through the application process, anticipating that an official advisor would try to deter her because of her academic profile.

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Castro worked one summer as an intern for “a very small public policy group,” she said. “Everyone was like, ‘Don’t go to law school, it’s a waste of your time.’”

Ignoring their misgivings, Castro tackled the application.

The whole process, she said, was a lot like Version 2.0 of the undergraduate application experience: There is a test, there are essays and there are GPA considerations.

The advice she was given as a high school student applying to university, she continued, was to focus on her compatibility with a given school and how it would be her perfect academic fit. But when applying to law school, she said, the situation is reversed. Schools are not interested in hearing about how applicants will thrive and prosper in their respective academic contexts. In a pool of impressive candidates, Castro had to emphasize the unique assets she could offer each university.

Fast forward to 2015, and the poised and unrepentant Castro has steered herself to an ideal spot for a rising lobbyist. American University’s location in D.C. places her at the epicenter of lobbying activity; the area’s networking opportunities aren’t shabby either.

“The reasons I chose American were A, for its location and B, for its alumni network within D.C.,” she said. The atmosphere also struck her as the most positive among the D.C. schools. Students at the neighboring George Washington and Georgetown universities appeared somewhat more “stressed and miserable,” she said.

As for the campus, she said, “it’s a little more rural. It’s a 20minute drive to the White House.”

The surroundings are refreshingly green, a far cry from the grids and bricks of Philadelphia. “I’m kind of ready to get out of the city environment,” she laughed.

Sean Mason Sean Mason concluded his selfsearching early.

“I’ve always thought that I’d be a history or poli sci major,” he

said, “and I always knew I wanted to go to law school, since early high school.”

He had an interest in constitutional law that germinated in his American History class. “We talked about the Supreme Court and its important decisions,” he said. He decided thereafter to fix law school firmly on his horizons.

He’s taking an atypical route to his post-graduate degree, however. Mason intends to work for one to two years as a paralegal. He is currently wading through the mess of applications he accessed on PennLink.

“I wanted to get some realworld experience,” he explained.

To pay $200,000 dollars to go to law school and “have it be something I didn’t really want to do,” he said, would be a less-than-desirable situation.

The paralegal field can be a challenge to break into, especially in New York and D.C, he said.

The latter is where Mason eventually intends to base himself. “The firms that have temporary paralegals are the most competitive law firms,” he said.

Unlike Castro, he is not yet sure of how his law degree will be applied once he has it in hand. At law school, he said, once he has gained exposure to the plethora of legal fields available, his decision would likely become easier. “I had an internship with my DA. Criminal law is interesting, but not what I want to do,” he said.

When he finishes with his tenure in the “real world,” Mason wants to attend school in D.C., the city in which he sees himself practicing. He is shooting for either George Washington University or Georgetown University.

Is there any chance his time as a paralegal will dampen his enthusiasm for the profession? “I could envision a circumstance in which I hate it,” he said, “but I’m fairly certain that I will go to law school afterwards.”

With “95 percent” certainty, he added.

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New dean shares vision for Penn Law Ruger focuses on adapting to the changing legal field COREY STERN Deputy News Editor

O n Feb. 17, Theodore Ruger was na med the Pen n L aw S c h o o l’s THEODORE next dea n, Uria volori uria e f f e c Uria volori uria tive July 1.

Ruger, the law school’s deputy dean since 2013, has been a professor at Penn since 2004 and is known for his work in health law and regulation, food and drug law and constitutional law.

Ruger sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to discuss the changing legal landscape and how he plans to position Penn Law for the future.

The Daily Pennsylvanian: How do you feel about taking on this new role at Penn Law? Theodore Ruger: It’s a tremendous honor and a tremendous responsibility to take on the leadership of this place that has been a wonderful professional home to me over the past 11 years. I feel like I know the place well, but I have also learned a tremendous amount, even in the past six weeks since the deanship announcement was made ... This is a law school that is in very good shape so there is a tremendous obligation that I feel to keep our momentum going and to build in even newer and better directions.

DP: What do you foresee the biggest challenge to be for Penn Law in the years to come?

TR: Every law school — even the best ones like Penn — needs to recognize that we are in a shifting legal atmosphere both in the United States and around the world. We’ve worked very hard to weather those changes on behalf of our students and we have, I think, done so. Students who come here do get jobs and

they get good jobs. What is important for us as the legal world continues to change is that we not stand still and that we continue to work to expand the opportunities that students have geographically and expand the opportunities they have to go into any kind of legal practice or public policy work they want to.

DP: You discussed the changing legal atmosphere that exists today. What do you think is the most influential factor that is shaping the legal world today?

TR: The practice of law is more complex than ever. It requires a broader skill set — including skills from other disciplines outside of law — more than ever. It’s globally tinted more than ever. And it changes faster than ever. What that means for us is that we need to educate students not just for their first job but also so they have the fluid intelligence and skills to navigate this changing environment.

DP: Your resume includes serving as President of the Harvard Law Review, clerking for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and stints at other top law schools as well as in private practice. What in your career has had the biggest influence on how you look at the law?

TR: I do feel fortunate to have had a lot of varied experiences at the top levels of clerking, private practice and teaching. And it’s given me a sense of the way in which the law is connected with American politics and American society in ways that sometimes transcend the law books themselves. There was a legal scholar long ago who talked about the difference between the law in the books and the law in action and I think I was lucky enough to see that early in my career. Both in my own teaching and in my vision for what a great law school is, we want to teach the law in the books but we also want to teach the law in action.

DP: From your experience, what separates Penn Law from

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its peer schools?

TR: I feel lucky to have had the chance to spend time at a number of the nation’s other top law schools. It gives me appreciation for what we have here at Penn — and not just a topflight legal education. Because of the values that we hold here and the size we are it’s more of a sense of community and connectedness between faculty, staff and students. The law school I went to and some of the law schools where I visited to teach — places like NYU and Harvard — are huge places with lots of brilliant professors and students. But the cohesiveness at those places doesn’t feel like the community we have at Penn.

DP: A number of Penn Law professors have spoken out against the University’s new sexual assault policies. What role do you see yourself playing in bringing together both sides of this argument?

TR: I’m very committed to having a diverse and open campus. That means promoting an atmosphere where every student and every faculty member feels safe about expressing their opinions — even on matters where we disagree. There have been a number of events, including some that I have moderated, where people from very different viewpoints on this issue have come together. Like any good law school we’re going to tackle the most important and divisive issues in society and we want to tackle them with fairness and open-mindedness and make sure that everyone feels their voice is heard.

DP: Is there anything else you would like to add?

TR: My wife, Jennifer Prah Ruger, is a professor at the medical school. We’ve been together since before I went to law school. She is a scholar as well and has been very helpful to me in thinking about organic issues and making the choices I have. She is instrumental in the interests that I have developed in health law.

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Studies, English, Economics and Fine Arts, report that their students are declaring majors along the same timeline that they have been for years.

Part of this is due to the prerequisites some majors impose upon students. Students who wish to major in economics, for example, must take two economics courses and one calculus course before declaring. The Philosophy, Politics and Economics major has even more rigorous requirements — students must complete eight major-related courses by the end of the semester in which they declare.

The general education requirements of the College of Arts and Sciences can limit early declaration as well.

“Trying to declare a major isn’t as important when you’re coming in as trying to fulfil necessary general requirements,” Undergraduate Coordinator for the Economics Department Lynn Costello said.

Many students who declare

early at Penn do so for reasons contrasting with those found in The Wall Street Journal study; students who declared in their freshman year say they made the choice based on academic passion, not career aspirations.

“I wanted my freshman year to be an exploratory year and once that was done, I affirmed myself of what I was truly passionate about,” College freshman and economics major Pranay Kapoor said.

“It’s okay to know exactly what you want to do, and I didn’t doubt what I wanted to major in when I came in,” College freshman and history major Yasmeen Kaboud said. “All of the people saying ‘Oh, wait until your sophomore year, maybe you’ll find something else never changed my mind, ever.”

There are some benefits to declaring a major early — in departments like Economics, History and English, some course spots are given to majors before undeclared students. But department coordinators say that students who remain unsure about their course of study should not rush in

declaring.

“You may change your mind a thousand times,” Costello said.

“We have kids who have declared and then dropped or gone down to a minor.”

Exploring courses also allows students to discover departments they may have overlooked.

“It takes a while for students to find out about Urban Studies, unlike majors like history or english, which students have experienced in high school,” Co-Director of the Urban Studies Program Elaine Simon said.

“Usually, students take an URBS course, they have an epiphany, and that leads them to us.”

Regardless of whether they declare early or not, many College students feel their undergraduate studies are more than a path to a job.

“There are a lot of different things I could do with a history major,” Kaboud said, “but I think it’s more important to major in something you’re passionate about than something you see leading to a career path.”

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Anxious to snap a five-match losing streak, Penn men’s tennis faced off against St. John’s at home on Wednesday before wrapping its Ancient Eight slate this coming weekend.

However, in a tough ending to the nonconference season, the Quakers were unable to notch a win against the Red Storm (108), falling by a score of 5-2 for the third consecutive match.

While it hoped to develop momentum from the match’s outset, Penn (14-9, 0-5 Ivy) lost the

doubles point early by dropping two of its three matches by identical 8-4 margins. Despite finding themselves in a hole early on, the Quakers were able to take some solace from the doubles round after a comeback victory from juniors Austin Kaplan and Blaine Willenborg, who trailed early on. “Blaine and I were down 6-3 in doubles, and we won the last five games,� Kaplan said. “We had been playing well the last few weeks, and we weren’t going to back down today.�

Kaplan supplemented his strong doubles play with a stellar performance in singles, winning straight sets at the No. 6 spot, 6-4, 6-2.

The Quakers’ only other point for the day came from sophomore

Matt Nardella, who finally came out on top after a topsyturvy,three-set affair.

After blowing past his Red Storm competitor with a 6-2 victory to open things up, he gave up a crucial lead in the second set, falling 5-7. The third set featured a substantial amount of back-andforth play, but Nardella was able to close it out with an emphatic 6-4 victory.

The Manlius, N.Y. native credited coach David Geatz with giving him the necessary guidance to finish off with a win. “I talked to my coach, and he said that if I stayed focused in the last few games of the third set, things would go my way,�

Nardella said. “Fortunately, that’s what happened.�

In the team’s first nonconference loss since March 13, senior captain Jeremy Court suffered a tough three-set loss at No. 1 singles, 7-5, 4-6, 0-6. Additionally, Willenborg, freshman Josh Pompan and sophomore Marshall Sharp lost their matches at the second, third and fifth positions, respectively.

The coming weekend marks the final leg of the season for the Quakers, who are determined to earn their first Ivy league victory of the year against 48th-ranked Cornell on Friday at home, before heading out to New York to face No. 23 Columbia (12-5, 5-0) on Sunday.

With only two days left before Penn faces the Big Red (11-7, 3-3), Geatz wants his players to focus

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Sophomore Matt Nardella captured one of Penn’s only two singles match victories against St. John’s on Wednesday, winning 6-2, 5-7, 6-4.

on resting their bodies in anticipation of the upcoming match. “We are only going to have about an hour of practice,� Geatz said. “This far into the season, it is important that every player has

fresh legs.�

Hopefully that strategy will pay off this weekend for Penn, who will need to be at the top of its game against another round of stiff competition.

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Off to a 0-3 conference start, the Quakers knew they’d have to win out to have any hope of an Ivy League Tournament appearance.

This Saturday — after consecutive wins against then-No. 10 Brown

has the chance to sneak into the postseason with a win over Dartmouth. “Right after the game against Yale, I said, ‘Listen, now it’s must win, if you guys lose another game, there’s almost no chance of us making the postseason. If you can’t handle that pressure, let me know and we won’t put you on the field, but I think you can,’� coach Mike Murphy said. “They responded.�

With many games left to play in the league — most teams have only played four conference games — the conference tournament spots are still entirely undecided. It’s hard to say precisely how the final standings will turn out, but a win over the Big Green (4-6, 1-3) would put Penn in good standing going into the

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Senior midfield Joe McCallion — who currently leads the team in goals with 21 — has been a key leader for Penn over the course of his four years.

season’s final weekend.

The Quakers currently sit in fifth overall in the Ivy League and will need to finish in the top four to play in the postseason tournament.

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postseason feel. “This week is no different than last week, in that we have a good Ivy League opponent and we need to win. So there’s a certain level of urgency in everything we do, more so for the seniors than everyone else because their clock is ticking,�

Murphy added. “We’ve had a good week of practice, hopefully we put our best foot forward on Saturday.�

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minor leagues. Despite his winning record at this level, his peak world ranking was only 1,570 before arriving at Penn.

Although his abilities on the court are unquestionable, there may be another side to Podesta’s departure from the team.

Multiple sources close to and with knowledge of the situation claim that the rookie was kicked off the team after disputes with fellow players and coaches. Neither Geatz nor Podesta responded to questions of whether the latter was dismissed from the team.

No matter the reason for Podesta’s departure, his absence has hurt the Quakers as they have moved forward. With junior Vim de Alwis — Penn’s second-best singles player — out for the year with a torn meniscus, the Red and Blue had to rely on myriad individuals lower in the lineup to take on their opponents’ higher-seeded players.

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and Blue have dropped six straight, going winless since that doubleheader on March 21. Through five Ivy matches, the Quakers are winless in Ivy League play with tough competitions against top-50 ranked schools Columbia and Cornell still left to finish out the season this weekend.

The loss of Podesta changes the entire outlook for the men’s tennis program. “He’s maybe one of the best players to come to Penn tennis,� Geatz said. “Losing him is a huge loss for our team and will have a giant effect on our program.�

With the Quakers’ nucleus of young talent and a strong recruiting class set to arrive on campus next year, the team can still be successful without Podesta moving forward.

However, it can’t be easy for a program to move on from a player who brought with him as much promise as Podesta did through the first half of this season.

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In the waning minutes of the second half, Princeton began to pull away with two unanswered goals from Stephanie Paloscio and Anya Gersoff. Then, with just seven minutes left in regular play, Bensen added a little magic of her own, with her second unassisted goal of the night and 40th of the season.

But a win was not in the cards for the Quakers, as two of their lategame shots hit the post and a third by Bensen in the last minute was saved

by Princeton goalkeeper Ellie DeGarmo. “It was like we couldn’t catch a break,� Corbett said. “Every time [the ball] hit something, it went right back to their sticks.�

Given how closely matched the two teams were, the result came down to the details. And Penn just wasn’t as clean as their opponent. “The 50-50 balls they wanted.

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Saturday’s game will also mark the team’s Senior Day and final home game of the season. The Quakers will honor a strong class of seniors before the game, including leading goal scorer Joe McCallion and Senior CLASS award nominee Matt McMahon. “I’ve met a bunch of guys in my four years that I’m proud to call my brothers,� McCallion said. “This is the closest group of guys

I’ve ever been around, we basically do everything together 24 hours a day. It’s everything to me.�

For the seniors, it’s the final home game of their careers, as well as a chance to potentially extend their final season. The senior class has seen the ups-and-downs of the program as the team finished 3-10 their freshman year before winning the Ivy League title last season.

Regardless of performance on the field, Murphy believes the class has provided the team leadership in all facets. “They’ve meant a tremendous amount. A class that size, with that much talent,� Murphy said. “But the thing that’s the most impressive about them is the way they conduct themselves off the field.

[They’re] tremendous students, great people out in the community, it’s an extremely impressive group of young men.�

However, to Murphy and the rest of the coaching staff, it’s just another game, albeit one with a bit of a

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first romp into Princeton’s fan of the contest.

Before long, Penn was on the board, with an unassisted goal by Bensen in the 11th minute. DeSimone quickly followed suit, scoring Penn’s second goal of the game off of a free position shot to tie the score at two in the 12th minute.

Penn’s third goal came just a minute and a half later unassisted down the stretch from junior attack Nina Corcoran. “Those first three goals in the game — we had just really put a ton of momentum on our side,� Bensen said.

For the remainder of the half, the score inched upwards, with Penn answering each additional Princeton goal. With just 12 seconds remaining in the half, sophomore midfielder Emily Rogers-Healion gave Penn the advantage 5-4.

In the second half, the Tigers came out storming, dominating possession and netting five goals on just six shots. “Defensively, I was disappointed,� Corbett said. “Princeton is a good team and they have some

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Princeton (14-19, 6-4 Ivy) 4 and 6 p.m.

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The Quakers may have won three out of four games against a color, but the Dragons were an entirely different beast.

After taking three of four games from Cornell last weekend, the Red and Blue were dropped by their hometown rival Drexel, 8-0, in a nonconference matchup at Drexel Field.

The score told the whole story in April 15th’s West Philadelphia matinee. In the bottom of the fifth, Drexel’s Vanessa Lightfoot sent the Quakers (16-16, 7-5 Ivy) home with a double, one that increased the Dragons’ lead to eight, thus implementing a mercy rule.

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Senior Alexis Borden pitched for the Quakers on Wednesday, conceding only one earned run but falling victim to a variety of errors behind her. The veteran will likely be key in Penn’s slate against Princeton this weekend.

While Penn did surrender eight runs in four and one third innings, only three were earned.

This was largely due to the four errors committed by the Quakers

in the field. Drexel (14-15) only amassed three extra base hits, so the runs were ultimately the result of the Red and Blue providing extra outs to Drexel

hitters.

Senior Alexis Borden — who took the loss — fell to 7-10 on the year. While she saw four Dragons cross the plate, she was only

responsible for one earned run.

The Yorba Linda, Calif., native also tallied three strikeouts, adding to her career total of over 600, which are the most in Penn softball history.

The loss stings for the Red and Blue but is only a bump in the road and won’t dampen their Ivy League aspirations.

Luckily, despite the loss on Wednesday, the Quakers won’t have to wait long to try to bounce back. After capturing three wins against Ivy League South Division rival Cornell last weekend, Penn now returns home — although it wasn’t too far away when it played Drexel — for another important series on April 18.

Matched up with Princeton, the Quakers may have their hands full with one of the Ancient Eight’s staunchest pitchers.

Junior Shanna Christian — who ranks fourth in the conference with a 2.63 earned run average — threw consecutive completegame shutouts on Sunday against Columbia, helping propel the Tigers (14-19, 6-4) to a four-game

sweep of the Light Blue.

Although Princeton has played two fewer Ivy contests than their South Division rivals, the squad poses a formidable challenge to the Red and Blue as the former seeks another berth in the Ivy League Championship Series.

Although Penn faces Columbia for its final South Division matchup next weekend, a strong performance against the Tigers likely will be enough to put the Quakers in position to capture the division crown.

While both teams feature strong starting pitchers between Borden and Christian, Penn’s advantage comes in the form of its offense. The Quakers average 5.06 runs per contest, while the Tigers only push 3.47 runs across per game and have only one batter with a .300 batting average.

As a result, if the Quakers can do what they failed to do against the Dragons on April 15 and put runs on the board, Penn may find itself in position to clinch the South Division crown sooner rather than later.

Penn seeks end to difficult stretch

ROWING | All three crews

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It’s all hands on deck for Penn rowing this weekend.

After a strong performance ultimately resulted in a loss last weekend in the Childs Cup races, the heavyweight squad will take on Yale and Columbia this weekend for the Blackwell Cup. Meanwhile, the lightweight and women’s crews, are looking to find some success in the Wood-Hammond trophy races and Clemson Invitational, respectively, after challenging early seasons.

Last weekend, the Penn heavyweights rowed against Princeton and Columbia in the Childs Cup races. In the main varsity eight race, which dates all the way back to 1879, Penn was unable to overcome Princeton and finished second.

After the Quakers took an initial lead, the Tigers managed to edge themselves ahead to retain a comfortable lead for the rest of the race. Penn went on to hold off a late push from Columbia to retain second place.

While never satisfied with a

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Mensque to “ensure that physical training is never done without developing productive habits of the mind and that resilience training for the mind is never done without addressing how it connects to and enhances the physical skills.”

Perhaps no sport is more strongly dictated by the workings of the mind than golf.

It is a lonely sport. There is no teamwork. You can’t catch a pass or set a screen. Loud verbal encouragement before a big shot is seen as distracting and taboo.

And with the long walks between holes and everything other than the 10 seconds per hole during which one’s club is actually being swung at the ball, golfers spend most of their time with nothing to do but wrestle the thoughts in their head.

Penn women’s golf coach Mark Anderson knows this, and he knows that there is only so much he can do.

But after Caramanico put on an impressive presentation in a coaches’ meeting in January, Anderson reached out and brought her into the Penn Golf Center to work with the team just before Spring Break.

“We did some interactive stuff to get the players thinking about what they do individually, and what they could do to change their mindset, which was helpful,” Anderson said.

What are some common mental issues golfers can struggle with?

Anderson offered a seemingly illogical, but common, example.

“Some of them feel that if they birdie the first hole, that’s not

loss, heavyweight coach Greg Myhr commended the performance of his crew.

“I think we raced pretty darn well,” he said.

He went on to give credit to the Tigers, a crew he believes is one to look out for this season.

While Princeton also won the second and third varsity eight races, Penn was able to reply by capturing the fourth and fifth.

The Columbia crews, which participated in all but the last race, were not able to overcome Princeton or Penn in any of the races.

This weekend, the Lions will get a second chance to test Penn as the two — joined by fellow Ivy rival Yale — will race it out for the Blackwell Cup in Overpeck, N.J. Much like Princeton and California, a team to whom Penn lost out in the San Diego Crew Classic earlier in the season, Myhr sees Yale as one of nation’s top threats this spring. Last year, the Bulldogs won the cup’s main varsity eight race.

Myhr is confident that if things go well this year, the Red and the Blue will present a serious challenge for the cup.

“If we do our our job right, it will very much be a three boat race,” he said.

necessarily the best thing,” he said.

“Because it can only go downhill from there.

“I thought it went well,” Anderson added, reflecting on Caramanico’s visit. “It was very interesting to look at the thought patterns that some of the players have.

“It’s not something that you can see on a scorecard ... you really don’t know the bad thoughts that they’re having. It was eye-opening to see some of the ways that [the players] are getting in their own way.”

Caramanico said she would be happy to work with her former team next if coach Mike McLaughlin came calling. After all, she has also worked with Penn lacrosse and field hockey, along with teams from several other universities.

But what business does a basketball star have working with a golf team? In Caramanico’s world, the court and the course are not all that different.

“The skills that I teach are rooted in positive psychology, and most of the skills are transferrable to all sports.”

So is Caramanico ready to take on all comers? Not quite.

After debating the issue for a few minutes, the Palestra legend was able to rule out one possible client, and not because of unfamiliarity with the sport “I’ve had some time to think about it, and with Princeton women’s basketball ... I think I would have to say ‘no,’” Caramanico said.

“Though my goal is to help athletes, I am pretty loyal to my alma mater.”

Columbia is also not an opponent to take lightly, as the Lions managed to relegate Penn to third place in last years Blackwell Cup. “They remain a very dangerous crew,” Myhr noted.

For the lightweights, Yale and Columbia also stood in the way last weekend in the Dodge Cup races in Ridgefield Park, NJ. While a historic win took place, it did not come from the Quakers. Columbia finally managed to break Yale’s decade-long winning streak for the Cup. Penn finished third, and the crew is still struggling a few weeks into the spring season.

The Quakers have been pressed to find speed as the season swiftly progresses.

This weekend, the Quakers will take Princeton and Georgetown on for the Wood-Hammond Cup, which signifies another opportunity to break this season’s trend of losing efforts.

Last year, the crew finished second behind Princeton and ahead of Georgetown.

The women, after a short break, will race in the Clemson Invitational this weekend in Clemson, S.C. The Quakers will join about 20 other top crews from around the country, including the likes of Cornell, Harvard and Syracuse.

Much like the lightweights, they hope to show some strength to build confidence as the season quickly progresses.

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The Penn heavyweights performed well last weekend but ultimately fell to Ivy powerhouse Princeton in the Childs Cup.

ON TO PRINCETON

BOUNCING BACK

Penn softball fell to Drexel Wednesday, but now turns its focus to Princeton at Penn Park

Penn’s three rowing squads have had difficult slates of late, but look to rebound this weekend

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No. 13 9 PRINCETON

7 No. 11 PENN

Quakers drop first Ivy contest

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W. LACROSSE | Tigers ride

dominant second half to win

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Trailing early, junior Lely DeSimone notched Penn’s second goal of the game to knot the score.

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Two teams. Two undefeated records. One Yale winner.

(7-6, 2-3 Ivy) Those were the 3 p.m. stakes for Penn in its Franklin Field most highly anticipated game of the season against Princeton at Franklin Field on Wednesday night. And as the light above the stadium’s brick façade faded, so too did the Quakers’ energy, as the hopes of a perfect Ivy season and an outright ninth-consecutive Ancient Eight crown slid out of reach.

After 60 minutes of intense play, Penn fell 9-7 to the Tigers.

“A lot of our underclassmen haven’t experienced that Ivy loss necessarily,” senior captain Tory Bensen said. “So we can’t dwell on it. We don’t have time to dwell on it.”

Wednesday’s loss does not mean that a ninth Ivy title is out of reach for the Quakers. However, their destiny is now out of their hands.

In order for Penn (10-3, 4-1 Ivy) to continue its streak, Princeton (10-3, 5-0) must lose to either Brown or Columbia and the Red and Blue must finish its season in perfect form against Yale and Cornell. Crazier things have happened, but there are no longer any guarantees.

The Tigers won the game’s opening faceoff and did not surrender control of the ball until nearly 10 minutes into the first half, scoring two goals along the way.

Despite the intense pressure from Princeton’s attack, Penn’s defense did not waver. Senior defender Meg Markham was particularly forceful, shutting down the Tigers’ leading scorer, Olivia Hompe.

“Defensively I think our first stance was great,” coach Karin Corbett said.

The tide finally turned for Penn when junior midfielder Lely DeSimone knocked free a ground ball and carried it up the field, marking the Quakers’ SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 8

COURTESY OF PENN ATHLETICS

Penn men’s tennis will need to continue without the services of freshman sensation Nick Podesta, adding uncertainty to the program’s future.

M. TENNIS | Unclear

why freshman off team MATTHEW FINE Sports Reportor

On March 21, Penn men’s tennis was prepared for matches against Temple and the joint team of Claremont-MuddScripps. Despite two tough losses over spring break, the Quakers were in the midst of one of the best starts to their season in school history, sitting

at 12-3 through 15 contests.

Each of those losses came without their best player, freshman Nicolas Podesta. The team was far from concerned.

With everyone back and healthy for that Saturday doubleheader, the Quakers easily dispatched of Temple and the trio of Claremont colleges. The team improved to 14-3 on the year, and Podesta remained undefeated, perfect through his first eight matches at Penn.

The team had high expectations going into the start of Ivy

League play.

Things did not go according to plan.

Penn proceeded to drop both of its first two Ancient Eight contests against Princeton and Yale. Podesta also suffered his first two defeats.

The day after the Yale match, Penn fell again, this time to Brown. The Quakers’ young leader was not in the lineup and has not returned since.

It’s strange for any player — especially a team’s No. 1 singles player — to stop competing in

the middle of the season without a reason. Early murmurs were that Podesta was injured or sick.

He had missed the two spring break matches due to what head coach David Geatz called a “viral illness.”

It was later rumored that Podesta — a five-star recruit from Rumson, N.J. — was going to turn his focus to playing professional tennis. Geatz confirmed this earlier this week.

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Legend helps Red and Blue from mental perspective W. GOLF | Golfers aided

by sports psychologist TOMMY ROTHMAN Associate Sports Editor

Yankees legend Yogi Berra claimed his sport was “90 percent mental, and the other half is physical.”

While the statement now draws its notoriety from its mathematical absurdity, its message still rings clear. The real playing field is in the mind.

Penn alumna Diana Caramanico — a 2001 Wharton graduate and Penn women’s basketball legend — has a more sophisticated motto than Berra: Corpus Mensque. Body and Mind. And while she doesn’t have 10 World Series rings like the quirky catcher, her athletic

resume also commands respect.

Caramanico is the most dominant basketball player to ever don the Red and Blue. The only Quakers’ player — male or female — to ever eclipse 2000 points, her scoring total of 2,415 points ranks second only to NBA legend Bill Bradley for the most in Ivy League history.

Caramanico obviously had very little in the way of obstacles — mental or physical — while she was steamrolling the Ivy League as a player. But while coaching middle and high schoolers after her playing career, Caramanico — who had always wanted to start a business — had an epiphany.

“I realized what’s holding these kids back is not whether their elbow’s down on their shot,” Caramanico said. “It’s that they’re afraid to fail, or

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afraid to take risks, or they constantly beat themselves up in their head about something that they’ve done, or they misinterpret things that the coaches tell them. Or maybe they get so focused on what the refs are doing that they take themselves out of their game.”

Her calling would be to train the mind, not the body.

“A lot of people can teach somebody the physical mechanics of shooting,” she said. “But I realized that my passion was to help kids and college athletes to maximize their potential with the skills they already had.”

Caramanico earned her master’s degree in applied positive psychology from Penn in 2011.

Now a sports psychologist, she launched her business Corpus SEE W. GOLF PAGE 9

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In her time at Penn, Diana Caramanico became the leading scorer in the history of Penn basketball with over 2000 points.

Now, the former Ivy League champion helps teams — including Penn women’s golf — through sports psychology.

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