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Caroline Furrer had led the team through a tumultuous year, dealing with what she sees as a problematic new coach and a negligent administration. On the court, she was one of the team’s stars during one of the worst seasons in program history. Off the court, she was one of the team’s fiercest advocates in its fight to be heard and taken seriously.

Furrer told her teammates on April 1 that she was leaving the volleyball program after three years. The captain’s deliberations were complex and calculated, but her reason was simple: There was no hope.

Her departure was merely the most recent development in a year’s worth of twists and turns that began last spring and continue today.

Several players said that coach Iain Braddak’s conduct over the past year left many on the team feeling offended, mistreated, or dejected, but that Penn Athletics’ responses to the student-athletes’ concerns have left them feeling even worse. From the administration’s decision to hire Braddak, which the team advised strongly against, to its handling of the eight formal grievances filed against him since, multiple players on the team have alleged that they have suffered at the hands of a leadership that has consistently put them second.

Penn Dental staff receive racist email Dean announced the sender was an imposter MANLU LIU Senior Reporter

An external investigation into a racist email, which appeared to originate from Penn Dental’s chief financial officer, concluded the email was fraudulent and was sent from an account not affiliated with the University, Penn Dental Dean Mark Wolff announced Tuesday. Wolff added that Penn has launched an internal investigation to determine the identity of email’s sender, who addressed the message to a Penn Dental staff emailing list.

The external investigation launched after staff at the Penn Dental Family Practice received an email on April 10 praising the closure of Penn Dental’s off-campus clinic and writing “All the blacks are almost gone!” The construction of the email, which was addressed to Wolff, made it appear as though Penn Dental CFO Janemarie Schultz accidentally sent the email to the entire staff and intended for the praise to be kept private.

“Mark we did it! Berwyn is finally closing!” the email read, referring to the closure

of the Penn Dental Main Line clinic location on June 30.

“All the blacks are almost gone! But we have to keep a few show ones around. Don’t you agree?? Joking.”

In an email on April 16, Wolff wrote that the email sent to Penn Dental Family Practice staff was false and was sent by someone impersonating Schultz. The dean claimed that an external IT forensic investigation found that the email did not originate from a Penn account.

Wolff added that Penn Police and senior University IT Security Officers have also launched an investigation into the sender of the message.

“Words cannot convey how distraught I am that our employees were targets of such a hateful and divisive communication designed specifically to hurt and divide our community,” Wolff wrote.

Schultz joined Penn Dental in July 2017. Prior to Penn Dental, Schultz had 25 years of industry experience in health care finance. Schultz’s position includes managerial and fiduciary responsibilities.

Wolff added that he will be meeting with members of Penn Dental to “listen to suggestions on how we might begin to heal.”

“We are kicking, screaming, and crying out from rock bottom for help.”

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“I had to take a stand for what I believe in,” Furrer told The Daily Pennsylvanian after her resignation. “So, I didn’t quit the

team, I quit Penn Athletics and the coaching staff because of a lack of action and support.

When eight out of 20 young women file grievances against a coach, there should be action and support — we got neither.”

Furrer’s teammates say they’re proud of her decision, highlighting the precarious situation they’ve endured for the past year of balancing support for teammates with issues with their coach. Three players have quit.

The remaining teammates are left to prepare for another season of playing the sport they love under conditions they don’t.

At multiple points since the beginning of the school year, players have hoped for positive change from both Braddak and Penn Athletics, only to be disappointed with

what they saw. Over the course of the last six months, roughly a third of the team — including two of the team’s three captains — have spoken with the DP about their predicament. Multiple sources requested to speak off the record or anonymously, citing either skepticism that voicing their stories would bring about any real change or fear of potential retribution if they did speak out publicly.

Yet, behind closed doors, the team has been fighting hard to be heard by the administration and see their grievances, formal and informal, addressed earnestly.

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Protests greet conservative activist at Penn Student groups hosted Owens on April 15 GRANT BIANCO Staff Reporter

Candace Owens, a prominent conservative commentator and political activist, was met with fierce protests before delivering a fiery, anti-Democrat speech on campus Monday night.

At the April 15 event in College Hall, which was co-hosted by Penn College Republicans and conservative publication The Statesman, Owens criticized the #MeToo movement and sarcastically said women “never lie.” Owens also claimed that black people were being misled by the Democratic Party.

Student groups such as the Penn Association for Gender Equity, Lambda Alliance, and the United Minorities Council denounced Owens’ ideology, criticizing her opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement and her past insensitive comments about transgender individuals.

Minutes before the event, progressive and anti-fascist protestors voiced their disapproval of Owens’ presence. About 20 anti-fascist protestors from Philadelphia Antifa wore ski masks and bandanas and gathered on College Green, shouting “F**k Candace Owens” and “F**k the police.” PAGE protestors also gathered in a silent demonstration against Owens inside College Hall.

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Student groups like Penn Association for Gender Equity, Lambda Alliance, and the United Minorities Council denounced Owens’ ideology, criticizing her opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement.

more Kevin Zhou said the 6B — Penn’s six main minority coalition groups — met prior to Monday’s event to discuss the response and to denounce Owens.

“We all know what she’s been doing around here. A lot of mocking, a lot of racist statements, saying racism doesn’t exist, mocking sexual assault victims,” Zhou said.

“UMC was in full support of [the protest].”

College freshman Kate Silva, who silently protested against Owens inside college hall said Owens approached her and other protesters while she was inside. Silva said

while Owens was “polite” in her interactions with them, she disputed their criticisms of her. “She was coming over and looking at a lot of the posters and then asking students who were holding posters to give her examples of when she had said things or done things,” Silva said.

At the event, Owens sharply attacked the #MeToo movement and questioned why black Americans would be supportive of the antisexual assault campaign.

“The concept that we should just believe women is exactly what got my ancestors lynched,” Owens said.

“We’ve learned our lesson the hard

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way with that.”

Owens also promoted the “Blexit” movement, a campaign she launched that encourages black Americans and other minorities to leave the Democratic Party. From 1972 to 2016, the Democratic presidential candidate received an average of 87% of the black vote, FiveThirtyEight reported.

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Student activists organize a teach-in during Quaker Days Activists claim Penn prioritizes profits GORDON HO Staff Reporter

While hundreds of prospective Penn students visited campus Wednesday for the last day of Quaker Days, student activists organized a teach-in titled, “What the F**k, Penn? Part II,” where students spoke about Penn’s stance against paying PILOTs and the University’s refusal to divest from fossil fuels.

Student Labor Action Project, Penn Student Power, and Fossil Free Penn organized the teach-in, which took place at noon at the Perelman Quadrangle steps, and distributed flyers throughout the day to inform the prospective students. The students spoke about the low wages that subcontracted din-

ing workers receive and Penn’s decision against making voluntary payments to local governments in lieu of any property tax, despite being exempt as a nonprofit organization.

Fossil Free Penn member and College senior Zach Rissman, who gave one of the speeches, said the teach-in was necessary because incoming freshmen deserve to be informed of the actions that Penn does not publicize.

“A lot of times, [Penn] prioritizes profits over the well-being of their students,” Rissman said. “We just think it’s really important for incoming freshmen to hear that message and at least be privy to the same information that we are.”

SLAP member and College senior Carl Fulghieri, who also delivered a speech, said Penn uses its power as an employer and landowner to “push around the

city of Philadelphia.”

“The motivation to reach out to prospective students is to remind the University that Penn’s values matter to those considering matriculation,” Fulghieri, a former Daily Pennsylvanian staffer, said.

“If Penn can’t fulfill the moral component of its motto, the school’s vanity is clear as day.”

Prospective students said that while the event could be intimidating for incoming freshmen, they were surprised to hear student activists revealing what was happening at the Ivy League school.

Prospective Penn student Jenny Lu said it can be scary when prospective students are on campus for Quaker Days and they are exposed to things that current students dislike about Penn. But she added that she thinks it is crucial for students to voice their opinions.

“I think it’s very necessary

they’re standing up for what they believe in,” Lu said. “And we are a target audience because we should know what’s going on before we go into a school.”

Sasha Mills, another prospective student, said the teach-in provided a welcome alternative to the Penn Admissions presentations.

“I think it’s interesting because the entire day we’ve been getting like a cookie-cutter, like they’re smiling at us, telling what’s good.

But I am getting this perspective of what actual Penn students are doing,” Mills said. “These problems are not something that should be happening at an Ivy League school. And I wasn’t expecting it.”

Prospective student Rodolfo Pena said although the teach-in taught him that many subcontracted dining hall workers at Penn receive low wages, there are advantages and disadvantages to

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The Penn activist groups distributed flyers from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Locust Walk and around Irvine Auditorium and Houston Hall.

every school.

“Overall, I believe it’s not going to affect my decision,” Pena said. “Wherever you go, you are going to have pros and cons to the school.”

Prospective student Abdel Barbosa also said he is now

thinking about participating in activist efforts at Penn because of the teach-in.

“Being here, there’s always going to be something to change,” Barbosa said. “If I come here, I can have a part in helping to make that change come into fruition.”

Jeb Bush discusses climate change and young leadership Bush sat down for an exclusive interview with the DP DANIEL TAN Staff Reporter

Jeb Bush wants college students to start rising up.

“Are you going to be selfabsorbed and focused on social media, or are you going to break out and change our culture and use the power that you have for good?” Bush said. “I’m pretty optimistic that there will be an awakening.”

The former governor of Florida and Presidential Professor of Practice sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian in an interview Tuesday afternoon.

Bush spoke to the DP moments after he spoke at the Perry World House 2019 Global Shifts Colloquium on climate change. During

the public event, the Republican political figure expressed support for bipartisan action on climate change, but said free markets and state governments were better suited to address the issue than the federal government.

In the interview with the DP, Bush spoke about the need for college students to take the lead on climate change reforms and advocated for bipartisan solutions. Bush also offered an onthe-spot compromise himself.

“As it relates to climate change, the compromise could be: invest more in long-term infrastructure and research,” Bush said, referring to federal government actions. “That’s a place where I think there’s broad consensus.”

Politicians such as Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have also proposed carbon taxes as a so-

lution to climate change. Bush signaled that he would be willing to entertain the idea if the funds were not used to expand federal programs.

“Ultimately, there could be a consensus for a tax on carbon so long as it wasn’t used to grow government,” he said, adding that the funds should support tax cuts for working families.

“I don’t know if the left would be all excited about a tax cut for people. But that would be the logical place,” Bush said.

“It’s raising the price of carbon to factor in the long-term costs related to the changing climate, and you’re dollar for dollar giving that back to people who are disproportionately impacted by higher energy costs.”

Bush also expressed frustration for the current state of politics in Washington, D.C. during

his public talk, claiming that “in D.C., even when they agree, they can’t agree.” Bush, however, told the DP that he remains optimistic that a consensus can be reached.

“Nothing is linear in life, and certainly our political history has never been linear,” Bush said.

“We’ve always been a dynamic country, and, historically, at the time when you least expect it, all of a sudden, a change in the paradigm happens.”

Reflecting on his remarks during the public talk, Bush added that the current era is not as bleak as people often think.

“The ‘60s and ‘70s, I can promise you, were far more perilous than what we’re going through now. In this mindset that we have right now that the end is near and everything is horrible, some things can be a catalyst for it to change,” Bush said.

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Bush spoke to the DP moments after he took the stage at the Perry World House 2019 Global Shifts Colloquium on climate change.

Directly addressing Penn students, Bush challenged younger generations to start taking the lead and developing solutions to major issues such as climate change, as they are the ones who will “create the new America.”

“The dominant political and cultural force 10 years from now are going to be the combination of millennials and Gen Z,” Bush said. “And the question is: Are you up for it?”

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Fling crimes decrease this year

The decrease may be a result of the Task Force DANIEL WANG Staff Reporter

This year’s Spring Fling weekend saw lower crimes and citations than in recent years, which may be the result of controversial drug and alcohol policies Penn adopted in 2018, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

This year, six students required medical transportation to the hospital, a significant decrease from 15 students in 2018 and 24 students in 2017. There were seven total violations of underage drinking, all of which received citations from Liquor Control Enforcement officers, who were dispatched from the state. In 2018, 15 students received violations from the state officers.

The reduction in the incidents comes a fter Penn implemented policies outlined by the Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community, Rush said. The Task Force, which began in 2017, recommended a set of guidelines that required all student events to be registered and that limited the amount of alcohol that could be at parties. The guidelines were enforced starting March 2018.

“We think there’s been a big adherence to policies and

a culture change in the offcampus areas in general,” Rush said. “Students were not roaming around and not intoxicated to levels of hospitalization. This was the best result of a Spring Fling concert that I can remember, ever.”

In 2013, the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement started sending Pennsylvania State Police officers to patrol on and around campus during each Fling weekend. The officers consist of undercover and uniform police who search for open containers and underage drinking.

This Fling, the houses that have typically been problematic in the past understood and abided by the rules, Rush said.

More parties have also been officially registered in recent months, Rush added.

“We saw a remarkable difference in the way people were taking responsibility off-campus,” Rush said.

The Task Force guidelines also introduced event observers, who are paid $35 an hour to patrol the University City area to report parties that are in violation of the University’s policies.

“We have event observers that are walking around and they work in cooperation with Penn Police. The amount of unregistered parties was lower this year and were quickly

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The reduction in citations this year may be due to policies implemented from the Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community.

closed down,” Rush sa id.

“However, people who were just having a few friends over were not bothered at all.”

This year, there were two different parties that had excessive amounts of hard liquor that were confiscated by Liquor Control Enforcement and Penn Police late Friday afternoon.

These parties were both held in outdoor spaces, Rush said.

Despite the reduction in medical incidents and alcohol use, the number of noise complaints remained about the same. This year, 19 houses were reported for noise complaints by neighbors. This figure was

a slight decrease from the 20 reports made in 2018 and 21 reports made in 2017.

For the past three years, there have been no citations for disorderly conduct over Fling weekend. There were no citations for public urination this year or in 2018, but there were three counts in 2017.

The medical transports were covered by the Alternative Response Unit, and no student was billed, Rush said. There were also no alcohol-related issues at the Fling concert on Saturday night and there was only one non-alcohol related medical injury, she added.

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89% of the black vote when it was her husband, while she was with him in the Oval Office, that locked up more black men than any president in the history of the United States with his Three Strikes [law]?”

On Twitter, Owens described the protestors as the “neoKKK” in a video filmed outside College Hall.

Penn Democrats Political Director and College sophomore Owen Voutsinas-Klose said Owens’ views were “dead wrong on so many things,” and that the event’s organizers should have chosen a different speaker.

“I think [College Republicans]and the Statesman should be ashamed of themselves for inviting her,” Voutsinas-Klose said. “She continuously accuses the Democratic Party of racism, when she goes out of her way to ignore the white supremacists in her own party.”

Owens serves as the director of communications for the conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA and frequently travels to college campuses to deliver talks criticizing progressives and the Democratic Party.

President Donald Trump tweeted his praise for Owens in 2018, calling her “wonderful to watch.” Owens also recently testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee for a hearing on white nationalism after being invited by Republicans, and drew attention when she de-

scribed the Republican Party’s “Southern strategy” as a “myth.”

The term refers to the way Republicans appealed to white Southern voters who opposed civil rights and left the Democratic Party in the 1960s and 1970s. Owens’ statement, however, was determined to be false by fact-checker Politifact.

Owens repeated the claim at Penn Monday night and denied the Southern strategy again.

“Why did the Republicans not have a majority of Congressional seats in the South until 1994 if [the “Southern strategy”] worked,” Owens said. “You cannot say with a sane head that the South became more racist over time.”

The Statesman President and College junior Sydney Gwynn wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian that Owens’ speech was a success and that Penn resources were used productively by hosting the controversial speaker.

“We felt that bringing her to campus would benefit the Penn community as she presents a viewpoint that is not well represented on campus,” Gwynn said.

“The Antifa ‘protestors’ had pretty much no impact on the event. Our report on their preevent threats really boosted our website’s daily views though, so they actually ended up helping us in a way.”

College Republicans Communications Director and Wharton freshman Corey Paredes declined to comment on the event and the protests.

Penn maintains its stance against paying PILOTs Student petitions call on Penn to pay PILOTs AMANDA O’BRIEN Staff Reporter

In the wake of renewed student petitions demanding that Penn pay PILOTs, or voluntary payments in lieu of property taxes, Penn is standing its ground and defending its position against the practice.

A recent petition, titled “University of Pennsylvania: Pay Your Fair Share to the Philly Schools,” calls on Penn to willingly make payments to local governments in lieu of any property tax, despite being exempt as a nonprofit organization. The petition, which was circulated

by Penn students and created by local coalition Our City Our Schools, demands that Penn’s Board of Trustees “contribute 50% of the value of forgone taxes in property in Philadelphia.” The petition has garnered more than 1,000 signatures.

Student groups Fossil Free Penn, Penn Student Power, and Student Labor Action Project at Penn also began circulating a second petition, which has gained 74 signatures, titled “PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS SAY: DO BETTER, PENN!” FFP Campaign Coordinator and College junior Jacob Hershman said this petition exists to specifically inform students who are considering enrolling at Penn.

In response to the student petitions, Penn defended its long-held stance that its current contributions to the city are sufficient and more effective than PILOTs. “We believe that the depth of Penn’s financial commitment

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On March 21, Penn Student Power spoke alongside local non-profit organizers about Penn’s continued stance against paying Philadelphia PILOTs, Payments in Lieu of Taxes.

and the breadth of programs we support has proven to be far more impactful than PILOTs have been in any city where they have been attempted,” Vice President of University Communications Stephen MacCarthy wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

PILOT payments can be directed to Philadelphia’s school district, which hosts the eighthlargest student enrollment in the nation. MacCarthy wrote that Penn schools are focused on community engagement with “over 500 activities going on in 248 schools in every catchment area throughout the District.”

The University is also the city’s largest employer with 40,000 faculty and staff, MacCarthy wrote.

“As the largest private employer in the City of Philadelphia, Penn and its affiliates

contribute more to the City’s general fund through a multitude of tax payments than any other City based employer,” he added.

College freshman Ashley Fuchs, who participated in the latest PILOTs protest in March, voiced support for Penn’s local programs, but said it was not an exception for the University to justify not paying PILOTs. “It is the veil of community engagement that Penn places upon its behavior and location in Philadelphia that is absolutely negated by its failure to contribute to the city and the people who live in it,” Hershman said.

Penn’s programs geared toward providing resources to local Philadelphia schools are “ineffective,” said College junior Erik Vargas, who is also a member of SLAP. Vargas said he thinks students typically stay on academic

programs for one semester and he feels that most programs lack adequate structure. Vargas gave the example of his experience in a mentorship program where he was an English as a second language tutor assigned to a student who only spoke French though he speaks Spanish.

“It would be so much better if taxes were being paid and professionals could be hired,” Vargas said. “They could have someone who actually can develop a curriculum, sees the students every day.”

This is not the first time Our City Our Schools has petitioned Penn to pay PILOTs. In March 2018, the nonprofit joined SLAP in front of College Hall, which disrupted a University Council meeting.

Protests advocating for Penn to pay PILOTs have been ongoing since 2014, when members

of Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, along with members of SLAP, staged a protest at President Amy Gutmann’s annual holiday party.

From 1995 to 2000, Penn was a part of a PILOTs agreement.

But after 2000, the deal was not renewed. Of the entire Ivy League, only Penn and Columbia University do not pay PILOTs to their local governments.

“It just seems that other elite institutions have volunteer programs as well,” Fuchs said, “but they’re not using the greatness of one program to justify not doing anything else in any other sphere.”

Undergraduate Assembly President and College junior Natasha Menon said she wants to work with administrators to create an open dialogue about the PILOTs debate at Penn.

“Penn has displaced local

communities as it’s expanded, and that does create an impact on the community in terms of disrupting local neighborhoods,” Menon said. “Penn has made efforts to try and mitigate those effects, but I think we can always be doing more.”

Wharton senior Michelle Lyu, who is a member of SLAP and PSP, wrote in an email to the DP that students should feel personally affected by Penn’s decision to opt out of paying property taxes.

“Philadelphia public school students are suffering, even dying from lack of necessary resources just blocks away from our well-groomed, opulent institution that drips with material wealth,” Lyu wrote. “This is a painful reality that should move us, as sincere and empathetic humans and Penn students, deeply. It’s on us.”

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Georgetown reparations highlight importance of studying Penn’s ties to slavery THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN EDITORIAL BOARD

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ast week, undergraduate students at Georgetown University voted overwhelmingly in favor of creating a fund to benefit descendants of 272 enslaved men, women, and children who were sold in 1838 to save the university’s finances.

Under the proposal, a mandatory fee of $27.20 per student per semester would fund a nonprofit, run jointly by Georgetown students and descendants, which would allocate money to charitable causes benefiting the descendants. Students turned out for the election at a record-high rate, according to Georgetown’s student newspaper, but the proposal needs approval from administrators before it can be implemented.

This referendum is the culmination of years of student activism at Georgetown since the university launched its Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation in 2015. The high turnout in last week’s student government elections at Georgetown reflects the extent to which the student body there has taken an active role in determining how their school will address its historical ties to slavery. It’s time for Penn’s student body to do the same.

Penn has recently joined schools such as Georgetown, Harvard University, Brown University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, and the University of Virginia in beginning to publicly reckon with historical ties to slavery.

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The Penn Slavery Project’s research has revealed that a substantial number of Penn’s founding trustees owned slaves. These trustees also sent William Smith, the University’s first provost, and John Morgan, the founder of the Medical School, to South Carolina and Jamaica to raise funds for the University from wealthy slave owners. “Smith and Morgan’s efforts ensured that the university would stay open because of wealth earned from slave-labor,” the project’s website states.

Additionally, the student researchers have highlighted how the Medical School’s faculty and alumni pioneered theories of race “science” used to defend slavery and to create a scientific basis for white supremacist ideologies. For example, in the mid-19th century, Medical School professor Samuel Morton catalogued the sizes and volumes of hundreds of human skulls to support his theory that mankind could be

divided into five separate races and ranked by intellect. This research was used to justify chattel slavery as consistent with a natural racial hierarchy, and today Morton is often called the “father of scientific racism.” This pseudoscience of racial difference remains influential today in more subtle ways; a 2016 study at the University of Virginia found that an alarming percentage of white medical students and residents held false beliefs about biological differences between black and white people, including that black people have thicker skin than white people.

Penn’s history is not the same as Georgetown’s. There is no evidence that Penn ever owned enslaved people or that Penn directly profited from the sale of slaves in the way Georgetown did. Still, we must critically examine how Penn contributed to racial injustice during the antebellum period, especially in light of the University’s more recent history of

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At most of these schools, administrators convened research groups to study institutional ties to slavery following increased attention to such connections. Penn is one of a few colleges where research programs on institutional ties to slavery originated in undergraduate history courses. The idea for the Penn and Slavery Project came out of a spring 2017 course taught by History professor Kathleen Brown, and students have contributed research to the project every semester since fall 2017.

These undergraduate researchers, as well as others involved in the project, are laying the foundation for Penn to reckon with its connections to slavery. The Penn student body ought to recognize this work by taking the time to learn about the project’s early findings, just as Georgetown students have worked to understand their institution’s role in the slave trade.

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expanding at the expense of black communities in West Philadelphia.

When the extent of Georgetown’s complicity in the slave trade became widely known in 2016, Penn’s director of media relations denied the University had any direct historical ties to slavery. But in early 2018, following the first semester of the Penn and Slavery Project research, President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett released a statement announcing the formation of a new working group on slavery and praising the group’s work to cast “a new light on our historical understanding of the reach of slavery’s connections to Penn.”

“It is important that we fully understand how it affected our University in its early years and that we reflect as a university about the current meaning of this history,” the statement read.

No institution can fully repay the moral debt owed for helping to promote slavery, but supporting the Penn and Slavery Project’s efforts to investigate the University’s history is a good first step. The University should continue to support the work of the Penn and Slavery Project.

The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board encourages all members of the Penn community to take the time to learn about this research on the history of our institution.

Further information is available on the project’s website at pennandslaveryproject.org.

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y name is not a hard name. Indeed, my name peaked as the number one baby name in the United States from 1981 to 1997 according to Wikipedia. So why can’t so many professors at Penn get my name right?

I’ve been called Danielle in high school, Anna in one of my college seminars, Jen in another.

While these names may seem unrelated to my given name, they have something in common — they’ve all been the names of other Asian students in my classes.

Perhaps this is a small issue.

Perhaps other people may say that educators obviously do not mean to incorrectly name a student, or that they’re trying their best. But when professors get my name confused with that of another Asian student in class halfway through the semester and beyond, this reads as disrespectful and harmful to me, as well as the other student. Especially in small seminars when somewhat of a relationship between professor and student must be cultivated, confusing me with another student is disappointing at best and offensive at worst.

An important observation to make in cases like these is that name confusion or mispronunciation is often racialized. While my professors have rarely confused white students for the same person or mispronounced white names, these situations nearly always seem to happen to students of color.

When there is another Asian or Asian-American woman in one of my small seminars, I almost always

get called her name several times before a true correction is made.

For African American, Asian, Latinx students and other students of color who have more “complicated” names to professors, their names are often reduced or mispronounced for weeks, without much care given to ensuring their names are said correctly.

This isn’t just me being sensitive. Research has shown that students’ emotional wellbeing, attitude towards their heritage, and even overall worldview can be negatively affected by teachers’ failure to pronounce their names correctly. While this study was for students in K-12 education, these negative feelings can continue to permeate in the college environment. Racial microaggressions are actively harmful and demeaning to students of color, especially in an environment like a classroom which should be a safe space.

When professors do not take the time to learn something as simple

as a name, especially in a racialized context, this spells out a clear message: They do not value these students’ identities. Names that are “confusing” are often names that do not fit into a Western understanding of naming practices: for example, a well-known statistics professor at Penn is known for requiring Asian students to use “Western convention” when writing their names. While this may seem like a small thing to ask, it is a significant reminder that minority students must shift their own perceptions of their names and identities to fit into the mold of the white American classroom.

I’ve often kept quiet when professors get my name wrong. I’ll laugh, say it’s no big deal, and smile at the Asian girl who I got confused with, as if trying to make it into a joke that we can both share.

Because maybe it’s not a big deal, not a significant correction to make, not too much labor to tell a professor that they’re wrong, and no, my

name is Jess. But the truth is, it does hurt — and it’s something that hurts every time, like my existence is not important enough to ensure that even something as simple as my name is correct.

When one of my professors this semester got my name wrong very late into the semester, I felt a tangible twist of pain in my stomach. As soon as she called me the incorrect name, she quickly backtracked and apologized to me right after class. I appreciated this. But tiny microaggressions like these too often go unnoticed, and every professor at this school should be cognizant of the way they address their students. Because guess what — we don’t all look the same. Learn our names correctly. It’s not that hard.

JESSICA LI is a College junior from Livingston, N.J., studying English and psychology. Her email address is jesli@sas.upenn.edu.

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couple of things I liked recently: Ariana Grande’s new album, “thank u, next” and Jordan Peele’s new horror film, Us. Random, I know, but they’re related. Us, deals with all the things that can be hidden under a happy exterior, while one of my favorite songs on “thank u, next” is titled “fake smile.”

What seems to be a very common theme among college-aged people is the idea of emotional authenticity.

“To thine own self be true” is a sentiment essential to healing and self-love, even written on the Alcoholics Anonymous chip to

emphasize the importance of an honest moral inventory. It is a hard sentiment to honor wholly, though, because it is tough to decide what is an accurate marker of who “thine own self” really is, especially when the way you feel is affected by both cultural social norms and your environment.

At Penn, in my experience, it is not likely that you spend a lot of the weekday, what with classes, clubs, and jobs among other things, around people you’d usually choose to spend time with. When you aren’t busy, it is likely that people you’d hang out with have a commitment anyway. I realized that spending a lot of time alone, coupled with the stress of academics, can foster loneliness even in those who like alone time. This means you might not feel as happy as you might have in high school or on vacation.

In a Cambridge University Press study, researchers looked at fulltime employees in jobs that explicitly or implicitly required displays of positive emotions toward custom-

ers—salespeople, waiters, cashiers.

Because it makes sense that employees won’t always be in a positive state, they do things to achieve that required display of happiness.

There are two ways to do this, one of which, “deep acting,” is to actually dig up positive emotions from past experiences/memories. The focus of this study, though, is “surface acting,” which is basically just faking it and requires actively suppressing your real emotions.

The moral of the study is to avoid surface acting by all means—it takes an emotional toll and creates dissonance between what you feel and what you display. Pretending to be happy when you aren’t doesn’t only make you into someone else for a moment; it can leave you vulnerable to behaving like someone you don’t want to be.

There is a social expectation that we treat each other in a respectful manner at Penn, so to be clear, I am not equating emotional authenticity to always being completely uncensored and letting emotion overtake

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common sense and respect for the people around you. There are also studies that say smiling can make you happier. I don’t mean if you’re upset that you should let it overwhelm your demeanor.

Instead, I’m saying that we are all stressed and busy at Penn, for all types of reasons, but that doesn’t mean that no one cares about your well-being. Try to be mindful of when someone asks you how you

are and you just say, “Good, you?”

Find people whom you don’t have to act around. Journal. Make music. Talk to someone at CAPS. Reach out to people about how you feel. And if smiling makes you feel better, smile.

KALIYAH DORSEY is a College freshman from Pennsauken, N.J., studying English. Her email address is kaliyahd@sas.upenn.edu.

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andace Owens, a prominent black conservative commentator and the communications director for Turning Point USA, was invited to speak at Penn earlier this week

by College Republicans and The Statesman. She has risen to media attention largely because of her vocal opinions against the Black Lives Matter movement, her support for President Trump, and her recent comments about Hitler and white nationalism.

Many of Owens’ arguments are rooted in blatant inaccuracies and her events tend to foster a provocative environment. Despite this, some student groups felt that it was appropriate to give Owens a platform on campus even with the negative implications. Not only are her fallacies harmful to the groups they affect, but they also stunt the possibility for productive conversations across partisan lines. We cannot reverse the fact that Owens came to Penn, but in the future we must make an active choice to only invite, fund, and support speakers who will cultivate a culture of respectful discourse.

Candace Owens’ messages directly affect students who compose Penn’s diverse student body. Owens faced considerable backlash for one of her recent claims regarding the African American experience: “Stop taking away our self-confi-

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dence by telling us that we can’t because of racism, because of slavery. I’ve never been a slave in this country.”

When Owens claimed that racism is not real because she is not currently a slave, she delegitimized the experiences of black Americans on this campus and across the nation. This form of revisionist history

If student groups really cared about the issues that Owens addresses, initiating her event at Penn is by no means the right vehicle to achieve thoughtful discussion.”

claims that racism only culminates in one event — slavery — despite the fact that racism is perpetuated every day through disparities in educational funding, mass incarceration, police brutality, voter suppression, and more.

More recently, Owens spoke at an event and defended nationalism, which many have taken as a defense of Hitler. She stated that “If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well — OK, fine ...The problem is ... he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German.” Even though Owens later claimed that her answer was taken out of context, by nature her comments exist to elicit hostile responses.

Regardless of her intentions, Owens’ arguments justify rhetoric that people use to strip groups across America of their safety and au-

tonomy, whether it be survivors of sexual assault, black Americans, or DACA recipients. By inviting Owens to campus, College Republicans and The Statesman permitted her to spread her hateful rhetoric directly to our halls, validating her claims despite their basis in glaring falsehoods. As a result, many groups saw the need to protest her event.

And though we support the right to peacefully demonstrate, we condemn the overly disruptive and disrespectful actions that some groups engaged in.

Defenders of Owens may claim that specific quotes of hers are blown out of proportion and that the majority of her opinions are indeed fact-based. But her individual comments don’t exist in isolation. And when we look at the majority of her activism, we can see a striking pattern of misreading history in favor of specific political motives. Dur-

ing her event on Monday, she made the point to deny the existence of a Southern strategy (the well-documented political realignment of the Republican Party through appealing to racist white voters in the South who opposed desegregation), only serving to demonstrate her blatant disregard for history.

And, let’s be clear. Candace Owens was not brought to this campus in any effort to promote something constructive. If student groups really cared about the issues that Owens addresses, initiating her event at Penn is by no means the right vehicle to achieve thoughtful discussion.

Her activism knowingly evokes anger and divides us. And while she has the right to maintain these opinions publicly, she should not have been invited to speak at Penn in light of the destructive effect her opinions have.

Disagreements in politics should

be allowed to exist and certainly have a place at Penn. But when provocative speakers are brought here, especially when their work directly targets demographic groups that compose our strong student body, what message are we sending about the nature of politics overall? Events like these prompt the ugliest side of political discourse, rather than the conversations we ought to be having.

As an undergraduate body, we should focus on creating productive dialogues about the issues that we care about instead of supporting speakers who evoke heated, confrontational, and emotional debates.

Event planners, administration, and students alike have to pay close attention to the speakers we invite to campus, because they set the foundation for the conversations we have. In the end, the main problem with Candace Owens is not that she is conservative. It is not that she misreads history. It is not that people disagree with her perspectives. It is not even that her opinions are controversial.

But it is that the unproductive dialogue she promotes is in complete antithesis to the discussions we need to see on campus. If we truly want to make any strides toward resolving the policy issues we care about — and I think we do — we cannot continue to enable these provocative distractions from genuine discourse.

TAMARA WURMAN is a College freshman studying Political Science and Communication. Her email address is communications@ penndems.org. She is the director of communications for Penn Democrats. She is also a DP associate photo editor and design associate.

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Man steals $1,600 artwork from Penn Med Building DANIEL WANG Staff Reporter

A local art piece worth $1,600 was reported stolen last week from the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, prompting an FBI probe into the theft.

On April 11, a Penn security officer called local artist Tim Barton to ask if he removed his piece, titled "34 Years in the Making," from the building, which is located at 3400 Civic Center Blvd. After Barton replied that he did not remove the artwork, the security officer told him that security cameras in the building caught an unidentified male suspect taking the piece off the wall, exiting the building, and stepping onto a SEPTA Regional Rail line at the University

City stop. The FBI is also investigating the theft, Barton said.

The suspect was wearing black clothing and had a mustache and goatee, Barton said. He wore a black shirt, a black pair of pants, black shoes with white soles, and a black backpack with white lettering.

Barton filed a police report with Penn Police later on April 11. According to the report, the artwork was discovered missing on April 4 at 1:12 p.m., a week before Barton was notified.

The artwork is composed of license plates Barton collected over 34 years from places he lived throughout his life. The piece also took him about 100 hours to complete and was being displayed as part of an event called Celebration of Art and Life at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine since September 2018.

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The piece took Barton about 100 hours to complete and was being displayed as part of an event called Celebration of Art and Life at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine since September 2018.

Team composed of 16 special agents, according to the FBI's website. Each of the agents are responsible for addressing art and cultural property crime cases in an assigned geographic region.

The Eastern District of Pennsylvania FBI said they would not provide further details because it is an ongoing investigation. Penn's Division of Public Safety also said they would not comment on the

pending investigation.

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Barton said he gave the police a list of six people who asked him about purchasing the piece since September 2018. Barton said all of the buyers declined at the time because the art piece was out of their budget range.

"34 Years in the Making" cannot be replicated, Barton said, given that he collected the license plates in a shoebox since the age of 19 and throughout his 20-year service moving around the country as an officer in the United States Navy.

"God, just bring it back, that’s all I care about. I don’t want it to end up in a dumpster," Barton said. "I don’t care if it ends up in somebody’s house and it’s there forever and I can’t figure it out, that’s fine. But I just don’t want it to end up in a dumpster, that’s all.”

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CIS prof. incorporates diversity and wellness content Chris Murphy added mandatory readings on diversity MADDY STROHM Staff Reporter

Chris Murphy, a professor of practice in Penn’s Computer and Information Science department, has gained attention from students and administrators for his efforts to incorporate discussions of diversity and wellness into his computer science course.

Murphy teaches CIS 350, Software Design and Engineering, a computer science elective that teaches students to develop efficient and reliable software.

This semester, he began assigning mandatory biweekly readings and discussion posts on diversity and wellness in the technology industry. Students agreed this is a significant step toward promoting diversity in the field, but said these discussions should be expanded to the rest of Penn’s computer science curriculum.

Topics covered have included why diversity in matters in the field, inclusion of women in

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engineering, and what wellness looks like in the technology industry.

Murphy, who has taught in the Engineering School since 2010 and received a Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence in March 2019, said he was inspired to include discussions of diversity and wellness in his coursework after attending the 2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing.

“I had interest in diversity issues, especially women in computing, but I was not really active about it, admittedly,” Murphy said, adding that a conference session he attended on mental health made him realize the importance of bringing these discussions to Penn.

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Murphy teaches CIS 350, Software Design and Engineering, a computer science elective that teaches students to develop reliable software.

The discussions are organized

by Murphy and by teaching assistants designated specially for the role — two TAs for diversity and inclusion and one TA for wellness. TA for diversity and inclusion Wenli Zhao, a first-year computer graphics and game design master’s student, said the TAs helped Murphy select which articles to assign as readings and develop the discussion prompts that students respond to. They have also hosted

optional in-person discussions for students throughout the semester.

“We want students to feel comfortable going to Professor Murphy or someone else on staff when they are having a rough week,” said College and Engineering junior

Diana Marsala, who is the head TA for the course.

TAs and students said Murphy’s discussions are important because they address issues that are not discussed enough within the Engineering School.

“I think Professor Murphy’s commitment to student health and equality is crucial for students in a challenging curriculum that is not spending time addressing these things,” Engineering junior Davis Polito said. “I think it is important that these initiatives be included in the intro CIS classes as it can allow for an understanding of the issues from the start of our careers at Penn.”

Zhao also said wellness and diversity discussions should be incorporated into introductory computer science courses.

“One question I have always had is, ‘Why are we waiting for an elective to teach this?’ or ‘Why isn’t

this in the intro class?’” Zhao said.

“Some of the intro courses, like CIS 110 which is mandatory for all majors and minors, could benefit from setting the tone early for other courses.”

The Engineering School has long struggled with a lack of diversity. In 2017, less than 10% of graduating seniors in Engineering identified as black or Latino, compared to 17% across the University.

The percentage of female faculty also dropped from 18.6% in 2016 to 16.7% in 2018. Murphy said there are currently discussions taking place about having more formal diversity education across the entire department.

“Other courses I have been in have made a mention of wellness on the first day of class, but then the conversation ends,” Marsala said. “I think these are the conversations we need to continue having.”

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PWH summit highlights climate change policy Policymakers presented perspectives on reform DANIEL TAN Staff Reporter

Several international political figures, including former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, came to Penn’s campus to speak about climate change policy at Perry World House’s two-day 2019 Global Shifts Colloquium on Tuesday.

At the summit, speakers presented differing perspectives on climate change reform and the role the United States must take on. Speakers included Penn Presidential Professor of Practice Bush, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, and Mayor of Quito, Ecuador Mauricio Rodas. The event also featured a Kleinman Center for Energy Policy lecture with Rachel Kyte, chief executive officer of Sustainable Energy for All, an international organization focused on energy policy. While the first day of the summit was restricted to academics and policymakers, Tuesday’s events were open to the public.

During Bush’s talk on “State Policymaking for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation,” the former governor spoke about his dismay over the current state of national politics and stressed the power of private markets and individuals to help reduce climate change.

Bush also toyed with the

idea of relying more on nuclear power plants, noting that it was a scalable source of clean energy.

“In other parts of the world, nuclear power is actually not a pariah,” Bush said.

But Bush lamented the lack of common ground in national politics and called for more state control. He also said he had more confidence in private markets and individuals to develop solutions to climate change than in the federal government.

“I trust the interaction of a bunch of crazy people in their garages innovating through trial and error to create solutions,” Bush said.

At the “National Policymaking for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation” talk, McCarthy offered blistering criticism of the current administration and called on the United States to lead the global fight againstå climate change.

“We have to lead once again, not just in the United States but across the world,” McCarthy said. “[It is] embarrassing to go to international conferences and have to start off by saying ‘I’m really sorry about what the United States of America is doing today.’”

McCarthy also contrasted the current administration’s support for fossil fuels with her vision for a greener America.

“I don’t care what this president or any future president says. We’re not bringing back coal. We are not celebrating oil dominance,” she said. “A zero carbon future is a better one. It

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is a healthier one.”

McCarthy noted that universities should also take action to address climate change. When asked by an audience member whether Penn should divest from fossil fuels, she replied without hesitation: “Yes!” Frederick Steiner, the dean of Penn’s Weitzman School of Design, also discussed the

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“The Dutch since the Roman times have learned how to live below sea level,” Steiner said.

“The challenge both of us have with climate change and sea levels [rising] is that we have about 20 or 30 years to learn what the Dutch learned in two millennia,” he added, referring to policymakers and designers.

Steiner’s remarks were followed by a discussion on “City Policymaking for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation,” which featured Rodas, who received a government administration master’s degree from Penn’s Fels Institute of Government in 2002 and a political science master’s degree from the School of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

As mayor of Quito, Rodas

said he oversaw the construction of Ecuador’s first metro line, which promises to significantly reduce Quito’s emissions when completed later in 2019. He added that combating climate change starts with local government.

“Cities are where most emissions takes place,” Rodas said.

“It would be in cities where the fight against climate change would be most effective.”

During the final panel, “Global Policyma k ing for C l i m at e Ad apt at ion a nd Mitigation,” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, Perry World House’s Distinguished Global Leader in-Residence and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said man-made climate change was comparable to fraud.

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College senior Bryce Klehm said the last panel left a deep impression on him. “I think urgency of it was probably the main takeaway,” Klehm said, referring to the imminent danger of climate change.

College freshman Sarah Ko said the summit helped her realize that individual people could also contribute to the fight against climate change.

“While it is a global issue, there are a lot of things to do at a local level,” Ko said. “People see climate change as such a big problem, that it’s almost like it has an end that is unattainable to reach for some people.”

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VOLLEYBALL ball say they have endured. Since Braddak was hired as the team’s third coach in three years, the players feel they have been mistreated at every step. The net result, though still unfolding, has been a teamwide decline in mental health, the departure of a captain and two other teammates, the worst record in program history, and a fundamental change in the way they view the sport they love.

THE FIRST SEASON During the first season of Braddak’s tenure, Penn volleyball lost more games than it had in any season in its 45-year history. Part of the team’s dissatisfaction stemmed from a lack of faith in Braddak’s coaching abilities, but a series of in-

skepticism towards Braddak’s coaching methods in addition to his controversial conduct undermined their ability to play for him.

According to several players, these events took a significant toll on the team’s mental health. Many of them reported experiencing their first-ever mental health issues.

“I have never seen more members of a team go to [Counseling and Psychological Services] in all my years at Penn,” one senior player said in November.

Braddak’s conduct led some players to reconsider their commitment to the team.

“Everyone had seriously considered quitting the sport they dedicated their whole lives to,” freshman Carmina Raquel added.

A year filled with losses on the court was an emotionally testing

ly got a turn to speak his mind briefly before the meeting’s conclusion.

“We had no idea what we were getting into, what the plan really was, besides this three-hour meeting,” Furrer said. She, among several others, said that the mood on the team after restorative justice was akin to a deep grief or mourning. “We couldn’t even get any work done that night because it was so emotionally traumatizing,” she added.

After everyone had spoken their mind at the meeting, the hired mediators adjourned the session and wished the student-athletes well in finding a resolution with Braddak moving forward. There was no follow-up session, nor has there been any kind of follow-up communication from Penn Athletics regarding next steps since February, according to multiple players.

cidents involving his conduct struck various players as inappropriate and offensive — more damaging than the team’s defeats.

“We got about halfway through the season, and nobody was really talking about [Braddak’s conduct] because we didn’t want to be negative … but as girls started talking, we actually realized that it was a lot worse than we expected,” senior Caroline Raquel said.

As the team prepared to begin its Ivy League schedule in late September, one senior was struggling to regain her starting position in the team — which she had held for three years — after missing most of preseason recovering from a concussion. After a month of practicing with the reserves, she met with Braddak to discuss areas in which she could improve in order to earn more time on the court.

Instead of giving constructive feedback or an explanation for her lack of playing time, multiple sources confirmed that Braddak told her not to worry. He said her situation could be worse: She could be addicted to heroin or commit suicide, like players Braddak said he knew of.

It was not long before another controversial comment from Braddak added to the team’s uneasiness.

While doing defensive drills in practice, one player was singled out for missing two balls, each passing in between her hands, which were positioned too low. According to multiple players, Braddak subsequently instructed his assistant coach Julia Malseed to hit the player in the face with the next ball in order to teach her to keep her hands higher.

As the season neared its conclusion — something that couldn’t come soon enough for some players — one final event disrupted the mood of the team.

All of the members of the team had recently received brand new Penn volleyball-branded winter coats, but junior Carlie Bolling’s

process that was only exacerbated by the administration’s failure to support the players. For many, the team’s underwhelming performance became secondary to the players’ growing concern for their own health.

“We’re not talking about winning and losing, we’re talking about my team’s emotional well-being and the lack of help that I’m having from the administration,” Furrer said.

One senior said that the team’s dynamic by the end of the season was not focused on volleyball at all; instead, she said it became a question of who Braddak was going to offend on a given day.

GRIEVANCES At the conclusion of volleyball’s worst season in program history, eight players filed formal grievances with Penn Athletics against Braddak for his conduct during the season.

The stories above constituted three of the eight grievances.

While the exact protocol followed by the administration to address the grievances is not public — by design, they’ve declared it a “confidential” process — the most concrete result to come of the administration’s response was a team-wide mediation session called restorative justice.

During restorative justice, a thirdparty firm administered a three-hour meeting attended by all 20 players on the team, Braddak, and Associate Athletic Director Matt Valenti.

Some players also reportedly had one-on-one meetings with the mediators before the group session.

At this session, which took place in February, the student-athletes finally aired all their grievances with Braddak in front of each other and in front of him. The move was unprecedented, as this was the first test for the new Penn Athletics grievance protocol instituted last academic year.

“Restorative justice really made it clear that it was very much not okay how many people were struggling

According to multiple players, practice for the next week was canceled to allow the team time to recover emotionally before returning to practice under Braddak.

“We were all just sent off with no plan to follow up and no plan for further action. In this meeting, some people practically admitted how they were on the verge of self-harm because of that season, and we were just simply dismissed,” Carmina Raquel wrote in a journal entry soon after restorative justice. “Where is the athletic administration in all this?”

In response to the roughly 30 questions and requests for comment asked of Braddak and the two administrators in charge of the team, Valenti, and Senior Associate Athletic Director Rudy Fuller, Penn Athletics issued a single, three-paragraph statement attributed solely to Fuller.

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was misplaced. According to multiple sources, Braddak called a teamwide meeting and accused players on the team of stealing the jacket in an act of bullying. Braddak later accused the captains in a private meeting of covering for whoever was responsible. The following weekend, he asked all players traveling on a team trip to hand over their jackets so that the coaching staff could check all of them and account for the missing one.

The jacket was later found in a locker adjacent to Bolling’s in an apparent mixup.

Players reported that the spectacle, referred to in jest by some as “Jacketgate,” served as a massive distraction from practice that week, their games that weekend, and volleyball itself. They noted how it served as a further unneeded blow to the team’s culture at the end of what many described as a miserable season.

Just a couple of weeks later, Braddak announced that Bolling would be leaving the team.

The DP reached out to Braddak through Penn Athletics, which declined to make him available for comment. Bolling did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

If any of these incidents had occured in isolation, they might not have been received so poorly, but players had come to feel uncomfortable around their coach. The team’s

with mental health stuff,” Carmina Raquel said.

At this meeting, multiple players said the extent of the damage one coach had caused for the team became apparent when listening to their teammates. As each player got her turn to speak about her experiences, Braddak and Valenti sat and listened, until each of them ultimate-

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vetted and reviewed by the internal Penn Athletics Grievance Committee as well as the external, independent Student-Athlete Grievance Review Committee consisting of campus partners from the University faculty, the Division of Human Resources, and VPUL,” Fuller wrote in the statement.

Caroline Raquel, now just one of two captains after Furrer’s departure, has been unsuccessfully seeking a meeting with Penn Athletics Director M. Grace Calhoun since restorative justice. Despite exchanging multiple emails with Calhoun’s scheduler and Fuller, she has been unable to secure a time slot on Calhoun’s calendar.

“I want to look her in the eyes and tell her from a player’s perspective how devastating it was,” she said.

A NEW SEASON In the last week of January, the team — minus the retired senior class — reported for spring training under Braddak. During their brief spring season, the players experienced a much more tightly con-

trolled environment. In accordance with NCAA off-season regulations, the team only practiced with Braddak for two, four, and then six hours per week as opposed to the 30-plus hours a week they saw him in-season in the fall.

Practices with Braddak were often monitored by administrators Valenti and Fuller, who appeared to be exercising some kind of supervision, though players say they were not informed of any official reason for their presence. Multiple players also said both administrators were

Some players on the team are hopeful Braddak could improve, while others have lost hope entirely.

They all say, however, that they are united on one front: Penn administration could do better.

“As an incoming senior, to feel that [Penn Athletics] still doesn’t really care or isn’t really thinking about what is best for us is the hurtful part,” Caroline Raquel said.

“The administration has no relationship with us, they haven’t apologized at all, and they haven’t really done anything to mend that relation-

on their phones the majority of the time, paying little attention to what was happening on the court.

In the aftermath of the restorative justice process, many players have decided to put their heads down and get to work with a new season. Several other players either declined to speak on the record for this story or further requested this story not run altogether, in an apparent acknowledgement that Braddak will not be going anywhere and they will have to continue working together going forward.

“It’s harder for some people, including myself, to be super open and ready to embrace him and this new season,” Carmina Raquel said, adding that none of her teammates expect him to be replaced any time soon. “Some are more fresh start, completely new slate, but I think in general, we’re all just cautious of what he’s doing and how he might be affecting the success of our team.”

“Coach Braddak has done everything asked of him during this process and is fully engaged in working through the issues brought forward through the grievance process,” Fuller wrote in the administration’s single statement to the DP on this story.

“We look forward to working with the coaches and student-athletes in the weeks and months ahead to provide a more positive experience moving forward.”

ship with us.”

It’s difficult to measure the extent of the damage this experience has had on the team, but some players suggest one measure: According to multiple players’ estimates, over 75% of the team reported experiencing issues related to their mental health. Many of them reported using Penn’s CAPS for the first time, and according to Furrer, the team now meets with a counselor from CAPS scheduled through Penn Athletics.

Another measure: Furrer, one of the team’s three captains, its best server, and its star defender, left the program after deciding she could endure no longer, making her the

third player to quit since the start of the school year.

“We realized along the way that it shouldn’t be like this,” Furrer said. “A student-athlete’s experience should not be mentally abusive and emotionally manipulative, and that’s what it was for a lot of us.”

Throughout the past year, the administration has maintained that it is emphasizing student-athlete wellness and a positive experience in a broad sense. Braddak, the coach, who was touted for his holistic approach to student-athlete development upon his hiring, claimed the same during interviews with the DP for other stories throughout the fall season.

Yet many on the team maintain that this is precisely the area where they have been let down the most.

“As a freshman only barely having finished one semester here, I know I don’t have the most traditionally ‘wise’ perspective of college athletics,” Carmina Raquel wrote soon after her team’s restorative justice session. “But I can confidently and wholeheartedly say that Penn volleyball’s 2018 season was not it.

“I can literally see the pieces of our team and of our program on the floor of Penn Athletics’ administration office,” Raquel later continued.

“No one knows how to pick the pieces back up. No one wants to.

No one wants to put in the effort to restart the game. But what are we supposed to do?

“We are kicking, screaming, and crying out from rock bottom for help — for action. And no one is listening.”

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Red and Blue drop second straight Despite solid pitching, Penn Ivy League matchup to Princeton softball falls to St. Joseph’s The Tigers sealed the win with the final two goals

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The game came down to the wire, but the Quakers weren’t quite able to come out on top.

Less than a week after losing a 6-4 lead at the half to Dartmouth, No. 12 Penn women’s lacrosse couldn’t manage to hold on to its advantage at the midway point against No. 10 Princeton at Franklin Field en route to a 1311 loss. The defeat is the second consecutive Ivy League setback for the Red and Blue, though both games came against some of the top teams in the Ancient Eight. “I don’t feel we’ve been playing well, and this was one of our better games,� coach Karin Corbett said.

It was a tale of two halves for the Quakers (9-4, 3-2 Ivy), who quickly took control against the Tigers (10-3, 4-1) before surrendering their lead minutes into the second period of play.

After Penn jumped out to a 4-1 lead on the back of two goals from sophomore midfielder Elyse Decker, it was Princeton’s turn to put numbers on the scoreboard.

The Tigers scored five unanswered goals, four of which came from senior attacker Elizabeth George, to take a 6-4 lead with 9:42 left to play in the first half.

Junior attacker Tess D’Orsi and George, who rank No. 1 and No. 5 in the Ivy League in goals per game, respectively, combined for 10 of Princeton’s 13 goals on the evening.

Junior midfielder Erin Barry scored her 18th goal of the season with 6:12 remaining in the half to slow the Tigers’ roll. The final minutes saw a flurry of scoring from both teams. Freshman midfielder Michaela McMahon and Barry worked a two-woman

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game around the net until McMahon tied the game at six goals apiece.

After Penn and Princeton exchanged goals to bring the score to 7-7, Barry scored her second goal of the game in dramatic fashion with 17 seconds remaining in the half. The Red and Blue went into halftime with an 8-7 lead and an 18-16 lead in shots despite controlling just six draws to Princeton’s 10.

For the first 20 minutes of the second half, Princeton spent the majority of its time in the Quakers’ half of the field. The Tigers’ George began a 4-0 run that was capped off when D’Orsi gave the Orange and Black an 11-8 lead with 10:28 left to play in the game.

Nevertheless, Penn battled back to make it competitive again.

Just a minute after D’Orsi’s goal, sophomore midfielder Elyse Decker made it 11-9, much to the delight of the Franklin Field crowd. A Princeton yellow card gave the Red and Blue a man advantage, upon which McMahon capitalized to cut the lead to one goal.

With 5:13 remaining, McMahon elicited another roar from the crowd when she tied the game at 11. Unfortunately for Penn, this

deadlock was as far as the Quakers would go. George scored her sixth goal of the game with 3:50 left, and Princeton successfully ran down the clock after controlling the ensuing draw before scoring again with just 39 seconds to play.

The result is a disappointing one for Penn, not only because of the loss, but also because the Red and Blue came so tantalizingly close to victory while outshooting their opponents, 33-29. “For us, this was one of our more complete games this year, so I’m pleased about that,� Corbett said. “We played for 60 minutes, and we had a lot of fight in us, but we have to finish better.�

Next up for the Quakers is a Saturday road matchup at Columbia (4-9, 1-4), where they will look to regain their footing in League play. “[Columbia plays] man-toman, so I’m hoping that we can attack the same way that we attacked tonight, because I think we created a lot of opportunities,�

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Even with Penn’s loss, an Ivy League title is still in play.

Strong competition at the top of the standings has left the regular season title and postseason tournament up for grabs.

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Senior first baseman Sarah Cwiertnia hit her second home run of the season in the top of the first, but Penn still fell to St. Joseph’s.

In the top of the fourth inning, the Quakers found themselves with runners on the corners with just one out when junior left fielder Clare Sebastianelli hit a ground ball to the left of the mound.

Freshman center fielder Emma Nedley broke for the plate and was thrown out at home on a nearly identical play to the one just an inning before. Visibly frustrated, the Penn dugout felt as if Ostaszewski should have been called for obstruction, and the Quakers would go down without scoring in the inning. “Obviously it made a difference in the game, and it would have been nice to have the calls go our way, but we can only control the things we can control,�

Cwiertnia said. “We have to do a better job focusing on our own game.�

The inning would get worse for the Red and Blue. In the bottom half of the frame, with one runner on base for the Hawks, a hard ground ball by Cox found its way through the legs of senior second baseman Sam Pederson, driving in another run for the Hawks.

While the Quakers loaded the bases with two outs in the top of the seventh before a Cwiertnia groundout ended the game, their offense barely put pressure on the Hawks for most of the contest.

Despite their eight hits, the Red and Blue batted just 2-for-15 with runners on base and 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position. “It just didn’t fall our way,�

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hard contact, but a lot of times it was right at them.�

While the Quakers did not get the result they wanted against St. Joe’s, they now turn their attention to the weekend, where a threegame set against Brown (10-18, 3-9 Ivy) awaits them for their last home Ivy matchup of the year.

The Bears struggled out of the gate in Ivy League play, winning just one of their first nine League contests. However, they have improved lately, taking two out of three games against Yale last weekend.

Brown is paced on offense by sophomore catcher Madi Cranford, who is hitting .418 with four home runs this season. Despite these impressive numbers, Cranford has found herself in a bit of a slump recently, recording just four hits — all singles — in her last six games.

At the plate, the Quakers will get their first look at freshman ace Lauren Innerst, who leads the Bears with an impressive 2.52 earned run average to go along with 43 strikeouts. “If we can hit the ball like we have the last few weekends and just have fun as a team, we will put ourselves in a good position to succeed,� Cwiertnia said.

The Red and Blue currently find themselves in a cluster of five teams at the top of the Ivy League, and ensuring they don’t make the same mistakes as they did against St. Joe’s will be crucial in continuing their climb up the standings.

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Penn softball traveled west to take on area rival Saint Joseph’s on Wednesday, and despite outhitting the Hawks, 8-4, fielding miscues and questionable umpiring doomed the Quakers, as they fell by a score of 4-1.

The Red and Blue (18-14, 9-6 Ivy) started the game strong, with senior first baseman Sarah Cwiertnia blasting her second home run of the season to left field in the top of the first. On the mound, freshman Julia Longo was dominant, inducing three quick groundouts to set the Hawks (21-16, 9-3 A-10) down in order.

Longo would leave the game after allowing just one runner to reach base on an error, but when the Red and Blue turned to sophomore Tabitha Dyer, the wheels began to come of the tracks. After Dyer walked the first batter she saw and allowed the next batter to reach on a fielding error, the Hawks had runners on the corners with no outs.

Then chaos ensued.

St. Joe’s junior left fielder Ashley Hession tried to steal a base, and as the throw came down to second, sophomore pinch runner Kirstin Cox broke for home. The throw from Penn senior shortstop Jessica England beat Cox home, but the home plate umpire called the runner safe, claiming that freshman catcher Laurel McKelvy had obstructed Cox’s path to the plate. In the aftermath of the confusion and arguments, Dyer seemed to be out of rhythm, allowing an RBI double to junior catcher Sarah Ostaszewski that put St. Joe’s ahead by a score of 2-1.

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This Saturday will mark the last home game of the season for No. 5 Penn men’s lacrosse. Besides celebrating Senior Day, Penn can also look forward to claiming its first outright Ivy League title in 31 years when it takes on Dartmouth.

Penn (7-3, 5-0 Ivy) is currently riding a seven-game win streak, while the Big Green (2-9, 0-4) have lost six straight games. Dartmouth has been outscored by 44 goals this season and has the fifthmost turnovers in the Ivy League this season.

Despite the disparity between both teams, Penn coach Mike Murphy is not concerned about the team buckling in a potential trap game. “I think it only leads to the excitement [because] we were not picked to win the Ivy League,�

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this as an opportunity to accomplish our first goal of winning the Ivy League regular season title.�

One key to replicating the success the Red and Blue have had this season will be starting off strong on offense by moving the ball around. Penn currently ranks second nationwide in goals per game — behind only No. 1 Penn State.

In wins this season, the Quakers have averaged 11 more shots than they have in losses, while they average almost five more assists per game in wins than they average in losses.

Last weekend against Harvard, Penn jumped out to a 7-1 lead after the first quarter and wound up scoring a season-high 26 goals on a season-high 44.8% scoring percentage. The Quakers’ offensive showing was impressive, but Murphy wants to see his team step up on the other end of the field. “I think against Harvard, we played very good defense in the first half [but] let up a little bit defensively in the second half,� he said. “So we need to keep up our defensive intensity and play 60 minutes of good defense this time instead of just 30.�

The Quakers will certainly rely

on junior attackman Adam Goldner on the offensive end, who has put up a conference-best 3.9 goals per game. Equally important for the Red and Blue is freshman midfielder Sam Handley, who has burst onto the scene averaging 2.3 goals per game and 2.0 assists per game. Goldner and Handley both scored a game-high six goals last weekend against Harvard.

For the Big Green, junior Ben Martin leads the way with 38 points, ranking 10th in goals per game in the Ivy League. For the most part, though, the Big Green have struggled on offense, putting up just eight goals per game — the lowest in the Ivy League.

Dartmouth has started two goalies this season, both of whom have been effective. Junior George Christopher and freshman Daniel Hincks have both posted a save percentage above 50%. Penn’s offense has been successful all year, but they shouldn’t underestimate the Big Green’s staunch goalkeeping duo.

The Red and Blue are nonetheless in great shape to wrap up their first outright Ivy League title since 1988 and compete in the Ivy League Tournament in early May.

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When Ashtaryeh first got to Penn, her teammates looked up to her and respected her because of her experience. More importantly, however, Ashtaryeh mentions the critical role that her fellow national team members have had on her own experience at Penn and on the program as a whole.

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Key matchups: What to watch for this weekend from Penn Athletics Women’s tennis can win fourth straight Ivy match

This time, the Quakers will travel north to New Haven, Conn. and look for more of the same success.

On the women’s side, Penn has beaten Yale in their last two meetings. This season, after an 0-2 start in League play, the Quakers are riding a three-game winning streak.

“All of our players are really playing at a high level. We’re healthy,

we’re moving well, and at this point, we don’t really worry about how other teams are going to match up,” coach Sanela Kunovac said. “When we’re playing the way we know we can play — as we’ve been doing for the last few weeks — I think it’s other teams that have to make adjustments to us; we just need to be steady.”

Penn will host the Bulldogs on Saturday at the Hecht Tennis Center.

This year, the Elis will have to deal with Penn standout Yulia Bryzgalova, who has posted a 26-3 record in her freshman season. At the same time, the Red and Blue will not be taking Yale lightly.

“They’ve performed very well over the years, and we have a lot of respect for them. We know how dangerous they are,” Kunovac said.

Men’s and women’s golf vs. the Ivy League Penn golf will head to the Ivy League Championships this weekend in New Jersey. The first round begins on Friday, and the competition concludes with the third round on Sunday.

The men’s team has been on a hot streak recently, with a second place finish out of 13 teams at the Princeton Invitational two weeks ago and a third place finish at the Yale Spring Invitational last weekend.

Last year, the men’s team placed

“During my sophomore year, I filled out the Penn recruiting questionnaire, but I didn’t hear anything back. So back in my mind, I didn’t really think it would work for me,” James said. “It wasn’t until the current lightweight head coach, [Colin Farrell], contacted me at the beginning of my senior year based off that questionnaire. That’s when the reality of rowing at Penn started to come to fruition.”

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found great success during his time at Penn. James competed all four years at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship, achieving a fourth place finish in the varsity lightweight 8+ in 2016 and a fifth place the following year. He also served as the team captain during his senior year.

In 2018, James’ younger sister, Josie, joined the Quakers and continued the family’s rowing legacy.

Despite being a three-sport athlete

in high school, Josie displayed dominant performances as a rower, especially in 2018, when she finished second at the Stotesbury Regatta and at the SRAA National Championships.

“I looked at a bunch of places during my junior year, especially because I was a lightweight rower in high school and Penn doesn’t have a lightweight team,” Josie said. “But my parents still encouraged me to reach

out to the coach and start talking to Penn because the program was starting to do pretty well. My brother also loved the school so much and talked so highly of it, so that also influenced my decision to come to Penn.”

The Konopka family has left a mark in other sports at Penn, as well.

Bruce’s brother-in-law, Glenn Partridge, was a member of the baseball and soccer teams that received NCAA Tournament berths during his time at

the school. He also became a Penn Athletics Hall of Famer in 2003.

“He might get a little overwhelmed by the rowing conversations at times,” Bruce joked. “But really, I’m proud of our experiences at Penn, and it’s something we’d like to keep going.

They have been so good to us, so we want to be good to Penn.”

Indeed, the Konopka dynasty has been good to Penn and its rowing programs for the past 50 years and counting.

traveling all over the world and experiencing different cultures.

Farrell’s time on the international circuit revolved around Europe. The World Championships took him to London, Munich, and Linz.

“I also went to Lucerne in Switzerland,” Farrell said. “Some people call it the best race course in the world.”

Nase got the opportunity to travel a little farther south than his old coach.

After graduating from Princeton,

Nase moved on from the U-23 boat and made the U.S. Men’s National Team, earning a silver medal at the 2013 World Cup and a bronze in 2016.

This momentum drove Nase and the United States to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympics.

“I spent the greater part of eight years trying to pursue that, and for it all to come to fruition was really cool,” he said.

After finishing second in the preliminaries and qualifying for one of

the two semifinals, the four Americans battled hard but ultimately came up just a few seconds short from a spot in the finals.

“We were a touch off the start and came up short of our goal,” Nase said. “It was a very high moment and also a very surreal moment where you say to yourself, ‘Wow, I spent the greater part of this time [training for the event], but it all came down to a couple seconds.’”

After 2016, the lightweight fours event was dropped from the Olym-

pic slate, leaving Nase unsure of what to do next.

“My life was in limbo for a little bit,” Nase said. “Coaching was the obvious route.”

He didn’t have to look very far when he found out there was an opening on Penn’s lightweight rowing staff that would put him right next to his former coach. Now, Farrell and Nase try to draw on the lessons from their time competing and teach them to a new generation of rowers.

“It’s all been one continual life lesson,” Farrell said. “I try to pass on as much experience to my guys as possible.”

In Farrell and Nase’s first year together, the Quakers earned bronze at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Sprints and finished fourth at the IRA National Championship Regatta. These accomplishments highlighted the already established bond between the two coaches, one that will continue for years to come.

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As the spring season enters its final stretch, each game’s impact is that much more significant. Here are some of the key matchups for Penn athletics this weekend.

Men’s and women’s tennis vs. Yale Coming in with a five-game losing streak dating back to the end of March, Penn men’s tennis (16-10, 0-5 Ivy) will look to reinvigorate its season this weekend against Yale (11-11, 0-5). The Bulldogs have also fallen in their last five games, all of which were against Ancient Eight opponents.

When Penn and Yale met last year, the Quakers secured a 5-2 win over the Elis. Penn performed especially well in the singles matchups, losing only one of its games.

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personal life. Through rowing, he met Molly, who was part of the varsity women’s squad in the 1980s and later became his wife. Bruce and Molly’s close relationship with Penn rowing had a big influence on their children as well. James, their oldest son, recalls being at rowing events at Penn from a very young age.

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had even started coaching.

In 2008, the Junior and Senior World Championships both took place in Linz, Austria, so while Farrell took home gold for the United States, Nase secured a third-place finish while looking up at the man he would eventually partner with at Penn.

A part of Farrell and Nase’s experiences on the national team was

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Freshman star Yulia Bryzgalova and the rest of Penn women’s tennis will look to end their Ivy League season on a four-game winning streak.

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fifth in the Ivy League Championships.

The women had a strong season this year and will look to improve upon their seventh place finish at the Ivy Championships last season.

Men’s and women’s track vs.

Princeton Penn track is also headed to the Garden State to compete against its rival Princeton this weekend at the Larry Ellis Invitational.

This competition is an important tune-up for both the men’s and women’s teams, as it is their last meet before hosting the Penn Relays from April 25-27.

The teams competed against Princeton at the Sam Howell Invitational earlier this month, a meet that was also hosted by the Tigers. At this competition, senior Rachel Lee Wilson not only set a personal record but a program record in hammer throw. Sophomore Camille Dickson won the long jump and junior Maddie Villalba won the

800-meter run. The men’s team, led by junior Nathan Fisher and freshman Payton Morris, also took the top two spots in the pole vault at this meet.

At the Larry Ellis Invitational last year, the Quakers had several solid individual performances.

Senior Meghan Barnes set a personal record in the 100m hurdles and finished fourth overall in the event. She continued to impress over the course of this season, and at the TCNJ Opener in New York City this past fall season, she ran the thirdfastest 60m hurdle time in school history (8.69).

On the men’s team, junior Colin Daly posted his best ever time in the 1,500m and placed third overall. He improved even more in the 2019 indoor season, earning seven top-10 finishes in that span.

The Quakers will look to build off of their strong recent showings before hosting the historic Penn Relays in two weeks.

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The Konopka family has been involved with Penn rowing for the last 50 years MARIANA SIMOES Associate Sports Editor

Fifty years and many athletes later, the Konopka family does not want to stay away from Penn rowing.

The Konopkas’ relationship with Penn started in 1969, when Walter Konopka was admitted to Wharton and started to row competitively for the Quakers. In the following years, Walter’s younger siblings followed in his footsteps. His sisters, 1975 Wharton graduate Catherine and 1983

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Wharton graduate Joan, were recruited for the women’s team, while his brother, 1978 Wharton graduate Bruce, competed as a lightweight rower.

Despite describing himself as “the lightest guy by a mile” on the roster, Bruce soon proved to be one of the most successful athletes in the program’s history. He served as a captain during his junior and senior years, earning first team All-Ivy honors twice. In 2017, Bruce was inducted into the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame.

“I had a lot of determination. I did have some success in high school, but the drive to succeed in college just got bigger and bigger,” Bruce said. “It was nice to be part of a common group of people where we all worked really hard every day because the desire became infectious on the

entire team.”

Soon after graduation, Bruce accepted an invitation to return to Penn to work as an assistant coach for the freshman heavyweights. He then took over the women’s program for two years before becoming the lightweight head coach in 1991, a position he held for the following 12 years.

“Our family is really big on finding ways to give back to the places that have helped you before, so I tried to give the athletes the same experience that I had,” Bruce said.

Penn Athletics also had an impact on Bruce’s personal life. Through rowing, he met Molly, SEE KONOPKAS PAGE 11

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Meet the Penn rowers who compete at the national level

Lightweight coaches share unique experiences on the world stage

Valuable experience comes with training on elite stage

Coach Tyler Nase rowed at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Rowing for your national team signifies the highest level of competition and is the ultimate honor for many athletes. However, for Penn rowing, competing on a national team is not only a badge of honor, but also what influences the next chapter of the program’s history.

There are currently six Penn rowers who have represented their national teams: sophomores Jess Mixon, who is also a DP staffer, and Leila Ashtaryeh on the women’s team, junior Bart Roovers and freshman Kristopher Schumann on the men’s heavyweight team, and sophomore Thomas Hogeboom and freshman Aleksandar Izda on the men’s lightweight team.

As the Quakers look to improve their program on both the men’s and women’s sides, these nationally recognized rowers can help elevate the teams to the next level and give them a competitive edge.

A native of Osprey, Fla., Schumann rowed for the United States Junior National Team in both 2017 and 2018. Being on the team gave him the opportunity to help the Penn heavyweights raise their expectations.

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Before they were Quakers, they competed on the world’s biggest stages.

Now serving as Penn lightweight rowing’s head and assistant coaches, Colin Farrell and Tyler Nase competed and coached at the highest level, with multiple trips to the World Championships and even one to the Olympics.

After graduating from Cornell with a degree in psychology, Farrell is now Penn’s head coach and made the decision to continue his rowing career after being invited to try out for the United States National Team.

“It was a really cool experience to be able to represent your country,” Farrell said. “A lot of it for me was seeing how far I could go.”

The transition from college to the national team certainly required a shift in mindset from Farrell. Unlike in college, there was no guarantee he would maintain his spot on the team, but he found a way to overcome the challenge.

“Training is really a full-time thing, 24/7, 365. You’re training twice a day, three times a day, all year long,” Farrell said. “You don’t have to go to school, which is nice, but it’s just really intense. In our

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requirements of elite level rowing can really contribute to conversations of setting goals for ourselves and what it’s going to take for our team to top the rankings,” Schumann said.

Schumann also believes that his unique experience gives him a confidence and work ethic that sets an example for the rest of the boat, especially as a rookie.

“While there are plenty of guys on the team way more talented than me who haven’t participated on a national team, I think my exposure to high-intensity and highstakes racing really gives the rest of our boat relaxation,” he said.

The extensive training that Schumann took part in to prepare for the World Championship makes waking up at 6 a.m. and

rowing on the Schuylkill River seem like no big deal. As a result, he feels he can be a motivator to some of the athletes who have yet to see this intense type of training.

“I think this is important for those 6 a.m. practices when we have a hard workout and some guys are thinking, ‘This is pointless,’ or ‘Why am I here right now?’” Schumann said. “To a guy who’s trained three times a day for 12 weeks leading up to a World Championship, this session really just seems like another workout you have to pull your hardest on.

This casual and stress-free aspect really attributes to leading the charge on race day.”

Ashtaryeh has represented her SEE NATIONAL TEAMS PAGE 10

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Penn lightweight rowing benefits from having a pair of coaches who have competed at the World Championships and Olympics.

sport, you have to put in a lot of hours to get ready for the race.”

Farrell’s hard work and dedication earned him a spot on the team and propelled him to three trips to the Rowing World Championships in 2006, 2007, and 2008. In his last stint at Worlds, Farrell earned himself gold in the lightweight eights event.

“It was a dream come true and a really big honor,” Farrell said.

After deciding to step away from behind the oar following his many success-filled years, Far-

rell took up coaching for the U-23 Lightweight National Team.

In 2015, Farrell steered the lightweight fours to the A Final at the World Championships, marking the best finish for the boat since 2000.

Nase, now a Penn assistant coach, was on Farrell’s U-23 team in 2011 and 2012, where he gained experience internationally. But the two men had actually crossed paths much earlier, before Farrell SEE COACHES PAGE 11

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