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year as well as this year and said she thought fewer people attended. “I think the amount of people that came was definitely less,” she said. “A lot of my friends didn’t go compared to last year.” Despite the fact that last year’s concert was also held at the same venue in Penn Park, Goran said comparing this year’s ticket sales to previous years’ would be “invalid and fruitless.” Before last year, the concert was held in Franklin

Earlier this year, an African American cemetery was discovered under Penn property in West Philadelphia. Now experts are saying human remains are likely still beneath the lot, which Penn administrators hope to have evaluated by a unaffiliated expert consultant. “We’ve found no evidence that the bodies have been moved in 20th century newspaper reports,” Associate Professor at Stony Brook University and 1993 School or Arts and Sciences graduate Donna Rilling said. Rilling, who has been working with President of the Philadelphia Archaeological Forum Doug Mooney to uncover more information on those originally buried at the site, said tracking census data has helped the pair better understand the demographics of the community. Up until the 1810s, there did not exist a recognized space for the respectful burials of African American Philadelphians, according to Assistant Professor in Penn’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation Aaron Wunsch. Wunsch said by the 1820s, black and white Philadelphians were interested in creating burial grounds connected to mutual aid societies, which would offer a non-church affiliated alternative to community members. Senior Pastor of Monumental Baptist Church Rev. Dr. J. Wendell Mapson agreed with Wunsch’s statements. “Church membership wasn’t a qualification to be buried [at the African Friends of Harmony cemetery],” Mapson said. Of the 126 burial entries that have been located by Rilling and Mooney between 1860 and 1882, over 60 percent died by the age of four and 40 percent were 12 months or younger, according to an emailed statement by Rilling. One couple buried four children, whose ages ranged from 18 months to 12 years, in the span of two months in 1881. “The census often just says that [these residents] were laborers or gardeners,” Rilling continued, “for the surrounding upper-class community that was increasingly settling into the area.” Rilling said that many of those buried in the cemetery were affiliated with Monumental Baptist Church and Mt. Pisgah African Methodist Episcopal Church. “They started these churches themselves. They built this cemetery together,” Rilling said. The property was purchased by white property owners in 1910, who paid “decent money” for the plot and turned it into a car dealership, according to Rilling. She added that it’s unclear whether or not at this point the buyers were aware of the existence of the cemetery. “Why they would have paid decent money for it if they knew it was a cemetery, I’m not really sure,” Rilling said, “but why didn’t they develop it-- why didn’t anyone develop it? It was prime real estate.” Wunsch said the fact that it is a space that has been neglected by the larger Philadelphia community makes it historically significant.“It’s valuable not as a monumental place, but as a place that speaks to a way of organizing a community that is easily lost track of precisely because it didn’t manifest itself in monumental or physically grand terms,” Wunsch said. “Penn doesn’t exist in a vacuum, Wunsch continued. “It inherited a landscape that predates it.” Wunsch also said any work on the site should stop immediately. “There should be a pretty clear cut process that when a discovery like this occurs, work stops and archaeological research proceeds, he said. “There ideally would be a well-developed map where those

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During Quaker Days, students are introduced to the various academic, social, cultural, residential, and extracurricular opportunities that Penn has to offer.

Students say Spring Fling concert saw lower turnout compared to previous years SPEC declined to reveal the number of tickets sold DEENA ELUL Staff Reporter

Multiple students say this year’s Spring Fling concert — a “throwback show” featuring performances by CupcakKe, Sage the Gemini, JoJo, and The All-American Rejects — seemed to have a lower turnout rate than in previous years. However, the Social Planning and Events Committee, which is in charge of organizing the annual event, declined to reveal the number of tickets sold and would not comment on the number of people in attendance. Wharton junior and Co-chair of SPEC’s Concerts committee Elizabeth Goran said SPEC did not track how many people attended the concert. She also declined to comment on how many tickets were sold. “We do not, and have never commented on our final ticket sales for as long as I can remember,” she said. “Ticket sales do not necessarily match the actual number of people who show up, so giving you that information would be inaccurate.” Fling saw several significant changes this year. The venue changed from the historic Quad location to Penn Park, breaking a 45-year-old tradition. In addition, the event was condensed from two days to just one day this year. College freshman Zoe Osborne

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While SPEC Concerts did not track turnout to the concert, the Spring Fling committee, which was in charge of planning the daytime event, did and reported that far more students attended the event than in previous years.

said she thinks only one-third to one-half of the space set aside for concertgoers at Penn Park was actually filled. She added that the crowd extended about 40 feet back from the stage, but a much larger area had been set aside. “It was definitely not full,” she said. College freshman Lorenza Colagrossi said she had a similar impression. “The space was huge and massive and only one-third of the section was actually used for people

to stand on,” she said. “It was definitely not as full as I expected.” Colagrossi added that more people arrived as the concert continued, but many left early because it became cold and windy in the middle of the show. “I know a lot of my friends who are upperclassmen mentioned that it was significantly less full than it was [in previous years],” she added. College sophomore Jessica Li, a columnist at The Daily Pennsylvanian, attended the concert last

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Dozens of students lack hosts for Quaker Days The search for on-campus hosts started in February YONI GUTENMACHER Deputy News Editor

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions will not be able to provide overnight housing during Quaker Days to all the admitted students who have requested it. Quaker Days – set to take place this Wednesday and Thursday – serve as an opportunity for students admitted to Penn through regular decision to spend some time on CAROLINE GIBSON | ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR campus, where they attend special Although 896 admitted students requested overnight housing for events and visit classes. According an email from Vice Quaker Days, only 848 spots will be available this year. Dean and Director of Marketing and Communications Kathryn spots will be available for visiting Undergraduate Admissions is still Bezella, 1,245 admitted students students during Quaker Days, leav- looking for another 100 students to Leasing andwithout Double Rooms • Quaker Days, according registered toFlexible attend at least some • ingSingle some students a place host over portion of the scheduled Quaker to stay on campus. to Bezella. Quaker Days begins on Individual Leases • All To Amenities and Utilities Included Days event. Of them, 896 students compensate for the expect- April 18. requested overnight housing during ed batch of hosts who could poBezella noted that, while it is a their stay on campus. tentially cancel or get ill, as of the yearly struggle to find enough stuYet, Bezella added that only 848 morning of April 16, the Office of dent hosts, this year’s Quaker Days Call

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registration saw a jump of 242 admitted students. This increase in the number of students attending Quaker Days occurred even as the total number of accepted students remained about the same as years past. Bezella said some students who requested housing were told that they would have to find their own arrangements for the visit. “We are working on exploring other options and there are discounts associated with Penn for many area hotels,” Bezella wrote in an email. “But we realize that the experience of a hotel accommodation won’t be as compelling to a prospective student as getting a sense of the student experience here with a host, and we are also sensitive to the costs associated with hotel stay.” Bezella added that the Office of Undergraduate Admissions has been working since February to recruit hosts, sending emails to students, meeting with student groups

to convey the importance of hosting, and sending Admissions staff to recruit student hosts outside the Quad, Hill House, and New College House. Engineering freshman Claire Pince said she was not originally keen on hosting but decided to after receiving several of the emails from Penn. “After the third round of emails asking us to host, I thought ‘might as well,’” Pince said. “I was hosted when I came to Quaker Days, I had fun, and it helped me decide to come to Penn. So I thought ‘Why not host?’” College freshman Reagan Bracknell said that she decided to host during Quaker Days immediately after attending them herself as an admitted student. “I know that for me, it was a really formative experience in my decision,” Bracknell said. “Penn is a really special place, and Quaker Days is definitely a deciding factor for many students.”

College junior Joy Sun was eager to register as a host for Quaker Days and was disappointed to learn that, despite the shortage in overnight housing availability, she was rejected as a host due to her living space’s designation as “gender-neutral.” According to official Admissions policies, the Quaker Days planning committee “can only match an admitted student over 18 who opts into staying in a gender-neutral room into those spaces,” according to Bezella. Despite her inability to host admitted students this year, Sun expressed support for the idea that Penn students hold some sort of responsibility to host admitted students. “I understand the reasons against hosting but I also understand that the commitment is super low,” she said. “There really is not much you have to do as a host besides showing some Penn pride – but even if without it, you’d be fine too.”

black mesh shroud” covering the fencing around the site, which he believes was done to restrict one’s view of the property. “That’s not standard practice for a construction site,” Wunsch said. “Try and find other construction sites in West Philly that look like that.” Mapson also agreed with Wunsch that construction should not continue and the significance of the history of the cemetery should be considered in discussions about the site’s future. “Our congregation is the second oldest black Baptist church in Pennsylvania and we have a great regard for that old site,” Mapson said. “We are very much interested in finding a way to not stop progress, but be assured that their remains are treated respectfully and

valued and reinterred. “Penn’s record of preservation in University City is mixed at best,” Wunsch said. “At this particular moment when there is growing interest in the University’s own connections to slavery, this would be a moment from a purely practical, public relations standpoint for them to take this very seriously.” Vice President of University Communications Stephen J. MacCarthy said that the University is “currently researching the history of the site,” in an emailed statement to the DP. “Penn purchased it in 1986 from the dealership, unware [sic] of its history, as it was not in any records during the transaction.” “We hope to have a fuller understanding of the site’s history in

the near future,” MacCarthy said. MacCarthy added that the University is in the process of hiring a consultant in urban archaeology to help the administration determine what to do next. “Given the city’s long history, this dynamic is not new to Philadelphia, and we are fortunate to have local experts who are well versed in suggesting best practices for next steps,” MacCarthy said. Rilling said it is important for the University to pay attention to the historical significance of the site. “It’s a real testament to their persistence and the rise out of slavery for a neighborhood that had some differences, but managed to forge a strong community and do something for their next generation.”

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Penn groups invite conservative for ‘Reasons to Vote for Trump’ event The speaking event will take place on April 19

Dominic Gregorio said he believes inviting Knowles to campus could help strengthen political discourse on campus. “We chose Michael Knowles because he is eloquent, he makes arguments based in reason a lot of the time, he is a gregarious presence, and an entertaining presence,” Gregorio said. “We wanted somebody who would be able to have fun with the crowd, but who would also be able to make well-reasoned arguments about a controversial issue.” Wharton and College sophomore and the editor in chief of The Statesman Daniel Tancredi said he hopes the talk will be the “lively” and “entertaining” discussion one would hope to encounter at an Ivy League university. “If rigorous debate and discussion are not at home at the University of Pennsylvania, then where will they be?” Tancredi said in an interview. “American universities across the board should be the bastion of free expression — they have been in the past and they should continue to be in the future.” Tancredi added that he also hopes inviting Knowles to campus will encourage more bipartisan discourse on campus. College junior and Penn Dem-

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The conservative political columnist and managing editor of The Daily Wire Michael Knowles will be speaking on campus this Thursday at an event called “Reasons to Vote for Trump.” Knowles, a 28-year-old Yale graduate, recently published a book called “Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide” The book contains 266 blank pages, suggesting that there are in fact no reasons to vote for Democrats. Over 60,000 copies of the satirical book were sold within a week. In April last year, President Donald Trump even endorsed the book with a tweet: At this Thursday’s event, co-organized by Penn College Republicans and conservative campus publication The Statesman, Knowles will discuss his views before hosting a question and answer session. On his Twitter account, Knowles retweeted a post by The Statesman pointing out that people had torn down posters for Thursday’s event. College sophomore and opinion editor of The Statesman

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ocrats Communications Chair Jack Weisman agreed that bringing political discourse to Penn’s campus is a net positive. “We have a lot of partisan events too, and we bring in a lot of Democrats,” Weisman said. “I think in a country where politics is so defined by partisanship, I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with having a partisan political event. And I think dialogue is always good.” Though he approves of political discourse, Weisman made it clear that Penn Democrats in no way approves of President Trump. “Our thoughts on Trump and our disagreements with Trump go

beyond partisanship,” Weisman said, explaining that the “dangers” the group sees in Trump have little to do with his political party. “In my mind, there never really were great reasons to vote for Trump and my opinion on that definitely hasn’t changed.” Nonetheless, Gregorio said he hopes that events featuring conservative speakers may encourage “compassion” for people with different viewpoints. “College campuses in general aren’t optimizing on encouraging people to express themselves freely,” Gregorio said. “It’s definitely not that we do not have free speech, but it is that not everyone expresses themselves freely.”

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Field. Despite the reported decrease in turnout, some of the students who chose to attend the concert said they enjoyed their experience. Colagrossi said she was a “huge fan of The All-American Rejects” and that she “enjoyed it more than [she] thought [she] would.” Some students chose not to attend Fling because they said they were unenthusiastic about the performers. In the weeks leading up to Fling, students had expressed mixed thoughts on the concert’s lineup. College and Engineering freshman Angela Yang said she attended neither the concert nor the Saturday events in Penn Park. “I was only interested in maybe two of the artists,” she said. “I felt like it wasn’t really a full use of my money.” “I wish I went for the free food, though,” Yang added, referring to the daytime event at the park, where SPEC provided bouncy houses, student performances, and free food, which included popsicles, tacos, dumplings, and more. According to SPEC, the attendance of the daytime activities at Spring Fling saw an increase this year. While SPEC Concerts did not track turnout to the concert, the Spring Fling com-

mittee, which was in charge of planning the daytime event, did. College sophomore Christopher Mountanos, who is the co-director of the Spring Fling committee, said in an emailed statement that far more students attended the Saturday event in Penn Park than in previous years. Mountanos, a social media staffer for the DP, said that over 3,300 students attended the Saturday event compared to approximately 1,000-2,500 in previous years, when Fling’s daytime events were held at the Quad. The previous years’ attendance rates are based on “food orders and general observation,” however. He added that the increase in turnout was particularly impressive because this year’s event was reduced to one day. “[We] have not had close to 3,300 people during one day of Fling. Essentially, we had a much greater turnout [than in the] past couple of years,” Mountanos said. However, Osborne, who was also at the daytime event, said that while the event had “decent turnout,” she felt there could have been more people. “I can understand why people were mad that it was moved [from the Quad],” she said, adding that the distance of Penn Park from the rest of campus prevented people from leaving the event and coming back.

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better understand the present relevance of such cultures. Williams Director of the Penn Museum Julian Siggers said he believed the opening of the exhibit pairs well with Penn President Amy Gutmann’s recent announcement of the Power of Penn Campaign, which aims to fundraise $4.1 billion over the next four years. “It’s an exciting time for us,” he said. “Dr. Gutmann announced the Power of Penn Campaign, which emphasizes inclusion and impact. We want to take that and make sure that we’re carrying that out. We’ve tried to make [the museum] more welcoming and meaningful.” Middle East Galleries has made deliberate attempts to reach a more diverse audience, Siggers said. According to a Penn Museum news release, the museum will host inclusive educational workshops that accommodate those

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The Penn Museum’s new exhibition, Middle East Galleries, will open to the public on April 21. To celebrate, the museum will conduct a two-day-long Opening Weekend Festival. The exhibit will feature over 1,200 objects from a period spanning 10,000 years, according to the Penn Museum website. The exhibit is also the first of the museum’s upcoming signature galleries that are part of its “Building Transformation Campaign,” a $102 million fundraising campaign. In the campaign, which is projected to last three years, the museum seeks to alter the way in which visitors experience the presentation of world cultures by providing context to help visitors

with special needs, as well as a specific children’s guide to the museum. Additionally, the exhibit will include various touch-andfeel pieces, with staff on hand to explain their stories. Stephen Tinney, the coordinating curator of the galleries, added that with this inclusion in mind, the museum was also aiming to aptly tell the stories of the region. “For this, we wanted to do something that was the first of its kind in the U.S.,” he said. “Throughout the exhibit you’ll be able to find Global Guides, who were hired from Syria and Iraq to [speak to the] unique experiences of growing up in the Middle East.” Siggers said that although there may be centuries of difference, and often, thousands of miles between the audience and the peoples whose lives are displayed within the exhibit, these are “our stories too.” “[The stories are] our shared

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experience in the world we live in, including this city,” Siggers said. He also referenced one of the final features of the exhibit, which will be a side-by-side comparison of a map of Nippur in 1400 BCE and a 2017 map of the SEPTA transit system. He said that the comparison aims to demonstrate the similarity between life then and now. In addition to the Opening Weekend Festival, Penn Museum will be hosting a free Student Gala on April 18 to give Penn students the chance to get an early view of the exhibit.

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How Quaker Days help students decide on colleges 1,245 admitted students registered to attend the event ETHAN RANDAZZO & JORDAN SEIBEL Contributing Reporters

Campus is decked out in red and blue as “baby Quakers” — the admitted students to the Class of 2022 — visit Penn for the first time since being admitted through the regular decision process this year. Quaker Days officially started on Wednesday, with admitted high schoolers previewing their potential future life at Penn. Over the two-day period, students are introduced to the various academic, social, cultural, residential, and extracurricular opportunities that the University has to offer. The Multicultural Scholars Program began a day earlier on Tuesday, in which “traditionally-underrepresented” admitted students connected with one another and with Penn’s culturally-focused communities at Penn. This year, 1,245 admitted students registered to attend at least some portion of the scheduled

Quaker Days event. About 900 students requested overnight housing, leaving dozens of admitted students without a place to stay. With many high schoolers still unsure of their future college at this point, Quaker Days can present valuable insight into campus life. “I had a tough decision because I’m choosing between here and somewhere else I really like with a full ride, and I think [Quaker Days] definitely influenced it a lot,” Sanjana Akula, a senior at Biotechnology High School, said. She added that being here in person has shown her that Penn students are “pre-professional, but there’s intellectuals here too, and you can find your niche.” Nicholas Fernandez, a senior at Miami Arts Studio said he was “practically committed” to Penn, citing Quaker Days specifically as his reasoning. “I went into it kind of nervous, because I have never left my home by myself like this before,” Fernandez said. “But I have had a lot of fun, and I can really see myself enjoying college here and learning

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a lot.” Abraham Sandoval, a senior at Dauphin County Technical Institute, agreed with Fernandez and added that the diverse environment and multitude of academic and extracurricular opportunities at Penn, like Penn in Washington and the Model United Nations club, was convincing. Sandoval added that the MSP

Performing Arts Celebration on Tuesday night was particularly interesting, and posited that while the culture change of college life seemed daunting, he could get used to the freedoms it entails. Today’s events started with various discussions and academic receptions at the Wharton School, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Nursing,

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and the College of Arts and Sciences. From there, visitors enjoyed welcome lunches and academic and extracurricular programming before a late-night Performing Arts Showcase at Irvine Auditorium. College Palooza, held on College Green, featured advisors from the College Office and representatives from College departments and programs at various tables to answer questions. “I am currently choosing between Penn and Princeton, but honestly Penn isn’t doing much to convince me,” Eugene Zhao, an admitted high school senior from Baltimore, Md., said. “I don’t know if I’m being overly cynical, but I think the school is trying too hard and not trying hard enough at the same time.” “I think the school is obviously trying to get students who are sitting on the fence, but I think there should be more tables than this,” Zhao added about the Palooza. Some academic programs had special events for their admitted students. “We have like a mini event and

community the minute we walk onto campus,” Akula said, who was admitted to the Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management dual-degree program. Quaker Days events will continue through Thursday, April 19, with faculty talks, open houses, and other student programming running until a “surprise closing event” concluding the visit at 5 p.m. This incoming freshman class was the most selective in Penn’s history, with only 8.39 percent of the 44,482 applicants being accepted. Rhea Saggi, a Montclair Kimberley Academy senior who lives in West Orange, N.J., sat in on a managerial economics class and said she got to observe a college classroom environment. Though she got admitted to Wharton’s Class of 2022 early, she still decided to attend Quaker Days. “I sort of came here to get a ‘dayin-the-life’ kind of thing, so it’s been really helpful for me to get a sneak preview of what the next four years will look like,” she said.

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National Student Poet signs written offer to Penn Lubwama cites Writers House as factor in decision JORDAN SEIBEL Contributing Reporter

Juliet Lubwama, a national student poet, will be joining the University of Pennsylvania’s Class of 2022. Lubwama, a senior at Downingtown STEM Academy in Downingtown, Pa., said she chose Penn over several other schools, including Harvard University and Yale University. Last year, the Scholastic Awards recognized Lubwama as a 2017 Northeast National Student Poet. According to Scholastic Awards Public Relations Director Cathy Lasiewicz, after being selected out of tens of thousands of poetry submissions, top writers go through rigorous adjudication by prize-winning writ-

ers, such as former United States poet laureates. For each different geographical region of the U.S., only five poets are honored as representatives. Lubwama said she chose Penn for the opportunity to continue writing poetry. “What stood out for me with Penn’s literature scene was the Kelly Writers House … which would be perfect for someone like me who loves writing poetry,” Lubwama said. “I knew that the Kelly Writers House would be somewhere that, if I’m accepted to Penn, would welcome me with open arms.” Lubwama said she interacted regularly with Kelly Writers House Associate Director for Recruitment Jamie-Lee Josselyn, who maintained contact with Lubwama prior to her acceptance. Josselyn did not respond to request for comment.

Her father Robert Lubwama, a pharmaceutical researcher, described moving from Uganda and starting a family in the U.S. He said he noticed Lubwama’s writing ability at a young age and spoke proudly about how she’s developed artistically since. Regarding Penn, he said, “We are really happy for her to get into such a good college.” Lubwama also said Penn was a good fit for her professional ambitions. “I also plan to be in pre-med, so the fact that Penn is more interdisciplinary made it perfect for someone like me who might want to go into one profession but really enjoys writing, so Penn was just perfect for that,” Lubwama said. Lubwama elaborated on her passion for poetry, saying, “I love using poetry, both written and recited, to be able to invoke change

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in other people, to change people’s minds. I think poetry just has an extraordinary transforming power in that way.” Some of Lubwama’s poetry addresses social issues of gun control, immigration, and the Black Lives Matter movement. “I believe that poetry is very effective at spreading awareness for these issues because poetry can be digested emotionally,” she said. “Juliet is like a stealth poet. She comes across as very quiet and very reserved, but when she takes the podium, she is so astute and so strong, so committed to her voice and to her history and to the moment she’s having as a writer,” said Virginia McEnerney, the executive director of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a nonprofit organization associated with the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. “She’s kind of a quiet storm.”

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Juliet Lubwama, 2017 Northeast National Student Poet, will join Penn Class of 2020. “She’s kind of a quiet storm,” said Virginia McEnerney.

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Penn Law prof. argues for traditional marriage values Amy Wax partipated in a debate hosted by Penn Law COURTNEY DAUB Contributing Reporter

Eight months after the publication of her op-ed describing the “breakdown of bourgeois culture,” in America, Penn Law Professor Amy Wax debated family policy with Dr. Isabell Sawhill of the Brookings Institute at the Penn Law School this past Monday. The debated centered around the question of whether the institution of marriage should be revived for improve child outcomes. According to statistics cited by both parties at the start of the talk, before 1960, 72% of adults over the age of 18 in the United States were married as opposed to today’s 50%, and 40% of children are born outside of marriage, a

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The debate centered on the question of whether the institution of marriage should be revived in order to improve child outcomes.

35% increase from 1960. While Wax and Sawhill both agree that marriage positively affects child outcomes, and that this is due to a mixture of both economic and social factors, they discussed different visions for what

should be done moving forward. Sawhill’s argument centered around the idea that “strong demographic trends” are difficult to reverse, and that the focus should be on children themselves rather than marriage. Her suggestions

include reducing the number of unplanned pregnancies through contraception and encouraging more career and technical education, with an overall approach on focusing on providing opportunity. Wax argued that while economic decisions certainly play a causal role in outcomes, the bigger issue is that of culture. According to Wax, many of those promoting “pluralism and the demoralization of sexuality,” are “living the 50s and talking the 60s.” She argued that marriage provides webs of support that can provide “financial support, job opportunities and guidance as a safety-net for when people fall on hard times.” “We now have a plethora of people in our society who are virtually alone,” Wax said. “It is easy to tell people who are career-

minded to wait but less so for people working service jobs that don’t have that trajectory. Wax argued that that the readiness to raise a child “has to be imbedded with the institutional context that creates, security, support, longevity and endurance that is necessary.” The event was hosted by the American Enterprise Institute Executive Council, which seeks to promote the AIE’s motto of “the free competition of ideas is fundamental to a free society.” According to event organizer and College sophomore Barry Plunkett, planning for the event started before the publication of Wax’s op-ed and was set to take place in December until another panelist had to reschedule. He added that he was prompted to hold the debate after conversations with his more conservative friends and “wanted to help gen-

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The newly-elected Undergraduate Assembly President Michael Krone and Vice President Jordan Andrews will be prioritizing their goals of connecting Penn with the surrounding Philadelphia community, continuing mental wellness initiatives, and improving communication between the administration, the UA, and Penn students. Krone and Andrews said their platform diverges from that of the previous leadership primarily through its focus on community engagement. “We just haven’t noticed a lot of inspiration of other UA members to care a lot about [community engagement] in the recent past because other issues have

taken the lead,” Krone said. Krone and Andrews said they aim to distribute “SEPTA Welcome Kits” containing maps of public transit routes around the city and a preloaded SEPTA key to every student who moves on campus at the beginning of the school year. Andrews said that initiatives that integrate Penn with the rest of the Philadelphia community can also double as mental healthrelated projects. “In general it seems like removing yourself from the campus environment and getting out, feeling more comfortable in the city that you’re in and not just the 10 block radius is one way to feel safer, better, healthier,” Andrews said. “It just gives students a different outlet.” Mental wellness has been a major priority for the UA this past year. To reduce unnecessary club competition, the UA issued a set

of rules Student Activities Council-funded clubs must follow. In addition, former UA President Michelle Xu and former UA Vice President Jay Shah sent out a Mental Health Survey to all Penn students on Feb. 27. Krone and Andrews said that they intend to also maintain mental health as a primary focus of their UA leadership, in part by using the results from the survey. According to the UA meeting minutes from April 1, in the mental health survey, over 80 percent of students said that they thought Penn’s Counseling and Psychological Services is “far.” In addition, an “overwhelming majority of students” are aware of peer support groups such as Penn Benjamins and RAP-Line, but 90 percent of respondents had never used these resources. “I think what we have now is an information overload problem,” Krone said.

They said that they want to implement “the embedded model” in which CAPS would establish satellite locations around campus as a way to make its resources more accessible to students. Xu said that she thought the embedded model might not work because students might be less comfortable seeking out mental health resources without that additional degree of anonymity granted by going to the central CAPS office, which is several blocks north of campus. “I think there’s no reason why we can’t have both,” Andrews said. “We’ll be able to meet the needs of the majority of students because you’ll have the students who want to be anonymous, you’ll have the students that don’t mind.” Krone and Andrews also said that they want to improve how students are informed about what goes on within the UA. Andrews

said she hopes to use digital content and social media platforms to implement a new video outreach series. The emphasis on communication and transparency comes from the fact that both Krone and Andrews served as Communications Director, Andrews this past year and Krone the year before. Ensuring that all Penn students have equal access to opportunities for success will also be a top priority on Krone and Andrews’s agenda next year. One of their focuses is to spread the availability of “test banks.” “You don’t have to know someone or have a sibling that went here or join a certain group in order to have access to academic archives because they’re not banned by University policy,” Andrews said. College sophomore and former UA College Representative Ariela Stein said that she hopes that

Krone and Andrews will maintain the same tight-knit community within the UA that Xu and Shah worked hard to establish. Shah added that bridging that gap between organizations on campus, while “intangible,” was an important undertaking this past year that he hopes will be continued throughout Krone and Andrews’ term. Krone said that with the end of the semester quickly approaching, the bulk of his and Andrews’ work will take place next school year. However, he added that they intend to get a “jumpstart” and will still begin reaching out to UA members, student groups, and members of the Penn community to see what projects they hope to collaborate on in the fall. Krone and Andrews were officially initiated into their roles on April 15 at the assembly’s internal transition meeting.

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THURSDAY APRIL 19, 2018 VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 27 134th Year of Publication DAVID AKST President REBECCA TAN Executive Editor CHRIS MURACCA Print Director JULIA SCHORR Digital Director HARRY TRUSTMAN Opinion Editor SARAH FORTINSKY Senior News Editor JONATHAN POLLACK Senior Sports Editor LUCY FERRY Senior Design Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Design Editor CHRISTINE LAM Design Editor ALANA SHUKOVSKY Design Editor BEN ZHAO Design Editor

he Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. has a duty to serve the Penn community accurately and responsibly through our coverage. To do this, it is important that the DP be a diverse, inclusive organization. More importantly, as one of the largest communities on campus, we aspire to build an environment where people from all backgrounds can grow and thrive. The DP, 34th Street Magazine, and Under the Button have grappled for decades with the issue of diversity in the office. The 134th board of editors and managers is committed to making tangible progress in this regard, and this report is just one initial step. We gathered our demographic data by sending a survey to all current DP staffers. The survey responses were anonymous and data was only considered in aggregate. While the response rate was approximately 80 percent,

Census Bureau. Our staff is disproportionately white compared to Penn’s undergraduate population, and that’s even more true among our board of editors and managers. There is also a larger percentage of Asian students at the company than there are at Penn, though this difference in proportion is less pronounced. Black and Hispanic/Latinx students are underrepresented among staff, and more so at the board level. While it appears that Native American and Alaska Native students are overrepresented at the DP, we believe this is likely a function of the differences between our approach and Penn’s approach to gathering data. In Penn’s data, international students are placed in a category separate from other races. This effectively excludes 1,210 undergraduates from the University’s racial breakdown. In addition, because Penn only counts one race per student (unless they

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we believe the data paints a representative picture of our current staff demographics. This is the first time we have done a comprehensive survey of the demographics of our community, and the plan is to repeat this effort each semester and to release a similar report annually. Just as we hold Penn and its community accountable, we want to hold ourselves accountable for improving diversity at the DP. As a student media organization, the DP prepares students to seek careers in journalism, an industry generally lacking in diversity. Companies like The New York Times and ProPublica now regularly release comparable reports as they work to diversify their workplaces. By taking similar steps to make the DP more inclusive, we hope to do our part to increase the number of journalists from underrepresented groups who will go on to strengthen and expand public discourse. This process is only just beginning. We want to hear from members of our community about the efforts we propose, and about anything else we can do to make the DP a better organization. Spring 2018 demographic data The options we listed for race were: Asian, Black, Native American or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, White, other, and prefer not to answer. We also included a separate ethnicity question for Hispanic/Latinx students. These options were based on the categories used by the United States

select “two or more races,” a separate category), international or multiracial students are not accurately counted in this regard. We allowed students to check as many options for race as were applicable, which is why the sum of our percentages is around 118 percent. To that end, our data is not exactly comparable to Penn’s, but we still believe it is useful to look at these figures together as a means of understanding how representative we are of the student body. Unlike many news organizations, the DP does not currently lack women on staff or in leadership. While Penn’s undergraduate population is roughly 53 percent women, 60 percent of our staff and 64 percent of our leadership board identify as female. We’re proud that the DP has made progress in gender diversity over the years, but that doesn’t mean that the company is a wholly inclusive space for women, or that we’re going to stop working to ensure that it becomes one. While Penn releases the percentage of admitted students who identify as first-generation or low-income, the University does not publicly release data on the percentage of current undergraduate students who identify as FGLI. For that reason, we are not able to determine how representative the DP is of the student body in this regard. However, the data we collected shows a distinct difference between the proportion of students who identify as FGLI at the staff and board levels. This is a disparity that we hope to fix.

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What are we doing about it? The DP has a long way to go when it comes to diversity. The 134th board is determined to build a more diverse community, as well as a more inclusive workplace, and will do what we can to ensure that this commitment stays strong in the coming years. We plan to continue measuring the demographics of our organization and share that information with our readers in order to be transparent about our progress. We have formed the DP’s first diversity committee, composed of board members from a variety of underrepresented groups. DP leaders have met with leaders of minority groups on campus to discuss our diversity efforts, and will continue to do so. Listening and learning from these meetings is important to us. However, in order to achieve our goals, it’s key that our leadership be diverse. As an independent student media organization, the DP is shaped largely by its elected student leaders. We believe that a diverse board committed to improving the DP will ensure that the company continues to prioritize the goals laid out in this report. We already have sensitivity training for news editors and reporters, but we plan to work with experts from the Philadelphia journalism community to build on that training and to expand it to other departments, as well as the entire student board. The data also shows a disparity between staff and board members who identify as FGLI. This is at least partially due to the significant time commitment required to be in a leadership position at the DP, which does not pay. We currently have a scholarship that grants stipends to board members who qualify for financial aid, in the hope that they’ll be able to spend more time at the DP. We’re examining this scholarship critically to figure out how we can make it more effective. We’re also working with alumni to create a scholarship that helps students from underrepresented groups at the DP secure media internships over the summer. The DP will work to establish a fund in order to pay these students a stipend. One of the goals of this program is to encourage and better prepare recipients to run for board positions. These are steps we plan to take, but we know they won’t fix everything, and we know they won’t fix things right away. We don’t have all the answers to this problem, but we are committed to finding them. We want to hear from you about how we can continue to make the DP a more inclusive, diverse place. If you have thoughts, suggestions, or questions, please email us at diversity@thedp.com. We collected a range of demographic information from our staff and board, not all of which is reflected here. The data on sexual orientation, religion, and disability is available online at www.thedp.com

Speaking a different English MERICAN WITH AMERICA | How I became comfortable with my accent “Hey, can I get cheese, onions, and tomatoes in my omelet please?” “It’s teh-may-toes, not tooMAHH-toes,” snapped the dining staff. I looked back at him, a little surprised and rather hurt. I had never felt uncomfortable speaking my first language, English, until now. I proceeded to spend the first few weeks at Penn repeating myself in nearly every conversation. My Singapore-accented “English” was too fast, too singsong, too confusing — too foreign. It occurred to me that growing up on a staple of Hollywood blockbusters, the Jonas Brothers, reruns and re-reruns of “High School Musical,” the American accent is nothing foreign to Singaporeans. On the other hand, most Americans have, understandably, never come across the Singapore accent. There are perhaps many perks that come with being a

I sound? I disliked how every time I spoke, the first thing someone hears is my foreignness: the wild, peculiar twang of the Singapore accent flies out. I see the look on people’s faces. What is this … thing? The Singapore accent is a fiery, uncontrollable creature, birthed by the flaming chillies that lace each dish of laksa and grilled crab, the tangy lemongrass that seasons curries and the sharp gingers that garnish wok-fried noodles, smoked in the mid-afternoon humidity in bustling hawker centres dotting the entire island-country. English is the main language in Singapore, where it has developed its own creole and accent over time. Singapore’s English accent is set to an emphatic symphony; syllables are stressed and allowed to bloom into fullness. We take liberties with our vowels, drawing them out. In the Singapore ac-

Did people understand what I was saying? Were they too nice to say if they didn’t? Do they mind how I sound?” global cultural superpower that exports songs and films — and an accent — in bulk, all around the world. Anxiety soon gripped me each time I had to speak up, whether it was reading a passage in class, or participating in discussion in a seminar, or praying aloud during church group meetings. Did people understand what I was saying? Were they too nice to say if they didn’t? Do they mind how

cent, one can hear the tongues of its many ancestors: the precise intonations of Chinese, the sing-song cantabile of the Cantonese dialect, the rhythmic articulations of Malay, the coarse grunts of Hokkien, and the rapid-fire arches and curves of Tamil. This is my native song, the cadence of my nation, the contours of home. What does it even mean to have an “accent”? An accent is only an “accent” because it

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is different. My “accent” was never an “accent” back in Singapore, but it is an accent here. The word “accent” also seems to imply that an original, standard subject is altered, transformed, accented … adorned by time and history, place and memory — and becomes an “accent.” Our accents are the museums of our life; each inflection and intonation is an exhibit, an artifact we have picked up, accumulated and retained on our journeys. Everyone’s accent tells a story — about your family, your community, where you’ve been and where you are. Accents are complex beings, and I’ve come to understand the diversity of “American” accents. You could have moved from Los Angeles, Texas, or even just across the bridge from New Jersey, to Philadelphia and still have an “accent” here.

I have witnessed some of my friends changing their accents to “fit in” here. One day we are having coffee, chatting and laughing in the familiar embrace of the Singapore accent, and a few weeks later, I am eating with the same person but a different voice. Some of my other friends have become masters of code-switching, ordering food from the waiter in a perfect “American accent,” (again, if it even is something we can refer to homogeneously) and then continuing our conversation in the ordinary Singapore accent, unscathed. I most admire these friends, whose tongues and identities have become fluid, able– to switch and morph effortlessly at will, who have embraced straddling two different worlds. And here I am, stuck in the boundaries of my old voice, stuck with my old tongue that

refuses to learn, refuses to bend to form new sounds. Perhaps it was half an inability, half a reluctance, to “pick up” an American accent. What becomes of our identity when we consciously attempt every day to alter and renounce part of it? You cut off a little consonant here, and shave off a tiny stress there, and soon you become a stranger, not just here, but back home too. With everything around me so new, different and constantly changing, my accent, a bastion of home, is something that I can hold on to and remember where I am from and who I am. Yet, as time wore on, it dawned upon me that whether it was an accent, or an attitude, or a perspective, it is sometimes braver to allow a place to change you a little, than to fight everything in the anthem of “staying true” to “yourself”

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(whatever that is). I started to smother my accent’s intonations and mute its inflections a little, replacing them with silent “T”s and rolled “R”s. I tried to sound more “American” when I am on the phone ordering tickets, asking for a refund, or finding my Uber driver, to help the person on the other end of the line understand me better. I also picked up a different vocabulary, substituting “elevator” for “lift,” “restroom” for “toilet,” “car trunk” for “boot,” and “line” for “queue.” My new voice now reflects new geographies and histories. Penn happened. America happened. New people, new land, new cultures, new sounds, new voices. There is something beautiful in allowing something to sing its lullaby to your ears and lull your lilt. There is something beautiful in ceding control, and recognizing the power of life and new places to change you. My accent still carries a tropical tenor and sings of a distant home. But it now also reflects the contours of a new place— the intonations of rumbling subways, wailing firetrucks, flickering neon signs, and laughing friends. SARA MERICAN is a College sophomore from Singapore, studying English and cinema studies. Her email address is smerican@sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lacrosse drops crucial game to Saint Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Quakers will take on lastplace Dartmouth next MARC MARGOLIS Sports Editor-Elect

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The team that wins the faceoff battle and commits less penalties usually wins the game. However, despite winning 68 percent of the faceoffs and committing three less penalties than its opponent, Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lacrosse lost to Saint Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in a gut wrenching 12-11 loss that all but eliminated its chances at an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Like in the weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win against Harvard, the No. 20 Quakers (6-7, 2-3 Ivy) got off to a slow start, surrendering the first four goals of the game. Still, Penn was able to claw its way back into the game thanks to senior attackman

Kevin McGearyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two unassisted goals with under a minute left in the first quarter to bring the score to 4-2. A two goal lead for St. Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (8-3, 4-0 NEC) was a common theme throughout the game, with the Hawks holding such a lead on eight separate occasions. The first time Penn came within one goal was with only 3:53 left in the game, following a goal from junior attackman Simon Mathias, which brought the score to its final resting point of 12-11. Even with the offenseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slow start, coach Mike Murphy was most upset with his defense. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our defense just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play well and [junior goalie] Reed Junkin didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play well,â&#x20AC;? Murphy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was hard to get enough stops to gain momentum.â&#x20AC;? In the game, Junkin was only able to stop 7 of 19 shots on goal, well below his season save percentage of 51 percent. Given this game and a string of shaky performances in the past, the starting

goalie spot against Dartmouth has been up for grabs over the past couple of weeks. Vying for the spot are Junkin, sophomore Alex Demarco, and freshman Preston Heard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had an open competition going into the Harvard game and Reed was very good that week,â&#x20AC;? Murphy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the cage, if you make a change, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty drastic, [but] I thought about it tonight, honestly.â&#x20AC;? What held Murphy back from making the change was the fact that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard for any goalie to play well coming off the bench in the middle of the game. Neither backup goalie has played a lot this season, and inserting them into a cold-weather game would not have been advantageous to them or to the team, according to Murphy. Still, despite a tough game defensively, Penn had a chance to knot the score with under 30 seconds to play. With the Quakers down 12-11, St. Joes garnered two penalties on a clear and the ensuing

offensive possession to give Penn a six-to-four man-up advantage. However, like on the majority of their extra-man opportunities, the Quakers failed to score, turning the ball over near the crease. Overall, Penn went 2 for 6 on man-up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man-up was average, kind of like our overall effort and preparation for this week, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we get,â&#x20AC;? Murphy reflected on his teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance. Even with the disappointing loss, Penn can draw a lot of positives from this game. After struggling with faceoffs most of the season, the Quakers looked to have found their guy in junior Richie Lenskold, who went 17 of 25 from the X this game. Since taking over for senior Chris Santangelo against Harvard, Lenskold has won 70 percent of his faceoffs. Still, Penn can keep its postseason hopes alive by making the Ivy League tournament. In order to do that, they need to beat a traditionally weak Dartmouth team

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Senior attackman Kevin McGeary was one of the few bright spots for the Quakers, leading the team with four goals on the day.

this weekend, and have top-ranked Yale take down Harvard as is expected. Dartmouth (2-9, 0-4 Ivy) has not won a conference game in three years and has not defeated Penn since 2012, when the current

seniors were sophomores in high school. However, after Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recent outing, Murphy is not taking any opponent lightly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To beat Dartmouth, we have to play better than we did tonight.â&#x20AC;?

Iain Braddak named new head coach of Penn volleyball after long search

Braddack replaces Katie Schumacher-Cawley SAM MITCHELL Associate Sports Editor

Two months after Katie Schumacher-Cawley shocked the team by leaving Penn after just one year for Penn State, Penn Athletics announced Monday that

a new head coach had been hired for Penn volleyball: Iain Braddak. Schumacher-Cawley left the team in February after only one year. She was named head coach following the departure of Kerry Carr, who had coached the team for 19 years, in February 2016. As the third head coach for the Quakers in as many years, Braddak will take over the program during a critical time with the

team losing six seniors to graduation, including All-Ivy setter Sydney Morton. This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a team that has been lacking in leadership for the last two months, though. In the offseason, assistant coach Josh Wielebnicki and members of the team helped to lead workouts and tide the team over until a new head coach was hired. Now that Braddak has been

hired, he will look to replicate the success that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enjoyed at other institutions. After graduating Springfield College in 2010, he started his coaching career as an assistant coach at his alma mater. Working there for two years, he earned a Master of Science in sports performance and advanced level coaching while helping the team to a NCAA Division III Elite Eight run.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s since been a head coach three times at the D-III level, working at Culver-Stockton College, the US Merchant Marine Academy, and at Smith College. He had success at all three, creating a brand new menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volleyball program for Culver-Stockton and leading the USMMA womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volleyball team to its first backto-back winning seasons in a decade.

Braddak gained D-I and Ivy League experience during a brief stint with Columbia last year. He served as an assistant coach for the Lions, who went 5-9 in conference last season. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be moving up by becoming a Quaker, as Penn went 7-7 in the Ancient Eight last season, and will look to use his experience at the rival institution to help the Red and Blue further improve.

Quakers get unique opportunities through cross-country trips

ROWING | Heavyweights recently went to San Diego

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice to get away for a while. The majority of competitions for Penn men and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rowing are relatively close and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require too much travel, but for a few exciting trips each year, the teams have the chance to leave the Northeast and

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compete far from home. The trips provide the rowers with a break from the daily life at Penn and traveling with the team is a great opportunity to grow closer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we take trips itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really fun because those are the times we

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so you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a rowerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; so I had to be coxswain,â&#x20AC;? Byxbee laughed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the perfect role for me, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pretty bossy.â&#x20AC;? Although they may be small in stature, the coxswainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impact can certainly be felt on the boat. The coaches and the cox are in charge of developing a â&#x20AC;&#x153;race planâ&#x20AC;? for each race. This is what the ideal race will look like for the boat if everything goes smoothly. This includes calling out certain things to the rowers during the race such as distance markers to the finish line.

Since the cox is in charge of directing the rowers, the rowers need to trust the cox in order to properly execute the race plan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In a race itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very crucial that rowers trust us,â&#x20AC;? Byxbee said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re exactly even with another boat with 250 meters to go and the coxswain tells them â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I need everything you have right nowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that can be the difference between winning and losing.â&#x20AC;? For Stanich, Byxbee, and Hansen, their experience coxing at Penn has come with many different positives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think you learn a ton, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really lucky because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had so many opportunities to try to be a leader,â&#x20AC;? Stanich said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Especially on this team

as a female on a heavyweight menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s athletic program.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been really nice being a part of a team in general, and to be a leader within the team because of the coxswain role,â&#x20AC;? said Byxbee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;ŚIt is super rewarding when you get your boat across the line first.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being on the team and having great relationships with the guys, being able to go out and compete with those guys on race days, just makes all of it worth it,â&#x20AC;? Hansen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just so fun and I love those guys like family â&#x20AC;Ś Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a really special team.â&#x20AC;? Overlooked or not, the Penn coxswains will be looking to steer their teams in the right direction for the rest of the season.

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It’s all on the line for Red and Blue in Ivy championships

W. GOLF | Women seek first Ivy title since 2010 MICHAEL LANDAU Sports Reporter

The end is near for Penn golf. Not in a bad way, of course. The men’s and women’s teams are competing from this Friday to Sunday in the Ivy League Championships, with the men competing in-state and the women heading to the Metedeconk National Golf Club in Jackson Township, N.J. The tournaments will be contested over 54 holes of stroke play and will con-

clude the Quakers’ season, which began months ago in late September. The men’s team’s improvement under first-year coach Jason Calhoun has been well-documented, as that veteran squad seeks to finish the job of jumping from fifth to first in only one season. But for the Penn women, this weekend’s event presents an equally golden opportunity to finish off the year on a good note. Coach Mark Anderson is optimistic about the Quakers’ chances. “I think that the team that we’re bringing to Ivies certainly has the potential to do well there,” he said.

“They’ve got to be on their games and play well, but the potential is certainly there.” Unfortunately, it has been difficult for the team to even play golf this spring. The Red and Blue have not been able to practice much outside due to poor weather. Unlike the men’s team, they did not have a tournament last weekend to prepare for Ivies. “It’s been tough because we haven’t really been able to get outside, but all of the other Ivy League teams are in the same boat just with the weather,” Anderson said. “The spring we’ve been having in the Northeast has not been great,

so we’re all in the same situation. I wish we had more time to prepare but it is what it is.” These challenges may have contributed to somewhat disappointing performances from the Quakers as of late. In their last three tournaments, they went 0-2 in the Match Madness event at Princeton, finished seventh place out of fifteen teams and eighth out of eleven at the William & Mary Intercollegiate and Harvard Invitational, respectively. “It’s really hard to get into a rhythm when you can’t play consistently. Normally we’re outside four days a week,” Anderson said. “We

have an indoor facility and that has helped, but it’s just not the same.” The competition for the women’s first Ivy League title since 2010 will be tough. Among the teams the Quakers will face are Princeton, the defending Ivy champion, Columbia, which defeated Penn in Match Madness, and Harvard, which emerged victorious in its own invitational two weekends ago. However, despite the stiff opposition and grand magnitude of the upcoming event, Penn’s strategy will largely remain constant. “It is Ivies and it is the way you’re measured in the Ivy League,

but we approach it the same way that we do all of our tournaments,” Anderson said. That approach is primarily focused on what happens before the first tee shot is struck on Friday. “Tournaments aren’t won on tournament day. They’re won on the practice tee, and everything you do leading up to that is going to pay off,” Anderson said. “We try to just keep it the same because it is another tournament. Whether it’s the Ivy League Championship or not, you prepare the same way.” And that preparation might help the Quakers give their season a sweet ending.

Penn Athletics announces launch of Game Onward Campaign Initiative includes several goals for the year 2022 DANNY CHIARODIT Associate Sports Editor

The future of Penn Athletics looks bright, but Penn is hoping to make it look even brighter. On Friday, Director of Athletics and Recreation M. Grace Calhoun announced the commencement of Game Onward: The Campaign for the Future of Penn Athletics.

This campaign is part of the larger scale initiative called “The Power of Penn Campaign: Advancing Knowledge for Good,” which seeks to enhance Penn’s local, national, and global impact. The Game Onward Campaign, in particular, will fulfill Penn Athletics’ “commitment to holistically developing student-athletes; enhancing the club sport and recreation experience; endowing coaching positions and athletics programs; winning championships; and supporting the people

and programs that arm our studentathletes with the skills to succeed on and off the field and far beyond athletics,” as Calhoun mentioned in her written statement. Calhoun listed the three priorities of this initiative as Competitive Excellence, Student-Athlete Experience, and Campus Engagement. For Competitive Excellence, the goals include finishing in the top half of the Ivy League for championships won and having at least 75 percent of all Penn teams

annually finish the regular season in the top half of the conference standings by 2022. They also include continuing a culture based on integrity and enhancing efforts to enroll a diverse group of student athletes. As part of the Student-Athlete Experience, Penn plans to launch the Penn Athletics Wharton Leadership Academy. Additionally, the already-existent Penn Athletics Sports Performance Program will partner with Penn Medicine. These initiatives ensure that

student-athletes are taken care of even when they’re not competing on the court or field. Lastly, the Campus Engagement priority involves the enhancement of Penn’s recreation and wellness programs, while also mentioning the athletics department’s goal of increasing the University, alumni, and the Philadelphia community’s involvement in athletics’ activities. With the support of the Red and Blue community, Penn Athletics is looking to create over a dozen

varsity annual funds, as well as several endowments within the athletics program. A few capital building projects are also in the works, including renovations to Ringe Squash Center and Meiklejohn Baseball Stadium. Overall, this multi-year plan has been enacted to provide the best possible experience to Penn student-athletes, while simultaneously pushing the Quakers’ athletics programs to become more of a force in both the Ivy League and the NCAA moving forward.

Keating and McGeary selected in Major League Lacrosse draft

M. LAX | Keating is Penn’s first ever first-round pick BREVIN FLEISCHER Associate Sports Editor

Though their team’s Ivy League Tournament status remains uncertain, Penn seniors Connor Keating and Kevin McGeary will assuredly not be playing the final game of their lacrosse careers this Saturday against Dartmouth. Keating, the All-American, All-Ivy long stick midfielder/

close defenseman will be headed to Denver to join the Outlaws this summer, as he just became the team’s first-round selection in the 2018 Major League Lacrosse Draft. The attackman/midfielder McGeary, an honorable mention All-Ivy selection in his own right, will be staying a bit closer to home, as the Malvern Prep product was drafted by the Boston Cannons with the 46th selection. One of just two defensive players chosen in the draft’s first round, Keating was picked

eighth overall, a testament to his body of work at Penn, a body of work that earned him the distinction of being the Quakers’ first ever first-round draft pick. The senior has been a star for the Quakers ever since his arrival on campus, recording a ridiculous 31 goals and 10 assists for his career. Nationwide, his two-way production has been unmatched, as, in addition to his scoring prowess, Keating has amassed 189 ground balls and 30 caused turnovers.

Although his star power may not have been so readily apparent as a high schooler, Keating has proven his ability to improve each season, and he quickly established himself as one of the best players in recent Penn lacrosse history. Additionally, he even transformed his role from that of a long stick midfielder to that of a close defenseman this season, proving that he’s willing and able to do whatever it takes to help his team win. His fellow Quaker draftee,

McGeary, has become a standout in his own right. Much like Keating, McGeary has improved each season throughout his Penn career. He contributed heavily as a freshman, tallying 21 points, proving himself to be a future star for the Red and Blue. The next year, he bumped that number to 24 points before breaking out last season with 23 goals and 35 points after switching from the midfield to the attack. This season, with at least one game still remaining, McGeary

leads the team with 26 goals, and he’s already matched last year’s 35 points. With just a single point in this weekend’s game, McGeary will have improved on his totals in each season of his Quaker career, a truly special feat. Undoubtedly, the Denver Outlaws and Boston Cannons recognized these admirable qualities and abilities in Keating and McGeary, and they believe that their accomplishments as Quakers are signs of more to come.

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Long stick midfielder Connor Keating became Penn’s first Major League Lacrosse draft pick since Nick Doktor in 2016.

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and cultivate,” Ng explained. To have the best student-athletes, rowing teams must first recruit the best rowers in the country. This is no small task, as Penn rowers come from all over the world. A big part of this process is convincing those rowers to come to Penn, as many have received offers from top schools around the country. “I think that our process begins with following the race results of the best domestic and international students that we can find,” Ng said. “Students that might be [the] most academically qualified people, but also the people that are the most passionate about moving the boat and about training for rowing [are the people we try to recruit].” Once the team has identified the rowers they want to recruit, the next step is to get them to come to

Penn over other top schools. “We do overlap a ton with the best schools in the country,” Ng said. “The key point for Penn is we offer a little bit of a different approach to training, certainly a different approach to team culture that we think fits best for our university and the combination of what Penn has to offer academically, but also being in Philadelphia is pretty amazing [and] rowing on boathouse row it’s one of the most iconic places to train in the United States.” The Ivy League is home to some of the most storied and successful rowing programs in the country, and has been able to pair that with unparalleled academic success for over a century. Thanks to the premiere coaching staffs, student-athletes, and facilities, it looks like that success will continue for a long time.

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All eight Ivy League schools have rowing programs with a long tradition of success. How did that come to be? SAM MITCHELL Associate Sports Editor

Penn and the rest of the Ivy League have been at the top of the rankings for centuries. While the Ivy League might be known for its prowess in academics, there’s another set of ranking lists that are a familiar home to the members of the Ancient Eight: the national men’s heavyweight, men’s lightweight, and women’s rowing rankings. While they share the top echelons of the sport with schools like Stanford, Cal, Duke, and Wisconsin, no conference has had as much dominance from of all its schools.

There are a lot of factors that go into producing a strong rowing team, but a big one is tradition. It should come as no surprise that the Ivies continually produce such good rowers. The first intercollegiate rowing competition was held between Harvard and Yale in 1852 — two years after California became a state, and long before the founding of either Stanford or Cal. “There is great tradition and so much of the rowing world was based on the format and the traditional movements of cup races and in some ways it’s a sport that really has transcended time,” women’s rowing coach Wesley Ng said. At Penn, this tradition is upheld both by the University itself and by a long line of dedicated alumni, who continue to provide support for the program long after they leave it. That’s not to say that the Ivies are living in the past — far from it. They’re at the top of their game in the present, and that requires constant effort on the part of the University and the rowing coaches.

They say there’s no substitute for hard work, but it also helps that the Quakers employ some of the top rowing coaching staffs in the country. Men’s heavyweight rowing coach Geoff Bond won two national titles as a rower at Brown and five more as a coach at Cal. Ng won a national title as a rower at Yale. Since coming to Penn, he has greatly improved the team, winning numerous awards along the way. Additionally, men’s lightweight rowing coach Colin Farrell won a gold medal at the 2008 World Rowing Championships and helped guide Penn to the Grand Final at the IRA National Championships for just the fourth time since 1997. “[Sustaining a competitive team] starts with people, being able to attract the best student-athletes, followed closely by keeping the best and most experienced coaching staff we can. Those two things are resources that we really are always trying to improve SEE IVY LEAGUE PAGE 12

Coxswains fill unheralded, but important role for Quakers

Early-morning practices just part of lifestyle for collegiate rowers

Coxswains guide rowers from the back of the boat

Penn rowing practices start at 7 a.m. or earlier

CARTER THOMPSON Associate Sports Editor

DANIEL WITTMER Sports Reporter

It may just be one of the most overlooked and under-appreciated jobs in all of sports. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t one of the most important. The coxswain (pronounced Kok-sen), is arguably the most essential person in a rowing crew. This especially rings true for the Penn rowing squads. But what do these small but mighty members of the team do exactly? And no, they don’t just yell “stroke” over and over at the rowers. The cox is, quite simply, the coach of the boat. Sitting typically in the stern (or the back) of the boat, the coxswain’s job is to steer the boat. They tell the rowers which direction to row, and with what level of intensity. “You’re trying to organize a lot and you’re thinking a lot and reacting very quickly in the moment,” men’s heavyweight coxswain Sabrina Stanich said. “…But also you have to be super composed the whole time so you don’t ever make [the rowers] nervous. Because they have to have total faith and confidence in you that you’re doing

In the case of rowing, the early bird catches the brutal, strenuous daily workouts. Members of Penn rowing show dedication through intense and continued passion for a sport where repetition and discipline are key. However, the true drive of the members of Penn’s three rowing teams is evident in their grueling daily workouts at 7 a.m or earlier. While many college students can’t even fathom waking up to attend 10 a.m. classes, these athletes find a way to grind and thrive at sunrise. One thing’s for sure, the athletes are always trying to accumulate the necessary sleep. “To combat the whole waking up early thing, I will take a nap during the day,” senior lightweight rower James Konopka said. “Basically I try to get ‘x’ number of hours everyday.” The irony of this entire story is that more than likely these athletes get more sleep than you. According to all three

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Even though they do not physically row for Penn rowing, coxswains voice commands and give direction to others in the boat.

what you can to motivate them and put them in the best position possible.” “My favorite part about racing as a coxswain is the quick strategy that is involved,” women’s rowing coxswain Taylor Byxbee said. “Being able to read a course and your competition and knowing when you need to go and when the other team is vulnerable is a fun game to play.” What many people don’t realize is that coxing can be a highstress job. In addition to primarily steering the boat, they are also simultaneously keeping track of the competition, what stage of the race course their boat is in, and how fast the boat is moving. “It’s impossible unless you’re a really great coxswain to perfectly manage everything that’s going

on,” men’s lightweight coxswain Julia Hansen said. “…We are looking at a lot of things, getting a lot of information at the same time, and trying to produce information to the crew.” “It can be really stressful because you feel if you do anything wrong, [the rowers] will notice,” Stanich said. The path to becoming a Penn coxswain varies from person to person. Some started out as rowers but weren’t big enough to continue at the next level. Others were involved with other sports in high school and wanted to continue having a competitive outlet in college. Alternatively, there are some who just fit the profile. “[My friends] said ‘you are tiny SEE COXSWAIN PAGE 12

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While many students to struggle for 10:30 a.m. lectures, members of Penn rowing have already been up for hours by that time.

rowers, each of them is in bed by 10 p.m. every night. Each rower gets approximately eight or more hours of sleep a night — well within the recommended range of the seven to nine hours of sleep a night for individuals over eighteen. “It forces you to be pretty efficient with your day,” lightweight senior rower Mark Roberts said. “We try to discuss that as a team a lot and [the coaches] try to like harp on staying organized and getting enough sleep.” The coaching staff definitely tries to keep a steady ship, and are a resource the players can confide in for time and sleep management.

“To combat the whole waking up early thing, I will take a nap during the day,” senior lightweight rower James Konopka said. “Basically I try to get ‘x’ number of hours every day.” When it comes to rowing, the athletes have one ultimate reason for constantly pushing to train and compete in the sport. “It generally comes from the team and loving everybody on the team,” junior women’s rower Ellie Harned said. Penn rowers will always face early practice times. However, it seems at least that they all have a pretty good idea of how to handle the strain.

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