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Jamal Morris, a part-time aide who worked in Pottruck Health and Fitness Center, was killed on Saturday morning in a hit-and-run, Philadelphia Police and the Division of Public Safety announced on Tuesday.

In the afternoon, the PPD and DPS held a press conference outside of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center with members of Morris’ family to solicit the public’s help in finding the driver.

As of now, police said they do not have any video evidence, witnesses or a description of the car that struck Morris.

Morris, a 27-year-old, was allegedly riding a red, Chainboard bike early Saturday morning when he was struck by a car at the intersection of 45th and Market streets, PPD Captain John Wilczynski said at the press conference. He added

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FLING CRIME Transports to hospital for alcohol intoxication down from 2012, but slightly higher than last year

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This past weekend, 25 students were transported to the hospital during Spring Fling for alcoholrelated incidents, according to the Division of Public Safety.

That number is up from 22 students last year, but considerably less than the 35 who were transported in 2012.

While the majority of students were transported to the Hospital

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of the University of Pennsylvania, some students were sent to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

DPS noted that there were a few students whose blood alcohol content levels worried the doctors.

“We’re thankful that their friends called us,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. With Penn’s Medical Amnesty Policy, students are supposed to feel more comfortable making sure their friends are safe when it comes to alcohol-related SEE FLING CRIME PAGE 2

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In response to the recent suicide of Wharton junior Ao “Olivia” Kong, the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Life sent out an email discussing mental health.

On Tuesday morning, Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum sent out the second email to all undergraduates since Wharton junior Ao “Olivia” Kong’s death.

The subject of the email was “A

Message to Students Regarding Mental Health Support at Penn.”

In the body of the email, the Provost and Vice Provost wrote that “recent, tragic events at Penn remind us powerfully of the need to build a community in which we all look out for one another,” but did not specifically cite Kong’s suicide.

The email announced that “in SEE VPUL PAGE 6

Pa. state bill to restrict abortions sparks controversy Abortions would be banned after 20 weeks, instead of 24 LUIS FERRE SADURNI Staff Reporter

Kate Grum and her husband planned to name their unborn son Connor.

Connor would grow up healthy

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in the Grums’ Philadelphia home and would be a little brother to the couple’s eldest son, Gavin. But for Grum, everything that would be in her future became everything that wouldn’t when she underwent an abortion.

It would have been illegal for Grum to have an abortion if a state law, like the one proposed in

the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in early April, banned abortions by any method after 20 weeks gestation.

Earlier this month, Rep. Kathy Rapp (R-Warren) introduced a bill that would amend the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act to make abortion a crime after 20 weeks of pregnancy, rather than the current

24 weeks. Rapp said the bill is founded on scientific research which indicates that unborn babies feel pain after 20 weeks.

The bill would limit the use of dilation and evacuation (D&E) procedures — a method of abortion usually used in second trimester SEE ABORTION PAGE 3

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Dems, Penn for Hillary confident after N.Y. win Kasich supporters still hopeful for convention

Trump still needs a total of 1,237 delegates to clinch the nomination and avoid a brokered convention. He could block his competitors from gaining a majority before the convention, but it appears unlikely that he can do it himself, despite his large delegate lead.

The Associated Press reported by 11:30 p.m. that Trump had won at least 89 delegates, which would block Cruz from being able to reach the majority to win the nomination before the convention.

Though he lost by a long shot in

New York, Kasich supporters are hopeful for the Ohio governor’s chances.

In an emailed statement, the Chair of Penn for Kasich and College junior Joseph Kiernan said, “Penn for Kasich is pleased with Governor Kasich’s performance in New York, where he exceeded all political predictions.” As for the future, Kiernan said, “Moving forward we are confident that Governor Kasich’s positive message will resonate through the Northeast and especially in Pennsylvania where he was born and

raised.”

On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed a commanding victory in her home state of New York. With 94 percent of the vote reported, Clinton fulfilled the most recent polls’ predictions and beat Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a Brooklyn native, with 57.6 percent of the vote.

Clinton’s win in the Empire State was an important one for her campaign, as it marked the halt to the small momentum Sanders had built after winning seven out of

the last eight contested primaries and caucuses since mid-March.

Her win on Tuesday night also marked the candidate’s third win in the state after having won two senatorial races and the 2008 Democratic primary against President Barack Obama in the past.

Penn for Hillary was not surprised by the results and expects Clinton’s win to start a new streak of victories in the upcoming states.

“We applaud Bernie for his seven wins,” said Penn for Hillary president and College junior Emily Irani. “We are very respectful of his organization, but those few wins don’t distract us ... her win in New York is definitely going to help us going forward.”

Before New York’s 291 delegates were up for grabs yesterday, Clinton led Sanders 1,307 to 1,094 in pledged delegates. When taking into account unpledged delegates — or superdelegates, who vote regardless of primary outcomes — Clinton leads the Vermont senator by an estimated 651 total delegates, according to The New York Times delegate tracker.

Clinton’s win, her first since March 22 in Arizona, left her with the majority of the state’s

In October of 2012, Pennsylvania Senate Bill 941 raised the maximum fine for a first offense of underage drinking to $500 and for a second offense to $1000. The BLCE’s presence at Penn during Fling 2013 was part of a general crackdown on underage drinking on college campuses. Temple, St. Joseph’s and La Salle universities have also seen an increased BLCE presence.

Fling this year saw only one citation for public urination. In 2015, there were 7 citations for disorderly conduct, underage drinking and public urination, a number that decreased significantly from 35 in 2014.

Rush cited the beautiful weather of this past weekend as a reason for

longer parties this year. If it had rained as in previous years, Rush said, there would have been fewer opportunities to party outdoors.

“Nice weather is not our friend for Spring Fling weekend,” Rush said.

Typically, Thursday has been a busier night for DPS and MERT. “We hit Thursday night full force,” Rush said.

She noted that Saturday night this year was slow until midnight, when students began to travel toward the western edge of campus.

This year, 36 houses were listed as disturbances. Most of these were in response to a noise disturbance complaint, though if DPS officials hear the party from two blocks

away, they will ask students to turn the music down. Not all house disturbances turn into parties being shut down.

Last year, there were 27 house disturbances, in comparison to 8 during 2014, when it rained.

DPS and Penn Police also take into consideration fire and safety laws when responding to a house disturbance. In April 2013, a West Chester University student fell from a third-floor roof at a Temple party during their Spring Fling, The Temple News reported.

In 2015, Temple freshman Rebecca Kim fell off an eighth-story window ledge of a building while taking photographs, a USA Today article reported.

As a response to these rooftop

falls, DPS made sure that Penn students were not on rooftops that did not have railings, especially if they had been drinking.

Parties were also shut down for overcrowding, DPS said. “We have certain houses that are on our radar screen as problem houses,” Rush said.

People from a few houses that put people in danger, particularly in terms of fire code issues, will be brought back in to DPS to discuss what happened.

Last year, Penn had one narcotics arrest, but there were none this year.

Prior to Fling, the entire Penn team, including DPS, the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, Penn Police,

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Three of the five presidential candidates get to claim New York as home, but who gets to claim its delegates?

On the Republican side, New York has a total of 95 delegates, but only 14 are awarded at a statewide level. The remaining 81 delegates are dispersed among the state’s congressional districts.

New York native and real estate mogul Donald Trump won convincingly in the GOP primary.

With 94 percent of precincts reporting by 11:20 p.m., Trump led with 60.1 percent of the vote, to Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s 25.2 percent and Sen. Ted Cruz’s 14.7 percent.

“We don’t have much of a race anymore,” Trump said in his victory speech at Trump Tower in Manhattan. “Senator Cruz is just about mathematically eliminated.”

Election watchers and political pundits don’t necessarily agree with the 1968 Wharton graduate on that point.

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incidents.

As Penn students enjoyed Spring Fling last weekend, DPS and the Medical Emergency Response Team worked hard to keep students safe.

This year, there were 14 liquor law violations, all of which were citations for underage drinking. In 2015, there were only 2 citations for underage drinking, but there were 20 in 2014.

Starting in 2013, officers from the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement began patrolling on and around campus during Fling. That year, over 30 students were cited for underage drinking.

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“We are extremely excited for the results coming in,” said Irani, who noted that Penn for Hillary was recently recognized by the Clinton campaign as one of the most organized student groups in the state.

“She was a senator in New York and expected nothing less.

We couldn’t have done it without the students who have been doing a lot of canvassing all over New York,” Irani said.

Penn Democrats, which endorsed Clinton earlier in the semester, was also excited to see Clinton win in New York last night. Max Levy, the group’s president and a College junior, said he was impressed with the strong margins of Clinton’s win.

“I think it was definitely a sigh of relief for the Clinton campaign, who hadn’t won in a while,” Levy said. “Hopefully she builds on that momentum going into Pennsylvania.”

Sanders was campaigning in Pennsylvania on Tuesday ahead of the state’s primary on April 26, when Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Rhode Island will also be in play.

AlliedBarton, PennComm, MERT and the Division of the Vice Provost for University Life all worked cooperatively to prepare for Fling.

Before the weekend, Rush warned students about the danger of throwing house parties when students do not know who is in their homes. She also noted that DPS and MERT watch out for people who need to be hospitalized for alcohol-related medical reasons or for sexual crimes.

Coaches and administrative officials rode along with Penn Police during Fling and sought to intervene early before situations got out of hand.

They wanted to make sure that “students [were] able to enjoy and also be safe,” Rush said.

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abortions — and provides no exceptions for rape, incest or fetal anomaly, according to an April 8 Philadelphia Inquirer article.

Twenty-one weeks and four days into her pregnancy in 2011, Grum visited the Pennsylvania Hospital — which is part of Penn Medicine — for her anatomy scan.

When the doctor took a look at the ultrasound scans, the Grum couple was told that their unborn son had no kidneys and bladder, a fetal anomaly.

The unborn child had Potter’s syndrome, which is caused by a decrease in amniotic fluid volume. This leads to the lack of development of some organs.

Grum’s doctor told her that if she carried the baby to term, there was only a slim chance of his survival and that she could be at risk of suffering internal damage.

Grum, now 35 years old, was given the option of undergoing a D&E procedure, an abortion that involves the dilation of the cervix and surgical evacuation of the contents of the uterus.

She was faced with the most difficult decision of her life and decided to proceed with the abortion, all for her recentlyborn child, Gavin.

“Think about it,” Grum said.

“Do you want to put yourself at risk? You have a perfectly healthy, wonderful baby at home that you need to be there for.”

“I had to be there for him. It was the worst week of my life, and getting that news was the worst day of my life,” Grum added. “Not knowing what to think and how to process and how to deal with it was dramatic.”

In what was a two-day process at Pennsylvania Hospital, Grum’s abortion took place almost 22 weeks into her pregnancy. Since that day in 2011, not a day goes by that she does not think about Connor. *** The abortion bill, which was introduced on April 1, has sparked statewide controversy as the Republican-controlled

state House attempted to fasttrack the bill to a floor vote.

On April 11, Pennsylvania Gov. Thomas Wolf held a press conference, along with Planned Parenthood leaders and abortion rights activists, threatening to veto the bill if it passed both chambers of the state legislature. “[The bill] criminalizes the D&E method of abortion,” President of Planned Parenthood Southeaster n Pen nsylva n ia Dayle Steinberg said. “That is one of the most commonly used methods of second-trimester abortions. It is frequently used in the first trimester as well. We are opposed to it because it is unconstitutional. It is extreme.

It would be the most restrictive abortion ban in the country.”

The final vote on the bill was postponed amidst the governor’s warning and significant press coverage. The fate of the proposed legislation is uncertain.

Rapp, who chairs the state’s Pro-Life Caucus, condemned Gov. Wolf’s veto threat and specified she would want to see the bill be considered for a floor vote as soon as possible.

“It is very unfortunate that the governor views this bill as an extremist bill when the purpose of the bill is to try and save unborn children and to try to prevent a higher risk to the mother when an abortion is over 20 weeks,” Rapp said. “He is still willing for babies to be aborted when they can feel pain because of the procedure.”

Randall Miller, a local politics expert and St. Joseph’s University history professor, noted the slim chances of Republicans overriding a veto and speculated whether the bill is more of a statement made on an election year.

“The purpose [of the bill] is threefold at least,” Miller said.

“One is a moral argument that [Republicans] make about the sanctity of life, and they want, as much as possible, to roll back Roe v. Wade. The second, of course, is that there is a political interest. There is a constituency that expects them to do that, not to sit on their haunches …

The third part of it is to get [these types of legislations] …

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2016 eventually into the Supreme Court for them to decide, they’re hoping, to reverse Roe v. Wade.”

Roe v. Wade was a historic 1973 Supreme Court case that recognized a woman’s decision to have an abortion until fetal viability. In Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, the Supreme Court acknowledged that viability may occur at 23 or 24 weeks.

While many pundits argue that the proposed 20-week abortion ban would conf lict with the Supreme Court’s past rulings, Rapp asserted that the amendment is constitutional.

Rapp argued that the Supreme Court has previously upheld the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act’s main provisions and that advances in pre-natal care have shown that fetuses can be viable even before 20 weeks of gestation.

“We have seen children born alive at 20 weeks who are viable and who are able to live and thrive at 20 weeks,” Rapp said.

Yet, Grum said that such a law would have impeded her from having an abortion and could have put her at risk.

“You cannot see kidneys on an ultrasound until close to 20 weeks. So, it’s not something that could have been diagnosed earlier … Without [the option for abortion] I would have had to carry to term,” Grum said.

If she would have carried her baby to term, her unborn child’s condition would have affected the development of his lungs and would have probably been fatal, Grum said. “[If] he was born, he would never be able to breath, and I’d be lucky if I got minutes or hours [with him],” she said. *** The proposed Pennsylvanian bill that would place more restrictions on abortions is not unique to the state, but part of a nationwide trend.

There has been a significant hike in state abortion regulations over the past five years. Between 2011 and 2014, states passed 231 restrictions, more than in the previous three decades, according to a Guttmacher Institute report.

According to the same institute, 411 abortion restrictions have

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Rep. Kathy Rapp introduced a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks into a pregnancy, contrary to the 24 weeks ban in place currently.

been introduced so far this year, of which 17 have passed at least one chamber and 21 have been passed in five states.

Today, four states — Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota and Mississippi — have only one facility authorized to carry out abortions.

The decrease in abortion clinics nationwide sometimes makes it harder for women to find a center close to them.

Grum said she was fortunate enough to have gotten her abortion in her own city.

“It is such a ter r ibly emotional, traumatizing experience,” she said. “I was lucky that I had the option, lucky that I was 10 miles from home and did not have to go [so many] miles away like some people do now. I was in my city, there at home. I was lucky that everyone was so wonderful.” *** At Penn, the conversation about the effects of abortion restrictions nationwide is taking place on campus.

On April 13, Penn hosted a screening of a documentary and panel discussion on abortion restrictions, known as Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers, or TRAP, laws. Planned Parenthood, American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania

and Penn Cinema Studies, among other groups, hosted the event in Meyerson Hall.

Curtiss Hannum, vice president of programming and center affairs for The Women’s Centers of Philadelphia, and 2014 College graduate Lexi White, a community organizer with New Voices for Reproductive Justice, were the panelists for the event.

Hannum talked about the challenges of abiding by absurd state regulations that sometimes forced clinics to implement specific air conditioning systems — which can cost upwards of $500,000 — to meet clinical safety standards.

Some students on Penn’s campus, however, support prolife legislation like the one being proposed in Pennsylvania.

W ha r ton fresh ma n Er ic Hoover is a member of a prolife group called Created Equal, based out of his home state of Ohio. For Hoover, a pre-born baby has inherent human value.

“Abortion after 20 weeks is not mainly wrong because that pre-born child is viable outside the womb at that time, although that is also a horrible and heinous thing.” Hoover said. “The main point I’m trying to get across is that abortion is wrong, period, because abortion kills

human beings … [a baby] is still scientifically a human being from the moment of conception.”

Hoover condemned dismemberment abortion and argued that the bill is constitutional because the Supreme Court erred in Roe v. Wade almost 40 years ago.

“We can all agree that the Supreme Court has been wrong before,” he said. “The Supreme Court supported segregation and upheld Jim Crow laws, so I think the Roe v. Wade decision was a wrong one by the Supreme Court.” *** Grum personally wrote to her state representative about her experience and urged him to oppose the proposed 20-week abortion ban. As she awaits the future of the bill, Grum has found solace in her family.

After her abortion she went on to have another son, now three years old.

But she’ll never forget Connor.

“Not a day goes by that I don’t think about it,” Grum said. “Not a day goes by that I don’t wish that he was here. We wanted this baby; we loved this baby; we were excited to have this baby.

So, not a day goes by that I don’t think about it.”

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In the short span of time since the Penn community received the tragic news that yet another student had taken her own life, there has been an outpouring of grief and resolve to take steps to prevent future losses. This is heartening and as it should be.

It seems to me, however, that, as in the past, there’s a subtle but critical distinction which has largely been missed in this most recent wave of campus discussions: the difference between emotional stress and mental illness.

We all experience unhappiness, nervousness, pressure and hurt at times. It may well be true that situational factors at our university cause us to experience these unpleasant feelings more often than necessary, or more often than is constructive to our academic and personal development. That may be an institutional failing well worth taking on on its own.

None of these, however, is akin to the symptoms of a clinical mental illness. More

relevantly, none of these is a statistically significant cause of suicide in the United States. The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that more than 90 percent of people who take their own lives have a diagnosable mental illness, such as clinical depression or anxiety.

Those ailments, much like their physical counterparts and unlike the negative emotions we all feel, don’t have explicable, situational causes. To the degree that they are understood by science, these ailments are thought to strike more or less at random. Current medical science theorizes a number of causes for clinical depression and anxiety disorders, including brain chemistry abnormalities, hormonal imbalances and genetic factors.

Situational stresses simply don’t enter the picture.

The idea, therefore, that “Penn culture” or “Penn Face” directly causes student suicides is most likely incomplete. A culture can no more cause a person to

develop clinical depression than it can give them the flu.

Students would not cease to be affected by depression and anxiety disorders if prevailing attitudes on campus were less stress-inducing.

That’s not to say, how-

can’t cause major depression, it can certainly discourage those who have it from seeking the help they need. This, more so than the quotidian stresses of academic rigor, is what we must confront.

Given the strong emo-

While culture can’t cause major depression, it can certainly discourage those who have it from seeking the help they need.” ever, that culture doesn’t enter the picture at all. The broad range of social phenomena that we call “Penn culture” certainly seems to stigmatize deviation from a narrowly-defined set of expected “high-achieving” behaviors. Seeking out adequate treatment for mental illness seems to be one such deviation. While culture

tional reactions we have seen from members of the school community since this most recent tragedy, I almost hesitate to make what may seem a semantic quibble. I will run the risk of over-intellectualizing, however, because I believe that in this case, the semantics are consequential. Whether we conceive of and talk about these terrible

losses as the result of a toxic culture, or as the result of a failure to connect students with mental illnesses to the care providers they needed has dramatic implications for what courses of remedial action we ought to pursue.

Cultural change can only help students who struggle with mental illness insofar as it can make them more willing to seek out the care that they need. If that care is unavailable or insufficient, however, then those students are hardly better off.

Moving forward while keeping this distinction firmly in mind, I believe that Penn’s leaders need to think hard about the fundamentals.

They must decide what role they ought to play in providing mental healthcare to students and how they are going to play that role effectively. The current situation clearly doesn’t reliably connect students in need with sufficient care resources.

I suspect that the solution lies in some change more essential than tweaking the logistical details of the extant

Alec Ward system. But those are the discussions we ought to be having — the discussions which stand to make a real difference in the long term.

The specific answers are for people more expert than myself to devise with appropriate input. But so long as the terms of our discourse remain muddied and confused, those conversations are far more unlikely to be productive.

ALEC WARD is a College junior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@sas. upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard. “Fair Enough” usually appears every Wednesday.

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The impact of Penn’s high-pressure environment on mental health has been a trending topic over the past few years. Following a string of suicides, our university has been forced to reconsider the campus’s culture.

Joining this conversation, I would argue that an important aspect of Penn’s culture has gone unaddressed: We reject the concept of rejection.

In internships, in graduate school admissions and especially in student activities, we slap on the Penn Face and pretend rejection doesn’t happen, or at least it doesn’t happen to us. But in such a competitive atmosphere, everyone has been dealt his or her fair share. Only by opening up about and taking away the stigma of rejection will our campus truly become a mentally healthier place.

Ideas about handling rejection are complicated. In a New York Times article entitled “What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?,” failure

is described as a necessary element to success, but only in small doses. Essentially, too little failure makes someone smug, while too much failure wears someone down, especially if he or she isn’t in a supportive environment.

Penn isn’t always a supp o r t ive e nv i r o n m e nt .

Admission was just the beginning of our application journeys. Almost every club here requires an interview, audition or some kind of screening process. Many times, prior experience is necessary. One of my friends noted, “As a freshman, I wanted to take that advice to ‘try new things.’ But Penn just wasn’t letting me.”

The reality is that Penn students get rejected all of the time. This year, less than 18 percemt of those who auditioned for dance groups were invited to join.

In Alpha Iota Gamma, Penn’s pre-health fraternity, about 5.6 percent of those who rushed received a bid. The Kite and Key

Society, which coordinates admissions-related activities including tour guiding and day hosting, accepted 20 percent of the students who applied. Women’s Club Volleyball took five out of the 35 girls who tried out.

Twenty-five percent of Penn students who apply to medical school don’t even get into their safety. PennQuest, the camping pre-orientation

rattle off dozens of times my friends and I have been turned down. That’s not necessarily a bad thing; rejection is a part of life, and being able to handle it is important. But handling it and pretending that it didn’t happen are not synonymous.

I’ve been on both sides.

I’ve watched auditions, sorted applications into “yes” and “no” piles and

The reality is that Penn students get rejected all of the time.” program, rejected about 85 students last year (fall of 2014), sending a clear message of exclusivity to freshmen before they arrived on campus.

With statistics like these, it’s obvious that rejection happens frequently, in various campus spheres. I can

interviewed countless girls during sorority rush. It is inevitable that some communities are small. But we should approach how we reject differently. If we want people to apply so badly that we change our cover photos, flyer on Locust and blast listservs, we should take a

moment to write a thoughtful email to those who didn’t make the cut. And if it feels awkward? Rest assured that they feel significantly more awkward than you do.

To make rejection a more acceptable topic at Penn is no easy task. Naturally, there is a sense of embarrassment that accompanies rejection. But thinking of rejection as a shared experience helps. When I was turned down from the position I most wanted freshman year, a sophomore who had had a similar experience the previous year reached out.

Knowing that she understood my upset made it okay.

Overall, we are an incredibly privileged group, and these rejections won’t likely impact us in the long run.

But everything is relative.

It’s easy to see how these rejections, and our overly exclusive campus culture in general, contribute to Penn’s mental health issue.

I want to clarify that this is not an effort to have Penn administrators and

professors coddle students.

Because students do a solid portion of the rejecting, it is within our reach to shift this aspect of Penn culture. Let’s acknowledge that rejection is normal here. And if we’re discussing rejection, maybe we’ll change how we go about rejecting.

I’m working with an incredible team to create a wall covered with Polaroid pictures and notecards depicting student rejections in the Weigle Information Commons in Van Pelt Library. This is a studentmanaged exhibit hosted by Penn Libraries. The wall is meant to represent how the common experience of rejection can unite our community. We’ll be in Van Pelt on April 25, 26, 27 and 28 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and all are welcome to contribute. Please join us! No application necessary.

Becca brown is a College junior double majoring in sociology and communications.

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Penn Benjamins extends services after suicide Organization provides space for peer counseling KATHLEEN HARWOOD Staff Reporter

Many students suffering from academic stress or personal issues are looking for someone to talk to. Penn Benjamins, which was founded last spring, hopes to provide just that — and after last week’s suicide, they’ve ramped up their activity.

Penn Benjamins Peer Counseling is Penn’s first and only in-person peer counseling organization, its counselors lovingly referred to as “Bens.” The group offers comprehensive yet casual peer counseling and referral services to undergraduates. In the wake of Wharton junior Ao “Olivia” Kong’s suicide last Monday, Penn Bens lengthened their counseling hours and set up group sessions for students suffering from grief. Both individual students and groups alike have contacted Penn Bens to discuss Kong’s death, the 10th suicide at Penn since February 2013.

College junior Roy Lan helped found the organization, along with College seniors Emily Derecktor

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that the event is not being ruled a homicide or accident currently.

The chaplain at Penn Presbyterian contacted Morris’ parents, who live in Warwick, N.Y., and they immediately drove to Philadelphia that day, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

As a student at Drexel University, Morris began working as a part-time aide in Pottruck, checking on facilities throughout the week. He later graduated from Drexel with an engineering degree. After graduating, he worked full-time as a pipe designer at Amec Foster Wheeler, his mother, Channabel LathamMorris said, and continued working at the gym.

Morris signed up to be an organ

and Diego Fiori and 2015 College graduate Jordan Lidsky-Everson. It was founded in part due to the string of student suicides at Penn over the last few years.

“I personally became involved after a number of my close friends and acquaintances began complaining about the resources available to students at the time,” he said. “After doing a bit of research and asking the heads of other peer counseling groups at other schools about how to start a similar organization, I saw an opportunity to start a peer counseling group here at Penn. I was in close contact with President Amy Gutmann, who helped connect me to a group of other students interested in the initiative, as well as the head of CAPS, Bill Alexander.”

College freshman Max Schechter decided to apply for a position as a counselor after his first semester at Penn.

“I realized how important it is to have a peer support system or even just somebody there to listen to you,” he said. “By simply being there and lending a pair of ears, we have the power to help so many people. Just by being heard, we can feel validated, work through

solutions and begin to feel better.”

Schechter is among 40 students who have recently undergone counselor training. During training sessions, new Bens are taught active listening skills and a model for problem solving, and they learn about resources on campus and how to refer students to them.

They also complete mock interactions each week in order to practice approaching various types of conversations. Schechter described them as first being “awkward and challenging to maintain but eventually more natural.”

Through one-on-one conversations, Bens hope to validate the feelings and experiences of peers in a comfortable, friendly space — free snacks and coffee are also provided.

Bens also refer students to other resources when they think they are not equipped to fully give them the support they need.

“The question of when to refer a student to adult professionals honestly happens on a case-by-case basis,” Lan said. “But we tend to err on the side of caution if we feel that our abilities cannot meet the needs of our peers.”

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Penn Benjamins increase their hours for one-on-ones and group sessions following the recent events of Olivia Kong’s death. The group hosts Penn’s first and only in-person peer counselors.

A Wharton sophomore said that she found the support she needed in Bens counseling that kept her from “making a stupid decision.”

“I was contemplating self-harm and I was really just in a dark place,”

she said. “Just talking helped so much and I think other students should take advantage of it.”

The group hopes to grow to about 60 members by the spring of next year. Penn Bens currently

operates from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Sundays and Mondays in the Harnwell library and Tuesdays and Thursdays in Van Pelt Weigle Information Commons rooms 128 and 129.

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“It looks like seven people will get an organ from Jamal,” she said.

On Penn’s staff directory, Morris is still listed as a “temporary recreation aide” in Pottruck.

When contacted on Tuesday afternoon, Penn Recreation deferred comment on Morris to the Division of Public Safety.

“I really hope that the person who did this comes forward. I forgive you,” Natasha Morris, Jamal’s sister, said. She was joined by Morris’ parents, uncle and roommate at Drexel, all of whom urged the driver to come forward.

“I want to appeal directly to the person who did this,” said Morris’ uncle, who gave his name only as Peter. “Give us some closure.”

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$1 million donation made in honor of Beau Biden Money to be granted to international education group NICOLE RUBIN Staff Reporter

The Institute of International Education recently announced that it has been given a donation of $1 million in honor of 1991 College of Arts and Sciences graduate Beau Biden.

The anonymous donation is intended to offer academic freedom to scholars living in dangerous areas, especially overseas. The Institute will choose one scholar per year to receive the prize.

Scholars relating to Biden’s own service will be given preference, as will the prevalent universities in his life.

These include the University of Delaware, of his home state, Syracuse University — where

Biden received his law degree — and his undergraduate alma mater, Penn.

The organization will place a “scholar in danger” at a partnering university to ensure a safe haven to continue his or her academic work. According to the IIE press release,“It will enable them to continue their academic careers, teaching and conducting research at safe haven universities, with the goal of saving them so they can continue to educate the future generation and in many cases, help to rebuild their home countries after times of crisis and conflict.”

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scholarship granted in the name of Beau Biden. The Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III Memorial Scholarship was announced in February, and is funded through the University in a partnership with the Tau Chapter of Psi Upsilon, or Castle, of which he was a brother during his time at Penn.

“We are honored to be receiving continued support in memory of Beau,” Director of Development for Undergraduate Financial Aid Maryann O’Leary-Salas said.

In a statement, board member of the IIE and 1966 Wharton graduate Ted Kaufman said of Biden, “He used his voice to speak for those who couldn’t speak for themselves, and he used his power to protect the most powerless. This endowment will continue that legacy of service and sacrifice.”

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the interim, effective Wednesday, April 20,” Counseling and Psychological Services’ hours will be extended until 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays. The email did not include an end date for the expanded services.

The email goes on to introduce a new “How to Help a Friend” guide, the PNG of which was attached to the email. “[The guide] provides guidelines that we can all follow to help support each other, as well a comprehensive list of resources for mental health at Penn,” the email said, adding that similar guides will be distributed to staff and faculty.

According to the email,

physical copies will also be distributed by mail next week to students.

The guide begins by saying that “college friends learn together how to deal successfully with balancing academic and extracurricular stress, developing independence, and experiencing new people, cultures, and ideas. Friends help each other through difficult times like break-ups or family tragedies.” The rest of the guide includes sections like “When to be concerned about a friend,” “Physical or psychological signs your friend may need help,” and “Things you can do to help.”

The email also reminded students about the University help line, and applauded the work of student groups that work to improve mental health on campus.

Students expressed

confusion about the email, citing concerns over the effectiveness of the plan and the fact that messages have come from multiple people within the administration.

“I don’t think that extending CAPS hours will help us solve the problems we have,” said College junior Noah Onoff. “I think the CAPS process needs to be streamlined because students find it difficult and confusing.”

Wharton sophomore Zachary Stimler thought the email diluted the point, saying that “emails from different sources make the overall message more confusing. It would be more impactful if the message came from one place.”

Contributing reporter Ray Pomponio contributed reporting.

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ROUNDTABLE

Which spring team is best set to finish strong?

As the spring season starts to wind down, there are a number of Penn teams in the hunt for an Ivy title and beyond. We debate which team is best positioned heading down the final stretch.

Senior Sports Editor Nick Buchta: There’s no question to me that it’s women’s lacrosse. They’ve been here before. They’ve won eight of the last nine Ivy titles, and they’re out for blood after Princeton wrested the title away from them last season.

That early shock delivered by Dartmouth seems to have lit a fire under the Quakers, and I don’t see them cooling off any time soon.

They rebounded with an overtime win over No. 8 Northwestern before rattling off two Ancient Eight wins to close out their home schedule for the year.

With three games to go, coach Karin Corbett has expressed concern about the recent offensive production from her squad. But that’s going to come around. Critical for the Red and Blue has been the absolutely solid performance of the team’s defense. I’m not worried

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“To have an ex-patriot, so to speak, captaining another country’s team was really unique situation to be in,” King explains.

“It had its challenges but it was also a great honor to be chosen as an American to captain a New Zealand team.”

The pinnacle of King’s softball career came in 1999 when the Kiwis won the silver medal at Softball World Championships hosted in Normal, Ill. The memory shines not because of the action on the field, but for the game that never was.

After tallying a 9-1 record in pool play, New Zealand was set to play the United States in the world championship final. Mother nature had other plans.

Just two innings into the game, the skies opened up in a torrential downpour, forcing a rain delay.

“It just poured and poured and poured and poured. We all just stood in the dugout waiting for it

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guys in scoring position — finally,” Yurkow commented.

“We haven’t really been doing a good job of that.”

Junior Adam Bleday — who earned his second win of the year — worked effectively to keep the Quakers ahead and sophomore Da n iel Ha lev y padded the lead with a two-run homer in the seventh to make it 7-2.

In the eighth, senior Mitch Holtz blanked La Salle before freshman closer Jake Nelson sealed the victory following an

about any offense anchored by senior Nina Corcoran — whose 3.08 assists per game lead the nation — and some of the Ivy League’s top goal-scorers in Alex Condon and Iris Williamson.

We’ll find out soon if this team is destined to take back the title, and tonight’s contest at Princeton is going to go a long way toward deciding that outcome.

Sports Editor Tom Nowlan: To me, the answer is simple: men’s track and field. The Red and Blue have dominated this season on the legs and arms of athletes both young and old, and there is no reason to believe that the team will only continue to improve as they enter the most important part of their season.

Freshman sprinter Cavalry Rogers has broke out in a major way in the early days of his Penn career, already sitting third all time in program history in the 200 meters; his coach already cites him as one of the top 10 freshmen in the country.

Meanwhile, senior Sam Mattis who, if you remember, won the national championship in the discus a

to stop and it never did,” King said.

“So they cancelled it. The world championship final!”

The New Zealand squad had already booked tickets for an international flight back home the day after the World Championship final, so there was no opportunity to reschedule the game. In what remains as one of the most controversial rulings in women’s softball history, the gold medal was awarded to the United States over New Zealand due to the Americans’ perfect 10-0 record in pool play.

“It was kind of like reading a really good book and the last page was missing,” King recalled of the rained out game.

For her efforts in Normal, she was named 2000 New Zealand Player of the Year. Despite the anticlimactic outcome, King relished every opportunity she got to play against the U.S. National team.

“I always knew the players on the U.S. team,” she said. “I was always super determined when I did play against the United States

two-out RBI double for the Explorers in the ninth.

“Games like this are kind of big for us moving forward and taking it into the weekend,” Graul said. “We know that we can dominate when we want to dominate.”

With just two weekends left of conference play in the season, it’s a good time for the Quakers to be building up momentum.

“In the years that I’ve been here, we’ve always played our best ball in the last two weekends,” Graul continued, “so hopefully we can keep that going.”

Championships.

Obviously, these three are the best in the Ivy League (if not the nation) at what they do. If they even maintain their status quo, the Quakers have plenty to look forward to at the upcoming Penn Relays and Ivy

Sports Editor Tommy Rothman: Men’s lacrosse has a great shot at a great finish to the spring season.

Penn dropped games against No. 3 Brown and No. 1 Yale, but has had a strong Ivy League season otherwise. The Quakers clinched a berth in the Ivy Tournament with Saturday’s win over Harvard, so they are two wins away from a league title and a chance to play in the NCAA Championships.

The 17-6 loss to the Bears was the lowlight of Penn’s season, but the Red and Blue’s effort in the 11-10 overtime loss to the top-ranked Bulldogs showed that the team can play with anybody in the country, including the nation’s best squad.

The Quakers have had some very high-scoring outbursts, including a whopping 20-goal tally against Princeton in their Ivy opener. If Penn can get hot on the offensive end and play staunch defense, there’s no reason the team can’t challenge for the league crown and win its first NCAA Tournament game since 1988.

you have college sports. So if I wanted to stay in the game that I loved I was going to have to come back to the states to coach.”

King got her first coaching job as an assistant Lock Haven University in 2000 before moving to George Washington in 2003. In 2004, she was named head coach of Penn softball and has since won five Ivy League South Division Today, King is frequently cited as one of the most influential softball players of her generation in New Zealand. While she recognized her role in the development of softball across the globe, she is quick to praise her predecessors. ““I’d like to think there’s a lot of people way before my time that did the grunt work to establish the game,” she said. “If you look at ESPN ratings, it is one of the strongest growth sports as far as the viewership.”

While at Penn, King got to reap the benefits from softball’s growing global popularity. After winning the Ivy title in 2013 and advancing to NCAA Regionals,

the Quakers got a taste of the limelight.

“We played on primetime on a Friday night at 6 pm on ESPN. Not even ESPN2 or ESPN3, it was the primetime Friday night,” she said.

“They chose to put that on over an NBA basketball playoff game, which I thought was pretty cool.”

Despite all of the international experience King has accumulated over the years, the sport has come to mean different things to her at different points in her life.

“I think for me, softball has always been such an essential part of my life and it was really when I had children that there were things that were more important. It took until then, but I try not to take it too seriously.”

Similarly, all that playing and coaching experience has given King one token piece of advice to give to all of her players.

“It’s just a game and the sun will still rise tomorrow.”

Just as it did so many years ago, the morning after King first broke her nose.

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Senior attack Nina Corcoran — currently the Division I leader in assists per game with 3.08 — looks to lead the Penn women’s lacrosse to another Ancient Eight title. It would be their ninth in the last 10 years.

year ago, has somehow managed to get better; at last month’s Philadelphia College Classic, he registered the longest throw in the entire world so far this year.

And, of course, senior distance

runner Tom Awad has continued to dominate all competition, Ivy League or otherwise. At February’s Millrose Games, he ran an (albeit indoor) mile in 3:57, an Ancient Eight record.

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Penn softball coach Leslie King is skilled beyond the diamond — she also captained the 1992 New Zealand Women’s National Soccer Team.

that I wanted to have a really good game.”

The following year King retired at the age of 35. Still itching to be

a part of the sport, King faced a major dilemma.

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So Lessen has had to better himself to stay on the varsity squad, but how does that reflect on the difference in quality between varsity and club? As it turns out, club really does have a lot of quality, as Lessen explained, but varsity is a whole different beast altogether. “Vivek [Nimgaonkar] and some of the best club guys all played national juniors,� he said. “So it was solid practice, but varsity is another level, because the practices are longer and more intense for sure.�

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promised a spot on the team if I was definitively the top player on the [club] team and only made it after being persistent enough to not take ‘no’ for an answer. But if there was [sic] no spot available, I wouldn’t have ever gotten the chance.�

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playoffs arrive. Both lacrosse teams have clinched berths in the four-team Ivy postseason tournament, though they will be far from the favorites. Track and field will make or break their season at the upcoming Penn Relays and Ivy Championships.

In any case, all eyes will be a small, select group of standout athletes in University City this spring. Just as they have throughout this season and over their decorated careers, each team’s fortune’s will likely lie in their hands.

Sure, all players are created equal.

But when it comes to Penn’s spring sports teams, some players are a little more equal than others.

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in conference play, softball’s Alexis Sargent has been the ace of Penn’s staff, briefly ranking among the nation’s leaders earlier this season. And baseball boasts some star hurlers of its own — breakout lefty Gabe Kleiman, a recent transfer, leads the Ivies with a 2.25 ERA while closer Jake Nelson leads the conference in saves.

To be sure, Penn teams from other seasons are not without their stars — swimming’s Chris Swanson, women’s basketball’s Sydney Stipanovich and field hockey’s Alexa Hoover come quickly to mind. However, spring as a sports season seems to comprise almost entirely of teams led by clear individual standouts.

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But for several Penn spring sports, some of those “I�s are pretty damn impressive.

From Franklin Field to Meiklejohn Stadium to Penn Park, individual stars have uncommonly dominated Quaker sports this season.

Let’s start with track and field, perhaps the most starstudded program of them all.

Sam Mattis is currently the best in the world at the discus and is the heavy favorite to defend his national title. Tom Awad has been setting program and conference records left and right over the last few seasons. Kelsey Hay holds the Ivy record in the javelin and has a fair shot at qualifying for Olympic Trials this summer.

Meanwhile, on the women’s lacrosse field, midfielder Nina Corcoran has put the finishing touches on a stellar career in awe-inspiring fashion, leading the Ancient Eight with 55 points and 37 assists. The next-best Ivy Leaguer — Victoria Kalamaras of Columbia — has just 20 assists. And oh yeah, Corcoran’s 3.08 assists per game leads the entirety of Division I. The men’s laxers have some stars of their own — freshman goalie Reed Junkin sits in the Ivy’s top three in both saves and save percentage, and has singlehandedly kept the Red and Blue in several games against top-notch opponents.

On the offensive end, future professional Nick Doktor has picked up 30 assists, good for second in the conference.

Though she has struggled

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WHEN A BIG 5 RIVAL PAYS A VISIT Tuesday afternoon, La Salle headed to Meiklejohn Stadium to take on Penn baseball as the Quakers powered past the Explorers on the heels of a four-run fifth inning to win the midweek contest, 9-3.

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And that’s two.

Late last night in good ol’ Baltimore, the Quakers were able to build on their Ivy win Saturday to defeat UMBC in a non-conference game, 8-7.

The Red and Blue (7-5) got the first point on the board with an unassisted goal from midfield Tyler Dunn just 34 seconds into the game.

But the Retrievers (3-9) didn’t let Penn stay up for long. Attack Nate Lewnes scored his first of four goals of the day just under two minutes into the first quarter.

In the spirit of the back-and-forth play of the matchup, the Quakers responded before the end of the period, putting the Red and Blue up 2-1 after the first 15 minutes.

The second quarter would show more of the same. Lewnes started off the action with his second goal of the game off an assist from Max Maxwell.

Last year, Lewnes, a senior Maryland native who has been a key attack for the Retrievers since his freshman campaign — he led UMBC with 31 goals, finishing the season two shy of the 100-point mark in his collegiate career – a benchmark he has now comfortably passed.

But Lewnes would not be the only player on the field to put two in the net in the first half.

With six minutes left in the half, Penn attack Simon Mathias found the goal for the second time, putting Penn back ahead at 3-2.

The freshman Connecticut native has been an essential piece of the Red and Blue offensive unit this season. Coming to Penn, Mathais was ranked 39th on the Lacrosse Power 100 Freshman of

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Two clutch goals from freshman attacker Simon Mathias helped the Quakers avoid an upset in a wild 8-7 win in Baltimore Tuesday night.

2015. Playing in all 12 games in his rookie collegiate season, he’s scored 23 goals, the most of any player on the Red and Blue thus far.

His 31 points are second on the team, only surpassed by Nick Doktor’s 42.

Despite his youth, Mathias was certainly a driving force in countering Lewnes’ and the UMBC offense’s power throughout the game.

After the ping pong between the two stars, the Retrievers scored once more with just seven seconds remaining in the half. The two squads went into the locker room at half time tied 3-3 — the third tie of the game at that point.

Coming back for the third quarter, Lewnes was back at it off another feed from Maxwell, giving UMBC its first lead of the game with 8:40 left in the period.

After that, however, the Quakers dominated, scoring three goals in under three minutes. The first was Kevin McGeary, followed 20 seconds later by Mathais’ third goal of the game. The third in the set came from Connor Keating.

With 30 seconds left in the third period, the Quakers were up 6-4, their largest lead of the game to this point.

But once again, Lewnes

responded. With just five seconds left, he, with the assist from his trusty sidekick Maxwell brought the score difference up to one.

But the Red and Blue held the Retrievers from gaining any continued momentum in the fourth period.

Sophomore Reilly Hupfeldt scored an early goal off an assist from Mathias two and a half minutes in to put Penn back up to a two point lead.

But Haldeman came back to put two more in the back of the net in a period of three minutes, tying the game up for the last time at 7-7.

With eight minutes left to play, the Red and Blue offense needed just one more completion while the defense had to hold off a powerful UMBC attack unit.

And so they did.

Keating found the goal once more at a critical moment with 4:15 left to play. The final score rested at 8-7, giving the Quakers their second win in a row.

Freshman goalkeeper Reed Junkin played all 60 minutes with six stops.

This match precedes the Quakers’ last Ivy game this Saturday.

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Making the jump from club

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Although rare, some athletes go from club teams to varsity squads WILL SNOW Sports Editor-elect

SOFTBALL | Leslie King went from

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The first time that Penn softball coach Leslie King stepped onto a softball diamond, she broke her nose.

A freshman in high school at the time, King fell victim to an untimely groundball that flew up into her face rather then nestling into her mitt.

“I had never played before,” she explained.

“But I still came back the next day.”

The injury was a rather inauspicious start — one that does not reflect the lengthy and illustrious softball career King would go on to have both stateside and across the Pacific Ocean in New Zealand.

Just four years after trying out for her high school team, King earned a scholarship for Softball Hall of Fame coach Judi Garman at Cal State Fullerton and led the Titans to

three appearances at the Women’s College World Series, including a second-place finish in 1983 and third place finishes in 1982 and 1985.

King earned the starting nod behind the plate at catcher during her first year playing for the Titans. After the 1982 season, Garman wrote of King, “It’s hard to believe she’s just a freshman.” By her graduation in 1985, Garman would sing even higher praises for King, who earned three all-conference honors and an invitation to play for the U.S. National Team on a barnstorming tour through China in 1985.

After graduation, King traveled to New Zealand on an offer to play soccer – a sport she had not seriously considered since high school.

“The country is beautiful, the people are beautiful, I just fell in love with it,” she said.

“It was soccer got me my citizenship because

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they wanted me to play in an international tournament for them in 1986.”

King went on to captain the New Zealand National Soccer team at the first FIFA Women’s World Cup in 1991, where the Kiwis did not advance beyond the group stage.

“It was an amazing, amazing experience to be at a World Cup FIFA event,” she said. “I was a goalkeeper in soccer and a short stop and catcher in softball. I think you can kind of see the transfer of skills — the skillset with hand-eye, agility and reaction time was all pretty similar.”

Indeed, those skills transferred naturally for King, who was selected for the National Softball Team in 1987 and later named captain for the squad that qualified for the 2000 Sydney Olympics in 1999.

Penn Athletics has a variety of varsity sports teams, but it also hosts a wealth of club sports.

These club teams can even be surprisingly successful — the men’s club basketball team, for instance, had a record-breaking year.

But for the best club athletes, just how easy — and common — is it to move up to the varsity level?

The latter question is easier to answer. Of all the varsity teams on campus right now, only a small number of athletes found their way via the sports’ respective club teams. Even those athletes lucky enough to get a varsity spot have found playing time hard to come by.

Senior Stephanie Honig, a field hockey player whose high school career was laden with accolades, did not get the chance to play the sport for Penn’s varsity program until her junior year.

And unfortunately for her, in the last two years combined, Honig has played in a grand total of nine games and only started in one of those.

Another player who managed to earn a varsity spot after considerable tribulation is senior tennis player Zach Lessen.

Lessen’s story at Penn began with rejection.

“I didn’t know [Penn head coach David] Geatz too well before coming here,” Lessen said, “but I improved a lot my senior year and was able to get a tryout when I came here. I actually won a few challenge matches and lost close to guys in the lineup, but I still got cut anyway.”

So the then-freshman put his head down and went to work on the club team. He signed up for every possible practice — and even put in time on the weekends. And then, as every success story goes, he caught a little bit of good luck to top off his dedication.

“In the spring, I got lucky — Ivan Turudic quit the team,” Lessen said. “Coach Geatz saw I was working hard, and he gave me a spot.”

Lessen didn’t appear in any matches until his sophomore season, a time when he thought his place on the team would have been secure.

Although he did not routinely play against highly-seeded opponents, Lessen accrued a respectable 13-4 record. In a surprising turn of events, however, the New Yorker was pitted in a match of survival. Win that challenge match, and he would stay on the team — lose, and he would have to return to club.

He went on to win that match and play for the team again in his junior year, but he knew after that that he couldn’t take his spot for granted.

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With a two-run home run in the fifth, junior Tim Graul helped propel Penn baseball to a 9-3 win over La Salle on Tuesday — logging his league-leading 23rd run batted in and fifth homer in the process.

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After dropping three of four to Princeton this past weekend, Penn baseball needed a win.

They got it.

Hosting La Salle in a Big 5 matchup on Tuesday, the Quakers sent the Explorers packing, 9-3, on the back of a strong collective effort on the mound.

Electing to use six different pitchers over the course of the game, Penn coach John Yurkow’s staff logged 10 strikeouts while yielding just a pair of solo home runs in the contest between city rivals.

“It’s good to see when you can get a bunch of arms throwing like that, get a bunch of guys involved,” Yurkow said. “We did get behind early — the first three guys were behind the count a bit — but they made pitches when they needed to.”

After junior Jack Hartman worked a scoreless first inning, senior Gary Tesch led off the

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bottom of the first for the Quakers (15-18) with a single to right.

He was subsequently caught stealing, however, and the Red and Blue went quietly the rest of the inning.

La Salle (10-27) got on the board first with a solo home run in the top of the second from senior Joey Ravert, but Hartman quickly settled down, ceding only the one run in the frame. If the Quakers were hoping for some response runs in the bottom of the inning, they wouldn’t get them, going down in order as sophomore righthander Greg Paprocki continued dealing for the Explorers.

For the third, sophomore Bradley Wilpon took the mound to get some work for Penn, maneuvering out of a little trouble after walking then hitting consecutive batters as La Salle failed to expand upon its lead.

The Red and Blue knotted things up in the third as junior Tim Graul hit a two-out single to bring in senior Matt Greskoff.

Graul and freshman Matt McGeagh advanced to second and third, respectively, on a passed ball, but senior shortstop Ryan

Mincher couldn’t bring any more runs home.

It wasn’t long before the tie was broken again. Freshman Drew Jarmuz skied one to left field with one out, the Explorers’ second solo shot of the day.

Freshman Grant Guillory relieved Wilpon with two outs and a runner on first in the inning, and freshman catcher Matt O’Neill ended the frame by gunning out La Salle’s Yan Carlo Rivera as he tried to steal second.

Neither team managed to get much going over the next few innings, with both sides bringing in new arms in the fifth.

The Explorers would have been better off keeping Paprocki in — with two outs in the fifth, Graul launched one into the scoreboard in left for a two-run homer — his Ivy League-best fifth blast and 23rd RBI of the season. O’Neill then broke the game wide open a few batters later with a two-run double down the left field line to give the Red and Blue a 5-2 advantage.

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