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Four phones stolen at Sigma Alpha Mu party Students’ phones went missing at “Sammy” over the weekend ANNA HESS Staff Reporter

On the Friday of Spring Fling, four students had their phones taken at a fraternity party. The students reported to Penn Police that their phones went missing at the Sigma Alpha Mu — also known as “Sammy” — fraternity house at 38th and Walnut streets around 1 a.m., according to the Division of Public Safety. Penn Police is currently investigating the thefts. DPS said the phones were unattended at the time of the thefts. However, College sophomore Natalie Meeder, one of the victimized party guests, said her phone was not unattended at the time of the theft. She said she had her phone in her purse, which she was wearing, although it was not zipped entirely closed at the time. Meeder recalled feeling something pull on her purse as she passed through the crowd at

Penn alum Jordan Lloyd Bookey was featured on Shark Tank for her company Zoobean.

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Wharton and Engineering graduate Alex Furmansky launched his company, Budsies, in 2013.

Wharton grad presented his business to reality show in episode last week MARLENA HANNA Contributing Reporter

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Competition exists outside Penn, too. In recent years, several Wharton alumni have gone on the cutthroat reality TV show “Shark Tank” to present their businesses to investors. In the show, independent entrepreneurs present their business ideas to a panel of

businessmen and women, who can then choose to invest in the company. 2007 Wharton and Engineering graduate Alex Furmansky took his company, Budsies, to the investors, known on the show as “Sharks,” in an episode that aired last week. Budsies launched in 2013 when Furmansky saw his little sister Michelle’s artwork go to waste. “She’d come home from school with these little cool drawings which would go on the fridges and then meet their death in the recycling bin,” Furmansky said. Furmansky started Budsies

Frumansky’s company, Budsies, brings children’s artwork to life by turning it into custom stuffed animals.

when he realized that he could bring Michelle’s artwork to life by turning it into custom stuffed animals. “Budsies was this incredible way to treasure her creativity,” Furmansky said. “It’s combining the best of both worlds for a child.” To date, Budsies has had over 9,000 orders of custom toys. “We literally bring kids’ creativity to life,” Furmansky said. “It’s certainly the most rewarding thing I’ve ever worked on.” Furmansky’s experience on the show started with a long audition process. “Imagine having to write a business plan, create a 10 minute

video of yourself and do it all within five days,” he said. Though Furmansky acknowledged that the show had elements of the Hollywood culture, he said that he was surprised by how authentic the experience felt. “It was very real — very raw. It truly felt like I was in that room, just me and the Sharks,” he said. Despite the Sharks’ offers, Furmansky said he thought he “could do better elsewhere.” Even though he walked away without an investor, Furmansky said the experience SEE SHARK TANK PAGE 7

Waitlist not cause for hope for applicants Furda said some students are waitlisted to maintain relationships with schools

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At Penn, waitlisting is a courtesy, not a reason for hope. According to the Admissions Office, between 2,400 and 2,500 students were placed onto the waitlist this year — about two-thirds of the number of students who were accepted. Only 75 to 200 — between about 3 and 8 percent of waitlisted students — are expected to gain acceptance. Dean of Admissions Eric Furda added that the waitlist is usually meant as a courtesy. For example, if Penn cannot accept any applicants from a given high school, it may waitlist some of those applicants in order to maintain a relationship with that school. This logic, Furda said,

even applies to parents. “Although that waitlist isn’t an offer of admission, there is a distinction [from a denial] with phone calls that we have with high schools and sometimes with families,” Furda said. Levia Nahary, master college admissions counselor at IvyWise and a former admissions officer at Penn, said that it has become increasingly difficult to get off college waitlists as applicant pools have increased. “It’s kind of like when your boyfriend or girlfriend breaks up with you but they say, ‘Let’s still be friends,’” she said. Even though the vast majority of waitlisted students will never receive acceptances, Furda said that the number of students Penn places on its waitlist is relatively small compared to the overall number who apply. “To waitlist another couple SEE WAITLIST PAGE 3

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MBAs hit the ice in Wharton Wildmen Hockey Club The MBA club has 100 students on the waitlist BRYN FERGUSON Staff Reporter

Once a week, from October to April, MBA students trade in their briefcases for hockey sticks to engage in fun — albeit unskilled — competition against their peers. The Wharton Wildmen Hockey Club is a co-ed, intramural league of approximately 200 first- and second-year MBA students who are divided into eight teams of 25. The league is one of the most popular clubs for MBAs on campus, with 100 students on the waiting list this past fall. The most inexperienced students play in the D league, while the 20-25 students who have had more extensive experience play in the B or C league and compete

against Philadelphia hockey teams. The season ran from midOctober and finished on April 6 with the annual “Fall-Star” tournament that featured the D-league teams. The majority of the Wildmen hear about the club during Welcome Weekend while visiting Penn the April prior to commencing their studies. “It’s pretty well-publicized,” second-year MBA student and cocommissioner of the league David Light said. “A couple friends said this is a must-do.” Fellow player and second-year MBA student Caitlin Souther also knew she wanted to be involved in the hockey team before coming to Wharton. “In a couple of conversations I had with [past students], the common theme was that those people who played hockey had found it a formative experience,” she said.

While the league is known to almost all MBA students, its origins are shrouded in mystery. “There is rumor and legend that there was an NHL player 5-10 years ago that went to Wharton who founded the club,” secondyear MBA Tom Austin said. One unique aspect of the league is that the players often have no experience whatsoever on ice. According to second-year MBA student and Wildmen social chair Kevin Shiau, 90 to 95 percent of players had never picked up a hockey stick before, and a number of those had never put on skates. Most students end up buying their gear used from graduating students. Each team plays one game per week, and the players often go to bars together after games. “You bond on the ice and the bench, but a lot of it is hanging

out with your friends afterwards,” first-year MBA Brian Clapp said. “The dues for the first year are $500, and so all of the drinks are paid for by the league.” Austin spoke enthusiastically about his team’s — the Ugly Puckling’s — time at the bar. “My team has invented an entirely new party game that we do after games called Inflippity cup,” Austin said. “It is now a staple game at a lot of Wharton parties.” Although it is a student league, Senior Associate Director of MBA Student Life Eric Morin also plays among the students. Morin said he had not wanted to take away the opportunity from an MBA candidate to play, but that the commissioners were “thrilled” when he asked to join. During the “Fall-Stars” final D-league hockey game, the future business leaders wear costumes over their uniforms ranging from

grass hula skirts to bridal veils. Gesturing toward a player in a pink tutu, Morin said that any player “might be the CEO of the top five biggest companies in a few years.” For now, however, playing on the team can simply be a fun and unique graduate school experience. “We push the idea with the MBAs that you have two years to have these new experiences,” Morin said. “I think the league is so popular because it is the type of thing that people would never ever have the opportunity to do. You can really be a complete failure and have the greatest time in the world.” Shiau echoed that the experience of being part of the league complements the MBA program. “The whole goal of business school is to be a risk-free environment where students can step outside of what they’ve been good

at,” he said. “The vast majority of students come to Wharton having done the same things their whole lives. [The league] is all about just putting yourself out there, about keeping yourself thinking about other opportunities you would have never considered before. You could be good, other people might not be better, so why not try it.” But even while the MBA students might battle it out in Huntsman Hall, Light noted that the hockey league puts them on a level playing field. “Given that people have such little experience, people don’t take it too seriously,” Light said. “It’s kind of this great leveler.” Austin also mentioned that, like many other MBA students who are in their late twenties and early thirties, age was a factor in his decision to join the league. “It’s my last chance at glory and athletic competition,” he said.

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thousand students out of an applicant pool of 37,000 ... puts it in perspective,” Furda said. “That shouldn’t seem out of bounds.” Na ha r y con f i r me d t hat waitlisting is often useful in upholding good relationships with schools and families. “It does other good things in terms of diplomacy and relationships,”

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she said. But for individual students, placement onto the waitlist is generally not a reason to get hopeful. “It’s sort of a ‘We like you, but we like a bunch of other kids better than you,’” Nahary said. Still, Nahary does recommend that waitlisted students write letters to the admissions offices of schools that have waitlisted them, indicating their commitment to the school and

providing updates on any recent accomplishments. Then, she said, it is important to accept the reality of the situation and get enthusiastic about the schools to which they have been accepted. “[Students] have to recognize that there’s other schools out there that are thrilled to offer them admission and thrilled to have them come in the fall,” she said. “The schools that want them are the schools where they’re going to shine.”

However, for two Penn students, patience and persistence resulted in the rare but often coveted waitlist acceptance. Wharton freshman Laura Gao said that after she was waitlisted, she created a “Draw My Life” video in which she filmed herself drawing on a whiteboard and added a voice narration discussing ways in which her application could have been improved. After she submitted it to the Office of Admissions, she

was accepted. But despite her acceptance, Gao said that her time on Penn’s waitlist was an upsetting experience. “You’re always having this hope that may or may not come true,” she said. “Being waitlisted sometimes is almost worse than being rejected.” College jun ior Sa m i r Zaman said that after he was waitlisted, he emailed the Admissions Office every few days with updates about recent

achievements, totaling up to 12 emails. “It was embarrassing,” Zaman said. “It feels like you’re scraping. It’s a really terrible feeling.” However, Zaman added that if he had not been accepted, he would have been happy to have at least made it to the waitlist. “I think I’m happier that I was on the waitlist, because at least I got to that tier,” he said. “If you’re on the waitlist, keep trying.”

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n April 2, 147 Kenyans were massacred at Garissa University College. Shortly thereafter, a slew of pictures documenting the deaths of the men, women and students murdered at the university showered the internet. These images from the scene of the murder were beyond graphic — depicting dozens of slain bodies, piled one on top of the other, lying in their own blood. Yet, these images depicting unedited black death are not novel, particularly when they are produced by our media outlets today. This has been the case for numerous murders that have occurred over the past few weeks and even months. Video footage of black men, women and children, such as Walter Scott, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, have gone viral. The footage of their brutal murders and their helpless bodies thereafter have been mercilessly shared and viewed thousands of times on social media websites and on local and national news stations. So why

THE VISION | Black lives are consistently dehumanized in the media, even in death does this matter, and what’s the problem? In some respects, the documentation of these deaths is crucial for black survival and to black testimony. After the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955, his mother re-

ders that occurred at Charlie Hebdo. Likewise, there were no images that were proliferated on the internet preceding the mass murder in Aurora, Colo., nor the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The stories alone were

es and made many an effort to give respect to the lives of those that were murdered. The same regard is not given in cases when the victims are black. In stark contrast, the death of black people has become an edible spectacle, one that is watched

… [T]he death of black people has become an edible spectacle, one that is watched and rewatched solely for entertainment purposes.” quested that his funeral be held with an open casket. The image of his beaten and mutilated body spread nationally through black news publications. The exposure of his death displayed the savagery of white terrorism against black communities and brought support from allies. Yet, the spectacle made from these tragedies does not happen to overwhelmingly white communities. There were no images spread internationally that documented the mur-

enough to garner national sympathy and coverage. No videos or photographs were necessary for swaths of communities to proclaim that these events were in fact tragic and that innocent men, women and children had lost their lives. We are not suggesting that the aforementioned events necessitated documentation. What we are insinuating, however, is that our local and national media outlets actively protected the families of victims in these cas-

and rewatched solely for entertainment purposes. Additionally, these images of black death, in their accessibility, do not generate sympathy from the communities that deny those black lives innocence. It seems that the only way to gain recognition for our deaths is when it can be proven on camera. Even still, there are those who attempt mindbending explanations to shift the blame on the victim. The media does not hesitate to uncover ir-

relevant information to dehumanize those slain. Even in film and even in death, black people remain on trial for our fictionalized criminality. Those who are quick to declare that “all lives matter” cannot deny the verity of the fact that our nation consistently dehumanizes our lives. As a nation with a checkered history of violence against people of color, it is not surprising that the portrayal of our death is not treated with more or even comparable reverence. This is the heavy truth we are burdened to carry each and every day, as we are ignorantly expected to attend classes, meetings and day-to-day life on this campus after suffering from the incessant images of violence that dominate our television and computer screens. This is why we protest. This is why we speak. This is why we continue to make it evident that we know that our lives matter. While our nation can proclaim that we live in an equal society on paper, the marginalized among us are repeatedly shown that this ideal is

THE VISION false. As George Orwell deftly explained 70 years ago in “Animal Farm”: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

VICTORIA FORD AND NIKKI HARDISON are a College and a Wharton senior, respectively, from Piedmont, S.C. and Buford, Ga. They can be reached at vicford@ sas.upenn.edu and chardi@ wharton.upenn.edu. “The Vision” is a column for unfiltered black voices at Penn that appears every Tuesday.

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n a piece in The New Republic, Bryce Covert anticipates that interim CEO of Reddit Ellen Pao’s judicially unsuccessful gender discrimination lawsuit — waged against her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers — may still constitute an opportunity to take a step forward in mitigating gender discrimination in the United States. In her piece, Covert calls for our attention to the intricacies of the problem of hidden discrimination in the workplace as contrasted to the overt discrimination we often believe constitutes the main problem, a situation exemplifying a broader problem that exists even among progress-seekers today. Covert compares the lawsuit to the Anita Hill controversy, a similar case which was also judicially unsuccessful but in many minds successful in elevating a debate about discrimination and sexual harassment. She suggests that Pao’s case, similarly, might serve as a propellant of greater recognition of the more covert,

systematic and far less evident type of discrimination which still pesters with its lingering presence in spite of efforts to improve gender equality in the workplace. “The line between what professional women have to do to succeed and what barriers emerge from others’ prejudices is too often blurry and impossible

pertains to gender, race or some other type of category, as something more complex than simply overcoming the blatantly discriminatory elements in society, has been widely recognized as a problem — especially among liberals — in the climate of “post-legal” equality. The challenge, however, is

is needed, we stubbornly stick to the big guns. Take an example from the issue of racial discrimination. Affirmative action, which remains hotly contested, was born in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement and was a justified vehicle of atonement. Stigmatization and reverse discrimination were seen

To vilify the party in each instance of discrimination … hampers real progress.” to discern,” Covert writes, capturing one aspect of the problem. Indeed, while the palpable discrimination which is so much easier to grasp is certainly not a problem confined to the history books — in the United States and elsewhere — the concealed discrimination poses a different kind of problem. If this sounds like yesterday’s news, do not be surprised. Seeing discrimination, whether it

to change the way we tackle this problem. To many, certainly among those who are self-professed champions of anti-discrimination, the institutions put in place have been culturally calcified to a point of sanctity, to put it simply. While laws and institutions have been put in place to ensure gender equality, many strive to defend them well-past their date of expiry. When guerilla warfare

as necessary evils for a greater good — defensible at the time. Half a century later, however, these policies are still guarded vigorously by some of the allegedly most progressive in society. So vigorously, in fact, that often do any attempts at suggesting improvements for the system become censored — shot down as if they were themselves drawn from the blatant racists who had real power in the past.

While I am not suggesting that affirmative action has a definitive better alternative, it is crucial that we, in these cases, allow ourselves to think and discuss. I stumbled upon a powerful example of this a couple of years ago, as I read the student paper of a liberal Boston college. In it, a student had raised some problematic aspects of affirmative action policies, and the article garnered its fair share of attention. Not just any attention, however, but a response both prompt and callous, as the comment section exploded in what came to look like a witch-hunt. The sacred institution had been questioned, and the conspirator had to be brought down. In the case of Pao and the unsuccessful lawsuit, as Covert argues, not allowing ourselves to have a discourse on how to mitigate gender inequality in the workplace is a mistake. To vilify the party in each instance of discrimination, seeing it as evil occurring in an otherwise benevolent (legal) landscape — as

OSCAR A. RUDENSTAM something arising from sources which must be advertently discriminatory — hampers real progress. More importantly, we must allow ourselves to question this landscape itself, and not simply paint any such attempt as simply a force seeking to reverse the progress that has been made.

OSCAR A. RUDENSTAM is a visiting junior from Tokyo, studying economics, sociology and business. His email address is osru@sas. upenn.edu. “The Idealistic Pragmatist” appears every other Tuesday.

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Wharton dean returns to his roots after global tour Dean Garrett lectured three classes on Monday BRYN FERGUSON Staff Reporter

W ha r ton Dea n Geoffrey Garrett is a busy man. Since January, he has traveled around the world and back on his Global Conversations Tour, with a visit to the opening of the Penn Wharton China Center and brief returns to Philadelphia in between. Yesterday, Garrett took time out of his busy schedule to lecture to all three sections of the Wharton core class Management 101 about the Wharton School’s business strategy. Garrett’s visit came about when he expressed in a meeting — for which MGMT 101 professor Martine Haas was present — that as Dean, he no longer

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had the opportunity to be in the classroom. Garrett was a management professor at Wharton from 1995 to 1997 before he returned to the school as Dean in 2014.

“I love teaching and miss the opportunity to engage with students in such a classic setting,” Garrett said in a statement. “Your ideas … Your energy! Your voices help me understand

on the ground what Wharton is delivering and helps shape our strategies from curriculum development to marketing.” Garrett covered three topics during his lecture: globalization, scope and strategy. Garrett emphasized that globalization and technology have resounding effects, reaching the world of business schools. “As you all know, the world has come to the U.S. and to the Wharton school for a very long time,” Garrett told students. “We need to come to the world as well.” Garrett mentioned Wharton’s recently released Business Specialization online courses on Coursera, which were designed to “give the world a taste of the Wharton Education,” as well as the new Penn Wharton China Center — “We’ve got to be [in China] to make change,” he said. The second topic of conversation was Wharton’s scope of offerings. “The Wharton School does everything we think we can do,” he said. “But ‘Wharton does everything’ is not a

conscious strategic choice. The question today is should we keep doing that.” Garrett said that although some businesses focus on core competencies, Wharton’s “incredible” breadth of activity is “probably not a bad thing … since we don’t know how things are going to play out.” Before concluding his lecture, Garrett revealed how he formulates Wharton’s strategy. “Consultation with stakeholders is important on formulation and implementation,” he said. “I spend all my time talking to people — the more people I talk to from the broadest range of perspectives and backgrounds, the more ideas I have to contemplate. If people feel they’ve been involved in formulating the decision, they’ll be better at the execution.” In each of the classes, Garrett’s 30-minute lecture was followed by a 15-minute question-and-answer period. One student asked Garrett to comment on Wharton’s reputation as a finance school. “When people say, ‘Wharton,

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that’s the finance school,’ my one line response is that Wharton is more than a finance school,” he said. “I am pushing analytics and innovation and entrepreneurship … People think its either-or — finance or entrepreneurship — but a lot of people are both. We all love the heritage [of Wharton], but we don’t want to rest on our laurels.” Students were generally impressed that Garrett took the time out of his schedule to speak to them. “I really enjoyed it,” Wharton junior Jonathan Copeland said. “I wanted to kind of meet him and see him once it was announced that he was coming to the school last year.” Wharton sophomore Ashley Montgomery also appreciated the dean’s lecture. “I thought it was really cool that he made the effort to come into an undergraduate class because I feel we really don’t see much of him,” Montgomery said. “I think it was important to know that he was willing to go out of his way to connect with us.” When asked about Garrett’s overall visibility to students, both Copeland and Montgomery agreed that the Dean is visible enough, given his role. “I think it’s kind of assumed in his job that he needs to travel a lot,” Copeland said. “If you think about the school as a business, they need their investors or their alumni. He needs to meet them so they will donate money. It’s because of those alums that Wharton is the best business school.” Montgomery added that even though she had not recognized Garrett in the photo that Haas had shown students when she informed them a few weeks ago of his upcoming visit, she felt that his love of interacting with students was evident. “I feel like the fact that I can say he came in to talk seems like someone who is trying to make an effort,” she said. “He is putting his words into action.”

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was well worth it. “It is publicity that most money can’t buy.” Wharton prepared Furmansky well for the show. “The Sharks might have gotten intimidated themselves,” he said. “They really tried to grill me because of my Penn-Wharton background.” W ha r ton u nderg raduates aren’t the only ones who have appeared on the show. Jordan Lloyd Bookey, who received her MBA from Wharton in 2007, was approached by one of the

producers of Shark Tank when a pop-up accelerator, NewME, published a blog post about her new company, Zoobean. A we ek a f ter Z oobea n launched in May 2013, a producer wrote to them asking if they wanted to be on Shark Tank. “It opened so many doors for us,” Bookey said. “It was early on in our process [and] we were fine-tuning our business model. It was amazing having that investment.” Bookey said the Shark Tank environment was more intimidating than Wharton. “The anxiety level before going into

TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015 both of them is similar for me. In Wharton, they gave us a lot of steps that helped me. I was able to manage that intensity.” Bookey and her husband, Felix Brandon Lloyd, started Zoobean when they became parents. They were unable to find a children’s book that reflected their interracial family until a librarian sent them a book. “We want to deliver that experience for other families,” Bookey said. Bookey said that the Shark Tank investors taught her that entrepreneurs need to fully commit to their endeavors. “The

difference between those who make it and those who don’t is effort,” Bookey said. Fu r m a nsk y ag re e d t hat Wharton was invaluable in his preparation for the show. He said that students should create startups while they’re in school. “The first startup will be the hardest one and the one most likely to fail,” Furmansky said. Furmansky said that Penn is the best place for startups because of the college safety net. “You’re in this very unique environment that will never be replicated again in your life,” he said. “Do something.”

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After a water leak in the Quadrangle this past October, affected residents were put up in the Sheraton Hotel, free of charge.

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In the event of an indoor flood, roof collapse or toilet eruption, Facilities and Real Estate Services is meant to come to Penn faculty and students’ rescue. However, some students say repair operations are not always immediate or timely. Toward the end of October 2014, College freshmen Rive Cadwallader and Taylor Daniel had the unpleasant experience of sewage water dripping into their Quad dorm room. “I was working at my desk and I heard this weird tapping noise,” Cadwallader said. “I thought it was a mouse of something, but then I realized it was water that was dripping through the ceiling.” “And the water was not clear,” Daniel said. The water dripped now and again for a period of about 10 days before Cadwallader and Daniel were moved out of their room. While repairs were underway, Cadwallader and Daniel, along with other affected residents, were put up in the Sheraton Hotel, free of charge, they said. According to the Sheraton website, a room for two at the end of April would cost $219 per night. Cadwallader and Daniel spent approximately another 10 days in the Sheraton before repairs were completed. “They told us at first that to fix the floor would take three to four days, but then we also asked to get the ceiling fixed,” Daniel said. They were told that

due to workplace incidents and staff ailments, the repairs lasted for several more days than expected. “It was not exactly an unhappy experience,” Daniel said. “Everyone who we talked to was so accommodating and tried their best appease everybody.” FRES’ operation center is manned 24/7 to receive repair requests from the Penn community, and there is also a web interface to accept non-urgent requests. “We receive about 95,000 work orders a year,” FRES Executive of Operations Ken Ogawa said. “It’s a huge volume of work to take care of the buildings and the building infrastructure.” FRES tries to respond to service requests as soon as it is feasible. “Based on the situation, we begin to take action right away,” Ogawa said. “Our first action is stop the leak or whatever it might be, make it stable to minimize the damage to personal property or the infrastructure. Of course we need to make it safe — safety is the first priority.” “The bulk of those work orders are done by a staff of about 200 people,” Ogawa said. “Plus we hire contractors and others commonly — it’s not a black-and-white answer.” But late at night, it might be harder to get an immediate response to an urgent request. FRES’ maintenance workforce is primarily a day-shift operation. “After hours, depending on what all is going on around campus and depending on how severe the situation is that they report, I may or may not be able to get someone there immediately,” Ogawa said. This February, when 34th Street

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Dr. Gill Maimon (left) and Dr. Joe Alberti (right), are both Samuel Powel Elementary School teachers and professors in the Graduate School of Education.

impact on big picture decisions on education, it needs to start small.” Doing double-duty seems to be nothing new though for both of these educators who earned their doctorates from GSE while teaching full-time — Alberti in just a year, since GSE required doctoral students to attend full-time when he began. Their dual jobs serve them well in their roles at Penn, Director of the GSE TFA program Mary Del Savio said. Having current or retired teachers instruct the methods courses, which are content-specific, like math or science, is the standard, she said — about half are taught by current and half by retired teachers. “They are able to collaborate with other teachers, and having the mentor-teacher in front of them helps in so many ways,” Del Savio said. Since the TFA students are full-time teachers themselves, that collaboration allows them to “to ground the theory they are learning and the things they are doing every day.” “To see Gill and Joe just up there all excited, I think it

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Poet, activist and Wharton senior plans to use her business savvy in the music world MOLLY COLLETT 34th Street Editor

As could be expected from a girl with two names, Taylor McLendon (or Ivy Sole) is a multifaceted person. A poet, a mural painter, a singer-songwriter and a manager, she is an artist in Wharton with incredible talent matched by incredible modesty. Ivy Sole was initially just a rapper, a name and persona Taylor chose to perform with that she could take on and off as she wished. Now, most people know Taylor as Ivy and her artistic persona and personal identity have become inextricable. This unlikely synthesis is characteristic of Ivy’s existence. “My story is fragmented and colorful,” she explains. “Similarly to a mosaic.” From Carolina to collaboration Even if you’re not on first name(s) basis with Ivy, you’ve likely heard her deep, roughedged voice projected from stages across campus and beyond. In her four years at Penn, Ivy has performed at The Rotunda, the Annenberg Center, St. Elmo’s back garden and the Fling Lower Quad stage, among other places, as a member of many performing arts groups. Ivy is a poet for spoken-word group The Excelano Project, a dancer in African Rhythms, a vocal feminist of the Vagina Monologues and a songwriter, manager and rapper for Liberal Arts, the hip-hop group she started with four friends. But to this day, Ivy’s most memorable performance at Penn remains her first: rapping onstage with Kendrick Lamar when the Social Planning and Events Committee brought him to Annenberg in November 2011. Then a freshman who had just arrived from Charlotte, S.C., Ivy had met

Kendrick several months earlier Rugamba loves reggae, bringing when she sneaked backstage at his Bob Marley vibes. And Goldman has been listening to hip-hop concert with a friend. “I gave him a USB stick with since he first heard Tupac when a recording I’d made,” she said. he was nine years old. The result “Not even a CD like a regular is dynamic, soulful music that sounds exactly like what it is: a person — Kendrick got files.” Ivy thought that was that until collaboration between friends. “The beauty of the group is two months later, to her surprise, Lamar recognized her in the An- the fusing of our different backnenberg audience. Remembering grounds,” Rugamba said. “That’s her voice, Kendrick brought her life, eh?” up on stage to perform with him. “It’s pretty hard to top that,” she Symbiosis Penn’s unofficial motto is plalaughs. giarism of David Leaning back Guetta: “Work on a bench on the hard, play hard.” porch of the Kelly For Ivy, it’s hard to Writers’ House, draw the line. however, Ivy is at As is the case once introspecOur songs come with Liberal Arts, tive and not at all from being there’s a general s el f- c on s c iou s. together, hearing overlap between She has a warm, the same energy her social and creserious demeanor and channeling ative lives, between and exudes laidher friends and her back vibes that it. ” collaborators. It’s belie her struggles - Ivy Sole certainly the case and successes, her passion and the rich depth of emo- with Victoria Ford, one of Ivy’s tion from which she crafts her art. closest friends and this year’s diIvy channels her creativity rector of the Vagina Monologues through the entire spectrum of ar- and The Excelano Project, both tistic media. Her expression takes productions that Ivy performed in. many forms, but her biggest proj- Ford recalls the beginning of their ect has been the five-piece band friendship, living in Harrison College House their freshman year. Liberal Arts. “I was a big hermit at first, and “Ivy brought us together,” Kevin Rugamba, the group’s vo- Ivy was hella popular because she calist and a senior in the College, got onstage with Kendrick,” Ford said. “She was my first friend acknowledges. Ivy heard something individu- though — she introduced me to ally in four of her friends, and society, showed me where the turn her sophomore summer reached up was at.” Getting into Excelano that fall out to Rugamba as well as Devin Hobdy, Chris Croft and Xander directed the course of their relaGoldman to collaborate. Liberal tionship: Making poetry, both Arts’ sound is somewhere be- apart and together, was an exertween hip-hop and neo-soul. This cise in vulnerability. For Ford, unclassified genre mash-up de- that was about “my relationship fines the group’s central mission. with my mom, boys, my queerFor the members of the group, ness — I grew into those things hip-hop is common ground, but with Ivy.” Meanwhile, the reason Liberal they each individually bring their own sound to the mix. Hobdy Arts can make music together brings an acoustic sensibility. is the same reason they became Ivy comes from a tight-knit net- friends in the first place: the group work of underground hip-hop in jives. “Our songs come from being the South: neo-soul and R&B.

together, hearing the same energy and channeling it,” Ivy explains. “You know when a vibration hits the air, and it takes your mind somewhere?” “We were friends first and that’s important because we’re honest with each other,” Rugamba added. Given the busy lives of the Liberal Arts members, they don’t see as much of each other as they would like, Kevin notes. But they are hopeful that will change next year when, if all goes to plan, Liberal Arts will be living all together in a house in West Philadelphia. For a lot of people in this city, Philadelphia is like an airport: a place to pass through en route elsewhere, but not the destination. Ivy sees the trend but thinks that the city’s vitality and affordability is creating a space for urban renewal and development in the city. “People are trying to get to New York City and that brings a lot of talent and ambition, but it’s temporary,” Ivy says. “If you talk to the locals, they know this city is dope, and they’re trying to convince people to stay.” For the time being, that’s the plan. The members of Liberal Arts are looking for jobs to support themselves before their music can. Looking ahead, Ivy’s attitude towards work ethic and risk-taking shares a lot with the startup mentality. “You hustle and you work so hard because you believe in the product, that your investment will be returned,” she explains, “I believe in Liberal Arts.” Using a corporate vocabulary to talk about her music reflects Ivy’s symbiotic understanding of art and business. Admittedly, she’s far from the conventional Wharton trope heading to Wall Street post-graduation. But majoring in the individualized concentration of Management and Consulting of Expressive Cultures, Ivy has forged a specialized education that matches her specialized interests.

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Theta. There are five current members of DST, including Ivy’s good friend Jade Parker, a senior in the College and the chapter’s vice president. For Jade, the sorority is about “creating security and belonging for black women in a predominantly white space.” Ivy is fighting against the marginalization of black women as a black woman. She’s addressing the very social structures that have defined her own existence. Although her work has political grounding, it is ultimately personal. She quotes an Excelano alumna who stated, “The more detailed a story, the more universal it is.” Ivy wants to tell the most detailed story. For her, a story about overcoming oppression is a story about loving yourself first. “There are entities in place telling me I shouldn’t love myself,” she says. “Blackness is part of that.” When asked if she loves herself, she smiled. “Most days,” she said. The love and respect Ivy is culLoving yourself Last semester, Ivy’s artistic tivating for herself is reflected in ambition took her to Sao Paulo, the people who surround her. Ivy’s Brazil, for the semester to execute greatest supporter has always an urban mural as a Gilman Inter- been her mother. “She has to have national Scholar. But Ivy found credit in believing I could come herself suffocating. In a city of to Penn before I even knew what strangers, she felt isolated, espe- Penn was,” Ivy said. “She worked cially at the time of the Ferguson two jobs for as long as I can remember so that I can be here.” trial. Her mother introduced Ivy to “Brazil taught me a great deal about patience,” she reflects. “I music as a little kid and her unwas away from my creative group wavering confidence translates and my community where I could into Ivy’s quiet, steady-handed self-assurance. have an adequate A lot of love response to the and pride come events that were from Ivy’s best happening. It was friends too. “The a very difficult I believe that other day, we were way to learn about I can be an sitting around, patience.” and another girl She completed example and said, ‘I wish I the mural and a that I am one were here when cor responding of many black John Legend was one in Philadelstudents who here,’” Ford rephia. It depicts a carry this burden called. “And I’m garden and the like, ‘Why are script: “They tried and blessing. ” you saying that? to bury us, they - Ivy Sole You’re sitting next didn’t know we to Ivy!’” were seeds.” Ivy’s poetry and lyrics address The quote reflects Ivy’s motivation in creating art: She is inspired challenges she’s faced both inby “the community of black ternally and externally. She sings Americans hoping to pursue their about her heart breaking and feeldreams and achieve their goals,” ing uncertain about the future. but often set back by poverty, vio- She performed a poem about not lence and intolerance. Through seeing or speaking to her father her work and expression, Ivy is in years. But Ivy hasn’t always hoping to enact change on an in- been so transparent through her art. Her longest friend at Penn and dividual level. “I believe that I can be an ex- fellow Wharton senior Alex Wigample and that I am one of many gins has seen Ivy change over the black students who carry this past four years. “The biggest difference is that burden and blessing,” she said. On Penn’s campus, too, she she’s opened up more — she’s let feels that common hardship herself be vulnerable, and that’s has lead to a lot of unity in the big,” she said, adding that they black community. She echoes a used to joke that Alex always resounding sentiment that, on ac- cried and Ivy never cried. count of her skin color, her “place “The distinction isn’t so obvion this campus isn’t always re- ous anymore,” Alex reflects. “But spected.” she’s always been on her own Citing controversies such as path. She was on it when we met Phi Delta Theta’s Christmas card, as freshmen, and she’s still on it when brothers posed with a Be- today.” yonce sex doll, and Beta Theta It’s clear that Ivy will not let Pi’s 2014 “gangsta” mixer, she anyone dictate who she is and expresses frustration that the what she creates. When she chose response of Penn’s black commu- the name Ivy Sole for herself, in nity to these events is constantly an act of self-determination, she being questioned by their peers chose her identity for the artist she and institution. would become. But Ivy has found sisterhood “Ivy can grow on anything,” in this community as a member she explains. “And that’s just how of Penn’s chapter of Delta Sigma I think of my art.” She believes her Wharton classes have prepared her for an independent career in the music industry: “I’m not going to walk into an agency and let someone else dictate what my music is because I can articulate that myself,” she says. As much as the education, Ivy appreciates the network that branches from Wharton, especially into the music industry, and includes Hoodie Allen, Kids in the Hall and Homeboy Sandman among its alumnae. Although Ivy’s experience at Penn has been formative, she’s never been restricted or defined by the campus and her art has taken her far from the Penn bubble. Ivy has only performed locally, but through digital media her music has disseminated far beyond its point of genesis. Her cover of “Free Fallin” has been played more than 122,000 times on SoundCloud and retweeted around the globe.

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College senior Ariel Koren speaks seven languages, advocates for women's rights and is a campus leader JENNIFER WRIGHT Deputy News Editor

Incoming freshmen take note — College senior Ariel Koren has a theory for you. To cancel out the bad luck from landing on the Compass at 37th and Locust streets before your midterms, do a handstand. This is just the kind of quirky and lighthearted tradition to expect from Ariel, but it is still near the bottom of the long list of ideas that she’s come up with and worked to make stick while at Penn. From the school’s annual Holi celebration to Active Cross-Cultural Training in Our Neighborhoods, an after-school foreign language program Koren founded, the Class of 2015 president has made several lasting changes on campus. At first, Ariel said, the administration was completely against the idea of Holi in the form it takes today — throwing chalky colored powder into the air on College Green — due to the mess it leaves behind and other organizational issues. “I just went back and pushed it again. I think that’s been a very common theme for my experience on Class Board: Push, push as far as you can, and think big. Go all out,” she said. Penn Holi eventually became a large, messy and color-filled event in 2013 thanks to a collaboration between the Hindu Student Council & Young Jains of America and the Class Boards. Pulling the event together in just a few weeks that first year, organizers expected some several hundred people, but instead drew a crowd of more than a thousand, Ariel remembered. Ariel called Holi the perfect collaboration between the Class Board, HSC & YJA and Penn Traditions. “It’s the ultimate way to bring people together in celebration of diversity and to create

this sense of community,” she learning difficulties. She expanded the program said. “I remember the feeling of just to more schools and brought on pure bliss,” she recalled about the more volunteers. ACTION convery first year that Holi was a col- tinues to serve several schools in laborative event. “You can hardly Jacksonville, and now, about 70 recognize the people next to you,” Penn volunteers work through she said. “It creates this sense that ACTION in the Lea School and we’re just one big community at B.B. Comegys School in West Philadelphia and the Andrew the end of the day.” Last year’s Holi celebra- Jackson School in South Philation capped off the month-long delphia. Ariel’s friend and new Wellness Project that the Class Boards organized in collabora- ACTION co-director College tion with various campus groups sophomore Paola Gamarra has in an effort to spotlight mental been slowly taking the reigns as health and wellness. “We spent Ariel prepares to graduate. “I the month recovering, and at the could not have done this without end we built up to this really fes- Ariel’s leadership,” she said. “Her leadership style tive and joyous has shaped my celebration that leadership style was supposed to and also my perrepresent like an She has a sonality, working antidote or relief strong will. in a team and evfor ever yone,” Ariel said. When she wants erything else.” Paola described “I like to think something, she how everyone in that the lines beworks hard. ” the organization is tween HSC and Class Board are - Melvin Lee welcome to bring Chinese lecturer ideas to the table not significant in and that has been the process,” she said, meaning that both groups the key to the program’s evolution bring together their expertise to over the past few years, especially pull off the event off. “[Members since expanding on what was esof HSC] grew up celebrating it. tablished back in Jacksonville. “The best thing that ACTION They humble us and have patience while we make sure that we has is that there is not this menrepresent the tradition in the best tality that we’re going to be just self-perpetuating — but to be way possible.” Now, there’s a planning team, self-expanding,” Ariel said, funding and a formula for put- adding that at meetings, volunting on Holi each spring. “It’s teers work to ask what they can cool knowing that I co-founded a do better than they did the week tradition that’s going to make an before. “That’s a mentality that I impact for years to come,” Ariel worked to create.” Paola said her experience said. on other organizations’ boards doesn’t compare to ACTION. Self-expanding Ariel’s philosophy in general is “Ariel’s passion for just helping grounded in leaving behind a last- others in general has inspired everyone else,” she said. “I’ve never ing impact. ACTION is an after-school seen a group of people who are Spanish language and His- collectively so passionate about panic culture program that Ariel something and I think that has founded in 2011 in her hometown something that has to do with her of Jacksonville, Fla. She started leadership.” Ariel said that from the start, informally teaching her younger sister and her classmates who ACTION was meant to be had an interest in learning for- something that would last. “It eign languages but struggled with was important that it would be

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“There’s really a huge underinfectious,” he said, “That was representation of women in one of my best classes ever.” Not to mention that Ariel’s rap- student government at Penn, ping career partly began in Lee’s so I think that in and of itself is own classroom. You read that something I’ve tried to make a right — she raps in Chinese and difference in,” she said, noting any language she knows other that she’s tried to coach or mentor other women to run for positions. than English. Mari said it’s clear how much As part of a project for class, the students were tasked with Ariel cares about the senior class: translating English songs. “She “You can see that in her personal debuted in our class!” Lee joked, connections and the way she talks adding that the following year she to people on campus,” Mari said. represented Penn at a speech con- ”She loves being around everyone.” test with her rapping skills. While Ariel comes across Since then, rapping has become one of Ariel’s favorite sugary sweet and upbeat, she pastimes. She has performed in speaks and acts with fervor on the public, like at Homecoming and issues she cares about. “[Ariel] when MC-ing for the Train and has a very commanding presence. John Legend concert in 2013. She’s little, she’s like 5 feet, but Now, Koren’s senior thesis fo- she does,” Mari said. “She takes cuses on translating songs from her place in the room.” English to Chinese, as well. Last year, Huffington Post “I just love rapping in Chi- Blog published her fiery defense nese,” she said. “I think pop of sexual assault victims and reculture is a really cool way to get buttal to an opinion piece in the people excited about learning for- Washington Post that said college eign languages.” Students sitting campuses are succumbing to proin Starbucks under 1920 Com- gressivism due to the heightened A performance passion ACTION is still just the tip mons last weekend were treated attention that victims of sexual of the iceberg for Ariel when it to an impromptu a cappella per- assault receive. comes to foreign language. An formance during an interview. Ariel feels that in many ways East Asian Language and Civilishe did have to prove herself due zations major, Ariel can speak 7 Culture change to the precedent of male Class Ariel’s knack for performance Board presidents on top of exlanguages in total — she is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, French, aligns well with both her person- pectations regarding gender and Italian, Chinese and English ality and passions. Other than leadership roles. However, conwhile dabbling in conversational rapping, Ariel has performed in tinually running for re-election several shows with Penn Chinese and seeing it through allowed her Hebrew. Chinese lecturer Melvin Lee Theater and the annual Vagina to see the challenges as opportusaid that Ariel was always one Monologues show. nities. Language has come to act as to actively participate in class — “I got to be a part of some even though she almost dropped the bridge across many of Ariel’s really important conversations, a interests and campus involve- lot of really important dialogue, his class after the first day. As a class typically with many ment. In the Vagina Monologues and build a community of a lot of heritage speakers, or those who this past year, she put her own women leaders,” she said. may speak Chinese at home, Lee spin on the piece “Reclaiming Juggl i ng Class Boa rd, said it might have been intimidat- Cunt” by incorporating the word ACTION, the issues important ing for her. He said he had never translated into other languages. to her, her studies and everything “I get to commet a student who moved directly else, Ariel still from the intro-level Chinese class bine my love for thinks what she to his advanced spoken-Chinese the power of landoes is nothing guage and words class like she did. out of the ordiAriel excelled and continued with this impornary for any Penn You can see that to study the language very seri- tant activism. I student; that’s just in her personal ously. To Lee, it takes both talent think words and what Penn stuand hard work to know so many language are so dents do. connections languages at such a level. “If you powerful and I “I’m lucky that and the way she just have talent, you wouldn’t think that really a lot of my things talks to people reach that level of fluency,” he manifests itself in are interwoven. on campus. said. For Koren, he added, “She the Vagina MonoI have differShe loves being has a strong will. When she wants logues,” she said. ent passions that Ariel’s crosssomething, she works hard.” around everyone. ” drive me and I Lee’s advice to all of his lan- over involvement get involved with - Mari Herron things that I am wo r ke d guage students is to “open your eve n College senior really passionate ear, your mouth and your heart” into Feb Club, to learn language well. Ariel went the 22-day event about,” she said. back to him a year after taking his series in February for seniors Paola Gamarra said that class to tell him that she always hosted by the Class Board. The through it all, Ariel is humble: remembered that advice. “I think Vagina Monologues was one of “She has accomplished so much, that’s why she’s so successful,” he the culminating events for the but she doesn’t feel the need to said. “She’s really willing to ap- month with the proceeds from a brag to everyone about it.” bar fundraiser afterward going to proach people.” Mari said what keeps Ariel College senior Mari Herron, Women Organized Against Rape, busy is that she creates opportuniAriel’s close friend from fresh- the beneficiary of the whole ties for herself by actively seeking man year, said if the two of them show. them out. For example, Ariel For Class Board, Ariel said represented the US as a delegate are walking on campus, they usually stop about five times on the events are about creating safety to the United Nation’s Commisway to chat with people they see. and creating community for ev- sion on the Status of Women and She called Ariel “a light that just eryone — like with Feb Club was named a Harry S. Truman events ranging from a night out Scholar last spring. attracts people.” Having a hand in a lot of dif- in Atlantic City to a night at the “[Ariel] stays active about ferent groups, Mari said Ariel orchestra. issues and people that are imporThe range of events contributes tant to her,” Mari said. “Everyone has created friendships all over campus. “She’s a very popular to the culture change that Ariel in her life, she makes an effort to person, and for good reason too. had hoped to bring in her role as invest in them.” She doesn’t have an awkward president. As both a colleague from “I’m the first woman — when I ACTION and a friend, Paola streak in her at all,” she said. Lee remembered Ariel’s vocal was elected — in a over a decade, echoed, “She will always hold a passion for women’s issues which is just ridiculous.” Since friendship close. Even if ever it is sparking discussion in his class, Koren’s election, there have been not as close as it used to be, that knowing that language class dis- three men elected after her, now person will still be very imporcussions can be lackluster when making her the only female Class tant to her. She will never stop the students don’t engage. “She’s Board president in 15 years. caring about you.” established as an institution that exists at Penn that has infrastructure that is formal that allows it to grow,” she said. This self-starting quality could be part of what attracted Google to hire her post-graduation, when she’ll relocate to San Francisco. “When I thought about every company in the world and where I would have a platform to make a really big impact and where I’d be surrounded by people who are passionate about changing that world — that’s Google,” she said. Ariel spent last summer creating international marketing strategies with Google. She hosted an online conference which brought together companies from Latin America to talk about how they are using technology to innovate and collaborate to empower other businesses to use technology and Google Drive. On the side, she did projects to promote diversity with Google Translate.

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This Weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Top Ten 2. Softball

1. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tennis What a way to go out. The Quakers ďŹ nished their season out on a high note, defeating both No. 75 Cornell and No. 45 Columbia over the weekend and helping Sol Eskenazi and Alexandra Ion to celebrate Senior Day in style.

7. Track and Field

The old saying goes that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lonely at the top, but that probably doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t apply to Penn right now. Led by senior captain Sydney Turchin, the squad took down Princeton 3-1 in a weekend series to gain ďŹ rst place position in the south division.

Penn baseball just continues to live up the diamond standard it has set for itself. Off the strength of strong overall pitching, the Quakers continued their dominance of the Ancient Eight with an impressive four-game weekend series sweep of Princeton.

4. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lacrosse

5. Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Golf

Having lost to Princeton earlier in the week, the Quakers used an unlikely goal by Shannon Mangini â&#x20AC;&#x201D; her ďŹ rst in over two years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to take down Yale, 13-7.

8. Heavyweight Rowing

With Penn Relays on the horizon, the Quakers stormed the record books at the Larry Ellis Invitational. Among the many highlights were three Penn runners ďŹ nishing in the top-10 all-time in the 1500-meters, including junior Thomas Awadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second all-time pace of 3:40.68.

Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to wait. The Quakers did what they needed to do to stay in contention for an Ivy playoff spot, beating Dartmouth 15-12 off the strength of Nick Doktorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eight points. Their fate is yet to be determined, however.

10. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rowing

Junior outďŹ elder Matt Greskoff broke a scoreless tie with a solo home run on Sunday to help lead Penn to a sweep of Princeton.

Penn traveled south to compete in the Wolfpack Spring Open this weekend, and they came away with some solid results. The team ďŹ nished fourth out of 11 squads, while star junior Patrick Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Leary ďŹ nished a cool third overall individually.

6. Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lacrosse

At the Blackwell Cup, Penn ďŹ nished second as the No. 7 Varsity Eight ďŹ nished 4.3 seconds behind No. 5 Yale. However, the Quakers topped Columbia for the second consecutive week, taking down the Lions by 2.9 seconds.

9. Baseball

3. Baseball

Penn traveled to the Clemson Invitational this weekend and put together a solid team effort. The teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best ďŹ nish on Saturday came from the Varsity 4 B boat as they slid into a secondplace ďŹ nish, falling to only Ohio State.

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acknowledged the importance of having success with the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third coach since Fran Dunphyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s departure less than a decade ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re coming off the losingest period [in program history],â&#x20AC;? Calhoun said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had two coaches now that arguably have not done what they have needed to do, so I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that Penn can endure a third coach thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not successful.â&#x20AC;? One of the first steps toward success for Donahue was putting together a new staff of assistant coaches, one which looks almost identical to Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous staff. Mike Lintulahti is out as the volunteer assistant and Joe Mihalich has taken his place, but Donahue retained both full-time assistants, Nat Graham and Ira Bowman. Of course, the former Cornell and Boston College head coach has plenty of familiarity with both men, having coached them during his time as an assistant at Penn while also employing Graham as an assistant during his previous head coaching stops. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obviously I know them very well, but I said this to them, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to interview you,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Donahue said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to sit with you for three hours and really go through it.â&#x20AC;? Donahue also spoke with current players and recruits to see if they received Bowman and Graham well, which he said was answered with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;resounding yes.â&#x20AC;? Graham and Bowman are both familiar faces, and Donahue is also beginning to bring plenty of new ones into the fold. Beyond a strong recruiting class, Penn basketball will now have its own director of

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basketball operations after previously sharing one with the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team. The move helps the staff focus on actually coaching players and getting on the road recruiting instead of handling the miscellaneous tasks that can otherwise slow down a coach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fact that we could have a full-time operations position and other schools did and we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t left me thinking we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say this program is important to us and not put our money where our mouth is,â&#x20AC;? Calhoun said. Calhoun said that a lot of the clerical work had previously fallen on Allen and the assistant coaches, something that will not burden Donahue. But the changes to the program go far beyond someone handling the periphery tasks.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be foolish not to utilize the resources here and the type of kids you get at â&#x20AC;? this place. - Steve Donahue Penn basketball coach

Donahue also reached out to Penn students through math professor Na k ia R i m mer , looking to build a staff of undergraduates that can work on analytics. Between 30 and 50 students signed up according to Donahue, giving the new coach a wealth of talent from which to choose. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be foolish not to utilize the resources here and the type of kids you get at this place,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As I said in my press conference, [the Palestra], the Big 5, these things arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t good enough to win the Ivy League. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to be really sharp.â&#x20AC;? By going to the student body for help, Donahue is also increasing engagement with the Penn community, something that is essential to help turn around lagging attendance numbers. The new coach has already

started placing an emphasis on student engagement, discussing possible events involving the team while also speaking with the Red and Blue Crew. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a multiple facet thing that you do, but it has to be at the forefront of what you do,â&#x20AC;? Donahue said about working with the community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a lot of reasons we do what we do, the way we play. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun to come and watch us play: The type of kid we get, the style we play, the way we interact with everybody.â&#x20AC;? That style of play will cert a in ly cont rast wit h past versions of Penn basketball, placing an emphasis on high percentage shots that one would expect from a coach working with analytics. Donahue explained that he wants his players looking for layups or dunks where there is a 90 percent chance or better that they score or get fouled. If thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unavailable, standstill three-point shooting and offensive rebounding become focal points. And on the defensive end, Donahue preaches the reverse: preventing easy shots at the rim, three-pointers and those pesky offensive rebounds. The only way that style of play can be properly implemented is if the players buy into the system. After an emotional exit for Allen, Donahue immediately cultivated a relationship with the Quakers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First step was developing a relationship with the players,â&#x20AC;? Donahue said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought that was the most important thing. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to build some trust in a short period of time because they leave for the summer and we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a lot of access [during the summer].â&#x20AC;? With his limited practice time, Donahue has met with all the players, laying out the core values he preaches and making sure that the Red and Blue are fully on board. While it will take time to see that new style of play, Donahue is simply taking it one step at a time. For now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back to his own workout and some pickup basketball.

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Who has been the best coach of 2015? DP SPORTS EDITORS From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ As Penn Athletics begins to wind down its spring season, several teams — including the baseball, softball and lacrosse squads — remain in contention for Ivy titles and postseason play. Others have played their final contests of the campaign or can see the end of their seasons on the horizon. With a few marquee events still to come, there will be plenty to discuss over the next several days. But as summer approaches, our sports editors debate: Who has had the best coaching performance so far this calendar year? Senior Sports Editor Riley Steele: Because this discussion includes the entirety of 2015, I am tempted to refer back to the impressive job Penn women’s basketball coach Mike McLaughlin did with his squad this season (even if he hasn’t managed to get on the squash court recently). However, it’s another Mike patrolling the sidelines for the Red and Blue that is most deserving of the Coach of the Year award, at least right now. After the men’s lacrosse team won the program’s first Ivy title in 2014, coach Mike Murphy was tasked with finding a competent goalkeeper to replace the departed Brian Feeney, as well as retooling the squad’s defense. There certainly have been hiccups this year, especially considering that the Quakers have given up double digit goals in nine of their 12 games and dropped four crucial games in a row mid-season. But three consecutive wins have

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for rowing as a lightweight, he recalls an anecdote from 2008 of how his coxing career started out by mere chance. “The coxswain didn’t show up one day, so the coach asked me to jump in.” From then on, Lombardi had a new calling. “I’ve been a coxswain ever since.” The senior describes what he sees as the three main responsibilities of a coxswain with great enthusiasm. The first and the most obvious is the steering. Rowers are not able to see the course ahead, and even if they did, navigating an eight-man boat at high speeds requires a coordinated effort — even on a straight course. A coxswain is also — in a role Myhr communicated as well — a coach inside the boat. “A coxswain needs to mesh the rowers into a single self so that the boat is totally synced,” Lombardi explained. “The rowers have to be in the same state of mind.” Lombardi takes this role seriously and emphasizes the need to be able to lead and assess the situation independently while not being able to rely on the regular coach as the race is underway. He draws inspiration from a former coxswain and Penn rowing alumni John Chatzky, who was once set to row for the United States in the Olympics. Now Chatzky’s mentee, the senior details how the former

Penn in position to potentially make the Ivy League Tournament once again, a feat that seemed unimaginable less than a month ago. Sports Editor Colin Henderson: Well, Riley, while I certainly respect what Murphy has done from the sideline, I think you should have stuck with your first intuition. This year, McLaughlin had to overcome some lofty obstacles, having lost possibly the program’s most important player of the past decade — Alyssa Baron — and another key defensive stalwart — Meghan McCullough — to graduation. As a result, his young squad saw some struggles early in the season. However, McLaughlin kept his cool and trusted the process, continuing to trust in up-and-comers like Michelle Nwokedi and Anna Ross. The end result was not a repeat Ivy championship, but it was still impressive: a second place Ancient Eight finish behind only Princeton, which spent most of the season undefeated. While several Penn coaches have enjoyed winning seasons this year, there are very few that can be said to have done a better job of creating a winning culture. Associate Sports Editor Tom Nowlan: Baseball’s John Yurkow. Last year, Yurkow’s first season as Quaker head coach ended in a crushing fashion, as the Quakers dropped a one-game playoff to Columbia to decide the Lou Gehrig division. Yurkow admitted before the season that the loss had bugged him all offseason, and he has motivated his squad to come back much stronger this year. The Quakers have rolled to a 14-2 Ivy record so far this season — once again, tied with

member of the Red and Blue’s confidence and charisma taught him a valuable lesson. “Making all eight rowers believe that the boat is going to be faster once you get into the boat is something I have always aspired to,” Lombardi said. This leads him to the third role — execution. “The race plan must be executed so every stroke goes exactly as it needs to happen,” he said. “You must be able to take a step back and understand what exactly is going on inside your shell.” Lombardi cites coach Myhr as he points out one of the most challenging aspects of rowing, namely the team dynamic. “You can never say there is an MVP in the boat,” he said emphatically, alluding to the fact that rowing relies on a highly synchronized effort measured only in a single dimension of speed. And so far this spring season, there has been a great deal of speed, as the heavyweights have put together impressive performances, including at the San Diego Crew Classic, among other events. Lombardi likens the season’s narrative to that of a TV drama, one whose climax is the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships at the year’s end. “We are so dialed in,” he explained. “Every practice is like another step on the ladder.” With what he sees as a more focused and mature crew than previous seasons, Lombardi is hopeful of what is yet to come. “I think we are going to have great success this season.”

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Women’s basketball coach Mike McLaughlin’s winning team culture helped his squad to a second-place Ivy finish and a victory in the NIT.

the Lions — and have dominated in all facets of the game, from the pitching of Connor Cuff to the offensive dominance of Austin Bossart and Mitch Montaldo. Yurkow has been unafraid to reward his team’s hot hands — preseason afterthought Connor Betbeze has moved into and excelled in the leadoff spot

— while still sticking with veterans who have gone through rough stretches, such as senior infielder Jeff McGarry. As the Quakers head into this weekend’s winner-take-all fourgame set with Columbia, Penn fans can’t help but feel confident with Yurkow’s steady presence at the helm of the team.

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means ensure the Quakers their first Ancient Eight crown in 20 years, Columbia remains the most formidable opponent en route to the title. The winner of the series will take on the champion from the much less competitive Red Rolfe Division for the conference title. Despite the similar circumstances in 2014 and 2015, history is not destined to repeat itself. This year, the Quakers have an opportunity for redemption, and they need to take advantage of it. In fact, this game might just be one of the most important games Penn baseball has played in recent memory — not only for the players, for coach John Yurkow and for reputation but also for pride. From day one of the 2015 season, Yurkow has preached an attitude of confidence and excellence to his players, telling them to write their goal of being Ivy League champs in their rooms or somewhere they could see it every day. This new culture has set the expectations high, and — after last year’s defeat — another loss at the hands of the Lions would be difficult for the team to overcome mentally in the coming years. However, a few key things

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suggest that the Quakers won’t merely repeat last year’s performance. For starters, last year, Columbia had perhaps the best player in the Ivy League — pitching phenom David Speer. The southpaw almost singlehandedly notched two key victories for the Lions against Penn, keeping the Quakers scoreless for 14 innings and striking out 16. With Speer now in the Cleveland Indians minor league system, the Red and Blue certainly have a greater opportunity to capitalize offensively, and if the solid pitching rotation brings its best stuff to the mound, the Quakers will be in a good position to reverse their fortunes. Last year, heading into the Columbia games, coach Yurkow said of the Lions, “They’re a good club. But we’ve got a good club too. The only thing that’s different is that we haven’t been there.” This year, there is no excuse. Penn has been there. To be the best and to prove they belong at the top, the Quakers must beat the best when it counts ... or else risk being cast as the team that could never quite get it done.

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Penn back for round two with Columbia ANNA DYER

M. HOOPS | Donahue

plans for new era STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Reporter

Penn coach Steve Donahue takes a seat in the Palestra stands, overlooking a pickup basketball game featuring two of his assistant coaches. Donahue wears a Penn Tshirt and is getting ready to jump into the game himself. For a man looking to turn around a struggling program, the new face of Penn basketball fittingly doesn’t plan on sitting still. It’s been barely a month since Ath letic Di rector Grace Calhoun announced that Donahue would succeed Jerome Allen as the Quakers’ new coach. Calhoun has SEE BASKETBALL PAGE 14

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COURTESY OF PENN ATHLETICS

After a tough end to year one, John Yurkow looks to lead Penn past Columbia for a title in 2015.

xactly one year ago today, Penn baseball stood tied atop the Lou Gehrig Division heading into a four-game series against Columbia. Some outside the program viewed the team’s success as unexpected, shocking even. In coach John Yurkow’s first year at the helm, Penn wasn’t supposed to make a run. But to the members of the team, it was no surprise. Even throughout the up-and-down season, one that saw the Quakers open 0-6 before rebounding with an 11-game winning streak, the squad never questioned its ability to compete with the best. However, after splitting the series with the Lions, the Quakers fell 2-0 in a one-game playoff. Cue heartbreak reminiscent of what Texas Rangers fans experienced in 2011 (clearly, I’m still not over it). Flash forward to 2015 and the parallels are undeniable. After sweeping Princeton last weekend, the Red and Blue again stand tied atop the Lou Gehrig Division heading into a four-game series against Columbia — a series that will in effect yield an Ivy League champion just as it did a year ago. The series could and quite possibly will turn into a five-game series if the two teams split this weekend’s matchups as both the Lions and the Quakers try to secure the elusive third win necessary to clinch the division. Although winning this series would by no SEE DYER PAGE 15

O Captain! My Captain! Coxswain guides Quakers ROWING | Lombardi

keeps boats in sync

OSCAR RUDENSTAM Sports Reporter

Betraying its graceful appearance, rowing is a sport of force, finesse and teamwork. In the fastest of boats, the eights, the intricacies of the sport require a ninth man who steers — both literally and psychologically — the vehicle as it cruises forward. Louis Lombardi, coxswain for the Penn men’s heavyweights, is one such man. To the unaccustomed, the role of the coxswain might seem unclear. Positioned at the stern

facing forward — unlike the rowers who are facing backward — the coxswain communicates with the crew and ensures it maintains its course. That is just the short version, however. “He’s the coach on race day,” Greg Myhr — the heavyweight squad’s actual coach — said, emphasizing the pivotal role the coxswain plays for the other rowers in the boat. “When you are right on the edge of physical collapse,” he continued, “he keeps you inspired.” Lombardi, after several years of experience, has an acute understanding of the demands a coxswain has to shoulder. A psychology major and

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Philadelphia native, Lombardi was not new to the sport when he came to Penn. “This is my eighth consecutive year on the Schuylkill,” he said. Lombardi’s history with rowing goes back quite far, long before he went to St. Joseph’s Preparatory School, to a summer he remembers fondly. His mother had sent him to a rowing camp, which sparked his initial interest in rowing. At the camp, Lombardi met rowers Jonathan Hennessy and Matthew McPeak, with whom he would reunite 10 years later at Penn. While originally considered SEE ROWING PAGE 15

COURTESY OF PENN ATHLETICS

Heavyweight rowing coxswain Louis Lombardi plays an integral role in the Quakers’ success despite never touching an oar. A coxswain before he even arrived at Penn, Lombardi is responsible for keeping the rowers in sync and on track.

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